Eastern North Carolina's | Minority Voice What You See Is What You Get, What You Read Is What You Know & Save. THE 'm' VoIcE EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA'S MINORITY VOICE - SINCE 1981 WEEK OF AUGUST 25-SEPTEMBER 1, 1995 Book exposes modern roots of racism and violence Are our tax dollars funding our own decline? Increasing crime rates, black- on-black violence, drug abuse, il- literacy and suicide amongst Afri- can Americans and black South Africans has prompted a new book showing how the modem roots of racism are embedded in psychiat- ric and psychological programs. These programs, steeped in “sci- entific” rationalization, are heavily financed by taxpayers dollars, pos- ing the question: “Are we funding our own decline?” And more im- portantly, “Whatcan be done about it?” Creating Racism: Psychiatric’s Betrayal In The Guise of Help isa “no-holds-barred” look at a hidden influence and cause of declining morals, educational standards and tolerance in our community. Pub- lished by the Citizens Commis- sion on Human Rights (CCHR), an internationally renowned psychi- atric “watchdog” group, it warns of how education and the family, the foundations of our society, have been subverted under the guise of “help.” “If anyone wonders why drugs and guns suddenly appeared in the African American community in the 1960s and stayed, if you wonder why children and teenag- ers have turned to gang violence and drugs, give little value to life, cannot find jobs or have a sense of hopelessness about their future, then this book offers an insight into how this was achieved,” Inter- national President of CCHR, Ms. Jan Eastgate said. For decades psychiatrists and psychologists have preached the inferiority dogma, that minority individuals have“Low1Q” and that this regulates behavior and sta- tus. In the 1800s, aslave’s attempt to escape to freedom was labeled a mental illness called ‘drapetomania’ (runaway mania). Today, the various reactions by African Americans to oppression are diagnosed as psychiatric prob- lems. In the 1920s, racial hygiene “experts” called eugenicists (from eugenes meaning “good in stock”) claimed that blacks with white blood had “higher IQs “ In the 1950s, psychologists wrote thatIQ test scores “inevitably point to the presence of native differences be- tween Negroes and whites. In the 1994 psycho-babble book . The Bell Curve, this fraud was further per- petuated. In this way, the systematic so- cial crippling of certain races has been carried out, if not by violent psychiatric treatments, then by denying them proper education, employment and other cultural advantages. As Ms. Eastgate stated, “Once it was politically acceptable for psy- chiatrists to invent the so-called CAROL CALDWELL SCHOLARSHIP BANQUET. +e Shown at the unas Center for their annual banquet executive committee and special guest speaker, state of NC Auditor, Mr. Ralph Campbell and his lovely wife. Edgecombe County Commissioner, Bro. Leggett, Attorney Wilton Moore, and other executive committee members. Each year some young person is selected to receive monies from the Caldwell Foundation to help with his or her education in the area of law. Keep raising that money Bro and Sisters, someone cares. Thank God its you. Photo by Jim Rouse | g 7 disease ‘drapetomania.’ Today, it is both culturally and financially acceptable for psychiatrists to stig- matize with the label ‘mentally ill, those minority groups who are protesting very real racial oppres- sion, educational discrimination and economic favoritism. “Their cry is not a ‘mental ill- ness’ but rather the result of a sane and fundamental impulse to survive, and avalid protest against injustice. Government appropria- tions should not be flaming this injustice. “ She warned that some of the most blatant examples of betrayal and misappropriation of govern- Jenkins resigns after twelve years sao 4 coe A) HII Pop «| Maarten «itd + > 4 Ras ‘aoa tf ad par tod fos n> heme Seseeagantts ~$ hoe DR. JIMMY R. JENKINS After twelve successful years as Chancellor of Elizabeth City State University, Dr. Jimmy R. Jenkins resigned as Chancellor of the Uni- versity effective August 31, 1995. Dr. Jenkins always provided an open ear and worked with the Alumni Association in achieving many goals. Dr. Jenkins’ accom- plishments at Elizabeth City State University have elevated Eliza- beth City State University as a quality institution of academic Se. ao the members of the Alumni. P.S. J ONES HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI Reunion met at the old school site recently. Our c camera was able to catch a few of Photo by Jim Rouse Abu-Jamal to O.J.: The Journey From Watts To Westwood With the 30th Anniversary of the Watts (CA) uprising against police brutality (August 11-21, 1965) fresh in mind, it’s ironic how littleimprovement appears to have taken place in that area of society. In fact, judging by the latest devel- opments in the O.J. Simpson case, which began in the fashionalbe Westwood Brentwood-neighbor- hood of the city, the cancer ap- pears to have spread. As each day passes and new “blockbuster” events pale the “blockbusters” from previous days, Mr. Simpson’s case has begun to — the case 13 years ago of mumia Abu-Jamal. When it comes to justice for Blacks: O.J. has be- come to AJ. (Abu-Jamal), what Westwood has become to Watts. Back in January of this year, in its opening statements to the jury, the Simpson legal team summa- rized the L.A. Police Department's and the District Attorney's roles in prosecuting the Hall of Fame football hero accused of murder- ing his White former wife and a White male acquaintance of hers, as a “rush to judgment.” | Now, in the face of their own weak strategy and stunning evi- dence unearthed by the defense, the prosecutors have challenged Judge Lance Ito to step down from the case completely. Prosecutors may be hoping fora mistrial, which would give them an opportunity to retry the case, without repeating the blunders and errors they com- mitted, and with full knowledge of the defense strategy. Furthermore, Mr. Simpson will not have the money to pressa full-court-defense strategy in a re-trial, the way his team has done in this 11-month- saga. The irony is: the evidence that prosecution “star witness” - Los Angeles Police Detective Mark { | Fuhrman -isa race-hater who lied on the witness stand in this case, and who apparently admits that he routinely advises cops to plant evidence and frame innocent sus- pects in 30-hours of taped inter- views given more than seven years ago; is surprisingly similar to the evidence now being revealed about the Philadephia Police Depart- ment and the prosecution of Mr. Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of murdering a White cop on Decem- ber 9, 1981. From Watts to Westwood: From AJ. to OW. “Continued on page 2) Quote: } America has OXY TKR KX Shame and its sense of outrage, regarding violence, drugs and poor education" General Colin Powell ment funds is the innocent-sound- ing Goals 2000, Outcome-Based Education, Mastery Learning and ‘Values clarification’ that are passed off today as needed for bet- ter education. “The legislations that empower these programs merely further the same philoso- phies that have mentally enslaved school children for 32 years. The programs aim at making teachers an extension of psychiatry and psychology, destroying the honor- able heritage of teaching, andturn- ing our schools into mental health clinics,” Ms Eastgate stated. Since 1963, when the federal (Continued on page 2) Mrs. Beatrice Maye excellence. Dp The Elizabeth City State Uni- Page 2 versity General Alumni Associa- tion wishes to thank Dr. Jimmy R. Jenkins and his family for all of their efforts and endeavor to make Elizabeth City State University a great educational institution. As Alumni of Elizabeth City State University our focus contin- ues to be, to promote the univer- sity as a school of educational ex- cellence. The Alumni Association has expressed its concerns with President C.D. Spangler Jr. in the appointment of an interim Chan- cellor and also the selection of a new Chancellor. We as Alumni will work with the Board of Trust- ees of Elizabeth City State Uni- versity in their search for a new — Chancellor. Submitted by Charles C. Rascoe President of the General Alumni Association Community News Page 3 j AT & T to offer cellular, paging services to customers Page 4 Gee . win BROTHER FALAH HAMDAN, OF THE F&H Convenient Mart, welcomes customers to come and shop at F&H. Photo by Jim Rouse Affirmative Action: The “Radical Republican” example By Jack Kemp Americans. The president-Andrew The scene is Washington: a Re- Johnson, Lincoln’s successor-wor- publican President, new to the ried that any “affirmative action” White House, defiantly throwing would hurt the White population down the gauntlettoaRepublican by specifically helping “Negroes.” Congress, saying he will veto any bill that proposes to do more for “Black Americans” than for “Whites.” This is not the same fast-for- ward vision of 1997 and the first days of a new Republican White House. It’s a flashback to 1866. The agency to be vetoed was the Freedman’s Bureau, established in President Lincoln's administra- tion to “affirmatively” assist the recently omen African I offer this page from history not to prove once again that, politi- cally, there is not much new under the sun but to illustrate that the issues of race and equality are woven into the essence of our American experience, While our present-day passions on the sub- ject of affirmative action open old wounds, they also summon us to moral leadership of Lincolnesque proportions, (Continued on page 4) \ | un etnene™ ror ieeueeeeaniatit PER nid IR Sl ee ated eke CE tL RS Oo ga kts ck. Tie eS oo eee F AUGUST 25 - SEPTEMBER 1, 1995 ument’s National Institute ‘for teachers to be become mental “health workers came into effect, “shildren have been taught that nere is no right or wrong answer ‘bo issues such as drug taking, sex, ‘death and violence. Parents have P22 ee meshotartatatcnatet ats caitatattesetetetesanenettsnonenatot nrcsneatatatetetcttenatntetiststenrsterstene What the Watts 1965 (riot) up- rising was all about, was a univer- -sal understanding among Black -sitizens-regardless of class, edu- ‘tational level, or income level-that ‘L.A. Police routinely brutalized ‘Black folks. What the O.J. case makes clear is that the District Attorney’s office, seems to collabo- rate with the offending cops, in blaming the victims instead of root- ing out police abuse. _ What the O.J. case also rein- forces, is the perception thatin the A.J. (Abu-Jamal) case, the same tactics are routinely used a conti- nent away. “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” Watts-1965; A.J.-1981; Westwood-1994; and O.J.-1995. As so-called “officers of the sourt,” prosecutors and defense attorneys are supposed to be in a “search for truth” in order to achieve “justice.” Prosecutors should be asinterested in evidence that leads to the real guilty parties as defense attorneys. Instead, their interest appear only to be ‘convictions...by any means nec- 2ssary.” Book generalized release forms autho- rizing their children to participate in school activities that have in- cluded such things as “death edu- cation” and the “survival game,” and which have left a wake of moral decline and an increasing suicide rate. Suicide among Afri- can American adolescent males From A.J. to O.J.. In the A.J. *Abu-Jamal) case in 1982, prosecutors appeared to have deliberately ignored witnesses who said they saw the assailant who shot officer Daniel Faulkner flee the scene after shooting him. They ignored ballistic evidence to fash- ion their case because Mr. Abu- Jamal was an annoying critic of the police and prosecutors for their “persecution” of members of the back-to-nature grop MOVE. In the O.J. case today, prosecu- tors appear to be deliberately ig- noring evidence that now-retired Det. Fuhrman may have routinely violated the law in his police du- ties, and that he clearly commjt- ted perjury in his testimony against Mr. Simpson. Listening to the flimsy argu- ments by prosecutors in Philadel- phia, and in Los Angeles, I am reminded of a bit of sophomoric law school advice: “When you have the law on your side argue the law. When you have neither the facts, nor the law: pound the table.” In the O.J. and in the A.J. (Abu- Jamal) cases, prosecutors now ap- pear to be pounding their tables. The Minority Voice Inc. WOOW P.O. Box 8361 310 Evans St. Mall, Greenville, NC 27835 919-757-0365/ Fax: 919-757-1793 WTOW P.O. 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Ille- gitimate births to teenagers gen- erally has increased 310%. Goals 2000 and Outcome-Based Education, not only waste more than $10 billion in taxpayers’ dol- lars but provide for a “Brave New ‘World’ psychological profile to be kept.on every child and their fam- ily members. This will contain in- formation about the sexual prac- tices of the family, their political attitudes and their financial earn- ings. A student will only be able to graduate if he has achieved the correct attitudes and skills dic- tated by government psychologists, psychiatrists or teachers unwit- tingly exploited by these profes- sions. “Psychiatrists, in particular, are demonstrably unqualified to adju- dicate attitudes. They have the highest suicide rate of any single profession and the highest inci- dence of drug abuse. They commit more insurance fraud than any other member of the medical pro- fession. Add to the equation that 10% of all psychiatrists openly admit to sexually abusing their patients, that according to one study, two-thirds of them are them- selves ‘seriously mentally ill’ and that the American Psychiatric Association found psychiatrists more likely to be atheists, and you have to seriously question the motives behind having these self- claimed experts put in charge of determining the attitudes and be- havior of our children and adoles- cents. “The future of any raceis largely dependent upon the care, educa- the traditional and most workable vehicles to provide the spiritual and material means which trans- mit a culture from one generation to the next. Attack these and one assures progressively ‘weaker’ gen- erations and deteriorating racial integrity, “ Ms Eastgate said. Psychiatry’s Betrayal covers all these issues as well as the Nazi genocide of Jews and blacks, how the same psychiatric theories that caused WWII’s holocaust were in- troduced in South Africa to en- slave blacks and keep them illiter- ate and unemployed, and how eu- genic programs in Australia and | New Zealand helped to almost wipe out Aborigine and Maori races. CCHR hopes that the booklet will give people an incentive to protest psychiatric and psychologi- ~ eal intervention in schools so that education returns to its basics. There are some simple actions that can be done to begin to turn the tide against a modem root of rac- ism. CCHR has a 26 year history of investigating psychiatric viola- tions of human rights. It was es- tablished by the Church of Scientology in 1969. Commission- ers of CCHR include civil rights lawyers, doctors, and other profes- sionals. The Founding Commis- sioner is New York Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus and author, Dr Thomas Szasz. A copy of Psychiatry’s Betrayal is available free by writing to CCHR Interna- tional, 6362 Hollywood Blvd. Suite B, Los Angeles, California 90028. BEATRICE MAYE To the editor - A Tribute - Twenty-five years ago when one of the five newly constructed high schools was built, the Reverend Ernest McNair became North Pitt High School’s first assistant prin- cipal. “Success is more a function of consistent common sense that it is of genius”. (Al Wang) - Reverend Ernest McNair’s success as North Pitt High School’s retired assis- tant principal can be partially con- tributed to his quiet, rarely raised voice or his giving orders, for he has turned around troubled stu- dents as well as watched many students succeed. Yes, he has changed lives. Has anyone thought of the num- ber of shoes he has worn out walk- @ ing those halls, the campus and/or the classrooms daily? Acommitted and dedicated man has given so much to that school and community these 25 years. How was he honored? Unbeliev- ably, a replacement will be hard, for his caring and nurturing will be sorely missed by administra- Show Up Rev. John P. Kee and the New Life Community Choir coming to the P.S. Jones School in Washington, NC September Ist, at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $12.50 and $14.50 at the door. Children are half price at the door for 12 years and under. BUS 166-50 Business Law | BUS 235-50 Business Management CAS 100-50 Introto Microcomputer Applications CAS 101-50 Personal Computer Familiarization CAS 105-50 Intro to Computers: Managing Software ISC 202-50 Statistical Quality Assurance LEX 101-50 Introduction to Paralegalism LEX 220-50 Family Law LIB 151-50 Library Research Skills OSC 120-50 Terminology and Vocabulary: Medical | Call 321-4245 for more information. FALL LATE REGISTRATION Call 321-4245 SATURDAY CLASSES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 9. PITT COMMUNITY COLLEGE WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS WEEKEND? Make weekend plans now for Fall quarter at Pitt Community College. PCC will offer courses in a variety of disciplines, including the following: tor, teachers and students. And he didit unequivocally without noise, fret or fume. Reverend McNair, we salute you! : (Mrs.) Beatrice Maye Question: Think back over your church life about Deacons you have known. How would you describe “A Bad Deacon? A Good Deacon?” “A Bad Deaconess? A Good Dea- coness?” How Deacons-Elect responded: A BAD DEACON: 1. Wears office as crown-stands above congregation. Will serve only some of the membership. 2. Back- slidden, lost focus. 3. Sets self up as judge and jury. 4. Hasn’t grown in Christ. One who violates trust. 5. Won’t attend services - but guards “deacon’s seat.”/profiles only 6.One who uses office and church as instrument of personal gain. 7. One who is under satanic influ- ences. 8. One not consecrated in the Lord Jesus. 9. Confused about how one gives back to God. 10. One who doesn’t tithe/serve. 11. Doesn’t work with the Pastor - wants to be in charge. 12. Not in the word - doesn’t evidence being born again. 13. One who corrupts children and others sexually. 14. One who is unfaithful to spouse - chases women/men. 15. Does not have hunger for the word of God. 16. Is deacon just on Sunday - other days does what he/she pleases. 17. One who drinks and fathers children out of his mar- riage. . 18. One not trained or growing in Christ. 19. One selected solely on the basis of social or political stand- ing. 20. One named because of strategic rather spiritual basis. Compliments: The Reverend Archie Logan A GOOD DEACON: 1. Spirit-filled. 2. Must work with Pastor. 3. Ideal father/husband/wife/ mother; loves church, Lord. 4. Observes Three T’s - time, talent, tithe. 5. Willing to be servant to en- tire congregation and community. 6. Bold - will stand for what is right. 7. Good leader as well as fol- lower of Christ. 8. One who loves the word of God. 9. Open to learning - never knows enough about the Lord, Jesus Chnist. 10. Visits sick - always supports church, responds to needs. 11. When you see him/her - you sense presence of God. 12. A Christian role model. 13. Puts Jesus first- always with Pastor and church. 14. A disciple of Jesus Christ. Is obedient. 15. Easy to approach - easy to talk to. 16. Must be a born again Chris- tian. Christ is the focal point in his/her life. 17. Is always prepared to defend the word of God. 18. Hungry and thirsty for God’s righteousness and His word. 19. Should have a strong prayer life. 20. Always ready to do the work of evangelist. 21. Humble. 22. Someone who holds confi- dences sacred. 23. To be contented in God - no matter the circumstances. 24. One who is faithful to God and man. 25. One who visits sick, needy, despondent - wherever the need exists. 26. One who displays joyful coun- tenance. 27. One who cares about the well being of people-even beyond the church family. 28. One willing to share Chnist. 29. One who is bold - will stand up for the Lord anytime, any place. 30. One who watches, guards and promotes peace in the fellow- ship. Get Your "M" Voice ANE RAW) Name To get your "M" Voice by mail write to: The "M" Voice Newspaper PO Box 8361 Greenville, NC 27834 SUBSCRIPTION PAYMENT MUST BE INCLUDED WITH ORDER ‘QO Yes, I'd like a 6 months subscription by mail $15 C) Yes, I'd like a 12 months subscription by mail $30 \ Address >. City State | Zip Voice eM i I jit i The ‘wm! ) : DRS. EPHRAIM NSIEN, KURT G. VERNON, and Subhash Gumber are joined by WOOW Air Personality Sister Joy Brown at the “Joy 1340” facilities. photo by Jim Rouse No! to the Death Penalty Means No! to the Welfare State Last week I was in New Orleans to represent the Transnational Radical Party—an international, pro-democracy political party which strongly opposes the death penalty—at a conference spon- sored by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Like the other conference participants, I ama longtime opponent of capi- tal punishment. Not only is it im- moral and inhumane, it is an inef- fective deterrent to violent crime. Even many of those who advocate it concede that. We need to take a hard look at what has happened in this country with respect to the death penalty. AsI pointed out in my talk at the anti-death penalty conference, the death penalty has become an em- blem of political authority in America. It is the ultimate state- ment by government—Big Gov- ernment—that it can control our lives. Big Government has so much power that it can do anything to you, and take anything from you— including your life. This intrusive, arrogant, abu- sive and violent Big Government hasincreasingly placed itselfabove the wishes of the American people, not to mention above the Consti- tution and the Bill of Rights. In- deed, I would argue, as have many others, that the death penalty is unconstitutional—it violates the Eighth Amendment, which pro- hibits cruel and unusual punish- ment. The imposition of the death penalty is just one of the many ways that the government is cur- rently abrogating the Billof Rights and placing American democracy at risk. Despite this, the death penalty has popular support—no doubt, because the American people feel powerless in the face of risingcrime and violence. What is most signifi- cant, however, is that the death penalty has been “sold” to them as a solution by a remarkable coali- tion of law and omer extremists and protagonists of liberal Big Government like President Clinton. Unusual coalitions—like the one backing the death penalty—are the new phenomenon in American political life. Just take a look at the recently completed Congres- sional hearings on government and law enforcement abuses in the handling of the Branch Davidian situation in Waco, Texas. The Rich- mond Dispatch insightfully pointed out last week that while David Koresh might not have been the messiah, he most certainly was a miracle worker. He turned law and order Republicans into civil libertarians and liberal Democrats into ardent spokespersons for what is perhaps the most outrageous government abuse of the Bill of Rights in the last decade. The Davidians, after all, were sum- marily executed. Let us not forget (Continued on page 5) Internet Guide for expanded By Ronald Roach Eight months after the African American Resource Guide to the Internet appeared in bookstores around Washington, D.C., the book has become a local bestseller. And since last December, au- thors Rey O. Harris and Stafford L. BattleJr., have kept up a steady pace of appearances at local churches, bookstores and commu- nity centers, promoting their groundbreaking book. The bgok, they believe, has been a success in the Washington area because it catalogs Internet resources that are aimed at the African Ameri- can community. “The reaction to the book has been tremendous,” Harris said during a recent book signing event in nearby Landover Mall. “African Americans want to know what the Internet has to offer.” Harris estimated that nearly 5,000 copies of the book’s first edi- tion have been sold. He added that the book is currently being sold in some of the large commercial book- stores as well as the Black-owned stores, such as Karibu Books. The book is also on sale in bookstores in at least nine cities around the country. — Brother Yao, an owner of Karibu Books, said he invited the authors to sign copies of their books at his store because the books are in great demand. “I’ve read the book, and it’s helped me to find useful infor- mation on the Internet, whichis so vast that it’s difficult to find mate- rial that is interesting and rel- evant,” Yao said. The Internetis believed by many to be the most important part of the emerging “Information Super- highway.” Described as a network af networks, the Internet is a sys- tem that links computer users to thousands of databases and bulle- tin boards from around the world. (Continued on page 5) Spirtuaiaires EVANG. MARY WHITE & ST. JOHN GOSPELETTES » BRO. BOBBY PETERSON & UNITY « GOSPEL FIVE eres Willie Neal Johnson And The New Keynotes Tommy Ellison And The Five Singing Stars OF FAYETTEVILLE, NC JIM ROUSE of WOOW-WTOW & THE M. 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The unrecon- structed liberal notion of endless racial reparations and race-based preferences i is doubly guilty: wrong in principle and ruinous in prac- tice. Presidnet Clinton’s much vaunted affirmative action review produced more ofa bumber sticker than a policy; Clinton’s focus group- fashioned “mend it, not end it” slogan makes a far better rhyme than reason. The same, however, is true of the new affirmative action “aboli- tionist” position, which heralds equality but seldom addressed the way to truly give all people an equal footing. Critics are right in ’ asserting that “affirmative action” quotas have contributed to the poisoning of race relations in this country. But critics must offer much more than just opposition and reproach. We know what they are against, but what are they for? “A coloredblind society,” comes their response. Of course, the goal of equal opportunity is paramount and a worthy destiny to seek. But to say that we have arrived at that goal is simply not true. My friends on the right call for a colorblind society and then quote Martin Luther King’s inspirational “I Have a Dream” speech, in which he imagined a nation in which every American would be judged not on the color of his or her skin but on the “content of his charac- ter.” All too often, though, they ne- glect to quote theend of his speech, where he describes the painful plight of minority America: “The Negro,” King said, “lives on a lonly island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.” And much has changed in the 30 years since King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. - Affirmative Action Minority ‘enterprises have be- gun to gain a foothold, although there are far too few of them. But can anyone venture to the crum- bling brick and mortar of Cabrini Green Public Housing, or the fear- ridden projects of Bed-Stuy or the streets lined witht he unemployed in South Central LA or East St. Louis and believe that what he sees there today would pass as progress since Dr. King’s day? This is not to negate the gains made by so many in the Black and minority communities. But for large numbers, the situation has not only not improved in 30 years, it has grown dramatically worse, with a welfare system that en- traps rather than empowers, pun- ishes work and marriage and pre- vents access to capital, credit and property. Reality requires that we admit two things- difficult admis- sions for both liberals and conser- vatives. First, that race-conscious policy of quotas and rigid preferences has helped make matters worse. Second, and more important, the Good Shepherd reminds all of us that our work is not done, and we think about moving into the 21st century, we must not leave anyone behind. Sound policy begins with’ strong principles. Affirmative action based on quo- tas is wrong—wrong because it is antithetical to the genious of the American idea: individual liberty. (County) by race in order to rem- edy past wrongs or rewarding spe- cial groups by taking from others perpetuates and even deepens the divisions between us. But race- based politics is even more wrong and must be repudiated by men and women of civility and compas- sion. , Affirming affirmative action be- gins with education. AT&T to offer cellular, paging services to customers AT&T has announced it will be- gin using all its long-distance sales channels to offer cellular and pag- ing services to its 90 million con- sumers and business customers, bringing them the benefits of wire- less communications less than a year after the acquisition of McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. The jointly-developed cellular and paging services announces are only the first which AT&T and its wholly-owned subsidiary plan to offer. They include an AT&T por- table cellular phone with three month of free evening and week- end airtime for consumers. Cus- tomers who also use AT&T long- distance service will be eligible for discounts on their cellular long- distance calling. The company is also offering consumbers who use its long-distance service a pager with unlimited local messaging and the first month of service free. A similar paging service is being offered to businesses. “AT&T-the same company that wired the world-will bring all the benefits of wireless communica- tions to our current customers and those we want to be our custom- ers,” said Alex J. Mandl, AT&T executive vice president and chief executive officer of the company’s Communications Services Group. “We are using anywhere, anytime technology to make reliable, af- fordable wireless communications for our customers easier than ever to get-and to use.” Today, more than 25 million people in the United States use cellular services, and the industry adds nearly 28,000 new customers each day. Industry analysts esti- mate that wireless will be a $125 billion global market in ten years. With this week’s announcement, AT&T is offering customers the first of many benefits itenvisioned when it acquired McCaw for $11.5 billion in September 1994. Through the recent acquisition of Personal Communications Service (PCS) licenses, AT&T is poised to serve about 80 percent of the U.S. population-some 199 million po- tential customers-in 21 of the top 25 market areas within five years. “We will use all of our resources to lead the wireless industry in providing extraordinary commu- nications for customers,” Mandl said. “Further, AT&T people talk with more than one and a half million ofour customers every day, and we plan to begin to use every opportunity to explain the conve- nience and affordablility of our wireless services.” The jointly marketed cellular and long-distance services will ini- tially be offered, starting Septem- ber 18, in the following areas where the balloting process to choose a long-distance company has been or will be completed, and where AT&T Wireless Services operates. 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Big Government and the far right have won the hearts and minds of the American people on this critical issue because the American liberal-left—those who believe most passionately in the abolition of the death penalty— has been unwilling to identify Big Government as a threat to civil liberties. Moreover, it has been unwilling to build a connection to the anti-Big Government move- ment at the political center thereby opening the door to the popular- ization of rightist non-solutions to a profound social crisis. How could this have happened? For one thing, much of the liberal- left seemed to believe that liberal- always dominate the key institu- tions of American political life. The election in 1992 of Bill Clinton— who was pro-death penalty—was nonetheless identified as a swing back to liberalism after the Reagan-Bush era. Actually, it was a protest against the existing governmen- tal state of affairs. The Perot move- ment was written off as something between a fluke and the rise of neo-fascism. Thus, the liberal-left failed to see the signs that tradi- tional American political align- ments were shifting and that the American people were more and more turning away from the bi- partisan establishment and to- ward an anti-Big Government populism. Ironically, it is Middle America, which has been so sus- ceptible to arguments favoring the death penalty, that is now more and more opposed to the intrusive, abusive and violent Big Govern- ment welfare state. Meanwhile, the anti-death penalty movement, increasingly isolated from the American people, is turning to Bill Clinton and the pro-death pen- alty, anti-civil libertarian welfare state to represent its cause. Welfare and the welfare state— Big Government—have always been identified as the saviors of the African American commu- nity—the sole institutional frame- work that protects us from de- struction. Like many Americans, including many African Ameri- cans, I have come to see how mis- guided and manipulative this no- tion actually is. The welfare state is nota friend to the Black commu- nity. It is a social control mecha- nism. not unlike the death penalty itself. And I am one Black leader whois simply not willing to accept a liberal Big Government welfare state—with all its arrogance, abuse and abrogation of the Bill of Rights—in exchange fora pathetic, 4 ~ Years We Still No! To The Welfare State Flas wcities end enda rapidly unraveling safety net for my _ If we want to abolish the death penalty, we've got to abolish the welfare state. The national move- ment to abolish the death penalty must disengage itself from Big . Government liberalism and the political institutions allied with it. We've got to reach out to the Ameri- can people as a whole and create a new anti-death penalty, anti-Big Government movement which makes life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness its central and long lasting goals. Black Colleges and Universities, churches, businesses and cultural centers. This month, Harris and Battle are finishing a revised eition of their popular guide to the global Internet system. The new edition entitled, The African American Resource Guide to the Internet and Online Services, will be nearly four times longer than the first nity has the lowest rate of com- puter ownership among ethnic groups in the United States.” A recent Census report stated that 11.1 percent of African American households own a computer com- pared to 28.6 percent of White ~ ouseholds and 13.1 percent of Hispanic households. 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These Gestapo like tac- tics should be a point of protest for every American who holds the rights of free speech and open pub- lic forums dear. Such a blatant violation of Ambassador Keyes’ personal and political civil nghts pose a great threat to the tradi- tional public square in American if they are allowed to go unhearalded by the American elec- torate. It alsosays much about the other so-called Pro-Life candidates on the Republican Party ticket. It should be noted by everyone who wishes to see the life of the unborn protected that all the other candi- dates there agreed to compromise their stand on such an important issue. Once again, it seems that all but one candidate will do most anything in the name of politics. When will America get tired enough of these people to realize that they are cut from the same mold. Only Alan Keyes is refusing to back down from the issue. Even in the face of civil nghts violations and personal persecution he is standing by his principles and be- liefs. Its about time the press re- ported such outrages (this one occured on live national television), and the American pubic supported a candidate who is adamant about the fact that we do not have the right to do what is wrong. Keep fighting Alan Keyes. Sooner or later the American press will have to report that you are legitimate candidate (he has yet to finish less than third in a political straw poll), and that you are aman of principle who recognizes that America does not have money prob- lems, it has moral problems. Even Ross: Perot, and his cronies at United We Stand America, will not be able to silence the truth. America needs Alan Keyes. 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We did not agree to risk life and/or limb to deter crime. We were placed in an untenable | situation which, had the outcome been tragic for my family, expla- nations wouldn’t have sufficed. On July 26th around 2:20 p.m. the sanctity of our home was vio- lated. Itis my understanding that a suspect was sighted in Line Street, several blocks from my home. The suspect was chased by the police through two neighbors’ houses with children present be- fore he was shot in the yard next to my house. At what point did the suspect shoot at the police and he returned fire? What would have been the rationale given for wounding or killing one of my children had the bullet that is in my wall had come through? How do I explain to my children that we have a right to be safe in our home after such a thing as this? Officer Robert A. Williams stated he prays to return home safely to his family and wears bullet proof armor so he can do so. We were home that day thinking we were safe. We are nota part of the crimi- nal drug element. I am raising my children to be Godfearing, produc- tive persons. But according to Po- lice ChiefHinman, his officers’ lives are of great value. Are ours value- less when it comes to suspect ap- prehension? As a mother of five, Ican not get out of my mind that the bullet lodged in my hallway is the same level as the height of my only daughter. She wasin the hall when the shooting commenced. Had the bullet not been stopped by the stud, she would have been struck in her head. Ileave you with a final question. What bullet proff armor is she supposed to have in her home? Sincerely, Sharon H. King To the Editor: The fiftieth anniversaries of the atomic bombings have prompted debates about the ethics of war- fare. Meanwhile, America’s war on prenatal children has raged on unabated, routinely trashing ev- ery thical principle. It has con- sisted exclusively of literally sur- gical first strikes against the to- tally innocent and helpless, in- tended to preempt the recognition and protections normally accorded at birth. Rather than honor the immunity of non-combatants, it has deliberately targeted them. It has employed poisonour weapons, refusal of quarter and live dis- memberment of the unarmed tar- get population, even subjecting them to experimentation, in con- travention of the laws of war and all international standards for the treatment of prisoners, It has vio- lated “Just War” principles, in- cludingjust cause, last resort, pro- portionality andcompetent author- ity by placing the decision for a death-dealing act, grotesquely dis- proportionate to the ends usually sought, in the hands of the fre- quently ill-informed, distraught and underage. It’s rationalization on the basis of so-called hard cases has reduced the vast majority of those slaughtered to collateral damage at rates that would be morally horrendous if practiced by the military. What is is about unborn babies that suspends every ethical con- sideration? Is it the lack of any non-violent alternative for retain- ing control that justifies all man- ner of barbarism? Or isit that once the mental process of devaluing the lives of others, born or unborn, has gone far enough, they cease to exist in our minds as human be- ings such that anything can be done to them? What have we be- © come that we avert our eyes as nearly one in every three of our children is destroyed? Is this im- balance of power so much to be feared? Why has the propaganda campaign been so effective that many now think and speak in the euphemisms (“pro-choice,” “Preg- nancy termination,” “reproductive freedom,” etc.) and oxymorons (save abortion, abortion rights) of the language of denial? How much more violence to life, truth, lan- guage, values, law, government, medicine, ethics and the principles of human rights can our society withstand? But conscience and anture are - not easilty overcome. Like the fly- ers who delivered the bombs, the women who have delivered their unborn babies to the killing cen- ters have suffered unforeseen fall- out, experiencing a range of emo- tional and physical problems from guilt and depression to stenlity and breat cancer. Yet the war plan- ners continue to resist providing even the most basic safeguards- such as information about human development, life-affirming alter- natives and potential hazards- rightly fearful that piercing their veil of ignorance will render their proxies unwilling to continue the carnage. Sincerely, Alfred Lemmo Top Salesperson Top Commission Salesperson needed to sell radio and newspaper ad- vertising. Gas allowance. Must be self motivated, have own transportation. Call 757-0365. M-F. 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What I worked to have come out of the weekend, however, was a deci- sion among all the independents to work together, so we—and the American people—don’t have to choose between the Republicans and the Democrats in 1996, orever again. Many Americans now consider themselves independents. We might be leaders or members of different organizations or electoral parties. We might come from dif- ferent points on the ideological spectrum. We might have been activists in the 1992 Perot cam- paign who went on to build United We Stand and are now becoming convinced that America needs a new political party. We might be activists in the term limits move- ment who are seeing that without a third party that elects pro-term limits independents to Congress, the Democrats and Republicans will return to office endlessly and never reform the political process in a way that gives the American people the power that is rightfully and constitutionally ours. We might be disaffected African- Americans who are turning away from a Big Government which puts less stock in the Bill of Rights than in the Bill of Clinton and from a Democratic Party which pays lip- service to our issues, while taking us for granted. But we are all more and more connected by our desire to change the conditions in our communities and in our country. You have read the statistics and the polls. The latest ones show that 55 percent of all Americans and 73 percent of Perot supporters agree that the country needs a new party that can compete with the Republicans and Democrats. Similar polls done among black voters have shown that 55 percent of African-Americans favor a new party. There is no question that there isa mass market in ourcoun- try today for a new political party. The question is who is going to create it and whois going tolead it. The answer, in my opinion, is you. And I don’t mean that rhe- torically or inspirationally or lightly. I mean it literally. Ross Perot has so far decided that he does not want to create a third party. Apparently so had Rev. Jesse Jackson, we came to the Dallas convention and embraced Ross Perot, but has not embraced independent politics. I respect their decision. But I disagree with it. And hke many Americans— indeed it now appears lke most Americans—I believe that we can- not wait for them to change their minds. There are some independents who feel that the task of creating a third party andrunninganational presidential campaign is not only possible with a big-name candi- date who has big money that can generate big media. They say you can’t make it happen from the grassroots. But I disagree with them here as well. I think they are yi Mart age Does it help to ignore a child mistakes? COMPANION SET OF BOOKS David, Goliath, the apostle Paul, as well as Matthew, What does a single parent need to know for survival? How do you “break up” with the least pain? 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