Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the '60s, the most castigated figure in American life was the white liberal. Maligned by youth, by blacks, and eventually by himself, the white liberal has only recently begun to counterattack. Who went South to integrate Mississippi? he asks. Who supported the Warren Court? Urban planning? Pollution control...
Horner ends up standing rigidly immobilized on a train platform while children, dogs, and commuters, come up, stare at him, touch him, and then go into the waiting trains. Eventually, he is rescued by a mysterious and flamboyant black Doctor (James Earl Jones) who takes him into a Remobilization Farm...
Jones pointed out that Mississippi P and L was "working closely" with several black colleges in the area, that it had started a special program to train black workers, and that it had offered jobs to qualified blacks, 12 of whom had turned the jobs down last year.
Alex Waites, a regional director of the NAACP, said yesterday in Jackson that Jones' comments were "totally misleading." He challenged the claim that Mississippi P and L had started a training program, and he accused the company of bad faith in its work with local colleges.
Jones was not available in his office yesterday to reply.