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2 black women found dead, minus heads and feet Page 1 Vol. 9 No. 7 S Black leaders elated by Weber decision (From Atlanta Constitution) The Supreme Court’s endorsement of “affirmative action” programs as a means of opening up new job vistas for blacks and other minorities took many civil rights leaders by surprise. Black activists and civil rights lawyers throughout the South were elated by the Weber decision, which the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said “provides a green light nowfor employers and labor unions to accelerate their programs to train and upgrade minorities. “Frankly, 1 had lived in fear and trembling that they might support Weber,” Lowery said, “because of the ambiguity in the Bakke ruling.” The Bakke ruling, handed down exactly one year ago, upheld a white man’s complaint that he had been barred from admission to a California medical school because of “reverse discrimination,” but the ruling left unanswered questions about the use of racial quotas in employment. “I was scared because the composition of the present Supreme Court is frightening,” said Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Tyrone Brooks, National vice president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Coalition to Save the SCLC, and Bobby Doctor, regional director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, both said they had been worried by what they saw as a “conservative trend” in recent Supreme Court rulings. Andy Young sees black clout in Africa By Bill Drunmond Pacific News Service Editor’s Note: With ethnic politics increasingly linked to foreign causes -- Jews to Israel, Chicanos to Mexico, Chinese to Taiwan or the People’s Republic of China - U.S. blacks are beginning to identify k their own aspirations with U.S. policies on Africa. Bill Drummond, former staff reporter for the Los Angeles Times who now works for National Public Radio in Washington, D.C., looks at this new aspect of U.S. racial politics for PNS. WASHINGTON, D.C. - With the Rhodesia issue now in the middle of domestic U.S. politics, moves are underway by black American groups to form a U.S. black lobby on Africa. Key spokesman in the effort is UN Ambassador and top Carter political aide, Andrew Young. Young sees the issue of trade sanctions against Zimbabwe Rhodesia as a litmus test for President Carter’s comnitment to the aspirations of blacks in America. “There is now a population that is ethnically related to Africa,” says Young, “that is going to be concerned about the way those votes come down. Even if we don’t Attgitsla Npiua-Kwitw They were “pleasantly surprised” by the Weber decision. “It’s a bright, shining light for all of us who believe in equal opportunity and affirmative action,” said Brooks, who added that he had “been worried that we were headed back to (an atmosphere) in which black people could not expect any justice in the job market.” Activists and attorneys agreed that the ruling will have immediate and far-reaching impact on “reverse discrimination” cases now planned or pending in courts throughout the nation and would provide valuable assistance in their continuing efforts to find remedies for racial imbalance in the work force, wherever it exists. Lowery predicted that it would also “strengthen the mayor’s position” with regard to a just-announced controversial plan to fill half of the available job openings in the Atlanta police department with white applicants and half with black applicants. Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson said he is “not a quota man,” calling racial quotas, “a tricky business, a two-edged sword,” but that he believes they have some usefulness as a remedy for racial imbalance. Vernon Jordan, president of the National Urban League, said that he regarded the decision as “just the beginning, not the end of the fight for affirmative action,” coming as it does “against a backdrop of a growing gap between blacks and whites.” “Blacks are experiencing Depression-level unemployment, and we are understand all of the implications of each and every vote, there is no way that we cannot be sensitive to the racial dynamics of each and every vote.” Added to this growing political awareness by American blacks, is Nigeria’s new clout in world affairs. “If you are thinking about these long gas lines, one out of every eight gallons of gasoline sold in this nation comes from Nigeria,” Young pointed out late last month -a few days before Nigeria let it be known that it might use its oil weapon if the U.S. recognized the new government in Zimbabwe Rhodesia. “Now if you buy Gulf, one out of every two gallons of Gulf comes from Nigeria. We are talking about the kinds of realities that I think white folk can understand.” Black American political and civil rights leaders have been quick to back Young in making the connection. Recently, Trans Africa, the Washington-based lobby on U.S.-Africa policy, brought together a coalition of black groups that included the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP and the National Urban League to support Carter’s decision to continue the U.S. economic boycott of Youth believed lynched for dating white Page 1 P.0.80x 953 locked into low-wage marginal jobs. There is still massive resistance to black needs, as seen in the support given Weber,” Jordan said. But the ruling “suggests a positive obligation for private employers to press forward with broad, comprehensive affirmative-action programs,” Jordan said. “Now they have no excuse to avoid their legal and moral duties.” The Weber decision may elicit “several suits in coming years against firms reluctant to hire or promote minority people,” said Nathaniel R. Benjamin Hooks Jones, general counsel for the NAACP and President Carter’s nominee for a federal appellate court judgeship. “But this should halt the spate of so-called ‘reverse discrimination’ suits,” he said. C. Delores Tucker, president of the Federation of Democratic Women and former secretary of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania, said she was “very gratified that the Supreme Court upheld the premise on which this nation was founded, that all Americans should have the the Salisburg regime. These leaders said they would take political steps against those in the Senate and the House who had been pushing for an end to the trade sanctions. Randall Robinson, executive director of Trans Africa, said, “We want to make it dear that the black leadership is committed to respond to those in Congress who would embrace what is nothing more than a racist solution to the problems of Africa.” No doubt the Senate conservatives who want the sanctions lifted are less intent on aiding Bishop Abel Muzorewa than they are on dealing a setback to Carter and particularly Andy Young. Nevertheless, the Rhodesia question highlights two basically new facts of life about racial realpolitik. First, educated, upwardly mobile American blacks are increasingly looking to Africa as a derivative of the civil rights movement in the American South. Salisburg has become a latter-day Selma. Second, America’s reliance upon African countries for raw materials, not necessarily confined to petroleum, will inevitably mean accommodating more of their political demands. If you ask a reasonably well right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Without a job, and without economic parity, one cannot enjoy these three virtues.” “It was the proper way to decide that case,” added Laughlin McDonald, director of the Southern office of the American Civil Liberties Union. Had Weber won, McDonald said, it could have been the death knell for voluntary affirmative-action programs nationally, requiring the it Vernon Jordan federal courts “or an expanded bureaucracy” to deal with the problems of discrimination in hiring and employment. “It removes a major obstacle to compliance with affirmative-action guidelines,” Vernon Jordan said, “so there is much to be happy about today.” “We applaud this decision, though we ought not to have to be so appreciative,” the NAACP’s Hooks said with somewhat greater restraint, “for something which justice dictates we should never have had to ask for.” informed person which country is the most populous black nation on earth, he or she will quite likely know the answer: Nigeria. But try asking which country has the second largest black population in the world. Not many people will know that it is the United States. These two geopolitical forces mean one thing: Black Clout. It exists and the United States must adjust to it. However, the question remains whether Young and Nigeria chose correctly in exercising that clout over the Rhodesia issue. The Arab states gained few admirers in the United States when they exercised the oil weapon following the October War in the Middle East in 1973. Many Senators want to show the Nigerians that they cannot push the United States around. Some observers believe that in identifying himself with the Nigerian threat, and seeing Rhodesia through the Mississippi prism, Young may have overstated the fact to his own detriment. They point to the fact that Muzorewa’s government is multi-racial and substantially different from the white minority regime of lan Smith. In Washington, moreover, the political battle Gov’t cuts tico with Soul City, ends McKissick dream IPagel July 7, 1979 Conservatives claim King holiday would put U.S. on side of Reds WASHINGTON - Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a National Holiday would put the United States “ on the side of the Reds,” political conservatives have told Congress. “His willing friendship and collaboration with totalitarian communists and racists, but even more, his teaching of contempt for law and the legal process makes it most unsuitable for his anniversary to be made a national holiday,” said Rep. Larry McDonald (D-Ga.) Youth believed lynched CHESTER, S.C. - Folks who live in this small rural town are saying privately that 17-year-old Mickey McClinton P >ag was lynched by five white men and that local police are seeking to hide the incident in a bogus hit-and-run accident report. According to police reports, Poag was killed May 10 by a hit-and-run driver, but family members and funeral parlor employes say the story is Women found beheaded LOS ANGELES - The nude torsos of two young black women minus the heads, hands and feet - were discovered in a drainage ditch early Tuesday by a woman motorist who thought she found “a couple of mannequins.” Investigators said no trace of lines on the sanctions do not follow classic liberal-conserva tive patterns. Civil rights veteran Bayard Rustin and liberal ex-Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein -- both pointing to what they see as a more dangerous communist alternative - have given qualified support to Muzorewa’s government. On the other hand, as the Greek-Turkish confrontation over Cypress illustrated, a domestic constituency (such as the Greek lobby) can dramatically alter the direction of foreign policy. As Jimmy Carter’s standing in the polls continues to fall, he appears less inclined to make a move flat would alienate Andy Young, who is his single strongest hold on the allegiance of black voters. As far as Andy Young is concerned, the Rhodesia struggle is the successor to the civil rights marches in the south. In May, Young said as much. “This isn’t about foreign policy at all,” the Ambassador said in reference to the role Africa played in domestic American politics. “The folks that are pushing these amendments (favoring lifting sanctions) don’t give a damn about Africa. They don’t know a damn thing about Africa.” He Less than 75% Advertising Alan Stang, author of “It’s Very Simple: The True Story of Civil Rights,” said that honoring King with a national holiday would indicate “the United States Government is now on the side of the Reds.” They and others testified against the King Memorial Day proposal at a Senate judiciary committee hearing called by committee members who also opposed the idea. The session was chaired by the panel’s ranking Republican, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. A majority of the unlikely due to the condition of the young man’s body. They said Poag’s body was mutilated in such away that the police story is a coverup Also they said he had been castrated and his body found less than a mile away from the home of Sheriff Robert Orris. Poag’s death comes on the heels of another suspicious death three years ago in Chester, when Chris Franklin was found dead. “He was the dismembered parts, or of the victim’s clothes was found after an extensive search of the area including an open field nearby. Detective Gary Broda said the cause of the deaths, and where they occured, have not been determined. concluded: “What they do know is that one way to seriously disrupt the Democratic Party is to force a split in the Domestic Party on the Africa issue. With tensions already between -a balanced budget and inflation and energy policy and all of these things, the final nail in the coffin would be an Africa policy that did not respect the sensitivities of the black voters of this nation.” Freeman awarded M.D. Kevin Henri Freeman received the doctor of medicine degree during the recent commencement exercises at Emory University. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henri Freeman and the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Namon (Elease) Freeman and William Baxter and the late Mrs. Catherine Baxter. Dr. Freeman was a 1971 honor graduate of the Academy of Richmond County, receiving merit and scholastic certificates from Augusta College and the University of Georgia. He earned his B.S. degree in biology from Emory University x /lugustans hospitalized in shootout Page 2 see editorial page 4 committee, including Chairman Edward Kennedy, (D-Mass.), who did not attend the session, supports the proposed legislation to make the slain civil rights leaders birthday a national holiday. Thurmond maintained that King should not be honored because the cost of adding another federal holiday -- about $195 million -- is “not lynched also,” said a resident who asked to remain anonymous out of fear, “but people here know the truth but are afraid to speak up.” Franklin, 19, was found tied to a tree and bmtally assaulted. Residents say the motive for the alleged lynching is the fact that Poag, a senior at Chester Senior High School, was dating a white classmate. The same reason was attributed to the killing of Franklin. The white Lt. Mitchell Maricich said authorities have no way yet of identifying the bodies but believe the victims were black women between 15 and 30 years old. Maricich said detectives believe the women were killed elsewhere and their torsos Gov’t abandons Soul City WASHINGTON - The government said Thursday it will cut its ties to Soul City, putting an end to civil rights activist Floyd McKissick’s dream of a building a multiracial new city of 50,000 in the red clay meadowlands of North Carolina. When the announcement came, officials said that only 124 persons lived in 33 houses in Soul City. The Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated its loss in seven years at about S2B Kevin H. Freeman in 1975. Pursuing his interest in medicine, he attended an reasonable.” And hj questioned whether King should be ranked with Christopher Columbus and George Washington - the only individuals so far honored with national nonreligious holidays. The administration and a number of civil rights leaders applauded the idea at earlier hearings. girl Poag was dating has reportedly left the area. Mrs. Patricia Poag, the mother, said her son’s death was no accident, and charge the sheriffs department with trying to cover it up. Funeral director Christopher King and his assistant Issac Hill, have sealed Poag’s coffin and refused to give details of the boy’s condition when his body was found. dumped sometime during the night. He said the grisly discovery was first reported by a woman motorist who at first thought the torsos “were a couple of mannequins,” but she made a U-turn to check “and found it was a couple of bodies.” million, plus $65,000 for a consultant’s study saying Soul City would never be financially “viable.” Bill Wise, HUD’s assistant secretary for public affairs, said the government would pay off $lO million worth of guaranteed bonds and seek to negotiate with McKissick the takeover of the land owned by the Soui City Co. It will then sell the land for an estimated SBOO,OOO. If a settlement can’t be negotiated, the government will foreclose, Wise said. Allied Science Institute at th Medical College of Georgia and was the recipient of a summer research fellowship at Harvard University School of Medicine and also participated in a Health Careers summer program at Cornell University School of Medicine. During his senior year of medical school, he chose to take several elective courses in outpatient pediatrics at the Baylor University School of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Freeman will serve his internship and residency in Atlanta at the Emory University affiliated hospitals in the area of pediatrics. 25*