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Tbe Aagaata Newa-Review - September 5,1981
City officials have
turned deaf ears on
complaints from residents
of Richmond county's
poorer neighborhoods
asking the city to clear up
vacant lots, abandoned
cars, and trash dumps,
according to participants at
a hearing sponsored by the
C S R A Economic
Opportunity Authority last
week.
The Rev. Charlie
Moore, pastor of Crawford
Baptist Church said,
“When we try to do
something ourselves, we
can t get no help from city
council or elected officials.
Come election time, we’re
going to tie their hands and
tie their feet and throw
them out of office.
A.B. Strohman, vice
president of the Laney-
Walker Neighborhood
Association took the News-
Review to see a number of
the “eye sores” , he said
have been there for two to
four years," and the city
has done nothing about it."
Among the 300 persons
attending the hearing were
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Residents Os Poor Neighborhoods
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residents from the Hyde
Park, Aragon Park, Sand
Hills, Turpin Hill, and
Barton Chapel communities.
Common to all low
income neighborhoods are
problems with community
development, economic
development and citizen
participation Strohman said.
He said that one of the
biggest problems in
community development is
the need for housing
rehabilitation.
“Residents that own
their own homes do not
have enough money to
finance the kind of repairs
necessary to make them
adequate, and interest rates
are so high that low-income
persons can not afford
loans or can't get credit.
‘A large number of
homes do not have
adequate plumbing facilities
and many are overcrowed.
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He also called for
street paving, the
installation of sidewalks,
improved street lighting
and improved recreational
facilities.
Strohman said
residents of poor
neighborhoods must be
included in the decision
making process.
Low income residents
usually don’t hear about
new programs until "after
the decisions are made and
the priorities have been
set."
Congressman D.
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Douglas Barnard was
criticized for not attending
meetings of poor folk.
Wilbert Allen, a
spokesman for the Georgia
Coaliton on Hunger asked,
“Why hasn’t Doug Barnard
Shirley Chisholm Shocked By
Apartheid
Congresswoman Shirley
Chisholm (D-New York)
recently returned from and
18-day Congressional study
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address the poor people
himself instead on sending
a representative (Cal
Thornton)?
"He goes to the
Chamber of Commerce, The
mission to six nations in
Africa.lncluding a four-day
visit in South Africa, where
she was “shocked and
depressed” by the
condition of that country’s
non-white residents under
the apartheid system of
strict racial segregation.
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Shriners, but npt to poor
people."
Thornton announced
that Barnard says he
intends to support the
extension of the Voting
“I was just not
prepared,” the
Congresswoman said, for
the first-hand evidence of
harsh repression and
discrimination in South
Africa. “I personally
witnessed the desperation
and human tragedy which
is so prevalent there. I saw
Black women and children
forcibly evicted, in the cold
rain, from their make-shift
shelters in Langa, an area
the government has
declared off-limits to black
squatters.”
”1 could see, in a
starkness we in America
are not used to, the human
cost of apartheid. Black
workers travel many hours
each day from their homes
to jobs in the city, and then
must rush to leave the
city’s borders before sunset
to avoid being ‘detained’ by
the police after dark.
‘‘By conscious
government decision, Black
communities are isolated,
impoverished, neglected,
and grossly underserved by
basic public services.
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conditions is followed,
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Rights Act. He did not say
whether he supports
extension of the act in its
present form or only if it
includes all 50 states, the
position supported by Sen.
Strom Thurmond.
harrassed, arrested, or
banned by an all-prevasive
police power.”
The Member of
Congress spoke with a wide
spectrum of government
and community leaders.
“Because of the weak and
ambivalent U.S. policies on
South Africa,” Mrs.
Chisholm explained,
“neither side in the conflict
was happy to see an
American delegation.'
Government representatives
accused us of meddling,
and the Blacks blamed us
for our country’s apparent
condoning of the status
quo. However, we all came
away with a sense that the
South African government is
resisting reform and is
perhaps even taking
significant steps
backward.”
“Everywhere we heard
great apprehension about
the increasing chances for
violent upheaval. Many
Blacks are determined that
their children must not
grow up inder such a
system, and the whites are
equally determined to
preserve their total
domination of the economy
and society. Prospects for
peaceful change appear
dim, and fading.”
“I came back,” the
Congresswoman concluded,
“believing the unbelievable
about South Africa's racial
system; and more
importantly, I came back
even more committed to
ending any semblance of
American support for it.”