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j It's a Ion way from 1954s Brown vs. Topeka, Kan j sas ruling that separate but equal had no place in educa I tion. We're a long way from the sit-ins at Woolworth's. j And the move for parity and integration which Martin , Luther King espoused has come at a price for which few I of us have been prepared. . j The integration we are getting isn't integration at all, j it's a white wash. In integration which is for real A (white) plus B (black) equals AB. What we're getting in j that equation is A plus B equals A minus B. Look at the . facts. When integration hit, a new math resulted. As a .' result, we have lost our previous gains. The inner cities ! were allowed to become worse and what little black life , : they didn't remove or consolidate, urban renewal (black ; removal) projects did. Whites pulled their children from public schools; however, white teachers predominate though black pupils are often in the majority. In , business and industry, because of our lack of seniority, With the present increase of racial hatred and its out ward manifestations of Ku Klux Klan activities, once again, the question arises: will overt acts of racism again rise as they did in the fifties and sixties and will the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the organization blacks have looked to for protection, again be one of the greatest perpetrators of crimes against blacks? We believe that the present FBI director, Mr. Webster, will certainly not allow the organization to resort to the J. Edgar Hoover tactics. Just recently, Mr,. Ernest Volkman, an investigative reporter, held a news conference in which he revealed some very startling facts about a black undercover FBI informant who worked for the Bureau for around eight years. This informant, whose code name was "Othello", informed mainly on black groups, black in dividuals on the West Coast. These black organizations were attacked by the FBI which determined them as a threat to national security. Such methods as writing anonymous letters and plan ting false rumors, as bad as they were, were the lightest tricks the agency used. Even though the FBI said it had stopped these dirty tricks, according to Othello, nothing was further from the truth. It was still using these tricks in 1974 and 1975 when he stopped working for them. It continued to be an accessory to murder, arson, planting false evidence, President Carter gave the American United States Olympic hockey team and some of the U.S.-Olympic medalists an elaborate White House welcome. He flew them from Lake Placid to Washington and he had also flown a crowd to the South Lawn to cheer them. The President, flanked by the First Lady, congratulated and hugged the athletes. He said he hopes to have a summer competition for them, since he has said that Americans will not participate in the Moscow Olympics, because Russia did not bow to his demand of complete withdrawal from Afghanistan by February 20. Mr. Carter certainly sounds like an Imperial Presi dent when he gives another country a deadline and then says to American athletes, I'll not allow you to pursue the course for which you have spent years of training. These people trained for world Olympics and not just some trumped-up, side-stepped competition. Mr. Carter said he stopped work on foreign and c"flCT&sligJj game. Yet, he d warn . SPECTACLES : A CLOSM 's Dream - Our Nightmare? adam. fisher King SAT., MARCH 8, 1980 THECARCUSATlIJ-15 I we're still the , first fired and last hired in times of ' economic turmoil. If equality is such a reality, why do we comprise less than two per cent of the doctors, lawyers, dentists, veterinarians, chief executives for the Fortune 500's of business; though we represent at least twelve per cent of the people. We are faced'with the prospect of our colleges closing through lack of financial support or due to consolida . tion of resources which will see the traditionally black state supported institutions either become predominant-: ' ly white, merge with white institutions, or close. Our history is being written off and still isn't a major inclu sion of cot in American history. Our cultui being ripped off or capitalized upon by those who've yie more off of it than we ever did ; witness the hut aloo over Elvis Presley, a white man stealing the acts blacks and making millions or Bo Derek in "corn uw" "making" a black style chic or vogue. Our children told to be physician's assistants, nurse's aides, legal aides, etc., when for the same effort, FBI DIRTY TRICKS AGAINST BLACKS By Alfreda L. Madison From Capital Hill about any kind of criminal act. Othello worked directly under two FBI agents known as Control One and the second in command was Con trol Two. One of his main assignments was the Black Panther Party. The Party was founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. It had a free breakfast plan for ghet to children and other similar social activities. Not withstanding all of these good activities, the FBI focus ed on its violent rhetoric of calling police "pigs" and that ghetto blacks should be armed for what they were certain was a revolutionary struggle. Othello infiltrated the Panther headquarters, and did detailed layouts. Then, later burglaries and raids were made on the buildings. There was another West Coast organization known as the United Slaves. The FBI fomented a war between these two organizations by writing anonymous letters to one of the groups saying that a certain member was a police informant. The Bureau used informants alleging to be members of one group to beat up members of the other group. The FBI got a copy of a coloring book that the Black Panthers ,made for school children and added to it a forgery page showing young children with knives attacking police. The Bureau arranged for the distribution of these books. This caused some of the blacks to denounce the book. , The two Black Panthers, John Huggins and Alpren tice Carter, who were shot by two brothers, members of the United Slaves, were driven from the scene by Con trol One. These Stiner brothers, three days later, turned themselves in and were convicted of the murders and placed in San Quentin prison. Four years later they were transferred to minimum security, from which they Triumph And Disaster Are The President's Campaign Cover By Alfreda L. Madison From The White House can't take time from those problems to debate the issues so the American people can get answers to questiojis on how and why we got into this deep trouble and how and when he plans to get out of it. Surely the President took advantage of this Olympic triumph to campaign, just as he is using the Iran and Afghanistan tragedies to stay in the White House, make hundreds of telephone calls to individuals, soliciting votes, but fails to appear where he can be questioned about the spiraling cost of living and unemployment. It appears that he is resting on both triumph and disaster for his political gain. Representative Louis Stokes announced support for Senator Kennedy, stating that "it Js obvious that the, Administration did not and still does not have an alternative plan to deal with increased energy costs, food, housing and health care prices." Stokes con tinued, "risking nuclear war appears to be this Ad ministration's suggested solution to protect the oil com panies' supplies in the Middle East and keep us from . .realizing how we Are really beih'g1 'gpug'etf .Ip ty$tn.b 1 high prices and taxes." Congressman John Conyers has called for "wage and !rice control as the only decent alternative to escalation ' n unemployment and the conventional policy of fighting inflation by boosting interest rates and sacrific ing economic growth and jobs." Conyers stated that wage and price control worked in 1971 when inflation was only 4.8 per cent and after three months, it had been reduced to 1.9 per cent. Now, with inflation at eighteen per cent, controls appear highly necessary. they could be the doctor, the nurse or the lawyer. The economic reality shows the average income fa 1978 for black families was S 10,880 while white family income soared to $18,370. My message in this the last "official" recogntion of Black History Month is we don't have it made. Anytime we are told that or we're told how good a job we're doing, look very carefully all around and realize that we're worse off today than we were ten yean ago. If we don't wake up and fight for our civil rights, it may be too late. We had best teach our young folk about the subtleties of racism because the game is being played on a different level of sophistication and racism still underlies it all. Black people. Wake Up! In unity there is strength. If we won't unite to fight for our rights, then we can't ex pect it of others. escaped and have never been heard of since. The Watts Writers workshop was burned down by ar son fire set by Othello at the direction of the FBI. This workshop was funded by Hollywood personalities Sam my Davis, Marlon Brando, Budd Schulbert, Rod Steiger and others. Once when the director sent invitations to people asking them to a fund raising, only a few people came. He later learned that Othello had not mailed the invitations. Othello was working at the workshop at the time. This workshop did an outstanding job for ghetto kids in training them in writing, television technology, acting and other crafts. The FBI alleged that it was training the children in making molotov bombs. . The Bureau is alleged to have been involved in the murder of George Jackson in San Quentin. It wire tapped Lieutenant Governor Dymally's office, broke in to the office of Los Angeles City councilman Leon Ralph, spied on the NAACP, Sammy Davis, Redd Fox, Barry White and others who were known to have con tributed to black organizations. Othello was ordered to spy on Rev. Jesse Jackson and his organization. PUSH. He was told to find out about Rev. Jackson's sex habits and to plant drugs in his hotel room. Othello no longxr works for the FBI, and he wants to make Kb story known. He is in hiding for fear of his life. Just how far the FBI has really moved from these previous tricks remains to be seen when racial conflicts arise. Senator Kennedy has also called for wage and price con trols and there is an ever growing sentiment around the country tor it. Yet, the President is saying that : out. When tie met recently with top econom energy advisors, being alarmed over inflation. non-detense spending was given high priority. The defense spending deserves a hard look, ffrrrijflj since the President is offering countries around the world military weapons which are manufactured at a huge cost to American citizens and sold to foreign coun tries by the big corporations who make a huge profit. Both the Persian Gulf protection and military build-up seem a ploy for the big companies to get rich at the ex pense ot the poor. President Carter needs to be i tioned about the tactics. toaaid topics pnua i ii rr nnrv i it -"Mie Fire prevention regula tions originated in the Roman Empire tbout 18 B.C. when height and wall thickness restrictions were established. English pharmacist John Walker imaasail tha first match in 1S27. TW tip was a n hi Ihm of antimony salfin aid potassium chlorate. 1 i i . , , - -i - Emmi1" M JF ,x SSSiSW' It lAkm kz i cnn n n miii vim iiii i " ill i n I t Being a General Telephone Com munications Consultant is a full-time job. It means taking as much time as needed to survey, plan and discuss all details of a business customers phone installation. But they don t stop there. They are also busy looking for ways to show customers how to use their phones more efficiently. Some times they can show them how to save mon- 1 ey and maybe even how y to make money. Sound like good people ' to know.'' iheyu be nap py to meet you anytime a survey of leleohone requirements. Call your local General Telephone business office and make an appointment to day. And remember there's never an extra charge for their services. . Vfe lgep you telking. (Ml r ana mare
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