Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Ross, the magazine was a unique, unstable amalgam of laughter, arrogance, politesse and information. "If you can't be funny, be interesting," he instructed his staff. To that end The New Yorker set a tone that Critic Malcolm Cowley described as nostalgia mixed with condescension. It acted as if the weekly party-to which the reader was always extended an invitation-would never...
...Malcolm C. Todd, M.D., President...
...integrate with us poor, lowly black folk [Feb. 17]. The white man's superiority complex won't allow him to admit that our children are just as good as his, and whether that racist lives in the North or the South, he's still a racist. Malcolm X advised his black brothers to "stop talking about the South" because "as long as you are south of the Canadian border, you're in the South...
...Malcolm was now calling for revolution instead of condemning it as impossible. He realized that the domestic black struggle was only one facet of the world revolution against imperialism. Through his fledgling Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) Malcolm was hammering home to American blacks the message that they were part of a world-wide struggle, a struggle in which they were in the majority as peoples of color. The attempts of the white media to smear him as a "hate-monger" who taught "racism in reverse" (as if an oppressed nationality acting in self-defense is capable of institutionalizing...
...Malcolm was killed, and the American proletarian black community temporarily deprived of leadership, but not before he had planted the seeds of Third World internationalism in the fertile soil of the developing Black nationalist movement. In the long run, conditions, not leaders, generate resistance and rebellion; leaders only help the process along. Since 1965, we have seen increasing black self-pride, and cultural dignity, increasing identification by American blacks with the struggle in Africa and the rest of the Third World, and increasing solidarity between Third World peoples in general. The victims of international capitalist plunder are coming together...