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our language with euphemism
People don't die; they "pass
Fired employees are "termins
extended leave without pay.'
"police actions" or "rein
strikes." "Busing" was co
desegregation, "liberal" a thi
or she likes black people."
"When a big company rec<
'decentralizing its organizatioi
fit centers' and that 'corporate
under two senior vice-presidei
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year."
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population.
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sees it. As Tutu has said, if
anything to ease the plight of
, haven't seen it. And, as whit
editorials have said, the purve;
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feared, would not have so "c
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subscribing to it anyway.
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No voices
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gyhatever gains the black cc
during the '60s have been epY
record.
This state's black bourgi
screaming along with the thei
energies of the underclass, i
that group, survived to turn
themselves.
First, with synthetic enthus
that they, themselves, invent
and, indeed, shared common
The black bourgeoisie, t
privileges from frightened anc
vided the black elite with win<
apart from the black masses
The trickledown from the
underclass. The black rich g<
children, thus becoming sadd
ed to pacify, not satisfy.
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black elite, as represented bj
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Reaganites and far rightists.
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forced protective reaction
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its,'" says William Zinser in
"it meant that it had a lousy
>f written and spoken gobnistration's
policy of "coning
with racist South Africa,
nent" means in plain English
ids to do little to discourage
outh Africa's black-majority
-ed that fact in a meeting last
i M. Tutu, the black South
obel Peace Prize,
ms the Reagan policy toward
al and totally un-Christian,"
it, it appears, in his intention
w ay.
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on apartheid," Reagan told
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the Reagan policy has done
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Mondale, who, they
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clergy in this newspaper.
; of complaining about the ar;r
newspaper in this city and
for the poor?
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immunity in Mississippi made
lemeral and short-lived.
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that empowered them.
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of their own making, the
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CLIFTON E. GRAVES
Chronicle Columnist
On Nov. 23 - the day after
. Thanksgiving -- this writer was
fortunate enough to be a part
of the historic press conference
which launched the
. Free South Africa Movement.
The press conference ? convened
in Washington by the
African American lobby,
Transafrica ? was called to
highlight the unsuccessful attempt
by four African
American leaders (Con-^
gressman Walter Fauntroy,
Civil Rights Commissioner
Mary F. Berry, Georgetown
Law Center Professor Eleanor
Holmes Norton and Transafrica's
Randall Robinson) to
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labor leaders imprisoned
without charge or trial in
South Africa.
Failing to gain the South
Africans' release, Fauntroy,
Berry and Robinson staged a
sit-in in the South African Embassy,
resulting in their arrests.
(Ms. Norton, acting as
counsel for the three, was purposely
not involved, so as to
be available to provide the
public with the truth of this
unprecedented action.)
, After spending the night of
Nov. 21 in various
Washington prison facilities ?
again to attract more attention
to the plight of their South
Blacks fac
By TONY BROWN
Syndicated Columnist
I have maintained over the
years that the crisis in the
black community is essentially
a crisis of leadership.
When black people are
given good direction and
motivated towards a goal, they
perform well. Unfortunately,
they perform well when the
goal is illusory, further
heightening the effects of the
basic problems.
Jesse Jackson, who now
leader of black America and is
condsidered so by most
| blacks, is a classic example of
, what's wrong with black peo;
pie.
Instead of admitting that his
political strategy has failed
and backfired in the faces of
his rainbow followers, he of'
fers a new solution which comt
pounds the problem of his inital
mistake.
This, in turn, creates an
uninformed black electorate
which is a dancer to the nation
and to itself. The total dismay
among blacks that you are
now witnessing is the result of
? a disastrous inability to read
^ the times and adapt to a new
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African brethren ? the "Embassy
Three" issued the
challenge to progressiveminded
Americans of all hues
to join in and support the Free
South African Movement.
The focal points of this
latest effort to attack the racist
apartheid system of South
Africa are as follows:
to secure the release of the
13 leaders charged under Section
29 of South Africa**internal
Security Act of 1982; an
act which requires neither
charge nor trial and has
already resulted in the deaths
of no less than 64 political
prisoners;
to secure the release of the
legitimate leaders of the South
African people (e.g., Nelson
Mandela, Walter Sisulu and
others) who have been
n lonHowh
set of realities.
Jackson's analysis of the
electorate's mandate for a new
direction away from his ultraleftist
policies suffers from
either his intellectual capacity
for linear reasoning, an emotional
block or a political
myopia so partisan that it is
divorced from reality.
The election results show
"The total dismay among b
witnessing is the result of a di
the times and adapt to a new
that, for the first time, as
many Americans call
themselves Republicans as
Democrats and 97 percent of
the Republican Party is now
white. Even Jackson's own
Democratic Party chairman,
Charles Manatt, is saying that
their party needs to develop a
message "that will win back
white voters;" both a racial
polarization and a party
realignment have taken place.
And while white Democrats
are suggesting that blacks find
a new political home, Jackson
says, "We were able to offer
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languishing in South African
prisons for decades;
to compel the start of good
faith negotiations between
these released leaders and the
South African government,
both on the grievances which
prompted the most recent outbreaks
of violence, as well as
the ongoing denial of powersharing
with the black majority
in South Africa;
to compel the abandonment
of the United States' accommodationist
policy of "constructive
engagement" (pward
the Republic of South Africa.
According to Robinson founder
and executive director
of the United States' only lobby
whose primary purpose is
to monitor and be an advocate
for African and Caribbean affairs
- aforementioned
goals wui be effectuated
through the tried and true tactics
of daily demonstrations
and sit-ins, not only at the
Washington-based South
African Embassy, but also at
South Africa's consulates in
Ohteago, Houston, Bostoh,
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While these demonstrations
will primarily involve
grassroot folk (who have
historically been the backbone
of African American protest),
Robinson made it clear that in
order to attract the attention t
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help to progressives (whites) ,
and help save the seats of i
many allies ... Mondale got i
about 37 million votes and \
almost 11 million of them were ]
black. So our influence con- i
tinues to grow."
Our problems also continue ^ <
to grow, and that kind of logic ,
does nothing to solve them.
You wonder if these lines are \
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rlacks that you are now i
sastrous inability to read
f set of realities. "
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left over from his comic ap- !
pearance on "Saturday Night 1
Live."
However, both the comedy I
and the illogic are absent in the I
programs of two local \
NAACP presidents: J.B.
Pressey Jr. of Fort Wayne,
Ind., and John F. Jones of
Mansfield, Ohio. I
Both branches recently held
their annual freedom fund (
dinners and both events spoke
of the philosophy of economic ,
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scu-ncip ana poiiucai realism.
Pressey held his dinner at
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need better
health care
By MARIAN WRIGHT
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Syndicated Columnist
You've probably heard the
>ld football cliche that the best
iefense is a good offense.
Mow, 1 don't pretend to be an
luthority on football, but 1
lave been thinking about that
laying and how it applies to
lealth care.
The lack of affordable,
egular, adequate health care
or black women and children
n ?America is?a national
disgrace, and the entire coniumer
movement for better
lealth care seems to have passed
right by a lot of black
vomen.
Maybe it is because our
ives are so caught up with
)asic survival that we think we
lave no time to take care of
)ur health, or maybe it is
because we are just plain
;cared of our bodies.
We hesitate to take the ofrensive
on' health care. We
ion't practice preventive
iiedicine. We wait until condiions
become serious before
ve seek care. We allow
lurselves to be passive patents,
not health care consumers.
I met a young woman the
>ther day who is a certified
lurse-midwife. Unlike the
granny midwives of old, this
voman is a college-educated
egistered nurse with special
raining in maternal and child
lealth care.
In her practice, she sees
vhat* happens when black
vomen fail to take the intiative
on health? when they
leglect their bodies.
She said that many black
vomen ignore their health unil
they absolutely have to seek
lelp. "I see many pregnant
vomen who have never been
o a doctor. Women come in
luring their third trimester
the last three months of
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Letters
The local war
against famine
To the Editor:
Your recent lead article corectly
pointed out the need for
Winston-Salem's black comnunity
to do more in aiding
lunger relief throughout
Ethiopia and sub-Saharan
Africa.
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onmiany, we can ana
ihould do much more to aid
jocio-political justice in South
Africa. We could only imagine
:he response if PolishAmericans
had to support
Poland or Jewish-Americans
needed to help Israel.
Before we get too depressed
*toefc of ' specifically ^
black aid, however, we need to
remember black folks are a
part ^ofr-tbe predominantly
white organizations that have
been active, i.e., Church World
Service's CROP walk
(in which St. Benedict the
Moor's youth group was particularly
well-represented),
Bread for the World, Oxfam
America, the Red Cross, etc.
In addition, there are supportive
black congregations in
predominantly white
denominations that have made
some significant response ~
Catholic, United Methodist,
Presbyterian, Lutheran,
Episcopalian, etc.
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