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Winston-Salem Chronicle
Founded 1974
IRNIST H. PITT, Publisher
NDUSISI EOIMONYI ALLKN JOHNSON
Co-Founder Executive Editor
ILAINI L Pin MICHAIL PITT
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IT SEEMS somehow only fitting that the leading black
mouthpiece for President Reagan's insensitivity toward
minorities and social programs benefits from his own
special brand of social program.
Civil Rights Commission Chairman Clarence M.
Pendleton Jr., who revels in telling anyone who'll listen
that programs that help the poor be damned because they
are tantamount to handouts and quota systems go to hell
because they discriminate against white males, doesn't
seem to be so strident when he or his friends get the handouts.
i According to reports last week from the Media General
. News Service, Pendleton pays his assistant at least $60,000
a year for work she does not do.
, The Small Business Administration is investigating that
arrangement, says the report.
To add insult to injury, Pendleton also made $60,000 as
Civil Rights Commission chairman during the fiscal year
that ended Sept. 30 for a job that traditionally is a parttime
job and which paid his most recent predecessor, Arthur
Fleming, only $15,000 during Fleming's last year in
office.
Moreover, Pendleton
ft claimed travel expenses ofi
M $23,200 for the fiscal year
m m* I 1984, while his assistant
who does no work, Sydney
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But that's not all.
The report also reveals
that Pendleton, the great
black opponent of welfare,
apparently does not mind
the concept when he is the
recipient, even from a selfhelp,
agency that sorely
needs all the money it can
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On his last day of office
as president of the San
Diego Urban League,
Pendleton wrote himself 10
checks*for $999. Why $999?
Because otherwise, says the
7%, a ^ * report,?he would have
Clarence Pendleton K , ' - . needed
to consult the
league's board of directors, wljich must approve checks
: that amount to $1,000 or mcjfe. ^
Pendleton, who, during*a visit to Winston-Salem in
i November, boasted that he's got it made and asserted that
: "affirmative action creates beneficiaries from non:
victims," also used Urban League money to pay for~eXpensive
restaurant meals, lease a Peugeot automobile, pay
for season tickets to^San Diego Clippers basketball games
and make a contribution to the United Way.
Incidentally, when he left the San Diego. Urban League
in? March 1982, Pendleton left it $179,000 in debt and *
struggling for its financial life.
What remains to be seen is the aftermath of these revela-?
tions, which so far has included only a terse, arrogant
response from Pendleton that there is no SBA investigation
? only "a compliance review" ~ and that the report is
merely the media's "annual criticism."
1, To be realistic, that could be all.
Had it been Jesse Jackson or Walter Fauntroy or someone
else whom the Reagan administration and the
country's media would love to persecute inprint, you'd
have heard resonatinns rif HaVitpnnc
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Instead, Ronald and Nancy continue to smile and wave
and board helicopters, and Pendleton, who allegedly once
told an Urban League official, "As long as my folks are in
the White House, they ain't gonna touch me," may be
right.
Unless somebody somewhere demands otherwise, starting
with this newspaper.
It's ijever too late
THE UNITED Negro College Fund held its annual
telethon last weekend, both locally and nationally.
Though the nationwide effort fell far short of last year's
totals in monies pledged to help the UNCF's 43 member^
institutions -- and the Triad campaign comparably shy of\
its $78,000 goal - it's never too late to help preserve these *
welispriitgs of black knowledge and talent.If
you missed Dec. 28's festivities because you were
visiting relatives for the holidays or . cheering young
athletes in the Frank Spencer Classic basketball tournaPlease
see page A11
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The behavior
NEW YORK - On a drizzly
Monday afternoon in Northeast
Washington, D.C., 48-year-old
Catherine Fuller, the wife of
David Fuller, and the mother or
six, went to the ^tore to buy
'medicine for a sore ankle.
This 99-pound, 4-foot-11 black
woman with pink rollers in her
hair was spotted by a gang in this
poor black area of * a city
dominated by black-elected officials.
Oct. 1, 1984, however, will not
be a day to celebrate the victory
of the first black mayor ? or any
other notable event. Instead, it
will burn the collective black
psyche a dangerous benchmark in
our perpetual sojourn for justice.
As this nightmare unfolded,
the gang of young adults blocked
Mrs. Fuller's passage home,
shoved her into an alley, banged
her with their fists, kicked her
and robbed her of the $50 she had
hidden in her bra. Then they
stripped her and dragged her,
over broken glass. into an emntv
garage.
With a crowd of 30 watching,
pushing and shoving to see better,
about 12 were trying "to get
their licks in" and their share of
the coins. A six-foot-six,
235-pound, 26-year-old black
man, assisted by two others,
grabbed and held her legs open.
Levy Rouse, witnesses say,
shoved a one-foot iron pole up
the beaten, frail woman's rectum.
Others screamed "let me
see" and "push it further."
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NEW YORK - The only way
America is going to compete in
the world's markets is if it makes
maximum use of a productive,
trained work force.
Within a few years, a fourth of
new entrants into the work force
will be non-whites ? black,
Hispanics and Asians - including
many without the basic skills and
training needed in a postindustrial
economy.
That should bfMfcause for the
declaration of a national
economic emergency and an all
out effort to train and place today's
unskilled disadvantaged in
decent jobs. Instead, we're told
that it's too expensive and that
the huge budget^ deficits don't
allow for such programs.
But the opposite is true. A better
trained, more highly skilled
work force would mean spending
fewer federal dollars while returning
higher tax revenues and cutting
the deficit.
A look at just one partnership
venture between the private and
the non-profit sectors proves that
such training programs are in- .
vestments in our human
resources, not just spending programs.
IBM sponsors training centers
in cooperation with communitybased
organizations, including
the National Urban League,
among tuners.
* IBM's analysis of the results of
its training centers in 1984
demonstrates what a tremendous
investment such programs are for
the community, and leads to the
inescapable conclusion thtt more
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TONY BROWN
Syndicated Columnist
It penetrated so deep that her
liver and internal organs were as
severely?hauried as internal
damage received from the impact
of a high-speed car accident.
Politely, the coroner pronounced
death from "multiple
blunt-force" injuries.
^Timothy Catlett, 20, called
"With a crowd of 30 watch in
better, about 12 were trying
share of the coins. A six-foe
black man, assisted by two <
legs open."
"Snot Rag,** admitted, "I only ;
beat and kicked the lady
Witnesses say that he also said, "Levy
stuck that thing up her
because she wasn't acting right."
Eight of these animals have
been convicted.
Some may get about 20 years in
jail (16 actually). Their parents
are crying all over television
about what good boys, and in
one case, what a "Christian"
la<Jy, they are.
The next wave of experts are
going to explain their unemployment,
their underclass status that
deprives them of hope, the drugs
that made them do it. the babies
they have fathered out of
wedlock and the racism that is
ultimately responsible for any,
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By JOHN JACOB
private and government nro
grams of this sort are wise investments
in America's future.
~In~l984, the job training"
centers graduated 3,038 people,
of whom 2,643 were placed in
jobs - an 87 percent placement
rate.
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The average cost per placement
came to less than $3,000, not including
the value of IBM's equipment
loans and similar costs.
About half of the people placed
have been receiving some form of .
public assistance, eitheft welfare
or unemployment benefits, for a
total of about $5.7 million. Incidentally,
they would have been
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black-poor/
Most poor\ people are law
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me to explain how little 1 think of
those and other ready-made excuses
we have for the behavior of
two-legged animals.
There is not appropriate justice
for carnage of this type in the
court of law. And too many
know it ^ Which is one reasoi\they
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'to get their licks in' and their
it-six, 235-pound, 26-year-old
others, grabbed and held her
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' rob, assatilf, rape and impale in
broad daylight before cheering
throngs.
We've lost our way as a people.
Benjamin Banneker, the
African-American who laid out
Washington, D.C., weeps for the
blood of this black woman that
was spilled on his streets.
Frederick Douglass, Harriet
Tubman and Martin Luther King
did not fight ~ and die - for our
new immorality.
Tony Brown is a syndicated columnist
whose television series,
"Tony Brown's Journal," $rs
on Sundays at 6:30p.m. on channels
4 and 26.
programs
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getting those government outlays
whether they were in the training
program or not.
Now look at the results: After
. the trainees' placement in jobs
they would not have qualified for
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wiinout training, the government
got back some $7.7 million in ~
taxes. The total economy gained
by $24.6 million.
The net gain to the public was
$30 million - salaries and taxes
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paid plus savings in public support
programs, less training
costs.
Put another way, each place*
ment cost less than $3,000 and
earned more than $11,000 in new
entry-level jobs for jm average
net gain per placement of $8,581.
That's a 300 percent return on
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By MARIAN W. EDELMAN
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WASHINGTON - Imagine
two American families - one
well-off, one poor. Both are
struggling with the costly task of
raisina children. Which of these
two families is more likely to be
getting more help from our
federal government^ Popular
ipyth - and it is a
myth - would have it that the
poor family obviously receives
more support from the government.
But that simply is not so.
For example: a family in New
York state with a $120,000 mortgage
that is in a 40 percent tax
bracket gets more help from the
state and federal governments - ^
in the form of the mortgage ta3f
break - than a family gets
in AFDC benefits to meet all of>
its needs for food, clothing/
shelter, Heat and other essentials.
How does this inequity come
about?
The average American poor
family is getting a small (and
rapidly shrinking) share of
government support^Only a frac?
tion of such families receive any
help at all from the biggest
federal income support program,
Aid to Families with Dependent
Children (AFDC). Even those
who do get AFDC barely receive
enough to survive: in September
1984, the national average payment
per recipient was only
$111.68 per month. All federal
health, education and other
assistance programs reach only a
fraction of the poor.
Further, the poor family has
been denied the recent federal tax
relief which has, helped the welloff
family. On the contrary, poor
flmilies' taxes have actually shot
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from 1980 to 1982 alone.
In contrast, the well-off family
is more likely to receive growing
government support, sometimes
in ways we don't realize.
For example, many comfortable
American families acqu&e
their housing more cheaply by
getting subsidies through federal i insurance
programs. Millions ^
more receive tax relief through (
property-related tax deductions.
The poor family is also more
likely to be shortchanged when it
comes to the public facilities and
services our government pro-??
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protection.
The well-off family is> far more
likely to live in a. safe
neighborhood, to be able to send
its children to a better quality
public school and to play in a
pleasant park or playground.
Who is really getting more
from our government?
The answer is clear, and only
serves to underline the unfairness
of further budget cuts in lifeline
programs for poor families.
Marian Wright Edelman is president
of the Children's Defense
Fund, a national voice for youth.
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