Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article "Black & White Dating" [July 19] really made me angry. Most young people, and even some older ones, date because they like each other. They see only human beings to date, to love, to work with. Then comes a desperate reporter with his "color" camera, and the myth of race gets another two-page spread. Get off our backs and let us live as human beings. To hell with race...
...younger son of a wealthy Sussex squire. In three years, after leaving Cambridge University, he ran through what seems to have been a sizable inheritance. He decided to gamble himself back to affluence, did well for a while, and then grandly staked all his winnings on a two-horse race, having made up his mind to recoup his fortune in the U.S. if he lost. Later he wrote: "The dear, handsome little horse ran most gamely, but in the last hundred yards tired under the weight and just failed to get home. So America was under...
White America is endlessly accommodating, verbally, in the matter of race. Southern politicians are learning to say "Negro" when they mean "nigger," and Northern liberals are careful now to say "black" when they mean "Negro." (That's because blacks have begun saying "Negro" when they mean "sellout.") Opportunities to use these terms do not occur every day, but whites keep in practice just in case...
Working often from documents, of the period and contemporary, Babe has managed to chew on man of the principles of American politics and through them, illustrate those of world history--the frenzied ideology of race, the underlying economic basis of exploitation. At great risk to themselves the Chestnut household insists on appropriating black labor to work its fields; this is satisfying both on an economic level and on the undefinable level at which the Southern family feels more natural and right with black help around...
...Does it matter?" he answered slyly, reminding me of the way Bobby Kennedy used to handle the carpet-bagger question in his New York Senate race...