Redrawing Districts
Blacks Upset Over Secret GOP Pact
An agreement to redraw the
boundaries of the city’s electoral
district* has been called foul play by
some African-American leaders and
others are downright angry, that the
AfHcan-American community had no
«*y and the decision was made in
secret*
Ralph Campbell, Jr., the only
African-American member of the
Raleigh City Council, in a letter to
City Attorney, Thomas A.
McCormick, Jr. said that it was
indicated that U.S. District Judge
James C. tax was interested in the
opinion of the minority community in
Raleigh concerning a redistricting of
the City Council electoral districts for
the 1S89 elections.
The agreement reached last week
proposes to settle a lawsuit brought
by Wake Republican Party that
contended residents of election
districts in northwest and North
Raleigh are underrepresented on the
City Council.
The agreement made without input
from the African-American
community sets the number of
residents in each of the five districts
at close to one-fifth of the city’s
population of 220.284, making it
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not have been done without public hearings
and other public input and is not in the best
interest of the African-American community
or District C. Some are downright angry in
the face of this effrontery.
necessary to cnange tne borders.
Previously Campbell said in order to
citizens to discuss the question on
June 21. Campbell said “we do not
need to redraw the lines at all” and
that the city should hold off until it
gets accurate figures from the 1990
census. The city also made this
argument shortly after the suit was
filed.
Council members are saying they
have no choice but to go along with
the agreement or answer to the
judge. Where the new boundaries will
be is subject to negotiation and the
council will vote to approve a plan to
redraw the lines July 5. Filing for city
elections begins July 7 with elections
(See SECRET PACT, P. 9)
BUI On Reparations
Taking New Impetus
National Debate
On Exploitation
Special to The Carolinian
Aa AMlysta
Ot«e central principle of
international law it that people who
have been victims of systematic
oppression over a period of time have
the right to demand material
compensation to redress their
grievances. West Germany extended
compensation to the state of Israel for
the crimes committee against the
MS. EOSALYN V. FRAZIER
student scores
Am Outstanding;
Receives Honors
Rosalyn V. Frazier is a recipient of
the Black American Merit
Scholarship from Wake Forest
University in Winston-Salem. This is
a four year renewable scholarship for
full tuition.
Miss Frazier is also the recipient of
the prestigious Thomas J. Watson
Memorial Scholarship from IBM.
This scholarship is given in honor of
the late Thomas J. Watson was the
founder of IBM.
Both of these awards are based on
academic record, test scores,
leadership qualitied, and extra
curricular activities.
Miss Frazier is also a National
Achievement Finalist which is a
scholarship program for outstanding
Mack students throughout the nation.
She has received a $600 Ethnic
Minority Scholarship from the
National Council of the United
Methodist Church. Her scholarship
winnings amount to over $72,000.
A1980 graduate of Broughton High
(SeeROSALYN FRAZIER. P. 2)
Jewish people by the regime of
Adolph Hitler. Thousands of
Japanese Americans were unjustly
interned in prison camps by the
United States during World War II
and have recently won the right to
demand compensation.
For many years, African
Americans have argued that some
type of economic compensation
should be extended to blacks for the
centuries of institutional racism and
class exploitation. Seven decades
ago, writer Arthur Anderson called
for the creation of an all black state
termed Moderaa, and demanded that
the American government provide
reparation totalling six hundred
million dollars. In the 1960s, many
Black Power advocates agitated for
compensation from religious
organizations and the government.
Today, the call for reparations has
acquired new impetus by the actions
of Mass. State Sen. Bill Owens.
Owens has introduced Senate Bill
1621, calling upon the state “to
provide for the payment of
reparations for slavery, the slave
trade and invidious discrimination
against the people of African descent
born or residing in the United States
of America.” The bill would require
Massachusetts to “establish an
African reparations commission
which shall negotiate with legitimate
representation of African
descendants born in the United States
for payment of reparations.”
Owens’ call for reparations has
sparked a national debate among
blacks. In his view, the call for
reparations “is not new. It has been a
political issue since the
Reconstruction period following the
Civil War, when we were promised 40
acres and a mule as a form of
compensation for the free labor that
helped to build this country.” In short
Blacks have been the victims of
super-exploitation and compentation
is only fair and just.
The Detroit City Council concurs
with Owens, and recently annroved a
(See REPARATIONS. P. 2)
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TUESDAY, JULM 4,1989 DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST ELSEWHERE 30$
Criminal
Conspiracy
Charges
KINSTON-The Kinston Police and
other law enforcement agencies
concluded a two-year investigation
in drug trafficking and smashed one
of the largest rings in the area.
After the drug bust, officials said
they began with the gathering of
intelligence which led to numerous
drug purchases, and culminated with
an investigative grand jury. “This
has been a joint investigation
involving the sheriffs departments of
Duplin and Lenoir Counties, the
Kinston Police Department and the
State Bureau of Investigation,” an
official statement noted.
“This joint effort has effectively
identified drug dealers and
organizations, which have in years
past used county lines as safety
zones. With the knowledge gained
during the course of this investigation
and by utilizing the newly authorized
State Investigative Grand Jury, we
have been able to effectively attack
drug dealers at a level which in the
past was seldom reached through
conventional investigative methods,”
officals said.
“By combining the resources of
manpower and money, this campaign
will terminate with the arrests of 30
individuals fnr a combined total of 228
(See DRUG RING. P. 2)
SUPREME COURT RUUNGS-Rev. Jane Jackson stoppod in RaM|h anrouta to
Franca and the Middle East and held a press contorenca at RaMgh-Durham
International Airport Jackson mat with President Gangs Bash June 30 and
docrlod recant Supreme Court retags against civil rights legislation. Sean with
Jackson tare Is Bruce Ughtner, RaMgh-Wake Citizens Association chairman.
(Photo hy Tata SaMr-Cataway)
Legislature Overhauls
Laws For Conaoratloae
The N. C. General Assembly nas
approved a massive 125-page rewrite
of state statutes dealing with almost
all facets Of corporate law. The bill
has received very little attention and
even debate about what the measure
will do.
Some believe it will serve as an
NEA President Leaving Legacy As
Challenging Voice For Education
WASHINGTON (AP) - She held
her own against a bombastic
education secretary and turned her
huge union into a force for school
improvement, challenges almost
equal to her growing up poor and
black in the segregated South.
Now the 2-million-member
National Education Association
(NEA) must choose a successor to
mary naiwooa r uireu, uie voice oi
the teachers union for six years and
some say, the best spokesman it ever
had.
“The NEA should light a candle to
Mary. The organization owes her a
great deal,” says Ernest Boyer,
president of the Princeton-based
Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching.
Ms. Futrell is credited with shifting
the NEA’s focus from self-protection
to a more professional concern for
better education. Under her
leadership, union delegates approved
a Carnegie plan for a national board
to set standards and certify teachers.
The union started spending its own
money on curriculum innovations
and a foundation for education
improvement that makes grants for
dropout and illiteracy prevention
programs, It also cooperated with
administrators and principals on a
Joint guide to teacher evaluation.
NEA is still a union, committed to
collective oargaming ana opposed in
principle to merit pay plans
supported by many outside the
teaching field. But its recent
activities have gone a long way
toward eroding the obstructionist
image that made it such an easy
target in the early 1960s.
Some conservative educators
believe Futrell has made only
marginal progress. “Her
organization under her leadership
has moved from the Middle Ages to
the mid-18th century,” says Chester
Finn, who was an assistant education
secretary in the Reagan
administration.
Futrell, while admitting she would
have liked to move faster on some
issues such as child care and school
restructuring, defends the NEA’s
pace. "We would be the first to admit
that our efforts are just the
beginning,” she said. “What’s
important is that we’re taking the
(See MARY FUTRELL, P. I)
economic development tool to Help
convince major corporations to move
their charters to North Carolina.
Others say its main purpose is to
bring the state’s corporate code in
line with the changes that have
occurred in the world of corporate
finance since adoption of the current
Business Corporation Act in 1957.
The lawmakers say they have
simplified, updated and streamlined
laws going back 34 years after four
years of intensive work by
legislators, law professors and
corporate lawyers throughout the
state. They say the laws deal with
how North Carolina-based
corporations large and small will do
business.
Originally' written in 1955 and
geared to the smaller companies then
in existence, the Business
Corporation Act applies to each of the
120,000 companies who have
incorporated in North
Carolina—varying in size from the
smallest Mom-and-Pop.gorcery store
to companies the sice Of Duke Power,
Food Lion and NCNB.
Corporate law spells out In detail
the steps a business corporationmust
take in being formed ana maintained,
including record keeping and other
reporting requirements. The laws
define and regulate the rights, duties,
and responsibUlties of all parties
(shareholders, directors and
officers) is such a business
association.
(Soe LEGISLATURE, P. 2)
RALPH CAMPBELL. JR.
Namibia
BY GWEN MCKINNEY
NNPA Special Correspondent
Windhoek, Namibia—Tears, cheers
and ceremonial kissing of the ground
marked the homecoming for leaders
of the South West Africa People’s
Organization (SWAPO), who
returned to this once war-torn
country to launch an election
campaign that will signal the demise
of Africa’s last colony.
“I didn’t think it would be me who
would return home; maybe my
daughter but not me,” exclaimed
Hague Geingob. “This is truly an
emotional moment. The world
doesn’t know what it feels like to
leave your home and to live in exile.”
Geingob, head of SWAPO’s eight
member Election Directorate, has
lived in exile for 27 years. He and
other SWAPO leaders arrived in a
chartered jet with 191 other
Namibians who are returning home
under a United Nations-supervised
repatriation. Within the next month
over 45,000 Namibians will be
returned to participate in
independence elections in November.
The refugee return is tied to the UN
, independence plan which will end
South Africa's T*-yt*r eolonial rule.
SWAPO has fought since i960 on the
diplomatic and military fronts to free
the country of South Africa’s
occupation.
The arrival of the SWAPO
leadership marks the movement’s
shift from armed struggle to the
battle for the ballot. SWAPO, favored
to win the elections, is challenged by
an assortment of political groupings.
The closest opponent, the Democratic
Turnhalle Alliance, is backed by
South Africa.
Geingob and his colleagues were
greeted at an airport rally dubbed as
a “Heroes Welcome.” It was an event
attended by an estimated 10,000
people, engulfed in a chorus of
freedom songs and a sea of red, blue
and green—SWAPO’s colors.
While jubiliation prevailed, there
were two separate incidents of
violence. A bus carrying rally
participants was reportedly shot at
and a young man was stabbed by an
unknown assailant who fled into the
crowd assembled at the airport rally.
Those incidents underscore the
concern here for potential violence as
the election campaign moves into
high gear.
Theo Ben Gurirab, a member of the
Election Directorate and SWAPO
foreign secretary, insists that the
arrival of the leadership will provide
momentum to the mass mobilisation
leading up to the election. He lived in
exile for S7 years.
Said Gurirab, "All the other parties
are invited to join the race and we
will knock them down one by one,
peacefully in the campaign process.”
Retiring Pioneers
it—mpim
Brooks Palmsr and Or. Warron
Dornoll Palmar, Saturday, Juno 17,
1MB, at Helan Stough Elamantary
School and at the home of Dr. E. B.
Palmar, 119 Sunnybrook Road,
Ralelfh, raapactlvaly. Juanita, a
teacher of S3 years In South Carolina,
Chapel Hill, and Raleigh, and
Warren, a Toledo, Ohio optometrist of
94years, were “roasted, boasted, and
toasted” in a one-and-one-half hour
ceremony presided over by
Juanita’s personal friend, Mistress of
Ceremonies, Wanda J. Garrett, a
member of the N. C. State Board of
Paroles and former producecjend
hostess of “Black Uniimitad”,
Channel 11, WTVD, Durham, N.C.,
and Master of Ceremonies, Edward
R. Stewart, executive director, UDI
Community -Development
Corporation, Durham, N.C., a friend
and high school constituent of
Warm.
Following a "special salute" and
"greetings” from Avery Upchurch,
the Mayor of the City of Raleigh,
and Ralph Campbell) a member of
the Raleigh City Council, the
ceremonies were opened with a
musical prayer solo by Thesis Bailey,
a Broughton High School senior.
‘The Past Comes to Lite’ was made
real by the appearance of John.
Harrell, Juanita's first principal at
Gibbs Elementary School, Florence,
S.C., her high school alumnus of
Allendale High, Allendale, S.C.,
Bernard Allen, political lobbyist, N.
C. Association of Educators, Raleigh,
and Attorney Nathan Garrett, CPA
Durham, a friend and high school
constituent of Warren, Hillside High
School, Durham. Robert McAdams,
School of Business, N.C. Central
University, represented the
community and boyhood friendship to
Dr. Palmer.
In the "Another Town - The Past
Continues” aection of the program,
Elsie Nunn, retired educator of Estes
Hill School, and Woody Edmonds,
principal of Culbreth Elementary
School, former principal of Frank
Potter Graham School, both former
co-workers of Mrs. Plamer In Chapel
Hill, brought fond memories of
Juanita as the first Mack teacher to
desegregate the Chapel Hill School
System.
The honorees were truly roasted by
the appearance of two past special
guests: Dr. Palmer's life-time Ugh.
school and college classmate
(Morgan State College, Baltimore,
Md.>, Juanita Branch Clemons, who
told of Ids great football career at
Morgan as "Tank Palmer" and his
"Blinders-on-Courtship” (one girl
(See PALMERS, P. 2)