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The Augusta News-Review March 9,1985
Poll shows dissatisfaction of Blacks
Satisfaction with the national
state of affairs has grown among,
all population groups during
President Reagan’s tenure but
there are marked differences bet
ween certain groups.
For
Blacks, compared with 56 percent
of whites, say they are satisfied
with the way things are going in the
country today, according to a
recently released Gallup Poll.
Similarly, only 37 percent of
Blacks were satisfied with the way
democracy is working in the
Art Show
to be presented
Rho Chapter of Delta Kappa
Jamma Society International for
Women Educators and the
*ugusta College Department of
Fine Arts will present in concert
duo-pianists Artemesia Thevaos
and Lydia Porro with guest artists
Julianne Johnston, flute, and
Barry Johnston, classical guitar
March 17 at 3 p.m. at the Augusta
College Performing Arts Theater.
The program will benefit the A
Dora Hains Scholarship presentea
each year to a fulltime student en
tering the teaching profession at
Augusta College. Tickets are $5
and $3. A reception to meet-the
artists will be held immediately
following the performance.
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United States, compared with 61
, percent of whites.
Nationally, 52 percent are
satisfied with the way things are
going in the country. Four years
ago, only 17 percent of Americans
expressed satisfaction with the
wav things are going in the nation.
Otis Scott, cordinator of the
Ethnic Studies Program at
California State University,
Sacramento, explained whv he felt
fewer Blacks were satisfied about
government than whites.
“Historically, Blacks have
looked to the federal government
for leadership in civil rights
issues,” Dr. Scott siad. The Thir
teenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution
helped shape the citizenship of
Black people, he added.
There is clear contrast under the
Reagan Administration Dr. Scott
said. The administration has taken
an “anti-affirmative action”
position and through its policies
Rep. Brown hosts high school group
Fifteen eager high school girls
were guest of Representative and
Mrs. George M. Brown. The girls
are part of the Rhoer Club, an af
filiate group of Sigma Gamma
Rho Sorority.
Early on the morning of Feb. 13,
has caused many of the gains made
by Blacks during the 1960 s and
1970 s to fritter away.
In response to the result of the
Gallup Poll, Dr. Scott summed up
what he felt was the princiapl
reason for the huge differences in
opinion between Blacks and
whites. Certain “actions taken by
the President and the national
government have really soured the
outlook that Black people have.”
Further evidence to support
Black pessimism was heard during
the President’s recent State of the
Union address in which he spoke
of scuttling the Job Corps. The
President has also proposed to
dismantle the Small Business Ad
ministration.
Dr. Scott said, “Black people
just don’t feel good. Reagan just
doesn’t engender enthusiasm for
Black people. He doesn’t inspire
the confidence of Black Americans.”
the group pulled off from the An
tioch Baptist Church with a
destination of Atlanta. Some two
hours later, they were warmly
greeted by Rep. Brown, who is the
representative of the 88th Georgia
District. The girls were given a
guided tour of the state capital and
saw the legislature in session and
had informal chats with other
representatives. Other activities
included a ride on Atlanta’s un
derground metro and a tour of the
Martin Luther King Jr. Center.
The group was accompanied by
Dorothy Mitchell and Ruby Hams.
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Salary Range:s23,o22-$31,540
The City of Gainesville, FL is actively
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•receive and investigate complaints of
discrimination, serve as executive
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visory board, assist in the implemen
tation, development, review and
monitoring of the City’s affirmative ac
tion, equal employment opportunity
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c Alisha Willis Hain Etln S e
Sorority pledges two
Delta Alpha Sigma chapter of
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.,
recently pledged two young ladies
into the Delta Omicron un
dergraduate chapter at Paine
College.
The young ladies are: Hain
Etinge and Alisha Willis. Miss
Etinge is the first African to pledge
a Greek organization at Paine
College. She is a junior majoring
in early childhood education and a
native of Cameroom, West Africa.
Augusta photographer attends trade show
Orlando Hamlett, of Photo-
graphy by Hamlett Studio in
North Augusta, S.C. recently
returned from Atlanta where he at
tended the Southeastern
Professional Photographers
Association biennial Convention,
Trade Show and Photographic
Salon. Nearly 2,000 professional
photographers from he
Southeastern Area attended the
four-day event held at the Atlanta
Downtown Marriott Hotel.
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Future Homemakers of America
observe National Vocational Week
“When I Grow Up” was the
theme of the main skit when the
Richmond County FHA/HERO
chapters met to observe National
Vocational Week.
A trio of faculty advisors and a
corresponding number of student
members role-played as little
children and explained various
career opportunities in Home
Economics and related fields.
The meeting, which was held at
Hepzibah High School on Feb. 12,
Can w test Black teachers
and keep them ?
William Raspberry
The “whither Black America”
debate has been going on for some
time now—in earnest conver
sations among friends, in heated
living-room arguments, in
privately expressed doubts of the
prevailing orthodoxies.
Its occasional public
manifestations, until recently,
hardly qualifeid as debates at all.
Some Black conservative —a
Thomas Sowell or a Walter
Williams—would say something
that, even though it may have
made theoretical sense, was said in
such away that it lacked political
sense. That is, it would sound less
like a prescription for solving
problems than an attack on the
established Black leadership, and
the rest of us would respond to
by debating the issue but by dissec
ting those who posed it.
That is starting to change, and
the result could be as historically
significant as the Booker T.
Washington—W.E.B. Dubois
debates of an earlier time. As with
those intellectual giants, the
questions are not over truth versus
falsehood. The disputants
recognize that there is truth on both
sides. The emerging debate is over
emphasis: What is the most
•pressing problem in a panoply of
problems? What strategies are
more likelv to lead to solutions?
Take the raging controversy.
Miss Willis is a junior major in
business accounting and a native
of Columbus, Ga.
Chapter officers are: Alisha
Willis, Basileus and Tamiochus;
Hain Etinge, Anti-Basileus and
Anti Grammateus; Victoria Turner
is the advisor to Delta Omicron
Chapter. Lilian Myles is the co
advisor. Assisting with the chapter
are Alice Simpkins, Sheila Rober
son, Evelyn Turner, Bessie Flono,
Penny Lane, Gardenia Crim, and
Ruby Harris.
The Convention, which provides
a forum encouraging
photographers to freely exchange
knowledge and idea, also hosted a•-
Trade Show with over 400
exhibitors from all over the United
States. A photographic exhibit of
over 300 award-winning
photographs was on display in ad
dition to the American Society of
Photographer’s Special Student of
Photography Exhibit.
brought together a total of 13
chapters with well over 100 mem
bers from high schools and middle
schools throughout Richmond
County. Future Homemakers of
America (FHA) chapters place
major emphasis on consumer
education, homemaking, and
family life education. • Home
Economics Related Occupations
(HERO) chapters place major em
phasis on preparation for jobs and
careers.
over teacher testing. Everybody,
recognizes that there is a tangle of
problems: Black children, par
ticularly those from low-in-come
families, aren’t learning as well as
they can. And one reason why they
aren’t is that their teacher aren’t as
competent as they might be.
But, teacher testing, the method
some 30 states have adopted as the
means of improving teacher com
petency, works disproportionately
against Black teachers. Should our
emphasis be on Black students who
will face a grim future if they fail
to get a proper academic footing, or
on Black teachers, who would face
unemployment right now?
It isn’t just a theoretical
question. Black teen-age unem
ployment is a national disgrace,
and one of the reasons why is that
too many Black youngsters are
leaving school as functional
illiterates.
On the other hand, attempts to
remedy the situation by insisting
on higher standards of compteten
cy for teachers introduce another
problem. According to G. Pritchy
Smith, a professor of education at
Jarvis Christian College in Texas,
teacher-competency tests would
reduce the present 12.5 percent to
less than 5 percent in the next
decade.
The tests may not be consciously
racist, and their implementation
may not be designed to screen out
Blacks, Smith acknowledged in an
Civil Right
Commission
to hold hearing
WASHINGTON—Is affir
mative action an effective and just
remedy for discrimination or a
violation of individuals’ civil
rights? Do the rules for deter
mining discrimination need
changing?
And just what is meant by “af
firmative aciton” today?
These are some of the questions
the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights will focus on at what is ex
pected to be a lively consultation
and hearing March 6-7 at the
Capital Hilton Hotel in
Washington, D.C.
The consultation
hearing is designed to inform the
Commissioners ont he state of af
firmative action today, par
ticularly with respect to the con
cepts of underrepresentation and
underutilization of minorities and
women; minority set-aside; and the
future of affirmative action.
Leading sociologists,
economists, management con
sultants, lawyers, political scien
tists, statisticians, interested
organizations and witnesses with
first-hand experience will explore
the issues with the Commissioners.
There will be three parts to the
consultation/hearing. Part I will
consist of four panesl of experts.
The panel topics are: (1) Un
derrepresentationa nd un
derutilization in employment; (2)
minority and women’s business
set-asides; (3) legal perspectives of
affirmative action; and (4) affir
mative action strategies for the
future.
Part II will consist of statements
by representatives of organizations
concerned with affirmative action
issues.
Part II will feature testimony by
persons who have been directly af
fected by business set-aside
programs.
White terrorists
plague Black
Nashville township
Violent white terrorism plagued
a suburban. Nashville township
recently when a group of white
males entered the town and opened
fire with shotguns on Blacks out
side of a popular downtown night
spot.
Four Black residents of
Franklin, TN were wounded
during the attack.
Later, two white males were
wounded in retaliatory actions,
three others were attacked.
A curfew was imposed and
about 60 law enforcement officials
local, county and state police
patrolled a 12 block radius of
Franklin in order to restore order.
interview with the Associated
Press. “But it’s hard not to call it
racism when you know the result in
advance.”
And the results are alarming.
Ninety percent of the whites who
took the Florida competency test
in 1983 passed it; only 35 percent
of Blacks did. In California, the
pass rate was two-thirds whites,
just over a quarter for Blacks; in-
Georgia, 87 percent for whites, 34
percent for Blacks.
Some of the Blacks in the debate
believe that standardized tests are
intrinsically racist, and that they
do not truly measure competency.
Others, including a growing num
ber of Black school ad
ministrators, say that while they
are distressed at the dispropor
tionate racial impact of the tests,
the real problem is not the tests but
the preparation of the prospective
teachers. In any case, they argue,
it’s unrealistic to expect Black
children to learn to pass the tests
that will get them into quality
colleges and decent jobs if their
teachers can’t pass such tests.
A short time ago, the issue—at
least in the Black com
munity—would have been
resolved, without any real public
argument, in favor of the Black
teacher.
Today, the outcome is
anybody’s guess.
William Raspberry is a columnist for the
Washington Post
