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Retailers denying checks
and cab drivers refusing
rides in minority areas epito-
aeer A rise of retail racism T
n US.
By Brad Knickerbocker
They may not evoke he feelings
of "Let my people go ? or "We
shall overcorre. ? But "_ for
Americans subjected to the em-
barrassment and fear of even
relatively minor episodes of dis-
crimination based on race - "driv-
ing while black" or "dining while
black." to use the bitter slang for
such events - the hurt is very real
nevertheless.
Around the country, several high-
profile instances of what's being
called retail racism have arisen in
recent months. The use of racial
profiling in stopping suspected
criminals on highways has be-
come a federal civil rights issue.
And evidence that zero tolerance
for disruptive behavior in schools
may be discriminatory against
black students is mounting as
well.
While civil rights advocates laud
the recent exposure of discrimina-
tio ard point to evidence that
attitudes between races have im-
proved. they say that for many
nonwhite Americans such of-
fenses are routine - even though
it's been more than 35 years since
passage of the federal Civil Rights
Act.
"Most Americans think that the
most blatant forms of discrimina-
tion and segregation have ended.
that we're dealing now with a
much more-complex, often nore-
subtle form of discrimination."
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says Wade Henderson, executive
director of the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights. "Yet
incidents T like the ones we're
discussing now seem to belie that
point. They seem to suggest that
even the more-blatant forms of
discrimination. though not as in-
stitutionalized as they once were
... are still occurring, and I think
stand in mockery of the percep-
tion that America has become a
colorblind sation..."
Some recent examples:
e In the Washington area.
KayBee Toys has been charged in
a federal civil rights suit with
refusing to accept personal checks
at stores in predominantly black
neighboraoods. The Equal Rights
Center, a civil rights organization
in Washington that filed the suit,
cal'ed this "an overt example of
consumer racism. ?
° The US Justice
Department secently charged the
Adam's Mark Hotel chain with a
pattern of discrimination, includ-
ing overcharging black guests for
inferior rooms while subjecting
them to stricter security require-
ments.
e Florida officials charged
a Miami restaurant cwner with
autématically adding a service
charge to bills of black. custome
but not to those of white patrons.
e In Boston, city councilor
Gareth Saunders has filed a
complaint against a taxi service
for refusing to pick him up at his
home in a predominantly black
neighbor 100d. Black actor Danny
Glover recently was refused taxi
service in New York.
Progress in race relations
)
93 percent of whites surveyed in
1997 said they would vote for a
qualified black presidential candi-
date, compared with 35 percent in
1958. The number of whites who
sayathey would move if large
numbers of blacks moved to their
neighborhood dropped from 80
percent to 18 percent over the
same period.
And yet it is clear that large
numbers of blacks continue to
experience discrimination. Within
the past 30 days, half of blacks
surveyed by Gallup said they had
been treated unfairly because of
race. in situations such as shop-
ping, dining out. work, using
public transportation, or with po-
lice.
While many school districts have
been cracking down on violence
in the wake of recent school
shootings, critics say policies of
"Zero tolerance" (usually T enacted
and enforced by mostly white
school boards) have resulted in
discriminatory judgments.
Last month, the Applied Research
Center in Oakland, Calif., re-
ported that the rate of school
suspensions is far higher for black
students than for whites nation-
wide. In Austin, Denver, Los
Angeles. and. San..Erancisco.
is at least twice their percentage
of the student population.
In Decatur, Ill., this week, a
federal judge upheld the school
board's expulsion of six black
scudents for fighting at a football
game. Civil rights leader Jesse
20th-Century Social Club
Host Annual Celebratic eae
Jackson charged that racism was |.
involved. and he plans to appeal
the decison.
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20 th Century Social Club host their Annual Celebration
Pictured is one of Eastern North Carolina's oldest Black Social Clubs, shown above are two of the original
merr bers Filmore Bell and Willie Moore. Shown below are other members of the club James
Carr...President. Henry Hansley....Vice President, Willie..... Treasurer, Jimmye Jones.......Rec Secre Ernis
Lee. ..Fin Secre. Charles Prayer......Bus. Mgr., Don Phillips.....Parliment Wayne Mitchell Sot at Arms
Filmore Bell......Historian, Julius Joyner, Thomas Jones, James Parker Jr, James Barnhill. This year Ts event
was held at the Hilton Hotel where they honored brotier Jim Rouse who is running for the NC House of
Representatives. brother Rouse was also the guest speaker. : _
Photo by Jim Rouse
Anointed One!
Founder's Day Bangoat
peony
Princeville on the Ris, i . ay
¢ town of Princeville once devastated by Hurricane Floyd came together for an Easter Egg Hunt for
children of Princeville. Shown above is Princeville's police Chief Cogdell and some of his officers, Shown
below are some children who won bicycles compliments of
way Back! Look for pictorial salute on page 9.
Anointed One's Host Founder's Day Banquet,
Awn 13 past ef COsp: iliams y Ane i At inde i a
ae Yous of Princeville. reader Malla ake Shown is pastor Ruth Peterson CO-pastor Helen Williams along with dedicated friends and pastor Barbara T
ME Delano. Be sure to check out page.7 for pictorial salute to Anointed One's Founder's Day Banquet.
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tPSSTIRE REEL ESTE LETTER TERRY eae eta soen soreness onane PeYeviry ua a +:
at, Mich. Little Kayla Rolland
by a first grade said, oI don't like you, ?
ostanding: in line. Mothers all over America shuddered,
4) wondering about their own children Ts safety.
_. In the weeks since her death, the story of the ey who shot
° dite Kayla has emerged. A little boy whose family has failed him.
Alittle boy whose school has failed him. A little boy whose police -
department has failed him. A little boy whose nation has failed
him, We all failed both that little boy and little Kayla because, in
oour haste to end old welfare dependencies, we allowed the safety
_ net for the poorest of the poor to be shreded and destroyed.
A little boy who lived ina dysfunctional family, in the worst
| sense of the phrase "a father already in prison. A mother whom
osome say used drugs herself; but even if she did not, who left her
_ children in a home where drugs and guns were obviously present,
oeven to neighbors who had, on several occasions, reported it to the
- police. A family recently evicted from its home. Two children
osleeping on a sofa in the living room where drug deals apparently
were occurring. A little boy filled with anger at the life he had been
~ given "so angry, that he had already stabbed another child with a
"pencil and had already been suspended three times for fighting.
- When his incarcerated father heard about the shooting, he knew it
~ was his child who was the shooter because he had asked his son
_ why he fought the other children and the reply was, obecause I hate
_ them. ?
Yet, as far as we know, the only help for this family in 1 deep
. trouble was the anger management class for which the little boy
_ was scheduled, but never got to attend. No social worker tracked
children who¢were in essence homeless. No school counselor did
indepth referrals for a family in dire need and for achild obviously
- deeply troubled. No police officers tried to close down this
garbage strewn, run-down house which the whole neighborhood
knew was a crack house.
Thank you, President Clinton for calling on Congress to
pass strict gun control laws. We do need osmart guns, ? we do need
trigger locks, we do need even tighter restrictions on gun pur-
chases and registration. If they save Teven one child Ts life in this
nation where 12 children die every day by gunfire, then the laws
will be a success.
But better gun controls would not be the only solution
needed for this little boy, Mr. President. We need social services
which work for families in trouble. We need better alarms systems
for dysfunctional families and for children who have been aban-
- doned by their families and by their communities. We need school
councelors in every school in this nation. We need funds for cities
to use to close down crack houses and to fix them up and give them
to homeless families.
Gov. Engler, your plan to get families off of welfare
worked. But in the process of making families independent, you
took away the safety net which might have caught this little boy
and saved this little girl. Just as the state failed these families, so,
too, did it fail.the little 11-year-old Michigan boy convicted of
_ Murder, after a long history of violence. There are many Michigan
_ families, and families across this nation, who desperately need
help. If the states don Tt help them, who will? If the states don Tt
help the schools to cope with these families, who will?
Heston, you are the president of the National Rifle Associa-
tion, the nation Ts most powerful gun lobby. In the name of the
children, call off your lobbyists, who are trying to demonize
President Clinton and anyone else who says enough is enough "
12 children a day, 84 children a week, 372 children a month, 4,380
children killed a year by gunfire is enough. To say that the
president of the United States needs violence is over the top and
demeans you and your organization.
To pretend that the ready availability of guns in this nation
has nothing to do with these killings, is an insult to every Ameri-
can. ;
Members of Congress, you, too, have some blame to shoul-
der. For you passed the legislation which destroyed the safety net
for this naiton Ts children. So now we have a 6-year-old murderer
whom no one was trying to help. So now we even have wealthy
parents of a disabled child abandoning him because they just
could not handle his care without a safety net which would have
given them respite and counseling and help. So now we have
thousands of families walking the tightropes of life without a net
to catch them. All during the most prosperous time in our nation Ts
history.
We must all shoulder some of the responsibility for little
Kayla Ts death. The real tragedy would be if life goes on and
nothing changes "until the next incredible death of an American
child.
BETWEEN THE LINES
Hollywood Politics and Oscar Protests; How Denzel Got Robbed
. By now, who won
; the Oscar for
jest Male Actor ? is yesterday Ts
onews. Everybody now knows Kevin
r Spacey benefited from a number of
«factors aside from his performance
in oAmerican Beauty; ? most nota-
bly a $700,000 post nomination
-*campaign by the producing studio,
;Dreamworks, an anti-Hurricane
; campaign mounted by opponents
of the movie Ts accuracy, but di-
rected at the movie's only Oscar
nominee, a controversial re-vote
when 4,000 ballots were conve-
ee ane ee
+
See March 28 edition, D1), this is
not your onormal ? loss, whereby all
things being equal- "the votes just
didn Tt pan out.
Denzel Washington got royally
screwed by a collaborative process
of well-timed, ocoincidental, ? iso-
lated incidences that took him from
being the overwhelming, odds-on
favorite after the Golden Globes to
not being anybody's choice (excépt
the Wall Street Journal's) the day
before Oscar night. It was almost as
ifeverybody knew- "even Denzel "
5
: critics might not see it as |
There, Gui boweiie sonethils : nd
another time and place.
To many of us who grew up with
a Southern lifestyle as a backdrop,
it was like revisiting the past. There
were good moments and bad mo-
ments. They were our moments
nonetheless.
Last year, there was another
movie. It was called oDown in the
Delta. ? Directed by Maya Angelou,
it proved to be the final showcase
for the enormous talents of the late
Esther Rolle.
-This was the story of a female
Chicagoan who had been involved
with drugs and who knows what
else. She came to the Mississippi
Delta to get her life in order on the
old family home place.
She did not want to be there and
fought every attempt to make her feel
at hdine and welcome. Her Missis-
sippi family was not poor. They were
hard-working people who had man-
aged to get more than just aday-to-day
subsistence. They owned a small busi-
ness and they encouraged oMiss-fast-
life-in-Chicago ? to become areal part
Pant 1
Dr. Stanley Fish,
= Dean of the Col-
lege of Liberal Arts and Sciences at
the University of Chicago, offers
provocative commentary on so-
called reverse discrimination. His
article in the January/February 2000
Crisis magazine contains this semi-
nal quote: oIn America, whites once
set themselves apart from blacks
and claimed privileges for them-
selves while denying them to oth-
ers. Now, on the basis of race, blacks
are claiming special status andjre- "
serving for themselves privileges ° '
they deny to others. Isn't one as bad
as the other? The answer is no. ?
Fish takes his text from Presi-
dent George Bush in an address to
the United Nations in 1991. Bush
said this of the U.N. resolution
equating Zionism with racism: oZi-
onism ... is the idea that led to the
creation of a home for the Jewish
people ... and to equate Zionism
with the intolerable sin of racism 1s.
to twist history and to forget the
terrible plight of the Jews in World
War II and, indeed, throughout his-
tory. ?
What happened in the Second
World War was that 6 million Jews
were exterminated by people who
regarded them as racial'y inferior
and a danger to Aryan purity. What
happened after the Second World
War is that the survivors of that
Holocaust established a Jewish state
that is a state centered on Jewish
history, Jewish values and Jewish
traditions. What Bush objected to
was the logical sleight of hand by
which these two actions were de-
clared equivalent because they were
Beauty ? nominees in all the trades,
entertainment talkies and even
Spacey was on 60 Minutes (a news
magazine). Nobody really has a
problem with that, Oscar marketing
is part of the Hollywood politic.
What's not part of the Hollywood
politic was Denzel Ts vocal criticism
of the roles he receives when que-
ried about the controversial roles
he plays. While Denzel told the
truth about receiving choice roles,
his candor probably wasn Tt well
received because race, like in any
society, is
Si, " unsettling about it. Ithad anemo- candelabr
tional effect that defied description. . heirloom. The:
Tt-was kind of like reaching in to = tru
your back pocket and bringing out al
_ fully-formed pieces of black life i in
love, a willingness to forgive as
well as the strength and oem of
the family unit. "
Now we go past the surfce and
into the bowels of the structure.
Ican remember as a boy, staying
with my grandmother in
Elizabethtown, Ky., a nearby fam-.
ily. They had a daughter who had
grown too big for the small town.
She moved away to Chicago or some
other major city, much to the dis-
may of her family.
Every few years, she would come.
back to oE-Town ? to visit and when
her mother found out she was com-
ing, it was a major production.
Chickens were killed and maybe a
goat. The cooking went on in that
house for days before she arrived.
I could look out in their back
yard and see rugs hanging on the
clothesline, being beaten to get the
dirt and dust out. The mother and °
her widowed sister would wash win-.
dows, scrub the wooden porch and,
if there was time, get one of the
neighbors to paint the floor of the
porch. It was indeed a ae
both expressions of raeial exclu-
siveness. Ignored was the historical
difference. between them "the dif-
ference between a program of geno-
cide and the determination of those
who escaped it to establish a com-
munity in which they would be the
makers, not the victims, of the laws.
Bush was saying to the United
Nations, oLook, the Nazis T convic-
tion of racial superiority generated
a policy of systematic genocide;
the Jews T experience of centuries of
persecution in almost every coun-
dane ei enerated.adesire for a
of their own. If you man*
tee ee to convince yourself
that these are the same, it is you, not
the Zionists, who are morally con-
fused and the reason you are mor-
ally confused is that you have for-
gotten history. ?
What Fish says is that a similar
forgetting of history has, in recent
years, allowed some people to ar-
gue, and argue persuasively, that
affirmative action is reverse rac-
ism. He maintains that the very
phrase, oreverse racism, ? contains
the argument in exactly the form to
which Bush objected: In this coun-
try, whites once set themselves apart
from blacks and claimed privileges
for themselves while denying them
to others. Now, on the basis of race,
blacks. are claiming special status
and reserving for themselves privi-
leges they deny to others. Isn't one
as bad as the other? The oanswer is
Ud
no.
One can see why the answer is
no by imagining that it is 1955 and
that we are in a town in the South
with two more or less distinctive:
communities, one white and one
cism was a selfish one, Denzel Ts
was a T selfless one; Washington
spoke of an industry wide problem,
which being at the top of his game,
he could've remained quiet, like
everybody else. But he didn't, and
he couldn Tt have anticipated what
came next. Hard for any of us to
believe it.
Most thought Denzel Ts candor
was cool hr er we
already voted prior to
Awards, Then 4,000 of the voted.
Serre
then said, oHoney, this is family. ? 1°
still did not understand, although i it.
did start me to thinking. I looked
abiding around the town and I realized this
was not an isolated case. It was
something that happened in our -
community as a matter of course.
People left and came back and
the entire family rallied to the cause.
Irecalled my own cousin, who had |
left his hometown of Horse Cave,
Ky., in the late 1930s. He was not
seen again until the middle of WWII,
when he appeared in the uniform of
the Royal Canadian Air Corps.
Relatives came from every-
where. My uncle, a prosperous
farmer, went to his smoke house
and bréught out country ham. He
killed a young pig and chickens and
the women cooked for days. George
was coming home and this was a
family affair.
Somewhere along the way, |
began to understand that the sup-
port of the family is the single
earthly thing we can count on, no
matter how the world treats us or
how we treat ourselves. ~
The family, as a unit, exudes
love and compassion. It is the fam-
ily that offers strength and under-
Standing that cannot be found at
URBAN PERSPECTIVE Mi.
The Seductiveness of Reverse Discrimination
black. No doubt, each community
would have a ready store of dis-
missive epithets, ridiculing stories,
Self-serving folk myths, and expres-
sions of plain hatred, all directed at
the other community and all based
in racial hostility.
Yet, to regard their respective
racisms "if that is the word "as
equivalent would be bizarre, for the
hostility of one group stems not
from any wrong done to it, but from
its wish to protect its ability to de-
prive citizens of their voting rights,
to limit-access to educational insti-
tutions, to prevent: entry into the
economy except at the lowest and
meanest levels and to force mem-
bers of the stigmatized group to
ride in the back of the bus. The
hostility of the other group is the
result of these actions, and whereas
hostility and racial anger are un-
happy faces wherever they are
found, a distinction must surely be
made between the ideological hos-
tility of the oppressors and the ex-
perience-based hostility of those
who have been oppressed.
Not to make that distinction is to
twist history and forget the terrible
plight of African Americans. in the
more than 200 years of this
country Ts existence. Moreover, to
equate the efforts to remedy that
plight with the actions that pro-
duced it is to distort history further.
Those efforts designed to redress
the imbalances caused by long-
standing discrimination are called
affirmative action. To argue that
affirmative action, which gives pref-
erential treatment to disadvantaged
Minorities as part of a plan to
achieve social equality is no differ-
ever, nominated actress Hilary
Swank (who Won) was targeted for
protest. Denzel was the actor, not
the writer. True or not, it made his
performance no less compelling.
This is Hollywood, where every-
thing is omake believe, ? so what's
the deal? The deal is a protest group.
sought out and successfully lob-
bied academy voters, and appar-
ently, some voters weren't that in-
- accessible...
The protest to Hurricane T $ inac-
curacy was directed at Denzel
Washington. In fact, the protest
group lobbied Academy. voters (in
their re-vote) not to vote for Wash-
ington, and some think the protest,
n- combined with targeted marketing
to academy members, did change
some votes. Different estimates fig-
we anywhere from 25 50, whic
a 100 vote swing (from Denzel to
Speers 44 ih row
Poder so that it threw
. oWtlerenms: ty and lar
~ family is the foun :
would be impossible to count the
opapa because we were on the lam
T can be one of most frustrating things
-hormal functioning: Strong illness,
equal parties, one of whom has been
discrimination has produced. When
countless ways, it is small consola-
chances.
you knew something not quite right
was going to play out, From the
seating of Spacey front and center.
haviors of the
course. itdid, just as most predicted
has been: key 10 our pais It -
times we have bad to call mama or
and there was no other way out. }
A few days ago, my son told of
the pride he felt when he saw his
- daughter named to the honor roll at
her high school. It was an emotion
he could not describe. But the bot-
tom line was and is simple. This
was his child. This was his family
or at least a portion of it. Family
love transcends all transgressions.
In some cases, we. stand in dan-
ger of losing that precious commod-.
ity. Life is faster and some of us
may have lost touch with that love
and emotional attachment. We need
to look closely at all of the circum-
stances and remember that nothing
can take the place of family.
Many of us would not enjoy
whatever success we have achieved,
had it not been for the strength of
the family behind us, in front of us
and beside us. It is one of the great-
est things in life and, sometimes, it
we will encounter in our lives. :
But beneath it all, there mustbe ° T
the knowledge that nothing can take
the place of family.
ent from the policies that created "
the disadvantages in the first place,
is a travesty of reasoning. Reverse
racism is a cogent description of
affirmative action only if one con- 4
siders the cancer of racism to be 3
morally and medically indistin-
guishable from the therapy we ap-
ply to it.
A Cancer is an invasion of the
body Ts equilibrium, and _so is che-
motherapy, but we do not decline to
fight the disease because the medi-
cine we employ is also disruptive to
strong remedy: The formula is as
appropriate to the health of the body
politic as it is to that of the physical
body.
The objection to blacks now
claiming privileges previously ac-
corded to whites only is just an-
other version of the forgetting and
rewriting of history. The work is
done by the adverb ounfairly, ?
which suggests two more or less
unjustly penalized by an incompe-_
tent umpire. But blacks have not T
simply been treated unfairly; they
have been subjected first to decades
of slavery, and then to second-class
citizenship, widespread legal de-
scription of their experience, and
the belated gift of ofairness ? in the
form of a resolution no longer to
discriminate against them legally is
hardly an adequate remedy for the
deep disadvantages that the prior
the deck is stacked against you in
tion to hear that you are now free to
enter the game and take your
the only major publication to pick
Washington to win. Most of the
industry trades (ET, TV Guide Times
Calendar, Roger Ebert) ignored the
Journal and went with some saw as
othe inside tip. ? And the inside tip _
won, Nobody has yet to explain
when Denzel went from the inside
pick to the outside chance, as BET
commentator Tavis Smiley noted,
At what point does the industry trade
horses? Only the insiders know for
sure. But come Oscar night, there _
was this strange hum in the air like
(youcouldn Tt even see Denzel from
the stage on television), to the be-
presenters, you knew
the shaft was I comin aa of
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: 2 high School, parent~, Donald and:
Vonzeila Barnes, who received a
CD Player. and she was named
"Mis: Congeniality".
EBONY received a 19 T Colored
TV as "Miss "Jabberwock". Gina
Taylor, 1998 Queen; relinquished
her crown and crowned EBONY,
our present 2000 Queen.
Past "Miss Jabberwock" and who
attended were:
"Miss College Bound" Queens
_ Edna Y. Adams. 1964 Josetia G.
Williams, 1965 Soror Bernadette
G. Watts, 1967 Doctor of Adult
Education Soror Jackie Davis,
1980 Sharon Smith, 1981 Betisha
Mcintyre, 1990 Joy Williams,
1994
Brigitte Council received the
Grayes/Forbes Scholarship Award
for the highest grade point aver-
age Sorer Mary G. Murrell,
Humanitarian Award Workshop
facilitators: Rose Sidney, Teresa
Battl, Josephine.. C. Williams,
Donovan Phillips. Jr. Reverend
James J. Lindsay. Leon Johnson,
and Dr. Yeland Burwell.
Johniy Wooten, music and
Sandra Hughes and Yasmeen
Hudson, modern dance teachers.
Each participant received a clock
radio and the Jr. Escorts, «. gift
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Black Man, Black Man,
Why Tony Moore is the right
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BLACK MAN
Black Man, Black Man, "What is
the matter with you?" Why do you
do the things that you do?
You fight your father, you kill
your brother. You sell your sister
and steal from your mothe.
Black Man, Black Man, ° What's
the matter with you? '
Why do vou do things you do?
Why do vou think making babies
make yot a man?
When you wont even take care of
the child, | don't understand.
Being a man doesn't start between
your legs. Being a man starts in
your heed. Black Man, Black
Man, "What's wrong, with you? ?
Why do you do the things \ou do?
You blame the white man when
you don't succeed. Don't you
know,God has all you need?
The white man didr T't make you
rape, kill, or steal. You did that
out of your own free will.
Black Man, Black Man, "What's
wrong with you? Why do you do
the things you do? You misuse the
woman cf your own color, You
take the drugs and sell them to
one another, You'd rather pick up
a gun and start a figh!, Than to lay
them down anc do what's right.
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people are watching you whereso-
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and Hag up straight.Look like a -
2. I will try to walk a blameless .
path, but. how I need your help, -
somebody, it's not too late, Cut
that hair, maybe shave,Put those
guns down and and turn from
your wicked ways, Black Man, T
Black Man, love your. brother,
Show more love one to another,
Give your life to God, He will
help. Accepting Christ. is your.
first step. Black Man, Black Man,
you can't fight out your pair),
Give your life to Christ and you'll
never be the same.Dr. King said,
"We shall overcome some day??.
I say, oThe Word of God is the
Only Way
By: ERNESTINE LYNCH
Tarboro, North Carolina
Given to Mrs. Beatrice Maye by
Mr. ane! Mrs. Eugene Faison
Note:
Additionally, young _ fellows,
wearing the black head pieces,
look at the fellows who wear such
as opposed to the fellows who
don't. fellows who are going
places, who are focused, don't
follow every fad and fashion. The
A and B students, whose parents
are good role models, wouldn't -
dare walk around like that. stay in
school, get a job. and go to work,
be the fellow who gets good jcbs,
who go to Sunday school and
church regularly, join the Boys
and Girls Club, go to the library
and read. Be somebody.
Psalms37: 27
$0 if you want an ee
and lives.
ways live ities
especially in my own home,
_ where I long to, act. as should.
Psalms. 37:27 ©
3.The purpose of. tithing is to
teach you always to put God first
in your lives. Deuteronomy 14:23
4.Unless the Lord builds a house,
the builders work is useless. Ps.
127:1
5. Children are a gift from God;
they ere his reward. Psalms |27:3
6. Woe to you who get up eagly
in the morning to go on long
drinking beuts that last till late at
night - woe to you drunken tums.
Isaiah 5:11
7. Seek first the kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these things
will be given to you as well.
Matthew 6:33
8. And let us not get tired of doing
what is rigat, for after a while we
will reap a harvest of blessing if
we don t get discouraged cu give
up. Galatians 6:9
9. Don't point your finger at
someone else, and try to pass the
blame to him. Hosea +:4
10. A home filled with strife and
division destroys itself. © Mark
3:25
oink dod oe Mark 7:15.16 ?
Nae leave your evil, phoney
12. Good salt is worthless if it
6 loses its saltiness. Mark 3; 10 ?
13. Never criticize: or conderin. oO
or it will come back on you. Luke
6:3?
14. | am the Bread of Lite. No
one coming to me will ever be
hungry again. John 6:35
15. Give me an understanding
mind so that | can govern your
people well and know the differ-
ence between what is right and
what is wrong. | Kings 3:9
Additional Truths...
1. Who gets to the summit and
who doesn't Is a question of
whose mind-set is ready for it.
2. Tenacity (persistence) is the
most important skill.
3. In 1994, 24% of American
children lived in mother-only
families.
4. Fatherlessness is the most
harmful demographic trend of ouir
generation.
5. For the most part, we don't
want to be told of our shortcom-
ings.
6. Character is what you are in the
dark. Dwight L. Moody
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DANGEROUS
RELIGIOUS GROUPS
In 1978, the nation was
reeling in the discovery of 900
suicide victims of the People Ts
Temple cult in Jenestown,
Guyan:. of which Jim Jones was
the leader. Some years later, the
Branch Davidian episode in
.Waco. Tx., claimed 100 lives;
then the Heaven's Gate mass
suicide of 39 persons in 1997; and
nost recently in Uganda, seme
9)0 murderess that were un-
earthed as a result of a disap-
pointed prediction of the end of
the world. These dangérous
religiots groups are commonly
called cults, which I wrote about
i: My previous articles referenced
by numerous expert sources on
cults. and the occult. In -his
writing we need to look at how to
wentifs dangerous religious
g oups (DRGs) to which innocent
pzople can sometimes be lured
into. without their becoming
aware of it. We will first look at
the leaders ofa DRG. oime will
usually show the fruit of a leader's
life.
Che opposite of the ofruit of the
spirit T which the Apostle Paul
speaks about is seen in those who
are more concerned about them-
selves than others. Such persons
use T people rather than love them.
Their relationships are marked by
a critical attitude, conflict, impa-
tiznce, insensitivity, rudeness,
selfishress. failure to keep prom-
ises, ard failure te control their
nouths, their anver, and their
sexual desires. Such ev dence of
someore Ts spirit needs to be
carefully listened to, regardless of
his eloquence or ability to quote
Scriptu-es. There are some basic
questions we need to ask «ur-
selves about those we are relying
01 for eadership:
108).
y, or
3. Do they. themse!ves show
respect for authorities including
parents, friends, and the govern-
ment ? (HH Peter 2:10-12) ( Jude
8-10).
4. Do they show respect and
love for other religious leaders ?
(I Corinthians 3: 1-9).
5. (Do thay lead by othrowing
their weight around o or by
information, encouragement. and
example ? (I Peter 5:1-4).
6. Do they meet the qualifica-
tions of a spiritual oversee, or
are they gifted men of question-
able character ? (1 Timothy
3:1-7).
These questions address issues
rooted not mere y in a leader Ts
words but in his or her attitudes
and actions. They help us to see
that the issue is not just doctrine,
but the spirit and fruit of the
leade*.
Among the many marks of a
dangerous religious grcup (DRG)
are:
1. IDEALISM: DRGs are often
made up of disappointed idealists
who have to be
traditional churches. They be-
lieve God has raised them up to
accomplish whet others have
failed to do.Their vision is to
recover the lost purpose of the
church.
2. AUTHORITY: DRG Ts are
made up of those who are
looking for direction. bounda-
ries, and security and are drawn
to the safety in structure that
authoritarian leadership provides.
3. BIBLICAL EMPHASIS:
Many DRG Ts give much attention
to Bible study. But their learning
is Often carefully orchestrated by
clever leaders who warn about
reading authors who are ou:side
of their group.
4, INDOCTRINATION: Many
DRG's use sophisticated methods
of recruitment and coercive per-
suasion. They may break down
individual thinking by using the
following techniques.:
Tin Van oat
belonging, and ? significance by
oe pombing them. with flattery, -
2; Are they gentle or demanding ee
2 CT Timothy 2:24-26).. -
burned in .
-&1 over:
touching, and hugging.
b. REMOVAL OF PRIVACY:
Recruits are never left alone to
collect and discover their own
thoughts.
c. . FATIGUE: A person's
Tesistance is broken down by long
church meetings, long prayer
mectings. and extended church
work hours.
d. MIND CONTROL: Members
are conditioned to stop thinking
and to accept without questions
_ the revelations and doctrines of
their leaders.
e. CONFESSION: The
self-respect of the members is
broken down through
persuading them to share their
_Innermost secrets with the group.
f. CHANTING & SINGING:
Members are subjected 10 cor-
Stant repetition, which blocks
their rational thought process.
g. CHILDLIKE DEPENDENCL.:
Tehe leader demands absolute sub-
mission to his control.
h. NO QUESTION: Followers
are taught te accept vithout
question the revelations and inter-
pretations of their leaders.
(Adapted from: The Cult Crisis:
Citizens Freedom Foundation).
In conclusion, we must recognize
that giving honor to a man er
woinan cr organization is a sin.
Christ died for our sins. and rose
from the dead to give new life to
all who will trust Him---the only
One whe deserves to be called
Teacher---to lead us to the only
One whe deserves to be called
Father (Matthew 23:8-10). The
Scriptures warn that the seeds of
dangerous religious "_ " groups
(DRGs) are not-jus: around us,
but in us and among us as well.
References: Cults in America,
Appeal The Lure of the Cults,
Enroth How to Identify a DRG,
Discovery Series
- Suejette A. Jones has completed
the Religious Studies courses
offered at PCC. Her courses
included The Old Testament, The
New " Testament, & ~~ World
Religious
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Jeaders as they plan ways to
fight for justice for slain
Guinean immigrant Amadou
At a meeting of. African-
Americans in New York City
and community and legislative
leaders in Harlem Monday, the
president of the United African
Congress, Sidique Wai, said
African oimmigrants would
stand with their African-Ameri-
can kin in their fight for justice.
The meeting was convened
under the auspices of the
National Action Network, led by
Rev. Al Sharpton, to consider
measures to introduce legisla-
tion at local, state and federal
levels to chetk acts of police bru-
tality. Sharpton has led a con-
certed campaign against police
brutality since four white police
officers killed DiaHo last Febru-
ary. o 8
In his message at the meet-
ing, Wai, a Sierra Leonean, said
African ambassadors in the
United States will also join in
the fight for justice.
He urged Black legislators to
understand that Africa is their
continent and that Africans in
the United States, whom he
said number more than 3 mil-
lion, would stand together with
African-Americans to fight for
. justice.
The chairman of the Black,
Puerto Rican and Hispanic Cau-
cus in the state assembly, Keith
~ legislation to be known as the ti
Amadou Diallo law, which out-
lines police reforms in New York "
,e known as the
State. The law would require all a week
city police officers to reside in protests
the city, entrench diversity over
training for police officers, its
ensure drug testing for police
officers and remove the rule
that allows officers not to speak
about their actions 40 hours Owens asked
after the event.
In a similar way, it
announced that a committee of
the New York City Council is
also considering legislative
measures that will bring police
conduct under control. One of
the measures - was . included
ensuring that the appointment
of city police commissioners
goes through the approval of the
council.
A Black congressman, Grego-
ry Meeks, announced that a leg-
oislation referred to as the oLaw
Enforcement and Integrity Act ?
was underway in the U.S.*
House of Representatives. The
law would tackle, at a federal
level, such problems as racial
profiling, death in police cus-.
tody and drug testing, among
other issues.
_ Rep. Major Owens observed
that the T killing of Diallo has
opened a golden window of
opportunity for the people of
New York City to make an effec-
tive demand for change. In his
view, the killing has united the
people of the city across, racial
and religious lines a develop-
ment, he said, that should be
was
come out dirtied. He observed:
the struggle for justice for the.
slain Diallo has avoided Shay |
This, he said, contrasted with
the case of Rodney King, a Black =
man who was brutalized in 1993 . :
by the Los Angeles police. In iat
that case, 55 people died in
street protests against a jury tod
verdict that acquitted the offi-
cers who attacked him.
Jackson, who is also U.S.
special envoy for democracy in
Africa, pointed out that the
case of the late Diallo was only
part of a pattern of American
authorities oppressing Black
men. Citing figures, he said at.
the same time states across
the country have reduced edu-
cation budgets, they have "
increased funding for prisons
DISTRICT
"I believe in fairness, courtesy, and respect for all citizens. - a
What you say counts in my courtroom." " Judge Galen Braddy |
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Make the most of your children Ts visits to the doctor by always
bringing their immunization records and asking if shots are up to
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" men of all
decade, it is heartening to see the accele
__, ated response to the spread of HIV in mi-
nority communities "notably African.
American and Latino communities. How-
_ ever, recently released CDC data find that
othere is one group that is often forgotten
_. that needs urgent attention. Black and His-
panic gay and bisexual men who have AIDS
now outnumber their white counterparts.
-. The CDC data indicate that in 1989, 31
percent of gay men with AIDS were men vi
3 os color; in 1998, that proportion increased to
_. $2 percent. And while AIDS mortality has
declined by more than 50 percent in just
_ ? two years, AIDS remains the leading killer
of African, Americans aged 25-44.
~ ? These data remind us, once again of how
AIDS tends to affect those most out of
reach of social safety nets, beyond the net-
work of voices openly talking about HIV.
But talk about it, we must, if we are to truly
commit to slowing the spread of HIV in
minorities communities.
oSilence has a way of fueling fear and
fear has a powerful way of keeping indi-
. Viduals from seeking information and ser-
vices. In addition, many believe that fear of
stigmatization is what causes some men
who have sex with men not to think of
themselves "nor identify themselves "as
gay or bisexual. In fact, the recent CDC
study found that of men who have sex with
men, 24 percent of blacks, and 15 percent
of Hispanics, but only six percent of whites,
identify themselves as heterosexual, not
gay or bisexual.
By not identifying as gay or bisexual,
these men may not even perceive them-
selves at risk for HIV and, therefore, may
be less likely to protect themselves and
their partners. And by having sex with both
men and women, they may also be helping
to fuel the spread of the disease to women.
Overall, women now comprise 26 percent
of reported AIDS cases, while accounting
for only 10 percent a decade ago. Estimates
Suggest that women also account for 30
percent of new HIV infections. The vast
Majority of these women are black and
Hispanic.
Stopping the spread of HIV in any com-
munity isn Tt easy. AIDS has always raised
May 2nd you can make the Difference
is heartening to see the aceler-
many Americans. With the advent of pow-
erful new drugs to. treat HIV infection T
obituaries are less frequent, the protests
have died down, and a dangerous sense of
compiacency has set in. We cannot afford -
to let this complacency continue. As long
as HIV continues to spread in any commu-
nity, it is a problem for all communities.
In the past few years, we have commit-
ted new resources to HIV/AIDS preven-
tion. We've expanded our search for the
ultimate prevention weapon "a vaccine.
And, we T ve worked with the Congressional.
Black Caucus to help local communities
_ address the changing face of the epidemic.
We are making progress preventing the
spread of HIV, but there are more preven-
tion needs today than ever before. Limited
resources are being stretched, while AIDS
is still with us, and the virus is still a
formidable opponent.
HIV prevention efforts are only effective
when they are sustained; and when we resog-
nize and address the full force of societal~~
conditions and norms that fostér the epftlemic.
Fear remains a powerful force "a force that
drives many young black and brown men with
AIDS to die alone rather than face the risk of
being shunned by loved ones; a force that
drives families to silently hope their son is a
drug addict when they find out he has AIDS;
a force that drives young men away from the
people or HIV prevention services that might
help protect them.
A substantial reduction in HIV trans-
mission is possible, but it will only happen
when we look honestly mto the face of
AIDS, wake ourselves from denial, and
deal directly with very real issues that might
be uncomfortable. We must recognize that
our gay and bisexual brothers are, after all,
still our brothers.
(Dr. Helene D. Gayle is director, Na-
tional Center for HIV, STD AND TB Pre-
vention Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.)
rk- " areatrisk for HIV infection, and communi-
} ties of color must create an environment "
- where all men can access the HIV testing,
treatment, and prevention services they need
without the fear of estrangement.
And even as AIDS continues to ravage "
communities across the nation, the disease
othreatens to drop off the radar screen for
iy Re aes
_The movement to implement an appro-
priate African-centered curriculum in pre-
~ dominately African in America inner city
. schools is critical to the on-going struggle
_ for the liberation of African people in this.
- country, We must continue to demand that
the truth be.taught.
This movement has now become popu-
larly known as the African Centered Edu-
cation Movement. Simply stated, it focuses -
on teaching the truth concerning the con-
tributions of African people to the develop-
ment of civilization in all subjects. During
African History Month we must heighten
the dialogue concerning the importance of
this movement. ;
Throughout the country, Africans in
America are now becoming more sensitive
tochallenging the racist and white suprema-
cist basis of the African public school cur-
riculum.
Through the National Black United Front
(NBUF), and its world African Centered
Education Plan, more Africans in America
are beginning to see the need for massive
curriculum change in the public schools of
this country. °
There is not a day that goes by that
someone does fot call my office seeking
information and help .on how to start the
_poocess of changing the curriculum in their
och
ool. It is clear that the public school
system is the place where, African Ameri-
can children receive a significant portion
of their view of the world and the history of
the world. And, it also is a place where
large numbers of African in America youth
are miseducated under the system of white
supremacy through the ideas and interpre-
tation of history that is presented to them.
Our seniors |
s boards,
* Eliminating the academic achievement gap in NC
Students in all of our counties have the resources t
* Making quality health care more available and prescription drugs more affordable for
lopment and the Housing Trust Fund
ion in 1999 to encourage more diversity on
VOTE "
Beverly Perdue
Lieutenant Governor
_ Senator Beverly Perdue
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor
a ;
Committed to North Carolina's African-American Communities as a
Member of the North Carolina House and Senate since 1986...
BEV PERDUE FOR LT. GOV. CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE ROBERT IPOCK, TREASURER
ublic schools by ensuring that at-risk,
t they need for success.
i
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ANN HUGGI
: Let 's turn 1
education, with all its defects, however,
does others so much more good than it does T
the Negro, because it has been worked out
in conformity to the needs of those who
have enslaved and oppressed weaker
people. ?
~ For example, Woodson says, othe phi-
losophy and ethics resulting from our edu-
cational system have justified slavery, pe-
onage, segregation and lynching. The op-
pressor has the right to exploit, to handi-
cap, and to kill the oppressed. ?
Continuing on, Woodson explains that,
oNo systematic effort toward change: had
been possible for, taught the same econom-
ics, history, philosophy, literature and reli-
gion which have established the present
code of morals, the Negro Ts mind has been
brought under control of his oppressor. ?
Concluding on this point Woodson
States: oThe problem of holding the Negro
down, therefore, is easily solved. When
you control a man Ts thinking you do not
have to worry about his actions. ?
Therefore, it is inspiring to see so many
of our people waking up all over America
and seeking the truth concerning the real
contributions of African people to the world.
Through study groups, conferences, black
talk radio, information network exchanges,
African Americans are coming into a new
African consciousness that seeks to reclaim
the African mind and spirit.
Through the Portland Model Baseline
Essays, the work of the Kemetic Institute,
Association For The Study of Classical
African Civilizations (ASCAC), and other
writings and curriculum materials, Afri-
= et Ts turn to Carter G. Woodson T great
. book, The Miseducation of the Negro to get
_ some further insights into this problem.
- Woodson observes othe so-called modern. -
following points
intothecurriculum.
~ 1. Africa is the home of early man.
. 2. Africa is the cradle of modern man.
3. Africa is the cradle of civilization,
_ 4, Africa once held a position as world
teacher including the teacher for the west-
ern world. .
_ §. There was and there still is a conti-
nental wide unity in Africa and in the Afri-
can communities around the world:
6. The first time Africans left the conti-
nent was not on slave ships; ==_
7. Africa and African people altever the
world have been under siege for-nearly
2000 years and only recently by:European
slavery and colonization. than |
_ 8. There is an African Diaspota-al] over
- the world today. poem
' 9. African people have resisted'ttgmina-
tion on the continent and all over the world.
o10, Even under slavery, colomtzation,
segregation, apartheid, African peeple have
made monumental contributionste: arts,
science and politics. " |
These 10 points, and others, ave be-
come the basis upon which we Gai-judge
the white supremacy public schoOffiitricu-
lums content in textbooks and otfféflearn-
ing materials. a
In other words, these points*ve be-
come the basis of determining whether the
truth is being taught in the public scheols of
this country. "
The truth will set us free! Sees
(Dr. Worrill is the National Ci@irman
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THE SCARLET THREAD OF
REDEMPTION
Greetings in the Name of our
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The Bible is a beok of redemp
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is not merely a book of F istory, a
of science, or of anthropology. or
of cosmogony. It is a book of
salvation and deliverance for lost
_ mankind.
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Little Richard
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NEW YORK (AP) "Little Ri-
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wear white pancake makeup to per-
form in all-white clubs in the 1950s.
oIf we didn Tt put on the makeup,
they wouldn Tt have let us in those
white clubs, ? he told TV Guide for
its Feb. 19 issue. oThey figured we
weren't gonna bother the girls. It
was quite a time. ?
Richard Ts band members would
complain, saying makeup was for
osissies. ? But he would tell them it
was worth it.
He recalled telling them: oIf
you're gonna to call me a sissy, call
me a rich sissy. Y Tall keep doing
this, y Tall gonna be rich sissies,
too. ?
Richard also claimed he was
asked to introduce The Beatles to
an American record company in
1962 in exchange for 50 percent
ownership of the band: He declined.
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deliverance; and it refers to. the
appropriation of that atonement
,we receive. forgiveness through
price paid for that deliverance, a -
ransom We are redeemed from the
penalty of sin, from the power of
Satan, and evil by the price Jesus
paid on the cross for us. We. are
redeemed to a new freedom from
sin, a new relationship to God,
and a new life of love bv the
for our sits.
The whole of the Bible whether
the Old Testament or the. New,
looks to the mighty redemptive
atonement of Christ. His blood
sacrifice is the ransom paid for
our: deliverance. He took our
sinful. nature upon Himself in
order that He might satisfv the
demands of the law. His sacrifice
is accepted as the payment for the
debt the sinner owes to God, and
His death is accepted as full
payment for man's deliverance.
Our Lord's redemptive work for
us is threefold: First, it is closely
associated with forgiveness, since
the redemptive price of Christ's
death. Second, it involves justifi-
cation, since the deliverance es-.
tablishes us in a restored position
of favor before God. Third,
promises final deliverance ffom
the power of sin at the coming of
the, Lord. This redemption is "The
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tal divide in higher education is
greater than the digital divide
among the nation Ts households.
- oThere is a 45-percent gap.
between American households -
that own computers and a 72-per-.
cent gap between UNCF students
~ and students nationally who own
computers, ? Gray explained.
Gray said he was thrilled with
the initiative taken by the corpo-
rate giants and noted that it will
enable UNCF to provide its 39
institutions with the latest tech-
nology platforms and put personal
computers in the hands of almost
: every student enrolled at UNCF
historically Black colleges and
universities.
The Technology Enhancement
Campaign which goes into effect
this fall is a three year program
that aims to help more than
420,000 students. The program
computer technology between
UNCF member institutions and
majority institutions. Only 15 per-
cent-of students at UNCF schools
own a computer, compared with 55
_ percent of college students nation-
And unfortunately, less than
half of the faculty at UNCF mem-
ber colleges and universities own
computers compared with 70 per-
cent nationally. oThe number of
network servers at UNCF schools
per. 1,000 students is nearly half
the number for colleges and uni-
versities nationally, ? Gray said.
Retired Army General Colin
Powell, who participated in the
press conference, said, oThis is not.
a charity, but rather a: program
that invests in our society. We
either educate our children now,
or we will pay the price later to
keep them in jail. ?
Microsoft will donate $50 mil-
lion in software, and reference
and training materials to the 39
UNCF member institutions.
Microsoft Executive Vice Pres.
Bob Herbold said the grant is cus-
tomized to each school based on
individual and collective technolo-
gy resource plans.
oMdking it possible to access,
dents, ? said Herbol old. :
- oUNCF and, its member col-
_Teges are to be-commended for
aggressive, sys-
establishing an
" tem-wide goal of using technology
to improve the educational experi-
ence and work of its students, fac-
ulty and administration, a goal
The campaign calls for AT&T
to contribute $1 million to help
faculty members integrate infor-
mation technology into their cur-
riculum and. assist. them in
teaching -
AT&T Pres. John Zeglis said |
his company and UNCF will con-
tinue working together to make
the world worthy of oour children,
and to make sure our children
have the educational tools they
need to change the world. ?
President Clinton praised the
initiative in a written statement.
He stated that while computer
and Internet access has exploded
in recent years, America contin-
ues to face the odigital divide, ? a
- gap between those who have
access to Information Age tools
and the skills to use them and
those who don Tt.
oWe cannot allow unequal
access to deepen divisions along
the lines of race, ? the president
declared.
Elect Jim Rouse
NC House of
Representatives
2000
like, being a single mother or a
recent former convict interested in
starting his own business. The !
deterrent in buying the colossal
book of names, addresses, dead-
lines and requirements lies less in
the belief that it is a waste of time,
than the $45 price tag. ying
and qualifying for federal funding
is not as simple as the commercial
makes it sound; however, it is also
not as difficult as many think.
Here are some of the basic rules to
applying for money from the fed-
eral set cba fires ond
most important is y know-
ing and applying for the right kind
of funding. There are many kinds
of grants, also known as project
grants, which are the funding, for
fixed or known periods, of specific
projects or the delivery of specific
;. Services or products without liabil-
"ity for damages for failure to per-
form.
Project grants include: fellow-
ships, scholarships, training grants,
planning grants, traineeships, tech-
nical assistance grants, research
grants, demonstration grants and
construction grants. These grants
may be awarded in many different
ways including direct payment with
unrestricted use, meaning once eli-
gibility is established, the money
may be used for the specific pur-
pose designated with no restrictions
on how it is spent. Direct payment
for Specific use is the alternative
level of informal knowledge of
issues and people to counsel and
advise communities and individu-
als. This is extremely important _
for youth outreach, substance abuse
and community improvement pro-
grams. Unfortunately, much fund-
ing is loss because few if any appli-
cations for the money ever come
in. Some of the scholarships
include:
Scholarships for Health Professions
, Students from Disadvantaged
Backgrounds - $17,996,000 grants
* Scholarships for Students of Excep-
tional Financial Need - $11,096,000
grants
Undergraduate Scholarship Pro-
gram for Individuals from Disad-
vantaged Backgrounds - $728,000
grants
Government agencies like the
Department of Health and Human
Services, provide grant banks
which store all of the information
needed to check your eligibility and
apply for federal money. HHS Ts
xpertise and acertain of
Federal government. Ag
includes, but is not I
grants, loans, loan guarantees, "
agreements; property, techni
assistance, counseling, statistical,
and other expert information; and
service activities of régiilatory
agencies. It does not ingiuude the we
provision of conventional-public
information services. Th
is published annually. indwo edi-
tions using the most cuffént data
available at the time eitherédition "
of the Catalog is compiled
Again, there is a lot more to
applying and receiving federal
money than the late night felevi-
sion commercials suggest, Dut the
additional work needed to'get the
ball rolling towards your-andivid-
val goals and dreams, is worth the:
ort.
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Dear Citizens:
_ The question has been asked... why would I aspire to become the next Pitt County
Commissioner for District A, when the constitution separates church from the state. It is
God's desire that we serve in many capacities to meet the needs of all people.
Sincerely,
mnsihtibininiaai
RANDY B. ROYAL
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
PITT COUNTY COMMISSIONER, DISTRICT A
I have dwelled amongst the sick, socially and economically disadvantaged and witnessed the
unmet needs of our community while collectivel
beings.
It is imperative that we move towards the common goal, fair and equal justice, human tights,
social and economic development multicultural educational
curriculums safer and hazardous free communities, and em
forgotten. I make that commitment.
It is only through citizen participation will your needs and concerns be addressed.-¥-will
advocate developmental needs in our community such as zoning that will help to-assure
orderly growth in our community; however, | will not vote for zoning without your support.
It is through my commitment to serve you, the citizen, in and out of closed-door executive
sessions will success come about.
I believe my continued grass - root service in our community has its own merit. It is my
| goal once elected to serve the needs of all people with impeccable leadership. )
Proper representation will provide you with the resources and staff for continued growth in
our community. It Is time for a change, and I'm asking for your vote on
May 2, 2000. Make a difference In the lives of the people you love.
Randy B. Royal, Democratic Candidate
Pitt County Commissioner, District A
y serving for the betterment of all human
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