Page A4-The Chronicle, Thursday, October 4, 1984
^Winston-Salem Chronicle
Founded 1974
iRNIST H. PITT,
NOUBISIIOIMONYI ALLIN JOHNSON
( <bhn,nd*r ?i?tmli*t Editor
LAINI I. PITT ROBIN ADAMS MICHAIl Pin
Of fur Klidiugrr Assistant Editor CtrrulmtHtm S4an*tt'
See the man run
Dear white voters:
We're not sure whether you realize it, but some candidates
who share your racial heritage insist on insulting
your intelligence. ^
They oversimplify the issues ? if they address them at all
~ use folksy, I'm-one-of-y'all approaches to win your confidence,
and if neither of those tactics works, resort to
something as ugly, if not ineffective, as race-baiting.
Hate and fear, after all, are remarkably persuasive.
Jesse Helms is one of those politicians. Besides wreaking
havoc on facts by telling only, one side ? his side ? of
political stories, Sen. Helms realizes the popularity (is this
the Twilight Zone or what?) of President Reagan and
unabashedly attempts to ride the president's coattails to
anoiner lerm.
He's a "Reagan conservative," Helms proclaims, while
his opponent, Gov. Jim Hunt, is a "Mondale liberal."
You see,.it's easy to call names. The labels are simple,
black-and-white, cut-and-dried -- tailor-made for
elementary-school mentalities. They don't allow for any
shades of gray, which, any intelligent adult recognizes* exist
almost everywhere.
Speaking of colors, Helms not only has a penchant for
considering you morons who will accept a Dick-and-Jane
approach to the issues ("See the good conservative fight for
your rights against the pinko liberal").
He also believes you fear and despise anything that will
benefit the poor, even though many of *North Carolina's,
and indeed, most of the poor in the nation, are white.
He believes you are simple-minded enough to accept that
the term poor is synonymous with black people who drive
Cadillacs to the bank to cash their welfare checks.
And. instead of runninc on his rernrH tnntc hie V?r*m
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about scffiool prayer and continues his battle to discredit the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.. hoping you will be gullibleenough
not to recognize the ploy for what it is : a political
smokescreen.
Men like Helms and the president say they want to return
America to the g65U Old^da^T^nd its "past greatness"
(even the out-and*^^^ci9j^|i2y^ay^ou know how unattractive
that sounds to black people). Aren't some of you,
like us, more concerned about the future?
And aren't you just the least bit annoyed that someone
who purports to represent you thinks so very little of you?
Crosswlnds
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A show of strength
From the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
The national Coors boycott in the black community has
ended in victory, as announced Sept. 18 by Christopher
Bennett, president of the National Newspaper Publishers
Association, the black press of America.
NAACP, Operation PUSH, the NNPA, PARC (People
Against Racism in Coors) and Calpac met many times to
put the final economic package together and on occasion
were forced to walk out of negotiating sessions, feeling that
Coors was failing to negotiate in good faith.
For the past three months, the NNPA negotiated through
three of its officers: William Garth, chairman of the advertising
committee; Pat Thomas, secretary of the NNPA; and
President Bennett, who did yeoman's work and spent a
great deal of money participating in the coalition.
?agreement
should provide for a substantial amount of Coors' advertisintT
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that at least 10 percent of the budget agreed upon should be
allotted to advertising in black-owned media.
They succeeded in obtaining a concession of $8.8 million
annually, which amounts to approximately $50 million for
black-owned media for the entire five-year package ? a
reasonable contribution by Coors for black support of its
product in the marketplace.
The agreement anticipates that over $325 million will be
contributed to the entire black community through this
contract, including the following significant items: employment
development, appointment of black senior officers, as
well as board members, for Coors; the granting of at least
20 Coors distributorships to blacks, increased Coors
deposits in black banks and utilization of black insurance
and investment firms, and substantial contributions to
other black organizations for scholarships for black
youngsters.
We are pleased to note that a similar agreement is being
worked out for the Hispanic population.
This marks the first time that a coalition of national
black businessmen included members of the black press,
and as stated by President Bennett,4'This is the first time in
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Syndicated Columnist
Ignorance is the primary opposition
to the higher education
of the nation's black
youth and the primary reason
that Rlark PftlUo# nau ?ioe
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held the last Monday of this
September and every
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Never let anyone tell you
that the problem with black
people is white people. The
problem with, black people is
ignorance -- believe me.
How do I know? Michael
Myers. Yes, Michael Myers
has proved my theory correct.
Who is Michael Myers? He is a
racial apologist, a colored ?Negro
whose racial theories passionately^
advocate^ the"
superiority of white people
and the inferiority of black
people ? or anything they-touch.
He spends his adult life
denigrating everything that
black people stand for. He is
also a colored man who finds
great favor among the
editorial elite of the white
establishment media.
Just a few months ago, he
was invited on the editorial
pages of the nation's largest
newspaper, The Wall Street
Journal, to attack and
misrepresent the leadership
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By MANNING MARABLE
Special to the Chronicle
Under normal conditions,
Ronald Reagan easily should
be defeated this November.
Official unemployment is
7.5 percent, but when the
marginally employed and
"discouraged" workers are
counted, the figure exceeds 14
percent. Since Reagan assumed
office, more than 35 million
Americans have been_
unemployed at some time.
food stamps, child nutrition
programs have been cut 28
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unions, blacks, women,
Latinos and others have all
suffered.
The Republican Party is still
only a minority party, comprising
barely one-fifth of the
support of the national electorate
and on most issues from
Central American
policies to domestic affairs ?
the Reagariites do not have
majoritarian support.
Walter Mondale Is an inept, ~
lackluster challenger and the
Democrats in Congress paved
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The Journal announced that
he was director of the Roy
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again, Myers has never let the^
facts stand in the way of his
philosophy.
He offered more hyperbole
and rhetorical tdp. dancing in
the New York. Daily News.
This time, his enemy was the
nation's 114 historically black
colleges, from which 80 percent
of the nation's black professionals
have come.
Ironically, the News was
itself attacked in that day's
New York Times by the
Federal Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission of
e new *patri
the way for the far right by
hiking Ramagon-budgats-and
slashing social programs under
Carter. Yet, hostility toward
Reagan's extremist agenda
and his undisguised contempt
for civil rights, women's rights
and labor have created severe
problems for the Republicans.
The radical right employs
two basic techniques to
popularize Reagan and
demoralize its opposition. The
"The new patriotism pron
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Americanism. Three decade
name: McCarthy ism."
first is cultural and
ideological: a renaissance of
"American patriotism," a .
red-white-and-blue holierthan-thouism
which connects
unquestioned support for
Reagan with motherhood, apple
pie and the flag.
Since the U.S. invasion of
Grenada, national chauvinism
has become respectable. The
president can order athletes to
?"win the gold" for the U.S. at the
Los Angeles Olympic
games, yet the media barely
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the Reagan administration.
The agency sued the Daily
News, charging that the country's
second-largest paper had
discriminated against black
reporters.
The government said that
the News "pays black news
employees less than whites and
denies them merit raises, promotions
and opportunities for
transfer," reported the Times.
Arthur Wible, president of tne
Daily News, said he was "surprised
and disappointed."
Those were my exact words
when 1 saw the utterances and
half-truths of Myers on the
editorial page of the News.
Myers was made to sound
like he had been the number
_ two person at the NAACP by^
the News ? the "former assistant
national director of the
NAACP." To my knowledge,
there is no such position at the
NAACP. Benjamin Hooks
iicu> a variety 01 assistants;
Myers was on record as being
a researcher and planner.
However, it is a fact that he
and the NAACP have parted
ways.
Another fact is that he is to
the black higher education
community what Vanessa
Williams is to the Miss
America Pageant. I also know
Please see page A10
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dissent. Reagan "jokes"
about launching a > thermonuclear
assault on the
Soviet Union; but after only
two days, the story is promptly
buried.
The Nation publishes
evidence which suggests that
the Korean airliner shot down
last year by the Soviets was actually
a U.S. "spy plane,"
which was deliberately flown
over U.S.S.R. military bases notes
national chauvinism
es ago, it went by another
yet there is no massive public
demand for the truth. Olympic
medal winners were paraded
through central Dallas before
the Republican convention
and delegates later employed
the Olympic chant of
"U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" to applaud
their senile commander- in-chief.
Militarism is mixed
with national pride and
athletic prowess in expressions
of jingoism and unbridled
yahooism.
Please see page A5
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Letters
Thank God for
Andrew Young
To The Editor:
Thank God for Andy
Young! For a person who
believes we get more done with
a soft voice and quiet reason, I
nonetheless realize that
sometimes the only way to get
a mule's attention is to hit him
over the head with a 2x4. No
one can swing a verbal 2x4 better
than Andy Young!
Though Democrats enjoy a
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other, we now have a real war
to fight to get Ronald Reagan
out of the White House and
Helms out of the Senate.
To do it we must be united,
so it is great that the air is now
clear. We can all get together ^
to build on the wonderful
voter registration drive that
Jesse Jackson has led and get
people who care for people in,
as he says, "from the White ,
House to the courthouse."
We only have until Oct. 8 to
get people registered . If you
want to do more than you are
doing now, may I suggest you
give a block party? It d&uld be
great fun and would get a lot
of people informed and working
at one time.
it you need help in organizing
it, call Jim Hunt's headquarters
at 727-1136. They will
be glad to help. If you are not
a party organizer-type, we can
use all sorts of volunteers just
a few hours would help.
If you are good-at
remembering numbers, just
one little fact may help you.
There is one lawyer for every
400 people in the U.S.A.
Thanks to Reagan's cuts, there
one legal aid lawyer for every
9,584 people!
One more, that doesn't need.
a memory for figures -- Helms 4
voted against the holiday for
Dr. King's birthday. Jim Hunt
supported it!
Only 53 percent of the
American people who are
eligible to vote are registered.
There are still 55 million people
who are eligible to vote
who are not registered!
Eighty-five percent of those
who are registered to vote do
vote. This does not mean that
our work will be over Oct. 8.
We still need to be sure those
we register get to the voting
booth Nov.
There are more of us than
there are of them. Thank God,
in this country it is still the rule
?" tnat "one person, one vote/*
If we use it ? all of us ? we
can see to it that Reagan and
Helms lose their jobs.
Nell Scott Weaver
Winston-Salem
A forgotten group
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To The Editor: ? *
By virtually all standards,
the black people of the United
States have forgotten about
five percent of its population,
the United States' (black)
prison population.
There are approximately
500,000 black people incarcerated
. in prisons
throughout this country. In
addition, the county jails account
for about 500,000 people
from day to day, the drug
centers around the country account
for another possible
100,000 people and mental
hospitals for the criminally inPlease
see page A5
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