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'The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly"
VOL. XVIII, No. 16
Group challenges process
Seeks 'Justice' for former Urban League director
John Moore (loft) and Khalld Griggs voiced tholr support for
Dolores Smith, who Is one of three contenders for her former |ob.
By SHERIDAN HILL
Chronide Staff Writer
Five members of Concerned Citizens of
**Winston-Salem, a grass-roots citizens group, met
Tuesday to suggest that the local Urban League
withdraw its affiliation with the national organi
zation and to express their support for Delores
Smith, former President of the Winston-Salem
Urban League, They stated their concerns at a
press conference in the Golden State Mutual
building the day before Delores "D" Smith was
interviewed as one of three final candidates for
her former job. Other members present were
John Moore, Leon Kay, Alderman Larry Womble
and D.D. Adams, an Urban League board mem
ber.
"The local community expects the local
Urban League to respect its wishes," said Khalid
Griggs, director of Citizens for a Better Tomor
row and the Imam (leader) of the Community
Mosque of Winston-Salem. Griggs made note of
a 900-signature petition presented to the Urban
League this summer in favor of reinstating "D"
Smith.
He said a great injustice had been done to
Smith because she has been unemployed for 12
months, hoping to be reinstated to her position.
Dr. Nat Irvin, Urban League chairman, said
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By FANG NIVRI
Driving me nuts!
fve just finished reading a very funny bode
by a young eight-year-old author named "Muffin
Jones." This is her ninth book and it's entitled
Things That Drive Me Nuts.
To tell the truth, before leading Jones' book, JfiS
4 3*5} ig t"anythln* i
? <Wvc an eight-year-old nuts. IjhomhtUiMyM ?> -
^what THBTftdW ''iiiive us talents nutsl v
Well, I laughed a plenT^nd decided S|
maybe I'd Write down a few of the things that
drives me nuts too.
One thing that drives me nuts is having to fig
ure out whether somebody is lying or not Tvejust
about figured out that 1 ain't nearly as good at fe|p|
as I though I was. Is William Kennedy Smith real
ly telling the truth or 4s the alleged rape victim
telling the truth? Was Prof. Anita Hill lying or was
/ Judge Clarence Thomas lying? And what about
people you know? Ddon't you just hate to try id
determine if they are lying or not? It drives me
nuts! ?
Television preachers and the people who send
them money drive me nuts. Why do good com
monsense people continue to send their good ol'
American dollars to these lying, thieving, no ;
good, low-down, good-for-nothing, religions
pimps? Especially when there aie legitimate min- >
istries right here in our own community having
difficulty trying to meet the spiritual and physical
needs of real people who actually live here? Nuts!
And what about the fact that there are school
systems in this country that are actually handing
out condoms to school kids but YET these same
school systems have outlawed prayer? That is the .
damn stupidest thing I can think of. Everybody is
running around wondering what's wrong with our
young folks and here it is we make if legal ?
endorse ? handing out condoms but make it ille
gal ? condemn ? handling them a Bible. Now
doesn't thatjust drive you nuts? And to just finish
this craziness, the ACLU drives me nuts! (Please
tell them that I don't want them to fight for mjp
rights any longer. Take a break, I have enough
rights for the momentthank you)!
Politicians who lie and lie and lie some more
and yet we just keep on voting them back into
office. are just nuts! Every election, there is a;|
new lie to be toki and we fall for it just like we did
before. We act like neither one of us has any
sense! Tfcke the people who voted for DavidDuke
but swore that they weren't voting for a racist!
Nuts! v
There are plenty of things that drive me nuts <
but nothing more than when we as Hack folks
blame racism for each and everything that hap- g
pens to us.
It just drives me nuts to see us declare on the
one hand that we are die foundation of aQ human
civilization but in the very next breath, we stand
still, harmless, like the elephant tied by our mem
ory to a short stake in the ground; unable to sim
ply use our massive strength resulting not only in
our breaking loose, but dominating the entire cir
cus. It drives me nuts when certain of our leaden
?? twrftava that we are less-thans.
Nuts! Drives me nuts!
group has some success
in public housing areas
GAG credited
with decrease
. in crime rate
(Uft to Tight): Queen Black, Beta Wbtttr, Mayor Martha Wood, and Johnnie Maa
Ingram are all excited about the aucceaa of the Community Action Program.
Did people collaborate Has the CAG made a difference
more because of the in reducing drugs and violence in
CAG process? public housing communities?
Have drug sales and use
been reduced in the public
housing communities?
Has violence been reduced
in the public housing
communities?
Perceptions
of Progress
A survey conducted by
the Winston-Salem Mayor's
office reports that the majority
of residents in the city's public
housing communities believe
that the Community Action
Group (CAG) has been a suc
cess in helping to wipe out
crime in those communities.
The survey, which was
completed earlier this summer,
asked 43 public housing resi
dents four major questions
concerning the success of the
Group.
Participants in the survey
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By YVETTE N. FREEMAN
Community News Editor -
Winston-Salem's crime rate decreased by one percent
between January and June of this year. I
Members of the Community ActioirGroup (CAG), commu
nity leaders, and residents of the city's public housing communi
ties got the news Friday from Mayor Martha Wood.
"We're doing something right," said the Mayor. "You're doing
something right. And I want to congratulate you on your efforts to
build this community."
More than 60 people attended a celebration giving credit to
the CAG for its efforts in reducing the crime rate in the city.
During the program, the presidents of the Resident's Councils
of the city's four housing communities praised Wood for organiz
ing the Community Action Group, as well as Winston-Salem
Police Chief George Sweat for the support of the city's police
force in making the communities safer for the residents.
Queen Black of Piedmont Park said, "Piedmont Park is doing
good, thanks to the residents all working together to make it a bet
ter place to live. The Community Program has helped by having
the policemen patrol our different areas."
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Tensions boil
over at Carver
But, there is bright side
By SHERIDAN HILL
Chronicb Staff Writer
"A" students might be the least likely to get into a
fist fight after school, but most of the 19 Carver stu
dents suspended for last Friday's incident were honor
roll students. Principal Robert Clemmer says ten of the
students were seniors, and most had never been in trou
ble before. Ten black and nine white students, all
males, were suspended Monday for their involvement
in the confrontation in the Carver parking lot which
ended when a substitute teacher was hit in the back of
the head with a brick.
Clemmer said he was unaware that racial slurs and
antagonizing remarks had been made between the two
groups of students for some time. The fight was finally
incited after a white student gave away some pretzels
belonging to a black student and then used abusive
words to him.
That incident was overheard and repeated among a
group of black students who, at the end of the school
day, confronted several friends of the white student.
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Award-winning actress Ruby Dee spoke recently
to the drama students at the North Carolina
School of the Arts.
Dee encourages
drama students
to have purpose
By YVETTE N. FREEMAN
Community News Editor
Award-winning actress Ruby Dee told aspiring
actors and actresses at the North Carolina School of the
Arts (NCSA) that acting is not just being in box office
movie hits or top-rated television shows, but doing -
something to bring about a change or make a difference
in society.
"1 want to be an actor/ to me, is not good enough,"
Dee told the group. "I think that there's something that
we have to do with enlightenment, that we have to do
with affecting change in some way. I think an actor
today has to be innovative. It's not enough to want to be
on the Cosby Show or In Living Color or The Simp
sons or any of those shows. That's not enough to
aspire to," she said.
Dee, who is a Wachovia Guest Artist at the School
of the Arts, performed readings of poetry and essays for
approximately 110 drama students Monday, followed
by a question-and-answer session.
She spoke on a number of topics, from what it
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