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Page 2, The Corolino Indian Voice y^^^*‘^^^'^*^‘^'^W^MrtM/V^WWWftWftWVWVS^rtWWWVWWWWWWVWVWWVVWWWWVWWWVWVVWWVVW EDITORtAL AND OPINION PAGE Piit it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its lights. POLITICS...ROBESON COUNTY STYLEI I’ve been hurt more but I can’t remember when. I’ve been disappointed more but I can’t remember when. I am, frankly, so hurt with the results of the election that I find it difficult to write about it in a sane and bitterless way. I am disappointed almost be yond recovery. I am sure that I will tuck in my gut. revive my hopeful spirit...in a day or so. Right now, well, I guess I am suffering from a wee bit of poor me-ism. Robeson County suffers from an awful malady--inbred ra cism. All three races are afflicted with the maddening and inhibiting sickness. And I see no immediate cure or antitode on the horizon. NO one wants to say it out loud, but race is the motivating factor in every election race in Robeson. If you look hard enough Race will rear its ugly head. I. as 1 see it, do not know what can be done about our racial preoccupation, but hon esty might help. It might help cathargize our resentful spirits if we talked about it out loud in an honest and forceful way. If there is hope for us, and I have some doubts, honesty seems to be the right tone and the right frame of mind. LOOK AT THE RACE FOR DISTRICT JUDGE Look at the race for district judge...if it doesn’t make you too uncomfortable to do so. Just look at it. Henry Ward Oxendine, an Indian attorney, ran hard for the position. No Indian or Black presently holds a Jurist seat in any court in Robeson County. There are no Indians or Blacks, to my knowledge, on the staff of the district solicitor. Who is look ing after the interests of Indians and Blacks? Joe Free man Britt? Charles McLean? Sam Britt? Etc.? Etc.? Don’t kid yourself! Go to court any day you choose...look around you. Just observe. All you will see, generally speaking, are Indians and Blacks being tried by White District Solicitors and sentenced by White jud ges. What do you think that does to the psyche, the mind and soul, of the Indian and Black? Henry Ward Oxendine is an attorney who has also served two terms in the law making body of the N.C. General Assembly. But, and you may disagree with me if you wish, he was not elected to the special judgeship because, ba sically, he is an Indian. The White populace (and God knows there are exceptions to •this or any other rule) would rather see an Indian or Black in Heaven cavorting about in the splendor therein than see a dark skinned one as a dispenser of justice. They have reserved that role for them selves. An Indian or Black may serve in the house (that’s away off in Raleigh) but he may not dispense justice. Looking at the election re turns in a cursory fashion, neither the Indian or Black or White is comfortable with an Indian in a judgeship. The Indian and Black with their double-vote created psyches and historically imposed in feriority complexes, simply cannot rationalize an Indian or Black in such a God like position. Instinctively, and ooz ing from his deeply buried psychic bones, the Indian (and Black) just cannot accept one of his own in such a position. Some will say, “Why. Henry Ward would have been stricter than Sam Britt.’’ Others will say, “God almighty, can you imagine an Indian (or Black) in such a position? Why he’ld be so biggety you couldn’t stand him.” Etc. Etc. Etc. And the election returns. Well, the Indian stayed home. He just didn’t come out to the polls and vote. Pembroke, the biggest minority precinct in the county, voted less than a third of the registered voters. Out of some 3600 registered voters, a little more than 1100 voted. Why? I believe it is psychological and beyond our 'comprehension. The Indian electorate has been scared „ip f almost beyond recovery. We do not rationalize an elective action: we simply react as we have been taught. THE INDI AN SIMPLY STAYED HOME! And Pembroke is not the only culprit. Every minority precinct in the county suf fered from the same malaise. THE MINORITY SIMPLY DID NOT VOTEI Many stayed home rather than grapple with such a weighty decision as to whether or not an Indian should be judge. The Black, in his own fas hion, had a liason, a courtship, a testing of the waters with the white electorate this time around. They were almost brazen about it,'although Precinct 6, and other isolated Black Precincts supported Ox endine for district judge. But Blacks were not concerted in their support. There was a discernible White-Black voting coalition for Ellis and in opposition to Oxendine in certain precincts in Robeson County. Let’s hope the shaky coalition does not hold fast. Historically, I do not believe there is enough elective adhe sive to hold it together. The Whites? Well, the Whites voted White period... except in the race for the county school board elections where there were discernible signs of Whites voting for themselves and a couple of select Blacks. The Blacks? Well, it seems, on the^face of it, that Blacks, generally speak ing, voted for themselves period on the county board of education. The Indians? The magnani mous and loving and forgiving Indian? Well, the Indians voted for two Whites and 1 Black on the school board. They rejected the philosophy of the ad hoc committee to break double voting when they espoused voting for 2 Blacks, 1 White and six Indians. That was just too much. They rejected that fairness doctrine by reversing it and voting for 2 Whites, I Black, and six Indians. Shirley Britt, an exponent of double voting, was the third high vote getter in the school board race. Even though she voted in favor of upholding Supt. Y.H. Allen, she re ceived 331 votes in the Pem broke Precinct, in spite of the fact that she voted against air conditioning Pembroke Senior High School. We rewarded her with 331 votes in the Pem broke Precinct. Where is the logic of it? In philosophical terms, the sub tleties and nuances defy ana-' . lysis but broached in a his torical perspective it is un derstandable but not accept able. Honesty is the only answer I see. Indians and Blacks have got to quit lying to one another. And Indians and Blacks have got to quit vying for the political bed of the White electorate. What in the world is so wrong with a political dalliance between In dians and Blacks? Seemingly, they are psychologically afraid of one another. That’s too bad because Robeson County has been set back on its racial rear end for many years to come? When will an Indian ever trust a Black again? When will a Black ever trust an Indian again? Maybe never. In the meantime, the White king makers and Indian and Black heroes and operatives are laughing up their collective sleeves at the misguided grass roots people. That’s too bad. Really! But many of our Indian and Black heroes are pleased with themselves because Jim Hunt led the balloting in the gubernatorial race in the de mocratic primary, Hip Hip Hooray! in a very cynical fashion. If ever, in any test vote. Blacks and Indians trust one another, Robeson will surely become a county for all the people. Until that day arrives, the faint hearted will have to become strong and not waver in the belief that right will overcome wrong every time...in time if • we do not give up the struggle. 9 A Word of Praise for The CIV Dear Sir: I wish to say that I think The Carolina Indian Voice has done an excellent job of presenting the candidates to the voters of Robeson County. Now, that was a big paper on Thursday, August 12, 1976. Looks like we have gone all first class, second to none. Keep up the good work. The Carolina Indian Voice has published everything I have tried to write so far. This I can’t say for some of the other newspapers in the area. The area is fortunate to have a newspaper like The Carolina Indian Voice to express views and opinions of its people. Please don’t forget to vote in November. Look the candi dates over good and vote for someone, but do vote. Cornelias L. Hocker, Sr. Route 1 Box 299 Pembroke, NC 28372 THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE Classified Ads Rate $1.50 first 25 words 5 cents each additional word The Life and Times of Henry Berry Lowry This week’s column is a continuation of the testimony taken from the case of John Taylor being charged with accessoiy before the fact of the murder of Malcolm Sander son, an Indian. Q. What time of the evening was it when they stopped you in the lane? (Andrew Strong, Rhoda (Henry Berry’s wife) Strong’s brother is testifying.) A. A little after dark, for the moon was shining. Q. Did you observe any of the crowd leave and go in the direction of William C. Mc Neil’s house? I^MINISCING by Lew Barton A reminiscence is a remem bering, a memory, a recollec tion; an account, written or spoken, of remembered events. In this column, I shall reminisce. That is to say, I shall call past events back to mind, in the hope that they will be reminiscent of bygone days, and thus heighten the appreciation of us all for what we are and where we are. Remjnisceing is a pleasant pastime; that is, an enjoyable way to spend one’s leisure moments. Right now, for example, I am recalling to mind a very pleasant associa tion with Rev. Ralph H. Long, a retired, 69-year-old Presby terian minister who read for me during my darkest days of blindness in 1963. A Harvard graduate. Rev. Long was a very realistic person. He, like I, enjoyed Truth for Truth’s sake; and believed fervently in “telling it like it is.” In the spirit of this, he and I came up one day with the poem that follows, which we thought of while composing it, as “The Sermon Never Preached.” It was our feeling during those days that people were usually too hypocritical where the subject of love and passion are concerned, thinking of them as two entirely different and totally unrelated things. I eventually changed the name ^ of the poem to the subject matter with which it deals— LOVE AND PASSION By Lew Barton and Rev. Ralph Long. “Love is love and passion’s passion.” Separating them’s the fashion. Love is pure as snow that flakes Above the salted seal Yet. no more of love platonici Sing, yet poets, of love cyclo- nic! Honesty is all it takes To square this mystery! Who wants love bereft of feeling? Love that sends no senses reeling? That’s the kind that's made of myth, the kind one cannot feel! Love is gristle, flesh and panting- Glands as well as holy chant ing! “Pure, platonic love” is pith And cold as hardened steel! Love apart from heart and kissing? Love that knows no want nor missing? Why, a wisp like this is nought But sentiment on ice! Love is weakness, might and glory. Fusing sex into its story. When by Love’s tight web we’re caught. It takes both psalms and spice! In the scheme of life’s full living. Endless wants and selfless giving. Love’s made of such varied things As breath and bone and soull Love is fleeting; love is lasting; Love is sacrifice and fasting. Love can weep while yet it sings. Fulfilling its true role, yes, love’s pure, like psalms and praying; Yet, to clench the thing I’m saying, Just remember what it takes to make a flower growl Another thing I’ve always felt people were hypocritical about, is a man’s memory after he has passed away. The policy of mankind seems to be, say as little good about the living as possible and nothing bad about the dead. When someone dies, we weep and rant and tear out our hair, generally conveying to the world that ours is the uncon- solable grief. We have carved into the headstones of the lucky ones, “GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.” Yet in just a decade or so, few, indeed, will be the ones who actually remember. Great kings and queens of the past, realizing this, built for themselves great pyramids. These pyramids of centuries ago still stand in many instances. Yet who remembers who they were supposed to commemorate? GONE BUT NOT REMEMBERED by Lew Barton “GONE BUT NOT FOR GOTTEN” Lied the lonely stone. Standing there alone. Unremembered! “GONE AND NOT REMEMBERED Carve upon my stone! If I have a stone. Unremembered! Works of merit rendered. Bury ’neath my stone. Make these words my own: “NOT REMEMBERED.” Oh. my God, remember me At Thy Great White Throne, Lest 1 there, too, groan: "NOT REMEMBERED!” Educational Views By Dr, Dolton Brooks Q. How long was it before they returned to the main body? A. A right smart little while! Q. Did any one whom you knew com back with them or near them, if so, state who they were and how many? A. William C. McNeill came on a few steps ahead of them. Q. State what conversation, if any, passed between the par ties in the lane after the arrival of William C. McNeill? OBJECTION: On the ground that it does not appear tht Mr. Taylor was present; overruled. A. Mr. McNeill said that there was nothing ready for supper there but would be in a short time, and looking down where I was, and the question being asked of him if he knew any of the men, said he did not, nor did he want to know them. The leader said that no man’s name was to be called when they went to Mr. McNeill’s house. Q. After leaving the lane where did they carry you next? A. We started on and went up the lane tc W.C. McNeill’s gate and we:e carried inside of the yard wlere I asked for a drink of waer. Q. Did you get the water you asked for aid if so, by whom was it ghen and where? A. We were carried over to the well, the let hand side of the house, Mr, McNeill accom panying us to keep off the dogs. After the guard had drunk, a Black man held up the bucket to the mouth of Malcolm Saiderson and to my mouth to drink as our hands were tied wc could not do it for ourselves, after which they carried us nund the house to the front sttps. Q. Did they leave you there on the front steps without anyone to guard you? A. No, they had guards upon us all the while. Q. Could you from your position while there guarded .see the kitchen or the dining room? A. No sir. Q. Now tell the Court where you first saw Mr. Taylor and what passed between you and him? A. I saw Mr. Taylor on Mr. McNeill’s front piazza coming out of the house and 1 either called him or bid him good evening, but he refused to speak to me and passed into the house; after some little time he returned to the piazza and talked to another person a good long while, both leaning on the banisters, and talking very low. I then called Mr. Taylor to me, telling him 1 had a word to say to him privately. He told me to speak what I had to say there. 1 told him to save my life and keep them from killing me, and he replied, ‘‘All yoa muJattoes aronnd [with a circling gesture of the both hands] were everyone of yoD tambling into hell fire and (stretching oat his foot] If this foot could stop yon fron going by setting It on yoa, I would not do It.” Note: The word “Mulattoe” means: a mixture of White and Black blood. A SOURCE OF SUCCESS IMAGINATION Imagination is an out growth of the brain and nervous system and provides students with an avenue for success. It plays a far more important role in our lives than most of us realize. What the imagination does is to help students buid up a true self- image and achieve confidence they need by apply ing creative imagination rather than destructive imagination. Realizing, of course, that creative imagination is not something reserved for the poets, the philosophers, the inventors. It is something that all students have, regardless of their label. A general truth about stu dents is that they always act, feel and perform in accordance with what they imagine to be true about themselves and their environment. This means that if your environment has conditioned you to feel inferior to act negatively, to see yourself as a failure, then your imagination sets up an auto matic failure mechanism. That really means that to be success fill, the student has to build a creative imagination. How do you build creatively First, get a i good mental picture of yourself. Don’t feel sorry about who you are. See yourself acting and reacting appropriately, successfully. and ideally in the classroom, with teachers as well as your peers. Say to yourself that you can act differently and that you can be the best- you can have success. Most students fail because they simply feel inadequate to do the task- no understanding etc. Actually what has hap pened is that your sense of inadequacy is a result of the memories, real and imagined, you have built into your brain and nervous system. CONCLUSION I’ve gone too far maybe in trying to find causes for success. However, teachers must become students of psychology. I find that the concepts of self- image, self- concept and imagination are important when dealing with students. Realizing that our actions, feelings, and behavi our are the result of our images and beliefs gives the student the lever to deal with success. The self image is more important to the student than books, libraries, instruc tional materials and equip ment. Maybe if teachers of our schools help stduents in get ting a good mental picture of themselves, then student achievement in algebra, Eng lish, and all the other subjects will be secondary. Dr. Albert Edwards remarked that your mental picture of yourself is a great force within you. THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH Dy Eorl The learned Prince of Gren ada, heir to the Spanish throne, was inprisoned by order of the Crown for fear he should aspire to the throne. He was kept in solitary confine ment in the old prison at the Place of Skulls, Madrid. After thirty-three years in this living tomb, death came to his release. Following his death, and upon examination of his cell, it was discovered that he had done extensive research into Biblical writings. He had uncovered many interesting facts about the Bible which he had marked on the walls of his cell with an old nail. This is how his mind sought employ ment through the weary years of solitary confinement: In the Old Testament there are 39 Books, 920 Chapters, 23,214 Verses and 2,787,100 Letters. In the New Testament there are 27 Books, 266 Chapters, 7,959 Verses, and 838,380 Letters. This makes a total of 66 Books, 1,1,195 Chapters, 773,746 Verses and 3,566, 480 Letters. The middle chapter and the shortest in the Bible is Psalms 117. The middle verse in the Bible is Psalms 118:8. The word “and” occurs in the Old Testament 10,684 times. The word “Jehovah” occurs 6,855 times. In the Bible, the word “Lord” is found 1,853 times. “Reverend” occurs but once and that in Psalms 111:9. The C Drool^s middle book of the Old Testa ment is Proverbs. The middle chapter is Job 29. The middle verse is 11 Chronicles 20:13. The shortest verse is I Chroni cles 1:25; the longest, Esther 8:9. All the letters of the alpha bet are in Ezra 7:21, except f and i. II Kings 19 and Isaiah 37 are alike. The book of Esther contains 10 chapters, but the words “lord” nor “God” are to be found in it. The middle book of the New Testament is II Thessalonians. The middle chapter is between Romans 8 and 9. The middle verse is Acts 17:17. The shortest verse is John 11:35. In Psalms 117 four verses are alike-the 8, 15, 21 and 31. Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 26, is the finest chapter to read. Psalms 23 is regarded as the most beautiful chapter. The four most inspiring pro mises in the Bible are John 14:2, John 6:37, St. matthew 11:28, and Psalms 37:4. BIBLICAL BRAIN TEASER Four heads have I, but body none. And without any legs I run. ‘Midst bliss suprememy lot was cast, and joys that could not be surpassed, yet these delights did I forsake, and far away my course I take; yet, while I wander far on nigh, still ever in my bed I lie. ANSWER: The River that went out of Eden— Genesis 2:10. Musliig.... Reasonable Locklear OL’ REASONABLE IS UP AND ABOUT AGAIN... or Reasonable is up and about again. 1 have been a suffering from a touch of the gout and a case of the cain’t help its here lately. 01’ Reasonable has just been down in his spirits a bit. But I have been revived. I see a little glimmer of hope and 1 hover around hope like a moth around a flame. 01’ Reason able is just a hopeful fella, and more hopeful th^n, 1 might add, that smart eleckv Bruce Barton. Six Indians on the county school board is a mighty hopeful sign to 01’ Reasona ble. I can remember the day when no Indians was on it, and had no idea of ever being on it. 1 suspect Barton is hot ’cause Shirley Britt got on the school board. Well, 01’ Reasonable ain’t jumpin’ for joy but things ain’t as bad as they have been. I see a good future for our children if the Indians will be Indians and not spend all their time a being sump’en they ain’t and never will be. IFen they’ll just be Indians ever’ thing will be just fine from now on the county school board. Besides, if’en the people don’t want Shirley Britt on the school board, they can vote (one at the time) come No vember when Camell Locklear will be running against the nine democrats for a seat on the school board. People gen- er’lly git just what they pay for. I just assume the Indians wanted Shirley Britt on the school board; she Shore could n’t have got elected without ’em. Well boys. Strike at the Wind! is over, and it was a right good thing. I seed it five times. Nah! Nobody saw me but I was there a cheering on Henry Berry, Boss and the boys. I hope Strike at the Wind! has a long and healthy life and there ain’t no reason why it cain’t if the powers that be don’t go and get fancy and make it sump’en it aint. Thursday, August 19, 1976 Know Your Bible By Rev. D.F. Lowry We hear lots of preaching about hell. Tradition teaches that if a person dies in his sins he goes to hell. This quotation is not scriptural. No one goes to hell when he dies physical ly. The Bible teaches and 1 quote: “As in Adam ail die.” This takes both saint and sinner. At the natural death we are “put,in hell by an undertaker- saint and sinner. However there are two deaths for a person who dies in his sins. There is a second death for one who dies natually in his sins. See Rev. 20:14 and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Death means the end. When we die the natural death we do not exist as a natural human being on this earth any more forever. When and if we die the second death we will not exist anywhere any more forever. I heard a minister on the air today say that sin would destroy us and bum us in hell forever. This would make the impossible possible. Destroy is to do without- to make away with, to put out of existence- to annihilate. It’s impossible to bum a thing forever that has been destroyed. A lost soul at his first death is “put” in hell, but at his second death he is “cast” into hell by the reaping angels. This hell will not exist until the final judgment. Sinners will be running and screaming and crying for the rocks and mountains to fall on them. The sinners will be weeping and gnashing their teeth as they are being bundled by the reaping angels to be cast into hell and be burned into ashes and will never exist again. Hear the Bible about this scene: Christ in his sermon on the mountain. Matt. 7:13 says the broadway leads to destruction. Again Jesus says Matt. 13:40 says the tares are burned in the fire. Then again Jesus in John 3:16 said that we THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE Published Each Thursday by The Lumbee Publishing Company Druce Barron, Managing Editor Connee Droyboy & Garry L. Boiton, Associore Editors SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS: Mrs. Bazie Hardin Violet Locklear B. Locklear Elmer W. Hunt Jackie Lugene Lowery Mailing Address: The Caralina Indian Voice Post Office Box 1075 Pembroke, N.C. 28372 SUDSCBIPTION PATES: Instore-1 Yeor $5,20 2 Yeats $8.32 OUT OF STATE: 1 Year $7.28 2 Yeors $9,36 Tel. (919) 521-2826 Pembroke Drug Center is Pembroke’s leader in drugs, because we are • Convenient • Quick • Professional • and downright Neighborly! '31(Xiia/ic( ^/toofcs PHARMACIST pemBRolEc“Sil Pembroke Drug Cei ¥ should not perish. Perish here is meaning destroyed. Now turn to the Bible Prophets: Matt. 4:1 for behold the day cometh that shall burn...all the proud shall be stubble and burn up. Hear David- Psalms 145:20 God preserveth all then that love Him, but all the wicked will he destroy. Psa. 37:20 the wicked shall perish and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs, they shall consume, into smoke shall they consume away. This means: gone forever! The Psalmist .speaks again in the 37th chapter, verse 10: For yet a little while and the wicked shall not be, Yea thou shalt diligently consider his place and it shall not be. My dear reader, the Bible plainly teaches that there is no hell in existance anywhere after the final judgment of God’s great wrath. The Apos tle Peter knew this when he asked a most awakening ques tion: What shall the END be of them that obey not the gospel? Should one be burned in hell forever it could not have an end- but would exist forever. My dear reader, the Bible plainly teaches that nothing bad will exist anywhere after the end of this world, There won’t be any hell anywhere after judgment. At the close of the Great Destruction pointed outby the apostle Peter found in Chapter 5- Verse 8 says be sober, be vigilant, because your adver sary the devil, as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may DEVOUR. If you think a soul will bum in hell forever, the devil is here wiser than you. Lastly, read 2nd Peter, Chapter 3 and Isa. 66:22. No hel! after judgment. Rev. 20:14. MEMBER: American Indian Press Assac. 1 N.C. Press Associatian j 1 Second Class Posraqe Paid ar Pembroke, i N.C 28372 »»od, gnot me the •erenlty to accept things I cannot change; ceorage to change the Alnga I can; and ihe wisdom to know the ■ dlCeience. I and W. 3rd, Pembroke. NC, Dial 521 -4
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