Word: aloofness
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...President has so far attempted to remain outwardly aloof from the conflicts in Texas. He did choose Governor Connally to place his name in nomination at the Atlantic City convention but that was natural enough since Connally was chairman of the delegation from Johnson's home state. He has also gone to great lengths to cement his relations with Ralph Yarborough and there is no doubt that the Senator wholeheartedly supports...
Escape from this "debilitating" paternalism and from the futile struggle for total acceptance involves separation, self-assertion, sometimes arrogance. Negroes who had been good friends in prep school consequently often become aloof. Those who are particularly active in civil rights groups sometimes refuse to discuss that subject in the dining room. Perhaps the best example was the formation in 1963 of the Association of African and Afro-American Students, with its "by-invitation-only" membership clause...
...President has so far attempted to remain outwardly aloof from the conflicts in Texas. He did choose Governor Connally to place his name in nomination at the Atlantic City convention but that was natural enough since Connally was chairman of the delegation from Johnson's home state. He has also gone to great lengths to cement his relations with Ralph Yarborough and there is no doubt that the Senator wholeheartedly supports...
Escape from this "debilitating" paternalism and from the futile struggle for total acceptance involves separation, self-assertion, sometimes arrogance. Negroes who had been good friends in prep school consequently often become aloof. Those who are particularly active in civil rights groups sometimes refuse to discuss that subject in the dining room. Perhaps the best example was the formation in 1963 of the Association of African and Afro-American Students, with its "by-invitation-only" membership clause...
Because he has stayed aloof from the civil rights revolution, Jackson is often called an "Uncle Tom" by local leaders of CORE, SNICK and N.A.A.C.P.; civil rights pickets periodically march outside his Olivet Baptist Church in south Chicago. In return, Jackson has denounced as un-Christian demonstrations outside segregated churches, and insists: "I can't harmonize picketing with praying." Jackson condemns civil disobedience on the ground that no one has the right "to break any law, even if it is morally wrong." He believes that integration should be achieved strictly through governmental process, and has urged his National Baptists...