Opinion - Black Violence ' ' i ' | | + i! The Minority Voice Se:ving Eas ern North Carolina Since 1981 aaa EDITION Pictures from the archives of the M'Voice A Psion 84) Rlivhant THE FOCUS IS ISLAM Spiritual Reflections Ik Ta Ti Editorial Black On Black Violence At Tke Movies with Nareya Namaz JobHunng Ih | Telia GREAT BLACK HOPE is FCC € hairman Michael K. Powell, the son of Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell. being groomed by the GOP to become America’s Black president ? With the Republican Party plan to design its ideal up-and-comer in a Gattaca- style genetics lab, the result would look and sound a lot like Michael K. Powell. A scion of Beltway royalty, Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell’s only son is that rarest of political gems-- -a Blaek Republican diehard free of the kooky far-right vibes that dog Alan Keyes and JC Watts. John McCain loves him, as do a number of Starstruck Democrats bé- witched by his lineage and smarts. For many, the junior Powell seems a younger and brighter version of George W. Bush. Unlike Bush, however, Powell has not squandered his youthful ambition on failed oi] derricks and Texas At the tender age he is the new chair- Federal first keggers. of 38, man of _ the Communications Commission, the five-person panel that lords over Big Media and the Baby Bells Rep Ed Markey, a Massachusettes Democrat. made light of his wonkish might in March, at Powell's first Capitol Hill appearance as head of the FCC “People are always asking me to compare you to your father,” Markey © said “What | always tell them ts you re just as smart father, but you have a lot as your BLOCK LEADERS UNDER ATTACK Attacks resume on Black leaders by: Cash Michaels Tri - state Defender For several weeks after Rep. President George W Bush assumed office in inuary, Black leadership ell under blistering attack from the conservative right, ‘ho hoped not fininish the Us like only to Stature of fig- the Rev \l AUGUST 3 more affect the world” If insiders are right, the FCC gig may be only a stepping stone. Some are touting Powell as a Virginia congressman or governor, maybe even as Bush cabinet member. And if he bides his time and plays his cards right, he could well become pe ywer to - AUGUST 13 tions industry. Last week. aghast at the FCC’s recent handiwork, South Carolina Democratic senator Ernest Hollings ac- cused Powell of fostering “an erosion of diversity in our local markets.” Hollings has introduced legislation to stop the slash-and-burn jug- gernaut, but few expect his , 2001 What You See Is What You Get, What You Read Is What You Know And Save. THE CREAT BLOCK HOPE The decision could pave the way for the sale of BNC to AOL Time Warner, or---- if the rule is relaxed still further---to Viacom. In June, Viacom president Mel Karmazin announced he “would absolutely love” to purchase his broadcast rival, a deal that would make the world’s third largest media Voice News Chairman earlier this (Staff Photo) FCC CHAIRMAN & SECRETARY OF STATE'S SON......Striking a pose for The 'M per cameras, the head of the FCC and the only son of the Se ielar of State General Colin Powell....Chairman Michael K. Powell. of WOOW, WTOW, & The M' Voice Newspaper Jim Rouse met with the FCC year at a NCAB meeting the first African American president Powell's actions as FCC Chairman have made his pro-business, consumer-be- damned politics more than evident. In an administra- tion bent on rolling back regulations. Powll is the consummate good solider, zealously blasting decades- old rules to the delight of the $950 billion =communica- Sharpton and Kwesi Mfume, president/CEO, NAACP, but even put “troublemakers” like the Rev Jackson completely out of business While the FOX News Channet and otehr conserva- tive media took dead aim at Jackson's out-of-wedlock eXtramartial affair, conserva- tive activist David Horowitz sparked a national firestorm on college campuses declar- ing that it’s Blacks, not Jesse Pastor of St. Paul's Church, Taboro, INGSecsiss Shown outside WCPS studios is Rev.George Terry. discussing the issues concerning the Town of Princeville with NAACP former Pres. Crystal Moye. They want to encourage all kids to seek GOD and not DRUGS. % (Photo by Jim Rouse). giving them stature cess, successes education and high-level appointments of Gen. Dr. Condoleeza Rice bill----designed to protect caps on market dominance--- to ever become law Communications conglom- erates, by contrast. are turous over Powell’s quick defanging the FCC. They re-joined when he coaxed the commission into relaxing its long works. clearing the way for Viacom to retain UPN even after it bought CBS rap- success 1n Whites, who should pay reparations for slavery The “Bush Black Plan.” as it was coined back in March got the president to bond with what little conservative Black leadership there was, and ac- and then, link arms with as many of the Black clergy as possible, using the promise of federal dollars to help their programs as lure. the with his out the and tax Coupled quick gate on reform, and to his Colin Powell Publisher and CE in Washington, DC. =a conglomerate (200 reve- nues: $ 20 billion) an even more pervasive presence. In the name of free-market efficiency. Powell has also expedited dozens of merger reviews, including the $29 billfon marriage of VoiceStream and Germany's Deutsche Telekom. He quickly pushed through 32 deals in March, 32 radio claiming that “further delay Bush seeme untouchable for a “If one thing ts cer- tain as the victorious GOP contemplates world domina- tion. Debra Dickerson, a senior fellow at the new American Foundation wrote in the Washington Post in March. “it’s that the concept of racism must be gnawed to jabberwockian meaningless: when uttered by a minority.” : Regarding administration, to be while Ness Bush efforts to “replace” established Black leadership with his desig- nated group, Dickerson con- tinued. ~ By patting them on the head. and affixing spit- sucky gold stars to. their promoted to mere credits to began---the the Senate to thanks to Bush’s disregard for i Vermont Sen. who switched to independ- ent after he’s taken office. president is fighting several negative promise to cripple his first year, FREE is neither warranted nor just.” Among the big win- ners was San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications, the na- tion’s largest radio group, which added seven more properties to its 1200-station empire. As Salon’s Eric Boehlert reported in April . Clear Channel already con- trols 60% of the country’s rock-format stations. Outgoing FCC At the same time, Powell has been an outspoken critic of providing low-power radio licenses to community or religious groups, citing the “cost....to existing sta- tions that provide equally valuable service to their communities.” He did not elaborate on how one of Clear Channel’s vanilla Top 40 outlets can provide serv- ice on a par with that of an independent, or how a Sta- tion relegated to the FM dial’s nether regions could possibly harm the bottom line of a Dave Matthews -playing titan. Powell's laissez-faire machinations could be more easily forgiven if not for his ip dismissals of the FCC's role in helping customers--- as the agency’s handbook notes, its mission is to protect the public’s “best interests”, At a_ recent American Bar Association panel, however, Powell curtly pooh-poohed the no- tion of a public-interest stan- dard, calling it * about as empty a vessel as you can accord a regula- tory agency.” The statement was in line with an earlier quip, in foreheads, the GOP is gam- bling that those so rewarded won't notice they've been their race. ~ But then the’ mistakes biggest being powershift of the US the Democrats, then Republican Jim Jeffords, and months the now. SIX perceptions — that and maybe his presi- Tarboro, NC..;....Shown above that erupted in the town of Princeville. Mohammad. Sheriff Knight at St. Paul's Church in Tarboro attending the burial of Maurice Clark. Na'im Akbar grew up in Princeville, and runs a program in the Tarboro community. "Black folks need to learn to work together and not against each other to end this senseless violence. " iP are Brothers that care concerned about the recent violence Posing is Brother Na'im K. Akbar, Brother Robert > (Photo by Jim Rouse) : which he mocked the’ idea “spread of technology to un- - derpriviledged communities. ~ Digital divide? : ot according to Powell. _“] think there's a. Mercedes divide---I'd like to have one; - Lean’t afford one, “ said the chairman, whose federal sal- _~ arty is $133,700 a year. “I ~ think that’s an important ~~ gociat issue. But it shouldn't “of essentially the socializa- — tion of the deployment of the - infrastructure.” _ One wonders if the 20 million Americans who re- _-main without telephones, to say nothing of Internet ac- cess, share that. view. Powell’s hijacking of the FCC has delighted his bene- factors, including some of Capitol Hill’s most recogniz- able names. He owes his FCC entree’ to McCain, who plucked a greenhorn Powll i from:the shadows in 1997. * In amove widely viewed -as a kowtow to Powell’s ‘papa, McCain _ single- ‘handedly nixed a second :term for the highly regarded ‘Rachelle Chong and backed ‘the Secretary of State, Gen. ‘Colin Powell’s son instead. - When Powell was tapped for ‘Chong’s seat, he was just ‘four years out of ‘Georgetown Law School be used to justly the nation ‘and had been in.government :. less than. two months, as - Chief of staff to Department ' of Justice antitrust czar Joel . Klein. Prior to that, he’d ’ worked for O’Melveny and _ Myers, an uber-connected law firm whose partners have included = Warren - Christopher and whose cli- ents include Disney, Sony Pictures, and GTE. But sucking up to a four-star father was not McCain’s sole intent; in -Micheal, he found the ideal bureaucrat to appease Big »Media. Despite his reform- _ist rhetoric, the Arizonia Republicans has close ties to communications __ interests. No senator has received more money from the indus- try over the past eight years than McCain ($685,929 as -of 2000, according to the Center for Public Intergrity). _ When Viacom and CBS merged last year, for exam- ple, FCC rules dictated that the company would have to sell off several stations to “meet the 35% audience cap. McCain quickly introduced a bill that would raise it to — 50%----now a moot effort, thanks to Powell’s likely intention to dump the limit altogether. Powell enjoys an even closer connection _to Louisiana Republican Billy Tauzin, a relationship criti- cal to his ascension from FCC commissioner to chair- man. Tauzin heads the ‘House ngs and Commerce ommittee, which oversees the agency. -Telecommunications — inter- ests have showered the con- gressman with lavish perks, with an earlier quip, in FCC should. get ensuring the Surrounded by a host of industry luminaries and lob- byists, Powell delivered a crowd-pleasing speech in which he compared the agency to Dr. Seuss’s Grinch----a nonsensical brute that was ruining corpo- rate America’s profiteering with a mis-guided emphasis on the public interest. “The oppressor here is regula- tion,” he proclaimed, to thunderous applause. Tauzin then took the dias and boldly named Powell his pick to head the FCC. “He is the brightest light on the commission, the brightest mind,” gushed Tauzin, whose aide later insisted the speeches weren't coordi- nated. “The next sound could have been the air being let out of the candidacy of Pat Wood,” Broadcasting and Cable wrote. Powell was promoted just after the New Year. As a relative rookie, Powell wouldn’t dare mess with the wishes of a player like Tauzin---or, for that matter, with Big Media, who pumped $1.07 million into Bush’s campaign coffers. Like Tauzin, Powell wants to toss the rules governing cross ownership in the same market. Those are the same regs vexing moguls- like . Rupert Murdoch, who has already obtained one waiver in order to own both the New York Post and the city’s Fox affiliate, and who would like to expand his reach further. _ “I don’t know why there’s something inherent about a newspaper and something inherent about a broadcaster that means they can’t be - combined,” Powell told re- porters in April. Murdoch’s sentiments exactly. Despite his insensitive gaffes and obvious pro- business sentiment, Powell’s mere appearance in the cor- ridors of power touches off a bipartisan lovefest. At his first Capitol Hill hearing, for example, Powell was with praise more fitting. a Medal of Honor recipient than a bureaucrat. Aside from the unexpected flattery from Tauzin (“I al- most want to applaud after your statement”), Democrat John Dingell of Michigan commended Powell’s de- regulatory blather as “right on the "Jane Harmon, a California Republican, added, “If you | | bri those sil to reform- te 1997, Staff Photo come across as an idealogue or terribly partisan.” Powell’s Web site (www. fcec.gov/commissione- ts/powell) features uninten- tionally comic photos of him mugging with Diana Ross and the Osmonds, publicity shots that ooze non- threatening geekiness. Reporters who gain access to his inner sanctum are invariably regaled with the tale of the jeep accident that cost him his army career, which he illustrates by whip- ping out old CAT scans of his shattered hip. That charm has enabled Powell to develop a Teflon resistance to criticism. The fact that his chief of staff, Marsha McBride, previously served as a Disney lobbyist has barely merited a men- tion. And Powell’s ques- tionable conduct during the AOL Time Warner merger review has largely been for- gotten. Though his father sat on AOL’s board and held options to purchase 320,000 shares of stock, Powell, with legal clearance, refused to recuse himself from the vote. On Jan. 11, the same day the FCC gave the merger its final approval, Colin an- M nounced his resignation from the AOL's board and his intention to exercise those options. His net profit should be in the neighbor- hood of $9 million. Powell was just recon- firmed for a second FCC term, which won’t expire until 2007. Yet few believe hell serve that long. Embarrassed by the sea of lily-White faces at the Philadelphia “convention, Republicans - are desperate for a rising African American star---a_ Great Black Hope, as it were. That title was formerly held by JC Watts, the Oklahoma congressman who once re- buted a Clinton State of the Union’Address with a meta- phor about magazine cut- outs. But Watts was too visibly tied to the religious right’s moral agenda, and has since faded from the GOP’s national spotlight. Race alone is not enough to spur party switching among minority voters, a Powell, for hisipart, flaunts his centrist credéntials, “I’m not a blind idealogue......It's fair to say I’m a mo r he told an ir i ’ er mimicking his idle-ofthe-t . African American leaders by coauthoring a bill with McCain that offers tax cred- its tO minorities who buy media - companies---a pleasant-sounding “trickle down” measure that benefits only the most priviledged. And Powell has conven- iently become a champion of several — non-objectionable crusades, such as asking Congress for the power to levy stiffer fines against corporate scofflaws---though the rare $10 million penalty is unlikely to trouble a Baby Bell with annual revenues upward of $60 billion. He’s mum on the future, but even Powell’s supposed Critics acknowledge that he’s primed for a larger stage. “ Michael Powell’s political prospects are great,” says Gigi Sohn, ex-director of the Media Access Project, a consumer advocacy group. “He’s smart, very politically savvy.....Bush talks about being a uniter, not a divider, Michael Powell is one.” Ah, yes----another junior member of a modern right- wing dynasty, itching to let corporatins unite in the name of laissez-faire- and content to let the divide between Big edia’s mandarians and the Captive public grow ever wider. A scientist could scarcely clone a better candi- date. When Lou Gehrig’s Review by Kam Williams We Can't Go | Home Again: | A An Argument about Afrocetrism | by Clarence E. Walker Oxford University Press "I take issue with Afro- © centrists who claim that Africa was the mother of the West. This assertion is questionable because, for example, ancient Egyptian writing and architecture resulted when the Nile Valley civ- ilization came into con- tact with the Sumerians. Afrocentrism offers not an empowering under- standing of black Ameri- cans’ past but a pastiche of simplistic fantasies." --Clarence E. Walker-- ould you believe, in _ this.day and age, that any educator would write a reactionary book about why it's better to refer to black people as Negroes rather than African-Americans? Clarence Walker, himself a black man and a Professor of History at the University of California at Davis, makes just such a case in "We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument about Afrocen- dubious merit, the author states by way of introduction, “Throughout the text I use the term ‘Negro’... | am uncomfort- able with the term 'African- American’, and one of my pur-- poses in writing this book is to show why." Apparently, Walker has some bones to pick with ‘Afrocentrists', a set of mostly black historians who tout what Pictured above are Ron and Diane Chapman with many local business-minded people who attended the business seminar that was held at the Holiday Inn Express July 20, 2001. Diane Chapman a wealth build er and a founding member of Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing Inc., helps others gain financial independence. i 2 CANT f 14 Hom ; go” } \ waiver ¥ lengths, in a sloppy, confusing style which fades on gibber- ish, to debunk the life's work of some highly-regarded scholars such'as John Henrik Clarke and Melville Herskovits. The book's basic premise is that Africa does not have a provable past wor- thy of study and that, "Afro- centrism is Eurocentrism in blackface." There is something a little unsettling about a person who would go out of his way to deny his connection to his ancestors and then to trivialize their contributions to the world. After all, what is he saying by calling himself a Negro? There is no Negro-land. So, the monicker 'Negfo' gives little sense of a people's roots. But there is an Africa, which is why. the term African-American makes per- fect sense. Despite all the credentials, I considered the possibility that perhaps Walker is writing tongue in cheek, because his philosophy is so patently self- hating. His antiquated attitudes aren't far afield from the out- dated dyed in the wool racism once espoused by the likes of Columbia University's John Burgess who argued in 1902 that, "A black skin means mem- bership in a race of men which has never of itself succeeded in subjecting passion to reason. has never created any civiliza- tion of any kind.” If Walker's was a serious endeavor. | wouldn't be surprised to find that a conservative think tank underwrote the research which he considers a therapeutic, but !€d to such ludicrous conclu- . misguided version of African _ 5!0NS. ; WidOW chose an agency history, . 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This is the place where, "The Lord Is Moving" www.alitel.com Photo by Michael Adams ea a¥ages Ps LPetar, i i aa same ea a lm Black-on-Black ~~ ‘Jack-on-Black violence must Stop! > Oba the ast few weeks, the “number of Black homicides, and "+ Black-on-black violence as a ‘whole, has grown to a rate that will likely ee Ne eee ee oe surpass the homicides for all of last year. -., Many living in the Black community hate . to See warm weather come because they know the window-shaking, booming music, -kids hanging out on street corners and otings increase when summer arrives. Gunshots become a common sound, and it’s rarely a single shot. It’s almost always ~ an automatic weapon with shots that send you diving for cover as you pray that a Stray bullet doesn’t hit you or a loved one inside your own home. In the Monday morning Union Planters National Bank shooting on Lamar Avenue. two people, a 25-year-old woman. Sheryl Lynne White, a bank customer, was killed and James Earl Jones, 63, the bank security guard lies in critical condition at The MED, ‘hanging on to life from a gunshot wound to ithe face. And, throughout the city, other ‘bank robberies and killings not related to ‘bank jobs. | Why all the killing? . The age-old excuse of “they can’t find decent jobs” no longer holds water. It’s -ipretty clear that if you drop out of school, you will not find a decent job. You also iwon’t go very far if you just do what it takes to get by in life. Jobs exist and there ‘are plenty of ways to get them, including going to college and participating in train- ing and apprenticeship programs. | Our forefathers fought and died to open ‘doors for posterity, but in many cases, ‘young people prefer hanging out on corners, ‘Selling poison to make an easy buck. | Despite all the killings, the Black com- ‘munity appears to be numb to all the vio- ‘lence, often giving little or no information ‘to police to curb the destruction. | If the police had gunned down those ‘bank-robbery suspects during their arrests ‘Tuesday, protests would have erupted all ‘over Memphis. We would have called the \city and county mayors, our Black and ven U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor — a chief architect of what many see as the nation’s archaic death penalty "laws — has now finally seen the light and has added her name to the grow- ing list of prestigious Americans who have come to question the necessity — and fair- ness — of the “ultimate punishment” for aes lawbreakers — the death penalty. he has joined fellow justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who in April, voiced support ‘for a d moratorium on executions in _Maryland — former colleagues Harry Blackmun and Lewis Powell, Illinois Gov. , George Ryan, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others, including this newspaper in express- ing fears about the appropriateness and fair- “ness of legal executions. Said O’Connor last week to a meeting of Minnesota women lawyers: “After 20 years peeooocos 1 he more than 20-year-old malady known as HIV/AIDs has a new face, according to an alarming be new report by the venerable New "York Times, and it should be a call for governments — and all per- are at risk for contracting the "The face of AIDS is Bla Lim of A lacker, younger and female, Cases among hear and fol Governments in fact the U.S. government itself—need to | treatment to ‘Sao bee ‘ou can prevent — NAACP, the Revs. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jack- son and any other Black leader we thought we could have gotten responses from. . But, seemingly, when we should protest, we don’t, most hiding behind the excuse: We have no local leadership that is con- cerned about us until it is. time for an elec- tion. In part, that’s true, but we have to ask ourselves: Do we pressure them with our concerns or even offer suggestions at meet- ings and sessions that will force them to pay attention to them. The time has passed for us to stop turning our heads, covering our ears and closing our eyes when Blacks kill other Blacks. If we’re going to have prosperous communities, where our kids grow up without the threat of violence, we have to take a stand. We must demand more of our young peo- ple—our posterior—by showing them that there’s a better wav in life than gang-bang- ing and/or selling and taking drugs. Show them there are no shortcuts in life. Stress to them that hard work and determination are Values that must be instilled and kept. And, the silence with the police must also stop. There's a bad apple in every bunch, and we must rid our communities of those who ate poisoning it. That means talking to the police when crimes take place near our homes. It’s time for the churches—pulpit and pew—sitting on every other corner and across the street from each other— to unite and at least visit the hedges and highways — with the true meaning of the gospel or good news. It’s time for all of us who live and work together to say we’re not going to tol- erate the violence any more. How do we do it? Give the police our full support, show the bad element that we will not support thugs in our communities. Anyone who would gun down another human over drugs or money is-a hoodlum and not worth protect- ing. ie them know...Not In Our Neighbor- hood! Not In Our City or County! But as long as we are silent, it will con- tinue. Possibly, some new light for the death penalty on the high court, I have to acknowledge that there are serious questions being raised about whether the death penalty is being fairly administered in this country. Perhaps most alarming is the fact that if statistics are any indication, the system may well be al- lowing some innocent defendants to be exe- cuted.” From an officer of the highest court in the land, those are some chilling, but sage and credible words. . In the past 25 years, according to those who compile such statistics, at least 91 for- mer Death Row inmates have been exoner- ated in the U.S., one posthumously. The O’Connor statements should at least further the national dialogue on the death penalty and whether the U.S. should re- main one of the few democracies that still — employs it, as flawed, racist and final as it can be. The changing face of AIDS in America men contracted HIV over the course of the epidemic. | * Black women, who make up 7 percent of the nation’s population, accounted for 16 percent of all new AIDS diagnoses in 1999, a percentage that has grown steadily since — the syndrome was identified 20 years ago. The reason for the burgeoning toll in the South are myriad; unemp nt, substance abuse, teenage pregnancy and minimal ac- cess to heal and preventive education programs, rly, in the newest “hotbed” for the disease, the message about AIDS preven is not oye ag to those who need to in the affected areas—and provide more monies for education and revent the South of America g a close kin violence White élected officials, the national All citizens must consider the state of Black America _| by Hugh B. Price he Secretary of State of the Unit- ed States of America is an African American, a “first.” The .\ationally security adviser to the President of the United States is an African American, another “first.” The Secretary of Education in the President’s Cabinet is an African American, also a “first.” These and other “firsts” of the Bush Ad- ministration, along with the Cabinet and sub- Cabinet-level “firsts” of the administration of President Clinton, and the job and economic gains of the 1990s for Black at most econom- ic levels support the assertion that there’s nev- er been a better time to be Black in America. . But even now, with professions of a commit- ment to tolerance and diversity being socially as well as legally required, the difficulties, ten- sions and problems that are rooted in Ameri- ca’s racial past—and present—remain sharp, even if unseen, or, as is often the case, ignored. No one should be surprised by this com- plexity, this juxtaposition of significant progress and persisting problems. America is still trying to live up to that splendid ideal written into the nation’s founding document: We holdthese truths to be self evident... For more than a quarter-century the Na- tional Urban League’s policy journal, The State of Black America, has been keeping tabs on how that journey toward the ideal has been progressing. — And every year the need for the scrutiny of scholars, public-policy experts, legislators, and activists it brings together to examine some crucial issues seems to intensify. The reason is simple: As more progress is achieved, the comparison with the problems that remain, and the new problems that ap- pear, grows sharper, too. So it is with our current issue, which has just been released. It examines some of the issues with which the rising generation of African Americans, those under 35, have to grapple. Many in this Black cohort are fulfilling the promise of the civil rights victories of the 1960s. They’ve been able to take advantage of the significant equalizing of opportunity across the color line. But, even they face problems that are still rooted in race, as the national survey of Black Americans, which forms the volume’s centerpiece shows in dra- matic fashion. And some of the broader problems affect- ing Black Americans are still severe. For one thing, consider the public schools, which 95 percent of Black pupils attend, and which, taken as a whole, are more racially segregated now than at the time of the Supreme Court’s landmark rejection of segre- gation in the Brown decision. We can’t wait for or depend on the mere fact of racial integration to attack—and solve—the problem of inspiring Black chil- dren to do well in school. And, anyone who thinks the problem of under-performing schools in Black neighborhoods is not con- nected to the larger issues of school and housing integration is “just whistling Dixie.” Indeed, the entire public discussion about ed- ucational vouchers and charter schools is grounded in spoken and unspoken assump- tions and presumptions about race. A second example of the “other side” of all the fine examples of racial progress is the Black unemployment rate. In the late 1990s it fell to the single digits, levels not seen since the end of World War II. It took that long for the positive effects of the decade’s unprece- dented economic recovery to reach the low- wage levels of the workforce ladder and open up millions of new jobs. When it did, masses of unskilled, poorly-educated Blacks were among the million rushing to fill them — in — the process, showing that three decades’ worth of glib theorizing about the Black poor’s cultural deficiencies” was just so much bunk. But now the economy is souring, and lay- offs of white-collar and blue-collar workers are rising, and those jobs at the bottom are shrinking sharply. It doesn’t require genius to predict what will happen to the Black unem- ployment rate. Or, to consider a third issue, juxtapose all the good news against the racial divide be- tween many, many police departments in this country and Black people. Note that I didn’t say “Black criminals.” No, a divide — that is to say, an antagonistic relationship between police and criminals—is exactly what law-abiding citizens want. But, in Black America the law-abiding are caught, and often caught hard, by the inclina- tion of some individual White officers, and the overt or implicit policy of some depart- ments as a whole to consider all African Americans (and darker-hued Latino Ameri- cans, and Asian Americans, too) as guilty — of something — until proven innocent. That leads to police racial profiling or oth- er forms of police misconduct. Amid all the talk about the growing diversity of American society and the growing tolerance for diversi- ty among Americans, it is with us, still, in the first years of the new century. How long this pattern of stark contrasts characterizes the state of Black America is a question, and a responsibility, for all Americ- as to consider. _ (Hugh B. Price is president of the National Urban League.) tion |] tothe South | by Louis “Hop” Kendrick rarely, if ever, discuss religion with anyone who has no involvement in organized religion. There are many reasons they give to justify why they believe the church is a house false Christians. Many Christians are not measuring up to Jesus Too often we hear them boast about their pastor’s salary, his degrees, his ability to preach, the number of services held on Sunday, but very rarely do you hear them fact that the pastor is really a messengef of God. _ There are also those who are not emo- tional in church and are taken to task for to issues teadership Mail letters to: The Minority Voice News --405-Evans Street Greenvi - «Bax: (252). 75741793. Mail: woow@skantech.net 7 Dear Mr. Hudson, 5 It has been brought to my attention that on July 5, around 5:11 p.m., the rude op- erator showed his rudeness on that 53 || Weaver route. As a result, once again, he | caused a big uproar with the passengers | on the bus. . According to eyewitnesses, a passenger ot on the 5:11 p.m.’s bus at the North End Terminal with a legitimate transfer. The passenger informed the operator that it was her intention to catch the 4:02 p.m. ‘| bus, but that it broke down at the North End Terminal. Therefore, she has to wait on the next available bus which was at the 5:11 p.m. (The passenger’s story was confirmed by the other passengers who were on the 4:02 p.m. bus which broke down.) However, the operator did not accept her story. In fact, the operator talked to the passenger as though the passenger was a little child, telling her to ‘shut up.” It was during this time he decided to call dispatcher, According to witnesses, dispatcher con- firmed the passenger’s story but the oper- ator was determined that he was going to force this passenger to pay another fare, anyway. In the meantime, I understand that the operator pulled the bus over to Front/Linden for a period of 10 minutes while all of this was going on. I, also, un- derstand that the actions and the attitude of the operator was so bad that even some of the other passengers became heated and upset with the bus operator. Mr. Hudson, this is the third letter I have written about this operator. If you continue to show an unwillingness to deal with the conduct of the operator, I will be happy to come before MATA Board at the next board meeting. This operator is not just harassing the passengers of the Memphis Area Transit Authority on the 53 Weaver. These are homeowners. These are voters. They are hard-working citizens who are trying to get home peacefully. They are my neigh- bors. They are my friends, If it comes down to petitioning the MATA Board or our elected officials in order to deal with this situation, they stand ready to do so. Mr. Hudson, please do not take lightly the fact that one of your operators is cre- ating a hostile environment on the bus. In the last two letters I wrote you, I asked that you take some needed steps in deal- ing with this operator who has been rude to the passengers and who showed no re- spect for the job. I ask you for the third time for you to take some needed actions. At the time of writing this letter, I just re- ceived another telephone calling com- plaining about this same operator. This bus operator is making the good bus operators look bad. This is making a simple bus ride a living hell for my neighbors who are just trying to get home | from a hard day work. In the meantime, I would like a written respond. Thank you. Johnnie Mosely, president, Citizens Action Committee, Memphis MATA takes action on ‘rude’ bus driver Dear Mr. Mosely, Let me take this opportunity to thank you for the information you provided me regarding rudeness on the part of one of our operators. The operator was suspend- ed without pay pending further investiga- tion. As you may know, you can’t always react to ig aoa until they are fully in- vestigated. However, in this case the facts are present for all to see. ‘he driver will remain on suspension until this matter is fully resolved. I can assure you that the steps are being taken to prevent such incidents in the future. Thank you again for your interest and participation. If . can further assist you, please do not h sitate to contact my office at (901) 722-7 1, Will Hudson, ‘resident/general manager, MATA THE MINORIY VOICE NEWSPAPER 18,000 Circulation Bi-Weekly Anual Subscription $40.00 Newspaper Size - 6 Column by 21 Inches . Quarter Page - $260.00 Half Page » $615.00 Full Page - $1200.00 Local - $8.75 per column inch National - $10.75 per column inch Inserts - $.09 per insert nts on frequency number of of subjest mater published inthe Minority) NC 27835 ff @ Coe coe eos cle that blocked ‘tens of thousands of Black votes from being counted, — and cost Democrat Al Gore the. election, was leaked, Florida Secretary. of State Katherine Harris, who was severly criticized for her handling of ‘the election, called it “degrading and demeaning “ and, charged thathe chairwoman, — Dr. Mary Frances Berry, sup- ported Gore. . Harris was state co-chair of the Bush for President © Committee. — Florida. Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, who was also criticized in the leaked re- port, earlier blasted Berry and the Democratic majority on the commission as. being partisan and biased. The outside support emboldened the Republican member of the panel to accuse her chair of leaking the report before it could be reviewed and changed. Berry vehemently denies that claim. Indeed from the . one-day trial and 90-day federal prison sentence im- posed on Sharpton after he was arrested, tried and con- victed of trespassing while protesting the US Navy’s bombing exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques (he had also an- CCEPTING After over a month ina — - Brooklyn federal prison and - 25 pounds lighter, Sharpton stopped his hunger strike last week. He will remain behind bars until August. But even: behind bars in his weakened state, the ~-ususally adept spokesman found himself manipulated by Fox News into criticizing Rev. Jackson during an in- terview. Realizing that there was. nothing their enemies would love more than to have them fighting each other publicily, instead of injustice, Sharpton apolo- gized for his remarks in a letter to Jackson. Now they’re being por- trayed as heartless “dema- gogues” who care nothing about abused Black children if other Blacks are allegedly responsibile. That charge was made on Fox News “O’ Reilly Factor” Mondy evening by the host former newsman and now commentator Bill O'Reilly. After reporting that the US Attorney’s Office in Atlanta had charged 13 men and a woman---all Black ----- with APPLICATIONS | FOR CHILD CARE NOW! Jf BISHOP TL DAVIS.PASTOR in Sh SA Progressive Child Care Center officially opened on June 07, before she was released, the — NAACP for not protesting. _ hammer seems to have come ee - down harder on any African “Unfortunately we're in a American leader who stands situation where it seems that Up to. —s the ~~ Bush evil has to wear a White face Administration. _ before it generates the kind of outpouring of protests, “ charged Robert Woodson, a Black conservative guest on _ the show promoting a rally in Atlanta later this month. - “You would think these (children) are themost de- fenseless — Americans, these poor little girls, and you would think when something like this happens (Black leaders) would rund down, but as you say it might be a color deal,” O'Reilly charged. The host and Woodson admitted that the case got very little national publicity beyond Atlanta. They also failed to acknowledge the many “Stop the Violence”. campaigns that Black lead- ership, both national and local, have been sponsoring in communities for years. In the very next segment, the host asked “Are the power days of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton over?” and brought on the Rev. Eugene Rivers, a Black minister who voted Democrat last year, but now fully backs Bush’s Black initiatives, earning him a top leadership role in the Republican president’s 2001. Ms, Nanette McCoy serves as the Director, Children ages 2 to 5 years old are accepted. The Center's op- erating hours are Mondays - Fridays, 6:30 am - 6:30pm, ; Pictured above is Sister Nanette McCoy, Daycare Director; Mother Jacqueline Jackson, and Sister Cassandra Daniels. 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Earlier in the program while responding to a guest’s suggestion that Bush missed an opportunity to honestly reach out to African Americans when he failed to guarantee that every vote will be counted in the next election, O’Reilly replied,” | don’t think that’s going to resonate because most Americans feel they did have an opportunity to vote, and what happened (in the Florida 2000 presi- dential vote), happened.” WORK eo. Tequires "Nelg: S0uG) ieee eee construction and construction and maintenance projects. completion of a 2-year associate engineering $26,987 - $48,464. enig et, communication systems; work requires. offic related sine sing Hypo a ing, and p ield activity related to : Graduation from an accredited high school inclt minimum. of two years experience in electrical “systems and/or communications technologies. 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With your vote, and receipt of regulatory approvals, which we hope to receive shortly, you could be in a position to receive your new Wachovia shares in a matter of weeks. ¥\ Just last week, Proxy Monitor recommended that Wachovia and First Union shareholders vote FOR the merger. Proxy Monitor is a leading shareholder advisory organization. ¥, Wachovia and First Union have already received Hart-Scott-Rodino anti-trust clearance from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for our merger. \ We continue to make excellent progress with our merger integration planning. Among other things, we have already selected key business leaders, announced employee benefits packages and announced our Community Commitment program for $35,000,000,000 for the new Wachovia. With an important endorsement from a leading proxy advisor, regulatory approvals which we hope to receive shortly and much of the integration process already under way, we need your vote FOR the merger. 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Representatives will be able to assist you.between 8 a.m. —.9 p.m. EDT. Please leave a message if you call after these hours. MacKenzie Partners: 800-322-2885 Georgeson Shareholder: 800-223-2064 Shareholders are urged to read the joint proxy statement/prospectus regarding the proposed merger between Wachovia and First Union and any other relevant documents filed with the SEC because they contain important information. Shareholders may obtain a free copy of the joint proxy statement/prospectus, as well as other filings containing information about Wachovia and First Union, without charge, at the SEC's Internet site (http://(www.sec.gov). Copies of the joint proxy statement/prospectus and other SEC filings that are incorporated by reference in the joint proxy statement/prospectus can also be obtained, without __ charge, from Wachovia, Investor Relations, 100 North Main Street, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27150 (866-883-0789), or from First Union, Investor _ |. 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