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Also serving Cabarrus, Chester, Mecklenburg, Rowan and York counties
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 5-11, 2004
AGNENCE FRANCE PRESSE PHOTO/STEPHEN JAFFE
U.S. Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) campaigned with students at historically-black Allen University in Columbia, S.C. Monday. African American voters
pushed Edwards to victory in South Carolina’s Democratic primary Tuesday, his first of the 2004 campaign.
The new Southern Strategy
Black voters at core of Democrats’ hopes
By Herbert L. White
herhM-hire@ihechaiioncpost.com
John Edwards speaks a
language southern blacks
will apparently listen to.
The senior U.S. senator
from North Carolina won
South Carolina’s Democratic
primary Tuesday with the
help of an energized African
American electorate.
Edwards received 128,819
votes, topping
Massachusetts senator John
Kerry’s 86,751.
Edwards, a South Carolina
native who staked his cam
paign’s future on winning its
primary, made his point for
electability in
the South by
appealing to
black voters as
well as work
ing- and mid-
d 1 e - c 1 a s s
whites. On
economic
issues — in which blacks are
more likely to be unemploy
ment and have less health
insurance — Edwards hit the
right notes.
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“That was really important
for him,” said Winthrop
University political science
professor Scott Huffman.
‘The fact that he got a lot of
African American support —
especially younger African
Americans — shows his mes
sage is on point.”
Exit polls showed Edwards
fared well among S.C.
whites, seniors, the less-edu
cated, moderates and conser
vatives. He split the black
vote with Kerry, but there
was no mistaking Edwards’
See EDWARDS/2A
Sharpton campaign helps
redefine election victory
By Alvin A. Reid
ST. LOUIS AMERICAN
ST. LOUIS - The Rev. A1 Sharpton
says his campaign for the presidency is
about more than his actually winning
the Democratic nomination.
It’s about ‘’redeeming the soul of this
party,” he thundered during a campaign
appearance at the University of
Missouri-St. Louis. It was the first stop
in a whirlwind tour that included a
fundraising stop and a tour of the
Construction Prep Center.
Please see SHARPtON/2A
Sharpton
Panthers come up short, but fans
appreciate every bit of great season
PHOTOS/WADE NASH
Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Brenston
Buckner watches the scoreboard clock after New
England kicker Adam Veniteri’s field goal with 4 sec
onds left gave the Patriots a 32-29 win in Super Bowi
XXXVIII.
By Chens F. Hodges
FOR THE CHARLOTTE POST
The Carolina Panthers lost a
Super Bowl but gained new
fans in the process.
But in . the heart of
Charlotteans,. the Carolina
Panthers were still number
one. Looking at Uptown
Charlotte, it was almost hard
to tell that the Panthers lost
the Super Bowl. Fans still
flooded the streets in fngid
temperatures. Black and blue
Panther fans waved in the cold
wind and the sound of car
horns blared. But fans were
more subdued than when the
Panthers beat the favored
Philadelphia Eagles to win the
NFC championship.
There wasn’t much dancing
in the streets, but some fans
still shook it in the middle of
Tryon Street, under the watch
ful eyes of Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Police.
“Fm proud of my team,” said
Kenneth Strong, who spent
the day watching the game
with family and fnends. “This
is one of the best tumaroimds
in sports. I will still support my
team.”
Like most of Carolina’s
games this season, it came
down to the wire. With the
score tied 29 to 29; fans expect
ed the Cardiac Cats to pull it
out.
“I was disappointed,” said
Monique Wylie. “But this was
great exposure for them.”
Quarterback Jake
Delhomme threw for three
touchdowns and passed for
323 yards in his Super Bowl
debut.
“This was a real football
game,” Strong said. “Everyone
thought it was going to be a
blow out.”
But, Reggie Lawrence, a
Panthers fan who headed
Uptown to watch the game at
the Fox and The Hound on
Tryon Street, said Sunday’s
game was one of the best
Super Bowls since the St.
Louis Rams and the Tennessee
Titans met in 2000.
“I’m disappointed, but still
proud of the Panthers,” he
said. “Charlotte still has love
for the Panthers.”
The Super Bowl appearance
was the first for the Panthers
and Lawrence believes the
Cats wiU have a hard road to
travel to make it back there
next year.
“People are going to be gun
ning for them. This year, we
i See FANS/8A
Annan:
Rwanda
deaths
onwoild
UN chief said
nations sat by
during genocide
INTERNATIONAL PRESS SERVICE
NEW YORK
could have
taken action
to prevent
the 1994
genocide in
Rwanda,
said the
United
Nations
Secretary
General Kofi
A n
- The world
Annan
nan
speaking an international
FVeventing Genocide confer
ence in Sweden.
He said that the
Yugoslavian genocide of the
early 1990s was similarly
avoidable.
‘’The events of the 1990s, in
the former Yugoslavia and in
Rwanda, are especially
shameful,” said Annan. ‘’The
international community
clearly had the capacity to
prevent these events, but it
lacked the will.”
Both Rwanda’s and
Yugoslavia’s genocides were
racially motivated.
In Rwanda, as many as 1
million Tutsis and moderate
Hutus were killed in just 100
days.
Among the genocidal acts
in former Yugoslavia is the
Srebenica massacre of 7,000
Muslim boys and men.
Annan was head of peace-
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Charlotte
workshop
focuses on
manhood
By Virlanda Miller
FOR THE CHARLOTTE POST
A boy grows into adult
hood, and is considered a
man because he has reached
a certain age. But for Caiy
Graham, there is more to
manhood than just reaching
the legal voting or drinking
age.
‘Twenty-one is just a num
ber,” said Graham, the
founder of Walking the Talk:
The Road to Manhood, a val
ues development workshop
designed to teach young
males about the responsibili
ties of manhood. “Manhood
is an art. You must be led,
guided and directed.”
The first workshop will be
held Feb. 21 at John T.
Williams Middle School,
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