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2 Leaders of Tomorrow! FEBRUARY 1997 MBC Wolverine OBSERVER
EDITORIALS
An Open Letter to the Morris
Brown Campus Community
From the Editor:
By Miquiel Banks
This February Issue
represents a point at the
crossroads of our African
beiifg, we must look back
and continue looking
forward in the struggle of
our progress. The last issue
dealt with the power of
Kings, but this issue
commemorates Black
History Month. Now, you
may ask yourself, what
really is Black History
Month, and I think as you
do. Is it the month that some
rich snobby-nosed
bureaucrats decided upon,
hoping it would satisfy our
insatiable hunger for
recognition in this country?
First of all, they gave us
the shortest month and I
guess they thought that we
should be satisfied. Should
we celebrate, knowing that
racism has mildewed my
sisters and brothers from
within like some demonic
plague, a product of
heartless men’s idea for
population control? However,
choosing February was not
such a bad idea after all,
when we analyze it correctly.
We may have been given the
shortest month, but can it be
said that it symbolizes our
African heritage?
February is a month of
great impact when we
consider Groundhog Day and
the Aquarian influence. The
groundhog symbolizes our
prophetic abilities and the
Water-bearer typifies our
spiritual nature as a people.
Now we can look at
Valentine’s Day. Isn’t it
wonderful to think that the
celebration of love is in our
month? Take our spiritual
nature, add those
ingredients with love, and
what do we have left? A
Beautiful people created in
the image of the Divine, so it
is on this note that I must
say to my fellow Wolverines,
Be an Observer of Black
History Month!!
On the wall
wall say that, “they try to
By Natasha M. Shallow
The wall is where most
Morris Brown students go
to socialize. In the past the
wall has been known as the
failure wall, but I disagree
with that notion. I have
heard many great and
enlightening conversations
on the wall. I hope to
enlighten the student body
with some of the discussions
I have overheard or been a
part of on the wall. The wall
is where you can hear the
students of Morris Brown
discuss what has been on
their minds. This week On
the Wall will cover a heated
and much whispered subject,
homophobia.
We are living in the late
nineties, and many people
are still homophobic. I
thought that during the
college years students would
be the ones to accept things
that are not the norm. I
have found that females can
accept homosexuality a lot
better than their male
counterparts. The reason for
this is that there are more
open gays than lesbians on
campus. Also, many females
find it easy to talk to gays
about everydayriife. “They
are very understanding”,
said Uba Bulale, an
international student here at
MBC. Many of the males on
campus feel that gays are
taking things to the extreme.
I overheard a male on the
look like girls, with all that
crap in their hair. They
wear make up. They strut
their stuff harder than the
females on campus. Females
relate to them better cause
they have a lot in common.”
Amazingly, I have found that
a lot of males on campus feel
this way.
Because we can accept
the way certain people
choose to live their fives
does hot mean that we want
to five our fives in the same
fashion. Many males and
females feel that homo
sexuals have the right to five
their fives as they please, as
long as they do not try to
infringe those lifestyles on
them. I think males that
have problems with
homosexuals have had a bad
experience with someone
that was gay or have been
approached by gays on
numerous occasions.
Some people think that
straight guys who are
overly-repulsive against gays
are the ones who have not
yet come out of the closet.
I think most students,like
myself,have to disagree with
that statement. We must
remember that some people
have strong feelings about
certain topics because of the
experiences they have had in
their fives. Perhaps, it is the
way they were brought up.
As a result, it would be
difficult for them to accept
homosexuals because of
what they were taught from
infancy. I was relieved to
hear that most of the
straight guys I have spoken
to do not gay bash. One male
said, “I don’t agree with
what they are doing, but
that’s just me. Just as long
as they can respect me and
my feelings on the subject, I
don’t have a problem with
them.”
We have not yet come to a
solution where we can see
eye to eye. We must begin to
realize that MBC is one big
and happy family. Like most
families, we have our
differences and we will not
always agree on everything.
Therefore, we must start
showing love and respecting
one another. We are all
humans with feelings that
need respect. If we will give
one another the respect that
we deserve, male to female,
straight to homosexual,
think how much better this
world would be.
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