Virtue does not find the mean. Virtue is almost always considered extreme. The mean historically has always been some awful system of oppression. The people who recognize that are called "radicals" and later "people who were obviously correct."
That's if you wanna talk about history.
I gotta be righteous, I gotta be me, I gotta be conscious, I gotta be free, I gotta be able, I gotta attack, I gotta be stable, I gotta be black.