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Editorial Comments Reagan, Khadafy Playing a Game Editor Speaks by Kathy Lightfoot It's the end of another /ear and what a year! Being an Editor-in-Chief has been an experience in itself. You experience the headaches of staff members not meeting the deadline, the heartaches of not getting a story that would have looked good in the paper and the joy and relief of finally getting the finished product to you, the students. I did not take the job by choice, mine was by cir cumstance. All in all I did what I had to do. And like a good friend and also a former editor himself said, "This is one job you can’t give up on." I regret that we didn't come out as often as I hoped, but I hope we have served you, the student body, well. For helping me get through this endeavor I would like to thank the following people: The staff as a whole, especially two you ng ladies who covered a story or two more than what I asked them to do and also my right- hand lady, my Associate Editor who lent me not only her time and effort but a "friendly” ear; Also Dr. Ziegler for her much needed assistance; Finally, I thank two young men. One for his experienced advice and help and the other one for his con tinuing support. But before I go on any further I would like to say that during this academic year I have noticed a lot of insensitive attitudes among fellow Brownites. Some people get pleasure out of being insen sitive to others. To know what makes people that way would be an interesting analysis to make. But moving right along, even though I will not be the Editor- in-Chief for the 1986-87 academic year, I thought this would be the perfect opportuni ty to extend an invitation to anyone who would like to work with the Wolverine Observer Staff. You can devote your time as writer, typist, proofreader or photographer. Any of the four or all. We would be most ap preciative. Don’t worry if you think your writing skills aren't up to par. We (the senior members of the staff) can help. We learn from each other. Lastly, I wish the best to the S.G.A. officers, class officers and queens and Miss Morris Brown College and her court. On that note I would like to leave these words of wisdom with you: God grant me serenity to accept things I cannot change, Courage to change things I can. And wisdom to know the difference. by Karon Ammons "Don’t cross my line of death!" Who are you to tell us what todo?I""He’sa mad man!” "Baby killer!" Sounds like children playing games on the playground. Only this time the children are political leaders. The games are military maneuvers. And the playground stretches from the United States, across the Mediterranean Sea and into Lybia. It makes you wonder. "Does my life or the lives of the million or so military-draft-age young men of America count for anything?" When such childish games are played with our lives and minds, it makes me want to know why.it all must happen. I recently asked my U.S. History instructor this same question and I thought I would share her answer with anyone who was just as confused as I was about the by Teresa Watkins Why do those who do the most receive the least recognition? I can't really answer that question becat/sfe of my bids toward the persons whom I think do the most. I'm talking about the few, the proud, the political science majors. We hold more offices and participate in more com munity activities than any other majors. matter. All the commotion seems to have started when Mommar Khadafy challenged the United States to cross his imaginery line of death — a line that extended miles beyond the true boundary of international waters designated by the United Nations. So, being the world super power that we are, the United States (while conducting routine military maneuvers in inter national waters) crossed the line of death on the premise that they were only obligated to stay within the boundaries establish ed by the U.N. Lybia — a peon in size com pared to the U.S. — retaliates by bombing U.S. planes and perfor ming terrorist acts in European countries allying with America. Reagan speaks out against this terrorism, saying it must be stopped and calling Khadafy a It may seem as though we are tooting our own horns, but if we don’t, who will? So far no one has. Even though we have only two instructors in our discipline and we don't, at least not yet, have our own department, all political science majors associate with one another. Can you say that about the persons in your major? “mad man." The U.S. strikes strategic areas, where the terrorist acts are believed to be plotted. In the process, Lybian doctors claim Khadafy's adopted daughter is killed. Now Regan is a "baby killer," according to Khadafy. All the fighting, on the United States’ part, is done in the name of finally putting a halt to terrorism. But the other day, during one of those five minute news briefs, it was reported that a bomb in the U.S. embassy in Turkey, believed to have been planted by Lybian was dis mantled. Question: Could the United States be so concerned about little Lybia because of oil and military position? This can get to be quite confusing in itself. I’ll ask my History instructor and let you know what she says. All I'm saying is that we political science majors take pride in our field of study and our instructors. We would love it if we could all, regardless of our majors, learn to associate with one another as we all strive toward the same goal: To Graduate From Morris Brown (within 4 years). Poli Sci Majors Want Recognition Political Perspective One who plays a principal or guiding role in the course of actions of others is said to be a leader. There are many types of leaders. Band leaders, orchestral leaders, and team leaders, just to name a few. But the American Heritage Dictionary lends credibility to the term leader by defining it as one who has influence or power, especially of a*political nature. From Harriett Tubman, to Frederick Douglass, to W.E.B. DuBois, to Adam Clayton Powell, to Martin Luther King, Jr., to Jesse Jackson, to Louis Farrakhan, this definition is more apropos. In a comparitive view of past and present Black leadership, one must look at the circumstances surrounding that leadership. These prevailing cir cumstances include, but are not limited to, racism, racial dignity, and economic and political in dependence. Within this tumultous capitalistic society that we share, racism is very evident. The house of America was built on the bricks of racism. This racism first reared its ugly head when massive ocean vessels appeared on the shores of Africa. The occupants of these massive ocean vessels viewed the in habitants with contempt. Con tempt because before them was a group of people who had no obvious need for money or what was at that time the modern convenience of reading and writing. The occupants of these massive ocean vessels transported these kings and queens from the mother land to “the other land" where they were subjected to mankind’s greatest injustice - slavery. This physical oppression manifested itself through hatred. A hatred that has not yet been explained to satisfaction or understood in its entirety. Albeit, slavery has been abolished in its most ex pressive sense, racism is still very evident in this country. What other explanation could there be when a race of people has spent its entire existence in this country trying to liberate themselves from the racist tyran ny of another race of people. Harriett Tubman fought for it. W.E.B. DuBois fought for it. Present Black leaders like Bishop Desmond Tutu are fighting for that liberation still. Because of the ever-present stigma of racism, past Black leaders found themselves in the precarious position of providing their race with a positive self- image. After the Emancipation Proclamation, past Black leaders were compelled to provide the race with an image that was free from chains, whips, and shackles. They had to labor endlessly as well as tirelessly to have the federal government recognize coloreds as actual citizens and to grant them suffrage. They were faced with the challenge of having elected colored folks serve in public office. The watchful eye of the Industrial Revolutionsaw either the ideas of coloreds stolen away for profit or their assistance go completely unrecognized. The twentieth- century brought with it two world wars that put the Negro at the forefront of the fightfront, but at the backdoor of knocking opportunity. No matter how hard the Negro tried, be it either in the Olympic games, in the world of boxing, in the field of education, or in the study of science, he still found his ac complishments aggregately un noticed and persecution his only"reward.” Leaders during this era had as their main objec tive to give racial dignity to a people who had it stolen away long ago. Frederick (Augustus Washington Bailey) Douglass, who once described himself as "a recent graduate of the institu tion of slavery with his degree on his back," gave many speeches advocating racial dignity. Mary MacLeod Bethune, through her fervent efforts in education, impressed upon her students, the idea of racial dignity. Jesse Jackson’s incessant oration of "I am Somebody” continues to echo this sentiment. Past and present Black leaders voicing the same ideas. Economic and political in dependence have been another shared goal of past and present Black leaders. At the outset of the Civil Rights Movement, it had become very evident to Black leadership that this coun try had a great respect for wealth and power, neither of which Blacks were familiar. Along with the trampling of racism, the advocacy of racial dignity, Black leaders were preaching the sermon of economic and political independence. Leaders formed such organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Non-violent Coor dinating Committee (SNCC). and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), to help foster the ideas of this economic and political independence. In dividual leaders traveled the country supporting this concept. Opinions expressed in ar ticles and letters are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect either the opinions or the policies of the college or the Wolverine Observer.