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V h^JTV? ? ? ^^S^x*!5wK?&'^vC?^?T?vs^v!Q!Qsft>P?LSwvvy??^"jSr? j Edit< ' - ^3S-^rr?-?*ag^3cva* ? - , t i City Aide ~1?ve By S \ * City Aldermen ponder a S supposedly, could save the city a like a fair trade on the face of it. $35,000 (plus $35,000 from the a What raises some questions implications of such a savings. 1 the savings cover, it is still a lot c (and doubt) is this: If so much money is being ne does it take experts to show our the wastes are? r*- ~ " " ? Certainly, $2 or S3 million ju being wasted without somebody it. That much waste (and in th< , without that much money tomot stick out like a pregnant womai The Aldermen ought to be able is being wasted and immedial parasites who are using it up.These are hard times (for thos< It appears that a monopoly gam< always loose out in the end. Muhamm 'People's C Muhammaed All's vow to "fi? testament that should serve to si unity.^ Ali said recently that of his) remaining fights to the Certainly* Ali has made a continue to. What is certain, to< gives to poor people is not an < Ali has attempted to demonstr; to black folk everywhere. He has of one's convictions can sun demonstrated that there is sometl than the almighty dollar. Although Ali has been charact names that depict him as a "big n can deny that he acts in accord wi talk, but another to hnvp \hn nr V w V* No matter what Ali is or thougl the black community as truly kWt fuutrntf. by the Winston-Salem Chronicle Pub Ave. Mailing address: P.O. Bex 3 Phone: 7Z2-M24 _ Individual copies 2t cents Subscription: $10.41 per year payafe eluded) Editor-in-chief Ei Society editor Lit n o - ousmess editor C Publisher... .Ndubisi Administrative assist Opinions expressed by ceiumnist in represent the policy of this newspt ' ---> f >rials I rmen Can spending ? 70,000 efficiency study that, Ome $2 - 3 million. That cnnnrft Who wouldn't agree to spend >unty) to save a million dollars? (and doubt), however, is the '"Jo matter what the time span >f money to save. The question edlessly squandered now, why city and county leaders where st isn't out~there some wherein government knowing about cse hard times, if we can do row it is a waste today) must n nine months gone. to see where that much money :ely set about remoying the ; who may have overlooked it). 5' is being played and the poor ed Ali Ihampion' >ht for my people" is a living how black people the need forhe will donate the proceeds poor. I a* - lot of money and will no doubt o, is that whatever money he obligation on his part. 4 t ite some values and principles ' demonstrated that the power 2\y set one free. He has hiing higher and more powerful J i erized as "the lip" and other louth" from Louisville, no one th his words. It is one thing to >urage to act accordingly, it to be, he must be viewed by The People's Champion." I? lishtag Co., Inc. 2286 N. Patterson 154, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27182 ie in advance (N.C. sales tax tamest H. Pitt Ida MurreU harles T. Byrd Jr. Egemonye tant...Gloria J. Jones this newspaper do not necessarily iper. mam i fte^lnston^alem^hronlcle^^ ' - " _ I I I r t-. II Me TO BE EQIL Black History Week is an annual event, usually celebrated in schools with special discussions on black histnrv and great black figures of the past and present. By and large, it is a positive step toward heightening the consciousness of black and white children of the great contributions made by black Americans to our common history. What makes this year's Black History Week somewhat different from the past is that the core experience of black history itself has come up for re-evaluation by historians. And this new re-evaluation tells us a lot more about the current climate of attitudes toward blacks than it does to enlighten us about the past. One of the most talked about studies of the past year was a book purporting tc change our view of slavery by using computer-based studies. The authors. Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, :omc up with the rathct % ^ 4L By Vernon E. J startling conclusions that the slave experience was not as bad as previous historians had painted it. Their motives appear to be . based on the feeling that portraits of docile slaves and brutal masters have to be revised in the light of their supposed new findings. They claim that it is wrong to blame the present plight of black people on the slave experience, that it is more clearly the discrimination of the postslavery period right on up to our own day that best accounts for black-white disparities. On that last point most can agree, but by portraying blacks entrapped in slavery as relatively content, their masfprc 9C K#ninn ...W -X vvuigai f OUU 11IC CIIlire wretched system as relatively humane, the authors just set up a new mythology as wrong as the openly pro-slavery historians of the early 1900s were. If the system was all that good, why did so many blacks I . 1 February 15, 1975 S ^ ^ ii ^ "*" * 1 m I 6 ' 1 .aJP*??--: __ - I "T?H,h?^ ?l I I so?"^ 1 z>? i '' x-->< * -i ordon,Jr. run away? If they were fed as well as the authors claim, why re plantation records so full of stories about slaves stealing food? Why are accounts oi brutality and neglect? Most important today, why has such a book written and why has il found such wide acceptance? Other historians^ have ripped apart many of the authors assumptions. They've pointed out how they've fed statistics from one or a few plantations in one part of the country at one particular time, and come up with fancy mathematical projections that led them to generalized ? and wrong ? statements about slavery. I'm willing to leave the technical discussions to their peers, who have held numerous conferences and. written many learned articles^ largely disproving this new revision of' history. My primary concern is the rush with which the media and the public adopted a revision of See JORDON Pace 10
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