By Jack Herndon
How it Spozed to Be bargains incisively with what's nonetheless the basis challenge of ghetto colleges: their appalling failure to arrive the youngsters.
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Thomas French at the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago, and during this time I was reading the first volume of his book The Integration of Behavior, which he had sent her. He planned, in a series of books, to generalize about human behavior, in terms of its being integrated or "goal-directed," from a case history of an "abnormal" personality; in one place he answered critics, who complained that you can't attribute the mechanisms of abnormality to the normal ways of behavior, by stating and giving numerous examples of the fact that the component reactions "such as are necessary to account for" normal behavior play an essential part in neurotic or abnormal (or deprived) behavior.
John Banks cold! said someone admiringly from the class. As he moved around me I put out an arm. Wait a second, I said, you're supposed to have an admit slip--he moved back to go around the other way--telling me you belong in this class. He was slipping past when I stuck out the other arm. Hold it, I said again. He never stayed still, dodging slowly around the other way again, his eyes moving past mine. looking at nothing at any time, saying I have to hold it, you in the way. What was the class doing all this time?
Let 'em get out of their god dam bloodsucking cars, he screamed. I’ll run right over 'em! They'll never know what hit 'em! I’ll smash you, you criminal, he yelled to another passing car, you lousy, peasant-murdering bastard! I was intrigued by the idea of the jitney girls, who apparently drove up and down the streets of the South Side in Chicago in oversized cars, picking up men who flagged them down for a quick one. I was even more interested in Skates's combination of a kind of exaggerated, almost comic Stalinism (it's the only word that applies, old-fashioned as it sounds) and his open contempt for what he must have referred to at one time as our colored comrades as exemplified by that same Negro community and the students of GW.
