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Page 4 - The Chronicle, Thursday, Februi ' Wins to Sm Ndubisi Nrmb?i North Carolina Black Publisher Assoc iation " Munu As Ait Itrttt Offu TheNAACi ~~?-= What Pci. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People turned 73 this year. The venerable warrior for civil rights continues to wage an often quiet battle for social justice, a battle which becomes more urgent with each new day of the Reagan presidency. "The effects of Reagonomics," says NAACP Regional Director Earl T. Shinhoster, "and the potential conse quences of the New Federalism will re?^ quire increased effort and cooperation at the grassroots level. Citizen participation in civic, economic and social affairs is as necessary today as in any period of national emergenoy." Participation. That's a key word. However, local NAACP President Pat Hairston says that participation among black folk in the NAACP nanowhere near where it ought to be. While only 4,000 Winston-Salem residents were dues-paying NAACP members last year, Hairston says an even more paltry 450,000 black people are members nationwide. Hairston's membership coal this vmt , w J I for a campaign which began Feb; 14, is 10,000, more than double the size of The Assaults R We reported in the fall that some peculiar force was motivating white students?mostly males?to beat up black students?-mostly females-at. the University of North Carolina at Chapel LJ'iFr * 'r"* > - ' **' nllwE/iMn We reported also that black students at colleges in the Triad were neither surprised that the incidents occurred, nor convinced that the same kinds of ? foolishness couldn't happen to them. We, moreover, editorialized that the " events were nothing new in Chapel Hill, even with its facade of liberality and tranquility. It is, however, troubling that so many such incidents seem to be happening nationwide and with the type of brashness reminiscent nf thp lim nr^,., - ... ..... ...... v-mw era. It appears that the wave of conservatism that has swept the country has created the notion among whites that overt racism is again "chic." The early 80s seem to have brought with them a certain smugness among racists and perhaps the belief that you can abuse Chronicle Letters Maya Shouldn To The Editor: she could h herself wi In response to your newspapers an "Welcome Home, Maya"' tides and hac editorial in the Feb. 11 dicated as Ton Chronicle, I find erroneous Vernon Jordar judgment. I disagree Last month wholeheartedly with your guest on evaluation of Maya Magazine," a Angelou's return to the program. She South. How can you her travels abr welcome her back to where son, who is nov she considers home when analyst and tl she went elsewhere to make treatment they her fame? One of black hotels. Very people's major problems as mentioned rac a race is we do not place South. She kno sanctions on persons, is not "volup especially those who can be suous and pas role models or those who she eloquently voice opinions. ?~ -Shecould, have rrr^rr^r M* A *&&- aid tk to what I have read and unhealthy rac heard, was born in the that the people South and lived most of her and white, becc childhood here. She should unhealthy wti have stayed in the area, or realize it or n at least maintained a home she talks aboi here, fought racism and ex- beauty in the S< celled as a writer below the tempts to manij: Mason Dixon line. Even tellectual segm though she lefP^home," white nopula t o try 18, 1982 n-Salem Ctyro founded 1974 Egemonye Ernest H. Pitt bounder tdiior Publisher Johnson Robert Elter" lging Editor Sports Editor ie L. Pitt - ^ ^NCRfc 4 \e Manager N.C. PNM AmocUMOD > :e Freedom ? <9 the organization now but not really a whole lot when you consider that 50,000 black folk call Winston home. Hairston says he also needs volunteers to work on the executive committee, especially youth. "All they have to do is call the office," he told us last week. "Anybody can qualify." Although we printed the membership fees in last week's edition, we'll print them again for (I) those of you who missed tnem and (2) those of you who? need to have important facts drilled over and over into your heads before you act. The yearly fee is $10, $15 and $25, depending upon which you decide you want to pay. A lifetime membership costs $500 and can be paid in yearly installments of $50. Some?of you may recall that last year's minimum fee was $5, and that this year's minimum is double that. Well, inflation hits everybody, including the NAACP, which Tights many of its struggles in court. If you don't think that's expensive, try hiring a lawyer. Besides,-says Hairston, "What price freedom?" ' e visited black people physically and have nothing to fear but mild reaction on the part of the legal system. Students, for instance, questioned" the slowness and lack of ?sevct&y^fii^^ employed in handling the incidents there. Indeed, Cecilia Walker, a black woman who was assaulted in a gym class, said that Doth the campus police at UNC and the Chapel Hill police seemed reluctant to? act on the situation^ ? Only after going from one agency to the other, then back to the first, did Walker finally secure a warrant for her assailant's arrest. More significantly, these weren't poorly educated Nazis or Klansmen intelligent, middle-class college students. It such events have occurred with some regularity in an educational setting-which theoretically trains future leaders, what in the world is ir store for us? 't Have Left j ave aligned Maya Angelou is here ahd t h black apparently plans to reap the d written ar- rewards from other i them syn- people's struggles. . y Brown and Now she returns "home" after reaching a certain s c was a status t^at enables her to Hour jjve a certajn lifestyle and daily talk says s^c wjf| "join a church emphasized an(j adcj my encrgy to the oad with her poSjtjvc movement..." v a personnel hie pompous You incense me when you received ^t welcome her back and so vaguely she warmly at that. You could :ism in the bavc said we are glad you ws the South "ow see the light, Maya, >tuous, sen- but y?u cho!* to glorify her sionate " as wbcn the Chronicle always describes it. states and discusses fairly ? and fllllv iccn^< that I.UVMUL UUtl^ai, ' ~'V .CFVFWWJ V.V/II -Souths Jbiaiu:5!E?B cjv-rur *, ^ .. c relations. If you will, please address , both black the issue of many black me mentally people who leave "home" rether they and return in the tatref ot. Instead, years of life, it love and Duth and at>ulate the inent of the Lelia Dolby tion. Yes, Winston-Salem s ^ / f | >:? ^ ?Good : ? ?t Did Too Much Tr Africa, the second largest Africans were the first continent, is an area of builders of civilization in 12,000,000 square miles in Africa, the cradle of world size. It is comprised of 53 civilization. They independent countries, and discovered mathematics, inpopulated by over vented writing, developed 350,000,000 inhabitants who speak over 3,000 TONY BROWN COMN languages and dialects. Although concentrated primarily on the African 1 vJI^I if continent itself, African wi"w>XXS~i~T1 sons and daughters and UsmxJX^rl their descendants are dispersed over the planet --a scattering that is commonly sciences, ertgineering, referred to as the African medicine, religion, fine Diaspora. For centuries, arts, and built the great and wherever the journey pyramids, an architectural led, blacks have found achievement which still bafthemselves, almost without ftes mpdsrn science. . exception, at the bottom of If life truly began in the economic and social best order, struggling at odds evidence indicates that it against man and nature for did, then blacks, by the very survival. nature of that fact, share' ABouquepQf Gt When # one reflects upon (Atlanta), Tom Bradley the numerous''politicians" (Los Angeles), Marion in African-American Berry (Washington), history who-made or are Richard Hatcher (Gary) making an impact on the and Kenneth Gibson way we live today, names (Newark); and State - like Blanche K. Bruce (the Representatives Willie first Black U.S. Senator), or George White (North Carolina's first black Congressman) perhaps come to . | p | f|p mind. Other notables might include former U.S. (jR A\/F.r Senator Edward Brooke (Mass.); Congresspersons William Dawson (111.), Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Brown (California) and i (N.Y.), Shirley Chisholm Julian Bond (Georgia). i (N.Y.), Barbara Jordan While most of the < (Texas), ParreH Mitchell aforementioned, and I (Md.), and Ron Dcllums _ countless of their collegues I (Calif.); Mayors Carl at the national, state and < Stokes (Cleveland), local levels, are worthy of ] Maynard Jackson some recognition for their i # Common Sense 7 WASHINGTON-- government has a require- j Education Secretary Terrel ment that all schools receiv- I Bell is the kind of official ing federal financial < you think you'd be if you assistance have to file i were crazy enough to go into assurance of compliance | government service: un- with the civil-rights law, t pretentious, unambitious, which can mean Anything I unstuffy and unwilling to let common sense take a back seat to bureacratic WILLIAl He is also the sort of of- TJ A QPPCP ficial you'd probably turn DEiMm out to be: frustrated when ^? common sense turns out to be arc tmreliaMe rimination to t m a k i ng "pof iev~ making si hi ?r Take the obscure little case cessible to wheelchairs. r\f Oiti' ut lJ^.11 M-l"- 1 w. vj.wtv viy v>. utn, muw new s predecessors insisted v In ihe Third U.S. c ircuit "That Grove City file the ~ Court of Appeals. Grove assurance. t City is a small, private col- Grove City decided that it t lege in .Pennsylvania, would prefer to forgo a whose quaint notion is that federal aid, and did so. No a it wants to be left free of good. Some of its students c federal control. The receive federal grants or d. ^ tr c # % f ' grief, George! You bugged he Oval Office, too?" ust L^ause Africs kinship with every human 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D." I being that ever lived. How, published by Third World then, did they become so Press and written by Black < exploited, oppressed, hated historian Dr. Chancellor t and despised? * Williams. c Moreover, if Africans If most white scholarship c on Africa is to be believed, s 4ENTS m early Africans were primitive savages with no / notable past. Being innately t r^W inferior, they slept though v 7^ ML J the millenia, built no g monuments and developed c no worthwhile civilizations, c The facts, however, tell t built the first civilization, quite a different story. v discovered science, Williams explains that ear- ii mathematics and developed |y Africans excelled in many * h writing, how did they fall areas. They were builders in V from grace and end up on every sense of an advanced t< the bottom? For the answer civilization; scientists, to this question you must mathematicians, A read the ph^noj&Cjnal J?ook . astronomers, engineers, ar- h ? "The Destruction Of chitects, inventors and so b Black Civilization: Great on. Their greatness flowed b Issues Of A Race From from their superior ability latitude To Russei individual' and collective those who preceded him to 1c contributions to Afro- the aldermanic board (e.g. gi American political pro- the Rev. Kenneth Williams, o gress, none are more deser- the first black elected in the a ving of our respect than our 1950 s), and many who sue- d own Carl Russell Jr. cccdcd him,?few in that?p Mr. Russell served this number can match the com- a mitment and dedication to b Hthe betterment of our peo- c< pie that Mr. Russell ex- c emplifies. ] His ability to play "hard- p ball" politics was reknown. d; His concern for the young, r the elderly and the disad- cl vantaged was unique cl community for many years among his peers. His views ji as a member of the Board on black empowerment ti of Aldermen and continues were clearly ahead of his k to serve us as a prominent time. . 01 businessman Mr. Russell served on the h (founder/director of Winston-Salem Board of p< Russell's Funeral Home). Aldermen longer than any bi And though there were black in historv AnH akes A Back Seat guaranteed loans--even me under all these rules and qi though the money goes requirements and that di directly to the students and therefore I'm involved in 1 lot, as more typically hap- the necessity of installing rn lens, to the school?and elevator shafts and enforc- ca hat, say government ing the dress-code regulaawyers, mak'cs ihem subject tions and doing all the cc federal reporting that can R easily run to di $50,000-560,000 a year." gc Moreover, he notes, Grove ex - - - - ^ v. iiy nas not neen accused ev of violating anyone's civil cc ^rights-only failure to file / assurances that it will not co 0 th?=^:COmpliancc re- do so. Absent a complaint, be luiirmcwH."?* "" BFtTrcmiId rfr Terrel Bell's recourse in peace. Common sense. Be vould be to common sense: But there's another side of 44t Tin inclined To believe ffie coin. If you tcavc Grove ?ne hat the Congress didn't in- City alone, on^he basis that aic end to say that the fact that it gers no direct governrrjen- "I 1 student who is recipient ol t a I aid, what do you do tic i guaranteed student loan about openly segregationist ev omcs to my campus, if I'm .. institutions that decide to ter he college president, bringv>-circumvent civil-rights re+ f i 1 ?* |P|pg L Al mas SYMMCATS ' Woes? o produce -- out-produce -the competition with mough surplus beyond heir needs to be able to rngage in international rommerce and structure a ound economy. For eons the resources of \frica have been a magnet' hat has attracted the entire vorld. And since man's ;reed has always taken >recedence over all humane onsiderations, Africa has >een plundered by the vorld for her human wealth n the form of slaves, and ler art and artifacts which Vestern artist have attemped to copy._ The fatal flaw of many ifro-Americans, ironically, as been 'the' fyct^'fcftafi' elieving so strongly in rotherhood, they were r n r Jtrt? rage J 7 mgevity (i.e. the ability to et re-elected) is the lifeline f politicians-indicating to large degree public aproval of one's erf or ma nee?that factor lone is an inadequate arometer to measure the Dntributions of one like arl Russell. For, when it was unopular, indeed even angerous to do so, Mr. ussell- fought within the lambers of City Hall, and lampioned the caus^ of istice for his black constilents. Surely, he must have nown that such utspokenness would cost i m ~ I 1 mi i tK.u5iniTuii, ana erhaps even hurt his usiness. Yet, he persisted, See Page 5 Here uirements by forgoing rect federal aid? 3erhaps surprisingly for a ember of the Reagan ibinet, Bell responds: 4If the school was not >mp!ying with the Civil ights Act, .if it was' crriminuhnn xv. luuiiiigt iiitu, vy >lly, I would not want to cuse anybody. I'd want eryone covered who )uld be covered." ^s so frequently happens, rnmon sense turns out to art unreliable guide. Irr r"CQujgg rll resents the notion thai he student is'just the fun1 through which you send i to an institution" and ar-out" legal interpretarns that try to drag erybody under the federal it. But in the case of Bob See Page 5 * , '
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