University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 14, 1988
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with providing spiritual food to their congregations, comes the subtle responsibility of encouraging progressive thinking and unity within the black community.
At times, church leaders say, the community has been passive and fragmented in the fight against racism in the city. They say they are hoping that the controversy and the subsequent unity has stimulated the black community to stay involved in the struggle.
"It has been said in the past and it is true," Barbee said. "We are a crisis-oriented business. But often we meet the crisis and then we go back to business as usual."
"We are hoping and praying and working that this will not be the case."
Alice Fowler, vice president of the Lawrence School Board, said that members of the black community were interested in the same things, but that the community's energies often were diffused because of lack of unity.
"There has been a lot of fragmentation in the past," Barbee said. "Everybody seems to be doing their own thing. I think we have to realize that this is our community too, and that we have to be involved in it."
But that is where the Klan controversy may have helped. The events of recent months have shown that the black community will stand together when events call for immediate action.
"Some things aren't going to be done until you have a crisis," Jackson said. "A lot of blacks weren't thinking progressively, but now they have to. They have no choice."
The status of a local black community can often be determined by looking at the churches in the town, Jackson said. He is not happy with the state of Lawrence's black churches. Many of the churches are small, humble structures.
But if the churches are not as strong as they should be, it only matches a puzzling change that has taken place in the black community during the past several years.
which was once the nucleus of the black community, into all areas of the city. Yet in a town of 60,000, there is not one black physician.
Many members of the black community have been able to move from East Lawrence,
Even more strange is the fact that in the early 1900s, black-owned businesses flourished on Vermont Street.
Today, there are hardly any black-owned businesses anywhere in Lawrence.
"What happened?" asked Dulin. "They were either squeezed out, run out or they just gave up."
Historically, racism has found strong roots in economics. Blacks don't hold the economic reins in the community, and therefore they have problems exacerbating the financial pres-
Often, the economic problems take root early in life for Lawrence blacks.
"It is difficult for black youths to find entry-level jobs that have the promise to go forward in a given field," Jackson said.
"You see a block youths down at the community building playing basketball all day long. It's not because they can't do anything else, but it is because they are not
"A kid can be good enough to play ball at the high school but not good enough to work in the community," he said. "That's not equity."
given the opportunity.
Blacks say they they are not looking for a free ride in their quest for equality in Lawrence.
"I don't feel like the black community is asking to be catered to," Dulin said. "The black community wants to be on an equal-opportunity level in every aspect, whether it is school, whether it is the University, whether it is jobs or whatever it is.
"A black man or woman should not have one strike against them before they even walk in the door. But let's face it. They have two or three."
Adding to the economic difficulties, Alice Fowler, vice president of the Lawrence School Board, said that low-income, minority students in school do worse in school than do other children.
That problem, perhaps more than anything else, promotes racism because a lack of education is usually the most convenient
excuse for job-related discrimination, Fowler said.
"I'm not saying that there are planned situations to eliminate educating black kids, but rather, there are some things that we are not aware of or sensitive to that keep us from educating minority children," Fowler said.
Overcoming those obstacles is a guaranteed struggle that lies ahead of the black community. Its leaders say it will not be fought alone, that the white population will have to come forward in support of equality. Black people have been shown from all sectors of the community, a fact that was encouraging to many black leaders.
But the movement will need to find its core in the black community itself, leaders say. Dulin said that everyone, not just pastors, would play a role in unifying the black community.
"It is going to take more than the ministers saying this," Dulin said. "It is going to have to be voiced from teen-agers to one another, and in families wherever they are."
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