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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
The city-county school board
voted Monday night to give
Superintendent Zane Eargle the
authority to require that all
schools offer breakfast programs.
Eargle said the 14 schools that
are not participating in the program
will begin offering
breakfast to those children who
are eligible and those who want
to buy breakfast as soon as possible.
The board's present policy,
said Eargle, addresses the
breakfast program, but requires
only vqluntary participation. The
board's 6-1 vote gives Eargle the
authority to mandate that the
program be available in every
school.
Board member John Wood
cast the only vote against the program's
expansion. Wood said
broadening the program would
create additional work for those
people who are already the school
system's lowest paid. He said he
would support the program's expansion
if those employees who
would have additional work
would be given raises.
Although she said she supports
the program, board member
Margaret Plemmons said a simple
breakfast would not be
enough to handle problems like
malnutrition - a point many au
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Republicans
For instance, although Kenneth
and Ann Lowery are
registered Democrats, they decided
this year to vote Republican.
Kenneth Lowery said he chose to
go with the Republicans because
he, like former football player
Rosie Grier, supports the
Republican position against
abortions and for school prayer.
"A lot of black people vote
Democratic because of
tradition," he said, "I feel we
need to change that and vote for
the .man and not the party.
"1 really feel like the
Republicans aremore honest jthis
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He has also conducted a
record-breaking nationwide
ballot access drive. No other candidate
for president has managed
to get on the ballot in so-many
states the first time out. In 33
states you can vote for Serrette
under various banners.
It is the first time a black
presidential candidate has run in
so many states. Jackson,
remember, was not running for
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the Democratic Party. "Blacks
have tried to gain power in both
parties and they have failed,"
Serrette said.
"Jackson should have run as
an independent," he added. "He
should have built something
separate and apart from the
Democratic Party. The
Democrats were willing to exploit
Jackson's blackness and take the
votes of blacks, but they didn't
want any part of the Rainbow
Coalition program."
The black independent candidate
planned to plug into the
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weak "signal" for Mondale and
the ambivalence of blacks for an
indifferent Democractic candidate
and get six million votes.
That's a lot of black
"Reaganites," as the Communist
will call them.
85 percent of the black vote in the
Democratic primaries, has not
transferred his "enthusiasm" to
Mondale. Instead, he talks
against Reagan and not fof Mondale
(and very little of that); it is a
very clever ploy of going through
the motions. And his followers .
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addressing the board.
"I'm very concerned with
children with special needs," said
Plemmons. "A breakfast 180
days addresses the need of the
hungry, but what happens to the
other 185 days? If a child is
malnourished, there are other
agencies that should be helping
that child."
Board member Mary Margaret
Lohr also supported the program's
expansion but expressed
concern about voting on an issue
that she had received no information
about.
. On a motion made by John
Holleman Jr. and seconded by
Beaufort O. Bailey, the board apnrr?v#?rl
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Some principals said they
didn't want to support the program
because it would cause an
inconvenience. But Elaine
Williams, a kindergarten teacher
at Union Cross Elementary
School, which already serves
breakfast, said she has noticed no
inconveniences.
"My teaching has never been
interrupted by the breakfast program,"
said Williams. "1 consider
it a pleasure to serve
breakfast to the children in my
school that need it."
According to Williams, each
teacher only has to serve two
weeks during the year to supervise
the program and the
children, not the teachers, are
responsible for any cleaning up
that needs^o be done.
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given the Democrats chance after
chance after chance and they
ain't doing nothing. We need a
change."
Kenneth Lowery said he had
no problems supporting Jesse
Helms even though Helms opposed
a holiday for Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
"That was just his opinion,"
said Lowery. "I will always
remember Martin Luther King,
but how many of us really
celebrate his birthday?"
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are receiving his weak "signal."
Todd, a 20-year associate of
Jackson, is not coy at all about
his signal. "You may vote your
own conscience," he said. "You
may vote for Mondale if you
decide. That's your business.
You mav vote for Dennis Ser
rette." Scrrette is a black candidate
for president.
While Serrette, a labor and
community organizer for 20
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spokeswoman says that "he
threatens to cost the Democrats
the election in 1984 and pave the
way for considerable independent
gains in 1988."
Serrette deserves much credit.
He never misled people by saying
that he could win the presidency
and he has an effective, organized
approach to making a difference
- sublimating black
anger and resisting the two-party
exploitation with an independent
candidacy.
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whether his rent is $300 or $400.
Bearing that in mind, we
admonish the people who
expressed such vehement opposition
to Oak Hill Apartments to
adopt broader visions. Only
when they can look beyond their
neatly-manicured front lawns will
they see the true picture.
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