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WHO ARE YOU?
THE PANTHER-APRIL,1973 Page,11
Revolution OF What ?
By Bill Grant
Black colleges all over
the country should come to
some realization of them
selves. This article is di
rected to any Blacks who
have not become aware of
themselves. I direct this
to our Atlanta University
Center.
I want to focus our at
tention upon an unpleasant
incident between Morehouse
and Clark College, which
occurred this past week
end.
These schools are places
of higher learning. We as
students are supposed to be
adults. We are supposed to
be people of sound think
ing. Yet, we consider the
campuses a playground, or
should I say, a battle ground.
How many of you men
dodged the draft board, or
tried to dodge the draft
board? Yet, we do our fight
ing among Ourselves. Are
you proud of this? Let us
face it, until we decide that
we are going to come toge
ther as one people, seek
ing one thing, and that is to
better ourselves intellec
tually, we will always be
fighting among ourselves.
That is what the white man
Recently there was a heat
ed dispute over the issue of
uniting the Atlanta Univer
sity Center, consisting of
six schools working co
operatively for mutual im
provements in education.
The Center has an enroll
ment of some 7,000 students
predominantly Black and
almost 328 exchange stu
dents from foreign coun
tries. BUT all of these efforts
were deminished when
Morris Brown College an
nounced its plans to with
draw from the A. U. Cen
ter.
Dr. James A. Middleton,
president of Morris Brown
made the announcement sta
ting that the power and auto
nomy of individual school
members were threatening
future operations of Morris
Brown.
Middleton’s action caus
ed many people to believe
wants to see. Don’t you rea
lize this?
There is a slogan between
the two colleges “Hell
Week.’’ This is a ridicu
lous slogan. If we as Black
students desire the use of
a slogan between campuses,
I suggest “Love Year,” a
year spent with love and
help, with any assistance
we can give to each other.
In conclusion, I feel we
must become more respon
sible as individuals, with
these ideas in mind 1)
being an adult of sound
thinking, 2) respecting our
selves and our fellowman,
3) uniting, our selves as one,
and 4) carrying out con
structive ideas as one.
Colleagues, the Vietnam
War is over. Let us as Black
students end our physical
war, and concentrate on the
battle for intellectual ex
cellence. Let us come to
gether as one Black loving
family, then we can iden
tify ourselves as having
1) brain power, 2) green
power, 3) Black power and
4) being proud.
Robert J. Scott, Junior
Clark College
that the combination of the
six schools as a vanguard
to higher education for
Blacks had ended.
The A. U. Center be
gan functioning copper a-
tively 43 years ago with
Morehouse College, Spel-
man College, and Atlanta
University as its first mem
bers. Later the center was
joined by Clark College,
Morris Brown College, and
the Interdenominational
Theology Center.
The Atlanta University
Center Corporation was
chartered as an embodis-
ment. of joint educational
programs in 1964.
Morris Brown’s rea
son for withdrawal from
the consortium was because
what it believed to have been
a lose of power and con
trol. A recent multi-mill
ion dollar grant from the
All over this country there
seems to be a lack of unity
among people; especially
among the Black genera
tions of today. It would seem
that blacks of today should
have enough brain power to
realize that we share a com
mon interest here in Ameri
ca, since we are a minori
ty here.
We speak about revolut
ion: revolution of what? Lis
ten my black bro-thers and
sisters, you know; it’s time
to stop fooling ourselves.
Yes, we’re going to have a
black revolution; and since
revolution is nothing but
change, ours is going to be
for the worst.
A group of hostile stu
dents in the Atlanta Uni
versity Center, hostile to
wards each other, commit
ting genocides here in a
predominantly Black insti
tution, running around with
guns, sticks and rocks and
bottles ripping each other
off in the middle of the night
is a DAMN disgrace.!
I a student presently at
tending Clark College came
to Atlanta (from a predo
minantly white area) be
cause I rationalized that
ninety- per-cent of the
Black political leaders in
America came from the
south, and that the majo
rity of them came from the
A. U. Center. And since
this is a predominantly
Black institution compos
ed of the black youth of white
American; I felt that the
relationship among blacks
here would be much grea
ter than in any part of this
country because here in this
center is the supposedly,
future black leaders of
America.
Instead, when I arrived
here, I found that the ma
jority of blacks in the cen
ter were bourgeois, apathe
tic, egotistical and begoted
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
KIDS. They even had some-
Ford Foundation is what sti
mulated the dispute.
Morris Brown felt that
the investment by Ford
would destroy the schools
in the center. According to
Dr. Middleton all power in
the A. U. Center would un
der control of the recent
investment.
In the investment includ
ed a reorganization plan for
the center corporation. This
plan would be administer
ed by a chancellor and a
board composed of three
representatives from each
school.
Middleton fears that this
board will become too po
werful and opposed the plan
entirely.
However according to Dr.
Vivian Henderson, presi
dent of Clark College and a
spokesman for the center
stated that, the total mer
ger feared by Middleton was
not forthcoming.
thing going on called, Hell
Week, in which many of the
so-called Black brothers
would congregate to battle
against each other; again,
with guns, sticks, and rocks,
and bottles, ripping each
other off in the middle of the
night.
Again this makes
think; what are we all about?
Is this what we call a
Black struggle
On Sunday morning, the
twelfth of February, a group
of young black adolescents,
once again congi egated-to do
battle against each other in
the late hours of the night
and the weeeee - eee hours
of the morning.
School property was da
maged, and possibly some
one was even hurt as the
police arrived on the scene,
fully equipped to go into ac
tion with their riot - - equip
ment, damn these niggers
are real roudy tonightaren’t
they
As six white policemen
with Black - jacks line up
and walk down Fair Street
to the Morehouse campus,
waiting for an opportunity
and chants come from a few
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL stu
dents in the windows of
Phieffer Hall, “Kill the
mother - ” A
thought enters my mind, is
this for real? And as a young
white student at Clark stands
and looks over my shoulder
at the group outside, a Black
man walks up to the crowd
of JUNIOR HIGH boys and
introduces himself with his
hands held in the air, he
gives his name and states
that he works for Stokely
Carmichael. The brother
tries to explain to the
young black students that
blacks fighting against
blacks is no-good because
that’s what the man wants
to see: as some listen, oth
ers do not' and the pigs,
continue to walk the Streets
Dr. Henderson stated that
the joint operations through
the center were effective
in avoiding wasteful dupli
cation of separated facili
ties in service such as book
stores and health facili
ties, as well as improved
academic offerings to stu
dents.
It was hoped that Morris
Brown would re-enter the
joint efforts of the six
schools involved in the cor
poration. Earlier this month
Middleton made it known
that Morris Brown would
re-join the A. U. Center
but will do so with caution.
Because of Morris
Brown’s withdrawal from
the center it was not able
to benefit from the pro
grams funded and ran into
many problems. But it has
been given the considera
tion and approval to re
ceive all benefits as a full
member of the A. U. Cen
ter.
of a Black neighborhood,
waiting for an opportunity..
finally the JUNIOR HIGH
school boys get tired and
sleepy and the crowd dime-
nishes and the police de
cide to leave, because who
cares anyway?
Insidentally there were
15 police units in sight, all
lined up along Fair Street,
most of which were in the
black neighborhood as black
citizens wonder, what the
hell is going on.
I sincerely ask myself
and others alike.
is this what a black revo
lution is all about.
Surely one must be able
to see that the problem is
not white folks, it’s us. ..
Yes, the future black lea
ders of America here in the
Atlanta University Center
are committing Black Geno
cide against themselves.
Doesn’t that make you stop
and think!
Are we struggling against
the oppressor or are we
struggling ourselves.
Oh yeah, here’s the la
test it’s not over yet.
Panther Quotes
PANTHER BLEEDS
Huey P. Newton, founder
and leader of the Black Pan
ther Party suffered a bleed
ing ulcer while on a speak
ing tour of Scandinavia
Newton concealed the re
mainder of his stops.
WAOK PURCHASE
A black consortium in
Philadelphia, Pa., has an
nounced the purchase of
radio station WAOK. If ap
proved by the FCC, WAOK
will become Atlanta’s only
Black owned radio station.
WXAP (formerly WERD)
was sold to white interest
in 1968.
NIXON SEEKS
DEATH PENALTY
President Nixon, askeci
Congress to restore the
death penalty for federal-
crimes, including murders
and treaspn and to impose
tough punishment for drug
trafficers.
Expensive Ride
The alder manic Board
passed an ordinance increa-
sing taxi fares here. The
new rate is 50 cents for the
first one fourth of a mile
and 10 cents for each addi
tional one-fifth of a mile
It was previously 50 cent:
for the first one-fourth of i '**-
mile and 10 cents for eacl
additional one-fourth of e
mile. j
MORRIS BROWN RE-JOINS CENTER
By Frank W. Johnson, Jr.