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Matics: 'Not a Racist Bone in My Body 5
Postmaster denies allegations of race and gender discrimination and intimidation
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Winston-Salem Postmaster J. Mark Mat
ics, saying "there's not a racist bone in my
body," denies that he mistreats African-Amer
ican and women empluyees and said he was
unaware of the discontent among many postal
workers, which apparently has been festering
(for years. . ? .
However, one worker has compared Mat
ics'. management style to that of a slave mas
"His management is that of confronting
and intimidating," said A1 Lea, a letter carrier
pie and hang them in front of the other slaves
to keep everybody else in line and make them
" He's just like the slave master who used to lynch black
people and hang them in front of the other slaves to keep
everybody else in line and make them afraid 7*
? Al Lea
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from the Healy Drive Station. "He's just like
the slave master who used to lynch black peo
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afraid. That's how Mark Matics is." ;V ' .
? Lea was in line for a supervisor's position
earlier this year, but is now back delivering
mail. He said that has nothing to do with his *
views about Matics. /
\lf he can't tell you how to think, he can't
use jou," Lea said. He said the atmosphere at .
the Healy Drive Station is one of "fear and
frustration."
Several other post office employees
offered similar assessments of Matics, but
spoke only on condition that their names not
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CHAMPS!
The Winston-Salem Gray hounds (above) celebrate their Northwest
Midget Football League Junior Bantam Championship after beating
the Pfafftown Papers 28-14 on Nov. 12. De'onzo Amos (left) of the
Junior Midget Pffaftown Packers holds trophy aloft. See stories on
page IS.
Photos by Laura Markland
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Renovation Of Liberty
Street Corridor Approved
By DAVID L. DILLARD -
Chronicle Staff Writer
Will Spencer has had a vested interest in
the Liberty- Street area for years. His grandfa
ther B.F. .Huntley owned one of the largest
furniture companies in the Southeast, located
on Patterson Street, and now Spencer oper
ate!: JKS Signs at 826 Liberty St.
Spencer said he remembers when Liberty
Street used to be a major thoroughfare.
"At one time Liberty Street was where
Winston was ? that's where everybody did
business," Spencer said. "We have a long his
tory from the airport to the city and it is a real
nice thing to build it up again."
Spencer said his store was built in 1927
and used to be-a-car dealership and a rooming
house. At another point it was a grocery store
and had a small cafe.
Spencer told the city-county planning
board last Thursday that Liberty Street used
to be the most traveled road bccause people
see RENOVATION page 13
BUSINESS-- 24
CLASSIFIEDS. 32
COMMUNITY. 4
OPINION 10
ENTERTAINMENT. . 23
OBITUARIES, 27
RELIGION. 25
SPORTS 15
This Week in Black History
Sovember 16, 1873
Richard T. Greener,
first black graduate of
Hanvrd University,
named professor of
metaphysics at the
Univ. of S.C.
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Black GOP Urges
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Special to the Chronicle
African-American Republicans in Win
. ston- Salem were not surprised by their party's
resounding victory on Nov. 8.
Vernon Robinson, a long-time advocate
for African-American Republicans, said this
recent election was a revolution by soutnern
Americans. He said Democrats whose purpose
is to "trap people perpetually into a welfare
state" are virtually finished in the African
American community.
lican Party was when it provided the death
knell to slavery in the late 1800s," Robinson
said. "The second shot was heard on Nov. 8
when the' people of this district finished thr jnh
started by John Brown and finally freed the
remainder of the people who did not make it
off the plantation."
? Emery L. Rand, director of the city's
Human Relations Commission, said African
Americans should never put, all their eggs in
one basket.
"This election provides the proverbial
writing on the wall that we need to be in and
participating in both political parties," he said.
"Straight-ticket voting is (political) suicide."
Constance Johnson, a professor at Win
ston-Salem State University, said she was
appalled by the election results. Johnson urged
young African-Americans to learn the history
of the two major political parties to understand
how to participate in the process. *
"There are so many of us who have not
considered the relationship between our single
handedness in terms of Democratic Party affili
ation and the ability of both Democrats and
Republicans to dismisses as a groups she said.
Johnson also questioned whether the
advent of the 12th Congressional District, rep
resented by Congressman Mel Watt, will help
African-Americans in the long run. She says it
see BLACK page 12
Emery Rand
Vernon Robinson
Constance H. Johnson
Early Start Program Still
Has Room for Students
By VERONICA CLEMONS
Chronicle Staff Writer
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
school system's" staff members who are work
ing with the Early Start pre-kindergarten pro
gram are not worried right now about whether
the program will continue or end in June.
They are concerned with filling the empty
spaces. ,
"We're trying to deal with the here and
now," said Tony Bingham, director of the
school system's elementary school division.
Bingham said that one of the sites, Diggs
Elementary School, still has spaces for 4-year
olds who may be eligible for the program.
School officials expect the program to
begin Jan. 17. It will end when the regular
school year does in June. There will be an
evaluation of the program and the board will
decide if it should continue or cease.
Daisy Chambers, director of elementary
schools, said that in the other sites there has
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