Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-08-12

The Greater Minneapolis Housing Program
Maintains offices 1s4S (FawOes
hg Minneapolis They maintain listing service families
wishing to they
stand ready assist help locating
housing on nondscrininatOy basis They welcome your
Inquiries and questions.
feelings pOtentiaes for
sdeveopment These often result patterns Of hatred
eon ones own group sometimes expressed in ansocial be-
havior towards other minority group
toy These attitudes often limit the aspiration
capacity to
For the majority the reacionsthough
nonethe equally serious begin feeling superior
may be gained merely from the existence of This
false security often unadapve types
of behavior and comparisons
than personal growth and achievement Further socially
segregation biased arbitrary crteria)
cpts of superiority and permits and
hostile feelings against groups people
provides targ-the segregated
groupsfor the projection painful feelings
significant the immediate group segr
gated group.
Anxiety springng great mobility nuIdity of our
feelings minority
displacement impedes hinds facing
Of the anxiety causing phases culture.
On the personal prejudice
myths housing which undergrad sustain
in the North and West can often be Understood as means of maintain
ing feelings Of seesteem and security In this context they
a defense mechanism.
There can be no doubt that many people Of any suffer
their acceptabity members group
they belong Directing attention shortcomings others permits
intoerabe feelings secontemp
y by turning despsed part being
to another who by distortion Of religious and racial mythology
represent bad
situation minority group majority
group-a nluory security basis
superior them Guilt feelings and
frequently price for this type
distorted defense insecurity
ocaoned by the social system Is therefore for not
provide realistic solution the original difficulty
ultimately anxiety the burden guilt
anxiety defense increased anxiety and increased dnsveness be-
comes the daily mode of operation
must be recognized America been moving for long
time from the concept untcal inequality sOcOpychOoga
, painful process percepbe
equality
painful for the majority the
equality using the previously posted frame
of reference the false security Of the old system must increasingly give
system which does not provide the majority with
objects which its members displace their
These the percepble stages through which this culture has
gone n pursuit Of the egaIaran society:
Decentralization with consideration for the Of the min
critics
Inequality cushioned by GOdke patenalim and manifest in
complete separation.
g. oOmparmontauuAHOn permits equality
Equality majority group
pute equality in generaized to members Of the former
minority group
Stages "a tH phases history
slavery complete d world"
communities States recognized that physical
minority characees each Of these
We are here with the quality of the contact
assumptions the symbolic relations
hold minoyajoty together Furthermore stages
m and f2 repreut for both majority and minority conditions
socopsychoogcal universe. This
isolation estrangement into
unical stereotype reflects orces and ratonazes
stage crtcal stereotype and
stereotype residual which gives rise to and
compartmentaizadon
In years significant the fields of
occupaiOna equality but equality opportunity in
residential living remains nonexsten in the North and West The
being compartmenze led to and has
been greater equality educational and
ocupaona opportunity BY comparmentazng the majority human
being impute equality member Of the minority in
specific and well understood This often reflected
example such this It'll work with him and admit
that good engineer him living my
nsghborhood"
the majority member the statement
minority
majority member addition
his technical skin
majority engineer reflected in the majority engineers
unwInngnes engineer
symbol minority
security and superiority.
surprising that equal housing opportunity
which minority groups Housing
physical shelter person bespeas
status broadly with occupy same
neghborhood
therefore that equality opportunity
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