Word: paternalisme
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"What you are fighting at Harvard," said another Negro student, "is liberal paternalism. You get admitted to the college because you are a Negro. You get a scholarship because you are a Negro. Everyone wants to be nice to you. Run for class marshal--no one can afford to vote...
Escape from this "debilitating" paternalism and from the futile struggle for total acceptance involves separation, self-assertion, sometimes arrogance. Negroes who had been good friends in prep school consequently often become aloof. Those who are particularly active in civil rights groups sometimes refuse to discuss that subject in the dining...
This distrust of white motives is behind statements like that of the Negro at the House seminar. What he was saying, in part, was that whites have no real stake in the movement, and so will not go beyond the "obviously moral" methods of non-violent protest. But there was...
There are numerous inconsistencies in the thinking of Harvard's black nationalists. If Negroes here really do think in terms of power, and not in terms of good and bad, as they claim the white liberals do, why do the motives of the whites in the movement matter? A true...
Omnipotent Leaders. Lee's problem, as extrapolated by Ezra G. Benedict Fox from Freud's "postulate of the defense mechanism of identification in the relationship between the group and the group leader," was one that is common to all leaders "exercising a type of paternalism with the group...