¶ Race (1)
Index Entry
Race:
"University stir-ups, also greatly heightened by the cold-war-stimulated awareness of a century of nonfulfilment of the U.S.A. war for the emancipation of Blacks, and the economic and cultural bans which prolong the racist discriminations against nonwhites… with Blacks skillfully persuaded into activism…
"I well remember the sense of exultant camaraderie which I experienced in 1907 when entering ‘Upper School’ at Milton Academy. I discovered that the big boys were derisively displeased with the headmaster and, in learning that he was to resign, went into a townwide riot of joy. How I whooped and danced and ran with the others, knowing absolutely nothing of the merits or demerits of the case against the maligned and dishonored ‘Head.’ This gives me insights into the mass actions of today’s students.
“The latter have much more cause for fundamental skepticism, scorn, displeasure, and action against the establishment in general because their elders are asleep at the switch of history’s express trains, and because the so-called educational system is failing to give them powerful insights about what”
