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Vote for Jesse on Tuesday
lack Americans and all per
sons who believe in fair
ness, justice and overall
advancement of our nation should
go to the polls on Tuesday and
vote for the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Already during the first two
months of this year, he has exhib
ited remarkable progress, espe
cially in states with few minori
ties.
Already thistime, in contrast to
1984, Jackson’s campaign has
picked up solid endorsements
from Black elected and appointed
officials, civic and religious lead
ers from around the nation.
Jesse now has an opportunity,
ALONG THE COLOR LINE By Dr. Manning Marable
SouthAfricaToday: The
Power Of HiStOry s
or nearly 350 years, white co
lonialism and institutional
racism have attempted tocon
trol the people of southern
Africa. The two major white settler
groups which have fought for power,
the Afrikaners and the British, have
always understood the power of his
tory to reinforce their domination
over African people. If you can con
trol the past, you can deeply influ
ence the present and future..
On the outskirts of Pretoria, the
political and cultural capital of the
Afrikaners, stands a massive sand
stonemonument towhite supremacy.
Situated at the apex of a hill, the
hugedomed building rests above the
vast plains, or veld. After climbinga
series of stone steps, one enters the
vast central rotunda, which is intri
cately carvedin white marble. Along
the walls are chiseled depictions of
the saga of the “Voortrekkers” —the
pioneers whotraveled far into Africa
to create their own white racist na
tion.
The Voortrekkers confronted the
mighty Zulu nation during their mi
grationacrossthesubcontinent. With
vastly superior weapons — guns
against spears — they defeated the
Zulu army at the Battle of Blood
River, on December 16, 1838. The
white invaders celebrated their tri
umph by marking the date as a reli
gious and political holiday. Exactly
one hundred years after the battle of
Blood River, the Voortrekker monu
ment was dedicated. Every year
thereafter, thenation’sshops,schools
and banks were closed on December
16th. The chapels of the Dutch Re
formed Church were filled with
Afrikaners, giving thanks to God
each year for the power of white
supremacy.
Travelinginto Pretoria,atthehigh
est hill in the city is the parliament
building, located neartheofficial resi
denceoftheSouth African president,
Nelson Mandela. At the entrance of
the parliament building is a promi
nent bust of Afrikaner general and
former priine minister Jan Chris
tian Smuts. It was Smuts who au
thorized the transfer of millions of
acres of black land to white control.
He established the modern political
foundations of racial inequality in
South Africa, which years later be
came “apartheid.”
Hundreds of miles away, British
colonists settled an areainthe south
west corner of South Africa, which
wascalled Natal province. In Natal’s
capital city Pietermaritzburg, there
are statues honoring the heroes of
square, thereis a solemn monument
to 1,500 British troopers who were
slaughtered to a man at a battle of
Isandiwana, a great Zulu victory.
There is a statue of a plump, rather
matronly white woman, which de
victs the British Q Victori
, In Cape Town, there is another
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Behind a series of celestial columns,
_carved in marble, is the bust of Cecil
A Closer Look
if we come out with solid support
during the various primaries, to
enter the Atlanta convention with
over 1,000 delegates! Hewill then
be in good position to be nomi
nated or make significant deci
sions in what may be a brokered
convention.
Always remember that Jesse
chose Augusta as his first stop on
the opening of his Southern cam
paign leg.
Campaign has little money
TheJackson campaign treasury
has a paucity of funds and they
must be used as wisely as possible
to pay for personnel at the na
Rhodes, the major industrialist and
politician of the British Empire in
southern Africa. It was Rhodes who
made millions from the exploitation
of black labor in South Africa’s gold
mines. It was Rhodes who seized
vast territories from African popula
tions, which were renamed “North
ern Rhodesia” and “Southern Rho
desia.” It is the same Rhodes whose
huge fortune created Rhodes schol
arships at Oxford University, which
“'wére oflglfially désigned to educate’
young white men to run the British
Empire and the United States.
Only when one comeshere, travel
ing throughout this country, can one
truly appreciate the difficult chal
lenge African people must overcome.
The entire ideological and cultural
structure of South African society
reinforces white supremacy. Tradi
tional school textbooks still presenta
distorted perspective of African his
tory. True, nearly all of the public
signs reading “white” and “black”
have been taken down. The Truth
and Reconciliation Commission for
several years has held important
hearings on the crimes of apartheid,
permitting victims of the former re
gime to recount the horrors they
experienced. Nevertheless, the vast
majority of white criminals in the
apartheid regime, the police who tor
tured, maimed and murdered thou
sands of African people, will neverbe
brought to justice, or even serve a
single day in jail.
Thankfully, there are also recent
changes in how South African his
tory and culture are presented. In
Pietermaritzburg, there is now a
statue of Mohandas Gandhi, who
started his career as an advocate of
nonviolentprotesthere. Underapart
heid, there were only two “official
languages,” Afrikaans and English.
Today in South Africa, there are 11
official languages, including the lan
guages spoken by the Xhosa, Zulu,
Swazi and Tswana.
The new democratic government
has appropriately named June 16th
a national holiday, marking the an
niversary of the Soweto uprising.
When thousands of black children
took to the streets in 1976 to protest
the use of Afrikaans in their schools,
the brutal apartheid police opened
fire. In the next year, over 1,000
black children were executed, and
anti-apartheid leader Steven Biko
was viciously murdered by South
African security police.
President Mandela has renamed
December 16 asthe “Day of National
Reconciliation.” Perhaps South Af
rica can only become free from its
legacy of racism as it successfully
“rewrites” the history of the country.
FamM
oppression exists, therem
10 new monuments celebrating the
courageous struggles and sacrifices
of the African people.
Dr. Manning Marable is professor
of Historyanddirectorofthe Institute
Studies at Columbia University.
The following memorial column by the late J. Philip Waring was first published for
Augusta Focus on March 3, 1988. We are republishing it so that Mr. Waring's
admirers can reminisce and those who missed his columns can get a glimpse of
recent black history.
tional and regional levels, the
important printed materials and
the extremely necessary jet trans
portation, which shuttles the can
didate and his staff around the
nation. What Jesse has been able
to accomplish so far with so little
money is a testament to his supe
rior planning and organization.
Here in the CSRA the Augusta-
Richmond County Community
Action Committee(AßCCAC)and
afew otherindividuals and groups
have valiantly accepted the chal
lenge. Fortunately, however,
many dedicated volunteers,
church groups, etc. are stepping
forward to volunteer their time,
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Civil rights fund-raising dinner
Commissioner Henry Howard
has announced that a coalition of
Augusta Black leaders will honor
Phil Waring for his more than 50
years of leadership and service in
communications, Black history
and civil rights on March 5, 7:30
p.m. at the Paine College Student
Center. In addition to the timely
salute to Waring, funds raised
from the affair will be used for a
civil rights project. This will help
support the important legal suit
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brought last year by Black City
Council members Margaret
Armstrong, Kathleen Beasley and
Willie Mays, against the city to
dislodge the at-large voting sys
tem and institute ward voting.
(Councilman Ike Washington
has publicly stated his stand
against at-large voting and con
solidation).
It is pointed out that Augusta
has 16 members on its City Coun
cil, with only four Blacks. How
ever, there is a non-white popula
tion in the city at approximately
53 percent. This unjust and un
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able to accomplished was to get the
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fair election procedure has pre
vented Black citizen’s who have
won their wards from taking a
seat on the city council because
they were defeated by citizens who
resided in other wards.
The U.S. Dept. of Justice also
has a major anti-at-large suit
against the city. Still a third suit,
involving four Black city resi
dents, was set aside by local fed
eral magistrate Dunsmore.
Thiscolumn was originally pub
lished in the March 3, 1988 issue
of Augusta Focus, pages 4 and 12.
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