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...Ronald V. Dellums, A.A., B . A . , M.S.W., c a u g h t in one of the most g l o r i o u s wangdoodles of a shout e v e r h e a r d at a Democratic Convention...
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...the nations of the Third World are ringing one another up...
...You cannot defeat Ronald Reagan by moving to the r i g h t - - w e must move to the left in this c o u n t r y . We cannot defeat Ronald Reagan by abandoning our ideals...
...Almost all the Third World nations have come to realize that the way to f i g h t one superpower is not by jumping into the arms of another...
...The young whippersnappers of The A merican Spectator are also monotonous pounders, mocking those who try to aid the poor and powerless for being (boo, hiss) liberal lemmings...
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...i't is a 'moment when this country, a time when this convention, a time when our people must stand and discuss the issues of our t i m e s . . . . You c a n n o t d e f e a t Ronald Reagan by simply b e i n g a n t i - R o n a l d Reagan...
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...What is j a r r i n g , at this late date, is the condescending portrayal of the relatiuns between settlers and Indians...
...These are perilous times...
...9 . . S e n a t o r Kennedy stood here in eloquent and extraordinary courage and embraced the idealism that should be this party . . . . What Senator Kennedy was about and what I am about is what will make this country real--speaking to the hopes and the dreams and the aspirations of our p e o p l e . . . . It is only when we speak to the idealism ot this nation that we will survive...
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...The following announcement in The Progressive magazine, a liberal publication, was reprinted in The Spectator's Current Wisdom column and labeled "a proud declaration from the lunatic fringe": For many years now, The Progressive has made it a practice to provide a free subscription to any prisoner who requested it...
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...The mountain men are depicted treating women in much the same way, except they draw the line, at least in this picture, at brutality and rape9 Stephen Macht (who i s n ' t a Native American) plays a Blackfoot chief whose wife (most convincingly p o r t r a y e d by Victoria Racimo) chooses to run away and team up with Heston . . . . "The Mountain Men," is rated R for strong l a n g u a g e , v i o l e n c e and one scene of s e x u a l b r u t a l i t y between Macht and Racimo, which i s n ' t g r a p h i c but is demeaning to women...
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...The fact t h a t S e n a t o r Kennedy captured the imagination of this audience last night was a reality--that what America's p e o p l e want are new ideas, new o r i e n t a t i o n s , a sense of i d e a l i s m , and a sense of hope in this c o u n t r y t h a t we have not moved to the r i g h t and dropped off the face of the earth...
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...I withdraw my candidacy, because I did not come here to seek votes...
...Garry Wills slogs on, shouldering the burdens of citizenship in this hellish land: It makes me wonder--.what victims are we ignoring now...
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...While some of the atlitudes towards women and Indians that were prevah.nt in the 1830s still exist today, there is a tendency among moderns to at least try and minimize racism and sexism...
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...The world is not ringing up Big Brother anymore (mainly because Big Brothers tend to confuse affection and rape...
...Let us rededicate ourselves in the next few hours of this convention to reject war and a c c e p t p e a c e - - t o reject the big m i l i t a r y budget and deal with human needs of this country--to reject racism and to embrace humanity--to reject p o l l u t i o n and the exploitation of our environment to (move to) an ecological orientation to human life...
...FDR worked in the '30s to block anti-lynching planks in the Democratic platforms...
...I came here to seek a platform to energize you and to energize me as we win back our party and win back America...
...For years we hid from ourselves the tyranny exercised over our own black fellow citizens...
...8 uuitcd States is going through a period when the Lying Adicctive and the Angry Hyperbole have taken over its thought processes...
...James Wolcott, writing in a man's magazine, exhibits the painful symptoms of the Anglo-Saxon's traditional low-fiber diet...
...Small Brother has grown up...
...In "The Mountain Men" the Indians art- portrayed as being warlike, even if their behavior is shown to be justifiable self-defense...
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...While the Soviet Union of course has given us the classic example in Afghanistan, the United States in its own way showed how much respect it had for the black nations of Africa--in a much less harmful way, to be sure, and one that was regarded by the United States as a friendly gesture...
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...Would President Carter send Jimmy Connors, or better .still, C h r i s E v e r t Lloyd in her shorts, to persuade P r e s i d e n t Valery Giscard d'Estaing to change his mind...
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...I refer to the decision to s e n d former heavyweight champion Muhammad All to Africa to persuade black nations to boycott the Olympics...
...September 13, 1980] The Los Angeles Times In an otherwise amicable review of the movie Mountain Men, the eminent Linda Gross spies some very alarming infringements against the latest requirements in state kul'tura: The crude language and the violence of survival is app,opriate considering the lives that these mountain men lead...
...The film also shows Indians trading their women as though they were cattle and then using them like beasts of bt,rden...
...We know from the correspondence we receive that these copies are widely circulated and deeply appreciated...
...All may be a great boxer, but is he the man to send on a sensitive diplomatic mission ? France sent a team to the Moscow Olympics...
...We can defeat Ronald Reagan by advocating a program which rejects the madness of war, that rejects the madness of death and destruction, t h a t r e j e c t s the madness of a military budget calculated to destroy this nation...
...Akbar, editor of Sunday, "a leading weekly news journal published in India," lectures the Nation's famously creduk)us clients as to the superiority of the Third World in English of the Hey-JoeWant-To-Meet-My-Seester variety: Nobody in the T h i r d World, i n c l u d i n g India, which Americans s u s p e c t is a Russian surrogate only because it refuses to be a United States surrogate, likes the idea of a Russian b e a r hug...
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...Dellums s e r v e d f o r two y e a r s a s P s y c h i a t r i c S o c i a l Worker f o r t h e C a l i f o r n i a D e p a r t - ment of Mental Hygiene, I kid thee not: Brothers an~l Sisters of the Democratic Party: A numberofpeoplehaveasked why have wc attempted to advance this candidacy9 It is simply to mount this podium to suggest to you that we have a moral imperative, a political imperative, an intellectual imperative to stop Ronald Reagan and George Bush from becoming the President and .the Vice President of the United States at this critical juncture in the evolution of human life in this country . . . . It is terribly important that you and I, here at this convention, understand that perhaps this is the most dangerous moment in modern life...
Vol. 13 • November 1980 • No. 11
