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FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL. 93, NO. 74
America is Vietnam
for Macks Kenyatta
It's not the responsibility of
blacks to support the white
peace movement because the
black Vietnam Is in America,
according to black activist
Muhammad Kenyatta.
Kenyatta told about 50
listeners at a Thursday rap
session that more blacks are
opposed to the war than whites
but that the black man's main
concern should be developing
the black "colony." He spoke in
conjunction with the World in
Revolution Conference.
BLACK RESPONSIBILITY Is
Silent student
files for Regent
William R. Brown, a junior
In agriculture from York, filed
last week as a candidate for
the University of Nebraska
Board of Regents.
Brown, a resident of Burr
Fedde Hall, refused to be in
terviewed Thursday.
to support Vietnamese
resistance to white im
perialism, Kenyatta con
tinued. "As blacks intensify their
struggle here, it gives support
to the people of Vietnam," he
said.
NU moratorium workers ex
pected black student
participation, but blacks had
white racism to worry about,
said Lonetta Harrold, Afro
American Collegiate Society
member.
"WHERE DO the peace ac
tivists stand on racism?'
countered Woody Woodland,
black community organizer
who appeared with Kenyatta.
"Blacks have a gut rejection
to liberalism because . the
liberals don't deliver,"
Kenyatta said. Liberals are not
organized and are "out hustled
by the right," he added.
Racism permeates the white
radical movement, according
to Kenyatta, and only a Small
minority of whites decide to put
aside self-interest to help
blacks.
"THESE FEW WHITES
must organize the white com
munity," he said. White
organization occurs when
whites are affected by issues,
like they are about the draft,
Kenyatta continued. Americans
won't get concerned about
racism in South Africa until
"American kids start getting
killed there," he said.
Nebraskans can work against
racism by helping the "Omaha
54," Kenyatta said, referring to
the UNO black students who
sat in at President Kirk E.
Naylor's office. They face pro
secution under Nebraska's new
anti-riot law.
Along with liberals, Kenyatta
criticized churches as big
business. Woodland said the
black movement has tried to
identify with Christianity, but
the church opposes
struggle.
Cont'd on p. 3
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Feminism comes to
by JAN PARKS
NtbratkM Staff Wrlltr
Nebraska feminists will march to the
state capitol April 14 with loving but firm
demands for legalized abortion, birth con-
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trol for all women and liberation from
their role as domesticated sex objects.
"We're using a loving approach," ac
cording to Mary Alinder, march organizer
and member of the newly-formed Women's
Action Croup. Mothers are encouraged to
bring their children.
Marchers will offer observers
homemade popcorn, explain the need for
women's rights and "ask them if they
are with us," Mrs. Alinder explained.
She emphasized that the reforms pro
posed by Women's Action Group are not
a threat to men.
"We love men," she said, "but we
have pride in - being women strong
women who are different than men, but
not less than men."
Laws are made by men. Men, who
often do not understand the fears and
frustrations of an unwanted pregnancy,
"have made laws an insideous means of
controlling women's sex lives." remarked
Mrs. Alinder, a University student and wife
of Jim Alinder, associate professor of art.
"A woman must either abstain or get
pregnant," she said. Some people challenge
legalized abortion on grounds of Immorali
ty, Mrs. Alinder pointed out, "but is
morality bringing an unwanted child into
a world where there Is no room for him?"
She noted that more than one million
illegal U.S. abortions are performed yearly.
"The dread of an unwanted child causes
women to place their bodies into untrained
hand3 and some die," she said. It is
senseless, cruel and inhuman, Mrs. Alinder
continued.
"The government demands that the life
of a two-month fetus be maintained and
yet has his brothers march off to death
in Southeast Asia. We must have the
freedom of our bodies and our life."
Cont'd, on p. 2
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