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April, 2, 2000 - April, 27, 2000
Many Children Continue to live in Poverty
DonTt Forget To Vote Tuesday, May 2nd!
What You See Is What You Get, What You Read Is What Know And Save.
April 2, 2000 - April 27, 2000
Continue
to lave in Poverty
BY: CASH MICHAEI
THE WILIMINGTON
JOURNAL
Despite dramatic drops in the
number of families from the
welfare and public assistance rolls
since 1996, the number of chil-
dren in poverty continues to grow
across the country, and here in
North Carolina, according to the
latest report from a noted child
advocacy group.
The ChildrenTs Defense Fund. a
nonprofit Washington, DC based
organization, reports in its oThe
State of AmericaTs Children:
Yearbook 2000°, that oSeventy-
four percent of poor children
today live in working families
who cannot make enough to
escape poverty.?
One in five children in America.
or 13.5 million, are poor, accord-
ing to CDFTs research, based on
US Censos and US Dept. of
Health and Human Services fig-
ures
Thirty-two percent of those chil-
dren belong to Black families
making less than $13,003 annu-
ally. What may be surprising to
some people, however. is_ that
62% are white (which includes
Hispanics).
In North Carolina, according to
the latest US Censos figures, there
were 1,919,774 children in 1998--
25.4% of the total state
population.
Based on 1989 income (the most
recent figures used for the 1990
US Censos since calculations
from the 2000 Censos won't be
ready until 2002), of NC's
Senior Citizen's Gathering.
272,923 children under 18 who
are poor (17.2% of total childrenTs
population). 35.9% are Black.
9.3% are white, and 24.2% are
Hispanic
The country with the highest
percentage of poor children is
Hyde with 40.8%. Over 264,079
children received food stamps in
fiscal year 1998. In FY 1999,
815,665 children received free,
reduced-price or full proced
school lunches through the child
nutrition program. Over 261,223
were enrolled in the school creak-
fast program, and 43.299 were fed
through the summer food pro-
gram.
In terms of incidence of low birth
weight babies. 13.6% for Black
mothers. compared to 7.1% for
whites, and 6.1 for hispanic
mothers. For infant mortality,
Blacks again led whites----15.7 to
6.9% tor 1997, the latest year for
figures.
The teen birth rate overall in N¢
has gone down to 61.3% in 1997,
the lowest since 1990, from a high
70.5 in 199]
In education, NC clearly has what
could be called a crisis. according
to US Dept. of Education figures
for 1998, 72% of the state's fourth
vraders are reading below profici-
eny level. The pupil/teacher ratio
is 16-1, according to 61.996
figures. and high school comple-
tion from 1995-97 was 87.1%.
When it comes to child abuse.
NC is prominent as well. accord-
ing tothe US Dept. of Health and
Human Services. Between 1990
and 1997, the number of child
abuse victims jumped 34% from
Neglect
24.880 to 33. 347
accounts for the highest type of
abuse---87.1%. Sexual abuse is
4.1%, while physincal abuse is
4.5%.
If there is one area of good news,
itTs firearm deaths of children and
teens 19 and under from 1995-97,
During that three-year period, the
stateTs total number dropped from
150 to 92. The most prevalent are
homicides, which went from 77 to
1995, to 45 in 1997.
In America, nearly 12 children
die each day from gunfire, accord-
ing to figures compiled by the
ChildrenTs Defense Fund.
Children under the age of 15 are
12 times more likely to die by
gunfire than children in 25 other
industrialized countries.
The CDF report recommends that
states like NC ensure education,
training and work at a decent
wage for poor families with
children. that more money be
invested in early childhood inter-
vention programs like Smart Start,
that children be taught how to
reslove their differences without
violence, and that states not return
hundreds of millions of unspent
public assistance funding to the
federal government, but be al-
lowed to spend it to enhance
training and opportunities for the
poor.
oDo what you can right now to
mentor and support a child and
advocate for all chiildren.? CDF
Executive Director Marian Wright
Edleman wrote in the report. * Do
not wait for everyone to come
along.?
oThey never will.?
Senior Citizen's Gathering shown at Snow Hill's Senior citizen gathering on the campaign trail brother
Jim Rouse along with very popular Snow
popular in the Black Community
house of Representatives
Hall resident Jerry Green. As well as another citizen who is
Brother Brit all encourage you to get out and vote for Jim Rouse NC
Photo by Abdoul Rouse
Martin County Democratic Women, Brother Rouse who was campaigning in Martin County is Shown
posing for the "M" Voice camera along with the Collard Green King Mort Hurts as well as Sandra Mc
Cleary and long time Martin County resident Miss Manson. The fellowship was strong and very friendly.
Photo by Abdoul Rouse
Edgecombe County Democrats
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y m5 * iy é : he) f * ;
a4) r at 2 Va
May 2nd, you have the opportunity to vote for the canidate of your choice. Voting has the power to create
change and make things happen. Edgecombe County Commissioner Florence Arnold Armstrong is shown
with Edgecombe County Sheriff Knight and newly appointed House of Representative John Hall. All
encourage you to get out and vote.
Photo by Abdou! Rouse
Easley Leads in the Polls 53%
By Stephen Johnson
Editor
Candidates endorsed by the
Durham Committee on the A ffairs
of Black People have been
judged to be capable of improving
the lives of Black citi-
zens. However several people ar-
gue intimidation from the Political
Committee played a part in this
year's-endorsements, primarily its
open vote policy.
oThe process just wasnTt quite
correct? city council] member and
Political Committee voter Jackie
Wagstaff said. oBecause it was an
open ballot people had to be seen
they couldn't vote with their
hearts. And it's a shame in a
political process that you have to
vote that way.
oits sort of like being under a
slumlord rule. The slumlord has
Clebration 2000 may be held
CELEBRATION 2000 TO BE
HELD IN GREENVILLE MAY
26 & 27
Greenville, N. C.. April 12, 2000
Eastern Carolinians for Unity and
Spiritual Renewal. a group com-
prised of many of the principals
involved with the highly success-
fid Franklin Graham Crusade in
Greenville in 1998, will conduct a
follow-up = spiritual = rally " in
Williams Arena. Minges
Coliseum May 26 and 27. 2000.
Nationally recognized speaker
Arlee Griffin of the Berean Batist
Church in New York City will be
the featured speaker on Friday
night May 26th. Griftin. who has
eastern North Carolina ties. now
ministers to one of the largest
all the power and the tenants feel
powerless? Wagstaff said fear
was particle evident in the com-
mitteeTs gubernatorial endorse-
ment , in which it endorsed Lt
Governor Dennis Wicker over
Attorney General Mike Easley.
Some voters lobbied for a secret
ballot but failed to get enough
support.
Because Easley leads Wicker in
the polls and has appointed blacks
to high powered positions and
tackled issues pertinent to blacks,
Wagstaff said he would have been
the more favorable choice if votes
were done by a secret bal-
lot.According to a new WTVD
poll released Tuesday. April
18.2000 conducted by Survey
USA showed Democrat Mike
Eastley maintain a significant lead
in the gubernatorial primary.
Easley 53% Wicker 24% other
Congregations in the USA with a
chuch membership of around
6.000 members. Griffin, a gradu-
ate of the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill also holds a
PHD degree from Boston
University and is currently serv-
ing on the Board of Directors at
Shaw Universtiy in Raleigh. N.C
On Saturday night. May 27, the
speaker will be local evangelist
Reverand Tom Holtsclaw. the
pastor of Jarvis United Methodist
Church in Greenville. Reverand
Holtsclaw was one of the tacilita-
tors of the Franklin Graham
Crusade in Greenville and is now
called on by the Graham orgaini-
zation to speak to Communities
across the USA on behalf of the
crusade.
Shown posing for the "M" Voice camera candidate
with Jim rouse. Both on hand
11% undecided 11%
In recent news Attorney General
Mike Easley announced that
Medicaid recipients are now eligi-
ble for the Lifeline/Link-Up dis-
count telephone programs. the
Lifeline program allows persons
in need to receive telephone
service at a discounted rate while
the Link-Up program provides a
discount for their initial hook-up
of phone service. Citizens who
have questions regarding eligibil-
ity for the Life/link-Up programs
should contact their local phone
company, the North Carolina
Utilities Commission at (919)
733-2435 or? the Attorney
General's Consumer Protection
Section at (919) 716- 6000
Some information in this article
taken from the Triangle Tribune.
in Greenville
The event will also feature a
Mass Choir Comprised of singers
and musicians from area
churches. There is no admission
charge for any Celebration 2000
events.
Organizers feel the timing for a
Franklin Graham Crusade follow-
up is right considering the prob-
lems the area has sufféred in
reeent months with the flooding
following Hurricane Floyd and
recent problems in local govern-
ments that have caused a divsion
and created philisophical differ-
ences There is a_ sense that
bringing the eastern North
Carolina community together in
the name of Jesus Christ once
again will create healing and
comfort along with spiritual re-
newal
ote for Shacklefort
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for County Commissioner Brother Shacklefort along
at Snow Hill Senior Citizen's gathering.
Photo by Abdoul Rouse
* VRE deca. Anges Polos Dope
-" ment must be answerable to the pub-
__ lie it serves. To some, this might be
oe wo eee ly frond pro-
cuetben span ay onary
seives me correctly, Rep.*Maxine
Waters made several attempts to get
someone to listen to her charges of:
racism and uneven policing within
The Taxman at Your Service
=
By SHELDON RICHMAN
down our necks.
that-and mean it!
favor: donTt do me any favors.?
revolution.
Ata a time when federal revenues are the highest percentage of
gross domestic product since the peak of World War Il"over 20
_ percent"we are asked to feel sorry for the IRS. According to the tax
agency, recent legislation has turned it into a shell of its former self.
It is unable to collect what is odue.? The number of audits and
property seizures has slipped. Agents are even afraid that if they
collect revenue as they used to, they might lose their jobs. Oh horror!
Before we shed tears for the much-abused IRS, we need to keep
some things in mind. The income tax and IRS are vile institutions
that have no place in a society that aspires to be free. We have them
for one reason alone: they bring in revenues like no other source of
| taxation, and revenue is the lifeblood of the leviathan state.
Whether or not the IRS is telling the truth about its incapacity to
collect taxes, we can be sure that all champions of activist
government-Democrat and Republican alike-will rally to its rescue.
President Clinton has promised to beef up the agency's budget and
staff, and we've heard no opposition from the GOP. Quite the
contrary. As the New York Times reported, oRepublicans in Con-
gress who have criticized the I.R.S. said they were open to the idea
that more money might be needed.? Clinton has called for a9 percent
increase in its budget. It doesnTt take a clairvoyant to predict that the
agency will get what it wants. That's 633 more auditors breathing
IRS Commissioner Charles 0. RossottiTs response to his agency's
alleged troubles deserves scrutiny. He warned that continued lax
enforcement will oundermine our entire system of voluntary tax
compliance. ? One of the mysteries of life is the federal government's
insistence that the income tax is voluntary. Considering that it
threatens to punish employers who donTt withhold employeesT taxes
and citizens who fail to file tax returns or pay any money oowed,?
one is at pains: to locate precisely the voluntariness in the system. If
the system is voluntary, an involuntary system would be one in
which the government withheld /00 percent of everyoneTs income
and sent each person a monthly allowance.
RossottiTs statement is reminiscent of a remark by Rep. Charles
Rangel, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means
Committees: oWhat makes the voluntary system work is the fear of
sanctions and penalties.? People in Washington actually talk like
Let's put the obvious on the record: no tax system is voluntary, ©
oTaxes,? as Judge Learned Hand said some time ago, oare forcedT
extractions, not voluntary contributions.? A voluntary tax is like a
square circle. It is not to be found in the natural world.
Anyone who believes in voluntary taxation probably also be-
lieves that what the IRS provides is ocustomer service.? That's
another term the tax enforcers like to use. We are being lulled into
thinking the IRS exists for our benefit. It wants to help us. Help us
do what? Comply with the tyrannical demands it enforces on behalf
- Of its sponsor, the money-grubbing members of the U.S. Congress?
As the comedian Shelley Berman said in an old routine, oDo me a
Rossotti recently told a congressional committee: oCustomer
satisfaction is not achieved by failing to collect taxes that are
properly due.? Speak for yourself, Mr. Commissioner.
The intrepid Americans who opposed the income tax early in the
century were prophetic. The tax has become the inquisitorial mon-
ster they predicted. Moreover, it has permitted the government to act
as though it has a valid claim to /00 percent of our income; whatever
we get to keep is by kind permission, and we should be darned
grateful. Any mention of a tax cut is met with questions about
whether it is really needed or whether the government can afford it.
The default position for the money is in the governmentTs coffers.
The rights of those who produced the wealth donTt matter.
We've come along way since that minuscule tea tax incited a
(Sheldon Richman is senior fellow at The Future of Freedom
Foundation in Fairfax, Va. (www.fff.org), author of the foundation
book Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income
Tax, and editor of: Ideas on Liberty magazine.)
The definition of
in the ever evolving, gender neutral
world where everything from work to
school to sex is equal or obi? in terms
of access or opportunity. The demand
that men show their oreal? side comes
from the redefinition of the social
suite omen, Phase who
are or trying to abr
men do-"have convinced
oemotion is a good thing,? aie
the discussion about a perceived emo-
tional sensitivity on the ever increas-
ing roles of women being taken onin
: Thos toequalie the plying fed, tom
social interface between men and
_ women, between women and women,
a oreal? man has |
taken many turns ©
men, whose health behaviors were
masked by being stoic, it saved many
of their lives. Why? Because getting
ointouch with themselves? also meant
going to the doctor when they hurt,
and playing past stereotypic fears to
save themselves for their families.
There is a whole psychological
process that plays out with this new
osensitiveT man thing. And it plays
differently between men and women.
Aman in touch with his sensi-
tive side could be a very otouchy?
and between men and men, shifted a
| ms SEN
Back in the '60s and °70s, black
saa tnd Won Sebieged to drive ts
the area patrolled by 77th street police
Officers. If a black man had a decent
car and dressed fairlyTwell, he was
considered fair § game for those offic-
ers, it has been opinion. The problem
was so widespread that many black
people who lived in that vicinity often
refused to leave their homes after
dark.
In words of one syllable, they were
scared to death. When they sought to
complain, they were either told they
were overreacting or that it was just
their imagination. It would be virtu-
ally impossible to count the numbers
Of people who came to the Sentinel
with their complaints because there
was no other place for them go.
Black citizens have complained
time and again that when they went to
file acomplaint against an officer, the
complaint was either not taken or the
process was made so difficult that the
citizen went home discouraged.
Let me be clear about the issuc.
URBAN
Anyone even
passingly conver-
sant about the urban scene knows that
public education in the nationTs inner
cities is a failure. Numerous reform
efforts have made little impact on the
core problems, and students of color
especially, continue to suffer institu-
tional inequities.
Arecentreport by the Public Policy
Institute of California addresses the
resources"student achievement
question"it is entitled oEqual Re-
sources, Equal Outcomes? The Dis-
tribution of School Resources and
Student Achievement in California.?
Since the early 1970s, ballot ini-
tiatives and court rulings have sought
to equalize funding across California's
schools. Yet, 30 years later, funding
inequities continue. Moreover, al-
though ofunding per pupil? provides
a measure of school resources within
a district, it provides little insight into
how individual schools spend their
revenues.
Statewide surveys (conducted in
1998 and 1999) found that Califor-
nians consider schools and education
by far the most pressing problems
facing the state. The Equal Resources
report undertook to answer several
critical questions about California's
K-12 schools:
1) How do school resources"
measured in terms of class size, cur-
riculum, and teachersT education, cre-
dentials and experience"vary among
schools? 2) Do schools serving rela-
tively disadvantaged populations tend
to reccive fewer resources? 3) Do
existing inequalities in school re-
sources contribute to unequal student
outcomes?
Average class size differs little
across schools. However, teacher
preparation and. high school curricu-
lum vary considerably. Certain teacher
them? in public was also a departure
from what a man wasnTt supposed to
do. I was 38 when my father first told
me that he loved me. Not because he
didnTt, but because that was some-
thing men just odidnTt do.? It was
more like waiting for your loved ones
to say it first, then the man said, oYou
too.? My children canTtremember the
day where I didnTt tell them that I.
loved them because I've told them
every day since they were babies, So,
in theory, the sensitivity piece has its
SO }
Taking it as far aa cooking waa a
real barrier for me, My position used
to be, if I had to cook, why do I need
awife (I know, Ican bea real chauvin-
ys That was until my wife took one
of her 10 day business trips about'$ bod
years ago, and my four kids wanted
takeout every night, at $20 to $40 a
(Uineusn is cochined Gibh
You should have heard me on the
phone, oBaby, how long do I leave the
fish in the batter .., how high should
the fire be,? a real !
eg mor over
years. It gave me a new persp
eam oma it ow,
from " for decades and
oie ) Icom raomnenant eerie iene
|: money brokers. They aoe all aking
for stronger civilian oversight of the.
LAPD. the reaka, took central Hed Caches t -
satis Wis ben Go aot a
feu ani saat enn eo tees.
clean up some of the problems.
Assuming for the sake of argu-
ment, that the charges leveled against
the department are at least in part true,
we must also assume that the prob-.
lems did not begin nor end with Perez.
It might even be safe to consider that
many of the charges leveled against
LAPD had more than a modicum of
truth to them.
This brings us to the very critical
question, which is the basis for this
column. Where were the loud voices
of the political powers when Bill
Parker, Ed Davis, Daryl Gates, et. al,
were sitting at the helm?
At the risk of being racist, I must,
in all good conscience, ask the ques-
tion. Were they allowed free reign
because they were the same hue as the
people who supported them? Was the
citizenry of the Valley, the West Side
and the moneyed communities so
afraid of being invaded by blacks that .
they closed their eyes to the injustices
that were heaped upon black people
in the same of justice?
PERePEcnive
characteristics differ markedly among
K-6 schools, with and without ashort-
age of teacher skills. There is much
variation across schools in the nuin-
ber: of teachers with low-levels of
preparation. Lack of full certification
is especially striking. Among schools
with little or no skills shortage, all
teachers have full certification; among
schools with significant skills short-
age, nearly 20 percent of teachers
lack full certification. Among middle
schools and high schools, variations
in teacher preparation are similar.
Like teacher preparation, high
school curriculum varies consider-
ably in terms of the percentage and
number of advanced course offerings,
i.e., the University of California oa-f?
courses and Advanced Placement
courses (AP).
Analysis of teacher preparation and
curriculum offerings in urban, rural
and suburban schools revealed that
urban schools, by most measures, have
a higher percentage of teachers with
low preparation levels, hardly a rev-
elation. For example, 26 percent of
the teachers in urban elementary
schools have only a bachelorTs degree
or less compared to 12 percent of the
teachers in suburban schools and 11
percent in rural schools. Similar dis-
parities exist in middle and high.
schools.
Schools serving orelatively disad-
vantaged? populations of students
receive fewer resources. This study
divided elementary schools into five
socioeconomic status (SES) groups,
based on the proportion of students
participating in free or reduced-price
lunch programs. The statewide ineq-
uities in school resources among dis-
advantaged students afe similarly rep-
licated within districts: In other words,
within a given district, schools with
particularly disadvantaged students
donTt know how much learning to
cook made me a real man, but I do
know not cooking made me oreal
broke,? so my departure from that
philosophical position had an eco-
nomic motivation but I now pride
myself in being areal man in, at least,
two areas. But I became a real man
when I overcame a third area, or bar-
. Tier, That barrier was having my health
checked on a regular basis, Including
my prostate. Turning 40 a few years
back, | realized some things made
you a man, others didn't,
The third area continues to be a
barrier formany men. Men are sup-
posed to feel pain and just bear
through it, That's why black men's
so Ms tancy is shorter than any-
"s. Prostate cancer is kill- .
ing * medically) black men at a
higher rate than anything else (ex-
pect homicide), AccordingT to
oEliminating Racial and Ethnic Dis-
parities in Health, the number of
deaths from cancer per
experi- . 100,000 for non ou (53.7) is is
and a half tines that of Hispanics the
(15.3). The American Cancer Soci-
be gpm atid ented
train some of the officers who are now
sitting in positions of power and some
of the attitudes of that old guard are.
still prevalentin the offers they helped
to train.
Older black retired police officers
have told stories about how Parker
sent recruiters to the South because
the ogood old boys? know how to
handle black people. Some of those
Southerners were hired and became
members of LAPD. Through the years,
there have been myriad problems
* within the department.
The late Judge Earl C. Broady Sr.,
the father of famed criminal attorney
Earl C. Broady Jr., left LAPD after
being passed over for promotion. A
less qualified man got the job. Why?
You know the answer.
LAPD has a spotted history. It is
interesting to note that the first black
captain in that department was not
promoted until the later 1960s, That
was Homer Broome, who went on to
are likely to have less educated and
less experienced teachers and, at the
high school level, to offer fewer AP
courses.
California students lag substan-
tially behind national norms on the
Stanford 9 reading and math tests. In
atypical grade, only about 40-45 per-
centof the stateTs students scored at or
above the national median. The un-
usually large proportion of limited
English-proficient (LEP) students in
California accounts for at least-two-
thirds of the gaps in math and reading
performance.
One of the studyTs most important
questions was whether and how school
characteristics related to student
achievement, which varies widely
across schools, even when LEP stu-
dents are excluded from the sample.
Among school resources, the level of
teacher experience and the percent-
age of teachers without a full creden-
tial are the variables most strongly
related to student outcomes. How-
ever, the most important factor relat-
ing to student outcomes is SES.
Given the evidence in this study of
unequal resource allocations within
districts, it seems unlikely that the
devolution of authority to school dis-
tricts will equalize resources among
schools and, in fact, it could work in
the opposite direction. The report sug-
gests that the state may want to re-
quire, or at least encourage districts to
reduce within district resource ineq-
uities, especially those related toteach-
ers, in return for greater local control
over teaching methods and curricu-
lum.
Addressing the considerable varia-
tion in the proportion of college pre-
paratory and AP courses in Califor-
nia, the report suggests: First, smaller
schools and districts offer fewer AP
courses. Such schools should use a
(6,100) died in that same year"
less than a year of being diagnosed,
which means most of them never
even knew they had it until it was
too late.
Much of this can be attributed to
the notion that oreal men? donTt go to
the doctor. So some real men, I guess,
end up dead from their ignorance when
this is purely not the case for men in
other races. With early detection, the
post treatment survival rate is S years,
in many cases, longer.
Some of the atereotypic justifi-
Cations that men don't go to the
doctor is obey «set won't be real
men anym operated
on. The fear of esate dy le dysfunction
is the biggest barrier to men refus-
ing to be checked. oThey won't be
the same, sexually, after prostate
treatments.? Yet, none who advance
that position has an answer to the
question, oHow much sex do you
get when you're dead??
Rest assured that when you're dead
it won't be the same song It will be
and th drug th mates
a seas iianne wees:
paella cea home
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If we look closely at the problem,
: we will quickly realize that itis not a
problem with Perez, but rather a prob-
lem with the old guard. While most of
that cadre has long since been retired, _
- we must remember they helped to
; oOn
of police for two cities as well asthe |
city manager for two cities. Ron!
Nelson, a lieutenant when he retired, :
_ was named chief for the University of
San Francisco. The list goes on and
on. Parks is another example of prob-
lems within LAPD. He was held back
_ fora number of years after he reached
' the rank of commander. Ron Banks is
now the chief of Inglewood. The ac-
complishments of the black officers
are toonumerous tocount. They were,
however, disregarded by the powers
at the top.
Allof these things went on in other
administrations and there was.no out-
cry from so-called concerned citizens.
Once again, we ask why? .
If the detractors are so hell-bent on.
changing the system, why did the»
system flourish for at least a half-.
century with noreal attemptat change? |
This brings us to the crux of
matter. Perhaps Bernie Parks has made
some tactical errors, but in the main,?
he is attempting to clean upTa mess
that was in existence when he was
Why are the hounds snapping at
the heels now? Where were these
same hounds or their counterparts,
when black people in Los Angeles
were begging for help?
Inequitable Resources and Student Achievement
combination of course-sharing with
other schools, odistance learning?
through the Internet or other innova-
tive solutions. The most cost-effec-
tive solution might be to encourage
promising students to take commu-
nity college courses; second, varia-
tions in teacher education partly ac-
count for variations in AP offerings.
This means that inequalities in teacher
preparation must be addressed before
simply requiring that all schools offer |
identical sets of AP courses; third,
weaknesses in curriculum in middle
schools and even elementary schools
may limit studentsT ability to under-
take AP courses in high school. Thus,
reforms to rernedy the situation must
obviously begin much earlier thanT |
high school.
The 1999 Public Schools Account-
ability Act rewards schools that meet
or make adequate progress toward .
meeting state standards. It also threat-
ens schools at the bottom end of the
sate rankings with tough sanctions
should fail to adequately i improve.
(This obviously has serious implica-
tions for inner-city schools.) Thus an
unintended side effect of the account-
ability reforms could be to dissuade
principals and teachers from working "
in schools serving disadvantaged stu-
dents. To reduce this risk, rewards and
punishments should be. based in part
on performance relative to other
schools serving similar student popu-
lations. Measures of performance
shouldalsobe basedonimprovements_
in student performance rather than sim-
ply on level of achievementrelativeto
other schools. Additional resources
must be directed to schools in disad- _
vantaged areas, while phasing in sanc-
tions gradually, so that schools with
the greatest problems and most inequi-
ties have a reasonable opportunity to
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Ralph Campbell Jr.,
State Auditor
Inaugurated as North Carolina
State Auditor on January 9, 1993,
Ralph Campbell, Jr. betame the
first African-Ameri¢an in the
State's history to win a statewide,
elected executive office and sit on
the prestigious Council of State of
North Carolina.
An independently elected offi-.
cial, the State Auditor is charged
with the duty of examining the
operations of state agencies and
whether they have established
adequate financial, performance
and administrative procedures and
practices, systems of accounting
and other necessary elements of
legislative and management con-
trol. The North Carolina State
Auditor has the Statutory respon-
sibility for examining and pub-
lishing findings and
recommendations on every State
department and agency, each of
the 16 campuses of the University
of North Carolina system, each of
the 58 Community Colleges, and
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Ralph Campbell has long
| recognized the need for more
participation by minorities in gov-
ernment. A Raleigh native and
graduate of JAW. Lig on High
School, Campbell received his
degree in business administration
from Sairit Augustine's College in
1968. He also attended the gradu-
ate program in business at North
Carolina Central University. He
ran for the Raleigh City Council
in 1985, winning the District C
seat. During his Council tenure,
he became involved with a long
list of civic, fraternal, religious.
and human service organizations
at the state and local level. His
unyielding commitment to his
district and the African-American
community, as well as his dedica-
tion to all Raleigh citizens, re-
gardless of race, color or creed,
earned him the respect of many
across the city. In 1989, following
his election to a third term on the
City Council, he was elected by
his fellow council members to
serve as Mayor Pro Tem, stepping
in to assist the Mayor when
needed, as well as continuing to
serve as a leader for the Council
on key issues for all the citizens
of Raleigh. As State Auditor, he
has expanded his involvement to
I systems. In addi-
: a toll free "
| telephone Hotline established by " i
__ the NC General Assembly which
| allows citizens and employees to _ histi
report potential fraud, waste and
_ abuse within state government. " wi
Revenue as a
(1977-1986), the NC State Hea
Benefits Office as Plan Auditor
1992).
Campbell has been t
ates from Saint Augustine's
College and Shaw University for
his service to his community. His
personal sotication oe :
service and the integrity of public.
office have earned him certifica-
tion as a fraud examiner by the
Association of Certified Fraud
Examiners, the In Award
presented by the Auditor General
of US Department of He Health and
Human Services, and . the
Secretary of Health and Human
Services Award for Distinguished
Service.
"I try to find the best solutions
for all of our citizens and to help
make our state government and its
institutions and the best
they can be, osays Campbell. "I
am proud of this state and its
citizens and the (Progress we are
making together."
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HOW TO REALLY REST
IN PEACE
The death of a family member
is one of the most difficult times
that anyone can experience. As
mourners face their grief and
come to grips with their own
immortality, they must also han-
dle the business of a_ final
Yet, according to
several AARP research studies,
some unscrupulous businesses in
the "death industry" take advan-
tage of consumers at this vulner-
able moment.
Death is such an unfortunate
way to end a life. But there's at
least one benefit: Dead men
don't plan funerals. A funeral is
often the third most expensive
purchase a person makes in his
or her lifetime - right behind a
home and a car and certainly the
most unpleasant.
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1. Shop around, oThe average
funeral costs from $5,000.00. to
$10,000.00 How much should
it really cost? If you do your
homework, you should be able
"to find a complete funeral with a
metal casket for as low as
$2,000. When you visit the
showroom, bring along a friend,
someone who is not grieving and
won't be suckered by a high-
pressure sales pitch.
2 Demand a price list. Funeral
homes are required by federal
law to provide written price lists
for products and general services
such as consultations, music and
care of the body. But be
prepared: Lower-priced items
are often missing from the
list. You'll ask about a $500.00
casket and they'll say they don't
carry it??.
3 Don't feel guilty. Their job
is to sell, and if you are crying,
they can get you buying, usually
with lines like, "This is the last
thing you can do for your father
4. Know your caskets. Will a
high-priced casket preserve your
loved one's body? Not hardly.
Some supposedly air tight cas-
kets may actually speed up the
deterioration process by building »
up gases that decompose the
body (grave) liners and vaults
won't protect the body either. It's
the body's acids and chemicals
that destroy a casket and higher-
priced bronze and copper models
are no more protected than
stainless steel. Pine caskets are
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also a cheaper alternative, but
they're rarely on display.
5. Buy on line. Funeral homes
are rarely thrilled when you buy
elsewhere and may levy a serv-
ice charge, although the practice
is prohibited by the Federal
Trade Commission. A 1999
report by the New York City
Department of Consumer Affairs
found that Some funeral homes
mark up caskets by as much as
300 per cent.
6. Keep it simple. You don't
need a fancy funeral to honor a
loved one. limit visitation to one
day instead of two, dress the
deceased in a favorite outfit
instead of costly burial clothing.
Direct burial or cremation ts
another option (taking the body
directly to the crematory or
cemetery with no preparation or
service). Cremation costs about
one third less than a grave
opening. Hosting memorial serv-
ices at your home or church can
also lead to savings. And
although some funeral homes
require embalming if there will
be a viewing, embalming is not
necessary if the body is immedi-
ately buried or cremated.
Eliminating embalming can Save
$500.00 to $900.00.
7. Plan ahead. If you want a
simple funeral, say so now. Your
family will feel less pressure to
buy you a designer casket when
you're gone. Many funeral
homes and cemeteries offer pre-
pay plans they're supposed to
save your kids from financing
your funeral, but you rarely
control the money, and essential
services are often left off the
contract. A better alternative is
to set up a trust fund or invest
the money on your own. This
way, you and your family control
the money. .
Funeral directors are well aware
that people don't shop around.
Most choose a funeral home that
has served their family before, or
was recommended by their
church, or is located close to
where the live.
R. 1. P. Off - now that death has
become big business. who can
you trust? Only 8 percent know
that funeral homes are required
to provide customers with a
funeral price list.
Click on E (Undertaker) You
can do just about anything on the
WEB these days - including
planning a funeral, buying cas-
ket, and even arranging for a
perpetual memorial.
From Modern Maturity Magazine,
March - April 2000 by Beth Baker and
Karen Reyes, p70-79.
QUOTE ON DEATH
|. Beas kind as kind as you can
today; tomorrow you may not be
here.
2. Perpetual worry will get you
to one place ahead of time- the
cemetery.
3. The one thing certain about
life is that we must leave it.
4. A person can survive almost. . ne
public service and educational
everything except death.
5. Make this your motto: Don't
die until you're dead. ~
6. People who are afraid of
death are usually afraid of life.
7. A single rose for the living is
better than a costly wreath at the
grave.
8. nothing seems to make the
cost of living as reasonable as
pricing funerals.
9. Nothing improves a man's
appearance as much as_ the
photograph the newspapers use
with his obituary.
10. The person who is never
criticized is not breathing.
JABBERWOCK 2000
PARTICIPANTS
Greenville (NC) Alumnae
Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Inc sponsors its 14th
Scholarship Pageant Saturday,
April 22, 6 o'clock (PM) at the
J. H. Rose High School
Performing Arts Center.
The theme is "Jabberwock in the
New Millennium: Bringing the
Past, Present and Future".
Seventeen high school juniors
and seniors are competing for
the title "Miss Jabberwock".
The young ladies have partici- |
pated in cultural enrichment,
development activities while
raising scholarship funds for
their college education.
The chapter president is Mrs.
Cynthia Doctor and the pageant
coordinator -is Ms. Annette
- Goldring.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Reverend Montrose Streeter will
become the Director of
Residence life at Barton College,
Wilson, North Carolina, June
1.2000 Minister Jay Hagans
reviewed the: Sunday School
lesson at Sycamore Hill Baptist
Church, Sunday, April 16, in the
general assembly.
Ben Smith, Meteorologist
WNCT Channel 9, talked with:
senior citizens at the Pitt County
Council on Aging, Tuesday,
April 11.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Williams
visit with relatives and friends in
New York City, over the Easter
weekend.
Mrs. Beatrice Maye, retired li-
brarian, shared with 4th and Sth
grade students, Wednesday and
Thursday, April 13th and 14th at
the Sadie Saulter School in the
observance of National Library
Week from the 2000 theme:
"Read, Learn, Contact in Your
Library".
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City Wide Spring Clean Up, . -
April Ist kicked off a week long city wide clean up effort, some of the participants included Mayor Pr-Tem
Mildred A. Council, Council Member at large Chuck Autry, city Council Member Rose Glover. The Kick
off was at Thomas Foreman park along with Weed and Seed volunteers. Local city youth envoled with and
other volunteers were also on hand.
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Sewer spills
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financial penalties from state regulators. Greenville Utilities does
everything it can to prevent sewer spills, But we canTt do it alone. You play
an important role in helping us maintain an efficient public sanitary
sewer system.
What causes sewer spills? ItTs simple. They're caused by improper
disposal of items into the sewer system. We ask you to be aware of
the following guidelines: .
@ Please avoid pouring fats, oils or grease from cooking down the
drain. Instead, coilect them in a container and dispose in the
trash.
@ Please donTt use your toilets as a wastebasket. Place a waste-
basket in the bathroom to dispose of items such as disposable
diapers and personal hygiene products,
® Unless you have a garbage disposal, please donTt use your drain
to dispose of food scraps. Place food scraps in waste containers
or garbage bags for disposal.
We appreciate your cooperation in following those few simple
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environment. For more information, please contact us at 551-1551.
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WHAT IS TRUTH
" To this end was I born, and for
this cause came | unto the world,
that t should bear witness unto the
truth............ " Pilate saith unto
Him, "What is truth?" (John
18:37,38). So far as the record
indicates, Jesus made no direct
reply to Pilate's " question.
However the night before, when
Jesus was praying in the upper
room, He said to His Heavenly
Father on. behalf of his disciples,
"Sanctify them through thy truth:
thy Word is truth.? (John 17:17).
The word here referred to is
undoubtedly the Old Testament
servers as a guiding star in our
search for truth where the Apostle
Peter mentions a subject which he
says, "God hath spoken by the
mouth of all his holy prophets
since the world began."
When Jesus stood before Pilate,
accused of being a king, and
therefore a traitor to the Roman
Empire, He said "My kingdom is
not of this world, then would my
servants fight, that | should not be
delivered to the Jews." (John
18:36). Pilate did not have the
ability to understand what Jesus
said nor have many of His |
followers since then thoroughly
understood its real meaning.
Hoping that Jesus would clarify
the point, Pilate asked, "Art Thou
a king then?" In other words,
Pilate wanted to know whether
this statement by Jesus that His
kingdom was not of this world
confirmed or denied the charge
his enemies had entered against
Him. Jesus replied again, "Thou
sayest that | am a king..." Had
Pilate known it, Jesus had already
and rejoice therein.
be set up in the earth by human
_ efforts but by divine authority and
power, It will in no way associate
itself with the governments of this
world, much less dependent upon
their military might for support,
nor. vote of the people nor by
human efforts of the millions of
His admirers. This is a definite
and fundamental truth which is set
forth clearly in the Word of God.
Here, then, is the answer to
Pilate's question as to what is truth
pertaining to the kingdom of
Christ. It is the reassuring fact that
intervenes in the affairs of men
and sets up a kingdom of right-
eousness which will operate with-
out human authority and human
assistance.
Suejette A. Jones is currently
enrolled in a religious
program at Pitt Community
College
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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
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Pursuant to General Statutes of North Carolina, Section 143-129, as amended, sealed
proposals will be received by the City of Greenville, North Carolina, in the Public Works |
Department Conference Room, 1500 Beatty Street, Greenville, North Carolina, until 10:00
AM, on Tuesday. April 25, 2000 and immediately thereafter opened and read for the 1999/00 |
Street Resurfacing Project. f
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The Street Resurfacing will consist of placing approximately 5,597 tons of bituminous +
concrete, Type 1-2, and making necessary adjustments to valve and manholes. Street milling f
will consist of milling one (1) street one inch (1") to six inch (611) for a total of 6,925
square yards. Dirt street improvements will consist of placing approximately 400 tons of
bituminous concrete Type 1-2, and fine grading approximately 3,734 square yards of crushed
aggregate base.
Proposals must be enclosed in a sealed envelope addressed to the Purchasing Agent, City of
Greenville, Post Office Box 7207, Greenville, North Carolina, 27835-7207, and the outside
of the envelope must be marked 11 proposal for 1999/2000 Street Resurfacing Project". The
name, address, and North Carolina license number of the Bidder. and the date and time of
Bid opening shall be clearly indicated on the outside of the envelope. One (1) unbound
copy of the Proposal form is furnished in the Specifications which must be executed and
submitted.
Each Proposal must be accompanied by cash, cashiérs check, or a certified check, drawn on
a bank or trust company insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Company or a Bid Bond
as prescribed by North Carolina G.S. 143129, payable to the City of Greenville, in an amount
at least equal to five percent (5%) of the total amount of the Bid, as a guarantee that a Contract
will be entered into and that a satisfactory Performance Bond will be executed. Contractors
are notified that legislative acts relating to licensing of contractors will be observed in
receiving Bids and awarding Contracts.
Plans and Specifications describing the work may be obtained from the Public Works
Department at 1500 Beatty Street or by written request addressed to P. 0. Box 7207,
Greenville, North Carolina 27835-7207.
The City of Greenville reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, to waive any informalities,
and to award Contract or Contracts which appear to be in its best interest. The right is
reserved to hold any or all Proposals for a period of forty-five (45) days from the opening
thereof.
Minority and Women Owned Firms are encouraged to submit proposals.
THIS 14TH DAY OF APRIL, 2000
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ANN HUGGINS for County 'C Commissioner
A Plan for a Better Pitt
® Increase value of education by promoting better pay and better resources.
Because of Hurricane Floyd devastation, | would like to address the damages that were
done to environment.
and other countywide health organizations.
ie | would ab vores cost
| would like to help improve the quality of life for our Senior Citizens.
| would like to increase resources and incentives for our county employees.
@ | would like to address health issues inT6ur county by working with Pitt Memorial Hospital
* | would like to improve the county infrastructure through building and rebuilding roads,
facilities, and countywide v,ater/sewer system for a better Pitt County.
ugh crime prevention and intervention.
b usage of our tax dollars. | will also exam-
ions. If one is of
fanidescent, visiting the many
historie and cultural sites in Harlem
is unavoidable. There is one attrac-
tion in New York City that has a
very hidden history and is known -
throughout the world as the Statue
of Liberty..A current debate cross-
ing the country argues the original
design. of New YorkTs grand lady.
There has been much speculation.
and trepidation regarding this is-
sue, but as in any investigation, you
look for clues that will later estab- i
lish your hypothesis into a fact. An
attempt will be made here to bring
clarity and present sources for your
own investigation.
Typical of the debate floating
around the country on this issue is an
e-mail I received from a friend that
did not identify the author, which
would immediately raise questions in
the mind of any serious researcher,
but in this particularly case, bordered
more on reality than fiction.
oDuring my visit to France, | saw
the original Statue of Liberty. The
Statue of Liberty was originally a
Black woman, but as memory serves,
it was because the model was Black.
In a book called The Journey of The
Songhai People, according to Dr. Jim
Haskins, a member of the National
Education Advisory Committec of the
Liberty-Ellis Island Committee, pro-
fessor of English at the University of
Florida, and prolific Black author,
points out what stimulated the origi-
nal idea for the 151 foot statue in the
harbor. He says that the idea for the
creation of the statue initially was the
part that Black soldiers played in the.
ending of Black Afrikan Bondage in
the United States. It was created in the
mind of the French historian, Edouard
de Laboulaye, chairman of the French
Antislavery Society, who together
with sculptor Frederic Auguste
Bartholdi, proposed to the French gov-
ernment that the people of France
present to the people of the United
States, through the American Aboli-
tionist Society, the gift of a Statue of
Liberty in recognition of the fact that
Black soldiers won the Civil War in
the United States. It was widely known
then that it was Black soldiers who ,
played the pivotal role in winning the
war, and this gift would be a tribute to
their prowess. Suzanne Nakasian, di-
rector of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis
Island FoundationsT National Ethnic
Campaign, said that Black AmericaTs
direct connection to Lady Liberty isT
unknown to the majority of Ameri-
cans, BLACK or WHITE.
oWhen the statue was presented
to the U.S. Minister, by France, it is
said that the Minister stated that the
dominant view of the broken shack-
les would be offensive to a U.S.
South, because the statue was a re-
minder of Blacks winning their free-
dom. It was a reminder to a beaten
South, of whom caused their de-
feat, of their despised former cap-
tives.?
Intny book FIRST WORD Black
Schalars: Thinkers Warriors, Dr.
Feffrics, political scientist,
Sion with Ed Koch, mayor
of New York City at the time, gives
a more detailed description of the
facts on the background of the
statue.
oThen I go on to say, When we
did meet Koch, and he asked the
question, the first thing I raised with
Ed Koch was the question of the
Statue of Liberty.T In the tape I say,
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_ Laboulaye, because he understood.
that slavery was destroyed, and that
_ Afrikan peoples had a great deal to '
do with destroying it. A quarter of a
liberty in million of us fought in the Civil "
War. He realized we could raise a
America.T That's how I introduce
myself to Ed Koch.
oMost people do not know the
statue in the name of liberty in
America.
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information to the contrary. ibyou .
raise these issues, you become anti:
anti-immigrants, anti-Italian, anti-
Poles, anti-Jews, anti-Hungarians.
_ We're not anti, we're trying to deal
with the truth. ae
oWhen the statue was standing
| -in the harbor, with the beacon of
LADY LIBERTY
Statue of Liberty has not a damn
thing to do with immigrants. The
statue was standing in the harbor, in
1886, before the waves and waves
of immigrants from Europe"East,
Central and Southern Europe"be-
gan to come and stream into New
York, in the 1890s and the 1909s;
the waves of Italians, Jews, Poles,
Russians and Grecks, etc. ;
oThe Statue of Liberty comes
after the struggle of black folk in
the Civil War. It was conceived by
a Frenchman called Edouard-René
Lefebvre de Laboulaye, a political
scientist. A theoretician who wrote
athree volume history of the United
_ States. He was the head of the
French Anti-Slave Society. It was
at his home, in 1865, that the idea of
the Statue of Liberty was given
birth. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi,
the sculptor was there, a friend of
oWhen the first models were
built, they were an Afrikan woman
holding the broken chains of en-
slavement in her hand and at her
feet. Of course, this model couldn't
be accepted by racist America.
Eventually, the Statue of Liberty
was modeled in a white context.
The basis for the idea, and the basis
for the structures that became the
Statue of Liberty, come out of the
Afrikan experience.
oBartoldi, the sculptor, went to
Egypt twice. First as a 19 year old,
then when he was given the com-
mission by Edouard-René Lefebvre
de Laboulaye to.develop a Statue of
Liberty. He went to Egypt again.
He was inspired by the monumental
building of Afrikans of the Nile.
ThatTs why he conceived of this
large structure. The Statue of Lib-
erty was an Afrikan center, but this
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Graham Boyd is a
native of Beaufort
County anda life-
long resident of
North Carolina.
He has been con-
nected with agri-
culture all his life
through produc-
tion agricultural
leadership roles.
light, immigrants coming: in -co-
opted it, took it, and made it'a spiri-
_tual symbol for themselves. The.
real spirit of it comes out of our
ancestors who fought like no other
people against the slave system and
produced this enormous victory
- against enslavement. That history
has to be known. It has to be told. I
f -intend to tell it with the last breath
m?"? in my body. ThatTs what we do.?
Incidéntally, the chains are still
m at the feet of the statue, though the
. ethnic character.was changed from
Afrikan to European. Most of us
have been trained in traditional
conceals such facts, so here are some
~ sources one can check to verify the
authenticity of the previous men-
. tioned statements:
1. You may go and see the origi-
~ nal model of the Statue of Liberty,
with the broken chains at her feet
and in her left hand. Go to the
Museum of the City of New York,
. Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street, or
call (212) 534-1672 and dial ext.
208 and speak to Peter Simmons.
He can send you some documenta-
tion.
2. Check with the New York
Times Magazine, part II, May 18,
1986.
3. The dark original face of the
Statue of Liberty can be seen in the
New York Post, June 17, 1986, also
the Post stated the reason for the
broken chains at her feet.
4. Finally, you may check with
the French Mission or the French
Embassy at the UN or in Washing-
ton, D.C., and ask for some original
French material on the Statue of
Liberty, including the Bartholdi
original model. (202) 944-6060 or
6400.
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The story of the Moors in Burope is one of the.
* greatest revivalist stories in world history. Europe
would not be as advanced today if not for the Africans,
who came out of the Nile Valley region into Europe,
and came to be known as the Moors. Their sojourn intoT
Europe began in 711 A.D., when an African general
named Tarik ibn Ziyad, of which Djabal Tarik (TarikTs
mountain), or Gibraltar is named after, crossed the
Iberian Peninsula from Africa into Spain.
Europe was in the crux of the Dark Ages, suffering
from a massive intellectual, scientific, social and cul-
tural decline for almost 1000 years. This primarily
occurred when the Anglos and the Saxons defeated the
Roman Empire and ta whatever gains Europe
enjoyed from Roman ingénuity. .
When Moorish Africahs, who were Muslim, en-
tered Spain, they brought Europe up to a level of
civilization it had never experienced. Jose V. Pimenta-
Bey, in his article oMoorish Spain: Academic Source
and Foundation for the Rise and Success of Western
European Universities in the Middle Ages? states, _
oFor behind EuropeTs Scientific Enlightenment,T we
find many African Muslims. In fact, we find that the
very foundation and structure of WesternT Science
and Academe is built upon the erudition of these
people known as Moors. (See Golden Age of the
Moors edited by Ivan Van Sertima).
The influence of the Moors spread throughout Spain,
Portugal, France, Italy and England. Twelve of EuropeTs
greatest known universities were established during
the Moorish occupation to translate and study Moorish
texts. The universities of Rome, Oxford, Cambridge,
Lisbon and Salamanca are among this group.
The totality of what the Moors contributed to
EuropeTs revival are too numerous to list here, but an
attempt will be made in order to visualize the scope and
breadth of how they brought Europe back to life.
Starting with basic survival, the Moors showed the
Europeans how to increase the fertility of their soil to
sustain larger growth and harvest. They introduced
such items as: rice, cotton, oranges, bananas, coconuts,
maize, medical herbs and introduced food preserva-
tion and storage in order to survive the harsh winters.
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Cordova were oair conditioned in summer by
niously ar
and warmed in winter by hot air conveyed through
- pipes bedded in the walls.? (See oThe Moor: Light of
EuropeTs Dark Age? by Wayne Chandler in Golden
Age of the Moor) Bathrooms were supplied with hot -
and cold running water. wegen too
In fact, the Moors established hundreds of bath-
houses in Spain. Cleanliness was almost as important
as eating to them, but also for health reasons. oEurope-
ans offered no scigntific- reason for infection.T Let us
again remember that the Catholic masses did not view
bathing and personal hygiene as vitally important to
good health and the prevention of disease.? (Pimienta-
Bey) . .
Europeans use to drink out of gold and silver gob-
lets. The Moors introduced crystal glasses and plates.
They also introduced a technique that we use today,
where to place plates, glasses and silverware on tables
for meals. . :
Science was primitive and undeveloped in Europe.
They were still debating if the world was flat, until the
Moors showed them that the world was round. The
Moors brought chemistry. The Moors brought medical
science to Europe. oFor seven centuries the medical
schools of Europe owed everything they knew to
Moorish research. Vivisection as well as dissection of
dead bodies was practiced in their anatomical schools,
and women as well as men were trained to perform
some of the most delicate surgical operations.? (Chan-
dler) ° .
Chandler continues, oCordova had 417 mosques
and 300 public baths. The number of houses of the
great and noble were 63,000 and 200,077 of the com-
mon people. There were upwards of 80,000 shops.
Water from the mountains was distributed through
every corner and quarter of he city by means of leaden
pipes into basins of different shapes, made of the
purest gold, the finest silver, or plated brass as well
into vast lakes, curious tanks, amazing reservoirs and
fountains of Grecian marble,? This was accomplished
no where else in Europe. _ -
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ograph y, comments nments on the music.
in Spain because Africans had con-
quered Spain a long time a go. In
_ the Andalusian area you havea lot
6f African influence in the music,
architecture and in the whole cul-
ture and a lot of blood in the people.
So you had a black African thing up
in the feeling of the music in the bag
pipes and trumpets and drums.? (See
Miles: The Autobiography)
As an aside, William
Shakespeare wrote an ode to his
Moorish mistress, Lucy Morgan.of
Clerkenwell. (See oAfrican Women
- in Early Europe? by Edward Scobie
in African Presence in Early Eu-
rope) - .
The Moors advanced medicine
to its highest form. oMoorish phy-
sicians used drugs, surgery, and
cauterization; medicine was a highly
technical profession complete with
extensive training and a code of ©
conduct. European healing practices
at the time still largely relied upon
charms and amulets; socially and
politically powerful clergy frowned "
upon ahd repressed medicine,
thereby leaving the field in the hands
of quacks and barbers.? (See Mus-
lim Spain by Anwar Chejne) oThe
Moors were the first to trace the
curvilinear path of rays of light
through air,T this discovery in about
1100 is a prerequisite to the design
of corrective eyeglasses.? (Chan-
-dler) For centuries the mastery of
Moorish medical works was re-
quired for obtaining medical de-
grees at EuropeTs most prestigious
universities. They also brought qua-
dratic equations, geometry and
trigonometry to Europe. Their ar-
chitecture and interior decoration
of houses and palaces was of the
highest standard in the world.
When the Moors were defeated
in 1492 A.D., the Christian Europe-
ans, who resented the threat of the
Moors advanted civilization, plun-
dered most of the progress the
Moors had established. For instance,
when-the Moors were driven out of .
Europe, they left 70 libraries in
Spain, alone. The European Chris-
tians destroyed everyone, the same
as they destroyed the great library,
with thousands of volumes, in Al-,
exandria, Kemet (Egypt). But even
in defeat, it was the Moors who
sparked European exploration in the
world by bringing them the com-
pass, astrolabe, rudders and sails of
the large ships.
Europe and the world are su-
premely indebted to the contribu-
tions the Moors have made. Unfor-
tunately, this is not reflected in the
history books or classrooms, ex- |
cept for the most part by instructors
and scholars of African descent and
through their literature. It is a his-
tory that cannot be denied.
(Kwaku Person-Lynn is on the
faculty at California State Univer-
sity, Dominguez Hills, and author
of FIRST WORD"Black Scholars,
Thinkers, Warriors. E-mail:
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(NNPA) " In my book,
Economic Empowerment or
Economic Enslavement " We Have a
Choice there is a discussion
regarding omanufactured oil prices?
and some of the other games being
run on us much of the time. It draws
the readerTs attention to how easy it is
for those in control of various facets of
our economy to increase their profits
and to make their lives even more
comfortable " anytime they want.
We see it now with the rising
fuel costs. People in cold climates
must choose between warming their
homes and putting food on the table.
Over-the-road truckers are faced
with sky-rocketing diesel fuel costs.
Automobile owners cringe each time
they pull up to the pump. Where it
used to be a fill-up, itTs now maybe
a half tank or so.
What we are facing with these
rising costs is another example of
people working together to improve
their financial position. They are
working cooperatively to strengthen
their collective economic position.
Whether they need the extra billions
or not is irrelevant; they are in
control of their resources and they
determine what others will pay for
those resources.
A few little countries in the
ss Middle East got to
~ they could control much of the world .
by simply working in concert. A
| few little countries, several of which .
- the United States has sent men and
women to fight and die for, get :
together and decide how much oil
they are bi ing to produce and, thereby,
change the landscape of many larger
countries of the world. Well thatTs
what collective economics is all about.
This glaring example of
_ cooperative economics is something
each of us can witness personally at
least once each week when we pull
up to the pump. We should learn
from it. A few small countries
working together have brought big
bad truckers to their knees, caused
them to drive to our nationTs capital in
protest, and set up orolling road blocks?
along our expressways. A few small
potentates are making the rest of us
sant and rave about the price of
gasoline, shake and shiver in our own
homes, and cut back on other essentials.
This example of collective and
cooperative economics, while it is
not one that benefits us, does benefit
those who participate in it, and Black
people should use their example to
develop our own cooperative economic
structure. We should assess our
resources, both intellectual and
financial, and establish programs
and procedures that will benefit our
people. ItTs a matter of controlling
what we have and doling it out at
our discretion, not at the request of
someone else.
You can see it with OPEC
states. They do not seem to care
that some of our people died for
their countries, that some of them
came back home with illnesses that
will eventually kill them, or that our
people saved their precious oil by
putting out those oil-well fires.
That does not matter when it comes
to the money. They understand
that what they have is power and
they can exercise that power anytime
they wish to do so. An analogy can
be drawn between what OPEC is
doing and what Black people could
be doing in this country. If we
Only through knowledge
may one gain success !
sil cian
si bec esl ly
decided to pursue our true economic.
freedom, we could bring a few folks
to their knees. as well, We could
transform what is now an insignificant
group of consumers into a powerful
band of producers, distributors, and
retailers. We could wreak havoc on
the corporations that take our
dollars for granted. We could cause
an economic tidal wave rather than
the small ripples we currently see as
a result our half-hearted boycotts,
demands for apologies, organizational
payoffs, token employees, and all of
the other shallow tactics we deploy
and accept. .
We could be the OPEC of this
country if we would use our half-
trillion dollars to build our own
businesses and to determine the prices
of our products rather than having
always to submit to the price-
gouging of other businesses. If we
took control of our resources and
worked cooperatively and collectively;
in support of one another, withdrawing .
our dollars from those who hold us -
in disdain, we could control our
economic destiny.
If we would deny our dollars,
not for one day, but for one year or
more, to those businesses that exploit
our people on a daily basis and retum
virtually nothing, we could be in
control. Have you ever wondered
what happened to National Gas Out
Day? The trouble with that campaign
was that is lasted for just one day.
Now on May 20, 2000, we are going
to have National Black Out Day. I will
support it, but will it do any good if
we simply return to our normalT
buying habits the very next day?
Take a lesson from the little
countries about whom we sometimes .
joke and make fun. They are
demonstrating the purest form of
collective and cooperative economics.
They are making us pay dearly
because they are in control of their
resources. Black people should do
the same. °
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Greetings: °
Beloved we are living in a time
in which God is calling HIS
people to dedication and commit-
ment of excellence to Him within
the Body of Christ: The word
commit means: to do, perform, or
perpetrate; to place in trust or
charge; entrust; to pledge to a
position on an issue.
Every believer of the Body of
ting unto Him? What are we
| entrusting into His care?
| We commit and make commit-
| ments to a lot of things, mést of
| which profit very little or nothing
~ | at all. We commit to everything
= except the right thing.
Jesus was a man dedicated and
committed to doing the will of the
Father come what may.
We should not fall short of doing
the same thing. True dedication
simply makes a decision based on
your commitment to God, not on
feelings or emotions. A time will
come in your life when you will
face commitment. How you han-
dle it now may determine whether
you succeed or fail and even
whether you live or die. if you are
not willing to face commitment,
in spite of emergencies and oppo-
sition, you should not pursue your
ministry any longer in this condi-
tion but you should take the time
to get before the Lord and study
Geils Yierghecradwiipe, Seba
whole lot fore We
have a comrhitment to uphold. We
commit our way unto the Lord.
| We commit our works unto the
| Lord. There are " that
we can commit unto
: ! Lord. The
| question is what are we commit-
mitted.
Dedication and commitment to |
the Lord, and not man, is what it | ?
is all about. Only what you do for
Christ will last. Man does not:
have a heaven or hell to put you
in. It is time for you to come into
excellence concerning personal
ministry and the particular minis-.
try where God as has established
you as a whole, for it is a ministry "
of the Lord Jesus Christ. God has
entrusted us with the souls of
man, We have a commitment to
Him to possess the land. Every
place our feet shall tread upon is
ours. God is not going to settle for
anything less than excellence.
Matthew 5:48 says "Be ye
therefore perfect, even as your
Father which is in heaven is
perfect."
There is a hymn that says "A
charge to keep I have. A God to
glorify; a never dying. soul to
save; and fit it for the sky."
Find your place in your local
ministry and then go before the "
Lord with it to find out how he
wants you to go about fulfilling
that call. It is time for the Body of
Christ to come to excellence. It is
time to pursue God concerning
priorities, .
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dy B. Roy.
Democratic Candidate for
Pitt County Commissioner, District A
May 2, 2000
Greenville, NC 27835-1116
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Ethiopian tobe exact. Little is mentionedin this part of
Of the world that India was once part of the Ethio-
pian Empire. This is further verified in the Ethio-
pian sacred text, The Kebra Negast, which regarded
West India as a part of the Ethiopian Empire. Many
writers, depending on the time period, fefer to the
Ethiopians as the ancient Cushites, while their land
was referred to in the Bible as the oLand of Cush.?
The Indus Valley civilization, which reached its
height from 2500 B.C to 1500B.C, is the birthplace
of Indian civilization and is commonly referred to
as Harappan civilization. This was a civilization
established by those Africans who migrated from
the Nile Valley region. Harappa was the urban
center which dominated the upper Indus region
much like the Mohenjo-Daro did in the lower Indus
Valley. This was the area where two world religions
spring forth to reach large parts of the globe. It is
estimated that approximately 150 million people of
African descent live in India today.
Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Sakia Muni,
the 9th Avatar of India, lived around 600 B.C. He
ultimately became the Buddha. He reached the high-
est state of the Buddhist religion, oEnlightenment?
under the Bodhi Tree. His life parallels that of
Christ. The Virgin Maya (Mary) is said to have
given birth to him through Immaculate Conception. «
oWhen her child, Buddha was born, he stood up-
right and proclaimed, I will put to an end the
sufferings and sorrows of the world.T As these
words uttered a light surrounded the infant Mes-
siah.? (See Sixteen Crucified Saviors by Kersey
Graves)
oKtesias, for example, the first European to write
a comprehensive general account of India, known to
posterity as the Indika of Ktesias, mentions large
concentrations of Blacks in the regions of the east-
ern Himalayas and the Upper Ganges, where most
accounts place the birthplace of Gautama.? (oA fri-
cans in Early Asian Civilizations: A Historical
Overview? by Runoko Rashidi in African Presence
in Early Asia)
Godrey Higgins, in Anacalypsis Vol. 1, offers
oThe religion of Buddha, of India, is well known to
have been very ancient. In the most ancient temples
scattered throughout Asia, where his worship is yet
continued, he is found black as jet, with the flat face,
thick lips and curly hair of the Negro.?
According to an anonymous Buddhist Chinese
student, preferring not to be identified, there was
also another Buddha who hailed out of Afrika.
oThere is one in particular that we were not aware
of, it is Ra Heru Buto-Sut-Nahsi. The Hetep
DtiammaT is related to the teachings of Ra Heru
Buto-Sut-Nahsi, commonly called the Buddha. Ra
-Mohenjo-Daro and Ha
known as The Four Noble Truths and the Tt
Eightfold Path. Its fundamental beliefs are related | ,
to the ancient spiritual and holistic philosophies of |
Nubian ancestors of ancient Ethiopia,
oAccording to the late historian Cheikh Anta Diop,
Ra Heru Buto-Sut- Nahsi was a black African priest _
from Ta Merry (Kemet), who during the invasion and | |
persecution by Cambyses, migrated to Asia and came Tt
to India possibly around $22 - 512 B.C.? ae
Lord Krishna was the 8th Avatar of the Hindu
pantheon and is said to have lived about 1200 B.C.
He is usually depicted as blue, purple or any other |. |
color than black. As is Buddha, KrishnaTs life par- .
allels that of Christ. He was the son of the Virgin .
Devaki, also born by Immaculate Conception. Jolin. |;
G. Jackson, in his book Christianity Before Christ, ©
gives us the following. oThe birth of Krishna oc-
curred while his foster father, Nanda, wasinthecity |; "
to pay his tax to the King. Likewise, Jesus was born | ~~.
while his foster father, Joseph, was in the city to pay
tax to the governor.
oKing Kansa sought the life of the Hindu Christ.
by ordering the slaughter of all male children born
on the same night as was Krishna. This is paralleled
by the story of the slaughter of the innocents, or-
dered by King Herod, as related in the Gospel
according to Matthew: 11-16.
oA heavenly voice warned Nanda to flee across
the Jumna River with the infant Krishna, in order to
escape from King Kansa. In this instance, we recall
that Joseph was warned in a dream to flee into Egypt
with the Virgin Mary and the Christ-child to escape
from King Herod.
oKrishna performed numerous miracles in
Mathura. While in Egypt, Jesus performed similar
miracles in Matarea. :
This same story started with Isis, who had-a
virgin birth with Horus (Heru), 4000 years before
Mary and Jesus, in Kemet (Egypt).
What is implied here, other than the African
ancestry of Buddha and Krishna, is that all of us
need to look very closely at the texts related to
various deities in the world and ultimately put this
on top of the table, discuss it and see what we come
up with. .
(Dr. Kwaku Person-Lynn is on the faculty at
California State University, Dominguez Hills, and
author of FIRST WORD Black Scholars Thinkers |
Warriors. E-mail: DrKwaku @hotmail.com)
Daro and Harrapan civilizations. tis said |
the Buddha felt so strongly regarding theremovalof ||
suffering and oppression, he taught that any reli- |)
gion which failed to have the recognition of suffer- |)
ing and oppression as its core was no religion at all.
MY |
ay Everyone Have A
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