Left Eric Williams and Donald Carter tried to get their points
across at the event.
Sioux Shar
es Experience
By TRAVIS MITCHELL
Chronicle Staff Writer
The American agenda has been
filled with festivals and celebrations
toasting the arrival of Columbus in
1492 during the past few weeks.
However, along with this gen
eral mainstream theme that gives
credit to a 'great pioneer and noble
sailor' has been growing a counter )
attack by peoples of Native Ameri
can and African ancestry who view
Columbus's arrival as the beginning
of slavery and exploitation in Amer
ica.
This past weekend the Citizens
United for Justice held the "Festival
of Truth: A Celebration of the Sur
vival of Columbus' Arrival." On
Saturday, about 25 people marched
up Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in
an effort to raise the consciousness
of citizens about Columbus.
"I think the rally went very
well," said the Rev. John Mendez,
pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church
and CUJ spokesman. "We accom
plished our goal of raising the
awareness of some people in Win
ston who don't know the true mean
ing of Columbus' arrival." He said
the same greed and individualism
Ithat led Columbus to America con
tinues to oppress Africans -in Amer
ica.
As part of the weekend events,
Joseph Iron Eye Dudley, a Sioux
Methodist minister from Greens
boro, spoke at Emmanuel on Sun
day evening's ecumenical service.
This week Mr. Dudley spoke briefly
with the Chronicle.
"For Europeans land was an
economic issue," he said, "but for
Native Americans it was a religious
issue. Some 500 years later there
has been no change. When the Euro
peans arrived they brought with
them diseases and brutality. Small
pox wiped out a lot of communities.
In some places 50 percent of people
died within a week. My generation
is the first not to grow up with the
small pox epidemic." Dudley was
born in the 1940s.
In fact, records indicate that
more than 8 million Taino Indians
were alive as Columbus descended
on the "New World," but by 1560
they were totally extinct.
"I think its (the counter demon
stration) a good step, but its going to
be difficult for people and institu
tions to say that 'we were wrong for
the last 500 years," said Dudley.
"The Columbus counter experience
is only a beginning."
Black Politicians "Get out the Vote" From Page A1
largely to the nvii rights movement
that desegregated the south and pro
tected African- Americans' right to
vote.
Close to 200 students greeted
the three bus caravan which carried
eleven members of the Congres
sional Black Caucus, along with
12th Congressional District Nomi
nee Mel Watt and Democratic Nom
inee for State Auditor Ralph Camp
bell. Jr.
"We are out here trying to get
people to vote," Watt told an enthu
siastic crowd. "It is about changing
our priorities so that we spend three
times the amount of money on our
colleges that we spend on the B-2
bomber." But, perhaps the most
powerful comments came from
Congressman Kewsi Mfume from
Baltimore, whe is attempting to
replace New York Congressman Ed
Towns as Black Caucus Chairman.
"We are asking your help in
sending a telegram to Washington,
which reads:
'Dear Mr. Bush, do not pass go,
do not collect $200 because your
services are no longer needed, he
blasted.
Other Black Caucus members
present included. Donald Payne.
N.J.; Harold Ford. Tenn; Charles
Rangel, N.Y.; Cardiss Collins. Chi;
Charley Hayes. Chi.: Mike Espy.
Miss.; Bill Jefferson. L. A.; Craig
Washington. TX; and Mervvn Dum
mally, CA. However, students
showed overwhelming support for
Watt, as they frequently chanted his
campaign slogan, "Let's give 'em
Mel, Let's give 'em Mel." While
some students seemed to energized
by the event, others were a little less
enthusiastic.
"Of course this is an election
year and I don't think they would be
out here if it weren't," cautioned 21
I
year-oid Kenneth Ward, a political
science major, "but It is beautiful to
know that these leaders think that it
is important that students get
involved in the political process."
Spectators were also enter
tained with performances by new
recording artists, The Bostown Boys
and Lady Soul.
The five-day tour began at the
N.C. Democratic Headquarters in
Raleigh and stopped at Winston
Salem State University, briefly,
before traveling to Charlotte where
the group was joined by Democratic
Presidential Nominee Bill Clinton.
The tour will continue with other
southern stops
including, Augusta, Ga., Birm
ingham, Ala., Itta Benna, Miss.,
Jackson, Miss., Baton Rouge, La.,
and New Orleans, La. They also
attended the vice-presidential debate
in Atlanta on Tuesday.
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