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Jimmy Carter: Black observations
I love you, Jimmy
by R e v e re n d M a rtin L u th e r K in « . H r.
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I know a man I can trust, Blacks can
trust, and all Americana can truat aa
their President - that man is Jimmy
Carter.
Jimmy, I waa with you when you
started your long journey, I'm with you
now. and I'm going to be with you when
you're in the White Houae.
Jimmy Carter haa been (or equal
justice when it waan't an eaay thing to
be (or in South Georgia. He waa (or
equal righta long before it waa a popu
lar thing to support - and long before
he entered the political arena.
Jimmy Carter spoke out in favor of
integrating his rural Southern church
many, many years ago.
He and hia
family had to withstand a fierce econo
mic boycott because they refused to join
the White Citizens Council, which al
most drove him out of business. His
daughter haa always gone to integrated
public schooola.
When he waa Governor of Georgia,
the first public speech Jimmy Carter
made said that "the time for discrimina
tion is over." And he proved he meant
what he said. He appointed Blacks to
judgeships and other important posi
tions. He supported social programs to
help the poor and disadvantaged.
He
desegregated the Georgia Real Estate
Commission and pushed for and suc
ceeded in having passed Georgia's first
fair Lousing law.
And he gave my son, M artin Luther
King, Jr., an honored place in the
Georgia State Capitol
against a lot of
opposition.
These are the things that tell me
what is in Jimmy Carter's mind and in
his heart.
Yes, Jimmy Carter has been with
Black people when it waan't easy for
him.
And we're with Jimmy Carter
even when the road to the W hite House
has a small bump or two in it. Nothing
that is worth achieving in life comes
without some hardship - but that hard
ship will make Jimmy Carter an even
greater President. I t is wrong to jump
on a man for the slip of a tongue that
everyone knows does not represent his
thinking. I know where Jimmy Carter
ponent, former Governor Carl Sanders.
Carter let Georgia's white voters know
he could win “without a single Black
The Democratic process that elects
vote." He won the primary with less
the President of the United States is
that ten percent of that vote.
essentially an elim inatio n contest in
A t the June 1972 Democratic Gov
which voters are presented with a ae
ernor's Conference in Omaha, Carter
ries of diminishing options.
introduced a resolution asking that the
The voter's first choice of December
Vietnam war not be an issue in the 7 2
isn't available by March, and the April
Campaign, praising the now deceased
contender who tickles the public fancy
FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover for his
may have disappeared by June.
As
“service" to the nation; and urging that
voters search for a candidate whose
both Governor George Wallace of Ala
political views and voting record are
bama and Governor John Hell Williams
closest to their own. they try to remain
of Mississippi be welcomed back into
loyal to certain political principles.
the party.
That's why I support Morris Udall of
In 1972, my brother, Atlanta City
Arizona.
That's why I can’t support
Councilman, James Bond, and I filed a
Jimmy Carter of Georgia.
challenge with the Credentials Commit
As a veteran of the '69 McCarthy
tee of ihe Convention against the Geor
campaign, and of the 7 2 McGovern
gia delegates elected under a Carter
campaign. I've tried to seek out and
constructed system. We charged racial
support candidates whose accomplish
and sexual discrimination in the makeup
ments and current statements demon
of the Carter led delegation, and a com
strale their support of traditionally li
promise was effected that resulted in
beral principles and humanistic values
fair representation of Georgia voters.
in which I believe. Morris Udall sup
When New York City teetered on the
ports those principles and values. Jim
brink of bankruptcy, former governor
my Carter does not.
Carter opposed federal aid, but now
Congressman Udall's fourteen year
says he only opposed federal aid to the
record in the U.S. Congress places him
city which would bypass state govern
squarely in the liberal column, and
menu Now he says he favors bypassing
demonstrates that his commitment to
the states in distributing revenue shar
social justice didn't begin with his am
ing funds.
bition to become President.
Jimmy Carter blames “New York
Jim m y C a rte r nom inated “ Scoop"
bosses” for challenges that were filed
Jackson for President in Miami in 1972.
against his delegate states, but neglects
then attempted to organize a “stop
to add that he himself challenged other
McGovern" movement. When that fail
candidates' states in New York state.
ed. he approached at least two Black
Carter's strongest Black supporter,
Georgia delegates and asked us to men
U.S. Representative Andrew Young of
tion his name to McGovern as a possible
Atlanta's fifth district, says that Jimmy
running mate.
I did so twice, both
Carter wants to drive bosses like Mayor
before and after Eagleton, but now
Richard J. Daley out of the party, but
Carter lies, and says it wasn't so.
Carter instructs his Illinois delegates to
As a candidate for Governor of Geor
vote for Daley, to insure Daley the
gia. Carter courted the Wallace vote,
chairmanship of the Illinois delegation.
and said nice things about Lester Mad
Carter says that when he becomes
dox. Ray Abernathy, who worked for
President he's going to fire Agriculture
Carter's advertising agency during the
Secretary Earl Butz, but that sounds
gubernatorial campaign, says he used
like an echo of Richard Nixon's cheap
Carter campaign funds to pay for the
promise to fire then U.S. Attorney
media advertising of a Black candidate
General Ramsey Clark, and it echoes
for Governor, who would pull votes
the boastful claim of every candidate
away from Carter's more liberal op
that he will hire his own men.
by Julian Bond
stands and has always stood because
I've been right here to watch him - and
so do Black Americans.
During your race for President you
have told the American people about
things that unite us, not that divide us;
about the things we can do together.
That’s why you’re winning support from
all Americans, Black and white.
You better than anyone understand
the problems of Black and white A m eri
cans - and they believe in you, now
more than ever.
M artin Luther King, Jr. had a dream
- a dream that one day Black and
white, rich and poor, Christian and Jew,
we would all be brothers in harmony.
I have a dream today too, a dream
that will come true - a dream that a
Southerner, Jimmy Carter, is going to
be President of the United States. That
as President he's going to make us all
proud, as he did as Governor of Geor
gia. That as President he is going to
m a k e th e d re a m of M a r tin Iw t h e r King,
Jr. a r e a lity ia e u r life tim o .
God bless you Jimmy Carter and
God's speed on your way to the White
House.
Carter vacillated on the issues after
his New Hampshire primary victory,
but responded to queries about his
cham eleon-like campaign rh e to ric by
saying "These attacks don’t hurt me -
they hurt America.” Sound familiar?
Carter tells a questioner who seeks
full information about changes he pro
poses in the nation's foreign policy. “I'll
discuss that in my inaugural address.”
Carter says he has never benefitted
from federal crop subsidies, but now
U.S. Department of Agriculture officials
say that it isn't so.
Carter has benefitted as well from
Northern liberal guilt over decades of
scorn heaped on the Southern region’s
political leaders - Wallace. Maddox,
Eastland and Talmadge.
In contrast,
attitudes and actions which would seem
ordinary in a man from Massachusetts
or C a lifo rn ia become virtu o us when
practiced by a denizen of Dixie.
When Jimmy Carter visited Europe
while preparing for his campaign, he
indicated that his appointments were
made by the Coca-Cola Company, not by
U.S. State Department officials.
Jimmy C arter has had undeniable
success in putting together a dream
coalition of Blacks and anti Black voters.
of working class whites and business
men, and thus appears to be a tempting
candidate to those voters who hold
victory higher than principle.
In North Carolina and in Florida, his
success with Black voters can be a ttri
buted to his brave posture as the
W allaces layer. In Massachusetts and in
Illinois, he can thank the ineptitude of
the opposition.
Southern Baptists are fond of saying
that "prayer changes things." Jimmy
Carter's religiosity has certainly had
that effect on him, in fact has changed
him from left to right to renter so many
times that converts to the Carter Cause
ought to take a cue from an earlier
apostle, Thomas, who doubted.
Liberal voters who are long tired of
losing election battles may want to lay
down their liberalism and convert to
Carter. I'll stick with Morris Udall of
Arizona.
Northern liberal or Southern moderate?
southern moderates and so-called north
ern liberals, and understandably so.
Because of sim ilar educational back
grounds, each group tends to project
whites in a superior and/or paternalistic
view.
Jimmy Carter used the word
"purity” in reference to race.
1 am certain that it reminded many
Blacks of the old white supremacist
“pure white race" jargon. The interest
ing thing is that Morris Udall revealed
the same pattern of thinking in casti
gating or criticizing Carter for his poor
choice of words. Udall said, in effect,
that we have said to minorities “if you
improve yourselves" (through education
and otherwise) you will be accepted.
You will be able to enjoy the better
things of life -- such as moving into
white neighborhoods. He further stat
ed, in effect, that Carter was saying
that a "Black with a Ph.D will not be
able to move into a white neighbor
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Why I won’t vote for Carter
I Editor's Not* | D.F. Glover, as a
candidate for Lieutenant Governor of
Georgia in the Democratic Primary in
1970.1
The recent inappropriate choice ol
words used by presidential candidate
Jimmy Carter is causing much debate
especially among Blacks and so-called
liberals. The tenor of the debate seems
to be that the statement made by Mr.
Carter is a true reflection of his racial
views and, therefore, proves that he is a
southern conservative unworthy of con
sideration for president of the United
States of America.
An analysis of the statement made by
Carter, the so-called southern moderate,
and the statement made by Morris
Udall, the so-called nothern liberal, cri
ticizin g C a rte r reveals w hat many
Blacks have known for years.
There is no real difference in the
basic racial understandings of so-called
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The point I wish to make is that the
choice bf words used by Carter, “ethnic
purity" and the choice used by Udall.
“Improve yourselves.” reveals the same
- superior and/or paternalistic view of
whites. Like Carter, Udall is projecting
the idea that Blacks don't exactly mea
sure up to whites.
They need to
improve themselves in order to move
into white neighborhoods. Perhaps, a
Ph.D will qualify a Black to live in the
neighborhood w ith the “ pure w hite
race."
Frankly, all white Americans educat
ed in the American educational system,
(private or public) especially prior to
1970, and perhaps th e re a fte r, have
serious misconceptions about Blacks.
This is true because the American edu
cational system was designed to distort
the truth about Black Americans.
Once more Americana, generally, and
Blacks, specifically, have demonstrated
a complete lack of understanding of
language isage. The hue and cry over
Jimmy Carter's “ethnic purity” concept
was unwarranted in the first place; that
it persisted after M r. Carter's definition
of his own terms is an intellectural
abomination.
We are not yet overly fond of M r.
Carter as a Presidential candidate, but
we do admire his language, which upon
analysis, tends toward the classicism of
the 18th Century - with a southern
drawl.
Only a racist, or one lacking in Ian
guage skills, could equate "ethnic” with
“race". I f both denotes and connotes
“heritage," usually "religious heritage."
I t does imply “bigotry." according to
Roget's Thesauras, but only in the sense
of "opposing heritages." For example,
in a Christian-Moslem society, "bigotry"
would prevail only when each consider
ed the other fidel."
This could be
equally true in our own Judeo-Christian
society.
Ethnic purity ia subcultural as any
Black Studies student should know. The
heritage of the Congolese was far dif
ferent from that of the Swahilli. They
were subcultures of a broader concept
called “Black History".
Similarly, the heritage of the Poles
different substantially from that of the
Germans, but both were subcultures of
European history.
All things considered, we must tem
per any condemnation of M r. Carter.
His language is much better than ours
in the long run, but over and above this
simple fact, we are willing to abide by
the analysis of U.S. Representative An
drew Young, Georgia's first Black con
gressman since Reconstruction Days,
who refused despite the racist condem
nation of Hosea Williams, to condemn
Mr. Carter for the (?) statement, and
who, better than we, defined our own
position.
We are for "ethnic purity" for as long
as it does not mean racial segregation,
and by M r. Carter's definition, it does
not.
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Therefore, a choice by Black' for a
Carter, a Ford, a Jackson, a Udall or a
Reagan perhaps should be made on
hasis of which one is more likely to
recognize his societal imposed faulty
perception and distorted notions about
the needs, hopes and aspirations of
Black folds, and in so doing, is willing to
be corrected.
Jimmy Carter has demonstrated his
willingress to be corrected. Let those
who support or aspire to support Mor
ris Udall remind him that he, too, has
reflected a white supremacist trend of
thought. Maybe he will also be willing
to quickly admit an error.
In my
opinion one who is wrong must first
admit that he is wrong before he can be
expected to do that which is right.
Indeed, this may be the difference be
tw een a southern m oderate and a
northern liberal.
Thursday. May 6, 1976
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