FREE “). “AFRICAN AMERICANS rocky MOUNT WILLIAMSTO: t 5 (Retail Value: 50 Cents) _ October 2008 2d issue Pitt & NASH County since 1980 Bay Pet SPE ELECTION EDITION 2008-3 Ge Co SSV1D-1SuLd ¥sn 002 SSV1D-1SuI3 vsn Lee Godley Il pg 13 pg? a ‘MrsLucille W, Visit Joyner Library ECU see The D.D. Garrett Exhibl It’s no secret that Black voters have in recent history overwhelmingly voted Democratic in presidential elections—even as much as 90 percent. But, this year’s - ” election will likely break even ~ that record, revealing a strong AfricanAmerican solidarity ~ behind the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama and a dramatic drop in support for the Republican ticket, according - toa patton poll released this week, | “Clearly, the historic Obama candidacy is drawing almost | unprecedented Black support for the Democratic ticket, some 15 percentage’points =! White women White women voters speak By Nisa Islam Muhammad WASHINGTON-White -. women voters have become the talk of the election and. the prize for candidates trying to win their vote, Leaders of several national women’s organizations primarily composed of White women recently came te- gether to say Sen. Barack — Obama is their candidate. Representing “millions and millions of women,” the National Organization of Women Political Action Committee, the Feminist © Majority PAC, the National ~ Association of Social Work- ers, the Business and Profes- sional Women’s PAC and the National Congress of Black ‘Women made the voices of everyday women heard, “From teachers to social workers, from business owners to college students, women in this country are lining up behind the candi- date who is out there every- day standing up—clearly and consistently—for women,” NOW, “Women of all ages, races and ethnicities are coming together in support of Sen, Obama and his _ pledge to fulfill this country’s promise of equal opportunity for our daughters as well as all our sons.” | Bach of the organizations had completed an issue-by-issue comparison of the candi- Pw ae ee ay ede a ‘increase Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-IIL., greets supporters at the’ Maumee Bay Resort in Oregon, Ohio, Tuesday, Oct. 14. (AP Photo/Jae C, Hong) dates’ records prior to the and economic rights for Sarah Palin asthe Republican stands for,” said Smeal. announcement and each future generations; stubbornly _ vice presidential candidate has ‘in dependently came tothe “pursue apolicy oféndless forced these groups to take an Polls showed a dramatic conclusion that Obama was the — war no matter the cost in aggressive stand in thiselec- Switch in white women voters best man for women’s rights’ humanllives anddollars; and. tion. from Obama to McCain and women’s issues, continue Bush failed econom- 4. immediately after the an- ics and political policies.” John McCain just doesn’t get nouncement of his vice presi- “Women simply cannot afford it. He doesn’t understand dential pick of Gov. Palin. a President McCain,” said These organizations do not women voters and especially Eleanor Smeal, president of —__ regularly endorse presidential Hillary voters. Sarah Palin is “We have to wait and see if the Feminist Majority. “He candidates, NOW supported’ no Hillary Clinton. Youcan’t —_ these numbers hold true,” said ‘would stack the Supreme. Sen. Hillary Clintonin the attract Hillary voters and. Smeal. Court and federal judiciary Democratic primary, The women voters with a woman “yr against women’s reproductive selection of Alaska Gov, Opposed to what Hillary ee Cun NNPA from October 2008 2d issue - Solidarity Behind Obama Popularity of Clintons Alse WASHINGTON (NNPA)- - higher than what Sen. John _—rby 60 percent since 2004.” . the general election will . The poll also found that Kerry received in our poll four surpass existing records both despite the contentious years ago,” said David Bositis, Based on the study, Ralph B. national and in individual. © Democratic Primary process, Senior Research Associate at - Everett, the Joint Center’s States.” > both former President Bill the Joint Center for Political president and CEO, predicts . ~ Clinton and Sen, Hillary and Economic Studies, which a record Black turnout on. The poll of 750 African Clinton (D-NY) have conducted the study. "Ifthe every level. Americans, taken between increased their favorability _ undecided [voters] break along September 16 and October6 ratings among Black voters. the same lines as those who. ‘’ These poll numbers are with,a.margin of error of plus . | . expressed a pertescace, Sen. - confirming whatwe © ~~ orminus3.6 percentage -——--»Accordinig'to the report: “Sen. “ Obama would draw 94 percent expected-that Sen. Obarna’s points, also revealed mainly ~~ Clinton is viewed favorably by of the Black vote and thereby _ historic candidacy is one issue of note: the 86.4 percent [DCS1] of tie President Johnson’s record- “enormously popular with —_ economy with 62 percent of _ African Americans, more than high share in the 1964 AfricanAmerican voters and _AfricanAmericans naming it ‘Six points higher than she ° election.” is, in fact, driving significantly the most important national _fared in the Joint Center ’s higher percentages of them to problem. In that regard, only a 2004 poll, with only 7.8 The new survey ofAfrican. _ identify withthe Democratic handful of respondents - 8 percent viewing her Americans’ political attitudes, Party,” said Everettina percent - said their financial . ‘ unfavorably” authored by Bositis, confirms statement. ‘’These numbers situation improved over the that support for Obama come on top of record levels _ past year while 55 percent of Former President Clinton was “among Black voters is at near _ of participation by Black AfricanAmericans-55 - _. viewed favorably by 85.5 record levels fora Democratic _ voters in the Democratic. percent - said their financial percent of respondents, and nominee, while Black primaries, allofwhich” © status was worse thanit was. | eer, - identification with the _ Indicate that Black turnout in in the previous year. Solidarity cont pg 12.... Republican Party has dropped es ae ; voters speak up for Obama * Se wh a a ee eee Minority Voice Oct 20, -Oct 24,2008 pg2 Published: Thursday, Octo- ber 23, 2008 12:28 PM CDT - Within a week of the ratifica- tion of the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the _ KuKlux ~ Klan was formedin Pulaski, Tennessee. The founder was . former Confederate general Nathan B. Forrest, who also led the Fort Pillow Massacre. After Forrest secured ‘a truce with Union troops, he - - Slaughtered 238 Black soldiers at Fort Pillow. With the KKK leading — terrorism, slave power was _ transferred from private ownership to states’ rights, — The local custodians for newly emancipated Blacks were local sheriffs. Court- houses were the local head- quarters for white su- | premacy. Black Codes would supplant the slave codes, Nearly 100 years later, the- | © | racial factor that can go by Hazel Trice Edney ; aot: . 8. Sen. Barack Obama has moved yet another step” closer to becoming America’s arguably blan a Monday night that gave him — strong leads over Sen, John” McCain in several key polls, - But, some political observers say the polls may not feflect a racial undercurrent among - Whites that could hurt Obama’s election on Nov. 4, A National CNN poll at the conclusion of the debate — which focused largely on the economy - had 54 per cent of voters saying Obama won the debate, versus McCain at 30 per cent. Likewise, a CBS poll favored Obama at 39 percent to 27 percent amon an pe teh i 3 percent claiming the debate a8 a draw. Moreover, Gallup, among the most credible polling re in the world, reports Obama actually in ing McCain by more than percentage points in a national po hing voters who they favor. ° , “Barack Obama has opened upa nine-point lead over ~, ocketing f | the latest Gallup Poll Daily _ tracking,” states an explanation campaign to date.” University _ Of Maryland Political Scientist ~ minute, this is okay, but I don’t i N TON (NNPA) >. discount it a little.” For _ example, Walters says Nig a is _legal structure of the South ' ox i remains unaltered. James Cruikshank v. United States. Chaney, Michael Schwerner and ee : Andrew Goodman found it Out In February 1886, Sheriff the hard way. The local sheriff Hamilton had already given andaposseofKlansmen the keys to the jail at the intercepted'them on June: courthouse to a white mob. 21,1964. Their bodies were later Will McKinney had been found near Philadelphia, Missis- convicted of killing Charlie sippi. Sheriffs in PP! Broadway. The mob dragged were, invariably, members of — McKinney out of the jail, shot: the KKK. and lynched him on the ee een pls. stag re eS _. , house so servedasthe On March 17, 1886, Blacks had county’s auction block and all assembled atthe Carroll = ave records were housed in” County, Mississippi, courthouse j, Be ‘to support or to give testimony — on behalf of two brothers who Sen’ John McCain ¢o- had been charged with assault- authored “Faith of My Fa- ing a white lawyer with intent thers” Jr ig mostly about Sen. to kill. The white lawyer had _ McCain, his father and his assaulted Ed Brown. A gunfight srandfather However, he ensued, with gunshot wounds Gescribed his anonymous, to the lawyer, James Liddell. Ed great-grandfather in the book and Charley Brown were as “inspiring his sons,my _ vigorously prosecuted in "grandfather and great-uncle, Carroll County. ay to pursue careers as profes- While Sheriff 17, Hamilton nonal ayee Was conveniently athome,a — McCain’s father and erandfa- white mob entered the Carroll ther became adinirala, MoCa County Courthouse atid pro-. had a career in the Navy, but ceeded to murder 23 defense- opted out for politics and less Blacks. A grand jury Wollld hecame a carpetbagger. He later fault the Black victims for chose Arizona as his political their own demise, Even after tome: Arizona had beena the ratification of the 14th territory of the Confederate - Amendment, Blacks enjoyed no States of America. right of self-defense, pas anil nay Interestingly, McCain failed to Every white official in the state, reveal fae late of his great- including Sen. John McCain's — grandfather in the book and Feed ote! Plauded — for good reason. He was an emassacte. Sen.Blanche arch white supremacist, In K-Bruce and Cong. John R. four other books written Lynch of Mississippi wentto about Sen, McCain, none of the White House to protest the them even mentioned his Carrolton Courthouse Massacre great-grandfather, to President Grover Cleveland, "~~ | who would cite to them the. or Obama, But, John McCain, 51% to 42%, in - on Gallup.com. “That matches _ Obama’s largest lead of the Dr..Ron Walters called the lis astounding, but says lacks should shave off at least five points to account for the. undetected until after people ee | “T’m saying to myself, ‘Wait a think it’s that high,” Walters. says. “You have to respect the polling. But, you have to : Gallup reports a more than 1 percent Obama lead, that sident after an. should be thought of as more like five percent to account for racial and other prejudices that _ May factor in the voting booth, _ The so-called “Bradley effect”, ~ fecalls the 1982 gubernatorial race between an African- _ American Democrat, Tom Bradley, and a White Republican, George Deukmejian. Though major polls placed Bradley wall ahead of Deukmejian only days and hours before the election, Bradley narrowly lost. . This discrepancy between how Whites say they will vote and how they actually vote was _ observed in the 1989 irginia governor’s campai between Risse: Acaeeioon ‘ candidate L. Douglas Wilder and White candidate Marshal Coleman. Wilder won, but by less than a percentage point — only a few days after polls gave him as much as an eight point lead. Walters says because the y tace was more than 25 years ago and the Wilder race nearly 20 years ago, racial _ attitudes have changed. Newer _ unpredictable - states to now Supreme Court ruling in and younger voters must now _ be factored in and it’s no longer unique for an African- American to be running for public office. . Still, the Obama camp appears | to not take polls for granted, | working vigorously in so- called battleground ~ or excite i voters to go. to the polls Nov. 4. The outreach appears to be working. In'states considered ‘especially hard for Democrats, | ‘Such as Virginia, Obama is . ahead 49.9 to 45.1. In Florida, [ he us up 48,310. 45.3 andin =f sylvania, he is up a ing 51.2 to 39.2, a Seni Ae WHODD eons 9 14 owe according to | ‘ RealClearpolitics.com. The Key is economic worries, — itical observers say, “There are no issues, There’s just the one issue. It’s the enor researcher forthe Join Center for Political and Economic Studies. “I’m not worried about the ‘Bradley effect.’” Even if attempts to deface Obama or undermine his reputation with veiled racial attacks in final days of the campaign become prevalent, Bositis predicts it won't matter, “If your house is on fire and Frankinstein is outside, you don’t worry about . Frankenstein, You wo about you're going to die in the fire if you don’t do something about it,” Bositis says. “This election is about hare le aba how § are going in the country right now. And the way they feel about how things are going in the country is that ey stink. They stink bad Sa , says David Bositis, 7 By inference, Sen, McCain admitted that this racial patriarch and mentor wanted “to fight for the Confederate ~ States of America to uphold white sup emai , white sta ioe Christianity and states’ rights, but he was only 14 years of age. He upped his age to 18,but to no avail, His great-grandfather was not only 4 prominent slaveholder in Carroll County, but he was also an influential local politi- cian and eventually its sheriff. He took over the.county’s law enforcement reins in 1891 soon after the Carrolton Courthouse Massacre. Sheriff McCain ’sreign of terror started during the _ height of the Colored Farm- ers Alliance, which had organized 1,250,000 Black .. farmers by 1891 and would rival the all-white Southern Farmers’ Alliance. Interest- ingly, the Colored Bar of Mississippi was also formed in 1891. This started the “Greenville Movement” to form bar associations in other states... - In 1891, this Black alliance ~had called for a cotton pickers strike and had supported the Federal Elections Bill. These demands, if successful, would have overthrown sharecrop- png and would have put Blacks on an equal par with: - white farmers. Local sheriffs initiated another wave of whife terrorism. The _ KKK furnished the manpower.. _ Judges donned Black robes wine War pe won the \ivit Wat, philosophi- cally, states’ rights would trump federalism. The Su- -preme Court said its hands . were tied to stop white terror- ism, This exercise of First Amend- ment rights by persons of African ancestry to achieve Political and economic power. angered white supremacists. Local sheriffs were on their posts. Organized Blacks, seeking political goals, were a threat to white supremacy. This ‘Was a bloody period and it wrought Plessy v, Ferguson. The house organ of the Col- _ ored Farmers’ Alliance, the Colored Farmers’ Alliance Advocate, was published in Carroll County. State-spon- _ Sored terrorism, and particu-- - larly in Carroll County, Missis- sippi, would eventually under- ‘mine the Colored Alliance movement. “In 1902,when McCain’s grand- father was admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy, it was institu- tionally racist and anti-Semitic, While Henry O. Flipper be- came the first Black graduate of West Point in 1877, the first Black graduate of the U.S.Naval Academy, Wesley A. Brown, had to wait until 1949. The Navy fitted the McCains like “the glove” fitted O.J. Simpson’s hand. In “Faith of my Fathers” McCain said his great- grandfather “had expressed his - Mississi “speaker at UAM’s weekly Classon Avenue in Brooklyn patriotism by serving as sheriff of Carroll County, ppi” to suppress Black resistance, Sen. ~ McCain uses the same term to describe those white supremacists who have heckled ce - Sen, Barack Obama’s name _ at McCain’s political rallies. Ih this country, a racist is, obviously, a patriot. ‘By the way, the full name of Sen. McCain's great- grand- father was John Sidney McCain. Three generations of McCains have embraced his white supremacist philosophy. White terrorism continued in Carroll County throughout the 1960s. History explains Sen. McCain. 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Black tine Demberaté Mavi tallied 60,922 votes as of Oct: 21, almost 40 ,000 votes behind black female Democrats; and approxi-mately 1,000 votes be- hind white female Republicans. In comparison, white male Democrats have balloted 65,659 votes, while 57,085 Republican white males have marched to the polls. African-American male Re- publicans, like black female GOP’ers, barely register on the voting scale with only 1,228. Interestingly, though, more black male Republicans voted than black female piseavicy with 1,146. Per sinaffiligned v voters, 33 939 white males lead all indepen- dents, While black males com- pees a 6, 731, Z Judge Cheri Beasley A District Court Judge for Nearly 10 Years Minis Whieieeb emda hcunint- | kk. 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