Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-perception is a result of white attitudes and not of black behavior. The violence of the ghetto is a result of the frustration of black people working within the qualifications which white society sets for meaningful participation. Thus, in a curious way, violence amounts to playing the only role that the established society has left open for the disenfranchised...
...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 is in the white community just as ours is in the black community. Your work in the white community--changing the deeply ingrained racism...
...certainly believe we could. I would caution that this is a job that is going to be incumbent on all of us, this process of learning to live in the same world with the Chinese Communist Revolution and helping to moderate it and helping to assimilate it. Our role, even if played with the greatest skill, and with a great deal of luck, may be marginal at best to the outcome...
...would nonetheless strongly argue for playing that role because--as has been set forth this morning--the role we are playing now very much serves Mao Tse-tung's purposes, the maintenance of ourselves as the enemy he needs...
...role we are playing now very much serves Mao Tse-tung's purposes: the maintnance of courselves as the enemy he needs...