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Beware Os
The White
Liberal
By Grady Abrams
Editor’s Note: We are happy to welcome Grady Abrams’
columns in our paper. We think our readers will find Mr. Abrams’
insights and experiences interesting to say the least.
I shall like to share with my
black brothers and sisters some
insights and observations about
the master plan of the white
man in Augusta and America.
Many of my black brothers
and sisters are of the belief that
the white liberal politicians
have joined in their fight for
equality and justice. To the
contrary. In fact, it is the white
liberal politicians who have
stripped the black race of its
true place in society, and who
will be responsible for the
genocide of our race. I know
that many of our people
cannot see this, for it took
thirty-two years for me to find
it out myself.
Ninety percent of the whites
in this country with so-called
liberal leanings privately
wouldn’t care a whit if all of
the “niggers” in America were
herded into one of the larger
canyons out west and then
bombed into oblivion. They,
the white liberals, realize that
we will probably be with them
the rest of their lives They put
up with us. The white
conservatives cannot resist
their childish display of
hostility to the black man.
This makes it possible foj the
blacks to unite.
When I think back about our
movement and how it got
started, I cannot help but
conclude that hostile whites
did more toward bringing us
together than any other group
of people. We would probably
still be as united as then if it
had not been for the liberal
white who came along and
pretended to accept us and
sympathize with our cause.
They had then and still have
the master plan for • the
containment and control of
“niggers”. They, the white
liberals, are the indispensible
agents of the white race. It is
they with their mastery of the
base emotion, their
sophisticated analysis of
“nigger” psychology that
permits them to project a
merciful sympathetic image.
This is vital so that harassed,
beleaguered “nigger” ministers
and other black leaders can
have such a source to which
they can appeal. Hope. This
four letter word is what the
white liberals have given to our
people because they realize
that the human organism when
deprived of it can become
unpredictable, destructive, and
deadly.
We, as black people, should
not ever fear people like Roy
Harris, Lester Maddox, Strom
Thurmond, etc. because they
do more good than harm for
our people. They unite us. Our
fear should be for people such
as Dr. Clifford, Charlie
Douglass, Kennedy, etc. These
are the liberals. These are the
people who have the master
plan in their hands. They offer
us hope. They realize that most
of our black people want to
spill over into the mainstream
of American life and “pollute
it with our criminality and lust
for their women.” They feel
that we want to rub elbows
with them all. They feel that
we want to lose the
consciousness of our blackness
at the expense of their culture
and privacy. They feel that we
want to contaminate their
Anglo-Saxon bloodline.
The fatal failings of the
conservative is that he bluntly
and stupidly strangles hope in
the “niggers.” His rigid
emotional structure won’t let
him practice the subtle arts of
deception and guile. These are
essential adjuncts in their (the
white liberals) strategy to lull,
to keep alive hope in the
“nigger” without making his
wild dreams of freedom
realities.
White liberals have helped
countless “niggers” to escape
from the ghettos through
appointive positions in
government and industry. They
have put white collars around
many black necks, not the
conservatives. They were
thought to have betrayed the
white race and let “niggers”
invade their society. This was
not true. White liberals created
two ghettos in the black
community. One physical, the
other psychological. It is true
that white liberals selected
certain “niggers” to wear white
collars. Almost all of the white
collar “niggers” make physical
escapes from the ghetto, with
the assistance of white liberals.
Their motives are first to give
dramatic, we 11-publicized
reinforcement to their liberal
image.
Those “niggers” whom the
white liberals seem to liberate
are precisely those types of
“niggers” who possess rare
intellect and academic polish.
They remove the polished, and
intellectual “niggers” from the
seething black masses. The
white collar liberals feel that
unless they remove these
“niggers” from the black
masses they could conceivably
give the “mindless” masses
effective leadership against the
white race.
I was one of these white
collar “niggers” until I got into
Talmadge to
Speak Here
Madden Reid, Executive
Director of the Augusta &
Richmond County Housing
Authority announced today
(8/3/71) that Senator Herman
Talmadge had consented to be
principal speaker at dedication
services of Cleo Underwood
Homes to be held Tuesday,
Aug. 10th. This is the most
recently completed
Development of the Authority
located on Sand Bar Ferry
Road.
Senator Talmadge will be
introduced by Mayor Beckum
and address the invited
gathering at 11:00 after which
he will cut a ribbon to a model
apartment which will be open
for inspection. A Press and T.
V. Conference is planned for
12:30 in the cathedral type
social center building of the
new development.
The apartments are named
for Mrs. Cleo Underwood who
died in Dec. 1970 after serving
the Authority and the
homeless of Augusta for over
30 years. Records show she
processed more than 9,000
applicants as Tenant Renting
Office Supervisor. The Board
felt it most fitting to honor her
with this living memorial which
will house 250 low income
families. The Authority is
extremely honored and
privileged to have Senator
Talmadge do the honors on
this special occasion.
930 Gwinnett St.
JUDGE TO DRAW NEW PLAN
YOUNG SAYS BOARD
ACTS LIKE CHILDREN
On Wednesday night the
Richmond County Board of
Education met as a
“committee of a whole” with
plaintiff attorneys John Ruffin
and James Hinton to see if a
mutally acceptable integration
plan could be developed.
The Board had no new plan
and asked the plaintiff
attorney for his plan
or . to show what was
objectionable in the plan
presented by the Board.
Ruffin, stating that he was
“not an educator” and that it
was the Board’s responsibility
to draw up an acceptable plan,
refused to discuss the plan
submitted by the Board since
the plan had been thrown out
of court last week by U.S.
District Judge Alexander A.
a position of importance. This
happened to me three times,
while teaching school in the
public school system, while
working as a consultant for
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co. and while elected to the
City Council of Augusta. In all
three positions I turned out to
be an outspoken “nigger.”
The diametric differences
between the “nigger” world
and the white world afford the
liberals the devices by which
they neutralize and defunct the
white collar escapees from the
ghetto.
The teclmique is roughly
this: the freed “nigger”,
elective and appointive as well,
will face his entry into the
white world with no little
trepidation. His fears, his
insecurity are born of the
unfamiliar, unknown facets of
the strange new world.
Underlying all of this is his
well-hidden but nonetheless
strong sense of inferiority. His
is an urgent, practical need,
perhaps unconscious, to
conform to the mores, the
protocol of the new world. He
has a deathly dread of
conspicuous violation of these
codes.
His terror is that the whites
who have sponsored him will
take notice and hurl him back
into the ghetto. He’s compelled
to emulate white emotional
control and polished, patient
conduct. The liberals flatter
him as he becomes more like
them. His identity, his fiery
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Springfield Baptist
Celebrates
184th Anniversary
The One Hundred and
Eighty-fourth Anniversary of
Springfield Baptist Church,
corner of Twelfth and
Reynolds Streets, will be
celebrated Sunday, August Bth,
at 3:00 o’clock p.m. Rev. C.S.
Hamilton, Pastor of Tabernacle
Baptist Church, will deliver the
Anniversary Address. He will
be accompanied by his
congregation and Choirs.
Everyone is cordially invited.
Dinner will be served in the
St. John Memorial Building at
the conclusion of the program.
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THE PEOPLE’S PAPER
Lawrence.
Judge Lawrence indicated
that the racial composition of
the schools of Richmond
County should reflect the
racial ratio of the county’s
school population (61% white,
39% black). Lawrence said that
he and HEW Consultants
would draw up an integration
plan complaint with the April
Supreme Court ruling in the
Swann vs. Charlotte,
Mecklenburg County, N.C.
Ruffin said he would be
willing to compromise only to
the extent that a reverse ratio
(61% black, 39% white) would
be accepted in the
predominantly black Lucy
Laney and T.W. Josey High
Schools.
Board members were unable
to persuade the plaintiff
attorneys that black students
are “happy where they are”
nor of the “near impossibility”
of busing. Richard K. Miller
moved that the meeting be
disbanded.
Reverend N.T. Young one of
the two black board members
expressed his strong opposition
to the motion saying that those
in favor of such motion
reminded him of boys playing
baseball and when they can’t
control the game taking tneu
bats and going home. “As
grown adults we ought to be
JONES TO SEEK
2nd WARD SEAT
Last Friday Roosevelt Jones
announced his intentions to
become a candidate for the
second ward City Council seat
vacated by the resignation of
Grady Abrams.
The twenty-one-year-old
minister who will be ordained
in September said he is running
because he “knows the
community”, having lived in
the second ward for eight
years.
IST National
Celebrates
100TH Year
Ruby Red’s Dixieland Band
from Underground Atlanta,
complete with a Model T
firetruck, prizes like Delta
Dream Vacations to New
Orleans, bank employees in
costumes of the 1870’s era,
free soda pop and ice cream,
money and old photograph
exhibits, all go to make up
First National’s 100th
anniversary celebration this
week.
One hundred years ago,
August 10, 1871, what is now
First National began as the
National Exchange Bank. The
original location was
approximately that of the
present offices of Augusta
Federal Savings and Loan
Association.
Located next door to the
National Exchange Bank was
the Augusta Savings Bank,
which was later merged with
the National Exchange, but the
two institutions maintained
separate staffs and quarters for
some time.
The Trust Company of
Georgia in Atlanta purchased
controlling interest in the bank
in 1934, and the bank began
operating as an affiliate of the
Trust Company, a statewide
banking system. In 1953, the
name of the bank was officially
changed to the First National
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able to face these problems.
You don’t run from problems
and solve them. We are going
to adjourn because Ruffin
won’t dance to the music.
You’re acting like children if
you go home.”
A roll call vote was called
for and the motion to adjourn
carried with Rev. Young
casting the only dissenting
vote.
Ruffin said board members
“arbitrarily rejected a 60-40
racial balance without any
discussion” as to whether
busing would be needed or not.
“You haven’t discussed what
Jones said the people “need
a councilman who will stand i
up for them and the City of
Augusta and not someone who
will stand up for the political
machine or for his own self
glory.” !
The major problem facing
the city, according to Jones, is
that the living conditions of |
blacks are very much below
standard as compared to white. j
He cited housing, sewage, !
drainage and beautification of <
residential areas as examples.
He said that the city housing
ordinance should be enforced.
The Inspector should be required
to make more thorough
inspections and the houses
should be torn down if
necessary.
Jones attributes much of
the “tension and chaos in the
streets” to unemployment and
suggests that the City Council
work more closely with the
Chamber of Commerce to
bring in more business and
industry and provide more jobs
for the people.
The young minister said that
he is in favor of the
establishment of a Human
Relations Commission with
subpoena power. He adds, “If
not (with subpoena power)
what good would it do? . . .
Saying something is wrong isn’t
doing anything, but doing
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Mrs. Dee Merriweather, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Ella Mae Singleton.
The Ilee Merriweather
Branch of Sarah Coventry, Inc., fashion jewelry, presented Mrs
the largest direct seller of fine Brown, Director of Shiloh
kind of busing would be
necessary or whether it woul
just take rerouting buses you
have. This board - I don’t
know whether it’s intentional
or not is leaving a false
impression about busing.
School board members
present were John Fleming, the
Rev. N. T. Young, Sr., Henry
Grant, F. M. McDaniel, Frank
Byrd, William Dozier, Richard
K. Miller, John Chavous, Ralph
Walker, A. M. Carter, Mrs. W.
C. Calhoun and David Smith.
Absent were Travis Barnes, J.
C. Busby, Julian Lively and
* Mrs. Fred Powell.
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Rev. Roosevelt Jones
something is the important
• factor.
1 “I’m running on a people’s
ticket supported only by
people who want a dedicated
councilman,” he said. His
slogan will be “We can do it.”
Jones continued, “I have no
affiliation with any voters
leagues or politicial machines
and I’m anti (John) Murray.
Once per month Jones
would hold meetings
somewhere in the second ward
where people will come and
give their complaints and “I’ll
take them back to Council. A
councilman should not say
what ‘l’ think but he should
say what the people think,” he
said.
Stating that he expects most
SEE CANDIDATE
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URBAN
LEAGUE
REPORT
As a community service the News-Review will print the entire
text of the report and recommendations of the National Urban
League concerning the causes of the events of May 11,1970.
It should be made perfectly clear that the text of this
report has not been edited or otherwise altered in anyway. Since
the report is too lengthy to be printed in one issue, we will print
it in a weekly series. We urge you to read it and carefully consider
the information found therein so that we may begin to work
seriously toward meaningful progress in race relations and human
dignity.
INTERVIEWS AND CONFERENCES - FINAL PART
Carson, Mrs. Emma L., Executive Director, Richmond County
Department of Family and Child Service;
Carter, Dr. Charles, Dentist;
Carter, Sydney, AIP, Planning Consultant, 810 - 13th St.
Augusta, Gerogia;
Clark, Miss Louise, League of Women Voters;
Gark, Nathaniel A., Field Director, Boy Scoutsol America;
Clossay, George, Personnel Manager, Continental Can
Company;
Cook, Mai, Station Manager, WRDW;
Clary. George, Dr., Chairman, Social Sciences Department,
Cross, Daniel H., President, NAACP, 1140 - 14th Ave.;
Cummings, Miss Gwendolyn, Librarian, Wallace Branch, 1237
Gwinnett Street;
Dallman, Mrs. Linda, Housing Task Force Leader, CSRA
Economic Opportunity Authority, Inc., Augusta, Gerogia;
Dasher, Marion, Personnel Manager, Babcock & Wilcox;
Davis, Jacquelyn, Youth Representative, Office of Economic
Opportunity, 3101 Bellmead Dr.;
Dent, 8.L., Member, City Council;
Dent, R.A., National Business League and Georgia State
Representatives;
Dinwiddie, Dr. J. Gray, Academic Dean, Augusta, Georgia;
Dodson, Mrs. Dorothy, Committee of One Hundred, Chamber
of Commerce;
Dove, E.W., American Legion, 1106 Phillips Dr.;
Duffey, Charles H., Clergy, 2229 Morningside Dr.;
Dufort, Raymond, Principal, Richmond Academy;
Duke, Margaret, Y.W.C.A., 938 Greene Steett;
Dunbar, Ray E., Leader, Black Panthers;
Duncan, Harvey M„ Assistant Superintendent in Charge of
Instruction, Richmond County Board of Education;
Farrior, David, Coordinator Student Personnel Service,
Augusta Area Technical School;
Faver, Margaret, Mrs., President, Welfare Rights Organization;
Fennoy, William, Writer and Circulations Manager, The
Augusta Free Press;
Fitzgerald, Miss Pat, Deputy Director, Richmond County Dept,
of Family and Children Services;
Folds, Milton, Representative, Chamber of Commerce;
Frazier, Mrs. Christie, Field Director, Georgia-Carolina Council,
Girl Scouts of America;
Gallagher, Paul L., Dept, of Army Civilian Chief Housing
Authority;
Gandy, 5.8., Vice President for Public Relations and
Development, Paine College;
Gardner, Mrs. C.L., Director, Gwinnett Street U. 5.0.;
Gerald, Sister Mary, Principal, Augusta Preparatory School;
Glover, Robert E., Industrial Developer, Chamber of
Commerce, Greater Augusta, Inc.;
Godman, George L., Chief Current Planner, Augusta-Richmond
County Planning Commission;
Green, Donald W., Executive Director, Achievement, Inc.;
Green, Rev. Roosevelt, Jr., Macedonia Baptist Church;
Greene, Thomas, Publisher, The Mirror;
Greenlea, A.E., Principal, Telfair Street School;
Greer, Paul D., Principal, Augusta Preparatory School;
Grier, Leamon, Deputy Director, CAP, Augusta;
Hall, Dick, Personnel Manager, Proctor & Gamble;
Hamilton, C.S., Council, Tabernacle Baptist Church;
Harris, Charles G., Editor, The Mirror;
Harris, Louis, Vice President-Editor, The Augusta Chronicle;
Harris, Roy V., Owner, The Augusta Courier, Owner, Augusta
Coach Co.;
Heckman, Louis 1., Manager, Augusta Georgia Dept, of Labor
Employment Security Agency;
Hinton, J,M., Jr., 3rd Vice President and General Counsel,
Pilgrim Health & Life Insurance Co.;
Holt, Arvil, Principal, Curtis Baptist;
Hooks, Cary S., Director, Atlanta Insuring Office Federal
Housing Administration, Dept, of Housing and Urban
Development, Atlanta;
Hornsby, W.S., Jr., President, Pilgrim Life Insurance Co.;
Hudson, Mrs. Faye, Training Director, CSRA Economic
Opportunity Authority, Inc.;
Hughes, Edward, Court Service Worker, Regional Youth
Development Center;
James, Sister Mary, Principal, Acquinas High School;
Johnson, Charles S., Principal, Laney High School;
Johnson, Harvey, President, Central Savannah River Business
SEE URBAN LEAGUE PAGE 2
Orphanage, with $40.00. As a
project put on by the Fashion
Show Directors as their
Father’s Day Special. A set of
men’s cufflinks were presented
to the following persons whose
names were drawn from a box
August 5,1971 No. 20
in which donations were made.
Winners : Mrs. Mary E. Turner,
Mr. Wilkerson, Mr. A.M. Kent,
Mrs. Willie E. Jones, Mrs. Ethel
Brown, Mrs. Willette Davis, Mr.
George Davis, Mr. Johnnie
Jones.