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"Alright Fellows It’s Your Turn”
Hs high time that men share the responsibility of curbing the
H’s high birth rate. For years women’s groups have accused
Horld’s scientific communities of deliberately dragging their
Hn development of some type of male contraceptive. Their
ftrted effort is the first since an Italian anatomist invented
Hondom in 1564 to control the complex male reproductive
Hie contraception has been an idea relegated to the back
Kr of scientific inquiry. But at the intense prodding of the
Ken Liberation movement it is a red hot must on the research
Idas all over the civilized world. The urgency has created a
■ medical specialty, given the name of andrology.
Rationally, pregnancy heretofore has been totally a woman’s
Kgss. Feminists contend that this attitude is shared by the
Kfity of male doctors, and this explains why so little scientific
on a male contraceptive had been done until the ladies went
■he warpath. Most of the nation’s practicing birth-control are
y by women. Most men simply get a free ride enjoying
Kselves.
■his new medical specialty, andrology is in its infancy, and is
Earned with male fertility in much the same manner as
Ecology has treated disorders of the female reproductive
Jem. Gabriel Bialy, chief of the Population Research Center’s
■traceptive-development branch had this to say: “Historically,
e. have been few people working on male reproduction, but
*s changing. Os course its not 50-50 yet, but we are working
it.” Now men appear to be rethinking their role in
traceptions. Vasectomy the male sterilization operation is
ling in popularity. This suggests that a great number of men
’(Stop being selfish in sex matters. Maybe the male population
‘jcoming a bit civilized.
!ome sociologists are trying to present a bright side to
isculine sexology. Dr. Donald Bogue, who directs the
iiversity of Chicago’s Family Study Center made this subjective
itement: “If there was a male contraceptive that was no more
:onvenient than the female pill, and the threat to health were
> greater, men would share the burden of contraceptive restraint
ually with women.”
The researchers’ optimism, however guarded-springs from a
Black Empowerment
By Dr. Nathaniel Wrigfa, Jr.
Israel’s False Friends
Black Americans recently were afforded a clear as crystal
xample of some major white American duplicity or shenanigans
i the official United States’ response to the United Nations’
zionism is racism” vote.
'•’’Any honest thinking observer could recognize several obvious
hings which that United Nations vote represented. Any political
malyst could tell you that it was designed primarily as a slap
igainst the United States. Many Third World nations feel strongly
hat they have been bullied and misued - whether they actually
rave been so treated or not -by the United States in the United
Mations forum. One must ask: Why otherwise than concerted
mice of anti-American resentment when so many nations which
differ so widely would join in such a vote? Our answers may
differ. But, the possibility of anti-American resentment, if not its
probability remains.
Perhaps most revealing about the whole somewhat tragicomic
fiasco was the fact that most of those who posed as Israel’s truest
or most trusted friends have doubtless been among its thorough
foes.
Why was the State of Israel founded? Most of the American
Jewish community has gone on record through its national
organizations as recognizing that the United States, Great Britian
and France did not want a post World War II mass influx of
Jewish refugees into their countries. Hence, they were willing to
put up massive amounts of money for the establishment of a
non-American and non-European “homeland for the Jewish
; people.”
It was only at this point that America’s perceived interests and
I those of Zionism converged. We have permitted almost unlimited
numbers of Polish and other Eastern European peoples into this
;country. Why, then the fear of permitting a fresh mass of Jewish
refugees after World War II?
The answer lies plainly in the fact of a strong strain of
anti-Semitism in our country. Black Americans should not be
misled, then, by the cries of “Outrage!” by the members of the
American Congress at the anti-Zionist United Nations vote. The
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Realtors Run To Suburbia
Gene Conatser, vice-president of Bank of America, told a
luncheon meeting of realtors he doubted that we will return to a
normal economic environment. Pointing out that housing starts
for 1975 will not even be 1.2 million, he said this is less than half
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series of promising new discoveries about the complex male
reproductive system. Scientists are exploring new ways to
interfere with the production, maturation or transportation of
the average of 80 million sperm contained in every ejaculation of
semen.
THE TIME IS HERE FOR THE MALE TO TAKE
HIS PLACE ON POPULATION RESPONSIBILITY
Dr. Philip Corfman, director of the federal Center for
Population: says “There’s a tremendous amount of work
blossoming in the area of male fertility control. We feel there’s a
great need for a modem male method of contraception.” Most
surely male contraception is an idea whose time has come. This
subject of male participation will develop as time goes by, change
is always a problem; but the hold back still rests with the
scientific community. The Women’s Liberation Movement has
most certainly heightened the interest in male contraception, and
that appears to reflect the changing relationship between the
sexes.
GOODBYE VASECTOMIES
In the future, men shall be able to practice family planning
using nonchemical means. One such device will be the “reversible
vasetomy”. The old type method of sterilization consists of an
operation involving cutting and tying the two vas deferens, the
tubes through which the sperm travels from the testicles to the
urinary tract. In case the man and woman change their minds
about having children; the new-breed of researchers would
implant a half-inch-long valve in one of the sperm tubes, and
when the couple decide they want a baby, the blocked tube is
reopened.
These “sperm switches” are being developed at about 12
American universities and private laboratories. Scientists at the
Illinois Institute of Technology’s Research Center in Chicago have
found that flexible silicone valves can successfully turn sperm
flow on and off in 95% of the experimental dogs in their study.
When the tubes are reopened the males can quickly impregnate
the females again, even though the sperm-count in the affected
tube is only one-fourth the pre-implant level. It will not be long
before men will be sharing their part of holding down the
population-explosion.
“anti-zionism” of the United States vote was perhaps a cover to
mask a growing anti-American resentment. But Israel’s true foes
may be among those who have claimed to be its friends.
We bring into evidence here the simple fact that America -
which has provided the lion’s share of Israel’s budget - could have
guaranteed Israel’s original (or pre-aggression) borders by entering
into an official peace treaty with the State of Israel. We have not
done so even today.
The absence of such a guarantee of Israel’s borders did more
than possibly anything else to force the State of Israel into an
unfortunate posture of “Aggressive defense”. In this light, the
much-heralded “shuttle diplomacy” of Henry Kissinger was just
one more among his vast assortment of “farcial feats” with which
he has saddled our State Department. A simple Israeli-U.S. peace
treaty could stop almost all of the Middle East unrest overnight.
What is said here is not new. It has long been precisley the
position of the World Council of Churches and of the present
leadership of the Vatican.
The voices in the U.S. Congress raised to question our future
support of the United Nations are the same voices which have
opposed the United Nations all along.
Let us make no mistake: There is a deep-seated and widespread
anti-semitic sentiment abroad in America. Our Jewish brothers
recognize this and perhaps a very small number may project
“Blacks as a problem” in order to scapegoat their own realistic
fears regarding themselves. This latter course would by deeply
understandable, if it is true.
Our first duty to ourselves as Black Americans is to be honest.
Without honest and realistic assessments, we cannot bring about
our own liberation and the needed cleansing of our country as a
whole.
The “anti-Zionist” United Nations vote on the surface was a
farce. But simple reflection indicates that it serves as a fair
warning that sly smiles and the hefty embrace may be the “Judas
talk and gesture” which reveal far more animosity than
friendship.
of new housing units in 1972.
The downturn of our economy, Conatser said, was produced
by inflation not government policy. The small group of realtors at
a syndication luncheon, comprised only a centime of the over
15,000 gathering of delegates to the National Association of
Realtors (NAR) 68th convention in San Francisco. Almost too
many of the nation’s largest trade and professional group of
nearly 500,000 members rubbed elbows to be addressed by Carla
Hills, Secretary of HUD.
John D. Thompson, president of the National Association of
Real Estate Brokers, Inc. (Black realtists) enjoy an audience of
considerably less than the cabinet members. This was unfortunate
for Mr. Thompson had an equally important message for the
membership. “Don’t go to the suburbs with government money.”
Brother Thompson placed the blame where it belongs in his
opening remark, “ears that tune out the undesirable and tune in
that which satisfies.” The realtors wanted to hear from Secretary
Hills high hopes for the white housing industry. She pleased her
audience by announcing $264.1 million impounded by Nixon was
released for housing. It is expected to subsidize more than
250,000 units of low-cost housing, generate $6.5 billion in
construction activity and create 500,000 new construction jobs.
In addition, HUD’s tandem program, mortgages that bear
interest rates below the going market rate, 7*/z percent vs nine
percent, on single-family mortgages is expected to aid 500,000
home buyers. A $35,000 mortgage holder, who is likely to be
white suburban saves about S2O a month under the program.
Thompson told his crowd to face up to issues and not forsake
the inner city cares for the alleged greener pastures of suburbia.
Unfortunately, Art Leitch, president of the NAR, was more
representative of the realtors. He suggested that some $5 billion
under the 1975 Emergency Housing Act be channeled into the
single-family home market which is predominately white, away
from the predominately Black used multi-family units of the
inner cities.
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By Vernon Jordan
Black Colleges Have Vital Role
One hundred presidents of predominately Black colleges
recently issued a call for a 25-year program of federal assistance
to bring those colleges the aid they need to close the education
gap between whites and Blacks.
While much attention has been paid to the constantly rising
numbers of Black youth entering college, the numbers of whites
have also risen, and the gap between the races is not closing.
Black professionals -- dentists, doctors, lawyers and others -
are still between one and two percent of their professions, and
the growing demand for Black graduates is nowhere near being
met.
The majority of Black college students attend the
predominately white colleges, but most graduates are from
predominately Black colleges. The reason is the high attrition rate
among Blacks in white schools, testifying to the traditional Black
college’s skill and experience in teaching young people from
disadvantaged backgrounds.
It is clear that the traditional Black college has an important
role to play in the future and the case for a federal program
designed to help these schools fulfill their historic mission is
overwhelming.
But doubts have arisen about the future status of a particular
group of historic Black colleges, the state-supported public
institutions founded as part of state segregated dual higher
education systems.
Because these schools are public, not private, they are now
under pressures that threaten their existence. The courts have
ruled, rightly, that dual educational systems have to be
dismantled and state-supported colleges integrated.
What then should become of the historic Black public college?
To integrate it to the point that it loses its character and those
unique qualities that made it so crucial an institution for the
Black community would be a tragic mistake. It would amount to
a death sentence that forces upon the victims of segregation the
burdens of integration.
gnBAYARD RUSTIN
The Campaign Against Dr. King
It is no surprise that J. Edgar Hoover hated Martin Luther
King, Jr. But even in this cynical age accustomed to dirty tricks
and deciet, it is shocking to learn the desperate and despicable
lengths Hoover and the FBI went to in order to destroy King.
During the time when I worked with Dr. King, we knew that
the FBI had sent spies into the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference and we suspected that we had been bugged as well. In
receht weeks it has been revealed that the FBI went much further
- that they organized and carried out a campaign designed to
destroy Dr. King.
The FBI tried to prevent the college from giving King an
honorary degree, they hatched a plan to keep the Pope from
granting him an audience, and tried to undermine the financial
support for the S.C.L.C.
The FBI did not stop at trying to destroy King as a civil rights
leader. Nor did they stop at a slanderous whispering campaign
planned to destroy Dr. King’s personal reputation. They went so
far as to send a note and tape recording to King in late 1964 in an
effort to drive him to suicide.
Paradoxically, the revelations about Hoover’s six-year
campaign to destroy Dr. King make it clear that it was not King’s
reputation that was damaged by this effort but the reputation of
Hoover and the FBI. Hoover’s suspicions about King, if they
could be called that, tell us more about him than about King.
Certainly in his latter years Hoover was a petty man, jealous of
his reputation, and deeply resentful of any criticism. It is unclear
what aroused Hoover’s suspicion of King, but perhaps it was the
very largness and charity of King’s character.
If it could be said that King and Hoover were foes the way in
which they conceived of their contest and the manner in which
they reacted to each other show the stark contrasts between the
quality of man that each was. While Hoover used a federal agency
to carry on a personal vendetta against King. Martin was engaged
in a great battle for social justice through non-violence and
Christian love.
One incident during my ten-year association with Dr. King
illustrates this difference. Apparently angered by Dr. King's
criticism of the FBI for appointing conservative agents to
The Augusta News-Review - December 11. 1975 -
It would be far wiser for desegregation to be managed in such a
way that the public traditional Black college, while integrating its
faculty and student bodies, retains strong Black leadership and
much of its historic orientation.
Most such schools are already more integrated than white
public colleges. Typically, an historic Black college now has over
10 percent of its student body and double that of its faculty who
are white. But the state universities that barred Blacks until
forced to admit them, that are now called “integrated” only
because their doors supposedly open to Blacks, have perhaps five
percent Blacks in their student body and a bare handful of Black
faculty.
Desegregation was a deceptive cover to dismiss Black school
principals and faculty so that white teachers could get their jobs
all over the South a decade ago. That can’t be allowed to happen
to the historic Black college. When we see Blacks appointed
presidents of major southern state colleges that had been white
strongholds, then it will be time enough to talk about white
leadership in the traditional Black public college.
But there’s an affinnative side too. Black colleges have
educated generations of poor kids other schools fail with. They
have developed an expertise and a successful tradition of quality
education that can enable them to educate future generations of
both whites and Blacks who are poor.
Many predominately white colleges have failed to educate both
Blacks and whites who are poor. So the traditional Black public
college is a national resource that holds the promise of serving an
integrated body neglected by other institutions.
Our country’s future educational needs are many and varied,
and strengthening the traditionally Black colleges can help to
fulfill those important needs. And within those traditionally
Black colleges, the public institutions that were bom in
segregation and are now being reborn into an integrated society
should be strengthened, expanded, and encouraged to retain their
historic identity.
investigate civil rights violations in the South, Hoover publicly
attacked Dr. King as the “biggest liar” in the country. Many of
King’s advisors myself included, urged Martin to make a
counterblast at Hoover, demanding that Hoover produce evidence
to back his charge.
But public denunciation was completely alien to Martin’s
character. When ever someone was in error and especially when
they wrongly attacked him, Martin always sought a personal
conference to attempt to reconcile the differences. Thus he met
with Hoover and asked the FBI chief to explain just what he had
done that Hoover considered decietful.
Hoover, of course, was unable to supply any basis for his
attack.
I don’t imagine that Martin would have been too alarmed at
the knowledge that the FBI was out to destroy him. What would
have disturbed him and what should disturb us today is that all
the time and effort devoted to tearing down King could have
saved the lives of many people who were killed during the great
crusade to gain civil rights.
The good that men do does live long after they have died. Dr.
King did much good in his life. It is our responsibility to make
sure that that good continues and that it be expanded. For what
King did will be regarded one hundred years from now as one of
the greatest contributions to mankind.
Martin took the strategy of non-violence a step even beyonf
Gandhi. He showed that is is possible for a minority using the
principles and tactics of non-violence to win concessions from the
majority, an effort Gandhi attempted but failed to achieve in
South Africa. . .
He showed that it is possible to secure justice and that it is
realistic to dream of a better world.
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