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BLACK INK
October 20, 1971
; y-ar Pig,
I hope this letter finds you
offering from a bad case of ulcers.
)r a long time now 1 have been
•leaning to write you, but each time 1
was delayed because of many
reformations programs that 1 have
been working with. The progress of
'.*:ese programs has been very little,
.' je to your continous efforts to
itigate our successes.
Well, Pig, we have finally come to
lie conclusion that our first step
:,iould be to orientate the minds of all
Blacks and then deal with your kind.
You can rest assured that we are
vetting our minds together. So you
liad better work fast.
You have two choices?^ you can get
our mind together and help make this
ociety better; or, you can take up
rms because revolution is the only
Iternative. We do not want the
evolution; maybe you don’t either. So
, et ready Rg.
Get ready for that day when no
Black man will hear your lies and
pleas, when all protests will not be as
■oud as the gunfire, when little
children will cry ‘'why”and you can
not answer them.
A Determined Black
THE BLACK WOMAN OF TODAY
Nineteen hundred seventy-one-a
new year in a new decade in a new age
in a new time. A time of
change-revolution, liberation, beauty
in difference. This change has fostered
a new people, not like that of any year
or any generation before. And from
this new people comes creature as
never before existed-and never after
shall be equaled.
Combine an ounce of civil rights,
one-half ounce of women’s lib, two
ounces of Blackness, three ounces of
pure woman, and four ounces of
beauty and intelligence. Mix violently
but stir gently. The product--the Black
woman of today.
Different from her ancestors, this
Black woman has gone through
physical and mental evolution. No
longer is she the domineering matriach
who scrubs floors and bears children
only to nurse those not her own. No
longer is she merely the object of
physical pleasure to a master who is
by Mitzi Bond
not her own No longer is she to be
pushed aside or held in the
background or toyed with in the
shadows of a white society. No longer
are her heart, mind, body, and soul to
be taken from her-they are hers only
to give to one of her choice.
She is a woman bom anew--a
woman unlike any other. She is
endowed with more moral and mental
strength of character. She is a gentle
but strong creature, violent but
compassionate, complex but
inteUigent, demanding but also giving,
emotional but stable. Black and proud,
of it. Four hundred years of evolution
have hardened her but they have also
left a new woman of dignity,
competent in much, incapable of little,
her dreams her only boundaries.
A woman worthy of the respect of
all men, she has no master for she is a
slave to no man-only to her
womanhood. Independent, arrogant,
self-assured, self-confident submissive
to no one. The power is hers-rule, not
as a matriarch but as a queen, to be
adored and worshipped for her
goodness and beauty, inner and outer.
And her beauty is manifested in many
colors; but whether her eyes be brown
or blue, whether her hair be a ‘fro or
straight, her complexion light or dark,
she is Black. Her beauty is her own,
not copied from her fair sister but
divine in its own creation in the
shadow of darkness. For darkness
caresses all the world just as dew
caresses the flower, and in it nature is
Mother Nature’s only godchild. In
her eyes, her smile, her walk, her very
movement, her beauty speaks
“I am Black and Black
Is BeautifulMy wonderful gift
At Birth
And this Hack means
The world to me
Cause I am Black
And Proud to be.”
MAYOR LEE ADDRESSES STUDENTS
The Carolina Union was the scene
September 1st for featured speaker
Mayor Howard Lee in a seminar which
was part of Freshman Orientation.
Mayor Lee spoke concerning the
relationship between Cahpel Hill and
the Uni- versity. He stated that within
the last Vh years the town-university
relation- ship had shifted from ‘a
child-parent relationship to a
partnership relationship.’ The Mayor
brought to our attention that Chapel
HilJ has looked to the University for
survival, for recreation, airport
facilities, and even garbage disposal,
for it seems that the University owns
all Chapel Hill utilities. Mayor Lee
feels that the time has come when the
University must become ‘an institution
within Chapel Hill rather than an
entity to itself.’ He suggested some
ideas which he hoped would help to
bring about this transition; 1.
UNCsshould get out of the utilities
business. Chapel Hill hopes to gaub
acquisitions of utilities within the next
year. 2. Any private enterprise
likeUNC owned businesses now
non-taxable who competes with other
businesses should be taxed. 3. The
University has been contributing
$100,000 yearly to the town bud- get.
SAGA OF THE BLACK G.l.
It suddenly dawned upon him like the
chaste birth of dawn, that the white
man’s aims and interests were being
accomplished through his brawn. Yet,
he world get nothing. Nothing!
He fought in Korea; the Koreans are now
free. He spilled his blood in Vietnam for
the white man willed it to be. When
the war is over, no matter who is in
control, they will also have their
freedom too, but not so with the
Black soldier who fought, bled and
died; he will have nothing. Nothing!
Ant those who survive the battle and
return to oppression’s door, will fing ithard to settle down and work from
nine to four. They will smile and say
yes sir, year after year, hoping to appease
him (the white man) and reach freedom’s door.
But you as well as I know, although it
seems a shame that they will get
nothing...nothing! And nothing is their gain.
This money should not be accepted
from the University but should come
to the town from the state because
Chapel Hill has 3300 acres of
non-taxable land which puts a deficit
in the budget. 4. Chapel Hill should
have only,one police force. Town
police can not come onto the UNC
campus unless they are called no
matter what is hap- pening. Mayor Lee
then urged all UNC students to be
active Chapel Hill citizens. He advised
CECIL MILLER
participation in city government by; I.
Taking part in city government. 2.
Making students’ services available to
the town. 3. Using students’ talents for
the betterment of Chapel Hill. Mayor
Lee also assured the group that the
street vending confusions would be
cleared up in the next few weeks. He
stated that in his opinion these ven
dors were in no way a threat to the
economy if they do not block
merchant’s doorways or cause traffic
confusion.
YO U’VE GOT A FRIEND
In it’s quest to keep the Black
students of this campus acquainted
with other Black students, Black Ink is
featuring a series of Interviews with
the Black Resident Advisors on the
campus. We would appreciate your
response to this in the form of a letter.
-B. Sampsom ed.
by Deborah Austin
NEWS EDITOR
Cecil Juhrod Miller, Men’s Resident
Advisor on eighth floor of James
dormitory may be classified as
“everybody’s friend.” He is always
busy whether it be in his capacity as
R.A., Vice-president of the senior
class, member of the Advisory Board
of the Student Health Service, or as a
plain old student.
Cecil is a political science and
history major from Colerain, N. C.
who is bound for postgraduate mext
year.
In looking at all the things that
keep Cecil busy, he finds that his
duties as a Resident Advisor requires
much of his time and patience. He
considers himself a negotiator for
co-operation on the floor as well as an
advise giver, a problem solver and a
liason between student and
administion. As a member of the
Student Healtii Service Advisory
Board, Cecil is in the process of
devising renovative ideas for the
infirmary, then as Vice-President of
the Senior class he is in the position to
air views as to how the Senior Qass
should be Cecil’s life is not all filled
with work, for he lover to read and to
play tennis and bas ketball. He also
enjoys quoting trivial facts(ie. who is
the highest paid Black athlete in the in
the United States?).
In commenting on life at UNC,
Cecil says that the University has good
and bad points but that so far he has
been able to avoid racist attacks. He
feels that the new dorm could produce
negative feedback and cause an
increase in extreme problems already
existing.
Black students should become more
involved in university functions, and
seek available positions in the Honor
Court, Senate and Dormitory
according to Cecil. This involvement
would not necessitate that the student
alienate himself from fellow Blacks.
Cecil invites you to come by 843
James and rap if you’ve got a problem
or grievance because more than likely
he can help you to get to the necessary
authorities where you problem or
grievance may be solved. If you don’t
have a problem go by anyway, at one
lime or another wc ull need a IVicnd.