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2A THE CAROLINA TEH3 SAiyMASOI 9. 1374 , c'jxk jccs, k rcE rcj justice ? mi EDITORIALS AND COMMENTS -TELEVISION AUD, RADIO-MEETING- MINORITY HEEDS Television and radio are probably the prime entertainment and educational media in existence in' the United States today. Latest figures reveal that in 1972, 97 of all ' American homes had at least one television set, and that Americans watch television on the average of six and a half hours a day.. This count also revealed that 98 of American homes and radios (25L8 million sets). ? ?The broadcast media is big tjvsiness, it has corporate investments that run into the billions it influences Americans to btfy all kinds of things they need and don't need, it helps to establish values concerning the American way of life, which can be influential determinants in how Americans feel about their society and people in their society. Essentially no different from the bygone motion picture industry with its potential for stereotyping groups or individuals; the broadcast media's image-making impact is wide ranged and far-reaching The Hollywood movie makers, for example, developed a rather shabby record of its depiction of Blacks, Indians, Asians, Spanish-speaking people and some ethnics, in its fantasy-like productions of the American scene. Minorities were stereotypically drawn, and were generally objects of humor, scorn or derision. They were never taken seriously, because their life styles were filmed as being characteristically inconsequential. The broadcast media today certain jKh as the ; capacity to contmuldiniBhe Bollywood 'tradffiorf"- tfgtificantlf and validly deal with minorities and women, in ways which enhance their humaneness and humanity of these groups. Unfortunately the Federal Communications Commission, the T Federal regualtory agency responsible for monitoring each broadcast licensee's performance on the public airwaves, does not consistently and responsibly monitor, review and evaluate the broadcast media. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission in its most recent (January, 1973) publication evaluating the Federal civil rights enforcement effort, found that although the FCC prohibits employment discrimination by broadcasters, and requires its regulatees to submit racial and ethnic data and affirmative action plans, it v does not strictly enforce its rules. By Federal law, licensees are expected to be responsibe to community needs, including those of minority groups, and to develop methods and programs for meeting these needs. If there are serious problems in these areas, FCC has. the legal jurisdiction to assist broad casters in formalizing corrective, action. Recently the U.S. Civil Rights Commission embarked upon a significant study of the. problem of minorities and women in the broadcast media. It will examine the media in terms of issues involving the media's decision-making processes, equal economic opportunity rights equal employment opportunity rights, and the relationship of these factors to the image-making power inherent in broadcast programming. LOVI OF ARTS ' I thint I W and re veice all arts equally, oumlag inVfWB? just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Painting: He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine eternal Drama. Charlotte ashman. Roy Wilkilis Executive Secretary of NAACP n MM GOOD OMEN FOR N.Y.C. Despite rough agreement on major flb columned The struggle procwds bccaiise that aVe rooted mree, most Negro New "long i.with jobs and schools Negroes must YoHcen (69 nercenti think that m the long "ve - i - rail. New York will ret better. this belief b a good omen for the city and for the nation, although there are differences in certain areas. It must mean that regardless present disagreements, most questions be worked , out so mat each group of can live in a bearable condition as discover and adjust to historical and differences. What does the average white American know of the proud history of the Puerto Rfcan? What does the average while American know of the distinguished history of Spanish-apeaking Americans from Mexico? And what American Negro knows the history of the struggle of the Irish to get um me New World? sThe survey, made by a professional poll group, dealt with a housing question that has divided New Yorkers along racial lutes. It my have influenced the present on-housing policy , of the federal government, namely, "Should city housing , (low-income) be placed in middle-income wttf&oAoixUr' Sixty percent of the city's whites were opposed, b the sharpest of the disagreements, 65 per cent of blacks were in fcvor. '. - Whites, It k assumed, were still frightened that nek investment ta a home (whether seated or bought) would be depreciated by me mere presence oi ducks, mutes are not If the poU met the sensitive housing question nead-on, it also sought answers on school busing and welfare. Sixty-three per cent of whites 'thought that New York City was beng' used as a welfare dumping ground for the rest of die country. Welfare is really a separate, story because so' many millions of people ; ' have ' strange ideas .on' what constitutes welfare. 'A nationwide nerve was touched in the New Yoijquestiort on busing. The inquiry asserted mat busing had not helped Ae children and had hurt the schools. Sixty per cent of whites agreed but 54percent of the blacks disagreed. r Most of . ther blacks who disagreed and many of the 32 per cent who agreed know that the busing of achdbl children , did not become an issue as long at busing was used for the racial segregation of pupils,.. fusing has been used by schools in northern cities to take black children to "black" schools, even if .they passed, by "white" schools on die trip. This Jim' crow process rajsed not if murmur ojf.protest.Now that busing k used for desegregation, it fc .condemned as harmful!; . i& ') iAZjfr,( . - V A vrndkatidf of me. regular discMSsicoC . racial, problems k seen in the ,NN York Qtyy poll; Guidance and fa tergroup education are needed, especially in multiracial cities like - ' - l. jt.. M.M.ih . our urban centers are becotninl. ' . V w&fiteV If a renter, They UU'k a tW'btfwttoati or whether a PfW! L ift, roondng fconst k planned. Some fear; kcatk 'P? "tiL'JS? A SivS and crime. , v ' ;ttokaud. that 67 per cent of the Irish jad .frnfaafc! If Aey are white, can expect f""1 ' few Carf-.pt W they bay or rent in. the 'W:! 'fW aborheods. Only btfai Mack is ; H plwe4 WJfclhls swvey.ia me gmt cimfe, Instanny recognized tc4 ArAsvtfVtt- 325 BLACK --J'S mess. on ? y mm ": " " o Conqressman O Hawkins O" Column ; ?y REP. AUGUSTUS P. HAWKINS Pers And Pitfalls 0 WVFaW V0V HAVE A COMPETENT MACK PERSON in a position drp0tetfAVs iiupoe smith or L0SANOeMTH4SA(rAWM0l,yWSTmCTIVZ, M RESTRAINING INFLUENCE ON HIS WHITE COLLEAGUES? HOW FIRST AFRICANS REACHED RUSSIA EXPLAINED III LEGEND ADD FOLKLORE By SLAVA TYNES MOSCOW-As far back as 2,600 years ago, Africans are said to have lived in Russia on the east coast of the Black Sea in what is now Abkhazia with a population of 500,000 black and white Russians. How the first Africans reached Russia from their homeland thousands of miles away is explained in legend and folklore. According to one epic, millenniums old, 100 Russian brothers of the eastern Black Sea coastline once saddled their horses and traveled southwards for 18 months in search of glory. One night their campfire attracted black-skinned people who joined them 3h as part of the Empire, beginning their 'camp 'and gave ''them' 1 great feast. The Russians remained In the area for a month and then journeyed home with a number of Africans accompanying them to see how people in the north lived. ' While most of .the Africans returned to their native land after a brief stay in Russia, some remained there, becoming the ancestors of the blacks who are said to have lived in the Caucasus ever since. No one knows for sure until this day whether the epic is merely a story or a historical truth. y In more recent times, other Africans were brought to the region as slaves or servants by the Turks during their 300-year domination of Abkhazia Ottoman in 1598. But the African slaves who were brought to Russia are said to have found a more favorable environment in race relations than those who were shipped to America. In Russia there was said to be little or no racial antagonism. Among the descendants of these slaves is Dr. Nutsa Abash Bobylyov, a 40-year-old physician. She is a graduate of Tbilisi University of Medicine and a well-known gynecologist who is on the staff of the' Sukhumi city maternity , hospital. Dr. , Bobylyov's father, S hl4n', Abash; an4 Jfcis; brother Shaaban fought in the 1917 socialist revolution. In recognition of bis valor, Shaaban was elected to the Central Executive Committee of the Abkhazian Soviet of the Working People's Deputies, the highest executive body in, the republic. Shirin, the physician's father, was elected the firt chairman of the collective farm board in Adzyubzh. , Both brothers are now dead. Dr. Bobylyov's husband, Semyon, is a white Russian logging technician. They have a daughter, Naira, 17, and a son, Vyacheslav, 15. Often Dr. .Bobylyov tells the children the stories of Africa she heard as a child from her grandmother who related what she herself had been told by her grandmother. Language has been lost, places forgotten, and customs and traditions ' long blurred. Only the dim memory of an African village where children played and fathers were honored and respected until the slaves came remains as their heritage to be passed along from generation to generation. Yet how the fist. Africans got to Russia is still uncertain. (The author is the son of a black American agronomist George Tynes who moved to Russia in 1931). The Veterans Administration says nearly 4.5 1 million' veterans "servfcemenv hawtraifaedt In'nerTi S&rrtndpfc' less than eight years under foundations, large and small ACCORDING TO THEWESIDENT the State of the ' Union couldnt be rosier. He's declared that there will be no recession In the .United States this year, and that the , economy, as a whole, will prosper, r -f w t ' I would like to befieve this prediction but since even the PmidOTt'smoettrustedUe ; I think afl Americans need to Ignore the Adnunlstration'a 1 rhetoric and watch the Nation's ewnomy. Unemployment will Increase this year. The major dispute centers around the extent of the increase. The ! jobless rate was 4.9 percent in 1973; .It is 5.1 per cent now, ' and will probably rise to 5.5 percent or more before the year is completed. (In the 1971 recession it was 5J percent.) Even if 4 percent unemployment were "full" employment, whlnh Aiflnltalv l tint tmiA nhvinulv WO SN hi SCVftTe trouble now. So much so, that the President's econWm want to push the 4 percent unemployment rate to 4.6 percent as the "mil" employment guiaeune. , SOME CRITICS ARE OBSERVING that Unce the President has been unable to produce "full" employment, even at mis high rate, he wants to re-define it At any rate, unemployment is rising and it appears that this condition will continue throughout most of 1974. v Another most toteresting Question is-Are w in a period of recession? If we agree that a recession Is a period of at least six months of actual decline in the real level of productive activity-then we are In a recession. The President's Council of Economic Advisors; la . predicting a J102 billion dollar gain in the Gross National : Product for 1974. The G.NP. in 1973 was 11,390 billion dollars. The gain is more apparent than real, since? real 1 ! growth for 1974 will be about percent, and 7 percent in ' -inflation, as compared to 1973, when real growth was percent and the inflation rate was 5.3 percent i . THE OBVIOUS C01WXU8ION is that solid real growth, . which tm(iergirds' economic expansion, new Job and profits, is definitely receding, at a fate more rapid than the Administration wants to admit, and is a significant turning point for concern when one. examines American economics of 1973 as against predictions for 1974. - - v . ii An examination of where this deplorable situation is going to lead the average working American is exasperating. It is exasperating because there is no present relief in sight in the upward spiraling of the cost Of living; Prices have continued to out-pace the pay envelope. Recent U.S. .Department of Labor Statistics indicate that even wage increases for 1873 were not mvich of a levekr in the inflationary spiral; wage increases Just could not keep up with galloping inflation. Real hourly earnings fell 1J per cent and real average weekly earnings droppedl J percent It is not too late , to rectify a dangerous situation; Congress and the Actaunistration need to act now, .i 4. i COOPERATIVE ASSISTANCE FUND AIDING MINORITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT any A promising concept, 19 68. " nine are and;:,'1 .fli , !$mo$ fembers'f''1 Uc bl now. the current GI Bill compared to 2.4 million during 13 years of the Korean GI Bill. A new Veterans Administration health care program covers spouses and children of veterans with service connected total, permanent disabilities, and widows or widowers and children of veterans whose deaths resulted from service connected causes. On an average day, the Veterans Administration provides treatment for 135,000 veterans. On a yearly basis, more than one million veterans are hospitalized, and outpatient vaverage 12 million. mmm black eyes By Rhett Tanner. We find it exceedingly sad when Black people continously exhibit a lack of awarness of crucial, situations. That inptness is particualry deplorable when it comes from the college community. Several days ago, the criminal justice club of North Carolina Central University presented an expensive recognition plaque, to Lee Bounds, former commissioner of corrections for the state of North Carolina. Now recognition is a cool concept and it has a place in proper perspecitve realm. ! If the criminal justice club would look a little further into it's own field of study and if they are dealing with the penal system arid all it's wrongs what good will a $50.00 plague do or Lee Bounds for that matter? ..." Fifty ' dollars donated to an incarcerated brother or sister inside the penal system would have bought stamps, books, personal. items and scores of other much 'needed belongings. We fall to see that bounds should have its head anointed with oil. One has only to look at Central prison to discern that North Carolina is as far behind in corrections and rehabilitation as it is education, wages, housing you . name it! Most important however, is the fact that Black people must choose their own heroes. They must be chosen not on the basesor criteria set up by the (WASP). The state of North Caroling, has no reason to ring it's chimes when, one carefully scrutinizes the penal system. Imnates are still being reduced to slave status: Death row still exists and is steadily growing, and rehabilitation is still just a . fancy word for the Ph'd's. There is much to be done, hopefully the criminal justice club will re-evaluate their contributions and values in the future and if, plaques of gold and $50.00 greens must be given out through some u northrodox criteris please hand them out with honor to deserving individuals. would make low-return loans and investments for economic development of minority or poverty group enterprises instead of grants, remains still a promise with some exceptions. "The concept of program related investments (PRI) promised to alter significantly the philanthropic strategies of some foundations, but today, for most foundations, the idea Of using investment portfolio funds in such a fashion remains just that: an idea." So says Richard Rein, writing in Foundation News, the Journal of Philanthropy. One of the exceptions, however, is the Cooperative Assistance Fund.(CAF) a consortium of private foundations that have a formed a common investment pool aimed at investing not making grants in minority businesses. CAF is a program related investment fund which attempts to combine social benefit and sound investment activities. The Cooperative Assistance Fund, whose president is Edward C. Sylvester Jr., was formed in 1968, set up headquarters in Washington, D.C. and began' investing in 1970. CAF growth is reported "slow but. encouraging." Of toe 10 foundations participating in the discussions prior to the incorporation . of CAF In main of problem the mm The concept of program related investments encounters is the lrejucant of foundations to mix their investments with their social programs. "Many feel that it is improper or in some way irrational to use any part of the investment assets directly to meet program goals," says John Simon, chairman of CAF's board of trustees. "I cant find any analytic basis for that." Foundations may become members of CAF by making an investment of at least 2 per cent of the foundations assests, or $1 million, whichever is smaller but not less than $100,000 or by making a grant of at least $100,000 for each year if wishes to be a member. Members sit on CAF's board. Money raised from the members constitutes CAF's investment pool-which now has over $3.3 'million either allocated or committed to it. "The fear of losing money has not been the big problem with most , foundations," i ays CAF President Sylvester. It's the principle that bothers them. What is a foundation for? You have two types of, trustees. On the,, one hand' maximizing earnings. They want to make money, PRI calls for a dose partnership between' both types." ' ' "... '' svASOVStav i! ' DURHAM MOUTH CAROLINA SfJSS BtterJtollslMr IBMttl PtitiHrfnd evsnr , by United Satarday at Durfcass, N. C gat VIVIAH AU3TCI PKONPg. 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