In that July
4 interview with Von Martin on Caribbeana (WPFW 89.3 FM), President Frederick
spoke of the significant impact the great Dr. Eric Eustace Williams had on his
formation. Dr. Williams, the “founding father” (there goes that phrase again)
of the nation of Trinidad and Tobago served for a few years on the faculty of
Howard University—Indeed, his portrait hangs among the greats in the halls of
the History Department. President Frederick was proud to point out that Dr.
Williams deemed Howard to be the “Black Oxford.”
Are we not well
past that stage? Is it not a given that he who aims at being second rate ends up
being fourth rate?
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