Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 15 January 2001 — Page 44

The Muncie Times, January 15, 2001, page 44

YOUTH FROM PAGE 37 sage told the young boys that the answer to their problem was “in their hands”. Bridges told the audience that, “Our future and destiny has not been determined. The answers to our problems are in our hands.” He said that Dr. King was about change. He said that many leaders of our past like Harriet Tubman, Richard Allen, George

Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, and Rosa Parks got tired of the way things were so they were “agents of change”. He challenged the people of this community to also become agents of change. “We have the power to positively or negatively effect our environment,” said Bridges. He referred to the exploitation of African-American

women on television. He said that women are often portrayed as possessions, are half dressed and are “raped” on television. “The television stations give you what you want. You have the ability to change what is shown by not watching.,” said Bridges. The AfricanAmerican community is still dying. African-Americans are “presenting a degrading

image in the media...the oppressed have become the oppressors. He left the audience with suggestions of ways to overcome. Seek and receive a quality education, increase your faith, be holy and pure and speak standard English, not ebonies. Bridges wanted everyone to remember their history and past, in order to go

forth. “Destiny is a result of our determination and our own desire to achieve,” said Bridges. In the words of the Black National Anthem, “Sing a song full of hope that the dark past has brought us. Sing a song full of the hope that the present has taught us. Facing the rising sun of a new day begun, let us march on til victory is won.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Keynote Speaker: Fred Shuttlesworth

u No history written on the Civil Rights Movement would be complete unless it included the name of Rev. Shuttlesworth, Pastor of the Greater New Light Baptist Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. Rev. Shuttlesworth has given more of himself for the ‘Cause of Freedom’ than any man living today.”

Monday, January 15, 2001 7:00 p.m. Goddard Auditorium, Carpenter Hall Featuring a musical performance by Sisterfriends from Cincinnati, Ohio

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