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picture of the Negro. This picture
is often that of a slave under a
magnolia tree, strumming his
guitar and smiling. Such a picture
is historically inaccurate. There
were slave revolts, and thousands
of blacks fought on the Union
side during the Civil War. Only in
the past few years has the NAACP
been successful in eliminating
Hollywood’s stereotyped picture
of the Negro as a clown, buffoon,
or petty criminal to be loved as a
pet, but not to be respected.
The most sensitive white
people try to uproot feelings of
racism, and some succeed. The
intellect of the Negro tells him
that racism is a lie, but he is
conditioned to follow it. He has
come to think of kinky hair as
bad and of straight hair as good,
but he is not coming to a new
awareness and ethnic sense.
Negros have been taught self-hate,
self-rejection, and rejection of
Africa. In rejecting ylTrica, they
rejdct their past. There “cannot be
a future, or a present, without
rememberance of a past”.
People should not be terrified
by the words “black and
beautiful” and “black power”.
They do not mean that white is
ugly. “Black” is a negative word
— for example, “blacklist”,
“black look”, “blackblade”, and
black Devil’s Food Cake as
opposed to white Angel’s Food
Cake.
Anyone kicked around must
react. The Negro reaction
compares with the reaction of the
Irish. The phrase “black and
beautiful” is no more harmful
then was the phrase “its an honor
to be born an Irish”.
Negroes today call themselves
Afro-Americans. They have
“discovered the hyphen so that
they may eventually lose it”.
There is a trend toward ethnic
cohesion based on pride, dignity,
and identy. There should be a
pluralistic society. The degree to
which the black man loses the
hyphen will depend upon the
degree to which he is included in a
pluralistic society. It is easy for a
white man to change his life
situation and to be assimilated
into such a culture, but it is not
easy for the Negro because of his
“high visibility”.
It would take two generations
of massive education campaigns to
significantly overcome racism.
This process would take too much
money and too much time, so we
must checkmate racism —
reduce its ability to damage
people. The powerless should be
impowered.
The black community is more
interested in respect than in love.
In order to gain respect, the
people need control over their
own destinies. Negroes should
have income and control of
institutions so that they will feel
ownership.
The teaching of the Negro
history should not be exclusively
for blacks. The white should be
allowed to “learn some soul”, too.
No black student should be
compelled to live in an all-black
dorm, and no interested white
student should be excluded - he
could be made an honorary
member of the group. Integration
is not dispersal, it is pluralism in
which people come together as
partners.
People must live on three
planes, as individuals, as ethnic
groups, and as humans. A person
should respect what is his because
it is part of his culture, and what
is another’s because it is human.
We must live in the real world of
here and now. A person cannot
love humanity until he loves
himself. It is impossible to hate
yourself and to love mankind of
which you are a part. Changes
need to be made. “If not now,
when?”
After his speech, Mr. Farmer
was asked what solution is needed
for today. He answered that the
nation gave the hotdog easily, but
it did not give the dignity that the
hogdog symbolizes. There needs
to be economic development of
black ghettos. This means mass
ownership, not black capitalism;
black capitalism would simply
replace a white with a black.
There could be a corporation
owned by the black people, they
could buy stock at a nominal cost.
The community would determine
what the corporation would
involve and how much of the
dividend they would receive. The
gain of some power leads to the
gain of more power. The black
people can have maximum power
if they are not wed to any
political party. The party that
owns you does not do anything
for you, and the oppositionparty
must appeal to the available, so it
does not do anything for you
either. The voter should vote for
the people and not for the party.
The 49er Sports Car Club will
present a sports car slalom
entitled Leprekhana in salute to
Saint Patrick’s Day. The event will
take place in the main University
parking lot on Sunday, March 16.
Registration will begin at 9:00
a.m., practice runs at 10:00, and
timed runs at 1:00. Trophies will
be given for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
places in six classes. Marque prizes
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Rowan and Communication
By Sherry Drake
Carl Rowan, syndicated
columnist of the CHICAGO
daily news, was the opening
speaker for the fourth annual
University Forum. His topic, as
listed in the program, was “The
Responsibilities of Mass Media to
the Public.” His opening remarks
characterized our times as “as era
pf grim contradiction” and
“savagery” in which black people
die in disproportionate numbers
in Vietnam and Orangeburg, in
which the treasury is bare, the
dollar is sick, in which elected
officials go before the people at
the risk of their lives. We live, he
said, in a society which made
martyrs of John and Robert
Kennedy, Martin Luther King,
and Medgar Evers so that its
people could escape feelings of
self doubt, in a sick society which
has made violence acceptable.
Eourteen years ago governors
preached defiance of federal law,
they invited hate and hoodlums to
dominate society.” But after they
had put the black race in their
place, they didn’t retire as
expected. They beat whites too
and tried to dictate to whites, too.
Officials moved against them, but
Legislature
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forms. The 49er Sports Car Club's
constitution was approved, but
the Judicial Committee could not
consider the constitution
submitted by the Black Student
Union until the committee could
determine whether or not the
local students wished to become
affiliated with the national
organization of the same name. If
national affiliation is involved,
then the matter is out of the
hands of the Legislature and into
the hands of the Chancellor.
Course evaluation and the
Student Government Award were
also discussed.
it was too late. Then the Negroes,
who were tl»e inititial victims, also
moved outside the law, and there
was a “growing refusla to trust the
law.” Professors began to
denounce the law and established
institutions, and it was only one
short step before students, too,
were into the fray. “And soon
none of us could be sure that we
were not infected by this malady
of maladjustment."
To him all of this emphasizes
the need for communication.
But more than this, he said, he
wanted to talk about what we
owe ourselves and each other. He
also wanted to give some
self-criticism about the journalism
profession. “Journalism is people
and thus bears and will forever
bear the mark of men's
prejudice.” He feels that
journalists not only have a duty to
report the facts but also to tell
what those facts mean. The
people in America need to have a
better understanding of what it is
that moves us to a black-white
confrontation. They need
communication.
He sees the black man as
frustrated and confused, as
rebelling against centuries, as
lacking a sense of direction. Mr.
Rowan disagrees with the Black
Militants and the others.
Separatism didn’t get the Indians
anywhere, he is "here for the
duration,” demanding what he
believes is his children's birthright.
His own personal philosophy is
one of racial and human equality,
and personal communication is, to
him, the key with which to
achieve the intellectual, social,
and cultural equality that he longs
for. He thinks meaningful
communication which he seeks is
found on the tennis courts, at the
luncheon tables, and on the golf
courses. And the way to personal
communication is, “the golden
thread of exact and ultimate
justice.”
Before Mr. Rowan spoke. Dr.
Hugh McEniry welcomed the
crowd in the parquet room. Dr.
McEniry was there substituting
for Chancellor Colvard who is out
of his office as a result of illness.
Mr. Rowan was introduced
prior to his speech by Mr. John
Prescott, General Manager of THE
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NEWS.
UNC-C was host to a panel of
experts here to participate in the
UNC--C/Statc Department I'oreign
Policy I'orum. The Journal will carry a
scries of articles aiH>ut the P'orun) ami
tlie question and answer periods that
followed each talk, beginning with
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