Word: condemnation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Review also reveals a growing consensus on the need for redefining present programs of compensation and integration. Both Cohen and Clark condemn the traditional notion that compensatory education seeks to compensate for the ghetto child's "cultural deprivation." This term imlies none-too-subtly that whatever is black and poor is deprived and whatever is white and middle class is adequate. Apart from its racist connotations, the idea points the finger at the wrong party. The real failure, Review contributors indicate, lies not with the ghetto child but with the school's inability to provide a stimulating "educational environment...
...TIME'S roundup on "Cities" dealing with the report by the President's Commission on Civil Disorders [March missed one important point: We should not condemn all of white America for riots in the cities. As I have said: ' I do not think it is fair to accuse all whites of racism with one big broad stroke. I think any fair-minded person would admit very readily that there has been discrimination in our country and that it reached the point where the Negroes were very angry-even Negroes who were well off were angry. I think...
France's Charles de Gaulle, who wants the Western world to return to the gold standard,* was playing only a slightly different tune from the Red band. He called the present international monetary system "inequitable" and "henceforth inapplicable." Its continuance, he maintained, would "condemn the free world to grave economic, social and political trials." De Gaulle's attitude was understandable. By committing themselves in Washington to the two-tier gold system, the five other members of the Common Market had handed France a remarkable rebuff. They not only flouted their partner's wishes, but did so without...
...they are functional only in the Fanonish sense of therapy. The problem with riots are first, that they get black people killed and secondly, that they are not politically instrumental. The same people who are involved in riots aren't around for political organization later. But how can I condemn riots when they happen to be the only form of dissent black people have to protest the estranged position they hold in this society...
Pike also called for a reconvening of the Nuremberg trials to punish U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. Claiming that he wasn't a pacifist, he did not condemn Viet Cong terrorism. "Freedom fighters have to be rough," he said...