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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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