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The Augusta News-Review - February 2, 1978
Peace Council told
Racism and neo-colonialism
block road to world peace
WASHINGTON - “The
sordid experience of 26 million
Black Americans through two
and a half centuries of slavery
and another 100 years of
crypto-freedom is a classic
example of racism which helps
block the road to world
peace.”
This is what Dr. Carlton B.
Goodlett, president of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association, told the Executive
Board of the World Peace
Council at the opening
luncheon of its three-day
meeting here last week. More
than 50 nations were
represented.
Other challenges to peace
emphasized by the Black Press
chief are: The Middle East
crisis and the failure up to now
to stop the arms race.
Regarding racism and its
twin - neo-colonialism
Goodlett said: “A humanity
half slave and half free
possesses the seed of its own
destruction. We must move on
from our unceasing discussion
and exploration of the
problems of racism, including
apartheid,” he told the World
Peace Council Board.
Continuing, Goodlett said:
“We must step off our
treadmill of conversation
leading nowhere. If
conversation, slogans and
expressions of solidarity alone
could free the Blacks ol South
Africa, Southern Rhodesia and
the USA, he added, “their
freedom would have been
secured eons ago."
As a more meaningful
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declared: “The peace force s in
Italy, France, West Germany,
England, the Scandinavian
countries and the USA must
bring powerful and persistent
pressure to bear upon their
respective governments, calling
for an economic boycott and
political isolation of those
governments and multinational
corporations who enjoy the
luxury of utilizing racism as a
means of human exploitation."
Turning to the Middle East
crisis, Goodlett said:
“...Worldwide support must be
given to the United Nations
Security Council’s unanimous
Resolution 242, passed
November 2, 1967, and the
United Nations General
Assembly Resolution of 1972,
Carter cites
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for “extraordinary heroism in
action.” The award climaxed a
33-year effort for recognition
of the all-Black unit, one of the
few all-Black units to go into
combat with the segregated
Army of World War 11.
It is the only all-Black unit
to win the Presidential Unit
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which provided security and
safeguards for all people and
states of the Middle East.”
Regarding disarmament, the
Black Press head compared the
big nuclear powers with the
great dinosaurs of prehistoric
times, saying the latter
perished because they were
equipped with too much
cumbersome armor, and too
NAA CP elfi rifies
position on energy
WASHINGTON (NNPA)
In a letter and a statement sent
to the National Newspaper
Publishers Association (NNPA)
this week, NAACP Executive
Director Benjamin L. Hooks
clarifies his civil rights
organization’s policy on
energy.
He points out in the letter
that die New York Times
misinterpreted or distorted the
NAACP’s position by
indicating that its policy
statement called for
de-regulation of gas prices.
Instead, the NAACP’s position
“is pretty neutral on that
question.... Our main concern
is jobs and employment for our
people,” Hooks writes.
The NAACP statement
setting forth the major thrust
of its energy policy follows:
“NAACP National Energy
Policy is the sum total of seven
months of intensive research
and review. On January 9,
1978, the National Board of
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little ability to adapt to the
reality of their day.
Goodlett called for complete
disarmament with a system of
control and inspection. And he
urged that resources saved
through disarmament be
devoted to life enrichment,
including education, food,
health, housing, and other
needs of all the peoples.
Directors of the NAACP
adopted the report of its
National Energy Committee.
The major thrust of that policy
is reflected in the following
paragraphs:
“The NAACP feels that
President Carter’s National
Energy Program overly
emphasizes conservation as
opposed to directing national
goals to the development of
new and alternative energy
supplies.
“That the President’s
emphasis on energy
conservation could severely
restrict the expansion of the
national economy. Historically,
energy abundance has gone
hand in hand with economic
expansion.
“The NAACP believes that a
static economy will have the
See “NAACP”
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GEN. DANIEL (“CHAPPIE”) JAMES JR., the first
and only Black American four-star military officer,
meets with President Carter - his Commander in-Chief
Gen. Daniel “Chappie"
James Jr., 57, served nearly 35
‘years in the military, spanning
three wars. He began his career
in the military as a fighter pilot
and rose to become
- The state of Blaek America
Continued from Pape I
Issued a little over a month
before the tenth anniversary of
the “Report of the National
Advisory Commission on Civil
Disorders,” the NUL’s “The
State of Black America-1978”
recalls that the Commission
report grew out of the urban
riots of 1967 and concludes
that ten years later.
“What is clearly apparent is
that the illnesses that afflicted
Black communities in
1967-unemployment, poverty,
and the entire litany
•'wJhe endemic problems of the
ghetto-have not been cleared
up, and indeed, the patient has
grown sicker."
p Reporting that some
progress lias been made by
Blacks over the last ten years,
with a significant increase in
the number of middle-income
Black families, growing Black
college enrollment, the opening
up of more job opportunities,
etc., “The State of Black
America-1978“ cautioned:
“These statistics, hov< er,
should not be viewed in
isolation, for when placed
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Commander-in-Chief of the
North American Air Defense
Command.
Once, as a lieutenant, he
risked court martial to protest
racial segregation in the
against the statistics of Blacks
still in poverty, they indicate
the disturbing quality of the
Black economy-a slowly
growing Black middle-class and
an increasingly jobless lower
economic class."
SURVEY RESULTS The
report also contains the results
of a survey taken among the
NUL’s local affiliates to
determine the mood of the
communities served by these
affiliates.
Fifteen percent of the
affiliates reported that there
had been some improvement in
Black-white relationships over
the past year 42 percent
reported relations had
deteriorated; and 43 percent
reported relations had
remained the same.
The overwhelming majority
of the affiliates, 79 percent,
listed employment as the
number one priority in their
comments. Other major needs
listed in order of descending
importance were housing,
education. health, and
communities safe from crime.
Finally, the affiliates were
asked to address themselves to
the possibility that because of
the high unemployment rate
among young Black people, a
permanent class of people is
being created who will never be
productive members of society.
In responding, 78 percent of
the affiliates felt such a class is
being created, while 22 percent
felt that it was not. Os those
affiliates responding in the
affirmative, 63 percent cited
the high rate of unemployment
among young people as the
prime reason for the situation.
Among the other
recommendations in “The
State of Black America-1978”
in addition to those already
stated are the following:
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on a day of ceremonies marking James' retirement. To
James' left is Defense Secretary Harold Brown.
military. He and several Black
comrades had been placed
under house arrest for
disobeying an order to leave an
all-white officers’ club at
Freeman Field, Seymour, Ind.
EMPLOYMENT: Public
service employment should be
castly expanded in 1978 with
special targeting to the
disadvantaged unemployed.
The jobs should be at
prevailing wages and in
activities that improve the
physical and social
environment.
Funding for youth
V ernon Jordan
employment and training
programs should be increased
to reduce youth
unemployment by half in
1978. These programs should
be targeted so that a larger part
of the funds go to create jobs
in cities where the youth
unemployment rate has
exceeded 15 percent for the
past six months.
HOUSING: Ihe President
should issue a firm
commitment to providing for
Charges were dropped. James
said at a farewell news
conference that “there is less
racism in the armed forces of
American than there is in any
other segment of society.”
the nation's housing needs as a
part of any urban policy
statement and the
Administration should seek
appropriations for 600,000
units of federally assisted
hrrtising.
EDUCATION: Full funding
of Title I of the Elmentary and
Secondary Education Act is
long overdue and should be
provided immediately.
Formulas should count all
AFDC children for full
entitlement rather than the 2/3
provision in the current
formula. Targeting of
additional funds for districts
with large concentrations of
Title 1 eligible children should
be included. Economic
deprivation should remain the
sole basis for entitlement.
A long-term and consistent
program of federal support for
his historically Black colleges
should be developed which
takes into account the nature
of the economically depressed
student body which attends
such schools.
Regardless of the outcome
of the Bakke Case, the federal
government should not relent
in its insistence that
institutions of higher learning
receiving federal monies, adopt
and implement effective
affirmative action plans for
both faculty and students.
POLITICAL PARTICI
PATION: A system of
universal registration for
Presidential and Congressional
elections that would enable a
citizen to vote on Election Day
by appearing at the polls with
proper identification, should
be adopted.
States should be encouraged
to use Election Day
registrations for state and local
elections as well.
HUMAN RIGHTS: The
justified concern of the nation
over denials of human rights in
a number of countries, should
not divert its attention from
the brutal racial repression
being practiced in the Union of
South Africa. The
refusal of the South African
government to meet any of the
legitimate demands of the
Black majority constitutes a
threat to world peace and
should be so regarded.
In light of this, American
public and private institutions
with investments in the Union
of South Africa should reassess
and reappraise their positions
in that country with a view
toward influencing the racial
policies of South Africa. The
American government should
undertake the same process
via-a-vis its nilitary ties to
South Africa.