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KLAL.K IINK
September 1,1971
BLACK INK
Jimmy McCrae
Minister of Information
Bruce Sampson
Chief Editor
Mary Laceweli
News Editor
Colombus Motley
Community Editor
Mae Helen Israel
Layout Editor
Warren Carson
Sports Editor
Dons Stith
Feature Editor
Sterling Swann
Business Manager
John Regis
Photography Editor
Statement from
Minister of Information
Jimmy McRae
Editorial Ink
To the new Black Freshmen,
You’ve finally made it. You’ve
done what you (or what your
parents wanted you) to do. You are
now in college. You are in one of
the largest, best equipped, highest
rated universities in the United
States. You are also a student in
one of the more racist institutions
in America. It is here brothers and
sisters that you will learn just how
black you are. If you never knew
how it was to be black before, let
me £ive you a little hint as to how
feels.
Feeling black means. . .
The guys in your suite don’t ask
you to go out and get drunk cause
their momma done told them how
a “nigger” acts when he gets drunk.
The girls on your hall are scared to
go in the bathroom cause you
might’a left syphillis on the toilet
seat.
Listening to WCAR and not hearing
nothing.
Reading the Tarheel and not
reading nothing.
Looking for fun and not finding
any.
Seeing a lot of white people smile
at you and not knowing what
they’re smiling about.
Being the only brother in a class of
two hundred and fifty one.
Getting drunk and having the
campus “pigs” ask for you ID
before they tell you how to get to
James.
Walking into an office and having
the white guy who comes in after
you get waited on first.
Going into a girl’s dorm and
watching the white girls lock their
doors as you go by.
Waiting for an hour to see your
advisor and then only seeing him
for five minutes.
Getting on the South Campus bus
and having your white seatmate get
up and stand (if you’re lucky).
Going to the Friday night party and
not having anyone to talk to
afterward.
Nationabuilding — The Black
Student Movement
This group was formed as an
organization that could relate to and
meet the demands of Black People all
over the world. Just as other Black
Groups such as the Black Panthers,
SOBU, and the rising African nations
catch hell and face insurmountable
organizational problems because they
deal squarely with the problems
confronting Black Folk, the Black
Student Movement by having a similar
orientation faces these same problems.
First, there are Black Students who do
not relate to the Black Student
Movement. They fail to realize that just
as when the European Immigrants came
to America that they stuck together and
whenever they did go off alone they
brought what they had gone out and
gained back to their original group. Just
as these immigrants realized that the
major interest of their group was
different as compared with the interest of
the U.S., so must Black Students realize
that the univeristy has goals, standards,
and criteria that don’t mean a damn to
what Black Students are all about. This is
Statement from
Past Chairman
by Ashley Davis
Past Chairman of the
Black Student Movement
Our most beautiful Black Freshmen,
transfers, and graduate students, you will
find Carolina, and college in general, to
be very much like Central Prison in
Raleigh. For, just as in Raleigh, you are
sent to this institution to be rehabilitated.
Never forget that the primary goal of this
University of North Carolina is making
“yours” fit into this world’s society.'
Remember, that this institution of higher
learning is interested in you, personally,
but not primarily. Just as the
rehabilitation of inmates at UNC-CH is
second to the survival of Central Prison as
a rehavilitating institution. So the
education of students at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill is seconded
to the survival of this school as a
rehabilitating institution. You say, “man,
there ain’t no walls here,” but Brother or
sister, BE EDUCATED and Think. Your
walls are your parents, your hometown,
society, your ego. You are incarcerated in
a place where, just as in any prison, the
big idea is not that you learn, but that
you learn what they want you to learn.
And you say, “but brother, who is
“they”?” Man, 1 have been at Carolina
for three years, and 1 am yet to know
exactly Who “they” is, but I do know
that there are a hell of a lot of ’um. Just
as a parole does not honestly indicate
prisoner rehabilitation, a diploma from
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill does not honestly indicate
student education. Dogs are not the only
ones trained in this world.
I beg you brother and sister, LEARN
AND BE EDUCATED. This University
can train you, but you must educate
yourselves. Learn how to not only ride
cars, but how to fix cars, sister when you
leam how to go down to the boutique
and see how that new dress they are
selUng is made, and then go home and
make it yourself, you have learned two
lessons. First, you have learned to make a
pretty dress, and secondly, you have
learned how to keep YOUR MONEY in
YOUR pocket. Learn to plumb, to sew,
design, to paint, to sing, to play, to laugh,
to translate, to unite, to critisize, the
fight, to row, to saw, to swim, to tolerate,
to camp, to succeed, and to love. Above
all, read, read, read, read, read, read, read
read, read, read, read, read, read, read,
read, read, read, read, read, read. Read
Black, white, blue and green. Reach, and
you will soon find and free yourselt.
to say that Black Participation in campus
activities is only a natural sequel of
history when Black Students participate
but keep the interest of the group they
belong to by participating only to the
degree that they are always members of
the Black Student Movement in another
activity bringing back valuable
information to the Black Student
Movement. When the livelihood of a
group is at stake, “berry-picking” is
treason.
Once the problem of recruitment is
sufficiently solved, the question of
productive membership is raised—how to
get people to dedicate themselves to their
own welfare by taking care of their
organization. As long as there is work to
done at home, why should one go out to
work for his neighbors? If a person is a
member of a particular family, then isn’t
it only natural that he gets his work
assignments and advice on what to do
from the head of that family? The
Central Committee, headed by Ron
Wesson, is the head of the Black Family
on this campus.
Let us leam to work together and love
each other (As other minorities have
always done).
Mitzi Bond
Hey, Look at This Man!
“If there’s something you gotta say,
And talking’s the only way.
Rap on.”
—Issac Hayes
Anything you gotta say? Here’s the
forum. My column is open. First time
around, you listen. Next time, send your
own profanity to Mitzi Bond, c/o Bruce
Sampson, BSM Office, Carolina Union.
Intelligence we’re all gifted with.
Wisdom, we must seek. So to assist you in
your search, may I enlighten you with the
heavy and the humor:
“When our hatred become violent, it
sinks us even beneath those we hate.” (Le
Rochefoucauld)
“Killing to stop war is like balling to stop
love.”
“War is unhealthy for children and other
Uving things.”
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try
again. And then quit.”
Harry Jones
“No sense being a damn fool about it.”
(W. C. Fields)
“It is never wrong to have a dream and to
strive to make it come true. It is only
wrong to suppress a dream and be afraid
that it won’t come true.”
“Black is not needing a psychiatrist to tell
you what’s bothering you.”
“Peace begins within.”
“A kiss is love by word of mouth.”
“You never really know a man until you
stand in his shoes and walk around in
them.” (Atticus Finch)
“Yeah though 1 walk through the valley
of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,
for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the
valley.”
“I will pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America, and to the
repubUc when it stands for one nation,
imder God, indivisible with truth and
justice for all, including kikes, wops,
spies, niggers, wasps, etc.”
^Getting It Together
“Getting it together” should and could
very well be the motto of Blacks on this
campus for the coming year. We have
argued and hassled much too frequently
among ourselves.
Through the course of this friction
that we have created among ourselves we
have failed to take action on issues that
should be of utmost importance to us. We
can all afford to let their problems,
whatever they may be, affect the welfare
of Black students on this campus.
I only hope that we can get in together
as one group dedicated to achieving black
goals. I cry for Black Solidarity - a
collective thought pattern for action by
Blacks. One method of achieving this
Black Solidarity is to support the Black
Student Movement. Needless to say, the
BSM ended last year in mass confusion. I
think that we should all work to revive
this organization. The only method is for
all of us to become active members of the
BSM. Through action we as a group can
work towards solving our problems.
The coming years can be very
meaningful if we’ll only work towards
our end—the fulfullment of Black goals.
Get Involved!!!
It’s amazing what a little plea for help
can do. With the help of eight freshmen
coming to the rescue of the Black Ink we
were successful in sending . press this
issue. To those freshmen Cynthia Harris,
Mae Israel, Deborah Austin, Danita
Winchester, Mayilyn Graham, Sandra
Hawkins, Frankie Alexander, and Gail
Grandon we send a hearty thanks!
Bruce Sampson
Chief Editor