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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. reaffirms its unflagging commitment to promoting political empowerment; business and economic development; educational achievement; health, safety, and welfare; the strengthening of family life and the elevation of self esteem within the African-American community; and, to the liberation and democratization of South Africa. These are many of the points that the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Public Policy Statement has raised in past years. This year we will not cover as many problems. This does not mean that the problems not covered are corrected, it simply means that we will highlight only three major problems in this Policy Statement. The problem of drugs in our community, the problem of education in our community, and the problem of diminishing opportunities for our people due to retrenchment of civil rights. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity rededicates itself to directly contributing to the leadership of AfricanAmerica. We refuse to permit crime, illiteracy, and official assaults on established programs and opporThe Sphinx/Winter 1989
tunities to paralyze our lives and destroy the hope of our youth. Alpha Phi Alpha challenges its members to lead the way in revitalizing the guiding values and infrastructional institutions of the Black community. The African-American community is under seige. Three major problems tear at the very fabric which holds it together: The problem of illicit drugs permeates our community consuming resources and destroying lives. The under-education of Black youth, at a time of great technological advances is consigning them to a future of poverty. The direct assaults by the courts and ambitious politicians on opportunities established during the past 25 years, threaten to render Black Americans helpless and hopeless. However, rather than despair, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. accepts the challenge to take the lead in reclaiming a positive destiny for the African-American community. Page 33