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Page A4-The Chronicle, Thursday, March 6, 1986 Winston-Salem Chronicle Founded 1974 KftMiST H. WTT, Publisher NDUMSI COfMOHYK ALLKN JOHNSON Co-Founder . Executive Editor CLAINf L WTT MIC HAIL WTT Office Manager Circulation Manager EDITORIALS ~ Daulton's defense committee NEWS ITEM: Local police morale is low following an internal investigation that involved disciplinary action for three officers and a reprimand for the police chief. In a related development, a group of retired officers t)as announced its intention to investigate Alderman Vivian H. Burke, who requested the investigation of the police department. Huh? Being human beings, some officers are likely to be frustrated and suspicious that Detective James I. Daulton, who handled the Deborah Sykes murder investigation, may be the scapegoat for higher-ups, including Chief Joseph E. Masten himself. It also isn't surprising that some policemen believe that Daulton didn't get the benefit of a fair hearing. But it boggles the mind that, to a man, these officers seem to have forgotten the consequences of the foul-ups to which Daulton was a party, whoever else was also responsible. What about the morale of Darryl Eugene Hunt, who has been in jail for more than a year now for a crime he may have not committed - thanks largely to the department's obviously shoddy investigative work? What about crystal-clear evidence that the department bungled the case at nearly every turn, from faulty line-ups to faulty interviews to faulty dispatches ... from an apparent obsession with achieving a conviction, whether Hunt committed the crime or not, to Dauhon's inconsistent testimony in court that suggests strongly that he lied * - - ? on me witness stand? If Dauhon is indeed a puppet for someone else, let him come forward and say who that someone else is. Otherwise, let him stay silent and thank his lucky stars that he hasn't been charged for perjury. Let him consider as well that he should be able to identify a little better these days with Hunt, who, like Daulton, also hopes to contest his punishment. They're in the same boat now. The only difference, of course, is that Hunt's life is at stake, not a job. 1 Interestingly, the complaining officers have not uttered ohe syllable about the validity of the investigation. No one has come forward to say, even in an anonymous interview, that the Sykes case was handled correctly and professionally. be disciplined. They also seem to believe that Alderman Burke, chairman of the board's Public Safety Committee, has poked her nose where it does not belong. As she reDlied. if thev haH Hnino B 1 -- ---?J mm mm mm vw*l WUt^ U1V11 JV/l/J 111 111C first place, she wouldn't have had to poke. As for reports that police officers are collecting money to help Daulton appeal his demotion from the police force to a civilian radio operator's job, we encourage anyone to stand up for what he believes. And we defend Daulton's right to due process, just as we've defended Darryl Hunt's same right. But if their goal truly is justice, the active and retired officers who have rallied on Daulton's behalf ought to donate a few of their dollars to the Darryl Hunt Defense Fund, too. A double standard THE MAN who chained himself last Monday to the Chicago Defender's building and refused to budge until he got what he wanted must be missing a link. While we respect his resolve and his right to fight for what he believes, the Rev. Herbert Martin, president of the Southside branch of the Chicago NAACP, probably succeeded more at thumbing his nose at the black press than at anything else. Martin said he was so disturbed by an editorial written by Defender Chairman John H. Sengstacke that he bound u:?--ir A- _ iiuitscu 10 a coiumn outside tiie DiacK daily's building using a 200-pound logging chain. Martin said he wouldn't move until Sengstacke retracted the editorial. Other black Chicagoans supported Martin with pickets. Boycotts were threatened. The article in question criticized Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, noting in part Washington's "apparent lack of ability to make unimpeachable decisions in sensitive matters." Martin, who says "divine guidance" led him to stage the protest, said the editorial did not represent the views of the majority of Chicago's black citizens. Sengstacke responded that anyone who disagrees with his paper's editorials has the privilege of responding in letters. which WnillH nrint^H ^TOrflu ac writtmi w ? - w ? m-mm ?r? U1?W V/1MV* M.J M0 * ? **%?? At issue is not what Sengstacke wrote; it is how Martin Please see page A5 V ? I -m. How to fina NEW YORK - No, I did not see 44The Color Purple" and obviously many who saw it (and gave those who produced the most savage treatment of black men since "Birth of a Nation" $100 million to produce another one) did not really "see" it either. And, to all of you critics who have written to this paper and to me, you seem to fall into the following categories: frustrated black women, closet homosexual men and closet lesbians and meddling white people. 1 left one group out: pseudo-intellectual Negroes who neither read nor comprehended very well. Frustrated black women are mad (and 1 do not mean angry) at the world, seize every oppportunity possible to blame all black men for the failure of a few and damn black manhood because they can't find one ~ or found the wrong one. They then employ the convoluted logic that they are perfect because they have failed and they are women, which is why they are frustrated. That's _ sexist. Neither do J suggest that all women who enjoyed * "Purple" are frustrated. There are as many blackfemale tramps as there are blackmale bums. There are as many wonderful and healthy black ?women as there are black^nem And most black women and most black men are healthy, in spite of white racism. If you like movies that exploit The U.S. roi HAMILTON, N.Y. - When the despotic Duvaiier family fled Haiti last month, most black people and progressive forces tL I ? ? - uiruugnoui ine woria Dreamed a collective sigh of relief. What the American media failed to examine in sufficient detail, however, was the long-standing U.S. role in perpetuating the political and economic misery of the six million Haitian people, and the actual steps that must be taken to assure the transition to a true democracy. The overwhelming reality of contemporary Haiti is Us extreme poverty. Haiti's per-capita income is currently S379 a year; however, for roughly threefourths of the population, the figure is actually $200. Adult unemployment is 50 percent. Two million people suffer from malnutrition, and 80 percent are illiterate. The two principal sources of exploitation in Haiti were both the corrupt Duvalier regime and American capitalists. According to one former government official, more than one-third of all state revenues under "Baby Doc" Duvalier had been stolen bv the island's ? VU v (UlVt himself is said to have $800 million stashed away in overseas real estate and bank accounts. But U.S. corporations were cordial companions of the black dictator. As of 1985, about 200 American companies had large plants on the island, including United Technologies, General Motors, Sperry Rand, GTE and ' , 9 < ^ r MM * JMJ .^ip tf^r V *1 .^ Pni^ff J * WBil JUST AKXINP THIS NEXT BENP..' your frustration and make you feel good about being frustrated, that's your business. But don't try the martyr bit. I'm not buying. As for you homosexuals of the _ closet variety who are making a case far. lesbianism in the name of .. t>lack man-black woman relation fhips, why don't you come on down front and say what your real motives are. If you sexually prefer men and you feel women should sexually prefer women "The Color Purple." Finally, to you meddling white people, I don't give a damn what you think, one way or the other, Je in ' Baby L FROM THE ORASSRQJ By DR. MANNING MARAI MacGregor Sporting Goods. Wages are typically $3 a day , and the Duvaliers* brutal private militia, the Ton tons Macoutes, terrorized working-class leaders. Despite outrageous violations of VllimAH ? ?1 ?uuiuaii?ngius,ore iveagan auministration was also quite cozy with Duvalier. Last October, the State Department actually claimed that Haiti's human rights situation was "improving." This situation changed only in recent months. The Duvalier regime was too inefficient and too corrupt even by American ctanrtarHc In 1QR5 Haiti's ^Tter nal deficit increased by 45 per% nee your owi TONY BROWN SYNDICATED COLUMNIi n and women, not with black men to and black women," she wrote. in She lamented that I was going th Please see page A14 or bi be's' regime I t? DTS * m BLE fo cent, and the country's inflation to rate was 80 percent. Labor and ?* political unrest began to ac- Vf celerate. The task for the U.S. th corporations and Reaganites was P< to discard their black neocolonial 3? puppet, and to rearrange the ^ unsettled domestic political aI I 01 M P? D vc fn un cis tcl i^.? . ^? sai pu ter system without harming their vested interests. After a series of anti-Duvalier 1 mass protests, the United States ter refused to certify the regime's compliance with human rights standards, and the government planned to cut $7 million in aid to un Haiti. On Jan. 31, Reagan press Be Please see page A5 27 g i destruction ? d r( ' ii . Q 5T ; niijj n I I ^ J-& a< f< I pi IHHHHHHHHflHH ^ about black men, women, 01 children or dogs. You've never hi suffered one second from this destructive and odious disease -- h< and that's what it is -- of white yc racism. , You have not earned the right to., have an opinion. But your pf white arrogance tells you that you ad can tell us what our family fa dynamics are. The Mew Pitt- hi sburgh Courier wasted space on a pr white woman who said that I was m "hung up on color." "The movie tii 2HILDWATCH reen parents >nct all of iac rvrk?* uii vi UkJ y MARIAN W. EDELMAN indicated Columnist WASHINGTON - It has apeared on the covers of Ebony nd Time magazines. It iscriminates against no one* afecting black Americans, white Americans and Hispanic Americans alike. And it costs us all, one way or nth#r hildren is a problem that won't o away and which we can only ight together, as a nation. Teen pregnancy carries with it rave costs: for the teen, who, as a result f the pregnancy, probably will rop out of school and never sceive a high school diploma, nd whose lifetime earnings will e half as much as a woman who 'aited until age 20 to have her rst child. i for her baby, who is gnificantly more likely to be orn at low birthweight and faces much higher risk of death or irth defects, and who by age 5 ill more likely to have been adlitted to a hospital because of an :cident or a gastrointestinal inaction. ? for society, which will bear luch of the financial burden, he public costs of teen pregnanf are very high: Thirty percent of all hospital eliveries involving births to regnant teens are paid for out of te public purse. Sixty percent of those who rely i public assistance to survive id their first children as teens. Seventy percent of all families :aded by women who are 23 or mnger end up in poverty. Our nation must act now to event teen pregnancies and to Idress the range of problems cing those teens who already < ive had childr#n. Our first*, 1 iority should be to prevent as any teens as possible from getig pregnant in the first place. Our second priority should be delay as long as possible that itial teen pregnancy and ensure at teens who have already had te child don't worsen their proems by having a second child if ore they are ready. The third priority is to protect ose children who are born to ens from preventable health _L1 t I " ? - uuicuis cy maKing sure ail teen others get prenatal care. Underpinning our national efTt should be our desire to come grips with the role and future ' all young people in our sotie. To delay too-early parenood, young people need hope, >sitive options and the skills, and b opportunities to move toward eir goals. Together, our nation can help I of our youth stay off the_ rong track and get on the right le. arian Wright Edelman is esident of the Children's efense Fund, a national >ice for youth. iBOUT LETTERS The Chronicle welcomes letters 3m its readers, as well as colms. Letters should be as conc as possible and typed or inted legibly. They also should :lude the name, address and ephone number of the writer. Columns should follow the ne guidelines and will be blished if we feel they are of inest to our general readership. We reserve the right to edit lets for brevity and grammar. Submit your letters and colins to Chronicle Mailbag, P.O. >x 3154, Winston-Salem, N.C., 102.
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