European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Landers dear Ann Landers i sympathize with the frustration expressed by the woman who wrote mat she has tried to get off welfare. Living on welfare is Lousy. Butt does t have to be that Way at least not in Massachusetts where for the last six years we have had t the employment and training Tif program. Ii has placed More than f 55,000 welfare recipients in jobs and 75 percent of them Are off ii welfare. The philosophy behind the program is simple provide a woman with Day care health care and transportation and offer her choices of education training and eventually a Job and she will find her Way out of poverty. Here is one of our Success stories Mary Hoti is 32years old ten year Sago she was divorced and left with a year old daughter to support. She moved in with her parents and worked part time. Bui she could never make enough to gel off welfare. She was on welfare for nine years and then one Day she saw a notice about a training program thai would Leach her High tech secretarial stills. Because we could offer her Day care she grabbed the Opportunity. Today Mary Hotz is an administrative Secretary at the Heller school for social welfare at Brandeis University. She earns nearly s21,000 a year and can provide former 11-year-old daughter. There Are thousands of stories like Mary s in Massachusetts. I am convinced that with the family Security act of 19sb about to Lake effect every state in the nation will have programs like ours to give welfare recipients a Chance to build an Independent life. Michaels. Dukakis a Curkov Dukakis thank you fur in excellent letter. Several states he a similar program now and it is wonderful to know hit soon this set up will be available in All 50. Thanks Wshington for finally coming through near Ann Landers. I am writing to you in the Hope of helping someone who is wrestling with the decision of leaving his or her. Spouse for a new love. -. -. I am a 37-year-old Man who last Spring fell deeply in love with a Volunteer m the Church where 1 was a minister. agreed to . I re signed from the Church and moved Oul of the House. The following Day the woman of my dreams failed to say she had changed her mind. One week later she wrote to say she had made a terrible mistake trying to stay in on unworkable marriage and begged me to take her Back. In the end she attempted Lola ave her Hus band four limes and went Back to him every Lime my wife Fullin love with someone else and will marry As soon As our divorce is final i now live alone and work in our family business a that did t workout has cast me my marriage my children my career my House my car my boat my self respect my reputation and endless in of. I have no one to blame but myself through prayer and counselling i Hope to be Able to rebuild Whai i have destroyed. Anyone who is contemplating leaving a wife and family for a exciting new love should think twice about crossing that line from Busl friends to lovers. I wish i had. Burned to the Bone _. In the Midwest dear burned it sounds As if Jou have paid dearly for your mistakes i Hope the future holds something Good for you. Thanks for telling us your Story t Tangal to Mai letters letter outlines ideas on racial tolerance when i read the letters on the subject of racial Toler Ance t was impressed by both readers level of Intelli gence and perception. However i would like to add something to their views thai 1 believed was lacking. I am White female and of a lower socioeconomic status. But those facts do not excuse me from the obligation to be knowledgeable about issues regarding those Peoples of another race in particular the plight of the. American negro. Contrary to the satisfaction expressed by one writer of the Levels of parity Between the races As they exist today must speak out thai if any research was con ducted into True Levels of Equality gained by afro americans he would find that on the whole Gross disparities exist in living standards Job opportunities educational opportunities and even Down to infant mortality rates. His race on the average is still Strug gling for Freedom. That he has made it through the earners is obvious to anyone who read his very Elo quent letter but he is not the Norm. The aftereffects of slavery and separation arc still hounding the race upon which his nation was built afro americans spilled their blood and sweat to make this nation Whai it is today but As yet they have not received the compensation due them for i hair forefathers toil. They look jobs no one else wanted even the Immi Grants from the european nations. They took he simply because nothing else was open to them. They had their Hopes and dreams of a better life but no matter How Good their capabilities were nor their de sire to work they were continuously beaten Down into the nit the White Man made for them. All Hope was stolen decade after decade. Until or. Martin Luther King or. Led the fight started by an old Black woman refusing to sit in the Back of the bus and four Little Black girls escorted by National guardsmen into an All while school no con Cessions were Given until mercy was forced from the White Hierarchy. Their struggle has not ended. Not until True Freedom a Sills for every afro american on a Normal Day to Day basis will parity exist among the races might i suggest to All people Black and White yellow and red thai they go to the Library and research such slave narratives win in by Henry Bibb William Wells Brown Soloman Northup and of course Frederick Douglas other Good books would be once a slave by Stanley Fridstein or perspectives and irony in american slavery a collection of essays by leading historians specializing in the afro american struggle. Don t Stop there read on and learn what emancipation realty did for the Blacks. How free was this free Dom a Good Book on that subject would tic what was Freedom s Price another collection of essays. Finally specialize your study into the plight of the Lack woman. Her suffering has always been double that of All Blacks because upon her shoulders was Laid the lion s share of Tinh Appless and hard work. Whenever had the Choice to slay Home with her children and raise them never. She was the Center of family and Community life. If there was trouble she knew about it and did All that was in her Power to help not Only those in her own immediate family but among those of her family of All humanity if you be Ever failed to understand the strength of character of a proud Black woman or misunderstood the close tics that seem to bind All Blacks together Orthe Protection afforded Black women by their men or even to misinterpret the uneasiness a Black May feel Ina group of Whites please find Oul the truth As far As you can know it about what they be suffered collectively they have a right to feel suspicious of your motives and protective of their own. They be had no one bul themselves to fight our government. Fever those Bonds of brotherhood Are Ever broken by a complacent feeling among hos who be made it Only cod can save the Black Man if even his own forgets him. 1 think that s Why this writer s letter both ered me so much. The picture is not As pretty As he paints it. The multitude Are still crying Oul for Justice. Let their motto be lest we history May re peat itself. V i can not Lay claim to True understanding since i am of the while race which has benefited so much by their pain. I hear so often i never owned a slave Whai do i owe them now slavery was Over 100 years ago what s thai Gol to do with today or even i had tomake in on my own Why cant they do the same unless you Are god you do not Tell a lame Man to Lake up his bed and walk. We whiles through Over 150 years of abuse have. Crippled the hearts and Hope of Many Blacks and it sour duty to forgo some of our so called entitlements to bring them up to status quo. Once parity has finally been achieved and All barriers Are broken Down then you la Sec who la run the swiftest race. But you Don t fairly tic up a Man s legs and Tell him to run As fast As he can. I m afraid that if circumstances were reversed most Whites would t have lasted a Day it into this Century. Their strength in survival is tremendous they be had a Lotof training. Negroes arc not the weaker race. Bonila Sheffield Giessen West German pen pals Petaia include or Nama in your pan pal column. I am s3 Fain old ind ar4oy collecting. Locus Viig. Bow botel. Nanlal him Maude Iff lung in Judi pan Sal column by e. . Avg gun Mir Al 6600 i would Uhi to correspond with Propis ail Oer lha worm. Lei e. Salida hirer Mil Rio Oarl a Bay Warwick Bir Murja a w i am in rain old and would like pan Pai up . Lojia Mmib-ts13 Mill Moor Avanna Arr lao. Or . Sis a England would to tary much to Luw a pan pal. Palaaia put my Nan in your column. I m i Andy taboo t Mew Imming Aai Obici Art. To. A. Mig if g. 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