Southeastern Massachusetts University - Scrimshaw Yearbook (North Dartmouth, MA)

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natural process--and the eoiniiig lie age seems to reinforce those suggestions about that...Stokely asked me how I knew that an lee Age was coming about and I said 'You know our people are very adaptive and very intuitive...I knew that an Ice Age was coming the first time l saw Blgglx P90916 Skiillgls A Black person has to be damaged, it seems to me. to play in the snow. I don't care what it's called. it's playing in the snow. I think we adapt too well...One of our problems is that we have adapted to hell itself, hell being history of abuse...to adapt to hell you have to become hellish . As such it affects your perspective about other people. And it affects your love relationships, your values, your sense, and your perception of your history...The fact is that there is nothing so existential as the Nigger and there is no term as romantic as the term Negro, as the Negro in the western world. Romantic in any sense of that term...and a lot of us mindlessly tend to perpetuate that romance, live up to the adjective. Can you imagine, most people are proper nouns, we started off by being called an adjective, black. But we, having that dropped on us, as Blaelcf people often do, have taken that ankd created a proper noun out of it. And have created a proper noun out of blackness: a state of mind, not something that helps to modify an object... S: You had mentioned earlier that psycholinguistics is a fundamental concern of Blagk poets and the concept of Nommo, the creative and procreative power of the word. What does it all mean? H: Psycholinguistics is very important. Any poet...must deal in titJ...It,s the psychological ramifications that go along with the way a person says something or describes something. Or the value...judgements that go with a certain way of phrasing things.Whe.n a Black person uses the term denigrate, a 'Blagkperson is doing damage to the concept of blackness as a positive state of being, and he needs to be aware of that. Because youlre speaking in forked tongue, you're saying that Black is beautiful, then you're saying that Black is negative... If the words carry basic, fundamental humanl messages. they're gonna i - , .i....., !.' ii' its .ilklixlgg s tty- tleetl lit t:.iiis,-xiii I lllt' t'.ll.'c' .i i..tf.'L' lift ,g ii, still ll utltft '... Lilltl li igiiyyg, lacl that Int in i uw- ti it I' A '- i x ki . lsr ' . Llel ol- liberation. .is 'stun ,,,4 I ll.,,I,,, says. ls to destroy that rage Iziei are certain arelietypes that lSl.nl. people have..their lllsltily list-li lx urfhclylllll- Rootsl' brings that 0ut...the arehelype is the tourney ...among other things. journey .intl CUSC. are archetypes associated with the Black experience. But also dinsn. the blues woke me up this morning . There's always that shape ul hopefulness. S: Do you think there will come a time when these arc-lzetypes will jade away, say, in the twct1t,1'-ji'rsr ewitzujr ' H: Yes. because there may not be the eyes here to read them. l'd like to read two poems that deal with this: Toomer said Man's stark alternatives are these: transcendence or 'extinctionfl Jacques Cousteau subsequently, has echoed Toomerk worryings about manls propensity tt. want his self-destruction Unless we reverse our tendencies, all oceans will be dead seas in thirty to fifty years. So what does that mean? Well...the ocean produces at least ninth-tenths of the world's oxygen and what a dead sea is is a sea that supports no life. Welre running out of fresh water...the Army Corp. of Engineers is giving out water in half-gallon containers...and that is a prophesy of things. to come in the national level...people are going to be fighting over food and water. literally in the streets...and this is the country that is supposed to be the metaphor for plentitude...so. we in our little corner. getting our little degrees. teaching our little classes can suggest to ourselves that all is well because we are cushioned by the boundaries ol' the University. that cushions us from reality. But more and more starkly the alternatives that Toomer talked about. transcendenee or extinction. are becoming increasingly apparent . yellow urgemji' PULES Ihr' lurri tl hKUAl l15 'lltltlltll lltt ' urrnmtlttil nrtlioiit roofs gllftx Is lfllllhtltl Wllll tullltw it irc' .Xl'fL'tllll.N Crtsttttc' llffltllrml Clllxillllit' liolaliori' DU-fjrtclils ,Xt'I1lll1t'l seeritlvss silerzu' to the .sun The trunipel 's l'oli's Lc'al'c'.x' of copper itisulatecl l7I'UllllIt'N of hum tclepliotics and light hnllvs blossom in an imagistic' bloom wt' 611111101 .s't't1st' the public .vtztiliol Costttll' Vifllallotl Chvttzlt' l'1'oli1l1'fft1 r fullflhllljllll l:i't'retr llouglutttl

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