K O. Hi on
Many of you have already
positioned yourselv to be that
cuuing edge. A key now will be
to trengthen tho e professional,
p rsonal and cultural contacts.
Hilton: Higher Education is
available ea h step of th way.
To the faculty, staff, trustees
and all members of on-campus
.operations (of all ethnicities) we
ay, you. represent the leader­
ship and intellectual core coali­
tion that th students will seek
· out on a regular basis.
The academy of higher edu­
cation is only as strong as we
� make it.
To the parents, alumni, com­
munity and business leaders we
say, the students who stepped
forwardhistoricallywerenotop­
erating in a vacuum.
They bavealways beenmem­
hers of a much larger commu­
nity,acommunityofpeople bo
had and have a ealth of practi­
cal and intellectual knowledge.
Today Hilton: Higher Edu­
cation, along with other Afri­
can-centered educators is pre­
pared to strengthen and in some
�es rebuild some bridges that
will enhance students' abilities
to become productive techni­
cians now and in the immediate
future.
We sincerely hope that you
and the readers of this column
understand that ·these words to
you and others are notjustsome
sort of intellectual exercise. ·We
are the real thing.
You represent an "Outer Re­
ality of Education" that has to be
called upon now in order for
colleges and universities to be
what they can be.
Again, to the students we
say, being an African in 1991
means feeling proud about one's
heritage.
In addition to attire and garb,
we stress that it should include
principles, careers, action and
sound economics.
It also includes making sure
that you, philosopbically and
spiritually, believe in the impor­
tance of keeping doors open for
those behind you.
It would be nice, but you
don't have to major $i!j' n . can
Studies, World Lit will d . You
don't have to major' wahili,
Accounting will do just fine.
We believe that academic
studies, community involvement
and cooperative research will
begin to forge an emerging suc­
cess model for students and those
others entering the network.
The near bottom line m -
sage of this column is: Student
scnolars, stay strong, stay the
course and remain African cen­
tered.
Hilton: Higher Education is
designed to dialogue with col­
lege and world readers. Educa­
tion is ongoing and certainly not
limitedtoclassroomstudy. Let's
talk: (714) 899-0650.
Whil th eup hori grow and
th d c ption p d th t th
South African regime is riou
bout fundamental chang in
South Africa, and all 0 of
cu bing m de to d 1
with South Africa by p opl
who claim to b committ d to
the dismantling of aparth id
and destruction of colonialism;
facts rev al that the e changes
are only superficial and cannot
dismantle p rtheid. In fact, the
situation is b coming dang r­
ous not only for the coloniz d
African in South Africa, but for
the Frontline States and later
the rest of Africa<19'7>just s it
happened as a result of the
Berlin General Act of 26th
February 1885. The regime is
being rehabilitated, groomed by
its traditional backers to be the
"regional power" and "ec -
nomic power house" for the rest
of Africa.
On the 11th November 1991,
South Africa signed a broad
agreement for economic and
scientific ties with Isreal. Both
F.W. de Klerk and his foreign .
minister were visiting Isreal.
Now it is an open secret that
Isreal has been helping South
Africa develop nuclear capabil­
ity.
TODAY THE OPPRESSED are
being asked not to call or use
terminology such as "Pretoria
regime," "racist, colonial
regime," etc. because there is
//I change" in South Africa. The
oppressed and dispossessed
people of Azania are being
asked to speak of "President"
F.W. de Klerk. The colonized
Africans in Azania, some
declare, must no longer be
. discussed under colonialism
and self-determination because
this is "irrelevant" to the Sou th
African situation. This thinking
and approach to our problem of
colonialism and apartheid can
only be described as the most
scandalous in this last decade of
the 20th Century. However, the
national liberation movements
and political organizations in
Azania continue to call the so-
. called /I government" or" au­
thorities" the regime, because
the South' African regime is still
racist, colonialist and represent­
ing the minority and the indig­
enous African majority popula- .
tion is still under alien rule and
voteless.
Actions and pronouncements
made by F.W. de Klerk, his
foreign minister and other
officials of the regime, clearly
indicate that the regime is
against majority rule<19'7>one
person, one vote<197> in South
Africa, and is for the perpetu - ,
tion of minority racist colonial
rule in disguise. The regime has
refused to comply with the UN
Declaration of 14 December
.1989. According to the Human
Rights Commis . n based in
South Africa, about political
trials and prisoners: as of .
September 1991, there were 476
political trials, 2,659 accused.
There were 689 political trials in
progress in the Orange Free­
state, 122 in Natal, 96 in North­
ern Cape, 57 in Western Cape
. and 130 in the Bantustans so­
called homeland . The total
number of "security" prisoners
was 250, and that of the "un-
re til prisoners 1200. This makes
a total of 1450 political prison­
ers. In the Sou th African death
row there are 333.
In 1990, his past year, 36
people died from tuberculosis
VIEWS OPINIONS
In South Africa, white civilians
possess 2.5 million guns. Any
white person over the age of 18
can possess up to 28 guns
bought over the counter. In
addition to this, twenty tons of
guns have been imported by
South Africa from the USA,
according to Africa Fund, based
in New York. Last year, 10,000
Africans were killed. This year
Africans are dying at a rate of
15 a day.
The genocidal scale on which
the Africans have been dying
has prompted PAC President
Clarence Makwetu to ask, II For
how long are the oppressed and
dispossessed people of Azania
going to be the only ones
visiting the graveyards with
monotonous regularity? I leave
that question for you to an­
swer."
The Peace Accord was signed
by three parties on September
1� 1991, but by the end of that
month alone more that 200
Africans had been killed.
On the occasion of the signing
of the Peace Accord, Makwetu
warned against activities of
faceless gunmen who are
massacring Africans at will. The
PAC has been vindicated by the
subsequent killings that have
taken place since the signing of
the Peace Accord.
The PAC has demanded the
investigation of the enocidal
violence perpetrated on the
Africans to be conducted by an
international commission and
TIlE REGIME HAS REFUSE t
grant g n ral amn ty to
g nuin political exil . Th
UNHCR has fail d to extract
general has refused to grant
g neral amnesty to g nuine
political exiles. Cons quently,
xiles cannot be as ured that if
th Y returned, they cannot be
pro ecut d. M ny PAC leaders
ha not b en allow d to return
wn untry un n i-
r gim
AFRICA S ARE b ing
rna cr d and dying like
fli , nd funeral and mourn­
ing for th m r daily routin ,
50� of their babi di before
the ag of six, 36 people die of
tuberculou ev ry day, there is
dire poverty and nearly 2
million childr n cannot find
chool. While all this occurs, the
world i bing asked to focus on
luxuri u things.
m intain d th t
port boyc tt mu t b
maintain d. Th who w tto
play their t nni and rugby and
tak part in th Olympic G m s
mu t als b in hurry to e
that n wen titu tion gre d
to by th indigenou African
majority' in place. Ther can
be no normal sports in an
abnormal society. And Africans
cannot liv by future promise,
but by coner te realities of their
ituati n. Th �AC h argu d
that wh n a South African
contingent participates in sports.
internationally, it will sing the
apartheid colonialist anthem. It
will hoist the apartheid flag.
That is a dear sign that apart­
heid i alive and kicking in
South Africa.
In fact, the participants will
almo t without exception be
whites. Sam Ramsamy, the head
of the South African Olympic
Committee knows very well
that the lifting of the sports
boycott does not benefit Afri­
cans, bu t the minority whites.
The lifting of sanctions and
other measures in general is
considered by the majority of
Africans as betrayal and as a
hinderance to the dismantling
of apartheid and destruction of
coloniali m.
S
READERS WRITE
What about
Black females?
... and' Black
dollars
Dear Editor,
I was reading an article in the
Michigan Citizen dated Novem­
ber 10-16, which was entitled,
'Rescu efforts for Black male
lead to reparations demand.' While
reading this article th th ught
occurred to me that there eerns \0
be little or no importance placed
on the pi ight of the African-Ameri­
can' female. Not only in thi ar­
ticle, but in 0 her articles as well
that I have come aero in other
papers. If we were to take a mo­
ment and think about it and ask the
que tion, "Where does the Afri­
can-American female come
from?" We might just discover an
"ingeneous reality.'
No doubt we should now be
able to see that the African-Ameri­
can male and female are both in­
tertwined and interlo ked in a way
that usboulc be obvious that what­
ever happens to on will eventu­
ally happen to the other. Meaning
that if the African-Amen can male
is on tbe road to extinction, thenso
is the African-American female.
.
LAY (as a fictious ex-
ample) that at thi very moment
that there are no African-Amen­
.can males in ex is tence in thi oci­
ety. This would mean that the Af­
rican-American female would b
INCE W HAVE been
forced to accept these false identi­
ties and marks, then we must use
them to fight back. We must re-
member that we have been in this
part 0 the world too long to be­
come 'extinct, that we have over­
comealloftheob taclesandabuses
that any people could in a modern,
o-called civilized society ,and can
withstand even more if it comes to
that.
We m t unde tand that we
have had too much ef ect in the'
good and po itive thing of thi
land to be abandoned, and that
LDP OPLEneedh lp;young many of our people pos ess the
people tall people.succes ful p ople money and power to uplift the rest
and failures - all of us new help. of us i they would only let 100 e
We cannot afford to upport an illu- that m ney and p wer.
ion and ignore any part of our orn-, Tbe only reparations we need
munity. To ay that one sect r i in i for certain p opLe to get out of
more dire n 'cd than another br eds a
th way and let us do our thing. We
form of hate and animo ity, along donotn dtobecheatedoutofthe
with a fear that play into the hands hi toric priz of ri ing up totally
of tho e who are against freedom. throughour wnefforts by accept-
If any of our cholars were t do ing forced and fraudulent repara­
any incere r earch and make tho tio. We are going to win now.
findings known t the public, then Tber i no-n d to be cheated out
we would know that there i no uch of the pride that we made it our
thing a pure race in today' w rld, way; th hard way ... th 'raw dog
no matter how on may choo e to. get down wit it way'.
identify thernselv .
We are but nationaliti ,and that
is according to whi h flag and geo­
graphical location we ar willin t
fight and die for. Yet th re are tho e
who have cbo en to use racial ta tics
for their own purpo of power and
division. I am willing to accept that,
but am forced to draw the con lin
, forced to intermarry and breed into
otherraces. If he cho enottodo 0,
then that would even lead to berown
extinction as well. Even if the Afri­
can-American female chose to inter­
marry and breed into other races it
would still be only a matter of a few
generations before he' till extin t,
as well as her once proud count '1'"­
part.
.The point is that we cann tit
back and concentrate our efforts to­
tally on one pecific ector of our
population, but .must put an equal
effort throughout our entire commu­
nity for improvement. if we look
around our community we will
that all of our people need help.
that there only two races on this
planet: Us ... and Them! .
IN 1989 U people made
more money than th entire coun­
try of Canada ... W need to watch
wh re we p nd our money.
R. L. Turner
Highland Par