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Why cause trouble
bJLTJtoug4Jar-risl
-point where it destroys you ot—discrkni-naTiim.- racism,- -arid
Why came trouble? I suppose-
1 just got tired of /being, called
racist whfirt xni-h '■■ thoughts
.stand up and -say' 'Back failing to meet the open polities
weren't even in my mind. 1 guess
1 got tired-ef-feviflg-the" charge--
*of discrimination pulled out.like'-
an ace in the hole whnever.some
people didn't get the^ir 'way. .It
begin to bother me the, most
- when Neo-Black. an organization*
originally set up to prOmoste
,-u-tui ar-sl-a a d ing. -. beiweeh— -the. -,
races, and receiving thousands'-of ■
student dollars for that purpose
.begaiinrpt'omote separtism and
black -worship. ' .
Most ot all.-I got' tired of
you
off.'" ~, . - ;- -
People told me "don't,worry
-it 'U jjiow over--'-or-it-saJLparrOf"
the pendulum's swirjg but I guess.
I've always b^fTTe^T'oTnTiaT'
: sort of argument; iffs a natural
-wariness bred,_ I suppose,'from '
reading too-many history books.
ahoiiL- the Protestants ' taking '
c o m pro mi s in g . ever
compromising what felt what
was right for the sake of peace
and quiet. I thought of the
quotation "A m.an doesn't have
to prove anything, he's.faknsejfi
when the lime comes, you stand
up and be' -counted. -^ For" the
-live in union and we've gone too
.far. too many good; men, like
Medgar Evans, have died in the
name of all of us living as one
people, for us nowHo\backtrack
;lJjito Hitlie. IiuJi|iici'ajLLS,„.
race-orie^nted ^gcSups-jrof black;
-• and white. 7. -; • .'.'% -J
-"righr Thing -- Eof,fsoihe t) ungTlfia't
matters:' it^s the ultimate:test.
You either compromise to the
rjrlrave' read'- ttii-t" a group
including -myself chisgcd the
^M£5;^iaa)sv.. Soci/u with
TTquifed"
dollars.
receive student
SEE RACIAL, page 6
over from (he Catholics.^ajd. vice «,
versa;" repeating the same
at roc ires -done -un{o ■tberri;-«nd
reading of too many "meet the,.
. new boss same as the old boss" '
governments. We, "the people of.
the United States, have
collectively made a decision to
Object Description
| Title | Personal essay: Why cause trouble |
| Date | 1973-03-05 |
| Creator | Harris, Doug |
| Subject headings | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| Topics | UNCG Neo-Black Society |
| Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
| Description | This personal essay by Doug Harris, published in the May 5, 1973, issue of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), is an explanation the writer's actions relating to challenges made against the UNCG Neo Black Society, a student organization founded in 1968. Harris and several other student senators made charges to the Student Government Association (SGA) Committee on Classification of Organizations that the Neo Black Society was in violation of the SGA constitution, arguing that the organization was discriminatory and possibly was in violation of an SGA prohibition against affiliations with political or religious organizations. In his essay, Harris explains that he acted out of a desire to stop a trend toward reverse racism that was growing among some members of the group. While the committee cleared the Neo Black Society, on March 26, 1973, SGA voted to reclassify (remove funding and recognition from) the Neo Black Society. The SGA decision was overturned by university administration on the basis of faulty evidence and improper procedure by SGA, resulting in an eventual legal filing by SGA members. At the beginning of the 1973-74 school year, the Neo Black Society was reinstated by SGA as a recognized and funded student organization after revising its constitution to reflect that membership was open to all students without regard to race. |
| Type | text |
| Original format | clippings |
| Original dimensions | Microfilm |
| Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| Language | en |
| Contributing institution | Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
| Source collection | The Carolinian (Civil Rights Clippings) |
| Finding aid link | The full run of The Carolinian, from which this article is taken, is available online at http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/Carolinian |
| Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| Additional rights information | NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
| Object ID | CarolinanCRG.0864 |
| Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
| Sponsor | LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html |
| OCLC number | 884368423 |
Page/Item Description
| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | Personal Why cause trouble bJLTJtoug4Jar-risl -point where it destroys you ot—discrkni-naTiim.- racism,- -arid Why came trouble? I suppose- 1 just got tired of /being, called racist whfirt xni-h '■■ thoughts .stand up and -say' 'Back failing to meet the open polities weren't even in my mind. 1 guess 1 got tired-ef-feviflg-the" charge-- *of discrimination pulled out.like'- an ace in the hole whnever.some people didn't get the^ir 'way. .It begin to bother me the, most - when Neo-Black. an organization* originally set up to prOmoste ,-u-tui ar-sl-a a d ing. -. beiweeh— -the. -, races, and receiving thousands'-of ■ student dollars for that purpose .begaiinrpt'omote separtism and black -worship. ' . Most ot all.-I got' tired of you off.'" ~, . - ;- - People told me "don't,worry -it 'U jjiow over--'-or-it-saJLparrOf" the pendulum's swirjg but I guess. I've always b^fTTe^T'oTnTiaT' : sort of argument; iffs a natural -wariness bred,_ I suppose,'from ' reading too-many history books. ahoiiL- the Protestants ' taking ' c o m pro mi s in g . ever compromising what felt what was right for the sake of peace and quiet. I thought of the quotation "A m.an doesn't have to prove anything, he's.faknsejfi when the lime comes, you stand up and be' -counted. -^ For" the -live in union and we've gone too .far. too many good; men, like Medgar Evans, have died in the name of all of us living as one people, for us nowHo\backtrack ;lJjito Hitlie. IiuJi|iici'ajLLS,„. race-orie^nted ^gcSups-jrof black; -• and white. 7. -; • .'.'% -J -"righr Thing -- Eof,fsoihe t) ungTlfia't matters:' it^s the ultimate:test. You either compromise to the rjrlrave' read'- ttii-t" a group including -myself chisgcd the ^M£5;^iaa)sv.. Soci/u with TTquifed" dollars. receive student SEE RACIAL, page 6 over from (he Catholics.^ajd. vice «, versa;" repeating the same at roc ires -done -un{o ■tberri;-«nd reading of too many "meet the,. . new boss same as the old boss" ' governments. We, "the people of. the United States, have collectively made a decision to |
