Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Kennedy, then, made America's problems personal causes. He baited white, suburban audiences throughout the country this spring with tales of life in the ghetto and on the Indian reservations. He told Oregon's hunters that easy access to guns was immoral. His personality, his bristling hope, and his eclecticism were his politics...
There is no way of telling, of course, whether Bob Kennedy would have made the White House on this run. A summer of riots, the impasse in Paris, and rising Vietnam casualty rates could well have eroded Vice President Humphrey's delegate lead. And much of Senator McCarthy's liberal, affluent support might have resigned itself to the former Attorney General. Yet the importance of the Kennedy campaign--or, indeed, the post-1963 Kennedy career--doesn't lie merely in what it might have been. Grief-stricken Kennedy backers should take some solace in a contribution Kennedy has made...
...short, poor white laborers, Mexican-Americans, and blacks were given a sense of possibility about Ameri-politics political bosses heretofore denied them. It remains to be seen whether the dispossessed will form their own local political organizations, but Kennedy has finally given them electoral, and maybe social, hope...
Practically everyone, it seemed, wore a blue and white McCarthy button and talked in excited tones about "how we did it." National politics just didn't seem like the preserve of a few game-playing campus politicoes any more...
...white activist has a similar problem. There is the world, and you are here. What can you do? The first way out is to discover that the world is here too, right here in the university...