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Parents file suit, search
for answers in son's death '
-Genoa Barrrow Sacramento Observer
SACRAMENTO, ;
Calif. (NNPA) - On May 30,
2002 Anthony Vontoure's
roommates thought he needed
medical assistance and called
for help. Instead of an ambu-
lance. officers with the
Sacramento County Sheriff's
arrived.
What happened next is the
subject of a. wrongful death
Notas filed by renowned civil
rights attorney John Burris on
behalf of Vontoure's family.
Named in the suit are the
County of Sacramento, Sheriff
Lou Blanas. officer T. Wetzel
and officer G. Saunders.
The reason for filing is to find
out what happened," said
Anthony's father, Michael
Vontoure Sr. He was joined, at
the filing at the downtown
United States District Court
building, by his former wife
and Anthony's mother, Emma;
current wife, Mari; and eldest
son, Michael Jr.
"We couldn't and didn't get
any information from any offi-
cials. So we asked Mr. Burris
to look into Titand:see what in- -
formation he could get con-
cerning what actually
happened. We didn't get a
chance to see his body, we
didn't get a chance to see the
police report," Mr. Vontoure
said. The Sacramento .
, Compas Office ruled that the
am ? loy t 's death vee as ) |
by oacute cocaine intoxica-
tion." While the T Vontoure's
concede that a "trace" amount
of cocaine was present in their
son's body at the time of his
death, they maintain that ex-
cessive force through a choke-
hold or some other means by
the sheriff's deputies asphyxi-
ated the young man. The suit
alleges the officers failed to
call for needed medical assis-
tance until after they deter-
mined Anthony. Vontoure was
already deceased.
In order to get answers the
family had an independent
autopsy performed.
_ That allowed us in many
ways to compare what the
coroner said happened with
what we believed happened,"
attorney Burris said. "Having
been involved with this case
from the very outset I was
able to, for myself, obser: * the
body itself. I was somewhat
shocked by the various discol-
oration's that were consistent
with bruising and trauma on
the body," he continued. "Me
lack of information that has
been forthcoming around the
death of Anthony caused tre-
mendous emotional pain and
turmoil" attorney Burris said.
"We're hoping this lawsuit will
assist in their receiving some
satisfaction, understanding and
comfort in knowing what did
happen to Anthony. Of course,
the lawsuit itself cannot bring
Anthony back to us. It's an un-
fortunate, very tragic event for
a young person to lose his, life
at a time when he has so
_ much to live for."
- Mchael Vontoure Sr. says his
son was living with him in
South Sacramento but moved
to the residence where the al-
tercation took place in order to
be closer to the football facili-
ties at California State
_. University at Sacramento.
The younger Vontoure partici-
pated in the Rose Bowl as an
athlete at University of
Washington.
_ "My son was friendly. He
was outgoing, always rooting
for the underdog. He was very
patient and very kind. He was
always willing to share his tal-
ent arid his ability to help
bring others along," said
Emma Vontoure, who lives in
Concord.
Anthony, who also wanted to
be a teacher, was the, second
son divorved Vontoures lost. A
middle son, Chris, died in a
1993 rafting accident.
"There's no timetable on grief.
We didn't know it but God
was preparing us for a second
go-round at this Emma |
Vontoure said.
The Vontoures are seeking $55
~ million in damages.
"It is our hope and desire that
as this lawsuit proceeds we
will be in the position to un-
cover the true facts that hap-
pened," attorney Burris said
The attorney recently repre-
sented family members of
Donald Venerable, a Black
man fatally shot by Sacra-
mento Police officers respond-
ing to a domestic violence call.
Officers said they believed
Venerable was holding a gun
when he was actually holding
a cell phone.
Sacramento County Sheriff's
Department spokesman Sgt.
Lou Fatur said he could not
comment on the case because
of the pending lawsuit.
The Associated Press reported
in 2002 that Sheriff's spokes-
man
James Lewis said Vontoure
died at Kaiser Permanente
Medical Center.
At no point did officers ever
strike him, nor did they use
any control holds," Sgt. Lewis
said at the time, He added that...
Mr. Vontoure was on the
three civilians as he yelled
that men in "green rng
were coming, to get hi
Lewis told AP that two depu-
ties responded to a 911 call. at
an apartment around 4a.m:
The caller he said, was hold-
ing down a friend who was
"bipolar and being violent."
At the press conference both
Emma and Michael Vontoure
denied their son suffered from
the disorder .
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Sycamore Hill Missionary Baptist Church - May 4th thru 7th, 2003
On Sunday May 4th, 200,3 the Members of the General Baptist State Convention of North
Carolina started gathering in large numbers,
the Mid Year Session
Sit Down And Shut Up."
at Sycamore Hill Missionary Ba
! pm. Dr. Howard Parker, Jr. is the Pastor. Dr Will
Certificate Program Class in Christian Disci
Dr. A. Lincoln James, Pastor of the Trioni
tist Church., in Greenville, for
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pleship. The largely attended class filled one side of the Sanctuary.
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photo by Jim Rouse
State Senat Passes .
Death Penalty Moratorium
_ BY CASH MICHAELS
OF THE WILMINGTON
JOURNAL
Advocates for a moratorium on
the death penalty in North
Carolina call it an unprece-
dented and historic vote," and
certainly'the most signifiéant
development in the state's anti-
death penalty efforts to prove
_ that North Carolina's capital
punishment system is biased
against low-income and com-
munities of color.
On Wednesday in 4 29-21
vote, the state Senate approved
a two- year. moratorium on
capital Bunishment. If adopted
by the General Assembly, the
moratorium would last until
June 2005, during which time
lawmakers would study alleged
inequities in North Carolina's
death penalty system.
The measure must now pass a
major hurdle in the evenly split
state House. |
This was the first time in his-
tory either chamber of the
General Assembly had ever
considered a death penalty
moratorium bill.
"Today, thanks to the
steadfastness and faith of
ordinary North Carolinians, NC
Senators who had in the past
refused even to rneet with their
own constituents about the idea
of a moratorium on executions
rose and gave passionate
speeches urging their colleagues
to support a moratorium,"
Stephen Dear, executive direc-
tor of People of Faith Against
the Death Penalty T (PFADP), a
nonprofit, statewide interfaith
anti-death penalty group, said.
i
For Dear and other advocates, |
this was the week they'd always
dreamed of.
On Tuesday, the NC Senate
Judiciary 1 Committee voted to
recommend passage of a two-
year moratorium on state-
sponsored executions to the full
"This is really an historic mo-
ment, and it's really a moment
that will improve our justice
system in North Carolina,"
Dear said then.
Advocates say as long as there
are pana of racial, geo-
raphical and socioeconomic
ias, and legal impropriety sur-
rounding ca-pital punishment
in North Carolina, lawmakers
should grant the two years to
study the system, and fix the
inequities.
In order for the bill to beat the
crossover deadline so that the
state House can consider it, the
Senate had to pass the legisla-
tion this week, or the issue
would have been. dead for an-
other two years.
Advocates now plan to lobby
House members hard when ac-
tivists from across,the state con-
verge on the General Assembly
May 6.
According to PFADP, more
than 750 North Carolina
church congregations, busi-
nesses, and community groups;
and 21 local governments,
have passed resolutions calling
for a moratorium on executions.
ponents, including Gov.'
Mike Easley, say a death pen-
alty moratorium is not needed
because any allegations of bias
are usually taken up during the
long appeals process, They say
the state's criminal justice sys-
tem works fine, and those who
commit murder should face due
punishment.
They accuse moratorium pro-
ponents of trying to ul-
timately bend. executions.
But in just the past few mon-
ths judges have ordered new
trials in two death penalty
cases, Citing a failure by the
prosecution in turning over
exculpatory evidence to the de-
fense.
In one of those cases, Superior
Court Judge Michael,Beale of
Wadesboro recently ordered.a
new trial for death row inmate
Jerry Lee Hamilton, who was
convicted of a 1994 Rocking-
ham murder in Richmond
County. The state withheld
exculpatory evidence at ,
Hamilton's trial. DNA samples ~
from the crime match
Hamilton's codefendant and do
not match Hamilton. Hamilton's
codefendant initially confessed
to the crime then recanted, and
was the key witness against
Hamilton at trial. there was no
evidence linking Hamilton to
the crime other than the code-
fendant's testimony.
PFADP's Stephen Dear says
there have been several con-
victed murderers in North
Carolina who have been ulti-
mately proven innocent after a
corruption of the system was
discovered,
"Look into their cases and you
will find prosecutorial
misconduct, inadequate defense
counsel, false testimonies-a
slew of horror stories that
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SB "What You Sees What You Get William Clark General Mgr.
_ A Black woman in the South, for example, had no right
after the Civil War. A white employer had made Lena
Baker, a descendant of enslaved Africans, his sex slave.
After he threatened to kill her with a pistol, they tussled
and it fell to the floor. He reached to pick up a piece of iron.
She picked up the pistol and fired it. He felldead. =
"You guessed it; An all white male jury convicted Baker
and sentenced her to die in the electric chair. In March
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tion, they live in you. My mother lives in me. During child-
hood, a mother makes many of your decisions for you while
Not only was she able to. navigate the present but she
invaluable. Of course, motherhood is beyond a biological
ately to pacify Blacks and to put public funds in the hands
Paula Penn-Nabrit is 4 mother of three sons and an
mental kee kes the Ivy
agua. ? She not only advocates home-echooling but insi
ed that Black males be used to supplement the home-
schooling of her sons. She and her husband were the pri-
rule rather than the exception. = -| whims of a white man, Lena Baker became the first | was admitted to Amherst, After initially allowing her sons
I was born in Inkster, Michigan, in July 1945. My par- | womari to be electrocuted in Georgia's electric chair, A | to matriculate at publie and private schools, she reasoned
that traditional school systems were damaging to her sons T
ents had the Cotton Curtain and a Jim Crow state nal school sys ado| onors Georgia's
escaped self-esteem. They also had to confront racism while mas- Perdue told reporters. oIt is also a
Black woman had to submit to a white man Ts sexual
has to do with educating our children.
The vast majority of children in the public school sys-
tem are Black and Hispanic. The majority of teachers in
the system, white. The majority of the school aides or
teacher assistants are Black and Hispanic. Many of them
are just being notified that their low-paying jobs are being
cut, or that they're being dismissed.
Teachers in the New York school system aren't the
worst-paid teachers in America, but they aren't the best
paid, either. Teachers in the near suburbs of Westchester,
Nassau and Suffolk counties are paid in many instances
decidedly more. These suburbs devote their money, time
and attention to the education of their children, who are
primarily whites, who live there for a number of reasons.
The most important of these reasons for them is that they
simply do not wish to be around Black and Hispanic peo-
ple. Given this, New York City Ts best and brightest teach-
ers, with the exception of Blacks and Hispanics, gravitate
to the suburbs to live, and even when they do not, they try
desperately to get jobs in suburban school systems, where
they have partners working to help them.teach their chil-
dren. These teachers cry out that they are overworked and
underpaid, especially when they have failed in their
attempt to move to the suburbs or get a job teaching there.
Having been rejected by the suburbs for whatever reason
~ lack of jobs, or inability to qualify for the jobs " a slew of
resentful and angry teachers find their way into our school
cgetaenetin ney mp estat edly 0 wig that coves vary lt
about the performance of these teachers and everything
about how many dimes, or dollars, can be added to their pay-
check, and how many minutes of every day they will be
allowed to do something other than teach our children,
\
stop any new idea and new approach to teaching a group
of youngsters who have not been taught by the teachers in
our system in too many years to count. In other words, our
children are becoming functional illiterates with high
school diplomas, in many instances, who have not yet
learned to read or write. And they have certainly not been
able to compete effectively with incoming people from sub-
urbs who have been better trained and better taught, and
who learned at an early age how to navigate the MTA sys-
who stand to win, gain or lose most from the $12 billion
school budget?
We know that Ms. Weingarten has made her peace
with following the money. We do not yet know whether the
mayor or the chancellor will opt for the same for personal
comfort, or for popularity with the unions. It certainly
would not be for the money, for it is apparent that the
chancellor and the mayor are well-fixed financially, We
cannot speak for the wealth, or lack thereof, of Ms. Wein-
tem in order to get to Wall Street and Midtown Manhat- | garten
tan, where most of the jobs ~ especially the well-paying
positions " are held by people who ride the rails from
Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk and New Jersey.
New York children ought to be able to compete effec-
tively for these jobs. But they are not, due usually to the
fact that teachers are not properly trained and the union
leadership could give less than a damn whether the
teachers teach our children. Thus, an attitude of failure
at both ends of thé spectrum. Randi Weingarten is a
product of this corrupt system, and it will remain that
way until the teachers union is no longer a political jug-
gernaut. .
This is not at all to anoint Mayor Bloomberg for the job
he has done with the school system. Certainly, it must be
said, that he has done a better job than what was ever
done by the Giuliani administration. As a matter of fact,
every once in a while we get the idea that the mayor real-
ly cares about what happens in the school system. His
appointment of Deputy Mayor for Education Dennis Wal-
cott and Chancellor Joel Klein gave us reason to believe -
at first blush " that the mayor could actually care about
what happens to our children. Certainly he ought to as a
The fight that is now well underway will hurt a great
many people. Most of these will be our children. If we
decide that the mayor and his chancellor are the guilty
parties, then we have to organize the city in such a way as
to rid ourselves of those by defeating Mayor Bloomberg in
his next election. For Ms. Weingarten, it is a more compli-
cated matter. Union members must decide her fate. Given
her success at getting money for them, her defeat by elec-
tion of the union sounds like a long shot. There has to be
another way to do it. It must be found. .
Given the dilemma in which the majority of the resi-
dents of New York City find themselves when it comes to
educating our children, it seems to us that we are in a
quandary, between a rock and hard place. One thing that
we can vaguely believe is that the mayor and the chancel-
lor want to do the right and decent thing when it comes to
educating our children. Not so for the teachers union, if we
are to be guided by the way the leadership of the union is
acting at this time. That is a pity, because over the years we
have come to think of the teachers union as one of the more
enlightened and caring organizations in labor. The last few
years have made that belief an impossible dream.
is Swahili for olight of Kenya")
are still legal tender and- were
ms held in the Kenyan Central
Until last week. all Kenyan bank
notes bore the face of Daniel arap
Moi, who became president in 1978
when Kenyatta died and who stayed
in power until last year when
President Moi Kibaki was elected.
One of Kibaki Ts election pledges
was that he wouldn't print new
bank notes bearing his own
portrait. This is in line with Kibaki Ts
other measures against T the
corruption and extravagance that
marked much of arap Moi Ts rule.
The Kenyatta notes will
circulate along side the arap Moi
notes while
parliament. oversees
the design of new notes, which
one MP suggested should feature
national heroes, and traditional
cultural images that reflect the
nation Ts history.
~ Georgia. In 1945, you only left Georgia on a one-way tick- | whims. . é o had to con cis told repor :
et. A round-trip ticket was out of the question. Gov. Eugene | __ My mother conceded that the risk of physical harm was tering academic subjects. This is double jeopardy. Most jflag that will allow us to move
Talmadge ran Georgia like Adolph Hitler ran Nazi Ger- greater in Georgia, but the risk of psychological damage | Black children have to face it. | " forward together. ? .
many. They harbored the kame views on race. Hitler had | was greater in Michigan. She concluded that I would be | - Some people may have been inclined to summarily dis- _ The new flag was recently
| better off'in Coweta County, Georgia, than in Wayne Coun- | miss her views, except that her husband's uncle was James raised over the State Capitol for
| : ty, Michigan. Since I was a child and presumed incompe-¢ Nabrit, who, with Thurgood Marshall and George E.C. _| the first time shortly after Purdue
aE tent, I had no say in the matter, and my mother was able to '| Hayes, was a lead attorney for the NAACP in the Brown v. signed the bill. The new design
THE BLACK outvote my father. oo Board of Education case, which overturned the oseparate | bears a close resemblance to the
. As an educator, she knew a thing or two about psycho- | but equal ? doctrine in Pleasy v. Ferguson. . Confederate design but without
PRESS logical harm suffered in a classroom. Her decision to leave | She apparently agrees with the conclusion in this his- the infamous Dixie cross of stars.
715 Michigan was not only contrary to popular opinion, but it toric case but disagrees with its rationale " that segregat- | The words oIn God.We Trust ? are
HeEITO was also visionary: The NAACP, on the other hand, would | ed schools with mostly Black teachers imposed badges of inscribed on a blue field in the top
| USE IT OR _ | argué that segregated schools imposed a badge of inferior- | inferiority on Black children. For the past 49 years, this left corner,
» tices am ity on children of African ancestry. rationale, which confirms white supremacy, has wreaked oThis is a historic day in Georgia
| L e. E IT! HH | The Supreme Court embraced this view in Brown v. | havoc on the Black community. and I didn't want my daughter to
" " Board of Education, decided on May 17, 1954, which | Although Mayor Michael Bloomberg is embarking on a miss out on it, ? said Lateshia
| oe prompted Georgia, in 1956, to openly pledge its allegiance | circumlocutofy path in education, he is also seeking to Jackson, an African-American
| oe to the Confederate States of America by adopting a new | inflict more psychological damage on Black children by who brought her six-year-old
Malcolm X, Haiti and a man named John Brown holdous can carry all the sgn
By WILLIAMLOREN {for treason. Though Brown is | slaves so they could begin their | insane figure who brought onthe| | oYou may dispose of me very good day for me, my daughter and
By - KATZ still denounced ae a madman | liberation. Civil War. A Hollywood movie | easily ... but this question is still some lost sanity in Georgia. ?
In his new book, oFire From | and traitor in U.S. textbooks, he | | When Brown Ts plan failed and | portrays Brown as a deranged | to be settled " this Negro ques- A flag raised in 2001, hailed for
the Midst of You ? (NYU Press, remains a hero to the Malcolm | he was captured, African-Ameri- | religious fanatic and features | tion, I mean; the end of it is not its political brilliance when it
2002), Louis. A. DeCaro Jr, | X Ts and Toussaint LOuvertures | cans sent letters of support to} Ronald Reagan as Lt. George | yet, ? he said. replaced a divisive banner dom inated
author of two books on Malcolm | of the world. . Brown in his cell, and others | Custer, who helps capture the) _ Brown died on the gallows in _| by the Confederate battle cross,
X, makes clear why Malcolm | Haitians have good reason to | mounted his picture on their | madman. December 1859. Within two received a swift backlash. The
once responded to a famous | celebrate Brown. DeCaro | walls. | oFire From the Midst of You ? | years Union soldiers marched 2001 flag was a compromise that
question with a no-less-famous | reveals that Brown ohad read all | Brown Ts willingness to act on | has rescued Brown from his| into battle against the Confeder- shrank the Confederate emblem
two-word answer. Asked if he | the literature he could find | his religious ing that | scholarly detractors and com-| acy singing of John Brown, oHis and incorporated it in an
would admit any white man to | about LOuverture for a dozen | slavery was a violence that had | pares his religious passion to] truth goes marching on. ? John assortment of previous state flags
his new organization, Malcolm | years ? and spent the last days | to be met with violence made | that- of Malcolm X, who also Brown's dream was fulfilled dur- oIn no way am.I sad that flag is
shot back, oJohn Brown. ? | before his execution reading a | him a pariah to white Americans | believed that peace without jus-| ing the war's later years, when being retired, ? said Rep. Tyrone
DeCaro also explains why | biography of the liberator. | North and South, and still does. | tice was hollow. . more than 200,000 former slaves "_| Brooks (D), who led the charge to
Haiti, home to'the only success- | Brown saw slavery the way | A recentaohn Brown documen-| DeCaro Ts thoroughly | joined the Union Army and Navy adopt it two years ago. oIt Ts not
ful slave rebellion in human his- | LOuverture did, and he also | tary on public television begins | researched, powerfully written | to fight their former masters. exactly, you know, anybody Ts
tory and the first democratic | rose against it with a righteous | with Brown being taken to his | page-turner tells how Brown] Black troops liberated their fam- dream flag. ? . .
revolution to eliminate bondage | wrath and an army. With a band | execution and ends with Brown | used the 40 days before his exe- | ilies as they captured Charleston Georgia: voters will still get a
in the world, has a John Brown | of 22 men that included his own | being taken to his execution. The | cution to hammer home his anti-| and other leading Confederate chance to choose between the flags
Boulevard. sons, white volunteers and five | documentary Ts writers seem to | slavery message. He refused to| cities, and also saved the Union. next year in a statewide
John Brown was not Haitian, | African-Americans, Brown | be saying: This is the penalty for | accept the prayers of pro-slavery| William Loren Katz is the referendum. Few expect the 2001
not Muslim T nor of African | attacked the federal arsenal at | whites who dare to emulate this | ministers and prophetically| author of oBlack Indians ?and 40 | flag to'return.
descent. He was a white Ameri- | Harper's Ferry, Virginia, with | man. On-screen white scholars | warned his fellow citizens that | other books. His Web site is oT've never seen anybody flying
can executed in 1859 by Virginia | the idea of handing its arms to } speak of Brown as a violent, | slavery would lead to bloodshed. | www.williamlkatz.com. it, you never seen it on a boat, you
: " a never seen it at a football game,
. achievement and, if capable, | enrolled at Chad, white men ant embraced every tool possible to | Bloomberg's racism in firing nobody flies this thing, ? Rep.
BPEGPVV ER... | should be the chila Ts first academ- | reali; estate: «specu | keep people of African ancestry | Blacks and Latinos. | Larry Walker toldreporters,
oo Niteacher. = Poverty seivéd control. ofthe out of the educational loop. | Glenda T Brawley, Tawana = |" oii aha! weed engl Utes
(Continued from Page12) | There must be a loving rela: | board of directors and at least We must stay focused. We | Brawley Ts mother, is always Study finds startling T
evicting Black and Latino para- | tionship between teacher and stu- | two valuable tracts of land. | must be unwilling to suffer any | remembered in my home on increase in Black ¢ in
professionals from the school sys- | dent, and the teacher must under- | Whites similarly control 95 per- | further educational casualties Mother's Day. She has all the jail girls
tem. Public schools in historically | stand and appreciate the child Ts | cent of all policy-making posi- | like Bishop College in Dallas and, | attributes of a Harriet Tubman .
oppressed communities are no | culture. The public school system | tions in public education. This is | possibly, Morris Brown College in | and a Fannie Lou Hamer. The (NNPA) oAmerican girts
more than holding pens like dur- | in New York City flunks on both | unacceptable. Atlanta. Right off the plantation, morhentum must be sustained to makeup 2 ee veal ae
slavery. . counts. Malcolm X, born on May Black parents and Black | our ancestors made unbelievable | vacate criminal charges against nation Ts juvenil J fend .
The most gifted children in | 19, 1925, was an outstanding | school personnel are engaged in a | strides to build Black schools and | her and to allow for her return to according to the National = all
New York are only entitled to | advocate for Black people, but a | fight to the finish to save this | colleges in this country. With a | New York. Her daughter was kid- on Crime and Delinque unc
receive an eighth-grade education | white teacher told him in the | school from vampires who are | trillion-dollar economy in the | napped and raped by white law- A in quency. hs
and are expected to flunk all stan- | eighth grade that he lacked the | acting as though they are in a | Black community, we have obliga- enforcement officials, and New jest pris Africans nee e
dardized achievement tests in | ability to become an attorney. No | blood bank. These white men | tion to sustain this legacy. York sided with the kidnappers girls owith oAmerican
high school. This ploy is openly | Black child should be subject toa | have strangled Black teachers | As we recognize and, in many | and the rapists. . rose " raced artenses
designed to enhance the inmate | racist teacher. financially; nonetheless, most of | cases, celebrate Brown v. Board of | The New York Times set out to comr perce ith m 0 1994,
population. Bloomberg has as This is why we must support | these loyal teachers have | Education, let us not forget the destroy Tawana and her family, as, aR girls a 38 percent
much business in a school system | schools like the Chad School in | remained at the school through | question posed by the Hon. Elijah | it sought to destroy Wen Ho Lee. increase overall. Juvenile
as a fox has in a hen house. Newark and Sankofa Academy in | the most difficult times. This is | Muhammad: oIf the white man Now it is scapegoating Jayson me grvency rer involving young
When I was a child, home- | Brooklyn. My grandchildren | Black love. will not treat you right, why do | Blair for journalistic fraud. The aes , reased by 106
schooling was illegal. Yet, I am a | attend the Chad School, which Blacks gave the world educa- | you think he will teach you New York Times, with roots in the be Dis Det coy 988 and 1997,
product of home-schooling - | was founded by Blacks after the | tion, and it is plausible that edu- | right? ? Let us also not forget the Confederacy, is in itself a journal- Africe ee onately, young
somewhat. My mother taught me | urban rebellion, more than 40 | cation has been our number one | words of Alma John, oEach one, | istic fraud. Blair, a descendant of in-American and . Latino
at home, but she also was one of | years ago, in Newark. It has | priority ever since we have been | teach one. ? It is of considerable | enslaved Africans, should not women 80 to school in
my first public school teachers. | achieved an excellent academic | enslaved in North America. | interest to me and, possibly, an | have to shoulder all of the weight | COmmunities where violence is
Parents have the greatest inter- | record. Throughout the past 400 years, | irony hat the United Federation | for the paper's congenital and - Nich aang Heather Johnston-
est in a child Ts educational Just before my grandchildren white supremacists have !of Teachers has exposed | perennial ethical lapses. Girls sa Fee wont on
. you're learning violence as a way
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By WILBERT A. TATUM We would love to believe that Randi Weingarten and | businessman in New York looking for New Yorkers to pro- Ok the be any ini
| Publisher Emeritus and Chairman of the Board her union truly care about what is happening to our chil- | vide the intellectual base for his businesses. We do believe bank notes bearing the face of the
Mayor Bloomberg and UFT boss Randi Weingarten are | dren, but every time there comes a point at which she | that he cares. But do-we believe that he cares strongly country Ts founding president
feuding again. This time the feud is over money - what | could'stand up for the integrity of teachers and better- enough in educating our children that he will take on a Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, T
else? It is over money for her teachers and little else that ment of the system, she opts for doing whatever she can to | political fight with the powers that be in education, those The Kenyatta notes (Kenyatta
Faith May
GOD, SATAN AND
WAR
War is not new, nor is it pecu-
liar to Planet Earth. War began
. long before earth was created,
and it began right in heaven,
right in God's own house! The
most magnificent being God
has ever created, Lucifer the
Lightbearer, who hovered over
the throne of God and orches-
trated the heavenly choir, be-
came puffed up with pride. He
decided that he was doing all
the work---not God---and there-
of O. New Gen
the word and sent Satan into
eternal obliviion? Certainly, He
could have---God can do any-
thing! So why didn't He? Is
there something about war that
is more than we can see on the
surface?
When we look back at the fail
of Satan, it is obvious that the
first war in the universe came
about as the direct result of sin.
Lucifer's pride grew into ava-
rice. Avarice formented rebel-
lion. Rebellion disrupted the
wonderful harmony of heaven.
Beings created to be eternal,
who had felowshipped together
for eons of time in love and
praise of God, suddenly clashed
in battle. Hatred ed the
hearts of the fallen angels, who
has been deceived into follow-
ing Satan. .
As the war in heaven found its
way to earth, mankind was con-
scripted by Satan to fight on his
side in the rebellion against
God. In the moment that man
fell at the Garden of Eden, the
utopian peace that had marked
life in paradise was broken, and
sin entered the world. That
world is precarious at best. God
allows war to drive men to
their knees and acknowledge
Him as Lord and Savior.
God is not the author of war.
That comes from Satan. But
God Himself has set the exam-
le for us, by resisting evil and
ghting back against the en-
emy. When Lucifer launched
his campaign to take over
Heaven, God did not sit batk
- and allow time to "give peace a T
chance." He knew that the devil
would never abandon his quest
for power and adoration.
God even knew that Satan's re-
bellion would spread to planet
earth. He knew the terrible
heartache it would cause: the
blood that would be shed, the
souls that would eventually end
up in hell. Yet, He marshaled
the angels of heaven anyway,
; peace will never be returned to and commanded them to do
fore he deserved the praise of making, until Jesus returns in battle, driving Satan and the
the heavenly host. So he set out power and glory at the end of deceived fallen angels out of
to tear God from His throne. In the tribulation, Heaven. Satan started it, but in
cong, Lucifer Decame Satan, War produces many terrible the end God will be the finisher
?,? great adversary of God. ings. inely. it al f war.
Could God simply have spoken things. But amazingly, it also of war.
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Brian Burnett
Stay In Control 2003
Once we graduate, we will step
into a new department of
growth and-developm
will leam how to live on our
own without our parents. Some
of our parents do not think that
we are ready yet, so we must .
prove just how ready we are.
We will develop into the next
generation of success. We are
the class of completion.
Upon the many tasks that our
Class have gone through, we "
have completed and passed
them all. Do not think that we
need to stop working hard be-
cause our school days are com-
ing to an end. We still need to
get our "completion of grade
certificate" called the diploma.
After we graduate we will be on
the next level of life; college
life. We must keep a leveled
head at all times and we must
prove our independence is
worth taking a risk upon by our
parents. You know that the col-
lege life can be wild and crazy,
so we must stay in control of
our life and actions. We are re-
sponsible for our actions and
no, one else. Though it will be
"freedom" stay within the lines
of correction. Keep your parents
morals in your life. Don't take
control over nobody's life but
your own. You are not God and
you can not make anyone do
something, they do not want to
do. I'm sayin that we need to
stay in contfol, not take control.
We don't want to get a reputa-
tion of disaster. College life will
be wonderful and I know we |
can get through anything that
the world will throw at us, even
if we need help... Parents. To
the class of 2003, strive for suc-
cess and nothing but the best
will be in our lives.
Why I Have Certain
Goals
Sometimes people come up to
te,and ask me why | have cer- |
tain goals. All I can tell them is
" that its in my blood..I want to
do so many things that it seems
impossible, but I know I can do
them. I want to be so many
things for different, yet under-
standing, reasons. One goal of
mine is to become a lawyer.
What inspired me was the fact
that it was the only law job that
I saw that could help people
and debate about things at the
same time. That and the fact
that my mother has gone
through things that could have
taken legal action, but didn't
because her parents weren't fa-
miliar with the way the legal
system worked. I also want to
become a professional singer
and actor. I want to become a
famous actor and singer because
I want to have enough money to
help people that are in need. |
even have planned to help peo-
ple who are in need with a job
0 help them pet started on
their way. I like helping le,
and when I saw on television
how some countries live be-
cause of lack of governmental
$s
funds, it bothered me. I said to
myself that if I had lots of
money I could help that country
out, while entertaining them at
the same time. People ask me,
"Well how are you going to
an actor. and a lawyer at the
same time?" |.'tell them well if
I was an actor and lawyer, I
could defend the other actors
who get in law suits because
they will know me from either
acting with them or hearin
about me in the acting fiel
somewhere down the road.
Some people have double ma-
jors, some even triple, and I fig-
ure that if they can do that I
can be more than just an actor
or just a lawyer. My grand-
- mother has inspired.me to con, -. ih
tinue with the plans I haye for
my life by telling me to.keep on .
doing what I'm doing no matter
what people say, I have this
idea of a program that can keep
teenagers off the streets and
from getting into trouble, drugs,
and from getting kicked out or
drop out of school. I developed
this idea when I took a dual en-
rollment class at one of the lo-
cal community colleges in my
area and took a course with a
group of officers and future law
enforcement workers. | also de-
veloped this idea while studying -
some people from my school,
including myself, and break
their lives into segments to see
why they do the things they do.
I put all the information to-
gether and shared it with my
' professor and she thought it
was a wonderful idea. In the fu-
ture I am planning on fulfilling
this idea and spreading it across
America. However, most of my
inspirations comes from Jesus
Christ, because without him, I
would not have a future goal to
tell or to fulfill.
w University Alumni welcomes new president... Dr. Clarence G,. Newsome, Shaw
Universiey' 13th president came to Greenville to meet alumni from across fastern North
Carolina. Dr. Newsome, was appointed president in Febuary 2003, is shown'ab ove, center,
with RockyMount/Wilson CAPE Director Dr. Marcellina Offoha, left, and Pitt County
Alumni Chapter president, Jeff Savage. A group photo below shows several of the alumni
with president Newsome. Among those in attendendance include Greenville City
Councilwoman, Mildred A. Council, Mrs. Pauline Anderson, Dr. Clarence Gray, Ms. Addie
Everette, 2003 Graduates Thelma Brown and Linda Purvis, Adjunct Professor Henry
Mercer, Shaw senior Pearlena Chapman and many many others. Also shown seated in
i | ho has scholarships in his name given to students each
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Salute To Pastor C.B.Gray US, Cy tures Traqi's Dr. Germ
of Triumph Miss. Bap t. Ch. a ae a, Coalition |
By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer
. WASHINGTON - Coalition forces have taken custody of the Iraqi scientist known as "Dr. Germ" for her
. a . work in making biological weapons, according to Pentagon officials, who said they also had field reports
that the head of Saddam Hussein's military has been captured. Officials were hoping the latest Iraqis cap- .
tured might provide information about Saddam's regime and its unconventional weapons programs, though
former Iraqi leaders previously taken into custody have largely continued to deny the country had such
-weapons.
The scientist, Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha, had been negotiating her surrender for days and turned herself in over
_ the weekend, said Maj. Brad Lowell of the U.S. Central Comm-and. U.N. weapons inspectors nicknamed
Taha "Dr. Germ" because she ran the Iraqi biological weapons Yacility where scientists worked with anthrax,
botulinum toxin and aflatoxin. A microbiologist, Taha holds a doctorate from the University of East Anglia
in Britain.
Also reported captured was Armed Forces Chief of Staff Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al Sattar Muhammad al
Tikriti, Pentagon officials said, citing initial reports from the region. He is No.1! on a list issued last
month of the 55 most wanted former members of Sadd-am's regime and the jack of spades in a card deck is-
sued to troops looking for regime leaders.
No details of his capture were available. Taha is not on the list of the 55, but among 200 Iraqis that Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has said are sought but who have not all been named publicly. Taha once
said in a radio interview that Iraq was justified in producing germ weapons for its self-defense.
American forces have been trying to capture her and last month raided her Baghdad home, carrying away
boxes of documents but not finding her or her husband.
Taha is married to Amer Rashid, who held top posts in Saddam's missile programs and was oil minister be-
fore the war. Rashid surrendered to U.S. forces April 28, 12 days after that Baghdad raid. The couple was
married in 1994 and has a young daughter, Rashid was the six of spades in the deck of cards. Current and
former inspectors who interviewed Taha in the mid-1990s described her as difficult and dour. The Iraqis
presented her as the head of the biological program, but inspectors suspect she may have been fronting for
someone more senior. She met with U.N. teams before the war on technical issues.
Officials have captured a number of former officials who they had hoped would give information on the un-
conventional weapons programs the Bush administration has said the regime had-: .
Last week they reported the capture of Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, among the 55 most wanted and a
woman officials believe played a key role in rebuilding Baghdad's biological weapons capability in the
1990s. Nearly two dozen of the top 55 also are in custody, officials have said. Chief U.N. weapons inspector
Hans Blix said last month that Taha and her husband, Rashid, would be among "the most interesting per-
sons" for the Americans to question. Blix's teams pulled out of Iraq shortly before the war began after 3 1/2
months work. a
The Bush administration, whieh bitterly disagreed with Blix over whether Iraq has chemical, biological or
nuclear weapons, has not invited U.N. inspectors to take part in a continuing U.S.-led hunt for weapons.
The U.N. Security Council's cease-fire resolution after the first Gulf War which evicted Saddam forces that
had invaded Kuwait " included stringent demands for the destruction of Iraq's chemical, biological and nu-
clear weapons and payment of war damages to Kuwait.
The main reason the administration cited for going to war was to disarm Saddam of unconventional weap-
ons, which the regime denied having.
In an interview broadcast in February, Taha said Iraq was justified in producing germ weapons in the 1980s
and 1990s to defend itself. She told the British Broadcasting Corp., she was involved in producing Iraq's fi-
nal weapons declaration to the United Nations. She said Saddam's regime was telling the truth when it said
_ it no longer had any chemical or biological weapons. ; .
_ Taha told the BBC her country never planned to use the biological agents it produced in the 1980s and early
1990s.
"We never wanted to cause harm or damage to anybody," she said. "Iraq has been threatened by different
enemies and we are in an area that suffers from regional conflict. I think it is our right to have something to
defend ourselves and to have something as a deterrent."
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MEMORIAL DAY REUNION WEEKEND
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CELEBRATING
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23rd thrvugh 25, 2003.
We have reached several milestones. Pleswe come and help us CELEBRATE!!!
Jimmnye 1. Jones, National President
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Dena Pass Death Penalty cot, fom age 1
North Carolina can no longer ignore," Dear says.
Two weeks ago, $590,000 that had been cut from the stated House's budget for the Center for Death
Penalty Litigation was restored by Democratic Speaker of the House Jim Black and Republican Speaker |
Richard Morgan. That funding was crucial in al owing the cen- ter to train and assist private lawyers 1
and public defenders representing poor people facing the death penalty. |
About 35 moratorium advocates attended the Senate Judiciary Committee | session Tuesday in an effort
to support their cause. Sen. Ellie Kennard, a Chapel 911 Democrat and sponsor of the measure, led those I}
speaking in favor, along with Duke Law Professor and American Bar Association Moratorium Project
Director : "
This policy was adopted by the
Board of Education on
May 5, 2003.
There have been 20 executions in North )
Carolina since 1991 when the death penalty §
was re- instated. The last execution was
last December of convicted murderer
Desmond Carter,
No doubt events leading up to what hap-
pens in the state Senate today will be ad-
dressed when moratorium advocates gather
in the port city tonight.
oDeath Penalty Issues in NC," a lecture by
Ari Kohen Amnesty International USA's
Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator for
North Carolina; a member of the board of
directors of the Journey of Hope... from
Violence to Healing; an adjunct professor at
Wake Forest University; and, a political sci-
ence Ph.D. candidate at Duke University -
is scheduled for tonight, May 1, at.7 p.m.
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