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America’s future seems doomed
And the Almighty Brother stepped out before the masses and there
before him was blackness as far as the eye could behold-beautiful
black revolutionary sisters and brothers.
The time - it was months before the revolution and all through the
country, the revolutionaries were getting the minds of the “Negroes”
and “militants” together. Not a white nefarious creature was in sight,
not even his well trained colored spies. Truly, everything was in
blackness. Yes, sisters and brothers, the future of America is doomed
to blackness.
We have set back and let time fly by, let white folk misuse us and
our talents and abilities. It’s time that we took over America - take
what is ours and then go home.
...And children shall lead them... It wasn’t the adults, black
politicians and black businessmen who unleashed the anger that
resulted in riots in Watts, Newark or Detroit. It was the young blacks,
6-19 years old, who had tolerated all the humiliation directed against
their parents, relatives and themselves that they could stand.
They were ready to burn the “whole damn thing level to the
ground.” They did. So what if it was the places where they lived.
None of the blacks there owned those four walls that they leveled to
the ground. Those apartments were run by the lice, rats and roaches
and owned by the white man. Blacks didn’t own them.
It was this type of audacity that forced the older people, politicians
and businessmen totake action. Their fight was more of an
interlectual confrontation resulting in too many compromises.
From the broken promises of these compromises, many blacks (far
too few) have come to realize that to deal with white folk, you have
to talk to them through force.
Dr. King tried his peaceful method. He made historical progress,
but he was murdered. This institutional killing of King proved to
blacks that “nice talk ain’t gonna do the trick.” So the militants too
the reigns and got a lot done too. It can’t be denied that some of the
methods that the militants used were detramental to both blacks and
whites. As so many militants are guilty of it, they nad had action,
force, a direct target but “no plan of action.”
Like King, the system had to pacify the dissatified and rebellious
children. Down went Malcolm X, Brothers H. Rap Brown, “Che,”
Ralph Featherstone and others. Many like Brother Sellers and
Brother Carmichael had to leave or voluntarily left the country.'
Unlike some of the other brothers, Carmicheal came back. He’s
studied and he is “ready.” He’s a new brand of black brother - he can
rap, make suggestions, and can offer “workable” solutions and plans
of action. A true revolutionary?
Meanwhile there are too many sisters and brothers who’s minds are
spinning in a mass of white confusion. They want to imitate the
white man - go to his white schools, get some of his culture, his fine
clothes, build some of his houses. They are so busy trying to get on
the “white train” that they forget to ask where the train is going.
You don’t need to be intergrated or assimilated into white society.
Enough of that has occurred since slAs for the idea of integration,
blacks can harleriously ask, “intergration into what” and
“assimilation into whose what?” White folk have no culture, no
New Plays From the Black Theater
Playwrights combine anthology
If you do not have the facilities
to do some deep thinking then
perhaps you should stay away
from New Plays from the Black
Theatre, edited by Ed Bullins.
The book presents plays by
playwrights such as Leroi Jones,
Charles Fuller, Sonia Sanchez,
Kingsley Brass, Herbert Stokes,
and various other new and
enlightened playwrights.
The plays represent the vibrant
and enlightened spirit of the
black vanguard. Bullins describes
the plays as “dramatizing the
black experience today.” He goes
on to say that “they include a
wide range of. plays from
revolutionary plays like Brother
Jones’ and Sister Sonia’s to
historical plays like Brother
Fuller’s and Brother Davidson’s,
to plays on the Black Experience
and life style such as my own
play and Sister Salimu’s.
It is highly recommended for
those interested in exploring the
work of our playwrights.
original ideas about anything but stealing, and they probably stole
that too. Every piee of literature that white America claims is a
mixture of the literature of other peoples. All the property and land
that they hold as being America’s is indeed the land of other peoples,
that white Americans stole.
The true fact that white folk have tried to hide is that they are the
most unoriginal, dumbest, illiterate, inhuman collection of mono-
maniachs that exists on the face of the earth. But there is one thing at
which they are good and that is stealing. See, they stole us from our
mother land and are using us and blaiming us for their own blind
mistakes.
They want to say that we are responsible for the population
explosion, the economic problem and now the ecological problem.
WE BREATH TOO HARD AND SMELL TOO LOUD. True, black
people are a strong people, an homogenious people with “funk” and
hortousis. Ha! Ha!
No, blacks are not equal to whites. We are far superior. So feel free
to go to your window or door and “throw-up on the great white
American lie - All men are created equal. Blacks are not Americans,I
Negroes, Afro-Americans, we are Africans. We should be recognized [
as a race not as a Georgian. Bostonian, Californian or an Ohioan.
When asked where we are from our response should be “1 am from |
Africa but I am temporarily living here.” When asked what are you,
our response should be “I am an African and my occupation is |
student, teacher, laborer, etc.”
It is important that as black people we know who we are. Then |
there can be no need to ask anyone what you need to do.
The fact that we are black prisoners in an inhuman society, run by I
invisible people (since white is the absence of color and black is the
reflection of all colors, black people are the only visible people thus]
making all white people invisible), will tell us what to do-revolt.
It is only through Africanism that blacks can see themselves asl
wholes and not as patheological adjuncts of the white man. His (the f
white man) racist attitude is more than ample justification for blacksl
to become racist-racist and even deeper - to become revolutionaries.!
Why not? It’s the religious thing to do. God (as black and asl
“docile” as he was) had the makings of a true revolutionary. He I
stressed the unity and smallness of numbers as he said “where ever!
two or three are gathered together in my name, there shall I also be.”[
He didn’t specify men or women. This suggests then that as black!
women we should let our black men know that this i? not a|
matriachal race. We are not competing against our black men. On the I
contrary, what ever progress we are making is being dphe for the|
cause.
We are a peace loving, homogenious family of cultured people, but I
when someone steps on our foot it’s natural that we yell, “git off my I
damn foot boy, you’ve stepped on my intelligence, misused my black!
men and women, tried to keep me down and now you want to step|
on my foot. Boy I’ll kill you.” Bang! BAng! BAng!
Sisters and brothers the future of America is doomed to blackness.!
Your black minds and bodies are needed in the revolutionary!
struggle.
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Spelman prof writes book
By Wanda Smalls
A Spelman faculty member has
just completed a book that will
be available this spring.
Dylan Thomas’ Early Prose: A
Study in Creative Mythology, by
Dr. Annis Pratt, is the creative
analysis of Thomas’ prose as it
reflec Dr. Pratt became
interested in Thomas’ poetry
while she was in college. Her
particular interest was in his
rhythm. “It is the kind of poetry
that can be read aloud,” she said.
While in graduate school, Dr.
Pratt began to read his short
stories. She discovered many
similarities in Thomas’ poetry
and prose works and her book is
based on an in-depth study of
this discovery. “Thomas’ short
stories give insight to his poems,”
Dr. Pratt commented.
Dr. Annis Pratt, prof. English.
(photo by Hayward)
In her book, Dr. Pratt used
several papers from the 1969
Spelman English Honors Seminar.
“Spelman students were a great
help to me, she said,” and I gave
them credit in my book.”
Dr. Pratt has taught in the
Spelman English department for
three years, but says this is her
last. She plans to move to
Detroit. She plans to continue
writing as a full-time job for a
while.
Her next book will be an
anthology of women’s literature,
ancient to present world.
“College freshmen and
sophomores need this kind of
book,” Dr. Pratt said.
She also plans to finish a book
of poems, and write papers on
several well-known authors.
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