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Students for a Democratic Society, 1965-1972
1969-11-13 'Fight Against Racism Rally & Sit-In' Page 1
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FIGHT AGAINST RACISM RALLY & SIT-IN NO[?] 1969 RALLY--THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13--SOUTH DOOR, MACBRIDE HALL--11:20 AM followed by SIT-IN--AT ROBERT CALDWELL'S OFFICE--MACBRIDE HALL--UNTIL 3:00 PM SDS chapters across the country will hold demonstrations against racism on or around November 12. We feel that racism has become increasingly important as a tool to defeat the fights of students and workers and that we must actively defeat it. WE'RE SITTING IN IN FRONT OF THE OFFICE OF ROBERT CALDWELL, DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF POLICE SCIENCES, IN ORDER TO RAISE THE ISSUE OF THE UNIVERSITIES' RACISM. RACISM HURTS WHITES TOO It's easy to see how blacks are hurt by racism. The average black worker earns $3,000 less per year than the average white worker. Ghetto food and housing prices are higher for lower quality products. Blacks are always the first laid-off for jobs. But racism also hurts white people. When whites fail to unite with blacks because of racist feelings, it becomes much more difficult to win better working conditions and higher wages. In Pittsburgh and Chicago, white construction workers were pitted against blacks fighting for jobs, instead of working with them for more jobs and higher wages for all. Where blacks and whites have overcome racism and fought together, solid gains have been made (ex. Newport News, Virginia ship-building strike where whites and blacks fought back against cops). In the jobs that most students go into after leaving college, racism plays an important part in breaking just struggles. Teachers are taught to fear black parents and students when actually the only way they can really win better conditions in the schools is by working and fighting with those parents and students. In the New York teachers strike last year where trachers were encouraged to view the black parents as the enemy, only the Board of Education won. In the same way, welfare workers are fed racist ideas to keep them from allying with their clients for better on-the-job conditions and higher welfare payments. UNIVERSITIES BUILD RACISM What does the university as a whole have to do with racism? Are the universities islands of liberalism which oppose racism and work for a better life for all? NO!
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FIGHT AGAINST RACISM RALLY & SIT-IN NO[?] 1969 RALLY--THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13--SOUTH DOOR, MACBRIDE HALL--11:20 AM followed by SIT-IN--AT ROBERT CALDWELL'S OFFICE--MACBRIDE HALL--UNTIL 3:00 PM SDS chapters across the country will hold demonstrations against racism on or around November 12. We feel that racism has become increasingly important as a tool to defeat the fights of students and workers and that we must actively defeat it. WE'RE SITTING IN IN FRONT OF THE OFFICE OF ROBERT CALDWELL, DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF POLICE SCIENCES, IN ORDER TO RAISE THE ISSUE OF THE UNIVERSITIES' RACISM. RACISM HURTS WHITES TOO It's easy to see how blacks are hurt by racism. The average black worker earns $3,000 less per year than the average white worker. Ghetto food and housing prices are higher for lower quality products. Blacks are always the first laid-off for jobs. But racism also hurts white people. When whites fail to unite with blacks because of racist feelings, it becomes much more difficult to win better working conditions and higher wages. In Pittsburgh and Chicago, white construction workers were pitted against blacks fighting for jobs, instead of working with them for more jobs and higher wages for all. Where blacks and whites have overcome racism and fought together, solid gains have been made (ex. Newport News, Virginia ship-building strike where whites and blacks fought back against cops). In the jobs that most students go into after leaving college, racism plays an important part in breaking just struggles. Teachers are taught to fear black parents and students when actually the only way they can really win better conditions in the schools is by working and fighting with those parents and students. In the New York teachers strike last year where trachers were encouraged to view the black parents as the enemy, only the Board of Education won. In the same way, welfare workers are fed racist ideas to keep them from allying with their clients for better on-the-job conditions and higher welfare payments. UNIVERSITIES BUILD RACISM What does the university as a whole have to do with racism? Are the universities islands of liberalism which oppose racism and work for a better life for all? NO!
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