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Winston-Salem Chronicle
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one education senator. He says he wants to make education
the federal government's top priority.
At the same time, he admits these are long range objectives.
Gov. Hunt's number one priority, should he become
North Carolina's freshman senator, is to help the government
reduce, maybe even .erase, the huge federal budget
deficits.
Gov. Hunt wants North Carolinians to vote for that
basic agenda November 6 in his effort to unseat incumbent
senator Jesse Helms.
Questioned last week by a team of award-winning
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newspapers, Gov. Hunt laid that agenda out in clear,
precise terms.
The publishers of these four newspapers ? the
Winston-Salem Chronicle, 77te Carolina Times, the Iredell
County News and the Carolina Peacemaker ? invited the
governor to come before North Carolina's black press and
answer a series of hardhitting questions on issues ranging
from the Black Agenda to Economic Development.
The publishers also invited Sen. Helms to the session for
the same purpose. Sen. Helms did not reply to the invitation.
This, of course, raises serious questions about Sen.
Helms' willingness to represent all of North Carolina's
citizens.
But Gov. Hunt came and the three-tier foundation of
his senatorial bid, as he outlined it, is to reduce the
deficits, balance the budget and make America the world's
best educated nation.
Specifically, Gov. Hunt's educational agenda as U.S.
Senator from North Carolina looks like this:
He supports a moderate increase in federal education
spending in math and science programs to attract more
young students to those fields earlier in their educational
careers.
Until the federal budget deficits begin coming down,
state and local governments, in Hunt's scenario, must
continue and even increase their strong support of public
education.
The federal government IffgOork to get the deficits
down, hopefully within four years.
Once the deficits are manageable, and the economy is
firmly on an upswing, the federal government must then
make education its top priority.
As the governor said: "Making the very best education
possible available to all of its people so everyone can
achieve to the peak of his/her potential is the greatest investment
this nation can make in its future."
It all sounds good!
But in trying to make a decision in this Senate race ?
probably the most vicious and certainly the most expensive
in the nation's history ? black voters face three mindboggling
challenges.
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i iic ursi cnauenge is 10 erase me traditional mindset ot
voting for the so-called lesser of two evils. Black voters,
rather, must evaluate these candidates, both on their
respective records and based upon a hardnosed, objective
assessment of future needs.
That is not an easy task!
For if the national objective is to return to "those days
of old," when America, as the Bible says of Israel, "...was
in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of
the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep,"
then Sen. Helms has been a formidable politician.
But if America's future can best be described in the
words of The Negxp National Anthem: "...facing the rising
sun of our ne<vJ3ay begun, letois march 6n 'til victory
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So the question in this race is not a choice of the lesser
of two evils, but rather which future do you see for
America, and who appears to be better equipped and more
eager to work for that future?
The second challenge facing voters, particularly black
voters in this super-charged senatorial race, is to be able to
overcome the intense emotionalism that has accompanied
this battle from the beginning, and evaluate the records
objectively.
The question is what has Gov. Hunt done, and to what
extent does that indicate what he is likely to do?
The third challenge is probably the most difficult. That
is the responsibility to hold the next senator accountable to
all constituents.
Governor Hunt said some very intersting ? even encouraging
? things during the nearly two-hour interview.
Among other things, he said:
As senator, he will insist that the U.S. Justice Department
vigorously prosecute documented cases of Klan attacks
and racially directed violence.
*As senator he will not depend upon political hindsight
to determine if some something worked, but rather will
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By JOHN E. JACOB
Guest Columnist
The majority of black
Americans are too young to
remember yesterday's struggles.
But we can't afford to
forget. The people who fought
- and died - to bring freedom
to America just 20 years ago
made it possible for black peopie
today to take a giant step
on the road to equity, to excellence
and to empowerment.
Without their sacrifices
there would have been no
black presidential candidate in
the primaries; there would be
no black mayor in Bull Connor's
home town; there would
be few blacks on construction
sites and in corporate offices.
The blood they shed was
spilled in the struggle for
human dignity and human
rights. It is a struggle that still
continues in other ways and on
other levels.
i weniy years ago tne
Freedom Train was an express
that roared through the conscience
of America. Its enemies
were the Klan and the racists
who stood in the schoolhouse
doorways and said "Never."
But 1984 is not 1964. Our
Freedom Train today is a local
that often seems to be running
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By MARIAN WRIGHT
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Syndicated Columnist
As you watched the Olympics
this year, I'm sure you
were proud of American
women athletes Ike Cheryl
Miller, Evelyn Ashford, Mary
Lou Retton and Joan Benoit,
all at the very pinnacle of
athletic accomplishment.
In part, their accomplishments
are due to a
federal law called Title IX. Ti
tie IX, a key civil rights law, .
activity receiving federal
financial assistance."
In February of this year,
however, the Supreme Court
narrowed the reach of Title IX
of the 1972 Education Amendments
in the case of Grove City
College v. Bell. Because of
the Supreme Court ruling in
this case, the door has been
opened for colleges and
universities to discriminate on
the basis of sex. race, aae and
handicap.
The question presented to
the justices in Grove City College
v. Bell was which "prottcftf
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backwards. Today our
enemies wear three-piece suits
and honeyed smiles. They tell
us people are poor because
they are lazy; that they are
unemployed because they
want the minimum wage, that
they are hungry because they
buy liquor with food stamps.
Too many Americans today
think that passing a few laws
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struggle is over. They think
discrimination is a thing of the
past and poverty the fault of
the poor.
They are wrong. The civil
rights laws were the first step
toward equity, not the last.
The struggle is not over and
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gram or activity" was subject
to Title IX, only the college's
financial aid program or the
entire institution?
Grove City College is a
small liberal arts college in
Pennsylvania. Many of its
students receive federal financial
assistance in the form of
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"Because of the Supreme Co
dicap."
Under Title IX, institutions
that receive federal funds are
required each year to submit
forms to the Department to
the Department of Education
assuring that they are consistent
with the law.
But Grove City College Official*
refused to enhmit tVi*?
written assurance, arguing
that Basic Education Opportunity
Grants go directly to the
students and only indirectly to
the college.
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it won't be over until the
discriminatory barriers that"
impose poverty and disadvantage
on millions of Americans
are torn down.
While some blacks were able
to get into the schools, the
professions and the jobs that
mainstream America always
enjoyed, far too many others
were left behind. They climbed
the first steps of the ladder to
equality before they were kicked
off - by recessions, by sub- .
tie discrimination, by lasthired,
first-fired.
Still others never got on the
ladder at all. They are trapped
by the destructive heritage of
racism and ground down by a
throw-away economy that
refuses to treat them with the
human dignity they deserve.
In virtually every index that
counts, we can document the
rise and fall of the black
hopes:
income - In 1960, black
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of white income. By 1970, it
was up to 61 percent. But today,
it is back to 55 percent,
jobs -- In 1960, 10 percent
of blacks were unemployed; in
1970 it was 8 percent, but in
1983 it was 19.5 percent. Even
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disagreed and found that the
grants to students were ,
assistance to the college and
triggered Title IX rights for
the students. But it also said
that only the specific programs
or activities receiving the
federal funds are subject to Ti
tie IX, not the institution as a
whole.
The Court's decision, in efurt
ruling in this case, the
alleges and universities-ta?feet,
permits a college to
receive federal financial
assistance in one program (for
example, student financial
aid), but at the same time
discriminate in other programs
at the same college that aren't
aided _Jfc>y the federal government
(suchr as physics or
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This ruling is very bad for
women and also for minorities
and others protected by other
similarly worded federal laws.
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Letters
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Praise from
Epperson
To The Editor:
It has been brought to my
attention the honor your fine
periodical received from the
National Newspaper
Publishers Association. It is
also my understanding that
your newspaper has been
recognized with the Best
Weekly Periodical in North
Carolina Award over the last
two years. What a record of
achievement!
Having been associated with
the media industry, I know the
hard work and dedication
necessary to reach the conIsistency
of excellence your
paper has achieved.
Congratulations on your
past and present ac-?
complishments and best
wishes for your continued suck
cess.
Stuart W. Epperson
Winston-Salem
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A drinking cure
To The Editor:
I am writing this article in
reference to the minister
caught twice because of a
DUI.
As a minister, alcohol ,~
counselor and drug counselor,
I would like the readers of that
article to really know what an
aiconoiic is. it takes six to
seven years, if you weigh from
150 to 175 pounds, to becomean
alcoholic.
When your mind demands
alcohol and your body
demands alcohol you cease to
be a "weekend drinker," and
"a payday drinker" or a
"social drinker." You are an
"alcoholic!" You are sick,
both mentally and physically.
You are in the same
category with anyone that has
an illness. The only difference
is that alcoholism is the worst
disease that a person can have.
Cancer - which an operation,
use of radiation or
chemotherapy can cure - may
end its growth.
You cannot operate on
alcoholism. Arthritis - you
can take pills,4cill the pain and
lead a normal life. An
alcoholic can only take
another drink. A heart patient
can take pills and not expose
themselves and live a normal
life even with a transplant.
There are no pills that an
alcoholic can take and nothing
can be cut or something new
transplanted.
To the minister that was
mentioned in (the recent) article,
as a counselor I have
found out that the only cure
"for alcoholism is God! As a
counselor at the Home of *
Hope, we use a three-step program
-- God, you and others!
As a minister 1 would say
having a job driving a truck
with a heart condition, at any
time you may have a heart attack
and kill someone or
yourself, so the company
would not let you work. A
minister is called on at no announced
time to pray for somfnnp
or to Hctm tn
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when he wants to talk or to ask
for spiritual guidance. I ask
how would you feel if you
were called on for help and
you were under the influence
of alcohol? You would not be
able to carry out God's work.
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