Black power! Black power! Black power!

Bad news for some people out there--especially my roommates. Saturday is already sold out for UD Monologues. Sorry. I didn't expect it to fill up.

Which means either start the crunk for Beard's birthday a little late, or come Thursday at 11. But if you can't make it at all, that's okay. I won't hold it against you.

Looks like Brad, Joe and I will be playing the Battle of the Bands this year. Brad and I discussed the possibility of he and Joe writing new songs to perform for it, which I would have to learn on the fly, probably the night before. I like that idea. I'm a little tired of our old songs. Christ, they're three or four years old, or more.

I'm writing an opinion for Flyer News. I'm not sure when they'll need it, but I'm on the opinions section staff now, apparently. I'm excited.

Here's how it starts:

It can be difficult to admit you’re wrong.
But now is the time.
In fact, 141 years ago would have been the perfect time.
White people of America, it’s past time to admit that we owe black Americans for years of enslavement, followed by years of segregation and discrimination.
I feel I hardly need to prove that African-Americans are disadvantaged economically. Twenty percent are without health insurance, according to 2004 statistics, compared to 11.3 percent of non-Hispanic whites. The median income of black households, $30,134, is only 62 percent that of non-Hispanic white households, $48,977. Black households own their homes 48 percent of the time, while the rate for whites is 75.7 percent.
Critics might complain that there is no way to know that slavery is the ultimate cause of this economic disparity. I would argue that the cause is not nearly as important as the solution. Don’t you help someone up, even if you didn’t cause them to fall?
Still, for the sake of argument, let’s find out if blacks as a race had a chance to escape the disadvantages of slavery.
Following the Civil War, outright discrimination in the laws of the South prevented the political and social advancement of African-Americans.
Could African-American children hope for a fair education in segregated schools? Those that departed for the North discovered the wage slavery of factories


The purpose here is not to evoke pity for the ancestors of American blacks. The purpose is to demonstrate that black people have been continually denied opportunities since they were brought here through the trans-Atlantic slave trade.


My only regret is that reparations won’t solve the problems of poor whites, or poor members of other races. I suppose socialism can be left for another article.

Those big gaps indicate that I need to put things in there. I guess that might be obvious. Anyway, it's about 3/5 done, and I like it so far.

One day I'll get around to e-mailing Vonnegut's publishing house. I've just been...or felt...busy.

Okay that's all for today. Let me know what you think of that article.

Love,

Steve