Word: kilson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...northern white liberal has taken a "half-hearted, hyprocritical approach" to the problem of Civil Rights, Martin L. Kilson, lecturer in government, said last night...
Speaking to an audience at the International Students Association, Kilson said that throughout American history the liberal has been trying to find a way out of the problem of civil rights, rather than a solution for it. "The liberal has the correct orientation," he said, "but in a specific situation he leaves a lot to be desired...
...Second, Kilson hopes "Negro particularism" will foster political, artistic, and literary expression within the Negro subculture. "The Negroes, like the Jews, want to say something and contribute to the American main-stream...
...year ago, Kilson says, organizations like the AAAAS were not possible. (There are similar clubs now at Chicago and U.C.L.A. Bright young Negroes then were preoccupied with mobility--individual mobility. Today, a greater feeling of fraternity exists. This does not preclude Negro individualism as some have argued and feared. "Community does not mean tribalism or complete absorption...
...Kilson thinks that the "white liberal" is most obtrusive when he approaches the "Negro problem" with a prescribed political ideology, an ideology which emphasizes the rugged individual of liberal doctrine. "It's true that Negroes, like anyone else, prize individuality. But the thing the compulsive liberal can't understand is that we also like to swing together. You know, like we did in my good father's church back home...