AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. LOTT
Dr.
office hints too much of the cigar for
Lett's
Freudian. If his desk Is books and with
things, let
It indicate the
series of excerpts from
the
in
Psychology
which
psychology more
emphasized
of the Black
a
It
complete
more
the Individual in
is
a
of Social
unfortunate
and the
society
in the future,
really resisting
simple
that older
feeling
used
they
as
to say that the old
people
are
more
resist young
to
people
think
they
open and not
ideas. It is too
are
and
right
they
older to
I
people
hear what
understand It.
have
are
so
that
feeling
a
curious
they
are
enough
or
but
saying
It amounts to the
a
significant
respectful enough
they really
of
number
can't
of
youth
I think we've heard older
tion didn't do such
We have had
Middle class
or
an
a
hot
job.
accept
rejection of the youth. But
more
where
centrating
42
now
on
now
upper class young
prevalent
they
look my genera
people saying
The Ideas
affluent society
to look at themselves. What
Is
doing this.
It's
calling hypocrisy. That
one
thing
they
In any
possible
are
and
we
are
just
for
a
adults
are
too
see
it
to
society
doing something on
saying that well. If the world Is
now
have the time
the kids, so
alizing
the
thought
that If there Is
calling search for Identity
in among the affluent groups
have
an
opportunity
to
spend
our
some
society
time
young
bolting
con
themselves it's like saying that If you have to
themselves
at
how
hypocritical,
can
1 avoid
identity
th::+ I don't want to be like my parents. But.
more
"Who
rejection of parents then the
they
man
people
am
young
I?"
So
people
assuming that
am
are.
Malcom X says that the worst crime that Is the black
1
can
is ration
need models In order to evaluate themselves to
people
find out who
they
saying
else.
when you say that, the next question Is
the black
is to teach
react to you
subhuman, after
might fight
a
as
while you
It. if
If you
come
people
general pervasive negativism, to
what
see
this way. and sometimes amounts to saying how
being
you
new.
number of years.
time with your
is, where the outside world Is
So this then works back
other
then you don't
economically,
luxury of spending
the
when the middle class and upper middle class
Secondly,
start
or
the rejection Is not their saying well I'm better than you be cause
self.
lot of energy to survive
possibilities of
have to turn somewhere else for models. I
should be followed.
Somehow
a
have the
be different from my parents. The search for
space will be devoted to the Initiative here started.
I have the
expend
coverage of the
hoped that
It Is
man.
is
following
professor
psychology department.
that space does not allow for Interview
The
ease.
Interview with the
an
non-
variety of topics he handles
impromptu and spontaneous
an
a
bit too cluHered with papers and
a
to
react
man
are
to
perpetuated
hateful,
as
If you
believe this. Even to
you
on
hate himself. If
with
are
though
disgust and
it's hard for you not to
come
believe It. The attempt to break the white stereotype of
the black person by black
psychological In the
people
battles of civil
ghettos
has become
one
of the major
rights.
where there have been riots, there Is
reservoir of rage and
a
huge
while certain individuals may start the