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by: Betty Pleasant
Most Americans haven Tt given a
thought to the electoral college
since they were required to pro-
vide the correct answer about it
on a high school civics test. But
as we are facing a 1888 redux ---
when Benjamin Harrison lost the
popular vote, but won the elec-
toral vote and became US presi-
dent anyway----many people are
scratching their heads, trying to
recollect that forgotten civics
lesson.
Having been hit in the face last
Tuesday with the realization that
a presidential candidate does not
have to amass the most votes to
win the White House, the Sentinel
has received many requests from
readers to explain this unseemly
phenomenon.
Here goes:
The electoral college is a group of
electors chosen within each state
to elect the president and vice
president of the United States.
Each state has as many
presidential electors as it has
representatives in both houses of
Congress. Altogether, there are
538 electors or members of the
electoral college. California has
the most electors. 54, because we
have 54 members in Congress
who represent the most people in
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any state. (Another reason why
an accurate Census count. is
important, but we digress.)
Others states with a lot of
electors include New York with
33, Texas with 32, in infamous
Florida 25, Pennsylvania with 23,
and Ohio with 21. Washington
DC , as well as six states have the
least number of electors, three
each.
As we all know by now, it takes
270 electoral votes to win the
presidency. The electors in each
State are chosen by the political
parties in the state. Some of the
are elected officials and some
loyal party activists. Basically,
the part apparatus selects electors
for whatever reason it wants, but
loyalty to the party is the highest
prerequisite.
All the states, except Maine and
Nebraska, hold a winner-take- all
popular vote for electors: the
candidate who wins the most
popular votes in the state, wins
that state Ts complete slate of
electors.
For example, Vice President Al
Gore beat Gov. George W. Bush
by more than 1,200,000 popular
votes in California and won all 54
of this state Ts electoral votes.
On the other hand, Bush may
defeat Gore by two popular votes
in Florida and he would collect all
25 of that state Ts electoral votes.
With our winner-take-all system,
elected presidents receive a
greater percentage of the electoral
vote than of the popular vote.
Two presidents, Rutherford B.
Hayes in 1876 (another instance
when the Florida vote was the
point of contention) and Benjamin
Harrison in 1888, won a majority
of the electoral votes even though
they received fewer popular votes
than their principal opponents.
In the very close election we
had last week, it is highly prob-
able that a popular-vote loser wilt
again be elected president.
As originally planned by the
framers of the Constitution in
1787, it is the electors who
actually choose the president, not
the people. Why? Because they
didn Tt trust the people.
The framers preferred the
electoral college arrangement
over the direct popular election
because, at a time when travel
was difficult and there were no
national party organizations, they
feared that many regional candi-
dates would divide the vote.
Requiring a candidate to win a
majority in the electoral college
was a way of obtaining a national
consensus, is the way some
history books interpret the fram-
ers T intentions.
Inland Sea Food Expanding !
Sown above are the owners and family of Inland Sea food, Thanksgiving Day they served free meals to
everyone who stopped by. They encourage everyone to to stop by again and check out their new expansion!
Photo by Jim Rouse
To Be Or Not To Be African !
By - Mawiyah Kambon,
President
This opportunity allows me to
introduce to some and refresh
the memory of others as to the
goals and purpose of the
Association of Black
Psychologists. The Association
was founded in 1968 from a
need to address the concerns of
both professionals in the field of
psychology, and the needs of our
people in the communities
around the nation and around the
world. Among those challenges
We sought to promote and ad-
vance a greater awareness of
psychology from an African
Perspective. In so doing we have
attempted to influence and affect
the socialization of African peo-
ple, especially, and particularly
our children and families. We
have taken T this self-imposed
mandate quite seriously.
To actualize these goals the
Association of Black
Psychologists has been visible in
Several areas, We present our
Collective wisdom through vari-
ous forms of media, conferences,
forums, and through our own
Publications, we develop pro-
day a training snocels to
directly affect change; and we
Continually iaetew our own
foundation and sources of
7 ge to ensure that we stay
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grounded within the systems that
have informed the thinking and
well-being of our people for
centuries. We believe that
African psychologists must be at
every table where discussions
take place~-and decisions are
made in the planning for, and
implementation of programs and
policies that affect African peo-
ple. In fact, we believe that since
everything (media, schooling,
public policy, advertisement, en-
tertainment, work) affects the
psychological well-being of our
people, an African psychologist
should be at every table, every
board meeting, every public fo-
rum and every session of con-
gress. Not only within this
hemisphere, but throughout the
Diaspora, wherever people of
African ancestry find ourselves
and our future in deliberation,
Some of the issues that the
Association of Black
Psychologists has addressed are
consistent with the focus of the
National Black Family
Empowerment Agenda. On our
board of directors, within our
regions and local chapters, and
within the general Assembly of
the Association, in particular,
much of the work on these issues
is transformed to position
rs, protests, projects, or
nate The ABP remains at the
a
forefront in challenging White
supremacy (racism) and all op-
pressive practices within this
country and around the globe.
In the area of Education the ABP
challenged the use of IQ
(Intelligence Quotient) testing as
a means to place our children in
special education classes or
lower learning tracts in schools.
We are focused on the restora-
tion and preservation of the
Black family as the primary and
critical tool in the healthy so-
cialization of Black children. We
believe that Black culture social-
ized by the Black family is the
key to moving beyond survival
to full development for our
people,
We have advanced rites of pas-
Sage programs for youth and
adults because we know the
importance of socializing our
families to our own traditions. In
80 doing we recognize that our
adults may not be prepared to
raise our children with the val-
ues deemed essential to our
overall development as a result
of alien socialization influences,
In the arena of Law and Justice
ABP became involved on. the
National level with the Federal
Violence Initiative,
Grand Opening !
Shown above at the Grand opening of R & B Diner is owners ; M
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rt. and Mrs. Allen Robertson, Mr. &
Mrs. Jones Beatly and Mrs. Beverly Gaskin (manager). The "M' Voice newspaper wishes them the best
of luck on their new venture
Photo by Steve Johnson
Coca Cola Pays A Record $192.5 Million '
Washington " (NNPA).....Coca
Cola Company recently a
settle a racial-discrimination
lawsuit brought by Black work-
ers the NNPA has learned. The
case represents the largest race
discrimination settlement in US
history,
The company claim that
it will make significant changes
in the way it manages, promotes,
and treats its minority employees
as company officials said they
looked forward to increasing the
Coca Cola brand across the
world through use of a diverse
talent base.
oDiversity has always been
one of our cornerstones. We are
emphasizing making a better
company. The emphasis we are
placing is on certain values and
needs we want to establish as we
determine directions that we
want to take, � said Coca Cola Ts
chairman and chief executive,
Douglas N. Daft, in a press
conference immediatly follow-
ng the announcement of the
David Hammond
Elected County
Commissioner
Chairman
During a meeting Dec. 4, 2000
the Pitt County Board of
Commissioners elected
Commissioner David
Hammond to serve as their
new Chairman for the comin
year, The board also elect
Glenn Bowen to serve as Vice-
Chairman for the coming year,
Commissioner Randy Royal,
Commissioner Tom Coulson
and Commissioner Beth 8,
Ward took their oaths of office
that same afternoon.
The Minority Voice Newspaper
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settlement.
The company will pay $113
ds...
. tO pay arecond-$192-5 mitlion to millionto thousands of African
American employees and will
spend $43.5 million to adjust its
salaries and another $36 million
for programs to monitor its
employment practices. It will
also pay $20 million in attor-
neys T fees,
The company also agreed to
set up a watchdog group to
review and measure its diversity
efforts in coming years. oThere
was a lot of energy put into this
package, � Daft said. oWe are
changing the company. It hap-
pens every few years-to increase
value for shareholders and for
everyone who works with us.
We are part of the creation of the
brand and that means getting the
best people. Our people are our
competitive advantage. �
The settlement is the largest
ever in a US race discrimination
lawsuit, according to the US
Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission. oToday we are
closing a painful chapter in our
company Ts history, � wrote Daft,
in a memo to employees released
~ publiciy yesterday. .
o This is a watershed event
and hopefully will serve as a
wake-up call to other compa-
nies, � said Pamela Coukos of
Mehri, Malkin and Ross, the
Washington, DC - based firm
that represented the employees.
The agreement covers about
2,200 salaried African American
employees and former employ-
ees who worked for the company
in the United States between
April 1995 and June 2000.
Plantiffs T lawyers estimated that
the employees will get an aver-
age of $40,000 each, depending
on the length of their employ-
ment. .
In the suit the employees
accused Coca Cola of discrimi-
nating against Black salaried
employees in pay, promotions.
and evaluations,
Coca-Cola Ts settlement of a
racial bias case was more than
$16 million larger than the
Previous record settlement.
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« the entire oral history of the region :
_ from her uncensored musings. A -
comparable experience awaits read-
~ ers of Scott Malcolmson Ts oOne
~ Drop of Blood �, a work of noble
intent and baffling intellectual
_ $prawl. Ruminations of 14th centu-
ty scholars; obscure literary tracts;
__ the tired old ground of the racial
_ progeny of Shem, Ham and Japheth;
associations of whiteness with virtue
and blackness with sinister forces;
minstrel ditties; Indian trails and
_ Brer Rabbit tales are cobbled togeth-
~ erin dusty archaeology of race that
should have been subtitled oThe ©
Thousand and One Nights of Color
_ Coding: From the Old Testament to
__ the Internet. �
i This is an unfortunate fate for a
_ plausible theme that takes us back
'_ to.atime when the destiny of a new
nation was in play among three core
peoples: black, white and red.
Absent a unifying thesis, the book Ts
sense of the experiential difference
between black and Indian is a saving
grace. Native Americans were not
born into oppression and had the
_ dignity of an armed resistance, but
the end was the isolation and despair
- of reservation life. African Ameri-
_ cans, by constant contact with
__ whites, were able to appropriate the
owner Ts manual of white civiliza-
_ tion, adapt it to their needs, and
_ acquire the means to flourish within
it,
Peculiar errors and omissions
recur. An offhand reference
describes the Civil War as the most
oAmerican � of conflicts in which
all three races fought on both sides.
While the Confederacy sought to
conscript slaves at the end of the
war, I know of no evidence of
African Americans " unlike the
Cherokees " fighting in regular
units for the South. Such an explo-
sive suggestion simply cannot be
tossed off without explanation or
documentation. Also, Malcolmson
dwells on a somber late-in-life novel
by Mark Twain but inexplicably
ignores oHuckleberry Finn �,
Twain Ts greatest work, still contro-
versial for its take on race and its
use of the o n � word.
Even in retrospect, Malcolmson
gloomily sees pre-Civil War Amer-
ica, even the great Lincoln, as adrift
in a debilitating swamp of racial
chauvinism with few seeds of
redemption visible. However, the
Civil War at least purged the nation
_ of slavery at a cost of 600,000 black
and white lives, precisely what Lin-
coln called oa new birth of free-
dom. � At Gettysburg, Lincoln |
_ " sae
The outcome
| of the Florida
- recount has
the whole
world (liter-
next president of the United States.
Partisan politics threaten to try to
(may have already) declare(d) a
winner, is ti ing tee tabooeria
Es spends ae
- vasa erdn prada
_ingly spoke her thoughts aloud, a i
~ Joycean monologue in-which she ff
_ dished about every farmer Ts wife
o ~ and tavern keeper in the Wisconsin o4
lisadideg who s1lt be the
THE AMERICAN
MISA DVENT URF OF RAC E
oScort L. MALCOMsON ,
renowad the vow of. equality i in the .
Declaration of Independence, adroit-
ly sidestepping a Constitution con-
taminated bycompromises with slav-
ery. His magnificent Second Inau-
gural implicitly recognized that slav-
ery, and its underlying premise of
white supremacy, had become
imbedded in the mentality of the
North as well as the South, leaving
both to pay the blood price of its _
eradication in accordance with the
biblical law of consequences.
The theme of race mixing that per-
vades the book and its title involves
some interesting disparities. The
father of Americar: democracy,
Thomas Jefferson, believed that
Indians and whites could form a sin-
gle intermarrying population once
the Indians abandoned their savage .
ways.
He entertained no such sentiments
regarding African Americans. Jef-
ferson could not bring himself to
free his slaves during his lifetime,
even Sally Hemings, his first wife Ts
half-sister who now few doubt was
Jefferson Ts mistress.
First families of Virginia proudly
claimed descent from Pocahontas T
son Thomas by her marriage to Eng-
lish settler John Rolfe. However, the
demands by African Americans for,
recognition as descendants of Jef-
ferson and Hemings still had the
power to create uproar even after
DNA evidence convinced many that
the issue of the famous romance had
been put to rest. Malcomson, curi-
ously, mentions the Pocahontas mar-
riage to Rolfe only in passing, and
not her mixed race son. More curi-
ously, he gives no attention what-
ever to the Hemings saga.
For much of our history these three
founding American races had diffi-
culty seeing common humanity in
each other Ts faces. At other times
they found themselves partners in
love and war. Together they fur-
nished most of the poignancy of the
nation Ts first century. Their inter-
twined stories continue to shape
American mythology and national
character.
There is a serious book in this, but
it will require more discipline
than oOne Drop of Blood. �
Demis M. O'Connell.
oBETWEEN THE [LINES
Did the Bushes (Try to) Steal the Election in Florida?
~ turned away in Hillsborough County :
because local sheriffs stated the race:
that seems to make one believe there
is something more to hide. .
It certainly, now appears to be
more than coincidental that so much T
havoc is being created over voter
impropriety in Democratic districts
with outcomes that favor electing a
Bush, in a state run by a Bush, than
in electing Gore. With manual hand
counts in the most obvious counties
pre-occupying the main plot, the
sub-plot in Florida is an increasing
number of revelations foqused on
come next Jan. 20, with hf
tions they prefer; the public Ts in-
_ terest in civic affairs and politics,
their current and preferred infor-
mation sources, their attention to
state political news, and their rat- .
ings of the media; how growing
regions and groups "such as the
Central Valley, suburban regions,
Latinos, and independent voters "
affect. the state Ts elections and
policy debates; the political atti-
_ tude and perceptions that are tied to
ovote distrust � of government, and
the social economic and political
factors that explain low voter turn-
out in state elections; the role of
political, social and economic atti-
tudes in public support for: citi-
zens T initiatives and government
reform proposals.
In the final weeks of the cam- °
paign, California voters focused on
five key issues "education, foreign
policy and national defense, health
care, taxes, and Social Security and
Medicare. Since the September sur-
vey, turmoil in the Middle East has
7 " Sins Ghana ess babi oboe. ment and t:
| government at all levels, how they stand apart
|| rate elected officials and public nation.
e services, and what government ac- di
' want a larger government with more
services, although majorities. in
both cases said they would prefer a
. smaller government with fewer ser-
vices, And while slight majorities
also say they would prefer to see
tax cuts targeted to lower- and
middlé-income families (Gore's
proposal), Californians were more
likely than the nation as a whole to
support Bush Ts plan for across-the-
board tax cuts (48 percent to 40
percent).
The slight tightening of the race
in California towards the end might °
also have been related to rising con-
cern about the state Ts economic
prospects. While most Californians
still believe that the state is headed
in the right direction, the number of
residents sharing this view has been
declining gradually. Specifically,
Californians are concerned bout the
possible economic effects of rising
energy costs. Eighty percent be-
lieve that higher prices for things
such as gasoline, utilities and elec-
, Soaeeteeee
_ jority of voters said they would ©
vote no, And, despite a of
~ television commercials vay Soa
~ sides "only 25 percent of voters
feel that they had learned a lot about
how a voucher system would work.
However, 57 percent believed that
passage of the voucher initiative
would not help the public school
system.
Support for Proposition 39 "
which would make it possible to
approve local school bonds with a
55 percent majority rather than a -
two-thirds vote-inched higher in
October with 50 percent: support-
ing the measure, 37 percent oppos-
ing it and 13 percent undecided.
~ Even though Proposition 39 lowers
the threshold for passing local
school bond measures, only 38 per-
cent of voters thought its passage
would make it easier to approve
local school construction bonds in
their area, while 15 percent said it
would be more difficult and 30 per-
cent thought it would make no dif-
ference.
While they may be divided about
the content of the specific proposi-
tions, Californians are devoted to
~ nent change in the state constitu-
tion through the initiative process.
Fifty-six percent also say that pub-
lic policy decisions made by state
voters are probably better than de-
cisions made by their elected rep-
resentatives in state government.
However, residents are also. aware
that the process is not perfect. Only
10 percent say they are very satis-
fied with the way the initiative pro-
cess is working today, while a ma-
jority say they Tre only somewhat
satisfied. Actually, 3 in 4 residents
think that the system needs changes
and only 1 in 5 says that the system
is fine the way it is.
Findings of the current survey
are based on a telephone survey of
2,001 California adult residents in-
terviewed from Oct. 11 to Oct. 18 "
interviews were conducted in ei-
ther English or Spanish. Dr. Mark
Baldassare, senior fellow and pro-
gram director at PPIC, is founder
and director of the PPIC, is founder
and director of the PPIC statewide
survey.
PPIC is located in San Fran-
cisco: phone (415) 291-4400, fax
(415) 291-4401].
IKLEAVER TS JKLIPPINS »
There is a Way to Save Our Children
Over the past decade, we
have seen scores of our
children shot down in
drive-by shootings. This
includes babes in arms,
preschoolers and too many others to even at-
tempt to mention.
We have placed the responsibility for the
apprehension of these criminals who committed
these dastardly acts on the criminal justice sys-
tem: police, sheriffs, etc.
These may be the proper steps to take after
the fact. In the meantime, we need to ask our-
selves how we got to this point in our society.
Although we a two or three generations about
the sanctity of life and today we are seeing the
results of that failure.
We sat silently by and allowed prayer to be
taken out of schools. The Ten Commandments
that once graced the walls of most classrooms
had to be removed. As a society, we did little
more than bemoan the fact and made no effort to
fight back.
What does all this mean in the strictest mea-
sure of morality? Well, the reading of the Scrip-
ture gave some sense of right and wrong to
children beginning with the first grade and it
never changed.
Let us take it a step further. Most of our
parents of another generation did not hold col-
lege degrees but they believed in the Bible and
they taught their children.to believe in the con-
cepts of right and wrong.
To be sure, there were incidents but they
were few and far between. Children had been so
well schooled they generally dared not do any-
thing that might be seen as wrong in the eyes of
m society and most certainly in the eyes of God.
. Itis interesting to note that within.a block of
most of our churches, there were confectionery
Stores, where candies, sodas and chewing gum
were sold. Theif biggest day of the week would
_be Sunday, between the hours of about 10:30
a.m. and 11:15 a.m. This was the time that
Sunday school was over. The children would
spend their nickels and dimes in between ser-
vices. :
We acrid awaken to the smells of frying
chicken and hot biscuits. The radio would be on
whatever radio station that carried oWings Over
Jordan � and/or oPet Milk Sunday Morning. �
The Pet Milk show, hosted by one of the greatest
announcers in the world, Sid McCoy, was the
first black syndicated radio show in the country.
_ Then we would go off to Sunday school,
Let us not be misled here. Sunday school was
not the total answer. It did however reinforce the
subliminal teachings we had gotten throughout
the week.
The key here is not Sunday school or church
per se. It is the involvement of the parents and
the determination of the parents that their child
(ren) would not wind up behind bars or running
afoul of the law.
Without question, some of the young men
and occasionally, women, did have problems
but in no way did they. approach the magnitude
we see now. If your response is that there are so
Many more people, then approach it from a
percentage perspective. The comparison does
not even come close.
What happened? Again the answer is simple.
In an attempt to keep up with the Joneses, we
have all too often abdicated our responsibility to
give our children the training they needed in
order to preserve the sanctity of life.
Several years ago, in an interview for one of
the TV stations, a gang member said life meant
nothing to him because he did not expect to live
to see 25 years. Somebody failed him.
More than 10 years ago, this reporter, after
discussing the matter with two different psy-
chiatrists commented that prospective gang
members sought out other gang members be-
cause this was the only familial structure that
was available to them. Nobody listened and
today, we see the results.
Part of the bottom line is that all may not be
lost. We can save this new generation. It will not
be an easy task and it clearly will have defined
the goals of the parents. Instead of buying the
biggest most expensive car in the show room,
they have to step down a notch or two and
recognize the time spent on the second job to pay
for the car could and should be spent on rearing
their children and teaching them life is sacred.
It might also be.helpful to set the VCR to
record the football game and,get up.on Sunday
morning and take the children to Sunday school
and church. They need to know that since they
cannot create life, they have no right to arbi-
trarily take it.
We need to understand that our children are
products of their environment and when we do
not create the proper environment, our children
become like the legendary Topsy from Harriet
Beecher Stowe Ts book, Uncle Tom Ts Cabin, who
just ogrow
The responsibility for our children does not
fall on the shoulders of the police department
probation department and social services. It falls
on évery parent and by and large, we have truly
dropped the ball.
Each time there is a parent-teacher night or
conference, the rooms should be filled to capac-
ity. We need to stop taking adversarial roles
against the teachers. Despite our protests to the
contrary, our children will, have and will con-
tinue to lie when it fits their purposes. It is
almost a joke when we see mothers angry with
teachers or authorities, and declaring, oMy son
wouldn't lie to me. �
Yes, Mother. They have and they will if it
meets their needs.
We can save the lives of our children in this
new generation. It will, however, take determi-
nation, devotion and sacrifice.
Ask yourselves if the lives of your children |
are worth the effort.
victory, hook or crook. When is it
time to ask if the Bushes tried to
The Florida NAACP responded
that-no such calls were placed
While Jeb has withdrawn from |:
the election challenge process af- |:
steal the election in Florida? When
the case is in court? Maybe Tso.
What has become more obvious
than the 19,000 odouble punched
ballots, � were the many acts of voter
intimidation that came light out of
the election night darkness. Much.
of which would have been covered.
up with a close victory, a quick
concession and an immediate focus
on presidential transition.
Claims of voter intimidation, "
apse ti aaron herd
a Goustioaheteencap oui ise :
ald-Tribune reported that the
poids alnpati cena hind
nation, turned out to be
imagined. Three days
on the I.D. card didn Tt match the
_ person standing in front of them, �
or that they were convicted felons
-and coouldn Tt vote (tough they had
no proof).
Now, we know many of us don Tt
look like our drivers license pic-
tures, but this is extreme behavior
for qualifying to vote. Yet it was
happening in the South again. In
Florida, not in 1955, or 1965, but i in
the year 2000,
The Herald-Tribune reported
that a disproportionate number of
T Afri¢an, American voters span
oturned away from the polls �
ovce WA stolons eee shite.
full of shee
since they are a non-partisan
group. While local law enforce-
ment worked the group, Political
partisan operatives worked the air.
This included the media that held
stories of voter disenfranchise-
ment until it was broken in the
black press, and not given much
credence until Jesse Jackson got
in the national spotlight. Jesse
then had to face hostile crowds .
that shouted oJesse, go home, � as
if he had created the allegations.
for some self-serving
Katherine Hari the bie
state, ane
and told him
Bush � to
ter election night, where he re-
portedly spent the night otracking | T
votes � in.the Secretary of State Ts |:
' Office, itis clear he was ocommand ':
control � the night of election. A\.
Bush running interference for a:
' Bush. He even publicly stated that |:
he felt he had his brother down � :
on election night.
The closeness of the election \
caused the election night oAm- |:
fall apart. Voter disen- :
franchisement claims, that were
Never meant to come to light in a i
i i"
will of ve
ome years igo cn a et wee day i in
& South Florida, alittle boy decided to go for
aswim in the old swimming hole behind his
house, In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran
out the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks,
and shirt as he went. He flew into the water, not
realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the
lake, an alligator was swimming toward the shore.
His mother-in the house was looking out the
window and saw the two as they got closer and
closer. together. In utter fear, she ran toward the
water, yelling to her son as loudly as she could.
Hearing her voice, the little boy became alarmed
and made a U-turn to swim to his mother. It was
too late. Just as he reached her, the alligator reach-
ed him. From the dock, the mother grabbed her
little boy by the arms just as the alligator snatched
his legs. That began an incredible tug-of-war be-
tween the two. The alligator was much stronger
than the mother, but the mother was much too
passionate to let go.
A farmer happened to drive by, heard her
screams, raced from his truck, took aim and shot
the alligator. Remarkably, after weeks and weeks
in the hospital, the little boy survived. His legs
were extremely scarred by the vicious attack of the
animal. And, on his arms, were deep scratches
where his mother Ts fingernails dug into his flesh in
her effort to hang on to the son she loved.
The newspaper reporter who interviewed the
boy after the trauma, asked if he would show him
his scars. The boy lifted his pant legs. And then, ,
with obvious pride, he said to the reporter, oBut
look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms,
too. I have them because my mom wouldn Tt let
go. �
You and I can identify with that little boy. We
: so dramatic, but rather, the scars of a
you. If you have Christ i in your life, you have
- become a child of God. He wants to protect you .
and provide for you in every way. But sometimes
we foolishly wade into dangerous situations, The
swimming hole of life is filled with peril " and
_we forget that the enemy is waiting to attack.
That Ts when the tug-of-war begins, and ifyou have
the scars of His love on your arms be very, very
grateful. He did not " and will not " let you go!
Will you take time to pray? Don Tt forget to
pray for your home church, your pastors & their
families, the leadership in the church, our mission-
aries, and our world leaders.
oFather, I ask you to bless these important
people, right now. I am asking You to minister to
their spirit at this very moment. Where there i is
pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Where
there is self-doubting, release a renewed confi-
dence in Your ability to work through them.
Where there is tiredness, or exhaustion, I ask You
to give them understanding, patience, and strength
as they learn submission to Your leading. Where
there is spiritual stagnation, I ask You to renew
them by revealing Your nearness, and by drawing
them into greater intimacy with You. Where there
is fear, reveal Your love, and release to them to
Your courage. Where there is a sin blocking them,
reveal it, and break its hold over their life. Bless
their finances, give them greater vision, and raise
up leaders, and friends to support, and encourage
them. Give each of them discernment to recognize
the evil forces around them, and reveal to them the
power they have in You to defeat it. I ask You to
do these things in Jesus T name, amen. �
Are we a opart of the problem,
or part of the solution? �
s a firm supporter of the formation of a
Pitt County human relations organization,
allow me to express my sorrow and
disdain for the reckless and totally uncalled for
editorial attack by Keith W. Cooper against County
Commissioner David Hammond. As an occasional
writer in this forum, I try to avoid using words such
as ostupid � or olamebrain. � However, Mr. Cooper Ts
comments seen in The Daily Reflector on Novem-
ber 26" has earned him these titles. Commissioner
Hammond conducted himself appropriately
concerning the suggestion to start a human relations
effort for the County. He helped to ensure that the
idea was given full consideration. The decision to
avoid having the County take responsibility for
finding and forming the project is wise and
practical.
I am reminded of some of Keith Cooper T s
earlier comments wherein he labeled Michael
Dixon an oUncle Tom � for actions that he took
as a member of the Board of Education. Thus,
Cooper Ts message is very clear: all black leaders
who do not see things his way are automatically
oenemies of progressive change � who ofan the
flames of bigotry. � Mr. Cooper may mean well,
but he is obviously too blind to see that his
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
behavior is shameful, divisive and dangerous. The
danger lies in the possibility that some people may
| be misled by the half-truths and references to
heroic martyrs that he loves to include in his
misguided and worn-out rhetoric.
I have not read that anyone is prohibited from
reaching out to help those who need it. If Keith
Cooper or his omany supporters � are sincere about
wanting to do good things, he would stop whining
on the editorial pages about what others should
do and start organizing toward doing whatever
needs to be done. Better yet, he might review the
history of the Greenville Human Relations Depart-
ment. It was not started through government
involvement but by a few people who took itupon
themselves to do so.
It is amazing that while thinking of famous
names to include in his ignorant statements, Mr.
Cooper would overlook Frederick Douglas who
said that each of us was ether a opart of the
problem or part of the solution. � You, Mr. Cooper,
are part of the problem. &
Michael W. Garrett
Greenville, NC
Editor Ts note: This article is in response to Public
Forum Comments by Keith W. Cooper which
appeared in The eas Reflector November 26,
2000.
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___ have caused us deep regret. But some wounds, my .
friend, are because God has refused to let go. In
the midst of your struggle, He T sbeenthereholding
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Desmond Tutu said T
ceremony See:
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joint service Wednesday morning
to highlight the country's AIDS
crisis. About 4.2 million South
Africans - 10 percent of the
population - are estimated to be
HIV infected.
The stigma surrounding the
epidemic means that those who
openly admit they are infected
often are treated as outcasts by
their communities, thrown out of
their homes and sometimes fired
from their jobs.
"We treat them like pariahs. We
wish that we could take ail of
them away from our societies,"
Tutu said.
Mandela echoed Tutu's call for
better treatment of infected
people.
oOne of the things we must do is
to support AIDS sufferers - to
give them love, to shake hands
with them, to embrace them, � he
said. o'! sincerely hope that the
attitude of our people toward
AIDS sufferers is going to
change because that way, we
will be helping them to fight
against this deadly disease."
South Africans should fight AIDS
with the same intensity they used
in the battle against apartheid,
Mandela said.
oWe shall work together as a
nation, work hard and with
dedication to achieve another
miracle - this time of winning the
battle against AIDS," he said.
De Klerk urged South Africans to
talk about the epidemic.
oIf we Communicate, everyone
will know what causes AIDS,
what spread it and how we can
defeat it," he said. oChildren at °
school should be taught about
the disease and they should fee!
free to talk about it everywhere.
Then they will know and
understand that AIDS kills."
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, often called othe
mother of the � became history's
icon quite accidentally on
December 1, 1955, when she
refused to give up her seat on a
Montgomery, Alabama bus. She
was summarily arrested for her
defiance. Her act, 45 years ago
today, led to the , which ended in
the US Supreme Court's ruling
that segregation on public
transportation was
unconstitutional.
Rosa Parks walked into the belly
of the bus merely a passenger
and left in handcuffs, the
maternal figurehead of a
movement that would change
America. She was just a simple
seamstress, tired after a hard
day Ts work. That's how the story
goes, anyway. But as Parks
herself wrote in her
autobiography:
oPeople always say that | didn Tt
give up my seat because | was
tired, but that isn't true. | was not
tired physically....1 was not old,
although some people have an
image of me as being old then...
No, the only tired | was, was tired
Of giving in. �
oThe Civil Rights Movement has
been simplified in the popular
media to a handful of images
that are often inaccurate, � says
Dr. Dorothy Salem, Cleveland
- State University instructor and a
noted author and historian on
women's history. oWe tend to
Create icons of these leaders,
instead of viewing their effort as
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Any Way You Look At It
To Be Equal by Hugh
Price
Hosea Williams, one of
Martin Luther King, Jr. Ts trusted
lieutenants and an heroic figure
in America Ts twentieth-century
struggle for social justice, died
last week of cancer in Atlanta.
He was 74.
As sad as it is to lose
Williams T blunt honestly, and
his unshakable devotion to those
in need, I can Tt help but think at
the same time that his death is
gloriously fitting for this
moment in American history
when the closeness and
confusion of the presidential
_ balloting in Florida has made the
importance of every single vote
cast-and not cast-unmistakably
clear. Hosea Williams T death is
gloriously fitting now because it
"reminds us that he was part of
that band of men and women,
- boys and girls in the 1950s and
1960s who put their lives on the
tine time and again to secure the
. fight to vote-the fundamental
: requirement of citizenship in.a
democracy-for-everyone.
: He was one of that obeloved
- community � of T apostles of
; Nonviolence who re-made the
' United States of America into a
i real democracy, not. just a
: rhetorical one,
| As James Farmer, another
Movement hero, who passed
, away last year, wrote in his
| autobiography, living then owas
tenuous... but the grasping at
liberty, and the reaching toward
happiness ennoble life for this
nation. �
And Hosea Williams, working
Kg, Soto, Chin
Southern Christian )
own participation in the
Movement stands as a definition
of heroism, spoke an essential
truth upon hearing of Williams T
passing: that he omust be looked
upon as one of the founding
fathers of the new America.
Through his actions, he helped
liberate us all. �
Now, when the votes of
African Americans are as critical
a part of the electoral mix as any
other groups T, it might be
difficult for some to realize that
just 35 years ago, racist laws and
tactics barred the vast majority
of black Americans in the South
from voting. To attempt to do so
could literally cost any black
person his or her life.
That profound subversion of
democracy changed forever on
March 7, 1965, a day that
became known as oBloody
Sunday. � That was the day
when Williams and Lewis
assembled a group of civil rights
activists in Selma, Alabama for
a 50-mile march to Montgomery,
the state.capital. Their purpose
was to present petitions to
Governor George C. Wallace,
the leading segregationist in
America, demanding voting
rights for black Alabamians.
They had barely gotten across
the Edmund Pettus Bridge over
the force of more than a hundred
Alabama State Troopers and
sheriffs T deputies on foot and on
horseback. All were equipped
with gas masks,
The rampage that followed-of
the club-wielding police
overrunning the defenseless,
choking marchers-shocked
White America and the world
and, by provoking President
Lyndon Johnson to propose a
federal voting rights bill, which
was passed five months later,
brought democracy to the South.
In April 1968, Williams was.
among the small group of
Vieutenants talking with King on
a
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of black sanitation workers,
moments before King was
assassinated.
In later years, Williams had
what some might call a
ocheckered o career. He was a
state representative from Atlanta
for eleven years, a city
councilman for five, and a
DeKalb County commissioner
for three. And he never ceased
his oactivism �. For the last
thirty years he organized a Feed
The Hungry and Homeless
Thanksgiving Day dinner in
Atlanta that fed thousands, and
he was continually on the front
lines of demonstrations for a
variety of causes.
But he also had numerous
scrapes with the law over traffic
violations, including several
drunk-driving charges, and other
offenses, and he spent several
short stays in jail. Perhaps these
tarnished his effectiveness over
the last several years. But in
broader terms, these blemishes
are still far outweighed by the
good that he had done-and the
good that he continued to do.
This truth was wonderfully
expressed by a letter-writer to
the Atlanta Journal -
Constitution put it.
She wrote that when she had
called to offer a donation to his |
holiday-meal program, he
himself came on the. line they
talked for some time. oBy the
time we finished talking....1
thought this was someone I knew
personally .
He was thee
approachable.... Without conceit,
he captivated me with accounts
of his many (efforts) to bridge
gaps of fairness and equality
between all people.....l was
honored then; 1 am saddened ©
now. Hosea Williams was not a
human being without failings, .
but he was a giant any way look
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- Sin never gets any better.
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Always keep a pen and pad by |
your telephone: A time saver as
well as an expense reducer.
Change
The only time-you can change
a man is when he Ts in diapers.
Thanks
To those who use good manners:
thank you, excuse me, I Tm sorry
Just as you don Tt eat an apple in
one bite, you can Tt expect to fin-
ish a major project in one setting.
At the beginning of each year,
take the time to note
all birthdays, school vacations
and medical appointments on
your new calendar.
What you don Tt know about
herbs and drugs can hurt you.
Some herbs and drugs
don Tt mix.
Winning isn Tt everything "
it Ts the only thing.
Your behavior has _
_ consequences.
Love can bested, but not
Se et eee
- When our husbands
need encouragement "
offer a warm embrace ...
When our sisters and brothers
need a kind word "offer it ...
When our parents need love and
patience "provide it.
Be a homemaker, not
a housewife.
Don Tt let me find out from some-_
body else; tell me the truth.
Spread Peace this
Christmas
Christmas is an important time.
of the year. It Ts a time of year
when the whole world is hearing
the message of the birth of Jesus.
It Ts a time when people are tender-
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plant seeds of love in the lives of
those you meet.
Sometimes these seeds may just
take the form ofa kind word in the
middle of rush hour shopping.
Other times, you may get the op-
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ean. American . or
he paid a tremendous price for it.
Robeson was an activist on be- _
half of oppressed peoples fornearly
50 years. He was born in New Jer-
: sey in 1898, the son.of a runaway "
slave. Born in the shadow of sla-
very, he was always an uncompro-
mising advocate for full equality .
for African Americans and it gave
him the will to prove that all of the
, Stereotypical images assigned to
black people were false.
Tt was well-known at the time
. that while oNegroes � were good at
- menial labor, dancing, singing and
athletics, they were inferior in aca-
demic pursuits, they could not mas-
terthe process of analytical thought,
nor did they have the brain power to
master the complexities of foreign
language. Robeson destroyed all of
those stereotypes.
Robeson was a scholar. In 1915,
Paul Robeson won a four-year aca-
demic scholarship to Rutgers Uni-
versity. He was a star athlete, atwo-
time All-American at football and,
in spite of violence and racism from
teammates, he won 15 varsity let-
ters in baseball, basketball and track.
As a scholar, he received the Phi
Beta Kappa key in his junior year,
belonged to the Cap & Skull Honor
Society. He graduated from Rutgers
as the valedictorian of his class. He
went on to become a professional
football player while he worked his
way to. a.law degree at Columbia
Law School.
At Columbia:(1919- 1923),
Robeson met and married Eslanda
Cordoza Goode, who was to be-
come the first black woman to head
a pathology laboratory. He took a
job with a law firm, but left when a
white secretary refused to take dic-
tation from him. He left the practice
of law to use his artistic talents in
theater and music to promote Afri-
can and African American history
and culture.
Robeson was a singer, a
Shakespearean actor and a movie
star. He made 11 films, including
oBody and Soul � (1924), oJericho �
(1937), and oProud Valley � (1939).
Robeson lived and performed in
Europe from the late 1920s until
1939. In London, Robeson earned
international acclaim for his lead
role in oOthello, � for which he won
the Donaldson Award for Best Act-
ing Performance (1944), and per-
formed in Eugene O TNeill Ts oEm-
peror Jones � and oAll God's Chillun
Got Wings. � Heiis known for chang-
ing the lines of the oShowboat � song
oOld Man River � from the meek
"..._1 Tm tired of livin T and feared of
dyin T... � to a declaration of resis-
tance, o... I must keep fightin T until
I'm dying ...
During his time in Europe,
Robeson became, among other
things, a linguist. He gained a strong
appreciation for diverse cultures,
- accomplished i in his ,77 aera of
life, could never be condensed i into
world fa
historywould be complete without "
_ an in-depth examination of the role. -
Paul Robeson played. He wasaman _
ahead of his time, who made a tre-
mendous contribution to the |
struggle of oppressed people, and "
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PAUL ROBESON "The All-American Athlete -
Sovict Union and Africa. At the
same time, his hatred of racial preju-
dice and class difference led him to
become active in a variety of politi-
cal and social issues, including the
British labor movement.
Robeson became known as aciti-
zen of the world, equally comfort-
able with the people of Moscow,
Nairobi and Harlem. His friends
included future African leader Jomo
Kenyatta, India Ts Nehru, historian
Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, and writers °
James Joyce and_ Ernest
Hemingway. In 1933, Robeson do-
nated the proceeds of oAll God Ts
Chillun � to Jewish refugees fleeing |
Hitler's Germany.
During Hitler Ts reign in Ger-
many, Robeson became one of the
world Ts most famous anti-fascists.
He spoke out against the fascist
General Franco in Spain. Ata 1934
rally for the anti-fascist forces in
the Spanish Civil War, he declared,
oThe artist must elect to fight for
freedom or for Slavery no alterna-
tive. �
While in Europe, he became ac-
quainted with socialist philosophies
and became interested in the Soviet
Union. While he disagreed with
many principles of communism, he
admired the Soviet Union's appar-
ent lack of racial prejudice.
Back in the United States in
1939, he performed in the New York
premiere of Earl Robinson's oBal-
lad for Americans, � a cantata cel-
ebrating the multi-ethnic, multi:ra-
cial face of America. It attracted
one of the largest audience re-
sponses of that time.
During the 1940s, Robeson con-
tinued to perform and tg speak out
in support of labor and peace and |
against racism. He spoke and per-
formed at strike rallies, conferences
and labor festivals worldwide. He
supported the CIO (later part of the
AFL-CIO) in its union organizing
efforts. In addition, he protested
the growing Cold War and worked
tirelessly for friendship and respect
between the U.S. and the USSR.
In 1945, he headed an organiza-
tion that challenged President
Truman to support an anti-lynching
law. In the late 40s, Robeson pub-
licly questioned why African
Americans should fight in the army
of a government that tolerated rac-
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to his defamation.
At a iime when America was
engaged in a pervasive anti-Com-
munist paranoia, he was accused by
the House Un-American Activities
Committee of being a Communist.
oT'mgoing tosing wherever the people
_ want me to sing ....and I won't be
frightened by crosses burning in
. Peekskill or anywhere else, � he said.
His passport was revoked from
-. 1950 until 1958 and he was black-
listed both by the federal govern-
- ment and the entertainment indus-
tty. He was unable to perform until
1957. During those years, Robésor
| Studied Chinese, met with Albert
| Einstein to discuss the prospects
- for world peace and published his
| autobiography, Here I Stand, be-
_ fore returning to the stage to sing at
| Carnegie Hall.
At home, it was difficult to find
-Testaurants that would serve him,
_ theaters in New York would only
_ Seat blacks in the upper balconies,
and his performances were often
T surrounded with threats and harass-
ment. In 1960, Robeson made his
- last concert tour in New Zealand
and Australia. .
In spite of his ill treatment at the
hands of the authorities, he never
became embittered and fought for
dignity and equality for all humans
until illness forced him to retire in
1963. He died on Jan. 23, 1976.
In 1995, 19 years after his death,
Paul Robeson was inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame.
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- concerts in Peekskill, N.Y., were at-
_ tacked by racist mobs while state po- S|
_ lice stood and watched. Robeson, = _
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the abused, will loom so large
and so high and mighty, there is
absolutely nothing imaginable
that the abused will not do to
3 find recognition, acceptance and m
approval of the abuser!
Usually the abused will seek
marriage with the abuser and
want to bear the abuser Ts
offsprings, be their mother or
become father of offsprings
with the sister or mother or
divorced wife of the abuser!
However strange, ridiculous or
peculiar and insane this might
be viewed by anyone else, such
abuse, violence, brutal beatings
and bludgeoning, the victim tent
to find an increased capacity to
endure such abuse, because in
the twisted mind of the abused,
this will be translated and
interrupted as an act of supreme:
love!
With this occurring over an
extended period of time, the
victim and the victimizer
become deeply addicted to this
type and kind of relationship
and both will look forward to
more and more of the same!
Brutal pain and all but
unendurable agonies_ will
become the source of supreme
pleasure in: the most bizarre
kinds of ways! Neither the can
the victim nor the victimizer
break free of the ties that bind
them!
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own people that rises up and
oppose us and accuse us of
interfering in their business!
They will accuse us of wrongly
meddling in their affairs and this
will be yet another way and
proof to the victimizer their deep
devotion and eternal loyalty to
the victimizer!
This is manifested more often in
those of us who see their God as
white; their Savior as white; their
- Jeaders as white; their bosses as
: white and with white and even to.
bear white babies for whites or.
become husbands to white
females and sire half white �
offsprings ! And anyone
pointing this out to them , their
first defensive reaction will be to
charge you with being jealous
and to tell you to mind your own
business ! |
Deep, deep, deep down within
the mental and spiritual
framework of their deranged,
damaged and doomed and
damned beings, is harbored some
of the deepest levels of self
hatred that shield the ability to
let out screams that are damned
up in the soul! To want no way
out of this is to be convinced that
one will never get out and thus
will never end the way and
manner in which he or she is
being treated ! Adjusting,
holding back and smothering
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emotionally, and
most likely to be heroic and
heronistic in volunteering tojoin _
the military to be trained to kill
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their victimizers! -
Certainly this is not unknown
to the victimizers. Indeed such
behavior is the point at which
the victimizer feels most
powerful and potent! To see
someone who they Tve abused,
demeaned, demonized and for
centuries described categorized
and classified Naggers and as
cions, savages, heathens, idol
worshipers, cannibals and
monkeys, bring them an highly
intoxicating thrill of supreme
triumphant over their victims!!
One does not have to study for
decades to learn and earn
degrees in psychology to be able
to see these things manifesting
right before. their eyes. One
need not be a historian or highly
political nor be astute in
sociology to see these things
manifesting themselves in every
move the victims make and with
every breath they take! There is
a behavior so deeply ingrained
into the behavior of the victim
that it immediately leaps out and
arrest your attention ! Needless
to say it is an incredibly painful
and agonizing thing to witness
this and be totally unable to do
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what area of our life can the Bib
_ Cleanse? It can cleanse us from
wrong thougtits. Sometimes we
are tempted to think critically of
| others; God's Word can prevent
this (Psalm 1:2). On other occa-
_ Sions, fearful thoughts may race
through our minds; the Scriptures
will prevent this also (Joshua 1:8).
In fact, the Bible will establish
our. total thought-life if we but
nat allow it:to do so
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the Old Testament tabernacle was
called the brass laver (Ex 38:8). It
consisted of a huge upright brass
bowl filled with water, resting
upon a pedestal. The priests
would often stop at this laver and
wash. The Word of God may be
thought of in terms of that laver,
for it too has the power to cleanse.
The Old Testament laver could
only remove the physical dirt
from human hands, but the
1:22-26 and Psalm 319:72),
It can cleanse us from wrong
actions. Jesus promised us this
would be the case: "Now ye are
clean through the word which |
have spoken unto you" (John
15:3). Finally, God's Word will
keep us from wrong thoughts,
words, and actions; or else wrong
thoughts, words, and actions will
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_ A ministry is effective when "
lives are transformed such that
Prone: are constantly enabled to ~
more Christ-like. "
Effective ministries foster sig-
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how people live. When your
church is. able to consistently
facilitate a personal change proc-
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operating in the realm of effec-
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the Lord examines a church, His
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