Baldwin
WHY DO YOU THINK THEY INCLUDED BOBBY SEALE, WHO HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DEMONSTRATIONS, IN THE CONSPIRACY?
Quite apart from all the illegality involved, Bobby is a bad nigger. Same reason Mohammed Ali, formerly Cassius Clay, was stripped of his title.   Same reason Malcolm's dead. One of the historical facts about this nation is that you always take a bad nigger and hang him publicly, as an example to all others who would be bad niggers.
WHY IS IT THAT GROUPS LIKE SCLC, NAACP, URBAN LEAGUE, AND GROUPS LIKE THEM ARE JUST 'BEGINNING TO COME OUT IN SUPPORT OF THE PANTHERS?
The whole black situation in this country from the start has been very complicated.   The battle between W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington was almost the battle in microcosm.   There's always been something very closely resembling a hoax, at the very heart of the American dream. And it applied to black people in great force, because for awhile it was very
useful to what is called the power structure to have certain niggers in the window.   To prove to Americans that they were really what they said
they were, and to prove to black people that they were what they said they were. And the nature of the bargain was that the nigger in the window could wrest some concessions from the status quo, in return for the tranquility of the natives.
But the table on which these people operate has vanished.   Once Martin
Luther King was shot^ though some think it was long before that, it was perfectly clear that there was no way to be a good nigger.   And that's not even pejorative because Uncle Tom played a very important role historically.   But the role that he played is no longer possible to play. The defenders of the status quo have in effect given as much as they can give. And now even the most respectable black cat is very much, whether or not he likes it or whether or not he wants to admit it, no matter what his age--he is also part of the target, no matter how famous or how rich he is.
We are all the Viet Cong, none of us can really be trusted from the point of view of the defenders of the American power.   Not even the most agile
Uncle Tom can hope to have any meaningful discussion or dialogue with Attorney General John Mitchell. #
Dixon
this is wrong.   We must stop putting housewives down.
Second, it is wrong not to share housework. Housework is a drag:   it's hard, menial, unrewarding labor by and large and it should be shared. As much should be automated as possible. Creative and living   human beings should not be limited to doing nothing else for the majority of their lives. It's the kind of labor we want people to be set free from.   Most housework is not groovey things like cooking that's fun, or sewing that's fun, or making things for the house that's fun--things that you squeeze in when you're not into all this other stuff. And while cooking can be a really groovey thing do, it gets to be a real drag every day.
This is a very important issue and we've got to make clear what our position is on housewives: that we don't sneer when we say "housewife. "
btf:  How would you reassure men that women's
liberation is not a threat to sexuality of women?
Dixon :   Well, I don't want to reassure men about that. I think the men have to deal with their male supremacy and they have to deal with their male chauvinism.   If the only thing they can relate to sexually is a "doll" or a passive "kitten" or a "chick" or a "quail" or a "bitch" --shall I go on with all the animal names? - -those are cops in the heads of men.   Men have got to learn to see women as full human beings in their own fashion. Women are not going to change their shape,  you know, just because they've stopped being all of these other things.   So I don't want to reassure the .men. I want to say, better that  you deal with it yourself before we have to deal with you.   And if we all deal together then one day we'll all be able to work to together and be architects of a decent society.
max 1
aren't too many positions open to ex-deans and ex-college presidents. They must fight for a limited number of openings.    Promotions usually require transfers.   To become attractive enough to be sought, an administrator must be visible. He becomes visible by having his faculty publish in journals that people irl other universities read, by participating in national professional conferences and by securing large government grants.   When the proper level of visibility is reached, a faculty member or an admin-"ââ€"  is^trator increases his options by
seeking job offers.   If he wants to , stay where he is, he pretends he's leaving.   If his superiors want to keep him, they give him more money and ask him to teach less. Those students he does teach are ones being created in his own image, i. e. , they will leave the state to do research in another university, in competition for high status positions that require the least amount of teaching.
Things now seemed to fit together:   new building with no stiidents; the King or someone
saying only one key per office so students can't work with a professor except in his presence; offices numbered out of sequence to promote invisible non-teachers; publish more, teach less; give undergraduates television sets, teach graduate students in classes of four, five or six.   Max said we were clearly on our way to being a first class university.
Max said he thought we had a lot of backward things in Kentucky and a lot of things backwards. He said the University was sort of a Robin Hood in reverse, that it took money from the poor and what middle-class there was and gave it to well-to-do professionals and the rich.   I told Max I didn't think that was true, because none of my peers would stand for it.   Max said he'd seen some of my peers, and they were too busy.
"What your educational system needs, " Max said, "is a plan. Do you have a plan? "  Max was getting excited and I knew he might get hostile if he didn't get any relief. I didn't know what to do; if only we had a plan.   I wondered if the new president had a plan and I decided to call him. I did and I asked him over the phone if he had a new
plan. When I asked hi, he said, "Is this a student^or a faculty member? "  I said I was on the faculty and heard him sigh.    Then he said, "Maybe yes, maybe no."   I told him I thought we ought to have a meeting to talk about it and that I had a friend who was very interested. But he said he was very busy with the budget and that he had to have $17 million from the legislature to stand still.   Max overheard the conversation and said that while he didn't know this president, he had never met one who wanted to stand still.   I told him not to worry, that I thought the new president was on the move.   Max wanted to knov where he was moving to. I thought the president should meet Max over lunch, so I set up the appointment through his secretary. I talked with Max afterwards and asked him what he had learned. Not a singletary thing--he still couldn't understand what was going on in Kentucky. I repeated
that we were simply trying to build a first rate university. "You know, like the Big Ten. " His bald head looking like he'd spent three days underwater, he said, "This would be a good place to put one since you already have the buildings. "
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February, 1970