Fahvefl And S. Africa: Intolerance fri Defense Of Intolerance
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Jerry Falwell has built
hie career aa a religioua
■; political leader ee aa in
* Mirant debating tactic. To
hear him tall it, there’,
only one poeitioo that a
“good Chrlattaa" can take
on Just about every poli
r deal issue. If you disMree
with Falwell, thedevil
made you dd U, for, as he
says of those who oppaifc
J him: “Our battle tanot
; with human beings. Our
v battle is with Satan him
“f aaK."
- Now, Falwell is using
■“ intolerant tactics to defend
one of -the iqoet intolerant
- social arrangements ad
earth: South Africa’s racist
i system of apartheid. He is
* debating the Issue of
United States policies to
S35.r
. Kc issae* oy questioning
the patriotism, the person
al character, and the re
ligious faith of people who
£ disagree with him.
Throughout the world,
people of good will were
shocked when Falwell
called Bishop Desmond
1 Tutu "a phony" for sup
porting economic sanctions
against South Africa As
the Anglican Bishop of
Johannesburg and a Nobel
Peace Prize winner,
Bishop Tutu’s international
reputation will survive Fal
weU’a crude attack and his
subsequent clumsy apolo
gy. But Falwell’s stuck
upon Bishop Tutu is typi
cal. of the fire-and-brim
stone he pours upon those
who oppose the South
. African government. $6, ‘
On May M, Falwell
used hie nationally tale
vised program. "Falwell
Live," to denounce the
Sojourners, a group of
evangelical Christians who
had demonstrated in
Washington earlier that
weak in opposition to apar
theid. Instead of simply <;
taking Issue with the So
journers' views on South
Africa, Falwell declared
v. }•- 1 ' . ’4
they aren’t sincere about
their religious beliefs. In
troducing two “rod her
rings” ' Into the debate,
Falweil attacked one lead
er of the Sojourner*, charg
ing that, as a pacifist, he
wouldn’t have fought Hit
ler, and claimed that the
Sojourners have failed to
protest Soviet atrocities.
Since returning from South
Africa, Fahrefl has also
made an ugly/personal
attack upon the Rev.
Joseph Lowery, president
of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference,
suggesting that his oppo
sition to apartheid is not to
be taken seriously because
he “will speak to any
me minority junior and
. senior high students have a
~ “tree bon” educational
' experience to look forward
to in their near future.
fmm The current college stu
dents are in the process of
taking the first steps on the
i. ladder of career success.
£ Schools such as barber*
Scotia College, Johtdon C.
•* Sndth University, and U*
5 vingstane College mold
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I Dr. Mabie McLean
.Barber-Scotia president..
uiene poiermai^DUSiness Tj
and social leaders into
well qualified candidates
for any field that they wish
to pursue.
Our very ftae Mack
college* strengthen oar
community and Oar nation
by training faculty and
staff personnel to: 1) leant
to effectively manage bud
gets, 2) perform, research
which can be published to
serve our dignified, noble,
young learners who repre
sent the future of our com
munity.
It is a fact that the over
whelming majority of pro
fessional black men and
women who have earned
graduate degrees obtained
some or aO of their un
dergraduate preparation at
a predominantly black
educational institution of
higher learning.
Again, congratula
tions to Dr. McLean, her
staff, and the Crfcord
Cabarrus community for
earning the full accredi
tation.
Mr. Johnson and his staff
at The Charlotte Poet
shouldexult in their timely
reporting of this event
Sincerely,
Richard Ellis
What Does South Africa Mean To Me?
socialism (the people own
ing the means of produc
tion and sharing in the
.profits; we have no place to
go, no place to call home.
However, Africa, the rich
est continent in the world,
win be free and African
- .- __
people all over the world
will benefit from Oils.
No longer wiB we be
forced to slave for the man,
putting money in his
pockets instead of our own.
We will be working for our
selves and for our Afri
can children who are the
rightful heirs to the rich
es of the continent. To
morrow belongs to our
children.
UHURU SASA' .
(Freedom Now!)
Issac Simmons
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poalttoo he’s paid for.”
Falwell has also attacked
the Work! Council of
Churches and the South
African Council of Church
es for supposedly backing
“Marxist activtUee.”
Following his return from
his brief trip to South Afri
ca, Falwell has mobilized
his entire televangelical
apparatus for s campaign
to build American support
for the South African go
vernment. Reaching mil
lions of viewers each
week, his television pro
grams - "The Old Time
Gospel Hour” and “Fal
well Live” - are broad
casting sliqk propaganda
defending ijthe Botha re
gime. Meanwhile, Falwell
is also using his religious
programming and his
monthly newspaper,
Moral Majority Report, to
urge Christians to buy
Krugerrands, the Sopth
Aincan goia com. . • •
Falwelf may never do
anything as thoroughly re
pugnant as his current at
tack to cloak apartheid in
the garb of. Christianity.
While Falwell is always
eager to claim that his own
political views are man
dated by the Bible, apar
theid contradicts the most
basic premises ot Ameri
cans’ religious and politi
cal heritages: that all
people are created in God’s
image and are endowed
with inalienable rights. It is
particularly contemptible
for Falwell to uiigeAqiiHf
cans as Christians to buy
Krugerrands when these
gold coins are mined by v
black workers employed
under conditions whose
brutality defies the moral
code shared by every ma
jor religion. As a vehe
ment “pro-family” advo
cate, Falwell should be
concerned that the miners’
families are forced to live
far away in their so-called
tribal “homelands’* and
need special govern
ment authorization just to
visit their husbands, fa
thers, and brothers in the
industrial areas. While the
Moral Majority has at
tacked die Equal Rights
Amendment and even child
abuse laws as ‘-‘anti
‘ ■ fix i ' ■!* * 'i •
family,” It apoarently
finds nothing objection
able about apartheid poli
cies that disrupt black
families. Americans who
understand the cruelty of
apartheid will not follow
FalweH’s siren song to sail
out their commitment to
human rights for 30 pieces
of Krugerrands.
Not surprisingly, most
religious leaders - in
South Africa, the United
States, and throughout the
world - oppose apartheid.
On the same day that Fal
well announced his millioo
dollar campaign to sup
port the South African
government, the leaders at
that nation’s Anglican, "'
Catholic, Methodist, Con
gregational and Presby
terian churches met with
Botha to urge the immedi
ate abolition of apartheid.
Here in the .United States,
leaders of the Protestant,
Catholic, and Jewish faiths ,
have all spoken out against
South Africa’s racial
Dolicies
Jerry Falwell’* state-',
meats on South Africa have "
halted his own effort to win
acceptance as a main
stream religious and poli
tical leader. Earlier this?
year, he apologized for his
past statements that have
been construed as anti
Semitic. In recent years,
Falwell has apologized for
his earlier support of
racial segregation in
America which be once
declared as “God’s law.”
Falwell took years to re
pudiate segregationism
and anti-Semitism, with
South Africa seething
with unrest, we don’t have
time to wait for Falwell to
apologize for his support of.
the racist regime. And,, if,
the past is any guide to fhe
future, Falwell will never
repudiate the most con
sistent feature of his pub
lic career: an intolerant
style of debate that he has
used to condone some of the
worst injustices of otir
timee, from the American
South of the lMQe to fhe
South Africa in the 1980s. '
Sincerely,
John Buchanan, Chairman
People for the
American Way
North Carolina ; *Ae..
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Thru September 9,1986 «
Fatalities to date 1065 . 1,015
>«■' Fatalities wearing seat belts , i i .
Seat belt survival Index.96%
Fatalities tb date 1984 .,954&
H Fatalities wearing seat belts.. .19
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Total Fatalities 1984. 1,448
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