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Legitimate Fears The overriding social task for the U.S. is to achieve ra cial justice and heal the most serious breach in American so ciety since the Civil War. The hard fact is that this will demand sacrifices by all white Americans, including the lower middle class. But no permanent domestic accord can be reached if the white lower middle class remains per suaded that it is 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...
Whistle in Relief The anger in forgotten America has begun to express it self in politics. In addition to the Nixon election itself, it has influenced mayoralty votes from Los Angeles to Min neapolis to New York City (although each represented a spe cial situation that made its significance far from clear...
...Persian Gulf is an important neighborhood in today's world. Britain is planning to complete its withdrawal from the island of Bahrain and the Tru-cial States along the Gulf in 1971, and so the frail but oil-rich little sheikdoms provide a tempting target. Supporters of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser seek to dominate the desert land; the Russians at present need no oil, but would like to deny the oil to the West. Soviet ships now ply the Indian Ocean, and early this year nosed into the Persian Gulf on courtesy visits. With such forces...
...important question to ask is: What is Styron's own attitude on ra- cial questions? The Confessions of Nat Turner is a clear enough reply. Styron obviously believes in a darkly militant way that any brutish black uprising is the inevitable result of white persecution. The effect of both, the persecution and the uprising, adds up to tragedy...
...Because the College prepares students to enter society, its education should be better integrated with the so- cial community outside the college...