"Cultural Center Divides the Races"
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What a bunch of terrorists the Black Awareness Council at Carolina are. They demand a “Free-standing African-American Cultural Center.” They charged into the Chancellor’s office with their demands and held everyone hostage by threatening that their demands must be met or else.
At the rally for the cultural center, speakers spoke of “revolution.” They made statements like, “If you stand in our way, we’ll just have to run you over” and “I believe in peace when possible and violence when necessary.” Then the “crowd crossed their arms over their heads to form a symbol X” all in the name of Malcolm X, a militant man who wanted to achieve change through violence. And I’m supposed to support level headed minds like this.
How much did the black population benefit from the “revolution,” the “running over” of people that occurred during the Rodney King verdict--how much did anyone benefit? Although the black citizens have suffered many injustices, these militant ways of trying to gain equality do not make me more sympathetic to the plight of black people. These actions only bring out fear and more negative feelings.
Maybe one of the reasons I feel so negative on how the BAC requested an African-American Cultural Center is because I do not believe an AACC itself is a positive institution. I believe that Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted us all to try and live in harmony--as one, not in segregated cultural groups. Instead of finding ways that we are all alike and should coexist as one, a cultural center only emphasizes that we are different.
One of the speakers stated that “We are starting to bring down the walls of racism, starting here at Chapel Hill.” Yet they are actually building an even bigger wall between all of us.
This wall is only making it harder than it already is for us to communicate and understand each other.
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