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Developing the
right attitude
By Naomi McLean
Chronicle Columnist
. True wisdom is the possession of men and women who
oruig mio narmony tnat inner voice, where the best that
is in them lies.
Everyone is writing a book in which he is recording
day-by-day experiences. Of course, there are plenty of
black spots in the book, and there are also "true bits"
that give genuine value to our lives. Whatever bit of a
person's work is honestly and benevolently done, that bit
Is his book. It may be mixed with evil fragments and with
Ill-done, redundant, affected work, but if you read rightly,
you will discover the true bits.
It is a fact that an inner sense and contentment contributes
in the most practical way to finding happiness
and satisfaction in our work.
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or shifts, but with a will and what is not worth this effort
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is done determines the results.
It may seem strange, but there is one thing of particular
note and that is people who keep busy at useful work,
worry the least. Life has always been unpredictable. We
cannot know what the wheel of fortune will bring us. The
important thing is to develop and maintain right-thinking
attitudes - sane attitudes --in the face of the events that
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We broaden our horizon and add another dimension to
our lives when we engage in work "for our delight." It
helps to expand our vision and stress the intangibles and
straightforwardness, believing in a happy blend of
realism and idealism.
True work involves the attitude of service and the person
who gives service also receives the rewards of that service
and the better service he gives, the greater will be his
reward.
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Challenge those who preach that you should love your
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. hungry and naked in their own neighborhoods.
Challenge those whose ignorance and myopia attempt
to dissuade you from supporting Jesse Jackson's historic
and significant presidential bid.
Challenge those who distort our great history and who
would have you believe that Africa was, is and always
will be a "jungle wasteland" or "Tarzan's playground."
Challenge the hypocrisy of a judicial system which
now, more than ever, dispenses justice on the basis of
one's race or the size of one's bank account.
Challenge the greediness of a medical profession which
apparently is more concerned with stock certificates than
birth certificates, more attuned to the pulse of Dow Jones
than that of Mrs. Jones,
Challenge corporate America to open its collective
door, if it wants our collective dollar.
Challenge your mamas, daddies, sisters and brothers to
patronize black-owned businesses.
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Whether one realizes it or not, this is a subtle way of
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stating tnat most memoers 01 me American society arc
racist.
They are expected to react on the basis of race.
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worship racially, study racially, play racially and
anything else which transpires is done against a
background of racism.
This is just as normal as apple pie and motherhood,
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The political philosophy behind this reactionary
assault on civil rights is Reaganism - a vicious, cruel and,
in the end, criminal distortion of the social reality ol
American racism. Its apologizes come in all races and ir
both genders. The Reaganite staff director of the Civi
Rights Commission, Linda Chavez, argues tnat mgr
unemployment rates, the gross disparities of income bet
..ween national minorities and whites, and the continuec
existence of the ghetto have nothing directly to do with
racism. Chavez also opposes "comparable worth," th<
proposal that individuals should be paid equal salaries
for jobs which require comparable educational re
quirements and technical skills.
Reaganite Commissioner John H. Bunzel, a Democrat
is even more crude in his shoddy attempt to blame the vie
tim. Bunzel states, "It is a gross oversimplification t<
suggest that racism and discrimination are still the roo
cause of income and educational inequality. Does anyom
really believe that the special ills which still trap the blacl
underclass in poverty and failure can be blamed solely 01
discrimination?"
The NAACP argues cogently that this new Civil Right
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Samuel R. Fierce Jr. and Mrs. Vera White, principal
df the Jefferson Junior High School in Southwest
Washington, D.C., look on as students Darryl
Brewer and Warren Tildon try their hand at
operating a computer loaned to the school by
Pierce's department. The school has officially been
adopted as part of the president's "Partnership in
Education Program," where HUD employees have
volunteered to help In a number of ways.
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Challenge an entertainment industry which gives you
clowns, buffoons and freaks in black-face on a daily
basis.
Challenge a sports industry which continually exploits
our sons and brothers on the courts and fields, and still
refuses to hire sufficient numbers of African-American
coaches and managers.
Challenge "black-on-black" crime and police brutality.
They aren't mutually exclusive.
Yes, challenge and confront untruth and injustice.
Challenge and confront hypocrisy and the hypocrites.
Challenge and confront the lies and the liars.
Challenge, confront, probe, ponder, and then act.
For your community, your nation, your world awaits
you. As Maya said,"Commencement Class of 1984, commence."
May God bless, keep, inspire and give you all the
courage you can muster. You most certainly will neecfit7
Amen.
1 Clifton Graves is affirmative action officer at WinstonSalem
State University.
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and there is nothing wrong with it. It is human nature,
s As long as we allow ourselves to think this way, our
society will not improve racially in any significant way.
We will always find excuses instead of seeking correction
and change.
need that^weakness in order to fect^trong. "
Maybe we are not as great as we thought we were, and
racism helps pacify our true feelings.
Maybe racism is the opiate of the American society.
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mission. Within the commission, however, a small
1 minority still preserves the original integrity and vision of
i the old commission.
In the battle against racism, Mary Frances Berry has
1 become the new political conscience of the civil rights
j tradition. As Berry states: "The Civil Rights Commission
; has become a twin of the civil rights divisions of the
5 Justice Department, and the bank of justice, as Martin
- Luther King used to say, is now bankrupt. The commission
is no longer the conscience of America on civil
, rights. I despair for women and minorities in this coun
try."
3 Along with Berry, we must commit ourselves to an unt
conditional struggle to restore a truly independent come
mission, free from the hypocrisy and hatred which th<
t Reaganites have used to combat the principles of justice
fi and equality.
Dr. Manning Marable teaches political sociology a\
s Colgate University in Hamilton, /V. Y.
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Summer Computer Literacy Camp
The Mathematics/Computer Science Department
of Winston-Salem State University is again presenting
Computer Literacy Camps for Students in
grades 4 through 10. Students attending these
camps will learn BASICa programming on the Apple
lie Microcomputer, and also tennis, art, music and
swimming. Returning campers will be working at a
more advanced level than beginnersL_ :
Each camp session is on a first come first served
basis and will be limited to 34 students! For further
information call Dr. Virginia Newell, Chairperson,
Mathematics/Computer Science, Winston-Salem
State University at 761-2153 or 761-2154.
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