Wal-Mart is being ridiculous in insisting on 5% of African-Americans in Story county to qualify the Ames store to carry Black people’s products. Wal-Mat should count all Blacks in Story county, not just Africans, to find out its joke is outdated. Africa is the big motherland for Blacks no matter where they are in the world.

African-Americans are cherished relations, circumstances beyond African control got them over here, and we are very proud of them. They have fought and survived hideous battles only the tough can and should stop the “Divide and Conquer” philosophy that Britain handed down the “New World”. It can no longer work, everyone’s eyes are wide open now. We are going into the 21st century not the Mid-Victorian era. Wal-Mart, Ames should hurry and stock up products for Black customers, to avoid this protest becoming nation wide. I do not think it would be good for Wal-Mart sales, Blacks (Africans and African Americans) make quite a significant population of the USA now.

Dr. Chii Ughanze-Onyeagocha was one of the first African students in ISU way back in 1963. She and her late husband, Prof. A.C. Onyeagocha were also the first Africans to get married in Ames, at St. Thomas-Aquinas. As a matter of fact, she is working on a stage play, “The Ghost in Georgia” for the Veishea week as a memorial for her late husband, an alumni of ISU. She says that she loves Iowa State Students, they are fabulous: white, black and yellow. The white students especially have come a very long way from the sixties. Race no longer intimidates them.

Dr. Chii Ughanze-Onyeagocha says that as a writer she has traveled around many campuses in the USA. Her interest is in the students, because according to her only education can change what is going wrong in this great country, and the youths are the only hope we have. Iowa State University White students are far more enlightened and more relaxed with people of color, (black, yellow, etc.) than most of their counterparts around the country. The problem with ISU is the professors and that is understandable but not right. Age resists change, even necessary changes. My experience through my children and other colored students show there are still a significant number of professors in ISU that are still destroying colored students through the grades. But even they will have to change. This quality of students that can fight the administration to protect the Beardshear 8, which includes 3 Black students, this quality of students that has finally convinced the university to honor a black athlete, Jack Trice, will not let this kind of professors stay on, they will join hands and remove them.

Dr. Ughanze-Onyeagocha writes both alternative medicine books, which she calls additional medicine books instead, and also fictions. America is a very rich place for ideas, great for fiction writers. There are too many diverse problems here. She is interested in minority problems and uses the Mid-Victorian style (Defoe and others) in which she uses fiction to humor the society over a certain problem.

Dr. Chii Ughanze-Onyeagocha

Ames resident