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Show the South were segregated. You had your perfect chance for black studies. But you lobbied to get integration and you got it. Why aren't you satisfied? Are you sure vou know what you want, or will vou demonstrate for integration again in 1989 after you get segregation again? The least you could do is be consistent in your demands. Jay Savage Get the facts! EdJustafew words to Mr. or Mrs. r Ficks (who seems to know very little about the thought and theory of history). It's true that the Negro history class here at the University is taught by a white man. (But a man who knows the theory and a great deal of history, and Mr. Kenneth M. Stamp says whites are only black men wi h white skins and vice versa. (He is a noted historian on the subject, Mr. or Mrs. Ficks.) It's completely false that the Negro history class is 99 P cent white. It's 299 per cent white! Mr. Ficks, this is a history class of the Negro. It's not a literature, English, sociology or thereafter class. I'm quite sure that if you were to enroll into any history class you would not find all these subjects taught. You really do need a few hours in history, Mr. or Mrs. Ficks. If you were to take a class in American minorities you would be taught this subject by Dr. Clark Knowlton who is not Negro, Spanish, or Indian, yet he is the best authority on the subject. Mr. or Mrs. Ficks, your letter holds no water, and I sincerely hope you will in the future look into the things you write about before you write about them. It will make you look less ignorant on the subject. James F. Manwill Moore's qualified' Editor: You are right, Keith J,,: takes .no brains to television is the catalyst ,. ' fall of America," amj. qualification, you are equipped to predict such a?' Someday, when u comes alive and takes 0 homes of America, we back on this day and should have listened l' prophet Keith Moore!" j By the way, wnat J pressure were you und you wrote those ridicV1 illogical sentences: "iw is, most people are asses T says that, and its enoui thought words like assesV to colloquial use. That se-shames se-shames the journalistic; Dreiser, and Keith Moore, j JoleneE TV's not all ki Editor: j I'd like to know whySli.i thinks that television apt people with "no brains." j How does he account Is "brainless works" broads" television, like, national conventions, Presidential conferences, funerals o! heroes, space launching recoveries, programs i "Meet the Press," "Tweif . Century," etc. Mr. Moore's column ;sf.. indicated that the only pr; he views are the ones prist . Saturday mornings. Kevin B.;. Racism at the U Editor: I woulcHlke to see an exclusive black organization formed on the University of Utah campus. Anyone who feels that this is unlawful or immoral or words of all words reverse-racism or reverse-reverse-racism could follow the common practice delineated for those who want to prove the unconstitutionality of a racist practice --dig deep into their pockets for the cash, hire an attorney and go to court to prove that they should be allowed to join this organization. This white person could be the token integrator for the organization he could lick their boots, laugh at their jokes, entertain them with music, dance and charm - in other words be an exemplary kind of human being, because of course he would be representing the whole white race and he wouldn't want to make a human type error or just be a plain ordinary human type slob. How does this picture grab you? Do you still say that "racism doesn't exist at the University?" Joanna Taylor Whites helped Editor: L. Fick's letter in Tuesday's Chronicle was quite interesting. I do disagree in a couple of instances. First, while the Negro has contributed extensively to the American society, I hardly think that the entire country's progress was built on the "blood, sweat, tears and backs of blacks." You'll have to admit, Mr. Ficks, that in at least one or two instances the whites have contributed something. My second point is that Negroes have waited a long time for integration. Now, when they are finally getting it, they want to throw it away and build their own society. You are junking two hundred years of work. Your past heroes who have worked so hard for integration (note: Dr. Martin Luther King) are having their dreams shattered by you, the ones they did it for. No one's trying to take the Negro's individuality away. We just want to breed a little cooperation. Is that so bad? Look at the examples of black studies courses in other universities. They are taught for blacks by blacks only. They take away the rights of whites to attend black classes. Instructors stand up and ask white students to leave. Is that fair? By doing that you do the same thing that you condemn whites for doing. It makes your idea of white atrocity ridiculous if you do the same thing. You've nothing to gripe about if you don't offer any ohange. You don't see any "white studies courses" in universities; and don't say they all are because you already admitted that the black contributions are taught in classes now. Blacks are no longer asked to leave classes by white instructors. Do blacks consider themselves that much better? If so, I think that their self-esteem is high enough if not too high. Besides, why yell for black studies now. Fifty years ago almost all the schools (all levels) in |