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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks that it seems hardly a product of thought at all. It is more like a primitive reflex, a throwback to the dim past of tribal experience, which we rationalize and try to make respectable by dressing it up in the gaudy and highly questionable trappings of what we call the "concept of race." Yet, despite its absurdity, the fantasy of a blackless America continues to turn up. It is a fantasy born not merely of racism but of petulance, of exasperation, of moral fatigue. It is like a boil bursting forth from impurities in the bloodstream of democracy...
...America. Blacks, who make up almost 40% of the population, commit 85% of all reported crimes, which jumped 14% last year. Almost every white claims to know someone who has been mugged or robbed by young black thugs; karate and gun clubs thrive in the white suburbs. White commuters call the city "Indian country," never argue with black motorists and avoid walking downtown except in broad daylight. During the Christmas shopping season, police loudspeakers warned: "Walk in twos after dark, keep your hands on your purse, stay away from alleys, and have a merry Christmas...
Different Approaches. Treating a black patient and treating a white patient can call for differences in approach, and some black psychiatrists subtly accommodate them. Where traditional therapy encourages the patient to adjust to the world as it is, black therapy extends a more activist invitation. "How can you tell a black patient to adjust to this society?" asks Black Psychiatrist Price M. Cobbs. "We don't. For the black patient to become healthy, he must engage himself in changing a society that needs changing." This is not to say, of course, that all black emotional problems can be traced...
...necessary, the black therapist also redefines mental illness. "There are some behavior patterns that one could call pathological," says Charles Wilkinson, a black psychiatrist and executive director of the Kansas City Mental Health Foundation. "But it's a question whether they are really pathological or simply adaptive. If judged by the majority of the prevailing culture, they could be called pathological. But from the black person's standpoint, they have been patterns he has had to use to make it." It is scarcely paranoid, for instance, for the black to distrust and fear the white society. Says...
...them merely because they are black. As one artist put it: "The black artist is a man, baby, not some kind of plastic superman you can make tap dance to Whitey's tune." Said another scornfully: "If they want black art, just take a canvas, paint it black, call it Nigger Number One, and they...