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Elsewhere in this issue is a story
on the Durham Chapter of the
Black Child Development In
stitute. We encourage all of our
readers, non-parents as well as
parents, to take serious note of its
purposes and resolve to give this
fledgling organization our
strongest support.
Our children are our future
and we're referring tea of our
black children, not just those of
our immediate families. While we
neither wis"themunir;pf;-ar
bygone era nor is it' among 'the
organization's stated objectives,
that story brought to mind tKat
there were once some valued and
practices in dealing with young
people that have been, "rait under
wraps" in recent years that pro- .
bably ought to be renewed. There
was a time when any adult seeing .
any youngster doing something
wrong could speak to that
youngster and get a positive
response. That was annoying,
perhaps to the youngster at the
time, but for which he is grateful
as an adult himself. At least that
youngster knew that somebody.
cared. Today, an adult might get
cursed out for caring and saying
so, but somehow that prospect
does not weigh so heavily when
one equates it with the potential
worth of a life perhaps being sav
ed through redirection.
That BCDI will advocate local
ly on behalf of black children is a
welcomed prospect for improving
the plight of most black children.
One needs only to observe
behavior, eating habits, inability
.to, read,, spell and do simple
arithmetic, lack of basic common
courtesies to realize that many are
being lost. We are quick to
criticize. Now is our chance to i
become involved and do
something meaningful.
The Institute believes that
blacks have "a collective respon
sibility to ensure the health, safe
ty, and general happiness of their
children." We do, too. We hope
all blacks will support the Black
Child Development Institute
Durham. Its ready with a plan..
Let's get behind the effort
before its too late! Too late, that
is, to save our children.
If there is no struggle, there js no progress. Those who propose
to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want
crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without
thunder and lightning. They want the ocean's majestic waves
without the awful roar of its waters.
Frederick Douglass
Tilings You Should Knovr
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1785-1865
A nnnr nrnhan from the West Indies who
joined the French Revolutionist Army at age
eleven. He became the greatest swordsman .
in history,. Master fencer and militarist, he served widely; retired in
1830 and opened France's most famous fencing school in Mpntpellier.
His advanced teaching methods were adopted by the army and most
French fencing schools, many of which are named after him.
V
Too Many Holes In Reagan's Safety Net
By Congressman Augustus F. Hawkins
In all the talk about cutting then Federal
Budget, President Reagan has refused to ad
mit that his proposed cuts will, almost ex-
clusively, affect services that benefit working
men and women, the elderly and the poor.
- Despite the President's pledge that his
7- budget cuts will be equitable ills clear that
the relatively modest sacrifices demanded of
1 he affluent andor corporations will be
. more than compensated for by his tax cut.
The Administration says that under its
proposal, the "truly needy" will be provided
for. The Administration contends that after
its budget cuts are made, a "safety net" will
remain in place to protect those truly in
need.
But suppose for a minute that Mr.
Reagan's cuts in social security, job training
programs, and education are approved.
Where will the safety net be which is suppos
ed to protect workers and the poor in the in-
ner cities of America?
; Where is the safety net in the President's
budget for the elderly men and women who
live in the inner city, who are partially
disabled and may find their disability
payments reduced, social security slashed,
; food stamps and Medi-Cal denied?
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Where is the safety net in the President's
budget for the child attending the
neighborhood elementary school whoso
reading teacher may be fired?
Where is the safety net for the worker who
was laid off from one of the, many plants
around our nation which have closed and
suddenly finds that he or she is not eligible
for extended unemployment benefits or job
training? ;. . '
Where is the safety net for the college stu
dent who finds that he or she must drop out
because there is no money available for
school loans or grants?
The safety net of which the President
speaks would require working people to pay
higher fares to ride buses and subways; it
would eliminate 700,000 people from the
special programs which now provide milk,
cereals, and juices for pregnant women, in
fants and young children. ' '
Even more distressing, President Reagan's
proposals would require drastic cuts in
school lunch and child nutrition programs.
As a result, many school children will be
unable to learn because they are hungry.
In short, the Administration has allowed
its concern for a balanced budget and infla
tion to overshadow his concerns of human
beings and a sound economy.
I, for one, believe that Mr. Reagan's safe
ty net is full of holes holes which will
mean that many Americans will not get the
food, medical care, and job (raining they
need; or the education they deserve.
A major campaign will btf waged in Con
grcss by me and other Representatives who
recognized that Mr. Reagan's safely net fa
defective. However, in order for the cam
paign to be successful your support is a
must. To this end. individuals and local
community organizations need to make the
President and other elected officials know
that a safety net that is full of holes simply
will not do.
We must counter the. blind rush to slash
: domestic spending for the sake of" unfound
ed theory, but pure political gain, and we
must work to sec that our alternative pro
grams arc enacted in place of this "design
for disaster".
Incidentally, if you locale one of those
magical 13 million new jobs, lei me know. I
have a Vietnam veteran son-in-law who may
need one badly if the Reagan budget cuts arc
unwittingly approved by Congress.
Business In The Black
Bank Gf America Boast:
' 1 Reagan To Rescue Economy
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By Charles E. Belle
' While recognizing that at least "twenty
per cent" of the U.S. economy is "sick,"
.Walter Hoadley, chief economist for
America's biggest bank, Bank of America,
held out hope for a total recovery under the
new Reagan Administration.
Mr. Hoadley was holding forth at his an-
nual address to an attentive audience at the
Commonwealth Club of California regular
. Friday luncheon meeting in San Francisco.
Walter and the members were well aware, as
he put it, America has "lost some of our
momentum."
. Perhaps because Bank of America had
fallen from first place as the biggest bank in
.the world. One woman, who just happened,
to be the quarterly chairman of the Club and
wife of a noted economist, evidently did not
do her homework as she introduced Walter
' as representing the biggest bank in the
world. Back to the bench for her, the French
Agricultural Bank is the new kid on the
block. "
Black America has long known that
America had been slipping. Too bad one had '
to tell even a "Television Personality" like
Maralee Beck that the incoming Reagan Ad-
ministration has the same problems of the
previous administrations minus the time.
Mr. Hoadley's "prediction is that Presi
dent Reagan will prove to be a successful
leader." Let us all hope so for the success of
; America. All the king's horses and all the
". king's men cannot mend America back
together again without the help of the
. masses.
Mr. Reagan will be advised to take Mr.
, Hoadley's helpful suggestion along these
lines. In this area, Mr. Hoadley counsels, if
. your Christmas cards came from only one
group, say 55-64 years of age, only, open up
; your mind and past methods, to admit
members of both the 45-54 and 35-44 age
brackets.
Being in a separate circle of friends breeds
stereotype thinking and America is not able
to grow a nation of separate groups pulling a
part at its seems, according to the chief
economist.
" The leadership of this country reiterated
Mr. Hoadley is dominated by the oldest
group of "can-do" thinkers. The middle
gang has grown up in the "greatest period of
economic advancement' in U.S. history,"
'consequently are Vrisk-aversion." Palulum
types, as opposed to the open field
"perfection-computers" kids in the 35-44
bracket.
Black Americans fall greater in the lower
two groups so it might be just great if some
one, even a second ranked bank, can bring
thhe Reagan Administration around to
, recognizing all the talen in the country. Car
j rying the country back up to the top will rc
1 quire every able bodied American regardless
. of age, sex, creed or color.
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From the "New Deal" To The "Raw Deal"
Gerald C. Home, Esquire
Though President Reagan has dressed up
his so-called budget-cutting, tax-cutting,
regulation attacking programs in florid
rhetoric, it is becoming .increasingly clear
that his approach amounts to the same old
bludgeoning of the poor and blacks
spearheaded by the rich. It is the same pro
gram put forward in 1964 by Barry
Goldwater and roundly repudiated by the
voters. Now Goldwater's dream has become
the black community's nightmare as Reagan
thus far has been able to convince
many that mugging the poor is absolutely
essential for the economic health of the
country.
Reagan's attack on "crippling business
regulations" is especially pernicious. The
Occupational Safety and Health Administra
' tion (OSHA) is crucial for the health of
black workers locked into dirty, dangerous,
often cancer-ridden jobs. Forcing the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to
speed up the decontrol of natural gas will
have an especially devastating impact on the
black elderly in wintry areas, no doubt
leading to frozen corpses. Attacking the En
vironmental Protection Agency will mean
dirtier air, dirtier water and higher rates of
cancer in a black community already reeling
from this 20th Century plague.
But Reagan's regulatory attack will have
its most insidious impact on the Equal
Employmennt Opportunity Commission
(EEOC), the main defender of affirmative
action. The intent of the Administration is to
move the EEOC away from suing on behalf
of large classes of workers and toward a
course of simply processing individual
claims if that. "We'll be claims adjusters,
pure and simple," says one commissioner.
The weekly magazine. Business Week, " ex
pects the EEOC to move away from hiring
goals and time tables. If this is true, then the
already scandalously high black unemploy
ment rates should be expected to climb even
higher.
Reagan's budget cuts bring even grimmer
news, particularly to Our future - black col
lege students. Today the lifeline for
thousands of black students is the BEOG
program, i.e., the Basic Educational Oppor
tunity Grants. Under existing law, families
earning less than $25,000 a year are required
to contribute up to fourteen per cent of their
disposable income. The Reagan plan would
require them to contribute twenty per cent
and maybe more. The Administration has
called as well for changes in the present,
federal policy of backing loans to students.
His plan would reduce federal subsidies,
even for the neediest students, by ending the
federal policy of paying the interest on loans
while borrowers are still in college.
Moreover, interest rates on these student
loans will be lifted sharply from nine per
cent to "market rates," e.g. a, whopping
twenty per cent.
The Adminisj ration has claimed that
Social Security benefits is one area that will
not be touched. This is simply not true. For
starters, Reagan. plans to eliminate Social
Security payments to students entirely. But
that is not all. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics has already worked out, at the re
quest of President Reagan, a cost-of-living
adjustment (COLA) that lowers the present
Social Security COLA paid out on July 1 of
each year during years of rising inflation.
More omminously, Rep. Geradine Ferraro
(Dem.-N.Y.) has noted a Congressional
meeting last month where Reagan spoke of a
"voluntary" Social Security system. If im
plemented, the black elderly might as well
kiss that expected $338 per month bye-bye.
One would think that in the face of.
Reagan's bizarre, "Robin Hood in reverse"
program that the Democratic Party would
rush in to fill the breach. One would think
that the Democrats, who brought FDR's
"New Deal'' would quickly label Reagan's
program the "Raw Deal." One would think
so, yes, but this is a far cry from what is hap
pening. Instead of reading the riot act about
attacks on food stamps, mass transit, etc.,
the Democrats have decided to wave the
bloody shirt on the issue of syn fuels! In
other words, the Democrats are making their
stand on the question of pouring the public
purse into the pocket of Big Oil in one of the
biggest rip-offs since Manhattan was sold
for $24. Let them cat syn fuels, ihc
Democrats say. .
This "me-100" approach 10 Reagan's
economic program has been accompanied by
a growing insensitivily to the herculean role
played by blacks in bringing votes 10 the
Democratic Party. At the most recent
meeting of the Democratic National Com
mittee, black representation was reduced
from ten seats to eight. Mayor Richard T.
Hatcher of Gary, Indiana complained bitter
ly about this high-handed, cavalier treat
ment. So did Mayor Coleman Young of
Detroit but many blacks in private
acknowledged that it was the blind pro
Carter policies of black politicians like
Young that paved the way for the slave-like
devotion to the Democrats that led inex
orably to the present pickle. This insult to
the black community was topped off by elec
ting as chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, a wheeler-dealer banker from
Beverly Hills, Charles T. Manatt. This
multi-millionaire not only owns 2,500 acres
of prime Iowa farmland and is chairman of
the First Los Angeles Bank, but is senior
partner in one of the nation's biggest law
firms serving the gigantic corporations. Ap
propriately enough, the New York Times
refers to the party's leader as "a superb
manipulator," a "Sammy Glick" who is
always on the make.
It is difficult to conceive of anyone who is
less likely to fight for food stamps, aid for
students. Social Security and other "people
'programs." In fact, veteran political
observers note that Manatt was selected
because of too close a Democratic Party
identification with these programs now
under attack; since Reagan and Company
have convinced many that these lifelines for,
the poor are bankrupting the naiion, Manait
is expected to go hoarse from saying
"me-too" to-each and every budget cutback.
Manatt and Company are expected also to
assent in a lemming-like fashion 10 the
astronomic hikes in the Pentagon budget. In
the next three years, it is planned to have a
rise in the Pentagon's share of total federal
spending from 24.1Vo to 32.4. In the next
six years, the rapacious warmongers will
receive a net increase of $141.3 billion in
military outlays. Those wondering why there
has been so much bleating in the press lately
.about "El Salvador" and the "Soviet
threat," should look no further. "Never give
a sucker an even break," said W.C. Fields
and those who go for the Pentagon's latest
foreign policy pronouncements must also be
' interested in purchasing the Brooklyn
Bridge.
Fortunately, all arc not going for
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