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make and what was disturbing you.

Namely.

That some progress is more apparent than real.

I guess you wouldn't want to destroy even the apparent.

It still holds out at least rays of hope, does it not?

I presume so. Unless, it used to divert attention from the areas that need serious attention.

You don't think to some extent--

What?

Perhaps--don't they to some extent, or perhaps a large extent?

I think they do to some extent except that it can't last but so long. I think that in that stage of unrest in the ghettos will have that component as a base. I think that restlessness on the part of the working class blacks will take the form of reacting against the appearence of progress for a few, in contrast with the lack of progress or regression on the part of the majority.

Let me come to your op-ed piece in the [New York] Times, April 2,