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NAACP plai
ly 10 of Food Lion's more than
200 store managers are black, including
one working in the East
Winston Shopping Center. In
Fair Share negotiations, the
NAACP asked that, by 1986, 15
percent of Food Lion's
employees be black.
During the weekend of Aug. 5,
the NAACP picketed Food Lion
stores in 13 communities across
the Southeast in an effort to show
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that is beginning to appear ineffective.
The local NAACP chapter
picketed the Food Lion grocery
store in Waughtown in July, but
Shinhoster called off the pickets"
after threats of violence were
made to the group's members.
Although the pickets are gone,
Pat Hairston, president of the
local chapter, said the boycott is
continuing.
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Hairston. "(But) I don't know
how we can judge if we are successful.
I really don't know."
But, said Shinhoster, "The
boycott is developing and is picking
up steam."
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Hunt: He':
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newspapers ? and to point with
pride to his record concerning
issues that" particularly-affect black
people. Hunt also listed
education, cuts in wasteful spending
and the appointment of
blacks to his staff as goals he
plans to accomplish if he unseats
Helms in the most expensive
senatorial race in history.
Hunt started the hour-and-ahalf
session with an opening
statement that emphasized improvements
he said he has made
in education during his tenure as
North Carolina's first two-term
governor. They included this
year's $281 million school improvement
package that he pushed
through the General
Assembly. Hunt said he plans to
"become America's leading
education senator" if he defeats
Helms in November.
Proud Of His Record
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could be questioned, his record
on appointing minorities to positions
within state government.
"I'm.proud of the fact that we
have 2,000 more blacks employed
in this administration than in
previous administrations," said
Hunt, adding that the number of
total employees has not increased
at the same time.
When he took office, Hunt
said, there were only five black
judges. Now there are 22, he said,
counting the recent appointments
of Winston-Salem attorney
Roland Hayes and Fayetteville
attorney Patricia Ann Timmons
last week as District Court
judges. Hunt also noted his appointment
of two blacks to the
the state Board of Elections are
black.
Though he has no. black
cabinet secretary at this time,
Hunt said, he has appointed
blacks to positions that will give
them "opportunities and experiences
that will enable them to
be cabinet secretaries in the
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Meanwhile, Food Lion officials
say the boycott has had little
or no effect on sales.
"The boycott has had no
discernible effect on sales," said
Alan Ulman, a Food Lion
spokesman.
Sales volume dropped slightly
during picketing, but increased
after the picket lines stopped, he
added.
Food Lion already complies
with the NAACP's Fair Share
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officials will not sign an agreement
with the NAACP. Instead,
they will continue to hire and
promote qualified workers
~ regardless of race or sex, he said.
"The NAACP closed the door
on any negotiations ? not Food
Lion," said Ulman.
According to Food Lion's
latest employment Figures, it
employs 10,785 people in 240
stores in the Carolinas, Virginia,
Georgia and Tennessee. Of that
total, 1,359, or 12.6< percent, are
black.
V Ulman said Food Lion will
continue "to make a reasonable
effort to provide full and equal
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"minority business advocate" in
state government whose job it
will be to make sure minorities
get a fair share of the state's con^~
tracts and purchases. And he said
he has implemented other plans
and programs to assure minority
vendors an opportunity to do
business with the state.
Political Skeletons
But Hunt's record as many
black voters see it is far from
spotless.
He has been sharply criticized
for locating a PCB toxic waste
dump in mostly rural and black
Warren County. He was attacked
for not pardoning the Wilmington
10 (nine black men and
one white woman, including the
Rev. Ben Chavis, who many feel
were unjustly sentenced to a total
of 282 years in prison for a 1972
firebombing during racial turmoil
in Wilmington). Hunt eventually
commuted the sentences.
He has been assailed for not
appointing blacks to his cabinet
since the resignation of former
Secretary of Natural Resources
and Human Development
Howard Lee. And there has been
sentiment among the state's black
citizens that Hunt has shied away
from them and the presidential
campaign of the Rev. Jesse
Jackson to fivoid alienating conservative
white voters.
After all, they say, Hunt
knows that black voters are more
likely to choose him over archconservative
Helms.
When questioned about many
of those issues Friday, Hunt
denied that they may be stumbling
blocks.
actively sought their involvement
in his campaign. 4
"I have sought help and
assistance (from blacks) in serving
as the governor of this state
and I have received it," Hunt
said, when asked if he is aggressively
seeking black support.
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support in my campaign for the
United States Senate as I seek the
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opportunity to minority-owned
or -operated businesses."
Last year, the company spent
more than $650,000 with black
firms, said Ulman. Black radio
stations received 13.5 percent of
the corporation's advertising,
and 9.4 percent of the
newspapers the company does
business with are black, he said.
Of the company's discretionary
contributions, 10.7 percent
went to black institutions
such as the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, said
Ulman.
According to Shinhoster, the
boycott* is effective despite the
low visibility of pickets. "I think
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goals," he said. "Visibility is no
indication of how successful the
boycott is going."
Shinhoster said the organization
expected the boycott to be a
long campaign.
"We viewed the boycott from
the outset as being a long-range
project," he said. "We are confident
that, over the long run,
shoppers will re-evaluate their
shopping patterns and will not
lis record
support of all people."
Hunt Gives Jackson Kudos
Hunt also said the Jackson
campaign has stirred interest
among the state's voters, black
and white, and that he hopes that
many of those first-time voters
will continue to vote and vote for
him.
But he has not always been so
supportive of Jackson. When
asked about the effects of
Jackson's ,voUr .registration
drives by the Chronicle in March,
Hunt -said,!.VI would doubt if
very many more blacks have
registered today in North
Carolina because he is running."
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patronize Food Lion."
According to Shinhoster, the
NAACP has sufficient funds to
continue producing fliers and
materials on the boycott,
although he declined to reveal the
budget for the campaign. So far,
the organization has produced
more than 100,000 fliers.
"We have more than adequate 4
resources for carrying out the
boycott," he said.
Despite Shinhoster's
statements, there has been some
disagreement locally about the
boycott. Some ministers and
local political leaders are angry,
saying the boycott could hurt the
black community. They say that
the boycott may force Food Lion
to close the East Winston Store,
which primarily serves the black
community.
Shinhoster said talk of closing
the store is a tactic used to divide
the black community. He said the
company will not close the East
Winston store because of its high
sales volume.
Shinhoster said the NAACP
has other plans to dramatize the
boycott but declined to release
the details.
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Although the Wilmington 10
and Warren Countv landfill
issues involved black people,
Hunt said, his decisions in both
cases were not racially motivated.
He didn't pardon the Wilmington
10, Hunt said, because he
believes they were guilty. He
shortened their sentences, he added,
because he felt the sentences
were "excessive."
As for Warren County, Hunt
said: "The Warren County site
was not chosen because Warren
County is a predominantly black
county. The state looked for the
proper soil conditions over probably
10 to 20 counties. It was
almost impossible ... to find the
right kind of soil and geological
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