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I'he Augusta News-Review (USPS 887 820)- August 4, 1979
Slave, whose poems won hearts
of beauties for masters, honored
PITTSBORO, N.C. - For the
second summer, an outdoor
drama is being held here at the
fairground amphitheatre in a
memory of slave poet George
Moses Horton, whose 50 cents
acrostic love poems were
practically guaranteed to win
the hearts of antibelluni
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beauties for the young masters.
The season was opened for
twice-weekly presentations of
the drama with the observance
of George Moses Horton Day
recently. Speakers included Dr.
Mildred B. Payton, playwright
and president of. the
Association for the Study of
North Carolina Heritage, the
sponsoring group; Actress
Candy Mobley; Al Attles,
coach of the Golden State
Warriors; Mrs. Shirley Frye of
A&T State University; and
Sherman Briscoe, executive
director of the National
Newspaper Publishers
Association.
The three act play, “A Man
Named Moses,” covers the
highlights of his life and the era
in which he lived. It opens in
1816 and closes with the end
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of the Civil War in 1865.
Horton was born a slave in
Northampton County, N.C. in
1797 and died in Philadelphia
in 1883. When his master
moved to Chatham County,
not far from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
one of his chores was to haul
produce to the university
weekly.
Somewhere along the way,
he became intensely interested
in learning to read and write.
He found a torn spelling book.
This got him started, and for
the next several years, he spent
his Sundays learning to read
and form letters.
By the time he was 30. he
had begun writing poetry, and
the university students, noting
his efforts began to give him
books, including a grammar, a
dictionary, and books of
poetry.
Most help of all came from a
Mrs. Hentz and her husband of
Boston, who were teaching at
the university. Mrs. Hentz
helped him with his spelling
and punctuations and sentence
structure. His acrostic love
poems, which he sold to
university students for 25 and
50 cents, used the letters in the
young ladies’ first names.
Later, with her help, he
turned out his first book of
poems, hoping to sell enough
copies to buy his freedom. But
the sales were disappointing,
perhaps because of the Nat
Turner revolt in Southampton.
Va.. shortly alter his poems
were published. Also Mrs.
Hentz and her husband left
North Carolina and joined the
staff at the University of
Kentucky.'
Horton continued to write
poetry, but he remained a slave
until the end of the Civil War.
Critics rate him one of the best
slave poets. Mrs. Payton and
her Heritage group have revived
the memory of Horton which
they hope to keep alive.
The outdoor drama is
presented every Friday and
Saturday evening at the
fairground amphitheatre, about
3 5 miles from the
Raleigh-Durham airport.
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Kissinger on Zimbabwe
By Margaret Bush Wilson
and Faith Berry
Henry Kissinger took time
off from writing his
55.000.000 memoirs to be
interviewed by the Washington
Post, which published it on
July 3 as a full page op-ed
piece - “Henry Kissinger on
the U.S. and Rhodesia.”
As if it may have gone
unnoticed, the Post also
featured a front-page news
article with the caption: “U.S.
Seen Favoring Radicals Against
Moderates - Kissinger Attacks
Rhodesia Policy."
It was through Kissinger’s
direction. 10 years ago, that a
secret National Security Study
Memorandum 39 documented
options to protect the interests
of the U.S. and white minority
governments in Southern
Africa.
It was also Kissinger who
advised the covert use of U.S.
military supplies in Angola (for
the South Africa supported
UNITA-FNLA faction) in
1975.
It was likewise Kissinger,
who, in an effort to offset
Soviet-Cuban penetration in
Southern Africa and to ensure
U.S. ereditibiiity. made his first
trip to the continent in April
1976 and, later that year,
announced his “plan for
majority rule” in Zimbabwe.
The “plan" which he
negotiated with South Africa’s
John Vorster and Rhodesia's
lan Smith, did not include
discussions with black
NAACP calls on blacks
to be counted in census
Benjamin Hooks, executive
director of the National
Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP), has called
upon every Black American to
be counted in the upcoming
1980 census and urged NAACP
chapters throughout the nation
to contribute toward that
important goal.
In his statement of support,
at the NAACP’s 70th annual
convention held recently in
Louisville, Kentucky, the
executive director explained
that population and housing,
figures from the 1980 census
will be used to allocate billions
of dollars each year in Federal,
State, and local funds for
numerous programs that
directly benefit Black
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nationalist leaders, Robert
Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo,
Ndabaningi Sithole, or Abel
Muzorewa, who is the new
Prime Minister. “We never
thought we could co-opt the
ideological radicals,” Kissinger
said in his Washington Post
interview. “Our goal was to
ignore them.”
He is now vexed that the
Carter Administration is not
ignoring them. In his words,
“Cyrus Vance and his
associates -- certainly Andy
Young - believe that the wave
of the future is represented by
the radical elements in
Rhodesia and Africa.”
He is now accusing Carter of
a kind of surrender to
“radicals” over “moderates”
because Carter said the
following on June 7 when he
refused to lift trade sanctions
against the new government in
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia:
The actual voting in the
April elections appears to have
been administered in a
reasonably fairway under the
circumstances. But the
elections were held under a
constitution that was drafted
by and then submitted only to
the white minority, only 60
percent of whom themselves
supported the new
constitution.
Kissinger's major interest is
not in the sanctions, the
election or the constitution; it
is in whether the Soviet Union
and Cuba may succeed in doing
what they did in Angola. His
posture on Africa should be
public safety. Hooks also
emphasized that the
population totals determined
by the 1980 census became the
basis for reapportionment of
seats in the House of
Representatives, State
legislatures, and local election
districts.
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fears minorities often express
about providing personal
information to government
agencies. “By law,” Hooks
noted, “no other agencies -
Internal Revenue, welfare,
police, immigration, landlord,
ect. can have access to your
personal information.” Not
once, in the fifty years of the
modern confidentiality law
governing the census, has there
been a proven violation. Census
information is used inly to
compile statistical totals.
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suspect anyway, since none of
his books, articles or speeches,
before he became National
Security Council advisor and
Secretary of State ever
mentioned African affairs.
Moreover, those of us who
watch Americans press
coverage of African affairs
observed that Kissinger’s
attacks on Carter’s policy bear
close resemblance to recent
editorials on Zimbabwe in the
Washington Post.
“The President’s Rhodesia
Blunder” (June 8) and “A
Scalpel for Rhodesia” (June
22) are but two cases in point.
It is not without irony that
they both were ananymously
written by Kissinger’s
interviewer, Stephen S.
Rosenfield.
“ ‘Europeans’ as whites are
commonly called by ‘Africans’
are crucial,” Rosenfeld wrote
in one of his articles in 1977.
“They provide vital skills and
contacts. Like live canaries in a
coal mine, their presence
signals that the political air is
safe to breathe.”
“Insufficient, inaccurate,
unconcerned, unenlightened
and insensitive coverage of
African affairs” were the
charges we heard most often
about the American media
during our fact-finding mission
to Africa for the NAACP Task
Force on Africa in 1977. The
Washington Post,
unfortunately does little to
contridict that press image
with editorials such as those we
have described.
The NAACP’s endorsement
of the 1980 census comes at a
time when the U.S. Bureau of
the Census is in the midst of its
own unprecedented nationwide
effort to inform all Americans,
especially minorities, of the
benefits of being counted by
the 1980 census.
Hooks closed his
endorsement by urging each
NAACP chapter to meet with a
Community Service Specialist
of the Census Bureau who can
answer questions and explain
in greater detail why the census
is so important to the Black
community. Concerned
individuals, groups and
organizations were urged to
contact their nearest regional
office of the Census Bureau for
more assistance and
information regarding the
upcoming 1980 census.