Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jolly Green Giant had fallen, Princeton was muddied but still standing, and Yale was totally submerged. That left only Cornell untainted among the pre-season football powers of the Ivy League...
...against Massachusetts last week, the Dartmouth defense was strong, even though Holy Cross outgained the Green on the ground, 190 yards to 65. Holy Cross did not complete a pass during the entire game, however...
Pastard feels that the phrase "black power" has split the Negro community, and that before the riots triggered the slogan the community was approaching some sort of unity. Pastard views black autonomy as primarily economic autonomy--"don't call it 'black' power; call it 'green' power.'" Karenga may prefer pumps in Freedom City to the city's faucets, but Pastard is more interested in getting faucets for Freedom City. "I don't believe the poverty program is sincere...money has never been spent so loosely. It causes just greater confusion by telling the people they're equal...Developing economic power...
...other hand, Pastard realizes that Negroes are still dependent on certain members of the white community for "green power" at this point, and feels that the insistence on black power, with its current overtones, will be an alienating influence. He told of a wealthy white woman who came down to Watts and wanted to do her part by writing him a check for $20. "I told her 'We don't want your money, madam; we just want you to spend some of your time working in our community.' Since then she's contributed a couple thousand dollars," Pastard said. Then...
...least, the situation is not that simple. Many of Roxbury's civic organizations are directed, manned, and maintained by both whites and Negroes. Some organizations could not survive without the "Green Power" supplied by white members; other groups insist that often the white members are better trained and have more leisure time to perform the tasks which they admit ideally should be held by Negroes. However much Carmichael dislikes discussing the split between various groups in "the movement" before a national (integrated) audience, the differences persist...