Generally, it took outside authors to note that articulate «Negroes» like James Baldwin, Dick Gregory and James Foreman «do not share every value of
white bourgeois culture,» and that black power must be seen as «a reaction to inaction» rather than «reverse racism or some ugly form of nationalism» (C. Lawson Crowe, November 4, 1964, and Margaret Halsey, December 28, 1966).