Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some time ago, one of the founders of the newly-organized African and Afro-American Association invited me to join his group. He argued that existing groups working for Negro rights cannot effectively cope with Negro problems because of the influence of white members. His central point was that whites, however good their intentions, can never fully understand the situation and aspirations of Negroes because, by virtue of their being white, they cannot share fully and directly, in the experience of Negroes in a white-dominated society. They can only feel vicariously what Negroes feel directly, and, consequently, their approach...
...carried his argument a step further: not only are whites qua whites inherently excluded from an understanding of Negro problems, but Negroes qua Negroes--whether of American or African origin--have in common an indefinable "experience of oppression" which in some essential sense binds them together as a racial group. They stand apart from other groups which have been oppressed, and yet remain somehow together despite their disparate national origins and the differences between colonial rule and American bigotry as styles of oppression...
...Faculty Committee on Student Activities follows the HCUA's recommendation to refuse recognition to the new African and Afro-American Students' Association, its action will be an unwarranted interference in the political life of undergraduates. The last thing it will be is proof that the University refuses to tolerate racial discrimination. (In the final clubs, after all, discrimination continues to exist without a peep from either the HCUA or the Deanery...
...African and Afro-American Students' Association is a political group. It feels that it can best express its version of the truth about society by excluding white people and other non-Negroes. A discriminatory membership policy is part of the ideology of this group; punishing it for its membership policy by withholding the privileges granted other undergraduate political groups would be punishing it for its ideology...
...When the African and Afro-American Association's leaders claim they are discriminating because of national allegiance rather than race, the hypocrisy of their words mocks the professed candor of their stand. The membership restrictions are as racial as racial as those upon voter registration in Mississippi. The viciousness of discrimination is not transformed because the discriminators are a minority: the Association's membership clause proclaims, in effect, that whites are less acceptable than others, and that only an act of justification, such as becoming a citizen of an African nation, can prove the worth of a person born with...