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Page l^Tbe Chronftcie, Saturday March 31, 1979
'Sons of Bakk
NAACP Opposes W
By John W. Templeton
Staff Writer S<
The national NAACP has launched a head-on attack
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against what some are calling the "Sons of Bakke," two
suits which have the potential of upsetting the concept of ?
affirmative aciton as a remedy for past discrimination.
The legal actions are theWebber vs. Kaiser suit, to be
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====^^_ argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, and a
class action suit by Sears, Roebuclrand Company against ~
the entire federal anti-discrimination apparatus.
Paul Brock, NAACP spokesman in New York, said the
Webber case ^couttf leave affirmative action in rags."
He termed the Sears suit *Jthe wrong case at the wrong
Webber is a white man who has charged he was ^
discriminated against by Kaiser^luminum Company
when he was refused admittance to a soecial training
? o dc
program for minorities. The NAACP and other civil
rights groups have filed friend of the court briefs in
defense of affirmative action in this case. v S'
Sears, the nation's largest retailer, has filed i^elass
action suit on behalf of all retailers with more than 15 C1
employees. The firm charges the federal government
with "restricting the employment opportunities of 4t
American citizens" through past government preferen- J
ces for veterans and uncoordinated and contradictory
civil rights enforcement.' t '
__ Press Urged to I
By Harry Amini of the Crusader, spoke
., Special to the Chronicle Saturday to a group of w
journalism students, educa- V
" Kober* tors and Black newspeople ri
Williams, 53-year-old at the Governor's Inn in the w
North Carolina activist of Research Tria ,e as the ,?
the 1950s whose call for keynote ker at a BIack cc
armed self defense led to workshop sponsored
attacks which forced him by (he Southeastern Black n(
into exile to Cuba and press Institute* of the Uni of
China, called on the Black Versity of North Carolina. ' w:
press this weekend to 'Tire wunams said the Black (J
up its courage and lead press has been consider^ m
the fight against "Bakke- -.subversive and pToyoc?. ca
ism" and the "tin toe
,. ,, . ^ tive by the white power
journalism that charac- . D, . r .
? m ? structure. Blacks sub- hk
tenzes too much of the . .. . . . .. .. r D,<
writing of today's Black ed t0 " at penl ?f P><
writing ot todays black iive and limb *\
journalists. DI . .. rai
tir?r T Black loumahsts must thi
Williams, former editor ? in'
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U.S. Regulations Knocked co
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hampering the development of water and sewer systems?Pin
predominately^ black localities In the South, said ^
participants in the Water and Sewer Policy Board *u
meeting of the National Conference of Black Mayors. ^
J. Stanley Alexander, coordinator of the conference's
National Demonstration Water Project, said "State and *n
federal regulations and requirements should be simplified
to help towns provide basic water and sewer services
tf* thpir ff*nctifnon*e "
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"The unhealthy conditions which exist in many cjv
communities could be eliminated with more cooperation m2
between federal and state officials on funding criteria for th<
water and sewer systems in rural towns," Alexander jjj
added. * Wi
? Grambling, La. Mayor, Andrew K. Mansfield, said, his
"Blacks are experiencing serious problems in obtaining th<
public financing of water and/or sewer systems. Many gj.
predominately black towns don't have ap adequate water g.
supply to sustain a healthy community environment."
Mansfield, elected chairman of the board at its cja
February meeting, said the group will study those saj
regulations which impede the development of water and th<
sewer systems in rural towns.
The National Conference of Black Mayors represents
171 mayors, mostly from small Southern towns.
Plan Shows Growth I
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DURHAM, N.C. -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of V
North Carolina reports that its plans protected a third of H
North Carolina's population during 1978. M
The statewide health service organization ended 1978 H
with a total enrollment of 970.427 *nh?crihArc a
. . V? 1IVV gOiil
of 41,124 over 1977. Including dependents, this brought I
the total number of persons protected by the Plan at
year's end to 1,925,223 or 33.7 percent of the state's total
population.
During 1978, the Plan paid 3,213,055 claims for its
participants, exceeding $375 million in total benefits. H
While claims paid increased over the previous year by
almost 400,000, the average cost of processing them was
decreased by four percent. The increased claims were I
processed in an average of 13.5 calendar days at an
accuracy level of 96.4 percent.
Benefits paid for Medicare part A--which BCBSNC
administers for the Social Security Administration in I
North Carolina- esceeded $350 million. Combined
benefits paid for underwritten and government admin- H
istered programs topped $726 million, up 14 percent H
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e* Attacked
Webber, Sears Suits
Plaintiffs in the suit include the Attorney General,
jcretary of Labor, Chair of the Equal Employment
pportunities Commission, Secretary of Commerce and
x other federal officials or agencies with civil rights
iforcement responsibilities.
Sears alleges that the government created an
ibalanced'work force by giving educational preferences
wl other benefits to veterans who were^ predominantly
hite and male, and is now attempting to hold employers
sponsible for discrimination^The
suit came after an EEOC finding that Sears had
stricted blacks and Hispanics to lower paying jobs, and
id failed to hire minorities in certain store* in
joj^ortion tq.tlbgig
ctual manner, we are not misled," said Brock. "This is
1 unwarranted frontal attack on the entire apparatus for
>alino iuWK "
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Brock said the lack of coordination complained of by
ears had been addressed by the Civil Rights
eorganization Act of 1978, which clarified authority for
vil rights enforcement.
The NAACP spokesman dismissed the suit as a
public relations ploy," but said that the NAACP^vouid
tely join the case if the federal government is not able
have the suit dismissed
Fight Backlash
re-educate and unbrain- menacing clouds of Bakke
ash our people," ism...which call for th<
Williams said. "Time is forces of reaction to rail;
innmg~uutr We cannot for an all-out assault on th<
ait for a Savior. Our Black Man's survival."
;adership must be
>llective." ? Williams said Black
Williams said the country Americans could learn a
)w suffers from a dearth lesson from the Chinese,
quality Black leadership Al ihe entrance to a park in
hich has "cast its lot with China, Williams said, a
immy Carter) the peanut weather-beaten sign still
an and peanuts is all we stands which says "no dogs
n expect." or Chinese allowed," the
We must take all the British had put it there,
ime, he said. "I, for one,
;ad guilty that my gene- The Chinese had pretion
has failed to pass on servec* it for their young
5 mantle of^our recent 8enerati?n see anc* to
story and struggle to the know ^at^heir P*st liad
o#?nf?ratir\n been- When the Jim Crow
"There are young girls s,8ns came d n ,n thls
Ho live within blocks of coun,r>'' we, dld n?' Pre"
rs. Rosa Parks and they serve a s!?e'e ?ne for ?ur
ink she lived in the days -wnllams sa'd...
a >t i - ?' Now the same ill wind
Harriet Tubman. blows
our way again and
Williams, who fled the our youth are ill prepared to
untry in 1961 after orga- cope with it."
ting self defense militia
iits in Monroe County to Williams concluded that
otect residents agamsl^ " alternative to vioKK-attacksT-did-not
re- lence^-tn-America isrf *fasf
rn to this country until narrowing...It is one mi69
after living, for two nu*e to zero. Our Black
ars in Cuba and six years journals can again become
China. Things are too our v?ice a?d thunder our
fferent in the U.S.?today, demands and aspirations to
said. the whole world."
-After a few too meager
il rights gains were^E H
ide, just like some jews
DUgnt tney nad it made in
tier's Germany," said ^^^tuTjTnjUlllQB
illiams who then turned
.. , . .f Stop itching fast of external
? attention to the topic of vag,nal. rectal, and other skin
; workshop: "Can the conditions. Doctors find even
ack press defeat the S.O. severe itching can be treatec
c- rr. 11 on with a special drug. You car
- the Sons of Bakke. now get this anti-itch drug
The Black press is espe- ingredient with no prescriptior
illy needed today, he B'F9^LNE" hUSm ?nly as
,/ , - directed The medically prover
id, because Blacks find creme for rTTTVTTTT^nfl
emselves under "the itching
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