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YOUNG: One of the positive changes in recent years has been a new acceptance of blacks as being black. A new sense of pride, of dignity, and a sense of personal worth is very healthy and very necessary in order to really believe that you can keep in the mainstream. This means you have to accept what you are, but that what you are places no limitations on what you can be in terms of intellectual attainment, excellence...
...temptation to view everything having to do with Negro Americans in terms of their racially imposed status, we become aware of the fact that for all the harsh reality of the social and economic injustices visited upon them, these injustices have failed to keep Negroes clear of the cultural mainstream; Negro Americans are in fact one of its major tributaries. If we can cease approaching American social reality in terms of such false concepts as white and nonwhite, black culture and white culture, and think of these apparently unthinkable matters in the realistic manner of Western pioneers confronting the unknown...
Atlanta's Samuel W. Williams is a minister in the Progressive National Baptist Convention, which split from Joseph Jackson's group. He regards Jackson as a man with "no constituency. The silent majority is very silent." His own position, Williams feels, is within the black mainstream, trying to achieve social change while still trying to cooperate with the white community. Williams, in his 50s, is acting academic dean of Morehouse College in Atlanta, sole pastor of the 650-member Friendship Baptist Church, and chairman of Atlanta's Human Relations Commission...
Elsewhere, notably Washington, Detroit and Chicago, black artists have also taken to walls. "People decorate the street because that's where their life is," says Artist Don McIlvaine, whose Into the Mainstream enlivens the rear wall of a store in Chicago's Lawndale ghetto. On The Wall of Respect, at the corner of 43rd St. and Langley Ave. in a desperately depressed part of Chicago's South Side, new scenes are frequently added to reflect changes in ghetto feelings. Originally it was dominated by athletes, peaceful marchers and popular heroes, including Malcolm X and Martin Luther King...
Invisible Ceiling. Wherever a black man happens to be on the economic scale, his race weighs heavily upon him. "You can never, unless you know people well, feel comfortable," says Gilbert Daspit, 36, a sales trainee with American Can Co. in Chicago. "Breaking into the economic mainstream, you realize how culturally deprived you've been. I have found myself eating at much better restaurants than I'd been accustomed to, and being ill at ease as a result of wondering constantly 'Am I doing this right? Am I picking up the fork right, folding the napkin right...