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VOLUME 60 NUMBER 30 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1982 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 30 CENTS White Voters . Stuck With Congressional Race Tradition By Joseph E. Green because whites in the se .; Most v whites ;, who ? cond district apparently voted in TuesdayV.Se-;'1 are not ready for a black cond District congress man to represent them in sional runoff election re- Congress. jected" a highly qualified ; black candidate, and sent; "a' gooi xAi bay from down East' into the November t general" election ;S against 'i ji a Republican newcomer; ' H.M. "Mickey" Michaux, 51, lost his bid to .0:become;:';y';Nortb Carolina's first black congressman in almost 100 years, mostfy White voters throughout the second district, - including Durham County .. "residents, . voted over-i, whelmingly for I.T. "Trm" Valentine, a! Nash . County lawyer. Voters picked him oyer Michaux; a former U.S. Attorney, state legislator, local pro secutor and business1 man. . ' , ; With all precincts reporting, unofficial results showed Michaux with 50,870 votes, about 45 per cent of the total, and v Valentine . , with 61 ,009, about 55 per cent of the total. , Turnqut was heavy; about 57 Der cent the . color of . a man's skin, white voters stucic with North Carolina's, tradition. No black candidate ' has won a congressional' seat in North Carolina ; since George White aci? complished the feat in 1897; He served in ConJ gress until 1901. " the last-black to run"" "SSLl SULSSfZ' for Congee this stat iiKjic man w vi win i vi the district's black in recent memory wasv Howard Lee of Chapel Hill. Michaux. was given :a good chance at a, con . almost all white voters, V tr ' "7"" with Durham being the ; -" "7 voters. But just as almost ; all black voters across ! the district : cast their I ballots for Michaux, significant ? excep- voted for Valen Mhlj". Edmonds Addresses Squaws only tion, ' tine. Valentine, 51, now faces Republican Jack Marin in the November general election. Though Valentine's political' ex- . perience took a back seat to Michaux, the Nashville attorney faces a.. political newcomer in the fall. Valentine's experience includes a brief career as; a state legislator, but the election .that his qualifications do not match those of Michaux. - The race issue was the deciding factor. Tuesday was not a day for a black man to win in the 2nd, no matter the gloss of his polish ,pr the extent w iwHearmnk . With the entire nation watching to see if North Carolinians in the 2nd district could rise above and national positions. But his appeal could not overcome tradition. . ; Said a distraught Jim-; O'Reilly a chief political aide after : Tuesday's balloting, "outside of Durham, virtually no whites voted for Mickey. The election was reduced to a racial muscle con test." ' ; O'Reilly, who is white and a computer analyst, called the - election a shame, saying "They and his'. organization) did not have to put on 'their' hoods. I guess it takes a long time for a white to' vote for a black who is better qualified whent running ; . against aF3 whitc-". W as- me: results iromR in and Michaux's r if i V i ....... A ; . J J iJ V ''''' JO Frazier Puts "Ballot" Into Runoff By Donald Alderman George, Ftazier, presi dent of the .Durham Chapter of the NAACP, angered by the Durham Committee's failure to. re-endorse Bill Allen in! were put out to confuse people," Frazier said Tuesday afternoon, "and I hope they do." It is not clear just how confused black voters were in the Sheriff's the runoff election for- race, but whatever the Durham County Sheriff?case, white voters spoke j cording to Frazier. precincts than most.can didates without the Durham Committee en dorsement. Taking the endorse ment from Allen created the FrazierDurham Committee fracas, ac- "It's wrong what the Durham Committee did. They are leading black people in this . town around like sheep." What the Durham Tuesday, put his own clearly. , Roland Leary, ballot m the race at tne county's ABC chief, several predominantly beat Allen by more than ; black precincts. 10,000 votes, Leary poll Frazier's . ., . v ballot, ed 17740 votes in unof duplicated to be pur-: ficial returns, while posely similar tp the en-.. Allen only managed to . Committee did was to dorsement . ballot tradi- ;get 7,787. ' switch its endorsement ally distributed at the yl Allen won only one - from. Allen to. Learv. At liaUX SA nrAironaiitlv.':...hla'ck'''-l!l lil.t meeting Sundav niahT is.;l.. -i f t"t" ...''- 1 mu uuuiit ill uiciln -Xm p f fnctj. showed an en- precincts, some insiders ed them, looks ot rum. iii..1 ' .k-. am j 'They (the ballots) much better in black (Continued on Page 3) blacks, ranging from lawyers and preachers to plain average citizens, argued for more than two hours, hurling charges and accolades at both candidates. In the end, the Com mittee vote gave Leary the endorsement, and a' virtual guarantee of1 significant black support in the Tuesday primary. But with Allen's ap proval, Frazier engineered the second ballot scheme, designed to sway some of the black votes back to Allen. T--V It didri'f Vortt '"lHrniK-h ' Durham -( Committee chairman Willie Lovett Continued onPage 3) X DR. HELEN (1. EDMONDS, distinguished pro fessor emerita, NCCU, speaks to representatives at tending the eighth biennial conclave of The Squaws, Inc., in Raleigh last week. Women from Atlanta, Charlotte, Cleveland, Dallas; Detroit and several other cities attended the conference. J.W. Hill Plans New College - By Joseph E. (Jreen The former head of the now defunct Durham College wants to, give Durham its first college of business and com puter technology. J.W. Hill, local educator and former col lege president, wants to raise $100,000 from local " investors by August ; of this year so that more of North Carolina's young jnen , and women ; can equip themselves with' the "skills of the future." ; computer science and high tcchnolouv. Besieged Superintendent Defends His Embattled Colleague (Continued on Page 3) NBIPP Second Congress f J i - Hilt By Joseph E. Green The former boss of the now embattled superintendent of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system said that charges that she is not running the system pro perly are the work of a "teacher's union" whose primary objectives are not consistent with the teaching of young children. Dr. Linton Deck, Jr head of the Fairfax, . Virginia school system, said in a recent interview that Dr. Pamela Mayer, his former chief aide has nothing but the interests of school children. at heart. Deck, is former superintendent of the Orange County school .district in Florida where Dr. Mayer worked for him. Dr. Mayer is cur rently superintendent of the Chanel Hill- arrboro school system. Dr. Mayer came under fire recently in Chapel Hill regarding ad ministrative . decisions that many teachers and parents believe are not in the best interest of the school system. . At least one teacher's organization, the American Federation of Teachers has led the fight against Dr. Mayer. A spokesman for that union told The Carolina Times that Dr. Mayer was racially dividing the system and that her add ministration of the school district did not allow for imput from teachers and other ad ministrators. Mayer denies these charges. The issue concerning Mayer's administration came to a head when the seven-member school board voted along racial lines recently to place a second principal at one of the system's two junior high schools. Currently, that school has a single black prin cipal and it has been assumed that the second principal will be white and that the authority of the black principal will be diminished. Some black parents have complained to Mayer that the move, which '- she suggested to the board, was a "slap in the face" of blacks. There .are presently two black principals in the system and seven schools. Deck's name came up recently when represen tatives from . the American Federation of Teachers passed out a copy of a story written in a Washington daily newspaper stating that he had been asked to design by the school board in Fairfax. Deck confirmed that he would be resigning. The article stated that Deck's personality was found to be "offensive and explosive" by a ma jority of the school board members. Ms. Pat Dalton and other American Federa tion of Teachers membefs in Chapel Hill Carrboro said that it ap peared to them that the report in in Washington daily was, in fact, a rather accurate portrayal of Mayer. "That's certainly not true," Deck said when asked if Mayer was per sonally offensive, "her human relations skills are superior." Deck said that he had Continued on Page 3) -a a ws - t K - ! t 1 ; 4 ri If! -vT -l : . s v v i s1 - s it. ! i FRAZIER (ivorge l-raier, president of the Durham Chapter of the NAACP.' poses with his ballots that he had workers distribute to voters iiovnav in in ninmi nnmarv w rnipr ntiiinic show an endorsement of Sheriff Bill Allen, contrary ; to ' the ' Durham Committee's endorsement of , Roland Leary. In Raleigh To Review Farty PmirdisMtiire Plans By Donald Alderman In November ' 1980, , more than 2,(X) blacks gathered in Philadelphia to form a new black political party. 1 They went to the city of-brotherly love disillu sioned with America's traditional two-party system. They left banded together in what they call the National Black In dependent Political par ty (NBIPP). , In two weeks when party faithful gather otr the ' Shaw University camniK in Ralciilh ' to discuss progress and future plans, the picture will - mixed. The con ference will , begin on August 5 and end on August 8. According tp Ms. Bar bara Arnwine, a national party representative, party organizing "...is coming alongwcll." She says the parly has 57 chapters in 27 states. But in answer to ques tions about other signifi cant party gains, Ms. Arnwine gives a more philosophical, though no less true, answer: "This is a profractcd struggle. We don't believe that the party will be gigantic or that blacks will be liberated over night." Though party progress has been somewhat less than spectacular, - there "has been no dearth of ae. tivitics around the coun try, according to Ms. Arnwine. For example, the party has: Supported forums, including . one in Durham, that focused on liberation movements in South Africa and other countries. . . Lent its support to have the birthdays of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X declared national holidays. Supported the freedom of Haitian-: refugees held illegally in this country. , : In ' Youngstown,. Ohio the NBIPP chapter launched a boycott of white businesses, demari-' ding that blacks be hired " in their stores. The mcr chants sued, but later settled out of court, a settlement that also led to more than 60 blacks being hired. ' Sent a delegation to Grenada, a small island ' pff the Sputh American coast, giving at least symbolic support to "the New Jewel Movement Grenada's freedom movement. - . In addition, according to Ms, Arnwine, NBIPP has aided a struggling black newspaper in Memphis, and continual ly denounces U.S. policy in South Africa as len ding support to apar theid. : . Thus in activities, NBIPP mighj appear to be little more than another civil rights organization, A mas querading as a political party. But party faithful strongly ' contend that ihey are more than a civil rights i s organization. They say that the party's approach - and .philosophy . are far broader than the usual civil rights approach. .. "We believe our three strategies 1 community organizing, institution building - and electoral politics can bring . about significant change to make a difference," Ms. Arnwine said. "But only the process of history will tell whether we'll be successful." .. How the first structure and later measure that success will be one of the issues facing the coming convention. The confab's theme is "Understanding NBlPP's Vision: From Theory to Practice." The party's theory is relatively easy founders-'; tand. The organization contends that blacks have been brainwashed to accept an ppprcssed, ; Ael-defacing existence in a system that is unrclen-; tingly hostile: The sup-' port that position, NBIPP officials cite the following: : , :Liluil i The fact that most blacks can recite the ex 'ploits of George Washington. Paul Revere and Benjamin Franklin, but know little of the contributions of Dr. Charles Drew, Medgar Evers, Harriett Tubman or Benjamin Banneker. The fact that few black cultural institu tions exist that reflect the rich history of Americans of African descent. The fact that if all black businesses in the country .were combined into one corporation, it would, rank only 268th on the Fprtune 500 list of major corporations. The fact that of the 14 million blacks in the nation's work force, on ly about 25.000 blacks are employed by black businesses. We were created," said Ms. Arnswine, "and are committed to change that dismal picture." Party strategy in response to "...that dismal picture" is also relatively easy to unders tand. " Ms. Arnwine says the party wants to spearhead "community organizing efforts that will band blacks under one banner into a formidable econpmic and political force. The party's vision, or its dream, depending upon, with whom you're talking, is also relatively clear. Since its inception, the party has called for fprmulatipn pf a new spcip-ecpnpmic order in' which the majpriiyof the nation's people will en-, jpy and benefit from the, country's rich resources. The party has also called tpr an end tp racism. , - According to party literature, "The twin evils of racism and capitalism combine to force Wack people to eke out ' , a miserable, degrading, unproductive and ' second-class ex istence in the United States." But though the party Vine a nnrnnw 9 tlralmiv and a vision, the step-by-step practicum by which the party accomplishes its goals are not clear. For example, the party has decided against run ning candidates for of fice at least fpr ndw, ac cording to Ms. Arnwine. She said the group must; first put into place "...a fundamental mechanism that will make the launch into, electoral politics successful." " She continues: "There' . (Cpntinucd pri Page3)
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