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

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AMBERGRIS I assist the fluke-tailed, white Cadillac Overheated. Spouting steam, parked at the evil side of the road taken but it 's got a smooth transmission Listen to... the mechanical melody, a whale 's song modulated. The desperate sonar of an endangered species. The unseen stream of sperm whale oil transmits evil automatically. The whale 's sonic vision stares loudly at my soul. My unblinking ear hears blues. The desperate sonar of an endangered species floats up like ambergris, the mechanics of modulation. Note: Until recently, the oil derived from sperm whales was used, in this country, in automatic transmission fluid. Copyright: Everett Hoagland I 9 75 S: How do you see yourself as an educator in trying to overcome those problems? Or is it too big a task for you to deal with? H: Well there is a certain amount of frustration when you're teaching a specialty and you can't elaborate on your speciality because you have to so much mechanical work with the students. You get critiques and you're involved in doing what you do with E-lOl students. It not only slows you down, it also gives you the impression that the studenths ability to deal with abstract skills for putting the stuff down on paper are not there. So the in the material may be high I ' ability to translate and .tfwiffling the material or a opinion with the are to a type written page, this not there. And so I with the primary and fundamental business of being able to write what you think. I,m finding that Ilm getting Juniors and Seniors who are incapable of that. I know that the English department is trying to do everything that it possibly can to remedy that situation, but the department is unable to rectify a less than ideal High School, Junior High School, and elementary and home situation. S: Do you consider college to the key to success for Black folk? H: The so-called 'key to successl, feducationl is not necessarily that key. Once you get there they switch the lock on it. You may have a key in your hand, but they really don't want you in the system in a meaningful way. My whole generation, my parents existed so that we could live with education as an aid, and so that we live so that our children can flourish, because Black people are getting tired of just surviving. Survival is a habit that we have gotten together very well. We need to stop thinking about it-a fungus 'can survive- we need to start thinking about living and flourishing. An education at the College level is not necessarily a way to do that. In a system that doesnlt regard you as having any meaningful humanity...you're being educated for what...to what-... It's something to think aboutf' S: What do you think is a way out? Do you have any notions as to what the future holds? H: No way out. We don't always have to talk about flight of escape. A way of changing it is to provide alternatives and that has to be done at the graduatels level. Beginning in the mid-sixties, black people who had educational backgrounds and high interests in the welfare of their children, have, in large cities, established alternatives to institutionalized education as it's whipped on kids by public sectors in this country. This makes for degrees of success, it may not prepare you for success in the 'system' but the system dehumanizes Black people...In some cases they say we do not exist. A metaphor which Ralph Ellison chose, The Invisible Man is very, very appropriate, even today...I,m part of it because a University Professor is a servant of the system, and anyone that tells you he is not, is a liar. When we cease to be a servant of the system, they will fire you. You are working for the State, the Commonwealth and you adhere to the laws of Massachusetts and to the laws of the United States which are designed to support and strengthen' the system...and you walk fine lines, so what do you do? You live with yourself and you face yourself in the mirror as you shave, and with a certain amount of pride you say to yourself, 'I got to do some other thingsf tI've got to tell people who are important to me about themselves, about their backgrounds, about their present beauty, and about their beautiful potential., So you organize a Third World writing group. So you teach and develop an African and West Indian Literature courseg You organize and develop a Blackamerican Lit. course. You ,deal with the aesthetics that are alternatives aesthetics that are rooted in folk mores, in folk forms of expression. among people that did not come out of the tradition, historically of the sonnet and the ode, etc... that came out of the tradition of Bop , of 'tMama of the tradition of i'Blues'l .. of string bandsf, S: Thinking in terms of W.E.B. DuBois' phrase The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. would you venture to discuss what you feel shall be the problem of the twenty-first? H: 5 The problem of the twenty first century is going to be the'survival of our species. I came to college as a Zoology major, I have an interest in life and all its forms. I- like to think of myself as a life-affirming poet, a very desperate situation these days, as Black people are on the endangered species list, but so is all mankind. And in a Laughing-to-keep-from-crying way I asked Stokely Carmichael 'what does the dialectic havetfor this 'Hawk'?,' fthe Hawk is thelname black people give to the winter wind, the coldb, because an Ice Age is coming. And uthe manw is building a space shuttle so that he can get off the planet, because he has nothing for the Hawk. There is nothing that technocracy has to stop this Ice Age...Michael Harper talks about cosmic payback' which has to do with natural pollution and the cosmic violation--the willful perversion of