With Dr. Charles King on his deathbed in Atlanta where he died
from cancer. King was one of my greatest inspirations in
my anti-racism work and my mentor for my racism workshops. I
do not have his strong personality, which he used so
effectively in his "oppression-workshops," but feel deeply
indebted to him in my teaching. He was only capable of
oppressing whites so profoundly because he had a profound and
contaminating love for them. As much as the whites would
hate him during the first day of his "oppression," as much
would they love him on the second day of his workshops. He
conducted them all over America for city councils, the
military, CIA and big corporations to help improve their race
relations. When he let me take over one of his workshops for
top executives of Atlanta's biggest newspaper, Atlanta Constitution,
I thus felt deeply honored when he introduced me as "the only
living John Brown in America."
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