Word: prided
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Even more heartening to black pride were the election of a Negro sheriff in Virginia and of the results in Mississippi, where the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, organized by Negroes, elected six candidates out of a statewide slate of 32. This modest triumph has encouraged the party to try once again to unseat the state's white delegation to the 1968 Democratic National Convention-a strategy that failed four years...
Because the Negro is a member of a minority constituting some 11% of the U.S. population, he can never expect to register more than modest victories in the ballot box unless he wins white adherents to his cause. Here, also, black pride is dictating the new posture, which is not that of a needy supplicant begging for white assistance, but that of an equal who proclaims his self-sufficiency and his value as any man's ally. Many facets of Negro community life now reflect this concerted effort on the part of the Negro to elevate his own status...
Manifestations of insurgent Negro pride at times exclude whites where they expect to be accepted. Last week in White Plains, N.Y., the Westchester County seat, 50 Negro community leaders met to analyze Negro faults and problems-and pointedly barred whites from the meeting. And at times a largely symbolic action seems to be self-defeating. The decision of 120 Negro students, among them some 65 athletes, to boycott the 1968 Olympic Games is a case in point. They considered their act a sign of protest against the denial of Negro rights in general. However, some Negroes among the many...
...democratic process, and is convinced that it must be scrapped. "I can't help viewing the unilateral black philosophy as being as open to question as the unilateral white system," he says. But Wilkins takes an entirely different attitude toward the more respectable approaches to black consciousness, pride and influence and points out that this is what the N.A.A.C.P. has been championing for decades. "Pride of race and history and the riddance of self-denunciation are good and needed," he says. "The thing to guard against is black arrogance...
...Negro does not want out. He wants in, and on terms that stand somewhat higher on the scale of reasonableness than the reaction to them in some corners of the white Establishment. As catalogued by the Washington Committee on Black Power, these terms include ten essentials, among them black pride ("which neither requests nor solicits; it demands"), black control of black communities, black economic productivity ("dignity through self-support"), black responsibility ("Black people themselves are responsible for their homes, their children, their schools, their streets"), black initiative, black excellence ("Let black people be the best"), black creativity and togetherness...