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The Augusta News-Review March 2,1985 From The Wilderness Forgotten past destined to return By Marva»Stewart Well, now, 16t’s see. It is Black History Month. I am just elated. Just think, it is Black History Mopth in 1985 and Black folk have it made in the shade. Just imagine, Black folk don’t need civil rights organizations, landmark court decisions or even affirmative ac tion programs! It’s just amazing! Black History .Month in 1985. Black folk don’t need a Martin Luther King Jr., a Jesse Jackson, a Frederick Douglass, or even a James Brown (to remind them to “Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud”). It’s simply remarkable that Black folk don’t need an Alex Haley, a Lucy C. Laney, a Marva Collins, a W.E.B. Dußois, a Langston Hughes, or a James Baldwin anymore. Surely, the struggle is over. Just think, in 1985 Black Americans are truly free to par ticioate in all aspects of American fife. There’s no worry or concern about discrimination or op pression. ■ ' Regardless, if a Black individual is rich or poor or light com plexioned or dark complexioned, he is treated fairly and justly. Blacks are truly a part of the American melting pot. From equal representation on governing bodies to legislation to insure voting rights to the right to reside in any neighborhood to receiving equal pay for equal .employment, Black folk really know that they have been fully integrated into the American way of life. I never thought that I would live to see this day. No more struggling. No more demon strating. No more false r>msec.ution_ One for all and all for one. Black folk and white folk living, working, playing, and praying together. Oh, come, now. Let’s’ be serious. It’s 1985. Don’t let the Ac tor fool you. It’s 1985. Don’t be foolish. What’s that saying: Those who forget the past are destined to repeat it! 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Deluxm’g service available on riding equipment at additional cost ■ Energy efte.encyranng me higherthe number me greater the efficiency METROPOLITAN ATLANTA OTHER SOUTHEAST STORES • Cumberland Mall • Shannon MaH AnoeXm *SC • . a • Northlake Man • Southlake Mali . ' c ~ r Satisfaction guaranteed .Manana *"'™ ao l* L 2 / or your money back • G * p • Auburn Al • Rome GA METROPOLITAN BIRMINGHAM • Augusta GA • Spartanburg SC iSaarS Roebuck and Co., 1985 .Bessemer • Downto«n • Columbus GA • - .scaloosa AL ~ ’ • Century Plaza • Vestavia Hills • Dalton GA • Warner Robins GA Page 2 if dig -• < | -Um Oftr * 'MFOniVW s V" ■' J JR II I t 9 * . J . . L- -Jgj ■ .. " IhXl' 'J* • I • lJi INVENTIONS BY BLACKS—Mrs. Margaret Jackson and Joseph Gaudy examine inventions by Blacks at exhibit at Williams Memorial C.M.E. Church during Black History Month. Among the inventions by Blacks on exhibit were, the mail boc, straightening comb, traffic light, can opener, fire extinguisher, lawn sprinkler, dust pan and kerosene lamp. SCIENI □ •* . ... - ? a Hi ■■ WINTER OVERCOAT. ■ ‘’fl bran# km v Don’t Go Out Without It. ©1983 A H. Robins Consumer Products Division. Richmond, Virginia 23230 CHILD-SIZE £i REL,EF SmS the dorcol PEDIATRIC FORMULAS ■KI i" - ~ lo not include delivery charge Ft. Gordon honors medal winner Fort Gordon honored the memory of A Medal of Honor winner in a ceremony on Feb. 23rd. The ceremony was held at Olive Terrace, a housing tract containing 122 units for noncommissioned of ficers named in honor of Pfc. Milton L. Olive 111, the first Black man to win the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam. At the time of his death Pfc Olive was a member of Company B, 2nd Battalion (Airborne) 503rd Infantry in pursuit of Viet Cong Guerauillas. He and four other soldiers were moving through the jungle together when a grenade was thrown in the midst; Olive saw the granade, grabbed it in his hand, and fell on it to absorb the blast with his body. In addition to The Medal of Honor, Pfc Olive was awarded the Military Merit Medal, The Gallan try Cross, with Palm and the Pur ple Heart. More than 21 permanent memorials have been erected to the memory of Olive throughout the United States. Olive Terrace is located at the northwest corner of North Range Road and Third Avenue near the Gate Five Entrance to Fort Gor don. Olive was a cousin of Mrs. Con stance Evans, a counselor at the Academy of Richmond County Comprehensive High School. Baby and l ots contest to be held at Mt. Zion A.M.E. The Trustee and Steward Boards of Mt. Zion A.M.E. Zion Church will hold its annual Baby and Tots Contest on March 3, at 5 p.m. The following contestants will appear along with their sponsors: Christian Rhaney; Benjamin Gib son Jr.; Denise Meminger; Derrick Larke; Nicholas Brigham; Walter Jones III; Amber Moore; Myra Wright; Jarrod Manor; Laßonda Cranfield; Latosha Smiley; Leslie Ware. The Rev. Robert C. Moore is the pastor. 15572 79?^« OQ q O / Z Reg $99.99 _ SAVE *2O sprayer kit : Craftsman heavy s c A duty airless paint 1 sprayer with 9 ac- j I cessory prices. 49" OVER 50% OFF V 20-in. vanity ■ In white or wood- hL-,’' J 41121 tone. Sink-top, fau- W'\ ' cet are extra. <0099 dfa Z Reg $59.99 I/2 PRICE faucet Sears Best single lever chrome-plat ed bath faucet. f 1 59?? $.99 99 J ,i Water heaters MB Power Miser'” 5 30-gal gas or ii-ri ' 40-gal. electric. Save S4O on other sizes, too. ! Installation extra t F 29923 499?? $54999 i. s l5O OFF 3’/2-HP wEGQ* CRT tiller jKr|3HK?£ Counter rotating, rear ’t' ne ti, l er D '9 S * V 12-in. wide path. Some assembly required v 199t2«.« s ®° OFF 3 5 - RP Eager-1 mower Craftsman. 20-in. JB side-discharge 3803 lW : deCk CaSt ' rOn Cyl ’ inder liner. STARTS WEDNESDAY / . Growing In Grace To thine own self be true By Dr. Cynthia Butler For the past few months, I have had a unique opportunity to write about my experiences in Nigeria. I have enjoyed writing for two reasons, firstly, I have been given the op portunity to look at a new profession— writing. The Augusta News- ‘f Review gave me that opportunity. I am greatful. Secondly, I have tried to help Black Augustans see Nigeria as it appeared to me. Too often perhaps, the content of my writings appeared negative. I wish that I could change that, I can not. But hopefully the in troduction of the experience will awaken Black Augustans to ask themselves what positive steps may be taken in their relationship with their personal SELF, the Com munity SELF, and their roots SELF—Nigeria. Before we can move on to positive growth, we must SEE the situation as it is. It may be pain ful. Pain can lead to magnanimous growth. Essence magazine of February, 1985 presented an article by Molara Ogundipe—Leslie. She was born in Lagos, Nigeria of Yourban parentage. She is the founder of the WIN organization (Womenfindigenous and foreign) in Nigeria), a national Women’s Organization. She has two daughters. I am a member of WIN and participated as much as I could when I lived in Nigeria. Ms. Ogundipe—Leslie is faced with the same situation as I am. She, of course, is more visible because she writes for national and international magazines. The dilemma is—how do you not ap pear negative when you subject matter has many negative con ditions in it. I suppose she has solved it in a similar way as I have—be as fair as one’s experien ce allows with the realization that other writers will come along to enhance the subject further. Her article begins with this poem by Felix Mnthali Letter to a Feminist Friend My world has been raped looted and squeezed by Europe and America.... And now The women of Europe and America after drinking and carousing on my sweat rise up to castigate and castrate their menfolk from the cushions of a world I have built! Why should they be allowed to come between us? You and I were slaves together Uprooted and humiliated together Rapes and lynchings.... do your friends “in the movement” Understand these things? No, no my sister my love, first things first! Too many gangsters still stalk this continent.... When Africa at home and across the seas is truly free there will be time for me and time for you to share the cooking and change the diapers til then, First things first! Ms. Leslie states that this poem ends on a note irritatingly typical of male supremists the world over. Namely, that other issues are more important than the liberation of women’s fundamental human rights in all areas of life—Public and private. “All women”, she continues,” in contemporary Nigeria are under the stress of living in a Third World, neocolonial nation headed by an indifferent, oppressive and wasteful Black bourgeoisie. Many women ignore the biological and emotional oppressions that they endure, feeling that men are in corribibly polygynous and women socially impotent to stop them. They wish only on the right to have their children fathered and expect little from their men in terms of companionship.” Though I wish that the situation for Black women were different, I am pleased that my ex periences are substantiated by Ms.' Ogundipe-Leslie. “The only object in a polygamous marriage is the struggle of the older wife who is relegated to the background and the younger wife to get out of her lower deferential position,” she continued. “When a woman marries, she becomes a possession, voiceless and often rightless in her husband’s family. Except for what accrues through her children.” A very important point that Ms. Ogundipe-Leslie mentions is that men are not the enemy. The enemy is the society. The entire society needs to be liberated from Dehumanization. Men, however, are guilty when ' they seek to retard and even block necessary historical changes for selfish power interest and claim “culture and heritage” as excuses. I wish Ms. Ogundipe-Leslie the best. It has to be difficult to write on these issues in Nigeria. But women are a force to be reckoned with. Men must open up to growth. Just as the white races throughout the world have had the support of their men, Black wmen also need it—desperately. "Economics is the very foundation of social and moral well-being," Felix Frankfuter IF YOU'RE LOOKING FORAGOOU SWEET SNUFF, PICK BUTTERCUP Sweet Scotch S*f* j WCOfT Helme Tobacco Company d company o( Culbro Corporation