a thought from How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon

As I watch all the civil unrest unfold before me, I have so many questions about what is right.  What is the right way to fight racism?  What is right for black people?  Is there really one answer to this question.  I am reading today How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon.  It is the story of a black boy killed by a white man in a black poor neighborhood, and it is told from many different points of view.  One of the characters is an older black man, fairly well educated and rich, who has married a woman from the poor neighborhood and is step-dad to her son.  One of his thoughts is this:

 "The footage of the church [for the funeral] shows all manner of people coming and going.  Leather-clad gang members, community leaders, young parents with small children in tow.  The gang boys throw up signs and fists, looking tough and projecting a sense of power.  There are all kinds of power - gang-type violent authority, sport-type physical prowess and social prestige, material wealth and economic dominance, power that comes from leadership, intellect, scholarship, knowledge.  It's what you buy into, in a sense.  The kind of power you seek depends on your worldview - what is necessary to survive, what is most important."