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Winston-Salem Chronicle "The I win City's Award- Winning Weekly" Established in 1974 Ernest H. Pitt ? Ndubisi Egemonye Editor/Publisher Co-Founder Member in good standing with: * ? & ^=v Nation* N??sp*>?' North Carohna Audit BurMlJ ^ PwWuhwi Aitocation Pr*ss A??ooat.on of ClTCUlfltlOnS P^htri. Inc. Editorials Merry Christmas Each Christmas, most of us spend time wondering about its "real meaning." Whether you are Christian or not, you can enjoy Christmas as a time to celebrate the "real meaning" of life itself, which is rooted in how we treat ourselves and each other. Age teaches us that it's not so much what you do as how you do it. Everyone wants to make a good living, have nice things and provide for their kids. But in the end the you have to live with the memory of~how you went about it. For instance, the problem with so many relation ships between couples and between parents and their children really isn't a matter of how little-lin^e they have. There will ? ever be enough time to do everything^And a person only has so much energy. Because of that, we can ? and must ? make our relationships a top priority. Right along with making money and earning promotions and prestige. What's success worth if you can't share it with loved ones? And there's no way to get around what's in your heart. Don't fool yourself for a minute: if you're upset inside, if you're stressed out, people around you will see it. This Christmas, seek out some quiet time. Gather in the liv ing room with your family, turn the television off and just visit for thirty minutes. An old clown gave good advice when he said, "Remember to be kind, because all we have in this old world ts each other." Leadership Needed The list of black leaders going off the scene due to retire ment and death is growing longer. Locally, we have observed the passing of the Rev. J.T. McMillan, Charles McLean, Laura Wall, Tom Hooper, Jerry Gilmore Sr., Carl Russell Sr., and Avery Flynt. On the national scene, Rep. Mervyn Dmally (D-California) retired this year as a senior member of the California legisla ture. Celes King 111 retired this year after 40 years of service to the California Congress of Racial Equality. . All of these individuals were associated with winning important gains for the entire minority community. They were leaders. And And although larger numbers of African-Ameri cans are coming into positions of political leadership nationally, we can never sit on our laurels. Think of it: who will replace our current aldermen and commissioners? We cannot sit back and wait for leaders to appear. Project Blueprint, a new United Way program, is doing its part to ensure that African-Americans are prepared to serve on non-profit boards. Twenty-three black execu tives were recently trained and matched with mentors. Leader ship Winston-Salem also actively cultivates leadership in African- Americans. Each one of us can undertake mentoring one individual. Look around at the individuals in your life and find one person who's potential you will support. It may be the grocery bagger, the newspaper carrier, or the barber shop owner. Leadership potential lives in eacK of our hearts! Find that spark and help it grow in someone else ? the world will be a better place for it. The I Ching, an ancient Chinese guide to life's turning points, says that a person's character may be judged by what he or she nourishes in others. "Those who cultivate inferior behaviors and relationships are inferior people; those who culti vate superior qualities in themselves and others are superior people." This is a test that we should apply to ourselves as well as to others. This Christmas, may we all slow down and find a sense of peace. If each of us took respon sibility for mentoring one person, what a difference we could make! 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(212) 669-5220 Don't Knock Others When They're Down To The Editor: On the persecution of black officials. ..people make mistakes. Sometimes they do so unintention ally, in which case they should be forgiven. Sometimes they do so out of selfishness, and if careless or self ish behavior injures others, they indeed need to be repremended or punished. But too often our very sophisti cated society smells blood and goes after someone with a vengeance that can be just as reprehensible as the act that is being condemned There is a fine line between coddling anti-social or irresponsible behavior on the one hand and being merciless on the other. Perhaps there not such a fine line after all, because there seems to be plenty of latitude between the two. Punishment as retribution can be defended. Punishment as deter rent also makes sense. But getting gratification out of seeing someone suffer is indefensible and indicates the presence of sick emotions. Punishment of an offense requires that the offender be "injured." But that should suffice. Adding insult to injury does not degrade others. It only degrades us. John T. Greenwood, Esquire Low Sodium Diet To the Editor: Merry Christmas I am a participant in the TONE program (Trial of Nonpharmaco logic Intervention in the Elderly) sponsored by the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. The TONE study is trying to determine the effects of a low sodium and/or weight loss diet on hypertension. I have been in the pilot program for the past six months and have been involved in the low sodium diet intervention. My eating habits have changed, my blood pressure has been lowered and I have lost weight. I feel much better and I will Santa Claus was recently spotted with a lap full of kids at the Phi Omega Chapter , Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorori ty's 9th annual Christmas party held recently at Ifethlehnm Center. CHRONICLE MAI LB AG Our Readers Speak Out continue to stay on this type of diet. It was a great help for me to see a nutritionist and also to meet in a group where they prepare low sodium foods. The TONE program has been a good program for me and I would highly recommend it to peo ple who are 60-80 years old with high blood pressure. If you are inter ested in this program you would need to call Joyce Wheeling at 777 3945. / Mrs. Mae Carroll Help At Last To The Editor: Breaking the law means just what it says. 1 broke the law and now 1 must pay. 1 asked for pre-trial release, instead of prison. 1 asked for help with my drug problem, instead of prison. Judge Wood gave me both. Again 1 am sent to prison,but hopefully 1 will get the help I need this time. 1 am not mad. just disappointed. A person should be judged not . only by their crime, but also by their problem that may .have caused the crime. I am on the road of recovery from all the pain I have caused my body. I look at myself shining in the right direction. There is no cure for drug addiction. Only spiritual help and drug counseling and your will power will keep you free from drugs. Thank you Judge Wood for not being as harsh as you could have been. I was given time for my crime, but I was also given help with my drug problem and another chance to straighten my life out. Society, don't give up on me nn?\V' I still have a chance tcrhelp myself and to become a productive citizen. I thank you again. Australia Smith American School Needs To Be Challenged - < - -? ? ? ivcpons ana studies repeatedly condemn America' s school aystem - public and private - as the" worst in the industrialized world. The average class valedictorian in the United States would rank as an average student (in the 50 per centile) in China, says Christopher Whittle, Chairman of Whittle Com munications. That should give you some idea where the average Amer ican student ranks worldwide - at the bottom. And we're talking about the generation that we will depend on to run the trains on time, bring us our warm milk in the nursing home and deliver our Social Security checks - if they can read the address. We have another set of studies outlining what should be done. Year 2000 goals abound: increase the high school graduation rate; U.S. students will be first in the world in science and mathematics; students will receive knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global economy, etc. ' Instead of becoming hopeful - from such gdSIl, you get sdti. All around you is nothing but rhetoric without action or action that moves us even further from those laudable goals. For example, this year Detroit's teachers struck for more money and power. Starting salaries are already over $40,000. A precious month was lost that could have helped high school seniors prepare themselves for college and other students pre pare themselves for high school. Teacher's salaries should increase, but only when productivity (acquired knowledge and skills of students) does. Whether teachers should make more money won't mean much to the public, however, until the prod ucts of the schools improve and someone becomes responsible for the low skill level of its graduates. Presently, if a graduate cannot read the high school diploma, no one in the education system is responsible, teut as taxpayers we are responsible for tlie salaries of administrators, teachers and super visors who train the graduates. New York City, for example, has more school supervisors than gay pride education for first graders. Whatever you think about those issues, the present emphasis does not teach the skills these young peo ple need to survive in a technologi cally-led global economy. What do we need? Competi TONY BROWN Syndicated Columnist France and the state of New York has more school supervisors than all of the countries in Europe com bined. In fact, the New York school system spends more per capita on students than anyone but New Jer sey and gets a lower student perfor mance than anyone but New Jersey. However. New York schools lead in condom distribution, classes on AIDS and is now engulfed in tion. If we are going to beat the Ger mans and the Japanese in "bottom up" production, our workers at the bottom are going to have to be smarter than their workers. Simply put, educations an economic issue. Maybe when the demands of the marketplace shake the bloated bureaucracy into reality, it will compete - and save our children's future and this country. Celebrating The Christmas Spirit What About The People Who Have No Christmas By Keir Rhodes Age 16 Mt. Zion Baptist Church North Forsyth High Time and time | again we see it on the news. People crying, broke and singing the blues. The unfortunate or should I say poor. Grieving from depression they wish they had more. Financially defunct they have no one that loves them. Walk by them in the street No one thinks of them. Enough to love, enough to care. Enough to give the warmth and heart that we all share. They are modemly segregated and not given a chance to excel from temporary hell and also advance. When the system backs them you say it's unrealistic. But say otherwise when they become a statistic. It's not a color thing so don't discriminate. But homelessness isn't prejudice, if so togetherness would deteriorate. So then why is it traditional to feel merry? Knowing that people suffer everyday yeah it's scary. So when we leave to spend time with our families prior to the 25th, Don't forget about the less fortunate cause it is no myth. They say that if you wish upon a falling star your wish will come true. But it won't unless they get help from you. Everything's gonna be alright if we show that we care. Just bow your heads and say a little prayer. We should all treat Christmas aglif it were Thanksgiving. Look up in What About Jesus? the sky and thank God n , f. By Tremaine Torrance for us living. ^ Why is Christmas Age 16 so commercialized? Mt. Ziott Baptist Churd as he^ieTthroug^the Mt Tabor High School sky. The malls are filled with credit cards. mone)j.and parents buying toys Spending all their money just to prove there's a Santa Claus: Rut in this monotony - have we forgot the cross? The story of a Rudolph. I've been told - But Rudolph never saved a soul! It seems like we're celebrating the season and forgot the reason. Don't forget the baby who saved our souls. A child with a heart - one ' fi' hundred percent gold. A child who died for you anivme - Years ago on calvary. A child whose birthday comes once a year, flfeld it in your heart very dear. So don't get caught up in the plo$. Give a kid a bible instead of a toy. Let's celebrate His birthday with much joy - And don't forget the cross, "? is what 1 ask. Please spread this message - It's all Christian's task!
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