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>v * *> Page 4 -The Chronicle, Saturday, February 10, VIEWPC <> > %\ ^ - 0 -s-xsX ....<-sv. V- ?y?-^ Member North Carolina Bh ? .w Si Black Hist A person with no history has very dim prospects for the future. That's why the history of black people has been systematically overlooked in far too many of the accounts of the history of America. For the smae reason, the observance of Afro-American History Month has a great significance. During February^^e"^ should take ihe rime"to learn about the'accomplishmerftsof a people who have moved "From Slavery to Freedom" in the words of historian John Hope Franklin. However, February is not the only month during which we should take heed of the black heritage. When Carter G. Woodson, "The father of Negro history" launched "Negro History Week" in the early 1900s through the newly-formed Association for the Study of Negro life and History, it was his idea to stimulate thL all year round. 11 months of the year. Professional educators and others who study student achievement cast negative self-images as a major culprint in low academic achievement, particularly among black and low-income youth. Negative self-images result because youth do not have role models they can point to as examples of success. To Need For G< Guest Editorial - The Carolinian Institutions - religious, social, educational, fraternal, political, economic, and so on - will at some point in time, wTant to write a history covering their development and growth. Not many, but a few, local churches may want to hard put. We know a man who is commission to write the history of his local church that is now 111 years old. He knew he would have some difficulty, but not to the extent that existed. Practically no minutes of official church boards had been preserved. He found that although the church had had about 50 pastors, there were no official membership rolls preserved. Well, how did he manage? Hete and there some members came with a valuable piece of history, for example, a Sunday School record book for the 1930's. Another member had the original mortgage of a brick structure which was dedicated in 1914. How Can Postal Service Be Improved? ' I8S The United States ft Bo System often reII III ceives complaints about JT\ M ||fl the mail service. Man} (L J II IS I consumers say that theii iL i A HL ma^ delivery is too slow Mm i ill or ^at price ol rnM , jKjhj ||1 stamps are too high. MM (Gin lil The Chronicle Camera V V IK visited the Post Office on MM |T WjL Patterson Avenne to ask lJ ill particpants, "What do : m| yon think of the postal h 1^^ i m |||r services and how can the B m* l| HI services be improved?'' H JIL i . A m Their answers were: _ complaints. can see. I do think that the stamps are too high. - ? Fifteen cents4*too high. \ t 1979 MNTS ed ack Publisher's Association / ory Month a child living in poverty (we mean either economic or informational poverty), it is hard to conceive of people like him doing better in life unless their is an example of - success to point to. * ' ? T There is where the hiding of black history has had its most serious impact. There are many vpOsttiveTote modedls for our youth to men, doctors, civil rights leaders, skilled craftsmen and even laborers, who have done menial tasks to perfection. One does not have to leave the city to find such models. As our series, "The Roots of Black Winston-Salem" has documented, there have been black politicians, religious leaders, bankers, insurancemen, real estate entrepreneurs, transit operatord, brickmakers, restauranteurs, academicians and just abou anything else blacks could find a way to be despite the restrictions^pfaced on them. ^ Despite the poverty endemic in our communities, there have been many who have attained wealth and many ventures which have achieved success. There is a solid record of achievement not only in Winston-Salem, but also in North Carolina, the nation and the world for black people, which makes AfroAmerican History Month a )od Records Probably, the main source of the writer's strength in getting materials was a church historical committee. This committee supplied the man who is preparing the church history with such information as he requested; that is, if the committee could locate it. ?Any local church- (Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, a plan hy which it proposes to secure and preserve local records, be it for 25, 50, 75, or 100 years. First, a place for keeping the history ought to be provided. It might be called the church library, which has an appointed librarian. If the librarian is not trained in such work, he could take a course, or courses, in library science from some nearby college on the extension basis. The librarian should have shelves, as well as a 4-drawer metal filing cabinet - with dividers, folders, etc. And most of all, the librarian must be dedicated to the task, must be willing to walk the third undemanded mile.. If your church doesn't have a historical library, then be a leader who will get one started at once. \ Hi m Davis Wilkins t r Hattie Wilkin?--! have r to stand in long lines so I BH > think they need more f clerks. For my money the stamps are too high. ? Ten cents would be betvnii Kay Foster-I think i the service is okay. I I don't usually write let- H , i ters and I only come to Moage the post office to get food stamps. Adeline H^ge-Tm ' mP Curtis Martin--I don't think they need imgroveeverything is high, but 7 everyone has got to live?- Maxtin I T ?/ " v litorials jl . jl .. j l . iomamiiaq?!? CrCtt - ? ^pr.j??>.c? Adopting A y [AMn F. Poo?hit and Jinw P. Comer ere pcychUtriiti and the authors of the book "Black Child Care." Dr. Pooaaalnt la oriate profeaaor of psychiatry and aaaociate dean for atndent affairs at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Comer la profeaaor of child paychlatry and aaaociate dean for atadent affairs at Yale University School of Medicine.] Dear Dr. Poussaint: We ai*e a black childless couple and we woukTHike to adopt ^whit^child^ We believe integration and that all people are just basically human beings, regardles of their skin color. When we mention our wish to friends, some think we are absolutely bizarre and just asking for trouble. Is our wish so strange? H.G. Would you raise the child as a white or as a black? Raising the child as a human being as you had mentioned is fine, but what about his -How will he feel abou having black parents in a world with racial against you? Unfortunately, nobody knows for ceartain the answers to these questions. Black parents have raised very light skinned black children as black even though the children were able to pass for being white. However, these children usually had som^ black ancestry that one could point to. Have you considered raising an adopted white child with a _black identityl Jf you hadr why then would you not want to adopt a black child? Do you know that most adoption agencies will not let you adopt a white child? This may seem like a contradiction since these same agencies permit a white couple to adopt a black child. They claim that they have this policy because there is a shortagae of acceptable balck adoptive parents. However, some agencies probably feel that it would be advantageous for a black child to be adopted by a white couple, whereas a white child would be harmed psychologically and socially were it to be adopted by a of racial prejudice. Indeed, the issue is very complicated. ?~ Nevertheless, go to adoption agencies and let your wishes be known. We would be very interested in theresponses you receive. Finally, if there are any black couple reading this column who have adopted white childre, please let us (iiiifiiiitiiiNiiiNaiiiuNiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiuiiiiiiiMMiiiiiiiiimiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiii Speaking C mttttiiiiiiiiiMuiitimtiHitfMMintntiiiiiimiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiitiiHiiHtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitimiiiiiiro February is Black History a courageous, committed, , Mortth--a time to look at the caring few. past and plan for the fu- Being a Peace Corps or ture-an appropriate time VISTA volunteer requires f tt_ ? -- iur oiacK people reconsider the same kind of courage committing a year or two of and commitment as the their lives in helping sit-ins or the Freedom others, either throughVIS- rides of the early 1960s. It TA or the Peace Corps. takes an individual who February is also Peace believes change is posCorps/VISTA Month, a sible--one who is willing ttJ time to salute over 132,000 invest time, energy and men and women who have love in work which uplifts shared their skills, exper- others, ience, and dedication as VISTA and Peace Corps , Peace Corps or VISTA vo- comprise an army ofvolunlunteers over the years. teers in much the same Black people have a trad- sense as did the civil rights ition of struggle, a sense of movement. his is a caring for others, and his- nonviolent army, a movetory of involvemerft in the ment to help people help movement for human dig- themselves, a movement to nity. I see many parallels enhance the quality of life between serving as a Peace for people on a sugar can Corps or VISTA volunteer plantation in the So^th, in and participation in the civil the ghettos of our nation's rights movement which was urban areasr on Indian so effective in the past two researvations, in the barrdecades. ios of the Southwest, ^nd in It takes a special kind of 63 nations aaround the person, an unusual person, world. It is a movement to to be a Peace Corps or help those who are forgot-* VISTA volunteer, just as it ten is a sea of poverty, linr initiative of TgTT out and TeTf special few to spark the behind, the underclasses of civil rights movement of the the world. 1960s. Black history re- and health programs, assiscords that nur rrvnlntiomry ~iing farmer and consumer wwmwwU were sparked, cooperatives, bringing tonot by the majority of gether tenant and neighstudents on any college borhood groups to rehabilicampus or the general pop- tate housing, or setting up ulation of neighborhood or centers for battered spoutown, but by the audacity of ses, to name only a few. 1 ??1? columns I iSJJLEKd wVhite Child ,Dr. AMb F. Poucaint JJ I 7/ Dear Dr. Poussaint: I am sixteen and I have a bad crush on my best girlfriend's father. He's about fifty and sometimes he looks at me in such a way as though he might be interested in me. I'm afraid that he may try something and I won't be able to resist. Lately I have become very nervous around him. I don't know what to do because I don't want to stopo going to my girlfriend's house. T.A. Dear T. A.: It's not uncommon for a young woman to develop a crush or an attraction toward an older man. Fatherly types may have a special appeal to a teenager who is in a transitional period between childhood and adulthood. In fact, your crush could indicate that you like him as substitute father. Or it may mean that inside you feel that you have not received enough love and affection from your own father, Have?you grown up in a female'headed, single parent family? If so, the latterconsideration may be even more apropos to your situation. Very often at your age crushes come and go very quickly. However,"if you want to avoid any potential problem, make sure that vnn HnnW fi;** .. ? -? - ?? j ? wvii v miv wiui _yuur incno S father. You should also refrain from wearing sexy or revealing clothes in his presence., and for the timebeing, don't spend the night at yhour friend's house. "lou may T>e ftftaglnlng that your friend's father is looking at you in a special way. Nevertheless, if he makes any advances, you should firmly decline. That may well end matters between you and him, in which case you need not mention it to your friend, since it woul d probably only hurt her and her relationship with her father. If her father persists in making advances, tell him you will tell your parents if he doesn't stop. If he still continues, tell your parents about it and have them _^ U^yout anxiety and crush-persist and continue to cause you emotional pain ^you should seek th?T~help of a counselor. Dr: Poussaint? T ~ 1 : If you have any questions for the doctors, send your letter to "Getting Along,'* care of this newspaper.) (c) 1979, Summit Press Syndicate IIKIIIIIIIIINIIIIIINHMIIIIIIIIIklllllllllllllllNIIIIHIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIUIIIIIMIIIIUli >Ut by John Lewis luiiiiHHitiitiitttimiimimiiimiiiiitmttttiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimtiiiimiiimiii More than half of the vice. 4,000 VISTAs today serve ,nformation about Peace in their own communities. c and V1SJA rams About 15 percent are lowincome men and women js available too-free at 800who are building their own 424-8580 or through ACTl skills and leadership capac- ION recruiting offices. ities through volunteer O " * w. Winston-Salem Chronicle j | Founded 1974 I , - Ndubisi Egemonye | President ijp M i| Ernest H. Pitt ' I Editor/Publisher 1 y TO Robert Eller John W. Templeton 1 Sports Editor??Executive Editor 1 1 1 1 ~7.I 1 Sharyn Bratcher Yvette McCullough ^Managing Editor Photo Editor | ! Office Manager ^ | ; The Chronicle welcomes news items. Deadline tor& j| handwritten materials is .Monday at 5 p.m. iTypewritten materials; Tuesday at 5 p.m. Letters to|| ithe Editor should be signed and should have thej j name, address and telephone number of the writer.! ; _
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