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1 i "Page 2, The Carolina Indian I » 1 ..rhe voice of rhe drum is on tUI I vJKlAL offering ro rhe Spirir of rhe IL I I IL 11 ^ I ^orld, Ir s sound orouses rhe Ur I In IO N mi^dond mokes men feel rhe gk ^ _ mysrery and pov^er of rhings -BLACK ELK JESUS: THE GREATEST EMANCIPATOR IN THE WORLD TODAY by Rev. Charles M^owell Thursdoy, May « shall be called Cephas (the rock man.)” Simon suddenly found himself the possessor of an ideal of his life pronounced over by Jesus, the Emancipator. He believed Jesus. He trusted him. There remained nothing for Simon but becoming Cephas, the best that Simon could be. Syroposii ■ Plam You i Cultures inviie] I I LETTEP6 i THE EDITOR ‘qj J X' X valenn Moynor is o friend of mine... But Glenn Maynor is my friend. So was the late Hilton Oxendine. 1 admired Hilton Oxendine and said so on many occasions. Oxendine was the most astute businessman I ever met. He taught me a lot about the business world and the art of survival. But Glenn Maynor is my friend too. The irony of Indian politics is that many contend that I cannot like both Maynor and Oxendine. They, in essence, say “if you like Glenn Maynor then you cannot conversely like me etc. etc. etc." Glenn Maynor needs his friends to rally around him during these difficult times. 1 admire him immensely. He is brash, young and audacious. And if he said, as the reporter for the Fayetteville Times quoted him as saying, "My philosophy has always been to help the people from my area any way I can.. .politically this is good for me. The people in my area will know who to go to to get a ticket fixed.”, so be it. Tuesday Maynor denied making the statement. Now, according to the Fayetteville Times again, they have a transcript of him saying what they said he said and what he said he did not say. So be it: if he said what they said he said...well, the devil, he didn’t mean it like it sounded. Maynor is not a crook. He is a decent and ambitious young man. He did what all politicians do; help the people in their precinct or their district or ward or whatever the case might be. It is a univefsal practice. Maynor did not invent the political rules that abide in Robeson County. Even I have gone to county officials in attempts to have speeding tickets taken care of. Everyone does it. But that does not make so called ticket fixing morally right. I say let's stop it but let us not brand the Glenn Maynors of the world for practicing political art of a very low form as they have •been taught by their elders. Those who have followed politics on the Lumberton scene know that the council is split between a liberal faction and a conservative faction. 1 notice that those accused of ticket fixing are mostly of the liberal persuasion; to wit. Glenn Maynor, Frank Benton and Rev. ■ E.B. 'Hirner. I canWt believe that'conservative politicians are virtuous creatures above taking care of a ticket for a constituent. 1 just can’t believe it. And why has the city manager. Timothy Woods, given the accusatory policemen immunity? I don’t know. I just know that 1 am a wee bit paranoid and suspicious about Robeson County politics. Politics in Robeson County is dirty and vicious and as low life as I have ever seen. Politicians play rough in Robeson County. I only have questionsand a public affirmation of my friendship for Glenn Maynor. Friends need friends in times of trouble, not when everything is going rosy and well. 1 am Glenn Maynor’s friend through thick and thin. I would not like myself very much if I could not declare my friendship now that blood has been drawn from my friend’s side. Blue Ridge Gospel Quartet Coming to St. Pouls The Blue Ridge Gospel Quartet , is rated as America’s # I Gospel Quartet. They have never appeared in Robeson County before, so we at WLAB are bringing them to town for a FREE concert--no admission charge-They are such a fine ;■ gospel group we just want the ! people of the area to have f chance to hear them and s 5 in person. ;e them i I have known these fellows for f more than 20 years and have j worked many gospel concerts • with them and have sung with j them on many programs. I also i write for them,' and they have ■: recorded several of my songs. I Neither Holy nor Roman nor an Empire Like the Holy Roman Empire — which was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire — the so- called Health Care System in this country is neither Health nor Care nor a Sys tem. Today, 97% of the mescal effort in the United States goes to • Disease^ not to Health. It deals with Cures, not with Care. And it is not a System, but a haphazard conglomeration of red tape for patients, pharmacisto, and doctors, alike. It’s a frustrating mess, that’s what it is! When will our leaders channel this nation’s health expendi tures into sensible disease prevention programs, greater health education and a reduction of com puterized ftimbling? your pharmacist pemBRoICcXI^K ^ Glenn Maynor is in trouble, if w hat one reads in the area papers is true. He has been in trouble ever since he toppled the late Hilton Oxendine by a mere two votes and a couple of court suits in the race for the Lumberton CityCouncil from the predominately Indian 7th precinct. Some people in Lumberton and Robeson County have never forgiven him for winning that city council race. His enemies have long and vengeful memories. Strange things happen to leaders Dear Sir: When a Manhattan Jew helps an Israeli Jew, he is a Hero. When an Israeli Jew helps a Russian Jew, he is a Hero. When an Irish Catholic helps and Ireland Catholic, he is a Hero. When a Cuban refugee living in the United States, helps a Cuban, he is a Hero. When a Black or white American helps Native Americans (Indians), he is a trouble maker. And under the Hoover Plan, strange things happen to leaders; murder, assasination, propped up charges, strange letters in the mail, and the firing of individuals for doing a good job, The assasination of President Kennedy is still a mystery. And the mysterious deaths of people involved. The assasination of Martin Luther King, the unexplained sophisticated travel arrangements for the assasin before his capture. The system will stop at nothing to destroy leaders of human rights. coniinuousU ucstroy Black or white citizens in America that speak out for human rights. Native Americans have tried to organize to help their ownpeople and for 600 years their leaders have been constantly destroyed. I consider the firing of two Blacks only as a symbol of warning to Native Americans that they have no rights and anyone who will speak out or offer a lending hand will be punished or murdered politically. Someway, someday the political murder system must come to an end. The right to help human beings is superior to the dictatorship of any individual or groups of individuals. The simultaneous firing of two Blacks, one in South Carolina and one in North Carolina, who were involved in a program to help Native Americans, poor whites, and Blacks in South Carolina, is another example of the extent the system will go to The Fayetteville Cumberland County Citizens Association was formed to address itself to and help citizens who have human needs. The firing of one of its members is a direct attack on the entire organization and its efforts to help human beings. It is a total disgrace to the American system when humanbeings go hungry, are in need of clothing, are in need of housing and are in need of jobs, and if you speak ouf to help, or donate food to the hungry, you are fired for your efforts. Clinton Harris 110 Chloe Drive FoyetreviHe, NC 26301 Lady prisoner in need of prayer Dear Sir; I know this lady. Her name is Rozell. She is a very sweet and nice woman. You would have to see her and get to know her real well to know how good she really She married a man and she loved him dearly. She suffered many heartaches with him. Then one day he died, but they blamed Rozell for his death. They sent her to prison and they even sentenced her to die in the gas chamber. But the Lord said no. Why kill an innocent woman? So, she is still in prison. She plans to have a new trial. But before I tell you anything else, let me say this. The first time I saw her she was happy and now sne is sad. She wants to go home to her children and begin a new life. So, pray for Rozell if you will. She needs all the help she can get. Anno Dial Route 1 Pembroke. NC 26372 Thanks to this long friendship, I have been able to get them to come to St, Pauls at a price we can afford, and we are so proud of these fine singers we are happy to do so just so everyone will have this opportunity to hear them. And it really is a free concert-no ticket needed to get in. Advance tickets are available from WLAB for reserved seats, but they ARE FREE. Native Robesonian recalls life in the county iee Page 7 for occomponying orflcle. Dear Mr. Barton: Appreciate anything you can do to promote this for us—and please be our guests to see this great singing group-1 promise you’ll enjoy them greatly! Dole Brooks, Mgr. WLAB Radio, Rt. 3, Sf. Pouls, N.C. Please occept my check in rhe amount of S 12.00 for o fwo-yeor subscription to The Carolina Indian Voice. I enjoy reoding your paper ond wont to congratulate you on o fine Job you ore doing. You do tell it like It Is. So, you con see why I left ond chonged my name so that I would not be treated in thot manner. This wos In 1929. Things ore betternowl'm glad to soy. for the Indians there. I hove been successful for 1 wasn't hondicQpped by o name and o race. I was raised in the Bumf Swomp Community ond went to school at Union Chopel School, finishing the 9th grade in 1929. When I reoched 16-yeor$ of age my mother gave me $ 10.00 and told me to let H take me os for os it could for she did not wont me to grow up in that environment. She sold she wonted me to amount to something ond the odds were ogoinst me there. Because of the way we Indians were freoted then. I remember going into Lumberton to get o hair cut. I got in the choir and the barber got obout half through cutring my hair ond sold, "Whot is your nome?" And I told him, "Albert Lockleor." And he sold, "You ore on Indian, oren'tyou?" And I sold, "Yes." He stopped cutting my hair ond sold, "I can't cut your hoir here. You must go to on Indlon barber shop." So I hod to wolk out with half Q hair cut. I could not go into o store and buy a Coco Colo and drink it on the inside. I hod to/oke it outside ond drink it. Enclosed find on article thot concerns me written by o reporter for the local Times Dispatch. I thought some of my friends and relatives there might like to know whot I omounted to in life. This will give them o llttleof my success here. Not bod for o country boy thot did not finish high school. And I am so thankful to everyone who might hove played o little port In k. And several ore living in that area now. One who comes to mind Is Mr. M. A. "Rhett” Chavis who wos my teacher in the 4th grade. Sure would love ro heor from some of my classmates ot Union Chopel's 9^ grade, Moy, 1929. Pleose write me ot the below address. "He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked ot him and sold, 'so you ore the son of John? You shoil be called Cephas' (which means Peter).” The Black American has always believed that Jesus, is the emancipator, The Greek word behind the English word ’emancipator’ is rich in meaning. It can be translated ‘ransom,’ ’redemption,’ ‘deliverance,’ ‘freedom,’ ‘liberation.’ ‘emancipation. ’ We have so many times expressed this deep conviction in our old song, “Go Down Moses, way down in Egypt land, tell oldPharaohto let my people go.” Yes. Black Americans have always believed that Jesus was on our side. This brings us to a thought that disturbs me terribly. How is it that those who name the name of Christ. Jesus can be so withdrawn from the hurts of the people that Jesus gave his life on the tree to save, redeem. liberate, emancipate? How is it that salvation is so good to so many people that they spend every weekend feeling good to themselves when people are dying. I once heard an expression by someone who said, "You can't live in heaven and board on earth.” Before someone surmises that I don’t believe in being bom again from on high of the Spirit of God, let me insert that I am a recipient ofHisIove. But I know that being freed from a life of sin means more than worship in a church every Sunday mom. It also means that we are the salt of the earth. Not to salt one another, but to be the saving force in the world. Itmeans • lamsetfreeto set free. "Ye are a holy nation, a royal priesthood, a peculiar people.” Again the scripture says, “Ye are laborers together with God.” When Jesus liberates a person he does so in order that the person may become. As the Emancipator he approaches a person from the point of what he might become. He is not concerned with what He can get out of a person. For what can any person give to the Creator of all things? What can a mere man do for God? Can he give him gifts? Or sacrifices? To this query He would answer, “If I were hungry I wouldn’t tell you. The cattle upon a thousand hills belong to God.” Yes, even the one in our freezers that we won’t share with the hungry. God in Jesus is concerned with what he can do for n We stand before him as diamonds in the rough, and as disorganized lumps of worthless clay lost to ourselves, our community and to God. Bruce, keep up rhe good work, ond if you ever pass through Richmond, please look me up. Would love ro meer you. This brings to mind the words of Michelangelo. When he saw a huge rock he said, ‘ I must let the angel out of it.” So it is with us. Jesus desires to save usio let the man out of us-the human man. a son of God, not a creature of another world and time, but a man freed from the death of sin. The sin that has distorted who we are. The sin of selfishness and pride. The sin that blinds us to the work of becoming the very best we can be in Jesus. We are bom Sincerely, Albeit Locklear Now Jomes A. I Lockerr Sr. Jim Lockerr ond A^sociores Real Esrote Company 207B N. 3rd Sr. Richmond, Vo. 23219 again in the likeness of Jesus, originals of the First from among the dead. Should we then live and die as copies of someone less than rhe men Jesus? He does not wish our character to be submerged in the image of any other than Jesus our Lord. We should not become a pale reflection of some dominant group, a group that is dominant cause of the sword of oppression, or some demonic idea of race superiority. He does not want us to be assimilated into a mush of distorted precepts. He does not want us to be squeezed into conforming with the image of a super personality, no matter what the color of the face happens to be. He wants us to be as Cephas of our text who came not as James or Matthew, but as himself so that Christ could make him the very best person he could be-like Jesus, us.” There is a big difference between education and indoctrination. And if Black Americans are to be the people God has promised to help become the best people we can, we must be educated. Not too many years ago there was a theory that God was dead, but we Blacks never even stopped long enough to read the theory. We could not afford to allow- ourselves to believe this because all we have ever had w as God. God has been the only one to give us a fair deal, the only one to treat us with dignity consistently, the only one who made no distinction between persons, but required the same from all who are tnilv His. When I understand this about the will of God for my life, and •bring to mind the purpose for which Jesus died, I get disturbed by systems that exist by Christian support (involved or withdrawn), systems that seek to destroy peoples (yes, whole races of the God-intended. God-brought privileges:) to become men. The fact is, Simon would remain Simon, the unique one, with all of his potentialities and characteristics even when he became Cephas. For Simon becoming Cephas is Jesus the Emancipator’s way of enabling one to become the very best person he can. I shall speak specifically of our school systems in North Carolina. Whether intended or not, I beleive our school system is destroying our blood-bought privilege to become ourselves, especially if we are non-white. Black Americans are aware of the pressure and coercion which has been placed on them to deny their very being-their uniqueness as men, as children of God. Integration has meant in too many cases that Black Americans must become white Americans. To succeed we must become white in concept and philosophy. We must forsake the cultural roots that give us our uniqueness, a uniqueness given us by God as it pleased Him, Attempts are made on a daily basis to mold Black Americans into white men, thereby destroying our uniqueness, characteristics, and distinctiveness as a people. For Black Americans to become white would really mean annihilation to their very persons, something that God never intended for them to do. Simon not only stood before Jesus the Emancipator as a unique personality, but as a person with a history. He stood before Jesus with fragments of home clinging to him for he was Simon the son of John. He stood before Jesus as a product of historical events that produced him, determined his existence, shaped his outlook. and developed his character. Simon was a product and a part of a larger whole, and to obliterate the history that had produced him, to alter, or to use it to destroy his own personality, or to use it to imprison him within the framework of his present existence would be a tragedy. Simon was aware of his history, proud of his heritage, grateful for his racial identity, and even boastful of the craft which he had mastered. All the historical forces which were imbedded in him, Jesus the Emancipator could and would use. Jesus did not need Simon to be a Luke, but a Simon become Cephas, the best Simon is. Simon’s personality. his heredity, his history, the influence of his environment were all there in him. But it was Jesus the Emancipator who took them and showed Simon how to The curriculum of our schools seems almost to intentionally leave out any mandatory Black studies. Whether intentional or not. Black studies are not mandatory. There is a good saying I heard somewhere; “Those who trust us, educate use them. What, you ask, was it that turned the scale which compelled him to place all the treasures into the hand of Jesus? It was God’s grace- a grace which took the form of a phophecy. It was a prophecy which contained a high calling. ^ sudden worth, and even fame if he would fulfill that prophecy by accempting Jesus as Emancipator. “Thou Black Americans are beginning to know who they are as Simon knew who he was. “You are.” and “you shall be,” presents to us the contrast between what Simon was and what he would become under the emancipating touch of Jesus. The Emancipator takes us just as we are and promises us something nobler and grander that we can become. Never another image of finitude, but bigger and better persons because ofhim. Let us be who we are, with all our history, with all . our community, our environment, forced or other wise. Let us be who we are, hide nothing from our eyes . We have seen the worst in others. We can bear to see our faults, our successes. Let us hear the noble words of Nat Turner who said in his lynching, (“It was that because we had no trial”) when asked to what means had his cause come, he said, “was not Jesus crucified?” Let us be who we are in history and in the present. No societal orientations can change us. only Jesus. And why should we be who we are not to please mere men who have failed themselves, society and God? Why should we be who we are not to please men’s egos and build false self worths for them? No! We shall not be conformed to the image of any. We will not be squeezed like silly putty to the pleasures of others. We shall not be reduced to the image of any earthly pigmy. No! We shall not be brainwashed into thinking the thoughts of others. We will not be severed from our roots and ingrafted into a tree that is dying of its own pAison. We will not be stewed into compromise and lose our self-identity. We will not come to theChrist of history and the Emancipator of the present wrapped in the gray robe of hypocrisy.. We will come to him. but we will come as who we are. We will come to him as Blacks, with our heritage and not another. We will trust him. He will make us the very best persons we can be. Not to please others, but him. 1 am calling on all today. Come to Jesus the Emancipator as you are and who you are. He will do the rest with your cooperation and obedience. Come as you are. That is really all Jesus requires. »«»;■ Ass,slance Cm,, Un,v„si,y„,„, r- Ind, Mecklenburg Symposium wi|]|> Providence Bam,sia Randolph Fellowship Hall. ' In addition, on w, P''"". MeJ, American Ass*,' sponsor a dinnet-t,. held at the John Paoii of Cone University c. University ofNon^c Charlotte. Cost of ii, by resen? Make checks a Metrolina Nativ/ Associatin- We are inviting walks of lifeandvt backgrounds soihjii to each other the;', insights into their t-'- well as the lives o(i hope that i,^.. non-Indians present, a greater undersun;:. differences and sirr L will better appreciml At the close ofitej. our goals will participants havj understanding ofiis- in culture, values It lifestyles of Ameh;; We plan to acca-; goals by condu;i:, workshop sessions. career opponuniiiesE field; Lumbee Indkv culture; Cherokee I: exhibit; Indian 1 development; m-:'' techniques for i^.- stories in the classnx^ history and culture;, simulation garry. } may attend foursest choice. We have invited kt, and national a[i'> different aspects education to speak •: our Symposium r participants willbeo variety of ideas and; In the Indian* Sollie Dial, Execurt* Metrolino Motive i, Assododa 209 South Kinji !k' 205 . Chorlone.K When we think of Jesus as Emancipator, we must not stop at church only. He is the world’s greatest emancipator, not only for what he did on the cross, but what he did and does to men to prepare them for living in this world and the world to come. He did great things to and for men during his earthly ministry. He gave them spirit so that they could do for themselves. He healed them of leprosy so that they could return to their families and communities and be men. He healed the paralytic at Bethesada’^ Pool and commanded him to take up his bed and walk, walk away from a life of begging, dependence, separateness and indignity to a life of hope and possibility. LAWN MOWERS 3y2h.p.,Reg. SI 19.95 3'/2h.p., Reg. SI 12.95 3h.p., Reg. S104.95 PRESSURE COOKERS PAINT LAWNCHAIRS.... COOKWARE 50 GALLON WINE DARRELS 50 GALLON DARREL (Cut In Half) MINI TILLER now. 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