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July 09, 1980 - Image 11

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Michigan Citizen, 1980-07-09

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community .
Coup the ph 0-
mena ith high youth un­
employment, b dard
001, inadequate .health
ppre ° e institut­
environ-
term m y b to u , th re
doe exist a large popula­
tion of young Black me'
ho ha been releg ted to
statu that provide then
fe opportunif for d-
vancement. d what
m es this - tuation even
more disturbing i the fact
other generation of Bl c
bout
MCI .. mllS Agency's bid
bile the cur-
ren t t, the Flaugh
ency bid $74,000. Be­
of the spread be een
two propo cCaul-
ey will . both further
dy,
During
661 P , charged F i­
nance Director Bryce ee s
·th hiring only "white
people in a city that's
90 percent B n
admitted that
the t three people he
hired ere all bite, but
said that all three ere
"degreed accountants and
could do a job that hadn't
been d here for year .'
our B youth MUS de-
lop if th yare to e par-
ticip te in th ping of
their 0 n destiny and t
liberation of Bl peop.
The three thing ar: (1
a sen of identity; (2) a
of hi 0lY, and (3) a
of struggle.
Today, B youths
are be ° bjected to all,
kinds of identity coo
E n though there is a dis­
cemibl emergence of Blac
a arene, many Blac
youths continue to ITer
from inferior attitudes, ter­
eotype im e, n gati e self
concept , and the la of
ppreciation I unders an­
ding of their historical and
cultural origin. In particu-
1 ,the medi ,movi , TV,
etc., ha turated the
BIa ghetcolony ith
ima e th t defy de rip­
tion, The image n t
only rek.indl earlier ereo­
types of B pe ple, ch
s the conte ted ve, the
noble va ,and th comic
minstrel- but they
ere ted t of new im
which are equally slan­
derou .. .such , Super '­
ger, tb Stupid ilitant, and
the Celebrated Hu er.
1m emaking h great in­
fluence on establishing one' .
° entity, and too often th
mode B c youth are ex-
po d to much to b
de ° ed. Dr. Ronald L.
Tay r, B io 0
t the Unive ity of Co -
ticut, claims tha B
youths are vier of "mo­
del depri tion." Ho ever,
I think a more propriate
term d be "model di
tortion,"
Second thing must
give Bl youth is a
of their history. It b n
. d that a race without
o ledge of its . ory .. ·
a race without root. TIt
in itution of American
¥ery understood this
om d sy: tematically
ttempted to d roy t
history of it f _
And n it not cce
ul in de roying this his-
Cannady i our nam
. .
u s e lour a

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