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JULY 16 -JULY 23, 1997

 

D.D. Garrett honored for service

Celebration held during Eppes weekend

Like many communities all
across America, Pitt County was
the scene of festivities for the
Fourth of July; add to that...the
Annual Greenville Industrial-
Eppes Alumni Celebration and you
are up-to-date on two-thirds of the
historic affairs in Greenville dur-

D.D. Garrett, (sitting center) posed with friends and family during the celebration:

ing the big July 4th weekend. The
other major celebration during this
time was the recognition of 50 years
in business for the D D Garrett
Agency. More than 100 people
gathered at the Hilton Hotel to
honor the founder, D.D. Garrett,
at a banquet hosted on behalf of

York Memorial AME Zion Church
and the Garrett family.

The Rev. Charles M. Dickens
was the keynote speaker of the
affair which was the “brainchild”
of Mr. Garrett’s niece, Allegra
Gross, and his nephew, Randy
Dupree. Those in attendance were
a cross-section of friends and long-
time associations who could easily

 

identify with and attest to the
many accolades and reflections
that were shared by several pre-
senters which included: Mr.
Gaston Monk, President of the Pitt
County Chapter of the NAACP;
Mr. Leslie Cox, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees of York Memo-
rial; Mr. John Faulk, Williamston
Commissioner; Mr. Garrett’s sons,
D.D. Jr., and Michael; and
Greenville Mayor Nancy Jenkins,
who presented the senior Mr.
Garrett with a key to the City. A
monetary gift from the State

NAACP Chapter was presented —

by Sylvia Barnhill, NC NAACP
Secretary; and Greenville City
Council member, Mildred Coun-
cil, spoke on behalf of the
Governor’s Sickle Cell Commis-
sion of which Mr. Garrettis amem-
ber.

Songstress Debra Wilkins (for-
merly Debra Leathers) treated the
family-like audience with rendi-
tionsincluding “The Wing Beneath
My Wings.”

Never at a loss for words, Mr.
Garrett shared intimate emotions
based on his reflections of gaining
an education and starting a busi-
ness 50 years ago and living to see
the benefits a half-century later.
In doing so, he challenged young
people to take full advantage on
today’s opportunities and credited
the grace of God for providing him
with the will and the strength to
pursue success in the face of

 

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7 mn dr, worked himself up from Falkland. Now with his Durham
- Scholara Weasea,he hopeg,to lead others tq success.

Pitt native is mentoring to the masses

From Falkland to UNC-
Chapel Hill, Johnson can
connect with anyone

At first blush, James Johnson Jr.
looks like the typical college busi-
ness professor, equally at home
spouting off about the globalization
of Southeast Asian economies in the
executive board room as he is spout-
ing off about the globalization of
Southeast Asian economies in the
lecture hall. Tall, together, polished
and gleaming, he’s a lifelong aca-
demic-with a wife, one dog, no chil-
dren, three diplomas, a triple ap-
pointment at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, a well-cut
checked wool suit and a fondness for
flights of speechmaking laced with
fancy-shmancy
academic jargon.

But then
there’s the fact

 

Tall, together, polished and

thropist Frank Kenan and former
UNC President William Friday to
Johnson when they wanted to set up
a program to help Durham’s disad-
vantaged students.

So-gooder sociologists and social
workers have long trotted out plans
to empower the inner city students.
What sets Johnson’s plan apart from
other academic acceleration and
remediation recipes is that his comes
from his own experience, stirred first
by his years as a student at N.C.
Central University, the University of
Wisconsin at Madison and Michigan
State University, then seasoned by
his academic re-
search while a
professor at the
University of

that some of his
best friends at
work are the
nightjanitors and
that talk of eco-
nomic globaliza-
tion can easily
surrender to talk
of Michael’s

gleaming, he's a lifelong
academic - with a wife, one
dog, no children, three
diplomas...a fondness for
flights of speechmaking
laced with fancy-shmancy
academic jargon. But

California-Los
Angeles and
UNC. The pro-
gramis called the
Durham Schol-
ars Program, and
a discussion ofits
how’s and why’s
can easily be a
discussion of

 

 

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ona Durhamhard He didn’t have
court shooting atelephone in the

baskets as midnight, and that he’s
still called “Junior” by everyone in
Falkland, his 500 person Pitt County
hometown (where, by the way, he
still has the same Wachovia account
he opened when he was 6-years-old).

Switching hats as easily as he can
switch his diction is a skill honed
over 17 years of hobnobbing with
university bigwigs and, before that,
of 18 years growing up in a small,
rural, Eastern North Carolina town
cleaning tobacco barns. It’s a skill
that the business, geography and
sociology professor wants to teach
students from economically dis-
tressed neighborhoods in Durham.

And it’s one of the skills that led
Durhampbusinessman and philan-

home where he grew up, but the town
of Falkland is so small, says Johnson,
that when you did something wrong
in one part of the county it got back to
your folks in the other part of the
county before you got home- even
before you stepped off at the bus stop
in town. It was fear, he says-fear of
failing, fear of disappointing mom
and dad- that spurred him to do well
in school, to do well at his first jobs.
He helped his uncle, a janitor at the
local elementary school and in the
summers, Later, he worked on to-
bacco farms,

“All myidle time eee : says
Johnson,

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Garrett stands with Greenville City Council member
Mildred Council and: NC NAACP Sétretary Sylvia Barnhill.

Some city
taxicabs fail
biannual

inspections

Nine of 27 cabs
come up short
by city standards

By Dawn Bryan
The Daily Reflector

A third of the 27 Greenville
taxicabs inspected Wednesday
didn’t pass the biannual inspec-
tion.

Cracked windshields, bald tires,
no air conditioning and an im-
proper horn prompted Cpl. E.M.
Haddock with the Greenville Po-
lice Department to fail nine of the
cabs he inspected in the Police
Department parking lot.

They were the first inspections
since City Council adopted the re-
vised taxicab ordinance in April.

Drivers have to keep logs of the
trips and charges, owners have to
prove more liability insurance and
drivers have to have zone maps
and rates posted.

Police Attorney Blair Carr and
Taxicaki Association Attorney
Leslie Robinson agreed on the new
standards.

“That's what they wanted,” Had-
dock said. “The only thing I did
was try to enforce them.”

It took about five minutes for
Haddock to inspect each cab, check-
ing lights, turn signals, brakes and
air conditioning.

About 20 percent of the cabs had
maps and fares posted. The others
were told they needed to do so.

“This is kind of new to them,”
Haddock said. “That’s why we
didn’t turn them down just be-
cause it wasn’t in there.”

All cab companies showed the
required insurance certificates.
Haddock only failed cabs for pub-
lic safety violations.

Conditions—a cracked wind-
shield, for example— that would
pass state standards nowcan flunk

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‘Christian

Thus was born the Southern
Conference

“ (SCLC), with the aim of promoting

Christian principles, direct action
programs ending discrimination
and promoting voter registration
and political education awareness.
“We always knew, from the start,
that our road wouldn’t be easy,”
Lowery recalled recently while
in Washington, D.C. to address

the annual Calvin W. Rolark Me-—

morial Luncheon of the United
Black Fund. “But we also knew
that one day, we were going to win
the battle.”

For the past 40 years, Lowery
has been in the forefront of that
battle —from leading the advise-
ment of Texaco to settle with Afri-
can American plaintiffs filing ra-
cial discrimination lawsuits and
amendingits business practices to
include minorities in all facets of
their operation in 1996—to march-
ing arm-in-arm with King,
Abernathy, Fred Shuttleworth and
others, in the quest to achieve civil
rights for all Americans. Twenty
of those years were spent as SCLC
national president (1977-1997), 10
years as SCLC’s first board chair-
man and another 10 years as the
organization's executive vice presi-
dent.

Lowery’s genesis as a national
leader started in the 1950s, when

 

 

Dr. Joseph Lowery discussing his retirement.

he led the civil rights movement in
his native Alabama He was one of
four ministers sued by state offi-
cials for $3 million and his prop-
erty was seized to satisfy judge-
mentslendered by thecourts (later,
the U.S Supreme Court reversed
the decision).

In 1990, Lowery, a Methodist
minister conducted a workshop
human relations for former mem-
bers of the KKK who had attacked
a civil rights march in Decatur,
Alabama, in 1979. The Klan mem-
bers were ordered to attend the
class by a federal judge as part of
the settlement ofa suit against the
racist group because of its attacks,
which left three young marchers
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a leading role on the international

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scene, leadingattacks against US.
having contracts with
South Africa. In early 1977,
Lowery and the SCLC demon-

- strated against the Atlanta-based

Southern Company, urging it to
cancer a 10 year contract to pur-
chase 10 million tons of coal from
South Africa. In 1984, he and his
wife, Evelyn, were arrested at the
South African Embassy in Wash-
ington, D.C., while taking part in
anti-apartheid protests, along with
other prominent African Ameri-
can activists.

Meanwhile, the long dedicated
efforts of the Lowery, widely
known as the “dean” of the civil
rights movements, will be recog-

- nized during SCLC’s annual na-

tional convention, which is set for
July 27 to 30 in Atlanta, Georgia.
“It is my hope that this organiza-
tion is able to take our country
into the next millennium,” said
Lowery, whois not saying what he
will be doing after retirement.

NAACP lobbies for

NCAAP President
asks for full-funding

Budget negotiators should keep
full funding for welfare-to-work
programs, use welfare money only
for its intended purpose and help
historically black colleges more,
leaders of the NAACP said
Wednesday.

“Our state’s business commu-
nity is still saying to us we must
develop our human resource po-
tential,” Skip Alston, president of
the state NAACP association, said
at a news conference.

“We must not penalize grand
mothers who are now caring for
more ofour children,” he said. “Our
children are innocent.”

Alston and other speakers at
the rally were critical of sections
in both the House and Senate bud-
get proposals that are now being
negotiated.

The group criticized a sweeping
welfare reform package in the
House budget that would make
counties responsible for deciding
who gets welfare benefits and how
much those benefits will be.

But they also criticized a Senate
provision, which Gov. Jim Hunt
included in his budget recommen-
dations, that would divert federal
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“Let us not put innocent chil-
dren any more at risk just because
they are poor,” Alston said.

Sen. Bill Martin, D-Guilford,
the chairman of the Legislative

» Black Caucus, said the House

welfare reform package will bring
chaos to counties.

“We have to rememberit’s going
to be more and more difficult to
move people from welfare to work,”
Martin said. Rep. Mickey
Michaux, D Durham, said the Joint
Legislative’ million be set aside to
help historically minority univer-
sities. A similar amount is being
spent on five University of North
Carolina campuses that an audit
determined were underfunded.

The historically minority col-
leges are raising their admission
standards, which will slow the
growth of their student bodies and
their funding, he said. The state
funds public universities based on
their student enrollment. Minor-
ity economic development spend-
ing included in the House budget
also is critical, said Rep. Howard
Hunter, D-Northampton, “so we
can pull ourselves up and ‘ stop
reaching for a handout.”

Alston said nearly 100 NAACP
supporters were contacting legis-
lators. “We want tolet them know
we're here and we want them todo

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are descendants of slaves.

 

Black Tax Proposal

Shown above pictured from left to right is : Mr. Bennie
Roundtree of the Pitt County SCLC, Ms. Carolyn Worsley,
and renowned activist Dr. Robert Brock from Los Angeles,
CA. Dr. Brock was in Greenville recently to discuss a case
that was in federal court a week ago, talking about that
blacks should not be allowed to pay taxes being that we

 
 

 

 

Dr. Brock's ideas
on Black tax relief

The laws of nature, law of self-
preservation, and International
Law are here the applicable laws,
since the United States cannot be
sued for slavery, since it allowed
negro slavery by its law and Con-
stitution, but then, how can the
United States use its Constitution
to tax Blacks of slaves’ descent?
Are we to say the United States is
immune from slavery charges?

—Dr. Robert Brock, Self Deter-
mination Committee

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descendant of slaves, on behalf of
himself of himself and 49 million
slaves’ descendants, made oral dis-
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The 1997 Eppes Alumni

the weekend of the
Fourth of July and
families from all over
were on hand to
celebrate and relax and

classmates and families.

Top photo from left to
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Ms. Chante’ Merritt and
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Left - Ms. Mavis
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NAACP’s Melvin Alsto 1
Republicans Pro ‘Racist $

By Cash Michaels
The Wilmington Journal

State Republican legislative pro-
posals that would give, counties
local control over welfare programs
and deny historically black col-
leges and universities additional
funding, are further indications of
“a very racist state” that must be
stopped, state NAACP Conference
President Melvin “Skip” Alston
tells The Wilmington Journal and
The Carolinian (Raleigh). “North
Carolina, is the horror of (Sen.)
Jesse Helms, and the Republicans
cater to (that) mentality, (so) we
have a very racist state,” Alston
said in a telephone interview from
Greensboro Monday night.

“Anytime the Republicans are
in the majority, they’re going to do
whatever they can to set back the
record for African-Americans.
That’s a given all across the state
and all across the country.

“We black leaders, especially the
NAACP, have to be willing and
able to speak out against it. We
might not be able to stop them
from doingit, but we'll let’em know
that we don’t like it.”

Citizens should realize the ur-
gent nature of these issues in the
General Assembly, Alston adds,
and they should call or write their
lawmakers, supporting the
NAACP’s efforts.

At the top of Alston’s list is the
defeat of the House GOP’s plan to
transfer welfare program manage-
ment and decision making to the
100 county governments state-
wide. That means there would no
longer be a set standard for wel-
fare eligibility or benefits in the
state.

Proponents, life Rep. Cherie
Berry (R-Catawba), the plan’s
sponsor say it’s time for a “bottom-
up” overhaul of the welfare system
and local officials know the needs
of their communities better than
bureaucrats from Raleigh or Wash-
ington.

“I believe deep in my heart and
my gut that we have what it takes
in North Carolina at the county
level to make welfare reform work,”
she told a State Democratic bud-
get committee hearing last week.

Several county social services
directors and advocates for the
poor, who also spoke at that hear-
ing, however, made the case that
decentralizing state welfare would
add a monstrous bureaucracy to
county government, put battered
women and their children at risk,
and generally cause “chaos.”

“(This is) one of the worst bills
imaginable,” Shirley McClain, ex-
ecutive director of the N.C. Hun-
ger Network, told the committee.
“(It) would be disastrous and cre-
ate chaos in the state. “

However, the measure is now

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budget, and the Democratic-led
Senate, which passed its own, less
contentious plan, now has to find
common ground.

Because many of the ssa
commission boards across thestate
are now dominated by conserva-
tive Republicans, Alston says, the
prospect of those counties having
tighter welfare restrictions, and
weaker benefits than their more
moderate counterparts is likely.

He should know. Alston is a
county commissioner in-Guilford
County, which is dominated by
conservatives, as is neighboring
Davidson County, and even here
in Wake County.

“You look at those counties,
and you're going to have very lacka-
daisical feelings about even ad-
ministering welfare,” he told The
Carolinian. “That’s going to be
unfortunate for the people that’s
dependent on it.”

The ultimate fear Alston and
other opponents of the GOP wel-
fare reform plan have is constant
movement of needy people from
more restrictive areas of the state,
to counties that have better social
services programs, thus putting
an “unnecessary burden” on their
resources,

In fact, it’s the perfect way for
conservatively governed counties
to drastically minimize their wel-
fare population, Alston and others
say. “We feel that the state
should have a uniform system so
that (all) counties will have to op-
erate in a certain manner...and
won’t allow the children to suffer.”

Alston is also upset about the
GOP-led House’s refusal to appro-
priate part of $21 million in addi-
tional funding to the state’s five
HBCUs, saying that an audit - it
commissioned showed schools like
North Carolina Central Univer-
sity and Winston-Salem State
University had been “overfunded”
in recent years.

4

African-American lawmakers
like Reps. Dan Blue (D-Wake) and
H.M “Mickey” Michaux (D

Durham) went rhetorically ballis- |

tic, with Blue saying, “You'd have
to have just fallen off the back of a
turnip truck to believe that,”
Michaux maintaining that the
UNC System’s black schools have
historically been underfunded, and
charging Republicans with delib-
erately limiting the scope of their
audit.

Unlike top research institutions
like N.C. State University or UNC
at Chapel Hill, there is evidence of
buildings crumbling on the cam-
puses of UNC’s HBCUs, outdated
equipment still in use, and some
facilities don’t even have air condi-
tioning, like NCCU’s McDougald
gymnasium they pointed out.

“For (House Republicans) to say
there’s no need, that’s totally un-
acceptable,” Alston said. “Because
there’s always a need for funds in
any school, especially HBCUs.
That’s the only way they're going
to be able to expand their pro-
grams, their buildings and class-
rooms. “

Limiting HBCU funding means
limiting their growth and ability
to compete with predominately
white colleges for top black stu-
dents, Alston warned, which is
inherently unfair.

The new state president, who
officially took over May 31 after
serving as interim for more than a
year, says the NAACP will be ad-
dressing more statewide issues in
the future that affect the black
community .

Alston says he is pleased with
Ist weekend’s membership |
radiothon which attracted thou-
sands more to the fold, and he’s
excited about planning for a state-
wide black leadership summit be-
ing touted for early next year.

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Alston .added.

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‘ group of six boys came back, now
“The Fourth of July took on a whole G ue AY f running the opposite direction. The
new meaning for me this year: Hell officer started to follow them, but
on Earth. he was stopped by another man

’ Don’t get me wrong: The fireworks
were beautiful, and the music up-
lifting. Unfortunately, my memo-
ries of that night will be forever
scarred by the human cruelty that
efupted. The Fourth of July is sup-
pésed to mean that we are celebrating our indepen-
dence from tyranny. Freedom from Great Britain,
freedom from slavery. Instead, my wife andI watched
as a new generation of tyrants made their power
known. Except these tyrants were not some king in
a far-off land. They weren’t slave-traders, come to
stéal our children. They were our own people, our
children, our future.

While my wife and I sat, watching the fireworks in
Greenville’s Town Commons, my wife turned her
head and asked, over the explosions of the rockets
red glare, “What’s that?” I turned my head and
]6dked: A large group of boys, nearly old enough to be
clled men, racing through the crowd. I just shook
my head, thinking that they were just kids out being
obnoxious. We went back to watching the fireworks,
but my wife thought she heard someone say some-
thing about a fight.

“Fifteen minutes later, the
fireworks had ended, and we
had fought our way through
the sea of humanity back to
our car. It hadn’t done us a lot
of good, because no one was
letting us out into the flow of
traffic! Instead, we were
t¥apped against the curb.
Meanwhile, we were treated
to'the voices of the people in
the car next to us, also stuck
in traffic: “Move the f*** out

COMMENTARY

 

 

“The Klan has said that they
don’t have to lynch us
anymore. We’re killing
ourselves and doing their job
for them.” It bothers me that,
after tonight, I agree with her.

who pulled him, virtually dragged
him, toward where the screaming
had come from.

They left our sight, and my wife
and I looked at each other, won-
dering just what was going on.
Maybe three minutes later, the officer came back,
escorting one of the earlier pair of boys to the corner.
The boy, maybe thirteen or fourteen years old, had
his shirt off and was holding it wadded up into his
side. The shirt, formerly white, was turning dark
with blood. He moved it aside for a second and looked
down. His underwear, which he wore pretty high up,
was soaked through, and a dark stain was turning
the blue of his jeans black. He put the shirt back just
as he walked by our car, and we heard the officer
asking him to sit down and wait for the ambulance
that was on its way. The boy kept saying, “No, Ican’t
sit down. No, I’ve got to find my little brother.”

The ambulance, which I actually saw maybe one
minute later, took nearly ten minutes to get through
traffic. It had to fight its way through an onslaught
of cars whose drivers refused to move out of its way.

The police officer from earlier passed our car again,
and we heard the dispatcher
over his radio: They were
looking for a Black male,
wearing dreadlocks, no
shirt.

Finally, traffic began to
let up. We were actually able
to make it out of downtown
Greenville, and, eventually,
home. Still, the night held
two more instances of un-
pleasantness. First, a car
that we were behind kept

 

 

of the f***ing way,
motherf*****s! Just mow the f*****s down!

Sh*t, I'm f***ing tired of waiting for this f***ing
traffic!” I looked at my wife, she looked at me, and
both of us had the same disgusted look on our faces.
Just then, a little boy walking by asked his mother,
“Mommy, what did that man say?” The poor mother
looked down at her child and lied to protect him:
“Nothing... he didn’t say anything.”

= After that, we heard some weird noise that cried

over the sound of traffic. We turned off the music in
the car, and listened: It sounded like someone, or
maybe more than one person, screaming at the top of
their lungs. There weren’t any words, but it sounded
like..well, nothing I'd ever heard before, outside of
the movies. But this was real life, and there was a
quality in that scream that no moviemaker could
imitate. My wife looked at a police officer who was
standing on the corner, talking, and asked me,
“‘Doesn’t he hear that? How can he not hear that?”

‘Maybe two or three minutes later, two boys, both
ofthem Black, ran past, and they were running hard.
A few seconds later, they were followed by a group
about six boys, all of them Black, one of which wore
dreadlocks and had no shirt on.

“The police officer at the corner noticed, and but
didn’t move. The screaming was still going on, so he
tight have been finally hearing it. Right about then,

weaving, making me won-
der if the driver was drunk.

The second unpleasant surprise came when we got
home. I fired up the computer and started writing
this article immediately, but I took a ten minute
break to watch the top stories on the news. I kept
flipping channels, looking for the story which I had
just watched play out vividly before me. It never
came on. My wife said, disgustedly, “They're not
going to show it. It’s just another Black boy to them,
so they don’t care.”

It’s nearly 11:30 now (on July 4th), and I’m about
to go to bed. I’m wondering if I'll be able to sleep
tonight. I wonder if that boy ever found his little
brother. And, if he did, what condition was he in?

I wonder if the driver of that car in front of us has
hit anyone? Or, for that matter, why none of the cars
that could have moved out of the way of the ambu-
lance, didn’t?

Mostly, I wonder about so-called human nature,
which has given me such vividly unforgettable memo-
ries this Fourth of July. Still, my wife left me with
this final thought: She called a friend when we got
home, needing to talk to someone about all this. Her
friend said, “The Klan has said that they don’t have
to lynch us anymore. We're killing ourselves and
doing their job for them.” It bothers me that, after
tonight, I agree with her.

Black teen crime must be slowed

 

‘By Marian Wright Edelman

“Amid publichysteria about “ris-
itig” juvenile crime rates and poli-
ticians’ pleas for harsher penal-
ties against young law breakers,
New York Supreme Court Justice
Gloria Dabiri is starting to heat a
. different response to crime.

“I think more and more police

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of the juvenile population.

But we need to make sure that
our concern over crime doesn’t force
us to forget that these are still our
Children. They are ten times more
likely to be victims of violent crime
than to be arrested for a violent
crime.

Also, while violent crime by
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officers and prosecutors are un-
derstanding that it will take more
than punishment to address youth
~erime,” say oudge Dabiri, amem-
' ber of the Biack Community Cru-
: sade for Children’s (BCCC) Juve-
‘nile and Family Court Judges’
' Leadership Council.
* J spoke to the National Pros-
‘ ecutors ;saociation recently, and
the title of the meeting was Com-
» bating Juvenile Crime Through
« Prevention. It’s nice to see the dis-
* trict attorneys of major cities and
‘others beginning to understand
‘ that it’s part of the job to address
* this issue before our children end
* up in court.”
» Still the government’s response
_ sto juvenile crime tends to be “too
; punitive,” Judge Dabiri notes, re-
| | flecting on much of the legislation
| * floating around Congress. “We
 t know the kinds of things that place
* kids at risk, but we aren't address-
+ ing them. We know children need
radult supervision, and that we
#need to address truancy, abuse,
+ and neglect. We know that we need
¢ more after-school programs that
‘build relationships between kids
‘and adults.”
Judge Dabiri is right. Too many
t politicians focus on theimmediate
‘ political reward for “getting tough”
' with young offenders. They ignore
ithe long-term societal benefits
{from investing in way to keep
 tyoung people out of trouble, and
_ ‘turn them back into productive
_ tcitizens when they do enter the
court system.
Now, Congress is under pres-
ure to pass another “tough on
me” bill ng

$500 million a year for states to
punish young offenders, provides
for trying more children in adult
courts, and devotes not a penny to
prevention. Also awaiting passage
is a second House bill that threat-
ens to undermine the Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Preven-
tion Act of 1974, which is the pri-
mary grant the federal govern-
ment allocates to states to run
juvenile courts, with such existing
conditions as states must protect
truants and runaways from un-
justified incarceration, and juve-
nile delinquents from incarcera-
tion with adults.

On the Senate side, yet another
bill includes certain harmful pro-
visions similar to the two House
bills. All three pieces of legislation
fail to invest adequately in pre-
vention and emphasize trying chil-
dren as adults and imprisoning
children with adults, A compre-
hensive bill based to some degree
on all three measures, is expected
by midsummer.

Something is wrong with the
values of a nation thatwouldrather
spend $30,000 to lock our children
up after they get into trouble and

won't spend $3,000 to give them

~a Head Start. And, something is

wrong with us ifwe do not fight the
criminalization of our youths and
their need for positive alternatives
to the streets: jobs, after-school
programs, and recreation.
Violence is a real threat in
today’s society and we should be
concerned about it. Children are
among the most likely of all age
groups to be the victims of vio-
lence. And one out of every two
children murdered in America is a
Black child, even though Black
children make up only 15 percent

per cent between 1994 and
1995, the first decline in a decade.
Homicide by youth fell 15.2 per-
cent between 1994 and 1995.

It wastes more energy, and more
money, to come up with stricter
punishments than it does to join
forces on the measures we know
reduce crime and broaden oppor-
tunities for young people. We know
that most juvenile crime is com-
mitted between 3 pm. and 6 pm.
which highlights the importance
of having more adult mentors and
after-school safe havens. We know
that better educated youths are
less likely tocommit violent crimes.
which stresses the need for better
schools and more talented teach-
ers. We know that even troubled
youths will seek out role models,
which emphasizes the importance
of keeping them out of prisons and
away from hardened adult crimi-
nals, and instead keeping them in
schools and rehabilitation pro-
grams where they can learn from
adults worth emulating. And. we
know that the increase in violent
juvenile crime has been driven by
the easy availability of guns, which
stresses the importance of urging
our political leaders to pass legis-
lation to make handguns less ac-
cessible to our children.

These are the kinds of things we
have to do if we are serious about
reducing crime. We must add our
voices to the listofindividuals who

are calling for real solutions and ~

reject the claims of those who think
the answer lies in building more
prisons and sentencing children
and youths to longer terms.
Note: Marian W

more information.

t Edelman —
is president of the Children’s De- |
fense Fund, call (202)628-8787 for —

A good government job?

By George Wilson

For many African Americans
there was a time when a “good
government job” meant a reason-
ably comfortable ride on the “road
to success.” The trip was fairly
smooth until some of us wanted
promotionsin various government
agencies. This desire to climb the
ladder was met with a concerted
effort on the part of some to re-
move the ladder’s rung.

Congressman Albert Wynn (D-
MD) is joiried by members of the
Congressional Black Caucus
(CBC) and others in launching a
crusade to end the racial discrimi-
nation in the federal workforce.
Without question, Wynn repre-
sents more federal employees than
any other member of Congress with
over 72,000 federal government
employees residing in his district.

When asked about the notion
that African Americans just want
a “good government job,” Wynn
indicated that just having the job
is not enough. “People move for-
ward. They want to move up into
management . They are not just
satisfied with a good government
job,” Wynn observed.

Speaking Out - Letters=

Writer clarifies
filing information

for elections

Dear Editor,

I would like toclarify some of the
information in your July 9 article,
“Who’s in Third” (which ran in the
Daily Reflector), concerning infor-
mation candidates can’t obtain
since filing has begun. First, the
article failed to point out that our
hard working election workers are
not to blame for the necessary in-
formation being unavailable. The
problem, according to the Election
Board, is that the vital informa-
tion needed from the city was not
released until just a few business
days before filing began. this hap-
penedeven though the city council
had passed the plan back in Feb-
ruary.

There is a natural disadvantage
at challenging an incumbent. Ba-
sic information of knowing how
many registered voters there are
in ones district, what age they are,
what party affiliation they belong
to etc... is a must for making an
informed decision to run. Unfortu-
nately, outdated census data can-
not provide these essential facts.

Whether thecity or the city coun-
cil did this intentionally through
neglectisirrelevantall candidates

 

From

 

If one needs proof that “Jim
Crow” is alive and quite well in the
federal workforce, consider sev-
eral points: First, senior manage-
ment positions in the government
are sorely lacking of “minority”
participation. Senior management
positions are those at the levels of
GS 13, 14 and 15 and Senior Ex-
ecutive Service.

Secondly, the Equal Employ-
ment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC) reports that all minorities
comprise just 13 percent of all GS
15s. For example, the Department
of Agriculture has 1,159 GS 15
employees with just 38 African
Americans holding those positions.
Incidentally, the EEOC currently
has a 100,000 case backlog in dis-
crimination cases.

Third, the Department of Agni-

or ones considering being candi-
dates are at a inexcusable disad-
vantage. I fell thisis an example of
how our city council needs a
change. I have decided to go ahead
and file because I care about
Greenville and want to make this
sort of positive change.

I would like to encourage any-
one else out there who had consid-
ered running, to file, and not be
discouraged by this unfortunate
mishandling of the redistricting
process. We need leaders who will
work to insure that the democratic
process will function properly in
the future.

Sincerely,

Arielle Morris

Candidate for City Council-
woman, District 5

Everyone thanked
for encouragement
for office bid

To the Editor,

I would like to thank all of the
people that have encouraged me to
run for city council seat three this
year. I do feel that the need and
desire for change and improve-
ment is even stronger in our dis-
trict than it was two years ago
when we came within a few votes
of winning our campaign. Unfor-
tunately, my job and continued

culture has over 1,400 complaints
pending. And, fourth, the Interior
Department has 774 complaints
and the Department of Transpor-
tation has 663 complaints. These
agencies show a real disdain for
African American employees and
seem to be sending a clear signal
that “if you work here, it’s going to
be a bumpy ride.”

Finally, the Library of Congress
employs approximately 2,000 Af-
rican Americans who have been
locked in a bitter struggle with the
Library's management over hir-
ing and promotion practices.
Things got so bad that African
American employees filed a class
action lawsuit against the Library.

On the surface, it appeared that
the African American employees
won the lawsuit. However, the Li-
brary of Congress has virtually
ignored a court order to stop dis-
criminating. In fact, the employ-
ees have filed another suit chal-
lenging the way that the Library
selects employees. One of the ways
of selecting employees is the inter-
view. It appears that at the Li-
brary of Congress, the art of inter-
viewing has been taken to another
level.

 

service to the NC Senate Commit-
tee, in combination with my vol-
unteer activities, will not allow me ;
enough time tomountastrongrun |
for office this year. I amstill firmly
committed to our community and °
working to bring the younger gen-
eration of voters into the Demo-
cratic process on all levels.

Together we have come a long
way over the last two years. We
have learned that there are many
leaders in the NC Senate, State
House, County Commission and
our community that truly welcome
the participation of the younger
generation in campaigns and po-
litical process. Unfortunately,
there is still alot of work to be done
to show that just because someone
is younger, poor, a student, a
renter, and or single, that they are
not second class citizens. The dis-
crimination and stereotyping con-
tinues and so does our struggle.

I would like to encourage your
readership to pay attention to the
issues and campaigns that are
starting up for this Fall. And I do
hope that many more qualified and
caring candidates will emerge that
are willing to sacrifice their time
and mental well-being to run for
office. Whether a voter prefers the
incumbent or a message of change,
the most important thing is that
we have choices and that we par-
ticipate,

Bill Gheen

 

 
 

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Every year since 1994, U.S. hos-
pitals have bought about 5,000
doctors’ primary care practices,
spending an average of $100,000a
physician. You might call it the
$500 million-a-year debacle.

The intention is to turn the hos-
pitals into “integrated delivery
systems” capable of handling any-
thing from inpatient surgery to
outpatient office visits for sore
throats. The idea has attracted
dozens of not-for-profit academic
medical centers, including famous
teaching hospitals in Boston, St.
Louis and Philadelphia, and pub-
licly traded hospital chains such
as Columbia/HCA Healthcare
Corp. and Tenet Healthcare Corp.
But a lot of these purchases are
working out badly.

David Steinberg,- a Chicago-
based health-care consultant at
APM Inc., says many hospitals are
incurring operating losses from
their practice acquisitions. The
main reasons: unexpectedly high
expenses and slumps in doctors’
productivity. “We keep getting calls
from hospital executives, saying:
Um, we've got a little problem
with our employed physicians,’ “

New attack on Medicare program worri

Mr. Steinberg says. “Most of the
hospitals are taking a financial
bath.” A recent 17-hospital
survey by Coopers & Lybrand
found that, on average, hospitals
were incurring annual losses of
S97 000 per acquired physician.
“It’s not an optimal strategy,” says
Frank Houser, head of Columbia/
HCA’s physician-service unit. “It.’s
a defensive move.”

Dr. Houser says heis still trying
to devise a reliable accounting sys-
tem to track the 1,500 doctors’
practices that Columbia owns. But
he is pretty sure that as a group
they are in the red. He doesn’t
dispute analysts’ estimates that
annual

on those practices could be $25
million or more. Columbia would
much rather form alliances with
independent physicians, Dr.
Houser says-an approach that in
the past has involved selling mi-
nority stakes in hospitals to doc-
tors, who continue to own and
manage their practices. However,
Columbia has bought many hospi-
tals that had already acquired
some physicians’ practices.

In principle, hospitals should be

US House version of bill is deemed
fair, but Senate version scares some

By Robert P. Hey
and Elliot Carlson

A dramatic fight is shaping up
in Congress over Medicare. How it
comes out will have a major im-
pact on current and future benefi-
ciaries.

“The Medicare bill now emerg-
ing from the House is fair and
judicious,” says AARP Executive
Director Horace B. Deets. “But in
the Senate, provisions in the bill
approved by the Finance Commit-
tee could unravel the Medicare
program as we know it. Its side
effects could do more harm than
good.”

Both measures would extend
Medicare’s solvency to about 2007
by trimming $115 billion from the
growth in its future spending

Both bills would add preventive
benefits and raise premiums. But
there much of the similarity ends.

The Senate bill has four serious
deficiencies, Deets says.

¢ “For the first time there would
be discriminatory means testing,”
says Deets. Higher-income enroll-
ees would pay much higher

deductibles (up to $2,100) for phy-
sician services.

¢ Many low-income enrollees
would not get help with Part B
premiums.

* People who use home health
services would pay up to $500 a
year.

e Americans now under 60 would
wait longer to qualify for Medi-
care, creating a new group of unin-
sured.

It remains to be seen how the
differences between the House and
Senate bills will be worked out,
says AARP legislative director
John Rother.

Both stem from the deal that
President Clinton and congres-
sional leaders reached this spring
to balance the nation’s budget by
2002. That according called for
finding much of the money to bal-
ance the budget by curbing in
creasesin Medicare’s future spend-
ing by $115 billion over five years.
Under the agreement, most of-the
cuts are to be achieved by reducing
the growth in future payments to
hospitals, health maintenance or-
ganizations, doctors andother pro-

willing to tolerate sizable operat-
ing losses from doctors’ office’ prac-
tices if those physicians start steer-
ing more sick patients to the hos-
pitals. In practice, that isn’t hap-
pening nearly as much as hospi-
tals want because many patients
or their insurers have their own
ideas about which hospital to use.

Patient preferences are likely to
be especially strong if an acquiring
hospital has bought physician prac-
tices well out side its usual referral
area. “People here will travel an
hour to see a Cardinals’ baseball
game, but they won't travel 20 min-
utes out of their way for cardiac,
surgery,” says Samuel Nussbaum,
executive vice president for medi-
cal affairs and systems integration
at BJC Health System in St. Louis.
Dr. Nussbaum is optimistic that
his hospital group’s purchase of
230 primary-care practices even-
tually will pay off, but he cautions:
“It will take time.”

Part of the problem for hospitals
involves the way they pay acquired
doctors. Traditionally, physicians
bill for each visit, test or proce-
dure, providing a powerful incen-
tive to work efficiently and keep

viders.

Although the budget deal calls
for Medicare’s Part B premiums to
rise over the next five years, the
increases are lower than many
earlier proposals. “[Beneficiaries]
have been treated very lightly,”
says former Congressional Bud-
get Office Director Rudy Penner.
“The current generation of retir-
ees has dodged a bullet.”

Still, the changes won’t be en-
tirely painless for beneficiaries,
analysts point out. Not only is the
Part B premium certain to rise—
from $43.80 to day to a projected
$67 a month—but some current
and future beneficiaries could be
affected far more adversely than
the budget deal indicated.

For example, under the Senate
version of the proposal, current
enrollees who use Medicare’s
home-health benefits would have
to pay a $5 copayment, each home-
health visit.

Since many people in this group
need home-health care several
times a week, their total cost could
- unaffordable over time, Rother
says. Americans in their 50s also
could get quite a jolt, finding their
eligibility age for Medicare delayed
beyond the current 65. Starting in
the year 2003, under a Senate plan,
eligibility age would rise about two
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of Greenville in the office of Authority,
North Carolina 27835, up to 2:00 PM, local time on Thursday, 24 July
opened and read in the presence of

1997, and immediately thereafter
g of all labor, materials and equip-

attending bidders for the furnishin
ment for Drainage Channel Rehabilitation-Moyewood project upon
the Owner’s property in Greenville, North Carolina.

Complete plans, specifications

in the office of H.R. Associates, P.
Carolina, (919) 872-6
will make a bid will, upon deposit of
($100.00) with the Architect, receive
deposit will be refunded to those q
a bona fide prime proposal, providin
in good condition to the Architect wi

INVITATION FOR BID

be received by the Housing Authority of the City
1103 Broad Street, Greenville,

The work consists of clearing, grading, filling, piping and landscaping
for the Moyewood development.

All bidders are hereby notified that they must have proper license
under the State laws as a General Contractor.

Each proposal shall be accompanied by a cash deposit or a certified
check drawn on some bank or trust company insured by the FDIC in
an amount equal to not less than 57% of the proposal; or in lieu thereof,

a Bidder may offer a bid bond of 5%
withdrawn after the scheduled closing time for the receipt of bids for

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Hospitals that gobbled up physician practices

long hours. But when hospitals
acquire physicians’ practices, they
tend to offer flat salaries or income
guarantees-tempting some doctors
to work less. Hospital executives
report initial drops of 4% to 15% in
acquired physicians’ productivity,
as measured by numbers of pa-
tient visits per month.

Hospitals are limited in the fi-
nancial incentives they can use to
motivate doctors. Something as
blunt as extra pay for increased
hospital admissions will almost
certainly run afoul of federal anti
kickback statutes. Consultants
such as Robert McDonald, head of
Coopers & Lybrand’s health-care
practice, are trying to devise dif-
ferentincentive plans tied to medi-
cal-quality measures. Meantime,
BJC’s Dr. Nussbaum and other
hospitals’ acquisition experts say
productivity slumps can be stopped
and reversed if physicians are care-
fully monitored and made aware
of the problem. Columbia/HCA’s
Dr. Houser says his hospital chain
doesn’t even track the number of
hospital admissions byits acquired
physicians. “We’re concerned about
it looking as if the only reason that

age 67 in the year 2027. Also, it’s
not clear whether Congress will
provide funds, as the original deal
seemed to pledge, to pay Part B
premium costs of enrollees whose
income falls near the poverty line.

States moving to allow citizens
more understanding of HMOs ;

By Les Gapay

Hundreds of bills are being
pushed in state legislatures na-
tionwide to help American con-
sumers better under standard
use—health maintenance Organi-
zations (HMOs) and other types of
managed-care health insurance.
The aim of many proposals, says
health-issues specialist Van Ellet
of AARP’s state legislation depart-
ment, is to help consumers com-
pare the plans’ performance and
to learn how plans work, what
they cover and what rights pa-
tients and doctors have in such
settings.

“There’s insufficient informa-
tion for consumers to make mean-
ingful choices among managed-
care plans and to assess the qual-
ity they provide,” says Brian
Lindberg, executive director of the
Consumers Coalition for Quality
Health Care in Washington, D.C.

“People are tearing their hair
out trying to figure out which ben-
efits are available from different
plans and what the quality [ofcare]
is,” agrees Diane Archer, execu-
tive director of the Medicare Rights
Center in New York.

You needn’t look further than
Irvin Stuart to understand why.

Stuart, a 65-year-old retiree in
the Bronx, wanted to weigh the
benefits of managed care for his

Pork industry

working to
‘eliminate virus

Pork industry leaders joined
state and federal officials ,recently
to renew their commitment to
eradicate pseudorabies virus
(PRV) in the hog populations in
North Carolina.

millions of dollars each year
through decreased breeding effi-
Lciency and growth performance
plus additional expenses for treat-
ing and vaccinating the animals.
PRV lowers resistance to other
diseases and causes nervous signs
and death in younger pigs. It poses
no health threat to humans. North
Carolina has 107 herds circulat-
ing the virus, including 37 sow
farms and 70 finishing floors.

Officials are also concerned
about future transfer of pigs to
other states. Because of the num-
ber of swine raised in the state,
North Carolina producers must
ship some pigs to other states for
finishing and processing. PRV-free
states could restrict the shipment
of hogs from states with the dis-
ease, leaving producers with no
outlet for the swine.

Eliminating the virus requires
attacking the problem on two
fronts. One involves removing the
diseased sows from production and
the other includes vaccinating hogs
to prevent them from contracting
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we buy practices is for the admis-
sions,” Dr. Housersays. “Thatisn’t
why we buy them.”

Since March, federal authori-
ties have been probing Columbia/
HCA, seeking to determine
whether any of its business prac-
tices violate federal laws or regu-
lations. Columbia’s ties to physi-
cians are among the areas that
have attracted questions from in-
vestigators. Asked why Columbia
continues to buy physician prac-
tices in some rural areas, Dr.
Houser says: “We want to gain
market share and attract more
covered lives” (insurance-indus-
try jargon for employees partici-
patingin a particular health plan).

Some hospitals that have ac-
quired practices have upgraded
pension and health benefits for
physicians’ office employees and
have put in better computer sys-
tems that eventually could trans-
late into increased medical effi-
ciency. In the short run, however,
such costs have caused operating
losses to swell.

One of the costliest practice-
acquisition markets has been the
greater Philadelphia area, which

esmany seniors:

Right now, the agreement is ex-
pected to clear Congress soon with
bipartisan support. Whatever the
final details, older Americans
should feel “that they have con-
tributed to this budget reduction

Medicare cover age. But, he told
the U.S. Senate Special Commit-
tee on Aging in April, consumer
materials provided by the plans
were “confusing and ambiguous,”
leaving him bewildered about his
options. For months Stuart could
not decide which plan to change to.
But many Americans already have
switched. To day, more than half
ofall covered Americans and about
13 percent of Medicare enrollees
are in managed care plans, which
providecomprehensivecare at pre-
determined rates, often requiring
patients to have care
preauthorized by plan physicians.
Many who have made the switch
are pleased with their decision.
But many have been critical of the
paucity of information given con-
sumers about plan coverage, per-
formance and incentives for doc-
tors. Others have criticized the
lack of consumer protection.

“There is a consumer outcry that
doctors are not in control of care
and that companies are putting
their bottom line first,” says Mis-
souri state Rep. Tim Harlan (D) of
Columbia, a proponent of man-
aged-care reform.

The increase in complaints is
fueling the influx of bills in state-
houses across the country, says
Harvey Rosenfield, founder of Con-
sumers for Quality Care based in
Los Angeles. The result: Last year,

is jammed full of hospitals com-

 
     

peting for market share. Since
1993, the Hospital of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania has acquired.
more than 250 primary care ne
tices, in hopes of gaining market —
clout. More recently, competitor,
such as Temple University hayp; —
adopted similar strategies, too. |) °
“Every physician practice the
goes on the market has five or s
bidders for it,” complains T
Sagan, head of practice acquisin.
tions at Temple. He would like ta;
buy practices at about 40% Or doc;,
tors’ gross annual revenue, of;
about 580,1~00 for a practice wie
revenue of $200,000 a year. But he.
finds that practices sell at as much.
as 150% of annual revenue. 1
Dr. Sagan says his hospital’g,
acquisitions are in the red, adding,
that he would be surprised if any;
one in the Philadelphia area ig;
earning much from their purchases ,
to date. “Most of the deals are.
being driven by a worry that if wa.
don’t do it, someone else will,” hes
says. “The feeling is: ‘I may suffey,,
from doing acquisitions, but at
least I'll stay in the game. IfI don’t
do them, I may not survive.’ “ '

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package,” says Urban Istitute;
economist Marilyn Moon. “They;
are being asked to pay substar<
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more than 1,000 managed-care;
bills were introduced in state legy:
islatures, with about 100 passing
in-40 states. Some 980 bills—coy-,
ering a wide spectrum of i~ sueg:
from mandatory coverage foremer--
gency-room care to more directs
access to specialists—have been+
introduced in 49 states so far this, .
year. Bills relating to consumef,
disclosure have been one of the;
most contested issues, with ovey,
100 bills in 35 states. “A revolu»
tion is going on at the state level”
as more states seek to regulate,
managed care, AARP’s Ellet says.
Crucial to successful regulation,
in his view, is providing consumj,
ers with the information they need
to compare plans—how satisfied
plan users are, how grievances are:
handled, why people have chosen
to leave the plans. “That will rés
sult in plans competing on quality
notjust price,” he says. Elletnote’
rising consumer interest in the
issue. In the last six months, he
says, more than 40 AARP State
Legislative Committees—made up:
of local AARP members—have:
been involvedin shaping managed:
care legislation at the state level,
Also active at the state level arp,
the Consumers Union and Citizen,
Action.

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south, the continent of Africa
seems to be engaging in one crisis
oranother. For nearly half of the
last three decades, 30 of approxi-
mately 52 sub Saharan countries
have been ruled either by a mili-
tary or dictatorial leadership (that
figure has dropped considerably
today). From Sierra Leone and
Liberia in West Africa, to Rwanda
and Burundiin the Southeast, and
to the two Congos in the central
and southwest portions of Africa—
military takeover was fast
becaming the main avenue for
achieving power in the world’s sec-
ond largest continent.

“The armies of Africa have long
ago lost their focus of what they’re
supposed to do, which is to protect
and defend the citizens of their
countries,” said Dr. Francis Simbo,
a Sierra Leonean who resides in
nearby Maryland. “Instead,
they’ve focused on raping women
and killing the masses of people.”

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gence ofanew debate as to whether
Africa is now experiencing a pe-
riod of crisis—or a true transition
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countries arc moving away from
dictatorship and adopting multi-
party democracy “

“Yes, you are always going to
have some people who are dicta-
tors [like Mobutu and Gen. Abacha
in Nigeria) who are not very com-
fortable with the atmosphere of
change and would like to hold on to
power,” Foote said in an interview
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bwe, Botswana and South Africa,
Foote observed that, “You also have
nearly 50 countries that are doing
quite well and are marching to-
wards economic self-reliance and
democracy.”

“Is there a crises in Africa? I
don’t know. But I do know that
when people rise up and seek
change, often times that is fol-
lowed by violence and death,” said
David Bositis, a senior political
analyst at the Joint Center for
Economic and Political Studies
who has made several visits to the
West African nation of Benin.

Sierra Leoneis another example
of a country that has seen its re-
cent efforts towards democratiza-
tion thwarted by a group of junior
military officers. After many years
of one-party autocratic rule, citi-
zens of the former British colony
enthusiastically participated in
their first free elections in 1996
and elected a lawyer, Ahmad
Kabbah. Unfortunately, he was
overthrown in a bloody coup two
months ago (May, 1997). Since
then, news reports have noted on-
going destruction of properties and
the indiscriminate killings of in-
nocent men, women and children.

“Africa is now experiencing what
I would call the ‘wars of the have-
nots,” commented Ted Roberts, a
native of Sierra Leone who is also
a producer in the English-to-Af-
rica Division at the Voice of
America in Washington, D.C.
These are all remnants of years of

neglect, and people are now reving
up for change; genuine change.”

On tomorrow (July 11), a march
organized by the Coalition for the
Restoration of Democracy in Si-
erra Leone (CORDISAL), was ex-
pected to have drawn hundreds of
the nearly 30,000 Sierra Leoneans
living in the Washington metro-
politan area in a protest demon-
stration in front of the White
House, before marching along
Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol
Hill to press for international sup-
port to restore Kabbah, who has
been forced into exile in neighbor-
ing Guinea.

“We don’t only want to restore
the elected President of Sierra
Leone, but also find new ways to
avoid these countless military
coups in Africa,” said Kwame
Fitzjohn, CORDISAL’s Secretary
General Kwame Fitzjohn who also
serves as the Washington corre-
spondent for the BBC’s World Ser-
vice for Africa program.

The good this that is happening
in Africa is that more and more
people are now standing up firmly
to military regimes and pressures
from dictators,” said Dr. Simbo, a
keen observer of West African poli-
tics. “And with that, I do see a
dying breed of dictatorships, all
across the continent of Africa.”
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Economic Community of West Af-
rican States were to decide if a
multi-nation military force was
needed ifthe newly-formed Armed
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fuses to relinquish power. Last
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sentatives passed a resolution con-
demning the coup, which was led
by Maj. Johnny Paul Kororna. “We
are urging the immediate end to
all violence in the Republic of Si-
erra Leone and we are encourag-
ing the members of the AFRC to
negotiate a hand-over of power
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signing last year of the most sweep-
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62-year history, 1.2 million recipi-
ents have left the rolls, and are
gainfully employed

relinquishing control of the Social
safety net, and now giving block
grants to states to manage their
own, a variety of programs provid-
ing job training, childcare, and
transportation — all with the
tough promise to “work, or else” —
have recipients looking for any
kind of job to keep their benefits
coming, knowing they have only
two years to do so.

Last month, Gov. Jim Hunt,
speaking at the N.C. Legislative
Black Caucus Banquet, boasted
about the success of North
Carolina’s year-old welfare reform
initiative.

“Since we began WorkFirst, 22.3
percent of the families that were
then on welfare have now gone
into jobs, paying them, in many
cases, much more than they were
making,” Hunt said.

“This is the right thing to do, if
you do it the right way.” Many
advocates for the poor aren’t quite
so sure.

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that not enough federal or state
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was recently transferred to
Goldsboro after serving 2 1/2 years
with the Army Recruiting support
Battalion, Fort Knox, KY.

Although Bottoms will concen-
trate his recruiting efforts in
Goldsboro, he will also enlist civil-
ians from the Wayne County area.

To teach people about the mili-
tary, Bottoms said he is required
to call and visit people at home
and travel to area schools.

In recent news release, he noted
that he would rather spend his
time actively recruiting than wait-
ing for potential soldiers to stop by
his office.

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required in my office.” .
Since joining the army, Bottoms
has received several awards and

 

nation, announced that since his ©

With the federal government

“I minimize the amount of time

importantly, universally accessible
healthcare, even though there is
technically more money being. al-
lotted overall.

“With [enough of] those kinds of
things in place, then it would be
possible to help folk move from
dependency to self-sufficiency,” S.
Collins Kilburn, executive direc-
toroftheN.C. Council of Churches,
told the Wilmington Journal and
Carolinian. “ However, because of
republican cuts to what Clinton
originally proposed, Kilburn
warned, “Our worry is, and we’d

be happy to be proven wrong, that:

some people are going to be left
high and dry in the streets with no
place to go.”

That’s the opposing mantra now
about the GOP-led state House’s
welfare reform plan attached to
their budget proposal. Republican
leaders say abolishing state con-
trol, and leaving it to all 100 coun-
ties to devise their own benefits
and requirements, is the way to go.

Even Gov. Hunt had to blast the

plan as “wrong,” charging it would

cut funding, and create a patch-
work of varying welfare systems
in the state “that might unleash “a
race to the bottom to see who could
do the least for families and chil-
dren.”

This, welfare today, in the words
of a New York Times report last
week, “...is a system evolving from
a national safety net into a series
of state trampolines: They are bet-
ter equipped to lift the needy into
the job market, but much less cer-
tain to catch them —or their chil-
dren — during the

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‘population consists of people for

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and no good paying jobs, Kilburn

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people off welfare will guarantee

that they will end up in jobs that
will lift them out of poverty.” Dr.
Kathleen Mullen Harris, profes-

sor of sociology, a fellow at UNC at ~

Chapel Hill’s Carolina Population
Center, and author of the book
Teen Mothers and the Revolving
Welfare Door (Temple University
Press), agrees.

Using long-term data based ona
20-year University of Pennsylva-
nia study started in the 1960s, Dr.
Harris traced the welfare and work
experiences of 300 poor, unmar-
ried black teenage mothers living
in Baltimore from the birth of their
first child.

Half of them were employed
while on welfare, while 62 per cent
left public assistance for jobs, her
research revealed.

This mirrors findings of the N.C.
Association of County Directors of
Social Services, which showed that
83 percent of current welfare re-
cipients would leave the rolls if
they had a job that provided the
benefits they’re getting for their
children now, and at least $6 an
hour, the amount needed to keepa
family of three out of poverty.

Instead, women forced to work
at jobs paying the $4.25 minimum
wage nationally, lost their welfare
benefits, and were thrown deeper
into poverty, the association said.

Set. Bottoms named new recruiter

cruiting Ring, one of the highest
award given to a recruiter.

He has also been awarded the
Meritorious Service Medal, Two
Army Commendation Medals, Five
Army Achievement Medals, Four
Good Conduct Medals, The Na-
tional Defense Service Medal, The
Gold Recruiter Badge with three
Sapphire Achievement Stars, The
German Armed Forces Marksman-
ship Badge, Two Overseas Rib-
bons, Three Basic Noncommis-
sioned Officer Professional Devel-
opment Ribbons and The Driver
Badge.

Inhis spare time , Bottoms plans
to take advantage of educational
programs offered by the army. He
plans to attend college part-time.

Sgt. Bottoms is the son of Jessie
J. Bottoms and the late Lizze Bot-
toms. He lives in Greenville with
his wife, Brenda, andson Brendan.

   

and she now had to pay her own.
childcare expenses.

Gray couldn’t stay with that job
long as a result, because she
couldn’t afford transportation.

“It’s not the lack of work, but the
quality of work recipients can get
that keeps welfare families poor,
Dr. Harris said.“Women don’trely
on welfare because it is so great;
they rely on welfare be cause the
workplace is so bad.

“The jobs that welfare mothers
can get are low-paying, unstable

and typically don’t provide health
insurance, sick leave or help with
childcare. For welfare reform to
succeed, we must address the qual-
ity of work available to welfare
mothers and provide the educa-
tion and training they need to sur-
vive in today’s workplace.”

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offering tax incentives to busi-
nesses to hire welfare recipients
this puts those already working at
or just above minimum wage, at
risk of being replaced, advocators
warn.

Michelle Stevens of Durham is
a witness that knows well. Accord-
ing to SEJ, Stevens was a nurse’s
assistant raising her two children
on her $1,000-a-month salary. But
when WorkFirst kicked in last
summer, her field was flooded with
welfare recipients required to work
to keep their benefits.

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ended up working 25 hours a week
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efits,” the May edition of Common
Good, SEJ’s newsletter, reported.

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said. “I was not on welfare. Now J
am, because everyone is a nurse’s
assistant.

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director, says these are just some
of the stark realities, and inequi-
ties, of current welfare re form.
Those looking to work their way
off, need a graduated lessening of
benefits as they earn more.

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put in place, she says, so those
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phy, but not longitude and lati- .

tude. Instead he studied what he
calls urban social geography, track-
ing where groups of people move,
where they move to , how they
flourish in one place. When he
graduated in 1977, he wanted to
go back to Falkland. To find a job.
Be with his family. But his mentor
at N.C. Central, Theodore
Speigner, scoffed at his plans and
urged him to go to graduate school.

“We called him Doc,” remembers
Johnson. “He started the geography
department in the 1960's and by the
1980’s he had produced a dozen
Ph.D’s. It was the shaping of one
individual, and he was an imposing
figure. But he just didn’t send you
out there. I remember at the most
crucial moments in your life when
you're doubting yourself, the phone
would ring and it would be him.”

He received a Master’s in geog-
raphy from the University of Wis-
consin, and then wenton the Michi-
gan State. There thoughts of that
bus stop in Falkland kicked in.

“Half the people in my class left
the first semester,” says Johnson.
“A lot of them came from Ivey
League schools and I thought,
“What am I doing here?” But I
studied 17 or 20 hours a day be-
cause I didn’t want to fail. I didn’t
want to get off that bus stop and
have everyone in town know that I
failed.”

Even before he finished defend-
ing his dissertation, he had to face
a barrage of invitations from uni-
versities around the country ask-
ing him to come teach.

“Now that doesn’t happen very
much nowadays,” says Johnson.
He accepted a teaching position at
UCLA in 1980, where he stayed
until 1994. While in California, he
blazed through the professor track,
receiving tenure in four years and
becoming full professor in nine.
He became a policy wonk, study-
ing and publishing papers on ur-
ban poverty, work force diversity,
minority economic development
and welfare policy. He wrote ex-
tensively about race relations in
Los Angeles after the unrest fol-
lowing the Rodney King verdicts.
(his “Awaiting Resurrection: The

~ Los Angeles Civil Unrest of 1992
- and Its Aftermath’ was published
~ by the Oxford University Press
» this year).

‘, In1992,heleft his post at UCLA
% and joined the Kenan Institute of

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Private Enterprise, where he now
heads the Urban Investment Strat-
egies Center and the Urban Enter-
prise Corps, two programs aimed
at promoting business develop-
ment and investment in inner-city
communities by giving manage-
rial and technical assistance to
minority-owned businesses.

Besides teaching, Johnson last
year helped to start Triangle
Nightflight, the midnight basket-
ball league made up of adults 18 to
25 from Raleigh, Chapel Hill and
Durham. He has a resource center
for minority-owned businesses in
the works, and a program to de-
velop a partnership between two
local construction companies, one
black owned and the other
hispanic-owned, to train local un-
employed and unskilled workers.
But it’s the Durham Scholars Pro-
gram, now in its third year, that
most reflects who and what
Johnson is.

“It started in the late ‘80’s, when
I started writing about an emerg-
ing school of thought called ‘social
capital,’ the ideas of it’s not what

 

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you know , but who you know.
People who are successful are em-
bedded in a dense network of insti-
tutions and individuals who can
help them negotiate the potential
land mines in their lives,” says
Johnson. “That’s what happened
to me. I had those mentors, I could
call on them if I had questions or
problems.”

“Now when I put my business
hat on, when I looked at kids in the
inner city, I asked the question,
‘Where is there an emerging busi-
ness opportunity?” He says he
found it at the times when kids are
most often left alone: in the after-
noons afterschool, during the sum-
mers and on weekends. So the pro-
gram, which is funded by a $3.6
million grant from the William R.
Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, takes
30 sixth-graders from the most
economically disadvantaged sec-
tions of Durham, a 96-block sec-
tion north and east of downtown.
They get tutorials from UNC stu-
dents. They’re taught study skills,
says Johnson, but what’s most
important is that they are put in

 

 

 

 

touch with community, educa-
tional and recreational groups that
would usually be out of reach in
their own neighborhoods.

“It’s much the same way I was
connected to mainstream oppor-
tunities and networks and men-
tors,” says Johnson. “But we just
want to systematize it.”

The program awards scholar
ships to graduating seniors from
those same blocks, as much as
$10,000 a year for four years to
attend a local university. Nine stu-
dents have been sent to college
and all nine are still enrolled.

Sabah Sumo is one of those who
received a scholarship to attend
UNC-Chapel Hill, where she is a
rising sophomore. The Durham
resident is a native of Liberia, and
plans to study geography

“The students in the program
respect Dr. Johnson because he
comes across as together and seri-
ous,” says Sumo, who graduated
from Riverside Senior High School
in Durham. ‘I can contact him
anytime if I have questions about
, geography, or about anything.”

 

 

1997.

 

Mrs. Marcias Smith and her son Wayne at the Mills
Family Reunion on the weekend of the Fourth of July

 

New survey says African-American men trust doctors less

A new nationwide survey re
leased reveals that the nation’s
roughly 10 million African Ameri-
can men are less trusting of their
doctor than white men, and yet,
are more concerned about most
male-related health issues. The
survey, conducted for Men’s Health
magazine and CNN, in conjunc-
tion with National Men’s Health
Week (June 9-15) also finds that
despite their higher risk for health
problems such as heart disease
and prostate cancer, African-
American men are less likely to
believe these health problems will
affect them in their lifetimes.

According to the survey, slightly
less than half (46 per cent) of Afri-
can-American men believe that
they will develop heart disease.
This despite the fact that the death
rate for coronary heart disease is 3
percent higher among African-
American men than for white men.
Conversely,56 percent of white
men believe they will develop coro-
nary heart disease in their life
time. Similarly, while African
American men have the highest
incidence for prostate cancer in
the world, only 50 percent believe
they are at risk for developing pros-
tate cancer compared to 49 per-
cent of white men who stated as
such. Overall, 80 per cent of men
believe that prostate cancer is an
important health issue, an increase
of 6 percent age points from just

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two years ago.

“The recent number of high
profile celebrities such as Arnold
Palmer who have openly discussed
their battle with prostate cancer
has certainly made this disease
more important in the minds of
American men,” says Mike
Lafavore, executive editor for
Men’s Health. “Yet, itis clear from
this study that this message needs
to be expanded on a greater level
into the African-American com-
munity.”

Overall, the survey finds that
African-American men are much
more likely to recognize their risk
foranumber of health related prob-
lems. The survey finds that among
African-American men, higher
percentages recognize their risk
for developing problems such as
hypertension (65 vs. 54 percent),
diabetes (46 vs.32 percent), high
cholesterol (63 vs. 53 percent), lung
cancer (42 vs. 33 percent), pneu-
monia (46 vs.32 percent) and hepa-
titis (35 vs. 15 percent) compared
to white men.

In general, African-American
men rate their health positively,
with 53 percent rating it as ei ther
excellent (21 percent) or very good
(32 percent). This com pares to 63.
percent of white men who stated
as such.

Yet, despite their overall posi-
tive health, African-American men
are reluctant to see their doctor

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those surveyed, 33 per cent have
not been to the doctor in the past
12 months for a physical examina-
tion or acheck-up. Among the key
factors for not going to the doctor
were cost (56 percent), lack of trust
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to do anything anyway (23 per-
cent).

When it comes to preventive
health checks, African-American

men are more likely on a regular
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health professional (76 vs. 70 per-
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intercourse (42 vs. 29 percent) and
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Taxi

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“Now there’s a lot more I can
check,” Haddock said.

Willie Moore, who is becoming
the owner of Yellow and Checker
Cab Co., didn’t bother bringing in
three of his seven cabs because he
knew they wouldn’t pass.

Some didn’t have air condition-
ing or needed new tires or brakes,
he said. “It’s going to cost more,
but it’s going to be better to serve
the people,” Moore said. “I wouldn’t
do it any other way.”

There’s no guarantee the cabs
that failed aren’t still on the road,
Haddock said.

“T don’t have a bit of assurance,”
he said.

The new test shouldn’t have
caught cab owners off-guard, Had
dock said. The standards were
adopted three months ago, and
the city sent the six taxicab fran-
chise owners letters May 15 re-
minding them of the inspection.
“They've known for 11/2 months
we were going to have an inspec-
tion today,” Haddock said. “There’s
no sense themcoming up here with
slick tires and cracked wind-
shields.”

Some of Haddock’s requests took
City Cab Co. owner Marvin Best
by surprise. Best tried to prepare
the nine gray and navy blue
Chevrolet Caprice Classics.

“Ain’t nothing wrong with them
“ he said. “They’re clean, the air
condition works—what’s wrong
with them? You don’t know ‘til you
get down here (what they are look-
ing for).”

Six of the nine City cabs passed.

Franchise owners pay $8 per
cab to cover the cost of two inspec-
tions annually. The other is in
December.

Best doesn’t agree with all the
new requirements.

Making drivers log trips and
charges is redundant because the
dispatcher keeps that information
he said.

If drivers have the zone map, a
list of the rates isn’t needed, Best
said. Ms, Carr discovered last
month that some cab drivers were

Lewis honored for
work at ECU's
Social Work School

Lauretta F. Lewis- Associate
Professor in the School of Social
Work and Criminal Justice- East
Carolina University.

Recipient of a Letter of Com-
mendation and a Certificate of
Appreciation from NASW ( The
National Association of Social
Workers), the largest organization
of Professional Social Work Prac-
titioners in the Nation.

The recognition honored Profes-
sor Lewis’ advocacy and recruit-
ment efforts on behalf of the Social
Work Profession as a member of
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wnt OBITUARY nee

Issac Lee Tyson

Funeral services for Mr. Isaac
Lee Tyson, 45, of Sneeds Ferry,
N.C, were conducted Monday, 2:00
p.m. at Mt. Calvary F.W.B.
Church, Greenville, N.C. with Rev.
Dennis Taft officiating. Burial will
followed in the Greenwood Cem-
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over charging passengers, a ma-
jority of whom have a low to mod-
erate income.

“Here they are getting a double
whammy,” she said. “(Paying ille-
gal fares) and riding in conditions
the city doesn’t think is suitable.
But they have no choice.”

Inspection results

The cab companies and inspec-
tion results are:

¢ Aladdin: five presented—three

passed, two failed

¢ City: nine presented— six
passed, three failed

* Dependable: two presented—
two passed

¢ Eagle: four presented— three
passed, one failed

* Tucker: three presented —one
passed, two failed

¢ Yellow and Checker: four pre-
sented—three passed, one failed

Poetry contest being held

Sparrowgrass Poetry Forum is
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new Distinguished Poet Awards
poetry contest. Thirty-four cash
awards are also being offered in
the contest. The contest is free to
enter and open to everyone. “Al-
though we encourage poets to pur-
chase an anthology to ensure pub-
lication, there is no obligation of
any kind in order to be a contest
winner,” states Jerome Welch,
Publisher.

Poets may enter one poem only,

20 lines or fewer, on any subject,
any style. Contest closes Septem-
ber 30, 1997, but poets are encour-
aged to send their work as soon as
possible.

Poems should be mailed to
Sparrowgrass Poetry Forum, Dept.
JP, 609 Main Street, P.O. Box 193,
Sistersville, WV 26175.

Poets may also submit poems
electronically at the Sparrowgrass
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