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4a’ a RE: COUNTERGR.. .NTa. ION WEEK SEALER IINT UTE sei ae are gOing to be recognizing the black studies program does not meet the needs of black people. Black studies has become like - a cliche that everybody uses. And everybody assumes, you know, | that everybody else understands it .like they understand it. Black studies that are implemented by white faculty or white administrators, such as they are, four-course black studies program at Duke, do not serve to meet the needs of black people as far as relevant education. And most what they'll probably do is add to the frustration of black students entering into these programs seeking to seek some kind of relevancy. sa So we have to go beyond that and we have to come right out and flatly reject the for ed institutionalization of the black studies program on predominantly white campus:s. As far as the black campuses are concerned, we have to wr7.ly and just @s strongly reject black studies programs on black campuses. It's a clear contradiction for a campus to call itself a black campus and at the same time have somewhere stuck over in the corner :omething called a slack studies program. On the black campus then it should be able to provide a relevant education for students. Therefore, a black studies program isn't serving the purpose. Om-of the other areas where black students have been moving into or working with other black people, that is in the area of the workers, the hlack workers on the campus, the janitors, maids, cafeteria people, for this was exhibited in the thing that went don here last spring. Black students over at Duke working with ik HAXVEY (phonetic) over the Local 77. I could you know, see an increased effurt in that area. Black workers in these areas are becoming more militant as far as trying to deal with their problems. But the real step as far as we're concerned where hlack education is going is that key thing that we mentioned before, and that's control. And frm: now on that's going to be the deciding criteria. It has to be as far as black people are concerned as far as relevancy in education. It's got to be controlled. This has got to be with black studies program control. It's going to have to be control =f the educational system in the public schools. 24