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14-THE CAROUNATIMES SAT., FEBRUARY 27. 1982 . " f ' A SENSE OF PRIDE IN BEING BLACK A RACE IS UfCBA MAN UNTIL IT USES ITS OUNJALENTS; - men TAKES PRIDE IN IT$VWN HISTORY. Hl5TlRV LOVES ITS OWN MEMORIES. IT CAN NEVER FULFILL ITSELFC COMPLETELY. ?vtfz ri est i ft- rm 1, 1 1 "irt i i ir illllll .' j , 'vCYtt- BSgSSB&SSasbsBaSBSBSBSBSaBBBBB DBBQDOSBaBBQa BESBB Civil Rights Journal I ass s ex ! Black Leadership , Family Plan . ISSSSSSBBBaSBBBBBBBBBBB The Congressional w Black Caucus recently 'convened its southwest regional ; conference in Houston, Texas, the home , of Caucus member, Mickey Leland. It ;: was'during this conference that the-final draft of a booklet published by the Con-' gressional Black Caucus called "Black Leadership Family Plan for the Unity, Survival and Progress of Black People" ' was presented for the first time: The plan, has three objectives. First, it , sets forth a set of rules for black unity, . survival and progress. Second, it -establishes a black development fund by : : which black citizens re urged to con tribute to existing bjack organizations of . their choice. Third, the. plan provides a set of instructions for implementation. Our focus in this commentary is on the twelve , rules set out in the plan which according to the Caucus, if followed, "There is nothing the adversary can do that can stop us." . ' . The twelve are: ( 1) Support for the black church . wherever it is found. - ( 2) Protection for the elderly and sup port the youth. ( 3) Excel and achieve in education. , " ( 4) Opposition to crime. ( 5) Contribute to the Black Develop ment Fund. .. ( 6) Buy and bank black. ; ( 7) Register and vote. ( 8) Hold your elected officials accoun table. ' ' " -r, r;,:;:..; . '-, ( 9) Support black family and com munity life. . (10) Challenge and boycott negative media and support positive media. By Dr. Charles E. Cobb ' Executive Director . ! ' United Church Of Christ Commission For Racial Justice t BBSHBB3BBSaeBB3SSHH (1 1) Secure and defend the black com- . ' munity, and finally . (12) .Support Mother Africa and Carib - bean nations. ' , ".:" ' Many of these points, which the Caucus refers to as the rules of the plan are not , new and we have heard these urgings from a variety of black leaders. This notr withstanding, I compliment the Caucus in ' i its efforts to bring together a concensus " ! on the national strategy for the unity and survival of the black community. TheJ Congressional Black Caucus is to be : saluted for presenting this at a time when ' the nation's minority community is facing ' one of the most serious threats to its sur-. T I vival. We urge you to read, study and im plement this plan today in order to ensure our ultimate liberation and freedom. v 'S jjjjj MSB Sjj 8SB ! 33SSBSaSSgSBSSS3SS3SSSSaS9S- To Be Equal More Budget Blues : aa' as sat sx sx sss i Editorial A Perpetual Crutch Is Not The Answer While we whQleheartedly agree that black business operators should be involved, in the additional planning, as well as the building and operation of. the $50 million downtown revitaliza tion project, we cannot support the concept of "guaranteed set asides," or "quasi-guaranteed goals." Intelligent risk and healthy mainstream competition are vital components of the free enterprise marketplace and we support their "preservation. V But, by the same token, we recognize and intimately empathize with the many problems - some of them endemic to small businesses and others unique to black firms that plague the en trepreneurial efforts of black owners. Now, if local government: waatsp: hejp with infusions of capital, we see things areiionralbfii long as well as the Thus, as an alternative to the problem-plagued "set aside" e I forts and the "goal oriented" programs, we toss the f Olio wing idea into the hopper for discussion. . Let the City, using non-tax revenues, establish a ventureNapital fund for doing business with local government. This fund will be administered by an independent business development; agency under contract to the City and according to City guidelines.' Black-owned firms interested in doing business with the City , and acquiring venture capital to pursue that effort would apply . for admission to the program. . . ; H -; ; 1 Following an intense, but thorough educational program that would deal with such general subjects as developing a business plan, long range planning, market positioning and penetration, ' etc., as well as specific subjects such as estimating,! cost projec- '. tions and other pertinent areas, an applicant would receive a suf ficient amount of venture capital to enable the firm to bid com petitively for City business. -r The business development firm would be paid a commission on a successful bidder's first year contracts. , We believe that this approach offers a number of advantages over prior efforts of local governments to propel minority ifirms into the mainstream. : For example, our approach does not establish a perpetual but limited haven for inefficient business operators who are content with limited expectations. Neither, does this concept create a perpetual crutch -vftir' business to lean on. But most importantly, this approach neither violates state bid ding laws nor convolutes the Constitution. We are not naive enough to think that our recommendation is problem proof of that the idea refined and ready far implementa ,tion. But we do believe it is worth diccussing, and we welcome aty -"dialogue. We further hope that local officials will accept this in the spirit m which it is offered! not as a criticism of intent, but as an effort to help produce what is best for all of us in the long range. The 1983 federal budget recently sent to Congress by the Administration is a disastrous document. To economists it reads like a fairy story, with its wildly im probable economic assumptions and its predictions of huge deficits reaching far into the future. . But to poor people it reads like a horror story. The cuts in social programs in the 1982 budget were brutal enough, but if the Administration gets its way those pro grams will be cut to ribbons. Let's look at some of those new budget cuts: , Welfare is the safety net program that is the last resort of thfe neediest. The federal ! welfare program is for families with dependent children, the poorest of the poor. After last year's money cuts and tightened eligibility standards, millions ere either forced off the rolls or had their small benefits cuti The program now is down to $7.6 billion for the current year, hardly enough to enable the truly needy to survive. And with mounting unemployment in the cur rent recession that was induced by teaerai HngifigHthe nationwide federal welfare bill QOWtl lO J.J UIIIKHI. . j ! Unemployment is pushing close to record post-war levels and some predict it will get a lot worse before it gets better. If the government would count the growing ; army of jobless who have given up efforts " to look for jobs that aren't there, the rates would almost double. So what does the Administration pro pose? Another deep slash of $2.7 billion in job training programs. The successful Job Corps would be cut by a third. Two straight massive budget cuts and the ef fects of inflation have reduced federal job efforts to a token program at a time of recession and high unemployment. Instead of helping job seekers find work, the federal-state employment ser vice is slashed to ribbons. And if you want a new definition of meanness, the Ad ministration wants to round off unemployment compensation checks to the next lower whole dollar, in effect stealing pennies from the jobless. Poor children are a special jarget of their government sociar-service pro grams aimed at helping them will be cut another $1.3 billion and special reading and math programs that have helped raise black test scores in poverty area schools will be cut by over $500 million. Cuts in college aid programs will keep more poor ; young people trom getting a couege education. Apv. By Johrl E. Jacob' Executive Director. National Urban League billion. And the list goes on and on. Coming on top of last year's cuts, the 1983 budget has to rank as the most callous document ever ' framed by the federal government. Even with those cuts, the budget will be in deficit by over $91 billion, the Ad ministration says, although most economists believe it will zoom well past . $100 billion. Why? Because of last year's tax cuts for the -: affluent and for corporations. And " because (he reckless pumping of more and more billions into a defense establishment that has proven wasteful and mismanag: ed. The 1983 budget request for defense is . up eighteen per cent over last year's budget, to $216 billion many times more than is spent on human investments. This budget is a document reflecting desperation among our policy-makers. It represents their last-ditch attempt to make supply side economics work. But it is not working. All it has done is degrade the poor, slash the cities, and risk another Great Depression. Now the ball is in Congress' court. Last year it rolled over and played dead it gave the Administration evervthinst it ask- 1 i i df Oftand, imoje, . So ,jt m,ust sftare, jiesponr ( Medicaid,iie Kelfthrprogram for the poor, is in for a ten per cent cut at a time when health costs are rising at about fif teen per cent a. year. Housing subsidies for three and a half million poor families will be cut by three many uniuuns. What will it do this year? Will it pass this X-rated budget, or will it find it has no redeeming social value, tear it up, and pass a budget that is based on. sound economics and social fairness? if'. ' ill r S SB S3 I IS! A View From Capitol Hill: Fascism and the Reagan Administration is SggggSS SiSSSSSS! By Gus Savage Member of Congress i J Ran t rirn Ts h M-.A ,. .... . i 7 V VAwy Things You Should Know Not a single week passes without . new "evidence being revealed, or old evidence being reaffirmed, which documents the . Reagan Administration's slide toward fascism. . v ' ;?! - ' Currently, two of the government's most, powerful agencies are locked in a battle over chargey that spies have in-" filtrated the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency, thereby raising the question of whether certain secret information should be withheld from, this agency. Defenders of the GAO insist that these . charges are. .being, -made "by.. Defense Department spokespersons in order to , refuse GAO. investigators classified data needed to uncover Pentagon cost over runs and mismanagement. U.S. Comptroller General Charles Bowsher, who serves as ihief of the GAO, ' insists there is no truth to the spy reports. According to Bowsher, the report "could adversely affect GAO's ability to do its work on behalf of the Congress on mat ters requiring the handling of classified material and on its reputation for dealing : with "matters requiring cooperation with , the FBI." , I Stauich Rcagatt' supporter, Orrin ? Haichj (R-Utah), has launched an in :' vestigation to determine whether- spies"' have in fact penetrated the GAO. I am of. the opinion that if Scr. Hatch has his way. the GAO swill not escape without serious blemishes. ; ''f This one requires close watching. The ability of Congress to perform1 its wat cMos.'. fiiruMions must not be subverted by ; "J ' ' ' ' "v'is.in revealed in a more direct manner in a speech by Mrs. Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick on February 15. Charging that "by our stan dards", most of the world's governments are "bad governments", the U.S. am bassador to the United Nations added: "If we look at what happens in New York out in the Security Council and in the General Assembly, then I guess I believe it is a very dismal show. And what is worse, its effect, I think, is almost precisely the opposite of the intentions of the founders of the United Nations. . . .to assist in con flict resolution." . "What we find instead", she con tinued, Mis that conflicts, rather than be- ing resolved there, are in fact polarized, extended and exacerbated." What the U.N, ambassador was com plaining about, of course, is that most of America further into reaction, one bright spot did appear on the horizon recently. Meeting in Bal Harbour, Florida with other labor chiefs on Monday, February 15, Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO president, declared that V Americans must choose between guns and butter", and that the ' Reagan Administration's policy of plac ing "the whole defense burden on the backs of the poor" is no longer accep table. Kirkland stressed that organized labor's history of support for a strong defense "does not oblige us to support a defense budget that is unfairly financed", and an-. nounced that he is establishing a commit tee to evaluate defense spending proposals before Congress. i am hnivful that this trend continues within organized labor. This is just what ' the world does'not march in step with the? , the people need to give a big push to the TKAA Raised in Brunswick, CJa.. and educated in Tuskegee, she became equally famous as a pioneer in social work. As well as Jo Nursinai As a eraduai for kN J local Department of Health, in 1935. she neiped Dr. Winchester perfect a cure for malarial Married to Guy R. Trammell in IVJ7. she was one of the first two nurse- s ? mMuluA. 4 a. ' . S"'-7 w iraineq and used under V The Rosenwald Fnnrff Continental Features wori ivimisir.i!.!U anti ;ilei philosophy was Reagan Administration's foreign policy. In fact, on the same day that Mrs.j Kirkpatrick made her speech, a United Nations human rights official blasted the American position in El Salvador. Jose Antonio Pastor-Ridruejo, ithe U.N. Human Rights Commission's special representative of El Salvador, stated that political murders in El Salvador last year were about double the number the Reagan Administration cited in telling Congress the Salvadoran right wing junta, which , runs the country, had improved its human rights record. fMrs.J Kirkpatrick 's response to this, of course is that the government of El Salvador is "doing the best it can", and that the United States must prevent Com iv petting a "further ' '''erica-. .wccVx . ' U Reagan .'ul ,i " nation's c. j.ii. u:u aHcmpw to.pr.sh- battle against the dangerous military adventurism of' the Reagan Administra tion. .. L.E.AUSTIN Editor-Publisher 1927-1971 USPS 091-380 x PubHthtd ivary Thursday (dated Saturday) (wcapt tht week fotlwiflg Chriitmai) la PHrbam, M.C.by UnHed Publisher. htCDrporatadiaillnd addrtu: P.O. Boi 38t9. Durham, N.C. 27702-3825. OfflM . looted at 923 Old FayettavttM Street. 0urhanPN.C. : 27701. 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