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By Gwen Edmonds
WITH MY FACE TO THE
RISING SUN by Robert
Martin Screen - 106 p.p. -
Harcourt Brace Javanovich,
Inc. 56.95
Richard Sadler, a young
light-skinned Black youth
witnesses the cruelty and
violence of racism between
Blacks and whites, and among
Blacks themselves, in a small
southern town during the early
1940’5. This young, Black
author, Dr. Robert Martin
Screen, was born and reared in
Augusta Ga. The reader will
undoubtedly recognize
“LaCosta County” as none
other than Richmond County.
The novel is greatly
autobiographical. Dr. Screen
calls it “faction” -a
combination of fact and
fiction.
The story begins very
violently with young Richard
Sadler watching a friend
brutally murdered by three
white men. He. is threatened
and beaten by his fellow
classmates for not going to the
police, which he was ordered
not to do by his grandfather.
T.J. Sadler, Richard’s
grandfather, is one of those
Blacks who believes in keeping
peace with the white man, even
if the price of that peace is a
very unhappy and miserable
grandson. The events that
follow are a sad search for
himself and for a father he has
never seen. The search is
intense and with love, but not
very rewarding.
The perennial theme of “sex
in racism” prevails throughout
the novel. Blacks and whites
can create harmonious
atmospheres as long as the
seses remain apart, or appear to
remain apart; something
light-skinned Blacks cannot
hide. The reader is made aware
of the pains of the
light-skinned Blacks who were
thought, at one time, to be
better off than dark-skinned
Blacks.
“With My Face to the Rising
“RACISM” Continued from Page 2
“Roots,” the television
industry has made little
progress in its portrayal of
Blacks or other minorities, who
are too often cast as modem
day versions of Amos and
Andy.
“Few Blacks” on television,
says Dr. Eugene Thomas of the
University of Wisconsin, “are
seen with the pluses and
minuses of the average man,
the ambiguity. The Black is
either super-excellent or
super-deficient.”
“It appears to mean that the
American majority is nowhere
near ready to accept Blacks as
equals - if you see television as
a reflection of society.”
Thus while the opponents of
affirmative action still point to
the considerable progress
Blacks have made in the last
two decades. Blacks are
growing ever more concerned
“HUMPHREY” Continued from Page 1
senator “had to tone down his
boisterous enthusiasm and
gutsy idealism before being
admitted to the Senate
Establishment.”
The first bill he ever
introduced in the Senate
proposed free hospital care for
the elderly under Social
Security. As early as 1949 he
advocated national health
insurance.
Other programs he
advocated over the years
included expansionary fiscal
policies, foreign economic aid,
lowering the voting age from
21 to 18, direct election of the
president and foreign sales of
surplus food. •
In Middle East affairs, he
was a strong supporter of U.S. i
aid to Israel. Although he ;
supported UJS. involvement in 1
the Indochina war as vice 1
president, he later opposed any ’
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DEDICATION of the
historic Harriet Tubman
commemorative stamp will
kick off Black History Month
activities February I in the
nation’s capital with
ceremonies at the Metropolitan
AME Church and a luncheon at
the Mayflower Hotel. After
escaping from slavery in
Dorchester County, Md., in
1849, Mrs. Tubman made 19
trips back into slave country as
conductor of the symbolic
Underground Railroad to help
more than 300 slaves escape to
freedom.
Sun” is a well written and
interesting novel that reveals
the fears that white men tried
to instill in Blacks to keep
them down and divided. Even
with the weight of fear,
ignorance and poverty, the
strength of Black love, faith
and hope will always be the
power that willbring them back
together.
Reader
responds
to book
Dear Dr. Screen,
I read your book.
And I wept. I wept for you
and for me. I wept for
humankind, for the civilization
that perpetuates “man’s
inhumanity to man.”
Thank you for your
message.
Kind regards,
Ed Smith
that whites have made little
progress in their racial
attitudes, and that the “new
racism” will spread and affect
opportunities for Blacks and
other minorities.
Dr. Faustine C. Jones of
Howard University studied
changes in racial attitudes
between 1969 and 1975 and
concluded: “Black Americans
feel that a significant
proportion of the white
population has shifted
priorities from eliminating the
vestiges of racial discrimination
as the major goal of this
society to reviving feelings that
Blacks have had as much help
as they need or deserve.”
She adds: “The feeling is
that Blacks cannot afford to let
this happen again. If you
understand history, you don’t
sit around and let history
repeat itself.”
similar involvement in
Cambodia.
similar involvement in
Cambodia.
Most recently he was
associated with the
Humphrey-Hawkins bill to
establish a government
program designed to reduce
unemployment to 3 per cent
within four years. A
watered-down version of the
measure has been endorsed by
the Carter Administration.
In a speech at an AFL-CIO
convention in San Francisco in
1975, Humphrey disputed
suggestions that his advocacy
of federal social programs was
out of date.
“I don’t run away from the
Constititution of the United
States because it was written
200 years ago,” he said. “I’m
not going to run away from the
great dynamic leadership of
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt that I voted for
when I was a young man.”
Rev. Sims to serve
as House chaplain
Through the courtesty of
the Honorable Bobby L. Hill,
the Rev. Arthur D. Sims will
serve as chaplain for the Day
for the House of
Representatives, Atlanta, Ga.
The invitation was officially
extended by the Honorable
Thomas B. Murphy, Speaker of
the House of Representatives.
The General Assembly will
convene on Monday, January
16, 1978.
Rev. A.D. Sims is a native of
Athens, Ga. and a graduate of
Paine College, Augusta,
Georgia and Morehouse School
of Religion, Atlanta, Ga. where
he received the Malthalathian
Award for the highest average
for Baptist Ministers.
He serves as Director of
Christian Education for the
General Missionary Baptist
Convention; The Executive
Board of the General
Missionary Baptist Convention
and the Board of Directors. A
nationally known Evangelist
and singer, listed in 1972
edition of Outstanding Young
Men of America.
Presently, he is serving his
fourth year as pastor of
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commander, is first in line to buy a Richmond County auto
Greeting him inside the van dispatched to the post by the tax
are Edward M. Mclntyre of the Richmond County
; ■ SauL county tax commissioner. The van will be parked at Ft.
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The Augusta News-Review - January 19, 1978
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