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The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America
Book by Yette, Samuel F.
- GenresHistoryAfrican American
318 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1972
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February 27, 2019
If you're not a fan of political history, you might be bored for at least 70% of the book, which was the case for me. Consequently, there were several moments when I almost stopped reading it before I finished but that remaining 30% which I did enjoy was sprinkled thoroughly enough for so I would get a dose of it before I gave up on it and persuaded me to continue.
January 23, 2011
The Magnus Opus from the Late Howard University Journalism Professor.
July 4, 2020
If you can find a copy, worth the read!
March 11, 2021
Samuel Yette and John A. Williams were interviewed together once
Jet Magazine
14 Oct 1971
Article: Two Celebrated Authors Say Blacks Facing Genocide in the United States
page 46-48
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read it with Google Books
It deals with them on NET's Black Journal program on television
with Tony Brown
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(wikipedia)
Black Journal was an American public affairs television program on National Educational Television (NET) and later WNET.
It covered issues relevant to African-American communities with film crews sent to Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and Ethiopia. The program was originally an hour-long broadcast each month.
In 1971, the journalist Tony Brown took over leadership and later the series transitioned to commercial television under the name Tony Brown’s Journal.
The series later returned to public television in 1982 under the new name. Other executive producers included documentary filmmakers Madeline Anderson, William Greaves and St. Clair Bourne.
The show aired until 2008.
Black Journal offered a close look at the civil rights movement and Black Power movements of the 1960s and was influential in shaping Black opinion at the time.
The show won Emmy, Peabody and Russwurm awards for its coverage of timely issues. WNET and the Library of Congress digitized episodes and contributed copies to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting between 2012 and 2018.
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Also
https://americanarchive.org/special_c...
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Black Journal
Collection Summary
The Black Journal Collection features episodes from the Black Journal series, the first nationally televised public affairs program produced for, about, and (eventually) by African-Americans. The series debuted on National Educational Television on June 12, 1968, as a monthly one-hour program initially produced by Al Perlmutter, a white producer. Following a strike in August 1968 by Black staff members, Perlmutter was replaced by African-American documentary filmmaker William Greaves, who became the series’ producer, director, and occasional host. Under Greaves’ direction, the series won an Emmy Award in 1969 for excellence in public affairs programming. In 1971, Tony Brown took over leadership of Black Journal. In 1977, the series transitioned to commercial television under the name Tony Brown’s Journal after many PBS affiliate stations chose not to carry it, preferring instead to air less-controversial public affairs programs. The series returned to public television in 1982 under the new name.
Black Journal presented news segments and documentaries pertaining to the Black community and interviews with Black intellectuals, politicians, activists, entertainers, and athletes as part of its mission to display non-stereotyped presentations of what it meant to be Black in America. The series received Emmy, Peabody, and Russwurm awards for its coverage of timely issues. The episodes in this special collection span the period from 1968 to 1977, and feature segments on the Black Power Movement, Black nationalism, the “Black is beautiful” movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, Black communities in Atlanta, Detroit, and Los Angeles, the African diaspora, the Black Panthers, the Black student movement, Pan-Africanism, and the media’s representation of Black people.
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Black Journal; 36; Genocide?
Date: 1971-10-26 Producing Organization: WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
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Two black American authors, John A. Williams and Samuel F. Yette, deal with the crucial question of Genocide? on Black Journals fourth show of the new season. Williams deals fictionally with the theme of genocide in his novel The Man Who Cried I Am.
A former Ebony associate editor and director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Yette documents what he calls existing factors of genocide in The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America. On Black Journal both articulate their views, with Yette (now a Washington correspondent for Newsweek) pointing to the essential aspects of genocide in our society: extreme racial hostility and economic class hostility. We have the vested interests, we have those who make profit out of repression, we have the lack of black social value historically, and also currently we have the loss of economic value on the part of black people.
Citing another threat of genocide Yette adds, We have the legalization of the police state as the no-knock search and seizure (and) the preventive detention bill.
Williams discusses his prophetic King Alfred Plan, the governments final solution to the black question vaporization. He created the plan in his book to answer What would an administration do when a large segment of the population threated the order and established regime?
Since the book has been published, Williams notes that We all know that practically every city government has announced a contingency plan for dealing with rebellion, i.e. black people in rebellion, and not only city governments, but the federal government.
Adding credence to that assertion is Yettes contention that a division of the Justice Department, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), is right now building what they call regional detention facilities which, in fact, are concentration camps in virtually every state in the country. Thats going on now. Other revelations elicited by the Black Journal discussion on genocide include: attempts to establish mandatory sterilization for unmarried girls; the over-exposure of many black people to doses of X-rays that can cause leukemia, cancer, and sterilization; and different 1970 census questionnaires issued to blacks and minorities and not to the white majority. Black Journal, a production of NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
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Jet Magazine
14 Oct 1971
Article: Two Celebrated Authors Say Blacks Facing Genocide in the United States
page 46-48
---
read it with Google Books
It deals with them on NET's Black Journal program on television
with Tony Brown
---
(wikipedia)
Black Journal was an American public affairs television program on National Educational Television (NET) and later WNET.
It covered issues relevant to African-American communities with film crews sent to Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and Ethiopia. The program was originally an hour-long broadcast each month.
In 1971, the journalist Tony Brown took over leadership and later the series transitioned to commercial television under the name Tony Brown’s Journal.
The series later returned to public television in 1982 under the new name. Other executive producers included documentary filmmakers Madeline Anderson, William Greaves and St. Clair Bourne.
The show aired until 2008.
Black Journal offered a close look at the civil rights movement and Black Power movements of the 1960s and was influential in shaping Black opinion at the time.
The show won Emmy, Peabody and Russwurm awards for its coverage of timely issues. WNET and the Library of Congress digitized episodes and contributed copies to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting between 2012 and 2018.
---
Also
https://americanarchive.org/special_c...
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Black Journal
Collection Summary
The Black Journal Collection features episodes from the Black Journal series, the first nationally televised public affairs program produced for, about, and (eventually) by African-Americans. The series debuted on National Educational Television on June 12, 1968, as a monthly one-hour program initially produced by Al Perlmutter, a white producer. Following a strike in August 1968 by Black staff members, Perlmutter was replaced by African-American documentary filmmaker William Greaves, who became the series’ producer, director, and occasional host. Under Greaves’ direction, the series won an Emmy Award in 1969 for excellence in public affairs programming. In 1971, Tony Brown took over leadership of Black Journal. In 1977, the series transitioned to commercial television under the name Tony Brown’s Journal after many PBS affiliate stations chose not to carry it, preferring instead to air less-controversial public affairs programs. The series returned to public television in 1982 under the new name.
Black Journal presented news segments and documentaries pertaining to the Black community and interviews with Black intellectuals, politicians, activists, entertainers, and athletes as part of its mission to display non-stereotyped presentations of what it meant to be Black in America. The series received Emmy, Peabody, and Russwurm awards for its coverage of timely issues. The episodes in this special collection span the period from 1968 to 1977, and feature segments on the Black Power Movement, Black nationalism, the “Black is beautiful” movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, Black communities in Atlanta, Detroit, and Los Angeles, the African diaspora, the Black Panthers, the Black student movement, Pan-Africanism, and the media’s representation of Black people.
---
Black Journal; 36; Genocide?
Date: 1971-10-26 Producing Organization: WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
---
Two black American authors, John A. Williams and Samuel F. Yette, deal with the crucial question of Genocide? on Black Journals fourth show of the new season. Williams deals fictionally with the theme of genocide in his novel The Man Who Cried I Am.
A former Ebony associate editor and director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Yette documents what he calls existing factors of genocide in The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America. On Black Journal both articulate their views, with Yette (now a Washington correspondent for Newsweek) pointing to the essential aspects of genocide in our society: extreme racial hostility and economic class hostility. We have the vested interests, we have those who make profit out of repression, we have the lack of black social value historically, and also currently we have the loss of economic value on the part of black people.
Citing another threat of genocide Yette adds, We have the legalization of the police state as the no-knock search and seizure (and) the preventive detention bill.
Williams discusses his prophetic King Alfred Plan, the governments final solution to the black question vaporization. He created the plan in his book to answer What would an administration do when a large segment of the population threated the order and established regime?
Since the book has been published, Williams notes that We all know that practically every city government has announced a contingency plan for dealing with rebellion, i.e. black people in rebellion, and not only city governments, but the federal government.
Adding credence to that assertion is Yettes contention that a division of the Justice Department, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), is right now building what they call regional detention facilities which, in fact, are concentration camps in virtually every state in the country. Thats going on now. Other revelations elicited by the Black Journal discussion on genocide include: attempts to establish mandatory sterilization for unmarried girls; the over-exposure of many black people to doses of X-rays that can cause leukemia, cancer, and sterilization; and different 1970 census questionnaires issued to blacks and minorities and not to the white majority. Black Journal, a production of NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
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March 11, 2021
Samuel Yette and John A. Williams were interviewed together once
Jet Magazine
14 Oct 1971
Article: Two Celebrated Authors Say Blacks Facing Genocide in the United States
page 46-48
---
read it with Google Books
It deals with them on NET's Black Journal program on television
with Tony Brown
---
(wikipedia)
Black Journal was an American public affairs television program on National Educational Television (NET) and later WNET.
It covered issues relevant to African-American communities with film crews sent to Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and Ethiopia. The program was originally an hour-long broadcast each month.
In 1971, the journalist Tony Brown took over leadership and later the series transitioned to commercial television under the name Tony Brown’s Journal.
The series later returned to public television in 1982 under the new name. Other executive producers included documentary filmmakers Madeline Anderson, William Greaves and St. Clair Bourne.
The show aired until 2008.
Black Journal offered a close look at the civil rights movement and Black Power movements of the 1960s and was influential in shaping Black opinion at the time.
The show won Emmy, Peabody and Russwurm awards for its coverage of timely issues. WNET and the Library of Congress digitized episodes and contributed copies to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting between 2012 and 2018.
---
Also
https://americanarchive.org/special_c...
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Black Journal
Collection Summary
The Black Journal Collection features episodes from the Black Journal series, the first nationally televised public affairs program produced for, about, and (eventually) by African-Americans. The series debuted on National Educational Television on June 12, 1968, as a monthly one-hour program initially produced by Al Perlmutter, a white producer. Following a strike in August 1968 by Black staff members, Perlmutter was replaced by African-American documentary filmmaker William Greaves, who became the series’ producer, director, and occasional host. Under Greaves’ direction, the series won an Emmy Award in 1969 for excellence in public affairs programming. In 1971, Tony Brown took over leadership of Black Journal. In 1977, the series transitioned to commercial television under the name Tony Brown’s Journal after many PBS affiliate stations chose not to carry it, preferring instead to air less-controversial public affairs programs. The series returned to public television in 1982 under the new name.
Black Journal presented news segments and documentaries pertaining to the Black community and interviews with Black intellectuals, politicians, activists, entertainers, and athletes as part of its mission to display non-stereotyped presentations of what it meant to be Black in America. The series received Emmy, Peabody, and Russwurm awards for its coverage of timely issues. The episodes in this special collection span the period from 1968 to 1977, and feature segments on the Black Power Movement, Black nationalism, the “Black is beautiful” movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, Black communities in Atlanta, Detroit, and Los Angeles, the African diaspora, the Black Panthers, the Black student movement, Pan-Africanism, and the media’s representation of Black people.
---
Black Journal; 36; Genocide?
Date: 1971-10-26 Producing Organization: WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
---
Two black American authors, John A. Williams and Samuel F. Yette, deal with the crucial question of Genocide? on Black Journals fourth show of the new season. Williams deals fictionally with the theme of genocide in his novel The Man Who Cried I Am.
A former Ebony associate editor and director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Yette documents what he calls existing factors of genocide in The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America. On Black Journal both articulate their views, with Yette (now a Washington correspondent for Newsweek) pointing to the essential aspects of genocide in our society: extreme racial hostility and economic class hostility. We have the vested interests, we have those who make profit out of repression, we have the lack of black social value historically, and also currently we have the loss of economic value on the part of black people.
Citing another threat of genocide Yette adds, We have the legalization of the police state as the no-knock search and seizure (and) the preventive detention bill.
Williams discusses his prophetic King Alfred Plan, the governments final solution to the black question vaporization. He created the plan in his book to answer What would an administration do when a large segment of the population threated the order and established regime?
Since the book has been published, Williams notes that We all know that practically every city government has announced a contingency plan for dealing with rebellion, i.e. black people in rebellion, and not only city governments, but the federal government.
Adding credence to that assertion is Yettes contention that a division of the Justice Department, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), is right now building what they call regional detention facilities which, in fact, are concentration camps in virtually every state in the country. Thats going on now. Other revelations elicited by the Black Journal discussion on genocide include: attempts to establish mandatory sterilization for unmarried girls; the over-exposure of many black people to doses of X-rays that can cause leukemia, cancer, and sterilization; and different 1970 census questionnaires issued to blacks and minorities and not to the white majority. Black Journal, a production of NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
---
Jet Magazine
14 Oct 1971
Article: Two Celebrated Authors Say Blacks Facing Genocide in the United States
page 46-48
---
read it with Google Books
It deals with them on NET's Black Journal program on television
with Tony Brown
---
(wikipedia)
Black Journal was an American public affairs television program on National Educational Television (NET) and later WNET.
It covered issues relevant to African-American communities with film crews sent to Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and Ethiopia. The program was originally an hour-long broadcast each month.
In 1971, the journalist Tony Brown took over leadership and later the series transitioned to commercial television under the name Tony Brown’s Journal.
The series later returned to public television in 1982 under the new name. Other executive producers included documentary filmmakers Madeline Anderson, William Greaves and St. Clair Bourne.
The show aired until 2008.
Black Journal offered a close look at the civil rights movement and Black Power movements of the 1960s and was influential in shaping Black opinion at the time.
The show won Emmy, Peabody and Russwurm awards for its coverage of timely issues. WNET and the Library of Congress digitized episodes and contributed copies to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting between 2012 and 2018.
---
Also
https://americanarchive.org/special_c...
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Black Journal
Collection Summary
The Black Journal Collection features episodes from the Black Journal series, the first nationally televised public affairs program produced for, about, and (eventually) by African-Americans. The series debuted on National Educational Television on June 12, 1968, as a monthly one-hour program initially produced by Al Perlmutter, a white producer. Following a strike in August 1968 by Black staff members, Perlmutter was replaced by African-American documentary filmmaker William Greaves, who became the series’ producer, director, and occasional host. Under Greaves’ direction, the series won an Emmy Award in 1969 for excellence in public affairs programming. In 1971, Tony Brown took over leadership of Black Journal. In 1977, the series transitioned to commercial television under the name Tony Brown’s Journal after many PBS affiliate stations chose not to carry it, preferring instead to air less-controversial public affairs programs. The series returned to public television in 1982 under the new name.
Black Journal presented news segments and documentaries pertaining to the Black community and interviews with Black intellectuals, politicians, activists, entertainers, and athletes as part of its mission to display non-stereotyped presentations of what it meant to be Black in America. The series received Emmy, Peabody, and Russwurm awards for its coverage of timely issues. The episodes in this special collection span the period from 1968 to 1977, and feature segments on the Black Power Movement, Black nationalism, the “Black is beautiful” movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, Black communities in Atlanta, Detroit, and Los Angeles, the African diaspora, the Black Panthers, the Black student movement, Pan-Africanism, and the media’s representation of Black people.
---
Black Journal; 36; Genocide?
Date: 1971-10-26 Producing Organization: WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
---
Two black American authors, John A. Williams and Samuel F. Yette, deal with the crucial question of Genocide? on Black Journals fourth show of the new season. Williams deals fictionally with the theme of genocide in his novel The Man Who Cried I Am.
A former Ebony associate editor and director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Yette documents what he calls existing factors of genocide in The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America. On Black Journal both articulate their views, with Yette (now a Washington correspondent for Newsweek) pointing to the essential aspects of genocide in our society: extreme racial hostility and economic class hostility. We have the vested interests, we have those who make profit out of repression, we have the lack of black social value historically, and also currently we have the loss of economic value on the part of black people.
Citing another threat of genocide Yette adds, We have the legalization of the police state as the no-knock search and seizure (and) the preventive detention bill.
Williams discusses his prophetic King Alfred Plan, the governments final solution to the black question vaporization. He created the plan in his book to answer What would an administration do when a large segment of the population threated the order and established regime?
Since the book has been published, Williams notes that We all know that practically every city government has announced a contingency plan for dealing with rebellion, i.e. black people in rebellion, and not only city governments, but the federal government.
Adding credence to that assertion is Yettes contention that a division of the Justice Department, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), is right now building what they call regional detention facilities which, in fact, are concentration camps in virtually every state in the country. Thats going on now. Other revelations elicited by the Black Journal discussion on genocide include: attempts to establish mandatory sterilization for unmarried girls; the over-exposure of many black people to doses of X-rays that can cause leukemia, cancer, and sterilization; and different 1970 census questionnaires issued to blacks and minorities and not to the white majority. Black Journal, a production of NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
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April 19, 2025
Although reflective of the era of its writing, it presents a perspective on the current political, economic, and social predicament we are in today.
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