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x x i n V -V .. T C.AnOLlNATTMS SAT., 0ECEM3ER 24. 1977 -. t. ... ... . . ... . - ,....:.. j..-- ... . . ', . . ,( . . - .7! LL DURHAM CONTINUE TO FAVE OVER HS . PROBLEMS ; ? GtVDM.raEGKJ Olaclrs and Energy t- . r -'. - ; x x jr.. 4 nnnnrrri'1:' " " " ''rwg . For the average American, the mere mention . -crvfl rights Issue. There is no doubt that energy of a fuel crisis brings back nightmares of 1973, --, costs will spiral in coming months; the only waen us uau ui spena nours in service station .question is. how. mucn, now iasi, ana wniui lines waiting for a few gallons of gasoline. For - social class will be made to pay more for the those parts of the country that suffered heating 'A rapidly diminishing natural resources and their fuel shortages last winter, this second reminder ' by-products.-.. , ' 1 , of America's vulnerability to energy disruptions'. Furthermore as the nation develops alterna was especially troubling. . t . . . jive fuels to ofl and gas and related industries 1 A eood marry Americans, however, are still-'' 'a vast number of new iobs will be created. , skeptical about warnings of a fuel crisis. Many,. , . blacks, especially whse income and life styles ; coma oe : nurt oisproportionateiy more man whites, are yet to be convinced about" these How' will black workers and businessmen benefit from these certain opportunities? Looking at just three aspects of the rPresi- oeni s enerey pian. it. can be seen that: in impending prospects of a national energypolicy, . 1 Insulation The proposal to provide an income -. It was for this reason that the NAACP spon-. " tax write-off -t fox winterizing residences will sored a national energy conference in Washington c primarily, benefit landlords, not tenants, and D.C, a few weeks ago. The 400 black men and home owners. (2) ConservaUon - Blacks already women wno met ana expiorea me ruiuui.auui , t are torced.to use. less tuel for heating and cook- of the various energy issues being considered in Congress and around the country had lew aouois if any, about the ultimate costs to society of a comprehensive national energy policy. ' - Their realization of ,Jhe potential and harmful impact that such a policy could have on black people led them to conclude that energy is a ' i ing by the mere fact that so many are poor, a raiuM.uu uv.c uiucoscs uj unui iuei consump- tion wiH only hurt them more. (3) Gas guzzling car tax A few hundred dollars a year added taxes for big cars will not bother the wealthy, . ; but the tax will hurt the poor. U These are the concerns of the NAACP. And, .. as W.E.B. DuBois articulated the relationship . between civil . rights and the. NAACP's social programs, so does the -Association now relate current goals, to black economic' development. Similarly, the NAACP supported the call by A". Phillip Randolph in, 1941 for a March on Washington. As a result of the subsequent meet- v-; ing of Randolph? and NAACP Executive Sccre tary Walter Whit' with Franklin Roosevelt, the . Pretsident issued the historical Executive Order 8802 banning discrimination in federal employ ment and establishing the Fair Employment Practice Committee. " . .A . -' A ; ") - Blacks might ultimately be pushed to recreate some of the, drama of that period by marching on the White House to demand heat, hot StI and jobs: For the present, however, the NAACP is working to educate and alert .its members and constituents to the grave implications of a national energy policy,- 'V' The Association, with the help of a national energy committee of black experts and con cerned citizens, is also developing civil rights programs that will '. include lobbying In Washington. ' , By Vernon Jordan mhMh born" And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be WArid I this taking1 was first mad .when vCyrenhiswas Ana ail went ro oe laxeo. every ohc unu uu uw vnj , i vnrJi . if 4-And Joseph also went up trom uaiiiee, oui oi me cuy oi U f ' rf t ft - Bethlehem: (because he was of . the house and lineage , oi -David:) 1 - - r fw . . 5-To be taxed 'wim Mary his espoused wife, being great withchild. , - 4 - -i 6-And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. 7-And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped ihtrt, ewadfllmg there was no room for them in the inn. . o-nu uiere were 111 uic muuc mjuuuj sik-iwuii i- the field, keeping watch over their floclcby night. i r I ' ft-AndJo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the . glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore 1 6-And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to afl people. ,. . ; - 11-For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. , : .f , ; ; : . ? v. ): V 12-And this shall be a sign unto you; Ve shall find the babe v f.wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in,a hiange.r :-?i f. ;'rl3-And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of " . the heavenly host praising God, and saying; c : ,"-.". . f . 14-Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. t--. - - " 1 v 4 15-And it came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven; the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go. even unio ueuuenem, ana see uus uiuig w,u i vyuic ; to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto,us. A; ; ? 1 6-And they came with haste, and found Mary, , and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. ' v ? 1 7-And when they Tiad seen it, they made known abroad the laying which was told them concerning this chfld; ' -. - - . 18-And all they that heard it wondered at those things ( which were told them by the shepherds. , ; , , . ; - 19-Bot Mary- kepf all these thingsand pondered them in f her heart, - , ' ' i "f -s . 20-And the shepherds remmed; glorifying and praising God; for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was ; ? told unto them. - , , : STLUKE Chapter 2: 1 20 Sw . You Siiriuld EnoSS - ; : j - " . " ' -"5 v ( i f , . 960 B.C. IT C3f v., ...Thcqucen or shebaIhewstcW J M$ TOLO W JH UtTM KW.W AND 1 ; THE KERAR NAOAST, A CHROtttCU Of TMC . KtNOS Of ETHIOPIA! SHE VISITED KlN ' ' ' SOLOMON WITH A f ASOLOUS CARAVAN Of - 6M.ENOI0 MTS INCLUMM9 1 S.StO.OOO ' . IN SOLD TALENTS I ALTHOUGH HE HAD TOO CUNNES, HI Sua HER THHONC NEXT TO ' n Hit I AKTISTS CONCEPTION ASOVC Season's Greetings EXECUTIVE DIRECTO R, NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE The Christmas season is in' full swing' and , abut the best package most people could everyone's out with gift lists in hand. I've got a' -' 8et list too. a little list of gifts beyond the ability of one person to bestow, but gifts that would make this a happier country. : My first and foremost hoped-for gift is jobs for the jobless. ' Without getting into the statistical morass of how' many people : are really jobless today, the best informed estimate is about thirteen million. They need jobs and the country needs their, productivity and their human resources. ' ' , r So, here's a societal gift - jobs for everyone' who wants to work. Income for people whose , living standards fall' beneath the minimum standards. ' Opportunities for those without them. ; 5 For white Americaris - the. gift of freedom from racism, freedom from the self-engendered fears , that imprison people In suspicion and fiAlo'iidikei?! j ' ' '' c, J Eyeryone-Jcnows the ytWe prioS'impcfea on r blatk peopieby aemlit, rbo,matiy"pe'6ple V . remain unaware fcfth& full1-costs to whites.' . Historically : racism has operated to give majority Americans a. false jsense df superiority, weakened their communities and labor movements, and deprivedihem of the futt range of human expres sion. - . .V; ' '' So the gift of overcoming racism and its habits For black people, perhaps the most relevant gift is continued perseverance in the face of discrimination and poverty the will to keep on fighting the odds. . - - This is a familiar gift for black people; it's the one that helped us survive and even to progress despite oppression and now, indiffer ence. Perhaps this is the year to use the gift of perseverance to -overcome the ills that' afflict our communities - the bad schools, the street crime, the failure to register and vote, and others. Perseverance ought to mean redoubling , our efforts, both to pressure the larger society to change, and also to make our own communi- ' ties more liveable. " For President Carter, there is the gift of remembrance. ; It's been a rough year for the President, but maybe next year will be better if for racially-imposed disadvantage. Whatever the outcome of the Bakke case, which has. been overrated in terms of its signifi ' cance, there will be several similar cases bound to reach the Court. And whatever the merits of the individual cases, the Court needs to have the courage and Wisdom not to turn its back on the constitutional rights of minorities long denied those rights. For 'the' Congress, the gift of responsibility. . Because of-Vietnam and Watergate, Congress has 'amassed' more power," but its failure to support important Presidential initiatives and its ' failure ta come up with its own programs to help the poor,' the jobless, and the cities, means it .has a shortage, of responsibility, which our gift .".should help cure.' ' . For Senator Hubert Humphrey, two gifts. One, good health. His courageous battle against cancer has won mm the respect ot all and those 11 r i i. c- r i i he remembeis the hopesand behefshe engender d,in black peopte and other minorities that led - - 1. A VLriM U LA L 1 1 1 .1 11 111 I1U1I lljl IIU; .IjOI LiL.1 . lIIIff M -them to vote for him in overwhelming numbers. '-. Remembering the promises that led to this devotion, and fighting to fulfill them, is the best t gift he can have. For the Supreme Court, the gift of courage and wisdom, to support the constitutionality of affirmative action programs, and not to weaken past rulings in defense of racially -based remedies '.V.".-.-.-.,.V.V.V.".W.".V.-.V.V.-.V.-.-. iV.V.V.V.V.V.V.tV.V.VAV.V.V.V.V.V.V.V BUSINESS IU THE BLACK ! 1, ' --".".....V.-.-AW.V.'. full recovery.1 His second gift - passage of the Humphrey Hawkiris Bill, is a fitting milestone to a great legislator who always fought for jobs for the jobless. And for the rest of us, peace on earth, plenty and prosperity for all. " ..!.. .! T V' ' HUMPHREY-HAWKINS' I , : FAILING ' J-: , f 'Not since the New Deal have black ' Americans' iem-. ployment J U opportunities needed more ; support i for Congressional action. The Employment Act of 1$46, which required the federal government . "to promote '( maximum employment, yro-4. duction . and purchasing ' power," is hi need ofs re- .V.V.W.V.W.".V.y.V.V.V.V.V.-AV.V.V.V. .-.V.V.V.V.V.V.W.V.V.W.V.V.V.V.'.Wi ". . . i p i-. kindling rapidly . for " black America's future; ' A' Univer sity of Michigan study sees serious obstacles on -- the career ladder for young black Americans. , . ' : ' VWAV.VW.VAW.VAV.VAV.V.WAV.V.W.V.V. By CHARLES E. BELLE Professor Hoffman said the "astonishingly high un employment i rate among blacks between 20 and 29, contributing to an income ,'gap, i is caused by race dis ' crimination and the fact that .Hacks are more likely than whitest to wind up in dead-: , end jobs. There is no polite way to tell the professor that the THE tion that whites are in trouble : (because of the affirmative, action) just ain't necessarily so. according to Saul Hoff-, man of the UniversitV of uf J53 commumties of Amen Delaware who worked ' on ca have bcn pajnfuDy aware the Michigan study. . v: '' -i- 'j' i What is needed by these al-' :x?::x?xxKxftxx:x::x:x FRAILTY Every significant report of black . youth concludes that basically we are slow achie vers. At the heart of each ' thesis is the conclusion' of lack of family motivation. ; To some ' degree, ' this ' is true, but onh in its,siro plistic connotation. ? Blacks aspire to livc pand work better,, yet,' ears ; of endeavor have not reduced tlw probability of being' the last hired and the first fired; nor the reality that our errors or frailties .will surely result in punishment or abuse. We fail to stress academic .V."--.V.M.".,.'-"-"-V. if l. 1 - 'r7 v $ mn&sm By 02. 6.LA. TOOTE ; ' . . , , ; - - tion. Yet, we , must (.irthe: fflW;nf ;(l(iciiiiienteil for excellence." .-kotprbof, no: legal action has :$gtS$ C)0SeSV K&S We cannot afford to allow Congressmen and Senators 'the mistakes of others toj :rtaho accused of accepting ' justify our own; Richard bribes from the Korean Nixon, duririis' the last i sefr: gbyernment, as a reward from ment . of ' the . David Frost -A foreign ; aid hAw .lamented tfiafrie had truth reads as a placed personalloyalty tohis,; 2 ever, in . all probability, none friends above his .lespoBsibfli?' b irnpnsoncd ty to the American; people ;,- . . f .' - ' For this wer:sinUficat m t x ' : OJHER FOLKS ttionof the truth, bwaipaid,-''-.,.- t ' more money probablythan , . iustice, employment, and v. the yearly salary of thepresi-' the pursuit of happiness, are f dent of the United States iiy ,LCvasive fpr blacks. We cannot ' -Adam C PoweJl,,Jr., a ,afford to duplicate' the mis man . whose1 Congressional takes of- other folks. Society record of" accomplishment. auows tor tneir maescretions, truistic r astute university . types is some support for the ' Humphrey-Hawkins Bill in its original form. The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1977 endorsed by President James Earl Carter, Jr. is too little and too late as written. The Plains' people 'are pro i perly .concerned abou t the potentially inflationary "pre vailing wage" of 'the earlier Humphrey-Hawkins draft. ' But the present bill ho longer Cseeks" to 'establish ' the right of all Americans to jobs. This is a necessary ingre dient if the government is to enforce affirmative action programs across the board, ! both in and but of govern ment. It is this! provision which puts the, government on the spot and makes it accountable fQir.developing an equal opportunity employ ment "program for minority people out of w6rk.. "; The critics of the' original ' Humphrey-Hawkins bill would have you believe reporting requirements on the President and Federal Reserve Board each year will produce a jobs program. Baloney. There can be no getting off the hook provision with empty promises periodically by the administration. President James Earl Carter, Jr. can be called on the carpet by black yoters without this provision any way in 1980 at re-election time. Which is the main rea son why a proposed program which will "lead to" full em ployment by 1983 is a sell out to black voters, who ex pect jobs before the end of the first term of a potential one term President. Clip this column and mail it to your Congressional Re presentative no matter what the (representative's color, congressional elections are next year. ation. The novel. How- r1" : L. E. AUSTIN " Editor- Publliher,, 1927.1971 accomplishment within (Our . today is still unequaled died j vnd punishes us for ours. tamfly structure, we oven compensate our children's deficiencies ' with affection rather than discipline. . ', ' ' It is, and will be for some time to come, harder for a black to achieve professional or technical success, with plaudited monetary acclama- in public disfavoT, alone, with limited economic resources. THE GANDER r Our children must be .. ' taught at home, that the , , '.1 ability to read and write; to. ' 0 reoort to school ot work on i ' : time; to ' be ; orderly and , - uThe, revelation that some,.. rrcspect the property -rights Congressmen keep their para-,, ; of others, is all a part of our . mours on the federal payroll . jgif reSpect and the effort Vis shocking. Yet, even after , . for. black economic survival.' Publishe4-y Wry . Thursday (dated Saturday) at Durham, H..jC,i py United Publishers, Incorporated. Mailing Address:. P. O. 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