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Page A4 Winston-Salem Chronicle Thursday, December 31,1! Let us resolve ... Tonight many of you will don your finest fashions an< make your way to a friend's home for a party or to one of th< many New Year's Eve celebrations taking place around thi city. Many of you will choose to stay home and quiedy brinj in the New Year. We wish you safe and joyful celebrations n< matter how you choose to end 1987 and begin 1988. But, let's pause for just a moment to thank God for seeing us through another year and to pray for the souls of friends ant relatives who did not make it. And, realizing that many of qi will not be here this time next year, let's resolve to enjoy eacl other more, to love each other more and to make each other1! lives a little easier and a little happier. Let's resolve to rid ourselves of petty jealousies. The] destroy our individual souls and make our collective existence discordant. Let's resolve not to hate and seek vengeance. A wise person ona said, "Vengeance is like acid, it does more damage to the vessel ii which it is stored than to the object on which it is poured." Let's be mindful of the needs of the aged and physicall] disabled. For if we live long enough, we will all be both o these things. Let us each work to improve our own character, and in s< doing realize that we,are all imperfect beings. Let's get t< know each other and accept that we each have a right to exist. Let's work to keep the light of the future glowing in thi eyes of our young. Let's resolve to keep them safe, to kee] them healthy and to bequeath to them a world at peace. Let's resolve not to fear failure; it takes courage to fail And let's resolve to forgive ourselves our mistakes; it is b; them that we learn. *% Let's resolve to care about world issues, remembering tha we are the world. > We must believe that we can fight famiiS and disease, then attack with fervor. And let us realize that we live in a world of cause anc effect To receive love, we must give love and to receive hap piness, we must give happiness. We must have faith in Go< and remember that there is a solution to every problem and i \ purpose iu every me. i ^>1 r&jkt -l i MP* ) I The Chronicle9s New Year Toast: Here's a toast to all who are here, No matter where you're from; May the best day that you have seen Be worse than your worst to come. CHRONICLE CAMERA What did 1987 b At year s end many of us children and we occupy oui reflect on the accomplishments thoughts with renewed spiritual achieved during the previous fervor in light of God's gifts, year. At Kwanza we learn about The Thanksgiving holiday what it means to be products of encourages us to count our dual cultures* both African and blessings. At Christmas we American, look to fulfilling the joy of our And at New Year's we make Donald Hunt Pjr " m .? . .*"' * 4 _' '-*1 r i87, I /jft * II Hmt/I ill# Y ' w m a _ _ _ _ ' Voting for ci l - NEW YORK -- The Afro* American citizens of Keysville, s Ga., 26 miles west of Augusta, l liken their situation to the old plan5 tation system. Most whites in their town have running water ? AfroAmericans don't Most whites have [ a sewage system - Afro-Americans 5 don't And most Afro-Americans are dependent on the whites who 5 control the town for their livelii hood. . Now the Afro-American community of Keysville has organized f to change all that On Jan. 4 of next year, the town will hold an election. It will be the first local election in > Keysvilfe in 55 years. It will also ;> be the fust local election in which Afro-Americans of this town have ? ever voted. The power relationships " of the town could thus be changed 3 forever. , It all started back in 1985, when the home of the Streetman i/ . - . . ' iamiiy caugnt on tire, as members of the Afro-American community t frantically tried to put out the fire, ? they also called three county fire departments. The fire department j for their county was 20 miles away. The other two, though closer, " refused to answer the call, saying * Keysville was not in their juriadica tion. The Streetman home burned to the ground while the Afro-American community watched helplessTake Buy F NEW YORK - "Tony Brown Making $2 Million Gamble on Anti-Drug Movie," the Durham Morning Herald headline ' announced. Then, I announced that I was guuig iu niwc inc muvie avaiiaoie to individuals and groups - profit and non-profit ? and anti-drug organizations as a fund raiser before it opens in theaters nationwide. That means that I have decided against the safe profit stream of getting my investment back by selling the movie to a Hollywood distributor. Another gamble. But instead of breaking even in the theatrical market (putting the movie in the theaters first), I can break even in the ancillary markets (videocassettes, television rights, foreign rights, and so forth) where the number of gross dollars exceeds the theatrical dollars. So, what I have essentially devised is a way to divert much of the money from ring? Whs plans for the future. We commit I ourselves to New Year's resolutions and sometimes condemn ourselves t for not having met our past objec tives. This week Chronicle Camera asked respondents to examine the previous year and outline their n^posfctriinci jr a .;;>v IIP1WPWWWBBMMWBMMW1 vr * ^vl \> u r imkv sbebbbsbbI V i ?jR j jilt ^jtif If RsrrmpicK,,., lange in Kays iy- t That's when the Afro-Ameri- p can residents formed the Concerned ^ Citizens of Keysville, spearheaded n C* CIVILRI BENJAMI by Emma Gresham, a retired teach- / er. At community meetings, mem- / bers of the group talked about their i situation - the outhouses and the c lack of indoor plumbing; about -><t having to haul water from their r churches, from those few Afro- r American residences with wells or \ from the creek because the Afro- s American community had no water e supply. They talked about going 18 ti miles to the nearest clinic because there was no doctor in Keysville, b and about sending their children i almost 20 miles each way, every / day, because the Afro-American I school was closed down after b school desegregation. I Tkau rtlnA #nil. a#1 .U a a i Iivj aisi; iaiACU auuui mc a white-owned nursing home which i tan its sewage ? including the < waste from its patients - into an t open ditch and through the AfroAmerican community. They also reedom to tl "The White Girl" into community 1 hands. 1 This allows me to not only break into the movie business, but I to implement my Buy Freedom < philosophy of turning our money A TONY B ^^^Wn^^Syndicated < over with one another more than once. Even when looked at purely from an economic position, it makes good sense. My community buys more than half of the tickets to movies each year. This year, we spent $2.1 billion of the $4.2 billion spent on movie tickets. When my people get inside the theaters, we are much heavier consumers of the popcorn, colas, hot dogs, etc. Would you believe that it are youi hopes for the future. Downtown commuters were aclr^H u/h at a/oe llta UJKIU W1IUL WUJ IIIV, WVJIM llllllg that happened to them in 1987 and what could be the very best thing to happen during the new year. Four of the five respondents were concerned about their person$ V ^yCj|(^^^ / ^jJ **' i sville, Ga. alked about the economic and 1 political stranglehold which the Marshall family, the owner of that llircinn Kakia Karl r%n ?Ka tam? I AAWlAIVf Aiau V/ll UIV iU II - . ' 1 GHTS JOURNAL N CHAVIS JR. .1 And about the changes the AfroAmerican community could effect f that nursing home weren't the tnly game in town, and thus, able o get away with paying barely ! ninimum wages. Some even ecailed how old Mr. Marshall, the white patriarch of the town, used to ay he was the mayor of the town, wen though no election had been leld since 1933. Administration of the town had teen turned over to the county durng the Depression. Now AfroAmericans, who are 80 percent of Ceysville's population, want it tack. With the helo of Herman -odge, the county commissioner/ 1 ind Rep. Tyrone Brooks, their state epresentative - both Afro-Americans - they began to reactivate the town government Please see page A5 lie movies we eat and drink another $2.1 billion? And on Monday night, the slowest night of the week for movie houses, my people are the only ones who faithfully show up. Obviously, we are experts at ROWN Columnist consuming movies. With just a little effort, we can also learn to profit from our consumption. As a producer, I can't make it in the movie business without my people. But I can't make it with them in the shape they're in, either. So here's my deal. I've got a $2 million movie called "The White Girl," a love story about the dangers of drug addiction and racial anxiety. The Please see page A5 r hAi\A^ I I lUjJ^O IV al incomes and finding employment One young man said that he was unhappy about not having a permanent job and that his temporary employment made anticipating a healthy economic future somewhat difficult Yet each respondent said that u . ? nODO it II D0 i Vk hifttfftf Vflftf I * W V / Wrapping up I the past year I fO BE EQUAL I By JOHN E. JACOB I NEW YORK - This has been < a year in which an administration unraveled, a stock market crash threatens the future and a presidential campaign kicked off in earnest. After five years of economic recovery, poverty levels remained historically high and national policies continued to widen the divisions between the affluent few and the many who live in hardship. About 11 percent of all families are below the poverty line, but if you define a low-income family as being below 80 percent of the median income of a region, then about 45 percent or all American families are in the low-income cat* egory. That means they have a hard time meeting escalating housing costs, scrimp on tight food budgets, and can't afford the little luxuries of life. Instead of implementing policies to make their lives better and to create opportunities for them, the government has continued its belttightening exercise for domestic programs and squandered huge \ amounts on military spending. The danger of a recession lies in the fact that after five years of recovery, many groups still haven't regained the ground they lost in the last recession. A recession would widen the budget deficit to levels that could become totally unmanageable and lead to a depression. The policies that got us into this mess have to be changed, and 100*7 ??? .^1. . i7o? saw uk kuuus siari 01 me next presidential campaign. The . candidates have to tell us how they'd run the economy better while creating opportunities to help the neglected enter the mainstream. lhe year's news was dominated by the Iran-Contra scandal, which finally showed all citizens what Afro-Americans antf the poor had learned earlier - that the administration's commitment to ideology transcends its sworn duty to uphold the laws of the land. So it was no surprise to many people that an administration that sought to subvert the civil rights laws would ultimately subvert federal laws and practices, as evidenced by the Iran-Contra mess. Nor was it a surprise that it would undermine respect for the intftffritv of th*?- r/Mlftc Ku oMnmnf ^ .y w. wav wtuw \JJ HUVIIipi' ing to push through the nomination of Robert Bork. Even rock-ribbed conservatives couldn't swallow that one, and the nomination went down in flames. But not before the vital center asserted itself. Public opinion refused to accept a Supreme Court nominee so blatantly uncaring about civil rights and privacy and so totally committed to radical conservative ideology. The emergence of the antiBork coalition may be one of the most important lasting effects of 1987's events. The task of that Please see page A5 ?r 1988? 1987 had not brought them anv ? ? r overwhelmingly negative circumstances. In sum, participants were looking forward to whatever the new year might bring. The staff of the Chronicle wishes our readers a prosperous and successful New Year. ) r I c ^ .
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