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"There's no free lunch. Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for." - Marian Wright Edelman, child advocate
Worker Finds 'Lynched' Coke Bottle
Serving Eastern North Carolina Since 1981
October 14 - October 21, 1999
in Auto Plant; Sues Toyota for Racism
Brooks Announces Candidacy
Richard Brooks announces his,
candidacy for Washington City
Council. Brooks is retired from E.
|. Dupont in Kinston. He currently
operates a private maintenance
service. The candidate is married to
Mary Little Brooks and they have
one daughter, Flora May, and one
son Richard Lee. The Brooks have
one granddaughter Keisha Langley.
The family resides at 820 Boston
Avenue. Brooks was appointed to
the Washington Board of
Adjustments in 1982 and served on
that appointed board i)ntil 1997. He
was the chairman of the Board of
Adjustments for 3
years. The family are active mem-
bers at The Temple of Jesus Christ
in Washington.Brooks serves as the
chairman of the trustees in addition
to other committees. He also serves
as president of the Boston Avenue
Community Association. Brooks
has served as an Washington volun-
teer fireman for 19 years. "I have
been interested and involved in
community affairs for many years.
Now that | am retired, | feel that |
have the time to contribute to help
improve our
community so that it will be a good
place to live. | enjoy helping people
and | want to make sure that
everyone in our community is
treated fairly. The only promise that
| will make is that I will listen to
everyone's opinion before | make a
decision on City Council."
NAACP pressures
Alabama law
enforcement to
solve mysterious
disappearance of
six in 1986
By J. ZAMGBA BROWNE
Amsterdam News Staff
The mysterious disappear-
ance of six African-American
adults in Alabama last May has
become a major concern of the
nation Ts oldest civil rights organi-
zation, the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP).
Kweisi Mfume, who heads the
organization, has asked Alabama
law enforcement to accelerate its
investigation of the missing peo-
ple, who range in age from 22 to
28 years old. They were last seen
riding in a 1986 Chevrolet
Caprice near Opp, Ala., in the
southeastern part of the state.
The civil rights leader said
family members and friends
asked the NAACP to press state
investigators for details about
the case and to find out why it is
taking them so long to solve it.
oLaw enforcement is investi-
gating the case, but perhaps more
resources are needed, � said
Mfume. oWe think that, as a
result of our involvement, author-
ities have stepped up their probe.
oA car full of people can Tt just
vanish into thin air. Somebody
must know something, � he
added.
The missing people were iden-
tified as Eula Josett Lee, 27;
Lamar Junior Stackhouse, 25;
Tamara Monique Ward, 22; Vale-
ria Genieta McCoy, 27; Angela
Roberts Young, 26; and James A.
Reynolds, 28.
Mfume described the car they
were driving as faded maroon in
color with Alabama license plate
No. 34BM771. Anyone with
information should call the
Alabama Bureau of Investigation
Flo-Jo Ts Mom Sues Son-in-Law
for Wrongful Death of Athlete
SANTA ANA "The mother of
the late Florence Griffith Joyner
has filed a wrongful death lawsuit
against her son-in-law, Al Joyner,
in what she says is part of a family
dispute over control of the famed
runner Ts legacy.
The complaint filed last week in
Orange County Superior Court al-
leges that Joyner failed to oexercise
reasonable care to avoid foresee-
able risk of harm � to his wife and
that oharmful or offensive touch-
ing � caused her death.
An Orange County coroner's
report completed shortly after
Griffith Joyner's death in Septem-
ber 1998, at age 38, concluded that
she suffered an epileptic seizure in
her sleep and suffocated,
The autopsy found ho indica-
tion of foul play or suspicious cir-
cumstances.
oWe're standing by our au-
topsy, � satd Assistant: Sheritt
George Jaramillo
The plaintiff, 69-year-old Flo-
rence Griffith, declined to speak
directly about the suit, but said it
stems in part from a dispute with
Joyner over his decision to starta
foundation in his wife's honor
She said the Flo-Jo Memorial
Community Enpowerment Founda-
tion is undermining the efforts of a
separate charity group, the Florence
Griffith Joyner Youth Foundation,
which she supports.
Griffith said Joyner also tried
recently to evict her from the
Rancho Santa Margarita home in
which she lives. Joyner owns the
home, she said, but her daughter
had allowed her to live there.
Al Joyner cquid not be reached
for comment.
Come now James Callier. a black
employee of a Long Beach Toyota
company. who filed a $5 million
lawsuit in Superior Court " re-
cently alleging racial harassment
and discrimination in his work-
place.
Callier sued TABC, Inc.. an
auto parts-making subsidiary of
Toyota Motor Manufacturing of
North America. for whom he is a
press operator. claiming that on
Sept. 14. 1998 he found a Coke
bottle on his desk that had been
painted black. with eyes drawn in
and wool-testured material glued
on as hair.
Callier's suit alleges that a rope
fashioned into a hangman's noose
- was Wrapped around the neck of
the bottle. simulating a lynching.
(pon Seeing the lynched bottle
figure. "Mr. Caller immediately
the direct target of what seemed to
be a known and tolerated. racially
hostile work environment that
existed at the company, � said Ton
J. Jaramilla, Callier's attorney.
In his suit. Callier contends that
he and other employees at the
Toyota company were made to
tolerate racist slurs on a daily
basis, that swastikas were drawn
on the equipment and_ that
"NIGGER go back to Africa" was
scrawled on the company's bath-
room walls in plain view of the
supervisors. who. themselves, ad-
dressed African American em-
ployees as "nigger" or "black
boy," Callier's complaint states.
Callier claims that he, himself.
was directly addressed as a "damn
nigger" by a white employee.
Callier was hired by the com-
pany in 1992 and continues to
work there. "He should not be the
one to leave." Jaramilla said. "He
's been a victim and he did
nothing wrong. �
Jaramilla said her client com-
plained to supervisors about the
alleged racist work environment
in the plant about 10 to 15 times.
"It was only this final incident
with the lynched Coke bottle
when he finally said enough' and
filed the lawsuit." she said.
The local chapter of the
Congress of Racial Equality held
a news conference last Thursday
at which it called for a boycott of
Toyota products in a show of
support for Callier. and the group
plans to demonstrate at the Long
Beach plant this week.
TABC's Vice President David
Dedinsky denied all of Callier's
claims and told the City News
"We refute the charges and
intend to defend the action. As a
company. we make a very strong
effort to create a positive work
environment, which is free from
any racial. sexual or religious
harassment of any sort. �
"This particular episode was
fully investigated, and we even
took steps to offer a $1,000
reward for any eyewitnesses, and
had professional fingerprinting
tests performed on any of the
objects in question. All of that
was unsuccessful, "Dedinsky con-
tinued.
The company official said
Callier's claims that his com-
plaints to supervisors were ig-
nored are onot true."
"We reacted instantly, as soon as
we found that bottle. We reacted
at the first complaint." he said.
understood that he had become
Town
chartered by
Slaves
flooded
TARBORO, NC - Lorenzo Lyons is in
shock.In less than two weeks, the lifelong
Princeville resident has lost his home, his
job and dreams. When Hurricane Floyd
dropped 20 inches of rain on the historic
eastern North Carolina town Sept. 17.
Lyons, 31. like most others there. had no
idea his life would be changed forever.
I'm in shock," he said, eating a hot dog
in the parking lot of his new "home" -
larboro High School, one of two emer-
gency shelters set up after Floyd hit.
Most of the hundreds at the shelter are
his neighbors from predominately black
Princeville. population 1.800 plus. They
too believe that after some wind damage
and minor flooding, they'd be back within
a day or two. Instead, the first town
chartered by freed slaves in 1885 has made
national headlines for being literally
underwater for two weeks. The dikes that
were constructed to keep the Tar River out
have now kept the flood waters have
subsided. officials say it will be a while
before it completely drains and Princeville
can be rebuilt.
The resident8 can't wait that long. Many
are elderly with fixed incomes; others are
young families who work on nearby farms
or in factories in Edgecombe County.
Those were flooded out too, leaving tens
of thousands throughout the region with no
home, no business and no job. By Tuesday.
over 47 statewide were known dead.
"Some are sad," said Lyons, "and some
are like me - they can't believe it. T
Donald Ray Williams, 51, has lived on
Mullins Street in Princeville for just under
a year. His wife, Bettie, pastors a church
right next door. The morning of Floyd, he
grabbed a small bag because he was sure
he'd be back. Now both buildings are
underwater. "| didn't know it would
happen like this," he said, standing in front
of his car at the shelter and whatever
worldly possessions he was able to grab.
"They said we can't go back because of
all of that disease and Stuff," Williams
said. "Dead bodies and dead animals.
To compound the problem, hazardous
chemicals from a nearby farming plant are
believed to have been released into the
floodwaters along with sewage, adding to
the probability of disease. In all, 650
homes, 30 businesses, are gone - an
estimated $43 million in damage and
destruction. Bettie, 51, says many of the
people are hurt. Some feel they haven't
been treated fairly since arriving at the
shelter. Some are anxious to get back
home, no matter what the condition. And
many are hearing disturbing rumors that
several of their neighbors are unaccounted
for because they didn't believe such an
unprecedented catastrophe could, or
would, happen.
IAW.
Service:
Princeville Mayor .Shown above is the mayor of " Princeville along with Pitt County
Commissioner Jeff Savage. Dr. Tommy Hines. Bro. Bobby Teel and others. They were enjoying
happier days last year during Commissioner Savage Ts campaign for the 8th House District
representing Edgecombe County. The mayor was in the process of making the town of
Princeville a historic tourist location. Photo By Jim Rouse
Adopt a Family, Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church was the scene for the Ministers and Civil
Rights Leaders such as Martin Luther King III, state president of the SCLC Bennie Roundtree,
former Congressman Walter Fontroy, National Talk Show Host Joe Madison from WOL Radio
station Washington, D.C., and famous civil rights fighter Golden Frinks. The pastor of Cornerstone
Missionary Baptist Church is Sidney Locke.
Photo by Jim Rouse
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cin g the Invisible Tracks T
Part 1
When I received a call inviting me to be part of the
National Underground Railroad Familiarization Tour, I
initially viewed it with conflicted skepticism. Was it
_ substantive enough to clear a crowded week of appoint-
ments? Or was this a subliminal excuse for a half-
hearted opportunity to oget away � under the guise of
writing about culture and heritage? Upon returning from
the trip, I found it more than substantive, I found it soul-searching, even
soul-touching in terms of reminding me (and us) of the ravages of the time
and the difficulties and risks our
oimmediate � ancestors endured to
become the creature they were created to be, free.
In atime when conveniences undermine our desire to struggle, and our
vision (and children Ts vision) to see beyond restricted social acceptance
and material pleasures, this tour that is being formalized in several parts
of the country (Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Maryland, Canada) in such a
way as state or federally funded ohistorical � tour sites (many run by whites
hat resisted but now see the economic benefit to heritage tourism) that it
not only helps you understand the historical significance of the sites, but
also what struggle and sacrifice was. It would provide a true cultural
oreconnection � for most of us, if not all of us.
Even the oblackest of the black (philosophically) � would gain invalu-
able insights to the psyche of the man or woman who had the courage to
risk what they risked to leave the plantation in search of freedom. We need
to get away and experience the hardships of the oinvisible tracks � first-
hand. See what they saw and try to fee! what they felt. It wouldn't be hard.
Like visiting Egypt or Goree Island in Senegal, visiting the safe houses
and tunnel sites (many just discovered recently), the ancestors are so close
to you, you feel their spirits tapping you on the shoulder.
Even if we have to osteal away � from work for a week, itis well worth
it. And this is an absolute must for our children, and anybody who claims
othey know our suffering. � National Underground Railroad Tours are our
Museums of Tolerance for those who have such great desires for
multicultural exchange of painful experiences and cultural dialogue.
The latest new phenomena sweeping the East Coast, Southern, and
Midwest states are called oHeritage Tours. �
black is back � around the rest of the country. The
West and Northwest, *
While black is out in the
latest area of study is the demise of 19th century political economy in the
South.
The tool that broke down the South's primary economy, slavery, and
the politics that went along with it after the Civil War, was the under-
ground rail; a system so sophisticated that much of its mechanics are only
coming to light 140 years later. In the historical context of how African
people in their desire to remove themselves from the wrath of slavery, the
Underground Railroad is just a footnote. Historical discussion, in both
American and so-called oblack � history, are limited in acclaim and
account. Escape from slavery was by and large viewed as an anomaly.
But it was a deeply spiritual endeavor, a burning desire to reconnect
with the creator on human terms and go beyond the subhuman realities
created by oppressors of man. And just as the civil rights movement has
been secularized in history to evolve around one personality, Martin
Luther King Jr., so has the Underground Railroad attributes been secular-
ized to one personality, Harriet Tubman.
In a recent
conversation
about the upcoming political (or
silly) season, John Hill, chief of
staff for Supervisor Yvonne
Brathwaite Burke, and former head
of affirmative action for Los Ange-
les County, struck a chord that has
been reverberating for days.
Hill, a very thoughtful, intelli-
gent and intense gentleman, pointed
to some issues which seem to have
been overlooked by far too many
African American people.
He pointed out that the current
(Clinton) administration has cre-
ated a climate in this country that
no chief executive of the country
has equaled or has even come close
to equaling.
As he talked, it became clear
that during this administration, more
minorities have been placed in
policy-making positions than ever
before in history.
Beginning with the late Ron
Brown, who was named secretary
of commerce of the United States.
Then there was Hazel O'Leary, who
was secretary of energy. Ron Espy,
who headed the agriculture depart-
ment.
Anattemptto smear Espy wound
up in defeat, but Espy was seriously
damaged in the fray. Sull he had
been appointed to the post and did a
damned good job while he held the
office.
Clinton had the nerve to name a
black woman, Dr. Jocelyn Elders,
as surgeon general, and when she
came under fire from his opponents,
he had no choice but to accept her
resignation. 4
Still, he was undeterred. He
onamed Dr, David Satcher as her
teplacement. Satcher has some lo-
cal ties since he once headed the
Drew Medical School here in the
Southland. He stole Satcher from
the presidency of Meharry Medical
College in Nashville. These are just
a few of his appointees.
The real issue here is simple:
For the first time in history, the
cabinet of the President of the
United States began to take on the
cole:, if you will, of the nation it-
self. This was, and is, the legacy of
the Clinton administration.
Today, there are blacks, Hispan-
ics, and women, all in positions of
real, not imagined, power. Other
presidents, including John
Kennedy, could have done it, but
they didn Tt. Lyndon Johnson could
have done it. He certainly had the
power, but he did not use it for us.
The list goes on ad infinitum.
This brings us to the next point.
Hill pointed out a survey, which
indicated a number of African
Americans are supporting the can-
didacy of George W. Bush on the
Republicanticket. Hill asks a simple
question and we concur. Why?
The economy of this nation has
never been better. There are black
people making more money than
ever before. What could be changed
or made better by electing a George
W. Bush, ora Pat Buchanan? Would
either of them do more for minori-
ties than Clinton has done? We think
not. Yet we seem to have an inordi-
nate number of black people run-
URBAN PERSPECTIVE
A Hard Look at Clinton Ts Initiative on Race
Part 2
The final report of the advisory
board to the president's Initiative on Race 1s
entitled, One America in the 21st Century: Forg-
ing a New Future. The report is important be-
cause it is supposed to shape the race relations
debate in the United States in the near term.
hearings and meetings concentrated on deci-
phering the role race plays in a wide array of
institutions and cultural practices and public
policy, including civil rights enforcement, edu-
cation, poverty, employment, housing, stereo-
typing and the administration of justice, health
care and immigration.
t Broke, Please Don't Fix it
ning tothe Republican Party to sup-
port one or another of their candi-
dates. Again, why?
The whole intent of the various
Civil Rights Movements in this
country since the end of the Civil
War has been to achieve racial
equality and to be a viable and func-
tional part of the rules-making
group. It is finally a reality.
For the first time since we were
brought to this country in chains in the
17thcentury, we are there. Why would
or should we want to go back to the
way things were 100 years ago?
It makes no sense.
This is not a political endorse-
ment for any candidate. It is just
some statements of fact that cannot
be refuted or even argued. The
things, which have taken place in
this country within the past seven
years, are things we longed for,
begged for, marched for and died
for.
There is another issue, which must
be seen for what it is. Within our
ranks, we have those men and women
whose only concern is themselves.
So, if they align themselves with
certain political figures, it bodes well
for them. But it does not necessarily
bode well for the rest of the African
American people. They don Tt give a
tinker Ts damn about the plight of the
race. They are concerned primarily
with their own greed.
They can boast of their affilia-
tion with the oother � group with
some degree of selfish pride. They
have helped themselves and per-
haps to some degree, have been
able to help a few others. But those
~The Minority Voice: Oct 14 - Oct 21, 1999 |
few others they have helped are not
a drop in the proverbial bucket,
when we have had to look at all of
the others who are still in need.
The steps that have been made in
our behalf since the inception of the
Clinton administration are unparal-
leled. We need to recognize that
without a lot of hoopla and fanfare,
he has gone about his mission with
clarity and determination.
There are some among us who
will lambaste his personal life. That
is their individual prerogative. In
the meantime, those detractors need
to look at the strides made by Afri-
can Americans since he took office.
None of the things for which he
has been charged had anything to
do with how he handled his office
and how he made sure that his cabi-
net was reflective of the America
he swore to serve and uphold.
Factually, it is time we pulled
our collective head from the sand
and realized what has been done in
our behalf these past seven years
and than ask ourselves what the
future will hold?
Clearly, all is not right with the
world just yet. We are, however, on
the right track. When we are faced
with the choices we have, we need
to look closely at the track records
of those people who seek our sup-
port and our votes.
Even with the remaining prob-
lems, it appears we are on the right
track. If that is tha case, why should
we attempt to force the wheels of
progress to move backward?
If it ain Tt broke, the best thing to
do is leave it aldne.
see 1s more and more companies investing in
their workers ...
grams to provide them upward mobility. � Pro-
fessor Hine says this seems like a reasonable
request. If only these minorities be made to
mirror the larger white ideals, they could escape
on training and education pro-
their problems growing out of oracial disparity. �
Recounting the escapades of the most successful conductor, Harriet
Tubman (who freed 300 out of bondage) trivializes the impact and true
effect of those who collaborated in a sophisticated system of escape that
branched 23 states and freed 40,000 (that they could account for). That
doesn Tt account for the half-million that left and were caught and/or killed
trying to escape slavery. So many were escaping, and being aided by free
blacks, abolitionists, Northern business people (who couldn't compete
against the South Ts free labor) that it broke down the system. It wasn Tt
about Lincoln altogether, and it Ts a puzzle now being put together. As the
pieces have begun to fall in place in great volume, the picture is clearer
now.
What makes this exploration of the Underground Railroad such an
intriguing proposition is that it offers the opportunity to expand history
and, in some cases, correct history as it relates to our transition into
American society. It wasn't like there were four million of our ancestors
just standing around just waiting for somebody to free them. It was a
constant engagement of how to escape versus how to keep them enslaved.
It was the creation of codes and unwritten systems, many of which are still
in effect today (on both sides of the color line), whereby two races forced
lo interface under the most horrendous circumstances, yet could not
communicate their sincerest thoughts to the other.
Life for the enslaved and the enslaver was a constant gamesmanship
(much like it is today). Who can manipulate whom? One with the force of
man Ts law, the other with the force of God Ts law. The Underground
Railroad is a testament that man Ts law didn't always prevail uver God's
law, no matter how history tries to represent it. And for the African
ap T in study to focus on our experience at
its highest point (when we were kings and queens) instead of during our
lowest points (when the truest test of our God-centered nature was called
to bare). We focus on our oancient � ancestry versus our oimmediate � (or
American, there has been a og
not so ancient) ancestry
The first generations of Africans in slavery in America, as well as the
Accordingly, assessments of the report of the
advisory panel provide instructive analysis and,
hopefully, public discourse on race relations
issues.
This week Ts (and last week's) column pro-
vide two views of the One America report. The
first was Professor Howard Winant's Racial
Formation in the United States "from the 1960s
to the 1990s. Today Ts column summarizes Race
and Class in the 21st Century by Dr. Darlene
Clark Hine, professor of American History at
Michigan State University.
W.E.B. DuBois accurately prophesied in the
Souls of Black Folk (1903) that the problem of
the 20th century would be that of the color line.
In later writings, he elaborated on the color line
metaphor and added a class analysis. DuBois T
keen insights into the contours of divisions and
tensions between the predominantly white im-
perial master capitalists and the international
laboring groups of all colors bequeathed to us,
among other things, a powerful, indeed sober-
ing, paradigm.
Allconversations about race, racism and race
relations require a simultaneous class analysis
and sustained consideration of gender. But it 1s
within the framework of race and class intersec-
tion that Professoy Hine offers reflections on
One America in the 2]st Century: Forging a
New future, The President's Initiative on Race Ts
Advisory Board Report to the president.
Executive Order #13050 created the Initia-
Any review of the One America report 1s
likely to raise troubling questions. The assertion
that as a country we are more ounited than
divided � obscures the deep historical and con-
temporary divisions that characterize the basic
fabric of American society. Moreover, one must
ponder whether the report advances our under-
standing and ultimate goal of resolving the crisis
of color and class. In other words, should the
objective have been to break new ground rather
than to find common ground? Did the conun-
drum of race and political expediency prevent
the advisory board from calling outright for a
transformation of American capitalism?
One of the strengths of the One America
report is its discussion of the changing nature of
orace � in America. For too long, the terms of
race analyses have focused on the easy dichotomy
of white and black. The report offers five cat-
egories for race in contemporary America:
American Indian or Alaska Native; black or
African American; Native Hawaiian or other
Pacific Islander, white or non-Hispanic white;
Hispanic or Latino. These underscore the nu-
anced complexity of racial taxonomy to a degree
heretofore unmatched in the history of race rela-
tions in the United States. We desperately need
new paradigms that honor and accept and, in-.
deed, deity difference.
A major reservation of Professor Hine Ts is
what she calls the problem of an oinvisible
hand. � The One America report does not make
explicit who or what is doing whatever to which
Minorities, while willing to embrace a core of
shared American values, are nonetheless loathe
to relinquish their distinct traditions, history and
cultural productions as payment for a fully as-
similated American identity.
As America has become the world Ts pre-
eminent post-industrial superpower, its myriad
minorities continue to press for greater partici-
pation in arational economy and equal access to
the social and educational systems and make
incessant demands for a more equitable share of
political power.
Racial discourse is now so convoluted that it
must have been a welcome respite, as some
board members implied, to listen to ordinary,
everyday people talk about their perceptions and
understandings of race. Anecdotal recollections
and poignant testimony, however, while cer-
tainly cathartic for some, do little to extricate us
from the difficulties and disparities of race,
conjoined with class, sexuality and gender. It
bears repeating that racial discrimination does
violence to human dignity and personality and
devalues the culture and lifestyle of those marked
oother. �
We must collectively inculcate in the next
generation a deep appreciation for those mo-
ments and times. when differences are irrelevant
and even retrograde. As the advisory board cor-
rectly posits, all Americans share core values
and beliefs in justice, dignity, respect, equality
and opportunity and inclusion. To this extent,
we are one America, but we are not a perfect
last generation of enslaved Africans, had to be as learned, as disciplined,
as calculating as any European scholar and without the benefit of formal
education; following the rivers and. lakes, reading the sun, moon and stars,
communicating by rhythms and sounds, reading body language and
attitudinal behaviors to discern friend or foe in life or death situations. The
fruit of their sophistication and their struggle was, in part, the success of
the Underground Railroad.
Over the next three installments of this series, you will be able to
witness how complex this system was in its timing, in its collaboration and
in its geographical breath. The route we took was considered the most
traveled (and most dangerous) route, through Kentucky, Ohio, and Michi-
tive on Race and an advisory hoard charged with
the task Of advising the president on issues of
race and racism. The advisory board held a
series of conversations and forums with private
citizens and corporate, religious and local lead-
ers over a period of 15 months. The board's
group(s) and who will implement or enforce its
recommendations should any of them become
public policy.
Advisory board member Linda Chavez Th-
ompson declared, oOne of the things we'd like to
union. The most pressing challenge is to identify
the forces, make visible the underlying systemic
factors and mount a concerted relentless move-
ment to traverse and eradicate the barriers that
divide us.
STANLEY CUTCHINS,
retired from New
York City Health
Department " We
Greenville Ts New Beginning
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gan to Canada (Harriet Tubman escaped from Maryland and took, the East must encourage
Coast route through Rochester, New York). ownership of
Those of us who went on the tour had to go through a deprogramming Black businesses
of our own, given by the tour operator, a sister, named Angela deSilva, by contracting cor-
porate companies for sponsor-
ship. Hold seminars in schools,
churches and civic organiza-
tions to give advice about start-
ing your own business and to
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considered one of the foremost modern day scholars on the Underground
Railroad (she Ts identified several sites on the tour undiscovered before her
contact with them). First, what is the Underground Railroad?
You wouldn't believe how many people thought (and still think) it was
an actual railroad. Most people thought it was a singular route traveled
back and forth. All of that was incorrect, The Underground Railroad was
a coordinated system that had literally hundreds of routes, and the routes
changed frequently by day or night, and by state and jurisdiction. Thus
coining the term, oInvisible Tracks. � If you knew where it was, you could
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Over the last four decades,
scholarship on the transatlantic
slave trade has experienced
something of a_ renaissance.
Scholars in Europe, Africa, the
Americas and the Caribbean
have made the slave trade the
object of new historical, economic,
political and cultural studies.
Gradually, they have begun to
discover and assess the far-reach-
ing impact that the silver trade
and slavery have had on their
respective societies, nations and
continents as well as on the glob-
al political economy. What I pro-
pose to do in this brief presenta-
tion is suggest some of the ways
in which the intended and unin-
tended consequences of the slave
trade shaped the modern world
as we know it today.
There is no general agreement
in academic circles or among the
public at large about what consti-
tutes the modern world and when
it began. Some trace its origins
back to the 13th century. Others
date it from the late 19th century,
when European colonial powers
consolidated their economic and
political hold over the peoples of
the world, including Africa and
Asia. For my purposes, and with-
in the context of this presenta-
tion, I have chosen to date the ori-
gins of the modern world from the
first of the Columbian transat-
lantic voyages. Said another way,
the modern world began with
Columbus T first voyage to the
Americas; it was that voyage that
ushered in the era of European
colonial expansion that resulted
in, among other things, the orga-
nization of the transatlantic slave
trade. The slave trade, in turn,
fostered the development of
entirely new levels of communi-
cation, trade, cultural exchange
and economic and political inter-
dependence between the peoples
of Europe, Africa and the Americ-
as. The emergence and develop-
ment of these interdependent
continental relationships distin-
guishes the modern era from its
predecessors.
Over the 400-year history of
the trade, upwards of 12 million
Africans survived the middle pas-
sage and were distributed
throughout the Americas " North,
Central and South America - and
the Caribbean. Estimates of the
total number of African lives lost
or impaired by the process of war-
fare, capture and enslavement
that fueled the trade range from
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50-100 million people. The slave
trade in all its facets " capture in
Africa, transshipment across the
Atlantic and sale in the Americas
" took place in a market-driven,
uneven fashion over a period of
400 years. It was uneven in terms
of the time when the migrations
occurred, the places from which
the African captives were taken
and the islands, continents and
colonies in which they were
enslaved.
Upwards of 40 percent of the
Africans sold in the western hemi-
sphere went to Brazil, while only
4.5-5 percent ended up in the con-
tinental United States. The tiny
island of Barbados matched the
United States T percentages. while
Jamaica almost doubled them.
Upwards of 50 percent of the sur-
vivors of the middle passage were
transported to the Americas dur-
ing the 18th century. Over 90 per-
cent of the Africans involved in
the trade were from the west
African coast.
The demographics of the slave
trade take on an even more
remarkable significance when
studied within the overall context
of the peopling of the Americas.
Contrary to popular opinion,
African peoples constituted the
majority of the people who
migrated from the Old World to
the New World during the forma-
tive stages of European colonial
expansion in the Americas. This
suggests an even larger economic,
political and cultural role for:
African peoples in American colo-
nial development than we have
even begun to imagine.
According to several sources,
between 1492 and 1776, or rough-
ly the first 300 vears of what we
understand to be the colonial pen
od of American history, 6.5 million
people crossed the Atlantic from
Africa and Europe and settled in
the Americas: North, Central and
South America and the
Caribbean. Of those 6.5 million
people, only 1 million were Euro-
pean. The other 5.5 million people
were African.
Most of the histories that we
have read have been wnitten from
colonial perspectives: from the
perspectives of the minority of the
population: from the perspectives
of the institutional histories of the
colonizing powers. They haven't
taken into account any of the eco-
nomic, political and social conse-
quences of the simple demograph-
1c fact that the overwhelming
majority of the people involved in
the rnaking of the colonial Amen-
cas were African. Indeed, as late
as 1820. the ratio of Africans to
Europeans who had come from
the Old World to the New was still
3:1, so those of us who are
involved in the studv of the
African Diaspora and the Ameri-
can experience are really faced
with two sets of intellectual chal-
lenges.
The first is to set the record
straight about the African expen-
ence in the Western Hemisphere,
but second, and of equal impor-
tance, we are taced with the chal-
lenge of rewriting, in a fundamen-
tal way, the history of the Americ-
as. Because if, as indeed appears
to be the case, two-thirds or more
of the peoples of the Western
Hemisphere have not been
included in the history, then we
don't know very much about the
history of the Western Hemi-
sphere. We are faced with the
twin challenges of trying to
rethink and understand, both
what has been the nature of the
African experience in this hemi-
sphere, and what has been the
impact of the African presence,
and African economic and politi-
cal and social activity on the shap-
ing of the Americas. What has
been the impact of African peoples
on the making of the Americas
and the rnodern world?
It should be clear from the pre-
ceding summary that one of the
major consequences of the slave
trade for the Americas was in the
peopling of the Americas. African
peoples formed the foundation on
which the societies and cultures of
the Americas were built. More-
over, if there is any truth to this
notion that the Americas should
be called the oNew World, � it was
the African peoples in the Americ-
as who made the Americas new. If
the concept of the oNew World �
has any real meaning, it is a
direct consequence of the pres-
ence and activities of African peo-
ple in this hemisphere (the major-
ity of its immigrant population)
during the formative period of the
development of the nations, com-~ ~
munities and societies of the
Americas, especially those in the
Caribbean, Central and South
America and the southern United
States
Let Ts begin with the people
themselves. There has been a ten-
dency among some sectors of the
academic and educational com-
munity to think of Africa as a
country rather than a continent,
and to think of African peoples as
a homogenous group. The fact of
the matter is that the African peo-
ple who were involved in the slave
trade experience were extremely
diverse, frequently as much
strangers to each other as they
were to their European captors.
Africa is indeed a continent with a
multiplicity of ethnic, national
and religious groups and this cul-
tural, religious, national and lin-
guistic diversity was represented
in the populations that were
involved in the slave trade.
Upon arriving on these shores,
they fashioned themselves into
new peoples. They brought their
Yoruba and Ga and Akan cultural
attributes with them, but these
facets of their identity were inter-
connected and intertwined with
the cultural and ethnic experi-
ences of the other Africans they
met, as well as with indigenous
peoples and the peoples of the var-
ious calonial powers. And-so the
African peoples themselves, both
biologically and culturally, were
transformed into new people
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over the New score 100 points in an NBA game, died riors, 76ers and Lakers. He later men to win the MVP and rookie of the including widening the lant i iry t4
York Knicks on Tuesday at 63. stirred controversy with boasts of his year awards in the same season (1959- keep him farther from the basket. ii:
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ao bed at his Bel-Air home at about 12:30 Chamberlain scored 31,419 points 1968. He led the NBA in scoring seven points he scored in ihe Philadelphia
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*Sensation: Youny British Artists
From the Saatchi Collection
which is scheduled to begin on
Oct. 2.
The mayor who hasn Tt seen the
exhibition, says he is offended by
the various works of art and has
characterized it as odisgusting �
and o commercial sensational-
ism. � .
The mayor has publicly threat-
ened to terminate $ 7 million in
city funding for the museum and
its lease if the Brooklyn Museum
doesn't cancel the exhibition of
modern art.
Deputy Mayor Rudy Levine
joined in the fracas. publicly
stating that the monthly checks
which BMA receives will be
suspended unless the exhibit is
canceled. and the city will block
$20 million in construction funds
for major repairs and other con-
struction projects.
New York State Chairman tor the
Democratic Party Judith Hope
said. oThis is yet another example
of classic Giulianism. While we
certainly, do not condone this
particular artwork. the mayor's
complete and total overreaction
sends a scary message of how he
wants to rule this city. In
addition, the mayor has threatened
to seize control of the museum
and fire BMA Ts board of trustee's
and has even stated oWe'll do
everything we can to remove
funding for the Brooklyn Museum
until the director comes to. his
senses and realizes that if you are
government- subsidized " enter-
prise. then you can Tt do things that
desecrate the most personal and
deeply held views of people in
society.
Speech or "Disgusting"
Apparently. the
mayor has no legalground
to stand on because the law ts
very clear that once there's mu-
nicipal funding to the arts it
cannot be revoked if public offi-
cialy deem the work of art
ooffensive. � Because the mayor
has no. strong legal argument.
there Ts widespread speculation
that his singling out a few pieces
of art has more to do with politics
than with offensive art.As the
mayor positions himself for a
New York Senate seat. his motives
are. being viewed as political
posturing to the Catholic voting
bloc in New York.
oThis is a very thinly veiled
attempt to curry favor with the
right-wing Republican conserva-
tives. He Ts more interested in ap-
peasing the right -wing extremist
than preserving the otherwise
strong tradition of the Brooklyn
Museum of Art. � said Hope.
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At the core of our first and 14th
amendments is the sanctity of verbal
and written expression.
Understanding that the very nature
of ideas is subjective. these amend-
ments inhibit the government from
legislating the free flow of ideas. In
American. 1999. Ku Klux Klan
members can freely assemble and
march down your street without fear
of government sanctions because of
our constitution recognizes the
greater good: the free market of
ideas is essential to "the common
quest for truth and the vitality of
society as a whole" (Bose Corp V.
Consumer Union of US. Inc.:
1984). These amendments are sac-
rosanct to our democracy. They also
account for a substantial amount of
bad art.
Exhibit A: The "Sensations" dis-
play at the Brooklyn Museum.
which features such graceless ev-
pressions as nine pints of human
blood encased in a stainless steel
caste of a human head: a depiction
The Minority Voice: Oct 14 - Oct 21, 1999
of the Virgin Mary splattered with
elephant dung: various severed
livestock parts: graphic nudes.
An art display this bad is not
accidental. Museums do not stum-
ble backwards into depiction's of
the Virgin Mary splattered with
elephant dung. What the Brooklyn
Museum surely realized was the
sheer vivacity with which this
display was bad. Unlike the usual
chow line of dull squiggly lines.
"Sensations" never falls flat. Its
assault on the senses is continual.
endless. senseless. felt flesh to
bone. It is the captain Ahab of bad
art. Such extremes are always good
for a few bucks from the curious
public. Giuliani on NBC's oMeet
the Press." "What I'm saying is very
simple. � The mayor said. "Nobody
wants to suppress it. Put it ina
private museum. pay for it yourself
[as opposed to with tax dollars. ]"
Both functions miss the point: this
is hardly a first amendment issue.
od for a few bucks for a curious publi
No. one is trying to press
charges against the artists. to de-
nounce them as pornographers and
such, No one is denying them the
right to artistic expression or threat-
ening to arrest him or her for their
bad art. No one is attempting to
legislate taste. Should they find
independent financial backers as
avant-garde Manhattan museums
traditionally have done-they would
be free to display their bad art as
they wish.
By threatening to remove public
funding to the museum. Mr.
Guiliani is simply saying that public
funds should not be used to finance
offensive art. hurtful art. Mr.
Guliani is not denying these artists
the right to produce and display bad
art. He's simply refusing to fund
such art with taxpayer's dollars. If
Mr. Guliani has his was. these
artists will have to look to private
investors from the tunding of their
bad art. He's not denying them
artistic assault.
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Photo by Jim Rouse
BY LEE HUBBARD
Bringing down the
Confederate Flag
Bs was a hot day in Oakland as
I walked down a busy street and
came face to face with a bearded,
middle-aged White man in a
cowboy hat. boots and a body
length shirt picturing T huge
confederate flag.
[ was in a rush, but the stars
and stripes of the confederate flag
caught my attention, so I stopped
- to look at the man. As I stood to
read the slogan oDixie Pride � on
the back of the shirt, a Black
woman in her 40s began cussing
at the man about his shirt. The
interaction between the two of
them signals the racial
divisiveness that the confederate
flag creates.
It was the banner uniting the
group of southern states that
seceded trom the United States in
1860-186] and marched to war
over the preservation of slavery.
To some White people, the
contederate flag symbolizes
honor and southern pride. To
Blacks, on the other hand, it 1s
the visual equivalent of the oN �
word and a sign of racial
oppression and White supremacy.
The flag is now at the center of
a national boycott of the state of
South Carolina, called by Martin
Luther King III and his Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC), a group his father once
led.
South Carolina is the only state
in the Union that publicly flies
the confederate flag at its state
capital under the United States
and South Carolina flags. It was
re-raised in 1962 to symbolize
the Civil War centennial -
coincidentally at the same time
the civil rights movement was
dismantling American apartheid
throughout the south, and it has
remained affixed to the state
capital ever since.
There have been attempts
before to remove the flag. The
former South Carolina Governor
David Beasly (R) tried and was
defeated in a re-election bid for
saying he wanted it moved. But,
Mr. King Ts current call to boycott
the state may be the quickest way
to end this visual showing of
nativism.
Tourism is a big deal in South
Carolina, and Black tourists
spend over $280 million a year.
So far, the NAACP and the
Progressive National Baptist
Convention are supporting the
SCLC boycott. The African
Methodist Episcopal Church and
the National Urban League have
even re-scheduled conferences -
that generate millions in revenues
- to other states until the flag
comes down.
oIn the 21st century, it 1s time
that we move in a positive
direction, � said Mr. King. oThe
confederate flag belongs in a
museum. � .
Some legislators in South
Carolina like State Senator
Arthur Ravenel Jr. (R) say the
flag symbolizes othe blood and
the sacrifice of the people, who
carsied that flag. � During the
Civil War, there were many
courageous confederate soldiers
who fought for the flag, including
between 60,000-90,000 Black
soldiers whd served in some
capacity under the confederate
flag in exchange for their
freedom.
But, flying the flag in its
present form is the visual
equivalent of Germany hanging a
Swastika under the current flag of
Germany � It should be taken
down, � said South Carolina U. S.
Senator Fritz Hollis (D). oIt is
being used by extremists. �
While politicians in the state
are slow to move on the action,
they may need to look at the
actions of their southern brethren
at the University of Mississippi.
In the past, after a football score,
hundreds of students and alumni
at OLE Miss, would wave and fly
the confederate flag in
celebration.
But after years of losing the
recruiting battle for top Black
athletes, as a result of the flag
waving celebration, Tommy
Tuberville, the head coach of the
football team, went on a public
plea to fans and alumni to stop
the flag waving. You see less
talent equals losing, less
exposure, and ultimately less
money to the football team and
university coffers.
Since Mr. Tuberville Ts plea,
flag waving has virtually stopped
at the games.
The moral argument against
having the confederate flag rest
on top of the state capital is
sound. But; the call to boycott the
state of South Carolina may make
politicians reconsider the symbol
that as Mr. King says, oneeds to
be hanging in a (state) museum. �
Instead of flying on top ot the
state capital.
Lee Hubbard can be reached
for question or comment at:
superle @ hotinail.com.
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HOW TO BE A GOOD
SPORTS PARENT
Parents come to youth
sports because they care about
supporting their
children, appreciating the benefits
of physical exercise and team
play. This caring
usually helps children enjoy
sports and remain healthy. both
emotionally and physi-
cally.
However. it is possible to care too
much, which can make sports one
of the
most negative experiences for a
child.
By adopting the following posi-
tive behaviors and avoiding some
of the
common pitfalls, parents can help
keep the games and enjoyable and
rewarding for
the rewarding for their children.
1. Start with the fundamentals.
Most experts say children should
start in sports when they show a
genuine, self-motivated interest.
This does not seem the first step
should involve organized compe-
tition.
Getting started means playing. It
seems learning fundamentals and
skills. It means picking up games
and playing catch, kicking balls
Reap lcctetior2
the Desk of Mrs. Beatrice Maye
and shooting hoops in the back-
yard. Too often, kids/lightly over
play and skill building and get
right to the game action and all of
its trappings. Instead of focusing
on fundamentals, they're more
intent on performing.
Age 10 is the right age
for kids to get involved in
organized sports. By age 12
many kids have done everything.
They've traveled, received tro-
phies, had new uniforms, been
cheerleaders, made the all-star
team, the whole thing. What Ts to
look forward to?
2. To prevent burnout, don't
overdo the rewards. It Ts OK to
miss a game, parents. Supportive
parents have been known to start
living through the children, push-
ing kids accomplish what the
parents could not. It is what
experts call achievement by
proxy, which can damage a
parent-child relationship. Back
off parents. Don Tt wear T-shirts
saying oI am Johnny's mother �.
Don Tt go to every practice. Skip
a game or two. Part of growing
up is the separating process. The
child should not have a mom or
dad looking Over the fence at
every move. Kids see themselves
in sports as an opportunity to be
with friends, wear a shiny uni-
form, and if the ball comes to
them, fine, they try to score.
) @
%. Avoid projection. As a parent,
it is not easy to stay in the present
with children. Too often in
sports, parents start projecting
that. Woow, my daughter could be
a great star some day. Projection
implies a dissatisfaction, " that
what the child is doing now is not
good enough. It also adds
pressure on kids who face enough
pressure already from their peers.
at school and from within. More
than 70 per cent of children drop
out of youth sports by age 12.
The number one reason is too
much pressure. Parents may be
pushing their child toward a
college scholarship: For every $1
dollar available in academic
scholarships. So, if you are in it
for a scholarship, it pays to have
your children do homework rather
than shooting free throws �, says
Keith Zembower, sports consult-
ant and retired coach.
4. Approach the coach with a
cooperative attitude. Coaches are
powerful role models for chil-
dren, and sometimes face stagger-
ing responsibilities.
Many coaches do a good job, but
all coaches make mistakes.
Evaluate the coach early in the
season. He may know about
sports. but is he or she a good
person. If the coach treats people
fairly, and if he doesn Tt. don't let
your kid play for the coach.
Never, parent, come out of the
stands and confront a coach
before, during, or after a game.
Your child learns that Ts how you
resolve things. Wait a day. Call
and rather than being confronta-
tional, be cooperative. Most
coaches today are volunteers.
Ultimately. being a good sports
parent is a balancing act. You
hug your children in loving
support and at the same time you
let them go. Too much of ene or
the other can cause problems. but
if parents have to err to one side,
it would be on the letting go side.
ListeN first say less. hug more.
but let the children play their
games.
6. Parents, find yours sport. go
play your own game. " Get
involved in a soft ball or tennis
league, or play pickup hoop
games at your health spa/club.
You will get good exercise, burn
up some of your nervous energy
and quickly remember - or learn
-that the game you watch your son
or daughter play is not always as
easy as it looks. After you play
your game, you will probably be
quicker to empathize than criti-
cize your child Ts play.
Who
knows, maybe when you feel blue
that a grounder got through
your legs and cost your soft ball
team the championship, it will be
your child who puts an arm
around you and say, oThat Ts OK.
It happens to everyone �.
(BY: Gary Legwold, BETTER
HOMES AND GARDENS,
APRIL 1998)
TEACHING CHILDREN
GOOD MANNERS
Teaching children is not interrupt
adult conversations, follow these:
First. in learning not to interrupt
strengthens patience.
Second. learning not to interrupt
strengthens respect for adults.
Third. the adult is annoyed when
a child interrupts an adult conver-
sation.
With regard to the last. it seems
that today Ts parents teach their
children it'S perfectly all right
to interrupt two adults in conver-
sation and for any reason at all, by
simply saying. oExcuse me! � Too
many parents are lazy when it
comes to taking time to teach
their children. They think parent-
ing is taking a child to a
basketball game and watching
from the stands. Parenting is not
a spectacular sport. It Ts hands on.
lake the time to teach a child by
explaining and rehearsing how to ,,
be recognized when two adults
are engaged in conversation.
And don't forget. when your
child does the right thing, to tell
him how proud you " are.
Punishment is a necessary aspect
of discipline. but without equal
amounts of praise. it breeds
contempt.
John Rosemond. Child psycholo-
gist/author
Note:
A dining room is just a physical
space.
WORDS OF WISDOM
Knowledge is indeed power.
Maya Angelou
You touch people by realizing
that they want what everyone
wants: recognition, respect, and to
feel as if they matter.
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you
until it seems that you cannot hold
on for a minute, never give up
then. for that is just the place and
time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Look at
the business of daily living -
getting groceries, paying bills.
overseeing homework.doing
household chores, buying birth-
day gifts and occasionally run-
ning to the bank. shoe repairs. gas
station, dry cleaners. and the post
office.
FAMILY VALUES
1. Do not lie. steal. throw
tantrums. or appear in public
poorly groomed.
2. To criticize family to outsiders
is unconscionable. Let com-
plaints stop at the door.
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3. You can do whatever you put
your mind to.
4. Defend and depend upon one
another.
5. Household rules are absolute
and chores mandatory.
6. Stay close. even in living tar
apart.
FRIENDSHIP
I. It is noble to have a friend, but
still nobleer to be a friend.
Richard Wagiiér
2. Say a good word gbout
everybody.
3. Nothing bad ever came: trom
real LOVE even an overdose of
real LOVE. Virginia Basler
4. Those who bring sufiShine
into the lives of others cannot
keep it from themselves.
Sir James Barrie
5. No one is rich enough-to do
without a neighbor.
Danish Proverb
6. Wars and strife shall end when
man has made the man next door
a friend.
Edgar A. Guest
7. After the verb to love. to help
is the most beautiful verb in the
world.
8. When a friend ask, there is
no tomorrow. Old Proverb
9. A friend is what the heart
needs all the time.
Henry Van Dyke
10. The language of friendship
is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
11. Some people make the world
brighter just by being in it.
12. A little act of kindness can
fill a heart with joy.
Katherine Nelson
TIP TALK
|. Don't rest your ladder on a
gutter. If you bend or dent it,
water may opuddle.
2. Rake when leaves are dry. Wet
ones are heavy and slippery.
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