1971 SPECIAL REPORT: "ICEBERG SLIM..THE BLACK PIMP"

A black ex-pimp renounces his days of "negative glamour" and the "brutalization of black womanhood" when Black Journal focuses on the underworld of the pimp and prostitute. He is Robert Beck, better known as "Iceberg Slim," author of "Pimp: The Autobiography of My Life." The Black Journal episode illustrates the destructive forces of pimping through Beck's revelations and through dramatic sequences performed by Chicago's Kuumba Workshop.
It provides as intimate view of the mental and physical anguish of the black pimp and prostitute, whom he calls "victims of the white racist society." "I am free of the street poison that put me into the position where I brutalized and exploited our black queens," says Beck, as he addresses Malcolm X College students in Chicago. "You have to have a realization that when you exploit your own kind, that you are in effect counter-revolutionary," lectures Beck, warning black youth of the potential "street poison." After more than 25 years as a pimp, Slim now says "Pimps and whores are anachronisms - since Malcolm X defined our enemy and our enemies are both within and without - (he) spoke with great passion about the vice in our black communities and the disastrous effect it was having on our progress, dignity and out image." On the life of the prostitute, he says:
"It's got to be holy hell - there are boobie traps and death in the streets." Black Journal is on hand when Beck and a former member of "his stable" discuss the pitfalls. The black pimp commits unspeakable atrocities to the black woman, attests Beck. In fact, he once viewed himself as a "black evil Svengali."

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