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EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA'S MINORITY VOICE - SINCE 1987
Black leaders outraged at
assault on Wilder
Witnesses have backed former
Virginia Governor Doug Wilder Ts
version of how he was allegedly
attacked by a white RDU security
guard Tuesday morning.
oThe guard was pretty explo-
sive, ? ???Scott Mettler, an eyewitness,
told a local television station.
The incident was enough to out-
rage African-American leaders.
oIt Ts appalling to think someone
would do this here, ? an angry Rev.
H.B. Pickett told The CAROLIN-
IAN. oI hope he files a lawsuit, to
bring out in the open the covert
racism present in this area. ?
Rev. Pickett added, oThe fact
that this black person use to be a
governor, didn Tt matter. ?
Two prominent African-Ameni-
cans serve on the RDU Airport
Authority: the chairman, F.V.
oPete ? Allison, chairman of Mu-
tual Community Savings Bank in
Durham; and Joseph M. Sansom,
president of Mechanics and Farm-
ers Bank.
Sansom, a Raleigh native, told
the Carolinian that the incident
was ounfortunate, ? the dismissal
of the guard involved seemed ojus-
tified, ? and that it was apparent
that the guard odid not act in ac-
cordance with the way that he was
supposed to. ?
Globe Airport Security Services,
Inc. issued a statement late Tues-
day, confirming that one of its
employees was involved in an oin-
cident ? with Wilder. But it delcined
to reveal his name or any other
information about him oso as to
not jeopardize the investigation. ?
Wilder was reportedly assaulted
early Tuesday morning after he
was stopped going through a secu-
rity checkpoint at Raleigh-Durham
International Airport Ts Terminal
A. He was heading back to Rich-
mond, Va. after a speaking en-
gagement at Duke University the
night before.
Wilder, a former presidential
candidate who also hosts a Rich-
mond, Va. radio talk show on
WRVA-AM, told his audience
Tuesday morning that after his
suspenders set off the metal detec-
tor buzzer, asecurity guard shoved
him back, saying that he would
have to be checked with a handheld
scanner.
Wilder says after he osecured
his belongings, ? he reached to read
the guard Ts name on his shirt tag.
oI turned around to see what his .
name badge was, because I was
going to suggest to the supervisor
that no one should even talk to
someone that way. When he saw
me doing that he said, ~Don Tt try to
see who | am, I don Tt like you. ?
oHe then grabbed me by the
throat, and just shoved me back
up against the wall again, ? Wilder
claimed.
Ken Hite, who was waiting in
the same area for a flight out, told
a local television station that the
security guard was not provoked.
oBut it was definitely a body
slam against the wall, ? he recalled.
Airport employees pulled the
guard back as he allegedly went at
Wilder a second time, who was
uninjured. The officer was later
terminated and ordered off the
grounds.
After he got back to Virginia,
Wilder told reporters that the
guard actually admitted to the
assault in front of him.
oHe said ~I choked him, I choked
him. He was looking at my badge. ?
Then Wilder chuckled, adding, oIt Ts
bizarre. ?
oYou don Tt do that, whether it Ts
the governor or anybody, ? RDU
spokesman Rick Martinez told The
Carolinian. oI don Tt care what the
provocation was. ? Martinez added
that even though an investigation
was still underway, a letter of ore-
gret ? for the incident would be
forwarded to Wilder.
Another airport spokesman,
Teresa Damiano, told The Caro-
linian that Globe Secunty had been
contracted by US Air, not the air-
port itself.
oGOLDEN EAGLE AWARDS ? were presented for lifetime achievement to long-time
African-American businesses by the cosmetologists. Among the recipients were (L-R) Dr.
Wiley Hines, Pitt County Commissioner Farney Moore, and retired entrepreneur Charles
Shiver. (below) Ms. Lela Hines, proud mother of Dr. Wiley Hines, friend, attorney Emma Levy,
and James Hines, join the host of well-wishers.
A4ribute to Daniel T. Blue, Jr. Committee
The members of the Tribute ot
Daniel T. Blue, Jr. Committee are
pleased to announce its plans to
honor the former speaker of the
North Carolina House of Repre-.
sentatives for his outstanding lead-
ership and service to the state.
Friends and associates of Repre-
sentative Blue will gather for a
reception and banquet to be held
on Saturday, March 18, at the
Raleigh Civicand Convention Cen-
ter. A reception will begin at 6:00
p.m, and the dinner is set for 7:00
p.m.
A number of public dignitaries
and elected officials will be present
to roast Representative Blue with
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words of kindness and accolades.
Scheduled to make presentations
are Lieutenant Governor Dennis
Wicker; former Senator Terry
Sanford; Julius Chambers, Chan-
cellor of NC Central University;
Representative Howard Hunter,
Chaiman of the NC Legislative
Black Caucus; Rev. Joy Johnson,
former legislator; NCAE Presi-
dent-elect Rose Marie Lowery-
Townsend; and Wake county Sher-
iff John Baker.
Proceeds from the banquet will
be donated to the North Carolina
Central University Foundation,
Inc. and the endowed Daniel Terry
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East Carolina University in Greenville. She is shown chatting with Ms. Charetta Walls.
68 House members sign bill to end
N.C. sales tax on food
By Ruth Sheehan
In the frenzy of tax cuts at the
legislature, a majority of state
House members have taken a bold
stand, calling for repeal of the sales
tax on food - a move that would
save the average family of four in
North Carolina more than $300 a
year.
Even with 67 co-sponsors,
though, Rep. Toby Fitch Ts repeal
bill is more likely to appear if
future campaign commercials than
on the House floor for a vote.
The measure, which would cost
$460 million in lost revenue this
year andeven more in subsequent
years, was introduced Wednesday
by Fitch, a Democrat from Wilson.
It would exempt food from the
state Ts 6 percent sales tax begin-
ning July 1. In addition to Fitch, it
was signed by 39 Democrats and
28 Republicans.
oWe send a devastating mes-
sage to our working people when
we tax the necessities oflife, ? Fitch
said. oNo one can choose not to eat.
People can choose not to go to the
movies or buy beer or cigarettes,
but they cannot choose not to buy
groceries for their children.
oThis is the year for tax relief,
and this is the fairest tax cut of
all. ?
The sales tax was first applied
to food in 1961, ostensibly as a
temporary measure; it is consid-
ered one of the state Ts most regres-
sive taxes. According to the N.C.
Budget and Tax Center, a family
that makes $12,400 a year spends
16.6 percent of its income on food,
while a family with a $100,000
income spends 3.8 percent of its
income on food.
In recent years, Fitch and oth-
CALVIN JONES, GENERALMANGER of radio station WOOW, poses for the camera at an .
ers, including former Republican
Gov. Jim Martin, have pushed to
make food exempt from the tax.
Their efforts have failed, in large
measure, because of the high cost
of repeal.
Gov. Jim Hunt, in releasing his
budget last month, said the state
cannot afford to eliminate the food
tax ifit wants to provide a break on
individual income taxes, cut the
corporate income tax rate and re-
peal the intangibles tax on stocks
and bonds.
On Monday, Republican House
leaders said they had reached the
same conclusion.
Speaker Harold Brubakerand
Majority Leader Leo Daughtry said
they will stick to the GOP promise
to cut personal income taxes; the
House, in fact, has already ap-
proved such a cut to the tune of
about $235 million. In addition,
they promised repeal of the intan-
gibles tax ($127 Million), which
would benefit the state Tswealthiest
residents and businesses, and a
deep cut in the corporate income
tax rate beginning in 1996.
oThat Ts about all we can do, ?
Brubaker said.
The speaker said the Republi-
can agenda may include repeal of
the food tax in 1997. But for now,
he said, talk of eliminating the tax
is just so much wishful thinking.
He predicted that Fitch Ts bill will
not make it out of committee.
Even some of Fitch Ts most zeal-
ous co-sponsors-Republicans and
Democrats-equivocated when
asked at a new conference how far
they would go to see the repeal
approved.
Signing on as a co-sponsor of a
bill is one thing. Voting against
the party leadership or aginst some
other tax cut is quite another.
Under House rules, if a commit-
tee chairman keeps a piece of leg-
islation bottled up, 61 members
can sign a discharge petition to get
the bill onto the floor. But the few
Republicans who showed up for
the food tax news conference said
they could not promise to sign such
a petition.
oT T'll consider that when that
happens, ? said GOP Rep. Arlene
Pulley of Raleigh.
Similarly, while Fitch said he is
willing to vote against a corporate
income tax cut and against repeal
of the intangibles tax to free up
enough money for food tax repeal,
some other Democrats were less
strident.
oIt Ts a little foolish down here to
say what you'll vote for or against
without listening to the debate, ?
said House Minority Leader Jim
Black of Charlotte.
All of the House members at the
news conference voted last month
in favor of the personal income tax
cut. If enacted, it would increase
the personal exemption deduction
and provide a $50 tax credit for
each dependent child; an average
family of four would save about
$240 a year in taxes.
An informal survey of shoppers
Wednesday at a Kroger supermar-
ket in North Raleigh found a stron-
ger preference for removal of the
food tax. Kim Hanchette, for ex-
ample, would have saved $9.50 on
her $168.76 grocery purchase with-
out the tax. She though about it for
a second and calculated that: re-
peal would save her, on average,
about $6 a week.
oYeah, ? she said. oIt really does
add up. ?
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~* one wants to see, it makes one
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For almost all of his adult life,
ever since it became clear to all
those bloodsucking sharks affili-
ated with boxing that the man
~~ known as Iron Mike was a ticket to
. fortune and fame-or even more
fortunes for those who had already
raked in goo-gobs of loot exploiting
enough to play: him.»
And now that his release from
the Indiana Youth Detention Cen-
ter is only a few weeks away or
sooner, the jockeying the the op-
portunity to buy a limited number
of tickets in the Mike tyson Lot-
tery has begun.
It is the usual cast of characters,
boxing promoters and managers
who claim to have Tyson Ts best
interest at heart, but who in real-
ity are vying to become the major
players on the boxing scene. And
whoif afforded a piece of the action
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25 Fremont Daffodil Festival, the
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effective April 1, 1995, at8:00am. A Notice
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Executive Director
Greenville Housing Authority
Sealed proposal
Department in the Conference Room, Pitt County Development
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Carolina 27834, on March 22, 1995, until 2:00 PM, local time. A
prebid conference will be held at the above address at 2:00 PM on
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top. Out in the barn, another his-
toric interpreter will operate a
sheller and grinder to show how
corn was taken off the cob and
made into grits or meal.
Children will delight in the op-
portunity to trying their hand at
playing with 19th century toys. In
the authentic, one-room school
house a oschool marm ? will teach
visitors about schools of this pe-
riod. And no one will want to leave
until they have had a chance to
take the free horse and wagon ride.
Special guests at the Aycock
Birthplace during the open house
will be the first grade classes from
Fremont, Northeast and North-
west elementary schools.
The Governor Charles B. Aycock
Birthplace features the mid-19th
century boyhood home of North
Carolina Ts oEducation Governor. ?
Also on the 16 acre site are the
restored outbuildings and barns, a
one-room school house and a visi-
tor center featuring exhibits about
Governor Aycock Ts life, including
an audiovisual program.
Aycock Birthplace, an agency of
the N.C. Department of Cultural
Resources, is located nine miles
north of Goldsboro, 1/2 mile off US
117 on Governor Aycock Road. For
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The Watercolor Society of North
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view at the Beaugort County Arts
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open house
The East Carolina University
School of Medicine Department of
Pediatrics will hold an open house
' for its TEDI BEAR Project Thurs-
day, March 16, from 3 to 6 p.m.
The event will take place at the
project Ts new location, 504-B
Dexter Street in Greenville.
The TEDI BEAR Project, a part
of the Child Abuse Program in the
medical school Ts Department of
Pediatrics, was awarded $170,000
by the Governor Ts Crime Commis-
sion this past summer. It is a com-
munity project that reaches out to
evaluate and treat abused chil-
dren in eastern North Carolina.
TEDI BEAR stands for Tender,
Evaluation, Diagnosis and Inter-
vention for Better Abuse Response.
Thetwo-year grantis designated
for salaries and is augmented by
$50,000 from monies donated dur-
ing the 1993 Children Ts Miracle
Network Telethon.
Dr. Edwin Sumpter, director of
the Child Abuse Program and pro-
fessor of pediatrics ~with the medi-
cal school, said the grant money
has enabled the TEDI BEAR
Project to expand its staff and re-
locate to the new facility, where
abused children ranging in age
from newborn to 17 years can re-
ceive an interagency approach to
their evaluation, treatment and
protection.
The 1,600-square-foot building
that houses the project was do-
nated rent-free for three years by
aconcerned citizen, Sumpter said.
Volunteers will perform various
clerical tasks.
The facility was designed to be a
child-friendly place where abused
children can go to be evaluated
and treated eight hours a day, five
days a week. It will be available to
law enforcement, social service
agencies and medical personnel.
oWe want to reduce the trauma
to the child, ? said Marcia Edwards,
a social worker who is a member of
the TEDI BEAR Team. Sumpter
said it Ts not unusual for an abused
child to undergo from six to 12
interviews in some not-so-warm-
and-friendly places, like the busy
hospital emergency departmentor
law enforcement office. The new
facility was created with these
children in mind.
Two interview rooms, one for
younger children and one for older
children, have mirrors which al-
low a child to be interviewed by a
trained professional while others
observe without disrupting the
interview. The facility allows for
the child Ts interview, physical ex-
amination and treatment to occur
in one place. Members of the TEDI
BEAR Team say it is important for
these events to take place outside
a clinical or law enforcement set-
ting.
The TEDI BEAR Team involves
the cooperation of the District
Attorney Ts office, Guardian ad
Litem Program, Pitt County
Shenffs Department, Greenville
Police Department, Pitt County
Mental Health, Pitt County De-
partment of Social Services, Pitt
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Millions of Black Americans
whose ancestors were slaves.may
no longer have to pay federal in-
come taxes if Dr. Robert L. Brock
has his way.
Brock, a veteran Black activist,
whois based in the nation Ts capital
and lives within a stone Ts throw of
the Internal Revenue Service Ts
Commissioner's office, is the main
mover behind an unusal (but he
says othroughly documented ? law-
suit filed against the IRS in a fed-
eral district court in Los Angeles.
On February 27 Brock Ts, and
possibly yours and mine, case went
before Judge John G. Davies, who
is the same judge who handed down
the sentences in the civil rights
lawsuit against the officers who
beat Rodney King.
Brock had urged Black men and
women on the West Coast to come
to the Roybal Federal Building, in
L.A., to make the Black presence
felt while this case is being ar-
gued. Brock, and many associates
were on hand to explain how the
case affedts African Americans in-
dividually. According to Dr. Brock,
there is much in his legal protfolio
that will enable him to win the
case. oUnder slavery, Blacks were
property. Then when the White
rulers of American outlawed sla-
very and decided to make us citi-
zens overnight, they did it without
our consent. They told us we ewre
now citizens "whether we liked it
or not, ? says Brock. His contention
makes plenty of sense to African
Americans who feel that they defi-
nitely give more to the govern-
ment than they get back. oBy mak-
ing us citizens they enslaved us
once again by putting the burden
of the income tax upon us, The
former slaves never had the chance
to say whether or not they really
wanted to be American citizens
and pay taxe T. The White-run gov-
ernment decided for them, ? states
Brock.
Each year African Americans
pay out over $12 billion in taxes to
the various governments in their
cities, counties, states and, of
course, the federal government.
Many of us would feel better about
Blue
Angels to
perform
MCAS Cherry Point, NC " The
Blue Angels, the US Navy Flight
Demonstration Team, will take
center stage here April 8, 1995 in
this year Ts Air Show and Open
House.
Scheduled attractions include
ground displays of vintage and
modern aircraft, as-well-as dis-
plays of modern military equip-
ment.
Offering an interesting change
of pace will be the
breathtaking performance of the
precision women skydivers team
The Misty Blues.
The latest Marine Corps project
aircraft, the MV-22 Osprey, will
be showing its value to the Corps T
by executing a unconstrained flight
performance. The Ospreyisa revo-
lutionary, state-of-the-art tilt-ro-
tor, vertical short-takeoff and land-
ing airplane.
oShock Wave, ? is the world speed
record holder for trucks in the quar-
ter mile. Powered by jet engines,
this 7,000 pound semi-truck has
obtained 256 mph in just 6.36 sec-
onds, and has been clocked at faster
that 300 mph.
The air show and open house
will be a full day of free and excit-
ing events taking place continu-
ally. Gates will be open from 9:30
am to 6:00 pm, and concessions
will operate daily.
THIS
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our substantial pay out if we felt
comfortable that our concerns,
wishes and desires were really
being taken into account by the
government establishment, and
our so-called orepresentatives. ?
oWe are asking the IRS to prove
that Blacks of slave descent really
are citizens and subject to income
taxation. Unlike the average
American immigrant (Whether
Asiansor Mexican, or even a Black
from modern-day Africa), African
Americans whose ancestors were
slaves never actually forced it upon
them, ? states Brock.
Rather than continuing to play
the oVictim ? and constantly beg at
government Ts doors for assistance,
as many so-called Black leaders
want us to be, in order to further
feather their own oaffirmative ac-
tion ? pockets, Brock is calling fora
settlement to remove us from the
government Ts dole completely.
oWhen our ancestors were kid-
napped in Africa, brought across
the sea and then sold as slaves,
these were acts of violent warfare
upon our people. We still bear the
scars of this African Slave Holo-
caust today. We are paying with
our tax dollars for the privilege of :
being chained to an oppressive fed-
eral income tax upon the fruits of
our labor. This too is slavery, ?
states the 70-year-old Brock.
oNumerous times they cite this
as being ~frivolous T, but believe me,
this is not just more Black ~victim T
complaints, as the IRS wants
people to think ?, added Brock. oOur
case is thoroughly documented
with decades of legal research be-
hindit. This is not a frivolous law-
suit as even the Courts have ad-
mitted by allowing our case to con-
tinue this far, requiring the De-
fendant (IRS) to answer, ? says
Brock with a mischievous twinkle
in his eye.
oWe have the man on the spot. If
the IRS wants 30 million men and
women living in America, of Afri-
can Slave Heritage, to continue
paying taxes every April 15th, all
we are asking is that agency an-
swer and prove to us that the gov-
ernment made us citizens in a le-
gal way, to begin with, ? states
Brock. oI hope all African Ameri-
cans will give us the moral support
and activism toward what will save
numerous members of our race
nancial contgteitioni i in this en-
deavor. This is a costly effort and "
every penny toward our legal fund,
and progress, is vital, ? adds Dr.
Brock.
According to Brock Ts Self Peter |
mination Committee, people who "
may want to send donations,
or requests for membership
petitions to be distributed in t
local areas, should write, or cz
the Self-Determination Commit
tee, P.O. Box 15288, Washingtonp
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The 104th Congress has been in
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time it has enacted a handful of
democracy reforms aimed at dem-
onstrating that there is a willing-
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and Republicans to make elected
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KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH CITIZENS in the district is still her priority. Congresswoman
Clayton stopped at the Greenville Housing Authority to listen to concerns and needs of the
agency.
Did you know.......
Althea Gibson was the first black
woman to win the Wimbledon
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We're caught in the eridlock
the last session of Congress when
the president attempted to initiate
health care reform. Even the most
modest attempt to reform. the
health care system became so
highly politicized "caught in the
crossfire between the American
Medical Association, the pharma-
ceutical companies, the healthcare
union bureaucracy and the politi-
cal action committees "that noth-
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medical industry. Not to mention
that the entire dialogue never ad-
dressed the quality of health care.
The declining quality of hospital
and medical care for ordinary
Americans "infants, people with
AIDS, cancer patients, people with
diabetes and heart disease, our
elderly "is a national tragedy. But
the bipartisan government is un-
able to do anything about it.
There has been a lot of discus-
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how partisan concerns and compe-
tition have made Congress and
the state legislatures unabie to
take initiative and create work-
able social and economic policy.
This is certainly true. But when
the political pundits expound on
the pitfalls of gridlock, they leave
out of the equation that it is our
lives, our children, our homes, our
jobs, our quality of life which are
caught in that gridlock. We pay
taxes to support a government
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of Americans who cannot promise
our children that.they will do bet-
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friends and family members who
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