1974_11 The Daily Collegian November 1974

              Dean Ford speaks out on
Black studies and culture
I believe In the whole concept of cultural plurality. Minority coalitions
are essential. There needs to be dialogue between people who have
common oppression.      _Richard Fo^ (hfc ^ ^^ ^^ ofg^,,, WelAr, ^ ^ ^
^_ Black dean at CSUF to UHURU Editor John Karlukl.
Uhuru: Dean Ford, I'll start by
asking you a rather basic ques¬
tion: You are the only Black dean
on   campus,  how does  It  feel?
Ford:  Ah   .
. It feels k
i of
course Is that coming lnt<
Institution takes a lot of
learn how the syf
That  way you  don't have much
to make contacts with your col¬
leagues outside the school. We
are a school that has been through
a great deal of change at tbe
graduate and undergraduate lev¬
els, trying to change the curricu¬
lum to a more professional de¬
gree. This has been quite a tire¬
some act and so one-doesn't have
the time and opportunity to get
lo know the other colleagues on a
campus-wide basis. So one does
feel a sense of Isolation at that.
It ls not that people don't Uke
you but you have to prove your¬
self and I Just haven't had the
time to do that on a campus-
wide basts. Most of tbe time has
been confined to the School of
Social Work.
Uhuru: Does the fact that you are
a  minority  make It a bit more
difficult for you?
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 1)
DEAN RICHARD FORD
SWRSSfittSS
UHURU
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1974
Black Americans in the liberation movements of S. Africa
By Connie Milliard
The Black American is today caught up in a
dilemma. He looks at his southern African
brother with a peculiar brand of envy, as the
latter's battleground is so well laid out on his
turf, whether or not he individually chooses to
fight.
Vhen the FBI In a recent re-
t lashed out at efforts to enlist
US Blacks In a 'Pan-African
volution'," lt laid bare a new
d potentially devastating chal-
nge to the American system,
stng In the wake or the Black
inther era, ghetto rebellions
d black student confrontations,
e concept ofrevolutlonaryPan-
Afrlcanlsm  —  the  unity  of all
African peopleu
ratapulted   thousands
MARK TEEMER:
ARTIST
if you have been to the College
Library any time this past week,
might have seen a display of
r color paintings to your left.
protesting B
;  paintings
o by
.  The  t
to the st
1  Fresno State
inlverslty  graduate art student
The purpose of the art display
is an attempt to make students
■i ore conscious and responsible
to the plight, of other Pan-African
peoples throughout the world lo-
lay. Only through this conscious¬
ness can Pan-African people be-
t-ome responsible towards each
nther regardless of our geo¬
graphical location, and unify our
minds toward the solution of our
related oppressions. The state of
individual Identity and nationhood
is oppressing within Itself to all
Blacks on earth. If Black nations
and peoples do not organize to
help themselvesbefore 1980. then
the systematic worldwide op¬
pression and genocide of Pan-
African peoples will continue.    .
But, of course, there are more
important viable immediate con¬
cerns to our survival.right here
such as 'where Is the party at
this weekend," and "where Is the
grass,* probably In reverse or¬
der. What are your priorities?
Wher*. are your priorities?
Southern Africa. The Implications
pierced the very marrow of
America.
The Black American Is today
caught up in a dilemma. His mi¬
nority status In the bastion of
Capitalism deprives him of even
a land base to develop and thus
control his own productive
forces. That ls why he can and
often does look at his southern
brand of envy, as the latter's
battle-ground Is so well laid out
on his own turf, whether or not
he Individually chooses to fight.
But where lies the true mystique
of southern Africa among the
more than 30 million Blacks In
Afro-America, at certain In¬
tervals In its stormy history and
In recent times with Increasing
frequency has turned to Africa,
essentially, for a base of sup¬
port. The leader or the greatest
with several thousand dollars
worth of material. In a devas¬
tating prelude to coming events,
this Afro-American group was
arrested and deported on adlvce
or the American government.
The supplies and machinery
were confiscated and later sold.
Garvey's publication, Negro
World, was .even banned In the
French colonies and British West
people here In order to build a
the  two; and once that line of
r> perlal
i. In
History. Marcus Garvey, articu¬
lated to hundreds of thousands of
American Blacks for the first
time   the   theme   of   •Back-to-
European
Decades later, Malcolm X
toured Africa during the national¬
ist campaigns which had brought
African nations to political Inde¬
pendence. The explosive message
he fcrought back to America pro¬
claimed: «We have to have the
type of understand of Africa and
the type of understanding of our
from that day onwards.*
During the Summer of 1971, a
Black American advocate of Pan-
Afrtcanlsm.Owusu Sadaukal, vis¬
ited the liberated areas of Mo¬
zambique and met with leaders of
Frellmo. Those leaders.ex¬
pressed the need for a world¬
wide movement for peace ami
freedom In support of the African
liberation struggles. The result,
a year later, was African Liber¬
ation Day, which drew together In
Washington, D.C. more than
50,000 Black people demonstrat¬
ion tlnued on Page 4, Col.T)