Thursday, January 9,1997
NEWS/The Charlotte Post
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Thomas’ views draw angry protests
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALISBURY, Md. - A
speech by Supreme Court jus
tice Clarence Thomas sched
uled for next week has been
canceled because of planned
protests, organizers say.
NAACP officials say they are
organizing a protest of the
Jan. 18 speech before a youth
festival.
The Boys & Girls Club chap
ter sponsoring the gathering
say the protest could force it
to cancel the event, which
they expect to raise $20,000 to
fund a tutoring program.
Festival organizers plan to
decide early this week
whether to cancel the event,
revoke Thomas’ invitation, or
forge ahead, organizer George
Krupanski said.
About 100 tickets have been
sold, about the same number
as this time last year, but con
troversy over the Thomas
invitation has overshadowed
the weeklong event, he said.
The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People opposed Thomas’
appointment to the Supreme
Court, challenging his conser
vative views on equal rights
and affirmative'action.
“We have a conscience we
must follow, and we cannot in
good conscience stand or sit by
and have him come into our
state as a role model for black
youth without conveying our
antipathies about him and his
philosophies,” said Hanley
Norment, Maryland NAACP
state conference president.
The civil rights group moved
its state conference from
Annapolis to Salisbury to
enable members to join in the
protest. The annual gathering
of the NAACP’s 24 Maryland
branches occurs at the same
time as the banquet sponsored
by the Boys and Girls Club of
Western Sussex Inc., based in
Seaford, Del.
Thomas is one of three
scheduled ke3mote speakers at
the banquet, which climaxes
the Festival for Youth, a
weeklong series of events
designed by Seaford communi
ty leaders to provide role mod
els for youths.
“The festival has been going
on for five years, and we’ve
never gotten this attention at
this point,” said Krupanski,
who met with NAACP officials
last week.
Canceling the event could
force the group to cut back or
even terminate the tutoring
program, event organizers
send.
Thomas won Senate confir
mation by a slim margin - 52-
48 - after he endured a day
long grilling about the allega
tions of sexual harassment
made by a former employee,
Anita Hill.
Thomas quickly established
himself as one of the most con
servative members of a gener
ally conservative court.
Most notably - and most dis
concertingly to civil rights
activists - Thomas opposes
most current forms of affirma
tive action. He believes that
racial preferences are based
on the false assumption that
all black Americans need spe
cial help.
His view has found its way
into American law in several
5-4 Supreme Court decisions.
Some Seat Pleasant resi
dents protested loudly when
Thomas accepted an invita
tion to speak at an awards
ceremony for eighth-graders
in the majority-black
Washington suburb last year.
For a while, it was thought
Thomas would back out. The
justice showed up and gave
his speech.
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Addicted moms sue S.C. hospital
By Amy Kuebelbeck
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLESTON, S.C. -
Several women choked back
tears Monday as their lawyer
showed a federal court jury the
belt and shackles they wore to
jail shortly after giving birth at
the Medical University of South
Carolina.
The women have sued MUSC
and school officials, the city of
Charleston and local police over
the progTEim that required preg
nant women who tested positive
for cocaine to seek drug treat
ment or face arrest.
“We are not seeking a wind
fall. We are not seeking a
reward. We are seeking com-
f)ensation to make these women
whole for the terrihle things the
defendants have done,” their
lawyer, John Wherry, said in
closing arguments.
The suit alleges the policy that
ended in 1994 was discriminato
ry because it targeted black
mothers. The women also con
tend that giving the results of
hospital drug tests to police
amoimted to an unconstitution-
SG&rch
U.S. District Judge C. Weston
Houck gave
• The plain
tiffs noted
the treat-
ment-or-jail
program was
in effect only
at MUSC,
which serves
a higher per
centage of
poor black
patients than
other
Charleston
hospitals
jurors their
instructions
late Monday
after a five-
week trial.
The jurors
returned
Tuesday to
begin deliber
ations.
Wherry
noted the
treatment-or-
jail program
was in effect
only at
MUSC, which
serves a high
er percentage
of poor black
patients than
other Charleston hospitals.
A total of 253 pregnant
women tested positive fqr
cocaine during the five years the
program operated. Most went to
drug treatment but 30 were
arrested before they chose treat
ment. Two pleaded guilty but
also got treatment.
Hospital attorney Bobby Hood
said tiiere was no racial motive.
Nine of the 10 plaintiffs kicked
their cocaine habits as a result,
and two of the women suing are
white, he said.
The program was designed to
protect unborn children. Hood
said.
“The go£d is a constitutionally
acceptable goal. It ain’t got
nothing to do with race. It ain’t
got nothing to do with search
and seizure,” he said.
He urged the jury of seven
whites and one black not to give
the women a penny.
“We have 10 individuals who
came to a hospital admitting a
felony, getting fi'ee medical help
... then fussing because they
have to go to substance abuse,”
he said.
*«•* AttcHTiey L3mn Paltrow, repre
senting the women, said no one
is arguing the women had a
right to abuse cocaine. But the
women who came to the hospi
tal pregnant and with a drug
problem expected “confidential,
respectful health care - not a
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