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Part 4 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

By Way of Conclusion

The conclusion is pretty mopey, as usual. For example:

The situation that I have examined, it is clear by now, is not a classic one. Scientific objectivity was barred to me, for the alienated, the neurotic, was my brother, my sister, my father. I have ceaselessly striven to show the Negro that in a sense he makes himself abnormal; to show the white man that he is at once the perpetrator and the victim of a delusion.