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Simplistic to the point of demagoguery, his rhetoric is not so much overtly racist as atavistic. His speeches are a scattershot us-folks compendium of conservative complaints against the Federal Government, both major parties, bums, beatniks and Vietniks, rioters (meaning Negroes), intellectuals and Communists. With bantam-cock posture and frequent billingsgate phrases, he portentously appeals to patriotism, law and order, individual liberty, states' rights and the safety of the past. He is a pugnacious orator-a kind of ham-hock Goldwater-and one of the most effective stump speakers of the 1968 campaign...
...Your attempted analysis of "soul," as expressed by the beautiful and sensitive Aretha Franklin, does little more than perpetuate America's racist dogma that anything indigenous to blacks must be imbued with bestial sexuality, an oblique relationship with God and/or family or, at best, quaint abnormalities of conduct. Your perception of soul is as your perception of those who live it. You see plainly the origins, but not feeling its message, you subject it to comical distortions or paternal niceties. As is evident in many crumbling households, the would-be Great White Father is well advised to "just...
TIME FOR AMERICANS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Bias and the Media, Part 1," an examination of racism in communications, is the starting point for this series based on the proposition that 'nice' America is indeed racist, North and South, black and white. Singers Harry Belafonte and Lena Home, Writer Lawrence Neal and Psychiatrist Dr. Alvin Poussaint discuss the problems...
...tend to discount such theories. A senior Justice Department lawyer is conducting an undercover search for leads to a plot among Memphis underworldlings, but local police and FBI agents-who first hunted the suspect as a member of a conspiracy-are working on the assumption that Ray, a known racist and always a loner in prison, killed alone...
...fashioned a book, The Algiers Motel Incident (Knopf; $5.95) that measures up to his better work. "This episode," he writes, "contained all the mythic themes of racial strife in the U.S.: the arm of the law taking the law into its own hands; interracial sex; the subtle poison of racist thinking by 'decent' men who deny that they are racists; the societal limbo into which so many young black men have been driven ever since slavery; ambiguous justice in the courts; the devastation in both black and white lives that follows violence...