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WASHINGTON (NNPA)"
With a Republican majority vote,
the House of Representatives
approved the budget proposal of
President Bush, despite strong

objections from the
Congressional Black Caucus
(CBC) and other House
Democrats.

If passed by the Senate, the
proposal would likely lead to vast
cuts in government spending for
services needed in Black and
Hispanic communities to make
room for the $1.6 trillion tax cut

that he wants. f

oWhile President Bush has
emphasized reaching out to
minority communities and

_ working for all. Americans,?
States a report released by the

CBC and House Democratic
Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.),

BushTs budget proposal obreaks

faith with those promises and
short-changes both African-
American and Hispanic
communities. Gephardt and the
CBC held a joint press conference
on the issue two weeks ago.
Though Republicans point to
proposed increases in educational
spending, including a 30 percent
increase in spending for

proposed

historically Black colleges and

universities, Democrats say the
budget would
jeopardize funding for social
Security, Medicare and Medicaid,
and freeze the Justice Departmen:
budget, which could significantly
affect programs of the Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission. The EEOC handles
more than 75,000 employment
discrimination cases per year.
Democrats also point out the
Bush budget proposes the
osmallest increase for education
in five years, ostarves key
education initiatives,? and cuts
finding - from community
development and public housing.

Waffle House faces
| discrimination lawsuit.

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8 for $275 million

By JASON STRAIT
Associated Press Writer

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP)
_ Black customers who say they
were refused service at a
Tullahoma Waffle House _ and
captured the incident on videotape
_ have filed a $275 million

discrimination lawsuit against the
restaurant.

The four plaintiffs say in their
federal court suit they were locked
out of the Waffle House by
employees who claimed the
restaurant was closed for
maintenance, although white
patrons were clearly visible inside
and continued to be served.

Ray Congleton of Greenville is
an artist. He builds scale models
of high performance custom
cars. To the unsuspecting eye
CongletonTs models look not
unlike Revel and Snap-On mod-
els. And one cannot help but
admire the unique custom body
designs Congleton comes up
with, but when one learns that
the models are made from paper,
oneTs admiration is transformed
into surprise and disbelief.

Paper is CongletonTs primary
material, but he includes house-
hold odds and ends such as
Flavor Straws, lagbolts, and
faucet handles to simulate tail
pipes, valve covers, and custom
wheel designs. He uses automo-
tive lacquers to paint his models;
sometimes he gives his models
as many as seven coats until they
look like plastic,

_ Congleton is an African-
American man who lives in
Greenville with his wife Jennifer
and four year old son Julian. He
received a degree in Art
Education from Elizabeth State
University and a Masters in
Adult Education from Eastern
| Carolina Univeristy. For the
} past eighteen years he has served

as the Director of Adult
Education at Pitt Community
i College.
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Steve Berry of Tullahoma said
he videotaped the late-night
incident after the restaurant refused
to serve him and other black
customers the two previous
weekends. an

On: the videotape, a Waffle
House employee can be seen
closing the restaurantTs front door
as Berry and others approach. An

RAY CONGLETON: INVENTOR

The artist started making paper
sculpture cars only three years
ago while spending time at home
babysitting his son Julian.
Congleton says, o...there are no
schools for this sort of art-
work...,? and as well-educated
as Congleton is, he is in fact a
self-taught in his sculpture spe-
cialty.

Ray Congleton is making his
artistic debut with a showing of
about 30 paper models in the
Four Sisters Gallery at North
Wesleyan College. We espe-
cially encourage car buffs and
model makers of all ages to
come out and see this unique
exhibition and meet the artistist.

Kelly Darden/Kappa Alpha Psi
team won top honors for raising
most money. Kelly
Darden/Kappa Alpha Psi raised
$3,314.46, elly stated, oI have
taken a deep interest in this
event each year, because my
wife, Mrs. Jean J. Darden, was
victim of cancer, and passed in
1992.? Mr. Kelly L. Darden Sr,
and his n, Kelly L.
are both cancer
survivors.
Mr, Darden has served as
tain of the team, me Alpha
Psi, for several years. This year,
Mr. Darden himself, raised
$2,681.00 of the. teams. total.
The fraternity was rewarded a
Plaque for five continuous years
aor one and raising the
h amount of all other

Celebrating Dr. Andrew Best, shown at the Ramada Hotel Plaza, with Larry Siegal,
Operation manger of Catalytica, along with Dave McRaye, President of Pitt Memorial
Hospital. (top photo) |

Ann Brown, President of Pitt County A&T Alumni, Bro. Don Brown, owner of Don
Brown Funeral Home, along with Rosa Bradley, owner of Rosa Bradley Home for
Adults. (middle photo) . -
Dr. Mallette of ECU Medical School, along with Sis. McCleary who is the First :
African American Graduate from East Carolina University, also Dr. Henry Clark Jr. who
is the First African Ametican Graduate with Ph.D., from East Carolina Medical School.
All were honoring Dr. Andrew Best, whoTs been a pioneer-in medicine, education ,and
breaking bearers for our people. (bottom photo) Photo by Jim Rouse~
Ray Congleton, hats off to a dedicated brother. Bro. Kelly Darden of Kappa Alpha Psi
Fraternity poses for the MTVoice Newspaper. His team raised the most money for the
2001 Relay for LifeT, hosted by American Cancer Society ,

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teams. They were also awarded The Minority Voices
the Premier Plaque for raising the would like to give recognition to
ighest amount as a team all that participated, especially to

The 2001 Relay for Life Kelly Darden/Kappa Alpha Psi.
raised more than $100,000 for Mr. Darden/Kappa Alpha Psi,
cancer research and programs in wishes to thank all persons and
Pitt ry he poor por businesses that contributed to-

aikers and some run- ward thi .
nets circled the E.B. Aycock this cause
Middle School track Friday and
Saturday during the 24-hour event
to Fecognize cancer survivors and
those who have lost the fight
against the disease.

Relay for Life is the
largest fundraising campaign for
the American Cancer Society.
This yearTs goal is $110,000.

mt survivors were
wally the first to walk a lap,
1 about 80 survivors turned out
day, The walk is symbolic of
patients endure

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Boys: An
American
Tragedy?

In March 1931, a freight train
_ crowded with homeless and job-
less hoboes left Chattanooga,
Tennessee, bound for points
west. A short time after the train
crossed into Alabama, a fight
erupted between two groups of
hoboes-one black and one white.
News of the fight reached the
tiny town of Paint Rock,
Alabama, where the train was
stopped by an armed posse.
Before anyone knew what had
happened, two white women
stepped from the shadows of a
boxcar to make a shocking
accusation: nine black teenagers
aboard the train had raped them.

So began one of the most
dramatic legal fights of the 20th
century. Before it was over, the
Scottsboro affair-so named for
the little Alabama town where
the nine were put on trial for
their lives- would divide

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cal, and geogri ines. It
would draw North and South
into their sharpest conflict since
the Civil War, yield two momen-
tous Supreme Court decisions,
and give birth to the Civil Rights
Movement.

On Monday, April 2, at 9 p.m.
ET. on. PBS, = American
Experience presented this rivet-
ing dramain oScottsboro: An
- American Tragedy.? Producers
Daniel Anker and Barak
Goodman spent five years piec-
ing together the story. Their
painstaking research uncovered
long-forgotten archival footage
and. photos, letters, diaries,
newspaper editorials, and trial

transcripts. These together with -

the insights of historians and
recollections of eyewitnesses tell
a heartbreaking story. Andre
Braugher narrates; the voices of
Frances McDormand, Stanely

Tucci, and others help bring the

story to life.

In the boysT first trial, accusers
Victoria Price, 21, and Ruby
Bates, 17, played a critical role.
The women werenTt stereotypi-
cal Southern belles: they worked
in the textile mills, lived in the
black part of town, and occa-
sionally traded sex with both
black and white men for food
and clothing. But in the racially
charged atmosphere of rural
Alabama, Price and Bates
quickly came to personify the
ideal of Southern womanhood.
And these nine boys-the oldest
of whom was 19 - were going to
pay for what white Southerners
deemed an unforgivable offense.
The tough-talking Price claimed
fended by a real estate attorney
who had spent just 20 minutes

with his clients before urging

them to plead guilty.

Terrified, the boys concocted
stories to try to save themselves.
But all were found guilty and

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the 1930's because of o3
Depression. Hoping to gain th
support of African p da mot in
the South, Communist sympa-
thizers demonstrated against the
Scottsboro: trial, met with. the
prisoner, and despite o ion
from the NAACP, convinced the
boysT families to allow the
Communist Party to represent
the nine. .

In 1932, with lawyers retained
by the Communist Party provid-
ing the arguments, the Supreme
Court handed down a precedent-
setting 7-2 vote that set aside the
verdict in the first trial. The
court ruled the prisonersT de-
fense had been so woefully
inadequate that it had violated
equate that it had violated their
rights to legal due process.
Alabama prepared for a second
trial.

The International Labor
Defense, the legal arm of the
Communist Party; hired one of
the countryTs most prominent
defense attorneys. Samuel L.
Leibowitz, to represent the boys.
Although he disagreed strongly
with Communist _ ideology,
Leibowitz took the high-profile
case because he was confident it
would enhance his reputation.
And having won 77 of the 78
murder cases heTd argued,
Leibowitz was certain heTd be
successful this time, too. But he
failed to realize how much the
Alabama jury would resent him
as a New Yorker and Jew.

Leibowitz mounted a brilliant
defense. He got the doctor who
examined the women after the
alleged rapes to describe evi-
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as a witness for the defense. But

in reality Leibowitz was on trial.
According to historian Dan
Carter, the prosecutor came right
out in his summation and said to
the jury, oShow them that
Alabama justice canTt be bought
and sold with Jew:money from
New York!?

Once again the verdict was
guilty. They saw the ultimate
outsider,? says historian Wayne
Flynt of Leibowitz. oSomeone
who was Jewish- totally foreign
to their religion. They saw
someone who was allegedly a
Communist-totally foreign to
their political values. They saw
someone who was defending
accused black rapists-someone
totally contrary to their racial
values. The minute a Jewish
lawyer from New York City
rame to Alabama, that case was
ost.?

Devastated but not defeated,
Leibowitz appealed to Judge
Edward Horton to overturn the
verdict. The judge, defying
overwhelming popular sentiment
in the South and putting his own
career in jeopardy granted a new
trial.

Alabama prosecuted yet again,
this time with a new judge who
openly sided with the prosecu-
tion. Once again all nine boys
were found guilty. This time
Leibowitz appealed to the
Supreme Court, claiming that
Alabama had purposely ex-
cluded African Americans from
the jury. Once again the High
Court sided with the plaintiffs,

and Alabama was forced to gear

officials agreed to comp mmise-

step down. With @ Southern point

attorney acting on behalf of the
nine defendants, five were con-
victed, The other four, who had

_ by this time been in jail for six

years, were released. As the
years passed and the case left the
headlines, the state began to
relent. oIn the end,? says
producer Barak Goodman, oit
was not letter, marches, or
editorials, but time alone that
brought the Scottsboro affair to
and end.?

In 1943, the Alabama Parole
Board met for a fourth time and
voted to parole one of. the
prisoners. Within the next three

years, all but one of the
Scottsboro boys, now men,
would be released.

In 1948 the last of the nine
would find freedom-not through
the judicial system, but by
outrunning the prison guards.

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Empowerment
by Dr. Lenora Fulani

Census Undercount:
Independent
and
Non-aligned Voters

With the unveiling of the new
census Americans are getting a
closer look at who we are, and
who we are becoming, as a
country. Prominently featured in
the early analysis of the census
report is our changing racial
composition since this was the
first time the census offered a
range of choices in the category of
race. Our country, long called the
melting pot, now has reams of
Statistical data to spell that out in
great detail.

Evidence

that America is

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in U.S. elections, more people
. today consider themselves politi-
tally independent than identify
_ with either the Republican or
Democratic Parties. . oThis find-
ings not new,? they reported. obut

PASTOR GEORGE BAWKINS

Greetings in the
name of Jesus Christ:

This is an important
question, because ospiritual war-
fare? means different things to
different people. The term itself
is not found in the scriptures, but
the concept is taught. Two of
the most commonly associated
passages were written by the
Apostle Paul.

oFor though we live in the
world, we do not wage war as
the world does. the weapons we
Sight with are not the weapons
of the world. On the contrary,
they have divine power to
demolish strongholds. We de-

has: been apparent in. GallupTs

national election surveys for most -
of the 1990Ts.? Responses to an.

effort | recently helped to launch

to unify the independent political -

movement leads to similar conclu-
sions as well.

Several weeks ago I, along with
a group of activities, began a
national campaign called The
Independent Appeal--a nationally
coordinated grassroots petition
drive which aims to collect a

million signatures and unify. the.

independent political movements
in the process.

The Independent Appeal states
that America has tens of millions
of independents who are con-
nected by a mistrust of politicians
and parties, the desire to reform
our political process and opposi-
tion to the corrupting influence of
special interests in government
and elections. It reads, oThis
movement has taken different
forms over the years: 20 million
voted for Ross Perot; Minnesota
Governor Jesse VenturaTs elec-
tion; John McCainTs huge popu-
larity in the presidential primaries:
Ralph NaderTs 2.7 million votes in

molish arguments and every
pretension that sets itself up
against the knowledge of God,
and we take captive every
thought to make it obedient to
Christ? 2 Corinthians 10:3-5
Finally, be strong in the Lord
and in his mighty power. Put
on the full armor of God so that
you can take your stand against
the devilTs schemes. for our
struggle is not against flesh and
blood, but against the rulers,
against the authorities, against
the powers of this dark world
and against the spiritual forces
of evil in heavenly realms.?
Ephesians 6:10-12.

This ministryTs stress upon
spiritual warfare is an attempt to
bring about a proper balance in
Christian _ lives, So many
Christians have become passive
and fearful. Some are satisfied
just to believe the right things
and attend church services and
activities each week. This type
of lifestyle is quite different
from that which Jesus had called
believers. For example, like the
apostles (Lk 9:1-2) and the
seventy (Lk 10) who were told
by Jesus to go out and preach
and teach about the Kingdome
of God and also said they were
told by Jesus to go out and
preach and teach about the
kingdom of God, and he also
said they were to heal the sick
and set the captives free. In
Matt. 28:18020, Jesus commis-
sioned the disciples. .

the ideologi-

cal spectrum--from the center, left.

and right -- and urges the move-
mentTs most prominent leaders --

- Jesse Ventura; Ralph Nader and
oRoss Perot--to cross their respec-
tive ideological divides, connect
-with each other and unify the

broader movement which has

popularized their varied efforts by

calling for and leading a Million

Independents March. on
Washington.
The initiators of the drive

represent a cross-section of the
independent movement and _in-
clude: a high-ranking member of
the Ventura administration, a for-
mer executive level leader of the
Reform Party, and chairs of the
leading state-based independent
parties and community-based. po-
litical reform organizations.

The Million Independent March
concept was inspired in part by
the Million Man march in 1996,
which drew attention to and
mobilized another "_"_sunder-
recognized and under-empowered
constituency--African American
men. Wayne Griffin, the
Chairman of the United Citizens
Party of South Carolina, and I are
strongly calling on the Black
community to support our years of
work in building this movement
and to take its place in the
foundation of its future. It is an
opportunity for the Black commu-
nity to assert itself inside of

And Jesus came and
said to them, oAll authority in
heaven and on earth has been
given to me. Go therefore and
make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of
the Father and the Son and the
Holy Spirit, and teaching them
to obey everything that I have
commanded you; and remem-
ber, I am with you always to the
end of the age.?

The new converts were to be
disciplined and taught that God
wanted them to be doing the
things that ChristTs disciples had
been doing. And Jesus would be
with His people to the end of the
age, doing His works through
them as they were yielded to
Him in faith.

The reason ministries like ours
exist at all is because of the
failure of the Church to obey all
of ChristTs commission to His
people. Working in the power of
Christ to do like that today.? But
we, and ministries like us, are
reminders that God continues to
work the way He did with the
First Century Church.

Spiritual warfare is a pro-active
approach to our faith. We
actively resist the devil when his
hosts harass us. We actively
pursue spiritual disciplines that
will make us stronger and better
prepared. We actively engage
the enemy when people are in

spiritual bondage.
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- Black History month speech |
gave at Columbia University. We
immediately received another 400
calls and emails at my office the "

next day.

Discussions . of election reform "
have. become fashionable these §
days with everyone, from state #f
legislators to former Presidents, |

forming commissions to study and

make recommendations to. im-

prove _"-voting procedures:

Congress is consumed with de-'

bate on the McCain/Feingold
legislation to reform campaign
finance laws. Within: this dia-
logue, much which is posturing by
one political party over another,
there is an important debate
growing about the two-party sys-
tem and political parties them-
selves. The new American
majority -- the independent --

must be seen, heard and heeded in-

this debate. Contact my office to
sign the Independent, Appeal by
calling me at 1-800-288-3201 or
by visiting my website at

WWww.cuip.org.

Lenora B. Fulani has twice run
for president as an independent--
making history in 1988 by becom-
ing the first woman and first
African American to appear on the
ballots of all 50 states. She
currently chairs the Committee for
a Unified Independent Party, the
countryTs leading think-tank for
independent politics. She can be
reached at 800-288-3201 or at
fulanicolumn (@cuip.org or by
mail at: 225 Broadway, Suite
2010, New York, NY 1007,

Keith W. Cooper
kwebottomline@vahoo.com

Sing & fifth Strect
Greenville, PC.

On April 6, 1998 former
Greenville City Councilman
Huggins made a motion to name
that portion of Fifth Street from
Evans St. to Memorial Drive
after Dr. Martin Luther King.

Councilwoman Council sec-
onded the motion, which
passed.

1 often think about how such a
vote was a disservice to a great
civil rights warrior. Also, that
controversial vote insulted the
praiseworthy legacy of King and
the intelligence of KingTs disci-
ples. The time to bring closure to
this issue is long overdue.

ItTs no secret that many streets are
named after trees. For example,
motorists around the country
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quently see such streets as Oak,

Spruce, Pine, Elm, Arbor, and

Maple. Therefore, people of good

conscience should welcome ef-

forts to rename an entire street

after King.

King promoted racial healing,
understanding, and tolerance.
Due to his peaceful efforts, our
fragile democracy still exists. The
turbulent waters of hate in an
ocean of ignorance and discrimi-
nation still rage.

Most streets, bridges, parks, and
schools named after King are in
economically depressed neighbor-
hoods, as is the case on MLK
Drive. Nevertheless, denying
warriors for racial justice the full
street from 10 St. to the city limits
is like offering crumbs to Lazarus.
This humiliation must be rectified
soon. .

Concerned citizens may close
more wounds of racial hatred by
asking that the statue of the
Confederate soldier mounted on
the front lawn of the Pitt County
Courthouse be removed and re-
placed with a monument of King.
This will help balance the scales
of justice.

After closure is brought to the
Fifth St. project, supporters of
atonement should consider asking
the City Council to name
Memorial Drive or Greenville
Boulevard after Rosa Parks, the
_ oMother? of the modern day civil
rights movement.

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The state meet was held March
ry at the Cabarrus County Gym-

or 18- oyear-old. gymnast and ;

Rose, WhiteTs longtime coach in 4 tr

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White posted the first- or second-
highest score in each of the six
physically-demanding individual
events, including floor (8.35), pom-
mel horse (6.65), rings (7.60), vault
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Black Women:

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice whom
-President Bush named as_ his
national security adviser is the
granddaughter of a poor Alabama
cotton. farmer who became an
accomplished classical pianist and
ice skater, and graduated from
college at 19. Born and raised in
Alabama, she was the only child
of teachers and attended segre-
gated schools until 10th grade.
She notes that her father became
a Republican in 1952 because
Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama
would not register him to vote.

As a child, she studied French,
ballet and classical piano, which
she plays well. Every year she
attends a week-long music camp
in Montana. Her first name
(Condoleezza) comes from the

employee then taped a sign to the
glass door that read, oClosed due to
Maintenance.?

oEmployees of the Tullahoma
Waffle House ... simply locked the
doors and pretended to be closed
when they saw African-American
patrons arrive,? according to the
lawsuit, which was filed last week
in federal court. .

In one incident, according to
the lawsuit, a black customer who
had called in a carryout order

overheard a Waffle House worker

say, ooItTs one of them wanting a

" to go order. What should J tell

her??

Waffle House, based in
Norcross, Ga., has been named in
at least four other racial:
discrimination lawsuits in the past
few years, including incidents in
Georgia, Alabama and South
Carolina. ,

It recently
discrimination

settled a
lawsuit in

Kentucky where three people
from Illinois claimed workers at a
Waffle House violated their civil
rights by harassing, intimidating
and refusing to serve them
because they are black. The
company settled out of court for
$4.5 million.

Chris Jacobsen, spokesman for
Waffle House, said he could not
comment. specially on the
Tullahoma case, but issued a
statement saying Waffle House
odoes not tolerate discrimination
of any kind,?

News that the restaurant did not

- close for maintenance as the:

company has claimed. Shaw did
not immediately return a call to
The Associated Press. {.°.
*, oIf you're closed for:

out. They were still serving
people. They hadn't slowed down

eMk Need
, Named as defendants in the

lawsuit, filed last Friday in

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president
body.....and geography is every-
thing,? says an analyst. oThose
are her trump cards.?

~ At 38 she became Stanford

ag UniversityTs youngest, first fe-

male, first African American pro-
vost, making her the chief
operating officer of a_ billion-
dollar-a-year institution. One of

President. ClintonTs advisers re-

ferred to her as being olightning-

brained.? Before her appointment

as provost, she had never held any
university administrative position
before. Yet,. six years later, she

_ left. the job to praise and a

performance by 100 members of
StandfordTs African American
community who sang two of
RiceTs favorite gospel songs, oHis
Eye Is on the Sparrow? and oI
Need Thee Every Hour.?

RiceTs position at Stanford and
her Republican connections pro-
pelled her onto corporate boards.
As a board member of Chevron
Inc. and Charles Schwab Corp.
Rice. made a minimum of

$70,000 a year plus meeting fees

and stock options. Proxy state-

ments show she owns about a

quarter million dollars of stock in

Chevron, which named an oil :
tanker after her. Rice also serves

on J.P. Morgan
International
meets every eight months to
advise the bank.

& Co.Ts
Council, which

Like national security advisers

before her, she will possess the
advantage of operating out of the

White House. oCondi knows the
better than any-

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restaurant, and the 10 employees
who allegedly refused to serve the
group... coed
{ Charles Yancey, director of
human resources at SouthEast,
said the restaurant shut down
because the crowd had become
unmanageable _ hot because it

was black.
* He said the Waffle House nas a

history of violence on Friday and
Saturday nights and that it was not
unusual for the restaurant to close
as a matter of public safety. © -
'. oThere had been previous.
instances of fights within the
Waffle House at 3 oTclock. Those _
incidents are what made the
employees feel we should close,? :
he said. Te
In June, 13 people. were.
arrested in a brawl at the Waffle
House that lasted for up to two
outs, police said. The fightT
occurred at about. the same time,T
around 3 a.m., as the February °
incident. RY
_ However, none of the four
plaintiffs listed in the lawsuit were
among those arrested in June.
Additional plaintiffs include:
Mario Braston and Carla
Childress, both of Tullahoma, : on
*. The lawsuit also claims that:
employees at the Waffle HouseT:

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The Links Inc. Sponors Workshop

The Greenville/Williamston
members of The Wilson-Rocky
Mount-Tarboro Chapter. The
Links, Inc. sponsored a Linkages
to Life: Organ, Tissue and Bone
Marrow Awareness workshop
recently.

The Linkages to Life is a bone
marrow and organ donor project
organized to increase awareness
and participation in the number
of donors and recipients

Links. Inc. to alleviate the criti-
cal need. for bone marrow and
organ donations and to educate
individuals of the need for organ
and bone marrow donations.

Workshop participants included

Ms. Freda Wilkins, Social
Worker, and Ms. Karen Parker,
RN. Transplant Coordinator,

from the East Carolina Organ
Donor Program. A group of

The Wilson-Rocky Mount-
Tarboro Chapter is committed to
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need for organ, tissue and bone
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and other communities.

The Greenville/Williamston
members include: Lillie Powell,

Leathers, and Paula Wynn.
Helen P. Harrell and Allegra B.
Gross are the Linkages to Life
Coordinators and Gloria M.
Hines is president of the Wilson-
Rocky Mount-Tarboro Chapter,
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have-a history of omaking racial

donors and recipients were also
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: Though modem society
is;distorting the true essence of

the angels, Islam. is preserving it.

and has provided mankind with
a wery effective weapon to defeat
the -evils the shaitan is letting
loose.

: Today we have lost our
awe for these powerful and
faithful beings created by Allah.
The ancignt tradition that paints
the angel MikaT il angrily driving
the devil out of paradise have
been replaced with cute human-
like babies with bows and ar-
rows to attract men to women
arid vice versa. Angels have
become passe in modern day
cultures. Now relegated to the
roles of Christmas tree orna-
ments and actors who portray
them as victims to human ava-
rice. These distorted views leave
mankind vulnerable and power-
less confronting the evils of the
shaitan.

It is apparent that the
world has gone astray. Except
for those who believe for Allah
says: :

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the many schools a Sailor will -

and the Day of
hath gone far farT

-astray.?The belief in angels isa. almi

pillar of faith in Islam. To deny
them is tantamount to disbelief
because through them the
Prophets of Allah received
AllahTs messages and were
guided in their missions. The
Almighty says:

~ oIt is: not righteous-
ness that ye tum your faces
toward East or West; but it is
righteousness to believe in
Allah and the Last Day and
the Angels and the Book and
the Messengers; to spend of
your substance out of love for
Him for your kin for orphans
for the needy for the wayfarer
for those who ask and
ransom of slaves; to be
steadfast in prayer and prac-
tice regular chantty; to fulfil the

contracts which ye have

made; and to be firm and
patient in pain (or suffering)
and adversity and throughout
all periods of panic. Such are
the people of truth the Allah-
fearing.?

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SON OF
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RESIDENT
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AIR MAINTENANCE
TRAINING UNIT

By Rachael Leslie
NORFOLK, Va.-- For most peo-
ple, traveling the world as a
sailor in the U.S. Navy would
bring plenty of excitement, but
not for the aviation ordinance-
man of the worldTs finest Navy.
This special breed of Sailor
works with highly explosive
materials and equipment on a
daily basis. They are the trained
experts who care for the NavyTs
bombs, torpedoes, guns, rockets
and missiles to ensure the United
States is protected from enemies
on the sea, under the sea, in the
air and on land.
Brian K. Bunch, son of Deborah
Bunch of CHOCOWINITY,
N.C. (27817), recently com-
pleted an advanced school for
the aviation ordinance field at
the Naval Air Maintenance
Training Group at Naval Station
Norfolk. Va. This is just one of

after graduating from John A.
Wilkiinson High School in 1988.
oI chose the Navy over the other
branches because | wanted to
travel and see the world.?

The 30 year old aviation
ordinanceman says he has
learned many things during his
13-year naval career. oI have
learned to work with all kinds of
people from every possible
background,? said the husband
of Stephanie Davis Bunch and
Father of 11-year- old Rashaad,
ten-year-old Brian and three-
year-old Jada.

Bunch says the Navy has
fulfilled his travel expectations
throughout his career. oWhen
my ship is out to sea, I love
teaching my junior personnel
how to do their job well,? said
Bunch. oI tell them that if they
learn as much as they can about
their job and how to work well
with people, they will go a long
way in the Navy.?

Bunch says his job is very
exciting and plans to retire from
the Navy after a few more years.
oAfter I retire from the Navy, I
plan to work in the field of
computers,? said Bunch. oI am
looking forward to lots of fish-
ing, golf and sharing my sea
stories with my grandchildren.?

Whatever his future holds,
Bunch will look back on this
time of his life with fond
memories. HeTll also have the
pride that comes with serving in
a Navy uniform.

By, Rachael Leslie, assigned

journalist, Public Affairs

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EI initiated the National Council of
: y Women's international activi-
- ties in 1975 in Senegal, when we
became the firstT African American
_. womenTs private voluntary organiza-
tion working in Africa. I know first-
hand that in sub-Saharan Africa, dis-
__ ease has medical causes but it spins
- out of control because of poverty and
-. ignorance.

When welibinelts decked

-. AIDS"that most often is transmit-

-. tedSexually, weT "re talking about the '
human condition, We must Tecog- "
_ nizethatinmuchofAfricathe human -

_ condition includesdeeppoverty, hun-

_ gerand ignorance. What makes AIDS
~ apublic health nightmare in Africa is
the way all of these factors"pov-
erty, lack of education, cultural stig-
mas and taboos, lack of medicines,
. lack of functioning health systems
and sanitation, and in some instances
__ years of neglect and lack of political
- will"are connected and mutually re-
_ inforcing.
_ But the other side of the human-
condition perspective is this: AIDS is
. wiping out the people, but an impor-
_ tant part of the solution lies with the

people, too. Obviously, billions of

~ dollars of emergency aid could buy
_ medicines, build clinics and pay doc-
tors. But if billions arenTt forthcom-
~ ing, or if they arenTt coming fast
enough, are we helpless?
_ Based on my lifetime of work,
organization building and advocacy
for human dignity and rights, I think
not. a

Of course, we must be realistic.
An estimated 34 million ople are
infected with the HIV/AIDS virus,
about 20 million of them in Africa.

The bitter truth is that nearly all of
those victims will die prematurely"
a phenomenon usually seen only in
war.

For those Africans who are al-
ready infected, the most we may be
able to provide is a quality of life that
provides some dignity and comfort.
But for those who are healthy (and
for those not yet born) there is hope.

Aid and health experts have come

At NCNW, we believe that the
most effective approach to changing
attitudes, and thus improving com-
munity life, is not a top-down strat-
egy that starts with the national gov-
ernment, but one that works from the
bottom up. Change starts with the
people. Because women in poorcoun-
tries often are disadvantaged, because

they are the primary caregivers and
because many social problems are

gender-based, women are most re-
Soph to'a message of change.

oAt NCNW, we look for partners
who are willing to take responsibil-
ity"people, especially women, who
feel oIf I had the information, I could
do something about this problem.?
We have pursued this strategy suc-
cessfully in 16 countries in Africa.
Now, as thousands of African chil-
dren are orphaned and healthy Afri-
cans struggle to care for family

AIDS victims, I believe the strat-
egy is timelier than ever.

Many Africans would welcome
assistance from American volunteer
groups in bringing about change that
can slow the spread of AIDS. A 1999
Pulitzer Prize-winning series in The
Village Voice highlighted examples
of African organization at the
grassroots. oBelow the radar of gov-
ernment, in individual communities
there are astonishingly vigorous re-
sponses to AIDS. In every province
we have member organizations,T says
Thembeni Mahlangu, director of the
Zimbabwe AIDS Network.... If gov-
ernments finally mobilize against this
disease, they will find some of the
best and most energetic AIDS strate-
gies right under their noses.?

Groups like this are oisolated and
scattered blossoms,? said one Afri-
can woman. oI wish this blossom
could be turned into a flower gar-
den.? Those of us involved in work in
Africa hear her voice. It would be
important and wonderful work if
American volunteers everywhere
helped to build the garden. ",

(Dr. Height became president of
the National Council of Negro Women
in 1957, and currently serves as its
chair.) T

LETTER: In Favor of Malcolm X

Respectively, I would like to ex-
press my 100 percent solidarity and
support for FAMIL (Fighters for Af-
rican Mental Liberation) and all the

grassroots community activists and.

organizations who are spearheading
the jihad to help honor one of our
greatest leaders and heroes.

The groups have initiated a
_ citywide petition drive to rename
Crenshaw Boulevard after Minister
E! Hajj Malik El Shabazz/Malcolm
xX.

Ironically, it is noteworthy and
very unfortunate that the oCity of
Angels? remains among the ranks of
big cities with a large black popula-
tion with political clout without a
major street, park, mosque or institu-
tion to honor his famous name.

BETWEEN THE LINES

For the record, Los Angeles was
the scene of many of his nation-build-
ing activities. For example, he estab-
lished L.A. Mosque #27 in 1957 and
he wrote a regular column in the Los
Angeles Herald-Dispatch newspaper,
among others.

However, the movement should

Not stop there. Momentum must con-

tinue to build until May 19, Malcolm
X's birthday, becomes a national
holiday. In spite of his very brief
meteoric career, his very courageous
revolutionary example and activism
have possibly transformed him into
the leader with the most international
impact.

Therefore, please add my name
among the petition signatories.

SHAKIR MUHMMAD

Alexandra, Va.

a thin any other fied Terss

bol ee might has routinely executed. black and
be surprised to learn how much can

brown people, the poor, the men-

tally ill, and those too powerless
"tion and awareness ene 3
world.

and marginalized to deal with a

Notoriously unequal, unfair system:

of criminal justice. Stevenson be-
lieves that it is time to stop execu-
tions in America.

There are currently 3,700 people

on death row in the United States,

and 38 of the 50 states currently
authorizes capital punishment.

Since the death penalty was resur-.

rected in 1976,. there have been
nearly 700 executions, most of
which have been in the South.

Women, juveniles and the mentally

ill are among the hundreds who

have been shot, executed and as-
. phyxiated and injected with lethal

poisons by the state governments in
the United States. Most of these
executions have taken place in the
last 10 years as federal courts have
retreated from the kind of oversight
and review of death cases that ex-
isted in the early 1980s.

In the first year of the new mil-
lennium, the worldTs oleading de-
mocracy? executed close to 100 of
its residents. All of the condemned
were poor; a disproportionately high

Checking
my e-mail
every morn-
ing before I
leave for the office and every
evening before I retire has become
as routine as brushing my teeth. E-
mail is my primary method for com-
municating with ry sonTs teachers.

For some it may. seem a little
otech nouveau? but it works for my
busy life style. His teachers give
me detailed accounts of his class
performance, they keep me up to
date on upcoming tests, confer-
ences, school events and missing
homework assignments. And I do
get the occasional unsolicited ré-
port from one of his teachers that
warrants a personal classroom visit

I am not the only one checking
e-mail at home. My 14-year-old son
also has an e-mail address. His pri-
mary use for it is to exchange secret
video game codes with some of the
kids he has met in sanctioned chat
rooms I allow him to visit.

Nearly 42 percent of all Ameri-
can homes have access to the
Internet. By the end of this year
more than half of all households are
predicted to be part of the otech
noveau? generation. And the ma-
jority of those households are white.
African Americans are increasingly
seeing the value of being connected.
Today 11.2 percent of African
American households have Internet
access.

The digital divide is indéed nar-
rowing. The ocircle the wagons?
approach is moving us toward digi-
tal inclusion, Government, corpo-
rate and private i ET have

are reversed because the convic-
tions or death sentences had been

obtained illegally. The study cited
inadequate defense lawyers, over-
zealous police investigations and
prosecutorial misconduct as the

most common problems. While

prosecutors are quick to assert that
- the study did not prove that inno-

cent people have been executed,
Stevenson asks, oCan such a mis-
take-prone system of sending people
to death really be defended??
Why so many errors in capital
cases? In America, it has alot todo
with money. Our system of justice
treats you much better if you are
rich and guilty than if you are poor

and innocent. It is frequently said

that in the United States, oCapital

punishment means them without the

capital get the punishment.? Many

death-sentenced inmates were rep-

resented at trial by dysfunctional,
incompetent lawyers or well-inten-
tioned lawyers too poorly compen-
sated to provide effective legal as-
sistance. Most of the 185 people
currently on Alabama's death row
were represented by state-appointed
attorneys whose compensation was
limited by state statute to $2000 per
case for the attorneysT out-of-court
time.

AmericaTs unequal system of

VERONICAT Ss VIEW
Digital Inclusion Increases Disillusion

wrapped millions of dollars around
many public libraries, schools and
community centers to establish tech-
nology centers with internet access.
Rural communities have not
been excluded either. Plans are un-
derway to wrap funding around
these isolated areas to deploy high
speed Internet access. Soon my
grandmother in McKenzie, Ala-
bama, a small rural town with a
population of less than 1,000 resi-
dents, will be able to ride on this
newly constructed highway.
Driving on the technology high-
way is exhilarating. Unlimited in-
formation about any topic is avail-
able at the click of a mouse. Yet
driving on the technology highway
is not always a smooth ride. There
are a proliferation of profane and
repulsive sites oout there? lying
dormant in the recesses of the
Internet until they are summoned.
The latest such site which has
commandeered my attention is
CNET. CNET offers its visitors a
downloadable game called Dope
Wars. Yes, you read that correctly.
It is now one of the hottest Internet
accessible games in the world. More
than 1.7 million people have down-
loaded copies of this game so far.
Dope Wars has earned the unsavory
distinction of holding a primary spot
on the top 50 list of downloadable
internet games since 1997. This

week alone, the game was down-

loaded more than 50,000 times.
The objective is implicit in the
title-players getachance to see how
they ofare in this game about buy-
ing and selling illegal substances,?

Last year, Columbia University prisoners
feleased a nationwide study of capi-
_ tal cases which revealed that

- nearly ton tol dara, ais :
~ two-thirds of all death sentences

Association renewed its call, for a

counsel. With noconstitutional right
to counsel, hee on death row

isega. 1
documented eases to date of i inno-
cent people who have been wrongly
sentenced to death for crimes they

- did not commit. Some of these in-

nocent men and women came within
hours of an execution before being

spared. Forevery 8 people executed
in the United States, an innocent

death row priscaer has been identi-
fied.

Bias against the poor is exacer-
bated by bias against racial minori-

ties. Over half of those awaiting

execution in the United States are
racial minorities. In Pennsylvania,
83 percent of people sent to death
row from the largest city, Philadel-
phia, are African American. Strik-
ingly, since resumption of the death
penalty in 1976, 82 percent of those
sentenced to death in American have
been convicted for the murder of a
white person, despite the fact that
about half of all United States mur-
der victims are black. In some south-
ern states like Alabama, Georgia
and Mississippi, two-thirds of those
executed have been black. Some 75
percent of juvenile offenders ex-
ecuted in the United States have

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and they do battle with forces that
threaten to stop them from realiz-
ing a profit. The illegal substances
include ecstasy, heroin, acid and
other illicit narcotics. Players do
armed battle with police, muggers
and loan sharks. And players de-
fend themselves by buying guns,
which they éan use to eliminate any
threats. .

This elaborate game gives play-
ers a choice of transacting their
business in New York, Los Ange-
les, London, Derby, and Sydney.
Players travel among he cityTs six
neighborhoods (specific to the five
different locales), checking out the
various drugs that may be available
and buying the drugs they believe
they will be able to sell at a profit in
another neighborhood. Players must
also respond to fluctuations in the
marketplace such as a drug bust,
which inflates the price of their in-
ventory tremendously.

Sounds a little eerie. It certainly
does, However 92 percent of the
players that reviewed the game were
in ecstasy over it. Dope Wars cre-
ator, 32-year-old New York com-
puter consultant Ian Wal, doesnTt
see anything eerie about it. He cre-
ated the game for kicks, and thought
it would bea obit of a giggle? forhis
colleagues, What's that old saying
about the idle mind?

Well the Drug Enforcement
Agency is not laughing. And they
are not amused at a game that glam-
orizes drug dealers, This is not
harmless entertainment. Drugs have
ravaged our communities, destroyed
countless. families and resulted in

_ Last year, the American Bar

moratorium on all executions in the

~ United States. A moratorium is al-

ready in place in Illinois. African.
American leadership from the Con-
gressional Black Caucus to local
and national groups has been call-
ing for an end to the death penalty
for years.

Brian Stevenson is an attorney
who has represented many con-
demned prisoners. He knows that
many people of color have long
understood how the criminal jus-
tice system has become the institu-
tion that enforces the social and
political values that marginalize and
disempower poor and black people.
oWhen we execute prisoners, we
are really saying that the condemned
personTs life has no meaning, value
or purpose. WeTre saying that they
are beyond hope and redemption.?

The legacy of capital punish-
ment in America is inexorably
linked to the history of lynching,
mistreatment of racial minorities in
the criminal courts, and the abuse
of power by law enforcement offi-
cials directed at disfavored people.
oAmerica must do better and stop
all executions, not just to save those
who have been wrongly convicted,
but to save all of us in whose name
it claims to take a human life.?

the loss of human life. The trag-
edy that shrouds the underpin-
nings of the drug trade is not a
obit of a giggle.? I see no redeem-
ing value in such a game. Where
is the thrill in living the life ofa
drug dealer vicariously though a
video game? Those who find it
thrilling are totally disconnected
from and essentially callous about
the impact of drugs on humanity.

Some have argued that there
are lessons to be learned from
this game like economics and free
enterprise. I say there are count-
less ways to teach these princi-
pals without glorifying illicit ac-.
tivity. I canTt stop wondering
about the subliminal intent of such
a game and who the target audi-,
ence really is, Especially when.
our kids are accessing the Internet,
in increasing numbers.

The technology gap is indeed
narrowing. We have greater ac-,
cess to the Internet and that ac-.
cess will increase as measures are
taken to increase our digital in-
clusion. But with this inclusion
comes some disillusion. The
Internet is littered with profane,
subversive, and offensive infor-
mation. It is not alWays a harm-
less place for our children to visit.
It is critical that we pay attention
to what our children are access-
ing on the Internet at home at
school. These kinds our sites will
only continue to proliferate and it
is unlikely that any regulatory
measures will be taken to protect
us from them. It is therefore our
tesponsibility to protect our chil-

dren for them.

Gang Violence Accord: Will Love and Church Conquer. All?

_ The battle

to stop, or

curtail, gang

: - Violence in
Callocne | i been a revolving
Proposition that society has been
losing for (at least) three genera-
tions now. I say revolving, versus
sep a dy

I've been living, try to reconcile
with the battles and conflicts that
have become as much a part of their
lives as breathing.

The omarking? and otracking?
of so-called ogangs? in South and
East Los Angeles has allowed all
men of color to be identified on site
as osuspect? and odangerous? in the
societal construct, whereby hostile
public policy and social discourse

follows them wherever they owl

Several high profile

ps al Sealing ie,

caught in the first and second gen-
erations of gang warfare, having
done their jail bits, have come out
in time to witness the making. of a
third generation of the osame ole,T
same ole,T only to realize the same
otrick? that worked on them is now
working on their children.
Pi some cases, their grand-chil-
dren. Grandfather ogangstas? is now
Phenomena. What
is that there are

generations trying to figure out the
otrick.? And it is not taking the
younger generations as long as it
took their older ohomies? to figure
out there is more to life than
obanginT.?

Still many have lost their way
and now there is another attempt to

pespers scar acca osets pd

passion oto escape? this gang syn-

Kenneth Ulmer and Football Hall
of Famer, Jim Brown, these men
heard plans to help all these young
men escape the compromise they
have been imprisoned by.

The emotion was high and the

drome was great. Activities are be-

_ ing planned to integratecommunity .
based solution into sow

to 500, solutions that will force
to criminalizin,

the fall of this year; all designed to
day Dar man from the
system that has given him omarks
of the beast,? criminal stripes and
gang affiliations to track + oad for
life. Many approached have been
used to stop gang violence, job,
training, mostly su on (jail).
But now love is being advanced.
Love of brothas ae brothas,
pity rhe apa osy
ver been big on

op mw es

hewwe-:

eee ew es

NE A ee ee ee er nn ww ee

_" Black Man
Black Man, Black Man, .
oWhat's the matter with you?
Why do you oo fhe things you
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You fight your father, you kill
. _your brother.
You sell your sister and steal
from your mother,

Black Man, Black Man,
oWhatTs the matter with you?
Why do you do things you do?
Why do you think making ba-

bies make you a man?

When you wonTt even take
care of the child, I donTt un-
derstand. .
Being a man doesnTt start be-
tween your legs.
Being a man starts in you
head.

Black Man, Black Man,
oWhatTs wrong with you??
Why do you do the things you
do?

You blame the white man
when you donTt succeed.
DonTt you know God has all
you need?
The white man didnTt make .

Cynthia Doctor, President

and Gloria Dickens, Social Action Chairman of the sorori

22nd National President of Delta

Nation's Captial", on January 28-30. There were over

oYou did that out of oot

Man,

-_ hanging down so low?
DonTt you know people are

_. watching you where ever you

1 eee Pes. go. oe
_ Pull those pants up and stand

oUp straight.

- Look like somebody, itTs not
too late,

Cut that hair, maybe shave,

_ Put those guns down and turn

from your wicked ways.
Black man, Black Man, love
your brother,

show more love one to another,

Give your life to Christ and
you'll never be the same.
Dr. King said, oWe shall over-

come some day?
I say, oThe Word of
Only Way.? "

By: Ernestine Lynch .
Tarboro, North Carolina
Given to Mrs. Maye (by the late
Eugene Faison and his wife,
Mrs. Faison)

This poem is a rerun by re-
quest.

To the editor,

is the

Violence has become
entertainment.

The American. Psychological
Association reports that by age
eighteen, the average child will
have seen 16,00 murders and

200,000 acts of violence in the

Sigma Theta Sorority,

Why do you oye nee you
_ Why do you wear your pants

anger, aggression, or violence.

When children are exposed
to believe that violence is accept-

able. some children even believe |
othat violence is the preferre
"to believe, solve problems, and

red way

resolve conflicts. Video.

can influence a child to be violent.

Many of " the ofirst-person-
wih pois Se Wilag. pale
with points for killing people.
Again, children learn that shoot-
ing is acceptable and fun. "

It would be unfair to say that
violence in your childrenTs lives.
Preview or review movies before
your children watch them. If you
are unsure about the content of a
television program, watch it with
your childrens If the program
becomes violent, turn to another
station. .

Know the warning _ signs.
Children who consistently
threaten violence often commit
violence. Threats may be verbal
of nonverbal. Some children
draw pictures of violence.
Children who exhibit sudden
changes in mood or behavior,
such as temper outbursts or in-
creased aggression, may become
violent. If you have a weapon in
your home, lock it up. Teach your
children how important it is to be
a friend, to be good decisions
makers, to manage their own
feelings. Hopefully, these skills
will give children a wider scope
of vision and self-confidence they
need to solve problems without

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suddenly you look up and youTre

a parent to your parents. Over-

_ the years, youTve depended. on
them to share their memory and
diminish their faculties, your
parents may turn to you for care
and = Or, fighting off
this looming role reversal and
not wanting to be a burden, they

may cling desperately to their.

independence as you try to
persuade them to accept your
much-needed help.
Do you put your grandmother in
a nursing home, help your aunt
find a retirement community, ask
your father to move in with you
Gf move back home yourself?
ad on for tips to make you
léved oneTs golden years posi-
tive ones, whether they spend
them in their home, yours or one
of the latest in alternate living
facilities. .

Home, Sweet Home

oMy husband and I suspected
that his 78-year-old mother was
having trouble managing her
daily life-forgetting to pay bills,
taking out loans that were way
ayer her head,? says Maxine, a
46-year-old real estate agent and
mother of two school-age chil-
dren. oBut until we got a letter
ffom a collection agency telling
us that her house was on the

brink--of foreclosure, she kept
insisting that she was handling
everything just fine. When we
shad to take out a home equity
toan and then sell her house to
pay it off, she finally agreed to
omove in with us.? Maxine
realized just how painful this
move was for her once-fiercely
-independent mother-in-law
when she came home from work
one day to find her weeping in
-the dark.
: Traditionally,A frican-A mericans
have been reluctant to place
oaging relatives in nursing homes,
-preferring..instead to care for
them at-home. According to the
NationalT*Caucus and
Black Aged,. Inc., more than
twice as many older African-
Americans live with relatives
other than a spouse than white
Americans do. A random survey
done in 1997 by the National
Alliance for aging parents. And
(Surprise! Surprise!) most care-
givers are women.

Of course, multigenerational
households offer a wealth of
benefits. The old and young can
earn so much from each other
sidebar). Still, tending to the
needs of elders while trying to
othanage the rest of your life can
ate both stressful and exhausting.
at's important to make sure that
saeveryoneTs needs are considered.
:When you contemplated having
@h aging loved one live with
you, omake sure that the older

tson is really OK with the

a, that he or sheTs not feeling
orced into it,? warns Donna
Wagner, professor of gerontol-
Ogy at Towson University in
Maryland. oHave a discussion
with your spouse and children
beforehand so that everyone is
Clear about what this means.
Make a plan so that Mom feels
Welcome and has enjoyable ac-
tivities to engage in.?

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privacy issues,? advises Susanne
Mintz, President and co-founder
of the National Family
Caregivers. Association " in
Bethesda, Md., oand talk about
what MomTs roles is going to be
in the household..? MaxineTs
mother-in-law looks forward to
taking her granddaughter to and
from nursery school every day.
oBe open about finances, too,?
Mintz adds. oDoes Mom have
enough to support herself? Will
you have to.contribute? And, if
so, how much? Does she have
health insurance, investments, a
pension?
oBegin planning for the care of
aging loved ones long before the
need arises, before theyTre ill or
mentally incapacitated.
asking the hard questions now.?

As love ones age, even care
giving that once seemed easy
becomes tough. The good news
is that the field of orespite
breaks-has been broadening in

recent years, says Robert
Greenwood, Director of
Communications at the

American Association of Homes
and Services for the Aging, in
Washington, D.C. Once limited
to adult day centers (where

loved ones with chronic condi- -

tions such as AlzheimerTs are

dropped off each day), respite

care now includes facilities and
services that help caregivers as
well.

When elderly loved ones get so
frail that nursing homes appear
to be the only answer, caretakers
now have a new option. Enter
PACE (Program of All-inclusive
Care for the Elderly). This new,
nationwide, managed-care, adult
day-center system is for people
at least 55 years old who are
eligible for nursing home care
under Medicaid and Medicare.
With on-site clinics complete
with teams of physicians of
physicians, nurses, _ physical
therapists and home health

workers, PACE centers are crop-

ping up across the country.
Stressing preventive and suppor-
tive services, they allow the
aging to remain more vibrant by
staying with family or friends
instead of moving to often-
impersonal nursing homes where
many would deteriorate more
quickly.

Another welcome changt on the
homecare front is the $125-mil-
lion National Family Caregiver
Support Program, approved by
Congress in December 2000.
This means we can look forward
to a greater availability of local
services, such as home health
aides, registered nurses and

homemakersT to help with daily .

responsibilities. oCaré giving
can be very frustrating, very
isolating and very sad,? notes
Mintz, a caregiver herself.

oBut people find an_ inner
strength they never knew they
had, and it can bring families
closer together.?

Homes Away from Home

Living with an aging relative or
friend wonTt work for everyone.
Fortunately, todayTs senior resi-
dences arenTt your fatherTs old-
folks homes. We now have

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107 W. 3rd Street

Greenvile, NC 27858

ph (252) 758-2200

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~ home or on its own-is a good

choice for an older person who

needs some help with activities

of daily living but isnTt incapaci-
tated enough for a nursing home.
Keep in mind, though, that whil
nursing-home care may be cov-
ered under Medicare or
Medicaid, assisted living is not.
Depending on where you live
what services you need, the
cost of assisted living-covered
by some long-term care insur-
ance policies-varies from several
hundred dollars a month to more
than $3000. ;
Greenwood notes that among

the newest trends in senior -

communities are residents with
part-time jobs, residence with
larger units and college affilia-
tions so that seniors can take
advantage of continuing educa-
tion classes and other campus
facilities. Faced with these new
Opportunities for specialized
care for the aging, we can all
truly say that weTre not getting
older, weTre getting better.

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Origins of the name "Easter":

The name "Easter" originated
with the names of an ancient
Goddess and God. The
Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.)
a Christian scholar, first asserted

in his book De _ Ratione
Temporum that Easter was
named after Eostre (aka.

Eastre). She was the Great
Mother Goddess of. the Saxon
people in Northern Europe.
Similar "Teutonic dawn goddess
of fertility [were] known vari-
ously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern,

Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra,..

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Her name was derived from the
ancient word for spring: "eas-
tre." Similar Goddesses were
known by other names in ancient
cultures around the
Mediterranean, and were cele-
brated in the springtime. Some
were:

Aphrodite from Cyprus
Astarte, from Phoenicia
Demeter, from Mycenae
Hathor from Egypt

Ishtar from Assyria

Kali, from India

Ostara, a Norse Goddess of
fertility. .
An alternate explanation has
been suggested. The name given
by the Frankish church to JesusT
resurrection festival included the
Latin word "alba" which means
"white," (This was a reference to
the white robes that were worn
during the festival.) "Alba" also
has a second meaning: "sunrise."
When the name of the festival
was translated into German, the
"sunrise" meaning was selected
in error. This became "ostern" in
German. Ostern has been pro-
posed as the origin of the word
"Easter".

Sunday is named after a Pagan
sun god, Solis.

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