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By Diane Andersen
"Black Women in Perspective", a panel discussion pre
sented Thursday by the Culture Center, focused on the
roles of black women at UNL, in the professional world
and in personal life, especially black-white dating.
The panel members were Annette Hudson, counsellor
in Multi-Cultural Affairs; Doris Wright, an educational
psychology instructor at UNL; and Yvonne Method
Walker, a UNO counsellor and instructor for the Women's
Services program.
A large chunk of time was spent answering audience
concerns about dating between blacks and whites as a
continuation from the "Black Men in Perspective" panel
last week.
"I react when I see a black man and a white woman to
gether," Wright said, adding that such feelings were racist
but unavoidable because of her background.
Wright said although her brother is engaged to a white
woman, it still is hard for her to accept because she thinks
dating whites gave blacks a lowered sense of self-worth in
the 1960s.
She said when she sees black men dancing with white
women in a disco where many beautiful black women are
sitting around, she still gets angry.
Hudson said she has had similar feelings but has
"grown accustomed to seeing it."
"1 guess I see it as a lethal kind of thing for the positive
self-identity of black women."
Hudson said she thinks interracial dating affects black
families and particularly children, and that black women
who date white men don't gain the same level of social
acceptance as do black men dating white women.
Hudson said her brother is married to a white woman
and it is hard for her to accept, even though such relation
ships are the rule rather than the exception in Lincoln.
She said black women need to be more cohesive and
remain unavailable when black men go out with whites
and then come around to black women as a second choice.
Instead, she said, black women should "start checking
out people that aren't at the forefront", to search for the
support they need where they can get it.
Method-Walker said the process of living and growing is
one of "constant risk taking" for black women.
She said being discriminated against because she is a
woman or because she is a black is a "dual dilemma," and
that hassles from employers should be brought out in the
open.
"When you're in a professional situation it's important
to find a mentor" to tell you who to trust, she said.
Wright said people have tried to direct her career and
treated her unequally. She said she feels black women
must be open, direct and assertive to compete in the white
world.
"If I can exist in this environment (Lincoln) that
doesn't support me at all, 1 can make it anywhere," she
said.
Hudson agreed that Lincoln has a very small black
community but that students and professional blacks
should try to stay involved and make contributions to
blacks less fotunate than themselves.
She said blacks should get involved in campus-wide
activities, but that black-oriented groups help new black
students gain a sense of identity that may be lacking be
cause of insecurities about their own skills and knowledge.
Wright said black males often show leadership in ath
letics and leisure-time activities, but there is no "coopera
tive effort between the skills of black men and women."
She also said black women must decide who they are
and what they want, because even though many black
women do develop a sense of self-respect, they have a
hard time communicating it without support.
Wright said she thinks more young black mothers are
becoming interested in being active in their children's edu
cation and in health care legislation.
"Women are the transmitters of culture, at least in
America. If black women are interested in maintaining
families, they have a hard struggle ahead of them" because
the new upward mobility of blacks is putting them in a
white cultural setting.
"I think you have to carefully examine where you've
come from," Hudson said. "This is not a place that's
going to give you everything you need. Something is
missing in Lincoln. Nebraska."
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