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8 The words "Ku Klux Klan" bring to mind the worst of
what America has had to offer for black Americans-- the
burning, shooting and other atrocities committed on
behalf of4'white supremacy."
Yet, those atrocities came to an end. When black
people pulled themselves together in a massive thrust in
the courts and in the streets to make racist behavior not
only illegal but unfashionable, groups such as the
above-mentioned withered. ? ?
In the America of 1978, a small frings element has
attempted to revive those words and bring back the
asinine ideals the letters 4tKKK" represent. Here in
FnrcirtVi pAM?fii ( < * 1? *' - *
. wnai a^pcarai iu oc no more inan SfiVfirai
persons have sought to spread their movement into our
school system.
First, they sent literature announcing the formation of a
"Klan Youth Cprps." Then, they announced their
intention to rent a school auditorium. To make things
worse, they have requested to use a school which has a
black principal. ~
The outcry from the black community has been
masssive, in terms of phone calls of protest and other
signs, and rightfully so. because blacks must never lose
? How Soon
There is a chill wind hlowino fmm th#1 Nnrth hMrino
the news that Carter Administration budget advisors
plan to scrap or cut federal programs in the areas of job
training and creation, education, health ar\d transportation.
If those portions of the proposed Carter budget leaked
to date are indicative, we might also expect cuts in
community development Ind other assistance programs
for state and local governments ranging from criminal
justice to environmental protection.
The theme of the Carter budget is to be inflation-fighting
through a balanced budget. No one can argue that
inflation does not demand urgent solutions.
However, we note that the selections tor cutbacks
almost uniformly wilU have a negative impact on pooor
and minority communities. Most serious would be the
various programs falling under the~ Comprehensive
Employment and Training Act.
CETA is just the tip of the iceberg. Minority
scholarships to medical schools might be down the drain,
and bus riders may wind up paying higher fares if federal
transit subsidies fail to keep up with increased costs.
Unfortunately, the Carter Administration, which black
voters counted on to provide new approaches toward
government bringing service to the people, is reverting
to the Nixonian practices of penalizing those who car
f Does God /
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I ' \S f ffi ^ recent survey of !ta
Im . j Vf] Mjfjj reader* by the U.S. CathI
I ?UC Magazine found that 90
V | per cent of Its readers
I jjF; J believe that God answers
XI 11 | prayers. The Chronicle
A 1 Camera went to Joe's Fine
" J i Foods on Bowen Boulevard
to ask the shoppers, "Do
vNA /Sl/Xlfflll yon believe God answers
prayers?"
Herman nail- Yes. I've
been sick a lot lately. If it
wasn't for him 1 don't think
I would have made it.
Anthony Jonea-Occassionally
he answers prayers. I
do believe there is a God.
No doubt about it, there is a
l God at least that's what I
feel.
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lor fhp KKK T an
opportunity to fight racism.
However, the same laws which have brought us
protection also apply to those who happen to belong to
the Ku Klux Klan. The school l>oard is bound by legal
precedents to rent the building to anyone who complies
with board regulations.
These latter-day Klansmen have taken advantage of
that reality to draw in inordinate amount of attention to
themselves. We hardly think they deserve a great deal
of concernr
We should be more concerned with coalescing to insure
that our communities get, for instance, the kind of
education which our children need.
The fact that such groups feel emboldened to crawl onto
__the limelight should serve as a message that we are
deficient in displaying our collective power.
vir
YYe snouid, rather than play into the hands of the KKK,
build our political and economic strength to the point that
we would not feel threatened to invite the KKKers to
meet in our homes.
Of course, they'd have to come in through the back
door.
They Forget
least afford it for the nation's economic problems.
These cutbacks will have an impact beyond their
immediate effects. Keep people jobless, and the federal
government will wind up paying more in unemployment
benefits and welfare, which are largely uncontrollable^
Make it harder for people to get to work or to receive the
training to get good jobs, and you wind up reducing the
taxes they might pay.
Our advice to the President is that cutbacks should
come in areas which have the least impact on the lives of
people. A. ninistrative costs and paperwork should be
trimmed instead of benefits or services.
We happen to believe that the federal covernment can
both balance its budget and meet the essential needs of
its citizens. If our leaders can't handle a half-trillion
dollars, they should entrust it to some of us who perform
wonders with half-a-hundred dollars.
The Carter proposalsare nor the end of the process .
They are just the beginning. Eventually, the full details
.will be open to public scrutiny and to Congressional
approval.
Budget making is inevitably a politcal process. Those
who make their feelings known most forcefully most
often wind up winning. In a year when most programs
[ will be asked to cut back, it becomes imperative for
I citizens to begin to understand which programs benefit
( and to make their wishes known.
Answer Prayers?
Jones Dennis
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Blonnie Dennis- Yes he y
does. I'm a believer. I \
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on i oeueve that anything
is impossible. Without him vI
couldn't do nothing. He's
a good God. If someone jt
doesn't believe the Almighty,
I feel for them.
Wayne James- Sure I do. James
Everything I got in this
world, God gave it to me,
not man. God answers feyjiyj^
prayers. No one else did it
for me. I get on my knees
and pray for what need
Edith Cox- Yes. came
home from surgery. I've V
been very sick. God an- ^
swered my prayers. Cox J
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Robbery
\^Pr. James P. Comer Under S
[Alvin F. Pouasalnt and could bear that she had at
Iimtf P. Comer are psy- the eleventh hour changed
chlatrfsts and the author* of her mind about marriage,
the book "Black Child .._T Sol planned what was to
Caie." Dr. Pouasalnt la be a perfectly disguised
iisoctste professor of psy- suicide; I'd pull a robbery
chiatry and aaaodaie dean with a toy gun because 1
for student affairs at Har- lacked courage to do anyvard
Medical School. Dr. thing to myself.
Comer la professor of child Well, no shots were fired
psychiatry and associate during the robbery and
-dean for student affairsjtf _even though I got away
Yale University School of temporarily, not much can
Medicine*] be said for me as a robber.
Dear Dr. Poussaint: Four I dropped the money bag at
months shy of completing a the door of the grocery
three year tour in the army, store. It earned me 15
I managed to get convicted years in prison.
of possessing three-fourths About a year later, after 1
of a gram of amphetamine had given tKe whole epicrystal.
That won me a six sode every thought posmonth
term at a military sible, it scared me to realize
prison. that I'm the same person
After being released from who was once in that frame
prison. ~T used "marijuana"ofimndr ?
and drank alcoholic bever- Now, could it happen
ages. again? 1 wondel about that
It was also during the now and then.
period shortly after my J.R.
release that I met a young ,
lady whom 1 agreed to Dear J.R.: It sounds like
marry. However, the mar- you committed the robbery
riaoe never became a real- unHp'r '
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. ity. Because of the strong' stress father than because *
feelings I had acquired for you were basically of a
the lady, it was more than I criminal mind. The emo- ~
Speaking Oi
On Tuesday, November 7, ities, while other have con1978,
newspapers all over tributed to their own unthe
United States reported doing with a lack of values
that over one hundred ad- in determining the best
ministrators from predom- educational programs for
inantly black colleges in the their students. Support
United States met in Wash- from church organizations
ington with Department of for private institutions has
"Health; Education and been on^the ndecline ~for
Welfare officials to explore years.
ways to increase the flow of No one can ignore the fact
federal grants at their in- that a number of the finanstitutions.
cial problems faced by
A number of questions these institutions were selfcome
to mind on the neces- inflicted. Apparently very
sity of such a meeting. As little long range planning
reported by the press, the was taken into consider?
meeting was held in an ation when they borrowed
effort to keep a pledge by funds to build new facilPresident
Jimmy Carter to ities, including dormitories,
find ways to help these human development cenbeleaguered
institutions. ters (ivory tower names for
Included among possible gymnasiums, health and
questions were, "What physical educatiomcenters)
happened to public suppor- student centers, and acated
institutions?** and demic buildings.
"What about church rela- Students are needed to
ted colleges and universit- pay off these loans. The
ies?" market for students is a
Hardly a day goes by tough one. Black students
when the public is not are actively pursued by
reminded that all hiohAr nreHnminantlv irictii
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education is suffering from tutionf and community cola
lack of funds. Appar- leges, and technical institently,
the preferred treat- utes have two-year careerment
by HEW with the satisfying programs that
predominantly black instit- attract black students also,
utions makes them a uni- The sad fact is, in most
que case. cases, these predominantly
It is no secret that they are black institutions get the
in dire financial straits. For "left overs" and in some
the most part, predom- cases to meet a projected
inantly black state-assisted enrollment, admission poliinstitutions
continue to be cies are ignored to insure
victims of the numbers that dormitories are filled,
game when the appropria- There is very little public
tions are handed out. sentiment for higher educaSimply
stated, funds are tion and even more minute
provided mainly on a "head for predominantly black in-count
basis". Very little stitutions. Some of the
consideration is given for advertisements seeking
upgrading these institu- support for these institutions
that have long been tions do more harm than
neglected by state author- good. Without referring
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tf0SS Dr Alvin F^Poussain^
tional state which caused robbery, you made sure
you to act out a robbery for that you were caught.
self-destructive reasons is - r?
one that frequently goes Fifteen years in prison is a
unrecognized not only in hi8h Price to to Punish
the courts by psy vourself over the loss of
chiatrists as well, your girlfriend. ^
Basically, it appears that ? ?
- : / , Regardless of the psycholyou
were suffering the loss . .
........ ogical reasons, society
of your girlfriend and ex-?, 7?7-;?;?
. . . * * rules that one s debt is paid
penencing a great deal of . .
. ... . .. in prison. .Recognizing
grief. Under these cir-~ _ ...
. . , your mistake by demoncumstances,
it is not un- . ....
1. u* strating good behavior may
common to have thoughts .. /
. ... .. ... perhaps gam you an early
of suicide and homicide; V 1 -
Fortunately, you did not^
hurt your girlfriend. In- Your crime was a one-time
stead, you committed .a affair which occurred under
robbery with a toy gun in a psychological duress and is
situation where it was pro- therefore unlikely to rebable
that you could have occur if you gain some
been'killed by the employ- understanding into your eees
or the police. . Indeed, motional reactions. In turn,
your act would have been a this insight may help you
-form of suicide. to gain better control over ?
A few social scientists your behavior.
have referred to this type of
suicide as "Victim precip- Take advantage of any reitated
homicide." One habitation programs in
wonders how many blacks prison. Improve your eduwho
have a staggering rate cation and skills so that
of black-on-black homicide your adjustment and reare
involved in such pur- entry into the outside world
poseful self-destruction. will be easier for yo.u when
Although you did not get you are released.
killed in your attempted Dr. Poussaint
trt By Perry R. Leazer
specifically to the adver- are the last to accept new
tisements, a case for sup- management techniques,
port could be better stated. Unless it has been reHigher.e4ucation
in states searched and reviewed by
where they have predomin- three professors, plus the
antly black institutions cost of consultants, mantend
to burden these instit- agement techniques to
utions with "Busy work" so improve administration
^they^annot bexreative and ?procedures-have-not-been?
develop solutions for their adopted. Many colleges
many problems. For exam- are still posting student
pie, defense for their con- accounts by hand, registinued
existance when tration is still a period to
questioned by state court dread and line item budguidelines,
justification for geting still is a mystery to
budget requests that have most. Needless to say, if
nrnVtoVtln J 1 * *
yrwowty otcti jUMIUCU^ UX1" U1C&C and OII1CL IMMgC*
til they cannot be justified ment procedures would be
anymore. adopted, resources could
Colleges, black and white, be redirected into other
need to take a new look at meaningful programs.
their career counseling pro- Alumni need to be corralgrams.
The job market is led and their energies diflooded
with people with rected into activities that
college degrees that are will improve the academic
almost as worthless as the programs of the institutnk
that states the name of tions. This is an area that
the recipient. Despite the needs immediate attention
fact that indicators point to because of the continued
, the fact that very few abuse by groups that conteachers,
social scientists, tinue to solicit funds in the
political scientists, and psy- name of the institution
chologists are needed, stu- and the administrative
dents are still guided into costs to get the funds to the
these dead-end programs, institution often exceeds
Colleges and universities the need.
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