
                         THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
                 Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, June 23, 1994                    TAG: 9406220008 
SECTION: FRONT                     PAGE: A12    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: Short 
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`BLACK GET BACK'

{LEAD} A recent article in your Teenspeak section dealt with teens and school integration. It kind of struck a nerve.

In my opinion, most of students' views about segregation are home-bred. They are too young to know about real segregation. I feel that this is something that is taught at home by their parents, relatives and friends - and the schools, a little, because the vast majority of history taught is white history.

{REST} This makes me think about an adage that reminds me of what segregation was like, and still is:

``If you white, you all right,

If you brown, stick around,

If you black, get back.''

KERMIT L. PITTMAN

Norfolk, June 5, 1994

by CNB