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group nd
cia! p dudi ,
m tru ure th po er
relation between people of
color nd up r-to-middle in
come hi
Thi m an th8t e must
pu ue a" eolor-conscio "trat
egy to cr te the condition
w her color is one day irrele
vant to d tennining the posi
tions of power, educational
a , health care and to other
opportunities of daily life.
In the 1970 and 1980 , the
ideal of color blindn gave
way to hat could be tenned
"symbolic repr ent tion." lib
eral educators believed that the
recipe for cultural diversity
would be achieved by bringing
representati of a new pee>
trum of interests into the acad
emy-women, racial
minorities, physically disabled
people, lesbians and gay , as
well as others.
Programs ere established
THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY
fo rd. At om in titutio ,
minori y faculty oeeupi
v lvingdoorposi ion, u 11y t
th d ignat of i true- .
tor or is nt prot; or, n
to t nur or ppoint .
Tran c nding th old, r
strictive boundari of "di r- '
ity" m going beyond t
old langu g of "minority .
grou "within our colle and'
in ociety a hole. We m
ttle for nothing 1 than t
fundamental red finition of t
"mai t m", to be fully inclu
sive of the broad t range of .
cultural pe pecti , religious
and philosophical valu , lan
guages and oci I traditions
which retIed all of America.
Going beyond diver ity
means fostering a cultural dia- '
logue bet een the repre- .
entative of variou ethnic
group on campu 88 which .
1 cis to exchange, baring and .
cultural synthesis.
U niversiti must go out of .
. th ir way to create spaces for '
people of color and other op- .
pressed group toexp them-'
selve culturally, nd to '
dialogue with others.
As things now stand, too :
often we find students of vari
ous ethnic backgrounds relating ,
to each other at a polite ocial
distance, never really learning ,
about other groups' experi- '
ences. We only begin to appreci
ate our own culture, when we .
t:a�e, the �,i.W�, ,�o.� what is
• I valuable m som e e e cul-
t '.1 Il 11
Going beyond diversity in
higher education will require a
change in the power relations
between people of color, women,
and the traditional elites which '
dominate our universities. By ,
redefining the mi sion and core
content of our education, we can
begin to move from the margins ,
to the center. .
o hould
h r p nted beginning,
rather than the end, of p
of education reco truetion on
of ocial and cultural dif-
fere within tb cad my. In-
tead, omeho e h lost
our ay. And at many colle
and universiti , e are du-
ally movingba ard.
One on' that omen
and racial minoriti ere u u
ally hired and ub equently lo
cated in the bureaucr tic
margins of academic institu
tions, rather than within real
centers of power. There ere
few deliberate programs which
actually tried to identify schol
ars of color and/or femal fae
ulty with admini trative
abilities, to mentor and culti
vate them, and to advance them
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ter in Richard Wright' "Natiu
Son"?
OVEMBER 11, VET-
E D 1890 - D.
McC patent portable fire
cape. 1989 - ivil i
o w dedicated in
Montgomery, Ala. 1879
20,000 fric n- eric n
migrated to Ka
What percent of the vote did
John Conyers receiue when he
was re-elected in 19661
From what university did Dr.
George Carruthers receive his
PH.D 1
NOVEMBER 12, \941
Mad e Lillian Ev nti
founded th National gro Op
era Company. 1977 - rn t
"Dutch" Morial was elected
first Black mayor of New Or
leans, La. 1790 - The first U.S.
census listed African-Am ricans
as 19% of the population. 1778
- Over 700 Blacks took part in
the Battle of Monmouth.
NOVEMBER 8, 1966 - Ed
ard W. Brooke of Massachu
setts became first Black U.S.
enator since' Reconstruction.
1965 - The Freedmen' Bu
reau to aid fonner slaves was
established. 1966 - Basketball
player Bill Ru U became first
Black coach of professional
team. 1938 - Cry tal Bird
Faucet was elected state repre
sentative in Pennsylvania, be
coming the first Black woman to
serve in a state legislature.
. Lester's: World
In what month in 1971. was
Angela Daui acquitted of mur
der?
NOVEMBER 13, 1985
N.Y. Mets pitcher, Dwight
Gooden, 20, became the young
Who played the machines and est ever to win th Cy Young
electronics expert, Barney Col- Award. 1989 - ammy Davis
lier, on "Mission Impossible"? Jr. celebrated 60 years in show
III IJI -:-r" usin wi h . N�
NOVEMBER 9, 1 0 - Ii :-. II ge Fun ne
ational Negro B e gales. 1808 - Legs (but not ac-
League was organized. 1968 - tual) importation of slav -but
POOl' People's Campaign arrived not actual-into the U.S. ended.
in Washington in the Spring. January 1. 1950's - The first
1900 - Black Congressman African American ballet dancers
G.H. White introduced first to break into mainsteam oompa
anti-lynching bill. 1967 -Rich- nies were Arthur Mitchell and
ard G. Hatcher 'of Gary, Ind., Janet Collin . 1894 - A. C.
and Carl B. Stoke of Cleve- Richardson pat nt casket lower
land, Ohio became first elected ingdevice. 1913 -Daniel Hale
Black mayors of major U.S. cit- Williams becam charter mem
ies. 1731 - Mathematician and ber of the American College of
inventor Benjamin Ban- Surgeons.
neker, was born.
Dr. Manning Marabl.c i& Pro{t sor of :
. Hi toryandPoliticaISc�,andDiree- I
tor of th African-Americo.n Studies In- :
stuute, Columbia Uniuersity. "Along the :
Color Line" appear in in 0 T 250 pub- :
liauions and 75 radio stations throllgh.
out the U.S. and internatumally.
On what railroad line did
Gran�ille T. Woods work, prior
to marketing his first invention?
What cy Young Award win
ner played with the Harlem
Globetrotters ?
I shouldn't do hrs .. t ut I like you folks, so I'm gonna' let you have this baby for only S20.000.
ANSWERS
NOVEMBER 10, 1960-An
drew Hatcher was named as
sociate press secretary to
President John F. Kennedy.
1876 - Meharry Medical
College opened. 1852 - 'S0-
journer Truth delivered fa
mous "AIN'T I A WOMAN"?
speech.
7th - The University of Illi-
nois.
8th - Greg Morris.
9th - Bob Gib on.
lOth - Bi r Thorn
11th - 85 Per nt.
12th- une.
13th - Th anvil] and
Southern Railr d.
two
ca
,
,
•
am
Who was the primary charac-
By James E. Alsbrook .
nomic slavation of the former
18 . Th y had no 'Ie I play-
ing field' in the gam of life ..
On the contrary, millions of
rich, (I rtile aCT of I nd were
gi n to millio of whi e Euro
pe n immigrant who h d no
" we t equi y" wha oev r in
Am rica.
Co equ ntly, th poo t of
Europ , the down rodd n, the
failur ,th "tired, th u n
w sh d m s s" migrated to
America, go a f h tart on
virgin land with no caste or
cl domination nd in a ro
bu , xp nding on my
p opl , by white people and for .
white people. Although m t of .
the people on w lfar oday are .
white, million mor became .
uoc sful b caus of this gov
rnment give-away of millions
of doll rs worth ofland and sup
port to impoverished non-citi- .
z ns.
Thi nation's leaders 100
y ars ago thought it in th best .
inter t of the nation to inv t
government assets including
1 nd nd guid nce in a dis-
tr sed peopl who could be
come ass ts to th nation.
prof ionals.
R ney s cat gory w repre-
ented by thou nds of hard
working, well-m aning and
less- ucc sful p r. on who
wan nd deserv a . Ii of
th Am rican pie.
Black people in M rtin' en
lightened and advanta cat
gory - like Collin Pow 11 and
n. arol Mo 1 Braun-
have becom inc ingly uc-
cessful in breaking down barri
e .
6
co tin e
know? Who's th spiri ual peo
ple 'pon earth? The Black peo
ple! Dem a deal wit God. And
God naw Ie dem down.
And GOO say d m f unite.
Because when you unit, that is
the power of God. You know,
God love love, which is unity. So
when you unite, you t th
whole power of GOO. That's
what lllM want.
Words from th man, th
mind, from th late Rag Bob
N ta Marl y.
Marley: Way I ee, ya seen!
It looks simple but it's true.
Rasta for the people! RASTA-
F AR1! for the people, seen capi
talism and communism are fin
ished it's Rasta now! The
, ,
Blackmon way of life. That s
what we a ay now, dread. We
as y, give th Black mon fe him
way of life now. Mek him how
you how government rim and
how people care for people. Who
you fink have th lov? Who
sing the tune inna church?
Black people a sinE? dem, ya
T ON
imilar ituation. It
erseas and
r cruit thous nd of "your
ti r , your poor I your huddled
m ss yarning to br athe
fre , th wretched refuse of
your t ming shor ."
Already within our borde
are the Rodney Kings and mil
lions of hi economic and eduea- '
tional peers who are practically
"homel . and tempest- "
Th y are in the innerciti .
In the 1800 , thi country in
v ted millions in poor whi
to BUILD its If. Today, it mu t
invest millions in poor Blac to
SAVE itself.
T H D n w
Europe n immigrants, mo t of
whom pok littl ornoEnglish,
generally ucc ed w h n th y
worked diligently they had
b n compelled to do in Europe.
M nwhile the n wly freed
la received very little of this
good land nd were forced to
become harecroppers and
m labor with few favor
able landholding opportuniti
in the lush, productive, farm
belt area.
The problem of the "free" but
landless and destitute Bla
was cr ted by a hite-control
led, hite-benefiting affirm-
tive action program of hite
BUT
category are th
from which a
m r
All hould r memb r that
Black peopl 's current eco
nomic plight b n aft r eman
cip tion in 1865, in the b n
of a dedicated "Black" recon-
truction plan for th iurviv I
of many thousan of landl
andjnoneyle former laves
for whom I gal pro ion and
education were re rict d.
Th y did not ge th w ll-publi
cized "forty ac and mule."
Som obtained rand h re and
there, but no nationally organ
ized plan was made for �� eco-
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