Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1967 — Page 3

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1967

THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

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Upward mobility for man in street must be found: Farmer

NEW YORK, N.Y., — While jobs »nd housing were two important factors offsetting extensive rioting in the nation's cities this summer, James Farmer, former Congress of Racial Equality director, feels that “a sense of having some measure of control over one’s destiny and one’s own affairs,” is equally significant. Mr. Farmer commented that civil rights leaders have been in providing upward ■ mobility succesful in the past few years for the black middle-class. He contends now a way must be figured out to provide this same upward mobility for the man in the street. Mr. Farmer noted that if housing and jobs were the only solution to the racial problem, you wouldn’t have had the Detroit rebellion where there is high employment or the Watts rebellion where Negroes control their own affairs. “There is an additional factor, a sense of having some measure of control over one’s destiny. All the jobs in the world won’t eliminate thi« ahention unless you give people some sense of control over their own affairs,” Mr. Farmer explained. The 47-year-old Negro leader is working to provide this sense of control with the support of a community development project operating out of a small suite of hotel rooms on the shabby edge of downtown Brooklyn. Controlling your own destiny means economic and political organization to Mr. Farmer. “You don’t organize grass roots people on philosophy, longrange goals. I think you’ve got to organize on the basis of immediate objectives, such as getting street lights or a roof fixed or a play street.” Mr. Farmer said that political organization can be mainly a

bootstrap operation, adding that outside technical help won’t be needed if money is available. “You need money because this kind of work requires more than volunteers. You can never time here and two hours of get it done in an hour of spare spare time there. It takes walking around, committees that meet regularly in someone’s home, mobilizing the black vote as a bloc vote, to reward our friends and punish our enemies.” Mr. Farmer reaffirms that what money is necessary can be and must be raised in the black community. “There isn’t that much needed. You can’t ask outsiders to give money to trol, and if they can control create something the can’t conit there’s no point in creating it,” he added. Mr. Farmer pointed out that second phase of the program, economic organizing, cannot be a bootstrap “because so much external help is needed - money and expertise, technical advice.” The militant rights’ figure Predicted that such a program ould not get federal financing n large enough amounts, at least with the war in Vietnam on. “And not even if it ended, I don’t think,” Mr. Farmer added. “I think a much more likely source will be industry, particulary when they san make a buck out of it, and buck can be made.” Pointing out one particular case he noted: “Look at Watts, Aerojet-General set up the Watts Manufacturing Company, a completely black-run organization. If the federal government would guarantee private investments in the economic development of the ghetto at a fair rate of profit, like it does for investments in underdeveloped nations, money would flow into slums.”

BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL DIRECTORS: John T. Sims, Stan Patton, Lerpy Baker and Omar Shabazz are pictured together during the Black Arts Festival held Saturday and Sunday at Doug-

lass Park. The four directed the program which included exhibitions of the Negroes' contribution to American culture. (Recorder photo by Jim Burres)

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EXPLAINS NEGRO ART: The three men above were on hand during the Black Arts Festival held Saturday and Sunday at Douglass Park. At left is Joseph Holiday, local artist, who dis-

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