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THE RECKONING: What Blacks Owe Each Other
By Randall Robinson
(Dutton, $24.95)
"We've gone far enough into this morass of fear, war, hate, lying and crime. We face a crisis and our first duty is here and now...."
-W.E.B. Du Bois, "Let's Restore Democracy to America," National Guardian, January 2, 1956.
If the "echoing demands" of African Americans embody the conscience of this democracy, as Martin Luther King Jr. asserted in his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, then Randall Robinson is one of our intellectual oracles. His voice "crying in the wilderness" of American corruption and decay recalls a …