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% WENSTOr * - m 4 * CHROl NDUBSI Pu CHARLES T. BYRD, JR. Business Editor i ^ ERNJEST Editor-1 Winston-Salem, N.C. .# ^ . *" Had Us Divi < e . ? Got WDi ROOfS, b>n\lexHaley, has done much to revitalize the almost forgotten kindred heritage of black people in this country, in this state, and in this city. If you don't believe that it has just listen to your friends, neighbors, relatives, business associates, and people in the street. As vividly portrayed in Roots, the "masters" had us running each other down for their pleasure back then. ftkVTTVT VI | HIV UIT lUlllg 1111^ 1UI -our people then was doing the masters bidding to survive verses , death or permanent maiming if a slave chose to exercise his right to be free. * As Kunta said, "Chains ain't right for a nigger. As indicated in the movie, the Piasters had no idea or refused to believe that blacks had their own culture, religion, and etren communication problems of their own. Those that did recognize that the black was as intelligent as he and capable of breaking his bonds took extra precautions to ensure that the slave remained a slave. As we have seen, Kunta refuses to be a slave mentally and does what he has to do, according to Fiddlers teachings, to survive until he can find a way to escape. Today, right here in good old Winston-Salem, blacks are still divided against themselves. We have heard with a growing consistency from various black 'groups, repeated attacks on other blacks. The line $if demarcation this itinje is class. Poor or grass roots blacks are saying that our black professional ^ middle class people have forgotten from whence thev came. A favorite line ist 4'They sit Up there with those little ties on behind those desks and do nothing to help us." Help you do what? Get to where they are is the logical answer. For black people in N-SALEM NICLE EGEMONYE bllsher ISAAC CARREE, II Advertising Manager H. PITT [n-Chief Saturday Jan. 29, 1977 ded Then... , ' ~ ^ vided Now . *' * -' thi^xountry there is really tto such thing as class. As Asner, Master Reynolds' foreman recalled, 4'I was a bond servant for seven years, but after seven years I was free. A black will always be black even when he dies. He will continue to be a slave/' We here can not afford the luxury of thinking that we have come so far as to think in terms of class. We are still the newest generation of people in ~the~world7 Yes, we have made gains by leaps and bounds from the life and times of * Kunta, but we are still divided against ourselves. Our less fortunate people must remember that our forefathers, once they were brought to this country, and realized there was no escape, survived so that s6me day some of us would be able to sit behind a desk and wear a tie. ^ " % For those - who fit that description, our forefathers also wanted those left behind to be remembered ind helped by you. You are in a position tor help. If you don't then you curse everything our people fought and died for._ Asner said keeping slaves on the plantation kept them from knowing which direction to take to escape. Taking tokens and refusing to open your eyes to wt-ong doings serves the same purpose. Let us have no more talk of class. We are one, we must be, because the "masters" will never love us. Just as the slavecatchers chopped off Kunta's foot to keep him from running, we have our pitfalls today as has been recently disclosed. Kunta, with a strong black woman's help, regained his spirit to try again. We can do no less than he to break the chains that bind us today. Believe this, the masters are still watching and waiting. f) % ^ * I-?m tiuj By Dr. I ?Human -Things tor us--and Prtesident-elect Carter-to remember Black Americans, as they watch the American involvement in liberation iiiuvciuciiis in /\irica, neea lo watch wttlr minute care the . actions of each succeeding American political Administration in the White House, whether Democratic or* Republican. ? * At the outset, since we shall concentrate on Republican Party "clouds" of late, we must not forget that both Democratic and Republican regimes cooperated with the Mafia in maintaining a repressive regime in Cuba and that an idealized Democratic president, through the Bay of Pigs affair, sought to restore the Cuban "old regime. " It was also a Democratic Administration which gave the greatest initial sup-' port to repressive regimes in South Korea and South Vietnam. What we say here, as a warning to blacks in America and throughout the world, is not partisan, alfVi Ail rtVt %* ./?/???* tmm mv/Mgn lilt' must I CCCII I events have been in a Republican Administration's hands. ? . As the nation listened to the presidential debates in a /* \ r ml M*s==? ~ WMftT?ME PRE.! lOvJP-S-t hlOT- I ' IXKWW Nathaniel Wrigl i Rights Activist San Francisco, there were at least three statements which blacks should have viewed as possible forewarnings as to what to expect, at least if the same policies as at this writing continue to be followed. One statement which received liftle public discussion was the observation * that the overwhelmingly largest portion of the "Food for the Hungry" aid had been sent under the Ford Administration to Chile. Lest we forget, the present Chilean fascist regime was placed in office primarily with the help of the C.I. A.--as Congressional committees have revealedand the death of Salvador Allende bore a striking resemblance to the death of Patrice Lumumba. C.I.A. "involvement/' in some way, has been documented in both instances But of the most immediate significance is the fact that the excuse lor t.i.A. involvement was the protection of American business interests. -Well, it is "American business interests" which have been the - greatest strength and support for the South African Vorster apartheid regime. And much, the , same case is true in Zimbabwe (or Rhodesia). The present fear throughout black Africa is ^hat, ? ILTPI6EX>? OF I ?|M PLT DO/ ^ | IVEKMNT It, Jr. ? a " : with America's primary involvement ' in the transfers to majority rule, there will still be minority economic control and American economic benefits that still are spread inequitably among Americans as a Whole. Again, Mr. FordFsought, by an outright mis-statement-which was denied by the straight-forward Elliot Richardson, Secretary of Commerce the next day-to 0 cover up the federal governments protection of American business interests which discriminated against Israel. This suggests several things. One is that our national-government has not been beyond the dual blackmail by foreign governments and our one-side American business interests. The interests of human liberation have not been of the same high priority as economic and "diplomatic" considerations. D 1 r% Lr A ?I /* #* ?. ?. ?-l J uiaw iv /\iiicnwdll& MIUU1U be - wary, then, of any dealings of our government _where human rights are concerned. This suggests that the greatest form of loyalty as Americans to be vigilant in our concern that we do not forsake the principles of human liberty which at least originally, were at the heart of the American Creecr^s expressed in our public documents.
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