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Volume 81. Number
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Editor-In-Chief
... Karl J. Robinson
Chief Associate Editor . . .
. Robert M. Nance
Associate Editor
Marc Stevenson
Eric Wagner
Where Do We
Go From Here
While white reactionary forces are organizing all across the world,
preparing themselves for the final countdown, what is Morehouse
College preparing us for? If all the activities on college campuses in the
60’s made us realize that we need to have “True Black Institutions,”
why don’t we have them in 1981?
We don’t have “True Black Institutions” today because as soon as
the power structure of this country realized the need for “Changes” in
his strategy, they acted! And today, if Coca-Cola, Rockefeller, and the
Federal government decided to pull out of “training negroes,” the
Atlanta University Center would cease to exist as they do today.
Even though, there has always been “white philanthropic
control,” Black people are less organized, more confused, more
individualistic, more patriotic, less educated in terms of “do for self”
than in any other time in history.
As you glance through the Morehouse curriculum, ask yourself,
“where are the majors that would allow me to go to work in my own
community truly being a part of it, and not an outsider. Where are the
majors that teach us to feed ourselves, clothe ourselves, house
ourselves, Defend ourselves?
Whether we like it or not, Black'people have to be determined to
control all aspects of our own environment - social, political,
educational, economic and otherwise - for the choice to make is one of
survival.
Now is the time for decisions to be made. Realizing the
shortcomings of our so-called Black institutions, students have to
make decisions that will affect not only our personal selves, but our
community as a whole. Being a student is a temporary situation, but
we will be Black all of our lives. Realizing that the masses of Blacks will
never receive “higher education” we cannot afford to become
“comfort-corrupt.” We can’t realistically expect the Administration of
this school to act in our best interests, because our best interests are
dictated to them by outsiders who actually control the institution.
Besides, the Negro who lives on the patronage of Philanthropist is the
most dangerous member of our society, because he is willing to run
the clock of progress when his benefactors ask him to.
We should not be surprised that the C.I.A. is currently on campus
analyzing us. We should not be surprised that our Philosophy
department, expouses “White Western Philosophical Jibberish.” We
should not be surprised that most of the courses taught here are
irrelevant to the goals and interests of Black people.
What can Black students do?
We can raise the political consciousness of our student body
through the S.G.A.’s, the fraternities, and all other social
organizations. We must cease to indulge in “social insaneness,”
jumping on each and every fad that whites put in our face to keep our
minds off our real problems. We must stand tall with our minds
focused on that power within. We have to think Black, act Black, and
be proud that we are Black! We need to cut out the “snobbish
individualism,” the “petty materialism,” the “What’s in it for me”
syndrome. We have to establish positive maie-female relationships,
which means to stop abusing our sisters at Morris Brown, Clark, and
Speiman. We’ve got to get our act together soon, because the well is
running dry. We have to be able to do for “self,” before there is no
more “self.” And a parting shot to the administration useless as it
may seem. What do you want to be remembered as, “A builder of
buildings and robots.,”, or a builder of strong Black (African) men?
Res ton, Va.--American
paper Publishers
shsciation Foundation has
•3fngolinced sponsorship of a new
miitority fellowship program for
,j£T981. The program will provide
funds for theattendance of
jninority journalists and
■journalism educators at ANPA
training conferences and
seminars.
The fellowship program will
pay travel, lodging, meals and
training fees for selected fellows.
Candidates should be minority
journalists currently at
newspapers or members of
journalism faculties, including
those at historically black colleges
and universities.
Potential candidates who
wish to nominate themselves, or
newspaper and journalism school
administrators who wish to
nominate someone else, are
encouraged to call Nancy Osborn
at 703-620-9500 for application
forms and further details.
Applications should be submitted
by February 15 for attendance at
one of the ANPA training
sessions during the first six
months erf 1981.
The following ANPA
programs are available for
attendance by candidates
selected:
Conference for Young
Newspaper Men and Women,
March 15-18, St. Petersburg, Fla.
A seminar aimed at fostering
awareness of the
interdependence of all newspaper
departments. The major goal is to
have each participant return to
his or her newspaper better
prepared to fulfill present
responsibilities and better
prepared to assume greater
authority in the future.
Newspaper Executives
Marketing Seminar, March 29-
April4, Scottsdale, Ariz.
During this intensive week of
study, participants work with
marketing case studies, sorting
through the facts, suppositions
and alternatives available to
management in these real-life
newspaper and non-newspaper
cases. Small study teams help the
individual participant focus on the
main considerations of
marketing. The key to all seminar
sessions is learning through
personal involvement, analysis
and decision-maldng.
Management Development
Workshop, June 15-19, Vail,
Colo.
Presented in an atmosphere
removed from daily on-the-job
pressures, this seminar provides
all levels of management
personnel with a better
understanding of technological
newspaper operations.
Participants have the opportunity
of operating and mastering the
electronic editorial and
production systems of today.
All editorials which appear
in this space are the
expressed views of the
editorial board which
consist of students who are
appointed by the editor.
Anyone wishing to respond
to this editorial or any other
article on this page are
asked to address their
concerns to: The Editor
P.O. Box 418
Morehouse College
Atlanta, Georgia, 30314
From The Editors Desk
Appearance and Reality
Martin Luther King, Jr. is
known throughout the world as a
great civil rights leader,
champion of the rights of poor
people. However like most
people who love truth, he paid a
price for being a leader. His faith
was grounded in himself and God
and was strong because of it.
Martin knew that the “I am”
precedes the “I can.” This is why
I find it difficult to consistently
and fervently fight to make
King’s birthday a national
holiday.I can understand that the
passage of a holiday bill would
mean political and cultural
maturity for ourselves as a nation
and civilization but King is net
the same to white people and
Black people alike. This is not t
racist statement; it is a true
statement - to me.
What made King great was
his relationship with God.
Morehouse played a significant
part. Colgate Rochester Seminary
and Boston University both
played parts in the development
of the religious and philosophic
views of King - his view erf God, of
man and destiny. But King first
and fcremest knew God,...alone. He
fell in love with good books and
came to embody good ideas.
Sometimes we fall victim to hero-
worshipping. We worship the
symbol; the dream, the man, the
college the degree, the number of
microphones that wait his arrival
- we worship symbols instead of
recognizing the God that
transcends those symbols. God
was unquestionably real in
King’s life and King knew God.
King loved God because Dr. King
love mankind. The object of
Kings focus was not so much as a
God above as it was geniune love
for man and man’s situation
below. It God is above, you will
reach it but strangely only when
you love your brother and sister
below.
I guess people must carefully
make distinctions between
appearance and reality. We talk
more and more about less and
less. Nikki Giovanni said that
people often fail to communicate
because we try to speak English
instead of trying to speak
(communicate) through it. When
the “I am” takes hold of you - as
it Hid King, when you define
you.self and your existence, you
begin to live your prayers and
hopes and dreams - even your
Sermon. Words ar very
powerful because they order our
daily lives and can make our days
and those around us better or
worse.
If we want to honor King
because we see him as an
extraordinary man, we should
study him - we should loose
ourselves in studying what he
said, but more importantly, why
he said. it. We should also study
his words by watching his actions.
He didn’t just talk about love, he
loved; he not only talked of
change, he changed things.
It may take Congress forever
to honor Dr. King - we can start
today.
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