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,4Ihe name of the game in
politics is knowing somebody/*
said Johnson, who waged a hardfought,
often bitter campaign
against Mrs. Burke. MYou can't
go down there (to Raleigh) and
sway any votes unless you have
some friends. You have to be able
to mean something yourself, and
then you can get something for
your constituents."
Burke was director of transitional
services in the state's
Department of Human
Resources.
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black if they can't deliver what
the people need," said the Rev.
John Bee Moore of First Baptist
Church in Weldon, one of Harrington's
two opponents in 1984.
t4If Frank's elected, he'd be
nothing but a freshman senator.
Monk's been there a long time.
He knows a lot of people, and he
knows how to get things done.*'
A Winning Gesture
Moore knows at first hand.
When he told Harrington he
wanted a state health agency as a
tenant in a dwelling his
evangelistic association is
building in Weldon, the senator
put him in touch with officials
from the state Department of
Human Resources.
The meeting did not end in an <
agreement. But Harrington's
gesture was enough to win
Moore's endorsement.
"I've always gotten along well
with the blacks and'loved the
blacks as 1 did the whites," Harr- iugton
said. "That's just my platform.
It's just (hat 3amn
simple."
Putting It
On The Map
In 1984, when legislative
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entertainment
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Academy is
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By The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- The
NAACP said recently that "The
Color Purple's" failure to receive
one Academy Award despite 11
nominations smacked 6f racism,
but a loose-knit group of black
professionals called the slight an
act of courage.
Willis Edwards, head of the
Hollywood-Beverly Hills branch
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, said last Wednesday that
he planned tp organize a letter writing
campaign to protest "The
Color Purple" shutout.
He said he suspects racism was
behind rejection of the film by
the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences, which gave
out its prestigious Oscars last
Monday night.
"Wc feel the Academy
membership should be more
responsible,*' Edwards said at a
news conference. "We feel that
they did not understand the acting
ability that was in the
movie/'
But Legrand Clegg, president
of the Coalition Against Black
" Exploitation, known as CABE,
said last Wednesday night:
"The Academy demonstrated
rare courage and keen sensitivity
to the concern of broad segments
of the black community who
found the movie to be odious,
degrading and an inaccurate portrayal
of black history and
culture."
He said CABE, a 2-year-old
group with about 30 members,
"commends members of the
Academy for their election not to
grant Oscar awards to The Color .
Purple.' " ; *
C Aiih members picketed the
December premiere of "The Color
Purple," protesting the way
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Johnson said he harbors no
animosity toward the Burkes, but
is just being a realist.
"We have to elect people who
can do the most for us/' he said.
"We don't need chatterboxes."
Burke denied Johnson's
remarks and labeled them "garbage."
"I am unemployed by choice,"
Burke said Tuesday. "1 have had
offers, but I am not looking for a
job."
Burke said he considers himself
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districts were redrawn, mapmakers
joined parts of eight rural
counties to create an amoebashaped
2nd District in which
blacks made up a majority of the
registered Democratic voters.
Harrington, the president pro
tem of the Senate and a 24-year
Senate veteran, thought he saw
the writing on the wall and announced
that the 1984 campaign
would be his last. But he won
easily that year, with 58 percent
of the tote against two black opponents.
So now he's running
again.
"A year is a long time,*' Harrington
said. 44And all people
change their minds, so that's no
big hang-up."
Haves Versus
Have-Nots
Ballance, who was first elected
to the House in 1982, has campaigned
on the theme that Harrington
looks out for the haves in
a district made up mostly of
have-nots.
For many blacks in a district
where shacks remain a common
sight and where the number of
families living in poverty is nearly
twice the state's 16.7-percent
average, Ballance's humble
beginnings as the son of a tenant
called racist
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black men were portrayed in it.
NAACP members also criticized
the characterization of black
males in the film at the time, but
Edwards said that issue should
have nothing to do with the judging
of individual performances in
the movie.
A Motion Picture Academy
statement issued last Wednesday
called the protest "surprising,"
saying that it overlooked the
4*onor of I I?nominations, voted
on by the same Academy
members who chose in their
secret balloting to pick other
nominees as winners.
"The Color Purple," a film
about a rural black woman's
struggle for self-worth, had the
same number of nominations as
"Out of Africa," which won
seven Oscars, including best picture.
The shutout, despite such a
high number of nominations, was
not unprecedented. The 1977 film
"The Turning Point" also had 11
nominations and received no
awards.
On Tuesday, the branch said
that the failure of "The Color
Purple" was "a slap in the faces"
of producer-composer Quincy
Jones and director Steven
Spielberg.
Edwards said that his NAACP
chapters will seek to raise the
consciousness of Academy
members about black actors and
that he believed a public opinion
poll would back nominees for
"The Color Purple'\over the
Oscar winners in/various
categories. /
He said he would meet with
other black groups to urge them
to write additional letters to the
Academy protesting the awards.
"The Academy finds the
NAACP's charge a little surprising.
The Color Purple* is one of
only a handful of films in the
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Burke
He said he has 27 years of experience
as an educator and state
employee. His Department of
Human Resources job ended in
farmer have as much appeal as
his message.
"He came up the hard way,'*
said William Young, a black activist
in Littleton. "He knows
how the people are suffering."
Hard Work, ??
Fond Memories
Ballance said he has fond
memories of a childhood spent
shaking peanuts, gathering corn
and setting tobacco on tenant
farms in Bertie County.
"But we had to work hard,"
he said. "We couldn't afford to
hire anybody, so the family did
all the work. And that meant
staying out of school at certain
times."
In 1959, Ballance won a
scholarship to North Carolina.
Central University in Durham,
later earning a law degree. He
opened a law practice in Warrenton
and won local fame as an
NAACP leader and as the attorney
for residents fighting the
dumping of hazardous wastes
near their homes.
Harrington, who grew up in
the district and who inherited a
farm machinery plant at age 30,
is now retired and "able *to
devote most-of-my time 'to
political life."
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and heroic
irpleV loss
history of the Academy to receive
the extraordinary total of 11
award nominations," said the
Academy's statement.
'The winning of even a single
nomination has long been
recognized as an enviable accomplishment,'*
the statement
also said.
Clegg said Edwards' accusations
of racism were aimed at the
wrong target.
"It is regrettable that a prominent
spokesperson of a local
chapter of a national organization
has taken it upon himself to
impugn the integrity of the
Academy in the specific instance,
by accusing it of racism," he
said.
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September when Gov. James G.
Martin's administration took
over.
"I have not gone back to work
Burke said. 'TfiaveLhe financial
means to support myself and my
family.**
He also said he has lobbied in
the state Legislature for budgets
and sat in on hearings. "I*m no
stranger to state government,**
Burke said. "1 know my way
around.**...
District Attorney Donald K.
Ttedale raised the ire of NAACP
President Walter Marshall last
Thursday when he said at a candidates
forum that he is "less interested
in being fair than going
after the criminal.**
Tisdale specifically referred to
the murder of Deborah B. Sykes
in August 1984 as* an example of
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