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[[advertisement]] [[image – black & white photograph of a woman in large sunglasses and sun hat seen against the background of rocky outcroppings]] I love my side of Barbados because there isn't anything I want to do that I can't do there. I can walk on a wide white beach and swim in the warm blue Caribbean. [[image – drawing of ocean waves and foam]] I can dance until the moon turns into the sun. I can buy great things for beautiful prices. [[image – drawing of a crescent moon with smiling face against the disc of a radiant sun]] And, best of all, my side of Barbados is right next to his. [[image – drawing of a tote bag full of boxes]] [[image – black & white photograph of a man and woman enjoying Barbados]] BARBADOS Just 21 miles long and a smile wide. See your travel agent or call or write: The Barbados Tourist Board 800 Second Ave., N.Y.,N.Y. 10017 (212) 986-6516 [[/advertisement]] (Continued from page 2) Another superbly endowed young man, O.J. Simpson also signed a million dollar a year contract with NBC, as did Richard Pryor, the comedian. Pryor will receive his loot for some "specials" and producing shows for the National Broadcasting Company. By the way what has become of Curt Flood . . . the man who lost all trying to break his contract which has made it possible for the athletes of today to make all this loot. Also during that first year there were seven big Black shows which kept Broadway, the great white way, alive. But for reasons beyond my conception, there was only one show which carried a Black stars name in top billing on it's Marquee. It seems the boys could not figure out how to keep Linda Hopkins name off her show so they had to bill her on the Marquee as Linda Hopkins in Me & Bessie. The thinking behind that reception for Fred Silverman the president of ABC entertainment was that someone should say thank you to the person who thought enough of Alex Haley to present his book "Roots" on National TV. "Roots" won numerous awards and accolaids for Alex Haley including a Pultizer Special prize, but if it were not for Fred, I wonder would Alex be just as happy? Andy Young learned 'his business' on the highways and byways of the south; and by blood sweat, death and tears of Selma and Montgomery, while he was a deciple of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. Andy has never forgotton from whence he came and this is a big disappointment to the International and local establishment. Andy, our representative at the UN is being attacked for statements he made about South Africa . . . But the boys who are after Andy's scalp and who refer to him as "Flap Jaws" and other derogatory terms failed to tell you is that the Reverend Andy Young is considered by those in the know as twice as smart Cyrus Vance, his boss in the State Department. And while we are on the subject of bright "Youngones" as they enter into this third century, our hats are off to Candy Caruthers who has just been upped to Editorial director of ABC and Sylvia Houston named Community Relations Director for the group. And another example on how they change the rules when a Black challenges the establishment can be explained in the way in which the Governor of New York State stepped into the forthcoming New York City mayorality race. When Tammany Hall was running democrats and Carey was a part of the machine . . . the Manhattan Borough President was always your next Mayor. But when Hulan Jack, a Black, became Manhattan Borough President, the boys changed the rules and made the Manhattan Borough President a Black job with no advancement in sight. This rules change took place in the 'smoke filled rooms' and Blacks were supposed to go along with the procedures, which they did. In fact the establishment ran a white Mayor four times and elected him to keep a Black from moving up. And now 20 years later a Black in the person of Percy E. Sutton, the present Manhattan Borough President, has arisen and is a challenge to the establishment. So what did our Governor do . . . he only stepped into the local New York Mayorality race to produce a late primary which according to him allowed more candidates to enter the race. To show his hand the Governor now has come up with a hand picked candidate all his own and vows to support him to the dismemberment of his party to the end - And this is how they play politics in New York in this first year of the third century. [[image - black and white photograph of Brock Peters and two other men]] [[caption]] Bill Thomas of Hiram Walker, feted Broch Peters of Hollywood with a reception at the Negro Publishers Convention in Philadelphia, last year. However, when picture was taken, the Cameraman Caught Broch Peters saying something to Bill and his Philadelphia representative which had all in stitches about Delegate 1976. [[/caption]]
