Cordell Sync CR 104 Sync 5 MCCC George

NEWSREEL: (unclear) rolling

NEWSREEL: Can you see me? (unclear background noise) Roll one oh four MCCC Cordell Sand take five.

NEWSREEL: Why don't you talk about what (unclear) talked to you about, about the blacks in Macomb--

CORDELL SAND: Macomb? Yeah.

NEWSREEL: (unclear) just (unclear) straight ahead.

CORDELL SAND: Well, uh, last semester, uh, I had a hard time, I think a lot of other black students had a hard time, here at Macomb. Uh, we had a, had a thing, they were trying to weed out black students. They were trying to, uh, the courses, they were trying to uh, say that, black students uh, had to go into certain preferred courses, which would be uh, technical courses, over at the 1:00tech center. And uh, most of the, most of the students could only get a job at plants, such as Chrysler plant, and a few other uh, a few other plants. Uh, we had a, we had a thing, on the, we're trying to push for some more black studies here at the school, but they just fed us a lot of bullshit. And uh, this semester we plan on starting some kind of black student union or something, and uh, try to get, try to get some more representation on campus for black students and.

NEWSREEL: What are you gonna do when you get out of here?

CORDELL SAND: Uh, what am I gonna do when I get out of Macomb? Uh, that's kind of hard to see. Uh, I know what I'd like to do. But, I don't, I don't know 2:00really what I'm going to do. I plan on going into law. But uh, it's kinda, it's kind of hard, here at Macomb, because uh, lately they, during last semester they tried to uh, they tried to kick us out really. Tried to start a, Wayne County Community College.

UNKNOWN: Yeah, it was sort of like, kind of a tokenism sort of thing, to try to make the people believe, you know, that uh, this other alternative was elsewhere for them to go, but like you know, it's a drag. Like you know, most of us all work in factories now, I know Cordell, you work in uh--

CORDELL SAND: Yeah, I, myself I work in the factory right now and, the work there is hard as hell. Uh, you have to work on a production line, it's a really going too fast, and uh, you get about two (whirring noise) and uh, you won't have any kind of power until you get in the union, which I have to work ninety, 3:00ninety straight days, uh, before I'm in the union. And, the foreman uh, he tries to fuck over everybody. Um, once you work on this line for nine straight hours, once you go home you're too tired to uh, do anything. Uh, the only thing you can do when you go home is go to bed, sleep, and uh, work the next--it's, it's a, really a drag. Working at a plant. Cause uh, they work you, they work you too hard. They work you too long. You're not getting enough money for the uh, amount of work that you do. And uh, you shouldn't have to work, uh nine hours to produce uh, the goods. That, that are, needed by the people.