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—THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, JULY *4, 1171 2A C!i(0 ihssbSbi EDITORIALS WHIII HOUSE REBUKES A6NEW All blacks and other persons should know that the White House, through Ronald Zeigler, White House Press Secretary, has issued an unusual re buke to Vice President Agnew for his slunine remarks that "b'ack leaders" in the United States do not compare favorable with black officials in Afri ca. These are most insulting and damaging words when the black leadership of this nation has tried very hard to make this a decent and just society, at a time when blacks are fed up with the present cruel sy stem of exploitation led by a repres sive and reactionary Administration. Agnew has used the age-old methods of a bigot by his use of loose words as he described black leadership. Agnew has been the biggest complainer in America with his complaints about a free press, constitutional dissents, civil rights and basic freedoms. It is well that Zeigler has pointed out that Nixon was accustomed to meeting with domestic and foreign black leaders and that he had "respect for both." Agnew, it would seem has truly arrogated himself further into CITADEL OF RRO6RESS The citadel of progress - our NAACP, throughout the years has de monstrated that it is and will remain the citadel for progress of all Ameri cans and especially blacks and other minorities as it seeks to continue and maintain gains garnered through the years. In the words of one of its great leaders, the NIAACP "Is one of the greatest demonstrations of together ness the world has ever known: men and women, Protestants, Jews and Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Epis copalians and Pentecostals - all work ing together in freedom. Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP. sounded his call, for unity by all persons in a unified ac tion to save mankind; a mankind that is threatened now by its own techno logy. Man's spirit according to Wil kins, has now become hardened, shriveled and dried up. Still others say the spirit has become bloated and evil with greed, full of itself, living by the rule, "the devil take the hind most." Others point to the arrogance among men and nations which has en throned might and calculated decep tion as measures of individual and national worth. Thus, we have the frightening realities and consequences Things Tog Should Knovr BUkNS RUNAWAY SLAVE FROM VA y HE WAS MruESTED IN BOSTON MAY 24, 1854. THREE LAWYERS CAME TO HIS AID, INCLUDING R.H.DANA, JR., AUTHOR OF TWO YEARS THE A ONE-SIDED TRIAL, HE WAS Iff./Jr IS SENTENCED TO RETURN 70 SLAVERY AND THE .#1 fS| BOSTON POUCE, 1500 DRAGOONS,THE ENTIRE wtjf- FIFTH ARTILLERY REGIMENT—22 MILITARY I |r UNfTS WERE USED TO GUARD HIM /—ATA jl COST, TO THE GOVERNMENT, W *** t;: v '* f the position of being the ranting, rhetorical bigot for America as he travels on his so-called good-will tour. It could well be that he is already cognizant that his name will not be on the 1972 Republican ticket and he is behaving like a sulky child about it. For a man, whose ethnic background through many generations, have also been denied many opportunities, forces one to return to the old clinche'- perhaps the mere title he assumed has in his own little mind, made him too big for his breeches. Agnew has said many times that black people should take constructive action. He is right. The most construc tive action black people and any other minority or those who stand for basic freedoms, free press, constitutional dissent, civil rights and generally, a better quality for all people, should help remove from public office irre sponsible, bigoted and irrational poli ticians such as Spiro Agnew. Let us hope that he will give serious thought to utterances of such slurring remarks in the future as he continues on his tour. in mankind that are the sources of the spirit that will make men great and free." The veteran NAACP leader warned that 'ln this last third of the twen tieth century, man must practice togetherness or perish." The NAACP, he said, "especially wishes to foster a unity within our own racial comiftyni ty that whatever gafcs.may exist without erasing the difference that stimulate achievement. Our young people, who want the same re wards that are the goals of their elders, must become an integral part of the unity we seek. We can find good things in their 'bag' and they can, hopefully, discover that all wis dom, inventiveness, impatience and courage did not disappear in us when we reached the age of thirty." Mai Goode. dean of the black TV correspondents, challenged the young er generation of blacks to "do your homework, not only in the historv of the NAACP, but on the Civil Rights movement in this nation." Now more than ever, is the time for this welcome saga of advise - Unity and Togetherness - to be resounded loud and clear among all groups and especially blacks for an improved equality of life for all people. "PERMISSIVENESS *WHATS SO SOCIAL ABOUT *WHAT DO YOU DO IN A THIS?IT HAPPENS ALL THE VH£,' CASE UKE THIS, ARREST SAW A HOUSEWIFE *' j " ftOS£t>AL£, i J QUEEN*, NY. UTTER TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Vice President Agnew at tacked the leaders of Ameri can Negroes saying that they had taken on themselves the position of leaders. He also highly praised the leaders of several African states including Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethopia. The Vice President revealed his own dictatorial mentality by praising Haile Selassie who is an absolute ruler and allows no democracy in his country.' It also reveals the Vice President's lack of courage that he did not name the leaders of American Negroes whom he denounced ps group. , If he meant the black re presentatives *ln Congr&s who recently formed a caucus tofe press more effectively for de-: mands for equal rights and op Aid Given i To Poor Students , BOSTON —Six yean*' ago, Livaughn Chapman, a black, was a "street corner type." He was in high school and was advised not to try to go to college. The future didn't hold much prospect for him ot for many others in similar cir cumstances. Today Chapman, 23, ig theV director of one of two pre- * grams at the University of Massachusetts specifically de signed to help those who, for social or economic reasons, would otherwise be prevented from gaining a higher educa tion. THE PROGRAM was the out-growth of a desire by uni versity offcials to carry out tha original mandata laid down more than 100 yaari ago and pressures produced during tha past decade by the growing civil rights movement. The original mandate, spell ed out in the Morrill Land- Grant Act of 1860, specified that a public university is ta educate students who could not, for economic or social reasons, normally attain any education beyond high school. ROBERT C. WOOD, presi dent of the university, said that since the civil rights push peaked several years ago, the "enthusiasm has sort of wan ed" ih the legislature. Requests for funding "hsve not met with the same kind of sympathies It originally did four or five years ago," he said. "One of our problems this year is making clear to all our sponsors ttfat this is a four year effort at.a mini mum and if you suddenly stop the program when the most advanced studfnts were juniors, you must laave them worse off than never starting them at aU."*mv Wsao THE PROGRAMS are de signed to attack an acute so cial and human problem by providing a way out of the self-perpertuatinf cycle of poverty and cultural depriva tion. Wood and Chapman said t*er*.ls a wrong impresion ot M/bMoerMm. that It la only imtyi\W A ' students. portunities, they are ail in fact democratically elected. They are also all Democrats which may be why he wanted to discredit them. If he meant the leaders of "Snick and Core," I do not know how they are chosen but in both cases their organizations are small and dwindling and they "lead" very few people. If he meant Roy Wilkins, Executive Director of the NAACP, or Bishop Stephen Gill Spottswood, Chairman of its Board of Directors, they are both elected by the Board of the NAACP who in turn are elected by delegates demo cratically chosen by the tranches to the annual con ventions, except that a tew board members are picked out by the Board itself to give a place on the board to well 15 6£T I ti.Hi. SL J*. The Time Is Now The building of better school attitudes in the Dur ham Community through the cooperative efforts of all its citizens is being projected and offered in the daily meetings of the SOS Charettes being held at R. N. Harris Elementary School, Monday through Friday at 10:30 a.m. 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Many problems have been identified through rapping or just plain communicating, to use the common terms these days. Problems solving time is now when all citi zens, parents and interested patrons can have a voice in the decision making plans. We are urging that all per sons take time out to come and hear - fact from fantansy, as we seek to build better community school spirit and attitudes at the SOS Charettes. Monday, July 26, 1971 at 7:30 p.m. presentations on solutions to the many problems will be explored by consultants in various areas. Free child care during Sessions hours as well as free transportation to the R.N liarris School may be secured by calling 596-4891. Parents, patrons and interested citizens - THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW. COME TO SESSIONS OF THE CHARETTE - SOS - SO THAT YOU CAN BE (BETTER INFORMED. supporters of civil rights but too busy to be active in the NAACP. Miss Dorothy Height, now or recently head of the Na tional Council of Negro Wo men, is also democratically chosen. The heads of the pre dominantly Negro religious denominations are elected by delegates to the denomina rs' conventions who are de ratically chosen by the congregations which are a part of that denomination. The Vice President admires dictatorships, lacks political courage, is ignorant of how the leaders of American Negroes are chosen, and wrong on all three counts. Sincerely, Alfred Baker Lewis CLOSER Every city in America, speaking collectively, has its street corner, alley-way, or store front, where at any time, day or night, you can find information, cheap labor, or illicite whiskey. Durham is no exception, five points downtown, the corner of Ramsey and Pettigrew Streets, The Casual Employment Center, and the 200 block of E. Main are only some of the places you see groups of men who appear to be living in the last days of the earth. What happened to these men? This reporter interviewed men from different spots previously mentioned and received basically the same story, with an occasional variation. One young man, asking for 35 cents for a can of beans, told of his wife's death eight years ago. She had left him with three children who now live with his mother. He bragged of his intelligence and quoted Emmerson, Frost, Browning, and the Bible. When his wife died, he could not go on so he took to a life of drink. He spends his days begging or doing odd jobs to get enough money for booze. As he talked, his emotions became stronger and was, as last, forced to draw from a tattered wallet, a picture of his de ceased wife. Truly, she was a beautiful woman and the loss of her had meant a great deal to him. So he trys to forget. Another gentleman, to eniberated to stand straight made it quite clear that he wished no money from me, but rather, four cigarettes to last him until the morn ing. Between coughs, swaying, and incomprehensible mumblings, he told me of the fantastic job he had once had with a trucking firm. He was soon to be made foreman of his department and a raise was due. How ever, his daughter had become very ill, eventually to die, and had financially destroyed him. He could not re cover after her death. He tries to drown his memory. These two men are the classic examples of the stories these men tell on every street corner in the world. If they are true or not is unimportant. The im portant thing is that they probably believe them. They have probably told them so long and so many times that they have actually grown into fact. What happened to these men? Are their stories true? Did they make Wert up? ThSir reasons are unimportant. The fact remains that in every city in the world includ ing Durham, corners are stagnated with bodies of men who died long ago. The Casual Employment Center is a picture of this situation. Daily, men come and sit and wait. For odd jobs, for favors, for bribes, for anything that will give them a purpose. If my readers ever feel depressed be cause your television is on the blink, a bill is due which you can't pay, or you and your wife have had an argu ment, go by one of these spots and look at the men there. I do. No matter what drives you to take an in terest in them, they're waiting. 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