America is an idealistic nation. Dreams are realized here. Cultural plurality is celebrated here. Freedom is cherished here. But America is also a place where all those who seek to fulfill the promise of opportunity aren't embraced equally; where prejudice has been institutionalized, codified and thereby legitimized; where the freedoms that mark a democratic society have been stripped from far too many for there not to be an outcry of injustice. This is the contradiction of America itself-what draws us to love and loathe the nation, drives us to seek refuge either within (assimilation) or at a distance (separation) and caused us to embrace the Dream or dwell on the Nightmare. For more than a century this "either/or" dilemma has consumed black America and kept the race at odds, the more so because it has mutated time and time again. The assimilationism preached by Frederick Douglas became the gospel of accommodation under Booker T. Washington which can be traced to King's...

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