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weaj Point cadets turned over $20,000 today to the Howard University Center for
Sickle Cell Anemia Research. The money was raised at an Armed Forces Day benefit
concert at the UJS. M ilita ry Academy's stadium. Cadet Percy Squire ( ’ 72) presents
the check to U r. Roland B, Scott, director of the center. Cadet Squire was assisted
by Cadet M ercer Ferguson ('73) (le ft) and Cadet John A. Vaccaro ('72) (rig h t). Fea
tured artists donating their services to the benefit Included Stevie Wonder, Tha
Sup rente a. S pirit, Jimmy and V ella, Smoke Stack and Ecstasy, Passion and Pain.
An Academy spokesman said additional funds would be presented after all benefit
accounts were settled.
To thank her supporters,
Angela Davis la takings three-
week nationwide tour, ending
with a star-studded "Evening
With Angela" In Madison
Square Garden on June 29.
She w ill speak at the gala,
and entertainment w ill be pro
vided by Carmen M cC rae,
Nina Simone, O89le Davis,
Jim m ie Witherspoon, Melba
Moore, Chita Rivera and The
Persuasions. The gala Is be
ing sponsored by the Angela
Davis Legal Defense Fund,
which raised thousands ofdol-
lars for tier legal costs.
M iss Davis, who was ac
quitted of murder-kidnap and
conspiracy charges, w ill then
leave for a sLx week vacation
in tie Soviet Union or Bulgar
ia. When she returns to the
United States In mid-Septem
ber, a spokesman sakd. M iss
Davis w ill begin "building a
national defense organization
for victim s of repression."
H er cross-country tour In
cludes stops In San Antonio,
Chicago, D etroit and probably
Memphis, Tenn., and her
home town, Birmingham, Ala.
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18,975,939 pupils are trans
ported to echool dally, accord
ing to HEW statistics.
’th ere has been a steady In
crease In pupil transportation,
with annual increases In the
last decade of from .5 per cent
to 2 5 per cent. The decades
with the largest peicentage
gains were: 11.4 per cent from
1939 - 40 to 1949-50 - 9.9 per
cent from 1949- 50 to 1959-60.
The bus had made It possible
for urban school districts to
tel love ovei - crowded co n ll-
tlons, to use space wherever
It la available In the commu
nity, to prevent double ses
sions and to reduce class size.
Busing has made It possible
for school districts to avoid
exjwnslve new school con
struction and not Just because
current available facilities
can be used more efficiently.
There never has been a na
tional source of data on pupil
transportation by race. Nor
are any statistics available
nationally on the rtumherg ol
sttalents bused or the numhet
of miles school buses travel to
further various educational
objectives, i . e , m o i* efficient
use of facilities, vocational
education. summer school,
field trips anl special educa
tional programs.
The current discussion suf
fers from a lack of uniform,
objective, factual information
Dur investigations do nut
support the conclusion that
large numlwi s of children are
being bused long distances to
I m p le m e n t desegregation
plans. H e re are individual
instances of long rides, but we
suspect that these are fa r (ew
e r than when schools were
segregated.
It Is the lack of iranspotta-
tlon which la often the hard
ship. Local and Federal o lfl-
c.als who refuse to provide
tiim p o rta tio n to jwplls who
must travel long distances to
school anl archaic state laws
which discrim inate against
cities in their transportation
reimbursements ate respon
sible for inconveniences to
children.
We find no conclusive evi
dence
that I he aggregate
amount of busing has In
creased nationally or region
ally as a result of court-
ordered Integiattun. In tire ab
sence ol data on pupil trans
portation by race which would
reveal how many white and
Bieck children a te being bused
to what kinds of scliools, it Is
impossible to state accurately
the number or race ol pupils
who are being bused to racially
segregated or I n t e g r a t e d
schools. 1 lie cry of "massive
busing" for "forced integra
tion" Is completely irrespon
sible.
fliW has estimated a 3 per
cent Inc tease in busing as a
result of Integration. T h lsflg -
ure r epresents t he inc rea se in
tire Southeastern states in ov-
erall pupil transportation Ire-
tween 1967 - 70 from 525 per
cent to 555 per cent, d u r in
vestigation leads us io the con
clusion that this Is no more
than normal growth.
The cost argument against
pupil transportation rest on
the assumption that busing
costs are so great that they
seriously deplete funds for tie
regular educational program.
But tie facts do not support
this assumption. The latest
national
figures available
show that 3.7 per cent of all
educational expenditures in
tie I nited States were spent on
pupil transportation of all
kinds. This percentage has
declined slightly since the
1953-54 school year. The
chan on pupil transportation
costs for individual school
districts reveals that even
with increased costs, pupil
transportation
remains
a
small percentage ofalleduca-
tional expenditures.
l i e broad allegations of the
cost burden must also be re
viewed against the (act that
each state reimburses local
school d istricts for both capi
tal and operatingcosts. There
are wale variations In among
states in their patterns of re-
im lui sement. and there is no
national average of stale re
imbursement of pupil trans
portation costs.
The president promises to
"cu rb busing while expanding
e d u c a t i o n a l opportunity"
which Is unrealistic aryl ac
tually means mote separate
hut unequal schools, hence
less educational unpoi tunny
for Blacks.
School officials see txjsing
and expanding educational op-
poi tunnies as complementary
aixl not contradictory objec
tives. T h e ir vie w s are d irect-
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"Jambo, bwana," the A fro-
American said in kisw ahlll,
extending his hand for a
shake.
' Beg your pardon?" the
Ghanaian asked, surprise-1.
"What dkl you say?"
"Jambo, bwana," the A fro -
American repeated ami rattled
on In excellent Kiswablll.
"S o rry , m i s t e r , "
the
Ghanaian Intel lupted aftei a
few seconds. " I don’ t under
stand what you're saying.”
"D o n 't you speak Swahili?"
the Afro-A m erican asked.
"Sw ahili?" the Ghanaian
asked helplessly. "W hat Is
Swahili?"
"But . . . but." the A fro -
A m e r ic a n s ta m m e re d ,
scratching his bushy be» cd,
"a re n 't you from Africa?"
"O f course, I a m ,"
the
Ghanaian said, ami added
humorously, "Ghana Is not In
the South Sea Islands!"
" Then, how come you don't
speak Swahili? Isn’ t that the
national language of Africa?”
The man from Ghana only
laughed.
By this time, a n o t h e r
African, a Gambian who ob
viously had teen in the United
States for some time, had
Joined them.
He explained
to the Ghanaian: "M o st Afro-
Americana helleve K law shill
Is the only language all A fri
cans apeak. I only wish (hey
knew Kiswahlll la nol even
an authentic African tongue
but an adopted language —
Kiswahlll, often shortened
to ''S w ah ili" in the United
States, fa r from being the
language ol A frica, Is spoken
by only about 30 m ill ton of the
continent's approximately 350
million people.
Also, recently I met a young
g irl from a Los Angeles high
school who wore a carefully
colffeured
Afro hairstyle.
She asked me, ns a Nigerian,
whether there was anything
she could do to make her
Afro even more African.
She burst Into tears when
I shrugged and told her that
the Afro is not African at
all but strictly an American
hair-style. "A form of black
protest . . . black Identity . .
a quest to create something
that Is one's own . . . setting
new beauty standards that are
anything but Am erican."
How much else of Black
Am erica's current love at-
fa lr with African culture Is
baseil on a wish for new
myths - - or a desire tocreate
new growths on ancient roots?
Make no mistake about it,
an Increasing number of black
Americans - especially the
young — consider themselves
African-Am ericans. The es
tablishment
of
communes
designed after traditional Af
rican societies, the geneial
clamor for African studies
on American college cam
puses, the popularity of A fri
can garments, the mounting
interest In African affairs and
the
"back
io
A fr ic a "
crusade. Just to mention a
few, are all reflections of
this wave of "relating to" or
"Identifying w it h the old
country."
Bui w riting In the New York
1 imes In 1970, the form er
Sierra Leone ambassador to
the I nited States, D r. John
Akar, stunned black America
by contending that although
the black American "m ay
wear five dashikis, one atop
the other, shake hands In 22
different ways, speak Kiswa
hlll and even lose his accent,
he Is still n oclosertoA frlca
than the Chinese or the Ja
panese."
D r. A kar, In fact, merely
echoed the words of the late
Kenyan m inister foreconomlc
planning
and development,
Tom Mboya, a noted pan-
Africanist, who In 1969 told
black Americans they weren’t
any more welcome in Kenya
than whites. He sakl: "T he
American Negro who comes
here has only one thing In
common with Kenyans: Ills
color.
Beyond that, he will
1« In a totally foreign ami
s tra n g e
community — a
strange c u l t u r e , strange
habits ami strange attitudes
of mind.
"1 might here add that I
find sometimes there Is a
complete
misunderstanding
of what African culture really
means. F o r example, some
people think that to identify
with Africa one has to wear
some cheap J apanese or Hong
Kong-made textiles, wear a
shaggy heard o r a piece of
cloth or skin on the head, or
have to wear one’ s hair
natural. These arecondltlons
Imposed on the African today
by
the
circumstances of
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ly contrary to those of the
Fresklent who sees busing as a
"symbol of social engineering
on the basts of abstractions."
School districts throughout the
country use their transpor
tation systems to promote a
variety of educational and
social goals including school
consol slatlon. improved voca
tional education programs,
broadened horizons for their
children through field trips,
and expanded summer pro
grams and preschool educa
tion. No one, to our knowledge,
has ever held out these objec
tives as’ ’ social engineering."
Educators have supported
school busing to promote edu
cational opportunity.
'I ransportatlon Is still a re
latively modest percentage of
all educational expenditures.
Rama .
Masons hold
Annual Communication
The M . W. Prince Hall
Grand Lodge will open its 12th
Annual
Communication on
June .’4, 1972. The Grand
Promenade w ill be he Id June
24, 1972 at the Holiday Inn, 10
N. W eldler Street from 10:00
pun. until 2:00 a.m . The An
nual Mem orial Service w ill be
held at the New Hope Baptist
Church, 3927 N. Gantenhein
Avenue. The Annual Banquet
will be held Monday evening,
commencing with a No Host
cocktail hour from 6:30 until
poverty, limitations of tech
nical and educational and
other resources. T hese must
not be confused with culture.”
Recently, I talked to a class
in comparative African lit
erature at Peppeidlne Uni
versity in Los Angeles and
the students were surprised
when I said there was slavery
in Africa before the coming
of the white man. Before I
could finish my statement, a
very light-skinned g irl, who
spoke good Kiswahlll and
Yoruba and knew more about
the black revolution in Tan
zania than the one In Wans,
Jumped up and challenged me.
An argument ensued until
the lecturer, an African, In
tervened and explained that
slavery existed in A frica long
before the arrival of the
whites. The winners of A fri
can Intertribal c o n f l i c t s
regularly enslave the losers
as long ago as such conflicts
took place. L ater, the Arabs
made a business of slavery.
When I was talking privately
with the g irl later, she con
fessed that the only reason
she challenged me was that
I had made "such a stupid
disclosure" with so many
whites listening.
And this experience Is by
no means unusual.
Mboya
once was pelted with rotten
eggs in Harlem for telling his
own s id e
of the t r u t h .
Actually, several of my A fri
can friends In the United
States are afraid to express
opinions about Africa because,
they say, " i t ’ s safer to tell
Americans what they want to
hear.”
,
But must we continue to
seek after lies?
. . .
- in
"A remedy for the historic
evil of racial discrimination
has often created a new evil of
disrupting communities and
imposing hardships on child
ren . . .’’ The Legal Defense
Fund asks:
“ Who has disrupted com
munities, imposed hardships,
and torn us apart as a people?
" I t is not the Federal judges
who have exercised Judicial
restraint. It is not black c iti
zens who are still trying to
secure equal educational op
portunities for th eir children.
It is not the school bus.
" I t is the present Admini
stration which has used the
power and majesty and au
thority of the ( ’ resident's of
fice to stir dissension, confu
sion, and uncertainty among us
by politicizing the busing is
sue."
7:30 pun. at the Holiday Inn
with dinner to follow imme
diately alter the cocktail hour
at 8:00 pun. Monday morning
June 26, 1972 at 9:00 a.m. the
txisiness session w ill get un
derway and w ill terminate
Tuesday afternoon. The Pro
menade and also the Banquet
is open to the general public.
Promenade tickets are $2.50
and Banquet tickets are$6.50.
Guest speaker for the Banquet
w ill be Russell Dawson, D i
rector of HUD.
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Busing report charges Nixon playing politics
The NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, In c ,
Its a published a report on the
busing controversy.
The LJMiF state» ita Intro
duction:
"T h e politicizing of the
fusing issue during an election
year Is not a mark of leader
ship. It haa pola rlzed our peo
ple. It has dlvened attention
from the urgent need to eradi
cate racism .
" , . . It is not the school bus
which Is in trouble. What Is at
stake Is our sanity as a people,
the Ualepeialence ami Integrity
of uurcourts, the fulfillment of
out commitment to equal jus
tice.''
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fnxn the committee report.
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