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The Oklahoma Eagle
September 7,2000
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To the many citizens who
volunteered to work on my
campaign, and to the many
voters in District 73 who
voted for me, I say a very
heartfelt thanks for your sup-
port. I also want to thank the
many citizens who chose not
to vote for me, but who cared
enough to exercise your right
going offshore.
Asking Congress to delay
taking any hasty steps are the
National Urban League's Hugh
Price, along with Renee
McClure, president of the Black
Data Processing Associates-
Information Technology
Thought Leaders; Dr. Henry
Ponder, president of the
National Association for Equal
Opportunity in Higher
Education; Chuck Bremer, exec-
utive director of the A. Philip
Randolph Educational Fund;
James Harris, president of the
on your victory in the pri-
mary. Be assured, I will not
fall asleep. Should you prevail
in the general election, I will
be watching and expecting all
your political promises to
come to fruition.
to vote in a world where the
vote brings power to the bet-
terment of the community.
Frederick Douglass once said,
"If there is no struggle, there
is no progress ... power con-
cedes nothing without
demand."
Know that I will continue
the struggle to bring progress
to our community. I will con-
tinue to make our politicians
from
passed before
the summer
break. They
contended that
companies
should recruit
from such
sources as his-
torically black
colleges and
universities and
black profes-
Hattie Carwell has talked
about black scientists for
decades but when she began to
unveil a new Museum of
African-American Technology
in Oakland, Calif, recently, she
couldn t go on.
Clutching two kindergart-
ners in front of her, she said,
"This is for them..."
One of her fellow members
of the Northern California
Council of Black Professional
Engineers (http://www.ncal-
ifBlackeng.org) stepped for-
ward to continue the introduc-
tion, but her speechlessness was
the most elo-
quent statement
one could make.
Unless the
generation of
African-
Americans who
benefited from
the civil.rights
movement
reaches back to
prepare the
coming genera-
tions for the
information
economy, our gains will evapo-
rate just as quickly as the
tremendous progress during
Reconstruction did.
We can only count on our-
selves to do it. U.S. Education
Secretary Richard Riley said
only half of the classrooms in
poor (read: predominately
black) schools are connected to
the Internet. That compares to
the People's Republic of China,
which just announced a broad-
band streaming video education
network reaching 800,000 high
schools and five million teach-
group in our communitv.
However, those workers
have to step out of the back-
ground by joining the manv
volunteers who are reaching
back to help our children and
by letting policy makers know
that anyone who is sincerely
looking for them as employees
would have found them long
ago.
When school starts, make
sure the nearest school with a
large proportion of black stu-
dents has connections to the
Internet and teachers who know
how to use it; acquire used or
surplus equipment and make it
available to kids at home or in
churches or community centers
and use the Internet vourself as
a role model.
The book "The African-
American Students' Guide to
the Internet and World Wide
Web" has lots of suggestions on
how to make a difference as a
volunteer, teacher or adminis-
trator.
McClure's organization,
BDPA (http://www.bdpa.org)
held a major national conven-
tion Aug. 15-20 in Washington,
D.C. featuring a high school
computing competition and
recognition of the top 50 most
important African-Americans in
technology.
If we don't wake up to the
looming economic impact of the
information economy, it's going
to hit us like a New York Citv
undercover cop.
John William Templeton is
executive editor of Blackmoney.com
and a co-convenor of the Coalition
for Fair Employment in High
Technology. Contact him at aski-
atek@Blackmoney.com.
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God created black people and black people created style.
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accountable for the power
they have been entrusted
with. Now is the time that we
as a community must demand
that our tax dollars are spent
to bring economic develop-
ment to our district as a whole
and to address our growing
problems of inadequate edu-
cation and growing crime
among our youth. To Rep.
Don Ross, I congratulate you
On race relations, Oklahoma is taking the lead on at
least one issue: racial profiling. The practice of using race
as probable cause is illegal in this state. There are fines
and punishment for violating state laws outlawing its
practice. But the rest of the country is beginning to say
no more to the racist practice.
Last week national civil rights organizations like the
NAACP were saying no more to racial profiling. As well
they should. But the very fact Oklahoma has the law on
the books does not mean racial profiling or outright big-
oted behavior on the part of policemen across the state
has gone away. It is not an easy law to prove and most
people don't even realize it exist.
There is not a handbook on what to do or how to
spot a racial profile offender.
While The Oklahoma Eagle supports the enlightened
law, it is better still to change people through communi-
cation, not fines.
judge's's dismissal of a jury panel because it did not
have enough black members The decision was made by
District Judge Susan Bragg, who said after 35 potential
jurors, there was only one black. Macy was in fact going
to challenge the seating of the lone black because of a
past deferred sentence agreement. Bragg said the whole
system for that case was fundamentally unfair.
Macy plans to argue that it is not necessary to ensure
fairness nor require racial diversity on any jury. He may
be legally right but he is dead wrong.
If Macy was on trial for his life, and he saw 35
African Americans lined up as the jury pool, we wonder
if he would still feel the same?
The chairmen of the state's two major political par-
ties are waging a public fight over who is most responsi-
ble for the hate crime committed last week by two white
supremacists. Two white men are accused of desecrating
Jewish graves at a Tulsa cemetery.
GOP State Chairman Steve Edwards said Wednesday
that Rep. Mike Mass, the Democratic chairman, was way
off base when he said that by vetoing a 1999 hate crimes
bill Gov Frank Keating deprived authorities of a tool
that could have been used in the recent vandalism of
Jewish tomb stones in a Tulsa cemetary.
The bill Keating vetoed would have created a hate
crimes uit in the Oklahoma attorney general's office. In
vetoing the bill the governor said those who might be
accused of hate crimes could be prosecuted under other
state statues.
Lets play fair, and let the votes trully speak for
themselves. The voters have a right to truthful interputa-
tions of the issues.
ers-technology built by
American companies. Another
example is the satellite-deliv-
ered Internet kiosk network that
will allow 50 million American
Indians to be on the Internet in
the next two years, once again
built by American companies.
Those same companies are
turning to those countries to
supply the workers for the next
stage of information technology
through legislation known as
the Hl-B non-immigrant visa
Opposition by the
Congressional Black Caucus
spearheaded by U.S. Reps. John
Conyers, Sheila Jackson-Lee and
Maxine Waters helped keep an
increase in the number of Hl-Bs
‘Only half the "om beinR
classrooms in poor
(read:
predominately
black) schools are
connected to the
Internet.’
-Jolii WHmi Templeton sional organiza-
— ■ tions before
In the run-off election in the Second District
Congressional race, it has come down to front-runner
Brad Carson and long time legislator Bill Settle. The
choice is simple: Carson is the best qualified to do the
job. He is also the best prepared to do the job.
Apparently he is also the only one with the courage
to say why he should be elected and sent to the U.S.
House of Representatives. Settle has refused to debate
the charismatic Carson. Probably because he doesn't
want to explain why he takes money from special inter-
est groups he has supported in the legislature. He
doesn't want to explain why he voted against a hate
crimes bill.
Carson and Settle are even in their approach toward
Native Americans, but the support from The Oklahoma
Eagle must be viewed from all angles. It is that view that
compels this paper to support the candidacy of Carson.
He will return the Second District back not to the
Democratic Party but to the values which need to be rep-
resented in the Congress.
Do not take this election for granted, it could well be
decided right here in North Tulsa, vote for Brad Carson
on Sept. 19th.
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Time to Get Your Kids Ready for Technology
National Black Caucus of State
Legislators, and Tom Vines,
president of
Association
Americans
Resources.
Yet the same companies
that send millions overseas to
train foreign workers are con-
tinuing to put the pressure on
Congress with campaign contri-
butions and dire threats.
Carwell has asked hun-
dreds of high-tech companies to
help build the museum and
even the White House, with lit-
tle more than lip service in
response.
The real pressure is being
felt in places like Oakland,
where pressure from incoming
technology w orkers is raising
rents and home prices through
the roof. The same day as the
museum opened, angry black
residents told officials at an
affordable housing seminar of
getting 30-day notices to leave
their apartments throughout the
city although they had paid
their rent on time for years.
The connection is that
unless black children and their
parents get a thorough ground-
ing in technology, particularly
by learning about the tremen-
dous contributions that African-
Americans have already made
to science and mathematics,
they will be unable to afford to
live in places like Los Angeles
or Oakland or even Harlem or
14th and U Street in
Washington, D.C.
Fortunately, many in the
older generation have parlayed
their on-the-job training or mili-
tary experience into the infor-
mation technology sector. The
500,000 black 1-T workers are
now the largest professional
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