TUESDAY
Cosby Turns Quizmaster?
Bill Cosby could take up where the Groucho
Marx left off with a TV Game Show.
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N.B. Rivers III Keynoter
Duplin’s 83rd NAACP birthday celebration
will feature N. B. Rivers, III as its keynote
speaker.
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This Week
David Walker (1785-1830)
wrote an important document
on abolition entitled, “An
Appeal to the Coloured Citizens
of the World.” In 1829, the
influential pamphlet was read
in the United States, only two
years before Nat Turner’s
Rebellion in Virginia.
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KALEIGH, N.C.,
VOL. 61, NO. 19
TUESDAY, JANUARY 28,1992
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Good Perspective Gained
Police Officers Laud Special Training
opeciai training on sexual assaul
givaa Raleigh police a good perspec
tive on what victim* of rape anc
aexual violence are feeling, aay nee
recruits, longtime officer* anc
Interact representative*.
And all agree that the apeda]
training also gives officers dealing
with these crimes important infor
mation on community resources tc
help the victims in this time oi
trauma.
A working agreement between
Interact and Raleigh police had
Interact representative Debra
Robinson Wallace before the Police
Department’s newest trainees last
' week at she helpecfthem prepare for
life on the etreete.
Interact is a non-profit agency
that provides crisis intervention
and other support services for the
victims of sexual assault or domes
tic violence. Raleigh police depend
on Interact not only to work with
victims but to help police officers
understand the effects of rape and
sexual violence on the victims.
This relationship resulted in In
teract presenting Raleigh police
with a special award last fall. This
Interact Community Response
Award of Excellence commends the
Raleigh Police Department for its
longstanding commitment to spe
cialised training about sexual vio
lence.
Crime statistics show that this
training is put to good use. In 1991,
far example, Raleigh police received
102 reports of rape by force and 24
reports of attempted rape. Both
police and Interact officials agree,
however, that actual rapes are
much higher, perhaps as much as
three times higher. Most sex crimes
go unreported to law enforcement.
New recruits had high prise for
the training they received from
Interact last week.
“I thought this training was very
informative,” said Amanda Talley,
one of 20 cadets in the department’!
69th Police Academy clasa. “A lot of
ua have never met a rape victim—or
at leaat, we did not know that we
had. Thia training diapelled a lot of
mytha people had.”
Recuit Joseph Hunt said that for
him, the most important part of the
training was learning about Inter
act and how it assists police officers
in working with crime victims.
“Knowing about this community
resource will help us help the vic
tims of sexual assault,” he said.
Interact officials agree with both
(See INTERACT, P. 2)
N»C. Business
Activity Up!
Business activity in North
Carolina increased by 0.4
percent in the fourth quarter
of 1091, according to the
Wachovia North Carolina
Business Index. This was the
first quarterly gain since the
third quarter of 1900. Over
the past year, the index is
down 0.6 percent.
All four of the index's com
ponents showed improve
ment during the fourth
quarter. Non-agrioultural
employment was up 0.4 per
cent. The average manufoe
turing workweek was
slightly longer at 40.5 hours.
The value of building per
mits, which reflect construc
tion plans, rose &9 percent.
New claims for unemploy
ment benefits foil 13.8 per
cent.
Nationally, non-agrioul
tural employment was off 0.1
percent for the fourth quar
ter. Over the past year, non
agricultural employment has
fallen 0.7 percent in North
Carolina and 0.8 percent for
the United States.
North Carolina manufac
turing employment was up
0.4 percent during the quar
ter. Employment was higher
in electrical machinery, fur
niture, food processing, lum
ber, apparel, textiles and
(See BUSINESS. P.2)
PROJECT LISTEN—TIn YMCA of Wake County, Inc.,
Hargett Street Branch and Pines of Girl Scout Council
collaborated to help male and female adolescents. Recently
the group discussed “Dating, A Positive Outlook.”
Panelists pictured are: (l.-r.) Kim Johnson, Patricia Taylor,
Dorothea Smith, Stovon Smith, Jimmy Clark and Anthony
Lowis. For more information on future programs, cal (919)
834-7386. (Photo by James Giles)
Japan & U.S. Automakers Disagree
BYJ A. CHANEY
An Analysis
When automobile dealers pray,
s«ne surely say,“Lord, protect us
from Robert Stempel, Lee lecocca
and Harold Poling."
The three chief executive officers
of America’s Big Three automobile
companies can’t be blamed person
ally for everything that’s wrong at
General Motors, Chrysler and Ford.
But they'd score less than "excel
lent" in performance appraisals.
YMCA To Honor Achievers Here
Helping other* is not an
unfamiliar concept. Neither
is helping those in your com
munity. On Thursday, Feb. 13,
at the North Raleigh Hilton,
the Garner Road YMCABlaek
Aohievere Program will
again honor minority adults
and youth who have given of
their time and talent to help
those in their community.
The Hon. Daniel T. Blue,
Jr., recognised as 1990 Adult
Achiever of the Year, will be
the guest speaker as Dorothy
Alien-Freeman, director of
Wake Opportunities, is rec
ognised for her accomplish
ments and work in the com
munity in 1991. Jessica
Brown and Bobert Utley, Jr.,
both area youth, will also be
honored for their achieve*
meats.
Callie Smith, 1990 Youth
Achiever of the Year, said,
TThe Black Achievers Pro
gram has helped me so much
when I look at what I have
aocomnlished.
“Before, 1 didn't know the
variety of career options
open to ms, and I didn't know
what it took to pursue them.
Now 1 know that I want to be
a nurse and I know what I
have to do and what kind of
grades I must make so I can
reach my goal.
*1 couldn't have done this
without the Black Achievers
Program."
The Garner Road YMCA
Black Achievers Program,
now in its second year, was
(See MS. FREEMAN. P.2)
DOROTHY ALLEN
FREEMAN
HOUSE SPEAKER
DANIEL T. BLUE, JR.
The automobile industry is cen
tral to the economy, a major compo
> nent of the gross national product
1 and the nation’s major employer.
1 The millions of Americans who work
at dealerships, local garages, serv
ice stations, auto parts stores, and
industries related to it are as much
dependent on it as those who work
in its factories.
That’s one of the reasons Presid
net Bush invited General Motors’
Stempel, Chrysler’s Iacocca and
Ford’s Poling to join the entourage of
business leaders he took with him
on his Pacific tour.
The ostensible purpose of the trip
was to persuade Asian and Pacific
nations to import more American
products and grant us better trade
concessions.
Judging from what we’ve been
reading since our goodwill ambassa
dors returned from Japan, Stempel,
Iacocca and Poling must wish they
hadn’t gone.
tne companies represented in the
entourage paid their representa
tives’ expenses. The bills ran high.
The “Big Three" can write off theirs
as a loss.
The Wall Street Journal reported
when the millionaires took wing
how much the “Big Three’s CEOs
make. The article carried on its
runover from the first page the
heading, “Compensation Gap: Ex
ecutives on Bush’s Asia Trip Face
Criticism” (the "gap” referring to
the much lower compensation Japa
nese executives receive).
Then, during January, the poor
performance of the Big Three was
cited again and again in business
news.
By the time President Bush got
back to Washington and Stempel,
Iacoca and Paling got back to their
executive suites, Tokyo and Detroit
were disagreeing as to what had
been agreed.
When this edition of The CARO
LINIAN went to press, Tokyo and
Detroit were still arguing.
Tokyo's position was that the i
understandings President Bush '
assumed were commitments were ]
merely understandings. Detroit’s <
position was that the Japanese had
reneged on promises to buy more c
U.S. vehicles and use more U.S. c
parts. c
Yu taka Kume, president of Nis- v
san Motor Co. and chairman of the t
Japanese Automobile Manufactur- c
ers Association, said, “I just cannot
tolerate the assertion that the Japa- n
nese government is a liar.” n
Some minority GM, Chrysler and h
Ford stockholders and many GM, d
Chrysler and Ford employees are tl
indignant, too. Their indignation ri
arises from comparisons of their tl
P'
(See AUTO DEALERS, P. 2) cl
WifflSMlectedPrexy Of
Local Chapter NFBPA
Kenneth C. Wilkine, Wake
County register of deeds, has been
elected president of the Triangle
Area Chapter of the National Forum
for Black Public Administrators.
The Triangle Area Chapter is the
local affiliate of the NFBPA which is
based in Washington, D.C.
Pounded in 1983, NFBPA is a
national association servinpa di
verse membership over 3,000 black
managers and executives. Its mem
bership includes city and county
managers, chief administrative offi
cers, agency and department direc
tors, rank-and-file professionals,
deans, faculty members, graduate
and undergraduate students at
schools of public administration.
NFBPA was organized by a con
cerned group of black professionals
who recognized the need for an or
ganization dedicated to addressing
the specific concerns of black man
agers in government. The founding
members sought an effective means
by which to increase the number of
blacke appointed to executive por
tions and provide organizational
support that would position the
managers to assume these execu
tives roles.
KENNETH WELKINS
Parent Appeals To Parents
On Racism Facing Youth
OI &&9HU IVUNNK scon
An Analysis
NEW YOKK, N.Y.—I live in thi
■mall American town. Frankly, i
place I have grown to love in a spe
o*l way, since I am from a large dtj
I teach at a local college, and I lov<
that, too. In fact, my life is goin{
well. I have a husband I respect ant
love. I have two beautiful daughter!
whom I adore and eiy'oy. So why am
I writing this?
I guess it is to appeal to my neigh
bors. I implore you to help me with a
community problem. You, see lam a
parent of two black children. When
they were each bom I promised to do
my best to love and protect them.
Ihe love partis easy. The protection
>art is difficult. It is not something I
:an do in isolation.
You see, my children have experi
inced several attacks from other
hildren. They have been hit and
ailed “niggers.* Just typing the
w>rd “attack* seems harsh because
hey have been attacked by other
hildren.
The physical bruises have been
linimal, but the verbal assault has
lade my children feel confused,
urt, and as if they themselves have
one something wrong. I explain to
rem until I'm blue in the face that
idem is bred from ignorance. I tell
lem repeatedly that they should be
roud no matter what names other
lildren repeat to them.
I don’t want to believe that white
children learn words like this in
their homes. Still, when my daugh
, ters cry, so do 1.1 think of the contri
t buttons I make to this community,
and 1 get angry.
So what do I want from my neigh
bors? 1 want 10 minutes of your
time. I want you to sit down with
your children and tell them what I
have told my own children: that
racism is wrong. That being racist is
wrong. That calling racist names is
wrong. And that being against ra
cism is just not enough.
Now some of you might protest,
saying, “My children don’t know
anything about this kind of stuff,” or
“I don’t teach my children such
things,” or “The issue of racial differ
ences has just not come up in my
home.”Well, I have to say to you, you
are naive. And that you have a lux
ury to think this way because you
are not a parent of a black child, in a
country that has had a history of
racial segregation and themes of
white superiority as its tradition.
We all inherit these traditions as
Americans but we don't have to
accept them.
So I want 10 minutes of your time.
I want you to take your children
aside and tell them that you expect
them to not just be non-racist but to
be anti-racist. I expect you to make
it safe for your children. I expect this
of my neighbors. I have already done
the same for you. My children are
(See RACISM, P. 2> . ..
CHIEF OFFICER—Frank WMams, Jr. Is tin Rrat alhii
race ta serve as Chief Financial Officer of the 100-year-old
Democratic National Committee. Me and Me. Vonda Batts,
iccauntlog director, review Democratic Party accounts.