August 22,1996
NEWS/ The Charlotte Post
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N.C. NAACP dispute
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brother, Alfred Alexander,
and mother, Margaret
Alexander, to their old com
mittee posts.
"I'm trying to extend an
olive branch," Alston said.
“We should be about our busi
ness and put aside any resent
ments we might have."
Kelly Alexander, however,
send that if Alston were seri
ous about reconciling differ
ences within the state confer
ence, he would rescind his
committee assignments and
stop trying to extend his per
sonal power.
“The clear attempt here is to
change the alignments,"
Alexander said. “If the
appointments stand, these
will be people who have pri
mary loyalty to Mr. Alston. It
will, in effect, become his com
mittee.
“His actions seem to indicate
he wants to be president of
the organization."
Alston said he would accept
the presidency if it was offered
to him.
However, in May the
NAACP passed a new rule
barring political candidates
from serving as NAACP offi
cers. Alston filed his candida
cy for re-election to the
Guilford Board of
Commissioners four months
before the rule was passed. If
re-elected, Alston said, he
would ask the state executive
board to rule on whether he
has a conflict of interest lead
ing the state NAACP and
being a county commissioner.
By then, Alexander’s fate
will have been decided.
Alexander was suspended by
the national board of directors
in May after Alston and other
NAACP leaders alleged that
he used an improper signa
ture on checks withdrawing
organization funds and may
have used NAACP money for
personal expenses.
“The charges are all unsup
ported,” Alexander said.
Auditors will begin an inves
tigation of Alexander's finan-
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year earlier, the study found.
That compares to just a 9 per
cent increase over a year ago
for white households.
The survey analyzed in-per
son interviews and diaries
taken from 3,000 black house
holds for the U.S. Department
of Commerce's annual con
sumer spending survey.
Among other findings, the
average black household:
_Spends $1,592 a year on
clothing, compared to $1,650
for whites. But blacks out-
spent whites nearly 10 per
cent more on clothing for chil
dren under 15, $292 vs. $265.
_Spends an average 48 per
cent more than whites on food
prepared at home, including
fresh meat, fish, eggs and
poultry.
The numbers emphasize the
differences in spending
between blacks and other seg
ments of the population and
could give businesses more
insight into how to expand
markets believed saturated
among the general population.
Following the general trend
of the population as a whole,
blacks posted large increases
in purchases of appliances and
consumer electronics. Smikle
said the survey did not ask if
blacks had bought new homes,
although the numbers suggest
a significant ammmt did.
Spending on travel and lodg
ing fell 6 percent to $4.2 bil
lion from $4.5 billion a year
earlier, mostly on declining
expenses for air and train
travel. Expenditures for enter
tainment and leisure held
steady at $1.8 billion, the sur
vey found.
Some call the findings con
servative. A University of
Georgia study conducted last
year estimated black dispos
able income, or the amount of
money available for spending
after deducting taxes, at $406
billion in 1995 and $427 bil
lion in 1996.
“The story is one of demo
graphics,” said Jeffrey
Humphreys, the university's
director of economic forecast
ing. “The black population is
increasing faster than the
overall population, meaning
there are more black con
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Black bu3dng power is likely
to increase even more over the
next decade because the
majority of black consumers
today are young and have not
reached their full earnings
potential, Humphreys said.
Businesses are taking note.
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example, buys a line of cloth
ing tailored specifically to
blacks in heavily black areas
and this fall in Oakland, Ca.,
is opening up its first inner-
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