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ANALYZMfi THE VOH~N.C. Rap. Dan Blue, left, It Bov. Roterl Jordan and farmer state government official Harold Webb confer outside the stats Jackson for headquarters last Tuesday evening as election returns were reported. (Photo by Talib Galloway) Congressman Says Passage Of Rights Act Symbolic Victory Hie SIS to M U.S. House of Repre sentatives vote recently to overturn a 1984 Supreme Court decision in Grove City College vs. Bell was the focus of a statement issued recently by Fourth District Congressman David E. Price. “The passage of the Civil Rights Restoration Act, I believe, marks, symbolically and practically, an un mistakable reaffirmation of this Con gress' and this country’s commit ment to civil rights and nondis crimination," said Price. He added that the Supreme Court's decision in the Grove City case had stripped the federal government of one of its "indispensable tools" for fighting unconstitutional racial, sex ual and religious discrimination. “By effectively sanctioning discrimination by institutions receiv ing federal funds, the ruling put the federal government and the American taxpayer in the position of subsidizing, and hence perpetuating, these attitudes and actions," he said. “Today, the House has seized the opportunity to renounce and remedy this unacceptable retreat in this coun try’s battle for equality and justice,” Price continued. “To me, it is remarkable only that it has taken four years for us to correct and clarify the court’s clear distortion of congressional intent as spelled out in a long series of civil rights statutes.” House Education and Labor Com mit^ chairman Augustus Hawkins (D-Calif.) said any organization receiving federal money should be prepared to play by the rules. “Anyone who dips their hand in the public till should not mind if a little democracy sticks to their fingers,” the House veteran said. Price commented that under the court's ruling, a student’s ability to sue for remedy of a violation of his civil fights would depend only upon a determination of whether or not federal funds were used to construct the building or subsidize the academic program in which the •pee RIGHTS ACT, P. 2) SUSPECT SKETCH Police Search For Suspect in Armed Robbery Anyone having information regar ding the identity of the suspect responsible for the robbery commit ted at Wendy’s, 3715 Western Blvd., on March 4 should contact Crime Stoppers at 834-HELP any time. At approximately 1:15 a.m. on March 4, a black male approached employees of Wendy's as they were dosing and leaving the restaurant. He displayed a silver automatic pistol and ordered the employees back into the restaurant. He took money from the safe and fled on foot. The suspect is a black male, in his late 20s, 5'9”-5'll” tall, and weighs approximately 170-180 pounds. He has a medium complexion, small Afro (See ROBBERY, P. 8) ■ I nursing program at a medical facility for the it. ""They (the hamalau] need these young caring attitude*." says Bernadine Lacey, efNuraingfrelCet. (Photo by Marvin T. Jonas) Black Area In Wilson Makes Historic Status ■ WILSON (AP)-It is a rare photograph of a black family almost a century ago. The horse stan$ on a dirt road; carfgaSier around a'barrel, eyeing the camera. Three women with serious faces and long skirts, their hair pulled back, pose in the yard. A man in a vest &nd bowler leans against a porch post, his hands in his pockets. “I treasure that like I do gold," said J. Edward Farmer, 75, holding the framed photograph. The people in it include his parents and brother. The house in the photo still stands. Its neighborhood, the East Wilson District, will-soon be on the National Register of Historic Districts—the state’s first black neighborhood to receive such status. Preservationists say they hope that the new historic designation will spur a movement to improve the area. Farmer was born in the house in the photograph and lives there now. He recently stood in his front yard, looked down the street, and said, “It’s going to be a slum. People once lived for one another. They don’t have that any more. “We don’t know who our neighbors are. People going and coming, kind of like tourists.” “At one time, this was probably one of the most beautiful streets in North . 'HVJ. . v‘ Carolina,” added neighbor Ted M. Hooker, 69. Hope that historic preservation — jawiahki blacMwmen to write to city officials in 1984.'“™ “We felt that it was very, very necessary that we have some land mark,”. club member Inez D. Bell said by telephone recently. “There were homes like the Reid home arid the Thomas home and the Hines home and the Vick home, and they were historians here in our city, and they did so much to develop our neighborhood and the culture of our people.” Today, residents complain of widespread petty crime. Rags and empty bottles lie in the streets. Most of the district’s 1,277 residential pro perties have changed from being privately owned to being rented. (See RARE TREASURE, P. 2) Dissent Runs Deep > BY AL VORSPAN An Aunlyitlli (ihhIimIiiii <4 « Two-Pnrt S*rlrs * Black leadership contributed its own blunders to this mutual disaster. Instead of saying, “We understand your reaction to quotas. So, if not quotas, tell us what you will support that will work;’’ many black leaders made “quotas” a synonym for all af firmative action < the mirror image of the hard-line Jewish view). Instead of responding to the barrage of Jewish press releases with their own rhetorical bombs, somebody should have said, “Wait a minute. Let’s sit down and hammer out a definition of affirmative action that we can both support” And bitter irony, the Reagan,ad ministration -then came along arid us ed the very code word coughed up by the black-Jewish fight to try to chop down all affirmative action pro grams. Wrapping themselves falsely in the mantle of civil rights, the Reaganite# came to defer# the Constitution by putting, an end to “reverse discrimination" and to return America to the pristine virtue of a "color-blind” society, Judging every American by his or her merit. This pious stance soutftt to delegltlmixe laws which had been supported by elt, by the Congresses oarties. The every courts a ken to No. la c counties EEOC undermir 1124*0. It I Rights its pro-admin labeKno «>m tion “new racists’Vor the “sons of separate but equal,” even comparing the supporters of affirmative action to yesterday’s champions of slavery. Not only has the administration ex ploited the very language of the Jewish neo-conservative campaign against quotas, it has actively stirred black-Jewish division. The new director of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission had the "chutz pah” to suggest that the real motive of Critics who accused the commis sion of being a mouthpiece of the White House was “anti-Semitism” because 40 of the new members of the state advisory committees are Jews. The above sad scenario does not in clude all Jews—or all blacks, for that matter. Neither community is a monolith. Dissent runs deep. In affir mative action, it was the three large defense agencies—American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Con gress, and Anti-Defamation League—which were the visible and vocal opponents of “quotas.” The UAHC and the National Council of Jewish Women took a contrary posi tion on one of themost celebrated af firmative action, cases to go to the Supreme Court. Has affirmative action worked? (See BLACKS, JEWS, P. 2) --- ' - ; zi. < M atteubte Shows Jackson Support He is a leader. They like his posi tions on the issues. He has charisma. He is the best debater. He is a proven campaigner. He makes sense. But... Jesse Jackson collected 2.5 million votes on Super Tuesday, more than any other Democrat and enough to cause a re-examination of the conven tional wisdom that a black cannot be nominated for president in the America of 1988. The 20-state primary, coupled with Jackson’s performance in Vermont, Minnesota, and Maine, has chipped away some of the “but...” in the analysis of the candidate’s potential. The statement is becoming, “If..." “If Jackson were white, I think he’d be president,” says Howard Universi ty political science professor Ronald Walters, who was Jacksons deputy campaign manager in 1964 and is the author of a new book, “Black Presidential Politics in America.” “If he were white, he wouldn’t be in the race,” says Ben J. Wattenberg, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and co-editor of Public Opi nion magazine. Walters says Jackson’s experience in the civil rights movement is more than the equivalent to service in legislative halls. And he cites Jackson’s electrifying quality. “Charisma—say what you will, it still counts in politics,” he says. “Just m m ask Ronald Reagan." Wa ttenberg, on the other hand, con tends that a black could be elected president in the America of 1968, but not one with Jackson’s lack of ex perience holding public office mar his controversial record. “Jesse Jackson went to Cuba and said, ‘Viva Che Guevara,’ praising a man who dedicated his life to the ex port of communism to South and Latin America,” Wattenberg said. “Had any other politician in American life ever said anything like that, he might have been scandalized and drummed out of the race.” The question of Jackson’s elec (See JESSE JACKSON, P. 2) The Carolinian RALEIGH, N.C., MONDAY MARCH 14, 1988 ATC's Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY IfC IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 300 VOL. 47. NO. 31 Disgusted Outrage Arrests Stir Protests _ _ Push For Stronger Sanctions BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, JR. NNPA News Service Loudly chanting, “Namibia Must Be Free; South Africa Must Be Free,” and “Hey Hey, Ho Ho, South African Apartheid’s Gotta Go,” near ly 1,000 picket-carrying protestors of many races and nationalities parad ed near the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. last week. They expressed disgusted outrage over South Africa’s continued oppres sion of its black citizens and especial ly that illegal government’s recent restriction of all free speech and peaceful assembly, the latter leading lwdera^jliahop Desmond Tutu Rev Altfn Boesak. Thus, the protestors, under the guidance of the Free South Africa Movement, declared that the demonstrations which began in 1984 and were staged daily for one year until the Congress passed a bill of sanctions against South Africa over the veto of President Reagan, will begin again. TransAfrica executive director Randall Robinson, a D.C. lawyer, declared that this demonstration is “a push for more sanctions... to serve notice we are still here and to let blacks in South Africa know we still stand with them. We are urging the Congress to pass more sanctions and (See ARRESTS, P. 21 v. DISCUSSING ASSIGNMENTS-Larry Wilams. center, and BM McNeil, far 1 right, along with other mention of the Wake County Scheal Board, discos* pupa assignmnts tor the 1988-B9 school year and other Business. The meeBng was held in the Board Room of the Wake County PuMc School offices on Wake Forest T«*» In Assessment Program It s your first day on the job as prin cipal of Maplewood Elementary. Within an hour, you are faced with a call from an angry parent, a memo from the superintendent asking for information, a fight in the hallway and a telephone call from a local newspaper reporter. How well do you react? Officials in 72 of North Carolina’s 140 school systems would have a good idea of how well a new principal will do on his first day on the job. These school systems participate in the North Carolina Assessment Center, a program ot the state Department of Public Instruction’s Leadership In stitute for Administrators. At the in stitute, potential principals are given a series of tasks and exercises simulating an actual day in the life of a school principal. At the end of the two-day exercise, participants are assessed by six observers on 12 skills related to being a principal. Local school systems use the assessments to help identify people who have the skills to be good prin cipals and to help possible principals hone their skills. A portion of the assessment involves an evaluation of each participant’s strengths and weaknesses, and participants receive suggestions for improving weaker areas. Dr. Kermit Buckner, director of the N.C. Assessment Center, says the assessments help potential principals improve weak areas when they still have time. “Once they become prin cipals, they may not have the time, or it may be more difficult to find the time it takes to work on weak areas,” he says. The assessment tool used in the N.C. Assessment Center is one developed in 1975 by the National Association of Secondary School Principals to identify and assess generic skills necessary to be a suc cessful school principal. Those skills are: problem analysis, judgment, organizational ability, decisiveness, (See PRINCIPALS, P. 2)
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