Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sir / TIME has done a cover story on blacks [June 17] that gives an underclass black reader the enlightening facts about our brothers and sisters who are together, educated and successful. Your reporters should be congratulated...
...Sir / It is regrettable that a magazine with your circulation and assumed journalistic integrity would ignore the realities of our racist society. Until this nation accepts its black population as equal human beings, all of us blacks belong to the same class, regardless of our socioeconomic and educational or psychological frames of reference. The power structure of the U.S. has but one classification for all of us-black...
...Sir / I am sure that many middle-class whites who are not "making it in America" read your cover story with great interest and enjoyment. Unfortunately, many of these whites have been bumped out of a livelihood by blacks who advanced by means of quota and token systems rather than by merit. While striving for equality through "legal discrimination," haven't we initiated a greater injustice...
...Sir / It is ironical and amazing how white these people look when they are doing the same things that most people think only white people...
...Sir / In his infantile and unseemly display of pique, Henry Kissinger would be well advised to remember [June 24] that U.S. foreign policy was carried out for almost 200 years before he made the scene and will be carried out for 200 years after he disappears from view...