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...Moynihan report was one of the boldest documents on the American race problem-and one of the most divisive. In it Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel P. Moynihan, now Senator-elect from New York, argued that economic aid alone could not bring equality for blacks in America. His reason: the black family, marked by female-headed households, high illegitimacy and absent fathers, had been destroyed by slavery and left trapped in "a tangle of pathology" that impeded real progress for black Americans...
...report was denounced for a variety of reasons by many angry blacks, but Moynihan's analysis of the black family was a conventional one for its time. Scholars and political leaders alike depicted blacks as demoralized victims of racism. As late as 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. could declare: "The shattering blows on the Negro family have made it fragile, deprived and often psychopathic...
That kind of rhetoric soon disappeared as blacks and increasing numbers of scholars, black and white, stressed the achievements of black families. Now Moynihan's basic premise-that slavery destroyed black family structure-has apparently been laid to rest by City University of New York Historian Herbert G. Gutman in his new book, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. Gutman's conclusion: from the earliest days of slavery until the eve of the Great Depression, the black family was surprisingly close, strong and intact...
...brown immigrants at home in Britain, Richard has been involved in African affairs as a minister in the defense department, later as opposition spokesman on Rhodesia and most recently at the U.N., where he got into a widely publicized conflict last year with his former American colleague Daniel Moynihan. Shocked by Moynihan's attacks on the Third World, Richard likened him to "Lear raging amidst the storm on the blasted heath" and "Savonarola in the role of an avenging angel preaching retribution and revenge." Says Richard amiably but unrepentantly: "I disagreed with him on how one should treat...
...that the evening was dull. After irate viewers had called NBC to complain, Chancellor apologized for noting, accurately as it happens, that Democrats are generally poorer and less well educated than Republicans: "If you're listening, Averell Harriman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of Harvard, I hope you'll forgive me." CBS'S Dan Rather tried to brighten the proceedings with some well-honed metaphors. Assessing Gerald Ford's uncertain prospects in the Midwest, Rather declared: "You can pour water on the fire and call in the dogs, because the hunt will be over...