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Ku Klux
Black people are in more trouble than
most suspect Some of the sources of trouble
are within the black race. A sickening exam
ple was shown last week on nationwide televi
sion.
On the Faith Daniels NBC talk show, two
black men and one black woman advocated
and argued for these points:
race prejudice. I hese researchers concluded
that when any minority is subjected to gross,
long-lasting discrimination majority, the vic
timized minority reactions fall within one or
more of three distinct response groups, which
arc:
Group I. AVOlL)AISL'b of the offending
majority. Self-segregation and group isolation
* 1 hat black
people have
been cursed and
condemned by
God because
they violated the
commandments
of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob.
MINORITY REPORT
By JAMES E. ALSBROOK, Ph.D. .
I
* i hat God took away all of the civil
rights blacks had bccause blacks were disobe
dient and did not deserve civil rights protec
tion.
* That the Ku Klux Klan has a pod
given right to beat and to lynch black people.
* That all racial segregation and discrimi
nation arc perfectly natural and justified and
that blacks and whites should have separate
schools, separate neighborhoods, separate
public transportation, separate water fountains
and "separate everything."
* That the 22nd chapter of Deuteronomy
God expresses approval of the hanging of
Black people.
* That God gave black people the best of
everything, the black woman said, but blacks
turned their back on God and God is punishing
black people today because black men began
tointcgratcwith whitc womcn. She said her
proof was in the second and third chapters of
Judges.
* That the "first destruction of the world"
was caused by God's disapproval of racial
integration.
* That the 5th and I Sth chapters of Hosca
also show God's disapproval of racial integra
tion.
The leader of the three blacks identified
himself as William Lewis. He and his follow -
himsclf as William Burchficld, grand titan of
the KKK branch led by David Duke.
My first reaction to these shocking state
ments of these disoriented people was amaze
ment. Then came anger and outrage. But
then I hail second thoughts. I wanted scien
tific explanations.
A multiracial group of hundreds of social
psychologists over the years spent thousands
of hours gathering and analyzing reactions to
arc examples of this action. Native Americans
who prefer to live on reservations are another
example.
Group 2. ACCEPTANCE of a status
inferior to that the majority. Household ser
vants, "live in" or "(Jay workers," and others
who have "Negro jobs" or employment based
upon traditional "race" occupational cate
gories are examples of those in this group. So
are the "Uncle Toms" and "Aunt Jemimas."
Group X AGGRESSION against the
offending majority. Lawsuits seeking legal
remedy for injustice, and civil uprisings and
riots responding to the racial discrimination
and tyranny of the majority arc examples of
this response. ^ .
Though some type of contorted mental
gymnastics, Lewis and his followers had
accepted inferior status and resorted to the
Bible to rationalize and justify their reasoning
and their fact of self-degradation.
While the program was being telecast to
millions, I wished for some kind of technical
difficulty to blot out this horrible spectacle.
But suddenly "the light came on" and I wished
millions and millions of more whites could see
these horrible examples and the crushing real
ity if mental ami psychological havoc racial
discrimination has wreaked upon this gener
ally insensitive and unsuspecting nation.
in 1964 by Uerclson and Stciner remains
unchallenged. It statfcs:
"As a result of prejudice and discrimina
tion, members of the minority group often suf
fer some deterioration of personality: self
doubt, self-hate, impulsive and superstitious
behavior, resigned exploitation of inferior sta
tus, deviant behavior, family disturbance,
mental illness."
A^EK <*?
SWEETHEART,
WHAT'S WRONG?
?SOB'.'
PAPPY'
PUMB?
WHAT..
EVERYONE'S SMARTER
THAN MB IN SCHOOL!
I CAN 7 DC ANYTHING
RIGHT! 1 PON'T
HAVE ANY FRj EN PS >
. NO0OOY LIKES
ME'.
BABY,
BABY,
WHAT'S
WRONG7
/
I FESU
LIKE NOBOPY,
PAPPY/ 1
FESLUKS
A 7&&NVl
VNY SPECK
OF DIRT! v
ALEX, PIP SOME
THING HAPPEN
IN SCHOOL TUPAY?
/
MRS. LANG
kept asking
THtBCHSALL
ThE QUESTIONS,
SOIINTER
RUPTEP, ANP
SHE Loom?
AT ME FUNNY...
*} UH J.J./
she's our.
MOMMY
HATES
MB, TOO.
. . AND ALL THE OTHER
KIDS LAUOHEP AT MB- !
A TEACHER. ISN'T SUPPOSE?
TO PO THAT ANYMORE ' .
MOMMY SAID!
THEY'RE SUP
POSED TO
BE FAIR.
TO&RlSf
rrs true,
PUPPf'SHt
POB6N7 CALL
on mb Be
cause sh^
THINKS I'M
JUST A DUMB
G1RLI \
\0L
NO, SHBPOBSN'T,
Alt*. MRS. LANG
WOWS HO IV
OZVBR YOU ARB-..
... ANP SHeWASONC&AUTTlS
GiRPHBRSeU*. BUT SOMETIMES
IT'S HARPTOBRSAKOLP HABITS.
I'M 6URS SHE POBSN'T RZAU7B
SHE'S FAVOR- \.
0OYS. X _
' AlBX, YOU YES, I AM!
MOST CERTAIN' BVBWONB
LY ARB NOT... LAUGHS AT
ANP THE KJPS LAUGHING
AT YOU POESN'T MEAN
WJ PONT HAVE ANY
FR1ENPS. SOMETIMES
CHILDREN CAN 3E
UNKINP. LISTEN,
I'VE 6CT EXPER
IENCE THERE...
WHENIUJAS MHEHIMG
YOUR AGE- YOUR A6Z -YES,
YES, I KNOW, I KNOW TIMES
.TIMES HAVE HAVE CHANGED ?
CHAHGfiD V
HE Y, LOOK UJHCS UP!
FE?UH6 BETTER.
ABOUT YOURSeiF
70CMY, SQUIRT*
UBU.SEB? you
I CUBRB JU5T HAVIN6
6ue.ee a bap my yester
50... PAY. BVBKYBOPY HA5
I > A BAP PAY SOME
I TIMES -EVEN PAPPY1
X.
&UEU, SHE SAYS THE
OTHER KJPS ARB ALL
SMARTER THAN SHE IS,
^ AND NO0OW LIK8&
HER, AND SHE
HATES
AND I rr$A
HAVE HAIR.
stupid mm,
HAIR! TOO.
THAT
/ I KNEW.
ACTUALLY, MDPY HAS 'EM
AU, THE TIME' IN FACT, PAPPY
HASN'T HAP A GOOP PAY
SINCE HE LOST HIS JOB A
YEAR AGO* TALK v
ABOUT BEJN6
ANoeocy...
YOU'RE
NOT A
NO0OPY,
PAPPY...
YES, I AM!
I'M JUST A
SPECK OF
PIRJ!
/
The Struggle For Health Care
Hie Civil Rights Movement in the United
States must he neeessity focus on a wide array
of justice issues, in particular the impact of
racial discrimination on the African American
community. 'P)cre is a growing national debate
on the inequality of access to the delivery of
primary health care based on race and socioeco
nomic status.
being developed by the Task Ft rce on National
Health Care Reform.
In other words, we cannot afford to let this
important opportunity pass for input to be made
into thr pmpn?:ik :init pithljt; policy alternatives
as they are developed by the Clinton adminis
tration regarding health care reform. Our check
with some African American doctors who prac
Il is gixxl and ~
welcomed sign for
President Clinton
to make a national
priority of reform
ing the nation's
health-care sys
tem. l irst Lady _
Miliary Rodham
CIVIL RIGHTS JOURNAL
By BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS, JR.
Clinton has performed already an important role
as the President's "point person" on national
health care. Our concern, however, is the need
tor African American leadership to enjoin this
national debate as atop priority matter given the
rapidly deteriorating public health conditions in
many African American communities.
For the record we applaud the consistent
efforts of the National Medical Association and
the host of African American and other physi
cians who serve people of color communities
throughout the nation. African American doc
tors have always been at the forefront of civil
rights challenges to the racial inequities in the
national health-care system. The problem is
today that the national debate appears to be
shifting away from confronting the reality of
racial discrimination throughout the health care
system to advancing the interests of those who
arc already economically and politically power
ful.
Somebody needs to demand that the
improvement of the quality of public health
access and delivery in the African American
community will not get "triage" as the national
debate on health care unfolds.
Reportedly, the President's Task Force on
National Health Care Reform headed by Mrs.
Clinton will have recommendations ready for
the President to send Congress by May 1, 1993.
We understand that there are more than 3(X)
persons who arc working in some type of staff
capacity for the task force. The Congressional
Black Caucus, National Medical Association,
NAACP, SCLC, Urban League, and other
nation civil rights organizations should formu
late jointly a set 6f specific proposals to be
incorporated in the comprehensive plan now
ticcd medicine at the community level revealed
a cjecp anxiety about the future viability of
African American medical practices in the
United States. The rising costs of health care
has not added huge increases in monetary prof
its for African American physicians practicing
in the rural South or in the urban centers arc
barely making ends meet.
In fact, the tendency for African American
.doctors to consider going into private practice
to offer direct medical care to the African
American community is on a serious decline
because of the high costs of malpractice insur
ance and the overall economic insecurity of
starting private medical practices. Couple this
with banks and other leading institutions that
routinely discriminate against lending to help
minority doctors get started at the community
level at a time of increasing need for medical
aire in minority communities, it all creates an
impending crisis situation.
It should be emphasized that health care
cannot be seen as an isolated issue or as a single
issue campaign. Injustice and racial discrimina
tion in this socicty is systematic in character and
structure. Solutions, therefore, must also be
systemic. Institutionalized racism must be
purged from all the societal institutions and sys
tems. The national health care system should
not be considered exempt from being chal
lenged.
If there is one child in this nation that is
denied .tcccss to health care because of race or
socioeconomic class, then that is one too many
If there is one African American doctor 01
another health-care professional that is experi
encing racial discrimination from the health
care system, then that is one too many.
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