Word: speakes
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Carter will be picketed at the hotel by demonstrators from and supporters of the Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa. In a statement released yesterday, the coalition called on Carter to "speak out publicly on what he would do as president to insure the immediate destruction of apartheid in South Africa and transfer of power into the hands of the black majority in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia...
Another student: Maybe this is like one of those highly intensive French courses--you know, where you can speak only French--so here, no one will be allowed to talk...
Still, their handling of racial matters is the key to the new Southern politicians. They are not colorblind. Far from it?they especially court the black vote. Mississippi's Democratic Representative David Bowen, 43, is typical. Says he: "I make a special effort to reach out. I speak in black churches and to black civic groups. I've been to dozens of black clubs and gatherings. That's not a unique situation now. Anyone in Mississippi who wants to get elected does that. These are my constituents...
...even in some of the most economically backward of Southern counties, there is a sense of renewal because of increasing black participation in community life. The voices of hatred have not all been stilled. But they have been muted; when they speak at all, it is in whispers and innuendo, rather than the full-throated bigotry of earlier times. And blacks can now talk back: the dialogue is conducted between equals. Says Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League: "I would rather do business with a converted Southerner than a Northern liberal. The Northern liberal is basically paternalistic...
Future Lack. "I don't write about now," Jones confesses. "I write about yesterday." The characters in A Texas Trilogy look back as compulsively as the author-to their youth, to World War II, or even World War I. They seem doomed to speak and think in the past tense. The dimension they lack is the future...