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A SUNY STUDENT PUBLICATION-UNIVERSITY AT STONY BROOK Week of March 2, 1987 Vol. XV No. 2

RALLY FOR DUBE Protestors Demand Justice & Academic Freedom by Sandra Danielle Dixon An eyewitness account by one of the March 2. It was at this point that demonstrators. some students decided to stay in On the 4th of March 1987 at the Administration building until Dr. Marburger showed. 11:00am, students and faculty gathered in the Union's Fire Side Unfortunately some students in- Lounge to commence the rally, flicted minor damage to the lower "Tenure For Dube." After leav- right wall of the Presidents door. ing the Union the crowd marched Public Safety was called in, and toward the Administration build- they came with batons out, and ing, which was guarded by Public some dressed in bullet proof Safety. The crowd was not allowed vests. Some students were physi- to enter the building, but this did cally harrassed by officers who not deter us. The crowd marched were closing the doors in order to chanting, "Tenure For Dube, Just- keep students out. One young tice For Dube, and Marburger You lady got her contacts knocked oul, Can't Hide. You Support Apart- by a member of Public Safety, heid." who later denied any knowledge Representitives of various stu- of the incident. dent organizations and the Black During the night the media was faculty staff shared their thoughts notified as to what was taking and emotions concerning the Dube place here at SUNY Stony Brook. issue. Professor Dube also ex- Dr. Marburger apparently got wind changed words of wisdom and en- of the news because he called couragement to his supporters. Fred Preston and agreed to meet One could unmistakably conclude with twelve students on Friday, that the rally was indeed a suc- February 27, at 5:00pm in his cess. The demonstration was a office. The students within the peaceful one and the people said Administration building received what was needed to be said. Mar- campus wide support in terms of burger you really can not hide be- food, sleeping gear, spreading the cause their is tremendous support news and calling in the media. on and off campus for Professor At 10:00am Friday morning Dube. another demonstration by the stu- The first phase of the demon- dents went on in front of the Ad- stration began last week Thursday ministration Building. The crowd at a forum held in the Union Fire- then went through the javits lec- Side Lounge. The focus of this ture Halls where we were met by forum was on South Africa today. both support and hostility. Unfor- The speaker Themba Ntinga is a tunately a few students took it member of the African National upon themselves to make personal Congress, and a former Stony statements by using spray paint. Brook student. According to This behavior was met with great Themba Ntinga it is the Univer- hostility by the majority of the sity students who have the power crowd who felt this act would only to influence change. hurt Professor Dube. To make is a briet sum- is a The following Dr. Marburger: This is a personnel Professor Bruce Hare, who matters worse, students who had mary of what Marburger had to Black faculty member within the case and I am not allowed to give nothing to do with the spray paint- say to the group of students. out information. Sociology department also spoke to ing in javits and other areas of cam- to the student audience. According pus were accused of it. We can Students: Why did you deny Dr. Marburger went on to tell the Bruce Hare, "Professor Dube is an only hope that such personal state- students that he is not an expert on has been tenure to Professor Dube? "extraordinary man who ments stop here and now. Dr. Marburger: To teach at Stony Dube therefore committees were dealt an extraordinary injustice, The students then went over to show that you set up to view Professor Dube's to Brook you have to and he should not be banished the Africana Studies Library to have great influence in teaching... publications, and on that is what a four year homeland." discuss more organized and logi- Scholarship and services. Some- his decision was based. In other The forum was to be followed cal means of achieving our goals. is weak in the area words Dr. Marburger denied Prof- by times if one by an organized rally supervised The group collectively came up of teaching but has strength in the essor Dube tenure on something he Professor Owens of the Africana with a list of questions to present area) he gets knows nothing about. Owens publications (scholarly Studies Program. Professor to Dr. Marburger later on that day. If I thought Dube had the The meeting lasted two hours, the students tenure. was not present, and Throughout the day rumors balance in teaching and scholarly with Dr. Marburger agreeing to took the rally into their own hands. have given him ten- meet with the students again. and were spreading on campus about area I would Approximately one hundred violence The deficiency in the scholar- On Monday, March 2, at 7pm the Ad- within the rally. Upon ure. fifty students marched to reaching Dr. Marburgers' office the ship area was too great to over- there was a community meeting ministration building chanting, rumors became apparent. The hole come the areas of teaching and held in the Cultural Center in Tabler "Tenure For Dube," and "justice service...Professor Dube absolutely Cafeteria. Present at this meeting. marched in the wall was increased twenty For Dube." The students times its size, and places not dam- said things that were offensive to was Professor Amiri Baraka, Prof- to the office of Dr. Marburger and some members of the Long Island essor Bruce Hare, Dr. Bagley, Al The aged were patched. This is not to demanded to speak with him. say that I am excusing the actual community." Jordan and various campus based President's aides were unaware of damage, but one must not believe Students: Can you cite for us continued on page 10 where the President was and what everything he/she hears especially if some of Professor Dube's publica- he was doing. However, they knew he/she was not there. tions? he would be back on Monday, On Black History

and concealed to justify Statement by the late Reverend Dr. Once more, we read of tortures in is added the fact that the USSR has arrested Martin luther King, Jr. at a meeting white jails with electric devices, suicides indicated its willingness to partici- supremacy. The American at Hunter College, New York City is proper to Negro's ancestors were not only on Human Rights Day, 12/10/65. among prisoners, forced confessions, pate in a boycott-it while in the outside community wonder how South Africa can so driven into slavery, but their links defy the civilized world. with their past were severed so that AFRICA has been depicted for ruthless persecution of editors, re- confidently conclusion is inescapable that it their servitude might be psychological more than a century as the home of ligious leaders, and political oppo- The of its own power, but more as well as phy lal. In this period Black cannibals and ignorant primi- nents suppress free speech and a free is less sure the great nations will not tives. Despite volumes of facts press. sure that and profit to oppose contraverting this picture, the stereo- South Africa says to the world: sacrifice trade effectively. The shame of our type persists in books, motion "We have become a powerful in- them it is objectively an ally of com- dustrial economy; we are too strong nation is that pictures, and other media government in its munication. to be defeated by paper resolutions of to this monstrous own Black people. Africa does have spectacular savages world tribunals; we are immune to grim war with its is all the more grievous and brutes today, but they are not protest and to economic reprisals. Our default one of the blackest pages of Black. They are the sophisticated We are invulnerable to opposition because was our participation in white rulers of South Africa who from within or without; if our evil our history African slave trade of profess to be cultured, religious and offends you, you will have to learn to the infamous The rape of Africa civilized, but whose conduct and live with it." the 18th century. substantially for our philosophy stamp them unmistakably Increasingly, in recent months this was conducted the growth of our as modern-day barbarians. conclusion has been echoed by sober benefit to facilitate its commerce. We are in an era in which the issue commentators of other countries nation and to enhance in human of human rights is the central who disapprove, but nevertheless, There are few parallels in which question confronting all nations. In assert that there can be no remedy history of the period branded this complex struggle, an obvious but against this formidable adversary of Africans were seized and holds the American Negro is giving little appreciated fact has gained human rights. like animals, packed into ships' when into leadership and inspiration to attention-the large majority of the Do we, too, acknowledge defeat? like cargo and transported moral nation, he must find the human race is non-white-yet it is Have we tried everything and failed? chattel slavery. Millions suffered his own aid his suffering brothers that large majority which lives in hid- In examining this question as agonizing death in the Middle resources to of homeland. Nor is this eous poverty. While millions enjoy Americans, we are immediately Passage in a holocaust reminiscent in his ancestral The civil rights an unexampled opulence in develop- struck by the fact that the United the Nazi slaughter of Jews and Poles, aid a one-way street. United States has ed nations, 10,000 people die of States moved with strikingly different and others. We have an obligation of movement in the from hunger each and every day of the year energy when it reached a dubious atonement that is not cancelled by derived immense inspiration of those in the undeveloped world. To assert conclusion that our interests were the passage of time. Indeed, the slave the successful struggles white supremacy, to invoke white threatened in the Dominican Republic. trade in one sense was more under- Africans who have attained freedom that economic and military power, to We inundated that small nation with standable than our contemporary in their own nations. The fact maintain the status quo is to foster overwhelming force, shocking the policy. There was less sense of Black men govern States, are building the danger of international race war... world with our zealousness and humanity in the world 300 years ago. democratic institptions, sit in world What does the South African Govern- naked power. With respect to South. The slave trade was widely approved tribunals, and participate in global ment contribute to this tense sitiua- Africa, however, our protest is so by the major powers of the world. decision-making gives every Negro a tion? These are the incendiary words muted and peripheral it merely The economies of England, Spain, needed sense of dignity. of the South African philosophy mildly disturbs the sensibilities of the and the U.S. rested heavily on the In this effort, the American Negro spoken by its Prime Minister, Dr. segregationists, while our trade and profits derived from it. Today, in our will not be alone. As this meeting Verwoerd: opulent society, our reliance on trade testifies, there are many white people with South Africa is (of) infinitesimal who know that liberty is indivisible. significance. No real national interest Even more inspiring is the fact that in impels us to be cautious, gentle, or a South Africa itself incredibly brave good customer of a nation that "The South African government white people are risking their careers, offends the world's conscience. Have we the power to be more their homes and their lives in the to make the White Supreme has than peevish with South Africa, but cause of human justice. Nor is this a yet refrain from acts of war? To list plea to Negroes to fight on two had to reach into the past and the extensive economic relations of fronts. The struggle for freedom the great powers with South Africa is forms dne long front crossing oceans to suggest a potent non-violent path. and mountains. The brotherhood of revive the nightmarish ideology The international potential of non- man is not confined within a narrow, violence has never been employed. limited circle of select people. It is felt and practices of Nazism." Non-violence has been practised everywhere in the world; it is an international sentiment of surpassing ii il I _ J I l I_ I IIi I within national borders in India, the strength. Because this is true, when U.S. and in regions of Africa "We want to keep South Africa investments substantially stimulate with men of good will finally unite, they spectacular success. The time white. Keeping it white can only their economy to greater heights. We has will be invincible. come to utilize non-violence fully mean one thing, namely, white pat them on the wrist in permitting Through recent anthropological through a massive international dpmination, not 'leadership,' not racially mixed receptions in our discoveries, science has substantially boycott which would involve the 'guidance,' but cotttrol, supremacy." Embassy and by exhibiting films established that the cradle of humanity USSR, Great Britain, France, the depicting Negro artists. But we give is Africa. The earliest creatures who The South African government to United States, Germany and Japan. them massive support through passed the divide between animal make the white supreme has had to Millions of people can personally American investments in motor and and man seem to have first emerged reach into the past and revive the give expression to their abhorrence rubber industries, by extending some in East and South Africa. Professor nightmarish ideology and practices of the world's worst racism through 40 million dollars in loans through Raymond Dart described this historical of nazism. We are witnessing a re- such a far-flung boycott. No nation our most distinguished banking and epoch as the moment when man crudesence of the barbarism which professing a concern for man's financial institutions, by purchasing "trembled on the brink of humanity." murdered more humans than any dignity could avoid assuming its gold and other minerals mined by A million years later in the same war in history. In South Africa obligations if people of all States and Black slave labor, by giving them a place some men of South Africa are today, all opposition to white supre- races were to adopt a firm stand. Nor sugar quota, by maintaining three again "trembling on macy is condemned as communism, need we confine an international the brink of tracking stations there, and by humanity"; but instead of advancing and in its name, due process is boycott to South Africa. The time providing them with the prestige of a from pre-human to destroyed; a medieval segregation is has come for an international human, they are nuclear reactor built with our technical reversing the process and are organized with twentieth century alliance of peoples of all nations travel- refined ing backward efficiency and drive; a sophisticated co-operation and fueled with against racism. in time from human to uranium supplied by us. pre-human. form of slavery is imposed by a For the American Negro there is a Civilization has come a minority upon a majority which is When it is realized that Great special relationship with Africa. It is long way; it still has far to go, and it cannot kept in grinding poverty; the dignity Britain, France and other democratic the land of his origin. It was of human personality is defiled; and powers also prop up the economy of despoiled by invaders; its culture was continued on page 10 world opinion is arrogantly defined. South Africa-and when to all of this BLACKWORLD page 2 King: "The Dream is Still A Dream"

On Tuesday February 24 1 found myself sit- have made progress but too many of us have ting in the main stage theater waiting for Yolan- stopped moving on and many who have made it da King to begin a lecture entitled The Dream is refuse to look back, refuse to reach back for the Still a Dream. At 8:20 the lecture began with an others who have been left behind. introduction by professor Amiri Baraka. He got Yolanda talked about the growing apathy the audience heated with his discussion of Prof- among minorities, Apathy which is expressed essor Dube, an issue which I am certain we as in numerous ways such as not voting, not minorities are all keeping abreast of. Then Yo- taking an active role in our own organiza- landa King was introduced. She is the eldest tions, not supporting causes we know to be child of Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King. right such as anti-apartheid or tenure of Dube She is the Director of Cultural Affairs of the in the numbers that should be expected. This Martin Luther King Jr. Center, and Co-director apathy was demonstrated in Thursday's free of Nucleus ( a touring company dedicated to showing of "She's Gotta Have It" by Spike promoting positive energy through the Arts). Lee. Whereas the entire black community Yolanda King has been involved in the theater at Stony Brook (or very close to it) showed since childhood and has produced and directed. up to see the hit movie, no one stayed for She received her B.A. from Smith College and the panel discussion afterward. Or if the movie her Masters in Fine Arts from New York Univ- was one of in depth social importance no one siuuents can I aTtora to slide by, because in ersity. She has appeared in several showcases, would probably have showed up at all. The our effort to just barely make it by we may off-off Broadway productions and the films same apathy was shown at the Ossie Davis just get left behind," said Ms. King. "King", "Hopscotch" and "Death of a Prow- lecture which was held Monday the 16th in Yolanda described the 70's as the "Me" ler". Yolanda King's lecture was a mixture of Lecture Hall 100. Yolanda echoed the thoughts decade. She stated that although it is a very pos- poetry, prose, and drama. Her candid, witty of some of us when she said, "It's as if we're itive thing to be independent, to completely and humorous approach to the problems faced waiting for someone to come and deliver us cut ourselves off from outside occurences has by blacks today was refreshing. The sharing of from the evils. As if we are looking for people put us almost as a standstill in the progress of her experiences were both moving and inspiring to do for us what we should be doing for our the movement. She quoted a popular saying to the audience. Many times during her lecture selves." No one should have to tell us to be from the 70's, "Get all that you can, can all that she had to pause to allow the applause to die concerned with what is happening about us. We you get then sit on the can". This seems to be down before continuing. Those of us who at- should take that initiative ourselves. We have a the way of life most are aspiring to, with the at- tended the lecture walked out of it enriched. tendency to be forgetful of the tremendous titude of looking out for number one when what sacrifices which were made in order for us to get we really need to do is try to look out for those Yolanda King discussed the importance of away with being so unconcerned. Too many of around us. us knowing from where we came. "[You] us do not realize that we "are here at Stony Yolanda King gave not jUst an insightful look can not know where [you] are going if [you] Brook not just because we got good grades, into the problems of minorities today but some do not know where [you] have been. We as studied and paid some dues. But that we are ways of changing the situation. Her lecture black people must know our story", stated here becasue a lot of folks paid a lot of dues", spanned from the defense budget to Jim Crow Yolanda. The memories have blurred along stated Ms. King. Laws, from selfishness to civil rights. Each topic with our sense of purpose. The complicated The futures that we are blindly preparing for becoming more engrossing than the last. I lifestyles of today enable us to conveniently now are being seriously undermined as we look walked out of the main stage theater moved, lose our yesterdays in misty images. Ms. King on apathetically. According to Ms. King, wanting to give more than just the standing ov- emphatically reminded us that "The civil rights "Everyone cannot be a leader or a spokesper- ation. On my walk back to my room I thought movement was not a mirage, it was not a doc- son...but everyone can plug into the organiza- of what Ms. King was trying to impart to those umentary, it was not even a television special, tions that are working for the betterment of of us who attended: We as black people have it was live and in living color". She also stated wherever you find yourself. And if you don't not learned to support our own (not even in the that, "black, brown and white students can think they are working don't just sit back and publication of a paper solely devoted to the attend schools across the country together if criticize and complain, get in there and help minority student). It took us a while to learn they choose to, where once they could not. make them work...it really doesn't take as much to put each other down whether on the basis Because of the leadership of my father...and as one would think. It only requires reaching out of skin color, country of origin, education, courageous men and women all across this of yourself a bit more and being concerned salary level or organizational differences. Now about what is happening country black and brown...can vote in this around you. It is is the time to learn to pull each other up. really a very small act country, pretty much unhampered and un- that is required of you... The video tape of th entire lecture is available in But [it] can produce hindered, where once they could not. Be- some real change." Re- the AFS Department. Please stop by to see it. member: if you have not worked for any- cause of that movement we can go just about thing then you won't be worth very much. If AMANDLA --- DEATH TO APARTHEID any place we please, that is if we can afford you don't stand for something then you'll go it, where once we could not". We as a people for anything. "We as blacks and black female Bittersweet No. 3 Caribbean Poetess VisitsStonyBrook

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was born Cheryl Byron an Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean poet She started on the island of Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies. theater in writing as a child privately, and as a teenager she began doing she started Trinidad. She migrated to the United States in 1974 when and Masters developing her poetry. She has to her credential a Bachelors degree in English and is now pursuing a PhD at New York University. on the eleventh of Ms. Byron performed here at SUNY at Stony Brook February, as an activity of the Black History Month. very un- When Miss Byron started writing in the 60's, Dub poetry was "slack lyrics." Miss popular as most calypso songs carried with them people and for new Byron said "I perform to awake culture among our entertaining." audiences and make it an educational experience and very Reggae, Calypso Her poems are done to a rhythmic drum beat of Jazz, and sing along with her. and the Blues that makes the audience move her piece "From Morbay to Some members were asked to participate in -»i to the appre- Kingston". Cheryl Byron speaks of carnival in Trinidad predominantly U I ciation of Black beauty. When asked if her poems bh for instance Money CII5lCo take an AfroCaribbean pattern she said "No, take but it attacks human- Is A God, that does not only affect my people ity."d - . . -L- ^ac.. s thP rrpation of a noem as being UU II In writing her poetry sic uC.ir ...... - - Miss tyron s more recent worKS are puriray.u ii .ui y LcntII , i the most challenging aspect. Miss Byron said "It's like giving birth, Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean stories. Her poems are being pub- it's very painful getting out of your system, sometimes all I get is the lished by Shamal books' "Women Rise" a book of women poe ts in melody and it sticks to my system for days and weeks." In creating an which Byron represents the Caribbean. man accurate atmosphere in her poem Miss Byron has travelled and per- When asked to describe herself she said "I'm a black African wo formed in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, Kenya, with locks like the women of Senegal." States. Nigeria, London and all over the United - ___ ~ I --- -- 'We Are Dube' _ ---h --- I I *i:B

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BLACK WORLD DEMANDS TENURE FOR DUBE!!

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especially Democrats, upon Jewish support THE DUBE ISSUE AND YOU would lead everyone, even Mario (disappoint- ABOUT LAST FRIDAY ment) Cuomo to direct pressure against Dube. by John Saudro These off-campus groups are political organiza- by Emanuel Goldstein tions and their attack on Dube is politically The pebble that was tossed into the Stony motivated. This is NOT an issue of anti--Semi- In response to three unwarranted politically Brook political pond turned out to be a bit of tism, but of politics. motivated tenure denials, a diverse group of a boulder. The waves may wake up some peo- committed Stony Brook students decided that ple and wash away others. However, it is im- Finally, this discussion leads us back to enough was enough. The actions taken after the portant to see what is at stake in the Dube its beginning; to what is at stake. Is Stony 19 hour sit-in outside of Marburger's office case. Brook better off with Professor Dube and were, like those of the previous night, the What is laying on the executioners block others like him? The answer is a resounding here, are three YES. Yes, because he actions of a leaderless, headless amoeba of out- things: I) The academic free- injects into the cold dom of an extraordinary professor. 2) The analysis of academia vitality and spirit. He rage. We moved as one body, singing, chanting, purity of the tenure process (which is mani- makes the students think, he makes them guided only by spontaneity and conscience. In pulated by off-campus political groups) 3) The realize their place in the global community, the aftermath we feel it is necessary to explain a freedom of opinion at the Stony Brook campus and understand the world of today which few things about these actions. and other campuses in general. The is becoming increasingly internationalistic. This As far as the graffiti in the Javits Lecture executioners axe can only be stopped by a con- is what Stony Brook finds in a professor like Center and "damage" in general, we can only certed movement of students and faculty at Dube, this is why he must stay. say that these unpremeditated acts were per- large. Professor Dube is an extraordinary edu- formed by people driven by justifiable rage. cator. His insights speak not from the ether- TRULY SPEAKING Rage that occurs when, after hours of posting The denial of tenure to professor Dube eal vacuum of books, but from real experi- his discussion of Zionism in the fliers in the freezing cold, a barnyard of brown ence. After this man was persecuted for his following shirted pigs decide to tear all of them down. context of racism is a gross infraction to the ideas, persecuted for fighting for his people's amendment and academic freedom. It the physical manifestation of in a South African first (as if removing freedom, and incarcerated also confirms the vulnerability and limitations an idea would destroy the idea itself) If in res- dungeon, how could he possibly teach about living in this country. The vacuum of "Black people" ponse to this fascist suppression we emblazen Africa in the meaningless academic decision in its very nature has made it embaras-- our "Indellible Leaflets", Go With It! The that permeates university life? there was tremendous action, singly obvious that walls of this campus could not be made any These are real issues that demand real racist and political manipulations involved. pondering! Throughout the spray cans in the world. It not inert philosophical It is definitely repugnant but not surprising uglier with all history, social movement and social progress has may rustle your sensibilities a bit. But, think when one considers the hasty condemnation emanated from the universities. It takes some- of Dr. Dube by the "democratic" governor again...it's not pointless juvenile vandalism one like Dube to stimulate provocative thought, (which is everywhere yet never complained of New York who had apparently no real grasp to overturn some of the sacred cows of Ameri- Wharton's linching of Dr. Dube about) but rather it has a purpose. It has of the affair. can political culture. If merely suggesting that suggest that the in-class discussion A question like this (whether or is a line over ultimately Meaning. Zionism could be a form of racism, was viciously taken out of context in order not there is academic freedom in 1987) has which a professor can not cross, then political to achieve a shameful task which is : the syste- real meaning. And, meaning transcends the criticism and freedom of speech are in a crisis. matic elimination of a "Black" native South- hollow idol of "individuality"; the status quo However, even this analysis distorts the issue African professor, who is a leading member preservant that makes us masturbate our con- slightly because for the unvigilant onlooker the of the A.N.C. sciences into moral inertia; degrading every fallacy might prevail that this is a Black vs. Jew Professor Dube indeed was discussing Zion- issue. Nothing could be further from the truth. form of conviction into a nebulous, immor- ism in the context of racism since the topic The large numbers of Jewish students in Dube's syllabus of the class "Poli- phous "point of view"; or the personal "what's fact was listed in the class, who defend him, should attest to the tics of Race" that he taught in the summer in it for me" philosophy, as opposed to collec- that this is not an issue of anti-Semitism, but tive commitment. of 1984. Unfurtunately an ignorant fanatic rather an issue of politics. and reported to a visiting may say of the Dube question, "Why visiting Israeli professor who distorted distorted the facts You The professor who, in turn made a vile accusation should I care?" "What does it have to do with Dube's words as well as the media after him against the Black vs. Jew mis- Prof. Dube. me?" Well, if this type of academic repression should bear the blame for Let's not however harangue subjectively is allowed to persist indefinitely (and with stu- conception. In his class, Prof. Dube merely that has already taken pres- on a racist conspiration non-action it most certainly will) it will included material from the U.N. which Let's rather question both the validity dent ented the position that Zionism was racism, effect. have very much to do with you. But, by that of the Zionist accusations and the legitimacy a position that Dube himself thought to be of Dr. Dube's in-class discussion. time it will be too late. Not only will you not simplistic. However, I talked with a Jewish be able to change it, but you will not even real- Without any aesthetic manoeuver to distort woman from Roslyn who, imbued with the argument because opposing viewpoints the truth, one needs no further ize it has happened perhaps justifiable defensiveness of many the inappropriate and vicious charges objective because to reject will no longer exist and a supposedly Jews, was outraged at Dube. This was brought up against Dr. Dube. Let's confront political atmosphere will really just be ruling her sources of information told her that Dube the truth now: stated outright that Zionism was Naziism, class ideas wallowing in a festering right wing something not even resembling what he said. Fact 1) Zionism is a movement for setting sump. However even if he had said these things, he'd up exclusively a Jewish national or religious It's your decision. You. You, reading this be in his rights. community in Palistine. According to a 1976 racism. right now, and anyone out in the street has just Whatever off-campus groups manipulated U.N. resolution, Zionism is so for Fact 2) The Zionist imperialist state of as good a chance at seizing the rein of history the facts and exerted the pressure, did political benefit in order to make Israil, second to the U.S.A., has billions of as anyone else on this planet! their own Dube seem like an anti-Semite and strike the dollars invested in Apartheid South-Africa. not over. It has only just begun. The battle is emotional * cords in the Jewish community freedom for Dube, support continued on page 8 Support academic so that the classic dependence of politicians, freedom for all people everywhere. "Student's Voices"' STONY BROOK DILEMMA BLA CK HISTOR Y MONTH TInitrp fJI irjuuq; I V ilili I., «Ii U UUC BLACK HISTORY MONTH WHICH BLACKS CELEBRATE We want it right away Mi nuh know how mi fin mi self AFTER OVERCOMING THE AGONY THAT WHITES CREATE Tenure for Dube ina dis situation. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. GOT US THIS FAR We want it today Lef Jamaica come attend a so WE MUST MOVE ON, WE MUST STRIVE FOR THE STARS Marburger you can't hide called reputable institution DON'T LET THEM BRAIN-WASH YOU OR EVEN PUT YOU DOW you support Apartheid Where mi caan pass a class AFTER ALL, WE ARE STANDING ON SOLID GROUND Wharton you can't hide cause dem set quota is di Tenure for Dube you denied all mi hafi call it Stony Brook dilemma. BLACK HISTORY MONTH COMMEMORATES OUR LEADERS Old Marburger had a farm BLACK HISTORY MONTH BRING FORTH TRUE BELIEVERS E. I. E. I. 0. Ha bwoy everybody de pon aim program BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS A PART OF ME And on the farm he had some Pigs (Police) and dem feel dem getting over MONTH, WHERE WOULD I BE? WITHOUT BLACK HISTORY E. I. E. 1.0. but di administration have a plan IF THERE'S NO BLACK HISTORY, THERE'S NO ME. with an Oink Oink here dem select students according to dem and a Oink Oink there low grades and poor financial situation, AVERY R. BLACK here an Oink, there an Oink bring dem here in defiance everywhere an Oink fi compete wid creme de la creme Bronx School of Science. (W.I.M.M.) Old Marburger had a farm from Dem act surprise at di few E. I. E. I. 0. a wi who graduate from ya Justice for Dube when it's all apart a di Stony Brook We are here to stay dilemma. what happens to a dream deferred Tenure for Dube Does it dry up like a rasin in the sun He is a O.K. Dem have french department or fester like a sore Hell no we won't go Dem have a Spanish department and run SUNY at Soweto Onoo Lef Wi Nuh Dem even have a section fir German an Russian Does it stink like rotten meat We shall overcome, We shall overcome Dube shall overcome Someday Dem tun roun an gi wi someting or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet Let mi let mi be free AFS program. from deep in our heart dem call di maybe it just sags Go weh wid yuh multi national Mi naw lie but mi hafi start fret We do demand like a heavy load corporations Misses Teck a good look pon dem budget. Tenure for Dube, right away! or does it Go weh wid yuh leftist What a sinting mah, when you get Black and White Together propoganda caught up in di Stony Brook Dilemma. does it We are brothers and sisters Go weh wid yuh guns and explode. Give me a "D" - "D" a mm unition Recently wi hearing a lot bout Give me a "U"- "U" Go weh yuh Syrian one big wud name academic freedom -- Langston Huges Give me a "B"- "B" Go weh to where yuh really waan it have everybody in di place Give mea "E" - "E" ti be turning upside down. IT HAPPENED IN MOTGOMARY Everybody hafi start wear padlock What do we want go get yuh Go weh yuh exploiter, pon dem mout mi seh TENURE FOR DUBE! somewhere else. cheap labor or i gwine end up looking fur a job yuh will never Go weh yuh tourist, like professor Dube by Ras Marvin know mipeople ... then he slamed on the brakes we suppose fi be in di Ian of di Go weh wi doan need yuh turned around and grumbled free monetary manipulation where everyman have a right Go weh wid yuh luxury cars to freedom of speech she was tired that day and yuh corn flakes But day is not what mi see from warriness was in her bones Go weh wid yuh plastic shoes mi come ya and so the thing she had done yesterday and let wi dreads leather reign Maybe its just apart of di Stony Brook and yester-year Go weh let mi be free Dilemma. I'll Respect or else yuh soon si wi rise up on her work days, church days, nothing to do guess Fettucini Alfredo or Creme of Tomato onoo feel di pain onoo a visit sister Anne days an miek when mi tech a stock dem a lick she thought she would never do again mek wi feel. wi wid di stale antipasta Walking down the street one day Di tree yuh see come from di seeds If yuh nuh min sharpe yuh nyam Hear what one of my brothers say to me wi sowed And he growled once more raw pizza Keflections As I was passing by wi blood dat proud. an blood a run out a yuh here" Wi are a poor people but So she said, "no sir I'm staying right It was enough to make me cry. hamburga yuh go fi go drink sprite but He say - woman how you so ugly Natalie Neita When I was a child, and then a young a pur seltzer wata and he gruffly grabed her You aint got no beauty man, Ronald Reagan was an actor Dem force yuh pon meal plan an was sharing nose - he was vexed of small reputation. Later, in college, pulled and pushed her When God sen yuh go a benedict cafeteria Clarence Pendleton, a mustachioed hotdog and sharply shoved her through the doors so you get an overdose Whe dem tell yuh "All you can eat man" and when it was time for lip - you get enough a comical braggart, who one day disgraced De food so nasty dem know yuh you even get a laniappe* leaving his fiancee the news Nuh want extra his family and friends by of fellas laughed Stony Brook shushed through the littered streets Ha - Ha Ha - the rest But I suppose it's all apart a di standing at the altar, in a church packed with Man - that woman have a face and a half... Dilemma or is it di Stony Brook Disaster. slipped into the crowded churches the cream of negro Washington. Youth. like a cave But tell me while we ridiculing are slithered unto the unmagnolied side of town of the winds, useless pompadoured guys chortling what is your standard of beauty the mem talked and talked and talked stupidly in films of no importance about stupid and while If your nose straight you so pretty Natalie Neita things. And dudes you knew obliquely, your roommates D .4L. 1 I. - FJ- -%..... % . A .v.. . d. i.f,,f l ,I, that UL IIr It it a -. yuu u iurnrir-y u ,g buddies, who talked dumb shit in the room souped up she who was tired that day cried and sobbed If your lip only a little thick she was glad she'd done it Man everybody quick to make fun of your on beer and frat pins and lies nobody (then) could UNTITLED disprove. But oh, don't you know, in the world, in the that her soul was satified only face world. It was there all the time, in the cave, and the lord knows a little walking never hurt nobody. and make you feel out of place My life is caught. - God was making us before, life's frightening pits and contradictions. When Jah - father In a never ending rainstorm. to we didn't have no choice and couldn't 5b each raindrop. The wind in the cave is life's speedy trace, the motion fuss And with of everything. And you then (and now) be awake, the motion, For a color, creed or race there comes more complications raise your eyelids young girl, in that motion a old man, Nor the style if we face... That add to this puddle; know it or dont. Where it leaves you, not what you leave -- Phil Peachry Clb It's time to build a legacy the puddle that lay at my feet. it, as if there were grades as well as graves, but the Appreciate black beauty. though. meaning, like you say, what everything's about. We know One day the sun will shine, what we know and what we dont knows us. Now we see Ronnie Copyright 1977. Cheryl Byron and the puddle will be gone. & Penny-those stupid guys!! Alas, where it's led us, this Until that day I'll battle this rain *Laniappe - extras crumbling America! That these stupid guys are now our leaders. just me and my What would you have said had I whispered this in the last minutes Umbrella. of Bonzo Goes to College, and what wd you have sd if I An unabbreviated revision of Respect. pointed at Bonzo and said, and that's the Civil Rts Commissioner aint by Audrey Toler it? AMIRI BARAKA Viewpomits.. L>Z.JI· & ^ f2-^2L^ L/T?C kJ BEWARE OF con€tnue from page o She is not afraid to take the initi- dependent. MANIPULATIONS! Fact 3) The Zionist Imperialist state of ative. -She is no longer standing behind the AESTHETIC Israel has developed expensive politico-econo- man, she is standing next to him. God created Currently a small sector, under the pretense mic and military relations with the racist govern- woman from the rib of a mans' side, not from that they are so righteous and better qualified on behalf ment of South Africa and remains ironically the bone of his back. (She has desires to be to decide and make transactions ideology of Apar- Organization) with- a faithful supporter of the fulfilled, and takes the initiatives to satisfy her of HSO (Haitian Student theid (Which is nothing but another form of the general body, is con-- needs.) This is demonstrated in Nola Darling's out ever consulting Nazism). ducting a series of false propaganda in order to character. denigrate and intimidate all members who Why? One should ask. Is it because Apar- do not agree with their alienative policy thied South-Africa was the first and only Af- Is it wrong for Nola Darling to be so and sectarian attitudes. Israel? Is it We.posethis question. Or is it rican state to recognize Zionist promiscuous? Also when considering that this sector deli- entities have common more than one lover? because both political right for the man to have berately and viciously tries to use the "uncon- characteristics? We took a census from several conscious black ditional" support for professor Dube as the issue On the other hand, it comes to question women on campus . We've concluded from internal dispute, we as well as the major- it was of our Dr. Dube's discussion in the context these women that Nola Darling symbolizes the members of HSO believe that it is absol- be a fanatic ity being conducted, one needs not that we are in. They agree that as utely necessary to both inform the commun- discussion) was quite new era to admit that it (the more aggressive. ity about what's really going and reaffirm our In' fact who wouldn't question Black women we are becoming legitimate. the sincere support for Professor Dube in his fight Zionism in this context when the Zionist We are turning the tables around and now shoe is now on the other foot. We are tired of for tenure. our dispute is created out of the on, knocked, and dumped on, In fact, Imperialist state of Israel vows absolute support being trampled practices and alienative policies that a worn out rag. The Black dictatorial as if we were merely sector has introduced and attempted to im- is this for Apartheid South-Africa? Why shouldn't woman : now taking the initiative and hence plement within the Haitian student organization. Dr. Dube discuss Zionism when Israel, a state in pursuit of what she wants. It is also activated by their constant refusal of Hitler's infamous Holocaust, and any possible con- created out of of direct communication is the military supplier to Apartheid South- However, there are some negative aspects women sensus. Africa? Let's again face the facts: this movie. All of the conscious black It must be made clear that the sector that Fact 1) Dr. Dube is a native of South- on campus who were interviewed revealed that is making arbitrary decisions in the name of who spent most of his life under Apar-- who were Africa this movie was inappropriate in honor of HSO is made up of many members the general body and are Black History Month. never elected by theid (which is a system destined to main- neither part of the executive body. Among tain racial atrocities and safeguard the supre- these members, some are graduate students. macy of the so-called "Arian-race." Opinion Poll As a result, the minority community must be Fact 2) "Dr. Dube, as Professor Baraka aware of the fact that the above mentioned sec- stated, is a leading member of the ANC, banned Dalie: "It was inappropriate for Black History tor, since it is facing eventual dismissal, is and and exiled from his country, and who has Month. It degraded the Black woman, this will be using all sorts of slanders and lies in order Island..." been imprisoned in notorious Robben movie made me as a Black woman feel exposed to disguise the truth. Fact 3) Dr. Dube has been for 33 years and cheap when I left the movie." We hope that the community understands a member of the ANC which is an anti-Apar- confirm Fawn Waterman: "It had no theme, no plot, the situation and again we want to theid, anti-oppression, national liberation front support for Prof. Dube in his struggle for no basis. That movie was inappropriate for our and which is classified by the "Free World" and furthermore in his struggle for the Black History Month. They should have shown tenure as communist. liberation of South Africa! Fact 4) It is needless to say that the govern- The Color Purple. However, it was very ment of South Africa is a faithful replica of funny." UHURU! Reich. That native "Black" South- was the Third Janet Grant "Even though the movie by Dalie Colas Africans, in other words, Dr. Dube.s and our funny at times and made a direct statement exposed Donald Guerrier brothers and sisters are still helplessly to the male population I do not think it was Yvon Magny to the evils of Apartheid just like the Jews for Black History Germany. an appropriate presentation Lionel Philippe-Auguste were under Nazi Black Thus being aware of the close ties existing Month. This movie not only degraded between the two governments and taking into women morally , but it also depicted Black consideration Dr. Dube's extraordinary experi- men in a very negative light. One is often con- ences and natural feelings, one must agree fronted with negativity with regards to the that he is in the position to question Israeli Black family and I feel that Black History Zionism in the said context. His in-class dis- Month should be used to educate the masses cussion was quite legitimate. as to the struggles of our forefathers, our pres- BLACKWORLD However if a Jewish person can say without ent struggles and those we must face in the embarassment that "Dr. Dube is a nigger and a future as well as our positive accomplishments how easy people forget pig...," that shows as a people." and don.t learn from their past. One might "KNOW THYSELF" was, as well add that Seide Adolphe Hitler Nora: "Black History Month is supposed t< in the same context, right. be about the struggles of black women and men It must be added also that in the very same to depict the accomplishments fashion all Jews feel towards Hitler, his direct It is supposed Thi associates and anybody who has had any invol- and their contributions to Black History. vement in such inhuman atrocities; It's with movie degrades the Black Woman because i the very same intensity Dr. Dube, all native portrayed her not in a positive way but in a ne Camille Nelson "Black" South-Africans and all true Africans ative light, as being a sex friend without Editor-in-Chief must feel towards the Brother Klan and any- scrupples." body who supports Apartheid ideologically, for Blac Sharon: "This movie is inappropriate Yvon Magny politically, economically and militarily! Any other time would hav History Month. Production Manager Anonymous been better. Instead, they should have showr This movie di! "Go Tell It on The Mountain." Marie Hilaire IT'S THE 80'S YA'LL, DO YOU KNOW WHAT it gave black men respected women because Business Manager bad image of black women. TIME IT IS? in the movie, Greer Childs la! "For instance Staff 'Now I'm going to try to ge lines to Nola were, Jackie Distant by D.W. & N.R. when they ai me a white girl.' How come Carole Dixon the blac down, poverty stricken, they need Sandra Dixon but whe There was a message which Spike Lee (the woman to help them in the struggle Zachary Dowdy th director and producer of "She's Gotta Have they become accomplished, they turn to Terrence Nunes It") was trying to convey to the Black brothers white woman. This is constantly shown b Cynthia Robinson of today. The message which he wanted to black men in the public's eye. Mia Williams bring across is that we are in a new era and that eg: Hershel Walker. When he was dowi Black brothers need to wake up. It is quite evi- he had a black woman to help him in th Photographers .odent that Spike Lee knows what time it is; he struggle, but when he made it, he turned aroun Charles Donovan w understands that the Black woman has come a and married a white girl and this white gi Dedra Grizzell 3long way and he is sensitive to our needs. Un- divorced him "Real Quick" after she swindle Randa Henry - like other black movies which Whites have dir- him out of his money." Typesetter ected, Spike successfully demonstrated the ,.: "ifer Flatow f ethnicity of our people. If you have any views which are significai Edward Carron _k Contrary to popular belief, Black women and that you would like to share please don , are not subservient. Generally speaking, the hesitate to write your rebuttal in this viewpoii SBlack woman on screen is portrayed in dom- of Black World. estic roles as maids, nannies, and Aunt Jemima figures to her white employers. In this movie P.S. Black Men Of Yesterday, Are You Reac the Black woman is aggressive, assertive, and in- To Meet The Black Women Of Today??? - -- American Poetics & Afro- American Poetry by Terrence Nunes

Poetry, as a distinct form of literature, has been found present in many cultures since the art of writing established itself as an important means of communication. It is often used subjectively to express strong convic- tions, either personal or political. Therefore, poetry can be found to play a significant role in the development of a particular culture or, more spec- ifically, society. Where rifts in a society are present so too will there S evolve different forms of poetry; each seeking to support or project the different points of view held by sects of people in that society. Two such forms of poetry found present in our society are American poetry and Afro-american poetry. bi Professors William J. Harris and June Jordan, on February 12th at 2:30pm in the Africana Studies library, undertook the arduous task of comparing the two forms of poetry previously mentioned. Professor Har- ~ ris brought into perspective the fact that American poetry is inherently ~""ga~.. derived from British poetry in actual form. Many poems are still written in iambic pentameter as well as other "traditional" methods. What consti- which exist between "white" and "black" poetry. Professor Jordan stated tutes American poetry is the language. William Carlos Williams is pre- that white poets may be more creative in their works. Louis Simpson was sented as a positive example of American poetics because he writes in the quoted as having said "I make this up" while reading a few of his selec- "American language." tions in the Fine Arts Center. Black poets will tend to be more rigid. The language in which a poem is written seems to be a crucial aspect of They have a political obligation to their people. poetry. Professor Harris, in his discussion, uses language as a means of determining the differences in styles of poetry. While comparing Ameri- Another apparent difference lies in the fact that much of the Afro-am- can poetry to Afro-american poetry he cited Amiri Baraka, who was pre- erican poetry is a direct reflection of the current issues of the times. In sent, as a positive example of Afro-american poetics due to his writing in order to reach the masses of people these issues directly concerned the the "Afro-american" language. poets of the sixties were compelled to recite in the streets. This meant Since the possibility exists that a poet may wish to express his or her that their work "had to hit right away" in order to attract and hold the at- ideals in a non-traditional manner it was fortunate that Professor Harris tention of passers-by. The poetry needed to be purposeful, clear, and ac- examined a method by which this could be attained. He stated that a cessible. The topic or idea being expressed had to be "big enough to in- poet could "escape a model by drawing on another mociel essential to a volve everyone listening." These factors spurred a fundamental evolution culture." Amiri Baraka, in some of his works, accomplishes this feat by in the rhythm of poetry. The meter (a traditional method of coordinating using jazz as a model. This may be viewed as an attempt to reshape or un- the words compiling a verse in poetry) required replacement for practical dermine the dominant culture. American poetry which is dominated by a purposes. A new rhythm was introduced, which Professor Jordan calls combination of British and Western traditions and ideologies would, in vertical rhythm, and it suffices in captivating an audience and even pulls effect, become inverted to form Afro-american poetry. The Afro-ameri- people through a poem. This was essential to the successful relaying of in- can poets are seen as dissenters of the established language and culture in- formation to the people through poetry. Much of Afro-american poetry is herent in American poetry. centered around political issues and the vertical rhythm, as a distinct char- Professor June Jordan carried the discussion one step further. While acteristic of black poetry, has remained an integral component of the lit- generalizing on the topic she outlined many distinguishing characteristics erature. The Future of Black Theatre by Jackie Distant forms whose contributors were Atrican slaves. "We have to go back to In celebration of Black History Month those involved with the black those forms because the minstrel show is what theatrical comedy is built theatre chose to look forward rather than back as they discussed "The on and the slave narrative is the oral tradition by which our history has Future of Black Theatre" in a panel discussion held on February 17. In- come down to us. We have to go back and do something with those and troduced by host Professor Amiri Baraka as "two giants of the theatre", find a means of relating to our people in a form that is more close to our Professors Glenda Dickerson and Louis Peterson enlightened students con- emotional reality." cerning changes that are essential to the survival of the theatre. The discussion began as Professor Dickerson responded to the ques- tions, "What is the future of black theatre?" and "What direction is black "The goal is to create a theatre theatre going in?" She replied, "Usually the answer to that question is a gloomy one...there is no black theatre, or there is no national black theatre or there is no unified effort toward creating a national black the- that reflects our cultural richness atre of an African-American theatrical tradition." This is in fact the real- ity of our predicament and both Dickerson and Peterson lend themselves and diversity and acknowledges to this fact as they present their views. Professor Dickerson went on to cite recent happenings in the Novem- ber symposium sponsored by the Actors Equity Association along with the contributions of groups other the other major theatrical organizations. The topic discussed was "Non- traditional Casting in the American Theatre." She explained, "What the sumposium did was to take a look at some nontraditionally cast scenes. than whites." Nontraditional means a role that's cast without regard to gender or ethni- to the reality of the role city when that ethnicity or gender is not germain Professor Peterson begins with a self history as he reflects on his ex- casting is also used to refer to or the play as a whole." The term blind periences as an "American black person with mixed blood" attempting to nontraditional casting. enter the realm of theatrics. Throughout his attendance at Yale Drama held which equate nontradi- In an attempt to clarify misconceptions School and thereafter he experienced several bouts of "tokensim." Having action Dickerson adamantly states, "What tional casting with affirmative grown in a period in which blacks were protrayed solely as servile and door for an American theatre that is we are talking about is opening the amoral, Peterson bluntly states, "I grew up thinking that 'Step and a theatre that Fetch- truly representitive of this country." The goal is to create it' had all the black people." reflects our cultural richness and diversity and acknowledge the contri- butions of groups and gender other than whites. These seminal experiences blossomed as Peterson began an era of plays In order to implement blind casting on a broad scale Professor Dicker- in which middle class blacks were protrayed. "I decided to write a play son feels that it is imperative for change to beginin the educational insti- about people like me, middle class black Americans, who came from a cer- tutions and regional theatres. Concerning the existing form of theatre she tain section of our society who had a father and a mother who worked states, "It does not allow us to explore the questions that are immediate hard and I thought in them there is a drama. I have yet to see myself por- concerns to us as a people. It is incumbent upon these artists coming up trayed on the stage, in the movies, anywhere." now to take and build upon that (blind casting) rather than going back Compounding the problems of black theatre as well as white is the and imitating a European form of theatre." threat of television. As Peterson put it, "It is suffering because the main- The problem of craftsmanship within the university is also addressed stay of the theatre has always been situational comedy or family com- by Professor Dickerson as she expresses the difficulty that young black edy." According to Peterson this type of theatre is now dead and for the playwrites encounter in receiving training. "So few...have or are able to past 15 years the theatre has been wandering around in search of a new get the craft or know that they need the craft of writing plays. We don't form. He goes on to suggest a new form that incorporates the style of really have alot of places for young people to go and learn that craft" the ancient Greeks as they addressed the sufferings of humanity. The un- &In closing, Professor Dickerson stressed the need for the theatre to iversity and regional theatres will live on but it is the theatres of New review the narrative and the minstrel show, which are indigenous theatre York that Peterson feels "will not survive unless this new form is found." Weekends At Stony Brook by Darren Lee Jenkins An outgrowth from SAB has been MPB (Minority Planning Board). the This organization is designed to create and hold events geared for On the Stony Brook campus, a question is usually asked to students minority community on campus. "MPB is doing a good job this year by students on Thursdays: "What are you doing this weekend? "I'm compared to other years," said Ms. Jordan. MPB doesn't have the funds doing the same thing I do every weekend; nothing," said Alrene Robin- to give events on a regular basis. Two years ago MPB was almost elimin- son, a sophmore at Stony Brook. This answer is commonly heard ated all together because some members of SAB believe MPB was a mini- around campus. But some student's response is completely different SAB. Last semester MPB had given two parties and a carribean weekend. from Ms. Robinson's reply. "I'm going to hit EOB's on Thursday and These events, however, only came once a month during the fall semester. Tokyo Joe's on Friday," said John Buonora, a senior at Stony Brook. Other organizations on campus do hold events that every student can The biggest difference between these students aren't their class or sex, enjoy. COCA usually shows a movie every weekend. "I usually go out but their race. John Buonora is white and Alrene Robinson is black. on the weekend and check out a flick. But after the movie it's still early Over the past three years events and activities for blacks and other and you have nothing to do for the rest of the night." said Ms. Silfa. minority students don't happen on a regular basis. "It's hard to be- Another problem is the drinking age law. Raising the drinking age lieve that this is the same school," said Cheryl Gray, a senior at Stony to 21 has kept many freshmen and sophmores away from events where Brook and a member of the organization Drastik Measures. Drastik alcohol is sold. "Being 20 keeps me from going to a lot of parties on Measures is a multi-ethnic organization--one of the few on campus that campus, because alcohol is served there," said Ms. Silfa. "The drinking give events that will entertain all races. But this group has an astigma age law is good because it keeps some of these crazies off the road when of being a bunch of punk-rockers that are too wild for most students. they are all fired up," Ms. Jordan said. "We gave a club and new wave party this year. Lydia Lunch, an avant There aren't any sports teams that the students on campus could garde poet living in Spanish Harlem was here. This semester we're rally around either. "When I went to OU [Oklahoma University] having a reggae party and another club and new wave party at the Saturdays during football season revolved around [Oklahoma] Sooner end of the year," said Jackie Cooke, a member of the group. football. The games would be so crowded that we could give television This is one of the few groups that are racially mixed. Most groups are parties where we would watch the game," said Bridgit Cooper, a graduate either predominately black, white, latin or oriental. All clubs or organi- student from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Athletics are not promoted on campus zations are forbidden by SU NY law to keep anybody out of the organ- like other major schools. " I didn't know we had a football team, " said ization because of race, but usually people of similar ethnic backgrounds Sheri Flanagan, a junior at Stony Brook. Stony Brook had a good foot- congregate in the same organizations. "I don't think anybody white ball team last season, featuring an All-America candidate in Chuck would want to join any of these [black] fraternities on campus, because Downey. But a good crowd at Stony Brook game is 1500 people. of some of the things they say," said Lynda Jordan, a junior at Stony Schools like Olkahoma, Michigan and UCLA average about 80,000 Brook. Black fraternaties and soroties were created to counteract the people at their home games. bigotry and racism of many white fraternities when blacks were first per- This year's Men and Women Basketball teams will make the NCAA mitted to attend white schools. division III tournament this season. But most of the students on campus Rose Silfa, is a hispanic student at Stony Brook. She is a member of are unaware that the women's team is ranked nationally (15th according LASO (Latin American Student Organization) and sees the frat battles to AP) and the men's team is presently, 16-4. SUNY at Buffalo received permission to upgrade its program from division III to division I. Don't cluding other nationalities. "I'm caught in the middle." said Ms. Silfa. expect the Stony Brook athletic department to attempt something as "You have the black frats over here and the white frats over there and radical as division I in the near future. They couldn't get Chuck Downey we (Hispanics) are here in between the two." on any of the all-American teams last season. The emergence of a good Why is there such polarization on campus? What can be done to sports program can keep the whole student body interested in the same change this? One answer to this is SAB (Student Activities Board). This event and make them feel more united as a school. organization is designed to give events for students on campus. Although Many minority students combat lack of activities by going home on they usually give an event every week, blacks and other ethnic groups the weekend. "I stay around now on weekends because I am more ma- feel left out. "SAB is not doing a good job. All of their events are ture, but last year I went home almost every weekend," said Rose Silfa. geared to white people," said Ms. Jordan. Clubs like Tokyo Joe's or "I have to work on Fridays, but usually Saturday morning I go home and concerts like Lou Reed does not attract a large minority crowd. Joyce come back Sunday night," said Lynda Jordan. Yearwood, a member of Drastik Measures, feels that everybody is This lack of activities has made some minority students even bitter entitled to events held by SAB. "Hey we [blacks] pay activity fees just towards Stony Brook. "The best part about this place? Leaving," said like anybody else. We have every right ot go to Tokyo Joe's. We just ura DeBerry, a senior at Stony Brook. have to get a large number of blacks to go there and ask the DJ to play the music we want to hear. If we don't do that, things will never change. King continued from page 2 DUBE: Professor Baraka encouraged stu- On Tuesday, March 17, at 7pm dents and faculty to voice their dis- there will be a Teach-In on the afford to be set back by resolute, continued from page 1 agreements, and they did. Many Dube Affair. The Teach-in will wicked men. Negroes were dispersed complained of being used provide a fact sheet for those who students over thousands of miles and over Present as pawns by members of the Black want to know what started the clubs and organizations. many continents, yet today they have was the Caribbean Students Or- Faculty. Some students felt cer- Dube controversy. ganization, African-American Stud- tain professors were pitting student There will also be a debate with found each other again. Negro and ents Organization, Latin-American organizations against each other. the Administration and the com- white have been separated for centuries Student Organization, Hatian Stu- They also felt that Professor Bruce munity concerning Academic Free- by evil men and evil myths. But they Hare was a hypocrite in his stand on dom. Anyone who wishes to help dent Organization, Hands Off Latin have found each other. The powerful Gospel Choir, Zeta Phi Tenur for Professor Dube. On one with this should contact the Afri- America, unity of Negro with Negro and white Beta, Delta Sigma Theta, Black hand he claims Professor Dube to be can-American Students Organization World, Young Socialist Alliance, an extraordinary teacher and on the befofe April 23. with Negro is stronger than the most Sigma Phi Rho, Minority Planning other hand he feels he should not These are the first steps in con- potent and entrenched racism. The Hare structing the foundation in bring- Board, Women's Center, Malik Mel- get tenure. Professor Bruce whole human race will benefit when Alpha Kappa Alpha, Kappa denied such charges and affirmed ing the community together on this ody, issue. There will be another Com- it ends the abomination that has o Alpha Psi, Malik Sigma Psi, Phi Beta his support for Dube. Professor Graduate Student Organi- SBaraka made it clear that the Afri- munity meeting Tuesday, March diminished the stature of man for too L Sigma, 31. Concerned students are encour- zation, N.Y.P.I.R.G., U.N.I.T.I. Cul-. cana Studies Program stands firmly long. This is the task to which we are s aged to come out and give support. ; tural Center, Red Balloon, et cetera. behind Tenure For Dube. called by the suffering in South Africa, and our response should be Great swift and unstinting. Out of this Kings of Africa struggle will come the glorious reality of the family of man. C 2xezeCkf o 2-%uiAgjsg f§byssla 4-193) Taken from the Black Collegian Yroclaimed to be a descendantof the legendary Queen cjSheba and King y 1Y98. Solomon,.iene!c- was the overshadowingfigjure f his time in Africa.Ile converted agroup of independent kingdoms into the stroan, stable empire known as te.. United Starts of.Abyyssinia (Cchiopia). JCisfac. ofpulluing togetizerseveralkingdoms which oftenfercely opposed eac other earned himn aJ lace asonone of thegreat statesmen oqfi'icanz history. Jsfurtder accomplishments in dealing on the internationalscene with the vorlddjowers coupled with his stunning victory over Itl y in the /.961;attleogf.Adwa, an atten t to invade his country,placed him among thegreat leaders oworld history and maintained ris country's independenceuntiL 1935. Jizsyprofoundpride ofindependence helpedstabilize hisjeople and made his country one ofonly two nationsin .•Afica (the oiterisiberia)tosuccessflly resist colonization by the iargpeantpowers. Beware T"he Empe ror's New Helpers: HeoirShe May Look Like You The following excerpt by Bruce pect an increasing significance of the enemy. The oppressing whites, necessary, and are in fact less likely R. Hare originally appeared as part class within our community. The having subsequently heard the than many other groups to return of a National Urban League (1982) same forces which have served to news, were wise enough to realize to and/or help their communities of Commissioned' Paper titled, "The decrease the level of collective com- that they could no longer directly origin. It appears that the attrac- Rites of Passage - A Black Per- mitment among Black people, administrate. The logical solution tions of rugged individualism and spective." In it the author issues through the assassination, harass- became to recruit "some" Blacks desire for integration continue to a warning as regards the emergence ment, and incarceration of Black to act in their place in exchange forward, what Frazier called the in the 1980's of a new crew of ad- leadership, have also freed up- for limited privileges. The effec- "pathology" of this new Black ministrators in response to the ir- wardly mobile Black individuals to tiveness of such a strategy rests middle class. It should be pointed resistable demands of people of co- pursue personal reward without on the initial inability of the group out, however, that the acquisition a foe of same char- lor and women for inclusion in dec- community reprisal. Just as the to recognize of status does not by definition cre- the heels of a struggle ision making positions. While the Africans spoke of "sellouts" who acteristic on ate an enemy either. As should be based on color. increased presence of people of would work as colonial administra- initially logically the case with any high status occu- then becomes diverse characteristics in decision tors over their brothers and sis- The consequences pant, it is at the point of action of vulnerability to ex- making positions is to be ap- ters, we also have such individuals, a period that such people should be judged by "one's own kind." plauded, the author warns that although we believe them to be in ploitation recognizing that inaction is also a while there is much such persons (like their prede- the minority. Nevertheless, we For example form of action. W.E.B. DuBois' that the bomb dropped cessors) must be judged by their currently have "Black" profes- agreement ultimate disillusionment with the community actions (and inactions) rather than sionals sitting atop educational on the Philadelphia notion of the talented tenth as pos- Goode's authority of simply by their complexion or gen- systems, police departments, and under Mayor sible sellouts reflects the depths been dropped on der. If such sophistication is not welfare departments that do not would not have this crisis, and speaks to the need to few realize developed, the author warns, for work in our interest, as well as pol- a white community, develop mechanisms of accountabil- (the Italian) example, that Blacks who success- iticians, religious, and business that. If Mayor Rizzo ity within the Black community. Goode did, fully demand not to be oppressed leaders, who are not responsive to had done what Mayor down the by whites will increasingly find our real needs. we would have burned rest of Philadelphia and other Dr. Bruce Hare is a professor of themselves oppressed by Blacks, Sociology at Stony Brook and women who reject oppression Having recently emerged from significant parts of America.; by men may simply find oppressing an era of Black nationalism, in Domestic translation of this scen- women in their stead. The identi- which all whites were enemy and all ario-- , would allow tor the analogous fication, exposure and neutralizing Blacks friend, we fall subject to emergence of Black domestic ad- of such persons who would exploit the residual ploy of assuming that ministrators who, while identified our sentiment and the fruits of our the elevation of Black persons to as friend by the general Black pop- struggle is becoming an increasingly decision making positions in such ulation, in fact serve at the plea- urgent task if we are to continue institutions as government, edu- sure, and in the place of the white to progress in the 1980's. Such cation, social services, and crimin- domestic elites in administering persons as mayor Goode of Phil- al justice constitutes automatic the domestic colony. It should be adelphia and Clarence Pendelton of progress. The danger of such an as- noted that administrator status the U.S. Civil Rights Commission sumption might best be expressed could refer to business, political, that are argued to be the new helpers. by imagining that one day a group or even religious leadership, of Africans, during the early colon- acts in the interest of the elites. IN HOUSE QUALITY CONTROL ization of Africa, sat around a cir- Such persons are also sometimes cle and legitimately agreed that elevated to the status of "comm While one might argue with a they had all been given a hard way unity leader" by the ruling elites notion of the declining signifi- to go that day by a "white" person. although not anointed by the cance of race, as forwarded by Wil- That day symbolically became their masses. In the absence of comm liam Wilson, there is reason to sus- day for defining "white" people as unity accountability such false Why Blacks Shouldn't Cal Themselves Greek believed in slavery and--had slaves. When they I wrote this article in attempt to break some I advise you to look into the validity of came under the influence of the teachings in shackles of past mental colonialism that is still using Tony Brown's article. His article has at- Africa, they were in serious trouble. This is prevalent today. I don't blame the writers or tributes of an Uncle Tom psyche. He evidently why Socrates had to be put to death...he believers of this misinformation. I blame the was a victim (and still may be) of European- wouldn't recant." This leads me to believe white-based educational system for the half- cultural brainwashing in his "undergraduate other than Socrates being one of us. truths and lack of information they have days." Any brother who calls himself "Greek" I do not intend to give false praise to the taught my sisters and brothers. This article is for years, and doesn't know why, has been Greeks. I also have no desire to be identified an attack on the European-based education tricked or brainwashed to do so. as part of Mr. Brown's "us." I am not a "Pel- (the puppeteer), that has given us (the puppet) There seems to be a need for people to asgian"; I am an African. As for his term a strong pride for cultures other than our Afri- identify important black figures with those "Pelasgian-African-American-Greek," there is can culture. of other cultures. Zulu King Chaka has been no such term to describe us and could never Shame on anyone who would try to justify called by some historians "The Black Napo- be. As far as I am concerned, my place of why blacks call themselves "Greek." As if it's leon." For him to be considered great or birth does not constitute me to be anything not trouble enough to realize that we are Afri- of any importance, we identify him with a other than African. If I was mixed with can. I think if I would call some of my fellow European figure. The same goes for the another race, I would still be a black man and black students African, they would raise up on black fraternal/sororial system in America. be considered as such. me and try to beat me down. People still call We have identified them with the Greek cul- Once again I recommend you brothers and each other (and think they are) negroes, nig- ture instead of the greater culture of Africa. sisters to read up on books, written by Ivan gers, and minorities. We should see ourselves Lets focus our attenion to the book by Van Sertima, Chancellor Williams, Yosef Ben as Africans, realize that our plight is the same George G.M. James, the "Stolen Legacy." jochannan and a score of others. If we do, and work together. We may find we are the In a previous issue of Blackworld, the article we can avoid the perpetuation of false know- majority. As you see, the problem facing our "None Dare Call It Treason: Black Greeks" by ledge. people here in America is greater than all other Hakim S. Hasan, was printed. Some people personal or organizational differences. We feel that the article was "bull." Brother Hasan As-Alaikum-Salaam should concentrate our united efforts toward sort of gave us a summary of information in Michael Ifeanyi Williams the book "Stolen Legacy." His article was not Proud to be an African 5" solving the unending mental hurt that is being -- I l_ I I II .. inflicted on our people here in America. diluted and contained no half-truths. He told I had discussed Tony Brown with a member it like it is, whether we liked it or not. Unlike of the AFS faculty and others. I had been Hasan, Brown's article was diluted and begs told that Mr. Brown, in commenting about for reference of information material. I don't the movie "The Color Purple," said he "never recommend anyone to take this celebrity's word for it saw the color purple and can't stand the color (people usually do). Go and seek purple." In the said context, it seems he that knowledge for yourself. doesn't see the difference between black and In Brown's assertion of Socrates identity, I white, and may not like dark-skinned people. seriously doubt Socrates was one of us, a "Pela- A statement like this leads me to believe that sgian." In an'excerpt from "Like It Is," show if this brother was any darker, he would hate No. 489, June 6, 1982, John Henrik Clarke himself. said, "Most of the so-called Greek philosophers SIGHTS & SOUNDS

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