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PageA4 Winston-Salem Chronicle Thursday, January 7,1988 . Winston-Salem Chronicle rou' ded 1974 ERNEST H. Pin ^ s Publisher MICHAEL A. Pin to the Publisher NDUBISI EGEMONYE A' Co-Pounder^^ ^ ANGELA WRIGHT Managing Editor ELAINE L. Pin OficG Manager JULIE PERRY ' Advertising Manager YVONNE HB. TRUHON ' Production f^anager ^ '' S AMPdernHistoP/ 1960!S Mazie, what's the deal? Gerald Long says, in effect, that he and Mazie Wx)druff have cut a deal. He'll support her in the white com munity, if she’ll support him in the Afro-American community. Woodruff denies this, saying she has never discussed such an alliance with Long. But Long seems to have a clear understanding of the arrangements made and he felt at liberty to describe his rela tionship with Woodruff as that of a "team." Long said, during a telephone interview, that Woodruff believed he could "deliver till of West Forsyth County and perhaps Kemersville." He said he told Woodruff he would support her campaign financially and that he would deliver her some white votes. Alas, it's deja vu. If this is true, then Woodruff has learned nothing from her political bungling of the 1986 election. Woodruff lost that election in the primary. Then, as now, it was alleged that Woodruff had made an agreement with two of the other candidates: Democratic school board member John S. Holleman Jr. and incumbent sheriff E. Preston Oldham. Holleman said then that the three had met and agreed before the election to sponsor vans in the Afro-American com munity to carry voters to the polls and to distribute their litera ture in the vans. The result: Woodrufi ost; Holleman and Oldham won with a significant am'^unt of Afro-American votes. The votes Woodruff receivea i om predominate];- wh-:e county precincts were neglirble In ] ■ " 'Ct vo: from A^ American preci.iCts -I .'..e d 3,58: >es . -m '.-e • -I; id ‘ rece’v?d c lO."' .es. 8he finishes th oehina Ho;, m,. w: . total w U ‘7 and Demcwiat ayne G, V- ’ 'vhc..,- was 17 If Ho^eman and Oidhan. had .eliverea for Woodruff even half the i moer of votes she delivere ’ for th. m, she would have a se;,. .. the county Board of Commissioners today. So, what does Woodruff have to gain from an alliance with Long? He says he promised her financial suppon, but can he really deliv'^'r white votes? , And what does Long get out cf the deal? The most obvious advantage is en.r.- ice into the Afro-American community via Woodruff. Long has not been active within the community and an affiliation with Woodruff could help to validate him. But the ost paramount question is: Does Woodruff really want to \ ' her role th;-'-' '' ^.-oile.. A p,'‘!’ncal ..liianc .■ betwe«. ner nd a white candidate would certain:_ ; the ch, n s for other. \fro-American candidates- such as A..n Simmons. Woodruff could split the Afro-American vote and assi: A new year: Opportunity and challenge NEW YORK - This new year of 1988 will provide peoples throughout the world with the con tinuing opportunity to improve the quality of human life. Yet the hand writing is already on the wall in the United Slates. This year will be the year when a new U.S. president will be elected. The next president will be determined largely by how seriously all voters take this elec tion. If those who believe in justice and freedom do not act upon their belief, through the voting booth, then 1988 will become the year of another right-wing step backwards for the nation, This year we do have an alter native. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition offer the country another opportunity and another direction. It is the opportu nity to be more inclusive at the height of poliiical decision making and it is the chance to move . ay • m a military buik. p to so .ng some of our pressing donu .tic problems. For example, the situation of the homeless continues to deterio rate. Tens of thou.sands of citizens arc literally lying in the streets in cities across this nation. A large number of the homeless population are now children. The scourge of acts of racially motivated violence against Afro-Americans, Asian- Amcricans, Latin Americans, Native Americans and others con tinues to escalate. The drug crisis has reached CIVIL RIGHTS JOURNAL By BENJAMIN CHAVIS JR. pandemic proportions. Health care, due to rising costs, is now out of the reach of millions of persons who need medical attention. The unemployment rate continues to increase, particularly within the Afro-American community. In spile of all these ills, we have always maintained that the future is determined bv how well we Icani .rom the past and how ■ ‘II we use the prcsv-n to prepare .III adeciuaiclv dan ihe lull • ' > ni '.ining of ilii Jew Vol:. sliould t'o beyon i the affirm.i:!' 'f various resolutions or announce ments. Thus, let us commit our selves to study hard our history and to take the time to give ample reflection to those things that are dear to us. One pressing need that should be fulfilled is the economic devel opment of the Afro-American com- Please see page A5 On celebrating King's birthday to effectively m..i' ••• the cha-ices on the Board of Commissioners. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Winston-Salem on Jan, 18, 1988, will be a spectacular celebra tion and commemoration of Ameri ca’s greatest twentieth century siphoning f>ff enough votes for white candidates prophet sent from God. We will be anot!i..r Afro-American sitting : assessed Woodruffs loss, ■le from ihe county. 0th- \ '■nom . : predominately '■ jbscr\ers blamed Woodruff To-Ainerican voters lo support . rnmissi mers. Several said they •'tween Woodruff, Holleman and doing things we've never done before because, due to the efforts of black educators and politicians and the NAACP, for the first time, Winston- Salem/Forsyth County schools wil. be closed. he will be a great addition to our municipality, giving direction to and heightening the visibility of the Human Relations Department as well as giving a stirring "wake up" address on King Day. people literally suffered, many bled, and some died for their opportunity to do so. More tragically, ±e Win- ston-Salem/Forsyth County school system appears insensitive and uncar ing enough to tolerate, condone, even In 1986 local political pun and m;.ny determined that the ers blamed the loss ' ’ / \ Afro-American precin^ .s. herself for failing to mobih only her for the Board of v believed the alleged ahiance Oldham did the most damage We hope Woodruff is not about to make the same mistakes, would like to believe that she would not compromise her self and the Afro-Ameri':an voters m i-orsyth County. She denies Long's proclamation, as -e denied similar statements made by Holleman and Oldham two years ago. But two ques- Winston-Salem Human tions are unresolved in our minds: How did Long get the Department. He is a man impression that he and Woodruff were a team? And. what is “ Woodruffs campaign strategy? The day begins at 7 a.m. with a 90-minute Freedom Breakfast planned for those who absolutely have to go to work on this national holiday or for those unable to attend an evening service. We expect a min imum of 60 people at ±e breakfast. REV. CARLTON EVERSLEY - Guest Columnist Featured speaker is Emery Rann, the newly instituted executive direc- CHRONICLE CAMERA activist possessed of community and organizational skills. I am confident If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (and more precisely, the movement he led) can be criti ally analyzed, perhaps it is most ..^curate at the point where ihe movement failed to educate and train a succeeding gener ation, Thus we are confronted with the fact that young people, particular ly ages 5 to 25, trot on down to K&W, or Hanes Mall, or Reynolds High School or Wake Forest Univer sity with virtually no appreciation of the fact that hundreds of thousands of promote massive ignorance of the civil rights movement, in particular, and the contributions of African- Americans to American and world civilization in general by both its black and white students and its edu cators. (One might question whether anyone in this country, hemisphere or globe should consider themselves educated while totally unknowing of the place Africans and people of African descent hold in shaping his- Please see page A5 looking a ahead in igg TO BE EQ[IA| WjohnITIacob NEW YORK-Thchn.' of a new year is a„ I rest, hope anil 1„, : ;.-c,ves«.apc„„asr„r.eJ;; High on Ihc want lia IS real welfare rcforai. * The pcrioilic impciu, ti ehangtngPre welfare system up again last year, ».it(, a„ jpp consensus, cutting acrossL lines, that the .sysienr has toch n, inunily. This is not a new need or a new idea. We spend more than S2(X) billion a year, yet we do not receive respect commensurate with our tremendous buying power. Several years ago the National Black Leadership Roundtable released "The National Black Lead ership Family Plan." A key section of this plan was devoted to Joint economic development Again, the issue of unity is the necessary con text in which effective economic development can he nurtured. Quite simp!;. Afro-Americans have had a bad spending policy. We s; nd more than we save, and we hi. lad a history of spending with the cry forces ibat are sometimes inextricably linked with our oppres sion. We all should recommit our selves to spending and saving our financial resources differently, and not just for the personal acquisition of material wealth. More important that wealth, we should commit our- Boih liberals and conserva,, supported changes to cmnhiii education and training that welfare rccipiciifs employable, s', oral bills in Congress cmbriit' those goals, albeit in ways il stopped short of the sweepi reforms that arc ncccs,sary. ' Some of the bills went in granting the stales anlhorii. control welfare reform proir; without sufficient federal guj lines and standards. And they d deal with the need for minit federal benefit levels to male for the drastic erosion in the bm power of welfare checks - am Sion that amounts to a 30.pea cut in real income for the poores the poor. Other reforms are needed.! erally assisted housing, for ex; pie, has ground to a halt, bringin real crisis in housing and result in an escalation of the problem homelessness. Higher minimum wage leve aid to education, job training a job creation efforts - all things have to be on 1988's agea Cuts in social welfare progra that drove many of the needy nutrition programs and other; need to be reinstated. All of that is made more dil cult by the deep federal budj deficits, which suggests ibaii Congress needs to come up witli restructured budget framework provide the revenues govemrae needs while making better, mr efficient use of those revenues. Congress will have to iak( close look, for’example,'at I exorbitant "Star Wars" progra and other defense spending, alo with subsidy programs thaidiw scarce resources to the more afll ent while cutting aid to the p 1988's agenda isn't j government, either. Thepriv lor has to recommit iu become more responsive tc concerns in 1988. The private sector wel the programs of the Reagan istraiion that put social spem a lean diet while cutting pi and corporate tax rates. B implied a greater level of | sector voluntarism and coi tions than actually occurred, 1988 the private sector has ic ly pick up the slack. A worrying factor hi whether the economy will slk a recession in 1988. Some o nics are already anticipating U cutting payrolls and social m sibilily activities in the wake( slock market crash. So the single biggest la this new year is for privatf public policies that keep thee my moving and prevent a reci Please see pageAi Residents pick biggest national, local stories of 1987 Thc; say that news is not when 'dog bites man’ but when 'man bites dog . And news affecting the Winston-Salem communi'v, as well as issues affecting the world, was faithfully brought home to readers, viewers and listeners without fail. Nationally, the networks showed us the minute by minute rescue attempt of an 18- month-old child trapped in a well. We saw government officials squirm as the Iran-Contra scandal interrupted daytime TV favorites. Jesse Jackson announced his bid for president ...again. And fel low democrat, Gary Hart gave us a roller coaster on-again, off-again- commitment. The once unknown Donna Rice, Fawn Hall and Jessica Hahn were made celebrities overnight. And thc gospel accord ing to Jim Bakker and Oral Roberts read like soap operas. Close to home, Winston- Salem residents learned of the intense efforts to support a fair trial in the Darryl Hunt case. A massive winter storm shut down the city for days.C/ironic/e readers were chal lenged to examine the full implica tions of the city/county bond refer endum. Thomas J. Elijah resigned after 10 years with the city’s Urban League.This week. Chronicle Camera asked residents what they felt were the hottest news items, both nationally and locally, that occurred in 1987. The answers varied wi respondents identifyinfi headline from iheR.J-R«y* ple company’s exodus to the ea Chicago's first Afro-AW™ mayor. But no instances ol > ■ biting a dog were reporteil 'Harold Wasli- Jimton. L... ally, 'th: oond issue .especially 'because of the ichallenges they present to blacks to Ueter-j^v^JJBH V mine how W , they're spent." ,£ khalld Griggs "I think the biggest story iwas about the Jlittle girl that they got out of that well out in Texas." James McKoy "That little girl that was in the well was a big istory. Locally, the big story was the renam ing of the street after Martin Luther ; ^King." Willie A. Brown "The stock " market crash ' jwas a big story. Hero in iWInston-Salem |the stury w.is Ihe move of :r.J. Reynolds and the loss ot iiobs." Willie Dlltatii Just about# biggestwas thePTLscaif IdaLlnWin' lston,theHun episode was theblggasj;; iturWng. Bishop RX'***^ ,0n Sail
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