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A major ski]
Black Americans lost a m
tie for fairness and equal c
U.S. Senate killed the prop
So did women, the hand
Chances of passing the
Republican-controlled Sena
tion was drafted in respon:
decision which effectively p
on the part of colleges an
funds.
Prior to the decision, th
received federal funding f<
discriminate against blacks
the aged without losing all
The Supreme Court seve
law, ruling that the offeri
could lose funding for thos<
tion was found to exist ? nc
well.
Last week, as the senate
journment and the start of
ing before the general electi
the Senate battle to pass th
Supporters of the propos
^attach it to a $500 billion ca
conservative minority, led
filibustered against the civ
quickly on a motion to inv
the issue, crushing the filib
No sooner was that done
first of some 1,300 amenc
Senate down in a legislat
deadline for adjournment,
Sen. Hatch said he oppos
too great an expansion of f
said he opposed the bill bee
sidered with the spending 1
' The Civil Rights Act of
on this year's black agenda
of events is another telling
and enemies are ? and how
tinues to march forward
nerstone legislation protect
from an oppressive majori
The future promises to b
new president and congres:
to black concerns than are
and their like.
CrAftftuilnHc
What doi
From The Carolinian, F
What does it take for th<
the importance of voting?
Perhaps severe adversity
is the solution. Some call
"crisis."
The bombs, dogs and f
black community and wen
glc against segregation.
The night ricks and lyn<
and tears to be sacrificed 1
America.
Now that there are no <(
literacy tests and more bl
non-blacks on the job, in
less reason for the black c
to vote.
If adversity is the av<
freedom, let adversity reij
the hate-mongers be hearc
cause for activism and pr<
Necessity is the mothe:
protecting our physical, p
provide the invention of
security must constantly I
Once the black communit
placent, it loses its grip
previously so long and so
Thus the freedom must
ty as the only avenue of
George Wallace, a Jesse H
the Grand Wizard if tha
stimulating progress.
Bitter medicine? Yes.
Curing medicine? Yes,
most effective methods o
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day, October 11, 1984
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itanl tdtlor < ih.ulylntn Mynunr'
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ajor skirmish in their uphill bat>pportunity
last week when the
osed Civil Rights Act of 1984.
icapped and the aged,
act in a heavily conservative,
ite were slim at best. The legislate
to the recent Supreme Court
nrotects discriminatory practices
d universities receiving federal
le law held that colleges which
dt various programs could not
, women, the handicapped and
of their federal funds.
:rely narrowed the scope of the
ding college or university only
e programs in which discriminant
for all of its other programs as
)rs faced their deadline for adtheir
final month of campaignon,
the scene was reminiscent of
ie Civil Rights Act of 1964.
ed 1984 Civil Rights Act tried to
itch-all spending measure. But a
by Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah,
il rights bill. The Senate acted
oke cloture and limit debate on
uster 92 to 4. :
) than Hatch began offering the
Iments to the bill, bogging the
ive quagmire. Faced with the
the civil rights bill was scuttled,
ed the bill because it represented
ederal power. President Reagan
ause it shouldn't have been conMil
v . .
1984 %as the first-priority item
and now it has failed. This turn
example of just who our friends
r the present administration conwith
the dismantling of coring
blacks and other minorities
ty.
e no better unless we can elect a
sional candidates more sensitive
; President Reagan, Sen. Hatch
es it take ?
Laleigh, N.C.
e black community to appreciate
wherein voting is the avenue out
such a state of circumstances a
irehoses of the 1960s united the
i a motivating force in our strug:hings
were the stimuli for blood
for the advancement of blacks in
'colored only" signs, fewer voter
acks standing and sitting beside
restaurants and schools, there is
immunity to respond to the call
enue through which we obtain
jn. Let the racists, the bigots and
I and seen, for therein may lie the
ogress.
r of invention. The necessity of
olitical and economic safety may
going to the polls. Freedom and
De protected or they will be lost,
y becomes comfortable and comand
hold on values it fought
hard to obtain.
be pursued in an arena of adversimaintaining
it. We then need a
[elms, a President Reagan or even
t is to be the only approach to
also. This seems to be one of the
f motivating maximum participate
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By CLIFTON GRAVES
Chronicle Columnist
Tick ... tick ... tick ... South
Africa conducts phony elections,
allowing "coloreds"
and Asians to participate in
Parliament, while still denying
the majority black populace a
?single vote; ;
Tick ... tick ... tick ... Black
South Africans take to the
streets in Soweto protesting
said elections, (what the New
York Times termed
"Shamocracy"), resulting in
the deaths of hundreds of our
brethren.
*Tick ... tick ... tick ... For
the first time in South Africa's
history, black coal-diamond
miners - ootn unionized ana
non-unionized - have effectively
conducted strikes, causing
great concern among the
corporate powers-that-be.
Tick ... tick ... tick ... Hardly
a week passes without an incident
(e.g. bombing of banks,
embassies, businesses,
hydroelectric companies, etc.)
of urban guerilla activity.
Tick ... tick ... tick ... The
U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly
denounces South
Africa's farcical elections, as
well as the subsequent violence
perpetrated by South Africa's
military against black protesters.
(Of course, the United
States and Britain abstained in
Our shame
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By JOHN JACOB
Guest Columnist
One of the big issues neither
presidential candidate is talking
about is the unmet need
for exnanded dav-care ser
vices.
The mothers of over half of
all children aged six and under
work outside the home, and
- too many erf their
million youngsters are not adequately
cared for because of
the dearth of quality day care
programs.
While affluent parents can
afford day-care and nursery
school facilities, low-income
families cannot.
The limited number of programs
run by churches and
community social welfare institutions
is far below the level
needed to satisfy demand, and
deep cuts in federal subsidies
for such programs have
severely worsened the situation.
In 1981, Congress cut $700
million out of a key federal
social service program and
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the vote.)
Yes, sisters and brothers,
that ticking sound which you
hear from afar is the time
bomb of African anger and
aggravation; the time bomb of
black suffering and denial; the
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time DomD 01 revolutionary
fervor about to explode in a
land whose oppressive policies
are analogous (in this era) only
to those of Nazi Germany's.
As your read these words,
our sisters and brothers in
South Africa are becoming increasingly
fed-up with a
system which legally mandates
that 87 percent of the
country's land be reserved for
the 4.5 million whites/while
the remaining 13 percent of
the land be "allocated"
'fill day care
dropped requirements that
earmarked funds for day-care
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scivicca. oiucc men, aicuc <uiu
federal funds for child care for
low-income families have been
cut by 14 percent.
The United States is now the
only major industrial nation
without a nationally subsidized
child care system, and it is
even cutting back on the
the face of increasing needs.
"The people who had been i
as children also had far few
teen-age pregnancies and wen
welfare than those who were
gram."
The spotlight thrown on
day-care by child molestation
scandals in some centers has
led to a debate about licensing
child care providers and
regulating day-care centers.
But the debate should not be
limited to preventing isolated
cases of child abuse. It should
be broadened to include the
role of subsidized child care
services as an integral part of
BUT ONLY IF YOU S(6N * PEACE
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Africa,
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among the 22 million blacks.
As you read these words,
our sisters and brothers in
apartheid South . Africa are
becoming increasingly annoyed
with a system that
denies them the right to vote, .!
to own land, to travel, to ob- <
tain a trial and due process
and, as Transafrica's Randall
Robinson states, 4,to do ,
anything, scarcely breathe." ]
Thus, with the minority j
white regime seemingly intent
on and content with things ]
staying as they are, coupled ,
with the apartheid oppressors' .
justifiable smugness in know- ,
ing that as long as Reagan re- ,
mains in the White House, <
they have a friend in ,
Washington determined to ,
protect the $14.6 billion
American corporate invest- (
ment in the status quo, black ,
South Africans have once
again detonated the dynamite
of resistance - giving the (
racists and their American and
European allies ample warning
of what is to come.
But let us face the harsh
reality that the struggle of our
brethren for freedom and selfdetermination
will unquestionably
be a protracted one.
South Africa ? with the
assistance of allies such as the
United States, Britain and
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policy
national policies designed to
strengthen families and nurture
children.
Day-care should be seen as a
means of maximizing
children's development and
potential.
There is plenty of evidence,
especially from studies of the
Head Start program, that early
childhood education makes
feed positive -impact; oiv?
children.
in the preschool program
ter arrests, half as many
e much less likely to be on
not in the preschool proOne
such study reported on
123 poor black children in
Michigan. It followed them
for 22 years and proves the
benefits to society from quality
preschool programs. The
study compares children who
were in preschool programs
with others from the same
background who were not.
Two-thirds of the children
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BUT THfc S16MMUEE'S \
MOT VALID VIHAT?
lidiyin
Defaults """
hurting
students
Bv MARIAN WRIGHT
EDELMAN
Syndicated Columnist
"I've been out of college for
five years now and 1 still
haven't started paying^back
my student loan," I overheard
a young black professional
woman boast one day.
Her school had just written
her to ask when she was going
to start paying back her loan.
Currently working as a radio
reporter and earning a very
good salary, this woman was
able to attend a black college
by borrowing money from the
National Direct Student Loan
Program. By not repaying the
money, she is makingra bad
situation worse for many^coming
behind her who need the
same kind of help she got.
Black colleges, already in
financial trouble, are facing
funding cutbacks because too
many of their students have
defaulted on their National
Direct Student Loans (NDSL).
The NDSL program is an ^
extension of the National Defense
Student Loan program
which was set up by the
government in 1958 to provide
low-interest loans to college
students. The program is
available to all colleges and
universities, although not all
participate. Students must
show financial need in order to
receive an NDSL; those who
qualify can borrow money at a
five percent interest rate. Student
may borrow up to $6,000
during their four years of
study. . .... i
n l i. it ct
DiacK tuucgc* arc in financial
trouble because of declining
enrollment. Many black
students with academic
qualifications ji^ed. tuition if
they are to go to college. One
college has reported that 400
students in the last two years
have decided not to enroll
because the NDSL funds were
not available.
In 1981, the Department of
Education, under the Reagan
administration, decided to get
tough by cutting off funds to
colleges that had a 25 percent
or more NDSL default rate;
federal funds were reduced if
schools had default rates of 10
to 25 percent.
The policy has been working.
Since the rules went into
effect, the average default rate
nationwide dropped from
10.49 percent in June 1981 to
9.48 percent a year later.
Predominantly white col
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Department of Education's
policy, too. But black institutions
and community colleges
with: high black: *31 \i3cnC~Z!^^l
populations were hit hardest.
Many colleges, like Howard
University, Morgan State,
Virginia State and Coppin
State, were forced out of the
NDSL because their default
rate exceeds 25 percent.
According to an article in The
Washington Post, of the 114
historically black institutions
represented by the National
Association for Equal Opportunity
in Higher Education,
fewer than 10 are still eligible
for funding.
Now, I know it to be true
that many black college
graduates who are
unemployed cannot afford to
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