Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist Party supports all the demands of Black Power. We support the Black Panthers. But we think they stop short. You see, replacing white capitalism with black capitalism isn't going to solve the problems of poverty: the problems of poverty are rooted in the nature of capitalism itself...
...Daily World" at the door, seemed to be out of some movie from the '30's. Mrs. Mitchell did not fit in. At the end of her speech, she tried to defend the party position that the invasion of Czechoslovakia was "regrettable but necessary." It was easy to see that she was uncomfortable. It was easy to see that she was more interested in black power than in labor unions. Her speech dealt with the "irrelevance of liberalism" to the modern world, but in many ways her communist vision seemed, too, to be irrelevant. Someone asked about Martin Luther King...
...small entourage surrounded her, and the man at the door picked up all the "Daily World's" that he hadn't sold. American communism seemed suddenly harmless, out of touch, and a little bit funny. But it had provided a woman with a way of life, and she would see it through...
WHENEVER I see black students and intellectuals cutting each other to shreds in the fishbowl of the news media--all the while under the guise of intellectual argument--I am advised by LeRoi Jones' words--"check yourself." This was precisely the reaction that seized me by the end of last week's heated exchange between Dr. Martin Kilson and black students over the nature of Social Sciences 5 (The Afro-American Experience in America...
...while I do not believe in "final words" on any matter--particularly today when America is willing to make anyone a spokesman for the "Negro" cause so long as he appears in blackface--allow these to stand at least to clear the present air. Harvard is only beginning to see the complications and concerns involved in relegating study of the black experience to the same institutional forms which have resisted paying attention to the affairs of black folk for so long. If anything constructive has come out of the past week's morass it is certainly that Harvard cannot take...