Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cleaver, who is Minister of Information of the militant Black Panther Party, was forced to stay in New York under the terms of his bail set in Oakland, California. He is awaiting trial there on firearms charges...
...worth the week off," Steve Brooks '70, number three man on the Harvard Heavyweight crew, said after he returned to a regular practice schedule yesterday afternoon, just over a week after the team won the Olympic trials in California...
...Spook Chicks. The overwhelmingly prevalent pattern in interracial dating, TIME correspondents report, is black boy with white girl. To many Negro men, going out with a white girl is a symbol of success and achievement. Says a University of California Negro student: "Black cats consciously play with white chicks. It's a challenge. For him, the white woman is shrouded in mystery. She is revered, you dig?" Adds Mrs. Anita Jones of Seattle's Urban League: "Oh, there's pride in it, all right. Dating Caucasians is part of the Negro's establishment of his identity...
...knows a white man can get to know him very well-and it gets boring. She finds the prospect of a Negro man exciting." There is no denying that for many girls, interracial dating is a very stimulating prospect. "I just think brown skin looks healthier," insists one California student. "Negro boys are carried away with pretty white faces and long flashy hair," snaps an admittedly jealous black high school girl in Washington, D.C. On some campuses with a high ratio of Negro athletes, mixed dating is inevitable. "There just weren't any spook chicks around," says Harold Busby...
Deep Down Inside. Parental horror is another thing that mixed couples encounter. "Parents are a real hang-up about that part of my life," complains Candy Reuben, 21, a recent University of California graduate whose mother refuses to allow a black man in the house...