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Revolutionaries,
radicals & the ’burbs
was raised in the oldest all
Black incorporated town in
As a youngster in the late 1960 s |
remember going to Black Pan
ther meetings and being taught
what it meant to be committed to
my people. | was raised a revolu
tionary, jean suit, afro, hippie
chain and all.
Later in life | got married, went
to college with my wife, we had
three children in the process, and
continued to live a committed life.
We finished college, went on to
graduate school, got our terminal
degrees and moved in the ‘hood in
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania |
pastored a small inner city church
and my wife worked as a Certified
Public Accountant in a major ac
counting firm
We grew into true liberative
consciousness in the ‘hood. Living
in the *hood as an adult helped me
understand the complexities of
the struggle. | saw things that |
didn't see as a kid. Moreover,
being a sociologist and a preacher
made my adult experience more
enlightening. As a kid living in
the ‘hood was no big deal After
going to college, making a little
money, and having an option
about where to hive, moving to the
‘hood was a product of our com
mitment. It was real Living in
the ‘hood gave me a contextual
sense of being involved and con
nected with the liberation of my
people. We lived in the ‘hood the
early part of our careers then we
came to a crossroads, time to relo
cate.
We moved from Pittsburgh to
Augusta Georgia. We moved from
the inner city to the suburbs' |
had all kinds of crazy thoughts
about the suburbs and the people
who lived there. The suburbs, the
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By The Rev. Dr. ,-'..
the sellouts'! We moved to the
suburbs, the suburbs. What was
going to happen to our commit
ment? How were we going to de
down ? How can a revolutionary
exist in the suburbs? Had | ceased
to be a revolutionary”?
What 1s an African-American
family that lives in the suburbs
are they traders” No, ifone makes
this choice to live in a certain
space it does not necessarily sig
nal retreat from the struggle
What it does signal is a need to
make a concerted effort to con
tinue to be connected, caring and
conscious of being a part of the
larger African American commu
nity. | believe that I have ma
tured from being a voung idealis
tic revolutionary into a new revo
lutionary radical A new radi
cal 18 one who lives out their com
mitment to the struggle in new
and creative ways
For new radicals it takes a con
scious intentional effort to be true
to the struggle. It will not come as
easy as it once did and it will not
be the same. It calls on us to be
radicalsin the new spaces in which
we live, in the context of a
reconfigured Black community.
New radical must continue to
travel back to the ‘hood, literally,
to stay connected and involved
New radicals don't have the op
tion of making the suburbs ha
vens of isolation. When true revo
lutionaries move to the suburbs,
;lyi ‘becgn:- new revolutionary
Fadicalg and not sellouts.
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®Volunteers are vital
part of local effort
to make sure all local
area residents are
counted.
By Timothy (ox
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
Because too many people were
not counted in the 1990 census,
the Augusta area lost over S9O
million in federal monies, accord
ing to local Census Bureau statis
tics. Sol Walker, chairman of the
Mayor's Complete Count Com
mittee, 1s determined not to let
that happen again.
Walker leads a volunteer effort
to ensure Augusta-Richmond
County gets its fair share of gov
ernment funds, and he's adamant
in his efforts to make people aware
of how important it i 8 to be
counted
“Our primary objective is to sup
port the U.S. Census Bureau's
effort to get the most complete
count for Augusta and Richmond
County,” said Walker. His com
mittee, comprised of eight sub
committees, will utilize various
media sources and public service
announcements torelay the mes-
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and Wendy Brown, volunteer committee wo i
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sage that participating in Census
2000 1s critical
Walker's group is solely ded
cated to publicity and informing
the public. Census counters or
enumerators will start the pro
cess of physically combing neigh
borhoods to access residents who
may not have mailed in forms for
whatever reasons, Walker said
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