The News Argus February 1995 Page 2
IIIWS^ARGIIS
Jamita Griffin - Editor
Traci Tiera King - Managing Editor
Dr.Valerie S. Saddler — Advisor
True Story of Valentine's Day
Have you ever wondered why we celebrate
Valentine’s Day? Who was Saint Valentine? Why do
we give our girlfriends, boyfriends or loved ones
chocolate covered hearts every Feb. 14th ?
In the book, Opening of the Seventh Seal: Secret
Societies Unmasked by Is a Abd All ah Mu hammad
al-Mahdi, the true story of Valentine’s Day is exposed to
the public.
The book, to my surprise, was first published in
1970. But as an old cliche’ goes, “the best way to hide
information from Black people is to pul it in a book,
because they (we) will never read it.” This truth has been
made self-evident.
According to Abd Allah Mu hammad al-Mahdi,
Saint Valentine was a Roman Christian martyr of the 3rd
Century A.D., who was killed during the reign of
Claudius II Gothicus. Claudius II was a strong advocate
of homosexuality. As a result, he disapproved of young
men marrying young women and made up a law against
it.
Saint Valentine, according to various accounts, was
a Roman priest and bishop of a small province in Rome,
who secretly married young couples, thus breaking the
laws of the land set by Claudius II. He also believed he
was ordained to do these illegal marriages by the so-
called angel Cupid (fictional) used to symbolize love.
When Claudius II found out about the secret
marriages, there was a massive search to find all of those
who participated. Once the grooms were found, they
were castrated and their hearts were cut out. These same
hearts, eventually, were sent to each of their brides in a
box. (Sounds Familiar Does It!)
Saint Valentine, by the way, was also beaten and
later beheaded on Feb. 14. during the his last years of
Claudius’ rulership.
On the eve of execution , Valentine sent a note to the
jailer’s daughter who had befriended him. In it he
thanked her for her caring and kindness and signed it,
“YOUR VALENTINE.” This is when the pagan
practice of exchanging similar notes to special
Valentine’s on Feb. 14th began, which later became the
legends of the Saints.
Believe It or Not?
Opening of the Seventh Seal: Secret Societies
Unmasked by Is a Abd Allah Mu hammad al-Mahdi can
be found at Fayetteville State University Main Slacks,
Call number; HS125.17 1990 or BP605.N48F76 1992.
— By Eric Demont Graham
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ISSUES G flnSWERS
ARGUS MAILBAG
Self Sufficiency
Self sufficiency is the only key
left to unlock the shackles of the
economic downfall Blacks seem to
be facing in the 90s.
Why have we not learned to
invest our monies in our own
communities? We have no problem
supporting or contributing to the
wealth of other establishments, but
when will we lake care of home ?
Here in Winston-Salem, ihere
are several Black owned businesses
that could use our support. Special
Occasions, TheLower Hemisphere,
Umoja, Dudley Products, Discount
Records & Tapes and Forsyth Fish,
are just a few examples.
Until African-Americans
understand the power of our buying
dollars, we will continue to see our
communities vanish right before our
eyes.
As a student who is attending a
Historically Black University, it is
important that future Rams realize
that a college
degree does not
guarantee a job.
It simply gives
you a key to
enter the
competive job —————
market.
Since we are a skillfull, creative
and cognitive group of people, we
can be more than job takers, we can
be job makers.
Self sufficiency is the key.
Reclaiming our community
means redirecting our monies.
Redirecting our monies means
understanding our finances.
Understanding our finances means
refocusing / regrouping our energy
into developing businesses for the
COLUMNIST
TraciTiera A. King
21st century.
Regrouping ourselves and better
understanding Self Sufficiency does
not mean anti- white, it simply
means pro-black!
.... Go back... Support black.
Broken Hearts
I In life, there are many passions
but only one love? Nothing can
! compare to it Ike and Tina Turner?
But “What’s Love Got To Do With
, It?”
i Love can conquer all, O.J. and
' Nicole? But “Loves Going To Get
I U.” There is no memory as sweet as
' love, Ms. Lorena BobbitL But “ Thi^
ain’t no ordinary ...love”
The unsolved mystery of love
i and relationships have left the world
tantalized, confused, angry and even
i trapped in its mystical, potent, potion
! of passion.
But I wonder if any of these “so-
called scholarly scientists, whom
seem to know everything, can
answer the simple yet complex
question, “ Where Do Broken Hearts
Go?”
There were four million cases of
domestic violence in the United
States last year, according to USA
Today. The domestic abuse came in
the form of verbal assaults and
physical attacks, which resulted into
1,530 deaths of God’s most precious
creation, the woman.
I was always told never to strike
a woman for she is the Mother of the
Planet, but some men today, slap
women around like the pimps and
players they^
imitate and
become. And if
you, as a woman,
allow yourself to
become a •
punching bag in
the name of love then something is
wrong.
Some say love is a struggle.
Others say that love can bear all. But
the sweet, intoxicating concoction
called love has turned in a bitter
sweet poison that lurks
many of us like a spooky, ,
cloud of grief, pestilence
unbearable strife.
For all the beautiful women who
have fallen out of love, don’t
relinquish that loving spirit within
your godly nature by allowing
yourself to suffer from those verbal
or physical assaults given by the
perpetuators you call your men,
lovers, husbands or friends.
The diva of Hip-Hip soul, Mary
COLUMNIST
Eric Graham
over
black
and
Staff Writers
Keisha Butler
Tolly Carr, Sports Editor
Eric Graham
William Horton
Rico Leak
Devona McPhatter
Sterling Vaughan
J. Blige, in a song simply entitled
“Be Happy,” plainly questions our
motives in this thing called love
when she states, “How can I love
somebody else. If I can’t love
myself enough to know ”
And within this short phrase, wc
find the comfort zone to eternal
happiness and heavenly bliss, which
opens up one of the seven wonders
of the world to “Where Broken
Hearts Go.’'
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