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Clark:

And my grandson.

Q:

Grandson, in the Olympic Games. You were watching hockey teams. No blacks. Yet his reaction was that of an American, it was the American team.

Clark:

That's right.

Q:

Further down, you have quoted W.E.B. Du Bois from Souls of Black Folk. You've used the term here, “double consciousness” that American racism imposes upon American blacks. What that his term too, “double consciousness”?

Clark:

No, I don't think he used the term double consciousness.

Q:

But you have quoted him--

Clark:

Oh, sure.

Q:

“One ever feels his two-ness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts. Two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength keeps it from being torn asunder.”

Clark:

That was from Du Bois.

Q:

That's from Du Bois, yes. Then at the end, you make reference





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