"The individual black workman is rated not by his own efficiency, but by the efficiency of a whole group of black fellow workmen, which may often be low. If white people were to lose their racial prejudices overnight, this would make very little immediate difference in the economic condition of most blacks. Some few would be promoted, some few would get new places, but the mass would remain as they are, until the younger generation began to try harder, and until the idle and discouraged were stimulated and the whole race lost the omnipresent excuse for failure: prejudice."
- W.E.B. DuBois as quoted by Thomas Sowell in "Race and Culture" p. 90
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