Zoey Slater's List: AMST 301

• A backlog of frustrated hopes as a result of the unfilled expecta-  tions aroused by the judicial and legislative victories of the Civil Rights  Movement.
• "To continue present policies is to make  permanent the division of our country into two societies; one, largely Negro  and poor, located in central cities; the other, predominantly white and affluent,  located in the suburbs and in outlying areas."*'
• They have not communicated to the majority of their audience — which is  white — a sense of the degradation, misery, and hopelessness of living in the ghetto.  They have not communicated to whites a feeling for the difficulties and frustrations  of being a Negro in the United States. They have not shown understanding or  appreciation of — and thus have not communicated — a sense of Negro culture,  thought or history. . . .
• The future of race relations in the United States is problematic. The Na-  tional Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kemer Commission)  described a society increasingly divided into two parts, separate and unequal.
• The black portion of this society, no longer accepting either the justice or the  inevitability of its condition, is likely to exhibit mounting impatience, aliena-  tion, and in its militants, particularly its militant young, a resort to measures  of desperation. Whites, alarmed at black and white youth, particularly cam-  pus confrontation tactics, and well-nigh panicked by fear of mounting street  crime, are more and more inclined to turn from moderate and civil libertarian  solutions to police measures that they hope may restore their sense of security  and uphold conventional values. Neither blacks nor whites seem to have  reached the point of no return. But the drift course seems ominous.

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