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Wednesday, January 29, 1992
Features
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Even today, commemorations
of Dr. King have become trite, she
said. “Sometimes in America, it’s
better when we don ’ t know anything.”
“We don’t want some racism
things to surface because it causes us
guilt,” Wall said. “If I were to go into
a group and ask, ‘Are you a racist?’
most people would say, ‘no’.”
“But worship services across
America are still one of the most
segregated times in our country,”
Wall said.
And yet, liberation has taken
place because of King on many fronts,
Wall said. “There have been political
gains — we now have women and
Afros as governors and mayors and
there have been social gains — look
around the world and see the
entertainers and athletes.
“We have come a long way from
slavery to freedom.”
Slavery not only hurt the Afro
Anglo families, Wall continued.
“The Anglo wives knew it was
going on, the children knew it was
going on, but it was something that
no one discussed,” Wall said. The
aspects of dysfunctional Anglo
families caused by slavery abuse
continue to affect Anglos today, she
said.
“President Bush was involved
in the celebrations of Dr. King and
said some really nice things about
anti racism, but was it real or just a
politically astute move...this is an
election year,” Wall said.
“While in Japan, Bush and his
administration treated the Japanese
with a very white supremacist
attitude,” Wall said.
“If we look around, it looks as
though the dream has been betrayed,”
Wall said. As examples, Wall cited
the large number of Afros in the
criminal justice system, the rising
“Martin Luther King was not
a history lesson, he was a
process lesson— we can
celebrate the holiday but deny
the dream, ”
—Dr. Brenda Wall
KKDA RadioTalk Show Host
but its affects have hurt the Anglo-
American as well, Wall said.
“When the head of the household
is raping his slave, it is going to affect
his family,” she said.
The violence that Afros endured
under slavery not only hurt the Afro
families but caused dysfunctional
drug rate in Afro neighborhoods, the
epidemic teen pregnancy rate among
Afro girls and the outstanding fact
that 11 times more Afros are likely to
be murdered than Anglos.
“Many say that the masses of
Afro-Americans are worse than
before Martin Luther King,” Wall
Denise Jones/Collegian
After giving her speech to students and faculty on with students Shalene Green (left) and Diedre
NW Campus, Dr. Brenda Wall (right) converses McClain (center).
said. “Doors have been opened, but
racism is still very much alive.”
“I couldn’t have gone to Vassar
College before Martin Luther King,
but the price I paid was to reject my
identity and ‘fit in’,” Wall said.
“Materialism and integration did have
a down side.
“If I speak clinically, I’m okay;
but, if I speak out as an Afro-
American, I’m outof line,” Wall said
personally of herself. “If you speak
out, you will pay a price.”
“Martin Luther King was not a
history lesson he was a process lesson
— we can celebrate the holiday but
deny the dream,” Wall said.
The goals of King are still echoed
today: peace, freedom and justice,
she said.
“We shall get to the promised
land, but we can never have a great
country unless we’re built on a firm
foundation,” Wall said. “Racism and
imperialism are not a strong
foundation.
“As long as there is still so much
inequality, as long as the U.S.
continues a genocidal policy against
black Americans and as long as
people like David Duke still have the
power to speak out against Afro-
Americans, we will not reach that
goal.”
We’ve got to look within, Wall
said.
After a question and answer
session with the audience, Wall was
surrounded by students and faculty
who were eager to talk with her and
express their appreciation for her
speech.
Wall is married to a minister and
has one son. She said that she
attributes much of her success to her
parents who encouraged her and
provided her with a good education
throughout her early life. “I saw my
parents work hard and overcome their
obstacles.”
Wall says that she feels a need to
move on in her career within the next
five years but takes her life “one step
ata time.”
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