About the Cover
The Black Ink is devoted to covering events directly
impacting black student life at UNC. The cover photos
depict the different scenes from our community
Giving BLACK
To the Community
Why arc you here?
If you have never thought about why you are at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then you are in trouble.
If you are at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill only
lo be a doctor, lawyer, politician, entrepreneur or even a joumahst,
then you arc in trouble.
In other words, if you arc not here to give BLACK to the
community, then you are in trouble.
In case you haven’t realized. Black America is in state of
emergency.
Haven’t we waited for our 40 acres and a mule long enough? If it
ain’t here by now, it ain’t coming.
For more than 400 years we have been playing a waiting game-
waiting to gel off the boat; waiting to be unshackled; waiting to get our
babies; waiting to be counted as mwe than three-fifths of a person;
waiting to be freed; and wailing to be handed our 40 acres and a mule.
The time for waiting was yesterday, and the time for action is now.
Our young people are fatherless, left without role models and in
danger of becoming extinct. Our socioeconomic status is lower than
that of our white counterparts and continues to dwindle. And des^Hle
the fact that some of use are in college, we are nol the ones doing the
educating. The number of black college students nationwide is 9
percent, and the number of black professors is only 3 percent
Black America must do away with it’s victimized attitude and
replace it with empowerment. The more time spent talking about how
victimized we were, the less time and energy spent on empowering
ourselves to help correct the wrongs of white society and assessing our
own worth; the more time and power we give the oppressors to
continue oppressing.
Empowerment is nol reading Malcolm X and running with iL But
rather, learning how to access and use the societal and political
structures, which have been bestowed upon us.
Empowerment is building the Black community. We must use our
degrees and experiences to better the masses, nol just ourselves or the
MAN.
No, we cannot and must not forget the past. But we can no longer
use it as an excuse.
However, we must start somewhere. (With the median grade point
average of UNC undergraduates being a Z853, it seems that we all
have something to either strive for or surpass.) We can’t change the
system from the outside. We must change it from within. PEACE!
Jacqueline Charles
Editor-in-Chief
Inside Black Ink
Monday, November 22, 1993
Darryl Lester
Diversity
arrives from NCSU ready
Training
to make an impact on in effectfir UNC
faculty
The Umoja A serious
Speaking of
couxldl matter
Sports
tries to Bridge A look |t the
Black QBs and
organizations black greeks
their NFIL trials
Basketball No she didn't
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offers a season financial aid
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WXYC Radio Renown Prof.
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students
For the Record
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Editor-in-chief: Jacqueline Oiarles*Managlng Editor: Corny Bmwn»Assodate
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