Parents file suit, search for answers in son's death ' -Genoa Barrrow Sacramento Observer SACRAMENTO, ; Calif. (NNPA) - On May 30, 2002 Anthony Vontoure's roommates thought he needed medical assistance and called for help. Instead of an ambu- lance. officers with the Sacramento County Sheriff's arrived. What happened next is the subject of a. wrongful death Notas filed by renowned civil rights attorney John Burris on behalf of Vontoure's family. Named in the suit are the County of Sacramento, Sheriff Lou Blanas. officer T. Wetzel and officer G. Saunders. The reason for filing is to find out what happened," said Anthony's father, Michael Vontoure Sr. He was joined, at the filing at the downtown United States District Court building, by his former wife and Anthony's mother, Emma; current wife, Mari; and eldest son, Michael Jr. "We couldn't and didn't get any information from any offi- cials. So we asked Mr. Burris to look into’itand:see what in- - formation he could get con- cerning what actually happened. We didn't get a chance to see his body, we didn't get a chance to see the police report," Mr. Vontoure said. The Sacramento . , Compas Office ruled that the am” loy t 's death vee as ) | by “acute cocaine intoxica- tion." While the’ Vontoure's concede that a "trace" amount of cocaine was present in their son's body at the time of his death, they maintain that ex- cessive force through a choke- hold or some other means by the sheriff's deputies asphyxi- ated the young man. The suit alleges the officers failed to call for needed medical assis- tance until after they deter- mined Anthony. Vontoure was already deceased. In order to get answers the family had an independent autopsy performed. _ That allowed us in many ways to compare what the coroner said happened with what we believed happened," attorney Burris said. "Having been involved with this case from the very outset I was able to, for myself, obser: * the body itself. I was somewhat shocked by the various discol- oration's that were consistent with bruising and trauma on the body," he continued. "Me lack of information that has been forthcoming around the death of Anthony caused tre- mendous emotional pain and turmoil" attorney Burris said. "We're hoping this lawsuit will assist in their receiving some satisfaction, understanding and comfort in knowing what did happen to Anthony. Of course, the lawsuit itself cannot bring Anthony back to us. It's an un- fortunate, very tragic event for a young person to lose his, life at a time when he has so _ much to live for." - Mchael Vontoure Sr. says his son was living with him in South Sacramento but moved to the residence where the al- tercation took place in order to be closer to the football facili- ties at California State _. University at Sacramento. The younger Vontoure partici- pated in the Rose Bowl as an athlete at University of Washington. _ "My son was friendly. He was outgoing, always rooting for the underdog. He was very patient and very kind. He was always willing to share his tal- ent arid his ability to help bring others along," said Emma Vontoure, who lives in Concord. Anthony, who also wanted to be a teacher, was the, second son divorved Vontoures lost. A middle son, Chris, died in a 1993 rafting accident. "There's no timetable on grief. We didn't know it but God was preparing us for a second go-round at this Emma | Vontoure said. The Vontoures are seeking $55 ~ million in damages. "It is our hope and desire that as this lawsuit proceeds we will be in the position to un- cover the true facts that hap- pened," attorney Burris said The attorney recently repre- sented family members of Donald Venerable, a Black man fatally shot by Sacra- mento Police officers respond- ing to a domestic violence call. Officers said they believed Venerable was holding a gun when he was actually holding a cell phone. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Lou Fatur said he could not comment on the case because of the pending lawsuit. The Associated Press reported in 2002 that Sheriff's spokes- man James Lewis said Vontoure died at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. ‘At no point did officers ever strike him, nor did they use any control holds," Sgt. Lewis said at the time, He added that... Mr. ‘Vontoure was on the three civilians as he yelled that men in "green rng were coming, to get hi Lewis told AP that two depu- ties responded to a 911 call. at an apartment around 4a.m: The caller he said, was hold- ing down a friend who was "bipolar and being violent." At the press conference both Emma and Michael Vontoure denied their son suffered from the disorder . LITTLE WILLIE CELEBRATE: & DAUGHTER. KEYNOTE SPEAK SMITH & HIS MOTHER, MS SMITH IN GREENVILLE AT THEIR ANNUAL BANQUET MS ARRENTON ER FROM RADIO ONE DIRECTOR OF GOSPEL MUSIC JERRY & THE CHAIRMAN OF THE LITTLE WILLIE CENTER. HATS OFF i L a. i ii fi i! ) tal) - nti SHOWN AT PITT COMMUNITY COLLEGE'S OUT REACH PROGRAM CONGRESSMAN FRANK BALLANCE DIRECTOR EARNEST LEE SHOWN REV RANDY ROYAL, GREENVILLE CITY COUNCIL MEMBPR ROSE GLOVER, CONGRESSMAN FRANK BALLANCE & OTHERS aa Serving Eastern North Carolina Since 1 ground Being restrained by | ~The General Baptist Convention Mid-Year Session at. Sycamore Hill Missionary Baptist Church - May 4th thru 7th, 2003 On Sunday May 4th, 200,3 the Members of the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina started gathering in large numbers, the Mid Year Session Sit Down And Shut Up." at Sycamore Hill Missionary Ba ! pm. Dr. Howard Parker, Jr. is the Pastor. Dr Will Certificate Program Class in Christian Disci ‘Dr. A. Lincoln James, Pastor of the Trioni tist Church., in Greenville, for iam A. Thurston conducted a pleship. The largely attended class filled one side of the Sanctuary. ty Baptist Church in Richmond, Va. Shared a sermon entitled, " photo by Jim Rouse State Senat Passes . Death Penalty Moratorium _ BY CASH MICHAELS OF THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL Advocates for a moratorium on the death penalty in North Carolina call it an unprece- dented and historic vote," and certainly'the most signifiéant development in the state's anti- death penalty efforts to prove _ that North Carolina's capital punishment system is biased against low-income and com- munities of color. On Wednesday in 4 29-21 vote, the state Senate approved a two- year. moratorium on capital Bunishment. If adopted by the General Assembly, the moratorium would last until June 2005, during which time lawmakers would study alleged inequities in North Carolina's death penalty system. The measure must now pass a major hurdle in the evenly split state House. | This was the first time in his- tory either chamber of the General Assembly had ever considered a death penalty moratorium bill. "Today, thanks to the steadfastness and faith of ordinary North Carolinians, NC Senators who had in the past refused even to rneet with their own constituents about the idea of a moratorium on executions rose and gave passionate speeches urging their colleagues to support a moratorium," Stephen Dear, executive direc- tor of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty’ (PFADP), a nonprofit, statewide interfaith anti-death penalty group, said. i For Dear and other advocates, | this was the week they'd always dreamed of. On Tuesday, the NC Senate Judiciary 1 Committee voted to recommend passage of a two- year moratorium on state- sponsored executions to the full "This is really an historic mo- ment, and it's really a moment that will improve our justice system in North Carolina," Dear said then. Advocates say as long as there are pana of racial, geo- raphical and socioeconomic ias, and legal impropriety sur- rounding ca-pital punishment in North Carolina, lawmakers should grant the two years to study the system, and fix the inequities. In order for the bill to beat the crossover deadline so that the state House can consider it, the Senate had to pass the legisla- tion this week, or the issue would have been. dead for an- other two years. Advocates now plan to lobby House members hard when ac- tivists from across,the state con- verge on the General Assembly May 6. According to PFADP, more than 750 North Carolina church congregations, busi- nesses, and community groups; and 21 local governments, have passed resolutions calling for a moratorium on executions. ponents, including Gov.' Mike Easley, say a death pen- alty moratorium is not needed because any allegations of bias are usually taken up during the long appeals process, They say the state's criminal justice sys- tem works fine, and those who commit murder should face due punishment. They accuse moratorium pro- ponents of trying to ul- timately bend. executions. But in just the past few mon- ths judges have ordered new trials in two death penalty cases, Citing a failure by the prosecution in turning over exculpatory evidence to the de- fense. In one of those cases, Superior Court Judge Michael,Beale of Wadesboro recently ordered.a new trial for death row inmate Jerry Lee Hamilton, who was convicted of a 1994 Rocking- ham murder in Richmond County. The state withheld exculpatory evidence at , Hamilton's trial. DNA samples ~ from the crime match Hamilton's codefendant and do not match Hamilton. Hamilton's codefendant initially confessed to the crime then recanted, and was the key witness against Hamilton at trial. there was no evidence linking Hamilton to the crime other than the code- fendant's testimony. PFADP's Stephen Dear says there have been several con- victed murderers in North Carolina who have been ulti- mately proven innocent after a corruption of the system was discovered, "Look into their cases and you will find prosecutorial misconduct, inadequate defense counsel, false testimonies-a slew of horror stories that L) THE MINORITY VOICE hence Pane SB "What You Sees What You Get William Clark General Mgr. _ A Black woman in the South, for example, had no right after the Civil War. A white employer had made Lena Baker, a descendant of enslaved Africans, his sex slave. After he threatened to kill her with a pistol, they tussled and it fell to the floor. He reached to pick up a piece ‘of iron. ‘She picked up the pistol and fired it. He felldead. = "You guessed it; An all white male jury convicted Baker and sentenced her to die in the electric chair. In March : ER ty gas eae oh Gs aaa : aca E a 2 ‘e Oe aan see a ft “, tion, they live in you. My mother lives in me. During child- hood, a mother makes many of your decisions for you while Not only was she able to. navigate the present but she invaluable. Of course, motherhood is beyond a biological ately to pacify Blacks and to put public funds in the hands Paula Penn-Nabrit is 4 mother of three sons and an mental kee kes the Ivy agua.” She not only advocates home-echooling but insi ed that Black males be used to supplement the home- schooling of her sons. She and her husband were the pri- rule rather than the exception. = -| whims of a white man, Lena Baker became the first | was admitted to Amherst, After initially allowing her sons I was born in Inkster, Michigan, in July 1945. My par- | womari to be electrocuted in Georgia's electric chair, A | to matriculate at publie and private schools, she reasoned ‘that traditional school systems were damaging to her sons’ ents had the Cotton Curtain and a Jim Crow state nal school sys ado| onors Georgia's escaped self-esteem. They also had to confront racism while mas- Perdue told reporters. “It is also a Black woman had to submit to a white man’s sexual has to do with educating our children. The vast majority of children in the public school sys- tem are Black and Hispanic. The majority of teachers in the system, white. The majority of the school aides or teacher assistants are Black and Hispanic. Many of them are just being notified that their low-paying jobs are being cut, or that they're being dismissed. Teachers in the New York school system aren't the worst-paid teachers in America, but they aren't the best paid, either. Teachers in the near suburbs of Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties are paid in many instances decidedly more. These suburbs devote their money, time and attention to the education of their children, who are primarily whites, who live there for a number of reasons. ‘The most important of these reasons for them is that they simply do not wish to be around Black and Hispanic peo- ple. Given this, New York City’s best and brightest teach- ers, with the exception of Blacks and Hispanics, gravitate to the suburbs to live, and even when they do not, they try desperately to get jobs in suburban school systems, where they have partners working to help them.teach their chil- dren. These teachers cry out that they are overworked and underpaid, especially when they have failed in their attempt to move to the suburbs or get a job teaching there. Having been rejected by the suburbs for whatever reason ~ lack of jobs, or inability to qualify for the jobs — a slew of resentful and angry teachers find their way into our school cgetaenetin ney mp estat edly 0 wig that coves vary lt about the performance of these teachers and everything about how many dimes, or dollars, can be added to their pay- check, and how many minutes of every day they will be allowed to do something other than teach our children, \ stop any new idea and new approach to teaching a group of youngsters who have not been taught by the teachers in our system in too many years to count. In other words, our children are becoming functional illiterates with high school diplomas, in many instances, who have not yet learned to read or write. And they have certainly not been able to compete effectively with incoming people from sub- urbs who have been better trained and better taught, and who learned at an early age how to navigate the MTA sys- who stand to win, gain or lose most from the $12 billion school budget? We know that Ms. Weingarten has made her peace with following the money. We do not yet know whether the mayor or the chancellor will opt for the same for personal comfort, or for popularity with the unions. It certainly would not be for the money, for it is apparent that the chancellor and the mayor are well-fixed financially, We cannot speak for the wealth, or lack thereof, of Ms. Wein- tem in order to get to Wall Street and Midtown Manhat- | garten tan, where most of the jobs ~ especially the well-paying positions — are held by people who ride the rails from Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk and New Jersey. New York children ought to be able to compete effec- tively for these jobs. But they are not, due usually to the fact that teachers are not properly trained and the union leadership could give less than a damn whether the teachers teach our children. Thus, an attitude of failure at both ends of thé spectrum. Randi Weingarten is a product of this corrupt system, and it will remain that way until the teachers union is no longer a political jug- gernaut. . This is not at all to anoint Mayor Bloomberg for the job he has done with the school system. Certainly, it must be said, that he has done a better job than what was ever done by the Giuliani administration. As a matter of fact, every once in a while we get the idea that the mayor real- ly cares about what happens in the school system. His appointment of Deputy Mayor for Education Dennis Wal- cott and Chancellor Joel Klein gave us reason to believe - at first blush — that the mayor could actually care about what happens to our children. Certainly he ought to as a The fight that is now well underway will hurt a great many people. Most of these will be our children. If we decide that the mayor and his chancellor are the guilty parties, then we have to organize the city in such a way as to rid ourselves of those by defeating Mayor Bloomberg in his next election. For Ms. Weingarten, it is a more compli- cated matter. Union members must decide her fate. Given her success at getting money for them, her defeat by elec- tion of the union sounds like a long shot. There has to be another way to do it. It must be found. . Given the dilemma in which the majority of the resi- dents of New York City find themselves when it comes to educating our children, it seems to us that we are in a quandary, between a rock and hard place. One thing that we can vaguely believe is that the mayor and the chancel- lor want to do the right and decent thing when it comes to educating our children. Not so for the teachers union, if we are to be guided by the way the leadership of the union is acting at this time. That is a pity, because over the years we have come to think of the teachers union as one of the more enlightened and caring organizations in labor. The last few years have made that belief an impossible dream. is Swahili for “light of Kenya") are still legal tender and- were ms held in the Kenyan Central Until last week. all Kenyan bank notes bore the face of Daniel arap Moi, who became president in 1978 when Kenyatta died and who stayed in power until last year when President Moi Kibaki was elected. One of Kibaki’s election pledges was that he wouldn't print new bank notes bearing his own portrait. This is in line with Kibaki’s other measures against’ the corruption and extravagance that marked much of arap Moi’s rule. The Kenyatta notes will circulate along side the arap Moi notes while parliament. oversees the design of new notes, which one MP suggested should feature national heroes, and traditional cultural images that reflect the nation’s history. ~ Georgia. In 1945, you only left Georgia on a one-way tick- | whims. . é o had to con cis told repor : et. A round-trip ticket was out of the question. Gov. Eugene | __ My mother conceded that the risk of physical harm was tering academic subjects. This is double jeopardy. Most jflag that will allow us to move Talmadge ran Georgia like Adolph Hitler ran Nazi Ger- greater in Georgia, but the risk of psychological damage | Black children have to face it. | — forward together.” . many. They harbored the kame views on race. Hitler‘had | was greater in Michigan. She concluded that I would be | - Some people may have been inclined to summarily dis- _ The new flag was recently | better off'in Coweta County, Georgia, than in Wayne Coun- | miss her views, except that her husband's uncle was James raised over the State Capitol for | : ty, Michigan. Since I was a child and presumed incompe-¢ Nabrit, who, with Thurgood Marshall and George E.C. _| the first time shortly after Purdue aE tent, I had no say in the matter, and my mother was able to '| Hayes, was a lead attorney for the NAACP in the Brown v. signed the bill. The new design THE BLACK outvote my father. oo Board of Education case, which overturned the “separate | bears a close resemblance to the . As an educator, she knew a thing or two about psycho- | but equal” doctrine in Pleasy v. Ferguson. . Confederate design but without PRESS logical harm suffered in a classroom. Her decision to leave | She apparently agrees with the conclusion in this his- the infamous Dixie cross of stars. 715 Michigan was not only contrary to popular opinion, but it toric case but disagrees with its rationale — that segregat- | The words “In God.We Trust” are HeEITO was also visionary: The NAACP, on the other hand, would | ed schools with mostly Black teachers imposed badges of inscribed on a blue field in the top | USE IT OR _ | argué that segregated schools imposed a badge of inferior- | inferiority on Black children. For the past 49 years, this left corner, » tices am ity on children of African ancestry. rationale, which confirms white supremacy, has wreaked “This is a historic day in Georgia | L e. E IT! HH | The Supreme Court embraced this view in Brown v. | havoc on the Black community. and I didn't want my daughter to —— Board of Education, decided on May 17, 1954, which | Although Mayor Michael Bloomberg is embarking on a miss out on it,” said Lateshia | oe prompted Georgia, in 1956, to openly pledge its allegiance | circumlocutofy path in education, he is also seeking to Jackson, an African-American | oe to the Confederate States of America by adopting a new | inflict more psychological damage on Black children by who brought her six-year-old Malcolm X, Haiti and a man named John Brown holdous can carry all the sgn By WILLIAMLOREN {for treason. Though Brown is | slaves so they could begin their | insane figure who brought onthe| | “You may dispose of me very good day for me, my daughter and By - KATZ still denounced ae a madman | liberation. Civil War. A Hollywood movie | easily ... but this question is still some lost sanity in Georgia.” In his new book, “Fire From | and traitor in U.S. textbooks, he | | When Brown’s plan failed and | portrays Brown as a deranged | to be settled — this Negro ques- A flag raised in 2001, hailed for the Midst of You” (NYU Press, remains a hero to the Malcolm | he was captured, African-Ameri- | religious fanatic and features | tion, I mean; the end of it is not its political brilliance when it 2002), Louis. A. DeCaro Jr, | X’s and Toussaint LOuvertures | cans sent letters of support to} Ronald Reagan as Lt. George | yet,” he said. replaced a divisive banner dom inated author of two books on Malcolm | of the world. . Brown in his cell, and others | Custer, who helps capture the) _ Brown died on the gallows in _| by the Confederate battle cross, X, makes clear why Malcolm | Haitians have good reason to | mounted his picture on their | madman. December 1859. Within two received a swift backlash. The once ‘responded to a famous | celebrate Brown. DeCaro | walls. | “Fire From the Midst of You” | years Union soldiers marched 2001 flag was a compromise that question with a no-less-famous | reveals that Brown “had read all | Brown’s willingness to act on | has rescued Brown from his| into battle against the Confeder- shrank the Confederate emblem two-word answer. Asked if he | the literature he could find | his religious ing that | scholarly detractors and com-| acy singing of John Brown, “His and incorporated it in an would admit any white man to | about LOuverture for a dozen | slavery was a violence that had | pares his religious passion to] truth goes marching on.” John assortment of previous state flags his new organization, Malcolm | years” and spent the last days | to be met with violence made | that- of Malcolm X, who also Brown's dream was fulfilled dur- “In no way am.I sad that flag is shot back, “John Brown.” | before his execution reading a | him a pariah to white Americans | believed that peace without jus-| ing the war's later years, when being retired,” said Rep. Tyrone DeCaro also explains why | biography of the liberator. | North and South, and still does. | tice was hollow. . more than 200,000 former slaves —_| Brooks (D), who led the charge to Haiti, home to'the only success- | Brown saw slavery the way | A recentaohn Brown documen-| DeCaro’s thoroughly | joined the Union Army and Navy adopt it two years ago. “It’s not ful slave rebellion in human his- | LOuverture did, and he also | tary on public television begins | researched, powerfully written | to fight their former masters. exactly, you know, anybody’s tory and the first democratic | rose against it with a righteous | with Brown being taken to his | page-turner tells how Brown] Black troops liberated their fam- dream flag.” . . revolution to eliminate bondage | wrath and an army. With a band | execution and ends with Brown | used the 40 days before his exe- | ilies as they captured Charleston Georgia: voters will still get a in the world, has a John Brown | of 22 men that included his own | being taken to his execution. The | cution to hammer home his anti-| and other leading Confederate chance to choose between the flags Boulevard. sons, white volunteers and five | documentary’s writers seem to | slavery message. He refused to| cities, and also saved the Union. next year in a statewide John Brown was not Haitian, | African-Americans, Brown | be saying: This is the penalty for | accept the prayers of pro-slavery| William Loren Katz is the referendum. Few expect the 2001 not Muslim’ nor of African | attacked the federal arsenal at | whites who dare to emulate this | ministers and prophetically| author of “Black Indians”and 40 | flag to'return. descent. He was a white Ameri- | Harper's Ferry, Virginia, with | man. On-screen white scholars | warned his fellow citizens that | other books. His Web site is “T've never seen anybody flying can executed in 1859 by Virginia | the idea of handing its arms to } speak of Brown as a violent, | slavery would lead to bloodshed. | www.williamlkatz.com. it, you never seen it on a boat, you : — a never seen it at a football game, . achievement and, if capable, | enrolled at Chad, white men ant embraced every tool possible to | Bloomberg's racism in firing nobody flies this thing,” Rep. BPEGPVV ER... | should be the chila’s first academ- | reali; estate: «specu | keep people of African ancestry | Blacks and Latinos. | Larry Walker toldreporters, oo Niteacher. = Poverty seivéd control. ofthe out of the educational loop. | Glenda’ Brawley, ‘Tawana = |" oii aha! weed engl Utes (Continued from Page12) | There must be a loving rela: | board of directors and at least We must stay focused. We | Brawley’s mother, is always Study finds ‘startling’ evicting Black and Latino para- | tionship between teacher and stu- | two valuable tracts of land. | must be unwilling to suffer any | remembered in my home on increase in Black ¢ in professionals from the school sys- | dent, and the teacher must under- | Whites similarly control 95 per- | further educational casualties Mother's Day. She has all the jail girls tem. Public schools in historically | stand and appreciate the child’s | cent of all policy-making posi- | like Bishop College in Dallas and, | attributes of a Harriet Tubman . oppressed communities are no | culture. The public school system | tions in public education. This is | possibly, Morris Brown College in | and a Fannie Lou Hamer. The (NNPA) “American girts more than holding pens like dur- | in New York City flunks on both | unacceptable. Atlanta. Right off the plantation, morhentum must be sustained to makeup 2 ee veal ae slavery. . counts. Malcolm X, born on May Black parents and Black | our ancestors made unbelievable | vacate criminal charges against nation’s juvenil J fend . The most gifted children in | 19, 1925, was an outstanding | school personnel are engaged in a | strides to build Black schools and | her and to allow for her return to according to the National = all New York are only entitled to | advocate for Black people, but a | fight to the finish to save this | colleges in this country. With a | New York. Her daughter was kid- on Crime and Delinque unc receive an eighth-grade education | white teacher told him in the | school from vampires who are | trillion-dollar economy in the | napped and raped by white law- A in quency. hs and are expected to flunk all stan- | eighth grade that he lacked the | acting as though they are in a | Black community, we have obliga- enforcement officials, and New jest pris Africans nee e dardized achievement tests in | ability to become an attorney. No | blood bank. These white men | tion to sustain this legacy. York sided with the kidnappers girls “with “American high school. This ploy is openly | Black child should be subject toa | have strangled Black teachers | As we recognize and, in many | and the rapists. . rose — ‘ raced artenses designed to enhance the inmate | racist teacher. financially; nonetheless, most of | cases, celebrate Brown v. Board of | The New York Times set out to comr perce ith m 0 1994, population. Bloomberg has as This is why we must support | these loyal teachers have | Education, let us not forget the destroy Tawana and her family, as, aR ‘girls a 38 percent much business in a school system | schools like the Chad School in | remained at the school through | question posed by the Hon. Elijah | it sought to destroy Wen Ho Lee. increase overall. Juvenile as a fox has in a hen house. Newark and Sankofa Academy in | the most difficult times. This is | Muhammad: “If the white man Now it is scapegoating Jayson me grvency rer involving young When I was a child, home- | Brooklyn. My grandchildren | Black love. will not treat you right, why do | Blair for journalistic fraud. The aes , reased by 106 schooling was illegal. Yet, I am a | attend the Chad School, which Blacks gave the world educa- | you think he will teach you New York Times, with roots in the be Dis Det coy 988 and 1997, product of home-schooling - | was founded by Blacks after the | tion, and it is plausible that edu- | right?” Let us also not forget the Confederacy, is in itself a journal- Africe ee onately, young somewhat. My mother taught me | urban rebellion, more than 40 | cation has been our number one | words of Alma John, “Each one, | istic fraud. Blair, a descendant of in-American and . Latino at home, but she also was one of | years ago, in Newark. It has | priority ever since we have been | teach one.” It is of considerable | enslaved Africans, should not women 80 to school in my first public school teachers. | achieved an excellent academic | enslaved in North America. | interest to me and, possibly, an | have to shoulder all of the weight | COmmunities where violence is Parents have the greatest inter- | record. Throughout the past 400 years, | irony ‘hat the United Federation | for the paper's congenital and - Nich aang Heather Johnston- est in a child’s educational Just before my grandchildren white supremacists have !of Teachers has exposed | perennial ethical lapses. Girls sa Fee wont on . you're learning violence as a way Editorial Kenya’s founding father is ~ - — , back on banknotes Teachers are being carefully taught how not to educate (NPA) To see money on r e By WILBERT A. TATUM We would love to believe that Randi Weingarten and | businessman in New York looking for New Yorkers to pro- Ok the be any ini | Publisher Emeritus and Chairman of the Board her union truly care about what is happening to our chil- | vide the intellectual base for his businesses. We do believe bank notes bearing the face of the Mayor Bloomberg and UFT boss Randi Weingarten are | dren, but every time there comes a point at which she | that he cares. But do-we believe that he cares strongly country’s founding president feuding again. This time the feud is over money - what | could'stand up for the integrity of teachers and better- enough in educating our children that he will take on a Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, ’ else? It is over money for her teachers and little else that ment of the system, she opts for doing whatever she can to | political fight with the powers that be in education, those The Kenyatta notes (Kenyatta Faith May GOD, SATAN AND WAR War is not new, nor is it pecu- liar to Planet Earth. War began . long before earth was created, and it began right in heaven, right in God's own house! The most magnificent being God has ever created, Lucifer the Lightbearer, who hovered over the throne of God and orches- trated the heavenly choir, be- came puffed up with pride. He decided that he was doing all the work---not God---and there- of O. New Gen the word and sent Satan into eternal obliviion? Certainly, He could have---God can do any- thing! So why didn't He? Is there something about war that is more than we can see on the surface? When we look back at the fail of Satan, it is obvious that the first war in the universe came about as the direct result of sin. Lucifer's pride grew into ava- rice. Avarice formented rebel- lion. Rebellion disrupted the wonderful harmony of heaven. Beings created to be eternal, who had felowshipped together for eons of time in love and praise of God, suddenly clashed in battle. Hatred ed the hearts of the fallen angels, who has been deceived into follow- ing Satan. . As the war in heaven found its way to earth, mankind was con- scripted by Satan to fight on his side in the rebellion against God. In the moment that man fell at the Garden of Eden, the utopian peace that had marked life in paradise was broken, and sin entered the world. That world is precarious at best. God allows war to drive men to their knees and acknowledge Him as Lord and Savior. God is not the author of war. That comes from Satan. But God Himself has set the exam- le for us, by resisting evil and ghting back against the en- emy. When Lucifer launched his campaign to take over Heaven, God did not sit batk - and allow time to "give peace a’ chance." He knew that the devil would never abandon his quest for power and adoration. God even knew that Satan's re- bellion would spread to planet earth. He knew the terrible heartache it would cause: the blood that would be shed, the souls that would eventually end up in hell. Yet, He marshaled the angels of heaven anyway, ; peace will never be returned to and commanded them to do fore he deserved the praise of making, until Jesus returns in battle, driving Satan and the the heavenly host. So he set out power and glory at the end of deceived fallen angels out of to tear God from His throne. In the tribulation, Heaven. Satan started it, but in cong, Lucifer Decame Satan, War produces many terrible the end God will be the finisher € great adversary of God. ings. inely. it al f war. Could God simply have spoken things. But amazingly, it also of war. { Brian Burnett Stay In Control 2003 Once we graduate, we will step into a new department of growth and-developm will leam how to live on our own without our parents. Some of our parents do not think that we are ready yet, so we must . prove just how ready we are. We will develop into the next generation of success. We are the class of completion. Upon the many tasks that our Class have gone through, we — have completed and passed them all. Do not think that we need to stop working hard be- cause our school days are com- ing to an end. We still need to get our "completion of grade certificate" called the diploma. After we graduate we will be on the next level of life; college life. We must keep a leveled head at all times and we must prove our independence is worth taking a risk upon by our parents. You know that the col- lege life can be wild and crazy, so we must stay in control of our life and actions. We are re- sponsible for our actions and no, one else. Though it will be "freedom" stay within the lines of correction. Keep your parents morals in your life. Don't take control over nobody's life but your own. You are not God and you can not make anyone do something, they do not want to do. I'm sayin that we need to stay in contfol, not take control. We don't want to get a reputa- tion of disaster. College life will be wonderful and I know we | can get through anything that the world will throw at us, even if we need help... Parents. To the class of 2003, strive for suc- cess and nothing but the best will be in our lives. Why I Have Certain Goals Sometimes people come up to te,and ask me why | have cer- | tain goals. All I can tell them is " that its in my blood..I want to do so many things that it seems impossible, but I know I can do them. I want to be so many things for different, yet under- standing, reasons. One goal of mine is to become a lawyer. What inspired me was the fact that it was the only law job that I saw that could help people and debate about things at the same time. That and the fact that my mother has gone through things that could have taken legal action, but didn't because her parents weren't fa- miliar with the way the legal system worked. I also want to become a professional singer and actor. I want to become a famous actor and singer because I want to have enough money to help people that are in need. | even have planned to help peo- ple who are in need with a job 0 help them pet started on their way. I like helping le, and when I saw on television how some countries live be- cause of lack of governmental $s funds, it bothered me. I said to myself that if I had lots of money I could help that country out, while entertaining them at the same time. People ask me, "Well how are you going to an actor. and a lawyer at the same time?" |.'tell them well if I was an actor and lawyer, I could defend the other actors who get in law suits because they will know me from either acting with them or hearin about me in the acting fiel somewhere down the road. Some people have double ma- jors, some even triple, and I fig- ure that if they can do that I can be more than just an actor or just a lawyer. My grand- - mother has inspired.me to con, -. ih ‘tinue with the plans I haye for my life by telling me to.keep on . doing what I'm doing no matter what people say, I have this idea of a program that can keep teenagers off the streets and from getting into trouble, drugs, and from getting kicked out or drop out of school. I developed this idea when I took a dual en- rollment class at one of the lo- cal community colleges in my area and took a course with a group of officers and future law enforcement workers. | also de- veloped this idea while studying - some people from my school, including myself, and break their lives into segments to see why they do the things they do. I put all the information to- gether and shared it with my ' professor and she thought it was a wonderful idea. In the fu- ture I am planning on fulfilling this idea and spreading it across America. However, most of my inspirations comes from Jesus Christ, because without him, I would not have a future goal to tell or to fulfill. w University Alumni welcomes new president... Dr. Clarence G,. Newsome, Shaw Universiey' 13th president came to Greenville to meet alumni from across fastern North Carolina. 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The scientist, Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha, had been negotiating her surrender for days and turned herself in over _ the weekend, said Maj. Brad Lowell of the U.S. Central Comm-and. U.N. weapons inspectors nicknamed Taha "Dr. Germ" because she ran the Iraqi biological weapons Yacility where scientists worked with anthrax, botulinum toxin and aflatoxin. A microbiologist, Taha holds a doctorate from the University of East Anglia in Britain. Also reported captured was Armed Forces Chief of Staff Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al Sattar Muhammad al Tikriti, Pentagon officials said, citing initial reports from the region. He is No.1! on a list issued last month of the 55 most wanted former members of Sadd-am's regime and the jack of spades in a card deck is- sued to troops looking for regime leaders. No details of his capture were available. Taha is not on the list of the 55, but among 200 Iraqis that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has said are sought but who have not all been named publicly. Taha once said in a radio interview that Iraq was justified in producing germ weapons for its self-defense. American forces have been trying to capture her and last month raided her Baghdad home, carrying away boxes of documents but not finding her or her husband. Taha is married to Amer Rashid, who held top posts in Saddam's missile programs and was oil minister be- fore the war. Rashid surrendered to U.S. forces April 28, 12 days after that Baghdad raid. The couple was married in 1994 and has a young daughter, Rashid was the six of spades in the deck of cards. Current and former inspectors who interviewed Taha in the mid-1990s described her as difficult and dour. The Iraqis presented her as the head of the biological program, but inspectors suspect she may have been fronting for someone more senior. She met with U.N. teams before the war on technical issues. Officials have captured a number of former officials who they had hoped would give information on the un- conventional weapons programs the Bush administration has said the regime had-: . Last week they reported the capture of Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, among the 55 most wanted and a woman officials believe played a key role in rebuilding Baghdad's biological weapons capability in the 1990s. Nearly two dozen of the top 55 also are in custody, officials have said. Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said last month that Taha and her husband, Rashid, would be among "the most interesting per- sons" for the Americans to question. Blix's teams pulled out of Iraq shortly before the war began after 3 1/2 months work. a The Bush administration, whieh bitterly disagreed with Blix over whether Iraq has chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, has not invited U.N. inspectors to take part in a continuing U.S.-led hunt for weapons. The U.N. Security Council's cease-fire resolution after the first Gulf War which evicted Saddam forces that had invaded Kuwait — included stringent demands for the destruction of Iraq's chemical, biological and nu- clear weapons and payment of war damages to Kuwait. The main reason the administration cited for going to war was to disarm Saddam of unconventional weap- ons, which the regime denied having. In an interview broadcast in February, Taha said Iraq was justified in producing germ weapons in the 1980s and 1990s to defend itself. She told the British Broadcasting Corp., she was involved in producing Iraq's fi- nal weapons declaration to the United Nations. She said Saddam's regime was telling the truth when it said _ it no longer had any chemical or biological weapons. ; . _ Taha told the BBC her country never planned to use the biological agents it produced in the 1980s and early 1990s. "We never wanted to cause harm or damage to anybody," she said. "Iraq has been threatened by different enemies and we are in an area that suffers from regional conflict. I think it is our right to have something to defend ourselves and to have something as a deterrent." GREENVILLE INDUSTRIAL- CHARLES MONTGOMERY EPPES HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION & HERITAGE SOCIETY stip, MEMORIAL DAY REUNION WEEKEND MAY 23 - 25, 2003 . CELEBRATING THE C. M. EPPES CENTENNIAL WW: will celebrate our annual Alumni Reunion Memorial Day weekend, May 23rd thrvugh 25, 2003. We have reached several milestones. Pleswe come and help us CELEBRATE!!! Jimmnye 1. Jones, National President Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Ly Sewer spills YUK! They're messy, bad for the environment, and can result in stiff financial penalties from state regulators. Greenville Utilities does everything it can to prevent sewer spills. But we can’t do it alone. You play an important role in helping us maintain an efficient public sanitary sewer system. What causes sewer spills? It’s simple. They're caused by improper disposal of items into the sewer system. We ask you to be aware of the following guidelines: | @ Please avoid pouring fats, oils or grease from cooking down the drain. Instead, coilect them in a container and dispose in the trash. @ Please don’t use your toilets as a wastebasket. Place a waste- basket in the bathroom to dispose of items such as disposable diapers and personal hygiene products. * Unless you have a garbage disposal, please don’t use your drain to dispose of food scraps. Place food scraps in waste containers or garbage bags for disposal. . Salute To Our Pastor. ...... The THuaph Missionary Baptist Church Family We appreciate your cooperation in following those few simple guidelines. Together, we can protect our sewer system and our environment. For more information, please contact us at 551-1551. \Greenville %, Utilities honored their pastor, Rev. C. B, Gray, for all of his efforts in leading his church family through Hurricane Floyd. Rev. House, pastor of St.. Peter Missionary Baptist Church, helped to spearhead the event along with the Hasley Family whose mother was a great supporter of the church being remembered. The music was provided by the renowned recording artist, The Vines Sisters and Family. This was truly a memorable event. photo by Jim Rouse 5 a ami tiga Me oem Cepescins, and Rion training base in Kansas, he D.D. GARRETT AGENCY “SINCE 1946” a if you need someone to collect your rent be as rigid and destructive as : : any force in american life.” once wrote in a letter to the and manage your property! _ Today the monihan report, as editor of a The New York Several nice ‘bullding: tots: we handle conv... it became known, is widely re- Times, he Eres mE Tmt 13 de fear races. oy Cp aettirnds eee areeed AV es garded as a pivotal and ncept of a “master race” was f° :.-- 0: HUD, VA and: FMA, financing | —_ phetic assessment, with s lib. not rer ° the Nazis. “our $2 ern 205 Hine St., Farmville, NC. 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