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ISAAC CARREE, II
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
All Talk City
officials have been
feverishly presenting statistics
to show that the hiring of black
and women is not as bad as we
all know it is. The meeting
with the black ministers
Tuesday was at best a farce.
City officials said no more
then than was reported in
numerous newspaper stories.
Therein lies the problem: all
talk and no action.
EvervhoHv Irnnwc how
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simple it is to play with
statistics. In the meantime,
the city is doing nothing to
change whaLa^report recently
said made Winston-Salem one
of the most racist cities in the
country.
The goal of the city seems
to be'to hire 19.1 per cent
black by 1980. Will that
percentage continue to be the
same? That assumes that the
work force in the city will not
"increase, which in all
probability it will. So the city
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ucimiu even oeiore 11 siaris.
The city's task is no easy
Muriners Ai
With all of the emphasis
today being placed on higher
Education, and with the
colleges and universities
supposedly teaching young
men and women how to be the
leaders of tomorrow's world,
there are a couple of things
that might have been
overlooked.
Manners and politeness.
If no mistake, those two
words still exist in today's
dictionary.
At a recent concert '.held on
the campus of Winston-Salem
State University, students
took the word "intermission"
for granted.
To some, that word meant
going outside the auditorium
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SATURDAY MARCH 13. 1976
iVo Action
one. It is going to take some
conscientious effort to right a
wrong that has been long in
the making.. It will also take a
confession on the part of the
city that it is wrong and here is
what we are going to do to
change it. There is no time for
playing statistical games and
attempting to justify the
situation.
It is simply wrong that no
more than three blacks hold
top jobs when there are 42
available; no matter how you
look at it. We are not
suggesting, however, that
blacks be given jobs for jobs
sake. ~ Blacks and womeir
should have meaningful jobs
where important decisionmaking
takes place. It is
simply not true that only white
males can hold important
jobs.
We know there are noble
men in city government and
that they will make every
effort to straighten out this
crooked line.
til Foliteness ?
for an indefinite period of
time.- -?*?
Before they could come in,
the artist had begun his
concert. Now, instead of the
students coming in quietly,
doors could be heard closing,
people constantly talking..all
this distracting others from
hearing the concert.
If the only reasons students
are going to the concert series
_ _
is occaose 01 ineir musical
curriculum, then something
should be done about It.
Another sad thing is. why
should WSSU's Lyceum Series
always suffer?
Since Winston-Salem likes
to boast being a very "liberal"
and "artsy" city, where were
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Racism, called by some,
"the American disease," has
slackened since its glory days
years ago, but it is still with us
and still represents a major
public health problem.
The infection of racism has
been generally contained over
the past decade but signs of a
resurgence are unsettling.
While many white Americans
may be content to think it is a
thing of the past, the truth is
that racism is still alive and ,
wefL
It stuck in its sickest form
around New Year's when a
home owned by a respectable,
. hard working black family was
dynamited in a previously
all-white neighborhood its
Queens.
It struck in its currently
accepted form when Boston's
School Committee, defying a
contempt of court citation,
refused to submit a desegregation
plan for the city's
troubled schools.
And it struck in its most
hidden form the accumulated
hurts and pain of a black
lifetime - when a Chicago
police detective died of a heart
attack, leaving behind a letter
revealing the toll prejudice
and discrimination took.
"Mine is a wasted life, -he
wrote, "full of degradation,
muted feelings and not
belonging. This is one hell of a
world for a black man."
It is instructive that
racism's victims in these
instances -- an innocent black
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family, black school children,
and a lone black man ? all '
lived in the North, in cities
that were vocal in their
support for black civil rights in
the South.
Doubtless, instances of
racism could be drawn from
the South, perhaps even more.
But that would only prove that
racism, that peculiarly national
disease, is an infection
that's spread across the length
and breadth of this land.
The stupid thing about it is
that th# viofimc tiafoo
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and hated, alike. Psychologists
could probably explain
the twisted mental medianit
isms that result in racism, but
the social costs of that
behavior are plain for all to
see.
Boston is a good example of.
this. White parents are
tearing up their town; just to
prevent busing that will
integrate the schools. They
can't even claim they want to
preserve the excellence of
their school system because, if
anything, the schools of
Boston's white ghetto are
even worse than those in
Roxbury.
If nothing else, integration
could break down the
defensive barriers of white
and black school kids alike and
better prepare them for oui
multi-racial world. At best, it
could galvanize white and
black parents to so after the
SATURDAY MARCH 13. 1976
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MEBODT
PPR6VE or
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real enemy ? the forces thai
keep the city's schools inferiot
for all.
The anti-busing hysteria
has provided a convenient
cover for overt racism
feelings. In Boston, the fact
are very clear: the all-white
School Committee has persistently
and consciously maintained
a segregated school
system, they have done so in
defiance of the law of their
State and their country, and
they have persisted in this in
the face of court orders to
remedy the situation. '
Desegration in Boston has
been made more difficult by
the failure to comply with the
law and by failure to prepare
parents and school officials for
the change. Desegregation
has worked elsewhere ? even
in the most segregation-ridden
Deep South towns - and
there is no reason why mob
rule should prevent it from
working m Boston.
What's needed in Boston
and in the nation is firm
leadership. That's why I've
urged President Ford to take
the occasion of his State of the
Union address to speak out
*k>ud and clear against racism
ancf for the integrated,
pluralistic open society that
should be our number one
national goal.
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