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The Augusta News-Review - December 13, 1973 - ■Walking M H With 11 ■Dignity ■ ■ by Al Irby I Mil BLACK JUDGES ARE TEACHING NOISY PROPONENTS OF SO-CALLED BLACK POWER THAT WILD HAIRDOS AND HATING WHITEY WILL NOT SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS. THEY SHOULD LEARN TO MANIPULATE THE ESTABLISHMENT TO THEIR ADVANTAGE, AND STOP PUTTING TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON SO-CALLED “BLACK STUDIES”. THE CRAZE FOR THIS DUBIOUS STUDY IS LOSING MUCH OF ITS COOL, ALL OVER THE NATION, AND THAI’S GOOD, BECAUSE THIS RACIAL SOPHISTRY WILL NOT GUARANTEE BLACKS JOBS IN A MULTIRACIAL SOCIETY. A BLACK DETROIT Federal District Judge demonstrated to Blacks in this country that their salvation lies within the musch abused American establishment. United States District Judge Damon Keith has given Black militancy something to ponder over. Judge Keith threw the legal book at the mighty Detroit Edison Co. The powerful Electric utility complex and two of its unions wer tabbed guilty of systematically discriminating against Blacks in hiring and promotion practices. Federal Judge Keith ordered sweeping changes in the company’s hiring and promotion of minorities, and founded the defendants 54.25 million in damages. Os course this Electric giant will most surely appeal, and maybe get this huge sum reversed, but don’t bet your last dollar on it. Not only this momentum ruling, but Judge Keith, in 1971, ruled that the President and the U.S. Attorney General did not have the right to bug or wiretap, without a court’s approval on anyone they believed was a domestic threat. The Supreme Court upheld the perspicacious judge’s ruling. This constitutional landmark made it possible to convict the Watergate gang. Jurists like Sirica and Keith are the types that safeguard our wobbling jurisdiction in these perilous days. Keith like most old-time Blacks in this country had to work his way through college. (The current porkbarrel grants weren’t in vogue at that time). He is 52 years of age and waited on tables at West Virginia State College, and like many Black jurists over the nation, is keeping the country legally sane. Judge Keith and many other Blacks on the federal bench were appointed by President Lyndon Johnson. In these days when one hears so much from young Blacks about “Black Power”, which is nothing but exaggerated senseless rhetoric. Black youths-could learn much from Justice Marshall, Judges Hastie, Aubrey and Spottswood Robinson, and many more Black jurists that most Black people know nothing about. But Brother, talking about Black power, these Black judges demonstrate the real Black Power, and they do not go around spreading a barrel of empty loud-mouth verbosity. When they speak the nation listens because they got something IN their heads, instead of a mop of braided hair ON their heads. Blacks who have visited Africa report that the natives break-down laughing at Black Americans’ wild hair-dos that we call Afros. Nothing can take the place of preparing one’s mind for a better life. The beer halls and pool parlors nor shaking one’s buttocks to weird-o rock music will get Blacks to the “promise land”. The emphasis on race is beginning to pass; that’s why the Hon. Maynard Jackson was elected mayor of Atlanta, he didn’t get there by balling. CARL ROWAN, the national syndicated columnist made this pithy observation about impotent “Black Power”: “Notice, if you will, that the Black practitioners of street violence, and barber shop blabber-mouthism can be locked up-legally or illegally. The blabbermouths, who talked about power when they really had none, have been runned out of the country, pounded into silence or brought into submission. But the bevy of Federal Judges are still exercising powers that nobody in the country can ignore. Or consider that White House “enemies list” of recent notoriety. Who was on it from Black America? Members of Congress who got their power by working in the political system and winning the blessings of the electorate. “And, I say with whatever immodesty is required, also on the list was Carl Rowan, who won a reasonable right to sound off on the printed pages around the nation by beating the journalistic bustlings and enduring the sacrifices of public service the way others in he journalistic “establishment” have done it for generations.” What the hard-hitting columnist is really saying to those Blacks is that he understands their anger, hopelessness, and despair, but nobody, Black or white ever gains meaningful power through empty angrey rhetoric. Young Blacks must learn more about the members of their race like Judge Keith, who fought his way up from dire proverty to crash the white man’s establishment to a place of Jurisprudent prominence. Black people are on he threshold of a greater life, if they are willing to take on all comers in he battle of first-class survival. Judge Keith’s father worked at Ford Motor Co. for five bucks a day, even that was progress compared to the time when the family was on welfare. But today, Judge Keith is a force to be reckoned with. When he speaks great corporate giants come to attention; he is the power of law with all its awesome ramifications. Judge Keith as a student was surely aware of his aims in life and went after it. In law where many of his race had excelled, he followed suit. Young Keith was cognizant that Black people’s sure pathwya would be realized through jurisprudent channels. Young Blacks must avoid all phony methods of so-called revolutionaries, and commit themselves to useful vocations and academic excellence. Young Blacks could do well to absorb some of the stoicism of ancient Sparta, and adhere to this poem of inspiration. “DON’T QUIT-When things go wrong, as they sometimes will. When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill. When the funds are low, and the debts are high, and you want to smile, but you have tto sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit. Rest, if you must, BUT PLEASE DON’T QUIT.” BY ALL MEANS, KIDS, GET THAT DIPLOMA-AMEN. THE AUGUSTA NEWS-REVIEW PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Mallory K. MKlender Editor and Publisher Mailing Address: Box 963 Augusta, Ga. Phone 722-4666 Second Class Postage Paid Augusta, Ga. 30901 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance One Year in Richmond County ..... $5.00 tax ipcl. 6 Months $2.50 tax incl. One Year elsewhere $6.00 tax incl. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Classified Advertising Deadline 12 noon on Tuesday 1 Display Advertisin' .-adlinf. 12 noon On Tuesday 1 'emsPrinted Free Page 4 ' ► TOBE EQUAL BY VERNON E. JORDAN, JR. U t THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: THE FAILURES Research reports about the system of criminal justice are pouring off the presses in ever-increasing numbers and they all add up to one big fact that everyone intimately connected with the police, prisons and courts knows all too well -- that the system has broken down and is a failure. Just consider the findings of three reports issued within days of each other recently: : A federal panel, the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, reports that prisons are “obsolete, cannot be reformed, should not be perpetuated”. Stop building prisons, the Commission says, and give offenders light sentences that place them in work-release programs and in the hands of community-based agencies. : A Police Foundation study of police deployment in Kansas City concluded that saturation patrols by uniformed cops in marked vehicles does not reduce crime. Target areas were regularly patrolled by one car, the city’s standard patrol method, by four cars, its saturation patrol, and a control area that had no regular patrol at all - police just responded to calls. Wliat happened? Believe it or not, the biggest increase in crime was reported in the district that was constantly patrolled by four cars. The standard one car patrol district had a slight rise in crime over the last year. And the no-patrol area actually had a decrease in reported crime. : A special blue-ribbon panel in New York condemned the system of caring for juvenile delinquents. They said the system provides no services for children most in need, there is no equal access to care and treatment, and “racism consciously or unconsciously, pervades the child care system”. These reports explode some of the myths held by most people about crime and its prevention. Most people think that bigger prisons and longer sentences will make the streets safer. That’s fantasy. Prisons only work for the people who get contracts to construct them and the civil servants who work in them. Typical sentences are already longer than in most other countries. All prisons seem to be able to do is to teach younger inmates how not to get caught again. They don’t deter crime; they increase the probability of its rise by embittering convicts, by refusing to provide treatment and training, and by treating human beings like caged animals. So current state and federal plans for spending several billion dollars on bigger and better prisons amount to a fantastic waste of money, energy and human lives. An even stronger myth is the one about how all it takes to cut crime is to put more cops on the street. The Kansas City test throws some cold water on that one, too. Over half of all crimes occur indoors -- out of view of street patrol cars. It is safe to say that an investment :r> community agencies and police-community relations could prevent many crimes from being committed. From a long-range view, the condemnation of the juvenile justice system is most important. The picture is one of neglect of detained children -- no training, no visible attempts at dealing with their problems, and racial distinctions all along the line. Since much of the crime rise in recent years is directly attributable to the fact that there are more and more people in the younger age groups that tend to run afoul of the law, the best way to cut crime is to adopt constructive youth programs. The lack of services and the constant resort of caging young offenders only insures that kids who could be put on the right track are deflected onto a course that will lead to future, more serious s h li li __ nffiMLw... A |pas| ar Sears ? W? l| IWW ***[*? 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Sam Greenlee, the Black author of the book and producer of the movie, is to be commended for a truly “Black” presentation. “The Spook” is a viable story about the possibility of a violent Black revolution in this country. It is frightening because the possibility of a bloody revolution is real in view of our current racial upheavals. I suggest that interested perons read the book and see the movie for themselves. The possibility that this fictional movie may become non-fiction in real life is another indication that those of us who wish to avoid this reality must address ourselves to contemporary social problems. One cannot help but feel sad about the war on poverty being just a brief skirmish against poverty America. The problem of the poor and the hungry are just as great today as when the late President Lyndon B. Johnson fired the first shot of the “War”. Conditions are even worse today because, among other things, the fight against poverty will take a long time to win. The hopes and expectations of the poor were raised and they were left to eat empty promises by a nation that has no real commitment to them. I am not just talking about the unemployed poor but the working poor also. The Middle-class and the rich raked the cream off the money battle front of the “war” and left the poor with the empty pan to lick in desperation. For example, some large American corporations got huge consulting fees to “help” solve a problem they know little and care less about. It is interesting to note that the current contrived energy crisis coupled with inflation will cause a lot of people in this country to know what it means to be among the “havenots”. The rapidly coming economic recession is symptomatic of the democratic oppression and suppression waged daily in this country. The rich and super-rich governing or ruling class in this country is responsible for our current sad and tragic plight. The average citizen in the country, both Black and non-Black, must become aware of how our economic and political systems really function in contrast to the rip-offs under the guise of red, white and blue misguided patriotism. For example, most of us grow up with an idealistic notion of American history that is contrary to fact. We only learned later what rascals most of the so-called “founding fathers” were much to our disatisfaction. The economic and political rascals in this country are leading us down the primrose path where there will be many spooks sitting by doors. The tragedy of that is that both Black and non-Black will suffer needlessly. A bloody revolution in this country could only lead to increased Black genocide and the death of a democratic system that could have been saved. Hopefully, we can all see the handwriting on the walls of our times. Also, we must do what is right and seek truth for righteousness and truth as values in themselves are greatly needed. Is it possible that justice can roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream in this country? Harambee!! offenses. So the present criminal justice system is one big failure. But crime is an ever-present danger that still has to be dealt with. In next week’s column I’ll make some suggestions about how to make our communities safer. NttD,EXTRACOHES_ onyfag the Newe-Bevfew. Then to a dtorawt m mteriptiotis purchaaed through time mewhnf Colonial Inn variety Food Store - 1341 Augusta Ave. Wrightsboro Rd. - Variety Plata • PrO ?> , ?s tV A Grocery - tOr " One Hour Martinizing 1223 Augusta Ave. 3226 Wrightsboro Rd. Cho tnut Minit Market "'TX. Food 1601 Chestnut St 9541% Wheeler Rd. Chur eh SupplM. 1301 11th St 3109 Washington Rd. 4 Jareli’s Curb Market 1206 Gwinnett St Wellington Rd. across from J.B. Whites Honky Tonk Record & Boutique warn gx o Market B So2 n N°jXs?*' EAST BOUNDARY E KUI r.P. C k«>.Shop O*. VIHW. Apth 627 Ninth St 104CepltalSt C W. Woo s Grocery Store William's Quick Chek Supermarket 1001 Ninth St 839 Ea,t Boundary Leßa's House of F ine Millinery The Corner Store 217 Ninth St 336 Sand Bar Ferry Rd. Turner's Wig Palace Kentucky Fried Chicken 211 Ninth St 426 Eest Boundary Turner’s Boutique & Beauty Salon Clean-Rite Cleaners 215 Ninth St 833 East Boundary Palace Diner Shady Nook 827 Ninth St F irst A Telfair Street Blaylock Food Store GREATER CSRA 1359 Ninth St Floyd's Grocery Hill's Food Store 302 Hwy 26, N. Aug., SC 848 Ninth St Mart Minute Store Anderson's Clothing Store 3319 Washington Rd., Martinet 1599 Old Savannah Rd. CulpepP« r * a Super Market Tutt's Grocery Store Washington Hwy - Thomson 1614 Old Savannah Rd. jaw - IGA Food Store Williford Cleaners Hwy 88 next to Post Office- Hephzibeh 426 428 Eighth Street Kimberly Grocery High Hat Package Shop Hwy 26 Hephtibeh 1601 Old Savannah Rd. Hephtibeh Pharmacy Hill's Food Store next to Post Office In Hephtibeh 1232 Wrightsboro Rd. Aiken Drugs Sarah's Place 101 Laurens St SW Aiken 1702 Broad St Budget Food Ince. Hildebrandt's Food Store Main St Harlem 226 Sixth St Woodruss Drug Store Strickland Grocery Mitchel Shopping Center - Aiken 422 S Third St Newman's Garage & Grocery Jones' Variety Store No. 2 Hwy No. 1- Wrens 1237 13th St Davis Case Sandors Quality Signs Broad St - Louiwille 1139 12th St Davis Used Cars & Mobile Homos Pick nays Salos & Service Hwy No. 1 ByPass Loulwille 1257 12th St Mayflower Restaurant Sims Cleaners Main St Wrens 1514 12th St Harley's Curb Market Spur Gas Station Hwy No. 1 Blythe 1127 Twiggs St Dolmac Minit Market KAW Package & Dry Cleaners 601 E 6th St Waynesboro 1216 Twiggs St Mock's Grocery Store Walker Street Grocery Cherokee St Thomson 220 Walker St Bi-Rite Food Store No. 4 Stop A Shop Package Store Main St Allendale 1406 15th Wrightsboro Rd. Warren's Drugs Inc. Welker Grocery Store Mam St R R A ve Allendale 1708 15thSt Big-Q-D iocount Most Sevon-E levon Stores 106 Main St Allendale Throughout the Augusta Area Brinson's Curb Market F ** ,on * 606 W 6th St Hwy 56 Waynesboro 1008 Broad Street Brown's Grocery ■><>*•• Beauty Salon Rt _ , Box 176A Ewant 1376 Gwinnett St Connor's Grocery Quality Record Shop Rl , Evans 1026 Brood Street Community Groceries Danny s Superette Rt , Box 2 15 Appling Fifth A Telfeir Jim's Save A-Lot Grocery .Chari* «L 1 Box 44 Hwy 301 Sylvania 1036 Ninth St. -Wall's MmlfMert Corley's Sea Food Rt 7 Box 7 H wy 21 Sylvania 2239 Milledgeville Rd. Young's Exxon Station A Grocery Eighth St. Grocery 1024 Sand Bar Ferry Rd B,ech Island 1102 Bth St 3333 otd Savannah Rd. Manhattan Case Mack's Minit Mart 701 Ninth St 3402 Poach Orchard Rd. Hwy 26 Mims Grocery Mayfield’s Exxon 81 Gro. Store 1712 Old Savannah Rd. M ain St Mayfield B.L. Wong Kent Super Market 1101 Harrison at Hopkins St Main St Staplenton Clean Rite Cleaners No. 1 Henderson's Shopping Center 1626 Old Savannah Rd. Powolton Ave. Sparta Tutt's Friendly Grocery Richardson Grocery 1436 Brown St East Hwy 15 Sparta Ed's Curb Market Ivory's Case 1245 TwiggsSt 201 Greenway St Thomson Waylam Grocery Barry's Date Room Club & Restaurant 1327 Twiggs St 1832 old Savannah Rd. at Molly Pond Rd. ■NELLIEVILLE & HYDE PARK Curtis Drugs Down Beat Grocery 1596'/> Lindon St 177 Aregon Dr. Thrifty's Laundry & Groc. Larry’s Market 1601 Lindon St 1670 15th St Nearby Groc. Store Pate s Package shop 1601 Lucky Street 2102 Milledgeville Rd. Family Groc. Store Jim’s Supermarket 1402 Tutt Ave. 2056 Milledgeville Rd. Irving's Super Market Wan's Food Store 2029 Old Savannah Rd. 2035 Milledgeville Rd. T(rna Saver Food Market Unity Supermarket 3351 Paach Orchard Rd. 2301 Milledgeville Rd. H & C Grocery Tuffys Restaurant 3147 p WBC h Orchard Rd. 2061 Milledgeville Rd. ueroys Superette Ono Hour Mortimiing 1859 Centr ,| Ave. 2305 Milledgeville Rd. Williford's Cash & Carry Market Intimo Lounge & Package Shop o r om hwv 88 1815 Milledgeville Rd. B rvnwoo d Phormecy Nu-U-Hopkins Wigs & Beauty Solon 7 Walton Way 2138 K Milledgeville Rd. y Economy Rexall Drugs BARTON CHAPEL Milledgeville Rd. Williamsburg Plazo Exotic Supper Club Sights and Sounds Lightening Mill Rd. Harlem Milledgeville Rd. Williamsburg Plaza Barton Village Package Shop Gin's Market Barton Chapel Rd. 1959 Milledgeville Rd Honky Tonk Record & Boutique No 2 Roberts Grocery & Snack Bar 101 Sand Bar Farry Rd 2064 Old Savannah Rd. Novelty Bar Sky view Package Store 7 Gwinnet St 1718 Olive Rd. Richard's Lounge Olivo Rd. Laundromat & Car Wash 2 q 2 East Boundary 1730 Olivo Rd. Van's Package Shop Del Morocco Club 120 Sand Bar Ferry Rd. 2066 Walnut St Tommie's Market Bonnie's Drive In 202 Telfair 191 Bowles Drive Tom Wong's Grocery Willis Grocery 1790 Milledgeville Rd. 2315 Old Savannah Rd. Borry't Da tar oom CAR Sherwood Curb Market Old Savannah & Molly Pond Rd. 3106 Old Savannah Rd. Southside Betuty Salon ’ ‘ Cantrell's Grocery 2013 Old Savannah Rd. 2507 Meadow Brook Or. Variety Food Store No. 1 Mt Zion Apt Office 903 Ninth St 2445 Amsterdam Dr. C&C Grocery Trinity Manor Apt Office 1231 Ninth St 2375 Barton Chaoel Rd. Leila's Beauty Salon BELLEMEADE & FLEMING HEIGHTS 1238 S Ninth Street SAP Curb Market Danny's Superette 8032 Deans Bridge Rd. Hwy No. 1 Fifth A Telfair Quick Shop Store Family Groc. Store 2877 Deans Bridge Rd. *402 Tutt Ave. Deal's Curb Market Nearby Grocery Golden Camp A Milledgeville Rd. 1601 Lucky St Handyland Food Store Bentley's Pharmacy Inc. Milledgeville Rd. Carmell Plaza 2529 Peach Orchard Rd. Handyland Food Store Callaway's Wheeless A Milledgeville Rd. 1633 Georgia Ave. - N. Augusta Fryer's Barber Shop May Parks Pharmacy 740 Gibson Or. at Golden Camp Rd. 103 Clearwater Rd. - Belvedere Kwickie Food Store No. 38 Sunset Grocery Golden Camp A Gibson Rd. 1602 15th St Greenway Curb Market Griffin's Grocery 1869 Gordon Hwy 1672 Margan St at Garlington Ave. Ealy's Texaco Station Merita Bakeries 2899 Deans Bridge Rd. Hwy No. 1 1665 Olive Rd. THE HILL The Doggie Restaurant White Horse Package Shop 2331 Milledgeville Rd. 497 Berkman Rd. Johnson s Grocery A Gays LAN Grocery Rl 2 Box 71 Gordon Hwy 602 Monte Sano Ave. r W SffiMKr HrJV '** B **"* ■ -s® f kVwL> s W J IL W ' ■ / !•' CLARENCE£■ LIGHTNER F RALEIGH, N£. MAYNARD W. JACKSON atlanta,georgia newly Jt Wi ELECTED MAYORS ®B * AMERICANS IB* O RESPECT ANP . . iW responpto T?v r political poker, y A POLITICAL POWER \ INFLUENCES PUBLIC POUCYATALL LEVELS IF POWER CHANGES PEOPLE. M / IP POWER DOES NOTAT ONCE (^„A CHANGE THE HEARTS OF MEN, IT CAN INDEED CHANGE THE WAY THE HEARTS RESPOND." LAWS CAN HELP ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO RE-THINH AND CHANGE THEIR POSITIONS INORDER TO PROTECT THEIR SELF INTEREST," SENATOR EDWARD BROOKE SYMBOLS OF BLACK POLITICAL MATURITY