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Mai Goode
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White House assistant
Raymone K. Bain this week
urged local Blacks to push
Congressman D. Douglas
Barnard to vote for President
Carter’s civil service reform
bill.
Miss Baine, who spoke
Sunday at Springfield Baptist
Church’s Women’s Day
program, said the President
wants more Blacks in
supervisory positions and that
his reorganization plan is
“vitally important for Blacks.
But it is Congress who will
make the decision on his plan,”
she said.
She said Augusta Blacks
have the power to force at
lease one “yes” vote out of
Congressman Barnard. “You
elected Barnard, she said, and
he will be voting. He’s there
and he must be utilized.”
Barnard voted against the
minimum wage bill and the
Humphrey fhwkins Full
Employment bill.
Miss Bain, assistant director
of public affairs in the Office
of Management and Budget,
said that it is “idealism to
believe that the Black cause has
come a long way and “is doing
fine*’ We have to realize that
we have to “create the
solidarity that our forefathers
had long ago,” she said.
She told the Springfield
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BROTHER-SISTER TEAM-Retired ABC newsman Mai Goode and his sister, Mrs. Ruth White, coordinator of
the Black Athletic Association were featured speakers at the Paine College Athletic Awards Banquet Friday night.
Mai Goode speaks to Paine athletes
Mai Goode, the first Black
reporter for a national
network, told Paine College
Athletes Friday they should be
happy they chose Paine rather
than larger schools like Ohio
State.
Goode was the speaker at
the annual Athletic Awards
Banquet.
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Mrs. Shirley Bennings (left) and Rev. E.T. Martin welcome Raymone Bain
congregation that her religious
outlook helps her “survive
when the pressure at work
seems too much.” Seven pf 19
Blacks on the White House
staff recently announced that
they were resigning.
universities are “used and
discarded,” he said. “Under the
great Woody Hayes, less than
six per cent of the Black
athletes that played for him
have graduated.”
Goode said that Black
students were only tolerated at
the University of Pittsburg
where he attended some 50
years ago. Blacks could not
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The church has been
important, especially for the
Black woman, because it has
given her the security, strength
and stamina she needed to
break through racist and sexual
barriers, she said.
sing in the choir, play in the
band or join a fraternity, he
said.
“You have heard of Archie
Griffin, O.J. Simpson, Tony
Dorsett, all of whom went to
big universities, but have you
heard about the thousands of
Black boys who helped make
them and today have no degree
and are somewhere lost in life’s
“Christianity is the principle
in building character in both
Black men and women in the
United States. It provided the
basis for social cohesion,” she
concluded.
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“I encourage you to put
your priorities in order... in
proper perspective,” he said.
“When you leave here and
go out and make good,
remember Paine, which gave
you the know-how, the
preparation to cope in
tomorrow’s world.”
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June 1,1978
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Was Wilkins willing to
discredit Dr. King?
The FBI identified former
NAACP Director Roy Wilkins
as the “ambitious” Black
leader willing to cooperate
with the bureau in its attempt
to discredit King, it was
learned this week.
Documents also show that
the agency wanted to groom
Wilkins as the primary leader
of the civil rights movement
after the FBI discredited King.
A memo by the FBI
Criminal Records Chief Cartha
Deloach about a Nov. 27,
1964, meeting stated that
Wilkins agreed to tell King that
“he can’t win in a battle with
the FBI and that the best thing
for him to do is to retire from
public life.”
The News-Review was
Would you want your son
to be George Jefferson?
What about J J or Rerun?
By Dorothy Gilliam
From the Washington Post
To the daughter who loves
him, he is a “shiftless, nocount,
horse-playing skunk.” His
mother-in-law settles for a
“crawlin’ scaly yellow rat.”
The character, Ray Ellis, in
CBS’ “Baby, I’m Back” ra n
out on his wife and two
children and suddenly showed
up after seven years intending
to move back into his wife’s
bedroom. Would you want
your son to be like Ray?
Perhaps you would prefer
that he pattern himself after
J.J., the frenetic exclamation
point of “Good Times,” now
graduated to family head after
both the father and mother
characters were put out to
pasture.
No? Well, there is always
Rerun, the larded teen-ager of
“What’s Happening.” ABC’s
successful view of the
happiness of the have-nots in
this land of plenty. Or maybe
you’d rather pal around with
George Jefferson, the petite
bigot who stomps around his
shag-carpeted penthouse
spewing venom like a cobra at
everyone in sight.
For the 11 million Blacks in
this country, these characters
are all there is to regularly
relate to in TV’s four Black
network shows - shows that for
stereotypes and stock
characters make some of the
racist movies of the 1930 s look
like enlightened social
commentary.
Black children, who
unfortunately watch television
even more than white children,
are the special victims. (Blacks
as a whole watch 10 percent
more television than the
general population, according
to a 1976 Arbitron report.)
Many identify with this quartet
of shallow, ad-libbing Superflys
who crack jokes but never a
book. And whites, meanwhile,
have their mose exaggerated
unable to reach Wilkins or his
wife Wednesday.
Wilkins told a Senate
Committee two years ago that
the accounts of that meeting
were “self-serving and full of
inaccuracies. That statement was
pure invention,” he said.
In one FBI memo, the late
FBI Assistant Director William
Sullivan proposed that the FBI
pick “the right kind of national
Negro leader” to eventually
“assumes the role of leadership
of the Negro people when King
has been completely
discredited.”
Tile FBI at first witheld the
name of the “prominent Black
leader,” but SCLC President
Joseph Lowery said Monday
the FBI should “put up or shut
up.”
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misconceptions fed and
reinforced by these negative
male images - sad distortions of
Blacks and the Black
experience.
One would think from
viewing George Jefferson, J.J.,
Rerun and Ray Ellis that Black
men’s dignity, wisdom,
econimic stability, even their
marbles - all the ways our
society measures worth - range
from going, going to gone And
the plumpness of most of the
women is a clear reminder of
the movie mammies of old.
Why can television only
produce Blacks in negative
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responds that such depiction is
designed to achieve “negative
reinforcement for whites. This
is done largely by image
manipulation in such away as
to make Black people feel
powerless and white people
feel powerful.” Is television the
technologies! age’s medium for
keeping Blacks in their place?
But of course all situation
comedy, Black and white, is by
nature exploitative. Why
should Blacks expect less inane
treatment in “What’s
Happening” than everyone else
gets in “Joe & Valerie”?
But the deadly trap is that
the sit-com is today the only
network vehicle in which
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He called the FBI reports
“another in a long line” of FBI
attempts to subvert Black
leadership and he accused the
FBI of beginning a “chain of
speculation.”
“I find it incredible that any
prominent Black leader would
cooperate to destroy the
movement,” he said.
He said, however, that the
movement has always “had
reason to believe information
on behalf of the FBI” working
within the movement
Lowery said the FBl’s
credibility has always been low
in the Black community.
“They are embarrassed at the
disclosure of the (FBI) dirty
tricks and were trying to shirt
the blame to us.
Blacks are regularly seen.
Occasionally Black guests
appear on dramatic shows such
as “Lou Grant” or
“Policewoman” and there are a
few Black stock characters on
ongoing shows such as
“Welcome Back, Kotter” or
“Carter Country.” Network
television soon will get its first
Black anchorman. The soaps
also have made a begrudging
nod of recognition of the fact
that their nonwhite viewers
wash with Tide, brush with
Colgate and wax with Giocoat
by including 19 Blacks among
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