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T I 9ageTwo Jf THE PLANET 7 THE PLANET STAFF A LOOK^^^OUR / I RESIDENT \ Editor I - Kenneth Whitehurst j rn Editor i - .1. Ronald Fisher / On No^'ember 5, 1968, our na- Business Manager - ' Jacqueline Knight Aion was faced with the task of Business manager h electing another president. As ex- Circulation Manager/. ‘'O™ Bewis Richard M. Nixon won. Secretary /- Gwendolyn Stanley Richard Nixon, former Vice- Assistant b1 Photographer o. o confident all during his campaign Sports Editor Julius Parham j^g would be our next Presi- niih Editors - Ernestine Smith dent. He ran very strong in the i^iuu iiruiLUis Marvis Dove southern states and in the west, - where he was born. Class Editors Ethelyn Renee Adams Dick Nixon (1913-). Served Society Editors Ann Lancaster, Seth Thomas, eight years as Vice-President un- ^ Christine Smith der Dwight Eisenhower (1953-61). p. , Moore Nixon ran against John Exchange Editors e^neryi i o Fitzgerald Kennedy for the presi- Shirley Jackson dency. He was defeated. In 1962, News Editor Carol Bonner Dick was a candidf’te for govern- i\ews «?mi*th Harold Woods 0*’- Again he was defeated. Rich- was born to Quaker Harold Hilliard, Milton Kornegay, Janet Parnam, Virginia pq^^.g^ts in Lorbe Linda. California. Hatch Gerry Fisher, Fannie Daniels. Angela Harper, Shelia He graduated from WTnttier Col- Jones’ Eva Fields, Sylvester Platt. 'ege and Duke Law School. Advisors A- Bryant and Mrs. C. Wallace “The Planet” is published four times during the school year by the stu- WHAT THE ELECTION OF dent body as a median for student expression and to publicize the ac- MR. NIXON MEANS tivities of the school. TO THE NEGRO — I think the election of President ens’rrkDiAl the industry and the nation’s fi- Richard Nixon will not be as dan. EUilUKiAt. nancial resources, so the black gerous to minorities as it seems. I riTTTT ooK ON CULTURE man had to depend on him finan- say this because Mr. Nixon still HOW Sanv blocks are truly fa- daily to survive. .has mmaj^mocratp to work with iiSc-—cui^^? E. Two haiiQred and fifty years than Kenuulicans. 'rhere isn’t too H -Wler "a British'anthropologist, had erased the traces of the great much Mr. Nixon can do without in 1871 ’wrote of it in this man- culture which the African had the consent of Congress. However, npr “Culture . . is that complex once built up. Therefore the black I think that ^ny person elected to whole which includes knowledge, man had to accept the culture the office of President of the Unit- b'^'lief art morals customs, and which a white-ori^nted world had ed States, who does not receive an any other ’ capabilities and habits impressed upon him in slavery overwhelming majority of votes acquired by man as a member of for a hundred years hence, the from the people, cannot become society ” In general, he has said majority of the black people were too successful as a president. I that culture is the total of human satisfied with blue-collar jobs. A “ont believe that minorities will achievements. fow Negroes sought to improve ^ot any great benefits from Mr. Prom the 700’s A.D. to th? their position in life. After World Nixon’s being president, but I real- lOOO’s A.D. rn African empire call- War II, a hand full of black Amer- ly don’t think that we, as a race ed Ghana flourished along the up- leans won recos-nition in various badly, per waters of the Niger River. Be- fields. Gwendolyn Brooks became W® have a mind to our own. We tween 1200 and 1600 A.D. a Negro- the first black American to receive won’t stand by and let Mr. Nixon Arabic university flourished at the Nobel peace prize. Marion An- tear down,all we’ve worked for. He Timbuktu in West Africa. Both of derson was the first black Ameri- may be president of the United these serve as examples of a gi’eat can to sing the leading role in the States but he can’t control our culture attained by the black peo- Metropolitan Opera in New York, minds and our thoughts. pie But the efforts of a few blacks —— However in the 1400’s the Euro- cannot return to the black people a cun AME;DirAki peon traders arrived in Africa the pride, the glory, and ^he bringing with them a new and tige that was once theirs. The „ completely different culture. In black people must mass together ^ this process of acculturation (im- in an effort to rebuild culture that Most Negro youths prefer to be pact of one culture on another) will in their own eyes exemnlify called, “Afro-American ” They the simple, but sophisticated cul- the achievements of a proud race, feel the mme “Negro” given to ture of the black, almost died out Abraham Lincoln once said in them during slavery is meenino-- under the more complex culture of his Gettysburg address, “It is for less. If, however, they aren’t call- the Europeans. In addition, as us ... to be dedicated to the un- ed Afro-American, they rather be blacks were brought to America, finished work which they . . . have called “Black” or “Soul brothers they were forced to give up the thus so far so nobly advanced.” and sisters,” because these n-^mes remnants of their past great cul- The great Negro leaders who really point them out as being ture and thereby lose their iden- fought th^ battle of vaci'^l s'-rife someone. Afro-Americans describe tity with their ancestiy. and injustice have left a legacy, a themselves as Black yes “klark After about 250 years in Slav- tradition of racial pride which and Proud and Black and B'^auti- cry, the blacks were freed. But in must be developed by the black " what sense was he free? He had race. achieved his political freedom, but We are dependent on a slave race. We must bring pe«ce and economically and culturally, he race. We must develop our own re- unity among our people, and work was still dependent upon a race sources. We must abandon the to build a prosperous race. A race which had enslaved him for 250 way of those who would keep us that is free economically, polilic- 'vs. The white man controlled a culturally and economically slave ally, and culturally. 'v/ \ / January ,1969 HONOR ROLL FRESHMAN “A” “B” Johnny Banks, Ethelyn Adams, Constance Brooks, Barbara For bes, Jasper Guion, Genero Hukins, Brenda Foye, Glenda Jenkins, Sheila Jones, Milton Kornegay, Barron Scott, Gregory Williams. SOPHOMORE Patricia Bryant, Fannie’^Dgniels, Alfred Harkley, jOga^lyn ^ckson, Mary Rodgers; | K ' l I K V “A” / \ ' ^ JUNIOR Lerla 'Vylliari^s “B” ' *1 Kenneth White^i^rst, '^Geii’y Fisher, Carolyn Perry, Barbara Greene. SENIOR “A” Lillie Lawrence “B” Jacquelin Daniels, Henry Harp er, Rebecca Hargett, John Martin, Delores Jones, Cheryl Moore. WHY EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT TO US Education is learning and learn ing is life. Why did I make such a statement? Well, you know for yourself that, you learn something new almost everyday. Education is the key to success. It is your passport to a better job. Education is something that should be cherished, not taken for a play thing. As you know, many young peo ple drop out of school for causes that could be avoided. But, as you misrht agi’ee, most of our fellow classmates drop out of school only to follow in the footsteps of the uneducated people. To me, education is all we need to get by, education is only a nine lettered word but it means a lot. Bo stay in school and work to the best of your ability. Have con fidence in yourself. Don’t come to school with just passing on your mind, come to school with determ ination to learn. ful. For Afro-Americans to be a re spectful race, we must know some thing about African culture. We can’t only I'^ok like them with our “Afros” and make up we must al so know why we are dressing as we are. If we must wear the af o hair style, then it should be shan- ed neatly. If we must wear D’® African colors, then they should be harmonizingly blend d. This is what will make “Black” beautiful, and have Afro American a respec ted race.
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