Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Sunday, October 5, 1980 The New York Times Magazine devoted two articles to the topic: "The Black Plight: Race or Class?" which took the form of a debate between Kenneth Clark, a prominent Black psychologist and Carl Gershman, a former civil-rights activist...
...Gershman argued that because the black leadership were preoccupied with a racial approach to the question of Black dispossession, it tended to ignore "the growing class divisions within the black community." He also argued that the Black bourgeoisie was inclined to use "racial myths" in an ideological manner to achieve racial entitlements from the society at the expense of the Black underclass...
Both Mr. Clark and Mr. Gershman attack the "black middle-class leadership" for their inability to define the issue of Black dispossession in a clear and satisfactory manner and agree on the fact that the presence of a Black underclass bears ominous potentials for American democracy...
...question must be asked: How can any honest dialogue about race and class be conducted in the most advanced capitalist country without so much as a single reference to the commodity-structure of production which generates these insane class conflicts and racial antagonisms? Therefore, to posit race and class as binary opposites defeats the whole purpose of trying to understand the present oppression of Afro-American people and fall into the ideological trick-bag of the dominant white society...
...some obscure "rocky place," Sir--the embodiment of England's insensitive aristocracy--and his servant Cocky--the embodiment of England's righteous lower class--imagine their own metaphysical stage and act out society's cruelties in The Game. As Sir arbitrarily changes the rules, forcing Cocky to grovel for a loaf of bread, Greasepaint seems like a Romper Room production of some absurdist play. For the entire first act, The Game follows its repetitive course with Sir betraying poor, dim-witted Cocky's confidence again and again...