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America's black people
(slaves) have a long, bumpy
road to travel before they can
call themselves free American
citizens. In fact, the American
black slave has a longer road
to travel to freedom than we
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there are those of us who think
they are free American
citizens, let me enlighten you
on a few major incidents that
have occured -recently that
should change your mind but
that I doubt will because of the
way we (America's black
slaves) have been systematically
conditioned to think.
First, I would like to
mention that the Baptist
Ministers Conference and
Associates of Winston-Salem
said when they invited the city
= aldermen and other officials to
discuss city hiring practices
and charges of racial discrimtnafinn
Now, if you don't know
about it. the city of
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
has been charged by the
United States Justice Department
with discrimination in its
employment practices. This
charge against the. city was
made because of a study by
the Southern Regional Council
of Discrimination in Southern
Cities' use of federal revenuesharing
money.
A high official, Wayne A.
Clark of the Southern Regional
Council, goes so far as to say
that another high official of
the Justice Department told
him that Winston-Salem has
one of the worst records of
hiring discrimination in the
country. He also said "The
fact of the matter is that the
Justice Department isn't
enforcing the law that
prohibits discrimination in any
program financed with federal
money." Even the city
officials here have admitted to
this charge of discrimination
against Winston-Salem's
black people.
But. all the Baptist
Ministers Conference and
Associates had to say . was,
"Being alarmed and greatly
concerned about the recent
newspaper report which
stated that our city is the most
segregated city in our nation
in regards to discrimination in
employment, we are inviting
you to come to our meeting for
the purpose of informing us as
to how we can help change
this unfortunate report about
our city."
It puzzled me how the
members of the Baptist
Ministers Conference and
Associates can state anything
about our city or our nation
when in fact our city
government is bringing wholesale
discrimination against our
black people (slaves) and our
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federal government is letting
it happen.
The only way there's going
to be a change is that we black
people (slaves) have got to
start thinking us and not our. 1
say not ours because realistically.
how can black people
(slaves) say that word when
any moment someone can
come and fire us from a job.
arrest us. kill us. lay us off.
get us fighting each other for
"really no reason.
Whetr 1 say us I mean the
blacks that have and the
blacks that don't have got to
stop being segregated from
each other and instead of the
Baptist Ministers- and Associates
inviting the city officials
of Winston-Salem to our
meeting for the purpose of
=. informing us as to how we can
help our city, they need to
invite the entire black
populous (slaves) of WinstonSalem
to a meeting to discuss
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what us as a group can do to
make a change.
And in conclusion 1 would
like to bring up one last thing.
During the 60's when the civil,
rights struggle was at a high
point, you could count the
number of blacks that smoked
marijuana. That was when
everyone was going natural. 1
know that we as a group are
going to have to kick the habit
and go natural again if we are
going to duplicate and exceed
what happened in the 60's.
David A. Campbell
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