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Serving Eastern North Carolina Since 1981

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BY Ron Walters

In the long history of
between Black
folks

relations
whatever group of

they have earned. This included
not only the dramatic historical

battles of Fannie Lou Hammer

Democratic
Richard

the Freedom
but those of

and
Party.

Hatcher, former mayor of Gary.
Ind.. and others. to get affirmative
action included in the party con-
In the
context of many Blacks having
suffered the loss of their right to

stitution in the 1970's.

vote in the 2000 election. they

have also experienced it within

the Democratic Party-again.
You would think that by

now--with Blacks having been a
vital part of the party leadership,
having virtually every post and
constituting the winning margin

of Democratic

races all over the land--Blacks
would be automatically included
in the major decisions made to
select party leadership. Well, cast
that thought aside, because two
~days after the election was taken
from him. Al Gore (some say a
Bill Clinton legacy move) se-
lected the new party leadership
and, as with many things. the
damage is not what.you do, how

you deo it.

On Nov. 14, 2000. in a

conference call between Clinton.
Gore. Richard Gephardt and Tom
current
national chairman. was told that

Daschle. Joe Andrew.

he was out and that Terry
McAuliffe was in.

reversal of fortune.

to stay on the job.
Meanwhile. Ed Rendell.

formerly of Philadelphia and the

and
has
constituted the Democratic Party
establishment. Blacks have had to
fight them for control of whatever

This was a
because
Andrew had just told the press
that he felt that he had the support
trom the ultimate power brokers

veh Vi

current general chairman, was
blocked from the job because of
his public statement near the end
of the presidential election sce-
nario that he thought Gore might
consider bowing out. No Blacks
were on the conference call; not
Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has
registered more Democrats than
any other person living; not
Maxine Waters, the former co-
chair of Clinton's California cam-
paign; not bigtime Black mayors
who have given Clinton support.
like Wellington Webb of Denver
or Dennis Archer of Detroit: and
not Charles Rangel, who has
raised more money for the
Democratic Party than any other
Black person.

The secret way in which
McAuliffeTs (a prolific fund-raiser
and former Gephardt staffer) deal
was done prevented the executive
committee .of the Democratic
Party, which contained many
Blacks. from even knowing about
his selection. Most importantly. it
allowed McAuliffe to campaign
secretly, lining up support in an
atmosphere where he could say
that no one else was in the race
and that he had no opposition.
Thus, the Democratic Party was
not democratic in the way in
which it went about this.

Waters, who is on the
DNC executive committee, was
incensed at the secret deal and,
just as she did withthe Joe
Lieberman selection (that was
also made without any involve-
ment of Black leaders), called
accountability by challenging this
inside-the-ball-park play. She and
others asked Maynard Jackson to
run and, equally angry at this theft
of democracy by white
Democrats, he threw his hat in the
ring. In doing so. he had to wage
a struggle to get access to the
website, mailing list of executive
committee members and other

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things necessary to mount a
campaign. But Waters has rallied
100 percent of the Congressional
Black Caucus members behind
Jackson.

It would be nice for
Jackson to win, because he is a
20-year member of the executive
committee of the party, two-term
mayor of one of the largest cities
in America and a long-time part
of the party leadership establish-
ment. In 1992, Blacks were also
not consulted about who would be
the party leader and after a protest
challenge by Ron Brown, he
became the party chairman.
Clinton would not have been
elected without him. However,
the fix is in here, too, and many
people (even some of his col-
league Black mayors) that he
asked has to support him say that
they have already given their
word to McAuliffe. Nevertheless,
regardless of the fact that Jackson
has an uphill battle, the issue here
is as much respect as it is
winning.

There has been a quiet
struggle for the soul of the
Democratic Party for some time,
the key to which was how far
blacks and others in liberal con-
stituencies would allow it to move
to the right. That struggle has
pitted the Democratic Leadership
Council (DLC), a more conserva-
tive, corporate-leaning within. the
patty, against its liberal wing. so
what this appears to be about is
the ascendancy of the DLC wing
of the party to control of the party
apparatus. Thus, the issue here is
not just that Blacks were disre-
spected for the strong investment
they have made in the party, it is
that they may be about to lose the
tenuous grip they have had on the
direction of the party--forged by
Rev. Jesse JacksonTs campaigns
in the 1980s--despite McAuliffeTs
assurances to the contrary.

Renowned White Psychologist Claims
Blacks Have Set Whites Free

Whittier. Ca --"The worst thing
the white race did to black
Americans was destroy their fam-
ily structure: the best ~thing black
Americans did for the white race
was to set them free.�

That's the message of an unusual
song, recorded by " world-
renowned whie psychologist Dr.
Arnold Nerenberg. which aggres-
sively challenges traditional be-
liefs on race relations. The
purpose: To establish an entirely
new era of discussion in
American racial debates.

NerenbergTs song. oMy Black
Brother, My Black Mother, oset
forth racial views of race relations
including the belief that black
Americans have liberated whites
from a host of " self-imposed
cultural and personal restraints.

oBlack Americans - despite their
struggles with slavery and oppres-

sions -
Americans from a stoic and
emotionally-restrained existence.�
says Nerenberg.
traditions of
through free expression of joy in
song. honest personal interaction,
and their less uptight approach to
daily living has changed whire
culture.�

oPut
Americans are beholden to blacks

have freed white

othe black

embracing " life

simply, we as white
for the liberation of our souls and
humanity,�T adds Nerenberg.

oMy Black Brother, My Black
Mother� also includes strong con-
demnation of the: destruction of
the black family unit, a phenome-
non Nerenberg clearly lays at the
feet of white America, oWe
enslaved blacks, ostensibly freed
them. and then locked them out of
pursuit of happiness and the
American dream,� notes
Nerenberg. oIf we lament the

disportionate percentage of black
families without father figures, or
the fact that are prisons are filled
with many more blacks than
whites, we only need look no
furher than our own white history
for the cause.�

Dr. Arnold Nerenberg is a clinical
psychologist in practic for more
than 30 years.
AmericaTs leading authority on
parenting and family relation-
ships, and the worldTs foremost
expert on aggressive driving and

He is considered

oRoad Rage.� He has appeared

on numerous national television
shows including Montel,
Jessy,
Politically Incorrect.

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Bertha Woolard, Program Coordinator of Moyewood Cultural Recreation Center 1717 West 3rd Street,
Greenville, NC was presented a check in the amount of $1,100.00 in appreciation for a total of 1,040
hours she invested in support of (P.E.1.E.R.) Partners Effectiveness Training, Evaluation & Referral

Mentor Program.

The check was presented by Randy Draper, Manager of Monumental Agency Group, Inc. and Ruffus

Huggins Agent of the Greenville District Office, 3107 South Evans Street.
Pictured from left to right, PE.T.E.R. office secretary, Ruffus Huggins Bertha Woolard (center) and

Randy Draper. Congratulations Ms Woolard.

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Suite E, Greenville, NC.

Photo By Jim Rouse

J esse JacksonT Secret Li e

by Patricia Sipe 8 and
Michael. Hanra

" Jackson's is hiding
a deep secret--a long-term extra-
marital affair with a top aide
resulted in a love child. a girl born
on May 18. 1999.

Sadly. Rev. Jackson's af-
fair destroyed his marriage of 38
years-- but his wife Jackie contin-
ues to stand by him in public
because of his greatness as a
humanitarian and civil rights
leader.

The 59-year-old head of
the famed Rainbow Coalition--
himself born out-of-wedlock--has
been steadfastly meeting his obli-
gations to the little girl and her
mother, Karin Stanford. 39.

The civil rights hero has
been quietly paying her about
$10.000 a month after secret
DNA tests determined he was the
babyTs father.

After becoming pregnant.
Stanford took maternity leave
from the Rainbow Coalition and
relocated from Washington, D.C..
to Los Angeles. where she now
works as a part-time researcher
for Rev. Jackson's national
non-profit group.

A devoted mom, she ts
raising the child by herself inside
a $365,000 home in a quiet
neighborhood.

In a bizarre twist. Rev.
Jackson was carrying on his affair
at the same time he was conseling
President Clinton, Hillary and
Chelsea after the President had
been caught cheating.

For more information about Dr.

Nerenberg or copies of oMy
Black Brother. My Black
Mother.� visit

www.Dr.Nerenberg.com.

Shown to the left is

FROM THE
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ARCHIVES...

Big Willie Joyner,
John Frizzell, and

William Miles
proudly showing
their
political support.

tual conn sen of the First Family |

on major networks show, includ-
ing NBC's oToday Show.�

Engaged in damage con-
trol for the President's adultery,
he told one interviewer that sex is
onot but one string on the guitar.
There are nine other
Commandments.�

Rev. JacksonTs elo-
quence, brillance and charm had
made Karin a fan of his many
years earlier.

oKarin was teaching at
the University of Georgia when
she met Rev. Jackson and was
already a great admirer of his,�
disclosed her friends.

oKarin is a bright, intelli-
gent woman. She earned her
Ph.D. by the time she was 30--and
wrote her dissertation on Jesse.�

The young scholar im-
pressed Rev. Jackson with a

scholarlyT: book she wrote,
oBeyond the Boundaries:
Reverend Jesse Jackson in
International Affairs.� Published

in 1997, it was the first book-
length study of his foreign policy.

oRev. Jackson admired
her work so much he asked her to
move to Washington, to work at
the Rainbow Coalition office
there, and she eagerly agreed,�
said her friend.

oKarin worked side by
side with Jesse and they got to
know one another and started
spending more and more time

; togather,

not going to let toe make her
feel bad about it.

oShe continues to work
very hard for the African-
American community and writes
Articles to uplift women. She

regularly goes to First AME -

Church in Los Angeles and is
very close to her family.�

Rev. Jackson is acutely
sensitive to KarinTs situation be-
cause of his own childhood.

He didnTt know he was
born out-of-wedlock until he was
nearly 6 years old.

The civil rights pioneer--
who worked closely with Dr.
Martin Luther King--wAs born
Jesse Burns on Oct. 8, 1941, in
Greenville, S.C., the son of Helen
Burns, a high school student at
the time. When Jesse was 1, his
mom married Charles Henry
Jackson, a postal worker, who
later adopted Jesse.

Rev. Jackson--who has
preached, oI was born out of

wedlock, and | am not illegiti-
mate�"�--eventually

learned his
natural father was a 33-year-old
next-door neighbor, a married
man.

Members of Jesse's fam-

ily do not share his sympathetic o

perspective and continue to take a
very dim view of Karin Stanford.
oThey despise her. They feel she
set her sights on Jesse, seduced
him and wrecked their family.�

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B& E Restraunt Saluted
The Brothers from Mount Calvery Lodge under the leadership of Brother Reggie is shown with other
i and the owners of B & E Restraunt, B & E Restraunt is located on River Road.

B red showing off the award presented to them for having an outstanding Restraunt, Hats off to the

others of Mount Calvery Lodge for their community efforts,

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aiciinanandadie ane = er life was close to over. Nkosi neg the
oln. ~ations "" were fer less es | Er RITO | unofficial spokesman for AID in a country
the pardoning mood of the rapidly | awe hope thet in repose tafe e of his tes ie COMMENTS where one in ten of the population " or 4.2

presidency " as'the Rev. Jesse Jackson and _ million people " live with the disease.

others have asked " that Mr. Clinton cag Johnson said Nkosi, who could speak and

K folks should learn

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a oS sea iasohing tt) ey andlor p vaidee Mel ei . | was now ierminally ill. His clear message
_- beyond the time that is called for in relationto The, former Second District congressmnz = ECO ae ae et oe Pa of safe sex and advocacy of AIDS drugs _
the crimes he committed. did the crime but has more than done the tit AF LALITRA AO �,� : such as AZT to stop transmission of the dis-
Mr: Clinton is commended for pardoning called for his offenses. I wtf . CEE WO Ui Fie ease from mother to child contrasted

sharply with President Thabo MbekiTs con-

To punish Reynolds further is excess troversial views on AIDS.

~ .. the crimes or commuting the sentences of 62

_~. persons last Friday, including former U.S.

Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-II].) and two
women jailed for drug-related crimes, but
there was nary a mention of Reynolds, whose
offenses " having sexual relations with an

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disheartening, inequitable, unfair and perv re.

no discernible p : mn ©

_ Mr. Reynolds should be allowed to resume
his life out of prison and care for his family
that has suffered much since his incarceration.

Black elected officials
- gaining little ground

he number of Blacks elected to

~However, Blacks still have a dif-
ficult time running for election or holding on-
to their offices once they are elected. Major
concerns are still the cost of running a cam-
paign; very little money is given to Black can-
didates by their Black constituents; and voter
apathy is often high because too often Black
voters look to Blacks in public office for di-
rect impact on their daily lives, which they
(Black officials) are most likely not in a posi-
tion to deliver.

Numbers from the Washington, D.C.-based
Joint Center for Political and Economic Stud-
ies show Blacks gained 68 positions to bring
the total of elected Blacks to 8,936 between
- January 1998 and January 1999.

Although Blacks are 13 percent of the na-
tion, the percentage of Black elected officials
is still under 2 percent at 1.7 percent, accord-
ing to the center which has been monitoring
the number of Blacks elected to public office
since 1970, when Blacks held only 1,469
elected jobs nationwide.

The states with the most Blacks electéd are
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Illinois and
Georgia. Half of the nationTs Black voters still
reside in the South which went for George W.
Bush over Al Gore in the last election because
of the turnout of White males.

There are still 39 Blacks in the Congres-
sional Black Caucus. All are Democrats. The
lone Black Republican in Congress, J.C.
Watts of Oklahoma, has refused to join the
caucus. He says an invitation has not been ex-
tended and he is opposed to much of the
groupTs liberal social agenda.

For the last two years, the biggest gains for
Blacks have come on the municipal level with
153 more Blacks getting elected to local of-
fices last year. Black women accounted for
the entire net gain because there were 73 more
women elected and five fewer men. Black
women now account for only 33.5 percent of
all Black elected officials.

those offices when the times come four years

fleeing persecution from her war-torn country.
Betcha some of these poor, homeless and/or
down-on-their-luck Memphians would love to
run into a Linda Chavez on any given day.
Glory!

Here we are, starting this new millennium

* with attacking somebody on civil, religious

and social rights and liberties when Memphis
reeks with injustices in jobs, housing, racial
profiling, religion and all the other, while our
help organizations, agencies and activists are
looking the other way, pointing the finger at
him, John Ashcroft, a man, rooted in faith in
God, vowing to uphold the laws of the land
for all Americans. ThatTs us too yaTll. There
are a lot of laws on the books that protects us
too. They just need to be enforced"nor
amended to include us. Get your ammunition
ready to call him into account, once heTs
swom in. Stop this nominee bashing; Presi-
dent-elect George Bush has not only the au-
thority to, but the right to pick and choose the
same as President Bill Clinton did

Here we are starting out"in battlk"but we
often wonder if we know what we are battling
about.

Here are some issues, Black elected offi-
cials: Education"weTre still talking that talk
about what our children are not getting, not
doing, and they are delving more and more in-
to crime to such a degree that we have "
launched a program to combat it, instead of
really focusing on their education, education,
education.

Black men and day care centers are killing
our babies because the older women are not
teaching the young women how to manageT
their homes and children and profitable day-
care legislation is languishing somewhere in
somebodyTs office, while the babies are dying.
Too little, too late. Maybe Ashcroft will assure
enforcement of whatTs already on the books.
ThatTs what yaTll need to be looking at"not
what you thing he wonTt do. Opinions are just

eyYsane Wilson



bAeday event this presidential
election tumed into a mouth-long
farce that had the whole world
laughing at America. Of course,
being laughed at by Europe is no
worse than being laughed at by a senile old
aunt, but the Russians and Chinese arenTt se-
nile. Both nations are home to hard people
who may surprise us someday.
I know many Blacks, Jesse Jackson included,
are bitterly disappointed. Some folks are talking
about marching and carrying on about a ocivil

es and speeches, we need some serious action.

First, letTs do something about education. To-
day, Black boys have the lowest literacy rate of
any American-born group. This is inexcusable.

LetTs make sure our kids are educated. With-
out that foundation, they have no chance what-
soever. Let me put it another way. If your child
is functionally illiterate, then his or her chances
of moving beyond the bottom rung of the eco-
nomic ladder are between slight and impossible.

I donTt care if your method is vouchers,
home schooling, charter schools or some new
invention " letTs take every avenue and pre-
viously untraveled road toward bringing our

-kids up to speed. Parents have got to get in-
volved in whatTs going on in schools, and
teachers have got to give up the extracurricu-
lar crap anid actually teach some reading, writ-
ing and that old devil, arithmetic.

Second, letTs get rich. Yes, you read correct-
ly. I said, letTs get rich. Blacks have been in
this country for close to 400 years. Our ances-
torsT free labor made this country wealthy and
strong. So isnTt it time for us to participate in
the greatest economic miracle on the face of
the Earth? Everybody wants to come to
America. Every day thousands of people risk
death, deportation and their lifeTs savings to

all marched out. No, instead of dramatic march- -

ay?

get piece of the USATs pie. They know that a
man in America will always do better
than an economic slave. Black Americans
should have a head start over these people.
After all, weTre already here!
What Black America needs is millions of .
businessmen. I donTt want to hear any more
talk. I donTt want another government pro-
gram. We've got enough politicians and
preachers. Now we need folks who can make
a profit and provide jobs for the inner city.
DonTt let the fear of racism stop you. Look at
the example of the Jews and the Asians. Nei-
ther group started out as popular additions to

Black millionaire when Jim Crow was still
flying high. Maggie Lena Walker, born in
1867, was the first woman of any color to
own a bank. She did this in Richmond, Va. "
the former capital of the confederacy.

Do your children know who these people
were? Tonight, tell them to put away those ra
CDs and turn off the television. Sit down wi
them and tell them about Black history so
theyTll be inspired to make some of their own.

Finally, letTs stop all the wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth. George W. Bush is not the worst
thing to happen to us. Andrew Johnson turned
his back on the FreedmenTs Bugeau and did
next to nothing to ensure the safety of the
freed slaves. Woodrow Wilson thought Birth
of a Nation was the greatest movie ever made
and called it a true history. These two men
were quite possibly the most openly anti-Black
presidents this country has ever had or will
have, and they couldnTt stop Black progress.

Some folks will see the results of the 2000
presidential election as a crisis. Others will
see it as ano ity. The cards have been
dealt. What you make of your hands is entire-
ly up to you.

(Wilson, a Virginia resident, is a member of
Project 21's National Advisory Board.)

by Deborah L. Rhode and
Charisse R. LittleT |

Oops no diversity shown
in post-election legal wars

advance as far and as fast as their White
male counterparts with similar qualifica-
tions and experience. Unconscious biases
remain persistent and pervasive, as is ap-

CONGO
Troops ready to attack island

The Democratic Republic of Congo is
planning an assault on Kilwa island on
Lake Mweru in a bid to take back a major
supply route snatched by Rwandan-backed
rebels last month, regional intelligence
sources said this week.

They said President Laurent KabilaTs
troops appeared ready to launch their first

; : ~ America, but both groups have prospered by rr ;
eens borane seed slight non now. Imagine, smearing the character of rights explosion.� I donTt think that will work. making themselves rndiee nsable. offensive in two months in the area after re-
~ ty last vear helping hand to a homeless battered woran Judging from the so-so turnout for the Million Look at the examples from Black history. | | &!ving reinforcements of men and equip-
y asT Year. Ping hane ~ Family March, itTs pretty safe to say that weTre "_ like Madam C.J. Walker, who became the first nt from Angola, one of KabilaTs key al-

lies in the civil war. Angola, Zimbabwe and
Namibia back Kabila while Rwanda and
Uganda support rebel groups that have tried
to oust him in the last 29 months. Zambian
and rebel intelligence sources said Congo
was keen to retake Kilwa island on Zam-
biaTs northern border, which it lost along-
side a large swathe of territory stretching
from Pepa and Pweto to the Lake Tanganyi-
ka resort of Mulilo in November and De-
cember. Kilwa island is in the hands of the
Rwanda-backed Rally for Congolese
Democracy (RCD), who have used it as a
base to push further south to the frontier
town of Kasenga.

SOMALIA
Parliament speaker emerges

The speaker of SomaliaTs parliament
emerged from two days of hiding this week
and accused neighboring Eth~opia of mas-
terminding an atta¢k on his entourage that
left at least nine people dead and dozens
more injured. °

A delegation led by speaker Abdalla
Derow Issak, which included a government
minister and seven legislators, was am-
bushed Saturday by more than 200 Rahan-
wein Resistance Army gunmen, reportedly
backed by Ethiopia, in Tieglow, 185 miles
northwest of Mogadishu. The speaker and
government'officials were forced to flee on
foot and had not been heard from until they
contacted reporters in the capital through
VHF radio. The anti-government militia has
not commented on their withdrawal.
President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan also has
not spoken about the ambush, which took
place when IssakTs delegation was touring
the RRA-controlled Bakol region in an at-
tempt to drum up support for the new na-

; ys . ; ; ~a Wi - ional government.
Yet, here we are, starting anew millennium __ like yaTll know what"everybodyTs got one. eavy hitters to argue parent from a wide array of research sum tonal g
- and our elected officials, our so-called Black Lastly, because the list could go on and 6 ~4 case.� That caption ac- mee by the American Bar Associa-
leaders, organizations and activists"during © on"right here in Memphis"maybe instead companied a recent pho- ee and Comm on Women in the Pro- ZIMBABWE
off-election seasons, are now putting all their of hashing and lashing over differences within ie spread mane Ethnic Dit sty in the Prof Racial we ;
time and energy (and ours) into opposing party ranks, you all could get with them all beac UNE IAL thnic Diversity in the Profession. Women Cholera kills two

those already selected to power offices instead
of having our ducks in place to fill some of

and come up with unity in love for solutions
for us all.

election proceedings. The pictures featured 13
White men. The lack of diversity in the lineup

and minorities are held to higher standards
and are excluded from informal networks

Two people have died so far in a cholera

. passed largely unnoticed, first by the Bush of support, guidance, and contacts. If these nee f
. and Gore camps and then by most of the ma- lawyers are not seen as heavy hitters, it is of Bean RT border mee
. - jor media. In another story, a spokesperson for not due to their qualifications and experi- formation Servi ce (ZIS) said this w eck ne
�,� nee mM uC more f eSeo ~Cc one of the campaign explained that there had ence. It is because they arenTt playing on The bacterial disease, which has infected
». been no deliberate effort to include or exclude _ an even field, and are seldom coached and T ECE

on our juvenile

ast year, a Juvenile Justice bill
was approved in the Senate. The
bill, designed to make it easier to
prosecute juveniles in Federal
criminal court, also became a ve-
hicle for the Senate to try to legislate a re-
sponse to the Columbine High School



justice system

mittee, where they had extensive hearings on
this topic and came away with the distinct be-
lief that what was needed was more concen-
tration on research and evaluation of the un-
derlying causes of, and potential responses to,
juvenile violence. There is no question that
these are deep-rooted, complex social prob-

women or minorities. Rather, she noted, owe
were just trying to get the best lawyers to do
the job and we did.�

This explanation, and the lineup that
prompted it, is a graphic reminder of
progress yet to be made. Is it possible that

out of the nationTs some 260,000 women
lawyers and 100,000 lawyers of color, not
one ranks as a heavy hitter? In a profession
where women constitute almost 30 percent
and minorities 11 percent of the member-
ship, is it possible that none qualified to

recruited for the major leagues.

There are, of course, other explanations
as well. Minorities are disadvantaged by
pressure to assimilate cultural norms and
by inadequate access to economic and oth-
er resources. Women are disadvantaged by
disproportionate family obligations and
workplaces that fail to accommodate them. ~
If we seek a legal profession that is truly
representative of the communities it serve,
we have a considerable distance yet to trav-
el. The published picture serves as a power-

another five people, is believed to have
spread from South Africa, ZIS quoted the
area medical officer as saying. Two World _
Health Organisation specialists are in neigh-
bouring South Africa to consult with health
authorities over the epidemic that has killed
60 people and infected another 16,000 in
the east of the country since August.
Cholera is spread mainly through contami-
nated water. It kills by causing severe dehy-
dration. In 1999 the disease killed 88 peo-
ple and affected almost 700 more in Zim-



tragedy in Colorado. It was already a lems about which they knew very little. j . Aaa : ~babweTs northern a i
tremendous conglomeration of Sith and Thompson says, ~T elieve there is one play a prominent role in the litigation? rene ed ep e eee
programs and mandates, whereby we spend thing the federal government does better than || What message does it send when the only "_to ny = ee wens ghd the ETHIOPIA
additional billions of dollars on matters that anybody else, and that is research and evalua- || Woman professional to figure prominently h wer oe, wer the last fi
are being, or should be, covered by state and tion. We have the resources and the long-term || 1 the legal proceedings, Florida Secretary . has been made over the last ed ide Arms lure not part of
local laws. It became worse during the de- ability to develop the evaluation methods over || of State Katherine Harris, received almost Although they were not apparently consi part of peace deal
bate on the Senate floor when numerous a period of time to really determine what kind |] 8 much coverage for her choice of lip, ered oheavy hitters� who were handling
amendments were added to try to federalize ol pais actually work. gloss as for the merits of her decisions? _ most visible post-election litigation, there A top U.S. official who helped broker
matters under state and local jurisdiction re- oNow, unfortunately, we spend all of this It is scarce consolation to hear that no in- were a few women and lawyers of color in- "_| the Ethiopian-Eritrean peace deal signed
lating to gun laws, U.S. Sen, Fred Thomp- money, we put forth all of these programs, sult was intended. oWe were just looking volved in other aspects of the post-election "_| Jast month denied this week that the Unit-
so ood egaine it. and we really have no idea what is working, If |} for the best� comes as an easy, familiar ex- oe _ ahaa can sary onl ed States had used the lifting of aU.N.
Basically, when it comes to fighting crime, " we devoted the proper time and resources, we || CuSe. Law schools offered this excuse to wey rai up! Anon arms embargo against the two countries as
what Congress tries to do is either enact get-. could determine what works and then be a Set Ce ae Seem eeemeee | | og inceative
ies, clearinghouse for state and local governments re pat pag were almost entirely He ihe wrapT sry th is Over the weekend in New York, Western
so they can get the benefit of that knowledge, ae m off and the excuse many 4 ary of its agenda, * || diplomats said Rice and another US. medi-
and go back and implement their own pro- schools now offer to explain women an say" progress. .) the. | | ator, Anthony Lake, had apparently
Federal beamed le Weenie iry-.|| Rn a Porn nee | cantata seeded 6 ised Ethiopia t
to develon 6 one-size-fits all is among deans and tenured professors. Lead- _ national political level, Our new nt | | Promised Ethiopia that the United States
ing Dns ove oma response ing law firms generally use this excuse to has made a start, and continue || Would use its influence to ensure that the
| 4 explain why fewer than 15 percent of their to make both the fact and appearance of U.N. embargo, due to expire in May, would
partners are women and fewer than 3 per- _ fairness a high priority in presidential and be scrapped after the peace deal was ;
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cent are minorities, It is the excuse of dicial appointments. Equal opportunity Any suggestion that the United States had
PIiLV o1ee choice for why in virtually every sector of ~under law should be a commitment in reached a secret deal with one of the parties
an an the profession, in law schools, in courts, _ practice, not just in principle. to the peace agreement could threaten the
RR and in counsel offices " women is Mentiettoueor
aanl tes pradnr yeoman: i ha EB rn hae ros ny ag ooe ord bp Teas of
ot aheaentag Profession. Lillie chairs the American Bar || (ousands of soldiers were killed in First
» Association Commission on Racial and casing the
Ethnic Diversity in the Profession.)

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala."Black
Americans fare better now than they

did seven years ago in the way do-"

nated kidneys are allocated for
transplantation, but the playing field
Is still. unéven; according to re-
searchers at UAB (University of
Alabama at Birmingham).

An article entitled oRenal Trans-
plantation in Black Americans� will
appear in the Nov. 23 issue of the
New England Journal of Medicine
(NEJM).

Dr Robert S. Gaston, professor
of medicine at UAB, wrote a report
in 1993 that detailed disparities in
the waiting period for black and
white Americans to receive a donor
kidney. oToday, for complex scien-
tific and political reasons, white
Americans still receive a dispro-
portionately larger percentage cf
donated kidneys for transplant and

black Americans still wait longer
for transplantation,� Gaston said.
UAB transplant surgeon Dr. Carlton
Young wrote the report with Gaston.

Racial disparity appears very
early in the process after the onset
of end-stage kidney disease, Gaston
and Young wrote. Among the fac-
tors are:

* Black patients are less likely
than whites to be identified as trans-
plant candidates.

* Blacks are less likely to appear
on transplant waiting lists in the
first year of eligibility.

Medicare, which pays for kidney
dialysis or transplantation, has man-
dated that all patients undergoing di-
alysis be evaluated for transp'anta-
tion. oOne might expect this mandate
to cause racial differences to wane,
but this is not the case,� Gaston said.
He cited several possible reasons in-
cluding a medical evaluation process
that is odaunting for many patients
who have limited resources.�

Living donors are less of an op-
tion for black patients than whites,
according to the NEJM article. One

reason is because potential |

living-related Slack donors are more
likely to be :xcluded because of
previously uadiagnosed health
problems su:h as diabetes or high
blood pressure. At UAB, only 13
percent of acceptable black candi-
dates ultimately received a kidney
from a living donor, compared with
33 percent of whites

Cadaveric kidney transplanta-
ion is also problematic for black
patients for socioeconomic and im-
munologic reasons. Patients are
given greater preference if they have
a closer genetic omatch� with an
available kidney. oThe net result,
however unintentional, is prefer-
ence for white candidates fcr trans-
plantation,� the article stated.

Perfect matches are associated with
a better transplant outcome and we
have no quarrel with giving prefer-
ence for a perfect match, even though
Whites are much more likely to ben-
efit from this approach,� the authors
note. oDue to scientific advances,
however, less-than-perfect matches
make little difference in outcomes
and snould not exert a strong influ-
ence on who receives kidneys.�

The formula for allocating trans-
planted organs was modified soon
after GastonTs 1993 article in the
Journal of the American Medical
Association highlighted the issue.
oAt the very least, the effect of
these modifications on minorities
should be reassessed,� Gaston said.
oIndeed, it may be time to formu-

late an entirely new approach to�

organ allocation.�

The issue of kidney allocation is
but a small part of overall problems
relating to kidney failure in black
Americans. Currently, blacks make
up almost a third of patients with
kidney failure while representing

only 13 percent of the population. .

UAB researchers have played a
leading role in developing informa-
tion that links this anomaly to both
environmental and genetic factors.

The authors said the scientific
community should continue to

search ~for explanations on why

blacks develop kidney failure at a

sponses. "

UAB is one of the largest kidney

omuch higher rate than whites and

should develop interventions early
in the disease process. oIt is sad to
see sO many patients from poor
backgrounds who have never
learned they have high blood pres-
sure until they present to us with
failing kidneys.� |

Additionally, Gaston said, since
black kidney transpiant recipients
fare worse than whites, there is a
need for further advances in
post-transplant care, including im-
proved availability of transplant

drugs ard better understanding of

ethnic aifferences in immune re-

_ transplant centers in the world, hav-

ing performed more than any other
center in the past decade. A large
portion of UAB's patients are black,
due in part to the demographics of
Alabama but also to the high inci-
dence of hypertension in blacks, which
frequently leads to kidney failure.

Young called for greate; efforts
to oensure that race is no longer an
obstacle� to transplantation, the
optima! therapy for end-stage kid-
ney disease. oThis is especially
important since blacks are the most
direly affected subgroup of patients
with kidney failure.�

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McLawhorn receives John R. Larkins Award for Human Service. |

RALEIGH, Jan. 12 - Governor Mike Easley today presented the 2001 John R. Larkins Award, one of North ©
CarolinaTs highest honors for human service, to Melvin C. McLawhorn, Eastern Region training coordinator.»
for the Division. of Community Corrections. o4

oThroughout his life, Melvin has been a tireless advocate for justice, freedom and equality for all,� said.,1
Governor Easley. oFor a state employee to qualify for this award, there must be evidence that the nominee -:
took actions to improve communications and relationships. between people of different racial or ethnic: *
backgrounds and that is certainly true in this case.� ~ wa

The John R. Larkins award was established in 1998 to honor a state employee who best exemplifies the
pioneering spirit of public service evidenced by the unwavering commitment of John R. Larkins tox
strengthening human and race relations in North Carolina. It is presented each year by the Governor durings
the State Employees Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Spiritual Celebration in Greenville for 20 yearse
He co-pioneered the 1998 effort to rename a major thoroughfare in Greenville in honor of Dr. King.
Currently he serves as chairman of the board of the N.C. Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership:
Conference. 3

Secretary Theodis Beck nominated McLawhorn for the award. oMcLawhorn has tirelessly promoted the
cause of tolerance and understanding between the races,� said Secretary Beck. oHe has led as well as*3
participated in a diverse array of civic-and community activities enhancing human and race relations in his *
community of Greenville

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"As horrific as these pictures are, they nevertheless depict the truth

They are the pictures the history books do not show you."

"Many people today, despite the evidence, will not believe-don't want to
believe-that such atrocities happened in America not so very long ago.
These photographs bear witness to ... an American holocaust."

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FEBRUARY 7, 2001
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The Son of Elijah Muhammad
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Muslim American Leader

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Including: An Interfaith Discussion to consider the role that religion plays
in our diverse society

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Listen to yourself talk to your child.
Nourish your spirit.

Children want and need to be seen.

Take care of yourself.

Be polite.

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Sponsors: Construction & Industrial Technology Fulford Building, Room 153 Attitude (makes all the difference)
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| | garded black self-hatred as the most in-|
sidious. product of racial oppression-and the most}

now-classic Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Alex|
|| Haley, 1964), he recounted his own journey from trov-
_ || bled youth to exponent of black power as an adherent!
of the Nation of Islam. Born Malcolm Little, he replaced
his sumame with the designation "X" (for the unknown
African tribe of his origin) in the early 1950s and
articulated a political vision more concerned with chal-
lenging white domination than racial segregation per
se, using rhetoric that was distinctly harsher and more
separatist than that of the mainstream civil rights move-
ment. With an ever-searching intellect, Malcolm X also
had the courage to revise his ideas as his thought
evolved, holding up his transformations as useful exam-
ples for others. Though assassinated in 1965, Malcolm | |

Se of he 1 most. + compelling. tales its
rights activists of ~modern America, |
Malcolm X was an ideological heir to] |B . pi
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fundamental obstacle to black self-realization. In thell| q p 5 a mass =

X remains a powerful symbol of unbowed black fenity |

a """ Alabama, peeled n December 1, 1935.

boycott of city buses and brought the civil rights move-

| ment and Martin Luther King Jr. tonational prominence. |

Yet the popular view of Parks's catalytic action as that |: 7

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|| Though indeed a woman of quiet dignity, Parks was}:

also a longtime mover in the Montgomery NAACP||
and a well-trained, disciplined activist, attuned in every ||
respect to what she was setting into motion. Parks and

her husband, Raymond, moved to Detroit in the wake]

of the bus boycott, and for many years she worked in ||
the office of Michigan congressman John Conyers. Still }| :
lending her energies to the struggle for equal rights,
Parks remains a powerful figure of hope and inspiration

to millions.

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Rosewell Bail Bonding Proudly Salutes
Black History Month

Josephine Baker
(1906 - 1975)

From the time she was a little girl,
Josephine Baker was drawn to the glam-
J our of the theater. Despite living in the
slums of St. Louis and being pulled out of school before
she turned ten, she found the courage-and had enough

houses and joined a traveling dance troupe when she
was sixteen. In 1923, she landed a chorus line spot in
the Broadway show Shuffle Along. But it was in Paris

in La Revue Negro. Baker fell in love with Paris, and
the city responded in kind. She was irreverent and

~|| Baker spoke and acted against racism throughout he

World War II, for which she earned both the Medal of
the Resistance and, later, the Legion of Honor.

talent-to follow her dreams. Baker danced in vaudeville}

two years later that she stepped fully into the spotlight,}

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Martin Community College Proudly Sats]
Black History Month

MARCUSGARVEY «=
(1887 - 1940)

q Marcus Garvey articulated a powerful |
@ vision of self-determination

| E¥for peoples of African descent that, :
though sficad of its time, has inspired and informed |] "
movements for black economic and political power up
to the present day. A native of Jamaica trained as a
printer, Garvey had his first taste of political activism |]
as a union organizer, Travels he made starting in 1910
furthered his interest in black history and black national-
ist thought-and in actualizing the ideals they contained.
In «1914 Garvey founded the Universal Negro jf
Improvement Association, which at its peak in the mid- | f
[920s had some 8 million followers, making it the largest | |

exotic, known for her magnetic stage presence, lush} |
body, deep red lipstick, and outrageous promotional}
|| antics, including her famous walk with a leopard down] |

the Champs Elysees. A politically courageous woman, t did not ultimately succeed, Garvey's legacy of black | ~

~|| pride and independence was profound and lasting. And jf
~life and was a member of the French Resistance inj)



international movement of African peoples in history.
Though his efforts to launch a modern back-to-A frica
movement-based on the view that blacks would never |
truly prosper in societies where they were in a minority

the red, black, and green flag of African liberation that | t
|| he made famous remains a beacon of black power and}
ppen-A rican un i

~~ oWASHING TON"The Joint
Center for Political and Economic
Studies recently released its 1999
countof Black elected officials, who
now number nearly-9.000. The cen-
ter reported a slight increase between
January 1998 and January 1999, the
number of Black elected officials
rose to 8.936, for a net increase of

o63 positions. With this. modest in-
crease. the-representation of Black
elected officials among all elected

~ officials remains 1.7 percent.

oBlack Elected Officials: A Sta-
tistical Summary, 1999� encom-
passes federal, state. municipal.and
local officials. including those in
law enforcement and education.
The Joint Center has been tracking
the number of Black elected offi-
cials since 1970 when they num-
bered 1.469.

oThe conduct of redistricting over
the next two years will be a signiti-
cant factor in determining the num-
ber of African Americans holding
elected office around the country,�
said Eddie N. Williams. president of
the Joint Center. oWhile most of the
growth in the number of Black
elected officials has occurred after
major political changes such as the
1965 Voting Rights Act and redis-
tricting following the 1990 census,
redistricting based on the 2000 Cen-
sus will be conducted in a legal en-
vironment that has made the creation
of majonty-minority districts more
difficult.� he noted Dee. 12.

The net gain in 1999 was largely

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the result of public offices being le-
gally changed from elective to ap-
pointed and the filling of vacant of-
fices. the Joint Center Said.

While there was a decline in the
numberof Black elected officials in
the education category because of
the loss of school board positions in
Virginia and Detroit, Mich., there
was a larger increase in the number
of Black elected municipal officials
primarily because of the creation of
aboard in Dayton. Ohio, and the fill-
ing of vacant positions in Washing-
ton, D.C.

As in 1998. the largest increase
occurred among municipal officials
(153). There were small decreases in
all major categories of office, except
state officials. Black females ac-
counted for the entire net increase of
Black elected officials as there were
73 additional women and five fewer
male officials. Black females now rep-
resent 33.5 percent of all Black elected
officials. The Congressional Black
Caucus membership remains at 39.

There were increases in 20 states
(including the District of Columbia)
plus the U.S. Virgin Islands, no
change in 15 states. and decreases
in 16 states.

The top five states remained un-
changed from 1998: Mississippi
(850), Alabama (725), Louisiana
(714), Hlinois (627) and Georgia
(S84).

Of the top 10 states in 1999, five
reached historically high numbers of
Black elected officials.

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recently honored as one of.
newest inductees into the National
WomenTs Hall of Fame.

Bishop Kelly is the first African
American woman to be elected to
the .bishophric in the United

Methodist denomination,; she was

among. 19Twomen inducted for the: :

year 2000. poke
She was nominated by her daugh-

ter, Pamela Kelly, an law student
who accompanied her to the Hall of ©

Fame induction ceremony in Seneca
Falls, N.Y.

Bishop Kelly came from a family
of Methodist ministers. The late Dr.
D. DeWitt Turpeau, former pastor of
Crenshaw United Methodist.Church

and Boren United Methodist

Church, was her brother.

After the death of her husband, she *

was called to ordained ministry in
1969: She has been retired now for
12 years.

Currently, she spends her energy
with the United Methodist Council
of BishopsT Initiatives on Children
and Poverty.

Last year, Bishop Kelly expressed
utter delight at the election of three
African-American women in July
2000 who were elected to the office
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of his life, but his portrait ended up
ona U.S. postage stamp.
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him as a major figure of the 20th
Century, it is a bit of a surprise to
~ fealize that"like his almost exact
~ contemporary rumor.

~Frank Lioyd Wright"the

sphinxlike and dazzlingly enigmatic
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
o(1868- 1963) was already in his 30s
when the century began.

His was a long and fabulously
full life, stretching from Recon-
struction to his death in African
self-exile on the day of the historic
March on Washington, when Mar-
tin Luther King delivered his stir-
ring oration oI have a dream.� Du

- Bois was more of a quixotic prag-
matist than a dreamer.

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gable research, perceptiveness, and
brilliant writing of David Levering
Lewis, we have Du BoisT extraordi-

¢ritic. He was harassed by the gov-

: subtitled oBiography. of a Race� in
icT 1994, chronicling Du BoisT life to
1919, a journey revealing his "
struggles to become the most highly _
. educated man in the United States. _
Armed with a Harvard doc-
~torate during a period when most of _
his race were literally peasants, Du

~Bois became a pioneer of urban

sociology and a opublic intellec- "
tual� whose insightful and impor-

tant essays on race relations ap-
peared regularly in journals like the

Atlantic Monthly. Lewis dealtdeftly .

with every phase of Du BoisT: life,

warts and all - and he had a few.
Vain and stubborn, he was a bit of a

dandy and elitist, replete with walk-
ing stick and silk stockings. He was
alsoarobust womanizer - and would
remain oa priapic adulterer� until
the final of his days. LewisT first
book won a Pulitzer Prize in biog-
raphy.

Volume two, W.E.B. DU BOIS:
The Fight for Equality and the
American Century, 1919-1963, is
just as good, if not better. Lewis
makes clear on every page of this
long but imminently readable book
that Du Bois never compromised
his principles, spoke truth to

I BELONG 70 HIM

Iam alone and noticeable.
Sometimes in a crowd,
But
Not with them.

I am beautiful, bold, black,
Wise, honest, intelligent,
And saved.

Not ugly, scared, ignorant,
And lost.

Need I say more?
Well, so be it.

I see you and you see me.
Noticeable among the crowd
But
Not contagious.
| am one among many,
And do not bite.

Would you help me
Because of who I am
Or avoid me
Because of my pigmentation?

Seriously now, be real.

I will not harm you.
I will help you...
My brother, my sister.
God loves you and so do I.

Look at me!
I know who | am,
Where [ came from,

end of his life, or leading black

intellectuals. Du Bois never once
played it safe.

He took unpopular stands and
took on unpopular fights, whether
it was with Booker T. WashingtonTs
acolytes or well-meaning whites
who thought it their right to head
Negro colleges and dictate oproper�
racial etiquette"meaning the ac-
ceptance of segregation. Du Bois
raged many of these battles in the
press.

Br

February

+ ers each month with articles
| and outspoken editorials pro--
_ testing lynching and vigor-
ously advocating the expan-
_ sion of opportunities for Af-
- tican-Americans. in -educa-
tion, employment and politi- -
: cal enfranchisement.

In addition to mobilizing
~public opinion, The Crisis
_also effectively coordinated
| the fund-raising effort needed
to support the NAACPTs le-
gal defense of black defen-
. dants like the group of Ar-
kansas sharecroppers ludi-
crously accused of conspir-
ing to overthrow a county govern-
ment. In what would become its
standard mode of persistentT
struggle, the NAACP fought that
case for five years, all the way to
the Supreme Court - and won.

The magazineTs wide influence
made it a target for J. Edgar
Hoover's attempts to suppress dis-
sent, but Du Bois: was
unintimidated. More important to
Du Bois was his very personal
struggle with the popular and fiery

= and posneney appealed to
working-class black Americans.

Lewis covers the brutally acri-
monious relationship of Garvey and
Du Bois in meticulous detail; but
watching how Du Bois methodi-
cally underminded the boisterous, -
pompously. self-styled oPresident-
General of Africa� is not amusing.
The stakes were high. Before World
War I, Pan-African activists may
have beenconcerned primarily with
protest and moral suasion; now they
were involved in serious politics
with huge corporations and the gov-
ernments of Great Britain, France,
Belgium and U.S.-backed Liberia.

But what remains most remark-
able about LewisT exploration of

~ Du BoisT life is the way he de- "

scribes the editorTs shift. from a
liberal-militancy to a leftist social-
ist ideology. Du Bois initially ad-
vocated a strategy of assimilation
and the guidance of his oTalented
Tenth� class of educated, middle-
class professional African Ameri-

cans to foster racial equality and
advancement " an ethos rooted in -

a belief in the promise of the Ameri-
can system. But Du Bois, always
the inquisitive intellectual hungry

And Fa mily of

And where [ am going.
I will not run and hide.
That is not me.

I yield not to my intellect.
That will not help me.
I trust, depend,
And believe God.

Though I be alone
* Or in a crowd,
[am still noticeable
Because
Iam beautiful, bold, black,
And saved.

For better still...
They see me and I see them.
I may be around you
But

I BELONG 70 HIM

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Marxist theory and. finally, in the
years following WWII, a a
fervent socialist:

This, along with his i increasing
advocacy of black separatism, put
him in. conflict with the powers that ©
obe at the NAACP and eventually
led to his departure from a central
decision-making role there. Some
historians may feel that Lewis works
hard to understate the NAACPTs
involvement in thefederal
governmentT s successful campaign
to imprison Garvey on charges of
mail fraud. Lewis does open a tan-
talizing new prospect, however,

when he asserts that the literary and

artistic Harlem Renaissance -
launched with great fanfare in
March 1924 - represents an oalter-
native belief system� carefully de-
signed by Du Bois (and associates
like the Urban LeagueTs Charles S.
Johnson and Howard University
professor Alain Locke) oto fill the
vacuum created by GarveyTs de-
feat� and give the masses of Afri-

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W.E.B. DuBois

The Fight for Equality and the
American Century

Keith W. Cooper
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Recently, I learned the Reverend
Jesse Jackson fathered a baby
through an extramarital affair,
This reminded me of attempts to
vilify the character of Mike
Tyson, Michael Jackson,
Cosby, OJ. Simpson, and other
heroes in America. Because |
don't believe in double standards,
I researched the private lives of
numerous white American leaders
(mostly former congressmen). |
will mention a few who have
fallen from grace since the main-
Stream press downplayed their
sexual peccadilloes.

Rep. John Young (Tex.), in 1976,

staff secretary after she gave in to
his "sexual advances." Rep. Howe
(Utah) was arrested in 1976 on
charges of soliciting two police-
women posing as prostitutes. Rep.
Richmond (N.Y.) was arrested in
Washington in 1973 forTsoliciting
sex from a 16-year-old boy.
Republican Rep. Hinson (Miss.),

in 1980, admitted committing an
obscene act at a gay haunt in
Virginia. Rep. Evans (R-Del.),
Tom Railsback (R-Ill.) and Dan
Quayle shared a cottage with
Paula Parkinson (a lobbyist) dur-
Ing a 1980 Florida vacation.
Railsback and Quayle denied
having sex with " Parkinson.
Conservative Republican Rep.
Donald Lukens (Ohio) was ac-
cused of having paid to have sex
with a young girl since she was
13. Lukens was sentenced to only
One month in jail.

_ Former House " Speaker
Livingston recently resigned after
admitting having extramarital af-
fairs, Shall 1 say more?

From Thomas Jefferson, who, by
today's standards, raped a slave to
President Cleveland (fathered a
child out of wedlock) and Jesse
Jackson, many leaders have
Slipped. Jefferson, however, is
remembered for the Louisiana
Purchase and the Declaration of
Independence,

Jackson, whose son is now a
torchbearer for racial justice,
must reconcile with his wife.
Linda Ronstadt's quote "My big
fantasy has been to seduce a
he oe vulnerability
reachers with respect to the
forbidden fruit", .

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One. fundar nental question to an
understanding .of American his-

7 ~tory is how black Americans

developed the psychological
stamina. and collective social
capacity to cope with the sophis-
ticated system of racial domina-
tion that. white Americans had
anchored deeply in law and
customs. One man whose genius
was for 70 years at the intellec-
tual epicenter of the struggle to
destroy white supremacy as pub-
lic policy and social fact in the
United States cannot be ignored:
William Edward Burghardt Do
Bois.

W.E.B. Do Bois (1868-

1963) was a poor isolated young
Negro, born in western
Massachusetts three years after
the Civil War. He was educated
at Harvard University and the
University of Berlin and was
acknowledged as the leader of
~ black American opinion since
the death of Booker T.
Washington in 1915. One of his
well-known works is oThe Souls
of Black Folk� (1903). He was
a co-founder of the NAACP in
1910 and editor for 25 years of
its journal, the CRISIS: A
Record of the Darker Races,
whose circulation exceeded
100,000 copies per month in
1919. Du Bois had a capacity to
shape black public opinion en-
joyed by no previous Negro
intellectual. He was hailed as the
towering intellectual of his race,

othe chief advocate for the full

Americans. Sometime later,

-phy�-----that of not waiting for

some. distant future when the -

white majority might change its
mind and its behavior, but rather
that Negroes needed to save
themselyes by economic coop-
eration and " _institutional-
building. For the NAACP it was
considered a frank acceptance of
the social and legal fact of
segregation. For the black left,
it was petty bourgeois. black
nationalism. For the civil rights
mainstream, it undermined the
only program that had any
chance of success---that of liti-
gation and lobbying. For these
reasons and the rejection of
other black leaders, the CRISIS
no longer financially independ-
ent because of declining circula-
tion, in 1934 Du Bois resigned
from the NAACP. In 1936 he
toured Germany, Russia, China
and Japan and received a trium-
phal reception. Soon afterward
he began engaging in interna-
tional affairs and returned to the
NAACP in 1944 as director of
special research.

As to his personal life,
Du Bois wrote admiringly and
frequently about beautiful and
accomplished black women. He
is depicted as a combination of
charming cad and geriatric sex
addict. There was a detailed
account of Du BoisTs arrange-
ments to keep his wife either in

year-old. teacher, « arid
T Nashville oDu Bois and Shirley.

netime ite, - they were living in the same city
leftward drift of his thought and. ai Ther

his thought and pursuit of young women. There
developed a onew racial philoso- ¢

Is one account of how he was egistration Act. He |
bourided by the internal se: |
of the U.S. government a "

labeled an adulterer and that this.

another city for yeas at atime or Du Bois

even in a different place when Februar

68-year-old scholar chased a 29

~in

Graham slept together for the
first time on the second night in
January, 1936�.......

The Communist Party
put forth a major effort to
capture Du Bois for their side in
the war of ideas after World War
II. As late as 1944 Du Bois had
written that, for a minority group
like American Negroes, othe
program of the American
Communist Party was suicidal.�
Yet not more than two years later
he was surrounded increasingly
by party member and fellow
travelers. By 1947 as the Cold
War began to reshape American
politics, a double drift emerged:
of an anti-Communist NAACP
into the hands of the Truman
administration and Du Bois un-
mistakably to the far left. After
his dismissal from the NAACP
in 1948, he found himself in
financial binds. Through Paul
RobesonTs intervention and oth-
ers from the oLeft�, he was able
to gain financial assistance. At
that time he was still not a
Communist but in February
1950, became chairman of the
Peace Information Center which
had been denounced as a oSoviet
propaganda trick�. The PIC
disbanded in October 1950 but

height of the Cold War. Hi

indicted for falling to co

was° tried and oacquitte:

November 1951.

Although acquitted
Bois became more isolated

ing the 1950s and was den "

passport until the Supreme '
ruled in 1958 that the

DepartmentTs passport po
were in this regard uncon
tional. In a final act of def
he joined the Communist

of the United States at the a
93 and exiled himself to A

Despite his attacks
economic and social systen
Bois wrote that the United ~
was omy country and the la
my fathers--- a land of ma
cent possibilities--the hon

noble souls and generous

ple.� Hopefully those ogen
people� may come closer
long-deferred understandir
one of the 20" centuryTs
intellectuals-------- William
Edward Burghardt Du Bois

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entrepreneur, Mr. William }
Nobles, (also a relative) a
affirmed, indeed, that the
Bois Center was named to |
W.E.B. Du Bois.

else. We have shaped our

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we have David
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Dixon,
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Roundtree, Gaston Monk, Roy
Spell, Rev. Sidney Locks, Rev.
Randy Royal, Judge Jim
Wynn, Don Brown, and
Bernita Demery. These Blacks.
have triumphed with blood,
sweat and tears.

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American community: Family,
church, politics and culture�.

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Free Your Mind of Satan's
Delusions and Lies

Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ:

The only way to rid yourself of the
delusions Satan may have planted in
your mind is to continually fill your
tnind with the TRUTH, As a full-grown
hild of God, you must have a
Knowledge of the TRUTH concerning
hrist... concerning who you are in
hrist, ..concerning the power and
uthority God has given you... concern-
ihg Satan and his strategies.
fYou are deceived if you think for one
minute you are going to be able to walk
ih victory and power over Satan and his
rincipalities with a half-hearted at-
tempt at reading the Word. The reason
why there are so many wishy-washy,
nipple-sucking Christians today who
e living in defeat is because they have
neglected ~to fill their hearts and minds
With the Word. The only time they hear
the Word is when they are "spoon-fed"
their pastor on Sunday. or other
ministers at various meetings or on
i

television.

Jesus said, "If you abide in My word.
then you are truly disciples of Mine:
and you shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free� (John
:31-32, NAS). Notice, He said "if you

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ABIDE in the Word, you've got.-t
God such a nart |
feeding your mind, meditating on it
daily in your mind. As you ABIDE in
the Word, your-mind is going to be
filled with TRUTH. Jesus told His

disciples, "I am the way, the truth, and

the life..." (John: 14:6). When you are
ABIDING in the Word, you are abiding
in TRUTH and the very life of Christ
is
manifested in you.

As your mind is filled with the
TRUTH, He is going to drive out all
the lies and delusions of Satan, and you
are going to be set free. Jesus said,
"And you shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free.�

During this counterattack of Satan on ;

the Church, the only way you are going
to be able to stand is by first filling
your mind with TRUTH.. .the Word of
God... and then fixing your faith on it.
Free Your Mind of Satan.

The Lord showed me a while back
that a shaking was coming to the
Church. He said: "Tell my people
everything that can be shaken will be

Shaken. Tell them to fix their faith. If

their faith is not fixed during the crisis,
they will not stand. They must fix their
faith on that which is infallible, and

that which is impregnable. They must

have a fixed point of their faith and that
fixed point is the Word of God." °

The Word of God is 100 percent
INFALLIBLE.. .that which cannot be
questioned, that which is incapable of
error, that which is not able to mislead,
that which is incapable of deception.
The Word of God is 100 percent
IMPREGNABLE.. that which is invin-
cible. that which is incapable of being

taken by assault, that which cannot be
penetrated.

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and mind with TRUTH... God's Word..T
there is absolutely no way that Satan
and his deceiving spirits can penetrate
your mind and deceive you!

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And she is not the only: student

who. has claimed or will embrace a

minority identity in order to get
help to pay for a college education.
There will be many. such claims

over the next two months, as thou-

sands of U.S. students start apply-
ing to-colleges and for the scholar-

ships that will help them pay for it..

Some students will stretch the
truth. Others will challenge the
definition of ethnicity altogether.

At Montclair High School in
New Jersey, a white student from
South Africa is making certain she
defines herself as African-Ameri-
can on college entrance applica-
tions and scholarships created for
Black minorities, a counselor at the
school said.

Marianna Brown received
$3.000-a-year from the privately-
owned Sachs Foundation of Colo-
rado for her four years at Antioch
College in Ohio for being African-
American.

When asked if she considered
herself African-American, she said.
oNot at all. I donTt identify myself
as Black. But I know that people in
the U.S. would consider me mixed
because according to the U.S. if you
have one drop of Black blood in
you, you're Black.�

After slavery, the U.S. legal jug-

gernaut kept segregation alive by
saying that a person was not white
if they had oone drop of Black

ion Her father is wee go
~~ In the United. Sintés: college "
-- applications: require students to.
check off a series of boxes that.
identify their race and ethnicity.
Moreover, college scholarships for. -

undergraduate students tend.to fa-

vor minority students in a benign

effort to counter discrimination.
But, say student counselors, the
students taking advantage of their
skin color are not the ones for
whom such programs were in-

tended. Educated bi-racial and.

multi-ethnic students are the ones

taking advantage of affirmative "

action policies.

oThese college policies are not
getting kids out of the barrios,� said
Scott White. a college counselor at
Montclair High School. oMost of
these kids identify themselves as
white Americans.�

oThe system is terribly flawed.�
said Ward Connelly. chairman of
the American Civil Rights Institute,
a public policy research group in
California. oIf you're Anglo and
you are married to a Garcia you
automatically become a Latino.�

oThe middle and upper classes.
people like me are exploiting the
misfortune of the underclass to get
the benefits for themselves. The
people these programs were in-
tended to serve aren't going to step
onto campuses this way. They need
programs based on income, based
on how much education their par-
ents have.� Mr. Connelly said.

Critics blame colleges for stu-

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schools have race preferences. And
ethnicity can make a huge differ

ence in getting scholarships.

oIf stugents are told. they. can,

- benefit from claiming minority sta- ©

tus then they're. entitled to it,

though it might not be the ~Most.

honorable thing to do.�
Mr. Volokh was instrumental i in
getting California to pass a law that

~eliminated race-based affirmative

action policies in California public
schools.

According to the Census Bureau
in Boston, race is self-identified.
Census 2000 allowed U.S. resi-
dents and citizens to choose from

lation ceases to define itself in Mi
~Black, brown and white will be re-. sorry.
vealed in March. But if the Latino © i

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be because there are more Latinos 5 oe i

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ton Census Bureau said. :

In the University of California
system this year, 4,000 students re-
fused to check off boxes marking
their race, up from 1,400 a few
years ago, according to the Ameri-
can Civil Rights Institute.

The U.S. Department of Educa-
tion does not consider race or
ethnicity in any of its applications

manages student loan payments, = ee

recently created a scholarship for

Latino students. It is based on in-
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