Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience last night in booing during the playing of the B.C. alma mater at the hockey game. I regret very much that an elementary discourse on good manners seems to be in order. Visiting college teams and their supporters are our guests, and should be certain of courtesy and respect from Harvard. The outburst of booing last night was discourteous and immature. We have a justifiable pride in our teams; I hope in the future we may be as proud of our community as hosts and spectators. Dean Monro...
...fiber bundles or Spanish verb endings in the fourteenth century are your greatest joy in life, who is to say that you should spend your time on merely temporal activities? Out of respect, we will not contend with such as you (though we wonder how you know fiber bundles or Spanish verbs are the greatest joy without having tried anything else). But if you think experience offers a plurality of joys, if you have interests extending beyond formal education which you have done nothing to satisfy, then be assured: breadth does not equal academic abandon. If, on the other hand...
...acts for the satisfaction of setting one self above another. The former is motivated, as pointed out, not by a felt sense of equality, but rather by the need to assuage conscience, to fulfill an externally imposes self-image of virtue. Missing in both attitudes, of course, is genuine respect for the Negro as a man. Furthermore, the response of the black to this continued disrespect from others is profound racial insecurity. Treated as an inferior he acts one, and vice versa, and thus the circle snaps shut. All this is sad but true...
...would differ from the writer, however, in assessing the role of the liberal or sympathetic white. This role is often complex. He does not respect the colored race genuinely, because it does not command respect. Given this, it is natural that he be smug about his eschewal of overt discrimination. He passes up the latter for the luxury of apparent charity. Conscience is the motivation only because real respect is absent. He will not surrender his smugness; there is no reason...
...real liberal attitude will change then only when the Negro commands respect, when he is able to assert a manifest equality. But precisely by treating the Negro, at least superficially, as an equal, the white liberal helps break the vicious circle, which depends upon perceived social and economic inequality. Colored pride and white respect must somehow be enkindled, and if the white community cannot do it, some think the Black Muslims can. Only when "niggerness" is itself extinct will the liberal conscience lose its usefulness, and that millenium does not seem at hand. Nicholas Fels...