IMI Muhammed All Minority Programming Committee Muhammed Ali Speaks atT.S.C. by Gene Webb On Monday November 6th, the problem was created by Muhammed Ali delivered a them. Now, because they have message to Trenton State refused, throughout time, to students. Packer Hall was the rectify their wrong doings, the setting as Ali spent approxi­ responsibility has been left to mately 90 minutes giving what weigh heavily on the shoulders of he termed an "unprepared young white Americans today. speech" on the racial problems The white segment of the in America today. audience reacted to Muhammed Ali emphasized the point that Ali in a quiet and solemn way. Hidden Voice the solution to the Black-white One white student was heard to. race problem lies in Black say, "He was a good speaker but people themselves. He believes a I didn't like the shit he was good place to start would be for talking about." Black people to cast off their White folks won't like what Ali slave names and search for their or any other Black leader is own identity. Ali is very saying because the truth is dedicated to Elijah Muhammed, always hard to face up to; he suggested several times that especially when fault is placed the place for Black people to find on them. themselves is in the Black Muslim faith. As evidence, he referred to a group of Black Muslim brothers present in the audience as being clean, aware, and free from the vices of "the man." Black Muslims believe in separatism; building their own schools, stores, hospitals, and providing their own literature. Ali reinforced this with examples of how integration has not worked for us. He admits that we have come a long way but only the Black man's body is free and not his mind. He said that as soon as most Black men feel they have themselves together financially or otherwise, they change. They feel too good for the Black race, TRENTON STATE COLLEGE now needing white women and the social peer group of the white middle class. One of Ali's most emphatic points and one which he referred to repeatedly was directed to the white people present. He explained to them that it was not directly their fault that Black people were oppressed and maltreated in America. The fault li^s with their ancestors, Good-Bye Jackie by Feliz Melendez, Jr. Jackie Robinson, who broke had a family to support and his major League baseball's color manager asked him to stay, "I barrier in 1947, died Tuesday. need a man who can do the job October 24, 1972, of a heart and break this barrier." So attack. IN MEMORIAM Jackie decided to suffer the Jackie was the first Black man hatred and degradation to to be named to the Hall of Fame. realize a dream. When his team He joined the Brooklyn Dodgers played away he would sit on the in 1947 after spending a year with back of the train thinking about Montreal where he led the his family and all the trouble Rebirth International League in hitting. that he had to go through. A ball Jackie won the most Valuable park in Jacksonville, Florida Player award in 1949 with a padlocked its gates just to keeR batting average of .342. Two Jackie Robinson from playing. years prior to his winning the Hotels which housed the Dodgers M.V.P., he was named "Rookie in Philadelphia and St. Louis of th e year." barred him, and there were Jackie was an outstanding hundreds of other little things. Jackie was quiet at first, but in athlete in college, becoming the time he began to talk back to first man at his school to win critics and namecallers. letters in Baseball, Basketball. Everyone remembers the now Football and Track. When Jackie first came to the famous words he used, "I'm a major leagues, people started to human being! I have the right to boo him. He couldn't sleep with talk, haven't I?" his team mates in the hotel, In the second game of the 1972 because many of the hotels were world series between Oakland segregated at that time. In the and Cincinnati, Jackie had the park when he went to get some honor of throwing the first warm up catches or hits before pitch. Prior to throwing that the games, the players didn't pitch he had made a short speech want to catch with him, the John R. Robinson (Jackie Robinson) to the fans and I think those pitchers seldom wanted to throw words will never be forgotten. Born- Jan 31, 1919 "Before I die", said. Robinson, to him and when they did. they Died- Oct. 24, 1972 threw to hit him. "I would like to look down third In the beginning Jackie wanted Age- 53 base line and see a Black face to quit baseball forever, but he managing a major League BLACK JAMAICANS IN Revyou Muvee LONDON,ENGLAND Oval Four Police Frame-Up "Nothin's changed noj Revyou (Same struggle against the same a goddamned thing". Near the man) end of Ron Milner's "Who's Got . His Own", recently presented on Note: This article is an exact me, I screamed for help. A TSC's campus, these words are reprint as it was sent to us from 'Woman ran to my aid and spoken by the leading character, the brothers in London. This trial grabbed the man who had my a young Black man in his early throat. I m anaged to break loose is still going on. twenties. The truth of the and another grabbed my coat. I matter, however, is that a lot of On Monday 9th October a trial slipped out of it and ran for my things have changed. On a very begun at the Old Bailey in which life. I ran and ran trying to find superficial level, one can see the' someone who would help us. four Brothers from the South mark of t he new day in that very The Last one continues. "The East face 17 charges ranging fact of the play's presence here men had us in the room going from attempted theft, assault on before a largely Black audience, berserk, they were kicking and ' Police, theft, robbery and before a predominantly Black conspiracy to rob and steal. The punching us. When they had audience. Four Brothers said they have finished hitting us, police came In the past, the cultural been framed by the police. The - and then the thugs told the police programs have shied away from experience of the youths in the that they were plain clothes depictions of our own Black community verifies such transport police and that we attacked them. The police took frustrations and insights as a statement. defined by our brothers and These charges arose out of an us away giving us no chance to say what really happened. We sisters. So much so, that a good incident which occurred at the number of Blacks still operate Oval tube station on Thursday were taken to Kennington Police station. When we arrived they with the false understanding that 16th, March 1972. we are latecomers or that One of the defendants state: hastily took us into the cells and beat us again. They told us that we have no culture in certain "We were on our way home from areas. To see an honest response North London. We got off the we were going to sign statements. We refused and we to the oppression Black folks tube* at the Oval to go home .. experienced through the eyes "Lady Sings Th*» Blues" When we reached the top of the were beaten until we did. We were made to sign statements and ears of one who has actually escalator a gang of white thugs walked in our shoes is a new by Ernestine Mapp grabbed us and pushed us against fabricated by the police linking thing on this campus-a portenet and a wall. They started to hit us and m to crimes we did not of things to come. There is no Bert Campfield swear at us. We asked them who commit". avenue of expression or The visual and auditory captured Billie's style and they were and they told us to This policy by the police of communication that cannot be assault upon your senses was radiance, putting forth a voice so shut up, we'll soon find out. fake arrests followed by beating and should not be used to say induced by the realization that similar that even fans of Billie's Some tried to put their hands in and signed "confession" over and over again what must what you were seeing was as question the tone. Diana paints a our pockets, we fended them off. statements is characteristic of be said. near to a Black existence as portrait of an addict, so lifelike The men surrounded us, about all the arrests affected by one The production of Brother possible. The movie was based either craving for "the stuff" or nine of them. Suddenly one of particular police officer. Milner's play by Princeton's on the biography of Billie suffering from withdrawal, thai them shouted 'fuck it, we'll have DETECTIVE SGT. RIDGWELL Hansberry Arts Workshop Holliday, a jazz singer of the 30's you will cringe in your seats em over there', and they of the British Transport police. beautifully and powerfully said and 40's. which she co-authored Diana's portrayal of Billie attacked us.