SAT., SEPTEMBER 26,1981
THE CAROLINA TIMES -17
Spectacles: A Closer Look BlaCK SOCial WOrkefS TO
Hold 7th Annual Conference
Durham’s New Bookmobile
Ms. Joanne Abel and Harold Cheslnul of the Bookmobile staff, proudly
how off Durham County’s new Library Bookmobile. Much smaller and more
nergy efficient than the old eight-ton Gerstenslager bus, the new vehicle holds
ttoii(350 adult hardback books and about 800 paperback books. It is on the
jadfive days a week. In addition to numerous special stops for story telling
nd film programs, the bookmobile also serves to register people to vote,
jiimated mpg. of the old vehicle averaged 2-3 gallons while the new vehicle is
ilwcleci to to 14 mpg. Photos by Roy Harris
Savers Certificates Available Oct. 1
one
inn-
can
to
and
Thosands of sma'ri
jvers in North Carolina
find the new All-
ivers Certificates
the Best,
jiiiments they
it, according
achovia' Bank
■w Company.
The new certificate
a high-yielding,
Kiium-term savings in-
'ii:nent and offers a tax
■jak for those who in-
siin it. The maximum
lid on the one-year cer-
ficatewill be 12.61 per-
m when it becomes
ailable on October I.
ITiis view of the value
ihe All-Savers Cer-
icaie varies somewhat
im opinions generally
pressed about the cer-
bie, In many circles
:new certificate has
enconsidered only for
lividuals in high tax
rackets.
h^'hen you factor in
Keffect of the federal
fcome tax e.^emption
for an in-
toal and $2,000 on a
Ini return) the actual
ilil of the Ail-Savers
iiiificate can be higher
'he after-tax yield
'many other consumer
nilicates,” said James
; Brewer, head oU
fdiovis’s Retail Bank-
ll^partment.
example, brewer
^ihat a person in the
[Percent tax bracket
H an individual
taxable income
‘'^een $10,800 and
$12,900 would realize
slightly more net income
in one year from a
$5,000 All-Savers Cer
tificate yielding 12,61
percent than would be
earned in one year from
a $5,000 30-month cer
tificate yielding 16.54
percent.
“We expect a con
siderable number of our
certificates to range from
the $500 minimum to
$7,500, which means
that many ‘small savers’
will be investing in the
certificate,” he said.
“Most of the total
dollars going into the
new certificates is likely
to come from six-month,
$10,00 minimum money
market certificates,
however,” he said. Ap
proximately $1.5 billion
in these certificates
mature during the last
three months of the year
at North Carolina banks,
and many of these
certificate-holders will be
able to realize, a greater
return by moving money
into an All-Savers Cer
tificate because of the
tax-exemption feature
ai^ociated with it.
“At the same time, the
lax exemption will make
it more difficult to figure
the actual return after
taxes,” Brewer said.
“To simplify this process
we have developed a
chart which will be avail-1
ble to consumers from’
personal bankers at our
offices around the state.
The Assault on the
Black Male
By Ada M. Fisher
Where are the black men? Looking around across
the nation, the paucity of black men is striking.
From all flanks, the black male is under attack with
the murders of young black male children and
young men in Atlanta as but one symptom of the
on-going personal assault which our men face.
Society at large plays cruel games with black men
which enhance their demise. At birth, there are ap
proximately 103 to 106 black males born to every
100 black females. At birth and thereafter, the
black male infant is more likely to die than all
others due in part to socio-economic circumstances.
Hence, by age two, there are less than 100 black
male toddlers to every 100 black female toddlers. In
adolescence and young adulthood, what numbers
accidents don’t claim, homicide and suicide do. In
later life, high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes,
etc., will claim the lives of over fifty per cent of
black men before they reach the age of 65. This
means that plans to up the retirement age to 70 will
force the majority of black men to work all of their
lives without any hope of retirement.
Black men have fought valiantly in all.wars that
this nation has chosen to enter. From Crispus At
tacks in the American Revolution to our friends,
lovers, and neighbors in Viet Nam. Dispropor
tionately have we laid down our lives in combat on
ly to return to rejection at home and slow infre
quent advancements within the military ranks. The
prisons swell with our men and some statistics note
that 40% of all prison populations are of black
males. From a group that represents only 12% of
the total population, it seems inconceivable that the
justice being meted out is equal or blind.
As the black athlete’s face has gained center stage
in the ball parks, attendance figures have declined.
The Bakke Case reaffirmed the lack of commitment
we have had to equal opportunities and affirmative
action for blacks. Those fields such as medicine,
where we once were gaining, now again show a
decline in the number of black males participating
fully. Looking out upon the sea of graduates at
predominantly white institutions, the sprinklings of
black faces showed a majority of them belonging to
black women, even though the black male athlete
has often brought fame and fortune to these institu
tions.
Amidst the shrinking ranks of those black males
left to our communities, their masculinity and sur
vival is being challenged daily. For many, the
homosexual lifestyle is becoming an option of
choice, leaving fewer black males for black females
and causing many to question the survival of black
families. On their home front, many black men feel
that their role as “breadwinner” is threatened by
their inability to find gainful employment, especial
ly in economic hard times such as these. The con
flicting love-hate relationship between black men
and black women is supposedly driving them from
the arms of black women to those of white women.
And, the pseudo-glamour of the “playboy” superf-
“There are other fac
tors which need to be
considered on the All-
Savers Certificate, such
as tying money up for 12
months and the possibile
availability of higher ly black piale, so painfully illustrated”by the seven-
rates on other savings ties era of black exploitation films, has confused
plans,” he said. “We are rnany minds with a subsequent desertion of respon-
providing intensive train- sibility to children and families being realized,
ing on all elements of the Hundreds of black men suffered public castra-
certificate for our per- tions and hangings inflicted for real or imagined
sonal bankers, , and the liaisons with white women. The open shootings of-
best advice I can give to black men in Buffalo and the hanging of a black
consumers is to en- man in a southern city should be a reminder that
courage them to discuss things haven’t changed as much as we’d like to
the merits of the cer- think. For all of our criticism of the Reagan Ad-
lificates with someone ministration, his is the first since the Johnson Ad
ministration in 1967 to have a black man as a
cabinet official. But let us not be deceived, one man
does not point to a commitment to fairness nor do
tokens thrown in our way.
The saddest event occurring before our eyes is the
“tuning out” which many young black men are
now doing. No matter how boring the work may
seem, without a good education, a black man
doesn’t stand a chance in today’s computerized
society. You don’t get it standing on the block with
the Afro, comb propped in your hair, while publicly
where they bank.”
The .All-Savers Cer
tificate, approved last
month by Congress, is
intended to provide an
incentive for people to
save, to help the savings
and loan industry and to
stimulate housing, it will
be available from Oc
tober I, 1981, through
December 31, 1982. It
allows maximum exemp
tions on federal income
taxes of $1,000 for an in
dividual and $2,000 for a
couple filing a joint
return.
grabbing yourself. The tragedy of black youth to
day is that so many are castrating their most impor
tant organ, their brains, by failing to get an educa
tion and develop their minds and talents. Whether
you realize it or not, we are engaged in a great Civil
War. The tools of this^arena are education and
credentials. Even those who have them mav not
win, but without them, the battle is lost before it
The maximum yield has begun.
will be equal to 70 per- Black People Wake Up! The vicious attacks on
cent of the investment the black male continue with his help, with our
yield on one-year U.S. help, and with society’s blessings. Black men, you
Treasury bills. The initial must save yourselves. We must make society ac-
yield , of 12.61 percent countable for its indifference to your plight and we
will be revised on Oc-:must quit making excuses and defend ourselves
tober 5 and once against attacks to your personhood. Lest we all
thereafter. The rate on forget, we are black and the color of oi4r skin dic
an individual certificate tates that the way shall neither be easy nor the
is fixed for the term of rewards' comparable to our suffering. We must
the certificate.
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prevail for the future of our sons and daughters
demands that we not downplay the value and
significant role of black men.
Blacks United In
Government To Meet
Blacks United In
Government, Inc. will
convene Saturday, 9:30
a.m., September 26, at
Saint Augustine’s Col
lege, Raleigh.
The conference theme:
“Preparedness, Perfor
mance and Productivity,
A Blue Print For Equal
Opportunity, will be
highlighted by Senator
Henry E. Frye,
Greensboro; Ben Ruffin,
Assistant to the Gover
nor, Durham; and
Harold Webb, Director
of State Personnel,
Raleigh.
The primary purposes
of the organization are:
(l)To assure blacks
greater opportunities for
equal employment, pro
motions, and managerial
positions in government.
(2)To provide legal
and moral support for
blacks, who are denied
equal opportunities due
to discriminatory prac
tices. procedures, or un
written policies by
governmental depart
ments and agencies.
(To) monitor the Af
firmative Action Pro
grams and Reduction in
Force Policies in govern
mental agencies and
departments.
Reports from commit
tees on Charter, By-
Laws, Membership, and
Re-organization will be
presented.
Voter Registration Books
close October 5
for voting in November General Election
The 7th Annual N.C.
State Asociation of
Black Social Workers
Conference will convene
on Septeraher 25-26,
1981, at the Sheraton
Hotel in Fayetteville.
The conference theme
“Networking: Black
Energy Effectively
Channelled Into Power”
will examine the negative
implications of
Reagonomics and its
Block Grants formula on
the black community.
Workshops will focus on
black self-help programs
such as Farm to Market
and food cooperative
projects, as well as
workshops on black
adoptions, human and
health services, legisla
tion and political action,
^iminal/juvinile justice,
education, religion,
employment and net-
working/communica
tions.
Keynoters include At
torney Barbara Arnwine,
Co-Convener, National
Black Independent
Political Party, Raleigh;
Cenie J. Williams, Ex
ecutive Director, Na
tional Association of
Black Social Workers,
New york, N.Y.; Rev.
John Fuller, Pastor,
Lewis Chapel Church,
Fayetteville. Dr. Stan
Smith, President of
Shaw University, is the
recipient of
NCSABSW’s third
Human Service Award.
Previous recipients were
Rev. Ben Chavis (1979)
and Alderman Larry Lit-.
tie, Winston-Salem
(1980).
Local workshop
preseniors will include
Ben Ruffin, Special
Assistant to the Gover
nor; H.M. “Mickey”
Michaux, former Federal
Attorney, Middle
District; Ms. Cathy
Thompson, WTVD-TV,
Durham; Dr. Faheem
Ashanti, Psychologist,
Durham; Arnold Den
nis, NBIPP, Durham;
Stanley Holding, NBIPP
Food Co-op, Durham.
Other presenters will in
clude Representative
Dan Blue; Dr. John
Fleming, Shaw Universi
ty; Professor Danny
Houston, Black United
Front; Ms. Hattie
Jackson, WPTF-TV;
Henry McKoy, Depart
ment of Administration;
Levi Dawson, Wake
County Jail; George
Fleming, M(^> Maola
Mattison, Ms. Rose Kit-
treil, and Dr. Norman
Camp, Department of
Human Resources; '
Robert Walton,
Mecklenburg County
Commisioner; Darnell
Baptiste, Adoption
Resource Center, Chapel
Hill; Dr. C. R. Edwards,
State Board of Educa
tion, Fayetteville; Coun^
tv Commissioner-
McAllister, Fayetteville;
Ms. Jennifer Henderson,
Hunger Coalition,
Fayetteville; Ms.
Marcella Ogslesby, Men
tal Health, Winston-
Salem; A.J. Johnson,
City Councilman, Fayet
teville; Clifton Graves,
Legal Sq/’vices, Winston-
Salem, and others.
For further informa
tion, contact
NCSABSW, P.O. Box .
15474, Durham, N.C.
27704, or call Marshall
Harvey, at 781-9468 in
Raleigh, or Leonard G.
Dunston, at 471-6559 in
Durham after 6:00 p.m.
NCC Condemns (Continued from Page 16)
Americans to speak out
against South Africa’s
policies in southern
Africa was expressed to
the executive committee
and at the press briefing
by B.N. Sequeira of the
ministry of foreign af
fairs of the People’s
Republic of Angola.
“We need your support
for Namibia, for the.
South-West Africa Peo
ple’s Organization
(SWAPO), which is
fighting against incredi
ble odds for its
freedom,” he ^aid,
“because if the South
African regime can be
saved, it is the United
States that will save it —
save it to continue its
policies of inhuman
treatment and oppres
sion.”
Christians in the U.S.
do not stand alone in
deploring South Africa’s
action. The Rev. Maxine
Rafransoa, general
secretary of the All
Africa Conference of
Churches, Nairobi,
Kenya, also attended the
meeting and said, “This
resolution is consistent
with one we made at the
fourth assembly of the
All Africa Conference of
Churches in Nairobi this
summer and with a state
ment made two weeks
ago in Dresden at a
meeting of the central
committee of the World
Council of Churches. It
is a confirmation that the
Christian brothers and
sisters of the world are
together against the
system of apartheid.”
In other action, the ex
ecutive committee asked
the president of the
council to send a letter to
President Reagan urging
him to “direct (United
Nations) Ambassador
Jean Kirkpatrick to vote
against the seating of the
Democratic Kam
puchean (Pol Pot)
delegation in t%e United
Nations, either by sup
porting the ‘vacant seat
resolution’ or simply by
abstaining from voting
on the issue” when it
came before the General
Assembly September 16.
In taking this action,
the committee pointed
out that the Pol Pot
authorities have been
discredited before the
world as genocidal and
that they control only a
small portion of Kam
puchean territory. Com
mittee members were
reminded that during the
U.S. presidential cam
paign in 1980, Ronald
Reagan denounced the
“gross hypocricy” of the
Carter administration
because it “■supported
the Pol Pot Communist
Cambodian regime,
which had slaughtered
millions of its own peo
ple, in the United Na
tions.”
The executive commit
tee of the Council con
sists of representatives of
the council’s 32 Protes
tant and Ort^dox com
munions Md meets
quarterly to guide the
work of the Council.
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