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GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1968 9
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FATHER lames Scherer, Tom Keating, Achsah Nesmith of the Atlanta Constitution, the Rev. Ed
Grider and Jim Johnson talk about Atlanta’s poverty problems.
MRS. Alice Nixon tells Canon Charles * J. Child of St. Philip s
Cathedral about the conditions in Mechanicsville.
color you were, you still didn’t
get enough.
“I’ve been telling the poor
whites to join with the poor
blacks. I told the poor whites
that they’ve been used too long.”
Father Alan Dillmann, pastor
of Our Lady of Lourdes, said, “I
am pastor of a parish that is an
indictment of the Church which
has stayed with the status quo....
The Church has not challenged
society, it has accepted it, and
long ago we should have raised
our voices in protest. I feel
inadequate. I come from
middle-class, white people and
my training included little
awareness of these problems.”
Mrs. Sue Crank, an EOA
official, said the agency seeks to
serve people where they are and
recognizes talent in the
neighborhood. It operates 14
centers, youth corps, men’s jobs
corps, head start, legal aid,
planned parenthood.
After the tours, participants
heard talks by the Rev. Ed
Grider, director of Urban
Training Organization, and the
Rev. William Holmes Borders,
pastor of Wheat Street Baptist
Church.
“In 10 years, 70,000 persons
in Atlanta have been displaced by
bulldozers. The mayor says we
have 17,000 dwellings that need
to go, but where do the people
go? It’s no wonder that areas near
highways and urban renewal
often boil over,” Grider
commented.
“We have become preoccupied
with symptoms. We think a band
aid will heal the wounds. The
problem is not poor people or
black people. Th& problem is
with all of us who try to escape
from the realities of modem
urban living.”
Borders said, “No person
every chose the race into which
he was born. The color of a man’s
skin is nothing to strut about.
Jesus looked across and called
men his brothers and looked to
heaven to say father.
“We are going to live together
as brothers, or die as rats. You
don’t know what it’s like to be a
slum dweller unless you have
lived with them a long time.
“Some white people in
Atlanta have - never been to the
slums. I’m telling you these slums
will eat us up if we don’t
resurrect them.”
man is basically the same. “For
every genius in one race, there is
a genius in another race. For
every imbecile in one race, there
is an imbecile in the other race.
“Those who seem to be ahead
because of education or
economics are not superior
because under the same
circumstances others would be at
the same place.
“It doesn’t matter if you are
black or white, if your skull is
empty, you’re a fool,” he
commented.
The well-known pastor said
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