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alcoholic beverages aren't allowed there.
Nevertheless, for the last several years now, the park's
young frequenters, mostly people in their teens and early
20s, have paid the warnings little heed, and, during the
summer months, regularly congregate at Winston Lake
. to drink, smoke marijuana and "just enjoy ourselves
with our friends," says a 24-year-old who comes to the
park three or four times a week.
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It's no surprise, say political observers, that the black
candidates who were victorious in last Tuesday's primary
were the ones who won support among black and white
voters.
But to pull off their victories, local Democrats Evelyn
Terry, Mose' Belton Brown and William Tatum still had
to depend heavily on the black electorate.
Whatever the reasons, white voters remain reluctant to
vote for black candidates, here or anywhere else.
"Black women are not, or are not perceived, by
white males as being as much of a threat as
strong black men. "
-- Clifton Graves
"History has shown and courts have conveyed that
whites still refuse to vote for viable black candidates,"
says Clifton Graves, interim convenor of the Black
Leadership Roundtable Coalition, "even those that are
well-qualified."
Figures Don't Tell Whole Story
Only 41 percent of Terry's 14,070 votes in the school
board race, 34 percent of Brown's 12,128 votes in the
county commissioners race, 31 percent of Tatum's 10,103
votes in the school board race and 20 percent of Jesse
Jackson's 13,033 votes in the Democratic presidential
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my friends. It's a place we can congregate."
The man asked to remain anonymous for fear of police si
reprisals, though he says he has never noticed heavy vi
police patrols of the park. But that's probably because
the police aren't needed there often, he says, since he and d
the others who make the park off Highway 311 on "
Winston Lake Road a favorite pastime don't get rowdy.
"Yeah, they drink and smoke (marijuana) here, but 1c
they don't get violent," he says. s<
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And even those figures don't necessarily reflect white
support.
To say, for instance, that Terry had 41 percent white
voters fnay be inaccurate, since many predominantly
white precincts have black voters, as do precincts with
white aldermen.
"No black can get over 30 percent of the white vote,"
contends Alderman Larry Little. "If they get over 20 percent
of the white vote, it's a miracle. For a black person
to get 40 percent of the white vote, he must be able to
walk on water and part the Red Sea."
The same holds true for black candidates across the nation,
Little says, not just here in Forsyth bounty. Little,
who has conducted extensive research on the election of
black mayors around the country, says the norm for
black mayoral candidates who have been elected has been
20 percent of the white vote.
,4Harold Washington, Andrew Young and Coleman
Young got 20 percent of the white vote," Little says.
"The exceptions are in places like Los Angeles, where only
18.5 percent of the total population is black but where
Tom Bradley got elected. Or in Raleigh, where 15.5 percent
of the population is black but Clarence Lightner was
elected mayor. Or in Chapel Hill, where Howard Lee was
elected mayor.
"But the key to any black getting elected and receiving
a substantial number of white votes, is that the black candidate
must not be strong or outspoken," Little says.
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ma> be headed for the big screen. Columnist
Joey Sasso reports.
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pping canned beer concealed in paper bags when inter
iewed last Thursday.
Even those who complain Of the group's presence
on't complain of rowdiness or vandalism, but rather o
how it looks."
An elderly lady w ho asked not to be identified Spends <
>t of her free time fishing at the lake in the summer anc
tys the manner in which the young people congregati
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Angelou to be com
Noted author, poet and entertainer Maya Angelou
will deliver the keynote address for the 92nd com^tpencemcrit
exercises aL Winston-Salem State Utitverbachelor's
degrees during the program Sunday, May
20, at 3 p.m. in the Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum.
In a special ceremony, Ms. Angelou, James Gordon
Hanes Jr. and James Ralph Scales will be awarded
honorary doctor of humane letters degrees. Ms.
Angelou will be honored for her outstanding accomplishments
as an actress, singer, dancer, author,
playwright, poet and lecturer.
An active and vocal supporter of equal rights, she
has served as the northern coordinator for the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference and as a
member of the Presidential Commission for International
Woman's Year.
She has also received academic honors from
several universities and was named the 197!
"Woman of the Year" in communications by th<
Ladies Home Journal.
Ms. Angelou currently teaches at Wake Forest
University.
Hanes, a graduate of Yale University, is the formet
president and chairman of the board of the Hanej
Corp. and a former North Carolina state senator. He
has served on numerous corporate and noncorporate
boards at the local, state and nationa
levels.
Now retired, he continues to be involved in iht
arts; he chairs the board of trustees of the North
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Little money,
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By ROBIN ADAMS
r.hmrtlrlA Qtaff Writer
All dressed up and nowhere to go.
That's8 the plight most local teen-agers face each
weekend. They're too old to stay at home and watch
television on Saturday nights and too young to get into .
any of the local nightclubs or discos.
Unless you have athletic ability, many local teens complain,
there are few structured activities to participate in
during weekends or summer nights.
So they "hang out."
"There's just no place else to go," said a 15-year-old
boy who, along with four of his friends, was drinking
beer Thursday afternoon at Winston Lake Park.
Some park patrons complain that Winston Lake is being
used by youth for purposes other than what what it
was intended for (a story appears elsewhere on this page).
But if the park is ruled out as a place to hang out, there
are only a few other choices.
One site that has received a reputation as a prime teen
hangout recently is the
99-cent movie at the
Parkview Twin Theatres. "Most come here just
Sayss Manager Tommy to have a place to go."
Spencer, "I thought it was -- Parkview Twin
the only one." Theatres Manager
Friday, Saturday and Tommy Spencer
Sunday nights are Spencer s
crowd-drawers. The total
attendance on most weekends ranges from 3,500 to 4,000
people and more than half of that number arc teen-agers.
"Most come here just to have a place to go," Spencer
says. "Most of them come all three nights and, after they
have seen the movie the first time, the rest (of the time)
J they are just here hanging around."
That hanging around, Spencer says, has become a problem.
So the shopping center hired two policemen to
: patrol the parking lot and the movie theatre hired an adf
ditional policeman to keep the peace inside the theatre.
"I just wish they (the teens) had a little more control
i over their mouths," Spencer says. "In the past, we have
i had problems with blacks fighting whites, but lately it's
; been blacks fighting blacks.
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State University Board of Trustees from 1971 unti j
1979 and was instrumental in helping the university J
realize its dream of a sculpture garden.
Scales is president emeritus of Wake Fores
University. He served as the universitv's presiden
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