Word: racially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sought to ignore the poor but rather to give them new hope. He has done this through identification with minorities. As the one candidate to be accepted completely by Negroes, he best offers the solution to America's most distressing domestic problems-racial unrest and urban decay...
James Washington Jr., chairman of CBC, hinted that the City may face racial violence this summer unless more is done for the blacks. "I just can't impress upon the Council the urgency of what has to be done," Washington said...
...stuffed his trousers with calves' brains, then dragged the bloody carcass of a lamb around the courtyard. Artist Ralph Ortiz and Judson Gallery Director Jon Hendricks had planned to tear limb from limb two live chickens, one white and one black, as a ritual killing symbolic of U.S. racial strife. The event failed to come off when a couple of humanitarian Philistines spirited the birds to safety...
...Federal management of the economy, the goal of full employment, Medicare, formal legal equality for Negroes and, above all, economic growth." As a result, traditional American liberalism lost its innovative thrust, argues Harrington, and is unable to cope with the persisting problems of poverty, urban blight, inadequate education and racial hostility. To Harrington, nothing is more dangerous than the traditional American optimism that says, "However miserable the present may be, there is always hope for the future...
...profit motive must give up its place as the primary mainspring in American life, yielding to "a cooperative, rather than a competitive, ethic." To solve the nation's problems, money must be allocated "uneconomically," in the historical sense of the word, and "wasted" on such uncommercial values as "racial and class integration, beauty and privacy...