said that the large numbers of Negroes on the staff were simply doing nothing about it, and many were secretly amused, tolerant enough of what was happening to the white boys to do little to prevent it. I talked to an Italian boy on June 27, just two or three days out of the institution. He said: "They didn't get me, thanks to the fact that I'm a Golden Gloves champion, but they tried hard enough. At supper, two Negro guys offered: 'My pie for your eye', and I refused angrily. In the showers several of them cornered me to feel me up, and I busted several of them. That's what usually happens, they eye guys in the showers and then three or four guys start beating him up all the time. Everywhere the kid goes he gets kicked often in the stomach and privates and he gets his wind knocked out, they put piss in his food, and persecute him all the time until three or four of them get him alone, then they just hold him down and take what they want."

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"We are just two to a room," another boy reported. "And after about nine o'clock there isn't much supervision and you can do what you want. It's hell if your roommate is an older, stronger Negro. The boy next to me, a sixteen year old white boy, small for his age, was forced every night for a month. He just about went crazy, but there was nothing he could do about it."

I have selected these two episodes to tell, because both of them illustrate that these are not merely sexual encounters or experiences. The Negro boy who led the group that went after the Italian boy told him: "I promised sister I'd screw an Italian boy to get even because of what an Italian man did to her." And the sixteenyear-old who was forced by his roommate, said that the sexual act was accompanied by a stream of talk, in which his Negro persecutor reported every sexual approach a white person

had ever made to any member of his family. Each sexual thrust was in response to an indignity which he reported.

Illustration two. Operating out of a fourth-class Manhattan hotel is a Negro pimp, who supplies very young white boys for his clients. Some of his clients are white, and this amuses him. He actually used the word "poetic justice" to describe a Negro supplying 13 and 14-year-old white boys to white tourists and other clients. But the larger share of his clients are Negroes, because there is a rapidly growing demand on the part of Negroes for white boys-a good deal of it the same motivation described in the House of Detention episodes above. "It used to be hard to find white boys for Negroes," he said. "But now it is easy. The young kids are the ones who first had it in detention or some institution, or else they are just gay kids that live in the neighborhood. I suppose I know a thousand gay kids of junior high age."

"But," he continued, "it's the older white guys that are pushovers, especially southerners and college boys. Sometimes they are virgins, and they act like it would be race prejudice if they refused. I suppose a lot of them are just curious."

One is tempted to report in detail many of the episodes he reported to me, but most of them couldn't in his own language go through the mails. All he said, however, documents the increasing phenomenon we have noted elsewhere: the number of Negro males that are seeking white boys, and often high sadist sex motivations; and the parallel number of masochistic motivated whites that are making themselves available.

"Do unto others as they did to you" is a kind of justice which has always appealed to the lesser educated, more primitive persons-quite apart from any question of race. But