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EDITORIALS & COMMENTS s Black Political Power * Recently, much has appeared ; in the news media about political * activity involving black Ame ricans. Political activists in North Carolina are launching new efforts to change the state’s primary system. The Black Elected Municipal Organization, organized by Charlotte City Council member Ron Leeper from among delegates to the National League of Cities two years ago, recently developed ah agenda that includes develop ment of minority business and a talent bank to foster more jobs for black people ib local government. Some black people are now said to be studying the possi bility of running for the presi dency of the United States. Lead ing the pack at' this point is Operation PUSH’S head man, Jesse Jackson. ; Undoubtedly, a springboard r for some of these political ac tions has been the recent actions of Chicago mayoral primary ; winner Harold Washington. With * overwhelming black voter sup port, U.S. Rep. Washington upset incumbent Jane Byrne in the Democratic primary on Febru ary 22 to move closer to be coming Chicago’s first black mayor. * The 60-year-old Washington, a ; two-term Congressman, defeat J ed Byrne by a narrow margin of about 32,300 votes out of a record Z 1.14 million votes. Not too sur - prisingly, Mrs. Byrne and Cook County State Attorney Richard £ M. Daley split about 94 percent £ of the white vote with the £ remaining six percent going to £ Washington. Significantly, the * six percent white vote was com bined with the 84 percent black vote to give Washington his pri mary vote win, according to an Associated Press-WMAQ-TV poll. Political Funds Significantly, too, is the fact that Mrs. Byrne used a $10 million political fund' largely from alleged cronies doing busf * ness with the City and Daley’s name was a test in the primary ? built during the 21 years Richard * J. Daley, the candidate’s father, was mayor and head of the t Democratic Party machine. ‘ Richard M. Daley spent nearly £ $11.5 million in his losing bid. j* Thus, Washington's margin of | victory was based on a relatively l small (less than a half million dollar) political campaign, an aggressive voter registration « drive over the past year that led1 *■ to his capturing 94 percent of the black vote and six percent of the white vote to win. Ironically, and somewhat sur prisingly, some black political THE CHARLOTTE POST “THE PEOPLE’S NEWSPAPER” Established 1918 Published Every Thursday by The Charlotte Post Publishing Co., Inc. Subscription Rate $17.88 Per Year Second Class Postage No. 965500 Postmaster Send 3579’s To: 1531 Camden Rd., Charlotte. N.C. 28203 Telephone: 704-3784496 Circulation 10,433 104 Years of Continuous Service Bill Johnson Bernard Reeves Fran Farrer Dannette Gaither Editor. Publisher General Manager Advertising Director Of flee Manager Second Class Postage No. *65500 Paid at Charlotte, North Carolina Under the Act of March 5,1878 Member, National Newspaper _Publishers* Association North Carolina Black Publishers Association Deadline for all news copy and photos to 5 p.m. Monday. All photos and copy submitted become the property of The Post and will not be returned. National Advertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers. Inc. 24M S. Michigan Ave. 45 W. 45th take 14*3 Chicago. III. «MI« New Yerfc. New Yerfc ISSM Calumet 5-Wi 112-40-im \ From Capitol Hill Justice Department Must Prove It Has Nothing To Hide Alfreds L. Madiaea Special Te The Peat Action of Attorney Gen eral William French Smith in refusing to apply for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor outside the Justice Department to in vestigate the 1979 author ized Greensboro, N.C. peaceful demonstration which left five demonstra tors allegedly killed by Ku Klu* Klan and Nazis mem bers, appears another facet in this Administration’s ef forts to thwart civil rights. The Attorney General’s motion to dismiss the peti tioners’ Special Prosecu tor's request has the odor of Watergate. This case is being brought by the sur vivors of the 1979 rally and relatives of the five slain victims. In September, 1991, a re quest was made to Judge Gesell to issue a federal court order compelling At torney General William French Smith to apply for appointment of a Special Prosecutor to Investigate the case as is required by the Ethics in Government Act of 1979. More than 19 different organizations have Joined in the request. Many of them have filed “friend of the court" briefs with Judge GeeeO. On February 11,1999, the case for the petitioners’ Special Prosecutor’s ap pointment argued in the U.S. District Court before Judge Gesell by Daniel P. Seehan. The Justice De partment'* position was de fended by Judith Ledbet ter. Daniel Sheehan argued that petitioners have pre sented the Attorney Gener al with evidence that shows a conspiracy exists. Greensboro police, FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), all conspired in planning, supervising and covering up evidence in the Greens boro Klan-Nazis killing The petitioners claim that Carter Administra tion, Attorney General Griffin Beas, Assistant At torney General Civiletti and later Attorney General William French Smith, ac tively participated in the criminal anti-civil rights conspiracy by, personally, directing inferior agents of the Justice Department to conceal Information. In the petition Attorney Smith is charged with causing three of Ms agents to present perjured testimony to the grand Jury, and “causing the Civil Rights Division of the U.8. Justice Depart ment to refrain from pre senting to the grand Jury investigating the Novem ber S, 197* assault, the body of information demonstrating the history Alfreds L. Madison of the FBI Investigation and the Federal Executive Department's participa tion in criminal Anti-ctvil rights conspiracy acti vists," The petition for issuance of Writ of Mandamus states that the Justice Depart ment appointed Thomas B rereton to supervise the Grand Jury investigation. Brereton was appointed with the full knowledge that he was actively pay ing Edward Dawson, who was under the direct super vision and instruction at William Webster, FBI Director, during the time he was coordinating the Greensboro assault. In the petition it states that Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds, Chief of Civil Rights Division, Daniel Rensel, Chief of Criminal Section, Civil Rights Divi sion and Attorney Michael Johnson are accused of ac tually concealing evidence from the Federal Grand Jury. , Judith Ledbetter, in arguing the case before Judge GeseU for the-At torney General, stated that under the Ethics in Go vernment Act, that prose cutorial power reets solely within the executive branch. She said private individuals have no rights of a Special prosecutor. “If Congress had intended that private individuals had the right to sue, it would have clearly estab lished it.” Ledbetter fur ther stated that the Act does not require the Attor ney General to report its investigation findings. She claimed that giving private citizens the right to seek a special prosecutor wow a be granting them oversight over the Justice Depart ment. Judge GeseU seemed to have disagreed with Led better’s argument. Daniel Sheehan said this was not a political deci sion, but a statutory one. He argued that the Ethics of Government Act, ae an terpreted, by Attorney General Smith renders the courts completely power less to require the Attorney General to prosecute any one. Sheehan said Cotgress passed the Act to strip the Attorney General of the un bridled authority to refuse to prosecute the criminal acts of federal government officials. Mr. Sheehan stated that a wealth of documented evidence which shows go vernment officials involve ment in what appears a conspiracy by the Fedeal Bureau of Investigation' and the Justice Depart ment in planning and .par ticipation In the assault on November S, 197» demon strators. He disagreed with the Attorney General’s as sertion that the Act had no enforceable duty to require the Attorney General to apply for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor. Fran the preponderance of evidence allegedly pre sented the Attorney Gen it certainly appears a Special outside is highly neces obtaining an im dedsion. It is utter to expect an involved person to investi gate himself, and at the end of the probe say, "After thoroughly Investigating tne, I have found I’m Students To Rebuild Log House Students in Centre! Pied mont Community College's spring log house buiMto* classes will reconstruct a slave house that ante stood at Letts Plantation. "We are very , excited about this," said Jenn preaiaem of tn6 board of directors of Latte Place, Inc. "It win help us show how life really was in James Latta’s day," In the early 1100s, the merchant planter from Ire land had numerous out MUdings on Ms property, now a 50-acre historic site within a Mecklenburg County Park near Hunters ville. In those days, no great pains were taken to construct auxiliary build Inga Car durability, Mrs Boggs, says, and all of them have since crumbled The log building to be cJ^pdS^or £ CenUi larch H 7-11. personalities and some would-be politicians are naively assuming that Washington’s primary win is a signal that America is ready and willing to elect a black person as president of the nation. It is in fact naively premature to jump to such conclusion for a variety of reasons. First, Wash ington has not yet been elected mayor of Chicago. Secondly, let us not forget that highly suc cessful, likeable and favored Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, lost in his bid to become go vernor of California by a shin voter margin. While no one can state factually that racism was the reason for Bradley’s loss, if black people choose to use the success dr failure of other black candidates as a measure for other possible political success, Bradley’s loss has considerably more meaning that the as-yet not elected Chicago mayoral candi cate Harold Washington. Hidden Agenda This appears to be particularly significant when news reports reveal that Rep. Washington’s upset victory in the Chicago Democratic mayoral primary has become the catalyst for heightened interest in black Americans seeking to become a presidential candidate on the age-old and partly true argu ment that the Democratic Party continues to take the black vote for granted. Secondly, many are aruging that they are unim pressed with the current field of Democratic Party presidential candidates. However, the real hidden agenda is that some prominent black political figures are upset because national Democratic Party leaders, including pre sidential candidates did not sup port Washington or stay neutral in the Chicago primary.’ The strategy black Americans are exploring is twofold. One would be for a black candidate to enter the Democratic presiden tial race. The other would be to run a favorite-son candidate in several states. The goal in either case would be to capture enough delegate votes to the 1964 Demo cratic National Convention to give black people leverage' enough to demand that the needs of black’ and Hispanic people; small business, small farmers; and white middle-income Amp, ricans, devastated by Republi can Regan’s policies, be ade quately responded to. . While we see merit in the strategy, we have to question how many, if any, black people have the knowledge, general support and financial backing to be considered even as a favorite son candidate. UNITED COMMUNITY LEADERSMP-JVCTTIED NOW! ARE WE GOING TV SIT ON OUR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS MUST EMERGE TO FORGE A UNITED EFFORT AGAINST CRIME/iARCOTKS TRAFFICKING BLIGHT, AND DECAE^ ~JJL Recognize Stress Symptoms Arid Relax To Stay Healthy By Dorea Akers Duke University Medical Center Special To The Post If you look up the word stress in the dictionary, you will find that it comes from the French word for distress. ."This implies that it’s bad,” Dr. John Rhoads says. “Another definition is that it’s a constraining force, which Implies a bodily or mental tension resulting from factors that alter equilibrium. Rhoads, a psychiatrist at Duke University Medical Center, said most events we think of as stressful change our lifestyle or life situation in some way. "What’s stressful for one person is not stressful for another. Everyone has his or her stress threshold,” Rhoads said. itnoaas noted that life events that cause stress include the death of a spouse, divorce or separa tion, personal injury or illness and retirement. Also on the list are vaca tions and Christmas. “We have what we call the ‘Christmas rush,”’ Rhoads said. “From Thanks# viM until about two days before Christmas, there's a growing waiting list of people who get de pressed over the pro spect.” Some people have chron ic stress. Rhoads said, and one group might be what are called the Type A individuals. “Type A people are more prone to develop coronary artery disease. They’re described as demanding or themselves and others, competitive, ambitious and impatient,” he sakl. “‘A’ people are very busy, very efficient, get things done, . get them done on time - and that’s who gets the rewards in our society.” Social factors are an other type of stress. Rhoads ’said research has .concluded that to develop psychosomatic illnesses - headache, indigestion, in creased blood pressure, diarrhea, asthma and others - you should be older, black, female, pre viously married and poor. “Of all the factors, po verty led to greatest stress,” he said. “Certain ages are stressful. Retired people and adolescents can speak to mat. There are mid-life crises as well.” Rhoads pointed out that everybody will have stress, some people will become ill from its effects, but be said there are ways to stay healthy. “You have to recognize the symptoms of stress, the early ones being trou ble concentrating, ten sion, irritability, a feeling of tiredness and loss of zest - for what you are doing. “It’s important to take a vacation. It’s important to have recreational and ex ercise outlets. Optimism and a sense of humor help. And the ability to appre ciate your own accomplish ments helps a great deal.” Taxpayers’ Mistakes Delay Refird Checks Greensboro - In a year when more North Carol inians than ever before are filing Federal tax returns early to get an early re fund they are making mistakes on the return that causes the check to be de layed, the Internal Re venue Service says. Glenn Jones, IRS Public Affairs Officer, stated, "More than a million re turns have been received from North Carolina, which is almost 100,000 more than at this point last year. However, at least 12 of every 100 returns are incorrect, which slows down the processing by several days. If the tax payer has a refund com ing, then the whole intent of filing early is lost." Jones said, "We are see ing simple arithmetic as the major cause of mistakes. If the taxpayer would just take a little more time to doublecheck the math, it could help lot” He said that in addi tion to simple arithmetic, many taxpayers place dol lar amounts on the wrong line. When the return goes through the processing cycle, any error causes it to be kicked out, and special. attention must be placed on getting the error corrected. Many times this involves the IRS having to contact the taxpayer. Listed among the chronic errors taxpayers are mak ing are the use of the wrong tax table and incorrect computation of the Earned Income Credit, Jones stated. Figuring the me dical expense exclusion on Schedule A is proving to be a nemesis for IS of ever 100 taxpayers who Hie the 1040 Form and itemize deduc tions, Jones observed. However, the “Two-Earner Tax Deduction,” a new provision this year which allows a tax break for two-salary families, is of little trouble for those claiming the deduction. Hie Green Monstpi* What do resentfully envious ajfa appre hensive of rivalry haye in donpfion? Both are ways to define jealousy. This green monster can strike anybody, anywhere at anytime. It can not be eliminated but it can be controlled. Obviously, the major ques tion is why do civilized human beings allow such a destructive monster to. move into their lives and possibly take it over? * ; r § i Getting ahead professionally requires ambition, assertion and potitidtijBL Seeing another do this when one may nct&dve the confidence in himself tp do the sa|fc Results in professional jealousy. The no$achiever has a tendency to orally speculati»tio why Mr. and Ms. X got the job that “X - Mr. of Ms. Y’r was clearly more qualifiea for. The jealous one is usually the big talker or sinister, rarely the doer. He can find something wrong with everyone and thing at work blit he does everything right. Professional jealousy is as ridiculous as the sinister’s talk. One should try to find his job niche that is Comfortable, enjoyable and easily handled. Everyone wants to achieve however, everyone is not capable of handling the responsibility that comes with climbing the professional ladder. ' Materialistic jealousy is commonly re ferred to as “keeping up with the Joneses.” The problem with this is that one does not know what the Joneses are doing when he is sleep! Just because the Joneses live next door does not mean that your priorities and of salaries afe equal. Mr. Jonefc may put more emphasis oh his clothing and car and you on your home. Priorities should rule not envies." Playirg golf on a certain course with certain individuals, being a member of the ^museum society or attending'special social gatherings can and will cause social Jealou sy. People do envy others when they believe the other’8 social life is somehow better or special. Incomes dictate what a person does when he plays - the more money available, the more facilities available. Obviously a man making $100,000 a year will do more socially than a man making $25,000 a year. As one’s station in life increases he meets hew people under dif ferent circumstances with new or different interests. And association does at times bring on assimulation...you take it from there. All of the above kinds of jeaiosyJcan be eliminated if men come to understand their strengths and weaknesses: and reafize that one man’s weaknesses are /another’s strengths. The green monster gravis out of these insecurities in the self a|l& $nvies of others.
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