Racial prejudice denounced

By Mike King

Racial prejudice was wrong because it denied the right of an individual to develop his own existence and experience, Dr. J. E. Ritchie, Professor of Psychology at the University of Waikato, told the Race Relations Seminar in Hamilton.

Professor Ritchie said men had a fundamental duty to make experiences available to other people, and to help other human beings to liberate themselves.

"It is the business of life to act on the side of life," he said, "and prejudice is a denial and on the side of death."

He believed prejudice was also evil because it made other individuals objects and sought to have fantasies accepted as reality.