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Promoting Education
Larry Jones Promotes Education as
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Inventor, Renaissance man
George Washington Carver
received an award for
painting at the Columbian,
Exposition in Chicago in
1893. Also Trumpet player
Wynton Marsalis has won
eight Grammy Awards
since 1983 in both jazz and
classical music.
RALEIGH, N.C.
VOL.. 49, NO. 91
TUESDAY
OCTOBER 9,1990
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Supportinf^Community Businesses
Survey Reveals How Blacks Spend
BY NICOLE JACKSON
Contributing Writer
Well, finally that long-awaited time
has arrived. The information
gathered from the “Buying Habits
Survey” has been compiled. To all
those people who participated in the
survey, a hearty thank-you is extend
ed.
First, it is important to state again
that the survey was conducted by the
writer to obtain an idea of where we
as African-Americans spend our time
and our money and to determine the
aspects of everyday living which are
important to us. Please understand
that while every African-American in
the Raleigh-Durham-Cary area did
not participate in the survey, the sen
timents of thsoe people who did par
ticipate provided insight as to where
and why they spent their resources as
they did and was instructive.
The results of the survey were
primarily analyzed by these group
ings: the city in which an individual
lived, the reasons for patronizing the
businesses the individuals did, the
number of individuals who patronized
one black-owned business and the
people who patronized two or more
black-owned businesses, and the
number of African-Americans who
have considered patronizing black
owned businesses. Other items noted
from the survey included the age
range and class status of each in
dividual who participated in the
survey.
Basically, the participants in the
survey resided in the Raleigh (60 per
cent), Durham (25 percent) and Cary
(eight percent) areas. The other
seven percent did not identify
themselves by their residence. The
age range of the participants for the
city of Raleigh was 22-47 years old;
the city of Durham participants 19-35
years old, and the village of Cary par
ticipants 24-32 years old, with the
overall age range being 19-47 years
old.
With regard to the class status of
the survey participants, all of the
cities shared a common ground here:
Most of the people resided in a
middle-class neighborhood that had
other ethnic groups residing there,
too.
In addition to sharing common
ground on the class status item, the
participants in the three cities also
were fairly close on the question of
“Have you considered patronizing a
black-owned business?” Eighty-two
percent of the Raleigh participants,
94 percent of the Durham par
ticipants and 100 percent of the Cary
participants stated that this thought
had crossed their minds. The overall
percentage of the participants in the
survey considering patronizing
black-owned businesses was 86 per
cent. However, when it came to put
ting our money where our mouths
are, only 16 percent of the par
ticipants actually patronized a black
business regularly.
To help shed some light on this
situation a bit, it might be instructive
to discuss the reasons some of the
participants stated for their actions.
(See SURVEY, P. 2)
$5.000 Reward Offered
MAN ROBS BANK WITH KNIFE
..
With Money
A man described as a 5’6”, stocky
black male entered First American
Savings Bank armed with a butcher
knife and robbed the bank of an
undetermined amount of money last
week according to police records.
The records say the man entered
the bank, which is located at 4525
Fails of the Neuse Road, I
p.m. and demanded money from one
of two tellers in the bank, said Capt.
Robert K. Carroll of the Raleigh
Police Department. There were no
customers in the bank at the time.
The suspect was described as wear
ing a red-and-white plaid shirt and
jeans. A $5,000 reward is being of
fered by Crimestoppers for informa
tion leading to an arrest or indict
ment. Informants should call (704)
525-8497.
In other news:
Michael Charles Hayes, the man
who shot nine people on a Forsyth
County road in 1988, apparently will
remain in the custody of state mental
health officials.
A source connected with the case
has said that authorities decided at a
competency hearing last Thursday
that Hayes should not be released at
this time.
Hayes was committed to Dorothea
Dix Hospital last year after being
found not guilty by reason of insanity
in connection with the shootings,
which left four people dead.
The hearing last week, at which
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COMMUNITY PROJECT-The Widow's Son Lodge No. 4
P.H.A. hcM a community fundraiser with its annual chicken
and fish dinner. The lucky ticket holder was Ms. Pat Davis
who wen a microwave oven. In photo from left to right:
SeMors, James Stpggers, T. C. McCuNers,
Sanders and Ms. Pat Davis. (Photo by Worshipful Master
Ruel L. Wiggins, Jr.)
Hoaneless Remains Problem For
Government, Concerned Citizens
BY UK. ALBERT E. JABS
An Analytic
WASHINGTON, D.C.-My son, Lt.
Brie P. Jabs, and I walked past the
White House; we watched the pro
3testers inarch by and we glanced at
their literature; we also walked past
the people; dissenters who lived in
the pdfk across the street from the
president’s mansion. There was a
strange twoness in au ot mis.
The people on the street repeated
such slogans as “U.S. troops out of
the Middle East now,” “Smash im
perialist warmongers,” “Don’t die
for Exxon,” etc.
Again, we have a right to peaceful
ly dissent, but there was a kind of
sloganeering, simplification and
emotionalizing that somehow would
not reach the ears behind the White
House—but the words kept on
anyway.
Washington, D.C. is a city of con
trasts—and it was this day as well.
The powerful and the poor—the hav<
and the have-not, inside the beltway
and outside the beltway—the twoness
of it all struck home again.
History appears to be happening
right at the moment. Communism is
unraveling throughout the world, yel
somehow the message does not gel
out to the people who seem to toss out
the cant and the old tired canards
about one class, one party and one
world. There is a sense that the pain,
pillaging and plunder of the
(See STREET PEOPLE, P. 2)
Caucus "Outraged”
Over Insults Abroad,
Harassment At Home
Seeks Support For Elected
Officials, Condemns Attacks
BY LARRY A. STILL
Capitol News Service
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The
24-member Congressional Black
Caucus clijnaxed a busy 20th anniver
sary celebration week with a call for
united support of black elected of
ficials and condemnation of new
racist attacks in South Africa and
Japan.
But the nation’s largest gathering
of African-American leaders and
their followers devoted surprisingly
few discussions to the current Middle
East crisis while demanding increas
ed government budget support of con
tinued health, education and welfare
programs despite the imminent
threat of sequestration and recession.
However, a final press conference
was scheduled at a multi-cultural
brunch sponsored by the Republic of
Gabon to discuss African-American
relations following the closing
awards dinner addressed by Rep.
Ronald Dellums (D-Calif.), CBC
chairman. Rep. Kweisi Mfume
(D-Md.) was chairman of the annual
legislative weekend. Sept. 26-30.
Earlier in the week, Dellums
cancelled a scheduled CBC meeting
with visiting South African President
F.W. de Klerk because, he said, black
members of Congress did not wish to
be “used” by the head of the all-white
government to provide “credibility”
for his visit. “Nothing has changed in
South Africa, not one degree... The
only difference is that Nelson
Mandela is free. It is no less violent,
no more humane. It is no less apar
theid, no less oppressive,” Dellums
declared.
Rep. William Gray (D-Pa.) did
meet with de Klerk as a member of
the House Foreign Affairs Committee
and Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally’s office
released a statement saying the Los
Angeles congressman “questioned de
Klerk on his government’s involve
ment in encouraging the intra-black
violence between Inkatha’s sup
porters and the African National Con
gress; the ill-timed, counterproduc
tive indictment of Ms. Winnie
Mandela [and] the government’s
failure to repeal the [segregationist
like apartheid] Group Areas Act...”
Dellums’ office also released a let
ter sent to President George Bush
“on behalf of the CBC to com
municate to you our outrage and
dismay over recent racist statements
made by Japanese Justice Minister
Seiroku Kajiyama and, in its wake,
the silence which has enveloped the
White House. It is our belief that the
leader of the free world cannot selec
tively challenge racism, bigotry, and
anti semitism in eastern Europe and
other pans of the world and fail to
speak out when citizens of the United
States are maligned by government
officials from allied nations.”
These latest actions came during
the five days of some 50 issues
forums, workshops, “braintrust”
hearings, corporate exhibits and
social events. The Rt. Rev. John
Richard Bryant, African Methodist
Episcopal bishop in Liberia and West
Africa, spoke at the annual prayer
breakfast before the closing dinner.
Making his first appearance as a
(See OUTRAGED, P. 2)
Funding 74 Projects
Teacher Creativity Pays In Wake
The Wake County Education Foun
dation, in the seventh year of its
Creative Grant Program, will award
funding to 74 projects designed by
teachers in 46 Wake County schools
and involving 25 percent of the
system’s students at an awards
ceremony Tuesday in the Commons
Building on Carya Drive.
The projects awarded were chosen
from 201 submitted by more than 250
teachers; their requests totaled more
than $78,000. Awards range from
$22.50 to 1500 for a total of $20,662.
More than ?75 teachers and ad
ministrators from the school system,
Burroughs Wellcome Co., the
Womans Club of Raleigh, a Kaiser
Permanente Foundation endowment,
and local businesses are under
writing the program for 1890-91. In his
remarks to the audience, Josiah
Whitehead, vice president of cor
porate affairs for Burroughs
Wellcome, states the company's
support;
,Terms the basis, not on
in teaching, but also
excellence in our
ellcome Co.
success is
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labor force. This is especially true in
science and math, where innovation
provides the competitive edge in an
increasingly complex world. Through
the Creative Grants Program of the
Wake Countv Education Foundation,
we are confident the 74 recipients of
this year’s awards will ignite the
creative spark that is so vital to
education's and business's success.”
Fifty percent of the country’s
secondary schools and 57 percent of
elementary schools will be involved
in this year’s projects, which vary
from exchanging exhibits and infor
mation with students in Belize and
Great Britain, to accessing research
information through on-line systems,
and from building a special
classroom space where middle school
students will work with cerebral
palsied children, to solving science
problems as pen-pals with Boston
Museum of Science.
“It appears to us that the reduction
in funding for the Basic Education
Plan, and the lack of local dollars
available to compensate for the dif
ference, have made their impact in
the classroom,” commented E. Earle
Blue, chairman of the Creative
Grants Committee. “We had some
(See CREATIVITY, P. 2)
Teacher Receives
Award For Special
Achievement Level
ATLANTA, Ga.—Alice J. Garrett, a social studies teacher at
Athens Drive High School In Raleigh, N.C., was honored recently by
the National Council of Negro Women as the Southern Regional Ex
cellence in Teaching Award recipient.
Ms. ^Garrett was recognised at a special leadership forum during
the Southeastern Regional Black Family Reunion Celebration held
here for her outstanding contribution to teaching, distinguishing
herself among her colleagues and peers, and inspiring a high level of
achievement among her students.
“Alice Garrett Is ait outstanding teacher and dedicated to improv
ing the learning experiences of her' students," said Dr. Dorothy I.
(See TEACHER. P. 8>