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creatjver” she adds. "I love to be
different from everyone else.",
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out from the crowd. Not only is
Seritha good looking and stylish but
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cently she was selected as an
honorary member of the AABWE
(American Association of Black
Women Entrepreneurs) for main
taining a grade point average of
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taini “I concentrate in class and if
I’m having a problem in any par
ticular subject I take It upon myself
to ask sornone for help. "Seritha also
visits the library every Monday and
Wednesday and will stay after
school to study.
She maintains that her parents,
William and Jacqueline
Funderburk, give her the needed
encouragement to grow. Seritha also
♦ays, “They give me room to
breath, too.’’
This week’s beauty, addition
ally, greatly admires one of her
teachers, Mrs. Williams, whonj she
says helps her prepare for col
lege. “She tells me, 'You can do It,’”
relate* Seritha. “To know that an
adult believes In you helps a lot."
Growing Trend Towards
Child Care May Spell
Disaster For Blacks
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Special To The Post
Washington - The widespread
trend toward housing child care in
our nation’s public schools Is based
primarily on expediency, and may
well perpetuate the inequalities that
penalize blacks in our society, a
report released recently by the Na
tional Black Child Development
institute (NBCDI) concludes. The
report, ‘'Child Care in the Public
Schools: Incubator for Inequality?”
advocates immediate Congressional
hearings and intensified study to
determine whether lodging pre
school child care in public schools
means consigning minority chil
dren, the most vulnerable members
of our society, to what are, In effect,
“diaper ghettoo.”
NBCDI, a nonprofit organization
quality at Hfe far black children
nationwide. NBCDI Executive
Director Evelyn K. Moore said, “In
our nation's cities, blacks have in
herited the failures of public
policy: decrepit housing, inade
quate public services and empty
municipal coffers. Here blacks
stand to once again inherit institu
tions abandoned by the main
stream: urban public schools. Rapid
implementation of this ill
considered policy is dangerously
and unforgivably irresponsible.”
"Public schools have clear and
explicit drawbacks as early child
care providers, not the least of
which are a history of discrimina
tion and a stunning failure to ful
fil their primary goal of preparing
all their students to compete for jobs
and be productive members of
society,” Moore said. "Until the
impact of lodging child care in these
facilities is better understood and a
real effort to counter the drawbacks
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John Quincy Stacks, age three, thought he'd help his mom with her car 1
problems. Mama had about run out of oil and stopped to buy some.
"Quincy"'is the son of Joy and John Stacks of Roddy Avenue. (Photo by
Audrey Lodato)
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made, NBCDI must oppose further
placement of child care in public
schools.
“The discussion and debate that
should have preceded implemen
tation of child care in public
schools is long overdue. NBCDI’s
report may still serve to catalyze
that debate," Moore added.
There can be little doubt that the
critical shortage of child care fa
cilities constitutes a growing na
tional crisis, and that finding ad
ditional facilities is a pressing need.
It is projected that women will
constitute two-thirds of our labor
force growth in the 1980s. A 1982
Census Bureau survey found that
more than one in four mothers (26
percent) not in the workforce said
they would look for work if satis
factory, affordable child care were
available; nearly half 46 percent)
of single mothers said the same
The need for child care is not a
new phenomenon in the black com
munity, since black women have
historically worked outside the
home. But events have conspired in
recent years to make it more dif
ficult for black parents to find
quality child care:
--Young black women are losing
their traditional family support sys
tem as mothers and grandmothers
enter or remain longer in the work
force
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Katherine Haider Calls Herself “A Thomas Jefferson Democrat”
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Mid. should be S proteeter, net a
provider
Harper needed the period during
World War n . town the nation
seemed le have Ita act together “We
were feeding the world agd had
eosamen purpose Maybe we should
prwtewd we’re at War* she added
u* is our own fault. No* everyone la
beglning to say, Where's something1
wrong here."’ . \
Dsm aunt rather than a Republican,
Harper stated, ’Tin a Thomas
Jefferson Democrat We have
strayed ae far from our basic
principles of the Democratic Party,
Republicans have taken the flag
Mid waved It better than ess have.
We as a party need to otaan up our
own act ”
Her response to the claim by some
black leaders that the Democratic
Party is abandoning its principles to
woo the votes of white males was
that equality, not more, should De
the basis for judgment.
Harper reminded those who are
dissatisfied that "The biggest voice
we have is our vote People need to
begin to demand accountability.”
She stated that she is sacrificing to
campaign "because I care ” Ac
cording to the candidate, her cam
paign will be "streamlined ”
"Our campaign workers are
going to be the people of North
Carolina who care," she said.
Harper commented that "The ma
jority of people we do business with
are national and international and
they have said to us, ‘What in the
world are you doing in North
Carolina?' I aaid, and I believe, that
we’re a great state and we’re great
people, and we need to be balanced
in our representation In the Senate.
And I believe I can be that ba
lance God willing, I will.’*