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RACIAL PROFILING
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
To the editor,
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
— 1st Cor. 2:16
— Alex Ha ley
20 years of HIV/AIDS:
What next?
EDITORIALS
The Tulsa Riot of 1921 - and
talk about healing
Edward L Goodwin Jr. and James O. Goodwin
Co-Publishers
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George E. Curry is the for-
mer editor-in-chief of
Emerge: Black America's
Newsmagazine. He can be
reached through his Web
site, www.georgecurry.com.
Sincerely yours,
Nancy Evans.
"We make America better when we aid our people."
E.L. GOODWIN SR., Publisher, 1936-1978
costly for this group to pay.
I wanted The Oklahoma
Eagle staff to know that our
ad in your newspaper made
a difference, at a fraction of
the cost we paid the World. I
as several people at the sale
where they saw our ad this
year and many of them said
g; ELACK
HISTORY
May 30, 1965 - Vivian Malone became the first black
graduate of the University of Alabama.
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In my writing, as much as I could, 1 tried to find the good
and praise it.
Car-
Phil
rP0U
The Holy Family Cathe-
dral Women's Club held
their 12th annual garage
sale in March of this year.
For the first time, the board
of directors made a decision
to spend some of their ad-
the Eagle.
Thank you for doing
such a bang-up job for us.
We are able to spend more
toward our church needs.
Now that Democrats
have gained control of the
Senate for the first time in
seven years, it is time for
them stop being weasels
and aggressively carve out
a progressive domestic
agenda that rebuffs
George W. Bush's Right-
wing tilt. In the process,
they should borrow a page
from Republicans by play-
ing political hardball in-
stead of wimping out on
crucial issues as they’ve
done in the past.
The political
shakeup in the Senate has
enormous implications for
Black America. With a con-
servative U.S. Supreme
Court and the White
House and House of Rep-
resentatives controlled by
Republicans too conserva-
tive for some members of
their own party, the Senate
is the last line of protec-
tion from a Right-wing on-
slaught. This will be
particularly important in
the upcoming confirma-
tion hearings for 100 fed-
eral judges, all of whom
receive lifetime appoint-
ments.
The question yet to be
answered is: Do Democ-
rats have the backbone to
act like traditional Democ-
rats and not Republican
clones?
In recent years, many
Democrats have sat pas-
sively on the sidelines as
Senate Majority Leader
Trent Lott of Mississippi
and his wrecking crew,
sometimes with the help
of the Clinton administra-
tion, destroyed many of
the social programs de-
signed to help the poor
and people of color. Long-
time curmudgeon Jesse
Helms of North Carolina
single-handedly blocked
BIBLE VERSE
Don't you realize that all of you together are the House
of God, and that the Spirit of God moves among you in His
House?
placed by a Democrat. The
new majority leaders will
still have to scramble for
votes because some in
their ranks, such as Zell
Miller of Georgia, rou-
tinely vote with Republi-
cans.
"What does not change
with this new balance of
power is the need for prin-
cipled compromise," in-
coming
Senate Ma-
jority Leader
Tom Daschle
of South
Dakota told
reporters.
"This is still
one of the
most closely
divided Sen-
ates in all of
our history."
Even so,
being in the
majority al-
lows Democ-
rats to chair
all committees, have a slim
majority on each panel
and control the legislative
agenda. Issues that were
not on Bush's legislative
list now will receive top
priority under Democrats.
Those issues include a pa-
tients' bill of rights, in-
creasing the minimum
wage, dealing with pre-
scription drugs benefits,
increasing school spend-
ing and taking a different
approach to environmen-
tal protection.
The loss of power in
the Senate is also forcing
the Republicans for re-ex-
amine their style of gov-
erning. That could also be
good news for African-
Americans. There will be
increased pressure on
George W. Bush to move
toward the centrist posi-
tions that were the hall-
mark of his campaign for
president but not his ad-
ministration.
It has been 20 years since we first learned some-
thing about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and
the dreaded disease itself. For a long time, the
virus and the disease were associated with homo-
sexuals, mostly young white males. Then drug-
users, through contaminated needles, brought in
another "undesirable element" into the equation.
A lot of well-meaning people, including a vast
number of blacks, used the "ostrich approach" to
the problem. Gays and drug-users were taboo top-
ics among church people.
Meanwhile, the numbers were growing. The
virus and full-blown AIDS began surfacing among
heterosexuals.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National In-
stitute on Allergies and Infectious Diseases, Na-
tional Institutes of Health, speaking from his office
in Bethesda, Md., said Monday that great strides
have been made in treatment, starting with AZT,
followed by the pharmaceutical "cocktails" which
have prolonged the life of many who carried or
may still carry the virus. Fauci said medical care-
takers who have been accidentally pricked by in-
fected needles, can take some of the new drugs and
seemingly have been able to head-off infection. He
said it is hoped that an approach similar to this can
prevent the spread of the virus in others. Fauci
was speaking on ABC-TV's "Good Morning, Amer-
ica."
The worst cases of HIV/AIDS are in sub-Sahara
Africa, where pandemic proportions are wiping out
a generation of people. The disease has spread rap-
idly stemming from cultural practices, combining
submission by females and failure to practice "safe
sex" by males.
Some governments, including our own and
some in Africa, have looked the other way on this
major health problem. Political profiling is not a
solution.
Question: Is more help-including adequate
funding and further scientific research-on the way?
Let's hope this is the case.
vertising money with The
Oklahoma Eagle. In years
past we have always adver-
tised with the Tulsa World.
We really had no way of
knowing if advertising with
the World brought people
into our sale. We did know
that an ad in the World was
i i
The many wrongs perpetrated against African
Americans during the Tulsa Riot of 1921 were re-
visited last Sunday afternoon at Mount Zion Bap-
tist Church. An appropriate setting. Mount Zion
was one of churches destroyed in the disturbance.
The only difference in Mount Zion's case, the mem-
bership had just moved into the structure, and most
likely the newness had not worn off nor the first
payment made on the mortgage.
Most Tulsans, no doubt, still follow the dis-
torted line that the riot was about racial tensions.
However, in several documents uncovered by the
North Tulsa Historical Society-excerpts of which
have appeared in a six-part series running in The
Oklahoma Eagle-we have learned that the so-called
race riot was a diversion to take attention away
from the real issue at hand, the take-over of valu-
able land in owned by blacks. The worst part about
the incident is the revelation that public officials,
including law enforcement officers, and now-de-
funct Tulsa Tribune, played major roles in what has
been labeled the nation's worst race riot. The dirt
on these hands was reported in the Riot Commis-
sion's final report.
Whether you buy the distorted spin of what
happened, or the more recently updated accounts,
something devastating happed in the Greenwood
community on May 31 and June 1, 1921. Among
the sources reporting what really happened is the
book by Maurice Willows, who was in charge of
Red Cross Relief at old Booker T. Washington High
School. Willows' book, 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: Amer-
ica's Deadliest, we learned w’hat really happened.
Several other writers have put light on a subject
that for decades has been hidden in darkness.
Otis Clark, one of 120 known survivors, was 18
when he fled the city with relatives. Now 98, Mr.
Clark was spokesperson for the survivor's at Sun-
day's ceremonies. Governor Frank Keating and
Tulsa Mayor Susan Savage were among the long
line of speakers at the program, which lasted nearly
three hours.
New laws, approved by the governor, provide
for construction of a memorial to victims and sur-
vivors of the riot, a redevelopment authority for the
Greenwood area, and scholarships for as many as
300 Tulsans.
In all of the riot related rhetoric that has sur-
faced in recent months, the words of Arlene John-
son at a recent panel discussion held at All Souls
Unitarian Church on South Peoria, best summed-
up where we are at this juncture. Johnson, not a
panelist but an All Souls member, said following
the question-and-answer period that if healing is to
come in the aftermath of the riot, "it should come
from white Tulsans."
Hats off to State Rep. Don Ross and State Sen.
Maxine Horner for having an investigation into the
riot on their political agenda.
mond
South <
olina,
Gramm
Texas,
Richard
BLACKONOMICS
Democrats should stop being weasels
BytMwLCary
Eagle Guest Columnist
have ‘Now that the
Democrats have
gained control of
the nominations of
African-American judges
to the 4th Circuit Court of
Appeals and held Ameri-
can foreign policy hostage
at will.
It was difficult for Re-
publicans to chastise Jef-
fords for switching parties
when some of their own
members had been re-
cruited to join the GOP.
Among those
who I
defected
from being
Democrats to
^“bl,TcJ"s: the senate for the
Strom Ihur-
of first time in seven
years, it is time for
of them to stop being
j weaselsand...
Shelby of Al- CarVC OUt 3
abama^ and prOgreSSjve
Nighthorse domestic agenda.’
Campbell of —
Colorado.
With Senator James
Jeffords of Vermont
switching from being a Re-
publican to an independ-
ent, there was an
immediate shift of power
in the upper chamber.
Helms was replaced as
head of the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee by Joseph
Biden Jr. of Delaware.
Patrick Leahy, also from
Vermont, replaces ultra-
conservative Orrin G.
Hatch of Utah as leader of
the important Judiciary
Committee. And Edward
M. Kennedy will chair the
Health, Education, Labor
and Pensions committee.
Jeffords' defection
leaves the Democrats with
a 50-49 edge and the
prospect of another Re-
publican, Strom Thur-
mond, retiring at the age
of 98 now that the Senate
has been lost to the De-
mocrats; he will be re-
One Republican mod-
erate, Olympia J. Snowe of
Maine, says, "We can't
bury our heads in the sand
about why this happened."
Even as they were los-
ing their clout in the Sen-
ate, some Republicans
were making it clear that
they are not going quietly
into the night.
Placing his spin on re-
cent events, Senator Hatch
mentioned Bush's veto
power. "On the chess-
board, your agenda can be
advanced more with a
president and a minority
in the Senate," the Utah
Republican contends.
Does he really expect us to
believe that? I was born at
night, but not last night.
Republican Senator
Richard Shelby of Al-
abama points to the next
Congressional election.
"This might galvanize Re-
publicans," he says. "This
might help us in a year
and a half." Yeah, right.
This feeble and trans-
parent attempt by Repub-
licans to portray their
Senate downfall as a good
thing reminds me of the
comments made by my
high school and college
football coaches. "It’s not
whether you win or lose
but how you play the
game,” they would tell us.
What they didn't say was:
How you play the game
determines whether you
win or lose. Republicans
have to accept reality:
They have lost. And De-
mocrats need to act like
have they won and stop
being weasels.
A4 ■ THE OKLAHOMA EAGLE • THURSDAY. JUNE 7, 2001
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