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ERNEST H
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ELAINE L. Pin ? ROBIN i
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The Black Ri
Armed with what founder
couple thousand dollars, a lot
in black art, black culture ai
Carolina Black Repertory T1
Athol Fugard's 4<Sizwe Bansi
P ina t/oorc lot ai1 tka **Dlo
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patrons affectionately call it,
The company's guild, foun<
600 members and provides a
theatre company.
The Black Rep also fields i
musicians and vocalists that j
taining outlet for those amoni
well as act.
More importantly, the B
squarel>Ton providing quality
start and never has wavered i
In an era when some of us
* for being black and assimik
Black Rep always has recogn
ferent ~ that it is a special b
unique culture and experienc
Hamlin and the company <
mation of blackness is no thre
ly a celebration of our ownai
and Cultures to explore what
As for the quality of wha
Department of Cultural Res
Rep in January ,as one of i
respected black theater comp
We at the Chronicle, whic
10th anniversary, applaud the
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II1C OldCK rvcp, tUUMUCI uu
culture.
In that spirit, we've embarl
Black Rep's guild, agreein
subscriptions sold by itsjnen
Though we obviously hopi
benefits, we're even more e
tangible rewards. Black oi
abound in our community. !
them doesn't.
We hope others follow oi
partner whose goals and prio
Meanwhile, we look fdrv
Black Rep's delightful, pre
likes to say:
44Any person, any commu
that is not in tune with their 1
living a life of illusion, beca
are. You have to know these
to be complete."
Crosswlnds
Black reii
From The Defender, Chic
American minorities an<
establish banks, savings ai
security firms and businesse:
? With black unemployme
own people. We must also in
country's elected officials,
necessary to prevent the cor
devastation from which we <
We must make tremendoi
one without the other will sti
class citizenship.
A dollar should be passed
leaves our communities. A
receives a salary, that mone>
female-owned banks, realti
and other businesses.
In this manner, we can gr
able to effectively fund the c
politicians who represent ou
If we all became million;
quire proper political offici
wealth overnight. Were we
without developing econom:
people and politicians woi
poverty.
Financial and political g
that we will be able to share 1
everyone else. It is not our i
pense of any other group c
tremendously improve our c
that anyone else will do it f
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ay, October 18, 1984
?/72 Chronicle
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ALLIN JOHNSON
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ADAMS MICHASL PITT
' Editor ' ( irtukitf* \fuitirr'
ep's rep
Larry Leon Hamlin terms 4'a
of optimism and a firm belief
id black people," the North
heatre debuted in 1979 with
Is Dead."
ck Rep," as its friends and
has come a long way.
ded in 1981, boasts more than
strong, active auxiliary to the
an orchestra of accomplished
provides a polished and enter/
g us who can sing or dance, as
lack Rep Rep set its sights
black theater locally from the
in that mission,
seem so intent on apologizing
ating with all due haste, the
lized that black theatre is difrand
of drama shaped by the
es of black people,
ilso realize that such an affir,at
to other cultures, but merend
an invitation to other races
being black is ail about,
t it does, the North Carolina
sources recognized the Black
the best organized and most
>anies in the South.
:h recently celebrated its own
>se accomplishments. We, like
irselves a vanguard of black
ked on a joint project with the
g to contribute portions of
nbers to the company,
e the drive will reap monetary
xcited at the prdspect of less
rganizations and institutions
Sustained cooperation among
jr example of teaming with a
rites are so similar to our own.
vard to decades more of the
>vovative drama. As Hamlin
nity, any city, state or nation,
lisiory, cuuure ana neruage, is
tuse you don't know who you
things about yourself in order
ivestment
ago, 111.
i women must continue tc
id loan institutions, realties,
s on every level.
:nt far greater than that ol
incapacity to hinnnoTeof o\n
tcrease our numbers among the
These actions are desperately
itinued economic and politica
suffer.
is strides in both areas becaus<
11 leave us vulnerable to seconc
among us many times before ii
^fter a minority or a womar
r should be used in minority- oi
es, groceries, service station:
ow financially stronger and b<
ampaigns of and support mon
ir interests.
aires tomorrow and didn't ac
e, someohe could strip us ou
to become politically powerfu
ic strength, the majority of ou
lid still function in near dir<
rowth are necessary to assur
life's opportunities equally wit)
intent to move ahead at the ex
>f individuals, but if we don'
ircumstances, it is very unlikel;
or us.
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Conventio
By JOHN E. JACOB
Special to the Chronicle
Thirty-two states have sent
petitions to Congress calling
for a national constitutional
convention that would pass a
new amendment to the U.S.
Constitution mandating a
. balanced federal budget.
If only two more states pass
such a convention - and if
some of those that have
already passed meet court
challenges - then a constitutional
convention ipust be called.
That would be a monumental
mistake.
There are two major
dangers in a constitutional
convention. The first is that a
balanced budget amendment
might pass; the second, that
the convention could become a
runaway affair, rewriting the
present constitution that has
served us well.
The prospect of a runaway
convention is dismissed by
some experts who say that if
the convention is called for the
purpose of considering a
balanced budget amendment,
it can't go farther afield.
But others cite the original
Constitutional Convention of
1787, which was just supposed
to improve the existing Articles
of Confederation, but
threw that document out and
Reagan th
By CHARLES E. BELLE
Syndicated Columnist
As anyone who has existed
under the present administration
in the White House
knows, black Americans and
other poor people have beer
1 going ass backwards since the
, last presidential election.
The employment to popula
tion ratio, number of jobs held
population, has dropped - no
increased ? during these "bet
ter off" years of the curreni
I president.
This was the plan! Pooi
, people to pay for lower infla
j tion and interest rates whih
the wealthy worried about th<
"communist threat." Thus
t instead of more blacl
1 Americans being integrated in
r to the American society wher<
5 barely half (53.8 percent) weri
employed in 1979, now les
than half (49.5 percent) ar<
gainfully employed. Evei
Middle America has beei
astonished that their apple ha
had a bite taken out of it.
The year-to-year employ
wwt til you see hew 6bush
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wrote the present constituion i
instead. I
. The fear is that not only ,
would single-issue extremists <
dominate a new convention, l
writing new amendments ban- ]
, ? ning abortion and busing and- . 1
instituting school prayer, but i
.. tHat the exists Bill of Rights.?,_
would be diluted, placing l
traditional freedoms in jeopardy.
That's not so far-fetched,
since the polarizing, so-called
"social issues" galvanize the
energies of the far right.
So a new constitutional convention
would be playing with
fire ? and that holcis even if it
limits itself to a balanced
budget amendment. For
however worthy a goal balancing
the bqdget may be, it can't
ireatening
ment growth of the country
was 2.6 million new jobs during
the 1976 to 1980 period,
I but it fell by almost 40 percent
from 1981 to the first quarter
t of 1984 to an average of only
1 1.1 million new jobs. In short,
i while there are more
i Americans coming into the job
market, the economy was ek
ing out almost half as many
I new jobs as it did during a
-^Democratic,
t This administration has added
huge deficits to the budget
t without spending for needed
r "Cutting out U.S. producer
eventually for white as v
5 workers."
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, social services - a deficit
which by itself requires more
taxes from those who do work
to pay the ever increasing cost.
These taxpayers are not likely
to allocate more spending
for social services while the
a wealthy continue to to worship
i and maintain monstrous
s defense expenditures to defeat
the comical 44communist
threat.4*
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a mistake
reasonably be a constitutional
requirement. To make it one is
bad government and bad
economics.
It is impossible to balance
the budget in the near future
without chopping social
security, Medicare and a
healthy chunk~of~the armed
forces. Another way would be
a massive tax increase that
could spark a major Depression.
That's why neither
presidential candidate is promising
more than to bring the
deficits down over a period of
several years.
And virtually all economists
agree that there are times when
governments should run
deficits. A government budget
:an't be compared to a family
budget and the simplistic approach
of the balanced
bi?4geteors< could be fatal to
the, e^qnomy. ^ ..
Fvrrn if,, ihrar ?J a I
balanced budget amendment
through, it will have to be full
of loopholes to be workable.
If that happens, then the Constitution
just becomes.a waste
basket for rhetorical flourishes
to economic theories no one,
believes in, instead of being a
sound, basic law of the land.
It is important to remember
that the balanced budget
movement is not a response to
the massive federal deficits of
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iddle class
thrill" that will take its toll in
permanently displaced people
in the U.S. workforce once
their unemployment checks
run out.
DvArlnntflH in thA tViApf-run
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Laying aside the obvious
needs of Mr. Mondale's victories,
fix your eyes on the
president's points in the polls,
proving once again that people
polled often do not look
White Americans are more
greatly employed and thus in a
position to partake of the
s means cutting out jobs,
veil as black American
preponderance of lower price
nrndnrK rnrrentlv Availahlp in
the marketplace. A strong
dollar which dictates lower
price foreign goods in the
marketplace also displaces
American low-income workers
and creates the largest trade
deficit in U.S. history, which
must be balanced at an expensive
future date - a short-term
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orrmui\! orwrwirv/ incurs!
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Letters
Deliver us
from Helms
To The Editor:
He voted against clean air,
against clean water, against
food for little children, against
saving the Social Security program.
He voted for cuts in
Medicaid and Medicare and he
voted for bombs and munitions.
He raised not a whimper
when the Pentagon paid
SI,000 for a screwdriver.
He presides over the demise
of the tobacco program, all
the while trying to convince
farmers that he is looking after
them. He won for them a 30
percent cut in quotas, a 252
percent increase in imports of
foreign leaf, a 19 percent
decrease in tobacco exports
and a 48 percent increase in
stabilization stocks.
The farmer gets to grow
less* gets less for what he does
grow and, soon, so few will
survive the entire program will
fall through, exactly what Mr.
Helms wants.
The only farmers with any
business in farming are the big
farmers who can contract with
the big tobacco companies to
supply what they need. This is
Republican mentality. It was
Mr. Helms' tax on tobacco
which forced the layoff of
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Reynolds tobacco factories.
Thanks, Mr. Helms!
Mr. Helms, will you ask the
unemployed and the farmer
for understanding, for their
sympathy while you direct
their attention away from their
economic disaster which you
caused by asking them to support
prayer in the schools?
Let. -there be prayer
throughout North Carolina in
u the year 1984. Letahert bdi
prayer in the workplace. Let
there be prayer on farm tractors.
Let there be prayer at the
kitchen stove. Let there be
prayer at sun-up, at sundown,
in the hearts and souls of men
and women and children who
seek and feel the spirit of
prayer. Let us pray together.
Let us pray out loud. Let us
pray silently and in quiet
places.
Let us pray, "Oh, Lord,
how long must we suffer?
Deliver us, we pray, from
Jesse Helms. Let him be
removed from high office.
Teach him, Lord, to love his
fellow men and not to place
his trust in bombs, nor in
Texas oilmen, nor in deceptive
campaign tactics.
Teach Jesse, Lord, it is good
and right to feed little
children, to edyicate our
youth, that it is right and just
to heal the sick and to care for
the elderly; only remove him
from office now, Lord, lest he
poison our land and lead us into
war.
K * ? - - ' 1 1 - "~r. rr-T?
Mattie H. Rey
Ararat, N.C.
Hunt a racist?
To The Editor:
I Oct Clini^4tl on orf i/.ln on
L.iui kjuiiuuj , an ai iivit appeared
in The Greensboro
News and Record (Oct. 7
issue) that caused me to reflect
on the current state of
senatorial politics in North
Carolina. The article was entitled
"Helms Labels Hunt a
Racist in Campaign."
Being an eight-year resident
of North Carolina, 1 am well
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