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Guess who’s coming to dinner
he Sons of Confederate Vet
erans will be meeting at
our downtown Radisson
Riverfront Hotel at Two Tenth
Street, June 9 through June 11,
2000. These racist hatemongers
appear to be welcomed visitors to
the Garden City. There has been
no rumor of any protest or resis
tance to their state convention
being held in our fair city. I won
der if the mayor has a proclama
tion prepared for these historical
revisionists? .
These closet hate groups are in
sistent on rewriting history. They
claim to protect their history, which
is code for their attempt to pre
serve a perverted and distorted
picture of their defeated past. They
don’t want to accept the fact that
theylost the war, sothey sit around
in replica uniforms and pretend
they won. This is a closed society,
which in reality is only open to
white males. Only males, who can
ASU student selected for disability exchange program
An Augusta State University
freshman has been selected as
one of 12 university students na
tionwide to take part in an ex
! change program for students with
disabilities. Tomeka White, a 20-
year-old freshman with a visual
impairment, was selected by
Mobility International for the
Cross Cultural Perspectives on
Disability Exchange Program,
which will take place in Costa
Rica August 1-19. Todate, she is
the only Georgian selected for
participation.
Republican
defectors in GA
Pat Buchanan recently an
nounced that four leading Geor
gia Republicans officials were re
signing from the GOP and throw
ing their support behind
Buchanan’s Reform Party candi
dacy.
Leaving the Republican Party
was Pete Castello, GOP chairman
of Georgia’s ninth Congressional
District. Gene Bustard, vice chair
of Georgia’s 42nd district, and
Oscar Poole, Chair of the Gilmer
County GOP. Joe McCutchen, the
conservative activistwhohasbeen
called “the number one talk show
caller in the country” also joined
the new Buchanan Reformers.
Pat Buchanan welcomed the
new Reform adherents at a recep
tion at Colonel Poole’s Georgia
BBQ, in East Ellijay, GA.
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tracetheir lineage back to a confed
erate veteran are eligible for mem
bership. Would an African Ameri
can even want to admit that their
folk fought for the other side? If
they did, you know it wasn’t by
choice.
These groups are dangerous.
Their passion of hate has been
embittered over the last 130 years
as they have had to deal with the
rise of African Americans in their
face, an NAACP that has chal
lenged their ultimate symbol of
hate, the Confederate Flag, and
they are once again diggingin for a
Born into a military family,
White has lived in Augusta for
the past 10 years. She has a
double major of English and Psy
chology, and she performed in
the university spring production
of“Orpheusand the Underworld.”
White is active in Able-Disabled
and other community advocacy
groups for individuals with dis
abilities.
While she is in Costa Rica,
White will be participating in a
variety of disability-related pro
grams, visiting local schools to
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longfight. We can’t underestimate
them for these are the sons of the
murderers and slave masters of
our foreparents. They hold us re
sponsible in many ways for their
defeat, for they know that the la
bor source of Africans in the North
and the South was what really
fueled the Civil War. Neither side
really cared about our freedom but
rather that war was a war over
economics and power. Read Man
ning Marable’s book How Capital
itsm Underdeveloped Black
America and you will get my point.
These hate groups, which are
welcomed and celebrated all over
the new South have a new lease on
life as their agenda is once again
gaining support. Their agenda is
quite simply tooppress the African
American and minority communi
ties like they did in the romantic
period of history they live to cel
ebrate. They reach back to the
time of lynchings, rape and mur
learn about the education system
for students with disabilities, and
learning about the culture and
traditions of Costa Rica.
“This is a great honor for this
student, Augusta State, and the
Augusta community as a whole,”
said Diana Darris, coordinator for
disability services at ASU.
“Tomeka will be the first ASU
student with a major physical dis
ability to participate in a study
abroad program; we are very proud
of her,” she added.
Darris has been heading an es-
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der as the point of reference for
their history. As they reenact this
history, they would love nothing
more than to bring that history
back to life again. |
They are trying to revive every
thingfrom slaverytosecessionasa
part of their movement. They are
sophisticated. Gototheir websites,
The Sons of Confederate Veterans
at, www.scv.org. Also, check out
the Southern Party,
www.southernparty.org and the
Dixie Party at www.dixienet.org.
Augusta welcomes a hate group
downtown and nothingissaid. The
mayor hasn’t shown his displea
sure with this group choosing Au
gusta? The Radisson haswelcomed
them. I wonder why the leaders of
our city haven’t protested?
Dr. Watkins is a sociology pro
fessor at Augusta State University
and can be reached at (706)737-
1735 or email: rwatkins@aug.edu.
fort at Augusta State to estab
lish a study abroad program for
students with disabilities. Last
year, she wrote a proposal that
won first place in a program
sponsored by Mobility Interna
tional, the Association on Higher
Education and Disability, and
the Association of International
Educators.
“Our work on study abroad
programs for individuals with
disabilitiesis finally becoming a
reality,” said Darris.
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Racism
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inthe college sportsindustry over
the past generation. There are
significantly more African Ameri
can quarterbacks and more black
head coaches now than 20 years
ago. But, he asks, how far have
wereally come. And I would add,
how far are we willing to go?
Sheppard’s solution to this ineq
uityis forthe NCAA and its mem
ber schools to actively recruit and
market themselves at job fairs on
college campuses across the coun
try with the sole purpose of re
cruiting talented people of color.
Secondly, he calls upon the televi
sionbroadcastingindustry, which
Birmingham revisited
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But the bombers, clutching at
their ridiculous notions of white
superiority and black inferiority,
couldn’t stand to contemplate a
future in which they’d have to
share American with these chil
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And so, they gave up the last
shred of their own dignity and,
becoming something less than
human, surrendered completely
to evil.
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pays billions (with a“b”) of dollars -
to televise NCAA basketball and
football tournaments, to also put
aside funds for this purpose.’
Thirdly, he calls for a new kind of
TitlelX program (the government
program mandating equal sports
for women in college) which would .
work like Title IX, but would en
sure coaches of color as well as;
athletes. !
Sean Sheppard has started the
conversation. OSU Athletic Di
rector Andy Geiger hasresponded
that Sheppard is right and that
heappreciateshistaking thelead
ership on this. He calls for a’
reduction in the rhetoric and an
increase in results. Let’s hope he'
really means that and thathe will|
not only take up the challenge’
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dren in Birmingham then, and:
elsewhere around American,
grieved at the news of the horren--
dous act, and perhaps felt a-mo
mentary fear. -
But then they kept on moving:
ahead - for Denise McNair and-
Addie Mae Collins and Carole:-
Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, -
and for themselves - into the fu-:
ture which the Birmingham dem- .
onstrations of 1963 had done so.
much, symbolically and actually,,
to make clear would be African
Americans’, too. )
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