The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1966 Page: 6 of 8
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UNCONSCIOUS PREJUDICE
By JAMES DOYLE
Thresher Reporter
Guilt for the dehumanization
of the Negro lies in man's in-
ability to keep his prejudice in
check, not in the prejudice it-
self, which was unconsciously
lassimiliated during the white
man's youth.
This statement was made by
John Howard Griffin, author
of "Black Like Me," in a talk
last night in Baker College. He
went on to point out that the
error in the past lay in failing
to act rationally for fear of the
expected outcome. And, more-
over, the race problem must be
resolved within our generation
if we are to prevent fratricide.
Griffin stressed that the
problem in communication
which caused the racial double
standard stems from childhood
absorption of certain tradi-
tional conceptions which become
inherent characteristics of the
white man's system.
Dark Skinned Life
Griffin pointed to his own
difficulty in freeing himself
from these concepts not only in-
tellectually, but emotionally and
physically. He was capable of
freeing himself totally from the
white misconceptions only by
talking up the often expressed
challenge of Negro intellec-
tuals: actually living the life
of a dark skinned man.
His life among the Negroes
gave Mr. Griffin a totally dif-
ferent picture of the Negro than
he had ever envisioned as a
white. He experienced the raw
reality of violence in the lives
of those Negroes that attempt-
ed to climb out of their dismal
past. These were the "uppity"
Negroes that were fighting the
system. He felt the apathy that
results from forced unemploy-
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of skin color and not of per-
sonal qualifications.
Griffin's qualifications had
always been good enough as a
White, but black they were
neVer sufficient to overcome the
moral and mental presumptions
blindly attributed to the Negro
race as a whole.
Distrust of White Men
Only because of his dual life
was Griffin able to understand
that the stereotype attributed
to all Negroes is a mystique the
Negro is forced to accept due
to a distrust in the motives of
White men. Too often the Negro
has been used against himself
by the White man and as a re-
sult the Negro has grown im-
mune to tihe soliciting of the
GWB (Good White Buddy).
Griffin made an ironic com-
parison emphasizing the grave
misunderstanding between the
races. He explained that the
white man is continually releas-
ing biased statistics to support
his belief that as a race the
Negro is basically immoral. The
Negro, on the other hand, when
in the protection of his home,
talks of the white as the most
immoral of races for their lack
of humanity in understanding
their fellow men.
In concluding, Griffin pointed
out that both the suppressor and
the suppressed were to be the
victims of this massive de-
humanization. He compared our
situation to the racial struggle
in Germany where the racism
of the SS and other hard core
Nazis was in the end to make
them victims of their own
crimes.
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active for over one year, are
considered dissolved. All
funds remaining in the ac-
counts of these organizations
are held in trust by the Stu-
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Those persons who may
have been members of these
organizations during the last
academic year (1964-65) are
requested to contact Ken
Burgess, Student Association
Treasurer, for settlement of
accounts.
All persons should notify
the Treasurer before April 1,
1966. At this time all remain-
ing funds in the accounts of
the listed organizations will
be impounded by the Student
Association.
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Durham, John. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1966, newspaper, February 10, 1966; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244963/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.