History gives us our sense of direction and purpose.  “No More Negroes!” was born out of this perspective.  It was a declaration that is best expressed in the statement by actor Mos Def, in the HBO movie, Something the Lord Made, in which his character remembers his father telling him something to the effect of how tired he was “of apologizing and standing by and accepting so much while all the wrongs were being done to him”….of being a true Negro. As black students in the 60’s, we too were tired of accepting education as it was predetermined, so to speak, without any awareness, or substantial acknowledgement, in the halls of our universities of the depth of who we were as a people or as individuals, so we moved to define ourselves in terms of our heritage.  We struggled among ourselves, no longer willing to be Negroes as defined by American society and history.  Instead, out of that struggle, we affirmed ourselves as Black American students with no more apologies for whom we were and definitely with no tolerance for “Negroe-ness”… not being seen, or heard, or otherwise invisible and powerless.  Unlike American society we knew our (race) mattered and was absolutely essential to our ability to survive and move forward as a people and as individuals in every area of American society.  Thus we announced, no we declared, NO MORE NEGROES!!!  We then challenged the university and committed to a struggle to bring about necessary and relevant changes in the institution which served us.  Out of this struggle was born the first Black Student Union, the first Black Studies Department, and the first Educational Opportunity Program at SFSU.