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REP. DAVID E. PRICE Rep. Price On Campaign Tour; Names Chairs Congressman David E. Price kicked off his 1988 campaign for rc-electioli with a five-county whirlwind caravan tour of the Fourth District and a visit to The CAROLINIAN and WLLE radio. Price, a Democrat elected to Congress in 1986, pledged to "redouble our efforts to keep the Fourth District a national leader In education. Jobs and the quality of life." Price said he had worked hard In Congress to provide effective leadership for the citizens of the five counties he represents. “Leadership," Price told sup porters, "means helping people confront the real challenges in life—not wasting time with the useless name-calling and mudsl Inging so common in politics to day.” Ill a SCI ICS ui sprtvuva, a ■ ivv outlined the issues his campaign will be about: improving educa tion, helping real famlies on real budgets with real concerns; and providing effective leadership. “We’re not about to accept limits on the quality of life we can achieve, the education we can give our children, the prosperity we can share,” Price said. The congressman said that this fall, voters in the Fourth District should ask three basic questions of their congressional can didates: ♦"Who will do more to improve our kids' schools, to support training for workers and to make college affordable for every fami ly?" ♦“Whose campaign is about the issues that really matter?" ♦“Who will be a leader for our district’s interests, and who will promote empty rhetoric and political slogans?” Price answered each question by talking about specific ac complishments during his term, pointing to his own record of “positive campaigning” and (See DAVID PRICE, P 2) Barriers To Advancement Report Unveils Future Of Blacks WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Con gressional Task Force on the Future of African-Americans released its report, titled, “The Future of African-Americans to the Year 2000” last week. Task Force Chairman Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally (D-Calif.), who is also chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, said. “African-Americans have been in the United States for more than 4(X) years and are still not equal. Our report shows that while African-Americans were advancing during the past 20 years, European Americans were also advancing, and a vast chasm still remains between us. "Looking to the future, the report shows that without major public and private policy changes, the tuturc ol African-Americans and many others in America is likely to be worse than their terrible present. Indeed, in our worst-case scenario, the oppression ol African Americans would become even more extreme than those under the conditions of slavery. "It is my hope that this important futures research will enable us, as a \The Carolinian RALEIGH, N.C., MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 1988 JVC's Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY AP IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 30c VOL. 47, NO. 83 Punish White Policeman NAACP Protests Slurs Officer Should . Be Fired BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS. SR. NNPA Newi Editor A White Rockville, MD. police sergeant, John Harkins, who was accused of referring to the city’s Black residents as “niggers” and “Coconut heads”, will lose five days pay, his position as a training officer, and be reassigned in the department, after a police trial board found him guilty of using racial slurs. The announcement was made by Police Chief Jared Stout. But Montgomery County NAACP Vice President Hanley Norment declared the punishment was not enough. “We said he should be dismissed because we are not conviced that this man, who carries a gun backed up with all the powers of the law, can enforce the law equally, with this kind of mentality.” Norment told NNPA that a “Policeman’s Bill of Rights”, a statutory provision enacted by the Maryland legislature limits trials of police officers in non-felonious cases to police trial boards. “This amounts to police trying policemen,” Norment told NNPA, “and we sinply must have this law changed. We will be keeping an eye on this officer.” Harkins will lose about $700 in pay. A seven-year member of the force, he will also be required to complete at least 40 hours of instruction in human relations, Chief Stout said, adding that the Board found Harkins guilty of using the slurs in conversations with two rookie police officers, both of whom filed complaints. A number of hate incidents have occurred in Montgomery county, including a Hyatts Town fire chief (See PROTESTS, P. 2) We re Moving To Tuesday The Carolinian’s Monday Edition is moving to Tuesday to better serve both our readers and our advertising patrons. Subscribers should receive our first of the week edition in their Tuesday mail, and our readers who prefer to buy the Single Copy will find it on their favorite newstands Tuesday mornings. We’re sure you will see the difference in the coming weeks with our move to Tuesdays, and we will always strive to bring you, our readers, the whole story from a Black Perspective! NEW VOTERS-Roglstrar Sharon Graham signs two now voters during a registration drive here by the Wake Votor Coalition. The deadline to register or to change your addross for registration Is Oct. 10. The coalition has designated September as Super Voter Registration Month. NAACP Holds Radiothon For Mamberahlp Drive More than 200 radio stations across the United States have already agreed to participate in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Membership Radiothon on Saturday, Sept. 24. As many as 400 stations nationwide are expected to be involved when the Radiothon airs, including WLLE-AM 57 in Raleigh. Each station will broadcast the Radiothon sometime between 9 a m. and 9 p.m. local time. “The importance of education to the growth and advancement of black and other minority youth cannot be overstated,” said Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the NAACP. "This Radiothon is part of our campaign to invest in the development and education of black and other minority children.” The theme of the Radiothon is “Don’t Stand on the Sidelines. Join the NAACP Today.” The idea of the Radiothon was conceived by Dr. William F Gibson, Sr., chairman of the NAACP National Board. Percy Sutton, chairman of Inner City Broadcasting, is chairman of the Radiothon. Bishop Richard A. Edwards Plays Role In Planning For Transportation And Aviation C. Morgan Edwards works as the assistant secretary for planning and programs in the North Carolina Department of Transportation, coor dinating the Division of Aviation, the Public Transportation Division, Transportation Planning, and the N.C. Bicycle Program. Edwards, chairman of the NCDOT 2000 Forum Task Force, serves as a member of the Drivers License and Rail Passenger Services task forces. He was also selected to participate in the Governor's Executive Manage ment Program in September. Edwards earned a bachelor of science degree from Johnson C. Smith University in 1960. He has taken graduate courses at the Whar ton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and served in the U.S. Navy, rising to the rank of commander as a reservist. His management career began at Campbiril Soup Co. in 1965. He later became project manager at Philco Martin, Jordan Disagree The campaign! of Gov. James G. Martin and Lt. Gov. Robert'B. Jordan, III have not agreed on debate* beyond an Oct. 29 en counter In Winston-Salem that will be televised statewide, ■pokesmen said Wednesday. The North Carolina Association of Broadcasters, which Is spon soring the Winston-Salem debate, Is asking the two sides to decide by Friday whether there will be others, according to Tim R. Pitt man, spokesman for the Martin campaign. John Crumpler, Jordan's cam paign manager, aaM Jordan's strategists wore still mulling whether to accept additional debatoe, Jordan has no aversion to debates, Crumpler said. He noted that Jordan and Mar tin had debated before the North Carolina Press Association In February and before the North Carolina Bar Association In July. Also, they participated In a Joint forum on highway and financing last week. TfT Ford and director of quality control at Townland Corp. Edwards spent six years building a regulatory program for the state of Pennsylvania. He opened CME Associates, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based management consultant firm. A native of Charlotte, Edwards has two adult daughters who live in Pennsylvania. ('■ MOIUiW KI>W \ltl» Hildebrand, presiding bishop of the Third Episcopal District and a member of the NAACP’s national board, is the co-chairman. Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the oldest civil rights organization in the United States. It is headquartered in Baltimore, Md. nation, to more directly confront this issue and to remove the remaining barriers to African-American ad vancement, which will benefit all Americans." Some of the major findings of the report are: • African-Americans have only really advanced significantly in periods of sustained and dramatic economic expansion. • In the absence of high and balanced economic growth, a great many African-Americans will con tinue to work in low-paid service oc cupations with very limited fringe benefits, a great many will continue to be poor, and the black middle class will continue to be very unstable. • Though the average lifespan of African-Americans has increased in comparison to European-Americans, the numbers without any way to pay for health care have increased, and in many localities the availability of health services to the poor has decreased. Without substantial policy changes, these conditions are likely to worsen. • The American labor force in general is inadequate for industrial (See BLACK FUTUKE, P. 2) Election Year 88: Dukakis Overlooks Some Black Voters Black voters who have traditionally shunned Republican candidates aren't necessarily flocking to support the Democratic presidential nominee this year, backers of Jesse Jackson say. The campaigns of Michael Dukakis and George Bush last week also reached final agreement on the ground rules for their two presiden tial debates. Some Jackson workers claim the campaign of Democrat Dukakis is taking them for granted. “I talk to blacks and whites who have not been reached out to,” said Christina Montague, a former Jackson worker who now staffs Dukakis’ Ann Arbor headquarters. “It’s going to be difficult to bring them in in November because they don’t feel connected with the Dukakis campaign.” Some are so offended they have already decided not to vote for Dukakis. Former Jackson delegate Mildred Kyles expected to hear from the Dukakis campaign after the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. But six weeks after Dukakis’ cam paign headquarters opened in Southfield, Kyles said, “He hasn’t called me to play on his team.” “And in November when it comes time for me to play, I won’t have him on my team,” said Kyles, who said she won’t vote for the Democratic candidate. Other Jackson supporters are play ing roles in the campaign, said Mark Fox, Dukakis’ deputy state director. He said Dukakis campaign director John Eade has met several times with Jackson’s former state chair man, Joel Ferguson, credited with carrying Michigan for Jackson in March. Ferguson is organizing political workers in Flint, Saginaw and other cities where Jackson support was strong, and he said Jackson sup porters will staff offices in those areas. The Dukakis campaign is trying to include people trom all the primary candidates’ campaigns, Fox said. “I’m sure there are some people we haven’t called yet,” Fox said, “but we don’t think of it anymore as who came from where. Everybody is working for Michael Dukakis, Lloyd Bentsen and the Democratic ticket.” DUKAKIS JACKSON Resentment among some black voters toward Dukakis may not be enough to convert them to Republican ranks, GOP officials said. Even Willie J. Lenard, a black Republican candidate for state representative in a predominantly black Democratic Detroit district,, acknowledged, “I’m going to need lots of help.” Blacks are skeptical about anyone on the Republican ticket, Lenard said. “Despite my setbacks in terms of raising money, I intend to walk every foot of my district.” Former Wayne County Executive William Lucas, a black Democrat turned-Republican, has been named by the Republican National Commit tee to head a national outreach effort for black votes. Carl Vernon, the committee’s director of outreach communica tions, said GOP officials are trying to reach voters at a grass-roots level rather than through the national leadership of black organizations. Vernon said the party’s problem is not so much that black voters disagree with the GOP on issues as that they perceive the party to be unreceptive to minorities. The campaigns of Dukakis and Bush reached final agreement on the TSee ELECTIONS, P. 2) N.C. Educators Urge Congress For National Study On Black Colleges DURHAM (AP)—Several educators at a congressional hearing called on Congress to appoint a na tional commission to examine the problems facing America’s historically black colleges. The decline in college enrollment of blacks “threatens the very survival of our nation,” educators told members of a U.S. House subcommit tee as they urged greater federal sup port for higher education. Two members of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education held a hearing on historically black colleges and universities Monday at North Carolina Central University here U.S. Rep. Pat Williams, D-Mont., and Rep. Major Owens, D-N.Y., were the two subcommittee members pre sent when U.S. Rep. Tim Valentine, whose 2nd North Carolina District in cludes Durham, welcomed the sub committee members. James Guitard, a senior at NCCU, said cutbacks in federal aid for students at traditionally black schools have resulted in fewer students being eligible for such aid. Increased emphasis on student loans to help low-income students in stead of outright grants has discouraged college students from pursuing relatively low-paying but essential professions like teaching, since the college graduates must be concerned about repaying their loans, Guitard said. He urged that federal and state grants be increased for “low-income, high-risk students,” that grants in general be emphasised instead of loans as the primary means of pro viding financial aid, and that Con gress create an “education IRA” to allow families to accumulate tax-free savings for college tuition. Guitard said the federal govern ment has misplaced priorities by em phasising defense spending at the ex pense of education. "It’s ridiculous to try to be first in defense and first in technology, and not be first in education,” he said. The three educators on the first panel of speakers echoed that theme. Herman R. Branson, director of the Precollege Science and Mathematics Research Program at Howard University in Washington, D.C., noted the low percentage of black high school and college stuuenis working toward graduate degrees and in technical fields. One of every 30 Americans who receives a bachelor’s degree will go on to earn a doctoral degree, but only one in 100 blacks with bachelor’s degrees will go on to earn a terminal graduate degree, Branson said. Other Viewpoints WHAT DUKAKIS AND BUSH SHOULD DEBATE BY DR. ALBERT E. JABS When Vice President George Bush and Gov. Michael Dukakis come to Wake Forest University they should have an agenda that deals primarily with two major crises facing our state, country and world: breakdown in the struc tures that should give us meaning (family, society, government) and the growing local, state, national and global misery (see Earl E. Braaten, "Apostolic Imperative’’). These leaders, in our system of constitutional government, are elected as servants of the people and president of all Americans, therefore they should elevate the public discussions to the real Issues and not deal with symbolism. At Winston-Salem, in this historic debate (Sept. 2$), these political leaders have a chance to demonstrate that they really are not wimps or shrimps, but teachers of the republic who do not simply follow the latest pumivtu pun uui ioau uy picucpi auu pvtiui uiautc. Millions of Americans will be watching to see how they define America's agenda toward the year 2000. Whatever the terms or Issues of this debate, it should include how can all of us inject fresh supplies of hope and confidence in the structures of family, society, and government and cope with the rising misery all around us. We are not wimps. As a people, we do not want to be fed political pablum so that we look good on this evening’s news broadcasts; we cant political statesmanship that discusses the real issues that are really hurting the peo ple. Out of this debate can come “think tanks” which can be developed at places like Shaw University, St. Augustine’s, and every college and universi ty in this land. The challenge is so great, and the needs are so precarious, in this ecological age, that such “think tanks" should address the issues premis ed on this paper. In all due respect to Vice President Bush and Gov. Dukakis, they should wake up and smell the coffee and hammer out solutions to the real issues of the potential disasters that are moving all about us. They do not have to be political prophets of doom but apostles of peace who really know how to translate the issues into healing and hope. Your move, gentlemen.
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