Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...April two freshmen bought three tubes of airplane glue in a store downtown. When asked to sign for it, they wrote their real names. The store called up the police that afternoon. The police called the school And their housemaster found them sniffing it when he went upstairs. They were put on probation...
...this is just an idle, irrelevant distinction. It ties in with the estrangement I spoke of between the white upper-middle-class intellectual liberal, and even radical, community, and the very people whose lives they want changed, but changed from the distance of their analysis -- rather than through any real communion, the kind of communion that people like Agee and Simone Weil have talked about, the communion that goes with living with people and being a part of them...
Coles, dissatisfied with children's books that "abusively romanticize" real experience, wrote a children's book this year--Dead End School--depicting the difficulties faced by two ghetto boys when they are thrust into a desegregation effort. The boys, Larry and Jim, are modeled after two boys Coles got to know in Roxbury. The story gives Jim's view of his own experience in the bussing crisis. Larry peripherally presents a black militant reaction to that same experience...
...real challenge that I failed to make in writing that book was the challenge of writing it from the point of view of Larry rather than Jim, of conveying Larry's life to middle-class children--Larry being the boy who came from a much more disorganized home, really a black militant. But it's difficult anyway to communicate these lives to other lives that are so different, and so I chose the easier way out, I chose the black boy who is more like white middle-class boys...
...contributors stay admirably unentangled with ideology and come to the nub of the problem: How to get things done. The best effort is Thomas H. Jenkins' "A Positive Agenda for Social Power." Jenkins is a Deputy Project Director for the Boston Redevelopment Authority and his Agenda displays real savvy about how cities operate and none of the common paranoia about (or rhetorical fascination with) black power. His aim is Negro "social and economic achievement" and his method is community planning and action. His first complaint is that Negro community outfits are too often mere "veto groups" that stop things...