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CITIZEN OF THE YEAR Thayles Elliot (top left) member of the Richmond County
Board of Education, was presented the Citizen of the Year Award Sunday by the Psi Omega
Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. The award was presented by Isaac McKinney.
James L. Walker (below, left) was named the fraternity’s Man of the Year. He is em
braced by Henry R. Daggett.
Johnny Nimes was named Man of the Paine College Chapter. Service awards were
presented to A. E. Bryant and Dr. James E. Carter Jr.
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Egoism and Politics —1984
It is amazing to me, but it is also
clear to me, that there is a distinct
difference between right and
wrong, rich and poor, the ego and
the spirit. There is also a distinct
difference between Black and
white. Each is a quality of life that
is diametrically opposite. It is a
rule of science and plane geometry
that for every quality of life their is
an opposite quality. I don’t know
if we have to live with the people in
politics who wish we would go
away. I don’t know if it is possible
to convince racists, bigots, or
power hungry people to be
spiritual, loving, caring ... what I
do know is that it is our duty to
take a stand for righteousness. It
is our duty to do all that we can to
prevail against the forces that care
less, because we do care more.
It seems to me that the
democrats attended the
HUD honors
A.G. Gaston
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Dr. A. G. Gaston
Samuel Pierce ,r., Secretary of
the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD),
honored Birmingham businessman
and philanthropist Dr. A. G.
Gaston, last week for his generous
contributions to residents of Bir
mingham’s public housing.
Gaston, who rose from a
steelworker to become a
millionaire, heads the Booker T.
Washington Insurance Co., and
also owns two local radio stations
and statewide chain of funeral
parlors.
Most recently, Dr. Gaston in
vested $25,000 in an Operation
Self-Help program for public
housing tenants.
Bernice Williams, HUD director
of Small and Disadvantaged
Business Utilization, handed Dr.
Gaston a certificate citing him for
“his many contributions to the
well-being of his fellow-citizens
and restoring to many of Bir
mingham’s residents a sense of
self-worth and confidence in the
future.”
Millie Jackson
From page
Although he at one time per
formed in South Africa, singer
Brook Benton promised never to
appear there again until Blacks
were treated as equals by the white
minority government.
Among those who’ve appeared
there but never publicly apoligized
for doing so are Dakota Staton,
James Moody, George Benson and
Stanley Turrentine.
Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight and
the Pips, the Jacksons, Diana
Ross, Roberta Flack, Bill Cosby
and Tony Bennett have been in
vited but refused although some
have been offered as much as $1
million a week to make the jour
ney.
The Aiig tsta News-Review November 17,1984
Democratic National Convention
looking out for their own best in
terests. The Republicans did the
same. Well, we all know that he
who hasthe gold rules, unless we
use numbers, rules, laws, and
leadership for leverage.
What annoys me most is the
negative thinking. How little we
know about how we learn, how we
direction, and team effort. He has
focused on the wisdom of the great
messiahs, and he specifically
quotes Jesus at a time when his
parables are most applicable. He
also has the courage to take it to
the marketplace. HOW
WONDERFUL! He has their at
tention and respect. We have to
assist him in teaching right from
wrong. Remember, disciples prac
tice discipline. What does that
mean&
I saw a lot of people that I knew
at the convention. Cecily Tyson
was there, so was Vernon Jordan,
Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, C.
Delores Tucker, Ben Hooks, and
Dorothy Height, just to name a
few people who have not received
detailed media coverage recently,
people that you may not have seen
win, and how we convince others
to do the things that are for the
best interest of all people.
Jesse is talking about conscious,
unless you watched C-Span on
cable. The public networks
focused on the platform, and again
couldn’t bring themselves to tell
you that Jesse Jackson told the
truth and will insist that others in
politics do so too.
I didn’t talk to people at the
Convention who used to be
Jackson supporters. People who
joined forces with Jesse stayed
with Jesse all the way. People who
weren’t with Jesse two months ago
joined forces with him by conven
tion time. He’s not losing support
and that’s exactly where you and I
come in. We have to draw atten
tion to the issues that Jesse
Jackson focuses on in our neigh
borhoods, in our schools, in our
churches, in our local elections, in
our letters to the mayor, the
senate, the sheriff’s office and the
networks. Why? Because those
people who were there, who saw
the whole truth saw “the word,
made flesh,” if you couldn’t see it,
your favorite newspaper has hid
den the truth from you.
I believe Jesse Jackson made us
recognize the Rainbow Coalition.
I believe that our strength is in that
Coalition. Jesse knows enough
about human consciousness to
know also the way out of “hell,”
as Ghandi once put it. He’s guided
by a value system recognized by
those people who listen to the Holy
Spirit and not their egos. Let me
qualify what I’m saying: there is
nothing in the rules of spirituality
that say you have to give up “Your
dream” to be a good person.
There is no rule of Mohammad
that says we have to live in a world
where we neglect the elderly,
children, women, or any living,
breathing, God created life force.
We have a responsibility to grow
and learn about our souls. We
have to live in peace and God will
provide our prosperity. With
imagination, love, righteousness,
and willingness we can create a
new world that is above the “we
ism” that involves only a
few
The Democratic Party did exac
tly what they set out to do and that
was to look out for their best in
terests. Because some of these
people are not empathetic to the
needs of their bretheren, they are
taking care of those things that
they find most important. We
have to support Jesse Jackson’s ef
forts! We may have to vote for
Mondale but we have to support
Jesse Jackson. We have to let
everyone know that he is
specifically speaking about our
best interests. We recognize that.
We support that. We make finan
cial contributions to support
Jackson’s efforts.
Jesse is specifically demanding
that the Democratic Party and the
Mondale/Ferraro administration
address the needs of our com
munities and take a moral assertive
look at our position in the world.
Jesse is talking about controlling
what is yours. He’s talking about
educating your family and
providing nutrituional herapy for
children, old people and the sick.
He’s talking about understanding
your position in the world. He’s
talking about the fact that the wars
that have been fought for the last
4,000 years have not solved the
problem, so we have to live
another way. As Martin Luther
King said, as Ghandi said, as our
own Howard Thurman said, “We
must not wait.” But we must learn
our lessons about taking care of
our fellow man.
Martin Luther King’s words
hold true in 1984:
"/ may not get there with you,
but I want you to know tonight
that we as a people will get to the
promised land. ”
"... Non violence had tremen
dous psychological importance to
the Negro. He had to win and to
vindicate his dignity in order to
merit and enjoy his self-esteem.
He had to let white men know that
the picture of him as clown
irresponsible, resigned and
believing in his own inferiority-was
a stereotype with no validity. This
method was grasped by the Negro
masses because it embodied the
dignity of struggle, or moral con
viction and self-sacrifice. The
Negro was able to face his adver
sary, to concede to him a physical
advantage, and to defeat him
because the superiority of the op
pressor had become powerless. ”
"...The assassination of
President Kennedy not only a man
but a complex of illusions. It
demolished the myth that hate and
violence can be confined in an air
tight chamber to by employed
against but a few. Suddenly the
truth was revealed that hate is a
contagion; that it grows and
spreads disease* that no society is
so healthy that it can automatically
maintain its immunity. If a
smallpox epidemic had been raging
in the South, President Kennedy
would have been urged to avoid
the area. There was a plagueaf
flicting the South, but its perils
were not perceived. ”
"... We were all involved in the
death of John Kennedy. We
tolerated the sick stimulation of
violence in all walks of life; and we
tolerated the differential ap
plication of law, which said that
man’s life was sacred only if we
agreed with his views. This may
explain the cascading grief that
flooded the country in late
November. We mourned a man
who had become the pride of the
nation, but we grieved as well for
ourselves because we knew we were
sick. ”
"...One aspect of the civil rights
struggle that receives little atten
tion is the contribution it makes to
the whole society. The Negro in
winning rights for himself
produces substantial benefits for
the nation. Just as a doctor will
occasionally reopen a wound,
because a dangerous infection
hovers beneath the half-healed sur
face, the revolution forj human
rights is opening up unhealthy
areas in American life and permit
ting a new and wholesome healing
to take place. Eventually the civil
rights movement will have con
tributed infinitely more to the
nation than the eradication oj
racial injustice. It will have
enlarged the concept oj
brotherhood to a vision of total in
terrelatedness. On that day, can
John Donne’s doctrine, "no man
is an island, ” MU find its truest
application in the U.S.”
The “Rainbow Coalition” has
historically lead the way. We have
historically run the world. There
were 20 Third World dynasties
prior to Alexander the Great.
There is no question of our ex
perience in moral, human,
spiritual issues and world affairs.
The problem greatly lies in our
ignorance of ourselves. We believe
in a history that is “hsi European
story.” Not our story. We believe
in a white God instead of a
Macrocosmic universe of which we
are a microcosmic part. We have
to know the God in us before we
can begin to experience the God in
the universe.
It is our moral and political
position to support Jesse Jackson’s
political efforts because of one
simple rule. If we stick together in
righteousness we are unbeatable.
Conservatives who have been
firm in their manipulative tactics
and false belief-system of op
pressing any people must bow to a
new day. In the spirit of truth,
justice, brotherhood, human
rights, equal rights, civil rights, mn
and women with courage and for
titude must raise up all over the
world symbols of a mighty God. It
is clear that for the Rainbow
Coalition, Jesse Jackson has
brought the will to persevere, a
strength to overcome, a spirit of
righteousness to a people who will
no longer hush their mouths in a
struggle to be free. It is our duty to
overcome the absurdity of the
bureaucracy in preparation for a
world governed by divine law.
“Our time has come.”
Quotations frpm Why We Can’t
Wait, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Veronica German is a free-lance
writer living in San Francisco.
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