California State University Sacramento - Statesman Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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SY MPOSLUM on raciom in America: past, present, ‘ future Whether one believes that schools should shape or reflect the values of a democratic Toledo] A aN | SIO] ob A COLES RARE Ten LOSS) 0) (oma COM C0) either except to the extent that those respon- sible for the educational process understand what the society’s values and the conditions of their implementations in fact are. Recent interracial clashes and public reactions to them indicate that, at least in regard to Am- erican race relations, our formal educa- tional system is not doing the job. Both the roots of our racial problems and the question of how they may be resolved con- tinue to be discussed largely at the level of platitudes. Rather than frank analysis of the origins of the crisis, we are offered moralistic judgements about its symptoms. And instead of action-oriented examina- tions of feasible solutions, we are asked to content ourselves with enjoiners to “law and order’’. The only responsible antidote to current ignorance and the attendant emotional polarization on the subject of race relations in the U.S. is continuously to expose the American public to the kind of in-depth explorations of this area of our national life which our regular educational curricula and the mass media largely fail to provide. To help meet this need for a fuller and more sensitive understanding of the interracial situation our society today faces, Sacra- mento State College Inter-Racial Project, in cooperation with the Academic Senate and the College’s administration have arranged an “Interracial Week”, featuring the appearance of informed speakers rep- resenting various viewpoints on some of the many aspects of this critically important subject. It is hoped by the planners of this special program that it will contribute in some small measure to the development of the more informed citizenry which the continued vitality and harmony of our so- ciety so urgently requires. 10 The Student DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK Pediatrician, War Critic. . .‘‘What’s Hap- pening to America: The War and Domestic Society” RONALD V. DELLUMS City Councilman, Berkeley. . .‘‘Racism in perspective” KENNETH GOOD Author of From Africa to the United States and Then. . .“‘Intergration is Impossible” OCTAVIO ROMANO Chairman of the Institute of Mexican-Am- erican Affairs in Oakland. . .‘‘Social Sci- ence: The Distortion of Mexican-American History” VICTOR COMERCHERO Professor, Scaramento State. . .‘‘Violence and the American Dream” ELDRIDGE CLEAVER : Author of Soul on Ice. . .“ Racism in Am- erica”’ DR. PRICE COBBS Author of Black Rage. Roots of Racism’”’ .““Emontional ARTURO CABRERA State Vice-President, Association of Mexi- can-American Educators. .“ Education and the Mexican-American”’ FATHER JAMES GROPPI Leader of the Commandos in Milwau- kee. . .“‘The Need for Action”’ HARRY EDWARDS Man Behind the Olympic Boycott. . .‘‘Pol- itics and the Black Revolution”

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