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THE BATTALION
Monday. February 28J
Black History Month poster burned
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5.
Safe'fKHi
JR BEATO T MF Bmtauon
A Black History Month poster in Fowler Hall was set on fire Sunday. The poster, between the first
and second floor in the east breezeway staircase, was one of many distributed on campus by the
Black Awareness Committee.
Round table
Continued from Page 1
general atmosphere of A&M itself; it’s
more close knit because we are Aggies and
all that, so I think that comes more into play
than anything else. I think it's less rather
than more because we are here at A&M.
High/: I have a question along with the
whole ‘Aggie’ thing, as far as stu
dent activities like going to football
games and participating in bonfire
and things like that, is that some
thing you feel African American
students are real comfortable par
ticipating in?
Davis: I disagree w ith what Pre
ston said about 'We’re all Aggies
and we’re all one,’ because when 1
first got here, me, my mother and
my father were here'for my summer
orientation, and we were in Rudder
Auditorium, and they were talking
it’s because 1 feel closer to that that 1 can
better relate and may be everybody else
can’t — but 1 have been out to cut several
times, and that's the furthest thing from my
mind is that somebody’s going to try to do
something to me.
James: 1 le’s like a ‘house Negro,' not
try ing to be funny, seriously, because he’s
“I don't care if you are
black, white, green or red, if
you don't want to talk to
me, twill come and talk to
you, that's the way I feel.' 7
— Samuel Ogungbemi
president of African Students Association
been discriminated against on campus
Everything is not perfect on this camptisi
on any oilier campus....
Johnson: I w ant to go hack to them
ditions. 1 don’t know if it’s a personal thin
or our culture, but it just doesn’t intaestm
to build bonfire. It doesn’t interestmetos
the game and have to stand upthewhol
game instead of enjoying the g
— Those are just not tilings that interts
me. and I feel like that’s the cl
teristics of a lot ofthe traditions onl
campus; they're just not interesti
and that’s why we don’t participaii
Well, that's why 1 don’t participate.
Figaro: Personally, I have had
lot of fun w ith the traditions and«
really felt any discriminationbecaui
I don’t give a flying fart... Maybe!
y ou're from a different area, liken
cousin came down from Port
Texas, w hich is predominately blad
and she came down for bonfire, an
about the ‘Aggie community’, the ring and
the star...and when you get here, it's a hos
tile place — you see Confederate Hags all
over the place. And, as far as bonfire, why
am I going to go out there with a whole
bunch of daink, excuse my language,
white people with axes? Like 10 black
folks out of 2000 out there cutting trees,
you never know what somebody’s going
to do.
Flight: We’re laughing about that, but
do you really feel that it would be danger
ous?
(The majority of participants respond
ed with a resounding “yes.”)
O’Bryant: You don’t know the mind
sets of some of those people.
Jenkins: I can speak — and maybe my
experience has been different because I am
in the Corps [of Cadets], so I come from a
different experience than most, so maybe
in the Corps, he’s a little bit better than just
the regular 'non-reg,' as they say.
Ogungbemi: 1 have a different per
spective. I think the way you act or the way
you relate to other people depends on the
how you were raised. It depends on your
mind set. I am from Africa; and, to me, 1
don't care if you are black, white, green or
red, if you don't want to talk to me, I will
come and talk to you, that's the way I feel.
About the bonfire thing, that's false, last fall
1 went with them and cut wood mid nobody
tried to do anything to me.
Ballare: 1 agree with Sam and Preston
to a certain extent. I feel that when you
come here to Texas A&M, you know that
it’s a majority white school, therefore, you
try to get to know them, as well as they
should try to get to know you; but don’t
think that they are going to go by and say
‘hi’ all the time. As for me, I have never
Monday. Pebruai
she got upset because there are a loti
drunk white people here. And she said"
never come to a school like this.”And ot.
reason that I really like A&M—UoW In
this and 1 meant it, and it wasn’t to som
racist or anything — but 1 told her, the
are the type of people you will be deali
\\ ith. Who will be hi ring you, who will I
employed with you. you more than likt|
will work with. Either you’ll be abo]
them, right beside them or below themS
you have to learn how to communicate!
network with them because once yous
in, and once you have this ring, it milt
against a lot ofthe prejudice that I’ve sett
Sometimes, even with traditions,y
to forget that you’re black and do sow
thing that you don’t want to do and lean
how to enjoy it because you’re not soffl.
to enjoy everything or everywhereyou’t
at. That’s just life in general.
THE Tj
Marinin Mohiuddin
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