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The Augusta News Review February 16,1985
Mandela
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peaceful change for 48 years, and
from those leaders, and I must
warn the government that there is
no hope for peace in this land until
they talk to those leaders,” Tutu
added.
The rally was unusual, reflecting
a relaxation of political restrictions
by a government that is trying to
lessen tensions and open new lines
of communication with the Black
community. A continued com
mitment to white-minority
political control, however, preven
ts most Black leaders from accep
ting the newly stated positions as
genuine.
It was the first time permission
was given for an outdoor rally by
the United Democratic Front, an
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alliance of about 700 antiapartheid
organizations that the government
charges is a front for Mandela’s
outlawed African National
Congress. Until recently, the front
seemed about to be banned as well.
Longtime observers noted that it
was the first time they could recall
an antiapartheid rally being held
without any visible police presen
ce. Yet there was a reminder of the
mounting racial tension in the fact
that the rally took place a day after
a gun battle between police and a
group of ANC insurgents in
another Black ghetto of Johan
nesburg. One insurgent was killed.
Mandela, 66, who says his
organization turned to violence
only because it was suppressed af
ter campaigning fruitlessly for
of Botha’s offer: “Let him
renounce violence. Let him say
that he will dismantle apartheid.”
Mandela set what appeared to be
his own conditions for accepting
an offer of freedom when he again
called on the government to lift its
ban on the congress. He also said
the rulers should free all political
opponents who had been im
prisoned, banished or exiled and
guarantee fre political activity “so
'that the people may decide who
will govern them.”
The rally was an ANC occasion
in all but name. Leaders of the
Democratic Front openly iden
tified themselves with the outlawed
organization, and the big crowd
chanted the names of Mandela and
Tambo and sang congress freedom
■■■■
songs througout the day.
Zinzi Mandela, who was born
after her father’s arrest and did not
see him unti she was allowed avisit
at age 16, was hoisted on the
shoulders of the dancing, singing
crowd for 10 minutes.
Winnie Mandela, whose restric
tion order was partially relaxed to
enable her to obtain Mandela’s
reply, listened unnoticed from
behind the crpwd that she was not
allowed to jbin.
After conveying her father’s
greetings to Tutu, whom he said he
“saluted” for winning the Nobel
Prize, Zinzi Mandela read:
“My father speaks not only for
himself and for his comrades at
Pollsmoor Prison, but he hopes he
also speaks for all those in jail for
their opposition to apartheid, for
all those who are banished, for all
those who are in exile, for all those
who suffer under apartheid, for all
those who are opponents of apar
theid and for all those who are op
pressed and exploited.”
Parents can help
their Underachievers
When a child is an un
derachiever, getting poor grades in
school whe he or she has the in
tellligence to get high ones, what
can the parents do to help?
Here are some of the general
guidelines suggested by
psychologists and educators: 1.
Use rewards rather than bribes;
don’t promise anything, but if a
child’s grades improve, celebrate
by taking him or her out. 2. En
courage the child to become in
volved in activities that boost self
esteem —music, art, sports, com
puters, whatever. 3. Do everything
you can to keep the child from the
traumatic experience of being left
back. Leah Blumberg Lapidus,
clinical psychologist at Columbia
University Teachers College,
suggests parents press the school to
allow the child to retake an exam
or retake a course.
Summer school and outside
tutoring are other possible
solutions. 4. Don’t become too in
volved with underachiever’s
homework; it’s counterproductive.
The child has to rise to the
challenge of doing his or her home
work if a feeling of responsibility is
to be fostered. And 5. Don’t ex
pect too much too soon.
Chronic underachievers improve
slowly. But with patience, and by
being supportive, and possibly buy
trying different solutions until
something finally works, parents
can help their children achieve the
academic status thier IQ’s show
they should be reaching.
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Sheryl Lee Ralph
Sheryl Lee Ralph —
positive energy I
Positive energy! That’s what
Sheryl Lee Ralph exudes in such
rich abundance that it appears to
affect everyone in her surroun
dings—from the standing room
only crowds at the Imperial
Theatre where she recently con
cluded her stint as one of the
original Dreamgirls to the late lun
chers in the New York restaurant
where we are meeting. Sheryl Lee
Ralph, for anyone who doesn’t
already know, starred and Deena
Jones in the long-running Broad
way smash, Dreamgirls, and
although she certainly possesses
ample star quality, which is ap
parent even before she flashes her
1,000 kilowatt smile, she also
projects a natural, down-to-earth
quality that immediately puts you
Growing In Grace
A spiritual tribute to
Rise Collins
By Cynthia Butler Omololu
A tribute to Rise Collins. A
vision of the Augusta Mini
Theatre. In order to be truly great,
l Um JMI
to earn that
star of ex
cellence, one
must have a
vision that !
transends
one’s ego.
Tyrone Butler
has exhibited
that in his
selection of
Rise Collins.
Rise Collins is a Black woman.
Rise Collins is thirty-two-years
old. She won an OBIE for her ex
cellent portrayals of characters in
the Theatre.
Tyrone Butler met Rise Collins
in Atlanta. He saw her place in the
vision of the Augusta Mini
Theatre. He invited her to
Augusta. She came. Her role is to
enhance the acting skills of the
children who participate in the
Augusta Mini Theatre and help
develop the Theatre’s programs.
The Augusta Mini Theatre is on
the path of excellence. Rise Collins
is on her way to accomplishing
spiritual goals which began in
1976. The Augusta Mini Theatre,
the beautiful Black and white
children are the winners. Rise
began to win in 1976.
The children in the Augusta
Mini Theatre have been touched by
Rise Collins. She is a life line. In
1976, like many young people with
a dream, she was struggling to
make hers a reality. She had
auditioned for the off broadway
production which later became the
long running broadway play, For
Colored Girls Who’ve Considered
Suicide When the Rainbow is
Enuf. She made it. She became a
star. But do you know who her
best friend was the,doorman.
She opened herself to him. As a
result, he opened himself to her
and introduced alife line that she
has been pulling on and been led
by ever sicne.
They spoke of spiritual things.
He served her need and gave her a
book called Tigers Fang by Paul
Twitchell. She read it and she con
tinued her discussions with this
man.
“My dreams began to change,”
she said. “They became vivid.
They spoke to me and gave me
t at ease. Only in her twenties,
i Sheryl Lee has a list of very im
> pressive show business credits.
Besides having starred in a
i Broadway blockbuster for several
! years, she has appeared on
national television as a regular on
the soap opera, Search for
Tomorrow; acted in the Sidney
Poitier film, A Piece of the Action;
appeared opposite Howard Rollins
in a movie-of-the-week TV
production, The Neighborhood;
guest starred on several popular TV
series’; and has appeared on
almost every major talk show. In
addition she has a promising
nightclub career going for her and
has recorded the single, In the
Evening, which is rapidly rising on
the charts.
guidance. They translated them
selves into poetry. They sparked
creative writing. I was ready for
the experience. I knew that 1
needed spiritual guidance,” she ut
tered with a sense of realism.
“The doorman...yes, I love him,
I am greatful to him. I send
spiritual love to him. But there was
no need for us to continue our
association. We gave what we
needed to give to each other. We
both won for that.”
“One month after he gave me
the book, my dearest sister
brought a book home that she had
found on a public bus stop. It was
titled, The Flute of God by Paul
Twitchell.”
“I learned my first spiritual law,
when the student is ready, the
master appears.”
“Ironically”, she continued, “a
few days later, I visited a friend.
From her mantle piece a set of
Paul Twitchell’s books loomed out
at me with a force. I buy them all.
After studying as many Eckanakar
books as I could find, I studied the
Eckankar discources for two years
and then, I became an initiate of
Eckankar.
“Eckankar is a spiritual path to
God. Eckankar is a universial
teaching which encompasses the
light and the sound current. One of
the distinctions of Eckankar is that
it has a living master, the Mahan
ta, the living (Eck) Master who
teaches inwardly as well as out
wardly via the spiritual exercises of
ECK, the dream state, personal
discourses, books, seminars as well
as taped lectures. The aim and
purpose of Eckankar is to elad
souls by its own path back to its
divine source. If your readers
would like more information on
Eckankar, they may write to
Eckankar, P.O. Box 3100, Menlo
Park, CA 94026.
The law of Karma, retribution,
cause and effect, whatever you
choose to call it helped me make
little steps on the spiritual path. I
learned that life is a circular chain
of events. It begins and ends with
me. Therefore, within my reality,
all things are possible. Every
dream can become a reality. I
believe in the law of increase. The
spirity (ECK) is rich.
“If I think positively, positive
things will come to me, I will get
what I deserve. If I think
negatively, negative things will
come to me.
“Life is constantly giving of it
self so that there may be greater
life. We don’t get what we need by
needing it or asking for it. We get
what we need by GIVIVG.
“I sometimes feel that those
people who are in emotional and
physical poverty are perhaps trying
to take too much from life and
therefore they get into debt to
themselves. The results is em
ptiness every time. By giving more
than you take, life makes an effort
to repay you.
“The spiritual principles,” she
continued, “Have given me a
greater understanding of spiritual
laws, spiritual techinques and
spiritual measuring rods to help me
in this life, this world and other
worlds.”
I was mesmerized. I wanted to
say, “Preach girl,” but I did not.
Good for me. I was deeply im
pressed because many of the
spiritual laws she discussed were
the same ones that I had found.
Only I din’t find them with
Eckankar but Christianity.
I thought, “All the roads we
trod, all of the chastening rods.
Fancy Rise Collins and I meeting
on this road.”
“I do believe,” she continued,
“that in the short run, pruning can
be painful, but I have found that
over the long run, they are our
teachers. They are getting us ready
to get in tune with Self. So often
pruning seems like a stumbling
block. But as I get in touch with
the spiritual laws that underlie the
physical world, I know that every
pruning, every chastening is a
stepping stone.”
1 wanted to say, “Praise the
Lord, girl.” But I kept quiet. It
was more apropriate.
“I learned that all one needs is
oneself and God. I needed to
discover my relationship to myself
as soul and soul’s relationship to
God. Once I discovered that
relationship, I had what I needed
to carve a place for myself.”
Yes, we win by giving. Tyrone
Butler gave the Augusta Mini
Theatre and Augusta Rise Collins.
The greatest gift is to give and not
care who gets the credit. Life will
give you your reward. We get what
we deserve.