Different Drummer Please, Marchers!

This article focuses on a march of the black people in the United States, which held on October 16, 1995. Eighty black religious leaders have declared October 16 a holy day. The Association of Black Psychologists has issued an endorsement of the march as a way to focus on black men's personal responsibility to arrest self-imposed destructive attitudes, feelings and behavior. New York's oldest black-owned paper, "The Amsterdam News," dismisses critics of the march as those who will grind their molars into dust. The author says that there is a real and dangerous racial crisis facing this nation, and black men are bearing much of the brunt of this country's worst fears and cruelest neglect.