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ST. JOSEPH'S MUST DE SAVED
Wc welcome the move by a group
of concerned Durham prtffens who
have formed steering committee to
seek ways of saving St. Joseph's
A.M.E. Church.
St. Joseph's the oldest black
church in Durham, is scheduled to be
torn down within the year to make
room for a new shopping center, and
if sanctuary further down Fayctteville
Street that is an architectural
monstrosity. Plans for the new
structure, one of those hideous
gbsspbstpaiaces that so desecrate the
national landscape, resembles a motel
or a highway truck stop.
We think St. Joseph's should be
saved.
We think St. Joseph's sho Id be
saved, because we find in too many
instances that black people, like
members of other ethnic and racial
groups, seem to be in the words of
one British historian, "in a hurry to
destroy their heritage."
For some reason or another,
progress in this country has come to
mean tearing down and building.
There is further irony in this that is
reflected by the return of many
Americans from Europe with tales of
the got hie splendor and beauty of the
ancient cathedrals and monuments.
Wc arc nearing the end of the
month traditionally set aside for the
celebration of the accomplishments of
black American history. A discussion
of one of the Black History Week
topic. "Historical Monuments it is
then, that one of Durham's most
noted black landmarks is earmarked
for destruction. How truly
unfortunate it is that this edifice, built
in 1892 by black hands, with bricks
made by black hands should be
destroyed hi the name of "progress,"
in this case a shopping center.'
St. Joseph's is still a useable
structure, if not for religious worship,
then surely for the use of some
community groups. If there is a will a
way can be found to keep the
structure standing as a monument that
future generations can look to as a
testament to the dedication and faith
of a proud people.
If we would be true to our
heritage, if we would be true to our
young, if we would be true to
assertions that we arc proud of our
past, in short - if we would be true to
the conviction that strong monuments
and institutions are a mark of a
'Strong people, then a way will be
found to save St. Joseph's.
The church should be preserved.
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. . . Organized, in 1913, in Chicago the
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY Of NEGRO LIFE
AND HISTORY FOR THE PAST U YEARS THIS
ASSOCIATION HAS DONE WONDROUS AND
WIDESPREAD RESEARCH AND PUBLISHED MANY
BOOKS AND SUCH PERIODICALS AS THE JOURNAL
OF NEGRO HISTORY ANOTHE NEGRO HISTORY
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THE CODDLED CORPORATIONS
This government corns its expenses by taxation, borrowing
and collecting the receipts for various social insurance programs
from employees and employers. The mote the government
operates from within its collected taxes and receipts, the less the
government has to borrow, and the less fa debt the government
needs to be.
Essential to the cost of government, is the obligation of an
augments of the society to pay their fair share of taxes.
Presently, according to the federal government, the largest tax
contributors to the nation are the individual taxpayers, who pay
30 percent of every Ux dollar collected. Private corporations,
who ought to be paying more, are paying a mere 14 percent of
every tax dollar collected. And there's the rub, mainly because of
the fact that private corporations are more and more unloading
the cost of government on to the shoulders of the average wage
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To De Equal
By VERNON E. JORDAN, JR.
National Director of Urban League
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NEW YORK'S MASSIVE RESISTANCE
There's very little to be said in favor of
people who are outspokenly against
desegregating the schools except that they
are at least honest about it.
There's no mistaking the feelings of the
people of South Boston who hoot at and
throw rocks at black children bused into
their neighborhood. Nor is there any mistake
to be made about the old -tine last-ditch
segregationists who' never fieard of the I960
and cling to their racism. 4 " - "
But all of these people, however mistaken
they may be, however vicious the result if
their racism is, still say openly what's on
their minds. That is something you can deal
with it's all out in the open.
But there's another kind of new
segregationist who's made an appearance.
And this breed is more subtle and
sophisticated than the old. Hell pay lip
service to the ideal of integration. Hell even
talk at length about what a shame it is that
schools are still segregated.
And in an excess of dishonesty, hell even
condemn those who throw rocks and act in
such an ugly manner. After all, why throw
rocks or drop your good manners when the
same results can be accomplished in other
ways.
What spurs me to these comments is the
roost recent - and most blatant - of the acts
of what I call the subtle segregation that,
stripped of its double-talk, means that it is
adopting the South's old discredited
"massive resistance policy." New York's
Regents seem determined to demonstrate, to
their shame, that there is more than one way,
to stand in the schoolhouse door.
Their policy statement is framed in such a
way as to gain support by using code words.
For example, it starts out by saying that
"Integration does not, by definition, require
that racial quotas be used " But waving
the red flag of quotas backfired. The
American Jewish Congress, long opposed to
racial quotas, quickly condemned the
HecentA' statement. decUriMi it .a .
"We'have difficulty understanding how
the extent of integration in a school district,
and the effectiveness of an integration
program, can be ascertained without
reference to numerical progress in a
school basis.
What in the World does it imply then?
How can you have racial integration without
some sort of numerically fair distribution of
white and black pupils? This statement of
policy, which will deal race relations in New
York a terrible setback, was opposed by the
state's top educational authorities who were
about to launch a series of integration orders
to various cities still operating segregated
school systems.
The statement is also bound to trigger
similar actions by other state bodies
elsewhere, which must lead to
confrontations between state authorities and
the courts. That is because the Regents and
similiarly-minded authorities conveniently
forget that desegregation is not their's to
grant or to withhold. It is a constitutional
right, one the Supreme Court has
promulgated and upheld in numerous cases.
If the Federal Government could collect a fair share of the
taxable income from the corporate sector, the present $51 billion
deficit in the Presdient's fiscal year 1976 budget, would be less of
a problem.
In tax year 1973, ten corporations with profits of $976
million (or more) paid absolutely jh federal coporate income tax.
They should have paid at least a minimum of $244 million in
taxes. This amount would almost reasonably cover the rescission
request to Congress that HEW wants to deduct from education
programs for which Congress has appropriated funds The $244
million would provide certain education services to the nation's
elementary and secondary schools, handicapped programs,
vocational programs, higher education institutions and library
resource programs.
For the same tax year (1973) another 20 corportions with
$5,285,555,000 billion in profits paid the federal governemtn
between one and ten percent in federal corporate income taxes,
for a total of $226,894,000 million. By law these corporations
should be paying the statutory rate of 48 percent (or $2.5
billion). Or $1.3 billion, if the average effective Ux rate of 25
percnet is used to compute the tax contribution, since most
corporations seem to be taxes on the basis of the average effective
rate.
But even alarming, is the fact that America' s 100 largest
industrial corporations over the past three years, have
consistently reduced or even eliminated their federal tax
obligations. Their average effective corporate tax rates were 29.6
percent in 1971, 29.3 percent in 1972, and 27.1 percent in 1973.
It at conservatively estimated that if these 100 corporations
pay their fair share of just the benefits of the tax loopholes they
received in 1974, which will be about $51.5 billion, then the
federal 1976 budget deficit of $51.9 billion would almost
disappear.
There is aa obvious need for tax reform, even in this most
dreadful of all recessions, swelling profits are being made by these
100 giant corporations and they are not equitably carrying their
own tax responsibilities. The high cost of government requires
closing every and all tax loopholes, in order to break even on the
nation's staggering expenses.
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THE POOR: VICTIMS OF
AHY PflODLEGS
HI lack (History Week
At a conference called several years ago to see
how black scholars could serve the broad needs of
black Americans best, one scholar noted significantly:
"If all of the facilities of our black colleges were to
be placed on the South Side of ' Chicago, the
educational needs of these blacks, alone would
hardly begin to be met."
The statement should be startling, in one respect,
and par for the course, in another respect. When wc
consider that it is never the slavcmastcrV or ex
ploiter's purpose to educate the enslaved or the
exploited, it is quite understandable that our
educational institutions would be woefully inade
quate to meet black people's needs. ;'
For (hose among us who have assumed - quite
falsely - that we have been on the right track and
all that is needed is "improvement of what we are
doing, such a statement as that with which we
began would be amazing or perplexing, to say
the least.
It should be aa elementary observation that, in
our reward and credential-oriented society, black
consumer-citizen need to have the benefits of
continuing education not only to survive but also
to effect the kinds ot revolutionary and more
modest changes which the fullest lite in our
society requires. v.
Black consumer-citizens arc held back from most
of the better paying jobs because of a lack of
credentials. A high school education may suffice
for many white Americans but not as for black
. Americans, who must have better credentials.
It take a black man or woman with three years of
college to earn a much as a white aaaa or woman
with a high school educaliou...exccpt in rare caacs.
Even with a high school education, asost black
citizens cannot go on to college simply because
'their diploma is marked "non-academic". Wack
Americans, then, need asost desparaiely the
opportunity , to secure high school equivalency
education and certification of aa academic nature.
Since most blacks must work-often at more than
one job - in order to make end meet, there is
little time to go away from home for study. Ilince,
black persons ought to be afforded the opportunity
of, and encouragement in, "at-honc" study both
for high school equivalency of academic merit and
for the three or more years of college necessary to
climb the bottom ruup of the American socio
economic
Black educational needs on a large scale can be
met best on what has been catted traditionally an
"extension education;" bask. Years ago, while in
the Army, I earned correspondence college credits
from Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. These credits
are still on my transcripts today and helped push me
along toward aa eventual five-earned college degrees.
Wc trick and deceive ourselves as black people
when we arc drawn into the, fictitious assumption
that more formal education, and especially a
college education, Js "simply a white man's
trick bag." If a wbiu American's education is filled
with tricks, it enables the white American to
thrive particularly well. We need to understand
those tricks both in order to survive well ourselves
and to be able to alter or; destroy those tricks,
'if we so choose. -''" ' : ,
Aa ignorant or uneducated race will always he a
race enslaved and exploited people until they change
their status. . Our best prepared people should be
open to every opportunity for education for the
masses of black Americans. Wc need to enable our
black-owned and operated ' newspapers to play a
major role in pubUshing extension course materials
which are presently available and through which high
school equivalency certification anaVcoUcge credits
may be achieved. Wc can help them be able to
assy be achieved. We can help them to be able to
help us by supporting their paper aad encouraging
every local retailer where we shop to advertise
fas your black-owned newspaper, la this way, we
might, aesiat even more substantially in the con
tinuing need to empower and liberate our race.
The poor in America have a
higher unemployment rate,
greater incidence of hunger,
malnutrition and disease than
their more affluent
counterparts. To the long list
of problems of the poor, has
been added one more. Recent
federal crime statistics indicate
that poor people are more
likely to be victims of violent
crime such as rape, robbery
and assault, than those persons
with money.
According to the survey,
both whites and blacks from
families earning below $7,500
a year "had the higher rates of
violent victimizations," than
did persons with higher
incomes.
The survey, conducted by
the Census Bureau for the Law
Enforcement Assistance
Administration also found that
85 of every 1000 black males
were victims of a crime in the
first half of 1973, 72 or every
1000 white males, 58 of every
1000 black female and 54 of
every 1000 white females.
These statistics tend to
prove what most of us have
already known: the growing
correlation between crimes of
violence and deteriorated
neighborhoods where essential
human services are grossly
audequate. Government and
corporate insensitivity would
make us believe that it doesnt
matter if children don't receive
a proper education in the
ghettos or adequate nutrition
hi their homes, but very
obviously the facts show
otherwise.
In noting thse facts the
Justice Department's Law
Enforcement Assistance
Administration Administrator,
Richard W. Vede, has
appropriately said such new
information will complement
crime statistics of the police
and Federal Bureau of
Investigation. However, just
adding of information isn't
enough. It is important that all
persons working in combating
crime sensitize their efforts in
accordance with this and other
such information.
Soviet, British Sign
Cooperation Pact
MOSCOW . - Soviet and
British leaders signed wide
ranging cooperation agree
ments today, formalizing what
lYime Minister Harold Wilson
called a "fresh start" in Anglo
Soviet relations.
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