Word: shame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin Luther King was murdered because he was our uncomfortable conscience. I am filled with shame and loathing for my race. My heart grieves for his family and friends who must abruptly substitute memories for his warm reality. My mind cries out to know how I, one single me, insulated in my white suburb, can redress the ancient wrongs...
...Whites feel not only horror, but shame at the tragic death of Dr. Martin Luther King. But there is a group that should feel infinitely more shame, and it is that minority (and thank God it is a minority) of black militants and their followers who have been rioting, or advocating such, in the wake of Dr. King's death. Who do they think they are fooling? In their hearts, Dr. King died a long time ago. They had abandoned him; they had not really cared, obviously, whether he lived or died; he was a thorn in their side...
...custom dictates. Unfortunately, Jones was busy in the short-stop hole, retrieving the bat which had flown from the fanning Oyler's hands. Howard's throw flew unchallenged into Carl Yastrzemski's pasture where it died on the soggy grass. Yaz started in, stopped, wagged his head both in shame and disgust, and elected to ignore the ball. And, that, shockingly and painfully, was the tone of a sad home opener--Boston looked like the Mets, or, worse, like Red Sox teams of the first half of this decade...
Perhaps the greatest shame of this production is that it has been seen by so few. The group should be offered every and any inducement to an encore...
Harvard should indeed stand in shame for the paucity of its African course offerings--as a concentrator in African History at Yale, however, I ask whether courses on Africa are really any more "relevant" to blacks than to whites, at least in America. The lesson of South Africa should show what it's really like when black and white can't speak to each other without distrust--I hope this is not happening at Harvard, for there are such real problems ahead that will demand cooperation between these Negroes and those whites who want to create the true multi-racial...