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By Bill Douglas
Qanwcock Staff Writer
Georgia state Sen. Julian Bond and poel Nik
reversed roles in the Russell House Ballroo
evening as Bond read poetry and Giovanni di:
political views.
"It's sort of a joke when people talk about the
sit down and say all you activists ever did was i
of coffee," Giovanni said. "I will say this for
that's more than any of you have done. If we
sixties to you, we'd all still be grinning at the
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In her address, which was a part of Blacl
tivities, Giovanni said blacks cannot continue
Americans and Europeans decide white is mank
"I can't be convinced that you can't thin
problems," she said. "They keep trying to co
and some of you buy it, that all you care about
your back, who's in your bed, and what you driv<
'If we had left the sixties to
we'd all still be grinning at
same white folk you're grin
at today'
Blacks, Giovanni said, are not just consumers
but producers of ideas.
"You have more to give," she said. "I was ne\
of black students as when the black students of
picketed the Davis Cup Tennis match. Everyt
didn't matter, but it did because South Africa 1
sports. And if we can't do anything else but pr
from doing what they like to do then that's impoi
Giovanni expressed her laments about the
ministration. "I think your president has los
mind he had," she said. "Can you imagine <
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