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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talks exics
Vicente Fox during her arrival at the Los Pinos presidential residence
. in Mexico City, Mexico, in March.

with Mexico Ts President
Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills

MEXICO CITY - The meeting
between Fox and Jackson at the
presidential residence was a sharp
contrast from a few days ago, when
Jackson called on the Mexican

Edwards challenge
you ready to

Former Senator John Rdwards

recieves the Chanc
NCCU Chancellor James H. Ammons

president to issue a public apology.

President Vicente Fox apol.
gized last Monday for saying that
Mexicans in the United States do
the work that blacks won't, but

ellor Ts Award from

UURHAM, NC - Former Senator
John Edwards asked the assembled
raduates at North Carolina Central
Cniversitys 105th Commencement
cetemonies held Saturday, May 7,
2005, whether they were ready to
change the world. As keynote speaker,
Edwards was enlisting their energy
and support to eradicate the disgrace
of poverty in this, the richest, most
powerful nation in the world.
Edwards intends oto shine a

Mrume Apoirs Havinc A Personar

bright light on the issue ? as part of
his new role as director for the Cen-
ter on Poverty, Work, and Opportu-
nity at the University of North Caro-
lina - Chapel Hill. In his speech, he
made reference to the 36 million
poor and the 25 million Americans
on the brink of poverty. The total
represents a staggering 20 percent of
the population. |

He acknowledged that the Bible
tells us the poor will always be with

Still Plans To Run For Maryland Ts Senate Seat

by Makebra Anderson

WASHINGTON (NNPA) "

When the NAACP Ts Board of Di-

_ rectors declined to renew the con-

tract of President and CEO Kweisi

Mfume last fall, some speculated

Kweisi Mfume addressed a wide
range of issues during a meetin
with reporters Photo: Jed
Kirschbaum

that it was because of the internal
conflicts between Mfume and
Board Chairman Julian Bond.
However, published reports have
now disclosed that there were also
concerns over Mfume's personal
relationship with one female staff
member, possibly more.

oI don't think this has anything
to do with personality conflicts.
What people have been talking
about is why Mfume left and in
that context they were talking
about the problems with Bond, but
as it turns out, that might not have

been the issue at all. This may have
been the issue, ? said University of
Maryland professor Ron Walters.
It was recently disclosed that
last summer, a female employee of
the NAACP, Michele Speaks, ac-
cused Mfume of unfair treatment.
The NAACP Ts executive commit.
tee requested that an outside law-
yer review her allegations and as-
sess the organization's liability.
One month after the lawyer
presented the memo to the com-
mittee, Mfume resigned. ,
Mfume states that his resigna-
tion had nothing to do with
Speaks T charges.
oMy contract was up there [at
the NAACP] on October 24, It was

really time for me to move on and. |

do something else, ? he said on the
National Public Radio program;
oNews & Notes with Ed Gordon. ?
He explained, oWhat that some-
thing else was, as I said at my press
conference, could have been busi-
ness, it could have involved poli-
tics, it could involve Writing or it
could have involved spendin
more time with my youngest son,
but it was time for me to move on, .
I'm the kind of person that is mo-
tivated by challenge and I needed
a new challenge. ? |
According to the Washington

Post, which broke the Story, the
memo stated, oThe impression
[was] created that a woman must

rovide sexual favors to Mr.
Mfume or his associates in order
to receive favorable treatment in
the workplace. ?

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ern city of Puerto Vallarta Fox said,
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there Ts no doubt that the Mexican

men and women full of dignity,
willpower and a capacity for work
~ are doing the work that not even

blacks want to do in the United
States. ? Fox made the controver-
sial comment to a group of Texas
businessmen during the meeting.
He criticized recent steps the
United States has taken that the
Bush administration said were
aimed at curbing illegal immigra-

As Fox; who's paternal grand-
father was an Irish-American born
in Cincinnati. tried to smooth re-
lations with the U.S. Black com-
munity that following Wednesday
after saying Mexican immigrants
take jobs that onot even ? blacks
want he promised to work with
Jackson to improve labor rights for
minorities in the United States.
Fox and Jackson met for more
than an hour but didn Tt Participate
in a news conference that immedi-

us, but oSome people use this as an
excuse to do nothing. ? He exhorted
the crowd, oDon't look away from

the poverty surrounding us. ?

Edwards declared the necessity
to raise the minimum wage to seven
dollars. The current wage of $5.15

_ per hour was set eight years agg and

places every full time, minimum
wage worker supporting a: family of
three below the poverty line. * *

Edwards asked, oIs it right to
work two jobs and still have your
child go to bed hungry? ? He added,
oWhen people do right by America,
we should do right by them. ?

Edwards reminded the crowd

that job loss, illness or injury could

happen to anyone and often serves
as the prelude to a fall from the

_ middle class into poverty. Unlike

other developed nations around the
world, there is no real safety net for.
Edwards said that income allows
you to oget along ? but assets ensure
that you oget ahead. ? In this regard,
he was speaking pointedly to the Af-
rican Americans and Latinos in his
audience whose average net worth
stands at $6,000.and $8,000, respec-
tively, while the average for white
Americans is pegged at $80,000.
To right this injustice, Edwards
proposes offering baby bonds with
the government providing additional
funds matching the savings invested

ReaTion Witt

In the NPR interview, Mfume
told Ed Gordon, oThese are all un-
proven and unsubstantiated accu-
sations. That's the interesting thing
about all of this, and why some-
one would take that information T
to the Washington Post in the

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had to leave for a trip to northern

Mexico. Fox has made no public .

reference to his comment that pre-
vious Friday and continued to is-
sue inconsistent statements
through his aides. .

Jackson, whose Rainbow/
PUSH Coalition is based in Chi-
cago, said Fox was scheduled to
appear on the civil rights leader Ts
tadio program Sunday. Fox also
was invited to several U.S. labor
forums, although it wasn Tt clear
whether he planned to attend.

Luis Ernesto Derbez, Presi-
dent Fox Ts Foreign Secretary, who
appeared at the news conference on
Fox's behalf, said the meeting was
an Opportunity for Mexico to pur-
sue better treatment for Mexican
and other Latino migrants in the
United States. About 25 million
people of Mexican heritage live in
the United States.

Fox Ts spokesman, Rubén
Aguilar, said Fox Ts comments were
in defense of Mexican migrants as
they come under attack by new
U.S. immigration measures that
include a wall along the Mexico-
California border, and were not
meant to offend anybody. oThey've

S$ NCCU Grads, oAre

by parents over the course of their
child T lifetime until graduation by
which time, they could have accumu-
lated $20,000 to $40,000 in the.
bank.

Other measures Edwards sug-

gested included strengthening the
earned income tax credit and fair
wage legislation, eliminating the
marriage penalty and tax cuts to the

~ wealthy, and expanding T Medicait:

Nearing the end of his speech,
Edwards told his audience of gradu-
ates, oYou can do something to end
poverty in America. It Ts you that can
ensure that you never have to work
hard and send your children to bed
hungry. ?

For his speech Saturday, NCCU
Chancellor James H. Ammons pre- -
sented Edwards with the Chancellor T
Award.

Ammons presented several other
awards during the ceremony, includ-
ing: an honorary doctorate degree to
Dr. Linda Clayton, physician, re-
search scientist and author at
Harvard University who began her
illustrious career with a bachelor Ts
degree in chemistry from NCCU; an
honorary doctorate degree to George
Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz
Festival who quipped that NCCU Ts
O TKelly-Riddick Stadium owould be
a nice place to hold a jazz festival ?;
the Chancellor's Merit Award to Dr.

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middle of the night and leave it in
the very early stages of this cam-
paign is very interesting and I can't
really react to that. I believe how-
ever that it Ts clearly an effort to kill
the campaign, to discredit me, to

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tions of life not just for themselves

by Mexicans are jobs that in the
S. society aren't being filled, ?

and further went on to say that, oI.

think that what we have to be very.

clear about is that the statement ©

made by the president .was in .no
way narra by racism. ? :

Previously State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher said
the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City

had raised'the issue with*the Mexi-
can government indicating that it:

was, oa very insensitive and inap-
propriate way to phrase this and we

would hope that (the Mexicans)

would clarify the remarks. ?

Only Jobs Blacks Don Tt
Want...?

One Mexican citizen
Celedonio Gonzdlez, a 35-year-old
carpenter who worked illegally in
Dallas for six months in 2001 said
the President Fox was just telling
the truth, oMexicans go to the
United States because they have to.
Blacks want to earn better wages,
and the Mexican because he is ille-
gal takes what they pay him. ?

However Lisa Catanzarite, a
sociologist at Washington State
University, disputed Fox Ts asser-
tion, saying that there is intense

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but also for the communities in -
which they settle and, by the same
token, the president made the
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employers usually prefer to hire ~
immigrants who don't know their
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willingness to work ... translates
into extreme exploitability, ?: she
said. as
Workable immigration poli-.

cies Ak ae
In a CNN telephone interview
following the Fox Ts controversial "
statement, Reverend Jesse Jackson
said that Fox oshould not confuse
the need for sound le al immigra-
tion policy between the:two.coun-

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Walter Brown, first dean of NCCU Ts
School of Education; honorable
mention to Professor Isabel
Chicquor for having been selected to
receive the Board of Governor Ts
Award for Teaching Excellence;
NCCU Awards for Teaching Excel-

lence to Ms. Minnie Forte, Dr. |

,James Guseh, Dr. Veronica Nwosu

oand Dr. Esther Okieyi; and Stu-.

dent Leadership Awards to Miss
NCCU Sharonda Arnold and Stu-
dent Government Association
resident D TWeston Haywood.
The Chancellor's Award to the Par-
ents with Three or More Gradu-
ates was presented to Mr. and Mrs.
Jim and Doris Harper and Mr. and
Mrs. Milton and Geraldine
Pickett.
The atmosphere became decid-
edly less reserved when the under-

graduates were asked to line up in

order to cross the stage and receive
acknowledgement of their degrees.
There were waves to and from the

packed seating in the stands andlots. ?
of whooping and-holleting, =.
Some of the graduares had writ-
ten messages in glitter paint on the
tops of their mottarboatds like, oI.
love you mommy! T of inside jokes
like oWhere Ts Regina? ?
Graduates like Shrree Alexander
Joved the program but said, | er
best part was when: I-walked across T aterm
the stage. ? With her bachelor Ts in:
chemistry, Alexander will be looking ©
for work as a lab technician.
Other graduates like Brandon
Winford:and Nicosia Davis will
pursue graduate studies, Winford
at NcéU and Davis at Central
Michigan University. All agree thar.
this is the close of a very impor-
tant chapter in their lives and the
beginning of a new adventure.
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NCCU Chancellor James H.
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year's banquet. Photo: Jim Rouse

Pitt County Freedom Fund Banquet: From left to tight are Reverend
Michael Dixon, the guest speaker, The

nD. President of thie Pitt County NAACP. Calvin |
Henderson, Heritage Chairwoman. Evelyn Little and York Memorial Pas-
tor, Rev. William Johnson were among the many guests who attended this

Honorable Dudley Flood, Hostess,

NC Legislative Black Caucus Foundation
Sets 20th Annual Conference

RALEIGH, NC - The North Caro-
lina Legislative Black Caucus Foun-
dation announces its 20th Anniver-
sary of their Annual Legislative Edu-
cation and Scholarship Weekend
Conference. The conference will be
held June 10-11, 2005. The Legisla-
tive Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. is
extremely pleased to be in association
with the Old North State Medical So-
ciety for the 20th Anniversary. The
conference theme is The 20th Anni-
versary/Reflections: Standing on our
History, Building for the Future."

A special Black Tie Gala/Concert
is planned for the evening of June 10th
at the Raleigh Civic & Convention
Center. The ward Winning Manhat-
tans featuring Gerald Alston and Blue
Lovett will be in concert immediately
following the Gala. Full conference
schedule follows,

The conference begins Friday,
June 10, 2005, with the Town Hall

Forum followed T by the Chairman's
Reception and Black Tie Gala/Con. . - .
cert. Highlights include remembering
former caucus members and recipients

of the Henty E. Frye/Annie

Kenned: Ti he tnd Cone:
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urday morning for an lifting mies-
sare from our tar whe ron Speaker,
fo owed b informative worksho on

Minority Health Disparities, Educa-
tion, Crime and Elections, Also, on
Saturday an exciting youth forum will
be ned for ages 7-18,
The chair of the North Carolina
Legislative Black Caucus Foundation,
Representative Beverly Earle, ho all
North Carolinians 'will come an sup-
alles os Carolina Legislative
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Waka tion Scholarship
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when the NY Post Daily News head-
lined: HIV- Foster kids _ New York
used as Guinea Pigs. These

ing allegations ingicared that the
Catholic Church had been holding
hands with several well known drug
conglomerates and the federall
funded National Institutes of Heal
(NIH) for one of the most horrific

Bill Cosb

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

In 1992, a star-studded crowd

at the Academy of Arts and Sciences
Hall of
Fame gala
awards in-
| duction cer-
emonies
chuckled at
the one-lin-
its princi-
| ielacace
. ill Cosby.
, | The laughter
~~ stopped

| when
turned serious and accused the

mostly white film and TV writers of

omassacring ? the black image on

Ts skewered indictment
studio executives
seemed ironic. For a decade they had
enshrined him as America Ts most
treasured TV Dad. They T made

screen.

BET Nightly News Cancelled " No

By Michael K. Fauntroy NNPA

newscast jn lieu of hourly u
The 11 . oe
ing black Americans news stories

on the other ret Wdrks. The loss T of BE

while TWb
of things

i to ever

BET president and chief operating officer Debra Lee
hour ews ewok and
everyone getting news off the Internet, our audience t
want to wait until 1 p.m. to find out what the news is.
oShe's wrong. If news at 11 p.m. was not a demand of the
community, then thousands of stations all over the coun-
try would not invest dollars and man
- Ms. Lee fails to understand
Nightly News was bland and amateurish. ,
interview. But since Ed
Gordon left the anchor desk, no real journalist has filled
the seat. Tavis Smiley is a commentator and Jacquie Reed

said in a press release, oWith 2

tand that the BET

there would be a ground breaking

reads very well.

. Twenty years ago, BET News started with two-
minute news briefs that ran in the middle of Video
Soul with Donnie Simpson. I had high hopes that in
20 years, the network would be able to muster up some
real competition cable news arena. I was really excited

ET announced that it is shutting down its nightly
tes of

p.m. thirty- minute program, was meant to

rtunate, is not a big deal in the
. The reason why it won't be such a
whe SR eee arly produced

No watched its unimaginative, poo pro-
fic It wasn't appointment television and it was un-

cluding North Carolina, Illinois,
Maryland, New York, Louisiana,
Colorado and Texas have been ex-
posed as allowing HIV clinical trials
testing on foster children. What is

ing on.in New York stands apart
Tani deg het poo one
ing. Enter the Catholic Church who
has been providing housing at a New

y's Image

Cosby, a black man, the quintessen-
tial symbol of all that was good and
wholesome in family values con-
scious America.

More than a decade after Cosby
knocked the execs for butchering
the black image, the even more
tragic irony is that he has done
much to iassacre his own image.
At last count, thirteen women in
court documents have virtually
branded Cosby a serial sexual
victimizer. They claim that he
drugged and/or sexually as-
saulted them. In interviews, an

angry Cosby screamed foul, and:

claimed that the charges are

nothing but a shakedown of 4 T

rich, and famous celebrity.
Though no criminal charges have
been filed against him, Cosby
will be tied up in endless civil
litigation for years to come to
untangle the he said, she said
mess.

the day Ts events.

could .pot see casts that would

Nightly News,

scheme
is that

enlighten those

more
black women?

into these

It could have

fills the void.

_ Dear Editor

when Viacom "which owns CBS News bo
sic network from Bob Johnson. I had visions that BET
producers would join forces with seasoned CBS pro-
ducers and create

shaking and low-

BET Night!

public policy at

teaches courses j

edge of consent or that of their par-
ents or guardians; the experiments
are neither safe nor are they proven
to be ; toxin
level found in drugs is known to
cause disability and death.; guard-
ians refusing to administer the
owerful drugs to children, were
lef defenseless and without laws of

Problem

Cosby inadvertently made him-
self a sitting duck for the finger
pointing, when in a well meaning,

ut ill-tempered tirade last May, he
lambasted poor black teens and their
parents, for being lousy parents, edu-
cational slackers, for butchering the
English language, and for their al-
leged thuggish behavior. He made
the same charges against them a
couple of months later. The indict-
ment was way too broad, too sweep-
ing, and it inched dangerously close
to reinforcing the same vile racial ste-
reotypes that Cosby has spent most
of his wietior career fighting
against. They were the type of ste-
reotypes that he had accused the TV
and Lim executives more tharPa de-
cade earlier of fanning.

Now Cosby was on the bad be-
havior hot seat. If America Ts number
one Dad can ride-high up in the
moral saddle and lecture other blacks
on their alleged bad behavior, than

ught the mu-

unique and stimulating news broad-

tap into the black audience worldwide.
Oops...my bad. No such thing happened. BET Ts news
m, ent "despite the fact that their business cards
say CBS News "let a prime o

BET TS newscast was a bad fit, existing in asea of booty
brow television. Who believes that black
Americans interested in the public policy or serious issues
would sit through the T latest Snoop Dogg soft

portunity slip away.

soft porn to see

the news? How often was the newscast advertised during
the day on the network and in other formats?

Was the news there to break ground or just satisfy
critics who believe a black television network should be
than a place to watch black men sexually abuse

y News is an example of promise lost.
been so significant to such a large
underserved segment of television viewers. Now, we are
left with nothing

I call out to Cathy Hughes and TV One. Help.
Come to our collective rescue and bring us the news.
We mourn not for BET Nightly News. No big loss.
The tragedy will be if no media outlet-black or white.

Michael K. Fauntroy is an assistant professor of
George Mason University, where he
n urban policy, policy evaluation.

and running.

South Central

to onot enoug
a fact, 1 know this is not true.

High School has 8 students in their culinary arts pro-
gram, while we had 11 students who wanted to en-
roll for next year. It seems to me that this is an issue
of money and not enough interest in the program.
Other students at South Central who, have enrolled
in this class feel the same way as I do about this situ-
ation. Students should not have to go without classes
being offered at other high schools in the

county {ust because we are a new school.

mercial sr resin a South Central is Sing developed re

it's t this program is not being 0 °
cause Pirt County Schools doesn't want to spend
basic equipment such as baking sheets

and knives so our program can be built. My mgent
aan is les io inform the public dh
needed

that are

money buying

least $50,000 was spent m. kitchen uipment,
fice is rofasieg to fond het s

now county o

not

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to start the - The students at South Central
should not suffer because

Needs It Ts Culinary
Course
lam a student attending South Central High
School. As a student, it concerns me that our Culi-
nary Arts progam will not be funded next year due
oP students" registering for thec

use we are a state-of-me art

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Sincerely,

ice President

Greenville, NC

Leigh Jeffreys .

school who lack basic necessities to get programs up
Thank you for your time

Quirmita Jemigan,

Junior, South Central High School
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the day that spoke to tired blood
and anemia as well as Syphilis. It
is widely disclosed that the then
Public Health Service was most
interested in the disease pathology.
A cure would mean the end of a
public menace, so one was intro-
duced, but 10 years later.

The Tuskegee study is alleged to

moments after the curtain closed on
Syphilis in the early seventies, is it
: the research of communi-
cable disease had 40 plus years of trial
and error to perfect the second strain
of the most menacing disease known
to the Western man, HIV the virus

that causes Aids.
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| who defended themecires against the | vices, " penicilin was made available as a
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he should be held to the same lofty
standard. The hint of sexual miscon-
duct left him wide open to the accu-
sation that he was a hypocrite and a
Tae

There were warning signs that
Cosby might Staelin: ripe fora
tumble. In 1997 he made a bomb-
shell confession that in the 1970s he
had an extra marital affair, and was
accused of fathering an illegitimate
daughter. There were allegations of
shakedowns, under the table hush
money payoffs, an extortion trial and
conviction of the woman who
claimed to be his illicit daughter, and
an avalanche of embarrassing kiss and
tell tabloid gossip stories on Cosby.

He dodged the bullet on that
one. In sex scandal driven America,
its a virtual rite of passage for the
celebrity, rich and famous to be em-
broiled in peep show scandals. The .
public delights in that kind of titilla-

tion. It was to ban in Boston a

guy that had shelled out millions to
minority student scholarshi funds,
tre-

black colleges and had wo

nches campaign to document
progress of African Americans
since 1865.

New Orleans, LA
(BlackNews.com) - June 19th,
2005 marks the 140th year an-
niversary of the celebration of
Juneteenth - the oldest nationally
celebrated commemoration of
the ending of slavery in the
United States.
JUNETEENTH.com reports an
increase in first-time celebra-
tions, and announces the launch
of the 140th Juneteenth Anniver-
sary Campaign.

To participate, organizations
and supporters are encouraged to
log on and register their event
and organization in the National
Juneteenth Registry. T

The 140th Juneteenth Anni-
versary Campaign is a 10-year

tion in recent

lessly for civil rights causes over the
years. Cosby also continued to rail
against the clown, coon, and buck
dance image that blacks propagated
of themselves in TV sitcoms. He
pushed and prodded the film and TV
industry to do more to promote
more positive black images on screen.

But the glue on Cosby Ts still
largely intact good guy image loos-
ened in January when Andrea
Constand was the first in the door
to accuse him of druggin and sexu-
ally assaulting her. Cosby initially
vehemently denied the charge, but
swiftly shifted into damage control
mode and, as he delicately put it, had
a sexual encounter ? with her, but
said it was consensual: That still fit

the jaded (public belief that the rich~

arid famous routinely have their little
sexual trysts, and who makes a big
deal out of that? Cosby defenders
cited the fact that Constand waited
years to come forth to make her
char as proof that it was a put up
job by unnamed conspirators to

character assassinate yet another high

initiative which will focus on as-
sessment, education and
acknowledgement of African
American progress since 1865 -
culminating with the 150th
Juneteenth Anniversary.

Often cited as the African
American Independence Day,
Juneteenth has been the subject
of city, state and federal legisla-
ears, establishing
ft as a special day of recognition,
and as one of the fastest rowing
events in the country. The cel-
ebration of Juneteenth Originates
from Galveston, Texas, whereas
on June 19th, 1865, the word of
the Emancipation Proclamation
reached the enslaved. Today,
Juneteenth is embraced and cel.
ebrated by all races and
ethnicities in honor, and in com-

profile, outspoken black man and
thereby sully all blacks as moral de-
generates. There Ts not a shred of evi-
dence to back that up. Moreover,
Cosby did not pillory President
Bush, othe white man, ? or the owhite
establishment. ? .

That's the bare prerequisite for
blacks to rally around a black under
fire, shout racism and spin racial con-
spiracy theories. Cosby had attacked
other blacks. The horde of conserva-
tive commentators stumbled over
themselves to hail Cosby as the ulti-
mate truth-giver and laud him for
having the courage to air dirty racial
laundry, =

Americas favorite dad got some

things right and: some: things terri-
bly wrod wee bashwofiblaek:
America. And he.may be right that

his parade of sexual accusers is out to
pouse a star. But if he Ts wrong, he'll
ave more than an image problem.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a col-
umnist for BlackNews.com, and can
be reached at 323-296-6331 or
hutchinsonreport@aol.com

memoration of African American
culture and achievement.
JUNETEENTH.COM de-
veloped and maintains the Na-
tional Juneteenth Re istry - the
largest database of Juncteenth
celebrations, organizations and
Supporters in existence.
JUNETEENTH.com was
launched in 1996 as a Web por-
tal to communicate and support
the efforts of Juneteenth organi-
zations and to raise awareness
and self-esteem in the oAfrican
American community.

Bennett Coll
| Women in fis

for

Crisis

by Wilbert A. Tacum

One of the two historically
Black women Ts colleges in the
United States is in crisis. It is
Bennett College for Women,
located in Greensboro, North
Carolina, It has been for several
years on the brink of closing

use enough money not
be raised to die ings that had
to be done in order for it to
survive. the famed

Three years ago, the
educator Dr, pee B. Cole
agreed to come out of retirement in
order to structure a plan and

to save the ;
said that she could only serve for
five years. Nesting the end of her
to

commitment college, some

te

have to close its doors. That would
be a tragedy for Black America and

~ its higher education goals for its

children.
Many graduates of historically
Black colleges in the United States
ve begun a campaign to raise
money for Bennett on a short-term
is, so that the college can survive

during these times when its lon
term Bnancial plan is being Fy
into eae
?,? urge those who know the
ay the work it has done and

ital perrdpe ay
contribution to co .
ege. The

Bennett College for Women
900 East Washington Street,
]

Greensboro, North Carolina

27401.

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by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr

The cascading scandals of House
Majority Leader Rep. Tom othe Ham-
ee mer ? DeLay
are Starting to
Fget the full
@COUIt press
treatment.

reporters and bloggers. Rebuked three
times by a bipartisan House Ethics
Committee that he then proceeded to
gut, DeLay is fair game.
But too much of the coverage
ses on who paid for lavish jun-
ts to golf courses in Scotland, or
quirky votes where DeLay, rabid
right-wing moralist, protected. the
casino interests represented by oCa-
sino Jack ? Abramoff, his personal
friend and junket buddy.
But the problem with congres-
sional corruption isn t that legislators
a trip or two to vacation spots.
Or even that they talk one way and
vote another. The real problem with
congressional corruption is that its
victims tend to be the most vulner-
able, those who can Tt afford to hire a
ian lobbyist or contribute to
a Tom DeLay political committee or
defense fund. .
Consider the young women
working in sweat shop conditions in
the U.S. Commonwealth of the

©

uman Cost o

The islands, a of the USS. but ex-
oempt from U.S. labor standards,

built an economy on exploitation. Its ?
t helped garment manu-
caiers imports of thousands of -

- impoverished foreign aie -
m young women " from Asia.
= ean housed in barracks-like
buildings, often surrounded by
barbed wire. They were indentured
to employers, having borrowed
money to get to the CNMI. They
were to labor 12 hours a day
at sub-minimum wages, often under
conditions perilous to their health.

y young women arrived at
CNMI with the promise of a job only
to find that the promise a lie. They

- were coerced into the islands T thriv-
ing sex trade. Others were simply
abandoned in the slums of Saipan,
in debt, ashamed and unable to re-
turn to their home countries.

All this took place on islands that
were part of America, and flew the
American flag. The conditions were
investigated, documented, litigated.
There is no doubt that tens of thou-
sands of young women were brutally
exploited so that the owners of the
islands T garment industries " often
absentee Chinese owners secking to

avoid Chinese quotas " could profit. :

Rep. George Miller led the effort
to curb these human rights violations.
He pushed hard for immigration and
labor reforms, including raising the
minimum wage in the islands. His bills
often eae Senate and then were
killed in the House, where the system
of exploitation was defended by one
Tom Delay, who hailed the CNMI
economy as a paragon of free enter-

rise.

is Whether DeLay believed that
tripe we don't know. What we do
know is that his travel buddy, oCa-
sino Jack ? Abramoff poc some
$8-10 million lobbying to fend off
labor law and immigration reforms
that might protect those young
women, but bit the profits pock-
eted by the CNMI ent indus-
try owners. Abramoff raised tens of
thousands for Bush and DeLay and
other Republicans. He paid for
DeLay and other legislators to jun-
ket to the CNMI, to play golf and to
herald the blessings oft the islands T free
enterprise system. And DeLay led the
effort in the congress to block any
reforms.

Abramoff pocketed millions.
DeLay got tens of thousands for his
various political action committees.
And the poor, young, anonymous
women, strangers in a strange land,
paid the price.

And so will et seniors,
every day, when they buy prescrip-
tion drugs. One of the rebukes
DeLay earned form the Ethics Com-

omittee concerned his attempt to

bribe Rep. Nick Smith to vote for the

| Prescription drug bill. DeLay locked

emocrats out of the conference
committee that produced the bill. He
trampled House precedents by kee
ing the vote open for hours while he
dragooned en Republicans to
vote for it. At the same time, the ad-
ministration purposefully suppressed
the real price of the legislation from
its own party's legislators. That legis-
lation amazingly prohibits Medicare
from using its borrowing power to

Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI).

Pickin
only woul

COOPER T COMMENTARY

When President George W. Bush referred to Iran, Iraq,
and North Korea as the oAxis of Evil, ? international pun-
dits construed the phrase as

provocative. Tho
unleashed the obulldogs ?
(American soldiers) to devour
mq innocent Iraqi women, chil-
j dren, and soldi
to deal with the
axis. Moreover, North Korea
has announced that it has a

nuclear weapons program.
The

Vietnam, has obitten off more than he can chew. ? Count-
less terrorists from countries like Syria are easing into Iraq
to get a piece of the action. -

ki a fight with North Korea is ill-advised. Not
China (near Super Power status) join the

BUSH SHOULD TALK DIRECTLY
TO NORTH KOREA

Bush Korean

» he hag yet
rest of the

unjust war in
a nuclear

their coun

cept North

ral Address, he

North Koreans in vigorously challengi
perialists on the battlefield, but the North Koreans
would fight harder than they did during the stalemated
ar in the early 1950s. Thanks to techno-
logical advancements and decades of pursuing a nuclear
weapons program, Americans could suffer a humiliat-
ing defeat, as was the case in Vietnam.

According to a recent piece by Murray Hiebert in
The Wall Street Journal, oByo
the Soviet Union and its Eas
assistance in developi
least as early as 1963. ?
in Iraq _ asked Moscow for a nuclear-power plant in 1967.
has served_as a breeding : ina arid T OW Se :
ground for terrorists willi
to sacrifice their lives for the
freedom of the Iraqi people.
Bush, like Lyndon Johnson in

» ad Se. \tuNa and |
North Korea in 1956 and
tacks. It also learn

erican im-

ngyang began pestering
tern European allies for
a nuclear-research program at

e¢ North Korean tea er even
Moscow sought to des
later, No:

at-
bombing

President John
following: oWe should never

m Non aes believed |
weapons program would deter mili

ed lessons from Americans mb
during the Korean War. Bush should ac.
reas offer of bilateral talks and not cower
by insisting on multilateral negotiations.
F. Kennedy was right in 1961 when, during his Inaugu-
elucidated the
negotiate out of fear; but let us never fear to negotiate. ?

get a better price for drugs. That
turned the bill from a t to se-
niors to a multi-billion subsidy to the
drug companies. Not surprisingly,
those same -drug companies contrib-

A is Fi
j ye «|

prruption

uted lavishly to DeLay Ts political

BS eee

tIse

ippens

committees, as well as to the

President's campaign fund and Re-

publican coffers generally. They in-

vested millions in contributions and
lobbying and got billions in return.
America Ts seniors, ing with the
soaring cost of drugs, will get hit with
the tab

So when you hear about DeLay

hing Snide
oe ore eee
picked up directly or indirectly by a _
bbyist, check your wallet. Directly "

or indi io
ing to cost you - or others without

the resources to hire a DeLay

round of golf.

The Man Sho

e for Sisters is All Too

Real " And It Ts Killing Our Communities

By David Person,

All these years, sisters have been
right. There really is
a man shortage.

I knew some-
thing was up, just
judging by the
shortage of brothers
in the pews at
church. But \ I
thought it had more
to do with our pref-
erences for sleeping

in or watching the game.

Based on the 2000 Census,
though, we brothers really are out-
numbered by black women, inside
and outside of church. And it has
nothing to do with games. |

Overall, the census indicates that
there are more than 18.1 million
black females in the U.S., compared
to nearly 16.5 million black males.
Specifically among those who are 18
and over, the sisters outnumber us
about 12.7 million to 10.9 million.

Some brothers undoubtedly will
assume this is their chance to add
more names and numbers to their
Palm Pilots for late-night booty calls.
Truth is, all of us " the players in-
cluded " should probably he a bit
more somber and cautious about the
population imbalance between black
men and black women. Experts are
suggesting that the reasons why the
sisters outnymber us aren't anything
to cheer about.

According to an article written
by Jonathan Tilove and published

fecently in many of the Newhouse
Papers, violence, crime and disease
are some of the key factors stripping

black communities of men. Worse

still, the article concluded that the
shortage of black men is hitting ma-
jor cities with high concentrations of
black folk particularly hard.

In Philadelphia, for example,
black men are outnumbered by black
women by 37 percent. That means
that for every 100,000 black men in
the City of Brotherly Love, there are
137,000 black women. In New York,
for every 100,000 black men, there
are 136,000 black women.

In Chicago, my hometown, for
every 100,000 brothers, there are
132,000 sisters. In Chocolate City -
~ Washington, D.C. for those of you
uninitiated to the funk " for every
100,000 brothers, there are 129,000.

~~ Yes, brothers, that means there
are a whole lot of black women with-
out dates. But before salivating, let Ts
remember that also means there are
probably a lot of black boys without
men in their lives to show them how
real men behave. That's a lot of black
girls without daddies to teach them
what real love is and how a woman is
supposed to be treated by her man.

Looking at it like that, merely
entering new names and numbers in
those BlackBerrys for future hook-

Brothers, I'm not suggesting that we
enjoy dating, Mm just saying
we also must do something more: We

must see what these numbers tell us about
and make some decisi what we
Gan do to bring a bit more balance to

Tilove's article quotes 2002 Cen-
sus figures which indicate that while
black women outnumber black men

by 26 percent, white women only
outnumber white men by 8 percent.
If we were looking at those Kinds of
Ste td be one of the ip ones
telling the players to just play on.

But were looki at i cris that

ints to serious problems. If we're not
Ecing shot and killed, we're beis
up. If we're not being
up, we're dyi
stress or HIVE DS or diabetes or
heart disease or prostate cancer.

I agree with the experts who ar-

¢ that it is inherently more stress-

being black in the U.S. than it is

to be white. But brothers, there are
ways to offset the pressures. 9.

Slow down on the super-sized:
meals with all that red meat and fat
and excess sugar. Exercise several
times a week. Ee enough sleep. Lay,
off the smokes, and cut back on the
brews and shots.

Take time to just go and chill.
Cue up some jazz, funk, classical ot
gospel music in the mp3 player, and
take long walks in the evenings or
early mornings. Or pop some Miles,
Victor harper orl, Scott in the CD
player an a leisurely drive.

Ts try to live healthy, functional
lives. Avoid violence and people who
are prone Ta it. Step away from shady

1

eee

__ For the sake of our communi-
ties, our women, our childten and
our futures, we've got to defy these
Statistics. We
and thriving.

David Person writes for
BlackAmericaWeb.com _

White Privilege, The Original Race Card

By Jimi Izreal .

: hites come to people of
color with a laundry list of pre-
sumptions and conjecture they
have gathered from years of
watching BET, Good Times T re-
runs and the evening news. But
I can Tt be mad. I don't feel op-
pressed by them, but I think
sometimes white people can-be
So ignorant as to be harmful to

' everyone they encounter, and

that is the thing I am most afraid
of: the things they do simply be-
cause they don't know better.
Dealing with people with
that level of ignorance tells you
a lot about them, because post-
integration, there is no reason to
be ignorant about people of dif-
ferent races anymore, unless b
Choice. We learn about eac
other from our necessity of in-
teraction and black people have
to know every nuance of white-
ness just to survive, but whites
can live their lives oblivious to
people of color. They can de-
mand absolution by pleading ig
norance to everything, whic
makes whiteness the original race
card. At the core of white privi-
lege is the ability to live a life
unfettered by consciousness of
any kind, beyond an inherent
sense of entitlement. It Ts a free-
dom whites take for granted that
people of color will never know.
art of the ounbearable
whiteness of being ? is that white
ne are the A 2 people privi-
eged enough to be viewed as in-

dividuals. Sometimes, I get in

conversations about sex, race or
politics and I Tm amused when the
white people involved insist that
J use qualifying remarks " like
osome ? whites do this, osome ?
whites do that. I always try to get
into conversations with people
smart enough to know that
whenever we talk about race,
gender or politics, we have to
start generally and evolve to
more specific arguments. Funny
though, when whites discuss mi-
norities, any vague generality
will do. I used to add some quali-
fication " just to be polite "
but lately I find that I Tm just as
inclined to use broad generalities
about white folks. Let Tem
squirm. Because that uncomfort-
able feeling they feel whenever
they hear me say something like
owhites always do this ? or owhites
always do that ? is about as close
as they will get to the everyday
discomfort of being black. Like
having to field dumb questions
about being black " it doesn Tt
get any worse than that.

In the name of odiversity, ?
black questions have become all
too fashionable to ask " espe-
cially in the workplace. Person-
ally, I can Tt be anyone Ts Negro
tour guide of all things dark and
mysterious. The problem about
answering questions about your
blackness is that once you start,
you will never stop. People will
ask you one question and then go
to the back of the line to ask you
another, And the questions will
get progressively dumber. And so

&

will you,
them.
For me, it isn Tt im ortant
for you to understand t e cul-
tural significance of why we are
different, whites and blacks. It is

sitting there answering

only important that you*know

that we are different, and that
you respect that difference by
resisting the need to dissect me.
The other piece of this is that,
honestly, there is very little about
white folks I want to know that
I don Tt know already. Not be-
cause I Tm clairvoyant, but be-
cause my survival depends on
navigating race politics, and has
from a very young age. Besides,
I've broken bread wit my white
friends " had them at my din-
ner table to share a meal. And
that Ts the only real measure of
prendship: If you're white and
have not be
friend Ts home for dinner and
they have not been to yours,
something is wrong. Anyone
who has not been to your home
to share a meal is not your friend,
Whites know just enough
about black folks to give the
obrutha handshake ? but not
enough to invite you to dinner,
This is the problem with being

black in America; to be black is
to involuntaril the sin and
nary a virtue of every dark face:
the planet. That T your life every wale
ing second, whether you like it or
not, while whites y the role
of race in the of black
people, It must be nice to have that
privilege,

, that corruption is go-

as a lobbyist - a lot more than a |

rematurely due to

»

°

must begin surviving ©

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From Page6
dry up donations and to put ques-
tions in the mind of potential vot-
ers here in Maryland and that Ts un-
fortunate. ? |
| Mfume, who is-unmarried,
served as president and CEO of the
NAACP for nine years. He ac-
knowledges that he dated one fe-
male employee of the NAACP He
says he adopted that woman Ts
ay son. oe
oI did date someone there for
about three months back in 1997,
although nothing came of that. It was
a very short series of lunches and din-
nets. | fell in love with her son who

was fatherless, very withdrawn, four
years of age and just the kind of child
that for me, as a member of Bi
Boke Six the a 28
» it was the right thing to do, ?
he said on the broken T

This is not the first time an
fre for having penal Chane =
fire for having perso ionshi
with female o employees. Former Ex-
ecutive Director, Ben Chavis, who
was replaced by Mfume, left the or-
fanization tarnished and several mil-
io

n dollars in debt after the NAACP |

made a secret $350,000 settlement
with a female staffer. Chavis; who
was married, was sued by the woman
and that led to the out-of-court
settlement.

oIam a little bit surprised that

AFRICA OFFERS DIFFERENT PICTURE

By Steve Brennan, Reuters

Can a glitzy soap opera change how
one nation perceives another? It Ts
true that much of the world once
had an image of Texas " indeed
the entire U.S. " that it gleaned
through the miscreant antics of
].R. Ewing in oDallas. ? |

a

Board Chairman, Africa One

Now a group of international
television professionals is ho ing
that their upcoming Africa

Channel Ts soaps and other TV
shows in the US. will dramatically
change our thinking about that
troubled continent, not with a
oDallas ?-like portrayal but rather
with a real vision Africa of today,
the network's founders say.

oWe are looking to provide a
showcase for Africa that people are
not used to getting in the U.S., ?
says James Makawa, CEO and co-
founder of the Africa Channel. A
native of Zimbabwe, Makawa wor-
ries that Africa is too often: pre-
sénted to the rest of the world as a
bfighted land 6f starvation, war
and disease. .

But he stresses that the chan-
nel will not be full of dull educa-
tional fare. Rather, it will carry the
best of African television, from
movies to soaps, travel shows, dra-
mas, talk shows and news. oBut all
the programming will be coming

to you through an African perspec-
tive, and thetroerdoe is, how foes
it translate to American audiences?
Well the fact is that the majority
of the people who are producing
these shows in Africa now are tele.
vision professionals who trained in
Western Europe or in the United
States. This is top-class program-

ming. ? .
Wakawa and his ers Jacob
Arback and Richard Hammer hope

that by bringing over the best of con-

temporary African p ning "
most of it prod: in South Akica
" they will change viewers T percep-
tion of Africa as a whole.

They don Tt deny that there are
some horrendous problems there;

"they just want to get the point

across that it Ts not all misery and
devastation, as most newscasts and

programming would suggest. The

Africa Channel will address issues
across the whole continent and
present the beauty and rich culture
of Africa, without i noring the
uglier realities there, fi say.

For instance, says Hammer, a
television marketing veteran, oWe
have the soap opera Generations T
that is set in a redominantly
black, upper-middle-class group of
people who work in the advertis-
ing industry. This is a society that
is representative of post-apartheid
life in South Africa.

But that Ts just a fraction of the
more than 1,200 hours of pro-
gramming that the partners fave
acquired over the past three years
of preparation for the channel Ts
launch this summer. Makawa, a
former NBC News correspondent
based in the U.S., returned to
South Africa a number of years age
to co-found the African Barter Co
in partnership with Grey Advertis:
ing Worldwide. He launched hun-
dreds of hours of rogramming
across Africa through the company
and went on to co-found the Afri-
can Broadcast Network. Arback is
a former vp at DirecTV Interna-
tional, and Hammer is a former

the organization did nor lay down
some rules of etiquette after the
Ben Chavis affair, ? says Walters,
the political science professor.
oFrom my understanding, once
something like that happens, it is
the board's responsibility to del-
egate a set of rules or procedures
that establishes the way the office

ought to be managed. They didn Tt .

do that apparently. The person
coming in should know what the
boards expectations are in terms of
dating personnel. Some of this re-
ally is on the NAACP. ? 7
Attempts to reach Board
Chairman, Julian Bond were un-

_ successful.

Mfume says he is confident
that this will not hurt his run for

executive with Sony International -

Television.

Their combined contacts
smoothed the way for them to pick
up the upcoming channel Ts pro-
gramming library from such enti-
ties as the South African Broadcast-

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The lat
est shots in nthe Battle of the Alamo are
being aimed at an unlikely target "
the children Ts cable TV network Nick-
elodeon.

Keepers of the Texas indepen-

dence shrine in downtown San Anto-

nio are ou by a Nickelodeon
short that said the 1836 battle there
was fought so owhite farmers could
keep their slaves. ?

oI think it Ts a shame that anybody
would take that approach, ? said David
Stewart, director of the Alamo. oI think

its an insult to the Mexicans, the

the U.S. Senate. oPeople here in
Maryland will make decisions
based on facts and what they be-

lieve and you can look someone in .

the eye and tell when they're lying
to you and when they're telling the
truth and it will be interesting to
see what happens as we go through
this campaign, ? he said.

Walters isn Tt convinced the
matter will go away.

oIf these charges are credible,
I think it Ts going to damage his
campaign because we're in an en-
vironment where the whole. ques-
tion of morality is linked to poli-
tics and I wouldn't for example, put

_ it past Republicans to comment on

this from that standpoint to try to
damage whoever the Democratic

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ing Corp. and international real-

ity producer Endemol. One of the
programs that will air in the U.S.
is Endemol Ts oBig Brother Africa. ?
It features contestants from 12 Af-
rican countries.

Does he believe that American

Tejanos, who fought for freedom and
liberty in the Alamo as part of the de-
fenders. It kind of slaps them in the
face to claim that was the reason the
battle took place. ?

The 50-second-long piece, part of
a running series of Nickelodeon shorts
called oMy Back Yard, ? says the dis-
pute over slavery between white set-
ters and the Mexican government oled
up ? to the battle.

Despite being warned by te-
spected historian R. Bruce Winders
that the description was simplistic and
inaccurate, the network ran the piece.

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nominee is going to be.

. } is going to have to
put this to rest in order to satisfy the
public. Hé Ts gong to have to do more
than just say it didn Tt T happen. He's

ong to have to prove it to some-

4 Appin, you talk about credibil-
ity of the document/charges. He's
gong to have to dismiss these charges
in some credible way. ?

Mfuine says there are limita-
tions on how he can react.

oTcan Tt stop people from mak- "

ing unproven allegations, but I can
state the facts. The fact is, I reall

believe in and have all my life
worked for the hiring and promo-
tion of qualified women as a goal
organizations and business should
take serious and my record reflects

that. I believe that too many
women in this society are pre-
judged everyday by the assumption
that they only got where they were
because of their body and not their
brain. And that kind of thinking
is an insult to all women, but as a
man, I can tell you that it Ts despi-
cable, ? he told Gordon.
He added, oAs I Tve said all
along, that Ts not the kind of ship I
run and most people that know
me, know that's not the case. If |
was doing all this after 10 years at
the NAACP, 10 years in Congress
and seven years in the city coun-
cil, it Ts interesting that this would
only come about now as an accu-
sation while I Tm running for the
United States Senate in Maryland. ?

viewers-will relate to programming
like that? oAmerican audiences see

only the African tragedy, but they.

have never been exposed to the
Positive. aspects of Africa, its mu-
sic, its culture. We are saying how
about flipping the switc and
showing Africa alive and well?
The partners say they are close

to signing agreements with carriers
to make space for their programs and
are aiming for a debut in July.
Andrew Young, former ambas-
sador to the United Nations and
former mayor of Atlanta, is chair-
man of the channel Ts board.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

oWe recognize that there were sev-
eral key issues in the Battle of the
Alamo and one of them was slavery,
said Mark Lyons, a senior producer for
Nick News at Lucky Duck Produc-
tions in New York, which contracts for
the Viacom Inc.-owned network. ;

Texas declared independence in
1836 when Mexicos leader, Gen. An-
tonio Lopez de Santa Anna, revoked
the existing constitution that allowed
white settlement of the nation Ts north-
ermnmost province.

oThe slavery issue was a factor but
not the main one, ? Winders wrote
Nickelodeon prior to the piece airing
oThe revolt in Texas started as an ef-
fort to restore the Federal Republic

under the (Mexican) constitution of
1824, but quickly evolved into a sepa-
ratist movement. ?

About 200 Texan fighters held off
thousands of Mexico troops for 13
days until Santa Anna finally crushed
therh on March 6, 1836. However, the
siege gave other Texas units a chance
to move east and gather for an ulti-
mately pivotal battle near Houston in
April 1836 that secured Texas indepen-
dence. .

Now the Alamo is Texas T top tour-
ist attraction and one of the most rec-
ognizable U.S. landmarks.

The piece ran for about two weeks
on Nickelodeon and is not expected
to be aired again, Lyons said.

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Congressional hearin

By James Wright

WASHINGTON, DC - The Con-
gtessional Black Caucus held a May

10 hearing on the 1921 race riots that
took place in Tulsa, Okla. The pur-
Pose of the hearing was to determine
what happened and what legal rem-

les are available to the survivors.
With Rep. Bennie Thompso.n (D-
Miss.) presiding, witnesses included
legal experts and some of the survi-
vors.

Chicago Alderwoman Dorothy.

Tillman set the tone for the hearin
by saying, oWhat happened in Tulsa
was not a riot, but a massacre. ?
CBC Chairman Melvin Wart
(D-N.C.) said: oBy allowing the sur-
vivors to tell their Stories, we can
know what really happened. It is then
that the Congressional Black Caucus
can explore legal and-congressional

action. ?
On May 31, 1921, White law

enforcement officers and their citi-
zen-deputies ramp, through the
Greenwood, the Black section of
Tulsa, leaving at least 300 Blacks
dead, $8 million in damages and

assed the White community in
Frslea It was no secret that the Black
community's prosperity. bothered
many Whites, and racial tensions
were high before the massacre.

8,000 without homes. The massacre The riots were downplayed or
was in response to a rumor that a__ forgotten by the state of Oklahoma
Black man, Dick Rowland, had at- and the federal government for years.
tempted to rape a White woman in Evert Tulsa Ts textbooks omitted any

an elevator, The African-American
community rallied to defend
Rowland, who had been placed in
jail, from a lynch mob. The Tulsa
police department, the state militia
and the National Guard were called
in to put down the massacre; but by
many accounts, they were culpable
as well for the destruction the Black
community suffered.

Greenwood was known
throughout the country as the oBlack
Wall Street. ? The section had two
newspapers, movie theaters, restau-
rants, hotels, schools, libraries and
other amenities that matched or sur-

mention of the massacre.

But the matter came up in the
1990s as the survivors were getting
older and scholars began to explore

Oklahoma history. Black state legis-

lators in Oklahoma demanded hear-
ings and action from the state Ts lead-
ers, and they responded.

Otis Clark, 103, told an atten-
tive audience of his experiences on
the day that massacre , and of
the events that immediately followed.
oI was 18 years old when it happened,
and I remember it like it was yester-
day, ? Clark said. oMy grandparents
owned a lot of property and we were

JACKSON

From Page 1

tries, which is important, and the
border disputes between the two
countries, with a spurious com-
parison. ?

As the controversy continued
to grow, Jackson said he has
worked ofor the citizenship rights T
of immigrants and Mexican

_ Americans ? and wants steps taken
to avoid making the United States
ohostile toward immigration

oThe comparison is diversion-
ary from the issue of a workable
immigration policy between the

U.S. and Mexico, ? Jackson said.

He said Fox's comment T about

g probes 1921 Tulsa

doing well. Archie Street separated
Blacks and Whites in Tulsa. Green-
wood Street was near Archie. For the
Black community, Greenwood was
Our main business street. We had ev-
erything the Whites had, and more, ?
he recalled.

oOn that! day, I saw my house
was burned down and so was the rest
of the neighborhood. There was
smoke everywhere. ? Clark said.

er the massacre, Clark said
Tulsa officials would not let African

Americans bury their dead and otook

our people to places where we could
not find them. ? He said, in some
cases, it was three to four years after
the incident that funerals took place.

Clark said that neither he nor his
family was ever compensated by the
city of Tulsa or the state of Oklahoma
for their losses. oThose officials took
advantage of colored folks, and that
was not right, ? he said.

Olivia Hooker, who was six years

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Massacre
old at the time of the riots, said her
father lost his prosperous department

store to looters and larcenists. She
said it took her father most of his life

to pay back creditors owed for the °

stolen goods. oWhen the store was
destroyed, daddy did not worry be-
cause he said that we had insurance, ?
Hooker said. oWell, chat was right,
but the insurance turned da dy
down. We almost had to file bank-
ruptcy, but somehow we made it
through. ? Hooker said that she has
not received a dime from her family Ts
lost property.

Former University of District of

Columbia Trustees Board Chairman

Charles Ogletree, as well as Washing-
ton, D.C, attorneys Michele-Ro!
erts and Dennis Sweet, are leading
the legal effort to get reparations for
the surviving victims. Their request
for reparations has been denied at the
U.S. District Court and U.S. Court
of Appeals levels.

Their next venue is the U.S, Su-

preme Court.

oWhat we want is justice, ?

Ogletree said. oWe will not be satis-
fied until we get it for the survivors,
even if it takes another 84 years.

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House Judiciary Committee.
oThis was really a bad thing, ? he

sea of unrelenting hostility: We will

soon take action on this. ?

. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) ~~~
or oWe need to make sure. -

that this never happens again. ?
These hearin ep
rate front in the Tulsa survivors T ef-

forts to claim reparations, The Su-

reme Court is expected to T issue a
Hecision soon on whether the stat-
ute of limitations has expired, a two
lower courts have ruled. eS

oblacks ? seemed to be about a ste-
reotype. oMost poor Americans are
not black, they're white, ? he added.
Not only did Jackson called for
an apology, Rev. Al Sharpton,
former presidential candidate
called the remark odisturbing ? and
that it had the impact of being in-
citing and divisive. ? Jackson who
said he has never met Fox, made
plans to telephone the Mexican

said he oregretted ? his statement
and any hurt it may have caused
and in a statement issued by the
Foreign Relations Department,
oexpressed the great respect he and
his administration has for the Af-
rican-American community:in the
United States, ? and after conver-
sations with Jackson had agreed to
set up a visit to Mexico by Rever- .
ends Jackson, Sharpton and a

president. group of American black leaders.
Presidential apology follows Jackson said Fox Ts comment
refusal oat best, insensitive, ? but that the

Initially, Fox had refused to
apologize for the comment he
made saying his remark had been
misinterpreted. But later, after con-
versing with Rev. Jesse Jackson and

_ the Rey. Al Sharpton, the president

Mexican president had expressed
regret for any offense he had
caused. oHe now realizes the harm-
ful effects of it, ? Jackson said. oHe
seeks to correct it by acting and by
reaching out. ?

As Mexico's President, Fox has

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However George Grayson, a
Mexican expert with the College of
William & Mary in Virginia, said
the dispute will hurt Fox Ts cam-
paign to liberalize immigration
aws, adding that it shows oonce
again how tone deaf Mexico Ts
president is with respect to the
United States. ?
__ Remarks offend Mexicans of
African Descent

Ana Marfa Salazar, a former
White House and Pentagon official
who now works as a news analyst
and radio host in Mexico City, said
the comment was oindefensible. ?

oIt's very offensive in Spanish,
and it Ts offensive in a countr
where there is a relatively small

population of Mexicans of African

descent, ? Salazar said. oBut it Ts ex-
tremely offensive in a country like
the United States that has a much
larger black population. It was a
dumb, stupid comment, and I Tm
sure right now he regrets making

African members

it. ?

oAt a moment where Mexico
is rightly making claims that there
is discrimination against the Mexi-
cans in the United States, these
comments sure don Tt help your
case, ? she added.. oO

While Mexico has a few, iso-
lated black communities, the
population is dominated by de-
scendants of Mexico Ts Spanish
colonizers and its native Indians.

According to Steve Sailer who
writes for the American Conserva-
tive, most Americans, and even
many Mexicans, don't realize that
a significant fraction of the Mexi-
can population once looked mark-
edly African. At least 200,000
black slaves were imported into
Mexico from Africa. By 1810,
Mexicans considered at least part-
numbered
around a half million, or more than
10 percent of the population. T

Spain abolished slavery in
1829. Not all Africans enslaved on
North American plantations went
North to escape slavery, many went
southward into Mexico.

Sailer noted in his article:
Where Did Mexico Ts Black Go,
that Emiliano Zapata was perhaps
the noblest figure in 20th century
Mexican politics, a peasant revo-
lutionary still beloved as a
martyred man of the people. Al-
though Marlon Brando played him
in the 1952 movie oViva Zapata! ?

. the best-known photograph of the

illiterate idealist shows him with
clearly African hair. His village had
long been home to many descen-
dents of freed slaves. T

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Comments that would gener-
ally be considered openly racist in
the United States generate little at-
tention here. ee

_ Meanwhile, Foreign Relations
Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez who

denied Fox Ts statement were racist.

Interviewed after a meeting in
Guadalajara, Derbez said Fox made

the remark in the context of Mexi-

can migrants T contributions to the -

U.S. economy. A Mexican official
defended Fox later in the day, say-
ing his description was not meant
as an insult.
Mexico's
man Rubén said Jackson was
also noted that Mexico's President
meant no racist intent, and sugges

the owo meet ° chces joics strate-
ies between blacks and immigrant
eroUps in the United States, Aguilar
added. ee.
oThe president didn Tt make a
declaration in the racist sense; of
course there are those who interpret

spear spokes-

it in that way, ? Foreign T Relations

Secretary Luis Derbez told a reporter
in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
According to Derbez, Fox was

making the point that oMexican mi-_

grants are making great contribu-
tions in the United States-and that
their role is a positive role. ?
oThey've Been able to improve
the conditions of life not just for
themselves but also for the commiu-
nities in which they settle and, by

the same token, the president made

the comment in this context to say

that a large quantity of the jobs taken :
by Mexicans are jobs that in the U:S..

society aren't being filled. ?

oI think that what we have to
be very clear about is that the state-
ment made by the president was in
no way motivated by racism. ?

Most poor Americans are ees
white T

But the damage was already
done

Meanwhile, the ruling com-
mittee for the Party of the Demo-
cratic Revolution (PRD) said the
ounfortunate declaration ? was orac-
ist and ignorant. ? |

The statement released said
Fox Ts remark oshowed a superficial
and prejudiced view of the labor
situation in the United States, ?

While racial epithets related to
Indian heritage are taboo in
Mexico, friends and strangers alike
can be heard addressing each other
by nicknames based on physical
appearance, to include skin color.

AP reporter Morgan Lee, The
Herald Mexico reporter Jonathan
Roeder and EL UNIVERSAL reporter
José Carrefio along with excerpts from
Steve Sailer' Ts; Where Did Mexico Ts
Blacks Go? (www. iSteve. com) who is
a columnist for VDARE.com, and film
critic who writes for the American
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an efficient way to shop. The mall money, ? Robinson explains. oAs dif- my lov d one, But, I agree with Lori
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place where you go to see and mix fulfilling to feel that in this unique so much, because she took this trag-
with other people. In many commu- situation, as a rape survivor who isa _edy and turned it into a positive,

Americans spend mote time in
malls than iytere but home and
in- mere locations for
consumption, the malls have become
the signature structures of the age.
The first fully enclosed, shopping
mall opened its doors almost 50 years
ago. Americans, at the time, shopped
by strolling the streets of their down-
towns or cruising the strip plazas of
their sptawling suburbs, But a fa-
mous architect had a great idea. In-
stead of having stores facing out, wh
not turn them inward, toward eac
other "and place them under one
roof,-so shoppers wouldn't have to
brave the elements? His vision was
put to the test when the Southdale

Center, located in a well-to-do Min-

neapolis suburb, held its grand open-
ing on October 8,1956. With 72

_ Shops and restaurants, Southdale was

modest by today Ts standards, But the
world had never seen anything like
it. People came in and looked, and
their mouths opened. The impact
was phenomenal Soon, America was
dotted with malls, many sprouting
on the outskirts of towns and cities,
where land was cheap and taxes low.

nities, malls are where the kids per-
form with the school orchestra,
where seniors go for their morning

strolls, and where teei We oUt.
and go on dates. Some megamalls
have ice-skating rinks. Others have

roller coasters, Some have commu-
nity health centers. The Oaks Mall
in Fairfax, Virginia, houses a public
library.

. All malls are not articularly
thriving. The huge aa newer re-
gional mails are flourishing, but
many smaller, older mails " "most
of them in urban areas are not. One
recent study found that 7 percent of
these older malls-most of them in
urban areas " "were abandoned,
while another 12 percent wete strug-
gling for survival. In many areas
ral have come to reflect the eco-
nomic and racial divisions of the
larger society. oThere's two kinds of
mall, ? comedian Chris Rock has said,
othe one where the white people sho
and the one where the white people
used to shop. ? Over the past tw
years, even many regional malls have
seen customer traffic start to erode.
What is the problem? Thanks to
technology, the contemporary
middle-class American has many new
ways to spend his or her money and
time: cell phones. Internet shopping,
hundreds of cable channels, video

ames. That all adds up to about
$300 collars a month that will never
be spent inside a mall. And some
surveys suggest that Americans may
be growing weary of some of the fea-
tures that drew us to malls in the first
place. We got-exactly what we want,
and we discover we don Tt want it af-
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Washington, D.C., near the Catho-
lic University of America.

She walked towards the build-
ing near mid-night, thinking of the
dishes in the sink and a work out
video. A little startled when she saw.
two men, she reminded herself there
is no need to fear just because they
were Black. She dismissed the
thought of them until suddenly she
heard a threatening voice behind her
and turned to face the barrel of a gun.

oYou better not look at me, ? said
the gunman.

She was weak with fear as th
ordered her to open the door of her
apartment. She struggled with the
key until the door finally opened.
After answering their questions
about whether she lived alone,
whether anyone else had a key, and
whether she was supposed to call
anyone when she got home, they led
her to her bedroom, still asking ques-
tions and demanding that she speaks
softly.

oThen I was ordered to lie face-
down on my full-size bed. They tied
my feet to the bottom corners of the
bed, and my right arm to the upper
right corner, ? she wrote in Emerge
magazine. oWhen one asked me for
something else to use to tie my left
hand, I told him where my belts
were. Then they wrapped thick duct
tape around my head, covering my
eyes and mouth.

oAre they doing this so they can
shoot me? Maybe they just want to
make sure they have plenty of get-
away time. T My thoughts raced.
What was about to happen hadn't oc-
curred to me. Then, with a knife
from my kitchen, one of them
spliced up the back of the right leg
of my Black stretch pants. Then it
became clear. I Tm about to be raped. ?

They both raped her. After that,
they stole all of her electronic equip-
ment from her one-bedroom apart-
ment. An hour later, they were gone,
never seen again by her, never ar-
rested for the crime.

That horrific evening 10 years
ago is still vivid in the memory of
Lori Robinson.

oT really do feel like I Tm a walk-
ing miracle. I'm so deeply healed, |
feel very detached from that inci-
dent, ? Robinson says in an interview,
She quickly clarifies, oThat's not to
say that I don't ever think about it
If I were to meditate about it, it
would make me sad. ?

- An associate editor at Emerge
magazine at the time of her assault

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Sadness is the same emotion
that she has tried to help eliminate
from the lives of other Black women
who are victims of sexual assault.
Robinson, now a freelance journal-
ist, has,used her writings to help with
her own healing and the healing of
others. Her life has taken a new turn
since she wrote the Emerge story in
1997, two years after her assault.

Now, her book, oI Will Survive,
The African-American Guide to
Healing from Sexual Assault, ? pub-
lished three years ago, has led to
nearly 100 book-signings and speak-
ing engagements in 20 states.

a ?,? positive side is that it Ts been

very fulfilling for me to feel that I am

helping people. And just based on
things that people have said to me af-
ter my talks, that this is really helpful
to have a survivor to be able to share
this kind of information, ? she says. oA
lot of what I talk about is the intersec-
tion of racism and sexism. ?

By this, she means racist, gen-
der-based stereotypes associated with
African-Americans. ,

The 357-page book covers how
African-American women and men
suffer from sexual stereotypes datin
as far back as slavery, such as Bla
women being loose and ovetsexed
Black men.

The book also offers safety tips
for rape prevention, other stories of
healing after sexual assaults, and rea-
sons that Black women are believed
to be sexually assaulted more often
than Whites, but are not as likely to
report it.

One in six women is sexually as-
saulted during their lifetimes, ac-
cording to a 2004 survey of the Na-
tional Violence Against Women.

The U. S. Department of Jus-
tice estimates that only 37 percent
of all rapes are reported. Black
women make up onl

journalist. I dont know if I've taken
Myself too seriously, but it feels very

( Says.
As the 10th anniversary of the
rape approaches on May 19,
obinson. is beginning to think it Ts
time for her to take a new approach
to her life. Her post-rape life fas been
fulfilling and physically draining.

oIt Ts changing now. I Tm speak-
ing less, ? she says. oIt Ts kind of been
emotionally overwhelming. The
hardest part for me, I think, was gen-
erally when I speak, people want to
tell me their stories ... I think that

use they see a healing in me, they
want to be able to talk with me and
share with me...] have taken in too
much of other people's stuff, I guess.
That's been the hardest part. ?

She speaks two to three times a
week and as any frequent traveler can
testify, even 5-star hotels are no sub-
stitute for your bed back home. And
it can be even more taxing when
someone is home waiting, as is the
case with Robinson.

She is happy to return to her
husband, Ollie Johnson, who was
her boyfriend at the time of the as-
sault.

oRight after I was raped, I don't
know what I thought they would
possibly do, but just the idea that
these people knew what I looked like
and I didnt know what they looked
like and I couldn't see them, well that
just petrified me, ? she recalls. oIn the

ears after the rape, I was scared a
dot. I would park my car, look
around'me a lot and sprint to the
door. ?

Ollie Johnson helped anchor
Robinson then and now.

oI-remember I couldn Tt wait til
the weekend would come so I could

o and just spend the weekend with
im. I remember I just couldn't wait
to get in the door for just the com-
fort of him hugging me, ? she says.
Johnson is an Africana Studies
professor at Wayne State University
in Detroit.

healthy, healing experience for her-
self and our people. Even in her pain,
she helped with his healing.

oI think, in part, I got the
strength from her and how she
handled the whole situation, ? he re-
calls. oShe was unbelievable in terms
of her refusal to let this defeat her or
even sidetrack her, so I definitely got
a lot of inspiration from her from
the very beginning. ? |

Her former Emerge olleagues
are equally impressed.

4 think in order to do what she Ts
done, one has to have a tremendous
fighting spirit, ? says Marcia Davis, a
former senior editor at Emerge and
now an assignment editor at the
Washington Post. oAnyone, who
reads her story has to find inspira
tion in her example, ? she says. oThis
is a chosen path. She has said, I want
to share my story. T Not to say, Look
at this horrible thing that happened
to me. T But, I want to share my story
because in it, there might be some
light. ? .

Meanwhile, Robinson, now 36,
is still finding her way to complete
healing. She says she still feels chal-
lenged ? and not as free and healed in
her intimacy as she would like to be.

Looking ahead, she is thinking
of writing another book unrelated to
the rape. oI- don't want it to be the
primary or the single subject matter ?
that I focus on anymore, ? she says.
She has a strong interest in people
of African decent in Latin America.

But she is pleased with the con-
tribution that her book will continue
to make to the healing of others.

oWhen I started the book there
were'no books that I knew of that I
could find that were about Black
women and rape, ? she says. Now, her
book " as well as her life - will con-

tinue to inspire Black women with
what she considers the most crucial
advice besides getting professional
help: oRepeating over and over again
that it Ts not your fault and believing
that healing is possible. o

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at are the traits of a good
grandpa? Three character traits
should prevail. Grandfathers, take

look up

note.

SOBER. It is the word from
which we get nephalism, oabstinence
from intoxicants. ? This is important,
not alone for health but for counsel

and example to those who are

* younger.
~ oVenerated for character, worthy of
-fespect. ? Do your grandchildren
to you? TEMPERATE. |
|. This word comes from the Greek
verb translated oto be of a sound
mind. ? This refers to being self.
_ controlled or right-minded. It is

EVERENT. That is,

one who governs well his Passions

-and affections. No oflying off of the

handle. ? .

The good grandpa should be
marked by godliness. He should be
ee in these three areas of his
ife.

In the faith. A Godly grandfa-

ther will be grounded in the whole.

body of revealed truth, so as to be
an unerring teacher of the young.

In love. A sacrificial givin of
one Ts self for the welfare off another,
This is love directed first to God
and then to others. .

In patience. It is a willingness
to await God's time, knowing that
His purposes will be fulfilled. .

hat. appropriate advice
whether for oolder men ? in the

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church or grandpas at home! Does
this not apply to grandmothers, too?

Recently senior citizens in a re-
tirement living class at the Pitt
County Council on Aging which
took place April 26th were asked
what advice would you give young-
sters Concerning crime/violence in
Greenviille/Pitt County communi-
ties? The answers were as follows:

* Dr. Damaso Fernandez - Be
respectful. :

* Rosie Little - Respect your
curfew.

_ * David Red ford - Live as you

believe.

* Bertha Gaye - Be considerate ©

of your elders.

* Willie Mac Dudley - Don Tt
talk back to your teachers,

* Pat Fernandez - Put your
brain in motion before you act or
speak. |

* Pallie Barrow - Go to school.
Get as much education as you
can.
* Alfred Burke - Obey parents.
Have a smile.

* Beatrice Maye - Ignorance is

A Farrnrut Few
By Faith May

The Book of Numbers continues
the history of the Israelites where
the Book of Exodus left off. Just

completion of the Tabernacle
(Exodus 40:17) and the command
of God to number the people
(Numbers 1:1-2). During that
time, the instructions in the Book
bf Leviticus were given. The first
ensus of all men 20 years old and
older records that 603,550 men
were qualified to serve in the army
of Israel (1:1-46).

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one month had passed between the

eth day of the second month, in the
second tear, that the cloud was
taken up from off the Tabernacle of

the testimony (10:11), and the

Israelites followed the cloud as it
moved toward Kadesh Barnea,
about 160 miles to the north. It
was not long, however, before the
people complained and then

- rebelled against God (see 10:1 1-
45).

14:45)

After the Israelites arrived at
Kadesh Barnea, 12 spies were sent
out to investigate the land. When
they returned 40 days later, Caleb
stilled the people before Moses, and
said, Let us go up at once, and
Possess it; for we are well able to
Overcome it. Ten of the spies
strongly protested, saying: We be
not able to go up against the
people; for they are stronger than
we. However, Joshua and Caleb
pleaded: The Lord is with us: fear
them not. But the people agreed
with the ten disbelieving spies.
Consequently , God pronounced
His eee of death upon that
generation. Thus, they wasted 38
years wandering in the wilderness
until all the people from that first *
generation who were 20 years of
age or older at the first census had

died.

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Later, the Lord commanded Moses
and Eleazar, Aaron Ts son and
successor, to take a second census
of the new generation of men 20
years of age and older, whose
parents had left Egypt. This second
numbering took place almost 40
years after the first census, in the
10th month of the 40th year.

Only Joshua and Caleb, the two
men of faith from the first genera-
tion of Israelites, lived to enter the
promised land. The new genera-
tion of Israelites, lived to enter the

_ promised land. The new genera-

tion was estimated to be more that

two million people. They gathered

on the Plains of Moab, north of the
Dead Sea and east of the Jordan
River, across from Jericho, ready to
take the land their parents, in
unbelief, had rejected.

One of the greatest illustrations of.
New Testament doctrine is found
in this book. These things were
our examples, the intent we should
not lust after evil, as they also

lusted...... Now, all, these things

happened to them for examples:

and they are written for our
admonition.
Resource: Bible Pathway 2004

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expensive.

* Sandy Nelson - Live by the
Golden Rule.

* Willie Henderson - Eat
nutritiously.

* Eniska Brown -Stay away
from tobacco, drugs and alcohol.
Did you know that -

* African American (Black)
men have the lowest life expect:
ancy and the highest rate o
cancer, hypertension (high blood
Pressure) and heart disease of any
group of people in the country

* Eating right could help them |

live well into their golden years

* Eating meat requires more
energy to digest than it generates

* That table salt increases blood
pressure, hardens arteries and
causes such ailments as kidney
stones and gallstones

* Excessive sugar has a toxic
effect, poisoning effect on the
body

* Margarine and other cooking
oils that produce trans-fatty
acids, chemicals that lead to
atherosclerosis and heart disease

* White flour (which contains
bleach)

* Tap water (which contains
lead)

* Fast food (which contains
preservatives)

* Caffeine (which is addictive
and destroys cells)

° Second. handed smoke
because it is just as dangerous as
smokin

° For healthy living in today Ts
world boils down to practices
preached to us a kids. Live a life
of moderation; educate your-
selves on what we are putting
into our body. Combine a
sensible diet with moderate
exercise and regular doctor visits.
* Stay away from red meat

* That tobacco use causes
approximately 180,000 cancer
deaths annually

* Secondhand smoke causes
approximately 3,000 cases of
lung cancer in the U.S. each year

* If you are 50 or older, you
need to be tested for colon
cancer. Colon cancer is one you
can avoid, simply by getting
tested.

° Replace junk food wit
nutritious alternatives

* Men are beginning to place
increased importance on hats

* Coronary heart disease is
America Ts Number 1 killer and it
hits the black community
especially hard

* Marriage and family are
where you find true happiness
(Kanye West)

* Change is growth for institu-
tions and individuals

May 1 - 31, 2005 The Minority Voice Newspaper | Page 9

What Is on Your Mind?

By Richard Cox, .

GospelCity.com .

_ oThou wilt keep him in perfect

peace whose mind is stayed on thee:
ecause he trusteth in thee. ? Isaiah

26:3 (KJV)

We are ving in a time where our

minds need to be renewed and fo-
cused on the work of God. Our sus-
tained trust and commitment to God
should be fixed on pleasing Him, in
our lives. If our minds are filled with
Godly thoughts then the devil has no

choice but to leave. That is why it is -

important to daily renew our minds
about the concerns of God.
Philippians 2:5 (KJV) declares, oLet
this mind be in you, which was also
in Christ Jesus. ? Our minds need to

_ be renewed from thoughts of doubt,
worry and fear " replaced with in-
ner peace. God's peace is expressed
in Philippians 4:7 (KJV) where it o.
- - Surpasses all understanding, will
guard your hearts and your thoughts
in Christ Jesus. ?

A mother testifying in church
one Sunday morning said, oif the
devil has your mind; he has access to
your whole body. ? That means if the
devil has control of your thoughts,
then he could easily instruct your
body to respond to any of his instruc-
tions. As Christians, we want to
maintain Jesus Christ as the pilot of
our minds to lead and guide us by
the Holy Ghost into all truth.
Thoughts Become Manifest
Do You Trust God?

Whose Plan " Yours or the Lord Ts?

As Christians, we are familiar
with the sowing and reaping concept
used in Bible parables. We can =
that concept to understand how dif-
ferent types of fruit and weeds evolve

and develop in the garden of our

lives. Initially, the process starts out

* with seeds of thoughts sown in our

minds that eventually take root.
Seeds of thoughts received from our
surroundings, absorbed by our
senses. These positive or negative
seeds attempt to bombard our minds
daily. The result of the planted seed
of thought eventually leads to a form
of action taking place. That particu-
lar action later affects your character
and behavior in a positive or nega-
tive manner. As time passes, your be.
havior will affect your course of des-
tiny in fruitful or negative way.

It is good to be reminded how
the sowing and reaping process of our
thoughts can yield good or bad con-
sequences. Those consequences result
IN a positive or negative impact on

your milies and friends. We are the
' Christians that represent Jesus Christ
Fon earth. Unbelievers are looking at
our examples with Jesus in our lives.
Since God is invisible to us we need

- cook it. An artist

to let the world see the affects of His.

WORD can be visible in our life. If "

we seek to sow spiritual thoughts
daily, this will help us to fulfill our:
purpose and destiny on earth. ©
I pray that this article will help
you raise your awareness about your
daily thoughts. Remember a thought
always precedes the manifestation of
the results. For example you get the
idea for a meal to prepare before you
frst has an idea or
inspiration before startin to paint.
A builder has a design before build-
ing a house. You can look at your
thoughts as blueprints; it creates an
image of the form that eventually
manifests into a physical form. What
thoughts dominate your mind? 7
._ Flere are some practical ways to ~
keep our minds on spiritual things:
@Daily devotions with Bible read-
ing, prayer and meditation _ -
Engaging in spiritual fellowship
with your brothers/sisters in the
Christ
@ Exchanging inspirational email
messages, cards an testimonies "
@ Participate in church ministries
and activities :
@ Attend Bible study .
@ Read inspirational books and
magazines ;
@ Listen to inspirational audio books
and music
@ Watch inspirational programs and
movies
@ Attend inspirational plays, con-
certs and conventions
@ Witness and share your testimony
about the goodness:of God to others
On the Pulse
The key to maintaining my
spiritual thoughts is renewing my
mind to think Biblically and spiri-
tually, rather than in a worldly way.
Romans 12:2 (KJV) says, o...that
ye may prove that good, and ac-
ceptable, and perfect will of God. ?
God Ts power and anointing is
manifested in our lives as a result
of our spiritual thoughts and faith
in Him. Colossians 3:16 (KJV)
says, olet the word of Christ dwell
in you richly... ? Keep your mind
filled with a stream of spiritual -
thoughts throughout the day. We
should let Jesus rules our thoughts.
Colossians 3:15 (KJV) says: oand
let the peace of God rule in your
hearts, to the which also ye are
[were] called in one body, and be
ye thankful. ? a
I pray you will let the words
and thoughts of Jesus Christ dwell
tichly within your mind then
God's peace will rule or preside in
you. . °
We'd love to hear your feed-
back on this article. E-mail us at:

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Spelman College Honors Howard Zinn, Diahann Carroll

eps Speman Cal
o4 » Howard Zinn, Ph.D.,
will return to inspire another -
tion of students as speaker for the

llege Ts 118th Commencement to
be held at Cathedral at Chapel Hill,

l Deca r, Ga., n Sunday, 15 . :
: o e enays May 15 , television, film and

at 4 p.m.Dr. Zinn will receive an hon-
orary Doctor of Humane Letters at
the ceremony, where nearly 500 stu-
dents will celebrate becoming part of
the Spelman alumnae sisterhood. |

r. Zinn mentored and sup-
ported Spelman students who worked

it
Jeffrey, Cox of Greenville
has been appointed state presi-
dent of the Youth Department
, for the N.C. Ju- |
tisdiction of

God Chnst Inc.
The jurisdic-
| tion consists of
more than 125
churches across
the state under
the leadership
of "_Bisho
Leroy Woolard.

The state youth
convention wfll be held June
21-23 and will be attended by
more than 1;000 youths.

Cox is the vice president of

American Credit Co. at 3005 S.

Memorial Drrive, where serves
as teramch manager.

the Church Of | -

~ of Como, N.C

in the civil rights movement in Atlanta
and across the South. This story is well

documented in oUndaunted by the

oe Noe 1

Diahann Carroll, a pioneer in T
theater, will be
honored with a Doctor of Fine Arts.
In 1968, Ms. Carroll was the first Af.
rican American actress to star in her
own TV series, oJulia ? for NBC. In T
1984, she was the first African Ameri-

can actress to star in the-award-win-

Miss Brandy Davis of Greenville,
N.C. has been named Princeville
Montessori School's Teacher of the
Year. She is a fifth grade teacher and
a nominee for Edgecombe County
Teacher of the Year. Miss Davis is
the daughter of Alice Highsmith of
Greenville, N.C. and Eddie Davis

Preacher Gets 17 Years for Embezzling

By: Errin Haines, Assocjated
Press

ROME, Ga. " A small-town
preacher was sentenced fo 17 1/
2 years in prison Thursday for

sentenced to 17 1/2 years in
prison Thursday for stealing -
nearly $9 milion.from some 1,600
black churches.

stéaling nearly $9 million from
some 1,600 black churches b

promising big returns on smalil-

investments.
Abraham Kennard was also

ordered to pay nearfy $8 million

in restitution and almost

$600,000 in back taxes.

Kennard, 46, was found
guilty by a federal jury in Febru-
ary on 116 counts, including
fraud and evasion. Prosecutors
said he ran a pyramid scheme
that took advantage of the tight
network of black preachers to
which he belonged.

He could have gotten 33
years behind bars.

oThese people lost every-

thing they had. Some even lost

their church. The court cannot
ignore that, ? U.S. District Judge
arold L. Murphy said.

Prosecutors said Kennard
claimed his company was devel-
oping Christian resorts around
the country. He told preachers
that for a fee of a few thousand
dollars, their churches could be
omembers ? of his company. In
return, he promised that in time
the churches would get a grant
or a forgivable loan of up to

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a lot in common. These ladies are
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Nina S. Griffin and Rachael D.

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Interestingly enough, the ex-

act same thing is happening all over _|

the country. Nationally, over 90%

ones

Marian Wright a, 60,
will be keynote speaker for Baccalau-
reate, Saturday, May 14 at 10 a.m. in
Sisters Chapel at Spelman. Ms.
Edelman, Founder of- the Children Ts

- Defense Fund, is well known for her
work on behalf of children across the

of all churches in America have just
160 active members. ' _

In response to this, Lost Sheep
Consulting is conductin
groundbreaking oMcChurch
seminars. Founders Nina S. Grif-
fin and Rachael D. Richardson are
showing God Ts CEOs how to cre-
ate the one-of-a-kind spiritual ex-
perience similar to that of which

~ McDonald Ts customers have been

enjoying for the last 50 years. For-

tune 500 companies didn't become -

successful until they started talk-
ing to customers who had left their
companies and/or were on the

"verge of defection.

These brave ladies are vision-
ary in empowering clergy with
proven 21st century win-back and

_ fetention techniques.

There is a oDAVID ? in the
desert with a sling-shot of a mes-

sage; oSAVE THE LOST AT ALL
| COST ?,

For more details, interested
should - Visit
www.sheepfinders.com or contact
Nina Griffen a

heepfinders@

as = as , valedictori fro el in 1960,
and Virginia Davis Floyd at 2005 Commencement and was the isla woman ops

-bar in Mississippi.

_ Founded in 1881, Spelman Col-
lege is the only historically Black col-
lege in T the nation to be included on
the U.S. News and World rt's list
of top 100 oBest Liberal Arts Colleges
- Bachelor's, ? 2004 edition. This pri-

ily Col

William oThe Judge ? Council

by W. Council

Green Cove Spring, FLA - The 25
Grandchild of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur
& Rosa Council receives a full schol-
arship to play football at West Vir-
ginia State University.

The 25th grandchild of Mr. &
Mrs. Arthur & Rosa Council of
Staton House Road, Greenville, NC.
He graduates from Clay High
School on Friday, May 20,2005, in
Green Cove Springs just outside

acksonville, Fla.

vate college for Black women boasts
lin

outstanding alumnae such as
Children Ts Defense Fund founder
Marian Wright Edelman; former For-

- eign Service Director General, Ruth

Davis; authors Tina McElroy Ansa and
Pearl Cleage; and actress LaTanya
Richardson Jackson,

__ Billy "The Judge" Council
turned 18 in March; bend Pe and
weights 254 pounds and has main-
tained nearly 3.0 GPA has received a
full scholarship to play Defensive
Lineman for West Virginia State
University in the Fall 2005.
Billy grew up in the Wash-
ington, DC area until his junior year.
He is the son of Bill & Sherri Coun-
cil. Bill Council graduated from
Bethel Union High School in' 1961
where he reighn as a 4-H champion
for 4 years and a track star. [
Billy's father taught Business
courses at The University of the Dis-
trict of Columbia for 8 years, in the
Washington DC., and he now has
plans to major in Business himself at
West Virginia State University where
he is thrilled to play football.

_ Billy began his sports career
in elementary school playing basket-
ball and in junior high school, he
played baseball where he was known
as the "the slugger". Now in football,
he is called "The Judge" because he
plays with such attitude.

. The Council family, rela-
tives, and friends near and far con-
gratulate the youngest and last grand-
child of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur & Rosa
Council on Billy's achievements and
continued success in his academic
and sports career.

Deadlie
_. Diabetes killed, or helped to kill,
my Great-Aunt Euphemia, my
Uncle Donald, my Aunt Mildred
and Bernell, my mother-in-law, Be-
cause the disease often destroys
blood circulation, a few of them were

forced to undergo horrifying ampu- '

tations before the end.
_ Two of my uncles and a brother-
in-law have the disease now. My fam-

ily, sadly, is not unusual in this re-

In reality, diabetes is an epi-
~ demic. The disease - a failure of the

than AIDS.

body to produce or process the in.
sulin needed to digest Sugar and
starch - killed 1,891 city residents in
2003, according to the Health De-
partment. That's a one-year jump of
11%, making the disease more
deadly than AIDS in the five bor-
ougks for the first time. About
450,000 New Yorkers have the dis-
ease.

Diabetes is so prevalent in black
and Latino communities that it has
crept into the cultural fabric. It is
how common to hear older women

Latin-Arab summit

By Carmen J. Gentile

RIO DE JANEIRO " Brazil will
host a meeting of Latin Anicrica and
Arab leaders, including new Iraqi Presi-
dent Jalal Talabani, in an effort to pro-
mote greater economic integration be-
tween the two regions and talk diplo-
matic goals.

__ But there are indications that
the United States .and Israel are con-
cerned the summit could become a
platform to attack U.S. and Israeli poli-
cies in the Middle East.

A summit declaration, to be
released Wednesday, could strain rela--
tions between South America and the
United States if it is seen to tacitly back
groups such as Lebanon's H
guerrillas, which Washington classifies
as terrorist organizations. " ".

A draft copy of the declaration
published in the Brazilian press raised
expectations the meeting would triti-
cize U.S. and Israeli use of force and
back the rights of peoples to resist oc-
" cupation.

oThe positions and worries of
Israel regarding the summit have been
expressed directly to the government
of Brazil and other Sou American
governments, ? the Israeli Embassy in
Brazil said in a statement. °

oWe have made our concerns

known to the Brazilian povernment

about the importance of not doin
anything to undermine the world Ts
shared goal of peace in the Middle
East, ? said a U.S. government official,
who asked not tobe named.
Twenty-two leaders and offi-
cials from Arab states and at least 10
of their counterparts from Latin
America will meet during the last two
days of the summit, which begins to-
day and runs through Wednesday in
Brasilia and which was the brainchild
~ of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula
da Silva and Algerian President

lah |

schools.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The leftist Bra-
zilian leader first publicly proposed the
idea of the two-region get-together
during his five-nation tour of the
Middle East in December 2003.

oTt is time to change the com-

mercial geography of the world, ? said .

Mr. da Silva during his stop in Leba-

onon. oIf we are alone, then none of us

can compete with rich nations. ?
Since assuming office in Janu-

aty 2003, the Brazilian president has

traveled all over the world seeking to

4
ion Neu D

talk about the disease almost casu-
ally in church or at the corner store.
"My sugar is acting up, ? they say, as

if it were no more trouble than a

toothache or a bout of insomnia.
Here's the infuriating part: 90%

- of these cases are probably prevent-

able. The leading cause of diabetes is
a lack of exercise combined with
over-consumption of sugars and
starches; over time, the body's abil-

ity to process the megadoses of _

starchy foods collapses. |

The link between diabetes and
the obesity caused by poor diets and
nonexercise is so strong that some
doctors have coined a new word for

the disease: diabesity. Anybody can

worries U.S., Israel

&

bolster Brazil Ts trade ties with develop-

ing nations, most notably India and

ina, with ar re ae a strate-

¢ partnership of developing super-
ower dubbed the G-3. °

Just like Mr. da Silva T visit to

the Middle East in 2003, the upcom-

ing summit is likely to raise eyebrows

in the Bush administration. Not only

will Washington take interest in see-

ing who is dealing with whom, but

how successful those talks are in

brokering lasting deals, particularly at

Is Education The New Civil Rights Battleground?

by Elvis Oxley
(NAPSA)-Over the years, the issue
of equal access to education has been
the focal point of many civil rights
confrontations.

This should come as no sur-
prise. Access to quality education,
regardless of a student Ts race, will
always be a critical element of any
attempt to build a society where the
opportunity of individuals to pros-
per is based on the ocontent of their
character ? rather than the ocolor of
their skin. ?

Through legislation, such as the
No Child Left Behind Act, bold ef.
forts are being made to move this
new civil rights agenda forward by
pressing for a number of educational
reforms that reflect the interests of
the African-American and Latino
communities-such as increasing pa-
rental choice, demanding account-
ability from administrators and us-
ing market measures to evaluate the
performance of teachers and

ne

In their article oClosing The
Racial Gap In Education, ? Abigail
and Stephan Thernstrom argue that
too many inner-city school districts
shortchange young people with union
Contracts that protect incompetent
teachers and smother innovation.

These districts, they contend,
are ignoring the threat to our nation Ts
future and social cohesion posed by
the inability of many poor oung
minorities to compete success lly in
school and in the workplace.

For example, at age 17, the typi-
cal black or Hispanic student is scor-
ing well less than at least 80 percent
of his or her white classmates,

The Thernstroms also make the
point that the schools they admire
most, in cities such as Chicago and
Philadelphia, are chatter schools that
probably would not exist if not for
the Bush administration's leadership.

Thanks to its efforts, parents can
now select from schools such as these
and others, when trying to give their
child the best education possible,

ity

Sd

help stave off the disease b walking i
more, binging less and talking with
a doctor about creating - and stick-

ing to-a healthy diet.

Anna Lewis, an attorney and
West Side activist, has taken to
shouting from the rooftops abou
what it takes to avoid diabetes. Lewis
is one of the 5% of diabetics who
inherited the disease and has been
dealing with it her whole life.

This week she spoke at a com-
munity health forum convened by
the mid-Manhatran chapter of the
NAACP. The event was ignored by
news outlets, 4s are many life-or-
death issues.

I could have talked about it all

a time when the United States is try-
ing to restart stalled talks on the cre-
ation of a free-trade bloc for the West-
ern Hemisphere.

The proposed Free Trade Area
of the Americas co-led by the United
States and Brazil was supposed to be
implemented by the beginning of
2005. But concerns regarding re-
stricted access to U.S. markets and
subsidies expressed by several Latin
American leaders, Mr. da Silva in-

cluded, have stymied the talks. The .

America is best served when leg-
islators and educators are willing to
address race-related issues such as the
gap in academic achievement. The
enormous data supporting this di-
vide, such as those presented in the
Thernstroms T paper, should dee ly
concern all Americans-and stimulate
serious debate over educational re-
form.

Elvis Oxley is the Executive Di-
tector of The Ripon Society,
Founded on the values of Abraham
Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, Ripon
promotes innovation, equality of
opportunity, personal responsibility
and smaller government.

To learn more about Ripon or
to download a copy of oClosing The
Racial Gap In Education, ? visit
www.riponsoc.org.

. i}

night, ? says Lewis. "We don't do the
kind of outreach we do for other
kinds of diseases."

The reason diabetes gets a frac-.

tion of the attention devoted to dis-
cases like AIDS, she says, is simple:
"Rich people aren't the-ones getting
Type II diabetes, for the most part. ?

__ The disease is, indeed, concen-
trated among poor people. But we
are all paying the cost. In one recent
year, according to state figures, there

were 330,000 hospitalizations for.

diabetes, at an average cost of

May i - 31,2005 The Minority Voice Newspaper Page 11 -

tion (www.diabetes.org) estimates
that one in 10 health dollars goesto
the disease nationally, a staggering

$132 billion a year. eae
_ Everyone with an audience -
politicians, preachers, teachers, jour-

nalists - should be urging the public

to recognize the dimensions of the
diabetes problem and the disastrous
end of the road that awaits those who
don't exercise or cut back on sugar
and starch in their diets. We owe it
to our neighbors, friends and fam-
ily.

$16,669 - a total of more than $5
billion.
FTAA would include ev nation in

the hemisphere except Cuba.

A U.S. State Department offi-
cial said the administration welcomed
the idea of opositive dialogue ? between
the two nations and said that the State
Department supported the idea of
leaders from the Palestinian territories
and Iraq attending the meeting, Pales-
tinian Authority By
Abbas is scheduled to attenid the sum-

mit.

The South American leaders
and representatives scheduled to attend
the summit are from Argentina, Bra-
zil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, French
Guiana, Paraguay, Peru,
Venezuela. Ecuador's new president,

resident Mahmoud -

Uruguay and-

Alfredo Palacio, won't attend owing
to ongoing tension at home after last
months dismissal of former President.
Lucio Gutierrez. Suriname President

Ronald Venetiaan is ly stay-
ing home to campaign odor
later this month. | Sy!
The Arab leaders scheduled to
attend are from Algeria, Saudi Arabia,
the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, "
Comoros, Djibouti, t, Yemen,

» Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya,
meso Mauritania, Oman, the Pal-
estinian territories, Qatar, Syria,
Sudan, Somalia and Tunisia.

* This article is based in part

on wire service reports.

Can Tt Account for

$100M Spent in Iraq

By: Matt Kelley, Associated Press

WASHINGTON " USS. civilian
authorities in Iraq cannot roperly
account for nearly $100 million that
was supposed to have been spent on
reconstruction projects in south-cen-
tral Iraq, government investigators

said Wednesday.

There are indications of fraud
in the use of the $96.6 million, ac-
cording to a report by the Special In-
spector General for Iraq Reconstruc-
tion. A separate investigation of pos-
sible wrongdoing continues.

More than $7 million of the to-
tal is unaccounted for,

the report
said. An additional $89.4

million in

~ payments do not have the required

Supporting documents.

The report accused civilian con-
tract managers of osimply washing
accounts ? to try to make the books
balance. Staffing shortages and the

uick turnover of those responsible
or the cash contributed to the prob-
lems, the report said.

Col. Thomas Stefanko, the of-
ficial now in charge of the rogram,
wrote the investigators that he agreed
with their conclusions. Stefanko said
his office had corrected or was in the
Process of fixing or investigating the
problems identified in the report.

A congressional critic of U.S.
reconstruction spending in Iraq said
Wednesday the findings showed
odisorganized, sloppy management. ?

oThe U.S. risks fostering a cul-
ture of corruption in Iraq, ? said Sen.

ATTENTION

BUSINESSES, ADVERTIS] RS

AND WRITERS!!!

Russ Feingold, D-Wis.

The money at issue is from pro-
ceeds from Iraqi oil sales and seizures
from the former government of
Saddam Hussein. Distribution of the
money was handled first by the Coa-
lition Provisional Authority, the
U.S.-run occupation government in
Iraq from 2003 to June 28, 2004.

After that, the money was over-
seen by the Joint Area Support "
Group-Central, which is managed
from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad,
the Iraqi capital. oe

Managers gave the cash to odi-
vision-level agents ? responsible for
distributing the money for recon--
struction programs in a certain area.
Those agents - the report did not
specify their nationalities - were sup-
posed to keep detailed, signed te-
ceipts and other documentation for
the money they spent but usually did
not, the report said.

Part of the problem was a last-
minute push to spend millions on
reconstruction projects before the
interim Iraqi government took ove,
the report said. One agent got $6.75
million in cash a week before the
handover, with the expectation that
the money would be spent before the
Iraqis took power, the report said.

Several of these agents owere
under the impression that.it was
more important to quickly distrib-
ute the money to the region than to
obtain all necessary documentation, ?
the report said.

oSecuring the required docu-
mentation should not have been
overlooked by those officials specifi-
cally charged with safeguarding Iraqi

nds, ? investigators said.

Controls over the cash were so
lax that two of the agents hired to
distribute the money were allowed
to leave Iraq before they had ac-
counted for ai of it, the report said.
Between them, those two had been -
given more than $1.4 million in cash
which remains unaccounted for, the
report said,

~A different agent failed to pro-
vide Proper documentation for more
than $12.4 million in spending but
had his accounts cleared by his su-
pervisors, the report said.

Yet another agent kept distrib-'
uting money fot three weeks after his
authority to handle the funds was re-
voked, the report said. That agent,
told that $1,878,870 was missing
from his account, delivered precisely
that amount to his supervisors three
days later, the report said.

That suggests, the report said,
that the agent had a reserve of cash
and only turned in enough to make
his account balance.

Page 12 The Minority Voice Newspaper May 1 -51, 2005

Malcolm X And Music

by Norman Otis Richmomd
Meoineil Malik El-Shabazz
non February 21, 1965, because
of his attempt to internationalize the
. __ Malcolm was born 80 years
on May 19, 1925. While it is unli
7 US. " W. Bush
acknowledge these facts, people
from Cape Town to Nova Scotia and
Brazil to Brixton definitely will. Afri-
can Americans in New York City have
made a pilgrimage to Malcolm's
gravesite every year since February 21,
1966.

e.
0
y

Contrary to popular belief, it
was Malcolm, not Martin Luther
King, who first opposed the war in
Vietsam. Malcolm, was the first Af-
rican American leader of national
prominence in the 1960s to con-
demn the war. He was joined by or-
ganizations like the Revolutionary
Action Movement and the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Com-
mittee. This was in the tradition of
David Walker, Henry Highland Gar-
net, Martin R. Delaney, Bishop
Henry McNeil Turner, W.E.B. Du
Bois, Marcus Garvey, Ella Baker and
Paul Robeson. Malcolm continued
to link the struggles: of African
people worldwide. King came out
against the Vietnam War after his
famous April 4, 1967 speech at Riv-
erside Church in New York City.
Malcolm spoke against this war from
the get-go.

Musicians did their part to keep
Malcolm's name alive, on before
Spike Lee's 1992 bio-pic, oX, ? hip-
hop, house, and R'n'B artists
created music for Malcolm, high-life
and great Black music (so-called jazz)
artists first wrote and sang about
Malcolm. The dance of Malcolm's
time was the "lindy-hop" and he was a
master of it. The Autobiography of
Malcolm X, which Malcolm wrote
with the assistance of Alex Haley, gives
a vivid description of his love of danc.
ing.

Years later, on a visit to the West
sna tasty Malcolm
of seeing Ghanaians dancing the
rok He wrote: "The Ghanaians
performed the high-life as if possessed.
One pretty African girl sang Blue
Moon like Sarah Vaughan. Sometimes
the band sounded like Charlie Parker,"

Malcolm's impact on Ghana was
so great that one folk singer created a
song in his honor called "Malcolm
Man."

Malcolm Man, Malcolm Man
You speak your tale of woe
The red in your face like our
Blood on the land
You speak your tale of woe
Malcolm Man, Malcolm Man

Will one day unite our people
And make us all so real
Malcolm Man, Malcolm Man.
After Malcolm's death, many jazz

artists recorded music in his memory.
Among them, Leon Thomas recorded
the song, "Malcolm's Gone" on his
Spirit nown and Unknown album;
saxophonist-poet-p! ywrigh nt Archie
She ip recorded the:poem, oMalcolm,
Malcolm Semper Malcolm" on his
Fire Music album. drew paral-
lels between Malcolm's spoken words
and John Coltrane's misic. Said
Shepp: "I equate Coltrane's music very
strongly with Malcolm's language,
because they were just about contem-

raries, to tell you the truth. And I

Pelieve essentially what Malcolm said
is what John played. If Trane had been
a speaker, he might have spoken some-
what like Malcolm. If Malcolm had
been a saxophone player, he might
have playeds som like Trane.

hortly before Malcolm's death,
he visited Toronto and appeared on
CBC television with Pierre Breton.
During the visit, Malcolm spent time
with award-winning author Austin
Clarke talking about politics and mu-
sic. Time was too short to organize a
community meeting, but a few lucky
people gathered at Clarke's.home on
Asquith Street. Clarke had interviewed
Malcolm previously, in 1963 in
Harlem, when he was working for the
CBC. Clarke recalled they "talked
shop, ? but also discussed the lighter
things in life, like the fact that both
their wives were named Betty.

It is not surprising that Malcolm
made his way to Canada. His mother
and father, Earl Little, met and: mar-
ried in Montréal at a Universal N
Improvement Association (UNTA)
convention. Both were followers of
Marcus Garvey. His mother, Louise
Langdon Norton, was born in
Grenada but immigrated first to
Halifax, Nova Scotia and later to
Montreal in 1917. -

Jan Carew's book, Ghosts in Our
Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa,

E x

4

England, and the Caribbean, docu.
mee hs spect of dae le othe bee
Africanist. I suggest that Carew Ts vol.
ume be read to commemorate the 40th .
iversary of Malcolm's assassination,
While on a visit to Nigeria
Malcolm was given the name
Omowale, which means in the Yoruba
language, othe son who has come

home ?. It was this period of his life that

"he visited Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia,

Senegal, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Guinea and Tanza-

nia. It was during that period that he

met with Osagyefo Dr. Kwame
Nkrumah, Julius K Nyerere, and

Nnamoi Azikiwe, ure, Jomo

Kenyatta, Dr. Milton Obote and oth-.
ers. During this visit he also met Ras

Makonnen, a legendary Pan-Africanist

from Guyana oh Mya Wright's

daughter Julie Wright, Angelou,

Shirley Graham Du Bois, the wife of
W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Chinese Am-

bassador Huang Ha.

~ Malcolm was the chief or i
_ of the Nation of Islam and the funda

of the groups newspaper Muhammad
Speaks. He split with the nation and
its leader Elijah Muhammad in 1963, -
At the time of his death he headed two
organizations. The secular group the
Organization of Afro-American Unity
(OAAU) was his political arm. He also
organized the religious group, Muslim
Mosque Inc (MMI), which practiced
Sunni Islam. Today Islam is the sec-
ond largest religion in the United
States and Canada. Many credit
Malcolm with helping spread Sunni
Islam as well as revolutionary African
American Nationalism and Pan-
Africanism among African people in
the Western Hemisphere.

Like Augusto Cesar Sandino of
Nicaragua or Sun Yat-Tsen of China,
Malcolm was embraced by all sectors

of the African American Nationalist «|.
_and Pan Africanist movements. All :
Nationalists and Pan-Africanists |

claimed to follow his example. Revo-
lutionary Nationalist groups like the
Black Panther Party, and the League |
of Revolutionary Black Workers

docu- Malcolm was still their man, The cul-

tural Nationalists who maintained that ©
the Cultural Revolution must precede

the political one also embraced

He was.a controversial figure.
Actor Ossie Davis eulogized him as
our oBlack Shining Prince ? while the
director, of the U:S. information
agency Carl. T. Rowan referred to
him as oan ex-convict, ex-dope ped-
dler who became a racial fanatic. ? He
was loved by the oppressed and hated
by the oppressors. Malcolm spoke
about the MMI and the OAAU in
these terms: oIts aim is to create an
atmosphere and facilities in which
people who are interested in Islam
can get a better understanding of Is-
lam. The'aim of the OAAU is to use
whatever means necessary to bring
about a society in which the twenty-
two million Afto-Americans are rec-
ognized and respected as human be-

Malcélm was ior. nearly as well
ktiown as he is today, Each year his
stature grew. By 1992 Malcolm was
the subjecs of a major motion pic-
ture, oX" by Spike Lee. Lee Ts film was
as Controversial as Malcolm's life. Lee

was attacked from the left, right and .

center for his portrayal of Malcolm.
And he marketed the hell out of the
movie, His campaign began with the
marketing of oX ? caps. He gave the
first cap to basketball icon Michael
Jordan. And as they say, othe rest is his-

tory. ? Many who up hold the Black .
radical bo r

: tion fought Lee over the
film: They accused him of opimping
and sampling ? Malcolm. Lee re-
sponded with a book, By Any Means
Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations
of the Making of Malcolm X .... (While
Ten Million Motherfuckers are
Fucking With You!).

_ The Autobiography of Malcolm
X by Alex Haley and other books by

Ay the time of his death

and about Malcolm continue to sell
worldwide. Some of his books have
recently been published in Cuba.
Malcolm was one of the few African
American Nationalist leaders that wel-
comed Cuban leader Fidel Castro to
Harlem in 1960. Many Nationalists
didn't want to be identified with com-
munism, But African people in the
West could easily identified with the
slogan, oWhen Africa called Cuba
Answered. ? Kwame Ture (Stokely
Carmichael) was fond of reminding us
that the only place in the United States
that Fidel felt safe was in Harlem.
Toronto-based journalist and ra-
dio producer Norman (Otis) Rich-

mond can be heard on Diasporic

Music, Thursdays, 8-10 p.m., Satur-

day Morning Live, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-
I p.m. and From a Different Perspec-
tive, Sundays, 6-6:30 p. m. on CKIN.
FM 88.1 and on he Internet at
www.ckln.fm. He can be T reached by
e-mail at norman@ckin.fm. .

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Malcolm's death. Even after the BPP

and the League embraced Marxism, |

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