thursday, november 8, 1979
dally nebraskan
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A worthwhile purpose is not served by Sen Chambers
slurring gay people and whites who are not racist. To re
peat oppression is not a wholly white phenomenon. There
are examples of blacks who as businessmen and women
exploit, whites and blacks indiscriminately. In Africa there
are cases of elite blacks in power who oppress blacks be
neath them. (Idi Amin was such an oppressor. All South
African whites do not own the gold and diamond mines.
A few do.)
Sen. Chambers and many others (including the Daily
Nebraskan) should realize that while racism and sexism
are very serious problems in this society that basically
oppression is a class issue: those with power exploiting
those without. (By the way I don't consider paying off a
mortgage on one's house and making installment pay
ments on two cars and a recreational vehicle to be Utopi
an.) It's essential to realize that the mass of whites and
people of color in this society do not own the means of
production. (Black and white custodians are basically in
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A lady sitting behind us at the game said she was going
to send her hair coloring bill to the Nebraska football
team. ' " . .
"I must have gotten 20 new gray hairs," she said.
And as she drank the last of my schnapps, she added:
"I really think I wet my pants."
After the game; Nebraska hysteria erupted again, and
most of the talk was about Powers decision to go for the
win rather than tie with a field goal.
However, one Mizzou cheerleaaVr said Powers was
smart in more ways than one to go for the touchdown.
MISSOURI KICKER Ron Verrilli missed four kicks in
a row in the Tigers' upset loss to Kansas State the week
before. V ' '
"The big joke around campus," she said, "was after
that, Verrilli tried to shoot himself and commit suicide
but he was wide to the right." -
I suppose that's life in other Big Eight schools.
Driving home Sunday morning, we listened to the
Kansas City-San Diego game, and as we passed Arrowhead
Stadium, a bright light appeared over our little red Honda.
Standing in line waiting to buy Chief tickets, we met
two unfortunate souls who had only three beers the night
before.
; Taking pity on them, we managed to stretch our road
trip into another day and night.
And that's when I said:
"Mavbe that scotch and water doesn't sound too bad
after all."
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the same category of powerlessncss. Favoritism is not
always based on race; it can be political, sexual, or based
on other arbitrary considerations. Mr. Chambers is not
always anti-racist.)
Progressive political change is much more likely to
occur when all oppressed people organize an anti-racist,
anti-sexist international class struggle.
Ron Kurtenbach
Journalist
Chambers gives comment
The vociferous displeasure expressed by some students
at my appearance on the UNL campus is quite interesting,
because the students who are making the most noise were
not there.
Though my talk was open to everyone, the vast major
ity of UNL students chose not to attend. So they are
stuck with a brief, disjointed, out-of-context article
written from "the White perspective" by a young reporter
who did the best she could. Because I have my own way
of saying things, inaccurate reporting occurs whenever a
White reporter, attempts to substitute her words for mine.
Still, a bit of thinking has been stirred up.
If I didn't have such a keen understanding of the
shallowness -of many students' approach to complex
issues, I might be surprised that , they react so vehemently
to a talk which they did not hear.
Students will do well to distinguish between what I
actually said and the article written by Ms. Anderson.
Next time, perhaps some of the vociferous "reactors" will
attend my presentation and talk directly to me, rather
than to a student newspaper article.
Emie Chambers
State Senator
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