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Nigerian Author Expla'ins Black, Muslim Movement , By Rev.
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" , Msgr. ,George G. BIggins hU' been ,appOinted to aSsJst:tbe , work of the Second Vatican Council and has, asked Fr. Andrew 'M. Greeley to write this coillmn while he is in Rome. Fr. Greeley is well qualified. Be has a doctorate ,In soeiology from the University of Chicago and is theantbor of' three books: "The ' Church and the Suburbs"; "Strangers 'In 'the' BoUse"; and "ReU,glon and the College Graduate."" Be haS' also written well over 50 magazine articles. At the preSent tlDi~; among manyotlller , duties, Fr. Greeley' is ,editor' of' Apostoiat0 (Catholic Action Journal). '
'Over two decades ago ~ large, American foundation decided to commission an intensive study' of the race' problem in the United States; Among its problems was the ,fear that no, American coul~, b~, suffic~ently' iJ,Ilpartialto make an objective study of . , ' , ' ',. the condition of the Ameri- ha~e ~lf-respect and pride' in " N 'So '' thell' blackness. , ean egro., a young' ThuS Essien-Udof contends ,; Swedish soc i a 1 scientist that the' Black Supremacy thoo(Gunnar Myrdal) was chosen to r:ies and the eschatological theo,make the study of "The Ameri- logy of the Muslims must, be ean Dilemma." seen not so much as, an incite-, (A rather unment to violence (the Muslims" popula,r book in in fact insist on non violence in 'certain sections their :nembers) but rather as 'of the country ,a means of promoting pride and since i~ was self-respect among members. ,footnoted in Sense of importance the 1954 SuThe response the Muslims prem~' C 0 u r t have awakened would indicate school desegrethat a fair number of relatively gation case.) , uneducated lower class Negroes A ,much more are looking for an organization recent ' b QO k ' which will give them'a sense of makes it clear - belonging; a sense of impo,rtance, that foreigners may ,still be the a sense of mission, a pride in m<lst ,perceptive commentators : what' they are. .on tlie American race situation. The Muslims may not, in the, We hear much about the goals , long run, have enough organizaend significance of the Black ,tiona! sophistication to sustain' Muslim movement, but for a ,this need of the lower class definitive study of this faseiNegroes; but if they don't it nating group we had to wait for 'seems_reasonable to suspect that the work of a Nigerian. ' some other 'organization 'will. Basic Appeal Slavery not only destroyed "Black Nationalism," by E.U. N,egro traditions, Negro family Essien-Udom, makes all reports life, and Negro organizational on the Muslims by native Amer- : skill; it,also imparted to Negroes ik:ans look weak indeed. The an, inferiority 'complex from author spent two years in con- which few have been able to stant observation of the group 'escape during the last hundred 'and its leaders and analyzes "years of separate but equal, them with multiple skills of ,status, . political science, psychology and The Neg,ro elite in its, attempts sociology. , to ,become as respectable as, , To make the book d,oubly at- possible have, if one 'is to betractive Mr. Essien _ Udom's lieve Essien.,.Udom and ,Franklin li~erary . style .would put, most Frazier, lost contact,with the American scholars to shame,' ,Negro masses. ' , ,'As we, rea~ "IUack Na~iona. ' Important 'Function lism," the main theme of, the ' ,~re were oo",organizations author seems, to be that tile ~ ,in the' Negro commUnity, ";"hich Muslims basic appeal is that played 'the 'r.oie- in': 'the ~ they give the lower class Negro '#ltipii::of neW ":immigrants, , that, who has some aspirations to : .the national" P,ii-ri~~ did' for, ' move up the social ladder a sense let us say;, the 'Polish ' immiof pride' in his own color (or grants; the p3rishes";"ere able' ,blackness to use the word the to help the immigrant 'through Muslims would prefer). his transition to becoming an Goals of, Elite American and yet at the same For all their talk 'about re- time encourage him never to Jecting white culture the Mus- ' be ashamed of being PQlish (or lims actually practi~ a middle Irish or Lithuanian 'or Slovak). class respectability which would . It. i~ preci~ely .this· function of do credit to middle class whites' mstIllIng prIde m what one is, indeed the MUSlim prides him~ ,'so' that one has the emotional self on being more respectable resources to become something than the middle class whrte or more, that the Muslims seem the middle class Negro. flo be ex~rcising. The Muslim has 'in short reEven If we do not Uke the Jected white society's eV~lua- M~slim idool.ogy, we. must ~ rtion of the Negro people 'and mIt that theIr, functI?D is imbas also rejected the Negro ~ortant. Whe~ a ¥uslim says he middle class's sense of inferi- IS proud, of bemgblack he means oiity. it. The goals of the Negro elite Onl>: when most Neg,roes call often seem to have been to be- say thIS and really mean it, will come as much like white people the American race problem be as possible ~ to be completely on its, way to as solution. assimilated in superior white society. Promotes Pride The Muslim replies that he Phar~acy d-oes not want, to be assimilated ~rthur Janson, Reg. Pharm. into white society because it'is an inferior society and he perDIABETIC AND SICK ROOM, sonally is proud of being black. SUPPLIES He further argues that the 204 ASHLEY BOULEVARD reason Neg roe s have often New Bedford seemed so apathetic or indif':' WY 3·8405 ferent is that they have really believed they were inferior and that the only way Negroes will become respectable is' if they
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CLEVELAND (NC) - A new library system is quietly growing up in parocliial schools of the Cleveland diocese where it was revealed that 77 of the sys_ tem's 199 schools have their own central libraties. The 77 stock a total of more than 100,000 books.
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VATICAN CITY (NC) ~The use of, Latin is on the rise. Some of the advertisers in the Vatican City daily, Osservatore Romano, have started heralding their wares in the ancient Roman language. One of the ads reads: "Automobiles ' novissimae locantur aequis atque apertis condlcioni:' bus," (The newest cars for hire at just, negotiatble rates). A hearing-aid firm ran a "nuntius sU:1'ditate affectis," (an announcement for the hard· of hearing). ,
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