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Black Plight—“Disastrous” Among the achievements of blacks in 1963 was congression al passage of a bill to make Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth day a national holiday, the se- - lection of blacks as both "Miss America” and the first runner up, and the sending of a black astronaut into space. At the local ievd, achievement and pro gresswere seen in the election of Charlotte’s fiTst black mayor, Harvey Gantt. Not too surprising, it was Mayor Gantt, keynote speaker at the celebration of the 55th anniver sary of the birth of Dr. King, who said that while progress by and for blacks has been made, “we still have much work to do. Many of our white friends are lulled into a sense of security and righteousness when they look around and see how far black folks have come.” Anyone who does not believe or understand Mr. Gantt's message simply needs to read the 1984 report on the "State of Black America” recently released by the National Urban League. The report offers a despressing assessment in which it charges that poor black people are being relegated to "an out-of-sight, out-of-mind” status in American society. NUL President John 'Mwob said in releasing die report last week, “The state of 4y«*ca is disastrous, wlpte white. Americans cele brate a long-overdue economic **®hvery and a falling unem Pr iJfcBtia^ttaek America is lBKied ina depression of crush ing proportions. The plain, ugly fact is that there is no recovery for black Americans." The report restated the widely known fact that the nation’s overall unemployment declined to 8.4 percent in November. 1963, the lowest rate in two years; however, it remained at 1T.S percent for blacks. The report added that joblessness among black teenagers has reached 49 percent and that one-third of black workers aged 20 to 24, are out of work. Furthermore, blacks now make up one-third of a classification of people in the labor force called discouraged workers cm* people who have given up any hope of ever finding gainful employment It is largely for these reasons that half of all blacfc’children live in households with incomes below the poverty level. Therefore, die report states, millions of blade Americans are "still mired in poverty and hopelessness." \ • V f' . - ' | C r Vf' This kind of disturbing data contributed to the report taking a sharp and critical stand against, the Reagan Administration’s study on hunger and what Mr. Jacob called an "unholy al liance" between the new U.S. Civil Rights Commission and the U.S. Justice Department against affirmative action programs jjH| One of the few positive notes in the report cited qie Increased political activity by blacjts that should result in jff greater sen sitivity to issues affecting Wack Americans. ■ | I I . I /• ’• 4’ toe few are prepared for the hi-technology computer-oriented world that we live-jn. today. Therefore, black youth and their parents must become phi losophicallycommitted to higber values in education and then pursue excellence in a quest for the best possible education available.. The time is now to begin seriously breaking the cycle of poverty if black youth are to share fully tp the fruits of America’s future. "A Root b Hot A Mon-Unti tt Uw Ns Own Talents, Tokos prido In Ns (XmHfefory. And Loves Ns Own Memories, N Con Never Nself Completely." Care Is No Joke toward which have traditionally «»hc" a resigned, hands-off atti tude. Certainly, companies have a responsibility to hold down medical coats, to help keep them af fordable. Otherwise, Mr. Dinwiddle -and all the rest of us - could be in real trouble. Spring Semester A graduate course on designing learning experi ences for adults will be taught at the Charlette Mecklenburg Schools Staff Development Center during the spring acmes Coo kandthe Ihima^Devei iopment and Learning, the Course will be taught by Dr. Evelyn Davis. Dr. Davis has bad considerable ex perience teaching adults as well af adult educators, Administrator, and group The course will meet Thursday, January 19 to April 26,'from 5:30 to 9:30 p m. at the Staff Develop ment Center at 428 W. Boulevard. Designed for teacher,, trainers and ad ministrator, of adult class es, the course can be used as an%lective in a number of UNCC master’s degree Thliooune may bp taken for gfhduate or undergrad uate credit. The coat is $135. I THE CH&IUjOiTEPOST “THEPEOPtE’S NEWSPAPER*’ ' ‘ ?■ Established 1918 Published Every Thursday by The Charlotte Post Publishing Co.. Inc. Subscription Rate $17.68 Per Year Second Class Postage No. 965500 Postmaster Send 3579s to: 1531 Camden Rd., Charlotte. N.C. 28203 Telephone: 704-376-0496 Circulation: 11,023 106 Years of Continuous Service Bill Johnson Editor, Publisher Bernard Reeves General Manager Fran Farrar Advertising Director Dannette Gaither Office Manager Second Class Postage No. 965500 Paid at Charlotte, North Carolina Under the Act of March 3,1878 Member, National Newspaper Publishers’ Association North Carolina Black Publishers Association Deadline for alt news copy and photos is S p.m., Monday. All photos and copy submitted become the property of The Poet and will not be returned. National Advertising Representative ZT . Amalgamated Publishers, Inc. a. Michigan Ave. 4S W. 4Mh Of.. Sait* MM micag*. in. SMI4 - New Yart. N*w Yack 1MM .v^Mnaei sea 212-SM-im 1 ■« ■ ■ ■ 11 Mill $ li rromvapuoltnU . Jttemess WM Foundation. Chapter X** Studies should be orderd from the Conrmiselon on Civil Rights to determine the extent fe which af firmative action and relat ed policies discriminating against white fnalet are increasing racial bitter ness. Justice Department should file an amicus brief in the Boston Police case. Justice Departndnt should resist goals 'and quotas, resist race-con scious solutions of any type.” Writers of thfe chapter remain anony- • mous. Since White House Chief Cotawelor Ed Me*Se told tftis reporter "It is tfaa responsibility of Clarence Pendleton and others to communicate to the black community the Preaidant’s goals and objective*," and Pendleton admitted to this repwter that be was a good friend of Meese, coupled with the fact that Oris chap ter relate* views of con servative blacks, Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, with Moose’s ad mission to this reporter that an organisation ter which he belongs spon sored the San Francisco meeting that Sowell held to set up a Mack ceunsarva tive organization sad Mseas’s speech befose (he New Coalition, afUr as amgptien is that Mr. Meaae had a hand in making the fire Reagan appointments and the staff director of the reports that, a Mack col lege graduate baa less chance of a Job than a white high school graduate, and t blade high school graduate has' less chance than a white eighth grade grad uate. 1.1-» - t . - . ft Bunzel continues, “Die* rrimination has been used sacs sponge to absorb and explain everything, thus avoiding examination of many major factors (length and quality of edu cation, family background, attitudes, toward work, etc.)” This statement At* John Bunzel sound like a person who believes that blacks are innately inferior. Mack children and their parents have been victims of inferior, segregated schools and even in desegregated schools the attitude of the officials and faculty mem ber* who are heirs of Ills dd racial system. It is only human that these factors have a bearing an educa tion, fsasOy income and t attitudes towards school and work. S - Mr Bunael attempts to makg a compariaon be am! newer immigrants, such as, Cubans. Vietna mese, Koreans and Philip pines. These groups ere ■ dZimTinl thmT vkMiuonf and they vtort more accepted by the whites than blacky ^
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