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EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA'S MINORITY VOICE - SINCE 1981
WEEK OF AUGUST 25-SEPTEMBER 1, 1995
Book exposes modern roots of racism and violence
Are our tax dollars funding our
own decline?
Increasing crime rates, black-
on-black violence, drug abuse, il-
literacy and suicide amongst Afri-
can Americans and black South
Africans has prompted a new book
showing how the modem roots of
racism are embedded in psychiat-
ric and psychological programs.
These programs, steeped in osci-
entific ? rationalization, are heavily
financed by taxpayers dollars, pos-
ing the question: oAre we funding
our own decline? ? And more im-
portantly, oWhatcan be done about
it? ?
Creating Racism: Psychiatric Ts
Betrayal In The Guise of Help isa
ono-holds-barred ? look at a hidden
influence and cause of declining
morals, educational standards and
tolerance in our community. Pub-
lished by the Citizens Commis-
sion on Human Rights (CCHR), an
internationally renowned psychi-
atric owatchdog ? group, it warns of
how education and the family, the
foundations of our society, have
been subverted under the guise of
ohelp. ?
oIf anyone wonders why drugs
and guns suddenly appeared in
the African American community
in the 1960s and stayed, if you
wonder why children and teenag-
ers have turned to gang violence
and drugs, give little value to life,
cannot find jobs or have a sense of
hopelessness about their future,
then this book offers an insight
into how this was achieved, ? Inter-
national President of CCHR, Ms.
Jan Eastgate said.
For decades psychiatrists and
psychologists have preached the
inferiority dogma, that minority
individuals have oLow1Q ? and that
this regulates behavior and sta-
tus. In the 1800s, aslave Ts attempt
to escape to freedom was labeled a
mental illness called
~drapetomania T (runaway mania).
Today, the various reactions by
African Americans to oppression
are diagnosed as psychiatric prob-
lems. In the 1920s, racial hygiene
oexperts ? called eugenicists (from
eugenes meaning ogood in stock ?)
claimed that blacks with white
blood had ohigher IQs o In the
1950s, psychologists wrote thatIQ
test scores oinevitably point to the
presence of native differences be-
tween Negroes and whites. In the
1994 psycho-babble book . The Bell
Curve, this fraud was further per-
petuated.
In this way, the systematic so-
cial crippling of certain races has
been carried out, if not by violent
psychiatric treatments, then by
denying them proper education,
employment and other cultural
advantages.
As Ms. Eastgate stated, oOnce it
was politically acceptable for psy-
chiatrists to invent the so-called
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Ralph Campbell and his lovely wife. Edgecombe County Commissioner, Bro. Leggett,
Attorney Wilton Moore, and other executive committee members. Each year some young
person is selected to receive monies from the Caldwell Foundation to help with his or her
education in the area of law. Keep raising that money Bro and Sisters, someone cares. Thank
God its you.
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disease ~drapetomania. T Today, it
is both culturally and financially
acceptable for psychiatrists to stig-
matize with the label ~mentally
ill, those minority groups who are
protesting very real racial oppres-
sion, educational discrimination
and economic favoritism.
oTheir cry is not a ~mental ill-
ness T but rather the result of a
sane and fundamental impulse to
survive, and avalid protest against
injustice. Government appropria-
tions should not be flaming this
injustice. o
She warned that some of the
most blatant examples of betrayal
and misappropriation of govern-
Jenkins resigns after
twelve years
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DR. JIMMY R. JENKINS
After twelve successful years as
Chancellor of Elizabeth City State
University, Dr. Jimmy R. Jenkins
resigned as Chancellor of the Uni-
versity effective August 31, 1995.
Dr. Jenkins always provided an
open ear and worked with the
Alumni Association in achieving
many goals. Dr. Jenkins T accom-
plishments at Elizabeth City State
University have elevated Eliza-
beth City State University as a
quality institution of academic
the members of the Alumni.
P.S. J ONES HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI Reunion met at the old school site recently. Our c camera was able to catch a few of
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Abu-Jamal to O.J.: The Journey From
Watts To Westwood
With the 30th Anniversary of
the Watts (CA) uprising against
police brutality (August 11-21,
1965) fresh in mind, it Ts ironic how
littleimprovement appears to have
taken place in that area of society.
In fact, judging by the latest devel-
opments in the O.J. Simpson case,
which began in the fashionalbe
Westwood Brentwood-neighbor-
hood of the city, the cancer ap-
pears to have spread.
As each day passes and new
oblockbuster ? events pale the
oblockbusters ? from previous days,
Mr. Simpson Ts case has begun to
" the case 13 years ago of
mumia Abu-Jamal. When it comes
to justice for Blacks: O.J. has be-
come to AJ. (Abu-Jamal), what
Westwood has become to Watts.
Back in January of this year, in
its opening statements to the jury,
the Simpson legal team summa-
rized the L.A. Police Department's
and the District Attorney's roles
in prosecuting the Hall of Fame
football hero accused of murder-
ing his White former wife and a
White male acquaintance of hers,
as a orush to judgment. ? |
Now, in the face of their own
weak strategy and stunning evi-
dence unearthed by the defense,
the prosecutors have challenged
Judge Lance Ito to step down from
the case completely. Prosecutors
may be hoping fora mistrial, which
would give them an opportunity to
retry the case, without repeating
the blunders and errors they com-
mitted, and with full knowledge of
the defense strategy. Furthermore,
Mr. Simpson will not have the
money to pressa full-court-defense
strategy in a re-trial, the way his
team has done in this 11-month-
saga.
The irony is: the evidence that
prosecution ostar witness ? - Los
Angeles Police Detective Mark {
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Fuhrman -isa race-hater who lied
on the witness stand in this case,
and who apparently admits that
he routinely advises cops to plant
evidence and frame innocent sus-
pects in 30-hours of taped inter-
views given more than seven years
ago; is surprisingly similar to the
evidence now being revealed about
the Philadephia Police Depart-
ment and the prosecution of Mr.
Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of
murdering a White cop on Decem-
ber 9, 1981.
From Watts to Westwood: From
AJ. to OW.
oContinued on page 2)
Quote: }
America has
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Shame and its
sense of outrage,
regarding
violence, drugs
and poor
education"
General Colin Powell
ment funds is the innocent-sound-
ing Goals 2000, Outcome-Based
Education, Mastery Learning and
~Values clarification T that are
passed off today as needed for bet-
ter education. oThe legislations
that empower these programs
merely further the same philoso-
phies that have mentally enslaved
school children for 32 years. The
programs aim at making teachers
an extension of psychiatry and
psychology, destroying the honor-
able heritage of teaching, andturn-
ing our schools into mental health
clinics, ? Ms Eastgate stated.
Since 1963, when the federal
(Continued on page 2)
Mrs. Beatrice
Maye
excellence. Dp
The Elizabeth City State Uni- Page 2
versity General Alumni Associa-
tion wishes to thank Dr. Jimmy R.
Jenkins and his family for all of
their efforts and endeavor to make
Elizabeth City State University a
great educational institution.
As Alumni of Elizabeth City
State University our focus contin-
ues to be, to promote the univer-
sity as a school of educational ex-
cellence. The Alumni Association
has expressed its concerns with
President C.D. Spangler Jr. in the
appointment of an interim Chan-
cellor and also the selection of a
new Chancellor. We as Alumni
will work with the Board of Trust-
ees of Elizabeth City State Uni-
versity in their search for a new "
Chancellor.
Submitted by Charles C. Rascoe
President of the General
Alumni Association
Community
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Affirmative Action:
The oRadical
Republican ? example
By Jack Kemp Americans. The president-Andrew
The scene is Washington: a Re- Johnson, Lincoln Ts successor-wor-
publican President, new to the ried that any oaffirmative action ?
White House, defiantly throwing would hurt the White population
down the gauntlettoaRepublican by specifically helping oNegroes. ?
Congress, saying he will veto any
bill that proposes to do more for
oBlack Americans ? than for
oWhites. ?
This is not the same fast-for-
ward vision of 1997 and the first
days of a new Republican White
House. It Ts a flashback to 1866.
The agency to be vetoed was the
Freedman Ts Bureau, established
in President Lincoln's administra-
tion to oaffirmatively ? assist the
recently omen African
I offer this page from history not
to prove once again that, politi-
cally, there is not much new under
the sun but to illustrate that the
issues of race and equality are
woven into the essence of our
American experience, While our
present-day passions on the sub-
ject of affirmative action open old
wounds, they also summon us to
moral leadership of Lincolnesque
proportions,
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ument Ts National Institute
~for teachers to be become mental
ohealth workers came into effect,
oshildren have been taught that
nere is no right or wrong answer
~bo issues such as drug taking, sex,
~death and violence. Parents have
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What the Watts 1965 (riot) up-
rising was all about, was a univer-
-sal understanding among Black
-sitizens-regardless of class, edu-
~tational level, or income level-that
~L.A. Police routinely brutalized
~Black folks. What the O.J. case
makes clear is that the District
Attorney Ts office, seems to collabo-
rate with the offending cops, in
blaming the victims instead of root-
ing out police abuse.
_ What the O.J. case also rein-
forces, is the perception thatin the
A.J. (Abu-Jamal) case, the same
tactics are routinely used a conti-
nent away. oThe more things
change, the more they remain the
same. ? Watts-1965; A.J.-1981;
Westwood-1994; and O.J.-1995.
As so-called oofficers of the
sourt, ? prosecutors and defense
attorneys are supposed to be in a
osearch for truth ? in order to
achieve ojustice. ? Prosecutors
should be asinterested in evidence
that leads to the real guilty parties
as defense attorneys. Instead, their
interest appear only to be
~convictions...by any means nec-
2ssary. ?
Book
generalized release forms autho-
rizing their children to participate
in school activities that have in-
cluded such things as odeath edu-
cation ? and the osurvival game, ?
and which have left a wake of
moral decline and an increasing
suicide rate. Suicide among Afri-
can American adolescent males
From A.J. to O.J..
In the A.J. *Abu-Jamal) case in
1982, prosecutors appeared to have
deliberately ignored witnesses who
said they saw the assailant who
shot officer Daniel Faulkner flee
the scene after shooting him. They
ignored ballistic evidence to fash-
ion their case because Mr. Abu-
Jamal was an annoying critic of
the police and prosecutors for their
opersecution ? of members of the
back-to-nature grop MOVE.
In the O.J. case today, prosecu-
tors appear to be deliberately ig-
noring evidence that now-retired
Det. Fuhrman may have routinely
violated the law in his police du-
ties, and that he clearly commjt-
ted perjury in his testimony
against Mr. Simpson.
Listening to the flimsy argu-
ments by prosecutors in Philadel-
phia, and in Los Angeles, I am
reminded of a bit of sophomoric
law school advice: oWhen you have
the law on your side argue the law.
When you have neither the facts,
nor the law: pound the table. ?
In the O.J. and in the A.J. (Abu-
Jamal) cases, prosecutors now ap-
pear to be pounding their tables.
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erally has increased 310%.
Goals 2000 and Outcome-Based
Education, not only waste more
than $10 billion in taxpayers T dol-
lars but provide for a oBrave New
~World T psychological profile to be
kept.on every child and their fam-
ily members. This will contain in-
formation about the sexual prac-
tices of the family, their political
attitudes and their financial earn-
ings. A student will only be able to
graduate if he has achieved the
correct attitudes and skills dic-
tated by government psychologists,
psychiatrists or teachers unwit-
tingly exploited by these profes-
sions.
oPsychiatrists, in particular, are
demonstrably unqualified to adju-
dicate attitudes. They have the
highest suicide rate of any single
profession and the highest inci-
dence of drug abuse. They commit
more insurance fraud than any
other member of the medical pro-
fession. Add to the equation that
10% of all psychiatrists openly
admit to sexually abusing their
patients, that according to one
study, two-thirds of them are them-
selves ~seriously mentally ill T and
that the American Psychiatric
Association found psychiatrists
more likely to be atheists, and you
have to seriously question the
motives behind having these self-
claimed experts put in charge of
determining the attitudes and be-
havior of our children and adoles-
cents.
oThe future of any raceis largely
dependent upon the care, educa-
the traditional and most workable
vehicles to provide the spiritual
and material means which trans-
mit a culture from one generation
to the next. Attack these and one
assures progressively ~weaker T gen-
erations and deteriorating racial
integrity, o Ms Eastgate said.
Psychiatry Ts Betrayal covers all
these issues as well as the Nazi
genocide of Jews and blacks, how
the same psychiatric theories that
caused WWII Ts holocaust were in-
troduced in South Africa to en-
slave blacks and keep them illiter-
ate and unemployed, and how eu-
genic programs in Australia and |
New Zealand helped to almost wipe
out Aborigine and Maori races.
CCHR hopes that the booklet
will give people an incentive to
protest psychiatric and psychologi-
~ eal intervention in schools so that
education returns to its basics.
There are some simple actions that
can be done to begin to turn the
tide against a modem root of rac-
ism.
CCHR has a 26 year history of
investigating psychiatric viola-
tions of human rights. It was es-
tablished by the Church of
Scientology in 1969. Commission-
ers of CCHR include civil rights
lawyers, doctors, and other profes-
sionals. The Founding Commis-
sioner is New York Professor of
Psychiatry Emeritus and author,
Dr Thomas Szasz. A copy of
Psychiatry Ts Betrayal is available
free by writing to CCHR Interna-
tional, 6362 Hollywood Blvd. Suite
B, Los Angeles, California 90028.
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Has anyone thought of the num-
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Acommitted and dedicated man
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Question: Think back over your
church life about Deacons you have
known. How would you describe
oA Bad Deacon? A Good Deacon? ?
oA Bad Deaconess? A Good Dea-
coness? ?
How Deacons-Elect responded:
A BAD DEACON:
1. Wears office as crown-stands
above congregation. Will serve only
some of the membership. 2. Back-
slidden, lost focus. 3. Sets self up
as judge and jury. 4. Hasn Tt grown
in Christ. One who violates trust.
5. Won Tt attend services - but
guards odeacon Ts seat. ?/profiles
only
6.One who uses office and church
as instrument of personal gain. 7.
One who is under satanic influ-
ences. 8. One not consecrated in
the Lord Jesus.
9. Confused about how one gives
back to God.
10. One who doesn Tt tithe/serve.
11. Doesn Tt work with the Pastor -
wants to be in charge. 12. Not in
the word - doesn Tt evidence being
born again. 13. One who corrupts
children and others sexually. 14.
One who is unfaithful to spouse -
chases women/men. 15. Does not
have hunger for the word of God.
16. Is deacon just on Sunday -
other days does what he/she
pleases. 17. One who drinks and
fathers children out of his mar-
riage. .
18. One not trained or growing
in Christ.
19. One selected solely on the
basis of social or political stand-
ing. 20. One named because of
strategic rather spiritual basis.
Compliments: The Reverend
Archie Logan
A GOOD DEACON:
1. Spirit-filled.
2. Must work with Pastor.
3. Ideal father/husband/wife/
mother; loves church, Lord.
4. Observes Three T Ts - time,
talent, tithe.
5. Willing to be servant to en-
tire congregation and community.
6. Bold - will stand for what is
right.
7. Good leader as well as fol-
lower of Christ.
8. One who loves the word of
God.
9. Open to learning - never knows
enough about the Lord, Jesus
Chnist.
10. Visits sick - always supports
church, responds to needs.
11. When you see him/her - you
sense presence of God.
12. A Christian role model.
13. Puts Jesus first- always with
Pastor and church.
14. A disciple of Jesus Christ. Is
obedient.
15. Easy to approach - easy to
talk to.
16. Must be a born again Chris-
tian. Christ is the focal point in
his/her life.
17. Is always prepared to defend
the word of God.
18. Hungry and thirsty for God Ts
righteousness and His word.
19. Should have a strong prayer
life.
20. Always ready to do the work
of evangelist.
21. Humble.
22. Someone who holds confi-
dences sacred.
23. To be contented in God - no
matter the circumstances.
24. One who is faithful to God
and man.
25. One who visits sick, needy,
despondent - wherever the need
exists.
26. One who displays joyful coun-
tenance.
27. One who cares about the
well being of people-even beyond
the church family.
28. One willing to share Chnist.
29. One who is bold - will stand
up for the Lord anytime, any place.
30. One who watches, guards
and promotes peace in the fellow-
ship.
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No! to the Death Penalty Means
No! to the Welfare State
Last week I was in New Orleans
to represent the Transnational
Radical Party "an international,
pro-democracy political party
which strongly opposes the death
penalty "at a conference spon-
sored by the National Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty. Like
the other conference participants,
I ama longtime opponent of capi-
tal punishment. Not only is it im-
moral and inhumane, it is an inef-
fective deterrent to violent crime.
Even many of those who advocate
it concede that. We need to take a
hard look at what has happened in
this country with respect to the
death penalty.
AsI pointed out in my talk at the
anti-death penalty conference, the
death penalty has become an em-
blem of political authority in
America. It is the ultimate state-
ment by government "Big Gov-
ernment "that it can control our
lives. Big Government has so much
power that it can do anything to
you, and take anything from you "
including your life.
This intrusive, arrogant, abu-
sive and violent Big Government
hasincreasingly placed itselfabove
the wishes of the American people,
not to mention above the Consti-
tution and the Bill of Rights. In-
deed, I would argue, as have many
others, that the death penalty is
unconstitutional "it violates the
Eighth Amendment, which pro-
hibits cruel and unusual punish-
ment. The imposition of the death
penalty is just one of the many
ways that the government is cur-
rently abrogating the Billof Rights
and placing American democracy
at risk.
Despite this, the death penalty
has popular support "no doubt,
because the American people feel
powerless in the face of risingcrime
and violence. What is most signifi-
cant, however, is that the death
penalty has been osold ? to them as
a solution by a remarkable coali-
tion of law and omer extremists
and protagonists of liberal Big
Government like President
Clinton.
Unusual coalitions "like the one
backing the death penalty "are
the new phenomenon in American
political life. Just take a look at
the recently completed Congres-
sional hearings on government and
law enforcement abuses in the
handling of the Branch Davidian
situation in Waco, Texas. The Rich-
mond Dispatch insightfully
pointed out last week that while
David Koresh might not have been
the messiah, he most certainly was
a miracle worker. He turned law
and order Republicans into civil
libertarians and liberal Democrats
into ardent spokespersons for what
is perhaps the most outrageous
government abuse of the Bill of
Rights in the last decade. The
Davidians, after all, were sum-
marily executed. Let us not forget
(Continued on page 5)
Internet
Guide for
expanded
By Ronald Roach
Eight months after the African
American Resource Guide to the
Internet appeared in bookstores
around Washington, D.C., the book
has become a local bestseller.
And since last December, au-
thors Rey O. Harris and Stafford
L. BattleJr., have kept up a steady
pace of appearances at local
churches, bookstores and commu-
nity centers, promoting their
groundbreaking book. The bgok,
they believe, has been a success in
the Washington area because it
catalogs Internet resources that
are aimed at the African Ameri-
can community.
oThe reaction to the book has
been tremendous, ? Harris said
during a recent book signing event
in nearby Landover Mall. oAfrican
Americans want to know what the
Internet has to offer. ?
Harris estimated that nearly
5,000 copies of the book Ts first edi-
tion have been sold. He added that
the book is currently being sold in
some of the large commercial book-
stores as well as the Black-owned
stores, such as Karibu Books. The
book is also on sale in bookstores
in at least nine cities around the
country. "
Brother Yao, an owner of Karibu
Books, said he invited the authors
to sign copies of their books at his
store because the books are in great
demand. oI Tve read the book, and
it Ts helped me to find useful infor-
mation on the Internet, whichis so
vast that it Ts difficult to find mate-
rial that is interesting and rel-
evant, ? Yao said.
The Internetis believed by many
to be the most important part of
the emerging oInformation Super-
highway. ? Described as a network
af networks, the Internet is a sys-
tem that links computer users to
thousands of databases and bulle-
tin boards from around the world.
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Thus far, the summons go unan-
swered by both liberals and con-
servatives alike. The unrecon-
structed liberal notion of endless
racial reparations and race-based
preferences i is doubly guilty: wrong
in principle and ruinous in prac-
tice. Presidnet Clinton Ts much
vaunted affirmative action review
produced more ofa bumber sticker
than a policy; Clinton Ts focus group-
fashioned omend it, not end it ?
slogan makes a far better rhyme
than reason.
The same, however, is true of
the new affirmative action oaboli-
tionist ? position, which heralds
equality but seldom addressed the
way to truly give all people an
equal footing. Critics are right in
T asserting that oaffirmative action ?
quotas have contributed to the
poisoning of race relations in this
country. But critics must offer
much more than just opposition
and reproach. We know what they
are against, but what are they for?
oA coloredblind society, ? comes
their response. Of course, the goal
of equal opportunity is paramount
and a worthy destiny to seek. But
to say that we have arrived at that
goal is simply not true. My friends
on the right call for a colorblind
society and then quote Martin
Luther King Ts inspirational oI
Have a Dream ? speech, in which
he imagined a nation in which
every American would be judged
not on the color of his or her skin
but on the ocontent of his charac-
ter. ?
All too often, though, they ne-
glect to quote theend of his speech,
where he describes the painful
plight of minority America: oThe
Negro, ? King said, olives on a lonly
island of poverty in the midst of a
vast ocean of material prosperity. ?
And much has changed in the 30
years since King stood on the steps
of the Lincoln Memorial.
- Affirmative Action
Minority ~enterprises have be-
gun to gain a foothold, although
there are far too few of them. But
can anyone venture to the crum-
bling brick and mortar of Cabrini
Green Public Housing, or the fear-
ridden projects of Bed-Stuy or the
streets lined witht he unemployed
in South Central LA or East St.
Louis and believe that what he
sees there today would pass as
progress since Dr. King Ts day?
This is not to negate the gains
made by so many in the Black and
minority communities. But for
large numbers, the situation has
not only not improved in 30 years,
it has grown dramatically worse,
with a welfare system that en-
traps rather than empowers, pun-
ishes work and marriage and pre-
vents access to capital, credit and
property. Reality requires that we
admit two things- difficult admis-
sions for both liberals and conser-
vatives.
First, that race-conscious policy
of quotas and rigid preferences
has helped make matters worse.
Second, and more important, the
Good Shepherd reminds all of us
that our work is not done, and we
think about moving into the 21st
century, we must not leave anyone
behind. Sound policy begins with T
strong principles.
Affirmative action based on quo-
tas is wrong "wrong because it is
antithetical to the genious of the
American idea: individual liberty.
(County) by race in order to rem-
edy past wrongs or rewarding spe-
cial groups by taking from others
perpetuates and even deepens the
divisions between us. But race-
based politics is even more wrong
and must be repudiated by men
and women of civility and compas-
sion. ,
Affirming affirmative action be-
gins with education.
AT&T to offer cellular,
paging services to
customers
AT&T has announced it will be-
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channels to offer cellular and pag-
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bringing them the benefits of wire-
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Cellular Communications Inc.
The jointly-developed cellular
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and the first month of service free.
A similar paging service is being
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those we want to be our custom-
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executive vice president and chief
executive officer of the company Ts
Communications Services Group.
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for our customers easier than ever
to get-and to use. ?
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people in the United States use
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each day. Industry analysts esti-
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With this week Ts announcement,
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providing extraordinary commu-
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million ofour customers every day,
and we plan to begin to use every
opportunity to explain the conve-
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wireless services. ?
The jointly marketed cellular
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the balloting process to choose a
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or will be completed, and where
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Nationwide advertising of cellu-
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is not allowed until 60 percent of
McCaw Ts cellular customers have
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balloting process by McCaw, the
60 percent threshold is expected to
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~ that the FBI, the Cenisinuk a of
Justice and Attorney General
Janet Renoimposed the death pen-
alty there without even the pre-
tense of a trial.
What does all of this have to do
with taking a hard look at where
the anti-death penalty movement
stands? Big Government and the
far right have won the hearts and
minds of the American people on
this critical issue because the
American liberal-left "those who
believe most passionately in the
abolition of the death penalty "
has been unwilling to identify Big
Government as a threat to civil
liberties. Moreover, it has been
unwilling to build a connection to
the anti-Big Government move-
ment at the political center thereby
opening the door to the popular-
ization of rightist non-solutions to
a profound social crisis.
How could this have happened?
For one thing, much of the liberal-
left seemed to believe that liberal-
always dominate the key institu-
tions of American political life. The
election in 1992 of Bill Clinton "
who was pro-death penalty "was
nonetheless
identified as a swing back to
liberalism after the Reagan-Bush
era. Actually, it was a protest
against the existing governmen-
tal state of affairs. The Perot move-
ment was written off as something
between a fluke and the rise of
neo-fascism. Thus, the liberal-left
failed to see the signs that tradi-
tional American political align-
ments were shifting and that the
American people were more and
more turning away from the bi-
partisan establishment and to-
ward an anti-Big Government
populism. Ironically, it is Middle
America, which has been so sus-
ceptible to arguments favoring the
death penalty, that is now more
and more opposed to the intrusive,
abusive and violent Big Govern-
ment welfare state. Meanwhile,
the anti-death penalty movement,
increasingly isolated from the
American people, is turning to Bill
Clinton and the pro-death pen-
alty, anti-civil libertarian welfare
state to represent its cause.
Welfare and the welfare state "
Big Government "have always
been identified as the saviors of
the African American commu-
nity "the sole institutional frame-
work that protects us from de-
struction. Like many Americans,
including many African Ameri-
cans, I have come to see how mis-
guided and manipulative this no-
tion actually is. The welfare state
is nota friend to the Black commu-
nity. It is a social control mecha-
nism. not unlike the death penalty
itself. And I am one Black leader
whois simply not willing to accept
a liberal Big Government welfare
state "with all its arrogance, abuse
and abrogation of the Bill of
Rights "in exchange fora pathetic,
4
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If we want to abolish the death
penalty, we've got to abolish the
welfare state. The national move-
ment to abolish the death penalty
must disengage itself from Big .
Government liberalism and the
political institutions allied with it.
We've got to reach out to the Ameri-
can people as a whole and create a
new anti-death penalty, anti-Big
Government movement which
makes life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness its central and long
lasting goals.
Black Colleges and Universities,
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This month, Harris and Battle
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from their paid-for booth because
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issue of abortion. Because Ambas-
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tion, his speech was at first can-
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but the booth was not allowed to be
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every American who holds the
rights of free speech and open pub-
lic forums dear. Such a blatant
violation of Ambassador Keyes T
personal and political civil nghts
pose a great threat to the tradi-
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if they are allowed to go
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torate.
It alsosays much about the other
so-called Pro-Life candidates on
the Republican Party ticket. It
should be noted by everyone who
wishes to see the life of the unborn
protected that all the other candi-
dates there agreed to compromise
their stand on such an important
issue. Once again, it seems that all
but one candidate will do most
anything in the name of politics.
When will America get tired
enough of these people to realize
that they are cut from the same
mold. Only Alan Keyes is refusing
to back down from the issue. Even
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and personal persecution he is
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occured on live national television),
and the American pubic supported
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and protect the citizens of
Greenville. We did not agree to
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We were placed in an untenable
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On July 26th around 2:20 p.m.
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a suspect was sighted in Line
Street, several blocks from my
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the police through two neighbors T
houses with children present be-
fore he was shot in the yard next to
my house.
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shoot at the police and he returned
fire? What would have been the
rationale given for wounding or
killing one of my children had the
bullet that is in my wall had come
through? How do I explain to my
children that we have a right to be
safe in our home after such a thing
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Officer Robert A. Williams stated
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tive persons. But according to Po-
lice ChiefHinman, his officers T lives
are of great value. Are ours value-
less when it comes to suspect ap-
prehension?
As a mother of five, Ican not get
out of my mind that the bullet
lodged in my hallway is the same
level as the height of my only
daughter. She wasin the hall when
the shooting commenced. Had the
bullet not been stopped by the stud,
she would have been struck in her
head.
Ileave you with a final question.
What bullet proff armor is she
supposed to have in her home?
Sincerely,
Sharon H. King
To the Editor:
The fiftieth anniversaries of the
atomic bombings have prompted
debates about the ethics of war-
fare. Meanwhile, America Ts war
on prenatal children has raged on
unabated, routinely trashing ev-
ery thical principle. It has con-
sisted exclusively of literally sur-
gical first strikes against the to-
tally innocent and helpless, in-
tended to preempt the recognition
and protections normally accorded
at birth. Rather than honor the
immunity of non-combatants, it
has deliberately targeted them. It
has employed poisonour weapons,
refusal of quarter and live dis-
memberment of the unarmed tar-
get population, even subjecting
them to experimentation, in con-
travention of the laws of war and
all international standards for the
treatment of prisoners, It has vio-
lated oJust War ? principles, in-
cludingjust cause, last resort, pro-
portionality andcompetent author-
ity by placing the decision for a
death-dealing act, grotesquely dis-
proportionate to the ends usually
sought, in the hands of the fre-
quently ill-informed, distraught
and underage. It Ts rationalization
on the basis of so-called hard cases
has reduced the vast majority of
those slaughtered to collateral
damage at rates that would be
morally horrendous if practiced by
the military.
What is is about unborn babies
that suspends every ethical con-
sideration? Is it the lack of any
non-violent alternative for retain-
ing control that justifies all man-
ner of barbarism? Or isit that once
the mental process of devaluing
the lives of others, born or unborn,
has gone far enough, they cease to
exist in our minds as human be-
ings such that anything can be
done to them? What have we be- ©
come that we avert our eyes as
nearly one in every three of our
children is destroyed? Is this im-
balance of power so much to be
feared? Why has the propaganda
campaign been so effective that
many now think and speak in the
euphemisms ( opro-choice, ? oPreg-
nancy termination, ? oreproductive
freedom, ? etc.) and oxymorons
(save abortion, abortion rights) of
the language of denial? How much
more violence to life, truth, lan-
guage, values, law, government,
medicine, ethics and the principles
of human rights can our society
withstand?
But conscience and anture are -
not easilty overcome. Like the fly-
ers who delivered the bombs, the
women who have delivered their
unborn babies to the killing cen-
ters have suffered unforeseen fall-
out, experiencing a range of emo-
tional and physical problems from
guilt and depression to stenlity
and breat cancer. Yet the war plan-
ners continue to resist providing
even the most basic safeguards-
such as information about human
development, life-affirming alter-
natives and potential hazards-
rightly fearful that piercing their
veil of ignorance will render their
proxies unwilling to continue the
carnage.
Sincerely,
Alfred Lemmo
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The purpose of the Ross Perot
convention in Dallas last week, as
I understand it, was to convince
those of us who attended "along
with the rest of the country "that
we should choose between the Re-
publicans and the Democrats.
What I worked to have come out of
the weekend, however, was a deci-
sion among all the independents
to work together, so we "and the
American people "don Tt have to
choose between the Republicans
and the Democrats in 1996, orever
again.
Many Americans now consider
themselves independents. We
might be leaders or members of
different organizations or electoral
parties. We might come from dif-
ferent points on the ideological
spectrum. We might have been
activists in the 1992 Perot cam-
paign who went on to build United
We Stand and are now becoming
convinced that America needs
a new political party. We might
be activists in the term limits move-
ment who are seeing that without
a third party that elects pro-term
limits independents to Congress,
the Democrats and Republicans
will return to office endlessly and
never reform the political process
in a way that gives the American
people the power that is rightfully
and constitutionally ours. We
might be disaffected African-
Americans who are turning away
from a Big Government which puts
less stock in the Bill of Rights than
in the Bill of Clinton and from a
Democratic Party which pays lip-
service to our issues, while taking
us for granted. But we are all more
and more connected by our desire
to change the conditions in our
communities and in our country.
You have read the statistics and
the polls. The latest ones show
that 55 percent of all Americans
and 73 percent of Perot supporters
agree that the country needs a
new party that can compete with
the Republicans and Democrats.
Similar polls done among black
voters have shown that 55 percent
of African-Americans favor a new
party. There is no question that
there isa mass market in ourcoun-
try today for a new political party.
The question is who is going to
create it and whois going tolead it.
The answer, in my opinion, is
you. And I don Tt mean that rhe-
torically or inspirationally or
lightly. I mean it literally. Ross
Perot has so far decided that he
does not want to create a third
party. Apparently so had Rev.
Jesse Jackson, we came to the
Dallas convention and embraced
Ross Perot, but has not embraced
independent politics. I respect
their decision. But I disagree with
it. And hke many Americans "
indeed it now appears lke most
Americans "I believe that we can-
not wait for them to change their
minds.
There are some independents
who feel that the task of creating a
third party andrunninganational
presidential campaign is not only
possible with a big-name candi-
date who has big money that can
generate big media. They say you
can Tt make it happen from the
grassroots. But I disagree with
them here as well. I think they are
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misreading this very particular
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the grassroots. Five years ago ev-
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said you would never get popular
support for term limits. But every
time the American people have
had the opportunity to vote on the
issue, it passed overwhelmingly .
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first woman presidential candidate
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the ballot in all 50 states. On elec-
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saying that the American people
would not vote for an independent
for president and that Ross Perot
would poll five to six percent of the
vote, maximum. But more than 19
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From Dallas to The White House
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case that thereis astrongcommon
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I believe that the black commu-
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political party in America. That
process is picking up steam. I urge
you to contact me and become a
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