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...When he says lower-class he really means blacks," Blustein says of Banfield's definitions. "What he says in essence is that we have racist institutions, and that their racist practices should continue." But Blustein's position is oversimplified: Banfield's disdain does not end with lower class blacks--it pervades to all members of the lower class...
...taken a year off, remembers Banfield well. "The SDS put out a paper analyzing Unheavenly City point by point" she says, and many people knew of him and his theories. She says now that Banfield could run into problems here. She remembers him as "an objectionable man--a racist...
...have a great deal more freedom than in a bureacracy...My inclination is just to write more." Powell should know--he has taught courses to senior Pentagon officials and been consultant to the U.S. Information Agency. The "nuke the Chinks" expressions that led him to leave Defense were "obviously racist slogans." That opinion wasn't majority feeling even at the Pentagon, Powell says, but it made him more aware that "every bureaucracy has its share of lunatics"--and he chose, after 1966, to work in a bureaucracy where lunacy was at least isolated, and perhaps less dangerous...
Charlestown: "We are not violent and racist. But we are fiercely loyal to our community, and we believe in protecting our culture, our people and the quality of education. Now we've got to give it all up, everything we've worked years for. They want to bus our kids out of Charlestown to the crummy schools that nobody ever worked to change. We don't anticipate that a lot of our kids will be on those buses...
Angry blacks would reply that Boston is indeed more racist than most Northern cities and that in the past blacks have not been able to gain much control over their schools. But as Psychologist Robert Coles has pointed out, the blue-collar population of Boston now feels that it has lost control not only of its schools but also of an important part of its life. The white neighborhoods, once highly influential in both the church and city hall, feel abandoned by city leaders. South Boston lost much of its political clout with the death of Cardinal Cushing...