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From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: This Year In Black History, 1993
Date: 2 Jan 93 19:26:56
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: pop-tarts.ai.mit.edu

As some of you know, I've been posting something called "This Week In
Black History" for the last two years.  This year, I'm going to expand
this and do a few more things.

1) I have a new source calendar chock full of information, so I'll be
updating and adding new info to my calendar.  

2) I'll be doing a bi-weekly "Events and People in Black History"
wherein I describe, uh, events and people in Black History.

3) I'll do a better job of amassing corrections and additional info
from others who come across it.  See below for how to submit info to
me.

4)  I'll do a better job of getting this damn thing out Monday
*morning* instead of Monday night.

Thanks for your support, people!



Rules for contributions:

1) Try not to send me stuff months in advance--I'll lose the info.

2) Try not to send me stuff months late either (of course, it will be
put in the file and seen next year).

3) If you have stuff for some upcoming week, e-mail rather than post it.
Feel free to post also if you fall into category 2.

4) Let me know if you don't want to be credited.

5) If you think it helpful, provide a brief summary explaining the event or
personality in detail, but separate it from the event itself.  For example:

...
December 18  Charles Isbell, philosopher and homeboy form hell, born 1968

Charles Isbell was a stud.  Truly.  He changed the course of history with
his incredibleness.  Blah Blah..... Etc......
...

6) As with the example above, try not to editorialize too much--just the
facts.  Feel free to provide a reference.

7) Don't get mad if I edit your entry.

8) Send constructive criticisms to isbell@ai.mit.edu (or post) but
send flames to your mother (your mother's breath is sooo bad, when she
breathes, her teeth duck out of the way).

9) Anything else that I think up.

--
Peace.
              "The main thing I like about New Yorkers is that they understand
               that their lives are a relentless circus of horrors, ending in
               death.  As New Yorkers we realize this, we resign ourselves to
               our fate, and we make sure that everyone else is as miserable as
               we are.  Good town."
                                    -Kyle Baker, Why I Hate Saturn
                                   -\--/-
    Don't just adopt opinions     |  \/  |       Some of you are homeboys
          develop them.           |  /\  | but only I am The Homeboy From hell
                                   -/--\-
From: stephens@chuma.ec.usf.edu. (Daniel Stephens (CSC))
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: American Black Nationalism in Film
Date: 29 Dec 92 23:03:25 GMT
Organization: Univ. of South Florida, College of Arts & Sciences


     I have been asked by a faculty member here at the University of
South Florida's department of African-American studies to find films
which depict Black Nationalism in America.  Yes, it's a rather vague
request, but I'm sure that, given enough input, one can find specifics
relating to this phenomina lurking about.  Any input is welcome.  If you
know of any film or films which might display Black Nationalism, please send
their titles and, if convenient, the director's name to the address
below.  Thank you in advance.




stephens@chuma.csc.usf.edu
	or
dstephen@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu


Daniel Stephens
Center for Scientific Computing
University of South Florida
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
From: kautaj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (kauta)
Subject: Re: (O My Darlin, Sweet Darlin) Desiree
Organization: Indiana University, Department of Mathematics.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:06:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.172917.8512@sequent.com> kevinc@sequent.com (Kevin Closson) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.205544.19037@cbnewse.cb.att.com> ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis) writes:
>
>> but then tyson's explanation that vaginal abrasions
>>found on washington were due to the size of his "anatomy" sounded pretty lame.
>>the net result is that i didn't know what to believe.
>
>   You can bet that Tyson knows exactly what the size of ones anatomy and
>  abrasion is all about by now.

WHAT DO YA MEAN????

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Xref: sparky soc.culture.african.american:13162 alt.discrimination:5427
From: ohall@milori.ccit.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american,alt.discrimination
Subject: Re: I'm Still Waiting
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:19:33 GMT
 <1992Dec18.124513.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> <1992Dec18.232436.25984@panix.com>
Distribution: usa,local
Nntp-Posting-User: ohall

In article <1992Dec18.232436.25984@panix.com>, lkk@panix.com (Larry Kolodney) writes:
> In <1992Dec18.124513.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> ohall@violet.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
> 
>>  You say Brazil since, blacks are the majority and white is the minority, yet
>>  they(whites) rule.  
>>  My point was, why isn't there more civil unrest with respect to racism, in
>>  Brazil if it is so brutal as compared to the U.S.?
> 
> The same reason there was not civil unrest among U.S. blacks except in
> the past two generations.  Besides, Brazil has been under military
> dictatorship for most of its history.  Your observation demonstrates
> nothing.  
> -- 
> larry kolodney:(lkk@panix.com) 

  No!  Let's just say Brazil, unlike the U.S., has integrated its people much
  more.  The U.S. is still holding on to its racisim and white supremacy with
  its halfbreed self.
From: djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: What A White Person Learned in College About AfAm Culture
Date: 31 Dec 92 21:37:58 GMT
Organization: University of Florida, Gainesville

In article <1992Dec23.235627.18305@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:

# I have frequently noted that a small minority of Americans
# discriminate against blacks on the basis of racial hatred. Lord
# knows there are a great many blacks who do the same towards whites.
# The important thing is that these are tiny minorities.

Unfortunately, a disproportionate number of that small minority of
biased whites are in positions where it matters.  They are the people
hiring, firing, promoting, admitting, etc.  It doesn't take many
bigots to make life miserable for the targets of their discrimination.

# In this environment, the one that exists today, AA is one of the
# primary contributors to racial bias. It is a type of program that
# openly discriminates against one group.  Members of the group
# discriminated against are very frequently unable to reconcile this
# reality with what they have been taught and a great many racists
# are thus created.

Since you seem to know so many of these people, you're in an ideal
position to point out to them how childish their whining looks like to
others -- "Mommy, Billy's piece of pie is bigger, wah wah."

In the first place, there is no way in hell that the amount of AA
doled out can be taking something from as many people who claim it is.
But if 10 whites apply for a job, and a black gets it, all 10 whites
think they lost the job to the black.

In the second place, if there hadn't been a pattern of racial
favoritism already, the position those 10 whites were applying for
would, on the average, already have been filled by another black.

If a bunch of spoiled children want to run around wailing "me, me, I
was there first", let them wail.

David
From: gaff@sr.com (Jon Gaff)
Subject: "Minorities" <-- does this term bother you?
Reply-To: gaff@srhqla.sr.com (Jon Gaff)
Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:23:49 GMT

You see the word "minorities" sprinkled throughout many of the posts here
on s.c.a.a. and I just thought people should at least make an attempt to
understand how racist this term is.  The root word is "minor" as in not as
good, lower than, not as important.  Yet another example of how language is
the tool we consciously and too often unconsciously use to degrade others.

So the next time Jason or Terry spouts off about AA being racist, count how
many times they use the term "minorities."  Maybe they'll get a clue.

Yeah, right....
And maybe they'll both wake up with a darker skin tone tomorrow, too.

-- 
Jon Gaff / SilentRadio head tech support bozo.
From: cr614@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Monee C. Kidd)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: separate but equal???
Date: 29 Dec 1992 10:38:40 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


Hello, I am new to the whole Usenet concept, so bear with me if
I stumble. ;) I am most pleased to see this discussion; in all my
years of cruising the electronic airwaves, I've never before seen
a discussion area devoted to the issues of the African American -
at least not one of this magnitude. When I was on CompuServe, a
friend and I wrote a proposal for starting an African-American
forum. We were told that this 'sort of thing' was not allowed,
that CompuServe doesn't exclude people from its forums (my friend
and I never planned to restrict access to the forum, they merely
assumed.)

Has anyone else encountered this problem? - When whites 
associate with each other, that's normal, but when African
Americans do it, we're being separatist and restrictive. At my
school, University of Pennsylvania, we have a dorm named after
W.E.B. Dubois, which is where quite a few (but not *most* or
*all*) African-American students choose to live. It gives them a
sense of community and family in a predominately all white, ivy-
league institution. Yet, annually, Dubois House comes under
attack for being separatist, and therefore, somehow inherently
racist. No one questions the existence of the Modern Language
House, where students who speak a certain language all live on
the same floor, or the Asian American Living/Learning program,
where Asian students live together. Is there some reason that
groups of black people means 'trouble' to many outsiders?

Another thing I heard that kind of saddened me. I read a few
days ago that a judge in I believe either Louisiana or 
Mississippi ordered two of his states Historically Black
Colleges to merge with the state school. Seems the HBCUs had
good football teams and the state school's team was struggling.
The judge ruled that 'separate but equal' had to apply to the
athletics, and since the athletics weren't equal, the schools
couldn't be separate. Yeah, right.
-- 
       "Whatever happened to Peace?"    -Eric B. & Rakim
     ********    This is our year - GO CAVS!!!    ********
                         ~ mc kidd ~
~ cr614@cleveland.freenet.edu ~ kidd47@wilma.wharton.upenn.edu ~
From: bu534@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill E Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: What is cdp:media.issues
Date: 27 Dec 1992 23:39:12 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In the past, information from "cdp.media.issues" has been posted 
in this group. What and where is it?
-- 
Bill E.
bu534@cleveland.freenet.edu
A man is a terrible thing to waste.
From: patm@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Pat Murphy)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:56:30 GMT
Subject: Let's Move MIM News Outta Here...
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american



	hey, i'm sorry if i'm steppin' on anyone's toes...

	BUT, is this s.c.a.a or is it a soapbox for the NY
	Transfer News Service and the MIM?!  shouldn't these
	postings be placed on alt.misc.news.postings or 
	something?  o.k., some of the topics are somewhat
	interesting, but enough is enough!  think for yourself...
	don't just re-post a news clipping.


peace all and happy new year!
pjm.
From: cs360@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Geoffrey William Buhl)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: The way I see things.
Date: 29 Dec 1992 06:53:39 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


  This is the situation as I see it:
Two of the pillars of this society are racism and slavery.  Just
Check the constitution; Slavery is promated ( slave= 3/5 human)
and in those days slavery was a racis
t instituion.  Because this society is based on slavery and
racism, we should not expect equallity or justice for minorities
in this society.  To obtain justice, we must do it outside of
 this society.  Because society dends to reject change, there
will be conflict.  In essence, this society must be destroyed
and an new society built upon a different bases, if we are
ever to expect or encounter equality and justice.  Thus,
a revolution, and most likely a violentone, is neccesary to 
establish true equality.

 Questions, Comments: please email, unluckily for  me, my 
finals are after te break, so chanches are, I wont be cruising
th internet all that soon.

R U Up for Tha WAR?
Geoff
-- 
     Geoffrey Buhl - cs360@cleveland.freenet.edu
  Anybody from University of Detroit Jesuit High School out there?
  If so E-mail me.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american,alt.discrimination
From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:36:31 GMT

>Does anyone else smell something fishy here?
>
>"Over 5.3 million" mortgage applications are somewhere between 100 and
>1000 times as many needed for a legitimate statistical sample.

Perhaps they studied all the applications so a legitimate statistical
sample would not have to be determined. One report on this study gave 7.8
million as the count but the 5.3 million number was more widely used
(in reports I saw or heard).

>Considering that there would be considerable per-application expense,
>ranging from transcribing to computer processing, I can't imagine any
>government or private agency paying for millions of extra data sets
>that would have no discernible effect on the study's outcome.

>In fact, how long would it take for the average research mainframe to
>run a 40-way ANOVA  with 5.3 million subjects?

Got me. I don't recall the time frame for the sample verses the report date.

>Who would have access to all these applications in the first place?

Data on all applications have to be filed with the government.

>Also, is race routinely listed on applications?

Sure is. Also, is you don't list your race the loan officer will/is required
to list it for you. Also part II, the loan officer will change what you
put down and list what they determine as being your race.

>Can you imagine the
>researchers making 5.3 million phone calls to determine the race of
>the applicants?
>
>It all seems pretty far fetched.

I never thought that the entire study might be bogus rather than just
its conclusions, but maybe it was.

--
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     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
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From: burt@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: University Faculty Positions
Date: 22 Dec 92 15:54:05 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

The University of Northern Iowa has the following open positions:

Full-time tenure track position in Industrial Technology - Assistant/Associate
Professor in Electro-Mechancial Systems Technology - Review 1/15/93
Contact:
Jere Wheatley, Chair
Electro-Mechanical Systems Search Committee
Department of Industrial Technology
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0178
Phone:  (319) 273-2563

Department Head, Psychology - Review 1/15/93
Contact:
Frank Barrios, Chair
Department of Psychology
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0505
Phone:  (319) 273-2303

Assistant Professor of Mathematics - Review 2/15/93
Contact:
Gregory Dotseth
Search Committee Chair
Department of Mathematics
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0506
Phone:  (319) 273-2397

Aquatic Vertebrate Biologist - Assistant Professor - Review 1/15/93
Contact:
Robert Seager
Chair, Search Committee 
Department of Biology
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614
Phone:  (319) 273-2456

Assistant Professor - Computer Science - Review 1/15/93
Contact:
K.C. O'Kane
Computer Science Department
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614
Phone:  (319) 273-2618

Assistant Professor - Environmental Technology - Department of Industrial
Technology - Review 2/15/93
Contact:
E. A. Dennis
Environmental Technology Search Committee
Department of Industrial Technology
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0178
Phone:  (319) 273-2563

Assistant Professor - Chemical Education - Review 2/15/93
Contact:
E.W. Richter
Chair, Search Committee
Department of Chemistry
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614
Phone:  (319) 273-6249

Assistant Professor - Social Work - Review 2/1/93
Contact:
William Downs
Chair, Recruitment Committee
Department of Social Work
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0405
Phone:  (319) 273-6249

Assistant Professor - Criminology - Department of Sociology - Review 1/15/93
Contact:
Tina Mawhorr
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0513
Phone:  (319) 273-2786

Science Educator - Associate or Full Professor - Review 1/15/93
Contact:
Robert Ward
College of Natural Sciences
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0181

Elementary Educator - Assistant/Associate Professor - Review 1/11/93
Contact:
Peggy Ishler, Head
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0606

Assistant Professor - Sociology - Review 2/1/93
Contact:
Jerry Stockdale
Search Committee Chair
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0513
Phone:  (319) 273-2786

Assistant Professor - Organizational Communication
Assistant Professor - Public Relations
Assistant Professor - Journalism
Review - 1/12/93
Faculty/Debate Coach - Review 2/22/93
Contact:
Jon Hall
Communication Studies
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0357
Phone:  (319) 273-2217
From: slzm9@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: a SERIOUS question about AA
Date: 31 Dec 92 18:31:54 MDT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Utah State University

In article <31DEC199212531828@utahep.uta.edu>, sawyer@utahep.uta.edu (Lee Sawyer) writes:
> In article <1992Dec27.175432.16634@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>, q2tj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes...
>>[del] 
>>	For people who *do* support AA, (or at least
>>	do not wish for it to end at this point in time)
>>	what standards would you use to determine that AA 
>>	should end?
>> 
>>	or, rephrasing:
>> 
>>	Is AA supposed to be a permanent beauracratic method
>>	of doing bussiness?  If not permanent, then by what
>>	mechanism will it end?  How will you know it's time to end?
>>


I suggest:


   I think we should choose a couple of solid measures:
1) Say a black person makes $.60 plus or minus $.05 for each $1.00
   a white person makes for the same job when the workers have the
   same skill and experience. Then Affirmative Action should end
   when the black person makes from $.95 to $1.05 for every dollar
   a white person makes for the same job.

2) 11% of the U.S. work force is African American. When the number of
   incoming freshmen entering major 4-year undergraduate institutions
   is 11% we can slowly phase out programs that provide an advantage to
   African American candidates for acceptance.
 

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From: ww@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Date: 26 Dec 92 11:41 PST
Subject: NY Vets' Grp Blasts Somalia Invasio
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Nf-From: nyxfer.uucp!ww    Dec 26 11:41:00 1992


Subject: NY Vets' Grp Blasts Somalia Invasion
From: nyxfer!ww (Workers World Service)


Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit


VETERANS GROUP HITS SOMALI INTERVENTION

A veterans group from Staten Island, N.Y., has spoken out in 
protest against the U.S. military intervention in Somalia.

Meeting on Dec. 3, the Richmond County American Veterans 
Association voted unanimously to send a telegram to President 
Bush and President-elect Clinton expressing dismay at the 
decision to send a military force to Somalia.

The telegram attacks the decision as being a "camouflage for 
another U.S. military intervention in a Third World country, one 
which puts the lives of American soldiers at risk." The group has
called instead for a dramatic increase in airlifts of food 
shipments to Somalia under UN auspices.

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
source is cited. For more info contact Workers World, 46 W. 21
St., New York, NY 10010; email: ww%nyxfer@igc.apc.org; "workers"
on PeaceNet; on Internet: "workers@mcimail.com".)
 

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: racism
From: rdailey@netlink.cts.com (Ron Dailey)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 01:24:53 PST
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

I'm neew to this network but I am appaled at the ignorance  of the 
writer's about their history. Racism is at its heartis ECONOMIC. It was 
created by europeans as a justification  for the rape and pillage of the 
rest of the world. Whaat most of the white writers are cinfused about is 
that they tend to equate the economic basis of racism with the individual 
issues of predjudice. The denial of of racism is the denial of the 
economic system that has been creaated to oppress not only 
Afican-Americans but the White Americans as well. The use of the race 
issue has been propagatted by the ruling elite to control, the white 
people of this coountry. The point to the "nigger" and how they destroy 
what we have given them and how they desire our women or take oour jobs. 
Whilw all the time the ruling elites are taking your money and lllaughing 
all the way to the bank. We need to put aside the racist issue and look 
to creaattte a better world for our children.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: a SERIOUS question about AA
Date: 31 Dec 1992 22:18:46 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

In article <31DEC199212531828@utahep.uta.edu> sawyer@utahep.uta.edu (Lee Sawyer) writes:
>* Incidentally, I recall reading somewhere that Neibuhr's views on Christian
>social and political life in the modern world greatly influenced Martin Luther
>King. In fact Dr. King's ThD dissretation may have been partially about 
>Neibuhr's ideas. Can anyone shed some light on this ? What was the title of 
>Dr. King's dissertation ?

Don't remember the details of what he wrote about, but not too long ago
there was alot of news out about MLK plagiarising a good detail of his
ThD work.