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editorials & comments Foreign Affairs Our Business, Too! Except for news print about the racist policies of South Africa and the racism American soldiers experience in Europe, especially West Germany, few black newspapers have much to say about foreign affairs policies and programs. The underlying reason for this sad state of affairs arises largely from black Americans’ partly understandable preoccupation with domestic issues that border on survival. By this, of course, we are referring to the nearly 20 percent unemployment rat6 among blacks (nearly 40 percent for black young men), declining black incomes that are only 58 percent that of whites, half the black births in the nation are to unmarried women, a rapidly increasing number of black fe male-headed households, and the growing threat to the civil rights gains secured over the past 20 years. The problem is further compli cated by the apathy among black? Toward foreign affairs which has led to a painful level of ignorance and misunderstand ing. For example, many pre sumed black leaders oppose any kind of economic aid or trade with the government of South Africa because of the assump tion that such trade simply strengthens and encourages the racist policies of that nation. Yet, some reports indicate that South African blacks believe that a decline in American trade would result largely in poorer economic conditions for them selves. Apathy and misunderstanding also account for the fact that most black Americans are not aware that a disproportionate percentage of blacks served and died in Vietnam, and, if a war were to start in Central America or the Middle East, an equally disproportionate percentage of black Americans would be among the first called into armed combat. This would happen because in the face of high levels of unemployment many black youth volunteer for the Armed Forces, and often be cause of limited skills are placed in combat unit. This cycle of events starts because of racism in the civilian labor market. It should be understood too by black Americans that the simi larity between the Vietnam War and a potential war in Central America is in the fact that the U.S. Government was or would be supporting facist or other dictatoral governments that claim, falsely, commitments to democracy in presumed opposi tion to the spread of com munism. Yet, in most of these nations democracy may never become a reality. Finally, our apathy and misun derstanding has led to little knowledge of the ultimate dan ger and eventual worldwide tragedy that could come from a nuclear war, a war that would have no respect for race or national origin because it would affect us all. Thus, an emerging part of the survival kit of black Americans should be an awareness of the facts and forces shaping and influencing U.S. policies in Cen tral America and the Middle East. Over time such knowledge may be important as getting a job and opposing racism on the home front. Poverty Strikes Again Poverty in America has reached a new 17 year high as 34.4 million people were living below the government’s defined poverty level in 1982, the highest number at any time since 1965. The very thought that millions of people in America go to bed nightly hungry is difficult to believe in a nation that literally has tons of food surpluses in government warehouses across the nation. It seems unbelievable too that in the face of mounting evidence of this hunger and po verty, President Reagan insults the integrity of such people by talk of forming a task force to study whether there is hunger among the “truly needy.” While both houses of Congress are considering legislation to end further budget cuts in the federal nutrition programs and to speed up the distribution of commodi ties - dairy products - in storage there is the danger that the highly presumed upturn in the economy may cause too many upper income employed people to overlook the renewed Ameri can tragedy - hunger and po verty. Their very existence in America in 1983 is a stark reminder that the old economic isms are not working and we have not discovered any work able. new isms. 'slacks who want <T0 FIGHT CRIME By BLACKS AGAINST SLACKS MUST NOT BE INTIMIDATED" OH CHARLES CC90 DiBLCTOR -- C<innt$S*ON FOR tOUAL JUSTICE 'M I W" *OOttVtLT 0%IHNIH6 _ OtPVTr ConmriVOtiMHHY *0-lCM'PCP7 **$b / ^ V BLACK’S DESTINY IN OWN HANDS. *7U Preserve A Historical Landmark! Cannon Cathedral COGIC 200 Tuckaseegee Road Charlotte, N.C. 28231 Dear Sir: HELP US TO PRE SERVE A HISTORICAL LANDMARK. The Cannon Cathedral Church is pre sently combining efforts with local businesses to rennovate Charlotte’s first Auditorium presently lo cated at 200 Tuckaseegee Road, Charlotte, N.C. Around 1905, Charlotte’s first City Auditorium was built at 5th and College Streets. Diming the period of 1931-33, this Auditorium was purchased for 82,000 and reconstructed into a church facility, The Gan Memorial Church at 200 Tuckaseegee Road. On June 18^ 1933 the church officially opened its doors for worship service. Forty-three years later, in 1976, Pastor E. C. Cannon, led of the Lord, conferred with Rev. A. G. Garr Jr. and some of the officers of Garr Memorial Church about purchasing the, then up for sale church. On August 28, 1976, interchangeable wor ship services between Gan Memorial Church and Cannon Cathedral Church was held. (Cannon Cathe dral Church is an integral part of the E. C. Cannon Evangelistic Crusade, Inc. founded by Pastor E. C. Cannon.) Please make your con tribution today. Your do nation is vitally needed. Make your check payable to: E. C. Cannon Crusade, Inc. Send all contributions to: Project Committee, in care of Cannon Cathe dral Church, P. O. Box 31773, Charlotte, N.C. 28231. A plaque will be placed on exhibit in the church that will reflect the names of individuals, businesses and organizations that made tangible contribu tions to this project. A tour of the facility is available upon request, Monday-Friday, 9 - 5 p.m. Please call 334-9879 for fur ther information. We graciously thank you for your benevolence in this endeavor. Respectfully yours. Cannon Cathedral COGIC Sylvia Wilkins, Chrpsn. Doris Hoskins, Sec. E. C. Cannon, Pastor Dont Forget “Post” Or Your Right To Vote! Dear Mr. Johnson: If you will be leaving Charlotte within the next few months to attend col lege, to visit friends or relatives, to seek new em ployment, etc., don’t forget to take The Charlotte Post and your right to vote. In a couple of weeks, I will be leaving Johnson C. Smith University and Char lotte to attend graduate school at Ohio State Uni versity. Though I will be hundreds of miles away, I plan to stay informed with what is happening in the black community by get ting a mail subscription to The Charlotte Post. ..We all should also get ready for the important election to be held in the city this fall. I have al ready contacted the Elec tions Office to find out about my right to vote ab sentee. I’s a simple pro cess. You can find out if your qualify and what you need to do to vote for the candidate of your choice even if you are out of state by calling the Elections Office, 374-2135. You can find out how to continue your subscrip tion to The Charlotte Pott even when you are out of state by calling 375-0496. Pick up the phone. Give both numbers a call. Your vote can make a differ ence. Linda Florence Callahan Dir. Univ. Relations Johnson C. Smith I THE CHARLOTTE POST “THE PEOPLE’S NEWSPAPER” Established 1918 Published Every Thursday by The Charlotte Post Publishing Co., Inc. Subscription Rate $17.68 Per Year Second Class Postage No. 965500 Postmaster Send 3579s To: 1531 Camden Rd., Charlotte, N.C. 28203 Telephone: 704-376-0496 Circulation 11,023 106 Years of Continuous Service Bill Johnson Editor, Publisher Bernard Reeves General Manager Fran Farrer Advertising Director Oannette Gaither Office Manager Second Class Postage No. 965500 Paid at Charlotte, North Carolina Under the Act of March 3,1878 Member, National Newspaper Publishers’ Association North Carolina Black Publishers Association Deadline for all news copy and photos is 5 p.m. Monday. All photos and copy submitted become the property of The Post and will not be returned. National Advertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc. 24M 8. Michigan Are. 4S W. 45Ui 8«lt# 14*3 Chfcaga, III. (MIC New York. New York ISSN Column 5-0200 2I2-4SS-I220 From Capitol Hill Minorities’ Civil Rights Subverted? Alfreds L. Madison Special To The Post They spew out their venom against black Jus tice and equality, but they are afraid to ‘‘show their faces." In "Agenda ’83,” a book put out by the con servative Heritage Foun dation which asked the Reagan Administration to make getting rid of civil rights an Administrative priority, the chapter on civil rights was written by two members of the Rea gan White House. It is stated that they remain anonymous, because of their sensitive positions. If these writers’ positions are so precarious, why write the article? The public needs to know their identity to properly evaluate the article. The chapter s attack on methods for accomplishing civil rights could have been written by William Brad ford Reynolds, since he is trying to implement the suggestions, and Ed Meese could have also been a contributing factor since it quotes Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and the New Coalition; all being very close to Meese. There are many indications that Meese selected Sowell and Williams as leaders for blacks and that his support for the New Coalition, which is closely connected to the Heritage Foundation as an organization to com bat the civil rights organ Alfred* L. Madlion izationi that have been, for decades, in the forefront in the struggle for racial Jus tice and equality. If Ed Meese is guilty of these accusations, his rating is a big "F”, and Reynolds gets an *'F” for trying to set civil rights back, but gets and "A” for increas ing racial tension. The recent action by OMB to restrict funding of advocacy groups is advo cated in the civil rights chapters. However, that OMB's attempt was met with such a barrage of dis approval, that it seemingly died in its infancy. Court awards of at torneys’ fees in civil rights cases are made the re sponsibility of the plain tiff. The authors say this maneuver "redirect* the focus of the fee award scheme toward reimburs ing plaintiffs who could not afford to sue on their own." In this vein it forbids the Legal Corporation at tomeys to bring discrimin ation suits against the go vernment. So only the rich will be granted the pri vilege of suing for equal justice under the law. The reason given in these chapters for reversing school integration and af firmative action enforce ment is that racism is increasing in schools. As proof, Tony Brown was cited in a speech he gave at a meeting of the New Coalition, “the only two things that the Klan and Nazi Party use to organize whites against blacks are busing and affirmative ac tion.” The writers need to recall history of the origin of the Klan - to prevent blacks from having the rights of citizenship, which was sought through lynch ing! and every unlawful devious means possible. The Nazi Party is an off shot of Hitlerism Are blacks to be denied rights to placate these radical outlaws? Yet, the authors seem to advocate that these are causes for action against busing and affirm ative action enforcement. Focus in these two chap ters is proving intent, which is very difficult to prove. It emphasizes indi vidual discriminatory cases and not class action suits. Blacks have always been discriminated against as a class. A report from the President’s own White House is proof of class dis tinction. He hasn’t appoint ed one black Federal Judge, no blacks have been appointed in visible policy-making positions, there is not one black in the White House communica tion department. The ef fects are that blacks don’t hold those positions, so President Reagan should prove his intent. It is suggested that Mr. Reagan defines discrimin ation in the light of intent and disregard effect. It also calls for the Civil Rights Commission to de termine the extent to which affirmative action discri minates against white males. This is an impinge ment on the independence for which the Commission was created. This clearly appears to be one of the reasons why Mr. Reagan is appointing conservatives to the Commission - so it will carry out the Heritage Foundation wishes. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance is asked to amend Executive Order 11MS to outlaw quota*, goals and time tables for federal contrac tors to set non-discrtmin atory policies. The authors criticize EEO, which must approve anti-discrimination hiring and promotion practices in federal agencies, for re quiring goals and time tables SWITH SABRINA JOHNSON! Sabrina Sabrina Johnson’s column will reappear next week To Drink Or Not To Drink? Contrary to popular no tions, the children of pro blem drinkers are unlikely to follow their parents’ drinking habits, says a Uni versity of Michigan public health reseacber. His findings are based on a detailed study of the drinking habits of/ adults and their parents ma small community near the uni versity. "The conventional wis dom is that the parents’ behavior sets the course of a child’s drinking career, especially in the case of the problem drinker,” says Dr. Ernest Harburg, research scientist of epidemiology and psychology and direc tor of the Urban Health Research Program. "But this study counters that idea.” Harburg and his col leagues, Deborah Davis' and Dr. Roberta Caplan found that children tended to follow their parents’ drinking behavior except when their parents were at either extreme of the drinking spectrum - either abstainers or trim under “very” heavy drinkers. In those cases, the number of children imitating their parents’ behavior fell off. The researchers suggest that the children of pa rents who either abstained or were problem drinkers broke away from their pa rents’ behavior because “in both cases their pa rents’ drinking style was a source of stress. Children of abstainers were at odds with the community norm. Children of very heavy drinkers appear to have been responding to the stresses of alcohol-caused problems within the fa mily.” What was important in the study was not the ab solute amount of alcohol consumed but how those amounts related to com munity norms of drinking behavior, Harburg notes. The respondents labeled their parents as abstain ers, or rare, light, mode rate, heavy or very heavy drinkers. They labeled their own drinking and cal culated how much beer, wine and liquor they con sumed each week. From this information, the re searchers were able to de termine the community norm, that is, what the community considered to be light, moderate or heavy drinking. The researchers ana lyzed the information for relationships between mo thers and daughters, mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, and fathers and sons. Children of light drink ers drank lightly, child ren of moderate drinkers drank moderately and so on. This imitation was most apparent for the behavior of the same-sex parent - like father, like son. But children of teetotal ers usually drank and children of very heavy drinkers did not drink as much as their parents. This inverse relationship was especially true in response to the opposite-sex parent. For example, daughters of heavy drinking fathers tended to drink rarely. Harburg says that some intriguing results are the relationships between ^drinking and family com position and birth order, but he cautions that the nambers in each category are small. For example, the researchers looked atl the relationships between only sons and only daugh ters and their parents' drinking. Only sons showed a “U-shaped” relation ship; they drank more when their fathers were, abstainers or heavy drink ers. Only daughters show a negative linear relation ship; the more their fa thers drank the less they drank. Another provocative re-, suit, which deserves fur ther research, says Har burg, is that last-bom sons tend to drink more than would be expected by chance alone, especially if they have very heavy drinking fathers. The researchers also looked at the effect of edu cation on imitative beha vior and found clear dif ferences between men and women. The drinking of college-educated men le veled off at a lower con sumption point than their parents' habits, but better educated women tended to follow their parents’ drink ing to a higher level of consumption than did less educated- women. Children’s reaction to their parents’ drinking have important implica tions for public health programs aimed at con trolling abusive drinking, says Harburg. a First, it is clear thar adults raised in families where alcohol was con sumed follow their pa rents' drinking habits ex cept children of very heavy drinkers. Parents need to be made aware that how much they drink will Influence how much their children drink, says Harburg, and that even moderate alcohol users can have alcohol-use problems. Moderate drink ing by a pregnant women, for instance, can lead to fetal alcohol syndrome, a leading cause of mental retardation in infants. A special group at risk may be children of abstain ers. “Problems may occur because they have not been taught moderate drinking habits; they are pressured by norms an attitudes out side the family to drink and carry with them a stan dard of drinking as an ‘all or nothing’ affair,’’ sug gests Harburg. The good news, says Harburg, is that many children thought to be at risk of becoming alcoholics based on their parents’ drinking habits, will In fact likely turn away from the drinking style that causes distress within the family. CPCC Schedules Fall Registration career seekers may be gin training for Jobs in insurance, interpreting for the deaf, or any of SO other fields this fall at Central Piedmont Community Col lege. The fall schedule also Includes personal enrich ment and physical fitness programs, plus liberal arte courses that lay founda tion# for bachelor’s de grees: history, philoso phy, math and the like. Classes start October 3 and end December 20. CPCC summer students may register from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. August 20 and 31, and from 5-0 p.m. Aigpst 31. Anyone may register from IQ a.m. to 3 p.m. September land 2 and from M p.m. September I; from 10 a.m. to 3 p.4 September**, and Wp.m September0-7; from0a.m. to noon September 10; from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Septem ber 12; and from 10 a.m. to 8 p m. September 28-20. Students may register on campus or at CPCC Area Learning Centers In Mat thews, Cornelius, or Free dom Mall For information, call 373-0040 To get the beet for you advertising dollar, call our advertising execu Uvea. m+m
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