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By Susie Clemons
Greenville, NC |
GREENVILLE, NC - The West
Greenville Focus Group (WGEG),.
a coalition of residents, neighbor-

hood groups, community organi-

to:provide new homes for employ-

zations, and businesses, is asking
where's the fairness in eliminating
a historically Black voting district

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ees of thé soon to be completed
ECU School of Nursing and the
University Health Systems Car-
diac Center. a

It's no secret. that the

Thomas R. Williams (stand:
ing on the left behind the group)
is from Rocky Mount NC. He
joes from Rocky Mount

enior High School in 1957. He
enlisted in the United States
Navy in August 1957 and retired
on October 31 1987 with the
rank of Commander. Com-
mander Williams served in sub-
marines as an enlisted man and
as a Naval Aviator after being
commissioned in 1966.

He has bachelor Ts degree in
Electrical Engineering from
North Carolina State University
and a Master of Science degree
in Systems Management from
The University of Southern
California, Following his mili-
tary career, he worked for EW
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military experiences wi

Former Submariner Thomas R. Williams shares
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grandchildren who also live in
Greenville. He stays busy in re-
tirement with travel, teading,

fishing, hiking, golfing, and vol]

unteer activities.

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mission (GRC) and the West
Greenville Focus: Group (WGFG)
have been going back and forth for
some time now concerning the fate
of the Center City-West Greenville
Revitalization, The proposed 45-
block area of planned revitaliza-
tion. in West Greenville is strate-
pically located between East Caro-
ina University main campus and
the new site of both the ECU
School of Nursing and University
Health Systems Cardiac Center.
In a landslide vote of 6 to 1,
over the objections of West
Greenville residents, the

To the left is Amos Blunt and
years. Hemby died in the 30 Ts,
survived by his current wife,
great grandchildren,

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Greenville Redevelopment Com-

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Greenville Redevelopment Com-
mission approved plans for the
Center City-West Greenville Re-
vitalization. But now those plans
may be changed after the Plannin
and Zoning Commission refused
to give their approval of the plan,
after considering questions raised
by the West Greenville Focus
Group. Since that time the Focus
Group and City of Greenville of.
ficials have been working on a
compromise plan.

Political Base Threatened

The Center City-West
Greenville Revitalization will dis-
place in excess of 3,500 Black resi-

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dents who live in the 45-block
area, including virtually all-exist-
ing Black owned businesses and
their more than 100 employees.

WGFG spokesmen Rev, Ozie
Lee Hall, Jr. says, "This action will
eliminate the political voice of the
Black community to elect repre-
sentatives to City and County
government. It also will mini-
mize the Black voting strength in
the 8th House, 3rd Senatorial,
and Ist Congressional Districts
that were originally carved out.
by the Justice Department to al-
low representation that had been
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reunion beginning Friday

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Exploring Our Past

by MaryWilliams (p
GREENVILLE, Ne
North Carolina.

15, 2005), the town

tended to the Frog
City of Greenville

-of Blount Towr were all ocol-
ored folks ? and were mem-
obers of the same family.

Deacon Best recalled.

White people in
Blount Town and that
the land was owned by
Amos Blount (pictured
above), ? who was one
of the first settlers.
There was a road that cut
through the land and even
to this day, most Blacks who

have resided in this area refer to
this road as Blount Ts Lane. From what

itured in the back on left)
- Blount Town, Pitt County,
More research will be needed
to uncovered the dates when Blount Town was es-
tablished. However, according to Deacon Leroy
Best, recently deceased (August 21, 1915 - July
was located in Pitt County in
and around Waterside Baptist Church and ex-
Level area. At that time the
was much smaller and
_ Seemed quite a distance away. Ac-
cording to Best, the residents

for worshi
fessor Go

Kilpatrick, Amos Blount owned about t
dred (300) acres.
Jim Blount owned about seven acres of land

in front of the current Warren Chapel Church. It
was rumoured that Jim lost his land because of
taxes. At that time,
tioned as a school during the week and was used
on Sundays. Under the direction Pro-
dson who was the
Gibbs, Mary Walker,
Williams worked
ing to Deacon Best, some of the

The Story of Blount Town

father Ts name was Major Best. jccording to Jesse
r

ee hun-

Warren Chapel Church func-

principal, Delzora
Glenny and Layette
as teachers. Accord-

men were Rev. Hill and Sweet?,
and Professor Artis (Dr. Isaac

Artis father) also taught
there.

When I asked him who
lived in Blount Town at that
time, he replied repeatedly
othere were no White folks
there, ? and the area had

from eight to ten households.
He recalled by name that some
of the people who lived there

were oBoy ? Evans Ts father, Viola ?
Knox, Tom Turnage (the oldest name
there) and Anna Evans who was taised by

The Children of The Little

ing engineering support for, elec- Willie Center: FRONT ROW (left to rigbt) Jattir| I recall Best said, othere should be a hundred acres Tom Turnage. Mary Sue Brown married Arthur
tronic warfare programs for the raige 8; Joshua Paige 10, nt Cari 7, Jaylen Jones 4, Jeniya Garris 4, Brianna} of land there. ? After Mr. Blount died the land Mabry and Lonnie Brown was the first Colored
US Government. He and his Li e 5, Ariya Lynch 7. MIDDLE ROW (left to right) Darrius Ward 11, Joshua was said to be heir property. Family members said man to build a brick house.

wife, Carol Clawson Williams of
Stratford CA, reside in
Greenville. Mr. Williams has a
daughter, a nurse at Pitt County
Memorial Hospital, and 3

Jones 10, Teaswana Garris 8, Dasia Ward 8, Shazia Brown 8, Isaiah Carr 9,
Sequoia Nobles 9, THIRD ROW: (left to right) Tius Wooten - 22, Youth
Advisor, Mike Best - 16 Youth Adviser, D.J.Smith - 13, Youth Adviser, Marty
Best - 12, Youth Adviser, De TShondra Harris 10, Shaquanna Jones 11, Randy
Jones 13 and Oldliria Carr 11.

Deacon Brown recalled that, othe house had
lass partitions in it. ? Best named not only John
Brown, but also Amos Thigpen, Ben Brown, He-
brew Spell, John Ivey Spell, Sr... McLawhorn and

See Community Voices - Page 7

that Blount had split or pointed out T to his family
members a lot or an area they were to live on. On
the opposite side of the Blount Town land was the
Best farm. That is the land we are now on. My
mother Ts name was Pearlie Johnson Best and my

girls ages 9-15. The basketball
League was established in 2003
something constructive to do over t
ing
Pictured are the Lady Sparks who
well as the tournament
game was played Wednesday, July 2
nority Voice Newspaper an
Players much future success.

the young ladies will have a better chance and opportunity to better
their skills and possibly have a chance to obtain a scholarship for college.

Coaches Eddie Grimes and Ervin Mills are only two of the basket
all coaches in Greenville who support and direct the talented youn

, 80 that the young girls would have
he summer, With the proper train-

won this season's championship a

games. The season started in Juné.and the las

7", 2005. All of us here at the Mi

WOOW radio station wish the coaches an
PHOTO: Faith May '

Wachovia partners in support of African-Americans

CHARLOTTE, NC - Wachovia
Corp. will contribute $10 million over
the next five years to help benefit the
African-American community,

The Charlotte-based bank
(NYSE: WB) says the funds will go to-
ward preserving and promoting Afri-
can-American hi

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istory and culture and
NC educational and economic
NC Democrati
RALEIGH, NC - North Catolina
Democratic Party Chair Jerry Meek
announced that Starla McKenney has
been hired as Deputy Executive Di-
rector. In the position, McKenney will
focus on building the Party across the
state and oversee the Party's regional
litical directors, Mark Hufford was
ired as Western Political Director in
April and Joyce Mitchell was hired as
Eastern Political Director in June, A
Central Political Director will be hired
in the near future,
C Starla McKenney, a _ of Pict
Jounty, up in a political famil
where both patent held elected of-
fice, her mother was'a Pitt Coun
Commissioner and her father was
Greénville Mayor Pro Temp and Ci
Councilman, A graduate of Nomh

aes

opportunities for Aftican-Americans.

To that end, Wachovia is form-
ing and broadening partnerships with
various organizations,

Wachovia will work with the As-
sociation for the Study of African-
American Life and History to support

ublic education of African-American
bistory told from the African-Ameri-

c Party

Carolina Central University, she most
recently served as the Legislative Li-
aison for the N.C. Department of
Health and Human Servies, She was
Political Director for Erskine Bowles T
2004 U.S. Senate campaign and the
Special Assistant and Legislative Liai-
son for N.C. Insurance Commis-
sioner Jim. Long from 1996-2003.
McKenney has been very active
in her community and in the Party.
She was a recipient of the
RaleighWake Citizens Association's
Community Award, was a member
of the Governor's Minority Executive
Leadership Council and served on the
NC Democratic Party Council of
Review, the NC Democratic Party
Stave Executive Committee and the

Wake County Democratic Party Af-

can perspective. Wachovia will sup-
port the creation of new curriculum
resources for an online education tool
developed by the National Humani-
ties Center for teachers and students.

Funding will support access to
education through a significantly en-
hanced partnership with the United
Negro College Fund, a new partner-

hires Deputy Exec. Dir.

rican American Caucus. She is cur-
rently a member of the Wake-Wendell
NAACP serves on the Partnership
Elementary PTA Board and an active
member of Elevation Baptist Church
in Raleigh.

oWe are thrilled to have Starla
McKenney on board as our De uty
Executive Director, ? said North Caro-
lina Democratic Party Chair Jerry
Meek. oHer government and politi-
cal experience and community

involvement will strengthen the
Democratic Party as we continue. to
build the Party across the state. Starla Ts
hiring will help to fulfill my promise
to provide unparalleled support for

parties, ?

McKenney,will start work Aug.
2nd.

.

ship with the Thurgood Marshall
Scholarship Fund, and continued su
port of the NAACP Ts educational
agenda, which is aimed at eliminat-
ing educational inequity in our nation Ts
public schools.

Support for a National Urban
League initiative will help provide
capital and technical assistance to
minority-owned small businesses with
annual revenue between $500,000 and
$1 million.

oOur partnerships reflect feed-
back and ideas that we received from
employees, customers and community
organizations, including many leaders
in the African-American community, ?
says Wachovia Chief Executive Ken
T ae oWe believe that these
special efforts, combined with our
high level of ongoin community sup-
port, demonstrate Wachovias stron,
commitment to serving groups and
individuals who have been historically
underserved. ?

The new and enhanced partner-
ships reflect a total corporate contri-
bution of more than $10 million over
five years, which will be enhanced by
additional volunteer support, em-
ployee giving and technical assistance.

?,?¢ new community initiative
follows Wachovia's June 1 announce-
ment of historical ties to slavery
through two predecessor companies,

. election. We

WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Be-
_ Gause America has fallen short
_ Of Services T to the poor and

le of color, the National Ur-
an ue will use. its annual

convention this week ro focus on
' ,fesources within the Black

com-
munity and establish an ooppor-
tunity covenant T for the 21st
century, says National Urban

gue President and Chief Ex-

oecutive Officer Marc Morial.

"This year Ts convention is

Very different from others, ? says

Morial. oWe probably have
fewer oWashington election offi-
cials T than we've had in the
past...We want to focus on the
community building itself up.
We also want to focus on the

_ community developing a conver-

sation about what we need. This
is the year after the presidential
: ave to
contextualize ir, ?

Morial says focusing inter-
nally does not mean that the fed-
eral government will be absolved
of its responsibility to help im-

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Editor's Note: Stops and
SON gees. +. searches
by Brit-
| ish po-
| lice are
dispro-
|} portion-
/] ately tar-
| geted at
lacks
and
Asians
and do
not deter
terror-
ism, the

writer says. |
LOS ANGELES "The slaying of
Brazilian legal émigré Jean
Charles de Menezes by the Lon-
don police again cast an ugly
glate on racial. profiling. in.Brit-
ain " police procedures that
have had nothing to do with
stopping terrorism.
uring the past decade, Lon-
don police have stopped, patted
down and detained legions of
black, Asian, and Muslim doc-
tors, lawyers, athletes, business
rofessionals and even British
Frome Office officials. Accord-
ing to a voluminous 2003 Brit-
ish Home Office report, oRace
and the Criminal Justice Sys-
tem, ? Blacks and Asians were
four times more likely to be
stopped than whites. North Af-
rican and Middle Easterners
were seven times more likely to
be stopped than whites.

The humiliation of being
subjected to unwarranted stops
and searches didn Tt end there.
London police have issued scores
of what's euphemistically called
a oproducer. ? That's a summons
that requires the detainee to ap-
pear at a police station and pro-
duce their driver's license and
Car registration. .

British officials claim that

. the unwarranted stops and

searches are a regrettable but
necessary tactic to fight terror-
ism. That's not true. Three years
before the London train station

Declarin on th

by George E. Curry
NNPA Editor-in-Chie

CHICAGO " When the National
Newspaper Publishers Association
(NNPA} bh

held its 65th annual con-
vention here
last week,
there was one
topic that
overshadowed
the usual
maneuverings
to elect a new
president and
the perennial
concern about

" the failure of
major corporations that rely on
Black consumers to advertise in
Black newspapers. The burning is-
sue this year " and I do mean
burning "~ was the disclosure that
the New York Times plans to start
an African-American newspaper in
Gainesville, Fla..

Black publishers freely con-
cede that anyone has the right to
start a newspaper. That is not the
issue, What is so galling is that
White-owned media companies
that have done such an embarrass-

ingly poor job of accurately por-

_traying people of color on their

4

prove the plight of the a

g of Brazilian

_ fhe opportunity covenant
is about jobs, housing, entrepre-
neurial and business develop-
ment, health care and. the ti fe
of all Americans to have health
care, and education, five pillars
of the covenant, ? says Morial in
an interview with the NNPA
News Service.

oThis is a covenant between the
people and their government, a cov-
enant between people and society,
it is basically a covenant that we
think is needed to develop the coun-
try in the 21st Century and to de-
velop African-Americans.

he right to a job that pays a
decent wage, the right to afford-
able health care, the right to qual-
ity education from early childhood
to higher ed, the right to become
a homeowner and to build assets,
the right to pursue your dreams if
you want to become a business
owner and an investor. ?

In the 95th year of the NUL,
the nation Ts premiere Black eco-
nomic organization, Morial says
political speeches will be limited
in order to. allow the organiza-
tion to focus inward on the Black
community with the goal of set-

bombings and the killing of
Menezes, British police made
more than 20,000 stops and
searches under authority of the
Terrorism Act, according to the
2003 Home Office report. Less
than 2 percent of those stopped
were arrested. |
Even that figure is mislead-
ing. Only two of those arrested

were charged with involvement

with a terrorist group, and their
arrest did not result fom a street
stop and search. By contrast,
nearly 15 percent of those
stopped as suspects in criminal
activities were arrested. In Lon-
don, nearly 40 percent of those
stopped on suspicion either un-
der the Terrorism Act or the
Police and Criminal Evidence
Act were non-whites. ony

The issue of racial profiling
has long been a sore spot for the
black and Asian communities in
Britain. It exploded to the sur-
face in 1993 when white hooli-

es and broadcast outlets are
now seeking to supplant the only
legitimate Black media voices that
have performed that task admira-
bly for more than a century. It is
arrogant and ridiculous to think
that newspapers that primarily
portray African-Americans as
criminals, athletes and entertain-
ers will suddenly be able or will-
ing to present African-Americans
in their full complexity.

Equally culpable are compa-
nies that refuse to advertise in
Black-owned media but are will-
ing to place ads with White-owned

ublications, broadcasts and
nternet outlets targeting African-
Americans. They shoul be pub-
licly exposed and boycotted. In
fact, every Black newspaper should
identify them each week so that
African-Americans, will be able to
support only corporations that re-
spect and support them.

The New York Times T decision
to compete with Black newspapers
is all about money. Daily newspa-

rs havelNn losing circulation
of more thaga decade, more clas-
sified ads ar?,?Whifting to online
portals and conglomerates that
purchase media properties T are
pressuring them to become more

America, an opportunity coy-
enant. a.

A

sidelines as
civil rights
and grassroots economic leaders
discuss among themselves what
future actions to take, Morial
says. Even President Bush was
not invited this year.

Exposes Britain's Longtime

ans beat Stephen Lawrence, a
Black London youth, to death.
Police came under intense fire
for their foot dragging investi-

ation into the beating. It took
Five years, and a mass protest
campaign, before British of fi-
cials formed a commission to
investigate the killing, called the
Stephen Lawrence Inquiry.
Scores of black and Asian Lon-
doners told harrowing tales of
harassment, verbal insults, and
even physical assaults by police.
In a stark admission, the com-
mission concluded that institu-
tional racism infected all levels
of policing in Britain.

British officials made a mild
stab at reform. In 2003, they an-
nounced that under new guide-
lines an, individual could not be
subjected to unwarranted street

stops because of race, but only
when there was clear suspicion
of criminal activity. It was a hol-
low victory. Five years after the

rofitable. The Project for Excel-
[ence in Journalism at Columbia
University reports that only 22
corporations control 70 percent of
daily newspaper circulation. As a
consequence of mergers and de-
clining circulation, what often gets
Passed on to readers as news is
pabulum.

There is also the issue of
changing demographics. In 50
years, Whites are projected to be-
come a minority in this country
for the first time. Over that same
period, the U.S. population is ex-
pected to grow by 50 percent, with
90 percent of that growth being
among people of color. So for eco-
nomic reasons " this has nothing
to do with altruism " the New
York Times, NBC, Times Warner
and other media giants are eager
to add Black and Latino publica-
tions and stations to their portfo-
lio. We've already seen this with
Time, Inc.'s decision to purchase
Essence magazine, Viacom's pur-
chase of Black Entertainment Tele-
vision (BET), American Online's
(AOL) ownership of Africana.com
and Blackvoices.com, and a deci-
sion by NBC, a subsidiary of Gen-
eral Electric Co., to purchase
Telemundo, a U.S. Spanish-speak-

ting ati agenda for Black

report, issued in

- tails the se-

thou gh« . tiousness of
"some pollti- | othe prob-
cians, such © lems facin
as New Blac E
York? s. oAmerica. It
Democratic noted:
Sen. Hilary - ¢ The
Rodham. ' median net
Clinton and F worth of an
Maryland's | - African-
Republican . American
Lt. Gov. family is
Michael S. . $6,100
Steele, have . compared
been invited } to $67,000
to speak, in for a White
most in- ~~ family;
stances, in- . © The
vited politi- i
cians will rate for
observe "Mark Morial Urban League ¢CEO "- Blacks is
from the Former Mayor of New Orleans nearly 50

percent
versus
more then 70 percent for
Whites;

* On average, Blacks are
twice as likely to die from dis-
ease, accident, behavior and ho-

commission fingered institu-
tional racism as the cause of pro-'
filing, and a year after the guide-
lines took effect, a commission
advisor found that young black

men were still twice as likely to

be stopped by police than five
years earlier. .
The Terrorism Act of 2000
ives British officials virtually un-
imited power to question and
detain anyone they deem a likel
terrorist suspect. In nearly all
cases, the suspect is black, Asian
or Muslim.
_ Some U.S. states have
assed laws that ban racial pro-
iling, and police departments
have spent millions on sensitiv-
ity programs and. training.
Michigan Congressman John
Conyers T Traffic, Stops Statistics
Act,-which would collect data on
olice traffic stops, has been
Eicked around Congress for the
past five years. That at least
ceps the issue of racial profil-

.,
bi ta

e Black Press

ing cable network, in 2001 for $2.7
lion

One of the most important
characteristics of the Black Press
is that it is a trusted source for
news and perspectives. Readers
turn to the Black Press to get an
alternative to White-owned media
that routinely parrot the Establish-
ment view and don't offer, let alone
understand, alternative perspec-
tives,

In 1978, the American Soci-
ety of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)
established a goal for the year 2000
of having newsroom employment

¢ oequivalent to the percentage
of minority persons in the national
population. ? Although African-
Americans represent 12.5 percent
of the population, Blacks are only
5.4 percent of the nation Ts news-
rooms, according to a survey by
the American Society of Newspa-
per Editors. Instead of achieving
those foals, ASNE Ts solution was
tO push the target date back to
2025.

Rather than trying to supplant
Black and Latino publications,
ite-owned media companies
should show that they can improve
their unbalanced coverage and in-
crease African-American presence

_ micide at every stage of life than
_ Whites. Life expectancy is 72
. years for Blacks and 78 years for

Whites; .

__ © The inequality gap between
Whites and BI

growing from 68 percent to 73
percent since 2003.
* Blacks are three times more

likely to become prisoners once T

arrested and a Black person's av-
erage jail sentence is six months
longer than a White Ts for the
same crime - 39 months versus
33 months.

In addition, the unemploy-
ment rate remains in double dig-
its for Blacks, currently at 10.3
percent, more than twice the rate
of Whites at 4.3. :

Instead of big-name politi-
cians such as Bush, who spoke
at NUL conventions last year, in
2003 and in 2001, grassroots ac:
tivists and civil rights leaders
such as Rainbow/PUSH
coalition Ts Jesse Jackson Sr., Na-
tional Action Network Ts Al

Sharpton, the NAACP Ts Bruce.

Gordon, former NUL President
and CEO Hugh Price, and ac-
tivist Dick Gregory will speak at
plenary sessions.

Among discussions will be
topics such as the plight of Blacks

Racial Profiling

ing alive at the federal level.

But with the terror war now
in full swing in Britain, and na-
tional jitters that more attacks
could happen at any time, Brit-
ish officials are in no mood to
protect against blatant civil lib-
erties abuses. The reaction of
British officials to the police
killing of Menezes is a prime ex-
ample of a collateral fallout of in-
nocents getting killed in the ter-
ror battle. British Prime Minis-
ter Tony Blair Ts apology for the
killing sounded more like a de-
fense of the police than a sin-
cere expression of regret over the
tragedy. Blair and British offi-
cials made it clear that the street
stops and searches will continue
and that there will be no change
in the shoot to kill policy. The

ave,.no, indication that the, of-
icers that killed"Menezes would
be punished.

The hard-nosed attitude of
British officials ignited justifi-

at all levels within their or aniza-

tions. According to a recent Knight
Foundation study, people of color
make up 30.9 percent of the New
York Times T circulation area. How-
ever, they comprise only 16,7 per-
cent of the Times T newsroom.

The Paper T first responsibil-
ity should be to have its newsroom
mirror the diversity of the com-
munity it is pledged to serve. If
that happens, perhaps we will see
more well-rounded portrayals of
people of color. In the meantime,

uying or creating Black newspa-
pers does not absolve White-owned
media companies of that respon-
sibility.

In 1827, Samuel Cornish and
John B. Russwurm, founders of
Freedom's Journal, the nation Ts
first Black newspaper, proclaimed:
"We wish to plead our own cause.
Too long have others spoken for
us.

Black people don't need the
New York Times or any other
White-owned media company to
speak for us. We do that quite well
ourselves,

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

eats on National Public Rado
NPR) three times a week as art
of oNews and Notes with Ed Gor-

_

acks-in the crimi- "
nal justice system is expanding,

males, pn phere» and
business development, Africa,
and a plenary session on history
as well as the future of the civil
rights struggle. a

In looking inward, the Na-
tional Urban League panels will

odetermine what demands should
be put on gorernmpént and what

demands the. Black community
must place on itself.

oWhen it comes:to jobs, wes
must sharpen our skills and raise
children with an emphasis on
education, not just school dis-
tricts educating; but making sure
they read and go to school every

_ day. We must realize the impor-

tance of homeownership and sac-
rifice some things to accomplish
that, ? Morial explains.
oIt Ts going to be a great con-
ference, o Morial says. oBlack
eople are at a point where we
Pave to place demands on the in-
stitutions in American life and
we have to place demands on
ourselves... It Ts not a one-way
street. It Ts a two-way street for
us. And I think we should not
be afraid to say we've got to
make demands on our govern-
ment, we've got to make demands
on the private sector, but we've
got to make demands on our-
selves, too. ?

able outrage among many Bra-
zilians. Relatives and friends of
Menezes demanded that Blair

arrest the cops that killed him.

That, of course, won't happen.
There will be a perfunctory in-
vestigation, another statement of
regret, and compensation to
Menezes T family. Police policies
and practices in Britain will not
change soon. Even if the train
bombings had never occurred,
blacks, Asians, and Muslims in
the country would still be
stopped and searched with im-
Punity on the streets and re-
quired to troop to police stations
to oproduce ? documents.

hat won't stop one poten-
tial terrorist attack, or break u
a single terrorist cell. It will just
be business as usual.

PNS contributor Earl Ofari
Hutchinson is author of oThe
Crisis in, Black and T Black ?
(Middle Passage Press).

don. ? In addition, his radio com-
mentary is syndicated each week
by Capitol Radio News Service
(301/588-1993). To contact Curry
or to book him for a speaking en-
gagement, go to his Web site,
Www.georgecurry,com

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_ As the politics of progressivism
mes More an examination of a
engineering whereby segments o
society seek to establish a social peck-
sing order
Mm based on
achievement
of the collec-
tive, the
pro ress of
| ac k
America still
represents the
iil most suspect
Proposition.
While there are more examples of
black achievement on an individual
basis, there is a decline in wages, jobs
and wealth among African Americans
in the collective. °
Yes, more individual blacks are
doing better, but the race is regress-
ing in an era of oprogress. ? No mat-
ter how you look at it, whether as
individuals or in the aggregate, the
exception is not the rule when it
Comes to measuring black progress.
But how do we know the difference,
and how do we know whos contrib-
uting to black progress and who's not?
ee talk bout Blacks, and black
progress, as if they are a monolith
ctioning in America Ts Eurocentric
egemonic society, but it Ts just not
true. Asian communities function as
a monolith within the Eurocentric he-
gemony: The Jewish community func-
tion as a monolith despite the poli-
tics of America Ts hegemony. Mono-
liths move toward a collective goal,
in spite of individual interests, the
outcome of which is progress. The
African American community's pur-
suit of individual interests, many of
which go against-the interest of the

By Sujette Jones

oOn behalf of Wachovia Corpo-
ration, I apologize to all Americans
and especially
to African.
Americans
| -andpebpl

t, ?
Chairman
and chief ex-
ecutive G.
Kennedy Th-
ompson said
after a study
found that his
company had
that exploited

Suejette Jones

purchased two banks
slaves.

According to Darryl Fears, a
news staff writer, Wachovia revealed
on June 1st that one of the banks put

ORY

collective, and the absence of a col-
lective goal produces little, if any, .
rogress. So how is it that we can
fave so many Blacks doing well, yet
have sary poncr that are not pro-
sressing? Largely because we don't rec-
tiene we are, and what many
of us do, to counteract progress.

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on the ChicagoDefender.com mes-
sage board.

A critical part of this odysfunc-

tion ? goes to the very notion of self

identity " how we see ourselves.
Many see themselves as contributing
but what are they contributing to, our
Progress, or our regress? Are they
tearing down the wall of inequality,
or are they helping build the wall
higher making it more difficult for

the next generation to achieve equal-

ity.

y Many African Americans are
products of their environment, oth-
ets are products of their time. Either
way, they may not be products of
progress. Progress, particularly com-
munity progress, is a product of con-
scious behavior on the part of Blacks
who understand that personal respect
is tied to how others perceive the
race. None of us can separate our-
selves from the realities of the condi-
tions associated with the race. Yet,
many of us try to. Others even try to
reinforce the realities by exploiting
the situation, meaning using the con-
dition of black people Ts suppression

_ as a way oto keep it real ? that offers a

distortion as to what black poverty,
black economic deprivation, black
oppression is really about.

These are not oa way of life, ?
they are oa product of social circum-
stances ? and oa fact of racial hege-

mony. ? The goal should be to change,

hundreds of slaves to work on rail-
roads and another accepted more than
100 more as collateral on defaulted
loans in the 1800s. Wachovia, one of
the nation T largest banks, was required
by the city of Chicago to investigate
its [past td: participate in T the redevel-
opment of a housing project on the
city Ts South Side.
Chicago's law is the result of a
campaign by a network of black poli-
ticians, lawyers, professors and repa-
rations activists who say they want
Americans to know that slave pur-
were often financed with bank
loans and insured. Through the mid-
1800s, insurance companies often
paid claims when slaves escaped, then
they would place ads in publications
offering rewards to bounty hunters to
track them down and bring them

back, even if they had

The Mystery Of The

By Charles Cinque Fulwood
I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Noth-
ing (Open the Door, Ill Get it Myself). ?
" James Brown
oIn the colonies the truth stood
but the citizens of the mother
country preferred it with clothes on. ?
~ Jean-Paul Sartre, introduction to

Frantz Fanon Ts The Wretched of the
Earth

I double-dog dare anyone to solve
the mystery of the Negro Conservative.
The dictionaries define conser-
vatism as othe tendency to maintain
the existing order and to resist
change; ? conservative is ofavorin
* preservation of the existing order.
Why would an African American,
whose historical experience and con-
temporary status are largely shaped by
racism and discrimination in every
facet of social, political, and economic
intercourse, want to opreserve the ex-
isting order ? and oresist change ??

0 be clear, I am not referring to
African Americans like my parents
who were strict in their values about
self-respect, work, faith, family, com-
munity, discipline, and manners ( oSit
down, Junior, and quit acting a fool. ?)
Laziness, or oloafing, ? was close to a
sin before the Almighty God.

Self-help at both the individual
and community levels was the gold
standard. So was justice. Since when
are these values oconservative ?? Since
the right-wing think tanks and media

hine reconfigured its code words
to obscure racist intentions. Since it
upgraded its language and operati
tem to give cover to the same ol
isgraceful practices of disenfranchise-
ment. Since old (young, too), en-
trenched, Manifest Destiny right-
wingers crafted a grand strategy to
return America to othe good ole
days. ? Remember them?

As a part of its relentless propa-
ganda campaign to demonize African

ticans, the right-wing has hi-
jacked the values o my parents and
theit contemporaries as its exclusive
playbook. And if othe problem ? with

African Americans is rooted in the
lack of oconservative values, ? then that
logically dismisses all of the traditional

k complaints.

In the conservative mentality, it
makes sense that after centuries of sla-
very and discrimination, affirmative
action is oreverse discrimination. ? The
Voting Rights Act is opolitical affir-
mative action, ? and the plague pn the
nation Ts house is not an absence of
voting tghs, but voter fraud commit-
ted by blacks. Fair employment poli-
cies are opolitically correct ? straitjack-
ets choking the life out of businesses,
and Trojan horses for the dreaded
omulticulturalism. ? And safety net
policies represent New Deal social-
ism, big aera hand-outs, and
a sense of entitlement by people who
are recklessly devoid of opersonal re-
sponsibility. ?

What is most egregious is that
the right-wing has recruited a new
generation of N to communi-

. T o ee
cate its propagan give olegiti-
macy to message@Mat otherwise
would be recogni obvious poi-
son to the needs andMhterests of Afri-

can Americans.

The New York Times recently
reported that the Republican is
grooming a crop of eager Negro

ublicans to run for governor or the

S. Senate in 2006 in Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Mi igan,
which is a part of a larger scheme to
take a chunk of the black vote from
the trifling Democrats,

Deeper still, Bush's faith-based
initiative has furnished a cash-driven
enticement to a growing network of
black preachers parroting the oconser-
vative ? message, and attacking the
credibility of progressive black lead-
ership as well. The package is com-
pleted and the bow is tied by the out-
of-the-blue appearance of a truck load
of right-wing black media commen-
tators, from Armstrong Williams to
Joe Watkins. The list is long, and grow-
i

" If you depend on the visibility of

or progress, the circumstance, not
glorify, or reinforce, the circum-
stance. That is the difference between
someone who is a conscious Black,
versus someone who is a Negro who
accepts the circumstance, or a Ni**a
who exploits the circumstance.

That takes us to the question,
what is the differentiation between
the Negro and a Ni**a? The Negfo
is an American invention wheseby his
origin is disconnected from his iden-
tity, and his new identity is a teflec-
tion of the social standing assigned
to him by the hegemon, which in this
case is American society. Not only
does the Negro have No past, Bs
present is marginalized in a way that
offers little ability to change the real-
ity of the race. Because the Negro is
a product of his socialization, he (and
she) does not willfully try to hurt the
race, but their ignorance and their
acceptance of the social construct
does not allow them, to force mean-
change socially accept-

able forms of fond a
The Ni**a is an outbirth of the
social engineering imposed on the
American Black, whereby they offer
no solutions, and react to socio-eco-
nomic conditions in ways that will
only reinforce the most negative per-
ceptions of the race. For instance,
social engineers know that, irrespec-
tive of race, lack of commerce and/
or business will produce osurvival of
the fittest ? conditions whereby people
will prey on others to survive. Ni**as
into, and buy into, it as an ex-

cuse for not having what others have.
Instead of changing the circumstance,
they seek to exploit the circumstance.
So they rob, steal and kill their own
for the sake of surviving. Or they take
money to promote a lifestyle that is

OFORE

states. The slaves would be resold.

Since 2000, when the first dis-
closure law was enacted by the state
of California, similar laws have been
passed in Los Angeles, Detroit, Phila-
delphia and New Orleans. According
to one Chicago alderman, other city
lawmakers have expressed interest.
Disclosure laws in the past have re-
quired companies to reveal their ties
to the Holocaust and South Africas
former apartheid government. The al-
derman quotes: oAmericans deserve
to know that companies they rely on
for mortgages, credit cards and insur-
ance supported the slave trade with
similar loans.

We have a history that Ts not be-
ing told. We want our history to be
tol in every book and every school "
our true history. ? (Recently, all of the
schools in Phi r

Negro conservative commentators to
measure African American public
opinion, you could only conclude that
Black America had gone oRight. ? The
only demographic of media commen-
tators growing faster than black right-
wingers is the surreal saturation of
blonde Eva Brauns.

To be frank, Negro conservatives
have always been with us, starting with
old Tom on the plantation ( oMassa,
we sick? ?). To be Eis some have been
honest in having a different approach
to the road to freedom; Booker T.

ington comes to mind. Others

have been charlatans. (I won't call any
names here, you know who they are.)
Others have just béen inexplicable;
Zora Neale Hurston comes to mind.
Pardon me, but it must also be said
that even though I have not met a black
tson over 40 who didn't omarch with

t. Kang, ? I remember the black
reachers and churches that ran away
rom him. I remember scary Negroes
saying Dr. King should ojust Oughta
hush and go somewhere and sit
down. ?

And certainly it is understandable
that blacks embraced the Party of Lin-
coln after Emancipation, as the

ocrats and Dixiectats mounted
a campaign of disenfranchisement and
terror against African Americans for
decades following the Civil War and
into the early 20th century, includi
a fierce resistance to tion an

anti- i islation,

Bren during the sixties ~ and per-
haps before " there has always been a
schism between those blacks that
measured progress and social change
only the extent to whi were
included in American life Big
House ?), and those who pushed for
structural change beyond mere inclu-
sion.

So, the seed of an honest ideo-

and strategic disagreement are
deeply Lease ie our history, (They
tell me that Booker T. and
WE.B DuBois are still arguing.) That
is a debate that needs a new summons,

nothing more than one of depriva-
tion, and use it to degrade women,
promote oslanging ? and odealing ? and
destabilizing relationships between
black men and women, ot black fami-
lies apd black communities,

Ni*as are always quick to tell
you what you havent done for them,

but cant tell you what they've done to _

change themselves, and the destruc-
tion is perpetuated until progress is
overwhelmed by regressive behaviors.
Ni*as make a conscious decision to

UNTOLD

dated to teach African-American history)

According to a recent article in
The Boston Globe, oCashing in on
America Ts racial guilt, ? Wachovia's
chairman has admitted its guilt, and
vowed to make amends b giving
money to organizations that pro-
mote further awareness of black'his-
tory. Reparations to African-Aineri-
cans are extraordinarily rare: The
$1.8 million award in 1994 to vic-
tims of the riot and massacre in
Rosewood, Florida is one of a few.
In that 1923 incident, white au-
thorities and citizens killed 26 black
men, women and children and bur-
ied them in a mass grave. About 355
black residents were driven from
their homes as the community
burned. The U. S. Government has
never apologized or paid reparations
to the descendants of slaves.

Pin
Negro Conservative

Bill Lucy's recent call for a return to
oGary ? is right on time, and offers an
Opportunity for leadership account-
ablity and honest, vigorous debate
about vision, strategy, message, and
integrity.
Let the Negro conservatives
come to oGary ? and let Ts explore the
merits. Let's have an honest discus-
sion about 21st century America and
the best strategy for African Ameri-
cans. But later for the disingenuous
and asinine rhetoric hatched in Re-
publican think tanks by white right-
wingers. Later for the prophylacytic

engage in activities that degrade the
race and destroy the community, turn-
ing progress for a community into a
neat impossible proposition. Ni**as
are the biggest detriment to the race
today " and there are more of them
than you think, because everybody
ogotta get theirs. ?

Progress will only come about
when there are more Blacks of con-
scious positive behavior acting in the
interest of the collective than there
are Negroes, or Ni**as, acting against

the collective interests of Blacks. That

should be the goal for Black America
faising conscious Blacks,
marginalizing Negroes and eradicat-
ing, at all costs, Ni**as. + ;
Anthony Asadullah Samad is a
national columnist, managing direc-
tor of the Urban Issues Fore and ©
author of 50 Years After Brown: The
State of Black Equality In America
(Kabili Press, 2005). He can be
reached at
www.AnthonySamad.com.

Recently, however, the U.S. Sen-
ate issued an apology for the lynch-
ings that occurred in the past. Other
groups such as Japanese Americans,
who were forced into camps during
World War II, have been more suc-
cessful. Swiss banks paid reparations
to Holocaust victims after the bank
acknowledged they had accepted
money and goods stolen from: Jews
by: Nlazis-during World-War I.
o| ACNN/USA Today Gallup poll
fh 2002 showed the 9 out fe 10
white Americans said the govern-
ment should not make cash repara-
tions payments, arguing that white
Americans are descendants of im-
migrants who came to this country
after the Civil War, and have no con-
election to slavery; hence, is oun-
thinkable ? to penalize people for
something their great great-great
grandfather did to someone else Ts

great-great great grandfather.
ost of other companies other

than banks are fighting the disclosure
lawsuit after investigations found links
to they are Aetna; J.P. Morgan
Chase; Bank of America; Lehman Broth-
ers Holdings Inc.; Lloyds of London;
American International Group, Inc.; to-
bacco makers R.J.Reynolds Tobacco
Holdings; Brown &: Williamson To-
bacco Corp.; Ligget Group Inc.; the rail-
toad firms Union Paci Corp ahd
Norfolk Southern Gorp:
Why is it important T to pay resti-
tution? Historically, the lack of finan-
cial capital has been a barrier to black
rogress. It Ts harder for us to get bank
fears, and red lining is a vestige of
slavery. It's about them helping us to
heal the wounds they historically
caused.
Respectfully submitted by
Suejette A. Jones
Sources: various articles, comments
and research.
Ms. Jones is a former Pitt County
school teacher, retired - Ed.

messaging and absurd role-playing.

Lets take the historic baton and
solve the mystery of the Negro con-
servative. Is it a legitimate political
course connected to the realities of
African Ametican challenges? Is it
mere mathematics of putting our
troops in both parties and all camps?
Is it like simply choosing which team
you want to play on? Is it just being
tired of sitting on the bench? Is it only
about getting paid? Is it what America
really is, take it or leave it? Is it the T.
word? Is it akin to the Stockholm Syn-
drome? Do we really want a class of
Duvaliers, Savimbis, and Mobutos in
America?

Is it possible to be a Negro con-

COOPER'S COMMENTARY

servative when American conserva-
tism is inextricably tied to racism, the
obstruction of every single step of
black progress, and the dichotomous
syndrome of black inferiority and
white supremacy? Is it a butt-neckit
contradiction? Is it real or is it
Memorex? Let's see. To paraphrase
your president, obring it on. ?

Meet me in oGary ? and let Ts talk.
But come honest; come rel And if it

your motor running, take a
tom the story about the cherry tree
and George Washington, with his wig
wearing self.

Charles Cinque Fulwood is a
writer and communications strategist

living in Washington, DC.

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GREENVILLE, NC-

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| hash irn cde hg omens aegis eed: al po at i

opinion. The criteria for Mr. Fenner Ts decision to dis-
sent ate as follows - Editor :]

WASHINGTON, DC - If 2 bomb
were to explode on a crowded inner-
city bus or if a nuclear power plant
came under attack by terrorists, would
nearby low-income neighborhood
residents know where to go or what
to do for ey pia

While U.S. anti-terror agents
shifted to heightened alert last week
after a'string of terrorist bombings in
| » one U.S. anti-poverty orga-
nization announced plans to broaden

a m that aims to protect poor
neighborhoods from terrorist attacks
ind prepare people for emergencies.

atgely poor communities are

those communities that are least likely
The Teas bch information.
hey are ikely to have any kind
of preparedness training. They are
least likely to have positive relations
with law enforcement officers. Those
communities are least likely to have an
evacuation plan, ? says Dertick Span,
national president of the Community Ac-

North Carolina Bankers Associatio
" We:do not have a

Harry M. Davis Ph.D
NCBA Economist

Perspective is everything. Most
people believe the economy is not
peorming very well based on the in-

ormation delivered by the national
news organizations cach evening. If
the performance of the economy is
put in historical perspective, most
people might think the economy is
doing better than we think.

re are numerous positive as-
pects of this economy. Gross Domes-
tic Product (GDP) growth in this re-
covery has exceeded that of the previ-
ous recovery and the post I av-
erage. GDP grew 3.8% in the Ist
quarter which is well above the ex-
pected rate. Job growth is on par with
the 90s recovery and the unemploy-
ment rate is lower than the rate for
the last 20 years except for a brief
period prior to 9/11. Housing sales
and starts are booming. Existing home
sales set a new record last year at 6.9
million units which was the fourth
record year in a row. Housing starts
remain above the 2 million a year level
which is a 20 year high. Housing
prices are rising at double digit rates,

Do the housing numbers mean
we are in a housing Bubble: Not yet.
Clearly some markets are overheated.
If we look at inventory numbers for
either new or existing homes they are
near historic lows. These numbers
do not support the idea of a national
bubble at this time. With mortgage
rates at forty year lows, we should not
be ised by a robust housing mar-
ket.

Consumers are doing well.
Wages and salaries grew 6% last year
which was the best showing since 2000
and household wealth stands at the
highest level ever. Retail sales for the

tion Partnerships, a coalition of 1,000

organizations around the country that
serve poor neighborhoods.

oYet, they are more likely to have
residing in them the untutored and
the elderly who may not understand
this color code idea. And they are
more likely to be situated by these

wer plants and chemical plants. So,
or that reason, they become more
susceptible to bio-terrorism. ?

Fhe rogram, Community Land
Security, has been in operation since
last year in three cities - Middlesex
County , N_J. ; Bolivar County , Miss.
; and Knox County , Kentucky . But,
they are expanding to seven more cit-
ies this summer through affiliates of
the CAN, Span says.

They are: Monroe County OP

rtunity Program, Monroe, Michi-
oan WSOS Community Action Com-
mission, Inc., Fremont, Ohio; Cos-
tal Community Action Program,
Rockland, Maine; Office of Human
Affairs, Newport News, Va.;

12 months ending in April grew 8.6
percent while consumer spacing
grew nearly 4% in both 2003 an
2004. Personal bankruptcy filings and
most delinquency rates are down.
Consumer confidence reached a 3-
year high in June. These are all im-
pressive numbers.

Strong economic growth can
clearly be seen in the dramatic in-
crease in government revenue. Fed-
eral tax revenue through April of fis-
cal year 2005, increased $146 billion
for a 13.6% increase over the same
period a year earlier. For the same

tiod, corporate income taxes bal-
fooned 48% to $134 billion. Numer-
Ous states are experiencing exploding

Frederick Community Action
Agency, Frederick, Md.; Community
Council of South Texas, Rio Grande
City, Texas; and Little Dixie Commu-
nity Action Agency, Hugo, Okla.

?,? programs are being run with
a $300,000 grant from the U. S. De-
partment of Health and Human Ser-
vices that the CAN first applied for
in 2002, Span says. The money was
granted last year. He hopes to receive
an additional $200,000 to start 10
additional Community Land Security
programs next year.

CAN affiliates that apply for the
Community Land Security funding
must be able to rove their realness
to train e for the program an
nahe blero match the inital fund-
ing of $10,000 per program, he says.
The vulnerability of neighborhoods
and proximities to potential targets for
terrorists are also Fighly considered,
Span says.

oMuch of the criteria had to do
with, number one, the ability of the

n Business Barometer

national h

state revenues.

Energy prices and outsourcing
receive far more attention than th
deserve. When Toyota builds its 4th
and Hyundai its ist auto assembly
plant in the US it goes unnoticed. That
represents outsourcing into the US.
Energy prices are having little impact
on our economy even at $50-60 per
barrel.

The FED will increase rates an-
other half of one percent over the re-
mainder of the year. Consumets will
continue to spend as employment
improves. The national econom
should grow about 3.75% for the sec-
ond half of the year. That rate of
growth will continue to lower the un-

Community Action Agency to reach
out and be a part of these emergency
response connections, ? he says.
Gary Goldberg, an emergency
management consultant, who has
worked in federal emergency manage-
ment for at least 30 years, includin
the Department of Energy, developed
the training manual for the program.
He says Community Action
agencies are, in part, being trained as
advocates between neighborhood resi-
dents and emergency agencies to as-
sure sensitivity and responsiveness
before and during emergencies.
oWhat I Tm training them to do is
to be able to consider the fact that
low-income people are also a special
needs group in terms of emergency
response just like disabled people and
seniors and people who are incarcer-
ated and people in hospitals and school
children, ? he says.
Those who have been trained are
responsible for disseminating informa-
tion such as evacuation methods;

ousing bubble! ?

employment rate to around 4.8% by
year-end. 7 .

North Carolina Ts economy will
continue to improve. We added jobs
in the first quarter and the rate o job
growth was 1.6% for the state and
1.7% for the nation. State govern-
ment revenues are increasing and the
sectors of construction, the military,
tourism, and home sales are the areas
driving growth for the state.

knowledge of people who may need

» Chait and No. 1. Prior to Plan Approval 1 Redevelopment. - integrated into the by the consultant) studied by vir- such been the case, one could examine the details and
the City of Greenville The wie asa ed Ge Stivers cea tivel thelae of oe atey oma (AAM) become aware of recommended actions that would pro
tCom- variety of open'space, public parklands, recreational ar- to simulate the demand for by generated in the area. duce immediate positive oreadverse apest, Lalcewie,
mission, Ashley A. eas, historic resources, viable businesses and a fairly large ®, an economic impact model to describe the impact studies and recommendations would have t en Feason-
Fenner, a member urban population. Careful attention should be given to of accessibility derived from the AAM and combined able and feasible alternatives to the proposed action, should
was the only person to the relationship between these resources and the proposed with some other variables of the areaseconomy. An en- action be required. Seco lly, the consultants by- past con-
ae : disagree with the Ac- disruption of the existing conditions with consideration vironmental impact model to deal with air pollution and sulting with local firms ane onpentiations with social-eco-
Og) T ceptance of FinalCen- for the proposed alternatives due to their important con- noise generated by moving and fixed sources; and net- nomic experience within our local community that have
at ON] ter City - West tribution to the oquality of life ? in the total environment " work systems costing model to derive the cost of new been in Practice for twenty years and more. These firms
am ae } Greenville [National Environmental Policy (NEPA) 1969 - Sect 4(t) modes should be implanted in the AAM.. The and organizations have a past history of contributing to
ss i ment Plan.Mr. Fenner of tment of Transportation (DOT), Act of 1966 as Commission's Plan also fails to incorporate a plan for the social, moral and economic equity base issues badly
- Ashley } Fenner holds a. Engineerin is ars Sect.} 06 of the Historic Preservation Act]. traffic flow ca acity and quality of services to be ren- needing addressed by local government -
a ee : ~ Degree from MIT, Sect. 102 of (NEPA) requires the preparation of a detail _ dered. None of the above was either done or made avail- Presently, the Commission's rush to approve the plan
i.e., Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy with an em- environmental impact statement, whi.ch includes a de- able despite such requests being put forward at meetings in the state that it is, appears to be driven by newly se- -
Phasis on the discipline of transportation systems found scription of the environmental impact, unavoidable ad- _ from time-to-time. . lected members of the Commission whose responses to
the redevelopment plan deficient. verse effect, alternatives, and irreversible commitments No 3. Consultant's Proposed Plan Failure to Incorporatea in-depth issues show acute shallowness, and absent of the
- Fenner as a volunteer member of the Commision in of resources for major federal actions significantly affect- Functional Strategy or Plan for the Integration of Services ability to handle understanding of the infrastructure of
'@ Statement submitted to the paper, said that he is con- ° ing the quality of the human environment. With regards _ for west le, economic and sound planning processes. In fact these
cemed only as private citizen and what he does asa pub- to the before stated, two aspects of this proposed project, Upon initiation of the City of Greenville Ts Redevel- members may have petty person objectives, which over-
lic official is not the issue. 1) the relocation of the existing rail service at Albemarle pment Commission, it became obvious to some as meet- shadow the broader picture of collective socio-economic
According to his letter of dissent which was submit- and lothStreet and 2) the building of a viaduct has not ings continued that direct involvement and critical con- gains for the residents of west Greenville community and
ted this past Apri duting a meeting of the Redevelop- been discussed as to whether these Proposed actions are scious thinking were not welcomed nor expected due to the Center City
ment Commission, the commission was charged with economically or technically prudent or feasible; nor have _ the fact that the major part if not all of this Proposed plan In summary, due to the absence of the required stud-
ing for the plan prior to being sent to the City Plan- measures been discussed in detail with regards to imme- was already in progress. Additionally, when the issue of __ ies and feasibility plans as stated above, the proposed
ning Department for Approval, and then tothe CityCoun- diate and adverse effects. west Greenville entered the discussion, the consultant plan appears grossly incomplete. However, the decision
cl for approval. Fenner said that Consultant's fail No 2. Consultant's Plan Failure to incorporate a employed a firm from Maryland to specifically study west to proceed should be based upon the best png-range so-
ure'to secure environmental impact statements regarding planning model for transportation in urkan activity Greenville to solicit suggestions from citizens (businesses, lutions for providing for human capacity building (em-
~ the west Greenville community and surroundi neigh- center and its adjacent neighborhoods (west Greenville residents, service organizations etc) concerning their fu- " ployment, business maintenance an expansion, adequate
bothoods was the reason why he voted Nay T 00 the plan. ete). \ ture within the proposed area to be incorporated as part housing, health care, etc.), measured economic growth,
In a letter submitted to ete Minority Voice Newspa- With the proposed 10th Street connector being fed _ of this plan. However, when one visits the in formation and infrastructure efficiency for daily living, recreating
per he submitted a detail analysis outlining his dissenting by Route 264 into the center city from the West, the presented by the consultants, there are no clear concise and working - Signed: Ashley Fenner

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ness and response teams, Span says,
oThe Partnership became acutely
aware that the 110 million Americans
living in or near poverty were not be-
ing protected, ? Span says. oIt is of
utmost importance that a constant
stream of information is flowing into
these communities about national se-
curity efforts...In order to do this suc-
cessfully, we ultimately need a Com-
munity Land Security program in ev-
ery low-income community across the
nation, but the 10 pilot sites are a step

in the right direction. ?

special assistance in the case of an at-
tack; translating meanings of security
codes; providing the names of re-
sources in emergencies; and teaching
anti-terrorism tips such as how to be
alert and aware of their surrouridings,
They are also trained to broker rela
tionships between community leaders
and first-responders, Goldberg says.
oWe want them to be pro-active. ?
The agencies are required to es-
tablish and maintain a coordinator to
oversee the program, a Community
Land Security Resource Center ; to
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REVITALIZATION

t is another shot of Albermarle Street.
fe where in particular, college students and s

Shown above on this wide expanse of real estate is; to the far left, T Anthon
the Nation Of Islam's Mosque #79 on Martin Luther King Blvd. Below that aid to the left and located in a prime location,
that sits empty in the midst of densely |
historical site and a museum. To the ri
Movie Theater and the famous Bell Ts C

er & beauty sh

y's Nieghborhood Game Room and
ostate of the Tart ? fast food resturant
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RESIDENTS UNEASY
(Continues from Page i)

historically denied to Blacks in
Pitt County and the City of
Greenville."

Currently seated Black
elected officials representing
this district include the most
recently elected Melvin
McLawhorn who joined seated
incumbent David Hammond on
the Pitt County Board of Com-
missioners; City Council mem-

bers include Rose H. Glover and.

sixteen year veteran Mildred
Council. This list of Black
elected officials also includes
Pitt County School Board Mem-
ber Bishop Ralph Love and
School Board Chair, Michael
Dixon. Congressman G.K.
Butterfield's district could also
be affected by the redevelopment
plan. |
Displacement of Residential
Home Owners, Renters and:
Businesses

the proposed Center City-West
Greenville Revitalization Plan is
a race based gentrification plan.
West Greenville's strare ic loca-

tion will create hundreds of up-

scale housing options for Univer-
sity Systems employees, the vast
majority of whom are not Black.
According to the proposed
revitalization plan, new housing
options will be created through the
bulldozing of about 500 existing
homes, and another 250 current
residences will be permanently dis-
placed to allow renovations.
Once the project is under-

Way, over a period of 15 years,

about ninety new homes

t year
would be constructed; o

those,

about 8% have been allocated for

low to. moderate, fhcome housing.
Public.amonies, includ
grant money, will be used to acquire
current dwellings and property for
rebuilding and renovations. Unfor-
tunately the current resident's me-
dian income is only about $17,000
annually. They will be priced out of
this new housing market.

Even more disturbing, under
the proposed plans, virtually ev-
ery Black owned business in
West Greenville would be forced
out by rezoning. This plan will

taff from ECU would dine frequently.

It's a widely held notion that

ding. federal.

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destroy over 100 existing jobs
that support families in the Black
community. The City's pro-
posed revitalization plan calls for
the acquisition of all these Black
owned businesses by January
2007. City officials have been
promising to relocate these
Black owned businesses into a
new 10th Street Commercial
Node but that project would not
be acdc until January
2010, about 3 years later.

WGFG members quickly
point out that this plan would
result in the destruction of all
Black owned businesses in West
Greenville. This plan requires
the removal of the Little Willie
Center, West Greenville Com-
munity Development Corpora-
tion, the Pitt County NAACP
Offices, and the Pitt Cothe
SCLC Offices. Hall calls if, a
"direct attack on the Black com-
munity and the institutions that
support our children, youth, and
amilies." °

The Bond Referendum

The last city elections saw
the passing of a bond referendum
that approved $5 million for the
downtown "Center City" revital-
ization that includes several
Projects proposed by East Caro-

ei

Dwight A. Smith
Personal Loan Manager

lina University. The university
expansion into the downtown
area will result in a loss of about
$30 million in tax revenue to the
city, and will result in a need to
raise city taxes on all Greenville
residents. East Carolina Univer-
sity is a tax-exempt organization.

According to Hal "The en-
tire plan was ill conceived. It
doesn't make a lot of sense to
destroy a historically Black
neighborhood and area busi-
nesses, including over 100 exist-
ing jobs those businesses provide
to the community, and then give
away $30 million in tax revenue
for the city then sell it to the
public that this is revitalization.
How could you do that and keep
a straight face?"

w gldall says, "City officials and
rr

e- developers. privately say.
they can offset the city's loss of

the $30 million by tripling the
value of homes in west
Greenville from an average of
about $45,000 to $130,000 plus
once they remove the Blacks."
A Declining Neighborhood

It's a well-known fact that
the proposed 45-block area of
west Greenville up for revitaliza-
tion is a declining neighbor-
hood. The question begs for
some reasonable explanation on
how it got that way..

No doubt the City of
Greenville, for all its lush
greenways, noted golf courses,
upscale suburban housing, and
hip retail boutiques, has allowed
to fest in its heart the Black com-
munity of west Greenville and its
commercial areas.

It's no secret that over the
years the City of Greenville has
made little if any investment in
west Greenville. City officials
have allowed slumlords to openly
operate housing without upkeep
while collecting excessive rents
on dwellings unfit for human

.

off the hands of slumlor

The Minority Voice Newspaper Page 5

habitation. Curiously, the intro-"
duction of the Certter City-West
Greenville Revitalization Plan is
when those dwellings were
tagged as condemned.

The City of Greenville is al-
leged to have used public money
to take condemned pro erties
own-
ers to make way for the planned
redevelopment. Some have
called this a publicly financed
bailout of slumlords.

This in the aftermath of killing
a neighbgrhood and leaving its
homeowners so much in need of a
peaceful sanctum that selling is what
they'd do when the realtors, or the
city for that matter, come courting
with an offer in hand. .

Truth is that for any tax payi g
homeowner in west Greenville con-
sidering selling their property they
might possibly become a renter, as
the dollars from such a sale would
altogether place them out of the
Greenville housing market. Some
West Greenville homeowners advise
that they have already received ques-
tionable offers from realtors.

Negotiations Forthcomin

According to Hall, "the fo-
cus group is attempting to nego-
tiate with city officials to stop
the revitalization plan, as writ-
ten, from being adopted by the
Greenville City Council." As in-
dicated earlier, in a landslide
vote of 6 to 1, over the objec-
tions of west Greenville resi-
dents, the Greenville Redevelop-
ment Commission approved the
Center City-West Greenville
Revitalization Plan.

Hall further notes "should
west Greenville Revitalization
move forward, as proposed, any-
where from 1,200 to 1,500 new
white voters will become the new
political voice within the heart
of the Black political districts
that were carved out by the Dé?
partment of Justice.to.correct

istorical racism that prevented
Blacks from having a political
voice." Hall advised, "we have
legal counsel on standby if nego-
tiations fail. We are kéeping all
options open. This is a very se-
rious matter.

Today, west Greenville's Black
eeevail home and business own-
ers occupy some of the most im-
portant property within the City's
proposed revitalization areas,

FG members says the area
should be revitalized for the ben-
efit of the people who already live
in west Greenville, including home
owners, business owners, and rent-
ers. This was once a group of beau-
tiful neighborhoods.

West Greenville can be beau-
tiful again, but eliminating the
political voice of the Black citi-
zens of West Greenville as pro-
posed is not an option.

Ms. Susie Clemons is a con-
tributing Op-Ed and staff writer
for the Minority Voice News.
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be directed to:
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enneth Mallo : qual access to lawyers thing that I would do if I wee a law | school, ? he said. , ,
nr sf es ponte: find my graduates ~ McGahee said Black students
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__- Minority rep i reason Black students are not consid- oLaw schools concerned with in- Internal Revenue Service said it
7 oetits as dropped for ering careers in law is because they - Gteasing the diversity of their student will launch later'this year a study.
nO) ve stom 20.6 percent in lack role models in the profession and - bodies néed to focus less on the LSAT to m?,?eancelt df ellesjowsited Afm-
a eee o2 do not hear about positive things law- and more on other measures of Alinai ) rtudy, will ex-
See Hndings in the ci declined _yers have done with their careers. achiey » including undergradu- amine 5,000 randomly selected
AMles to Go: 8 of Mi competitive school, He also said lawyers have not ate grades'and work history, ? she said. S corporation returns from tax
me | on}, publi *h, according to the ABA, received been pictured ina ositive light inthe ~~ | it Kim Keenan, president of the years 2003 and 2004. -
poe ABAS Commission on re than 11,000 applications in media, possibly deterring students National Bar Association, a group S corporations are entities
oe Ur he Legal 2004, . . from considering law careers. Tepresenting thousands of Black law- whose income and deductions
aes oTwo, three and four years ago, oThe legal trade for one reason Yets, discussed the possible ramifica- pass through T the corporate
Miles to Go} finds that A we admitted a certain number of mi- or another has not had the best repu- tions the underrepresentation of Af- structure to the shareholders. $
enican representation in lay nority candidates, and usually the num- tation in the press, and to the extent tican Ameticans'in law will have for corporations are now the most
in other. professions, like bers that enrolled constituted about a that it be causing students to not the Black community in the future. common corporate entity. In
and medicine. at ae __ third of the class, ? said Stanek. oLast apply to law school, the way to get oUltimately, at some point, you 2002, the latest year for which
4 In mapa Sek contends year, our same number of offers of that is for our folks to go into the will not be able to find Lawyers of data is available, § corporation
ape wt a Whites to admission resulted in a much lower few schools and ay done shea color, ? said Keenan. returns accounted for 59 percent
head to private law after leaving percentage registered. We didi't see what you wrote about in the paper. Acknowledging that the number of all corporate returns filed for
law school, more likely to resign from an application decline. We saw a:de- Here's what | did last week with my of Blacks, particularly Black males, at that tax year.
firms after there and ocon- cline in the numbers accepting our career, ? ? said Baca. law schools is beginning to decline, oThe use of S corporations
tinue to be undertepresented offer of admission. ? | But a major concern voiced by Keenan said the Black community has has exploded, ? said IRS Com-
in top level, obs, § N pa Stanek said school officials are still many future Black lawyers, as well as 0 start ensuring that Black children missioner Mark W. Everson.
Corporate | trying to odigest exactly what [has] those dvocating increased diversity have the necessary oeducational op- oThe. IRS needs a better under-
he repo happened, ? and, subsequently, have in the profession, is the hurdle the portunities, ? as early as grammar standing of what this means for
: not initiated any new recruitment ef- LSAT to Black students. ool, to properly train fem and tax ve ae This research is
~ forts bd minority students, a o oOne of the main gs 2 in- inctease their chances to enter the pica - achieving pur strate-
«, But Reginald McGahee, dean o creasing diversity among law students rofession. | ic goal of ensuring that corpo-
admissions at Howard University Law is law schools T | tellance on the if oOur professional workforce ratio and high-income indi-
School, perhaps the premiere African- LSAT. African Americans and other T should look like our country, ? said viduals are paying their fair
said the number of applicants apply- age, than Wh on the LSAT; yer. | Numerous restrictions and
ing to Howard Law and many other law schools T reliance on this measure of

ig yesaar wig are pom acres
i- the country has declin » especially
among Black males,

7 oThere is a universal drop in Af-
rican-American males that are apply-
ing to law schools, and ora

, higher education in . And
aby seeing that same decline, ? he
said.

Law officials discussed obstacles
that might preclude Blacks from pur-
ing careers in law, such as a grow-
ing disinterest in the profession and
the LSAT (Law School Admissions
Test), which many feel is biased
against Black law school applicants.

Lawrence Baca, chair of the ABA
ut- Commission on Racial and Ethnic
Diversity in the Profession, said law
schools can increase the number of
minorities by having Black law school
graduates reach out to Black students,

oAny law school that wants to in-
crease minority participation, or, par-
ticularly, Black participation, is going

ke; no ave to Bet
contributes teach work, ?

out and do some out-
Baca said. oThe first

sig-

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Not predict success as a however
predict lawyer,

Stanek. agreed that the LSAT is

uickly becoming the most important
r in law school admissions.

oIs it overriding all other factors? |

I don't think so " yet, ? he said.
McGahee said some currently
believe the LSAT is biased.
main thing that we have to
realize [is] that there's a lot af Tdebate
out there right now that there are some
inherent biases that go along with the
LSAT. Being at Howard, we're more

sensitive to that than some other in- :
stitutions in the countries may be. But |

what we can't get away from [is] that,
right now, there is no other test to

properly evaluate and predict whether .
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Evans. The first person he knew

was Ora Blount. He also recalled

that City (or Citie) Thigpen was
the midwife for that area and she
served people over-im Greene

County, too. The atea still pro-

vides a homestead for the
tealtives OFthose who originally
_ lived, Gaston Monk who resides

in: Bell Arthur an nei shboring
town, residents suc
» Turnages, the Andersons, the
Barretts, the Bests, the Joyners,
the Kilpatricks and of course the
_ Blount Family.

as the

_ As Deacon Best continued
to lumindte he said, oI do not

recall very much about T Ben
Brown except that his wife was

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Aatthews points out:
that ofganized religion provides a ?
ocommunity to. do and to be done:
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And studies show that people who
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poorly both psychologically and

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tious rip

- Men are beginning to place in-
creased importance on hat
-_ ©. Coronary heart disease is
te Number 1 killer ah zur

e community especially har

. Marriage and family are where
you find true happiness (Kanye West)

: Change is growth for institu-
tions and individuals .

DON TT GIVE UP

STAND UP... with conviction for
what you believe. Be willing to de-
ofend what you believe in. Don Tt allow
youtself to be a victim. Protect and
defend yourself, er
T SPEAK UP... you are worthy. Learn
fear of rejection..Learn how to com-
Municate and articulate your desires,
dreams and concerns. Learn how to
sell and express your ideas.
REA CH UP... to be taught by men-

: senihata, NC -Biochemist Dr. Li-
An-Yeh has been app inted director of the
Biomanufactu ing Research Inethuee and
Technology Enterprise (BRITE) at North
Carolina Central University (NCCU).

She brings to NCCU more than 21

yeat~ of biomedical research experience in

major pharmaceutical companies, small
totech companies and academic settings.

She started her career at Pfizer Central Re-

search from 1984 - 1992.as senior research
investigator. Yeh then served asa director

of research for 12 years at leading private .

sector centers of biotechnology research

Blount Town

named Sarah. An important
event was when Sarah Thigpen
matried John Brown. When I
asked, who does he know now
living that may be able to tell a
little more about Blount Town,
he named Naomi Parker Best.
After interviewing Deacon Best
in early May, he suffered a seri-
ous stroke that took away his
active life and he died.at. Pitt
Memorial Hospital June 15,
2005.

A July 19, 2005 as I contin-
ued my research I interviewed
Mr. Robert Lee Carmon (No-
vember 22, 1919-). At first, Mr.
Carmon was a bit slow in get-
ting started. But according to
Mr. Carmon, his great grandfa-

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NCCU Appoints New Director of Bio-Manufacturing Institute

including: OsteoArthritis Sciences, Inc.;
Phytera, Inc.; NEN Life Science Products

~~ {a PerkinElmer company); and at the
. Slarvand Center for Neurodegeneration
an .

Most recently, Yeh has served as re-

search advisor in lead generation biology
for Eli Lilly & Company at its corporate
headquarters in Indianapolis

This background has afforded her ex-

tensive experience in building and man-

aging new biotechnology osgAnleations
e to her as

| that she says will be invaluab

~ afaculty for BRITE, BRITE is scheduled

to beginvaccepting students in the 2006 -
2007 cadet |
. iting new chall

for me, ? said Yeh, oWith over 20 years

experience working in the biotechno

industry cane and mentoring rami
scientists, I have developed a particular
interest in increasing minority representa-
tion in the field of biomanufacturing and
biotechnology research and training, ? In
addition, while serving as a director of re-

_ search and development at PerkinElmer,

Yeh was responsible for developing new
products used for drug discovery research.

In this process, her department was respon-

ohep. ?

dom, which reduces stress and in- "

creases success, Bets, 9 ane

ae eee

casion. Be good to ; , Feel wor-
of 5 * » ? f

thy of the ogood life. ?
LOOK UP remember the wonds of

Psalms... oI will lift UP mine eyes unto "
the hills from whence cometh my
Juring those dark uncertain
times, endure, hold on and look to
God within and above for your.
strength and guidance. Let your faith
be strong, not weak. Bg

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1. Reduce swelling and water reten-

2. Help burn fats and carbohydrates.
3. Help provide more energy we
4. Help remove waste peokace.

5. Avoid constipation.

6. Help reduce hunger.

7. Reduce the possibilty of bladder
cancer.

sible for bench scale to large-scale process
development, and quality assurance and
quality control methodologies develop-
ment for man ing, = -

Yeh is comfortable in the academic
setting as well. As director of lead dis-
covery at the Harvard Center for
Neurodegeneration and Repait, Yeh
served as an instructor in the Harvard
Medical School and was responsible for
training numerous graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows in collaboration with
Harvard faculty members at the Bri
and Women's Hospital and other Harvard-
affiliated teaching hospital, "_-

Yeh received her bachelor of science
from National Taiwan University in
Taipei. =

She received her master of science
in chemistry at Kent State and her Ph.D.
in biochemistry at Purdue University.
NCCU Ts biomanufacturi training
program received its initial funding of
$19.1 million largely from the Golden
LEAF Foundation. The physical struc-
ture is planned as an addition to the new
Mary M. Townes Science Building,
which will open its doors this fall. The
BRITE addition is scheduled for comple-
tion in 2007. - .

ther was Jude Nobles, his-father Ts
name was Frank Carmon and his
mother Ts name. was Arnett
Carmen. Mr. Robert grew up in
the Rountree community, which
was down the road from Blount
Town. His great, great grandfa-
ther was named Edie Blount.
According to Robert Lee

Carmon, he was a young boy |

and was runing ii the area bac

then. Blount Town was located
about four miles northwest of
Zion Hill. Zion Hill was in the
Rountree. community. Residents
of Blount Town included Mr.
Tom Turnage and his family.
Amos Blount had a house full of
children. Amusingly Carmon

recaledd that, owomen back then °

had children and did not do what
women do now to keep from hav-
ing children. ?
Black Folks Making A Living....
When asked how did colored
people buy land back then, he re-
lied: osome worked it out! ?
hen the agreement was made,
you kept your word. The folks

~-now will pull tricks. Backthen

people were honest. Wages in-
cluded fifty cents ($.50) a day
but some received even less than
that such as thirty-five cents
($.35). Seventy ago some
worked by the week and received
two dollars ($2.00) a day. The
workday included from sun rise
to sun set. And the week was
from Monday until Saturday at
lunch and a week Ts pay was
$2.00. Daylight did not catch the

+

man in the bed. Women did not
work because work included dig-
ing ditches or ditching the ditch
anks. The work tools were the
shovel, ax and the saw. We. ate
by lattern light. The best pay I
received was from Lufer Dale
who paid young boys for getting
up nutgrass. and hauling it off

Even though he could not re-
member the acreage, he said
that it was a lot of land. Back
then, he stated that colored

eople did not see white folks
But he recalls Mr. McKenly Taft.

To get around, everyone had
to walk therefore, they did not
walk far for most things. I, (Rob-
ert Carmon) had liquor still and
it was the best [liquor around).

Aunt MaRoth, a midwife de-
livered Buddy (William Carmon)
my son. But most of all, I recall
Polly Moye and I don Tt know her
name before marriage because
back then women had the title
of the man she married. Polly
had many husbands. Every time
one would died, she would marry
again. She married oChicken ?

oye, Peter Rountree and they
had three boys, Thomas and her
had two boys, She also had some
girls by somebody.

As of this writing, research
has not uncovered the docu-
mented information as to the
acknowledgement of this Black
Town. Most of the older Blacks
living today (2005) in Greenville
recall Blount Town was an area
located between Greenville and
Farmville.

Ms. Williams is the grand-
daughter of Caroline Hemby
Blount and Alex Blount.

_ NOTICE: The Desceendents of
Amoos Blount and Jamine Edwards Blount
and Freeman Hemby and Annis Carr
Hemby will come together for their
quinennial (every five years) reunion be-
ginning Friday night, August 19, 2005,

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Page 8 The Minority Voice Newspaper July 1 - 31, 2005

i: Me en ". Guy
arnelis. Goodbye, r. Nigger,
it is 1969 and Bob That ties become
the first African-American professor
of a predominately White southern
university. He quickly faces severe
prejudice and prejudice and disre-
spect

from

both

stu-

dents

at

ty.

The

situa-

tion

only

esca-

lates

when

he be-

gins

affair

with a

White

colleague.

This is a fascinating story, writ-
ten with vivid character portrayals,
The focus is put vivid character por-
trayals. The focus is put on racial
bias of the worst kind, delivering a
book the reader won't soon forget.

Darnell taught school for over
40 years; earning his A.B. from
Morehouse College, where he was a
schoolmate of Dr. Martin Luther

King Jr, He then went on to earn his
M.B.A. from the University of Chi-
cago.

He eatned his Th.D. che Arkan-
sas Baptist Theological School be-
fore. beginning his teacher career,
which included stints at Fort Valley
State College, the University of Ar-
kansas Baptist Theological School
before beginning his teaching career,
which included stints at Fort Valley
State College, the University of Ar-
kansas at Bis ¢ Bluff, and Florida
A&M University.

Darnell, now retired, is also the
co-author of College Business Law,
published in 1960,

BLACKS RAISING UP
WHITE FOLK TS CHILDREN

The new book by Laurie
Gunst, Off White, is the story of a
decidedly different southern fami-
ily "Black, White, and Jewish. It Ts
also a tribute T to the grear-hearted
African-American woman, Rhoda
Lloyd, who, as caregiver, presided
over five generation of the family,
amidst the vivious racism of the Jim
Crow South,

Growing up in a long estab-
lished German-Jewish family in Rich-
mond, Va., Laurie always knew that
she was. ooff-White ? + ani outsider,
Although she felt closest to all of the
African-American women who

worked in
her home,
she was
shocked one
day to. find
ouit that they
did not al-
ways recip-
rocate that
closeness.
Claudine
Leake, who
cooked for
the Gunst
family, in-
formed Laurie that her people often
said, oNegros always singin T an T
workin .,.Jew Ts always eatin T an T
countin his money. ? From then on
Laurie knew that she belonged not
just to the Black and White worlds,
but chere was a third distinction: Jew-
ish,

Rhoda had been _ her
grandmother's maid in New York
City and was summoned to Rich-
mond at Laurie's birth. Building on
her strong bond with Rhoda, Ls
has always felt shame at certain as-
pects of her family Ts racially intoler-
ant past. She had ancestors who
fought for the Confederates in the
cooperated Wi

cere than anything, Off White
is the story of che ston, bond be-
tween women of color and the White
they nurtured,

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