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As Aasly*
race faces tb« bluest challenge ever
IB dealing wit* Am«ica’a SOmllUaa
OA social policy, as we now know
It, lent a deed cod. To get things on
trnek again, the "poverty
P£tagon”-the vast bureaucracy
which manages the no-win “War on
ty” at groat coat to taxpayers
and the poor alike—must be
and restructured into a
f*-j« t>
welfare system which enc<
end supports self-reliance. Th
only way our poor will ever hove a
chance to pet out of the poverty trap.
The true test qf character of any na
tion is the extent to which it is able to
provide for the least fortunate of its
members. Hiis moral obligation now
converges with a great economic
necessity. In the next 30 yean, the
U.S. economy is expected to produce
10.8 million new Jobs. Population
trends indicate that this workforce
will increasingly be black and
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youngsters drop out of school earn
year and a million more graduate il
literate. If America is to be com
petitive as a nation, we must make
sure its future work force will be able
to compete. We must press for
drametic changes in improving'the
lives of the poor.
Aifierica has been very generous to
thepoor over the years. Unfortunate
ly, the sodaljpolicies of the past ao
created a mammoth
tagon” that has con
, eds of billions of tax
uv—... jdat reducing poverty.
Before the advent of government
programs, there was nobody to “take
flare” of blacks, so they cared for
themselves; they found ways to solve
their own problems. In 1863, when
1,000 blacks were fired off the docks
of Baltimore, they didn't respond by
marching on Washington, they form
ed the Chesapeake Main Dry Dock
and Railroad Company which
operated for 18 yean. When blacks
were refused access to banks, they
formed 53 banks and savings and loan
associations with some of them with
assets of millions. And this was in
1883.
If these great achievements were
possible then, when conditions were
worse than today, blacks could cer
tainly do even better now.
One of the greatest obstacles to
such self-reliant behavior is the
poverty industry that has developed
to “provide for" the poor. Those ser
vice provider*—regardless of their
good Intention#—have every incen
tive to aee that no permanent eolu
tions are ever found to poverty in
America.
Today’* poor are unwitting par
ticipants in a poor morality play
where the worst parte are reserved
for them. And we keep rewarding
them for taking theee puts.
If you are poor and you are a drug
addict, there’s a program for you. If
you are poor and you are pregnant,
there’s a program for you. If you are
(See HELP POOR. P. 2)
Black Press: Proud
History Leading To
Challenging Future
BY ALEXIS HERMAN
NNPA News Service
As a Mack woman business owner in the District of Columbia, it
is with great pride and admiration that I salute the Industry that has
Man the pillar of the Mack community for decades—the black press.
Ike Mack press has played a vital role in the survival and
growth of the Mack community for well over ISO years. Since the first
black newspaper. Freedom’s Journal, was published in 1827, the
Mack press has continued to be a powerful source of social, political,
religious, and economic information.
The history and future of the Mack press were issues celebrated
at a black press dinner in Washington, D.C. recently.
From the early editorials condemning lynching to those suppor
ting the civil rights movement of the Its and the current fight for
economic Justice, the black press has provided the leadership and
the focus of these issues. The Mack community and other segments
of society have begun to recognise the unique and strategic position
of the Magk community which is epitomised by the black press.
Magasines snch as Ebony, Jet and Black Enterprise are just a
few of the Mack-owned publications that are successful businesses in
their own right. They continue to provide an advertising outlet for
otter Mack businesses and the corporate sector that wishes to reach
the Mack consumer these publications along with black newspapers
feature Mack businesses by sharing their success stories and pro
viding valuable statistics and information on the status of Mack
I often rely en Mack newspapers and magaxlnes for important
resource information for speeches, articles, and seminars.
From a national perspective there are several significant trends
(See BLACK PRESS, P. 2)
A recent nature article neaaune
read, “Mentorii^—More Thau the
Old-Boy Network Grown Up?’
Publicity and national public
awareness surrounding the first such
reaeareh program and resulting
book, “Career Mentoring at Week,”
wtlwifaw at TMatltw.
tien" awards, highlighting the 10th
anniversary of the Women in
i Advisory Council March as.
nd their spon
organisations gathered at
Meeodith College in Raleigh, hosted
by Meredith Vice President and
WIBAC advisor Dr. Sandra Thomas.
The event, chaired by WIBAC’s Pat
GobUe, recognised 30 mentors from
s, professions, education, and
aunity development. WIBAC
: Dr. Jean Overton cited the
of extending a helping
hand—called mentoring—in prole*
and career development,
■ it occurs,
under a grant from the American
Express Company Foundation,
WIBAC’s Meg Conner researched
and published the sourcebook which
has found its way across the United
states and is helping inspire pro
. grams in such diverse (daces as the
U.8. Environmental Protection Agen
cy field operations, continuing educa
tion, purses and borne economics
public schools, profes
rraiopment programs ex
by the American Library
Association, in industry.
For WIBAC, chairman of the
sting committee is Jerry Dod
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MS. EMMA UOZA
RALEIGH, N.C.,
MONDAY
MARCH 28,1988
ATC's Semi-Weekly
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VOL. 47. NO. 35
Physical Assault
Woman Accuses Police
Officials
Examining
Complaint
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP)-Syracuse
police will talk to witnesses in an ef
fort to answer a pregnant woman’s
charges that officers kicked her in the
stomach, pushed her down some
steps and made racial dura to her.
“Part of the problem is rounding up
witnesses. They all have different
schedules,” Chief Leigh Hunt said.
“We want to get to the bottom of
this. I would hope by the end of the
week we’ll have figured out exactly
what happened.”
The department’s Internal Affairs
Division is investigating the charges
leveled by Lila Wingate, 31, of
Syracuse, who said in a complaint fil
ed Friday that a plainclothes officer
unjustly arrested her during a. distur
bance March 14 at her sister's hoi
told hpr she would have a miscar
riage. : - " vr'.:
According to the police version,
Wingate was “swinging her arms
wildly and refused to put her arms
behind her back so that she could be
handcuffed, ’’and she attempted to in
terfere with the arrest of two other
adults.
Wintage, who is four months preg
nant, claims that she was unfairly ar
rested while trying to remove her
nephews and nieces from the home of
her sister, Harriet, during an argu
ment between Harriet Wingate and
her live-in boyfriend, Richard
Frazier, 24. Both sisters, Frazier and
two others were arrested in the
disturbance.
“I heard the kids over there
screaming and I went over there to
get my nieces and nephews and bring
them over here,” said Lila Wingate,
(See COMPLAINT, P.2)
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Teens Need Support To
Stop Substance Abuse
TAMlfttfSN QM fiUufk Aak fKau iifont familv AAiinealir.
Ask any parent. But adding alcohol
and drugs makes them even worse.
Through treatment, addicted teens
can overcome their substance abuse,
but unfortunately, treatment is only
half the battle. Once teens become
sober, they have to stay sober.
Austin Warner, adolescent coor
dinator of CHAPS Koala Center, said
most teenagers who have just gone
through treatment must face three
major tests: parents, peers and
public attitude.
Warner said parents and young
people agree that while in treatment
Increasing Minimum Wages Will
Just Keep Poor From Starving
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS. SR.
NNPA Newt Service
By a voice vote, the 36-member
Home Labor end Education Commit
tee passed a Mil that will raiae the
minimum wage from the current
6660, in incremental stages, to a
maximum of 66.05 an hour by the
year 1981. However, committee
chairman Augustus Hawkins, a
29-year Hill veteran, declared, “This
is no panacea. It won’t get the IS
million—one million blacks—out of
poverty. It will merely keep them
from starving to death.”
Rita:
He predicted full House passage of
the bill after a mid-April session. He
also predicted Senate passage of a
similar measure and that the two
branches of Congress will iron out dif
ferences in a joint conference and
send the bill to President Reagan for
passage.
Reagan, however, has threatened
to veto the measure and Rep.
Hawkins during a lengthy interview
with the tfNPAin his Capitol Hill of
fices in the Rayburn Building worried
that “It is not at all certain that we
have the votes to override him.”
Congress had the votes to ovrride
Reagan’s recent veto of the Civil
Rights Restoration Act, he said. This
bill was passed overwhelmingly by
Congress and is designed to undo
much of the adverse effects of the
Supreme Court’s IMt decision in the
Grove City College (Pa.) vs. Bell
case. This decision narrowed the
scope of the historic civil rights bills
so drastically that civil rights loaders
have been chafing under the restric
tions ever since. Grove City simply
permits divisions within an institu
tion that are not receiving federal
funds to discriminate with Impunity.
Hawkins’ committee is almost
equally divided between Democrats
and Republicans—33 Democrats, 23
Republicans. “So we haves tight bat
tle on every Issue,” he said. “We
simply cannot afford to lose over
three or four Democrats on any Issue
or it is doom*!.”
He said a powerful U.S. Chamber of
Commerce lobbv is ODDosed to rais
ing minimum wages. “And when you
have a president in the White House
who also opposes it, it is difficult to
«lot of Republicans to buck him.”
wages have not
(See MINIMUM WAGE, P. 3)
Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics
Anonymous. But when treatment is
finished, he said, the same apathy en
countered before treatment sets in,
particularly with parents.
Terri Demoret, a substance abuse
counselor for a community school
system, agreed. “Parents put all the
responsibility on the young person
without also carrying through with
their own recovery.”
“I was one of those parents who
didn’t follow through,” she said.
“When young people come out of
treatment they are expected to have
responsibility which they never had
in the first place because they were
never taught responsibility.”
She said a surprisingly large
number of parents place the entire
burden of recovery on their children.
“Many parents.” Warner added,
(See COUNSELORS. P. 2)
Journalists To
Hear Address
BySWAPOPres.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Sam Nu
joma, the president of the South Went
Africa People’s Organization of
Namibia, announced plans to visit the
United States later this spring to ad
dress a conference of black jour
nalists and to participate in a round of
Capitol Hill hearings on South
Africa’s atrocities against the Nami
bian people.
The hearings, sponsored by the
World Council of Churches, will coin
cide with the :)th anniversary of the
Kassinga Massacres which resulted
in the death of several hundred Nami
bian refugees, mostly women and
children who were living in southern
Angola.
The SWAPO chief will address the
opening session of the hearing which
will also receive testimony from con
gressmen, State Department of
ficials, religious leaders and
statesmen from around the world.
Nujoma will also deliver the
keynote address at the fifth national
conference of the National Alliance of
Third World Journalists in Atlanta.
The conference, scheduled April
21-24, is expected to draw black and
(See SWAPO LeiADER, P. 2)
New Horimona
Program Helps
Area Teenagers
The New Hortons Program which
serves youth ages *-17 held Peer
Counselors graduation exercises
recently and was a special event tor
oarticinants.
The six graduates earned cer
tificates tty completing 24 hours of
training in the following skill areas:
listening, awareness of non-verbal
behavior, methods of establishing a
non-threatening situation, ways of
responding including feedback and
clarification, awareness to determine
when professional counseling is need
ed, and information as to the existing
sources of approved counseling ser
vices and agencies available in the
community.
Related topic areas addressed were
sexuality, substance abuse, teen
depression, suicide, career choices,
and family problems.
Ms. Montina Lee, who serves as the
New Horizons program director, con
ducted the Peer Counselor Training
sessions along with health, care pro
fessionals.
Keynote speaker for the graduation
was Ms. Dorothy Shaw Thompson, a
wife, mother of four children and a
family counselor at Project En
lightenment. The major theme of Ms.
Thompson’s address was that every
child has a soul created by God and
regardless of the external circum
(See TEENS, P. 2)
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