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After Victory Over Disney, Group Loses Its Lease

March 10, 2010 By TAMAR LEWIN For a few days last fall, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood celebrated a big victory: the tiny advocacy group had successfully pushed the Walt Disney Company to offer full refunds to everyone who had bought the company's popular Baby Einstein videos from June 2004 to September 2009. But it did not take long for trouble to follow. The... Full article »

LETTERS; What Is Ailing Black America?

October 21, 2007 To the Editor: Re ''Tough, Sad and Smart,'' by Bob Herbert (column, Oct. 16): Mr. Herbert says a joint venture by Bill Cosby and Dr. Alvin Poussaint ''is nothing less than an effort to save the soul of black America.'' In fact, it is a tired recycling of an argument that reaches back to Daniel Patrick Moynihan's ''Negro Family'' and runs through... Full article »

OP-ED COLUMNIST; Tough, Sad And Smart

October 16, 2007 By BOB HERBERT They are a longtime odd couple, Bill Cosby and Harvard's Dr. Alvin Poussaint, and their latest campaign is nothing less than an effort to save the soul of black America. Mr. Cosby, of course, is the boisterous veteran comedian who has spent the last few years hammering home some brutal truths about self-destructive behavior within the... Full article »

Corporal Punishment

October 7, 2006 To the Editor: Re ''In Many Public Schools, the Paddle Is No Relic'' (front page, Sept. 30): Child abuse, including assault with a weapon or instrument that leaves marks or bruises, is illegal in all 50 states. Except if you are an employee of a public school in one of the 22 states in which corporal punishment in public schools is legal. Added to... Full article »

A CONVERSATION ON RACE; America, Seen Through the Filter of Race

July 2, 2000 The New York Times series ''How Race Is Lived in America'' has explored the effects of racial differences on people's lives in schools, workplaces, the military, churches and other institutions. Today's Op-Ed page is given over to readers' thoughts prompted by the series. They were selected from submissions to the page, some of which were solicited... Full article »

Bigotry as Mental Illness Or Just Another Norm

January 15, 2000 By EMILY EAKIN In 1851, Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, a Louisiana surgeon and psychologist, filed a report in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal on diseases prevalent among the South's black population. Among the various maladies Dr. Cartwright described was ''drapetomania'' or ''the disease causing slaves to run away.'' Though a serious mental illness,... Full article »

A Misuse of Psychiatry

January 13, 2000 To the Editor: Re ''What a Rorschach Can't Gauge'' (Op-Ed, Jan. 9), by Alvin F. Poussaint: As a psychiatrist who has practiced professionally for more than 20 years, I am alarmed by the decision by Bud Selig, the baseball commissioner, to order John Rocker, a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, to undergo psychiatric counseling before deciding whether... Full article »

Racism and the Psyche

January 12, 2000 To the Editor: Re ''What a Rorschach Can't Gauge'' (Op-Ed, Jan. 9), by Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint: I applaud the effort by Major League Baseball to become more informed about the judgment of John Rocker, the Atlanta Braves pitcher who made racist comments in an interview, and to determine whether Mr. Rocker shows signs of psychological damage. However,... Full article »

Racism Is Not A Treatable Illness

August 30, 1999 To the Editor: Re ''They Hate. They Kill. Are They Insane?'' (Op-Ed, Aug. 26): Alvin F. Poussaint confounds evil with mental illness. False, hate-filled beliefs are not psychotic delusions, and the willingness to act on them is anything but ''readily classifiable as a mental disorder.'' Moreover, there is no evidence that violent racists are... Full article »

Racism Is Not A Treatable Illness

August 30, 1999 To the Editor: Re ''They Hate. They Kill. Are They Insane?'' (Op-Ed, Aug. 26): Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint is to be commended for drawing attention to racism as a delusional mental disorder amenable in many instances to psychiatric treatment. However, it is important to note that he does not call for exculpation on grounds of insanity when racists are... Full article »

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