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atory mort age le
Easley announced legislation de-
signed to restrict predatory mort-
gage brokering and lending
ractices in North Carolina.
Predatory loans are high rate, high
fee loans typically targeted to
borrowers who own their homes,
but may have cash flow problems.
Predator lenders focus particu-
larly on elderly, minority and
low-income homeowners.
ii "The effect of these loans is to
Sister Kimberly Whitehead
talks about law enforcement's
bias against the mentally ill
Brother Wren Locke gives
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increase the borrower's indebted-
ness, strip equity from their home,
and to burden the borrower with
oppressive repayment terms,
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"Easley said. "People unknowingly
incur huge fees and may ultimately
lose their homes."
The Senate bill (SB 1149) is
nsored by Sen. Roy Cooper and
e companion House bill (HB
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. Braswell and Rep. Phil Baddour.
The legislation targets common
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loans, such as charging excessive
fees for originating or brokering the
loan; adding balloon payment pro-
visions so the borrower pays off
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almost no principal after many
years of payment; "packing" the
loan with thousands of dollars of
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mind of a Skinhead | repeatedly refinancing or "flipping"
I} loans to keep the borrower continu-
ally in debt.
Some actual recent examples of
predatory mortgage loan practices
include:
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April 23 - April 30, 1999
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ders
as
Attorney General Mike Easley is attacking home mortgage companies
that hide fees and surcharges into loan packages. Althou
good deal for the broker, say Easley, "it may not be a g
(photo by the Office of the NC Attorney General.)
it may be a
deal for you."
1) A borrower in Fayetteville
obtained a $48,000 home loan
which included a $4352 origination
fee, $1089 .in points, a $200
ing fee; a $175 underwrit-
ing fee and a $175 odocument
rep" fee. The APR on the loan was
10%. The loan also included a
balloon payment of $43,000 which
would be due after 15 years of
payments. The borrower did not
understand there was a balloon
payment until months after the
closing. To complete the financing,
the lender also convinced this
borrower to take out a $13,000
second mortgage loan repayable
over 15 years at 14%.
2) An elderly woman on a
limited income nded to a TV
ad about consolidating bills and
lowering monthly payments. Her
new loan increased her monthly
mortgage payment from $399 to
$462. On the $33,800 loan, she
paid over 8% in points and
originating fees plus a $500 under-
writing fee, a $400 application fee
and a $350 loan processing fee.
"The APR was 16.46%. Although
the borrower was not aware of it,
the loan had a balloon t of
$35,000 at the end of the 15 year
term. Her sister was required to
cosign the loan at the last minute.
3) A couple in Montgomery
County borrowed $19,254 to refi-
nance an existin mortgage loan
and to pay other debts. They paid a
loan origination fee of $2,790 and
an additional oloan fee" of $370.
The lender also sold and financed a
credit life insurance premium in
the amount of $4,124. With the
closing costs and credit insurance
factored in, the borrowers incurred
an obligation of $28,000 for what
siarted out as a $19,000 loan.
Predatory lenders often use high
pressure tactics to snag their vic-
tims. Easley warns homeowners to
be wary of anyone who calls them
_ on the phone or comes to your door
offering home equity obargains. �
"Don't let yourself be pressured
into making a quick decision when
it comes to your home," Easley
said. "Beware of claims that ar
offer is good only for a very short
period. Be suspicious of anyone you
didn't contact first. If a solicitor
calls on the phone or comes to your
door offering to refinance your
home, you can be assured it's a
good deal for him. It may not be a
good deal for you. �
The legislation attacks predatory
lending by creating a special
category in the state's lending laws
for "high cost home loans," making
North Carolina the first state to
seriously address this problem. If
the loan has fees or a rate that
significantly exceed prevailing
market rates, then special restric-
tions and protections apply. These
new provisions are intended to
make borrowers more aware of the
consequences of high cost home
loans and to create barriers to
prevent predatory practices.
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By Dan Sewell
ATLANTA (AP) -- Four past and -
current Black employees of Coca-
Cola Co. are suing the soft-drink
giant for discrimination, claiming
Blacks are paid less and have fewer
rtunities to advance than
te employees.
"Not only do barriers exist for
African-American employees seek-
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the company, but similar barriers
virtually segregate the company
into divisions where African-
American leadership is acceptable
and divisions where it is not," the
plaintiffs said in the lawsuit.
The suit was filed April 22 in
U.S. District Court in Atlanta by
Washington attorneys Cyrus Mehri
and Pamela Coukos. Mehri, a
veteran of corporate discrimination
cases, represented Black employees
who sued Texaco in a case that
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Washington, NC-- After a lengthy
absence, WTOW 1320-AM, also
known as "Joy 1320," has returned
to the air, restoring Washington's
premier gospel and talk radio
station.
"This is something we've been
working towards since the station
went off the air," said station owner
Jim Rouse.
Rouse, the President and CEO of
the Jim Rouse Communications
Group, says he is happy the station
is back.
"It's under new management," h
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the new management and staff.
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many false starts, it's finally it is joining its sister station --
Greenville's WOOW 1340AM -- in
sponsoring the First Spring Gospel
Celebration in Greenville on May
18. It will also be joining WOOW
and The Minority Voice newspaper,
which are also part of The Rouse
Communications Group, in pro-
moting a Minority Business Expo
and Job Fair on May 15.
While the station has reaffirmed
its committment to the community,
it also is in need of the support of
the community.
"We're going to be more active
in the Washington community,"
said Rouse. "That's going to be
apparent in the way the station is
run o
"People will notice some
changes in the station, but | think
they'll like them," says Rouse. oIt's
a chance for a fresh start, and we're
not going to waste it."
resulted in a landmark $176 mil-
lion settlement in 1996.
"This is probably the next major
ceiling case," Mehri said
April 23. "We expect this to be an
ic struggle going on over a period
of years.
Coke spokesman Rob Baskin
CHICAGO (AP) -- Once you got
past the 14-member security team
and the barricades barring students
from certain hallways, Marshall
Metro looked like any other high
here!
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school. To the left, the trophy case,
to the right, Michael Jordan, the
new principal.
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by Trey Bankhead
General Colin Powell is well
known as the first Black Chief of
the Armed Forces. He is not,
however, as well known in his role
as chair of America's Promise, a
group dedicated to helping chil-
n.
"We worry a lot about kids today,
about them learning self-respect
and moral values," he says.
Powell asserts that young people
secsdela to
getting a visitor, but I thought it
would be someone like Al Gore or
Clinton," said consumer education
and American history teacher Carol
Rolowicz. "But Michael Jordan? �
This is the biggest thing that's ever
happened to this school!"
In an effort to get businessmen
and companies to support the
educational Process, the Chicago
recede reveal hoary up with
"Principal for a program
to benefit the children and the
educational system.
The 1,150 students were awe-
struck during an early assembly
when they discovered that the man
meses in front of them was ol' No,
3.
Requests for handshakes were
abundant; confessions of love were
said he couldn't comment on
specific details of the lawsuit before
seeing. it, but he said the company
doesn't believe the case has merit.
"Coca-Cola doesn't tolerate dis-
crimination, and if any discrimina-
tion is found, we take action to stop
it and prevent it from occurring, �
Baskin said.
The suit seeks to include about
1,500 past and current salaried
Black employees at Coke.
Three of the plaintiffs still work
at Coke. The complaint says that
one of them, senior information
analyst Linda Ingram, is on long-
term disability because of depres-
sion blamed on her treatment at the
compary
Another plaintiff, Kimberly
Gray Orton, is a former supervisor
who worked 13 years at Coke. The
complaint says she was underpaid
for years, at times supervising
White employees who made as
much as $7,000 more than she did.
The complaint has scattered
anecdotal examples of racial insen-
sitivity, from alleged workplace
insults to Coke marketers relying
on racial stereotypes such as Blacks
living in ghetto areas.
"We are just at the beginning of
'uture Miss America:
this case, � said Mehri, who said the
complaint is buttressed by statisti-
cal evidence. It says the average
Black Coke employee at corporatt
headquarters earned $45,215 in
1998, compared with $72,045 for
the average White employee.
Baskin said an estimated 27
percent of Coke's U.S. workers are
minorities, including 15 percent of
U.S. managers.
The complaint says few of the
Black managers reach the. highest
salary levels and tend to be
confined to divisions like human
resources and corporate affairs,
which lack the advancement poten-
tial of White-dominated divisions
such as global marketing or fi-
nance.
It also says Blacks tend to
receive worse performance apprais-
als and are terminated at higher
rates than Whites. :
Coke has "failed to place the
same importance on its African-
American employees" as it has on
marketing to Black consumers, who
make about 25 percent of the
purchases of Coke brands, the suit
says.
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be.
| In 1988, I had the distinction of
being the first woman in US.
' history to run for President and
: on the general election
- ballot in all 50 states and the
. District of Columbia. I was also the
first African American to do so. Of
| Course, it goes without saying that
~ Elizabeth Dole is closer to winning
the White House today -- not yet on
the ballot in a single state -- than |
was when I was on the ballot in all
50 states. I assure you that when |
ran, there were no feature pieces on
60 Minutes about what a ofemin-
ized" White House would be like.
Nor, for that matter, were there any
afticles about a potential
_ oAfricanization � of the White
House. Everyone pretty much knew
that I wasn't a "serious female
presidential candidate" in the way
Elizabeth Dole is. Elizabeth Dole
is, after all, a Republican and will
run for the White House - if she
_ does - as a Republican with the full
weight of the Republican P
behind her. uy
This means, of course, access to
osignificant amounts of money, sig-
Mificant amounts of press coverage,
-automatic access to the presidential
debates, not to mention the impri-
matur of legitimacy that comes
with being a Republican or a
Democrat in U.S. politics.
I, of course, was neither a
Democrat or Republican. And
though I did succeed in achieving
and qualified for feral, primary
or primary
omatching funds--becoming the sec-
ond i t and first Black
owoman to do so--in fact, those
achievements merely ified the
extent to which presidential! politics
and the political arena in general is
a bipartisan and not a nonpartisan
affair, no matter what barriers one
breaks or "firsts" one achieves.
Indeed, this fact of political life
oin America, was the reason I ran
-for President. In other words, I was
-not a "serious" candidate for the
opresidency in the sense that I had
any shot at the White House. But I
was a serious candidate for the
presidency insofar as helping to
expose and breaking open the
obarriers to a more inclusionary and
up-from-the-bottom multi-party de-
mocracy is a serious concern. In my
opinion, this concern is ultimately
- More serious than the question of
owho wins the White House in any
given election cycle.
[polled nearly a quarter of a
"million votes in 1988, or about
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.25%, not exactly numbers that
send the Republicans and
Democrats running for cover. It
would take a wealthy, white male
independent and 20% of the vote to
do that, an event of tremendous,
and, in my opinion, deeply misun-
derstood political magnitude which
occurred just four years later. In
some as I reflect back on
the 1988 presidential run and all
that happened since, I see the years
that followed it as a kind of
simmering cauldron of political
revolt that exploded in 1992 on
several fronts - not the least of
which was Ross Perot's independ-
ent campaign. I do not mean to
suggest that my campaign was the
cause of that revolt. Rather, it was
in anticipation of it.
If my 1988 presidential run
detected a bare murmur of public
discontent with politics-as-usual - it
was, nonetheless, a clear statement
about the myths of American
democracy. My Democratic and
Republican opponents had to
gather about 40,000 signatures
nationally on petitions to access the
ballot. I had to gather 1.2 million
signatures, the result of a patch-
work of state laws all promulgated
by bipartisan consent, to make
access to the ballot virtually impos-
sible for independents. The barriers
weren't just structural, they were
attitudinal. Virtually every time the
press mentioned me, which wasn't
often, my name was preceded by
the words "fringe candidate." It was
so frequent that I started to use it
myself, sometimes to illustrate the
gap between what I had achieved
and how I was perceived. I would
sometimes say, "Hi! I'm Lenora
Fulani, the fringe candidate who
qualified for two million dollars in
matching funds from the United
States Treasury." I even named my
autobiographical account of my
second presidential mn The
Making of a Fringe Candidate.
But as traditional political align-
ments and alliances melt away, and
new alliances start to form, the
"fringe" starts to occupy a more
influential _ political §_ position.
Millions of Americans - half the T
electorate, actually -- are on the
fringes of American politics. They
don't vote and they view the
political process as having little or
nothing to do with them. They're
right. And that's exactly what has
to be changed.
Reforming our political process
to make it genuinely democratic,
inclusionary and easy-to- use is the
key. And those reforms could get us
to the point where we not only
could elect a woman or an African
American to the White House,
more importantly, we could elect an
independent who brings a new way
of doing politics, and up-from-the-
bottom way of doing politics, to the
highest office in the land.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ~ In Boston,
cries of police brutality are rela-
tively rare. A internal
affairs division seems to be work-
ing, experts say.
"Fa New York, on the other hand,
anyone who has ever heard of
Black. immigrants. Abner Louima
and Amadou Diallo knows the
nation's largest city has a problem
when race and policing converge.
But whether these cities have the
best and worst records in policing
their police -- or whether police
brutality is on the rise in American
cities -- is difficult to say authorita-
tively.
No government agency keeps
track, and few police departments
collect information based on race.
The question has taken on
crucial dimensions. Police shoot-
ings have taken the lives of Blacks
in Pittsburgh and Riverside, Calif.
In New Jersey, Maryland and
Florida, state troopers have come
under fire for conducting traffic
stops based on a driver's race --
so-called racial profiling.
A picture can be cobbled to-
pether from hearsay and anecdotes
ut the lack of hard statistics riles
civil rights advocates who believe
Black and brown people are more
likely to end up unjustly facing a
policeman's gun or billy club than
Whites.
"This is frustrating to me in
large part because White America
has refused to acknowledge a
problem exists," said Rep. Gregory
W. Meeks, D-N.Y. "Now in 1999,
we are seeing some of the same
police brutality we saw in the Jim
Crow days, but White America just
doesn't get it."
Meeks, said the Congressional
Black Caucus task force on police
brutality, which he co-chairs, plans
hearings in several cities, including
Baltimore, Chicago and Dallas.
"At least it will be a starting
point, � said Meeks, a former prose-
cutor.
Said Ron Daniels, head of the
Center for Constitutional Rights, a
New York-based civil rights group,
"We know we have a bad problem
out there. We just don't know
exactly how bad."
oAnywhere I've gone in this
country, 15 minutes into the con-
versation we are talking about some
police brutality," Daniels said. He
organized a national anti-police
brutality march in Washington in
early April after four officers from
New York's elite street crimes unit
fired 41 shots at Diallo, an un-
armed West African immigrant,
hitting him 19 times. The officers
have been charged with second-
degree murder.
For years, civil rights groups
have urged the Justice Department
to collect nationwide data on
excessive force cases. The collec-
tion of data was authorized by the
1994 Crime Act but not funded.
"So far we only have anecdotal
information, � said © NAACP
na tac
» Rep. Jo myers,
D-Mich., reintroduced a bill requir-
the Justice | t to
collect data on traffic stops by local
police. "Stopping our citizens to be
searched on account of their race is
an unacceptable activity on the part
of law enforcement," he said.
San Diego requires uit patie
record the race of people they stop
in order to assess whether officers
rely on racial profiling in making
traffic stops. Some of the 35 police
chiefs and activists who met with
Attorney General Janet Reno last
week discussed adopting such a
plan elsewhere.
But, generally, police officials
are wary.
"If passed into law, the
(Conyers) bill would place a burden
on the police and lengthen traffic
stops," said Robert Scully, executive
director of the National Association
of Police Organizations, which
represents 4,000 police unions and
associations. He said officers are
vulnerable to attack during such
stops and pausing to collect data
"would make a dangerous situation
worse."
"It's ironic that in the quest for a
colorblind society, some people
want us to keep track of people by
race," said Jim Pasco, executive
director of the Fraternal Order of
Police, the nation's largest police
labor organization, with 277,000
members. "We're opposed to any
kind of racial tabulation, � he said,
opposing proposals to accumulate
data on police brutality cases.
Pasco said that police brutality
hasn't been increasing. He notes the
number of federal prosecutions of
abusive cops has stayed at about 30
a year while the number of officers
has sharply increased.
Available information hints that
along with Boston, the police
departments of Minneapolis and
San Francisco have done the best
jobs in curbing such abuses, ac-
cording to a study last year of 14
cities by Human Rights Watch, an
international human rights organi-
zation.
New York, Washington, D.C.,
and New Orleans appear to have
the most serious problems of
abusive officers on their forces,
according to the report.
Los Angeles, where-the Rodney
King police beating led to riots,
was judged to be "slowly on the
mend."
Allyson Collins, the report's
author, said the FBI, U.S. attorneys
and Justice Department all have
some information that could shed |
light.
"Bits and pieces of information
are scattered everywhere," Collins
said. "It's not a priority until we get
some high-profile case that gets
everyone talking and then the
public is lulled back to sleep on the
topic."
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Ms. Rosa Parks, the oMother of
the Civil Rights Movement,"is
the latest person to receive the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
By Darlene Superville
WASHINGTON (AP) " Rosa Parks
is getting the gold.
Congress voted on April 20 to
give the 86-year-old Parks a
Congressional Gold Medal, its
highest civilian award, for an act of
defiance more than 40 years ago.
Often hailed as the "first lady" or
"mother" of the civil rights move-
ment, Parks was tired after a day's
work aS a seamstress in
Montgomery, Ala., on a December
day in 1955 and refused to give up
her seat to a white man on a
segregated city bus.
Her arrest set off a lengthy bus
boycott by blacks that lasted until
the Supreme Court declared
Montgomery's bus segregation law
unconstitutional and it was
changed. The boycott was led by
the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a
local minister at the time.
"One brave act of a humble
seamstress triggered an avalanche
of change which helped our country
fulfill its commitment to equal
rights for all Americans," said
House Minority Leader Dick
Gephardt, D-Mo. For her leader-
ship and her example, Rosa Parks
deserves to be honored with the
Congressional Gold Medal."
e House voted 424-1 in favor
of the measure, one day after the
Senate passed it without dissent.
op. Ron Paul, R-Texas, was the
only lawmaker to vote inst the
bill, which President Clinton is
- expected to sign.
"This courageous act changed
her life and our nation forever,"
said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
R-Fla. "Passage of this bill will be
our contribution to her legacy
today."
Parks, an Alabama native,
watched the debate on television
from Los Angeles.
"Mrs. Parks is very excited to
have this honor," said Anita Peek,
executive director of the Rosa and
Raymond Parks Institute for Self-
Development. Parks co-founded the
nonprofit group in 1987 to help
young people in Detroit, where she
now lives.
She moved there in 1957 after
losing the seamstress T job and her
family was harassed and threat-
ened. She joined the staff of Rep.
~ John Conyers, D-Mich., in 1965
and worked there until retiring in
1988.
She now travels the country
lecturing about civil-rights.
A guest at Clinton's State of the
Union address in January, Parks
has received numerous awards,
including the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, the nation's highest civil-
ian award, and the Spingarn
Award, the NAACP's top civil
rights honor.
Lawmakers initially used. the
Congressional Gold Medal to honor
military leaders but began using it
during the 20th century to recog-
nize excellence in a range of fields,
including the arts. athletics. poli-
tics, science and entertainment.
The first such medal was ap-
proved in March 1776 for George
Washington for "wise and spirited
conduct" during the Revolutionary
War.
More than 320 medals have been
awarded.
Recent honorees include Frank
Sinatra, Mother Teresa, the Rev.
Billy Graham, South African
President Nelson Mandela and the
"Little Rock Nine," the group that
braved threats and jeers from white
mobs to integrate Central High
School in Little Rock, Ark., in
1957.
The bill is H.R. 573.
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] teen-agers in fatigues and black
f trench coats laughed and hooted as
f they opened fire on classmates in
} their suburban Denver high school,
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - Two man Steve Davis put it at 15; 12
students, one teacher, and the two
gunmen. At one
had said
point, authorities
to 25 had died.
Some of the victims were found
By Steve Gutterman, Robin their families. One teen suffered at least nine
1} McDowell and Robert Weller After hours of confusion on the | and bullet wounds.
| precise death toll, sheriffs spokes- gunmen were identified as
Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold,
17. The two exchanged shots with
police and were later found dead in
the library with self-inflicted gun-
shot wounds and bombs around
Luther Hemby|
Luther Hemby is a very quiet,
but highly respected, young man.
He has helped many people by
running errands, cutting grass,
cleaning yards and visiting the sick
and elderly in nursing homes.
Luther comes from a economi-
cally disadvantaged family; all
three of his brothers have been
incarcerated, and one sister is a
high school dropout. Yet, he under-
stands the importance of education
and strives to attend school every
day. Luther has participated in
many school, community and
church activities, and was elected
vice president of the Future
Homemakers of America Club. He
has competed at the state level,
winning second place in the cate-
gory "Skills for Lifetime
Management." He has worked as a
volunteer, helping teachers in
school. He has attended the Youth
Leadership conferences in Atlanta.
Luther Hemby was named
Citizen of the Year in 1996. Other
forms of recognition include
Certificates of Participation,
Achievement and Recognition
Keep up the good work !
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¢ boy was running and
| suddenly his ankle just puffed up in
blood," said 16- Fea sophomore
Don Arnold. "A girl was running
and her head popped open" when a
bullet slammed into her skull.
They were the first to be shot in
April 20th's bloody attack at
1 Columbine High School outside
Denver.
Arnold's girlfriend, Lindsay
Hamilton, 15, was inside the school °
reviewing for a biology test when
she heard shots and explosions.
"It's a good day to die!" she said
someone yelled at one point. We
want everyone to die!"
She and 30 other biology stu-
dents holed up in the science room
with their teacher for four hours
while unspeakable tragedy unfolded
outside.
The attackers marched into the
library of Columbine High School
with guns and pipe bombs, de-
manding that "all jocks stand up.
We're going to kill eh one of
you," said student Aaron Cohn.
A gunman looked under a desk
in the library and said "Peek-a-
boo," then fired, Cohn said.
Anyone who cried or moaned was
shot again. One girl begged for her
life, but a gunshot ended her cries.
Cohn said one killer put a pistol
to his head but did not shoot him.
Instead, he said, the shooter turned
his attention to a Black student,
saying, "I hate niggers." Cohn
heard three shots but couldn't see
what happened.
The bodies lay crumpled in the
schoolhouse where they were shot;
Officers delayed removing the
corpses until the next day because
of possible booby traps.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Davis
said close to 30 explosive devices
were found at the school, in the
suspects T vehicles and possibly at
their homes. More than 11 hours
after the shootings, a bomb on a
timer blew up, but no one was
injured.
"Some of these devices are on
timing devices, some are incendiary
devices and some are pipe bombs,"
Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone
told ABC's "Good Morning
America." "Some are like hand
grenades that have got shrapnel in
them wrapped around butane con-
tainers."
Meantime, frantic parents
awaited word of their children into
the night, watching as busloads of
tearful students were reunited with
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f killing 15 people, including them- underneath desks, in cubicles or in their bodies, sheriff's spokesman
H selves, in the deadliest school boxes, slain while trying Steve Davis said.
ram ige on record. to hide, Davis said. Witnesses said -"It appears to be a suicide
mission," Sheriff John Stone said.
While the motive was unclear,
laughed and hooted as they opened
re
Twenty-three people were
treated at hospitals, most of them
with gunshot wounds. Sixteen teens
remain hospitalized this morning,
including five in critical condition
and five others in serious condition.
calling itself the
several students said Harris and
Klebold were members of a group
"Trenchcoat
Mafia," outcasts who bragged about
guns and bombs and hated blacks
and Hispanics, as well as athletes.
Police who searched Harris T
home said they found bomb-
What's YOUR Opinion?
1) Do you think the security arrangements in Eastern North
Carolina schools are adequate? Please explain why or
why not?
2) Could the Littleton tragedy have been avoided? Why or
why not?
3) What suggestions would you make to improve the safety
of your school?
4) If you had a serious problem and needed help, do you
think a teacher would listen to you? Why or why
not?
Please send your answers to The Minority Voice, Generations," 405
South Evans Street, Greenville, NC 27834. Or call 757-0365.
Answers will be printed in a future issue of The Minority Voice. All
names will be held in confidence unless otherwise requested.
Authorities and parents asking "Why?"
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Warland the Nazis and noted that
April 20 was Adolf Hitler's birth- |
day.
The pair opened fire in the
parking lot around 11:30 a.m.
before entering the school cafeteria.
Bullets ricocheted off lockers as
students raced toward the exits.
Dozens of students hid in class-
rooms before escaping with the f
help of police in an armored car.
Others were trapped for hours
while SWAT teams searched for the
gunmen and their bombs. Some
had called their parents on cellular
phones from inside the building to
whisper they were OK.
Hundreds of police officers from
throughout the Denver area sur-
rounded the school. Helicopter
ambulances used a sports field as a
landing pad, and officers in helmets
and camouflage gear took cover
behind squad cars.
Although sheriff's deputies re-
sponded swiftly, at least two hours
ticked before officers were able to
surround the building and move in.
"We had initial people there
right away, but we couldn't get in,"
Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone
said. "We were way outgunn
The two attackers were heavily
armed with sawed-off shotguns, a
semiautomatic rifle, pistols and
homemade bombs stuffed with nails
and shotgun shells. The sheer
amount of ammuntion and explo-
sives later led police to believe that
the two gunmen probably had at
least one accomplice.
This theory was seemingly con-
firmed upon the April 22 discovery
of two large propane bombs hidden
in the school's kitchen.
The discovery also could provide
more evidence of a wider conspir-
acy, Sheriff Stone said.
"These subjects were not only on
a killing rampage, but they were
going to destroy the school. They
were going to burn the school up,"
Stone said after the bombs were
discovered and removed from
Columbine High School.
Each of the bombs, placed inside
propane tanks like the kind found
on backyard barbecues, weighed at
least 35 pounds, authorities said.
oIt's drawing suspicion out here
that they would have time to put as
much ordnance in that school as
they did without some help," Stone
said April 22 after meeting with
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.
In Washington, President
Clinton said the day of the shoot-
ings: Perhaps now America will
wake up to the dimensions of this
challenge, if it could happen in a
place like Littleton."
Littleton is a suburb of 35,000
southwest of Denver, where farm-
land is rapidly disappearing be-
neath suburban sprawl and soccer
fields.
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| aimlessly for some time, trying to
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oInside the Mind
oet
a Skinhead -
During the past weekend, I had
the unique opportunity to meet and
converse with a 16-year-old
Skinhead.
His shaved head, tattoos and
piercings are what first caught my
attention. But what held my atten.
tion was the fact that he was lost.
Somehow, he had gotten separated
from his friends and didn't know
how to get back. Amazingly, his
hatred and fear prevented him from
asking for directions, so he walked
figure out how to get back to his
verti could seu was » late kd =
lost, confused, and angry. So, I
] asked him, "Do you need any
help?"
| Yeah," he answered. He ex-
} plained his dilemma.
Unfortunately, I couldn't tell him
how to get back to his friends
|
either. But it did open the door for
us to talk and give me an
rtunity to understand why a
kid who has only spent 16 years on
this Earth develop such a strong
degree of hatred.
1 asked, T pointblank: oWhy do
you hate Blacks, immigrants, and
anyone who is not White?" :
Angrily, he answered, "Because 4
my race can't achieve the things we
want because of affirmative action.
Because I used to have a safe
neighborhood until all the Blacks
and Mexicans moved in, and now |
can't walk the streets wearing the
wrong" colors.....it's ridiculous."
I asked another question. "Are
you doin, ing. anything to improve the
situation
He replied, "What can I do? J
joined with my brothers and to-
gether, we try to maintain the
purity of our race while ridding the
streets of....well, you know."
"Are you scared that ¢ other loans
are growing and achievin,
at such a rapid rate that re haps the
White race will one day be the
minority?" I wasn't sure how he'd
react to this question, but I was
curious.
"Regardless of who's in the
majority or the minority," he said,
"we want to be in power. No other
race has proven a love for this
country. Other races come here to
exploit it...the Blacks want to
| destroy it. the White race can
i make and keep this country
} strong, � he claimed.
| At that point in our conversa-
] tion, it was obvious to me that he
was too confused and angry to truly
} discuss and understand his won
} feelings of hatred. Strangely
1 enough, he didn't strike me as a
| lost cause. Every day, someone
] chooses the wrong path in their
quest to discover who they are.
opefully, they meet enough of the
} tight people to help steer them back
} in the right direction.
i} _ So, when I see kids who lose
| their way, I try to be one of those
I people to try to lead them back in
I the right direction--regardless of
] my own feelings about the situa-
} tion.
Finally, I asked if anyone had
influenced his way of thinking.
fi Quickly, he answered, "My fa-
i] ther.....when he was younger, he
didn't understand Blacks. But now
he tells me his way of thinking was
wrong."
We should be careful of the seeds
we plant. Often, parents do or say
things and are unaware of the
nated effects our actions have on
our children-- creating a generation
of angry children that we don't
Hopefully, late
it's not too late to
correct the sins of the fa-
thers...before they become the sins
of the sons.
C4 Note of
Ofprecation
_ | To all my friends who ex-
| pressed their condolences on
the death of my brother, Dr.
pert E. Jones of 5612 Second
Place NW in Washington, DC,
my thanks.
Wealth -- enough to support your
needs;
Strength--enough to battle with
difficulties and overcome
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Grace -- enough to confess your
sins and forsake them;
Patience--enough to toil until
some good is accomplished;
Charity-- enough to see some
good in your neighbor;
Love -- enough to move you to
be useful and helpful to others;
Faith -- enough to make real the
things of God;
Hope -- enough to move all
anxious fears concerning the
future.
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DShought
There is so much good in the ||
worst of us, and so much bad
in the best of us, that it does not
behoove any of us to talk about ||
(or to find fault in) the rest of
us.
These hands are shaped like
God's and so:
Let them be careful what they
do
Let them be quick to lift the
weak
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strong
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child ready to be born. So one
day he asked God, "They tell me
you are sending me to Earth
tomorrow, but how am I going to
live there being so small and
helpless?"
God replied, "Among the an-
gels, I chose a very special one
for you. She will be waiting for
you and will take care of you."
The child said, "But tell me:
here in Heaven, I don't do
anything else but sing and smile
- that's enough for me to be
happy. And how am I going to
be able to understand when
people talk to me, if I don't know
the language that men talk?"
God said, "Your angel will tell
you the most beautiful and sweet
words you will ever hear, and
with much patience and care,
your angel will teach you how to
The child said, "And what am
I going to do when I want to talk
to You?"
God answered, "Your angel
will place your hands together
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The child said, "I've heard that
on earth there are bad men. Who
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And the child said, "But I will
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come back to Me, even though I
will always be next to you."
At that moment, there was
much peace in Heaven, but voices
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(NOTE: The word "tongues" refers
to a group of non-language sounds
that is a consequence of involve-
ment in deep and meaningful
spiritual worship.)
Glossolalia, a Greek word which
means " otongues-speaking" or
"speaking with tongues," was one
of the miraculous gifts (charisma)
of the spirit prevalent in the church
during the time of the Apostles.
Because the church failed to con-
tinue to exercise this gift and
instead let the man-made traditions
and formalities take the place of
permitting the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit, tongues-speaking
seemed to fall out of popularity;
nevertheless, the gift still existed as
commanded by Jesus Christ.
Tongues-speaking today now
claims a large denominational
membership. The Pentecostal ranks
Catholics who speak in tongues are
not uncommon today. Why has
there been a mass flight to these
churches? The answer is simple:
First, Christians are seeking to
experience the realities of the
Christian life; secondly, the stagna-
tion and hollowness of the mainline
denominations have stifled the
working of the Holy Spirit in the
hearts of believers.
Speaking in tongues will help us
to know what we do not know,
understand what we do not under-
stand, and prophesy with words
that do not spring from our own
minds. "The Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God"
(I Corinthians 2:10). When you
pray in tongues, it is the Holy Spirit
within you giving you the utterance
and you speak it out of your
utterance. "For he that speaketh in
an unknown tongue speaketh not
unto men, but unto God, for no
man understandeth him" (I
Corinthians 14:2).
Even though the interpretation
of tongues is considered to be one
of the gifts, there is actually no
need for an interpreter since you
are talking directly to God. He
understands. Man does not need to
understand because it is a dialogue
between the Believer and God.
Even in a corporate anointing such
as a prayer gathering or in a church
service, it would be very confusing
to attempt to interpret every tongue
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that is uttered. There are many
evidences of tongues -- speaking in
the Bible. Acts 10:46 reads, "For
they heard them with
tongues, and magnify God." Acts
19:6 reads, " when Paul had
laid his hands upon them, the Holy
Ghost came on them and they
spake with tongues and prophe-
sied." Paul says (I Corinthians
14:18 "I thank my God, I speak
with tongues more than ye all."
Jesus Christ himself said in Mark
16:17, "And these signs shall
follow them that believe, they shall
speak with new tongues.
There are many spiritual benefits
from talking in tongues. First, "He
that speaketh in an unknown
tongue edifieth (builds up) himself.
(I Corinthians 14:4). Secondly,
tongues speaking stimulates your
faith in and helps you to give
thanks to God. Thirdly, tongues-
speaking keeps us from thinking
evil thoughts and talking in a
manner that is not pleasing to God.
God promises to give to every
reborn Christian the Holy Spirit as
a gift, and the Apostle Paul
commands Christians to be filled
continually with the Spirit. It
qualifies us for service and makes
us more like Christ. Tongues-
speaking is the expression for this
continuous infilling.
Dr. George A. Hawkins is the
pastor of the Tabernacle Church of
Deliverance in Greenville.
[Read the Word of God and know the truth
"All of us fear one another more than anything in the world. The fear of the Other, of what the Other will do
if her finds out we are afraid of him -- that is what has brought us to this pass. We must turn and realize that
the Other is afraid ~ and then say to him, "You have nothing to fear from me,' in such a way that he knows
it to be true. Another thing we have no desire to say! Each of us secretly desires to keep the Other in some
slight fear of us, so that he can not harm us. But if we can only bring ourselves to say those terrible words,
and have them to be true, then the Other will become what he should have been from the earliest days -- the
constant companion, the source of delight in all his differences."
--- attributed to Surak
The power of a Grandma.
Children have a very special
relationship with Grandma and
Grandpa. That Ts why grandparents
can be such powerful allies in
helping keep a kid off drugs.
Grandparents are cool.
# Relaxed. They Tre not on the firing
| line every day. Some days a kid
hates his folks. He never hates his
grandparents. Grandparents ask
direct, point-blank, embarrassing
questions you're too nervous to ask:
oWho's the girl? �
poorly in history? �
red? �
What did he say? �
The same kid who cons his
parents is ashamed to lie to
Grandma. Without betraying their
trust, a loving, understanding
grandparent can discuss the dan-
ger of drugs openly with the child
she adores. And should.
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drug use among teens is 13.
Some kids start at 9.
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between 9 and 12 is offered illegal
drugs. 30% of these kids receive the
offer from a friend. And 12% named
a family member as their source.
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increased violence in many com-
munities, to AIDS, to birth defects,
drug-related crime, homelessness.
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special place in the hearts and
minds of your grandchildren.
Share your knowledge, your love,
your faith in them. Use your power
as an influencer to steer your
grandchildren away from drugs.
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"If a race has no history, if it has no worth-while tradition, it
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Carter G. Woodson
Carter Godwin Woodson was
born to former slaves, James and
Eliza Woodson. James Woodson,
who had fought for the Union. in
the Civil War, moved his family to
West Virginia when he heard they
were building a high school for
Blacks in the city of Huntington.
Carter G. Woodson was born
December 19, 1875, at New Canton
Hospital in Buckingham County,
Virginia. One of a large poor
family, he could not regularly
attend local schools. However, by
teaching himself, he was able to
master the fundamentals of com-
mon school subjects by the time he
was seventeen.
Hoping to further his education,
Carter and his brother, Robert
Henry, moved to Huntington, West
Virginia. Unfortunately, he was
forced to earn his living as a miner
in the Fayette County coal fields. It
was not until 1895 that was he able
to enter the Douglass High School
in Huntington, where he won his
diploma in less than two years. He
received his high school certificate
with creditable grades. It is thus
easy to understand that he earned
the degree of Bachelor's of
Literature (then called "Litt. B.")
from Berea College, Kentucky, in
1901, after two years of study.
In his career as an educator, he
served as principal of the Douglas
High School; Supervisor of schools
in the i tih schoo A
mean schools
D.C,; and Dean of the
seat of Liberal Arts at Hower
niversity Virginia tate
eonbsdge, he te seeking more
he earned another B.
A. as well as a M.A. degree
in 1908 from the University of
cocuad hid PED. tagiee ih Races
in history
from Harvard University, becoming
only the second African-American
to receive such a degree.
A yout of eiady im Sais ond the
Europe, inc i semester at
por fe teaching and
teevelsabvoed, gave Mint a shunery
of several languages. He taught in
the Philippines following the
Spanish-American War and the
US. ion of the former
Spanish co" . He received a
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for a katy of 1830 census and
listed the Blacks who had owned
slaves.
Convinced by this time that, as
far as the scholars of his time were
concerned, the role of his people in
American history and in the history
of other cultures was being cither
ignored or misrepresented, Dr.
Woodson realized the need for
special research into the neglected
past of the Negro. The Association
for the Study of Negro Life and
History, founded in Chicago on
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this conviction. The same year, he
published one of his most well
known books: The Education of the
Negro Prior to 1861.
The following year, in January
1916, Dr. Woodson began the
publication of the scholarly Journal
of Negro History which, despite the
Great Depression, two World Wars,
and the the loss of support from
various foundations, has never
missed an issue. The Journal
publishes works of black and white
scholars who research and write
about people of color. Other works
Woodson include: The
Education of the Negro Prior to
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1861 (1915); A Century o of Negro
Migration (1918); The Negro in
Our History (1922), which under-
went numerous editions and was
revised after Woodson's death in
1950; The History of the Negro
Church (1927); and The Mis-
Education of the Negro (1933).
(Editor's Note: The Negro in
Our History, now in its eleventh
edition, has sold more than 90,000
copies.)
A chronicle of Dr. Woodson's
far-reaching activities must include
the following activities:
1) the organization in 1920 of the
Associated Publishers, the oldest
African-American publishing
company in the country. This
company made possible the pub-
lication of valuable books on
Black Americans, which were
then not acceptable to most
publishers.
2) the establishment of Negro
History Week in February 1926.
For many years afterward, Negro
History Week continued to be
celebrated during one week in
February. In 1976, Congress
expanded Negro History Week to
encompass the entire month of
February, and changed the name
to Black History Month.
3) the initial publication of the
Negro iaey Bulletin in 1921;
This voice of the Associated
Publishers has maintained con-
tinuous publication since 1937. :
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5) the writing of numerous articles,
monographs and books on the
experiences of Black America. .
Any encyclopedia of the Black
Experience would have to rely
heavily upon the writings of Dr.
Woodson, upon the Journal and the
Bulletin, and upon the other publi-
cations of those whom he encour-
aged and inspired.
For his scholarly works and
publications, Dr. Woodson is ac-
corded a place among the ranking
historical schools of the nation and
the world.
In 1992, the Library of Congress
held an exhibition entitled "Moving
Back Barriers: The Legacy of
Carter G. Woodson". Comprised of
many pictures of Woodson, the
books he loved, as well as over
5,000 items from the 18th, 19th
and 20th centuries, it ably demon-
strated the History of the Black
Experience in America. |
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Saturday, May 1
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10th Annual Harambee Festival
& Jazz Concert
6pm-10pm: Candlelight Jazz Concert in honor of late native
jazz musician Thelonious Monk.
12pm-8pm: Festival that includes live entertainment (gospel,
magician, african dance group,
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_| tournament), and vendors (food, arts & crafts).
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Avenue (also known as "The
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WHAT'S THE HISTORY?
It was founded 1976 by Marvin and
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and the business thriving. Along
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Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm
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For more information about daily
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RATING:
Atmosphere - 4 Spoons
Food - 5 Spoons
Location - 3 Spoons
Service - 5 Spoons
Cost - 5 Spoons
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About the rating system:
25 Spoons - GOLD
20 Spoons - SILVER
15 Spoons - ALUMINUM
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services for abused children. The actual Walk begins at 10am
and runs until 12pm. There'll also be food, games, and other
activities.
Registration is at the Willis Building in Greenville at the corner
of First and Reade. The Walk will end at the Town Commons.
For more information, call (252) 758-1200.
Greenville International Festival
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a Business Expo to introduce various businesses and services
to the community. The Job Fair will feature various employers,
who will be interviewing. Live entertainment includes gospel,
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