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...even more important cause of black alienation from Women's Lib may be the distrust, if not outright dislike, of many black women for white females. For one thing, black women are furious with whites for "stealing" their men, as evidenced by the rising total of marriages between black men and white women. Besides, black women see no reason to believe that a society in which white females held positions of power would be any fairer to blacks than a system dominated by white males...
...communal, and in many ways more humane environment" than competitive whites is romantic nonsense and extraordinarily gratuitous. Whether "most blacks" would consider their environment of socialization "communal" and "humane" is questionable, but it is patently clear that most blacks (65% of them) are reared in either working-poor or outright lower-class households. The vicious privations, material and cultural, of these households cannot be lessened by labels like "communal" and "humane...
Each college then offers a different proportion of outright gifts and "self-help"--income from guaranteed jobs and loans--to total what they have agreed is an applicant's need. The proportion is based on the amount of scholarship money available at each school, Jewett said...
...touchy subject. Although most white students here are quick to affirm their lack of prejudice, they find their liberal beliefs hard to reconcile with the de facto black self-segregation in dining halls and House rooms. Loud parties and cold stares even seem at times to be signs of outright black hostility. Whites turned out by the hundreds last year to walk picket lines in support of the Mass Hall black takeover, but once the occupation ended, the familiar checkerboard pattern was re-established in the dining halls...
...Geller demonstrated ESP and psychokinesis (ability to move or bend objects without touching them) to the delight and excitement of Targ and Puthoff, Hyman said that he was able to spot the "loopholes and inconclusiveness" of each feat. He also caught Geller in some outright deceptions that Targ and Puthoff apparently did not discern...