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The Primary Willi No Surprises! In one of the most spirited primary elections in many years in North Carolina, a predicted voter turn-out in Mecklenburg County of 54 percent slipped to a still respectable 38 percent un doubtedly as a result of heavy rain throughout election day. No doubt, too, the biggest surprise “of the day was hr the initial election tabulation that had for mer Charlotte mayor Eddie Knox in third place trailing Jimmy Green by nearly 100,000 votes in the Democratic primary for the governor’s race. A me chanical error in the Raleigh voter tabulation machine, there fore, sent short lived shock wayes throughout much of North Carolina and the Knox head- - quarters for nearly an hour. Of course, Mr. Knox finished a strong second with 27 percent of the votes (229,737) behind Rufus Edmisten with 31 percent of the ~~ vote (263,588) out of~a~crowded— field of 10 Democratic candi dates. - Significant in the statewide primary, too, was the impact of presidential candidate Jesse Jackson who finished third in the balloting with an impressive 216,169 votes or 25 percent of the votes cast. Interestingly too Jackson not only caused a large black voter turnout, but he ap parently received some votes from white people which may not ~Thave been expectedTXs expect ed, Walter Mondale won the N.C. Democratic presidential pri mary with 36 percent of the vote followed by Gary Hart with 31 percent and Jackson’s 25 per cent. In the 9th District congres sional Democratic race, former Mecklenburg County Commis sioner Susan Green got 27,968 votes or 39 percent to lead D. G. Martin with 24,076 votes or 34 percent. Following the June 5 run-off primary one of them will V face Republican winner Alex McMillan who received 56 per cent of the Republican primary vote. In the Mecklenburg County Commission Democratic pri mary, incumbents Fountain Odom and Bob Walton led the ticket with newcomers Raleigh Bynum, Randy Kincaid and— Edward Heasley. They will face a slate of unknown Republicans in the November general elec tion. Five School Board incumbents - Bennett, McKeithen, Winter, Austin and Stevenson - all won out right re-election. Finally, the referendums for County-wide district represen tation and City Office bonds won by large vote majorities. The logical question that fol lows is what does it all mean, what impact will these primary elections have on the life and welfare of citizens concerned with inflation, child abuse, the dangers of nuclear war, taxes, declining morality and the high cost of living? In a word, these elections pro bably mean very little. How. ever, the direction these public officeholders take, assuming on when and if elected, based on some circumstance totally be yond their control, may have some impact on the quality of life ~that we and our chndren and even grandchildren will experi ence over the next 40 to 50 years. In fact, it is not so much in what elected officials say in their campaigns to get votes, rather what is in their sense of moral commitment, integrity, charac ter and commitment to prind-‘ pies and honesty. It is primarily in these intangibles that the real worth of an elected official is found. Yet these are qualities thnl ^,^ibry See& - reflected ih political campaigns or in the voting booth. Urwell s 1984 Is Here! u is ironic uiac as we experi ence this week’s free Democra tic election, George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” depicting total dictatorship should be further confirmed in China with its 600 million population. Already in that controlled society, citizens must get government permission to marry, change jobs, change their place of residence, move to another city, and citizens are trained and oriented to spy on eachQther.lorJh&JZovemment. Furthermore, this week it was announced tnat all Chinese citi zens must now carry a perma nent identification card which must be provided upon demand by any police officer or other government official. Such a lack of freedom for any nation of people should be a clear reminder to us to exercise our right to vote in free elections to further insure our freedoms. China’s “1984” is real and it can happen here if we don’t assume a sense of responsibility as voting active citizens’. \ Hip THt-GOVERNMENT WILL NOT pbiiqE CANNor/irrouows that biackotizcNs I most protect themselves.* - Vf CANNOT WAIT UNTIL DISCRIMINATION ENDS BEFORE WE RtD OUR COMMUNITIES OF CRIME. WE CAN NO LONGER EXCUSE CRIME BECAUSE OF SOCIETY* INEQUITIES; WE STAND MENACED BY OUR OWN KITH AND KIN -TTIS INCONCEIVABLE— TOME THAT WE WHO HAVE PREVAILED IN SPITE OF THE BARBARISM OF WHITE PEOPLE SHOULD, IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE CENTURY. STAND AS MUTE SPECTATORS TO OUR 000Mr ome coom&s • H.YJU6AZJHS ! \ i . * , ■**£&»* Where Does Hack On Hack Crime Stop? letter to the editor__ Dear Sir: On any given day I can pick up the newspaper or watch a newscast on TV and see where a Black has been raped, wounded or murdered by another Black person. The Rape Crises Victim Assistance Center in Charlotte has noted that approximately 70 per cent of rape victims are Black women, and in pjwst cases the rapist is Ovg* the Easter, week end, T*o Blacks w*e killed dfear the Rozxells' Ferry Floadarea, in separate in cidents _On« nt motj vie, tims was the brother of one of my dearest friends. It was at that point that I began to take a very hard look - at the amount of ; BLACK ON . BLACK CRIME, not only in this city but throughout the U.S. Please tell me, my Black brothers and sisters,, what kind of hatred is IQ' that makes it so easy for us to ribb and kill And abuse each other, time and time again? I am a Charjottean. I lived in the Dilworth area during the 1960s and in Brooklyn and First Ward during the 1970s. These -were nut neighborhoods that offered a great deal of hope for Blacks, but we strove every day to rise above the “high poverty” level. I’ve heard so many times that it is our eco nomical situation that causes some of this crime. I can’t accept that excuse. I’ve beard that the summer here makes tempers boil. Most of us grew up not knowing what air con ditioning was, but never .ielt<the desire to pick up % gun ofjknifer to kill another person: So l can’t buy that either. - Do some of ils, for some bizarre reason, hate our selves, pur race? Think back to our mothers and fathers, our grandparents, our great grandparents, and back to the cotton fields. They bad something to be angry about-the in justice that they en countered at every turn of every corner. The old people whom you young robbers consider “easy prey” are the same people who made it possible for you to sit down and eat at the restaurant of your choice, to sit at the front of -tmrlms, to vote, audio-hare doors open to you that were forevershu t in their faces. We destroy our neighbor hoods, we . destroy bur property, and meet of all, we destroy each other every day. And we say we do it because we are angry. Who are we angry at? BLACK ON BLACK .CRIME; has to stop. But it can only be stopped by us. The attitude we have that “if it doesn’t concern me personally, then it’s not my worry" is unworthy and unworkable. If it’s in your community, how does it not: concern you?Youcould be the next victim! What makes more sense to stand~uud watch a per— son be killed or to call the police when the ruckus starts? The life you save may be your family's or your own. , It makes me sick to think how many Black people have been victimized, in jured and killed in Char iot teyand no ooe has seen a thing. My Black brothers and sisters, it is time we started thinking about more than “numero uno" (Number 1). Ms. Wialillian Howard ■Charlotte-— THE CHARLOTTE POST "THE PEOPLE’S NEWSPAPER” Established 1918 Published Every Thursday by The Charlotte Post Publishing Co.. Inc. Subscription Rate $17.68 Per Year Second Class Postage No. 965500 Postmaster Send 3579s to: 1531 Camden Rd., Charlotte, N.C. 28203 Telephone: 704-376-0496 Circulation: 11,023 , 0 106 Years of Continuous Service Bill Johnson Bernard Reeves Fran Farrar Dannette Gaither Editor, Publisher General Manager Advertising Director Office Manager Second Class Postage No. 965500 Paid at Charlotte, North Carolina Under the Act of March 3,187g Member, National Newspaper Publishers’ Association North Carolina Black Publishers Association Deadline for all news copy and photos is 5 p.m., Monday. All photos and copy submitted become the property of^The Post and will not be returned.1'' National Advertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc. 24M 8. Michigan Ave. Chicago, III. Mtli Coin met 5-0760 45 W 45th St.. S«Ue 14*3 New York, New York INN 212-483-1220 From. CapilalMUr J 'V ‘ " ■- %;■ Don’t Blame Nadwi’s Failure On FUarks J . . Alfreds L. Madison Special To The Post Blame it on the Blacks, seems to be the great re sounding cry as the cam paign progresses. Almost, daily, the papers are crying for Jesse Jackson’s scalp, for not dis associating himself from Rev. Farrakhan and his around 15,000 voters’ sup port. Jesse has condemned the alleged violent threats made against Milton Coleman by Rev. Far rakhan and all reference to Farrakhan’s alleged call for violence against Jews. Jackson asked the Rev erend and Coleman to meet in an effort to solve the con troversy. According to Rev. Farrakhan, he heeded Jackson’s advice. Far rakhan said his statements concerning Coleman and the alleged anti-Semitic comments were taken out of context. A recent press release from the Anti-Defamation League said, “the Anti-Def amation League of B’nai B’rith, today, rejected an offer by Black Muslim Leader Louis Farrakhan that they hold a meeting because his continued threats and public ut terances have created an atmosphere far more con ductive to fear and div isiveness than rational dis course.’’ No one can endorse Rev. Farrakhan's alleged Alfred* L. Madlton ■=— threats of violence. Yet, when he has asked to meet with the aggrieved parties, and received denials from them, the parties are, equally, wrong. Everyone has made mistakes, and according to the Bible, has ginned. Yet, God has cast no one out wholius cune to Him. So if Coleman and the Jews do not meet with Rev. Farrakhan, and at least, hear what he has to gay, they are exacerbating an issue that perhaps could be easily and amicably re solved. The Reagan Adminis tration, which has used every possible effort to reverse Blacks' gains uses the Farrakhan issue as an introduction of racism' Into the Presidential race. Racism arose when Jack son first hinted that he might run for President. Tte media kept his being Black before the public. Anv time a Black person , strongly espouses truth, Justice and right or steps out of the traditional path whites have carved out for them, racism flairs its ugly head. Martin Luther King was a prime case all through his life and even in death of the label of a racist. The Ku Klux Klan an nounced that it will support President Reagan. Bill Wilkinson, Imperial Klan wizard, told a number of reporters, in 1981, that President Reagan stands for the Klan’s ideas. Yet no one is asking the Pres ident to deny the Klan voter support, although some of his ideas and the Klan’s are similar. Some reporters have said, if Jackson doesn’t get what he wants at the con vention, many Blacks Will refuse to vote and Reagan will be reelected; some whites will jump ship and vote Republican, Bush blames Democrats for anti Semitism; Jackson gives rise to white backlash Farrakhan is no issue. His was only an unwise state ment by one man, who is now seeking to rectify it. For all of these alleged adverse effects on whites, don't blame the Blacks. Blame the whites for their deep veiled racism which blots out rationale, and impede** progress for really making this "one nation under God, In divisible, with liberty and justice for all.’’ Rev. Jackson, like Mar tin Luther King, has come out with a policy different from that of any other Presidential candidate. His policy like King’s, which jolted the entire world into concentrating on ideas of solving problems through compassion for all human ity, expressing love and a strong stand for the real ization of those factors. Certainly, not all of those goals have been accom plished, but even in the midst of the insane war hysteria, there is a growing antiwar, anti-oppressive leadership throughout the universe. The world has not been the same since King arrived on the scene. This nation and the world will *" same vrin with Jackson’s policies. They are bringing the American left-outs, over looked, and ignored into the -matmstfeain of American life, and they are echoed around the world. The whites who have been bene ficiaries of those unfair nesses feel their old order threatened, and they are blaming the Blacks, in stead of considering their own wrong doings. rest the media s prediction, that he might run as aa independent, which #111 cause many Black voters to follow him and Reagan wiO be reelected. IJfe?Depends<On^oo By Bossie Simmons ^7^'v Special To The Post -Ralwiffh . Paaf nnanHmflater Boqale Ben iamin Simmons, Chairman of the Com mittee on Foreign Correspondence, for the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Virginia, headquarters in Richmond, recently told a capacity crowd of some 200 people or more in this capital city, that the Reflections oh a Well Spent Life in this Day and Time will depend mostly on you. He weqtonrtaiell his attentive audience that the fafem^MpdV^r^iyilized world do here today and how we shoulder our responsihUjitiqs^fqnthe sun of each life is rising and we sfchrid on tiptoe to see our life emerges over the distant hills. ' to .the grpuiv Sjjrnmons went on to name Sevepel;, way.j tfy which the Re flections on your life will shine in the mirra of our soul and he admonished his listen^ audience to speak the truth, always, as you know the truth, for truth is a divine attribute and the foundation of all good Virtues. He closed his 25-minute address by asking everyone facing him in the large audience to walk humbly before God and man, be fair in all dealings with mankind, and live a dedicated and satisfied life that will reflect outstanding scrviee to and for all of_ mankind. it you do this, he concluded, ‘‘your life and those lives all around you, will offer nothing but good reflections in the mirror of life, always and through time eternal.” Simmons, who is a member of Shiloh Lodge No. 33, Prince Hall Masons in the 12th Masonic Digfeic of the MWPHGL of Virgin ia, was the keynote speaker at the first annual testimonial banquet and honot program, sponsored by Golden Star Lodge No. 150, cosponsored by Golden Scepter Chapter No.: 122, Order of Eastern Star, PH affiliation, held at the FEW Entertainment Center, RaIeighpNorth Carolina. Master of Ceremony for this historical event was William Harris, worshipful master of the local Prince Hall masonic lodge, from FuQuay-Varina, North Carolina. Pastmas ter (Brother) James Williams of Raleigh, is the District Deputy for the PH masonic area in which the lodge is located. Appearing on program during the evening to bring words of fraternal greetings, bring words of fraternal greetings, give salutations and make remarks were DDGM James Williams, District Deputy <Sister) Mary Greene, Worshipful Master William " Harris,, Worthy Matron (Sister) Odell Thorpe, Worthy Patron (Rev.) Harold Trice, Senior Warden (DfXFrank Reale, and soloists Leroy Farrar and Miss Aman da Greene. Several PH masons and Order of Eastern Star members were honored at the program for outstanding performance of duty and services rendered to their community and the fraternal order over the past several years. This distinguished group, of PH masonic dignitaries were Pastmasters Claude Thorpe, Rev. Harold Trice, Claudie Winston, and Brothers William Burton and Reuben NcNeill. In the Order of Eastern Star chapter the ladies honored included Goldie Burt. Tear usell -Henley , -Olivia Reader-Lois -Reid,— Exola A, Speed, Edith Stephen, and Odell Thorpe. Also cited during the “day and night were " Brothers James Blue, Marshall McKoy, and two deceased brothers in absentia, Brothers Algernon Burton and Ira Burton, a father and son team. uraer oi eastern atar members receiving special recognition were Mary Adams Mary Blue, Louise Ceasor, Nevada Griffin! Dala Rogers and Leora Womble. A delicious three-course dinner meal was served. At the end of the meal and the testimonial program, several cash prizes were awarded to several lucky winners of door prizes, Order of Eastern Star mem bers participated in a grand march around the ballroom floor, a well planned fashion show, featuring female models and several male models, paraded around the dance floor, with the crowd on hand tripping 0 light fantastic toes and having a good time dancing to the music furnished by the Power Steering band, a six-piece dance orchestra under the leadership of Junnie W Taylor from Angler, North Carolina. This musical aggregation has been fur nishing music to dance by for the past 14 years. Worshipful Master William Harris formerly served as a member of this outstanding musical group, having played up and down the Eastern Seaboard, from Maine to New Orleans, Louisiana. In addition to those already named, other persons who participated during the even ing were Postmaster (Rev.) Norman Davis, Worshipful Master Jesse J. Fowler, Worthy Matron Louise M. Fowler, Worshipful Mas ter William H. Harris, Secretary Charlie N. Brown, Senior Deacon Marshall O McKov Jr., and Brothers Jesse J. Fowler, JamesG Hall, Garoell Heggie, Keven Jackson Mar shall 0. McKoy, Jr., Willie Mends, Wade H. Parham, Jr., Sidney A Russell and Johnnie W. Taylor.
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