Word: tokenisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confidence and unquestioning self-esteem." In the light of My Lai, Americans have little cause for feeling self-righteous, and much reason for self-reflection. The massacre may be only one betrayal of American ideals; but is it possible that there have been other betrayals? My Lai is a token of the violence that trembles beneath the surface of American life; where else, and in what ways will it explode? How much injustice and corruption distort the reality of democracy that the U.S. offers to the world? The answers are debatable; the questions...
Nice Plant. The haste in which most segregation academies are conceived and born hardly helps. Typical is the new Sandy Run Academy in Swansea, S.C., a rural town whose population of 1,800 is 40% black. Until a year ago, Swansea had escaped all but token integration. But when the school board finally bowed to federal court orders to integrate Grades 10, 11 and 12, Swansea parents boycotted the public school. When the boycott petered out after two weeks, its instigators rushed ahead with plans to start a private high school...
...paper also charged that racism persists in Harvard hiring practices. It pointed to the incongruity of "white only" or token integration employment practices with "construction of a building dedicated to solving our urban problems...
...universities seemed the obvious place to start. But then I read Ridge-way's Closed Corporations and realized how thoroughly the universities have been bought by government and big business, those powerful opponents of any revolution. After that, I coudn't convince myself-honestly-that anything more than token change could be achieved from within the educational system. And what about honesty? In arguments with an acquaintance in SDS (WSA). I invariably had to acqiesce to his terms, for he disposed of mine systematically. My ideas were extremely bourgeois, totally unrelated to the real oppression of the working class...
...defense of the Center for International Affairs (CRIMSON, October 21). Raymond Vernon suggests that a broad range of political viewpoints is represented at the Center. After all, we are there as the two token radicals in a total professional staff of more than 100, a group (he hastens to add) which would have included representatives from the Warsaw pact and even the Soviet Union itself, had the Center's talent hunt met with more receptiveness east of the Elbe...