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Urban Perspective: Black
Leadership Development Ts
Checkered Past

By Larry Aubry, Los Angeles
Sentinel

Author Adolph Reed, Jr. Ts
book The Jug and its Contents:
A Perspective on Black Political
Development raises perennially
provocative questions about
black leadership and the devolv-
ing state of the oblack commu-
nity. ? Reed also offers a few
suggestions for changing dys-
functional historical leadership
imperatives.

Adolph Reed Jr. Ts basic ar-
gument is that the idea that there
is a cohesive black collectivity or
identity is a myth. He attempts
to show why this myth was
necessary after the Civil War
(ending the era of Jim Crow) in
order to present a semblance of
unity.

Black leadership, including
the Dubois T Talented Tenth,
could then claim to represent this
ounified ? community. It was the
black leadership class that de-
fined the specific interests of the
oblack community. ?

Blacks were treated by oth-
ers as an undifferentiated whole
with no divisions or differences
of opinions on significant issues.
Working within the narrow op-
portunities provided by the seg-
regation era, black leaders
became omiddle-men ? (brokers)
between blacks and the white
power structure.

Of course, there were prob-
lems with this arrangement.
These included the fact that
many black leaders were oputa-
tive ? leaders (supposed leaders).
They named themselves leaders

or were assumed to be so by the
white community.

Since blacks were presumed
to speak with one voice no one
asked who benefited from the
activities of this putative leader-
ship. (This phenomenon contin-
ues today). In fact, most of the
benefits were going to the bour-
geois (middle-class) sectors from
which the leaders came.

Any effort to raise questions
or to articulate a different point
of view from that of the black
leadership elite was attacked as
ocreating disunity. ? Those who
questioned the alleged collective
voice among blacks were defined
as oinauthentic. ? Reed con-
cludes that the myth of a single
black collectivity is a social
construction of reality put to-
gether from cultural fragments
and remnants of black adapta-
tions from the era of slavery to
the early period of Jim Crow.

These two myths --that
blacks constitute a single collec-
tive identity and the myth of
black authenticity -- have pre-
vented the development of a

differentiated politics -- a politics
based on real differences and
interests within the black com-
munity.

Reed attacks Black Power
ideology as abstract, idealistic
and not connected to the real
politics of black people because
it dismissed the reality of the
politics blacks practiced and
replaced it with a utopian
scheme. The emphasis on self-
help is conservative and bour-
geois because self-help ideolo-
gies do not challenge the existing
social system and also place the
burden for change on the very
victims of the system.

Reed suggests it is ironic
that what is needed is a form of
ointerest group liberalism ? in
what passes for the ounified
black community. ? Interest
group liberalism assumes that
there are divergent and often
conflicting interests within any
large group. The denial of these
differences has allowed self-
proclaimed leaders, often made
by the media to define the
interests of blacks and to be
unchallenged in doing so.

A differentiated black collec-
tivity will lead to coalitions with
other collectivities; to leadership
that is accountable to specific
black constituencies; to real de-
mocracy within what is called
the black community. Blacks are
as diverse as everyone else and
the denial of that simple fact has
benefited mostly the black bour-
geoisie and its benefactors out-
side of the oblack community. ?

The author links develop-
ments in the capitalistic mode of
production and the homogenizing
effects of mass culture to both the
integrationist focus of the civil

rights movement and to the black
power movement.

Essentially, he argues, that
both the integrationist phase of
the movement and black power
served the interests of capitalism.
Moreover, both integration and
black power have aided in the
reconstitution of domination, not
only of blacks, but also over all
of society.

Reed concludes there is no
real opposition to the administra-
tive apparatus (government and
corporations) that serve capital-
ism. This is due, in part, to the
failure of the opposition and not
merely to systemic repression.

Since the early 1970s, the
black movement has been paci-
fied and depoliticized so that true
emancipation seems impossible
to some. Racial segregation was
dismantled, but black employ-
ment, median income, availabil-
ity of housing and life expectancy
did not improve from 1964
through the early 1990s. The
middle-class tends to generalize
its gains as if they were the gains
of the black community because

Mateo The Black Communit

its interests and power rests on a
monolithic conception of black
life.

Egalitarianism and social ra-
tionality appealed to the civil
rights movement and to capital-
ism. It was egalitarianism that
raised no questions about capi-
talism. It stressed the immorality
of segregation and how segrega-
tion was an obstacle to the
market and to economic progress.

The end of segregation
opened up avenues for new forms
of domination over blacks. In
addition, the radical faction of
the black movement did not
critique the alliance of the black
elite with corporate liberalism.
The black power movement Ts
assumption that there was a
black political interest repre-
sented by community leaders
strengthened those leaders --the
black elite.

The decline of serious black
opposition to the status quo was
due in part to an ideology that fit
into mainstream American ideol-
ogy. The black opposition was
integrated into the system in a
way that strengthened the system
rather than challenged it.

A new mode of domination
developed that domesticated
negativity by creating places
where these ideas could be
expressed (ethnic studies pro-
grams, cultural centers, etc.). In
this way, opposition was paci-
fied. Reed cites these groups as
examples of oartificial negativ-
ity, ? by which he means groups
that are critical but in ways that
fail to challenge the system. For
example the mass culture indus-
try turned the black movement
into a media event complete with
props. Opposition became a

spectacle.

Reed, however, does not
think opposition is impossible.
He suggests that buying off
groups only works as long as the
number of such groups is limited.
But more and more, ostatus
groups ? -- women, handicapped,
other minorities -- are competing
for shrinking opportunities valu-
able in the administrative /
government distribution _privi-
lege.

Among Reed Ts broad sug-
gestion for remedying the situa-
tion are: Break the black elite Ts
control over ideas in the black
community; critique the pro-
grams of the black elite in order
to o... transcend the official black
posture of quiet acceptance of
any initiative that includes af-
firmative action component; ?
recognize diverse interests in the
black community.

Political liberalism is
the first step to break the
black elite Ts monolithic con-
trol. There is a need for a
critical, democratic black po-
litical culture.

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JUSTICE OR LYNCHING

Justice or Lynching?
By LaWanda Johnson,

Afro Assistant Editor,
The Washington Afro American

The punishment has been
decided in a trial that has yet
to begin as state, local and
federal governments rush to
determine which has the juris-
diction, capability and cer-
tainty of putting alleged
snipers John Allen Muhammad
41, and John Lee Malvo, 17,
to death.

As pressure mounts to en-
sure the deed, state officials
wrangle over death penalty
laws, laws against putting ju-
veniles to death and moratori-
ums to avoid delaying the
process.

On Oct. 29, Virginia, a
state that can guarantee execu-
tion for both Muhammad and
Malvo, filed capital murder
charges against the suspects
when prosecutors grew fearful
that Maryland couldn Tt. The
desperate rush for death penal-
ties is unnerving critics of
capital punishment, who fear
the sniper case is beginning to
resemble a ohanging. ?

oSwift justice is justice in
this case, ? Attorney General
John Ashcroft said in a press
conference announcing federal
charges filed against Muham-
mad that carry the death pen-
alty. The feds join Maryland,
Alabama and Virginia in a
free-for-all to-prosecute the al-
leged snipers.

oI think it Ts very disturb-
ing that they are talking about
the punishment before the facts
are known, especially the fed-
eral government, ? said Richard
Dieter, executive director of
the Death Penalty Information

Center in Washington, D.C.
oThey have a very on 200
policy and procedures about
this ...to see they have jumped
the process and said the death
penalty should be used is un-

oa * death penalty i

. $ re-
served for the worst of the
worst, ? said Prince William
Commonwealth's Attorney

Paul B. Ebert. oThis may be
the most heinous case that I Tve
ever prosecuted. If someone
deserves to receive the maxi-
mum punishment available,
these folks appear to be them. ?
Sentiments that resemble
Ebert Ts emanate throughout the
jurisdictions hoping to prose-
cute the alleged sniper killers
who randomly killed 10 and
wounded three during a reign
of terror that lasted for three
weeks in the Washington area.

oWhy don Tt we just exe-
cute them without a trial? ?
asked David Elliott, communi-
cations director for the
National Coalition to Abolish
the Death Penalty. oThis is
Old West T mentality when we
had lynchings without a trial. ?
Elliot maintains that there is
just too much information that
is unknown to prosecute.

oWe have not established
guilt, mitigating circustances, ?
said Elliott. oMuhammad was
a Gulf War vet with an honor-
able discharge. He was not
known to be violent. ?

Despite the unknowns,
Virginia authorities believe
they can ensure the death pen-
alty. Prosecutors in Spotsy-
Ivania, Hanover and Prince
William counties, where the
crimes were committed, have
explored a new Virginia law
that will the death

. The new law, trig-
gered by the 9-11 terrorist at-
tacks, makes the otriggerman
rule ? obsolete under certain
circumstances, allowing prose-
cution of suspects without
proof of who fired fatal shots.
This new anti-terrorism law
only requires proof that
Muhammad and Malvo carried
out the crimes to intimidate the

public or influence the govern-
ment

oWhat makes it terrorism
is the extortion, the widespread
nature of it and the fact that

ie were put in terrible

. ? said William
Assistant Commonwealth's
A Jarnes A. Willett.
oWith the new statute, there
won't be a need to show

which one was the triggerman.
We T ll all be walking on new
ground. ?

Opponents believe the rush
to ensure execution is politi-
cally and racially motivated, a
mixture that may prove deadly
for the two defendants.

oPolitics get in the way, ?
said Elliott, oespecially when
it involves people of color. ?
Elliott said he was not sur-
prised at the federal govern-
ment Ts involvement.

oWe were not surprised,
but we were disappointed, ? he
said. oNo one loves the death
penalty more than Attorney
General [John] Ashcroft. ?

Virginia prosecutors are
optimistic about the outcome
of a trial held in their jurisdic-
tion. Another factor that
makes prosecution in Virginia
more appealing is the fact that
neither Maryland nor federal
law permits the execution of
juveniles. But prosecutors
seem undaunted by Malvo Ts

e.
oChildren are not minia-
ture adults, ? said Elliott.

oThey don Tt act like adults and
they don Tt think like adults. ?
Published reports describe
Malvo as so controlled by
Muhammad that he would not
even eat a sandwich unless he
had his approval.

oIt is unseemly for them to
be searching around for a state
where it is OK for them to
execute children, ? said Dr.
William Schulz, executive di-
rector of Amnesty International
USA. oThat is not the behav-
ior of a civilized country. ?

The United States and Iran
are the only two countries that
continue to execute juveniles.

oThey are thinking how
quickly can execute these

le so that it will just go
away, ? said Dieter, oThat is
not what the

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EDITORIALS

William Clark General Mgr.

Michael Adams Editer

One whorehouse T down
with Several more still to go

he District Attorney General Ts

Office, the Memphis Police De-

partment, the Tennessee Depart-

ment of Revenue and the West

Tennessee Drug Task Force are
to be commended on their well-coordinat-
ed and precision-type operation this week
in the padlocking of a owhorehouse ? at
1585 Elvis Priestly Blvd. operating under
the business name of Casey Ts Motel.

This and at least seven other similar
omoderately priced ? motels along the S.
Bellevue/Elvis Presley corridor have oper-
ated in blatant violation of the law and
disregard for the community that sur-
rounds them for years.. " .

Prostitutes of all ethnic persuasions ply
their wares from these motels almost
around the clock in full view of citizens
including children attending the nearby -
(Green P.) Hamilton elementary, middle
and high schools. A total of 33 arrests for
prostitution have been made this year, at
Casey Ts motel alone and residents of the
area Say at least a thousand could be made
if the law was rigidly enforced.

On last Tuesday night, law enforcement
officers also arrested five people for drug

Democrats should olease ? |

possession at the motel. Wherever there is
prostitution there are illegal drugs and
wherever there are illegal drugs there is a
high instance of property crimes. Such has
been the case in the residential communi-
ties neighboring the oElvis Presley
Whorehouses ? as members of the area re-
fer to the motels.

Casey Ts was closed as a result of law
enforcement officials obtaining an injunc-
tion from General Sessions Court declar-
ing the motel a nuisance and ordering the
closing until at least until a hearing on
Nov. 22.

The owners of the motel can seek to
go to trial to contest the nuisance decla-
ration or seek a settlement at the Nov. 22
hearing. If the owners lose a trial, all the
motel Ts property would be forfeited to
the state. This would be a proper fate for
business owners who flaunt the law and
disregard the well being of our commu-
nities.. .

We hope similar actions will take place
at all the other similar operations along
the corridor unless the motel owners real-
ize their type business is unwelcome in
the community and clean up there act.

some political courage

hen will the Democratic

Party get it? You don Tt win

elections by trying to be-

come a blurred copy of

something else. They keep
losing race after race because they act too
much like Republicans and present no
clear alternative to George W. Bush Ts vi-
sion of America. For heaven Ts sake, they
should either buy or lease some guts, even
if they have to do so on an installment
plan. _

No one can admire Democrats for hav-
ing the courage of their convictions be-
cause they have neither courage nor con-
victions. They are Republican wasnabes
who can Tt find their sorry butts with both
hands and a map.

Consequently, African-Americans are
forced to choose between weak-kneed De-
mocrats who take us for granted and
Right-wing Republicans who want to take
us for a ride.

True to form, some Democrats are try-
ing to attribute their glaring failure on
Election Day to the purported low Black
voter turn out. They are doing that even
though they have no reliable figures to
prove their point.

Melanie Campbell, executive director of
the National Coalition on Black Civic Par-
ticipation, reminds us that after the 1994
Republican juggernaut, African-Americans
were being blamed for the poor Democrat-
ic showing. However, Census Bureau fig-
ures later showed that Black turnout that
year was higher than that of Whites.

Overall, voter participation has steadily
declined since the 1960s when nearly 60
percent of registered voters cast ballots.
The independent Committee for the Study
of the American Electorate estimates that
approximately 39 percent of registered
voters went to the polls this year.

The real problem is not Black voter
turnout but White voter tune-out. In the
last two presidential elections, Bill Clinton
and Al Gore received a minority of the
White vote. In key states, African-Ameri-
can were able to supply Democrats with
the margin of victory.

But African-Americans can play a piv-
otal role only if an election is close. When
the Democrats get their clocks cleaned,
they should look at the lack of White sup-
port rather than pointing an accusing fin-
ger at African-Americans, who support
them more than any other segment of the
electorate.

So what do we do?

4

"up on sending Black men and women to ~-

In addition to challenging the direction
of the badly flawed Democratic Party, we
must accept the political reality of Repub-
licans having taken over all branches of
the federal government. That means we
need to adjust our strategy.

Inasmuch as the GOP claims to favor
letting local and state officials make most
decisions, we should shift the bulk of our
attention to electing office-holders at the
state and local leyel. We should not give

Congress, but perhaps we should devote a
greater effort back in the home districts.

For years, I Tve argued, that we've placed
too much emphasis on electoral politics
and too little on economics. Part of our
political impotence can be attributed to
our failure to flex our economic muscle.

The University of Georgia projects that
the Black annual spending power will in-
crease from $645.9 billion in 2002 to
$852.8 billion in 2007. Just making the
right spending and investment decisions
can be the Viagra needed to transform our
community.

Finally, we must look more to one an-
other rather than at the federal govern-
ment. I realize that the federal government
has certain obligations to its citizens and
we should fight for them but I also realize
those obligations are unlikely to be met in
this new political climate.

Consequently, we must assume a greater
burden for looking after our own. The no-
tion of self-help did not begin or end with
Black conservatives. The NAACP was
founded as a self-help organization in
1909. The National Urban League was es-
tablished as a self-help group the follow-
ing year. Various community development
agencies, many of them in poor neighbor-
hoods, are helping people trapped in
poverty.

More important than merely relying on
national civil rights groups, we need to re-
turn to the self-help and sense of commu-
nity that has long been a tradition among
us. That means we must support and mo-
bilize our churches; that means that we ac-
cept a collective responsibility for keeping
our young people on the right path and
that means we must use our economic
power to support and grow our own busi-
nesses.

Like it or not, there has been a regime
change. And it Ts here, not in Iraq. There-
fore, we must make some bold changes.
Clearly, we can Tt wait for wimpy Democ-
rats to do it for us.

COMMENTS

Invasion of lrag " the
bigger picture

uch atten-

q tion is be-
ing paid
to Presi-

dent Bush Ts determi-
nation to invade Iraq
based on the suspect-
ed possession by that

nation of weapons of
mass destruction. Not
a day passes that we
are not oreminded ?
that such possession
poses a threat to U.S.
national security. These regular reminders
do not fall on deaf ears and there are plenty
of us to internalize the perceived threat,
particularly after 9-1-1.

Equally important to Washington and the
USS. oil interests our government represents
is the future relationship those oil interests
have in opost invasion/military Iraq.

Let us assume, for a moment, that we do
in fact invade Iraq, secure a military victory
and oust Saddam Hussein, and help replace
him with a U.S. oil interest-friendly regime.
What then will be the status of our relation-
ship with the oil-producing interests in that
company? A question of equal importance,
though, is what will be the status of the oil-
contract relationships with Iraq now held

Arthur L. Webb

by France, England, Russia and Mexico?

Will a U.S. backed oreplacement ? regime
in Iraq honor existing oil contracts held by
France, Russia and oil-dependent Mexico
" or have deals already been cut between
these nation Ts oil interests to odivie-up ? the
spoils of war?

England is as anxious as is the U.S. to
get Hussein out given the erosion of the re-
lationship between oil producers in Iraq and
the oil giant, British Petroleum over the last
several years. Will they be any happier if a
USS. friendly regime comes to power in
Iraq.

In shorf, a new regime in Iraq, backed by
the U.S., will relieve international tensions
only to the extent that cooperative business
relations can be established between these
allies whose common interest is Iraqi oil
which constitutes as much as 17 percent of
the world Ts supply. The $1.50 per bare
production cost compared to the $27-$30
per barrel spot cost is a tempting spoil to
hoard.

The tensions we see now may be minus-
cule compared to what could evolve over
the next several months.

(Webb is a noted and internationally rec-
ognized scholar and lecturer on African-
American history.)

Oh, it was hell to be a man of color, intellectually
and naturally human in the White world. Except
for a superman, almost impossible.

" Claude McKay

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n one dramatic

night of elec-

tion victories,

the Republi-
can party has tak-
en over the entire
government of the
United States. This
was the situation
at the end of the
debacle of the
2000 election, but
Republicans could
not capitalize on it
after Jim Jeffords of Vermont switched
from the Republican party to the De-
mocrats in the Senate.

Now, Republicans are responsible for
producing public policies that confront
many of the most complex problems in
the country.

Republicans picked up three seats in
the House and probably wilt control the
Senate, which was undecided at the time
of this writing, since they have 50 Senate
seats with three undecided, two of them
in Minnesota and Louisiana, where De-
mocrats were expected to win. Much will
be said about the influence of George
Bush on the outcome, but his influence is
not so much vested in him personally, al-
though his ratings were in the 65 percent
range in pre-election polling.

e key to his influence was that
Bush has become the personification of
the fears of Americans about their own
personal security, and the election re-
sults show that those fears trumped eco-
nomic insecurity. So, the campaign
strategy of Karl Rove, the White House
political adviser, to Trun on the war ?
was not followed, since few Republi-
cans actually ran on war and peace is-
sues. Some, like Saxby Chambliss of
Georgia did run on homeland security
issues, and Bush campaigned on the
fact that Democrats did not give him
the Homeland Security Bill that he
wanted. Nevertheless, the so-called
owar t terrorism ? was one of the
hidden facets of this driving

"fears of their security and
cli to Bush to resolve them,
_ The other major factor that accounts
for the Republican victories was the ab-

Ron Walters

The Black Electorate "
Missing in action again

date, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend did

liters is professor of government

sence of the base vote of the Democrat-
ic party. Losses by Democrats in Geor-
gia, Maryland, Texas, North Carolina
and other states indicate that the Black
vote, in particular, just did not turn out.
The issues that Blacks, Hispanics and
other constituencies that have been
more dependent upon government, have
cared about were not front and center in
the agenda of the Democratic party.
And in states such as Maryland, there
was some alienation among Blacks that
although the Republican candidate for
governor picked a Black running mate,
Michael Steele, the Democratic candi-

not. Undoubtedly, this depressed the
Black turnout in key areas of the state.

In Georgia, there may have been
some residual fallout of the Cynthia
Mckinney race that caused many Black
voters to stay home, leading to the de-
feat of Charles Walker, the Black candi-
date in the 12th District. So, some local
as well as national agenda issues may
have been at play.

Finally, there is a confused leadership
situation in the Democratic party, so
that when one compares the clarity and
force of the Republican message with
what the Democrat had to offer, voters
were not energized by the comparison.
The Democrats used many individuals
to convey their message, including the
popular Bill Clinton. However, there
were many Democratic parties with
Richard Gephart running for President,
and putting forth a wimpy position on
the war with Iraq and me too ? mes-
sage on cutting taxes with respect to the
economy that might have been pro-
posed by a Republican. So voters could
not see the clear distinction between the
Republican message and leadership and

Democrats.

The bright light in all of this is that "
with the Republicans now in charge, if
they mess up the complex issues of war

the economy for which they now
have full responsibility, it sets up a

good situation in for Democrats.

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products that are of
concern to the minority community. Since 1981

as any man

Dear Editor;

I Tm very ashamed to admit this in public,
but I have been guilty of self-hatred. When
I first saw the photograph of John Allen
Mohammad, a good looking Black man
(such as myself) it was hard for me to be-
lieve he was the sniper.

I mean, it was just like looking in a mir-
ror and I Tm not a cold blooded killer, so
why should he be? I guess I could not be-
lieve that he could pull off all those killings
with one shot.

I guess I was a victim in thinking subcon-
sciously that Blacks still had a tendency for
shoddy workmanship. I guess I did not
want to believe that a Black man was that
good in killing people. I have to confess, if
] wanted to hire a sniper, I would not have
done business with one of my own people.

I would not have thought about buying
Black; finding a good sniper within my own
community. I probably would have wanted
to find a good White sniper with a good
track record, I Tm sorry to say. ~

After all the evidence I have seen in
Muhammad's case, I have to admit it seems
like the evidence is proving me wrong.

It seems like he has proven again to all of
us that Black people are capable of being
equal or better in doing anything like the
White race.

Robert Oliver

Don Tt blame
the village

Dear Editor;

The continuing decline of youth character
and morality is not surprising or unexpect-
ed. The commentary writer is on shaky
ground when saying oeverybody needs to
own some of the responsibility. ?

The majority of the wayward youth do
not have strong, stable families. The family
is the major teacher of good morals and
good manners, by word and by example.

Too often, kids are exposed to the wrong
kind of examples in the weak family struc-
tures they inherited. Even when the parents
are basically good people, they often fail to
protect the children from the negative influ-
ences of the surrounding environment.

In other instances, children are not intro-
duced to any religious group that would
teach and reaforce moral codes of conduct.
Childreg spend more time at home than
they do at school, church, and the other
centers a community may provide.

Therefore. it is highly unlikely that the
help given by theses groups may overcome
the deficit created by weak families.

Yes, the school has a social and moral
obligation to contribute to the further devel-
opment:-of children:s growth in social and
moral growth. But to say that schools have
been glaring failures is wrong.

The primary responsibility for raising
children belongs to parents. It may take a
village to raise children but the village can-
not be blamed for what parents fail to do.

Hollis Chester

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gets the grease

Dear Editor;

My apology to all the dedicated, hard-
working bus drivers that may have felt
slighted by my comments about why Black
drivers prefer to work in the Black commu-
nities. My comments were based upon my
interviews and observations with Black dri-
vers during my tenure as a bus driver.

It is normal for people to want to work as
close to home as possible. At the time, most
Black drivers lived on the south side of
town. One had to travel to work, the distant
places had much to offer that made the trav-
eling worthwhile. Passenger courtesy and
cooperation made the driving a pleasure.

When it was time to bid on routes, I elect-
ed to remain on the distant route. I asked my
fellow Black drivers why they were leaving
to return to South Memphis? Every one of
them said it was to get out from under the
critical eyes of White passengers.

They did report the drivers that failed to
give them the service that they were accus-
tomed to. The Black drivers told me that
our people would not report them no matter
how they were treated.

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THE PERILOUS TIMES
IN WHICH WE LIVE

Greetings:

| was prompted to ask a
question in my Bible Study
Class and | think | will ask
you also. With this entire
gospel being taught, what is
wrong with our churches? In
the book of Amos 8:11 God
said Behold the days come,
saith the Lord GOD, that |
will send a famine in the
land, not a famine of bread
nor a thrist for water, but of
hearing the words of the
LORD: Well if this is the
cause people then what is
causing our ears to be dull of
hearing. Let's go to the
Scripture to find the answer
to the question. In 2 Timothy
chapter 3 we find the Apostle
Paul explaining to Timothy

about what the last days
would be. You see we are
living in the end times and we
should not think it strange if
we see that bad men have
crept into our churches. You
see Jesus told us in Matt. 13:
47 that the net of the gospel
was to enclose good fish and
bad fish. You keep the good
and cast out the bad. In the
24th Chapter of Matthew we

are told that there would
come seducers, but we must
not become offended, what
we should do is gird our-
selves with the Word of God
that we may be able to stand
in these perilous times. In the
most precious metal gold ore
there will be dross and in the
best wheat crop you will see
chaff among it when it lies on
the floor. Fellow Christian,
You must know that in the
last days, in the gospel times,
there will come perilous
times (perilous means dan-
gerous, unsafe, hazardous,
risky, death-defymg and terri-
fying). Though the gospel
time is a time of restructuring
our lives in many aspect it's
also a time of perilous living
(not so much on the account
of persecution from without
but on the account of corrup-
tion from within). These
would be difficult times,
wherein it would be difficult
for a man to keep a good
conscience. Paul does not
say, Perilous times shall
come, for both Jews and
Gentiles shall be combined to
root out Christianity," but
"perilous times shall come,
for such as have the form of
godliness shall be corrupt and
wicked, and do a great deal of
damage to the church." Two
schemers within the church
may do more hurt to it than
two thousand schemers with-
out. Several different things

cause perilous times: 1. Sin
makes the times perilous.
When there is a general
corruption of manners, and of
the tempers of me% this
makes the times dangerous to
live in; for it is hard to keep
our integrity in the midst of
general corruption. 2. The
coming of perilous times is an
evidence of the truth of
scripture-prophecy, if the

event in this respect did not ?
answer to the prophecy, we
might be tempted to question
the divinity of the Bible. 3.

We are all concerned to know

Ns, to believe and consider it,
that we may not be surprised
when we see the times peril-
ous: Church, you may ask
what would be the occasion
of making these times peril-
ous, or what shall be the
marks and signs whereby
these times may be known. I
- Self-love will make the
times perilous. Who is it that
does not love himself, by this
it is meant of an irregular
sinful self-love. Men love
their carnal selves better than
their spiritual selves. Men
love to gratify their own
lusts, and make provision for
them, more than to please
God and do their duty.
Instead of Christian charity,
which takes care for the good
of others, they will mind
themselves only, and prefer
their own gratification before
the church's edification. 2.
Covetousness. Self-love
brings in a long train of sins
and mischief. When men are
lovers of themselves, no good
can be expected from them,
as all good may be expected
from those who love God
with all their he". When
covetousness generally pre-
vails, when every man is for
what he can get and for
keeping what he has, this

makes men dangerous to one
another, and obliges every
man to stand on his guard
against his neighbor. 3. Pride
and vainglory. The times are
perilous when men, being
proud of themselves, are
boasters and blasphemers,
boasters before men whom
they despise and look upon
with scorn, and blasphemers
of God and of his name.

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Phil. 1:6

"Being confident of this very
thing, that HE which hath begun
a good work in you will perform
it until the day of Jesus Christ:"

As | reminiscence on the sayings
of my mother, I will always
remember the words that she
sowed repetitiously into my spirit
as a child. My mother purchased
a light-blue T-shirt for me with
these words accented in glitter,
"Winners Never Quit and quit-
ters never win."

As | was thinking about this
saying, the Holy Spirit illumi-
nated the words of Paul that were
inspired by the Holy Spirit in
Phil. 1:6. As I began to read this
familiar passage of scripture, |
began to hear the spirit of Paul
as he began to speak to me. Paul

was allowing me to know that
there are many things that | may
not be confident in or assured of
or rooted and grounded in. But
Paul made a powerful point, it's
not how much I know but it is
the content of what I know. Paul
said, "Being confident (assured
of knowing) this very thing, that
He (God) which has begun,
which has started this good work
in you:

| want to pause for a moment
and encourage your hearts.
Think about the things in life that
you have started and never
completed. Think about the
things in life that you have
started and completed. Begin to
ponder over the outcome of both
feelings that were experienced.
When you started something and
never completed it, you felt
useless and worthless. You were
beginning to believe the lies of
the devil; once you have failed,
you will always be a failure.
This lie has crippled the process
of many born again believers that
once stepped out by faith to
accomplish a mandate that was
placed upon their lives. Because
of interruptions, distractions or
detours, you gave up and said
what's the use. Just think about
a time that you set forth to do
something, and even though ob-
stacles came your way, you didn't
give up but you continued to
press toward the mark. How did
you feel after everything had

been said and done? You felt
relieved and even welcomed
more challenges. Why?
Because you endured.

We should be excited and rejoic-
ing in knowing that God, when
He began the good work in you,
whether it was preaching, teach-
ing, singing, ministry of helps.
writing or whatever gift that once
was the center of your being;
whatever brought forth that spar-
kle in your eyes, when you
would think about the love and
passion that you had for a
particular thing. Know that was
God beginning the performance
of a great work in ydur life. Paul
was assuring us that because |
know who started the work; | am
assured that He will complete it
because I have seen God's re-
sume. Everything that He started
out with, looked like nothing. but
when He was completed, it was
definitely a work of art.

So, | encourage you on this day.
whatever good work God has
started in you, it will be com-
pleted and you will operate in it
and fulfill or perform the duties
assigned to you until Jesus shall
return on that great day and say,
"Thou good and faithful servant. ?

Thought to meditate on:
The spirit of a winner is
birthed in a person even be-
fore the manifestation of win-
ning is ever evident.

J. Renee Brown

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When men do not fear God
they will not regard man. 4.|

When children are disobedi-

ent to their parents, and break .
through the obligations
which they be under to them,
both in duty and gratitude,
and frequently in interest,
having their dependence upon .
them and their expectation
from them, they make the
times perilous; for what
wickedness "I those set at
who will be abusive to their
own parents and rebel against
them? 5. Unthankfulness and
unholiness make the times
perilous, and these two com-
monly .go together. What is
the reason that men are
unholy and without the fear
of God, or that they are
unthankful for the mercies of
God? Ungratefulness and sin
go together; for call a man
ungrateful, and you can call
him by no worse name.
Unthankful and impure, de-
filed with fleshly lusts, which
is an instance of great un-
gratefulness to that God who
has provided so well for the
support of the body; we
abuse his gifts, if we make
them the food and fuel of our
lusts. 6. The times are peril-
ous when men will not be
held by the bonds either of
nature or common honesty,
when they are without natu-
ral affection, and truce-
breakers, there is a natural
affection due to all. Wherever

there is the human nature,
there should be humanity
towards those of the same
nature, but especially be-
tween relationships. Times
are perilous when children
are disobedient to their par-
ents and when parents are
without natural affection to
their children See what a
corruption of nature sin is,
how it deprives men even of

that which nature has im-
planted in them for the sup.
port of their own kind, for

natural affection of parents to.

their children is that which
contributes very much to the
keeping up of mankind upon
the earth. And time who will
not be bound by natural
affection, no wonder that they
will not be bound by the most
solemn association and cove-
nants. They are truce-
breakers that make no con-
science of the engagements
they have laid themselves
under. 7. The times are
perilous when men are false
accusers one of another, dev-
ils one to another, having no
regard to the good name of
others, or to the religious
obligations of an oath, but
flunking themselves at liberty
to say and do what they
please, Ps. 12:4. S. When
men have no government of
themselves and their own
appetites, they are inconti-
nent, not of their own pas-
sions, for they are fierce,
when they have no rule over
their own spirits, and there-
fore are like a city that is
broken down, and has no
walls: they are soon keyed
up. upon the least provoca-
tion. 9. When that which Is
good and ought to be honored
is generally despised and
looked upon with contempt. It
is the pride of persecutors
that thev look with contempt

upon good people, though
they are more excellent than
their neighbors. 10. When
men are generally unfaithful
headstrong, and proud, the
times are perilous when men
are traitors, heady, high-
minded Our Savior has fore-
told that the brother shall
betray the brother to death
and the father the child (Mt.
10:21), and those are the

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pu up. ng scorn-
fully to all about them, and
when this temper generally
prevails, then the times are
perilous. | 1. When men are ?
generally lovers of pleasure
more than lovers of God
When there are more experts
than true Christians, then the
times are bad indeed. God is
to be loved above all. That is
a carne] mind that is against
Him and is full of enmity,
which prefers any thing be-
fore him, especially such a
filthy thing as carnal pleasure
is. 12. When, notwithstand-
ing all this, they have the
form of godliness, are called
by the Christian name, bap-
tized into the Christian faith.
and make a show of religion;
but how reasonable so ever
their form of godliness is,
they deny the power of it.
When they take upon them
the form which should and
would bring along with it the
power thereof, they will put
asunder what God hat joined
together: they will assume
the form of godliness, to take
away their reproach; but they
will not submit to the power
of it, to take away their sin.
Men may be very bad and
wicked under a profession of
religion; they may be lovers
of themselves, etc.., yet have
a form of godliness. A form
of godliness is a very differ-
ent thing from the power of it;
men may have the one and be
wholly destitute of the other:
yet they deny it, at least
practically in their lives.
From such good Christians
must withdraw themselves.

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RUN-DMC STAR
, SLAIN IN STUDIO
By: George Rush

Bill Hutchinson
Daily News Staff Writers

ise In a cold
drizzle, _ "_ the
swirling lights
. Of police cars
illuminated the
tear-streaked
faces of friends
and fans who
turned out to mourn Jam Master
Jay in Queens last night.
Rappers and rap-music lovers
rushed to the front of the Jamaica
studio on Merrick Blvd. where
the founding member of Run-
DMC was gunned down.

"It's a tragedy for music. It's a
tragedy for our neighborhood. It's
a shame," said hip hop deejay Ed
Lover, staring at the yellow T
police tape surrounding the mur-
der scene.

People stood on the street
hugging and crying, gasping in
shock as police removed the rap
music legend's corpse in a body
bag. A second founding member
of Run-DMC, Darryl (DMC)
McDaniels, and fellow rap star
Chuck D. gathered in front of the
studio to console each other as
Run-DMC's greatest hits blared
from a parked car's speakers.

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Word of Jay's death quickly
spread to Hollis, where the
37-year old father of three grew
up and formed one the biggest
groups in rap history with
McDaniels and Joseph (Run)
Simmons.

"It's a loss because he was a
pioneer in the rap game. This
violence wasn't a part of Run-
DMC's message," said Arlene
Clark, 39, who grew up with Jay,
born Jason Mizell, in Hollis.

George Addison, 39, of Hollis
said Run-DMC's mega-selling
albums touched him like no other
music.

"Hip Hop raised me, and
Run-DMC were the grandfa-
thers," he said.

Tuned in....

Grief also spread to airwaves as
hip hop radio stations like
WWPR-FM Power 105 and
WQHT-FM Hot 97 opened their
phone lines to stunned listeners.

Deejay Funkmaster Flex an-
nounced the death on hot 97 and
expressed condolences from the

radio station to Mizell's family
and band.

"Jay was one of the guys from
the early '80s who had a relation-
ship--with a lot of the new
artists, ? Flex said. "He was like
an ambassador of hip hop that
we've lost."

Power105 deejay Marley Marl
said, "Jam Master Jay was a

For the past five decades,
maintained a loyalty oath to

all changing now. *
According to a recent. opin- .

Political and Economic Stud-.-

are breaking from traditional
voting patterns on issues no ?
less pervasive than Social
Security, educational quality, -
vouchers and federalism...
The study also. indicated.
that support for the Democra- __
tic Party has dropped among: -
Black voters 11 percent over -

port for the Republican Party .
has more than doubled, from 4"
percent to 10 percent. ".
Though 10 percent may not. -
seem like -a diame

managed a fd "
mere 2 percent of the Black vote
during the last presidential elec-
tion. Part of the problem was
that the Republican Party's
opposition to some key civil
rights issues in the 1960s, cou-
pled with their more recent resis-
tance to affirmative action, alien-
ated many Black voters. The fact
that the Republican Party large-
ly comprised white Southern
politicians didn Tt help either.

But recent outreach efforts
by the party, combined with
a commitment on the nation-
al level to facilitate ethnic
diversity within the party,
has helped Republicans stay
in touch with the chief con-
cerns of the Black voting
populace. .

At the same time, a younger
generation of Black Americans
(i.e., under 35) inhabits avast- ©
ly different social climate than: .
their forbears ~ a. fact: that...

Republican appeals, . ..

African-Americans who. aré
better educated, more success ©

the Black voting populace has a
the Democratic Party. That's a t

ies, young Black Americans ~ Par
_ with a-generation of young
the past two years. During . nom:

that same period, Black sup-* B

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Julian Band from implying

as he did during a 1999 fund-:
ly won't stop Jackson: fr
reviling Republicans as the T
slavery party, as he did fol-.:
three of these Black

may make them ? ripe for. the Republi

oWe see a new generation of )

fts in public opin-
oand political leadership

several key issues. In particu-
lar, Republican support of

school vouchers has resonated

urban Blacks who are desper-
ate for educational alterna-
tives. According to a 1999°poll

Joint Center for Eco-

im

offering to dé more. than sim-
ply throw more money at. fail-
ing public schools, the Repub-
licanis have taken ownership
of the school reform debate. ..
Not that any of this will

stop. Black leaders. like

that the Republican leader-
ship is chummy with the Ku
Klux Klan, as he did during a
2000 speech at the NAACP
national convention. Nor will
it stop Kweisi Mfume from
dubbing the Republican lead--
ership as anti-[civil] rights,

raising event. And it certain- "
m

lowing the 2000 election.

erful young brother in the
fis hop field. He influenced .a lot
of us, including me, to become
deejays. Rest in peace, brother."
Lids tes ashes Sught
after the higher principles of ip

hop, " said rapper KRS-One

To lose a person like that is a
shock. ?

Hip hop executive Steve Rifkin
said he was having a tough time
coping with his friend's death.

Def Jam recording artist Keith
Murray said Mizell showed him
the ropes in the rap world.

"He showed everybody love",
Murray said. "He was a pioneer.
I looked up to him."

By: Tamer El-Ghobashy, Martin
Mbugua and Dave Goldiner
Daily News Staff Writers

Jam Master Jay, a legendary
figure from the early days of
rap music, was shot in the head
and killed last night inside his
recording studio in Queens,
police said.

The founding member of the
platinum-selling group Run-
DMC was gunned down by two
men who were buzzed into the
second floor studio on Merrick
Blvd. in Jamaica around 7:30,
cops said.

Another man, Urieco
Rincon,25, was shot in the leg by
the attackers, who fled. Two

women making a recording in the |

studio were not hurt, cops said.

Police said they had no motive
for the slaying, which took place
near the Jamaica bus terminal ---
just a mile from the 37-year old
rappers childhood stomping
grounds in Hollis, "I cant
believe this", said life-long
friend Garfield McDonald, 35.
"Everybody loved Jay."

Police were investigating

whether the gunmen might have
had some relationship to the
women. Cops found tow .45-
calibur shells inside a lounge in
the studio where Jay, whose real
name was Jason Mizell, and
Rincon were shot.

As news of the slaying spread,
dozens of rap musicians, promot-
ers and friends converged on the

studio where Mizell produced

local talent when he wasn't on
the road. Chuck D. of the rap
group Public Enemy was near
tears as he hugged mourners
gathered outside in the rain.

" We knew each other since we
were kids, " said Chuck D., who
was born Carlton Ridenhour.
"It's cowardice. It's not a game."

Mizell's 15-year old , Jason,
arrived in tears along with his
mother, who took comfort in the
arms of Lyor Cohen, a top rap
executive who gave Run-DMC
one of its first big breaks.

"I'm trying to tell myself this

isn't true, " Cohen said. -

The killing was just the latest.

which hee boon sete some ofS
biggest stars --- such as Tupac
Shakur and Biggie Smalls --- die
violently.

Mizell, who was married with
three children, burst onto the rap
scene in the early '80s when he
founded Run-DMC with Hollis
pals Joseph (Run) Simmons and
Darryl _ (DMC) McDaniels.
Their manager was Russell
Simmons, Joseph's brother, who
went on the become a millionaire
rap mogul and activist.

"Jay was a wonderful person, "
said Cory Robbins, who signed
Run-DMC to their first recording
contract in 1983. "You won't
hear anyone who has nothing bad
to say about him."

Known for its hard-driving style
that mixed elements of heavy-
metal rock, the band was the first
rap group to earn a platinum-

selling record, for tis 1985 re-

lease "Raising Hell."

Top of the charts...

The leather-clad group broke
into the mainstream with cross-

over hits "It's Like That,"
"Sucker MC's ", and "Walk This
Way" -- a remake with

Aerosmith's Steve Tyler that
made the top 10 on the pop
charts.

"Run-DMC was the Beatles of

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Book Review
Nigger: The Strange Career of a

Troubled Word by Randall
Kennedy

It may be, as prosecutor
Christopher Darden said during
the O. J. Simpson trial, othe
filthiest, dirtiest, nastiest word in
the English language. ? Though
Harvard law professor Randall
Kennedy calls it America Ts most
inflectional racial slur, he Ts
hardly staggered by its destruc-
tive power. His 226-page book
aims oto put a tracer on nigger, ?
in order to analyze the storms the
word has rolled since it emerged
in the Jacksonian era as a brutal
characterization, but he cheers
the word Ts growing currency
among blacks as a term of
affection and fraternity. There's
no point in trying to stamp out
the term or regulate its usage, he
argues. Let language Ts evolution
take its course.

One commentator remarked,
oKennedy has thrown a_ hand
grenade into the battle-scarred
landscape of America Ts racial
discourse. His subject is worthy
of study, but his title is shame-
fully sensational. As long as
racism exists, raist people
shouldn Tt enjoy having a racial
slur sanitized for their casual
enjoyment. ? Nigger is yet an-
other example of exploiting black
culture which enriches the few
and impoverishes the many. In
the book, there are quotations
from ofamous whites who've
used the word ? and ofamous
blacks who Tve been bruised by
it. ? Most of his book is a ostage ?
of civil and criminal court cases
-- all colored by his optimism
that othe most dangerous word in
the dictionary ? is losing its sting.

The oin-group ? use of the
word by blacks contains an echo
of the instinct of the contempt of
whites. More troubling still are
othe increasingly prevalent at-

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tempts by whites to fashion the
word nigger into a reference to
people af all races who display
inappropriate behavior, weak
character, and slovenly speech. ?
Kennedy is right to argue that
the word Ts power shouldn Tt be
overinflated. oIf a black person
can be reduced to sputtering
despair by this word, self image
is the greater problem. ?

Before we cast judgement
on this issue, let Ts turn to more
meaningful work, like orebuild-
ing the inner cities and address-

ing racial profiling. ?

* Note: According to Random
House Historical Dictionary of
American Slang, nigger, is de-
rived from the Latin word for
the color black, nigger. It did
not originate as a slur but took
on a derogatory connotation over
time. When John Rolfe recorded
in his journal the first shipment
of Africans to Virginia in 1619,
he listed them as onegars. ? A
1689 inventory of an estate in
Brooklyn, New York, made

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that the group lionized in song:

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to him to rock beats that are
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While rap earned a violent
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warring Los Angeles gangs in
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By the late 1980s, though, the
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After a hiatus of 13 years,
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Mizell and McDaniels had been
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mention of an enslaved oniggor ?
boy. In the 1700 Ts niger ap-
peared in what the dictionary
describes as odignified argumen-
tation ? such as Samuel Sewall Ts
denunciation of slavery, The
Selling of Joseph. No one knows
precisely when or how niger
turned derisively into nigger
attained a pejorative meaning.
We do know, however, that by
the end of the first third of the
nineteenth century, nigger had
already become a familar and
influential insult.

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had a life of suffering and not a
life of ease. If you tell me that
you believe in Jesus, and |
know you do, and you declare
to the world that Jesus is the
Son of God, and I know you
declare that, then what father
would treat his son in that
manner? You wouldn Tt do that
to your son. But Allah (God)
saw fit to do that for a big
e. The religion doesn Tt
start at his (Jesus) birth and it
doesn Tt start during his ministry.
We take the calendar from the
time of his suffering.
We don Tt start the calendar of
Islam with the birth of Prophet
Muhammad, Peace Be Upon
Him (PBUH) or even from the
day of his first revelation of the
Qur Tan. It starts from the time
of a death plot and his flight to
escape death. It seems that
Allah (God), in His wonderful
way of doing things, puts on us
affliction. He wants to know, do
you love anything or anyone
more than you love Him, since
He is our Creator. And since
everything we have is from
Him, not from ourselves, then
He will try us by whatever we
have that we love and put
before Him.
He tried Abraham by his son:

Take him up on the mountain,
Abraham, and plunge a dagger
into his heart. I don Tt know
what Abraham went through to
decide to obey Allah (God).
But his obedience to Allah
(God) made him the friend of
Allah (God). Abraham loved
his son but he didn Tt love his
son more than he loved the
Father, the God, the Creator, so
he took his son up on the
mountain.

I] read something once where
Satan came to Ishmael
(Abraham Ts son) and _ said,
"boy, he Ts not planning to
sacrifice a ram up there "it Ts
you." But the boy never re-
belled. He said if that Ts what
pleases Allah (God), that Ts
what pleases him. He didn Tt
fight his father; He laid on the
alter. As the father was about to
plunge the dagger into his
heart, Allah (God) stayed his
hand and He said, here is the
father that loves Me enough to
kill a son that he had been
longing for. And here Ts a son
that loved Me enough that if the
father said that this is what
(God) wanted my father to T do,
it Ts all right with me. Then
Allah (God) said His covenant
would not only be with the
father; His covenant will also
be with the son. He used them
as a sign of a Father who would
sacrifice a son and make him a
redeeming agent for humanity.

Trials are necessary to bring out
of you what is hidden within
you. What Allah (God) has put
within each human being does
not come out without struggle.
If you think life should be easy,
you need to rethink your posi-
tion. If you think that because
you go to church and tithe that
Allah (God) shouldn Tt bring
misfortune into your life, yet the
prophets that went before you

- Jesus said:

question Allah (God). He Ts the

teacher. He said, didn Tt I give

you authority over all my
creatures? The chicken wants to
live; the lamb wants to live; the
cow wants to live. Maybe the
horse doesn Tt want to be ridden
today, but you ride it. So are
you any better? If Allah (God)
puts the lower lives under our
subjection, then our lives are
for Allah Ts (God Ts) purpose and
will. There is no life that leaves
here that doesn Tt leave with a

purpose. |

I believe that from Mississippi
will come the greatest leaders,
the greatest teachers and the
greatest preachers because you
are victims of the greatest
tyranny and oppression in the
history of the United States of
America. Out of that suffering,
Allah (God) brings greatness. It
is out of suffering that the
creative power is unleashed. If
you don Tt suffer, you can Tt
create. So don Tt run from your
pain, run to it. Don Tt run from
your trial and don Tt turn your
back on your struggle. Allah
(God) says in the Qur Tan that
He created man to face diffi-
culty. If you turn your back like
a coward because you don Tt
want to face the trials and
tribulation that life comes up
with "you Td rather drink your-
self under or smoke yourself
under, you Td rather commit
suicide rather than to face
difficulty "then you disbelieve

in the Power of Allah (God) to
change any reality, no matter
how harsh that reality may be.
Allah makes the righteous
Everybody is not a child of
Allah (God). Satan has children
here, too. We hope that Allah
(God) is our Father, but he
doesn Tt have to be. Mother, you
can Tt make a righteous child. |
don Tt care how good you are,
how good your husband is or
how much Bible you read, you
cannot make a righteous child.
All you can do is put the tools
there. Only when Allah (God)
steps in and takes your child
does your child become a child
of Allah (God).

Jesus had an argument with
some Jewish people in that day,
according to the Bible, and they
were claiming that "Allah
(God) is our Father. Even
Abraham is our father." And
"If ye were
Abraham's children, ye would
do the works of Abraham."
(St. John 8:39)

They said to Jesus, even God is
our father. And Jesus said: "If
God were your Father, you
would love me: for I pro-
ceeded forth and came from
God; neither came I of myself,
but he sent me." (St. John
8:42)

He told them: "But now ye
seek to kill me, a man that
hath told you the truth, which
I have heard of God: this did
not Abraham." (St. John
8:40) "Ye are of your father
the devil... He was a murderer
from the beginning, and
abode not in the truth, be-
cause there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is
a liar, and the father of it."
(St. John 8:44)

He Ts separating children from a
father by means of their work.

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then cursed are the warmongers

for they shall be called: the
enemies of Allah (God), the
children of Satan. You T ve got to
call it lke it eae
Ipit if you Tre going to preac
fatktruths. No. weak-
coward can h Jesus. Do
you think Minister Carthan is
calling you into a work that will
be easy? Jesus said that if any
man would be his disciple, he Td
have to first deny himself, pick
up whose cross? Your cross.
en what? Follow him. Jesus
didn Tt say worship him; he said
follow him. That means that
where Jesus puts his foot down,
you walk where he walks. You
do what he did. And Allah
(God) will give you the same
blessing and power that he gave
to him.
Purpose of church, mosque
and synagogue
This is a church, a building of
stone, mortar and wood that
Brother Minister Carthan and
his family have the keys to in
order to do a good work. What
is the purpose? Why did Allah
(God) even allow a church or a
mosque or a synagogue or a
cloister or a cathedral or a
temple to be formed? All of you
go to some church, some
mosque, some synagogue, some
temple, but what are you there
for? Is it a social meeting place
where you go to check out
whose wearing what? Do you
go there to gossip, to talk about
your neighbor and what you

heard that they got into last
night or last week? What do
you come here for?

It is because Allah (God) knew
that Satan was going to be in
power for a period of time until
the coming of Allah (God). If
Satan were going to rule the
world for a season, then how
would the people of Allah
(God) be able to live in Satan Ts
world unless they had a place to
go, a place of repair? It Ts like an
automobile mechanic " shop.
When something goes wrong
with your car and you don't
know how to fix it, you take it
to the mechanic. He may ask
you to leave it a day or two.
And you come back and get
your car and drive on. That's
what these houses (of worship)
are for. They are for you to
come out of the world ruled by
Satan and come into a house
that Ts supposedly ruled by
Allah (God) "I say supposedly
because everybody talking
about heaven is not going there.
If the kingdom is here (within
you), then it Ts buried under the
rubbish of what you think and
how you act. When the rubbish
is cleared away and_ the
Kingdom of Allah (God) is
resurrected in you, then Allah
(God) starts moving in you.
When Allah (God) starts mov-
ing in you, you get a self-
accusing spirit that begins to
tell you, | shouldn Tt have done
that. Why did I do this? Oh,
Lord, have mercy on me. The
self-accusing spirit wakes you
up in the night and keeps you
upset where you can Tt sleep
because you T ve been wrong and
your own self is accusing you.
Then you know the spirit of
Allah (God) is working in you.

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Mayor pro tem and businesswoman Katherine Moore was arrested and charged with DWI on
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Wilmington Mayor Pro Tem
Katherine Moore was arrested by
Wilmington police officers on
Wednesday night after the regu-
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ing. Police officers alleged that
Ms. Moore was driving while
impaired. Ms. Moore indicated to
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injured during the arrest process.
She pointed to a large bruise and
lump on her forehead and a
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AL SHARPTONS CALENDAR SAYS IT'S 1988. THAT'S THE year Jesse Jackson, in his second bid for the highest office in the land, transformed the Democratic presidential primary into a tent revival.
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the U.S. Senate. We lost after he stopped running. ? By early October Sharpton had not dfficially thrown his hat into the ring. But he had formed an exploratory team to devise a strategy to win the upcoming
Democratic nomination (and we all know that "exploratory" is code for highly likely to run T). He had announced that he would step aside as president and CEO of the National Action Network in early 2003.
He'd even written a book, Al on America (Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing, $27), outlining his political vision. And he'd lined up a host of heavyweights who would likely support him. Among them: BET
CEO Robert L. Johnson and Sharpe James, mayor of Newark, New Jersey. 'First of all, | wouldn't run if 1 wasn't running to win," Sharpton says. 'I'm the only one running that even if I don't win, the people
with me can win in the process.

"I THINK OUR CAMPAIGN WILL BE A SHOWDOWN FOR WHERE THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY IS GOING."

There's no denying the victories Jackson achieved during his two White House bids. He inspired legions of blacks to register and vote, which helped elect a black governor in 1989 (Virginia's Doug Wilder)
and a black senator in 1992 (Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, most recently the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, now said to be pondering another fin for public office). Jackson's bids also provided momentum
for Democrats to regain control of the Senate in 1986. Sharpton says he wants not only to restore those gains but also to build upon them. His oagehda is nothing new. It's borrowed from the mantra that helped
drive the Jackson campaigns: The Democratic party takes African Americans-its most loyal voters-for granted and must be pressured to empower, not abandon, its black base. Sharpton sees the Democratic
Leadership Council (DLC), a powerful organization of centrist Democrats (he calls them the Democratic leisure class), as one of the driving forces to take the power of the party to the right and consequent-
ly away from blacks. "It is a vital time to energize [blacks] and put [them] in power," says Sharpton, "and I think our campaign will be a showdown for where the Democratic party is going." Already Sharpton's
message has quietly resonated with some voters. In August a national poll conducted by Zogby International found that a surprising 5 percent of Democratic voters want Sharpton to be the party's 2004
presidential nominee. Sharpton tied with House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley. Sharpton scored ahead of such
powerhouses as Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina. Only former vice president Al Gore (41 percent) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut
(6 percent) came in ahead of the reverend. Sharpton is also finding a receptive audience with a faction of Democrats equally outraged by the DLC-lefiist whites on the fringe of the party. That support widens
his appeal, but a coalition of leftist whites and blacks is fraught with challenges. "There are tensions," Sharpton acknowledges. "If I run, [those tensions} will become creative tensions [that] need to be debated
out. I'll give you an example. Many leaders of the gay and lesbian communities have met with me and want to support me. [Yet] some of the [black] ministers who have supported me have disagreedwith this.
Once we began [sitting gays and lesbians} down in various cities [with] the minister ... [we found] there can be common ground ... you learn how to adjust ... to work for the better good. You can't be against
discrimination by race, or based on gender or sexual orientation. So | think that's, where you start bringing these things together." :
Beyond inclusion, Sharpton also promises to force the Democratic party to address racial profiling, racial disparities in sentencing and the need for job training programs as the economy tanks. Those planks of
his platform are meant to solidify his support among blacks. But the most critical aspect of Sharpton Ts strategy-to stem the party's move toward the center-assumes that black voters are left-leaning, In an age
when we have a black secretary of state, a black national security advisor and a handful of black CEOs of major corporations, do we need a protest candidate to demand our place at the table? One could easily
argue that the party's move to the center actually appeals to many black voters. After all, who was the chief engineer of the donkey's cen- trist shift and one of the founding members of the DLC? William
Jefferson Clinton, the only two-term Democratic com- mander in chief since Franklin D. Roosevelt and a man some black folks call America's first black president.

A Sharpton campaign waged on building black power in the Democratic party would carry another risk as well: Arguably, black power in the party truly picked up steam when Ron Brown was elected chairman
of the Democratic National Committee in 1989. In 1984 there were 20 black Democratic members of Congress. Today there are 38. Couldn't Al make more of an impact in the Republican party, which had
only one black con- gressman going into the November 2002 elections? "I would not run in the Republican party because I'm not Republican," Sharpton says. 'I think that it is time to challenge both parties.
I encourage black and Latino Republicans to do that same thing."

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A PARENT TS
RESPONSIBILITY

What's wrong with these
methods of modern parenting
we Tve been discussing? The fact
that they completely deny the
way of TRUTH God explains to
us in Scripture!

Remember the proverb we read
earlier. It talked about the
importance of orod and reproof ?
in raising a child who will not
bring shame to his parents. God
says that a proper level of control
must be maintained over chil-
dren.

This verse is talking about

DISCIPLINE

--corporal punishment
--and INSTRUCTION.
God COMMANDS
that parents use both!
Proverbs 13:24 says that
parents who fail to physically
discipline their children actually

HATE them. That their concern:

for themselves exceeds their
concern for the long-term well-
being of their children. That may
rankle modern parents. But
remember, it is GOD--the
Creator of heaven and earth, of
mankind--who gave this instruc-
tion. Rather than dismissing it
offhand, shouldn't we try to
UNDERSTAND it?

Unlike so many raising teenag-
ers today, God has keen interest
in maintaining parents T authority
over their kids.

oHonor thy father and mother ?
is the Fifth Commandment--just
before oThou shalt not kill. ?
Teens break it routinely without
second thought. You may think
the fault lies with the teen
themselves, since the law is
directed at them (it is not written,
oMake sure kids honor their
father and mother ?). But who
teaches children the sanctity of
the law? No teen will respect

commandments they were not
brought up their parents to
respect.

This is a point that was made
in a Plain Truth article 36 years
ago. It should convict us today
all the more. The article stated,
oToday Ts leaders failed their
duty--they did not teach the
younger generation the real pur-
pose of life. Why? Because they
themselves did not the purpose of
life. Society never taught it in
school because they in turn had
never learned it. People simply
don Tt know why they were
born! ?

( oThe Beat Generation, ? March
1966)

Later the article said, oThe
trouble is society has taught its
children T directly or indirectly
THAT THERE IS NO REAL
PURPOSE TO LIFE! ?

What about you?

Do you rstand the e
of life well enough to teach and
CONVICT your children of it?
Are you willing to learn? It will
be the MOST IMPORTANT
THING you could ever give your

teenager!
Excerpted from The Philadelphia
Trumpet/July 2002

Mother Willie Ann
Wilkes celebrated her
9eSth birthday on Oct
19 th at the Golden
Corral with family and
friends. Daughter -
Mrs. Dorothy Wilkes
Gardner and Husband
came from California.
What a surpriee it was.
The Philippi Church of
Christ Mother's Board
was on hand where she

MOTHER WILLIE
ANN WILKES

is the oldest member
of the church.

She received many
sifts with remarks
from. family and
friends. Sis Doris
Justice was there too
as faithful as always.
We all thank God for
Mother Wilkes

Dorothy Wilkes Gardner
& Husband from California

THE SINGLE PARENT NEWSLETTER: |
The fight for Treen authority, and
sani

Each day is a constant fight and struggle if you are a sing ?,? parent

The ight of a single parent does not compare to that of a ¢-parent
household. If you are a single parent, you understand. If you are a
single parent of more than one child, then you really understand and I offer you my
sanity kit of muscle relaxers, herbal tea, lemonflower body butter, and a bottle of wine.

If you are blessed enough to see happy children everyday, thank your lucky stars!
But, if you are like many of us who have children that have attitudes, illnesses, hang-ups,
and habits, then I say to you my people, olet's unite. ? Children are emotional little
creatures that constantly have an opinion. By the way, if you forgot to check with your
children on who left the cereal all over the table this morning, don't call the school,
because I can bet you there will be something else at home waiting for you.

This next topic is one for everyone. Have you ever written down a list of chores
for everyone to do and received nothing but complaints and tears? Not to mention the
explanations owhy? ? Children have no concept of time. If children had ay poe
time, they would understand that mommy or daddy is tired from working all day. They
would understand that your brain is fried, died, and lying to the left side. They would
understand that your feet hurt from walking all day. You've also been writing out
grocery lists and stretching the bill money while planning the next PTA meeting. IF

our children had any concept of time, they would automatically remove themselves

rom the*dinner table and go to bed. It doesn't matter if they are funky, dirty, and
stinky. It only matters that they understand that mommy or daddy is fighting against
time.

What is a spanking? A spanking is a form of punishment administered to maniacs
whom otherwise would be called children. I spank. Do you spank? If not, God bless
your poor, confused soul. It seems crazy, but that is the only time I feel as though my
voice actually has sound as I begin to fold my lip, curl my toes, and utter the famous
phrase, oI am getting the belt! ? Doesn't it work for you? If you have found other
alternatives to spanking your children, then please let me and the others who believe
in a little tannin T from time to time know.

Have you ever been sitting in your bedroom on the phone, talking to a potential
victim? I called a boyfriend or girlfriend a victim because at each and every moment
your children are looking for an opportunity to make this person feel absolutely dumb.

ey will use everything in their power to prove to this new person that they know more
than he/she. Children honestly believe, with all of the four ideas they hold in their
brains, that they can compete with that of an adult. Here is a tip for handling this
situation. Look the child straight in the face and say, odo me a favor, go in your room
and think of what we can eat for dinner this weekend, and think of a Tun activity we
can do. ? That is going to give you about 2 hours of time.

So what have we learned el We have learned that children are simply that,
children. But don't be fooled. They are smart, manipulative, beautiful, funny, and
dangerous all at the same time. Remember to st armed and keep all potential victims
away from the maniacs, and just as the maniacs begin to take the form of children ...
it may be safe to introduce. CAUTION! AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Tf you have a personal experience that you would like to share with The Single
Parent Newsletter, forward all information to Modupe T Rouse at 600 Cascade Falls Lane
Suite 202, Durham, NC 27713. We will publish your experience in the next newsletter.

ney Kids
Color Me!

Mrs Beatrice Maye

Take the First Step
- Do you have a broken

relationship? If so, what have
you done with it? Have you
ignored it? Attacked the person,
manipulated the situation, in-
volved the wrong people, talked
too much, forgotten timing and
tact, covered up, or discarded
it?

These are all the wrong
things to do. If you are a
Christian, the right thing to do
is to follow the steps modeled by
Christ: choose to love, humble
yourself, suggest willingly, invite
reconciliation, and offer forgive-
ness.

Put your trust in Jesus now
and be right with God! Take
that all-important first step.

Sin cannot be undone, only
forgiven.

Gossip -- The Devil's Friend

My name is gossip. I have
no respect for justice. I maim

_ with age. The more I am quoted,
the more I am believed. |
flourish at every level of society.
My victims are the helpless.
They cannot protect themselves
against me because I have no
name and no face. To track me
down is impossible. The harder
you try, the more elusive |
become. I am nobody's friend.
Once I tarnish a reputation, it is
never the same. I topple govern-
ments and wreck marriages. |
ruin careers and cause sleepless
nights, heartaches, and indiges-
tion. 1 spawn suspicion and
generate grief. I make innocent
people cry in their pillows.

Even my name hisses. | am
called Gossip. Office Gossip.
Shop Gossip. Party Gossip.
Telephone Gossip. | make
headlines and headaches. Before
you repeat a story ask yourself:
Is it true? Is it fair? Is it
necessary?

This powerful essay is wor-
thy of frequent meditation and
humble prayer.

In addition to the essay's
litany of destruction, gossip un-
dermines friendships and tears
families apart. It brings to
complete ruin any and every
human relationship.

Gossip goes even beyond the
essay's statement, oI maim with-
out killing. ? While maiming is
its usual result, gossip does
indeed often lead to a killing,
whether suicide or homicide.

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of reputation, humiliation, and
disgrace, not to mention the ruin
of personal relationships, are
frequently more painful than
facing up to death.

Gossip sows the evil seeds
of doubt and distrust, even when
it spreads the truth. . It has
negative, destructive way of
moving the truth about in places
and at times when it is harmful.
All the more, when gossip
spreads lies, the distrust and
devastation are multiplied many
times over.

Unfortunately, to the gossip
that spreads gossip, it is often of
little concern whether the gossip
is true or not. The fun of it is in
spreading the swill. The joy of it
is in smearing the hapless butt of
whatever information or misip-
formation is at hand.

Full of insecurity, suffocated
by inadequacy, poisoned by jeal-
ousy and insane with envy, the
gossip labels himself / herself
seething with hatred, ill-wishing
toward all targets.

The essay left out one impor-
tant, distressing category: church
gossip. One would expect better
from the house of God, from
those who minister there and
from those who worship there.
Yet, gossip goes on happening
there and everywhere. If we are
to call ourselves Christians at all,
we must turn radically toward
that contradiction of all gossip:
peace to all people.

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House Negroes' and house
+», Slaves' - a bad rap

by. Michael O. Francis

The Washington Afro-American

sees The house Negroes, they
lived in the house with mas-
ter..and they loved the mas-
ter...they would give their life

to save the master's house....
Whenever the master said
we', he(the house Negro) said
we' if the master got sick, the
house Negro would say...we
sick.
with his master...And if you
came to the house Negro and
said, Let's run away, let's
escape, let's separate T, the
house Negro would look at
you and say, Man, you crazy.
What you mean, separate?
Where is there a better house
than this? Where can I wear
better clothes than this?
Where can I eat better food
than this?' That was the house
Negro...the slave master...used
Tom, the house Negro, to keep
field Negroes in check...."

He identified himself

This statement made by
Malcolm X and Harry
Belafonte's recent controversial
remarks likening Secretary of
State Colin Powell to a "house
slave" in the Bush administra-
tion reflect an age-old notion
about "house Negroes" or
ohouse slaves"who lived during
Slavery. This notion---held by
many Blacks --- is: All "house
Negroes ? or " house slaves"
loved and supported their mas-
ters, were snitches and "Uncle
Toms" and did not resist slav-
ery.

But wait a minute! This
notion is not true. The histori-
cal record in slavery proves
that it is not true. "House
Negroes" were often in the
vanguard of resistance to slav-
ery.
Toussaint L'Ouverture, who
led the famous slave revolt in
Haiti, was a "house Negro."
Most of the slaves involved in
Denmark, Vesey's rebellion in
1822 were "house Negroes".
And most of the slaves in-

Message To The Grass Roots volved in Gabriel Prosser's
(11/10/63) rebellion in 1800 were "house
Some slaves masters cited "house

Negroes" as being

particularly difficult.

Some slave masters stated that "the pro-

pensity to laziness"

was chiefly conspicu-

ous among house servants.

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_"House Negroes" adopted
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items from their masters. They
would lie to their masters, fake
illnesses, work slowly. do
"sloppy" work, act stupid and
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"House Negroes ? would run
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Some slaves masters cited
"house Negroes" as being par-

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ticularly difficult. Some slave
masters stated that "the propen-
sity to laziness" was chiefly
conspicuous among house ser-
vants. And some slave masters
indicated that "house Negroes"
did not show appreciation for
their status as "house Negroes".
So the fact is, contrary to
Malcolm X's claims, all "house
Negroes" did not love their
masters and were not submis-
sive, bootlicking "Uncle
Toms". And in fact, many
"house Negroes ? resisted and
fought the tyranny of slavery.
This commonly accepted
notion that "house Negroes" or
ohouse slaves ? were traitors to
the Black race --- a notion
popularized by Malcolm X
nearly four decades ago and
now echoed by _ Harry
Belafonte --- can be put to rest.
"House Negroes ? or "house
slaves" who lived during slav-
ery have been getting a bad rap
and that bad rap must not end.

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WHY HESS FLED.

READ AFRO WEEK

Kidnapped,

Wite Tells

colleges in Washington, Friday
evening, at

the winner. She is a Howard U.

co-ed. "Brown, Jr., Photo.

Killed, 6
Hurt at Lee

CAMP LEE Va. -- Roy Hart-
field. 28..0f Keut 1, Hopewell,
was killed when. a boiler ex-

ptoded af an incinerator planv ,
here on Thursday, and six others
were injured, one of them seri-
oushy

The hot storage tank
used at the piant was hurled 300
yards by ine biast and tore the
top from a Jacge tree before it
Janded

Although Malois Emory R
Honts and Ralph W_ Bean and
Fire Marshal Frederick Dwyer.
members of a ooard of inquiry
named hv General Cha:les D
Hartman, had not reported their
findings, the blast was believed
to have been caused by a ?aulty
pipe.

walter

In Ninth Sector

The explosion took place in the
area used by the Ninth Quarter-
master Training Regiment. Work-
ing at the plant unloading a

truck were civilians and soldiers. '

Injured civilians are Elijah G.
Thomas of Hopewell, who suf-

fered numerous superficial body ,

burns. Charles W. Hill and
Thomas Moore of Petersburg.
Members of the Ninth Regi-

Continued on page 2, col. 3

Pension

President Roosevelt again ve-
toed a bill to allow Miss Char-
jotte E. Hunter, formesly a teaches
er in the lecal public séhools, an
annuity from the Teachers T he-
tiement Fund.

In a veto message sent to Con-
gress on Tuesday, the. President
pointed out that he had vetoed

a similar bill on August 7, 1939, ,

and that the accompanying ob-

Continued on page 2, col. 3

Wife Joins Faith,
Couple Re-Married

Mr. and Mrs. George Plummer,
Sr., who were married in the
rectory of the Holy
Catholic Church on October 26,
1938 by Father St. Onge, weie
sre-married in a nuptial mass In
St. Augustine Church, here, last
week.

At the time of the first cere-
| mony the wife was a non-Catho-
lic. She later joined her husband
in the St. Augustine congregation.
| Three generations of the Plum-
mer family participated in the
| ceremony and included altar
boys, Joseph and Leo Plummer.
,and Charles Plummer who gave
the bridé away :

More Protest

Editor Ts

BALTIMORE " A rising tide

of protests from persons and or-!'

What's Going On
at Home?

Arrest

ganizations both here and out-
cf-town have followed the arrest
on May 3 of Carl Murphy, editor
| of the AFRO-AMERICAN News-
papers, who was crarged with
disorderly conduct because he
| refused to answer a policeman Ts
questions concerning an auto ac-
cident.

Not only have the protests
flooded the office of Governor
|Herbert R OConor who has
| promised to maintain a close
personal interest in the situation, ?

|
Continued on page 2, col. 4

That's the question up-
permost in the mind of
many a boy in army
training centers. Yes,
you send him long,|let-
ters about family and

Army Men Must
Be Able to Pass
Fourth Grade Test

No registrant for induction
in the U. S. Army will be
inducted into the military
service unless his ability to
read and write meets the |

which E. Simms,
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity in the Campbell, noted artist, will select |

+ D). Vetoes

=i 2 Killed in Blast
at Chenical Plant

standards prescribed for the T
fourth grade in grammar
sctrodl, It was announced this
week,

All men called for service
who have not completed the
fourth grade jn grammar.

friends "but he'd like

to know what's going

on around town, too.

Why not give him a

subscription to his fa-
. vorite newspaper?

* school will receive a literacy
IF HE READS rr halan perl Laird
will require them wi
THE AFRO brief sta te .

se tA ate BOE dy .
Geb bela bakes tea hantins eS

.

ing * | raixing of
. oud

Reporters

AFRO rep-rters were stumped
up to press time today in trying
to probz the report that a popu-
lar matron living in the 600 block
of L Street. Northeast. was kid-
i napped while waiting for a street

\

Continued on page 5, Col. 1

BULLETIN

QUINCY, Fla "A_ second
Ivnch mob surrounded an
ambulance taking the wound-
ed man to the hospital a
tpitited him away. Fi
hours later he was found
dead on a creek bridge north
of here.

QUINCY

d
ve

22-ycar-ald

Fia- A

attack susp ct was fovnd se10US- meeting, Saturday, named Dr. Al-
Tuesday phonse Heninburg, administrative

Iv injured but aive

Continued o page 2. col. 5

AFRO

WHY DID HESS FLEE?

By RALPH

ros

-

MATTHEWS.

Why did Rudolph Hess, the No. 3 Nazi, quit Ger-

many and flee in
; the Scottish Moors,
T sensational occurre

That is the question being
asked al] over the world to-
dav, and it is natura! that
AFRO readers would be!
keenly interested in this
greatest of modern conun-

drums.

| Every barber shop, beauty
shop, lunch room and meeting!
; place Jet the routine gossip of

It's Choice Gossip

WEEK "

Name New Prexy

Florida Lynchers Heningburg
Finally Kill Man

to the arms of his enemies, landing 9n Novth Carolina College as admin- |
in what is the most fantastic and
nce of World War No. 2?

the neighborhood g? by the board

as thousands of theories were ad- ,

vanced on the motives of the Ger-

man leader. some of them as fan- eck
the spectacular escape Mittee of the Association of Col-

tastic as
itself.
And why should not every
American citizen, regardless
of race, creed or color, be in-

9

|

New Dover

State Head |

DOVER, Del. "Less
weeks after Dr. Richard S. Gross-
ley was dropped from the presi- |
dency of Delaware State College,
the board of trustees in a special

than two

assistant of North Carolina Col- |
lege, Durham, to fill the vacancy.
Election of Dr. Heninburg to!
the position followed in the wake!
of a resolution in the lower houre |
of the State Jegislature calling i
for an investigation of the board's |
reasons for dismissing Dr. Gross- |
ley whose retirement is to become | °
effect verat-the- end of thespresep$ | 4.: 3
school year :
Di Heninburg has served at!
istrative assistant to Dr James;
E Shepard, president, since 1937. |
New Prexy Widely Known
Widely known for his work in;
public relations and as a teacher
of school administration, he is al
member of the executive com- |

leges and Secondary Schools for
Negroes and secretary of the as-
sociation Ts control board.

Last month, Dr. Heninburg was |
elected alumni representative on.

|

Continued on page 2. col. 6

' ORANGEBURG, S.C. "Clam-:
,like secrecy 1s still being main-
tained at what was the Wanna-
maker Chemical Plant, three
miles southwest of here, follow-
ing an explosion on Friday in
which two colored workers were T
killed and a third seriously T

injured. |

The dead aré Joseph Pearson, '
chief electrician, killed instantly,|
and John Montgomery, foreman
of the building. who died soon,
lafter being admitted to the

Continued on oak 5, col.

ae County Hospital here. All were Spee reer yen || BERLE, RM) = DACs tet et ane
Marion Day, the third worker. farmer st ont t South Caro- MISS ; reported reaction to the recent Va Sunday morning. 4
is reported improving at the Tri- HOA? CK Cy Sin , daughter of Mr and Mrs. Riche puting regarding " Sicording to the story of the.
ara Stete College. /ard Cannidy, who celebrated her ae ourt o o sale voung matron, she nad boarded 4
. ree equalty .n railrca acilities a
. he pl i seventeenth birthday. Tuesday, . the train, whch is a througa.4
WASHINGTON The plant was engaged in WO | same day that Joe Louis cei- ,°#Me In the form of a violent ard special from New York, at the 8

Published Every Saturday by
THE AFRO-AMERICAN
COMPANY
1800 ELEVENTH ST.. NW
PHONES: DECATUR 0080-0081

|

into J.C. Coach

Richmond ;

manufecture of war materials
under a national defense contract,
and was completely destroyed by |
the blast which was heard for,

, b.utal attack upon Mrs. Bernice
shown presenting the heav:- Barnes 22-year-o'd hausew ite Of ara air /
weight champion a bouquet of 109 Barclay Street. who charges Whie the train made a tens
flowers at the Arlington County that she was forcibly ejected by aAAme ste - Washingto f
mus | estate of Al Dade, where he 1s two policemen and a corductor ' nd 30. o10 k th toll p
Sabotage Rumored residing until his title match with from the car in whigh she ayeg) POU as oo T d Cera}
Speculation as to the cause of | Buddy Baer next Friday at Grif- riding to a car ahead when tre, IX ITO 8) te went
fith Stadium Atlantic Coastline RR, Fiorida!

ebrated his twenty-seventh 1 Newark Pennsylvania Station @t4

Continued on page 2, col. | i

Continued on page 6. col. 6

where color bartiers prevent
these

They Do It Better in England "No J.C.

et " '
Unlike in the United. States,|\gqa. masks in their new quarters) tario; A. P. Beaudry,

the} at Altershot, England. Left to' front .row "'T, Stevenson,
righttback fow- "J+ Chambers, katchewan}. +"

Congressmen Join Foes T
of Job Center Reform

The forces opposed to the Car-
12, 1919, as an aftermathe of a
pentef plan for reorganization of
the D.C. Employment Center to
eliminate racial discrimination
have been joined by several
members of the House Appropri-
ation Sub-committee, it became
apparent this week

The Carpenter plan, the details
of which have not yet been re- |
leased by the Bureau of Employ.- |
ment Service, became public!
knowledge several weeks ago
when an anonymous person, be- |
lieved to have been.an employee |
of the center, distributed a cir-'
cular urging opposition to the T
plan.
| Greater Efficiency Sought

Among the features of the pro- '
posed reorganization are elim-
nation of racial segregation of

chief of the Employment Serv- pected from Capitol Hill.
ee oe ae The first such opposition T
ue . @ BEGb eCUrY | ert on Saturday, when it wi
B:ard, and Federal Security Ad-' -ned that bere 7
ministrator Paul V. McNutt have MCHA MALE a8) 9 Ho J
ox ressed a - lea a ci | Sub-committee on Appropriationgsg
Px pres e ermina ion to shape! a4 engaged in a heated deb
a fair and efficient policy for the. ;
j center, strong opposition is ex- |
|

NAACP Thanks School 4
Board for Spingarn Honors

¢
The local branch of the NAACP this week expressed apprervg
clation to the District School Board for the honor paid its fore
mer national president, the late Joel B. Spingarn, in the ptos!
posal to name a new high school for him ii
The letter, signed by John Lovell, Jr., secretary, Was ad-y
dressed to Mts, Henry G. Doyle, president of the board, af
read in part: .

both applicants and employees of
the center, T establishment of one
central office for interviewing all
applicants, and the creation of a
single master file which would
contain all their cards, regardless
of race.

The proposed changes, it was

o Ontario; onde the smcleney and. fairness oWe hope that the people of Washington will fully apps
- Sas- | of operation of the center. , clate the significance of your action in advancing the cause {qj
Wiltshire; ° Moths ik f ls Determined, which Mr. Spingarn fought. ? ' ; et
; , Although: Martin F, Carpenter, |r " " " " " a
Rd Oe One COTO hs
» 4

inated at this time.

of world democracy.

oWe believe that the example of
who preached and practiced true American democracy,
gardless of artificial racial lines,

oIf Mr, Spingarn were alive today, he would certainly!
be a leader among those who are trying to keep our nation ox
the beam of sound internal democracy to match our defense¥

Mr. Spingarn as a man

cannot be too widely dissent, :