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Senator, or General Assembly
member. Local government
decisions may have as potentially
rewarding or devastating an effect or
our lives as state and federal policies.
The largest constituency of possible
and probably voters are in the pews
on Sunday mornings. £
4. Believe half of wMfyou see and
little of what you hear. All of us have
had challenges in life that have bent
our backhand knees, but the good
news and vu&fy ,}ies in overcoming,
forgiving amfrepditf ng. If one person
assassinates the character of any
candidate, isn’t it reasonable to
assume that the other side should be
known too? Some people and sadly
even in the black community, are
positioned to sway your opinion.
My last points have to do with
rhetoric and issues.
Asking the candidate what he or
she would have done in a particular
situation had they been in the office
being sought may serve to only give
you the popular answer. The
incumbent will offer you either an
explanation or an excuse. Try to get a
broad view of how the candidate will
consider handling a variety o(
concerns — not just a single issue.
One school board member cannot
build a school in Southeast Raleigh,
and one city council member cannot
singlehandedly build a new road or
lower our property taxes. Some
realistic issues are:
How will you, as a school board
member, address the inequity that
exists in the public school system?
How will you address the issue of how
poverty affects a child’s learning^
Tracking? Testing? Dropouts? The
limited number of black
administrators? Reduce and replace
ignorant teachers whose
discriminatory practices stifle the
growth, creativity, and potential of
our innocent youth? Scholarships?
Workforce preparation? Racism?
Increase parental involvement?
As a city council member, what will
you recommend in safeguarding the
jobs of city personnel that are ripe for
privitizat^pn proposals, such as
garbage collection? Will you question
the extrerijfcfy Jow number of black
department heads? How will you
monitor and „ address citizen
complaints? Guarantee that
construction and rehabilitation
projects and dollars planned for
Raleigh are equally distributed to
minority businesses?
There will be a tremendous strain
on these candidates and their
families as they use the next two
months to encourage you to take a
closer look at the needs of your
community and the fact that your
first, and best contribution, is to vote!
Once in office, the council and school
board members will need your
advice, support and willingness to
serve on boards and commissions.
But until that time, do a little
homework. If not yourself, give an
assignment to a student in your
home, church or community to
gather information on each
candidate. And while the youth are
researching for you, pull out that
checkbook and write a minimum of
three good checks: one for a city
council candidate, one for a school
board candidate, and one for a
subscription to this newspaper —
your best bet for extensive and fair
coverage of these races.!
Venita Peyton is a writer, a ts-year
1 veteran of television, cable television
and radio, has worked in federal,
state and local government, is
founder and president of Insurance
Consultants of Raleigh and a senior
studying public administration at
Shaw University.
INSIDE AFRICA
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covert funding?
Despite concerted global opposition
over the years, the regime has stub
bornly refused to end apartheid. This
must not be lost sight of. And no com
promise must be made with apar
theid or its perpetrators. Hence,
President George Bush’s recent lif
ting of sanctions must be opposed
tooth and nail. It was based on a
misplaced rationalization that did not
correctly assess the realities of the
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couldn’t have been rewarded when:
(1) he was himself the head of the
party that practices apartheid; (2)
Botha’s “Tricameral Parliament”
still totally excludes all blacks, the
preponderant bulk of the population;
and (3) all nine Bantustans, with
their millions, are still inmates of
those concentration camps and cheap
labor reservoirs, etc., etc.
Is apartheid dead, as de Klerk’s
propagandists say? Surely not. The
above facts show that apartheid is
alive and strong. To emphasize this,
not a single African enjoys the vote,
or election to any elected office in the
land. As de Klerk’s administration
moves toward the end of its term, not
a single black person participates in
municipal, provincial or national
government. But de Klerk continues
to confuse the situation by permitting
the apartheid-oriented factions to
fight each other in “hostels,”
“homelands” and “townships.” De
Klerk could have used the millions of
money spent on covert funding of In
katha and their subsidiaries to bring
about meaningful democratic change
in South Africa. This would have
brought about freedom, justice, law
and order, and speeded up the
floundering constitutional negotia
tions which are now stalled.
It is now precisely 18 months since
ANC’s President Nelson Mandela
was freed from jail to participate in
constitutional negotiations. But, have
any negotiations taken place? No. De
Klerk and his stubborn and obstinate
Afrikaner jingoes continue... to dilly
dally with the reform process.
Mandela considers himself betrayed.
He is morose, perplexed and disillu
sioned. No wonder he recently spent a
week cruising in the Caribbean.
All that de Klerk and his racist
stalwarts have done since Mandela’s
release, was to continue the covert
funding of RENAMO in Mozambique,
which has reduced that country into
wastelands. All that the Boers have
done in this time was to fund groups
that opposed Namibian majority rule
or economic sanctions imposed
against South Africa. Thus, the
southern African picture is totally
bleak today. The region has taken it
on the chin, and the recent revela
tions of further covert actions con
tinue to delay full democratization of
the mineral-rich subcontinent of
Africa. Even President Bush’s lifting
of the economic sanctions against the
racist regime, and the termination of
the Olympic Games ban are failing to
resuscitate the country’s image and
chances of readmission into the
global society of nations.
Oh, mankind, brace for the storm!
Continue the noble fight to end apar
theid! With vim and verve, fight on,
and ignore President de Klerk’s
deceptive reforms—subterfuges. Join
hands and end covert fundings and
genocide. Apartheid is a crime, it
must die.
SET ABLAZE
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W. Horton St. in Zebulon where she
stays with her mother. When I got
there she was in a rage. She asked me
for pome money. I told her I didn’t
have any. She knew I got paid that
day. She got mad. I told her I was
getting ready to go because I did not
have time for any trouble and
problems. I started walking toward
the door. I got out the door, half way
to my car and I turned around and
she was coming out the door. She
went in the backyard of the house. I
turned around again and she had a
jug coming toward me with it. She
hollered and screamed ‘I’m going to
pour this gas on you.’ I panicked
because I didn’t know what state of
mind she was in. At that time I
tripped over a tree stump in the yard.
And when I was down on the ground
she was going to pour the gas on me. I
got up and started running to the car.
When I got to the car and tried to get
in, I dropped my keys and then she
dashed the gas on me and said: 'I’m
going to set your a- on fire b—.’ Then
she got a piece of paper and lit it with
a cigarette lighter and threw it on me,
setting me and the car on fire. I was
running around trying to put the fire
out and taking my clothes off. I got
out of all my clothes except my bra
and at that time my hair caught on
fire and she came over and helped put
the hair out.
“I stayed in the hospital a month
and two weeks. I had a non-career
parttime job with the post office and
it will be a year before I can return to
work. I have no source of income nor
insurance benefits. I’m presently
staying with my mother.”
The chief said officers had
recovered underclothing with a
gasoline odor on it and a partially
filled gasoline can in the yard of Ms.
Richardson’s house, where she lived
with her mother.
Ms. Richardson is being held in
Wake County Jail on $50,000 bond.
ENRICHMENT
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(formerly the N.C. Health Manpower
Development Program) has helped
more than 4Q0 students who want
careers in the health professions, ac
cording to B. Lorraine A'ston,
associate director.
Nearly half of the 82 students who
completed the summer program bet
ween 1988 and 1990 have been ac-,
cepted to academic programs in
allied health, dentistry, medicine, op
tometry, osteopathy, pharmacy,
physician assistant, public health and
veterinary medicine.
Ail five Triangle students received
awards at a closing ceremony July
26. Keynote speaker was Eva Clayton
of Littleton. She is a former director
of the UNC program, founder and
president of Technical Resources In
ternational and a Warren County
commissioner.
Floyd and Mizelle received cer
tificate of merit awards in organic
chemistry. Riley also was honored
with a certificate in physics.
Wolicki received awards for
highest overall academic excellence,
highest academic excellence in
organic chemistry, highest academic
excellence in quantitative skills, and
certificate of merit awards in physics
as well as anatomy and physiology.
Dr. Marion Phillips, associate dean
of the UNC School of Medicine,
received a plaque recognizing his
contributions to the program
throughout its history at the closing
ceremony.
The Summer Enrichment Prepara
tion Program is funded by a grant
from the Health Careers Opportunity
Program, part of the Office of Disad
vantaged Assistance in the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services.
HARD TIMES
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eludes single-parent homes. The se
cond category is pregnant women
who have no other children living
with them and who are in at least
their sixth month of pregnancy. The
last two groups, “AFDC-Incapacity”
and “AFDC-Unemployed Parent,”
involves two-parent households.
The two-parent households have ex
tra requirements to meet. “AFDC
Incapacity” is available to
households where one or both parents
are incapacitated. Parents are con
siddered incapacitated when physical
or mental impairment substantially
reduces their ability to support or
care for their child. The incapacity
must be expected to last at least 30
days. Meeting this standard is much
easier to do than meeting the re
quirements of Social Security
disability benefits.
“AFDC-Unemployed Parent” is
available to two-parent families if the
principal wage-earner:
• Has been unemployed for at least
30 days;
• Is unemployed or working less
than 100 hours per month;
• Applies for and accepts any
allowed unemployment benefits;
• Is not disqualified for unemploy
ment benefits due to misconduct;
• Accepts any bona fide offer of
employment or training for employ
ment made within 30 days prior to
receiving AFDC; and
• Has a recent connection to the
labor force.
This category is relatively new to
North Carolina and is not being used
by all who are eligible. As of April 1,
children whose parenjts meet the
above requirements should receive
‘‘AFDC-Unemployed Parent”
benefits, whether the parents are
married to each other or not.
Previously, the parents had to be
married to each other in order to
receive these benefits.
In all four categories, the family
receiving the AFDC payment must
meet several income and asset
eligibility requirements. The family
can have no more than $1,000 in coun
table assets; not counted are full
value in a home and $1,500 in a car.
The family must not make more than
a certain amount of income; the
amount of AFDC varies according to
how much income a family makes
and the number of people in the
household. For example; a four
person household can have no more
than $594 countable income and still
receive AFDC assistance.
People who feel they may qualify
for AFDC or another benefits pro
gram should contact their county
Department of Social Services.
Every person has the right to apply
for public benefits, and every person
has the right to apply for AFDC
and/or Medicaid on the same day.
NAACP JUDGED
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requiring the Department of Educa
tion to conduct speedy reviews of
discrimination complaints.
And at the Equal Employment Op
portunity Commission, where
Thomas was named chair in 1982, he
continued his policy of disobeying
court orders. He reduced the number
of settled cases and brought the
discrimination complaint process to
a slow crawl.
Before Thomas took office, 43 per
cent of complaints to the EEOC
resulted in a settlement. The average
benefit to complainants was at least
$4,600. Within months after Thomas
took over, the number of settled cases
dropped to only one-third, and the
average benefit was reduced to
$2,589. The length of time to process
individual charges had increased
from five months to nine mon
ths—almost twice as long as the year
before.
A study by the General Accounting
Office found that under Thomas'
direction, a large percentage of the
cases closed by the EEOC had not
been fully investigated.
And a congressional investigation
found that the agency changed its
method of operations to make it more
difficult for the victims of discrimina
tion to win relief.
Finally, while Thomas was EEOC
WlLLIAMSTON WHISTLINGS
BY JOYCE GRAY
WILLIAMSTON—Ms. Catherine
Outerbridge is pleased to announce
that her family reunion was a
smashing success. The family
gathered at the home of her eldest
daughter, Mamie Lee McCoy, and
her husband John, in Columbia, S.C.
Accompanying Ms. Outerbridge
were her daughers, Ms. Clara Rhoe
and Ms. Alice Moore of Newark, N.J.,
and their families. Representing
Washington, D.C. and Oxon Hill, Md.
were Ms. Magaline (Cookie) Outer
bridge Wilson and Ms. Ernistine
Tillery and her family. Also attending
were nine grandchildren, three
granddaughters-in-law, 10 great
grandchildren and a host of friends
and well-wishers. The grand and
great-grands came as far away as
Denver, Colo, to pay homage to the
lovely matriarch of the clan.
The Fourth was spent at Weston
Lake on Fort Jackson, S.C. A great
time was had by all and the rest of the
weekend went equally as well. Plenty
of love was given and shared by
everyone.
Dorothy L. Hughes, playwright,
whose masterpiece play is “Resolu
tions,” will be the guest speaker for
the Women’s Day program on Sun
day, Aug. 25, at il a.m. at the New
Fellowship Christian Church in
Williamston. New Fellowship Chris
tian Church is located behind D&L
Furniture Co. on Hwy. 64 West,
Williamston.
Please come! They say, and
“fellowship with us.” Lula S. Brown
is pastor of New Fellowship Christian
Church, Route 5, Box 753,
Williamston 27892.
“I Surrender All”... It’s an ex
citing, moving comedy.
A mother struggles to raise a
daughter as a single parent. A two
act musical drama presented by
Tidewater Gospel Drama Guild,
Lindbergh 0. Willis, founder and
director, Saturday, Sept. 28, at 8 p.m.
at Martin County Auditorium,
Williamston. Tickets are on sale at
D&L Furniture, 792-3174, Carters
Union 76, 794-2305 or any New
Fellowship Choir member. $5 in ad
vance, $7 at the door. Sponsored by
New Fellowship Christian Church,
Lula S. Brown, pastor.
For bookings call (804) 843-0953,
L.O. Willis.
A special prayer is being said for
baby Shaun Duggins who was born
July 3 and has been found to have a
heart problem. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur L. Duggins, III of
Williamston.
On the sick and shut-in list: Ms. Ar
tie Manson, Ms. Grace P. Smithwick,
Ms. Betty S. Lanier, Mr. and Mrs.
George T. Human, Alton Bell, Ms.
Marie Biggs, George Anthony Perry,
Ms. Rachel H. Lyons, Jesse Bell, Ms.
Lucy Perry Brown, Joe Biggs, Robert
Lee Brown, Ms. Christine Council,
Ms. Armaza C. Roberson, Frederick
Bennett, Ms. Roxie West, Ms. An
nabel Best, Ms. Rosa Best, David B.
Feggins, Ms. Mattie H. Perry, Ms.
Mamie Keyes, Sam Brown, Ms. Leda
M. Duggins, Ms. Devie Hill, Thomas
Hill, Raymond Rease, Ms. Daisy H.
Biggs, George Roberts, Herman
Johnson, Ms. Zara Chance and Ms.
Doris R. Duggins.
Sherick Moore of Plymouth, Ms.
Esther Roberts and Ms. Pauline
Brown. Calvin Rodgers and Jesse
Rodgers of Williamston. Rudolph
Wilkins and Ms. Elizabeth W. Wilkins
in Roper.
Looking well and responding,
“Yes!” when asked if he was taking
good care of himself since being
discharged from Pitt Memorial was
Robert Peele, Sr. Rumor was Mr.
chair, the agency failed to process
13,873 age discrimination complaints
filed by older workers within the legal
time period. As a result, the claims
were dismissed, leaving the workers
powerless to pursue their complaints.
Congress had to pass legislation
reinstating their claims.
Throughout his career, Thomas has
tried to avoid being labeled because
of his race. He has asked the world to
judge him, like Martin Luther King,
not on the basis of the color of his
skin, but on the content of his
character.
The NAACP gave Thomas what he
wanted. On the basis of his record,
the nation’s oldest and largest civil
rights organization voted to oppose
Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the
Supreme Court.
Thomas’ supporters had argued tha
he represented black America’s only
chance to keep a black judge in
Thurgood Marshall’s seat.
“That’s not our job,” an NAACP
member said. “George Bush can
nominate another black candidate if
Clarence Thomas loses. He
nominated another white man after
the Senate rejected Robert Bork; he
can nominate another black to take
Thomas’ place.”
THIS WEEK
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volumes of poetry, short
stories and dramas in his
lifetime and received the
NAACP’s Spingarn Medal in
1960.
Peele loves to be on the back with i
fishing rod in his hand regularly.
Checking up on Jerome Aikens
who was discharged from Pit
Memorial on July 29 (he says by beg
ging the doctor) wasn’t just what h
wanted to hear from me at the time
but I sent him the message. “B
thankful to God that you can hear thi
big mouth after the ordeal an
surgeries you’ve been through.” H
found out for himself about pains, be
ing disabled and folks who wer
always busy.
We say a special prayer for hi
daughter, Ms. Jonathan Williams o
Brooklyn, N.Y., who was hospitalize
and underwent surgery as soon as sh
returned home after visiting he
father. She was reportedly doini
well.
Still in Pitt Memorial at thi
writing, hoping to be discharged to
day, is Ms. Leroy Outerbridg
(Lucy).
One of the first persons Nian
Nichols inquired about upon arrivini
at my home was Ms. Sally Faison o
Duplin County. “Ms. Sally,” whon
we NAACPers have admired foi
years, was on the bus to California ii
1990 with the aid of a walker an<
everyone on board gave her whatevei
assistance possible, but Niam being:
youth, moving quickly most of th<
time, got to her side first. She hai
been admitted to a nursing horn*
when her health failed so much aftei
suffering a stroke.
Back from Michigan, excited ovei
seeing so many family members wh(
had not been attending the familj
reunion previously, is Ms. Marj
Alvannie Woolard. She says the trip
was fine; however, while there hei
grandson, Destin, 10, suffered t
broken nose in a freak accident.
Ms. Woolard’s family in Ann Arboi
was so delighted that she won th<
Martin County NAACP Mother of th<
Year title that she is now the C.C
Keyes Family Reunion Mother foi
i 1991, too. Just what is T.K. Woolard
saying about all of that? He is Just
, smiling.
t The two of them haven’t had time
- yet to take that trip she won in May.
; Visiting her for the first time within
, ll years was her nephew, James
: Daniels of Capital Heights, Md., who
s also decided to visit a sister in
1 Elizabeth City for the first time
i before leaving North Caorttna. Guess
- we are wondering whaf s Bit into
i “Bro” these days.
s A couple of folks were annoyed that
f they missed being at the Martin
1 County NAACP Branch meeting
! when CleophuL Moore spoke last Sun
r day on benefits for disabled veterans
5 and their survivors. \
s N.C. State NAACP Executive
- meeting will be in Siler City, New Im
! provement Center, Aug. 24. All
branch presidents are invited to at
tend. There will also be a focus on the
i black conference there that day. For
E more information, please contact file
F state executive director.
i -
The members of St. James Baptist
i Church thank everyone who par
I ticipated and/or contributed to their
' “NAACP Day” program on Sunday,
i Aug. 11.
The Nichols family will have a day
i of celebration on Saturday and Sun
day, Aug. 24-25, honoring die safe
return of Maj. Annie M. Daniels from
Operation Desert Strain. Hie event
will take place at the Jamesville
Community Center.
We heard that Demetria “Dee
Dee" Trapp was spending some of
her summer school vacation in the
“Garden State.”
I was concerned about the health of
Ms. Diane S. Payne when I met her in
the lobby of Pitt Memorial Hnapital,
but I have been informed that she is
fine now. *
First Citizens Bank Title
Sponsor Big Sweep ’91
First Citizens Bank has been nam
ed the title sponsor for Big Sweep '91,
the nation’s largest statewide water
way litter cleanup. The Sept. 21 event
will now be called the First Citizens
Bank Big Sweep '91.
The bank has made a financial and
volunteer commitment to the
September cleanup. Financially,
First Citizens Bank provided much of
the funding that is making this ever
expanding waterway cleanup possi
ble.
Logistically, 328 First Citizens
Bank branches in 169 cities and towns
are serving as distribution points for
the dissemination of brochures
describing the event and listing
cleanup locations. Brochures will be
available after Sept. 3.
First Citizens Bank employees will
be joining other volunteers
throughout the state on Sept. 21 to
sweep litter from North Carolina’s
beaches, lakes, rivers and streams.
“We’re extremely pleased to have
First Citizens Bank become a part of
Big Sweep ’91,” says Big Sweep coor
' dinator Lundie Spence, UNC See
Grant’s marine education spedaliat.
“We’re happy that they are concern
ed about environmental issues, par
ticularly the problem of litter in our
state’s waterways.
“Bat. ioinina our cleanun effort.
FirsfCitizens is helping Big Sweep ’M
make a commitment to the people of
North Carolina to reduce waterway
litter,” Spence says. “That’s a com
mitment of which to be proud.”
First Citizens Bank has a history of
support for environmental events
such as litter cleanups. The bank is
one of the largest supporters of the
Adopt-A-Highway program coor
dinated by the N.C. Department of
Transportation.
If you would like to know more
about First Citizens Big Sweep, con
tact the Sea Grant office in Raleigh at
515-2454. If you would like cleanup
locations, call the MCI toll-free
hotline at 1-800-27-SWEEP or drop by
a branch of First Citizens Bank after
Sept. 3.
Nebraska Historian’s Essay
Omits Minorities, Scrapped
OMAHA, Neb. (AP)-A Nebraska
historian’s essay about statehood has
been scrapped from the state’s 125th
birthday book for leaving out racial',
and ethnic minorities and women, Lt.
Gov. Maxine Moul said.
The state’s anniversary commis
sion rejected the piece by Grand
Island historian Bob Manley because
it reflected neither Nebraska’s racial
and ethnic diversity, nor the contribu
tions of women to the state, said Ms.
Moul, co-chairwoman of the commis
sion.
“I was absolutely stunned when I
read in the [commission’s] minutes
that there was one author, and that it
was a conventional economic,
political historian,” said commission
member Roger Welsch of Dannebrog,
a Nebraska author and humorist.
"Nobody wants another book of
numbers, dates and rich white men.”
Manley was commissioned to write
for a coffee-table book planned as a
money-raiser for Nebraska’s 125th,
or quasquicentennial, anniversary of
statehood next year, Ms. Moul said.
His job was to write a history of
statehood for the book, which was to
be made up mostly of photographs.
He submitted it in June, but it did not
find favor with the anniversary com
mission, called the Q125 Commission.
American Indians objected to the
essay, and the commission leaders
agreed with their objections, said
state Sen. Scott Moore of Seward, a
co-chairman of the commission.
“The concerns of the commission
were that it was not inclusive of the
diversity of Nebraska,” Ms. Moul
said.
The commission, faced with an
Aug. 2 deadline (the group wants jt
out by Christmas), scrambled to fihd
' answers. They asked Manley' to
change it to include minorities,
Moore said
“He thought that it wasn't hit
business,” Moore said.
Manley said the commission was
free to add other Information to the
book.
“My suggestion was that they ask
the native Americans to submit stuff
of their own,” he said. '
Ms. Moul said the piece may be
resurrected later in the quas
quicentennial year as part of a collec
tion of historical articles.
Manley, a former professor of
history at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln and ScottsMufTs
Hiram Scott College, specialises in
Nebraska history. His doctorate is
from NUL.
“I was asked to write It,” Manley
said. “I wrote an essay that I wanted
to write and that would be ap
propriate for Nebraskans to rend.
They found it unsatisfactory. And I
accept that.”
In the essay’s place will appear
photographs of people in the
Nebraska Hall of Fame, Ms. Moul
said.
The piece Manley submitted was
factual and interesting, Ms. Moul
said. Scrapping it was “no reflection
on Dr. Manley and his credentials, or
anything like that,” she said.
“If we had been in an ideal situa
tion, we would have been able to in
clude authors other than Dr.
Manley,” she said. i,
Moore proposed just that. •
Welsch said he objected to any ]
that would have included the I
piece. Although he respects)
work and reputation as a
historian, Welsch —jd. he
fire” in opposition to the artidldata
commission meeting in July.
“He gave us exactly what anybody
would have expected of Mm, but it
doesn’t contribute anything to Mb
century Nebraska.”