Ano mmìsìiy cwt« woimt w ARCHMS/SPECiÂl CßLLECIlöKS 111 lAMES P. BMMEÏ DR., S. H. AILANIA.^. 30314 öl veri ne MAY/JUNE 1996 MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE “Dedicated to Educating the Leaders of Tomorrow” AIDS Are You Next? by Monique Jennings uring the early eighties, a deadly virus was discovered. Many people who carry D the virus don’t know how they contract­ ed it. The nation’s concerns about this horrify­ ing disease caused researchers to take action. Today, researchers say there is no cure for HIV/AIDS virus. One researcher said, “Getting AIDS is like playing Russian roulette with your life, so you might as well put a gun to your head and kill yourself.” The solution to the problem is abstinence. Another experimentalist says, “It is common among heterosexuals, homosexuals, and bisexuals.” The main group contracting the virus are college students. How does this effect college the HIV/AIDS virus, you are putting students? One student said, “There others at risk by having unprotected were many times I’ve had unprotected sex. A person can’t tell if another person sex.” Some students say if they had the has the HIV virus unless they are in AIDS virus, they would spread it around the final stages. to other people. Within the Atlanta According to the Department of Look at me, can you tell if I have AIDS? University Center there is a percentage Health and Human Services, more than of students carrying the HIV/AIDS 60,918 cases of AIDS have been This is one of the most deadly they need to wake up. If abstinence is virus. These students don’t know reported in the 13 - 29 year old age diseases on the face of the earth. not your choice - then please use a latex they’re carrying the virus. group - most of these young people Although, no one knows how the condom. It is a matter of life and Unprotected sex seems to be the were infected in their teens. The sex disease came about, there are many death - YOURS! concern for students, but students here ratio of AIDS cases in the U.S. is eight theories regarding this nasty virus. on the AUC campuses aren’t really men to one woman; among adolescents, Unfortunately, many students aren’t College Students and AIDS concerned. When you are a carrier of it is three men to one woman. really concerned about HIV/AIDS, but CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 they all generate capital. Be they prescribed legally by An Open Letter Understanding licensed physicians, or distri­ buted by street dealers; all substances generate exchange of currency. to the Morris Dope CONBNUED ON PAGE 4 by Dennis Abrams Brown Campus Morris Brown Police Features he issue of drugs at ► Campus News Community Morris Brown College is ► Campus Organizations complex. For the pur­ ► Cicero’s Corner poses of this article, we will making our resurrection a T Classifieds define drugs as “substances resounding success! ► Editorials that one exchanges money, be Alumni, administrators, they legal or illegal”. Given this ► Entertainment faculty, and students are VleOiMt! definition, I need to classify the ► Open Letter shaping traditions we want to by Richard C. Jones legal and illegal substances that focus on. ► Politics: Inside & Out have an impact on the African- n behalf of The Jumping into the role of Religious News American community health. Editor, I did not realize the Cocaine ► Sports Major Legal Substances Wolverine Observer massive undertaking I was Opium based substances ► Student Profile getting myself into. I want to be Alcohol Non-prescribed substances staff, I want to thank The Near Future O the first to give credit and Nicotine (substances procured without the Morris Brown College ► Views & Expressions campus community for its praise where it is due. I want to Caffeine prescription) support, patience, encourage­ give my heartfelt thanks to Major Illegal Substances What all these substances ment, and contributions for CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Marijuana have in common is the fact that ■■■■■■■■■■■■ 2 We’re Back! MAY/JUNE 1996 MBC Wolverine OBSERVER EDITORIALS His-Storical Lies and Myths that Miseducate Black People by Sean Gardner These and other fabrications Moreover, he calls the claim conviction thereof were both myth. Since Africans also have been examined thoroughly that Lincoln freed the slaves part of a conspiracy directed by inhabited and visited the and meticulously by Zak Kondo, “misleading and simplistic,” the U.S. government to defame Americas before Columbus this or almost half a professor of history at Bowie stating matter-of-factly that his character and destroy his myth becomes comical.” millennium Eurocen- State University. A leader in the “Lincoln was not an abolitionist, worldwide movement. These In addition to a reappraisal of trism has nurtured newly classified African­ and never professed to being goals were largely met.” historical half-truths, this scurrilous lies with broad centered movement, Kondo has one. He issued the And what are we to make of trailblazing compendium offers strokes of false logic, and helped to revitalize and refocus (Emancipation Proclamation Christopher Columbus the an awesome educational harvested the wicked seeds of the African-American intel­ solely as a war that resolved Cretin? It’s no surprise that blueprint for the African prejudice and error at the ligentsia, and, to the benefit of three pressing problems: (a) he’s mentioned more than other American educator as well as a expense of humanity. Also, it the multitude, discovered new manpower shortage in the European explorers like Eric list of fifteen common racist has done a marvelous job teach­ frontiers in African-American Union ranks, (b) European the Red, Vaso de Gama, terms that Kondo believes we ing people to accept rather scholarship. His work is recognition of the Confederacy, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco Nunez need to dispose of or than challenge; to believe arresting and challenging, and (c) border state problems. de Balboa, Alvares Cabral and exhaustively critique. Such rather than think: to believe his tour-de-force monograph Kondo calls Pan-Africanist Ferdinand Magellan. After all, observations and that Jesus had pale skin and His-Storical Lies and Myths that Marcus Garvey “one of the he opened up the western pronouncements, which long blond hair, but never to Miseducate Black People Vol. I is great leaders in our history.” hemisphere, North and South challenge the conventional think, “Didn’t the bible depict no exception. With an unblink­ His Universal Negro America and the Caribbean wisdom and prompt serious God or the son of God with hair ing eye, he performs the Improvement Association Islands for European thought about the need to like wool, and with bodily parts exorcism of thirty of the most recruit some six million exploitation and eventual decolonize our minds, make the color of brass and amber?”; infamous distortions in U.S. members around the world and domination. He helped to His-Storical Lies and Myths to believe that Beethoven was history. Myth after myth is he built home enterprises such inaugurate a concept of white worthwhile. This book truly white, but never to think, stripped and given it’s walking as laundries, groceries, a daily supremacy that defiled every deserves all the attention it “Didn’t his contemporaries and papers. newspaper, a printing plant, a law of God and man. This can get. biographers describe him as Admirers of George restaurant and a hotel. Also, he twisted concept lifted Europe Some years ago, while being ‘dark,’ ‘brown,’ ‘red and Washington, John Adams, Ben started the infamous steamship from the muck and mire of the conducting research at Howard brown,’ and black-brownish?”’; Franklin & Co., will be company The Black Star Line. Middle Ages, and created University, a colleague remark­ to believe that the ancient confronted with an uncom­ Unfortunately, many his- modem capitalism and the • ed that Zak Kondo “is destined Egyptians were white and that fortable question: were the storians trivialize these scientific and technical world to be one of the major defining the ancient Greek scholars American Founding Fathers achievements and instead use we know today. voices of the 1990’s giving the were true innovators, but never believers in human freedom, his controversial 1923 mail But, did he actually masses the milk and honey of to think, “Didn’t ancient writer liberty and justice? Kondo fraud conviction to reinforce the ‘discover’ America? Kondo truth that’s an essential prere­ and traveler Herodotus describe answers with a resounding no, belief that he was a cultural notes that “Red people quisite for genuine solidarity the Egyptians as ‘burnt­ adding that “few men have been charlatan who cheated his own (Arawaks) were living in the and liberation.” Indeed, this skinned, flat-nosed, thick lipped hypocritical and racist...These people. Of this Kondo says: Americas thousands of years prediction has come to full an woolly-haired’ and didn’t he same ‘fathers’ enslaved, “Garvey was as dedicated, before the first European fruition... W.E.B. Dubois and also accuse some of the Greek degraded, exploited, physically sincere and committed as any of stumbled upon this continent. Carter G. Woodson would be scholars of committing and mentally abused and our warriors...The mail fraud This fact alone invalidates this proud. intellectual larceny?” dehumanized our ancestors.” charge and his subsequent successful and prosperous With the recent revitalization and motivating. As Editor, I feel relationship. and change at Morris Brown it is my duty to implore the We Old It! I also want to thank Director College, ask yourselves how campus community, establishing of Student Activities Carvel you can be affected by the a tradition of excellence. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Bennett for putting up with the transformation.