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Wbvston-Salem Chronicle 722-8624 Or 723-9863 NDUBISIEGEMONYE Publisher DIANA ROBERTS Sales Representative ISAAC CARREE,n Advertising Manager ERNEST H. PITT Editor-in-Chief Winston-Salem, N.C. Saturday August 6, 1977 Red Herrings Or Showmanship Very soon the voters of the black community will have important decisions to make that will affect the community for the next four years. How will these decisions be influenced? By deception, evasion, red herrings, or showmanship? Heretofore, the black voters have been subjected to a calculated silence that failed to acquaint them with the candidates and what the candidates offered. At the polls the uniformed voters are given two or three states of candidates which left them more confused. There should be more caucusing and more leg workers who will go out into the community and knock on doors to answer questions about the particular candidates. The last national election outcome should not influence our thinking to oust the old and put in the new. Seniority is very important when committees are formed and even more important when chairmanships are made. Chairmen play an important part when the body can spend a term just getting acquainted with the proce dures. Parliamentary procedures can keep one’s mouth shut just as much as inexperience in budget making and finances. In the meantime the black community can be left hanging on the short end. How many times have you attended an Aldermanic Meeting? It takes know-how and experience to cope. On the other hand by placing new members on the Board, who are known to have made contributions in the Black Community can be an asset, providing they can give more than Hp service and get what the community needs with compromise and caucising. Blacks are still to complacent and should give more thought and attention to the electing of public servants. We have very personable candidates running for the Board of Aldermen; incumbents as well as new faces in politics. The voters should give them every consideration and scrutiny. Four years of leadership depend upon your decisions. The Black Community can not tolerate a term of inactivity. A lot of impressive rhetoric can end up being small talk. A council is no place for pretty talk; action is the order of the day. The New Pornography Law A new pornography law went into effect Monday, allowing district attorneys and the state attorney general’s office to file civil suits against stores selling, exhibiting, or possessing “lewd matter.” Everyone is waiting to see whether Winston-Salem’s district attorney Donald Tisdale will close down the adult book stores and raid the X-rated movies. Without getting into the 1st Amendment aspects of a pornography law, our main reaction to such a local crack-down would be; “Isn’t it a little strange?” After aU, Madge Roberts ran a ring of prostitution and an illegal abortion racket for twenty years in the 'Twin City and was never prosecuted for it. But suddenly everyone is clamoring about copies of HUSTLER in the convenience stores and girlie movies downtown. One might conclude from this discrepancy that it is aU right to participate in pornographic things—just don’t read about them...? Anyway, we hope that before Mr. 'Tisdale starts busting the local pom peddlers, that he will take a very close look at Mrs. Roberta. After all, if it is iUegal to look at it or read about it, she must be in a world of trouble. T-^GISLATIVE ALERT We continue this week with item 5 of the Con gressional Black Caucus Leg islative Agenda, which calls for your personal support. You may wish to retain Ihe entire series. 5. FOREIGN AFFAIRS In the Caucus Legislative Agenda for 1976, a detail^ statement covering many is sues in the international are na was set forth. We hold to that statement of principles. Our primary focus remains bringing about majority rule in southern Africa, and to that end we support legis lation 1( to repeal the Byrd Amendment permitting the importation of Rhodesian Chrome so long as the iUegal regime in that country re mains; 2( to deny the foreigr tax credit for taxes paid South Africa; 3( greatly in creased tJ.S. contribution to the African Development fund. Additionally, the Caucus supports the establishment of a permanent House Select Committee on Intelligence. The Caucus also calls for a re-examination of the role of the U.S. in the world com munity. particularly as it re lates to the massive spending demanded in our defense budget—spending which has direct impact on our ability as a nation to meet human See Alert, Page 20 By Dr. Nathaniel Jr. BMI*IIVEKAIGkVT COME TO THE CAUCUS DINNER For all of us there ought to be periodic great occasions where we do more than “let go,” where our spirits soar and we see ourselves for the greatness which the spirit of the occasion reveals. For black Americans such an annual occasion ought to be the gala dinner in Wash ington, D.C. of the Congres sional Black Caucus. This year the dinner itself will be held on September 24th at the Washington Hil ton Hotel. But what we gen erally speak of as the Con gressional Black Caucus Dinner is more than a dinner, more than an evening out. The dinner is set as part of a weekend of significant activity which is vital to the interests of all black Ameri cans. Specifically the major part of the Caucus event will be a series of workshops on Friday and Saturday, Sep tember 23 and 24 on the theme “How Congress Oper ates.” The workshops will con cern themselves with a wide range of black community needs, as each focuses on the basic question as to how black people throughout the country may become increas ingly effective in getting their viewpoint heard.. .and acted upon. The workshops will enable participants to meet the members of the Congression al Black Caucus, together with their key staff aides. There will be opportunity to question the Caucus mem bers, to visit their offices and to share some concerns of a personal nature which any of us may have, whether the Congressmen or COngrcoo women are our official repre sentatives or not. These opportunities to get to know our representatives in Washington much better and to learn how issues vital or dear to us may best be for warded would make the visit to Washington worthwhile in itself. Along with being with our representatives, the Caucus weekend affords the privilege of meeting and of working in small groups with many other distinguished, involved and resourceful black Americans who come from all parts of the country just for this greai and gala event. The workshops are open to jll who wish to register and ;ome to Washington to ihare. The workshops are Tee. Hence the big part of Tie Caucus weekend carries 10 price tag other than oui )wn trip expenses to a magni ficent and exciting city. For those who have not Dcen to Washington recently, Dne may be surprised to see a greatly beautiful city, with not only a sparkling new sub way system but also a black population increase to 71 percent. Washington, D.C. is the world’s most largely black metropolis outside the conti nent of Africa. The city’s black dignitaries will be on hand; and the traditional Washington, D.C. tours will enable the weekend partici pants to see the political sights and the cultural sights and to learn how an over whelming black majority comports itself with dignity, effectiveness and command. Thus far we have said little about the dinner itself. But we shall, after a reminder that the invitation for us to come to Washington is a call for us to be together at our very best... and to be proud all the while. If you come, as we trust you will plan to do, you will find every moment a celebration. For details of the week end for you, or for you, your spouse and family or perhaps for you and your civic or church group, simply ad dress: Congressional Black Caucus Dinner Committee, Congressional Annex, Wash ington, D.C. 20515. or per haps you will want to call at 202-225-1691. But mark your calendar; and then write or call today. You will find the weekend an occasion of personal and black renewal. It will afford the rare or once in a year opportunity to meet and talk seriously with some of the best and most influential minds in Black America. You will come away exceedingly proud. The dinner itself will large ly add to the tremendous weekend sense of pride in being a part of an “increas ingly together” black com munity. There is no occasion for black folks throughout the world that has more notable and accomplished blacks come together than the annu al Congressional Black Cau cus Dinner. The profits from the din ner go directly for the coop- erattvp work of the Conores. stonal Black Caucus, a thor oughly underfunded group. Large numbers of blacks can easily afford the $125 for the dinner. But most arrange, as is reasonable, for their business employers or for a business with which they have good relations to sup port the important work of the Congressional Black Cau cus by purchasing one, two or even a table of ten seats. The tickets would normally be then used by the person making the request and, if two tickets are purchased, by that person’s spouse or com pany. It is a fair request to ask your friends or your business associates to support the major work of the Congres sional Black Caucus in the interests of all Americans but especially “on behalf of black folks.” If you need assistance, simply share this editorial; perhaps the one you ask will want to send you by paying all of your travel and hotel expenses, as many friends and employers do. Or they may wish to come, along with you. Many churches will also want to send their minister and his wife. You and they will see black folks casually strut their fine feathered stuff as no doubt they have never seen before. The Caucus weekend is a celebration, a happening you’ll never forget. You owe it to yourself to be there. See you there! Alice In Winstonland The Red King The whole plain was laid out in squares, like a chessboard, and here and there life-size chess men were darting about from square to square. Suddenly Alice felt herself being pushed from behind. “Run! Run!” cried the DID WE overcome VET? ©("ny BuAck media tsic THE WEARY PICKET To Be Equal by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. Blackout 1977 When the lights went out in New York City we came face-to-face with urban anarchy in its most terrifying form. Large sections of the City fell prey to looting, burning and lawlessness. New Yorkers were horrified, not least among them the poor people in whose neighborhoods most of the outrages took olacp : Jnnn.'o.'*' neoolR foimd themselves burned out of their homes and terrorized by the break down of order in the streets. After the crisis passed, they were faced with essential neighborhood services gone--food stores, cleaning establish ments and clothing stores burned or looted. Lives already made difficult by poverty and hardship became significantly har der. That’s a part of the New York story that has been neglected by the media focus on the acts of looting and on the arrests. All of the attention has been placed on the violence and little on the victims of that violence. The storekeep ers whose businesses were lost or damaged were not the only victims—their customers and employees and neigh bors will suffer from the blackout looting too. It would be a mistake to assume that this was just a repeat version of the riots of the late 1960s. Racial violence was absent this time—black and His- panic-owned stores were not immune from looting. and there was no overt racial conflict behind the attacks. Many people in other cities should not be smug about the New York tragedy. It's a national past-time to downgrade New York and to exagge rate its problems. But what happened in New York could easily happen in any of our cities. For national policies neglect have led to th creation of an urba wilderness peopled b victims of poverty, diseti mination and joblessnes; We have created a larg underclass of people wit no stake in our societj embittered people whos exclusion from the mail stream has led them t See Jordan, Page 5 Letters to the Chronicle I read your paper and my opinion of Jimmy Carter is that he has done a good job during the six months he has been in office. On the other hand, the people who don’t know much about the law should be careful about what they say. My second husband was a lawyer and he taught me that the President can’t do any more than Congress will allow. The U.S. Govern ment is working all the time. There must be a president to encourage them. I have received letters from lots of presidents and there have been many presidents who have n’t done anything for the people, and I don’t I*© fo” people to be ^orant about the duti« of the president. I sure dop't like what I read abnut President Carter. God is looking ail knows what he does is best. I have heard } broadcast that the rate* pay in North CarohrS the worst in the tiiita States. Now Presides Carte has not been in office lii months. He and Presdei Kennedy have put moK Black people in goven ment than atf otha president. / Ebony magtzln® shot a lot of pecyte working' other st3’i*®> l*ut not South (Brolina or Nort Carolua- Those peopl woritns lu Washingtoi DC.; are from Nort 4roIina or South Caro lina. I know how I have bee treated under the pai presidents. The best thin for people who are alwap talking and complaining for them to get on the knees and pray. Give my See Letter, Page 5 “Why were we run ning?” asked Alice. voice. Alice was so frightened that she began to run as hard as she could. When she finally stopped, being but of breath, she saw that her companion was the Red King. ‘ ‘It’s our civic duty—and anyway, if we can get all the way across the board without being stopped, we get to become more powerful,” panted the Red King. “Run!” He grabbed Alice’s wrist, and they began to run again. This time when they stopped to rest, Alice looked aroimd her and noticed that the landscape was just the same. “Why, we haven’t got See Alice, Page 2 Tbings You Sbould Knov BECHET Born in new Orleans, MAY 14, 1897,THE LATE SIDNEY BECHET TOOK UP CLARINET AT THE AGE OF six / HE "wOWED* FRANCE IN 1920, 1925 AND 192?/ REJOINED NOBLE SISSLE IN 1934, STAYED ABROAD FROM 1949 UNTIL HIS DEATH... ICArr T
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