Hare Calls Black Power
Quest For Self-Assertion
By MARY KNIGHT
"History of Black Power has
not yet been written," declared
Dr. Nathan Hare, "because it
hasn't happened."
Hare, chairman of the Black
Power committee in Washington
and author of The Black Anglo-
Saxon, addressed students from
UNC-G and surrounding campuses at the NSAnsponsored lecture on the history of Black
Power, Nov. 1, in Cone
Ballroom.
"History of Black Power
represents a quest for self-
assertion and p o s s i b 1 e
harmony," he * stated. "Black
Power is a matter of mental attitude."
Tracing Black Power as far
back as Napoleon, Hare updated
the movement to the present
situation in a concise summary.
In regard to the Supreme
Court decisions, he alleged that
blacks did riot gain ground, but
instead the whites moved up.
"They have integrated us, but
they have not elevated us."
Hare supported the premise
that somebody needs to study
the "white tribes." Specifically
mentioned were ''the cannibalistic white European act"
of the Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper and also the "cannibalistic rituail" of the marriage ceremony.
From religion, he proceeded to
examine the white educational
methods.
"Students take something in
and vomit it up on a test and
call it education. They study
each part and never the
whole."
He attacked the United States
government for herding blacks
to Vietnam. In connection with
Vietnam, he told of a black who
had been awarded the medal of
bravery for throwing himself on
a grenade that would have killed
the men in his company,, some
of which were white. Hare
believed that the Negro accidentally tripped on the
grenade, or otherwise should
have been awarded the medal of
ignorance.
Hare upheld that black power
is "an agency of self-interest
that will not be liberated until it
is in control of its own political
destiny."
"The United States will have
to solve its problem or get the
destruction it deserves," he concluded.
