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Others, notably Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, have more serious quarrels with the Report. Handlin feels that the report over-emphasizes the peculiar historical position of the Negro and is too pessimistic about the Negro's potential ability to improve his own lot. Such a distorted perspective, he feels, is in effect racist and can have a debilitating effect on Negroes...
Putting all the blame on "white racism," one of the Commission's catch-phrases credited to Rosenthal, not only discourages Negroes but also does nothing to soothe the potential Wallace voter, Handlin said. Furthermore, "it might stir up some Negroes who read nothing but the newspaper headlines on the Report," he added...
Nevertheless, like Daniel P. Moynihan, director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, Handlin feels that the wrong answers might just lead to the right solutions. They are unwilling to jeopardize this possibility...
...Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, who has also criticized the report because it lacked "historical perspective," admitted that one can not expect history to be written in the eight months it took the Commission to produce the report...
Many, like Handlin, disagree strongly with the Report on a number of points and feel it skips over important arguments. Still they believe with Handlin that, "the things it recommends should be done even if these are not the right reasons...