Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before King was pronounced dead, NBC and CBS deployed film crews to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where Duke Ellington was playing a benefit for a Mississippi Negro college. As it began, the producer announced the news and cameras caught the stunned and horror-stricken faces in the audience. From Cleveland, CBS carried a film of tear-streaked Mayor Carl Stokes Negro as his constituents sang America. No less eloquent was an interview with Ben Branch, a King aide who had been with him at the time of the assassination and who was still too be numbed to respond...
...object to the Afro statement, "We detest the use of King's philosophy of non-violence to suppress the legitimate and totally justified rebellion of our black brothers and sisters now occurring across the country." Riots are rarely justified and even more rarely of great benefit to furthering the Negro cause. It is not law and order that oppresses black Americans, it is the other people who live in this country. The laws and principles of the nation far outdistance the population's desire to observe them. The effect that the looting of stores and the destruction of homes...
...present trend, nearly all our major cities will soon have black or near black majorities, while whites move out to the suburbs in increasing numbers," Chester W. Hartman, assistant professor of City Planning, told a crowd of nearly 500 earlier in the day. "There are not many who actually benefit economically from such a system of segregation; the gains are primarily psychological or social...
What self-respecting black academic would entertain thoughts of coming to Harvard upon reading that "Harvard (has been) forced to lower traditional academic requirements to benefit from black assistance?" Upon reading this, his "barometer of white racism" would be running red. Any black's would. The implication of a double-standard, Harvard-styled, smacks of this same racism you attack...
...plan to draft Lyndon B. Johnson, put him in uniform complete with butterfly net, and ship him off to the rice paddies." Potential applicants for the prize may be put off by Gibson's payoff record: he volunteered to play honky-tonk piano at a local fund-raising benefit for Senator Eugene McCarthy-and reneged the moment the McCarthyites tried to take him up on the offer...