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Show Page 2 Dr. Butts Views The Space Age Dr. Hugh week's Butts stay in just On Wednesday, July 16th, when No—but by dispelling these Apollo blasted off into infamy, a stereotypes and dealing with _ black woman, residing in Harlem, earthly affairs. phoned her psychiatric social Nobel Laureate, Harold Urey, worker to plead for help. She had no carfare to come to the hospital. once remarked that life is not a It is a natural Thirty billion dollars were allocated miracle. concluded Salt Lake a SOUL VERSUS BRAIN = Of | Not Pluto Next, Mr. Agnew? HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER Department of Psychiatry New York, N.Y. Sir: July 21, 1969 Cleaver's felercace to as a ‘‘circus to distract Eldridge Apollo 11 people's minds from are the problems which here ground,’ is as accurate on real the as Spiro and help our | care about How suffering much copper ‘truths’: a set NATIONAL MEDICAL is ther in Biafra?” — West for the current year. Your articles continue to be most helpful to those of us struggling to combat racism where we are and | will “2 ooo oo et ote ets ote tet eee” broken. trail. We We must are on a continue our fight until all farm workers are Paeeaiee Our liberated and begin to enjoy a life that most Americans already take for granted. _ Mivertisers- Quote from ‘The Age of Reason” by Thomas Paine Otero Peter otere" 9th Soutn OALT LAKe Git, Ut 359 0074 be one-way [COST LESS IMPORTS 4 30 WORDPOWER have died, many have lost their homes, families have been broken and others have been separated from those dear and close to their hearts. Many more homes will be lost and many more brothers will fall along the trail. More families of keep the bastards out.’ These slogans indicate the plight of white Americans--soul versus brain. How is it resolved? By emphasizing the purity of whiteness and the filthiness of blackness? effect, ‘| am a brain, nota heart or do of slogans “‘Let’s get the hell out of here’’ and again, “Let's stay and a soul. | will conquer the universe. humanity? sets religious principles or religiously pronounced political principles of a highly puritan quality, and a set of shifting slogans. Thus, the same child may have been exposed in succession or alternatively to sudden decisions expressing the brothers."’“ The white man says in What THE two says, let's talk about life on earth, misery, “sould” of feeling life. The Mailbag and can be expected. According to Erik Erikson, the ASSOCIATION) functioning American lives with Agnew’s statement urging America to mount an effort to send men to Mars before the end of the century is racist and technocratic. The two men, Cleaver and Agnew, one black, the other white, express sentiments and ideas consistent with their life experiences and their racial identifications; the black man suffering, phenomenon, Enclosed is a check for $2.00 for a personal subscription to to appear whenever there is a planet ‘The long hard trail of the farm look forward to more and better whose conditions duplicate those of workers is not over..... communication! | the earth. The laws of probability As Associate Director of the ~ indicate that there must be another Dear Friends, The emphasis on technocracy, solar system in this infinite universe Y .W.C.A., | hope we will be more space exploration, and unemotional and another planet earth. Pluto, The farm workers and their families involved with WORDPOWER from thought are consistent with a white therefore, is the first step of a thank you very much for your here on out. Thank you. racist orientation that equates evil tho usand mile journey. As the support in our fight for justice and Mrs. Nancy K. Neale and base with “affective,” while white Omnipotent Administrators dignity during the difficult years in equating purity and honesty with thrusts further into space, he may the grape strike and boycott. The Ed. Note: “intellectual.’’ Thus the brain rules, discover another earth billions of» grape strike has been won. Now February 25th issue will and the heart and “‘soul”’ are slaves. light years away from our planet new frontiers of the same cause (Our devote a large section of the paper The upper stories of a building are earth. Having come full. circle it confront us. Jailings, injunctions, to the work of the Y.W.C.A. and dignified and beautified, while the may then be possible to practice and brutalities have become a cellar is dark, dirty and disdained. humanism. The ‘Brain’ would have pattern used by growers through their involvement in the fight to White is beautiful; black is evil. acquired “‘Soul.”’ | the. power of the courts to eliminate racism). Thus the white Ommipotent HUGH F BUTTS, M.D. completely stop us from organizing Administrator is compelled or the farm workers. driven toward intellectual excellence while denying his (Reprinted from. JOURNAL OF In the course of our struggle, many City. During the week, he spoke to many groups and organizations. As one of 2 black psychoanalyist in the country his views are of great importance. Why for Neil Armstrong and Company. That black woman in Harlem needed twenty cents. Editor: We have just begun to fight. ... We urge that, if we are to win justice for all farm workers, we will continue to need the _ unselfish support of Organized Labor, Community Churches, Students, groups, and other brother and sisters in all walks of life. “| believe in the equality of man; and’! believe that religious duties Again, thank you for your support. We are grateful for your love, kind thoughts, and gracious acts. in consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy. — « It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if | may so express it, that mental society. lying When corrupted and every THING UNDER so far the belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every t. 6 Pete G. Velasco Defense Fund Cesar E. 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