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...street rhetoric" subject to indictment while "political rhetoric" isn't [March 16]? David Milliard's rhetoric threatened one human life. Moynihan's imperils the lives of millions...
...such accomplishments are far outweighed by other acts: the go-slow on desegregation, the attempt to dilute the Voting Rights Act, the Haynsworth and Carswell nominations, the general lack of warmth, concern and responsibility for blacks on the part of the White House. When Presidential Adviser Daniel P. Moynihan counseled "benign neglect" in his now famous memo, his stated intention was only to remove hysteria from both sides of the racial struggle. But the phrase seems to describe the Administration's attitude on race in general- and most blacks even question the accuracy of the word benign...
...reminded that Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who has recently aggravated our social confusion over the racial issue while allegedly attempting to clarify it, is co-author of a work which insists that the American melting pot didn't melt because our white ethnic groups have resisted all assimilative forces that appear to threaten their identities. The problem here is that few Americans know who and what they really are. That is why few of these groups-or at least few of the children of these groups-have been able to resist the movies, television, baseball, jazz, football, drum-majoretting, rock...
Murderous Population. Taken as a whole, the Moynihan advice in the two memos most recently disclosed was not all that extraordinary. Yet he did manage to hint that whites might have some justification for their negative attitude toward poor blacks. "It is the existence of this lower class," he wrote, "with its high rates of crime, dependency and general disorderliness, that causes nearby whites (that is to say, working-class whites; the liberals are all in the suburbs) to fear Negroes and to seek by various ways to avoid and constrain them...
...again succumbed to his weakness for the tantalizing phrase, citing the "murderous slum population" as contributing to racial tensions. That kind of talk naturally invites debate. A black activist in St. Louis dismissed Moynihan as an "ivory-tower specialist who never asked blacks about themselves and then used his Ph.D. as an indication of his authority in the academic world." Warner S. Saunders, who works with black youths in Chicago, scoffed at Moynihan as "Nixon's straw boss-the deputy in charge of the colored." The New York Times contended that Moynihan's logic is "a sophisticated rationale...