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Page 4 Library Sports "Colorful" Dialogue y 11 COMPILED BY NEILL WHITLOCK For those male students who seldom frequent the men's room in the library and you girls who, I am sorry to say, never get a chance to frequent the men's room, this article may be of interest. Call it what you will, The Poet's Corner, the Forum, Stall No. 1, it all boils down to the same thing—a small secluded area on our campus where students can freely discuss their thoughts. In the men's room of our library one can see either on his left or his right, depending on whether he is sitting or standing and also depending upon your point of view, is the wall of graphic confrontation. Time and time again the wall is washed and painted, but to no avail. Soon the wall is covered with graffiti of all sorts. In the last writing there has been quite an extensive dialogue between presumably black students and white students. One student, on top of all sorts of unmentionable graffiti, started the dialogue off by writing, "If all niggers acted as Negroes the world would be a much better place." One student replied by writing, "If whites acted like human beings" the world would be a much better place. As one reads on down the wall he will find a lengthy dialogue between two students and comments by a number of others. The dialogue reads as follows: Student A: For 400 years the white man has been most unbrotherly to the black man. Since slaves were "freed" in this country, the black Americans watched one ambitious ethnic group after another immigrate into America, and find sooner or later a place in the "American mainstream", while they, still branded in the minds of American whites as inferior, never discovered a legitimate means of showing the white wielders of power that "Negro Freedom" was a white illusion. Student B: RIGHT! If the blacks had been ambitious they would have been thoroughly accomodated, and would have f J] LJJ The Forum "Reserved for pseudo-intellectuals. On the John, all men are equal.' been accepted into the mainstream. Student A: Today whites continue to jail an inordinate number of blacks, not because they are innately criminal, as some whites see it, but because blacks, being poor for the most part, can't afford decent legal counsel. White businesses in the black ghetto continue to charge extra-high prices for life-supporting . food and produce, fail to attend to the despicable tenaments they own, and use their economic weight to sway government action in their favor. The armed forces continue to draft a highly The Guilfordian disproportionate number of blacks to fight its own wars. AH this, while the only "constructive" thing the white people and their government have done for blacks is produce, after almost 20 years of delay, the poorest excuse ever seen for a "civil rights" law in the history of government—a weakly worded, cautiously compromising, totally absurd (at least in terms of the human needs of black people) document, branded by liberals and tired legislators alike as a "milestone" and a "movement"; while all it accomplished was to set in relief the hold mark of racism on almost every white social action and legislative document. Imagine that a "civil rights" bill was required at all ? Does this not alone testify to the existence of racism? Notice that it took 20 years! Does this not show that racism at least hindered and probably controlled its progress in a legislative body it dominated? Notice that it all goes unenforced! Does this not show the unwillingness, the contempt of the police forces and the wielders of power in America for even this, the most pitiful attempt to give the black man a taste of civil equality? Notice how its proponents cheered at its "victorious" enaction into law. Does this not show even the liberals (are) willing to sell, to submit, to.. .racism? Ask yourselv s as human beings these questions, then ask yourselves whether the white man is willing ta be brothers with black men he has always, and continues to consider, inferior to himself. And black man—ask yourself whether this white man is worth being brothers with, at least in the view of his racist political, military, and economic institutions. It's a good question. Student B: A person as bitter as this author is not fit to be the brother of a white or black man. Student B: Don't Knock the System. We're the richest country in the world so don't knock it you immature students, only 2% of you (people) feel this way! Student C: Whites are not bigots. Student A: True, many whites are willing to be brothers with black men. In fact, all men should be brothers with one another; but there has persisted in this country a race consciousness, hundreds of years old, the general pattern of which is a nation not necessarily explicit or vocal, on the part of most whites, that intrinsically, in the last analysis, they are better than any one black. If men were not so conscious of one another's pigmentation, such things as the "civil rights" laws (and their obvious flaws) would not be necessary (or evident). Student B: Whites and immigrants to this country who have worked and strived to make good have and will conlinue to do so. Student D: Of course they did. They were white or close to it. Student B: Blacks who have The fashion stores for the college students Friday, February 28, 1969 tried have made it themselves in this country. Student D: The visible one. Many more have been (messed up) by the system. Student B: But, most blacks desire that it be handed to them. This is why the majority will not accept the blacks value system including morals. Its atrocious. Student D: This is the prior condition. When blacks look for jobs and find that white business (which started during the industrial revolution, while blacks were still slaves) denies them jobs and/or advancement, the result is a feeling of hopelessness. Why not look at the white value system, which was "atrocious" enough to justify the enslavement, the dehumanization of fellow men. .. Student B: Blacks, produce and work! Then you will be accepted. . . Student D: Why try to be accepted by people who (as a whole) couldn't (care less) about you or your people. Student E: Start your own business you lazy (bumbs). Student D: This is what black people are starting to do in many areas; it's not so easy for black people to start a business in a country where the cultural and political systems have never really accomodated non-white people. Student F: Why don't you move to Soul City? Student A: Someday they will paint this wall black.
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