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Dr. Charles A Lyons Jr f Chancellor Fayetteville State University sm
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BICENTENNIAL REFLECTIONS BY Charles A Lyons, Jr. Chancellor During this year as we celebrate the Bicentennial of the founding of America, it is a time for reflection on the progress of Afro-Americans, from slavery to freedom; from isolation to greater participation in the mainstream of American life. It is, moreover, a time for reflection on the need for greater understand- ing, compassion, unity, determination and hard work to help make real in the lives of all Americans, especially Afro-Americans, the true meaning of the American Dream. But this will not happen automatically. I am convinced that we have among Afro-Americans today, the brainpower, economic resources and influence, properly harnessed, to do whatever we want to do if we couple realistic goal setting with the dedication and hard work required to reach our goals. The late Dr. Nannie Burroughs once wisely cautioned blacks that, We must stop making excuses for not living up to high and rigid standards and stop charging our failures to our color, backgrounds and other people ' s attitudes. Like the late Dr. Burroughs, no one can convince me that God Almighty ever intended that a person ' s color should be anything more than a badge of distinction. It is a fact that all of our historically Black institutions ' facilities are inadequate and funds are short, especially compared to our white counterparts. Under these conditions it is all too easy to solace our egos with the thought that we have been unfairly dealt by, and we have. But in our heart of hearts we must be very sure that we do not permit lethargy to beguile us into satisfaction with second best. This day must emphatically belong to the dead past because you cannot meet society ' s competition equipped with a second class education. At Fayetteville State University a student can get a first class education if he takes full advantage of the resources and opportunities that exist. I hope that the reader will pardon a personal reference but I graduated from a small, poor, historically Black, private college and 1 have never really felt hampered by my undergraduate education, either in graduate school or anywhere else. In fact, as I reflect back on my college years, 1 developed, at that institution values, quite apart from the classwork, which I could not perhaps have developed at some other type institution and which values have been a bulwark for me in times of storm and there have been many in my life. If our young budding leaders of tomorrow are to meet the challenges they will face in the world which they will inherit and if they are to maximize the potential that is in them, we must wake up and bestir ourselves; we have been sleep-walking too long. To paraphrase Macbeth, Methinks I hear a voice crying sleep no more. As we prepare to enter the third century of the independence of America, let us all resolve to reach deeply into the inexhaustible resources of the Hebrew-Christian traditions of this nation and draw therefrom, the quality, the dignity, the excellence, the purity, the self-sacrifice, the richness of life that it contains and apply these qualities to our lives and in our relations with our fellow human beings If we do this, our lives, America, and the world will be better because we did.
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