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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1993)
Therrese Goodleti/DN Jeff Brown is reflected in a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. mirror. Like King, Brown said he strives to lead the way in helping others to understand the importance behind cultural diversity. Brown is on the African-American Special Events and Entertainment Committee, a member of the Afrikan People’s Union and Coalition of People of Color. Respect, not love or getting along, should be America’s reality We live in a place where every one doesn't necessarily love one another, but everyone respects one another. This is a place where the color of our skin is only a physical description for identification. This is a place where I understand you and you understand me — a place that has finally set everyone free. We live in this place and we live where we daily hear the freedom bells ring, because we live in a place where Dr. King dreamed. And then I woke up. I woke up to the words, “Can’t we all just gel along?” Those words flowed from Rodney King’s mouth and into the ears of millions of people shortly following the acquittal of several police officers for beating and hospitalizing him. Those words soon became com sion shows began to incorporate this ill thinking in their shows, and students began to use it jokingly amidst themselves. 1 call that ill thinking because I don’t know how Rodney King, af ter being beaten to a pulp, and after millions of viewers saw it on televi sion, asked everyone to just stop everything and get along. There was no need for a cry of getting alongwithoneanother. Whatthere was and still is a need for is for everyone to respect one another. Let’s finally answer those doors of reality. If meaningful words didn’t work for a man with a dream that would wake the world out of its sound slumber, what made Rodney King think it would work for him? People don’t have to get along with one another to respect one another. People need to respect one another’s use of language or speech because everyone does not come from the same background. People need to respect a person’s style of dress, texture of hair and skin color. People need to respect another even if they do not look like each other. It is finally time to wake up from the dream Dr. Martin Luther King had in the 60’s and make it a reality in the90’s. My dream is that through respect, we will be able to make King’s dream a reality. With respect for one another, people’s bitter biases about another’s culture will be removed from America. With the eyes of respect, people will begin to see things better giving them a more complete view of the world. Linda Kay Morgan Is a junior broadcast ing major Journeyers find love, welcome over rainbow In a dream, one’s exploration of the unconscious leads to a place one yearns to be familiar with. It’s a destination that can only be reached through curiosity. For me, Africa and its.culture, language, religion and original surname, has been taken from me. This is the place I’ve been searching in bewil derment, for my intended being; this place is somewhere over the rajnbow. I’ve always known that I had a rainbow, but I never understood the meaning of its content or its colors. My rainbow has four colors and they are: black, which stands f". — ■ 1 forihe people of Africa , red, which represents the blood of Africa, green, which represents the land of Africa; and yellow, which repre sents the riches of Africa. These colors were insignificant to me be cause I was once oblivious to my true African history. 1 am still in a state of oblivion about a myriad of other truths about Africa, but as I take it upon myself to explore this not only foreign, but also native, land, the rainbow becomes more and more illuminating. During my many hours of soli See AFRICA on 11 nstyle When you're just hanging out, slip into liirkcnstock? The pure comlort supports and cradles your leet. And when you feel this good, it shows. Uoslon.'" in lots of colors 9 a Footloose & Fancy \ 9 1219 "P" Street open Thursday until 8:30 P.M. UNL | Women’s Gymnastics Cheer for the Huskers as they bounce into action during the Big Eight season opener against the Sooners! Friday Night January 15, 7:30 P.M. Bob Devaney Sports Center Admission $2.00 - General Public Free - UNL students with l.D. For ticket information - call (402) 472-3111. _
