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Clinton’s speech sparks
conversation about race
Brett Myers
Megaphone Staff
About 50 students
and faculty gathered Tuesday
to discuss racism, using
President Clinton’s recent
speech at UT as a spring board
for discussion. Clinton focused
on “cleaning our house” of
racism. He was confident that
the problem can be solved.
“In recent weeks,
every one of us has been made
aware of a simple truth: white
Americans and black Americans
often see the world in
drastically different ways, ways
that go beyond and beneath
the Simpson trial and its
aftermath, which brought these
perceptions so starkly out into
the open,” Clinton said.
He concluded that
what the country needed was
more candid discussion about
the issue In the community.
“Seek out someone of
a different racial or ethnic
group and engage in. the kind
of conversation people think
they have but don’t really, in
which people can be frank and
brutally honest about the way
they honestly feel, but in which
they have the discipline to listen
and open their ears and their
minds and their hearts and hear
each other,” Clinton suggested.
After Clinton’s
speech, the discussion was
initiated by two students:
senior James Brewster and
senior Alison Wong.
Representatives were present
for both MASA and Ebony.
“In 1903, black
philosopher, WEB DuBois said
that the problem of the 20th
century is the color line,”
Brewster said. “These prophetic
words still ring true today.”
Brewster affirmed
that the road to resolving the
issues of race must begin with
dialogues between people not
just policy makers.
“It is going to take
people coming together to
discuss, not laws to solve this
problem,” Brewster said. “It
starts with us, not with them
[law makers].”
Wong followed
Brewster in getting the
discussion started. She asked,
“Is there racism at SU?”
Wong continued by
enumerating the different types
of racism: individual,
institutional, both direct and
indirect and small group.
In reference to the
President’s speech, Wong
noticed that Clinton did not
comment on Asian-Americans
and allowed little room for
women in his speech.
“I felt like an
uninvited listener as an Asian
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American woman,”
Wong said. “Clinton
only talked of males.”
She spoke
of the difficulties of
being both a woman
and a minority and
she put it in terms of
being an African
American woman.
“These
issues are experi-
enced differently by
women of color,”
Wong said. “If an
issue is raised by a
woman of color, she
runs the risk of
dividing the African-
American community.”
After the two opening
remarks, the discussion was
opened up to the audience
moderated by Dr. Maria Lowe,
assistant professor of Sociology.
Students said that
people on campus do not want
to discuss racism because they
are afraid of offending people.
in terms of the SU
campus, students said that
people pretend like the campus
is a protected sphere separate
from the outside, racist world.
But, students held
tjiat racism does exist on
campus in different ways.
Lowe inquired, “How
do you get to the undercurrents
of racism?”
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Senior Liz Albin expresses her views about race relations and personal experiences during
Tuesday's discussion of President Clinton's recent speech in the Cullen Auditorium, (photo
by Leslie Barnes)
Political correctness
was brought up and some
students felt it obstructed
conversation because people
worried about being offensive.
Thus, they would not ask the
questions they wanted answers
to.
You Ought to be in Pictures!
Senior Portraits & Underclass Make-Ups
will take place from 10:00 am -7:00 pm the
week of November 27th — December 1st
at the Lord Center Community Building.
Appointments and Drop-Ins will be accepted.
This will be the LAST opportunity to be
photographed for the 1996 Yearbook.
Sou’wester Yearbook
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International
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Israel withdrew
troops Monday from the West
Bank city of Jemin, ending 28
years of occupation. This
happened in the wake of last
week’s assassination and
burial of Israeli Prime
Minister and peace negotiator
Yitzhak Rabin.
“Without a doubt this
day crowns the work of Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin,” said
Palestinian Police Chief Nasr
Yousef after the transfer of
power.
National
Colin Powell backs away
from candidacy
Gulf War hero, retired
general and best-selling author
Colin Powell announced
Wednesday that he would not
run for the presidency in 1996.
Much speculation surrounded
Powell’s decision, but the
primary reason for his refusal
to run seemed to be his wife’s
fears and objections. The
announcement put Kansas
Senator Robert Dole firmly in
the Republican front-runner
spot.
“To offer myself as a
candidate for president
requires...a passion and
commitment that despite my
every effort I do not have for
political life,” said Powell.
Budget talks stall
Late-night meetings
were held Monday in an attempt
to avert an expected
government shutdown on
Tuesday. The talks continued
Tuesday between members of
the Budget Planning committee
and White House Chief of Staff
Leon Panetta. The meetings
came after President Clinton
vetoed a bill to extend the
government’s authority to
spend money past midnight.
The stalemate between the
President and the GOP is a result
of both parties’ refusal to budge
on matters of the budget.
“This could last for a
while,” House Minority leader
Richard Gephardt said.
Murder suspect caught
Glen Rogers, a suspect
in a cross country series of rapes
and homicides, was arrested
near Waco, Kentucky on
Monday. Rogers is suspected
of killing at least four women in
California, Florida, Louisiana
and Mississippi, and is possibly
connected to three other
murders in California. Rogers
was arrested after a 15 mile car
chase that began when Rogers
threw a beer bottle at an officer
from his car.
“He’s the most
dangerous man in the United
States," said Detective Chuck
Lee of Jackson, Mississippi.
“[Killing’s] turned in to a game
of fun.”
State
Texas schools’ chief rejects
AIDS grant
Texas Educational
Commissioner Mike Moses
returned a $1.35 million
federal grant aimed at
developing a statewide
curriculum for the
prevention of AIDS and
sexually transmitted
diseases. The grant would
have provided money for
AIDS seminars to train
teachers and for curriculum
relating to AIDS and sexually
transmitted diseases to be
used in public schools’ health
classes.
“It seems he is
making a dear statement that
HIV education, sexually
transmitted disease
education and teacher
training are not going to be
done,” said Ellen Sanchez,
education manager at
Planned Parenthood of
Austin.
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