Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee also set up a nearly undecipherable voting system to determine what Houses should go coed. The 480 Cliffies will rank the Houses in order of preference and those results will be fed into a computer with results of another poll on the most desirable ratios of men to women in the Houses. If this is an attempt to give the students a voice in deciding what Houses should admit women, it is a highly dubious exercise in democracy. The voters are deciding, but they don't know what their votes will mean. Presumably, the computer will give them what...
June 16-19: Force-fed every day. I resisted as much as I could. They twisted my arms, hit my crippled leg [wounded in the war]. On June 19 the bullies increased in number from five to twelve. After each struggle I suffered pains in my heart. I continued to resist but I felt my heart would stop. I wanted to die because I thought my death would expose their abuses of power...
Laughter, simmered in self-mockery, was the first black soul food. It fed the slave during his fierce day's travail in the shimmering Georgia cotton fields. It simultaneously comforted the second-class citizen and nurtured his sense of subservience during the agonizing disappointment of Reconstruction and through the long dark age of de jure segregation. Flight from reality, as illustrated in the nonsense lyric of Dan Tucker, formed the bedrock of the earliest Negro humor. Later, vaudeville, radio and the movies perpetuated the blackface minstrel stereotype of the happy-go-lucky devourer of watermelons...
Indeed, throughout the first half of this century, Negro performers generally reinforced the debased stereotype. Pigmeat Markham, the originator of "Here come de judge," was the vaudeville ideal of the irresponsible, chuckleheaded Negro. Mantan Moreland was so hopelessly inept that he practically had to be spoon-fed by his boss, Charlie Chan...
These figures are not solely the result of discrimination. The market for books among blacks is still small. The educational market has been fed mainly with reprints, and the popular market, largely white, remains satisfied with a handful of bestsellers...