Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your magazine in recent months on present-day economic and social problems, I was deeply disturbed and distressed by what I consider unfortunate, almost irresponsible reporting of the current tensions between the black and Jewish populations. Your failure to point to the positive, significant relationships between these two ethnic groups-which far outweigh the incidents of hostility-not only tends to exacerbate the situation, but reflects unbalanced and subjective reporting...
...campaign. In this effort he failed. Not because he didn't gather the facts about the campaign, but because he didn't understand the forces which made 1968 such an abnormal political year. Witcover admires Kennedy's ability to attract students and black support as well as white ethnic votes (Hungarians, Polish-Americans). In his attempt to avoid analysis, however, he leaves all the background threads hanging--unconnected to the facts of the campaign. Thus, Witcover spends 35 pages describing RFK's post-Jan. 31, 1968, re-thinking of his candidacy but he never once mentions the change in graduate...
...ground and would like to think that no split exists within the Movement. "Roy [Innis] and I have some differences but more points of agreement. His program is for proportional representation of the black community in Congress and for two separate nations, white and black. I believe the black ethnic entity can fit in with other ethnic entities. I have no confidence we can eliminate racism, but we can checkmate...
FARMER constantly uses the phrase "black community" in conversation. Though not a separatist he believes strongly in what he calls "ethnic entities." To Farmer the "black community" always acts in the singular, not the plural. It stands united against white America; on that much he agrees with Innis. However, the whites are not united in the same way against black America. Here he parts company with Innis and sees a chance for the "black community" to wield great power in a pluralist society...
...Boston," he continues, "you see Irish power. In Newark, you see Italian power. Cities are a series of ethnic powers. I see the black community fitting into that equation." Nor does he believe it will take blacks very long to build up ethnic power though they have been in North America for over three centuries. "In one way, this is the first black generation in America. Or, I mean, it is the first black generation of urban dwellers. It is the first generation of urban dwellers. It is the first generation in which black awareness and pride could develop because...