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...Education School Dean Patricia A. Graham, commenting on the Yale professor's decision to turn down the Radcliffe presidency...
Stanley Grayson is New York City's deputy mayor for finance and economic development. His wife Patricia is a vice president at National Medical Fellowships, an organization that promotes the education of minority students in medicine. Together they earn about $200,000 annually. But more than once while she was sorting clothes in the laundry room of the luxury apartment house in which they have lived for eight years, Patricia has been approached by white residents who have tried to hire her as a maid. Her husband has seen white residents close the elevator door in his face when...
...dependency, crime and broken families. Moreover, many middle-class blacks feel personally guilty about the unpromising prospects of poorer blacks. That may be the most unfair burden of all, since the black middle class by itself does not have nearly enough resources to lift the underclass into the mainstream. Patricia Grayson speaks for many affluent blacks when she observes, "One person can do only so much. I think it's unfair for people to try to make successful blacks feel guilty for not feeling guilty all the time...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow, George M. Taber, Denise Worrell
EDITORIAL FINANCE: Daniel M. Rubin (Manager); Genevieve Christy, Peter Mitchel (Deputies); Patricia Hermes, Camille Sanabria, Linda D. Vartoogian; Wayne Chun, Sheila Greene, Carl Harmon, Gene Isaac, Edward Nana Osei-Bonsu, Tina Pabarue, Katherine Young...