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Page 4 The Spelman Spotlight
AKA- Sorority, Mu Pi Raises Funds
for Ethiopia’s Children
February, 1985
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by Carol Lawrence
The Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority Incorporated, Mu Pi
Chapter of Spelman College
recently launched a campaign to
raise funds to aid the children of
Ethiopia.
The service project was in
itiated Sunday, February 3rd with
a chapel service featuring Adam
Smith, a Red Cross represen
tative to Ethiopia, as speaker for
the morning worship. At the
same time a plea was made to the
Atlanta University Center to give
to the fund.
Two committees of the sorori
ty were essential in getting the
service project off the ground.
These were the Organizational
Impact and Collaboration Com
mittee headed by Lisa Hobbs and
the Women Concerned with
Global Issues Committee head
ed by Angela Jackson and Glen
da Lewis.
Miss Lewis said of the Cam
paign, "Our reason for choosing
to raise money to send to
Ethipoia was that it seemed the
best way Mu Pi could help. It’s a
needy cause - one of many
needy causes.”
The ladies of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority set up a display
table on the upper concourse of
Manley Center from the 3rd to
the 8th of February to collect
Remember
Malcolm X
by Dr. Manning Marable
February 21, 1985 marks the
twentieth anniversary of the
assassination of Malcolm X, the
greatest Black nationalist since
Marcus Garvey and a major,
spiritual and political spokesman
of the 1960s. It is tragic that many
youth know so little about this
revolutionary figure. The
Cooperative Research Network
in Black Studies, based in
Chicago, has urged us to plan
programs on Malcolm in
schools, churches and com
munity centers during Black
History Month. Martin Luther
King, Jr. will be honored next
year when his birthday becomes
a legal public holiday. “It is our
responsibility to turn our focus
to the life of Malcolm X,” states
the Network in Black Studies.
"Malcolm X was just as important
as Martin Luther King, and must
never be forgotten.”
What is the relevance of El Hajj
Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X) to
Black struggles of the 1980s? First,
Malcolm is an ideal role model
for Black youth. Part of his
greatness as a social figure was
derived from his oppressed
origins. Malcolm began
adulthood as “Detroit Red,” a
smalltime ghetto hustler who
was sentenced to a ten year
prison term. Inside prison he
transformed himself, struggling
to overcome his lack of educa-
funds and to show students and
faculty exactly where their
donations were going. All funds
collected will reach Ethiopia
through CARE, one of the most
established organizations form
ed specifically to aid poverty
stricken communities overseas.
CARE’s motto is “Survival today,
self support tomorrow for the
world’s needy.”
Ninety-five percent of all
funds sent to CARE will actually
reach Ethiopia. The other five
percent covers the es-
tablishements expenses.
tion and poltiical backwardness.
He became the powerful
minister of Temple Number
Seven in Harlem of Elijah
Muhammad’s National of Islam.
Word of his sermons brought
hundreds of poor and working
class Black people together to
hear the message. Malcolm’s life
illustrates graphically the in
herent power we all have to
challenge our own weaknesses,
self-hatred and fears to become
leaders and participants in the
struggle for Black freedom.
We remember Malcolm X
because he loved us, despite the
social and political contrdictions
within our community. In his
autobiography, Malcolm notes
that after hours on the speaking
platform, he would “become so
choked up sometimes I would
walk in the streets until late into
the night. Sometimes I would
speak to no one for hours,
thinking to myself about what
the white man had done to our
poor people here in America.”
During a period when most
Afro-American leaders favored
nonviolent tactics, Malcolm urg
ed activists to start "rifle clubs”
to defend their neighborhoods
and families against police
brutality and white vigilante
violence. When perplexed white
journalists asked Malcolm why
he taught “Black supremacy,”
Malcolm’s response was to
“pour on pure fire in return:”
“For the white man to ask the
Black man if he hates him is just
like the rapist asking the raped,
or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do
you hate me?’ The white man is
in no moral position to accuse
anyone else f hate!” Contem
poraries recognized that
Malcolm articulated, as John
Throughout the week the
sorority had a slide presentation
and featured another speaker.
Sorority members also made
door-to-door visits collecting
money in order to reach their
$1000 goal.
When asked about who gave,
one member said, “Everyone
gave. Spelmanites, Morehouse
men, and Clark and Morris
Brown students. The faculty gave
also. Everyone gave whatever
they had, from dollars to pen
nies. It all adds up and every
contribution is important.”
Lewis once wrote, “the
aspirations, bitterness, and
frustrations of the Negro peo
ple."
We remember Malcolm X
because he was one of the very
few Black leaders of the period
who recognized the limitations
of “integrationas a political de
mand. When civil rights leaders
condemned Malcolm for favor
ing racial segregation, eh ex
hibited a surer grasp of Black
social history. “It is not a case of
wanting integration or separa
tion, it is a case of wanting
freedom, justice, and equality,”
Malcolm responded. "It is not
integration that Negroes in
America want, it is human digni
ty... An integrated cup of coffee
isn’t sufficient payment for 310
years of slave labor.” Malcolm
understood that getting rid of
Jim Crow laws and establishing
Blacks’ voting rights in the south
were only preliminary steps in
the battle for eal democracy. He
criticized Blacks’ endorsements
for Lyndon Johnson's 1964
presidential candidacy, predic
ting with grim accuracy that
Johnson would stop far shot of
providing a meaningful
economic and social program for
Blacks and the poor. Attacking
the Negro middle class’ blind
allegiance to the corporate
system, Malcolm declared: “You
can’t have capitalism without
racism. And if you find (anti
racists) usually they’re socialists
or their political philosophy is
socialism." Years before Martin
broke with the Johnson ad
ministration's genocidal war in
Vietnam, Malcolm stated that
the conflict "shows the real
ignorance of those who control
the American power structure,
More than 300,000 Americans
— not including members of
the armed services — are
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While the NAACP and Urban
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After Malcolm X was
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tion to idealize Malcolm X, to
elevate charisma to greatness.”
Carl Rowan described him as an
“ex-convict who became a racial
fanatic.” But Black actor Ossie
Davis’ 1965 tribute ot Malcolm is
what Black history says about his
true legacy: "In honoring him,
we honor the best in ourselves.
He was and is- a Prince- our own
shining Prince!- who didn’t
hesitate to die because he loved
us so."
Dr. Manning Marable teaches
political sociology at Colgate
University. Along the Color Line
appears in over 140 newspapers
internationally.
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