ABSTRACT
The demand for black liberation may seem empty. Countries that once permitted black slavery have long abolished it, and their laws now accord black citizens the same political and civil rights as other citizens. Further, no one today suggests that black slavery should be revived, or that blacks should not have the right to vote or to hold political office, and in the US, no respectable challenges have been raised against the repeal of de jure racial segregation the Brown decision of 1954 set in motion.
