In Japan there is a 16 to one ratio between the highest paid corporate leaders and the average worker's salary. In Germany that ratio is 21 to one. In the United States the ratio is 187 to one. He might have also mentioned that in 1960 there were about 25,000 black men incarcerated in America and in 1994 we had 683,200 black male inmates. He noted that crime is a problem in the black ghettos just as it has been in white ghettos of the past.
Racism is used by the elite upper class to help sustain themselves.
What Professor Bell advocates, as a response, is not simply anger, although we should be angry with all of this. I strongly agree with Professor Bell. Someone confronted authority when they blew up the federal building in Oklahoma. The Unabomber confronted authority with letter bombs. I assume that these responses are not what Professor Bell is calling for.