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—THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT., NOVEMBER 15, 1068 2A This past week was designated Youth Appreciation Week, an idea that has good intent. However, we are constantly reminded of the dis parity between what is intended, and what is actually the case. Our youth are our hope for the future but this hope is rapidly failing as a majority of our young people run roughshod over the principles of decency and re spect. In regard to this, an incident re ported in the news media comes to mind. There is the case of two girls who allegedly accused a man of giv ing them an apple with two razor blades imbedded in it during their trick or treat forays. Of course this created a tremendous furor, with the accused finally spending three days in jail as a result of the charge. However, it was finally disclosed that the girla had concocted the whole story because they became angry when the apple the old man had given them was bruised. This type of inci dent illustrates a very glaring defi ciency in our child rearing methods. It is indeed a sad state of affairs when our children have no more re- We are unable to put our finger on the reason for the sorry, listless and downright poor showing made by the black voting machinery in the sales tax election held on November 4. We say without fear of successful contradiction that no election in the past has seen such a poor showing on the part of Durham's black citi zens. Two questions loom glaringly before us and will not go away. Was it the lack of leadership on the part of the Durham Committee on Negro Affairs as a whole? Or was it due to the lade of leadership on the part of the chairman of the political de partment of the DCNA? For the past 25 years or more, dur ing which the office of this news paper has been the headquarters for the political efforts of the DCNA, we have never seen an election in which not one worker, or official of the political department of the or ganization, was seen at the headquar ters in search of working material or instructions from or by the political chairman, who, to make it worse was not on hand during the entire day. Often if one looks deep enough Into the swirling muck of decadence that is our world today, a ray of hope is spotted. Such was the case at the first annual awards meeting of the Human Relations Commission Wed nesday night. Awards were given to individuals and institutions that in the Commis sion's opinion had rendered much service in the area of human rela tions. All the recipients of certifi cates were very deserving of the rec ognition they received. But one in particular stood out like a glowing beacon in the foggy mist of doubt. Alger Marable was cited for his work this summer with the Opera tion Municipal Services. It was noted by the director that this young man had worked all the summer, eight hours a day, asking only that they give him the chance to work. In many Bmy Ton SUM Know h/XZMc * LEW'S- ..CTw ... EDUCATED AT AMHERST AND HE BECAME A /FT MEMBER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS LEBIBLATURE AND ABSISTANTU.S. 61 DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN BOSTON./HIS LATER APPOINTMENT TO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE ÜB.WAB DEFENDED BY PREBIDENT TAFT./ i, * »«>; •• "*ft v\/ i , Parents, Wake UP! The Future of DCNA A Diamond in the Rough spect for themselves and others than to defame the character of an inno cent person because of childish ani mosity. The above incident is not an excep tion to the general rule, but when compared with some of the other things our youth do it seems to lack real seriousness. For when you con sider the fact that more teenagers than adults are arrested annually for serious crimes, the picture is defini tely foreboding. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover has said our youth have be come America's biggest headache. His words are strangely familiar, for as an ancient seer put it: "As for my people . . . children are their oppres sors ..." A youth appreciation week is in deed a good idea, but 52 weeks of youth appreciation would be immen sely letter. Parents need to heed the handwriting on the wall and begin wisely leading their children to ma turitv rather than just observing them as they grow up. Either we ac cept the responsibility of raising them or we suffer the consequences of not doing so. Add to the above that it is reported not a worker was seen at one polling place in the entire city or county and you have somewhat of a pretty good picture just how the situation stood as a whole. t The record of the DCNA will dis close that over the years the black vote has more than once been the determining factor of Durham's ver dict in city, county, state, and na tional elections. They will likewise disclose that such has been the result only when the leadership has worked diligently to arouse interest of both black voters and workers. It is with a degree of regret that duty forces this newspaper to call for a complete overhauling of the DCNA. Our date with destiny and our debt to unborn generations of blacks will not allow us to hold our peace in the face of such a disastrous situa tion. It is our hope therefore that the leaders of the DCNA will arise to the occasion and take the step that is so badly needed if thie organization is to continue as the guiding factor of the black citizens of Durham. person this would be commendable, but it becomes even more notable be cause Alger M arable is only sixteen years old. Today it is rare indeed to find a sixteen-year-old willing to work, much less willing to work for noth ing more than the satisfaction de rived from a job well done. Then too, after seeing this young man we are not surprised that he has done this. For even at his young age, the light of purpose shines in his eyes. He is tall and slender, with almost regal bearing, cleancut and neat. His hand shake is firm, and his demeanor po lite. In other words, Alger Marable is a youth to be appreciated. He is a real diamond in the rough. The Carolina Times thus congratu lates Alger Marable, and the parents that have done such an excellent job of preparing him for life's hrd pulL —r^L^ llo decide When Protest la Interference? 1 °W MAY AN ARTICLE IN THE ATLANTIC asJm MONTHLY BY ELIZABETH B. DREW, QUOTED DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL Afo 5 ifl RICHARD KLEINDIENST AS SAYING*IF fj The View W By MILTON JORDAN j For many yean the name "uncultivated gold mine" would have been a very ap propriate title for Ilayti. For more decades than anyone would care to remember this well-known, even renown ghetto of Durham was noted for its delapidated buildings facing Petti grew Street, hous ing struggling business con cerns. Behind Pettigrew on the mish-mash of narrow streets *nd alleyways living structures sagged in various stages of de cay. Swirling clouds of dust were the companions of good weather, and boggy rivers of mud the comrades of rain, sleet land snow. But for all of Its decay and degeneracy, Ilayti was liotf poor. Many a fine brick home now gracing the better sections of Durham were built with the money gleaned from various legitimate, and not so legiti mate enterprises in Ilayti. There has always been money in Hayti, even as there is money in the neighborhood now. Thus the premise of po verty stated in this column lask week is reemphasized again. Poverty is not always a lack of money, but often a mismanagement of money. It goes without saying that Ilayti is blighted and rundown. It is also a fact that a great pro portion of the crime and social problems have their breecflng ground in Durham's forgotten section. However, just aft there is a reason for everything else, there is a reason for this. Years ago Black people sold their town within a town down the river. They forsook it, and if they ever struggled from the confines of its boundaries, they denied it. Situated as it is on the other side of downtown, separated from respectability by the railroad, Itayti was al ways considered to be the "wrong side of the tracks." TTiose who were born and reared amid the teening brothels of immorality and "white lightning" fell into one of two categories. Either they learned to accept the squalor and filth and exist in it, or they learned to hate the place and longed for nothing more than to get as far from it as they possibly could. Some did get away. Some graduated (torn high school,, went to college, and then took jobs downtown. If they , did not go downtown they at least cut the umblical cord of their nativity. The young, the strong, the people with the training, the intelligence, the power if you will, fled. They refused to help the uncrowned king of Durham's Black neigh borhoods realize its true poten tial. They fled from the degra dation, the stigma and the sickening stench of humanity dying a slow and agonizing death. But in fleeing, they also betrayed those struggling pio-' neers of Black Durham who viewed the virgin forests of Hayti and dreamed of an e .1- pire. They left those gallant souls who poured their blood, sweat and tears into Ilayti to carve fro n the untamed wilder ness the beginning of that drea.n They left those courageous warriors of progress who in the face of prejudice, bigotry and seemingly insurmontible odds managed to start on the jour ney to glory for Black people in Durham. The young ran out, and the weather beaten old folks were left to fend for themselves as best they could, and to sink into the bottom less oblivion of obscurity. Those traitors have sown the win# they will reap the whirl wind. I, fr, 1 Hayti is dying, but the sec tion is not dying a death of obscurity. It, like the fabled Phoenix bird, is falling into the flames on the funeral pyre of progress, only to rise agidn in reborn splendor. But the new Ilayti will not be t£e Hayti of Black people, \7hite people will take over this time. Black people have a history of lying to themselves to cover up for a lack of knowledge, and have therefore duped themselves in to believing prejudice is the reason the east-west express way is snaking through the heart of their "home." They have also come to believe the lie that the primary reason foi urban renewal is to remove them fro n their rootc. Pre judice did not cause the death of a dying neighborhood; and the rebirth of another one. Prejudice is what forstalled the idea for so long. It is the ability of white people to see the amazing potential of Ilayti that has pushed Black people to the brink of losing "their thing." And Black people must bear the principle blame; we allowed it to happen. It is a study in paradox to see just how it occurred. 1. There were at one time many Black businesses in Hay ti: restaurants, theaters, barber shops, grocery stores, insurance companies, shoe shops, novel ty stores, realtors, and a host of others. Rather than support these concerns that were sub standard mainly because they lacked support, Black people spent thousands of dollars and even went to jail to "beg" the white man for crumba from his table. 2. Rather than show grati tude for the mothers and fathers who literally worked themselves to death to educate OfcCarcMa (Bmea (UdMat PubUthed every Saturday at Dumom, N. C. by United PubUthers, Inc. L. E. AUSTIN, PublUher J. ELWOOD CARTER. ..Advertising Manager Second Class Postage Paid at Durham, N. C. 27702 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 per year phis (15c tax in N. C.) anywhere in the U.S., and Canada and to servicemen Overseas; Foreign, $7.50 per year, Single copy 20c. PTEWCAPAL OFFICE LOCATED AT 436 E. RAIMJGW STEEET, DDMAM, NOKTH CAEOUNA 27702 "I their young, the hope of the * black socfety sold out to the > white ; nan's higher salary. True 1 you make more money, but at the cost of your pride and your 11, heritage. 5 3. Pather than exibit dedi -5 cation and a willingness to * sacrifice for future progress, 5 Black people ran v/ay to the enticing, bewitching arms of ® overnight "success." The list could continue ad JaXhtf tum. But enough has been, r said to establish the fact that ' Black people, f layti's own, have made a drastic mistake. Thus into the void of error steps the white :an, his ingen uity, his money, his dqdicf * tion to betterment; and he c " reaps the reward of our igno rance. Solid thinking is behind ' this entire program of renewal. The expressway is following itsr 1 only logical route. There is no other place for a east-west ' thoroughfare to carry traffic ! through Durham without clog ging Main Street. To have the f expressway in Hope Valley r would not be sensible. Hie ex ! pressway jeans money, and Slack people should be the ones getting that money, but we have let the area deterioate ' 1 to the extent that we must see their dream fall under the blade of white progress. Black ' r progress was stabbed in the ! back by Jilack unconcern. 3ut you who betrayed that struggling generation shall not evade punishment. Those dying souls displaced by urban re newal must have some place to go. Of course no place is left but those spacious areas to which you ran. You have tried to escape, but there is no place to hide. You left the sluma without realizing that slums are not buildings and tilings, but. people - minds and values warped out of pmpective. Therefore, the portent of your future is a thudding, sicken ing reversal to where you be gan. You have sown the wind; you will reap the whirlwind. Apparently, it is too late to atone for past mistakes, but what is happening now should be a well-learned lesson for you. Oddly enough it see: is i that fat* has deemed for you a second chance. Don't blow this one. Don't run again. Stand up And fight. United we stand, moving ahead to pro gress. Divided we fall Into stagnate decay and blight. 1 I "HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT FEAR" H m By Rev. & A. Mack Text; Proverbs 28, 1. "The wicket flee when no man pu* sueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion." There is nothing like a guil ty conscience to drive a man to fear. 1 He knows what he has done, and he is afraid someone else knows too, He is afraid some times to open his mail, or an swers his phone, for fear his sin has caught up with him at last Actually, probably no one knows, not yet That will come, For sin always breaks out into the open one way or another. Bur meanwhile wrong doers are tortured by the fear that good men have found them out this is one of the penalties of sin- There is a solution for this fear, a sin confessed is a sin forgiven, the way to clear the conscience is to repent deep down in the heart, and a clear conscience is a life of peace Once we have laid our sins at Jesus cross, we can be like the righteous, living without fear. Our verse says - "The righteous are bold as a lion." A man who has done no WHITNEY M. YOUNG No More ONCE AGAIN, fch-e Supreme Court has spoken. In a unanimous ruling, it affirmed the unconstitutionality of seheol segregation. . ' ! *TW s '&BF?£ l atidtt , of evfcry" school district is to terminate ckial sywemtt srt'ioncw.'t theteourt key phrase is"at dnce." Thsrt phrase is important because many thousands of black high school students are now in all-black schools studying great moments in American history—including the Supreme Court's decision to outlaw those same segregated schools, a decision made when those students were still 'lnfants. Back in 1954, seventeen Southern and border states and the District of Columbia had separate school systems for white and black pupils. But the Court, in ordering an end to such segregation, said they should integrate with "all deliberate speed." Desegregation proceeded with more deliberateness than speed. Many school districts resisted the Court's orders. Other# waited for federal district courts—many with racist judges who were unwilling to act—to order them to desegre gate. S'till others waited for pressures from federal authori ties before complying. Paper Compliance, Tokenism The result was a slow, unsteady pattern of paper com pliance, tokenism, and often, outright defiance. The process wa s complicated by irresponsible political leaders who seemed to have visions of themselves as embattled Confede rates defying the Union. Politics, as usual, played a part in encouraging illegal defiance otf the Court. Federal authorities were wary of stirring discontent among racist voters, and title miaeduca tion of black children was seen as a small price to pay for party harmony. In recent years, federal pressure was stepped up and a greater measu-e of integration was achieved. But this was endangered by the Nixon Administration's decision to allow school districts still defying the law "more time" to comply. They've hid fifteen yean. Why did they need more time? Black people waited fifteen years for the law of the land to be enforced. We've waited 350 years for black chil dren to have the sam e rights as white children. But South ern districts who defied the law rated more sympathy than black people who wanted to abide by the law. Po's And Don'ts wrong need fear no judge. A man with clean hands can look the whole world In the face. It takes bold men to do God's work In a hostile world, A man must be strong, un afraid of criticism, and not fearful of opposition, is doing what he knows is right A man with a guilty conscience can not be strong enough to face up to life and the claims of Christ But that boldness is possible for all who confess their sins and repent No be liever in Christ has to fear any thing in this world, anc cou rage is the keynote of every great life, Adam disobeyed God and hid mihself behind an apron when God called to him in the cool of the evening. Moses killed an Egyptian and burried him in the sand and was put on the run because his conscience made him fear for his life, Judas sold Christ over to his enemies for thirty pieces of silver and his conscience drove him to kill himself, so let us pray that God will make us bold in working for the kingdom in this world,
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