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RALEIGH. N. C. VOL. 49. NO. 49 TUESDAY MAY 15^ 1990 0£ V" . r <C OU m o 'x' £ 0) (0 '•4 " o ■ V .. , _ O N.C.’s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST IIIIUUUUUUU SINGLE COPY A(? IN RALEIGH ^30 ELSEWHERE 300 REV. H. B. PICKETT Gap Exists in Money For Schools The gap in local school spen ding between North Carolina’s wealthy counties and its poor counties continues to widen, ac cording to a study released last week by the Public School Forum. Wake County leads the latest spending report with $1,792 per student average while students in the state’s poorest county get on ly $330 each. Since 1986. the difference in local school spending has widen ed by $519 per student. “Highlights of this study con firm our suspicion that some kind of action may be needed to cor rect this disparity,” said John Dernan, president of the Public School Forum which is co sponsoring the study along with the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center. “Nearly half of the school children in North Carolina live in rural areas," Dornan added. “If the economic future of our state is linked to the success of these children, then we must do a bet ter Job providing them equal ac cess to a good education.” This is the first of several reports to be developed as part of the forum’s Rural School In itiative which is looking at ine quities in North Carolina's public schools. The study also will ex ’ amine the quality of education in North Carolina and the impact of state and federally mandated programs upon local spending. Titled "Actual Effort,” the study compares actual local dollar spending totals, for both current school operations and capital spending, in all 160 North (See SCHOOL SPENDING, P. 2) U in Place 7P Impatient With Mall Officials NAACP officials are growing impa tient with Crabtree Valley Mall ex ecutives. Mall officials promised to establish a task force to monitor race relations at the mall following a boycott of African-American youths who com plained of harassment. But NAACP officials say the task force has not been set up and say delaying, the task force may push the NAACP to take legal action. Officials from Crabtree Valley Mall and leaders in the African-American community met last December at Martin Street Baptist Church in response to the dispute over the mall’s treatment of blacks. As part of a series leading up to the boycott of the mall, African American youths and their parents began to picket due to allegedly un fair and unjust treatment by mall employees. Members of the Concerned Citizens for Equality and youths led the pro test against the mall after mall of ficial John B. Grimaldi asked Michael P. Halperin and Raleigh’s Capital Area Transit to eliminate bus < service from downtown to the mall between the hours of 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. on Saturdays. Merchants com plained that African-American teenagers were using offensive language, committing acts of van dalism and harassing shoppers. Many African-Americans visiting and shopping at the mall complained of discrimination and harassment by security personnel. “Nothing has changed at the mall,” a young man who asked that his name not be usee told The CAROLINIAN last week. “The discrimination and harassment. Black people are still having problems there.” The Raleigh-Apex Chapter of the NAACP has issued a statement con cerning the mall controversy after the Rev. Henry Pickett, president, met with Samuel Longiotti at Plaza Associates on May 3 to discuss con cerns. The NAACP statement read, in part: “The Dec. 24 statement of the owners and managers ot Crabtree Valley Mall was a positive step toward resolving the conflict as it relates to the mall. However, the good will gained by this step is being eroded on the one hand by the owners and managers’ perceived slowness in appointing the multiracial task force. “In the release on Dec. 24,1989, the awners and managers of the Crabtree Valley Mall stated ‘that Crabtree Valley Mall has retained an indepen dent consultant to form a multiracial task force for the purpose of develop ing programs for race relations, human relations and youth relations with the mall.’ “The Raleigh-Apex Branch NAACP has since learned, not via any representatives from the mall, that an independent consultant has not been retained by Crabtree Valley Mall, thus the task force after five months since the statement was released, is still not in place. “The Raleigh-Apex Branch (See NAACP, P. 2) Teenager Snared In Robberies Police Bring 23 Charges Police charged a Raleigh teenager with breaking into 20 offices during the past month and taking about $6,000 in cash and other property. The teenager, Marcus Jermaine Gill, 17, of 6133 St. Giles St., was charged with 23 counts of breaking and entering and larceny and three counts of safe-cracking, in connect dion with a string of break-ins at of fices and businesses in the Oak Park area. The youth is being held in Wake County Jail on $25,000 bond. Police arrested the youth after responding to a burglar alarm at the York Elementary School about 1 a m. In a search of Gill’s home, where he lives with his mother, property was discovered which had been reported stolen from numerous offices and businesses. Police said the property, which in cluded briefcases, videocassette recorders and pen-and-pencil sets, had been reported recovered. In other news, police are still on the trail of a robbery suspect. Police suspect one man in the un successful attempt to rob a discount beauty store and in the robbery of a Garner shoe store. Officials from the Raleigh Police Department and Garner Police gave the same description of a man suspected of robbing one store and trying to rob the other. The two store are within a half-mile of each other. Raleigh police described the man as black, in his early 30s, about 5’4", (See TEENAGER, P. 2) PROTEST*® HAZARDOUS WASTE SITES—Antrak, in li^W BW So ^^RS^W * SBSS^^a^B^^l^f PlWWpn vault IN9 (MnwBMMt nM uNfllia'naapR* _ Now Yaric last waak. During tha laangaraMaa whaia Bov. Martin appoarad to taad off tho train, prataatara airyrsrjrsr-'ts: waata altoa In North Carolina. (Photo by Tahb Sabir Cahaway) New Center To Focus On Goals The Center for Leadership, Development and Research has been established in Washington, D.C. The four organizers and officers of the center are Dr. Prezell R. Robinson, chairman of the board and vice presi dent for program development; Dr. Charles A. Lyons, Jr., president; Dr. Mabel P. Phifer, vice president for development-ancf research; and Dr. Wilbert Greenfield, vice president for finance and corporate secretary. The center represents a major ef fort to create an organizational framework and to serve as a catalyst to bring together organizations and people to impact on human resource development, education and training. and the shaping of public policy in the interest of black Americans. The four principals bring to the organization a wealth of expertise and experience that will be utilized in the programs of the center. Dr. Robinson is president of St. Augustine's College, Raleigh. Dr. Lyons is immediate past chancellor and professor of political science at Fayetteville State University, Fayet teville. Dr. Phifer is serving as direc tor of the Black College Satellite Net work in Washington, D.C. Dr. Green field is immediate past president of Virginia State University, Petersburg, Va., and senior consul tant for the National Association for wowing National Problem Blacks Overrepresented In Prisons BY JOHN POWELL Special To no CAROLINIAN Today more than one million people are confined in the prisons and jails of the United States, making our prison population among the highest in the world. Hundreds are on death row awaiting execution by gas, electrocu tion or other means. Criminal sentences here are much longer than those in western Europe and Canada, and the United States is the only Western nation that still imposes the death penalty. To complete the story, another shocking fact must be added to the above: By every conceivable measure and at every step of the pro cess—from the initial stop by the police through arrest, conviction, sentencing, imprisonment, and even execution—the .sanctions of our criminal Justice system fall with huge disproportlonality on people of color, particularly African-Americans. Black people comprise only about 12 percent of the U.S. population. Yet. nationwide, 46 percent of those in carcerated in prisons and jails are black, as are 41 percent of those on death row. In many states, ijie situa tion is even worse. African Americans make up hilly SO percent of the prison population in New York, 70 percent in Louisiana, and 72 per cent in Maryland. On death row, nmmjmim mmmm mu tUPPORTM THE IMBMFF-Mr. aai Mra. 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Few timee In history have a people lost virtually an entire generation to incarceration. The effects of this wholesale crimlnallsation of African American youth on the family life, economy, and culture of black America are already manifest and will no doubt bs felt for years to wane. ’ Why are African-American people, to long underrepresented in business, fovemment, education and other iroas, so overrepresented in our jrisons? Without question, individual •aeism plays a large part. At every pint whore decisions are made in the uriminal Justice system—from police ifffcars (still overwhelmingly white) leciding to stop and frisk a person to (See BLACKS, P. S) Equal Opportunity in Higher Educa tion in Washington, J).C. The founders of the center recognize that it is exceedingly critical that new and creative ways be devised to develop a viable and ongoing human resource system - among black Americans which is on a par with white Americans. “This is essential to the attainment of equality of opportunity, social justice and equity envisioned by the Con stitution of the United States," accor ding to the founders. The center is established as a private, non-profit public policy, research, education and leadership organization that will also seek greater involvement in and greater impact on public policy for blacks. A broad range of programs will be , established to enhance opportunities for research and publication to in- i crease the researchoutput of black ] scholars, faculty, and staff of historically black colleges and i (See LEADERSHIP, P. 2) INSIDE AFRICA BY LARRY A. STILL WASHINGTON, D.C.-As recently released African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela met with South African President Frederick de Clerk in Cape Town, South Africa, to begin discussions of negotations for a desegregated nation, ANC and African-American representatives urged continued sanctions and demonstrations against the all-white Afrikaner government. Speaking at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in the U.S. capital, Stanley Mabizela, ANC deputy director, said Mandela and black African leaders are deman ding the release of at least 300 more political prisoners, the lifting of State of Emergency apartheid laws against Rev. Jesse Jackson has called for mass U.S. demonstrations against President George Bush’s opposi tion to sanctions against South Africa as he emphasized black Americans’ linkage to African liberation. black citizens and recognition of all ANC party officials before serious negotiations begin by July 1. “We’re still talking about talking,” Mabizela told a press conference at the church in reference to the Cape Town neetings. Lindiwe Mabuza, the ANC -epresentative in Washington and Jnited Nations observer, has joined Mabizela in touring the United States o rally continued support among all African-Americans, religious groups ind other organizations, as well as J.S. officials, before Mabizela •eturns to ANC headquarters in _usaka, Zambia. Meanwhile, Rev. Jesse Jackson sailed for mass U.S. demonstrations (See INSIDE AFRICA. 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