Thursday, Feb. 28, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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you will not be free in another
bundite.
"The says, 'There has been nine percent integration in almost nine years since that so-called 'historic' Supreme Court decision'. Nine per cent brothers, nine per cent of the Negro children who went to segregated schools nine years ago now go to integrated schools. Ninety-one percent are still segregated. And says integration is the answer? Is the Negro free in the North? The answer is No, brother. No, No, No!"
"Now some guy up at the university hill, mister, he's at a committee meeting where they're talkin' about bringing speakers to Syracuse. He says that they ain't bringin' Malcom X 'cause, he's just plain controversial and ain't constructive."
"WELL, MISTER I don't know too much but it would seem to me that that is what you have speakers for. I mean if they're controversial then that's why you have 'em. How can you deal with their ideas if you don't even know what they're savin'. And as for Malcolm X, don't tell him he ain't constructive.
"There's lots of people who say
they're more members, exert their
"But some one up on the hill, he says that Malcom X ain't constructive. Well for him the Muslims aren't but for me they are. That guy in the committee don't know what the hell he's talking about. I'm willin' to bet that he knows as much about the Black Muslims as you did when you got up here on this shine seat.
"AND EVEN if he did know about them (and I'm sure he didn't cause if he did he would never have said those things about them) but even if he did know, who is he to decide for the rest of the students up there who they shouldn't? He don't even know what's goin on and he's makein' decisions for you. And the real tragedy is that when he does that he makes decisions for me too — he doesn't give me a choice. He proves what Malcom X says is so by not letting Malcom X speak.
'Listen, mister, there are nineteen million Negroes in America right now and every day more of us are listenin' to the Black Muslims. Even though you don't want to listen 'cause you don't like what they say, I'm gonna listen. They're tellin' me that I don't have to become white and gain partial freedom. They say that if I set up my own society with my own land for black men only, then I'll have real freedom.
"And since I listen you better listen too. You can't hide your head like an ostrich for another 300 years. We have been angry for a long time and we ain't done anything' about it. But now we want action—not token stuff. We want a real change—a change below the surface. So don't bury your head, mister,' cause if you do its not only gonna be my head that rolls like its been doin' for 300 years. No sir, very soon its gonna be your head, too.
"WHAT I MEAN, mister, is that I see only two ways out of this thing. Either I ain't gonna be here to shine your shoes or you ain't gonna be here to have your shoes shined."
Letters to the Editor
Liquor Laws
In reference to Terry Murphy's Monday editorial entitled "A Lot More Ish Lots More Better":
Mr. Murphy's main objection to legalized sale of liquor by the drink seems to be that this would result in his (and therefore, others) drinking more. If such is the case, I would like to suggest in a polite way, and with all due sympathy, that this appears to be due to the weakness of Mr. Murphy's will. Some people like to be able to meet with friends in a public place and enjoy mixed drinks (not necessarily to lean upon their therapeutic qualities as suggested by Mr. Murphy). This seems a simple enough pleasure, and I do not feel that it is the right of various AA's in our midst to force their burden of conscience and weakness onto me anymore than it is the right of any man to make himself a burden to his fellows.
ASIDE FROM the moral issue at stake, we might do well to consider other aspects of this question.
In the past few years Kansas has been trying to develop a tourist trade of sorts. I think it goes without saying that we are not really over-endowed with tourist catchers. Why should we handicap ourselves further by forcing our tourists (who are usually interested in enjoying their vacation) to have their drinks in the confines of their motel?
I wonder if Mr. Murphy has ever been outside this outpost of Puritanism (yes, Kansas) sufficiently to realize how greatly enhanced a fine meal can be by the serving of a proper appetizer or the use of a fine wine with the meal?
No, Mr. Murphy, I for one, do not think that I would really drink a lot more under liberalized liquor
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laws than I do now. If such would be the tendency of others, it bothers me not in the least to think that I am NOT just a "member of the herd."
Editor:
John Garlinghouse Salina sophomore
Foreign?
Foreign?
Hear ye! Let it be known that I came to KU of my own free will. The only "agency" involved was my own.
Myron A. Calhoun Milton, Fla., senior
I'm not a beer-can thrower, so that part of Mr. Murphy's article ("Vandals Miss Target") in Thursday's UDK doesn't bother me, but I would like to know his definition of "foreign."
In general—unless one counts the Confederate States of America—my ancestors for several generations have been citizens of the United States of America. (I even have a great-great uncle whose great - great - great - grandfather came over on the Mayflower.) However, my parents are not Kansas taxpayers. (I should know; I just paid my out-of-state fees!) Thus, according to Mr. Murphy, I have been "imported by a foreign agency," Q.E.D.
'nuff said.
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