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by NAYABA ARINDE
Amsterdam News Staff
Originally posted 4/13/2006

A New York lawyer told the
AmNews that the charging
this week, of four Harlem

eens with murder in the fatal

chase incident, may
Just be a political device to
appease the baying critics
looking to avenge the death
of a young white NYU
student.

oThe D.A. is concerned about
trying the case [on a lesser
charge] in Family Court for
political reasons, because it
would appear like they were
Caught Smokitie in the school
bathroom, rather than robbing
a young man and setting this
chain of events in motion, ?
Atty. Ron Kuby told the
AmNews on Tuesday
afternoon.

He added that that the teens
may instead be indicted on a
lesser charge.

oWolf Packs ? and oTeen
Thugs, ? proclaimed this
week Ts tabloids, regarding the
arrests of 13-year-olds Denzel
Fell and Humberto Guzman,
and 15-year-olds Hassan
Mayfield and Andie Johnson,
who are being treated as
adults in the fatal robbery/
chase case which happened on

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segregation, the
reason for the
Voting Rights -
Act was to defend the right of|

blacks to vote. VOTE

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April Ist, yet seemed to slip
under the radar.

Taking flight after allegedly
been accosted by four youths
in a robbery attempt,
Broderick Hehman, 20, was
hit by Mercedes Benz on
125th Street. This weekend
100 Blacks in Law
Enforcement called for the
community to come forward
with information, and a day
later four boys were in
custody to be charged with

second-degree murder and

robbery.

While saying that he was not a
suspect on Tuesday, police
interviewed a fifth teen.

Even though the story was
slugged as a possible obias
crime ? by the press, which
stated that witnesses said that
the teenagers yelled, oGet the
white boy, ? Police
Commissioner Ray Kelly
declared on Monday that the
NYPD was not treating the
case as a hate crime because
robbery, not race was the
motive.

Apparently, Hehman was
visiting a friend, when he was
spotted talking on a cell phone
by the teens as they stood
outside a Popeye Ts Chicken
restaurant on 125th Street.
Fleeing, the NYU student ran
into the path of a Mercedes
Benz and died almost a week

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later from his head injuries in
an area hospital.

Under New York law there is
a variety of different cases of
conduct that can be classified
as murder, said Kuby.

oTt is a stretch in this case, but
they could be charged with
felony murder: where if a
group of people intend to
commit a felony, such as
robbery, and somebody dies
in the course of, or flight
from the felony - than
everyone is guilty of murder.
But this is the first case in
which it would be applied to
somebody fleeing after being
robbed - but that Ts not to say
that it can Tt be applied. But
it Ts a stretch, ? the lawyer
said. oThen there is depraved
indifference, which is if your
conduct is so reckless that it
constitutes a depraved
indifference to human life -
you can be held liable for a
murder even if you didn Tt
[intend] to kill someone; it
means that your actions were
such that you didn Tt care if T
somebody died or not. But in
this case that Ts a stretch too. ?

The charge of murder in the
second degree, (plus robbery)
will be difficult to be
sustained, said Kuby, obut not
impossible. ?

Gang assault is an alternative
charge that could be

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considered, said Kuby, but oas
angry as people are with this
young man Ts death, ? he
predicted that forces would
push for the maximum. Plus,
in New York, owhen a 13 year
old commits the ultimate
crime and takes a life, the law
Says, we are going to treat
this matter severely. This is
the Willie Bosket law. ?

The case has sparked much
debate from newsrooms to
living rooms. Some people
have referenced the Central
Park jogger case, the
subsequent media barrage and
after many years of
incarceration, the eventual
overturning of the convictions
of the five defendants who
had been in prison since their
teenage years.

Other observers are querying
why the four teens from
Harlem were not given bail; ,
and also why the two 13 year-
olds had to do the perp walk,
and were brought out in
handcuffs, in full view of the
media cameras.

oThey told me that the two
13-year-olds were not going
to be taken out front, ? Pamela
Fell, mother of Denzel Fell
told the AmNews.

When the AmNews asked the
NYPD why the latter
happened, a spokesman
replied, oThey were arrested.

It is a public street and they

of crime

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By Erin Rickert
The Daily Reflector

When Wilbert Garner lost his
wife to an automobile accident
nearly five years ago he was
not sure he could go on living.
'T had a very negative atti-
tude," Garner said Sunday
night. "I was lost ... I remem-
ber not wanting to go on."

A call from a fellow Sycamore
Hill Baptist Church member a
day after his wife's funeral,
assured him everything would
be all right.

Garner said the voice helped
to change his life and the life
of his daughter, Dedra "
pounseling him and offering
parenting tips.

{"She came in and took over,"

Garner said, shaking his head
aS he looked at his teenage
daughter. "I owe my life to
her." Sunday Garner was one
pf more than 100 people at a
"Reminiscent Gala" honoring
the life of longtime Pitt
County resident, Beatrice C.
Jones Maye.

Gala honors
life of
Beatrice Maye

Maye was among the first
educators to teach in a deseg-
regated school in Pitt County
in the 1960s.

She spent many years teach-
ing at W.H. Robinson and
E.B.Aycock. Her picture now
hangs in the media center at
E.B.Aycock after school
officials recognized her as the
facility's first librarian.

In 2003, a garden park on
Farmville Boulevard in West
Greenville was dedicated in
honor.

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_ Minority Voice Apr. 28 - May 15 2006 pg?

_OPINION

FROM THE DESK OF RON WALTERS
Py iorities, Politics, and the Pastor

By: Ron Walters

Recent offers by Illinois
State Sen. James Meeks to
forge a new coalition of
African Americans and white
social conservatives is putting
some African American voters
in abind. While African
Americans strongly support
the economic elements of a
Democratic platform, and
oppose Republican trickle-
down economics, Democrats
are not delivering jobs, educ-
ations and health care in pro-
portion to their vote. At the
same time some in the African
American religious commu-
nity are opposed to the Dem-
ocrat Ts social tenets of choice
and gay marriage.

Should African Americans

legislature turned it down and

&

Gov. Blakojevich made region Ts greatest area of need.
vote their economic interests automated calls across the The history of Democrats and
or their religious convictions? state against it while publicly Republicans got us here. The
In James Meeks they may find cJaiming to be the education _ traditional view is that Demo-
both. Sen. Meeks in appeal- governor. - crats are for workers and
ing to their basic economic protect civil liberties, while
interests by demanding more Second is a public/private Republicans are for business

_ money for education and jobs. _ partnership using private and the upper class. Polls
But Rev. Meeks is also tapp- _ money to build a long awaited show that Democrats get
ing intotheirreligious and "_third airport in the South elected on bread-and-butter
moral sensitives about suburbs at no cost to economic issues, and Repub-
_ abortion and gay marriage. Bie i would aaa licans on defense and national
, ; ; New jovs by In security. Change came with
_ What Meeks is really doing an area with a diverse but the aoe of fi civil rights
eee board Jarge African American movement in the 1960s and
population where, insome "_7) Ts, and the departure of the
Democrats have failed to communities, there are 60 Cold War in the 80's,
adequately address, while people for every job. At best, Increased, economic demands
making a political appeal to the current governor and the "_ hy African American for more
conservative white evangel- Democratic establishment jobs, equality in education,
icals and Roman Catholics have given itlipservice. At health care and housing and
who oppose abortion and gay worst, they tried to transfer social demands of choice for
mariage. If he runs and pulls contro! from the black women and rights for homo-
it off, that Ts a significant communities that did the sexuals drove some Demo-
political force. work, to the white communi- rats away from this liberal
Two issues in Illinois reflect ties that opposed it for three economic and civil liberties
black voters resentment decades. Political promises agenda and toward the more
toward a Democratic gover run hard and fast, but broken narrow interests of business
nor and Democratically- promises have shot legs. and social conservatives.
controlled House and Senate. Goy, Blagojevich can break
First, Meeks has offered a ground and create jobs by With a weakened Demo-
comprehensive educational simply signing a lease that cratic commitment to econ-
reform plan to Improve transfers land set aside foran omic inclusion and less fear of
opportunity for all Illinois airport to the Abraham. communism and African
students, and he traveled =| incoln National Airport Americans, white Republicans
around the state promoting it. Commission. Withasimple designed anew political
_ What was the governor Ts and signature, an unprecedented strategy " "a religious
legislatures response? A level of economic develop- appeal around conservative
- Democratically "controlled ment will take place in the osocial issues ? and traditional

If White Men Ruled theWorld....Forever

By: Askia Muhammad .

Permitted to write and re-
write history in their likeness
forever, a xenophobic White
supremacist mind like those
which in fact rule America
might conjecture a ohistory ?
in the 21st Century, of how
things might look today, had
the South won the Civil War
in the 19th Century.

Funny. I Tve been arguing for
a decade that The South had
finally owon ? the Civil War
they T ve been re-fighting all
along, when conservative,
modern-day-segragationists
from the South took over the
leadership of both the House
and Senate in 1996. The
Southern Dixie-crats, from
whatever party, dominated the
White House through much of
the 20th Century. But there Ts
a new movie, some kind of
staged documentary, in which
the fimmaker reckons what
life would be like today, if The
South never lost. Of course
we know that the South never
truly olost ?. The o40 acres
and a mule ? proposal was
vetoed by the President. No
land was forfeited by Whites.
The Reconstruction period
was shot down with the "s
Hayes-Tilden Compromise,
Federal troops were removed
from the South, there was no
protection for the newly freed
slaves from the armed
plantation owners " the
Confederates, the Rebels, the
ones who committed treason
against the United States of
America. The slaves were
politically disenfranchised and
violently forces into lives as
sharecroppers and tenant
farmers by the same ones who
had been their slave masters.
But I digress.

So this new film: oC.S.A.
Confederate States of Ameri-
ca, ? picks up as though there
had never been that uncondit-
ional surrender at Appomattox
But the 4 in this, and other
myopic, White supremacist
viewpoints, is that Black folks
are nothing more than objects

for measuring the greater
humanity of White folks. The
film is said to have modern
day faux-TV-commericals for
runaway slaves, using exagg-
erated, racist slang and
sterotypes. Excuse me.

Has anyone considered what
the lowly slaves would have
been doing during that 135 or
so years from the Confederate
military victory? Considering
that salve rebellions took
place in this country going
back to the 17th Century, and
considering that the Black
population would have been
even more concentrated and
numerically superior, the
Confederates today would
have to be obsessed at all
times with security.

Let Ts remember that by 1962
in South Africa, the
Sharpeville Massacre had
already taken place, and
armed rebellions were
spreading through Africa
against White colonial rule.
There were Mau Maus in
Kenya, fighting a war against
Th

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most Saglainly also infected
the Blacks in the Confederate
States of America, wouldn Tt it
have? When then, would
Black Confederate subjects
have picked up the gun
against their White masters?

What kind of Baptist
preacher might Martin Luther
King Jr. have been had be
been born into the
Confederate State of Georgia,
instead of the United States of
Georgia? Might the need and
the circumstances have made
of Martin Luther King, Jr., a
preacher like Nat Turner, had

he grown up in the Confed-
erate State of Georgia. And
what would the people of
Birmingham have been willing
to face if they were living in
the Confederate State of
Alabama. Those seem to me,
to be more realistic appraisals
of contemporary history that
might have been, had the
outcome of the Civil War
gone in favor of the slavers.

Which brings me to the
contemporary American world
view, and why I believe White
people tend to go along with

T Pres. George W. Bush, even

though he has bungled
everything he Ts touched, and
spent everyone Ts nest-egg
doing it.

Mr. Bush has responded
precisely the way practically
every thinking White Man in
America would have
responded in his position. It Ts
the oWhite o thing to do!
Like the premise of the movie
oC, S. A. ?

_ In order to feel more secure,
whether it Ts Windsor Castle,
Berlin, or on the West Bank in
Palestine, or on the Texas-
Mexico international frontier,
the oWhite o thing to do when
feeling insecure is to build a
wall, a fence.

Attack and conquer more
territory farther and farther
from home. That will make
the folks back home more
secure. That Ts the Bush
Doctrine. It Ts the White thing
to do in order to increase
homeland security. And that,
I Tm afraid is wrong, and out
of syne with the tide of |
history.

omoral values ?. Who can be
against moral values? And
polling showed that political
support for such issues as
school prayer and the Ten

~ Commandments in public

places, and opposition to
abortion and homosexuality
are quite popular among some
African American and Latino

-Teligious conservatives.

The political tactic was
obvious. Such social issues
will attract and unite a
segment of the African
American and Latino religious
communities with white social
conservatives around a
ovalues ? theme. At the same
time, these owedge issues ?
will weaken black economic
liberals who are -
overwhelmingly Democratic.

At election time, economic
and social liberals join forces
to nominate Democrats that
will challenge the Republican
Parties T philosophy of
weakening democratic
government, their policy of
tax cuts wasteful military
spending.

But by not meeting their
base constituent Ts economic
needs, and by making choice
and

April 26, 2006

Contacts:

Ethelene Stover, ( T74)
252-321-3278
Jeffrey E. Savage, (°90)
252-347-5620

The Giant Killer Comes
to Greenville

GREENVILLE, NC - oA
mind is a terrible thing to
waste ? is the provocative
longtime slogan of the United
Negro College Fund (UNCF).
The non-profit group provides
education scholarship to
deserving students attending
one of America Ts Historically.
Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCU) like
Shaw University in Raleigh,
North Carolina.

The Shaw University Pitt
County Alumni Association
has launched its efforts to
raise money for UNCF. The
Pitt County Alumni chapter
will host a banquet featuring
keynote speaker Shaw
University alumnus and famed
defense attorney Willie E..
Gary (71) of Stuart, Florida.
Attorney Gary, who as a child
was a migrant seasonal farm
worker, is legendary for his
success in litigating numerous
cases in which he amassed

" settlements totaling hundreds

of millions of dollars for his
clients. The June 12th
banquet fundraiser will take
place 7:00 PM at The
Cornerstone Family Life
Center located 1059 Allen
Road in Greenville.

gay rights a virtual litmus test
for Democrats, the party has
allowed these conservative
social ssues to entice some .
African Americans to vote
Republican or to be cooler
toward

Democrats.

If nothing is done to satisfy
Sen. Meeks T appeal to meet
the legitimate economic needs

of the black community, there
could be big trouble for
Democrats in November.
African Americans comprise
of large percentage of
Democrat voters in Illinois,
with

more than 90% voting for
Gov. Blagojevich in 2002.
Historically, African
Americans have been loyal
even though Democrats failed
to meet their economic needs.
That sacrifice may be coming
to an end. Democrats will be
hard pressed to stay in office
should this solid dependable
vote disappear. Sen. Meeks T
ability to offer a compelling
alternative to black voters "
combining social conservatism
and economic liberalism " "
should not be taken lightly.

SS RELEASE

oWe Tre very fortunate that
Attorney Gary, a man of his
accomplishments who is
known all over the world,
remains committed to
educating young people, ? says
chapter president and
Greenville City Mayor Pro-
Tem Mildred A. Council ( T71.)
We all are just so delighted
and excited that he would
adjust his schedule to come to -
Greenville and help us achieve
our commitment to raise
funds earmarked for students
at our alma mater, Shaw
University. ?

Council says she and her
fellow alumni obelieve
everyone wanting a college
education should have the

~ Opportunity and not be denied

due to a lack of financial aid, ?
and, she added, othe UNCF
organization is consistently
ranked at the top as it relates
to responsibly distributing its
scholarship funds which
means people can feel
confident that their donations
will benefit some young
person seeking an education. ?

Tickets are $25 for adults
and $10 for those 17 and
younger. They can be
purchased by contacting Shaw
University CAPE Extension,
2611 East Tenth Street, call
252-439-5339,
and event co-chairs Mildred
Council, 252-757-1037 or
Vanish Green ( T92)

252-321-1195,

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COMMUNITY NEWS

COMMUNITY VOICES FROM THE DESK OF MRS BEATRICE MAYE

Mrs Beatrice Maye

The Editor "

A young man was being
interviewed for a position in a
small business firm. He hada
neat appearance made a good
impression owner. He had
also prepared an excellent
resume in which he listed his
pastor, his Sunday School
teacher, and a church deacon
as references. The owner of
the business studied the
resume for several minutes,
then said, oI appreciate these
recommendations from your
church friends, but what I

. would really like to hear from
someone who knows you
weekdays. ?

Sorry to say, there is a sharp
contrast between the way
some Chrisitans act in church
and how they behave in the

The Leonard Medical
School at Shaw University

(A sequel to my previous article)

In 1881, a 34 ~toom medical
dormitory was completed. In
1882 the medical school was
constructed adjacent to the
Shaw campus. (This building
has since been renovated and
still stands today as Leonard
Hall.) Tupper then secured
the services of some of the
leading white physicians of
Raleigh to teach at the school
and obtained partial support
from drug manufacturers for
establishment of a dispensary
so othat our medical students
may have the advantages of
clinical instruction. ? Hence,
the Leonard School of

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world. The principles they

~ progress on Sunday should be
_ practiced every day. We

_ should not live by a double
/ standard. Our daily conduct

should be consistent with our
"spiritual values. Your walk in
the world should be in

~ harmony with your walk with

God. Would our church
friends be shocked if they
observed our actions and
heard our speech at our job or
in our home? A good Sunday
Christian will also be good
weekday Christian!

oA hypocrite is a person who
is not himself on Sunday. ?
Beatrice C. Maye

Time is a commodity we
cannot borrow or steal: The
richest g us cannot buy
it, the poorest among us
cannot sell it.

We cannot hoard it as best we
can. Night comes, Jesus says,
time runs out, doors are
closed, opportunties are gone.
We run out of both time and
opportunity, so any good you
want to do with your life, any
love you want to express to
another, any services you
want to render to God,
friends, do it now. Do it now !

oIn the journey of life, you
don Tt have to carry everyone Ts
baggage. ?

oDon Tt clutter your mind
with unnecessary worry. ?

oDon Tt let possessions

~ clutter your life. ?

oIt takes courage to stay
uninvolved in life. ?

Beware Wives!!
Every female who goes into
the Pastor Ts Study Office is
not going there for counsel or
business. And don Tt blame the
ladies, look at the fall of
preachers today, the divorce
rate!

Learn to love yourself,
ladies, by complimenting
yourself, smiling, standing tall,
giving yourself a pep talk
(I love you), expressing
yourself, changing your
negative voice to a positive
voice, imagining your ideal
you, fulfilling your dreams,
making a wish list (eating
smaller portions) and, above
all, implemen Ing the wish list.

Barbara Jordan, one of four
inductees, National Women
Hall of Famers 1990. August
26, is Women Ts Equality Day,
marking the 70th anniversary
of the ratification. Barbara
Jorda, one of the first Black ~
women from the South, "
elected to Congress.

And let us not forget the older

Reflections

Pharmacy was established.
Thanks to the generosity of
northern friends of Shaw, the
lecture rooms-and laboratories
were soon stocked with
supplies and anatomy models.

In January 1885, the 25-bed
Leonard Hospital opened its
doors to the sick and poor of
the local black community and
to the medical students of
LMS. Clinical instructions,
increasingly recognized as an
essential component of good
medical education, was now
provided. Unfortunately for
patients and students, for
those months when school
was out of session, the hospital
Closed. Again, as with all
other aspects of LMS Ts devel-
opment, private northern
philanthropy and local black
fund-raising through fairs and
community appeals financed
the school Ts program. The
American Baptist Home
Mission Society allocated to
money.

The first LMS Ts graduation
Class was in 1886. Six
students had successfully
completed their studies and
exams. Practically all secured
their medical licenses with a
high degree of expectancy,
and were prepared to enter
into practice. Dr. Lawson
Scuggs was Valedictorian and
main speaker of the class. He
practiced medicine in Raleigh
and assumed teaching respon-
sibilities at LMS Dr Marcellus
T. Pope also practiced in
Raleigh. His home is now a
historic preservation site
operated by the State
Archives. All of his personal
papers, letters and medical

books from LMS are stored
there. (I might mention here
that one of his two daughters ,
Ruth,taught Home Economics
in Kinston and resided at my
home while there. Ruth
passed away a few years ago
at age 96.)

Dr. Savitt Ts article shows a
picture of the first graduating
class. Several have all-white
features, as was the pattern of
slaveholders who fathered
children with their slaves.

Finally, LMS closed because
of underfinancing, because no
individual or organization was
ever willing to step in and
rescue it from its debts,
deficits, and decline. LMS
needed an endowment and
operating capital to pay

professors, buy equipment,
maintain teaching and clinical
laboratories, and provide for
the other usual expenses of a
modern medical school.
Instead, the school had to
draw off funds from the rest
of the university, reversing the
growth of the larger
University,Shaw University.
So having satisfied a need for
36 years and producing a
cadre of black doctors (some
400) LMS passed quietly from
existence. Of the black
medical colleges of the late
19th and early 20th centuries,
only Meharry and Howard
survive today. ~

Acknowledgment to Dr.
Todd Savitt for permitting this
article to be published (with
my own personal
interjections)

Respectfully submitted,

Suejette A. Jones

folks. Our society and our
churches, particularly, accent
our youth for the most part.
Advertisements are aimed at
young people, products are
sold to keep people looking
young, and fashions have a
youthful appeal. Churches
promote and use the young
regularly. All of that is not so
terrible, if we don Tt overlook
the older folk in our midst.
Just give them a visit, give
them a telephone call, a ride
to Sunday school and church
if there Ts no bus, let them
make some telephone calls to
remind members of some
delinquent deed or give them
the opportunity to serve on a
committee.

Worlds of wisdom and know-
ledge are trapped up in these
older folk.

You may do well to listen to
them and they Tre so depen-
dable. They have been where

learn something. ? Be a good
listener.

Let Ts listen, be calm and
avoid the loudness, the
yelling, the music in the
streets from young men
carrying juke boxes (to be
heard); instead, read the
newspapers, listen to the news
on radio & TV. Give your
minds food to feast on. Then
you'll have something to talk
about other then people.
oSmall minds discuss people. ?

Five Reasons Why Single
Parenting Is So Tough
1. There Ts not enough money.
Paychecks for young people
are small, jobs insecure, child
support not very reliable.
2. There Ts not enough time.
Between jobs, daycare and
child trade-offs, the available
parenting hours can disappear.
3. There Ts not enough outside
support. War windows and

needs one, sometimes the
other. Ultimately, any parent
is just one person. Two is
better. |

From: oT Tll Be the
Parent, You be the Child o
by: Paul Kropp "

- The Home
There are only two institu-
tions in society that are of

divine origin: the home and

the church. The home might
be likened to the foundation
of a building, and the church
to its superstructure. If the
foundation of a building were
weak, then all of its other
members will unsteady, even
unsafe. |
The second records reveal
that when God is wisdom and
love established the first
family on earth, He revealed
to them His will concerning an
acceptable pattern of worship
and devotion, the chief
comerstone of the home.

God meant that the first home
on earth should be a dedicated
home, a home, patterned
according to His purposes.
Our conversation, our work,
the teaching of the ministry
(God), whatever entert-
ainment and our testimony,
should be commitment to
God.

- Rane soldiers wives got all sorts of
(Mrs. Maye is thinking of Mr, ©?"?munity and extended
Matthew Lewis who is most family support, single moms
careful in expressing himself. a seo not. nm
He gives few his voice but all © *, SJ@S and parents get sick.
a listening ear always. Mr. It Ts hard enough being a good
Julius Clemmons is another Parent when we re well and
person with this same lifestyle Ut child is fine; it Ts a catas-
as against others of us who wople ee ° veal with
are always talking.) When
you talk you tell what you oot can be both ei
know; when you listen, you 92 ¢ad. Sometimes a

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ETERNAL LIFE "

Jesus promised His followers,
oBecause I live, you shall live
also. ? Not surprisingly, no
one in the Bible speaks more
about the resurrection than
Jesus. In John 11:25-26, for
example, He said , oI am the
resurrection and the life. He
who believes in Me, though he
may die, he shall live. And
whoever lives and believes in
Me shall never die. ?

Jesus was saying that although
those who believe in Him may
die physically, the real person,
which is the soul and spirit,
will never die. In John 5:24,
Christ taught, oMost
assuredly, I say to you, he
who hears My word and
believes in Him who sent Me ©
has everlasting life, and shall
not come into judgment, but
has passed from death into
life, ?

Prior to the death,
burial, resurrection of Jesus
Christ, all people who died

were taken to a place known
as Sheol or Hades. This place

THE PROMISE OF
ETERNAL LIFE

had two compartments
separated by a large chasm or
gulf. The first section was
known as oparadise ? of the
oplace of comfort. ? This is
where the Old Testament
saints would go following
death. On the other side of
the great gulf was the oPlace

- of torment ? where those who

died without faith were held
(see Luke 16:26). Ever since
Jesus T resurrection, believers
have not gone to the oplace
of comfort ? in Sheol, but
rather have been instantly
transported to heaven to be
with the Lord(see Corinthians
5:8). Nonbelievers, on the
other hand, are still taken to
the oplace of torment ? in "
Sheol/Hades..

The word oheaven ? appears
nearly 600 times in the Bible. ?
I can refer to three different
places: 1). the atmospheric
heaven or sky;2).the planetary
heaven where the sun, moon,
and stars reside, or 3). the

_ third heaven, which Paul

speaks of in 11 Corinthians 12,
where God dwells with His
angels and His people. This is
where believers who died are
today.

Everything that is truly
precigus to us as Christians
will be in this third heaven,
including the triune God, our
loved ones who are believers,
our inheritance, our
citizenship and our eternal
rewards. In other words,
everything of eternal value
will be there.

When the rapture occurs, we
who are believers will
instantly receive our new,
immortal, resurrected bodies.
At the rapture, Christ will
come to take us home to the
Father Ts house in heaven
(John 14:1-4), Many of us
look forward to that glorious
day when we see the unfath-
omable magnificence of
heaven, be reunited with loved
ones and come face to face
with Jesus, our Savior.

There are many things that
will take place following the
rapture. We will explore them
in the next issue. You don Tt
want to miss it, it concerns
you....

Excerpted from The
National Liberty Journal
February 2006

Minority Voice Apr. 28 - May 15 2006 pg4

By Susie Clemons

Just recently the Wall

Street Journal (WSJ) ran the

discussion fetching article,

Teaching Americans to
Behave Abroad. According
to the non-profit entity,
Business for Diplomatic
Inc., who will be providing

one day training seminars

for American business
travelers, this is not
necessary but mandatory
instruction. America must
salvage its down trodden
image currently held by
foreigners. What with
American military forces on
the ground in Iraq, this is
not good news.

At this article some big
name companies, among
them Lowe Ts and American
Airlines, are signing up
employees for classes aimed
at improving the image of

~ the ougly American, ? which

WSJ used to refer to anti-
U.S. sentiments abroad.

It just so happens the
Japanese think that
Americans should know
better than to hold eye
contact for more than a
second or two. Not to be ©
out done, the Greeks think
Americans should know that
to them a wave hello or
goodbye is an insult. It Ts
conceivable that neither
foreign country could care
less that direct eye contact
(stare-downs) or waving is
about as apple pie and
Chevrolet as they get "they
just know they don Tt want
any parts of it.

Before teaching Americans
how to behave abroad one
must, however, first tackle
the congenital problem of

Good Manners

Begin at Home

rudeness on the home front.
Right many Americans are
rude, spoiled and selfish.
Sociologists have, as of late,
documented research that

._ Shows rude American parents

are to blame for their rude
American children.

To think that in a time of war

Americans are accused of
flying thousands of miles
from home, on business, to
talk about American pride,
brag about personal wealth
or about Husseins T arrest,
(albeit the point man, of no
fewer than 7 feet tall, still
very much has his liberty and
possibly residence at the
Watergate Hotel in
Washington D.C), is
unthinkable.

Either way, if the bad
manners story made WJS,
then perhaps foreigners have
had enough of American
bravado, gall and the
arrogance of ultra important
people who assault officers
in uniform when asked to
show identification.

That news worthy foul ups
stream across the tube at
every turn exposing a
President out to prove that
he Ts the decider, and too

revealing how Exxon makes _

off with billions in price
gauging profits " surely the
Japanese and the Greeks
understand the swell of
American pride.

Then again, to rethink that
posture, do they really care
that some Americans who,
dressed in Armani suits and
ride around in chauffeured
Benz Ts, with regularity steal
pension funds from their
employees? Surely they feel
even less distress for the ugly
Americans whe blatantly
betray the trust of people
they T ve been elected to
serve.

Furthermore, it Ts down right
classist and egregious to
think foreign governments
have a problem with
pedophiles in priest collars,

or elected officials who leave
storm tossed tax paying
citizens to bake in the sun or
who force elderly citizens to
trade food for medicine,
visiting their country.

That aside, no doubt foreign
heads of state are not

~ concemed with travelers

who say they Tre coming to
visit for the weekend, yet
end up staying forever with
one goal in mind: change

everything.

Could it be that our friends
across the water are saying
to the ugly American
business class travelers: 1).
We understand your place as
Super Power T, but when
visiting our country you
must treat our people with
respect 2). you must have
some idea about our culture
" not everyone wants to
speak English 3). leave your
clanky-ti-clank apple pie
Chevrolets at home and 4).
please stop bragging about
your oft times stolen wealth,
lastly 5). use your stolen
wealth to invest in real
educational curriculums for
the thousands of high school
graduates unable to compete
in an economy that the ugly
American flaunts as
oglobalism ?

No doubt some Americans
have less than desirable
manners, but for these home
is about bragging rights,
American pride and oft times
ill-gotten wealth. In absence
of the means to engage air
seeps out of the puffery
much like it seeps out of the
chest cavity upon death.

Overhauling ones ideology
from time to time is to be
expected. The question is
will the overhaul make

things worse or better for the
ugly American or for
foreigners fresh out of
hospitality?

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Where Are My Sisters?

Sheila Ingram

After relocating to Greenville
N.C. from a world very different
than the one I Tve come to know
in the past 2 months, I realize
although I wake up each
morning to the birds chirping a
melody that sounds light and
fresh I continue to have a
burning desire to share, i impart
and get connected to the
mainline of sharing hope love
and sincere concern for my
sisters, those I know by name
and those that my destiny will
connect with. For so many
years growing up in the heart
of Harlem N.Y.C. I found
myself challenged with
opportunities, distractions and

derailed dreams. As I found my

way through a cycle of up Ts
downs, turnarounds tragedies
and triumphs here I am rerouted
to a strange land called
Greenville North Carolina A
place I would have bet in my
B.C. days (Before Christ) that
I would never be in. But if you
are one who continues to seek

direction and success-you will
come to realize sooner or later

hopefully sooner that your story
has already been written by the
master. It just somehow doesn Tt
click for some of us until we
come to the end of ourselves
and finally surrender to the one

who has manufactured us. And

because he holds the key to all
of our dreams and aspirations

~ it would only make sense to
. Surrender to his will for our

lives. One day I realize I had to

~ stop running into myself and run
into God. In doing so I was

greatly challenged to change my

- lifestyle and thinking, separate
myself from people, places and

things.

Life Ts circumstances often
result in a series of events that
speak death to every vision and
dream God has placed within
you. Negative thoughts are
strongholds assigned to
smother and kill the divine
purpose within. The natural
carnal mind refuses to release
you from past and present hurts.

Being a woman you can find
yourself wearing so many hats
in a day that one day you stop
and realize you can Tt find
yourself. People places and
things have found a way to
erase you and replace you with
things that only pull on you
finding yourself giving out and
never receiving in. It's time to
move on and deal with every
thing that has held you captive.
Being a prisoner in your own
skin is not your purpose for life.
There is nothing you have done

that should bring you down.

within your own being. You
who are victims of abuse and
neglect can get back up again
and regain the power you have
over your life, as you allow God
to repair and restore your
brokenness.

You can make it. Just as I was
challenged for years to fight for
my peace you will be too. But
the great thing is you will win.

You Can Get BackUp ~

Don T t live in denial. Denial will
choke the life out of you. Stop
playing the blame game and get
up again. There is always time
to complete your life Ts
purpose, no matter what your
age, size, skin color education
bank balance is. Regardless of
your past, you can make it. If
low self-esteem and poor self-
perception have held you

captive, I encourage you to T

look at what God says about
and not what man thinks or
says. Keep your eye on the
prize. Learn to embrace
yourself, weaknesses as well as
strengths. Stop running into
yourself and rut into God. I
use tO Tun into myself all the
time until I decided to run into
God. How are you running into
your self today, is it with anger,
fear, or unforgiveness? Have
you my sister been molested,
divorced, and addicted to
drugs? What is it that holds
you captive?

Choose to be fee today.
Liberate yourself from those
who have hurt and
disappointed you. Running into
yourself can only bring defeat.
Running into God will bring
you victory.

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Pastoral Counselor, Pastor,
Recording Artist and Worship
Leader she lives in Greenville
North Carolina and has a heart
for women to move from pain
to power WINPOP (Women In
Pursuit of Purpose is her
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Minority Voice Apr. 28 - May 15 2006 pg5
ssociation Host Scholarship Banquet

Pictured North Carolina A&T University Alumni left to right Berita Demery, Treiste
Newton, Annie Brown, Laura Carmon, Seated: Frances Mebane and Shonda Bullock,
Center: Justice Henry Frye, Tyrone Walson, President: Minerva Freeman, Melvin
McLawhorn, Banquet Chairperson: Tanya Tucker-Dawson and Lavette Ford

The Pitt County Alumni
Association held its Annual
Spring Scholarship Banquet
on Saturday, April 08, 2006,
at the Taft Christian Life
Center, in Greenville. This
year Ts theme was An
Evening with Just-Us T. The
theme was centered on the
keynote speaker, Justice
Henry-Frye an A & T
Alumnus. Justice Frye Ts wife
Shirley accompained him to
the banquet. Justice Frye
spoke words of encourage-
ment, promise, and strength.
He also made references to
the Pitt County Alumni
Association Ts theme oNo
Steps Backward: Students
Today, Leaders Tomorrow. ?
The Annual Spring Banquet
serves as a fundraising effort
of the Pitt County A & T
Alumni Association. The
2006-2007, president for the
Pitt County A & T Alumni
Association in Minerva
Freeman, Vice President is
Lavette Ford, Secretary,

Darryl] Jarmen, Assistant
Secretary, Annanias Smith and
Treasurer , Ethel Sutton.
Chairperson for this year Ts
banquet was Tanya Tucker-
Dawson and Co- Chair was
Shonda Bullock. A & T
Alumni, Comm. Melvin
McLawhorn introduced the
keynote speaker on behalf of
the alumni association, county
government and Kappa Alpha
Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Entertainment was provided
by members of the J.H. Rouse
High School Gospel Choir. A
candle lighting dedication was
performed by Sharon Malette
and Laura Carmon. Last
year Ts president Denise
Moore-Wilkes presented
information about an
academic scholarshiphonoring
the late Bernard Haselrigh to
be awarded to a graduating
senior at Ayden Grifton High
School or J. H..Rose High
School during it Ts Annual

Senior Ts Day. This annual
scholarship was established by
Trieste Newton. - Attorney
Derek Brown, Dr. Julius
Malette, Dr. Hazel Brown,
DDS, Attorney James Jimmy T
Streeter, Attorney Earl
Brown, Dr. Isaac Artis and
Dr. Edward Treadwell were
Just a few of the illustrious
members from the community
in attendance. The Pitt
County A & T Alumni
Assoicatio meets every first
Wednesday of the month at
the Sheppard Memorial
Library. The next scheduled is
May 03, 2006. This will be
the last meeting before the
Associations breaks for the
summer. If, you would like
to become a member or you
have questions regarding the
Pitt County A & T Alumni
Association , please call

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PITT COUNTY CHAPTER SHAW ALUMNI UNCF DRIVE LUNCHEON

The Pitt Comaty Chapter of Shaw University Alumni Association sponsored the UNCF Fund Drive Luncheon at Riverside Steak House on 1 March 4, 2006. Guest Speaker f for this
luncheonwas Dr. Cleon Thompson, Special Assistant to the President of Shaw University. Vanish Green and Mildred A. Council were co-chairs of this event.

Left to Right Seated ... Thelma Brown,Sheryl Thompson,Pauline Anderson,Pattie Leary,Rev Cl
Standing . . Brenda Green,Rev Barry K.Berryhill,Doris Dixon,Joyce Jones,Iris Daniels,Linda

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rvis,Addie Everett, Vanish Green,Mildred A.Council,Dr Cleon:

Thompson,Speaker,Samuel C. Boyd,Ethelene Hardy-Stover,Beasley Dixon,Curtis Best, and Wayland Moore

Continued from front page...
Gala honors life of Beatrice Maye

She has been a member of thing, she becomes likea He said Maye helped make his
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority force of nature "unrelent- home a comfortable place
since the age of 18. ing." " again.

To date she teaches a Retire- Maye's only son John W. Dedra, who will turn 13 next
ment Living course to senior © Maye Jr.expressedwhata "_ month, is thriving in school
citizens at the Pitt County blessing it was that his and extra curricular activities
Council on Aging, and is mother was still abletodo because of Maye's influence.
planning the release of an- things on her own, suchas "_ """Everything we are, it's all
other book late this year. drive. because of Ms. Maye," Garner
Portriats of her life and "This is a blessing from said. "She is like my mother. I
accomplishments were shown "_ Jesus," he said. "Most owe her a lot."

to former students, friends, children with parents this

family and colleagues in a age need home health care." Erin Rickert can be contacted
video presentation celebrating Maye willalwayshavea "_at erickert@coxnc.com and
Maye's 90th birthday on special place in Garner's 329-9566.
Sunday. heart.

The event was the culmina- ,

tion of six months of planning
by Maye's family and friends.
During nearly two-hours,
stories about Maye's influence
on their lives were shared.
Malcolm Jones, traveled
from California, to share his
feelings about his aunt.

Jones said she always stood
out in a crowd, but one
characteristic really set her
apart from the rest.

What really sets her apart is
her perseverance," Jones said.
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SWEET HOPE
FREE WILL
BAPTIST
CHURCH
BREAKING NEW
GROUND

On Saturday, April 1, 2006,
Elder Melvin Murphy offici-
ated a groundbreaking cer-
emony to mark the first day of
construction of the New
Sweet Hope Free Will Baptist
Church. The ceremony was
held onsite. Construction for
the new edifice is estamated 7
to 8 months to complete. The

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Prison is big business in America. So establishes the abstract for the Urban League Ts essay on
Prisons in their 2006 oThe State of Black America Report. T Written by reputed journalist (and
" former head of Emerge T magazine) George Curry, oRacial Disparities Drive the Prison Boom, ?
_ Offers an in depth analysis of several studies, culminating in
& the point that not only is prison big business, but blacks in this
country help to fuel it.

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| Prison populations have seen a
explosively in the 1990s, mostly . due to the oWar on Drugs T
| policy instituted by President Ronald Reagan. By the time the
turn of the century rolled around, the prison and jail population
| reached 2.1 million people. The total of 581,000 arrests in 1980 nearly tripled to a record high of
almost 1.6 million by 1997. The United States has 100,000 more persons behind bars for drug

: eum a Offenses alone than the entire European Union has incarcerated " and the EU is larger than the
bag "" U.S. by 100 million people.

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| Moreover, Black men especially do not bode favorably in this social justice analysis. Black men
are arrested at higher rates and they are sentenced to do longer time. For instance, it was found

| that of the sentences issued in 12 crime categories in the State Courts, sentences for black males
| were longer than white males in all of them. The proportions of Black men arrested and

| incarcerated for drug offenses is in gross disproportion to their actual numbers in this country.

If one were to read between the lines, then, one knows that more than simply losing a very large
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Brown Seeks

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Brown Seeks Historic :
Political Win with House Seat = ;

Safer communities, educa-
tion and a stronger job market
is what Democratic candidate
Derek K. Brown pledges to
-Martin and Pitt county voters.
Brown Ts victory would be
historic. He would become
the first African American to
hold the legislative seat
specifically carved out for
minority voter representation
by the U.S. Department of
Justice in the mid-eighties.
When first established, the
district 8 voting bloc included
all of Pitt, Greene, Martin and
Edgecombe counties. The late
Linwood Mercer was the first
to occupy the seat followed
by current incumbent Edith
Warren. For the 2006
election, District 8 has been
reapportioned to only include
Martin county and portions of
Pitt.

With a recent campaign
headquarters grand opening in
Martin County, Brown has
been relentless in his effort to
let the voters know that he is
hard at work on the campaign
trail. His political opponent "
the incumbent, retired
educator and principal, Edith
Warren " has held the
legislative post since 1998.
In an earlier cited statement
Brown is quoted as saying
that he was not running
against Mrs. Warren, but that
he was running for the people.
With close ties to the
community and region, Brown
looks forward to bringing
much needed improvement
down east. Furthermore, he
believes that the some of the
basic requirements to ensure
area growth have either been
overlooked or down right |
disregarded. During a candid
interview Brown is quoted as
saying, othis is about the
people, making their lives
better and down east
stronger. ?
Brown acknowledges that the
lack of sustained jobs
creation, educational
resources as well as the
slowness of infrastructure, to
points east of interstate 95,
have not been all that it could.
There is tremendous room for
improvement. Improving
upon these circumstances to
the good of all down
easterner Ts is just what I
intend to do, he said.
Similarly, Brown concedes
that time spent as legislative
council, to former
Congressman Frank Ballance,
allows him the skill and
discipline necessary to
develop and maintain strong
relationships with state
leaders; moreover, the
altruism needed to keep his
ear to the concerns of his
constituents. Pitt County
native, Brown, is the son of
area veteran dentist Hazel
Brown and attorney Earl
Brown. A practicing attorney
for 10 years, Brown currently
serves as assistant district
attorney for Prosecutorial
District 6-B domestic violence
unit, inclusive of Hertford,
Bertie and North Hampton
Counties. Derek Brown was
educated at the North
Carolina School of Math
ndScience, North Carolina A
T State University and
awarded a Jurist Doctor from
Campbell University School
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point at a House office
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without reference to military service. After his tour
economist Andrew Brimmer, of duty; he canned A ae
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economics in Black America, '°e!Ved a Fulbright grant to
Brimmer was the first Black ¢© Post graduate work in
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bankers. And Brimmer, as became the assistant secretary.
one of the governors really en aoe
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Brimmer was born in part of the Johnson
administration until 1966
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returned to Harvard as a

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professor of economics before
forming his own consulting
company " Brimmer &
Associates

" in 1976.

Brimmer Ts expertise has
been in great demand in the
private sector providing
strategic investor counseling
to major US and international
corporations. In addition, he
has done other specialized
work in developing and
implementing corporate
positioning and communi-
cations programs for public
and private corporations. He
is a founding member of
Joele Frank, Wilkinson,
Brimmer, Katcher that works
with clients on investments,
public relations and crisis

management. Besides

economics and public
relations, he brings to his

Clients an array of peripheral

products and services includ-
ing complex restructurings
and reorganizations. One of
his better-known public
offering assignments was
helping United Parcel Service
(UPS) with its $ 5.47 billion

of preventable deaths in the state of North Carolina,

As healthcare providers, we're committed to providing
patients and visitors, as well as employees, with a healthy
environment. As part of this change, we're offering smoking
cessation classes to the community. For information on our
smoking cessation resources, call 847.6501 or visit online

at www.uhseast.com. The change will do you good.

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- (IPO). Brimmer was elected

to the Washington Academy
of Sciences; has been a
member of the Association for
the Study of African
Americans Life and History;
appointed chairman of the
Board of Trustees of
Tuskegee University; is
currently President of the

_ North American Economics

and Finance Association; and
a member of the Board of
Directors of the International
Rescue Committee, the
world Ts leading non-profit
organization providing relief
and resettlement services of
refugees.

His bibliography consists of
oInternational Banking and
Domestic Economics

Policies, ? and oEconomics
Costs of Discrimination
Against Black Americans. ?

According to news reports, he
was considered the most
scholarly spokesman for

Blacks in the economic field
and he recommended that
_ Blacks assimilate into

AT MO'S

the American White economy
rather than trying to go into
business on their own.

This was during the Civil
Rights Era of the sixties. And
Brimmer also saw integration
as the best possible route to

_ Black economic self-

sufficiency and dismissed
Blacks T efforts at
entrepreneurship, including
the acquistion and operation
of black banks.

As a member of Economists
of Peace and Security, he
recently cosigned a letter to
the Secretary of State,
Condolezza Rice, appealing
for the release of one of their
colleagues, a detainee of the
Ethiopian government on
charges of treason. Brimmer
returned to the Federal
Reserve in 1997 and after two
years became its vice
chairthan. Since leaving
public service, Brimmer has
been utilizing his talents and
rendering services as an
economist and its related
fields, in defense against
minority shareholder squeeze-
outs and megalo-mergers that
tend to cripple the osmall ?
business owner.

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had to get from point Ato B. they have lost a loved one. _ afternoon. oI was at work on
We can Tt control if there are "_know I might be losing my Saturday at 2.30p.m., and

cameras there or not. son, I understand what they 20body called me.

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murder in this ose because an ordeal, and my son is being loves to talk about basketball
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only have six days after they the time. He has decent Tony Davis was a counselor
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Afri . m American Students
Rally Around Rape Victim

Source: New America Media

by Cash Michaels

DURHAM, N.C. (NNPA) -
They came to pray, hope and
cry. More than 250 students
of North Carolina Central
University (NCCU) rallied in
a candlelight vigil Apr. 3 to
show their support and love
for one of their own "the
alleged victim of a brutal gang
rape by several members of
the predominately White
Duke University lacrosse team
at a wild off-campus party
over four weeks ago.

Though many of the students
at this small historically Black
university had heard about the
crime on the news when it
first broke, they were not
aware until recently that the
alleged victim was also an
NCCU student. They
immediately came together to
embrace her, sponsor drives to
raise money for her support,
and use the opportunity to
speak out in a unified voice
against domestic violence,
sexual abuse and racism.

oThis is a family member, ?

Teresa Garrett, a junior, told
the crowd. oWe Tre here to
show our support that we love
this young woman, and we are
here [for her. ? Another
NCCU junior, Maya Jackson,
19, said sexual assault is an
issue Black females have been
dealing with for a long time.
oA lot of us are sick and tired
of our women, our sisters and
our mothers being violat

We need to take a stand.
Though not pleased with how
Durham authorities have
handled the investigation thus
far, the students pledged to
give the system a chance to
bring those responsible to
Justice.

Renee Clark, NCCU Student
Body president, read a |
statement from NCCU
Chancellor James Ammons.
oThese allegations of what
occurred at the Duke
University lacrosse team Ts
party are disturbing, inhumane
and insensitive, ? the statement
read.

oFurther, we stand against the
use of racial slurs and the
vilification of anyone. Every
human being has the right to
be treated with dignity and
respect. Our students, faculty
and staff are outraged by what
has been alleged, but are also
mindful of the fact that an
investigation is still under way
and no charges have been
filed. ?

The halls of justice

Duke, one of the world Ts most
prestigious halls of higher
learning, where the children of
corporate, political and
entertainment leaders attend,
is considered a school of
privilege in the midst of a
small, racially divided
Southern city where the _
median income is less the
$43,000 annual tuition.

That stellar reputation has "
now been put to the test by
what many say is one of the

most brutal crimes in the
university Ts otherwise
illustrious history.

During the NCCU rally,
students brought out three

green rolls, which they-invited :

the community to write
messages of encouragement
to the alleged victim on. oAll
of our love and prayers go out
to you and your family, ?
David Summers, an NCCU
student, wrote. oJustice will
be done. Rest assured. ?
Recent developments have
resulted in the willing
resignation of Coach Mike
Pressler and lawyers for the
lacrosse players have been
busy trying to defend their
clients by bringing to light
apparent photographic
evidence that they say will
help their case. The

willing to participate and

volunteer and he is always

smiling. I definitely wouldn Tt
believe that he would be
involved. ?

Fell said, oI just want
everything to work out the
best for my son: I want him to
fight this, and for everyone to
know that my child did not do
is. I want the world to know
that my child did riot do this. ?

oSuccess
is to be
measured not
so much by
the position
that one has
reached in

life... as by the

obstacles
which he has
overcome
while trying
to succeed. ?
Booker T.

Washington

photographs supposedly show s

the alleged victim arriving to
the party already cut and
bruised. With regards to a
malicious email sent recently
by one of the lacrosse team "
members which describes
inviting over strippers and
okilling the b " "es as soon

as the[y] walk in, ? the defense |

team touts the email as simply _
a reference to a movie entitled
American Psycho, which some "

of the players have reportedly _ |

watched.

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necessarily evidence of
absence, ? said Peter Neufeld,

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lifestyle is the black lifestyle.
They have ghastly visions of
the boys-in-the-hoods heading
for their neighborhoods next.
No matter whether a young
black is a Rhodes scholar,
National Science medal
winner or junior achievement
candidate, they could be
tagged as a gangster.
Many young black men
reinforce the damaging racial
stereotypes by aping and
exulting the thuggish bluster
and behavior of gangster
tappers. This further bolsters
the racially tinged suspicion
among some employers that
all young blacks must be
criminal and derelict. That
does not and should not
éxcuse job discrimination,
however.
Researchers also pointed to
the high number of miserably
failing inner-city public
schools as partly responsible
for the slide of young black
inales. Certainly, poor schools
have turned thousands of
young black males into
éducational cripples. These
Students are desperately
unequipped to handle the
tapidly evolving and
demanding technical and
professional skills needed to
compete in the public sector
and the business world of the .
21st century. They are also far
-more likely than whites to be
expelled or suspended for
violations.that often times. go...
unreported or unnoticed when
White students commit them.

The staggeringly high
suspension and expulsion rate
of young black males from
schools enraged NAACP
officials. They announced last
year that they would hold
hearings on the problem.
While school administrators
should be called on the carpet
for racial double standards in
school discipline, bad-
behaving students and their
parents must also be called on
the same carpet. They must
work.doubly hard to push at-
risk students to improve their
conduct and their studies.Civil
rights leaders, the
Congressional Black Caucus
and Congressional Democrats
must relentlessly challenge the
Bush administration and
private industry to create
more jobs and training
opportunities, support
programs for parents and
skills-training programs for
prisoners to help young black
males out of their quagmire.
But they must also challenge
young black men to take
greater responsibility for their
own lives and be the achievers
they can be, and not statistics
and stereotypes endangered in
Ameanswers that the
researchers fingered to explain
the crisis. Democrats, for their
part, pound President

Bush and say that his fiscal
and economic policies have
resulted in the loss of millions
of jobs during his years in
office. His slash-and-burn of
job training programs and
dearth of tax incentives for the
working poor have certainly
helped fuel the crisis.But the

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Minority Voice Apr. 28 - May 15 2006 pgl4

Endangered

crisis among young black men
can Tt be totally blamed on
Bush Ts dubious fiscal and
economic policies. During the
Clinton era, when the
economy was booming, the
unemployment rate for young
black males was still double
and in some parts of the
country triple that of white
males. At the same time, state
and federal cutbacks in job
training and skills programs,
the brutal competition for
low- and semi-skilled service
and retail jobs from
immigrants and the refusal of
many employers to hire those
with criminal records have
sledge-hammered black
communities.In fact, before
the big run-up in black male.
unemployment in the last few
years, the California Assembly
Commission on the Status of
the African-American Males
reported that four out of 10
felons entering California
prisons were young black
males, and less than half of
lower-income black males
under 21 lived in two-parent
households. The study was
done in California, but almost
certainly a similar pattern
would be found in other poor
urban communities
nationwide. It Ts true that many
employers refuse to hire
young black males due to
racial fears and ignorance. It Ts
also true that many young
blacks feed that fear and
ignorance by their own
actions. The studies made
only passing mention of that.
The urban riots of the 1990s
reinforced white fears that all
young black males are
inherent drive-by-shooters,
gang bangers, drug dealers,
are lazy, have foul attitudes,
are chronic underachievers
and eternal menaces to
society. When some young
blacks turned to gangs, guns
and drugs and terrorized their
communities, that seemed to
confirm whites T worst fears.
The explosion of gangster rap
and the spate of Hollywood
violence-themed ghetto films
have convinced even more
Americans that the thug
lifestyle is the black lifestyle.
They have ghastly visions of
the boys-in-the-hoods heading
for their neighborhoods next.
No matter whether a young
black is a Rhodes scholar,
National Science medal
winner or junior achievement
candidate, they could be
tagged as a gangster. Many
young black men reinforce the
damaging racial stereotypes
by aping and exulting the
thuggish bluster and behavior
of gangster rappers. This
further bolsters the racially
tinged suspicion among some
employers that all young
blacks must be criminal and
derelict. That does not and
should not excuse job
discrimination, however.

Researchers also pointed to
the high number of miserably
failing inner-city public
schools as partly responsible
for the slide of young black
males. Certainly, poor schools
have turned thousands of
young black males into
educational cripples.

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