The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 79, Ed. 1 Monday, January 8, 1973 Page: 3 of 16
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday, January 8,1973
Afro-Americans In Ghana Find Surprising Homeland Reception
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - She
stands, finally, on the land she
considers home - Africa
daring "LOVE.
For the first______________....
she, in her blackness, is part of
the majority? Those people out
there are her people, coming'
perhaps from the same village
as her great-great-grand-
parents.
chains.
ir to look at every-
people live^rhef0^ .
intos
a^mey
-4
% were pressed
into groups. They come J
in their
i them some 20 years "Their first impression is
frustration, wondering if there
isn’t any place in the world
where their people Aren’t op-
pressed. And the majority of
And in any case, we’re better
than you.’ Basically,” said Ra-
jat Neogy, editor of “Transi- li
City College of New York or ago to return and make Ghana
Howard or from Afro- the strong, independent leader
American alliances or of a united Africa,
fraternal organizations. But the dream of an all-black
of young and not- homeland shatters with
so-young black Americans reality that 300 years of cqjo-
came to Ghana in the past nial rule has left a residue of just as well go back to my
year, more, everyone agrees, economic dependency upon the ghetto. At least I know how to Ghanaians,, just
...........init.’He thinks he will “
»*-*vn*» am, 8cv lcso man Uiey give; i"'"'-* fit in. He doesn’t think of
>e is greater While the white expatriates the Polish and Jewish and
live well, with stewards, ton immigrants to America,(the United States has as the
• official esti- drivers, garden boys and I who took two or tiiree gener- world’s technological leader.)
“?tav'ci7ge”!it, -. Lt“^^e-^bIt,!,'tay'Si*
PPP WQI
time:‘We’reback.’‘Look what then tried to impose their American attitude is not so
you did to us-selling us out. views on the 2,200-member readily accepted. Various
And the thing that gripes t
m. ju?t as it dc
people everywhere,
on money and I
young Ghanaians, while The problem is that most
To be an African, Mends be- stressing that, individually,
“is purely mental. You some of them are fine,” said
vironment. We have the same
but culturally, we are tr;
. different.” . _
In their rush toward Pan-Af-
the blue-jeaned, tee-
American
e girls, and even
was here 1 was angry. 1
to**, to “tte;__________r . W/ggSKM | ..... . __„
work camps, at the University pects to find an absolutely free said Lee. her education abroad had not
return f gp*!* laid his opl Hej^described by one U.S.| dimmed her Ghanaian self-
MC0B * Americans. ^ m
of all European influence, | munity here.
:y decorate their bodies,
their clothes and their rooms
Ashanti stools and masks.
1- .., 1 “When the Afro-Ame
ta'! *.».....
to rule us^ey mayhavel L^Saja, »hereaUygets hurt.’
e Allen
i Waste
— To grant an
he-Texas Eco-
fWutlur Hv.iSkitlst
Crosby would
im de-
ile ignpring the
ture of a much
f people."
lytown’s State •'
Friday at,tite -
uality Board
>y’s American
thriving New York City [been from this part of theJ L“?LTm "
«UMl> n. rate « Mr
vitation to all blade AmericansuienfSi /^ guages and dialects are spoken
^doesn’t} in Ghana and to the
they had been fellow students think of race as the first nhan9ian. HlM*
it T.inmih TTnivorcitv in Ponn. *.»» n..*. Ghanaians, block Americans
--
s—T. JTjsF-:£ -iff
iT^y »iaka UlBu SfiahaiaTOS^ffielffig4*'
black dentist in the country, pBarbara Miller, a whiteuS^Afro^wira ‘Shfc
i the Crosby
•been treated
ct to this ap-
i said, “but
ted to added
concern. and
r jobs. Justice
d dictate that
e-denied: :
sty and well-
-nts of my dis-
ce to the en-
watersofthe
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I Follow the Crowd!
Semi-Annual
______:_______________■---------■
SHOE SALE
Further Reduced!
“slovenly, not very good ad- American blacks, this is their
vertisement for America. ’’ .....
lh groups
are traveling
§§M
younger around
trip away from the United
States. If they were going to'
Spain, with its obvious differ-
time and learn their way
.
O -1
» new Jerm will begin soon at- 1
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Registration Jan. 10-11
time permits and process fo
—awaiting your request!
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I orkrinklesin a wide variety of
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they now luten to me." prtSpel Wd hTth.
The problems-a black prejudice she would find would j .....l00K' the Afr°
American faces returning tojeome from' black Americans.
Africa are uniquely different Roy Watts is a native of
front those of an Italian- Trinidad who worked with the
I American going to Naples or a Judson Poets Theater and the
New York Puerto Rican National Broadcasting Com-.
"seeking his island Homeland pany inNeWYork. For the past
for tite first time. • ’ faglrt years he has been in
“There's a cultural vacuum Ghana teaching drama at Le
going back 300 years between gon’s Institute of African Stud-]
[ the Afro-Anterieans and their ies. He feels the Afro-Ameri-
Ue ^ys.Jc^’ apprpach isVong.
All other ethnic groups have . ‘‘They are very much hung
kept their cultural roots, but up on who is and who isn’t fight
the Afro-Americans hive lost for Africa, for Ghana: Africans
their language and ’their themselves are not concerned
Jctitture - religion, sfood, with the white man at aU. The,
family concepts, even the way white students who come
of dealing with death is dif- here are better prepared
t lt’s more .difficult forfosychologically; they have a
f1 • .. i
Contact: Admission Office
427-5611, Ext., 254
P.0, flot 8U
For special assistance and guidance,
let a counselor in Moler Hall.
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them than for Europeans, who healthier .approach, for their
over the years have been in minds are frier to absorb,”'
jeontinuous touch with Africa." Watts said.
The starting point, Lee be- “There’s a block somewhere I
j lieves, must be “culturalp the minds of the blacks be-
recontact so that Africans will cause they know they are com-
leam that black Americans tog td Africa, particularly to
are substantially African and Ghana, to identify, and it gets
[that the reason they aet dif-jin their way.” 1
• But right now, in 1973, as Lee first time, the African Studies I
[ admits, ‘ 'When an African sees Institute at Legon offered a full [
I a black American, there’s al-jprogram aimed mainly at
Americans, Watts
|canism. He’s an American.”jhis students were very in-
‘The American blacks who terested, enthusiastic and
[come here — young people on serious about their work,
short trips - stand out as But Tony Mends, a 1970
aliens because they come with graduate of the university, was
an assertiyeness which says a [upset by the way the 100 or so
number of things at the same [black' Americans on campus
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 79, Ed. 1 Monday, January 8, 1973, newspaper, January 8, 1973; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104240/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.