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SOME GREAT WARRIOR YOU ARE!
IF YOU SO BAD, THEN WHY ARE WE
HEADED TO SOME PLACE CALLED
AMERICA TO BE SLAVES?
By -James E. Alsbrook
Clar n Page, columnist for th
Chicago Tribune, uggest that
the NAACP has pr act ica lly
achieved its' goal of eliminating
racial discrimination and should
consider voting its If into extinc
tion.
Some Blacks argu today that
the goals and actions of the
P.A CP historically h ve b n
tilted toward the DuBoi "tal
ented tenth."
Educated Blacks, they argue,
h ve b n helped by th civil
righ wars and I ws and by f
firma t'i v ction. Thus, the mid
dle-cIa s Black wa help d.
Oth argue ha im h come
for the AACP to focus on th
poor BI cks who onomi
c lly h ndi p d' nd would
n fit' from an AACP adop
tion ofth Book r T. W hington
philosophy of Black p opl '
1 rning more trad nd m
ual arts to b come fm ncially
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n ,
rly third reported that
th ir children nt hungry at
ome point during that ye r,
And more than a third r
ported that their children didn't
e n have a inter coat.
o T better
at enforcing child support than
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I A QUESTION FOR MY BROTHERS TO PONDER: I
. DID WE REALLY LOSE THE RESPECT OF SOME OF OUR WOMEN 400 YEARS AGO?
Growing cone rn is being ex
pressed about recent develop
ments involving the two old t
Black-uplift organizations in th
nation - the NAACP and the
ational Urban League.
The Wall Street Journal in a
recent lengthy analysis aid the
AACP is in deep financial
trouble. Also, the AACP has
b n attacked for inviting Louis
Farrakhan to speak at its recent
summit of Black leaders in Bal
timore.
FaIT khan's form r deputy
and f; llow Muslim, Khalid Mu
hammad, hot re ntly by 'd
pos d Mu lim offici 1, h d
attr ct rli r t ntion for I-
I. dly i- nutic remarks t
v r 1 colleg s, mcl udi ng
How rd University. Farrakhan
himself has tacked Jews for
"exploiting the BI ck commu
nity. "
Some Urban Leagu support
e have n shak n by th de
partur of John Jacob, Ur n
League Pr ident for twelve
y ars.
J COB 59 r ired from
the League to come vic
p id nt nd chief communica-
ions offi r for the Busch w-
ing Co., of St. Loui . Jacob
and
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followed former executive Ver
non Jordan who left the League
after being stalked and shot by a
crazed white raci t 'who associ
ated him 'with white women
working with the League.
Jordan replaced Whitney
Young Jr., who drown d while
swimming offth coast of Africa
with Ramsey Clark in 1970.
presence of Farra khan at
the NAACP summit was a shift
from the policies of Ben Hooks, I
prior top executive, who followed
in Roy Wilkins' steps. Hooks, 69,
'Wa3 careful to maintain tradi-
tional ties with our of money
from foundations, Ii ral whit
and Jews
Th 2-yea -younger B n
Chavis wants to broaden the p
peal of the NAACP by bro den
ing i m mb rship to in lude as
many Latins, Asians an � 0 hers
as th AACP can assimilate
comfortably and philosophically.
Some old-line Black NAACP
mem rs say it should re in its
traditional emphasis on Black
people' i ues because equality
has not been fully attained de-
pite h civil rights truggles
nd la ofth last 30 y rs.
u
like
nd
THE NAA P mu t a fe
guard civil rights already gained
by Dr. King, Presid nt Johnson,
the AACP and its Defense
Fund.
Its weapons ar philo ophi
cal, adv tive, nd I gal.lt u es
the soft voi ,th hunderou
voic , th carro and th big
stick. It protects Blacks from the
conservative mischie and
. venom of peopl lik th Ku
Kluxers, American nazis, Jerry
Falwell, Rush Limb ugh, Jesse
Helms, Strom Thurman and
Clar n Thorn .
I
If the AA P pu ues i pro-
n w policy of being n urn
brell group for all "colored" or
non-white peopl it could double
in size; power nd mcom . But
its focus would hav to change ..
In America, all non-whit ex-
cept Bla ha n tr ted as
"honor ry" whi . for many
years.
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