Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your Essay on the White House hero [July 26], you speak of a reformer one day calling for a Presidential Academy. Plato proposed the idea in ancient Greece. He called for the institutionalization of promising youngsters, who were to be schooled thoroughly in mathematics, philosophy, fine arts and gymnastics. There would be no personal wealth nor family life-they would, however, be permitted to mate under "civic control" with specially selected women. At 35, the Grecian would graduate from the process as the perfect leader-void of personal ambition and with concern solely for the well-being of the Greek...
...Your article "Black & White Dating" [July 19] really made me angry. Most young people, and even some older ones, date because they like each other. They see only human beings to date, to love, to work with. Then comes a desperate reporter with his "color" camera, and the myth of race gets another two-page spread. Get off our backs and let us live as human beings. To hell with race...
...have to agree with the statement made by Georgia Herrick: "I was trying to prove something to myself, a reaffirmation of the liberal beliefs I had been brought up under." It seems to me that usually this is the reason why a Negro dates a white, or the other way around. Few couples are ready to cope with the problems of interracial dating. They are, whether they admit it or not, bound by society's taboos, and these rules do not allow them the openness needed for a good relationship...
...general feeling of many White men that Black men want their women. Many Whites don't want Blacks around their women. The truth is that black hands, black love and affection took care of many of their own mamas. The Black man can be proud that his own black women gave birth to the whole thing of love and affection in countless American homes...
...Black poet and author Langston Hughes wrote a poem for White America to read. "I could tell you why I'm the way I am, but I don't want to, and you don't give a damn." Can this be the plight of the "American Dream"? Dear Lord what can it be, "justice" for all or from the White man's perspective, "just us" (meaning themselves)? Dear God in spite of what many say about your having turned your back on the Black people, I still want to be a minister. But what can I tell my Black congregation...