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_ ATLANTA, Georgia " Turning to

a businessman to lead one of the
nations seminal civil rights groups,
the NAAGP Ts board of directors an-

don, a retired Verizon executive, will

be its next president...

oCivil rights leaders throughout
this country did what they did and
died, so my generation has full re-
sponsibility to walk in the doors

ose brave people opened, ? Gor-
don said after the board voted. oIt Ts
fabulous, exciting, humbling. ?

Gordon was selected by a large
majority: of the board to succeed
Kweisi Mfume, former U.S, repre-
marvel and a eens fot Seis
in Maryland who resigned abru
in November.(Read hore) ny

Several months later a report
surfaced T that his personal relation-
ships with NAACP staffers had con-

otributed to widespread mismanage-
headquarters in.
Baltimore. One staff member threat-
rd of dit enedito sue.
nounced Saturday that Bruce §. Gor-

meént at nation

o- o Described at's top-nntch leader

and consensus-builder, Gotdon, 59,

his cateer in 1968 as'a man-

agetnent trainee at Bell of. Pennsyl-

vania.
For 35 years, amid massive up-
heaval in the telecommunications in-

dustry, he helped the company navi-

gate the string of mergers that led it

~ to become Verizon Communica-

tions Inc.
When he retired in December

2003, he was chief of Verizon's big-

gest division " retail markets.
Gordon's corporate background
omeans that he is accustomed to
working within a system in which
merit and achievement count the
most, ? Julian Bond, chairman of the

mm erving Eastern North Carolina

wee ee ee

group's. board of directors, said in

an interview. oThat was attractive to

us. Not to say that the NAACP didn Tt iri

have that. But with every. step we've

taken ... we wanted to move up. |

And we think he's going to bring us

a quantitative move up. ?

Gordon's priorities... |
Gordon said his first priorities

will be to improve the organization's

finances " its expenses have ex-

ceeded its income for the last two
years, tax documents show " by |
working to build an endowment,

increasing membership and pushing

for more efficiency in operations,
His civil rights priorities include
working toward greater economic

equality, he said.

oPeople of color need to change

and balance the trade deficit that ex- "

ists between people of color and the

. rest of society, ? Gordon said.

A National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
search committee invited Gordon to
apply for the position in February,

__ More than 250 candidates were con-
sidered, Bond said.

It became clear last week. that
Gordon was the only presidential
candidate under consideration, a
choice that marked a striking change
for the NAACP. Most presidents
have been political or religious lead-
ers " or prominent figures from the

civil rights movement.

oHe's not a minister or a politi-
cian, but this man Ts been doing it all
along, ? said Eric Cevis, a vice presi-
dent in Verizon's retail division who
has known Gordon since 1986. oHe
has a social accountability that he's
been preaching for years. ?

Cevis said. Gordon. pioneered
diversity efforts at Verizon for blacks

v OM I ore oe ig mang Pee ey,

and other minotities, consistently

ushing the company to improve its
ring and promotion practices.
Gordon was born in Camden,
New Jersey, and raised with four sib-
lings by parents who-were both edu-
cators and civil right activists.
He serves on boards of South-

ern Co. and Tyco International Led.

SMILING HAPPILY FOR THE CAMERA: Above is Alge Crumpler,
the Atlanta Falcons is pictured if
seven young members of the Boys & Girls Club.

Football All-Pro Tight End with

with

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and is a trustee of Gettysburg Col-

lege and the Alvin Ailey Dance Foun-
dation. He was named one of For-
tune magazine's 50 most powerful
black executives in 2002 and-execu-
tive of the year by Black Enterprise
magazine in 1998.

oI think he Ts a godsend, ? said
Leroy Warren, a board member ftom

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after the board voted. o
get back to real eivil-ti
nomic development,
intelligence to move forward. ?

ef contract negotiations Gor-
don is expected to be'confirmed as
president at the'aésociation Ts conven
tion in a few weeks, ?

Knead ims " 1
with war in Iraq: poll |
WASHINGTON for the fir unc

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,

Jington Post-ABC News

The survey found that Ameri-|
cans continue to rank Iraq second} |

_jonly to the economy in importance} ?

" and that many are losing p

-|tience with the enterprise. Nearly
_ [three-quarters of Americans say the}
» [number of casualties in Iraq is un-
jaeceptable, while two-thirds sa thet #
||US military there is bogged down}

and nearly six in 10 say the war} ;
was not worth fighting. More than}
four in 10 believe the US presence} |
in Iraq is Pecoming analogous to}:
the experience in Vietnam.. = |
But what should be more alarm-
ing for President Bush is the find-}°
ing that 52 percent respondents}
said war in Iraq has not contrib-|
uted to the long-term security off
the United States, while 47 percent
said it has. It was the first time al
majority of Ameticans disagreed]
aris che contr takes B sh has!
rend 0 bald Sales port for war: thar} |
the fight there will make Americans| . T
er from terrorists at home:
In late 2003, 62 per cent}
thought the Iraq war aided US se-|
months ago §

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than half " 52 per cent " disap-
prove of how Mr Bush is handling

is job, the highest of his presidency.
A somewhat larger majority "56|
per cent " disapproved of Republi-
cans in Congress, and an identical
prion disprove of Deno The
surge in violence in Iraq singe the new.
Iraqi government took control + 80
US troops and more than 700 Iragis

Crumpler, (from left to right) is Jolisa Gardner,
Jordan, Taylor McNeil, Dynasty Williams,
DeNeal.

Below we find (from left to right) Jessica Warren, Kate Hanley,
Director Jay Faran, Brittney Grillo and Aaron Atkinson in the back.
row. In the front row (from left to right) is Sarah Hanley, Jasmine
Tyson, Ashley Brown, Brian Purser, Alex White, Terrence Holloway

Shanice Tyson, April
Onteja Hunt and Bethany

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Re-
cently Congressman G. K.
Butterfield welcomed more than
50 religious leaders from East-
ern North Carolina as they took
patt in a daylon dialogue with
more than two-dozen Congres-
sional leaders.

oThis is an opportunity for
some members of our faith-
based community to talk directly
with national leaders about the

issues effecting people in East-
ern North Carolina, ? Butterfield
said.

The event sponsored by the
Congressional Black Caucus,
clergy from around other parts
of the country joined religious
leaders from eastern North
Carolina with CBC Chairman
and Congressman Mel Watt, D-
NC welcoming all to the event.

The gathering, which fol- '

ey

and Joshua Keyes, (more Boys & Girl Club Pg. 4). Photo: Jim Rouse

On a hot summer night in August 75 years ago, three men were dragged
from a Marion, Indiana jail cell and one by one were hung from the neck

on a tree about a block and a half from the

City Jail. One survived.

Awaiting an formal apology from the U.S. Senate and seated in a wheel.

chair above next to Senator Mary Landrieu,

D-La., museum curator,

James Cameron, 91, is thought to be the only living survivor of a lynch-

ing attempt. oI w
Dozens of hate gro

national battlefield

lowed a discussion held in
Rayburn House Office Building,
touched on the budget, healt

care, education, economic op-
portunity, housing, foreign
policy and Social Security.
Among the members of Con-
gress who lead the discussions
were James Clyburn, D-SC,
Albert Wynn, D-MD, Emanuel
Cleaver, D-MO., Elijah
See East Car, Leaders Page 7

By Sue Lin
YORKTOWN Va. " Members of
a group calling itself oAmerica Ts Nazi
Party ? waved flags bearing swastikas
and shouted slogans like oSieg Heil ?
at a rally on a national battlefield Sat-
urday a week agg, while some 500
counter-demonstrators gathered on a
field nearby, ;
About 150 members of the Na-
tional Socialist Movement and their

ved by a miracle, ? he said.

ee story on page )

Up members meet at

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Supporters gathered at the Yorktown
Battlefied to honor George Washing-
ton and other founding fathers whom
they claim held separatist and anti-
Semitic views "a position disputed
by most scholars.

Many wore Nazi uniforms with
swastika armbands, while others iden-
tified themselves as members of the
Ku Klux Klan and various skinhead
groups.

llic.

died in May alone amid:a rash of|

bombi pte bce ;
hy sing gloom above dhe verall fight

By 50 per cent to 49 per cent,
Americans approved of the: way
Bush is handling the:campaign
against terrorism, down from 56
pc cent approval in April, equal-
ing the lowest rating he has earned
on the issue that has consistently
been his core strength with the pub-
tts on war and public opin-
ion told the paper the $ indi-
cate that pessimism about the war in
Iraq has reached a dangerous level,

oIt appears that Americans are
now realizing that the war in. Ira
is not being won and may well
prove unwinnable, ? said retired
Army Col. Andrew J, Bacevich, a
professor at Boston University,

oThat conclusion bleeds over
into a conviction that it may not have
been necessary in the first place. ?

oThis is sacred ground, ? said Jeff
Schoep of Minneapolis, :
of the National Socialist Movement
which bills itself as the largest Nazi
party in'the United States,

The counter-demonstratots, who
came from as far away as New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, gathered about 250
yards away, One group, Anti-Racist
Action, marched in carrying @ pink
and red banner with black Lena
that said, oSmash racism. now, ?

oAll we want to do today is to get
as close as we can and let know

re not welcome to organiasiany.
where, ? protester Rob C

The groups were sepatate by
iron fences and police said no one
was arrested. The US, Park Police
said 15 law enforcement agencies
were involved in mitintaini: security
at the event. A helicopter circled
field continuously throughoutthe two.
hour tallies,

The NSM had wanted the
to be on the spor where tip ritist
army surrendered to Washington. te
end the siege of Yorktown "~and te
Revolutionary War "on Oct, 19,
1781. Much of the park can be used
by outside groups, but Mike Litterst,
a spokesman for the National Park
Service based at Yorktown, said Sur.
render Field has always been off-lim.
its, Sue Lindsey writes the AP

NC - The grow-

| Share of vice
including
|. theft, proba-
_. drugs, mur-

deaths of young Black
dea y
ver b the ages of 14 to
en the obituary reveals
afe younger. The
Feud ? recently T encapsu-
teenville's Daily Reflec-
Page, June 19, 2005,
myille Ts bloody feudal
Y and pictures of the
aien, 1nUs noting a sad commen-
Y spoken all too often: The

fae death in the com-

y: when is enough, enough?

__Ahe stench of death, however
lic in nature, permeates West
Giving it a over cast even
tM , the bullets

ench of Youth

of worship, located between

Farmville Boulevard and Bancroft

Avenue. And within the span
has claimed the lives of one too
many youth. The dead do speak

1 oa
ike twenty-five years one spot therein

and our youth are crying out for

help, change and leadership with-
out a visible spot or wrinkle!

. That well known areas within
this hub of Black life and urban liv-
ing could began to resemble the war
torn streets of Iraq beginning with
boarded up dwellings, trash strewn
Streets, the chronically unem-
ployed, abusers of fortified wine
and other reality numbing drugs as
well as daylight prostitutes and you
get a situation that cries foul play
not against the city of Greenville
but against West Greenville Ts very
own, and those who do business
in the vicinity, :

Notwithstanding realities of this
degree are not only down right
embarrassing, but they for some

reason prove difficult in rousing the |

community from self imposed
States of sleep that fester hear no
evil, see no evil, speak no evil but

mostly leave the evil alone. That " ily, and the community safe.
matter perhaps is left for resolve They jointly and lovingly pro- allow the killing
during mass community meetings vided a ostraighten you out place ?
in the aftermath of death. for that crazy 4nd on the run New
_ Sociologists have well docu-

Death in

4 oe

_ Mented the problems of sick (ill) _ worse its anticipation- when com- | goy OFROUGABED
is no less in its struggles. Rem- ing, oit'll again? ? - 7 FX |

_¢dies for social ills suffered by the Back in the ole and not todis- | }
community of West Greenville are tant day Ts sista Ts and mothers of ;

the same as those proposed for the church-
other communities tougher gun \ alike- would

or bike patrols, better:
well as curfews, = ==

Community citizenry patrols
across the United States are noted
on record for having put an-end to
acts of violence to make their
neighborhoods safe again. They
believe and fight for the right to not
live in fear, but in clean respectable
neighborhoods and in homes that
Sell above and not below market
value. . .
But whatever happened to self-
respect, however, and to commu-

lighting as pute and others

to do it again?

read this know, the extended fam-
ily was crucial in keeping flaying
family components together T and
crime curbed so it did appear. Big
moma, her sister aunt Lossie Bell,
her husband Fred- even if he did
drink too much- made family fam-

th

en is enough. San enough? ae fay tat te gy

thing called brotherly love- or

deacons and pastors
, gather in the streets
control laws, beefed up police foot and pray and-sing women of ill-re-

a holy cleansing. In following the
word on the street would be ooh,
so anid so is saved now. ? Such acts
of faith and belief made a differ-
ence because the people believed
in the God they served on Sunday
morning and would rebuke you if
you got in their way, They called
on His name and believed that he Td
show up and show out! No doubt
He did for them; clearly, He Ts able

| It Ts a new day folks, and God
nity respect, as well as family and won't suffer anyone to compart-
extended family? And as all. who mentalize or relegate his supreme
Alpha and Omega power for self-
ish gains only. He Ts neither the
master of confusion nor is he the |
father of fear. The God spoken of
will bring the fire so close that no
question remains as to where the if
problem lies and with whom. Per-
haps harder to embrace is that he Tll

his dearly beloved cries out:
Enough Is Enough, Come now |¥

ler: Michael Jackson i

- gy
Be«

Bie

whatever happens to A ica
ms to Black America first

into the church for

ack Community:

to continue until

s Vindicatec

comes down to it, no
matter how White you become, at the
end of the day, the ones who are pray-
ing for you is your extended family of
Black fans. ?
__ Contributing to this report were
NNPA Washington Correspondent Ha-
zel Trice Edney, National Correspondent
Makebra M. Anderson and Special
Contributor Tessa Corie Smith.

Kindergarten-Con't on Page 4

beholden to Blair and Africa

four for child molesti ing, one for at- on these kind of charges. So, in many had many prominent entertainers as robably 90 percent of the fans would
tempted at molesting, four of ad- ways, it came out the way it was sup- clients, ottsin ing that White fans be White. ?
; ninistering alcohol to aid in the com- to come out. ? iroughout the world traveled to Cali- According to Julia Hare, that Ts the
NGTON (NNPA)-Aftican- mission of a felony, and conspiracy Jesse Jackson said heavy-handed fornia because ent pom rapes problem. .
tejoiced over Michael to commit child abduction, false im- law enforcement officials trans ed for his integrity than many Black ; T hope that Michael Jackson, at
. Jackson be- " prisonment and extortion. If found Jackson from an alleged perpetrator If Michael Jackson were to come to this time, will sell Neverland [ranch]
i, i ited guilty on all counts, Jackson could have 0 a victim, at least in the eyes of the the MCI Center [in Washington, and that he will come to realize who
onday of ived more than 18 years in prison. public. D.C_] tonight, it would be packed and he is and learn his lesson in blackness
child moles- Many media accounts had pre- - The very aggressive sheriff went |
tation sumed that Jackson would be found into his home with 75 armed depu- Bush
: , Not Built One New York Times head- ties, ? Jesse Jackson said in an inter- -s ;
because of a fine read, oMakeup of Jackson Jury view with the NNPA News Service. by Judge Greg Mathis on the African continent. Appar-
firm beliefin " Seems to Favor Prosecution. ? Andthe oThey occupied his home and ran- en President Bush rallied the ently, President Bush is not familiar
his inno- Associated Press had even predicted sacked his home. Many in the news UN and its member nations for sup- with the particulars of political pay-
cence but that a guilty Michael Jackson would media indicted him before he was . Port for his back-not only did he refuse to re-
because be assigned to the Corcoran State even tried. Then the judge was so - war on terror, consider his earlier refusals to
they wel- Prison, olocated 100 miles northeast ¢fous in allowing [the prosecutor] to his feeble double aid to Africa, he also stood
es «come evi- of the gated estate where prosecutors bring up all this old stuff. It seems |. Stance was __ before the media and the world and
ee ANY dence that c Jackson molested a.13-year- that the odds were against Michael. | strengthened, pledged an embarrassingly low dol-
5 tes. that the criminal jus- old boy. ? ae In a great sense, at some point, | by the backing lar amount to support this cause:
tice system; can treat Blacks faitly, At a news conference after the Michael T became the victim. A pene. of British $674 million in emergency aid.
many activists and civil rights leaders verdict was announced, many of the cuted hero is a different hero than a oPrime Minis- oIf this sounds like a generous
say. jurors said prosecutors failed to prove guilty hero. ter Tony Blair. amount, don't be fooled, Currently,
oWe have a double standard in their case. Many experts believe Michael Blair stood by the U.S. contributes 0.16 percent of
this country, ? says psychologist Julia oWe expected probably better. Jackson can now put the emotional Bush, offering its national income to aid to poor
Hare of San Francisco. oThat's why evidence...something that was a little and often embarrassing trial behind both financial nations. This, despite agreeing three
so many Blacks cheered this case on. more convincing, and it just wasn Tt him. . and human years ago to increase aid to 0.7 per-
They do not condone molestation. there, ? said a person identified only He'll be able to bounce back, capital in the crusade. Surely Blair cent by 2015; 0.7 percent of the
It's not even about Michael Jackson. as juror No. 10. says Attorney Hopkins. oHe obviously thought he would reap the benefits U.S. economy is about $80 billion.
Its about the injustices in the history On the other side of the country, has a worldwide fan base and the fans of his controversial support; after all, That's about the same amount the
of this country. in Washington, D.C., some still be- may just want to rebel against those Bush would be indebted to him. Senate allocated for military spend-
Joe Hopkins, a prominent attor- lieve that Jackson is guilty. who prosecuted him in the first lace Blair couldn't have been more wrong. ing. And it Ts nowhere near last year Ts
ney in Pasadena, Calif, : oI think ict was wrong, ? and go all-out to show that he hasn't As part of his activities as chair $100 ra corporate tax cut.
oFor African-Americans, this says Jan Mitchell, 21, a graduate of lost a thing, He's got rough Fesources of G8, Blair personally appealed to When asked why the U.S. can Tt
case, like the OJ. [Simpson] case, Howard University. oI think he needs © bounce back and wit the right Bush and other world leaders to se- commit more funds as other coun-
was much bigger than Michael Jack- help, Either he needs to get public relations, he can go right back cure pledges to double aid to Aftica tries have, Bush remarked that it
son, ? he says oThis case raises a ques- logical help or he needs to go to jail. ? t the ri a ; over the next 10 years. G8, or Group odoesn Tt fit into ou budgetary pro-
tion of whether they " the dominant Another Howard graduate, Public relations experts believe 8, is a member organization of the cess. ? America Ts budget has room
society " can bring flimsy charges Melvin Barrolle, said he does not share Jackson, 46, can remain a major force world Ts richest nations: Britain, for a war with no real enemy and no
against a named celebrity and win. ? that view. in the music industry for years to Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Ja- exit plan in sight, but none to hel
er being in court for nearly oI believe he is innocent, ? come, . ; pm Russia and the United States. prevent malaria deaths in thousands
four months and deliberating for Barrolle says. oI felt that he did live in He will have an opportunity to ¢ group will meet tis July in Scot- of children, pat education for
seven days, the all-White jury acquit- an alternate reality, but I didn Tt feel restart his career, says Ofield Dukes, Jand to develop an agenda to, among __ girls and deve op youth-oriented pro-
ted Jackson of all 10 felony counts- that that was to convict him @ public relations executive who has other things, put an end to Poverty grams in various parts of Africa?
Pre-K Black Kids Getting Expelled at Alarming Rates
by Makebra M. Anderson schools and Head Start and highest More than 2T million pte-school aged " Chicag-based African-American Im- tural differences that contribute to
NNPA National Correspondent in faith-affiliated centers, for-profit children have benefited from Head ages, which publishes and distributes expulsion at such an early age.
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - The childcare community- Start. books that promote self-esteem, col- oWithout knowing the makeup
number of African-American women settings. In classrooms where the But for some, Fograms are not lective values, liberation and skill de- of the staff, my first point is that teach-
enrolling in college between 2000 and NO access to a psycholo- enough. Jawanza unjufu, head of velopment, believes there are also cul- ers simply do not allow for gender
a was more than double that of " gist or poychietrey, students were ex- : " " "
men, acco to a study re- _pelled twice as often, - | ! .
leased by the Anais Council on Nationally, 10.4 percent of teach- COOPER ( COMMENTARY The Fortunes of War: Vietn
Education. ers reported expelling at least one pre-
Black men ineteased by 30,000. ki er during the past year, On April'30, 2005, Johnson's limousine as he traveled from place to place,
The number of Black women in col- for an expulsion rate of 6.7 per 1,000 Vietnamese celebrated the Fervent opposition from humanitarians like Dr.
lege rose by 73,000 during that same compared to ies 1,000 for stu- 4 thirtieth anniversary of their Martin Luther Kin turned public opinion against
period. dents in K-12. The lowest rates of liberation from U.S. forces. Johnson. In 1967, made his famous anti-Vietnam
Many experts think the gap be- ulsion were reported by teachers This occurred in 1975 with War speech which further convinced the world that the
tween Black men and women can be er had an ongoing, regular relation- the fall of Saigon and hence, war in Vietnam was more about politics than in saving
attributed to che'way Black children ship with a ioral consultant. In the humiliation and defeat of the South Vietnamese.
are treated as young as pre-school. classrooms where the teacher had no American imperialism. The Tet Offensive in 1968 was the climax of the
According to researches at Yale access toa behavioral consultant, stu- Though 58,000 Americans war, Seventy thousand North Vietnamese attacked more
University, American children dents were expelled abut twice as of. were killed with another than 100 cities and towns. When the dust cleared, 37,000
in preki are twice as likely ten, 150,000 wounded, and esti- Viet Cong and 2,500 Americans were consumed. This |
an as Hispanic and White Gilliam, who is also assistant pro- mated 3 million Vietnamese was the result of brilliant calculations by General Vo |
children and more than five times as fessor of child peychiatry and psychol- perished. Nguyen Giap. Giap's strategy to avoid stalemate was to
likely to be expelled as Asian children, at the Yale University Chi Study President Lyndon Stage massive, simultaneous attacks to surprise Ameri-
According « most, a lack of support tet, believes chat access to sup- Johnson often about can forces and force them to oget the hell out of Dodge."
in theclassroom is to blame. would make the dif- preventing the spread of Giap was willing to suffer heavy casualties for strategic,
oThese three and four year olds wells of whether a child is expelled | Communism in Southeast Asia, He ieved the U.S. long-term gains;
are barely out of diapers. No one or remains in the classroom. had an urgent responsibility to save the South Vietnam- Many Americans remember the infamous My lai
wants 06 think about children this oAfter decades of research in | ese from the Communist North. LB] in mas- Massacre, where American soldiers massacred one hun-
being kicked out of school, es- education, we know that these | sive deception tactics to win support for his Vietnam dred ts, including women and children, This
ially not theit parents and teach- p can signi y improve |. War efforts. : helped solidify Opposition to LBJ. The writing was on
ers. All teachers in state-funded " children Ts schoo readiness and help Johnson's infamous deception was Rigtligheed by the wall. Vietnam would serve as an "albatross around
ee programs val put them on se path poe heures sal 1964 Gulf race inci a3 where Johnson retali- Lora neck".
access to the support lifelong success, ? ated against North Vietnam for an attack (supposed! y March 1967, Johnson's popularity was around
need to effectively manage classroom said, against a USS Maddox destroyer) that never nae 30 percent, thanks to the Tet Offenave lrverestin y, in
behavior, When they do, ion One program that has helped | In fact, the North Vietnamese wert provoked by aggres- 1963, LBY's popularity was 80 percent in the wake of
rates are cut nearly in half, ? said young chi make the adjustment | sive U.S. maneuvers in the Gulf. This was the prover- President Kennedy's assassination, What a drop!
Walter Gilliam, author of the Yale to par ce is Head Start. Cre- | bial "straw that broke the camel's back." By April 1975, the last Marines had retreated (aban-
University study oPrekindergartners ated in 1965, Head Stare is the most The United States went from 3,000 omilitary advi- doning South Vietnam), and Viet Cong tanks tolled into
Left Behind, ? successful, longest-running, national | sors ? in South Vietnam under JFK in 1961 to more . Saigon, The war had cost America illions of dollars
to the study, state ex- school readiness program in the | than 60,000 US. troops in April 1965. Hence, Ameri- 8 fF served as a blow to her prestige and mj imperi-
Preatig ghty imperi
Pulsion rates States, Ie - | can forces became engulfed in a Dc that would alism
exceed those in K-12 classes, Gilliam sive education, health, nutrition, and | rock the Johnson Presiden and dissuade LB) from Keith Cooper is Exec.Vice President of the
found that expulsion rates are lowest t involvement services to low- seeking a second term in 1968, As a matter of fact, Greenville, N.C. Pitt County SCLC, Civic Activist and
in classrooms located in public me children and their families. | angry protesters Sometimes threw eggs at President Educator,
o

liaise | a

Conference.)

Africa is blessed with vast natu-
ral and cultural resources, Despite
this, most of the continent remains
underdeveloped. Africa is the only
continent that has grown poorer in
the last 25 years. As a resul, the Af-
rican people continue to live in ex-
treme poverty. Increased aid to Af-
rica would allow théC6iitinent to
reverse the damage war, civil unrest,
disease, famine and other natural anid
man-made disasters-including the
slave trade-have caused.

If President Bush is committed
to ensuring the world is a more just
place, shouldn't part of his efforts be
t8 make ure that justice means in-
nocent people are not dying poverty-
related Heaths ina world F riches
Tony Blair's support of Bush caused
a rift between him and the British
people and both he and the Labor
Party suffered during the last elec-
tions. Through it all, Blair held up
his end of the bargain. It Ts now time
for Bush to repay Blair for his loy-
alty and seriously commit to help-
ing rebuild Africa.

(Judge Greg Mathis is Chairman
of the Rainbow PUSH-Excel Board
and a National Board Member of
the Southern Christian Leadership

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people who don Tt mean it?

here are nearly a million
African Americans in prison =
one out of eight inmates on the

planet - a gulag of monstrous

Proportions, clearly designed to

perpetuate the social relations .
that began with slavery. We de- _
mand an end to those relations,
not an insincere, risk-free oapol-
ogy T that sets not one prisoner

ree.

It is appropriate that the -
great anti-lynching leader, Ida B.
ells (1862-1931), who dscu-.
mented the murder of nearly

5,000 Blacks at the hands of
white mobs in the terror-filled
years that followed the death of

Reconstruction, be verbally hon-
_ ored by Louisiana Democratic. ?
Senator Mary Landrieu and Vit-* 4
Senator |
George Allen. Yet both Senators
supported laws that will impose «
uivalents of post- ...

ginta Republican .

draconian e

Civil War oBlack Codes ? on in-

ner. city youth, who will now be _

designated as criminal conspira-
tors if they congregate in groups
of three or more. . :
No thank you, Senators
Landrieu and Allen " the crime
you committed against us in
May vastly outweighs your weak
apology in June. You have guar-
anteed that hundreds of thou-
sands more young Black people
will be interned in your gulag -
a crime against humanity. And
both of you are determined to
commit more crimes. Should we
ask for an apology in advance?
There can be no absolution
for those who continue to profit
from past crimes, and plot new

Michael did

by Wilbert A. Tatum
Is it enough to just say con-
. ome to Michael Jackson,

is lawyers, his family and his.

friends? Is it enough to simply
say, oThank God that Michael
- is alive, and will not have to
"spend any time in prison, that
he is resting and perhaps on his
way to recovery? ? .

To our way of thinking, it is
not enough. A mad dog ofa dis-
trict attorney has grievously in-
jured him. An unfeeling, vicious
media, who first and forward is
Fox television news, with a scum
of a program called oThe

Why are some Black folks so
happy to hear an apology from.

| calls himself fair and

ones, Lynch law was the effec-

tive law of the South " and, truth
be told, the rest of the United
States - and the olawful ? au-
thorities sanctioned it by refus-
ing to pass 200 anti-lynching
bills. THe terror of lynching cre-
ated the social relationships that
resulted in white households ac-
cumulating ten to twenty times

~as much wealth as Black house-

holds " our collective national
inheritance. An apology will not

d

O TReilly Factor ? and a man -
erhaps animal is a better term

For him - who went beyond the
_ pale in making an effort to con-

vict Michael Jackson before he

was ever tried.

Even now, with Michael

o|. feeling ill, or at least, sick at T

who
need,

heart, this fool O'Reilly,
bake

| is doing his program as if noth-
'» ing ever happened, bringing on

all those of his friends who in-
sisted all along that Michael was
guilty. And bringing on many
others of his friends and col-
leagues who didn Tt go so far, but
who insisted that Michael had to
have done something, because
he was indicted.

This man, Bill O'Reilly, is a
danger to everything that we hold
dear in America, because he is of
the vicious mind and body who
takes anything dirty and makes it
his anther, while not having the
decency to believe that there is a
man who loves children, who
wants them to be happy because
it makes him happy. So, this
O'Reilly is a mean man. He Ts a

Is that what our movement
has been about all of these gen-
erations " to get an apology from
pee le who became rich on our

backs? There is a method to this

racist madness, an assumption
that African Americans can be
bought by a simple nod from a
few white people. Some of these
racists, will not even give us a
nod " the twelve or sixteen sena-
tors who did not join in the anti-
lyaching vote, all but one of
them Republicans. The Repub-

not need Fox TV Fair and balanced, my derriere

vicious man.-And, a godle Ts man
who has no business on the air-
waves anywhere in the United
States. Our prayer has to be: God
damn his soul!

As for Michael, you will re-
call that we haves
Michael all along,"butthae Ts nei
ther here or there. We had no
basis to believe iiv+him, except
we did. We believed in his hon-
esty and the purity of a man who
loves children, and fot all intents
and purposes is a child himself.

?,? are in no position to of-
fer Michael any advice about
anything in his life right now,
except to be well. Be shire, and
return to your chosen profes-
sion. Fortunately, Americans are
a forgiving people, even when
youve not done anything for it.
They forgive you for being on
the dirty end of a stick that is
being stuck in your face.

Michael is a victim of vic-
tims, and there is nothing more
horrible than a grown man sexu-
ally abusing a child.

That will be a shadow cre-
ated by American media (white

John Conyers and Deep Throat

by Margaret Kimberley
Deep
Throat was the
anonymous
source who
helped Wash-
ington Post re-
orters Bob
Woodward and
Carl Bernstein
break the
Watergate
story. For the
past 30 years
the identity and in some cases the
very existence of Deep Throat has
been called into question until
Mark Felt recently revealed him-
self to be the mystery man.
There have been many oppor.
tunities for eager reporters to bring
down the current White House oc-
cupant, but no one in the corpo-
rate media seems to want the job.
At the end of 2000 Greg Palast,
an American reporter working for
the British press, revealed that
Florida Governor Jeb Bush had
removed thousands of eligible vor-
ers, most of them black, from the
voter registration rolls, thereby
stealing the state for his brother
George W. |
At that time the media told us
about hanging chads and butterfly
ballots, but nothing about the true
theft of Florida and the presidency.
When Palast handed the story to
CBS, the Washington Post and oth-
ers, he was told that Jeb denied
everything. In the current politi-
cal climate a denial from a sub-
ject, a powerful subject, that is,
means the end of any reporting.

i

Margaret Kimberley

Bob Woodward is now man-
aging editor at the T Washington
Post. While he cut his teeth on the
dethronement of a criminal presi-
dency, he is now in bed with an-
other criminal presidency. Wood-
ward wrote Bush at War with the
full cooperation of the Bush White
House. Trusted by Bush, Cheney,
Rove and company, Woodward
now perfectly fits the definition of
a comprorajeed journalist,

There is plenty of evidence to
bring articles of impeachment
against this president. One mem:
ber of Congress is trying to bring
attention to information that
stares the corporate media in the
face but is rarely if ever acknowl-
edged,

Thanks once again to the Brit-
ish media we have proof of what
any thinking person already knew.
The Bush administration lied about
the need to go to war against and
occupy Iraq. There was no nuclear
capability, and no WMDs either.
The evidence purporting to show
that they did exist were all fabri-
cated,

An internal memo from Tony
Blair's government said the follow-
ing about the Bush administration
argument in favor of war with
Iraq: Bush wanted to remove
Saddam, through military action,
justified by the conjunction of ter-
rorism and WMD. But the intelli-
gence and facts were being fixed
around the policy,

Unlike in the early 1970s, the
Washington Post didn't even have
to do any work on this story, All
the Post had to do was quote other

newspapers. They finally did, but
very late and with very little fan-
fare. The Post reported the story
weeks after the Times of London
did, and to add insult to injur
placed it on page A18. The Post's
own readers angrily emailed their
ombudsman and demanded that
their newspaper do its job, only
to be etic for daring to ques-
tion that august publication.

Democratic Congressman
John Conyers of Michigan isn Tt
holding his breath waiting for the

ress to tell this. story. He is ask-
ing at least 100,000, Americans to
sign a letter demanding answers
to questions on the Downing
Street memo.

John Conyers sat on the
House Judiciary committee that
was on the verge of impeaching
Richard Nixon, Conyers must be
feeling a strange case of déja vu.
He has seen a corrupt White
House before, but in 1974
America still had a functioning
press and Democrats were the
majority party in the House of

epresentatives,

Thanks to Democratic party
incompetence, that hasn't been the

case since. 1994, Conyers and his

colleagues have evidence of nu-
merous impeachable offenses
against George W. Bush, but they
are unable to make themselves
heard when their leaders won't
buck the system and the media
focus on missing person cases and
celebrity criminal trials,
Conyers isdoing his job as a
member of Congress, the
media's job as an investigative

Because whatevey

happens 1

happens to Black America first

From The NAACP Archieves

lican Senate Leader made sure that
no member would have to go on
record against lynching. However,
are we supposed to be grateful for
a non-binding resolution that ad-
mits thousands of murders were
committed with the complicity of
the United States government, but
that does not redress the wrongs
in any way.
Where is the sense of justice
in this apology? What do the de-
scendants of the terrorized class
expect? That wrongs be righted,

media, we might add) that he will
have to live with for the rest of
his life. But we were saying
something different.

What is he to do now? Num-

ober one: Michael, get straight with

your soul. Pray a lot, if this is your

way. But, don Tt forgive anybody

who has abused you verbally,
physically, or mentally, during
these horrible months and years
in which you have been accused
of some of the most heinous
crimes imaginable. We would wish
to advise you to get even. But, we
cannot advise this to any man,
except living well as you do God Ts
will is perhaps to have gotten even
enough.

Personally, we don Tt think so.
Yet, what would it profit you to
spend the rest of your life ona
vendetta against a vicious dis-
trict attorney, and the liars and
thieves you helped, had in your
house and made life less miser-
able for them for a little while?

There must be a reward
somewhere for you. At this mo-
ment in our history our anger
and resentment is because of

force, and the Democratic
party's job in opposing the Re-
publicans. Not content to wear
so many hats, John Conyers ig-
nored the right wing attack on
Felt, and planned to praise him
with a House resolution.

oAs one who was a first hand
witness to Watergate, I can only
state humbly that Mr. Felt helped
bring our country back from the
brink of a constitutional crisis and

an out-of-control White House. ?
He also knows that today Ts

gain absolution?

-Genocide; ? in an effort to ma
Anternational law applicable to
-the U.S. By this time, most of »

or that those who h

ave profited

Lynching was genocide _
The United States Senate did

. Not ratify the Convention on
| Genocide until 1988, 40 years
safter African Americans cifcu-

lated the petition, oWe Charge
?,?

the former Dixiecrats had be-

- come Republicans, and felt safe
in blaming their former party for
their own crimes.

The United States, controlled
by a Republican majority and
feckless minority of white
Democrats whose greatest fear

is their Black constituents, is

now engaged in a grand venture

to export the ideology of white T
oterror, planet-widé. They have
omot learned a thing. Having
/ Mever practiced democracy on
_ their own shores, they claim a
- Copyright.to the concept. The
fact that nobody believes their

claims does not phase them, be-

/ Cause they are marching to the

tune of Manifest Destiny " the
white man Ts right to rule. It is

| that belief that drew tens of

thousands of whites to the
lynching fields of Georgia and
Indiana, for the sport of Negro-
killing. Now they are in Iraq and
Afghanistan, claiming moral au-
thority. -

The march of civilization goes
on, leaving the United States be-
hind. The bubble of news commu-
nication fools only those inside.
The rest of the globe sees its own
interests, and recognizes white
arrogance, intuitively.

This intuitive knowledge,
born of gruesome experience,

what you had to go through. We
can only imagine that God or Je-
hovah, or whoever, or whatever,
would allow the entire Jackson
family to make an album called
oThe Jackson Family Sings, ? us-
ing all of their skills to make an
album produced by Quincy
Jones, playing the most wonder-
ful tunes that the Jackson fam-
ily can produce, selling them all
over the world in such numbers
as to give the Jackson family
enough money to live on forever
- with an ability to fight off gov-
ernment, if needed, when this
family is ever threatened again.

We do not know whether an

-album is the right thing or wrong

thing, but it is the way Jackson
made his money. It is probably
the most certain way that he can
immediately recoup the hun-
dreds of millions of dollars spent
since he was indicted, and lost
trying to be good to other
people, especially children.

If this editorial sounds a bit
bitter, it is because we are bit-
ter about what happened to
Michael Jackson and about what

press is unprepared to do its job
vis a vis the Bush administration.
"Today it is unclear who will step
up to the plate to expose the
wrongdoing of the current admin-
istration.

Conyers knows that if we want
this job done right we will have to
do it ourselves. There is no othey ?
to help us. No political party, and
no newspaper will come to our aid.
Progressives must sign Conyers T let-
ter and step up to the plate to de-
nounce the terrible crimes that have

_ also informs Black Americans.

Although surrounded by the
same bubble of misinformation
as the rest of Americans, Blacks
smell the lie. The vast bulk of
us see the oapology ? for what it T
is " a scam, with no substantial
benefits, and less good faith. Bur.
there is a class that is paid to
say oYes sir, ? on command.
Most of us pay them no atten-
tion. .
Lynch law was no law at all.
It was pure white power " the
right to declare oneself a higher
form of being, and reduce the
oother ? to charcoal. The current
rulers of the United States are
spreading lynch law to the far
reaches of the T planet. They
claim the right to opre-emptive ?
warfare, and reject all other
peoples rights to live under col-
ectively accepted rules. They
wage war against the concept of
international law, just as they
violated every law that did not
enshrine white privilege.

Nothing has changed, ex-
cept the world. We will not tol-
erate such criminality, anymore.
In fact, we have collectively
called the behavior that white
folks in the United States rou-
tinely engaged in, criminal. It Ts
far too late for the U.S. Senate
to pass a non-binding resolution
announcing some vague objec-
tion to lynching, when they pass
legislation that makes it a crime
to be Black and a youth, vote
billions to fund a military ma-
chine that seeks to enslave the
planet, and rejects the guthor-
ity of the World Criminal Court.
In doing so, they have made
themselves outlaws.

We will not forgive, or ac-
cept an apology that does not
come with a change in power re-
lationships. And we will reject
any so-called Black leadership
that makes its own deal.

happened to so many other Black
stars who have been falsely in-

_ dicted by criminal prosecutors

who wanted to make a name-for
themselves and were able to do
so because in the American jus-
tice system it is possible to in-
dict a ham sandwich.

We can only wish that
Michael grows older. doing the
things he foves to do: helping chil-
dren and others in Tneed - Whether
they aré white or black, poor or
well-off. He deserves having the
pleasure of doing that.

And for those who would
continue to vilify Jackson, we
say: a pox on all your houses,
and may the good Lord help you
by providing 747 wings for your
descent into hell. Good luck,
Michael! We have yet to hear
your answer, and the scorecard
is not yet prepared, as we list
your enemies one by one, and
try to get even for you. You can Tt
do it for yourself, Michael. You
need those of us who are your
friends to do it for you. God
bless you, Michael! |

Wilbert A. Tatum is Pub-
lisher Emeritus & Chairman of
the Board of the Amsterdam
News -NYC

been committed against Iraq and
against this country. Just don't ex.
pect to read anything about it in
your local newspaper. )
Margaret Kimberley Ts Free-
dom Rider column appears weekly
in BC. Ms. Kimberley is a
freelance writer living in T New York
City. She can be reached via e-
Mail at margaret.kimberley@
blackcommentator.com. You
can read more of Ms. Kimberley's
writings at hetp://
freedomrider.blogspot,com/

a esa aan hee

iON span, the | pre-school to | ratio

e lation, ? 12401 or 15-40 1 Serroidh badgpeny
ther thing t ially . cuts its possible that you can haye one
he pre-school level i 9 teacher, 20 students and a teacher's as-
"Percent of the teachers are female. ? sistant once or twice a week, ? he ex-
__ According to the National Cen- plains. oFor a teacher, Black, White,
ter for Education Statistics (NCES). male or female the ideal child is the one
Oftthe 3.5 million teachers, approxi- that is quiet and can sit ail for $ pe-
mately 861,000 (25 percent) are men, sods of time working independently on:
~ SMpated to 259,000 (75 percent) ditto sheets. If you two boys that
~ Mately 217,000) are Black men. ing and demanding your attention, it Ts
a oP ae disappointed, is pet yee ae of

ere ¢ de, Lynson Beaulieu, with the D.C.

mes that based National Black Child Develop-

ded the decision by the U.S. Sen-

tee Rangel (D-Harlem) ap-

GREENVILLE, NC - An incident

mit

po 17 yen 0 at the original
Boys Club of Pee Country could
have turned Alge Crumpler's life

turvy. Instead, it taught then

TO-jear olf a valuable jaune .

« oIt proved to me that I was

strong enough to not run away from

amy problems, ? Crumpler said
ednesday at a campaign kickoff

for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Pitt |

County at the club Ts Minges Unit
on Firetower Road. oKids toda are
80 afraid to step forward and ad-
their mistakes. ?

ler, a Greenville native,

_ UNC-Chapel Hill praduate and 27

ce? PP © & «=

year old Atlanta Falcons All-Pro
ight end, got up early each day to
raise the American flag at the
former Boys Club on Arlington
Blvd. He'd return each night to
lower, fold, and store it. One day,
he inadvertently raised the flag up-
side down. An elder member of the
elub noticed the error and asked
who did it. Mortified, but unwa-
vering, Crumpler stepped forward.

| was really embarrassed, ?
Crumpler recalled. oI'd been so
proud fo fly the flag each day and
say the Boys Club code. ?

ednesday, returned
to Greenville Ben his Athans home
to help launch a multimillion-dollar
campaign to extend Boys & Girls
Clubs services to 1,000 additional
children and teens. Crumple, who
spent most of his afternoons at the
Boys Club from age 7 - 15, is the
campaign Ts honorary eee

ign organizers aim to raise $5
million $7 million to build a facil-
ity in northern Pitt County, replace
inadequate facilities in Ayden and
renovate the South Greenville unit
on Howell, Street.

New G a ,
_Noteworthy
State Of Music
(NAPS) "Some of rap Ts hottest

_ artists are pushing messages of

nonviolence. For instance, hip-hop
artist Prez-E-Dent, who cites such
inspirations ag Bob Marley and
Tupac Shakur, is considered a
leader in the new orap renuis-
sance ? that aims to spread a posi-

tive message to listeners. oThe
industry is in a state of emer-

Sta Jal ne

After eas with the Relativ-
ity label, his first single, oGotta Be
Like That ? (recorded under the
name 2020), was « commercial
smash. But he soon became frus-
trated with management prac-
tices, paid back his advance and
became squarely in charge of his

His hot ted alb
s y anticipated album
oNew World is

expected
to make a huge impact. With polit-
leal and thought-provoking con-

yy apology is

ment Inst{cute,

very and the various atrocities that fl
institution, induding lynch-
ings, ? said Rangel. oA debate over the

nature and amount of those fions
is already underway in pote ergy
Congress, in churches, homes and in-
stitutions x psrprdmanalh coms th
Rangel t reparations that
would help to close the gap between
whites and Blacks in the area of edu-
cation and health care would be far
reaching. .
oThe word reparations T is just

another way of saying that a group of

The northern Pitt County club
will be built on land off NC 33 near
Beloit. The 20,000 sq. ft. facility will
serve youth from Bethel, Belvoir,

Pactolus, Stokes, north Greenville and_

Crumpler is shown here with
Greenville Area businessmen,

fee

usiness and Civic

Kelly Barnhill (left) and C.R. Llewis, two
who collectively are helping to spear-
heading the campaigne to extend the Boys & Girls Club

oIt's a very situation. |

co
think we have a combineson of ei
dren with very nging behaviors "

and we have teachers that aren't
trained to positi the chal-
lenging behaviors could mean being
essive, hitting other children,
ing out at teachers, biting, cry-

T ing, and children who have other

22S
| no are 1
drugs and most programs really don't
have the support services they need
in order to know how to support chil-
dren in those environments. ?
Beaulieu believes that in order to
alleviate problems. in the classroom,

individuals should teceive a set of
benefits to make up for their unusual
sacrifice or suffering, ? said "

York) did not address the question: of
reparations, She did applaud the Senate T

mete 2 ene eles
» oIn failing time and. time

to act against these atrocities, the Sen.

ate had failed the victims, their fami-

lies and the nation, ? Clinton said.

oThis is a tragic reality that we can

never ease, and while I believe this

apology is long overdue, I am pleased

an overhaul of the South Greenville pm,

viors, T she said. oChal- extended

1098 as

elk

parents and teachers must work to-

some

Spaying opt
armies
selves, ? | chal-

Ceinatannleere

if the news is not good news,

, but some still

US
pas

In the seventy years from 1890
to 1960, at least 4,742 Americans
were murdered as a result of being
h ct d The vi is, tly Affi T

Americans, often never receive jus-

_ tice because the culprits wete rarely
" prosecuted. Desie ee kk

House of Representatives and several
J.S. presidents, the Senate failed to

legislation that could have pro
But Rangel said that more than

logy is still needed. ne

an

every day in a controlled envi-

unit on Howell Street will improve ronment didn Tt leave a lot of room

services to 400 existing club mem-
bers and reach hundreds more chil-
dren, officials estimated. It will take

in this area.

surrounding communities. The $1.5
million club will serve 500 youth.

Harvey Lewis of E.R, Lewis
Construction donated the land. oI
know of no better investment to
make as a business person or a pri-
vate citizen than an investment in
our youth, ? Lewis said Wednesday.
oAnd the Boys & Girls Club fills that
need. ? RicMiller, a Greenville City
Council member and president of
R.R Miller Construction, has do-
nated his company Ts time to build
the Ayden club, a similar 20,000 sq.
ft. structure that will be adjacent to
Ayden Elementary School.

oOne kid's life could make a dif-
ference in our community. And

_we've got a prime example right

here. ? Miller said about Crumpler.

oHe's given a million times back

what we have put into the clubs. ?
The new building in Ayden and

$2.5 million more to complete that

work. In addition, organizers plan
to raise enough money for an oper-
ating fund that will provide for utili-
ties, upkeep and other operations;
expenses associated with the new
facilities.

Crumpler has donated time and

money to the campaign effort, said »
hill Sr., chairman of the

Kelly
Kids under Construction campaign.
He's fielping campai

raise close to $ 3 million from sev-
eral corporate and individual Pitt
County donors.

The 6 ft. 2, 263 pound
Crumpler credits the Boys Club with
helping keep him above temptation.
o Having the positive influence
around me every day helped me not
to stray from the beaten path, ? he
said. oI also had family and church,

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According to Barnhill, Boys &
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Kunjufu, who has written several
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parents for not recognizing their
child's needs,

many Black homes, when someone

hits you, hit them back: In school, if

someone hits you, you're supposed to

tell the teacher. We have to resolve famili

can soldiers, such as myself, after ser-
vice in World War IT and thé Korean
War benefited from its generous educa-

~ tion benefits. In my case the bill enabled

a high school dropout to finish school,

graduate ftom college and law school,

and eventually enter: politics, ? said
Rangel. oThat is one way to design repa-
()

. he militar o* order ; me , Th
the kind apology that , like to
. [ Y I . . ; .

to meet Construction costs and cre-

-ate sufficient funds for annual op-

erating expenses. . The clubs have
set up a secured location on their

culture, ? he

: pe age aati ta child i
isciplined, hes taught to respect
adults. Secondly, if your child is only
being disciplined with a belt and
schools are not allowed to tise it what
are schools to do? We have a di-
lemma. ? . Z ne

- Discipline and cultural. issues
aside, Gilliam incoming director of

Yale Ts Edward Zigler Center for Child

~ Development and Social Policy rec-

ommends that children not be ex-
pelled without ensuring that alterna-
tive services has been accessed. a

oWhen we fail to provide these
supports, we place children and their
ilies in a very difficult situation "
where some children are- bounced
from one program to the next and
parents may end up. viewing their
child as an educational failure well
before kindergarten, ? he says,

He adds, oWe also place teach-
eis in a very difficult situation. As a
former public school teacher, I know
that no teachers want to give up on a
child "especially not one who only
learned to talk a year or two: ago.
Without supports in place, these
prekindergarten teachers...are T forced
to decide between the good of the
individual child and the good of the

oclass. And that Ts not fair to these teach-

ers either. ?

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GREENVILLE - The Annual

Senior Citizens Celebration of
the Alpha Kappa Alpha Soror-
ity, Inc. was held on Saturday,
May 14 at J. H. Rose High
School. 2005 was the 28th year
of this celebration that began
in May 1977, Historically, the
lota Kappa Omega Chapter has

invited community residents

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who are members of Senior
Citizens Clubs to join them for
the occasion. Program founders
were Dr. Lilla Holsey and Mrs,
Ethel Thomas who sponsored
the first dinner on the ECU

campus in the Ledonia Wright "

Cultural Heritage Center.
Twelve seniors comprised the
first group of honorees: Mrs.
Julia Calhoun, Mrs. Etta
Durpee, Mrs. Lula Foster; Mrs.

Lucy Johnson, Mis. Martha
-Jones, Mrs. Addie Langley,
Mrs. L. E. Latham; Mrs. C. K.
Marshmond, Mrs. Carrie

Nobles, Mrs. L. R. Taylor, and -

Mrs. Bertha Wooten. All the
fIrst seniors are now deceased.
Mrs. Ella Harris, Senior Citi-
zens Celebration Chairperson,
- presented the necrology service

to. honor the memory of the

oFirst Seniors ? and the memory

June 1'- 30, 2005 The Minority Voice Newspaper Page 5

of all seniors who have passed
away during the year. Accord-
ing the Mrs. Norma Warren,
registration chairperson, 162
seniors enjoyed festivities
which included a crafts fair
showcased by Mrs. Beulah
Moore; and health and wellness
check-up stations for blood
pressure monitoring and infor-
mational brochures. Mrs.
Sharon Mallette chairs the

health and wellness committee.

The theme for the 2005 cel-
ebration was oSeniors in Mo-
tion: A Healthier View. ? Chap-
ter President Laura Carmon pre-
sented Sorority members who
sang the National Alpha Kappa
Alpha Hymn following the in-
vocation by the Reverend John
Elbert Jones. Special musical se-
lections were sung by the
oSwinging Singing Seniors ? a

recover faster when they have a

ty, Inc. Holds Annual Senior Citizens Celebration

newly formed group of the Mu-
sic Academy of Eastern Carolina.
Mrs. Charlotte Smith led an ex-
ercise for seniors T session entitled
oSeniors in Motion ?. A oHow to
Talk to Your Doctor ? forum was
presented by Dr. Lisa Staton,
ECU Assistant Professor of In-
ternal Medicine, Ms. Cyncere
Neal, FNP/Wound Care Special-
ist, Dr. Brian Cabarrus, ECU Car-
diology Fellow, and Dr. Julius
Mallette, ECU/OB-GYN Senior |
Associate Dean of Academic Af-
fairs,

Mrs. Delilah Jackson, Vice
President of the chapter, invited
all seniors to participate in the seg-

oment entitled oSeniors on Pa-

rade ? where all seniors oshow off T
their fashions. The seniors have
traveled from Greenville,
Kinston, Ayden, Bethel,
Winterville, Elm City, Hyde
County, Chowan County, and
Gates County. Gates County Se-
niors won the prize for most se-
niors dressed in the Sorority col-
ors of pink and green. Prior to
the luncheon seniors were fa-
vored with door prizes, which
included money hats and rolled -
coins. Among the most prized

gifts are the flowers and tomato.
plants that have been the favor-

ite take-home fayor for all seniors

since the program T inception.

A special thanks is extended
to Ms. Alice Keene, Director of
Pitt County Schools Commu-
nity School Programs for her
commitment to the project
through the years. In the words
of Mrs. Gloria Hines, pianist for
the occasion- ?Senior Citizens,
youre the center of our joy. All
that Ts good and perfect comes
from you. You're the heart of our
contentment, hope for ALL we
do. Senior Citizens, you're the
center of our joy. ?

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im recent weeks, the sharpest at-

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black community. Essence maga-

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that family dropped her mirror.
After they were gone the
mountain man wandered on
their campsite and saw this
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He covered it with the skin of
an animal he had just killed and
took it home. As he was walkin

- toward his barn his wife looke

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What is he up to now? ? The
mountain man hid the object
under a board in the floor and
then left not noticing that the
floor board was not in place.
When the wife saw him slipping

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word, and not a doer, he is like
unto a man beholding his natural
face in a glass. For he be holdeth
himself and goeth his way, and
straightway forgetteth what
manner of man he was. But
whoso looketh into the perfect

Jaw of liberty, and continueth

therein, he being not a forgetful
hearer, but a doer of the work,
this man shall be blessed in his
deed.

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Our Youth:
Our Responsibility
_ An elderly woman said, oFor
those of you who are quick to criti-
cize the younger generation, just don't
forget who raised them ? - or better
yet, who did not raise them. ? In the
animal kingdom, adults take care of

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chickens take care of chicks, bears take

care of cubs, and dogs take care of
. puppies. But many of us humans walk
_ away from our responsibility as adults.

The pride and treasure of our

nation is our youth. Any nation that

neglects the teaching and the upbring-
th is a nation on the de-
cline. But if we are honest, then we
must confess that we as a nation have
lost control of our young people. Too
many of our most cherished posses-
sions are wandering aimlessly rough

| life, with little thought about tomor-

row.

Our nation prides itself on being
one of the strongest, if not the stron-
gest and most progressive nations-on
the face of the earth. But how can we
be when our children are bloo dying
our streets and slaughtering innocent?
How can we be when we are more
preoccupied with making a living then
with making a life? How can we be
when we think that our solution is
building bigger and more secure jails
to lock up our youth? This is merely a
cover-up of our failure as adults to deal
with the difficulties of raising children

See East. Carolina Leaders Pg.1
Waters, D-CA.

Those attending the event from
eastern North Carolina (by county):

Bertie County: Rev. Ralph
White, from Beaufort County Rev.
Edward Moultrie, Craven County:
Rev. De-Ves Toon, Dr. Jimmy Coo-
per, Dr. Joseph Walton, Cynthia
Lemmon and Susan DeJesus were
attendance.

Edgecombe County: Rev. Roy
Gray, Rev. Carol White, Rev. Gar-
land Jones, Renee Jones, Rev. W.
T. Taylor, Minister Muhammad and
Rev. Wayne Hines were in atten-
dance. ,

Rev. James K. Brown repre-
sented Gates County. Rev. Lacy
Joyner and: Rev. Don Davis repre-
sented Granville and Greene
County respectively,

Rev, Quientrell Butrell, Jr., Rev.
Chance Lynch and Rev. Milton
Jones represented Halifax County.

Hertford County was repre-
sented by Rev. Claude Odom and
from Lenoir County Bishop J.E.
Reddick and Rev. Rudolph Will-
iams attended the event.

-

Canady represented Wilson County

From Nash County Rev. FC.

Barnes and Bishop R. T. McCarter

made the journey.
Rev. Carroll R. Dickens Sr., Rev.
Timothy Edwards and Rev. Tony

Flood represented Northampton |

County

WOOW/Minority Voice Newspaper
CEO/President, James Rouse, Rev.

Clarence Gray, Rev. Sidney Lock, :
Rev. Howard Parker, Minister Rob-

ert Muhammad, and Rev. Tyrone
Tumage and Rev. William Johnson

From Vance County Rev. William
Clayton, II, Rev, Todd Hester and Rev.

Curtis Donald made the trip.

Rev. Vincent Brown, Rev.
Shelton Daniel and Bishop James
Daniel represented Wake County.

Further west Warren County Ts
Rev. Cathy Alston-Kearney, Rev.
Carson Jones, Rev. Erica Smith-
Ricks, Rev. Danny Jones and Rev.
Jeremiah Webb joined those who
made the trip. Rev. Freddie Barnes

_Tepresented Wayne County and Rev-

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_ Whenever young people get
caught up in drug addiction. sexual
promiscuity, or misdirected violence,
they are merely responding to the self-
hatred that has been instilled in them.
For you see, people who have no self-
respect have no problem carrying a
gun to school. People who have no
self-respect have no problem cursing
out their elders and lying to get what

ey want. .

Our children are smart. They lis-
ten not only to what we say, they watch
what we do, and sometimes what we
do speaks so loud that they cannot
hear what we say. They see the con-
tradictions, the hypocrisy, and the
inconsistencies in our lives, in our talk
as well as in our walk.

Today, in many households, it is
nuclear who is in e. It seems in
some cases that the children are rais-
ing the parents rather than the par-
ents raising the children, It seems in
some cases that the children are rais-

ing the parents rather than the par-

ents raising the children.
Where are we going as a people?

NCCU

Robert C. Pierce, Dean
| School Of Law
DURHAM, N.C. -North Carolina
Central University (NCCU) received
approval from the University of North
Carolina Board of Governors Friday
to add three new deans to its execu-
tive staff in Academic Affairs.
Raymond C. Pierce, a partner in
the Cleveland Office of Baker &
Hostetler, will serve as dean of the
NCCU School of Law effective July
1,2005. Caesar R. Jackson, interim
dean of the College of Aits and Sci-
oences-at North o GarolinaA8cT* State
University (NC A&T), will serve as
the dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences at NCCU beginning August
1,2005. Dr. Irene Owens, sesoriate
rofessor and graduate advisor at the
Ciniversity of Texas at Austin School
of Information, will begin her tenure
as dean of the NCCU School of Li-
brary and Information Sciences on
June 1,2005. .
oWeare adding these outstandin
professionals to our team at a criti

June 1 - 30, 2005 The Minority Voice Newspaper Page 7.

How important are our children to
us? Raising our children must become
a top priority in our lives. Cultivat-
ing their minds, strengthening their
bodies, and elevating their spirits
ought to be uppermost on our agenda.
We must teach our young people
to: |
ake time to work - it is the
price of success.
ake time to think - it is the
source of power
(RES
secret of perpetual youth
Take time to read - it is the
foundation of wisdom .
Take time to worship - it is the
ighway to reverence
to a star time to dream - it

is hitching one Ts wagon
Take time for friendship - itisa

source of happiness

Take time for God - it is life's
only lasting investment.

Now is the time to take time.
Now is the time to put up or
shut up.
Now is the time.

From: Hard Questions, Heart An-
swers, Speeches and Sermons by the
Reverend Bernice A. King (Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.'s daughter)

CHURCH ERSHIP

Let's take a lesson from ants.
oAnts pull together ?. Ants also share

oints

Dr. Irene Owens, Dean
School of Library &
Information Sciences

time inthe life of the university, ? said
Chancellor James H. Ammons. oWe
believe that our new appointees have
the levels of expertise needed to ex-
pand our program offerings in relevant
areas and continue our tradition of
excellence. ?

Pierce served for seven years as
President Bill Clinton's Deputy Assis-
tant Secretary for Civil Rights at the
U.S. Department of Education and
afierwatds was a candidate for mayor
of Cleveland: prior to joltling- Baker
& Hostetler.

oI am absolutely honored to as-
sume the leadership of this great law
school, ? said Pierce. oDuring my years
in Washington developing federal
policy in higher education, I envi-
sioned that one day I would have the
Opportunity to serve in academia.
North Carolina Central University
School of Law has an excellent tradi-
tion for producing accomplished at-
torneys that have provided outstand-

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OF two ants to carry.
Most churches face the prob-
lems of having a few leaders and a
handful of people do most of the
work nec to keep a congrey -
tion thriving. The more people who
can become involved in a church
rogram, the more successful it is

ikely to be. .
Are we guilty of doing more than
we need to do because we don Tt want

to share responsibility? After all, oIt Ts
my job ?,

Jethro, father-in-law of
Moses, suggested that Moses se-
lect able men, competent men,

Ossessing good judgment and
eadership qualities and men who
feared God, recognizing their ac-
countability to Him in dealing.
with the Israelites.

What steps can a church take to
overcome the lack of leadership? Here
are some suggestions:

1. The congregation should seek out
able people from their midst.

Today we should consider an able
person one who is intelligent, reason-
ably well educated, and who possesses
those qualities of personality that cause
others to T recognize him 4s a leader.
2. The people need to be challenged.
It is easy for members in a church to
get into a rut with the same people to

ing setvice to the state of North Caro-

lina and this nation. Being a part of
North Carolina Central University is
a privilege and I look forward to the

challenges as the new dean of the law
school
_ Asa partner with the Cleveland

firm, Pierce's practice concentrates in
business transactions and public
policy. He also serves state govern-
ments in higher education and pen-
sion investment-related matters, and
works with the flrm Ts*Washington-
Based federal Policy Group to assist
clients with government-related is-
sues.

During his term as Deputy As-
sistant Secretary for Civil Rights,
Pierce managed the enforcement of
federal civil rights laws in education
and the development of federal civil
rights education policy. Pierce di-
rected the fie of aes
nation er education eseBrepe
tion pani negotiated resolution
agreements with six states resulting in
increased funding and enhanced
e-ucational ing for Histori-
cally Black & and Universities.
Through these efforts Pierce was the
commencement speaker at graduation
ceremonies for six HBCUs on behalf
of the Clinton Administration. Prior
to joining the Clinton Administration
Pierce was employed by the L TV
Corporation from 1986-1993 where
he was an attorney in that company Ts
Corporate Law Department. At LTV,
Pierce was a commercial transactions
attorney primarily involved with the
transportation section for railroads,
barges and trucking

Pierce is legal career in
1984 as a civil rights attorney with
the John W, Walker Law Firm in Little
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would be willing to serve if they knew -
what to do. A congregation ought to
have regular educational programs
that not only teach the Bible but also.
prepare its members to be teachers,
youth leaders, deacons, elders, and

other types of leaders needed by ev- :

ery church.

4. Care must be taken not
work the leaders.

5. Current methods and programs

look at the p we have in our |
local church. We must have the hu-
mility to listen and the willingness to |

change.

need for qualified leaders. Why doesn't
the church have more and better lead-
ers? Who was is the mentor in your
life? How can your church - our
church - help people become effec-
tive leaders? . a}
Pity the church leader who adopts an
Fwill-do-it-all philosophy of ministry
and fails to delegate.

Thanks to the advise of Jethro, Moses
delegated some of his duties to faith |
ful elders. ;
Thought to Remember:

oMany hands make a light work ?.

Three New Deans |

trated on class. action employment a

discrimination cases. _

Mt. Pierce. is a member of the

_ Ohio, Arkarisas, and American bar.
_ associations. He received his law de-
gree from Case Western Reserve Uni- =
_ versity School of Law/in 1983 and
his bachelor Ts degree in 1980 at Syra-
cuse University. Jackson said he is:

very excited about his

new appoint-

Cees on a
bed by deienng

and the NCCU central administra

said Jackson. oThe College of Arts and
Sciences is. the heart and soul nee the
University, impacting afeas ecam-
pus and the surrounding community
through its arts and humanities, social
sciences, health sciences, and natural,
hysical, and mathematical sciences. |
Punbly accept the role of dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, and I look
forward to building on the college's suc-
cesses and through this unit contribute
new growth to generate a swell in the
rising tide to for North Caro-
lina Central University. ?
Jackson began his career at N.C.
A&T State University in 1992 as an
assistant professor of physics, He be-
came associate dean there for Re-
search and Graduate Programs in the
College of Arts and Sciences in 1998,

. Hehhas served as interim dean at NC

A&T since May 2002. -

During his appointment as in-
terim dean, the hs of Arts and
Sciences has received acentditation
renewal for its theatre program, a
joint master in social work, and the

chelor of social work. Approval also
was granted for a new bachelor Ts de-
gree in liberal studies and the college
received approval to plan and impe -
ment degree pr in. computa-
tional sciences, liberal studies, and a
technical writing concentration in the
Department of English, |

The college placed second among
schools/colleges in reseatch grant
awards received in 2003-2004 with
significant increases in biology, math-
ematics and physics. Some of
Jackson's recent grant proposals have
secured more than $ Teall in
research dollars for NC A&T.

From 1977 throu
son worked for IBM Corporation
located in Boca Raton, Fla. where he
was employed as a junior engineer.
He was later transferred to IBM Re-
search Triangle Park Office where he
was promoted to a staff engineer.

Dr. Jackson earned his Ph.D. in
physics from North Carolina State
niversity, master's degree in electri-
cal engineering from the University
of Florida and his bachelor Ts d
in engineering technology from
Florida A&M University, |

Owens is looking forward to
serving as dean of the Necu School
of Library and Information Sciences,

o This is the greatest honor and
responsibility of my career to serve a
special university and my profes-
sion, ? she said.

y For ten years, Owens served the

niversity of Texas at Austin Gradliate
School of Information. She worked
as an associate professor and: gradu-
ate advisor for four years and six years
a8 an assistant professor, She is a
former head librarian at Howatd
University School of Divini Press
titled The t of Staffing in
Libraries, She has written chapters
in five books and served as editor of
several books published by Haworth
Press - Strategic Marketing in Lj.
brary and Information Science and
Acquisitions and Collection, Devel.
opment in the Humanities,

Dr. Owens earned her Ph.D.
from the University of North Car-
lina at Chapel Hill, M.ALR.S. at
Howard University, M.L.S; at the
University of and a B.S. at
BarberScotia College.

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Hussein:

Butterfield in responding to
Hayes's statement said that,
oAmerica must complete the im-
portant mission of creating a
stable, viable and democratic Iraq ?
but that we must be honest with
the American people. Butterfield

the memo T

official residence on 10 Downing St.,

. strongly suggested that the message had

been sent across the Atlantic that the
Bush White House had made the de-
Cision to wage war on Iraq. The min-
utes of the meeting indicated that Blair
and his top-level intelligence and for-
eign-policy aides were given clear sig-
nil that military action was oinevi-
table.

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went on to further to say that Con-
gressman Hayes, Vice President
Cheney and President Bush are
ignoring the facts by holding up
tragedies of 9/11 oas a justifica-
tion for the war in Iraq," follow-
ing Bush speech to the nation Tues-
day (June 28). The former State
Supreme Court Judge said, "exten-

Butterfield: We must be candid with the American peo

attacks of 9/11 and Saddam

sive research revealed that the
facts are "clear," Saddam Hussein
and Iraq had nothing whatsoever
to do with the terrorist attacks of
911 and as a member of the
Armed Sefvices Committee he
has seen no other evidence to sug-
gest otherwise.

Butterfield went further onto

le on Iraq
say that given the great sacrifices
that have already been made and
the difficult times ahead there

must be oclarity and honesty."-

Only by being candid with the
American people can we expect to
maintain the support that is
needed to complete our mission,"
Butterfield said.

"I do not believe in setting a
deadline," Butterfield went on to
say, "but we do. need the President
to candidly and clearly layout the
tasks that remains for the United
States in Iraq and how they are to
bé accomplished." Subsequent to
Bush's speech as his poll numbers
continue to fall, many Americans
feel that the Bush policy on Iraq
is adrift, " oO

In the most disturbing assage
of the minutes, the head of Britains
MIG6 intelligence service, reporting on

his recent trip to Washington, told the

up that ointelligence and facts were
Being fixed around the policy ? of a
war to remove Saddam Hussein from
power.

Bush was finally asked about the
memo directly this week, during a
media availability with Blair. Bush
tried to discredit the memo becatise

d, One Survived

Shipp, Abram Smith and

ames Cameron
roy a

in a Klansman Ts robe

undreds of pictures exist. Inronically, Sen. Mary Lndrieu, D-

raphy was a
| above) one of the co-sponsors of the Senate Ts apology was moved to act after recieving a copy of
early documents dozens upon dozens of picture

that work. - Ed.

_ On the night of August 7,
1930, three young African Ameri-
.' cans "-Thomas Shipp, age nine-
T teen; Abram Smith, age eighteen;
$ixteen-year-old James
Cameron, faced the hideous wrath
" ofa lynch mob in the Ku Klux Klan-

dominated town of Marion, Indi-

and

ana. Only Cameron survived.

At the time, James Cameron

was a 16-year-old shoeshine boy in
_ Marion, Ind., when an Aug. 6,
1930, incident " and what he
claims was divine intervention "

changed his life forever.

I all began when Cameron ac-
cepted a ride home that night in a
1926 Ford Roadster from his 18-
year-old classmate, Tom Shipp. An-
other teen, 19-year-old Abram
Smith, also was in the car.

By the end of the next night,
Shipp and Smith would be dead "
beaten and then lynched by an an-
gry mob.

The three teenagers, all of
whom were black, drove along the
river. At some point, Cameron te-
lated, they came across a car and a
white man named Claude Deeter,
as well as an 18-year-old white
woman named Mary Ball. Cameron
said one of the other teenagers or-
dered him to rob the couple at gun-

_ point.

oI opened the door and I said,
Stick them up, T and this white fel-
low gets out of the car, and he didn't
recognize me because I had my hat
pulled down, ? he recalled. oAnd I
notiged him just like that. He was
my fflend, a real nice white fellow.
I was his shoeshine boy.

oAnd his girlfriend got out of
the car. Her ice was so pale and
lovely and frightened, and that
scared me. So P took the gun, give
it to one of my confederates. I said,
Here, I'm not going to have any-
thing to do with you guys. T

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oAnd I left that scene of the
crime. I had gone about two or
three blocks when I heard some
shots ring out " bang, bang, bang.
Well, I was foolish for being out
there, but I sure in hell wasn't going
to go back to see who was shooting
who. ? . .

Shipp and Smith in the robbery-
inspired murder of Claude Deeter,
23, a white factory worker from
niearby Fairmount, Indiana, along
with Cameron were accused of
sexually assaulting Deeter Ts white
girlfriend, nineteen-year-old Marion
resident Mary Ball. While the latter
charge was never proven, such
charges, however groundless, were
easily assumed by racist whites and
frequently served to incite lynch

mobs to commit even greater
atrocities.

The three teens were arrested
late that night and taken to the
county jail, where they were held
throughout the next day. By dusk, a
rowdy crowd was gathering outside
the jail, but the sheriff ordered his
deputies not to use their weapons
because women and children were
in the crowd.

As Cameron went on to say, oI
was still sore from the beating the
police had given me. Somebody
came back and shook me and said,
oWake up! Wake up! They're break-
ing the windows! They're trying to
break into the jail! T And I got up
and ran around the bullpen and
looked out the window. From my

_ Later James Cameron would go on

of the timing of its disclosure " just
days before Blair's re-election. But it
is important to note that no one has
challenged the authenticity of the
memo nor the accuracy of its account
of the meeting. -

Bush also scoffed at the sugges-
tion that the decision to go to war
had been made by July 2002, nearly
year before U.S. bombs began rain-
ing on Baghdad. oThere's nothing far-
ther from the truth, ? Bush told re-
porters. oMy conversation with the

prime minister was, how can
this peacefully? ?
Americans deserve to have a
more intensive investigation and ex-
pansive explanation to the extremely
serious allegation that their govern-
ment o intelligence to justify a
pre-emptive war. The White House
wants to dismiss it as oold news ? and
the Republicans who control both
houses of Congress assume they can
shrug T off the demands of a bloc of

we do

Democrats " led by Rep. John.

Conyers, D-Mich. " for hearings on
the Downing Street memo.
There should be no statute of
limitations " or shortness of public
" attention span " on an issue that cuts
to the core of this government's in-
tegrity and credibility. Congress must
fully investigate the actions in Wash-
ington that led the highest officials in
Great Britain to be convinced that the
Bush administration was hell-bent on
war and working to concoct a ratio-
nalization for it.

second-floor perch, I could see the
crowd below, and sure enough they
were hollering, oTurn them damn
niggers over to us! We know how to
treat them! We're going to hang ev-
ery damn one of them! T o

Shipp and Smith were

~ snatched from a jail cell only a

block and a half from the giant oak

tree where their bodies were soon

to hang lifeless, beaten and hanged

_ to death by the furious mob with-
oout the beniefit of trail. Cameron
was next. He, too, was badly

beaten and nearly suffered an iden-
tical demise, with a rope around
his neck and his last prayers on
his lips was saved at the last mo-
ment by the intervention of a
ovoice ? shouthed from the crowd,
oTake that boy back, he didn Tt have

anything to do with any killing or

| raping! ? Cameron Ts mysterious

benefactor was never identified.

to write a book entitled, A Time
of Terror, from which the follow-
ing account was taken he gave
more of and account of what hap-
pened that night.

As he looked back on that night
Cameron said it seemed as if there
were thousands of Indianans carry-
ing picks, bats, ax handles, crow-
bars, torches, and firearms attack-
ing the Grant County Courthouse,
determined to oget those goddamn
Niggers. ? A barrage of rocks shat-
tered the jailhouse windows, send-
ing dozens of frantic inmates in
search of cover. Cameron said he
recognized familiar faces in the
crowd " some schoolmates, and
others, customers whose lawns he
had mowed and whose shoes he had
polished " trying to break down
the jailhouse door with sledgeham-
mers. Many of the police officers
milled around outside with the
crowd, joking. Inside, fifty guards

with guns waited downstairs.

being ripped from the wall, and a
mob of about fifty men beat Tho-
mas Shipp senseless and dragged
him into the street. The waiting
crowd came to life. T It seemed to
Cameron that all of those ten to
fifteen thousand people were try-
ing to hit him all at once. T The dead
Shipp was dragged with a rope up
to the window bars of the second
victim, Abram Smith. For twenty
minutes, citizens pushed and
shoved for a closer look at the
dead nigger. T By the time Abe
Smith was hauled out he was
equally mutilated. Those who
were not close enough to hit him
threw rocks and bricks. Somebody
rammed a crowbar through his
chest several times in great satis-
faction. T Smith was dead by the
time the mob dragged him like a
horse to the courthouse square and
hung him from a tree. The lynchers
osed for photos under the limb that
held the bodies of the two dead men.
oThen the mob headed back

for James Cameron and mauled
him all the way to the courthouse
square, T shoving and kicking him
to the tree, where the lynchers put

a hanging rope around his neck.
Cameron credited an unidentified
woman's voice with silencing the
mob and opening a path for his
retreat to the county jail and, ulti-
mately, for saving his life. After
being tried and serving four years
for Fis complicity of the crime,
Cameron had since committed
his life to retelling the horrors: of
his experience and the Black Ho-
locaust in his capacity as director
and founder of the museum with
the same name in Milwaukee, Wis-
consin. Under magnification, one
can see the girls in this photo
clutching ragged swatches of dark
cloth.

According to the Tuskegee In-
stitute 4,742 lynchings took place
in the U.S. between 1882 and
1968. Of those, 3,445 victims
were black, some 70% and 1,297
victims were white.

In its sporadic occurrences
over the next decades, lynching
continued to be a vehicle of ter-
ror and a last resort in opposition
to the drive for political and civil
rights through the 1950s, 1960s,
and beyond.

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-Pining

by Dave Zirin

Note: This column is 200 T
words shorter than usual because Ch

Billy Hunter lost 25% of it in

the NBA Ts new Collective. Bar-

gaining Agreement.
The world be an incremen-

tally better place if the Detroit.
Pistons had won the NBA cham-
pionship. I believe this even

though their Game Seven loss
to the Spurs meant that we've
been spared a Mitch Albom col-
umn about his experience watch-
ing the game with Isiah Thomas,
John Kennedy, James Naismith,
and Morrie.

The world would be better.
But not because the Pistons are
a terribly appealing team. Cen-
ter Ben Wallace shoots free
throws like he is trying to smite

Cureton played in game six.
heir best player is named
auncey, " .
No. TA Pistons win would
have been a delicious slap in the
face to what was becoming a
well-orchestrated Pistons Back-
lash. The Pistons had become a
team that people hated, and
seemed to enjoy hating, a little
too much. The vibe was not dis-
similar to how some people talk
about the city of Detroit itself:
a little too ostreet, ? a little too
ohip-hop, ? a little too ourban, ?
all of which are code words for
a little too Black. :
One nationally syndicated
columnist, Michael
Cunningham, called the spindly
Tayshaun Prince a oWhining

Pterodactyl ? that oshould be ex-

For The Pistons

reactions to fouls were called the

oAfro Pout ? and Chauncey

Billups had what Cunningham
called a oWoof Whine. ? This
kind of commentary boggles the

» mind. Was there no one to ad-

vise Cunningham that compar-
ing NBA players to tap-dancing
animals might be a bad idea?
Who is Cunningham Ts editor,

Trent Lott? Jesse Helms? Bill |

Cosby?

Standing up to the Piston Ts
backlash meant standing up to
this tide. It also meant standin
with perhaps the most aytcces
player in the NBA not named
Ron Artest: Rasheed Wallace.

A second Wallace champion-

ship would have been a sweet |

sight indeed. Last year, there was
perhaps no greater momént in

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David Stern. Imagine George
W. Bush Ts face if he had to give
the Congressional Meda

Honor to Mogtada Al-Sadr, or

ebrating Sheed. This is animus
writ large " rife with reverbera-
of tions that extend far beyond a
clashing of personality and ego.

| league... They look-at black ath-
~ " letes like we're dumb-ass n " "
n. It Ts as if we're just going to

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~ do what they tell us. ? d

about as often as Vito Corleone

see behind the lines. I see bes
hind the false screens. I know "
what this business is all about. I
know the commissioner of this
league makes more than three-
quarters of the players in this _

Stern, who is challenged j

in an Olive Garden, shot back, ~

) Mr... Wallace Ts hateful diatribe "
was ignorant and offensive to all
NBA players. I refuse to enhance |
his heightened sense of depriva-. |
' tion by publicly debating with 3

him ae
This year, it would have been
even more fun to see an encore. |
Recently, Stern has been hard ath
work alongside Republican arch- :
strategist Matthew Dowd abourg
how to ohelp the NBA's appeal

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bench is so shallow, Kelly
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tinct. ? He then described Rip
Hamilton as having oTap-Danc-
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sports than seeing Rasheed
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in the red states. ? Wallace,
meanwhile, visited the White ?"?
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just long enough to say, oI-don' Tt §
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quarter, play tough defense and
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It is never too late to end terror

Killen Ts.
Some have argued that this convicted murderer, now 80, should be al-
lowed to die facing his own devils, and not T behind bars. But individuals from

Congressional leaders for the barbarous and heinous acts which my elder
relatives from Louisiana still remember enough to say that justice has been
served? Is the conviction of the murderers of James Byrd, Jr. whose flesh was

by Ron Scott

That's what | think abour as I look at the news about the conviction

of Ku Klux Klansinan
Goodman

- * -s

Sag i. It is ironi
junior Senator Trent Lott, who recently apolo

ar Ray pep. in the murders of civil rights

} whose story was told in

ut reflect on the long his-
have: become synony-
troubling that Mississippi's

ized for his adoration of former

fo join the 80 senators who recently voted to apologize for the

the Federal

Beker mist Strom Thurmond, and the sates senior senator, Thad Cochran,
failure of

t to arrest the wave of lynchings that oc-

between the 1890s and the 1960s.
rmond have failed to.do what many Mississippians are

the prosecutor in the most recent hortific case result-
conviction of James

Prosecutor says that thi

ing ? murders. The

Killen, in the oMississippi Burn-
charge against Killen is an at-

*mpe to erase Mississippi's shameful history by seeking justice in cases like

Oprah Ts

By: Deborah Mathis,
Bla ericaWeb.com

, Not many of us'can relate to

shopping at the Hermes store in
rn. " terra hot when the
urpose was to buy an expensive
Watch for Tina Turner " as wecan
_ MOst certainly identify with the kind
of exceptional treatment Oprah
Winfrey got from the house of
Hermes recently.
_ According to informed sources,
pa gs. rebuffed the queen
of talk and queen of media " a le-
rem entertainment mogul, a bil-
Onaire philanthropist, a mover and
shaker if ever there was one " be-
cause they had been having oprob-
lems ? with North Africans and ap-
ore saw African-American
pfah as just another potential
troublemaker, |
rah is said to be furious and
intends to present her case to her
22 million die-hard fans when oThe

Oprah Winfrey Show ? returns from.

summer hiatus.

Indeed, hell hath no fury like a
billionaire black woman with an in-
ternationally popular TV show
scorned.

Actually, we could fill an entire
network with stories like these. Some
would be more dramatic, more out-
rageous than others, but there would
be no dearth of material to fill the
broadcast hours. Programming for
that piece of reality television would
range from big picture, institutional
affronts like redlining, to everyday
slights, like being followed around a
store by the security folks.

As it stands, we will have to let
the weight of the argument ride on
Oprah's shoulders for now, but what
capable ones they are. Her credibil-
ity, her outreach and her influence
are unshakable. She will leave no
room for Hermes to wiggle out of
this one.

Holocaust survivors to prosecutors in Rote, who recently

ten octogenarian former members of the Nazi SS for their

massacre of 500 Italian villagers, would agree. that these kinds of organ

crimes against any grow of ple are abhorrent and must be addressed
ugh ight

whenever they are bro

it to

brought to justice
art in a 1944
ized

But there is another element to this case, an element that lies deep in the
Tallahatchie River that flows through northern Mississippi. It was in that
tiver while searches were being conducted for the body of Emmett Till, a

ill

fourteen-year-old Chicagoan

ed for allegedly whistling at a white woman

in 1955, that the remains of African American: soldiers still clad in their
military uniforms were discovered as apparent lynching victims.
One trial and one victory in a reign of terror. which T has pone on for

centuries is a signal that we must embar

on the greater work o: eliminating

domestic terrorism, As thousands of people die in Afghanistan and the Middle

East in an effort to eradicate Al Qaeda, how is it

at we have not yet been

able to eradicate the Klan, founded in 1866?
Maybe we're focusing our energies on the wrong front. Is an apology by

Let Hermes Wiggle Out of its Blatant Racism

The ultimate prize from the ex-
posure will not be Oprah's scoring
a series of apologies or special dis-
pensations from the store, but for
Hermes to abandon its discrimina-
tory policy against the black men
and women without famous faces
who want to shop there. I can Tt imag-
ine why black people from anywhere
would still choose to give their
money to the place, but it should at
least be their call (Then again, I
wouldnt spend $6,500 on a putse if
I had all the money in the world.).

I had a similar brush with this.

brand of discrimination nearly 30
ears ago,. when my oldest child was
born, A wealthy colleague had given
me an expensive christening gown
for her which I did not need and
decided to exchange.
The tiny gown had come from
a very exclusive store " really ex-
clusive in the 1970s " and while at
the counter, I overheard the clerk

Kenya and Nigeria Left Out of Debt Relic

NEW YORK (NNPA) - Much to
the disappointment of leaders in
both Kenya and Nigeria, both coun-
tries were lefe off of the coveted
odebt free ? list announced this week
by leaders of the developed world.
Ran » the only East African
nation that did not receive relief
from the plan, currently spends 57
percent st its GDP on debr. The
country has. honored its debt pay-
menes in the past and leaders are
shocked that the nation was not in-
cluded, while three of their major
trading partners " Uganda, Tanza-
bia and Rwanda " received aid.
; Kenya's political and business
leaders are looking at financing al-
tfatives to remain competitive.
?,? should suspend payment of the
debe for five years and redeploy the
money to needy sectors such as edu-
?,?ation, health and infrastructure, ?
Kabete MP Paul Muite said.
| Nigeria, the most indebted of
West African countries, did not

qualify for immediate debt relief
because it has not fulfilled the strict
anti-corruption and economic liber-
alization conditions of the World
Bank's Heavily Indebted Poor Coun-
try initiative.

The $40 billion plan will initially
benefit 18 nations worldwide, 14 of
which lie on the African continent.
An additional $11 billion has been
earmarked for nine countries ex-
pected to qualify for debt forgive-
ness in the next 12 to 18 months.

oWe greatly appreciate the ini-
tative, ? said James Nsaba Buturo,
the Information Minister of Uganda,
which currently has $4.5-billion in
debt, equivalent to 74 per cent of
its annyal.production. oIt is a chal-
lengeéfor us to use the moneywe
have been paying [in] debts to...
better the lives of our people. ?

Critics of the plan say it does
not go far enough to lift impover-
ished nations out of debt. African
observers pointed out that the

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crisis was itself a product of the ex- |

treme forms of capitalism and so-
cialism imposed on Africa during
the 1970s as part of the deals that
guaranteed the loans.

oRemember the West had a hand

in promoting some of those leaders |

because it suited them at the time, ?
Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican
primate of South Africapsaid in a tele-
vision interview yesterday.

urging a white customer to complete
an application for a store credit card.
After Xcompleted the return, I
asked for an application just for the
heck of it. The woman told me the
store was no longer opening new ac-
counts. I asked to see the manager.
A few minutes later, the clerk
returned with the manager by her
side. As they walked toward me with
downcast eyes, the clerk whispered
nervously to her boss " briefing her
on the talking points, I presumed,
The older woman looked up at

me with a no-nonsense expression T

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ripped from his body in. Jasper, Texas in 1998 enough? " |
ah There is sompthitg deeper in America, and not just the South, that

needs to be exp

. We need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission like

the one held in South Africa. We need to aggressively prosecute all unresolved
racist murders during the last 100 years that went unheeded by the govern-
ment sworn to protect us, and provide reparations to T the victims of these

murders as has been done for others.

If the oHomeland ? is to be truly secure, it must exorcise its own

demons first.

Ron Scott, a co-founding member of the Detroit Chapter of the Black
Panther Party, is a long-time Detroit-area community activist, speaker, pro-
ducer and radio/television talk show co-host. He is host and producer of For
My People, ? one of the longest-running African American-focused public
affairs television programs in the nation. He serves as a spokesperson for the
Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, an eight-year organization that has

been at the foreftont of fighting
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me when " Eureka! " she seemed
to recognize me and broke into a
smile.

oOh! ? she exclaimed. oYou're
the girl on TV! ? She whipped out
an application.

Never mind, ? I said. oSome
black woman might come in here
with more money and a better credit
history than I have, but.I guess she
wouldn't get an application because
she's not-on TV. ? I have not set
foot in that store since that day.

And that Ts where Oprah Ts en-
counter with Hermes strikes the

sorest.nerve. While there is a dis-

Mie.

lice abuse and misconduct. Scott can be
net.

pute about whether the Hermes
people recognized her. or if it was
one of those they-all-look-alike mo-
ments, the point is, it shouldn't mat-
ter. As long as a black customer has
to wear her resume on her sleeve,
has to bring her walking papers, has
to prove that she is a Super Negro,
a business may as well hang up pre-
tending to be fair.

Unfortunately for Hermes, they
didn't just shun a young shopper of
modest means who happened to be
on TV. They dissed the woman who
is TV.

And stepped in it, for sure.

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4 trying to find ways to understand and preven | a ty,
© father than just adapting to it? -
a ~ foe example, in ees at moré than
petting bigger to accommodate bigger Americans. Tak
ke Mage | recently widened from 18 inches to 20 inches. Or the
Colorado ambulances that are now uipped with a
And, aly anu winch capable of iting a 1,800-pound bu
man. lastly, Indiana has a new super-s casket that Ts 38 inches wi
rather than the standard 24 inches Sines wie
___ Since these measures aren't solving the problem, how should we be think-
ing about obesity? First, Wwe must take into consideration that the science of
obesity is complex and still in its infancy. The hormone leptin, which is
perme Ey fat cells and provides the chemical message to the brain that
"helps ae excessive caloric intake, was only discovered in 1994 at
er University. .

It Ts Decoming more obvious that fat is not a by-product of individual
greed and guilt but rather an active organ in its own right, worthy of a
significant scientific effort to uncover its complex cheiical and biologi-

mysteries. Being obese doesn Tt mean you're a bad person, but it virtu-
ally guarantees bad health, and that can't be isa Obese individuals
have a higher-than-normal rate of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, high

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. (NAPSA) - Here's news a lot of
Americans shouldn't take lying
down. A national survey to measure
the impact of obesity on back pain
revealed an increasing trend in the
number of overweight and obese
pees being treated for spine-re-

ted disorders - up nearly 67 per

cent from just five years ago. In fact 7

just carrying an extra 20 pounds can
cause back pain. According to the
survey, taken by the North Ameri-
can Spine Society (NASS), 44 per-
cent of the patients they see are con-
sidered obese.

Obesity affects more than 60
million Americans each year and
has been directly correlated with
causing diabetes, heart disease and
even death. Recently, NASS kicked
off its fourth annual patient educa-
tion campaign, oTake a Load off
Your Back, ? to also focus wide-
spread attention on the debilitating

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strokes,

Obesity isn't a condition we and adapt to. Before we con-
tinue on this path, investing in the problem rather than the solution, it Ts time
to identify a differ t approach: How can scientists help the lipid cell adjust to

id increased. uality in the American diet? How do we get Americans out-
doors again? Wh children, women, and minorities targets for obesity?

effects of obesity on the spine.

In conjunction with the aware-
ness campaign, NASS produced an
educational video focusing on
obesity Ts impact on patients T back
pain and encourages doctor, patient
and community involvement to care-
fully monitor the epidemic of obe-
sity and back pain prevention.
to Dr. Tom
Facizewski, a leading orthopedic
surgeon at the Marshfield Clinic in
Wisconsin and a NASS member,
oPeople are coming in not by doz-
ens but in eee of obe-
sity and their back pain. ?

Dr. Facizewski is not alone in
his observation. A startling 87 per-
cent of spine professionals surveyed
agree that obesity plays a significant
role in back pain. The vast major-
ity of those surveyed (94 percent)
also said they recommendtycist
loss as a treatment option for their

Area MPO
improvement Pr

Works Department of the
greenvillenc,

"DRAFT" 2006-2012 STATE TRANSPORTATION
PROVEMENT PROGRAM

The oDraft ? 2006-2012 State Transportation improvement
Program (STIP) Is available for public review. .Coples of the
Greenville Urban portion of the odratt" STIP (also
known T as the odraft

ogram, of MTIP) are available for review at
the Greenville Public Works Facility, 1500 Beatty Streat, The
entire odraft ? 2006-2012 STIP can be viewed via
Greenville Urban Area MPO web page under the Public
City of Greenvilie's web site

the

nisipublic,_ works, dept;

go to oGraeme Lian hoa MPO", than click on o3006-
2012 State Transportation Improvement Program T).

A oTIP Open House ? will be held fram 4-6 p.m. on Thursday,
dune 30, 2005, at the Conference Room, Greenville Public
Works Buliding (1500 Beatty Street).

Written comments wil be accepted until July 13, 2005, by
mall to the Greenville Urban Area MPO, 1500 Beatty Street,

Greenville, NC 27834; by tax at (262) 320-4535; or by e-mail
al revajkoveky@greenvillenc.qov.

And, is investment in gastric b surgery, wider ferry seats, ambulance _
winches, and bigger caskets really the way to go? I know the answer-it Ts a
no :

For more information on obesity, or to receive a free weekly health T
go online to www.HealthPolitics.com.
, is a Senior Fellow

report from Dr. M
* Mike Mag

obese patients and, in follow-up

cant improvement in their

weight loss.

Physical activity is extremely "

important and the most often pre-

scribed treatment for spine health "
since a patient ?s back joints and |

discs rely on motion to keep them
healthy. The spine specialists at
NASS offer these important tips to
hel patients lose the extra weight
and otake a load off their backs.

1. Eat a sensible, balanced diet.
Extremely restrictive diets can cause

loss of muscle and bone density in

addition to fat.

2. Make sure you get enough _

calcium and vitamin D daily. Cal-

cium is normally excreted from the

body every day. When we don't re-

place it, the body steals calcium from
ones.

3. Stop smoking! Smokers are
mote prone to back pain than non-
smokers because nicotine restricts
the flow of blood to the discs that
cushion the vertebrae of your
spine.

4. Bring an extra pillow to
bed. Sleeping on your back puts
55 Ibs. of pressure on your spine.
Putting a couple of pillows under

our knees cuts the pressure in
half Lying on your side with a
pillow between your knees also

JOIN THEEXCEL TEA

Take A Load Off Your Back - Just
carrying an extra 20 pounds can -

cause pain.

5. Start a strength training pro-
gtam. Resistance training not only
Increases strength, it has also been,
shown to improve balance, reduc:

ing the risk of injury, and can help ;.

maintain bone mass.

6. Stretch throughout the day, . :
Stretching keeps your muscles flex-

ible and helps avoid injury. ,

7. Stand up straight. Bad pos-,
ture can worsen back pain. This is
especially true if you have excess
weight in the form of a obeer belly. ?

8. Check in with your doctor.
You should have a.physical exami?
nation before starting a weight loss
and exercise program to ensure that
you donOt have any underlying T
recautions.

T

health, visit www.spine.org. Insttuc~ T

tions for home exercises can be:

found in the oFor Spine Patients ?
section. r

The North American Spine So-:
ciety (NASS) is a multidisciplin- ary.
organization that advances quality,
spine care through education, re-,
search and advocacy.

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* Use ladders or operate/install equipment that could approach within
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Medical Association, director of the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative.
and host of the weekly Web cast oHealth Politics with Dr.
treatment for patients who lose the
weight, 55 percent found a signifi-
tients ?
symptoms as a direct result of the "

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