1986_01 The Daily Collegian January 1986

              Page 4 The Daily Collegian
OPINION   January 23, 1986
King deserves holiday
A Closer Look
STEVE BRUHN
organized I
The nation celebrated Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr's birthday for the first time as a
national holiday Monday.
This  brings  t,he  number of national
fantasy of '
rall."it seems Washing-
lthy colonists had really
isses lo replace one op-
•endent nation run by a
d by a ■
George Washington was
:h gelling
by offering enough of ihe wealth and tl
land (stolen from the Indians and worke
by slaves) to a while middle-class ih:
would act as a buffer between them an
the oppressed majority. Racism was use
needed a comfortable percentage of whii
iefightir
See COLUMN, page 5
KFSR needs change
l "Sign of the
her KFSR 01
"Is KFSR's progressive alicrna
up of quality music or obscure
iSorilyolFsVi^e^wlaredlaS.™" """stances" by RUSH. There's a w
lied with ihe overflow of whal can indeed frontier of quality music out there tl
he called obscure music We therefore see not obscure enough for KFSR. yet
the need for change! I musi be firm aboul mainstream enough for KKDJ cithei
this letter, as the essence of change in .his Now if you [hink |ha, you can ch
o Radio and TV Broadi
to the KFSR D.J. seat
KKDJ''Or what about "On the Beach"by
Letters
nge. Their D.J.s, who only
I playing bands like "Angry
ind "Capital Punishment"are
furious if they have to change
KFSR's progressive audience is I'd like to l
see a survey done lo find out just how '''|.'Vr','isH ™ '"^"^ S°me
many Fresno State students actually listen La" a Ku^n
to KFSR's progressive programming on        So what can you do and must j
even a semi-semi-semi-rcgular basis. you're looking for moreofaqual
What we need lo do with KFSR is to native rather than an obscure allc
some "less obscure music" shows lhat at Peti
No, it doesn't — Davis
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,e pretty o'
ic that would tx
range" t
Hey. The station
ally get through i
But what Mr Cahill apparently fails to and you a
realize is that many of the biggest bands in request line,
heavy rotation on commercial FM (i.e. We're lucky to have KFSR
The Police, Madonna, Thompson Twins, Joel Davu
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a faithful listener of campus radio be "too obscure" to be taken seriously by
station KFSR, 1 feel compelled to reply to commercial radio. These bands owe their
Edward Cahill's letter to the editor (The beginnings to college stations like KFSR,
Daily Collegian. Jan. 21, 1986 whose  primary  objective  is to play as
Mr.  Cahill's  main  complaint against much different music as possible — not to
KFSR seems to be that the station bends sell pimple cream and car parts,
over backwards to be different from com-        KFSR is not perfect   Many of Ihe dee-
mercial FM stations by selecting music jays are inexperienced, some of the records
"on the basis of obscurity rather than are scratched and the station's number-
:s when KFSR airs Speech-Arts building KFSR also happens
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Junk food T.V- satisfies
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KIRK BIGLIONE
The Til
itingji
over ihe passing of int
programming, if indec
any.   Veritable a
s  of people^
"Dynasty" ft
stance. Network ratings are dropping
nationally as multitudes of dissatisfied
viewers turn their sets off or buy VCRs as
an alternative programming choice. Sadder
still, many people opt for MTV as their
a 24 h
cur.whilca'
of v.
■ ving i
ng number
clevision, known for lack
of a better term as "junk food T.V." Made
possible by syndicated programs, inde-
pendant television stations, and cable, this
new programming is flamboyant, out¬
rageous, and often surreal It is also truly
offensive to the best yuppie sensibilities,
which is why shows of this genre will never
become exceedingly fashionable In fact
many of these shows are probably consi¬
dered to be Ihe worst of the worst by most
television viewers. Broadcast slime for
people who have nothing belter to do with
cancellation of "Anything for Money"
was the single greatest cultural loss of our
time Essentially a "Candid Camera" with
living rooms and watch people sell their
underwear to a total stranger for a mere
t $5. Most people thought this show was
stupid; 1 think it was something wc should
something about the state of our economy
and reagonomics when people are willing
to perform the most embarassing acts in
public for under $20. There is hope, how¬
ever, syndicators claim that of all ihe cities
"Anything for Money" aired in, Fresno
was the only one where it really became a
hit. Surely something for us all to take
It's clear that the "People's Court" and
he "Love Connection" are probably the
wo best shows on television today. Unlike
Divorce Court" which is dramatized,
People's Court"features real people with
eal problems. Presided over by the all-
mowing Judge Wapner. "People's Couri
e dual
e of
icofth
ng
burden
from our already cramped judicial system.
Plenty of animal custody suits and bald
women claiming their hairdressers are
responsible for their sudden inexplainablc
hair loss. These are the kinds of things
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January 23, 1986   OPINION
The Daily Collegian   Page 5
Column
Continued from page 4
Washington was reportedly the richest
man in America, a slaveholder, and a land
speculator after the revolution. He had
refused to allow blacks to fight
lution until a British comman,
freedom for somewho would fight for
king. Apparently the founding father did n't
think blacks were even good enough to die
for the very system that kept them in
chains. History books responded by almost
worshiping him.
ing to change history for King just as they Latin America. "The war in Vietnam is for tbe government/corporate alliance to
have for Washington and Lincoln, but but a symptom of a far deeper malady handle. King was debunking the myth
this time they will be toningdown instead within the American spirit." said King, in that the "communists" were behind every
of building up, sanitizing what he really 1967. national liberation struggle that was rebel-
stood for—peace and justice at home and Perhaps what the government/corpo- ling against foreign exploiution. The real
abroad. rate alliance (which evolved from  the problem was Western greed that drained
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can hero seems just as questionable as
Washington's. Although he has been por¬
trayed as the man who freed the slaves, he
was hardly an abolitionist. He did oppose
the spread of slavery to the Western terri¬
tories which he said he wanted, "for
homes and free white people." Lincoln
wasn't pro-slavery either but was openly
racist. While campaigning in 1858 he said.
"... I am not, or ever have been, in favor of
bringing about in any way the social and
political equality of the white and black
races." He made it clear that he opposed
allowing blacks the right to vote, hold
office, or to intermarry with whites.
On racial relations he said, "...there
must be a position of superior and infe¬
rior; and 1 as much as any other man am in
favor of having the superior position
assigned to the white race."
Lincoln did sign the Emancipation Proc-
free the slaves but as a result of a careful
political and military calculation designed
to enhance the Union's position in the civil
war. The new law turned out to be a joke
toric, government dirty tricks, and r(
tionary racism couldn't stop the mc
ment without accommodating it. It i
tribute to King's greatness that the mc
ment was able lo bring the system to
knees without the use of widespr
justice, and increasingly began to tie in th
struggle for peace and justice abroad.
As his popularity soared, he began t
speak out increasingly against the war i
Vietnam, apartheid in South Africa, am
about King was his challenge to a consis
ently aggressive American foreign polic
thalj?eflected the needs of American mult
national corporations "with no concer
for the social betterment of the i
" that wen
King linked together racism, materia
ism. and militarism as he called for tl
U.S. to "get on the right side of the wor
revolution." King put his finger right c
the problem when he denounced the n
lion's role in making, "peaceful revolutic
impossible by refusing to give up tl
privileges and the pleasures that con¬
front  the  immense  profits  of oversei
SB
s from Third World c
leading to misery, starvation and death.
King had to be stopped.
Asearlyas 1963, the FBI began discuss-,
ing "neutralizing" King and replacing him
with another black: leader more in tune to
the government's wishes. The FBI tapped
his phones, bugged his home and offices,
blackmailed him, and even sent him a let¬
ter suggesting that he commit suicide.
He was assassinated in !968attheageof
39. Many accusations have been made
regarding a government conspiracy, but
so far no convincing proof has been made
public. Even so, his murder seems a little
Kingm
This
icipatioi
The civil rights movement can be consi¬
dered a continuation of the unfinished "all
men are created equal"revolution of 1776,
led by the nonviolent genius of the man
whose birthday we celebrated last Mon¬
day, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
King gained world attention for his
leadership in the movement; an advocate
anviolent civil disobediance, equality
and j
end to poverty. He
e the youngest person to receive the
Peace prize.
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