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Court Interference. Nixon shrewdly made use of some black complaints when he denounced the "smug paternalism" of whites who assume that a black school is automatically inferior to a white one. That assumption, he said, "inescapably carries racist overtones." Black separatists, in fact, do favor having their own schools, and some others have become skeptical of integration as a panacea. But most blacks still want it, or at least demand a genuine choice in the matter (see EDUCATION). Marian Wright Edelman, director of the Washington Research Project, found Nixon's "appeal to black separatists' feelings" clever but irrelevant...
...influence on Broadway are in the hands of whites. They feel threatened at letting others get involved. Discrimination is not diabolical in intent. It is extremely difficult to adjust to the new situation, to get over ingrained prejudices and to realize that black people, whom they have labeled 'inferior,' can do the same thing that they do or do It better...
More than four out of five blacks polled think that whites consider Negroes inferior. Two-thirds of the blacks believe whites to be scared that blacks are better people than they are. Nearly the same number-63%-feel that whites today regret having abolished black slavery...
...witness such terms as black sheep, black magic, blacklist, blackguard, blackball, black lie and many others. The word is associated with all the dirty, lowly, unintellectual functions in human life. The word white is usually invested with the opposite meanings, so Americans have been conditioned to perceive black as inferior and white as superior...
...American national character and is in fact the national sickness of white racism." It has been structured into demeaning laws and customs designed to keep maximum distance between black and white. Poussaint argues that what is needed is a massive program of "deconditioning" Americans from their white-superior, black-inferior models of thought and relationships. The burden in achieving this, he suggests, would fall mainly on the educational system and the mass media...