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3A NEWS^^e C^stUnt $o«t Thursday, June 8, 2006 N.C. lending bill draws criticism Continued from page 1A Payday lenders were driven out of North Carolina in March after Attorney General Roy Cooper entered into an agreement with Check Into Cash, Check N’Go and First American Cash Advance. These lenders, in March joined Advance America-the largest payday lender in the state-whidi stopped making loans in September. All agreed to stop collecting on existing loans and pay a total of $700,000 to help con sumers impacted by pay day loans. The need is still there Earle told the Associated Press that althou^ payday lenders are disappearing con sumers will stUl need finan cial help. The company that would issue the loans, Atlanta-based CompuCredit, has been a contributor to Earle’s re-election cam paigns. Accordii^ to reports filed with the State Board of Elections, CompuCredit has given at least $1,000. “CompuCredit is pushing this biQ and I don’t think (Earle) understands that this bill doesn’t help people in need,” Corbett said. According to the Centea* for Responsible Lending’s web site, consumers who’ve gotten payday loans found them selves paying thousands of dollars in fees. Sandra Harris of Wilmington related her expe rience with payday lending on the site. “At the time it seemed like a way out, but this is not a quick fix,” she said. “It’s like a ton of Itticks.” Harris said after her hus band lost his job, the couple found themselves in a cash crunch. She took out a $200 loan fiom a payday lender, paying $50. On her next pay day she was ready to pay off the loan. But the clerk, according to the site, told her she could renew the agree ment. Needing to pay other bUls, Harris did and took out a larger loan with more fees. The fees added up and Harris ended up losing her apartment, car and boxmced checks. “When people need a raft,” Corbett said, ‘Sve don’t throw them a brick.” He added that putting the majority of payday lending companies in black neighbor hoods it would have normal ized it in those communities. When those shops were open, Afiican American neigh borhoods had three times as many payday lenders per capita as • white neighbor hoods, according to the cen ter’s report. “This study shows in the starkest terms that Afiican American neighborhoods bear the brunt of predatory pay day loans,” said Mark Pearce, the center’s president. Corbett said it’s typical for payday lobbyists to target black lawmakers. “I see it across the cotmtry They get the Afiican American legislatures divid ed,” he said. “Sometimes we are our own worst enany” SUBSCRIBE - ADVERTISE 704.376.0496 KEZIAH’s FURNITURE BIG SALE Large Pillow - Top Queen Mattress Set $299 Sofas, Bedroom Suit and Dinettes All on SALE 12 Months No Interest 8004 Blair Rd. (Highway 51) Mint Hill 2914 Gibbon Rd. (Off 1-77 & I-85)Charlotte, N.C 704.596.7427 Unity urged at legislative caucus summit Continued from page 1A right direction. Several groups including the NAACP, Southerners for Economic Justice and the Women of Color group, par ticipated in the day along with other grassroots organi zations. “It was a good first try” Crowder said. Robert Wilson, a lobbyist at the state Legislature, said blacks have not pinpointed certain issues to rally around. “The issue is what drives the people,” he said. ‘We don’t have a burning issue as Afiican Americans, but they vary fix»m place to place.” Rep. Edward Jones, D- Halifax, suggested one rally ing point could be education in low-performing schools. Ronald McElradth of the N.C. Human Relations Commission said Hispanics are willing to work with Afiican Americans becaitse they face many of the same obstacles. Gad Eluwa, who works for U.S. Rep. Brad Miller, said she’s noted that black groups are comfortable with passing information along in their own circles, but not outside. She feels those databases should be broadened so the information will not just float aroimd in a few choice groups. Rep. Jean Farmer- Butterfield, D-Edgecombe, said different groups also come to the General Assembly with their own agendas. “They can come individual ly but they can also come together,” she said. Warren Dorsett, the hus band of N.C. Sen. Katie Dorsett, D-Guilford, said the Afiican American constituen cy across die state needs a nucleus group to determine the problems of the black community and then map out a plan to address them. “We don’t know what our problems are,” he said. “Youi^ folks, we’ve been fooled We think we’ve got it made and we’ve arrived.” Womble stfll has hope. He would like to see about 20,000 Afiican Americans rally at Legislative Bmlding during next February for Black History Month. Motivational speaker Les Brown at New Birth FOR THE CHARLOTTE POST Motivational speaker and author Les Brown is coming to Charlotte next month Brown’s “Maximize Your Millionaire Mindset” will be held at 6 p.m. at New Birth Charlotte; 604 Doug Mayes Place Shriners Headquarters. As a profes sional speaker, author and television personality Brown has risen to national promi nence by delivering a bigh- Brown energy presentation that tells people how to recover fix)m mediocrity and five up to their greatness. It is a mes sage Brown has learned firom. his own life and one he is helping others apply to their lives. Bom a twin in low-income Liberty City in Miami, Fla., Brown and his twin brother, Wes, were adopted when they were six-weeks-old by Mamie Brown Ms. Brown was a sin gle woman who had very ht- tle education or financial means, but a very big heart. As a child Les’ inattention to schoolwork, his restiess ener gy, and the failure of his teachers to motivate and rec ognize his potential resulted in Brown being mislabeled a slow learner. The label and the sterna stayed with him, damaging his selfesteem to such an extent that it took several years to overcome. Since 1986, Brownhas been prominent in the pubhc speaking arena full-time and formed his own company Les Brown Enterprises, provid ing motivational tapes and materials, workshops, and personal/professional devel opment programs. Sponsored by AJ Financial, tickets are $30 in advance and $45 at the 'door. Tb pur chase tickets online log onto WWW. startnowfinishrich. org. For more information, call (704)529 2920. HCamival. I Travels Wtiiyou all the The Fun Ships. from Port Canaveral from Pori Canaveral from Pori Canaveral $229 .$349 Ask about our Sharon Luggage Gift with Purchase Valued at Over $150! 704.547.1240 to speak to one of our Honeymoon & Vacation Specialists 9009 -2 JM Keynes Drive University Place Charlotte www.MannlVavels.com Parents sue over alleged taping By Sommer Brokaw THE TRIANGLE TRIBUNE DURHAM - Wendefl Tabb, a drama teacher at Hillside High, and his wife. Duchess Alicia StaUings, have filed a lawsuit against Durham Public Schools on behalf of their son, alleging his mouth was forcefully taped. “Today marks the begin ning of our legal process, and we will be making our claims in the court of law, not the court of public opinion,” said the Tabbs’ attorney Jason Knott, at a press conference The complaint alleges that on April 19, 2005,10-year-old Emanuel Tabb’s special needs therapist at Hope Valley Elementary, Jill Mitchell, rebuked him for talking to another student in class. After several minutes had passed without either boy talking, Emmanuel whis pered an apology to the stu dent for getting him in trou ble. Mitchell allegedly then rebuked him again, and with out warning ripped a piece of masking tape fiom a roU and forcefully placed it over Emmanuel’s mouth. Emmanud suffers compli cations from being bom three months premature. He is par tially blind and has ca:ebral palsy - a condition caused by damage to the brain and characterized by an inability to control’s one motor func tion. He also has asthma. At the time of the alleged taping, Tabb said that Emmanud was “no' loiter able to breathe.” Tabb made an emotional plea. “Imagine your child having severe asthma, having his mouth boxmd and taped shut,” he said “Imagine that the person who taped his mouth shut was the person you trusted to protect your child.” The complaint further alleges that Emanuel has suf fered severe mental angiiisb and physical setbacks as a result of the April 19 incident. “Imagine watching your special needs child taking several painful steps back ward in his mentd and psy chological development because of the crud conduct of his teacher,” Tabb said. ‘No parent or child should ever have to experience such abuse.” Initially Tabb tried to work throu^ the school system, but said he has not gotten a response fiom the adminis tration or central office. 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