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By HERB BOYD
Special to the AmNews

After he touched the. casket
and mounted the platform to
the pulpit last week during
Alberta Spruill's funeral at
Convent Avenue Baptist
Church, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg began his remarks
by recalling how she played
multiple roles in the lives of so
many. He then took the blame
for her death.

Spruill's death, according to
the medical examiner's report
released on Tuesday, was a
homicide, "sudden death fol-
lowing a police raid," said a
spokesperson for Charles S.
Hirsch, the chief medical exam-
iner.

"I failed to protect someone,"
said Bloomberg, his voice soft
and solemn. "Our actions failed
her. ... We must not trample
on the rights of law-abiding
citizens."

Spruill, 57, died of an appar-
ent heart attack on the morning
of May 16 after a dozen or so
police officers - on a tip sup-
plied by an informant - mistak-
enly battered down her
apartment door looking for
drugs and weapons. The offi-
cers tossed a enade into
, the apartment, hoping it would
distract anyone inside. Spruill
' was handcuffed and then re-

__ [eased when. the police. discov-
éted they eu in _ wrong
apartment, The police a
learned that S ul had a heart
condition, but, according to
them, she refused at first to be
taken to the hospital. Suddenly

Spruill experienced cardiac ar-

"rest, and they rused her to

Harlem Hospital. She died less
than two hours later.

Bloomberg recalled hew she
used to tell her co-workers that
if they messed with her, "I'll get
the mayor down here."

"Well, Alberta, you did get
the mayor here," he concluded.
A bus route she took to work
for nearly 30 years at a city
agency will be named in her

honor, the mayor said.

A few hours after the funeral
service, Police Commissioner
Raymond Kelly met with an
auditorium full of concerned
citizens at police Area 5, lo-
cated on 147th Street and
Frederick Douglass Boulevard,
not too far from Spruill's apart-
ment, to discuss the details of
the raid and her subsequent
death.

Although the commissioner

was repeatedly praised for hold-

ing the session, which many
viewed as remarkably different
from the way the former mayor
and commissioner would have
handled the situation, there
were many in attendence who
wer not satisfied with the ex-
plaination for the wrongful
death.

Commissioner Kelly tisted
eight mistakes the police made
leading up to and during the
raid, including failure of com-
munication between command-
ers of the 25th and 32nd. ©
precincts, no indication in re-

ports that the dope dealer tar-

geted in the raid had already
arrested, improper pro-
cudures following the issuance

of a no-knock search warrant
and lack of further surveillance
of the site to verify the sale of
drugs. "A lot of mistakes were
made, and further investiga-
tions of the incident are under-
way," the commissioner assured
listeners during a rather heated

question-and-answer discussion.

While the medical examiner's
ruling indicates that Sruill did
not blame the police for her
death, which means the police
avoid civil liability. "But if the
police hadn't raided her apart-
ment, she would still. be alive
today," said would still be alive
today," said the Rev. Al
Sharpton, who seemed pertured
that the police were not blamed
for her death. As Sharpton
noted, what remains is to estab-
lish whether the action by the
police was criminal, and if so,
who will be prosecuted.

Meanwhile, Johnnie Cochran,
representing Spruill's two sis-
ters, has filed a $500 million
lawsuit, charging the police
with wrongful death.

Commissioner Kelly said he
was not sure where the "confi-
dential informant" was who
gave them the information that
set the deadly scenario in mo-
tion.

Several people who live in the
same apartment building where
Spruill lived asked him why a
buy-and-bust process was not
administered

es were made, and we're
doing all we can to make sure
such a tragedy doesn't happen

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Yates have been allegedly the two NAACP officials,
"sneaking for over a year," "Where are the ethics?"
EXCLUSIVE told The Wilmington Alston, speaking on behaff of

Journal "[{Skip's] slowly stick: himself and Yates, denies the
ing a knife in his heart." charges.

Ay ast MICHAELS Raleigh community activist But so obvious were their ac-

JOURNAL close to the issues rhetorically tions, critics allege, that no less

Have the president and an asked of the allegations against

Executive Committee member

of the state NAACP Conference

of Branches lobbied the General

Assembly to pass a payday
lending bill that many critics
say would, if it becomes law, _
"allow lenders to charge exorbi-
tant rates which ... trap vulner-
able consumers in a cycle of
debt?"

Sources in the _ state
Legislature, the NAACP and
activists against payday lending
practices say yes, and wonder
why the national NAACP
Board hasn't come down on
state President Melvin "Skip"
Alston, a board member, and
his third -vicé president,
Winfall Mayor Fred Yates, for
allegedly going against their
civil rights organization's reso-
lution denouncing what some
call a short-term version of
predatory lending.

One NAACP chapter officer,
who asked not to be named but
confirmed that Alston and

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Paying tribute to two very distinguished individuals.

J.H, Rose Ts 2003 T prom king and queen (William Taylor and Candace Taylor).

William and Candace Are both graduating seniors at J.H. Rose High School,

William will be furthering his education at North Carolina Central University in Durham,
NC, whilé Candace will be furthering hers at UNC in Chapel Hill. Keep up the good #
work and we Tre all proud of you.

Piano Recital Held ....... . Piano students of Gloria

Hines were presented in a piano recital recently,

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The students included Kaylah Brown, Destinie Corbeft, Emily Dixon, Tawanna Franklin, Dedra Garner,

Aniya Gaynor, Jasmine Johnson,

ShaVonte' Mills, R.J. Smith
Achievement were presented to each stud

and Catherine Wills. Certificates of
ent and Ta reception followed with family and friends.

First Row [L-R] Destinie Corbeft, Kaylah Brown, Dedra Garner, R.J. Smith, Aniya Gaynor and Tawanna

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Black leaders launch

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By Stanley B. Chambers Jr.,

The Daily Reflector

Local black leaders said Friday

they have met with national
NAACP officials and launched
their own investigation into the
March 7 death of a man in po-
lice custody. .

During a news conference at
the Pitt County NAACP office
in. Greenville, Calvin
Henderson, president of the lo-
cal branch, said the group still
is waiting for a favorable re-
sponse from elected city offi-
cials regarding a set 0
demands the group issued last
month related to the death of
Eugene Allen Boseman, 41.

The Greenville man died "as a
result of agitated delirium
caused by cocaine use, psycho-
sis and stopping antipsychotic
medications," according to an
autopsy report. Boseman, who
the autopsy report said suffered
from HIV infection, nearly bit
off part of one officer's hand in
the struggle, police said.

His fiancee said she watched
as Officers beat him to death,
but a medical et ee ty
autopsy report said that bruises
found on his head, back and
re not contribute to his
eath.

Boseman was behaving erratic-
ally and walking in his under-
wear in the travel lanes of
Memorial Drive when
Greenville police officers tried
to subdue him in the early
morning of March 7.Henderson
and other local black leaders on
May 18 issued a set of specific
demands aimed at reforming
criminal pane procedures in
Greenville. The group requested
that:, The mayor and City
Council immediately place the
police, fire and rescue depart-
ments under a public safety
commission appointed by the
m voliee City oor

ce personnel be re-
quired to nrg gi T bo lete
& course in how to ¢ ive
deal with people with menta
disabilities,

Greenville, Pitt County and the
state immediately pursue the in-
dependent review of all police
killings of citizens by federal
authorities assigned outside the
area where the killing took
place.

No district attorney be allowed
to review and decide the fate of
a local police agency involved
in the killing of a citizen
within the reviewing DA's ju-
risdiction.

The NAACP, Concerned
Citizens for Justice, and the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference in Greenville and
Pitt County, originally set a
June 10 cad for elected
city officials to "respond favora-
bly" to the demands, or the
group would proceed with pro-
test demonstrations and boy-
cotts.

A letter addressed to Mayor
Don Parrott, containing the de-
mands announced on May 18
and signed by leaders of each
group, was distributed at
Friday's news conference.

"While we realize that you
may not be able to accomplish
all the things we have re-

uested within 20 days from
the date of this report, ? the let-
ter states, "we ask you to at
least inform us of your com-
pleted efforts and full intent
within this time frame so that
we may decide our next course
of action."

In addition to the original de-
mands, the letter asked the
mayor to respond to questions
about his knowledge of any
events like the Boseman case in
the city's history and his role in
oe ae filed
against the police department.
Parrott said he had not been in-
formed of Friday's news con fer-
ence.

"I will get input from the
(City) Council and input from
my staff, and | will respond to
the letter in due time," he said.
"I don't know what date that
will be, but it will be fairly
soon."

Henderson said members of

ath probe

the local NAACP chapter met
Thursday with state executive
director Jim Wiggins to discuss
the Boseman case. The group
plans to share information it
gathers related to the case with
national NAACP officials.
"The Boseman case is of great
national interest, and the state,
regional, and national officials
will be visiting Greenville nu-
merous times during this pend-
ing investigation, ? Henderson
sai

The NAACP plans to hold its
annual state convention in
Greenville this October,
Henderson said.

The NAACP and other local
groups are using the Boseman
case to address other concerns
in the black community, includ-
ing proposed tax increases, the
quality of recreational facilities,
alleged discrimination and dis-
parities in the hiring and pro-
moting of black city and
Greenville Utilities employees
and alleged mismanagement of
funds for low income and dis-

advantaged residents.

Sitting next to Henderson dur-
ing the news conference was
councilwoman Rose Glover,
who said she su the ef-
forts of the NAACP and be-
lieves that public officials
should answer to community
concerns. '

"I'm not here to say that we're
a perfect city government, but
the government is for the peo-
ple so we need to do what is
necessary to see that e are
being treated fairly," Glover
said.

Henderson said he has received
some resistance from the public
but is not moved by negative
comments.

"We will not stop till justice is
done," he said.

Others who attended th® news
conference were SCLC state
happens Bennie Roundtree,

itt County NAACP head of le-
Places Ed Carter, and

an's two sisters, Cynthia
Baylock and Regina Love.

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A. Rockefeller, the oget-tough ?

laws Were supposed to solve the

burgeoning drug and crime
problem by locking up significant
participants in the drug trade
and thus deterring others from
involvement. .

But it hasn't worked out that
way. \

oTo be sure, the sentences are
harsh. For example, a single ten-
dollar sale of cocaine brings a
minimum sentence of one to
three years in prison "and four
and a half to nine years if the
offender has a prior conviction.
A first-time offender convicted of

- participating in the sale of two

ounces. of cocaine will draw a
minimum sentence of fifteen
years "and, possibly, a life-term
sentence,

However, contrary to the
original justifications that they
would target the major
traffickers and violent
individuals, the laws have largely
been ineffective in thwarting the
drug trafficking and violent

-* According to Ernest Drucker,
fessor of Epidemiology and
Professor of Psychiatry at

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ntefiore Medical Center

sich CAEL

In memory of the peacemakers

took on new meaning to

Tie Memorial Day holiday
the 160 American families

who lost loved ones in the war - E

this was more than a holit
barbecues and baseball.
appropriate that our nation
honors those who have died in
war for our freedom. But why do.
we only honor those who fought
in wars for freedom, why don Tt we
also honor those who make peace
for our freedom?

Of course, there is Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. and the day we
have set aside to honor him. But
what about those others who died
for their commitment to non-
violence and civil rights for all
Americans? Many of these
heroes and sheroes were young in
age or young at heart. le who
saw the goodness in human
beings and who believed that they
could change the world for the

better. People like the thousands .

of young men and women who
left college in the 1960 Ts to join the
Student Non-violent
Coordinating Committee's
Freedom Summers in Mississippi
and Alabama. People like
Michael Schwerner, Andrew
and James Chaney who
went to Neshoba County,
Mississippi in 1964 and who were
killed for their voter registration
work in the black community
there. People like the Michigan
housewife Viola Liuzzo who was
killed in Lowndes County,
Alabama for her civil rights work
in 1965.
Or Jonathon Daniels, an
Episcopal seminarian who was

STATE NAACP
Continued from page 1

the national NAACP Board of
Directors, wrote a stinging letter
to members of the North
Carolina General Assembly,
making clear what the
organization's official position on
payday lending is in case they
were confused.

oIam writing to urge you to
stop the predatory practice of
by prevent ouse Bill 1213
from becoming law, ? Bond wrote,
adding that the oanti-consumer
bill perpetuates the very
practices its supporters claim
they want to regulate. ?

"The NAACP, whose board |
chair, has long opposed predatory
lending in all its forms, and last

year passed a national resolution

specifically opposing payday

lending," Bond continued. "On
May 3, 2003, the NAACP Board

felonies, which involve very
small amounts of drugs. And less
than a quarter of these inmates
had any prior violent felony

convictions for any crime.
Nearly a third had no prior felony
convictions at all. an
Since May 1973, more than
150,000 people have © been
sentenced to New York Ts prisons
for nonviolent drug offenses "
helping to fuel the state's
astounding boom in_ both
inmates, from 14,400 then to more
than 70,000 today, and in prison
expenditures.
But the misery hasn't been
confined only to New York. .
_ James Lanier, senior resident
Scholar for Community Justice
Programs at the National. Urban
League Ts Institute of
Opportunity and Equality, points
out that omore than any other
single legislative act, New York Ts
adoption of the Rockefeller Drug
Laws [symbolized] the beginning
of the massive surge in
incarceration ? in states across
the country.
Lanier and Drucker are
writing separate essays on the
nation Ts disastrous addiction to
omass incarceration ? as a policy

x: BERNICE
\- POWELL

JACKSON

It's

Killed in that same Alabama
county in that same year.
Daniels, a New Hampshire native,
was shot dead trying to protect a
young African American woman
and friend after both had just
been released prison.
Where are the national
sllent thankegtving for all thoce
silent or

who died, who were incarcerated
repeatedly, who were harassed
and beaten because of their non-
violent work on behalf of the
oppressed and disenfranchised in
our own nation?

Or do we pause to remember
the contributions of Jean
Donovan, a Catholic laywoman
and Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline
nun and Maura Clarke and Ita
Ford, both Maryknoll
missionaries, all of whom were
working with the poor in El
Salvador and were killed in 1980
by para-militaries financed by the
US.? Extraordinary women
committed to peace for the poor
in that war-torn land. When do
we honor them?

Then there are the
peacemakers like Amy Beale who
made the ultimate sacrifice for
her beliefs. Amy Beale was a
Stanford University graduate,
whose Fulbright scholarship took

aimed at minorities."

Bond's _ " passage _ _ " about T
"prohibiting our (chapters)
from accepting contributions T
from payday lenders ? has
particular importance.

Published reports confirm that
one of the major payday lending
companies in the country
Advance America, Inc. of
Spartanburg, S.C. has
cosponsored voter registration
drives T with NAACP chapters
across the South, alarming some
observers that the alleged motive
ls to gain influence in the
African-American community,
where many payday, loan
companies target low-income
consumers with high interests
loans,

Advance America is of
particular interest here.in North

Carolina. Its president and CEO,
Billy Webster, confirms he's had
discussions with Alston, Yates,
and other black leaders here
about the battle over payday
lending in the state, though he
that none are lobbying for

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What You Read Is What You

he Rockefeller Drug Laws | age

of law enforcement for the Urban

"League's forthcoming scholarly

journal, The State of Black
America 2003. Both. assert that

© because police drug enforcement
- in concentrated on the street-

level trade in black and Hispanic

- Communities, the effect of the

Rockefeller drug Jaws and the

drug laws it inspired across the

country has been to exacerbate to
an astonishing degree the racial
character of who gets arrested,
convicted and imprisoned for
drugs in America.

Nationally, African Americans
oaccount. for 13 percent of the
nation Ts drug users, their
proportion. of the general
population. But they make up 35
percent of drug arrests and 53
percent of drug convictions.

Moreover, such massive
incarceration has been fiscally
foolish. It Ts a highly expensive
but ineffective deterrent in the
important war against drugs and
violent crime in America.

A better approach, now
supported by experts across a
wide philosophical spectrum, is
to focus on drug education,
prevention, and intensive
treatment.

There Ts no doubt that the
Rockefeller drug laws are unjust:
and there is widespread,
nonpartisan agreement that they
should be substantially changed.
Such government officials as
Governor George E. Pataki, a
Republican, and Sheldon Silver,
the Democratic Speaker of the

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other politicos have publicly |
supported revising them. " |
_ Yet, the laws remain as they
have been. - Oe

_ Thus, it Ts welcome to see
Russell Simmons, co-owner and_.
founder of Def Jam Records,
Sean oP. Diddy ? Combs, and
others involved in the hip-hop
music industry at the head of a
campaign that uses the appeal of
hip-hop to mobilize ordinary
citizens, particularly adolescents
and young adults, to press for
reform of the laws. .

This is a vitally important
effort for several reasons.

One is that the two latter

groups are most oat risk ? of, on
the one hand, succumbing to the

trade, and. thee wee eit drug | "This deal gives Fredy the ability financially to go through school
rade, and thus, ming @ | and not have to sell his Playing ability (to a team) to get from point A
Statistic of the Rockefeller drug | t point B in his career." Tarzy told a reporter. "This acts as his
laws; or, in the neighborhoods in | insurance. There's not the same kind of money being offered around
which many of them _ live, | to soccer players like there is for basketball, and it is difficult to get the
becoming an innocent-bystander | kind of insurance that could set Freddy up for life if something
icti happened. There aren't LeBron James deals being offered in soccer."
victim of the variety of crimes ehh ata
associated with the drug trade. Because of his age, Adu's contract calls for a specific number of
Equally importa t, however is | 2PPearances over the duration of the contract, rather than on a year-
analy important, however, is | +5 vear basis. More details and an announcement about both signings
the fact that, regardless of their in expected soon. .
musical tastes, these young] scouts have been tracking Adu for years, because of his
people, and society as a whole, extraordinary skills. He has been featured on television and in
can reap enormous benefits from | newspapers in Japan, Brazil and England. .
; when he was 11, Adu continues to train and practice with the US.
and motivated, benefits that can
. under-17 national team in preparation for the August world
go well beyond the immediate, championships in Finland
just campaign of righting what :
has been a terrible wrong.

Somali Bantu Refugees Arrive in Denver, Phoenix

14-Year-Old Soccer Player
Signs $1 Million Deal with Nike

(Special to the NNPA)Freddy Adu, 14, has signed a $1 millions
contract with Nike choosing to be represented by sports agents.
Richard Motzkin and Dan Segal at California-based SportsNet, LLC. .
Arnold Tarzy, an Adu family advisor, helped the youth search for ant
agent. Adu is unlikely to sign a professional playing contract for:

@Cecreeceeertececeee FS ee es

Reports indicate that Adu, of Potomac, Md.,.had no intention of
playing NCAA soccer and has renounced his amateur status by
signing the contracts. He is using the Nike deal as insurance should
an injury end his career. .

her to South Africa, where she
was studying and working with
those trying to put back together
a nation torn asunder by decades

, Of apartheid. While driving in

oCapetown, her car was
. Surrounded and she was beaten
_ and stabbed by a group of
outsiders who did not know her
or what she had done on behalf of
that community. The story of this
amazing beacon of hope named
Amy did not end with her cath,
however. Her equally amazing
parents, Peter and Linda Beale,
visited Capetown to see the
community where their daughter
had been killed and saw the
conditions she was trying to
change. instead of being filled
with anger and hate, they chose
to be filled with love and hope and
started the Amy Beale
Foundation which continues to
work in that community,
including running

Amy Ts Bread, which provides
jobs and food for the very
community where she was killed.

When do we honor Amy Beale
for her contribution to freedom in
the world?

And this year, when do we:

honor Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-
old young American killed by an
Israeli Defense Force bulldozer
driver as she stood non-violently
in front of the home of a
Palestinian family? Even those
who might not agree with her
position, must acknowledge that
she was a young woman
committed to peace in one of the
most violent places of a war-torn
world. As she stood there in an
orange fluorescent vest, she

NEW YORK (IRIN) "The first group of Somali Bantus who were
living in Kenyan refugee camps for the past decade have arrived in the
American cities of Denver and Phoenix.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said this was the beginning of one
of the biggest resettlement operations to take place from Africa; in
which some 11,800 Somali Bantus will be resettled in the United States.
After weeks of cultural orientation classes, the first batch of 74
Somalis left Kenya late last month. Another 150 are expected to travel
practiced what all non-violent | before mid-June, the statement said. The Church World Service, along
protestors have been taught - to | With eight other voluntary agencies, will oversee the resettlement
try to look at your attacker in the | Program in the United States.
eye with love and find that} The refugees originally were scheduled to start arriving last year,
person's humanity. When. do we | but tightened security measures after'the Sept"11 orist.¢
honor Rachel Corrie and others, | Pushed back the date. . a Beep OS eee
like the Christian Peacemaker | |The Somali Bantus "a minority group whose physical, fgitugaland
and stand between Palestinians | because they faced difficult circumstances in their country where they
and Israelis on behalf of peace? | Were treated as second-class citizens, partly because they are
Earlier this year, the World | descended from slaves,
statement decrying the war in | Bantus fled to refugee camps in Kenya, where discrimination against
Iraq. In it, Dr. Konrad Raiser, the | them by major Somali clans continued. -
World Council Ts general

secretary, said, oWars cannot be} . Cameroon Ts Freedom T Radio Station Forced Off Air

won, only peace can. ? Last
December, on receiving the Nobel | DOUALA, Cameroon (IRIN) "The government of Cameroon forced
Peace Prize, former President | 4 new radio station to shut down last week, the day before it was due
Jimmy Carter said, owar may be to go on air, Reporters without Borders (RSF) said.

a necessary evil, but it is evil. ? It is the third government-ordered closure of a media group in
Yet we honor only war. recent weeks.

There is the Civil Rights] According to the Paris-based press freedom group, police
Institute in Birmingham, | surrounded the offices of Freedom FM in the port city of Douala and
Alabama which tells the story of | Closed the radio station on the orders of Communications Minister
not only the civil rights | Jacques Fame Ndongo. The minister said Freedom FM did not have
movement but also of human | government permission to broadcast.
rights activists. There is the Civil| | RSF described the move as oa serious attack on press freedom, ?
Rights Museum in Memphis, | designed to silence media criticism of President Paul Biya and his
Tennessee located at the old | government in the run-up to next year Ts presidential elections,
Lorraine Motel where Dr. King| oThis uncalled for measure is a severe blow to news diversity in
was killed. But as our nation | Cameroon, ? Robert Menard, the secretary general of RSF, said in a
discusses whether more war | letter to the communications minister, |
memorials should be built on the Independent radio and television Stations are officially allowed to
Mall in Washington, D.C., | exist in Cameroon, but that in practice, says the RSF they are forced to
perhaps someone should raise the | Operate illegally since the authorities do not respond to requests for

licenses. It urged the government to allow Freedom FM to go on air.

question of where is the
monument to those who work for | _ Pius Njawe, the head of the Messager media group which owns

Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles,
who failed in his 2002 North
Carolina bid for the U.S. Senate.
The two are close friends today,
with Webster's: company
contributing $10,000 two years
ago to Bowles T fundraiser for
diabetes research.

It is widely known that both
Alston and Yates were allegedly
quiet supporters of Bowles T

Senate bid. Bowles even thanked. -

Yates publicly for his support the
night he won the Democratic
primary. That proved somewhat
embarrassing, because Yates,
beyond being state NAACP third
vice president, is also chairman
of the nonpartisan organization's
Political Action Committee,
which is supposed to vet the
candidates fairly without bias.

So what does this have to do
with payday lending?

Sources tell The Carolinian
that Bowles has been calling state
lawmakers on behalf of his
friend Webster, pushing for
passage of the HB-1213 payday-
lending bill.

- The full court press of
Alston, Yates and Bowles, among
others, helped to. split the N.C.
Legislative Black Caucus on the

h

peace. Freedom FM, said the government had initially responded positively
to the station's request for a broadcasting license.
oWe completed all the formalities, ? RSF quoted Njawe as saying.
ee oThe ministry even sent technicians to inspect our equipment. ?
issue, and garner passage in the .

N.C. House, sources allege.. The:
bill is now pending in the state
Senate; and could be-voted on:as -
early as this afternoon.

Advance America CEO Billy
Webster, in a phone interview
from Spartanburg Tuesday, again
denied having Alston and Yates to
lobby for him.

"I know [Alston and Yates) have
had some involvement, but I
didn't know they were at the

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from transnational ChevronTexaco Ts Escravos gas plant to the Egbin

months in the volatile oil region targeting a key pipel
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doesn't want to feel
ostracized by her peers for
being friends with someone
who is white, especially a
white male. And she

ine what life is like for
another person. "You have
to put yourself in someone
else's shoes," she said. "It's
the only way to know how

cause we're all comfort-
able. Black people are
comfortable with black
people. No one wants to
change," she said. The key

racism in school and the doesn't want to feel like her
community, the students of a teachers are favoring
STIR hope to shake things up certain kids over other kids
next fall. when it comes to discipline.
But figuring out how to do It is situations like this that
that can be daunting when all sets off Christiana and what
the black students still sit on makes her want to do
one side of the cafeteria, something about what she
STIR members say, and all sees happening in school
the white students still sit on with STIR, she said.
the other side. "We hope to stop all the
Or when a so-called. "friend" nonsense - bring it to a
will only talk to someone in complete halt," Christiana
the hallway because his said. "There are different
oA friends laugh at him for people in America, not just
a i Bo ead talking to an Arab in the the people of your own race
Christiana Freeman, South of Central High School with fellow STIR member Sarrin It takes ; uts to chan of yourreligion. ==
Gna w . ee : : ge Fallon Speaker, a junior at
Smith. There are different people in America not just the people of your own race For ex Ue ple, South Central Ayden-Grifton, "believes
or your religion Iith-grader _ Christiana people's attitudes would
Freeman, who is __ black, change if they could imag-

they feel. ?

While students are con-
cerned about the way they
treat each other, their con-
cerns extend to how stu-
dents feel they are treated by
teachers as well. These
issues can range from a
reprimand for speaking in a
non-English language or
watching a teacher smile
vaguely when a top student
makes a racist remark,
rather than reprimanding
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are a father who is respected by
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"Do I want my son to be what |
am, to do what I do, to go
where | go?" .

Fathers, remember that never
before in all history have your
children needed the undivded
interest and attention of loving
parents as in these days of a
polluter moral and spiritual at-
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Boys need fathers to learn

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in knowing that other people
miss them too. We want to
hear your stories and special
memories.

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It hurts to see someone trying
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look at us with puppy dog eyes.
We don't want pity.

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ou can have a non-rushed
eakfast. (If you need an alarm

clock to wake you up in the
morning, you aren't going to
bed on time, say sleep experts).
3. Walk whenever possible
(take the stairs instead of the
elevator, hand- deliver work,
papers, etc).
4. Plan grocery shopping,
banking, and post office visits.
So you hit the non-chaotic times
( ?,?.g. don't grocery shop on

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You don't have to meet a man
face to face to know what kind
of a father he is. Just listen to
the way his children refer to
him.

The respect that children have
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pain, but we will recover at our
own pace, not yours.

calls. We are just trying to get
through each day intact. If you
care about us, keep trying.

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role models. You may see us as
strong, but chances are we fall
apart when you're not around.
9. Don't be put off our moodi-
ness. Some day we want to be
social, other days we don't.

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you as just as much a year later
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Greetings:

In these times which we live in
people are trying to find the ab-
solute truth, but if you look for
truth from any other source
other than God then you are
looking in the wrong place.
Jesus said I am the way the
truth and the life. You cannot
find truth from no one else but
Jesus.

You can believe anything you
want. "We each have to deter-
mine what is right for our-

' selves." That may be true for
you; | have my own truth. ?
Finding truth can be a tricky
thing because of our own intel-
lect we find ourselves making a
mockery out of the very thing
that we are trying to defend.

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The Bible teaches that wisdom

_ is the principle thing, therefore
get purged nd
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getting get an un

Let me explain my views on the
subject of truth. The frightening
thing about these modern view-
points is that those who believe
them become the definers of T

truth and reality. They leave no

room for objective truth or ab-
solutes. Yet if there are no ab-
solutes determined by a Source

_ that is higher than and above

us as human beings, then we
are all gods; or else no truth
exists, and we have nothing to
bind us together or define how
we should treat each other.

God did not leave His people

Israel in such a philosophical
mess. He clearly spelled out
moral and spiritual absolutes,
and warned His people to seek
ultimate truth from Him, not
from other sources

(Lev. 20:6-8).

We who live today do well to
pay attention to God's unchang-
ing Word. Apart from Him,
how can we coexist? By what
standards will we define issues
such as community, honesty,
ethics, truth, morality, crime,
and justice? Apart from His
help, we are on a destructive
path in a world where everyone
is always right and no one is

ituol Reflections

ever wrong.

In today's age of acceptance
and tolerance, it is not easy or

popular to disagree with others.

It seems that the one truth eve-
ryone must bow to is that eve-
rybody has the right to their
own beliefs, and. what's true for
one may not be true for an-
other. To suggest that someone
else could be wrong or worse,
to claim that there is such a
thing as ultimate, absolute
truth, is highly offensive in our
culture,
But how can everything be
true? -That seems to be a con-
tradiction in logic, if we agree
with Webster that truth can be
defined as fact, the state of
something being the case," or
as actuality, the body of real
things, events, or facts. ? Jesus
claimed to be the truth, not just
a truth (John 14;6). He regu-
larly spoke of telling the truth
to his listeners _,

(for example, Maft. 5:18, 26;
Mark 10:15, 29; Luke 21:3, 32;
John 3:31; 16:7-23).

So what God communicated
through Christ is extraordinar-
ily important and must not be
compromised.

But as Jude demonstrates, not
all who begin to follow God's
truth finish well

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alism for the sake of the thrill.
But the objective thrust of the
united praise and worship of
Him who alone is worthy often
results in a inundation of the
Holy Spirit's presence --- which
is nothing short of heavenly, for
it echoes the praises of the ce-
lestial throng around the
teenes i is the scriptural pro
gram of massive praise which is
responsible for the burgeoning
growth of this movement.

of the baptism with the Holy
Ghost.

Many outside and some within
the movement have their reser-
vations upon this point. But
whatever on'sposition may be,
it cannot be denied that the
Pentecostal groups have redis-
covered, for this day and age,
the importance and power of
praise. To the order of public
worship, including periods of

congregational singing, public
prayer, and a gospel message,
they have added another coe-
qual with these: a period of
united worship and vocal

Suejette Jones

The Power of Praise

Regardless of one's position on
the subject of tongues, theere is
nothing to hinder any group
from adopting the scriptural
practice of massive praise. The

It is generally recognized that
one of the fastest growing seg-
ments of the Christian com-
munion is that group of
churches and congregations
which are of the pentecostal
persuasion. It is customary for
Pentecostals to attribute their
rapid expansion to their doc-
trinal distinctives and specifi-
cally to their emphasis upon
glossolalia, or the speaking in
tongues, as the initial evidence

praise. Almost universally, at
some point in the service ( usu-
ally preceding the spoken
Word) time is given specifically
for the purpose of worshiping
and praising the Lord. At a
given signal, usually by the pas-
tor, the entire group raises
hands to heaven and, with up-
lifted faces, enters into adora-
tion and praise. This is not a
subjective thing, an attempt to
owork up" an ecstatic emotion-

Church at large should sin-
cerely repent of its failure to
understand the overwhelming
content of the Word on praise,
and render due thanks God for
those instrumental in its redis-

covery.

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Special to the AmNews
Only hours before Ousmane
Zongo was gunned down at the
Chelsea Mini-Storage ware-
house last Thursday, he was the
recipient of a bonus payment
_ from one of his customers. -

' oShe wanted him to have
moré money than he requested
for the work he had done
repairing her piece of art, ? said
Zoumana Trarore, a native of

- the Ivory Coast and a close
friend of Zongo Ts. oHe was very
good at what he did. ?
_ Zongo, 35, an immigrant
from Burkina Faso, was a mas-
ter craftsman, a quiet man who
never bothered anyone, accord-
ing to Trarore. oAnybody here
can tell you that he wouldn't
harm a flea, ? Trarore said in a
recent interview at the ware-
house near several stalls over-
flowing with African artifacts.

oIt makes no sense at all that
he was trying to take the police-
man Ts gun. He was probably
running away since the officer
was in plain clothes and he did-
n Tt know who he was. ?
According to the police
report, the unarmed Zongo was
killed by Officer Bryan Conroy,
who said the man attempted to
take his 9-millimeter service
pistol. The officer was there as
part of a raid on a CD-counter-
feiting operation at the ware-
house, 615 W. 27th St. Conroy
was left to guard a cache of CDs
when he encountered Zongo
near the elevator on the third
floor. The warehouse is a block-

long building that stretches.

from 11th to 12th avenues, 27th
to 28th streets.
Zongo, the police said, was

.ealled for an inde- |

Kelly had just con-
cluded a long expla-
nation of events sur-
rounding the death
of Alberta Spruill to

community resi-
dents...
The Rev. Al Sharp-

ton, after meeting
with friends and rel-
atives of Zongo,

pendent _investiga-.
tion of the incident.
He said he had wit- |.
nesses who were pre-
pared to tatk to an
oobjective investiga-
ter ?.

Kelly told Sharp- es
ton that ifhe has wit-
nesses they should
be available to speak
to the police. Kelly
said he was confident | Police.

Bullet holes mark where art restorer
Ousmane Zongo was gunned down by

that the NYPD Ts Internal .

Affairs Department would do a
thorough job of conducting the
investigation, and as in the
ongoing Spruill homicide, he
promised to keep the communi-
ty abreast of the developments.
He said the police had not
interviewed Officer Conroy.
Activity at the warehouse
was returning to normal, which
meant the presence of several
African merchants and vendors
gathering their statues, instru-
ments and other artifacts for
storage or to be transported to
vans to sell. oWe are not sure

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what will happen next, so we
are being very cautious, ? said
Trarore. "

Zongo Ts death, within a week
of Spruill Ts homicide, was remi-
niscent of the police shooting of
Amadou Diallo in Febryary
1999 in the vestibule of his
home in the Bronx. Like Zongo,
Diallo had come to the United
States to succeed as a business-
man. They met a tragic similar
fate at the hands of the police.

oMost of the police officers
around here are white, ? said
Trarore. oMaybe something
should be done about that. ?

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