of whites.
; The Critic goes on to say that “in
a time of tight budgetary constraint,
a free-standing Black Cultural
Center should take a back seal.”
I They attempt to justify this
statement by telling us of the woes
of teaching salaries, academic
programs, and plummeting library
rankings. This argument falls apart
l>ecause, once again to the ignorant,
I say, “WE ARE NOT ASKING
THE UNIVERSITY OR THE
STUDENT BODY FOR ANY
.MONEY!!!” We neither need nor
' appreciate the paternalistic
assumption that blacks have to ask
j papa whitey for favors.
I I won’t go in-depth about the
' fallacious argument of segregation.
Ask yourself what causes
segregation. For whiles, the main
reasons that they don’t integrate
with black culture is fear, ignorance,
racism and the walls of segregation
already existent in their heads. You
can’t argue the reverse because to
survive in America, blacks have to
be integrated with while culture
(* important note: to integrate means
to come together; this does not
necessarily mean to assimilate,
which means to absorb into). The
BCC can be used as a device,
mechanism and weapon to tear
down the walls of segregation in the
minds of whites, thereby promoting
race relations. I’m not saying that a
BCC will do it overnight, or even
that it will do it by itself. I am
saying, though, that it can be a
powerful tool for promoting racial
harmony.
Africa Unite! Come together
and fight or our enemy will divide
and conquer us. We are a diverse
people, but we have more in
common than we do not have in
common. I say the following to
those of us not yet active in the
movement; To the individual Greek
who has your bootie on your back,
remember your organization’s
mission and reaffirm your vows;
get involved and serve your people.
To the individual athlete who thinks
that you are all that, realize that you
are one of us too and that the enemy
is just pimping you for their
entertainment—that when they are
tired of you, they will discard you
like used toilet paper. Use your
African Americans should not compromise on Black
Cultural Center from page 4
Jim Crow segregation. The ground
between legal segregation, de jure
and association segregation, de
facto, has been debated and argued
over by many lawyers before the
Supreme Court. If a free-standing
BCC becomes segregated it will
most definitely bedue to segregation
by association, or maybe I should
say, disassociation. The problem
would not be that, “those niggers
are excluding us from the BCC,”
but,“we don’t want to mingle with
those niggers.” This is a reflection
that will be evident to everyone,
showing people an element of
Carolina’s campus—paranoid,
ignorant, and flagrant bigots.
Mr. Moran and others, America
is a pluralistic society. It is not, as
popular literature would have us
t>elieve, a melting pot. Many
different cultures and languages
have come together to form the
present predominant culture and
language in America. Webster
defines pluralism as “a state or
condition or society in which
niembers of diverse ethnic, racial,
religious, or social groups maintain
autonomous participation in and
development of their traditional
culture of special interest within the
confines of a common civilization. ”
! It implies integration while it also
of groups being autonomous,
or separately distinct from other
Sroups. It does not imply
assimilation.
All too often, whites have taken
the term integration to mean
assimilation, but assimilation is not
you let the University
tell you that a place to play
(new Student Rec Center) is
more important than paying
tribute to your heritage?”
what blacks fought for in the ‘60s.
Blacks fought to have access to the
best public facilities that this, their
country, had to offer its citizens.
They fought against the
schizophrenic laws of this society
which said on one hand that all are
created equal and on the other hand
that blacks could not be buried in
the same cemetery
a s
whites
because
of their
inferiorily.
They
did not
fight to
b e
loved
b y
racists
but to
have
their rights respected by them under
penalty of the law.
I now turn my attention to the
editorial that appeared in the DTH
on Feb. 27 entitled, “BCC
Supporters Must Compromise.”
The editorial staff supports an
expansion of the union to give the
BCC office more space. It has
already been assessed that union
additions are not feasible. Whatare
you going to do now Hardin? An
expansion would not fulfill the needs
of the BCC. The editorial staff said,
“therequestforanexpandedStudent
Union is reasonable....” I say that
the request for something that we
have already been promised 14
years ago is just as reasonable. We
should not be asked to compromise.
Compromise on what?! Do you
think we are stupid? I don’t think
so! Do you realize, editors, that you
are asking us to give up something
that is already ours? We
compromised and accepted the
interim space in 1988. Four years
have come and gone and it’s now
time to
pay up!
“The
fact
remains
that the
BCC
isn’t
going to
get a
23,000-
square-
foot
buikling,”
wrote the editorial board. Is that so?
You sound mighty confident I
would venture to say that this is
your opinion—not a fact I say that
a 23,000-square-foot building will
house the BCC. There will be no
compromise. Do you know how
the word compromise scratches the
ears of African Americans? We
were compromised in the
Constitution to be worth three-fifths
of a man. I got your three-fifths
right here. Booker T. Washington
called for compromise and
accommodation in his speech at the
Atlanta Exposition. We are rising
“Up From Washington.”
Reconstruction found its death in
talents to become a positive role
model for young black people and
show the enemy that you have suong
convictions about your people and
their freedom. To anybody else
who has not activated yourself to
become a simba (warrior), get the
lead out of your ass, apathy out of
your hearts, and equip yourself with
knowledge so that you can also do
battle. Believe it or not, if you’re
just here to get an “education” so
that you can work for whiley, he’s
gonna’ cheat you, beat you and
utterly defeat you in the end. The
system will definitely see to this
because that is how it is set up. If
you want to be rich, and white
corporate America doesn’t pimp
you, then it has a mechanism that
tells you to strike out on your own.
make your riches and keep it to
yourself, so that the bottom line is
that you leave your community
behind to die. What it doesn’t tell
you is that if your community dies
then you die as well!
This is a call to arms. This is a
call for you to make a decision.
This is a call for us to rise above our
petty differences in order to survive.
Indecision is a decision and if you
are not for the causc then you are
against it The people need all of us
to become soldiers. Brothers and
Sisters, WE ARE AT WAR!
the Compromise of 1877 by
Rutherford B. Hayes. Abolitionists
compromised and accepted the
Emancipation Proclamation, which
according to Henry Ward Beecher,
did not free a single slave; the 13th
Amendment did. The government
has always compromised the
African American’s rights to
appease the racist attitudes of those
in power, F Compromise!!!!
For the African American,
compromise means justice denied.
Freedom, equality and truth cannot
be compromised.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS!
Every person who wants a free
standing BCC must get involved
now. We are at war! Will you let
the administfation promise you
something for 14 years and then tell
you that you will not get it? Will
you let them lell you that your culture
is not worth preserving, promoting
and understanding? They have told
us ever since we got off the slave
ships that we are worthless and I
fear that some of us are believing it.
Will you let the University tell you
that a place to play (the new Student
Rec Center) is more important than
paying tribute to your rich heritage?
They laugh at your past—a past that
includes genocide and enslavement.
A free-standing BCC needs to be on
your lips and hearts at all times.
Equip yourselves with information
about the BCC and the University’s
past record ofdealing with it. Resist!
Struggle! Fight! We need to adopt
some of the slogans of the Black
Manifesto. Several are: ALL
ROADS MUST LEAD TO
REVOLUTION; FIGHT OUR
ENEMIES RELENTLESSLY:
UNITE WITH WHOMEVER YOU
CAN UNITE; VICTORY TO THE
PEOPLE; REVOLUTION BLACK
POWER; and WE SHALL WIN
WITHOUT A DOUBT.
Time will separate the field
niggas from the house niggas and
the timid from the courageous. Like
Sister Souljah said, “If you have
fear in your hearts, don’t fret, just
getoutthe way!” We must become
Simbas - Warriors. We must fight
for Uhuru - Freedom. We must
become pugnacious, unyieldingand
determined. We will overcome no
other way because power concedes
nothing without demand and
struggle. To my people and other
minorities, look and listen around
you. Listen to who are calling for a
Multicultural Center to the
exclusion of a separate BCC. They
are mainly while. This is an old
tactic used by racists when they
don’t want to meet demands. They
are trying lo divide and conquer.
We must not fight amongst
ourselves but unite as one voice and
as one force. I will leave you with
the words of Henry Highland
Garnet, “Brethren, arise, arise,
arise!....Strike for your lives and
liberties. Now is the day and the
hour...Rather die free men than live
to be slaves....Let your motto be
resistance! resistance!
RESISTANCE!”