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...HOYT W. FULLER Managing Editor Black World Chicago...
...turning on the black middle class, Fuller, now 42, is turning on himself. Brought up in a middle-class black neighborhood in Detroit, he seemed well on his way to predictable success. He studied literature at Wayne State University (B.A.) and at the University of Florence. But, as he traveled through Europe and Africa, he began to believe that his middle-class values "support the system under which blacks are degraded and oppressed." He worked briefly in New York for Collier's Encyclopedia, then took an editorial job with Ebony magazine...
...imitated LIFE, and Jet, another Johnson publication, was a black substitute for Coronet. Despite such well-Digested features as "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience," the imitation collapsed in 1951. To keep abreast of the new black militancy, Johnson revived it ten years later and turned it over to Fuller...
Renamed Black World, it still loses money (Fuller refuses to say how much), but the losses are easily absorbed by the highly profitable Ebony and Jet. Besides, these days there is psychic profit to be gained from publishing an article emphasizing the black woman's seminal role in the black revolution (by Imamu Amiri Baraka, known to the white world as LeRoi Jones), or a comparison of Christian and Muslim attitudes toward slavery (the Christians come off second best), or an issue on African politics...
...Fuller uses humor and put-downs as weapons. One cartoon depicts a black executive storming out of an office door on which the title "Head Nigger in Charge" has just been painted. A prostrate white man with a newly acquired black eye is looking after him and saying ruefully, "Ah thought he would be grateful for the advancement." And on the back cover of a recent issue, Fuller put down "poseurs and hustlers playing revolution" or "the Black Militant Game, which is all the rage just now, and which has merits of its own in attention grabbing: a brother...