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VOLUME 19, No. 16
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23,1993
50 CENTS
Community
Panthers
Rap. 2A
Arts &
Entertainment
Dirty and rotten
scoundrels. IB
The new CD by Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels, "Gangsta Lean,'
is so dehumanizing, the artists
must have intentionally set out
to live up to their name.
Lifestyles
Something new for
the holidays. 6A
Paul Jackson isn't cooking his
Thanksgiving turkey in an oven.
The Charlotte resident uses Ca
jun magic to fry dinner.
Sports
Happy New Year
for 'Dogs. 6B
S.C. State,
which hadn't
beaten N.C.
AST in foot
ball in three
years, finally
got its re
venge - and
a Heritage
Bowl berth -
with an effort
for the ages.
Driven to win. 7B
K **
South Meek
and quarter
back Colin Har
ris advance to
the third round
of the N.C. 4A
football
playoffs Fri
day.
Religion
Gift from above. 7A
Speaking in tongues may be
seen as being from the devil,
but columnist John Adams says
it's a gift from God.
Opinion &
Editorials
It's only a game. 4A
The NFL's arri
val in Charlotte
isn't going to
make anyone's
life a bed of
roses, a local
economist
says.
INDEX
Opinion/Editorials 4A-5A
Lifestyles 6A
Around Charlotte 7A
Religion 8A
Church News 11A
Arts & Entertainment IB
What's Up 4B
Sports 6B
Ciassified 10B
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Black conservatives tout a different message
By John Minter
POST CORRESPONDENT
Ron Carter and Chris Hicks hope
to score as composers of the
Carolina Panthers rap.
Running against tradition
al liberal views Isn't seen as
an area African Americans
go into.
But blacks now are more
willing to do it, on a national
and local level.
Walter Williams is a na
tionally-known conserva
tive, although he disputes the
label. A couple of months
ago, he hosted Rush Lim-
baugh's daily television
show and plans to do so
Moore
again for a
whole week
next month.
Popular
on the lec
ture circuit,
spouting his
"radical"
views, Wil
liams, a
George Ma
son Univer
sity profes
sor, visited
Davidson College two weeks
ago to tell his audience how
black folks can solve their
problems.
Basically, Williams says,
African Americans should
get rid of traditional leaders
such as Jesse Jackson and
throw off the yoke of govern
ment.
'The biggest problem we
face as black folks is we must
recognize that, for the most
part, the solution to our
problems lies in our own
hands," Williams said in a
recent interview. "It doesn’t
lie in Washington, D.C. nor
in the hands of white people.
It lies in our hands."
"I don't call myself con
servative," Williams said.
"I’m probably radical. People
who call themselves conser
vative don't necessarily
agree with my view. Conser
vatives and liberals don’t
agree. Sen. (Edward) Kermedy
believes in taking your mon
ey and my money and giving
it to others. Sen. (Bob) Dole
believes in taking your mon
ey and my money and giving
it to farmers and banks."
"I don’t go very far with
these labels. There are some
gut issues facing the black
community. It doesn’t make
a difference if you are liberal
or conservative, they have to
be taken care of or blacks in
the 21st century will be utter
ly useless. "
Williams is among the
half-dozen or so black Amer
icans who lecture around the
country to the delight of Re
publicans and other conser
vatives, such as Limbaugh.
Arthur Moore, 41, mem
bership chairman of the lo
cal Republican Party, likes
what he heard Williams say
at Davidson.
"I’m very Impressed with
the man," said Moore, who
See OTHER On Page 3A
Something to be thankful for
PHOTO/CALVIN RER0U80N
Volunteers Dawn Barnes, Gwen McCray. Deborah Livingston and Diane Roseboro Oeft to right) at the prepare to feed the homeless at the Community Out
reach Mission Church. About 150 people will be served for Thanksgiving. For more, please see Page 6A.
After 2 years, South Africa's new
constitution finally gets approval
By John Daniszewski
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KEMPTON PARK, South Af
rica - Black and white lead
ers endorsed a new constitu
tion that finally destroys
apartheid by guaranteeing
equal rights for blacks and
ends three centuries of white
dominance.
President F.W. de Klerk, Af
rican National Congress
leader Nelson Mandela and
other senior political leaders
culminated two years of halt
ing, painstaking negotiations
by signing the constitutional
package,
3 which in-
Mandela
eludes a bill
of rights and
laws govern
ing the na
tion's first
multiracial
election on
April 27.
When the
white-
dominated
Parliament approves the
package at what will likely
be its final session next
week, the South Africa that
stripped its black majority
of basic human rights, sent
Mandela to jail for 27 years
and murdered the school-
children of Soweto will cease
to exist.
For the first time since
Dutch traders came to the
southern tip of Africa In
1652, scions of the Zulu,
October Crime
Vehicle theft
Rape
Arson Murder
Larceny
Assault
Burglary
Overall
crime
down;
murder
rate up
See SOUTH On Page 3A
Black officials rail against GOP
By Herbert L, White
THE CHARLOTTE POST
By Nancy Plevln
Ai&OCIATED PRESS
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -
Black elected officials con
demned remarks by a Repub
lican strategist as a racist at
tack against the African-
American community and
blasted Democrats for losing
New Jersey's gubernatorial
race by taking the black vote
for granted.
National Black Caucus of
Local Elected Officials
in
New Jersey also urged atten
dance at the federal court
house in Newark, where
Gov.-elect Christie Whit
man's campaign manager,
Ed Rollins, was to testify be
fore a grand jury for remarks
he made Nov. 9 that the GOP
paid black ministers and
Democrats to suppress mi
nority voting.
"(Jim) Florlo was a good
governor," said Newark
Mayor Sharpe James, a
Democrat. "But you bring in
(Democratic strategist
James) Carvllle and the
strategy was to stay away
from us. ... The Democrats
took the African American
community for granted.
"African American folks
do have another choice, we
do have another place to go,
and a significant number, if
they're not going to be court
ed .,. will simply stay home,"
James said. "Let us say to the
Democratic Party that they
cannot fault the Republican
Party for Jim Florlo's defeat.
See GOP On Page 3A
Despite all the talk about
reducing crime, especially
acts of violence, Charlotte's
statistics indicate sobering
facts.
The city's overall crime
rate showed a decrease in Oc
tober, with 4,226 incidents
reported, compared to 4,543
L September. The October
nu nbers represent a de
crease from the 4,266 the
same time last year. Overall,
crime is down 2,7%,
The most prevalent crime
is larceny, which accounted
for 52% of all reports to
Charlotte-Mecklenburg po
lice. Murders made up 0.3%.
Violent crime, however.
continued to rise. Eleven
murders were recorded in
October, four more (ban the
previous month and one
more than the same time
last year. The total of mur
ders reached 99, 12 more
than the same time last year
and a 13.8% Increase.
Armed robberies also rose,
with 292 reported. That fig
ure was a 4.7% increase over
279 in September and a 10.6
Increase over October 1992's
264.
Rapes went down, with 23
reported in October. Twenty-
six were tallied the month
before and 38 were reported
in October 1992.
Crimes against property,
such as burglaries, larceny
and vehicle fheft, showed de
creases in October.
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