Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being called upon for more than its fair share of those sacrifices. The Kerner commission cited "white racism" as the principal cause of racial violence. Up to a point, the charge is just, and the white lower middle class carries its share of bigotry - a moral sin against blacks that will have to be paid for sooner or later as surely as the economic and social sins. But as the nation recognizes the le gitimate demands of the black revolution, it must also acknowledge the legitimate fears of the white reaction. Otherwise, feeling threatened, the marginal whites themselves may threaten...
...whites are likely to accept social integration at a faster rate if they gain far more than they lose in the process. One idea should certainly be tried out in the hundreds of lower-middle-class schools that are now in many ways just as inferior as those in black ghettos; these schools should be upgraded while being integrated. Instead of punishing communities that fail to integrate, for example, the Federal Government might well reward those that do so by increasing their subsidies. Equally important, the cities must soon combine help for black ghettos with more aid for blue-collar...
Perhaps. The familiar psychology of "We made it; why can't they?" still blinds various ethnic groups - Poles, Germans, Irish, Italians and lately many Jews - to the more complex handicaps of black Americans. "The Poles had to feed their children, dress them and send them to school," says John Krawiec, editor of Chicago's Dziennik Zwiazkowy. "For centuries, our peasant ancestors were practically slaves too." The hostility of many lower-middle-class whites is compounded by the unspoken realization that, in fact, they have not really "made it" themselves...
...past, the most frequent interracial alliances in volved ghetto blacks and suburban whites. Many of these were false to the extent that the wealthier whites were per forming acts of noblesse oblige that infuriated the white lower middle class and often the blacks themselves. Now the Philadelphia Antipoverty Action Committee has dis covered that black-white alliances are possible where racial neighborhoods adjoin and share common dangers and demands. Thus, black and white parents last year formed a community-action committee that preserved GET SET, a pre school program that both groups felt their children urgently needed...
Loesser was something of a family black sheep. He showed a distinct preference for baseball, slang and jazz-all alien to the cultural traditions of his European-emigrant parents. His German father was an eminent New York piano teacher, his Czech mother a lecturer and translator of books. Brother Arthur was a well-known concert pianist, critic and teacher until his death last January. As for Frank, he lasted out the early days of the Depression on hustle and odd jobs, then began singing his own songs for his supper at an East Side night spot. That...