Word: dashikis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basketball coach Frank McLaughlin: "You know, I get sick and tired of wearing those corny plaid three-piece suits all the time. I'd really feel much more comfortable in a dashiki and clogs during home games...
...well as hear when they are onstage. In last week's performance at Burden Hall at the Business school the singers captivated a crowd of over 300 people. Clad in a flowing white choral robe and white slacks, and topped by his shiny black Afro, Ingraham and the dashiki and and Afro-garbed choir exuded a contagious joy and enthusiasm in their singing. The audience forgot its own troubles for three hours and stood up and clapped and chanted and shouted amen and hallelujah with the Kuumbas. Despite the hard work, lack of support and other problems, Walters's evaluation...
...become more sympathetic: he began to help those who helped themselves by responding to his grace. Pious white Sunday-school art has since made Jesus into an effete Aryan rather than a rugged Jewish carpenter, but that image is hardly more subjective than the contemporary Black Jesus in a dashiki. No more biblically authentic is a recent Presbyterian-Methodist TV spot: Jesus fends off the accusers of the Bible's adulterous woman, but the script omits his admonition: "Sin no more...
...upper-class black with a $45,000 salary, Young neither shunned blunt talk when addressing white banquets nor donned a dashiki to convince his fellow blacks that he had soul. He was always an individual, difficult to classify. Young's special strength, notes a black journalist, was that "he was urbane enough to talk with the fat cats downtown and hip enough to talk with the tough cats uptown and he never seemed out of place doing either." Indeed, even some of the most bitter black spokesmen came to warmly appreciate Young. When informed of his death, Poet...
...recent issue, Fuller put down "poseurs and hustlers playing revolution" or "the Black Militant Game, which is all the rage just now, and which has merits of its own in attention grabbing: a brother can come on like gangbusters with a boss Afro and a hand-tailored dashiki...