Spring is a new
By NAOMI McLEAN
Chronicle Columnist
It is spring! Our lives can be filled with
new color, new beauty, displaying a
stamina that never gives up nor gives in. It
is the season of the year all nature sings a
song of beginning again. Everywhere
there is new growth taking place, new life
springing forth. This can be a time of
beginning again for us.
Sometimes in our personal lives, we
need a springtime, a beginning again time,
and now is a good time to commune with
nature. Flowers are forming, bright color
is beginning to show. Violets return in all
their loveliness, and dandelions return in
all their persistence. When we commune
with nature, we tend to forget the problems
that continually press upon us; and
it is well that we do.
Getting away now and then from the
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the black community is much further to
the left on the decisive issues (e.g., nuclear
arms proliferation and war spending vs. >
human needs spending) than the great majority
of whites, in both the middle class
and in the working class. The progressive
core of any prospective "Rainbow Coalition"
must of necessity be the Black
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other national minority groups.
One of the principal fronts in today's
anti-racist struggle is in electoral politics.
For historiucal reasons - the lack of a
parliamentary system, the winner-take-all
electoral districts, the absence of a labor
party ? these anti-racist campaigns are
taking place within the Democratic Party.
Perhaps more accurately, I would
characterize the Harold Washington campaign
last year as a black revolt against
the Democratic Party, but inside the party.
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before the age of 5. He would aid
developing nations to acquire safe drinking
water, airports and roads to take their
goods to,market and taust?<to provide,
shelter.
A Christian in the White House would
not tolerate the waste of the nation's
resources on a massive build-up of
weapons of destruction ? or their concentration
in the hands of a few.
He would not eliminate the social programs
that provide the minimal food and
shelter for those who are locked out of the
economy. He would ask why the infant
mortality rate in some U.S. cities is five
times higher for black babies than for
white babies; he would provide pre-natal
medical care so mothers would not have
to watch their babies die in the first year
of their lives. He would see the elderly,
crouched in their small, dark rooms,
slowly freezing to death or making their
homes under the bridges.
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commune with the great outdoors is a I
good thing. A change in our routine gives I
us new energy so we can meet our daily I
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spirits. Life is a mixture of give and take; I
there are good days and bad days, but we I
have to keep going in bad days as well as I
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Let us bless every sign of new growth, I
new life in our inner-world of thoughts. I
There is much more to life than the work I
by which we earn our livelihood. We need I
to look outside of ourselves. In the spr- I
ingtime of the year, when Earth again I
clothes herself in all the colors of the rain
bow, we do well to.make quiet times for
ourselves, times when we withdraw from
the daily pressure to think about the life
of nature around us. I
Let us thank God for the pow^r to
begin again.
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A vote for Harold Washington was a
protest against a police force which was
more than 85 percent white in a city that is
majority Latino and black. Black voters
opposed former Mayor Jane Byrne's gift
of $205 million to subsidize white real
estate developers; they opposed the firing
of half of the city's physicians seeing
adult patients, and the closing of "well
baby" clinics and publicly funded shelter
for battered women.
Corporate leaders didn't funnel $10
million to Jane,Byrne out of "civic charity."
They understood that the
Washington campaign was in essence an
anti-corporate movement, a workingclass
protest movement which created unprecedented
links across the color line in
that racially divided city.
Dr. Manning Marable teaches political
sociology at Colgate University in
Hamilton, N. Y.
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He would not force millions of
Americans into unemployment -- some of
them forever ? and would npt smash their
?, mnons ^nd t,Q r$mpye their hard-i ?
fought benefits ~ unemployment compensation,
safety regulations, social
security, etc.
Reagan was wrong when he claimed
that a moral decline in the U.S. ended
with his election in 1984. The truth is that
a tragic moral decline began with
Reagan's election ? a decline far more
serious than the street crime and "sexual
license" he refers to so piously.
The moral decline in this government
has brought an increasingly uncaring at
titude toward the poor, a racist attack on
minorities and relentless military intervention
throughout the world.
It is clear that there is no room for
Christ in the White House with its current
occupants still there.
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