Rift Between
Brother Is
The Carolina Journal, Wednesday, February 28, 1968 PAGE 5
Black Man And White
NOW On
Jim Patterson.
Thursday night, Feb. 8th, the
campus of South Carolina State
College was burning in many ways.
The immediate result of the flames
was the death of three young Black
men. The final result of these
flames can never change this
bloody fact. The killing of these
young men touches each of us here
in our academic shelter. We can
no longer sit back and eruditely
discuss the rift between the Black
man and his white brothers some
where out there. This rift is now
on our campuses and “My fellow
Americans” it is deadly. Some
thing has to be done soon. The
proverbial long hot summer is all
too near and the proverbial long
hot promises are all too empty.
A group of students and faculty
1967-1968 All Conference
Team Has Three 49’ers
Name, College
Ht. Wt. Class Hometown
Jim Darden, Methodist Col. 6-5 205
Ernie Guill, Lynchburg .Col. 6-2
Dean Oldham, Greensboro Col 511 178
Craig Hannas, St. Andrews 6-3 170
Jerry Anthony, UNC-C 6-1 165
The Second Squad
Jr. Clinton, N. C.
185 Jr. Lynchburg,
Soph. Greensboro
Fr. Grenbury, N.J.
Jr. Charlotte, N.C.
Va.
Name
College
Class
Randy Hunter
Greensboro
Soph.
Stan Morgan
Greensboro
Sori>.
Harry Coffee
Lynchburg
SR.
Chris Felts
N. C. Wesleyan
Sr.
Bill Cook
College of Charleston
Sr.
Gerald Lominac
College of Charleston
Sr.
Ronnie Mason
Lynchburg
HONORABLE MENTION
Sr.
Bob Lemmond, UNC-Charlotte; Doug McKinney, Lynchburg; Harold
Sutton, N.C.W.; Dana Dickens, N.C.W.; Robbie Snipes, UNC-Char-
lotte; Terry Florence, Charleston; Johnson Murray, Methodist;
Jim Dixon, N.C.W. ; Tony Fernandez, St. Andrews; Guy Starling,
St. Andrews; Tom Ferrara, Charleston; George Watson. N.C.W.
sent a petition to Governor Robert
McNair of Soutii Carolina. The
night letter petition expressed
their resentment of the three slay
ings. Following are some addi
tional opinions voiced here by our
students and some opinions of stu
dents across town on the campus
of Johnson C. Smith University.
Mary Smith, a leader in the Black
Student Unity Leagueof“BSouls”,
has this to say in regard to the
Orangeburg massacre, “It was
indicative of the racism which
ingests the structure of American
Society. South Carolina Governor
Robert McNair is representative
of that system of supression. Un
less that structure radically
changes to embrace the Blacjc man,
there will be bigger Orangeburgs
with the score of deaths evened.”
Johnny James, a student leader
at Smith tells of his feelings of
personal involvement. “I feel per
sonally involved because I knew
some of the people at State. I feel
personally involved because I, too,
am a Black student. The fault does
not lie with Governor McNair or
the state of South Carolina. The
fault lies in the system. The sys
tem must change or collapse.”
Antonio Lawrence, the presi
dent of the student bo^ of Johnson
C. Smith, was taken aback a little
when asked how he felt about the
Orangeburg incident. “How are
you supposed to feel when a bro
ther is killed? You feel anger,
disgust, and disbelief. It frightens
me that these men have guns.
We play S. C. State in sports and
we worry. The Bulls are playing
in Columbia this week and we
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can’t help but be apprehensive.
The most disgusting thing about
tlie race situation here in North
Carolina is that we are greatly
disillusioned about it. North Caro
lina is not racially progressive
and it never was. I heard someone
say that the incident in Orange-
l3ut set us back 8 years. Hell!
We were never there. We haven’t
been set back we just saw where
we really are. We as Black stu
dents must be concerned because
injustice anywhere is a threat
to justice everywhere.
Mary Reynolds, a sophomore
co-ed here on our own campus,
feels we much consider all sides
before we can heap the blame on
South Carolina law enforcement
officers. She said, “There is a
possibility of justification for the
shooting of the three students. If
justification can be shown, then
the policement wer guilty of
nothing but acting in the line of
duty.”
Ben Chavis, a Black student
leader on our campus, gave his
opinion of what happened in
Orangement in two short words,
“It stinks.”
Hank Rivers from UNC-C re
plied “I don’t feel I can judge
the situation sufficiently from what
I get from the news media. This
means I can’t give you a defi
nite opinion.”
Frank Muchado, a Cuban student
here on our campus made an in
teresting parallel. “The shooting
of the South Carolina State Stu
dents by the police is reminis
cent of the Cuban police firing on
students in Habana. I don’t feel
the owner of the bowling alley has
the right to bar people from bowl
ing on the basis of race. If violent
protest is necessary to insure
the civil rights of all citizens, then
I condone them.”
Mary Smity of the “B Souls”
says that white students should
organize support demonstrations
on their campuses. White people
have to talk ftese problems over
among themselves and demand the
necessary changes. Miss Smith
said “The basic premise white
people must work on is the same
as the premise Black men must
use ‘Educate one another.’ ”
I noticed while interviewing the
students at Smith tliat not once
did they refer to the role or posi
tion of the black American or the
white American. I also noticed
that they spoke of each other as
Brother or Sister. I was not called
brother but Jim. In view of what
happened in Orangeburg, I think
I know why.
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