Serving Eastern North Carolina Since 1980 Rerertons Sought Dade Ate Race Ri By Scott Gold, Times Staff Writer TULSA, Okla) A dwindling number of race-riot survivors some more than 100 years old will finally have a chance to make their case for reparations, cight decades after a white mob tore into a thriving black neighborhood, leaving as many as 300 people dead. At a federal courthouse here this morning, lawyers representing more than 100) survivors and 300 descendants of victims are scheduled to have their first opportunity to argue that their lawsuit seeking damages from the city and state should proceed to trial. The city and state have asked Senior U.S. District Judge James Ellison to dismiss the suit. Advocates on both sides see the case as a bellwether in the national campaign to secure reparations for descendants of slaves. Civil rights: leaders believe it could shape the reparation movement's legal strategy and help - persuade the public that society bears some responsibility for centuries-old offenses. Thursday night, in anticipation of todav's hearing, more than 250 people of various races held a vigil. One woman held a hand-painted sign that read, "Tulsa: Two Cities." The Rev. Milford Carter, one of the city's religious leaders, told the crowd that Tulsa had been "stunted" by a legacy of racism. "God loves justice and he loves Justice now," he said. "From this day forward, an action _ begins that will not stop until it finds ultimate commitment." The vigil was held’ at Greenwood Cultural Center in north Tulsa. not far from where the "violence erupted May 31, 1921. That day, a local newspaper carried a young white woman's allegation that: she had beer assaulted by a black teenager. A white lynch mob walked to the jail where the teen was being held and was met by a group of blacks. A shot rang out, and the riot began. Thousands of whites descended on the nearby community of Greenwood. a bustling black neighborhood that included a business district known across the South as "Black Wall Street" because of its enterprise and success. By the next afternoon, as many as 300 people, mostly biacks, were dead. Thirty-five square blocks of Greenwood were reduced to ash and rubble. More than 1.000 buildings, including churches and schools. were destroyed. A city investigation concluded that the riot was a "Negro uprising.” No one was ever prose- cuted, nor were blacks compensated for the loss of property. Authorities also never prosecuted the teenager on the assault claims. Though accounts vary, some historians believe that the teen mistakenly Stepped on his accuser's foot in an elevator, causing her to fall, and that she screamed when he tried to catch her. The survivors’ and descendants' lawsuit seeks reparations for the death of family members and the loss of homes and businesses. Plaintiffs’ lawyers, accusing the city and state of participating in a “conspiracy of silence" afier the riot, are secking unspecified financial damages. They also seek several other means of redress, including a declaration that the state grand jury that carried out the first investiga- tion, exonerating all whites, was a fraud, said Michael D. Hausfeld, a leading attorney for the survivors. The lawsuit seeks to have the state establish a new grand jury that would identify people responsible for the riot. The state has argued that the Ith Amendment, which typically shields states from federal lawsuits, madé it immune from the claims. The Unarmed Black teen killed city says the statute of limitations for a case such as this is two years, making the lawsuit © invalid. . "These arguments are past their time and. should not go forward," said Oklahoma Assistant Atty. Gen. Wellon Poe. “It could very '~ well end here." Today's hearing is expected to address only the requests to have the case thrown out. The judge is not expected to deliver a decision immedi- ately. The loser is expected to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver. Several architects of the case, including Harvard University law professor Charles _ Ogletree, are key players in the reparations movement for descendants of © slaves. Proponents of reparations believe that 246 years of unpaid labor helped the United States become a superpower, and that the economic ' disparity between whites and blacks today can be traced directly to slavery. Ogletree compared the Tulsa case to the early work of Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights icon and the first black Supreme Court justice. As a: young lawyer, Marshall picked his first cases carefully, pursuing a strategy that resulted in a landmark decision Brown vs. the Board of Education, declaring segregation in public schools illegal and helped set the stage for the modern civil rights movement, Ogletree said. "There will be evidence that this problem is far larger than Tulsa," he said. “This is just the tip of the iceberg." . Opponents of reparations see parallels too and, as a result, say it is paramount that government officials win the case. Feburary 2004 zx uu FIIITAIIIII oe the Oklahoma Indians t ' to sue as well? How far do you go? Do the ( Egyptians today pay Israelites?" The riot was rarely discussed until 1996, its 75th anniversary, when the Oklahoma Legislature created the Race Riot Commission. Among other findings submitted to the state in 2001, the commission reported that scores of Whites were deputized by the Tulsa police that night and that the deputies joined the riot and plundered Greenwood. “These people were told, ‘Go out and get a damn black person’ except they used more offensive language than that, as you might imagine," said Alfred L. Brophy, a University of Alabama law professor. Brophy, a specialist in race and property law, is to testify today for the plaintiffs. Analysts call the allegation that the govemn- ment was complicit in the riot a crucial point. If the strategy succeeds, similar claims could be made in other cities where race-related riots took place, including Houston, Chicago and East St. Louis, Ill. The tactic also could be important in pushing for Slavery reparations, because many state and local governments passed laws shoring up the institution of slavery, leaving them open to allegations that they were complicit in the institution, civil rights advocates say. “This lawsuit is the vanguard of a political movement, the beginning of a national discus- sion," Brophy said. "There are fundamental issues to address. Is America truly a land of unlimited opportunity? Or is it a place where a é Sister Mary Williams is yi iT tunity and 7, : some people have unlimited opportunity Representatives in the coming election. Sister Ma some people have been left behind? Reparations nl) Counties were the topics of conversation. Ongressman Frank Ballance, Congresswoman Maxine Wat ' Clay ! Se ene oe nae Council. er aters, Ann Huggins. Taffy Clayton, City ne Waters and Congressman Frank Ballance for a visit to WOOW radio station for a live interview (pictured: left to right) Council aX Photo by Jim Rouse > Get Register ed Today oh HN a Sai a 4 represent a new way of talking about the Great 2" supporters Society." by Herb Boyd The Amsterdam News NEW YORK (NNPA)A White NYPD housing cop who turned a Black unarmed teenager's shortcut into a fatal path, faces possible indict ment. Brooklyn District Attorney, Charles J. Hynes has indicated that he will ask a grand jury to seek an iridict- ment against Officer Richard Neri, 35, who gunned down Timothy Stansbury Jr, 19, arecent moming while patrol ling the roof of the Louis Armstrong Housing Complex in Bedford Stuyvesant. According to sources close to the incident, the district atlomey will prob- ably request an indictment for crimi- nally negligent homicide, which éar ries a maximum sentence ‘of four years, or second-degree Mmanslaugh- ler, a more serious charge, which car- ries a maximum sentence of 15 yeary, Police Commissioner Raymond ( Kelly quickly responded to the trag- edy at f press conference, announc- ing that “'the shodting appears to be unjustified.” Officer Neti, accompanied by OF- ficer Jason Hallick, encountered Mr Stansbury when Both apparently ar rived at the exit door to the roof at the same time. The officer had his gun drawn und when he opened the door to check the stairwell, the gun dis- charged. One shot was fired and the youth tumbled back down the flight Of stairs onto his two companions, The bleeding youth.made it down four flights of stairs to the building's vestibule, where tie expired, Officer Neri, a resident of | Ang Island, has been placed on modified duty apd has-yerto tell his vefSion of what happened to thé district attor- ney. But sources have reported that he Has no recollection of the shoot ing. that it happened too-fast to re- member. “He is telling friends that it was an.accident,” according to sources Who have spoken to him. . “He had his gun drawn, so he in- tended to use it,’ said Phyllis Claybure, the youth's mother, “We want justice. | had great hopes for him. They are killing our dreams.” Mr. Stansbury had no prior crimi- nal record and was employed at a McDonald's not too far from his grandmother's house, where he was killed. “He was never in any trouble, and Spent most of his free time playing basketball,” said his grandmother. Irene Clayburne. His grandmother said it wasn't unusual for the boys to use the roof exit to travel from one building to another inthe complex. Stansbury, according to witnesses, had left 4 fourth floor apartment in one building,to go to the fourth floor in another building. This was easier than going all the way down and coming back up again. It was re- ported that he had gone to retrieve more CDs for a party that was in- derway, Some housing cops are permitted to patrol the rooftops with their guns drawn because of the danger of en- countering pit bulls and criminal ac- livity on the roofs. This practice is currently under review by an inter- nal panel established by Commis- sioner Kelly, Patrick Lynch, president of the New York police union, said he felt Commissioner Kelly's comment that the shooting was not Justified was a “tush to judgment” predicated on “politics and emotion." Lynch said: “The one person who knows what happened on that roof, the police officer involved, has not had the opportunity to be interviewed by the district attomey’s office as of yet.” Mayor Bloomberg supported the commissioner's response, telling the press that “a tragedy dccurred that there Was no justification for that we could see at the time. and the public has a right to know," “Rhetoric is fine, but we want ac- tion.” said Councilman Charles Barron, commending the mayor, but in New York demanding more. “Let us hope that this is more than public relations on the part of the mayor. This was a cold- blooded murder and it demands jus- tice.” If Neri is indicted, the chances of his being convicted are not good, given the recent past cases in which NYPD officers have been tried or even indicted Last spring, unarmed Ousmane Zonyo was killed by a policeman at a mini-storage in Chelsea. The case has hol gone (0 a grand jury, The cops who shot 41 bullets at Amadou Diallo, hit ting him 19 times, were indicted. but not convicted. No officers were in- dicted in the killings of Gidone Busch and Patrick Dorismond, “We must embrace our commu. nity.” said Rev. Leonard Hatter. a clergy liaison who\has comforted families in three Yecent fatal shootings in the area. including Stansbury’s. “These tragedies must come to an end, and they won't until we at | together in love and unity,” pictured at the Pitt County Board of Elections filing to run for the 8th District for the House of fy 18 pictured with campaign manager Ozzie Hall Georgina Jackson Photo by William Clark Racial Lawsuit By Michael Ellis | ) DETROIT (Reuters) - The credit arm of U. automaker General Motors Corp. reached an out of court settlement on Tuesday in a racial bias lawsuit that said it charged blacks more than whites for car loans. . The class-action lawsuit, which had been scheduled to go to trial this month, alleged that black car buyers collectively paid millions of dollars more interest for loans than whites even though thev were just as creditworthy. . The case was one of several class-action lawsuits filed against major car loan compa- nies in the United States alleging that their practices discriminate against minorities. Japan's Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. agreed to cap its dealer mark-up when it settled a lawsuit charging racial discrimination in loan prac- tices. The GMAC lawsuit was filed in 1998, when Stewart said some black consumers were charged finance rates as high as 33 percent on car loans. The settlement included no payments to the plaintiffs, whose legal foes and expenses are capped at a total $9.6 million. 4 las av a Tn VOD @7TTlAvsea i ‘ ON we we Nom nastier meneemenecanee against marriage. On the con- trary, I am for marriage when understand themselves. and each other, know what mar- riage really is and really is not and are committed to the same life goals and to each other. After nearly 13 years of mar- riage, I can testify to the won- ders of marriage. But marriage is not the solu- tion to everything. It is not a one size fits all shirt which fits all bodies. But the Bush admin- istration seems to think so. It is 80 convinced that marriage is the answer for poor women that it has proposed spending $1.5 billion (that’s right, billion) for training to help couples devel- op the skills for a “healthy” marriage. This proposal was initiated — by some conservatives who have put forth the theory that recently wrote an article which pointed out that marriage is an institution which fewer and fewer Americans of any economic status are choosing. In fact, more Americans are choosing never to get married than ever before. While the divorce rate remains about the same as it has for the past 20 or so years, the rate of thosé never married has increased dramatically. Reich says that for some women this is because there is less stig- ma attached to not marrying than there was a generation or two ago. But, he points out, part of the reason for the drop- insurance and other benefits in my en masse and some no longer have to rely on their men for income. -Reich’s point was that mar- riage is not the solution for » poor women and children - all is the solution. In fact, he wrote, “It's not being single that causes women to be poor. It’s being poor that makes it "less likely they’ll marry.” Most of the men in the lives of these poor women are either unem- ployed or only working part- time, most likely without health insurance. So the women see little reason to get married to these men. The biggest barrier to marriage is jobs or, more precisely, the lack of them. The New Yorker magazine published an article last sum- mer in which it followed sever- al members of a marriage training course who lived in one of the low income housing projects in Oklahoma City, This glimpse into the lives of these poor women, none of whom were on welfare, showed how -each day is a financial a ccc tase e But as mueh as the low | meantime, income women may want to . enter into a good marriage, they were very realistic about it all. They asked why they should marry a man who still has a relationship with other of their children. While they much divorce, they looked at the percentage of married cou- ples who say they are unhappy and asked why a woman should stay in an unhappy, sometimes even dangerous, marriage. “Why isn’t it better to be alone?” (than unhappy and married) one asked. Yes, these women under- stood that two people means two paychecks. : Yet their own life experiences had told them something else as well. Many of those who had children had been left by the children’s fathers, often without any income from them. Many had been victims of domestic vio- lence and some had been involved with men in prison. Two of the five women in the class had been sexually abused as children themselves. And many of the men in their lives were not supportive of self- improvement efforts by the EN A et Oi Sila ve teh he oo ™ that a committed relationship woman from poverty. At Sooner Haven [the housing pro- ject], relationships with men were often what stopped an ambitious woman from escap- ing,” said the New Yorker arti- cle. Lt _ Then there is the question of efficiency of spending the little money that we as a nation are setting aside for programs here at home. There have been few objective evaluative studies of marriage training programs, and anecdotal evidence seems to show that attendance is low and the programs ineffective. Many use out-dated manuals written for a different cultural and economic context than many of the women in our nation’s poorest communities and few men seem to attend at all. . I am not against programs which help poor women and poor men to build better rela- tionships and to become better parents. I have often called upon churches to do exactly this. But I am opposed to our federal budget putting aside $1.5 billion for unproven pro- grams at the very same time-we & teed del Gerad aw a ian ie and, their children. against our government forc- ing poor women to get married when other women have other - Wouldn't it make more sense to put aside this money for . child care programs for poor working women? Wouldn’t it make more sense to provide health insurarice for every American? Wouldn't it make more sense to provide trans- portation to the few jobs avail- able to these women, many of which require a car or multiple. buses to get to? Wouldn't it make more sense to provide more dollars for job training for these women? Wouldn't it make more sense to provide low income housing for our nation’s growing poor? Wouldn’t it make more sense to put aside the funds for job cre- ation for poor men and women? Let’s put the horse before the cart, and not the other way around. The solution is not marriage, the solution is jobs and economic security. The results of the South Carolina primary were instruc- tive in many ways but they pri- marily showed that Black vot- ers are all over the map, split- ting their vote almost equally between Democratic presiden- tial candidates John Edwards and John Kerry at 37 percent and 34 percent, respectively, with Rev. Al Sharpton getting 17 percent, which‘ was less than half of what Edwards received. - This says at least two things. First, it says that if the Black vote has lost its unity, then it Exercising Black political clout has lost its significance in the 2004 election. What does it mean for Black politics if the top candidates - Kerry, Edwards, and, to a lesser extend, Clark - to have the Black vote split among them? It means that a split in a minority vote will hardly be recognized by any of them. On the other hand, more unified Black vote could not be ignored by. any of them. Furthermore, this means that if this pattern of a split Black vote in national elections continues, while we all may be having fun asserting our “indi- viduality,” what we really will - be asserting is political impo- tence. Judging by the numbers, what Black voters seem to be saying is that we are just like every body else; we are going to hang free, let the chips fall where they may and vote for whomever is the best-looking, best-sounding and has the best chance of getting elected in November. The truth is that we cannot vote just like everybody else. The decision by many Blacks to join the bandwagon of “elec. tability” means that we have lost our clear vision of how to use power to impact on the elec- tion system. Blacks were 47 per- cent of the primary voters in South Carolina and it would have been far better for them to have voted 100 percent for one candidate rather split the Black vote. The media has been always drawn to the dramatic feats of Black politics —asking why are Blacks behaving differently than anyone else. This kind of action is the stuff that draws attention to the agenda of Black voters. If the Black vote were used to make or break one of the leading candidates, then they would be beholden to that Black vote and their issues. Given that the White vote was distributed among the five can- didates, the Black vote could have determined the winner. But that didn’t happen. Black voters, “just like’ everybody else,” seem to be shifting from their early alle- giance from Howard Dean to Kerry. Dean received only 4 per- cent of the Black vote in South Carolina. Right now, the media seems to be telling Black voters what to do and shaping the race according to its own balance sheet. I don’t support Howard Dean, but the media seems to have ejected him like a foreign substance from the body politic just because of the so-called “I Have a Scream” speech follow- ing his loss in Iowa. Sure, Dean looked un-presidential, but I still don’t think we get it. The media wants the classic fight: a well-known senator from inside the Washington power circle pitted against George Bush, the incumbent president. It doesn’t want a firebrand governor who will flame out before they have had a chance to sell many news- paper ads or TV commercials. The plain fact is that Blacks need a strategy and we need leaders to devise it, lest we expend their precious energy in this election season all for nothing. Sharpton may be vul- nerable because he has won only a few delegates and scan- dal is brewing about his con- nections to Roger Stone, a prominent Republican ‘strate- gist who is said to be bankrolling his operation and providing his campaign with research. If Sharpton does not turn out to be the man that Jesse Jackson was even during his first time out in 1984, then lead- ership in this election season needs to gravitate to other Blacks. Thé key is that since Richard Gephardt, Joe Lieberman and __ possibly Howard Dean all have Black delegates pledged to them and they are either out of the race or on the brink of it, a pool of such delegates could come together and form a super-dele- -gation, going to the convention to exact some accountability from the eventual nominee on behalf of Black issues. That should work. Now, who will do it? Ron Walters is the Distinguished Leadership Scholar, director of the African American Leadership Institute in' the Academy of Leadership and professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland-College Park. His lat- est book is “White Nationalism, Black Interests” (Wayne State University Press). On the one hand, the latest federal unemployment figures track the continuing slow return to health of the nation's economy. . . The national unemployment rate fell to 5.6 percent, from December's 5.7 percent-its low- est level since October 2001; and employers added 112,000 new jobs-the best monthly job- creation performance since December 2000. And yet, the essentially gloomy character of this eco- nomic recovery continues to, at least shadow, if not overwhelm, the good news. Nothing better illustrates that description at present than Extend emergency unemployment benefits three numerical benchmarks The first might be best put in the words "six weeks, and counting.” That's the length of time since Congress refused to extend the federal unemploy-. ment extension insurance pro- gram. This means that since late December, those jobless Americans who've exhausted their regular state unemploy- ment benefits have no longer been eligible for the additional 13 weeks of unemployment checks the federal program provides. The second benchmark is 500,000, and counting. That's the estimated number of jobless Americans who in the last six weeks have exhaust- ed their regular state unem- ployment aid and have been left bereft, without a paycheck or unemployment benefits. The final statistic is two mil- lion. That's the estimated number of Americans jobless workers who by June are likely to be in the same predicament: at the end of their support from regu- lar state unemployment insur. ance programs; having had no luck at finding a job, and with no federal emergency lifeline in sight. Having let pass a chance to extend the federal emergency program in December, the House of Representatives last week took a step in the right direction by approving a re- extension on a 227 to 179 vote. The unanimous Democratic ranks were bolstered by 39 of their Republican counterparts in support on an amendment sponsored by Representative George Miller, of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. However, a carbon-copy mea- sure would have to be approved by .the Senate, and then Congress would have to ,vote separately to fund the re-exten- sion in order for the benefits to show up in the pockets of those jobless workers now facing very hard times. Unfortunately, the prospects for that happening are, to use an appropriate ‘word, gloomy, even as the boon a re-extension will provide to both needy indi- viduals and the economy is apparent. Not only would those emergency funds keep the for- mer from falling into dire poverty, the spending by the unemployed would help the economy as a whole, too. And the government's latest monthly unemployment report shows that this economy still needs help badly. For example, the 112,000 new jobs created in January, wel- come though they are, were still far short of the 175,000 forecasters were expecting, and of the 150,000 new jobs monthly economists say are necessary to draw enough jobless workers back into the workforce to sig- nificantly begin to dent the country’s 8.3-million unemploy- ment total. Even as federal offi- cials raised their estimate of new jobs created in December to 16,000, from the paltry origi- nal estimate of 1,000, they Matters of Opinion Weapons of mass denial simultaneously lowered the total number of jobs created since August to 229,000, from an earlier estimate of 278,000. Further, the disparity in the racial and ethnic impact of job- lessness in America continues to show itself in dramatic ways. : The January monthly report determined that while the unemployment rate among whites declined from a flat 5 percent to 4.9 percent, the rate — among Hispanic Americans increased from 6.6 percent to 7.3 percent, and that of African Americans rose from 10.3 per- cent to 10.5 percent. A new study by the National Urban League's Institute for Opportunity and Equality adds further insight to how deeply America's job losses have cut the significant economic gains African Americans recorded during the boom years of the 1990s. The report determined that college-educated and highly- skilled black workers suffered greater job losses than their Voice Your AYT-T a Zolals Write A LETTER white counterparts; that African-Americans make up nearly 30 percent of the long- term unemployed, compared to 21 percent for whites; and that from 2001 to 2003 the median household income of blacks fell 3 percent, compared to a loss of 1.7 percent for white house- holds. These are just a few of the welter of statistics which show that the recession that struck America in 2001 has been beat- en back and the economy is recovering at its high levels, albeit slowly. But it's a different story at the middle and lower levels, and along the color lines, of our society. In those precincts, the pain remains sharp and wide- spread; and, if Congress refus- es to act when action is neces- sary, it will grow. Marc H. Morial is President and CEO of the National Urban League OTe Taltels rias One TO THE EDITOR stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons that every- one suspected to be there [in IT r aqj?» He replied, “I don’t think they existed.” What is clear from Kay as well as newly declassified CLA documents is that the basic rationale for last year’s preemp- tory strike against Iraq was flawed because there was noth- 8 ing to a the u. Rather than face up to hav- Agency to serve as. the chief ing misled the U.S., the UN. and nuclear weapons inspector in the world, Bush ‘and his top Iraq, couldn't have been more advisers are essentially playing direct in his recent report a childish, though deadly, game There are no weapons of mass of what has been described as I- destruction in Iraq. hit-him-before-he-could-hit me. In an ore cae to you what | Reuters News Service, strongly believe: that inaction asked; “What happened to the in Iraq would have emboldened Saddam Hussein,” Bush said last Sunday on “Meet the Press.” The president contin- ued, “He could have developed, you know, a nuclear weapon over time. I'm not saying imme- diately, but over time. Which would then.have put us in what position? We would have been in 4 position of blackmail.” Bush knew exactly what he was doing when he ordered the unprovoked attack on Iraq. Mark Crispin Miller, a profes. sor of media studies at New York University, said by shift- ing the nation’s attention from domestic issues to foreign affairs, Bush went “From Bozo to Churchill.” Writing in his book, “The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations of a National Disorder,” Miller 4 observed: “...before you knew it, the seeming bozo was our savior. 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Until then, I celebrate —_law for slaves to learn to read = was awash cviyrtard ’ sabe to feared than Jease James, Born ative images of Black folks, this single month each year —_—or write. | alin aan ships for din- in 1894, he formed the Cook ity cons to subliminally hate when our children are taught The old slave master affec- follow the save rae or fthe Gang mos tly Black men with yeelf We were trained to feel about themselves. I believe that tionately put his arm around — ‘ror * Indian blood. Hey, that’s me! may to the larger society. In _in the equation of our chil- the boy’s shoulder and chuck- —_ Black holocaust. oh distor They liberated the Cherokee — school, textbooks, the movies, dren's Meee eg tb ecetion ‘nade sis like Terma tehool fled Nation federal money being EARL BYRD everywhere. Like whenmy | percent dropping out, 12,000 crazy, ania eae teach me that 20 Africans paid to people with claims to APm0 Fs Prat dmother would take me _truants playing hooky every explained. “Make ‘em wanna —_to as free Indian land. He killed a couple | with her to the White woman's day and 42,000 students failing be free.” landed at WO anes baton the of people, including Sheriff could thi house where she cooked and =—_last year - the answer lies in ae tneee bt tes ae, nan 69.8 anded at Ellis Rattling Gourd. Dear reader, | could ek a cleaned so we could eat. teaching them about them- pein rien ae mw ney ngure Leahoabra “a an These cats were Black and no better Black History Mon Ives. it out, ultimately ask what hap- Plymo a yor Lay story than the one I wrote last airs gan ne a = 1 se a child in desperate need _ pened to that little slave boy. Children still aren’t aaeh lene bens = a Gane. year. "mother took me on a train to _of self-esteem and role models, _—. “Little Fred,” I'd pain i slaves ie spirituals to trick robbed banks, stores and stage- Boy, son of Tarzan, Lord of visit the place of her birth in America allowed me five days “learned to read and write while singing sp how there's coaches, sad dtyone who got the Jungle. Super cool baved North Carolina. There before out of the year to study about _— behind the master’s back. He the Ave roti’ ne in their way was shot dead in a tree house, and had a ; | if during “Negro History _ escaped to freedom, came to evi aay, ; were acres of land, and myse 6 Negro History . red the New World before A girlfriend snitched on chimp for a pal. The jungle me ican-Ameri - Week.” Baltimore. to live, and when he _ explore e ; he shot a was his home, not an over- _ a! My — The importance of images grew up, he became the consul Columbus. We were heow: pera e a i pa crowded ghetto slum. Boy Poel with joy and pride. and Black history toa childis general to two countries of Minutemen, Pilgrims an cow looting at him. He was hanged talked to the animals, any! Melvin Williams told me incalculable. If had children, color, Haiti and the Dominican boys imtcruk. OMA ike When an alligator treatened st ast night inthe confine-Twould create daily adventures Republi. home to the South, she after his 20th birthday, When mpreaietn aoe. ment of Super Max, “My peo- _of self-discovery. Inspire in | «one Bennett renowned noe 2 picture of me sitting on Fifty years after crying in him, his father La | love for reading. My African-American historian, ! abe ; , le are destroyed for lack of them a lo sg. ™ “ee ' I are that movie theater, I’m still his arms around Tarzan’s neck, —P oD first crime was breaking into —_- says that our story “has been a white mule. I was up ing about bei . " . (erly t being some- Boy splashed water, laughed Hitt know only too the adult section of the library. _ distorted and pushed into like a little idiot, sick in my , eae ‘Only ere to be and hitched a ride to shore. well So, following dinner, bedtime __strange shapes by a massive _brain, taught to hae myse f by one of those Black cowboys F mustang < sete “ A lot of African-American _ or anytime, inspirational stories Binags met based on a a a he dy rt who have Indian in their blood. down my face in that, i Id be part of our family powerful myths and lies thai co , - . educators like Charlie wou. Pp . fI’d had out on the range, living free. movie house. | wanted to be ; : | hide Black people from them- _ Lone Ranger. I a gun, € ral ; ; dent of routine. K peopie c ne t’s America to me, Taming foyet SiouaDostn Cokes, Tre waryolie tiem ciesiciee might heve shots couple with a Black perspective without knowledge of myself a that “the best education boy, Frederick Douglass, is an Children need to know that that I might have shot a couple or my proud African history will not come to the masses example. How he learned that —_ they come from strong stock. A _ niggers for ae ee Earl Byrd is an AFRO and heritage, I somehow af until the community runs its reading and writing were the _ lesser people would have been Sez pas ip vayec wa reporter ees LT hs own colleges and educates its keys to freedom. destroyed by the trials and CT 8 Did You Know? 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Even though they make up 12 percent of the The researchers said toa”: a Ppening across the South. percent of naw Hag cant for 39 percent of AIDS cases and 54 upsurge maybe curing among black mae The upsurge is driven b young men having risky sexual encour i Among black men, like whites he | ading « infection Swaps Students across the South. pet men, Tolcally ey do not consider themeeloes to ‘te oay th is sex with other men, Experts hase paar the on "Weha Ca olinene a opal Cores limited to "It's a public Mestre have girlfriends, as well, rate of risky sex among gay black men. Poverty is often listed Fitz atrick. na, $8 © CDC's Dr. Lisa its LP nic i ith eme ency. 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We still have a long road to travel before this nation reaches “the right side of history.” The contrast between the political parties revealed by the NAACP’s evaluation was strik- ing. The association's civil rights analysis of critical Senate and House votes gave failing grades to all but one member of the controlling Republican majority. The good news was that 221 Democratic members of the Senate and House received As ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS NAACP’s highest civil rights - It is clear, however, that the Congress remains deeply divid- ed on civil rights issues, both as to the nation’s goals and the . ~ means that we must undertake to achieve them. _ “This proved to be one of the most divisive terms in leg- islative history between the hard-right wing and the pro- gressives on Capitol Hill,” the NAACP’s Hilary Shelton observed about the ongoing civil rights struggle. When forced to explain to their constituents about their failing NAACP grades on civil rights, those who have failed often try to shrug off their fail- ures by saying that the NAACP has become a “wing” of the Democratic Party. That excuse, however, rings hollow to those who realize that the NAACP is Ne crossroads recognized by. the U.S. govern- What is new about this gen- ment as a politically non-parti- _eration’s struggle for civil san Organization; ~ fights is our unwavering deter- What can be accurately said mination to forge a federal about the ongoing political statutory framework that will struggle in Washington is that advance our “human rights” by the social and economic objec- transforming them into civil tives of the 21st century civil _ rights guaranteed by law. rights movement have become The legislative objectives of far more expansive and con- the Congressional Black, crete than they were a half-cen- Hispanic, and Asian Pacific tury ‘ago. caucuses and our progressive This is not to say that allies are mainstream, not radi- The results of the NAACP’s assessment revealed a critical divide. That is why, as much as any election year in our lifetime, voting has become a moral and practical imperative, as well as our most fundamental civil right. _ America has fully overcome the legal inequities that contin- ue to haunt our national con- science. The civil rights struggle today remains intensely focused upon guaranteeing every American’s voting rights, protecting all Americans against discrimination, provid- ing universal and fair access to our federal courts and assuring that those who are chosen to judge us will vigorously defend our fundamental consti- tutional guarantees. oa cal. They reflect fundamental values about human rights that most Americans share. Most Americans, whatever our background or political _ affiliation, believe that children deserve to be fed and receive a good education, that sick and injured people deserve medical care, that homeless Americans deserve shelter, and that every adult who is willing and able to work deserves a job that pays a fair and living wage. This is what most Americans mean when we say that we believe in “human The results of the NAACP’s rights.” assessment revealed a critical It is hardly surprising, there- divide. That is why, as much as fore, that these values fill the any election year in our life- talk of Democrats and time, voting has become a Republicans alike. moral and practical imperative, However, the operative as well as our most fundamen- question for American voters is _ tal civil right. . this: When the chips are down, This election year, the quali- who truly will “walk the walk” ty of our lives hangs in the bal- toward concrete protection and —_ ance. The American people advancement of our human cannot afford another debacle rights? like the election that we were forced to endure four years ago. We have witnessed the results of that failure. “Give us the ballot,” Dr. « King declared during the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, “and we will send to the sacred halls of Congress That, I believe, is the ques- tion that the NAACP’s Legislative Report Card was designed to answer. 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More than a few blacks, he Says, were inventors, scientists, mathemati- Cians and even U.S. presidents (sur- prise!). . . “Over the years our intelligence has been challenged, lies have been told,” he says. “I’m just angry that a lot of black educators didn’t (and still don’t) stand up against the sys- tem and teach the facts.” Besides The Minority Voice Proudly Salutes Black History Month aiming to correct the perception of blacks around the world, with Ex- posed, Taylor says he wants to bring to light the atrocities experienced by blacks at the hands of whites especially. Other races, he says make sure that their stories are told and never forgotten. They have fought and won reparations and compensation for their suffering. Black suffering, however has often been romanticized in televi- sion, movies and textbooks, creat-. ing a sense of apathy by most in the community.and making the case for reparations hard to present. As one activist put it, “(Taylor’s) book rep- resents the best evidence and proof that reparations are owed to black people for 400 years of forced free labor and the atrocities they were forced to accept.” Part of this evi- dence is presented in a gruesome photographic section showing hang- ings, burnings and other torture ad- ministered to blacks in all its ugli-. ness throughout the years. Finally, Taylor says, “I want to Se ee — A Taste of Heaven 3406 S. 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