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They did not re.spect themselves and, therefore, they could not re spect their peers. The result was violence of a nature not seen in other parts of America. We killed and maimed one another because, deep down in the dark recesses of our hearts, we did not like our selves or each other. I gave those departing no accolades, except a disdainful smirk, a good riddance to you and may we never see your like in our midst. 1 was not magnanimous. I remembered too many votes cast against Indian children. I remembered their condescending sneers, their patronizing "we know what is best for you” smiles, they are gone bul l am not happy, not gloating over their dt'p.iriure, I have been hurt too much to .smite easi/y and nod. even in grudging fashion, as they walk from the room. I'hey were proponents and practioners of double voting, the- evil and life robbing political devise that cost Indian people dearly. Our psyches were scarred and the scar tissue will remain with us until a new generation follows us with a spritely step...not woo den and leaden by our history but spritely and hopeful and reaching out with the hand of fellowship. Then, and only then, will they do wliat is truly best for the children. With a combined total of 74 years on the Robeson County Board of Education, they walked into the pages of history. There were no crowds, no cheering, no tears as they walked away from the disaster Ihcy helped to create and maintain. The feeling was one of relief and a look toward the future. They arc: I. J. Williams. 21 years on the board; Albert McCormick. 15 years: Steven Stone, 15 years; Thurman Aiidcr.son, 13 years; Sammy Allen, b years; and Mrs. Ailenc Holmes. 4 years. Ex cept fur Mrs, Holmes, the first Indian woman to ever serve on the board, they were all ' CONSUMER GUIDELINES Window Shades Window shades reduce the energy required for cooling a house op to 21 per cent, also reduce winter beat loss by approximately eight per cent. Maximum ef fectiveness can be obtained by mounting the roller Shades within the window frames. ' Is your Rx-discount imagined or real? What did you pay for your last prescription? As one chain is wont of say ing, "You’re probably pay ing too much.” Di(T your pharmacy offer you a "dis count”? If so, a discount from what? Remember this, it is not what discount you’re get- tingj if indeed you are re ceiving one, it’s what you pay for your medication that makes the difference. In other words, what are you paying per unit cost? This is the thing. Just be sure it’s a real discount. Otherwise, you may find yourself paying more with a discount than without Bring your next pre scription to a pharmacist you can trust — where sav ings are rea/, not imagined! Prescriptions are filled promptly and accurately by our pharmacist with •''to of tender care. pemBROICc'irEJ^ staunch supporters of double voting, Except for Mrs. Hol mes. who was a supporter of educational issues on the board affecting Indian children the others denigated and obstructed and denied the educational process to Indians period. Mrs. Holmes was the only exception to a bad and life robbing rule. They gave us 70 years of questionable service (we are not counting Mrs. Holmes’ 4 years on the board). Mrs. Holmes championed the cause of the people. She cared. She gave her best effort. All were elected by the evil and nefarious double vote. Resi dents within the 5 city school unit.s voted on their respective board of education and also on the county board where most of the Indians reside. They voted twice. Williams, McCormick, Allen Stone and Mrs. Holmes chose not to run for a very good reason: iwithout the double vote, none of them (excepting Mrs. Holmes) stood a china- man’s chance of winning. Thurman Ander.son, the Black on the board, ran for reelection and was soundly defeated. Ander.son, as I see it, did not represent the interests of Indian and Black people on the board. For his own reasons, he always supported the admin istrative position. The people remembered and defeated him in his re-election try. Now. with double voting outlawed, we will have a board that is reflective of the people it purports to serve. The new board.will consist of 6 Indians, I Black and 2 whites. If the leopard does not change its spots, the children will benefit most from the representative mix of the board. The pupil enrollment is 60 % Indian. 20 % Black and 20 % white, The new board will face difficult problems in the months and years ahead but they will be reflective of the constituency they serve. The people will be represented. That is what democracy is all about. We wish them the wisdom and Ear of the Almighty as they begin their deliberations. Their first order of business should be to return our self esteem, our sense of worth, to us. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR More on Robeson County Justice To the Editor: 1 am writing concerning the letter you published in the October 21 issue of The Carolina Indian Voice from a Mr. Harvey Godwin, Jr. It would appear, judging from the content of the letter, Mr, Godwin is a young person very much concerned about the discreet racism and covert injustice being practiced in Robeson County. He is indeed correct in his belief that the Lumbee Indians, and to a considerable extent the Robe son County Blacks, will even tually foot the bill for the construction of Lumberton’s Taj Mahal, i.e. the New Courthouse. Mr. Godwin’s main empha sis focused on the recent trials in which drug dealers were given, according to inferences in a generous article in The Robesonian, ‘‘just what they deserved.” Do you, as citizens of this county, realize several of these defendants involved received prison sentences in excess of those handed to the defendents involved in a re cent capture of an entire cargo ship load I with twenty-five (25) tons of marijuana? 1 doubt: all the defendents taken together have ever seen even a fbn of pot. Is this' the justice existing in Robeson? Do you realize the Supreme Court of this democratic country has ruled it legal and even consti tutional for an undercover agent tosell, to an unsuspect ing person, drugs, which the agent can then persuade the same person to sell back to him and, if the person does, the agent can bust him, resulting in a star in his crown and even money for the Christmas party? How safe are any of us, young or old, under such a law with narcotics agents like Mr. Locklear, seeking to establish himself in the eyes of those he trusts and lives, i. e. the “inlaws” hiding out in the swamps of Lumber- ton, NC? I sincerely believe, and this is based on past experience and common talk, that Mr. Godwin is in dire danger of becoming one of the next batch of drug peddlers rounded up. I, too, Mr. Godwin, wonder how many minorities were present in the juror box during these trials? Also, how did it come about that all these people’s trials were held in one session of court? Is this what Henry Ford’s assembly line idea has degenerated to? Well, we could go on and on describing the underhanded, double-dealing, brown - nos ing farce, called justice, exis ting in Robeson. But allow me to get to the point. We, as Lumbees and then as freedom- loving Americans, should not tolerate such gross infringe ments upon our dignity and freedom. No one is safe under a system where those with the badge must answer to no one. Has it come to the point that one must forsake his people simply to satisfy an ever- expanding ego? If you had to go' to court tomorrow to face the same judge and jury that some of the afore- mentioned defendents had to face, would you feel completely at ease in your expectation of a fair and impartial trial? Folks, let's wake-up and realize discrimination is not something Rev. Martin L. King invented and took to his honored grave. Ms. Sally Blanks Route 1 Pembroke, NC Comments on the Lumbee Bill To the Editor: There are a great number of citizens who do not quite understand the reason for the passing of the Lumbee Bill. The Lumbee Indian Bill was drawn up by our two repre sentatives and our senator of North Carolina about 1955. An election was held in all the voting precincts of Robeson County as to the name Lumbee Indians of North Carolina which made us State Citizens for the first time. I think the said Bill passed unanimously in both the Sen ate and House in Raleigh. NC. This Bill went on from Raleigh to Washington to be pas.sed ver-ba-tum in Wash ington, DC. After the Bill reached Washington politics got hold of the Bill and had a little notation added to the Bill that the Lumbee Indians knew nothing about. The new inser ted phrase or verse namely: Nothing in this Act shall make such Indians eligible for any service performed by the United States for Indians because of their status as Indians and none* of the statutes of the United States which effect Indians because of their status as Indians shall be applicable to the Lumbee Indians. My dear friend. 1 have never yet seen where this addition effected the progress of the Lumbee Indians one iota. We have progressed more rapidly since the passage of the Bill than at any time prior to passing the Bill. See our campuses at Pem broke University and all the high schools of Robeson County. Certain people think the surplus addition to the Bill helped stop collecting money • , form the Impossible Res ervation. Rev. D.F. Lowry Jowry Street Pembroke,N.C. 28372 Don't Quit When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, when the road you’re trudging seems all up hill, when the funds are low-the debts are high, and you want to smile, but you have to sigh, when care is pressing you down a bit. rest if you must, but don’t you quit! Life is queer with its twists and turns, as everyone of us sometimes learns. And many a fellow turns about, when he might have won had he stuck it out. Don’t give in tho the pace seems slow, you may succeed with another blow. Often the goal is nearer than it seems to a faint and faltering man; often the struggler has given up when he might have captured the victor’s cup. And he learned too late when the night came down, how clo.se he was to the golden crown. RozeN Hant Raleigh, NC More on Joe Freeman Britt In our October 28 edition, we made reference to the fact that the office of the District Attorney for the Sixteenth Judicial District did not have employed any Indians or Blacks Since that time we have been contacted by several reputable sources- mcluding some Indians- with the information that the present District Attorney, Joe Freeman Britt, had, prior to the date of our editorial, committed himself to hire, effective with the very next opening, an attorney who, in the words of one source, “just happens to be Indian. ” We will grant even the devil his due, Joe Freeman Britt inherited, of course, his present staff, and his prior commitment to hire an assistant district attorney who “just happens to be an Indian” says something about the man So in mis respect, whatever his motives, we owe Joe Freeman Britt one free tip of the hat. Thursday. November II. I97fi According ro Scripture j] MUSING I I Reasonable Locklear J Wrist Slapper By Robert M. Bartell WASHINGTON, D.C. (Lib erty Lobby News Service) — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. George Brown, has once again been made to appear as an em barrassment to the Ford Adrninistration and once again, it is the Israelis who took the initiative in attempt ing his ouster. They didn't get Brown fired, or even reprimanded . , , but it wasn’t for lack of trying. Well, this time around. General Brown is accused of saying that militarily sup porting Israel is a burden. I don’t understand what all the flap is about for it is certainly beyond argument that militarily supporting any country but our own is in deed a burden. What makes the accusa tions so ridiculous, however, is the way that General Brown was.innocently duped into making the remark. His interviewer was an Is raeli cartoonist named Ranan Lurie and the interview was held seven months ago. Strange that it was released two weeks before the elec tion, isn't it? Anyway, Lurie a.sked General Brown if .supporting Israel and her armed forces was more of a burden than a blessing for the U.S. If General Brown had said it -was a blessing it would haj,6jMer a far worse ■thing tb'say^But presidential candidate Jimmy Peanut was indignant. Says Carter, "The kind of remarks Gen eral Brown made are very disturbing to our country and the rest of the world. They insinuate that our nation doesn’t have the will to stand up ior our own princi ples in a challenge by the Soviet Union. They insinuate Israel is an unwarranted burden to our country when Israel is really the strength of democracy in the Middle East.” Well, if Carter really believes Israel is a demo cracy, he ought to talk to some of the Arabs who live there. General Brown is quoted as saying, although he denies it, that the U.S. doesn’t have the ‘‘stomach” to face up to the Soviet Union. Whether he said it or not, it is a valid point and proved by the fact that a Soviet- dominated minority snatched away Angola from a majority that appealed to the U.S. for help and didn’t get it. Sen. Barry Goldwater agreed with the General's remarks. Says Goldwater, "1 agree with Mm. We can't continue to give any country equipment from our own inventory and not deplete our own war machine. Is rael has gotten everything she ever wanted from the U.S.. and in some categories more than she can use. but it we give Israel $2 billion in military equipment, then let's buy $2 billion for our selves. Unle.ss we regain our military superiority, the only choice will be nuclear war or surrender." Well, it is no secret that American aid to Israel in the 197;) war reduced the U.S. tank reserve in Europe so that the Army wa.s left with less than 50 per cent of the armor believed necessary to meet any Soviet thrust. Those who are now cas tigating General Brown for his remarks are the very ones who hailed Alexander Solzhenitsyn for .saying the same things . . . -md then (lenouncetl I’residenl Ford for not listi'iiing to him. Obviously Isriu'l doesn’t want an experienced military strategist us chairman of the Joint (’hivfs of Staff. They want a Zinni.sl propa gandist. Most patriotic Americans applaud General Brown . . . whet' er Israel likes it or not. Indian Voice PRINT SHOP 521-2626 DOUBLE VOTING IS JUST A HORRIBLE MEMORY FROM THE PAST... Boys! It is now official: iDouble voting ain’t with us anymore. We are free from that evil and stupid system where one race of people (white) laid on another (Indi ans) and made ’em think it was all right. We know better now but people usually only know what they read in the news paper and, before smart elecky Bruce Barton and The Carolina Indian Voice, there weren’t nothin’ to read in the county but the Robesonian. Boys! Them folks misled us up a tree about double voting. Praise God! Indians will have somethin’ to say in the future about what kind of education their children get. I just hope them six Indians, 1 Black and 2 whites have got a little education themselves. They are a going to need ever’ ounce of the stuff they can get. Already some of the power boys are a talking about merger and consolidation and brotherhood and roses and tater bread and loving one another. Parkton and some of the other white traditional schools are a trying their dead level best to git out of the county system. That’s how come we’ve got six .school sysferris'now: it’s what them Washington, DC boys call “White fright flight.” Maybe they are afraid we are going to do unto them what they done to us. Nah! Indians are good na- tured folks. They just want a chance to show the rest of the county that they can run their own school system for a while. Maybe merger will be some thing to talk about in fifty years..just as soon as we regain our dern good estima tion we ought to have of ourselves. We lost it because double voting told us we were dummies and unfit to have anything to say about the running of our school system. Right now, my main concern is that them six Indians on the board stay Indians and not become white men in dark skin. That’s the biggest fear or Reasonable has right now. We’ve already seen some of that at Lumbee River Electric Membership Corp. where Hu bert Prevatte (a white) beat out Elias Rogers (an Indian) for President of the board even though there is 8 Indians, 2 Blacks and 2 whites on the coop board. Boysl if that’s the way it’s a going to be...well, we could always rant and rave and pitch holy fits about white folks. When Indians do it to Indians...well, OT Reasonable has problems - with - breaking that down to my fans and readers. Educational Views By Dr. Do I ton Brooks WHAT IS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ? Since schools are burden ed with the responsibility of educating all students, ‘‘Equal Opportunity” would take the student with a SAT score of 200 and develop educational programs- a curriculum-to help that student achieve relative to his abilities. In our society, public schools are the vehicles by which young people could escape the social disadvantage of Birth. Ix)ts of our children come from homes with family, nutritional and adverse rela tionships that tend to retard educational maturity. How is it possible for these children to have the same educational opportunity that exist for the Middle Class with its distinct advantages for motivating students for success? To Americans the answer is equal opportunity. Equal opportunity is a con dition in which all students can develop their full potential without regard to social or economic backgrounds. Politi cally, this definition goes beyond the school and involves the home, the legislative and the Church. All of these institutions are responsible for helping to find ways for student achievement. How ever, the shcool must provide the leadership Leadership in public educa tion will be responsive to the educational needs that exist inour diverse population. It will seek to utilize modern means of assessing, interpre ting, and evaluating appropri ate methods which help kids. One example is clearly a case in point- the SAT score. The SAT test is an appiti- tude test used by higher educational personnel for pre dicting success in college. If the school waits until the 12th grade to take the test, and if that student makes 500. then that student can predict hi.s or her own failure. He will not need the complicated statisti cal reliance to make predic tions. What is needed is an Achievement test. The SAT is also an achievement test, especially to low achievers. If the SAT test could be given in the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades and the score used as a criteria-not a predic- tor-for student improvement, then the SAT for the ninth grade students is atest which provides him or her with much needed information in the verbal and math section. If the SAT is such an important devise for prediction of suc cess in college; let the aware ness begin the first grade or maybe kindergarten; let the parent know-conduct work shops in every hamlet-that such a test is so important. CONCLUSION Equal Educational Opportunity is much like lib-, erty. It’s difficult to define, and much more complicated when attempts are made to measure such a concept. How ever, the student who receives a poor education know it; they are somehow caught in a cycle that promotes illiteracy. The federal government has made efforts to meet inequalities with equal dollars, but mea- sureable achievement results have not been made. 1 think that the school is primarily responsible for planning, de veloping. evaluating, and pro moting the kind of educational programs that help children succeed in high school and in college. Bees Honeybees in the United States produce about 50 million dollars wo *h of honey and beeswax each year. POLISHING - BUFFING SATIN FINISHING SCOTCH BRIGHT 8. TAMPICO BRUSHING BEAR TEXING m WORK • SMAU PRODUCTION RUNS LET US BID YOUB WOBK AL OEMERY - OWNER - OPERATOR PYEfljaI|AaS EXPERIENCE Hebrew 6:6 "If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the .son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.” 1 can’t help but think and wonder why some of you so called Christians live a life of sin Monday through Saturday, come Sunday you put on your four hour Christian robe. All those people who you work with and party with have heard your words of foul language, speaking the Lord’s name in vain, pleasing the flesh, back slide on God for months at a time and during this time of sin in your life, you tell people you are a Christian, and once saved always saved. It is people like you who hinder others from entering in to God’s kingdom. But don’t fool yourself, the word said, and I quote, Hebrew 6:8 “But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected, and is near unto cursing, whose end is to be burned.” You live like the world, It is alright if you drink strong liquor. It is alright if you curse or use God’s name in vain and say to a sinner who does the same thing that you are a Christian. But you are not. Your are living a lie. I say again, you are living a lie. There have been sinner people who tell me that they know that a Christian is to be different. They tell me they don’t read the Bible much, but they know a Christian is to live a better life. He is to let his light shine so that others may see and that Jesus may be glorified by your righteous- Let’s read Ezekiel 18:24 “But when the righteous turneth away from his righte ousness, and committeth ini quity, and doeth according to all the abomination that the wicked man doeth, shall he live.” This is the Lord speak ing here. He is saying if the Christian turns back and does the things of a sinner, shall he be saved? Now listen to the rest of God’s word. All his righteousness shall not be mentioned in his trespass that AUTUMN LEAVES he hath trespassed and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. Yet ye say the Lord is not equal. 27 verse, here the Lord says a wicked man who turned from his sins and wicked ways and doeth those things which are lawful and right, he shall live. Why? Because he believes God. And who’s desire is to live a holy life for Jesus himself gave his life for you. They tell me Jesus Christ was beaten till his flesh hung from his body. It told that his beard was pulled out by hand fulls and that his blood was shed on the ground from Pilate’s court to Golgotha Hill where he died. When you live a hypocrite’s life, you put him to an open shame. You don’t know what you are doing cause some on^ you know, and live with, eat with, sleep with, you couldn't do this to that person, Jesus. If you did it and did it to please Satan or the flesh. for if we sin willfully after we have receiv ed the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sac rifice for sin. If the blood of Jesus fails to save you and you still don’t see, then there is other sacrifice to be made. Then it is you desire to remain sinful and to be rebellious to Jesus and his father. The Bible says every man shall be judged according to his ways saith the Lord God. Repent and turn yourselves from your transgressions so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Ezekiel 18:30. Cast away from you all your transgressions by which ye have transgressed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, for why will ye die. Verse 31, The hardest thing in a person’s life is to say I’m sorry or please forgive. That is the reason some today are afar from Christ because they won’t repent and say Lord Jesus, have mercy. Satan has blinded their eyes and said sin is life. But 1 heard him say the wages of sin is death. Yours in Christ. Evangelist Ted Brooks Box 339 Pembroke, NC THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE Published Each Thursday by The Lumbee Publishing Company Bruce Barron, Managing Ediror Connee Brayboy & Garry L Barron, Associare Editors Donnie Lockleor- Circulation Manager SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS: Mrs. Bazie Hardin Violet Locklear B. Locklear Elmer W. 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