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' LETTERS TO
Editor
News-Review
WHO ARE THE PEOPLE
WHO ARE CONCERNED
WITH THE POOR?
We are, again, making it
known that we are still on the
case. The question is who are
the people who are concerned
about the poor? Is it enough to
just be concerned or should we
become involved to the extent
that we are goi.ig to do
something about it? A program
that has as its primary
objective to help poor people
ought to also be involved with
poor people and their
problems.
I believe that it takes people
who have actually been poor to
actually know and help with
the problems of the poor. As
we take a serious and objective
look at the local poverty
program in Richmond County,
let us ask the question; “how
many poor people have been
removed from the regular old _
routines of poverty?” How
many now who were receiving
public assistance (welfare) have
been able to have their names
completely removed? In other
words, has the local poverty
program been successful in
getting poor people off the
“welfare” and providing them
with a decent job which pays
them a substantial salary?
When we consider these
questions, perhaps we can
begin to understand why we
raised the original question.
Being poor is nothing to
play with; however, it appears
to be a game with some
people-for they talk about the
poverty that existed years ago
of where they came from.
Consequently, I do know that
there are hungry people who
could be fed if someone were
concerned enough to do
something about it other than
talk about new programs. I am
also aware that schools or
universities don’t give anybody
all of the knowledge about (
anything especially poverty.
There are times when we try to
generalize and say that all
poverty is the same. At this
point, I wish to flatly refute |
that statement. It can also
depend upon the environment ]
which people live in. In other .
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words, poverty can eminate
from a multiplicity of factors,
some of which have not even
been defined by the so-called
authorities or poverty experts.
My brothers and sisters let’s
GET ON THE CASE. Again,
ask the question, who are the
people who are concerned with
poor people; and what can I do
to further the cause?
Dr. M.E. Stokes
Editor
News-Review
QUALITY EDUCATION??
BLACK STUDENTS ARE
BEING SHORT-CHANGED
Amidst all of the rhetoric we
have heard in the past several
weeks about a school
desegregation plan for
Richmond County, most of the
attention has been focused on
busing—massive busing— but
very little attention has been
’ given to the crux of the
problem, a quality education
for all students, white and
black. Recent court rulings
(The Swann Decision) have
said that busing is a legal means
of achieving desegregation.
While what is legal may not
always be wise it is a proper
desegregation tool where
“segregation by law” coupled
with segregated housing
patterns have created all black
concentrations in a
community. Such has been the
case in Richmond County.
White parents in Richmond
County now cry out that
busing in terms of time and
distance would be so great as
to “ride either the health and
safety of the children or
significantly impinge on the
educational process.” The
busing of white students has
been an adjunct of the
educational system in
Richmond County for many
years. Consider the most recent
facts about busing in our
county during the school years
1969-1970 and 1970-1971:
1. 1969-1970, Enrollment:
35,049
Average number of students
bused daily: 10,679
Average number of students
bused daily to 37
predominantly white schools:
9,907
Average number of students
bused daily' to 18
predominantly black schools:
772
2. 1970-1971, Enrollment:
36,672
Average number of students
bused daily: 12,055
Average number of students
bused daily to 39
predominantly white schools:
11,146
Average number of students
bused daily to 17
predominantly black schools:
909
The above figures would
seem to belie the assertion of
some parents that their
children presently attend
neighborhood schools.
While our Board of
Education contends that it has
a unitary system in Richmond
County it continues to go
about the business of
short-changing its black
students. They continue to
turn out too many black young
people who have not acquired
competence in elementary and
secondary studies. Even under
court ordered desegregation
and under the tests set out in
the Singieton Decision the
Board continues to circumvent
the rules or to engage in
practices calculated not to
guarantee black students a
quality education. Consider
these facts which were
extracted from the Boards’s
report of October 15, 1970 to
H.E.W.:
a. The average teacher
(includes all professional staff)
pupil ratio in 39
predominantly white schools
was 20.08 students per
professional, while the average
for the 17 predominantly black
schools was 21.84 per
professional.
b. In late September 1970
students attended 39
predominantly white schools
with teacher vacancies totalling
7, while teacher vacancies in 17
predominantly black schools
totalled 39.
c. Os 166 teachers with less
than one year of teaching
experience employed by the
Board of Education for
1970-1971 an average of 2.64
were assigned to 39
predominantly white schools,
while an average of 3.70 were
assigned to 17 predominantly
black schools.
d. Court ordered transfer to
teachers to achieve reacial
balance (61% white 39%
black in each school) for
1970-1971, though never
achieved, resulted in white
teachers with the least number
of years of teaching experience
being assigned to
predominantly black schools
while black teachers with
considerable years of teaching
experience were assigned to
predominantly white schools.
A random sample to four
predominantly black schools
reveals that 82 black teachers
with a total of 980 years of
teaching experience were
assigned to predominantly
white schools, while 108 white
teachers with a total of 269
years of teaching experience
were assigned to these four
predominantly black schools.
e. In 6 of 17 predominantly
black schools teachers are used
as part-time teachers and
part-time lunchroom managers
while all predominantly white
schools employ lunchroom
managers. (These figures were
not contained in the H.E.W.
report).
The Board of Education has
for nearly eight years sought
every means at its disposal to
avoid putting into effect a
desegregation plan that would
fully eliminate a dual system
based on race. It has been
derelict in its responsibility to
fully inform the citizens of
Richmond County who now
show anguish and voice
concern about busing without
realizing that black students
have been and still are the
victims of an illegal segregated
school system.
School desegregation is a
desirable goal-busing in part is
a means of achieving it. But
beyond that black students
must have the opportunity to
receive a decent amount of
teacher attention and they
must be afforded the facilities
that make schoolwork pleasant
and interesting. The key to
black progress is education. All
of the civil rights legislation in
the world cannot lift the black
man into a more competitive
position if he is chained in
ignorance. The Board of
Education in Richmond
County must stop
short-changing the black
students in Richmond County.
Parents who are really
interested in the welfare of
their children- white and black
-should first take a good look
at their educational system
before they assume that “black
communities now are provided
with new schools, educational
materials and teachers that
maintain the same standards as
schools in the white
communities.” Why don’t the
parents who are now
mobilizing to voice their
objections to “forced busing”
focus some of their attention
on the entire educational
system in Richmond County?
James M. Hinton, Jr.
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(GOV. GEORGE WALLACE SOFTING ON RACE IS
DEVELOPING HIM INTO A POWERFUL POPULAR FIGURE
THAT BEARS WATCHING.)
Governor Wallace of Alabama grows stronger and bolder as he
tangled with the smart boys on Meet-The-Press, a few Sundays
ago. The handsome Alabaman’s rhetoric has mellowed on the race
issue and he could be a greater challenge in ’72. Many Blacks who
are tired of the hypocrisy of both the Republican and Democratic
Parties would vote for Mr. Wallace, because of his frankness, if
nothing else.
Massive busing, taken in the perspective of right and wrong, the
South should force the issue to make this edict applicable to the
North as well. The North hides behind the so called “Defacto”
premise, which is nothing but a subterfuge to get around
desegregation of Blacks. Nixon’s administration must move more
to the right or face the pugnacious Alabama governor. That’s the
case, with foreign aid, Red China, and telephone rates; these are
all explosive issues with the angry citizens, North and South, and
they are ail on Mr. Wallace’s agenda.
He is taunting Washington by nibbling at the local school
boards. He is also sarcastically stating that he is only helping the
president out. From a casual observation it seems like Mr. Wallace
is deliberately risking federal-court confrontation by ordering
some school boards to abandon desegregation plans involving long
distance busing of children and the closing of black schools. But
he is more interested in a political stand with the White House
that will make Mr. Nixon squirm.
In response to the Alabama’s public telegram, the White House
flunkies were running around in circles. It was this instance, that
forced Press Secretary Ron Ziegler to issue a stern warning to
HEW not to promote any more busing orders at the risk of
getting fired. As seen from Dixie Mr. Wallace has scored an
action-reaction coup. He certainly had made an obvious impact
on the busing “hot potato” issue.
(WALLACE HAS OTHER AXES TO GRIND, OTHER THAN
THE SCHOOL BUSING WITH THE WASHINGTON CROWD)
Mr. Wallace’s grievances extend across a much broader area
than school-desegregation problems. He plans to lamblast the
administration on the decision to allow shipment of U.S.
machinery to Soviet’s truck factory. Western inability to cope
with “the Oriental mind”. That could make President Nixon’s
visit to China a failure. Wallace opposes the visit and will make an
issue of the planned trip. Last month, the little, cocky governor
went to Washington to ask the Supreme Court to crack down on
tax-exempt foundations. He is pitching for the little people, when
South Central Bell Telephone Co. requested a rate increase, he
began pushing for the return of the nickel phone in Alabama.
Ever s i nce he received 10 million votes for the presidency in
1968, he has been warning Mr. Nixon to straighten up or face him
again in 1972. “My options are still open” he says, “I haven’t
made up my mind.” If the prime Wallace objective is to bluff the
administration into policy changes, he is doing all right for
himself.
Mr. Wallace has things going his way since Mr. Nixon couldn’t
refrain from putting his foot in his mouth, after the High Court
sanctioned busing, if it was necessary. If opening of Southern
Schools produce turmoil and horror stories of children in
perpetual transit, the current escalation of criticism will be
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