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FREEDOMWAYS     FOURTH QUARTER 1972

are of pride in that 60 percent of the undergraduates enrolled in black studies are white. To the politically aware student this apapathy on the part of many black students is a source of frustration. Wright is premature in saying that Afro-American Studies "will serve primarily a white public" in need of a cultural corrective while black students will be involved in something called Urban Affairs and Human Development. Afro-American Studies in no way is exclusive of "hard-core human-development needs of those who reside in the center-city environment." Considering the newness of  most programs and the difficulty in getting proposals for active community building funded this assumption is not warranted. A thorough comprehension of the political machinations of urban interests, and of the cultural foundation of Afro-American life, values and aspirations is basic to original policymaking in this area. A vision of the whole, of the dynamics and interrelationships in America and international society, is the surest antidote to stopgap measures that do little more than disappoint people.

Grace Lee Boggs really socks it to the parents and educators addressed by her speech, "Toward a New System of Education." She is involved in and therefore able to speak about the revolutionary struggle to change the structure of power relationships between black and white in America. Words such as "revolution" which have become polemical gain concreteness as she describes with analytical precision the times in which we are living. She is explicit about the sacrifices that are required of individuals as insitutions undergo change and she gives a vision of the way educators can participate in the reordering of values that is basic to the survival of humanity.

"On Correct Black Education" by John Churchville is a confusing piece due to the didactic rhetoric and religious bombast which enshroud whatever he was trying to get at. For example, he says that the true revolutionary knows that "only Jesus, the Son of the Almighty God, can cope with the corruption and confusion which is his, and makes him what he must be." Then, too, one cannot resist the temptation to ask what this "Truth" is which Churchville claims that correct black education is based on and instills. Reading his description of the correct classroom one easily envisions a catechism class for plumbers. No doubt, this is not what Churchville means but because he does not clearly define the problems which need correcting we lose track of the meaning of the word "correct" and it seems as though he is just interested in pushing "Jesus." What is this new, antithetical "system and ruling class" which is going to replace the

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