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TUESDAY A Special Gift Stephanie Mills uses her special gift to create a dazzling collection of traditional and original material on her new album. Page 9 * Kwanzaa pays tribute to the rich cultural roots of African Americans this week in Chapel Hill. Dr. Karenga to speak Dec. 27. Page 6 This Week Rosa PARKS, A Montgomery, Ala., seamstress and civil rights activist on Dec. 1, 1955 refused to give up her seat to a white man. Four days later a boycott was called — it was joined by the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, E. D. Nixon and Martin Luther King, Jr., who was pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. D. CULTURAL RESOURCES NC STATE LIBRARY 109 E. JONES ST RALEIGH NC 27601 RALEIGH, N.C., VOL. 51, NO. 3 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3,1991 Twisted Legal Rules N.C.'s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY /y C IN RALEIGH fcO0 ELSEWHERE 30c Courts Treat Blacks Differently Than Whites DV IVE* W*«s cmt * nuiw * m.» BY DENNIS SCHATZMAN . Special to The CAROLINIAN An Analysis (Editor's Note: Dennis Schaliman is a former r«»ortor far The CAROLINIAN, presently employes) by the Lee Angeles Sentinel) In 1968, a Raleigh judge ordered a 48-year-old white man to pay $1,500 restitution to a black man that he chased down in his car and shot in cold blood. Reason: the 26-year-old sanitation worker startled the white man as he breezed by on his bicycle when the man was getting into his parked car. With the black man's medical bills totalling over $50,000 and the assailant getting no jail time, the judge emphatically claimed that the outrageous ruling “had nothing to do with race.’’ As Utah Senator Orrin Hatch was so sure that Anita Hill had heard about the porn star “Long Dong Silver” from a court case and not from Justice Clarence Thomas, one can reasonably assume that Judge Joyce Karlin, the jurist who let Korean grocer Soon Ja Du walk away scot-free for killing Latasha Harlins, must have read that North Carolina case. Judicial decisions like those in both the Du case and the one in North Carolina point out that when it comes to the legal system, African American victims of violence perpetrated by whites and others are exempt from the nation’s “War On Crime." And as if we didn’t know, blacks found guilty of equal or lesser crimes get the book thrown at them. Judge Karlin, in explaining why she gave Mrs. Du five year’s I probation and a $500 fine, said that the light sentence was warranted because the 51-year-old Korean immigrant had no criminal record. But neither did former Washington D C. mayor Marion Barry when he reported to a federal prison in (See DIFFERENTLY. P. 2) Judge Dismisses Suit ■ Move To Nix Minority Scholar Ships Blocked WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)—A federal judge has dismissed a law suit by seven white college students who sought to force the government to bar tax-supported institutions from awarding minority scholar ships. The Education department should be allowed to complete a review ofits policy on minority scholarships without court interference, U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin said in a ruling released last Monday. "A court should not step in prema turely and make the agency’s deci sion for it,” Sporkin said. Education Secretary Lamar Alex ander said he planned to announce a decision on the controversial issue by this week. He refused to say whether he would allow schools to use public funds for minority schol arships, and he predicted the issue would wind up before the Supreme Court. The seven students, represented by the conservative Washington Legal Foundation, said minority scholarships violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars awarding financial aid ”based solely on the race of the recipient.” The lawsuit challenged the legal ity of scholarships available exclu sively to black, Hispanic and native American students. Such scholar ships make less money available to non-minority students, the students said. However, Sporkin said any dis crimination lawsuits should be brought against the colleges in volved, not against the Education Department. The Education Department sparked a storm of controversy last December when it advised promot ers of the Fiesta Bowl football game (See DISMISSES, P. 2) GARY DAY PROCLAIMED—From left, Raleigh Mayor Avery C. Upchurch presents a proclamation declaring November 22 as “Willie Edward Gary Day” in Raleigh to Mr. Gary, as Mayor Pro Tem Ralph Campbell Jr. (right) 1 looks on. Gary, a successful lawyer from Florida, serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Shaw University. He announced his pledge of a $10 million gift to the university Friday. Haitian Refugees To U. S. Facing Double Standards, Racist Quotas BI KUI\ lJAiNIISLa Special To The CAROLINIAN “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” These are the words which supposedly define the immi gration policy of this nation of set tlers and immigrants. Having successfully seized this land from the indigenous people, however, the immigration policy of the United States has largely been guided by the goal of maintaining America as a white nation. The warm embrace of the Statue of Lib erty, therefore, and the v looming/ Ramadan Selected For Substance Abuse^ost Special To The CAROLINIAN The U.S. Office for Substance Abuse Prevention recently hired Dr. Khalif Ramadan as a community partnership trainer. He will work out of his Raleigh office but will travel extensively throughout the United States. Dr. Ramadan will be responsible for presenting the major OSAP themes to community part nerships which are currently being funded. He also will provide techni cal assistance to projects not yet fUnded. Content areas for training and technical assistance will include the following: inclusion, empowerment, cultural competency, community mobilization, program evaluation, grantsmanship, team building, strategic planning, leadership, con flict resolution, networking, and collaborative independence. Prevention efforts have evolved in the United States since the 1960s, This progress i. bege ,;jth scare tactics and mo throi informa tion, life skit alter, itive pro grams, policy d. jlopme.it, and has now made a paradigm shift to total community/societal involvement. Implications for this shift in think ing include the need to address the individual, the drug, and the. envi ronment through a multi-level, multi-system approach designed tc reach 100 percent of the people. Other significant shifts in think ing include professionals doing wit the community instead of for th community, power vested in th people and not the agencies, integre tion and interdependency of plan ning and services to replace frag (See SELECTED, P.2) processing center at Ellis Island were largely meant for Europeans. Despite the fact that the popula tion of various people of color is on the increase in the United States, these increases in many instances are occurring in spito of U.S. immi gration quotas and not because of them. And Africans from the continent and the diaspora, black people, have faced the most restrictive immigra tion quotas. In a nation obsessed by (See HAITIANS. P. 2) KesurgenceOfLife: Shaw University Is Back In Grand Style $10 Million, Image Makers BY OSCAR S. SMITH.JR. Special Tt The CAROLINIAN For those who were a part of last week’s festivities dur ing Shaw University’s 126th Founder’s Day festivities, you would not have to be told; however, if you weren’t, Shaw University is back in grand style. It wasn’t the comraderie, the “Shaw Spirit” as alumni, students, faculty and admini stration of this grand old in stitution like to call it. That has always been there, even when the second-oldest his torically black college in the country was fighting for its very life. There was a resurgence of life pumped into this grand old lady, first by a pledge of $10 million, pledged by its chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Willie Gary, and the payment of the first $250,000 of that amount. Then there was the coup pulled off by Dr. Talbert O. Shaw, the president of Shaw. He brought one of the major image-makers in the country to Raleigh as the speaker of the university’s Founder’s Day convocation. Former Democratic U.S. congressional leader William H. “Bill" Gray, IH. Gray is now the executive director of the United Negro College Fund. SHAW GARY These two events alone had the major press and media clamoring for coverage of the events of the week, including a half-hour program taped by j one of the leading television stations in the area, in keep ing with their support of UNCF and education in gen eral. The program was taped on the campus of Shaw Univer sity. Shaw is a charter mem ber of the UNCF. You don’t have to be told that this was a boost not only to Shaw but to the UNCF fundraising drive in the area as well. The Board of Trustees of UNCF, which is made up of the member college and uni versity presidents, was a coup in itself. Shaw bringing Gray to this part of North Carolina for the first time in his new role as head of the largest nonprofit edu. a tional fundraising institu tion in the country is a tribute to Dr. Shaw’s understanding of what is needed to give the university an additional shot (SeeSHAWU., P. 2) inside Africa Mandela Is Coming To America Again nvnrnr T4U novn MaloAn unll raalivo that the I ^/*fnrA Sanaa Hainv’a mrrant organization 8. Will deliver this BY WILLIAM HELD An Analysis Nelson is coming to America, again. The first thing that he is sure to do this time is get paid, up front. Still owed from the first American tour, the graduate of one of South Africa’s finest universities may have to sue to get all of the $12 million he was to receive from his multi-city U.S. excursion right after his release in 1990. Mtgor American anti-apart heid groups had calculated that Mandela would generate multi-mil lions for their cause through major rallies in Boston, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, New York and Los Angeles. And according to reports, he did deliver at least $4 million, which he’s waited more than a year to collect. This time, however, Nel son Mandela will probably receive more cash, and less flash, in his . coming to America. 1 This time around he is a guest of s the HJ. Heinz Foundation. It is > assured that Mandela, and his Afri - . can National Congress, will walk . away wi th a substantial honorarium . for his address in the Distinguished Lecture Series. If he ran a credit bureau check, after being burned Deiore, iNeison win realise umw uw i Heinz Foundation hardly has a c cash-flow problem. Previous lectur- ( ers in the series include well and “ promptly paid people such as former t U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; Robert Mugabe, presi- t dent of Zimbabwe; former French | President Valery Giscard d’Estaing; former minister of Ireland, Garret FitzGerald; and the former leaders of economic powerhouses Japan and Germany, Yasuhiro Nakasone and Helmut Schmidt. The H J. Heinz Co., which is based in Pittsburgh, is one of America’s leading companies and capable of prompt payment, even to a man who advocates corporate sanctions in his country. Not exactly a company that Mandela is unfamiliar with, Heinz is a major player on the world scene, and is a multi-national provider of food and household products. The Former U.S. senator from Pennsyl vania, John Heniz, who died in a 1991 plane crash, was a member of the family that acquired billions from what used to be just a condi ment company. In spite of Mandela’s sanctions stand, the company is bringing him to its Distinguished *cture Series. Heinz’s current hairman of the board, Anthony J.F. (’Reilly, called his long struggle one of the great human rights riumphs of our time.” Mandela, the president of one of he world’s oldest freedom fighting organizations, will deliver this year’s Heinz Lecture on Friday, Dec 6, at the Soldiers and Sailors Memo rial Hall in Pittsburgh. Mandela’s presentation is in conjunction with programs sponsored by the Univer (See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2) SHAW’S REGISTRATION SWELLS-Roglstration at Shaw University has swelen enrollment to ovor 2,100 students this tel semester. Shown registering CAPE students, Ms. Doris BraswoN, Secretary to CAPE vice president, Dr. Robert Powell.