TUESDAY
Pushing The Gospel
Tramaine Hawkins continues to
push the parameters of gospel as
far as she can.
*
Time For The Blue*
Blues singers in the genre of Etta
Baker will lineup for a true
African-American experience.
Pan* 11
SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
Successful people accept respon
sibility for their mistakes and learn
from their experiences. They take ac
tion to effect change in their lives and
triumph over their difficulties. And
successful people don’t give up and
quit. Anyone can quit. That’s the easy
Way out.
* Lewis Timberlake
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RALEIGH, N.C.
VOL. 49, NO. 83
TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 11,
N.C.'s Semi-Weekly
DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
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Education/Family Issues 1
Gantt Climbs In Uphill Senate Race
U.S. Senate nominee Harvey Gantt,
projecting issues of concern to voters
and citziens in an uphil) battle to
unseat U.S. Republican Sen. Jesse
Helms, has also called for a “major
investment” by the nation in early
childhood education.
“More than one million North
Carolina children began public school
last week. I beleive we must make a
commitment to invest in our
children’s early education so that
future generations of North Caroli
nians can compete on a national and
international level in an increasingly
competitive workforce,” Gantt said
DANIEL BLUE. III
Daniel Blue 111
Interviewed On
This Morning”
BY LANITA LOWERY
Contributing Writer
i Seventeen-year-old Daniel
Bine, III, had what most would
consider the experience of a
lifetime recently. He was inter
viewed by Harry Smith on CBS’s
“This Morning.”
Bine is a senior at Enloe High
, School. This August, as president
of his student body, he
represented his school at the Na
tional Leadership Camp in Knox
! vilie, Tenn. This camp was spon
; sored by the National Association
I of Secondary School Principals.
According to Blue, when Joan
v Gilbertson of CBS was looking for
students for an education seg
ment, she must have contacted
the NASSP who in turn spoke
with Enloe’s Student Council ad
visor. Danny’s family received a
call from CBS on Aug. 22.
“I came home and they told me
to expect a call from a lady from
CBS who had been calling me
(See uanIEL BLUE, P. 2)
Asa Spaulding Leaves
Legacy As Pioneer In
Business And Industry
DURHAM (AP)-Asa T.
Spaulding, the former president of
N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Co., was
being remembered this weekend for
Ms pioneering role in black business.
Spaulding died last Wednesday of
heart failure at Durham County
Hospital, where he had been
hospitalized for about a week, of
ficials said. The 88-year-old had been
in declining health in recent years.
Spaulding, who was the first black
actuary in the United States, was
often referred to as the father of
Mack business
-r> After becoming president of N.C.
Mutual in 1950, Spaulding helped
establish a national reputation for the
firm, which became one of the
nation’s largest black-owned finan
cial institutions.
The first black ever elected to the
Durham County Board of Commis
sioners, Spaulding was also
remembered as a strong community
leader with an innovative business
mind.
"There’s no question he had a
positive and profound effect on the
Durham community and the in
surance industry around the world,”
said A.J. Howard Clement, III, a
Durham City Council member who
worked with Spaulding at N.C.
Mutual.
In 1870, the Columbus County
native made headlines by writing let
ters to officials at 108 American com
panies, urging them to appoint more
blacks to their boards of directors.
He also proposed creation of a na
tional “bank" of black executives to
provide a reservoir of top black
leaders for business and industry.
In 1979, he was among 17 blacks
honored by President Carter during a
White House luncheon. He also was
recognised by presidents
Tiw-nhower, Truman and Johnson,
(See ASA SPAULDING, P. 2)
recently at the Davison-Cornelius
Developmental Day Care Center in
Davidson.
“My opponent, Jesse Helms, has
consistently voted against what mat
ters most to North Carolina
families—the education of their
children,” said Gantt, noting that
Helms voted against an expansion of
the Head Start program, against stu
dent loans, against President Bush’s
Excellence in Education program
and even against the school lunch
program.
“Education will be my top priority
when I go to Washington,” said the
former Charlotte mayor whose four*
children attend Charlotte’s public
schools.
“I will work to bring together a
partnership of parents, teachers and
administrators, businesses and
government to make sure by the time
children get to kindergarten they
have a proper orientation for educa
tion. We need to do this in a more
comprehensive way than we are do
ing it now so that we can touch as
many of our children as possible,”
Gantt said.
Meanwhile, Gantt is trying to do
this year what a popular governor
could not do in 1984: topple the
Senate’s zealous crusader against
what he considers “obscene art” and
homosexual causes.
Helms is counting on his national
fundraising juggernaut and hot
button “values” issues to win him a
fourth term. Harvey Gantt, his
Democratic challenger, depicts
himself as a champion of what he con
tends are people’s real con
cerns—education, health care and the
environment.
Gantt’s race is one of the wild cards
that keeps the contest from being a
typical conservative-liberal mat
chup. Another is Helms’ capacity to
inspire devotion and distaste in
voters in nearly equal
measure—leaving the outcome to a
small percentage of undecideds.
The two candidates’ backgrounds
are as different as their styles and
philosophies.
Helms was a television commen
tator in the 1960s and became a
household name with his editorials
against integration. During that
period, Gantt became the first black
student at Clemson University.
Gantt, an architect, also is the first
black man to win his party’s Senate
Three Deaths involved
DRUG DEALER PLEADS GUILTY
Selling
“Killer
Cocaine”
A woman pleaded guilty last week
In U. S. District Court to selling
heroin that killed three users who
mis tookit for cocaine.
Regina Bennett Massenburg, a
alleged drug dealer, who was
described as a heroin addict changed
her idea from not guilty after a jury
began hearing evidence against her
on five felony counts.
Her co-defendants, both female
friends of Massenburg’s, signed plea
bargains earlier in the week. They
testified that a Nigerian named
“Val” had enlisted Ms. Massenburg
to sell what she had thought was
cocaine. The series of overdoses in
May in Southeast Raleigh led to three
deaths and four who were revived
from respiratory arrest. Up to 15
people in all may have been sickened
by injecting pure heroin that has been
described as "killer cocaine.”
Co-defendants Sonya Taylor and
April Ayalogu said they had been
with Ms. Massenburg on May 16 when
“Val” asked her to sell the drugs for
him. Ms. Massenburg agreed to
return with <3,000. The women said
Ms. Massenburg had tried to cook the
powder into a rock form and had
become alarmed when the process
didn’t work.
Investigators said they knew
“Val’s” identity, but they were not
sure whether he would be charged in
the overdose cases.
It was alleged to have been
smuggled into the country by a
“swallower” — a person who hid the
drug by swallowing it in a condom.
Judge W. Bari Britt has set
sentencing for Dec. 3. Ms.
Massenburg, 22, faces up to life in
prison.
BLACK FAMILY REUMON - The NaUsnal Council of
Negro Women, Inc. held the fifth annuel Black Family
Reunion in Washington, D. C., to reinforce the history,
tradition and culture of the black family. St. Augustine's
College’s WAU6 Radio provided two families of four from
Raleigh roundtrip fare and accommedationi to attend the
celebration. In photo, left, radio program director Alvin
John Waples; general manager, Jay Holloway; Ms.
Deborah Blount, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Copeland and music
director, Dollar BM Chapel.
Rep. Price Kicks Off Re-election
Campaign With Five-County Tour
Fourth District Congressman
David Price kicked off his 1990 re
election campaign last week with a
five-county tour of the Fourth
District.
At rallies in Asheboro, Siler City,
Pittsboro, Raleigh, Louisburg,
Hillsborough and Chapel Hill, Price
pledged to continue his efforts to
improve the quality of life for Fourth
District residents.
He called education his No. 1
priority. “No single issue is more
important to our future than
education,” said Price, who spent 17
years as a teacher and whose parents
wcic uuui icaciicia. uiu year,
voters should ash, ‘Who can do more
to improve schools for our kids’
schools, strengthen training for our
workers and make college more
affordable for every family?' The
answer is clear: nobody has worked
harder for education than I have, and
nobody will make it a higher priority
than I will.
“We’ve begun with the basics
reading, writing, math and science.
But we aiso need to do a better job
preparing our youngsters to claim the
high-tech jogs in the Fourth District.
North Carolina's economic future
aepenus on it weu-irumeu wuriuorcc
that can attract the cutting-edge
companies we need,” he said.
Price, 50, is seeking re-election to
his third term in the U. S. House of
Representatives. He was first elected
in 1986, after spending 13 years as a
professor of political science and
public policy at Duke University.
Politics Note
Rising Cadre
Of Black Power
BY JUAN WILLIAMS
Special To The CAROLINIAN
Just days after accepting the
Nobel Peac6 Prise in Oslo, Norway,
Martin Luther King, Jr. was in
Selma, Ala., back ,in the American
South, pushing the battle lines of the
civil rights movement by describing
its ultimate goal. “When we get the
right to vote,” he told an overflowing
church in January 1965, “We will
send to the statehouses not politicians
who will stand in the doorways of
universities to keep Negroes out, but
men who will uphold the cause of
justice. Give us the ballot.”
Today, 25 years after the passage of
the Voting Rights Act, King’s vision
of the future of bMk politics has been
tempered curiously by the fires of
political reality.
It is difficult to fit King’s words
with the bitter 1966 congressional
race between former civil rights ac
tivists John Lewis and Julian Bond.
Here were two black candidates run
ning to represent a mostly black con
I gressional district in a campaign
typified on both sides by riducule, in
nuendo, and namecalling.
And how would King’s words about
1 “the cause of justice” apply to black
(See POWER LEADERS. P. 2)
nomination—and he did it by
defeating white rivals in both a
primary and a June 5 runoff. He said
then that Helms would bring up the
race issue “at his own risk.”
Helms has not mentioned race
directly. But he refused to rebuke
James Meredith, a civil rights
pionmeer who now works on his staff,
when Meredith said national black
leades were heavily involved in
drugs.
And Helms, in at least one televi
sion ad, has dusted off an old
Southern strategy to remind voters
(See HARVEY GANTT, P. 2)
Inside
Africa
Black-On-Black
Killing Called
Racist Genocide
BY DANIEL MAROLEN
An Annlynb
Everywhere these days a lament is
heard about South African blacks kill
ing other blacks at the height of their
liberation struggle. And one finds it
hard to convince anyone that it is
sheer nonsense There’s no tribe or
organization killing its counterpart.
The blame for the currente
massacres and arson in Natal Pro
vince should be blamed on apartheid,
the root cause of all suffering,
violence and unrest in racist South
Africa.
In recent black faction fighting in
Natal Province (Kwa-Zulu),
thousands of Africans died and many
Zulu homes were destroyed because
of apartheid, not because Nelson
Mandela and Prince Mangosuthu
Buthelezi are at war with each other.
Far from it!
The stark truth is that the jubilant
euphoria over Nelson Mandela’s
release has waned due to President
de Klerk’s vacillations and dilly
dallying with the launching of con
stitutional negotiations for the
democratization of South Africa.
Africans expected Mandela’s release
to open the way to their liberation.
But this isn’t happening, and they are
impatient. Meanwhile, de Klerk’s
segregationist policies continue to fan
up feuds between African and
African, causing conflict after con
flict.
What are these segregationist
policies? Migratory labor policies
that barrack black workers in single
sex hostels; the Bantus tan policy that
breaks up African family life; ethnic
grouping of Africans in ghettos, and
the retribalization of the already
detribalized black population.
Today, township residents in
Soweto and other urban ghettos are
assailing the structures of apartheid,
especially the hostel system and
ethnic grouping of residents, which
can only help to antagonize them to
each other, and to spark off factional
conflicts among them. Hostels are
dally bulldozed and set on fire, caus
ing their inmates loss of life and hard
earned belongings. Naturally, the
victims of the arson react, and fac
tion fights escalate. But it’s apartheid
that sparks these senseless con
flicts—not Buthelezi’s INKATHA or
Mandela’s ANC, or Gumede’s UDF.
South African blacks have long
been detribalized by ANC, churches
and civilization. They call themselves
“Ama-Afrika/Ma-Afrika.” No
modern African leader believes in
tribalism as a national institution. It
is the obnoxious racist system of
apartheid that rejoices in creating
separate black communities and set
ting them against each other.
Let apartheid, migratory labor, the
Bantustan system, ethnic grouping
and hostel system stop, and there will
be no “Mack-on-black" faction fights.
Let mankind jointly torpedo apar
theid—not its victims. ANC, PAC,
UDF, AZAPO, INKATHA, etc., were
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. t)