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IHE TRIBUNAL AID
WEDNESDAY, tlARCH 19, 1975
EDITORIALS
^You’re A Part Of The Solution, Or You’re A Part Of The Problem ’
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THE
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by Albert A. Campbeil
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^'PROPOSAL
THE TRIBUNAL AID newspaper, in its
efforts to be a viable entity of this community,
is now offering a “Church Fund Raising
Campaign”.
As most Blacks know, usually, the seat of
progress, and advancement in the Black
Community stems from the support of the
Black church. This, then, is no surprise to
THE TRIBUNAL AID newspaper.
In^ an attempt to increase the circulation of
THE TRIBUNAL AID newspaper coupled with
aiding churches in raising funds, we are
offering to the churches an opportunity to
raise funds without asking for “goodwill
contributions”.
A subscription to THE TRIBUNAL AID
newspaper is $5.00, per year, prepaid. For
every $5.00 subscription sold by a church,
32.00 will be rebated. EXAMPLE: A church
sells 100 subscriptions. That church will
receive 3200.00 in rebates. This effort is being
made because of the need for wider circulation
and increased readership of THE TRIBUNAL
AID newspaper. Further, this, in turn, will
enhance the possibilities of getting the kind of
advertisng that all newspapers need for
sustainment.
In addition, when a Black newspaper
becomes a strong and viable part of the
community, it then can provide a forum of the
people and for the people. Every hamlet or
city, in the opinion of THE TRIBUNAL AID,
needs and deserves this kind of tool at its
disposal. THE TRIBUNAL AID newspaper is
no different. It was born out of the
commitment to be of service to the Black
community.
Black Perspectives
BY CARL T. ROWAN
WASHINGTON -- Another
disgusting revelation about Cen
tral Intelligence Agency involve
ment in domestic spying has made
the headlines.
District of Columbia police chief
Maurice J. Cullinane has made
public a report, and documents.
embarrassing to the agency -
John McCone and Richard Helms.
Neither man is an evil, would-be
dictator. Neither would wittingly
want to transform this society into
a totalitarian nightmare. But they
operated in a time of political
upheaval, stress, violence. And
each got swallowed up in the mass
showing that over a long period public preference for tranquility
ALTHOUGH THE EDfTORLALS WJRITTEN
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EQUAL SPACE IN THIS NEWSPAPER, IN
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by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Whitney Young
Remembered
the CIA provided men, cars
electronic surveillance devices and
other equipment for police spying
on individuals involved in civil
rights and anti-war activities.
Earlier revelations have been of
a character where, by giving the
CIA a generous interpretation of
the law, one might conclude that
the agency had not seriously
violated either its charter or the
law.
But the CIA’s involvement in
political surveillance in the
nation’s capital is of such a nature
that no benefit of doubt prevents
the conclusion that the leaders of
this vast secret agency plunged it
into domestic politics in wanton
disregard for limitations spelled
out in the CIA’s charter.
I write this in full knowledge
that by this time you are probably
bored with talk about CIA and FBI
excesses. When you’ve read about
Rep. Bella Abzug’s anger after
reading her CIA file, and you’ve
seen headlines alleging CIA deals
with the Mafia to assassinate
over liberty.
A President, or someone, says:
“We’ve got to keep an eye on that
Elijah Muhammad,” and “those
damned civil rights agitators” and
those “troublemakers” in Con
gress. And suddenly the CIA
assumes it has a mandate to
monitor dissent which in saner
days enjoys full protection of the
Constitution.
When you have gone through
generations of cloaking the
presidency in reverence, it
becomes almost second nature for
a CIA or FBI director to assume
that nothing the President asks for
can be bad, or illegal or immoral.
This attitude holds even though
CIA Director X may know in his
heart that under different
circumstances he would regard
that particular President as a
person he would never invite into
his house.
Aside from this awesome
President (who may be mean,
vengeful, psychotic), there is the
element of public passion. When
foreign leaders, and you’ve heard ''hT
that the FBI mailed a supposedly thV
embarrassing tape recording to ^he
Whitney Young died four years
ago this month, and the loss of this
It is the intention of THE TRIBUNAL AID to
provide the kind of service to the Black
community that other newspapers for
various reasons have failed to do. Therefore,
THE TRIBUNAL AID is asking for the help
and the assistance of its Black community
throughout its entire circulation area.
If your church is interested or if you,
yourself, would like to see your church raise
funds, then we invite you to contact THE
TRIBUNAL AID newspaper, either in person
or by telephone, expressing your wishes to
help and to raise funds. At that time, the
details and requirements will be explained to
you and we can all prosper, together.
Hopefully, this effort will meet with the
kind of success so badly needed for The Black
church, the Black community, as well as for,
THE TRIBUNAL AID newspaper.
“BROTHERHOOD IS THE VERY PRICE
AND CONDITION OF MAN’S SURVIVAL”.
payments to the aged or raising
food stamp costs to the
great man to the nation is readily uneiiiployed'" w6uld do' well ’ te
seen in this time of faltering' ' re-read ’ Whitney’s pioneering
leadership and national confusion, views about public spending for
the wife of the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, hoping to induce him
to commit suicide, the Cullinane
the report may be just a ho-hum item.
Commies,” how can it be wrong to
ignore a few constitutional
safeguards so as to do in those
damned protesters?
For Whitney was a great leader,
a man who could get things done.
And he was a man rooted in an
assured sense of self and mission
that made his every word and deed
ring with authority.
Remembering his great impact,
I recently re-read some of his
books and other writings, many of
which are strikingly relevant
today. In this time of rising
poverty, for example, it is good to
recall his profoundly humanist
statement:
“No one is meant to live in
poverty -- and no one is meant to
tolerate the wrongs of oppression.
Where poverty exists, all are
poorer; where hate flourishes, all
are corrupted; where injustice
reigns, all are unequal. Our
society is as strong as its weakest
link - thus the links that bind
black and white, poor and rich
must be strengthened or we all
will perish. Every man is our
brother, and every man’s burden
our own. Now is the time for the
poor, the black, the oppressed, to
unite and to turn our society
around -- for our own sakes and for
society's sake.”
And participants in the on-going
furor over “quotas” would do well
to think about these lines, taken
from his discussion of the “Open
Society” in his book. ''Beyond
Racism”:
“An Open Society has to be
based on equality. This means
neither the superficial 'equality of
opportunity’ that gets so much lip
service these days, nor does it
mean an impossible equality of
achievement that assumes every
one will do as well as everyone
else, regardless of innate
differences. The measure of
equality has to be group
achievement: when, in each group
in our society, roughly the same
proportion of people succeed and
fail, then we will have true
equality."
Washington officials who want
to cut corners on federal spending
by trimming social security
views about
public needs:
“I stand in amazement at a
nation that produces about a
trillion dollars worth of goods and
services per year but feels it
cannot afford to end poverty or to
improve its schools.
“Part of the reason seems to be
that we have a strange notion that
investing is spending. When a
business borrows money to build a
new plant, we call it investment
and consider it good. But when a
city builds a new schoolhouse --
really an investment in the human
potentials of its children -- we say
that’s government spending,
therefore bad.
“The problem is not mere
semantics, it’s a reflection of a
basically immoral outlook on
human development in a nation
that simply can no longer afford to
waste its human resources the way
it has in the past.
Yet, that is precisely why police
states pop up so frequently and a
free society is so difficult to
preserve.
Most people seem to want to
believe that police states are the
result of some calculated plot by a
power-hungry despot. The evi
dence, suggests, however, that in
most cases tyranny sort of evolves
out of a situation where decent and
well-intentioned men bow to the
passions of the day and begin to
ignore the Constitution just a
trifle, to violate the law just a little
bit, to disregard civil liberties “for
just a while.”
I worked with two of the CIA
directors who presided over some
of the excesses that are now so
Well, the reason the Constitu
tion is there is to put restraints on
Presidents and their agents -
especially in times of great public
passion.
It becomes clearer with every
ugly headline, however, that we
almost abandoned that principle.
Over two trouble-filled decades we
let the CIA, the FBI and other
“security” agencies operate in
such disdain and contempt for the
Constitution that they became
grave threats to our security.
The question now is whether we
can ever rein in the Frankensteins
that were the products of our own
fears, prejudices and frustrations.
Hungry! What can we do
about it?
To The Editor
This may be a confusing
question since we are living
in such a tense time. The
economy is at its lowest
level since the great
This country has mastered the depression and food is at its
ait of landing a man on the moon, highest prices. We know
but it 1 emains ignorant of the ways that food is the "staff of
of feeding all its people and life". All people,
teaching all its children.”
day by day, yoy,. from
One thing is for .sure, you. What would you do?
don tjust sit there! You’ve How would you feel''
heard the quotation, "Keep My que.stion is "What
lookmg up, things have happened to all of that
been bad before and got Black power stuff and all of
Above all, Whitney w'as a
believer. He believed in change,
and perhaps more important, in
the capacity of this nation to
change:
“I do have faith in America --
not so much in a sudden upsurge
of morality nor in a new surge
toward a greater patriotism -- but 1
believe in the intrinsic intelligence
of Americans. I do not believe that
we forever need to be confronted
by tragedy or crises in order to act.
1 believe that the evidence is clear.
1 believe that we as a people will
not wait to be embarrased or
every
where, need it to survive
physically. And because
our physical lives depend
upon it. we are food
conscious.
It has been said that
Americans consume more
food than any other country
in the world. Some writers
even thing that from birth
to death, Americans are
obsessed with filling their
stomachs. Since this state
ment is 98 per cent true,
what are we going to do
now?
Most of us spend half our
belter and things win get
better again," Well, this
may be true but first you
must not be afraid. On fear,
one builds reservatons and
we need no reservations.
They only hold us back. We lhose''’;harLed
need a forward push.
Second, you must be
willing to take a risk. For
without risk there is no
faith. Is your faith in God
strong enough? Or do you
put your faith only in things
you can see with
eyes?
Third.
the love we were supposed
to have had for our
so-called soul sisters and
brothers?"
If you love your people,
let them know it by helping
Stop
sitting around, waiting on
the other man. Suppose
everyone waited on some
one else. What do you thing
one else. What do you think
w'ould get done? This is one
your reason there is no unity in
Black communities. We've
rnn- ^ foi'.gotten about Black
concerned abut our fellow- power and soul sisters and
man. Just becau,se your brothers! We only think of
cupboards are full, the rent ourselves!
IS paid and the house is All right you Black
warni, our interest seems to people of America, es-
Lcause d'"'' you Black people of
_ _ Dccausc we do not live bv rho t ■ .
pushed by events, into a posture of p^.v checks on food.^Nowwe y^e Golden Rule - "Do ^
decency. 1 believe that America ""
has the strength to do what is right
because it is right. I am convinced
that given a kind of collective
wisdom and sensitivity, Ameri
cans today can be persuaded to act
creatively and imaginatively to
make democracy work. This is my
hope, this is my dream, this is my
faith.”
have no pay checks, very
little food, no heat and are
wondering how we're going
to pay the rent. Unemploy
ment benefits just won't do
it!
What can we do? How
should we react when
things seem to get worse *he same way. Suppose He
unto others as you would
have them do unto you."
People are nearly starv
ing just outside our kitchen
doors... But who cares? By
ways and actions we seem
to be saying - Let every
man care for himself!
Well, suppose God fell you can.’
get
together -- take a risk!
Share what food you have
with those who are less
fortunate. It can all be
summed up with these
words taken from a popular
song: "Reach out and touch
somebody's hand. Make
this world a better place if
Minnie McIntyre