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Show Racism entrenched, says sociologist that are controlled and exploited from the outside. But they are aiming at getting the biack residents resi-dents control over the social institutions insti-tutions of their community. Quoting a black philosopher Dr. Smith said of the black power movement: "If we must die. ..do not take it lying back. We must fight back.'" BY HELEN FORSBERG Chronicle Staff "In Greenwood, Miss, in June, 966 Stokeley Carmichael an-lounced an-lounced to Americans that 'what ve need in this country is Black 'ower' thus making the average vhite American distrubed and in-ecure," in-ecure," said Dr. Stanley Smith, lean of Fisk University at a socio-ogy socio-ogy lecture at the University Fri-lay.- Dr. Smith, who is also head of he Department at Fisk spoke in Vlark H. Greene Hall as part of a :wo-week visit to the University. Dr. Smith said racial problems ire not something recent and superficial, but deeply entrenched in Western Civilization. He maintains main-tains that racial discrimination has its root in the concept of color superiority developed in the 14th and 15th centuries, when Europe dominated the world. Implications Implica-tions concerning color are evident in Elizabethan literature said Dr. Smith. In the "Merchant of Venice" the Duke of Morroco gives an apology: "Mistake me not for my color." Difference in Race "The white man in America has embedded in his thinking that the primary difference between cultures cul-tures lies in race," said Dr. Smith. He compared slavery in the United States with slavery elsewhere else-where in the new world saying that only here were slaves regarded re-garded as "property." In Latin America slaves were recognized as human beings. "During the Watts riots," said Dr. Smith, "26 people lost their lives. But very little was heard about human loss, just property pro-perty damage." After the time of the Civil War there was a significant experiment with democracy, but then poor whites and blacks realized they were being exploited. "Blacks considered President Lincoln their hero, but he was not interested in them as human beings, but in the Union being saved," said Dr. Smith. Hope for Blacks Dr. Smith said their has been "hope" for blacks in this country since 1954 and now they are no longer concerned with what whites think of them. Dr. Smith said they have taken the position that black communities are colonies-underdeveloped countries |
