Negro Digest - Freedom Archives

seem safe to say that many prosperous
blacks are being rewarded in
this country while many poor
blacks are taking to the streets .
There must be a philosophy and
ideology which will unite the black
community regardless of economic
condition or social status . If our
prosperous brothers continue to
prosper by putting their wives in
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the labor force and begin to forget,
it may well be that in the 1960's,
one century after the Emancipation
decade of the 1860's, we may
see the reinstatement of the old
"house-slave" versus "field-slave"
dichotomy, using income, education
and place of residence as the
basis of differentiation. "Lord have
mercy ."
J. Herman Blake, author of "The Black University and Its Community,"
is acting assistant professor of Sociology at Cowell College,
Santa Cruz, one of the arms of the multi-limbed University of California
. The New York University graduate also wrote "The Agony and
the Rage," a description of experiences on the California campus, in
the March 1967 NEGRO DIGEST .
March 1968 NEGRO DIGEST