CHICAGO—Sandwiched between racist cops and ignorant Negroes, Black police officers gathered on 35th Street near State to present a national demand that both groups stop causing undue distress for Black cops who often feel forced to apologize for both redneck racist and ghettofabolous antics. The Black police are tired of carrying the weight of both groups on their shoulders.

“We’re tired as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore," said Officer Victor Newman, who just last night broke up a fight among 17 grown women engaged in a brawl at an all night Laundromat. The fight apparently started when a group of women began taking a stranger’s clothes out of dryers before

they were even dry. “#*&% these &^%$#@ and they &^%$#@ clothes,” said one of the women, Tanqueray Techilla Xavier.

“I don't give a %$#@!” “How do I explain that behavior to a white officer?” said Officer Newman. “Poverty don't explain that. Not knowing how to conjugate a verb or do algebra don't explain that

behavior. Then Black folks got the nerve to call me a sellout? 

I'm tired. I'm real tired.” After dealing with cultural negrosity, Black officers wish they could retreat to the police station for encouragement, but usually there’s some white officer who’s harassing a Black man who has no record and no warrants for going five miles over the speed limit. “It’s plenty of Black folks that should be locked up, but they always be grabbing the wrong ones,” said Officer Newman.