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Rep. Hold shington (D-rn.) told
Chic go BI Sunday th t "it's our
tum to hold th city' rein of po er.
Spe . to arly all Blae udien e
t Bethel A .E. Church, 4448 S. ichi-
ash.iJtgton urged hi listener to
mere he e 100 percent pport
from the city's BI c community in his
m yoral bid,
And h ggested they "m it unf -
. nable d uncomfort bl for any
BI per n" not to register d vote.
EVE BEE GMNG hite candi­
our vote for ye r and year and
"And it' com to the point
here e y, ell, it' our turn. It' our
tum.' And e don't h ve to m e any
for it. You don't even h e to
his camp . ould not be
e clu ively to BI cks but he add­
ed, 'emu is the h� ."
Hispanics, omen, "progr
hite nd poor bite ould be urged to
join hi program, . ton id,
"I am not tupid" h said. "I under-
d ho th orld i m de, and I kno
there are problem in some other cornrnu-
nitie. e're going to re ch out for them
bu t this is the ba . This is the ba. e
don't h ve to be ashamed of it.'
He emphasized he thinks Blacks
ould 100 to him unanimou y s their
candidate.
"I STAND HERE like you sit here -
re It of 400 year of travail and
struggle in this country. And that travail
and struggle has come up with product
called 'us.' e've been through the
crucible,' he id.
, e've been pu ed around, oved
around be t, murdered, em ulated,
literally de royed. Our families have
been sy ematically di rupted. There'
been an unfair distribution of aD the
goodie . 0 syStem ork for u. We
influence no institu tion in this country
except our own. e have no power.
e h �e no land.
'But through all that struggle e' e
. tayed together. e'v maintained our
equanimity. e've become more cour -
geous. e've becom more tolerant.
e've become more under anding. e
are humanitarian. e ha e elevated
Amazing Grace to the I el of an art.
And no it's our turn."
Editor's ote: Political pollsters had
predicted an 18 point lead in IIJi is
'0 mor'" to incumbent James
Thomp n 'Over Democrati chalte ger
Adlai Stev n n. The I/lrge tum 'Out 'Of
Black: ten brought the race within a
tn 'Of a fi thousand votes. Rev.
Jack n comment 'On the post
el, ction analy is.
TH S RPRISI G re-
ote in the governor'
r c illu trate central f t th t occur
o er d over: the -ignorin the under-
e tim tion of the BI c
Ju the
undere timate
rbitron under timates
li ten r politi pollster
e tim ting BI c voter.
The Blac 'p liti al ommunity is the
m underanalyzed underp ned und r­
count d and under overed con tituen y
in thi city. t only do pre-election
poll ter undere timate it but p t-
electi n an ly t nd lumnist I
nt and misinterpret it.
mo t politi al int r­
preter casually menti n d the increa
in BI regi trati n d ter p rti l­
p tion on Tuesd y' but m t concluded
th t the real force behind it as Eddie
Vrdoly , new chairm n of the Coo
County Democratic Party. The truth is
Vrdoly h littl to do ith the large
BI c voter registr tion or the turnout.
The taly in tran erring BI and
poor people' anger and fru tration into
political participation a a coalition of
primarily Blac gf root civil right
and community organizations, ehurche
and a fe independent politician.
ich el E. Lavelle, chairman of the"
board of election comrni ioner and
Corneal D vi one of the comrni ioners,
op ned the registration proce. A
team of independent forces then pro-
vided the r and fuel for th ne
politi al flames. t include the Rev.
lay Evan the Rev. Donald far ns
the Rev. Steve Thur ton ari n Stamp
and H residents Lu Palmer and
Chi ago Bl c nit d Communitie Jim
ompton and the Chicago Urban League
Slim Col man and PO R, Joe Gardn r
nd P SH. Vrdolyak h neither the
political lever ge to control th Black
vote nor the moral authority to motivate
it. It is b yond his reach.
It i thi same undere timated Blac
Chica 0 vote that ha rather consistently
and successfully true intelli ent blo
f r freed m despite limited options for
m re th n quarter of a century -
beginning hen Rep. illiam Daw on
led the BI mmunity into oalition
th t elected Ri hard J. Daley in 1955.
ore recently when YOT Daley
tried to jam Edward V. Hanrahan do n
the throat of Blacks after the killings
of Blac Panther leader Fred Hampton
and ar Clar they rebelled and elected
a Republican state's ttorney Bernard
Carey. In coalition with other, the
BI ck community ousted and rep} ced
the Daley contingent t the 1972 De-'
mocratic tional Convention.
This same BI c independent move­
ment elected ayor Jane Byrne, over­
powering the Blae regular, the do n­
town economic power ructure and
achille incumbent. She re arded
. .
By e\'. J
J
n
this support by trying to reduce BI
congre . onal repre ntatioa from thre
to two' her efforts were defeated. This
same independent Blac political move-
m �t is no challenging (succe fully
e think her City C uncil remap becau
it dilute the BI c vot .
Tho ho a d this mmer heth r
the Chi agoFest boycott to prote t
and politicize Byrne reduction of Blac
repr ntation on the Board of Educa­
tion the CT A board nd the CHA board
was successful now have a partial an w r.
Fuel from the boy ott incited not a riot
but controlled politi al r ge.
THE FEBRUARY YORAL pri-
mary ith a ba of 600 000 to 700 000
BI
voters on the boo
ill be
r ferendum on th Byrne drnini tr ti n.
It will also be an opportunit for thi
independent Blac mo ement to le d
a coalition of Blac and oth r fair-minded
people in tr in its most p erful
blo yet for fr edom.
R iaJ blindne n i tent I
e timated the Bla vote. Th
the re pon ibility and p
ould t a good hard
h t i really goin on.
BI politi I di ntent i bein trans­
formed into di iplin d ret the
ballot bo .
The Rev. Jes
president of Ope rat' n Pu h.
/I
An ou nce c anges 0
police force
Benton H rbor Publi Safety Dire tor
Sam t n announ ed han in th
city police for e.
e to the for e
Larry John n Jo nne
Dannefelt.
John n i a former Ferri St te am-
pus p licernan hile ard served
lien oper tor for the sheriff' depart­
ment and or ed part time ith the
Chikaming Township force, at n id.
The ppointment ere effective Octo­
ber 28.
The three repl ced Sgt. Charles Har­
ri n, who retired: and officers Robert
o rien and Ed ani Siedenstran ho
joined the Benton TownShip force.