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...Real Killers. Black Psychiatrists William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs, authors of Black Rage, put it still more strongly: "Most whites, including psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, are amazed to learn that their hatred of blacks is culturally determined, psychologically malignant, and can be ultimately lethal." How lethal it can be, they say, is evident when "law and order" is invoked, supposedly to protect white Americans from "murderous killer blacks." But, insist Grier and Cobbs sweepingly, "When the dust clears, the bodies are all black. The killers are white...
...Grier and Cobbs carry the argument to extremes when they contend that the "self-concept of slaveholder is central to the American national character and is in fact the national sickness of white racism." It has been structured into demeaning laws and customs designed to keep maximum distance between black and white. Poussaint argues that what is needed is a massive program of "deconditioning" Americans from their white-superior, black-inferior models of thought and relationships. The burden in achieving this, he suggests, would fall mainly on the educational system and the mass media...
Stubbornness. Say Grier and Cobbs: "If the white man recognizes individuality and humanity in a black, he must then feel love and set himself against the oppressor of his beloved brother." While this counsel of perfection may be hard to fulfill, they offer an interesting classification of whites rated according to the stubbornness of their prejudice. They see little hope for a near-future change in attitudes by most blue-collar workers, some "men of influence," or white (meaning rightist) radicals. For the rest...
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Sammy Davis Jr. plays host to Mama Cass Elliott, Roosevelt Grier, Lionel Hampton and Peter Lawford...
Thursday, October 16 DANIEL BOONE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A former slave (Roosevelt Grier), now chief of the Tuscarora Indian tribe, gives ole Dan'l a hand in snatching a British cannon. "Rosy" will be back in other episodes. THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:20 p.m.). Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Roddy McDowall, Robert Redford and Ruth Gordon ramble through the Hollywood of the '30s in Inside Daisy Clover (1966). IT TAKES A THIEF (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Fred Astaire also takes on a recurrent guest-star role as the retired master thief and father...