Psychiatrist Alvin F. Poussaint discusses some of the psychological effects of white people working within the black movement, in which severe emotional conflicts erupted and hampered the movement, and the existence of individual conflicts, such the duality of feelings of white supremacy and white guilt, which led to patronization and condescension. He also discusses the ways in which societal norms, such as white and black speech patterns, keep African Americans down, both in fact and in psychological ways.
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