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The Augusta News-Review March 2,1985
From The Wilderness
Forgotten past
destined
to return
By Marva»Stewart
Well, now, 16t’s see. It is Black
History Month. I am just elated.
Just think, it is Black History
Mopth in 1985 and Black folk have
it made in the shade. Just imagine,
Black folk don’t need civil rights
organizations, landmark court
decisions or even affirmative ac
tion programs!
It’s just amazing! Black History
.Month in 1985. Black folk don’t
need a Martin Luther King Jr., a
Jesse Jackson, a Frederick
Douglass, or even a James Brown
(to remind them to “Say It Loud,
I’m Black and I’m Proud”). It’s
simply remarkable that Black folk
don’t need an Alex Haley, a Lucy
C. Laney, a Marva Collins, a
W.E.B. Dußois, a Langston
Hughes, or a James Baldwin
anymore. Surely, the struggle is
over.
Just think, in 1985 Black
Americans are truly free to par
ticioate in all aspects of American
fife. There’s no worry or concern
about discrimination or op
pression. ■ '
Regardless, if a Black individual
is rich or poor or light com
plexioned or dark complexioned,
he is treated fairly and justly.
Blacks are truly a part of the
American melting pot. From equal
representation on governing bodies
to legislation to insure voting
rights to the right to reside in any
neighborhood to receiving equal
pay for equal .employment, Black
folk really know that they have
been fully integrated into the
American way of life.
I never thought that I would live
to see this day. No more
struggling. No more demon
strating. No more false
r>msec.ution_ One for all and all for
one. Black folk and white folk
living, working, playing, and
praying together.
Oh, come, now. Let’s’ be
serious. It’s 1985. Don’t let the Ac
tor fool you. It’s 1985. Don’t be
foolish. What’s that saying: Those
who forget the past are destined to
repeat it!
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122 units for noncommissioned of
ficers named in honor of Pfc.
Milton L. Olive 111, the first Black
man to win the Congressional
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was thrown in the midst; Olive
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STARTS WEDNESDAY / .
Growing In Grace
To thine own self be true
By Dr. Cynthia Butler
For the past few months, I have
had a unique opportunity to write
about my experiences in Nigeria. I
have enjoyed
writing for two
reasons, firstly,
I have been
given the op
portunity to
look at a new
profession—
writing. The
Augusta News-
‘f
Review gave me that opportunity.
I am greatful. Secondly, I have
tried to help Black Augustans see
Nigeria as it appeared to me.
Too often perhaps, the content
of my writings appeared negative.
I wish that I could change that, I
can not. But hopefully the in
troduction of the experience will
awaken Black Augustans to ask
themselves what positive steps may
be taken in their relationship with
their personal SELF, the Com
munity SELF, and their roots
SELF—Nigeria.
Before we can move on to
positive growth, we must SEE the
situation as it is. It may be pain
ful. Pain can lead to magnanimous
growth.
Essence magazine of February,
1985 presented an article by
Molara Ogundipe—Leslie. She
was born in Lagos, Nigeria of
Yourban parentage. She is the
founder of the WIN organization
(Womenfindigenous and foreign)
in Nigeria), a national Women’s
Organization. She has two
daughters. I am a member of WIN
and participated as much as I
could when I lived in Nigeria.
Ms. Ogundipe—Leslie is faced
with the same situation as I am.
She, of course, is more visible
because she writes for national and
international magazines. The
dilemma is—how do you not ap
pear negative when you subject
matter has many negative con
ditions in it. I suppose she has
solved it in a similar way as I
have—be as fair as one’s experien
ce allows with the realization that
other writers will come along to
enhance the subject further. Her
article begins with this poem by
Felix Mnthali
Letter to a Feminist Friend
My world has been raped
looted
and squeezed
by Europe and America....
And now
The women of Europe and
America
after drinking and carousing
on my sweat
rise up to castigate
and castrate
their menfolk
from the cushions of a world
I have built!
Why should they be allowed
to come between us?
You and I were slaves together
Uprooted and humiliated
together
Rapes and lynchings....
do your friends “in the
movement”
Understand these things?
No, no my sister
my love,
first things first!
Too many gangsters
still stalk this continent....
When Africa
at home and across the seas
is truly free
there will be time for me
and time for you
to share the cooking
and change the diapers
til then,
First things first!
Ms. Leslie states that this poem
ends on a note irritatingly typical
of male supremists the world over.
Namely, that other issues are more
important than the liberation of
women’s fundamental human
rights in all areas of life—Public
and private.
“All women”, she continues,”
in contemporary Nigeria are under
the stress of living in a Third
World, neocolonial nation headed
by an indifferent, oppressive and
wasteful Black bourgeoisie. Many
women ignore the biological and
emotional oppressions that they
endure, feeling that men are in
corribibly polygynous and women
socially impotent to stop them.
They wish only on the right to have
their children fathered and expect
little from their men in terms of
companionship.”
Though I wish that the
situation for Black women were
different, I am pleased that my ex
periences are substantiated by Ms.'
Ogundipe-Leslie.
“The only object in a
polygamous marriage is the
struggle of the older wife who is
relegated to the background and
the younger wife to get out of her
lower deferential position,” she
continued.
“When a woman marries, she
becomes a possession, voiceless
and often rightless in her
husband’s family. Except for what
accrues through her children.”
A very important point that Ms.
Ogundipe-Leslie mentions is that
men are not the enemy. The enemy
is the society. The entire society
needs to be liberated from
Dehumanization.
Men, however, are guilty when
' they seek to retard and even block
necessary historical changes for
selfish power interest and claim
“culture and heritage” as excuses.
I wish Ms. Ogundipe-Leslie the
best. It has to be difficult to write
on these issues in Nigeria. But
women are a force to be reckoned
with. Men must open up to
growth. Just as the white races
throughout the world have had the
support of their men, Black wmen
also need it—desperately.
"Economics is the very
foundation of social and
moral well-being,"
Felix Frankfuter
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