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...demonstration protested Polaroid's allegedly racist commercial dealings with the South African government and Land's involvement in that policy...
Caroline Hunter, a representative of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, described Polaroid's involvement in helping maintain South Africa's racist regime. Polaroid supplies the South African government with the ID2 "instant identification system," which the government uses to issue identity cards and to keep a computerized data bank on all those persons to whom identity cards are issued...
...large degree, the problem is students. . .not students like the tortoise-shelled racist, but rather, everyday sort of liberal students (and a large helping of radically chic ones, too). The student is plucked out of his own community (which in an ever-increasing number of cases tends to be some place like Short Hills or Greenwich or Passaic), shipped like a piece of prime beef (yes, prime) and dumped in a great tower of learning whose only relationship to the community is either as land developer or slumlord. The student remains entirely isolated from the thousands of real people...
Faith is difficult to analyze. I was in England in 1966 when Cooper fought Clay. At a pub in Cambridge a drunken racist kept saying that "Cooper's the hand of God. He's the white hope. He's beautiful." Of course, he was all wrong, but I liked his reasoning. He had faith, misguided though it was, in the slow, brick-like frame of Cooper. He is the only person I've ever met who really had faith in an athlete. Sure, people have bet fortunes on one man or another, but they bet on statistics. They are people...
...however, is only one feather on the American Imperial Eagle. The U. S. supports the racist regime in South Africa because of that country's vast gold and uranium deposits. And the story of United Fruit and Guatemala is an oft-told tale (sad but true). The list goes on, but the point should be clear...