Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...racist position in the current I.Q. debate belongs to SDS--not Herrnstein. Members of SDS are the ones who seem convinced that people's races are important...
...Reading SDS literature, hearing their slogans, gives one the impression that they object to Herrnstein's meritocracy because they think the lower classes will contain disproportionate numbers of a given race...
...would this objection be held, unless SDS members thought race important...
...SDS was non-racist, it would protest the meritocracy per se. Whether the lower classes were white, yellow, black or red would not make a damn bit of difference to SDS or to anyone who is concerned about the worth of human beings instead of skin colors. The position of SDS--were it honest--would be to protest human oppression even if all the oppressed were of one race...
...take the stand SDS has made is to perpetuate racism in the name of ending it. It deserves complete condemnation. As long as people's problems are viewed as those of blacks, whites, or Chicanos, members of every race will remain prisoners of their skins. The ugliness of racism will not disappear until people refuse to consider skin color as significant of anything. In this regard, SDS has been as opposed to color-blindness as the Ku Klux Klan...