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...year. "I try to tell white businessmen," she says, "that black is now, black is profit, black is here to stay." In Chicago, Barbara Proctor, president and owner of Proctor and Gardner Advertising Inc., argues that U.S. tastes today originate in the black community, then gradually spread to more affluent whites. She therefore advises her clients-including the Jewel supermarket chain and Sears, Roebuck's local branch-to aim their ads in the Negro-oriented newspaper and radio media not only at black families but also the white students attending colleges in predominantly black communities. The agency...
...plays (she can never be said actually to portray) T.R. Baskin, a callow young thing from Ohio, so fresh faced that she looks like a Clearasil testimonial. T.R. gets a job in the typing pool of some Kafkaesque neon-lit office. A friend finds her a date with an affluent racist, whom she fearlessly denounces. After that it is home to her crummy one-room apartment and endless nights falling asleep in front of the television...
...Florida Cosmetics Millionaire Glenn Turner, who also contributed $25,000 to his defense fund. Turner, a supersalesman who operates 58 assorted companies from Orlando, Fla., engaged Bailey to help him out of legal difficulties in several states; Bailey, in turn, asked Turner for help with his less affluent client. Turner, who likes to hand out $100 bills to indigent passersby, was only too happy to comply. Turner, in a bright blue suit with a 2-in. by 4-in. American flag pin in his lapel, explained: "I'm a sucker for causes...
...combination of such treatment with the conditions of working-class work and life is what alienates the white majority. The illusion of an affluent society mocks members of the white majority whose real wages are falling, who are getting deeper in debt, and who face a lifetime on an assembly line or in a mechanical white collar...
Reforms, of course, will not solve the large social problems of racial prejudice, inadequate housing, poor schools and lack of jobs, which breed so much of the nation's violent crime. With its cultural gaps between white and black, poor and middle class and affluent, the U.S. has very special problems that do not afflict other countries-Sweden or Denmark, for instance-where prison life seems more civilized. The problems are further complicated by a widespread and partly plausible belief that all of the nation's crime and prison troubles result from some fundamental loss of discipline...