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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1992
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Carver classmates
Classmates from 1939-92 attend
ed Carver High School's reunion.
Winston-Salem Chronicle
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NEWS
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Black demonstrators arrested
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. ? Joe Jordan is led
away by Ventura County sheriffs deputies during
a white supremacist rally at the court house site
where four white police officers were acquitted
in the beating of Rodney King. The rally consist
ed of two white supremacists and about 300
counter demonstrators. There were four arrests.
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Tutu resigns from Harvard
Angelican Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
shown in this 1992 file photo, has resigned Har
vard University's govern
ing board, citing the
political situation in his
native South Africa. In
his letter resigning effec
tive immediately, Tutu
said he needed to be
"more available to help
in the delicate but exhila
rating business of being
midwives for the birth of ^
the much-awaited new South Africa."
News Briefs
Compiled from staff and AP reports
MIAMI, Fla., ? Florida State Sen. Carrie
Meek, ri^ht, is congratulated by Athalie Range,
long-time leader of Miami's black community,
after Meek won the seat for Congress in the
Dade County primary election this week. She
becomes the first black representative to
Congress from Florida since Reconstnjction.
Barry in trouble again
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Marion Barry's
possible return to public life may have been
impeded the day before the District of Columbi
a's Democratic primary for city council seats,
when a woman charged he assaulted her over
the weekend.
S.A. man beaten by soldiers
BISHO, South Africa ? A man sits in King
Williams Town hosptial this week after he was
beaten with batons and whips by Ciskeien sol
diers in the South African homeland. In the after
math of last week's killing of 28 African Nation
al Congress supporters, there have been beatings
of civilians by soldiers and the buniing of sol
diers' homes by ANC supporters.
' Florida's First
Officials say black youth trapped
? Local officials agree that black juvenile offenders
are not properly handled in the judicial system
Black representation in Juvenile Services Division
of N.C. Administration Office of the Courts
By TRAVIS MITCHELL
Chronicle Staff Writer
"Once a statistic, always a statistic ? if
you are a black youth offender, "according to
juvenile services authorities.
"Law enforcement agencies are well
trained in regard to how children are affect
ed," said former Forsyth County Chief Court
Counselor Jim Weald and. "If the kid gets in
trouble and the police get involved, the kid
will go to court. Once a kid getsin the system
we have a lot of resources to help the child,
but the problem is that you have a court coun
selor with a high case load who does not have
enough time to spend with each family."
Each district consists of a chief court
counselor, supervisor and court counselors. In
Forsyth County there are 1 1 court counselors,
two black males and one black female and
since the departure of Horace Walser, who
was unexpectedly reassigned to Lexington,
there is limited black representation in super
visory positions across the state.
Sources indicate that Walser was the only
black court counselor supervisor in the state
(see graph). ..
Officials reported that each counselor is
handling about 50 cases. In fact, out of 628
cases under supervision by Forsyth County
court counselors, 308 involve black males,
219 white males, 64 black females and 37
white females. These cases include probation,
training school and aftercare.
Weakland said that under the current sys
tem cultural insensitivity is another issue.
"When you combine the number of caseloads
with the lack of black representation and cul
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N=300 (est)
W/M ? B/M W/F ? B/F
Chief Court Counselors 60% 9% 27% 4%
Supervisors 75% 1% 12% 12%
Court Counselors 41% 14% 38% 7%
21st District Court Juvenile Services
(Caseload Statistics for 1991-1992 For Forsyth County)
INTAKE (Cases In the system)
W/M B/M W/F B/F
295 474 ^1144 157
CASES UNDER SUPERVISION
(Probation, Training School, Aftercare)
W/M B/M W/F B/F
219 308 37 64
W/M - Whit* Male B/M - Black Mala W/F - Whlta Fatnala B/F - Black Famata
SOURCE: NC Administrative Office of the Courts
McCabe delivers Urban League address
? Lee Faye Mack given special
award for community service
By CAROLE RAQIN8 . -
Community N#ws Editor * , , , .
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The Winston-SaTem Urban League held i<s 13th
Annual Equal Opportunity Day Dinner^and Awards
Ceremony Thursday evening, September 10 at the
M.C. Benton Convention Center. About 800 people
attended the affair. The theme was "Working Together
? We Have Made a World of Difference."
The keynote speaker was JeweUJackson-McCabe,
founder and chair of the National Coalition of 100
Black Women and president of Jewell Jackson
McCabe Associates, Inc., a management consulting
- firm.
McCabe gave a powerful speech on the direction
the community must take to have an impact on the
socioeconomic status of black people. She also spoke
on behalf of African-American women by emphasiz
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Jewell Jackaon-McCabe waa Dr. Nat Irvln II 0), chairman of the board of diredora at the Urban
EOD Dinner's keynote apeaker. presents a special Recognition Award to the Rev. Lee Faye Mack.
/ SPECIAL
LIFT brings
students hope
By TRAVIS MITCHELL
Chronicle Staff Writer
During the most heated debates over the issues
facing the African* American community, usually the
fiercest rivals will agree that African- American stu
dents lag far behind their white counterparts. However,
where this discussion lends itself only to lip-service,
one school in the community is striving to make a dif
ference: LIFT (Learning Is Fun Too) Academy.
LIFT was founded in 1982, as a manifestation of
the dreams and aspirations of Earline Parmon, a vision
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EDUCATION REPORT
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Memoirs from
'Stone Jungle'
By T.A. BLACKMAN
Earline Parmon, LIFT director
When a child is born white he rides in a limousine"
driven by prosperity that stops at money, mo' money ,
and bank. His speed limit is an infinite number. When
a child is born black he rides on a bus driven by hope
that stops at jail, hell or heaven. His speed limit is
zero and anything over that brings the sight of flash
ing blue lights, a trip downtown and 'arrested devel
opment. '
This seemingly unbreakable cycle begins at birth
and rotates faster each year, as every accomplishment
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N.C. paying for neglect at mental hospitals
CHARLOTTE (AP) ? For black
children across North Carolina during
much of this century, there were no
schools for the mentally retarded or
youngsters with behavior problems, but
now the state is paying for its mistakes.
The Charlotte Observer reported Sun
day that North Carolina is paying $16
million this year on a program which
places about 400 retarded patients in
mentally retardation centers and group
homes.
In 1912, the only state institution
for the mentally retarded was the
Caswell School in Kinston. There was
no place for black, mentally retarded
patients until the O'Berry School opened
in Goldsboro 43 years later.
Retarded children, violent children
? even those with epilepsy ? were sent
to Cherry Hospital, in Goldsboro, where
they mingled with psychotic adults. The
asylum also housed drug addicts, alco
holics and the criminally insane.
For years, the state spent roughly
half as much on the black patients at
Cherry Hospital as it did for its all-white
mental hospitals.
"It's unconscionable ? abominable.
A psychiatric hospital is no place for a
child," said Don Taylor, a former direc
tor of the North Carolina Division of
Mental Health, Mental Retardation and
Substance Abuse Service"
A retarded Gaston County teen-ager
? known only as Thomas S. ? sparked
the controversy in 1982.
Thomas was given up for adoption
at birth. By age 18, he had been in about
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