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Sims Cantor di roc tor Ban Piggott and studants arm axcitad about tha sarins of soccer clinics that will bo bald at tha Sims Cantor.. 11 A ? - Sims Center sponsors soccer clinics for kids ages 6-10 ; . The William C. Sims Recre^ ation Center in Happy Hill Gar dens will be the host for a series of soccer clinics for boys and girls throughout Winston Salem. The clinic is open to kids 6 to 10 years old and i? sponsored b) the Winston-Salem Optimist Youth Soccer League. The U.S. Department of Justice Weed and Seed Initiative and the Winston Salem Recreation and Parks Department. Ben Piggott, center supervi sor at the Sims Center, said the program is designed to involve more African American children in soccer, which is rapidly becoming the nation's most pop ular sport. "This will be a great oppor tunity for boys and girls to learn about another sport that is played all over the world," he said. "We are looking for more kids to be a part of this and to want to appreciate it." Of particular interest to the program at the Sims Center are students who currently attend nearby Jefferson Davis Diggs Magnet Arts School. However, kids from all over the city are encouraged to participate. Transportation will be pro vided frbm recreation centers at 14th Street, Reynolds Park and Salem Gardens. For more information, contact Ben Piggott at 727-2837. Is this justice? Despite three exonerations, Don King remains a perennial target COMMENTARY . ?fly Collie J. Nicholson ; * It's getting^o you can hardly believe what you read in the newspapers anymore - and the likelihood that you'll get a clear report on the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, stands true for television too. Case in point: Don King vs. those crusading news people. Their real outrage - never open ly stated is about King's enor imous influence in boxing and the rrtassiye amount of money flowing his way. Is his success.also one of the reasons why he is being pursued by Justice Department officials? This question is being posed Ihroughout the African Ameri can community, which is of the ' opinion that some hanky-pobky is going on. , King has gotten the poison pen so often that, seemingly, the U. S. Justice Department has bought the lie. -For the fourth Jime, the government is trying to find a way to prosecute him. along with Bob Lee Sr.. presi dent of the International Boxing . Federation, on charges that the' . r* i r- ? - s two nxea ngnxers ratings. Le^ is being targeted for the first time. ; It doesn't matter that those rankings were not far different from those of the World Boxing iCouncil (WBC) or the World - Boxing Association (WBA). Neither does it matter that King has been exonerated in three attempts by the feds to prosecute him. He remains under scrutiny, a perennial tar get, which /aises the question about fairness. , * Despite constant criticism from media types, and the possi bility of collusion between the good-old-boy network and the government to remove King from the boxing scene, King remains an icon as much as any public figure. King is one of the most rec ognizable figures in the world He continues to embrace the public and the public embraces him in an honoring and celebra tory kind of way. Most fans can identify with his struggle from a depressed beginning to dwarf the accom plishments of the largest boxing and entertainment moguls of all times. Still, those grumpy reporters continue their efforts to jimmy up gossip, and negative reports, to get King and Bob Lee. who, incidentally, happen to be the most prominent black boxing figures in the world. It appears that they're resurrecting that -Great White Hope thing associ ated witji boxing during thd championship era of Jack John son. the first African American heavyweight title holder. 70-odd years ago.. Then it was about a "White Hope" reclaiming the heavy weight title. Now it is about money, control and removing , King from his high perch. Don King has had his media detractors since he became the sport's most successful promot er. Some well-known reporters, from several of the biggest papers - a number of them cer tified King haters - are using their columns to speak ill of King, and in doing so. continue to sully his name while giving rise to the government's interac tion What is so unfortunate is that the allegations being made are just that - allegations. Equally unfortunate is the fact,' that the government is being duped into trying to produce any shred of evidence to try him again. King has become the Jus tice Department's whipping boy. To a large segment of the population, who believe any thing they read in newspapers, perception amounts to guilt. And in the private haUs of jus tice, perception 'also equals another chance to get after Kino * For instance; HBO got in on the act in June in a manner that King regarded as insulting. A letter from HBO wapted King to remove himself from the next Evander Holyfield Lennox Lewis heavyweight championship fight that King holds promotional rights to - in the event he is indicted. Because the HBO letter was based on supposition of a phan tom crime, and an indictment is not a conviction. King's answer was a flat-out no. Apparently, HBO was ticked off by the rejection on a situa tion it created. King also indicated that he believed HBO conspired with the FBI on the day the govern ment agency raided his Florida headquarters King said he thought HBO "set him up." in effect, by luring him to New York for negotiations on the day the FBI held its raid. That day. 68 FBI agents raid ed King's headquarters and took with them computers and software that could possibly exonerate King. You see, they're jumping up t all over King's grave and the man, isn't even dead yet. The legion of sportswriters with an ax to grind still whack away With the same old zeal. , Meanwhile, the list of King supporters is also growing steadily. His most powerful new ally is the NAACP. At its annual con-,^ vention in New York, 4he national organization adopted a resolution of support for King. Kweisi Mfume, chief executive officer of the NAACP, criticized the Department of Justice for "using its police powers to fur ther a hostile agenda aimed at destroying black economic and political leadership." A week later, the Congres sional Black , Caucu*s and the Black Leadership Forum, an organization-made uo of 39 leading black groups, joined in supporting King. The Black Leadership Forum wants to talk with LIS. Attorney General Janet Reno about "racially motivated investigations." * Dr. Joseph Lowery, who heads the BLF, said he felt sure that "the investigation of King is racially motivated"' and said something should be done about it. ' The Congressional Black Caucus has asked for an internal investigation using ^Assistant Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, to head a task force to do the investigation of what they view as "very serious allegations. " It is fashionable, in certain quarters, to put the knock on King, but several things are obvious: King is his own man - a new wave entrepreneur who furnishes his own propulsion. He is a true personification of the American dream. He demonstrated that an idea cou pled with perseverance and knowledge, backed by an indomitable spirit, can lead to success. King is also a major f)hilan thropist of his time among the sports gentry. 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