Blocks excluded from exploitive society
by Linda Larson
Blacks can't afford to be
part of the economic system
that exploits them,' said Vincent
Price, co-coordinator of the
National Association of Black
Students.
"To say that we'll make a
price on milk and then dump
out milk to support that price
while someone is starving, is
something we can't be a part
of," he told 35 students in the
Nebraska Union ballroom
Tuesday night.
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Notre Dame's Scott:
you are what you are
The director of the black
studies program at Notre
Dame University addressed
members of the Sociology
department and interested
students as part of NU's
visiting scholars program.
Dr. Joseph Scott began his
presentation in Old father Hall
Wednesday by distinguishing
between two ways of
classifying a racial
system-through appearance or
through ancestry.
In Puerto Rico for example
he said, your race is
determined by your
appearance. This system
precludes rigid racial
distinctions.
The ancestor system is in
practice in the U. S. "You are
what you are regardless of
what you appear to be," said
Scott. Because one's ancestry is
unchangeable this system is
rigid; blacks and whites are
clearly separable.
The individual is not treated
individually, and there is no
way for him to change his status
individually. This sets the stage
for collective conflict,
according to Scott.
Scott saw the historical
situation in the U. S. between
whites and blacks as a series of
reactions and counter-reactions
between the whites in their
attempts to maintain a
perpetual servant class and the
blacks striving for liberation.
The system was based on
racial distinctions and so the
differences between the races
must r3main clear through
strong sanctions against
intermarriage. Mulatto children
were considered black for the
successful maintenance of the
system, Scott said.
In an attempt to keep the
blacks down, whites passed
laws making it illegal for blacks
to hold certain kinds of jobs,
to be taught to read and write,
etc.
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Students and teachers can
strike and nothing will happen,
he said.
But when the black workers
in Detroit strike the President
is concerned immediately, he
added. Price said this is because
the workers control the
economy.
The workers must be the
vanguard of the revolution,
Price said. Students can't be
the leaders but they must help
the action to happen, he said.
Black people today are
constantly producing but they
"When the white always
winning and the black always
losing is built into the
situation, the only option left
is violent rebellion as
exemplified in the slave
rebellions," Scott said.
He denied that the whites
"emancipated" the blacks at
the time of the Civil War.
According to his historical
thesis the black slaves practiced
non-violent resistance to make
the cost of slavery prohibitive.
Slaves left by the thousands
not just to get away but to
make slave-owning a costly
business. Their practices of
working slowly, breaking tools
and burning fields were for the
same purpose. "Blacks kept
forcing the issue of
emancipation until slavery just
wasn't worth it," explained
Scott.
According to his thesis the
whites countered with the
reconstruction, the blacks with
assimilation, the whites with
"Jim Crowism," the blacks
with organizations like the
NAACP.
"Blacks were always
repressed in their struggle for
liberation," Scott said, "but
they never returned to the
original equalibrium. "
The next white reaction was
integrationism, in which the
whites took over, making
token advances for blacks, and
the blacks reacted with black
nationalism."
Scott said faith is necessary
to believe the historical
struggle is moving in the
direction of black freedom.
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never gain anything, Price said.
"You can pay cash for a car,
but you don't own it. As soon
as you don't pay your taxes,
you can't drive it. And then if
you leave it on the street, they
impound it," he said.
"As long as you can be kept
from owning anything you
can't get ahead." What is
needed is an economic system
that speaks to the needs of the
people, Price said.
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The CSL will meet today at
7 p.m. in the East Campus
Union. Items on the agenda
are:
1 . Progress report on
student fee question.
2. Committee report on
Disciplinary Procedures.
3. Delegation from Health
Center to discuss VD problem.
4. Review action on
responsibilities of committee
on student publications.
5. Discuss specific
recommendations concerning
the "12 hour rule."
6. Reformulate committee
to study code of student
discipline.
7. Consider resolution on
committee appointment
presented by Dennis Confer,
and proposal requested from
Steve Fowler.
Although permanent
week-end hours have not been
set up, the Women's Resource
Center will be open 1 1 a.m. - 5
p.m. this Saturday, and 6-8
p.m. on Sunday.
Female vocalist, , Pamela
Polland will open the 1971
Coffee House series in the
Nebraska Union Thursday at 8
p.m.
Students interested in
studying in France for a year
should attend a meeting
Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in
Burnett Room 305.
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'We must realize that there
is a division among our
people," he said. "We can't
limit our oppression to only
white capitalists because there
are black capitalists too."
If all the white people in the
U. S. were dead there would
still be black capitalists to
exploit the blacks, according to
Price. Exploitation is just a
part of economics, he said.
At first slavery was not a
question of race but simply a
The U of N Ski Club will
meet Thursday at 6 p.m. in the
Nebraska Union to discuss
various skiing areas. New
members welcome.
A special college student
program, including a reserved
hotel floor for overnight
participants, will be featured at
the National Council for Social
Studies convention in Denver,
Nov. 23-26.
While the entire conference
is planned with student
interests in mind, a Friday
sectional program at the
Denver Hilton hotel aims
specifically at meeting their
need of tackling problems new
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means to set a cheao labor
force, Price explained.
Capitalism developed from
slavery, he said.
Someday there will be a
revolution in the U.S. and the
oppressed will overthrow their
oppressors, Price said. This will
only come when a mass
consciousness and
understanding of the
oppression exists in black
people, he said. "Then we can
lay concrete plans for action."
teachers meet most often.
College students wishing to
take advantage of the $5
nightly rate at the New Albany
hotel may do so by making
reservation through their
college education or social
studies professors.
Dennis Farbey, Wallstreet
Journal reporter, will speak at
8 p.m. Thursday in the Nebraska
Union. Sponsored by Political
Science honorary Pi Sigma
Alpha. He will speak on the
Pentagon Papers. Pi Sigma
Alpha's new officers are Mary
Overguard, president; Celeste
Wiseblood, vice-president; and
Paul Schudel, Secretary
Treasurer. mm
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