Word: self-respect
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That ability and how to achieve it were the theme of a commencement address delivered by Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, a trustee of New York University, to N.Y.U.'s graduating class. It is not, Donovan admitted, an easy subject to master: "All it takes is courage, honesty, self-respect, grace-and sometimes a sense of humor helps...
...Most of us ghetto Negroes advocate the position of black self-respect. We do not want to become assimilated into middle class society or to become as white as possible. Brooke has shown that this is just what he wants. He does not even want to be our champion; he helps Israel when there are plenty of newly formed African states with which he should have identified. You can have Brooke. We black folks do not need him. He may be a NASP, but I think there is a more appropriate title: NUT: Negro Uncle...
Measure of Self-Respect. The decisive element, which has eluded most conventional job programs, was the inculcation of personal pride that Negroes so often lacked. "You can't train someone by just putting him behind a machine," Sullivan maintains. "You've got to see that he's properly motivated and has a measure of self-respect." The students, many of them migrants from the rural South, were taught the achievements of their own race and of other minorities. Not only were they told how to conduct themselves in a job interview, a basic lesson other such courses...
...Society, he faults the Administration's approach to helping the poor as "aspirin?it relieves the pain, but it doesn't cure." Both domestic-welfare and foreign-aid policies, he reasons, should be oriented more toward self-help and less toward the dole approach. "If you give a man a handout," he maintains, "you establish a chain of dependence and lack of self-respect that won't be broken easily. If that is the situation of the grandfather, then the son, the grandson, the great-grandson will probably be in the same desperate, dreary situation. But when a man wins...
...help a man by constantly giving him more and more handouts, over and over," exhorts the candidate. "You destroy his self-respect. What we want to do is to make men productive." Many a white politician is using the same argument this fall to exploit anti-Negro feeling. But the speaker in this case is Edward W. Brooke, 47, Republican attorney general of Massachusetts who, if victorious on Nov. 8, will be the first Negro U.S. Senator in nearly a century...