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Bush Urged
‘Dump Phony
Quota’Ploy
WASHINGTON, D.C>
Declaring that “racial tension is
too dangerous to exploit and too
important to ignore,” Sen. Bill
Bradely (D-NY), challenged
President Bush to drop the
racially divisive “quota” and
“Willie Horton” voter appeals
and. instead, use presidential
"to bring blacks and
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i, he said.
Bradley, the 48-year-old
Rhodes scholar a former
professional basketball star, was
one or the first Senite
Democratic leaders to end his
silence on the explosive issue of
racial politics that has been so
cleverly and cruelly exploited by
the Republicans in recent years.
(Since Bradley has spoken out,
Sens. Tom Harkin (D-IA), and
Jay Rockefeller (D—WVA) have
also condemned Bush’s use of
veiled racism).
GOP use of the racist ploy
dates from Ronald Reagan's
1880’s use of the "welfare queen”,
the' 1888 Bush presidential
campaign with its shameful use
of the “Willie Horton”
advertising (Horton was the
black convict who committed a
capital crime while on furlough),
to the Sen Jesse Helms (R-NC) ad
utilised in the tight 1888
Senatorial race with black
Democrat Harvey Gantt,
showing white hands crumpling a
Jdb rejection letter because of
“quotas”. On the strength of this
ad. Helms won the nlp-snd-tuck
This
nsage also includes
ush’s vetoing of the
Civil Rights BUI as a
MU and his present
position to the 1881
CivU Rights Restoration Act.
again, as a “quota” bill, a stance
that seasoned observers believe
is a harbinger of how the 1881
GOP presidential campaign will
Thomas’ Opinion Sought On Yahwehs
Yahweh Ben Yahweh, 16 of his
; followers and over 20,000 members of
‘ the Nation of Yahweh across the
nation are presently being detained
and private properties allegedly
confiscated by the United States
Federal Government.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh, along with 16
members have been held by Federal
authorities without bail for over 9
months in the Metropolitan
Correctional Center near their
headquarters in Miami on various
charges from murder to
racketeering. The Nation of Yahweh
has a number of followers in Raleigh
and Durham.
Lawyers for Yahweh Ben Yahweh
have requested Supreme Court
nominee Clarence Thomas to
intervene in the case of the religious
leader the 16 followers who are
currently being held without bail in a
Florida penitentiary.
Yahweh was arrested last
November along with the 16 temple
members as part of a 3 count federal
indictment which charges 18
racketeering acts containing 13
homicides, 2 attempted homicides
and the firebombing of a Del Ray
Beach, Florida neighborhood.
Yahweh and his followers have
maintained their innocence since the
arrest, charging a U. S. government
conspiracy against their religious
group.
The trial, originally scheduled for
September in a Florida federal court,
has been rescheduled for January
1992.
Meanwhile, a Florida judge has
ordered Yahweh held in jail without
bail since November 7, 1990 under a
pre-trial detention clause of the 1984
Bail Reform Act, a law Supreme
Court Justice Thurgood Marshall has
condemned as “unconstitutional.”
rhe law states that suspects can be
leld in jail without bail if the court
judges the individual as a thrwat to
society.
The Nation of Yahweh, an
American-based group of Black
Hebrew Israelites who cite historical
links to the Biblical Tribe of Judah,
lias been in existence for 12 years.
During that period of time the group
(See YAHWEH. P.2)
Officials
Planning
Meetings
Frwi CAROLINIAN SUIT Reports
A new company that appears to be
related to the International Loan
Network has meetings scheduled in
Letters dated July 29 are being
mailed to former members
throughout the country explaining the
new organization and its goals and.
listing scheduled meetings. Four
meetings are listed in the Raleigh,
Rocky Mount, Winston-Salem and
Charlotte areas.
The mailing also includes
information on a National
Membership Conference scheduled
for Sept. 19-22 in Charlotte. The
conference, is described as “a change
to meet ILN members from across
the country,” and will feature Melvin
Ford, ILN president, the Goldsboro
News-Argus reported.
Federal officials say they are
concerned because ILN is under a
restraining order that prohibits the
company from recruiting new
members or accepting investment
funds.
The restraining order issued in July
by U. S. Judge Thomas Hogan in
Washington, says ILN operated as a
pyramid scheme and engaged the
sale of fraudulent securities. He
ordered the company’s assets frozen.
However, on June 15, Goldie Ford,
chairperson Rocky Mount advisory
board transmitted the following
message urging members to write
their congressmen concerning the
“unfair” freezing of assets:
“Enclosed are affidavits from
ILN’s staff, the explanation of the
$800,000 wire transfer and the
defendant's motion to lift freeze of
assets, all of which are formal legal
documents in the pending court case.
Make sure you read and understand
this information so you can write to
your congresspersons so they can see
how unfair the SEC has been in
(See ILN LINKS, P.2)
SUMMERTECH - Educational program for students
receives high ratings from the business and academic
cemmunitleft, while offering hands on experience and
expertise from professionals at BelSeuth. SummerTech
*91 students, left to right, Maurice A. Smith, Maranda E.
McBride and Robert McFarland stand in the lobby of
BeNSouth’s international headquarters, where they
attended a banquet in honor of them and 24 other
students selected ter the program.
Vocational Education Opens Doors
For College Career Bound Students
• Eric Williams was a 17-year-old
rising high school senior. A stong
academic student, he knew he would
go to college, but had no idea what he
wanted to study. During his senior
year, he took a machine trades
course through the vocational
education program. This course
spurred him to major in
manufacturing engineering
technology at a local communty
college, and today, he Is a university
graduate with a B.S. degree in
manufucturing engineering. This
summer, he went to work for a
textitle manufacturer and is in
charge of environmental controls and
energy. “I wouldn't be here today if It
weren’t for that vocational course I
took in high school,” he said.
• Joy Anderson decided early in life
that she liked having fun more than
Today, he is a high school graduate,
she has studied in London with Vidal
Sassoon and is an entrepreneur of her
“What sets vocational education apart from
other courses is that the problems confronting
vocational education students are real-world
problems and there may be no text-book
answers...” June Atkinson, DPI chief
consultant, Consumer Education
she liked school. She decided that
when that magic 16th birthday came,
she would quit school. But, Joy didn’t
count on one small detail - that she
would begin to like school. On her
mother’s advice, Joy signed up for a
cosmetology class. Soon, she was
planning a career as a cosmetologist
and hoped to someday open her own
business. Her first course in
cosmetology convinced her to pursue
business and accounting courses too.
own cosmetology shop.
Vocational education, for a long
time overshadowed by college prep
programs, is being re-evaluated by
students, employers and educators as
a way to give students practical and
technical skills they will need to
compete in the current economy.
By the year 2000, at least 85 percent
of all jobs will not require a four-year
(See VOCATIONAL ED., P. 2)
Clarence Brown Facing
Scrutiny Of Behavior,
Use Of Federal Grants
Clarence P. Brown, an N. C.
Central University professor and
Durham City Council member, who
was suspended last week from his
teaching duties by NCCU Chancellor
Tyronsa Richmond, may be heading
for deeper investigations related to
his personal behavior and his
management of millions of dollars in |
federal grants.
Brown became the center of
attention following a near-fatal
stabbing at his home in May, when an
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unidentified attacker wounded him
on the side, piercing his liver. Later
Brown called off the police
investigation which shrouded the
incident in mystery and questions.
Durham Police Capt. E. E. Sarvis
said he would reopen the case if
ordered to do so by the chief or the
district attorney.
Dr. Richmond suspended Brown
after a report in The News and
<See CLARENCE BROWN. P. 2)
Inside
Africa
Black Hebrew
Denied Bond
BY WILLIAM REED
THE BLACK JEWS
MIAMI, Fla. - While the
Caribbean countries of Cuba and
Jamaica celebrated the triumphant
visit of former jailed Mack leader,
Nelson Mandela, less than a hundred
miles up the coast another leader in
the international black community
continued to languish in jail here in
Miami without any fanfare. While
Winnie Mandela, convicted of a
felony crime under the South African
justice system, stood at the side of
Mandela all during his visit near
these shores, a black of similar
stature who has been convicted of no
crime, other than being racially and
religiously different, is being denied
the ability to post bond and be free to
continue his faith and business
practices under the American
system.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh would
probably not like being called a
“Jew,” instead he would prefer the
lable of Hebrew Israelite. But, he has
exhibited many of the stereotypes
normally associated with those of
Jews. Yahweh Ben Yahweh came to
Miami 12 years ago with little more
than the clothes on his back and a new
message of hope for the black man. In
typical Jewish self-help fashion,
Yahweh Ben Yahweh, and his
followers, in less than 10 years
amassed properties and business
holdings in Miami, and across the
nation, totaling almost a quarter of a
billion dollars. In unity and
enterptise, Yahweh Ben Yahweh and
the Nation of Yahweh have acted like
many successful Jews have, done
business like so many of them have
done around the world. In bonding
and bondage, they cite historical
linkages back to the original land of
Israel.
An excellent model in lifting up by
one's own bootstraps for the African
American community to follow, the
Black Jews of Yahweh didn’t ask the
government “to give them nothing,”
their motto was, “open up the door
and we’ll get it ourselves.” And in the
1980s they did, in fact, go and get it
themselves. They got hotels, motels,
apartment buildings, supermarkets,
furniture and auto repair shops to
service their community, and even
obtained a beachfront resort hotel on
famed Miami Beach.
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P■