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...textbooks, its inequities ignored, its differing cultures approximated, its messages equivocated, its complexity reduced to a sacrosanct canon of saccharine passages and colored pictures. It was a world from which textbook writers had effectively exorcised all inferiority and superiority, all ethical dimension. In our history books, other cultures were dealt with almost secondarily: America, like its TV heroes Ward Cleaver and Garfield Goose, survived all calamities and obstacles, fashioned mediocrity into national grace by way of an obtuse patriotism. Other cultures were compared to Amerika's, but with no sense of cultural relativity. From texts and Weekly Readers, we learned...
...Virginia Polytechnic Institute, police used dogs to evict more than 100 protestors from a building they had occupied overnight. The V.P.I. president said, "Anarchy must be dealt with," and then suspended all 104 and charged them with trespassing...
JACKSON: First, fascism must be seen as a sickness, and not as a means, to be dealt with by psychotherapists and not by white politicians. That's the first thing that must be understood. Pink-skin worship is pathological, and a person is sick who is threatened by people of another color. So racism at that level is a white problem...
...last decade has done more for racial consciousness among black people than anything else. It makes it easier for us to be a mental nation, a nation within a nation. We're a nation, separate and apart in our problems and have to be dealt with separate and apart. And we have to deal with ourselves differently, think of ourselves as different from the whole...
...them at Yale. For one thing, the nation's third most richly endowed university has often irked New Haven's black community by its allegedly poor treatment of black employees and insensitive expansion into the crowded city in which it owns extensive property. Still, Yale has dealt more peacefully than many other schools with black student requests. With no conflict, for example, it has tripled the University's total black enrollment in the past five years to 350 and set up one of the nation's first black-studies departments...