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WASIIINGTON-In one slneli week hut Wnrii fi uat
shot out of the saddle as U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations, Andy Young addressed the national conventions
of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity, the Progressive Baptist Association and the
National (black) Bar Association.
The week before that, he was guest speaker for the
black dental association.
These contracts, which he has been making for most of
his tenure as a national public figure, have left Andy
Young convinced of one thing:
"There is a base of black middle-class people who are
not presently in political-activist role; but they are ready
to move."
The black reaction to his ouster as U.N. ambassador
has convinced Young of something else: that he is the
man to lead that political resurgence.
It is a conclusion he reaches without arrogance. He
takes it as a simple matter of fact, that he is the first per
son since the death of his idol Martin Luther King Jr. with
the sophistication and experience and . the broad-gauge
appeal to be credible as a national black spokesman.
INDEED, THE only problem in his mind is how to
create the. appropriate vehicle. He, his closest staffers and
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some trusted friends have been brainstorming that
question for more than a week now.
"We decided we don't want to create an organization,
because we don't want to be in competition with the
existing organization," Young said in an interview last
week.
"What we are looking for is some way of. mobilizing
ideas within the existing organization. All my life, I've
operated on the basis of motivating other people to do
things."
What Young really wants to do, if he can figure out
precisely how to do it, is to capitalize on his four major
assets: his new freedom to speak out on issues without
fear of reprisal or political embarrassment;. his wide-ranging
support among black Americans; and the debt he is
owed by President Carter, whose re-election he is pledged
to support.
Those assets tie in perfectly, he believes, with what he
describes as "a hunger among middle-class blacks to be in
volved in decision-making, in policy-making in this
country."
"LOOK, THERE were 6,000 women at the Delta con
vention in New Orleans. There are 556 Alpha chapters.
There are 4,000 black Shriners in New City. We're talking
about people who are sophisticated and educated and who
want to be involved, but who have not found the approp
riate vehicle."
Whatever the final shape of the vehicle Andy Young
will devise, at its center wul be four of his closest associat
es, all of whom served with him in the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, in the Congress and at the United
Nations. They are Stoney Cooks, his administrative assist
ant since 1965; Tom Offenburger, public-affairs counsel;
Connie Grice, a legislative specialist; and Kay Jackson, his
secretary, who came to SCLC during the 1968. Poor Peo
ple's Campaign.
"There's no question that Andy has one of the broad
est platforms of anybody in a long time," Stoney Cooks
observed in a separate interview. "What we need to do
now is to make sure he can continue as an independent
voice for a few years."
Is there a model for how that might be accomplished
without involving Young in financial sacrifice?
"No direct model," Cooks acknowledges. "But think
of this: Henry Kissinger is free to comment on world
events without worrying about feeding his family."
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Continued from Page 4
If you compare them, the men's magazines all deal
with things and women's magazine all deal with feelings.
These magazines are our cheerleaders. They shout en
couragement when we leave Hopklnton, and they pass
water to us over Heartbreak Hill in Newton.
I have another friend who swears that the Understand
ing Woman is getting exactly what she wants: a chance to
be superior in sympathy, to be virtuously martyred. But
I think that's too pat and too tough. I think she is strug
gling to do the right thing, even when it gives her a cramp
in the side and shin splints.
There's a moment, and it's hard to locate it, when you
can understand too much and ask for too little. Anyway,
it occurs to me that the Understanding Woman has
logged too many miles in other people's shoes.
(c) 1970, The Boston Globe Newspaper Company
Washington Post Writers Group
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