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Personality Tim Greene Has Received A
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STRENGTH
The key to strength is to know that
we have inner strength upon which to
draw. We are meant to be strong,
vital, alive. When we affirm strength
we are calling on inner reserves of
strength. We find the strength to
stand calm and poised in any
situation.
Warren Meyer
RALEIGH, N.C.,
VOL. 50, NO. 89
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1,1991
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Citizens Present Review Board Proposal
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Lait week
members of the Raleigh City Council
and Police Affairs Committee
received a draft proposal for the
creation of a civilian complaint
review board for the City of Raleigh.
These are remarks delivered at the
hearing by Cash Michaels.
Mayor Upchurch, members of the
Police Affairs Committee, other city
councillors in attendance, Mr. City
Manager, and citizens of the great
City of Raleigh.
Before I formally begin my
remarks, let me officially identify
myself as a talk show host and
commentator for WLLE Radio here
in Raleigh, and also as a membra* of
the Raleigh Human
Resources/Human Relations
Advisory Commission. However, I
come to you this evening only as a
proud citizen of this city, and most
certainly as a proud member of our
African-American community. And
as I’m sure you’ve heard on many a
program where individual ideas and
thoughts are offered, the views and
opinions I express to you this evening
are solely my own, and are in no way
to be construed as representative of
WLLE Radio, and certainly not the
Human Resources/Human Advisory
Commission.
Since that fateful night of January
24, 1991, when an innocent citizen of
our city was misidentified as a
robbery suspect, and subsequently
shot by a plainclothes Raleigh police
officer, the issue of a civilian
Seventh Angel Fined
Six-Month
Suspended
Sentences
Self-styled “Seventh Angel”
Mildred Louise Johnson McCoy drew
two six-month suspended jail
sentences and more than $400 i n
fines, costs and restitution in
Franklin District Court last Molnday
for an Aug. 10 rampage at Bunn
Elementary School..
Bunn principal Connie Horton
testified that the 60-year-old McCoy,
i v whose ML
1 located across SR 1719 in front of the
school, tossed trophies out of a trophy
case and ripped down posters at the
school, causing an estimated $150 in
damages.
She was charged with
trespassing, disorderly
conduct in a public
building, damage to
personal property and
possession of a weapon on
school grounds.
She was charged with trespassing,
disorderly conduct in a public
building, damage to personal
property and possession of a weapon
on school grounds.
McCoy told Judge Claude W. Allen,
Jr. that she was led “over there (the
school) by the Spirit,” and read a
passage from Deuteronomy dealing
with graven images as justification
for her actions.
When Judge Allen told her that he
believed she misinterpreted the
scripture, she replied “I’m the
prophet, you’re just a judge.”
McCoy argued that two five-foot
long wooden curtain rods that were
taken from her by sheriffs deputies
the day of the incident, which she
called her staff, were not weapons
and Judge Allen went along with her
on that, finding her not guilty on the
weapons count.
(See SEVENTH ANGEL, P. 2)
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BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION - Four Wake County
students model prototype colonial costumas to bo
distributed to al RaMgh ana schools tor use In Raleigh’s
Bicentennial Celebration. Modeling (Or the members of the
Bicentennial Task Force are, loft to right, James Rollins,
Adrian Sutton, Amy Boat and Elizabeth Beal. The
coatumes are part of a multi-level education program for
kindergarten through 12th grade underwritten for
Raleigh’s Bicentennial through grants from 6laxo
Pharmaceuticals and IBM.
National Poll On Abortion Rights
Women Of Color Support Choice In Issues
WASHINGTON, D C -In the first
poll of its kind, a clear majority of
native American, Latina, African
American and Asian women say a
woman should make her own choice
about abortion.
The Women of Color Reproductive
Health Poll was conducted by the
National Council of Negro Women
and the Communications Consortium
Media Center. Eleven hundred fifty
seven women of color were
questioned by phone or mail by the
Winters Group, Inc., a Rochester,
N.Y.-based research consulting firm,
between May 9 and Aug. 19. Among
the findings of the national poll, 75
percent of the respondents said
women should make abortion
decisions for themselves.
“This poll is a benchmark for us,”
Dorothy I. Height, president of the
Inside Africa
BY DANIEL MAROLEN
President F.W. deKlerk's new
constitutional masterplan for a poet
apartheid South Africa, which was
made known on Sept. 4., at
Bloemfontein, to the National Party's
conference of 1,300 provincial
delegatee, was a bombshell that
shocked not only black South
Africans, but most of concerned
mankind worldwide, who have been
made to expect a new non-racial
democratic constitution for the
racially torn country since Nelson
Mandela's release in February 1090.
The de Klerk constitutional
masterplan is not a non-racial
blueprint as expected. Instead, it is a
ruse to deny majority rule and to
entrench white domination and to
maintain the status quo. This plan
vests veto rights in the second
chamber of this invisaged
“bicameral parliament” And, in that
parliamentary debauchery, the white
minority win nave as mucn »«y ■■
majority of the total country'*
electorate! In addition, the atate
president will be replaced aa head of
the government by an executive
council of from three to five
councilors.
All this runs counter to the
principles of participatory and
multiparty democracy. As a result,
the ANC Is expected to give its
response and opposition to this most
racist blueprint at United Nations in
.iew York City shortly, in the form of
a nress release.
President de1 Klerk's electoral
trickery is based on apartheid
National Party’s desire and objective
not to lose dominant power in the
state. But ANC, one of the leading
black liberation movements, says
that the ruling NP is Just another of
the negotiating parties toward the
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P.2)
NCNW, said. "This is the first poll to
give voice to people that are usually
invisible or silent. It comes from us, it
addresses our concerns and we will
use it to guide us in the development
of our own policy agenda on women’s
(See ABORTION, P.2)
complaint review board has re
emerged for not only discussion, but
serious consideration.
During this debate, much has been
said and much has been assumed as a
statement of fact, concerning not only
the issue of civilian complaint
review, but why a broad spectrum of
Raleigh citizenry sees the need for
one.
I’d like to take this brief, but
important opportunity to perhaps add
some clarity to the discussion, and
offer some facts that heretofore, have
not been offered or heard in this
forum.
HISTORY
Research will show that the issue of
(See REVIEW BOARD, P. 2)
Can Wilder Get Black
Vote? Will Jackson Run
In 1992 For President?
WASHINGTON, DC.
(AP)—Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder is
no Jesse Jackson, and most black
voters in his state seem to like him
fine. But can his moderate message
and measured style inspire national
black support for his presidential
bid?
Members of the Congressional
Black Caucus think that Wilder will
draw the support of African
American voters who want to see a
change at the top. Wilder was warmly
received at the Congressional Black
Caucus banquet last weekend in the
“This crowd is 100 percent behind
me,” Wilder said, “I can feel it."
Both L.A.’s Maxine Waters and
Chicago’s Gus Savage agreed atht
Wilder is eminently qualified to be
president.
“This election will show whether
the playing field is level enough so
that someone with Gov. Wilder’s
qualifications can be taken
seriously,” said Earl Graves,
publisher of Black Enterprise
magazine.
Wilder has wiped out a budget
deficit in Virginia without raising
taxes.
If Jackson sits out 1992, as
expected—he has opted to postpone
announcement of his political
intentions—most analysts predict
Wilder will attract at least some of
JACKSON WILDER
the voters the fiery preacher won in
"his 1984 and 1988 races -for the ■ q
Democratic nomination. But not ail oi
them.
“He is not going to certainly inherit
the Jackson constituency. He’s going
to have to fight for it. And he’s going
to come under severe scrutiny,” said
Ron Walters, chairman of the
Howard University political science
department and a former Jackson
adviser
Wilder, the nation’s first elected
black governor, is not the kind of
black politicians Americans are usee
to seeing on the national stage.
He talks of fiscal austerity and
personal responsibility, resists a
liberal tag, contends there are no
“black” issues and avoids the
emotional pulpit style that preacher
politicians like Jackson have used so
effectively.
expand upportumties
Caucus Aims At Low- Income Blacks
UV WILLIAM REED
NNPA New* Service
WASHINGTON, D.C.-For the 21st
September, America’s black elite
came to the nation’s capital with a
drink in one hand and the other
available to sign the tab for more
drinks. Each year at the start of the
congressional season, the most
influential blacks in America come
here to meet and greet each other,
see and be seen, and occasionally set
strategy for the coming year. Having
gained a reputation as the premier
“party time,’’ this year’s meeting
had a focus on, and hopefully will
produce better results for, low
income blacks. Citing that odds are
still basically against broad black
progress, and lncrasing, while
opportunities for all African
Americans and their progress are
decreasing, the Congressional Black
Caucus brought Its faithful together
this time to address the sobering
issue: “Meet the African-American
Challenge: Defy the Odds and
Expand Our Opportunities.”
The annual Legislative Weekend Is
sponsored by the Congressional
Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.,
whWi was incorporated In 1076 as a
non-partisan, non-profit research and
educational institute whose mission is
to assist the leaders of today while
helping to prepare the leaders of
tomorrow. For the list time much of
the talk among the 20,000 of today’s
leaders was about racism and its
impact on blacks. This time,
however, much of the forbearing
attendees’ talk centered around the
shrinking economic pie in America:
the staggering levels ot government
indebtedness; the moral bankruptcy
of the country and its financial
community and the overall impact on
black efforts for survival. Even
though the weekend’s faithful dwelled
on racial bigotry and intolerance in
the nation as they often do, this time
many of the temperatue crowd chose
to challenge the ills of the American
system in ways that could help more
of us defy the odds that we all know,
and start programs to expand
internal opportunities for a greater
number of people we do know.
Not to think that the CBC Weekend
crowd has lost its party image. Sure,
many of the attendees spent
significant time, and corporate
expense money, meeting and
greeting over cocktails featuring top
shelf brands. But significant numbers
of those of sobriety did attend the
issue forums, workshops and
legislative braintrust sessions and
notable progress was made toward
defying odds and the creation and
expansion of opportunities. Urban
mayors, corporate executives, media
owners and government managers
joined in the ’91 Black Caucus effort
to keep blacks informed about federal
legislation and discuss current needs
and concerns.
“How to Help African-Americans
Help African-Americans”;
“Exploring Solutions to the Decay in
Our Cities”; “Black Reparations”;
and “A Marshall Plan for Rebuilding
America” were substantive topics
(See BLACK CAUCUS, P.2)
College Holds
Celebration,
Arts Festival
The public la Invited to The Second Annual Fall
African American Arta Featlval In Celebration of Saint
Auguatlne'a College 128th Annlveraary. The theme of
the 1991 celebration la “Capturing the African
American Spirit through Artiatlc Expreaaton.” The
celebration featuree patntinga by Lynda Edwarda,
outstanding North Carolina artiat. The featival will
begin on Thuraday, Oct. 3, at 9 a.m. with workahopa in
art for elementary and middle achool students,
conducted by Lynda Edwards, the artist. It will be
followed by an assembly In the Seby B. Jones Arts
Center Theater for college, high school students, and
the general public. The gallery will be open from 2-4
p.m. and 7-9:30 p.m.
On Friday, October 4, outstanding North Carolina
Poets will conduct workahopa for elementary and
middle achool students starting at 9 a.m. in the Seby B.,
Jones Fine Arts Center. Poets conducting the
(See FESTIVAL, P.2)
LYNDA D. EDWARDS