Word: selfishness
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...housing and terrified in many cities by the specter of black crime. It is not fair to attribute all this only to white racism. Conscious and unconscious racism is indeed widespread and cancerous in the country. But in many cases white Americans are not so much racist as selfish or indifferent or trapped in circumstance and history as much as the blacks themselves. It is not always easy for whites to understand that black crime hurts mostly other blacks and that it is often the result of desperate poverty and urban chaos, for which the blacks are not to blame...
...America deals with blacks and their aspirations will define for decades and perhaps centuries what kind of country America really is. How America deals with them, and therefore with itself, will show it to be either the country seen by its bitter critics- selfish and oppressive. Or else the country seen by its defenders- greatly troubled but still in the grip of its original moral purpose and promise. It may be the black man's role not only to fight for his rightful share of his heritage, but to recall white Americans to their own sense of conscience...
Other black beliefs: whites give blacks a break only when forced to (77% agreed with that proposition); white men secretly want black women (74%); whites have a mean and selfish streak in them (65%); whites are physically weaker than blacks (55%); whites are less honest than blacks (50%); white people need to have somebody like blacks to lord it over (49%); whites are more apt to catch diseases...
...existence of an autonomous women's liberation movement has helped many women, including myself, in one important way. It has given us the moral support to say once and for all that we are not inadequate human beings. selfish mothers, or castrating females for making the justifiable demands on men and on society that we be treated as full human beings, not as sex objects, nurses, or servants...
...drama," says King, "as a piece of fiction." But abstracting the situation in this manner removes not only some of its sting but much of its validity. It will be an almost irresistible temptation for audiences to align themselves with either husband or wife. Some will call Antoinette a selfish, shrill virago; others will see Billy as a frustrated personality whose need to control the relationship comes from his own insecurities...