COMPASS...APRIL - MAY, 1972...PAGE 3
NEWS FROM BLACK
SCHOOLS
MAY 2 7 SOLIDARITY OBSERVANCES
A^MCAN LIBERA TION DA Y SET
Com
ing together as undoubtedly the
largest coalition ol Africans
born in America ever to publl-
cy declare their position on the
question of African liberation,
the African Liberation Day Co
ordinating Committee (ALDCC)
has announced plans for a mas
sive march of Black people on
Washington, D. C. May 27.
Calling out to “people of Af
rican descent around the world,
including the 30 million in the
United States, 10 million In the
Caribbean, 50-60 million in
South and Central America,
one million in Canada, one mil
lion in Pacifica and 400 million
on the continent,” a plea for
world-wide African unity was
made.
“Only as we begin to view
ourselves as.one people—and
begin to think and plan and
struggle and fight within that
framework—will webeassur-
A rat done bit my sis
ter Nell, with whitey on
the moon; her face and
arms began to swell, and
whitey’s on the moon. I
can’t pay my doctor bills,
but whitety’son the moon.
Ten years from now 1*11
be paying still. While
whitey*s on the moon, you
know, the man just upped
my rent last night cause
whitey*s on the moon, no
hot water, no toilets, no
lights, but whitey*s on the
moon. I wonder why he*s
upping me. Cause Whit
ey s on the moon? I was
already paying fifty a
week and now whitey*s on
ed of victory over our world
wide oppressors, the Eu-
rppeaiis,” Sadaukai of Malcolm
X Liberation University in
Greensboro, N. C.
Sadaukai was accompanied at
the press conference by other
representatives of national, lo
cal and international organi
zations, all of whom had en
dorsed and agreed to work with
the effort.
Tnere were well known
national organizations and
figures from militants to civil
rights activists, men and wo
men, congressmen and scho
lars, groups both local and na
tional.
Among them were Nelson
Johnson of the Student Or
ganization for Black Unity, I-
mamu Amiri Baraka, Congress
of African People; Huey P.
Newton of the Black Panther
Party and Sis. Gina Thornton
01 the Universal Negro Im
provement Association. En-
the moon. Taxes taking
my whole damn check,
junky*s making me a ner
vous wreck, ttie price of
food is going up and if all
that ain’t enough a rat
done bit my sister Nell,
with whitey on the moon.
With all that money I
made last year, how come
I ain’t got no money here?
Oh, whitey’s on the moon.
You know I’ve just about
had my fill of whitey on
the moon. I guess I’ll
send these bills Air Mail
Special Delivery — To
Whitey on the moon.
Gil Scott-Heron
dorsement has also come from
imprisoned Student National
Coordinating Committee chair
man H. Rap Brown and recent
ly released Sis. Angela Davis,
along with Sis. Penny Jackson,
whose Bro. George was one of
the iSoledad Brothers.
Among the elected officials
Involved are Congressmen
Charles Digg^, Louis Stokes,
and John Conyers, along with
District of Columbia dele
gate Walter Fauntory and Ga.
state legislator Julian Bond.
From his residence in CcMia-
kry, Guinea, Stokely Carmich
ael has sent word of his ap
proval of the move, as has also
Sis. Betty Shabazz, widow of
Bro. Malcolm X. Vincent Hard
ing of the Institute of the Black
World, Black Scholar publisher
Nathan Hare, Cornell Universi
ty’s James Turner and poet-
lecturer Don L. Lee are also
among the supporters.
There are many other persons
representing grassroots level
local organizations such as
Gene Locke of Africans in A-
merica for Black Liberation
in Houston, Tex.; Doug Moore
of the D. C. Black United Front,
Ron. Daniels of the Mid-West
Regional Coalition, Ruwa Chiri
of United . Africans for One
Motherland, International,
Kwadlo Oli Akpan of the Pan-
African Congress, USA and Joe
Waller of the Junta of Militant
Organizations whose presence
assures mass Black support
and participation. ■
Full plans for the march have
not yet been announced, but it
Is knovm that simultaneous de
monstrations are scheduled to
take place in Montreal, Cana
da, Washington, D. C., San
Francisco, Cal. and various
sites in the Caribbean Islands.
May 25, the traditional an
niversary of the founding of
the Organization of African U-
nlty (OAU), has always been re
spected as African Solidarity
Day. The March 27 day was
chosen because it falls on a
Saturday and the feeling is that
thus more Blacks will be able
to join up with the demonstra
tion in Washington.
Central plans for the African
Lil)eration Day are being co
ordinated out of an office in
the local Black community by
five full-time staff members.
At least 10,000 Black people
are expected to participate.
“African people everywhere,
EXPLO ’72
EXPLO ’72, a Campus
Crusade for Christ In
ternational project, will
take place in Dallas June
12-17, 1972 and will in
volve attendance figures
that would terrify a Rose
Bowl promoter. The con
ference, called official
ly “The International
Student Congress on E-
vangelism’* will launch a
strategy to train 500,000
people during 1972 for a
spiritual explosion a-
cross America and a-
round the world,” ac
cording to Campus Cru
sade President Bright.
particularly those engaged on
the continent in armed strug
gle for their liberation and in
dependence, will take heart
from this show of solidarity by
our brothers in the Am ericas,”
said Carmichael in a telegram
from Guinea. “This is trtily
3 first step towards showing
undying love for our people—
wherever they may be.’*
Newton, who was unable to at -
tend the press conference, said
‘‘We are in full support of the
movement for freedom of all
poor and expressed people. All
power to the people.” He was
represented at the press con
ference by Sis. Ericka Hug
gins.
“African Liberation Day,”
said H. Rap Brown from his
Rikers island jaH cell, “re
present the awakening of Blacks
in America to the fact that our
struggle here is definitely re
lated to that of our people
on the continent. The same
oppressive forces that are
seeking to commit genocide a-
gainst us in the United States
through murder, assassination.
imprisonment, population con
trol, “behavior modlflcatloft,”
schemes. Implicit government,
toleration and endorsement of
hunger disease, poverty, un
employment and drug racketer-
ing—are the same ones car
rying out murderous, imper
ialist alms in Africa. African
liberation day says totheworld
that we recognize this fact and
therefore support our people’s
struggle for independence,
wherever we are.”
We here today,” said Sad
aukai cm behalf of a new breed
of concerned Africans, “pledge
this in the memory of Martki
Delaney, Alexander Crummell,
Chaka Zulu, Nat Turner, So
journer Truth, Sundlata, Mar
tin Luther King, Jr., Harriet
Tubman, Dingana, Denmark
Vesey, Marcus Garvey, Mata-
bele and Malcolm X: That in
solidarity with the African Lib
eration Army Fighters, we will
work and struggle, learn and
teach, preach and fight—until
Mother Africa once again be
longs to the Africans—-at home
and abroad.”
From Howard U’s Hilltop
Conlusion ot a pusher:
! can see
myself
a
million
nie's
All pointing fingers
at
each
other
I can
smell
the
sickening
smell
of
myself
burning my brother
I
can
feel
my body grow
weak
and
my
mind
Limp in pain
the needle
of
life & death
pour
numbness up my vein.
Lee Harrington
‘71’
The gap between us
Is not my creation
I sat before you
But when you came
All the perfume I had on
Plus the smile 1 flashed
And the convienience of my humanity
Could not attract you
But you came.
You trotted down the hallway
Heavy boots squeezing wet
With the white snow of yesterday
Looked at me from a distance
And saw a fly perched on a dog’s nose
That for a reason
you stumbled past me
To a distance and found a chair
And you know why
It is because I am an African.
EMAHIKER ABLORH-ODJIDJA.
“From Saint Aug’s Pen-”
Black Woman’s Role In
The Revolution
This pamphlet was written
in hope that Black women all o-
ver the world might communi
cate and unite so that we can
better understand our role as
women in the black revolution.
Black women must understand
that what the brothers are do
ing is serious business, so ser
ious that they might lose their
lives. And as women, we had
better prepare ourselves and get
down to business; go out in our
neighborhoods and help Black
children learn to be ready to
take over. We must help oth
er sisters.
As Brother Malcolm X said,
we all have one thing in common
that we can come together on,
“we are all Black and being op
pressed by the same oppres
sor,”
We must rid ourselves of all
the white man’s values. Our ap
pearance is very important. We
must learn black culture.
We must learn who the Black
man is and respect him.
INTRODUCTION
Little Black girls of 12, 13,
14 years old walking around talk
ing about they hate men, being
highly disobedient and giving no
respect. But do they really hate
men? Or is it their mothers,
sisters, aunts and whatever?
Rather than being taught to hate
men, there should be instilled
in them a pride of womanhood.
For how can we possibly ex
pect a Black male to be a Black
man when we ourselves are not
Black women? If you want to be
a wife without being a woman -
such as you see on all the
white soap operas you watch ev
ery day, faithfully, without
tending to your necessary
chores - then stop reading now.
Because you’re probably the
type who wants your husband,
your man, to work for the white
man all day, come home to a
messed up house, an uncooked
meal, and have you blame It on
the children and him. As though
that’t not bad enough, you also
must manage all the money. Yet
you want a man.
If we want our men to re
main such, as Black women,
must recall what our forepar
ents did - before we became
completely whitewashed.
The duties of a wile go far
beyond sitting on ones back
side telling her men what he
should or should not do; what
she will or will not do.
Black women must be natur
ally beautiful. We must love
our men with all we have. Only
through us can they have
strength. It is not the duty
of a woman to go to business
as a man. This is the trouble
from the git-go. Any white man
will give us a job making more
money than our husbands.' This
is dcHie for no reason other than
to cause our men to feel in
ferior to us.
Our duty is to be a wife/
mother. T’o raise our daughters
to be proud, beautiful womOT;
our sons to be men, kings and
kings of warriors. Our homes
.should be made tofeel like men,
after being downed for so long.
His dinner should be crepar-
'6d, his tensions, relieved, and
our understanding at its peak.
Company composed of all men
should be just that. We have
absolutely no business in men's
discussions. Your only entrance
should be to serve refresh
ments. Then what do we do un
til this is over? There's al
ways something to keep us busy.
Sewing, ironing, creating our
own pieces of objects, planning
menus - for healthy diets make
a healthy mind and teaching our
children.
Whitey On The Moon