St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-08-12
TWENTY SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 3 Ia. 7
We Live In
Glass Houses
By James A. Tillman, Jr.
Executive Director
Greater Minneapolis Interfaith Fair Housing Program
This is second of series of three articIes)

housing discrimination
gOn national background for these arbitrary mechan
isms of EXCLUSIVELY often become the only by which
hesion is maintained in the superordinate group.
Whenever a a OF groups
suffers from inferior social suffer inferior
The Greater Minneapolis Housing Program
Maintains offices 16i5 Hennepn Avenue (Fawes Build
ing) Minneapolis. They maintain listing service for families
wishing or rent on basis and they
stand ready assist family which needs help in locating
housing discriminatory basis They welcome
inquiries and questions.
feelings humiliation potentiaes
acknowledgment These often result patterns
rejection group expressed
havtor towards other minority ones the
oy These attitudes often limit the level of aspiration the
For the majority the reacions-though less
nonethe equally serious To begin with feeling of superior worth
existence downgaded This
security unadapve types
OF behavior and eappasas based on nvdou comparisons rather
than growth achievement Further socially
segregation biased arbitrary ctera rests
ceps OF superiority and permits and encourages the expression OF
hostile feelings against whole people This
reality provides segregated
goupfor the projection of painful feelings from ones self or from
significant people the immediate members of the
gated group.
Anxiety sprngng great mobility nuidity
society inappropriate dispace
cOnfctua hostile feelings minority relations Such
mpedes and hinders direct and mature facing
Of the anxetycausing phases of our culture
the deepest personal level prejudice which flows from the
myths housing undergrad society
in
ing feelings of sesteem and security In this context they
as a mechanism
be many people group
painful
and their general accepbty as members the group to which
belong Directing
doubts self Relief
feelings
hatred the despised of being
another who by distortion of religious and racial mythology
represent
of nusory security about self the basis
superior Guilt feelings
anxiety frequently type
distorted a defense against insecurity
social therefore efdeang for it
realistic solution the original difficulty but
ultimately the anxiety and the burden guilt The circle of
anxiety anxiety and increased defensveness be-
the daily mode of operation.
recognized that America has been moving for long
concept inequality Socopsychoogcal-
ly painful There certain peceptble
stages process isolated When they isolated
towards equality
painful segments of the majority the
equality for using the previously posted frame
security the old must increasingly
which does not provide the majority with
objects onto which many of its members can dace their
perceptb through which this culture has
gone pursuit of the egaitarian society:
the of the min
q Inequality by paternasm
complete separation
g. admission equality
certain
Equality which necestae majority group
mpute equality in generazed way to members Of the former
Stages % and o. describe those phases in American history
which slavery esangement
recognized physical
contact between majority and minority chaactezes each of these
with the quality of the contact and
which undergrad and color the symbolic relations
minortymajoy together Furthermore stages
% (2) represent majority minority conditions
and estrangemen in socopsychoogca universe This
esrangement into
reinfoes ratonalzes
the estrangemen
wcrica stereotype and
stereotype residual which
compartmentaliZation.
In recent years. significant
occupatona equality equality opportunity
ability
been greater equality
occupatona opportunity compartmenazng
being equality of minority
IN
but don't want him living
neighborhood"
member to make the
minority already received
ready technical engineer
unwlngness minority engineer neghbohood
symbol minority may
OF security and superiority.
surprising that barriers equal housing opportunity
which minority groups Housing
physical shelter Where lives
broadly he shares with others who occupy
neghborhood.
clear therefore that equality opportunity
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