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For Redddhs Vs. Falcons
Striking Minorities
“Browning
DURHAM (AP)—Because AIDS is
disproportionately striking
minorities, the “browning of AIDS”
may bring even greater governmen
tal and public apathy toward the fatal
disease, health officials and
educators warn.
If that happens, America’s health
care system—already crippled by
runaway medical costs—may col
lapse altogether, Phil Wilson, train
ing director of the National Task
Force on AIDS Prevention in Los
Angeles, Calif., said last week at a
statewide AIDS conference in
Durham.
“Some of us are infected, but all of
us are affected," said Wilson, who is
infected with the AIDS virus. “At the
rate things are going, you won’t be
able to use the hospital if you’re hav
ing a baby, if you break your arm,
because all of the beds are going to be
full of people with [AIDS].”
An estimated one million to two
million Americans are infected with
the virus, and within the next few
years, moat will develop AIDS and re
quire intensive medical care, Wilson
•eid. As many as 14,000 North Caroli
nians are believed to be infected with
the AIDS virus.
Nationally, 132,510 AIDS cases
have been reported, and 57,000 of
those victims are black or Hispanic.
In North Carolina, 51 percent of the
state’s 1,335 AIDS cases involve
blacks.
"Pay a little now or pay a lot later
is a very old argument, but never has
it been more true,” Wilson told 000
doctors, nurses, social workers and
health educators at Friday’s con
Durham resident Nat Blevins spoke
at the conference, recounting his visit
to a local hospital two weeks ago.
“On that day, I officially became a
‘person with AIDS’ rather than a per
son with HIV disease,” Blevins said
before giving a brief account of his
life.
“I’ve worked hard, I’ve paid my
due&t and I'Ve been a good citigeq,”
Blevins said. “I’m also one of those
people whom one of our senators calls
‘a disgusting homosexual.’
“Sen. [Jesse] Helms is always talk
ing about attacks on his character,”
he said. “I have to say that I take it
personally wheh .he .calls ,, me a
disgusting homosexual.” He brought
many to their feet with his pledge to
help defeat North Carolina’s senior
Senator in the November election
Kathryn Martin, a nurse and AIDS
coordinator at N.C. Baptist Hospital,
said that the Winston-Salem medical
center is already overwhelmed with
AIDS patients being referred from
neighboring Piedmont counties.
“We are talking about capping our
clinic because we don’t have the fun
ding to keep up with the numbers and
(See AIDS, P. 2)
Horrible Case
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Children
Strangled,
Mutilated
fnai CAROLINIAN Stall Report,
Three consecutive life sentences
wen given to a Franklin County
woman this week after she entered a
guilty plea in a Louis burg court to
second-degree murder for stabbing,
strangling and mutilating her three
yoimg children last November.
The children, Shenika Chanel
McKay, 2, Terrell Quentin McKay, 1,
andQuincey Matthew McKay, 2 mon
ths, were slashed and stabbed hun
dreds of times with a steak knife on
Nov. 15, I960. Two of the bodies had
been eviscerated.
Katrina McKay, 20, of Franklinton,
had been charged with three counts of
tied around the children’s necks.
Medical examiners stated that the
victims died of a combination of stab"
wounds and strangulation.
Superior Court Judge Robert W.
Hafafood gave Ms. McKay the max
imum prison term for each of the
three counts of second-degree
murder, in which the average
sentence in North Carolina is is
years. Ms. McKay must serve at least
90 years before she will be eligible for
parole.
She was arrested after the bodies of
the three children-were dumped on a
neighbor’s porch while Ms. McKay
pounded on the door. Family
members and friends said she had a
history of mental problems. Ms.
McKay has spent several months
altar her arrest in Dorothea Dix
Hospital in Raleigh undergoing
evaluation. She was found competent
to stand trial Monday, based on
testimony by a state psychiatrist that
the death penalty.
ctrical cords and clothing were
murder and could have
(8M MURDER, P.I)
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BARRY MUM ON PLANS
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Jnry
a«Icctlon ground through a
savaath day Tuooday in Mayor
Marita 8. Barry's drug and par*
Jury trial while top Barry aide*
Mid anew that he would an
nauaee he was abandoning his re
oisetloa flan*. The mayor was
moattag with his staff late Tues
day, hat city officials sold they
sifocted oaiy a routine dlacus
stoa of Mty affairs.
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Many community leaden have «■
preeaed concent this week over the
firing of two ataff members at Saint
Augustine’s Collage in whathas been
The college has
radio personality Cash
Tre Taylor from their
WAUG-AM as program
and
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tively.
In an nfffifi letter to Mirhsrfs
June U, St. Augustine’s Prssidsnt
PnseU Robinson said, “Ws regret to
inform you that we will not renew
your contract for another year...
Your servicea will no longsr be need
ed after the dose of business today
(June 11). However, the college will
pay you for the next» days, through
July 11, lM0.n
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Micrwro, whip mi oeen wiui ukb
station September two, yu in
an interview with The CAROLINIAN
that ha had the “utmoatraspoet tor
Dr. Presell Robinson mid Saint
Augustine's College. I’ve certainly
enjoyed my two years there program
ming the station, and especially
working with the students.”
iimimi« paid w>ft working with
young people was the chief reason
why he left WLLK-AM in INS to work
tar WAUO. “I’ve watched so many
only as broadsaatare, hut as
young men and women. Pm very pro
ud of an of them and hope they win
cherish the experience we had
together,” Michaels said.
Some community leaders and
WAUG listeners were not so positive
and aaid they questioned the move by
the administration add station
manager J. Holloway, Jr:
Alvin John Wapleo has been named
program director for the station
along with new employees, Kimberly
Johnson, traffic director; Ronald
Lewis, production assistant; Sarah
Glover, promotions director; Carol
(See COLLEGE FIRES, P. 2)
Bonds To S. Africa
Emerge On *'Caravan
To Mandela” Jaunt
Cross-continental efforts to im
prove communication and ex
change cultural ties have begun
with African-American leaders
and South Africa's Nelson
Mandela and the African Na
tional Congress. Mandela wiH be
the featured speaker during a
mass rally held in his honor at the
Georgia Tech football stadium in
Atlanta. Ga„ on Wednesday,
June 27.
A massive North Carolina
mobilisation plan has been put in
place to travel to Atlanta to see
and hear Mandela. Buses will
depart from major cities in the
state to make the one-day trip.
The group will return the evening
of June 27.
Brttce Lightner, a community
organiser, recently traveled to
Atlanta to meet with Coretta
Scott King and ANC leaders.
Lightner stated in an Interview
with The CAROLINIAN, “Nelson
Mandela and the ANC*s longstan
ding struggle to resist apartheid
has, at last, begun to dismantle
that country's oppressive, racist
regime. We can be immensely in
spired by being in the presence of
one of the greatest world leaders
of all time.’’
Buses will leave Raleigh at •
a.m. June 27, tour the Martin
Luther King Center for Non
violent Social Change in Atlanta
and attend a mass rally with
Mandela, Hugh Masekela, North
Carolina's Shirley Caesar and
Stevie Wonder. The total cost of
the trip will be |30 per person. In
formational flyers and reserva
tion forms can be obtained from
NELSON MANDKLA
f reedom Books, WLLE, WSHA
WCLY, Cross Link Learning
Center, Chuck Hunter’s Exxon,
Richard B. Harrison Library and
Hie CAROLINIAN.
The lour Raleigh buses will join
those from Asheville, Durham,
Elisabeth City, Sanford, Fayet
teville, Rocky Mount, Wilm
(See NELSON MANDELA, P. 2)
. BY KHAUF RAMADAN
Waabbagton, the focus has been on
African-American* with the subject*
ranging from AIDS to receiving grant
applications for adolescent pregnan
cy prevention programs.
A program was held this week with
a few African-American reviewers
for the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services with Patricia
Funderburk, formerly of Raleigh,
participating.
What strikee me moat about this is
the great Job Me. Funderburk has
donate her now teieae director of the
Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Pro
grams. She has recruited more
AfricanAmoricaoe as reviewers in
six mouths than the entire depart
ment has since the office was funded
in MU.
Notice, these wore not token ap
pointments, but rather profasaiooal
and sensitive African-Amsricans who
were assertive and fair in dealing
with more than am grant applica
tions. It is mieliais more nrominent
Sian here that African-Americans
can lead. This leadership ability was
also illustrated recently during a
three-day conference in Durham on
AIDS.
African-Americans composed a
small percentage of the 800-plus par
ticipants, however, they made a
signficant impact on the focus and ex
cellent quality of the conference.
Dr. Joseph Goryle from the
centers ter Disease Control engaged
the audienee for more than an hour
with an address on the historical
perspective of HIV and AIDS.
There was also the vibrant, infor
mative and scholarly address by Dr.
Parry Primm explaining the many
connections between substance abuse
and AIDS, Dr. Primm, who beads a IS
billion federal department focusing
on substance abuse, also stressed the
tacts about nicotine, caffeine and
alochol as substances of abuse.
Dr. Primm could hardly return to
Us hotel room before being engaged
for hours by questions in the lobby
after tbs address.
There was also the presentation by
Truife Harris and the outreach,
workers of Drug Action of Wake
County on affective outreach efforts
to reach high-risk and substance
abusing adults. Delores Smith from
the Urban League of Winston-Salem
gave two excellent workshops on
(See LEADERSHIP, P. S)
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