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32 PAGES THIS WEEK THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1992 GOVERNORS'S OPEN AT WINSTON LAKE SATURDAY ?m. m mm mmmmmmmmm mm ws Carver classmates Classmates from 1939-92 attend ed Carver High School's reunion. Winston-Salem Chronicle 75 cents ^ , "The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" \ u VOL. XIX, No. 3 NEWS BR Black demonstrators arrested SIMI VALLEY, Calif. ? Joe Jordan is led away by Ventura County sheriffs deputies during a white supremacist rally at the court house site where four white police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. The rally consist ed of two white supremacists and about 300 counter demonstrators. There were four arrests. * J' Tutu resigns from Harvard Angelican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, shown in this 1992 file photo, has resigned Har vard University's govern ing board, citing the political situation in his native South Africa. In his letter resigning effec tive immediately, Tutu said he needed to be "more available to help in the delicate but exhila rating business of being midwives for the birth of ^ the much-awaited new South Africa." News Briefs Compiled from staff and AP reports MIAMI, Fla., ? Florida State Sen. Carrie Meek, ri^ht, is congratulated by Athalie Range, long-time leader of Miami's black community, after Meek won the seat for Congress in the Dade County primary election this week. She becomes the first black representative to Congress from Florida since Reconstnjction. Barry in trouble again WASHINGTON (AP) ? Marion Barry's possible return to public life may have been impeded the day before the District of Columbi a's Democratic primary for city council seats, when a woman charged he assaulted her over the weekend. S.A. man beaten by soldiers BISHO, South Africa ? A man sits in King Williams Town hosptial this week after he was beaten with batons and whips by Ciskeien sol diers in the South African homeland. In the after math of last week's killing of 28 African Nation al Congress supporters, there have been beatings of civilians by soldiers and the buniing of sol diers' homes by ANC supporters. ' Florida's First Officials say black youth trapped ? Local officials agree that black juvenile offenders are not properly handled in the judicial system Black representation in Juvenile Services Division of N.C. Administration Office of the Courts By TRAVIS MITCHELL Chronicle Staff Writer "Once a statistic, always a statistic ? if you are a black youth offender, "according to juvenile services authorities. "Law enforcement agencies are well trained in regard to how children are affect ed," said former Forsyth County Chief Court Counselor Jim Weald and. "If the kid gets in trouble and the police get involved, the kid will go to court. Once a kid getsin the system we have a lot of resources to help the child, but the problem is that you have a court coun selor with a high case load who does not have enough time to spend with each family." Each district consists of a chief court counselor, supervisor and court counselors. In Forsyth County there are 1 1 court counselors, two black males and one black female and since the departure of Horace Walser, who was unexpectedly reassigned to Lexington, there is limited black representation in super visory positions across the state. Sources indicate that Walser was the only black court counselor supervisor in the state (see graph). .. Officials reported that each counselor is handling about 50 cases. In fact, out of 628 cases under supervision by Forsyth County court counselors, 308 involve black males, 219 white males, 64 black females and 37 white females. These cases include probation, training school and aftercare. Weakland said that under the current sys tem cultural insensitivity is another issue. "When you combine the number of caseloads with the lack of black representation and cul Please see page A2 N=300 (est) W/M ? B/M W/F ? B/F Chief Court Counselors 60% 9% 27% 4% Supervisors 75% 1% 12% 12% Court Counselors 41% 14% 38% 7% 21st District Court Juvenile Services (Caseload Statistics for 1991-1992 For Forsyth County) INTAKE (Cases In the system) W/M B/M W/F B/F 295 474 ^1144 157 CASES UNDER SUPERVISION (Probation, Training School, Aftercare) W/M B/M W/F B/F 219 308 37 64 W/M - Whit* Male B/M - Black Mala W/F - Whlta Fatnala B/F - Black Famata SOURCE: NC Administrative Office of the Courts McCabe delivers Urban League address ? Lee Faye Mack given special award for community service By CAROLE RAQIN8 . - Community N#ws Editor * , , , . . ? s i... ?.,* The Winston-SaTem Urban League held i<s 13th Annual Equal Opportunity Day Dinner^and Awards Ceremony Thursday evening, September 10 at the M.C. Benton Convention Center. About 800 people attended the affair. The theme was "Working Together ? We Have Made a World of Difference." The keynote speaker was JeweUJackson-McCabe, founder and chair of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women and president of Jewell Jackson McCabe Associates, Inc., a management consulting - firm. McCabe gave a powerful speech on the direction the community must take to have an impact on the socioeconomic status of black people. She also spoke on behalf of African-American women by emphasiz Please see page A1 1 d m Jewell Jackaon-McCabe waa Dr. Nat Irvln II 0), chairman of the board of diredora at the Urban EOD Dinner's keynote apeaker. presents a special Recognition Award to the Rev. Lee Faye Mack. / SPECIAL LIFT brings students hope By TRAVIS MITCHELL Chronicle Staff Writer During the most heated debates over the issues facing the African* American community, usually the fiercest rivals will agree that African- American stu dents lag far behind their white counterparts. However, where this discussion lends itself only to lip-service, one school in the community is striving to make a dif ference: LIFT (Learning Is Fun Too) Academy. LIFT was founded in 1982, as a manifestation of the dreams and aspirations of Earline Parmon, a vision Please see page A2 EDUCATION REPORT O Memoirs from 'Stone Jungle' By T.A. BLACKMAN Earline Parmon, LIFT director When a child is born white he rides in a limousine" driven by prosperity that stops at money, mo' money , and bank. His speed limit is an infinite number. When a child is born black he rides on a bus driven by hope that stops at jail, hell or heaven. His speed limit is zero and anything over that brings the sight of flash ing blue lights, a trip downtown and 'arrested devel opment. ' This seemingly unbreakable cycle begins at birth and rotates faster each year, as every accomplishment Please see page A2 N.C. paying for neglect at mental hospitals CHARLOTTE (AP) ? For black children across North Carolina during much of this century, there were no schools for the mentally retarded or youngsters with behavior problems, but now the state is paying for its mistakes. The Charlotte Observer reported Sun day that North Carolina is paying $16 million this year on a program which places about 400 retarded patients in mentally retardation centers and group homes. In 1912, the only state institution for the mentally retarded was the Caswell School in Kinston. There was no place for black, mentally retarded patients until the O'Berry School opened in Goldsboro 43 years later. Retarded children, violent children ? even those with epilepsy ? were sent to Cherry Hospital, in Goldsboro, where they mingled with psychotic adults. The asylum also housed drug addicts, alco holics and the criminally insane. For years, the state spent roughly half as much on the black patients at Cherry Hospital as it did for its all-white mental hospitals. "It's unconscionable ? abominable. A psychiatric hospital is no place for a child," said Don Taylor, a former direc tor of the North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Service" A retarded Gaston County teen-ager ? known only as Thomas S. ? sparked the controversy in 1982. Thomas was given up for adoption at birth. By age 18, he had been in about " i Please see page A2 TO SUBSCRIBE. CALL 722-8624. JUST DO IT'
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