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Deltas - "I have declared war oo
iaa that are harmful to
" said Dr. Edith Irby Jooee,
«f the natton's hlack doctors as
" : of the National Medical
“The first lifestyle choice on the
list is smoking You shouldn’t smoke
*mokelnyom^SSS,"SSdto
both applause and embarrassed
laugh*—i . -R£'
“The next thing is we eat too
much,’’said Jones to more laughter,
adding that she needn’t elaborate on
that. Jones, of Houston, also said
exercise too little oat too
much salt. All of these poor life
style choices created the ominous
statistics she dted, such as the fact
that Macks die five to seven years
■ than whites. Blacks also have
higher percentages of infant
deaths and heart disease, among
other health problems, she said.
“We can change ow lifestyles...
Children catch our behavior before
they hear what we say. How can wo
tell our children not to smoke mari
juana when we smoke. It won’t
• work,’’ she said. Jones was the drat
Mack graduate of the University of
Arkansas School of Medicine.
Her remarks came during the na
tional issues forum of the Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority 38th National
Convention, being held here in Dal
las recently. Other members of the
panel were: Stephanie Lee Miller,
assistant secretary for public af
" fairs, U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, Washington,
D.C.; Glendora Putnam, president,
National YWCA, Boston, Mass. , and
Atty Arthenia Joyner, immediate
past president. National Bar Asso
ciation, Tampa. Fla. All are Deltas.
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Joyner urged the Deltas to write
their Senators and Representatives
in Congress to support bills in Con
gress which relate to funding far .
historically black colleges, vote
fraud, abortions far poor women,
and sanctions against South Africa.
"The Reagan Administration has
adopted a policy called ‘construc
tive engagement’ with South Afri
ca. Essentially they’ve sakl to South
Africa, ‘You’ve been a bad child,
stripping blacks of their righto. But
we’re going to work with you and
pray with you until you decide to
change on your own," Joyner said
facetiously, adding that the policy it
unacceptable. ••V'vy*
Those in the audience were told to
write their Senators to urge sup
port of the conference report on
South Africa, bill HR 1460 which the
House overwhelmingly adopted a
few weeks ago- The legislation
would limit computer and nuclear
exports and ben the South African
Krugerrand in the United States,
among other sanctions.
Joyner expressed concern that
civil rights gains far which blacks
have fought so hand to achieve are
being loet. '
■As a bar association colleague so
aptly put It, we are moving in a
circle. When we are at the top of the -
circle, we call it program. When we f
are at the bottom of the circle, we
call it regression. But we are moving
on the tame ground all the time.”
"The nation’s soul is up for
grabs," said the YWCA’s Putnam.
In making a strong case for the
continuation of affirmative action,
Putnam said, “Affirmative action
helps everybody and that’s the story
we need to ten."
doiu mmiuduve Mcuun
legislation, upheld by the Supreme
Court SI years ago, helps every
body in the workforce because It
struck down use of discriminatory
testa, tmjob-related academic re
quirements, or of arrest records or
garnishments and bad credit
records, and the buddy system,
among other items that helped eli
minate certain white workers from
the workforce as much as they
discriminated against blacks.
“The buddy system had not
worked for all .because some
don’t have baddies in all compan
ies,’’she said. ,
“Affirmative action is not the job
of EBO (equal employment oppor
tunity) professionals alone," she
continued “Affirmative action is
everybody’s business. We must stop
pot truths in their
Ve must tell who has been
f affirmative action, how
Coca-Cola USA donated *25.000 to the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- (NAACP) teat month to help support its 78th annual
convention held recently in Dallas. Tx. “Our company
Is proud of Its longstanding relationship with the
nation’s oldest civil rights group and supports the
NAACP*s quest for equal opportunity for all Amerl
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