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Black politics in America: Before the
Mayflower, Reconstruction and after WWI

S$ aeed Sh abazz sands of Blacks did so. But men such as George Wash-
oY - Staff Writer ington and Thomas Jefferson also realized the impor-
tance of arming Blacks for their cause, and a similar
NEW YORK "George White of North Carolina offer was made. ? |

was the last Black to have been born a slave and to oBlacks built a political dynamic early on with
have served in the United States Congress. He was churches, fraternal lodges and educational institutions.
also the last Black man from the Reconstruction Era, But, in the 1800s Mr. Jefferson began to call attention
his term ended in .1900. During Mr we (0 the growing Black population, and
White Ts last speech to his colleagues, | = how it was slipping away from the
he told them oyes ? he was leaving the plantation owners. And another dy-
halls of Congress, but it was not the end _ hamic that became a stumbling block
of Black electoral politics, because |, _ to Black political and economic free-
oBlacks would rise like a Phoenix and " dom prior to the Civil War was the
return to Congress. ? And his words } dream of integration. We failed to put
came true. a: our economic foundation on a solid
The next Black to serve in the U.S. * footing, ? he said.

House of Representatives was a Chi- Another issue he said that seemed
cago Black Republican, Oscar De to fall off the radar screen of Blacks
Priest, who was sent to Washington in et between the Revolutionary War and
1928. oYou will never get what you | ., the Civil War was the 1857 Supreme
"want politically, unless you elect lead- | Court Dred Scott decision "slaves
ers who will fight for your interests... T were property and could not be con-
Don Tt complain about racial discrimi- " Sidered citizens under the constitution,
nation. Change it by practical politics, ? George White oLet us for one minute take time to
Mr. De Priest told a gathering at Harlem Ts Abyssinian read something written by Lerone Bennett in his book
Baptist Church in 1929, oThe Shaping of Black America: ? oAmerica or, to be
And so, the question begging for an answer is what more precise, the men who spoke in the name of
was the Black political agenda going En America, decided that it was going to
into Reconstruction, and coming out of be a white place defined by the bodies

_ WWII, leading up to T the election of ; _ and the blood of the reds and the
Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell Jr? Was blacks. And that decision, which was

there a oBlack Agenda? ? made in the 1660s and elaborated over

A wise man once said history_re- _ a 200-year period, foreclosed certain
wards all research. The Final Call possibilities in America. ?
turned to world renowned Black His- | ¥ Mr. Bennett continued, oThe race
tory Professor Dr. Leonard Jeffries who, © problem in America was a deliberate

for the past 35 years, has been teaching
Black History at the City University of

to make money

ng i er ee over the Reconstruction Amendments,
oWe milst see the demands by better known as the 13th, 14th and 15th
Blacks for freedom, and their taking up * 7 * Améndments, and we iis
arms on both sides during the Revolu- ~ _ | analysis of Black politic

tionary War as the first steps towards oBlack Power T. from the basis of White supremacy and the Industrial
and a Black Agenda, T ? Dr. Jeffries explained, ' Revolution, ? Dr. Jeffries added. -

oI try to hammer home to my students that what He said that Blacks did not understand the dynam-
we as Blacks suffer from is a paralysis po cies ics of the Industrial Revolution, there-
of analysis, ? he stressed.**We must look fore they made somie serious mistakes
at our political sojourn in America from in systems analysis. oBlacks were talk-
the basis of a system Ts analysis. ?

He added that to begin with the pe- .
riod of Reconstruction as the start of
the Black political movement is ludi-
crous. oBlacks came to these shores in
1619, and by 1626, they were demand- "
ing their freedom in the English colo- |
nies of Virginia and getting it. By 1644,
Blacks {were] demanding the same
thing from the Dutch colonies in New
Amsterdam, ? Dr. Jeffries said.

oBy 1775, the British were realiz-
ing through their economic analysis that
Blacks were becoming a real economic

. the White corporate moguls such as

_ John D. Rockefeller were busy ma-
nipulating Whites against Blacks
through the labor movements, ? Dr.
Jeffries said. .

In their book, oLabor's Untold
Story, ? Richard O. Boyer and Herbert
M. Morais wrote: oThe paramount
question facing every sector of the
American people, but above all labor,

' Was the fate of the Negro people. The
question simply put, was whether the

Adam Clayton Powell Jr Negro people were to be enslaved

power in the colonies, and they offered them freedom, again after the bloody war to free them. ?
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if they fought on the side of the. British, and thou.

invention of men who systematically .
separated blacks from whites in order

oSo, Dred Scott took precedent

' ing about a bigger piece of the pie, and "

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Helping each chia strive for excellence

The voting rights of Blacks

During the period known as Radi-
cal Reconstruction "from 1868 to
1877 "Southern Blacks voted and
held public office for the first tinfe.
In 1872 aBlack Republican Lt. Gov-
ermnor, Pinckney B.S. Pinchback of
Louisiana, sat in the governor Ts chair
from December 9 to January 13,
1873. Another Black man occupied
a seat on the State Supreme Court in
South Carolina. Blacks were super-
intendents of education, judges, state
treasurers, solicitors and major gen-
erals of militia.

An ex-slave, Blanche Kelso
Bruce, was representing Mississippi
in the U.S. Senate. Blacks during the
Civil War period, and for a long time
after, were Republicans. Between
1865 and 1867, Northern Republi-
cans, slowly became convinced that
Reconstruction must recognize
Blacks as American citizens, entitled
to equality before the law, with the
right to vote.

Laura F, Edwards in her book
oGendered Strife and Confusion: The
Political Culture of Reconstruction ?
wrote; oDemocrats defined manhood
in race and class terms, the best man T
invariably was white and propertied. ?

However, according to Nancy J.
Weiss, author of oFarewell to the
Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the
Age of FDR" the system of political
*x¢lusion began to unravel around
1872/ She said a system of oscien-

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before the law,

g the Civil War period, and for a long
were Republicans. Between 1865 and

1867, Northern Republicans slowly became

convinced that Reconstruction must recognize
Blacks as American citizens, entitled to equality
with the right to vote.

Gov. Pinckney B.S. Pinchback
tific racism ? tended to isolate Blacks
politically,

For example: The Colfax, Loui-
siana Massacre of 1873, known as
one of the most glaring examples of
violent political repression, when 150
to 280 Blacks were killed by Whites
over the issue of voting rights,

On Easter Sunday in 1873, more
than 100 Black men were gunned
down in Grant Parrish, Louisiana, for
daring to assert their right to vote, Sev-

U.S, Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce

eral months later, in Lexington, Ker»
tucky, a Black man was denied the
right to vote for not paying a poll tax.

By 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled in Plessey v. Ferguson that
oseparate but equal facilities ? was
constitutional, But analysts say that
Plessey v. Ferguson also set the le-
gal stage to deny Blacks the fran-
chise, Until the Voting Kights Act ot

1965.
"Saeed Shabazz

- Women

: isn Tt visibly competing in this
maaan | primarily male context.
= Carol Moseley Braun has
Nairpstiedrciy alas been dogged by allegations of
Women and the National ' However, the truth is that
Women Ts Political Caucus after intense smear efforts by
endorsed Carol Moseley Braun partisan detractors who charged
anniversary of U.S. women _oay regulation, ono
gaining the right to vote.. that she owed the princely sum
; In so doing, activist women of $311.
bnce again stood firmly in the . This was such a small
\ bully pulpit of their familiar ? amount in the scheme of politi-
{to paraphrase author Alice cal campaigns that she was not
Walker), from which they con- even fined penalties or interest.
finue to fight to push women Although she was fully investi-
put of the margins and into the gated and found to be without
This time, they are lending tinue to be dragged into assess-
their clout to an ments of her qualifications. The
former senator and former opolitics of personal destruc-
pmbessador, who despite her tion T find an easy target in an
being largely ignored by many Black woman public official
influential onlookers. In media ike Braun, Yet, most White
Fandidates. * ple, George W. Bush not only
- Commentary about the presided over the demise of an
Democratic and Republican _ i] business and a baseball
anraqeel pater pallens team, but also spent many years
- alpha appeal appeared immersed in an alcoholic haze,
in.the Washington Post on July all of which are rarely men-
13, accompanied by r
bf the men oflexing their mus- A male writer for a major
Fles ? in various stages of jock East Coast daily recently called

John Kerry: Fence-sittin

J

_ RON WALTERS

Have you ever seen a race
where the lead runner, called
the orabbit, ? started off running
and shocked people when it
kept on running and won the
race? Well, some are afraid that
the current race for president is
a little like that right now.
Many people think that U.S.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is
really the candidate who will
emerge victorious, but that
Howard Dean, the former
Vermont governor, has started
off like a house afire and will

Sunday night's nationally tel-
evised address from the White
House. It was not so much
eee tid. hough the
sspeech lacked the swagger
sand bluster of some of his

true, but you couldn Tt tell it
from Kerry Ts formal announce-
ment for president at Patriot Ts
Point, S.C., recently. To begin

than in his home state
and city of Boston. But I can
understand the strategy of try-
ing to get a otwofer ? by estab-
lishing that he was not just a

incidentally, Al Sharpton.

Sharpton is expected to
well in the South and right
now, Edwards is reported not to
be doing 30 Well in the polls
there because the Black vote
has not warmed up to him.
Kerry may be concemed that
he could suffer the same fate,
that is, to win or place second
in the Northeast primaries and
then come South and fall flat
on his face. So, he is trying to
make nice in South Carolina,
hoping that he can build a
beachhead to other areas in the
South.

Shocked and awed T

's groups unite be

All of this says that the

Black vote, especially in South

Carolina, is key. It constituted
25 percent of the entire elec-
torate in 2002 andina
Democratic primary, probably
constitutes yp to 50 percent of
the vote. So why would you

But I Tm still puzzled. One of
the'strong themes of Kerry Ts
announcement party was his
connection to the military,
establishing his strength on this
issue By invoking his credibility
as a genuine war heroin.

-has become the. sore point with

haba te-

dacy was because ofhergen-- A tendency exists to over- _her strong progressive record.

_ der, her race, or both, as often look her, which has bizarre and Carol Moseley Braun Ts cam-
is the experience of B - odistracting consequences. At paign experiences are a quan-
Although she was fully investigated and found to be |
without guilt, baseless allegations continue to be
dragged into assessments of her qualifications.
women. one highly partisan political tum leap forward by contrast to

_ It was not based upon her action committee meeting last those of Rep. Shirley
ifications, - - spring, a savvy African- Chisholm, who in 1972 was the .
Braun has 25-plus years American activist who gener- first woman and the first
experience, as an elected official ously supports candidates of African American to mount a
at local, state and national lev- her choice, was asked to con- fully orchestrated national pres-
els, giving her far more politi- tribute to Braun's campaign. idential campaign. She was nei-
cal experience than either Bill Her surprising response was ther supported by Black elected
Clinton or George W. Bush that, while she would make an officials T organizations nor by
when they ran for office. She is initial pledge, she really did not most women Ts groups.
a lawyer who was elected to the yet know the candidate Ts plat- Chisholm wrote once about
Illinois state legislature and form. She asked, what does she an encounter with a male voter
also elected to countywide stand for? in Harlem who criticized het in
office in Cook County, Ill a The planks of Braun Ts plat- a way that seems positively
She is the first African- _ form have been public forthe quaint today. oYoung woman,
American woman elected to the last 15 years and explicit since what are you doing out here in
U.S. Senate and only the sec- earlier this summer, when she this cold? ? the man
ond African-American senator announced her candidacy. For her. oDid you get your hus-
since the Civil War and _ political players not to know band Ts breakfast this morning?
Reconstruction. She recently about them suggests justhow Did you straighten up your
completed service as the U.S. successfully the male-dominat- house? What are you doing
ambassador to New Zealand. ed media pack has belittled the running for office? That is
National opinion polls have only female candidate in the something for men! ?
affirmed Carol Moseley Braun _field. . The question is: What will
has a high approval rating Nonetheless, Braun is still overcome the appearance of a
among voters and is running standing, just as when she stealth candidacy by Carol
respectably high in the other- _alone led the successful defeat Moseley Braun and force her
wise all-male Democratic pri- _of former Sen. Jesse Helms T determination to win into main-
mary field. In an August poll of determination to continue fed- "_ stream consideration and media

(so I am protected én the liber-
al flank). Vagueness on the war.

many activist Democrats . Sure,
it is a fact that Democrats Joe
Lieberman, Bob-Graham, Dick
Gephardt and Kerry all sided

with Bush on the war, but now

Howard Dean, on the other hand, is getting a big
push because of his clear opposition to the war and
the post-war occupation of lraq by the United States.

suppose that Kerry Ts speech
included just one line about
civil rights and his prepared
text didn Tt even mention
African Americans. He extem-

pre
pared text only mentioned gays
and lesbians. Maybe it Ts good
that Kerry went South, so that -
his staff can understand the
necessity for him to
more effectively to the Black
vote. This outing just didn Tt get

In some ways, the mission

Vietnam. One of the clearest
signals of both his military
theme and his wish to link to
the South was to find former
Georgia Sen. Max Cleland sit-
ting on the stage with him.
Cleland was also a highly deco-
rated war hero and a former
colleague of Kerry Ts in the
Senate.

But Kerry Ts position on the
war is weak. It goes something
like this: I believe in the war
(so I am protected on the con-
servative flank), but by the way,
I oppose how Bush is conduct-
ing the post-war arrangements

want to have it both ways.
Howard Dean, on the other
hand, is getting a big push
because of his clear opposition
to the war and the post-war
occupation of Iraq by the
United States. :

Ultimately Kerry Ts fence
straddling seriously undercuts
his credibility on the issue of
defense and security with core
Democrats. But then, the gang
of four, led by Kerry, are bet-
ting that Dean, the rabbit, burns
himself out on issues such as
his opposition to the war and
then they (who were handi-

into reality

not attacked the United States 15,000 troops are needed effort in Iraq is complete.
was that Saddam Hussein pos- was just beginning. from the international com- Bush Ts mishandling of the
sessed weapons of mass Not only was no effective munity. " war will undoubtedly be an
destruction and posed a threat plan in place to quell Iraqi By contrast, the cost of the issue in next year Ts presiden-
to Americans because of his _ violence and looting that fol- 1991 Persian Gulf War was tial election. Already, there
ties to the Al Qaida global ter- lowed, American soldiers $82 billion in current U.S, are signs that his popularity,
ror network. became sitting ducks, so dollars. Acting-in concert with which was unusually high

To this day, Iraq's weapons much so that the number of other nations, the U.S. paid during the war, is plunging. A
of mass destruction have yet ~ american casualties suffered only $9 billion of that recent Time/CNN poll showed
to be found. This has serious- "
bly at home euhsered- Now, the U.S. must go before the United Nations, the
Tete aenbers of his adexinis same body that it dismissed as irrelevant at the T
Hussein's ties to Al Qaida ONSet of the war, to beg for help.
were tenuous at best. a

Bush Ts greatest mistake )
was trying to go it alone in after the war (149 as of this amount. Looked at another that 63 percent of Athericans
Iraq. When the U.N. refused week) now exceeds the 138 way, if the money being spent _ believe going to war was the
to sanction military action in combat deaths. That is shock- on Iraq was used at home, we right policy. Bush Ts approval "
Iraq, the U.S. thumbed its ing. could more than double the rating was 52 percent, about
nose at it, dismissing it as And lawmakers are in awe amount the federal govern- where it was before the war.
irrelevant. over how much money it is ment allocates to education. However, a new poll by

Under the direction of costing to attack and rebuild Even more would be available Zogby International put his
Defense Secretary Donald H. Iraq. In his address, Bush if Bush's $674 billion tax cut approval rating at 45 percent
Rumsfeld, the U.S. launched announced that he will ask was ed. and 54 percent negative.
its oshock-and-awe ? attack on Congress for $87 billion for Rather than engage in more Now, the U.S. must go
Iraq, unleashing a barrage of the fiscal year that begins next domestic spending, the before the United Nations, the
bombs on what were said to month; about $75 billion of administration will increase same body that it dismissed as
be carefully selected targets. that is earmarked for Irag. the federal deficit, which had irrelevant at the onset of the

On May 1, slightly more That's in addition to the $79 been eliminated the War, to beg for help. .
than a month later, Bush billion Congress approved for Clinton years, to $475 billion oWe cannot let past differ-
stood on the deck of an air- the war. Further, administra- in 2004, It will go. even high- ences interfere with presen
craft carrier to announce: tion officials say an additional ¢r, probably topping $600 bil- duties, ? Bush said Sunday
oMission accomplished, ? $30 billion to $55 billion and lion, before the rebuilding night. oMembers of the

y

Steinem, co-founder of Ms.
magazine; Dr. Dorothy I.
leight, president emeritus of
the National Council of Negro
Women; Coretta Scott King,

_ . foundet of the Dr. Martin

Luther King Jr. Center for Non-
Wilson, founding president of
the White House Project, which
recruits women for public

- Office; and Dr. C. DeLores

" Tucker, , former secretary of
- State, Commonwealth of

Pennsylvania, political power

_ broker and chair of the

National Political Congress of
Black Women.
Let's hope the support and

" energies of such high-profile

women will help Braun
achieves the respectful attention

Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich is
@ consultant on national policy
and civil rights issues and a
senior faculty member at the
National Labor College of the
George Meany Center for
Labor Studies.

g on the war and race

it

capped to win all along) wilt

___ Meanwhile, Dean who, like

. positions d
strongest positions on race an

just Ou OUt-run-
ning the pack, presenting the
Clearest, strongest issues. You'd
think the ofab four ? would get
it. They do, but then they are
Just biding their time.

How Blacks react to this
will be important, because the
ofab four ? have been the weak-
est on questions of race overall.
Will we take it and fall in line,

ing to score with the group
Lip supposed to contain the
eventual winner, or will we
have the courage to push those
who have had the correct posi-
tions all the way? I don Tt know.
These days I find that
is in pitifully short supply.

Ron Walters is a distin-.
guished leadership scholar,
director of the African .
American Leadership Institute
and professor of government
and politic#at the University of
Maryland-College Park.

United Nations now have an
Opportunity and the responsi-
bility to assume a broader role
in assuring that Iraq becomes
a free and democratic nation, ?

Bush should have done
more to enlist internati ional
cooperation prior to attacking
Iraq. Many allies had wanted
to assist in the mission, but on
a timetable established by the
United Nations, not George .
W. Bush. And even while
seeking U.N. help, the United
States is still trying to dictate
the terms, insisting that a
U.N. force be headed by an
American,

The tragedy is that this is a

war we shouldn Tt have started,

And if the administration had
wanited to persist, it should
have in concert with the
United Nations. Now, we're
paying the price, financially
and in casualties, We
should not be shocked or
awed ofr eahee we will pay
an even Price in the
future for this lunacy,

George E Curry is editor..
in-chief of the NNPA News
Service and
BlackPressUSA.com,

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peuple Dol ase ee - strange kind of salvation do
girls and those deacons would they desire that care not for bo-
talk to those young men as the liness... . . They would be
bible tells us to. saved by Christ and yet be out
CHRISTIANS, you area. of Christ in a fleshly state...
Christian because you chose to They would have their sins for-
be no one made you become a given, not that they may walk
Christian. Yes, I know that no with God in love, in time to
one can come to the Father ex- come, but that they may pr:
cept the Spirit draws you, but a tice their enmity against
choice still have to be made on without any fear of punish-
a .} your part. You see if you are ment."
" " " " " o not striving to be like Christ Holiness, then, is not n
Apostle Coorge Hawhins them you must take down the as a condition of salvation -
Sign. After all, why are you that would be salvation by
Where Will Judgment Begin? going to HELL cramped up works -but as a part of salva-
; when you can go in style? tion that is received by faith in
Greetings: Let's take closer look holiness. Christ. The angel said to
The first thing I would like to_ Joseph, "You are to give Him
Just look around you not at the share with you about holiness is the name Jesus [which means -
world but at the churches, are this: | Jehovah is salvation'], because
you alarmed at what you see? HOLINESS IS NOT AN He will save His people from
The Bible declares in T Matthew OPTION IT'S A _ their sins" (Matthew 1:21).
24:37-39 But as the days of Noe "REQUIREMENT. erefore, we may say that no
were, so shall also the comin According to Hebrews 12:14 one can trust in Christ for true -
of the Son of man be. For as in we are to "Make every effort to salvation unless he trusts in
the days that were before the live in peace with all men and Him for holiness. This does not
flood they were eating and to be holy; without holiness no mean the desire fot holiness
drinking, marrying and giving one will see the Lord" So the must be a conscious desire at
in marriage, until the day that writer of Hebrews is telling us the time a person comes to
Noe entered into the ark And to take seriously the necessity Christ, but rather that the Holy
knew not until the flood came, of personal, practical holiness, Spirit who creates within us
and took them all away; so When the Holy Spirit comes . Saving faith also creates within
shall also the coming of the Son _ into our lives at our salvation, - us the desire for holiness. He
of man be. We are living in a he Comes to make us holy in simply does not create one
time that we can't distinguish ee If there is not, then, at without the other.
the church members from the a yearning in our hearts to Paul said, "For the grace of
world. Nevertheless, I want to live a holy life pleasing to God, God that brings salvation has
REMIND you of what God said we need to seriously Guestion appeared to all men. It teaches
in | Peter 4:17-18 For the time whether our faith in Christ is us to say No! to ungodliness
is come that judgment must be- genuine. and worldly passions, and to
gin at the house of,God: and if It is true that this desire for ho- live self-controlled, upright and
It first begin at us, what shall liness may be only a spark at odly lives in this present age"
the end be of them that o the beginning. But that spark. (Tite 2:11-12). The same grace
not the gospel of God? And if _ "shoul grow till it becomes a that brings salvation teaches us

the righteous scarcely be saved,
where shall the ungodly and the
sinner appear?

We are treading on dangerously
thin ice, the return of Jesus
could be any minute now and

flame - a desire to live a life
wholly pleasing to God. True
salvation brings with it a desire
to be made holy. When God
saves us thr Christ, He not
only saves us fromthe penalty

to renounce ungodly living. We
cannot receive half of God's
grace. If we have experienced it
at all, we will experience not
only forgiveness of our sins but
also freedom from sin's domin-

we the church people are acting _of sin, but also from its domin- ion.

like the world. I just want to ion. . So again I say to you it's holi-
tell you that IT'S HOLINESS The whole purpose of our sal- ness or hell. God command is,
OR HELL. You had better grab _vation is that we be "holy and "BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY."
a hold of the horns of the altar blameless in His sight", But as victims of sin's warfare,

and stay there until Jesus
change your heart toward that
which is righteous.

If I could allow myself to remi-
nisce, back to when I was a
child those church mothers

. contract-making God. fe tells fect them
eee PRU Sig Cts epee ata 4 we 0 . c oi .
le whee iba oe sufficient The best we can do is to show ..
o|. Specificity, what will happen if them clearly what we expect,
we refuse. He'offers to help us and within what period of time.
make good choices if we ask Tell them what will happen if _
Him for wisdom and readily of- they obey. Tell them what will
fers to help us do anything He happen if they don't.
wants done that we cannot do When we do this we can stop
on our own. yelling, threatening, an repeat-
Central to the whole relation- ing ourselves. It means we can
ship with His children is the stop complaining and nagging
matter of choice. If His children to pick up. the pile of bape in
it is thier choice to do eir room. It mean in
AE 5. When they suffer the conse- lower our voice and be civilized "
quences, it is because they about our expectations. It is to
HOW CAN A PARENT knowingly chose to go against say, "From now on, children,
FIND PEACE OF MIND? His will. you choose how it will be with
Put this in a parenting rela- , / you. As God bathers us, so va
most important les- tionship. This is the opposite o will parent you. é
sons 10 be learned as a parent is trying fo make all of our chil- you, but on these terms. It's
mirrowed in the way God deals dren's decisions for them, and your move.
with His children. He is a then trying to jump in and pro-

_ Ephesians 1:4. To continue to

live in sin as a oat is to
go contrary to God's very pur-
pose for our salvation. One of
the writers of three centuries
ago put it like this: "What a

of CL New Gener

Christians are often prone to

give up the fight, or at least to

compromise with sin in its
more difficult forms. Chose
Christ and live.

tect them when they have made

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heard every 1st Sunday at 1:30 till 2:00pm on WOOW Joy 1340AM with No Weapon Ministry. A
Minister of the Phillipi Church of Christ, Bro. Early has a compassion for the lost. Tune in you won't be
disappointed. _ photo by Bro. Michael Adams

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

5K Greater Greenville CROP Waik for the Hungry

What?

When? October 19, 2003 ,
Registration at 2:00; Step-off at 3:00

Where? Dowdy Ficklen Stadium

Contact: Virginia Pou at 439-5416

Benefits: Food Bank and Hunger-fighting projects around the world

. You can take steps to help the hungry around the block and around the
world. Come out to walk on October 19 at 2:00 at Dowdy-Ficklen
Stadium. Bring a cash donation. For more information call 439-5416.

GREATER GREENVILLE CROP WALK FOR THE HUNGRY 439-5416

, VAPOUG6864@CS.COM

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SEPTEMBER 2003

. Sem, a kee Let's Meet The Candidate

NEW DIRECTOR APPOINTED AT SHAW
: UNIVERSITY CAPE SITE Williamston, NC
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: | Tripp has been a member of Ayden Christian Church and is
now a member of Rose Hill Free Will Baptist Church. He has
also been very active in the community. Tripp has been a
member of the Pitt County School Board representing the
Ayden and is currently serving on the Ayden Board of
- Commissi and as Pro-Tem.

Tripp is 46 years old and been a resident of Ayden during
that period of time except when he attended college. His family

NEW DIRECTOR APPOINTED AT SHAW UNIVERSITY CAPE SITE
Dr, John P. Jones was recent ly appointed as new director at the Greenville site for Shaw University.
Dr. Jones, the new director, served at several universities across the nation before being sesigned to
Greenville. He received his undergraduate degree in oi from Shaw University 1966, a master's

from Tennessee State University, a doctorate the University of Missouri in 1978. roots spanned for over a hundred in Ayden. He offers
Coming So Sroneiis, Dr, Jones served at the Shaw Universi Ahoske slee sioas 1997. Prior to experience, honesty, and integrity. a ate
that, he as Vice-President of Student Affairs at St. Paul T s in Lawrenceville, VA.. Tripp's for Ayden are outlined as such:
Additionally, he has been in leadership positions at the University of Missouri, the University of the - the infrastructure in Ayden (Sewer to the eastern part
Pacific, Lincoln University, and Tennessee State University. . : , of town towards the Ayden Country Club and to the western
his vii forthe Greenville ai Tontod oa rant soup f students recently and discussed part of town on Hwy 11. a
his vision for the Greenville site located on 10th Street. He to increase enrollment at the local ~ Work with the Planning Board to revise the Land Use Map

campus by offeri more courses and services to meet the needs of the undérgraduate and adult stu- : si are and Zoning Ordinance in order to simplify and organize

dent(s) wane ahaa liberal arts degree at an affordable cost and at convenient times, 2 ia , ; deviled ; ?"? my

For more information about the Greenville site of Shaw University call 252-439-5339, panies | + Continue with. the clean-up efforts in the town - example

fy weice eretao ne paint lines for parking, pick up trash, resurface roads, etc,

. tship with the Ayden Elementary, Ayden Middle School, and Ayden-Grifton High School in order
to help improve education. Seek local funds from private sources in which the Town o Ayden will match

up to $10,000 to purchase technology that the Board of Education will not fund.

- Develop a program in which the citizens of Ayden will take ownership in the Town by working with civic

groups, clubs, T izations, and churches to increase participation by the citizens in these groups. Work

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RITY VOICE NEWSPAPER with the local Min ister Association to help get the citizens to get involved in churches.

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Class of 1968

The Class of 1968 and Friends of H. B. Sugg High School celebrated their 35th year reunion on August 30-31, 2003 at the Greenville Hilton Hotel, Emotons
ran high d the two day celebration when classmates were reunited for the first time in 35 years. The class also made special presentations at the banquet
to Mr, Francis H. Mebane, Mrs. N. J. Cobb, Mrs. L. S. Graham, Mr. F. Graham, and Ms. Hom-Parker for their dedication and commitment to all students.

Councilwoman Rosemary Glover also attended the celebration. - Submitted by Geraldine Vines Wright

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Ford's One Hundred
Years and Blacks

During the .1920s and 30's,
over a million blacks migrated
from the fields of the South to
factories in the North. Though
many Northern factories only
gave blacks menial jobs and
paid them Pennies -on the aa
com: to whites; Henry For
hired blacks, and paid them the

industry T highest wages. Ford
was called pena in the field
of jab equality T, because he had

working on the assembly
lines, in laboratories, skilled

trades,and allowed them to be

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to foreman, Ford al- tions into car parts. Carver's
blacks into entice. work intrigued Ford to the point
programs; he also em the " that -he generously supported
auto industry's first. salaried research work at Tuskegee
African-American, James Institute, a B
Charles Price. . Many companies can learn .
In 1915, Price was working as from examples - set by. this
a cutter in a fashionable Detroit " American T Institution. Ford has
tailor shop. Among the custom- - an Executive Council T on

ers was Henry Ford, who tooka Diversity. Diversity awareness
liking to Price and invited him training is mandatory for all
to come work at Ford's company Ford's salaried employees, Ford
headquarters. Price-stayed wi has the

the company 32 years, mostly ity d ips among all auto-

automakers combined. Last year,
Ford contracted $3 billion to
minority oyeies in the U.S.,
most of whom were African-
Amtericans. This was the hi

amount spent with minority
suppliers in Ford's history and
the largest amount spent by any
auto company. The company has
been awarded for he ing to
foster economic self-su ciency
in the African-American busi-

purchas

ing official." When Price retired
in 1947 and went into an office
supply business with his sons.,
Ford Motor became their best
customer. .
Henry Ford respected and)

supported genius regardless of
color, and held inventor George

Washington Carver in great
esteem* Ford offered Carver

makers, and has more Affican-
American dealers than all other

it number of minor-.

$100,000 to come work at Ford ness community.

Motor but was turned down by :
Carver. Later, Ford donated Condensed from an article by
funds to continue his research William Reed,

into uses for the peanut,, cotton,

Black Press International
and the sweet potato. Ford

incorporated many of Carver's
agricultural Prochacts innova-

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issues affecting African-Americans, laughing,
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Something Inside So Stron +++. pictured above (to the right) ij
Sherieorita Taylor and het mothe Gwendal b nib Shoko .

recovering from a stroke which at first was believed to be the flu, she
strived on to graduate and even walk across the. stage to ptt her
diploma from D. H. van High School. She now plans to attend Pitt
Community College in the begining og the coming year. Mother
iebal speeches at her rors Is truly a blessing. We stand in
agreement. From the staff of the Minority Voice Newspa , continue
in God's Blessings Sherieonta, photo by Bo vm Rouse

SARCOIDOSIS SUPPORT GROUP

If you are a Sarcoidosts Sufferer or If you are a health profes-
sional and would like to be involved in the development of the
/ FIRST SARCOIDOSTS SUPPORT GROUP

in Greenville, NC, please forward your mail-to-info., Tel. # and

emall-address, as follows:
Au
P.O. Box 30442
Greenville, NC 27833-0442

Learning by way of Medical Expertise, Family &Friends is ex-
pedient but, ? understanding of how one lives with the condition

comes from those who have it. (written by: Lou Robinson).

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_A Trip Down

Memory Lane
by Modupe' Rouse

Bad Blood. It is instinctively
ingrained in our psyche that we
are destined to have bad blood.
Bad blood is what many blacks
were told as a diagnosis for ill-
nesses. This concept may sound
misinformed, but this mentality
plagues many A frican-
Americans today. Growing up
in the rural areas of North
Carolina, | remember bein
told by my great grandmother
that she does not go to the doc-
tor. I proceeded to ask why,
Mama? She responded in a
firm and confident tone "that
when we (black people) go to
the doctor we are in worse con-
dition than before we decided
to." As a girl you don't question
this information, you accept it.
As I began to mature and the
need for healthcare became a
part of life, I was unsure as to
whether I was to trust the doc-
tor for advice or if I should call
my great-grandmother and find
out what iodine mixture could
cure the aches and pains.
Becoming a woman was quite a
task, faced with this mistrust
for the health care establish-
ment, I teamed this relationship
between the health industry and
myself, hiad to meet in some
sort of information session. The
end result of course, I learned
that it takes time to choose.'a
health care provider that you
trust. Feeling comfortable to sit
down in a cold, airy room that
smells like alcohol and tell a
nurse or physician what's
wrong with you, is difficult.
Nonetheless, it can be done.
Imagine how many A frican-
Americans feel the way I've de-
scribed to you above, and right-
fully so. Between 1932 and
1972, the Tuskegee Syphilis
: Experiment study was con-
ducted. This study would devas-
tatingly affect the hearts of
black people across America.

- The Tuskegee Syphilis

Experiment was conducted to
odiscover the theories of syphilis
on blacks as opposed to whites,
Few of us understand the seri-
ousness of this matter, the -ex-
Periment went on for forty
years. Although the experiment
ended in 1972, the lifelong im-
plications from this study are
prevalent today. The men in-
fected their wives with this dis-
ease and onlay tee mbom
babies to enter this world with
this ghastly and deadly illness.
is experiment has left a leg-
acy of mistrust for scientists
and doctors.
What is syphilis? Syphilis is a
sexually transmitted disease
(STD) caused by a bacterium
called treponema pallidum.
This illness if left untreated
-auses a lifetime of mental and
dhysical problems or fatal in
many cases. In 2002, the North
Carolina HIV/STD Surveillance
concluded that seventy-
percent syphilis cases were
reporied for African-Americans.
For 2003, the numbers de-
creased by a small percentage
with sixty-eight percent syphilis .
cases being reported. We can
continue to bring these numbers
down. In order to do this we
must trust ourselves enough to
80 to the doctor,

On September 16, 2003 Tom
Joyner advocated the "Take a
Loved One to the Doctor
Campaign" This campaign en-
couraged African Americans
everywhere to take friends
and/or family to the doctor,
Participating in ora such
as this one can help us be in-
formed of illnesses and the pre-
ventative measures we can take
to save our own life or the life
of a loved one.

Illiteracy is no longer a prob-
lem, although an illness amidst
the black community there is a
cure. Become informed and ac-
tive in saving race. For
more information on sexually
transmitted diseases visit:

www. schs, state. nc.us/epi/hiv/surv-
elMlance.himl.