Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apparently the President's Commission on Racial Disorders [March 8] would like to impose a feeling of guilt on the self-supporting middle-class American for achieving what he has. In most cases, he has earned his position, not through family or friends, but through traditional hard work. However, when he winces at the proposals of increased taxes on his property and income to meet the demands of the unemployed and underemployed, he is variously pegged as racist or materialist. Robin Hood politics creates only dependency and defeatism within the rank and file...
...Racial prejudice nevertheless runs high in rural Wisconsin. Despite liberal state legislation, many small
Charles V. Hamilton impressed his audiences here with his ability to conceptualize and articulate the manifold problems and tensions imposed by the American racial dilemma. There was no doubt that Hamilton had done his homework, and he drew often from recent experience outside the classroom. He faced questions directly, often taking them beyond their obvious conclusions, and always with striking candor. To the question of what the white's role is in Black Power politics, Hamilton quickly replied: "The (Kerner) Report speaks to whites, not blacks; what happens as a result of it depends on whites. Your place...
Until whites take their heels off the backs of black Americans, any University action will seem to have only remote relevance to the country's racial agony, but Harvard can at least take the modest step forward of revising its outdated hiring practices...
...took a few weeks ago and announced that he is actively considering a run for the Democratic nomination himself. Kennedy is likely to announce his candidacy formally in the next few days. The CRIMSON--which has long admired Senator Kennedy's positive positions on Vietnam and the domestic racial crisis, as well as his superb organizational and vote-getting ability--urges him to make the race for the Democratic nomination...