nMD by Kevin Wtlkei
Two students
taking part in
the Southeast
Europe Youth
Leadership
Institute look
for a plat* to
place flags
during last
week's forum.
American panel tells European
students that race problems exist
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
While many around the
world envy America for its
democracy, strength and
opportunities, this country too
still struggles each day to live
out the true meaning of its
centuries-old creed.
In essence, that is what a
panel of local people told a
and they very seldom make
local news."
Hairston was among a
panel that also included a His
panic leader, a member of the
local Jewish temple and an
advocate for the disabled. The
forum was held at City Hall
South and sponsored by the
city's Human Relations Com
mission.
roomiui 01 European
students last Thurs
day during a forum
designed to educate
the visitors about this
country's continuing
struggle to provide
parity to all of its peo
ple.
Stephen Hairston,
the president of the
city's NAACP chap
ter, used missing
Alabama teen Natalee
50 teens from the
Eastern European
nations of Bulgar
ia, Romanian, Ser
bia, Albania,
Kosovo, Macedo
nia, and Montene
gro spent all of
July at Wake For
est University for
the Southeast
Europe Youth
Leadership Insti
tute. The program
gives students the
Holloway as an example of
what is wrong in the United
States.
Holloway, who is white,
has made international head
lines since she disappeared
while on a graduation excur
sion in Aruba.
"A black life in this coun
try is not as valued as a white
life," Hairston said. "Black
femajes go missing every day
opportunity to explore Ameri
can culture while promoting
civic participation.
Civil rights was the theme
for this year's institute. As
part of the institute, the Euro
pean students researched hot
button topics, everything from
same-sex marriage to legal
ized prostitution, and held a
series of debates on them
throughout the day Friday on
the Wake campus. (One of the
forums was held at the Win
ston Lake Family YMCA).
Miriam Hernandez, who
founded the city's Hispanic
Action Center, told the stu
dents that while Hispanics'
numbers are growing rapidly
here and around the United
States, political and economic
power still eludes them. Her
nandez said there are obvious
barriers that are preventing
Hispanic gains in these areas.
"We see the challenge in
culture," she said. "We see the
challenge in language."
Bob Conn, a member of
Temple Emanuel, said that the
numbers of Jews in North
Carolina and throughout the
South were extremely low
compared with Jewish popula
tions in states such as New
York.
He told the students that in
terms of civil rights, his peo
ple have been on the receiving
end of bias and by the sides of
African-Americans and other
groups who have struggled to
achieve parity.
"The Jewish community
has always put its money
where its mouth is.... We have
been there," said Conn, after
reminding the group that two
of the three civil rights work
ers that former Klansman
Edgar Ray Killen was recently
convicted of killing in 1964
were Jews.
But today, civil rights has
become more than an issue of
skin color or religion, accord
ing to Jacob Thadathil, a deaf
services_,specialist at the
Forsyth County Center for the
Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Speaking through an inter
preter, Thadathil talked about
the Americans with Disabili
ties Act. The 15-year-old law
makes it illegal to discrimi
nate against qualified people
with disabilities in the areas of
employment, public accom
modations, transportation and
telecommunications .
But the ADA is far from
foolproof. A few days before
the ADA's 15th anniversary,
the U.S. Department of Hous
ing and Urban Development
released a study that found
that people with disabilities
are often discriminated
against when they try to rent
apartments.
Hate
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North Georgia White Knights,
Schertz was caught by an
undercover federal agent and a
confidential informant. Court
records show he took them
shopping for bomb materials at
a home improvement store.
"Once at Lowe's, Schertz
picked out five end caps and
some silicone for the pipe
bombs he was making," the
agent's affidavit says. He then
explained how to wire the
explosives.
After returning to a shed at
his home, Schertz gave instruc
tions "down to the proper order
of laying gun powder and
shrapnel material." He made
five pipe bombs and sold them
for $750, records show.
Schertz is charged with
teaching and demonstrating
how to make a weapon of jnass
destruction and interstate trans
port of explosive material with
intent to kill or injure. He is
being held without bond.
Schertz's attorney, Mike
Caputo, declined to comment
on the charges but said he was
working on a plea agreement.
He said Schertz is a military
veteran and has no previous
criminal record.
His Klan leader, Jeffery,
said Schertz was thrown out of
the Klan for unrelated disobe
dience in mid-May - weeks
after the alleged bomb making
and selling in April.
"We kicked him out for
breaking his oath that he swore
before God," Jeffery, 43, said
in a telephone interview. "We
are not a violence-making
group, and we don't believe in
that. This isn't the '50s and
'60s."
Federal agents say hate
groups always deny involve
ment when one of their mem
bers is charged with a crime.
"There are always a per
centage of these people who
are ready, willing and able to
go off," said James M.
Cavanaugh. special agent in
charge of the federal Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives Nashville field
division.
Cavanaugh said: "When the
group burns the cross, worships
under the swastika, you dehu
manize the people. .. That has
been a plague on the world for
centuries."
The Southern Poverty Law
Center's Intelligence Report
counted 762 active hate groups
in the United States in 2004.
South Carolina had the most,
with 47, and Tennessee had the
most Klan chapters, with 13.
David Lubell, director of
the Nashville-based Tennessee
Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Coalition, said the Schertz case
shows how supremacist talk
can prompt violence.
"It is what happened in the
Civil Rights Movement. All of
a sudden it is acceptable to
incite hatred of immigrants,
whether Latino, or from Africa,
or Asia or wherever," he said.
Lubell said: "Usually it is a
lone wolf kind of person who
listens to these messages and
acts on them.... This is just a
symptom of what has been
anti-immigrant sentiment,
much more freely used by radio
talk show hosts, anti-immigrant
groups and even politicians."
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School
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slate Rep. bar line Parmon.
Mayor Allen Joints, state
House Speaker Jim Black and
Gov. Mike Easley - have been
invited to take part in the non
partisan event, which will take
place at Bethlehem Baptist
Church.
General Assembly members
will meet with students to dis
cuss topics such as political
careers, education, health care
and safety. Students will partic
ipate in a mock legislative body
mules your lilt to some ilc^ree
from the day you're born lo ihe
day you die Even government,
right here in Winston-Salem,
determines what hospital you're
born at." said Womble "It'll
give our high school students
some exposure to state govern
ment. It will open up opportuni
ties for them that they may or
may not be aware of."
Womble plans to give the
students an overview of stale
government and what his job
entails during his keynote
address scheduled for the
evening of Aug. 26.
where they will draft,
debate and pass some
40 bills that could end
up on either state
House or Senate
floors.
The school is the
brainchild of Rep.
Jim Harrell 111. The
school is named after
Harrell's father,
James A. Harrell Jr.,
who ran for a con
Hopefully out
of there we'll have a
mayor. Maybe
there's a budding
governor. Some
body in that group
could take my place
as a state legislator,"
Womble said.
There is no cost
to participate in the
School of Govern
ment. Participants
must be a rising
gressional seat last year against
Virginia Foxx.
Jim Harrell says he was
inspired to creatp a program for
young people not long after he
became one of the youngest
people elected to the General
Assembly. Hundreds of stu
dents have participated in the
government school over the last
three years. This will be the first
time that The Harrell School of
Government will operate out
side of Raleigh.
"We've gotten a broad range
of children from across the
state, but I felt like we weren't
tackling some of the areas that I
wanted to. We weren't seeing
the diversity that I'd like to
see," said Harrell, who has been
visiting local churches in order
to spread the word about the
program. Harrell says they plan
to conduct the school around
the state so that more students
will be able to participate.
"Our goal is to not only to
educate a future governor but
also to educate people who can
then go back and help their
communities fo understand the
legislative process and how the
laws are made and advocate for
(their) population," Harrell
said.
He worked with Rep. Larry
Womble to bring the summer
program to the city. Womble,
who secured the location for the
event, says he hopes the experi
ence will impress upon the stu
dents what a major role govern
ment plays in their daily lives.
"Government really deter
high school sophomore, junior
or senior resident of North Car
olina. Students will lodge at the
church overnight.
For more information on the
program or to receive an appli
cation , contact the school at
P.O. Box 102X2 , Raleigh, NC
27605; call (919) 7J5-JSH3; or
e-mail Matt Harrell at har
rellin @ ncleg .net .
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