Cornel West
We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.
The problem is we need much more moral content.
More isolated, insulated, lonely, alienated, estranged black folk especially among the working class and working poor, but it's true across the board and that's what is frightening.
If we had a whole wave of new leaders in the next five to seven years, black America would be a different place.
Community affairs or human relations and even that would have been and few between.