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Thursday, May 22, 1997 -
Exhibit organizer snubbed by county
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oring Womack because rapper
Sistah Souljah and activist
Angela Davis were among the
dozens of speakers who partici
pated in the three-month
ejfhibit that ended in January.
Other speakers included
marine archeologist David
Moore and Jose Jones of the
National Association of Black
Scuba Divers; Morris Dees,
executive director of the
Southern Poverty Law Center;
author Derrick Bell; Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist
Michael Cottman; poet
Gwendolyn Brooks; professor
Ivan Van Sertima; author Dori
Sanders and Harvard
University professor Cornel
West.
James consulted with
Charlotte City Council member
Don Reid on Monday. Reid had
earlier voiced opposition to
Sistah Souljah and Davis’ visit.
“When people elected me to
office, they elected my princi
ples, my morals, my faith,”
James said. “I’m not about to
leave it at the door when I walk
into the meeting chamber.”
James said Sistah Souljah
and Davis espoused radical
political views which should
not be paid for by taxpayers or
made in a county building.
Womack spearheaded a drive
that raised $150,000 to pay for
speakers and other events sur
rounding the Henrietta Marie
exhibit. No speakers were paid
with public dollars. Sistah
Souljah was invited, but her
appearance was canceled.
Williams wondered if any
political view could be made in
a public building using James’
philosophy.
“What’s next,” Williams
asked. “Is he going to say they
can’t walk into the airport,
because he doesn’t agree with
them or that they can’t drive on
the roads because he doesn't
agree with them?”
James said he knows African
Americans and others may dis
agree with his view but, “I am
the guy that has got the vote. I
and four others, that’s what
decides what the standards
are.”
Williams said James’ actions
was symptomatic of what’s
happening in county govern
ment.
“It really exemplifies the
minutia we have to deal with
every day,” Williams said, not
ing last month’s vote cutting
arts funding because of homo
sexuality. “If she had been any
one else, she would have gotten
a tremendous amount of recog
nition for the work she did.”
Bob Davis, chair of the Black
Political Caucus, said James’
actions were “par for the
course.”
“It plays into that same old
racist game people are play
ing,” Davis said Wednesday. “It
is unfortunate, but it seems we
are returning to the days of the
‘30s and the ‘40s as far as race
is concerned.”
The exhibit was Spirit
Square’s largest ever.
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cems about the origin and spread
of the human immunodeficieny
virus that causes AIDS, Afiican
Americans are
wary of the
medical com
munity.
“It exacerbat
ed a level of
mistrust of the
system,” said
Reggie Wilson,
executive
director of
Charlotte-
based Bone
Marrow Wanted Inc.
Potential organ donors shy
Wilson
away fiom the process because
they’re “very fearful that if they
have a donor card that every
effort won’t be made to save their
lives or theyll be declared pre
maturely,” said Debbie Gibbs,
public relations manager at
LifeShare of the CaroUnas.
Wilson’s job is to convince
potential donors to join a nation
al registry that provides matches
for patients in need of marrow,
the soft tissue that fills bone cav
ities. Marrow transplants are
necessary to combat blood-bome
diseases, including leukemia.
Among the 2.7 milMon people
registered to donate, about
200,000, or 7.6 percent, are
Afiican American, who are most
likely to match Afiican American
patients.
“We hear rumblings of the
Tiiskegee study,” WUson said. “A
lot of folks are apprehensive
about joining the system because
the system has been so
exploitive.”
Despite scientific advances that
can prolong and improve lives,
Afiican Americans can do more
to help the process, Morgan said.
“We must avail ourselves of the
opportunity to participate in
research so that we truly can
achieve medical equality and
enjoy the benefits of scientific
advances,” he said.
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leagues in the NDA had
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exercise the right to self-deter
mination, the bloodshed which
had dogged the Sudan for more
than 40 years would have been
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Human rights groups say
over a million people, mostly
non-combatants, have been
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the south, since the current
conflict erupted in May 1983.
Mirghani, who is based in
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plans to resolve the fighting in
the south within the context of
the Sudanese problem. “It is a
Sudanese problem,” he said.
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This belief is shared by the
leader of the mainstream
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Army John Garang. Garang,
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