Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Racism is created and promoted by greedy men for economic reasons. By paying black workers less you can threaten whites that they can be replaced by blacks. Thereby you exploit both. But racism goes beyond economic reasons. When people believe in racism they become less than human and they teach their children to be the same way. They become half human. They are filled with fear, mistrust, and hatred. Racism is evil. It should be fought...
...condemning the action, however, one must recognize the legitimate frustration that caused it. To an endless war has recently been added the legalized persecution of Panther leaders. The Nixon Administration's acts of repression are reaching such depths that the Panthers feel compelled to threaten race war in the absence of effective succor from white radicals. One cannot be surprised that radicals are fighting the government with whatever tactics come to hand. After years of futile reliance on mass marches, militant street actions must look good...
...Committee concluded that present stiff penalties threaten respect for the law and should be reduced...
...Patrick Moynihan, who has recently aggravated our social confusion over the racial issue while allegedly attempting to clarify it, is co-author of a work which insists that the American melting pot didn't melt because our white ethnic groups have resisted all assimilative forces that appear to threaten their identities. The problem here is that few Americans know who and what they really are. That is why few of these groups-or at least few of the children of these groups-have been able to resist the movies, television, baseball, jazz, football, drum-majoretting, rock, comic strips, radio...
...white man to read LeRoi Jones or almost any other black poet is like being held in a dark room while listening to an angry voice threaten him in a language he is not expected to appreciate or understand. The angry voices belong to poetry guerrilla fighters who talk "Black English" and ignore accepted aesthetics. They neglect the usual critical dictums. Most black poets are revolutionaries, or try to be. Sometimes they mouth propaganda, but they are also creating a powerful record of their people's anguish and accompanying rage...