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The Wages of Sin in Greenville, S. C I JOHN J. SYNi ine record shows that overt facial trouble in Greenville. County, South Carolina, began on November 6, 1970, at a school named Berea High. Some how, that day, a student of one f ace struck a student of the oth er race. Why? Hear a Black student leader: “Tension had been under the surface — then it just broke out all at once.” Thereafter — for two weeks thereafter — Greenville was ripped with racial strife. It knew i the whole tired bit: Shootings, confrontations and demands. It experienced the metallic thump of soldiers’ boots, rod the si ren’s shriek; the swift and meaningful coming and going of the police. And it came to know a fear none now alive in Green ville had ever know before — fear of another because of the color of his face. Who was responsible? White parents are bitter in their well - founded recrimina tions; they blame the Blacks. After the initial outbreak, Whites formed an ad hoc Com mittee and laid into school au thorities as well as elected of ficials. They wanted their chil dren protected. They said they had had enough of hijacking, of larger Black children bullying and robbing smaller White chil dren. They wanted such mis treatment stopped and they wanted it stopped right now. Blacks, too, had grievances. And their’s, as those of the Whites, were basic and equally well founded. Here is a quote from one of them: “Everything (in that school) is slavery time.” And from another: “I’d like to see the Black schools up-dated and brought back like they were. I say that because in the White school I feel like I’m being dis criminated against. In class, if I raise my hand for an answer, and a White raises his hand; too, the White is called on. Then I get lower grades. Whites sit on one side of the classroom, Blacks on the other. Then the teacher teaches the Whites.” A newspaperman told me what the Blacks are thinking. He should know; he is one of Green ville’s leaders, one of its elite. He said: “They think we are destroying them as a race. One girl, with tears in her eyes, sat where you are sitting and ac cused us of killing their spirit. She said we had scattered them all over the county and now, she said, everything is gone; no dances, no fun any more; no no thing. “You can believe it,” he add ed, “thpy don’t like integration any better than the Whites.” And this, I thought, from a spokesman for the. leadership that had billed Greenville as a “model” in achieving “with grace and style” massive classroom in tegration. Some style. Some grace. I asked what of the future? And with my question his sym pathetic attitude seemed to cfhange. I thought an edge came to his voice: “We have a two-point pro gram. One, we are going to maintain law - and - order, and two. we are going to educates” That is Greenville’s plan for the future. Two points; not No re-examination, of . policies; no apparent con cern that, perhaps, they had done Wrong. Just iron-willed omnipotence. And I felt the urge to plead as Cromwell had once pled: “I beseech you, in •the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.” *- * * Who, then, is responsible? Forget the parents and the children of both’ races: Would ing? The guilty are those goldplat ed spiders who have made soul less automatons of the area’s Children. The guilty are Green ville’s leaders, every one who has advocated1 massive race mix ing — they are the guilty. Ti ose wh», in pious robes, have ‘co operated with the Courts,” who have used > their monopolistic voice to destroy their own peo ple’s once-cherished ideals; who have denied an aspiring race the right to aspire, as a race;-who have shown themselves willing | to do whatever benighted thing | ---- is needed to be done to protect their special interests (8 per dent). These are the guilty. And one day, if the edge is you blame tail-tied cats for fight not struck from their voice, if the mote is not plucked from the eye of these illiberal lib erals, the mobs will race their panneOled webs, will make a shambles of every cozy thing they own; their home*, their eight per cent. And, aye, your home, too, and my home. The cry will rinig again, I fear: Liberty, Fraternity, Equal ity. Above all, Equality. Such are the wages of sin. WHAT IS THE ANSWER? by Henry E. Garrett, Ph.D. PROFESSOR EMERITUS COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PAST PRESIDENT AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION Q: Dr. Garrett, define for me, if you will, please, this word "racist." A:The proper definition of the word is self-evident. Its mean ing depends, as does the defini tion of so many words, on the way it is used; the spirit in which it is used. Those, for in stance, who hate all others of another race, they are called Other Editor* Say WRAL-TV VIEWPOINT Jane Fonda, News & Observer Get Lumps About a week ago, Henry Fon da’s daughter, Jane, dropped off at Duke University where sev eral hundred students each con tributed a dollar apiece to help finance the cause of the mili tant Black Panther organization. It cost a dollar to enter the au ditorium to hear this young wo man mock and revile her coun try — a country that has been exceedingly kind and generous to her family, and tolerant to ward; her. Jane Fonda’s performance at Duke University was pretty much the same as it has been everywhere she has gone for the past year or so. She hates America, and never misses an opportunity to say so. To say that she is depressing would be an understatement. She is an outrageous bore. But hers is the kind of intell ectual vacuum that apparently turns a lot of kids on, as the ^saying goes. She has nothing to 'say that every loud-mouth mili tant poming down the pike hasn’t said a thousand times before. She’s crude and she’s shallow, and if she weren’t Henry Fonda’s daughter she’d have trouble rais ing the price of a . plane ticket to come to Durham. She is Henry Fonda’s daught er; and because she is, she made it in the movies. And because she’s willing to trot around the country making irrational speeches, she has becomp the ^darling of campus adolescents willing to kick in the dash to fatten the Bladk Panther cof fers. There is, however, a sort of indirect Unwitting significance to Jane Fonda. She is a self declared 24-carat, ^evolving left winger. Not surprisingly, she has been constantly publicized and glorified by the ieftwing Dress, radio and network televisl ion. Her significance is that she is an example of a very serious fraud that has been imposed upon the awareness of the Am erican people. For nearly a gen eration now, there have been warnings from responsible quart ers that America is being led into turmoil and chaos by the communist propaganda appara tus. But leaders high in politics and government and higher ed ucation have shouted down the warnings. Anybody stating an apprehen sion about communism has been ridiculed and rejected as a right wing extremist, a reactionary, or worse. Don’t worry about com munism, we have been told. The militants, the protestors — we have been told — are not com munists. Clear evidence of the communist learings and affilia tions of one militant after an other has been suppressed by the news media. Last week at Duke University Jane Fonda showed her true col ors, all of them red. We invite your attention, first, to state ments by her, as taken from tel evision news film. She was ask ed how she would go about changing America to suit her fancy. She answered: JANE FONDA: “I believe that we have to strive for a transi tion to a socialist society. First...” INTERVIEWER: “How far?” JANE FONDA: “All the way to communism. I mean I think we should, uh, I think we should all study what the word means and I believe if everyone knew what it meant we would all be ^on our knees praying that we would, as soon as possible, be aible to live under, uh, <within a communist structure.” The point is that the leftwing ers deny that there is any com munist motivation or provoca tion behind such agitators as Jane Fonda. And, more import ant, the liberal news media re fuse to tell the whole truth a bout what’s going on. For example, Raleigh’s morn ing newspaper. The News and Observer — which constantly ridicules anyone opposed to, or apprenhensive about communism — had a reporter present at the Jane Fonda aopearance at Duke University. But what did' the newspaper report the following morning? The headline read: “Jane Fonda Has Praise for Newton.” It reported that Miss Fonda would like to see a Ne ero revolutionist named Huey Newton, who has been indicted for killing a policeman, running Other Editors Say JACKSONVILLE DAILY NEWS Narcotics Tests: Already too Late The need for a Crime Lab in this area to expedite the process ing and identification of narcot ics confiscated by area law en forcement officers becomes more apparent with each passing hour. .The lack of proper processing and identification of these nar cotics continues to be a road block in the due process of law . . . and is hampering the ef ficiency of the court and law racists! - That is one meaning. Another turns on reason. If a person sincerely believes there are inborn differences between the races — as there certainly are — and if he prefers his own race, as it is, to another, as it is, such a person may pro perly be called a racist — as an other might be called a Baptist or a Catholic. JERKINS IN VIET NAM Seaman Roger G. Jerkins, son of Mrs. Verna I. Smith of Route 1, Trenton, is serving aboard the internal combustion repair ship USS Tutuila operating in the coastal and riverine areas of South Vietnam. enforcement officers. District judges are continual ly forced to accept lesser pleas and nol prosses, due to delays in getting classification of suspect ed narcotics back into the hands of prosecutors. It is high time that state gov ernment took a realistic look at the situation and proceeded with all possible speed to set up crime labs where this urgent need for classification of suspected nar cotics can be carried out. Then, and only then, will be he law enforcement officers and the courts be able to protect us from this growing drug men ace. This week the Neuse River Re gional Planning and Develop ment Council, (nine counties including Onslow) acting of the recommendation of the Law En forcement Policy Committee, passed a motion to appeal a re cent decision by the Governor's Law and Order Committee. The Governor's group had turned down a request for a regional crime lab. It is to be hoped that this appeal will meet with success. It is already too late. the country. The ' newspaper carefully avoided any reference whatsoever to Miss Fonda’s all out public endorsement of com munism. In fact, the subject wasn’t even mentioned in the newspaper story. That is just one example of the way that communist involve ment in the strife and turmoil of America has been hidden from the American people bv the “lib eral” news media. WQuld you say that it’s deliberate? Williams Badly Hurt Vernon "Buddy" Williams of Kinston route 4 suffered multi ple serious injuries last Wed nesday afternoon at about 5:40 when a farm tractor with which he was pulling farm equipment was struck from the rear by a car driven by Robert Leroy Brickley Jr. of Jacksonville a bout a mile west of Jackson i Crossroads on Highway NC 55. School Folks Get Nervous Over Mixup Recorded in Tentative Board Minutes I On the first Monday of De cember the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners discussed with Senator Charlie Larkins and Rep resentative Harold Hardison the introduction of necessary legis lation to make the Kinston School Board elective rather than appointive as it is at present and the commissioners unani mously adopted a resolution pe titioning these legislators to do just that. During this discussion also brief comments were made on the subject of merging the coun ty’s two school systems, but no motion was made on that is sue but it was agreed to give the matter continuing study and to determine perhaps by refer endum in some future election what the will of the majority of the people in the county was on this subject. However, when the tentative minutes of the board were sent to members and the press they included an item saying that a resolution had been passed ask ing legislation on the merger subject as well. When this reached the hands of the press and the press drop ped this nickel in the slot of educators wlio were already in a state of semi-shock because of the takeover of the county board by a Republican majority things really got in a fine Irish stew. Countless resolutions by PTA and other civic-minded groups were passed andi handed up to anjt governing board to whom such pressures might have some effect. . The two legislators mention ed above,, along with the area’s y i&jfeys •• V', • sv i. t f-i w. . V third assemblyman, Dan Lilley, were called into executive ses sion with a group of colored citizens, whose principal spokes man Republican Don Pollock lec tured the legislators on their duties, responsibilities and oth er members of the congregation got even blunter in their charg es than Pollock. Last Monday night the Kins ton City Council was thrown in the same pressure cooker, and it came out rather limp like the legislators, mouthing platitudes and trying to sidestep an issue in many senses that didn’t exist. The issue is very simple: At present the Kinston School Board has seven trustees each appointed to a seven-year term by the city council, with the school board having the power to fill unexpired terms and the city council naming one mem ber to the board each year. Under this system there is no geographical consideration given to the membership of the board. At present five of the seven live in Northwest Kinston and the other two live in North east Kinston, leaving southeast and Southwest Kinston and the large number of people living outside the city limits but in side the school district without a voice in the operation of these schools. The suggestion of County Commissioner Jack Rider is that the school board be made elec tive and that precinct lines be used to set up a system of geo graphical allocations so that .ev ery segment of the school dis trict would have representation. Several of the most vicious of Continued on page 4
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