February 10, 1976
Thoughts ad Shadows of a Native Son
Armed Robbery
Calling all cars, calling all
cars be on the lookout for
dangerous Sam His looks can
be considered extremely
dangerous.
Taken from their homes,
Stolen from their soil brought
to the New Land to suffer and
toil,
Chained and shackled hand
and hand Sold on the auction
blocks, as mere contraband
Black seed, black gold, black
Wealth, Capitalism Red,
black, and green dashikis,
Handcraft, Manufactured,
Commercialism Who are these
robbers that continue this
crime?
The chains were unlocked in
1863, but two links remained
still holding secure a nation of
People that still survives.
Thrown behind bars, put in
the hole, beaten in their heads
until blood hath shed, But
we're still here,
Now today as many years
has gone by, these victims of
despair have still survived.
Can't they see that we'll never
die or Succumb to their evil
ways? With all the corruption
and destruction in this world,
who knows, we may be living
in the last days.
II
For these crimes a charge
was brought to order in the
Court of the Universe:
Trial: Evil vs. Law of Nature
Date: The time is no longer
significant for evil and
corruptness has taken its boil
for those who have abused the
"Law of Nature".
Crime: Stealing, armed
robbery, and abusing the Law
of nature.
Defendent: Evil
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Complaintant: Law of Na
ture
Charge: The defendent is
charged with stealing, armed
robbery, and iniquity.
The judge of the Universe
presides:
"The defendent has been
charged with stealing, armed
robbery and iniquity. The
verdict has been decided. You
shall receive for the remainder
of your life's existence the
truth of "Revelations", be
cause evidently when you
went to alien shores to commit
your crime, and proclaimed in
the name of God to denounce
African heathenism;* you
forgot to read the Chapter of
"Revelations", and by-passed
"Genes'is".
The case is dismissed:
And so the case ended Evil
spent his remaining days
reading the Bible.
Merriam-Webster writes:
*heathen-a person who does
not believe in the God of the
Bible; one who is not a Jew,
Christian, or Moslem:
A person thought of as
uncivilized or as worshipping
false gods.
Handwritten in 1973
A REFLECTION OF MY
PUBLIC SCHOOL YEARS
THRU 1973
For blacks in America the
1976 bicentennial year will not
mark 200 years of indepen
dence. It will rather mark 200
years of struggle, of despair,
and of historical moments of
"trial and tribulation". A
mere textbook of American
History cannot present the
reality of black folk in
The Guilfordian
American history. Nor can
CBS document the subjuga
tion of blacks, or the moment
when a black child was taken
from his mother to be sold on a
mohogany auction block. At
least they haven't in their
minute film clips of the way it
was 200 years go. So I ask you
CBS and your sponsors, is this
the way it was 200 years ago
for all Americans?
POST MORTEM:
A NATIVE SPIRIT IN '76
As 1 reflected back on my
years of reading and writing
from 12 years'of public school
education, I found that
somethings, like most things
in my public school American
History texts, need rewriting.
This year marking a bicenten
nial celebration in America
inspires me to write "a book of
changes." Since it will take a
devoted "time and mind" to
write, 1 only plant a few
inspired thoughts.
Respectfully yours, from a
Native Son,
Eric L. Jackson
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THE PIPER PROUDLY PRE
SENTS POET, NOVELIST,
BIOGRAPHER
FRED
CHAPPELL
FOR A POETRY READING
8:15 Monday-February 16th In
Founders Lounge by the
Fireplace Fred Chappell is
Professor in the MFA
Program for creative writing j
at U.N.C.G., teacher of film
studies, and a well-published
poet as well as novelist. His
works appear in the Greens
boro Review and are available
at The Prodigy.
It's
"Poysonal!"
"Snicker, snicker!!!"
You know who
Good luck to the Shore Buns
on the court - Go get 'em!
Is there really ; tuy named
A 1 in 104?
Good hick to the Four
Musketeers in their basketball
i B' n| cs, especially the bench
warmer.
Ed
Sex Roles
Discussed
The Women's Center would
like to invite both men and
women interested in discuss
ing the changing sex roles to a
discussion in the Women's
Center (upstairs Founders, in
the suite next to the Passion
Pit) on Wednesday, February
11 at 6:00 p.m.
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