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Backed by 31. Playback. 531 on City Line. It's 12 noon and this is City Line. Hi, I'm Jackie Hall. And I'm Betty Bentley. Joined City Line today for the exciting culmination of our special series, Blacks at the Crossroads. After three compelling specials highlighting every aspect of life, economic development and leadership, the family unit and education, we now bring you part four, The Final Decision. We'll start off by summarizing the past three shows, and then we'll have our special panel consisting of previous guests who are experts in their respective areas begin the discussion there. Not only answer your questions, but offers practical solutions and a forecast on the future of the black community. So stay tuned. It's all up next. The dramatic conclusion to city lines. Special blacks at the crossroads here on Channel 13. Thank you for joining us. This is promises to be a very special show. We spent the last three weeks looking at various aspects of black life and looking at a lot of the problems, the issues that are being raised today and hopefully some solutions for solving some of these problems. But today, we want to give some of our experts one final chance to discuss with you and with us these issues and hopefully get a better picture of how we're going to fare in the future. I want to first introduce our part four panel to you. We've got Stanley Tucker, Dr. Janice Stevenson, Mr. Richard Roe, doctor. Visit us there is Deborah Hickman and Boyce Mosley. I didn't see them at all. You survived that. Thank you for staying with this. I know it's going to be a long day for some of you. I've got to say that, you know, my my impression after these three weeks is that we've got some real problems.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=17.47,203.38"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We discussed some very hopeful ways of approaching them, but we have some very real problems. What is the appeal that you have? Are you optimistic? Are we going to attack some of the problems that we've raised? Are we going to be able to make these problems rather get these problems in hand and do something positive with them? Yes, we have some real problems, and I think we'll be able to get them in. And if we realize one thing that these problems are common to all of us, so often blacks, as we get upward mobility, we think that certain problems that we are immune from. But what happens to the total black race will affect us as individual that we can move out to Colombia. We could go to the suburbs in the county. But we we still are a part of that problem. And we still have an obligation and a responsibility to help solve the problems that indigenous to the black community. But isn't there something else that's that's even more generalized than that, that it affects all of us, no matter what the color, no matter what the class? Well, all affects it affects the total community and the total nation. Yes. Ultimately, it affects all of us living in the community and it affects the total nation. Well, I was speaking from a black perspective only. I think there's a piece of it, though, that affects the black community in particular that we've sort of skirted around throughout the whole series and then on occasion, part two directly, which is that the black community in particular has had to deal with the impact both of oppression as well as the impact of of integration. And that experience is unique to the black community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=204.73,300.37"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No other group in the nation has had to deal with those two issues in particular. You know something else, it seems to me that cropped up in everyone, at least everyone in the solution segments was blacks needing to do things together. That's correct. To organize and combine their efforts, organize, communicate, organize and communicate. We will never control the game. Just won't be a part of it. And from my point of view, I can say that I am optimistic. I've seen a lot of community support in terms of power. We're talking about people offering worthwhile education, education regulations for change. And you talk about now for basic work. You're talking about people, you're talking about organizations, and you talk about commitment and you talking about money. That's what's going to make a change. And I think now that more and more people are now beginning to realize that no matter what you do is what you don't do is going to determine the kind of Baltimore that you're going to be left with. And right now, you've got a choice of futures. And we have to put. You got to put your money where your mouth is, because in the next 13 years, you're going to see a Baltimore that's really not going to be really what we want it, particularly if we want to still live in Baltimore City and really making that much progress. So I think we're we're we're finding more blacks becoming poor. The gap between the haves and the have nots is increasing. There are fewer blacks going to college today. So are we willing really making the progress? Sure. There's progress being made for a particular segment of black people, and that is is the black, in quotes, middle class.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=300.76,396.52"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But what about the vast majority of black people? And what's better off now than they were, let's say, in 1954? So ironic about all of this is that today we have more doctors, more professionals, more scientists, we have more professional people that should be able to bring solutions to these problems. We have more laws on the books that should address many of the problems that we have, but we still find ourselves further behind than we were, let's say 20 years ago in many respects. That's interesting on the one hand, but a people that can overcome slavery, a people that can overcome Jim Crow one and two and three can overcome anything. I need to tell our children that we have overcome these things and make them understand that we have so that they can have the hope and can have. You know, I think we need to look at this thing. I'm an optimist and we need to look at the glass of the. Has water in it and not look at it as it being half filled and not half empty. In my field and economic development, I agree. We've overcome a lot. We have a long way to go. But I see a lot of positive things happening in the area where I see the entrepreneurial spirit in the black community really increasing quite a bit. There are some things that we need to do to really implement the process. We do have a lot of laws on the books. True, we have to look at implementation and that's what we're about. We about looking at implementation and taking advantage of the opportunities that are rising in the community. You know, in the discussion about the black family was forward, kept making the point repeatedly, no matter what comments were made by anyone else, that we're underestimating the strength.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=397.48,490.13"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Each person in the black community has the resources. They have the skills. We each have, what we need to overcome whatever obstacles come in front of us. And if we don't trust that in ourselves as well as in each other, then we'll spend more time carrying out our stereotypes. My favorite one that I see as carrying out a lot is the crabs in the barrel stereotype. We live true to that more than any other, because we will not trust each other enough to support the entrepreneurial ism this out in the black community or support the professionals that have made it to the upper echelons who now we've got blacks in positions. We've got blacks who have clout. They're there with some security. And now we have to know that we have what we need to get ahead to overcome one more aspect of racism in this society. And that piece of it has to start with each one of us as individuals. I think in terms of the economic development and we're talking about kids, we've seen them stay in school either for employment or for higher education. I think now that the community is being made aware of the problem that we have, and one of the problems that Jamaica had was that they were graduating a lot of qualified kids, but they went to jobs there. And that's what also has to happen. The community now must say, if I can't match it with money, I'm going to match it with some type of jobs or jobs So the kids will be able to go to work. Kids as close as Morgan is to my school, you don't have a lot of kids even going to college. They can't even get out of high school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=490.82,565.88"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We've got to give kids a reason to stay in school, and that reason should be a future, and that's up to the community to provide it. We're going to talk more about that teacher, but we're going to take a break right now. So please stay with us. We'll be back in a minute. But for blocks at the crossroads, the final decisions. And that's what we're focusing on for this entire hour, solutions to the problems that beset black people. Stan Tucker, you had something that you wanted to say just before we went into that break. Yes, I think economic development and education is inseparable. One of the things we're doing to talk about solutions for an economic development, aspects of what our particular program, what we are doing, we are setting up a database out at Morgan State University. And basically that database will be designed for a couple of ways. One, to do research on minority businesses and also to identify procurement opportunities for minority business with major corporations. In addition, what what that will do as well is it will enhance the university as well, which Morgan has a very good business school and we want to focus in on that. So we are tying economic development to education. In that aspect, there are a number of other aspects of it. The engineering school at Morgan is also another very, very important. If you look at Massachusetts, California, Silicon Valley, you see the connection between economic development and education. Look at the other ties where the education and entrepreneurial spirit can be linked as well for solutions. There's a problem that's working very hard to get put into place in Baltimore County now, using resources from the Black Mental Health Alliance and the Baltimore County and ACP, which will have mental health professionals who are black, teach parents who are black, how to advocate for their children in the education system in such a way that the kids will be taught by people who are doing the work in the community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=566.36,763.09"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So we have our lined up persons who Jackie, you one who is doing the work at in the black community to teach the kids the skills that they need to survive in the education system without necessarily telling them that we're teaching you how to survive in the education system so that they will go back into the school system and be more prepared, more motivated, because they will have had a taste of how they can use that education in their adult life. And they will also have mental health professionals who are addressing the issues of motivation, self-esteem, image, communication and in a more integrated way. We've been working to get this in place now since August, and we'll keep working until we get it in place. You know, we have fragmented programs in all of these areas, as we've discussed through the past several weeks. And what we need I don't know whether we have this in the black community, but a what I would call a black Marshall Plan, that we would we would develop and implement affecting all these areas vital to the black community and the community at large. I don't I don't think we were really there's an effort to do that already. There's a group called the Black Congress on Health, Education and Law. That is Shirley. Shirley Pulliam is the president of that. Mexico is the vice president that they have been wearing themselves out for several years now, maybe approaching five years, trying to pull together as many of the black professional associations as they can to get them to work in a coordinated manner. They have a five year plan that's been pulled together by a number of black professional associations in an effort to address the issues in a coordinated way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=763.87,853.48"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So we don't see government bought into that. The city government doesn't have to because it's functioning at a state level and at a national level. So the ripple effect of it back down will be into the city, whether the city likes it or not. But there's a more to that. And that dilemma is, is that we continue as a people to create group after group. We go to meetings after meetings, and we have all of these organizations by which none of us come together as one homogenous group. And so therefore we have the ones that really need the help still falling through the cracks. Because one of the dilemmas, the other dilemmas that the black community keeps continuously voicing, the ones that we really want to reach out to is that you all really don't want to be bothered with us. I mean, you're up here and we're down here and when we have our gatherings, we don't come together as a people. We come together as a group up the halls and in the halves, you know. And so when do we get to the point? I think we're now at the point where we have to go back to step one. We keep trying to start in the middle and we can't buy into this idea of we're excluding each other because if we buy into it, we'll continue to find areas and ways to exclude each other. The idea behind the black Congress, the black Congress has had at least two full day workshops that were advertised throughout the city, with at least 4 to 5000 mailings that went not just the professionals, but to people in the community. And the attendance was around about 50, 60 people. Who are these people that are attending? And if we have all of these great programs in force, why, in fact, are we continue to go downhill instead of coming up? Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=853.6,943.57"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, there is a needs assessment program that has been done. And by the way, that program brought everyone together, people from the grass roots, the middle class, etc.. A report has been has been put out. And matter of fact, we are in the second phase of that now and we're not. He's talking about the middle class. We're talking about roots people as well. And it's broken down into each area that has been discussed a great deal to the Black Needs Assessment project. And the research done for blacks at the cross has some light enough. But this polygon show of what's been all over the place, what this show is about is to make sure that this dissemination that these these series of programs, one won't go in and of itself. But that's not all there is to it. For example, Richard has a radio show that puts the issues that are in the black needs assessment that I have a radio show that puts the issues in the black needs assessment out. I put names of mental health resources out on that radio show every week, and the amount of follow up by the individual is very, very low. But the people we're talking about are the ones that you go day after day and they're standing on street corners. They're in the jails. And there are programs out there to reach them to. For example, it's a technology program who has the hypertension program out and told them on the side. And I don't care how well call could become, I'm out. I'm outside. Well, we'd like to do again in the final decision is to focus on solutions. Now I think what you're probably doing is highlighting some still some of the weaknesses and getting at the solutions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=943.89,1038.089"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But let's focus on the solutions so that we can come away. Having felt that at least there were five steps that could have been taken beyond what we knew before we started the show. Jackie, could we can we put the question out? What is happening that what needs to be in place that has us reached the ones that aren't being reached? How can we get creative about reaching the people who are standing on the street corner? Because that question is put out and the answers that I've heard have been attempted to be implemented. And if we're still missing, then we need to know why and what we need to do. I think we're missing it because for one, we do not. I mean, when you mention church, people say, you know, I don't want to hear that, but we have to begin to go back to base one. Base one is our spiritualism, our connection with the church. We cannot deny the church. And the church has a stronghold in each and every community. You can go into a community and find a church base. I think that we need to grasp a hold of these individuals, the ministers and the people that are in the church, that are willing, that have the town. And we need to all come together as one body with one plan to go out and not just do television programs and radio talk shows and have someone call, but go out on the street, walk your community like we used to walk. But you got to stay quiet for a moment. Got a call from home. Hello. You're on the air. Hello? Go ahead, please. Good evening, Mark. I'd like to make a comment in terms of what's been discussed, Please speak up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=1038.569,1124.4"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay. My my comment is that we've been we as a as African-Americans have been mis educated all our lives. You know, we've been taught to believe that we've had we have no value, no sense of worth, you know, and some of us has accepted that. Um, I feel that we need to stay on low so we can understand the present, so we can deal with the future. I think we're having some problems with that call. We left Africa. CALLER We're having some trouble with your line. Why don't you try calling, holding on and see if you can get that fixed? Okay. Okay. We'll come back to we're going to take a we can take a break right now, but please stay with us. We'll be right back. The discussion continues its blacks at the crossroads. The final Decision Part four in our four part series on Blacks at the Crossroads. Question from the audience. Yes, I keep I continue to continually hear everybody talking about what is our problem? I think one of the basic problems is, is that we have not yet understood that the education that we have received is a education that makes us dependent and that an independent people. And we need to begin to look at ourselves on a national level. And we cannot make progress unless we take a different mode, a change. Without without progress, you know, because I think that what we need to do as a people is look back historically at the solution that we never did really deal with Lou. Yes, I'd like to I'd definitely like to respond to that. We really do. Talking about dependent. I just came from Morgan State University's graduation. I was looking through the brochure to look at the areas that the students were majoring in, and I was fairly impressed with it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=1124.79,1380.22"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One of the things when I went to Morgan, I was taught a couple of things. One, I was taught how to think, okay, so that I can generate ideas to become dependent and an independent entrepreneur. One of the things that we are doing as a organization, as well as, again, education ties in economic development, is setting up a franchise institute out at Morgan State University. So as students come through that school, the institute, they can do a couple of things. During the summers, they would go and train in the various franchises, get the basic experience. After four or five year period, they can do a couple of things. They can even be either become a franchisee themselves. We are a particular program, could help them finance it and go into business themselves. If they're very creative, they can become a franchisor and start their own thing, or they could go and work in within the organization itself. So what we doing, we have to develop these kind of links so that we teach people how to become self surviving without taking, you know, the development of of independence, of mind. And economic independence must come through having an economic plan so that people can become obvious. So too many of our people are in the black community, are engaged in working for government, and that makes incorporations. But most of it is for for for federal, state and local government. And that makes us as a people, extremely dependent upon government. And if we get in the private sector by developing entrepreneurship, then we have independence. Richard, I still believe that all of this has to start at home. Business development has to start in the home. We need to teach our young kids what business is all about.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=1380.37,1487.44"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We need to teach them how to run businesses. And we can do that by simply teaching them first how to reconcile a checking account, how to look at the budget, and have the family members sit down at the table from time to time and look at where the money is going, how much money is coming in, how much money is going out. I still believe that if we wait until our young people get to Morgan and get to high school before we start teaching them who they are, where they should be going, direction and all of that, It's almost too late. It's not too late, but it's almost like we can begin at the home and I think we need to start at home. I agree 100%. And one of the things I know, I think back to when I was growing up, my father was an entrepreneur, Thai, he was a bricklayer, and we sat around a table talking about going into business, which is where I got my entrepreneurial spirit. Now, when we sit around the table with my son, my kids, we talk about tax planning. But my father never talked about tax planning. But now I know about tax planning. I know about investments. So I can talk with him about investing. I can talk with him about the stock market. We sit down and look at the news and say, the Dow, what does that mean? I can explain to him what that means. So really, we are at another level now, and I agree, it starts in the home and it starts around the dinner table basically explaining these basic concepts to our kids. But I knew that. But I don't have a home where the entrepreneurial spirit has been alive.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=1487.86,1566.82"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There are still community resources that can help you attach yourself to an entrepreneurial spirit. But using those resources means that the parents, the individual parents have to recognize that this is a gap, this is an information gap I don't have. And then don't be intimidated by filling that information gap, using those resources that are out there. Because, I mean, one of the problems in the mental health community is getting the clients to access the services. There are services now that will come to you, but you have to be willing to open your door and once you go to the resource. So they have to be willing to step outside of their title and be able to actually communicate effectively with this individual because there is a problem with being able to communicate and not feel intimidated. And most of us have a problem with intimidation when we go, but they all come out of here. Who do? Actually back some time in school. And I remember trying to help someone and someone I don't recall who told me that you cannot help someone who does not want to be helped. But I hope that doesn't get reached. That's the group that we miss every time, because they're the ones, no matter how many resources are out there, but is not true. Are we accepting that there is a body of people to be helped? Well, we may help those people go along. I don't think there's anyone who doesn't want to be help. There are many people who don't know where to go to get it. Right. Right. And I think that part of the solution is having that those resources not known by the people that were the schools that can then come in, come into play.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=1567.66,1657.1"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Only we can adjust as we have career centers. We can have a resource center where the parents can come in and find out if they have a problem, what agencies are available and where to go and how to deal with those agencies. But then, boys, we have to to reeducate the people that are going to help these people to be able to deal with the personalities and the lack of ability for these people to communicate. How do you how do you reeducate, educate people like ourselves? We have a tendency that after we reach a certain level, that we cannot identify with the so-called street person or the person that is of a different religious has different religious values or any type of different problems than what we are accustomed to. So what needs to happen for for both sides of that equation to be reeducated, folks, we have to let them know that these resources are available. And then the second thing has to happen is, is that we have to take a look at ourselves and step outside of ourselves and to sit down and be able to talk with this person, to get them to feel comfortable, relax and come back home. Panelists, thank you for a moment. We're going to take a call from home. I caller, you're on the air. Yes, i called earlier, but the line was kind of garbled. Okay. As I said, we've been educated, you know, as African-Americans, we've been educated all our lives. And, you know, we've been taught to believe that we have no value, no self worth. You know, as some of us have accepted that, you know, our history, you know, you know, we've been we've been taught to believe that our history didn't start until until we came from Africa as slaves.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=1657.84,1757.54"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You know, and it's it's recently been admitted that the the African is the parent of man, which means we to create create the very first civilizations. Okay, caller. We need to deal with solutions. Then what? Okay. Is a solution to what you're saying. Okay. My solution is in order. The reason why all this confusion is here is the fact that we must first know our path so we can understand the present, so we can deal with the future. You know, you have to know just why. You have to know why you act the way you do. Because of what you've been taught, what you've been, what you've read, and what what someone has told you. You know, we have got to realize that, you know, we have a unique relation here on this planet that, you know, that that we were here a long time ago. Let me ask you then, what you're really talking about is appropriate, accurate education, Correct. Who should teach it? There are our our our teachers, our parents. We must seek information on our own because it's it's not given to you in school until our teachers get educated enough to teach that, because this could benefit not only the black children, but children of other color to understand us more clearly and to add to look at us in a different way. Because, you know, that's where the stereotypes come in. Okay, CALLER, we're going to have to move, but we thank you for calling again, for sure. Okay. Thank you for the information. Okay. Could could I? I would love to hear the comments from that. I know I'm off the air now. Okay. We're going to have to hold on. I have to go to a break.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=1758.59,1865.78"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay. Thank you. We'll be back in just a moment with additional discussion in part for blacks at the crossroads. Welcome back. This is part four of our four part series on blacks at the Crossroads. We're about to put our panel on the spot now. We want to try to stimulate this thought. Based on what you've seen and heard over the past three weeks as well as today, and get your responses, your solutions just on a very, very few specific areas. Unemployment. What do we do about it? Solutions. Well, obviously, where I'm coming from in terms of unemployment is that you get our people in business because our people tend to hire our own people. So and I think that has a whole economic rippling effect throughout our whole community. That's what our particular program is all about. And getting people to think, to be in control of their own lives again, that starts back into the family, it goes back to the churches, etc.. But also remember that in Britain initial program, I said access to financing is important point as well. So I think getting our people in jobs, there's another piece of business in in the mental health area. The issue of unemployment can be addressed through the provision of services to those who are unemployed. To address the issue of the powerlessness and the helplessness that sets in. And to address the malaise that this is in after you've been unemployed for so long, it's very hard to get up out of bed the next morning and go out and search for a job that you're really not sure is there? So while there's training available, there can also be a resource available that helps you feel a bit better. And of course, education obviously going to say that it's quite important for our kids in terms of unemployment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=1866.4,2074.03"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm thinking of employment. Kids will not be able to be employed if they don't stay in school. And it's quite important to begin to talk to kids. And this is with parents or whomever it is that significant other person at home to begin to help kids to start thinking about going to work. I mean, why would I want to go to work? Why would I want to be even motivate no matter what my school is doing, if if, when I get up, everybody sleep. Why should I want to go to work? Kids have to learn. It doesn't hurt to go to work. And if they're going to be financially independent and self-sufficient, they're going to have to go to work. And they should become on top entrepreneurs at an early age, as early as ten years old, if need be, they can do multiple jobs. They can sell their services during the months that they're out of school. And they should learn to do these things and they can learn from there how to set up their own books, how to market their product. Okay. Let's get some other feelings on another topic of of concern to the black community. Teen pregnancy. Let's start with you, Richard Roe. The solution to the problem and of course, Rosetta Stone has to talk about. I think that there are programs out there that are working and I think we have to get our young people into those programs before they get pregnant. We have to I mean, we really have to prevent teen pregnancy. And we do that not when our teen not when they become teenagers, but when they are three, four or five and six. And again, if we are providing these young kids with information on who they are, building their self-esteem, enhancing their self-image, doing those kinds of things, that's the best contraceptive.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=2074.63,2164.84"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"However, those young people who unfortunately get pregnant, thank God for school, like Dr. Stith, who will bring that child into the school and teach them parenting skills because we need to provide parenting skills for those young people, boys and girls. And we don't have enough programs for the young men. And so that's something that I'm working on. Other groups are working on to build programs for young men so that they understand what parenting is. And it's just not by Pampers. There has to be a reason for girls and boys. And I do agree with Richard. It has to start very early on as to why you don't do things. We're saying kids say no to drugs, say no to sex. You've got to give them a reason to say no and that no should be a future. But if that's not happening all around them, they say, well, there's no future. My neighborhood, my community, so I'll just be like everyone else. But unless Baltimore City comes to a consensus in terms of teen pregnancy, in terms of people having jobs, if people not having jobs, if we don't do projects, then you're not really going to get it to the kid, to that young boy, to that girl. The reasons why they shouldn't, and even though we know the consequences of forever are great, but you do have now happening in the community are the community development centers. You have family support centers, but that's after the fact. I don't think we all needs to be a parent just because she has sex and has a baby, she's not ready for it. Jackie, that comes back to us as adults, as leaders in the community, as saying, when a child is going wrong, don't wait to tell the parent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=2165.8,2248.57"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You act on the problem and then after you've acted, take that child to that parent. Work the problems out there. We wait often too long after we've seen it, and we've seen it coming on for a long time, and we say, Oh, no, that's not my problem. It's none of my business. It is our business as a people to uphold each other if we cannot uphold each other at this point. When do we begin? And that's the one strength that has helped us survive. Definitely. Despite whatever obstacle came across our path, is the fact that as a unit, our families held together. Our parents held together and our community held together. Before integration, we supported each other and now we're giving that piece of us away. And that's what I have to stress. One of the great strengths of black people have been the family. Right. I know we would talk about, you know, that there's no father in the family. We've always had a strong family unit in the black community rooted in our deep religious beliefs. We still have a strong family, is just not as aware of its strengths as it once was. And so it's it's not been publicized as publicized. Just the opposite. Yes. And they want us to say that we don't have a strong family unit. And I look at it and I grew up in South Carolina. I look at my neighborhood and we're talking about the extended family. I had uncles, friends. I mean, I'd do something wrong in the neighborhood. You know, everyone knew a lot to me about a lot of the things that came out of our discussion on the family. Ross Ford kept making it over and over and over. And it's funny to evoke his name and he's not even here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=2248.99,2339.57"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it had to do with the kinship. BOND Yes. No matter who the person is to you, there is a kinship bond that binds you. And so it's not necessarily that it's your mother, your father necessarily, but you have a kinship bond that makes you part of a larger family. It's unfortunate that it takes a major snowstorm, for example, for people to get out and get to know their neighbors well, shovel out our blocks. So how you doing? It's nice to meet you, but on a nice sunny day when we could be out all cleaning up our yards or clean it. There was a thing about in Pimlico community about people bringing the mayor down in their community to get the neighborhood cleaned up. And they brought the cameramen down with them so that they could publicize it. We don't do that. We'll sit back and see this. Bless my nerves. I was riding the bus on the other day and there was a gambling game going on in the back of the bus, and the rest of the bus, me included, sat there, intimidated by the game. There was six or seven kids all turned around watching the game in the back of the bus. The bus driver tried to stop a police car. The police car looked in and kept right on going. That kind of of passivity amongst all of us has got to stop because this is our community. We tolerate the drugs, we tolerate the unemployment, we tolerate all of this stuff. And until we stop, we feel some sense of commitment to our own lives and we will let it. Their message is that we must have a commitment to our communities and we must be willing to demonstrate that commitment to our community and just try another try another issue, illiteracy, both functional and in terms of higher academic illiteracy, the inability to read and comprehend above the functional level.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=2340.17,2435.66"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You know, let's not just look at the functional illiteracy question. Well, we've had to all along in our in our schools a low expectation for black youngsters, and we've allowed them to make excuses for not performing. We have to say, I don't care what color you are, I don't care what your circumstances are. You can learn and we are here to teach you and provide the resources and the effective teaching for the youngsters to learn and give them the support they need to learn. And we can't wipe out function, but the expectation has to also be the same as that which they are expected to function in society. We cannot lower the standards and say you can come to school this time of day or that time of day when they're out there for a job. That's one of the reasons why they fall flat on their face, is because the expectations are not realistic. Schools have to now be realistic. I have to be realistic. I try to provide realistic parenting for those girls so when they go out into the real world, they know no one is going to give them Academy Award and not to expect anything but to go out there and get it. The expectations have to be the same kids. You should stay there until they learn it. I know when I went to school, you stayed in the fourth grade. Fifth grade. You were 16 until you were able to master the objective. But now, because of regulations and guidelines, the kid after Saturday, bingo, he goes on, he goes on without the necessary skills for survival and to get pass to get past that point where the kid stays in the fourth grade nine years until they mess to the point that requires a cooperation across the mental health issues and mental health community to address one piece of why they're not in school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=2436.08,2533.58"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But it also requires cooperation with the parents to carry through at home the structure that's been taking place in the school and then the teachers to get creative about their teaching. I had a case of a 16 year old who had been denied art classes because he was acting on his other classes and there was no one to advocate for him in the school system until a desk worker tried to get services for him. That requires cooperation. So you just you got to make a break. More break. We'll pick up when we come back. Stay with us. We'll be right back. And now I want to talk to members of our audience. Thank you, Jacki. I think we need to talk a little about the state of vocational education in Baltimore City. I'm an administrator at one of our vocational schools. And because of underfunding and political football and vocational education is in pretty bad shape. And to piggyback that, the Reagan administration has decided to cut the funds completely for vocational education. And we need to get on top of that. Dr. refers to 13 years from now. If we don't train our kids, we don't have institutions to train our kids with some good skills. We are going to be in bad shape for 13 years. You're absolutely right. Because even though we will be graduating kids who will earn college degrees and will be in the offices, you still need that person to come in. Who? What happens? What happens if the sink goes bad? What happens if the company comes up? I'm going to need that person who should have been in a vocational kind of program to do the carpeting. Who's going to make the buildings of this for me to work in? One of the things that that we're very interested in as well, I was visiting West Side Skills and there was a meeting over there and as I was, I went in the door and I was walking downstairs looking at all of the shops and whatnot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=2533.79,2711.25"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And one of the things that we focused on exactly. You know, there's a study that has been done is that the more education a person would call, the more risk averse they become, which means that they don't want to take the risk of going into business. We found out and those gentlemen are young ladies that are in the vocational areas. We could take them and said, okay, you have that skill. We can match it with the financing and some training. So you could really go into business for yourself. Would you develop that skill, see that it does pay off? No question about it. Let's get some more comments. I think that it's important for us to understand as parents that we understand that there are a couple of basic levels that, uh, that we need to understand. And first of all, when we go into schools that the reception there is open and aboveboard. I have had occasions to go into over 25 schools in the last two years, and in that in visiting the various schools, I have gotten to a point where I'm able to tell whether the school was taken on the offense or on a defensive. Basically, by going to the office, seeing how the secretary responds to or how the building principal responds to you. So parents need to understand that there are a couple of basic levels that they can come into a school. Some parents want to just come in just to sit in on classes. That's a very basic level. But then there are other parents that are that have more knowledge and are a little bit better equipped that can handle things like parent groups or room representatives to actually do the various other things. So they need to understand it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=2711.73,2803.38"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's get to your point. Well taken. I try to tell my particularly my secretaries, that the first person that a parent is going to see or have contact with is is a secretary. And how you react has a great deal to do with how they perceive our school, but more importantly, the other levels the parent can be involved. I'm calling for parents to evaluate my school every year and get from that evaluation, get input into how we can improve upon the services that we give our. And another comment Richard wrote, I'm very familiar with you because I've worked with you in the past. How can we as laypeople. There are many women at my job. I'm one of the few. I have a degree. But as laypeople, how can they be motivated to go and try to participate in organizations like the Urban League or like the ACP? You know, I'm a I'm an oddity. Everybody's always asked me, Well, okay, what's going on with what's going on at city Council, what's going on with ACP, what's going on verbally? How can what can we do to try to make them feel more Could be a part of your organization. What is going to take people like you and folks like us here to make them feel welcome and organizations like ours? In fact, we may have to implement a plan where we go to them door to door. If it takes that, that's what we will have to do. That's the kind of commitment that it's going to take in order to get our folks to involve themselves, participate in activities like that. But it's going to take especially people like you out there in the community every single day interacting with laypersons and to get them to participate in organizations like the ones represented here, and also a change in attitude that they have a part.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=2803.5,2904.09"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that's what I think is missing. It's not my problem or it's not my child. That's why education doesn't seem to be that important. It's not much like it goes to a private school, but in actuality it is going to be your problem because your kids are going to be out there amongst those persons who don't have jobs. So it's a change of attitude and we've got to change it. Okay. Another audience. Yes, sir. On the area of solution, I think it's very important for the parents and both the community to realize that we have to create a environment where teenage pregnancies and carrying a 57 magnum is not okay. Good kids get there. The thoughts. To carry them throughout life. They get it from their immediate environment. And until we decide that, hey, we're not going to accept you dropping out of school, okay? Or giving excuses for why you're not taking on the responsibilities that young kids should take or take upon, We're going to continue to have this problem so widespread. You think if we think it's going to be devastating in the year 2000, I mean, it's devastating now. So all I'm saying is that we have to create that environment where we do expect kids to grow and to learn and to demonstrate the qualities that make successful citizens. But that's not qualities that are found when you become pregnant at 15. How do you do that? How do a lot of communities do that? Well, it starts at the it starts first individually. It starts within the home. Each an individual, each individual household. I think the parents, first of all, has to invest some time. You have to invest the time. You have to we know that it's going to take funds, additional funding.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=2904.39,3004.45"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We know that that's needed. We know that the programs and stuff that they have in the school, we know they can be improved upon. But until we spend less time at the local lounges and the different bars across town and spend more time at the library with our kids, taking our kids out to these educational, different educational arenas, we're going to continue to have this problem. And you also do it by getting churches. We have we have thousands of churches in the community and one on every corner. If they can't set the moral and ethical tone in their respective communities and it shouldn't even be there. But I think they should come together as a as a as a group. And they're doing that in many respects. But they have to involve groups like the ones represented here again. And we have to set the tone and we have to establish an environment that simply says to our young people, you have to do this, you must do that, and we have to do what we used to do. And that is everyone. Everyone was committed to the development positive development of African-American children. And I also think the other thing is that I would like to say to parents as a solution is as parenting starts from the time of conception. Okay? And what you do is after your child is born and he's ready to go into school, you teach your child before he goes to school. Discipline, how to respect the authority and in the school, how to identify a problem and how to come home and communicate to you the problem. But then as parents, your with our responsibility is to go to the schools prior to September to say, what is the curriculum in the school? What? Where is my child expected to be by the end of the first quarter where I have to do what can I do? So taking an active role in combat.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=3005.08,3100.64"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay, We'll come back and discuss it further. And blacks at the crossroads, the solutions. Welcome back to this, our final segment of a four part series on blacks at the crossroads. Before we conclude our discussion, I would like to remind you that next week we have a very special show, our jazz extravaganza, featuring right wingers Lonnie Liston Smith, Noel Pointer and Bobby Humphrey. So be sure to join us if you want to see reservations calling now at 481 1313. Very quickly to see if you can get a seat. Yes. Now to continue with our discussion here. Let's go to another issue that you just can't ignore. Black on black crime, Richard. Well, a lot of it is related to what we've been talking about all day. You know, it starts at home. And if we are teaching our children to value human life, that's key. The family is not doing that in the community mass. And so we can't keep blaming anyone else for black on black crime. We can, but we ought not to. We also have to be concerned about how our children are educated, if they feel good about themselves and the education arena, if they are learning certain things, if they leave school, able to to read and write and to do those kinds of things, then the likelihood of them engaging in activity that's going to bring about black on black crime, I think will will decrease. But then business development, we've got to deal with jobs. You know, if we're not going to provide jobs, then we've got to help our young people understand that they can also build and run a General Motors and make that clear very early. And if we do all of those things together, then we can reduce the crime in our community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=3101.17,3338.13"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You're seeing the feeling of despair and isolation erupts on each other in the community. So how do we prevent that? You're saying we prevent that by sending youngsters, get a proper education with a sense that there is a future for them and self-respect for themselves and their family? Precisely. But the education goes beyond the school system. Yes. Because other things we're talking about, there's a piece of it that I have a lot of direct contact with. And that's the issue of abuse and neglect. A lot of times we teach our kids that the solution to problems is with violence. We teach them that you handle your solutions by hitting someone and by knocking them out. And we teach them that the best offense, the best defense in school is an offense. And so in those ways, we do them subtly and we do them quite directly. We condone a lot of violence at a very early age, and we reward them with a stroke and we tell them this is really a great thing to do. And then when they grow up and they stay up somebody or they kill a cat or they burn a dog. These are some of the things that our kids are doing, by the way. Or when they throw a chair at a teacher, then we say, you're being very bad. You can't do that sort of thing. But we have told them all along, Isn't there a double message? Very. We have to learn how to listen. We hear, but we don't listen. Our children come to us and they're confused. They're upset, and they have anger and hostility towards people or towards things that have happened to them in their account of their day. And we say we come home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=3338.44,3422.73"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I'm famous for it, because when I come home, I'm tired, you know, talk to me later. I don't want to hear it. You have to listen to the children. Let's get another comment from the audience. Good afternoon. First, I we hear a lot about education, how it how important education is. Well, I myself, I have a master's degree in business management. I'm having a very hard time with a job. I'm hearing a lot of I go to school. Good, good, good. Get a good education. Trouble finding a job? Yes. Yet you say go to school, get a good education. You get a good job when you come out of college. That is not so. A lot of people now are very despair in my age group and young ones in denial. Let me let me let me say this. And we are developing something to deal specifically with that. You are one of many corporate America right now. Are they restricting or reducing? They're cutting back jobs, etc.. And the people that get cut back first are the black folk. So what do you do? You receive training and whatnot. So you have to have something in there where you could take your skill and your expertise and your training and match it with a business opportunity. That and what I what I'm saying is when you're talking about my thing and you talk about getting a job, I'm talking about I'm talking about not only getting a job, but creating jobs. And you and your whole thinking and concept is geared toward creating jobs and not necessarily getting. What about at the end of our show? Unfortunately, because there's so much more to say. If we were to do a quick sweep, 30 seconds each, the key points that we need to go away from.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=3422.91,3517.92"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294/transcript/48942/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Blacks at the Crossroads as a four part series Solutions. 30 seconds each. Let's start with stand Tucker and move quickly down the road. Obviously, my focus would be for blacks is to begin to develop and get into business them themselves so that they control their own destiny. Janice Stevenson I guess the issue for me is for the individual to take responsibility for the quality of their life and be creative about solutions, but do stay committed to the solution, not bogged down at the obstacle. I think. Very important is that we teach our young children racial pride. We have to make sure they understand again who they are. If we don't do that, they're not going to support black businesses. I don't care how many you have the family. And since we have a young group of families now, I think what we have to do now to strengthen it, do all that we can, because Baltimore's last hope is our children. We have no tomorrow without our children. I think the family and then the church and then the schools. And I think that through those mechanisms that we can come together to form a bond that we once had, that we can still have and we need to be more of ourselves and that we can do it. We have to have that attitude that there is nothing that can tear me down to create an educational institution and system that will effectively educate youngsters and make them productive. Okay. This has been a very productive four part series and certainly today's segment has been of high quality as well. There's an awful lot to talk about and we could go on another 4 hours. 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Paquin School; Richard Rowe, Baltimore Urban League; Stanley Tucker, Director, Maryland and Small Business Development Financing Authority; Deborah Hickman, Chairperson Area C.P.T.A.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105540/file/206294#t=148.0"}]}]}]}