Word: racistly
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...these one-acters, Israel Horovitz's Morning, is black in every sense. The set and costumes are black, the people are black (or white, as I'll explain in a second), the humor is black. It is a strange play, one that insecure whites and Uncle Toms will call racist. Don't believe them...
...because many whites simply don't know how to react to blacks as people yet. When most liberals hear the black-cum-white characters in Horovitz's play putting on Butterfly McQueen accents, a sign lights up in their minds saying "Racial Stereo-types. . . Gone With the Wind. . . Racist" -and the liberals freeze...
...white audience is scared out of its wits. It doesn't know how to react. (The suburban liberal in the second row tells himself each time a character says "Shee-it" : "I can't laugh at that- it may be funny, but everyone will think I'm a racist...
...charged that the helpers' program is racist, and claims that blacks are hired as helpers instead of as higher-paid journeymen even when they have two to five years experience as painters...
Racism and exploitation-you find it everywhere-even in the Harvard CRIMSON. Mr. Butler, yes, typified that blatant kind of racist behavior that black people can no longer ignore or tolerate. But the CRIMSON, in yesterday's article, typified that subtle kind of racism which permits it to use a black person, namely me, to carry the weight of a protest staged by a white organization which presumes to speak for black workers. In your next issue, why don't you run a photo of the 70-odd whites at Tuesday's conference who carry bonfire SDS membership cards...