An examination of the statistical evidence

of black progress in this country reveals

that the number of blacks now categorized

in the professional or managerial class is

steadily increasing. In the face of this,

many non-blacks resent the continued

charge of racism and often feel that blacks

have been overcompensated to the point

where it is the non-black who is discrimi-

nated against. There have been suggestions

along these lines from all areas: from the

poor white person who feels that the white-

shirted black with the attachd case is mak-

ing progress on his back, to government

officials who recommend the discontinuance

of programs designed to help blacks with

the suggestion that some kind of benign

neglect will facilitate the closing of the

racial social ~ind economic gap. Jonathan

Bramwell, the author of Courage in Crisis,

clearly refutes this theory, tie tells of the