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MISS DANIEL
Ms. Retha Daniel
To Participate
In Youth Contest
'Miss .' Retha Sharon
Daniel, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James O. Daniel
of Route 8, Stanley Road,
Durham, and grand
daughter of Mrs.
Margaret ,D. Jeffries of
510 Dowd St., has been
selected to paricipate in
the "America's Youth-in
Concert" 1981 ' program
sponsored by the Univer
sal Academy for Music,.
Princeton, New Jersey.
The purpose of the pro
gram is to demonstrate in
ternationally the high
quality and fine character
of America's youth while
enriching and expanding
the musical and cultural
horizons of the young
musician.
Students from each
state are selected for
"America's Youth in
Concert" by individual
audition, there will be a
performance at Carnegie
Hall HI New York City
prior to departure for
Europe. The students will
present concerts in Lon
don, Paris, Geneva, Inn
sbruck, Venice, Florence
and rome.
The "America's Youth
in Concert" 198I is
organized into ensembles
of Concert Choir, Concert
Band and Symphony Or
chestra. Intensive rehear
sals and recording sessions
will precede the Carnegie
Hall concert. The young
musicians will perform
under i the baton of
outstanding i university
conductors while . the
chaperoHi?jsiaf f scoftfifcts
largely of music educators
from different areas of the
country.
Miss Daniel is scheduled
to leave Durham on July 2
and return near the end of
the month.
Some notable perfor
mance locations in the
past have been the White
House and the John F.
Kennedy . Center for the
Performing Arts in
Affirmative Action,
Policeman, Arrest Thyself !
By 3mld C; Home, Esquire f
During the massive; "Rendezvous With
Life" march in Washington protecting the
Atlanta child slayings, a numbed of speakers
took the opportunity to lament the police
.work that has failed to turn up a single,
suspect. In contrast, when a few whites were
slain during the 1980 uprising in Miami,:
blacks were tried and convicted so quickly it .-
- could have made your head spin.
Such is the sad state of affairs in the na-
- tion's police forces. Most police officers are '
working class white males who are par-'
ticularly susceptible to the canard that but
for affirmative action their sons and
daughters would advance further. Thus, in
stead of seeing those blacks grouped with
them at the bottom of the socio-economic
pyramid as their allies, many of the white
males who dominate polica; ' forces view !
minorities as sworn enemies. The Ku Klux
Klan has met with some success in recruiting
- them in the south and north and this is one
. of the most ominous developments that has .
bedeviled this nation in recent times.
This poisonous political atmosphere can-.
not be separated from the "Rip Van
Winkle" approach police forces have been
taking when it comes to apprehending
purveyors of racist violence. Atlanta is the
most egregious example, but, unfortunately,
the national landscape is littered with others.
Central and southeastern Pennsylvania is
not an area one would immediately suspect
of being a hotbed of racist activity. The :
bucolic scenery, the Amish in their horse
drawn wagons pursuing a life-style hundreds
of years old, the gently undulating hills all
resemble an idyllic picture post card bereft
of tensions. But seething beneath this ap
parently placid surface are explosive con
tradictions. On Friday, May 1, 1981, there was an at
tempted lynching of Robert Leslie Hender
son, a black resident of Lancaster, Penn
sylvania. He remains in serious condition in
the intensive care unit of a local hospital.
It seems that Henderson was abducted at
gunpoint by three white males. His assailants
made him disrobe and attempted to hang
him by his rectum from a crane hook in a
nearby junkyard. The victim was then taken
to a'truck service area. Still held at gunpoint,
the assailants forced Henderson to sit on a
vent pipe, approximately seven inches in
length and four inches in diameter of a large
oil tanker. In other words, these white
hoodlums, drunk with racism, tried to im
itate medieval torture by impaling him
like a piece of paper on a spindle. Henderson
has undergone a colostomy and has had an
artificial anus created for bowel passage by a
surgical procedure ' "'
Once again, the police have been asleep at
the switch. In the fact of ; compelling
evidence, they' have ruled out racism as
motivation. This is somewhat 'strange
because the Lancaster area has been beset by .
racial incidents. A trailer park there where
an interracial couple stayed was the scene of
a cross-burning last month. There is an ac
tive KKK chapter in the area. There is a great
deal of community concern over unresolved
complaints involving Harrisburg police of
ficers who were distributing KKK medallions
within the police force.
Some would not find it surprising that
police have dismissed racism as a motivation
for this heinous crime. Totally dissatisfied
with the pace of the police investigation,
State Representative David Richardson has
demanded that the Attorney General of the
state conduct an independent probe of the
incident.
This area of Pennsylvania, like so many
others, has been ravaged by unemployment
and the KKK with their nefarious line about
"welfare loafers" and affirmative action be
ing the source of all misery.
But the police inertia in Pennsylvania has
been outstripped by the police terrorism that
has plagued other areas.
Increasingly, police officials, including
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, have
been kicking in black folks' doors supposed
ly in search of criminal activity. A recent
case is reported on the May 9 front page of
the Winston-Salem Chronicle.
The article, by Beverly McCarthy, describ
ed what happened, when police broke into
Mrs. Evelyn Thompson's house in Winston
Salem, North Carolina. It stated, "On
Thursday night, April 16, at about 9 p.m.,
Mrs. Thompson heard a loud 'knocking on
her front door. She asked who was there and
the reply was, 'me.'
"I want to see Bill." When Mrs. Thomp
son told the voice that no Bill lived at that
address, she was told to open the door
because she could not be heard from behind
a closed door. To this, Mrs. Thompson
replied, I can hear you; I don't open the
door to' strangers.' Someone then suggested
that Mrs. Thompson open the door because,
'We have something for you.' It was then
that Mrs. Thompson told them that she was
not going to open the door and if they didn't
leave, she was going to call the police.
This is the police,' they answered, this
time demanding that she open the door.
When Mrs.-Thompson refused again, the
police threatened to break open the door.
Mrs. Thompson said that she turned on the
porch light and the burglar alarm and called
emergency, telling them that someone was .
trying to break into her home. As soon as
she hung up the telephone, her front door
was broken open."
Six officers entered her house. The article
then continued, "I have a warrant to search
this house," said the uniformed officer. Ac
cording to another policeman, it had been
reported that drugs were being sold at the
Thompson home and that the policemen had
come to search for evidence of drug pushing.
Upon looking at the warrant, Mrs. Thomp
son discovered that her name was not on it.
She then told the officers that the name on
the warrant was not her's, and that she
didn't know anyone by the name which did
appear on the paper. . . .
"After spending 45 minutes in Mrs.
Thompson's home, the officers concluded
that they had broken into the wrong house
and left. Chairs were used to barricade the
door because locks had been broken off of
them."
The police department had still not
apologized for it's 'error.'
This type of police terrorism has not been
limited to the South. In supposedly liberal
New York City, the NAACP is now sueing
the police department for $1 million on
behalf of Mrs. Walton after shotgun
wielding officers kicked down her door and
searched her Staten Island apartment. The
police department claimed they were looking
for members of the so-called Black Libera
tion Army when they raided Mrs. Ermell
Walton's home at six o'clock in the morn
ing. Mrs. Walton, who suffers from high
blood pressure, said she was awakened by
sounds of the door breaking in and was con
fronted by seven officers, holding shotguns.
One of them put a gun to her chest, she said.
After the police searched the apartment,
Mrs. Walton said, their leader, officer Dan
Kelly, offered her $40 for the broken door
which she adamantly refused.
Subsequently, police confessed that
"somebody goofed" on the raid but they
have steadfastly refused to apologize or
acknowledge any contribution about this
shameful affair.
This chain reaction of racist events involv
ing the police dramatizes a case presently
before the United States Supreme Court.
The government is appealing a federal court
ruling that the National Black Police
Association (NBPA) can sue United States
officials for failing to cut funds to police
agencies for alleged discrimination against
blacks. The suit charges there was
discrimination in police departments in
Philadelphia, Des Moines, Richmond,
Oakland, Portland, Honolulu, the Indiana
State Police Department and the Wayne
County. Michigan Sheriffs Department.
The' black police group and twelve in
dividuals filing the class action suit com
plained that the Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration (LEAA) refused
to cut off funding to those agencies as re
quired by law. The LEAA's failure to stop
federal aid perpetuated discriminatory
employment practices. The NBPA is press
ing its $20 million lawsuit and is optimistic
about the prospects.
All concerned about racism and its
damaging effects should be lOOVi behind
this lawsuit. For Miami 1980 demonstrates
what can happen when racism is allowed to
tun rampant in a police department.
This uprising was sparked by the acquittal
by an all white jury of four white police of
ficers charged with beating to death Arthur
McDuffie, a black insurance executive. The
result: three days of rebellion leaving eigh
teen persons killed and $80 million in pro
perty destroyed.
Even more disturbing was the nature of
the killings. Like the conflagrations of the
1960's, an ungodly number of blacks were
killed. But unlike the 1960's disturbances
and this should cause all to sit up and take
notice where beatings and killings of
whites by blacks "occurred always as a
byproduct of the disorder, not as its sole ob
ject," in Miami by contrast a recent report
states that beating and killing of whites was a
primary object.
Clearly what is happening in the urban
areas of this country is that black communi
ty is being pushed to the point of desperation
and bloodthirsty police are a prime cause.
More actions are needed like the NBPA
lawsuit if this reign of terror is to cease. In
stead of arresting black youth the insistent
cry needs to be raised of: "Policeman, arrest
thyself."
Washington, D.C.; Royal
Albert Hall, London;
Notre Dame Cathedral,
Paris; Doge's Palace,
Venice; and the Vatican in 1
Rome. In 1976, at the in- i
vitation of MENC,
"America's Youth in
Concert" represented the' 1
tJSAat the International
Society of Music
Educators Conference in
Montreux., Switzerland.
Miss Daniel is a rising
senior at Hillside High
School. She has maintain
ed a high scholastic
. average in all of her
studies . She is a soloist
for the Madrigals and the
Concert Choir at Hillside,
as well as a singer in three
choirs at Mount Gilead
Baptist Church. She has
playetl piano in a recital at
Duke University as a' stu
dent of Chamberlin Piano
Studio where she now
studies piano under Mrs.
Margaret S. Shearin. She
has studied .dance at
Irene's Studio of Dance
and1 is pfes(S'ritly a member
of the Shepard Modern
Dance Group under the
direction of Mrs. Edith M.
Johnson.
Freedom
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the N.C. Board of
Paroles, Dr. Davis is still
active in the fight for bet
ter conditions within the
prison system. He has
established a prison
ministry at Union Baptist.
Dr. Davis is professor
:Of Behavioral Science at
Shaw University in
Raleigh. Before assuming
his present position at the
University, he was dean of
theOivinity Schools u i
i.r , NAACjP Durhanv
Branch President" George
Frazier said, "Dr. Davis
has demonstrated the
leadership and courage
that is indicative of the
award. We are honored to
have a man of such high
personal integrity to ac
cept this year's award."
Experience . is rarely;
valued by those who n
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