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...Afro-American Cultural Center, and her statement is indicative of a new willingness of black students with varying political and social philosophies to work together toward common goals. Unlike the period between 1968 and 1971 when black students were coerced by their peers into mouthing a Pan-Africanist line, there is a feeling that each individual should decide has own political stance, and then come together with the group in order to work on projects that will serve the greater good...
...there is a greater willingness among black students to grapple with and participate in the white institutions at Harvard. When the black members of the Class of '74 first arrived on campus, they were given a special orientation by the black upperclassmen that consisted of a bombardment of Pan-Africanist and Nationalist thought and a special warning against "backsliding"--becoming involved with whitey. The special orientation for the black members of the Class of '76 was quite different. The black students were encouraged to become involved in whatever activities at Harvard interested them. There was no political speeches, only pleas...
...Cambridge as veteran Harlem detectives. In Cotton a modern day Marcus Garvey is unmasked as a charlatan, while in Charleston Blue a dynamic young black photographer who rids the community of heroin turns out to be using it for his own purposes. Black Americans are implicitly instructed that Pan-Africanist leaders are frauds and that blacks who attempt to serve the community have alternative motives. The thrust of these films is that blacks are incapable of solving their own problems and only the all-embracing parental arm of white law can save blacks from themselves...
...Africanist philosophy that Malcolm X began to advocate in the last years of his life has come to dominate the thinking of the black movement of the 1970s. "New bridges must be built," Malcolm once declared. "In our people's minds, Africa is too far away." Blacks at Harvard have set about to build those bridges, to begin to protest the injustices in Angola and South Africa. Malcolm would have approved of the Massachusetts Hall takeover. His words might well have served as inspiration for the occupiers who were threatened with a court injunction. "Some people say they're worried...
...MALCOLM stubbornly refused to let any man do his thinking for him. Leaving the Muslims, Malcolm began to articulate a Pan-Africanist philosophy. He traveled through Africa, and then made a pilgrimage to Mecca...