Word: surely
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...jobs they would reach with continued present progress, 68.0 percent of all Negroes should be high school graduates by 1985; 14.7 percent should be college graduates. (see Table 4). To equip Negroes for full economic equality, 74.9 percent should be high school graduates, 16.7 percent college graduates. To be sure, these figures assume that every Negro must have the median education for his job. Some will be able to hold the better jobs without the appropriate diploma. But the education of whites is increasing rapidly as well, and will not fall far short of the standards underlying the above figures...
Much of the responsibility for sufficient education inevitably falls on the families of the Negro children. After all, it was through education nthat other minorities escaped mass poverty. Parental encouragement and help are of the essence in making children develep their potential. To be sure, one must be careful not to draw unwarranted analogies between the history of other minorities and the present plight of Negroes. But here is one analogy that is inescapable: only massive human investment in education can make economic equality possible
...think we have mass appeal, especially in our identification with African things. But, let's face it, Roy Wilkins (head of the NAACP) has mass appeal, too. Sure, it's easier to go to Hollywood than to a dirty place on Ridge avenue. We're unglamorous. He's building values which the system has built...
Palmer can accept the contradictions because he knows the movement is young. "I tell you black will win out," he said. "It's in the recesses of black people, in their guts, souls, hearts." He is also sure that he and other black radicals are carrying on the work of Malcolm...
...that many of the effective organizers in Watts, though they may agree with "black power" as a necessary approach to the problem, disagree with the black nationalist version. On the one hand, there are those who would rather see assimilation than separation. As one young administrator at Westminister said, "Sure I buy black dignity and black power. But there's a world out there much bigger than Watts--and I've never been called...