Dear Editor
Dear Editor Different Realities Nathan Glazer, staunch defender of the old consciousness, must be commended for his able defoliation of Charles A. Reich's The Greening of America ("The Peanut...
...J. David Barki fy In his article "Whitewashing the Indians" (NL, December 28...
...Given this kind of personal experience, the counterculture is unimpressed by historical arguments to the effect that individual liberties are greater today than ever before...
...Americans were directing the same language at Indians...
...Pittsburgh, Pa...
...Brooklyn, N.Y...
...Boarding schools were thought to be the key.' Doesn't anyone at The New Leader know the difference between Nazi death camps for Jewish children and U.S.-financed boarding schools for Indian children...
...Princeton, NJ...
...Even as we fought the masterdemon of final solutions, our Congressmen were echoing his words and...
...Glazer's "appeal to dull fact," it would appear, is no less partisan than Reich's...
...Dear Editor Different Realities Nathan Glazer, staunch defender of the old consciousness, must be commended for his able defoliation of Charles A. Reich's The Greening of America ("The Peanut Butter Statement," NL, December 14...
...They have turned my letter over to the Manpower Administrator of the Department of Labor for investigation...
...Richard J. Margolis writes: "While Hitler was ordering a 'final solution1 to the Jewish problem...
...I wrote the Department of Agriculture, asking that any Federal funds Pierce may receive be withdrawn, and that an inquiry be made into possible unfair labor practices...
...Particularly repugnant was his report that pickers for S. S. Pierce farms, who earn $4-8 a day (except during the height of the season, when for six weeks they can make $16 a day), have to pay much of this back to the company in rents that run $150-230 a month...
...less savagely, his thinking...
...Considering the target, Glazer's heavy bombardment of scholarship and analysis may be a case of academic overkill...
...Phimp Heller Richard J. Margolis replies...
...Of course, the parallel was not in the campus but in the language...
...As a sociologist, Glazer might consider an experiment conducted recently by a California State College professor...
...And he cites substantial historical evidence to document his case...
...The results were not surprising to anyone familiar with the realities perceived by many long-haired, hippie-garbed youths, for whom selective harassment by police is a constant condition of life in America...
...He selected 15 students with perfectly clean driving records, made them pledge to obey all traffic regulations, and turned them loose on the Los Angeles freeways in various types of vehicles having only one thing in common: a Black Panther sticker prominently displayed on the bumper...
...He chooses for his first example the issue of law and order...
...The Harvard professor thinks that the Bill of Rights has never been stronger, bureaucracy more restrained, or police better controlled than today...
...A 1944 House Select Committee on Indian Affairs offered recommendations on achieving 'the final solution of the Indian problem...
...Reich, speaking for the youth culture, never really considered the historical record in his book--the past is irrelevant to a consciousness focused exclusively on the here and NOW...
...Within 17 days, every student had been stopped by the police--one black three times--for a total of 33 moving violations...
...So round and round the disputants go and where they'll stop, nobody knows...
...Glazer admits, right off, his "difficulty with the book is that the author's view of reality is so radically different" from his own...
...After the smoke has cleared, however, I'm left feeling that in at least one particular, his attack missed the point...
...November 2...
...Larry Darrel Margolis I was moved by Richard J. Margolis' description of the conditions of migrant farm workers ('The Rural Housing Famine," NL...
...That is, they were exhibiting the kind of sloppy ethnic morals which lead to holocausts...
Vol. 54 • January 1971 • No. 2
