PageS White historians have general "slavery. White readers, in oird tended to to believe the picture Slavery was a degrading and t mnrJiLA**. Arutalizing institution. It left its stamned ? plore the wealth that many ; in the slave trade, i clear idea of what slavery was nceive of the breaking up of was sold separately and to ch other again. Mothers were From their wives and children, to suit the convenience of the rty. Like cattle or horses, they red, beaten, killed or bred, i. Slave revolts occurred more vledge. In places, whites lived such outbreaks, d these shores, they had to first ried in the West Indian Islands, slaves who had been broken in ca. Those who~had not broken ;ding fear into slaves to make ; a pregnant black woman and is tortured, mutilated, and put ees positioned and bent so as to of the black to each one of the rith a rope. Then he would cut ;ck up, dismembering the black le to stand and watch what was they could feel the grief fear born child. taken and tied up by her toes, . Then the maker would take a :ing the unborn child fall out. head into the ground. After the .laves seeing this and other aves would then be brought or ; home of the brave," to their LES AND < fl Ml [TO WINSTON-SAtEM CHKOK ipOOQ wKjCIBJ CVWyB?Oj HMMMt IMW1NS^^!y3? 9 ub. M 3 h>. daly, or c?M N. Patterson Ave. Don't Mfce-K i N ifRTSKKXtlB RONIC Subscription Blank iod, we are reducing our One Year - - - *8.00 Now Normal *10.001 vr order to: WINSTON' 22-8624 WINSTOI The Winston-Salem Chronicle. Consolidi ? by Larry Little Director, |Plnston-Salein ? u.._, i h President Ford, in his "war on the poor" approach to inflation, had the audacity to ask for a seven hundred million dollar increase in food stamps against the black and poor, and in the same breath, asks for a five hundred million dollar increase in aid to the corrupt regime of President Thieu in South Viet Nam and Cambodia. This is genocide on the poor at home. * Today, most commonly, the first laid off on jobs are black people. The white _capitalist ?behind the scenes have made aid of the Negro Uncle Tom Drug Pusher, a drug saturated community. Even our children are getting hooked. Our future is genocide. Blacks are the first in prisons; the first on death row; last to eet w adequate health care; no general hospital or emergency room; no senior high school in the black community, and now we are on the verge of losing the only library in the black community. All of these things add up to genocide of a race of people-black people! Today, we are dealing with another form of genocidepolitical genocide. Political genocide can be defined as the CASH! DOMvMI* kmmim. Par rmowm by oar ?4Hbe He btt*? KT i LE | subscription rate SALEM CHRONICLE | O, BOX 3154 nanniSiriBnl ik O ld ition And I systematic elimination of the political base of power of a majority m many toulilHesr but as a result of political gerrymandering and absurd literacy tests, were robbed of their rightful political power. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, whiqh comes up for renewal this year, helped in many 'instances to reverse this form of political genocide. And with the Voting Rights Act, black people began to build political I>ower bases that represented one of the most viable ways to work on the liberation of the oppressed black masses. Black people now are "CJ rri opiro 1. Was R by Pinkney J. Moses Now that I've gotten your attention I can modify that very overbroad statement and say that Mr. Agnew was right about one thing (and to the best of my knowledge only one). Mr. Agnew believed that (he media (newspaper, radio, and television) had achieved in this country a level of influence far out of proportion with the limited number of viewpoints represented by the men who control the Mass Communications Industry. 1 agree. Mr. Agnew seems to have felt that the answer to this problem of inadequate representation of diverse points of view in the media was to institute more stringent state control over the industry. He^ wanted to substitute the judgement of the private media tycoons with that of an agency of the state which, of course, at that time meant a slant on the news which was' more favorable to Mr. Nixon and the philosophy he symbolized. I disagree. More state control over the media is not needed in my black point of view for I know where that control would be most drastically felt-in the Black Press. What is needed is for us to stop accepting the 4 4 _ 1 - * gosper according to Time magazine, Walter Cronkite, or for that matet> the local daily paper. An elementary understanding of the way our society functions is all that is needed to realize that ultimately thesez enterprizes propound the viewpoints and policies of a relatively few white males who sit at the economic apex of the March 8, 1975 Hack Folk winning unprecedented political victories throughout the an all important' black independant economic thrust. But in response to these developments, it is clear that white middle America is gm * rr =='-= neeing tne cities and moving to the suburbs and that industry is moving with them." We are witnessing the industrialization of suburban America. However, there is one mistake made by those emigrating to the suburbs. a The political control of the. cities are being left to blacks and not the the traditional hankie-head uncle toms. Agnew ?? ight! enterprise. Who are these men, what is their background, what do they perceive as their interests and how do these interests relate to us and our welfare? It is not necessary that we answer these questions specifically. It is enough for the purposes of this article, that we stipulate a rather obvious assumption: that the men who control the mass media are different from ourselves. They are as different as black is ? from white, as rich from poor . and as powerful is from powerless. I do not charge a conspiracy by the media power structures iL- j-i. ? agauiai uic lllicrcsis OT DiaCK people. 1 do, however, assert that as our conditions differ so, too, do our interests and these differences are reflected in the slant of the.news and information received through the media. Please note that I refer not only to the gross distortions and mistatements which appear in the press, but also (and maybe more importantly) to the more subtle inclusions and omissions which influence us and our self-concept without our realizing it. A blatant example is the practice of some newspapers and commentators of referring to the race of an alledged criminal when he is black while not mentioning race when he is white. The racial reference in this situation does q more than merely identity the individual. It also specifies a group which is,,by implication, associated with the criminal behavior. The non-racially identified white remains an individual C S^e SFIRO Page 7