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BLACK INK
JIMMY McCRAE
MINISTER or INI ORMATION
BLACK. INK Oclohor 20, 1971
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Editorial Ink
It is time for Black Students to ally.
Since the first Black male student
entered the University of North
Carolina, North Carolina Central
University has merely been a place to
go and pick-rp girls. When my class
got here, we didn’t see this. At the
time, my class was the largest Black
Freshman class to have entered the
plantation. It was then that we started
realizing that the brothers and sisters
of Central had the same problems that
v'e did. In other words while we were
infiltrating the oppressor, the
oppressor was infiltating them.
Therefore, as editor of Black Ink, I
am dedicating a page from this issue of
Black Ink to Brother Jae Joyner,
editor of the Campus Echo, the
officialnews organ of North Carolina
Central University.
Remember, you have brothers and
sisters at North Carolina Central who
are going though the same sliit that
you are. If true Black Unity is to be
achieved, I believe that it is the duty
of each and every Black student on
this campus to support the students at
North Carolina Central University in
their quest for Black dignity. At the
same time, I think you should look at
yourselves and say, ‘ ain’t it time we
started to work with our brothers and
S’ “Ain’t it time we stopped
labeling people and try make alliances
with all Black people? Ain’t it time we
stopped giving a damn about parties,
pot, and wine and stared doing things
that will help all'of us out of this?
Ain’t it time we started living this
Unity we been talkin about?”
As the Editor of Black Ink, I would
like to got on record now as saying
that the staff as well as myself,
support the Staff and the Editor of the
campus Echo, and at the same time we
hope for a lasting friendship and
alliance between the two bodies of
Black Student.
LAST CHANCE
As Black students on a
predominantly wliite campus, we all
need to address ourselves to the fact
that we are a minority; therefore, we
are at a disadvantage. According to the
democratic system under which this
institution operates, the majority
rules. Black people within this
University are facing the same grind
that our brothers on the block and in
the white collar positions have to cope
with. It is time that we as Carolina
students stop disillusioning ourselves
with the belief that Carolina in the
most liberal school in the state, and
that we are privileged to graduate from
here.
Our first step toward recognizing
the gravity of our situation is to first
look at the University objectively.
Carolina is a white school that has
achieved a national prominence
through its academic and athletic
excellence. This school is supported
and censored by the state tax-payers;
the same people who support East
Carolina, State, North Carolina
Central, and A&T. Our misconception
about the liberalism on this campus
arises from the fact that we look at
this school as a self-supporting
institution, which is free of any
restrictions. This school is as racist as
the citizens of this state. It is no more
than a tool that the state uses to
indoctrinate you into the
socio-political system to further the
oppression of the poore classes of
people.
Black people have long been
shackled by the “White is Right”
belief. In order to disprove the belief
that we are inferior, we must get to
know ourselves. The whites have kept
us separate long enough by forcing us
to imitate them. They have so
ingrained the idea of inergration in our
minds that we fail to see ourselves as
Brothers. Instead, we are a group of
blinded fools groping amidst an
overwhelming ray of white faces. The
more and more we wander, the lesser
our chances of coming together. The
time has come for us to stop our
endless groping and become a unified
body.
If we, as Black people on this
campus, do not join together, we will
be doing the white man’s job for him.
If we cannot find ourselves here, there
is no hope for us later.
-HUGO
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Bruce Sampson, editor of Black Ink
and staf^ wish to thank Jae Joyner and
his competent staff of the Campus
Echo (NCCU) for helping to send this
copy to press.
Wl\o are you, listening to me, who are
you listening to yoursclH Are you
white or Black, or does that have
anything to do with it? Can you pop
your fingers to no music, except those
wild monkies go on in your head, can
you jerk, to no melody, except finger
poppers get it together when you turn
from starchecking to checking
yourself. How do you sound, your
words, are they yours? The ghost you
see in the mirror, is it really you, can
you swear you are not an imitation
greyboy, can you look right next to
you in that chair, and swear, that the
sister you have your hand on is not
really so full of Elizabeth Taylor,
Richard Burton is coming out of her
ears. You may even have to be Richard
with a white shirt and face, and four
million negroes think you cute, you
may have to be Elizabeth Taylor, old
lady, if you want to sit up in your
crazy spot dreaming about dresses, and
the sway of certain porters’ hips.
Check yourself, learn who it is
speaking, when you make some
ultrasophisticated point, check
yourself, when you find yourself
gesturing like Steve McQueen, check it
out, ask in your black heart who it is
you are, and is that image Black or
whiteyou might be surprised right out
the window, whistling dixie on the
way in.
“MESSAGE OF UNITY”
As a group of people from a
diversified background, we can not
always agree on the correct program or
the right procedure for a program, but
as a Black People we can always agree
on and work from the same principles.
As Black People our first and main
concern is building unity, self love,
and self-sufficiency. As Black College
Students and as a Black Organization,
we ascribe to these same goals and use
our man-power and resources for
activities, projects, and functions
which relate dirt .tiy to our struggle ,
for survival as a race of strong and
proud people.
All of us at once won’t be thrown
on the same level of awareness-this is
a reality we face. But all of us are
given a chance by the Black Student
Movement to work with other
Brothers and Sisters and with ourselves
so that we will all eventually
understand the Black Struggle enough
to become active participants. Concern
and then involvement are the first
steps toward positive Blackness. Blacks
of all backgrounds and of varied
orientations are continually in and out
of the BSM Office every day. We
WANT ALL Black Students to come
around and rap with the Brothers and
Sisters.
by LeRoi Jones
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CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE
CHAIRMAN’S RESPONSE TO
RESTRICTION ON ENTRY NOTICE
By Ron Wesson
Chairman, BSM
This statement is to clarify our
position on the ‘ Notice on the
Restriction on Entry.” We understand
that the University is attempting to
keep some “trouble- makers” off it’s
campus, but at the same time, we
realize that this policy has been
enforced in an extreme manner. I am
sure of the fact that blacks and only
blacks would be harasses by it’s
enforcement.
No longer will black stiidents allow
this very random humilation to
continue. We are saying to the
administration that it will have to
solve the problem at the expense of
“using’' black students, or humilating
, us to the extent that has already
occurred.
As Chairman of the Black Student
Movement, I was informed that in
James, Morrison, etc., did not have the
authority to randomly stop people not
causing a disturbance and ask for
identification. Several incidents have
occurred where guards (without the
permission or authority of residence
advisors, housemaster, or
housemother) have randomly stopped
black students and foiled students
around the dorms. Therfore we feel
that the guards have violated the so
called “good faith” of this policy, and
we fell absolutely no responsilbility to
show our ID’s In fact we are advising
students to not show their ID’s if the
guards cannot prove that they have
been asked by the RA’s, the
housemaster, or the housemotherto
investigate disruptive situations.
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