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N.C. STATE LIBRARY
ACQUISITIONS DEPT.
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RALElOH. N.C.,
THURSDAY.
VOL. 49. NO. 48
MAY 10,1990
N.C.'s Semi-Weekly
DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
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Jesse Jackson Gets Busy
Promoting Policies, Goals
Page 13
Michael Jackson Teams With
Game Show Whiz For Hotel
Page 20
Coping With Unemployment
Blacks Losing Affirmative Action Grip
■I I*. MASON, JR.
Staff Writer
It's hard.
Waiting for call backs. Nagging
people about what they hear about
Job openings. Getting frustrated
when the Job you hoped would com<
through doesn’t. Yet, like everyone
else, the unemployed have to keep go
ing and keep trying.
Maintaining that confidence anu
the energy to keep pursuing new
leads can be frustrating, area
psychologists say.
The best thing to do is to call friends
who are going through similar pro
blems. Just (mowing that someone
else may be having an even more dif
ficult time can be a boost to keep gr
ing.
Also, never call it quits or give up.
That’s when your mind starts to play
games on you and you start to believe
the negative things people say about
you. That’s what’s most difficult to
overcome, local analysts say. Often
times the barrier to getting the job is
you.
There are very real .„ctors,
hough, that play into whv some jobs
come through and others don’t.
The best thing to do is read the
newspapers. Not the want ads, but
news stories. What’s the economy
like? What jobs are plentiful? Which
ones are dead ends?
Also, affirmative action programs
have been scaled back, so some jobs
that were set aside for minorities are
not set aside anymore, and that may
have something to do with whv most '
blacks are unemployed, since many
Jon’t own businesses, they have to re
ly on someone else to help them.
According to a recent issue of Black
Enterprise magazine, some of those
affirmative action rulings are having
i profound impact.
On May 1, 1989, in the Price
Waterhouse vs. Hopkins case, the
Supreme Court held that employers
>ear the burden of proof when being
sued for refusing to promote so
meone, but they also considerably
weakened the burden of proof stj.iv
dard.
In June of 1989, the court derided to
make it harder for minorities and
women to win cases based on
statistics that show disparities m the
number of jobs held by while men end
(See UNEMPLOYMENT P
Gantt Facmm Mike
Eaeley In Poet
Election Runoff
BY W. MASON, JR.
SUIt Writer
Democrats Michael F. Easley and
Harvey Gantt will face off in a runoff
election to determine the Democratic
opponent to Republican Sen. Jesse
Gantt, in the primary election, won
SI percent of the vote, but fell shut of
the 40 percent he needed to win the
Democratic primary hands-down.
With 90 percent of the precincts
that reported tallies, Gantt captured
2M,813 votes. Easley captured 205,066
or SO percent of the vote.
Much of Gantt’s support came from
the black communities and from
Charlotte, where he served as mayor.
Gantt also did well in Union, Gaston,
Lincoln and Cabarrus counties.
Gantt campaigned on the idea that
he would contrast the conservative
views of Jesse Helms better than any
other Democratic candidate.
He stressed the importance of .
building education and working to im- j
prove the situation for working-class
campaign as a black candidate, only*
that he would be a candidate for all
the people if he were elected to,
replace Jesse Helms.
Although he struggled to get money
for hie campeign, he said it was more '
important to get a message to as
many voters as possible and he spent
much time in the Triangle, attending
programs at St. Augustine’s College
and Shaw University, among others.
A runoff between Gantt and Easley
was accepted by the party leader
ship.
Easley is a political newcomer who
had the backing of many Democratic
activists outside of the Charlotte
area. He also has the support of
orcanised labor, who viewed him, not
HARVEY GANTT
Gantt, as the best opposition to
Helms.
Easley called himself a moderate,
saying he wanted to ease the drug
war and restore order to North
Carolina families.
His strongest support came from
small and rural towns in the state and
in eastern North Carolina.
(See HARVEY GANTT, P. 2)
(
search Continues
POLICE i RAIL ROBBERY SUSPECT
man may
Have Hit
Two Stores
Police suspect one man in the un
iuccesful attempt to rob a discount
>eauty store and in the robbery of a
Jamer shoe store.
Officials from the Raleigh Police
)epartment and the Garner Police
)epartment gave the same descrip
ion of the man suspected of robbing
ne store and trying to rob the other,
'he two stores are within a half-mile
f each other.
Raleigh police described the man
a black, in his early 30s, about S’4” of
[tedium build with a mustache and
rearing a baseball cap, dark tee
tairt, blue jean jacket and blue jean
Mints.
Police said the holdup occurred just
tefore 8 p.m. at the Beauty World
>iscount Supply Store on Chapanoke
toad off South Saunders Street. ✓
Police aid the owner had already
dosed the store apd. cleaned out the
dlls from the cash drawer when a
nan insisted on entering the store. He
ipparently left without taking
inything. Police said he threatened
he owner with a gun.
Shortly afterward, the Pic-n-Pay at
545 U.S. 70 W in Garner was held up
ind the suspect ran on foot.
In other news, Raleigh police ar
ested Five people in connection with
everal car thefts over the weekend.
The five were acquaintances and
rere taking the car out for fun, police
aid. The arrest came early this week
rhen one of the police officers had
See ROBBERY, P. 2)
REELECDN6 THE SHHMFF—Mr. and Mrs. Cart Trica of
Fuffuay-Varina and the committae to raafact Wake Sheriff
John Baker heM a dinner and reception recently. On May
12 the committee wM hold a "Meet The Sheriff Day” at the
i af Mr. and Mrs. Want Richardson In Fuquay fr
11 a.m. nntH 3 pin. Baker was accompanied by Ms «#».
Mrs. Juanita Baker at tbs reception af the Bolden Con
Restaurant (Photo by Jim McOowol)
NCCU Officials Fight To Keep
Nursing Program On Thm Campus
BY W. MASON, JR.
StaH Writer
DURHAM—North Carolina Central
University is caught in a struggle to
keep its nursing program from being
moved to Fayetteville State Universi
ty
This week, the university system
may vote on a recommendation by
svstem president C. >. Spangler to
the program away trorti NCOl
be a mistake.
“We want the public to be inf !
about this issue. Power is know
We’re hoping that friends .s
MW student from Jordan Tells
Of Life, Education In America
BY W. MASON, JR.
Staff Writer
They watch "The Cosby Show” in
Jordan.
“Cosby,” said Nizam Yousef, a Jor
danian student at Shaw University, is
the symbol of the similarities bet
ween the United States and other
countries.
“We also get ‘Magnum, P.I.’ and 1
saw ‘Roots’ in Jordan,” he said.
Yousef came to the United States to
siuuy computer information systems
and said he plans to stay in the United
States after he gets his education.
The 25-year-old student said he
wanted to study in this country
because he felt he could get a better
education. Although he’s a junior at
Shaw, Yousef already plans to get his
graduate degree from Duke or North
Carolina State University, he said.
Coining to Shaw University was a
matter of preference._
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“If you go to the bigger schools you
tend to get lost,” he said. “I’ve found
that Raleigh is quite a place to study.
It’s not like other cities.
“I’m also glad to be over here. The
people here are so friendly. The
American people, if you ask them for
help they will help you.
“At first my family, my mother,
didn’t want me to come here. But my
father, he said he thought it would be
good for me.
“I’ve found that computer science
in this country is better since the
United States has IBM and other
areas of computer technology."
More than studying in this country,
Yousef said he also likes the
American way of life.
“The American way of life is good.
You can do many different things.
You can study, you can watch TV,
and then you can go to have fun. The
government here is by the people and
for the people. I like democracy. It’s
the protein of life.”
Back in Jordan, Yousef said, there
is some reminder of democracy but
much of life there is a struggle.
Yousef and his family, like many
other families, moved to Jordan after
leaving Palestine, which was turned
into Israel by a 1M8 UN decree.
Palestine was controlled and ruled by
many nations and only fought to
maintain its independence, he said.
In IMS and 1967, Palestine was in
volved in war to keep other countries
from imposing religion on the Palesti
nian people, be said.
“All we wanted in Palestine was
free religion and all religions,” he
said. “The Israeli government
wanted Palestine for the Jewish
religion.”
The country is continuing its fight,
which is called “Intifada,” a popular
uprising against occupation.
Yousef and his family, along with
other Palestinians, left their war-torn
country and established what is
known as Jordan. He still, however,
(See STUDENT. P. 2)
Dr. Richard Mizelle, chairman of ti«
NCCU Faculty Senate, said that to move the
nursing program from NCCU to Fayettevili
State University would be inappropriate
because there is not a huge influx of students
in the Southeast trying to enter nursing pro
grams.
nove tne nursing program trom
VCCU over to FSU.
But Dr Richard M. Mizelle, chair
nan of the NCCU Faculty Senate,
:old The CAROLINIAN that moving
university would write letters and •
in touch with their legislators.'
The conflict came after SpangiM*
(See NURSING. P. 2)
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