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For Kids’ Sake
Photo by Paul Collins
Benjamin Muhammad is a health educator with the Fathers and Friends program of the Forsyth
County Department of Public Health.
Absent dads leave ‘negative legacy’
BY PAUL COLLINS
THE CHRONICLE
“We need to understand that
fathers play a significant role in
reducing infant morality,” said
Benjamin Muhammad during an
interview before he gave a talk at a
parenting workshop sponsored by
the Winston-Salem Urban
League. He is a health educator
with the Fathers and Friends pro
gram of the Forsyth County
Department of Public Health.
“In ... the community of Win
ston-Salem there is a scourge; that
scourge is (uninvolved) fathers ~
we have too many children grow
ing up without nurturing, without
the involvement of an effective
father,” Muhammad said. Those
men, he added, “need to take their
rightful place in the family.”
“Nationwide nearly 30 million
children are growing up in a home
without a father. And of that 30
million, in a typical year 10 million
of them won’t see their father at
all. And of that 10 million, 5 mil
lion of them will never set foot
inside their father’s home....
“Girls are affected by not hav
ing a father just as much as boys. I
know most of our attention is on
little boys, but girls are devastated
by not having a father around
too.”
Muhammad said dads who
are not involved with their chil
dren’s leave dads “a negative lega
cy.”
“When these young people
grow up, and not having a father
around, they don’t have that male
in which they can take subcon
scious notes about how a man
interacts with a woman, how a
male interacts with children. So in
essence, many of these young chil
dren grow up to be adults not
understanding what fatherhood is
about, not understanding what the
role of male is about. So there has
to be a retraining and re-education
on both parts, male and female,
because the issue is much too great
See Dads on AS
Frye will be missed on
the N.C. Supreme Court
BY ANGELA BURRUS
THE TRIANGLE TRIBUNE
It was a new day in North Carolina’s judicial system when Henry E.
Frye became the first African American appointed chief justice of the
Supreme Court.
But the man who is known for breaking barriers most of his life faces
the toughest in his long-standing career when he becomes the first chief jus
tice to lose his seat to a colleague in January.
Frye, appointed by Gov. Jim Hunt last year, lost
his seat to Associate Justice I. Beverly Lake by a two-
point margin during the election.
Lake, former Senate and two-time gubernatorial
candidate, is the first Republican elected to head the
state’s judicial branch in 100 years.
Despite his defeat, Frye remains in good spirits,
confident he ran a solid caihpaign.
“We did what we thought we should do to win,”
he said. “But the people have spoken and I’m ready
to move on.”
Frye has received several offers following the elec-
Frye
tion, including resuming Lake’s seat as associate chief justice.
However, Frye said he will retire from the state judiciary system.
“My (hopes) are high and I’m looking forward to change,” he said. “But
I’m not going to be in any rush to decide what I’m going to do.
“It’s been a great opportunity. I met a lot of people and I enjoyed work
ing with them. And I think I have a great future.”.
Frye, a Richmond County native, started his law career as a professor at
N.C. University. A practicing lawyer in Greensboro for 21 years, he became
the first African American in the 20th century to be elected to the N.C.
House of Representatives.
In 1983, he made history again by becoming the first African American
on the N.C. Supreme Court, serving as associate chief justice.
Although he developed a reputation as a trailblazer, Frye humbled him
self in hard work and determination.
“Symbols are great, but we need to put ourselves to the wheel to get the
job done,” he expressed to Hunt during his appointment as chief justice.
During Frye’s brief stint as chief justice, he emphasized making courts
more accessible to citizens while maintaining their integrity.
“As a judge, I do everything to ensure there is judicial integrity on the
Supreme Court and throughout the judicial system of North Carolina,” he
said. “I ensure all cases are heard and decided on merit.
“When citizens don’t have confidence that their cases will be decided on
their merit or when they don’t believe that there is judicial integrity, they
find other ways of settling their dispute.”
Court of Appeals Judge James Wynn said North Carolina will face the
bigger loss next year when Frye steps down.
“Chief Justice Frye had 18 years of judicial experience on the Supreme
Court,” he said. “And I think what he brought to that court was a tremen
dous amount of institutional knowledge as well as a great sense of under
standing of how individual rights have evolved over time, because he was
See Frye on A4
Workers to get cross-cultural lesson Kickoff Bazaai*
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
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A Wake Forest University
professor will again offer cultur
al competency training to local
child-care workers through a
program funded by a grant from
Forsyth Early Childhood Part
nership.
“Growing Wings” is a year
long program. Steven Folmar,
the visiting anthropology pro
fessor who founded the pro
gram, believes “Growing
Wings” is the first long-term
program to offer cultural com
petency training to child-care
workers.
“I thought it was a natural
extension of what I do as an
anthropologist. That’s what we
talk to our
students
about every
day,
although
we don’t use
the term
cultural
competen
cy. That’s
what it’s all
about -
understand-
Folmar
Fol-
ing one another’s culture,”
mar said.
Folmar’s first training pro
gram began in February with
about 40 participants from sev
eral local agencies associated
with Forsyth Early Childhood
Partnership, the local branch of
the Smart Start program.
Folmar said the program is
designed to help child-care
workers better relate to not only
the children they care for but
also their parents. While cultur
al sensitivity training is offered
by many businesses and univer
sities, it’s infrequently available-
to child-care workers.
Folmar believes that it is
especially important that child
care workers have some type of
cross-cultural training.
“This group of people work
with children. They have to be
very cognizant of what we do
because what we do impacts
(children),” he said.
Learning cultural competen
cy, which Folmar said is one step
beyond being simply culturally
See Culture on A9
1 Some blacks and whites
do not trust Jeb Bush
File Photo
Radio personality Shirley Mosley and the Rev, Carlton Fversley
dance at one of last year's Kwanzaa celebrations.
BY YANELA GORDON
SPECIAL TO NNPA
Photo by Wesley Bocxe
( Bush (left) attends a news conference with his
9V. George W. Bush (right), at a governors conven-
ons in November 1998.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ~
Many voters are questioning if
there is any connection between
the election confusion in Flori
da and its governor, Jeb Bush,
younger brother of Republican
presidential candidate George
W. Bush.
“I believe he did have some
thing to do with it,” said
Demetris Kelly,” a Democrat
and Vice President A1 Gore sup
porter. “(Jeb Bush) assured his
brother he would deliver him
Florida and I found that kind of
odd, especially since it looked
like Florida was going to Gore.”
While there is no evidence of.
any inappropriate involvement
in the election or electoral
process by Jeb Bush, skeptics
say things are just too strange.
Nic Gellepers, also a Democ
rat, said, “There is not just one
thing; there are a lot of things
going wrong. For this many
things to go wrong in the state
where the presidential candi
date’s brother is the governor
has me skeptical.”
During election night.
Kwanzaa Committee announces plans
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
See Jeb on A3
Kwanzaa is an American
holiday inspired by African tra
ditions. It is not intended as a
religious, political or heroic hol
iday, nor is it a substitute for
Christmas. During the seven
days of Kwanzaa festivals,
observed from Dec. 26 through
Jan. 1, people of African
descent rejoice in their ancestral
values. A Swahili word, Kwan
zaa means “first.” An extra “a”
was added to the word, thus
Kwanzaa, to give it seven letters.
representing the holiday’s seven
principals
The Winston-Salem City
wide Kwanzaa Planning Com
mittee will sponsor its third
annual citywide Kwanzaa Kick-
Off Bazaar. The bazaar will be
held Saturday, Dec. 2, at the
Winston Lake Family YMCA,
901 Waterworks Road, Win
ston-Salem. It will be held from
10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. There
will be live entertainment
including “Otesha Dance
Ensemble” and others.
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