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Congressman Parren Mitchell:
America doesn’t care about blacks
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CONGRESSMAN Parren Mitchell (left) signs
autographs tor Earl Thurmond and his children,
Kimberly and Da’Henri.
Paine student from Iran
A Paine College student
from Iran said this week people
in his country believe that the
Shah of Iran came to this
country to help the U.S. State
Department plot the overthrow
of Ayatollah Khomeini.
The student, one of three
Iranian students attending
Paine, said in an interview,
“People back home believe he
came here to talk to the State
Department to blow up, to
Ben E. Mays, Andrew Chisom
Omegas urged to uplift downtrodden
Dr. Andrew Chisom and Dr.
Be njamin E. Mays
Achievement Week speakers
for the Omega Psi Fraternity
Saturday night and Sunday
afternoon respectively, called
on their brothers to “uplift the
downtrodden.”
Dr. Chisom, a native
Augustan and the first black
U.S. Marshal in the South since
Reconstruction, said that
blacks who say “We are” and
“I am” must commit
themselves to blacks who say
“We is” and “I are.”
He urged the fraternity to
lead in establishing referral
systems on job trenda; more
economic aid for black
colleges, community support
systems to encourage blacks to
achieve and “to remember
where they came from.”
He urged the fraternity to
get rid of black politicians
“interested in our numbers but
not in our welfare,” and to
re-strengthen the black family
unit.
Dr. Mays, president of the
Atlanta board of Education
and president emeritus of
Augusta Nruw-iKpit jfur
Shah’s motives doubted
defeat Khomeini.”
The Shah, he said, planned
to come to the United States
all along. “He could go to
hospitals in other countries.
Wiry not in Europe?” he asked,
adding that sympathizers of
the Shah in Iran has been given
S2OO million worth of weapons
to sigh t Khomeini.
The only reason the students
took over the U.S. Embassy
was because they want the
Morehouse College, said he is
perhaps “the oldest Omega
man alive,” having joined the
fraternity 60 years ago.
He is now 85. He called on
the fraternity to get blacks off
of welfare and a halt to the
dope traffic in the black
community.
He pointed out that blacks
should become concerned
about the fact that blacks die
eight years sooner than whites.
“If blacks don’t stop killing
blacks, we’ll become extinct.
No war is necessary. We’ll wipe
ourselves out,” he said.
He urged the fraternity to
raise SIOO,OOO in five years,
which would yield SB,OOO a
year interest. That SB,OOO
should be used to provide
scholarships for eight students,
based on need and scholarship
of B and A.
“I want you to be bridge
builders for unborn generations
to cross over to the other
side,” he said, adding that the
tragedy in life is not failing to
reach one’s goals, but in having
no goals to reach.”
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U.S. Congressman Parren J.
Mitchell. (Dem., Md.) told a
Men’s Day congregation at
Trinity C.M.E. Church here
Sunday that ih spite of the
election of a black mayor of
Birmingham and other signs of
encouragement all across the
nation/‘every thing is more
important than the final
liberation” of black Americans.
“I’m telling you as honestly
as I can, with few exceptions,
white America does not really
care about the further progress
of black people. We’re not on
the front burner. We’re not
even on the back burner. Far
too many people have taken us
off the stove and put us in the
deep freeze.”
The battle he said is against
spiritual wickedness in high
places.”
It is spiritually wicked, he
said, to see a man out of work
and not do anything about it.
“I say it’s spiritually wicked to
Shah “to execute him.” he
said.
“The students don’t hate
Americans. They want the
Shah,” he said, adding that
during the Iranian revolution
last year that the Shah had
78,000 to 80,000 Iranians
executed.
The Shah also stole $25
billion from the country's oil
income, the Paine senior
charged, noting that the sum is
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DR. BENJAMIN E. MAYS (center) receives presentation from Paine College
President Julius S. Scott Jr. during the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Achievement Week
Program. Program chairman Jimmy Carter is at left
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fashion policies to keep men
out of work.
“I say it’s spiritually wicked
for racism to stand at tire
hiring gate where white male
adults have full employment
and the black rate of
unemployment is 10.5 percent.
That is spiritually wicked.”
Mitchell, who is immediate
past chairman of the
Congressional Black Caucus
and the first black at large
Whip in the House, said that
the government pays out SI7
billion for every one percent of
unemployment. That, he said,
is bad enough, but worse is
what the government does to
the human spirit in terms of
policies of maintaining high
unemployment.
“What happens to a man
after he has pounded the
pavement for six months and
he can’t find a job? What
happens to his sense of
manhood, his sense of
personhood? How can he be a
the equivalent of Iran's annual
oil income.
He said he doesn’t expect
President Carter’s decision not
to buy oil from Iran to have
significant impact in either
country. During the revolution
last year no oil was sold to the
U.S. and it didn’t hurt very
much.
From the Iranian point of
view, he said if the U.S. doesn't
Shah reportedly
seeking U.S. help
to dump Khomeini
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father when he is
unemployed?'
“The tragedy of those who
are chronically unemployed
because of our national policy
is tliat they don’t begin to
doubt the system. They begin
to doubt themselves.
“If you look for work long
enough, you begin to think
something is wrong with me.’
That’s the greater tragedy than
paying Si7 billion a year to
destroy a sense of
personhood.”
Mitchell had harsh words for
blacks who, he said, are guilty
of using the expressions “only
the worst racists” would use.
“I hear us running around
talking about ‘THEY don’t
want to work. THEY are
driving Cadillacs while
THEY'RE on welfare.” 1 hear
some of us saying don’t give
THEM money because THEY
are going to drink it up.”
Yet, he continued, “some of
buy the oil another country
will. They all need it.
He said further that he
doesn’t feel that the American
hostages will be harmed. “It is
against Moslem religion to kill.
I’m pretty sure they won’t kill
them.”
The student said he has
experienced “no resentment
from any source” while in this
country.
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us in this room who are saying
it are no more than one or two
generations removed from
welfare ourselves. And
suddenly we start talking about
THEM and US. Us is them and
them is us. There is no
difference.”
There is no difference, he
said, between Parren Mitchell
the Congressman and Joe
Williams who sweeps the
streets of Augusta as a
sanitation worker. There is no
difference between Shirley
Chisholm the Congresswoman
and that woman who’s on
welfare in the City of Augusta.
We are one people and we can’t
afford the luxury of classness
dividing one class against the
other.”
Titles, salaries, cars and
houses, are temporary, he said.
“The only permanent thing
that we have is the “infinite
capacity to love one another,
don’t know you, brother,
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HUSBAND AND WIFE--Ronnie and Evelyn Brown of Belvedere, S.C. accept
Business League Small Business of the Year Award. Congressman D. Douglas
Barnard looks on. Photo by Frank Bowman
Businesses honored
at League banquet
By Fannie Flono
The last barrier to
fulfillment of the American
dream for blacks is the
economic system, U.S. Rep. D.
Douglas Barnard told nearly
1,000 area businessmen and
women at the 9th Annual
Awards Banquet of the CSRA
Business League.
“The trend of black
capilalism is emerging,” said
Barnard, Georgia’s Tenth
District Congressman.
“But we cannot content
ourselves with statistics,” he
said.
Problems of finances,
marketing, management
training,’ government policies
and the general state of the
jconomy will face black
Businesses of the future,
Barnard said.
He added that scarcity of
government loans coupled with
too much paperwork and time
in processing Small Business
Administration (SBA) loans
will also have to be faced
“particulariy in times of high
interest rates and low credit.
“The small business
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but I want to leave here saying
that I love you because you are
part of Malcolm, Martin,
Medgar and every other black
giant who ever stood for us.
“That sister up in the
balcony, I don’t know you. I
may never see you again in life.
But I know I love you because
you’re Sojourner Truth and
every other black woman who
ever laid down her life for a
black man and a black cause.”
In an interview after the
speech, Mitchell said he
applauded the efforts of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference and the Rev.. Jesse
Jackson, president of People
United to Save Humanity, to
aid the cause of peace in the
Middle East. “If people are
men of God, and that’s what
they are, you go any place, any
time, anywhere, under any
circumstances and talk with
anyone if you think it’s going
to mean peace instead of war.”
tradition is the strength of the
nation,” Barnard said. “A
healthy small business
establishment is the principal
sources of opportunity for self
improvement and self
fulfillment.”
As for ’ ack enterprise,
Barnard said its history dates
back to thr revolutionary war.
Presently, there are an
estimated 200,000 black
businessmen, he said. “The list
has shown vibrancy and
vitality.
“Part and parcel” of the
success of minority business in
this area is the CSRA business
league, Barnard said.
But the success must not
end here, he said.
“We are facing an enticing
new presidential election.
Non-aligned Third World
countries cannot be taken for
granted,” Barnard said.
“The tremendous potential
of private enterprise must be
unleashed to produce major
economic progress for all
Americans.”
The banquet included a film
salute to the late Dr. Berkeley
He said he was “really very
upset” that Vernon Jordan,
executive director of the
National Urban League criticized
the civil rights leaders for their
venture into foreign affairs.
“We don’t have the time to get
into any public criticism of
each other. I think Vernon and
Jesse and everybody else
should just throw their arms
around each other and be
supportive. This is no time for
any divisions.
Asked if he saw differences
between President Carter and
Sen. Edward Kennedy where I
blacks are concerned, he said
he thinks that it is “much to
early” to start making any
commitments to either of the
parties at this time ... but as
the campaign progresses “1
want to see both of these
people spell out in a very
definitive fashion what they
are going to do in terms of
blacks in this country.”
G. Burrell, 10th president of
the National Business League,
who died in September.
On hand was Theodore
Hagans Jr., new NBL president,
who awarded the CSRA
Business League the NBL’s
Honor League citation.
CSRA Business League
executive director Harvey
Johnson accepted the award
noting that this is the fourth
year the area league has
received national honors.
Receiving awards from the
CSRA Business League as
Small Business of the Year was
the Ronlyn corporation of
Belvedere, S.C., Small
Businessman of the Year was
Bernard Johnson, Bernard
Johnson Realty Co. and Small
Businesswomen of the Year
were Mrs. Thomasina Ketch
and Mrs. Juliette Burton,
Dent’s Undertaking
Establishment. Distinguished
Service Awards went to Sen.
Thomas Allgood, Julius
Doggett of Doggett Realty Co.
and Nelson Ancrum a concrete
contractor.
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