Posted on 01/25/2007 8:03:11 PM PST by BerniesFriend
* All children need high-quality, well-funded, diverse schools.
* Livable wages and support are needed for low-income people.
* Health care is needed for all.
* Same-day registration and public financing of elections are needed.
* The state should document and redress 200 years of discrimination in hiring and contracting.
* The state should provide affordable housing and stop consumer abuse.
* Young people should be put to work to save the environment and fight for environmental justice.
* Collective bargaining is needed for public employees.
* The state should immediately organize, strengthen and provide funding for our civil rights enforcement agencies and statutes.
"Never give up until all people are treated equally," Barber said. "We will fight and push the agenda until we see change."
So this reform will benefit all people equally, including white people? Just asking the Rev Barber....
So Peterson wanted to burn down 610 Buchanan, and she gets whisper not to. She also was a committee co-chair for Nifong Citizens, and hates gays.
And this makes her sane, and not a risk to equality in the community because ??? They should have arrested her for trying to incite an arson. Her hatred blinds any rational thought.
"For daring to pursue a Black woman's rape charges against white males Nifong is being driven out of town and the practise of law."
Nope, not quite right. Nifong was not driven out of town for pursuing a black woman's rape charges against white males, he was cited for failing to follow the most basic tenants of criminal procedures which apply to a DA, which requires equal treatment of all information that should come before him, and prerforming duties as required of him as if there were not racial or political inferences involved.
From John in Carolina--
Rev. Barber at Duke Chapel, Sunday, January 28, 2007
Rev. Dr. William J Barber II, pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC, preached the sermon today at the 11 A.M. service at Duke Chapel.
Barber’s a graduate of NC Central University (BA in Public Administration, cum laude) and Duke’s Divinity School, where he was a Benjamin Mays Fellow and earned a Masters of Divinity degree. Barber earned his doctoral degree at Drew University, Madison, NJ.
Barber, who also serves as NC’s NAACP state president, spoke out often last spring concerning the Duke lacrosse case. At a series of news conferences he urged a prompt, full and fair investigation of charges made by a woman many at the time were calling “the victim.” Barber also met with Duke’s president, Richard H. Brodhead, who later described him as a friend from whom he had learned a great deal. - -more-
http://johnincarolina.com/
Barber, Wells, and the Sins of Denial
Durham in Wonderland, Monday, January 29, 2007 KC Johnson --excerpts--
As John in Carolina noted, the head of the state NAACP, Rev. William Barber, was invited to preach at yesterday’s Duke Chapel Sunday service by the man he described as his “good friend,” Duke Chaplain Sam Wells. --
Barber, alas, seems reluctant to apply his desired “theology of truth” to his own organization’s statements. Instead, the NAACP head tailored his remarks to fit the organization’s new talking points—namely, that any dismissal of the case would be based on prosecutors caving in to public opinion rather than acting on the merits. “Pontius,” reminded the Reverend, “denied his responsibility that wrong was occurring before him in the court of public opinion,” and his “denial led to a great injustice.”--
In his comments on the case, the NAACP chair continued his organization’s practice of lionizing the accuser, wondering, “What about a society where young ladies even have to consider sexual occupation for financial sustainment, or to use those things as a flawed attempt to gain self-esteem?” --
Barber chillingly summed up the consequences of refusing to follow his demands: “If we deny God’s call to face reality, to change reality, then we sin, and the blood is on our hands.”
One person who attended the service e-mailed me to say that she walked out when Barber denounced the lacrosse players.
Barber concluded his sermon by observing, “Nothing is worse than to know better and deny a responsibility to do better.” These words serve as a fitting epitaph for the state NAACP’s performance in this case. An organization that long has committed itself to procedural regularity and protecting the rights of the accused has sacrificed its legacy upon the altar of racial politics.
http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/
* The NC NAACP takes an awful keen interest in this case, err- hoax.
Durham Committee celebrates 72nd anniversary
BY KELLY HINCHCLIFFE : The Herald-Sun, Jan 28, 2007 : 11:23 pm ET
DURHAM -- The Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People celebrated its 72nd anniversary Sunday evening, with Chairwoman Lavonia Allison calling for unity in 2007.
"We're making some progress, but we want to do better," she said.
Now in her 10th year as chair, Allison said the group's major focus this year would be to work collectively with federal, state and local organizations on priority issues that impact the quality of life of black people. --cut--
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-813856.cfm
* Wonder what they are un-united about? The folks who gave us DA Nifong TWICE.
Countering conspiracy to disrupt Durham justice
How dare the N.C. Bar Association join the mobs in Durham who have verbally lynched and sought to politically assassinate District Attorney Mike Nifong for seeking to prosecute three white Duke students accused of raping a black NCCU student. And if we are to refer to the lady as a "stripper," allow me to refer to the men as "perverted stripper patrons."
The conspiracy to disrupt justice in this Durham case should be obvious. It is unprecedented that the alleged criminals and their defense team have the luxury of such a media platform to proclaim their "innocence" and attack the prosecutor.
More than 50 percent of the black men packed into the Durham County jail also profess to be innocent. But the media will never allow their cases to be tried in the court of public opinion. Neither will you see any form of outrage when the DA says "they did it." Consequently we find more black men in Central Prison than N.C. Central University.
I challenge the racist media and N.C. Bar Association who wrongfully used their influence to attack the integrity of a prosecutor who is prosecuting a case which has the potential to challenge racism, classism, and sexism simultaneously. Yes, we should demand justice in the courts. We should also remember Malcolm X's point, which says, "If black people can't get justice in the courts, we have to demand justice in the streets."
CURTIS E. GATEWOOD
Oxford
January 28, 2007
http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/hsletters/index.cfm#813611
* (1994 to 2002) President of the Durham Branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (Durham NAACP)
http://www.naacpncnetwork.org/Publicity/
During October of 2005, Gatewood was elected as 2nd Vice President
of the North Carolina Conference of NAACP Branches.
* Oxford, up there in Granville County.
- Next to Person County.
Freepers onto something?
Posted at 4:57 PM by Jon Ham
Just as the Dan Rather hoax began unraveling when a Freeper named Buckhead first posted his suspicions (a Freeper, by the way, is someone who posts on the FreeRepublic.com message board), a Freeper calling himself “maggief” has posted a string of news stories that indicate that Durham DA Mike Nifong knew some members of the Duke rape accuser’s family as early as 1995.
The connection is the murder trial of Walter Goldston in 1995, which Nifong prosecuted. Goldston was convicted of killing the rape accuser’s uncle. And in several stories and columns in the local media it is clear that the rape accuser’s grandmother was present in court, and it is clear that Nifong knew her, pointing her out in court on the day Goldston was sentenced.
Commenters are saying this alone was enough to require Nifong to recuse himself from the Duke lacrosse case, and they are wondering if he felt an obligation to the family since he was unsuccessful in getting a death sentence for Goldston in 1995.
http://triangle.johnlocke.org/blog/
"Give me a Dollar"
TRAVIS MANGUM, THE NAACP and Precious-A family connection?
Posted on 01/29/2007 1:05:26 PM EST by Protect the Bill of Rights
Maybe the reason the NAACP has become so involved in this story is starting to come to light. Tin foil or not, I know country folks. The Mangums might live in Durham now, but they have long, strong family ties to Granville County.
I am looking for it, have not yet found it, but I would be willing to bet anthing there is a close blood relationship between TV Mangum and Travis Mangum from Durham
Hat tip Maggief!Tony Soprano at LS
1 posted on 01/29/2007 1:05:29 PM EST by Protect the Bill of Rights
State's NAACP at fork A family dynasty faces a challenge
The News & Observer
May 25, 1996
Author: Ben Stocking; Staff Writer
Estimated printed pages: 4
For nearly half a century, the Alexander name has been virtually synonymous with the NAACP in North Carolina.
Kelly Alexander Sr. helped found the state organization and served as its president for 36 years. At the time of his death in 1984, he was serving as the NAACP's national board chairman. Kelly Alexander Jr. grew up in the organization and has been the state conference president since his father died 12 years ago.
Now, for the first time since 1948, someone with a different name is heading the state organization - at least temporarily. The NAACP'S national board suspended Alexander last weekend pending an audit of the state conference's finances.
His suspension marks a dramatic moment in the 53-year history of the state chapter. And the timing couldn't be more awkward.
It comes as the state conference is preparing to host the NAACP's national convention, which opens July 6 in Charlotte. It also comes as the national organization is trying to regain stability after the firing of its last leader, North Carolina native Ben Chavis, and a bruising election that led to the ouster of national board chairman William Gibson.
The prospect of another round of conflict discourages local chapter heads.
"I'm saddened that here we are getting ready to go into the national convention and this is another sour note about the NAACP," says James White, president of the South-Central Wake branch. "But I've always said the organization is better than any one person. And I've always said that we will survive."
It is unclear whether Alexander's suspension will prove to be a short-term setback or the end of a family dynasty. Officials at the national office declined to discuss Alexander's suspension, other than to say that they are investigating a complaint brought against him by other members of the state conference. They won't say who brought the complaint or when the audit is likely to be completed.
In the meantime, Melvin "Skip" Alston, a Greensboro real estate broker and first vice president of the state conference, is filling in as acting president.
###
Politics or arrogance?
Alexander insists that he has fallen victim to the byzantine internal politics of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. His rivals at the state and national level have come together to do him in, he says.
"What you've got is a collection of folks who have axes to grind," Alexander says. "It's politics at its worst. It's really an attempt to lessen my voice as the national convention comes to town, to make me less of a thorn in the side of the powers that be."
Alexander contends that his opponents have seized on a technicality in an effort to undermine him. The pretext for his suspension, he says, was the fact that he used pre-signed checks - checks signed by the former state treasurer - to pay some bills. He says that he made no questionable expenditures and that he told the newly elected treasurer, Z. Ann Hoyle, that he was using the checks. She didn't object, he said.
Alexander blames several state and national NAACP members for his travails, including Hoyle and Skip Alston, the acting president. None would reply to Alexander's charges.
Alston, the only one who would comment at all, expressed admiration for Alexander.
"I've learned a lot from Kelly," he said. "He's dedicated to the NAACP and its principles. He has basically committed his life to this organization. I think he will always play a role in the NAACP one way or another."
But some state conference members say that Alexander shares an unappealing trait with Chavis and Gibson: arrogance.
"Sometimes his tactics are a little high-handed," said White, the South-Central Wake branch president. "Sometimes he seemingly is not in tune with the will of the people."
(snip)
//
Alston/Mangum???
Obituaries
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
April 29, 1997
EXCERPT
MANGUM
Mrs. Nancy Mae Bobbitt Mangum, 86, of 19 Dauphine Place, died Friday, April 25, 1997 at 4:30 a.m. at Duke Hospital. She was born and raised in Granville County.
She is survived by five sons, Willie Alston Jr., James Alston, Travis Mangum, Edward Mangum, William Mangum; and two daughters, Mrs. Gennie V. Pettiford, and Mrs. Glendora Harris Mangum, all of Durham, NC.; one brother, Paul Lyons; six sisters, Pearle Mae Lyons, Roberta Bobbitt and Dorothy Lee Percy, of Durham, NC., Eva Mae Lyons of Long Island, NY., Pourthy Lee Bass, and Marie Pattieway of Creedmoor, NC.; two sons-in-law, Mr. Phil Harris and Mr. Wallace Pettiford, both of Durham, NC.; five daughters-in-law, Mrs. Della Alston, Mrs. Mary Cheek Mangum, and Mrs. Betty Mangum, all of Durham; and S.F.C. Veronica Jean Mangum, of New Jersey, twenty-eight grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday at 12 noon at Greater St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church. Rev. Michael Page will be officiating.
Visitation will be Tuesday from 7-8 p.m. at Scarborough and Hargett Funeral Home, and at other times at 19 Dauphine Place. Burial will at Markham Memorials Garden.
2 posted on 01/29/2007 1:33:42 PM EST by maggief
http://triangle.johnlocke.org/blog/
Freepers onto something?
Posted at 4:57 PM by Jon Ham
http://www.carolinajournal.com/cjcolumnist...hor.html?id=191
Jon Ham joined the John Locke Foundation on Feb. 21, 2005. Prior to joining JLF he had worked for The Herald-Sun newspapers in Durham, NC, for 19 years, 13 of those as managing editor and four as director of digital publishing.
(snip)
3 posted on 01/29/2007 1:36:14 PM EST by maggief
To: Ken H; xoxoxox; JLS; Locomotive Breath; TommyDale; All
FYI -
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:9D-xmG-4Pd4J:ncmuseumofhistory.org/workshops/civilrights1/Session2_1.html+%22t+v+mangum%22+naacp&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=6&client=firefox-a
Growth of the NAACP
Black North Carolinians joined the NAACP in ever-increasing numbers before and during the Second World War. Led by idealistic lawyers, the NAACP fought in the federal courts for racial justice. Before the war it spearheaded the effort to keep conservative North Carolina jurist John J. Parker off the United States Supreme Court.
Membership in the NAACP soared in the war years, and the number of branches in the state more than doubled. By the war’s end, Winston-Salem had the largest NAACP chapter, with 1,991 members. The North Carolina Conference of NAACP Branches formed in Charlotte in 1943, largely as a result of efforts by Ella Baker, Kelly Alexander, and T. V. Mangum. The ongoing conference created a powerful united effort for reform.
5 posted on 01/29/2007 1:40:44 PM EST by maggief
Travis Mangum Thread--
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1775600/posts?q=1&&page=1
Where is the outrage now that the case against the young men from Duke has been found to be “without merit?” When will those young men receive apologies like JJ and Al (Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) demanded of Imus? When will blacks accept responsibilities for their actions? There was NO EVIDENCE to support the woman’s claims. Even the other topless dancer denied the allegations against the young men. Yet JJ and Al took to the air waves and the news for their photo ops. When is the black community going to figure out that JJ and Al are not working for them but for themselves?
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