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The Augusta News-Review - October 13.1979 -
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Mallory K. Millender Editor-Publisher
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Walking with dignity
tLest we forget
By Al Irby „
Ebony is the leading pictorial magazine
in America, or probably in the world. It is
naturally oriented toward black people,
worldwide. Its editors and feature writers
are unusually authentic. The average
black can afford to read an Ebony, and
those of us who subscribe should pass it
on to our black brothers and sisters, who
are not able to buy one every month;
because in its well wrs well written pages
are some sound “Black Gospel”. Its
editors and staff writers are at the top of
the heap, when it comes to grass
roots-common sense on pertinent black
news. This unit of black journalism tells
the naked truth, even about the “High
and Mighty”.
RICH ENOUGH TO TELL THE WHOLE
TRUTH
In the kind of world we live in,
sometimes you have to big, strong and
rich to have the moral courage to tell the
whole truth. In the May edition of Ebony
there was a feature article captioned: Are
Black Superstars forgetting their Roots?
This question asked by Charles L.
Sanders, one of Ebony’s top writers, not
only asked this biting question, but
answered it in the affirmative. Then goes
forth and names these “Big Money” boys
and girls, who have turned their backs on
their own people; and not giving a dime
to black causes.
It was the civil rights movement of the
60s that made it possible for these “filthy
rich” stars to get their breaks. Many
people gave their lives, including the
illustrious leader Dr. Martin Luther King.
Sanders names only a few of these racial
“turn coats”, but hold your hat, you are
surely to be disillusioned to leard that
your favorite stars are racial stinkers who
forsook their own, but you are sure to see
them on their way down.
THOSE WHO FORGOT THEIR PEOPLE
Natalie Cole, Lou Rawls, Berry White,
Donna Summer, O.J. Simpson, Teddy
Pendergrass, Reggie Jackson, James Earl
Jones, Jimmy JJ. Walker, The O’Jays,
Earth. Wind & Fire.... Not one of these
Letter to the editor
Reader look for his roots
Dear Editor:
I am looking for my roots.
My mother, Mrs. Mattie White who
took me to Chicago, U. May 1, 1921 at
that time she was married to my father,
Wade White. His father was old man
Sanko White, who used to preach on the
streets in Augusta.
Her mother was Mrs. Caroline Walton
who was a Yelldel when Mother was
bom. I understand my mother was bom
in or near Parksville, S.C.
Before I came to Augusta I lived in or
near Washington, Ga. with my aunt and
uncle. Hi. name was Conyers Lyons and
her name was Lula Lyons.
She had a son named Willie Washington
who I understand was killed riding a bike.
He had several daughters, one was
Lucinda Black and one was named Agnes.
He was married at the time of death to
Della Washington.
In the 1800 s, several American cities outlawed tub bathing in the winter without a
doctor's prescription.
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high-earning entertainers and athletes are
Life Members of the NAACP. The salary
range of the super stars are in the million
plus annually.
Os course, there are some loyal, and
concerned black superstars, both in
entertainment and sports. Here are a few
named as regular donors to black causes:
Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitier, Richard Pryor,
Harry Belafonte, and Stevie Wonder, and
some others--who are regular contributers
to our main-line protective black
organizations.
The NAACP, Urban League, United
Negro College Fund, SCLC, Operation
Push are the Gibralter of protection for
black people in these United States. Some
of these stars try to rationalize their stand
by saying they are pressured by their
managers to not to be too buddy, buddy
with blacks, if they want to earn big
money.
You can believe as much of that “hog
wash” as you want too: and ask yourself
if this monetary shying away from black
people will counteract what the rising Ku
Klux Klan is saying about rich blacks:
“We don’t care how rich they are, to us
they are just niggers.”
There are millions of black-hating
whites, who don’t give a dam about any
blacks, rich or poor. And again Ebony’s
writers point this out vividly in the
October issue. Ronald Harris and D.
Michael Cheers are pointing out the fact
that KKK robes are active from coast to
coast. Our armed services are reeking with
hatred by these robed haters. They are
cooling their animosity of the Catholics
and Jews, and focusing double doses of
raw hatred upon blacks.
The new Klan is attracting whites all
along the economic spectrum, alluring
young professionals, white collar workers,
college students and teenagers. Black
Gen. Stephen Olmstead, Marine Base
Commander of Camp Pendelton in
California, maintains heavy lookouts for
the Klan, as does the United States
Department of Justice. So somebody
better had tell those high-flying rich
superstars that they better wake up, and
re-join their racial brothers and sisters.
My mother used to attend Macedonia
Baptist Church when we left Augusta.
Rev. Jones was pastoring the church. My
father had a brother named Robin. I
attended First Ward School and the
Brown Sisters Catholic School.
Later my mother married Mr. Arthur
White.
I use to live at 911 Bennett Alley in
Augusta.
1 think Lucinda Black is still living.
When we lived in Augusta my mother
use to work for the Hollingsworths.
I had an Uncle named Jim or James
Brinkley who drove a team in Augusta for
a warehouse.
If you know anyone that knew my
parents kindley let me know.
Charles White
Mission Os The Divine Word
6238 S. Aberdeen 2nd Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60621
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BIACK RESOURCES IMG.
OUT ON A LIMB
To be equal ■
n Housing apartheid
still strong
By Vernon E. Jordan
Congress is moving too slowly on the
amendments to the 1968 Fair Housing
Act. After eleven years discrimination in
housing is still strong, and one reason has
been the absence of enforcement powers,
something the amendments would
correct.
Housing segregation is so widespread
that “apartheid” is not too strong a term
to describe it.
Not enough has been done to make
this issue one of national concern. The
amendments have been languishing in
Congress for many months.
One reason is the absolutely ridiculous
feeling that laws can’t solve problems.
That view only surfaces when it comes to
civil rights. In every other area, people
rightfully expect Congress to act to deal
with a problem.
The civil rights lawshave worked, they
have opened up new rights for minorities.
Even the 1968 Fair Housing law has had
an important effect in loosening the
patterns of segregation, even with
minimal enforcement.
Another argument is that fair housing
enforcement would only help relatively
few blacks -- those with the jobs and
incomes that would enable them to move
to the suburbs,
That view is wrong on two grounds.
First, even if it were true that relatively
few would benefit the amendments are
still important. No one suggests that laws
benefiting relatively few affluent whites
should not be passed -- in fact most laws
qualify for that description. Why then
must affluent blacks be singled out as
targets for discrimination?
But the facts are wrong as well.
Housing discrimination isn’t limited to
the affluent few - it affects all black
people. There may be more
discrimination against blacks trying to
rent an apartment in a working class city
neighborhood than against blacks trying
to buy a SIOO,OOO home in the suburbs.
Finally, the amendments are opposed
by some on the grounds that housing
discrimination is no longer a serious
problem. Such persons point to the
growing numbers of black moving to the
suburbs as proof that discriminatory
barriers are coming down.
This is the argument that has the least
basis in fact. Several studies made in the
past few months show how false it is.
Resource Center
developing proposal
This agency is developing a Family Day Care Homes are
proposal to be presented to the served the same meal(s) at no
United States Department of separate charge, regardless of
Agriculture Food and race, color, or national origin,
Nutrition Service (USDA), and that there is no
Special Nutrition Programs. discrimination in the food
The Resource Information service.
and Counseling Center Inc., Family Day Care Homes or
516 9th Street, Augusta, Ga. Child Day Care Centers in the
30901, assures the Food and CSRA can get in touch with
Nutrition Service that all this office for further
children in attendance at the information at 404-722-2062,
various Child Care Centers or Mr. Roger T. Bates.
The federal Department of Housing
and Urban Development sponsored one
study that found blacks trying to rent
through rental agents face an 85 percent
chance of being discriminated against.
Those trying to buy had a 48 percent
chance of facing discrimination.
That was a nationwide study that sent
black and white “checkers” to real estate
agents’ offices. The checkers were similar
in all respects except race, so income had
nothing to do with the discriminatory
practices. That blasts another old saw -
that blacks often can’t get housing
because they can’t afford it.
A similar conclusion is drawn by a
study by the Regional Plan Association of
the New York metropolitan area. It
found that blacks, who make up 12.4
percent of the region’s population, are
confined to only 1.3 percent of the
region’s land area.
The study identified numerous
all-white towns and neighborhoods in
which the average family income was
similar to that of the region’s black
households. Two-thirds of the region’s
whites live in heavily white areas and a
similar percentage of blacks live in heavily
black areas.
Finally, a University of Michigan study
on racial attitudes found that most white
preferred to live in mostly-white
neighborhoods, while blacks tended to
prefer integrated ones.
What it all boils down to is this: racism
is still a factor in national housing
patterns; fair housing laws are not being
enforced, blacks are still being denied the
housing of their choice, and a lot more
education and community stabilization
work is necessary.
Gutting teeth in the fair housing laws is
an essential first step to ending illegal and
unconstitutional racial discrimination in
housing.
With the field of presidential
contenders in both parties getting
crowded blacks have a right to know how
each and every one of the prospective
candidates stands on the fair housing
amendments.
When the candidates come around to
black communities looking for support
the first question that should be asked of
them is: “Where were you last fall when
the fair housing amendments were before
the Congress?”
The blackside of Washington
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Dr. Matthew Holden Jr., the black
commissioner of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, is working hard
to help assure a fair share of jobs and
contracts for blacks and other minorities
in the laying of the Alaska Natural Gas
Pipeline.
He recently returned from a week’s
stay in Alaska where he helped to lay the
ground rules for more effective
affirmative action in the laying of the
pipeline which will be bringing about 5%
of the nation’s natural gas supply by the
late 1980 s.
The pipeline is expected to cost
between $lO and sls billion, and
Commissioner Holden says blacks and
other minorities should get hundreds of
millions of this, if affirmative action is
meaningfully enforced. He estimates that
construction will get underway in late
1981, orearly ’B2.
COULD LOSE CONGRESSMAN
As a result of the 1980 census, some
Congressional seats may be lost to a few
states, while others gain them.
According to a 1978 population
estimate, New York, Ohio, Illinoise,
Pennsylvannia, Michigan, and South
Dakota may lose a total of 11 seats. In
New York state, Chisholm and Rangel
represent two of the four smallest
Congressional districts.
While the average district population in
New York in 1970 was 455,000 their
districts had 372,000 and 380,000
respectively. And between 1970 and
1978, Chisholm’s district lost 20.4
percent of its population, and Rangel’s
18.5 percent. New York is expected to
lose four seats.
In Michigan, Conyers and Diggs
represent the smallest districts -
389,000 and 332,000 respectively. The
average district in 1970 was 484,000.
Michigan is expected to lose one seat
through re-districting.
Likewise, Stokes represents the
smallest district in Ohio -- 347,000
compared with the state average in 1970
of 467,000. During the decade, his
district lost 24.9 percent of its
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population. Ohio is estimated to lose two
seats.
Similarly, Congressman Clay of
Missouri represents the smallest district in
the state - 378,000 as compared with an
average of 486,000. While Missouri is not
likely to lose a seat, re-districting could
reduce his 54 percent black majority and
make his re-election more difficult.
In Illinois, Stewart and Collins
represent two of the four smallest
districts in the state - 392,000 and
404,000 respectively against a state
average of 468,000 per district in 1970.
Since then, these teo districts have lost
15.2 and 13.1 percent of their
populations. Illinois is expected to lose
two seats.
These figures are estimates. The census
will determine the real count, and the loss
and gain of Congressional seats.
BLACK GOSPEL MIGHT’VE MADE
POPE PAT FOOT
I don’t care how you cut this, Joe, it
just wasn’t right for the white Catholics
to keep us blacks almost entirely out of
range while Pope John Paul 11, was
celebrating mass here Sunday.
Some say Cardinal Baum was afraid we
might break into the cadence of the black
gospel tradition in the Pope’s presence,
and they say that wouldn’t do. Now, how
come, Joe? Were they afraid the Pople
might pat his foot?
You know, Joe, I’ve been a Catholic
ever since I left the Baptist Church where
they shout and carry on too much for
me. Os course, the Catholics are a little
stiff, Joe. And I ain’t never got over the
mass they said at my uncle’s funeral.
Never even called his name.
Now, I don’t see nothing wrong with
bringing a little spirit into the church, and
saying mass to the gospel beat is real good
for that. But the white folks don’t like it,
Joe. So, they kept us at arm’s length. I
could barely see the Pope. It’s got me,
thinking about joining the Methodist
Church. Yet, I don’t know Joe. The
Catholics could change. Look how the
Pope took to wade in the water when he
was nn in Harlem