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Surely no sensible man can deny the role white people have played in the oppressed status that has been our lot for the past three centuries. And it is necessary to confront white America with this sordid side of is history; we can no longer permit our white countrymen the cheap hypocritical stance they have taken on neurotic proportions for many white Americans...
Paroled in 1952 after serving six years, Malcolm Little became Malcolm X,* loudly acclaimed the Muslims' professed prohibitions against tobacco, alcohol and pre-or extra-marital sex. He shrugged off his sordid past on the ground that "it was all done when I was part of the white man's Christian world." In 1958, he married a Muslim Sister named Betty Shabazz before a justice of the peace in Michigan. "An old hunchbacked white devil performed the wedding," Malcolm said later, "and all of the witnesses were devils." At the time of Malcolm's death, Betty...
NAFBRAT dismisses both The Addams Family and The Munsters not for their ghoulishness but for "suggestive humor and double-meaning dialogue." Peyton Place, says NAFBRAT, is "an obvious exploitation of the sordid and tasteless elements of the Grace Metalious novel, a monument to the network's search for ratings, regardless of the social impact of unrelieved sex and sin." Wagon Train is knocked for its "extremes in sadism and brutality," and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea because it "stirs up political hatred...
...Chicago radio and TV stations that meet its bills. C.N.B.'s 40 reporters start at coolie wages of $65 a week and do coolie tasks. They take pollen counts every summer day and hourly temperatures the year around. They record marriage licenses, divorces, births, deaths and the sordid minutiae of police blotters. They never get bylines, and a large share of the copy they write is never used...
...longer wish to be senior class marshal," Faye Levine '65 announced yesterday. "The whole business is just getting too sordid...