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Leaders of Tomorrow! MARCH 1997 MBC Wolverine OBSERVER 13
T'2000
mu
Workshop
Legendary Jazz Pianist,
Randy Weston will give a solo
performance featuring master
percussionist, Senegalese Mor
Thiam on Saturday, April 12,
1997 at 7:30pm in the
Cunningham Auditorium of the
Hickman Student Center. For
further information call (404)
730-0176.
The Winter Workshop Series at Morris Brown
College is produced by the Institute for the
Study of African Culture under the auspices of
the MBC Faculty of International and
Continuing Education.
Movie Review
Rosewood
by Miquiel Banks
The title delivers the essence of
this epic drama, rose characterizes
the people of the town and wood
characterizes the people of the white
town, Sumner. The movie is set in
1922 in Rosewood, Florida and the
rest is history. A black town
(Rosewood) is burned down by white
people, is it really that simple?
Rosewood is an in-depth study of
the chain of events that leads to the
burning down of an entire town. It
begins with a stranger coming into
town on a horse, fresh from the war.
He has money, intelligence, and is
welcomed by the people of Rose
wood. In the next town a battered
wife chooses to say a “colored man”
beat her instead of her husband. It
is this lie that triggers the events
leading to the ending of Rosewood.
As the citizens of Sumner look
for this imaginary man, Jesse
Hunter, the racial tension explodes
and the hunt becomes not for a man,
but for power and control. The
“lynch mob” parades throughout
Rosewood doing as they please, but
they remain unsatisfied. Using their
hunt for Jesse as the anchor, the
lynch mob chooses to say that
Sylvester is responsible for the
hiding of this man so that they kill
two birds with one stone. You must
take note, Sylvester is the only guy
in Rosewood that shows his hate of
white people and will kill if pushed
too far. Therefore, he is the first
person to kill if the lynch mob is to
regain their control of the “colored
people”.
The lynch mob parades to
Sylvester’s house and the result is a
shootout. It is this shootout at
Sylvester’s house that begins the
destruction of Rosewood. Afraid of
what will happen next, the few
remaining citizens of Rosewood hide
out in the swamps. Eventually, they
find refuge on a train that takes
them to safety in Gainesville. Here
we have inklings of the spiritual
black symbol, riding that train to
freedom. The background music is
dynamic with the heart-warming
sounds of church hymns, slavery
chants, and African rituals wrapped
and rolled into one.
I don’t want you to complain,
saying I’ve told you the end; haven’t
we’ve known all these years that
we’re going to heaven, it’s just the
way we’re going to get there that
holds our attention. With that said,
you must check out Rosewood, it’s
sure to be as touching and powerful
a movie as Malcolm X.
CICEBO'S
COENEE
Free Form
by Edward O. Hightower
Free form fleeing
from frightened fury
Two freedom fighters
followed footsteps of
first-ones with fervor.
Festered frustrations led out
first caused from festive beginnings.
Feels like the government will
filibuster freedom for Blacks until they
fall asleep forever.
You talked about
free form forming
free thoughts that you will eventually
pay for, Filbert.
Forever fumbling your thumbs
incapable of
forming an intelligent decision.
For once, fidgeted forwards, you
found your mind: Freedom is a struggle
Ain’t nothing in this world free.
Sleeping Pills with Gin
by Edward O. Hightower
Superman bled
profusely after
being pulverized
for the third time
bounced off buildings
and finally over a
roof descended,
passing 40 story
skyscrapers to
his death defeated
by a psycho maniac
faggot. Spiderman felt
with his Spidery
senses that it
was just one of
those days. The
Incredible Hulk
lay in a
Metropolitan
hospital with
AIDS weighing
104 pounds and
Iron Man rusted
away from the
environmental
acid rain and
other perplexities.
I saw Bugs Bunny
on CNN toting
an AK-47 running
down Pennsylvania
Ave. spraying
the White House
with bullets hoping to hit
Hillary, Who
would have thought
that Mighty Mouse
would be strung out
on crack and doing
drive-bys with his
red cape hanging
out of the window
and his fingers forming
the peace sign.
For a minute
I thought that I was
dreaming as I awaken
dampened by the
sweat rolling off
my forehead. As
I stretched and
yawned signifying
the start of a
brand new day
Minnie Mouse
ran in my room
with a butcher
knife aimed low.
RNER
DUCTION
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