Specialty CollectionGenre: BLACK NEWS SHOW
Description: TV SHOW, BLACK JOURNAL, WITH HOST LOU HOUSE, COVERAGE OF ISSUES CONCERNING BLACK AUDIENCE Initial Broadcast Date: November 7, 1972 30 minutes -- Color On Tuesday, November 7th, election night, host/executive producer Tony Brown will discuss how the President’s decisions will affect blacks in the next four years with New York Times correspondent Paul Delaney. Delaney has been covering the National Black Assembly, a national black political power group which is an outgrowth of the black political convention held in Gary, Indiana several months ago. Delaney foresees growing despair and frustration in the black community which will erupt again in the coming years. He attributes this to the fact that while the Nixon administration has poured a great deal of money into the black community, it has been funneled to middle-class blacks. “By doing this, the administration has split the poor blacks against the middle-class blacks,” he says. Compounding this lack of unity among blacks, unemployment and ghetto conditions, he believes, has created a “tinderbox” which is ready to explode. In discussing “De Mau Maus,” a group of black Vietnam War veterans who have been charged with murdering several whites in Chicago, Delaney says, “There will be more veterans returning to a society that promised them everything, but is giving them nothing, and the frustration can only grow.” In summing up the next four years, Delany comments “With the poverty rolls increasing, we will see a recurrence of what I call the “riot syndrome.” As the young take over the poverty programs, they are going to rebel.” “Black Journal” is a production of NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation Executive producer: Tony Brown
Keywords: INTEGRATION
