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News-Review August 26, 1971
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PLAUDITS FOR REV. N.T. YOUNG
Blacks and liberal whites should warmly congratulate the Rev.
N.T. Young on his forthright positions taken while serving as a
member of the Richmond County School Board! We now hear all
kinds of complaints about orders from the Federal Courts will
mean “inconveniences to children and partents, extra expenses,
etc.” Almost no mention is made of the fact that had we not had
unfair and illegal segregation and discrimination down through
the decades since the end of the Civil War, we would not have
needed the Federal Courts to correct this situation. No mention is
made of what segregation and disiscrimination did to the
psychological and social development of little Black children over
the years. We must constantly remind our white friends of these
unpleasant facts. So to the Rev. N. T. Young and others of like
points of view, we “Right On!”
BLACKS HAVE PAID THEIR NATIONAL DUES
The 1970 Census highlighted the tremendous growth of our
Negro population, expansion of our purchasing power, and
further increase of our daily, monthly and annual taxes to
support local, state and Federal governmental bodies.
During the past six years our Black young men have compiled a
tremendous record of bravery, high numbers wounded and killed
fighting for this Republic in Viet Nam. In other words, Black
Americans have again “Paid Their Dues.” Our Viet Nam casualty
rate is over 18 per cent.
BLACKS NEEDED IN HIGHER LOCAL SCHOOL JOBS
A look at scores of Southern school districts and you will find
that they have upgraded Blacks to system-wide supervisory
positions. Many are now assistant superintendents. Augusta now
has over 30,000 citizens of color and this means we are now over
fifty per cent. There is a huge number of Black students in the
county system. Augusta Black educators should be immediately
upgraded.
With Paine College as an excellent training base over the years,
Augusta now has, man for man, woman for woman, one of the
finest corps of well trained, experienced and dedicated Black
educators in the nation.
Special planned action by some civic group, such as the
NAACP, should start on this. Local Black educators must also
cooperate, as very few good things come to Black people without
them making the head start themselves. (I understand some have
applied but not given consideration).
MORE BLACKS NEEDED ON BOARD OF EDUCATION
Standing up like a sore thumb, amidst the huge local Black
population and student body, is the fact that we have only two
Black members on the Board. This in itself is very unfair and
undemocratic. Here again some type of social action must be
started to bring about change. Political action will be the base
line. Out the window old practices. We must adopt the credo of
the Black Congressional Caucus: “Not the MAN, but the PLAN”.
“Not the RAP, but the MAP”. Political planning together by
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BY
Al IRBY
(AN UNGRATEFUL GENERATION OF BLACK
SOPHISTICATES TEND TO DISCREDIT THE N.A.A.C.P.)
The present generation of ultra-militant Blacks are turning
their hearts, and backs against the Civil Rights organization that
led them out of the labyrinth of serfdon and hopelessness.
These mal-contents are dull of a comprehensible grasp of the
danger and sacrificial dedication this great organization has
endured to make it possible for Black folks to enjoy a relative
degree of freedom.
Agents of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People slipped into the backwood towns of the Deep
South, risking their lives to gather evidence that rarely resulted in
prosecutions, but reporting these shameful atrocities to a
concious-stricken world brought grudging results. Now more
than 60 years later with mob murder a thing of the past, Blacks
can hold their heads with dignity. This bastion of freedom is
faced with an angry generation of loud-mouth street fighters,
yelling “Black-Power”, and the NAACP has to get them out of
jail.
The risk of Black Nationalism in recent years is a damnable
sophism, and intelligent young Blacks should shum this defeatist
ideology like poison-ivy. Federal Judge William H. Hastie made
this perspicacious statement at the recent NAACP convention: “I
state categorically that this trend toward sophistry of Black
Nationalism must be halted, for it can only lead to greater
bitterness and frustration, and to even more inferior status.”
All of the adult leadership are certain that the Association is on
the right track; but they all have their own theory facing the
years to come. Despite its tremendous accomplishments, the
largest and most powerful civil rights organization in the world
finds itself on the defensive,of all places,in Black America.
(YOUTH COUNCILS ARE REBELLING)
Integration is what the NAACP is all about. It has led the
battle to open America’s institutions, factories and
neighborhoods for Blacks. The Youths of the Association want
cojnmunity control. They want their own schools in. their
neighborhoods, teachers with whom they have an affinity. Since
the disorders of the 1880’s, black nationalism has been on the rise
in-the United States. Many Blacks,' once firm believers in
integration, have shifted to the concept of “Black nationhood.”
The idea that Blacks should control the institutions and
communities in which they predominate.
The top echelon are men and women of impeccable stature
and can present valid argument that the impatient youths can not
easily refute.
Herbert Hill, the articulate labor director, declares that “the
Black Community is approaching disaster, because of
unemployment.” Economist Andrew F. Brimmer, member of the
Federal Reserve Board, reported “that he fears a dangerous
schism between those blacks who are making good and those who
Black folks should produce a master map. Then start dealing with
others.
NAACP SHOULD LOOK AT AIRLINES
As I travel around this nation I always observe closely their use
of brothers and sisters of color. We must always remember and be
able to properly interpret to them that Black pilots performed
courageously flying American military aircraft over the skies of
Europe during World War 11, in Korea during the 1950’s and in
Viet Nam. Black ground crewmen - mechanics, etc. ■ kept the
planes repaired and in good service. Yet, as James C. Evans
(former Black Dept, of Defense official) often said the American
airlines don’t want to use this valuable source of manpower which
has kept our nation free. We still have only a handful of pilots.
Black people have paid their dues in battle with the Air Force.
We must now insist that American private airlines fully utilize
these Black men who also helped keep our nation free.
WE NOW HAVE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS TO HELP
Both North and South, we must keep our eyes on the airlines.
Recently I’ve noticed in Charlotte, Atlanta and Washington wider
use of Blacks as ticket clerks, ramp agents, baggage
representatives, skilled and semi-skilled workers who service and
repair aircraft. In Augusta at Bush Field, however, almost none, I
am told. Yet, hundreds and hundreds of Blacks use the airlines
there each and every day. If no action is taken, these jobs will
consolidate as “lily white jobs”. Remember what happened with
the railroads, Re: the engineers, conductors, etc. We now have all
kinds of tools - the Civil Rights Acts, Government Contracts (the
airlines fly mail and work for the government,etc.) and test cases
can be started here just as has been done in other cities. It is good
to note an occasional charming brown stewardess, but not nearly
enough. Action isneeded here also as well as for further openings
for ex-Air Force pilots.
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BLACK HISTORY
by Larry Thompson
Did you know that the Africans created the art of making
cosmetics?
“By the year 3,800 B.C. the Egyptians were producing
decorated pottery, stone vessels, bone and ivory utensils of many
varieties and instruments for grinding cosmetics, beads, and other
items of personal adornments.” The Black women of the Ancient
African civilization of Ghana as well as the Black women of
Egypt and Ethiopia used cosmetics to make themselves more
feminine.
Many historians also tell us that the Africans created the
science of Chemistry. The Egyptians learned early how to use
metallic oxides and produced different colors which they applied
to their glass and porcelain, and cloths. They used numerous
drugs and made medicinal uses of the herbs which grew in the
deserts.
The science of medicine was also created by the Africans. Their
development in the field was so thorough that a doctor was
allowed to practice in only one specific branch. There were
oculists who studied and dealt only with the diseases of the eyes;
others were retricted to treating the intestines, others the head
and so on until there were specialists to treat every part of the
body and no so called general practitioners.
Those who wished to become doctors received salaries from
the public treasury for studying the knowledge preserved from
the experience of those before them. Afterwards they were
allowed to practice. As a means of providing protection for the
people, if a doctor’s treatment was contrary to the Established
system, and if one of their patients died the circumstances of the
death was carefully examined, if the doctor was the cause it was a
capital offense. If he had tried every possible cure they were
blameless.
It is said that Greece and Rome got their knowledge of
medicine from an Egyptian, Imhotep of Ancient Egypt, who lived
about 2,300 B.C. Imhotep living 2,000 years before Hippocrates
was the real “Father of Medicine”
The origin of the making of alcoholic beverages can be traced
back to ancient Egypt. Beer was the favorite beverage, and
breweries were important parts of their estates.
The Egyptians mastered the act of spinning and weaving cloth.
They produced fine linen, embroidered works, yarn and wool
cloths. In fact, the weaving of cloth originated with them.
The Africans were creators of architecture. In Ancient Egypt
buildings of reeds and plastered mud were erected. Great
monuments and tombs were built in the early history of Africa,
most of the construction work was done by the women.
The Science of Dentistry had its beginning in ancient Egypt. At
a very early time the Egyptians developed the practice of stuffing
teeth with gold.
The first makers of shoes were Africans. Theydeveloped a
method of stretching and bending leather over a form; they had a
specific stone for polishing the leather. A cutting table, beading
forms were a few of the tools of their trade. Such a large industry
did the Africans create from the making of shoes that they had to
import- leather from foreign countries to supply their needs.
are left in poverty. The same condition that existed between the
educated class and the illiterate before the forces of Black power
chased the arrogant educated Blacks under-ground and made their
voices irrelevant.
James Jones, a noted labor expert and law professor at the
University of Wisconsin, told the Convention that if he was given
enough resources, that he could bring the employment situation
around in favor of Blacks in five years.
The dynamic June Alexander, director of education for the
NAACP, threw out this firery indictment: “We will no longer
accept the defeatist fallacy of cultural deprivation as a reason that
Black Children aren’t learning. She emphatically made it known
that her indictment included both white and black teachers.”
White instructors can take underpriviledged kids from the
Ghetto of Watts (California) and develop them to the point that
they can challenge, and defeat some of the best Chess players in
America. The game of Chess calls for the highest type of mental
concentration, and these 10 and 12
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The Egyptian people were the first people of the ancient world
to store books of portable materials, creating the first library.
They wrote, read, possessed and loved books. They kept a library
of the most varied character: scientific, secular and religious. It
contained moral and educational treatises, state papers, tales,
fables, poems, love-songs, essays, hymns, prayers and the religious
formula known as the Book of the Dead. Time span for these
works extends over five thousand years, including writings that
are older than the pyramids, others as recent as the time when
Egypt became a Roman province.
As you see, the Black man has a heritage to be proud of and
provides an impetus for us today. But also the creations of the
Black race have been of utmost importance to the entire world.
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