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Hosea Williams calls for black unity
Hosea Williams, speaking before
members of the University's Black Stu
dent Union and of Athens black citizenry
Tuesday night, called for unity as he told
the assembled group. White men are
sick and we are the doctors.''
The Southern Christian Leadership
Conference field worker was in Athens
following last week's trouble over school
grievances, which led to demonstrations
and mass arrests
"We live in a terrible country," Wil
liams said "We often talk about what Hit
ler did to the Jews What happened then is
but a child's story compared to what the
white man did to the red man and is doing
to the black man "
AMIDST YELLS of "right-on," Wil
liams continued, "If I rape a four-year-old
girl, this wouldn't be as bad as what the
white man is doing to the black race " He
explained. "I would only be killing one
person, the white man is killing an entire
race "
Williams said "We are our worst ene
mies He added. "When they were shoot
ing black men in Sandersviile you didn’t
do anything It wasn't until they started
whipping you in the head that you start
ed "
He conUnued. "1 want to congratulate
you upon your restlessness. 1 think you're
doing the right thing Williams had stat
ed earlier. Really. Georgia is late in
what is going on It was unbelievable that
all this was going on around us at SCLC
headquarters But we just couldn't get
Georgia to move "
"If you want violence." Williams said,
"organize some people and go at them and
be violent If you have the guts to stand
out there and throw rocks, I'll buy you
some rocks. "
* WILLIAMS WARNED, 'Don't get
caught in a trap like the Panthers did For
every pistol you have they have a 30-30 ri
fle. For every machine gun you get they
have a tank
"And don't you just know th*it for everv
r.-.vwavvWMV.v.v.w.v.v,
tank you get your hands on they have a
bazooka. He concluded."AH we are
going to do is to destroy ourselves "
Changing his tone. Williams told the
group.“If you're not serious, go on back
home There's a point of no return But if
you are serious you already have what you
need "
Williams explained, “What you really
need you've already got If you don't use
w'nat you have it will destroy you.
"Black people haven t used whal God
gave them Go to any town, in the jails
are all blacks, in the colleges are whites
Black men have taken their responsibih
ties and laid them on the ground "
Williams told the group 'Every one of
you who thinks you're as good as a white
person, stand up. "He continued. "Just
about all of you standing are liars If you
thought you were as good as white people
you wouldn't tolerate what's going on
"Black womGn wouldn't be frying their
hair and spending millions of dollars on
wigs Why are black women still going to
white homes to raise white children' Why
aren't they at home raising their own
children’’ It's because of this sick eco
nomic system we have
"They brought us to this country
against our will. They took our family
structure and gave us theirs They took
our God and gave us theirs They have
even taken our value system and replaced
it with theirs.
Williams said. "The first thing they did
was dehumanize us We weren't slaves
until after the Civil War This is when they
captured the mind of black people
Williams stated. "Rap Brown said No
slave shall die a natural death He was
right when he said this Y'all have been
slaves '
"I'm a research chemist. Williams
told the group “I once drove a Cadillac I
had a $65,000 home and there was a time I
bought my wife a coat fo^$4H89
"But none of this nfadoanv riilfiwnce
They didn't care what you were When you
go downtown they didn't care, you were
still a nigger '
"I was nobody because I couldn't hear
the cry. Williams said
Hinting at the problem in Athens, Wil
liams said. "White folks aren t ready to
integrate Integration means black slav
ery It means black teacher elimination
"They take our schools and remove the
black heroes and throw them in the trash
can and put up idiots and fools like Her
man Talmadge
"Now the whites are wrong and they
know it. he said To justify this they need
for the black man to act like a fool.
White folks want y 'all to be violent
SWITCHING FROM VIOLENCE to
nonviolence, Williams said. "Non
violence is not something where you turn
the other cheek That s foolishness He
defined nonviolence as overpowering love,
saying. Y'ou can t pul out a fire with ga
soline."
"I don't dislike white people White
HOSEA WILLIAMS
people are sick and I'm the doctor
They're my patients "
If America is ever to be saved then
black people have got to do it," he con
cluded
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VOLUME LXXVL NUMBER 52
"America's Pre-eminent College Newspaper"
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1970
Students jeer offer
to delay negotiation
Photo by ROB NOVIT
STUDENTS GATHER AT PARK HALL
American flag, black flag (R) vie for attention
SHERIFF REPORTS
Drug traffic slows down
By JIM GOODWIN
Staff writer
Clarke County Sheriff H.T l Tommy I
Huff said yesterday that there is now a
"lull" in drug traffic in Athens and Clarke
Hashimoto
tells of need
for military
"Japan is sl.ll an occupiGd countrv.
said Dr Hideo Hashimoto. a visiting lec
turer on Far Eastern affairs, last night in
an open-air meeting in front of Phi Kippa
Hall
One half of the Pacific area is the re
sponsibility of the U S Seventh Fleet
based in Japanese ports, said Hashimoto
"Student militants in Japan see this as an
attempt to use Japan as an arm of the
U.S. military strategy 1
Japan renounced war except in self-
defense as a sovereign nation, by Article 9
of its constitution of 1947 said Hashimoto
The presence of armed forces in Japan
todav is justified by its conservative gov
ernment as self-defense
HASHIMOTO said obsolete planes and
weapons given to Japan by the Inited
States military tvpifv Japan s relation to
the U S military
The opposition partv students and the
peace movement see this as a source of
protest and condemnation, said Hashimo
to These groups see Japan as an adv
ance station of the U S military which is
See HASHIMOTO TELLS, Pag* 2
County, as a result of the recent raids and
arrests
There's a good bit of drug traffic in
Athens and we've picked up quite a few
people, but I don t think the traffic is quite
as heavy now as in the past, he said
Huff said that his department's main
stance toward drugs is one of education-
to educate the public on the good and bad
points of drugs and to push the arrests of
manufacturers, suppliers and agents (or
"pushers").
"If you tell a kid just the bad points of
drugs, he will quickly call your hand,
said Huff, pointing out that it is up to him
and his squad to deal “straight and hon
estly with youths
ONE WAY in which the department is
informing the public is through the
speeches of its chief drug investigator,
Randy Michael. He talks to various
church and civic groups on the drug situa
tion. including in his talks tips to parents
on how to tell if their children are taking
any.
From there, the department, said Huff,
strives to arrest primarily the pushers
We re not interested in getting the expe
rimenting marijuana cigarette smoker
We re out b> get the pusher and manufac
turer "
Huff predicted no great number of drug
arrests in the near future He said drug
merchant s are playing it cool in the wake
of numerous recent arrests
Marijuana smoking may become a
misdemeanor said Huff As for the legab-
zation of grass, he said he did not know
when if ever, it will occur Not for a lew
years, anyway
HUFF SAID only recently has
Georgia become a state where there is
very much drug traffic, but that since it
has. there has been widespread abuse
across the state
Awareness week slated
Veterans of the civil rights movement
and black artists will appear on campus
May 13-16 as part of Black Awareness
Week, jointly sponsored by the Black Stu
dent Union and the University Union
Although final approval has yet to be
obtained from some expected partici
pants. those notables who have confirmed
their appearance include Nina Simone
Don Lee. Hoyt Fuller and Ebon Dooley
from the arts field and Hosea Williams.
James Williams. Dorothy Pitman and
Mrs Fannie Lou Hamer from the more
politically activist element of the move
ment
Mrs Hamer, who will speak Friday
afternoon, is a veteran of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
1SNCC1 Mrs Hamer joined the move
ment after as a 47-year-old sharecropping
wife and mother of two children, she was
evicted in 1962 after attempting to regis
ter to vote in Ruleville. Miss Rdleville is
in Sunflower County, where Senator
James Eastland has a large plantation
AFTER HER EVICTION, she staved
with a friend in Ruleville until. 10 davs
later, a car drove by the house and
pumped 16 bullets into the bedroom where
she slept
Subsequently Mrs Hammer has suf
fered the arrests and beatings many
movement workers have when they tried
to integrate white waiting rooms in bus
stations, register to vote, and the like
While running for Congress in 1964.
Mrs Hamer went with a delegation from
the Freedom Democratic Party to Atlan
tic City to try to be seated as the Missis
sippi delegation Although not completely
successful, two FDP members were even
tually seated
AFTER LOSING her bid for Congress
that year. Mrs Hamer challenged her
opponent s victory saving that he had no
right to represent the Second District
because blacks made up 52 per cent of
the adult population of the district but onlv
3 per cent of the number of registered
voters because of the pattern of intimida
tion murder and official restraint
She also attempted to claim her seat in
the House of Representatives when thev
convened the next session and while un
successful. the move helped focus atten
tion on the problems in Mississippi
A former field secretary of SNCC. she
became a member of the executive com
mittee in 1965 the same year she became
vice-chairman of FDP
Photo by HOB NOVIT
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS HEAD FOR PRESIDENT'S MANSION DURING LAST NIGHT'S DEMONSTRATION
Police escort students down Prince Avenue, where they later staged a sit-in
BEFORE THE PRESIDENT Spoke
to the gathering he met with
Dale Hardman, leader of the protesting
group. Hurley and other student leaders
The leaders told Davison the students
were upset because he was running from
them
Just before Davison spoke to the gath
ering. Cindy Thomas. University student
and member of SDS, told him. " you have
to make some kind of commitment be
cause the University is students " Davi
son replied. "The University is a lot of
things "
According to Randy Shingler, a student
observer, when President Davison met
with student leaders, earlier in the eve
ning. he seemed hostile toward them and
criticized some things they said
Earlier in the evening, about 1500 stu
dents staged a sit-in in front of the presi-
(See PROTESTORS. Page 2)
Home favors escalation
By PATRICE WALTERS
Assistant news editor
Students jeered President Fred C.
Davison as he attempted to negotiate
with them on the striking of classes
during last night's demonstraton cen
tered around the shooting of four
students in Kent State University
anti-war demonstrations.
An estimated 3.000 people were in the
crowd to which Davison spoke, but it
was uncertain how many were active
protesters and how many were merely
spectators.
"I will be willing to negotiate with
you tomorrow morning. " Davison
told the group. Shouts of "We re here
now, we re here now" drowned out
the rest of the president's statement
Davison appeared at the Academic
Building after some 50 students forced
their way into the structure According to
Red and Black reporters on the scene,
windows were broken on the second and
third floors of the building to gain admitt
ance
THE CROWD GATHERED outside the
Building chanted "We want Fred, we want
Fred " The ciuwd asked that Davison talk
with them within 30 minutes This was at
10:45
Davison appeared before a crowd a lit
tle after 11:15. standing on the second-
floor balcony of the Academic Building
Davison reaffirmed that a program of
optional class attendence today would be
upheld He explained that the optional
Memorial service,
Senate meet slated
A memorial service has been
planned for the lour dead Kent State
university students at noon today in
front of the University Chapel.
A called meeting of the Student Sen
ate has been set for tonight at 6:30 in
thr law School auditorium
program was decided on because he want
ed all students to express themselves in
the way they wanted
Once again the President was shouted
down with obscenities A group of stu
dents were standing with Davison as he
made this announcement Bob Hurley,
president of the student body commented
that he would try and get the Student Sen
ate to meet with Davison today
The president left the Academic Build
ing at 12:20 a m Dean of Student Affairs
O Suthem Sims stated that he wouldn't be
back At this time a large number of stu
dents were still gathered around the build
ing State patrolmen were clearing stu
dents out of the building
Earlier in the evening Or George Par-
themos. vice president for instruction,
told President Davison it was imperative
that two days of classes were called off
By G. WILLIAM HIU
Staff writer
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, former prime
minister of Great Britain, in a speech at
Memorial Hall Tuesday night, said, "The
responsibility for the world situation, both
past and present, lies on the Soviet Un
ion."
"The basic trouble stems from the fun
damental communist doctrines of the use
of subversion and force to obtain their
ends." he said “I am not criticizing
communism in Russia if they like it. thev
can have it But no lasting peace is possi
ble as long as the Soviet Union practices
subversion and force outside of their coun
try." he said.
Home said he feels that the problems of
armament and disarmament were among
the most important ones facing the world
today The necessity of all free countries
being on the lookout for communist sub
version causes the armaments of all na
tions to be above normal. Home said
“THE TFINSION and anxiety in Great
Britain and Western Europe has affeiled
the U.SHome said "The policy of the
Soviet Union of increasing their Mediter
ranean naval forces and of increasing
their overall submarine forces has caused
the U.S to stiffen its armaments and to
spread them over a wider field NATO
must increase its naval power in order to
protect its interests in the Middle East,
the South Pacific and the new oil routes
around the African coast "
Home said he feels the U.S is impor
tant as a nuclear deterrent to help nations
which are willing to help themselves
" Nuclear weapons have stopped large
wars," he said, "but they have allowed
the Soviet Union to stimulate wars on a
smaller level such as we now have in the
Middle East."
HOME STRESSED the importance ot
economic growth and European unity.
He said the U.S. should "foster the ec
onomic strength of the free world and
work towards the unification of Europe
"No one in Britain should criticize the
U.S in the Vietnam war because we have
no part in the war. " Home said "The ac
tions in Cambodia and Vietnam are Amer
ica's matter, but I feel that the commun
ist actions in Southeast Asia are the un
derlying causes of all the present prob
lems over there now
SIR AlEC DOUGIAS HOME
Blame, the Soviet,