Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLACK POWER (1967): Today's despair is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow's justice. Black Power is an implicit and often explicit belief in black separatism. Yet behind Black Power's legitimate and necessary concern for group unity and black identity lies the belief that there can be a separate black road to power and fulfillment. Few ideas are more unrealistic. There is no salvation for the Negro through isolation...
...Blacks Hold Own Service For King) of the meeting Dean Glimp and I had with Jeffrey P. Howard about the Afro memorial service for Dr. King attributes to Dean Glimp and me a purpose we did not have. We in no way wished to discourage the Afro service. Our concern was with the problems of holding the service in an area where the privacy of the service might be difficult to insure. We did urge that the Afro service not be disruptive. We did not think it was imperative that the Afro services be held at some other time...
Like too many welfare programs, the clinic had been organized simply as a handout. Little concern was shown for the dignity of individuals. It was that kind of attitude that turned the poor to quacks who at least remembered their names and soothed their emotional if not their physical needs. in houses just outside the project. But fewer families in these homes--one-third of them--are without a father. And fewer of the women running these houses are on welfare: 75 per cent of them as compared with nearly 100 per cent in the housing project...
...clinic has existed in the area for forty years, but the number of patients seeking care was far below the potential limit. Like too many welfare programs, the clinic had been organized simply as a handout: "Here's the center. Now you take it or leave it." Little concern was shown for the dignity of individuals. Patients had to wait in line to see a doctor who might or might not be the same one as last time. Examinations might be carried out in an impersonal manner that seemed to indicate to the patient that the system regarded...
...Although much of Avatar is dull and boring, it is playful in tone and has a social value, for it deals with issues of concern to youth, such as the relationship between sex and love," Beye said...