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1 J. Saunders Redding, On Being Negro In America 1 (1951)

handle is hein.civil/onbgngro0001 and id is 1 raw text is: What a self-conscious people your Negroes are! a recent French visitor exclaimed. He was right. The Negro lives constantly on two planes of awareness. Watching the telecast of a boxing match between Ezzard Charles, the Negro who happened to be heavyweight champion, and a white challenger, a friend of mine said, I don't like Charles as a person but I've got to root for him to beat this white boy- and good. One's heart is sickened at the realization of the primal energy that goes undeflected and unrefined into the sheer business of living as a Negro in the United States-in any one of the United States.