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A Letter to the Editor
What does the Law Say ?
@The law does not give any ad hoc
committee the privilege or the authority to
recommend to the Board of County
Commissioners with whom to fill vacan-
cies on the Board
@The authority and the privilege to make
recommendations to fill vacancies on the
Board of County Commissioners is given
to the Democratic Executive Committee.
@lf the County Commissioners are not
going to adhere to the recommendation of
the Democratic Executive Committee, I
would like to recommend that the
Commissioners seek to have the law
repealed
@ It has been alleged that precincts 3 and
4 of Pitt County did not approve the
recommendation made by the Pitt County
Democratic Executive Committee. For the
record, I am the Chairman of precinct #3
and a member of the Executive Committee
and we do approve of the action and the
recommendation of the Executive
Committee on January 11, 2000
@ Also for the record, the NAACP is a
non-partisan organization. It is illegal for
the NAACP to endorse any political
candidate for public office. |
D.D. Garrett, Sr.
1204 W. Martin Luther King , JR. Dr.
Greenville, North Carolina
Continued from page | He reiterated that Jews and American Indians have been paid in excess of $11 billion for the injustices meted out to
them, but blacks in America are yet to receive any damages. oBlacks have suffered the longest running injustice against humanity in the history
of the world but have got nothing. Two hundred and forty six years of slavery is the cause of poverty to the black man, ? observed Robinson.
Furthermore, he revealed that a study by the University of California in Berkeley that cited wage discrimination against blacks since the time
of slavery and said: oBlacks are owed $1.6 trillion by the federal government, and when this is broken down further, it Ts about $60-$80 billion
per generation. ? Condemning the injustice fomented by the system, he mused: oA system that allows Dan Quale to rise to become a vice
president is not a fair system, so don Tt expect your children to rise up and close the gap themselves. We must therefore now talk about what
we are owed. ?
Finally, Robinson extolled the tremendous industry of the black people in helping to build America and said, oWe demand reparations now.
We Tll pursue this not because we are beggars at the pauper Ts table, but we worked for it, and now is the time for our due. ? Robinson has also
written a book on the subject, 7he Debt: What Ameirca Owes To Blacks and is currently circulating in book stores.
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