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minds and idle hands of young
black urban men.
Heroin, which preceded crack
as a Harlem drug menace, was
more or less imposed on the community
by outside forces.
The heroin offensive was opened
up in Harlem on a large scale
in the late 1950s. Armed young
black gang members, intent on
bloodying each other, began tur
Constance Bradley
Bradley elevated
to new rank
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of Garden of Iris Temple NOr220,
was elevated to the rank of
brigadier general of the North
Carolina State Antlered Guard
Department at its annual encampment
in AshevilTe.
The program was held Sept. 19
through 21, with the Units of
Pride of the Mountain Lodge and
the Rhododendron Temple as
hosts.
Mrs. Bradley was the organizer
and the first commander of the
Twin City Antlers, the Antlered
?Guard ^Jnit of -the Camel City?
Elks Lodge No. 1021 and Garden
of Iris Temple No. 220 in 1979.
Mrs. Bradley rose through the
ranks to major and was honored
as the Antlered Guard of the
Year in 1984.
In 1985 she was appointed adjutant
of the North Carolina
Brigade by Brig. Gen, Kornegay,
commander of the brigade, and
she was commissioned a colonel.
When Winston-Salem was the
host city for the Southern Division
Encampment in 1984, Grand
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easy, but the squad frequently
holds bake sales, yard sales and
other activities which Mrs. Colbert
says "are to raise as much as
possible to assist us with our
operations or in buying equip
ment." The unit's home base is
also in need of repairs and
renovations, and Mrs. Colbert
hopes that at some point funds
will be available to help the unit
with that long-range goal.
Mrs. Colbert also must handle
?;the challenge of easing the concern
of patients who are not accustomed
to seeing a woman handle
rescue procedures.
"Usually the victims are in
such a state over their condition
that they aren't always aware that
a woman is administering the
procedures," she says, "but
sometimes they'll see me grab one
of the big tools, and they don't
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like, 'Wow, look at what that
woman's doing!' "
The equipment used in
i emergency rescues ranges in
.weight from very light to heavy.
!The "jump bags," which include
! injury care materials, weigh approximately
20 pounds, the ox;ygen
tanks 20 pounds and the
suction tank 10 pounds.
During accident responses,
unit members must be able to
quickly retrieve the materials
'.from the rescue vehicles, affectionately
dubbed "Alice" and
i "Mabel" by members of the
'team. Some think that having to
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mi ucavy equipment would
hinder the performance of a
female rescue team member.
They've never seen Mrs. Coli
bert in action.
44You don't even feel the
i weight when your adrenaline's
; flowing," says Mrs. Colbert,
; who is approximately 5 feet 5 in;
ches tall. 44Here I am, a little bitty
; woman, going up and lifting a big
; man on a stretcher onto the unit
I and not even realizing it. After
! it's all over I wonder, 'How in the
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ning their ears to the fiery
political rhetoric of James
Baldwin and Malcolm X.
These polemicists suggested
that blacks should direct their
anger/energy not at each other
but at the society that oppressed
them.
There began to emerge the
politics of black resistance. Those
who ran things reasoned, no
doubt in league with the underworld,
that tranquility would be
better served if young and
unemployed blacks were strung
out on drugs than if they were
high on Baldwin and Malcolm X.
Thomas celehratpc at
A 78th birthday celebration
was held Saturday, Sept. 20, in
honor of Katie Thomas of Darling,
S.C.
The party was held at Union
Baptist Church; more than 75 of
Mrs. Thomas' relatives and
friends attended.
The mother of 11 children,
Mrs. Thomas also has several
grandchildren and greatgrandchildren
and one greatgreat-grandchild.
Katie Thomas, left, recently cele
her family and friends, including
(photo by James Parker).
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Mrs. Colbert, who worked
with an EMS team in her native
Lenoir, says she was 44jittery**
when she first started with the
local team.
441 was kind of jittery when I
started here because we were
responsible for a much larger city,"
she recalls, smiling at the
memory. 4 4Before, when I first
started with EMS, a call would
come over the communications
system and tell us to 'respond to
(Route) 421, go left at Harold's
barn, right after you see three
cows,' and this and that, so it was
' a little different here."
She also remembers one of the
verv first "horror storv" ralk
responded to.
"One of the first terrible calls I
was on was a code orange, which
is a suicide," she remembers.
"Our instructor had told us to
always take three deep breaths
and proceed. When we arrived,
there was a man who had shot
himself by putting a 16-gauge gun
in his mouth. The top of his head
was gone. There were 100 pieces
of his head left everywhere. I
took three breaths, but by that
time I know I had taken at least a
hundred more breaths, and I still
could not proceed right away."
Her years as an emergency services
team member have not
hardened Mrs. Colbert to the suffering
she " regularly sees.
Although she is not panicked by
the sight of blood, she is par- .
ticularlv moved when havino tn
handle very young patients and
the elderly.
"Seeing injured children and
old folks bothers me," she says,
lowering her formerly enthusiastic
tone. 4'It hurts me
more deeply to see injured little
children and elderly people,
especially when they've been
abused. I just cannot tolerate to
see them be abused."
Mrs. Colbert has logged quite a
few hours in the business of saving
lives. It is an experience that
she relishes and treasures.
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And since the immobilization of
potential black revolutionaries
served the purpose of the dominant
society, it was not surprising
that the major drug pushers were
seldom punished.
Heroin flooded into Harlem,
and with almost no transition,
the gang war era became the age
of heroin -- the White Horse.
Mafia chieftains are on record as
saying that when they controlled
heroin, they restricted it to
residents of black communities
whom th#?v rr?nciH*r*H inf?ri/*?
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and powerless.
Police and politicians ? except
t birthday event
Bishop Jake Johnson was the
guest speaker at the celebration.
His topic was "Faith."
Others on the program were
Lizzie Settles, Margaret Cooper,
Mary Alatt and Dorothy
Thomas.
Musical entertainment was
provided by family members.
Janet Johnson was the pianist,
and Lorene B. Thomas was the
mistress of ceremonies.
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brated her 78th birthday with
her daughter, Margaret Blake
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takes a lot of guts to do
what we do ? a lot of guts," she
says in her true-grit tone. "I
don't think anybody could say
they could do what we do without
really knowing what it's all
about. Our guts keep growing
each dav because you never know
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for a few like Rangel - looked
the other way. Casual visitors to
almost any of Harlem's
boulevards saw legions of black
youngsters with glazed eyes,
frozen in wretched curves, nodding
in putrid doorways or
drooping against buildings, their
heads canted downward like
resting vultures.
For years, residents lived terrorized
among these addicts who
were, at bottom, victims
themselves. The outcry from
black ministers, civic leaders,
housewives, nierchants and activists
was as j futile as pitching
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tcr are as contrived as the writer's
name, and that he is satisfied
with his job transfer.
"It was an fuionymous letter,"
he said. "It has no credence. The
personal attacks are unfounded.
The alleged misplaced priorities
of the president are unfounded. I
don't think my transfer is a dead
end job."
All the same, other angry letters
have appeared, and other
discontent has surfaced in Normal,
where things seem to be
anything but.
Covington seems to invite such
attacks because he deals poorly
with people^ He certainly endured
his share of innuendo here,
where some employees considered
him aloof and unapproachable
-- a dapper PR man
with lots of style but little
substance. He could build a
building and destroy your trust in
one fell swoop, say his critics.
When he left WSSU, morale
among employees was alarmingly
low.
Thus, the letter that appeared
in Alabama is making its rounds
these days at WSSU. Many read
it with relish.
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knowing that I'm doing
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By the early 1970s, the heroin
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communities. Heroin addicts
were financing their habits with
suburban crimes and drug sales
to white youth.
In 1971, President Richard
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The current warriors against
drugs should have learned from
the previous ones. Participants
must insist that the national campaign
target all victims of this
most insidious druff enidemir
and not just those in white communities.
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