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y 23 - 29, 1984 THE CITIZEN PAGE NI . E
MELODY FOUR GOSP L SINGERS - Th elody
Four Gospel Singer of u egon will celebrate
their 14th Anniversary on ay 27 at 3 p.m, at
Zion Baptist Church, 375 School Street where Rev.
Clarence Guy " pastor. Guests will be the United
Junior and t. Olive ale Chorus ith special gue t
. - ichigan Knightingale of Kalamazoo. The elody
Four wiD also be in concert ay 26, 7 p.m. at uske­
gon Ht . High School uditorium. The orning
Star Baptist Church ale horu will join them.
I
ry Day" president of elody Four; Arthur
Howell, cretary; Jo phine Goines, manager and
Laymon Zachery, booking manager.
tum Y SPEAKING
Build ing with our collective wealth
Alfred t Jr.
Frederick Douglas, th great Black
tat man of the American Civil War
period, stated, in n open letter to tho
BI c who were fleeing the Southern
tat after President Rutherford Haye
removed the Federal occupation troop
from tho state, that he could ym-
pathize with their desire to be ird of the.
everyday brutality and con nt intimi-
dation practiced gainst ex- e but
could not agree that their ru t
accomplish its purpo ,
intimidations, harrassment
ual cts of brutality ould foll
Douglas in � ted that if thi
blem of lack Americ
resolved, they ould
face the prob m here it ori
Douglas 0 ted that the perso
wanted pro without stru
e "thout its roar.
The reality of . Do "percepuo
proven over the next one hundred
yean. For, after all the conver tio
d m etings, after the crest on and
expan "on of 0 major n tional orpni-
tions (the .A.A.C.P. and the Urban
Le gue), with very little chang
result, finally, one person tood up on a
bu in Alabama and said, I no stand
fut and face this problem at its origin
- and the problem began to be solved.
Blac Americans, since 1954, have
gone thro , once apin, all of the
m tioga, co entiom, conferences, mi­
n , tel "" n talk silo and "tivity
"0 , including ro -playing for hite­
company busines , production line fore­
men, educator , social or er , religiou
• retreats, and so on. This has been a kind
of fie ing by Blac from the sophi 0-
ted bigotrY and intellectual prejudice
practiced daily again t the BI, c
munity by all levels of tod y'
community.
o , once gain, the Blac American
will have to stand f: and face the pro­
blem at it origin, but this time i will not
be in Alabama or against any particular
force of white bigots. Rather, the stand
must be made in every Blac community,
of Americ ,for the real problem this time
i our lves. In our de perate need for
relief from the constant pressures of
bi otry and prejudice, we have
"".""""'·""y.pur ed every and any avenue
d promi of relief. We have
publican and Demo­
. ,and some of us
to Communism and
We have
yet to
Am ricans will
GO'OO MUSKEGO
Schofie
If every child were born to love,
. if' "or "she" ere m de a are of
" " " or "her" own e ntial and pecu­
liar value, if' "or" e" ere alo ed
and impelled to develop "his" or 'her"
I if image d encou eel to develop
"his" or ,. "peculiar tllen ta, N
eaon ould be a &Iorio egon.
I believe "ih all my heart that the
statement are irrefutab • that any
po ·tio to the contrary defeOlible.
It will be Ii en niIh bnpot-
!leo Ion and under-
turn the negative recolcitrant person
into a pillar society. It can not be done.
Up to a point, I will agree with you.
en you y, as som will, "this "
impo ible," I think of my high school
science te cher. He said and believe
'The . tom is the smallest unit of energy "
It is impo 'ble to break it. It will always
be the smaDe unit." He kll more
about . ence then than I do no , but
we did bre die atom.
Irnpo "bility is a tentative d tr
t circumstance. Thil has been de­
mo rated to be true on many occasions.
In this • I believe it is untrue.
,
the economic and social upheaval being
experienced at this time by the United
States, it is imperative that they become
producer. Our future lie in our ability
to become competitors for the same
markets that the white community
ulitizes fo its economic base. The pre­
sent energy crisi , the emergence of the
Third World an economic force in
orld politic and particularly the need
of these United St te for solid relation
with Africa, affords Black America with
a unique opportunity to enter into the
economic footr ce on almost equal
terms.
Bl ck Americans control as much
wealth some European countries
po their total national wealth.
We must ce the pr ctice of being a
fiduciary agent of thi ealth to the
white CQJMl oity and begin the practice
of retaining a greater portion of our
own wealth through the ppropriate
development of major economic pro­
ject - projects hich ill create a con­
tinued cash flow and job development,'
controlled by the Black community.
To achieve this, we mu utilize every
type of business structure known, such
as individual proprietor Ips, corporat­
tio , partnership, cottage indu trie
and producer cooper ti e .
The Black Church was e ntial to
the uccessful development of the great
Civil Right Movement. The Church wa
the communication core which enabled
national movements to remain in con­
stant touch with the Black communities
of America. I pro po that the BI ck
Church become th cataly for the
creation of local economic developm nt
thrusts through the u of the congre­
gation's Purchase Po er! Before an
efficient economic thrust can be im­
plemented by Blac Americans, table
and influential les net work must be .
established. This will enabl Black
manfacturers to develop becau of the
networ 's bility to II tho Bl ck­
produced product .
We should remember, "from srn II
acorn, rong 0 grow. tt The b . c
ingredient in the ational Blac C ucu 's
Plan for Blac Family Survival i the
creation of capital resource that are
controlled by Blac . In other word ,
stop being what e are no - a
through vehicle for billions of doll rs,
If we are to urvive, then th 19805
must be the dec de for Blacks to begin
the retention of . much larger portion
of "our collective wealth".
Yes I
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