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In the drug culture, when a dealer
was trying to peddle a drug he
thought was better than normal or
provided a better high than usual, he
would call it a killer drug.
“Hey man, I got this killer weed,”
he would say while letting his buyer
take a hit of the stuff.
That phrase, “Killer Drug”,
became a catch word on the street, a
sign that this was no ordinary high
and that any money spent would be
well worth it.
That same phrase, “Killer Drug,"
can .also be used to usher in a new
level in the drug culture, a new era
that will leave some drug addicts
very happy but most of them dead, if
the drug is uncut or laced.
Three people died last week in what
city officials are calling the worst str
ing of drug overdoses in the city’s
history.
Three men were found dead in two
of the city’s public housing projects,
the victims of drug overdoses involv
ing pure heroin.
Officials said the men thought they
had bought cocaine. Two men were
found in the Chavis Heights public
housing complex, one with a hypoder
mic needle still stuck in his arm.
Michael Dolby, 38 and Ernest Little,
39, apparently had been dead at least
24 hours before police found them, of
ficials said.
The third man, James Curtis
Burnett, 27, was found dead early
Thursday in the Walnut Terrace
public housing complex.
The three men, as well as four
others who were rushed to Wake
MedicabCenter early Thursday, ap
parently purchased the drug from the
same dealer Wednesday night and
shortly after that began injecting the
drug, police said.
As a result of the overdoses, the
community was in shock, and many
African-Americans channeled the
anger from the drug overdoses into a
rally to commemorate the birthday of
civil and human rights leader
Malcom X.
City leaders at different agencies
expressed concern that African
Americans, because they are prone to
dealers from outside of the communi
ty, would be victimized by any influx
of drugs coming into the community
and that many more would die.
Drug addicts always look for catch
words like “Uncut or pure,” which
signifies that the drug is worth the
money and can provide a better high
than normal.
And in the drug world, most addicts
seek that kind of drug, since drug ad
diction will most likely level off
unless the addicts take the addiction
to a new height.
Officials said they knew the strange
drug was circulating in the area but
said they made no special effort to
warn the public about the drugs
because the media was unable to put
the word out about the uncut heroin
on the street and that even if they
had, the warnings would likely have
been ignored.
Both incidences, the overdoses and
the resulting media outcry, have left
African-Americans wondering what
to do to stop the drug from coming in
to the community and from stopping
the youth from seeking the drug in the
first place.
NAACP Depends Upon The
Community For Help In
Its Struggle For Freedom
BY REV. H.B. PICKETT
President, Raleigh-Apex Branch, NAACP
We don’t have the luxury of tearing down something and then
rebuilding it! For the past five months, the Raleigh-Apex Branch,
NAACP, has been criticized for not participating in the boycott of
Crabtree Valley Mall and for having the audacity to investigate the
concerns made by African-American teenagers.
The NAACP does not go blindly into a coalition; therefore, an in
vestieation had to be carried out before anv stena could be taken bv
me Raleigh-Apex Branch. After completing our Investigation, we did
iiot deem it necessary to join in the boycott so we submitted an open
letter to John Grimaldi, executive vice president, Plaza Associates,
requesting that several options be pursued in order to resolve the
negative perceptions in the African-American community. Most of
the options were accepted by the owners and management of the
Crabtree Valley Mall through a letter to the community on Dec. 26.
1989.
Now that avenues for improvement at the Crabtree Valley mall
are open, it is very important that those persons that have been silent
(See NAACP. P. 2)
Burger rung nestaurant
POLICE SEEK ROBBERY SUSPECT
(Trade Show
Focuses On
Minorities
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Planning Early
Career Choices
The Piedmont Minority Sup
plier Development Council boats
Trade Fair IN* at Durham’s Om
ni Hotel and Convention Center
May 24 beginning at • a.m. The
theme for Trade 8ho$ ISM is
“Partnership for Action.” -Thin
year the council forms a special
partnership with Durham City
Schools as 2S students participate
in the annual Trade Show ac
tivities.
More than 3S0 individuals
representing industry, utilities,
government, academia and
public agencies join with small
business owners in this annual
event. The mission of the Pied
mont Minority Supplier Develop
ment Council is to strengthen
relationships between small
business owners and major cor
porations located in the Research
Triangle Park, Wake, Durham,
Granville, Cumberland, Pitt,
Nash, Person and Edgecombe
counties.
Trade Show 1990 chairman
Mike Worsham, MWBE director
for Carolina Power and Light Co.,
says, “The entrepreneurial seed
(See MINORITY, P. 2)
Inside Africa
Armed Man
Fires Shot
In Ceiling
A man robbed the Burger King
Restaurant in Cameron Village Shop
ping Center on Friday night and
escaped with an undisclosed amount
of money.
An armed man entered the
restaurant at about 9:45 p.m. and told
the person at the couter to turn over
all the money from the employees,
Raleigh police said. After a confron
tation, the man fired one shot into the
ceiling, but no one was injured,
police said.
No customers were in the store at
the time of the robbery. The man,
after getting some money, then fled
on foot. He was described as a black
male, 5-feet-3 to 5-feet-4 and wearing
blue jeans, a denim jacket and a blue
pullover shirt and a cap.
In other news, Police were sear
ching for the person who fatally shot
another man Friday night.
A Raleigh man was fatally shot late
Friday night and police would not
release the man’s name and said they
were still trying to piece together
details of the incident.
The shooting occured about 11:15
on Glascock Street in front of the
Raleigh North Apartments.
Witnesses said a group of young
people had been standing on the
sidewalk in front of the apartment
buildings when several shots were
fired. Authorities had not determined
(See SEEK SUSPECT, P. 2)
HELMS OPPOSITION STEAMROLLING—Harvey Gantfi oil election with Mike Easley. Gantt. Ilka many othsr North
candidacy gained momentum at ho picked up an CaroSnlant hope* to unseat Republican Incumbent Jesse
endorsement from former oooonont John Ingram In bis run- Halms. (Photo by Talb Sabir-CaKoway)
Soul To Soul Relationships Seen
As Benefit For Black Businesses
BY WILLIAM REfcU
NNPA News Service
WASHINGTON, D.C.—If African
Americans have so much impact on
blacks around the world, why don’t
we see more results on the bottom
line of black life and living? If it is a
case of politics or discrimination in
ifrica, South America or the Carib
bean where blacks are in the majori
ty, African-Americans and their
leadership will raise their voices in a
clamor to be heard around the world.
But when it comes to solutions to
blacks’ economic situations around
the world, African-Americans con
De Klerk Blocks Demo Society
BY DANIEL MAROLEN
President F.W. de Klerk is the hur
dle that retards progress to the black
white negotiations in South Africa. He
is an Afrikaner of the mold, not dif
ferent, and not a reformer. He is were promoted bv the desire to wrig
jingoistic, racist and deceptive. gie South Africa out of the grind of
De Klerk's release of Nelson global economic sanctions. Who
Mandela and other minor concessions doesn’t know that? But only British
weren’t a humanistic gesture, but prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
sprucing up. (Phata by TdH Mir'
has succumbed to that de Klerk
deceptive trick. President Bush was
saved by intense American media
and activist pressure from following
suit.
During the euphoria of Nelson
Mandela’s release everything looked
rosy for a peaceful transition from
apartheid to democracy. And freed
Mandela attacked moribund apar
theid hammer and tongs, to
smithereens. And the world was agog
and encouraged by his pyrrhic fight
against apartheid. “Apartheid... is an
evil that must die,” Mandela cried
again and again.
But de Klerk, who released
Mandela expressly to help launch a
new South Africa, diagged his feet
and did nothing to help Mandela to
give apartheid is well-deserved death
blow. He simply dilly-dallied, until
the oppressed and chaving black
millions became Impatient and
restless. Still, de Klerk didn’t
budge. But Mandela continued to
level heavy blows at the scourge of
apartheid, and fought relentlessly...
In Cape Town, Durban, Johan
nesburg, Soweto, Port Elisabeth,
Lusaka, Harare, Dar-es-Salaam, Ad
dis Ababa, Stockholm, and even at
London's Wembley Stadium on
Margaret Thatcher’s historic “Isle of
Kings,” Mandela made oratorical
history. He became the world’s
champion gladiator par excellence
against the demon of apartheid.
Still de Klerk wouldn’t budget. But
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. a)
tinue to have more conversation and
will than wallet.
Recently, President George Bush
met here with Jamaican Prime
Minister Michael Manley to discuss
Third World debt and bilateral rela
tions. Beyond the White House, and
its economic discussions, Manley met
with black American reporters,
organizational leaders and socialites,
but this group spent more of Prime
Minister Manley’s time discussing
politics, drug distribution and why
blacks here and there have been vic
tims for so long since the days of
slavery in America and the Carib
bean than how to produce capital in
this country or there.
Jamaica is one of the most stable
democracies in the underdeveloped
world, so it doesn’t need black
Americans to march for its political
equality. What Manley and his
visiting entourage were seeking from
the world’s wealthiest black com
(See SOUL TO SOUL, P. 2)
AIDS In Prison
Threatening To
Swamp System
After six months of AIDS testing
among new inmates, officials with
the North Carolina Department of
Correction have concluded that the
disease is threatening to overwhelm
the state’s prison health care system.
In a pair of reports being mailed to
state legislators, the Health Services
Section of the Division of Prisons is
also recommending that the General
Assembly appropriate substantial
funds for treatment services and
facilities or be faced with even
steeper costs down the road.
AIDS is an affliction in which a
virus attacks the body’s immune
system, leaving victims susceptible
to a wide variety of infections and
cancers. A nositive test result means
Of convicted of
fenders entering the
state prison system
between Nov. 13, 1989
and April 30, 8,726
were tested for HIV
infection. Of 274
testing HIV-positive,
77 percent were black
males and 7.6 percent
were white males, 10.5
percent were black
females and 2.1 per
cent were white
females.
tha a person has been exposed to the
AIDS virus, but does not mean that
the person has AIDS.
All convicted offenders entering the
state prison system between Nov. 13,
1969 and April 30 of this year were
tested for the presence of an HIV in
fection as part of routine physical ex
aminations. Of the 8,726 persons
tested during this period, 274, or 3.1
percent, tested HIV-positive.
Of those testing HIV-positive, 77
percent were black males, 10.5 per
cent were black females, 7.6 percent
were white males and 2.1 percent
were white females.
Although it is difficult to make com
(See AIDS, P.2)
CHEF ANC REPRESENTATIVE-Undlwe Matona, H|M. CMsf
representative ta the African Nattonal Centres* met with the praaMant af
University's Stack Itodant Unton daring a meant vtoH to disease aattural to
awareness batwaan Africans and African-Americans. (Theta hy Tan
Gateway)
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