Bond gives outlook for '80s
Senator Ju
College as
Ban Bond of Georgia spoke last week at Greensboro
part of BASIB's Journey 8 Week.
By Shari Hicks and
Marylyn Harris
Staff Writers
To highlight BASIB's Journey 8 Week festivities, Greensboro College invited Georgian
State Senator Julian Bond to
speak at Greensboro College
Chapel last week.
Bond concentrated on the
upcoming decade and the condition of society. He began by
asking the audience to review
the events that have already
taken place in the first month
and a half of the year, such as
the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the Klu Klux
Klan activity and demonstrations.
Bond expressed his views on
the attitudes of society towards
the most "easily defined and
painfully despised" examples
of how society constantly divides blacks. Among these are
the Bakke decision and "Abolish the Quota system."
Bond also addressed skin
privileges and the fact that life
is still more a matter of struggle
than of choice for most blacks.
The American dream is a nightmare for most blacks. He reporr
ted that things haven't changed
drastically since the '60's when
"the best and the brightest of
our race were beaten down with
bullets."
Although we do see "dark
faces in high places", and we
have moved "from the back of
the bus to the front of the
unemployment lines, we are
still the last hired and the first
fired," says Bond.
The black youth, according to
Bond, has nothing to look to for
guidance. Television has created the common stereotyped
black individual as being
"What's Happening," "Moving on Up," and having "Good
Times." We know that this is
not true, but do our children?"
In concluding, Bond introduced a new age of society and
gave a list of some of the actions
that should be implemented to
create this age, including income and wealth distribution,
the beginning of poverty dismissal, education, and cradle to
grave health care, and defective
social care of monopolies.
Bond urged the audience to
begin a new realization and not
to be "me first people." One
should first justify one's own
existence, but along the way
and after one has, think of your
brother also.
