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matter of being seen, but a refusal
to run the risk of his own
humanity, which involves guilt.
This is not an attack upon white
society! It is what the hero refuses
to do in each section which
leads to further action . He must
assert and achieve his own humanity
; he cannot run with the
pack and do this" . i7
A functional Black University
will see the need for instruction in
the disciplines of personal moral
responsibility as well as in the tech-
2 .
13 .
14 .
15.
16 .
17.
REFERENCES
Woodson, Carter G. The Mis-Education of the Negro, Associated Publishers,
Inc. : Washington, D. C., 1938, p . 162 .
Feuer, Lewis S . "Conflict of Generations", Saturday Review, January 18,
1969, p. 54 .
3 . Negro Digest, March, 1968, p. 23 .
4. Ibid, p . 34 .
5 . Ibid, p. 8 .
6. The Wretched of the Earth, Grove Press : New York, 1963, p. 189 .
8 . Op . Cit ., p . 81 .
9 . Ibid .
10 . Ibid, p. 38 .
11 . Black Power : The Politics of Liberation in America, Vintage Books : New
York, 1967, p. 39 .
Educational and Political Development, ed . James Coleman, Princeton Uni-
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niques of social action. Asserting
and achieving one's humanity
means that black people are not exempted
from the universal human
need to develop a personal idiom
as well as a group style . Black people,
too, need the art of transforming
and transcending even the
materials and patterns of black culture
. "We cannot run with the pack
and do this", whether the pack is
white or black . In the words of the
spiritual : "You got to walk this
lonesome valley by yourself."
versity Press : Princeton, New Jersey, 1965, p. 17 .
Time Magazine, Letter to the Editor, Feb . 7, 1969, p . Sff.
Kimball, S . T . and McClellan, J . E . Education and the New America, Vintage
Books : New York, 1966, p. 308 .
Gerald McWorter, Op . Cit., p . 7 .
Op . Cit., p. 37 .
Shadow and Act, Random House : New York, 1953, p. 179.
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