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The Code of Black Masculinity
Part of the objection to inter ratial relationships or into racial marriages was that it kind of cut against this effort to be separate from white america. I think part of thomas's black nationalism is that the cornerstone of the black community is black men, the black patriarch. And if a black woman starts getting involved with a white man, that will dissipate the black community. So i think that's a lot what's going on there in these notions. E, that is something i learned in your book, that he has said quite plainly, that the salvation of the black race, in his mind, depends upon black men,. hence the belief in patriarchy.