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EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA TS MINORITY VOICE " SINC

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THURSDAY, MAY 18-WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1989

AR aetna ge

Beso,

Mr. J. B. Smith and wife, Charlotte

ECU Announces Smith Award to
Outstanding Student in Education

By: Staff Writer

East Carolina University
recently announced the establish-
ment of the J. B. Smith Award to
be given to a 1988-89 school year
graduate of the University from
its education department. More
specifically, the award is
designated for an outstanding
student whose area of concentra-
tion includes either elementary
or middle grades teaching.

Mr. Smith, affectionately
known as ~ ~Bar-B-Que T T by some
friends and colleagues, is the
principal of E. B. Aycock Jr.
High School in Greenville, N. C.
Before Smith took over the reins
at E. B. Aycock, it had been in-
famously noted for its extreme
violence and disciplinary pro-
blems. Since Mr. Smith has
become principal, the city Ts only
junior high school has enjoyed

productive, but educational pro-
gress without interruption.
Before tackling the now non-
existing ills at the school, Mr.
Smith was principal of South
Greenville School, one of the
county Ts most highly rated
schools for its commitment to
educational prosperity for all
students.

The mathematic scholar,
educator, and community leader
is married to a schoolteacher,
also. Mr. Smith and his wife,
Charlotte, who teachers Health
and physical education have two
children and reside in Greenville.
The ~M T TVOICE is proud to take
this opportunity to salute and
congratulate Mr. J. B. ~ ~Bar-B-
Que T ? T Smith for attaining such
high accalades from his peers
and fellow colleagues.

(Jim Rouse Photo}

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We've Come

By: Deacon James Vines

After I finished working for the
day and the store had closed, I
took off for the cook Ts house. It
was a very warm night and a lot
of people were sitting outj on
their porches with buckets or
rags burning to keep the mos-
quitoes from biting and to make
it more comfortable sitting out. I
arrived there and found her sit-
ting in the swing on her porch
talking to the next door neighbor.
I turned up the walkway and
when I got to the steps I spoke
and asked her how did she like
the hot weather. She said she lik-
ed it because she didn Tt have to
sit in the house all the time. She
then asked me to come in and
have a seat and sit and rest
awhile until she came from the
store which was not far from
where she lived. She was gone for
about five minutes and when she
got back she kept going in the
house and asked me if I would
like to come. I got up and follow-
ed her into the living room where
she pointed to the couch and ask-
ed me to sit down until she got
back from the kitchen.

I sat there and listened to
Gabriel Heater tell about how
serious the war was getting and
then she came back, sat down
beside me, and said, ~ o ~Now that
I have finished my work, we can
talk. Let me begin by asking you
a question and you know what it Ts
about. I didn Tt want to interfere
but I am curious about what Ts
been going on. I can Tt do my work
in the kitchen for her asking me
about how to get men to notice
her. So I asked her what she
meant and she just said, any
man. And I asked her what did
she want the man to do and she
said just to get them to notice her.
I am not ugly and I dress well but
I just can Tt get some men to
notice me. Then I asked why did
she pick on the delivery boy and
she said she just liked colored
boys. ?

She stopped talking for a mo-

A Long Way

ment and got up from where she
was sitting and went in the kit-
chen and after she had finished in
the kitchen she came back and
took me by both my hands and
told me to promise her that I
would never talk to that woman
again, but I told her that it was
my job to go there and that it was
her doing the talking.

She said, ~ ~Well, you had better
quit going there. Don Tt you think
that I Tm good enough for you?
Although I am older but I Tve
known young men to like older
women. ? T I sat there and listened
to her for almost two hours before
I had a chance to say anything at
all and when I did try to say
something she would cut me off
and wouldn Tt let me finish what
I was saying.

I finally got the chance to tell
her that I had to go because it was
getting late and I wanted to get
some things from the store before
I got home. I started to the door
to leave and she asked me would
I come again someday when I
could stay longer and I told her
that I would. The next day I
decided to stay home and work on
a very bad cold that I had and to
get some rest, but I just couldn Tt
stay in bed because I was worried
about what to do about those
women. So I sent word to the
store that I wouldn Tt be in that
day but I would be in the day
after. I sat around the house un-
til about 10 6 Tclock when I decid-
ed to walk out on the corner.
There were several of the boys
out there just sitting around do-
ing nothing but talking and
wondering if they would be
caught in the draft. After I had
been there talking with the boys
for about five minutes, we saw a
man on a truck selling melons
and other vegetables, so we
decided to chip in and buy a
watermelon together. After we
picked a nice big ripe one, we
took it under some large cedar
trees and cut it and began to eat

it when one of the boys said,
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Pitt County
gets first
African
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magistrate

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HOME GROWN BUSINESSMAN ...Brother Sam Jones is the
owner and general manager of Divine Carpet Cleaning Ser-
vice and is ready and willing to assist you in spring cleaning.
Here he is pictured with part of his staff--his family.

Settlement in Voting Lawsuit
About Two Weeks Away

Lawyers for the Beaufort
County Board of Commissioners
and the plaintiffs in a voting-
rights lawsuit have said that a set-
tlement is still about two weeks
away.

The commissioners T lawyer in
the case, Michael Crowell of Ra-
leigh, said in a telephone inver-
view this week that the details of

~the settlement possibly will not be

worked out until the board meets
again May 29.

oWe are still discussing the
terms of the agreement with the
plaintiff's attorney, ? Crowell said.

Leslie J. Winner, lawyer for the
11-member group that filed the
suit against the county, said
Thursday, oCompleting the paper-
work is a slower process than we
thought it would be. ?

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She and Crowell are having
trouble coordinating their sche-
dules, Ms. Winner said. But she
said a settlement is oimminent. ?

The lawyers had indicated last
month that they expected an
agreement to be reached by now.

The suit was filed in U.S. Dis-
trict Court against the Board of
Commissioners and the county
Board of Elections a year ago by an
11-member group, the Concerned
Citizens for Minority Affairs,
headed by the Rev. David L.
Moore of Washington. Its purpose
is to establish a method of electing
the commissioners that will make
the election of a black more likely.

This is the first suit filed by the
group. A suit against the Beaufort

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ADVANCE AUTO PARTS GRAND OPENING .. .Ray Davenport, left and Advance Ts newest
store manager, Brother Preston Sutton paused during the Grand Opening of their new store
on South Memorial Drive for our camera. They invite you to come on in and save!

At a time when it seems as if
discrimination on the basis of
race in America has begun to
diminish, the evils of bigotry are
alive and lurking in darkness
underground, literally. This time
the victims of discrimination
have banned together to effect
drastic change. Who are these
victims? You and your
neighborhood funeral directors

morticians.

The National Funeral Direc-
tors and Morticians Association,

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Inc. (NFDMA) is screaming foul
against one of the nation Ts largest
and most widely used casket
makers because they have
witnessed an _ inexplicable
distribution of inadequate
marketing. strategies instituted
by the coffin maker. The
Batesville Casket Company, a
subsidiary of Hillenbrand In-
dustries, has been unsuccessful
in conveying satisfactory ex-
planations of their marketing
behavior to the African American

(Voice Photo by Jeff Savage)

group of burial professionals.
While negotiations have been
mainly. unsuccessful, the
NFDMA has maintained an open-
line of communications with
Batesville Ts CEO, Mr. Robert H.
Irwin and implemented its
boycott of Batesville caskets. The
group promises that if a mutual
agreement is not met ex-
peditiously, the selective buying
initiative will expand to include
other products and services of the

Hilln rand conglomerate.

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Greenville native Russell J.
Hemby has been appointed to
become Pitt County Ts first
African-American magistrate. A
magistrate in Pitt County issues
warrants for arrests and sets bail
for alledged law breakers, among
other things. Hemby could not be
reached for comment.

The past master of Mt. Herman
Lodge #35 is a 1971 graduate of J.
H. Rose High and assumed his
duties as magistrate May Ist.

The ~M T Voice salutes Russell
Hemby! .

Read The
~m T Voice

Mr. Donovan Phillips, Presi-
dent of the N.C. FDMA and
Prexy of Phillips Brothers Mor-
tuary, Inc., a Greenville firm,
said in an interview, othe way
thay have disbursed their funds
for conventions and their hiring
practices just do not appear fair
and equitable ... ? T as it relates to
the amount of revenue generated
by the otruly last surviving enti-
ty of the (Black) community in
America ? that has as its sole sup-
porters, African Americans,

REVEREND JESSIE KEYS. . .And wife with Asst. Pastor,
Carlton Keys at Mary Chapel Missionary Baptist Church.

(Voice Photo by Jim Rouse)

In a letter from NFDMA Presi-
dent Carlton C. Douglas to state
presidents, Douglas urged
members to return all financial
contributions that were made by
the (Batesville) casket maker
toward conventions; solicit other
(corporate) sponsors and to not
buy any caskets or products
made by Batesville as a show of
unity with the position taken by
the NFDMA. North Carolina is
one of the states that have

, alone adhered to and im-

seculiil cac ti ht ehh atin Mee Oh Se Ral aI a mt ey ee ble ahem

AfricanAmerican Funeral Directors Boycott CasketMaker

plemented the requests from the
national office. ~This is a multi-
billion dollar industry and a lot of
that money comes from our com-
munities and an equitable
redistribution of those funds is
not asking too nmwch, T T says
Phillips.

In a telephone interview with
THE ~M T VOICE, Mr. Hari P.
Close, Convention Coordinator
for NFDMA, said ~We spent over
140 million dollars with Batesville
last year alone and we do not in-

} (Continued on page 10)

2-THURSDAY, MAY 18-WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1989-THE ~M T VOICE

The tragedies in Central Park

Parks, like children, should be
synonymous with joy and the
beauty of growth. There was a
time -- within my 63 years -
when music supposedly soothed
(not aroused) the savage beast
in every human. That was also
the time when a man and wo-
man had to produce a marriage
license in order to rent an apart-
ment and live together.

We are told that during the
dark of April 19, 1989, a rap mu-
sic lyric inspired some children
to commit assault, rape and at-
tempted murder in Central
Park. Let us pray that o ~at-
tempted ? remains part of the
charges.

It is important that the Man-
hattan Borough President,
David Dinkins, emphasized
that the crimes against the wo-
man jogger were not racially-
motivated. Nor do they appear
to have been drug: induced ~ un-
less you posit chemical powers
to a cesspool lyric.

With regard to seeing the
defendant Ts on television, con-
fessions, we must await a trial
or broadcast on television. Con-
sidering the questionable ethics

of some news organizations, the
tapes could reach the tube as hi-
jacked footage. What of the con-
fessional content? Presumably,
each will be legally admissable.
Will the children make morally
sufficient confessions implicat-
ing their parents?

When minors commit crimes,
their parents are tacit co- defen-
dants. That applies whether the
parents live in Howard Beach or
in Harlem. In spite of statutes
enacted by legislators, there re-
mains the commandment to
~Honor thy father and thy
mother! T T Children honor, or
dishonor, parents with deeds.
That is universally true for the
rainbow of human skin colors.

Genesis _

Trying to be clinical about a
society may be futile, but we al-
ways seem to ask ourselves
diagnostic questions. Why?
How? What? Who?

Was the genesis of Central
Park and Howard Beach the
product of the ~ ~consciousness-
raising T sixties, the era when
the parents of the Howard
Beach and Central Park defen-
dants were rebelling against

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their parents attempts to instill
values to live by?

Were the seeds of Howard
Beach and Central Park planted
- like a terrorist bomb -- by Ab-
bie Hoffman or H. Rap Brown?
Should the credit go to the Ku
Klux Klan or the Black Pan-
thers? Who should be the God-
dess of the disaster... Bernadine
Dohrn or Joanne Chesimar?
And the God... Meir Kahane or
Louis Farrakhan? What enter-
tainment superstars deserve
medals? Is the winner the acid-
soaked ghost of Janis Jopland
or the marijuana-reeking
presence of Bob Marley? Per-
haps the affliction began with
Lyndon Johnson's Uptopian
oGreat Society, T T and pro-
gressed with Ronald Reagan Ts
~Vanquish the Vulnerable T T eco-
nomics.

Isn Tt it strange how what was
~Avante Garde ? or o ~counter-cul-
ture T or ~ ~progressive T T can
degenerate into something
ghastly?

Are the boys of Central Park
the moral equivalent of the
Greek letter fraternity brothers
who ~ o ~date rape T their way
across our better college cam-
puses?

During his lifetime, Adlai
Stevenson often reminded us,
~There is nothing new, only dif-
ferent. ? T

The total Central Park atroci-
ty defies rational explanation.
And what the concept of ~ ~wild-
ing T? Are parents completely
disengaged? Don't they know
that Tone-Lo¢ Ts recording
~Wild Thing T T is a dominant in-
fluence on their children? If that
is the situation, then Farrak-
han Ts Apr. 23rd assertion to the
New Orleans African- American
Summit was ominous.

oWith our increased bir-
thrates, T T Farrakhan told the
meeting, othe Black man and
woman can actually breed our-
selves into power. T

No, not if the children of in-
creased birthrates are permitted
to propel themselves into
penitentiaries rather then col-
leges. Society Ts public places
are not playpens. Women Ts
bodies are not toys meant to
provide ~ ~fun T T for ruthless
criminals of any color. Perhaps,
in the hell of his soul, Robert
Chambers knows that as he
remembers Central Park with
every tick of the clock.

Train or visit

During the Great Depression
era, the John Dillingers and Ma
Barkers tried to pass them-
selves off as victims driven to
crime only by poverty. (Some
Blacks try to use racism as their
sole justification for criminali-
ty). Hollywood found drama in
misadventures, but industry-en-
forced rules prevented the
glorification of crime; it could
not be justified or rewarded.

(Continued on page 8)

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A common problem for young
couples is disagreement over
money. Many don Tt understand
how difficult it will be to afford
the lifestyle they want.

Teens still have misinforma-
tion about birth control, pregnan-
cy, and other physical aspects
about sex. ,

HUGGING, KISSING

It Ts hug time. It Ts kiss time. It Ts
always time to stop whatever
you Tre doing and give hugs and
kisses to your toddlers, parents.
It Ts also good for toddlers to see
hugs and kisses between parents.

WHAT TS BUGGING YOU

Do you get the blahs on a rainy
day? Clean out your closet, start
a scrapbook, put those pictures in
your album, plant a flower pot
garden, plan and make a special
meal for someone, hop around on
one foot while you recite the
oPledge of Allegiance T T, paint
each toe a different color, write
that long overdue leter, rear-
range the way your bedroom
looks (get help with the heavy
stuff).

1. Yelling at people does tend to
kill the spirit in them. o ~Sticks and
stones may break our bones, but
words will break our hearts. ? T

2. There is a sense in which we
need to go home again "and can
go home again. Not to recover
home. But to sanctify memory.

3. Nature so works it that
everybody gets a turn at getting
what they deserve in one way or
another.

4. Just be a man. Everybody
has some secret goals in life.

5. You can Tt always get what
you want but sometimes you can
get what you need.

6. Everybody needs family and
friends. You can trust a lot more
people than you think.

7. Snow is God Ts way of telling
people to slow down and rest and
stay in bed for a day.

8. People who teach us, bless
us, encourage us, support us,
uplift us in the dailiness of life, we
never tell them. I don Tt know
why, but we don Tt.

9. People who think good
thoughts, give good thoughts.

10. Women are smarter than
men.

11. I must let go sometimes.

12. Every person passing
through this life will unknowing-
ly leave something and take
something away.

13. It Ts never too late to fly.

14, Things come and go. Peo-
ple. Years. Ideas. Everything.
o ~Sometimes the world seems like
a fine place. Don Tt it? T ? T To be
human it is to know and care and
ask.

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RETIREMENT

Sometimes instead of a new
beginning, retirement initiates a
gradual self-destruction. Alcohol
can be the instrument of that
destruction, a new emotional
crutch that the retiree uses to
cope with change (or loss) or an
old habit someone is unable to
break. The effect of alcohol in
older adults is potent. Their
tolerance is not what it once was.
Many persons turn to alcohol to
cope with aging.

BEWARE WOMEN

Women who have affairs with
married men should be aware
that a married man is not an
available man. Never mind the
fun and games and wistful think-
ing. The world is full of women
who are hoping to snag a man
any way they can. If he is mar-
ried, they hope to pry him loose.
They listen and pounce on any

-weakness. ~ ~Poor me... ? T or ~ ~Poor

you... T or ~ ~Whatever works. ? T

Nobody ever had a secret affair
in any office. Anyone who thinks
otherwise is a fool. The married
man is looking for one thing and
one thing only "SEX. A wife can
tell if he is having an affair. No
one has to tell her. He gives
himself away.

REASONS FOR T HIGH

SCHOOL DROPOUTS

1. To take a job (extra spending
money).

2. Boredom.

3. Eagerness for means to
finance a car of their own
(remember the average age is
16). co

In many cases parents agree to
a job over school because it
relieves household budget

pressures.
THERE ARE FIVE KINDS OF

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Those who WONDERED what
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Mayor Ed Carter

~ ~A man is a Slave to whatever
controls him. ? 2 Peter 2:19

~ ~ A dog comes back to what he
has vomited, and a pig is washed
only to come back and wallow in
the mud again. That is the way it
is with those who turn again to
their sin. T T 2 Peter 2:22

~ ~Blacks T T, said Claudette
Burroughs-White, President of
the Greensboro Affiliate National
Black Child Development In-
stitute, conducted Wednesday
through Saturday, April 20-22,
1989, in Raleigh, have few role
models, face destructive
pressures from drugs and peers
and are not encouraged to set
high academic goals. They do
best, they said, when parents and
teachers show a personal interest
in their performance.

Other statements include, ~ ~I
feel if my Mom had been there
for me, like in elementary school.
I would not have gotten into
drugs T T, another said, ~ ~teachers
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still another said, ~ ~teachers do
not expect as much from Black
students T, and another said,
~ ~black students feel like the only
thing there is for them to do is
work in the factory. ? T

The conclusion is "our institu-
tions, homes, and society are fail-
ing our children. There Ts the
challenge "who Ts going to meet
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Fashion & Beauty Editor

-: No matter how fashion fluc-
otuates, neckwear for men has al-
~ways been in style. From the
--Pharaohs of ancient Egypt who
owore neckbands of precious
~:gtones, to early Romans who us-
ed wool or silk clothes to protect
their necks from the cold, to the

dandies of 1800s England who
changed cravats three times a
day, man has always had the
urge to adorn his neck.

What was once a functional
garment has evolved into a
statement of personal style.
And through the ages, the mark
of a truly distinguished
gentleman has been the manner
in which he tied his cravat. Ac-
cording to the pamphlet, oThe
Art of Tying a Cravat, ? T pub-
lished in 1827, a man will dis-
cover that the most critical and
scrutinizing examination will be
made on the set of his cravat,
when he enters a social circle of
taste and elegance. The pam-
phlet sets forth 18 different les-
sons on the subject.

Times haven't changed very
much (although nowadays,
there are far fewer than 18
knots to master). While modern
man may choose from a variety
of colors and fabrics for his
neckwear, there is still an art to
knotting it.

The fashionable man of 1989
will sport a tie with a small knot
an elegant dimple in the fabric.
The tie experts at Wemco, the
largest neckwear manufacturer
in the country, offer this advice
for the man anxious to be in
step with fashion:

(a) Look for a tie that is made
of a natural fabric or a blend
such as Wemsilk. (b) Make sure
your tie has been cut on the
bias. The tie will give when pull-
ed gently from both ends. (c)
Your tie should also be slip-
stitched to endure repeated
knotting and have bar tacking
closing the tie back to make a
perfectly centered point. (d)
Then tie the tie with four-in-

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over individual hangers.

hand knot, pinching the fabric
to create a dimple.

Art Deco prints are the rage
today in ties with lightweight
silk being the favorite in a re-
turn to the wider widths and
smaller bottleneck of the For-
ties. Colors, especially purple,
and textures created from

woven fabrics and patterns
without restrictions charac-

terize fashion ties. The basic
stripes and dots of yellow and
red power ties are passe.

The life of your new tie
depends largely on how you
take care of it. Here are a few
suggestions to help keep your
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THE BEST KEEPS GETTING BETTER ... Brother Dallas Rhome, second from left, is a

counselor for the Teen Parenting Program at Metropolitan AME Zion Church in Washington,
Rhome is shown here with teens who participate in the program. Rev. David Moore, pastor,
said the annual Teen Parenting Banquet, which was catered by Rhome, was a success. Dr.
Julius Mallette. a Greenville phvsician. was the banquet Ts speaker. The program is one of
the many vehicles Metropolitan uses to reach all members of the African-American Com-
munities. The ~M T VOICE is proud to salute the Metropolitan Church family for its numerous
contributions to eastern North Carolina.

Bethel Elementary
SASA Club

The Bethel Elementary SASA
Club (Students Against
Substance Abuse) sponsored a
visit to the school on May 5 by
Phil Ford, assistant basketball
coach at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Ford
arrived at the school around
1:00 p.m. and visited the
kindergarten through fifth grade
classrooms. At 1:30 p.m. there
was an assembly for sixth
through eighth grade students in
the auditorium. At 3:00 p.m., Mr.
Ford met with the SASA
Club members for an autograph
session.

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Seven year old,

Nicolette ~work and for getting good grades.

Megan Savage, was recently . . T which she says are A Ts, B Ts, .

chosen as the oStudent of the
Week ? at Belvoir Elementary
School where she is a second
grade student at the Pitt County
School, Nicolette, whose teacher
is Mrs. Burney, said she was
granted this distinction because
of her displaying qualities of a
ogood student. ? When asked
what she thought were specific
reasons for her being chosen, she
stuck her finger into her mouth
and began to rock and sway back
and forth, as children usually do,
and said, ~ o ~I didn Tt get my name
on the board and for being good. ?
That answer ultimately led us to
ask o ~what is considered being
good? ? She then astutely replied,
oI finished all my homework, I
helped other people finish their

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and C Ts, but she received a D in
reading because, ~I didn Tt read
any supplementary books. ?
Nicolette is the daughter of Mr.

Joseph T. Savage and the grand-

. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
J. Savage, all of Greenville. She
also says she is now reading sup-
plementary books and one day
hopes to become a police officer,
a doctor, and a ~ o ~superwoman! ? T
The ~M T Voice is proud to salute
Ms. Nicolette Megan Savage.

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ticipate in the State Finals in
Raleigh. The team from D. H.
Conley High School placed first in
the state in o oYe Gods T T and is now
eligible to compete in the Worlds
Finals in Boulder, Colorado in
May.

In order to get to Colorado, the
team needs our support. The
plane tickets and room reserva-
tions must be made within the
next two weeks. This expense is
$3,500.00. The total expense for
the trip is going ~to run between
$4,000.00-$5,000.00.

As many of you know, there is
no reserve funding to support our
state finalists. Participating in
World Finals is one of the most
meaningful experiences that a
young person could ever have.

The Conley team is working
very hard to raise their support,
but they need our help. If you
would like to make a donation,
please contact Harry Jones at D.
H. Conley High School (756-3440).
Checks can be sent directly to
Odyssey of the Mind Fund: D. H.
Conley High School, Route 13,
Box 230, Greenville, NC 27834.
Let Ts all get behind this team and
cheer them on to Boulder!

Challenges Grants

Foundation Director Linwood
Mercer of Farmville offered a
challenge grant of $1,000 to the
people in the Farmville Central
Attendance Area to provide mini-
grants in the 1988-89 school year
for that area. Led by members of
the Farmville Advisory Council
and local members of the Pitt
County Board of Education, the
Farmville and Falkland com-
munities raised $3,974 to match
the challenge grant three times
over.

Bethe Elementary Schoo
will hold K-2 Festival

Bethel Elementary is holding a
K-2 FESTIVAL DAY on May 26,
from 9:00 until 2:00. This will be
a very special non-traditional
type of field day for the school.
This will be a day where there is
competition as well as coopera-
tion where children have a choice
whether to compete or not. The
philosophy of the day is for each
child to have a good time and feel
good about what he or she does.
This philosophy comes from the
physical education program at
Bethel Elementary called Every
Child A Winner (Bethel Elemen-
tary is one of 8 national
demonstration sites for this pro-
gram). Every child will be a win-
ner as there will be no Ist, 2nd, or
3rd place winners in any event.
oWinning ? will come with each

child doing his or her best. Each

event is planned to allow success
for all children regardless of
physical or mental ability. The
children will move through all the
events on their own, using self-
discipline skills which are also a
part of the Every Child A Winner
program. Arts activities,
storytelling sessions, musical
entertainment, special treats,
clowns and mimes have been
added to enhance the activities of
the day.

' Volunteer
Appreciation
Day
The annual Volunteer Ap-

preciation Reception and Com-
munity Schools T Celebration will
be held on May 9, 1989 at 7:00

-m, at Wahl-Coates School, |

_ Volunteers from wap Pitt
County have been invited to at-
~tend this special event. The

~theme, oCommunity + Schools

_ = A Decade of Cooperation and

(Continued on page 7)

Today, many women and men
choose to parent children without
benefit of marriage. Many such
parents raise healthy, well-
adjusted children, too. North
Carolina is among the states that
no longer allows a mother to ran-
domly give a child his/her
father Ts last name without the
benefit of marriage. Many have
said over the years, ~ ~What Ts a
name, or Is a name that impor-
tant? ? The plight of such children
and the long term consequences
for many such children include
greater loss "that of life chances
and benefits. The majority of the
children do not receive any of the
benefits ordinarily allowed to a
child by its father. For example,
these children cannot receive
social security benefits from
his/her father; cannot inherit
from his/her father if the father
did not leave a will; and usually
cannot inherit from his/her
father Ts relatives, if the relatives
did not leave a will before they
died.

Let Ts love our children for a
lifetime, regardless of the cir-
cumstances of their conception.
Remember the cliche Mama Ts
baby, Daddy Ts maybe? Well
Mamas its time for us to make
sure our children get what is
rightfully theirs! Such action is
not begging nor does it show a
lack of pride on the mother Ts
part. It in fact shows that mama
is smart and can look beyond the
small costs of milk and pampers
in comparison to the expenses of
high school college aged children.

Laws have created several
ways that a child can be
legitimated. Legitimation en-
sures (s)he will have all the
rights of a child whose parents
were married to each other. In-
itially the parents may marry
before the child is born. The child
is then automatically legitimized
even if the parents marry after
the birth of the child. Secondly,
fathers may establish paternity
voluntarily or they can be
brought to court by the mother.
Establishing paternity involves

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This can be an inexpensive pro-
cess when done voluntarily or
quite expensive if the father
denies paternity. The expenses
include blood tests and court
costs. The Department of Social
Services or an attorney can assist
in this matter. Even if a father
does not legitimize his child, he is
still not relieved from his obliga-
tion to support the child. The
Department of Social Services
through its IV-D Unit can help
locate absent fathers and assist in
collecting support. Finally, a
more complicated procedure in-
volves gaining social security
benefits, insurance benefits,
workmen Ts compensation, or in-
heritance rights from a deceased
father who did not file a petition
or legitimation or paternity.
More information regarding this
procedure can be obtained from
the local Social Security office.

How Concerned Should We Be
About AIDS?
Acquired Immune Deficiency

cy virus,
commonly referred to as HIV,
ree causes AIDS, yi spe
are unaware are
fnfected and will therefore not
seek early medical treatment.
Victims of this disease include
both children and adolescents.
According to the Centers for
Disease Control of the total
number of reported. cases of
AIDS in this country between
May 1986 and March 1988, black
adolescents comprised 35 percent
of the cases for youths between
the ages of 13 and 19. Of those
cases 17 percent were Hispanic
and 46 percent were white. These
statistics reflect only reported
cases. There may be larger
numbers of infected adolescents
since many are not likely to seek
medical assistance or testing for
HIV and AIDS as will their older
counterparts. Our growing
teenage pregnancy rate in Pitt
County makes us all aware that
many adolescents in our com-
munity are sexually active
whether they become pregnant or
not. Parents must now be con-
cerned with the possibility of the
teenage members of their fami-
ly becoming infected with HIV or
AIDS.

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-Black Support

I am a paid life Member of the
NAACP. I raise money on behalf
of the NAACP. I love the history
of the NAACP Ts struggle on
behalf of Americanized Africans.
I believe that Ben Hooks, its cur-
rent, leader, is a man of impec-
cable character. And I consider
him a friend.

But I don;t agree with the of-
ficial opposition of the NAACP Ts
leadership to the Bush Ad-
ministration Ts nomination of
William Lucas to lead the Justice
Department Ts civil rights
division.

There is very little about the
politics of Jesse Jackson that ap-
peals to me. There is very little
substance, in my opinion, in the
things that he says that do make
sense. And his ego is to enormous
to allow a goos glimpse of his
character. But on the issue of
William Lucas T nomination, I
agree with Jackson 100% for
backing him.

At best, in my opinion, the
NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund Ts (which was
sued by the NAACP to drop the
o oNAACP ? T part of its name) op-
position to Lucas is blasphemous.

In the area of so-called
odesegregation ? of Black col-
leges, the Legal Defense Fund is
clearly on the side of the enemies
of the Black community who
want our traditional institutions
turned into White schools.

How this group of misguided
liberal lawyers, a large number
of who are White, can insert itself
into deciding who will best repre-
sent the Black community is an
insult to our intelligence.

Even though I disagree with
the NAACP Ts position on this one
issue (as well as busing for the
purpose of integration), I respect
the NAACP Ts role in our struggle
as the premiere civil rights
organization. I have one

membership...in..the .NAACP,....

therefore I have one vote -- and
My opinions also extens to the
basic reason given by those who

oppose Lucas: He is not qualified.

Come on! The racists who oppose
Black progress have over-used
that one.

Was Bobby Kennedy qualified
to be Attorney General when he
was nominated by his brother,
President John Kennedy? Bobby
Kennedy Ts only experience was
the result of his family Ts contacts
in Congress.

These same civil-rights types
did not raise the issue of
qualifications about Kennedy
because he was a White liberal.
Which makes me suspect that
they oppose Lucas because he is
a Black Republican.

He Ts certainly as- qualified to
run teh civil rights division as
Dan Quayle is to be Vice-
President; or Ronald Reagan
was to be Governor of California
or President of the United States;
or Michael Dukakis was to be
President. And he Ts more
qualified to run the civil rights
division that Jesse Jackson is to
run the country. -

Yet, none of these groups op-

_ posed Jesse Jackson -- or is like-
ly to -- because of his lack of
tions. And we know why.
Jackson is popular with the
masses of Blacks, first of all.
Secondly, he is a Democrat.

If Lucas T its don Tt want
ot support a because he is
a member of a political party
they don Tt like, then let them say

80.

But if they persist in ing
~a man with his public office and
administrative record and his

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brilliantly documented the
Hollywood system of racism in
movies "how they create false
White heroes at the expense of
Black people; refuse to star
Blacks in leading roles; exploit
Black people psychologically and
financially; and boast a flippant
attitude of ~So What? ?

One quote by producer Rob
Cohen defined Hollywood this
way: ~Hollywood is a White,
male, college-educated, Jewish
milieu full of ambitious guys who
want to play out their fan-
tasies... ?

With that as a backdrop, Eddie
Murphy and Spike Lee were
highlighted as guest employees
on the plantation (Murphy, the
mega-star and Lee, the
newcomer) in a nasty exchange
of charges and countercharges.

Lee: ~ ~Eddie has made a billion
dollars for Paramount (in only 6
years). Yet, I don Tt see any Black
executives with real power at
that place... Everybody he Ts got
working there (at Eddie Mur-
phy Ts own company) is related to
him. ?

Murphy: ~I don Tt need anyone
telling me how much social con-
sciousness I should have...I Tve
don;e a lot for my people...I Tve
opened the door for Spike and
now he Ts throwing rocks at me! ? T

Two statements by the com-
batants, however, rang with
undeniable truth.

Murphy: o ~It Ts their (the White
owners of Hollywood) house...
I Tm just the brother of the mo-
ment. ?

Just as Hollywood used Sidney
Poitner as the House Negro for
my generation, Eddie Murphy is,
by his own admission, the only
one invited to dinner from his
generation. If 30 million Blacks
can vicariously enjoy Murphy Ts
cars, houses, and swimming
pools, that Ts the only way they Tre
going to get them, Hollywood is
suggesting.

In a jab at Murphy, Lee scored
with this one: ~ ~Clout isn Tt just
getting the best table at Snags.
How Ts that helping your people? ?

for a select few on the plantation
is helping the masses? Or, how
does the $1 billion that Murphy
has made for Paramount help
Black colleges or Black charities
or the underprivileged Blacks?
And how much of the $200 million
that ~ ~Coming to America ? made
from a mostly Black audience
last year come back to anyone
Black other than Murphy and
some of his friends and
employees?

And when Spike Lee boasts that
his last film made $16 million (the
figure on the charts is much
lower) for the White people at
Columbia Pictures, how much of

that did Black people get? Lee, .

who used to talk about film in-
dependence for Blacks, now
stresses jobs for Blacks on the
plantation.

The head of the Hollywood
studio that Lee is now working for
even believes that specific plans
to hire Blacks is anti-White. Tom
Pollock, the Chairman, said:
oAffirmative action is hiring peo-
ple because they are Black. We
don Tt employ Spike Lee (who Ts
directing ~ ~Do the Right Thing ?
for Pollock) because he Ts Black. ?

~They believe they can make
money with me. And the minute
they don T they'll get rid of me, ?
Lee admits. At least he knows
he Ts transient.

So why trash Murphy for being
the most successful Black on the
plantation? The only difference I
see in Murphy and Lee is that
Murphy is more successful than
Lee at doing what both are trying
to do "become part of the
Hollywood system that means
Blacks are no good, (

_ I vote for a new system built

for the libera

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repeat WILL NOT be returned to
the Black community.

And the announcement, intend-
ed obviously to promote his new
film, that Spike Lee is giving a
$5,000 film scholarship to Blacks
is not recycling the $2.2 billion
that we spend with a racist White
Hollywood.

TONY BROWN TS JOURNAL
TV series can be seen on public
television.

Unfair Beating of
Adelaide Sanford on
Her Aids Findings

One of the most savage and un-
fair beatings that I have ever
seen administered in public is the
one that Adelaide Sanford, a
member of the Board of Regents
of New York, is getting for
repeating findings from studies
on melanin "the dark pigment
the body produces to protect the

skin against damage from.

sunlight; it makes Black people
darker than Whites.

Cynthia Jenkins, a Black New
York legislator, wrote in a White
newspapter that Sanford was one
of the most ~ ~dangerous ? Black
leaders around. While she is ac-
cused by some Blacks of pro-
moting racism, many Whites in
the media are possibly twisting
Sanford Ts scientifically valid
statement about a connection bet-
ween the amount of melanin in
the body and drug addiction for
their own purposes. .

The New York Post said in an
editorial that ~ o ~her theory enjoys
no scientific support. ? Alan S.
Chartock, a White publisher,
wrote: oIt was a pretty stupid
thing to say. . .there is no scien-
tific study worth its salt that sug-
gests any such thing. ?

The statement that expressed
the epitome of self imposed ar-
rogance, however, came from
Dr. Ron Simeone, New York
State Ts top drug abuse researcher
and director of research for the
state Division of Substance
Abuse. Said this mountain of

» Ofcourse, one could ask Mur=~ scientific wisdom:. ~ ~If. there-was

phy and Lee how providing jobs

such a study, I would know about
it. ?

Contrary to what the Post said,
Sanford has no theory ( ~ ~her
theory ?) on a relationship of
melanin to drug addiction, the
world of science does. And for Dr.
Simeone Ts edification, she
quoting from a long list of scien-
tific studies which have obvious-
ly escaped him and the media
know-it-alls.

Therefore, I suggest to them
the following information on the
subject of melanin: (1)
oMelanin: The Chemical Key to
Black Greatness, The Harmful
Effects of Toxic Drugs on
Melanin Centers Within the Black
Brain, ? T Barnes , Carol, Houston,
Texas, 1988 (2) Barr, F. E.,
~Melanin: The Organizing
Molecule, T T Medical Hypothesis,
Vol.11:1, March 1983; (3) Edels-
tein, L.M., ~ o oMelanin "A Unique
Biopolymer, ? Pathobiology An-
nual, Vol. 1, p. 311, 1971; and (4)
Eberle, Alex N., oThe Melan-
tropins, Chemistry, Physiology
and. Mechanisms of Action, ?
eo Switzerland, S. Karger,

To Sanford Ts statement
that othe melanin in the skin of
children of African descent bonds

(1) Larsson, B.° Tjolve, ~
ms stage Mel ohy

- ng to Melanin, ? T
Biockemsleal Prarmacology Vol

28, p. 1181, 1979; @) Salazar, M.
M., o* the Interac-
tion of Drugs with Melanin, ?

Pore sree
dings of Drugs and Its Implice-

SGaOp 1183, 1984; (4) Bawe-
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Melanine, ? Journal of Ph
maceutical Sc Vol. 66 (1

And last week, NBC-TYV aired a
program on Black athletes that
said scientists have determined

are
the Times reported

P it Ts not Regent San-
ford Ts ed fueling of racist

New York State spends $17.5
billion a year on a, but
graduates fewer than half of the
ford wants to know why, a
pseudo-White liberal media
diversion could have been
created to twist her words on
melanin and destroy her reputa-
tion as a regen:; which will
undermine her con-
cern about the education of non-
Whites in New York.

This Way For Black Empowerment

Fighting Back Against
Systematic Child Abuse

Under a new California law
which holds parents responsible
for the criminal activity of their
children, Los Angeles police have
arrested the mother of a 17 year
old suspect in a rape case on the
grounds that she condoned his
membership in a gang. The
mother and her son are Black.

A New York City parochial
school teacher whose students
are mostly Black and Latino
recently told an interviewer that
the school curriculm places
primary emphasis on language
skills. The reason? ~ o ~Many of our
children come from single parent
families, ? he explained, ~ ~and
their mothers don Tt take the time
to talk to them. ?

Sue Simmonds, a _ Black
educator and community leader
who holds a master Ts degree in
elementary education from New
York Ts prestigious Columbia
University, is locked in a court

battle with the city Ts Special Ser- .

vices for Children department;
her kids were taken away from
her months ago by SSC, which
falsely accused this sister of child
abuse.

The nightmare started when
cops armed with shotguns and

wearing bulletproof vests staged .
a midnight raid on Sue Sim- .

monds T in ent school in
Brooklyn early last fall. The in-
vasion was part of a harassment
campaign which the city, siding
with her landlord in a dispute
over the school ~property, has
been waging against her. Sue was
thrown into a Rikers Island jail
for five days. When she came out,
her kids were gone -- taken into
SSC custody ~ ~for their own pro-
tection. ?

Sue Simmonds is not the only
mother whose children have been
taken away by the authorities --
family courts, so-called child pro-
tection agencies and ~ ~special ser-
vices T for children under the
pretext that they were in danger
at home. All over the country tens
of thousands of our children are
being plucked from their families
on the say-so of judges whose
court proceedings are closed to
the public, shunted from foster
home to public shelter and back
again, transferred from one
school to another -- always new,
rarely wanted or welcome, never
oat home. T ? T Neglected, brutaliz-
ed physically and emotionally,
with no one to watch out for them
or care about them, these
children are systematically abus-
ed by the very institutions that
are supposed to protect them.

It Ts no coincidence that most of
their mothers are poor women of
color. Poor families, and poor
women in particular, come in for
a big share of the blame from
those who cry crocodile tears
over the breakdown of the
American family. It Ts the pious
politicians, the professional oex-
perts, ? T the self-serving ser-
monizers and sales-hungry sen-
sationalizers who, by blaming us,
condone and help to peroetrate
systematic child abuse.

We're so dumb, they say, that
we let ourselves get talked into
sleeping with men who won't

or even support us; we're
promiscuous sus who dn T care
we get t because othe

~BY: DR. LENORA FULANI

munities Organized to Stop
Systematic Child Abuse. I am an
active member of COSSCA. As a
developmental psycologist, as a
political activist, and as the
mother of two Black children, I
am deeply, deeply concerned
about the systematic abuse of
children in our society.

COSSCA is taking on a case of
systematic child abuse that in-
volves Native American children
who attend the Diamond Valley
School in Alpine County, Califor-
nia in the mountains just across
the border with Nevada. All of the
teachers at the school are white;
more than half the children who
attend are Indian. It Ts common
for the teachers to call these kids
ostupid, ? and hit them. Diamond
Valley, which goes from
kindergarten to the eighth grade,
is the only school in the county --
so parents have little choice but
to send their children there.
Desiree and Terrance Cruz,
Washoe Indians, who have two
children in the school, have been
leading a community protest
against the abuse that goes on at
the school. In realization, local
police officers have begun
harassing them, and Mr. Cruz is
in danger of being driven out of
business. On June 1, COSSCA will
issue a human rights report for
Alpine County, exposing the
abuse; a lawsuit if being
prepared against the county by
COSSCA attorneys and founding
members Alvaader Frazier and

Kresky.

Thanks to COSSCA the Indian
parents of Alpine County don Tt
have to fight alone anymore to
put a stop to systematic child
abuse. None of us does. If you
want to stand up with us, call
Alaader Frazier at (212) 956-5550.

Dr. Lenora Fulani is the na-
tional chairperson of the New
Alliance Party and a practicing
Social Therapist in Harlem. She
can be contacted at the New

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Alliance Party, 2032 Fifth
Avenue, New York, NY 10027 and
at (212) 996-4700.

Dr. Lenora Fulani

America goes wilding
BY: DR. LENORA FULANI

The racial that spews forth
from every institution is the fuel
that drives America - backward.
Everywhere we hear the Black
people, in particular young
than-human savages...
Listen to what is being said
about Harlem teenagers who are .
being questioned regarding rape
and beating of the woman
in New York City Ts Central
last week. o ~I don Tt know if it was
out of control for these types of
kids, ? said the chief prosecutor
for the Family Court Division of
the city Ts Law Department. o ~I
think that kids like this, ? he said,
ogiven what I would call their
. (Continued on page 7)

*

Political Shortages

BY: WALTER E. WILLIAMS

Courage, honesty, and just
plain decency have always been
in short supply amony politicians,
and today it Ts no different. But
somehow we weathered the
storm. Today, with government
controlling over one-third of our
gross national product and dic-
tating many aspects of our lives,
politicians have awesome power
to do serious damage.

A hint of this potential was seen
in the political response to ex-
Klansman David Duke winning a
Republican seat in the Louisiana
State Legislature. In part, Duke Ts
victory was a quotas in hiring and
college admittance. Lee Alwater,
chairman of the cp em Na-
tional Committee, George Bush,
and Ronald Reagan were the first
to disavow him as a member of
the GOP. Later on, other
Republican and Democrat
stalwarts chimed in with united
voices of disapproval.

" Here Ts the $64,000 question that
you won't hear asked at press
conferences: Mr. Bush (or Mr.
Atwater), since you repudiated
Duke's political victory, won by
his cam against race be-
ing used as a criteria in hiring
and admittance, does that

quotas to curry favors with
blacks while criticizing Duke?
We face a potentially perlious
threat to social harmony when
the Klan, Skinheads, and people
like Duke get a sympathetic hear-
ing and make recruitment or
political inroads among people
who are not active racists. If we
look at some of the injustices of
uotas that offend every stan-
ficult to see how some whites can
fall prey to racial charlatans.

Honest and courageous politi-
cians, as well as courts, should ac

tnow to defuse increasing racial
polarization by a principl-
ed stand, stating ly that

race, as a determinant of who

gets what, has no place in |

America.

Much of the foundation for
quotas lies in President Lyndon
Johnson's Executive Order 11246.
Bush should exercise his

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Valerie J. Dixon has been nam-
ed assistant vice president for
financial services at Pitt County
Memorial Hospital. She will be
responsible for general accoun-
ting functions which include
general ledger, accounts
payable, payroll, contracts, and
electronic data processing. Dix-
on, who also is a certified public
accountant, will be responsible
for the hospital Ts new cost
management department, which
oversees Cost accounting and the
budget.

A native of Pennsylvania, Dix-
on most recently worked with
West Baltimore/Constant Care
Community Health Centers, a
health maintenance organization
based in Baltimore, Maryland.
She was responsible for cost and
budget, general accounting,
claims processing and accounts
receivable.

Dixon says she is looking for-
ward to developing a new cost ac-
counting system for Pitt
Memorial. Keeping costs in line
is imperative to the hospital Ts
ability to remain competitive, she
explained. She added that cost
accounting is especially impor-
tant to meet the capital needs
associated with the hospital Ts
143-bed expansion.

Dixon graduated magna cum
laude in 1979 from Morgan State
University in Baltimore with a
bachelor of science degree in ac-
counting. Following graduation,
Dixon prepared for the certified
public accountant examination,
which she passed in one sitting.
In the fall of 1979, Dixon began a
five-year tenure with Peat, Mar-
wick, Mitchell & Co., a Big 8 ac-

~VALERIE J. DIXON

counting firm in Baltimore.
From a previous summer job at
John Hopkins University, Dixon
developed a keen interest in cost
accounting. She says her in-
terests expanded into the finan-
Cial aspects of health care. From
1984 to 1987, Dixon was a full-time
lecturer at Morgan State Univer-
sity in Baltimore where she
taught accounting courses. She
also opened her own business pro-
viding financial, accounting and
consulting services to small
businesses.

Dixon is a member of the
American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants, Maryland
Association of Certified Public
Accountants and the National
Association of Black
Accountants.

This Way For Black Empowerment

(Continued from page 5)

predatory nature, are people
who, given the chance, would do
something like this again. There
really isn Tt any way to control
them -- at least we haven Tt found
it in the juvenile justice system. ?
Something very terrible hap-
pened in Central Park that night.
But we cannot let sensationaliz-
ing salesmanship of the mass
media and the pious hypocrisy of
the politicians trick us into using
our outrage at the de-
humanization of this young
woman as an excuse the
dehumanize OTHER HUMAN
BEINGS -- who because they are
Black -- are violated and brutaliz-
ed every day of their lives.
This is not meant to condone in

any way what happened on that.

terrible, ugly night. But if we
want to do something about it, we
need to understand how it is that
people -- young people like your
children, like my children - come
to prey on other people. How is it
we as a society, this country call-
ed America, is producing young
people who go ~ ~wilding T T? Who
brutalize and terrorize to get
their kicks? Or to prove their
manhood?

I don Tt believe we can begin to
address those questions until we
understand that it is not only
young Black men who go wilding.
This is a wilding society. And
wilding is a respectable activity
-- when it is conducted by the
white corporate owners of
America. From Viet Nam to
Grenada to Nicaragua, from
Angola to the Philliphines, all
around the world and back again
to the barrios and ghettos and
reservations of this country, that
savage gang of racist thugs prowl
the earth raping, enslaving and
Killing not just for the thrill but

apotit of it.

et se

while diseases like tuberculosis --
long believed to be eradicated --
are claiming new victims at a ter-
rifying rate.

As the chairperson of the in-
dependent New Alliance Party, I
am profoundly concerned with all
forms of anti-social ciolence -- in
the home, in the schools and in
the streets. But I understand that
if anti-social violence is to be
seriously addressed then we can
do nothing less than seek fun-
damental and radical structural
changes in this city and this coun-
try. We must root out the bi-
partism corrupters who thrive
personally and poltically on
decadence and who hypocritical-
ly scream bloody murder when
their own policies come back to
haunt them. Our lives, and the
lives of our children and grand-
children, are what Ts at stake.

Dr. Lenora Fulani is the na-
tional chairperson of the New
Alliance Party and a practicing
Social Therapist in Harlem. She
can be contacted at the New
Alliance Party, 2032 Fifth
Avenue, New York, NY 10027 and
at (212) 996-4700.

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The Doctor Ts Corner

(Continued from page 4)

Among adolescents, just as
among adults, HIV and AIDS are
transmitted primarily through
sexual contact. Such sexual con-
tact may be heterosexual (a per-
son of the opposite sex) or
homosexual (a person of the
same sex) with persons with HIV
or AIDS. Other means of contrac-
ting this disease for this popula-
tion include contaminated blood
or blood products through
transfusions, and intravenous
drug use. Two of these factors,
unprotected sexual activity and
drug abuse, make this population
especially vulnerable to AIDS.
Most teenagers are not using con-
doms although condoms provide
some protection against AIDS
transmissions. This fact remains
although many teens know that
condoms provide such protection,
and that condoms are readily
available. Further, drug abuse is
widespread and increasing
among adolescents. According to
the U.S. Department of Educa-
tion in 1987 more than 20,000
teenagers reported using drugs
intravenously. Although the
statistics for intravenous drug
use among teenagers in Pitt
County are not available, most of
us in this community have been
aware of the war waged against
drugs by our local officials. The
Greenville community must help
our teenagers to become aware of
the life-threatening implications
of pre-marital sex and drug
abuse. We must all "parents,
educators, and others "wage war
against AIDS.

School News

(Continued from page 4)

A Future of Opportunities T T
reflects ten years of service to the
citizens in Pitt County. Guest
speaker and entertainer for the
evening will be Carol-Ann
Tucker.

The Community Schools Pro-
gram has been successful
because of the strong support
from government officials, school
staff members, volunteers, other
community agencies, and
business and industry. This
Celebration will be a special time
to reflect upon the past . . .and
dream for the future.

Bus Drivers Class
To Be Held

There will be a bus driver class
on Tuesday, May 23, Wednesday,
May 24, and Thursday, May 25
from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the
Wintergreen cafeterial. The in-
Structor will be Mr. Bobby
Congleton.

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We've Come A Long Way ~continued from age 1

~ ~Here comes the law T T and
another one said, ~ ~We are not do-
ing anything wrong, why should
we be afraid? ? T So the police pass-
ed by us and went around the cor-
ner and came back and stopped
and got out of the car and walk-
ed over to where we were and
asked us what we were ding, and
we said, nothing. The other
policeman then said we were
shooting dice and he wanted us to
give him the dice so he wouldn't
have to arrest anyone, but we still
continued to tell him that we had
no dice. Then the real tall one
came over to me and said ~ ~Nig-
ger, don Tt tell me no lie. Where
are those dice, and I repeated
again that we didn Tt have any
dice. So he decided to leave but

before he left he turned to one of
the other fellows and said that if
they caught us shooting dice
again they were going to lock us
up and if we didn Tt get a job they
were going to lock us up anyway.

I was very glad to see the next
day, so I could go back to work,
because I didn Tt want to go to jail
for vagrancy.

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Louis Gossett, Jr.

by Seli Groves

oOne of the nice things about
being an actor, ? Louis Gossett, Jr
said, ois that you not only get to play
all sorts of characters, you also have
a wonderful chance to learn so
much about the world and _ its
people. ?

Gossett, one of the three stars of
the rotating oABC Mystery Movie ?
series (Burt Reynolds stars as oB.L.
Stryker, ? Peter Falk as oColumbo ?
and Gossett as oGideon Oliver ?) also
feels that an actor not only has the
opportunity to learn " obut, through
the medium in which he works, he
can bring something to people as
well. ?

Some might say that was propa
ganda; that it was putting selective
information into a format that seems
almost impossible to resist

oMaybe it is propaganda in a strict
sense, ? Gossett said. oBut if it's
educational " if it's positive " if it
enlightens and helps make people
think, then I believe that it Ts neces
sary. I think that television and
movies have the capacity to lead; to
show the public what is happening
and where the world is going. And
that to be part of that is probably the
most important role an actor can
have. ?

Gossett Ts oGideon Oliver ?
whose newest adventure of the
current season airs May 22 " is an
anthropology professor who moves
out of his Brooklyn classroom and
across the world in search of
adventure as well as academic
enhancement

Lou Gossett, Jr. moved out of
Brooklyn to find a career that has

Louis Gossett, Jr.

kids look to it as that magic ticket to
college and, perhaps, fame and
fortune. Lou's wife, Cyndi James-
Gossett will also be in the film.
oOne night last month was what |
call a ~Gossett Night T on ABC, ? Lou

made an important decision about
his future. oI was invited to attend
the New York Knicks T training camp
out of NYU, ? he said. oBut I was
already a professional actor, had
been since high school. I could have

e made his television debut in
oThe Nurses ? and later starred in
two series, oThe Lazarus Syndrome ?
(ABC) and oThe Powers of Matthew
Star ? (NBC). He played the late,
great baseball star, Satchel Paige in
the TV bioflick, oDon Tt Look Back. ?

One of his most important roles
was that of the couragous Egyptian
leader, Anwar Sadat. It was Madame
Sadat who asked for Gossett to play
her martyred husband.

World traveler though he may be,
Gossett admits that while you can
take the boy out of Brooklyn, you
can Tt quite take Brooklyn out of the
man.

oI like to remember, ? he said,
owhat it was like growing up in
Coney Island, going to Mark Twain
Junior High and then to Lincoln High
School, and playing basketball with
other Brooklyn kids named Neil
Sedaka and Art Metrano and playing
baseball with a kid from Lafayette
High School named Sandy Koufax. ?

When he Ts not working, Lou
enjoys staying home. oPeople spend
fortunes trying to get to Malibu for
vacations and I live here in a canyon
that stays green 12 months a year
because everything is watered by
underground streams that flow
through the area. Across the way is
an orchid farm. I have about 45 fruit
trees. My aunt came out from
Brooklyn recently to visit me and |
have about 25 avocado trees and the
big, fat avocadoes keep falling to the
ground. Well, she looked at me and
she was angry and she said "
~You're letting all that to to waste???
Do you know how much they cost in
New York? Pick them up!

oI tried to explain it would be a
full time job picking them up. I don't

name down there along with the
names of Danny Kaye and Barbra
Streisand and others from the bor-
ough. ?

Louis and Cyndi have been mar-
ried a year and a half. They share
their home with his two sons, Satie
and Sharron. A firm believer in the
importance of a strong family struc-
ture, Gossett has no patience with
those who claim that all the wild
behavior of some of the young
people today can be traced to
poverty or broken homes: oMany of
these kids aren Tt poor; many come
from middle class backgrounds with
two parents in the home. ? What is
missing, he felt, was a sense of
common humanity.

oIn any case, we can't afford to
ignore what is happening. We have
to educate our young people to
believe in themselves and to believe
they have a future that Ts worth
working for. ?

Gossett agrees that there has been
progress in the status of black
actors. oBut we still have a long way
to go, ? he said. oStill, it is happening.
It Ts evolving it's moving. And
that's important. You can't stand still
or you lose ground.

oBut you move only as fast as the
day moves, as fast as the years
move. It's when there's enough
pressure in the forward movement
that the membrane holding you back
breaks " and you break through. ?

Gideon Oliver, the anthropologist,
would agree with Louis Gossett that
there Ts a major evolutionary move
ment going on that encompasses all
the others: oThe problems that affect
some of us really affect all of us.
This realization is bringing people
together. After all, pollution doesn't

tan. but ourselves. Satan is an
wed enemy to us. But he has made him an international star. He's said. oI was doing ~Gideon T and just "_ played for the Knicks or do a play think she bought that. ? just threaten whites or blacks or
power over us unless we a Tony winner, having done some 30 before my show came on, Cyndi was _ called ~Raisin in the Sun. T I chose to This June, Louis Gossett, Jr. will Asians. It threatens us all. Bigotry
power. But he knows our one plays over 30 yeats a5 an actor. He doing a ~MacGyver T episode. ? do the play. ? be going back to Brooklyn for avery threatens_us all. I believe we're
akness. Believe it or not, it is toted up seven) Emmy SOUT BO Like a lot of New York kids " In 1961, he recreated the | role in special honor. oThe Botanical Gar- beginning to understand that we
freewill. Adam had always for his work in various television especially those who stood at least the film version of Raisin, which dens have a Brooklyn Walk of Fame _ need each other
marked his debut as a movie actor.

productions. He won an Emmy for 6'4 ? in high school as he did " Lou now, and I've been invited to put my
his role as Fiddler in the 197 { planned to go to college on a

fa production of oRoots, ? and he basketball scholarship and, perhaps,
suggestions to him

) carried off an Academy Award aS go into pro ball later on. But | .
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to go out on his own. As role in oAn Officer and a Gentle- years he discovered the drama

1. He didn Tt have any
following God until

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as his foot left the ledge man. ? department and he began appearing
he recognized his peril. Louis commented on so-called in g¢hool plays. His English teacher
ound himself doing Oscar jinx: oYou win an Oscar, ? he " jearned that the producers we a
hing that God personally Eu, aa you oN work. hope play, oTake a Giant Step, ? were
de him to do, and realized and prayec that it wouldn't happen looking for a teenager to play the
way out without God Ts tO me, but it did. I punched doors jeaq oA year later, ? Lou said, oI was
and kicked walls for a while, and on Broadway. ?
then the ball started rolling again. He did get a basketball scholar-
_ And au hasnt stopped. When ship to New York University where
Gideon ? goes on hiatus, Lou will £0 he studied pre-med. He also studied
back in front of the movie cameras qgrama outside NYU and continued %

iis guidance can be com-
the guidance of parents
Idren. We guide our
1 | m our own ex-

nces, Warning them of the to do oHoops, ? a film about basket- jo get work on stage. In 1959 he

ball in New York and how inner city

that can overtake them in
We instruct them to e ®
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; a time when we must let
God could have prevented (Continued from page 2)
m from sinning. But then He
uld have interfered in Adam Ts The most memorable law-and- Greg Harmis is a national se-

ft of hee will. Adam had to
rn on his own the conse
es of disobeying God. Once

m knew teh limits of his own

he could not remain happy

e full presence of God. Just
child who has over-stepped

he limits set by his parents can
r feel comfortable in his
arents TORS, leaves as SOON as
Adam, was no dif-
erent. He immediately turned to
od for forgiveness, and God
~save him, then sent him to
me our first prophet
Adam did not despair in God Ts

order poster of those days was a
stark, black & white
photograph. It was of
Dillinger Ts name tag tied to a
toe of his bullet-riddle corpses in
the Chicago Morgue. The
Examiner caption
oThe end. ?
When it comes to parenting,
there is a military truism all ve
terans will remember. oThe
more sweat lost in training, the
less blood lost in battle. The
parenting corollary is, ~Train

curity writer. He is Vice Presi-
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oIT became so excited after my
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