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Army, NAACP Task Forces Meet to Discuss Racism Issue CHARLOTTE lAPi Army and NAACP repre sentatives reached some com mon ground when they met privately Friday to discuss their separate investigations into the racial climate at Fort Bragg, the NAACP said. One area in which they did not agree was a request by the NAACP task force to gain access to Fort Bragg, which is North Carolina's largest mili tary installation. "We got no promises," said Kelly Alexander Jr., presi dent of the state NAACP and a member of the task force that investigated the issue. "On some points we agreed to dis agree." Still, the 2 1/2-hour meet ing at a Charlotte hotel was helpful, Alexander said. "From my perspective, today's meeting was extremely successful," he said. "Some one once said a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a sin gle step." The NAACP next week will renew its request to visit the base, he said. Last week, a task force from the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People released an 18 page report that concluded that there were serious race-related problems at all of the state's military bases. At the time, NAACP offi cials said the only base where they were not given full access was at Fort Bragg. Army offi cials said they were conducting their own investigation. Both investigations began after three Fort Bragg soldiers were charged with killing two black Fayetteville residents last December. Two of the sol diers were described by police as racist skinheads. While the Army's probe has looked at the entire service branch> the NAACP has focused on North Carolina's military bases. The results of the Army investigation are due sometime this month. None of the Army's task force members attended Fri day's news conference b> the NAACP. On Wednesday, Army Sec retary Togo West Jr. confirmed that the task forces would meet. "The Army is interested in the NAACP's findings and recommendations and will consider their views," he said. The secretary's comments and the scheduled meeting fol lowed a harsh assessment of military leaders at Fort Bragg by NAACP task force mem bers. "The NAACP is not on a military bashing expedition," Alexander said Friday. "Let's not let the military become somebody's playground for incubating racism." Classified Deadline is Monday at _?30. For more information contact the Chronicle at 722-8624. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO HOMEOWNERS! THROUGH APPROVED LENDERS THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUS ING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNDEFCVlTLE 1 OF THE NATIONAL HOUSING ACT, HAVE MADE AVAILABLE MONIES FOR MILLIONS OF FAMILIES TO MAKE MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS TO THEIR HOME. . . WITHOUT WHOSE HELP IT MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE. YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE NO MATTER HOW LONG YOU'VE OWNED YOUR HOUSE, ETHNIC BACKGROUND, LOCATION, CONDITION. INCOME, AGE AND MARITAL STATUS. 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Education Committee, took over a meeting of the Park Hill Mini-District management team Monday and demanded control of the money. The group's leaders said black students will never learn under a white-designed curricu lum. They said the schools must become "Afro-centric" and teach African culture and history "on a daily basis." 'Literacy will not be a pri ority where our children are concerned," group leader Yusef Dakari told the mixed race management team meeting at Hallett Elementary School. ' When they learn to love themselves and their culture, they will be eager to read and write." During the confrontation, Dakari said black children lack identity because they were stripped of their culture and their language beginning in the 16th century, when slave traders abducted them from the w?st coast of Africa. "You can be with us or against us," Dakari said, look ing directly at the black princi pals. "There ain't no in between. There's no straddling the fence." Management team mem bers, including ofher black par ents and four black principals, appeared stunned by the inten sity of the onslaught Dakari was joined by Tonya Lemmons. vvThe man agement team as you know it is no more. We are the manage ment team," she said. vvWe are not asking you Jp step back. You will step back, in one way or another." The U.S. Department of Education gave the mini-dis trict the money last fall to develop a cluster of seven inte grated magnet or theme ele mentary schools to boost parental involvement and achievement among minority children. The two sides will meet again Monday at Hallett. Denver School Board Pres ident Aaron Gray on Tuesday declined comment until he had more information. Superinten dent Irv Moskowitz didn't return phone calls by The Den ver Post. Project Exodus: Now, it's Black Flight in Districts WACO, Texas (AP) When Lester and Coque Gib son's son failed the state's basic skills test eight years ago, they were dismayed. Last year, when their 16-year-old daughter failed, they were appalled. The middle-class black cou ple had always hoped their chil dren would defy the odds and grasp the American dream. But education is the key. So Gibson demanded an accounting of the school district's test scores. And when he spread the numbers acros<rhis desk, he was shocked: Seventy-five per cent of the black students and 66 percent of the Hispanic students failed the test in 1995, compared to only 37 percent of the white students. The school district blames poverty and poor parenting for the failure rates. Gibson blames institutional racism - teachers, he says, have low expectations of minority chil dren. "If we're going to get blamed for the education of our kids," Gibson says, "then we may as well take control of their educational destiny and take a shot at it." And thus began Project Exo dus, a movement aimed at break ing away from the Waco Indepen dent School District and forming a new one. In many ways, the Gibsons are just like other frustrated par ents across the country who want to pull their children out of public schools. But this time, it's not white flight that's breaking up a school district _ and, this time, it's not whites being accused of segregation. In Waco and in other pockets around the country, especially inner cities, black parents are rebelling against a system they say has fostered only failure. They are taking their kids out of public schools and putting them in church schools and pri vate black academies, which have doubled in number to about 400 over the past 12 years, according to the Institute for Independent Education in Washington, D C. In Milwaukee, the inner city's poorest families are using state-funded vouchers to send their children to the schools of their choice. "It's a reaction to the need less ignoring of the African American talents," said Joan Davis Rattcray, the institute's president. "Integration for black people has been almost a cruel hoax." For 25 years, Waco school buses have rumbled across the Brazos River, carrying mostly black children from the east side to the desegregated schools in tfye mostly white neighborhoods on the west side. Civil rights leaders nationwide fought for this - an end to segregated schools that were separate, but not equal. Inte gration was supposed to be good for their children, improve their educations and create a better society. But now, some believe desegregation has done more harm than good. And they want their kids back. On a tour through the ram shackle neighborhoods on the river's west side, Gibson points out the abandoned schools and the storefronts that were boarded up after the children were bused away. vIt was systematic _ divide and conquer," said Gibson, a big man with a deep, gravelly voice. He looks out the car window at a barren field that used to be an ele mentary school. And what hap pens to the children in their new schools? Gibson cites his son's experi ence. Like many other black chil dren, he says, his son was being ^tracked" in remedial math classes and was never exposed to the algebra he needed to pass the state test. He rarely had home work. Gibson, the county's sole black commissioner, says that although he can afford to send his two remaining school-age daugh ters to private schools, he can t turn his back on the families who can't. So instead of giving up on the public school system altogether, he is proposing to secede from the mother district and form a new one _ a district where mostly black children would go to neigh borhood schools, where board members would be mostly minorities. 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