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OCH-A Wilson Library i NC 27514 National 4-H Week October 4-10 ''4-H Pathways To The Future' [|"THET!aOTMttelg»iSE^ Words Of Wisdom When we do not find peace of mind in ourselves, it is useless to look for it elsewhere. r —La Rochefoucauld ***** Pretensions are a source of pain, and the happy lime of life begins as sffon as wq give them up. — Nicolas C'hamfort ‘VOLUME 59 - NUMBER 40 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1981 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 30 CENTS NAPFE Local 315 Holds 4th Banquet Local No. 315 of the National Alliance of .pQSial and Federal Employees held its fourth Annual Banquet- •pjjco on Saturday. Vptember 26, at the [iwntowner Motor Inn. Special guests present were Comrade Leonard ;\iidrews, president of nisirict No. 3, from Mlania, Ga.; J.R. ftore, Customer Rela- lijjs Office, Durham Postal Service, and Dr. fE, Boulware, guest speaker. President Bobby Bass presided and opened the Panquet with the history ,,[lhe Alliance. He also area welcome message. Comrade Haywood A. Allen, Sr., gave the in- mcatlon. In Comrade Andrews (eiiiarks, he spoke of his itoncerns about the pre- 01 administration’s caitacks and of the t of our present day ,....1, noting the ap parent lack of concern on their part about the laiure road they must Undy Young Expected To Win Mayor's Race travel. Comrade Booth Smith introduced the guest speaker. Dr. C.E. Boulware. Smith said that from the beginning, Dr. Boulware has seen and acted upon raising the level of black people in Durham. Dr. Boulware received his doctorate degree in Specialized Mathematics from Columbia Univer sity. He taught at NortTi Carolina Central Univer sity for 37 years; served on the Durham City Council for twelve years, and now serves with several charitable organizations. Dr. Boulware ^poke on “An Agenda For Sur vival”. He stressed the demands facing our children in the 21st cen tury; and addressed the struggle to get perma nent employment for black people in the Durham Post Office dur ing the 1950s and 1960s: the necessity of our hav ing strong and dedicated black leaders, the impor- Whiting; Black College Mission Has “No Further Legitimacy” NAPFE Banquet Notables From Icfl (fronO: W. Roberlson, B. Bass, C. Slreel, C.E. Boulware, J.R. Mtore; (hack row) H.A. Allen. J.B. Smith and I.. Andrews. leaders well developed with skills and abilities that will stand with any man; and the importance of our sharing our resources with our black brothers who are less fortunate than we. He said that as parents, we must de mand that our children prepare themselves and be ready to accept the demands on them IrMhe 21.st century. He express ed the desire that we catch fire and talk to others and get ourselves together. He expressed his concern about the hatred and meanness that is on the rise in this country. In conclusion. Dr. Boulware said that as God chose Israel as his elected people of old, he believes that God has elected the black people as his chosen in the last part of the 20th century and in the 21sl century. There was a drawing for prizes spon.sored by the auxiliary. First prize was $50 worth of gas and second was $25 worth of gas. After the banquet, the disco beean. BvTrellie L. Jeffers ATLANTA. — Wihough a recent poll iliows former Am bassador Andrew Young iiiihonly one percentage poini ahead of his hding white contender, Sdney Marcus, Atlanta M'S are predicting that Ibiing will win the Oc- i(}i)er6 primary election. the field of seven candidates — three Hacks and four whites -a poll taken last week ^ows Young with 31%, ilarcii.s with 30%, ^and Atlanta’s former police W, Reginald Eaves, inoiher black candidate favored by many of Santa’s poor people, ‘ith'10%. Twenty-iix Kr cent of those Jirve^ed said that they Iff undecided. During a debate of all andidates held by the lilanta Fulton League if Voters Sunday night. September 27, Young said that he can better serve Atlanta as mayor because his various con tacts with leaders around the world during his U.S. ambassadorship have given him the experience and the expertise to bring in foreign investors to Atlanta. He cited some $50 million federal dollars that will be lost to Atlanta due to the Reagan administration budget cuts, and said that there must be ways devised to replace those dollars. Inve.stments of Atlanta’s lax dollars, an increased tax base and dependence on the private sector are other ways he cited to deal, with Atlanta’s high unemployment problem. When asked about his resignation as am bassador to the United Nations, Young said that ' he did not resign under duress from either Presi dent Carter or because he had met with the PLO leader, Yassir Arafat, but that it had been the New York newspapers that had sparked the climate for his resigna tion. “As iheXT.'S. leader in the United Nations, 1 had a right to meet with anyone. I met with the PLO leader because I knew that an issue was going to come up in the UN Council that would be embarrassing to the United States,” Young said. Young said that his meeting with the PLO leader had prevented the United Stales from being embarrassed, but when the New ' York newspapers made an issue of his meeting, he resigned in order not lo hurt President’ Carter’s reelection, which he fell was eminent at the time. W'hen Asked if he “would apologize to President Reagan for referring to his campaign as “racist tactics” in order to establish contact with his administration, Young said that it wouki be the two Georgia' siatc* senators and not he, as Atlanta’s mayor, who would deal with the Reagan administration. Sidney Marcus. a former Georgia legislator and a record spender in the Atlanta mayor’s race, has used both his claim that he can be a better mayor for Atlanta “because of his contacts in the Georgia legislature” and the large sums of money that he has spent in this cam- .paign to gain his popularity. Newspapers here are predicting a run off election between Marcus and Young. The other candidates in the race are given a slim chance of winning, although Reginald Eaves is likely to survive until the November election. By Donald Alderman The" traditional mis sion of North Carolina’s predominantly black public colleges and universities — providing an education to blacks and other minorities who were denied a chance to study at white schools or to those who, by reason of life’s circumstances, may not possess formal credentials — “has now no further legitimacy” because of “unsettling, if not threatening” secondary provisions of the desegregation agree ment between the federal government and the University of North Carolina. This is what Chancellor Albert N. Whiting told the North Carolina Central Univer sity community while delivering the State of the University address at the school’s annual con vocation Thursday mor ning. Furthermore, Whiting said, “The accompany ing traditions [of the black schools] will gradually dissipate. . . .” Contrary to Whiting’s statements, the dean, of the law school and the chairman of the nursing program, in recent inter views, said the historic mission of their study - areas is-valid today. Whiting said he sup ports the consent decree because “there are ob vious gains in this agree ment for the minority in stitutions. The decree is, in essence, a compromise and therefore not com pletely satisfactory, he noted. Although drastic — perhaps revolutionary — changes are inevitable, Whiting said, “. . . .in the short run the changes will be relatively im perceptible and perhaps, therefore, more tolerable and acceptable.” He said required changes by UNC should respect longstanding practices and people associated with the university. He told the community that he will work to preserve thp history and legacy of NCCU. Whiting criiticized the re-appointment clause of the consent decree, call ing it “troublesome and punitive.” The decree originally required the black schools to hire on ly doctorate holders. The re-appointment clause added existing untenured faculty being considered for re-appointment. Capital Improvements The General Assembly has appropriated $10 million for a physical education complex. It will be located between the new law building and Catholic church on Alston Avenue, Whiting announced. The health science buikiing is near ing completion, and con struction of the criminal justice building and an addition to the cafeteria will progress soon, he said. % A ma.ster’s degree in criminal justice, a master’s degree in public admini.stralion and an undergraduate degree in computer and informa tion science will be added to the school’s curricula, Whiting said. TLdiication Incentive I^.st After reminiscing about the legacy upon which black colleges and universities are based, Whiring said he is disturbed because many blacks “have lost the in centive to lake education seriously and respon sibly.” “Just seeking an education through atten dance is not enough. It requires an investment of self, -a com’mitment by student and teacher that can not be manife.sted in the philosophy of ‘let the good times roll’.” He charged students to get serious in an effort to match the contributions of love and sacrifice made in the past by blacks so that future generations can also en joy the privileges of education. Indian Summer Soothes Tarheelia In This Issue National Scene Magazine Supplement • No Final Word On African Olympic Boycott Page 13 In many ways, this is the most splendid season of the year in this area of the country. Gone are the sticky, hot days of the summer and the frigid days'of mid-wmter are still far off in the future. Most people call the cool nights and warm days we’ve been having recently “Indian Sum- "By Elson Armstrong, Jr." mer” — a quiet time when Mother Nature seems to smile. This period of weather can last anywhere from a few weeks to several months. A series of mild, high pressure systems from the midwest have kept all storm systems away from North Carolina, therefore the weather has been perfect for outdoor recreation. These highs have also acted as protective forces for the eastern seaboard in that all hurricanes and tropical storms have been forced to turn seaward. The weather service says that Triangle residents can expect the same weather for the (Continued On Page 2) Economics and Racism Main Concerns of Blacks Part III By Pat Bryant EDITOR’S NOTE: the first two in Septemher, ten who are active in h'lh Carolina political were asked ten ques- totiv relati/iii lo die ''""'•V of Afro; ■^’^lericans in North Elii'filina and the nation, ij^isis'ihe third of six ar- and deals with to the (jiies- "Are you satisfied bliu'k leadership at state and national mp" (Responses to p’’’ questions will W/fjU' (iuriuii the next Ike weeks.) Thev have edited to conform J v/)(/cc requirenients. encouraye reader to series and '’/(nr.v expressed in J"'';'!' eoluinns. ■E. Jervay, piihiisher '•Illie li ilminyton Jour- ^ombody said some “if you arc 3!istied with 60% of JH'hurch, don’t get out , I'- ’ I think a lot of ^t^ership, the top is out of step the grassroots pco- Thi.s Solidarity Dav ^:^tember 19) will find great many of those JfPic going up there J^ashington, D.C.l are worlyng* people - are sacrifiqing to go. ^ JeadersWp .cm-; phasizes that it’s going to be a crowd regardless of ih.e airports and the PATCO strike. But how many of us go up there in the planes to start with? (iordon Dilahunf, organizer of the Black United Front, RaleIgTi: The leadership has basically betrayed the in terests of large numbers of black people. They tend to represent the nar row interests of a small sector of people. They are the middle class pro fessional people who-arc now tied up in various political machinery, generally thc^Democratic Party, although in this period we’re finding some defectors finding their way over into the ranks of #■ the • Republicans. These peo ple arc not able to relate to the black masses because their activities are tied to ruling in terests in this state which are protected by the Democratic Party. They represent those interests and wc have not beeiv able to really announce the kinds of battles to win some of (he necessary things for the masses of our people. The leadership has to emerge horn working people thciiisclvcs who have had enough of this kind of leadership. Ms. Virginia Newell, chairman of (he Mathematics ..and Com puter Science Depart ment, Winston-Salem State University, and Winston-Salem Aider- man: 1 am very much disap pointed. 1 have said for a long time (hat I’m look ing for some leaders and unfortunately our leadership has not come forth. We have not had women leaders or men. When Martin L. King was assassinated that of course took it’s toll because he was a leader basically for everybody. I have been very disap pointed that we have not raised a leader. We don’t have one in Winston. • William J. Kennedy, III, president, North Carolina Mutual Life In surance Company, Durham: There has been something of a void in active fcadership roles. We’ve seen the tradi tional organizations like the Urban l.eague and (he NAACP and some of the other social action programs that have real ly not been as active as I think maybe they could have been in the siiua- licyi. ! really feel like wc lost, as blacks in this country, when wc didn’t really participate in the last election llie way wc should have at the federal level. As a result, we’re seeing things hap pening to us now that rcHcci that fact. The Reagan administration piled up a huge electoral vote in many of the larger cities and in the larger stales, but the margin of victory was not that great and pro bably could have been swung one way or another if there had been an active voter activity going on among the minority people, in par ticular among blacks. Too many people stayed home and I think they arc seeing the conse quences of tliai action now. Rev. Thomas Walker, paslor, Lbenezer Baptist Church, Rocky Mount: I fee! for some reason there is'a lot of com placency in black leader ship. 1 realize that there are any number of things that contribute to (his compiaceiYcy. There is a bit of selfishness in black leadership. Otic thing that suppresses real leadership in the black community is the lack of response on the pan of (hose wIki are called upon to follow. We kill our black leaders. We kill our black leaders by not supporting them and by slandering them and any number of* other ways. Dr. Karl E. Thorpe, pro fessor of history. North Carolina Central Univer sity, Durham, and na tional president of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History: I’m not satisfied with much in our society and that includes black leadership. The problem of much of our leader ship is that (hey don’t provide adequate criti ques of the society from the standpoint of the masses and in the name of masses only. In other eouniries, they would be called bourgeoisie leadershif) who are for the natibnal bougcoisie and really neglectful of and exploitive of the masses of people. The majority of people who, as Frantz Fanon said, “for the mo.st of history have not been a pan of history. They’ve been an under group who have been manipulated, spoken for* and so forth”. The masses have to be organized. The masses of people have to save themselves ultimate ly. Oiiec enough of the masses gel (heir heads where (hey ought to be, they’ll force the dishonest and weak leadership out of the way and almost automatical ly the honest courageous, committed, and dedicated leadership will appear. Ms. Jennifer Hender son, director of the North Carolina Hunger Coalition, Fayetteville: I’m not particularly dissaiisfield with black leadership. 1 think that it’s very difficult for one person or even a group of people to represent 36 million people across the country or one million people across the state. That is just impossible. What has to happen is that we have to develop credible • people — not particularly leaders — but credible spokesmen for the community in various areas of exper tise. When that happens, we’ll have a core of leaders. People that are in eonirol, that we can be proud of. Ms. Carrie Graves, member of the Charlotte Equal Rights Council, and organizer of the N.C. Human Needs and Military Spending Pr(>- ject of the Southern Organizing Committee for Social and Economic Justice: We have some dynamite black leader ship, but too many of them are being pulled in to that whole structure of compromising certain blacks out of their benefits. Black leaders that we have now don't have enough guts to real ly stand for what’s the problem in the black community. 1 think that they have forgoiton how to talk to that brother on the street. They cannot be bothered with the folks who live in public housing or in the inner city. To me leadership cannot be afraid to do what they are expecting someone else to do. Leadership cannot always yyait for some formal invitation to come into the comnumi- ly. You do not wait for someone to call you when you know their problem exists. You get involved because it’s your people. Leonard Dunslon, presi dent of the North Carolina Association of Black Social Workers: I’m very dissatisfied with (he leadership as perceived by the media. The leadership that’s projected by tho.se who wish to control us does not represent the masses. They purport to spjpak for- the masses of bfack people, yet they have not gone through any kind of election ' to be authorized to speak for us. The concept espous ed bv the National Black Independent Political Party has been building from the bottom up. Leadership has to conic from the masses of peo ple. It should be coming iVom a mass-based kind of structIIre where you liave an opportunity for all members in ilie black e o m imi n i I >■. i r res peel i \ e of their economic and education status. to select and elect those who they cliosc to repre sent them. Clarence Lighlner, former mayor of Raleigh and former slate senator: We have good leaders coming along and 1 think that the main thing we need to do is support them. W'hai we really have to do is get ac customed to the new type of black leadership. There are so many more people qualified to be leaders and we have so many more of them assuming leadership responsibilities. It son of strikes us that we don’t have any particular leader, which wc don’t. We have just arrived at that juncture in our lives where we can’t look to any one specific person like we could Dr. King or perhaps some others. But we should not allow ourselves to become too widely diversified that v/e loose our power altoeelher.
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