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Read Is What You Know And Save

December Issue

What You Sec Is What Get, What You

Serving Eastern North Carolina Since 1981

Acall to arms! We must revive the
historical flame to educate our children.

Free!

by Vernon Jarrett
special to the Tri-State Defender

We've done it before: Many times over. And history demands
that we do it again. Do it today. ~

The Black church must step in "once more "and lead anoth-
er oCrusade for Literacy ? among African Americans in this new
millennium. If that crusade is to succeed it must have the assid-
uous support of the Black press. That is why this publication,
the. Tri-State Defender, with its historical tradition of leading
great social movements, is joining hands with the Black church
in another monumental struggle.

At this very moment, all major elementary and high school
test results show our Black children lagging behind all other
ethnic groups in reading and math. The situation is disquieting
and disgusting. The scoring differences are not fractional or
anyways slight. Huge marginal differences separate Black aver-
ages from White averages.

But low test scores don Tt tell the whole story. Black high
school dropout percentages are among the highest in the land,
The combination of low SAT eae A ee Ee
and ACT scores, along with ex- |
treme dropout rates, placed in
the context of poverty and: this.
country Ts Black prison popula-
tion does not augue well for the
future of African Americans.

Little wonder that low test |
scores and dropout rates are also |
reflected in the disproportionate | 4
racial compositions of America Ts
prison systems.

But I Tve got some good news
for you, Brothers and Sisters. ?
There were other moments in
America Ts past when conditions
were worse. Like in the 18th and
19th centuries when the majority .
of the Black population was not
just poor but enslaved, and hard-
y had any reliable supports from:
EW muse dig aah

Yes, conditions were not only
worse but at times appeared so
bad that White sociologists, the-
ologians and prominent educa- |
tors predicted the extinction of.
the entire Black population "
once Blacks were freed and oon
their own. ?

The racial climate appeared
absolutely hopeless until the
Black church stepped in. Yes, the
Black church, led by two com-
mitted, newly-freed Black Wells
preachers and seven laymen en-

_ gineered a gigantic social and spiritual turnaround.

One of the greatest spiritual phenomena of American history
occurred when the White religious powers of England and the
American colonies opermitted ? the acceptance of Black Chris-
tians only under the condition that Christianity would not inter-
fere with slavery. That was when the Black crusade also began.

Under the slave system, Blacks were not permitted to run
their own churches. Most were forced to attend White churches
or hold their own meetings in the presence of white supervisors.

Our ancestors quickly understood this strange kind of inte-
gration. The slave owners were afraid that Blacks who had
learned to read would teach others. And they were correct. A
young slave named Frederick Douglass, who had taught himself
to read, turned his church into an underground classroom.

But years before Douglass, two ex-slave ministers named the
Reverends Richard Allen and Absolem Jones, made history in
April and May, 1787, by creating the Free African Society of
Philadelphia. Provisions for the education of young Blacks were

among the listed goals of that society.

One of the most phenomenal stories in American history is
how Blacks redirected Christianity to the Sermon on the Mount.
Pro-slavery theologians reinvented Christianity and both the
Old and New Testaments to make slavery digestible and to en-
courage loyalty among slaves.

However, the Black church gave Christianity its own defini-
tion that led to slave revolts.by Black lay ministers of the
Gospel, such as Gabriel Prosser of Henrico County, Va., in
1800; Denmark Vesey, who plotted a slave uprising in an
African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., in
1822; and the Rev. Nat Turner of South Hampton County, Va.,
who led the biggest of all revolts in 1831.

In March, of 1827, Samuel Cornish and John Russworm, two
educated, Christian young men, created America Ts first Black
newspaper, Freedom's Journal, in New York City. In 1829,
David Walker of Boston, a free-born Christian advocate, wrote
the strongest broadside available, urging slaves to rise against
their masters.

Throughout the North, free Black abolitionists met in Black
churches to provide education, reading material, particularly

newspapers in a war on illitera-
cy, Slavery and apathy.

It should be noted that Wilber-
force University, one of the first
Black institutions in America,
was founded in 1856, five years
before the start of the Civil War,
by the African Methodist Epis-
copal (AME) Church. During
and shortly after Reconstruction,
the Black churches of many de-
nominations created their own
1 newspapers and founded col-

leges for the newly freed.

One of the true journalist-
heroines of the turn of the 20th
century, Ida B. Wells Barnett of
Memphis, became famous by
| her exposure of lynch mobs in
@ her newspaper, Free Speech,

«Which, was published by. a Bap-

Chicago for the Columbian Ex-
position of 1893 before purchas-
| ing the Chicago Conservator,
_ the city Ts first Black newspaper.
The fact to remember during
this period of educational disap-
'] pointment is that Blacks regis-
] tered their greatest gains against
illiteracy, poverty and abject
racism during eras of great co-
operation between the Black
_ press and the Black church.
Robeson The Tri-State Defender Ts cur-
rent Declaration of War on Illit-
eracy through a collective strategy and action is in essence a call
for a return to the greatness of our historic roots.

While writing this column, I thought of so many of the
great men and women that I Tve had the privilege to interview
over the past 50 years. I speak of A. Phillip Randolph, Paul
Robeson, Dr. Howard Thurman, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Dr.
Percy Julian "profoundly educated men who began with so
little. They all recalled the early impact of the church in the
quest for excellence.

And I wondered if I would be writing this column if Quinn
Chapel AME Church in Paris, Tenn., had not had that essay con-
test when I was in the seventh grade.

For those who ask what I enjoy the most about returning to a
Black publication after 30 years elsewhere? This Tri-State De-

Sender revived War on Illiteracy explains a lot.


(Jarrett is an nationally known award winning journalist,
television and radio personality, and a noted Black historian. )

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The latest case is the result of
the alleged victim of child
molestation confiding to a pro-
fessional counselor who, as
required by law, shared that
information with law enforce-
ment authorities. A search was
made of .
Jackson Ts sprawling California
estate in Santa Barbara County,
and the singer was subsequent-
ly charged with multiple counts
of lewd and lascivious conduct
with a minor, booked and
released on a $3 million bond.
Jackson has steadfastly main-
tained that he Ts not guilty.

This would have been a

for commercials.

oNeverland, ?

major story if such accusations

Kangaroo. Jackson's race is not

larger the audience, the more a
station or ; tk can charge
is

Coverage
also expanded because we live
in a world of around-the-clock
cable television networks that

need stories to fill all that air.

time.
T The media deserves criti-
cism, but for a different reason.
The name and the photo-
graph of the boy making the
allegation against Jackson
have been widely circulated in
foreign newspapers and on Web
sites. An Australian site, news-
com.au, has reproduced a pic-
ture of Jackson with the boy,

Michael Jackson Ts mess is no

Jackson's accuser. Anyone who
saw a British documentary by
Martin Bashir on Michael
Jackson, the one in which he
admits to having slept in the
bed with young boys but sees
nothing wrong with the prac-
tice, can easily identify the boy.
The Los Angeles Times,
under the headline oHard Life
for Jackson Ts Alleged Victim, ?
quotes the boy in the documen-
tary: oThere was one night I
asked him if I could stay in the
bedroom. And he let me stay in
the bedroom. ? Jackson quickly
added at the time that he had
slept on the floor that night.

thriller

The Times further identifies

the kid by writing, oThe boy

had leukemia and received
treatment at Childrens
Hospital in Los Angeles. ?

_ The New York Ts Daily News
struck a_ self-congrattilatory

~ been identified by police, and

whose name is being withheld

by the Daily News-is caught in

a tug-of-war between his
estranged parents. ?

Considering the amount of
details the Daily News provided
about the boy, they did not need
to publish his name in order to
identify him.

The paper Ts story began, oBe
careful what you wish for. ? It
continued, oThe cancer-strick-
en boy said to be at the center of
the Michael Jackson kiddie sex
scandal was introduced to the
pop star by a soft-hearted busi-
nessman who wanted to make
the youth Ts dream come
true...His wish was to meet
Adam Sandler, Chris Tucker or
Michael Jackson.

The child got his wish-forev-

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er altering his life and
Jackson's. ? i

. Syndicated
Leonard Pitts Jr. put it best:
oHe is a 45-year-old man wear-
ing lipstick and eyelimer on a

surgically altered face that

could give Charles Manson
nightmares. He is 10 years
removed from a child molesta-
tion scandal. His home is a
monument to arrested develop-
ment. ?

And the boy Ts parents are not
without fault. Michael gave
everyone a clue when he named
his larger-than-life playground.
oNeverland. ? It should have

sent all parents a clear mes-

sage: Never let your son land in
this place.

chief of the NNPA News Service
and BlackPressUSA.com. His
most recent book is oThe Best of
Emerge Magazine, ? an anthology
published by Ballantine Books.
He can be reached through his
Web site, georgecurry.com.

illions of us witnessed

- or received a hint of -

the Miami spectacle
last week at the time of the
Free Trade Area of the
Americas (FTAA) meetings and
protests. Brought to us by the
same people who oversaw elec-
toral fraud in November 2000,
this stunning and threatening
presence of police was almost
unbelievable, particularly in
light of the fact that the
protests were peaceful.

I flew into Fort Lauderdale
and took a very expensive cab
ride to Miami. The firstthing
that struck me was that, when I
called my hotel for directions,
the tone of the hotel staffper-
son Ts voice was full of panic.
The hotel employee indicated
that Biscayne Blvd. and other
streets near the hotel had been
closed by the police. So the cab
driver dropped me off at an exit
on Route 95 and I had to
three-fo of a mile or

* So, bags in hand, to get to the

hotel. I walked past innumer-

~~ able police and police vehicles.

These police officers looked
like they had been plucked
from a scene out of a science
fiction movie. Armed and
armored with helmets and

visors, they were everywhere. I.

Miami Ts new police state

felt as though I were walking
through a city where a military.

coup d Tetat had just taken place.

Streets were blocked off,
stores were closed, helicopters
were flying overhead, yet
demonstrators found ways of
converging on the legally per-

mitted rally site. While the

march that was held

the initial rally the afternoon of
November 20th was peaceful
and uneventful, a couple of
hundred marchers returning to
the rally site approached an
artificial wall that had been set
up by the police to restrict pro-
testors from getting too close to
FTAA was being debated. It was
at that point that that the police
marched on these direct action
protestors.

I watched as rubber bullets
and tear gas were fired at the
unarmed protestors. The police
converged on the protestors,
almost like a scene from the

classic film Potemkin, where
Russian troops marched on
demonstrators in 1905. While
this was taking place, the offi-
cial news coverage was dis-
paraging the protesters as
hooligans, inflaming the envi-
ronment.

That was Thursday. On

Friday, when nothing big and

exciting was planned, I wit-
nessed dramatic show
of force by Miami Ts finest. This
time, the provocations by the
police were evident for all to
see. I witnessed young anti-
FTAA activists being pulled
over, who were simply walking
down the streets or driving. In
several cases these individuals
were put up against walls,
forced to sit down in front of
the police and/or arrested out-
right. Stories continue to circu-
late about what happened or is
alleged to have happened to
those arrested.
The anger that.1 hold due to
this display of arrogant intimi-
dation is difficult to communi-
cate. A legal protest had been
planned. It was planned by
labor unions, community-based
organizations, non-governmen-

-tal organizations, and various

other activists. It was planned
to demonstrate opposition to a

fundamentally undemocratic
trade deal that was being forced
down the throats of the people
of the Western hemisphere by
the Bush administration in its
mad quest for better conditions
for ,corporate profitability.
Having been excluded from any
meaningful participation in the
lead up to the FTAA gathering,
activists from the entire hemi-
sphere converged on Miami to
express their outrage and
antipathy toward such an
agreement.

As it turned out, the Miami
(and Florida) establishment
went out of its way to promote
an atmosphere of panic and

dread within the larger popula- "

tion. For weeks prior to the
FTAA meetings and protests,
the press had been promoting
anticipation of the worst, some-
thing akin to the fear that
Romans must have felt as Attila
the Hun and his hoards

approached the gates of their git

fair city.

Inferences of terrorist
threats and mad anarchists
were floated in order to color
the view of the entire protest.
Despite the fact that the labor
unions under the leadership of
the AFL-CIO, along with other
protestors, planned around a

peaceful expression of opinion,
the news media turned the
whole situation on its head into
invasion Miami. ;

I have seen a possible future
for the U.S.A. and it is not a
pretty picture. The lords of the

White House, along with their

various corporate and political
allies have decided in no uncer-
tain terms to play upon the
post-9/11 fears among the peo-
ple in order to restrict the abili-
ty of the people to express
themselves. Moreover, they are
carrying out a preemptive polit-
ical strike against any and all
opponents of their corporate-
guided globalization. It was not
simply a matter of the police
presence, however. The pitiful
national coverage of the Miami
events, as well as the caricatur-
izing of the protestors by local
and national media, presented
the demonstrations as more of
a circus

safe for profits for his corporate
friends and allies.

Miami was living proof that
the USAPatriot Act and the
growing repression that we
have experienced since
9/11/2001 has very little to do

with any war against terror-
ism. Rather, the entire scene is
as if it were out of a film,
scripted to the ot. ? Play upon
fears, encourage passivity in
the face of arrogance, distort
the news, foment lies and half.
truths, this becomes the screen-
play for the 2ist century entry
of the police state into the
US.A.

Interestingly, it is not just
and no longer Black folks who
are the sole recipients of the
baton and pepper spray in this
brave new world. This go round
all one has to do is to raise one Ts
hand and say, o...excuse me, but
Idon Tt agree... ? and, presto, one
becomes an enemy of home-
land security.

Bill Fletcher Jr. is president of
TransAfrica Forum, a
Washington, D.C.-based non-prof.
it educational and organizing cen-
ter formed to raise awareness in
the United States about issues fac.
ing the nations and peoples of
Africa, the Caribbean and Latin
America. He also is co-chair of the
anti-war coalition, United for
Peace and Justice (www.united-
forpeace.org). He can be reached at
bfletcher @transafricaforum.org.

y the time you read this

article many of you will

have eaten enough to
feed one of those starving chil
dren for a week, and some of
you will have gone out and
spent your hard-earned money
on things you did not need just
because the advertisers told
you the biggest shopping day of
the year is the day after

will inevitably hear the post-
Thanksgiving fallout about
oBlack Friday ? and how we
should have spent our money at
Black-owned businesses and
vendor marketplaces.

I have written several arti-
cles on this subject and decided
to curtail my pre-Thanksgiving
pleadings this year. It seems to
do no good to suggest that we
incorporate a daily, year-round,
sustainable economic strategy

The true meaning of Turkeys T Day

rather than get all bent out of
shape when and
Christmas roll around. I sup-
pose that Ts too easy and we def-
initely like things to be diffi-
cult, don Tt we? For instance, I
have pushed and advocated for
a mindset, a collective con-
sciousness among Black folks
that would create in us a daily
ohabit ? of seeking out Black
businesses and mutual support.

If we could ever get to that
State of mind we would not
have to revisit the annual
flawed strategy of waiting for
the holidays to react to our eco-
nomic plight in this country. We
would not need Black Out Days
and other superfluous efforts
that only last for short periods
of time and have no sustaining
effect on those we are attempt-

ing to hurt. As a matter of fact,
we get so hung-up on hurting
others and often neglect the
fact that we should be helping
ourselves.

With all of that said, I am
suggesting that we are the real
turkeys in the economic sce-
nario of this country. They
carve us up and divide us up
every year - as a matter of fact,
they do it all year long. They
stuff us with advertising and
marketing campaigns, rub us
down with the oil of credit, tie
our legs together in order to
keep us contained, and then
they bake us all day long in
their oven malls until we are
done, I mean really done. Then
they feast on us for the follow-
ing four weeks or so, as turkey
stew, turkey sandwiches,
turkey soup, turkey hash, and
turkey salad.

They slice us, dice us, fry us,
mix us up, and stir us up in an
effort to keep that turkey flavor
flowing for as long as they can,
And we accommodate them by
continuing to buy, buy, and buy
all year long, all the while
neglecting our own economic
survival.

Yes, we are indeed their

Thanksgiving turkeys, broth-
ers and sisters. We are also
their Christmas presents.
When are we going to wake up
from our fantasy-land econom-
ic delusions? Black people in
this country are the economic
fodder for everyone else Ts well-
being and prosperity. We com-
plain, march, and come up with
strategies and tactics that do no
more than make us feel good
about getting an apology from
those who economically exploit
us. Our so-called leaders tell us
when to be angry, what to be
angry about, and at whom we
should be angry. They even tell
us when it Ts time to stop being
mad, but they seldom tell us
anything we can do to economi-
cally empower ourselves to the
point where it would no longer
matter who calls us a name or
fails to give us good service at
their restaurant.
What brand of leadership
serves its own people up for
dinner? I often say that we have
enough intellectual capacity to
great things for our economic
future and that of our children.
The message from our olead-
ers ? should be couched in eco-
nomic freedom, self-reliance,

and empowerment, rather than
feed us a steady diet of mere
ofeel-good, ? oyou can do it, ? and
oyou Tre a winner, ? speeches
and strategies. -

They should be teaching us
how to move beyond the
rhetoric to real action and
progress from year to year.
They should, in addition to the
registering to vote campaigns,
teach us what Booker T
Washington taught us: How to
register our dollars all year
long. They should show us the
way to economic freedom; they
should lead us there, and they
should serve us, as Carter G.
Woodson wrote, with their
expertise in business, finance,
and entrepreneurship.

Every Thanksgiving and

» We are marinated,

basted in our own savory
juices, and cooked to perfection
until the meat just falls off our
bones, not unlike the dollars
that fall out of our pockets and
purses. We traipse to the stores,
plop down the green, and
return to our abodes to com-
plain about how miserably
othey ? treat us.

This year, as we move
through another holiday sea-

son that used to be a Holy Day
season, let Ts resolve to change
the menu and take turkey off
the tables of the corporate
hordes. And let Ts stop allowing
our people to be consumed and
digested, only to be excreted
upon when the New Year
begins. I apologize for the
graphic language, but this is
just that serious, brothers and
sisters. We're supposed to have
the meal, not be the meal. It Ts
called oTurkey Day, ? not
oTurkeys T Day. ?

James E. Clingman, an
adjunct professor at the
University of Cincinnati's
African-American Studies
department, is former editor of
the Cincinnati Herald
Newspaper and founder of the
Greater Cincinnati African
American Chamber of
Commerce. He hosts the radio
program, o'Blackonomics, ? and
is the author of the book,
oEconomic Empowerment. or
Economic Enslavement-We have
a Choice. ? He can be reached at
(513) 489-4132, or by e-mail at
jclingman@blackonomics.com

TURMOIL IN CINCINNATI, WEEK OF DECEMB

by MARK MORIAL

There is too much crime and too little justice in the lives
E. Stone, director of the Vera Institute for

So wrote Christopher

Stone went on to declare, oIt is a paradox that black Americans,

tice system as it operates

today.
The national survey of African Americans th
sald that the police were biased against blacks; just 15 percent said
past two

died after a three-minute

lent disturbances after a 19-year-old un
rants- "~12 of which were for minor
killed by Cincinnati police officers

drop is

stantive reforms of police

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traffic offenses, and two of which were for running
under controversial circumstances in recent

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of black Americans today, But while the
Justice in an essay in

lished in its 2001 edition of The State of Black Ameri

undertaken in that incident Ts aftermath, an city officials T

an additional reason why the investigation into Nathaniel Jones

problem of crime is wide
the 1996 volume of the

om the police to escape arrest for
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athaniel Jones, an unarmed

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ly shared in the United States, the problem of injustice is not. ?
in the National Urban League's The State of Black America.
who suffer from crime disproportionately, have mixed feelings, at best, regarding its support of and confidence in the criminal jus-
quantified that sentiment when it found that 73 percent of those surveyed
said they were fair to blacks. That distrust has once again been on dramatic display in a controversial, high profile case during the
The cause this time was the caught-on-tape police beating on November 30 in Cincinnati, Ohio of lack man. Jones, 41, who weighed 342 pounds,
struggle with six officers "five white, one African-American "in a restaurant parking lot. Jones T death comes two after Cincinnati was rocked by three days of vio-
armed black man was shot to death while running away from a white police oficer. The victim, Timothy Thomas, Mas the subject of 14 outstanding war-

those violations. Thomas T death made him the fifteenth black man to be
Cincinnatians had for the police. Despite several sub-

to redress other grievances many black residents express, it Ts clear that longstanding distrust has

blic openness as possible, A videotape of the confrontation,

not . That
rede ye nasprty of one of the police cruisers that responded to the scene, shows an officer stepping back from Jones and warning him to oback away, ? according to local news accounts,

the
succession,

Jones lunging toward the officer, and for the next
chemical irritant and wrestling h

im into handcuffs and a facedown position in the parking lot.

their nightsticks, spraying him with a

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Presidents, Soldiers
and Lies

DefenseWatch

This article is provided courtesy
of DefenseWatch, the Official
magazine for Soldiers

For The Truth (SFTT), a
8fass-roots educational ongani-
zation started by a small oup
of concerned veterans an citi-
zens to inform the
public, the Congress, and the
media on the decline in readi-
ness of our armed forces.

Inspired by the outspoken
idealism of retired Colonel
David Hackworth, SFTT aims to
give our service people, veter-
ans, and retirees a clear voice
with the media, Congress, the
public and their service

By George S. Kulas

When then-President Bill
Clinton told the nation, "I want
you to listen to me. I'm going
to say this again: I did not have
sexual relations with that
woman, Miss Lewinsky, ? many
of us listened and believed him.
Unfortunately, the president of
the United States was looking ~
right into our eyes and lying
through his teeth.

Many presidents have lied.
While some lies __ have
been found out, many more
have sailed right over
the heads of the American
deople.

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Local Poet Publishes Book
By Jason Semple

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through, ? said James. oMy poems are real. ?
- Her verse is, indeed, filled with
will connect with at their own personal level. One
won an Editor Ts Choice Award from P

ems focusing on subjects such as God, self-love, relationships, and
She brings out the feelings and emotions of her

as putting herself'in others T shoes and writing from
oI am not scared to share my

above them. ?

She hopes that readers will see a poet that has
is going through, and will take away the blessing of
courage to Overcome any obstacles life has placed in
the reader Ts path,

The Robersonville native credits her family
and friends as being inspirations for her work, and
says that her sister, Shelia Bowen, has really stood
beside her and helped her with her poetry, which
she has written since she was a littie girl.

James said that she has two more volumes
of verse coming out in the next few months,
oExpressions of the Heart: Pleasure with Pain ? and
oExpressions of the Heart: Heaven or Hell. ?

James holds as associate Ts degree in social
work from Beaufort Community College and is cur-
rently working on her bachelor Ts degree in social
work from East Carolina University.

Barbara James of Robersonville. .

FARM LIFE - The title of Tina Rodgers-James T book of poetry.

personal emotion that she hopes

with

oExpressions

f the Heart, ? says right up front just what her lines of verse are all about.
we erything t arke about is something in life, something that I Tve gone

her readers

poem, oI Tve Learned, ? recently

oetry.com, and reflects her open-hearted style:
The poem appears in her book, oExpressions of the Heart, ? which she self-

published nal apt month. The collections has different chapters

several po-

marriages.

own life experiences, as well
an empathetic point of view.
feelings because it Ts just it, ? said James. oI Tm
not ashamed of my trials and tribulations because, with the Lord Ts help, I Tve risen

gone through what he reader

James is the daughter of Johnny and Faye Rodgers of Robersonville and

Review: Expressions of the Heart by Tina Rodgers-James
Submitted by Gary R. Redding

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An Imperfect God:

George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

By Henry Wiencek
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

404 pp., illus.
Reviewed by Kam Williams

oHis false teeth, celebrated in
textbook lore, were yanked from the
heads of his slaves and fitted into his
dentures. Washington apparently
had slaves T teeth transplanted into
his own jaw in 1784. The dentist
who performed the procedure at
Mount Vernon was an itinerant
Frenchman who transplanted teeth
for many well-to-do clients, includ-
ing acquaintances of Washington.

It has long been known to specialists that

~ some of Washington's false teeth came from

the mouths of his slaves, but this inherently .
invidious tidbit of fact has not been widely
circulated, despite enduring public interest in
his supposedly wooden dentures, because it is
impossible to rationalize it
completely, ?
" Excerpted from Chapter Four

So much revisionist, reverential lore
has spun over the ages about
George Washington as an honorable,
cherry tree chopper who could onever tell
a lie ? that the real man behind the myths
has been rendered unrecognizable.
However, historian Henry Wiencek has
belatedly taken an honest look at this
country Ts first president in An Imperfect
God: George Washington, His Slaves, and
the Creation of America.

Washington's treatment of his chattel
is certain to make any American's head
spin. For this oFather of Our Country ?
only had children with Black women,
which rust make all the oChildren of
Our Country ? African American.

Although he allegedly couldn T t tell a
lie, curious George still denied the exis-
tence of his children until the day he
died. But he did remember them in his
will, without acknowledging paternity,
and was the only U. S. president,
according to the author, ever to free any
of his slaves.

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We learn that
virtually all of
General
Washington T s larger-

| than- life legend was
?"? comprised of fabrica-
tions.

For instance,
Washington had an
affair with a mulatto
named Venus, a
revelation that puts a
whole new spin on
the popular catch-

phrase, oGeorge
Washington slept

here. ?

In 1785, that liaison produced a boy
named West Ford, who owas set free in
the early 1800s; he lived much of his

adult life at Mount Vernon;
a substantial hequest of land
Mount Vernon;
1863. ?

West Ford was a lucky one, because
his slave- owning father was one of the
nastiest bastards around, a greedy creep
who frequently broke mothers hearts by
raffling off their young children to the
highest bidder.

Relying on diaries, journals, letters
and other papers from the présidential
library, Wiencek establishes that George
Washington at evéry stage of his life,
from son of a plantation owner to
wealthy heir to general to President back
to plantation owner, remained, above -
all, dedicated to the institution of slav-
ery.

And we see that, oIn his struggle to
control his slaves, Washington had to
resort to violence. He regarded physical
punishment as a necessity, ? even though
his chattel were extremely productive.

His own records for one year show
that they made 190,000 com holes and
170, 000 tobacco hills, meaning they had
planted an average of about a plant per
minute during their grueling 12- hour
days under the sun.

After the start of the Revolutionary
War, Washington refused to allow

he was given
adjacent to
and he died there in

Blacks to enlist in the army until it
became clear that their assistance was
necessary for the colonists to prevail.
Recruited with the promise of freedom in
return for fighting, the African-
American soldiers made up a quarter of
his own regiment and as much as three-
quarters of others. As soon as the war
ended, unfortunately, he went back on
his emancipation guarantee, and shipped
the duped Black patriots right back into
slavery.

Curiously, Benedict Amold, whose
name has become a synonym for traitor,
only sided with the British after
Washington refused to include African-
American minutemen in any plans for
freedom. And following the battle of
Yorktown, when General Washington
discovered some of his own escaped
slaves among the prisoners of war, he
sent them back to his plantation without
a thought about the Founding Fathers T
notion about all men being created
equal.

As president, he was worse, signing
the Fugitive Slave Act in 1793 that
allowed the recapture of runaway slaves
who had successfully escaped to free ter-
ritories. Some say this was a personal
Piece of legislation, because he and his
?,?ven more racist wife Martha had
heightened anxiety since the capital was
located in increasingly abolitionist
Philadelphia. Apparently, the couple
feared that their Blacks might be tempted
to disappear.

But George lied about his true moti-
vations in a letter to a secretary, where
he admits that, oI wish to have it
accomplished under pretext that they
may deceive both the slaves and the
public, ?

I'd guess that after reading this damn-

ing opus, the average African American
is likely to feel ag warmly about celebrat-
ing George Washington T s birthday or
driving across the George Washington
Bridge or entering a George Washington
high school as a Jewish person might feel
about having Hitler constantly treated as
a national treasure,

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rand Slam Color Barrier
(Althea Gibson 1927-2003) _

Like Jackie Robinson in baseball and tennis
player Arthur Ashe, tennis champion Althea
Gibson was a trailblazer. Yet her accomplish-
ments were perhaps more impressive because of
her singular place as an athlete who was both
black and a woman in the 1950s. The oldest of
five children, Gibson was born on a cotton farm
a in South Carolina and raised in New York Ts
yi Harlem. Bandleader Buddy Walker, who saw her
playing paddle tennis on a neighborhood street,
was impressed by her strength and style. He ar-
ranged for Gibson to take tennis lessons at a local
multicultural club. After winning several .
American Tennis Association titles---the African

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American counterpart to the all-white U.S. Lawn
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Dr. Robert oWhirlwind ? Johnson of Lynchburg, VA, who also mentored Arthur Ashe,
oher tennis career took off T. Both black physicians bankrolled her career, on the condi-
tion that she continues her education.

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Later she became the first black woman to compete in what became the U.S. Open, and
was also the first black athlete to play at Wimbledon, milestones that pushed her into
prominence during the fight for civil rights: In the course of her career, she won five
Grand Slam singles titles: the 1956 French Open, the 1957 and.1958 Wimbledon cham-
pionships, and the 1957 and 1958 U.S. Opens. New York honored her with a ticker-
tape parade, and she was inducted into several halls of fame. Gibson retired from ama-
teur tennis at age 31. She recorded an album, Althea Sings and appeared in John
Ford Ts 1959 western The Horse Soldiers.

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FORMER NEGRO LEAGUE PLAYER SAM ALLEN signs autographs on Wednesday in Wash-
ington. Artifacts from The Negro League Legends Hall of Fame were displayed for press. Ground-
breaking for the hall is expected to begin next year.

Negro Leagues to get Hall of Fame

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON " Al Burrows wore the
same New York Black Yankees jersey he wore
49 years ago " no high-priced throwback
needed for this Negro Leagues veteran.

On the table was a weathered glove worn
for eight years by Satchel Paige, who eventu-
ally traded it to a friend for a pair of knee-high
fishing boots.

Recently discovered artifacts nearly a cen-
tury old were scattered throughout preserved
unknowingly for decades in someone Ts suit-
case: box scores, ledgers, photos and letters.
They are the remnants of the less organized
days of the so-called Colored Leagues, a period

that even the old-timers couldn't remember.

T Many of those memories will find a perma-
nent home in the new Negro League Legends
Hall of Fame, a shrine and museum to be built
in Washington. Groundbreaking is scheduled
for next year, with opening day set for 2006.

oWe need this, ? said Sam Allen, who played

for the Kansas City Monarchs, Raleigh Tag-
gers and Memphis Red Sox in the late 1950s.
oI've got grandchildren, and I can sit them
down and tell them, but then they want to see

_ the proof. With this museum coming up,

| they'll be able to come here and see my name
and my picture. It Ts a long time coming. ?

There already is a Negro Leagues Baseball
Museum in Kansas City, Mo., and the history
of black baseball is well documented in the
Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
The new Hall of Fame will supplement those,
focusing more on individual players.

oTt gives the average player a chance to be
recognized, ? Allen said. When you talk about
Negro Leagues, black baseball, the first thing
is Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson. But you had
a lot of other good ball players. The Negro
Leagues were loaded. ?

It was a discovery of some pre-Negro
Leagues history that fascinated those gath-
ered at Howard University on Wednesday.
Detailed records that once belonged to Ruther-
ford Hayes Jones, who owned a team called
the Washington Giants in the early 20th cen-
tury, had been found in a suitcase and turned
over to Dwayne Sims, founder of the new Hall.

oHe kept the box scores, how much he paid
the umpires, the players, the receipts, every-
thing, ? Sims said

Among the 300-plus items is a 1911 ledger
noting $2 paid to an umpire to work a game,
numerous photos of athletes that Sims hopes
to identify through research, and well-
preserved correspondence from an era when
white and black teams routinely played each
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ark oIn the Community With Rides and Games "

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Pioneering Hollywood di- T
rector SPIKE LEE has
lashed out at modern urban
music, insisting it's "dan-
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ican-Americans,

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fold a gathering of more
than 400 students at Rhode
Island, America's BROWN
UNIVERSITY that current
rap music is doing more

harm than good for their : -
communities. | " , -
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He said, Ive always ft mute 1 hi illie
you can feel the progress ~ enter

of African Americans by | ail 7 ? - T ; ay a !
listening to their music. . if 7 4 "_. a T _ _ °

Some of this gangsta rap
stuff, its not doing anybody
any good. This stuff is
feally dangerous.

Teenage Pregnancy

Drops
; NY Post

The U.S. rate of teenage births
fell a staggering 31 percent
drom 1991 to 2002, a new study - , a : ee

The rate declined from 62
births per 1,000 girls to 43 per
1,000, but the authors of the
study, conducted by the Child
Trends research center, said
that's still too high.

oWhen we see that 18 percent
f 15-year-olds will become
mothers before they are out of
their teens, it reminds us how
far we still have to go," said
oAngela Romano Papillo, the ©
lead researcher.

The study also contained some
ostartling revelations on regional
and racial differences regarding
oteenage sexuality and mother-
chood.

Pittunty County Schools Receives Smaller Learning Communities Grant

Students at five large high schools in the east, including two from Pitt County, will not get lost in the shuffle thanks to a grant from the United
States Department of Education. The 2.5 million dollar grant will help create Smaller Learning Communities, SLC, within each school.

: Sch. Is T SLC Grants are awarded to high schools with populations of more than 1,000 students. Dr. Joseph Nelson, Director of Grants and Research
New Hampshi had the na- cnoois for Pitt County Schools, wrote the grant. oWe met with focu groups from the five high schools and discussed why some students are getting
anew la ton birth rite in Receives lost in the shuffle and what to do about it, ? said Nelson.

pill vith 21 Ditths 1000 Smaller According to Nelson, the Smaller Learning Communities program is made up of three structures. The first is the Freshman Academy, which
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o1 000 ?,?s higner, P es ran According Dr.-Charles Long, 9-12 Director for Pitt County Schools, J.H: Rose and D.H. Conley will partner with East Carolina University for

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oInterestingly, of the 11 states developed, research-based initiatives.

o ith the e Yeon birth rates. all The Smaller Learning Communities will essentially provide the nurturing environment students need to get on the right path. Advisory groups

but New Mexico require that made up of teachers will offer much needed social and academic support along the way. oThere are some good students out there with potential

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of the devil. . Yes, Christmas is
a@ season for giving it is not
based on who name you pulled,
who you will receive gifts from
or Santa Claus. But, it is based
on the Scripture that is re-
corded by Luke 1:28-35, "And
the angel came in unto her, and
said, Hail, thou that art highly
favoured, the Lord is with thee:
blessed art thou among women.
And when she saw him, she
was troubled at his saying, and
cast in her mind what manner
of salutation this should be.
And the angel said unto her,
Fear not, Mary: for thou hast

Apositle George Hawkins

WHAT GIFT found favour with God. And,
WILL YOU GIVE behold, thou shalt conceive in
. thy womb, and bring forth a
Greetings: son, and shalt call his name
We are approaching the season JESUS. He shall be great, and
for giving, so | must T ask you shall be called the Son of the
this question what do you plan Highest: and the Lord God

to give. Many people are out
spending money on precious
gifts for their loved ones and

shall give unto him the throne
of his father David: And he
shall reign over the house of

yet some people will go unno- Jacob forever; and of his king-

ticed. Why | ask? Is it because dom there shall be no end.

we are a selfish people. Have Then said Mary unto the angel,
you ever really considered what How shall this be, seeing |

God did for us or what Jesus know not a man? And the an-
did for us? gel answered and said unto her,
HE LOVED! and HE GAVE! The Holy Ghost shall come

Likewise we must love and upon thee, and the power of
ive. In the gospel recorded by the Highest shall overshadow
ohn (3:16) "For God so loved thee: therefore also that holy

the world, that he gave his only thing which shall be born of

otten Son, that whosoever thee shall be called the Son of
believeth in himshould not per- God".

ish, but have everlasting life." The true holiday season that we

We have a Christmas season call Christmas is based on John

because God so loved us that. 3:16. The cause is that God so

He put Himself into a virgin's loved the world,

womb, who's name was M the cost is that He gave His

and became flesh and dwelt only begotten Son, the condi-

among us so that He could re- tion is that whosoever believeth
deem us back from the snares in Him should not

City leaders talk past, future

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perish Tand the consequences is ~

Spiritual Reflections

you shall have everlasting life.
God did not send His son into
the world to condemn the
world but that through Him the
world might be saved. .
If we as Christian would take
the time and give our love to
the sinner man we might could

compel them to come to Jesus. -

Love is not only an act of God,
it is God.

We must love one another and
be faithful to our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ. This
Christmas let us give the gift of
life and that is love.

Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year from the
Tabernacle Church Family.

Our gift to yu is JESUS. We
love you and we ask that you
let there be peace in this world
and let it began with you. If
you are saved then I ask you to
pray for the sinner. If you are

unsaved then Task you to pray "

this prayer from your heart and
mean it: Lord, be merciful
unto me a sinner and come into
my life and save my soul, you
said in your word if | confess
with my mouth and believe in
my heart that Jesus born of a
virgin was crucified died and
was buried and on the third
day rose from the dead and now
sits on the right hand side of
the Father making intercession T
for me, that I shall be save and
because I confessed with my
mouth and believe in my heart
that Jesus suffered, bled and
died for me and rose up with
all power in His hand that

right now where I stand I'm
saved, delivered and set free.

to office

By T. Scott Batchelor, The Daily Reflector

Greenville's mayor and City Council members thanked supporters and family and turned their attention to
the city's future the next two years during the board's swearing-in ceremony Monday.

Voters returned the entire board intact on Nov. 4. Mayor Don Parrott, at-large Councilwoman Pat Dunn and
District 4's Ray Craft handily defeated challengers. Mildred Council and Rose Glover, representing districts
| and 2, respectively, ran ne aa as did Ric Miller in District 3 and Chip Little in District 5.

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members, who then made their tenures official with the stroke of a pen

"You all have witnessed us signing our life away for the next two years," Parrott quipped

Russell Duke administered the oath.of office to the mayor and council

to the audience.

The council's first action was to re-elect Miller as mayor pro tem, who conducts meetings in the mayor's ab-

sence.

Parrott touted partnerships between the city and businesses and other entities, such as East Carolina
University and Pitt County Memorial Hospital, as key to moving the city forward both during the past two

years and in the future.
"The vision of what can be done
Craft said he felt "seasoned" sitti

to grow and improve our city is endless, ? he said.
ng on the council for a second term "but humbled Ly the results of the elec-

tion. ?

He vowed to continue serving a city that he said has served him well since he arrived here in 1978 to attend

college.
As a council in harmony, "you can sex
what can be accomplished, ? Craft said.
Little thanked his wife and children for
making allowances for him as he carried
out the time-consuming duties demanded _
by public service.
oWe've got a lot of projects ahead of us, ?
the second-term representative said.
Glover was sworn in to a third consecu-
tive term. For the ceremony, she used a
thick family Bible that represented "gen-
erations and generations ? of her ances-
tors ofrom slavery up till now," Glover
said. | :
Though the board members might dis-
agree on issues, it is important that they
are "still hugging and loving each other"
when they leave the council chambers,
she said.
Miller complimented Parrott's oaggres-
sive agenda ? that has helped form part-
nerships that brought projects to the front
er, such as the 10th Street connector.
"It's been a wonderful two years, ? he
said. Taking the city to the next level
means continuing to grow Greenville
while making it a place where people can
be their best.
"I think we're on the right road to that,"
the second-termer said.
The lon est-serving veteran on the coun-
cil, Mildred Council, was sworn to a
ninth consecutive term. She restated a com-

mitment to nurturing children and young adults both in her role as Councilwoman and in her nonpublic life.

She also vowed to "continue to advocate for things that're right."
Pat tee embarked on her second consecutive term with a
residents.

"Quality of life, preservation of neighborhoods, has to be a high objective for
of governance, participation by residents is critical, she said.

us on maintaining a high quality of life for

us," Dunn said. In all aspects

The ceremony was attended by state officials, including Sen. Tony Moore, R-Pitt; Rep. Charles Johnson, D-

Pitt; and State Board of Transportation
D-N.C., also sent a representative.

ber Marvin Blount |

of Greenville. U.S. Sen. John Edwards,

In the only other vote taken during the abbreviated meeting, the council voted unanimously to make Dec. 26

ano hol in ing wi
Greenville amon il tees Dec. 24, 25 and 26.

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the state and county governments taking off the day after Christmas.

U.S. travel industry executives take a ride in a classic 1957 Buick convertible followed by ©
others through Havana, last month. The executives defied a Bush administration's crack-
down on American travel to Communist Cuba and visited the island to Study its future
business potential. The executives visited Havana using a loophole in the 41-year-old
trade embargo, they were fully hosted and did not spend a dime. The travel ban prohibits
U.S.citizens from spending dollars in Cuba rather than specifically banning visits.

U.S. TRAVEL EXECUTIVES DEFY BAN AND VISIT CUBA

HAVANA (Reuters) - Three dozen U.S. travel __ strains of salsa music and a tour of the city's hotels.

industry executives, defying a Bush administration The one-day visit, which included a stop at

crackdown on American travel to communist Cuba, Havana's Revolution Square, a ride in vintage

visited the island on Sunday to explore its business American convertibles from the 1950s and

potential. ;. e meetings with ruling Communist Party leaders,
The group, whose industry stands to gain the was part of the first U.S.-Cuba travel conference

most from the lifting of a U.S. ban on travel to held at the nearby Mexican resort of Cancun.

Cuba currently being debated in the U.S. Congress, - "It has simply been spectacular," said Matt

was welcomed with a champagne breakfast to the _ Con Td- P45

Most Caribbean prisons, such as the one shown above, in Barbados, are inadequate in that
they do not contain facilitids to properly house the region Ts most dangerous criminals.

CARIBBEAN PRISON OFFICIALS IN ST. LUCIA DISCUSS
BUILDING A REGIONAL MAXIMUM SECURITY COMPLEX

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Thurmond is my father, mixed-race woman says

Nevell, said Williams will ogo to he declared specify . -_ .
THE WASHINGTON POST whatever lengths we must ? to children with estranged wife The armen Thur- received serine tase inom aoe 7 er maiden corps "
A 78-year-old retired school- _ prove her story. | _ Nancy Moore Thurmond. mond Jr., did not return aphone | would be provided later. neh grat uivanind The
teacher whose black mother As a sample of her documents, oWe are not seeking to chal- call seeking comment. In inter- article f wrted that oboth Th
gorxed as. maid forthe late Sen, _she provided The Post with acopy _lenge the wishes ofthe late sena- | views over the years Thurmun re An well-known secret | mond and the supposed daugh
- Strom Thurmond is breaking her ofa 1998 Thurmond letter thank- tor with regard to his estate, ? said sisters and staff have repeatedly ter have denied that he is her fa-
lifetime of silence toannounce that _ing her for the nice Father's Day Wheaton, who has been joined by | said that Williams was aie Williams T account resurrects | ther seq no one has odon dled
She is the daughter of the South _note you sent me. ? She said she | Columbia attorney Glenn Walters | ily friend. one of the oldest stories in 20th- | evidence thatheia ?
Carolina senator, who was once did not want to release additional in representing Williams, oLet Ts be Williams said she met with century Southern political folk, Aas Jae ee
the nation Ts leading segregationist. documents at this time. emphatically clear: We are not Thurmond and received money lore. Over the years, Thurmond pressure has inte ified, ith i
_ Essie Mae Washington- looking for money. We are merely at least once a year in sessions | had called the allegation that he fa- | terview Sapa = a!
Williams said that Thurmond pri- Thurmond's will seeking closure by way. of the arranged by his Senate staff. In re- thered a mixed-race child too un- jor television network. She had
vately acknowledged her as his ee truth for Essie Mae Washington- cent years, as the senator Ts health seemly to warrant comment. refused, consistently calli
daughter and had provided fi- Williams T claim comes as the Williams. ? » declined, she said, financial as- Noted political writer Robert Thurmond a ofamil Me r Ped
nancial support since 1941, attorney for the Thurmond es- Taylor said he has had no con- sistance was passed through a Sherrill described an alleged had merely wided her ith 4
Williams described her claims in _tate, J. Mark Taylor, is overseeing tact with Williams. Thurmond Ts prearranged conduit, a Thurmond daughter without providing a nancial bad Bee ed her with fi-
a telephone interview last week, _ settlement of the senator's estate will did not acknowledge Williams | relative in South Carolina. name in a 1968 book. oe nee vod
saying she protected Thurmond in Columbia. Thurmond be- or her heirs. Williams has strug- Williams T attorney declined to The Post identified Williams by uot Mant anybody to
because of their mutual odeep re- queathed cash and other items, gled financially over the years, _ know I had an illegitimate father,
spect ? and her fears that disclosure - _ including clothing and real estate and in 2001, court records show, said Williams, who has four grown

children. oMy children convinced
me to tell the truth. I want to fi-
nally answer all of these questions
... thar-have been following me
for 50 uv 60 years. ?

- Sen. Thurmond thanked Essie

Mae Washington-Williams for
a Father's Day note in 1998.

would embarrass her and harm
his political career. Thurmond,
who died in June at age 100, said
late in life through his office that
Williams was a friend.
| Williams, whose mother
_ worked as a teenage maid in the
' Thurmond family home, bas Jong
been the subject of widespread
speculation and for two decades
has been pursued by journalists
seeking her story.

While Thurmond lived,
Williams always denied that she
was his daughter.

oI want to bring closure to this, ?

| She said. oIt is a part of history. ?
| She plans to hold a news con-
ference on Wednesday in Colum-
bia, S.C., at the Adam Ts Mark ho-
_tel. Two blocks south, a...
Confederate flag decorates a Civil
_ War memorial on the grounds of
the state Capitol.

DNA test possible

Williams did not provide de-
'finitive proof that she is Thur-
_mond Ts daughter. Her attorney,
Frank Wheaton of Los Angeles,

said she is ready to submit to
DNA tests if challenged by the
rmond family. a +

+ Williams said she has docu-
, ments to validate her claim, in-
cluding cashier Ts check stubs, me-
'mentos from Thurmond and a
letter from an intermediary who
- delivered money from the senator.
She declined to name the inter-

» mediary, citing privacy concerns.
' Wheaton, of the Los Angeles
| firm of Scolinos, Sheldon and

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New Medicare bill penalizes
peor, Say critics
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handkerchiefs we see so many seniors
unravel with their shaking hands at
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| drugs will now vtive to ontah thow-
sands of dollars more.

Says Sen, Richard Durbin (D-III) of
passage of the new Medicare bill: oThis
bill does nothing to reduce drug prices,
it leads Medicare down the road to
privatization. ?

Under the new plan, seniors have the
option of signing up for Medicare or a

for-profit HMO and all the baggage that ; o

entails. Seniors who opt for Medicare oHelp Save Lives With CPR ?

will be charged a $250 deductible and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation dination and

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eight years, ? said Rep. John Dingell, C S C ou n C, om 0 ass
the ranking Democrat on the House j a a a
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the poor... and neither does it speak
to the participation of African Ameri-
can and other minority physicians in
the new regime of HMOs. ?

Beginning next year, a drug discount
card will be made available to seniors
that will reduce drug prescriptions by
15 percent. Seniors earning $12,123 or
less (and couples earning $16,362 or
less) will not be charged monthly pre-
miums or the $250 deductible.

In 2010, under the new bill, Medi-
care would have to compete with pri-
vate Companies in six undetermined
urban areas to otest whether competi- FOOTWEAR
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Ray Vogt, 42, of Albany, N.Y., gave his
43-year-old girlfriend a special evening
complete with candles, wine and a bubble
bath. During the bath, he told her to close
her eyes for a surprise. Then, he turned on
her blow dryer and tossed it into the tub
with her. When the GFI plug in the bath-
room shut off the power and she was not
electrocuted, Vogt tried to. Strangle her and
hit her over the head with a vase, promis-
ing, oIt'll only take a minute. ? She escaped
and called police. Vogt pleaded guilty to at-
tempted murder, explaining that he'd acted
because he was having an affair with the
girlfriend Ts 15-year-old niece.

Leap of faith

A 32-year-old Austrian extreme-sports en-
thusiast parachuted from the 35th floor of a
skyscrapér in Munich, Germany, but his
Chute failed to open properly. He escaped
death, however, when a crane next to the
building snared him, leaving him hanging
150 feet off the ground. .

Rock me, baby |

Police in Hempfield Township, Pa., arrest-
ed 44-year-old David Smith for simulating
sex with a rock. One witness reported see-
ing the man lying naked on top of the rock
on the Youghiogheny River Trail, thrusting
himself against the rock in a lustful manner.
He had earlier been seen riding a bike deco-
rated with women Ts underwear, gloves and
rubber straps tied to the frame.

Everlasting love

Police in Prescott, Ariz., arrested Edwin
Rowlette, 75, after finding his wife Ts body
packed inside a refrigerator with dry ice.
They said Rowlette told them he froze the
body six years ago when his wife of many
years, Marsha Rowlette, died of natural
causes, and he hoped someday to bring her
back to life.

The honeymoon is over

@Authorities in Lebanon, Ohio, arrested
Gregory Hogg, 41, for allegedly dragging
his girlfriend from her apartment by her
hair and forcing her to marry him. Accord-
ing to prosecutor Rachel Hutzel, Hogg
hoped the marriage would prevent Cheryl
Skaggs, 43, from testifying against him ina
criminal case. Skaggs, who alerted police
\10 days after the forced marriage, can testi-

His she wants to, Hutzel said after adding
dfges Of kidnapping, domestic violence
and intimidation of a witness to the original
charges.

@A month after Anthony Kircus, 30, was
arrested for beating up Catherine
mPRANdPOWicz, 47
ship, Mich., apartment, the two were mar-
ried in Las Vegas. According to authorities,
Kircus murdered his new wife on their hon-
eymoon and left her body in a hotel room in
Scottsdale, Ariz., then returned to Las Ve-
gas to gamble. Police apprehended him out-
side a casino as he waited for a valet to
bring his rental car.

Foiled again

Police in Syracuse, N.Y., said that Jere-
my Lepianka, 22, impersonated a sheriff Ts
deputy for two years, stopping vehicles
for traffic violations and lecturing the dri-
vers. Authorities learned of the ruse after
Lepianka allegedly stopped a pickup
truck that had run a red light, and several
people in the truck fled. He called 911 on
a cell phone, identified himself as an off-
duty deputy and asked for backup. When
police arrived, according to Lt. Joe Ce-
cile, oSomething just didn Tt seem quite
right about him. ? He admitted the imper-
sonation after officers questioned him,
explaining that he always wanted to be a
police officer. _

Fowl play

During the dress rehearsal of an Aus-
tralian production of Johnny Belinda, a
chicken appearing in the play to add au-
thenticity to the farm setting collapsed dur-
ing the opening scene, apparently from
stage fright, according to the director. Ron
Hamilton of the St. James Players in north-
erm Queensland said the chicken had a piece
of string tied to its leg to keep it from stray-
ing. When the bird passed out, rather than
spoil the drama by having someone walk on
and collect it, the stage crew used the string
to drag it slowly off-stage.

Conscientious killing

The Defense Department is paying Min-
nesota-based Alliant, the world Ts largest
ammunitionmaker, $5 million to develop
combat bullets that are lead-free. The
goal is a bullet othat can kill you or that
you can shoot a target with and that Ts not
an environmental hazard, ? Army repre-
sentative Bob DiMichele explained. oWe
are talking about green ammunition for
pistols, rifles and machine guns. ? Earlier
this year, the Air Force awarded a $25
million contract to Alliant for copper
polymer bullets that won't ricochet if
fired in an urban area.

Pedal pushers

Houston police accused T Guadalupe Ca-
marena of trying to help men look like
women by injecting them with what was
supposed to be pure silicone but turned out
to be brake fluid. .

oAny type of liquid silicone that could be
found at any type of auto-parts or hardware
store is what essentially is being injected in-
to these people, ? Police Capt. Steve Smith
said. Camarena reportedly charged between
$200 and $400 for each procedure, a frac-

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Real life televi-
Sion journalist
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her attention to
writing a novel.
Her debut effort,
My Brother's
Keeper, is a hu-
morous and heart-
wrenching look at
how deep child-
hood issues can
run. It Ts about for-
giving, forgetting -
a vi tees ane finding: the
strength to move on.

At the center of the story is Aja James. Aja
hasn't had it easy. She Ts kept a close watch
over her siblings after tragedy robbed them of
their parents. With the weight of the world on
her shoulders and her best friend, Roxie, by
her side, she is ready for a change. And Rox-
ie knows just what to do when she sets A ja
up on a date with one of the most sought-af-
ter bachelors in town, handsome sports caster
Charles Clayton. .

Charles is everything Aja has ever dreamed
of - warm, sensitive. patient and charming.
But is long-lasting love really that easy to
find? .

Adding to her problems are her siblings,
who have not rebounded from the loss of
their parents as easily as Aja has.

ReShonda says the book Ts theme is univer-
sal. o...whether it's a mother who neglected

_ her children because she worked too hard, a

father who abandons his kids, or even a crazy
uncle, family dysfunction can have lasting ef-
fects. ?

ReShonda is a reporter at KRIV-TV in
Houston and the 2002 Black Writer's Al-
liance Gold Pen Award Winner for Best New
Author.

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of the dating game

She Ts smart, suc-
cessful, financially
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when she has everything, except love.

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date a week, every week for a yeur, sets the
stage for an array of colorful characters and
disastrous dates that prove that truth, espe-
cially on the singles scene, is stranger (and
funnier) than fiction.

While men may come and go, the con-
stants in Ritta Ts life are her friends and fami-
ly. Her grandmother's down home omother
wit ? frames each chapter, paving the way for
the lesson she learns from every date.

Along the way, Ritta gets plenty of good
advice. Her loyal girlfriends set up her on her
dates; her platonic friend Max gives her some
insights into the mirid of the modern man:
and her uncle sthree-time-divorced, offers her
some hard truths.

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in Public Policy with a concentration in Ur-
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at a major Wall Street investment banking
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have to learn to get along wiith
people, even those you don't like.
9. Don't talk back to your parents.

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pay phone business

The Tennessee Regulatory Author-
ity (TRA) this week received formal
notification from BellSouth officials
of the company Ts intent to discontin-
ue its payphone operations in Ten-
nessee

BellSouth Ts transition of the
coin-operated telephone #usiness,
which will take place across its nine
State service region, will result in the
removal ..of,,approximately 7,000.
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BellSouth officials indicated that
it would be selling its payphones
to other telecommunications carri-
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be provided by other companies.
According to TRA records, 250
companies are authorized to pro-
vide pay telephone service in the
State.

For a list of payphone operators in
Tennessee, visit the Tennessee Regu-
latory Authority web = site at
www state.tn.os/tra.

Weekly effective formula
rate of interest

Chapter 464, Public Acts of 1963,
the legislation regulating interest
rates in Tennessee, requires that the
Commissioner of Financial Institu-
tions make an announcement weekly
of the formula rate of interest. »

Tennessee Department of Financial
Institutions Commissioner Kevin P.
Lavender announces that the maxi-
mum effective formula rate of inter-
est in Tennessee is 8.00 percent per
annum.

The rate is based on a ceiling of 4
percent over the weekly average
prime loan rate of 4.00 percent as
published by the Federal Reserve on
Nov. 24, 2003.

Lavender said the rate remains in
effect until the average prime loan
rate as announced by the Federal Re-
serve Bank changes.

Business seminars
slated at U of M

Two seminars, Essentials of Pur-
chasing and Improving Purchasing
Performance are scheduled for the
Fogleman Executive Center at the
University of Memphis.

The Essentials of Purchasing semi-
nar will be held Feb. 2-3, 8:30 a.m.
" 4:30 P.M. Designed for first-time
buyers, seasoned professionals and
managers, this workshop examines
the most effective purchasing tech-
niques and approaches. The two-day
seminar addresses a wide range of
topics, including the changing role
of the purchasing function, concepts
of commodity management, pur-
chasing capital equipment, e-com-
merce, supplier selection, legal as-
pects of purchasing and the elements
of price.
On Feb, 4-5 at the same times as

the previous seminar, Improvin
Purchasing Performance is Need

to enable participants to improve
their work with, and get results from,
others inside oand outside of their

anozation. They will learn how to
sel ideas, negotiate long-term and

complex ments report re-
sults in ait that top manhgement
understands.

Be able to speak up and express

ers and elders.

your opinions, but show respect
to parents,teach elders
10. Take care of your body. Eat:

| A Healthy diet, get your exer-

cise and sleep, and work at
Saying healt ee

11. Speak the truth so that oth-
words.

12. Take time to practice.
Anything worth learning takes

practice. _

13. Don't give up with out try-
ing. You miss every opportunity
you never take.

14. Save sex for marriage. It's a
mistake to experiment with sex
before you are committed.

15. If you choose to have sex,
don't have sex without taking
precautions. .

16. Learn to save your money,
or you won't have money when
you need it.

17. Pick your friends wisely.
You are known by the friends
you hang around with.

18. Let me know where you
are, so | won't worry. If you
change your plans, let me
know.

19. Be careful when you drive.
A car is a lethal weapon when
not used wisely. -

20. Do your chores responsibly,
on time, and without being
asked.

21. Don't have anything to do
with hitchhiking. Don't take or
give rides to strangers.

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22. Take time to know your God.

Attend services at your church or tem-
le on a regular basis.
53 Know when to stop pushing when
your parents say "No". Ask for what
| want. Don't become a nuisance.

4. Limit your time with television.
25. Study hard. Doing wellin school
and going to college are the best ways
to get ahead. oo
26. Borrow and leand r sibly,
Don't borrow without asking and re-
turn things promptly.

27. Be confident in who you are. Take
pride in what you accomplish and
don't put yourself down for mistakes.
28. When you are old enough to vote,
vote proudly. Don't be a complainer or
needy.

29. Take care of your pet os don't have
one. ,

30. Use the phone respnsibly and k
yar alk a raccueae length n.

4. a yriate table manners
and social graces. ,
32. Don't ee Play by the rules or

call early when there is any prob-
lem with meeting your COMIN
ments. on
38. Don't put down other people.
If you must gossip, keep it positive

OSSIp.
55 Dont handle your frustrations
or anger with cursing, or swear-
ing, or taking God's name in vain.
10. Listen to or read instructions
efore you try to do anything.
+1. Keep your room neat and or-

derly.

42. Tak e care of your possessions.
When you lose your own things,
don't expect another to be bought

for you.
T3-Don't litter or abuse Mother
Nature. Do your part for the envi-

ronment.
Abide by 45 and 46 if you have a
brother or sister.

44. Td like you two to get along.
Stop fighting and wor things out
by aking :

Set_a good examplefor your

don't play at all. brother os sister. When you are
33. Tf you want to be successful, look older, you're expected to be a
the part, Good grooming and appropri- model. *

ate dress are im t.
34. Don't take things that don't belong

to you. Stealing is not acceptable. Earn

Pp,
arents are. not last

minute servants.
36. Be polite. Being courteous means
being concerned about'the feelings and

sensitivities of others.
37. Be on time for stated curfews and

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veloping amd implementing the
programs and projects in

the South Atlantic Region as
well as reactivating the Kappa
Sigma Chapter at East
| Caroliina University. On the re-
gional level, Annette served for
four years on the Task Force for
Protocol and Traditions, travel-
ing across the region facilitat-
ing workshops.
Some of Annette's profeesional
and community involvement
have been President of the Pitt
County Saint Augustine's
College Alumni Association:
Board Member of League of

Woman Voters; Past Board

- Chairperson of West Greenville
Communnity Development; Pitt
Communnity College Business
Advisory Commirree
Member,United Way of Pitt

County Allocations Committee
Member, Campaign Loan
Executive and Campaign
Coordinator for TRW; US
Savings Bond Campaign
Coordinator for TRW:
American Red Cross Blood
Drive Campaign Coordinator
for TRW; Literacy Volunteer of
America Tutor; Saint Peters
Catholic Church member and
CCD Instructor; and Member of |
American Business Women of
America. Annette is presently
employed as Senior Human
Resources Representative at
TRW Incorporated in
Greenville, N.C.

Regional Appoinment

The South Atlantic Regional
Director, YvetteG. Robinson, ap- .
pointed the Immediate Past
President of the Greenville NC
Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority, Inc. Annette
Goldring, North Carolina State
Coordinator. ,
Oon the local level, Annette has
srved as President, Vice President,
Secretary, and Leader of Minerva
Circle. During her term as presi-
dent, the chapter received the
Chapter of the Year Award for de-

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but the authors of the study, conducted by the Child Trends research center, said th

ers before they are out of their teens, it reminds us how far we still have to go," sai

Teenage Pregnancy Drops

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1991 to 2002, a new study reveals, The rate declined from 62 births per 1,000 girls to 43 per 1,000,
at's still too high. "When we see that 18 percent of 15-year-olds will become moth-
d Angela Romano Papillo, the lead researcher, The study also contained some star-
motherhood. New Hampshire had the nation's lowest teen birth rate in 2001, with
between ages 15 and 19. The worst was Mississippi, with a teen birth rate more than three times higher, at 67 per 1,000. Interestingly, of the
11 states with the top teen birth rates, all but New Mexico require that abstinence be stressed in sex education. In all, 22 states have such laws. Overall, Southern and
i , except Rhode Island, had five of the six lowest rates. New Jersey and New York also
west rates in the nation. The futures of the 400,000 teens who had babies in 2002 could well be
limited by their premature motherhood, said the authors. Other findings included a marked racial difference as to whether girls and boys were equally likely to have sex
early in life. Among teens who had sex before age 15, white girls were just as likely as boys to have sex. But black or Hispanic girls were less than half as likely as
?,? highest teen birth rates, with nearly three times more than the 30 per 1,000 reported for whites,

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