Crisis Of The Black Intellectual Summary

Wright first got this idea to write his book from the following Harold Cruse' s book of the Black intellectual: the 1967 treatise The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. Imitatively named, Crisis of the Black Intellectual by W. D. Wright examines the continued nonexistent of the Black intellectual's intelligibility on matters of racism and race. Wright believes that these two topics are different events and should be treated as meaningful matters. Wright argues that the mission of the Black intellectual to translate the Black experience and offer real solutions and ideas to help and strengthen Black community. Wright feels that other black intellectual have failed causing him to have a harsher attitude in his writing.
In the section called "Author's Note," Wright discusses …show more content…
Wright speaks of their attempts a failure, but not a "failure due to incompetence" In other words, they know what the issue is and what’s wrong with it, but the ability to address it to people is a struggle, they don’t present it well and don’t go into extreme detail. In short, they talk like they know every issue but they can’t really convey their point well. Wright focuses on Cornel West, one of his Black intellectual targets throughout his book. Wright becomes critical of West stating that "when it comes to the subjects of racism and race, his thinking and writing . . . shows the same confusion other Black intellectuals have about racism and race and exhibits the same kind of inadequate racist analysis.” Wright tries to make a point that a good amount of Black intellectuals are blind and can’t truly speak of the points they are trying to make. He feels that racism and race are treated as dialectic, not as having any effect in the long run, that nothing is happen it’s all just talked