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& J. Philip Waring © daing Places > Memorial Column 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 ({.HIF" mm&:t;t situated on a 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, ~ with any *4O | cosmetic department " purchase y 2V 4%, ‘ L B Y el /g ® .A 4 » N ; : | eQ [ ' ‘ \\“ \“‘\. / - i ~, -‘ &/W‘ 7 @ ~ % ¢ -- e f . 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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 AUGUSTA FOCUS 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. 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