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letters at Hampton Institute and Ishmail Conway, a spokesman for Virginia Union University agreed with Wilder.
Mr. Conway, especially, said that the time had come for a frontal attack on illiteracy in the
same way that a frontal attack was made on the social ills facing the black community in the ’50s, ’60s and 70s.
There is no question that Wilder has put his finger on the leading challenges facing the Black community going into the last years of this century. One must assume - and hope - that he will dwell on, as well as expand on, these themes as time goes on.
As well as he has articulated the tasks which lie ahead and the goals which he feels should be uppermost on the black agenda, there is an important ingredient missing from his program. That, of coursfe, is a meaningful plan for carrying out that program and reaching the goals he has so well described.
At bottom, as Mr. Wilder correctly points out, it is the black community on which the responsibility must ultimately rest for carrying his program forward and making it succeed. But the unanswered question remains: How can it be done?
As lieutenant govemer, Mr. Wilder occupies a unique position of leadership to translate his plans into action, and his goals into reality.
If he can do so he will have made a mighty contribution to the realization of Gov. Baliles’ objective of a “New Dominion” for all the people of the commonwealth.
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