. * / f WINSTOr CHROl : NDUBSI Pul ^ tt* CHARLES T. BYRD, JR. Business Editor ? ?- - ? ERNyES? Editor! Winston-Salem, N.C. fc ** " v, . Is Am Listenin A lion often prowled about \ a pasture where three bulls grazed .together. He had tried without success to lure one or the other of them to the edge of the pasture. He had even attempted a direct attack, only to see them form n ring so that from whatever direction he approached he was met by the horns of one of them. Then a plan began to form far the lion's mind. Secretly^' he started spreading evil and slanderous reports of one bull against the other. The three bulls,, distrustingly, began to avoid one another, and each withdrew to a different part of the pasture to graze. Of course, this was Is This Good Tuesday the city finance committee voted to let the Convention Caterers, which provides food services to Benton Convention Center, continue its operation even though this outfit owes the citv nearlv SfiO ("WW * On top of that the city has decided to extend the pay period so that the food service group can repay the money. In addition, the city has decided" to renew its contract with the grqup at a lower rate which means they will be paying the city less. The city manager said that it would be easier to get the money owed the city by renewing the contract instead of dropping it. This is a r" '",,1^mCTON^Au The Winston-Salem Chi Thursday by Winston-5 Company, Suite 603 Pe St. Mailing Addrefcs: P.O. N.C. 27102. Phcwfe: 722-8< paid at Winston-Salem, N. Subscription: $8.32 per (N.C. sales included), v Opinions expressed by w do npt necessarily repre Paper . . . vv\ ? V-SALEM ' NIQJE . - * * EGEMONYE 3 blisher ISAAC CAlttlEE, U -J* 7 Advertising Manager H. PITT ? ? . n-Chfef Saturday January 15, 1977 ybody g To IJ s ? ? exactly what the lion wanted. One by one he fell upon the bulls, and so made easy prey of them all. -That fable, written by Aesop many years ago^ still has relevance today. It?is perhaps this 4'withdrawing to different parts of the pasture'' that is responsible for mjiich of the plight that we experience today. Many of our leaders have been felled recently by attacks of a I slanderous nature. These I attacks, true or false, not only causes damage to the I individual but to the rest of us as well when we turn on each other. We then make < easy prey of ourselves. Is anybody listening to us? \ Business r~ good arrangement for the caterer but we fail to see hcfa t f it can be good for the city. We wonder how the group got that far behind in the first place. What with the city being up tight for money and all. There are some spHnna questions that need, to be answ^Veil in regard to this -situation. Why is the city guaranteeing renewal of the contract at a lower rate? What is different now that the city believes the group will be able to pay its debt ? while paying the current fees? Does this procedure comply with the recommendations made by a consulting firm recently? We'd like to know. CM CHRONICLE I ronide is published every ?alem Chronicle Publishing pper Building - 102 W. 4th Box 315^ Winston-Salem, I >24. Second Class postage C. 27102. I year payable in advance klmnnist In thh newspaper tent the policy of this ? r m-w-' - ?? " ~~" - - ? / ;4. * . X ' *. - ? : ? * 4 ? / > * ^r .... Not long ago, an eastern district conference was held on thp fpHaral PAIin+O onrl ...v .w%iv? wui i/o aiiu several social issues of vital interest to all black Americans. ,"\ -Such conferences are apparently held from time to time as a means, of having interchange between federal judges at all levels, including those on the U.S. Supreme Court. The immediate conference with which we are concerned was presided over by no less an august jurist than the Honorable Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States. The conference was disturbing on a number of counts. For example,., the 1 __ iiL . paiici ueaiing wun ainrniative action cases contained no black jurists nor women. When one distinguished black member of the bar arose to object to, or to question the propriety of, such an arrangement, the Chief Justice is reported to have been visibly incensed and to have lost composure. Those present described him as flushed in face as he proceeded to engage in a shockingly racist harangue on the theme that "all Americans are alike." In a replay on the text... "some of my best friends are.. . Mr. Burger noted that the . ^ A V A ?. \ r o | HE" HAS -5UFF c taek Empe$i By Dr. Nathaniel Wr HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIV EYEING OUR COURTS chief of the Supreme Court security was an Oriental, that another aide was a Latino and yet another was of Polish extraction. All of which served to prove nothing. . except the Chief Justice's unconsciously inherited White American racechauvinism, a strain' of which flows in every person acculturated in our model White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (or WASP-ish) ways. The Chief Justice's de.meanor alone could be nothing short of a signal to the judges and lawyers present as to what the mood of the I 1 * ? ' uauuii 3 Ulgliesi court WOUIQ be, should cases involving afirmative action come to the highest court on appeal. But if this were not enough, the Chief Justice, gratuitously and unashamedly, went much fur* ther. He pointed out that all of our courts must set priorities in terms of the importance of cases when schedules are set. Since there were far too many cases of a highly serious nature before the federal courts, the Chief Justice is said to have indicated, then it could be a matter of years before an affirmative action case could be reviewed either by appeals courts or by the U.S. Supreme Court itself. 'ERW..(9han two* per cent of I our judges are Mack, whfle 12 to 15 per cent of our I population as a nation is I Mack and some 50 to 80 per I cent of our criminal justice victims are blade. I