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ERNEST H. PITT,
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Know thy enemies
If public figures really are known by the company they
keep, it stands to reason that they're judged by enemies
they keep, as well.
That being so, you could easily believe Walter Mondale
to be a knight in shining armor, pure in every thought and
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Johannesburg's Sunday Times, for example, recently
noted that 44South Africa will watch the White House race
: with interest, for candidate Mondale is a known and littleloved
quantity.
44 As Jimmy Carter's Vice-President, he helped forge four
years of sterility in Southern Africa. In 1977, his efforts to
prescribe a majority-rule formula to then-Prime Minister
John Vorster unleashed a wave of White indignation that
swept the Government to its biggest electoral victory.
44The 1984 Mondale is no more temperate, and if, by
some remote chance he becomes the next tenant of the
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wnue nouse, ne would undoubtedly return us to that
unhelpful era of hostility."
Another appraisal of the Democratic presidential
nominee in Pretoria's Afrikaans-language daily, Die
Transvaler, was no kinder.
44 If the Democrats win on November 6," its editorial columns
declared. 4'South Africa will have a rough time in its
relations with Washington. The present policy of constructive
engagement will be a thing of the past, investment in
South Africa will be forbidden and there will be trade
boycotts."
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in someimng 01 a Dackhanded compliment, the
newspaper insisted, "Only Jesse Jackson, with his special
hatred of this country, could be worse for it than Walter
Mondale."
The Pretoria News echoed that assessment, stating, "The
Mondale-Ferraro show has hit the road amid the usual
ballyhoo and armed with a set of policies which bode ill for
South Africa ? and indeed Southern Africa -- if this pair is
ever allowed to implement them .... Having satisfied the
feminists, the Democrats felt they had to do something for
Blacks, and reportedly allowed Mr. Jesse Jackson to write
their Southern Africa policy."
Another Afrikaans-language newspaper, the Beeld of
Johannesburg, examined the American presidential campaign
from a slightly different perspective -- how well South
Africa had been treated by President Reagan.
"South Africa knows what it has in the Reagan administration's
policy of constructive engagement," it
stated. "While we should be under no illusions that this
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least it does benefit us. For what the Reagan administration
regards as its interest in Southern Africa coincides
remarkably with what the South African Government in
turn considers to be its own best interests.
"While South Africa is not exactly in fear and trembling
at the prospect of a Democrat president," the editorial continued,
"a new term for President Reagan would be
preferable all round. At this stage all indications are that
what is in our interest is evidently what most Americans
regard as being in theirs too."
This we strongly doubt, but a Reagan victory in
November undeniably would be perceived as such
throughout the world, with detrimental effects upon our
relations with much worthier friends.
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From The Michigan Chronicle.
The present administration's dedication to bringing affirmative
action and equal employment opportunity into line
with what white America wants it to be received the sanction
of the U.S. Supreme Court recently in what could
become one of the most controversial decisions in the nation'^
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When the court, with Justice Byron White writing the
majority opinion, ruled that seniority outranked racial
balance in public employment, it sent consternation
throughout the ranks of black leadership who knew that
such a decision was in the making.
Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young, one of the leading
proponents of bringing racial balance into the municipal
personnel system, expressed the views of many of his colleagues
in this battle for equal opportunity when he told a
local judge that "society is responsible for providing equal
opportunities and, failing that, for providing affirmative
action. A society that allows slavery can't escape paying.
T here is no such thing as a free lunch."
NAACP executive director Benjamin Hooks expressed
the same point of view, that in order to achieve long overdue
equity in the system, someone had to suffer.
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By CLIFTON GRAVES
Chronicle Columnist
Dear Sister Vanessa:
I, like millions of your fans
across this country, am
dismayed and disappointed
over the recent events surroun
ding your relinquishing of the
Miss America crown.
But, unlike some, my disappointment
stems not from
what you did as much as your
naivete in believing that the
photographer would not eventually
exploit the situation!
Now, to be sure, you had no
way of knowing that one year
after the photographs were
taken, you would be selected
as the first black Miss
America.
To be sure, one can attribute
your willingness to
pose in those nude and lewd
positions to adventuresome
youth and daring.
But Vanessa, baby, this is
America, the land where
economics for the greedy take
precedence over politics for
the needy! The land where
money talks and bull manure
walks! The land where folks
would step on their mama's
back for a dollar!
Yes, we understand that the
Miss America Pageant is at
once a farce and hypocritical.
Yes, we empathize with your
parents, family and friends as
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By TONY BROWN
Syndicated Columnist
ST ARKVILLE, Miss. The
political fortunes of Jesse
Jackson continue on their
precarious course. On the
same day, he was dealt a double
blow: one by his party's
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Minister Louis Farrakhan
moved the black agenda back
to the front burner in
Democratic politics and proved
that Jesse Jackson's rebuke
of his support has not dimmed
his status as a media star.
He also laid claim to the nationalist
segment of Jackson's
constituency as perhaps
America's first street-corner
power-broker by exploiting
Jackson's inability to
capitalize on the wave of black
frustration and anger that propelled
him into power and
political prominence. Meanwhile,
Walter Mondale says
that he does not want Jackson
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they cope with this traumatizing
experience.
Yet, unfortunate as this
situation is, Vanessa, it is
perhaps better that it happened
now than later. It is perhaps
better that you -- an intelligent,
talented, beautiful,
but sheltered woman -* learned
the lesson of American greed
and exploitation now, so that
you can be prepared for its pitfalls
and traps in the future.
Moreover, it is perhaps fitting
? and further underscores
the irony here -- that
America's first black Miss
America relinquishes her
crown to America's second
black Miss America. Fitting,
because whether or not the
photographs ever were
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as a power-broker for black
people.
Farrakhan, despite Jewish
protests and extreme security
measures, packed
Washington's prestigious National
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out crowd and jammed-tocapacity
press galleries heard
Farrakhan repeat his previous
assults on Israel, Zionism and
alleged Jewish dominance in
American politics. That part
of his speech was predictable.
But his "Poor Jesse, poor
Jesse" litany accused Mondale
of exploiting black voters and
portrayed Jackson as a
pathetic victim. "...You
prevailed upon my brother to
repudiate me on the basis of
your lies. You frightened his
staff to urge this upon him or
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black Miss America in our
lifetime. And just think, in
one year, we've had two!
Certainly, sister, you will be
subjected to ridicule and embarrassment
for some time to
come. The ridicule may be unwarranted,
but the embarrassment
is well-deserved. (I saw
But, irrespective of your
mistake or naivete, Vanessa,
your experience - just like
those of brothers Jesse
Jackson and Louis Farrakhan
- has demonstrated that the
twin evils of American greed
and racism are ever with us.
Sorry you had to learn the
hard way. Sorry that your
dainty, suburban image had to
be tarnished. Learn well the
lesson of this humiliating
episode in your yet young life.
Go out and turn this stumbling
block into a stepping stone.
Go out and make all the
money off of this exposure
and notoriety that can be
made. Exploit America as
America has exploited you!
But, sister, do not forget. ,
who you are and where you
came from, because black
America won't and white
America never will ...
Stay strong, keep the faith
and keep your clothes on.
Your brother,
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you threatened you would not
let him speak at the convention.
"You forced him to
apologize to people whom he
owes no apology. Your
mistreated him and ... left him
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and those whom he represents
out in the cold waiting for a
signal that they may enthusiastically
work for the
Democratic ticket."
Jackson's expected presence
as a head-table guest of Farrakhan
helped create an interest
in the event. Farrakhan
explained his absence by saying
Jackson was officiating at
Aretna franklin s tatner's
funeral. Jackson's secretary
said, according to press
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Letters
Risking a life
for NAACP
To The Editor:
As I opened the door of the
NAACP office on July 25,
Ann Simmons met me on her
way out. She said she had just
been told over the phone that
there was a bomb (inside). She
called the police.
While we waited, Ann, still
shaking with fear, said Pat
(Hairston, Winston-Salem's
NAACP-president), would be
- : :::uips t- t hat? she caifc?d~the
police.
When Pat arrived, he told
me that he had already had
many death threats, one at
3:30 in the morning. He
hadn't bothered to report
them.
The purpose of that
Wednesday evening meeting
was the boycott. Some may
doubt the bovcott. Pat
Hairston does not. Some people
are not willing to risk a
dollar for what they believe in.
Pat Hairston is willing to risk
his life for what he believes in.
I'm proud to call him my
friend.
F. Mickey Andrews
Winston-Salem
Are we safer now?
To The Editor:
As a student at the N.C.
Governor's School and a
future voting citizen of the
United States, I would like to
say that I am concerned by the
current trend of conservatism
in this country.
Many vital social programs
have already been cut in the
name of national defense, yet
are we really safer than we
were four years ago? Civil
rights have been set back considerably.
In the four years
since the conservatives came
into power, the Supreme
Court has ruled that
emnlovers mav not hp fnrrpH
to protect affirmative action,
citizens have no legal right to
sue the government over alleged
lax enforcement of a policy
banning federal tax breaks to
racially discriminatory
schools, and state officials
cannot be sued in federal court
on the allegations of state civil
right violations.
If the conservatives remain
in power through the 1984
elections, President Reagan
will have three annnintmpntc
to the Supreme Court, a move
that can be viewed as potentially
threatening to all
minorities. In a recent survey
at the Governor's School, 78
percent of the students polled
disagreed with affirmative action,
with 75 percent of them
catting* - 'reverse lion.
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Men such as Martin Luther
King Jr. and Robert Kennedy
have been labeled "Communist"
by the conservative
element and the Voting Rights
Act had a relatively tough time
being passed in. the
conservative-controlled
Senate. Many conservatives
have labeled liberalism as a
"faulty, knee-jerking doc
trine." It was this faulty doctrine
that got our country out
of the Depression and allows
everyone ? blacks, women,
Hispanics - to aspire to
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