I listened to some veterans of the civil rights movement talk about how students and
Black Greeks got rid of the designations:
colored and negro as our ethnic names. They said that the students took the vilest word in the english language:
Black, and made it our beautiful ethnic name.
African-American followed as our name. None of these can suffice as ethnic names. This hit me like a brick in the face when I read the contents at
Home Page People in this country have already begun to call themselves
Medensans. It is now up to this generation of students and all
Black, African-American people to take charge of our destiny by proclaiming ourselves by our proper ethnic name:
Medensan! We must become an ethnic people if we are to survive this global explosion where everybody knows who they are except us!
Josh