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Serving Eastern North Carolina Since 1981

December 31,

1999 - January 7, 2000

Putty T Big Date is Valentine's Day;
Girlfriend Lopez is off the hook

By Vinette K. Pryce

After a high-
profile, date-filled
1999, Sean oPuffy ?
Combs T big date for
Y2K is linked into
his itinerary for Feb.
14. A time and place
|| is already confirmed
f| for a court date with
| the district attorney
on Valentine Ts Day.
Combs made this a
priority after mem-
bers of the New York

Police Department
apprhended him and
three colleagues

when his vehicle raced orecklessly ? through Manhattan streets after
a shooting incident inside a Manhattan nightclub. According to
Officer Carmen Melendez, the Dec. 27 shooting occurred at
approximately 2:55 a.m. at Club New York oA dispute started inside
the club...three victims were shot. ? she said. She named 29-year-old
Natanya Rubin, who was shot in the face, and Julius Jones, 27, and

Robert Thomas, 39, who suffered gun-shot wounds to the shoulder.
Reportedly, 19-year-old Jamal Barrow, of 783 E. Sist St. in
Brooklyn, was arrested. He was charged with three counts of
attempted murder and possession T of a weapon. Subsequently, a
vehicle was spotted driving recklessly through the streets... ? It was
that vehicle which carried Combs, 30, singer Jennifer Lopez, Wardell
Fenderson, 41, and Anthony Jones. All were charged with criminal
possession of a weapon and criminal possession of stolen property.
Jones, 34, was also charged with criminal possession of marijuana.
Lopez seemed to have negotiated immunity and was not charged.
Combs has pleaded ignorance to ownership of the 9mm gun. He has
been adamant in explaining that he does not carry or own a gun.
However, the negative publicity has clouded his image as a young,
successful entrepreneur. Combs has been courted by the media as a
glamorous fella, record mogul, ladies T man, player and celebrity
magnet. His picture appears often gossip pages as a constant
companion of the rich and famous, some of whom include Donald
Trump and Damy "Bevito. His high-profile stance,-however, has
resulted in the dredging of his past misdeeds. Since the incident,
television has reminded viewers that Combs was fully responsible for
another December incident nine years ago at City College, where
nine young people were killed due to a stampede prior to a celebrity
event to which basketball had lured youngsters. Another event which
linked Combs to criminal activity resurfaced with reminders of a
beating he reportedly gave a record company executive who
allegedly violated a request to refrain from releasing a video which
depicted the Bad Boy head as a crucified Jesus.

While Combs is being pinpointed as criminal-minded, his Christmas
date, Lopez, is being urged by her Latin friends to odump the punk. ?
Maria Gonzalez, a Brooklynite, said oshe has more to lose than he
does. Her fan base is in the Latin community and we know her as
an angel not a thug. ? When asked if Combs were perceived as a thug,
the response by Gonzalez and her friends was resoundingly
unanimous: oHe is a thug. ?

Nyika O. White,

Currently; #2 in North Carolina, as a Glass 1 Elite Gymnast, of The
United States Gymnastics Association. Finished the 1998-99 Season,
as NC State Sell oh Class 2 Elite Gymnast. Nyika, has also been
inducted into the National Beta Club as a oJunior ? at Williamston,
NC High School. He is steady an course to become a World Class
oAthlete ?, and World Class oindividual ?, along with attaining a
Quality Education! Photo by Jim Rouse

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Wishing Everyone a Successful and Prosperous New Year !

Martin Luther
King, Jr.

Celebration

The Pitt County Chapter of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference is honored to invite
everyone to participate in the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday
Celebration 2000- "Where Do We
Go From Here?" being held at
J.H. Rose High School in
Greenville, NC. This year's cele-
bration is special because it is the
first one of the New Millennium
and we are expecting it to set the
tone for our organization for the
years to come. Celebration 2000
will begin on Saturday January
15, 2000 at 6:00 p.m. with a "soul
stirring" gospel concert with
Brother Darius Shackleford serv-
ing as the Master of Ceremonies.
The concert will feature the Oaks
of Righteousness from Knoxville,
TN, Moye's Chapel Young Adult
Choir from Farmville, NC, Fresh
Anointed from Greenville, NC
and more. On Sunday January 16,
2000 at 6:00 p.m. we will con
tinue to celebrate as State
Legislator Attorney Milton Toby
Fitch of Wilson, NC delivers our
keynote address and Pastor Randy
Royal (Philippi Church of Christ
in Greenville, NC) serves as the
Master of Ceremonies. But, we
are not done yet! On the actual
holiday of Monday January 17,
2000 at 10:00 a.m. the Coalition
Against Racism along with SCLC
will sponsor a Freedom March
from the Eppes Recreational
Facility on MLK Dr. and Nash St.
to City Hall and back. Then at

- 3:00p.m., our future leaders will

take the stage to display their

"gifts from above" through a
Youth Talent Show hosted by
Felicia Higgs and Fabian
Delootch. The show will feature
talents from ages 5 through 21. in
which the audience will serve as the

judges. Prizes will be awarded in
this event. If you would like to sign
up for the gospel concert or the
talent show, you have until January
10th to do so, but spaces are filled
on a first come basis. Please call the
SCLC office at 252-757-1599 to
secure your place. Make your plans
now to help us celebrate the life, the
accomplishment. the legacy of our
Founding President Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. !

U.S. lawmakers

want new
labels on food

WASHINGTON (IPS) " A
group of U.S. lawmakers said that
they planned to introduce legislation
to require the mandatory labeling of
all food containing trace amounts of
genetically engineered products. .

Called the oGenetically Engineered
Food Right to Know Act, ? the
proposed bill would oppose the
current U.S. regulatory position that
genetically modified foods are no
different than other food products.

The bill would include the
labeling of meat, dairy and poultry
products. Foods that contain milk
from a cow injected with genetically
engineered hormones, for example,
would be labeled as produced with
genetically engineered material.

The twenty lawmakérs said the
wide presence of genetic engineering
in today's foods posed certain
health risks, including increased
toxicity, increased exposure to
allergens and antibiotic resistance.

Congratulations Evelyn Littles, the frist African American and the frist female Mayor of Grimesland.
Evelyn Littles served on the Board Directors of the NC League of Municipal for two years, as well as
on the Board of Directors for the NAACP. She graduated from G.R. Whitfield High School in North
Carolina and continued her education at New York University Adult Education program. She attended
several business courses there and received certificates while employed as a secretary at the University
from 1957- 1966. Some of the issues she stands for is safety and security for all citizens of Grimesland.
And, zero tolerance on illegal drug trafficking.
. Photo By Jim Rouse

Our man in DC,

Brother Jim Rouse and the NC Assoc. of Broadcasters met with the FCC to discuss low power FM radio
stations. Brother Rouse was joined by other NC Broadcasters. Brother Rouse is shown at the Natl. Assoc.
of Broadcasters in DC prior to the meeting with the FCC. January 4th Brother Rouse announced his
candidacy for House seat District 8. :

Pitt Commissioner Jeff Savage step down from his seat after the board's next regular meeting on Jan. 10
Savage, 39, a commissioner for seven years, said he is leaving the board for personal reason related to his
family. oIt Ts time for Jeff Savage to become daddy, and it Ts time off for Jeff Savage to become husband ?
he said during a break at the commissioners meeting on Monday. oThere was not a difficult decision at all,
The weight of the world has been lifted from my shoulders. ? The resignation, which Savage prefers to call
oretirement, ? has nothing to do with his September arrest for driving while impaired and resisting arrest,
Savage said. He has not yet gone to trial for the charges. oPeople are going to speculate and the timing
would not eliminate that, ? he said. oThey would speculate on one thing or another, It is'strictly for my wife
and children. ? Mr. Savage is pictured with Dave Mc Cray President of Pitt Memorial Hospital.

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fhete from the oM" Voice Files
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Com sentation of the
ec aes Los = Angeles
NAACP's Lifetime Achievement
Award, named after civil rights pio-
neer H. Claude Hudson, to L.A.
_ Police Chief Bernard Parks got some
- ?,?ommunity circles up in arms for
some very obvious reasons. Convo-
luted in the debate, of course, is why
would someone want to protest an
award given to an obviously popu-
ar chief of police. The counterpoint
is why give the award at a time
when the department is in the midst
of a growing scandal, one of the
worst (if not, the worst) in its his-
tory with the public disclosures that
street cops are straight-up framing
folks (something the community has
known for 30 years).

The point that was missed was
that awarding a olifetime achieve-
ment ? recognition on Park was sim-
ply premature, particularly before
Parks does what he was put there to
do, which is reform the nation Ts
most (historically) corrupt munici-
pal law enforcement, the Los Ange-
tes Police Department. Parks T ap-
pointment and civil service career

~The Minority Voice Dec. 31 - Jan. 7, 2000

that T s owe what they should.
have give him "a meritorious
award), the ultimate Bernard Parks
olifetime ? achievement (as far as
LAPD goes) would come.after the
reform and he Ts not-there yet. in
fact, he Ts a long way from.it... .

The Colored People Ts Assn., on
the other hand continues to live up
to its state of perpetual dysfunction
and celebrated compromise by con-
tinuing to recognize people for
things other than honorable motives
The Los Angeles branch of NAACP
has a history of selling its awards
for sponsor.and popular celebrity
favor, a position juxtaposed to the
real purpose of H. Claude Hudson Ts
life achievement, long time truth,
advocacy and struggle.

It really didn Tt matter to me
whether Bernard Parks received the
award not. We really have more
critical issues in our community to
worry about. People honor who they
want to, it doesn Tt mean the recog-
nition is always worthy. Protesters
tried to make it about Parks T posi-
tion on the Margaret Mitchell shoot-
ing and current scandal which pre-

KLEAVER TS KLPPINS
An Unusual Reason for Giving Thanks

greene prs Parks T appearance at
the Urban Issues Breakfast, Forum
last month) that he is making some
headway. Not olife achievement ?
kinda T headway, but headway still.
Headway worthy of some recogni-
tion. I Tm not raising opom-poms ?

_ for the chief, but if the choice wasn Tt

Parks, it would be another compro-
mise awardee. That Ts how the
NAACP is these days.

Every now and then they get it
right (as they did with Tom Bradley
last year), but most times they Tre a
minute too soon or a minute too late
in their positions.

The L.A. NAACP doesn Tt know
whether its T comin T or goin T, and
with low membership, with slow
advocacy positions, the award
othing ? is just a popularity piece.
But the Parks award is not the worst
choice this branch has ever made.
It Ts not as distasteful as when Frank
Sinatra received the Life Achieve-
ment Award in 1987 (a year after
the award was started with Hudson
himself being the first recipient).
That was an ugly situation.

The irony of this whole award

- ' dideessio is we speak up when

there Ts nothing to talk about, and
remain silent when there Ts some-
thing to say. Twelve years ago,
Sinatra was selected to receive the
award in a backroom deal amongst a
few branch executive committee
members that started the biggest
branch fight (and split whereby
5,000 members walked away from
the branch) in this city Ts history.
Sinatra Ts people agreed to osell
out ? the dinner (to the tune of
$350,000) if Sinatra received the
Life Achievement Award. Sinatra
was also on the human rights (Am-
nesty International) oblacklist ? for
performing at the South African re-
sort, Sun City, during the height of
apartheid oppression, and most in
the branch opposed the award but
wouldn Tt state it publicly since the
deal was oalready done. ? Sinatra, in
fact, legitimized the resort when
most other major entertainers pub-
licly stated, oWe ain Tt gonna play
Sun City ? (the name of a song that
came out of the campaign). The
Negro leadership in Los Angeles
remained silent (because the
NAACP wasn Tt the only organiza-

Back in the spring, Jan Maria

Pye had the honor of being the
first black woman to serve on the Desert Hot
Springs City Council. For the uninformed, Desert
Hot Springs sits out by Palm Springs and is
considered a relatively affluent community.

. She did not win an election or even run for

office. Because of her involvement in the com-
munity, she was chosen to fill the unexpired term
of a former council member. She had no political
ambition and candidly said so. Her term of office
was slated to be over in November of this year,
when a special election would be held.
_- Well, November rolled around and Jan Pye,
who is incidentally the daughter of noted sports
writer Brad Pye Jr. and Eunice Pye, had not
really changed her mind. She had enjoyed her
brief stay on the council and had become a
highly respected member of the body.

"It is really kind of hard to describe the things
that happened next. She didn Tt launch a political
campaign and when donors sought to make a
contribution to her non-campaign, she refused

.the money. It was like she had been conscripted
or drafted I the council race.
» Herresolve never wavered. She refused. She
refused to author a statement to be included on
"the ballot and she had no campaign literature.
' She was truly an oambassador without portfo-
slio. ? Hér thrust seemed to be to offer whatever
:level of expertise she had to the city and to take
scare of her teenage daughter, Amber, who is an
"honor student at Palm Springs High School.
» Amber is, without question, the apple of her
-grandfather Ts eye. If you don Tt believe it, just
cask him.
Anyway. As the political osilly season ? be-
gan to reach a climax, Jan Pye Ts name was on the
ballot. She was nonchalant and even casual about
sit. She had no great aspirations or even hopes
about winning the election. She accepted the
fact that she had virtually been drafted and kept

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URBAN PERSPECTIVE Scams
African Americans T Silence is Wieccmace to Kids

on about her business.

On the night of Nov. 2, however, the voters
made their position and their desires clear. When
the dust had settled and the votes had been
counted, she had garnered more ballots than
both of her opponents combined.

As a matter of fact, she received more votes
than the mayor. Jan had 9990 votes and the
mayor had only 714. One of her opponents,

Angela D, Avramidis, finished with 461 votes

and Rochelle Esser managed to get 274 votes.

Please note. This is not a predominantly Af-
rican American community. It is of some ex-
treme interest that Jan Pye was endorsed by the
conservative newspaper, the Desert Sun. The
Sun charged that Jan Pye had been one of the
most focused and effective members of the coun-
cil, as well as the most popular.

In It Ts endorsement of Pye, The Sun said,
oPye, who joined the council in March has dis-
tinguished herself as a no nonsense leader of
vision and passion. The one council member
most voters trust and rightfully so. She was
instrumental in getting the June utility tax passed
and has taken the lead-on preparing another tax
measure to ensure the city Ts viability. ?

The newspaper went on to say o... with the
assistance of proven incumbent Jan Pye, the city
should finally be able to maximize the tourism
and economic development strengths so badly
mismanaged under previous administrations. ?

Jan calmly accepted her victory, but there
was a hint of pride when she said, oThis is like
getting an oa ? on my report card for my perfor-
mance so far. I said I could take care of business
and focus on the issues. ?

She is scheduled to be officially sworn into
office on Dec. 7. She will serve a two-year term on
the council. A graduate of Crenshaw High School,
she is a former UCLA student. She spent most of
her adolescent years living in the Leimert Park area.

Maybe this won Tt mean very much to some

people. It is however, and indication that some
barriers have come down and others are coming
down. Some of these will be slow in moving.
Others will perhaps tumble much faster. At the
same time, we must be constantly vigilant to
make certain that we don Tt miss a trick. There
are still snakes in the wilderness and they are
waiting for us to come close before they strike.

Jan Pye is one of those who overcame the
odds. But then she had the background to make
it almost impossible for her to fail. She had a
father who had come from someplace called
Plain Dealing, La. (A place nobody ever heard
of or went to) and who was a Marine. Her mother
ran a taut ship so there was little room for failure.

Her daughter, Amber, will in all probability
become a brain surgeon or a paleontologist or
maybe a Supreme Court Justice. She might even
become the president of the United States. She
has the ability of her mother and the drive of her
grandfather. On top of that, she Ts pretty.

Jan, on the other hand, might serve another
term or two on the city council. And then be
drafted to run for mayor. If that happens, it will
mark the first time in history that a young woman
who was born and bred in South Central Los
Angeles would ascend to the highest seat in the
city next door to one of the richest communities
in the world.

I just hope it happens during my
lifetime.Indeed, this family has adequate reason
to give thanks at this time of the year.

On a more solemn note. At this time of
thanksgiving, we should all look around us and
recognize that we have something for which to
be thankful. There will be those who will not
awaken on Thanksgiving morning. And no mat-
ter what the circumstances, we must remember
the Arabic proverb, oI complained because I had
no shoes until I met a man who had not feet. ?

May God bless you as we celebrate this sea-
son of thanksgiving.

tion taking ocompromise money ?).-
The newspapers reported it, but there
was no commentary on it (unlike
has been the case on the Parks
award). Only a few people publicly

CHIEF BERNARD PARKS
... Making headway.

opposed it at the time.

Ron Wilkins and his anti-apart-
heid organization, Amnesty Inter-
national had a few people to speak
out, and myself, who was then first
vice president of the Los Angeles
NAACP. The dinner was protested,
and Sinatra went home with his
award (after telling protesters to
stick it). After the dinner, the branch
members who organized the dinner
became the opposition group against
my re-election for branch president
two years later.

It was their public smear cam-
paign that subsequently led to me

: History Repeated

being investigated and prosecuted.
But it all started with my opposition
to Frank Sinatra being given the
Life Achievement Award, speakin T
up when it was time to speak up. Not
because it Ts now popular to.slam the
figurehead (police-bash) in media
for ograndstand of the week. ? Pro-
testers now want to say the L.A.
NAACP did something inappropri-
ate when they have been doin T it all
along. This was really a onon-issue ?
taking up space.

Atleast, they can Tt be accused of
oselling ? Bernard Parks the award.
That was strictly the case with the
Sinatra recognition 12 years ago.
The worst they can be accused of
today is being a little premature in
the recognition. As history repeated
itself, the dinner was protested and
Bernard Parks went home with his
award. And in the larger scheme of
things, does it really matter? Does
another plaque on Bernard Parks T
wall change the quality of life for
anyone in South Central?

Does it bring Margaret Mitchell
back, or correct the department Ts
impending scandal, since he neither
pulled the trigger nor caused the
scandal? Nope, it doesn Tt. It does
provide further ammunition about
the NAACP being relevant, or at
least, conflicted in focus and pur-
pose. And that Ts not going to change
by who it chooses to recognize with
chicken dinner awards, but whose
lives they start impacting. Only then
will the NAACP change public per-
spectives of it Ts mostrecent history,
ones of irrelevance, ill-prepared-
ness, organizational confusion and
of compromise.

ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Are Cops Killing Blacks?

Before the horrific shooting at the Littleton, Colo., high school, the
media sat around like the Maytag repairman on Prozac.

Monica Ts gone, impeachment and trial over with, the Jon Benet
Ramsey mystery dormant. Oh, sure, there Ts the occasional O.J. flare-up,
but, for the most part, until Kosovo came along, one could almost hear the
sound of the media begging, oMore firewood, please. ?

But, wait a second. Look at these crime stats. Hmm, looks like blacks
get busted more often than whites. This appears to the trained eye like a
clear-cut case of racism. Driving while black. Race oprofiling. ? Gentle-
men, start your laptops!

Does this emotionally-driven, factually-devoid brand of journalism
sound familiar? Sure, it does. Remember the oepidemic ? of arson against
black churches? USA Today and many other prominent newspapers
bombarded us with stories about the oepidemic, ? orash, ? oscourge ? "pick
one "of the burning of black Southern churches. The bigots are back, the
bigots are back!

Soon public service announcements popped up, urging citizens to dig
deep and help rebuild those black churches. Just when you thought you
had the bigots on the run, they Tre ba-a-ack. Little buggers are more
tenacious than a Serb under a NATO air attack.

But, uh-oh, iceberg ahead. Turns out, the story was bogus. Not only
was there no increase of racially-motivated burnings of black churches,
but church-burnings are dramatically down since 1980! By 63 percent. In
fact, more mosques, synagogues, and white churches have been burned in
recent years than black churches.

But for our race-tinted guys and gals in the media, it only got worse.
Nearly a third of those arrested for burning black churches turned out to
be... black. USA Today prominently featured the burning of a Texas black
church. Authorities suspected bigotry.

But, the cops later busted one of the firefighters summoned to put out
the firc. That Ts right. A firefighter set the fire and later had the nerve to
respond to a call to help put it out. And he was black. USA Today gave the

in the school district. If there were
only 100, or one, their interests must
always be protected. Who but Afri-
can Americans have primary re-
sponsibility for protecting the rights
of African American children?
The Board of Education Ts recent
flawed process and questionable
ethical procedures "as well as its
needless alienation of large num-
bers of Latinos "is cause for con-
siderable concern because the same
thing can happen to African Ameri-
cans. It goes without saying that
African Americans T failing to re-
spond to important actions by the
school board signals an uninformed
or disinterested, politically impo-
tent community. It lets the board
off the hook by not holding it ac-
countable for educating all children.
Given the urgency of current
LAUSD issues, an array of African
American groups should make their
positions known. The board Ts com-
promise in temporarily restoring
Superintendent Zacarias T authority
and hiring Ramon Cortines as in-
terim superintendent, effective Jan.
16, 2000 does not lessen the need to
be vigilant, Such groups should in-
clude parents, teachers, adminis-
trators (including the Council of
Black Administrators), legislators
(the Legislative Black Caucus was
quoted» as protesting the school
-board Ts.action, but did not issue an
official statement), civit rights and

Recently in this col-
umn I urged Afri-
can Americans to
speakout about the Los Angeles Board
: Of Education Ts process in stripping
: Superintendent Ruben Zacarias of his
: authority, transferring it to real estate
: attorney and former school board
: member, Howard Miller. I suggested
* that the school board Ts process was
? flawed and likely illegal, with serious
: implications for African American
* students who remain at the lowest
» educational levels in the district. These
, children are especially vulnerable,
, since African Americans continue to
lose power both within and outside of
; the second largest school district in
» the nation.
. Since my Oct. 28 column, a tell-
; ing, inexcusable silence continues
* unabated. Despite the potential
negative impact of the school
, board Ts Zacarias/Miller decision on
African American children and the
* ensuing chaos, black people have
° said virtually nothing. This is as-
® + tounding! Are African American
} students less important than other
} children and, therefore, less deserv-
, ing of community support?
Of course, they are as important
* as all other children, but the Afri-
: can American community creates
the impression of not caring by not
* consistently demanding a quality
+ education for black students and
not taking the school board to task
+ for actions that affect these stu-
dents, such as the board's Oct. 12
decision to remove and recreate the ganizations and churches should
Wistrict's top management, in- also speak out because the broader
tly, African American community's
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Americans to improve educational
results is necessary since school board
president, Genethia Hayes is such a
staunch opponent of oracial/identity
politics. ? Hayes suggests that condi-
tions in the United States have im-
proved to a point where focusing on
race or ethnicity is no longer neces-
sary in order to achieve political and
educational gains. She also urges that
people not use the word orace. ? How
then will Hayes effectively advocate
for black children?

If conditions were really that
much improved, and discrimination
and inequities were no longer based
oncolor, anti-identity politics would
make sense. However, until race and
ethnicity are no longer significant,
(I suspect that they will always be),
the opponents of identity politics
are doing a disservice to African
American students by minimizing
the systemic barriers to their suc-
ceeding, while at the same time pro-
moting race-neutral strategies which
smack more of opportunism than
tools to improve educational results.

Some may wonder whether
Genethia Hayes herself is a oben-
eficiary ? of the identity politics she
so vehemently rejects, publicly. Los
Angeles T African American politi-
cal leadership is by no means unani-
mously supportive of Hayes, but
seems to be ositting out ? the recent
school board action and subsequent
chaos which dominated. much of
the news for several weeks. Could
black leadership's silence be based
on Genethia Hayes T color? Is ra-
cial/identity politics more palatable
than Hayes and her cohorts are will-
ing to admit?

_ Cross-racial/ethnic collabora-
tion is a necessary component-of

strategies to improve educational
results. In order to play a vital role
in such collaboration, African
Americans, like all others, must
have their act together. This means
successful intra-group collaboration
before collaborating with others.
(The anti-identity crowd likely re-
jects intra-group unity as a form of
racial or identity politics.)

Curiously, these same opponents
of identity politics do not criticize
ocorporate identity politics, ? (e.g.,
the Richard Riordan variety), nor a
host of other groups such as gays,
Jews and women, who fit the iden-
tity politics definition such as it is.
Opponents T caustic, degrading re-
jection of racial and identity poli-
tics is apparently reserved for Afri-
can Americans and Latinos exclu-
sively.

Implications of African Ameri-
cans T failure to deal with the cur-
rent school board and the district
crisis extend well beyond educa-
tion to politics, economics and the
cultural values that shape our lives.
No matter how pervasive the deni-
als however, the future of African
Americans rests with the children
and always has, It is vital that Afri-
can Americans weigh in-on all is-
sues affecting the education of Af-
rican American students, Not to do
so abdicates a fundamental respon-
sibility and, by default, entrusts to
others our children Ts destiny.

It is imperative that the school
board hears from African Ameri-
cans now, and regularly. Why? Be-
cause the board's actions and deci-
sion-making processes, (as in ter-
minating Zacarias), impacts the
lives of each and every African
American child.

arrest of the suspect only a fraction of the coverage given the initial

burning.

Which brings us back to today Ts accusation: reckless, out of control
cops who oracially profile. ? In New York, the cops beat a Haitian man.
And, later, the police shot, numerous times, an unarmed black immigrant.
Based on media reports, the New York cops seemed Gestapo-like. But
then there Ts that troubling thing called data. Where is it? What supports
the contention that police brutality against minorities is widespread and
on the increase? In the last three years, NYPD shootings actually de-
creased by a third. And fatal police shootings are down by nearly 50
percent. New York crime did not go down because police brutality went

up.

The fact remains that a small number of minorities commit a dispropor-
tionately large amount of crime. It stands to reason that more from this
ohigh risk group ? will be stopped, questioned, and arrested, for the most

part, with good cause.

Are cops guilty of ogender profiling ? because cops target and arrest
more men than women? Did the Rev. Jesse Jackson oracially profile ?
when he once said, oThere is nothing more painful for me than to walk
down the street and hear footsteps and start to think about robbery, and
then see it Ts somebody white and feel relieved. ? Do we really want cops
to spend less time in high crime areas and more crime in low crime ones?
Don Tt trout fishermen go, like, where the trout is?

And let Ts not forget. Arrests protect other people, you know. The
victims of urban crime remain urban dwellers.

Some lawmakers want to require officers to keep detailed information
about the race or ethnicity of persons T stopped. Police departments,
irritated at the guilt-by-badge accusations, resist. Fellows, don Tt fight it.
Tell em, ogo ahead, make my day. ? Keep the data. Remember, you work
for the public. Your ocustomers ? demand this information. So, give it to
them. Then what? What will the screamers do when the data fail to show
a pattern of discrimination, that most stops and searches are justified?

And remember the president's executive order directing a study on
oenvironmental racism, ? the allegation that the government puts toxic
dump sites near minority communities? According to the Detroit News,
the government failed to find environmental racism. And never released
the study! In fact, Jared Taylor writes in Paved with Good Intentions, that
whites are more likely to'live near toxic waste sites than blacks. He called
environmental racism an outterly spurious charge. ?

The pigs-are-coming argument

does not wash, The

search-for-the-great-white-bigot crowd, as usual, ignores real problems:
Irresponsible breeding, irresponsible parenting, bad schools, crime. But,
as long as they have a cop to Tkick around they'll kick.

Until they néed one.

(Larry Elder can be heard.on KABC TalkRadio.)
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
d Resolve to:

Break that bad habit.

Smile, Smile, Smile again.

Be positive
statements.

avoid those negative

Speak to people.

Praise more; criticize less,

Clean your yard.

Give give yourself.

Start something .Give God His first.

Call your mom: better still, visit
with her.

Encourage your children.

Attend their functions.

Be a good sport.

Remember, you win some and you
lose some.

Live by the Golden Rule.
Say a grace before meals.

Take your children to Sunday
school and church.

Listen more; talk less.

God, family and friends in this

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he Desk of Mrs.

order.

Don't litter. There's a place for
everything.

Forgive, don't hold grudges.

Pray more, there's power in prayer.

Visit the folk in nursing homes and
hospitals.

Be kind, respectful, truthful and
courteous.

Love the person who is hard to love.

Good manners haven't gone out of
style.

Be a good model for your child.

Be careful, Dad, I'm walking in your
steps.

Show your spouse that you bye
her/him with words, deeds and acts.

Never put your children before your
spouse.

Respect your marriage vows; in

fact, read them over together often.

Be kind to your children. They're
the ones who'll put you in nursing
homes.

Keep to the right,
driving a vehicle.

not only in

Read, keep your brain active.

Spend less than you make. Save.
Save. Save.

Have you hugged your wife today?
Your child?

Be a good neighbor.

Lose those extra pounds.

Are you happy? You can't make
others happy unless you are first
happy yourself.

Be on time. Stop procrastinating.

Read your Bible daily.

Practice what you preach.

Cleanliness is next to godliness. Be
clean in body, soul and mind.

Let someone else go first some-
times.

Salvation is free. Keep God in your
life.

Never give advice unless asked for
and be careful then.

Stop trying to change folk. You
have hard enough time changing
self.

Don't cheat on your wife/husband.

Listen to your children

God helps those who help them-
selves.

Don't try to go it alone.

.Effective leaders delegate.

Keep going in the right direction.

Pay your dues and pay them on
time.

Write that will. Don't put it off.

Be patient, don't dwell on mistakes.

Get along well with people and let
it start in the home

GOOD THOUGHTS

1. Accept that which you cannot
change.

2. "Never cease trying to be the
best that you can be". John Wooden

3. "Make each day's practice a
masterpiece ?. Coach John Wooden

4. "Work hard, be good and have
fun. Steve Langdon father of
Duke's star basketball player Trajan,
said.

5. You're either part of the steam
roller or a part of the pavement.

6. Real leaders are ordinary people
with extraordinary determination.

7. Sometimes you just have to play
hard ball.

8. Risk. You can't steal second
base and keep your foot on first.

9. Goals. Keep your head and your
heart "in the right direction and
you'll never have to worry, about
your feet.

10. Nothing in this world is
impossible to a willing heart.

11. The distance between success
and failure can only be measured by
one's desire.

12. If you don't believe in yourself,
chances are that nobody else will.

13. Attitude is everything.

14. Those who can do - do; those
who can't complain.

15. Most quarrels amplify misun-
derstanding. Life is full of obsta-
cles and solutions. (Cubu Gooding,
Jr., actor

16. Jesse Jackson, founder of the
Rainbow PUSH Coalition says,
"As a nation, we need to focus on
poor children Poor children are
channeled more to jails than they
are to Yale (University). That must
stop. One half of all Black babies
are born into poverty. That must
stop. Impoverished children go to
impoverished schools. That must
stop. More than 700,000 Black
men in jail have a child at home
under the age of eight. that must
stop."

17. The person who does not read is
no better off than the person who
can't read.

18. When you lay down with dogs
you'll get up with fleas.

19. Some people aren't happy unless
they can complain.

20. If you walk with the Lord, you'll
never be out of step.

21. Basketball star, Dean Tolson
said, "Don't just stay in school,
learn while you're there. education

is the only sure road to success. If 1 :
-can beat illiteracy, you can too ?.

JOHN ROSEMOND ON
PARENTING
The results of the 1997 survey of
Educational Needs:

The purpose: to determine what
employees skills and attributes most
valued by Dayton, Ohio area em-
ployers -400 businesses were asked
to rate 13 attributes and skills. In
this order: honesty, willingness to
cooperate, ability/willingness to fol-
low directions, positive attitude and
punctuality.

Least important were, in order,
basic math skills, understanding of
business economics and basic com-
puter skills.

The very skills most of today's
parents want their children to excel
in math, language arts and
computer literacy - are the skills
least valued by employers.

Today's parents would do well to
focus less on getting their children
into gifted and talented programs
and focus more on teaching them
manners, respect for others, respon-
sibility and other basic character
skills.

The Dayton survey affirms that
academic and athletic achievements
are stressed but unless that's bal-
anced by character, it doesn't go far.

CONCENTRATE ON THESE

1. TIME is important to us all.
Respect other people's time and
make efforts not to waste it.

2. First impressions are important,
but don't judge a book entirely by
its cover.

3. Discipline yourself to save on a
regular basis. Establish savings
accounts for children at an early age
and encourage them to contribute to
It.

4. Concentrate on what's right, not
so much on who's right.

5. Judge a church as you would
judge your child's sitter; by the

before you're finish with ajob. .

7. Call your Mom today. she's
thinking about you. If you can'tcall =
her, think about her and what she a
stood for. ee

8. Neatness is a character builder.
Require your children to keep their
rooms neat. Allow them flexibility "
and creativity, but require neatness
and order. Don't lull these into d
thinking that it doesn't make any |
difference. ; |

9. Never send your child away .in
the midst of your anger, conclude
your discipline with reassurance and
affirm that they are still OK.

when you tolerate that Lea C is
evil.

14. The Word of God only makes
only churches of God.

15. The men who make history are
not the ones who write it; they don't
have time.

16. You go out of your way to help
some people, and instead of them
thanking you, they complain, "why
didn't you help me more?"

17. Belong to Christ, not to a 7
denomination, and be simply a
member of his body, the church. '-

18. Not all skeletons are in the
closet; some may be in the living
room with the flesh still on them. .

19. The first step in getting on your
feet should be getting on our knees.

20. We must be resolved to follow
the Bible and that alone, even if it
means sometimes standing alone, if
we are to be found faithful to God.

21. What a person stands for
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Counterfeit Christians

Grace be to you and peace from
God our Father, and from the Lord
Jesus Christ.

Beloved, the Pharisee and
Sadducee spirit is very much preva-
lent within the body of Christ. The
Pharisees and Sadducees were two
of the major sects or special interest
groups among the Jews in New
Testament times. These groups
stood for different principles, but
Jesus clashed with both parties at
different times during His ministry.
The word Pharisee means "sepa-
rated" Their burning desire was to
separate themselves from those
people who did not observe the
laws. of tithing and ritual purity-
matters they considered very impor-
tant. The Pharisees were upholders

of traditions, sticklers for the
Mosaic Law, very careful in out-
ward details, blind to spiritual
things, perverted the scriptures,
refused to accept Christ, and the list
goes on. On the other hand, the
Sadducees were disturbed by the
teaching of the resurrection. The
Pharisees were hypocrites or coun-
terfeit Christians. They pretended to
be something they were not. In one
of Jesus T teachings (Matthew 23:3)
He told the multitude to observe
and practice all that the Pharisees
told them but do not do what they
do because they preach but do not
practice. Jesus instructed the people
to believe the Word but do not
pattern themselves after the lifestyle
of the Pharisees. They were not
practicing what they were preach-
ing. They did things to be seen of
man and that was all the reward
they received.

I have said so many times that in
a vast majority of the denomina-
tional churches, close attention is
given to the outer man but very little
is being done to clean up the inner
man. Our body is no more than the
harboring place for our spirit and
soul. Our body serves as protection

_ for our vital organs. It is just a piece

of flesh that is going back to the
dust of the ground, but what about
that spirit and soul that will spend
eternity, live on without end in
either heaven or hell? If you really
analyze most denominations, you
will find that the works of the flesh
listed in Galatians 5:19-21 and the
13 evils of the heart listed in Mark
7:21-22 are in operation in the lives
of some but that is fine, so they
think, as long as you "LOOK" the

part. The Pharisees were so caught
up in traditions and rituals that they
missed the main purpose of minis-
try. The Word declares that the
greatest among us shall be the
servant. They didn't want to serve
but to be served and to be seen. On
one occasion, Jesus likened their
spirit man unto dead men' bones.
The Pharisees and those like them
were "phonies". They were great
pretenders, fakes, whatever you
want to call it. They gave Jesus the
hardest time during His ministry so
much so until they crucified Him. it
is the same today. Many preachers
wear the priestly collars, the robes
and other religious garments but
they deny the power thereof They
are like the Pharisees. They have a
problem believing certain biblical
principles. They feel that it doesn't
apply to our day, but the Word says
what I say to one, | say to all. They
think certain instructions were only
for those of Jesus T day; that is why
not many souls are being saved,
delivered nor set free; that is why
people go to church sick and leave
sick. They go bound and leave
bound. Some clergy and people
alike have the audacity to pray Lord
if it's in your will, heal Sis. or Bro.
So and So", when the Word states
beloved I wish above all things that
thou mayest prosper and be in
health even as your soul prospereth.
The problem is they don't believe
what they preach and if they don't
believe it, then they are not living it.
They are 20th Century Scribes,
Pharisees and Sadducees. The only
interest they have in people are their
pocketbooks.

Read the Word

of God and know the tuth

REFORM GETS
"DANGEROUS"

By Dr. Lenora Fulani

Two-controversies generated by the
Reform Patty's unique position in
American politics are shedding light
on the titled electoral playing field.
One is the debate over whether the
Reform Party presidential candidate
will be admitted to the televised
debates in the fall. The other centers
on the issue of public financing and
is largely a dispute over whether
independents should be availing
themselves of public money. just as -
the Democrats and Republicans do.

So far. its the public financing that
has drawn the most fire. Media
commentary on the Reform Part's
eligibility for $12.6 million T in
general election lunding began dur-
ing the summer. The negative
refrain at that time was how the "pot
0' gold" would attract political gold
diggers.

Of. course, that was the whole
point. The 1974 legislation which
created the public financing pro-
gram was designed to make sure
that minor parties and candidates
could compete in the two-party,
dominated arena. Having $13 mil-
lion available to its nominee helps
the Reform Party attract bigger and
better candidates--candidates who

can compete more effectively with
the Democratic and Republican
nominees. Those nominees, by the
way, are guaranteed $60 million a
piece in public funds. No doubt
JohnMcCaim Bill Bradley. Al Gore
and George W. Bush found the
chance to win $60 million for their
campaigns attractive.

But in the eyes of the media,
they're not gold diggers. They're
statesmen. Its kind of like when a
mother on welfare takes an off-the-
books job cleaning houses to sup-
plement her public assistance. She's
a welfare cheat. But the major
corporations which avail themselves
of esoteric loopholes in the IRS
code (loopholes their lobbyists
wrote) and avoid paying hundreds
of millions of dollars in taxes are
just good businessmen,

Lately, Reform's eligibflity for pub-
lic money is being criticized be-
causé, as some commentators have
noted, Pat Buchanan and by (illogi-
cal) . extension one of his ke
endorsers-me--could be the benef?
ciaries, Some, like Roger Pilon,
opined in the New York Times that
the fluchanan/Fulani spectre was

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one more argument against any
public flinding at all. Others, like
Alair Townsend, of Cram's New
York Business who are supporters
of public financing, are disturbed tat
the Buchanan campaign might re-
ceive the $12.6 million because...
well... she thinks that Buchanan and
I are "dangerous". Moreover, she's
worried the money will go for my
oparty-building" efforts.

First of all should Pat Buchanan
become the Reform nominee, the
money will go to his campaign
committee to be spent in accordance
with FEC guidelines for presidential
campaigns and will be carefully
audited by the FEC. Will the effect
of Buchanan's candidacy be to build

the Reform Party? I sure hope sO.
We're not a major party. We're a
minor party. We're in the business of
party-building. Thats what the 5%
threshold is for-to allow minor
parties a shot at becoming major.
Otherwise. public financing would

be nothing but a ploy to maintain
the status quo and keep incumbency
permanent. Thats supposed to be
unconstitutional--even though _ its
standard practice in electoral poli-
tics.

Still others, like Sean Wilentz of
The New Republic, have protested
the "quirk" in campaign laws. that
enables Reform to receive the
money in the first place. Lets go
back to the basics.

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Words of Faith

Suejette A. Jones

GOD'S REST DAY

The Scripture tells us that God
ended His creative work on the
sixth day, but that He rested on
the seventh day. It is hard to
imagine God becoming weary and
needing rest. In fact, the
Scriptures declare that He does
not: "Hast thou not known? Hast
thou not heard, that the everlast-
ing God, the Lord the Creator of
the ends of the earth, fainteth not
neither is weary?" (Isaiah 40:28)
God's "rest" on the seventh crea-
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ering from weariness. Hebrews 4:
10 reads: For he that is entered
into His (God's) rest, he also hath
ceased from his own works, as
God did from His." The point of
this text is that a Christian ceases
from all strivings to attain life
through his own efforts and
accepts instead the provision of
life which has been made for him
through Christ. And this is God's
provision; for He gave His son to
be Man's Redeemer with that
promise that twhosoever be-
lieveth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting lifel' (John
3:16)

In Isaiah 45:18 we read that God
created the earth not in vain but
formed it to be inhabited, not by
a dying race, but by a living one.
Death came upon the race through
disobedience to divine law, but
this

did not stop the divine purpose in
the creation of man. God ceased
His

own work and commissioned His
beloved Son to carry it through to
completion. Just as we depend
upon Jesus for life, so the Lord
God depends upon Jesus to pro-

vide life and to carry forward the
plan to have the earth filled with
human beings in His image,
worthy of livingforever.

When Jesus was on earth, his
enemies condemned and _perse-
cuted Him because He healed the
sick on the Sabbath Day. He
pointed out to them that works of
mercy on the Sabbath Day were
allowed under the Law given to
the Israelites by God. Explaining
this type of work, Jesus said, "My
father worketh hitherto, and |
work." (John 5:17) Restoring the
human race was a command given
to Jesus by God; therefore, His
work on behalf of man is a work
of mercy. This whole plan for the
recovery of the human race re-
flects His love and mercy.
Regarding this, Jesus said, "The
Father that dwelleth in me, He
doeth the works." (John 14:10) So
healing the sick on the Sabbath
was a work of mercy.

Suejette Jones is currently en-
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Pitt Community College.

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The Minority Voice Dec. 31 - Jan. 7, 2000

) Baa

Tells cabbies not to fear Blacks

Actor Dan-
ny Glover
told a group
of taxi dri-
vers that if
they fear
Black people
they should
look for an-
other line of
work. Glover,
whose Nov. 3
complaint spurred a crackdown
against cab drivers who refuse to pick
up minority riders, spoke at a taxi dri-
ver forum this week.

He said he was sympathetic to the
drivers'up to a point, but added: oIf a
driver fears for his life if he takes a
Black person into his cab, then per-
haps he has to have a total different
understanding of who Black people '
are and perhaps he needs to get an-
other job... It means that he fears me,
he fears my daughter, and he fears
this young woman or whoever. ?
Glover, 52, who starred in The Color
Purple and the Lethal Weapons series,
filed the complaint after five cab dri-
vers passed him by on a Harlem
streetcorner and the sixth refused to .
let him sit in the front seat, even
though the actor told him he had a hip
problem and the back seat was too
crowded. He was traveling with his
daughter and her friend.

GENE BAKER

Former Big Leaguer dies

Former major league infielder
Gene Baker, who along with Erie -
Banks broke the color barrier on the -
Chicago Cubs, has died of a heart at-
tack. He was 74.

Baker died late last week at Gene-
sis East Medical Center in Daven-
port, his hometown. He had been
hospitalized. Banks and Baker were
the Cubs T first two Black players,
both joining the team in 1953, and
they formed the team Ts double-play
combination for three years, Banks at
shortstop and Baker at second
base.Baker became the starting sec-
ond baseman in 1954 and batted .275
with 13 home runs and 61 RBIs, his
best season in the majors. The fol-
lowing season, he played in all 154
games and hit .268 with 11 homers.
The Cubs traded Baker to the Pitts-
burgh Pirates early in the 1957 sea-

eras

retiring after the 1961 season.

JAY-2

Charged in alleged knife attack

Jay-Z, the Grammy-winning rap-
per, has been charged with attacking
three people, including two he al-
legedly bashed over the head with
bottles and a record executive he al-
legedly stabbed in a nightclub brawl.

The executive was Lance oUn ?
Rivera, 33, allegedly attacked by Jay-
Z after a fight broke out among sev-
eral guests during a party for the rap-
per Q-Tip at the Kit Kat Club at 124
W. 43rd Street in New York. A Man-
hattan Criminal Court complaint says
Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn
Carter, slashed Rivera Ts abdomen and
then stabbed him omore than once in
the back with a knife. ? He was
charged with first-degree assault.

STEVIE WONDER

Set for Sight operation

Legendary
musician
Stevie Won-
1 der is re-

4} portedly set
for an oper-
ation to re-

Store the
sight he loss
as an infant.

The proce-
dure only al-
lows sight for short periods of time,
but if true, what a wonderful ac-
complishment of modern medicine.
oI Tm praying that this thing will be
successful because it will pave the
way for many other people who
have lost their sight to someday get
some of it back, ? the famed musi-
cian said this week.

Tina Turner is hanging up her ny-
lons and giving her pretty legs a
permanent rest. In the past she men-
tioned retirement, but always re-
turned to her adoring fans. This
time around she means it.

Tina told reporters she se on
doing a farewell tour in 2000 and
then call it quits. oI want the tour
to be the biggest and the best, be-
Cause it is going to be the last, ?
she told the British publication TV
Times, oI want to go out on a high.
I don Tt want to be dragging i hes
On stage year in, year out unti
someone *-» tells me it is time to
go, ? she saiu.

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The Minority Voice Dec. 31 - Jan. 7, 2000

By GLORIA BLAKELY
Special to the Sentinel

The 20th century unfolded with
two. generations of black Ameri-
cans who had outstretched their
hands to touch freedom during the
Reconstruction period, only to
watch it slip out of reach before
they could wrap themselves in its
comfort. The equality that had been
so painstakingly outlined in the 1 3th
through 15th Amendments and the
seven federal civil rights acts passed
between 1865 and 1875 were rap-

__ idly swept away. Likewise, the
promises of land, mules, physical
_ protection and education, by the
generals of an occupying army, dis-
. sipated with the Union military
owithdrawal from the south. Al-
. though true freedom in the United
States was out of reach to most
- African Americans, it was never
out of their sight.
When the clock struck 12:01 on

In 1932, Myles Horton acted on
a radical idea that, with the right
tools, people can solve their own
problems in the United States. The
Highlander Folk School which
Horton founded in Monteagle,
Tenn. provided workshops on la-
bor unions, workers T rights and race
relations where people developed
the power to affect change. Rosa
Parks was just one individual who
walked through the school Ts doors.

A. Philip Randolph had also
mastered the concept of people
power. In 1941 and again in 1948,
when Asa Philip Randolph joined
forces with the NAACP and other
groups, he became an immovable
force that won executive orders re-
spectively from Presidents Franklin
Roosevelt and Harry Truman ban-
ning discrimination in defense in-
dustries and programs, and in the
armed forces. With his threats of a
March on Washington and contin-
ued pressure by black leaders, the

was hard at work handling all cases
involving constitutional rights.
James Farmer and Bayard Rustin
were establishing the Con-
gress of Racial Equality
(CORE) to integrate restau-
rants and interstate transpor-
tation. 4
While civil rights activ- |
ists were fighting on the
home front, African Ameri-
can men and women honor-
ably performed their duties
in two world wars. They
bravely entered a military
that was at odds about their
presence and the appropriate
roles for blacks. While more
than 400,000 African Ameri-
can soldiers were going
through basic training, re- |
ceiving their assignments or "
facing the enemy Ts bullets in
World War I, riots against
black citizens were escalat-
ing in the United States. By

the war, he rose to the rank of gen-

eral in the US Air Force, a first for

black Americans.

Arrican American DaTeLine
1900-1949 .
1900 "On May 23, Sergeant
William H. Carney was the
first African American to win
~ a medal of honor, received
for his actions at Fort Wagner
while serving with the 54th
Massachusetts Colored Infan-
try during the Civil War.
1902 "Judge Robert H.
oTerrell, as justice of the peace
in a Washington, D.C. mu-
nicipal court, was the first
black. federal judge in the
nation Ts Capitol.
1903 "The Souls of Black
- Folks by W. E. DuBois was
» published. It outlined a new
approach for social reform
that was considered radical
by some accommodationists.
.1905 "The first meeting
of the Niagra Movement was
held on July 11-13. Its twenty
nine members established

h Century in CP Time: 1900-1949 "We are a People

founded the Negro Society for His-
torical Research with Franklin "
Frazier, George Washington Will- "
iams and John Edward Bruce.

1913 "In May, President
Wilson T s administration introduced
segregation of federal employees
by race.

Noble Drew Ali brought Islam
to black Americans when he cre-
ated the Moorish Science Temple
in Newark, N.J. of which W. D.
Fard, who founded the Nation of
Islam, was a member.

1914 "World War I began.

UNIA, black nationalist move-
ment, was established in Jamaica
and in the United States during 1917
by Marcus Garvey. :

Father Divine Ts oKingdom ? and
Peace Mission was founded by nee
George Baker.

1915 "Carter Goodwin
Woodson founded the Association
for the Study of Negro Life and
History to disseminate African

the time the second
world war ended, over
one million black
forces returned home
to the U. S. equivalent

American history to others.

The National Baptist Conven-
tion Inc. split and a group now
called the National Baptist Con-
vention was formed.

plans to encourage national

- activists for civil rights.
1906 "One of the most
dramatic riots in the south
began on Sept. 22, 1906,

.*.a new century, emancipated
«slaves, their sons and daugh-

ters continued to strive for
- well-earned rights to com-
:' pete as equals for a share of

the national wealth that they
T thelped to create. In this ar-
- ticle, we take the opportu-
nity to remember past Afri-
* can Americans who unrelent-
ingly pressed for social and
political equality, and those
.. who executed their military
- duties like first class citizens,
for their dedication has
_ Shaped our ability to become
_' the people that we are today.
~: Many black American in-
o: tellectuals chose to be the
conscience of the nation by
monitoring and reporting
-t Molent atrocities against fel-
low blacks. In doing so, they
continued a long tradition to
communicate the state of the
.: African American commu-
o, nity to all levels, including
the presidency. Some of these
oamen decided to coordinate
their efforts through the
Niagra Movement which was
formed in 1905 by W. E. DuBois,
William Monroe Trotter and twenty
- seven other black radicals. The
. organization Ts name was derived
from its first meeting in Niagra
' Falls, New York. Then, after the
; death and destruction initiated vy
«+ white rioters in Springfield, Ill.,
| the men redoubled their efforts to
- end segregation and improve the
lives of African Americans with
_: the formation of the National As-
. sociation for the Advancement or
-, Colored People (NAACP), a name
sanctioned in 1910. A white south-
ern writer William English Wall-
ing, a social worker Mary White
- Orvington and Dr. Henry
~ Moskovitz were the visionaries who
- called for its creation.
Prior to the formation of those
organizations, William Edward
Burghardt DuBois was the first

W.E.B. DUBOIS

son of a preacher clearly showed
the power and problem solving abil-
ity of black unity.

African American activists
found a great deal of common
ground in zheir fight for equal jobs,
equal education and just laws. Many
of the prominent leaders in the civil
rights movement of the fifties and
sixties were hitting their stride in
the 1940s. Ella Josephine Baker
crossed the country arranging
branch offices for the NAACP.
Constance Baker Motley worked
with the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund while still in
law school. For that same section
of the NAACP, Thurgood Marshall

of apartheid. Yet, with

the knowledge of conditions
at home, black soldiers still
distinguished themselves in
battles for freedoms, which
they were unable to enjoy.

Sergeant Henry Johnson
and Needham Roberts were
members of the first black
combat unit in Europe during
World War I. For their indi-
vidual heroism under fire in
the 369th Infantry, they be-
came the first Americans ever
awarded the Cro Tx de Guerre
by the French government.
During the war, 121 black
soldiers were given that
French award. Ninety-two
black enlisted men received
the United States Army Dis-
tinguished Flying Cross.

In 1940, Benjamin Oliver
Davis Sr. became the first Af-
rican American brigadier
general in the U.S. Army. He was
given that commission after a
lengthy career as an officer, which
began during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war when he enlisted in the 8th
United States Volunteers Infantry
in 1898. He became the only Afri-
can American general in World War
II, after considerable lobbying by
civil rights leaders. His son, Ben-
jamin O Davis Jr. led the black 99th
Pursuit Squadron, known as the
Tuskegee Airmen, and subse-
quently commanded the 332nd
Fighter Group during World War
II. He flew sixty missions in 224
hours, which earned him three med-
als including the Silver Star. After

ROSA PARKS

Dorie Miller was messman
aboard the USS Arizona when the
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on
Dec. 7, 1941. He was the son of a
Texas share cropper who was not
trained on the machine gun that he
used to down four Japanese planes.
After moving his wounded captain
to safety, Miller manned the ma-
chine gun and was awarded the
Navy Cross for his actions by Ad-
miral Chester W. Nimetz, the Com-
mander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet.

Before the Korean War began in
1950, the organizational ground-
work was laid to chip away dis-
criminatory practices throughout
the nation. As aresult of legal chal-
lenges, the Supreme Court reaf-
firmed the right of every person to

_a jury of their peers and barred

discrimination on interstate buses
and their public accommodations.
After considerable lobbying and
political protests, President
Roosevelt established the Commit-
tee on Fair Employment Practice
and banned discriminatory proce-
dures from defense industries and
programs. Similarly, Truman Ts ex-
ecutive order paved the way:to the
integration of the armed farces.
These and other remarkable accom-
plishments are highlighted in the
following dateline, along with some
of the obstacles typical of the pe-
riod. We wish that it were possible
to list all the achievements between
1900 and 1949. Instead, we can
only express our gratitude for all
the shoulders on which we now
stand.

To Understand Your Future

when whites, including
county police officers, attacked
black communities in Atlanta and
Brownsville after newspapers re-
ported four alleged assaults on
white women by local black men.
The city was paralyzed for several
days by burnings, lootings, beat-
ings, murders and fleeing blacks.

1908 " Virginia Estelle
Randolph through programs funded
by the Philadelphian, Anna T.
Jeannes, helped teachers to improve
rural schools for blacks.

Aug. 14-15 marked the days of a
riotin Springfield, IL, when a white
woman claimed that she was raped
by a black man. 2,000 blacks fled
the city, 2 were lynched, six killed
and over 70 persons of both colors

were wounded. The women, later,

confessed the alleged perpetrator
was a white man.

1909 "Organization of the
NAACP began in order to address
violence against blacks, and social
and economic discrimination. Its
name was formerly adopted the fol-
lowing year.

1911 "The National Urban
League was founded in New York
durthg October. George Editifid
Haynes afi T Eugene KinckleJonés
formed the grc«:p from several other
organizations to provide assistance
in employment, housing and health.

Arthur A. Schomburg co-

1916 "Lieutenant Colonel
Charles Young was the first person
in the military to be awarded the
Spingarn Medal. Among his many
accomplishments, Young wrote a
book called the Military Morale of
Nations and Races.

1917 "The U. S. officially en-
ters World War I and over 400,000
African Americans served ina seg-
regated military.

After considerable lobbying by
black college students, Fort Des
Moines became the first army train-
ing camp for black officers. About
69 commissions were granted to
black officers in WWI and about
half were trained there.

Some 94 members of the 24th
Infantry were arrested after a riot
with white citizens of Houston,
Texas. Nineteen were executed by
hanging.

The 369th Infantry Regiment ar-
rived in Europe in December 1917,
making them the first black combat
unit in the WWI. They were also
tie first allied regiment to reach the
Rhine in a battle against the Ger-
mans in 1918.

1918 "Henry Johnson and

Necdhdnt Roberts became T the first
black soidiersfo¥eceive the French
croix de guerre.

1919 "On April 9, 1919, the

. African American to obtain a doc-
_ forate degree from Harvard Uni-
, versity. Soon after, the University
~- of Pennsylvania commissioned him
to complete a sociological study of

- African Americans in Philadelphia.
*; He delivered a document that was
, published with the title of the Phila-
_ delphia Negro. Over the next few
ssayears, his writing portfolio and
* Yeputation as a spokesperson for
~, tis people grew. Under the aus-
»* pices of NAACP, DuBois projected
»t his voice through the Crisis, amaga-
m= zine of his creation. His voice

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Marcus Garvey Ts voice promot-
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WASHINGTON " A_ housing
discrimination charge has been filed
against New York landlords accused
of telling a White grandmother she
would have to move out of her apart-
ment because she planned to occa-
sionally care for her three-old bira-
cial grandson.

Housing and Urban Development
Secretary Andrew Cuomo says the
department filed the discrimination
charge against landlords Laura and
Agustino Craveiro under the federal
Fair Housing Act. The Craveiros
briefly rented out a second-floor
apartment in their home in Long Is-
land, N.Y. to Ann O TDea.

The Craveiros and O TDea are
White. O TDea Ts grandson " Travis
Lightsey " is biracial, with a White
mother (O TDea Ts daughter) and a
Black father. Travis was three-years-
old when his grandmother moved in-
to the apartment in the Craveiro
home, May 31, 1997.

O TDea said that the day after she
moved into the apartment, she told
Craveiro " in response to a question
- that she occasionally cared for her
grarfdson, Travis, on Saturdays.
O TDea said Craveiro, who asked
about Travis T racial background,
then said: oI have to ask, can you ba-
by-sit elsewhere, because the neigh-
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History

African Orthodox Church was cre-
ated by George Alexander McGuire
and became the official church of
UNIA.

Some twenty six riots against
black Americans took place in 1919,
causing enormous destruction and
many deaths.

W. E. DuBois created the first
Pan African Congress.

1920 "Women acquired the
right to vote with the passage of the
19th amendment.

1921 "In New Bedford, Mass.,
oSweet Daddy ? Grace, born in Cape
Verde Islands, opened the first
church that became known as
United House of Prayer for All
People, a Pentecostal denomina-
tion.

White rioters in Tulsa, Okla. de-
stroyed an extensive black com-
munity; 21 whites and 60 blacks
were killed during the meleé.

1922 "Henry W. Shields was
the first black Democrat elected to
any office. He joined the state leg-
islature in New York.

The National Colored Spiritual-
ist Association of Churches was
formed.

Mary Burnett Talbert success-
fully preserved the home of
Frederick Douglass in Anacostia,
Va. and became the first black
woman awarded the Spingarn
Medal. :

1923 "In the Moore v Dempsey
decision, the Supreme Court reas-
serted the constitutional rights of
African Americans to a fair trial.

1924 "Clifton Reginald
Wharton Sr. became the first Afri-

- can American to pass the foreign

service examination. The next year,
he entered the United States For-
eign Service where he led a distin-
guished career.

1926 "Violette N. Anderson be-
came the first black female attor-
ney to practice before the United
States Supreme Court on Jan. 29,
1926.

Mordecai Wyatt became the first
black president of Howard Univer-
sity in Washington, D.C.

1927 "In Nixon v Herndon, the
Supreme Court struck down the law
in Texas, which barred black citi-
zens from voting in all-white pri-
maries.

During the great depression,

: growing numbers of black. peaple

were deft out, of the jak. market.
This era galvanized more local and
national organizations to fight for
their political and economic im-
provement.

1930 "The Nation of Islam was
founded in Detroit by W. D. Fard,
who was known as Fard
Muhammad. Elijah Muhammad as-
sumed leadership of the organiza-
tion after Fard Ts disappearance in
1934.

1934 "Arthur W. Mitchell de-
feated Congressman Oscar

DePriest, making Mitchell the first
black democratic congressman.

RALPH BUNCHE

Ralph J.. Bunche was the first
black person to obtain a doctorate
in political science. He graduated
from Harvard.

1935 "Mary McLeod Bethune
was one of the founders of the Na-
tional Council of Negro Women
and became its first president on
Dec. 5, 1935.

Rastafari movement evolved
from the crowning of Haile Selassie
as Emperor of Ethiopia. It seemed
to fulfill Marcus Garvey Ts proph-
ecy that black oppression would
end soon after a king was crowned
in Africa, |

The National Youth Adminis-
tration was founded by the federal
government to provide job training
and part-time work to youths.

1937 "William H. Hastie be-
came the first black judge of the
U.8xDistrict Court of Appeals with
his appointment to the bench in the
Virgin Islands.

1938 "Crystal Bird Fauset, in
Pennsylvania, became the first
black female state legislator.

Fair Labor Standards Act qyas
passed by Congress, establishing a

Jan. 7, 2000

minimum hourly wage and maxi-
mum work week of 40 hours in
many industries.

1939 "Jane M. Bolin of New
York was the first black female
judge in the United States. She
served 40 years on the bench.

After decades of defending black
Americans in race-based cases, the
NAACP created the Legal Defense
and Education Fund, Inc.

1940 "Benjamin O. Davis Sr.
became the first black brigadier
general in the army.

The Supreme Court ruled that
states must provide all students ac-
cess to the same education.

1941 "On June 18, A. Philip
Randolph and Walter White with
the support of the NAACP and oth-
ers threatened a mass march on
Washington to obtain an executive
order banning discrimination in
défense industries and programs.

Robert Weaver was appointed
director of the office authorized to
integrate African Americans into
National Defense programs.

1942 "The first and only train-
ing facility for black airmen was
located at Tuskegee Institute in Ala-
bama. During WWII, 927 pilots
graduated.

The Congress of Racial Equal-
ity (CORE) was founded by James
Farmer and Bayard Rustin to en-
gage nonviolent protests.

1943 "USS Mason was the first
naval destroyer with a predomi-
nantly black crew and at least one
black officer.

Harriet M. West became the first
black female major in the WACS
on Aug. 21, 1943.

Blacks rioted causing consider-
able destruction in a number of

cities, Detroit, New York City, -

Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Beau-
mont, Texas and Mobile, Ala. Ri-
ats were sparked by rumors of vio-
lent attacks on fellow blacks.

First black medical group sent
overseas consisted of nine doctors
and thirty nurses. They were sent to
Liberia.

Submarine chaser PC 1264 be-
came the first with a completely
black crew. ~

1944 "The first black women
entered the WAVES.

Integrated units entailing pla-
toons were deployed to the
Ardennes for the first and only time
during WWII.

Frederick D. Patterson created
the, United Negro College Fund on

_ April 24,.1944.to rajae, funds for 4)

private four-year colleges. 1,

Samuel Lee Gravely Jr. became
the first black admiral in the navy.

Doris E. Spears became the first
black female deputy sheriff in the
US.

In Smith v Allwright, the Su-
preme Court upheld voting as a
Constitutional right.

1945 "Irving Charles Mollison
became the first black judge on a
U.S. Customs Court.

New York became the first state
to create a Fair Employment Prac-
tices Commission.

Atomic bombs were dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki to bring
the WWII to a close.

Phyllis Mae Dailey became the
first black female nurse in the navy.

Horace Mann Bond became the
first black president of Lincoln
University.

1946 "Supreme Court ruled in
favor of integration on interstate
buses.

. Harold L. Trigg became the first
black president of Saint
Augustine Ts College in Raleigh,
N.C.
1947 "Charles Spurgeon
Johnson, when named president of
Fisk University, became the first
African American to hold that job.

CORE and the Fellowship of
Reconciliation began an interracial
oFreedom Ride ? to test desegrega-
tion of interstate buses and accom-
modations on April 9, 1947.

1948 "In July, A. Philip
Randolph and others again threat-
ened mass action to acquire a ban
on discrimination in the armed
forces.

In Shelley v Kraemer, the Su-
preme Court ruled that private prop-
erty arrangements to restrict black
residency were unconstitutional.

William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.
of Philadelphia became the first
African American clerk in the Su-
preme Court.

Nancy C. Leftenant became the
first black nurse in the regular army.

1949 "Desegregation of the
army was ordered.

The Fair Employment Board
was established.

Wesley A. Brown became the
first black graduate from the U.S.
Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

Jesse Leroy Brown became the
first black pilot in the Naval Re-
serve.

William L. Dawson was the first
black representative to chair a con-
gressional standing committee, the
House Expenditure Committee.

Alonzo Graseano Moron became
the first black president of Hamp-
ton University in Hampton, Va.

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By CHRISTOPHER THORNE
Wire Services

CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) "
Just eight miles down the road, there
is a sign, a plain marker before an
empty field where Harriet Tubman
was born into slavery.

The building in which she was
born was torn down long ago. But a

visitor to Cambridge can pay $10 .

for a tour around town, with a guide
who will describe the stores and
homes where Tubman hid hundreds
of slaves on their way to freedom
on the Underground Railroad.

oWe take people to these sites
and entice their imaginations, ? said
Kay McKelvey, president of the
Harriet Tubman Organization Inc.

oThey envision the story, and
they love the tours, but it would be
so much better if we could have
preserved the sites as they were, ?
she said. oWe need to put some-
thing up, even if it Ts no more than a
sign. But the bottom line is always
money. ?

The Tubman tour is afar cry
from Colonial Williamsburg in Vir-
ginia, or Sturbridge Village in Mas-
sachusetts. There, houses are pre-
served as they were more than 200
years ago, and people re-enact life
as Colonial-era soldiers, house-
wives and blacksmiths.

a

For Tubman, anicon of fivelom
known around the world, there is
nothing like that. _-

But McKelvey feels the Tubman

tour is a rare success in the move-

HARRIET TUBMAN
ment to save the black heritage of
America, a culture that, like Native
Americans, is often ignored or over-
looked in efforts to preserve his-
tory.

From ancient hunting grounds
to abandoned churches, these sites
give clues to researchers studying
the secret society of these early

inden Little i is written Pang
the Indians that preceded white
Colonial America or the slaves those _
colonists kept, so any clue from the
ground is valued.

oThese are people whe were
marginalized during their lives, yet

had an incredible impact on Ameri-

can society, ? said Rob Crisell, di-
rector of the Eastern Regional Of-
fice of the Archaeological Conser-
vancy, a New Mexico-based non-
profit group that buys historical sites
to keep them from development.

oWe're just beginning to under-

stand how slaves lived and how
they were brought over from Af-
rica, because nothing was written
about this, ? Crisell said. oYet, we
know the intimate details of how
(Thomas) Jefferson lived. ?
. Few white people can associate
with the life of a slave or that of a
Native American, said Darrin
Lowery, a Tilghman Island archae-
ologist who has dug out several
ancient Indian sites on the Delmarva
Peninsula.

oSo they see a mound of dirt ina
field, which T1l be a hunting ground
with stone tools thousands of years
old, and they'll shrug, ? he said.
oShow them a Civil War bullet, tell
them it was shot from a Union or
Confederate rifle, and it Ts like,
oWow! ?

to make way for new hi

oThese sites are like

history book. Each one that is lost is

like tearing a page out of a book, ? T
said Daniel Griffith, director of the
Delaware Office of Historic and
Cultural Affairs.

oHuman history prior to Euro-
pean contact is all in the ground.
The only way to learn about that
culture is through archaeology, ?
Griffith said.

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Remember , time heals. It brings about recovery. It is normal for memories
caused from the loss of a loved one to still linger long after the funeral.

Gradually begin to reestablish your tracitional holiday family gatherings
that were shared with your loved one. Don Tt be pressured by the hustle
and bustle of the holiday season, take time for yourself. Allow yourself to
begin to feel comfortable at your own pace when participating in holiday

Don't be afraid to reach out to others for encouragement and support
during the holidays. The people who love us the most are there to help us
_ through the most difficult times.

Pray Ask GOD to give you the personal strength necessary to go on with
life to reassure you that you Tre not alone. This will give you the courage,
faith, & determination to recover from your loss.

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By DAVID GERMAIN
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(AP) "Minority roles are so
scarce on television that the NAACP
had trouble rounding up enough
comedy nominees for black -ac-
tresses in its annual Image Awards,
organizers said.

The awards are given to honor
black entertainers and TV shows,
books and movies with black char-
acters.

The small field of contenders
highlights the NAACP Ts complaints
that network shows fail to reflect
the nation Ts racial diversity, said
Hamilton Cloud, executive pro-
ducer of the Image Awards. _

oThe nominating process serves
as a yardstick to see where the in-
dustry is, ? Cloud said.

CBS led all networks with 18
nominations, announced Wednes-
day. ABC was next with 15 nomi-
nations, followed by HBO with 14,
WB with 12 and NBC with 10. Fox,
which built viewership with help .-
from multiracial sitcoms a decade T
ago, received just six.

Organizers said the weak show-
ings by,Fox and NBC werg, signs
the networks need to Groadee eth-
nic diversity.

oWe didn Tt need the NAACP to
tell us that we need to do better in
this area, ? said NBC spokeswoman
Shirley Powell.

Five of Fox Ts nominations were
for a single show, oAlly McBeal. ?
A network spokesman did not re-
turn a telephone call seeking com-
ment Wednesday..

Nominations for the Image
Awards, to be held Feb. 11-12 and
aired by Fox on April 8, were an-
nounced two days after the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People held a hearing in
Los Angeles toexamine complaints
about the lack of racial diversity on
the air and behind the camera.

The NAACP said it will decide
later this month whether to orga-
nize economic boycotts, pickets and
other action against one or more
networks during the crucial Febru-
ary ratings sweeps period, which js
used to set broadcast advertising
rates.

The group is awaiting responses
to surveys it sent to networks on
their efforts to improve racial di-
versity.

oI would like to think if this was
a perfect world, even without the
existing pressure brought to bear
by the NAACP, that they would be
finding ways to look at the rich
diversity of their markets and pro-
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Princeville After the Flood

Sandra Noble and her mother
Maggie spent 9 hours in the aflic
of their home during hunricane
Floyd. Sitting in a chair, Sandra
watched her refrigerator wobble
and then finally float away from
the. strong waters, Phyllis Wailer
housed 26 people for a month and
a half during Floyd. Some were
relatives and others were strang-
ers,-but they were all people in
need.

Joann Parker spent 11 days in
her home without water and
power, and little Nicole Waller
saw'a house in the middle of the
road, moved by the forceful
waters of you know who, Floyd.

aggie Noble was taken out of
hér Pinetops home by boat and

remembers the rescue workers

telling her to lay down so they
could pass under a
telephone pole.

iLike so many others this small
gtoup of Princeville residents lost
much to the flood, but their only.
comment is, 'the water is gone and
now the work has to continue.

They are a part of Project
PROUD (Princeville Reaching
Out: Uniting against Drugs); a
stall grassroots organization that
egan as a program targeting at
risk: youth but now project has
expanded.

_1"We were already an interven-
tion. Organization we just gave a
name to it" said Leon Waller,
founder. Project PROUD has now
added Crisis Counseling to its list
of services through a partnership
with the Edgecombe/Nash Mental
| Health. 17or eight hours
a week, 19 volunteers seek out
and visit the more than 320
mobile units set up in
Edgecombe/Nash County.

_ FEMA Village as it is called sits
just up from the Women's
Correctional Institute on Highway
301. It is here that the crisis
-ounselors or paraprofessionals as
hey are called meet with and
assist the many residents on how
0 obtain various services.

Many of the people need a plan,"
aid Brenda Bryant, case manager
with the Edgecombe/Nash Mental
Health, "there is a difference
yetween helping and enabling.
People need to decide, okay
where will you be in 6, 12 or 18
nonths."

For several of the counselors it
1elps just to be able to talk with
yeOple and let them know that you
00 lost everything. "A tot of
eople just want to know what's
Zoing on," said Anthony Perkins,
-o-chair of Project PROUD and a
risis counselor, "I talk to people
n different places, the mall,
stores, anywhere I see them. Most
of them I know because | live in
rinceville."

ith the guilt. "
hurry to rebuild and go home, but
you do feel guilty when you know
that: you're doing okay" Said
Perkins. The Perkins are now
staying
in a family home in Tarboro that
was not affected by the flooding.
They are just a small part of the
spirit of determination that exists
in Princeville. While the town
itself is a hollow shell with little
or no movement. There is a bright
light that sits in the Phillips
Printing Company on Main Street.
It is here that every Wednesday
the crisis counselors and more
than 40 children meet and discuss
their plan of action for the present
as well as the new millennium.
And their plans are well under

way.

With more than $70,000 in
fianding Project PROUD has
already began planning a weekend
retreat to Nags Head for its
counselors and volunteers. "We're
still alive," said
Phyllis Waller, "we have commit-
ted, sincere people".

Phyllis, who just had the last of
26 people leave her home two
weeks ago, actively seeks flinding
for the project through various
grants. This year alone the project
received

four grants: Zsmith-Reynolds,
Mary Reynolds Babcock, Michael
J. Warren and the NC Youth
Advocacy grant.

"We're back and better than
ever," Leon said. Are they spread-
ing themselves too thin? Anthony
Perkins doesn't think so. "If you're
gonna do something 24 hours a

day, why not do something posi-

tive?"

With so many people in need
this group still finds time to sit
back and share their stories.

Stories of triumph and the human
spirit. Sandra Noble told the story
of an unknown Winston-Salem
man who sent her his car. "I work
for Centura Bank and so does this
man, they asked me what I needed
and I said a car, so he sent me
his." This anonymous hero drove
the car from Winston-Salem to
Kinston where Sandra picked it
up. "It's a lot of good people in the
world," said Sandra, "that's what
I've learned from this flood.
People you never thought would
help you."

Thanks to the employees of
Centura Bank, Sandra how has a
storage unit filled
with furniture, waiting until she
finds a new home.

"The bosses that you think you
don't like are the ones who
sometimes help," said Joann
Perkins. Joann, an employee of
McDonalds has new furniture for
her home thanks in part to her
golden arches co-workers in
Zebulon. Which will be a huge
help since she left her home with
only two changes of clothes. "I
did just what they said do. I
packed two outfits, thinking |
would be home in two days."
Joann has yet to see the insidc of
her home, but now understands all
to well that, "the material things
belong to the Lord."

For this group of Edgecombe
County residents they call them-
selves the "Miracle Story", a true
testament of Isaiah 40:31- "They
that wait upon the Lord shall
renew their strength, they shall
mount up with wings as eagles,

they shall run and not be weary
and they shall walk and not faint."

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James C. Kearney

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12,
1999-- Agriculture Secretary Dan
Glickman today announced _
the appointment of James C.
Keamey as administrator of
USDA's Rural Housing Service
(RHS). In his new post, Kearney
will oversee distribution of more
than $4 billion in loans and grants
annually to improve housing and
community facilities in the na-
tion's rural areas.

Kearney has worked at USDA
for more than 30 years. He served
as North Carolina state director
for USDA Rural Development
from 1993 until 1998.

"Jim Kearney's intimate under-
standmg of USDA's rural eco-
nomic programs and his love for
the land and people of rural
America make him an_ ideal
choice for this important posi-
tion," Glickman said. "There is no
more crucial issue in rural
America today than ensuring the
availability of decent, safe hous-
ing."

his career with

Kearne
USDA in 1965 as an assistant
county supervisor with. the

Farmers Home Adininistration
(FmHA), forerunner agency of
USDA Rural Development. From
1980 to 1993, he was an FmHA
district director. He then became
state director for USDA Rural
Development in North Carolina,
managing the housing, commu-
nity facility, infrastructure and
business development programs.
In 1998 he moved to USDA
headquarters in Washington to
become special assistant to the
under secretary for Farm and
Foreign Agricultural Services,
and then associate administrator
for operations and management
with USDA's Farm __ Service
Agency.

"I've seen first-hand over my
many years with USDA how our
housing programs can help rural
Amencans fulfill their dreams of
homeownership, while creating
jobs and demand for new rural
businesses and services," Kearney
said. "We at RHS have a record to
be proud of. Last year we helped
more than 67,000 rural Americans
purchase or improve their homes,
finance the construction of more
than 2,100 units of affordable
rental housing and built or ex-
panded 620 vital community fa-
cilities, including rural schools,
libraries, day care centers, police
and fire stations. I look forward to
doing all that 1 can to continue
this legacy of service to the
nation."

In 1993 Keamey. received
USDA's Superior Service Award
for outstanding leadership in
equal employment opportunity
and civil rights. Kearney is a U.S.
Army veteran and retired
Lieutenant Colonel. He has a B.S.
degree from North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State
University.

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