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Youth'. New Politics
Held Lure to Blacks

Star-Tele ram Mid-Cities Bureau  push for military protection
ARLINGTON - Black peo- funds.
ple, out of patience with the  T h e i x demonstrations are
slow pace of integration, are having an effect on national
joining the nation's youth in a  politics, the senator asserted,
"new  politics," the state's  adding their method of "peti-
first black woman senator    honing for redress" has upset
said here Tuesday.           the "old politics."
State Sen. Barbara Jordan,   "We're seized with a kind
speaking a  e-    ersi y of  of paralysis of the will," Sen.
Texas at A ruling ton, said   Jordan said, which seems to
demonstrations - both order- keep the country from right-
ly and violent - are a method  ing the grievances the young
of "petitioning the govern- and the black point out.
ment for redress of their     "Events are in the saddle
grieviences."                and riding mankind ... we
ask if it is possible for man to
THE YOUNG are "asking      get back in the saddle again,"
for a return to truth," she  she  told  students in the
said, "more personal truths crowded ballroom.
... than self-generating or-              r PD
ganizational truths" such as a  SHE PRESCRIBED two ac-
rnilitary-industrial  compkx  tions to get the reins back in
i man's hands - narrow the
gap between the "haves" and
the "have-nots," and political-
FT. WORTH       STAR    TELEGRAM                           ly  change  current power
OCTOBER      21,   1970                                     r   so in of iome tans-
fer with built-in work incen-
tives would allow the poor -
black, brown and white - to
lift themselves out of econom-
ic deprivation, she said.
Switching power from "the
intellectual elite, corporate
and union bigness and middle
class" to a democratic bal-
ance "cannot be achieved
without conflict," she said.
Saying "power is never sur-
rendered voluntarily ... it
must be taken," Sen. Jordan
warned her listeners to "try
to prevent the encounter (be-
tween the powerful and the
powerless) from becoming a
national holocaust ... (and)
killing all of us."
BLACKS ARE signing the
"petition of redress" and as-
s u m i n g the demonstration
tactics because they are tired
of patiently waiting for the
slow evolution of equality, she
said. "White society can take
us in or we'll create our
own," she said.
Pointing to phrases like
"one nation," "all men are
created  equal"  and  "free-
dom," Sen. Jordan soid. "We
have made some great and
noble pronouncements. Can
we make these pronounce-
ments real?"
The senator's appearance
on the UTA campus was spon-
sored by the university's For-
ums Council.