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Berreras Warns Os Revolution
By Maurice Booker
Last week, Charles Berreras,
Executive Director of OEO,
blamed local and national
government leaders for the
continued existence of
prejudice and warned of
revolution if something isn’t
done to correct the situation.
Berreras was addressing the
first Mini-Conference of the
Student Georgia association of
Educators from the
Southeastern Coastal Region.
The conference which was
jointly hosted by Augusta
College and Paine College.
The Conference held at the
Paine campus attended by
student representatives from
Savannah, Brunswick, Mount
Vernon, Statesboro, Atlanta
and Augusta.
Berreras told the students
that the main reason this
country is in the prejudice
situation it’s in is because of
the government. “Unless the
government starts doing
something about the situation
there is going to be a
revolution in this country.”
“We don’t stress our
similarities too much. We stress
our differences,” said Berreras.
“When something bad
happens, we tend to blame it
on something else.”
In reference to how local
officials handle the situation,
Berreras quoted Roy Rollins,
Superintendent of Richmond
County Board of Education, as
saying, “we do not want to bus
our little white children into
the Black ghetto. There is
crime, murders, rape, dope,
sex, and everything else down
there.”
Forget
Back to
Africa Idea
Talk about going back to
Africa is not going to solve the
black, man’s problems in
America, Rep. Shirley
Chisholm told a group Os A&T
State University students here.
The only black woman in
Congress told the students:
“Your forefathers and my
forefathers gave a great deal to
this country, and we intend to
stay here and get our share.
Nobody is going to prescribe a
place, to put the colored
problem.”
Rep. Chisholm addressed a
special convocation of students
in the Harrison Auditorium. In
explaining why she decided to
run for President of the U.S.
she said:
“This country is in a
mess, and the situation calls for
a new kind of leadership. We
need to infuse new blood intd'
the political mainstream.
“I am running,” she added,
“because black people have not
had an input as <o who will be
president of this country, and
women have not had any
input.”
Mrs. Chisholm told the
1,000 students to begin
working with coalitions to
bring about change in the
political system.
“Some of you have been
turned off by the system,” she
added. “It is easy to destroy,
to burn and to engage in
destructive acts. These are not
the answers. Black and white
people are beginning to come
together to shape the system
up.”
“I will not keep quiet about
the injustices in America,”
added Rep. Chisholm. Today
its Angela Davis and tomorrow
it’s you and me. We must do
something about this
quadruple injustice being meted
out to blacks in this country.”
“There will never be peace
jnd harmony until whites
begin practicing all of the
cliches they have been talking
about,” concluded Mrs.
Chisholm.
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Berreras addressing MINI Conference
“Nevertheless, problems the
ghettos have the rich have also,
Berreras explained when saying
“We all have faults, things that
happen in the Black ghetto are
happening on the Hill (area
above the Bon Air Hotel)
also.” Due to Nixon’s actions,
HEW claims that Richrrwd
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absolutely sound which means
nothing, Berreras said.
“Our school system does not
prepare us for a job after high
school graduation,” Berreras
continued. He further
explained that there was not
one student in the audience
■who could have taken care of
themselves after high school
graduation.
Berreras said that America is
afraid of socialism, although
there has been socialism in this
country since. 1935.
“The only people who have
freedom of choice in this
country are white people. It is
a myth that all people have
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James Brown, who has over
thirty gold records to his own
credit, turned the tables
recently in Memphis when he
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gold record awards for their
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IS WHAT YOU GET’.
Accepting the awards along
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Memphis’ Mid-South Coliseum
was the quintet’s manager Eli
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The Dramatics were in
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freedom of choice. The myth
which everybody is focusing on
now is the anti-bus myth;
everybody is against busing,
but nobody wants to admit the
truth.”
The theme of the
Conference was “Your role: To
Improve Human Relations in
the School Community.
YOUNG
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only reason we are being
robbed is because we’re not in
politics.”
Blacks, Young said, are the
only people in this country not
on welfare. The airlines, banks,
insurance companies, oil
companies are all on Welfare.
He said, “They take your social
security deposits and give them
to somebody else to make
money on. And then they loan
you your money back and
make you pay interests on
your money. Young described
politics as everybody putting
■some money in a pot. “And
politics is who decides how to
divide up the money. And if
you’re not in politics, then
you’re not around when the
money is being divided.”
“The sooner we realize,”
Young continued, “that
everything we live and breathe
comes to us through
politics—and get into it
(politics), the sooner we will
find our way to the benefits of
this land.”
Young' cited Frederick
Douglas’ statement that “the
struggle for freedom is the
struggle to save black men’s
bodies and white men’s souls.”
“We will save our bodies,”
Young added “but we’ll also
save America’s soul in the
process.”
Turning to economics,
Young said, “There is no
company in America that can do
business without black
support.”
“A community has to find a
way to disapline its buying
power.” He proposed a “black
Christmas” where Blacks give
nothing but food and medicine
and buy that from black folk,
as a means drawing attention
to black problems.
“Blacks must bring a new
dimension to this nation”
Young said, “ that dimension
comes out of our faith. It
comes out of our soul.” Young
said that in the near future the
people who will make the
decisions in the county
courthouse, the people who
develop a good school system
that educates children, they are
going to be black.
“Anywhere you see good
things going on ... there will be
Black folk taking charge and
white folk who learned to
think black and be black, and
we will have the kind of
community where people live
together and love one another.
And where one man doesn’t
have to break down on another
in order to survive, but we’ll all
know that we are children of
the same father.”
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granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
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CPC International formally
made public today its policy of
equal opportunity for all
suppliers who furnish the giant
food company with products
and services for its
manufacturing operations in
this country. President James
W. McKee, Jr. outlined the
firm’s policy which he said has
been in effect “for some time”
during his company’s
participation in Operation
Breadbasket, the First
International Black Cultural
Business Exposition sponsored
News-Review December 2, 1971
by the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference at the
Hotel Statler Hilton in New
York.
The policy statement was
issued in the form of a
memorandum from Mr.
McKee, dated October Bth of
this year, reminding managers,
supervisors and other personnel
concerned with purchases of
products and services of the
company’s procedures. In his
memorandum Mr. McKee
states: “CPC International,
consistent with its Affirmative
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Action Policy for Equal
Employment Opportunity, is
also committed to providing
equal opportunity foi minority
owned suppliers. The company
affirms that: Minority-owned
firms will be encouraged to
provide the products and
services we require;
Competitive bids from
minority-owned firms will be
invited; Purchases will be made
in accordance with such
normal procurement standards
as quality, price, reliability,
and service.”