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f ? . . ~ ~ Chronicle I The work of saving a few. It isn't the church that is wrong my child; It isn't the church ? it's YOU. Being a church member is not only for the purpose of getting but giving. A minister of a church is not the church, for he can be here today and gone tomorrow. We know this because our churches have survived f/tr /> ? ? ? * ivi wiiiuuca wuu ministers coming r and going. Perhaps if the great number of members whose primary contribution Tony . Brown From Page 4 in the Democratic Party is ? 42 percent. If he gets 90 per cent of that, and a little white help, he'll win. Politics in Philadelphia is not politics in Chicago and Goode is delicately trying to tell Jackson that. Andfew^ Young, mayor of Atlanta, and Jackson's old friend, has some more advice. Young has refused to become the symbolic - black presidential candidate and has said that blacks would do better backing a white candidate with a chance. "Real politics is more efpolitics," he asserts. Of course, he is dead wrong and his political judgment remains shortsighted. Young's logic would guarantee us more Democratic liberals to exploit the black vote. But Jesse Jackson, although knowing a good idea when he sees it, is the very man who tan * destroy it4? byr putting his own personal needs first. In short, a black presidential candidate, committed to the black community and not his own publicity, can at this opportune time of black political resurgence greatly advance the black cause. The one man who really has the political savvy, the backing, the acceptance, ? i ? i- : i i * ? inc pnuusupny, me charisma, the business sense and the brains is the black man who was betrayed by the Democratic Party, the white voters and his liberal advisers and cheated out of the mayor's job in New ' York City: Percy Sutton. Jesse Jackson, running hardest to be called the new Black Messiah, has certain ly demonstrated that" he fr not. In a recent show of bad political judgment, he went to Iowa, a state with less than two percent black ^ voters, to campaign as the chosen candidate of Black America for president. 41 Who chose him is still a mystery, but I suspect that his "ego" made him do it. Self-selected national black leaders, hand-picked by Jackson, will soon hold a "convention" to select a candidate. Jackson win surely be the choice at this so-named 4Convention" of his political cronies. However, he is sure to become the made-for^ failure candidate because nothing can protect him from himself. Example: He went to Iowa, with 98 percent white voters, and told the white folks that the farmers and urban poor had 44food and food stamps'* in common. That logic should really get a black candidate representing a black community a lot of votes in a I white state. ? 44Tony Brown's Journal, *1 the television series, can be seen on public television Sundays on Channel 26 at 6:30 p. m. f setters From Page is criticizing what goes on therein would join the few who seek to undertake God's work as best they can, the black church might become an institution serving humanity in a way excelled by none. E. Penn Winston-Salem Constructive Criticism To The Editor: Your series of articles concerning 9.00a Non WW 9 2oa ISlonsto 2:I0phr0ns 2:tfp Non '5555^1 7 00a \'or % vm+tn . 5 }op Xonsu 4 35p Nons 4.oop Nonstop WEGI 1HEOI Everyday, P to more places t Every day, P of any airline 01 And even \ we can still save flights to Orlanc 4 the black churches is a job well done, even though there are some negative responses. Your series is not condemning the black churches, but making the black community more aware of the church's obligation to the black community. Black people do not work very well together. This is also true of our black churches. Black churches have trouble helping their members, let alone helping someone outside of thechurch. 4 stopToAshe\ille ' j ' p To Charleston, SC i top To Charlotte i . -r* /^>i . , 11 i v u . Aj jl)h - } A ,t *jiti ...1,1 stop Io Chicago * i \stop To Xewark ip To Philadelphia < ? top To Tn-Cities ^pBf' " > To Washington. DC VEYOUMI MERMAN iedmont gives you more r han the other airlines cor iedmont gives you the mc it of Greensboro!'' vhen were not flying you you time.With some of tl io, Denver, and New Orle; ? Jl This is where the black church's problems begin. The churches are so busy sending money to missions overseas that they forget about the needy in our own black community. The black preacher can show you a list of things that his church is doing in the community but, in reality, the black community has not felt the results. In a lot of black churches, some members feel that if you disagree with the pastor in any way, you do not have the church or the pastor at a > * 5 25 p Xcmstop To Baltimore >.* 7 0s a Nonstop To Charlotte 8. 20p Nonstop To Charlotte ?:* ? 3.15P Nonstop To Dallas/Ft.Wbrih a inh ;Wrmfnh Ti \j/>?i virl' -t .>~r; ^ 'vv* v?f r* 4 oop Nonstop lb Pittsburgh 8 45P Nonstop "To Tn-Cities i roof) Nonstop To Wilmington. \C 3REOF1M 3RARUN lonstops So, call y nbined. 275-2801 in ( >st flights Point,or at It We reali; nonstop, ufastest"areal< \c fastest just one airlii ins. you consider1 f The Chronicle, Thursday, March 17, 1983-Paga 5 heart. And, any time the white churches This is not true at ail. come into the black community to A lot of black members are wor- feed our needy, it is time for the black shipping their pastors instead of God community to be critical of our churand think they are on their way to ches. heaven anyhow. This is why a lot of The black church is the only inpreachers can do all the sinning they stitution that is solely owned by are big enough to do; they know, no blacks. If we fail in the black churmatter what they do, a few members ches, there is nothing left. are going to follow them, right or So I say to the Chronicle, I am wrong. This is very sad. behind you all the way. Keep up the Constructive criticism can bring good work. about some positive changes in any John Hooka situation. 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