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After three separate requests, the NAACP refus?
ed to send a copy as well. First, Fred Rasheed, the
5 NAACP's national economic director and director
? of the Operation Fair Share Program, said copies of
S ail of the Fair Sh are aorp^mpntk IL^nlrl Kfl m l i I arl
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When those didn't arrive, and Rasheed's office was
contacted a second time, Rasheed's secretary said
the agreements are confidential.
?Upon a third -call to his -office a week later,Rasheed
said the agreements are confidential at the
request of the companies, not the NAACP.
Rasheed suggested that the best way to get copies
would be to ask the companies directly.
The Chronicle has since requested copies of Fair
g Share agreements from Hardee's Fast Food
fri Syifmi, Stop inrl Shop Cumpamai lin., and Bi-b<y?
Grocery Stores, three of the 23. firms the NAACP
{ said it has negotiated agreagnents with since the Fair
J ' Share program started in December 1981.
When asked initially for his company's Fair
j Share agreement, John Merritt of Hardee's said he
^ j would be "happy to send one." But Merritt said
J ' last weekend at the NAACP state conference in
Charlotte that it would not be in his firm's best in
i icresi 10 release me document now.
Aileen Gorman, vice president of public affairs at
i Stop and Shop Companies Inc., said, "We don't
| feel there is any need to put this into the press."
Gorman said she would send a copy of the press
: release her company sent after the agreement was
5 signed, but that she would not send a copy of the
actual agreement.
j A Bi-Lo representative who also attended the
j NAACP conference said she would mail a copy of
; her company's agreement but, by press time
: Wednesday, it hadn't arrived.
Rasheed said the NAACP would not release the
j Fair Share agreements because "I think it would be
S counterproductive to what we are trying to do."
5 The agreements, said Rasheed, are "done in a spirit
of cooperation between these companies and the
j NAACP."
Copies of the actual agreements also have not
5 been made available to the local NAACP office,
j Pat Hairston, president of the local branch, said he
j has not received any Fair Share agreements, but has
received press releases or synopses of the
S agreements. ^
"Looks to me like some kind of smoke screen,"
said Alderman Virginia Newell, who said she also
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?ynwinw 10 ootain copies oI Fair .Shareagreements,
j "How can we work on a local level to implement
| something we know nothing about?" e
Newell said she requested copies of the
?agreements the NAACP had signed with other food
stores when regional NAACP director Earl
Shinhoster came to Winston-Salem shortly after the
NAACP voted to boycott Food Lion during the
summer.
"He was apprehensive when 1 called for others
who had signed agreements ... and (copies of other
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Fair Share agreements signed with grocery stores)
were never forthcoming," said Newell. "I told him
I was not going to honor the boycott until they told
me what was in the other agreements. And he didn't
address the issue at all and I never got any copies.
"Why should we have something that important
in the dark? Why should it be a secret?"
Walter Marshall, vice president of the local
?chapter,?said Ht he agreements aren't public
documents.
"The NAACP is fulfilling its obligation to the
public," said Marshall. "They shouldn't make
them (Fair Share agreements) any more public than
PUSH or SCLC does."
Many times the companies are afraid to release
?tfefr~4oott?nem?, said Marshall, because they fear
"white backlash."
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"The less you publicize it, the better. Part of the
agreement is that you don't make an issue of it."
Marshall said Rasheed might release copies of the
agreements after the issue dies down. But for now,
Marshall said, Rasheed is angry at the Chronicle for
publishing an article saying Food Lion didn't agree
to a Fair Share pa(ct, as the NAACP had reported,
- but signed a nonbinding statement of principles instead.
That statement, said Eugene McKinley, Food
Lion's vice president for human resources, should
not be confused with the NAACP's standard Fair
Share agreements and binds the company to do
nothing it isn't already doing. ^
"The point is," said Marshall, "Rasheed doesn't
trust y'all (the Chronicle). He doesn't think the
press is interested in the public interest as much as it
is in selling newspapers."
If he were in charee. Marshall said, all NAACP
members would be given copies of all agreements,
but since the Operation Fair Share program is fairly
new, the specifics haven't been perfected.
"This is something new and the organization has
not really polished it," Marshall said. "The
organization is trying to point direction for itself."
Still, said Newell, an organization as "highly
respected" and "reputable" as the NAACP cannot
afford negative publicity.
"If this kind of thing continues, you will have a
cloud over it," said Newell. "And this can't be. We
don't havepll our rights yet,"
The NAACP launched Operation Fair Share on
Dec. 11, 1981. The program, according toy N AACP
Executive Director Benjamin Hooks in a 1983 inter1
view in Black Enterprise magazine, is "an economic
development program demanding that the private
sector make a commitment to hire and promote
blacks at all levels of management, appoint blacks
to corporate boards, set up minority procurement
programs and make greater use of black financial
institutions."
To date, the NAACP says it has signed 23 Fair
Share agreements, many of them with utility companies
and grocery stores.
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reporters asked one of the
students why he declined to shake
Helms' hand, and the student,
who refused to give his name,
responded, "Why should 1 put
my hand in the dirt?"
Inside the auditorium, Helms'
speech to a mostly-white audience
~ that included fewer than
50 students - lasted about 10
minutes, and was interspersed
with vigorous applause by his
white listeners.
"I wish I knew at least one of
the students outside who refused
to come in," said Helms. "They
will not team anything about
what I said by standing out there.
You have nothing to lose by
listening to those with whom you
disagree.
"I didn't come here with the
anticipation of getting any votes.
I came here to let them (students)
know where I stand."
But it seemed the students
already knew where he stood.
During a rushed question-andanswer
period, they questioned
Helms about his positions against
civil rights legislation, sbcial programs,
a Martin Luther King Jr.
holiday and aid to minority colleges.
When a student asked Helms
why he came to Livingstone to
speak, Helms called the question
a "political statement."
"I came here because 1 wanted
to meet with the black students,"
Helms said. M... Minorities, and
particularly the black race, are
being and have been used
politically. You have promising
politicians who have been promising
you everything in the
world but what have they
delivered? They have locked you
Into welfare."
On the King holiday, Helms
said, "I oppose a holiday for
anybody. I would oppose a holiday
for my hero, Thomas Jefferson.
Martin Luther King would
be elevated to the status of
George Washington (with a holiday
in his honor). It's a holiday
s# you can take off and go "
fishing."
Grier, who said he has changed
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Democratic to Republican, said
he disagrees with Helms for not
supporting a King holiday, but
that he nevertheless supports
Helms and urges others to support
him. Grier said he agrees
w ith Helms on two issues abortion
and school prayer - but
could not name any other views
that he and the senior North
Carolina senator share.
Grier said, "If you believe in
God, that's all you need. God
said, 4I will supply all your
needs.'"
Helms was invited to Livingstone
as part of an on-going
Wednesday lecture series. James
B. Ewers, Livingstone's dean of
student affairs, said the school
also invited Gov. Hunt but that
he turned down the invitation
and instead sent one of his aides.
Ewers said the lecture series is an
educational forum and is designed
to present diverse points of
view to the students, some with
which they agree, others with
which they disagree.
"This forum is to allow
students to develop linkage with
topics and persons that have
significance at the federal, state
and local level," he said
But many of the students felt
Helms should not have been in
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"1 feci he (Helms) is using the
school to get the black vote "
said Claysie Hawkins. "He huv
never been to a black school
before "
Said student Dennis Summers:
"If we went inside, we would be
giving the impression that we ansupporting
him and that's not
true. The students had no say-so
in his coming."
Winston-Salem resident Willie
Anderson, president of the For
syth County Association bf
Classroom Teachers, agreed
"The kind of support (Helms)
has for these students is the same
Velma Barfield has for her
lovers," Anderson said.
But one student said she came
to hear what Helms had to say.
"We aren't going to learn
anything by staying outside,"
said Lynn Atkinson.
After the election, Helms said,
he wants to attempt to bridge the
gap between himself and the
black community.
"After this election, we can
embark on an effort to establish a
common demoninator across this
county faith in the I ord," said
Helms "Certainly, we are not
gonna understand eaph other if
we don't listen."
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