Innis calls for two - party system
Portland/Observer Thursday, September 7, 1972 Pa^e 3
Body and Fender Repair
M c it reasonable shop in town
By Roy Innis
(From hia add re as to tha Nat
ional Republican Convention
Platform Committee on Aug
ust 17 in Mlarnl.)
In this last moving complex
technological world H are la
little time left for Blacks to
take a cold, lard-nosed ap
proach to politic».
F o r too
long we lave iaen spectators
watching powetlessly as Ha
pendulum of fats swung leis
urely (»tween the two major
parties.
We rejoiced when old Abe
Lincoln freed Ha slaves — and
Blacks were Republican» for
the next 60 years. I hen a-
long came F . D . R. who pro
mised us a bowl of aoup and
• crust of bread and we
swung to Ha Democratic par
ty .
Immigration names
black investigator
On» of die tup investigators
In tie U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization service la Kel
logg If. Whlttlck, who lea
hel|»d break aome of tie
tougleat fraud cases involving
aliens.
I he 44-year-old Whlttlck Is
die highest ranking of 16 Wack
Investigators of tie service,
an agency of the U.S. Depart
ment of Justice.
In New York, where le was
an
Investigator for eight
years. Whldlck was credited
with completing re a d y 900
fraud cases In which aliens
were Illegally seeking to le -
come permanent residents of
d e United States.
one of d e major cases
Whlttlck broke Involved a New
York man who arranged for
some 500 aliens to m arryU ,S .
citizens solely for the jairpose
of giving the al e n s ile tight to
remain in this country. Each
alien paid $600 for the a r
rangement.
To Be Equal
eral» or H a ir ''la m a " . We
are not liberals - liberalism
occur» In a state of affluence-
whet lave we to be liberal
/Itb?
Job», perhaps? Mon-
y? Power?
T la thing tla t we must be
liberal about and with Is our*
Jlgnlty1 And Hat dignity dic
tates Hat we must (»long tone
one man or to his party! That
we must be available for pro
position! 7 hat we must nego
tiate and targaln lor powerl
That we must, above all -
1« men, self-determined men
taking our place In American
annals with Hie proud dignity
H a t marks Hie place of Hie
Iris h , Hie Anglo-Saxon, the
Italian, Hie Jew I
We must settle for nothing
less.
You lave beard us talk about
"equality" - tla t most neb
ulous ol all conditions - what
did we mean? Equal to what?
H a t I am your equal I lave
no doubt! f l a t you grant me
equal rights la what is Inques-
Uonl Equal rights as indiv
iduals!
Equal rights to ag
gregate oui strength Hius con
verting our resources into
dollars in our own commun
And nearly
every Black
since has been virtually born
Into the |»rry captive to an
automatic Inheritance onto tie
Democratic plantation.
I bus, Blacks lave Iaen de
nied Hist very basic right
which las Iaen guaranteed to
all Americana: thedemocrst-
1c process; Hie American way;
Hie two [arty system,
(jt
has always Iaen one [arty or
Hie o tla r for Blacks, almost
ities.
as II an unpublished deal lad
Four years ago, before you
Iaen made letween the two
gentlemen, | called for a new
parties to take turn» at token
contract to le written letween
ism I j
Blacks and whites in America
Exclusive blame cannot le
Hat called for a guaranteed
placed on He Democratic
quota
Involvement m U«
Party for fostering and nur
American system
based on
turing plantation, hip-pocket
JUr numbers. Today HieDem-
politics.
7 le Republicans
°crats are moving in tlia td lr-
must stare a major portion ol
actlon.
guilt for offering no escape«
What about you?
no choice; no alternative to
11* case fora minority ¡«o -
Hie often patronizing solutions
nle to comprise a majority
proffered up from well-m ean
mrnewhere is a sound case,
ing blurry-eyed lite ra ls .
nd where else but in those
Black (aople a re not com
ommunltlea in which 1 lacks
mitted non-negotiably to lib
ow exist as m ajorities. I he
greatest threat to us Is tie
dismantling of cxir commun
ities, tu r homes, our schools,
Hat which will doom us for
ever Into Hie lonely confines of
minorItyness; Hie lonely con
fines of segregation; Hie lone
ly confines of powerlessness!
Based on popular myth, we
may 1« able to our-people-
poiulate you In a few years.
H a t falling, we must re
organize politically so that we
comprise an effective m ajor
ity
someplace,
somehow,
sometime.
1 here las been a lot of talk
recently about Blacks selling
out to the Democrat and Re-
publlcan Parties . . . much of
Hie talk, 1 confess, has m erit
Many of my brother» hav
settled for tinsel when they
could lave gotten gold; tin
when Hey should lave asked
for silver;
molasses when
honey was just a sniff away.
We must set our sites on
digger Hilngs, our dreams
w orld. T ell him that 30 m il
lion Black people are wait
ing: Waiting for him to utter
the magic words of freedom;
waiting for him to offer an
alternative; waiting for him to
make available the two party
system to black Americans for
He firs t tim e'
Can J support Richard M U -
house Nixon?
W ill President Nixon make
K possible fo r 30 million
blacks to look his way In 1972?
Gentlemen, | submit tie
choice Is his!
Carlos
287-8 529
2 6 0 9 N, Vancouver Ave.
Portland, Oregon
day care mothers
VEP starts
vote drive
John
Lewis,
executive
directo r of tie Voter Educa
tion Project, Inc. (V E P ), and
must tecome visions.
We
Georgia State Representative
must not seek only He right to
Julian Bond, a VEP board
sit next to whites in H e ir
member, spearleaded a non-
schools; we must now demand
partisian voter registration
the
right to operate
our
registration
drive through
schools!
We must not only
South Carolina.
ask for your jobs, we must
T ie drive, coordinated by
seek tie economic ownership
South Carolina VEP D irector
of our communities. I will
Calvin H a rris , is designed
revet sell out for tinsel, tin or
to stimulate interest in voter
molasses nor w ill I sell out
registration among blacks and
for JO pieces of silver.
other m inorities throughout
the state.
But, 1 will sell outfordecent
schools lo r Black children'
Activities during the three
I w ill sell out for proper med
day tour included rallies,
ical care for our elderly! 1
mass meetings, and speeches
w ill sell out for an end to
at high schools, colleges, and
drugs In tie black community
churches; and door-to-door
I will sell out for He right
canvassing of neighborhoods
of black leople to le a self-
to en^ourace voting a/e blacks
determined |eople
who ! ad not registered to do
Carry t!e message lack to
so.
Special attention was
y us le a d e r, M r . N ix o r . t 'e
focused on tie newly enfran
most
powerful man in He
chised IS to 21 year olds.
CARE FOR BABIES
IN YOUR HOME.
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Family D a y /N ig h t Care
4 6 3 5 N.E. 9th 288-5091
by Vernon E . Jordan. J r .
Thia year's election could
le ore of tie most crucial
of tie century, an election in
which decisions w ill le made
that could affect tie course
dds nation takes for d e next
decade or so, tut millions
of citizens w ill le robbed of
dieir right to |» r tic lj» te In
die vital electoral process tle t
affects d e ir lives.
This is because d e right
to vote lias leen burdened try
complicated andcumheraome
registration procedures tliat,
in effect, exclude poor (eople
and m lnoiities from tie bal
lot.
T ie Suuth has always leen
pointed to as tie legion tliat
kept black ¡eople from voting,
l i e landmark Voting Rights
Act of 1965 helped to change
that, although some (a rts of
tie South still set up road
blocks. hut a lew research
study liy the Nstlonal I rian
League, "Abridging tie Right
to Vote," shows tliat many
n o rd e m and western com
munities are just as reluc
tant to encourage full citizen
¡artic ija tio n in elections to
day, as die South lias teen
historically.
It la well known tliat d e ie
Is a sm aller voter turnout
for American elections tian
for those of other Western
countries.
T ie popular ex
planation for this has always
stressed voter apathy, lu t It
la now apparent tliat tie real
reason Is the external Im
pedimenta placed In tie path
of many peuple.
These te rrie rs are es
pecially significant In tie
In rer-c ity and in sm aller
metropolitan areas.
Resi
dency
requirements
ate
among the most effective
means of keeping citizens
away from the polling booth.
Some .13 states have rules
requiring one year's resi
dence In the state before one
can vote, and inoat states
have die same one year rule
for residence in the county
or Hie precinct.
It is well known that we
are die moat mobile country
In the world, but election of
ficials still cling to resi
dency
requirements more
suited to the old New Eng
land town meeting style of
government. It Is clear drat
.«ich unreasonable resiliency
requirements prevent m il
lions from voting and fall
disproportionately upon m i
nority groups dial liave high
mobility tales w ld iln states
or cities,
I he registration process
Itself is a formidable Iw rrie r
to voting.
|n marry states,
registration ends two months
or more lefo re Hie elctlona—
btat is. well («fore He pu
blicity of tie campaigns sti
mulates voter Interest.
|
many states, registration ends
* e ll lefore tie prim aries,
cutting even more potential
voters from d e rolls.
Most year-round registra
tion offices are only open
from 9 to 5, thus effectively
preventing working people and
die poor from registering.
Not many people are willing
or able to lose a day’ s pay
to register. Many cities open
temporary registration of
fices with evening or week-
erxl
hours fo r a limited
¡e riix l, Ixit these are open
for only a lew days and dieir
Is so I idle publicity drat most
people never even know about
them.
Since registration offices
are located "dowtown’’- - f a r
from II« gletto, distance la
an effective b a rrie r as w ell.
Few cities liave really at
tempted to open temporary
offices in Hie ghetto during
registration jerlo ds, utilize
mobile units and neighborhood
registrars, or make other ef
forts to reach potential black
votera.
Literacy tests, long used
against blacks In the South,
a te now used In some stales,
Including liberal ones like New
York, to keep Spanish-speak
ing citizens and some blacks
.fro m registering. And many
states t a r convicted felons
from the (allo t, a rule that
la said to lesult in disquali
fying mote tlian 1.5 million
people, many of wboae con
victions were for relatively
triv ia l offenses.
There are plenty of other
a d m in is tr a tiv e
regula
tions and local laws tliat keep
people out of the system when
Hiey should la used to In
clude them In. It looks like
the biggest reason not enough
citizens participate in the
system Itself.
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With Ron Hendren
A YOUNG VIEW OF W A SH IN G TO N
THE FIRST VOTE, THE BEST VOTE,
OUTDOOR STORES,
AND THE LAST WORD
By Ron Hendren
W A SH IN G TO N Of all the political ab
surdities which have emerged from Ihe
camps o f both major political parlies in
this Presidential election year, one which
must surely rank near the (op is the
Republican's goal, proclaimed at Miami
Beach, o f winning the youth vote
No other block of potential voters
garnered so much attention from the
President and his advisors at Miami as
"those o f you who will be voting for the
first time this November." That's the way
Mr Nixon pul it, followed by his fervent
hope that those in Ihe 18-10-24 age
bracket could later say that "your first
vote was your best.”
I f being best means being Republican
and it seems reasonable to conclude that
is whal the President had in mind it just
isn't likely to happen, even if American
involvement in the Indochina war is
concluded before the election. And that
is the one issue which, if resolved in time,
might swing a significant number of
youth votes to the Republican column
The facl is, according io every major
poll, that the preponderance o f those
registering for the first time to vote in a
national election are registering as Demo
crats. A Newsweek poll conducted by
George Gallup several weeks ago indi
cated that 48 percent of new voters
would sign on as Democrats while only
22 percent would go Republican. That
estimate is now proving conservative.
But party labels don’t mean much
among most young voters, and the factors
deciding where the youth vote will go this
year will likely be issues and personalities.
True, those young people gathered in
Miami Beach to support President Nixon
seem Republican enough From their ivy
league suits and villager dresses to their
enthusiastic, always-on-cue huzzas, they
indeed presented a spectacle of which
their Republican parents and Republican
grandparents and Republican great-grand
parents could justifiably be proud But
studies show that young people who vote
the way their parents do are oddities or
collectors items, depending on your per
spective In any event, they are rare.
And the President was certainly within
his prerogatives to suggest that his toe-
every-line cheering section represented
"the best o f American youth." But he is
way o ff base indeed if his campaign for
re-election intends to stem, even in part,
from the fantasy that the sons and
daughters of the upper-iiuudle-class ..
serenaded him in Miami are representative
of the 25 million eligible new voters this
year.
In Ihe last week of a recent five-week
voter registration drive in the President's
own home ground -southern California
12,664 new voters were registered. O f
these, more than 9,000 were in the
l8-to-22 age bracket A1I but five regis
tered at Democrats. Now. Mr Nixon has
Family
consistently experienced certain troubles
in his home state, and California has not
by any means proven an index of ihe
nation's pulse But five new Republicans
out of 9.000 new voters should be cause
for at least a minimum of concern and
re-evaluation at the Committee for Ihe
Re-election of the President
A l the same tune, by no means is the
1972 youth vote in Senator McGovern's
pocket Much both about him and his
positions on key issues remains cloudy to
date Moreover, registration is one thing
and voting is another Polls and census
studies indicate that while some 65 per
cent o f the newly-enfranchised 25 million
will register before November, only 42 per
cent are likely to take the trouble to vote.
Although voting should he high among
students, this group represents only aboul
seven million of the new crop of voters
Biggest by far are Ihe nearly 14 million
wage-earning young people, and these
pose the pollsters' trickiest question. No
one knows how many of the “non
students". as the voter registration people
term them (a thoughtlessly demeaning
phrase no one in his right mind would
have approved), will actually make it to
the polls
For my money, 1 believe that a high
percentage o f youths who take the
trouble to register will vote, and that they
will for the most part vote Democratic.
Part o f this conclusion is based on the
impressive goals consistently being met
by the vinous voter registration drives,
efforts which are likely to be equally
effective come November and the drive to
get out the vote Moreover, the issues and
personalities of 1972 are as clear-cut and
meaningful as I hey have been since I9p 4
The sharp divisions they reflect, I believe,
will overcome the cynicism about all
politicians which has rightly been called
the only common political thread among
young people
And ihe youth vote will be important.
Youth specialist Steven V. Roberts o f the
New York lim es has predicted that if
half of the 25 million vote in November,
and o f two-thirds of these vote Demo
cratic, President Nixon could lose eighl
states he earned in 1968, among them
California, Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio.
Should that happen, he will likely lose
the election.
A far-fetched speculation at thLs stage
o f the game, to be sure, but hardly more
far-fetched than the Disneyland fantasy
which masqueraded in the guise o f a
convention in Miami. If the Republicans
persist in campaigning from Ihe wonder
land stage they have set, the President's
hope about the first vote being the best
could prove to be the hardest words any
politician in recent times has been forced
to eat.
OCopyrlght 1971 by
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