Word: dashikis
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...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...
...works almost as hard now, since the release of the book, as she did writing it. A constant stream of interviewers works its way through her loft on the Bowery; telephone calls and personal appearances intrude on her casual dashiki-workpants-sandals lifestyle. The attention rubs off on her family, too; in St. Paul, her mother states her firm support of Kate's work, but wishes she would "dress herself up. Kate's missing the boat if she appears on the Mike Douglas Show without her hair washed...
...Acquaintances in Detroit remember Sams as a braggart and a brawler.... They say he packed a revolver underneath a used choir robe that he said was a dashiki. At a rally in West Side Church, the audience giggled throughout a speech by [Stokely] Carmichael because Sams, recruited on stage as a bodyguard, tasted the water from a pitcher to test it for poison and drank...
...Acquaintances in Detroit remember Sams as a braggart and a brawler. . . . They say he packed a revolver underneath a used choir robe that he said was a dashiki. At a rally in West Side Church, the audience giggled throughout a speech by [Stokely] Carmichael because Sams, recruited on stage as a bodyguard, tasted the water from a pitcher to test it for poison and drank...
...recreation halls are invaded by flagrantly disrespectful, bigoted, simpering, amoral, emotionally unstable, outcast, maladjusted, nymphomaniacal, condescending [white] women in desperate and untiring search" for black men. In the first issue of the new black women's magazine Essence, due out April 28, Writer Louise Meriwether describes a typical dashiki-clad black man and his white date: " 'Sensual, sexy Black man.' That's what her look conveys." But an approaching black girl conveys another look. " Traitor. Talking Black and sleeping white.' " The black women's liberation movement has its male adherents, like Eldridge Cleaver...