The AC Phoenix
January 2004
Page 9
VICTORY CREDIT UNION AND TRULIANT
FEDERAL CREDIT UNION MERGE
Continued from Page 1
Credit Union. Each move was a calculated effort by Victory’s
Board of Directors to expand available services and enhance
member benefits. So merging with Truliant is a natural step,
said
Lafayette Jones, Victory Board Chairman. Victory members will
now receive financial services from the 5 Star International
Market office and at Truliant’s four area locations. Truliant has
also established a call center to address the concerns of Victory
members.
“Small financial institutions are struggling to operate and their
size limits how much they can do for members,” said Jones.
“By merging with a larger credit union, we can offer a vast
selection of services to our membership because we’ll have
direct access to greater resources.”
Jones explained Victory chose Truliant based on their common
mission, the array of services Truliant offers and its strong
standing in the industry. Truliant has more than $900 million in
assets.
Headquartered in Winston-Salem, Truliant serves about
170,000 members from more than 700 different organizations
located in North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Florida, and
Virginia. Its mission is to enhance the quality of life of its
membership which echoes the primary goal of Victory. “Victory
successfully served a diverse population and this merger will
help us continue these efforts,” said Marcus Schaefer,
President and CEO of Truliant Federal Credit Union.
This merger lays the ground work for the creation of a new
brand of financial tools, called Victory, designed to address the
specific needs of African-Americans and Latinos. It will
continue Victory’s legacy of advancing Winston-Salem’s
minority community. Secondly, Jones will join Truliant’s Board
of Directors as an associate director. “Mr. Jones has a strong
background in diversity marketing and these skills will benefit
Truliant and all of our members,” explained Schaefer. Finally,
there are plans to build a new Victory branch in 2004 between
downtown and East Winston giving the combined membership
easy access.
For more information, visit the new website at www.victory-
truliant.org or call 336-659-5335 for a member services
representative.
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The Power oF Fear
The Wilmington Journal
Wilmington, NC
Fear of the truth. Nothing has proven to be more debilitating,
more paralyzing to people, than that. They know the truth. Indeed
they’ve seen it, and even lived it. Worse yet, they can prove it
without question.
Indeed, some have been known to literally quiver in fear at the
very notion that some may know that they know, but are afraid to
tell it. And yet, like a disease, it must be stopped and overcome for
the good of us ail. Or else we’ll continue to do what has been done
for far, far too long—pass that fear on to our children.
That is the crisis we face in uncovering the true history of the
bloody and racist 1898 coup de’etat.
Frustrated that African-Americans (who were Republicans then)
were the power structure in the Port City, angry Whites cold-blood
edly murdered innocent Blacks, stole their property and
businesses, and chased whole families out of town, some never to
return in the 100 plus years since.
For Blacks, many are still so traumatized by the very thought of a
White riot directed at them, that those who are descendants of the
1898 victims say nothing. For Whites, the thought of some of their
ancestors murdering and looting is difficult to accept, that many
have either denied 1898 ever happened, or if it did, that their White
ancestors did nothing wrong.
Well, this just has to stop. In our community, the fear must stop.
We must stop passing it down through the generations like some
kind of birthright.
Courage and the resolve not only to tell about what really
happened in 1898, but to be able to prove it, that’s what we sorely
need more of. For without the courage of those—Black and
White—who stand up with their evidence and document what they
know per 1898, the truth shall indeed be forever lost.
Worse yet, with that fear, African-Americans will never be able to
take control of the fact-finding and truth telling. We’ll never be able
to speak with one voice
and demand the power
reparations from how our
community was raped and
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