Word: inferiorated
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...tough minded," Slack explained. "While we would sometimes make a gift--such as a basketball--which strings attached, we never gave anything they might appear to "need." That's charity better for us to leave to another agency, it puts the boy in an inferior position and our relations. We once made a mistake and a boy money to have his teeth fixed. He resentment and spent the money on else. Only later, when he had a regular job, he tell us about...
Integration in education, via the Supreme Court decision, had become the symbolic issue of equal rights. Except perhaps for their teachers, the students were most affected and most concerned about the inferior schools they and their younger brothers and sisters attended. As college students they knew that neither their college preparatory work not the courses of learning now open to them were on a par with those available in the North or even in the white South. They had sacrificed the immediate gratifications of job and family for education and were aware that on paper their degrees should entitle them...
...They study history, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology, biology, and psychology, and thereby become acquainted with the evidence for the innate equality of races, with the American ideal of legal and social equality, and with the fact of historical inequality. This group, then, is least likely to accept itself as inferior to the whites and most likely to pourish an emotional resentment of discrimination...
...Negroes had never really accepted themselves as the legal, intellectual, and moral equals of the white man before this time. I recently met a young Negro woman, born and raised in Roxbury, Massachusetts, who told me that it had never occurred to her that the Negro was not inferior to the white until someone insisted she read Gunner Myrdal's An American Dilemma. Once familiar with Myrdal's thesis that America is split between loyalty to its ethical dictum of equality and its preference for a system of quasi-slavery, the lady resolved to learn more and to serve...
...read, and Sahl's effective voice and excellent timing made them funnier to hear. Yet much of the evening he was saying things that weren't intrinsically amusing, remarks which were carried along solely by the force of his personality. Now, this is not necessarily the sign of an inferior comedian; some of the best comedians of the modern era have gotten along brilliantly by saying dull things in a witty way. Yet one suspects that if Sahl had pulled out a few more of the stops, he could have come up with a much spicier performance--one which would...