Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what are the values that Palmer is trying to build in? What are the sources of black pride? In large part, it turns out, black pride begins with hostility to what is white. "Look what we've got--jazz, spirituals, the blues," he said. "Name me one original thing that's come from white Protestant culture here, something that doesn't derive from Europe...
Palmer adds to his formula for black pride a series of don'ts." He reeled some of them off to a cheering audience in a North Philadelphia church...
...much of a problem right now. "A little dirty house on South street with the furniture cleaned up, could satisfy a lot of people," he said at one point. If he is right, poverty would not have to be a major source of Negro shame -- and black pride could be achieved before black affluence...
...political level, nationalism is a reaction to King's non-violent tactics and all the "go-slow" methods of an older generation. Perhaps the key phrases are black autonomy and black pride, in addition to black power. The nationalist is a man who feels that it is time for the Negro to stop wondering if he's going to accept the white. He is a man reacting to what Richard Wright called a "frog perspective," a tendency to define oneself by white man's standards: "If you ask an American Negro to describe his situation, he will almost always tell...
...Carmichael's advice insist that it is more important to have indigenous Negroes showing their brothers in the ghetto that they can fill the posts traditionally held by whites. To most of the advocates of this position, it is more important to establish an image of Negro competence and pride than it is to obtain white financial and technical support. "We'd rather do our own teaching than have some lilly white teacher talking about Snow White to our black children," Carmichael said to a Roxbury gathering...