European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 02, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes monday. June 2. 1980 Roy Wilkins racial inequality is behind violence in Miami the nation s Sec mind Surprise at the outbreak of racial violence in Miami. I la. Once  serves notice that most whiles still arc ignorant about the negro Side of life in America assuming this to be the Case the riots in Miami have done what the Black leadership had failed to accomplish focus the population s attention on a Long Chain of racial inequality. Alongside America s Prosper in there has existed Black port. The nation now is in an economic recession but All indications acknowledge that Blacks arc enduring an economic and psychological depression. The have been let Down the promises and racial Progress of inc 1960s arc passing a a. Across this land in the Black ghettos there is frustration despair and anger. The rage relates to disappointment and disaffection with the american system. Nationally. 30 per cent of the Black population is in officially defined poverty. In Riorda. 38 percent of the Black population is below the poverty line. In the ghettos there is massive unemployment of youths Many who arc not Only . But unskilled and never have had a Job. Also the fathers and mothers increasingly arc unemployed. They were the last hired and the first fired. The economic retrenchment of the 1970s has virtually wiped out the steady racial Progress that started in the 1960s. Black americans Are on a conveyor Bell in reverse going nowhere fast. One can understand the racial violence that rocked Miami because it is routed in inc frustration of a people Imp Ulicni with mule or no improvement in their lot in life. The present mood of Blacks Young and old is ugly. They arc discouraged by the setbacks. They arc rebelling against incidents of police abuse and discrimination in the criminal Justice system. And they arc bracing themselves in fearful anticipation of a greater explosion. But violence will not Settle or solve the racial crisis. It Only will snatch away More innocent lives. It will feed on racial hatred and invite repressive measures because inc James Reston primary interest of the society would be. In restoring order. All the earlier efforts toward peaceful change would come to a grinding Hall and the negotiated transition to peace probably would destroy the democratic foundation. Our task this Lime is to go Forward not slide Back. Jobs education decent housing and fair administration of the Law arc the tools Tor Progress. If Ever there was a time for us to put them to work in order to Chart our future course More clearly this is it. Unlit or and Tribune Syndicate Carter plays with fire by snubbing Anderson president Carter s decision to blackball John Anderson in the presidential election debates May be a Clever Dodge but by avoiding one risk he has taken on another. For John Anderson is a scrappy Guy and if he feels he s being treated unfairly he s Likely to carry his Campaign right Down to election Day and this is precisely what the president wants to avoid. Anderson has always said that he got into the race because he did t think Carter or Reagan could unify the country but he has also indicated that he would get out of it if he did t have a Chance to win and thought that staying in would help Reagan defeat Carter. He made this reluctant preference Clear in a conversation with the editors of the Washington Post last january adding that Reagan in t just trying to put the clock Back he wants to tear whole years off the  Anderson is less Likely to get out however if he thinks Carter is dismissing him As just another irrelevant one Issue candidate who can be ignored or muscled off the stage. The Carter people considered this risk but decided it was a greater risk to give Anderson an equal place before National television audiences what if they began to ask Why not the Best it will not be easy for the president to maintain this position since Reagan has agreed to debate Anderson. For while car Ter got to the White House As the outsider attacking the Washington bureaucracy and president Ford s record he is now try ing to limit this year s debates to Reagan who is regarded by Carter s political advis ers As an easier opponent. This could not Only improve Anderson s standing in the popularity polls by making him the aggrieved underdog but Hurt car Ter by drawing attention to the contrast be tween the president s moralistic lectures and his hard Ball political tactics. Carter is already under severe attack for his unpredictable swings on both economic and foreign policy but in addition to that he has surprised Many of his own supporters by his Lack of generosity to anybody who got in his Way. The latest example of this was his Public criticism of Cyrus Vance his former Secre tary of state who irritated him by opposing the military raid on Iran and for resigning on principle. Carter could have excused Vance for being wrong but could t forgive him for being right. Also inc president defended his old buddy Bert Lance on dubious evidence but swept Mike Blumenthal out of the Treasury and Joe Califano out of hew because he suspected with some reason that they were not always enthusiastic about his policies or did t know which of his policies deserved their support. He attacked senator Kennedy obliquely by proclaiming that this country needed leaders who would t panic in a crisis a Buzz word for Chappaquiddick and he implied a Lack of patriotism to those who opposed his handling of the iranian and Afghanistan crises. In the process the president has eroded that posture of moral authority that helped im6 these lived am elegant Akop a conker orc of cd. Him to the White House in the first place. It is not that he has violated outrageously the usual expedient rules of presidential poli tics but that he has violated his own rules that were supposed to elevate american politics and Public life onto a higher and nobler plane. In some ways it s surprising that he has avoided debates with Kennedy for he is a formidable debater. It is hard to remember any president in recent history who has a better command of the facts even of the details and nuances of All the distracting and ambiguous issues of our time. Or More self Confidence in recalling them quickly and turning them against his questioners. The guess Here is that he would prevail in any debate against any of his opponents or All of them together but John Anderson presents a special problem. For Anderson has the courage of Carter s convictions and has been around Washington longer than Carter or Reagan and knows its intricate ways. In a Way Anderson has taken Over the role Jimmy Carter played in the last presidential election. It is an easier role. He is the attacker As Carter was in 1976, and Carter now has a record to defend which will not be easy. Nobody knows this better than the presi Dent. He thinks he can defend it Well enough considering the difference Between Reagan s Mastery of to techniques and his. Vague grasp of facts but Anderson is a More difficult opponent. He is the last remaining new figure on the stage at a time when the old characters have lost their Edge and Many of their sup porters. Like Adlai Stevenson from his own state of Illinois who insisted what this country needed was a hearing Aid he is trying to break away from the old cliches and talk sense to the american people who Are not t listening very attentively and at least pro vide an alternative to inc sorry record of both parties. This is probably Why Carter wants to keep him off the lube