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...proud," and Negro adults send cards like the one that shows a little black girl exclaiming "It's your birthday! I'm just tickled black." Expressions of pride are a good thing when they are genuine, say black Psychiatrists Alvin Poussaint of Harvard and James Comer of Yale. But, they caution in the current Redbook, rote teaching of black-dignity slogans may foster not pride but self-hatred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Pitfalls of Black Pride | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...from love expressed in actions. "No black-pride program," the psychiatrists write, "can repair the damage should we neglect our task of being good parents." That job requires controlling the parents' anti-black prejudice, which is strong in Negroes who are secretly ashamed of their blackness. Poussaint and Comer cite the case of a Government official's wife who preferred her light-skinned son to his darker brother and sometimes told the latter, "You act just like a nigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Pitfalls of Black Pride | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

Poussaint and Comer stress that sound efforts to foster black pride can help black children stay emotionally healthy -but they can only help. The rest is up to society, since, in a racist America, even genuine black pride is of limited value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Pitfalls of Black Pride | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...monarchist, amateur philosopher and member of Bavaria'-landed gentry, was dining with a friend at a Munich restaurant. Like many other Germans during those disorderly times, he carried a revolver to protect himself against street thugs. Seated alone at an adjacent table was a sullen, self-conscious political comer named Adolf Hitler. "I could easily have shot him," Fritz Reck wrote in his diary four years later. "If I had had an inkling of the role this piece of filth was to play, and of the years of suffering he was to make us endure, I would have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brave Old World | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: ?? Blotted Out-From the Sky | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

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