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w Nrnw-ißeittnii Vol. 1 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 See White Liberals Page 3 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. WANTED NEWS BOYS WANTED! 100 News Boys Good Pay CALL News—Review Office 930 Gwinnett St. 722-4555 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 SEE Ist National Page 4 Augusta Ga Phone 722-4555 4a i I’• ' —‘i a- V. ■ . m/ / « 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 ■". M Mi 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. f >■ 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 PAGE 4 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.