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...understand that black crime hurts mostly other blacks and that it is often the result of desperate poverty and urban chaos, for which the blacks are not to blame. It is not always easy for whites to realize that the violence of black rhetoric, the calls of "get Whitey" and "kill the pigs," spring from a deep wound caused by 31 centuries of blatant injustice and from a feeling that polite, peaceable methods have not worked. Despite violent language, the vast majority of blacks realize that actual violence ultimately hurts the black cause. Most black leaders are now committed...
...faith in the white community. We are too prone to complain." But other blacks see Woodard as more of a white representative than a black one and consider his faith naive. "Wichita is built on hate," says Juan Kennedy, a 19-year-old Wichita State freshman. "Hate and fear. Whitey gives up as little...
...them to what they thought was good use in probing the psyches of blacks. Today there are enough black professionals to turn the tables, and many of them treat white patients in both public institutions and private practice.* In both areas they have a unique opportunity to examine Whitey's hang-ups about blacks-his guilt, his insecurities and the rationalizations by which he tries to justify his racism...
...says, "is to save the nation, in order to save the individual citizen, and the race." Probably few blacks, however, share his opinion that the civil rights struggle is disruptive of that unity. "It was supposed to be a struggle for first-class citizenship, not for getting Whitey," Jackson maintains. "Those who wanted their rights are being sold another bill of goods now. There are Negroes who believe their mission is to destroy America...
...more equal ground. Black separatists are indeed taking that route (see box, page 14), although the vast majority of blacks prefer to join whites now in those better white schools. The separatist path also has its illusions. Money still matters in education, and it still seems to follow whitey. In the long run, polarization may prove more destructive to race relations than the current incidence of friction in integrated schools. Blacks are emerging from white schools and colleges in increasing numbers, are often eagerly sought for good jobs, and want those advantages now. The selfhelp, go-it-alone tactic...