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the President and the man closest
to Ronald Reagan, talks candidly
to Tony Brown about the president,
his politics and subjects ranging
frpm closing Black colleges to the
quality of the professional Black
leadership on this edition of "Tony
Brown’s Journal: Ronald Reagan
and Black America.”
Because of the lack of support
that Blacks gave Ronald Reagan in
the election, Tony Brown in his
opening comments asks: “Will a
turned-off Reagan Administration
deal Blacks out with punitive
measures because it has the poli
tical freedom to do so or will
Reagan use his massive landslide
victory to exploit the awesome
coming-apart of the Democratic
coalition to permanently expand
the base of the GOP by building ’
bridges to Blacks?"
Meese, wno holds Cabinet rank,
gave a broad-ranging and author
itative preview of the new ad
ministration's opening moves and
longer-range objectives on matters
dealing with the nation’s Blacks.
“1 guess what does disturb me,”
Meese candidly admitted, “is that
I think there are those people who
are fomenting Black hysteria in
others to preserve their own posi
tions in their communities and
their positions of so-called leader
ship.”
Included in the program also are
Dr. Thomas Sowell, economist and
senior fellow at Stanford Univers
ity’s Hoover Institution, and Rev.
Hosea Williams, a once powerful
civil rights leader and follower of
Martin Luther King, whose poli
tical base has been revitalized
because of his endorsement of
Ronald Reagan.
Dr. Sowell is the most prominent
Black policy maker affiliated with
the Reagan administration and has
drawn criticism from some pro
fessional Black civil rights leaders
because of his disagreement with
such favored solutions as busing
and the minimum wage. He
answers a charge by an NAACP
official that he will play the tradi
tional role of the “house nigger” in
the Reagan administration by ac
cusing the NAACP of being more
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committed to White Liberals than
to the Black community.
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Rev. Williams, accusedpy many
of completely “destroying every
thing Dr. King stood for” by his
support of Ronald Reagan, ex
plains that he, although a Demo
crat, could not let his party exploit
him and “sit by and see Jimmy
Carter elected again. It would have
been a betrayal of my country and
my people.” About “Jimmy Car
ter’s Black clique,” Rev. Williams
says: “They went and told Carter
what they wanted him to hear.
They didn’t tell him what Black
America wanted him to hear.”
Scenes are shown of the now
famous “Fairmont Hotel Confer
ence,” held in San Francisco short
ly after President Reagan was
• elected. This gathering of inde
pendent and Republican Blacks
challenged the orthodox solutions
of the Democratic Party and the
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picker that ever lived,” will ap
ear in concert at Spirit Square’s
NCNB Performance Place on
February 7, for two shows - 7:30
and 10 p.m.
Tickets are on sale now. ..For
more information or ticket reserv
ations, call the Spirit Square Box
Office at 704-376-8883.
Doc Watson was born inT923in
western North Carolina to the Blue
Ridge mountain heritage of gospel,
blues, bluegrass, old-timey music
and ballads. He has drawn of that
heritage and studied the masters
until he has become to many a
master himself at American folk
music.
Blind since birth, his musical
education came from home. Doc’s
first real music instrument was a
harmonica and he received a new
one each Christmas. But he was
not satisfied with just one instru
ment. He rigged up the sliding door
of his father’s woodshed with steel
wire so that he could play tunes by
moving the door and picking the
sire. He soon moved on from wood
shed doors to a homemade banjo
and then to a real guitar.
As the 60s folk music gave way to
a rock resurgence, Doc continued
to play HIS music and audiences
found him. When it came time for
the country music revival of the
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early /us, uoc was there again and
a new generation of guitarists
looked to him for leadership. To
many he is American folk music.
Doc will be joined by Charlie
Miller, guitarist. He has played
with Doc both in the studio and on
tour. As opening act, two young
North Carolina folk artists will
perform as part of the evening’
program. Phil and Gaye Johnson
are also mountain musicians from
Tryon, N.C.
Spirit Square is funded in part by
grants from the Charlotte-Meck
lenburg Arts & Science Council,
the North Carolina Arts Council,
the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, the State of North Carolina
and the National Endowment for
the Arts.
“The White Shadow”
A big lie or a small one can get
you in big trouble as Coach Reeves
finds out when he tries to get out of
jury duty and one of his. players
faces a “shotgun" wedding, on
“The White Shadow," Monday,
February 9, at 8 p.m. on WBTV,
Channel 3.
Falahey, the player, tells a lie to
skip practice so he can be with his
girlfriend. Later, she informs him
that she’s pregnant and he is the
father. Coach Reeves ducks out on
his jury duty by claiming his old
knee injury is acting up. The ruse
gets him out on medical grounds,
but the lie comes back to haunt
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professional Black leaders. Dr.
Henry Lucas, who organized the
conference along with the Institute
for Contemporary Studies, and Dr.
Sowell said the exposure of new
Black leaders was essential to
keep Reagan from doing business
with the “old crowd.” That would
have been disastrous for him.”
At the conference, Meese made
it abundantly clear that new Black
ideas from a variety of Blacks was
a priority of the new administra
tion and the Carter administra
tion “zealot’s” destruction of
Black colleges must be stopped. He
also defended the budget cutting
but said it will not be done on “the
backs of the poor.” Along the way,
Meese effectively buried the sug
gestion that President Reagan is a
racist.
The series is sponsored by Pepsi
Cola Company and can be seen in
the Charlotte area on Sunday.
February 15, on Channel 3.at 11:30
p.m.
Free Recital
A free recital by tenor saxophon
ist James Houlik will be given
Wednesday, February 11, at l p.m
in Rowe Recital Hall at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Charlotte.
Houlik will perform a composi
tion by UNCC faculty member
Thomas Turner, along " with
several earlier works. Turner's
composition, called “Fantasy for
Tenor Saxophone and Piano," was
recently played by Houlik at New
York’s Lincoln Center on the birth
day of the saxophone’s inventor
Turner’s work received its Cana
dian premiere last spring at the St.
Lawrence Center in Toronto.
Houlik is professor of saxophone
at the North Carolina School of the
Arts whefce he also serves as
director of special programs in
music. He will be accompanied by
pianist Scott Schillin, assisted
dean and professor of piano arthe
North Carolina School of the Arts
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