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Young bailers win championship ? ? ? ? EAC donates golf tourney money See B1 See A3 See C3 Working may help the heart ? ? ? ? Trees to be planted along Highland Ave. W Reference K TJ - ^ ^ JR. -R -R J^. Not to be taken ? J B J 7Sconts ?om this libra'y Vol. XXIX No. 30 The war over the war is neating up ?> Photo hy Ke\ in Walker Rev. John Mendez shows a group of Muslim women pictures from his trip to Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freedom has fledgling black support BY. T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE The Black Leadership Roundtable of Winston-Salem took a stance on the war with Iraq last Thursday, a few hours after bombs began to drop on the Middle Eastern nation. While supporting the efforts of American men and women who have been called to fight in the war. roundtable members adopted a resolution calling for the U.S. to stop its aggressive resolve toward Iraq. The roundtable's stance should not come as surprise. African Americans from coast to-coast have not embraced this war with open arms, a fact easily deci phered from black talk radio and state m e n t s made by African Ameri can lead ers. A El-Amin recent poll by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies found that less than 20 percent of blacks supported the war. Double rtlat number said they were firmly against war. The poll Was conducted before fighting began last week. Fleming El-Amin, co-con vener of the Black Leadership Roundtable, believes the lega cy of unfairness that many blacks carry is one of the main reasons they are wary of the war. "I think (because of) our history in this country, we have a stronger sensitivity to fairness," El-Amin said, "We Sec Blacks/war on A10 Photos by Kevin Walker Terri Carter lifts a sign featuring pictures of her fwo sons. One of them is in Kuwait. Vets: troops, Bush need support M. BY T. KEVIN WALKER FHI ( HRONig I -Terri Carter spent last Fri day night making a sign to carry during a rally Saturday to show support for American troops lighting in the Middle East. The week-old wai is per sonal for Carter. One of her sons has been deployed to Kuwait with his army unit. Her other son is a high school sen ior who will follow in his older brother's footsteps when he joins the ipiilitary after gradua tion this spring. Carter, who drove from Madison to take part in the rally, glued pictures of both her boys to her homemade sign and attached an American flag to the back of it. "We need to support our >1 man holds an American flag at a rally Saturday. troops. They are doing a lot for the country," said Carter, who joined more than 200 others for a rally that started in the park ing lot at Joel Coliseum and turned into a parade that ended at Ernie Shore Stadium. See Rally on A4 Infamous WFU alum's work to be used to probe racial attitudes BY T KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE ? Don't look for statues of Thomas Dixon Jr. on the campus of Wake Forest University. There are no resi dence halls boasting his name either. It is a little known fact that Dixon graduated from Wake Forest in 1883 - decades before the school relo cated to Winston-Salem from Eastern North Carolina - and seemingly that is the way the school likes it. During the first half of the 20th century, Dixon man aged to turn ideas that many considered racist into a series of successful books, one of w hich. "The Clans Sec Dixon on A4 Pho?ob) Bnuc Chapman Brenda Diggs and Mayor Allan Joines hold their awards for Woman and Man of the Year after The Chronicle's 20th Annual Community Service Awards banquet Satur day. More than two dozen people were honored at the event. A picture package of the banquet and award winners is featured en pages CI, C2 and CI I. Respected . Iman focuses on faith, not war during talk Sbn of Nation of Islam founder spoke at area universities last week BY COURTNEY GAILLARD rHE CHRONICLE . . . Imam W. Deen Mohammed gave a brief ad3ress on human dignity at Winston-Salem State University last Thursday. Mohanflned was in town late last week for a series of lectures. In addition to his appearance at WSSU. Mohammed also spoke at Wake Forest University and Salem College. Mohammed - a son of the late Elijah Mohammed who founded the Nation of Islam - is the leader and international spokesman for the American Muslim Society. He is also the leading member of the World Conference on Religion & Peace and the World Supreme Council of Mosques. "The original dignity given to us by God. it's inherent. It's Deen Mohammed our property that we re born with. God says he made all the children of Adam honorable with dignity...that means every human being, according to my religion and your religion's inherently noble in (God's) cre ation." said Mohammed. Mohammed said he can't help but to think about who has influenced his faith when talking about human dignity. He recalled how his father frequently preached that "Islam is freedom, justice and equali ty." Had his father not preached those ideals, said Mohammed, he may not have remained a Muslim. "(Islam) appealed to my inherent dignity as a cre ation of God. as a human creation of God and that's Seo Mohammad on A3 The Only Choice for African-American and Community News r i
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