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SPEAKER (Left to right
Edward Boston, senior pre
mod major at Saint Augus
tine's College, Friday evening
speaker, during the Alpha
Kappa Mu Honor Society
Conference, held at St. Aug
ustine's College, recently.
Boston challeneged his audi
ence to "preserve intellectual
power in the struggle for
Black Power." Others on the
picture are Mae Brown, a
junior social welfare major
of Charleston, S. , who In
troduced the speaker and T
J. Crawford, national presi
dent from South Carotins
State College.
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John Hudgins
Hie one thing that I cannot
understand is Soldiers, especial
ly Black ones. A man who
would kill a brown man in de
fense of a white man is a
traitor to his own existence.
A man who would kill an inno
cent man rather tha n die has
no principles to speak of. A
man who travels a round the
world to murder for freedom
that his mother has never
known. This kind of person is
returning to our communities.
A special brand of idiot.
Black people would have
been justified in fighting for
their lives in the war of 1776
or World War I. Not became
there was a fight for freedom
but rather because we happen-
on w nave uccu ui vuv fiiuug
house, the world saw us as
Americans.
The other was that this
country has engaged in, par
ticularly Vietnam and Korea,
have been in defense of cor
porate imperialism, not free
dom or democracy. These have
been wan to control marke is.
to control resources, to domi
nate economic growth. Slave
masters cannot fight for free
dom. Capitalists can fig ht for
money.
This is why there was no
wholesale volunteering for these
wars. The only people who
left tbis place to rigni were
career soldiers, poor Blacks and
poor whites. Career soldiers
saw an opportunity to get ine
medals they had read about,
to get promotions, and most
importantly to get pay increas
es (a bonus for killing). Check
out the POW's. Blacks and
poor whites joined the mili
tary for one of two reasons.
They welcomed the glory image
associated with the military es
pecially the uniform (I am
somebody) or they thought
they were going to get an edu
cation and a better life.
The employment market
shows us today that Blacks who
sent into the- military ha ve
not found the great oppor
tunity when they came out.
The only education they ac
quired for the most pa rt was'
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duced to drugs, neither of
which leads to a desirable life.
Blacks who left here victim!
oppression returned the same
way. (You may have been
green in the army, but back
here you are still Black).
The almighty POW is another
concern we need understand.
First of all nearly all of them
are white. What happened to
the Black soldiers? Well, the
POW comes from the racist
navy and airforce. Most Black
soldiers were in basic infantry
in the army or the marines.
Nobody takes prisoners in
ground fighting, you just kill
them.. Let us understand the
POW thing. Jane Fonda called
all of them hypocrites, then
she changed her mind, of
course, she still is a white wo
man, what you expect. The
fact of the matter is they pro
bably were indoctrinated at
the stopover at Clvke air base.
Fact is all of them still brain
washed military, which says
that a good soldier does what
his superior officer tells him.
Hence they got off the planes
in a certain order and had a
spokesman. Fact is all of them
are still military personnel
which means they speak the
policy outlined at the penta
gon. And they' all want to be
considered heroes with medals,
promotions, and more y.
One: needs only to look at
them to tell that they are in
better health than most of the
Vietnamese people or poor peo
ple in this country. Let us
ask the question. How would
you treat a racist bastard shot
down while bombing your peo
ple, your children, your bro
thers and sisters? If it had
been up to me there would
have been no POW, they would
have been shot on the spot.
Yet these cats come back un
grateful for their lives, and re
member the Vietnamese peo
pie owed! them nothing, not
even their lives.
Back to the former Black
soldiers. We cannot afford to
ignore or overlook them. We
must remember that they are
victims of a system of oppres
sion. We must understand the
role they played and how this
country maintains a class of
poor to be tricked into arms
when corporate capitalismim
perialism gets into trouble.
And it is fast getting into trou
ble on the 'African continent.
Let us watch our brothers and
see if they learne d a lesson.
Will they continue to be for
nire, murders lor money, or
will they realize who needs free
dom and who the real ENEMY
is?
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By George B. Russ I
Miss Madie felt more than a
wee-bit foolish when the ring
ing to her ears ceased. She had
not been so over-anxious to
hush Emma Lou up. She had
used more energy to shut her
sister-to-law up than she had
used all day. For the moment,
she was forced to wrestle with
her soaring btood-pressure.
Emma Lou sat horrostruck;
mouth wide open, eyes pop
ping. Flnaiiy she intoned, in
a whimpering voice, "you don't
have to bit my head off, Miss
Madie."
"You'll jest have to ovah
look my edglneas I've been
like a sore tail cat most of this
fine, fair day."
Emma Lou let her assailant's
apology ride the late evening
breeze across the lawn. The
ambiguous me ning of what
her cranky old sister-in-law im
plied only whetted her deter
mination to send her packing
to nurse her daddy. He was a
parsimonious old ingrate whose
inconsistencies in life had sus
pended him over an untimely
grave. She could not say, with
a straight face, that she cared
a hoot for him He had fed his
family with scraps from the
Kaypot's table; and, clothed
them with the hand-me-down
dothing from the backs of the
Kaypot's children. Her mother
had been buried in the first
and only new dress purchased
especially for her. The Kaypots
hbd paid for her own education
at Palmers and Shaw, however,
she despised them for their
gifts of compassion they had
only given the least of them
selves that they had the most
of money. Nothing else mat
tered but the hurt she had suf
fered. The education she had
received and all the good things
that had come out of having re
ceived an education was bur
(led beneath palasades ct hate
Now -that she was no longer
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Kaypots, she transferred her
acrimony to her addled brain
daddy. Her friends would think
the worst of her if they teamed
that she had done nothing to .
assauge the infirmities of her
ailing father. God to heaven
knew that her heart wasn't
in what she was doing. An out
side show of pity was all she
wanted to project. Keeping face
with personal friends-residents
of South Hill was all she wan
ted. And deep down she felt
that, basically, her attitude was
as it should be.
Miss Madie wanted to tell
her sister-in-law to play ostrich
-hide her face in the sand-but
she had a great deal of respect
for "mister Ben." So, she tem
pered her awareness of the sit
uation with common sense and
mercy; "how is your daddy
doing-T 'She asked with her
tongue in the roof of her
mouth.
Emma Lou wanted to say
she didn't care, but this was
no time for testing the truth
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in ine scripture w mw,
"the truth shall set thee free."
Instead she said to a voice
filled with bathos; "my daddy
isn't doing well at all. He is
really pitiful. I'd put him to an
Old Folk Home but we can't
afford the cost. lt u)u tbout
all we can rake and scrape to
keep ut this place."
Miss Madie's hand struck
out at a gnat flying across the
June breeze; "missed!" she
said absently. Then added to a
hum-drum tone, "I don't mind
doing a little better than my
best for "Mister Ben"-ut!"
Emma Lou had no intention
of bridging a single "but" or
"if'. She left her chair and
toddled over to where Miss
Madie reclined on Curtis' chaise
lounge and bear hugged her
bickering sister-in-law. "You
are a God send, Miss Madie.
And 111 never forget you for
what you'r doing for my dad
dy." And she might have kis
sed her benefactress if she had
not raised her hand to protest;
"I take your word for it, hon-
ay." She giggled like a bashful
boy. I
"you're one for the book,
Mtol Madie." Mrs. Perkins
chimed merrily as she toddled
away from the crumpled figure
on the chaise lounge. -
Miss Madie clicked per plates
together, snorted, kicked off
her "slides" and cooled her
feet to the tune of a throbbing
headache. There war no "I
reckon about it, this just isn't
my lucky da y." She told her
self as she settled down to
think of the "awful bite she
had been forced to take."
Some women attract money
husbands, pretty things to wenr
or trips up north, "but as for
oh, I attract mud holes, fools'
gold, wodden nickies, poison
gm and old folks' eyes." Miss
Madie muttered under her
breath as she began a long
night of tossing and turning.
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