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The Augusta News-Review - January 13, 1979 -
American hosts sought
for Scandinavian students
American Host Families are
being sought for 500
Scandinavian high-school
students from Sweden,
Denmark, Norway and Finland
for the school year 1979-1980,
in a program sponsored by the
American Scandinacian
Student Exchange (ASSE).
Interested families in this
area should contact Mary
Brown, 325 Brooks Ave.,
Atlanta, Ga. 30307, Phone
(404) 373-0648.
The students, age 16 and 17,
will arrive in the United States
in late August 1979, attend the
local high school and return
home in late June 1980. The
students, all fluent in English,
have been screened by their
school representative in
Scandinavia and have pocket
money and medical insurance.
Also, ASSE is seeking
American students, age 16 and
17, who would like to spend a
high-school year with a
Scandinavian family or
participate in a five-week
Slave poet’s work
planned for exhibit
GREENSBORO, N.C.
(NNPA) -- A national exhibit
on the life and work of George
Moses Horton, a famous black
slave poet of Chatham County,
N.C., is being attempted by the
Association for the Study of
North Carolina Heritage
located here.
Announcement of the
program was made this week
by Mrs. Mildred Pay ton,
director of the Association
which is seeking funds from
the National Endowment for
the Humanities.
The year-old organization
has established a Black History
Museum on the Chatham
County fairgrounds in an
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Families with small children
or grown children, as well as
those with teen-age children,
are welcome to participate in
the program.
Persons interested in any of
these programs should contact
Ms. Brown immediately.
The ASSE is the official
Swedish high-school exchange
program in the United States
operating under the auspices of
the Swedish Board of
Education. The ASSE program
is officially designated as an
Exchange/Visitor program by
the U.S. Department of State.
Since 1938, more than
150,000 students have taken
part in student exchange, home
stay and school exchange
programs in the United States,
Sweden, Denmark, Finland,
Germany, France, England and
Switzerland. ASSE has a
representative in all areas of
the United States.
authenic slave cabin. Also
ASNCH has developed an
interschool black history loan
library, an exhibition saluting
the Black Press, and has
sponsored the first annual
George Moses Horton Day.
Horton, the first black in
America to earn his living by
writing and selling his poetry,
was born in the county in
1797. He began writing poetry
as a slave boy. His work soon
received recognition
throughout the county, and
before his death at 86, he had
turned out volumes of verses
that made him the most
famous North Carolina poet
furing his ear.
Able-disabled meet
The Able-Disabled will meet
Jan. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the
Georgia War Veterans Nursing
Home, 1101 15th St.
Chaplain Earl Hackett of
University Hospital will speak
on: “When Falling Apart Is
Holding Together.”
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BENNETT HALL—HARPER HOUSE LEVELED - Bennett Hall a dormitory on the Paine College campus since
1913, is being rased. The facility was originally a womens residence hall. More recently it has served as a residence
for men as well as a dining hall. Bennett Hall was renamed Harper House in honor of Lawrence Harper, longtime
dean and faculty member who died in 1961.
News analysis
The untapped power of
Afro-American-Arab ties
By Askia Muhammad
Pacific News Service
(Relations between Jews and
blacks have never been worse,
and talk of Afro-American-
Arab solidarity never louder.
But effective cooperation
between Arabs and American
blacks, Askia Muhammad has
found in two recent trips to
the Mideast, is still minimal,
while Israeli influence remains
strong. Mr. Muhammad, a
contributing editor of PNS
who covers national black
political trends, is a former
editor of Muhammad Speaks
and: writes regularly for the
Chicago Defender, the Nation
and other publications.)
TRIPOLI - Here in
revolutionary, oil-rich Libya, as
in most Arab countries, the
most popular public
personality isn’t Yasser Arafat
of the PLO. It is a black
American, Muhammad Ali.
From Morocco to Kuwait, the
“Greatest” is reversed almost
as a hometown hero. And
black Americans are considered
brothers in Islam.
Meanwhile in Chicago, in
Harlem, all across America,
black Americans who have
turned to Islam to assert their
dignity and self-respect pray
toward Mecca. Just as millions
of Arabs consider black
Americans exempt from their
denunciation of U.S.
“imperialism” and support for
Israel, so for millions of black
Americans, Moslem and
Christian alike, Arabs are
“blood brothers” -- sharing
similar geographical and
cultural roots.
In recent years,
Afro-Americans and Arabs
increasingly have had
something else in common -
distrust of Israel and its
supporters in the United
States. As tensions have grown
between black and Jewish
Americans, from the Crown
Heights section of Brooklyn to
the Supreme Court chambers
where the Bakke case was
argued, Afro-Americans have
experienced growing synpathy
for the Arabs, especially for
Palestinians displayed by Israeli
expansion.
MUTUAL DISINTEREST
Yet for all the rhetoric on
both sides about close fraternal
ties, visits to the Arab world
reveal the same thing one finds
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So many years after the Hon.
Elijah Muhammad first made
Islam a powerful force in black
America, and the Arabs began
equating Zionism with racism,
U.S. blacks still know very
little, and seem to care even
less about the Arab cause. For
their part, Arabs in America
and the Mideast seem equally
unaware that an organized
black leadership and society
even exists in America, aside
from Muhammad Ali and
Andrew Young.
The Arabs so far have failed
to exploit an opportunity to
win over to their cause a group
of more than 25 million
Americans who, until recently,
overwhelmingly supported
Israel. U.S. blacks -- at a time
when mainstream America
seems increasingly insensitive
to their needs -- also have made
little effort to enlist the Arabs’
growing political and already
immense financial support for
their cause.
BENIGN NEGLECT
While the Arab-American
dialogue is more intense than
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SHILOH SENIOR CITIZENS keep active through activities at the center. The
Shiloh Center is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. This is a home
for senior citizens where they can come out and get involved in some of the things
they like to do.
Pictured (from left) are Mrs. Eva Dunn, Mrs. Estelle Dunn, Mrs. Mildred
Duckworth, Mrs. Ruth Sinkler, Mrs. Constance Germany and Mrs. Margaret Bailey.
ever before, benign neglect in
relations between Arabs and
Afro-Americans is the rule even
in the most radical Arab states.
Libya, for example, has
recently been receiving a
steady stream of American
visitors - ranging from Billy
Carter to Spiro Agnew. But
though the Libyans are the
Arabs most zealous in
condemning what the official
news agency here calls
“racialist, colonialist
domination throughout the
world,” U.S. blacks have played
no significant role in what the
Qadafi , government calls a
“Popular Arab-American
Dialogue.” This autumn more
than 100 American educators,
lawyers and media personalities
visited Tripoli at the invitation
of the Libyan government.
Only two of the patricipant
delegates were black.
The omission of an
Afro-American component in
the Mideast dialogue is
especially noticeable in
comparison to the Arabs’
diplomatic and political efforts
in black Africa, and their own
long ties with African affairs.
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members, eight -- Algeria,
Egypt, Libya, Mauritania,
Morocco, Somalia, Sudan and
Tunisia - are in Africa. Nearly
100 million of the Arab
world’s 145 million people live
on the African continent.
NO RACE PROBLEM
Part of the reason Arabs
expend so little effort making
their case to black Americans is
that from revolutionary
Marxists to orthodox oil
sheikhs, Arabs don’t believe
their society has a
problem - and they' find it
inconceivable that others could
think so either.
King Khalid of Saudi Arabia,
for example, seemed genuinely
astonished at rumors,he had
barred all blacks from the
eighth floor of the Cleveland
hospital where he underwent
heart surgery earlier this year.
King Khalid told Ambassador
Andrew Young and Cleveland
representative Louis Stokes
that the rumors “hurt very
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Black population expands
as white America ages
By Askia Muhammad
Pacific News Service
“It’s real simple,” a
28-year-old who has never had
a job said at a Washington,
D.C. bus stop, “If you’re not
dead, they get you on a beef
and you spend three or four
years in jail. Maybe, if you’re
lucky, you go in the Army. But
they gonna get you off the
streets one way or another.”
Although no one on the
corner seemed to listen, he
talked with increasing
frustration about the lack of
jobs and opportunities for
escaping the ghetto life.
Away from the street
corners, the reality of what it
means to be young, poor and
non-white in this country will
be affecting an increasing
percentage of the population in
the 1980’s and 1990’5. The
number of voiceless and
voteless brown and Black
youths in the society is
growing, at the very time when
the young white population is
declining and older, most
white, Americans are increasing
by the millions.
Since 1970, a recent Census
Bureau survey shows, the
number of people 55 years
and older has increased by 5.3
million persons, while during
that same period the youthful
population (save for
non-whites) was growing
smaller. The number of
Americans 13 and younger has
decreased since 1970 by 6.4
million persons. In both
demographic shifts, the lion’s
share of the changes (4.6
million of the older gain and
6.3 million of the youth
decline) occurred among
whites. America’s Black and
Hispanic population continued
not only to grow but to grow
younger.
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The significance of the
changes is already beginning to
be felt in urban centers
throughout the country. As the
largely whitp,
worker has fewer white, youth,
in his community in need of
services, he sees less and less
Morehouse president
MLK birthday speaker
Dr. Hugh Gloster, president
of Morehouse College, will be
the speaker for a special
memorial service in honor of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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need for services to the
dependent, non-productive,
minority youth.
Schools have been especially
hard hit. The “taxpayer revolt”
and declining enrollments have
been used to justify school
closings, teacher lay-offs, and
service cutbacks in cities from
coast to coast. The movement
on Capitol Hill toward granting
tuition taxcredits to parents of
children in virtually
immune-from-desegreg?tion
private and parochial schools is
evidence of the Congress’ -- if
not Middle America’s
attitude that the increasingly
non-white, urban recipients of
costly youth services are seen
as'burdens by the increasingly
older, more suburban white
population, which sees itself
footing all the bills.
Non-whites now account for
three out of four children in
the public schools of eight
major cities. In 13 other cities,
more than half the public
school children are Black, or
from other non-white minority
groups.
In the years ahead,
population trends suggest the
majority white population’s
birthrate (and corresponding
numbers of youth) is headed
down; the Black birthrate is
slowing but higher than the
white while the Hispanic
birthrate is up.
The nation’s 25 million
Blacks now constitute 12
percent of the population, or
about twice the current
estimates of the Hispanic
population.
“Public policy has to address
itself to this situation,” said
Sarah Short Austin, executive
vice president of the National
Urban Coalition.
“Communities are obviously
going to have to plan how
they’re going to deal with this
particular situation because
what you’re talking about is an
increased demand for services
at the same time the people
who can afford to pay are
saying they’re tired of paying,
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Sunday at Paine College.
The service will be held in
the Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel
at 4 p.m.