European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 12 the stars and stripes Friday August 25, 1978 Roy Wilkins these Days everyone wants to Board the minority bandwagon not Long ago. Being a Monty had a stigma attached to it today As Suurje groups discern that  arc available to persons of such identity there is stiff Competition for the right to be recognized As a minority by the us gov b order to accommodate Dew claims of Uius in stabs various agencies of the Federal government have redefined minority to i chide persons who Are socially and economically disadvantaged Given the shortage of resources and the in crease in claims for government benefits the problem of defining minority groups is becoming a rather formidable social pol icy Issue. But is even one in this country a minority until recently minority was a refer ence to racial group Blacks.  indians and other non Whites White skin gave people an automatic advantage regardless of their National Ori because in America they would be 1 by their talents not their color. Affirmative action Regula i issued to companies and universities referred to Blacks. Spanish sur i americans. American indians and As minorities. But even among minorities distinctions Are made. I puerto Picans do not think Spanish is sufficient because it in White spaniards who May not be at All. But chicanes Defi of Are a minority group. Question whether asian Ameri i to a proper classification or affirm action states. The presidential exec order 11s25. Issued in 1971. Setting up e office of minority business Enterprise. 1 eskimos and aleuts in the "011- grouping. I Federal agencies recently have sex i the definition Yff minority to include it is Well known that women have i victims of discrimination racial i understand the equal rights for movement but not too readily a women As competitors for unwed funds intended for minority it is one thing to say that every minority has women quite another to contend every women s Gnu a or business or run by a woman 15 a Minon y the sew York times rec i that one of Ever. If companies in Small business administration s mity set aside program actually is owned run by Whites. These include business n by economically disadvantaged appalachians. Ike redefinition process concerns Black and hispanic leaders Carl Hornan of the National Urban coalition sees this expanded definition of minority As an invasion of the Small piece of the pie that was intended for non Whites he said. To suggest that everybody is or was z minority is an unfortunate  that Blacks fed their gains Are  Whites Are clamouring to be Classi fied As minorities at least for the Public Treasury. But their poverty is not racially determined indeed because they do not have the double Handicap of being non White they May escape from poverty and attain first class  the non White attaining first class citizenship goes beyond escape from the bowels of poverty although being Black makes that Ever so More difficult surely America must take the course of eliminating poverty for All americans but it also must Correct the past and present wrongs done to non White americans be cause of their color government s duty is to accelerate their inclusion in the Mains Tream of economic and social life the non Whites Are merely knocking on the door of american Opportunity As have other ethnic groups before them. An ironic Side to this struggle is that whatever gains they make will Benefit others. But on the dismal Side is that Blacks May have to fight for the very right to be a minority to be accorded the recognition they Are entitled to if there Are to be effective remedies for the past discrimination against the coloured race " vet William f. Buckley Are voters in mass clairvoyant meanwhile in Massachusetts sen. Edward Brooke is in political difficulty. And would be in political difficulty even if he had not had his non political difficulties. Which is the most economical was one can third to pus even if it commits the of has an cppy.a-. A the primary who is a formidable Young Man and whose strategy in a race which a season Ajo would  Beer Cimisi dared sheer Effron Tery. Is to Appeal to democrats As much Asto re Pubchara. Avi Nelson has got to be the most eco a tic candidate in the country. He went to school at Yale but Don to go Avav yet. The evolution of Man while there he majored in electrical Engi Neering then he  to Cornell and got & degree in business. Then he went to har Vard and got a degree in something else he is a conservative of Liberal Back ground. He is nuts about baseball. And for rive years he has been ubiquitous on the airwaves As a television and radio Broad Caster. And in print As a newspaper columnist in Boston s other paper. The Hera d american on the Side he plays the . Composes music bowls and is an agree ably incompetent Terras player. Nelson began to attract attention during the great school crisis in Boston when he opposed forced busing. Inasmuch As most people Are prepared to concede that 80 percent of the american people Are not racist the 80 plus percent of the people of Boston who opposed the bus ing and permitted the Avi Nelson show to become the focus of Public sentiment did so without any suggestion that Nebo Sam mated by any racial Bias a matter that obviously looms in the minds of the prurient when someone Steps Forward to dotage the Only Black senator in Thev Urbo  he terns a i i Republican we Avi Nebon entered his against forcible Basing on two Eam Nail contentions. The first was that the Ojua Litof education of Blacks would not Benefit the second that relations Between the races mid not Benefit. History and expert opinion have easily validated . Percent of the White population of but Nelson is not a i one who is on the air every to be. And his interests Are sent political  Man. Snot Al Ders Lood seas of the course is True in Arnodl i votes with Dero Crais Aeh but what interests the i that Nelson while the mainstream of the Susie sheered re pub acs. Is also j democrats. To Appeal in. Era to switch to the 1 the purpose of conservative is the i heard in the i voted for George 1 forever it is a Macnei appears to be Worwag. Cratic voters have been Overmi Ted to switch parties i by ebon s that would of and James Colerain whose famous report started it All has revealed that fur ther research establishes that education does not Benefit under such Circum Sunc beat sea. Callord Case Gin than that Ficaro l each Candy Date took r Republican  Are. Then l sardine tit. Thedajt-sodemu7i, Tea of . Was Askp historical  is ant n rest of the country the to maybe in this contest Hei