jmmaam of marchers will des
owl on Washington, D.C. April 28-29
M*hand a ‘‘People’s Budget” that
will restore and expand social service
pnfpwns that are being cut or
eliminated in the FY 1990 Bush
budget proposal.
“The Bush budget contginues the
went features of Reaganism, namely
mhMng programs that help poor and
working people while providing
bOhms more for the corporations and
r~———
those who are already rich,” Sahu
Barron of the Campaign for a
People’s Fightback said.
“The Bush administration and Con
greM are planning to spend at least
$150 billion during the next years to
bail out the savings and loan banks.
Taxpayers’ money will be given to a
handful of millionaires and
billionaires who have agreed to take
ownership of the S*Ls in deals that
are becoming known as the biggest
3
ripoff of the century. We will demand
that an emergency people’s fund of
$150 billion be established to bail out
the homeless, the hungry, and the
Jobless. People must come first,”
Barron emphasised. .
“The Bush budget cuts $5 billion
from Medicare, $4.7 billion in federal
retirement and health benefits. It
eliminates a wide variety of food and
nutrition programs, community ser
vices block grants, 24 categorical
education programs, maSs transit
operating subsidies, the Legal Ser
vices Corporation which provides
legal services for the poor, and many
other vital programs,” Barron ex
plained.
“Using the ‘flexible freeze’
mechanism the Bush budget would
result in an $80 million cut in the
Women, Infants and Children Sup
plemental Feeding program which is
an essential support for hundreds of
thousands of low-income families.
The Bush budget would result in
144,000 fewer pregnant women and
children being served. In many areas
:
where infant mortality it already
sky-high, cuts in WIC can only mean
more infants are in danger of
premature death. We consider any
cut in WIC and other child nutrition
and feeding programs to be a
criminal act,” Barron asserted.
“The federal government has
agreed to deploy national guard
forces in state and local areas to
'combat drugs,' but at the Same time
the Bush budget will reduce federal
aid to state and local governments by
as much as $5 billion. This cut comes
Hu Mux Klan March
Opposed By Clinton
Blacks, HOBbteif
BY EDWARD FAISON, JE.
Special la The CAROLINIAN
Aa Aaalysla
Why would a Mack person want to attend the Ku Klux Klan rally on
April Brd anyway? These are the same hand of racists who have
performed violent acts against black people since lids.
The Kn Khn Klan has existed In conjunction with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies In
America with little or no opposition. I make this held statement
because the head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover at one time pronounc
ed Martin Lather King, Jr, and the Black Panthers to be the greatest
threat to American democracy: not the Kn Khn Klan.
The Panthers, a black group that preached “black power” (not
racism), was openly deneunced in America by wkitas and blacks. In
spile of laws that were supposed to protect their right to exist, some
Chicago law officers opened Are on the Paathers headquarters from
the’outside, killing the occupants, including their leader. Fred
Hampton. Other "powers to be” la America, did not mt until this so
caBod “black hate group’1 was crushed. The "white hate group”
(KKK) continues to exist even until this day with very Jew public out
cries. They used the same la ws to destroy the Panthers that they con
An unjust law is a code that a
numerical or power majority group
compels a minority group to obey
but does not make binding on
itself../’ Martin Luther King Jr.
tlnue to use to protect the Klan. Remember. It was the law that allow
ed Americans to own slaves and the law that prohibited blacks from
testifying against whites after slavery. MarttaLutherKtagJr
saM. in his book. "Why We Can’t Walt,” an unjust law is a code that a
numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to
obey but does not make binding on Itself.” Would those In charge of
parade permits allow the Panthers or any other black hate group to
parade and espouse hate downdhe streets of CUnten?
Last Tuesday night the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance
•ailed a meeting with the Chief of Police, the Mayor and several
(See KU KLUX KLAN, P. 2)
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ATLANTA, Ga. (AP)—Stories
documenting racial discrimination in
fSOTtflsge lending in AUanta have
Draught the AUanta Journal-Consti
tution its second Pulitzer Prize in as
many years for work done under an
editor who is no longer there by a
staffer who has also left the
newspaper.
Bill Dedman, who left the
newspaper last month for a job with
the Washington Post, won the 1969
Pulitzer Prize for investigative repor
ting for his series called “The Color of -
Money," which exposed unequal pat
terns of home loans to blacks and
.whites in Atlanta.
Dedman hopped a plane to Atlanta
to join in the celebration as soon as he
heard the award announced on Thurs
day.
Once* back in the Journal
Constitution newsroom, Dedman
(See PULITZKH, P. 2)
SINGLE COPY O C .
IN RALEIGH
ELSEWHERE 300
NAACP Hits Ruling
The national office of the NAACP
has instructed some 190 of its bran
ches, located in cities where minority
set-asfde programs are in effect, to
strenuously resist any effort to cur
tail or end such programs, and in
those instances where existing
legislation is found to be inadequate,
to propose new legislation based on a
model developed by the association’s
Legal Department.
The action by the NAACP is in
response to the recent Supreme Court
ruling in the City of Richmond vs.
Croson case in which the court held
that a state or municipality or
political subdivision cannot establish
a minority set-aside program without
first making specific findings of
discrimination within that particular
state or community.
As a consequence of the court deci
sion, a growing concern has
developed that existing minority set
aside programs, which have proven
to be extremely effective in opening
up entrepreneurial opportunities for
blacks and other minorities, may be
endangered. \
"There is no doubt in my mind that
opponents of minority set-asides are
overjoyed by the decision and are
[ already piquing th*r to kill
these programs,’’ Or. BeuJanflh L. ’
Hooks, executive director of the
NAACP, saw.
“However, we believe a number of
these programs can stand judicial
scrutiny, and the primary danger
they face is that elected officials may
cave in to pressure, take the easy way
out and decide to do away with them.
“The court ruling was damaging,
but not necessarily fatal. We have to
be creative and develop strategies for
dealing with what ifds come to pass,”
Hooks said.
(See NAACP, K 9)
North Carolina State University’s
seventh annual Afriean-Amerfcan
Student Awards Banquet, held April s
it McKimmon Cantor, celebrated the
achievements of top black graduate
knd undergraduate students.
Bryce R. Younts, NCSU director of
alumni rotations, was the; banquet
fionoree.
Every two years NCSU black
students select an hoaoree who has
contributed in an outstanding manner
BY DR. LENWOOD G. DAVIS
tpcctel T* Hm CAROLINIAN
Ai Analysts
■LACK HISTORY SHOULD NOT BE
FORGOTTEN
■took History Month haa come and
Shm and moat people will forget
:
anout it untu next year wnen it win oe
celebrated-again. Although one
specific month la set aside to draw at
tention to the achievements of people
of African descent, it should be
acknowledged every day of the year.
Certain questions need to be asked
and answered about Black History
Month and Its celebration, Why Black
History Month?
Why not White History Month? Why
not Jewish History Month? Why not
Women’s History Month? Why not
Native-Born Americans History
... I
1915, he fowl
the Study ot
History," ei
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aware that
to tne upward mobility of Airtcan
. American graduate education.
Younts is the fourth honoree.
Others were William Friday, presi
dent emeritus of the University of
North Carolina system; NCSU Pro
vpst Nash N<; Winstead and NCSU
-’OtoHechw Bruce R. Poulton.
Four undergraduate students were
honored as the African-American
students with the highest grade-point
averages based on more than 30
credit hours.
Heading the list with perfect A 1
averages were Jeanne C. Alston, 1616
Eastwood Avenue, Greensboro, and
Feiecia F. Carr-Young, 11620 Ap
pal oosa Run, Raleigh. Alston is a :
junior majoring in chemical
engineering, and Carr-Young la a 1
junior majoring in writing and
editing. ‘ •
Sharon A. King, 800 Cooper Road,
Raleigh, and Daln E. Vines, 3104 ;
Willow road, Greensboro, were
honored for their 3.8 grade point '
averages. King is a sophomore ma
joring in zoology in the pre-dental 1
program. Vines is a sophomore ma
joring in electrical engineering. '
Certificates were given to African- 1
American students who have com- 1
pleted a minimum of 30 hours at ’
NCSU with a grade point average of !
3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale. 1
William W. Edmondson, 8403 S. <
Dorchester. Chicago, 111., received <
(See STUDENTS, P. 8)
after federal grants to states and
cities have already been reduced by
45 percent in real terms during the
Reagan/Bush years. Hie massive
reduction in aid to the states and
cities has led to cutbacks in drug
rehabilitation programs, educational
and job training programs—which
has contributed to the drug problem
facing youth in this country,” Barron
explained.
“Many thousands of students will
be participating in the April 28-29
demonstrations and an important de
mand will be to restore and expand
student aid and grant programs that
have been cut in the last eight years.
Bush, who *»** he wanted to be_
(See BUSH BUDGET, P. 2)
INSIDE
AFRICA
BY DANIEL MAROLEN
STOMPIE MOEKETSI’S LEGACY
Although funerals for eminent
native Africans in South Africa are
characterized by throngs of
thousands of mourners, that of the
political child prodigy, Stompie
Moeketsi, whose death sparked a
furor in the country, turned out to be
a small one—too small to honor a
youngster who inspired the massive
African uprising against the Botha
apartheid regime. Stompie’s funeral
was too humble for a hero of that
titanic struggle against apartheid.
Stompie waged a most courageous
fight against African oppression. But
only 500-odd mourners attended the
funeral. Normally, a person of
14-year-old Stompie’s achievements
is honored by a funeral attendance of
up to 50,000 or more mourners.
Still for all, Stompie Moeketsi's
funeral at Thumahole Township, in
the Orange Free State Province of
South Africa, was a most dignified
and inspiring one. The leaders who
attended it used the occasion to heal
wounds in the ranks of the strife-torn
anti-apartheid liberation movement.
Unity, unity, unity was the cry of
every speech that was delivered by
the leaders that day. The tiny church
at Thumahole resounded with this
“U” word. And that utterance was
something that all well-meaning anti
apartheidists have so long been
waiting to hear from African leaders
Spaisasssras
it is only the unity of African leader
ship that can demolish apartheid.
Dissenssion can only help the tilling
racists to continue with their ex
tremely racist and oppressive
policies.
Unity was the clarion call at Stom
pie’s funeral. And it will remain with
theleadership of the liberation move
ment long afterward.
In addition, every speaker at
Moeketsi's funeral raised another
clarion cry against the racist regime
which had, during the past four
years, manhandled, arrested, Jailed,
detained and tortured Stompie and
his fellow young demonstrators on
the streets of the ghetto fo Soweto.
Moeketsi and other political ac
tivist/child prodigies ot Soweto will
long be remembered for their fights
against the regime’s brutal police on
the streets and alleys of the smoke
polluted and dusty ghetto of Soweto.
But the greatest wonder of it all
was the absence of President P.W.
Botha’s police at the funeral. There
was no police intervention, except
one or two squad cars which stopped
several cars to search for weapons.
Stompie died mysteriously. Cer
tainly, not from any action or direc
tion of Ms. Winnie Mandela whom the
regime would have liked to be linked
with the murder. Whatever led to
Stompie’s death, Stompie left behind
his inspiration to others, especially
the children of the ghetto, to fight and
demolish apartheid which kills
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. S)
Teaching Fallows
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Bright Studente
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Program Attracts
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:Vv • ntup- '
to choose a profession which
demands so much and pays so little,”
Johnson said.
He hoard about the North Carolina
reaching Fellows Program. It is a
icbolarship loan program aimed at
recruiting new teachers from among
the state’s brightest and most
talented MgtHWjml seniors.
Johnson is now among DM teaching
Fellows enrolled in 19 public and
private universities in North
Carolina. A sophomore at East
Carolina University, he is looking for
ward to a career in a North Carolina