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Bobby Hill says public duped:
‘I don’t know John Swint,
and I hope I never meet him ’
By Mallory K. Millender
State Rep. Bobby Hill said
this week he has learned of a
“calculated attempt” to give
the people the impression that
he is supporting John Swint in
his bid to unseat Edward M.
Mclntyre on the Richmond
Board of Commissioners and
he wants to “set the record
straight.”
Hill said by telephone, “I
don’t know John Swint. I’m
not interested in knowing him.
And I hope I never meet him.”
Hill was referring to a May
27 Project 23 rally at the
Julian Smith Casino at which
he was the featured speaker
kicking off a four-county voter
registration drive. A rally for
Swint was scheduled at the
same place and at the same
time.
Many people who came to
the voter registration rally
expressed surprise that they
were given Swint Buttons and
that there were Swint posters
all around.
Hill said Human Relations
Commission Executive
Director Charles Walker
“walked up to me and asked
me if I would say ‘something
NAACP Convention
to be held July 3-7
The NAACP’s 69th annual
convention will be in Portland,
July 3-7, under the theme “...
till Victory is Won.”
Some of the featured
speakers will include Patricia
Roberts Harris, the secretary of
the Department of Housing
and Urban Development;
Donald Woods, the banned
editor of South Africa’s East
London Daily Dispatch;
Federal Communications
Commissioner, Tyrone Brown;
Eddie Williams, president of
Ga. lawyers
elect Ruffin
to 3rd term
Atty. John Ruffin has been
re-elected to a third term as
chairman of the Georgia
Conference of Black Lawyers.
He has served as chairman of
the 165-member organization
since 1976.
Ruffin has also received
several nominations for listing
among the top criminal lawyers
in the country, according to
Barry Tartow, national director
of the California Attorneys for
Criminal Justice.
T a r tow told the
News-Review his organization
is the State Criminal Defense
Lawyers Bar Association, and
is compiling a listing of the top
criminal lawyers around the
country that they may use if
they have a case in a given area.
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kind' about Swint. And 1 said,
‘No way.’
“1 think the holding of a
non-profit meeting in the same
place that Swint was holding
an affair was calculated to
mislead the public.
“Whoever is responsible for
that kind of calculated attempt
- whether his campaign staff or
him (Swint) - if it were he, he
is surely in my opinion not
worthy of public life.”
Hill said he would not
knowingly have “dared dabble”
in someone else’s politics. “If I
had dared, it would have been
for Ed Mclntyre whom 1 have
known for a long time as a
trustworthy and diligent public
servant.”
Hill, who is chairman of the
Legislative Black Caucus, said
that Mclntyre, founder and
past president of the Georgia
Association of Black Elected
Officials, is “flawless in his
representation of our people. 1
hope the people of our
community will give him an
overwhelming vote of
support.”
CALLS HILL A LIAR
Charles Walker denied having
the Joint Center for Political
Studies and Arthur Fleming,
chairman of the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights.
NAACP Executive Director
Benjamin Hooks will speak on
July 4, while board chairman
Margaret Bush Wilson will
address the anticipated 8,000
attendees on Monday, July 3.
This year’s convention will
also introduce to the delegates
and attendees the finalists in
the organization’s first
nationwide ACT-SO
competition. ACT-SO is the
NAACP’s academic Olympics,
in which children in grades 9
through 12 are encouraged to
compete academically for
prizes and scholarships.
Others in attendance at this
year’s convention will include
Douglas Fraser, President ot the
United Auto Workers:
Alexander Barkan, director of
the AFL-ClO’s Committee on
Political Education; U.S.
Department of Labor Assistant
Secretary, Ernest Green; HUD
Assistant Secretary, Chester
McGuire; Reginald Bryant,
co-producer of the television
series Black Perspective on the
News; Ms. Alexis Herman,
director of the U.S. Labor
Department’s Women’s Bureau;
Norman Hill, executive
director of the A. Philip
Randolph Institute; and
Weldon Rougeau, director of
the Office of Federal Contract
Compliance.
The convention will mark
the first for Benjamin L. Hooks
as executive director of the
450,000 member organization,
and the fourth for Margaret
Bush Wilson as chairman of the
board.
James Brown’s
station burns,
$70,000 damages
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Charles Walker
asked Hill to speak on Swint’s be
half. Walker said,“lf Bobby Hill
said that I said that, he is a
bold-face, lying son-of-a-bitch.
And don’t use s.o.b. I said he
is a son-of-a-bitch. Now quote
me on that. And send him a
copy.”
Swint responded more
calmly: “I think there is some
mistake or somebody
misquoted Hill. He said at the
rally that he was non-partisan
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BURNED OUT control room at radio station WRDW after fire last Thursday.
$70,000 damages
James Brown’s station
off air almost a week
James Brown’s radio station
WRDW was off the air for
almost a week following a fire
at the station last Thursday
night. A preliminary estimate
of the damage was put at
around $70,000.
Operations Manager Roger
Jones said the station returned
to the air about 3 p.m.
Tuesday using a temporary
control room with borrowed
and newly bought equipment.
He said he had no idea how
much money had been lost in
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Bobby Hill
and that it was a non-partisan
rally.
I’M GOING TO WIN
“I would not want him to
endorse me I’m going to win
this thing on my record and as
a tax payer in Richmond
County. I don’t want outside
endorsements from people who
don’t live and pay taxes in
Richmond County - his and
advertising revenues during
that period.
Jones said James Brown was
in Australia and won t be in
Augusta until next week.
Fire officials said that the
fire was confined to the attic
of the building housing radio
equipment and recording
studios.
J.B. Harrel, chief of the West
Richmond County Fire
Department, said that the
announcer on the air at the
time of the fire. Bill Williams.
Jim Brown
convicted, has
‘image’ problem
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June 15,1978
Swint said the voter
registration rally and his
campaign rally came at the
same time and at the same
place because “someone -- I
don’t remember the fellow’s
name -- from the voter
registration drive came and
asked if they could have about
15 minutes on our rally.
“They talked too long. They
took up about an hour.”
An observer at the rally
said Walker “cursed out”
Project 23 Director Larry
Dobbs for using so much of the
Swint rally time.
Dobbs told the News-Reivew
that Project 23 coordinators
set up the rally here and he had
no knowledge that the rally for
Swint was being held in the
some place at the same time
He would not give the names
of the coordinators.
Atty. John Ruffin, vice
president of the Board of
Directors of the Voter
Education Project (VEP) and,
in effect president, since there
is currently no president, said
that he will request a full-scale
investigation when VEP meets
Friday.
He said Hill was invited here
told him the transmitter kicked
off, making the station go off
the air. Williams turned it back
on, but about five minutes
later it kicked off again.
When the announcer turned
the transmitter on again a
transformer blew up through
the ceiling, starting a fire in the
attic. Harrell said.
A fire burned Brown’s night
club here, The Third World,
causing an estimated 5300.000
damage in 1973.
by Project 23 Director Dobbs
and that he (Ruffin) was
unaware that the legislator had
been invited.
Ruffin said he is concerned
because Project 23 nor VEP is
supposed to support individual
candidates. “It jeopardizes our
tax exempt status,” he said.
23 COUNTIES
Ruffin explained that
Project 23 is an “in-house"
project of VEP. And that there
are 23 counties in Georgia that
are predominantly Black.
These 23 counties have been
targeted for intense voter
education drives, Ruffin said.
Richmond County is not
one of the 23 counties. And
Ruffin said he did not know
why Richmond County was
chosen for the kickoff rally in
this area.
Asked if he agreed with Hill
that the state representative’s
appearance at the Swint rally
was intended to deceive the
public, Ruffin said, “My
preliminary investigation leads
me to that conclusion.”
Ed Mclntyre, is one of the
originators of the concept for
Project 23. had no comment.
Albany graduates told
prejudice cause of
Black unemployment
ALBANY, Ga. - Nearly 200
graduates at Albany (Ga.) State
College heard Frank W. Hale
Jr., associate dean of the
Graduate School, The Ohio
State University, warn that
racial prejudice is the major
cause of Black unemployment.
Dr. Hale told the 3,000
persons attending the 59th
Commencement exercises last
Sunday that “persistent high
Black unemployment ratesand
lower paying, less prestigious
jobs are not a matter of poorer
or less education, but of
prejudice.”
“A white high school
dropout stands a better chance
of landing a job than a Black
high school graduate,” the
former Oakwood (Ala.) College
president pointed out. “Blacks
have always known that we
had to be better in order to be
given equal consideration.”
Hale told the graduates that
there can be no substitute for
academic excellence. “As we
continue to press for our
human rights, we need to
understand that there is no
dichotomy between the human
rights struggle and academic
excellence. It is not enough to
have opportunities,” he
declared; “we must be able to
capitalize and make the best of
them when they become
available.”
Academic attainment is
more than accumulating a
stack of A’s and B’s, and
making the dean’s list, Hale
continued. “Intellectual
behavior is characterized by
behavior that indicates a
mastery of verbal form, in
writing, in speech, and in
analytical thinking. To be
intellectual is to deal with the
brings audience
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Fauntroy to grad s:
‘Jesus is the answer*
Augustans are still marveling
at the dramatic Commence
ment address delivered at the
Paine College Sunday by U.S.
Congressman Walter F.
Fauntroy which was to be
world of symbols," the Ohio
State dean said.
“The accumulation of a
knowledge in and of itself is
not enough,” Hale declared as
he urged the graduates to
pursue further education in
graduate or professional
schools. “One must be able to
draw conclusions from the
knowledge which he or she
recieves; one must be able to
apply knowledge in the sense
of being able to make decisions
based *on the knowledge
received. The ability to store
knowledge in one’s brain
requires intelligence; the ability
to apply that knowledge with
good sense requires judgment.
Thus, once you have gained
knowledge,” Hale continued,
“you must be prepared to
suspend your previous
commitments and ideas, place
them on the scales of
reflections, insist on solution
unfettered by predetermined
conclusions. If you are able to
do that,” Hale concluded,
“you are not only intelligent,
you will have become an
intellectual.”
Hale reminded the Class of
1978 that the world of today is
not waiting with open arms “to
welcome you either into the
world of work or graduate and
professional education. There
is an ‘uneasy undercurrent’ of
racial disharmony and
simmering discontent across
the land,” he said. “Since the
establishment of affirmative
action programs a decade ago,
a wave of white resentment has
surfaced as reflected in
negative and disparaging
comments about special
admissions and financial aid
programs for minority
students.”
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climaxed by singing the “The
Impossible Dream.”
His stirring rendition on the
song so moved the audience
that he was given a standing
ovation in the middle the song
and another at the end of the
song.
He called on the graduates
to make the journey that all
Black Americans need to make
-- from self-hatred to self-love.
Self-hatred, he said, is one of
the more formidible obstacles
to Black solidarity.
The American value system
“attached to those of us of
Black skin is a stigma of
inferiority,” he said.
“When one is a member of
an inferior group he tends not
only to hate that group but to
hate himself for being a
member of this group.
“We transfer that hate to
others of Black skin and end
up fighting one another.”
Rhetorically he asked, ,‘Why
do some Blacks hate to see
Blacks who reflect the effects
of deprivation? Why do Black
businessmen give inferior
service to Blacks? Why do
Blacks refuse to patronize
Black businesses -- saying in
effect - “if you want it done
right, get a w'hite man to do
the job.”
Fauntroy said Blacks have
dealt with inferiority three
ways;
Middle class Blacks often
have created a world of make
believe, refusing to sing Black
spirituals, refusing to go where
the race problem is being
discussed. denying their
heritage and disassociating with
Blacks in poverty.
And by telling white folk,
“I’m not like the rest of
them.”
When we get out of the
white man’s sight. Fauntroy
said, “all of us are just another
nigger.”
Others, Blacks, he said, have
followed the route of the Black
Muslims and held up symbols
of Black superiority
descendents of proud Blacks
who built a civilization
superior to Western civilization
today.
But those symbols were
built upon delusions, he said,
becuase we were stripped of
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