Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: A Black Professor Trapped in an Anti-Racist Hell

Living in a white dormitory,  with  invisible and visible

nooses hanging  on your door-  is a bad idea. 

The Black students of those days knew that,  and  chose 

protection, survival and  group solidarity for that moment.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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Ken -

What you do because you want to do it is different from what you do because you have to do it. Those same students who chose to live together as black students on their own volition would probably raise hell if they were forced to do so by some human authority. I guess it's a part of the natural human quest for freedom and unabated confraternity.

MOA

On Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 09:02:33 AM CDT, Harrow, Kenneth <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:

Freedom cuts both ways. When i came to east lansing, for a job in michigan state university, in 1966, black people could not buy a house within city limits. That ended the year after i arrived. Dormitories were not segregated on campus. But when black students were given the option of choosing their own dorm, a black dormitory was formed which they opted for. Many said they were more comfortable living in a black student environment rather than with whites. 

Ken

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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 7:18:20 AM
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: A Black Professor Trapped in an Anti-Racist Hell

 

Briefly

Re- "In 2022, however, I was told that the "Critical Black Studies" students would live and learn separately, creating a fully "black space." My "Anti-Oppressive Studies" students were separated from them. Instead of participating in a summer community of 32 high-school students, my group was to be a community of 12 (that would dwindle to nine by the time of the mutiny)."

An expert on group psychology would probably say that this was surely the dangerous moment of separation, departure unto an apartheid-type segregation during which the other group's identity must have festered, probably nurtured  - unopposed by the Black Power group…

On Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 03:23:01 UTC+2 Moses Ochonu wrote:

https://compactmag.com/article/a-black-professor-trapped-in-anti-racist-hell?fbclid=IwAR2yakEkhhxXaGWPbcOTbeC_tM8ms87DWbSGkTzD8opEcCb5V0cvWeqo77w

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