If you're white, you're right. If you're brown, stick around. If you're black, stand back.
For generations, that philosophy was accepted by black Americans. Today Negro children proclaim, 'I'm black and I'm proud," and Negro adults send cards like the one that shows a little black girl exclaiming "It's your birthday! I'm just tickled black." Expressions of pride are a good thing when they are genuine, say black Psychiatrists Alvin Poussaint of Harvard and James Comer of Yale. But, they caution in the current Redbook, rote teaching of black-dignity slogans may foster not pride but self-hatred.
The danger arises when a child senses...
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