Isn't Nationalism a Good Idea?

Nationalism is something to be first acknowledged, then transcended. An intense feeling of separate identity among black people is a special existence forced upon them from without by lynch rope, bayonet and mob rule. Wright considers simply childish that ambition is embraced by none other than bigger thomas who naively imagined a leader coming along to do for black people what musselini or hitler did for their people. As a more vague, perhaps emotional urge, nationalism is more respectable in wright's eyes, but it is ultimately just another manifestation of oppression.