WHAT THE MEDIA DIDN'T TELL YOU ABOUT RALPH GINZBURG

HERB BOYD, BLACK WORLD TODAY - Most obituaries of Ralph Ginzburg will
focus on his First Amendment stances, his defiance to publish erotic
literature, and his conviction for violating federal obscenity laws.
But the author-publisher who died last Thursday, July 6th, in a Bronx hospice
earned a special place among African American readers. . . In 1962,
Ginzburg compiled "100 Years of Lynchings," a book mainly based on
newspaper clippings that graphically highlighted the lynching of
hundreds of Black Americans and a few whites. When the book was
published it was instantly adopted in classrooms across the nation. . .


"What lies at the root of race hatred?" Ginzburg asked in the Foreword
of his book that was republished by Black Classic Press in 1988. "After
spending several years with the subject, I hold with psychologists that
it is unconscious guilt feelings on the part of the race hater. The
person who hates Negroes usually hates other people beside Negroes.

"He's almost a professional hater," Ginzburg contended. "If he's poor,
he hates the rich. If he's rich, he hates the poor. If he's a
Democrat, he hates the Republican. If he's Protestant or a Jew, he
hates the Catholic. The reason is that the race-hater is inwardly a man
who hates himself."

Ginzburg wrote that black Americans were mostly targeted because they
were less able to defend themselves. . .

Ginzburg was found guilty of violating the federal obscenity laws and
sentenced to five years in prison, but he only served eight months.

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