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January 4, 1971
WOLVERINE OBSERVER
Page 9
Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted
from the “HILLTOP” Howard University.
Blacks unresponsive to Guinea
If' the federal agent in charge
of negro-watching had to give a
report this week, it may have
sounded a little like this:
• “I am pleased to report that
as a result of the recent in
vasion of Guinea we were able
to make conclusive observations
of the nature and strength of the
Pan-African movement in this
country.
Guinea, as you know, is the
military base of operations for
African efforts to drive the Por
tuguese from Portuguese Guinea.
In addition it is the home-in
exile of Pan-Africanist Kwame
Nkrumah, ahd of rabid negro
militant Stokely Carmichael. It
is lead by an anti-European, Af
rican nationalist president, Sekou
Toure.
Guinea is quite clearly the in
tellectual and political nerve cen
ter of Pan-Africanism. An attack
upon that country by dissidents
and white mercenaries, would
have had to bring about a strong
reaction from any militant Pan-
Africanist movement in this coun
try, if indeed such a movement
did exist.
Predictably our negroes react
ed in their chara'cteristic lacka
daisical manner. Our position as
a military ally and arms supplier
to Portugal went unchallenged,
and our failure to officially con
demn the invasion was not con
tested.
Reports from negrologists
around the nation indicate that
while news of the invasion was
coming in, our negroes just sort
of bumbled around, not really
aware of what was taking place.
Those that did know did not
realize the significance of the at
tack, or if they did, they did not
know how to respond to it.
This non-reaction takes on
added significance when con
trasted to the reaction in other
parts of the world. About 1,000
Nigerian University students
made their vehement opposition
to the invasion known by demon
strating in front of the U. S. and
British embassies in Lagos.
In Tanzania students reacted
similiarly, and some even offered
to joiii the Guinean army.
Also by way of contrast, it
should be noted that last week
about 2,000 Jews held an “emer
gency meeting” attended by two
U.S. senators to protest the “cul
tural genocide” of Russian Jews.
The only notable exception to
the placid response of our negroes
occured in Newark, N. J. where
a few hundred demonstrated.
Credit for the pacification of
our negroes is due in large part
to the news media. As you know
negroes have no strong daily
newspaper or a radio network.
Consequently they are dependant
upon us for most of their news.
As in this case, that means that
if we say that ah issue is not im
portant, negroes, by and large,
will go along with our interpre
tation.
For example, the Washington
( Post commented, “One is tempted
to dismiss all this as a typical
and fairly harmless African po
litical charade”.
Pan-Africanism is merely the in
tellectual plaything of negro aca
demicians and college students.
It may in fact be a fortunate
development, in that, because of
their comical fascination with in
volved vocabularly and phrase
ology, militant negroes have fad
ed to make Pah-Africanism mean
anything comprehensible to the
large majority of our negroes.
Consequently, the movement has
only widened the breach between
the negro intellegehsia and the
rest of our negro population.
In conclusion it is my observa
tion that in terips, of economic
and political pressure, or mass
involvement, the Pan African
movement in this country might
as well be non-existent.
There is no cause for alarm.
Sincerely, A. Lincoln, Chief
Negrologist, Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
\
From
The Wolverine Observer
Staff and Editors
Marilyn Ford
Associate Editor
Craig Muckle
Sports Editor
Robert Reese — Editor-in-Chief
Coming
Jan. 14th
‘THE LIFE OF
A KING”
After examining reports from
Adjournment of PAN-HEC meet- across the country, our top neg-
ing and only “Spoteye” is smiling, rologists conclude that now, and
for the foreseeable future, U.S.
To Pledge or Not To Pledge
That Is The Question
By: Jeanette Cason
Everybody’s talking about
pledging. But what are they ready
saying? The answers are as varied
as the students here on campus.
Recently a survey was taken
and the students were asked the
question, “Is pledging really
worth ad the trouble one has to
go through?”
The first group included some
of the pledgees and their answers
were mainly centered around dis-
ilusionment. They ad practicady
said that pleding isn’t what they
thought it was. This also was the
answer received when asking
those who got off line.
Surprisingly enough most of
the people who have already
“gone over” say that if they had
to pledge again they wouldn’t do
it.
But let’s look at pledging from
a general point of view. Everyone
knows that pledgees must move
at their big brother’s or big sisters
command. During hed week the
pledgees get no sleep and through
out the entire six (6) week period
they can’t eat sweets, they walk
in lines, react like robots and do
many errands. But to top ad of
this they have to endure the in
humane treatment of big brothers
and sisters.
All Clubs, Groups and organizations
that have news they want to see
published in this tabloid should send
represenatives to our meeting Tbur.
Jan. 7th, 11am in the Student Publi
cations Office.
Everyone is invited....
Wolverines
fall short
The M.B.C. Cagers lost a hard
fought contest to a good More
house basketbad squad. The final
score was 79-78 and this was the
last game for the Wolverines of
the year 1970. If that game was
an indication of things to come,
you can look forward to lots of
good, exciting basketbad this
year. The Wolverines lost the
game because of their inability
to stop Larry Strozier, the fine
Morehouse pivotman, at one
juncture he scored 14 straight
points. All of the Wolverines
played good, but the two most
consistent players on the floor
were Jerome Murray and Michael
Derricotte both scoring wed and
Murray did a herculeah job re
bounding.
Now I ask you is pledging real
ly worth ad of this? Does one
have to do ad of these ridiculous
things to receive popularity or
to have a part in a frat or sorority
party?
What ever happened to the idea
of sororities and fraternities doing
the community some good? Can
we truthfudy say that the frats
and sororities here at Brown are
upholding this idea? Can we say
this when only one or two are
ready functioning?
In this there is no special de
gradation of a particular frat or
sorority. But everyone around
here has eyes and can see who
is functioning and who is not.
And acording to many people
around here going through the
HELL of pledging just 'isn’t
worth it.
So if you happen to be in a
sorority or frat just look at your
organization and say “are we
functioning as we should?” And
then do something about it. Give
pledgees that sense of worth that
they are going to be a part of a
frat or sorority that is very active
and doing public good and not
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