It is absolutely crucial to understand that society cannot continue to write reports accurately describing the failure of the educational institutions vis-a-vis black people without taking into account the impact those truths will have on black Americans. There comes a point when it is no longer possible to recognize institutional failure and then merely propose stepped up measures to overcome those failures — especially when the proposals come from the same kinds of people who administered for so long the prsent unacceptable and dysfunctional policies and system.

Charles Hamilton, “Race and Education: A Search for Legitimacy,” HER, 38,4. (Fall 1968), p.671.

Encountered in W. Rich, Black Mayors and School Politics, 215-216.