Concerning the Cant of “White Racism”

Concerning the Cant of “White Racism”

I would like to enter an immodest protest against all the talk about “white racism” that we have been hearing since the Report of the President’s Commission on Civil Disorders.

Since I have no statistics and can speak only out of my experience, it might be well to keep my background in mind, for it may be that this is a kind of regional report. I have lived most of my life in the large cities of the Midwest (Flint, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul) and have spent mo...


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