V.:i CAHOHNA TIMES SAT.. MARCH 19, 1977
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By Warren Blackshear
T Carolina Rcaltist, the asso
ciation of black teal estate
broken, convened in Durham
last weekend to attend an edu
cational seminar where they
were appraised of the lastest
housing 'and real estate acti
vities around the country. The
two-day seminar was sponsored
by the National Association of
Real Estate Brokers, Inc.
(NAREB).
During the conference,
Johnson T. McQurkin, NAR
EB executive director, inform
ed The Carolina Times, that
Realtists are engaged in demon
stration projects in order to
generate additional activity
during the housing slump of
the past two years. McClurkin
pointed out a highly success
ful housing rehabilitation pro
gram in Los Angeles as an
example.; .
,An interview with McClur
kin"and John D. Thompson,
NAREB national president,
revealed that realtists are work
ing to prevent the further
decay of neighborhoods in
habited by blacks.
"Realtists are very much
involved, in. public housing
programs in Houston, Chicago
and parts of Oklahoma,"
Thompson said. They are in
volved in every aspect of real
estate including the develop
ment of housing units spon
sored by the realtists them
selves, he pointed out.
He said that in inner city
neighborhoods, discrimination
in appraisals still runs "ram
pant". Appraisals in white nei
ghborhoods differs signifi
cantly than those inhabited by
blacks to an insensitivity of
white brokers, he said..
The NAREB headquar
tered in the nation's capitol,
is conducting various consumer
oriented programs "to put
something back into the
community we serve," he said.
He pointed out that the real
tists are working with the black
press on a national level and
encourage it for their mem
bers. Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett,
president of the National
Newspaper Publishers Associa
tion (the Black Press of Ameri
ca) was the main speaker
for the national convention of
realtists, he pointed out. Also
many local realtists frequently
use black newspapers to ad
vertise their properties.
, McClurkin said a new
program developed by the asso
ciation was a consumer housing
program on Howard Univer
sity's radio station, WHURl'
Each week new information is
given to tenants, home owners
and prospective buyers. Met by
a responsive audience, the pro
gram has assited veterans to
purchase property in conjunc
tion with a nonveterans. '
The seminars are given to
educate new members and
sharpen the skills of others.
Other speakers addressing the
seminar wre Samuel Jackson
former assistant .secretary ' of
the U. S. Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), Willie R.
Jackson, III, president of J. J.
& Associates, Inc.; Miller John
son, ': Jr., president Citywide
Associates, Inc. '. i
oil fields, which supplied s
great part of the nation's
wealth and foreign exchange.
Controlling an - independent
Biafra would have meant effec
tive control over a fair portion
of West Africa. Today, Nigeria
is the world's sixth largest oil
exporter, and sends to the
U. SI more oil than Saudi
Arabia! Nigeria is also a powerful-backer
of the Zimbawe
Liberation struggle.
v lhus, ;i the murder ot
Patrice Lumumba of the Con
go, now called Zaire was in
stigated outside Africa. Lum
umba was a Pan Africanist
and strategist who knew that
he' who controlled the Congo
would be able , to determine
events to all ; of Southern
Africa. , His opponents also
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knew this. Following his mur-" huge reserves of oil and possi
der a military man took over "-'-My vast reserves beneath the ,
and following the advise of Atlantic Ocean further out.
his ' mentors succeeded in
bankrupting the country. To
day the World Bank and other
financial institutions are de
sperately trying to save the
Zairean economy.
Thus, in Angola, the
MPLA forces were the
atrocity perpetrators. At one
moment, in the Angolan
, struggle, former Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger asked for
help to stop the MPLA. from
gaining victory. Today we
know this: that Angola with
its small population and vast
territory is one of Africa's
richest nations in raw
materials. In addition to this,
at the Cabinda enclave are
Uganda is interesting be-;
cause Idi Amin was helped into
power by those forces who
feared the socialist ideas of
former President Milton Obote.
Idi Amin was considered to be.
a reliable man in Israeli mili- .
tary and intelligent circles, as
he ,was;.in similar v British '
circles. . '-'.
" Idi Amin is hot a fool nor r
stupid. He now realize; that
the nations of the Third World
are on the ascendancy and that
they will determine the course
of world developments. They
will determine to a large de
gree whether ; or not the in
dustrial nations will be per
mitted to dominate the World
economy. Idf Amin sees a new
vision. He is a faithful Moslem
with i little - higher education,
and at middle age, is coming
with, intense energy, intelli
gence and a pragmatic style -to
the "same conclusions as his'
better educated peers. '
Idi Amin is a dog to the
press of the world and a vicious
murderer to the man in the
street. Nevertheless, it is very
strange that . South Africa's
Prime Minister -who order the
Shooting of Soweto's school
children, should be treated
with discreet . respect ' by the
press and that Rhodesia's
Prime Minister Ian Smith, the
methodical burner of African
villages and torturer of Afri
can women, should be con
sidered a responsible politi
cal leader.
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No Money
For Biases
BY CARL T.ROWAN
Over the last eight years the
nation's Civil Rights Laws have
become a joke. Racists North and
South made a mockeiy of provi
sions to cut off Federal funds from
school districts and other juris
dictions that practiced racial and
sexual discrimination.
The racists knew that neither the
Nixon nor the Ford administra
tions would put their hearts into
enforcement of Civil Rights Laws.
In the last five years, even though
racial segregation and discrimina
tion were on the increase in the
North, not one school district has
been denied funds for violating
Civil Rights statutes. -
The Nixon and Ford White
Houses, were quick to get rid of
any head of the Office of Civil
Rights in the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare who, acted
as though he or she was serious
about enforcing both the letter and
spirit of the laws . ' ;
Well, things are changing under
the Carter Administration and the
leadership of HEW Secretary .
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
A few days; ago Joe jCalifano
warned the NatronV school of
ficials that dnce agaiaUncle Sam is
waging war on racism. He said that
school districts may discriminate
racially and sexually, but they
won't do it with Federal funds.
Hours later Chicago's public
school system was notified that be
cause of Civil Rights violations it
faced the cutoff of more than
$100,000,000.
Administrative law Judge
Everett J. Hammarstrom had
found that Chicago's school system
had concentrated Black teachers
too heavily in predominantly Black
schools while populating other
schools almost exclusively, with
White administrators, . White
teachers and White students.
Califano points out that HEW
had "no desire ever to cut off funds
to any school district or other edu
cational institution, but the way to
ensure compliance with Civil
Rights Laws is to make clear that
we will order fund cutoffs if we
must."
That is the only way to restore
the integrity of HEW's Civil Rights
program; it is the only way to re
store a respect for the law.
, Califano is to.be commended for
jumping out front on this issue.
Let it be noted that Attorney
General Griffin Bell, the Georgian
who went through an ordeal of fire
before being confirmed by the
Senate, has named Drew S. Days.
Ill, a Black former lawyer for the
NAACP, as his assistant Attorney
General heading the Civil Rights
Division. This suggests that Bell
means business, too, when it
comes to enforcing the law relating
to voting rights, racists conspiring
to violate the Civil Rights of
minorities, cops abusing citizens
and the sort.
You can expect Mrs. Patricia
Roberts Harris, Secretary of Hous
ing and Urban Development, to
hold back Federal funds from those
who perpetrate and perpetuate pat
terns of Jim Crow housing.
And F. Ray Marshall, the Sec
retary of Labor, can. strike some
major blows for economic justice if
he uses the purse strings to squeeze
unions and employers into a fairer
system of training, hiring and
promotion.
We have applauded President
Jimmy Carter for keeping his prom
ise to name many Blacks to pres
tigious, decision-making posts.
That is important. But far more im
portant to the great mass of Black
Americans is his obvious decision
to have his Cabinet members put
their hearts into enforcing Civil
Rights Laws. "
That is moral leadership. And if .
i the Cabinet follows rwith the firnn
ness expressed by Joe Califano,
Black Americans will know that
they voted wisely last November.
More than 200 educators
are expected to attend the
spring meeting of the North
Carolina State Federation of
the Council for Exceptional
Children: The meeting will
be held in Durham, March
25-26 with North Carolina
Central University serving as
host.
Dr. Octavis B. Knight, pre
sident of the state federation
and director of NCClTs special
education programs, said the
theme of the conference will
be "Prograrnming for the
Needs of Exceptional
Children." The sessions will be
held at the Ramada Inn in
downtown Durham.
Judith Pilch, regional pro
gram planner, for the Western
Regional Education Center in
Canton, is chairman of the
council's program committee.
Simultaneous presenta
tions in the areas of individual
education planning, the chang
ing role of special teachers, and
services and programming for
the severely handicapped will
be offered during the meet
ing. Each paper presentedwill
be read three times so that all
participants may hear each pre
sentation. ' Program coordinators are
Carolyn Cobb of the division
of public personnel services of
the N. C. Department of Public
Instruction, Douglas Carter of
the Forsyth County school
system, and Kitty Hyer of the
Burke County school system.
A stipend of $10 will be
provided to the first 200 public
school employees to register.
The stipend is provided by the
division for exceptional
children of the N. C. Depart
ment of public instruction.
Registration is scheduled
at 10 aan. Friday, March 25, at
the downtown Ramada Inn.
Tne first program session is
scheduled at 1 pjn. '
Nov Flower World Shop Helps
Boding Executives
AGP Sabtcs Wodod On Now
Rcdb Procrca
Ed Washington of Gerber
Carter Communications, Mar
keting Director on the Great
Atlantic and Pacifici's minority
advertising account announced
that A -A P is sponsoring a
series of programs on Bl
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Shirley D. Few, President
of the Durham YWCA,
i announced this week that its
i Board of Directors had authori
; zed the purchase of a tract of
land at the intersection of
S South Duke and Jackson Street
as a site for a new facility
which is expected to be com
.! pleted within the next three
years.
The building site is to be
purchased from Home Security
r Life-insurance Company, and
; Home Security will, in turn,
purchase the old YWCA site
f on Chapel Hill Street.
radio.
The programs entitled
"Ms. Minutes" are one minute
vignettes which will highlight
the achievements and contri
butions that black women and
women in general have made
and are continuing to make
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Th oir A frtr "Mo v
Minutes" In yoirfarea is March
21 and will runn continuously
twice, daily for 26 weeks on
radio station WSRC.
, Look for features on such
outstanding women as: Shirley
Chisholm, Barbara Jordan and
Diana Ross. "Ms.
Minutes" program sponsored
by A & P is a part of the com
pany's continuing commitment
to minority advertising.
South Square Mall Flo
wer World, a gift and florist
shop celebrating its grand
opening March 16-19, will be
come a laboratory for future
business leaders.
Sidney Dunston, the shop
owner, has arranged with the
Small Business Administration
and the University of North
Carolina for business students
to gain practical working ex
perience at Flower World.
Dunston, the first black
Flower World owner, is also
the first to perceive of his
shop as business administra
tion laboratory.
The owner himself has
graduate training in business
and has recently completed an
intensive training program in
florist shop management and
floral arranging at Flower
World of America headquar
ters, West Deptford, N. J.
The new Durham shop is
one of more than 225 Flower
World Stores in North
America. It specializes in fresh
flowers, artificial and dried
arrangements, wicker items,
plants and stuffed toys. Gifts
and special discounts will be
offered during Grand Open
ing. Dunston selected South
Square Mall for his venture
"because of its location in Ji
progressive community in the
heart of the Research Tri
angle, where people have the
money and the -interest to
appreciate flowers."
He and his wife, Jamel,
live in Louisburg with then
two children.
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