Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adele Simmons, special assistant of Admissions at Radcliffe, made a Southern recruiting trip in January. In a report describing the trip, she said that "the South, and particularly the white South, is insular and suspicious of anything Northern; promoting Radcliffe is, to some Southerners, comparable to pushing...
...necessary to point out that the article's reference to my views in relationship to Stokely Carmichael are seriously misrepresented. I would like to say unequivocally that I am a strong admirer of Stokely Carmichael and I believe your reference to militant implies the constant negative reaction that the white society makes of most black men who speak a frank truth...
Javelin Catcher. The Laugh-In producers put together a whole hour of such material, a sort of all-black Laugh-In called Soul, which NBC ran as a special earlier this season. In a typical bit, Redd Foxx told Slappy White of the first Negro athletic-scholarship winner at the University of Mississippi -"He's a javelin catcher." White observed that Oct. 27 is a Negro holiday - "That's the day when the new Cadillacs come out." In one sight gag, George Kirby stretched out on a beach mat, opened a bottle of suntan oil and slathered...
...refer to him as a Negro, colored person or black. Finally, upon the guest's arrival, he stammered: "Hi, boy-er, I mean, Bill." When the visit ended, Tommy said, "I would really like to have you over more often." Bill exited with: "Well, that's mighty white...
...networks are still caught somewhat nervously between the stereotypes of Supernegro and a campy version of old Stepin Fetchit. Digby Wolfe, a former writer on the Laugh-In and Soul shows, warns that the "here-come-de-judge syndrome can be very dangerous, because it is apt to convince white audiences that Negroes are, after all, just kidding." He misses the point. No matter what the show or how limp the humor, the "Yassuh, boss" jokes are still, basically, satire...