Page 6 * CCC NEWSETTE ** February 10, 1983
REVERSEBLACKHISTORYIN'EVANSTON; NON-SUPPORT OF CCC NEWSETTE EFFORT
By CCC Publicitor Melvin S. Soith
Black history in Evanston? Baloney! We invite CCC readers to look up the word,
,sycophant (see Thompson's 1881 reference
to 8ychophancy--Page 4 this issue) and you will understand what he means when he talks of "the subsidized (paid) traitor to racial manhood."
Your Publicitor, 'in order to keep CCC and CCC NEWSETTE ~live, pours $300 of his $400 social security income a month into CCC, ever hoping that one ,day the spirit of black. community awareness will come, to the rescue of an operation that every year since it started in '1971 it will survive.
We've grown tired, weary and discouraged because Evanston, 1983 is so White-oriented that it believes in the Evanston White Press totally.
That White Press is out to destroy black progress by CONTROLING its views. But its views picture blacks as criminals, thugs and gangs , without' culture, without class.
CCC and CCC NEWSETTE, meanwhile, have struggled long and hard to present black activities in a most favorable light. ignoring the worst features played up in the white press about knifings, shootings and: so-called gang warfare. But' who do blacks' believe? The White Press, as though it were God Himself.
Tragically. we have embarked on 0. program of retrenchment and att:r1tion, which means we' would let the subscriptions run down to a manageable rate where we could payoff the balance due within a reasonable time. and then close down this CCC operation.
Much to our surprise. however the number , instead of going down has risen. and it has encouraged us to strive to continue.
Yet, the discouraging point. during our Black 'History Month. is that very few of our black churches and community service organizations support our CCC effort to provide a means of cunmunfcatdon omong us.-
Not one pastor of a community church subscribes to CCC NEWSETTE. And fewer than 10 per cent of the congregation helps to keep CCC alive. although each and every week CCC NEWSETTE carries announcements of church activities FREE in its issues.
Church organization officers seem so very fearful that we're going to charge them for their announcements. that we must assure all of them that as long as they are serving the community we will make no charge, but we will accept whatever they choose to donate towards keeping CCC alive~ ,
Community, service clubs are no different from the churches. With just a few small exceptions organization has more than three of its ten members subscribers to our CCC effort.
The Bachelors and Benedicts. the Chessmen, the Northshore Twelve.' the Suburbanites. the VFW, the Exclusive 13, the Wild Bunch, The Alpha Kappa Alpha. Kappa Alpha Psi, FAl\M the Delta Sigma Theta. The Rezinetts and others have made significant contributions at times to this effort. '
Yet only one or two have given substantial (SEE NEXT COLUMN)
STARS Squat~ BY BUCKS, 47-46; 1983 FMM CIUI.MPIONSHIP WINNERS
It was nip and tuck as tho Stars tiptoed past the Bucks. 47-45. to become the 1983 Champions of the FAAM Basketball League. Mark Lloyd of the Stars
. scored 23 points, while Jim McHolland of the Bucks, in a losing cause. put up 20 points for his team.
In, the consolation game, the Trail Blazers outpointed the Bulls. '43-36, ns - Justin Blake end Martin Freeman of the Trail Blazers registered 12 points each but were outscored by Andre Mitchell of ,the losing Bulls; 'Who hnd14 points.
Next up. at Flectwood-Jourdain Center on Friday. Feb. 25, 7:30 PM, is the 12th Annual Winter Basketball League Banquet of the Fellowship of Afro-American Men (FAJIM) •
Guest speaker will be Dennis Green.
Northwestern University Football Conch.
TEN PINNERS BOWLING LEAGUE STANDINGS
TEAM WON LOST
Carl Davis Prudential 39 27
Urban Enterprises 39 27
Halliburton Chapel 37 29
Dempster Auto 37 29
Reliable Radiator 33 33
Bishop Janitorial Services 321'2 33\
Wild Bunch 32 34
House of Thompson 32 34
Big G Discount 31\ 34~
Strike & Spare 31 35
Hunter's Realty 30 36
Al's 1-1obil 22 44
liS-WOMEN: Kathy McCullough 599 HG-WOtffiN-204: Barbara. Logan, Kathy Mc-
Cullough (two games ) HG-~1-224: Joe Thomas HS-MEN-571--Richard Richardson.
support that would come close to the publicity they ‘have received from CCC over the years; and which they will get in the future.
Our view is that they just don't understand’ how costly it is to put out a’ publication each and every week for 52 weeks a year. with the price of publishing rising regularly almost on 0. monthly basis.
what puzzles us is that everyone in the church and club organizations wants to have their news notices published in CCC; but neither regular subscribers nor publicity chairmen want to pay for their subscription or to help in any 'Way to keep CCC NEWSETTE ALIVE.
Frankly. if it were not for those who send in "e. little something extra" long ago epee and CCC Newsette would have been out of existence.
Also. 'we arc tired and weary, and wish we could be like everyone else, who take off when 'they wish, don't have to be involved week in and week Out putting out information which too few appreciate sufficiently to help back it financially.
Black History Month in Evanston, then. is a fluke. in our view. because the one black community action communication effort is ignored only except when it can be used--and abused--and misused--for personal advancement of non-black blacks.
