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...this case, the power is conferred by Scientist P.T. Jones (read: George Washington Carver) on a young black student-athlete named Steve Thomas with peanuts soaked in the mysterious chemical X. Wearing a slave-chain medallion, a cloth suit with the curse of Nat Turner upon it, and special boots that will enable him to fly by "lifting yourself by your own bootstraps," Black Man, the Soul Wonder of the World, sets out to "rid the universe of poverty, crime and racial bigotry." His arch enemies are Rodent, who breeds on filth and spreads disease; Riot, an immense black gone...
...poor, white or black, are less likely than middle-class youngsters to get the intellectual stimulation essential to their mental development. Some parents in urban and rural ghettos still follow what Mrs. Mary Robinson, director of Baltimore's Martin Luther King Center for Parents and Children, calls a "slave tradition" in child rearing, which inhibits the development of language ability. "We teach our kids to be quiet and not to bother us and not to bother everyone else," says Mrs. Robinson. "We had to do this in order to survive, but we don't have...
...ignorance of Americans regarding European colonial affairs could account for a situation in which the otherwise sophisticated leaders of the country's leading University employ, in all good faith, a line of defence that is as old as the British abolition controversy and as morally creaky as a restored slave ship in a naval museum. As early as the eighteenth century the more sophisticated defenders of West Indian slavery were arguing that although slavery was an evil and, as such, to be condemned (in much the same way that the President today condemns Portuguese colonialism) Englishmen should nonetheless maintain slavery...
...Portuguese have been in Africa since the 15th century enslaving blacks through the slave trade and through colonialism. The Portuguese propagandize their role in Africa as a "christianizing and civilizing mission" which in reality has meant inhuman oppression of Blacks for the economic benefit of a small ruling class of whites...
...chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights will be starting in Boston. The purpose of the group is to bring reform to the area of mental health. Slavery has never really left this country, a new slavery more immoral than before exists in its place. The slave masters now, look very conservative, they wear suits--they come from so called "national associations--their supposed purpose is to "protect society from the 'mentally ill'"--they seize them unlawfully, they confine them in institutions against their will, and--rather than making them work like the slaves of days past--they perform...