Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great deal of understandable guilt, but since this too is an unpleasant emotional feeling, they have tried to avoid it by further rationalizations. This often reinforces prejudices and creates a vicious circle of negative defenses. For example, although white men exploited and sexually abused black women, the supposedly oversexed Negro male was lynched for the slightest real or imagined overture to a white woman...
...about one-sixth of the 1,500,000 total, last year elected Los Angeles Pastor Thomas Kilgore as its first black president. In the United Methodist Church, the 500,000 black members account for less than 5% of the total; until 1968 most were segregated in a separate Negro jurisdiction. Now six black bishops (out of 45 in the United Methodist Church) head integrated Episcopal areas, and even in the South, black district superintendents are being appointed...
Though he is broad-minded in some areas of theology (he is a graduate of liberal Colgate Rochester Divinity School), Jackson has a view of the Negro recalling the old-fashioned suffering servant image from Isaiah. Christianity, he argues, permits protest against unjust laws but not rebellion against civil order. "The difference between Negro Christians and white Christians." says Jackson, "is the meaning of the cross of Jesus Christ. Our forefathers were cross-bearers. They believed in it. You can't build a great church preaching hate, envy, and revenge, and sending the people out on the street after...
Liberating Power. Spurred by the black community's strengthened sense of identity, black women have their own complaint. In the Negro Digest, Actress Abbey Lincoln burst out: "We are the women whose bars and recreation halls are invaded by flagrantly disrespectful, bigoted, simpering, amoral, emotionally unstable, outcast, maladjusted, nymphomaniacal, condescending [white] women in desperate and untiring search" for black men. In the first issue of the new black women's magazine Essence, due out April 28, Writer Louise Meriwether describes a typical dashiki-clad black man and his white date: " 'Sensual, sexy Black man.' That...
...editor explained why they married: "Where a white man and a black girl are living together, there's always a vaguely false atmosphere of hipness." His wife adds, "I didn't want it to appear too fashionable-you know, the swinging white bachelor living with the beautiful Negro model. After centuries of white masters sleeping with Negro slaves, I wanted my status to be clearly understood...