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Blacks by JAN PARKS Nebraska!! StaH Writer "America Get up off your whiteness. "We're not going back to Africa. If we don't get a piece of the nation's pie, there isn't going to be any pie," said Olive Taylor, black history professor from Howard University, at the Centennial College Thursday. About 100 students laughed with Miss Taylor as she noted insinuations about her black history class at Howard University. "I've been accused of inciting revolution," she said. "They say everybody who closes down Howard University came out of my class . . . which is true. But, I didn't do it, I'm only trying to get them to think critically." Exposure and interaction between blacks and whites is the answer to racism, she said. "Blacks and whites have to verbally battle out their ideas if we're going to come to an understanding." She said that bussing students to achieve an in tegrated educational system is one way to achieve exposure. "But bussing is like putting a bandaid over a wound. We first IKS organizes A new student group, In dividualists for a Rational So ciety (IRS), recently organized on campus. The new group is not called Individualists for a Radical Society, as reported Wednesday in the Daily Nebraskan. Alpha Chi Omega House Party February 21, 8:30-12:00 Open to All OUT W 4:30 mat Of 1434 "O" Street Phcrn 471VW3 SnadddmsL? thy CORN CRIB tOP CORN (wkitt or yellew) CARAMEL CORN CHtrSI CORN POPCORN BAILS PIANUTS CARAMEL APPIU ICI CREAM COLD DRINKS Stock we lor WMfcond earllM. OPEN DAILY 1 H 10:30 p.m. phart 434-1444 1150 No. 48th acreu Irom McDonald VolkwaM Ls3 want piece of need to remove all housing restrictions." "Let whites keep moving out they'll get tired of moving, there's only so much space, and eventually they'll be living next to a soul brother." Miss Taylor is visiting the University as a guest lecturer for the "Negro in American Society" class. She noted that historically racism has manifested itself in white at tempts to justify the attitude that blacks are inferior beings. "We're much too sophisticated today to say blacks are mentally inferior," Miss Taylor contended. In stead, the idea is expressed through subtle innuendos. She pointed out the Poor People's March on Washington as an example of whites' in ability to identify with blacks. "There are more poor whites than poor blacks in this coun try," she said. "But who came to the Poor People's March? Blacks. Why? Because poor whites would be embarrassed to associate with poor blacks even for a cause that could benefit them." American scholarship has proselytized white racism, she said, citing such historians as William Dunning who justified white superiority by attempting to prove the "innate inferiority and peculiar anatomy of blacks." HUM W IMtUtMIt Due Nova's Manic-Mirror lacquer liniuh Nova's chok e of three landard enuinee: 4, 6, or V8 Nova's room for five panne ngers and their luggage Nova's foot-oporated parking brake Nova's bine bolted ply tire 0. GM jLse$Q .: f If " " 0i,K,mmm,,m4 Because historians of the past believed blacks to be naturally rhythmic, inherently humorous, childlike and possessing a strange odor, they portrayed blacks as almost inhuman, she said. This inhumaness, presented without evidence, was their sole justification for slavery, she explained. "Slavery was seen as a moral, positive thing, a means of controlling the pro atf fttose Nova's glove compartment with lock Nova's nti-theft ignition key warning buzzer Nova's cigarette lighter acrylio 'ji'.'Wj... """ Nova's mmi wider trend """KM, trout aim rear Nova's four tranmnisaion choicea Nova's got a lot to talk about. Because you get so much more value with a Nova. Things you just can't find on other enre anywhere near the price. Maybe that's why Nova is such a big Nova: Americans not - too pie Olive Taylor, II oward University miscuity and rampant multiplication of the black race." The greatest fear in post Civil War America was that there would be an "Africanization of America." In this respect, slavery was said to be doing the nation a service by keeping the numbers of blacks in control. Basic in this fear of Africanization was the smmaOD cairsa Nova's day-night rear view mirro? ItilliJililllHiili 111 WA'.i Nova's flutih-and-dry rocker pa noli -zrLs Nova's computer elected springs Nova's inner fonder front and rear seller. It off ore what more people Along with a resale value that'll some of those other cars seem smaller by comparison. Putting you first, keeps us first. - small car " -jr J obsession of white men "to protect white womanhood," she said. "Their real fear of slave freedom was that a black man would be free to marry a white woman," Miss Taylor con tinued. "Actually the women of the South were not really being protected from anything," Miss Taylor quipped, "their lack of rights only made them a part of the slavery system." Nova's more usable luggage capacity Nova's- rear windows that roll up and dowo Nova's cargo-guard luggage compartment Nova's forward mounted door lock button want. make even PAGE a THE DAILY NEBRASKAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1970