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TWO TH THE FUTURE OUTLOOK J. F. JOHNSON Editor & Publisher MISS EMMA P. JOHNSON News Reporter MISS GAIL WEEKES News Reporter & Bookkeeper L. A. WISE Staff Photographer Make all checks payable to and mail to: THE FUTURE OUTLOOK P. O. Box 20831 ? GREENSBORO, N. C. 27420 PHONE 273-1768 Second Claas Postage Paid at Greensboro, N. C. 10c Per Copy Published Weekly $6.00 Per Year (In Rpctrnrtiirinar Hiahor Frlnratinn It is almost tragic that the legislators of North Carolina have suddenly become obsessed with the restructuring of higher education in the state. As they see it, "the mess must be straightened out now." But there are some pertinent questions that should be answered before we, the black citizens of the state, can support this sudden move. Why is it that none of the legislators saw a need for ? restructuring during the more than 80 years that most of our predominantly black colleges and universities wallowed, shamefully equipped and ill financed ? Why is it that no white lawmaker or educator saw any duplication in the monumental task these black institutions had to perform, in spite of the many handicaps which were thrust upon these institutions from the very beginning? Tf in. mrvaf irnni/* -fVia-f ofoWn i_l ?1_ " v?A??v tnub i/iiv> otatc O J^*X CUUlllIIldUHy U121CK. institutions, as if almost ignoring their inadequacies, have been able to develop into the greatest source of black leadership in this state and in the nation. If you don't believe this is true just examine some of the records. The professional and managerial ranks in education, government, the military, sports, business and industry have been enriched with the names of graduates from predominantly black colleges and universities. You will easily recognize some of the names, like those of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Judge Elreta Alexander, Rep. Henry E. Frye, who will himself be called upon to vote on this bill that threatens these black institutions; the Rev. Archie Hargraves, president of Shaw University; A1 Attles, the capable coach of the Golden State Warriors; Margaret Tynes, one of the world's most famous opera singers; and Elvin Bethea. a star player for the Houston Oilers. These black students were not the exceptions to the rale. Many of them rose from the most humble circumstances to achieve their recognition. All of them were nurtured primarily by black teachers in this disgraceful environment we have previously described in this editorial. But the worth of black colleges cannot be fully measured in terms of the success stories of only its national achievers. It must also be weighed in and evaluated in terms of its average students. This is another plus for all black colleges. Would the great universities of this state and nation have enrolled some of the "late bloomers" from the tobacco and peanut lands ? We mean those products of fiveroom high schools, those whose SAT scores would have been foreign to any national standard, those whose language proficiencies and reading levels were found wanting. Well, the predominantly black colleges and universities undertook this monumental task and, in the process, gained world respect for this competency in preparing for fruitful careers those whom society had branded "disadvantaged.' In his remarks to the General Assembly last Tuesday, Governor Robert Scott said the restructuring plan - . rE FUTURE OUTLOI THIS WEEK'S GOD JUDGES NATIONS , WHAT IS OUR CONCERN? These are days of crisis. The world seems teetering on the brink of catastrophe. The forces of good appear to be in retreat, and some persons begin to fear that might does make right after aU. But these are days of opportunity as well as danger, and we take courage in the stirring assurance of James Russell Lowell: "Though the cause of evil prosper, Yet 'tis truth alone is strong; Though her portion be the scaffold, And upon the throne be wrong: Yet that scaffold sways the future, And, behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow Keeping watch above his own." These art times that call us to take great risks of faith, to trust God and move out with intrt thn />Anfli/rfo against all forms of evil and tyranny. Little courage is involved in supporting causes, that have already succeeded. On the other hand, to risk blood and bone in a battle for truth when we are not sure of victory means a great deal. Someone has said that all that is nectssary for evil to triumph in the world is for good men to do nothing. It is not enough just to be good; we must be good for something. It is not enough for us to espouse only the good that the majority accepts. Our first task is to witness for Christ. The Greek word usually translated "witness" is also the root from which we get the word martyr. Martyrs are seldom found among the majority. Human Droeress has often come through the efforts of a minority. Galileo was in the minority when he insisted that the world revolved around the sun. Columbus was in the minority when he declared that the world was round. Jesus was in the minority, and that is why they nailed him to the cross. What we need today is not pessimists and cynics who believe evil will prevail or cowards who are afraid to be right with a minority. We need men and women who believe that God's victory is sure. We need Christians who stand with Paul and declare: "Who shall separate us from the love) will not be intended "to phase been known as black insti Negro universities." We hope that the Govei prophetic in this instance, foi colleges, we lose something tl of thiB nation and its black < IK ft SUNDAY S(H( of Christ? Shall tribulation, or, distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, orl ; sword? . . . No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all crea- ] tion, will be able to separate us from the love of God in | Christ Jesus our Lord." (Ro- ] mans 8:35-39) SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURE The Scripture for this lesson is Habakkuk 1 and 2; Acts 17: 22-31. Selected verses are printed below. Habakkuk 1:5-13 5 Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in 1 your days that you would not believe if told. o r or xo, i am rousing tne unaide'ans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize habitations not their ] own. J 7 Dread and terrible are they; , their justice and dignity pro- , ceed from themselves. ( 8 Their horses are swifter than , leopards \ more fierce than the evening . wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. 1 Yea, their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to ' devour. I 9 They all come for violence; ' terror of them goes before 1 them. ' They gather captives like 1 sand. ' 10 At kings they scoff, and of rulers they make sport. They laugh at everv fortress for they heap up earth and take it. . 11 Then sweep by like the wind and go on. . guilty men, whose own might is their god! 12 Art thou not from everlast- ' in8, O Lord my God, my Holy . One , We shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them as a Judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast estabi out what have traditionally t tutions?our predominantly , nor proves to be somewhat * r if we lose any of the black c lat tugs at the heart strings * ntizens. tIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1971 )0L LESSON lished them for chastisement. 13 Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on wrong, why dost thou look on faithless men, and art silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he? fiabakkuk 2:6-8 6 Shall not all these take up heir taunt against him, in scoffing derision of him and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own? for how long? and loads himself with pledgeal" 1 Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be booty lor l them. 3 Because you have plundered many nations. all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein. Memory Selection. He made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries af their habitation, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. ?Acts 17:26-27 WHAT THE SCBJPTCRJE SATS TO US The first impression one gets Erom reading the Book of Habakkuk is that it is quite unified and uncomplicated. Chaper 1 asks why God permits violence and oppression to overcome the righteous. Chapter 2 presents the answer to that question. The book closes with i great psalm of faith in Chap er 3. A closer look at Habakkuk, lowever, raises questions. Scholirs differ greatly as to the date )f the book and its original conents. The only conclusion on which they really agree is that Chapter 3 was not originally a iart of the book. This conclusion is supported by the 'Ain Feshkha scroll of Habakkuk. liscovered near the Dead Sea n 1948, which dates from the 'irst century B.C. This scroll loes not contain Chapter S. Some scholars Tr??t?t?4n that chapters 1 and 2 were written >ver a period from about 008 3.C. to 097 B.C. Others date his section earlier and underrtand the foreign oppressor as jeing Assyria. Some scholars lave dated the book in the time >f Alexander the Croat and iner pre ted the references to the (Continued on Page 6)
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