Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wright makes a call to action as well. But it is addressed, if to anyone outside the ghetto, to foundations rather than to the Federal government. In the political realm, he does call for a national lobby, for better communications, for organization. Yet he never loses sight of the necessity for exploring both sides of any question. His statements are couched in terms comprehensible to blacks and whites alike...
...this is Wright's theme, as it was the theme of the July 1966 meeting of the National Council of Negro Churchmen from which the Times advertisement was generated. It points toward a new form of communication between the masses--these churchmen are members of the lower middle and working classes, not the middle class--and those portions of larger society which can appreciate a "protest" movement that utilizes hard-nosed logic (and methods) and proposes intelligent programmatic action. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that this does not always include the "liberal" community...
...passage from Wright's book may further illustrate this point. In his younger years, Wright felt the "inconsistencies between utterance and practice on the part of whites" to be merely the result of prejudice...
...there is a fundamental change in the function of religion. Wright's other-worldly predecessors, in southern churches and in storefronts in northern ghettoes, sought salvation in the God manufactured for the black slave by his master; He who promised "pie in the sky, after you die." Wright and his colleagues do not mince words: the God in which they seek redemption, He whom they rhetorically call upon to help them help themselves, is a God of "power, of majesty, of might...
...Wright furnishes some statistics, though it is not the point of his book; he also makes side comments about the salient aspects of the ghetto problem--attitudes of teachers and guidance counsellors, public housing, welfare, the gamut...