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TUESDAY
The Seduction Game
Soul Men Can’t Keep Their Women
Underfoot With Romantic Songs As Secret
Plot To Wreck A Woman’s Progress
Pago 9
Very Stiff Competitor
Ms. Edna Horton Has Been Recognized As A
Very Stiff Competitor After Receiving A
Champion Of Excellence Award.
Pago 3
THIS WEEK
In the 1920s, almost one
million southern blacks
departed to find a better life
in the northern cities. The
exodus slowed during the
Great Depression, but
another million left for the
North during World War II.
By 1950, one-third of the
nation’s black population
lived outside the South.
The Carolinian
RALEIGH, N.C.,
VOL. 50, NO. 81
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,1991
N.C.'s Semi-Weekly
DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST
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rany Ana Politics
Poverty Major Problem For Blacks
BY TONY BROWN
Aa Analyab
“A veteran black TV personality
and longtime battler of racism is
dropping a bombshell on his fans by
ceremoniously joining the
Republican Party,” columnist Mary
Papenfuss wrote in the New York
Post last week after my announce
ment on Julv 8 that I was ceasing to
oe a political independent and was
joining the party that was organized
in 1854 to oppose the expansion of
slavery.
Blacks responded after the end of
slavery by voting for the party of the
man who signed the Emancipation
Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln.
Blacks affiliated with the Republican
Party, such as the remarkable
Frederick Douglass, a former slave
and an abolitionist who insisted that
“power concedes nothing without a
demand,” emerged as national
heroes. Republicans in Congress
were the architects of Reconstruc
tion, a 10-year period of un
precedented political power for black
people. They initiated the 13th
Amendment, which outlawed
slavery; the 14th Amendment, which
guaranteed black citizenship; and the
15th Amendment, which extended the
right to vote to former slaves, as well
as the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
Ironically, it is the right of a black
to be a member of the Republican
Party that is being openly questioned
in 1991. And unfortunately, the First
Amendment’s guarantee of free
speech has not been taken seriously
by some black intellectuals and
leaders. Many of them perpetuate an
intellectual fascism and foster a
totalitarian environment in which
any independent-thinking black who
breaks lock-step with their often self
serving Democratic world-view is
severely condemned, and even
ostracized.
How did blacks move from the par
ty that gave them civil and political
rights to the previously all-white
Democratic Party with a history of
racist demagoguery, support for
slavery and Jim Crow, and tacit ap
proval of lynching? The movement
began during the Depression, when
(See POVERTY, P. 2)
Inside Africa
Ghanaians Plan
Unseat Rawlings
Ghanaian opposition groups in Lon
don are planning their next steps as
the pressure for democracy grows.
Ten years ago, Flight Lt. Jerry
Rawlings came to power in Ghana via
a military coup.
Since 1961, his only concession to
calls for multi-party democracy has
been last December’s announcement
to set up a consultative council to dr
aw up a constitution, and a request
for political exiles to return.
Ghana’s Movement for Freedom
and Justice, banned from holding
political meetings in its home coun
try, held a conference in London
recently, on the drive to multi-party
rule.
It follows the well-intended launch
of the United Progressive Party In
ternational.
The UPPI, headed by Jonathan
Mensah, the finance minister in the
last civilian administration, will coor
dinate the campaign against Rawl
ings.
Delegates cast doubt on Rawlings'
promises and traced the regime’s
comparative popularity with the out
side world to Rawlings’ acceptance of
a strict World Bank International
Monetary Fund economic package.
“He has mortgaged our country’s
future to the big banks and this has
won him plaudits from the West. But
the tide is turning. His military dic
tatorship is running against the winds
of change,” warned one delegate.
Amid the crumbling of Russia, a
JONATHAN MENSAH
bizarre row has been fueled by Presi
dent Gorbachev’s economic reforms
and the lifting of travel restrictions
which allows Soviet residents to
make easy money.
African students were the first to
take advantage of the changes. Many
pooled resources, converted their
Russian rubles into hard currency on
the black market, and brought com
puters from the West to resell at a
huge profit.
They displayed the fruits of their
success by bowling along the
highways in Soviet-made Lada cars,
to the anger of many poor Soviet
youth.
“We invited them from their
jungles, only for them to become
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2)
Felony Murder Rule
Mandatory
Life Term
Sentence
The young man charged with slay
ing 82-year-old Lizzie Kearney in
Franklinton on Aug. 9 last year pled
guilty to first-degree murder under
the felony murder rule in Superior
Court in Louisburg recently.
District Court Judge and Mrs. J.
Larry Senter and other members of
the Kearney family were present in
court when 22-year-old .^gm^ge
Lucas, flanked by lawyers, admitted
his guilt during questioning under
oath by Superior Court Judge Joe
Freeman Britt.
Judge Senter is Ms. Kearney’s son
in-law.
Although Lucas escaped the
possibility of a death penalty by
pleading guilty under the felony
murder rule, a life sentence is man
datory.
Sentencing was postponed,
however, at the request of District At
torney David Waters, “pending the
investigation of certain statements
made by the defendant" that are ap
parently related to other charges pen
ding against him.
Lucas was sentenced to 14 years in
prison by Judge Robert Hobgood
after pleading guilty in Superior
Court on Feb. 12 of this year to the at
tempted robbery of Julia Carr on Oct.
15, 1990.
(See MURDER, P. 2)
ESTEY HALL RESTORATION-Community leaders and
residents recently gathered on the campus of Shaw
University to hear the announcement of Estey Hall's bright
future. When the restoration pro|ect Is completed, Estey
Had wM be a community center/performing arts theatre, a
museum of history, along with other benefits to the
community, state, nation and world. Said Or. Carlton J.
Barber, vice-chairman of the Board of Directors, Estey Hall
Foundation, Inc. (Photo by James Giles, Sr.)
Study Finds Brain Difference In
Homosexual Men, Biological Link
WASHINGTON, DC. (AP)-A
cluster of brain cells that may guide
the sex drive of men is twice as large
in heterosexual males as it is in
homosexual males, suggesting that
homosexuality could be a matter of
biological destiny, a researcher
reports.
Violations At Night, Weekends
‘Response’ Plan Helps House Arrest
in early September, the Division of
Adult Probation and Parole will have
officers available to respond around
the clock to violations by offenders
under electronic house arrest.
Since electronic house arrest
became available statewide in
January, some judges have indicated
a reluctance to sentence offenders to
the program without a 24-hour
response by officers to reported viola
tions. Several lawmakers have also
urged development of 24-hour
response capabilities.
“We have one of the finest elec
tronic house arrest systems in the
country, but the system is not being
fully utilised,’’ says state Correction
Secretary Aaron Johnson. “We hope
that changes being made In the
system will persuade Judges around
tdhe state to sentence more offenders
to house arrest.”
In addition to answering calls Mon
day through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m ,
Probation and Parole officers will
begin serving on response teams and
responding to reported electronic
House Speaker Defends
Car Dealer In Hearings
When the state held a hearing Fri
day on whether a retired judge can
hear the case against Southeast
Toyota, the Florida distributor, there
were two political heavyweights on
its side.
Democratic House Speaker Dan
Blue represented the company. And
Republican Gov. Jim Martin has said
he supports having a retired judge
hear the case instead of a hearing of
ficer from the state Division of Motor
Vehicles.
And Rep. Martin Nesbitt,
D-Buncombe, has represented the
company since 1987, a spokesman
said.
Nesbitt and Blue were “absolutely
not” hired because of their legislative
positions said Larry Rich, executive
vice president of JM Family Enter
prises, Southeast’s parent.
Southeast needed a new attorney in
Raleigh because its original Raleigh
attorney will be called as a witness in
the case, Rich said.
“Since we were already working
with Martin Nesbitt, we asked him
whom he would recommend,” Rich
said. “He and Dan Blue have worked
closely together for many years and
that’s who he suggested.”
Southeast will defend its business
license Sept. 16 in the case before
DMV, which will decide if Southeast,
which has been accused of unfair
business practices, keeps its ex
clusive license to distribute Toyotas
to North Carolina dealers.
Blue, D-Wake, said his representa
tion of Southeast is just part of his job
as an attorney.
house arrest violations at night (5
p.m. to 8 a.m.) and on weekends.
“This new response capability will
allow us to begin the process of revok
ing offenders and seeking orders
from the courts or Parole Commis
sion to return them to custody.”
The new 24-hour response policy
will be implemented Sept. 3 in
Alamance, Buncombe, Cabarrus,
Chatham, Cumberland, Forsyth,
Gaston, Guilford, Johnston, Lee,
Mecklenburg, Orange, Pitt, Stanly,
Wake and Wayne counties. The plan
HOUSE SPEAKER DAN BLUE
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will De phased into another coun
ties as equipment becomes available
over the next three months.
The plan will cost about $450,000
and is expected to be funded in the
first year through the use of lapsed
salaries. The funds will train, equip
and pay Probation/Parole officers
who agree to serve on-call shifts.
Since the officers will be facing the in
creased danger of going to offenders’
homes in the night, the Division of
Adult Probation and Parole has pro
vided officers with special training
and will equip them with handguns.
So far this year, 1,905 probationers
and parolees have been placed on
electronic house arrest. Currently,
559 offenders are being supervised
under electronic house arrest. The
system can handle up to 3,400 of
fenders daily.
“We hope that judges will sentence
offenders to house arrest so that
prisons can house more serious of
fenders,” says Secretary Johnson.
“The courts continue to send record
numbers of offenders to prison, and
placing some of these offenders on
house arrest may help keep more
serious offenders imprisoned
longer.”
It costs the state $50 per day per in
mate to imprison an average of
fender, but only $2.88 per day per of
fender on electronic house arrest,
when the program is fully utilized.
North Carolina first used electronic
house arrest as a pilot project in For
syth County in 1987. The program had
(bee HOUSE ARREST. P. 2)
In microscopic examinations ot tne
brains of 41 men and women, in
cluding 19 homosexual men, Simon
LeVay of the Salk Institute for
Biological Studies, San Diego, Calif.,
found that a specific cluster of cells
was always larger for heterosexual
males than the other specimens.
LeVay cautioned that while the
evidence demonstrates a strong link
between the size of that group of cells
and the sexual preference of males,
researchers still aren’t sure which is
the cause, and which is the effect. But
he made it clear that, based on his
own feelings and earlier animal
studies, he believes the odds are there
is a strong biological determinant of
homosexuality—something long
argued by many within the gay com
munity.
His research focused on a cluster in
the interstitial nuclei of the anterior
hypothalmus, or INAH, which has
been identified in animal studies as a
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behavior. LeVay said he found a dif
ference in a cluster called INAH 3,
which is one of four INAH groups of
cells.
In the brains of heterosexual men,
he said, the INAH 3 is “about the size
of a grain of sand." In homosexual
men and women, the structure is
"small to vanishing."
The study, published last week in
the journal Science, did not include
speciments from known homosexual
women.
“I don’t know if the structure caus
ed the behavior" related to sexual
preference or “if the behavior
modified the structure,” said LeVay.
He said the INAH possibly could form
normally in homosexual men and
then, for some reason, shrink or die in
adult life.
But he said that, based on animal
(See HOMOSEXUAL, P. 2)
CP&L Offers Customers
New Payment Location
Customer* soon will have a different location to do business with
Carolina Power & Light in downtown Raleigh. John W. Winters and
Co. at 507 E. Martin St. will begin accepting bill payments Nov. 1
from CP&L customers. Winters’ office will be open from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday to serve CP&L customers.
“I’m delighted to be associated with CP&L and serving its
customers,” says Winters. “I plan to provide a convenient and effi
cient location to serve CP&L customers.”
As part of the reorganisation of the company’s Raleigh Division,
CP&L’s office at McDowell and Cabarrus streets will no longer serve
as a business orfice for customers by year end. About 60 employees
who work at the company's Raleigh district office at Cabarrus and
McDowell streets will be reassigned to the company’s other offices in
Raleigh, Garner and Cary.
"Customers will notice no difference in the quality of customer
service during our reorganization,” says James W. Massengill, vice
president of the company’s Raleigh Division. “The Winters and Co.
office that will accept bill payments from our customers is just a few
blocks from our current downtown Raleigh district office.”
Massengill says CP&L’s Customer Service Center will continue to
operate from 7 a.m. to • p.m. weekdays to answer telephone calls
from customers anywhere in the Raleigh Division. CP&L opened the
center in April to make it easier for customers to call when it is con
iSee CP&L PAYMENT, P. 2)