University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 24, 1988
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Black history
The nation observes February as Black History Month, and appropriately so. Schools, libraries, and numerous public and private institutions take this occasion to focus on the historical contributions of blacks. This observance seems altogether fitting when one considers that for too many years, black contributions to the American experience were lost and/or ignored.
As we celebrate Black History Month, it needs to be remembered that as blacks, we are not only the sons and daughters of former slaves. We are also descendants of ancient, yet advanced African civilizations. The contributions of the Egyptians, the peoples of Kush and Meroe, and the empires of Beni, Mali and Sanghoi all represent African legacies that have a definite relationship to Black History Month.
In that respect, our recognition of black history should not stop with the North American experience. It's important that all Americans know that people of African decent have, in many instances of time, made notable contributions to the progress of humankind, both in Africa and North America.
While we're being reminded of Afro-American contributions to U.S. history, it seems equally important that we take the added step to learn a bit about Africa.
Hannibal, St. Augustine, and Aesop were black Africans; so, too, were Marcus Aurelius and Septimius Severus, both of whom were among the greatest of the Roman emperors. Hopefully, as time goes on, Black History Month observances will give increasing recognition to the achievements of blacks before the coming of the Mayflower, and before the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
Mauris L. Emeka Wichita resident
Sincere thanks for the editorial position the Kansan has taken on the Ku Klux Klan issue, including Alison Young's excellent column, which pointed out perfectly the hypocrisy engendered when freedom of speech becomes a subjective standard.
Keep free speech
The fears of those who oppose the KKK visit are based on the pathetic assumption that all who hear them will rally to their cause and embark on a campaign of hatred. They deny that which makes us free individuals: our ability to hear, decide, and act on our decisions. To take away the first part of the formula, to hear and thus to acknowledge the existence of issues, is to nullify our freedom of choice. We become moral automatons, obeying the prevailing ethics of the day as we are told, without ever judging for ourselves what is right and what is wrong.
When right-thinking people, including Christians, attempt to abrogate the rights, the freedom of speech, of even the most hate-mongering panderer, they are setting a precedent of repression that may return someday to haunt them. Christ did not go to the Pharisees and ask them to shun the man of demons they called "Legion"; he met the man himself and performed a miracle. Likewise, it is not the Christian duty to muffle hatred and pretend that it is defeated, but rather to combat the message of hate with the message of love on the same level that Christ did from one individual to another, not through the intermediary of institutional repression.
I was truly disheartened by the apologies of the chancellor and executive vice chancellor, believing them to be reflective of the University community, but your editorial position is a light in an otherwise grim situation.
Cynthia Ingham Publications editor School of business
KKK has rights
Because of pressure brought by a group of "community leaders," the Ku Klux Klan will not be coming to the campus of the University of Kansas.
When Minister Louis Farrakhan was invited by a black fraternity to come to KU to spew forth his filthy message of race hatred and anti-
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Semitism, saying that Judaism is a gutter religion and that whites are subhuman, many of these same "community leaders" defended his right to speak. They said that although they disagreed with him, it would be a violation of his Constitutional rights and an infringement of academic freedom to prevent his appearance.
Now that the Ku Klux Klan wants an equal opportunity to spew forth their filth message of race hatred and anti-Semitism, saying that they have been these same leaders demand that the Klansmen not be allowed on campus.
Although I might be tempted to agree with Cheryl E. Jackson (Kansas, Feb. 19) that there should be limits to free speech, our Constitution
does not agree. The only limitation the courts will allow is if there is a clear and present danger. The only danger hinted at in the projected Klan visit were the veiled threats of violence from the community leaders if their every whim was not catered to.
I (Jovan Weismiller) picketed in protest of Minister Farakhan's appearance at KU, and I would have picked in protest had the KKK been allowed to appear. However, I am bothered by the perception that in Lawrence, constitutional rights and academic freedom are dependent on whose ox is being gored.
Jovan Weismiller
Delire L. Weismiller
Lawrence residents
Use the last night, I relln.
It bothers me to think of how the world just continued without even noticing your absence.
In memoriam
You died last night friend
The sun came up, the birds sang,
people laughed, and people cried
about their own selfish problems
Each of us — do we really matter? The few of us whom you touched and to whose lives you added, we noticed, we cared. Our day, our lives have been affected, forever, by you.
Remembering.
Who would have ever guessed? Why you? Why you with so much to offer this world which you were a part of just yesterday? Today you are part of another world — one of which we have no conception.
I wonder what you are going through right now . . . Yesterday, we were equals, and today, you know the ultimate secret of life, what happens, and what it is all about.
Who would have known, but God,
that you wouldn't grow up to be
that doctor you always dreamed of
becoming or have that beautiful
wife and those babies? Who would
have known that you would leave
at the age of 19?
Somehow, I feel that you are more special than me. Your life on earth was short, but your purpose was a great one. It makes us realize how special life and people are. The trivial problems of people seem ridiculous. Don't cry, people! You are alive! But who knows, it could be my turn toor-
You do matter. Maybe the sun rose outside today, but it is still midnight in my heart.
row; maybe I too am meant to live my for others, for I believe that people who die young do so to teach people around them.
Well, friend, keep in touch.
Remind me every so often of yourself,
of the things we did together,
of the person you were.
And I will see you again, someday.
Someday soon.
(Jenni Gabrielsen wrote this letter after watching someone very close to her suffer through the loss of her good friend Paul Apprill.)
Jenni Gabrielson Omaha, Neb., sophomore
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