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Serving Eastern North Carolina Since 1981
August 12, 1999 - August 20,
1999
Special to the Tri-State Defender
E women and girls forced
to hide for a week in a
cold Florida swamp with
only palmetto brush to
| keep their nightgown-
clad bodies warm.
OCALA It was then she began
§ \ to learn about the
tragedy in Rosewood,
where at least six Blacks were killed and the town destroyed when a
White mob set upon the predominately Black enclave in 1923.
The Tri-State Defender tirst reported on it in 1995, and many Mem-
phians questioned i's validity. However, worldwide coverage later re-
vealed the horror of the 1923 massacre.
Now, seventy-six years later. the wounds of the attack still remain,
even for those who did not live through it.
oI know what I feel now and [ was not even there, ? said Mrs.
Maxwell, now 52.
Dozens of descendants, survivors and relatives. seme in their 80s
and 90s, still meet each year to remember the massacre. and to honor
those who helped win repurations for remaining \ ictims.
This weekend, the annual reunion is being held in Miami. The
mood of the gathering is characterized by the logo emblazoned on the
red T-shirts worn by attendees: oAlthough justice was slow, victory 1S
sweet. ?
The 1923 horror began New Yoar Ts mosaing 1923. when a married
White woman, Fannie Taylor, emerged bruised and beaten from her
home and accused a Black man of beating her without giving a name,
descendants said.
Witnesses Sarah Carrier and her I1-.ear-old granddaughter,
Philomena Goins, watched silently as a White man, believed to be
Mrs. Taylor Ts lover, left the house. They told a sheriff, but he admon-
ished them and told them to go back home to Rosewood.
As word spread, angry Whites besieged the town of about 120,
burning nearly every structure in week of destruction. The number of
YY MIAMI - As a child,
.\ \ ~ Sandra Maxwell heard
AINESVI hushed stories about
Without aim, one's hits ena avelannexclicitelmee mele
Rosewood massacre remembered
speak of mass graves containing as many as 37 bodies of women and
children.
Today, Rosewood is little more than a marker on State Road 24, |
southwest of Gainesville, although it once was a place where Black
families owned acres of land, black women taught school, and Black
men worked as engineers.
oThey had the luxury life that a lot of Blacks would like to have to-
day, ? said Mrs. Maxwell. oAnd then for all of it to be taken away for
a lie. Totally wiped out on a lie. ?
Like Mrs. Maxwell, Rosetta Bradley Jackson, was born a year af-
ter the massacre, and also heard whispers when she eavesdropped on
adult conversations.
But they didn Tt answer her questions: Why did her brother have on-
ly one eye? Why did her father have such a distrust of White people?
She would not know the answers nor the extent of the killings un-
til some 50 years later.
oI found out he had a reason, ? she said of her father.
Mrs. Jackson learned her brother had been shot in the eye at the
Carrier home. He died never even telling his own children what had
happened.
When Ms. Goins grew up and became a mother, she told the story
of Rosewood to her 5-year-old son Arnett Doctor in 1948, against the
wishes of his father.
Since then Doctor has kept true to what he said has been his duty:
remembering Rosewood.
Doctor, along with other families, helped fight for state hearings
that resulted in the Florida Legislature approving a $1.5 million bill
that awards nine survivors as much as $150,000. The remaining mon-
ey was used for scholarships.
Lawsuit: Microsoft inks
Black couple to monkeys
A lawsuit accuses Microsoft of including a
"racially charged" message linking Black People to
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people killed during the massacre remains controversial. State
records say six Blacks and two W
hites were killed while descendants
Enjoying a day in the sun, The "M" Voice:was on hand to catch
this trio as they brought to a close a week long educational semi-
nar on the importance of healthy communities. healthy babies and
a healthy start, the event ended with a celebration cookout !
Photo By Steve Johnson
Mr. Annie M. Brown
RETIRED CONLEY
COUNSELOR RECOGNIZED
Representatives of the National
School Public Relations
Association presented the 1999
Eugene 1. Carothers Human
Relations Award to Mrs. Annie M.
Brown, in Baltimore, MD., at its
Celebration of Diversity Breakfast,
recently.
Mrs, Brown a retired guidance
Counselor was selected for her
work at D. H. Conly High School,
which was one of the first schools
built in Pitt County to serve an
integrated student population. As a
result of the general racial unrest
during that time, Brown saw a need
to develop within the students a
sense of responsibility and to get
them involved in something larger
than themselves.
¥
To achieve this goal. she started
a JROTC program, and not long
after, black and white students were
drilling, marching and learning
together in a course that ultimately
spread to all of Pitt County's high
schools and is ongoing today.
Mrs. Brown also worked as an
activist to end discrimination, and
to secure Ayden, North Carolina.
This coveted award is presented
to a person for outstanding service
in the fields of human rights and
race relations. It is given to leaders
who foster justice and equal oppor-
tunity to all people, regardless of
race, religion, national origin, eco-
nomic status, sex or age, and who
develop respect, mutual under-
standing and civic cooperation
between people of all backgrounds.
More than 600 school leaders
neones superintendents, principals
and schoolpublic relations
professionals-----from the United
States and Canada were present
to honor Mrs. Brown, who was the
first from North Carolina to receive
the Eugene T. Carothers Human
Relations Award.
monkeys in its Publisher 1998 software. The company
has agreed to alter the program.
John Elijah, 32 filed the suit in San Diego (Calif.)
federal court, claiming users will see images a Black
couple sitting on monkey bars when they type
"monkey" to access pictures of the animal.
"| felt the blood rushing out of my whole body". said
Elijah. a Black construction worker who was shown
the image by a co-worker. "I was humiliated."
Microsoft spokesman Greg Shaw said the company
already has offered a software update to anyone who
requests it. He said the Publisher 2000 software itself
does not contain the image.
"We regret any offense or inconvenience. ? Shaw said
"We are deeply committed to doing every thing
possible to prevent this in the future."
Elijah attorney, Harvey Levine is T seeking approval
of a class- action lawsuit for the estimated 4 million
customers who bought the software.
Levine suspects the picture was specifically
programed to appear as " some sort of sick insider
joke."
But Shaw said the link was unintentional. He said
the software contains images that can be accessed by
using several key words. A computer user who
searched for "couple" may have accessed the photo as
well as someone who typed "bar."
In this case. "monkey brings up an assortment of
pictures including monkeys in trees, a gorilla and the
closely-cropped photo of the Black couple.
_ Elijiah, who is married and has two children. said his
wife was extremely upset over the incident.
"Her biggest fear is that maybe skinheads or people
like that will face off with me. ? he said. "She's afraid
people will think I'm doing this for the money, and |
want it fixed. ?
Daycare Shooter
turns hinself into
police
LAS VEGAS (CNN) -- The U.S. Attorney's Office
has filed a criminal complaint charging Buford O.
Eurrow Jr. with the murder of a federal employee --
4 Postal Service letter carrier shot and killed an hour
after a gunman wounded five people at a Los
Angeles Jewish community center. The complaint
also charged Furrow with violating the federal
firearms act.
Furrow was taken to the federal court building in
Las Vegas by a convoy of FBI and ATF vehicles. He
was wearing a bullet-proof vest as he was hustled
into the building by federal agents.
Furrow. who turned himself into the FBI in Las
Vegas after fleeing a California manhunt following
the shooting, faced arraignment Wednesday evening
in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, FBI Special
Agent Grant Ashley said.
Additional charges could be filed in either state or
federal court at a later date, Ashley said. .
The U.S. Postal Service letter carrier, Joseph Ileto,
39, was killed eight miles from the North Valley
Jewish Community Center, about an hour after the
attack there injured three children, a teen-ager and
an adult.
Investigators from the Los Angeles Police
Department, FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms and U.S. Postal Service flew by helicopter
from Los Angeles to Las Vegas on Wednesday to
interview Furrow and decide on jurisdiction.
Leyden said Furrow was giving hand-to-hand
combat training and his specialty was knife warfare.
He said Furrow's philosophy was "hardcore Christian
Identity" -- that is, that "the Jews are evil, that the
whites are good and the good have to go kill the
evil."
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Enjoying Retirement, (pictured) Mother Mary Taft, SEANC district 65 retiree
Chairperson, ECU employees and local Pitt County Retirees enjoying a banquet held
at East Carolina University's Willis Building to honor retirees and some employees.
Photo By Steve Johnson
SEANC Host Retirement Banque
By Stephen Johnson
Minority Voice Editor
Mother Mary: Taft who has been involved with SEANC for over 26 years
coordinated the banquet. As well as being a retiree herself she is Chairperson
of SEANC retirees. SEANC is the State Employees Association of North
Carolina. The Committee is comprised of several leaders of the community
Bobbie Austin, Darlene Peazko, Lucille Sharpe, Linda Nelson, Mary Taylor.
Evelyn Hinnant, Debbie Gladson Ann Huggins and Lisa Ormone. Treva
Matthews is Chairperson of SEANC and Beverly Teller Vice Chairperson.
Speakers at the banquet included Spillman Grice, Inez F ridley, Tonie Blood, and
Michael Holloman. Every 3 rd Tuesday at 5:30 PM in the Willis Building small
conference room meetings are held that are open to all SEANC members. "All
retirees are welcome to come to Board Meetings", explained Mary Taft she
continues " It's nice to belong to, please get involved."
Richard R. Eakin ECU Chancellor unfortunately could not be there but sent a
letter to be read. / regret that I can not be with you on this important occasion.
I made a commitment several Monthes ago to attend the AASCU Summer
Council of Presidents Meeting in Vail, Colorado during this week.
| would like to express my appreciation and gratitude to each of you for vour
dedication and outstanding service that you have given to East Carolina
University. The University has greatly benefited from your talents and skills that
you have provided for many years and it is much richer for it
/ offer my congratulations to all of you and wish you the very best retirement
years possible
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NAACP Boycott of TV Shows
Should Extend to All Media
Television is neither black and white-nor is it in living color
~ anymore, It has degenerated into a drab shade of gray. .
Thankfully, the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) is attacking the shading out of people of color
in the fall lineup of sitcoms and dramatic programming. And, itis backing
up the rhetoric with threats to call on blacks to turn off the tube and to
boycott the advertisers that are fueling the oblack and brown-out. ?
While the NAACP is urgently needed, it is not going far enough
because virtually everything being said about network programming can
also be said about television news, radio and the print media.
At the NAACP convention in New York a few weeks ago, Kweisi
Mfume showed hoy the ongoing erasure of black faces in the media are
affecting the fall lineup. Not one of the 26 new shows set to air on ABC,
CBS, NBC or Fox star an African American. Blacks, as well as Hispanics,
aren Tt playing many secondary roles
either. oWhen the TV viewing pub-
lic sits down to watch new prime-
time shows scheduled for this fall,
they will see a virtual whitewash. ?
Mfume said. oThis glaring
omission is an outrage and a shame-
ful display by network executives,
who are either clueless, careless or
both. ? Unfortunately, the trend of
erasing blacks has been gaining
momentum for several years as ad-
vertisers both in the print and broad-
cast media as well as news officials
chase the so-called upscale demo-
graphics. For example, last season's
top five entertainment shows: oER, ?
oFriends, ? oFraiser, ? oVeronica's
Closet and oJesse ? were principally
white shows with a sprinkling of
prominent minority characters.
Advertisers generally regard oup-
scale ? white males aged 18 to 49 as
the most desirable "and for some crazy reason "disregard the $650 _
billion that blacks gross annually.
KWEIS!I MFUME
NAACP President
In recent years, sitcoms with a positive message such as oAmen, ?
oA Different World, ? o227, ? oFresh Prince, ? and oThe Jeffersons ? have
been canceled. In fact, one of the ways I knew a show didn Tt have much
of a chance was if I liked it. For a long-time I viewed the changes as
personal. I live in fear that network devils at CBS pull the cord when they
figure out that oTouched by An Angel's ? high-ratings are partly because
of the superb acting of Della Reese.
Mfume is calling on blacks "who are becoming the vanishing
species on television "to turn off the tube. Actually they are already
turning off network sitcoms anyway and going to cable. Only six of last
season Ts networks shows ranked in the Top 20 among black households.
Conversely, the top rated show in black households, oThe Steve Harvey
Show ? on WB, ranked No. 154 in white householdg, according to BBDO,
a New York ad agency that studies viewing habits.
In attempting to break the colorline, the NAACP shouldn't stop
with network programming. It should forcefully call on the networks T
news departments, public TV shows and cable stations to drop their ban
on black talking- heads, the punditocracy. On major talk shows like
CNN Ts oCapital Gang ? and public television Ts oWashington's Week In
Review, ? black faces are also scarce. Public affairs or news shows have
been ethnically cleansed of black and brown viewpoints. Unless there is -
a black-oriented issue or an issue whites want to associate with blacks
such as crime, black experts are rarely used. Monitor oNightline, ? for
example, to see how that rule 1s enforced. Moreover, when there is a
White House news conference look to sec how white the news gatherers
are.
TV news-talk is a matter of whites talking about white-lolks affairs
with blacks only able to listen over the back fence. In the workplace, the
racial situation is just as bad. A recent American Society of Newspaper
Editors (ASNE) showed that 48 percent of newspapers hire no people of
color. Many of the major newspapers employ no black or Hispanic
editorial writers, and those they do hire are pressured to pen conservative
opinions.
If Mfume T s rhetoric is notempty, he willinclude broadcasters in his
threats to go to the source- "the advertisers. who are allowed to disrespect
the $650 billion blacks spend annually on consumer goods. The Federal
Communications Commission recently released a study showing that
advertisers are discriminating against broadcasters and stations that serve
minority advertisers. Data for 3,745 radio stations across the country
concluded that those who program for minority audiences earn about 29
percent less revenue per listener than stations that air general market
programming.
People of color should back away from advertisers who won't play
fair and who sponsor shows that exclude them. Maybe only the time-
honored tactics used in the nearly yearlong Montgomery bus boycott can
save blacks from becoming invisible in the nation Ts media.
(Dr. Barbara Reynolds newest book, No, 1 Won't Shut Up: 30 Years
of Telling it Like It Is, can be purchased by sending a check for $17.95
plus $4 postage to 4806 St. Barnabas Rd., Suite 598, Temple Hills, Md.
20757.)
few folk around today who will
remember Dan Anderson. Dan was
the foreman at the woodshop oper-
ated by Watts Manufacturing Com-
pany, out of El Segundo, a little
T more than 30 years ago.
Anderson was a man of inordi-
nate talent. He had presence,
strength, intelligence (this is an is-
sue which may be argued later.)
And the ability to command men.
His career at Watts Manufactur-
ing began with him working as a
laborer. In less than a year, Jim
Woods, the founder and chairman
of the board at Watts, moved him
steadily up the ladder. Both Jim and
Roy Bingham, who had been the
foreman, recognized Dan Ts ability
and promoted him accordingly.
There was a problem,however.
Despite all of these good things,
Dan Anderson had bent towards the
fast lane. He had come to Watts
shortly after being released from
prison. This seemed to have been a
kind of pattern with him.
Regardless, he worked his way
up. He was a sight to behald. Ap-
proaching six feet in height, he was
built proportionately. Muscles
ripped beneath his shirt sleeves and
the girls in the office all tried to find
an excuse to go Out into the wood
yard, just to see Dan Anderson.
During his tenure at Watts Manu-
facturing, there were initially two
women with whom he became in-
volved. One of them was a regis-
tered nurse, who recognized the in-
herent problems with the man and
changed the relationship into one
of amore platonic nature. The other
was arelatively young woman, who
is now a social worker. She too had
the courage and the wisdom to ulti-
mately pull away.
Both women paid an emotional
price for their precarious flings with
Dan Anderson. In the meantime,
however, they both maintained a
friendship as well as an admiration
for him.
After a couple of years or maybe
alittle less. Dan decided that he was .
not making enough money there -
and decided to strike out on his
own. Somehow, he managed to find
enough cash to buy a truck and
started hauling produce, I think,
from Northern California.
This was the beginning of the
end for Dan Anderson.
Along the way, he met and
teamed up with a young woman
from Appalachia. She became his
constant companion. As Dan Ts busi-
ness began to dwindle, and it has
never been clear why, he appar-
ently became desperate. He and his
white female companion began
committing robberies. Gas stations,
convenience stores, the whole nine
yards, or so we are told.
Then, one dark and chilly night
in the Nevada Desert, according to
police reports and other sources,
they robbed a couple near or at the
California border. They took all of
their cash, their car and forced them
to totally disrobe.
They left them at the scene and
drove back to Los Angeles in the
stolen vehicle. It was here that the
most tragic aspect of his life took
place.
The couple who had been robbed
reported it to the police and the
hot sheet. On the day after the rob-.
bery, Dan and his girlfriend came to
near the Eastside.
_ Vigilant police officers recog-
nized the plates as those reported
on the hot sheet and pulled the car
over. According to records, Dan
got out of his car and walked back
to the police car. Both officers were
out of the patrol car, standing on the
street and on the sidewalk respec-
tively.
Dan Ts companion was still at the
stolen car. When it became appar-
ent that the officers were going to
take Dan into custody, the woman
produced a handgun, (we are told it
was a .357 magnum) and began fir-
ing at the officers..
One officer immediately returned
fire, but as he did so, Dan attempted to
wrestle his gun from him. The second
officer joined the fray and Dan was
mortally wounded. The woman was
shot in the head. Anderson was taken
to the morgue and woman was taken
to County-USC Medical Center,
where she was listed in grave condi-
tion.
A day later, the woman Ts mother
came from Kentucky, or Tennessee,
or wherever she was from. No rela-
tive claimed Dan Anderson Ts body.
This reporter, a former girlfriend and
handful of people who had worked
withhim at Watts Manufacturing were
the only people who cared about him.
He had an uncle who lived in the Los
Angeles area. He refused to offer any
assistance. It became fairly clear that
Dan had been somewhat of the obad
seed ? and had burned all of his bridges
behind him.
We all pooled what money we
car's license number went on the
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Harrison of Harrison and Rogs
Mortuary and explained the prt
lem. Leon donated the embalming
services and acasket. We were able
to finagle a burial plot at a local :
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cemetery. : ;
There was a graveside servite
and I delivered the eulogy, such as
it was, and we sent him on to meet
his maker. He was in his early 30s
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We never learned if Dan Ts girl-
friend lived or died. We took her
mother to the hospital to see her and
the girl was little more than a veg-
etable at that point.
One of the things that stands out
most in my memory was the Satur-
day when the mother arrived. With-
out going into any detail, we took
her to the old oMurray Ts on Broad-
way, where oGeorgia Boy ? was the
chef. She ate like food was goin
out of style. :
When she finished, she leaned
back in her chair, wiped her mouth,
crossed her hands across her ample
stomach and said, oBy God, that
sho was some good eatin T I can Tt
thank y all enough. ?
The bottom line, of course, T is
that Dan Anderson was dead, and
her daughter was seriously
wounded. There is no way to know
if anything could have saved Dan.
But he had the ability to do great
things. Each time I see a youngster
headed down that same path, and I
see too many of them, J think about
Dan Anderson and wish he could be
here to tell them the folly of their
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URBAN PERSPECTIVE *
Examining Community-Bui
Initiatives
actions.
OS SOROS AE fe
There is much talk about the
present and future condition
of urban America. Most of this is aeuphemism
for the country Ts dilemma about what to do
about the inner cities, which are virtually en-
tirely African American and Latino. A thought-
provoking report, albeit from the Rockefeller
Foundation, examines community building as
an important component of urban renewal.
Community building does not have a tight
definition, but is currently viewed as continu-
ous, self-renewing efforts by residents and
professionals to engage in collective action
aimed at problem solving and enrichment that
creates new or strengthened social networks,
new capacities for group action and support,
and new standards and expectations for life in
the community.
The term, community building, may in-
clude capacity-building, which involves as-
sisting local residents to improve social con-
ditions or political effectiveness, often through
organizing. Joan Walsh, writer of the report,
believes that one's point of view is critically
important, and that community-building ini-
tiatives link a wide range of people across
lines Americans rarely cross "racc, class,
ethnicity, geography, profession "and they
require partners to be honest about what moti-
vates their work.
Frustration with government poverty pro-
grams found vivid expression in the dramatic
1996 welfare reform, which abolished the 60-.
year-old federal entitlement to aid for poor
families. Community-building is at least in
part, a response to new urban poverty that has
emerged in the last decade. Its goal is over-
hauling the nation Ts anti-poverty approach
and creating communities that work for low-
income families.
What's different about community build-
ing? It rejects a programmatic approach to
poverty in favor of efforts that catalyze per-
sonal relationships and social networks to im-
prove community life. Community-building
initiatives are diverse and locally tailored.
The report highlights five community-build-
ing programs: Chatham-Savannah Youth Fu-
tures Authority; The Comprehensive Commu-
nity Revitalization Project in the South Bronx;
the Atlantic Project; Baltimore Ts Community-
Building and Partnership; Oakland Ts Urban
Strategies Council. Despite the newness of
community-building efforts, the report finds
that the new urban reform initiatives are hav-
ing an impact in many cities. Some describe
community-building efforts as a oseedling
pushing up through the cracks in widespread
public cynicism about whether we can. save
our inner cities. ?
Community building is complicated in
theory and practice. It analyzes urban poverty
not simply as a lack of jobs or income, but as
a web of interwoven problems "poor school-
ing, poor health, family troubles, racism, crime
and unemployment "that can lock families
out of opportunity permanently. Thus, one
watchword in community-building is
ocomprehensives. ? The urban agenda is obvi-
ously very complex. Supporters of community
building, however, believe that the insight of
their effort is simple and powerful: persistent
urban poverty is not just about money, but also
about relationships. Community builders rec-
ognize that the chronically poor today lack not
just jobs or incomes, but positive relationships
with people and institutions who can help
_them improve their lives.
While community building is more an art
than a science, research shows that relation-
ships are key to turning lives around. Mentoring
programs that link at-risk youths with caring
adults, for instance, have been proven to help
young people avoid drugs and pregnancy and
complete school. Community builders know
inner city neighborhoods cannot rebuild them-
selves alone when race and class discrimina-
tion and generations of disinvestment have
done so much to fray the social fabric of urban
communities. Thus, these new initiatives seek
to build relationships between the poor and
the powerful, to develop a sense of mutual
obligation and reciprocity, a new social cqn-
tract that keeps the urban poor from simply
being the discards of a volatile, changing and
uncaring economy.
Community builders recognize there is no
magic bullet to win the war on poverty. In
fact, they reject the war metaphor. Where war
is about destruction, they say building 1s about
creation. Its partisans have committed them-'!
selves to the very difficult, long-term work of
creating vital communities based on strong,
reciprocal relationships and thriving local in-'
stitutions.
Community builders conceded that the war
on poverty failed to eradicate poverty, but not
for the reasons articulated by Ronald Reagan
and his crew. They saw three factors "eco-
nomic, social and political "as key to why
poverty resisted the 1960s-era approach. First,
deindustrialization consigned a larger portion '
of the workforce to low-wage jobs or unem-
ployment. At the same time, the end of legal
segregation meant the black middle-class could
leave core urban neighborhoods and they did
so in significant numbers. The third reason is
that very few people care about the poor. And,
the poor themselves, for many historical rea-
sons, have rarely been able to marshal the
resources to demand effective programs that
provide opportunities for self-sufficiency.
Community building initiatives thus try to
address the economic, social and political
marginalization that locks the urban poor into
poverty. Hopefully, these initiatives will be
sustained and constitute a significant alterna-
tive to the historically ineffective efforts as-
sist the urban poor.
I read a couple of
articles recently
, that ran within a
week of each other. Each article
was about remembering suffering
as a basis for advancing cultural
esteem and unity. One asked the
question, oIs it time to interject suf-
fering as part of a osanitized ? his-
torical period? ? The responses were
as conflicted as the questions.
The Jewish community, preparing
for a day of fasting in remembrance
of the Holocaust (and other histori-
cal calamities), reacted to claims of
the Jewish people pushing too much
suffering on society through its re-
ligious observances. oMaking a
point of remembering utter evil has
always been a part of Jewish his-
tory and experience ... to be blindly
optimistic is to be foolhardy, ? the
Los Angeles Times quoted Simon
Wiesenthal Center founder Rabbi
Marvin Hier.
On the other hand, Colonial
Williamsburg. a 70-year-old his-
BETWEEN THE LINES o*
Holocaust, Slavery: Conflict on H
torical theme park (a living replica-
tion of the state of Virginia Ts origi-
nal capital) finally got around to
incorporating the social, moral and
political realities of slavery into
their recreation of 1775 Virginia
society even though records show
half the city Ts population of 1,800
people were free and enslaved
blacks. oIt Ts important in history to
explore the racial interactions be-
tween whites and slaves and free
blacks and slaves ... And until now,
we haven't taken a hard look at
what happened in the slave commu-
nity itself, ? USA Today quotes
Christy Mathews, director of
interceptive planning and develop-
ment for Colonial Williamsburg.
So, the otheme ? for this year is othe
slave experience ? whereby the pub-
lic gets to see some re-enactments
of the behaviors acted out upon
black families including slave whip-
ping (39 lashes. the maximum al-
lowed under Virginia law), family
separations (wuctions) and the in-
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terfamily/community conflict that
resulted from having to live a sub-
ordinated lifestyle, whether blacks
were slave or free. Not quite the
stuff we choose to remember (and
in fact, are discouraged to remem-
. ber) on a regular basis.
How is it that two cultures in the
same society can be so conflicted
about how it recognizes suffering
as part of its healing and advance-
ment? Part of the reason is that this
(American) society has two differ-
ent modes of engagement in the
suffering of black and Jewish cul-
tures.
There is little resistance to the
constant bombardment of Jewish
suffering, from the Museum of Tol-
erance to educational dialogues in
multi-cultural forums, because
America had little hand.in the direct
imposition of the suffering. Par-
ticularly with respect to the Holo-
caust, the degree of American cul-
pability is limited to othe world not
acting quick enough ? in Germany's
a
i
desire to eliminate non-Aryan cul-
tures. So, there is an indifference to
remembering Jewish suffering be-
* cause it is removed from American
society directly and the burden of
guilt for it occurring is not directly
at the feet of Americans.
On the other hand, there is (still)
a great resistance to any public dis-
cussion of African American suf-
fering because it is seen as odigging
up ? a very evil, immoral and wicked
period of America Ts past "part of
which has many circumstantial rem-
nants associated with it are in exist-
ence even today and it is perceived
as counter-productive to omoving
on. ?
This resistance can be directly
attributed to Americans T level of
guilt in having a direct hand in the
manifestations of slavery and the
inhumane practices associated with
it. The cause and effects of slavery
are directly at the feet of Ameri-
cans, most of whom chose to ignore
that it ever happened. That way it
ow Society Acknowledges Cultural S
never has to be reported, as the
Jewish nation (at home and abroad)
continues to be. So the remember-
ing of black suffering, that occurred
twice as long as black Americans
have been free (270 years to 135
years), is discouraged and, in most
cases, forsaken for the sake of im-
proved race relations and societal
healing.
Remembering and acknowledg-
ing is healing. Forgetting and ig-
noring (particularly wrong deeds)
is scarring. That is why African
Americans and whites are so
scarred. Neither has really healed
from this |8th-century experience,
the remnants of which carried over
into most of this century.
Now you have more blacks than
whites trying to forget about sla-
very, and many have been con-
vinced that slavery has no bearing
on the race disparities that exist
today in American society nor on
the status of race relations in
America as it presently exists.
Clearly the events of the day show
a much different perspective.
Blacks have been convinced that
the past is irrelevant when Jéws
know better. But what is so remark-
able is how this society chooses to
be so diametrically conflicted over
remembering cultural suffering. But
then societies (and people) are T al-
ways quicker to remember the
wrong that others do, and choose to
forget the wrong that they thém-
selves do. The difference is not in
the suffering; the difference is in
who and what one chooses to re-
member.
In American society, the suffer-
ing of slavery will always be a for-
gotten footnote in early American
history. And as conflicted as it is,
America will also be first in line
with Jews observing and remind-
ing the rest of the world, oNéver
again. ? We can Tt say the same. If
we don Tt remember slavery, no one
else will. And no matter how ofool-
hardy ? many blacks think, it can
happen again. .
a ATARI. er RENEE OP CLT Das ETE NEI mF SE BME
: Minority Voice: tagine 12 - August 20, 1999
Henry Frye Oe First African " Chief
__ %& + Justice of Supreme Court * *
. prosecuted and defended. As a legislator, he
- 4 é helped make laws, and since being on the
wa " Supreme Court, he has interpreted laws. As Chief
Justice, he will have the opportunity to make
contributions on an even larger scale. | am certain
that he will continue to improve our justice
osystem. He will stand for the right things. And he
will represent the best interests of North
Carolina."
In 1968, Frye became the first African
to the N.C. House of
Representatives this century. He served in the
State House until 1980 when he was elected to
the N.C. Senate, serving until 1983, he was
appointed to the N.C. Supreme Court. This
appointment-made by Hunt-made him the first
African American to serve on the Supreme Court.
American elected
He successfully ran for an eight-year term on the
_ Supreme Court in 1984 and 1992.
In addition to Justice Frve's experience as an
JUSTICE HENRY FRYE
Associate Justice, he practiced law from 1959 to
1963: 1967-1983: and served as a professor at the
North Carolina Central University School of Law
from 1965 tol967.
RALEIGH - Gov. Jim Hunt Monday, August 2,
named Justice Henry E. Frye to replace Chief
Justice Burley Mitchell on the North Carolina
Supreme Court. With Hunt's appointment, Frye
becomes the first African American to serve as
Chief Justice in the state's history.
Mitchell announced his retirement July 29th. to
become effective September Ist.
Tradition holds that the governor appoint the
%
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most senior associate justice to the chief justice's.
"Justice Frve's experience in the judicial system
runs far and deep, ? said Hunt. "As a lawyer, he
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by Myra Wooten
Once, when walking through the
woods a man saw 4a
struggling to emerge from a
cranes. oar stood
motionless as the new butterfly
twisted and tumed, trying to
through the T tiny openning in the
cocoon.
The man, his heart heavy for
the butterfly tore the opening until it
was large enough for the butterfly to
fit through.
The man stepped back and
smiled, believing that he had helped
this beautiful creature emerge. The
butterfly fell from the opening and
immediately hit the ground.
His body, still so much like
a caterpillar was fat and slow and
his wings, while perfectly formed
were small, to small to allow him to
fly. And so the butterfly continued
to crawl as though he was still a
caterpillar, with too small wings.
The man was hurt; he
couldn Tt understand why the butter-
fly didn Tt take off in flight or why
his body was still so much like a
caterpillar. Everything was perfect
the man thought. The butterfly was
ready. But what the man failed to
realize was that one element was
missing, the struggle.
Had the man allowed the
butterfly to continue to struggle
through the, tiny opening, all the
extra fluid from his body would
have been forced into his wings. So
without the struggle the butterfly
will never know his full potential.
And the man Ts help turned out to be
harm.
Someone once said anything
worth having is worth working for.
Let me add to that and say anything
worth having is worth working for
and struggling for and crying for.
So often in life we want to
help each other, and make the road |
easier. We want to fix situations and
remove problems but what we must
realize is that some things in life
require a struggle. Sometimes we
have to take the road less traveled
and suffer a little pain before we
can be conquerors in the end.
And as a past caterpillar with
too small wings I have come to
appreciate the struggle, and to enjoy
the bliss that comes from having
succeeded where it seems like
failure was the only option.
There is much to be said for
success. For success is as individual
as each person is. It is not based on
a set formula or rules. It is unique
and dependent on individual ideas,
potential and the desire to succeed.
But for every man there is a
measure of success. So what may be
viewed as success for one person
may be viewed as failure for
another.
In order to succeed we have
got to make certain choices. There
is a choice between working hard or
doing just enough to get by or
putting things off until a later time.
But the struggle does not end
there. Because even though we
work hard and make good choices
we must still maintain our integrity,
our honesty, our dignity, and our
self-respect. If you have to live with
yourself wouldn Tt you like to be fit
for yourself to know?
Wouldn Tt you like to be a gentleman
or a lady? An honest man or a good
woman? A good friend or just a
decent person?
So often at holidays we give
cards that say things like, oWorld Ts
Greatest Dad! ? oMy Best Friend! ?
oMy Wonderfull Husband ?, oThe
World Ts Best Son ? T=The Best Mom
in the World! ? and so many others.
But how often do we live up what
Hallmark describles about us? How
often are we the best and the
greatest anything? How many times
have we settled for, took the easy
way out of, chickened out, punched
out, gave up, gave in, threw in the
towel, let it go, decided not to or
just plain quit?
We must always be working.
Working and moving toward some-
thing we wish to accomplish in a
way that gives us self-respect and
dignity. We must set goals and then
work towards them. Whether is it Ts
at work or school, in our churches
or even on our homes we have to
want something bad enough that we
struggle for it.
Start fresh today, look at
today and say oToday is the first
day of the rest of my life ? and
begin. Begin to struggle, and work
and make choices, but all the while
know that:
oNot all men are called to
specialized professions, many are
called to be laborers in factories
fields and streets, but all labor that
up lifts humanity has dignity and
should be undertaken with painstak-
ing excellence. If a man is called to
be a street sweeper he should sw
streets as Michaelangelo painted,
Beethove composed music or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He
should sweep streets so well that all
the hosts of heaven and earth will
pause to say, here lived a great
ster sweeper who did his job
wel
Martin Luther King
Myra Wooten »
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From the Desk of Mrs. Beatrice Maye
To the editor
Communication is the most im-
portant skill in life. We spend
most of our waking hours com-
municating. We have spent
years learning how to read and
write, years learning how to
speak. but what about
listening? If you want to interact
effectively with anvone. to influ-
ence one, your spouse, your
child, your neighbor: your boss,
your coworker, your friend. vou
first need to understand the
person.Most people do not like
to listen with the intent to
understand: they listen with the
intent to reply.
When " another
speaks.we're usually
at one of four levels.
be
person
"listening"
We may
ignoring another person, not
listening at all. "We may practice
pretending~" Yeah. huh. Right".
We may practice selective listen-
ing, hearing only
certain parts of the conversa-
tion, or we may even practice
attentive listening, paying atten-
tion and focusing energy on the
words that are being said.
But very few of us ever practice
the fifth level, the highest form
of listening, "emphatic listen-
ing", listening .with intent to
understand. "
Empathy is not sympathy.
sympathy is a form of agree-
ment, a form of Judgment
Emphatic listening is under-
standing emotionally as well as
intellectually with your ears,
your eyes and your heart. It's
necessary to spend time with
your children now, one on
one.Listen to them; understand
them. Look at your home, at
school life,at the challenges and
the problems they're __fac-
ing.through their eyes. Give
them air.
Go out with your spouse on a
regular basis. Have dinner or do
something together you both
enjoy. Listen to each other; seek
to understand. See life through
each other's eyes. The time you
invest to deeply understand the
people you love brings tremen-
dous dividends in open commu-
nication.
In business listen to your
employees, understand
them. Watch people communicat-
ing.What emotions are being
communicated that may not
come
across in words alone? Base
Often we hear the
expressions, "Grow up". "Get a
life". "How immature you
are".Maturity expresses itself in
many ways.Christ tests your
maturity when He says, Love
the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind"
(Matthew 3:37).
Perseverance is maturity, fin-
ishing /completing your work
once started. The adult who is
constantly changing "_ Jobs,
changing friends, and changing
mates is immature. Maturity is
keeping promises; it is also
living by faith, taking risks,
stepping out of the familiar into
the unfamiliar. Maturity is obe-
dience, trust and faith, the ability
to control anger and settle differ-
ences without violence or de-
struction. Controlling " the
tongue is surely a sign of
maturity. A responsible person
exerts maturity and this means
being dependable, keeping your
word. Too many of us can't be
counted on. We seem to not be
there when needed. The ability
to make a decision and stand by
it is maturity. The mature person
respects the adage. "Good. bet-
ter, best. never let it rest until
good becomes better and better
becomes best". In other
words,the mature person never
settles for mediocrity. Living
peaceably is the utmost sign of
maturity.Accept that you cannot
change
courageously. Be a peace-loving
person. Compromise if you
must.
Finally, maturity is humility,
being big enough to say, "I was
wrong".
How mature are you?
The 7 Secrets of Likable
People
Here are 7 surprisingly simple
ways to turn on the charm.
1. When you first meet folks,
treat them like good friends. Use
your eyes, your smile and the
ever helpful light touch on the
arm to say, I'm glad we met ?.
2. Don't spill your secrets soon.
keep it short and sweet until you
know a person well.
3. Put away your little black
dress. People respond to warm to
colors black 1s the color of
power and intimidation. Go for
orange. yellow or pink. You
don't have to wear these shades
from head to toe. | ook for them
In scarves of tops,
4. Remember, no one made you
the judge. Try to overlook
people's flaws. You don't need to '
say anything at all, for them
to pick up on your critical vibes
and feel rejected.
5. Stop talking and_ start
listening. When it comes to
social skills,
being a good listener is much
more important than being wise
and witty. Nod encouragingly
and make eye contact when a
person is speaking, and don't say
a thing until she is done.
Then,instead of responding with
a comment about yourself, ask a
question that draws her out
further (good one);("How did
you feel about that?")
6. Dare to be your own biggest
fan . People who feel liked to
agree more with others, which in
turn actually does make them
more popular.
7. Give up trying so hard people
know when you are trying to buy
their friendship, and it's very
unattractive. It makes you look
as if you have nothing more to
offer others than always picking
up the check at lunch or volun-
teering for car pools. Even if it
works.it's not the basis for a
balanced
relationship. You've set yourself
up as the person who's willing to
give all the time without getting
back anything and you'll proba-
bly end up feeling resentful.
Seven Minds
]- Mind your tongue. Don't let
it speak hasty, cruel, unkind or
wicked words.
2- Mind your eyes. Don't let
them look at degrading
books,pictures or objects.
3-Mind your ears. Don't let
them listen to evil songs or
words.
4-Mind your lips. Don't let
strong drink enter your mouth.
5-Mind your hands. Don't let
them do evil to others.
6-Mind your feet. Don't let them
follow in the footsteps of evil.
7- Mind your heart: Don't let the
love of sin dwell in it. Ask Jesus
Christ to make it His throne.
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CHRIST'S RETURN
( NOTE: The millennium is: the
term given to the thousand-vear
period of holiness during which
Jesus and His faithful followers are
to rule the earth--, a hoped-for
period of Joy, Prosperity and
Justice. The number seven is sig-
nificant in Biblical numerology. It ts
the number of completion. It is
Gods number. The
Revelation refers to the
Seals, the Seven Trumpets, the
Seven Golden Candlesticks-- the
visions which were given to John in
connection with Christ s return.
This ministry set aside the month
of July, which is the seventh month,
to hold the oSeventh Month of
Assurance Seminars ?. The theme-
was: oHoly People Preparing for
the Next Millennium. ? The seven
seminar topics of discussion were:
Seven
1) Sure that God hears you when
vou pray
2) Sure about the Word of God
3) Sure about where vou stand
with God
4) Sure about your salvation
5) Sure about being filled with the
Book of
Spirit of God
6) Sure that you have passed from
7) Sure that you will go back with
Him when He comes. )
After Jesus T resurrection, when He
appeared to His disciples for the
last time before returning to heaven,
they were much concerned over
their hope for the kingdom.
However, Jesus then gave them a
commission to be His witnesses:
and when He left them, two angels
appeared and gave them assurance
that Jesus would return to them.
(ACTS 1:6-11)
In a sermon, Peter preached
shortly after Pentecost, he spoke of
Christ Ts return and associated the
event with what he described as
otimes of restoration of all things. ?
(ACTS 3:20, 21) The hope of the
return of Christ to establish His
kingdom and to reward His follow-
ers was very real to the members of
the Early Church. It was a source of
comfort and spiritual strength to
them as they sought to bear witness
concerning Jesus to a hostile world.
(TITUS 2:13; | THESSALONIANS
4:16)
The brethren of the Early Church
did not understand that the return of
Christ was many centuries away.
The general expectation then was
that He would return very soon.
They did not take into consideration
that the promises were based upon
the divine viewpoint of time. (II
PETER 3:8) Jesus taught His
disciples that the world of mankind
would not see Him after His death
and resurrection, but that His
disciples would see Him because
they, in the resurrection, are to be
made like Him. Because human
eyes are not able to see the
resurrected and exalted Jesus, He is
able to return secretly, while the
world goes on with its ordinary
affairs of life.
(REVELATION 16:15)
Jesus explained that it would be
necessary for His followers to
watch the signs which would denote
the fact of His second presence on
earth and that, for a time. His
presence would be unknown to all
who did not owatch ?. Jesus likened
this to the days of Noah before the
Flood, when the world went on with
its ordinary affairs of life, not
knowing the real significance of the
times in which they were living. To
be owatchers ?, as this term is used
in the Bible, does not mean to gaze
into the sky to see Jesus returning,
but rather to watch world events for
the fulfillment of the prophecies
pertaining to the time of our Lord Ts
return. Peter speaks: of the osure
word of prophecy. ? (I] PETER
1:19)
Eventually the whole world of
mankind will osee ?, or discern. the
fact of our Lord Ts second presence.
The Bible says that they osee ? Him
in the oclouds ?, meaning in the
confused, dark, distressing experi-
ences relative to the breakdown of
earthly rule and the establishment of
the kingdom of Christ. The people
of the world will never see Jesus in
a literal sense.
(Il THESSALONIANS 1:7-10)
The world of mankind will discern
Jesus in much the same manner as
Job saw God. After his faith was
severely tested by the afflictions
which the Lord permitted to come
upon him, Job said in prayer: o!
have heard of thee by the hearing ot
the ear: but now mine eye seeth
thee. ? (JOB 42:5) Job did not see
God literally but had gained a better
understanding of Him.
1 THESSALONIANS 4:16 has this
version of Christ Ts return: oFor the
Lord himself shall descend trom
heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel. and with the trump
of God: and the dead in Christ shall
rise first. ?
Dr. George Hawkins is the pastor
of the Tabernacle Church of deliv-
erance in Greenville
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A look at what it required
to gain freedom for Blacks
By Courtney Cannon Scott
Recently as i pondered our celebration
of America's Independence, my thoughts wan-
dered to some of the greatest, but least known
pioneers of freedom in this country. Like many
people i had heard of the Dred Scott Decision,
but didn't really know what it was or why it was
important . Curious about the man and his
legacy, | decided to find out for myself.
At a time in U.S. history when people of color
were treated as less than human, Dred Scott
stood up for freedom - for himself and his
family. He was not well educated, but used the
legal system to over period of many years to seek
freedom. In the early 1800's, as states were
accepted into the union, controversy oftenh
arose when deciding whether or not they would
be "free" or "slave" states. Final states was based
upon what was needed to to maintain a balance
of senators in Congress for equal representation.
Scott first traveled to a "free" territory in
Missouri while with his owner John Emerson.
With the help of abolitionists there, he sued for
his freedom in a St Louis circuit court. His
lawyers argued that since slavery was illegal in
Missouri, Scott should be considered as free
when he began living there. the court declared
him free in 1850, but the decision was appealed
by Emerson to the Missouri Supreme court. The
decision was reversed and Scott was once again
enslaved!
Even after this disappointment , Scott's
continued to fight within the legal system for his
freedom, taking the case to the fedral court! The
appeal to the Supreme Court- The highest court
in the land- was decided on March 6, 1857. The
fote was 7 to 2 against Scott. The case was
decided as invaild, because. Scott was a slave
and slaves were not citizens and therfore had no
legal rights to sue.
Eventually though, Scott and his wife,Harriet
were freed after their master's death. The
following time line provides an over view of the
famous Scott case and some of the events
surrounding it:
1793: the Nation's first fugitive slave law was
passed allowing a slave owner to chase an
escaped slave into another state and {with court
approval} take the slave back home. This law
made it a fedral crime to hide or help a runaway
slave or to prevent their arrest.
1823: A U.S. circuit court in Washington D.C.
decides that a slave becomes free when he/she
enters or territory where slavery is illegal. This
same year, in Mississippi, it was forbidden to
read or write. Punishment was 39 lashes.
1848: Dred Scott files a lawsuit in St. Louis to
gain his freedom .
1850: The fugitive slave law of 1850 is enacted.
California becomes a state. According to the
U.S. Census Bureau, over 15 percent of the
entire popuplation of the 3,638808 African
Americans there, 434,495 are free. A male field
hand in good health brought a sale price of
$1600.
--[857: The dred Scott case is settled May 5 by
the U.S. Supreme Court Its decision states that
African Americans are not citizens, that resi-
dence in a free state does not make an enslaved
person traveling there free and and that slavery
cannot be excludedfrom new western teritories.
Because of this the U.S. land office denies
African Americans public land grants in the west
because they are not citizens. In oppisition to
this decision, the states of maine and new
Hampshire grant freedom and citizenship to
African Americans.
1866: the nation first Civil Rights Act is passed
in Congress over a presidential veto. The law
gave citizenship to people of African heritage
and assured all citizens of equal rights under the
law. The 14th Amendment guaranteeing these
rights overturned the Dred Scott decision nine
years earlier.
Scott, and many others make up our rich
heritage. It is because of their sacrifices that we
are able to do the things we do today - reading
this article for example. Learn about him and
other prominant people everyday, not just during
Black History Month! Be a positive voice and
know you are important too! And when you have
the opportunity to add your your voice to others
seeking to improve the communities in which
we live, do so with the knowledge that you are
making a difference!
(Scott resides in Atlanta, Ga)
Simpson - Mr. Hyman Jim
Hardy, 84, 309 Moore St. died
Sunday, June 27, 1999.
Funeral service Saturday noon,
Phillippi Missionary Baptist
Church Simpson. Burial in
Homestead Memorial
Gardens.
Mr. Hardy, A Pitt County
native, was retired from the
tobacco industry where he was
a supervisor. He was a member
of Bright Star Masonic Lodge
No. 385. He was a member of
Philippi MB Church where he
served with the Christian Aid
Society and the Deacon Board.
Surviving ; his sons, Jimmie
Hardy of Long Island, N.Y. ;
daughters, Ethelene Hardy-
Stover and Waverly Daniels,
both of Greenville, Peggy
Hardy of San Bernardino,
Calif
Laverna Lewis of
Philadelphia, Janice Howard
of Jacksonville and Vickie
Powell of Raleigh; brother,
Leonard Hardy of Simpson; 12
grandchildren.
Arrangements by Roundtree &
Associates Funeral Home,
Greenville.
for any questions or concerns,
please call 757-2067
Laura Lee Tucker Mitchell's
Cove City - Mitchell's Funeral
Home announces the death
and funeral service for Mrs.
Laura Lee Tucker Michell's
age 72 of 1165 Dover Road,
Cove City N.C. who died at
Craven Regional Medical
Center in New Bern, NC
Tuesday, July 13,1999.
Funeral service were held
Sunday July 27, at 4:00 P.M.
at Mitchell's Funeral Home
Chapel in Winterville, NC
with Elder Levy Brown, Sr.
officiating. Burial will follow
in the Piney Grove cemetery in
Grifton, North Carolina.
Mrs. Mitchell's a native of
Craven county where she at-
tended county schools.She
served as a member of the
board of trustees with the
James Historical Society.
She is Survived by her hus-
band James Obie Mitchell's ;.
four daughters , Mary Loften
-and Eleanor Chris" Mitchell's
both of Brooklyn, NY ; Brenda
Arrington of New Bern, N.C.
and Vannessa Mitchell's, Sr. of
cove, NC Delgen L. Mitchell's
Sr. of New Bern, 24 grandchil-
dren 1- great- grandchild a
number of nieces, nephews,
other relatives and friends
Kristoff J. Dudley
Kristoff Jamal Dudley age 2 of
2145 Stokes Road, died
Tuesday, Funeral service
Sunday # PM. at Sweet Hope
Free Will Baptist Church,
Simpson. Burial in church
cemetery. Kristoff was born in
Pitt County. Surveying: his
father, | Walter ratt of
Greenville; mother, Angela D.
Dudley of Greenville; grand-
yarents, Marvin and Erma
Ralesiear and Darrell German
and Dorothy Pratt, all of
Greenville; great-
randparents, Ruth Dudley,
able Moore and Helen and
Thelma Roberson and_ Ellis
Loftin, both of Greenville.
Viewing Saturday 2-5 PM. at
the funeral home.
Arrangements by Rountree &
Associates Funeral Home,
Greenville.
Miss. Dorothy Nelson
Mitchell's Funeral Home an-
nounces the death of Miss.
Dorothy Nelson age 73 of 301
Arbor Drive Greenville, NC.,
who died at Greenville Villa
Nursing Home in Greenville,
NC., Sunday, April 25, 1999.
Funeral arrangements are in-
complete at Mitchell's Funeral
Home in Winterville, NC.
resented wi
or PE.T.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Arts
Mrs. Sarah Arts, 79, of Route
1, Box 14, Burnside Village,
Hookerton died Thursday,
July 29, 1999 at Lenoir
Memorial Hospital, Company
Funeral Home, Ayden.
Mrs. Artis was born in
Beaufort County where she
attended public school. She
was a member of Maury
Chapel FWB Church.
Survivors include five sons,
Leslie Earl Artis and Carroll
Tucker Artis both " of
Grifton,NC, Oliver Lee Artis
of Ayden, NC, Claude Artis of
Hookerton, NC and Jesse Jr.
Artis of Bronx, NY; Seven
daughters, Lula Mae_ Ellis,
Joyce T. King, Marilyn Dianne
Artis all of Snow Hill, NC,
Helen Louise Artis, Sarah
Elizabeth Sutton, Patricia
Bynum and Gail Marie
Jackson all of Hookerton, NC,
Two sisters, Mildred Maye
and Dallas Jean Smith both of
Grifton, NC; 42
Grandchildren, 60 Great-
Great Grandchildren and 8
Great Grandchildren.
Mr. Noah Golett
Mr. Noah Golett Sr. 86,of 1102
Colonial Ave.. died Thursday,
July 15,1999. Funeral serv-
ices Saturday 11:00 a.m. at
English Chapel Free Will
Baptist = Church. Burial in
Brownhill Cemetery. Mr
Gollett was a native of Pitt
County and a member of
Arthur's FWB Church where
he served with the Senior
Usher Board. He was a self-
employed farmer before his
retirement.
Surviving; his sons, Noah
Gollett Jr. of Greenville,
Bernard Gollett of Hyattsville,
Md., and Johnny Johnson of
Dudley; daughters, Patricia
Bayward of Columbia, Shirley
Smith and Evelyn Whitaker,
both of Greenville; several
grandchildren.
People Making a Difference, (Pictured) Ms. Jackie Harper and Mr.Carnell
Burney (Neighborhood Services Coordinator), at the Ba
Training Banquet at Monte's Dinning on June 25th. Mr. Burney was
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By Audrey Braxton-Williams
Hello Washington
This is our first column. This
column will be dedicated to
issues and people who live in the
Washington area. I am going to
need your help. If your church,
club, sorority, fraternity, child or
community has something going
on that we all need to know
about pass it on to me and let me
put into print. You can send all
of your information to: Sister.
- Audrey Braxton-Williams, PO
Box 2463, Washington, NC
27889. I'll be happy to hear
from you.
This is the beginning of July
and believe it or not school will
be opening soon. | would like to
share something with you.
Regardless to the age and grade
your child will be entering this
year there are something's par-
ents need to do to prepare
themselves for the upcoming
year. I taught in the Beaufort
County School District for
twelve years. It was a rewarding
experience but, | always wanted
to encourage our parents. I've
put together a little school list
for parents.Preparing for an ex-
cellent year:
Parents School List
@ |. Pray for your child, you
and the teacher to have a
rewarding year.
@ 2. Promise yourself that you
will support your child all year.
Go to all PTA meeting or
at least seven to ten. Go to meet
the teacher before the year
begins, to introduce yourself and
your child. Get the class supply
list while you are there. Go over
it with the teacher.
@ 3. Remember supporting your
child does not mean "Saying
lie/she is right, when you have
not heard both sides of the
story."
@ 4. Encourage your child to
tell the truth. "Yes, you may
have been wrong but, I love
ou". Children lie out of fear.
5. Let the teacher know the
little things that help your child
to be successful or prevent
your child from being success-
ful. (He isn't cooperative if you
yell)
@ 6. Teach you child to respect
adults and that includes the
teacher.
@ 7. Let you child know that
you will speak to the teacher not
N ABOUT WAS
him/her. (I don't mean, I'll get
her straight) go and listen, Have
your child present so that every-
body hears each side of the
incident, your child can be
wrong and so can the teacher.
How you handle the situation
will teach your child a lot.
@ 8. Be honest have you seen
this behavior at home, or have
you -heard about this behavior
every year. Think about what
you think should be done and
use the teacher to help you-
change negative behaviors.
@ 9. Promise yourself to pray
with your child every night and
morning. The best breakfast is
prayer and the best way to end
the day is to pray.
@ 10. Prayer was taken out of
the schools not our hearts or the
home.
@11. If things get really rough
and you don't know how to
handle things, speak to God
and then to your Pastor.
@ 12. Buy the required school
supplies. Start putting money
aside now to purchase what is
going to be needed. Have a
joyous behavior when you shop
for supplies. When you child
hears you complain and fuss,
he/she will feel the same way
about the school supplies.
13. Be wise when shopping
for school supplies. If you don't
have a lot of money, start now
to put money aside. Use lay a
way. You do not have to buy the
latest fashions or the most ex-
pensive clothes.
@ 14. Promise yourself you will
spend one half hour a night
talking to your child about
his/her day at school and another
hour helping with homework.
I don't want you to think that |
believe | have the recipe for
success. I don't but, | do know
that these things help you and
your child be successful this
year. The North Carolina Retired
School Personnel (NCRSP) meet
September 13th, 11:30AM at
Beaufort Community College
God Bless You Rev. David
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Moore and Metropolitan AMEZ
Church,
the Metropolitan Community
Credit Union is about to open.
Look for the news folks, there
will be an Open House and the
Community should be there. One
of the next "Biggies" is the
Agape Community Health
Service. Yes, a community
Health Service. Right in the
parking lot of Metropolitan
AMEZ Church. This health serv-
ice is for everyone. There will be
an Open House for the Health
Service also. Watch and "Be
There!!"
Next time I hope to share news
about The Key Women,
Washington Branch. They have
a national convention coming up
in Greenville.
Until we meet again, God Bless!
A Summer That Computes
These young adults have been spending their summer hours learning the insides and outs of modern
day computing. Starting with ohardware ?, the inside of a computer that makes it all work, and ending
with creating web pages, the JTPA students have really done a lot to raise their computing skill levels
and gone a long way in making themselves more employable in today Ts high tech market place.
Sponsored by the Metropolitan AME Zion Church in Washington, North Carolina, Rev. David Moore
has made available 12 new computers for use by these young adults. They have learned how to do
spreadsheets using Microsoft Ts Excel, input databases using Microsoft's Access. and created
publications using Microsoft Ts Publisher. They also honed their word processing skills by creating
documents with Microsoft Ts Word and put it all together by making personal web pages dedicated to
what they Tve learned this summer, their interests and where they see themselves in today Ts society.
Their web pages are still in the building stages so we can not offer any web addresses at this time.
Quoting their instructor, Mr. Dion Polk,
oThese young adults have really been challenged this summer. The osoftware ? they are using can be
tedious to work with to say the least. Like all computing programs, they require preplanning, patience,
and attention to detail, skills Black teens need to develop. As a whole, | feel Black America needs to
get up to speed when it comes to becoming comfortable with computers and the Internet in general.
This is my way of making that statement. ?
Mr. Polk plans to offer the same type of learning to adults beginning sometime in August.
The ten week JTPA program is due to end the last week of this month, just in time for the teens to
return to their respective schools. Some of the software programs used by the group are required
courses in their high school computer classes so they definitely have a head start on the rest of their
counterparts.
If you Tre interested in participating in the adult classes offered by Mr. Polk and Metropolitan AME
Zion Church, call 974-2319.
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Greenville (NC) Alumnae
Chapter of
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Invites You to the 8th. Annual
Fish and Crab Feast
August 28, 1999
at the
American Legion Bulliding
403 St. Andrews Drive Greenville, NC |
1 P.M. - 5 P.M.
Adults $12.00
Children {under 12) $5.00
for
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830-0315
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355-6376
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| CONSUMER ALERT
Dont let your home
ecome a house of cards.
Your home is probably your most valuable possession. Borrowing money based on the value "or equity "of
your home can sometimes be an option for consolidating credit card bills or paying for things like home
repairs, medical expenses or college tuition.
Most banks and other financial institutions make horpe loans available with good terms, low rates and
reasonable fees. But some unethical lenders offer mortgage loans that can strip the equity from your home.
These lenders act more like loan sharks, preying on seniors and low-income homeowners.
Attorney General Mike Easley Ts tips for avoiding home equity scams:
¢ Always comparison shop. Many lenders offer competitive rates and low fees.
* Don't be pressured to sign. Take your time and understand the commitment you are making. |
¢ Ask for help. Read all items carefully. If you dont fully understand the terms or conditions, talk to som
you trust, such as a knowledgeable friend or an attorney.
¢ Shop for credit locally. Beware of unfamiliar or out-of-state lenders who call on the phone or visit your do
* Don't be oflipped ?. Some lenders will ask you to refinance over and over, charging fees each time. _
¢ Beware of opacking ?. Expensive extras like credit insurance can add thousands to the cost of your loan.
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with a quick decision on a loan that you don't fully understand.
Don't let your home become a financial house of cards. ?
~ North Carolina Attorney General Mike Easley
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Swinson, bottom right, was _ "on_ the
Tri-City blazers 400 meter relay team that
won the regional title and will advance to
the nationals in Omaha, Neb. Joini
Swinson are Greg Walker, bottom lef
Detric Branch, back left, coach corbett,
Back middle, and Robert Williams, back
right.
Going on a trip - These young ones
from Canaan Free Will Bapist Church
prepare to go on a long Awaited field
trip.
Sisters Making A Difference - ( Top proto pictured from Right to left) are Sharon Jones,
Barbara Williams, Billie Patrick, Mildre
Celebration brought to a close a week Long seminar on the im
(Middle) Checkers the Clown and Judy Ruffin, Judy who coordinated the event was very
pleased with it's success and the turn out. (Underneath) volunteers who gave their time and
energy to assure the event would be a success.
A. Council and Amy Hatten. These Women were in
attendance at Healthy Babies, Healthy Community, and Healthy start Pig Out Celebration. The
ortance of healthy babies.
Photo By Steve Johnson
Just listening to WTOW - The "M'
Voice caught this one tune in to the
Gospel Sounds of WTOW Joy 1320 on
her way home from work.
pose for the "M" Voice Newspaper before returning to work.
Sisters Working Hard, these two hard working employees at Jordan
Enterprize found time to take a moment from there busy schedule to
Photo By Brenda Rouse
have a jump on their classmates, since they've spent t
learning the world of modern day computing.
Learning Something New ! This school year these young adults will
e summer
Photo By Brenda Rouse
Father Knows Best, shown posing for our camera is Greenville
Utilities employee Brother Ray Barnes Sr., and Son Ray Barnes
Jr. who was visiting his father for the Summer, young Ray wants
to be just like his Dad, of course Dad is proud of his boy.
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