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...Amsterdam co-directed a study of rape convictions in Southern states, including Arkansas, which showed conclusively that a black man convicted of rape was more likely to receive the death sentence than a white convicted of the same crime...
...attack. "I have no idea why the G.I.s come and do this thing," said one despairing grandmother, who had watched much of her family perish. "I am too old. I just want to die." Most of the survivors had been told by the Viet Cong that Americans would rape and kill them if U.S. forces ever reached their village. Ironically, they had doubted the Viet Cong charge because a number of G.I.s had come through before and handed out candy to the children...
...militancy carries over even into features on employment tips, travel and a kind of black Joyce Brothers psychiatric column. After a while, "the young, urban, inquisitive and acquisitive black woman," for whom the magazine is intended, is going to get tired of being reminded of "the longstanding, dehumanizing rape of the black woman in America." In the second issue, which the editors were busily revamping last week, "the approach is more woman, less black," says Executive Editor Barbara Kerr, formerly of Mademoiselle...
...closing. I would like to say only this. In the last decade we have been made painfully aware of the shortcomings in our society-our racism, our excessive feliance on military force, our rape of the environment, Naturally, therefore one of the leading institutions in our society are being challenged and attacked...
...result of all this is that blacks across the U.S. are far more likely to be convicted in crimes against whites than are whites in crimes against blacks. In the South, despite the fact that more than half of all convicted rapists are white, 87% of those executed for rape between 1930 and 1963 were black. Southern white juries also tend to be lenient toward black crimes against blacks. During an eleven-year period in North Carolina, for example, 26.6% of all blacks accused of killing whites were executed. Of the blacks convicted of murdering blacks, only 4% were executed...