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It didn't take them long to interpret the Bakke decision in such a way as to do away with quotas and for the government to try to collect on loans made to students in Black colleges which pushed those institutions into an "Endangered category."

In the business sector, a shocker came when the great Sears company sued for an interpretation on the guidelines of affirmative action. This opened a floodgate of suits which came from all over the land and many of the major employers took another look at EEO and affirmative action.

13 Blacks, I know found themselves out as "the Negro at the door" and the panic was started to get away from the EEO position in the private sector.

In fact in the liquor industry where we are a major contributor, one concern turned over it's EEO function to a caucasian, then went out and hired a Black consultant to advise him. 

In the energy of oil field, one caucasian sent to the Urban League National Convention asked this worker to send him a report on how he could make it among Blacks and when questioned further on the subject went on vacation. When he returned he answered by saying he had learned all he wanted to know from a one day session with a Black whom he met while on vacation.

And here in New York as we were making this deadline, Andy Stein, the Manhattan "Beep" who replaced Percy Sutton and who rewarded Blacks for their support by firing Percy's staff began making waves by declaring that he could not support Jimmy Carter for a second term.
 
Now, under ordinary circumstances, no one would pay too much attention to Andy — but the Manhattan "Beep" is wealthy and has a penchant for backing up what he says with dollars and folks willing to work for him. Stein has also proved his political muscle by bringing down Stanley Steingut, a former powerful legislator and an arch enemy of his in the Democratic Party.

Andy wants Ted Kennedy to run against Jimmy Carter, even though Teddy is under a cloud with Blacks for his non-support of Senator Ed Brooke. Stein says that if Ted does not accept, then his next choice is Governor Brown of California.

Mr. Stein is using the Manhattan Borough President Office as a sounding board for his ambitions to gain a higher elected office.

And in the let's tell it as it is department, since we last met Jimmy Carter, President of the United States and Edward Koch, Mayor of the City of New York, went and got themselves in trouble with their constituents. 

President Carter who had promised the moon to Blacks and the poor for support in his elevation to the presidency — and received their votes found that after he entered the oval office he could not fulfill his promises.

The President found himself trying to balance a national budget that called for abstinence while pushing an economy fraught with high unemployment among Blacks.

Old Jimmy found that he could not make a go of it, so he did what came naturally — "slash the funds from those programs which benefited Blacks and the poor in health, welfare, education and employment."

Then Old Jimmy in pushing his human rights policies all over the world found opposition to human rights — right here at home (Wilmington 10).

The President's foreign policy in the Middle East and Africa and his energy proposals did not fit well with other segments of his constituency. And then Jimmy looked up to find himself in deep trouble with the Jewish Community of the country whose members promptly answered by starting a "Dump Carter for President Movement."

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