Word: programming
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...march-also supported by SDS-is part of NAC's program of support for the Panthers, which currently centers around a plan to forfeit University meals every Wednesday with the rehates going to the Panthers. It is not yet clear whether the University will agree to grant the rebates...
...self-concept of slaveholder is central to the American national character and is in fact the national sickness of white racism." It has been structured into demeaning laws and customs designed to keep maximum distance between black and white. Poussaint argues that what is needed is a massive program of "deconditioning" Americans from their white-superior, black-inferior models of thought and relationships. The burden in achieving this, he suggests, would fall mainly on the educational system and the mass media...
...apprenticeship system, in which trainees undergo a four-or five-year learning period before being admitted as full-fledged journeymen. Blacks charge, with considerable justice, that the system is often used more as a barrier than as an entranceway. Only 4% of the apprentices in the union-regulated programs are black. Union leaders argue that the apprenticeship system is necessary to maintain a high standard of skill. It takes only 16 months to train an Air Force jet pilot but five years to train a plumber. George Meany's rationale for that: the plumber must learn a greater variety...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. has responded with "Apprenticeship Outreach." A program that the union federation runs in cooperation with the Labor Department and several civil rights groups, Outreach offers special pre-apprenticeship training to ghetto youngsters. They are tutored for six to twelve weeks, mainly in math and reading comprehension, in preparation for apprenticeship exams. The program has been less than a great success, partly because blacks find it difficult to believe that after decades of discrimination they are now welcome in the blue collar areas. Since it began in 1967, Outreach has placed only 5,633 blacks, 56% of them...
Blacks sometimes find direct, militant action more effective than Government programs. Retailers have been an especially vulnerable target. Last week in Pittsburgh, for instance, Sears, Roebuck and Co. capitulated to a boycott by the N.A.A.C.P. and the United Black Protest Committee and agreed to employ up to 30% blacks in its city stores as well as 15% in the suburbs. Sears further pledged to conduct a black recruiting program, promote deserving blacks to management jobs and provide "sensitivity training" for all employees to acquaint them with the black workers' point of view. Beyond that, Sears will consider preferential buying...