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VOL. 50, NO. 91
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8,1991
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As St. Augustine’s College prepares
to celebrate its 125th Academic An
niversary, charges of racial
discrimination threaten to cast a
cloud over the institution.
Dr. Allan Cooper, Political Sc ence
professor at the historically Black
College filed discrimination charges
in an Equal Employment Opportune
Project Helps
attacks Retain
Farms In N.C.
GREENSBORO (AP)-Calvin
Miles’ farm had always been a
reliable moneymaker. He kept up on
his loan payments and had enough
left to live on.
But in 1984 drought wiped out part
of his tobacco crop. Although he had
crop insurance, he soon found out that
“You almost have to lose it all to get
anything.’’
He started taking out loans to get
by from year to year, but the loans
and bills kept piling up.
“It finally got to where I couldn’t
make some of the payments,” said
the black farmer, who’s lived on his
land since 1927. “All it takes is (me
bad year to set you back.”
Today, Miles is afraid he might lose
his farm. y
His situation is not unique. Since
1981, the United States has lost more
than half a million farms, and North
Carolina leads the Southeast in loss of
farms. Drought, higher production
costs and lower commodity prices
have drastically reduced farm
income.
Davis H. Harris, Jr., of the Land
Loss Prevention Project, said the loss
of black farmers is especially
regrettable, because there are so few
of them to begin with. The Land Loss
Prevention Project is a special effort
organized by North Carolinians who
want to help farmers hold onto their
land.
In North Carolina, which has the
third-largest concentration of black
farmers in the country, black
farmers have stopped farming at a
rate of more than two times that of
white farmers, according to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
The latest report by the department
shows that from 1978 to 1967, the
number of black farmers in North
Carolina dropped from 5,820 to
(See FARMERS, P. 2)
ty Commission affidavit Friday,
alleging that be has been denied both
tenure and pay raises because be is
White. Dr. Cooper also contends that
be was even demoted from his posi
tion as Chairman of the Division of
Social Science, and the
History/Political Science Depart
ment after complaining to the Ad
ministration. Cooper taught at St.
Augustine’s since 1961, and says he
has not only received every major
award the college offers, but has far
exceeded every standard for tenure
established by the school.
Cooper says that after asking for
tenure for five years, he was finally
evaluated and given a recommenda
tion for tenure, promotion and salary
increase in 1990, but while four Black
professors, who met only minimum
tenure standards were approved, Dr
Cooper was denied. After Dr
Cooper’s Attorney sent a letter to St.
Augustine’s College President, Dr.
Prezell R. Robinson, in July stating
that the professor planned to sue ovei
the matter, Dr. Cooper alleges that he
was then demoted.
In published reports, Dr. Robinson
has been quoted as saying that the
racial discrimination charges are
“absurd”, and that the school works
to enhance Equal Opportunity for all
of its employees and students. Robin
son stated that he could not comment
specifically on Dr. Cooper’s case
because he was unfamiliar with it.
But sources have alleged that as re
cent as two weeks ago, both Dr.
I
Teen Held For Murder
Student
Victim Of
Stabbing
In the shadow of the largest Ku
Klux Klan inarch in North Carolina
since 1989, two Lenoir teenagers lie
dead and a third is in Jail charged
with murder.
The violence broke out at West
Caldwell High School, the day after
more than 100 Christian Knights of
thie Ku Klux Klan marched through
town.
^“TMsisji^attern we see over and
McCoy, executive director of North
Carolinians Against Racist and
Religious Violence, a Durham-based
group that has been monitoring Klan
activity and incidents of bigoted
violence since 1985. “The Klan brings
a climate of hate and violence with it
wherever it goes."
Caldwell County Sheriff Roger
Hutchings said the violence at the
high school started after one student
made an advance toward the
girlfriend of another student. School
officials apparently broke up the
fight. But, 10 minutes later the fight
resumed. It was then that 16-year-old
Robert Wesley Setter allegedly
stabbed and killed Terry Wayne
Maxwell, 16, and critically wounded
Randall Moore, 17, who died a day
later.
Davis-McCoy says her group
received reports that the incident
began when a black teenager pinched
the bottom of Setter’s girlfriend, who
is white. Setter is also white. The two
(See CRIME, P. 2)
INTERCUITURAL EXCHANGE-Saint Augustina’s Cottage
recantty met with a Russian delegation from Moscow who
visited the school during an International cultural exchange
program. From left to right Dr. LeVeme McCummings,
President frozel R. Robinson, Mr. Iven TyuHn, Mr.
Stsnislev Vasilev, Mr. Dmitry Rsgulin, Dr. Dwight Fennell,
Dr. Satfik Dude and LTC Wlckie Lyons.
college Promoting lntercultural
Learning Techniques In Curricula
Saint Augustine’s College is an
active member of the North Carolina
Consortium for Inter
national/Intercuttural Educa
tion. The consortium, which consists
of six institutions, recently served as
host for a visiting delegation from
Moscow.
The institutions involved include St.
Augustine's College, North Carolina
Central University, Bennett College,
Johnson C. Smith University, North
From Tuskegee To L. A.
Black Urban Ctrs. Head For Decay
BY WILLIAM REED
Aa Aaalysls
The nation1! urban centers are
mostly black, and their prospects for
the future are mostly bleak. Blacks
who’ve become mayors of America’s
largest cities, while novelties in the
Ms, are like permanent pallbearers
toward masive Boot Hill sites without
headstones. Coleman Young, David
Dinkins, Wilson Goode and Tom
Bradley ere confronted daily with
dying and decaying boroughs that
have no money in the treasury, gang
wars on the streets, corners that
serve as drug distribution points,
shortages of bousing units and
mounting homeless problems and
proteets.
Bach day Detroit, New York,
Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and
scores of points in between, face
deteriotation and festering decay.
Financially, physically and socially
many of our largest, oldest, and now
black-run cities can no longer fill the
basic functions that orginally gave
them reason for being. Our cities
have fallen, and they can't get up.
Look at Johty9 Ford and Tuskegee,
Ala.
Educated Blacks Lag In Salaries
Compared To Whites In Work Force
WASHINGTON, D.C. <AP))-A
college-educated black man can
expect to earn about $10,000 a year
less than a white man with an equal
education, a government study says.
That finding, released last
Thursday by the Census Bureau, runs
counter to the notion that if the level
of education is the same, young
blacks can compete in the work force
on an equal footing with young
whites, said Ronald Walters, political
science chairman of Howard
University.
He said the finding was “a
devastating blow” to the notion that
racism is on the wane in the United
States.
The Census Bureau presented these
average earnings figures in 1909 for
people 25 and older with four or more
vmm nf college:
•Black men, 991,880; white men,
941,080.
•Black women, 990,790; white
women, 937,440.
When blacka reach the mid-range
of the corporate ladder, promotion!
begin to run dry. "They languish in
Jobs that are below their
qualifications, or they are siphoned
out of the company to e new entry into
the black position of another firm,”
Walters said.
“Racism, 1 would think, accounts
for some of this.”
The census study provided broad
confirmation of a Labor Department
report, released in August, that found
a “glass ceiling” stalling promotions
for minorities and women in nine
large corporations.
The labor report said the bias was
often unintentional and resulted from
■uch practices as word-of-mouth
recruiting, lack of access to
management development and
training and the failure of executives
to foster advancement of minorities
and women.
However, the census document
revealed that the pay gap has long
been smaller between white and
black females than it is for their male
counterparts. In 1979, according to
the Census Bureau, a black female
earned a median income of $10,183,
just below the $10,219 median salary
earned by white women. In 1989, the
median income of $11,524 was just
$200 less than the median income for
a white woman.
However, there were other factors
holding back blacks. Claudette
(See LAO IN SALARIES, P. 2)
Detroit is no longer the automotive
mecca of the world. New York is
suffering from crumbling streets and
massive losses of residents and
reputation. Philadelphia has lost
most of its brotherly love to street
wars while the government teeters on
the brink of bankruptcy. Los Angeles
is losing control to the Crips and
Bloods and drug consumption and
distribution. As we are approaching
our third set of black mayors in many
urban centers it is becoming
appallingly clear to them that the
problems of cities may have passed
their political, managerial and
administrative abilities to cope.
The mostly black citizenry living in
the cities also have to face up to the
fact that places like East St. Louis,
Liberty City, Watts and Huff are a
drain on the nation’s coffers and the
feds are ceasing in their willingness,
and ability, to support them. They
"they” that we’ve relied on for
paternal support for all these years,
have all gone from the city and
presently have no plans to return.
The mostly black blocks of people in
our cities will have to be the ones to
bring us back from the brink. We will
have to be the ones who build much
needed shopping centers, retail
establishments, schools and houses
for our people to grow and live.
Sure the federal government will
have to help in partnerships with us to
(See CENTERS DECAY. P. 2>
Carolina A&T State University and
Winston-Salem State University.
The development of this
consortium is a direct result of the
interest and early initiatives of
President Prezell R. Robinson, to
have students and faculty become
more involved and familiar with
global affairs. Since its development
in 1989 the consortium’s emphasis has
been (but not limited to) providing
international/intercultural learning
experiences; promoting interest in
global affairs; offering opportunities
for professional development; and
increasing the international
dimensions in curricula in each
participating institution.
(See INTERCULTURAL, P. 2)
Henry McKoy To
Enter GOP Race
For Labor Post
Henry McKoy, a deputy secretary
with the Department of
Administration, announced his bid to
run for Commissioner of Labor at the
Republican Party Headquarters in
Raleigh last week.
McKoy says, "The citizens of North
Carolina want and deserve a labor
commissioner who serves with vision
and who has demonstrated an ability
to stay in touch with workers and
their businesses. A leader has to not
only be a proven skilled manager of
state government, but should be one
that sets a moral and spiritual tone
for His or her department. The
present commissioner continues to
fail the people of North Carolina and
that is why they have totally lost
confidence in him " McKoy notes that
even Democrats have lost faith in
John Brooks' ability and are stepping
up to oppose him.
Secretary McKoy says he is serious
about seeing all industrial and plant
Robinson and Dr. Cooper mtt in uv
President's office to discuss the mat
ter, with Dr. Cooper submitting
several pages of grievances and pro
posed resolutions to Robinson per
sonally. The CAROLINIAN could not
reach either Dr. Cooper or Dr. Robin
son at press time for comment.
(TEACHERFILES, P. 2'
Inside
Africa
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BY DANIEL MAROLEN
Although the recent drama of a
coup d’etat in Russia and the end of
communism in eastern Europe is for
political change from communism to
democracy, it is unlike the change
from apartheid and white domination
that the indigenous black population
is fighting to attain in South Africa
Russia and eastern Europe, LA
problem the people are concerned
with is change of the syistme of
government from communism to
democracy. On the other hand, in
South Africa, the problem is one race
dominating another race.
The drama of the Moscow coup,
d’etat was staged by coihmu
Russians against fellow Russo
who want to see their country tunic
into a democratic state. 'But both
sides consisted of Russians. It was
Russians versus Russians.
But, in South Africa the battle is
waged between the indigenous black
Africans against the majority
European (white) population which
dominates and monopolizes pold
power and all structures
government in the country, total!.,
disenfranchising all the native
inhabitants and leaving them totally
without a vote or eligibility to be
elected to any office of government
In South Africa the struggle is om
between the indigenous inhabit a i
and their foreign invader:
conquerors. The majority A
population desires freedom, jusu,
and equality as citizens. But the
minority white ruling class desires to
dominate all the inhabitants of the
country, white, black, brown or
yellow. The Africans stand fo.
democratic rule, while the whit
stand for white domination and n
segregation known as apartheid
The native Africans wan'
government whose legitimacy is only
determined by the ballot box, not the
color of a person’s skin. They want all
citzens of all races to be represented
in the government of their countr
irrespective of race, origin or beh<
They want every individual to
accorded his/her human rr
recognition and dignity. All Aft.
want full control of their own live-..
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P.2)
urn s i r
HENRY MCKOY
worker-protection laws enforced atm
itricter penalties for those places
that choose to break them. Becau
there is an inexcusable shortage of
Inspectors at the Department of
(See HENRY MCKOY. P.2)