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Lack of AUC support for March draws ire
Cedric Dark/STAFF
On the steps of Sale Hall, Shira Batalion (right) demands an
explanation from Isaiah Pettaway for the apathy surrounding
the Million Youth Movement among Morehouse students.
By Alavini Lata
Staff Writer
The Million Youth
Movement kicked off
September 5, with a series of
workshops and forums at
Morehouse College.
Shira Batalion, a junior
political science major at
Guilford College in
Greeensboro, North
Carolina, attended the event
with a dozen minority
children from her
community.
She was furious at the
conspicuous absence of AUC
participants at the workshops,
and the overall apathy toward
the Movement among
Morehouse students.
This is the conversation
she had with Isaiah Pettiway,
a sophomore political science
major at Morehouse,
demanding answers:
Batalion: "Where is the
support from all four of
Atlanta's HBCUs? Thousands
of people are here from all over
the country and the most
powerful and influential
youths of Atlanta aren't even
here."
Pettiway: "I saw
something outside my
window but I didn't know that
it was [part of] the Million
Youth March."
Batalion: "We brought a
whole lot of Black kids from
our community who needs
y'all. Morehouse doesn't seem
to care or know of what the
community needs."
Pettiway: "Morehouse
doesn't take the effort to
keep us informed."
Batalion: "They
shouldn't always have to
keep you informed. As a
Black male in higher
education you should find
out. At my predominantly
white school, a Black girl
went around putting up
flyers about the march and
now we're here."
Pettiway: "I haven't seen
any around here."
Batalion: "What are you
doing to help your
community? Every time I
come to a conference here,
there aren't that many AUC
students. For example, the
National Seminar on Africa. I
thought that was big enough
but when we got here, only a
handful of AUC students
showed up.
"Why do I know more
politically about a Black
movement than most of the
guys at Morehouse, and I'm a
white Jewish girl?"
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