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White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low in standards of living, health, education, manners and morals. This, in its turn, gives support to white prejudice...
...seized on every blooper as underscoring his lack of heft. A few published put-downs were inaccurate, including a joke reported as fact -- that he thought Latin is the language of Latin America. Still, Quayle commits enough miscues on his own to supply critics with ammunition. Addressing the United Negro College Fund, whose motto is "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," he lost himself in a self-indicting verbal fog: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind. How true that...
...during my early teaching days in the 1960s. A group of Black students (among them Ayee Queh Armah, now a novelist; Lee Daniels, now a New York Times correspondent, and Robert Hall, now a college professor) came up with the idea to found a journal--The Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs--and I and Archie Epps, then an assistant dean of freshmen, joined them as advisors, which meant mainly running ourselves ragged to find the money to pay the journal's printer...
While our now defunct Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs--published for several years--shared Outlook's interest in the many-sided issues of ethnic selfidentity, it extended its focus much farther afield, to national political and social concerns facing Afro-Americans. I hope further editions of Outlook do likewise. I did sense a tendency in the current Outlook to over-indulge selfidentity concerns--a tendency that leads ultimately to an intellectually stultifying narcissism...
...Yale undergraduate, George Bush headed the local drive for the United Negro College Fund, a consortium that then represented 32 private black schools. Last week, as Bush delivered the keynote speech at the fund's 45th- anniversary dinner in Manhattan, and it was clear his ardor had not waned. "Then as now," said the President, "the U.N.C.F.") insists that excellence become a way of life...