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Thursday, January 30,1997
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nished your ‘good guy’ image
with many people in Charlotte,”
Reid said.
Reid told Davis that he should
resign as chair of the Black
Political Caucus and suggested
that the organization change its
name to the Black and White
Political Caucus and include
whites “if you really what to
strike a blow against racism....”
He accused keeper of enriching
himself off the poor people of
Earle Village.
Reid said keeper wrote that
Reid is “more dangerous than
any of these kids out in the com
munity.”
He suggested that keeper teU
that to the family of a white
Oregon woman killed at the
University Hilton two years ago;
the ftiends and families of over
500 black men murdered in
Charlotte over the past 10 years
and the families of four police
officers who were slain in the
last four years by African
American males.
Simms and Davis were pre
sent at the council meeting, but
decided not to speak.
Neither could be contacted for
reaction to Reid’s comments
Monday.
Many of the blacks present at
the meeting-had participated in
Black Monday, a protest many
African American leaders had
shunned,' if not outright
opposed.
Black Monday leader the Rev.
Ben Chavis did speak Monday,
saying, “We take exception to
any racist statement.”
“Mr. Reid, you have no reason
to fear black youth, no more
than you have to fear white
youth,” Chavis said.
One speaker, Tina White, said
she was afraid of Reid. “It is
white men like you who served
with the KKK,” White said, sug
gesting that Reid should afraid
of “black sisters,” too.
Several speakers, including at
least one black woman, voiced
support for Reid. Many carried
signs to that effect.
’The comments were so heated
and emotional that council
member Mike Jackson, who is
white, stormed out of the meet
ing when Mayor Pat McCrory,
who was attempting to stifle the
debate, wouldn’t allow him to
speak.
Jackson was so angry he
punched a hole in the wall of a
small room off the meeting
chamber.
Reid said Tuesday that he met
with an interracial, interdenomi
national group of ministers led
by the Rev. James Samuel at
kittle Rock AME Zion Chinch.
“I didn’t hear a person tatking
about racism,” Reid said. “They
wanted to solve the problems.”
He said Monday’s was a “very
open meeting.”
‘We had people who had very
strong feeling and were willing
to share their feelings. It was a
kind of watershed for Charlotte.
Now we can put aside this issue
of racism and start talking about
the ways to improve the quality
of life in this city.
“Sure there are racists in
Charlotte. There always will be.
Principal wins local school award
By John Minter
THE CHARLOTTE POST
Hidden Valley Elementary
School principal Albert T.
Winston says he’s thrilled to
be the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Schools 1997 Principal of the
Year.
“Not as much for myself as I
am for what it says about the
school and the children here
and the staff here,” he said
Tuesday. “They make me look
good. Receiving an award like
this is easy when you have
good students, outstanding
staff and very cooperative par
ents. I will surely accept this
bn their behalf.”
Hidden Valley, a predomi
nantly black school, has made
significant gains under
Winston. It is one of several
schools which has instituted a
uniform dress code for stu
dents.
The use of uniforms at
Hidden Valley - white tops
and navy bottoms - has made
•a difference, Winston said.
’ “The most redeeming thing I
have found from the whole
thing is my boys look like boys
and my girls look like beauti
ful little girls,” Winston said.
“The parents go all out getting
patent
leather shoes
and the like.”
“The record
indicates stu
dents are
Hidden
Valley con
tinue to
achieve,”
Winston said.
“We have
Winston
parents who trust us and
cooperate with us and allow
us to deliver the instruction
program we need to deliver.
We don’t get bogged down on a
lot of things. Parents trust us
to do the right thing by their
children.”
Winston will now compete at
the regional level. Winston
started as a kindergarten
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NASHVIkkE, Tenn. - James
Earl Ray, jailed for the assassi
nation of Martin kuther King
Jr., was back in the hospital for
the third time in a month with
chronic liver disease.
Ray was brought to Nashvflle
Memorial Hospital around mid
night Saturday in critical condi
tion, and was in serious condi
tion this morning, officials said.
Ray’s lawyer, William Pepper,
said earlier this month that
Ray, 68,. vrill die within months
unless he gets a liver trans
plant. The convicted kUler is not
on the national liver transplant
list and his supporters are
searching for a donor to provide
a liver directly to him.
Ray spent slightly over a week
in the Nashville hospital in late
December, and was hospitalized
there from Jan 3. to Jan. 10. He
then went back to the prison
hospital, where he was first
admitted in September.
Ray is serving a 99-year sen
tence in the April 1968 shooting
of King.
He initially admitted kilUng
the civil rights leader on April 4,
1968, but almost immediately
'recanted and has been trying to
-win his freedom ever since. He
ihas a state court hearing in
^Memphis on Feb. 20 on a
^request for new scientific tests
“on the rifle identified as the
-murder weapon.
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But there are just as many peo
ple who use racism to promote
themselves and their wealth.”
“I think that people now feel
freer in coming to council and
expressing their feelings and the
council members and I will feel
freer in discussing the real
issues in this city.
“Leaders will say lets talk and
lets look at others’ feelings. Let
people say what they are feeling
without retribution and name
calling. 1 think we have taken a
bold step toward doing that and,
if my speaking out helped in
doing that, Tm glad.”
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