Agricultural and Technical State University - Ayantee Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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The dawn — elder Sister Rosa Parks bucked in Alabama to gice up her seat to a swine. Now four bad Brothers from the T . strolled in Woohiorths to dine if not for solidarity the beast would ' ie named another crime decade 60 ' s — air highly seasoned with lead 30-30 or 30.06 pot en t projectile (via) L. H. Oswald — impact J. F. K. ' .- head. Malcolm X still running down what he thought was so until a 4-.0. 3-8. and shot-gun blast cut his shit slow — body dead fo ' it hit the Flo Sirhan capped on Kennedy — remember senator Rob Then James Earl Ray did our great Doctrjr King a job Okland Cal. thepanters caught Hell! now Fm here in person to bid all this shit farewell! Fs the Niggas ' Messiah hellified-ultra-cool. prophatic. uerbalistic. active, extremist, discreet, and completed natures school P. H. D. in survival, Fve been taught to keep the beast like swine oreo snitchers fooled I come to nullify the inferiority complex — caused by the Tarbaby little Black Sambo — and the schools text I come to give a mental ablution of Tarzan and Bomba I come to introduce you to the Motherland your only Loving mama. Where am land how am Igon sho my actions will speak for me — they ' ve already begun you know Fm lurking in the minds of over 30 million the census fails to record I come to let you know in solidarity we surpass! any pagan white lord. Even now I stroll through Harlem, the Wind City. Waffs. Motown. Cleveland, and the Black Mecca — Atlanta G! boidh I thrust my wrath — to leave my mark in this empire ' s neural network — Washington D C! I come to reveal that since Amerika has walked on her own Genocide ' Oppression ' and Watergates has been the only diet she ' s ever known I come to cease nigga ' s suicide and the beastlike piglet legal homocide I come to conquer your overt barbarians with a badge I come to conquer your covert gestapos I come spitting tons of lead in all calibers I come spilling seas of blood till streets sanguine I come ripping up earth and asses I come with a holocaust — like an exploding nova I come to avenge the lynchings. Sat Turner. Harriet Tubman, the Brothers Sisters on the bottom of the sea. Marcus Garvey, El Hojj Malik. El Shabazz. Martin Luther King, Jonathan George Jackson, Bobby Hutton. and Willie Grimes! I come inperson I come in Revolution lam here God — damit ' I am here!

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• ' THE NIGGAS- MESSIAH ' ' by Allah Vie KoKo Let me introduce myself — despite how conceited, arrogant prophetic I may sound. Backin the WDO ' s I was snatched from the womb I dug the haps so I ' went underground an unusual neo-nate from the Shabazz tribe in the Motherland I bestowed upon myself the name 3 sixty for I ducked, dodged and peeped the entire cauca. ' ioid clan ' s plan Who gave him a play — truly couldn ' t .say — but for decades decades I dug the arrival of them wooden floating sardine cans night day saw my family modeling cast — iron jewelry like never worn across the sea around their necks, wrists, ankles and waists — restricted to K inky haired choice of color shades like me. saw the Indians conned forced aside — at the .sadistic beast — Blackmen Redmen died yet these are the deceased owners of the green thumbs that built this land and as of now our Blood has been shed in vain, that this purgatory Amerika now stands angtr filled my heart — smacked lincoln in the mouth, and he signed the emancipation proclamation met the civil war — now neo-slavery in the midst of jive communication Perceived the highlights of Christianity — the family down on their knees in tears Still pleading to a God who never saw the problem all these years couldn ' t evan cast a ballet to vote, the Ku Klux Klan, and Black Legion had the familx in smoke Brother Marcus Garvey showed — finally hit the scene Preaching beauty of Blackness for the Black Star Line his Back to Afrika dream but the beast came icith another game nickle in fed — time blew his thang depression knocking dust, as the seeds of ISLAM commence to grow truth to alleviate the Blackman ' s imposed beliefs of a thought pattern — like pearly white snow a ■ma. ' ««.

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LEWIS C. DOWDY Chancellor NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY Greensboro 27411 (919) 379-7940 GREETINGS : I am very proud to salute the editor and staff of this 1974 Yearbook. This publication clearly points to the achievements and contributions of the entire Univer- sity family, and indicates that this has been a very productive year. 1 want to express my immeasurable thanks for your support. To the graduating seniors, I extend heartiest congratulations. Please remember that your experiences here is a kind of dress rehearsal for more responsible work in the days ahead. If you have taken full advantage of the opportunities offered here, you will be able to begin your careers with a decided advantage of adequate preparation for effective service. As ambassadors of A. T. State University, I hope that you will hold the name of Aggie high wherever you go. Congratulations and abundant success. Youc truly, teWte-x-r-DQifdy Cha{icellor LCD m A Constituent Institution of THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, William Fridav, President i n iw mmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmm fi. .i ' ' r • mrf, ' i»