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The Augusta News-Review - October 20, 1977 -
Walking with dignity
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This “CAT” Bakke is a par-excellence
phoney from far back. To prove this
assertion, the Davis Medical School had
admitted 36 whites with lower grades
than Bakke. Yet this faker did not object
to their admission. Bakke claims that he,
by the simple act of applying to medical
school, was discriminated against because
the University of California at Davis
Medical School reserved 16 slots for
minority and disadvantaged students.
Bakke is a tool of reactionary forces in
America that are pledged to reduce the
status of American Blacks to pre-1954.
The overwhelming majority of persons
admitted to the Davis Medical school
indubitably have always been white. Thus
Bakke applied to, and was rejected by, a
school with a top-heavy white student
body. This policy that gave a special
admissions program for minorities, (not
Black particularly) was in recognition of
the preference given whites, allowing
them sole rights to the regular admissions
program. Yet they bellyache with the
whole-wide world in their possession
ONLY SIX WERE BLACKS
Os the 16 non-whites eventually set
aside for “Affirmative Action", (designed
by the courts to desegregate the class),
ONLY (6) WERE BLACKS. Now dig
this, all of the white students admitted to
the medical school were qualified, yet the
faked martyr, Mr. Bakke, made no
objection. All of the non-whites, 36 in
all, had lower grades than Allan; yet he
did not oobject to their admission ahead
of him, WHY?
Bakke was rejected by 12 other
medical schools, some that admitted
mighty few, if any, Blacks. HAVE
THESE TWELVE MEDICAL SCHOOLS
DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THE
SLICK MR' BAKKE? In spite of the
baffling foot-work of Allan Bakke and his
slimy colleagues, the issue is crystal clear.
There is a heinous conspiracy in certain
quarters of American life to stifle and set
back equal rights and worst of all Black
education.
Michael Meyers, the alert assistant
director of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
(NAACP) with his well-known
perspicuity made this pithy observation:
“The fundamental interest of the state is
not to legitimatize Bakke’s claim of
discrimination but to assure Blacks equal
opportunities-the opportunity to stand
as equals in a predominantly white
society. When the laws refused to
recognize Blacks as first-class citizens, we
begged America to color-blind. They
refused. Now, we have laws to help Black
people overcome racism. This is a time to
take race into consideration as a means of
correcting and overcoming racist
practices that have kept Black people
down.”
Anyone can claim they’re
“disadvantaged” or that they are victims
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fe.
Anyone who has ever experienced the
grim middle-of-the-night toothache
knows how a sufferer will grasp for
straws in his quest for a pain reliever until
the dentist can be reached.
Toothache has been called one of the
three or four most unbearable pains in
man. The problem is usually decay
destroying the tooth.
Toothache is not the same as the pain
experienced when you sip hot or cold
drinks, suck in cold air or eat sweet, sour
or acidy foods. This is a hypersensitive
tooth and almost everyone has had one
of these “tender teeth” in his life.
Children's teeth especially are sensitive to
abrupt temperature and taste changes.
True toothache is an intense pain in
the tooth or jaw. It can begin for no
apparent reason, from eating hot or cold
foods or from the pressure of chewing.
A swollen jaw and some fever
accompanying the toothache usually
means an abscess has formed. In an
abscess, the decay has eaten through the
pulp and has infected the gums and hard
tissue below. A pocket of pus may form
adjacent to the tooth root.
The first thing to do when you have a
toothache is to call the dentist. There are
several ways to make the pain more
bearable until the dentist can be reached,
although none will take the pain away
completely.
Because many people who hurt often
look first to home or “folk" remedies, let
us explore several ways not to treat a
toothache.
Probably the most dangerous home
remedy for relieving the pain of
toothache is placing an aspirin directly on
the aching tooth or allowing it to dissolve
Bakke—new
Dred Scott
- By Al Irby
Dentistry and you
What not to do
for a toothache
By Dr. W.J. Walker
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of discrimination. But everyone knows
that Black people have been
disadvantaged and discriminated against
for no other reason than the color of
their skin.
THE MODERN-DAY “DRED SCOTT"
DECISION
Don’t kid yourself, the Bakke case is a
prototype of the infamous 'Dred Scott
decision of 1896, which established the
scurrilous doctrine of “separate but
equal”.
One stroke of the High Tribunal’s pen
can liquidate most of the gains of the
civil Rights movement as was the case of
the Reconstruction period, which
sacrificed four million helpless Black
Americans to white night-riding
terroristic racism. And all of this came
about, because of one greedy white
American male, acting true to his
arrogant species.
THE HIGH COURT may again be guilty
of vagueness as it was in Brown vs Board
of Education of Topeka.
The Court, instead of ordering all
schools to desegregate, “Forth With . it
ordered that they be desegregated, “With
All Deliberate Speed". A turbulent 25
years later Black children are still
agonizing under the legal truculence of
ambiguity. The Bakke case could follow
the same precedent. Organized Jewry,
with a hand full of Blacks that follow its
line, has taken a position against us with
the bias “Sophistry” that affirmative
action to remove the infamy of 400 years
of white brutalization is all wrong and
unconstitutional. They contend that
preferential treatment to achieve a
specific goal is not to the way Americans
think.
THIS IS THE GROSEST KIND OF
FALLACIOUS REASONING - All
whites have received preferential
treatment from time immemorial in all
areas of American life. Until the passage
of the 1954 desegregation law,
discrimination in favor of whites at all
professional schools was universally
recognized as an established procedure.
Bakke is crying his crocodile tears, when
it is a well-known fact that most medical
schools reserve 10 per cent of their slots
for Blacks, and 90 per cent for whites.
Organized American Jews should be
ashamed of themselves to line up on
Bakke's side; when the facts prove, that
Jews are the greatest beneficiaries of
“PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT” in
history. The creation of Israel by the
Western powers was based on preference
of past injustices perpetrated by the
Germans and others. America particularly
gave “preferential treatment” to Israel. If
the Bakke case runs to true American
form as THE DRED SCOTT AND
BROWN” cases; latge numbers of Blacks,
apprentices and employes in big
corporations and cities, will find
themselves among the unemployed.
in the mouth. Aspirin can irritate the
gum and actually burn the oral tissue.
Aspirin is an effective pain reliever but
it must work within your system. It must
enter your bloodstream to do any good.
One of the most popular folk remedies
is swishing a mouthful of whiskey around
the aching tooth. This will not relieve
pain at all unless taken in massive doses.
The reason people sometimes think the
whiskey does relieve tooth pain is that
the alcohol burns the gums and by
contrast the tooth seems to hurt less.
On the positive side, there are several
things you can do to make the pain more
bearable. Aspirin taken with plenty of
water is your first friend.
Children may be given one-to-four
baby aspirin, with dosage depending on
the child’s age and weight. Adults should
take two aspirin. Patients with stomach
problems should consider some
alternative such as tylenol. The dosage
may be repeated every three or four
hours, four or five times a day.
Oil of clove, sold in drugstores, also is
of help. Saturate a small cotton ball with
the oil and with a tweezer gently pack
the wet cotton into the cavity.
If the pain stops suddenly, it does not
mean that the tooth has cured itself. See
your dentist immediately regardless. A
tooth allowed to form an abscess can
cause very serious consequences and can
even lead to loss of life if allowed to
persist without treatment.
Decay causes toothache, and decay can
be prevented through good dental care.
Maybe you have had a toothache. Your
cnild need never know the meaning of
the word if you start him now on an
effective program of oral hygiene.
AMERICAS CONSCIENCE I
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A LONG WALK ON A SHORT PIER
Going places
Blacks making
political strides
1— By Philip Waring 11 ■■■■
We noted strides along the political
front during the past month New York
State Assembly-man Arthur Eve topped
four opponents to become front runner
in the mayoral race at Buffalo,
N.Y....Alpha men and others will rejoice
that Judge Ernest “Butch” Mortal won
front primary honors and now stands
chance of becoming our first mayor of
New Orleans.... Congratulations to
Maynard Jackson on his magnificant
victory
With 33,998 Blacks out of the
Columbia, S.C. population, they have
never had member of the city council....A
Federal judge, thank God, is studying
details of a class action suit to
reapportion and enlarge the city
councilA Federal Judge has already
ordered adjustments and enlargement of
the Albany, Ga. city council.... What gives
in Augusta where over half the people are
Black, but occupy only 5 of the 16 city
council seats?
HRC MOVES DESPITE LACK OF
POWERS
Kudos to HRC Executive Director
Charles Walker for “telling it like it is” in
the recent front page N-R feature.... This
astute human rights professional put his
finger on one of the major problems --
minimum involvement by white churches
and local colleges Also the need for
forward thrusts in race relations in the
Augusta area as well as need for Black
leaders to speak out as needed
My salutes to both Rev. Dr. Charles
Hamilton of the Civil Service Commission
and Lt. H. Johnson of the Police Dept,
on tire urgent need to employ and
upgrade more Black policemen (Last
week a Federal judge awarded the
Afro-American Police Association and
several of its members thousands of
dollars because of unfair treatment by
the Chicago Police Dept.)
Incidentally, our Human Relations
Commission has made significant strides
in several areas despite the lack of legal
and enforcement powers (the bail bond
and criminal justice systems are strong
and well build-in institutions) Let’s
actually inform ourselves more about the
HRC, its goals, services, as well as
liminations, etc., and then give it
support
MAY THEY REST IN PEACE
Over the summer three dear friends
passed into The Great Beyond
BRUCE MACK, civic leader and
churchman, gave stellar service and
leadership at Springfield Baptist Church
for over 50 years....l shall always
remember with appreciation his very fine
assistance when my brother Andrew
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passed....
MRS.ELLEN HARPER CAMPBELL,
member of a pioneer Augusta family,
lived and passed in Detroit. She and her
late husband, Comeilus Campbell, resided
there since the end of World War 11. Both
were childhood friends in
Augusta.... Ellen, a graduate of Haines
Institute, was also a member of Union
Baptist church... She was a lovely person
indeed
MRS. RUTH MARTENBOROUGH, a
teacher in the Richmond County Public
Schools for more than 40 years, was also
a life-time member and leader at historic
Trinity C.M.E. Church. ..She was a
storehouse of knowledge about Augusta
history....! am indepted to Ruth and the
late Mrs. Laura Harper for inspiring me to
research and write on this subject
BLACK HISTORIC SERIES TO
RESUME
As aforementioned the “Blacks Who
Helped Build Augusta” historic series will
resume during this month The first
two will include Mrs. Julia Smith Horton
and her daughter, Mrs. KJ; Millsap, both
of whom have give tremendous service in
the teaching of secretarial and business
subjects to Blacks in Augusta ..The next
will be about the late Mr. Ananias Green,
who operated one of the first and largest
mattress factories in the South....(Will
Mrs. Millsap and Mrs. Evelyn Green
Screen kindly get pictures of those
parents to Publisher Mai Millender)
As previously mentioned, this series
belongs to the community and this
column is anxious to secure suggestions
and nominations of past and previous
persons to feature The series will tell
young people “where they came
from” This is the Augusta version of
“Roots”...
BLACKS STILL SHORT IN POLITICAL
OFFICES
Thanks to the Voter Rights Act of
1965 millions of Blacks have been
enrolled into the voting process where
previously economic and social pressures
prevented same The Voter Education
Project of Atlanta told us last week that
2,129 Blacks held office in the
South....This represents, however, only
2.6 per cent of the total 79,000 for the 11
state region...We are 12 per cent of the
total national population, yet hold less
than 3 per cent of offices.... Many of our
white friends constantly tell us “we are
moving too fast”...“have patience, things
will work out 0.k., etc.” The best
answer is to institute the class action civil
rights suits as was done in Columbia,
S.C.. Mobile, Ala., and Albany, Ga
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President Carter had an eduational
experience recently, and hopefully it will
spur him to revise his Administration’s
priorities and begin a head-on assault on
the problems of the inner-cities.
The President went to the South
Bronx, one of the most blighted urban
neighborhoods in the country, but
typical of many. The section is a symbol
of urban neglect, of poverty, and of the
wasted lives and blasted hopes of millions
of people.
The President walked through the slum
streets. He walked across desolate
man-made urban deserts that looked as if
they’d been pounded by B-525. He saw
burnt-out buildings standing amid the
rubble. And most important, he talked to
some of the people there giving them new
hope that the President cares about their
plight.
According to news reports, he was
appalled by what he saw. He talked about
rehabilitating the South Bronx’s decrepit
housing stock and of turning its open
areas into recreational facilities.
But that’s just part of the problem. It's
not enough to rebuild some houses or to
pepper the area with playgrounds. The
South Bronx didn't become what it is
because of the state of its housing or the
lack of play areas.
Like other urban slums, the South
Bronx has decayed because the people
living there don’t have decent jobs at
decent wages. As one young man called
to the President and his party: “Carter,
give us jobs.”
With jobs, people will be able to afford
to upgrade their housing. They’ll be
buying in stores and that will revive the
area’s economy, creating even more jobs.
Their taxes will enable the city to provide
more services, thus halting the further
deterioration of the neighborhood. With
higher tenant incomes, it would be
possible for housing to be sharply
improved instead of having landlords
walk away from their buildings.
Then there are other steps that need to
Our new day begun
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Shortly after the United States
Supreme Court Began its fall session, it
gave the Carter administration permission
to state its views orally for 15 minutes in
the Bakke case.
This does not mean the High Court is
signalling anything more than a
traditional respect for the Solicitor
General of the United States. If the
Solicitor General - in this case a Black
man, Wade McCree - asks for time to
state his case orally in addition to
presenting an amicus curiae (friend of the
court) brief in a given case, the Court will
usually oblige.
Incidentally, McCree, a former federal
judge from Detroit and the Sixth Circuit
District Court of Cincinnati is a fine
lawyer with a keen intellect. He insists
that the Bakke brief the administration
(he and U.S. Dept, of Justice civil rights
division chief Drew Days) originally
worked up that caused such furor among
Black and other civil right leaders, “was
just one of several working papers,” not
meant to be the administration’s final
position.
At any rate I was among several leaders
who called on the Carter administration
to oppose Bakke and the final brief that
was presented by the administration to
the Supreme Court more nearly reflects
our views.
It states flatly that the Supreme Court
should reverse the Calif. Supreme Court
decision that declares the Davis School of
Medicine may not consider the race of
applicants for the purpose of operating a
properly administered affirmative action
admissions program. It also asks that the
judgement ordering Bakke admitted to
the school be vacated and the case
remanded to California for further
proceedings.
Allen Bakke brought the suit claiming
that as a white candidate for the Calif.
University’s medical school at Davis, he
was discriminated against when the
school refused to admit him while, at the
same time, setting aside 16 to 100 places
for disadvantaged minorities.
The case is stirring passions as none
since the turbulent days preceding and
immediately following the Brown versus
(Topeka, Kansas) Board of Education
decision.
Traditional civil rights allies are
splitting over the issue of quotas. And,
shame of shame, the split is along racial
lines, with white liberals and many of our
former strong allies, the Jews, coining
down on the side of Bakke against
To be equal
The President
visits a slum
By Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
be taken -- measures to stop banks from
redlining slum areas, better city services
like garbage collection and police
protection and improved education.
Areas like the South Bronx don’t just
happen, they are made. And the manner
of their making constitutes a national
shame. Discrimination, neglect and
artificially high joblessness all contribute
to the making of urban blight.
The President must realize that the
federal policies of preceding
administrations helped create urban
wastelands like the South Bronx, and has
to make the connection between what he
saw and the need for revising his
Administration's priorities.
After walking through the rubble of
the South Bronx he should now realize
that full employment has to take
precedence over blanced budgets, and
that providing tLe human right to a job is
as crucial as trying to extend other rights
to countries that don’t observe them.
The President's visit will have meaning
if it becomes the first shot in a broad
attempt to educate the nation to the
needs of the cities. Simply by making
that one visit, the President did more to
make the nation conscious of the plight
of urban America than anything since
Lyndon Johnson made his impassioned
plea for social action. Now he can follow
up on that beginning by using the
leadership capabilities of his high office
to continue to press upon the American
people the reality of the needs of those
locked in our urban ghettos.
Along with symbolic gestures designed
to shape public opinion, there must be
solid programmatic initiatives from his
Administration, with a national full
employment program at the top of the
list. There are many hot issues and
pressing problems the President faces, but
his visit to the South Bronx should
impress him with the fact that America’s
number one problem and his number one
priority ought to be urban
unemployment.
Bakke win will
mean dark and
savage times
By Benjamin Hooks
preferential treatment for historically
handicapped (because of racism) Blacks.
Perhaps when this is over, we can come
together and fight the good fight once
more over worthy issues. Meanwhile, to
me it is gratifying to see Black students
and many of their allies, the people who
will surely be the most affected by an
adverse Bakke decision, mounting a
struggle against it.
In several cities they are holding
seminars, mass demonstrations, staging
picket lines (in Washington,D.C., for
example, Black law students with support
from high schools, gathered 1,500 strong
in a mass demonstration against Bakke
across the street from the White House).
Many peculiar things about this case
are just now beginning to surface: that
Bakke, at 33, was too old for most
schools (12 others turned him down) to
consider for admission; that 32 other
white applicants with grade point
averages as high or higher than Bakke also
failed of admission; that he did not,
repeat did not challenge the dean of
admission’s right to admit five additional
of the 100 incoming students on his own
authority.
Make no mistake, if the Supreme
Court decides in favor of Bakke the
myriad of affirmative action programs,
equal employment opportunity rules,
policies, laws, indeed the whole sweep of
gains Blacks and other minorities have
made in social and economic life in this
country will be seriously threatened if
not outright wiped out. Recently, a
young white woman won admission to a
California school on essentially the same
Bakke principles.
It is extremely difficult to examine
any significant area of American life and
find the Black man made gains there
simply by being an American citizen. He
has not. And those who support Bakke
know that. The Black man has had to
fight for every grudging inch of privilege,
of equality, of acceptance he has gained
in this country from the days of slavery
to the present time. And these gains were
made often in life or death situations or
on issues that turned on the fundamemtal
dignity and humanity of the aggrieved.
So make no mistake if the Bakke
decision goes against us, we are in for
dark and savage times. Those who
deserted us because they did not believe
in prescribing tough remedies for
historical wrongs, can t achieve salvation
by saying they didn’t know.