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...private life, a small but vital part of the book) is that his Peace Corps years in Ecuador, 1966-7, were pivotal ones in the lingering death of active student liberalism. He explained that though he was never fond of Lyndon Johnson, neither was he consumed by the vicious, almost pathological hatred for the man that swept much of the movement. Cowan was taking his knocks from a remote extremity of the system while the typical liberal-turned-radical marched on the Pentagon and contemplated the fires of Detroit and Newark. The news he got from the home front...
...involved in a heated argument as to whether or not such a creature as man has the right to survive. After reading "Rebellion at Lamar," I am almost ready to concede that he does not. The actions of the adults who attacked helpless children were incredibly vicious, but that their neighbors, in the calmer moments afterward, applauded the attack as "what is right" is shocking beyond words. As Thomas Jefferson said in reference to a related problem: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just...
...Viet Nam are being brought back to this country, ready for use against the local insurgents. You will see incidents of terror from the black community, aimed at property-the physical manifestations of oppression in the black community-like a savings and loan institution that has been particularly vicious in its practices. But the black community has discovered that the percentage in a riot, although it is a very fine political expression of discontent, is a losing one. The only loss is a loss...
...emotional equilibrium and sense of selfesteem. Because of their abuse and rejection of blacks, many whites have developed a great deal of understandable guilt, but since this too is an unpleasant emotional feeling, they have tried to avoid it by further rationalizations. This often reinforces prejudices and creates a vicious circle of negative defenses. For example, although white men exploited and sexually abused black women, the supposedly oversexed Negro male was lynched for the slightest real or imagined overture to a white woman...
...have overcome similar slanders and made their way ahead. But blacks are indelibly different. Because of their color, they cannot blend into the national melting scene as others did. In today's technological economy, they generally lack the education and training to move up. Yet that is the vicious circle: they cannot escape the ghetto and the inferior ghetto schools until they get at least an equal chance for jobs and promotions...