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‘Bush is a terrorist’
“I donit know if Presi
dent Bush is the greatest
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Us!!! Rod Lambert
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is African Ameri
\:nhynndh important?
The black media is
necessary to legitimize
our ideas and our
selves.
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What is the Outsider?
This column which
started last week will
be a weekly- one that
will-speak to Augusta’s
player haters who
profit from stirring up
trouble.
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Rev Hatney better
watch out
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hnson departs BET
tfl not from the game
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Glorify God by Mak
ing fyHulthy food
choices
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GOOD NEWS
Dr. Paul Weston, the
first African Ameri
can Surgeon in GA
First African Ameri
can Surgon in
Augusta, Georgia as
a leader in buflding
bridges and lig_hting
the path for future
leaders.
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‘Glory Road’
By AUGUSTA FOCUS STAFF
There has been a considerable amount of dis
cussion and printed text brought forth respoid
ing 1o the film Glory Road. Ttis a movie ‘\llx ut a
basketball gane that has been, and will contnue
0 be, one of the most discussed and analyzed
games in sports history. The significance was big
eer than :h outdoors.” In that game, the finals of
the 1966 NCAA Basketball ¢ h.unpimdlip was
played between the University of Kentucky and
lexas Western University; and there was much
drama. They were not just eams, as regarded by
most of the sports world, but an all-white eam
trom the Deep South playing in the premiere col
lege game against a mid-western eam that was
thoroughly ;nlq:r.m-d. but acuually played only
black pll\i-l.\ tor the full 40 minutes. Texas West
crnwon ilu‘ game 71-65 inacontest 111.1 l was not
as dose as the score would indicate. This seven
point victory resulted in more excitement than if
the Miners, as they were called, had beaten Ken
tcky by 70 poins,
Many will tell you that the shock that the game
brought had everything 1o do with race. People
look back now, a'tull t orty years later, and place
more emphasis on the fact that six black slayers,
five starters and one subsutute, beat this .nh-whiu'
team than they did when Bill Russel and K.C.
Prosecutors start their case
By ERRIN HAINES
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (A\l’) Former
Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell
.\h(x)k (lm.\n \il_\' CONlratornrs
to subsidize a gambling, jet
srlling lih:\lfl(' he hid from
the public, prosecutors told
jurors Monday Jan. 23 in the
opening of Campbell's feder
al corrupnion tnal.
Siuing under the arty seal of
Atlanta, Campbell listenied
attentively and conferred
with his attorneys as presecu
tors laid out their case e f rack
cteering, bribery anvr fraud
charges against the ex-mayor,
who presided over the ay
from 1994 o 2007
Campbell's la'-\'_\'('rs told
jurors Ju-_\' plan prove Camp
bell had no kivawledge of the
acuvities of trigsted associates,
some of whem have pleaded
guilty and are expected 1o tes
ufy against him in the cight
week trial.
The 52-ywear-old charismar
ic ex-polincian — once consid
ered a rising star in the
national Democratic Party
is accused of accepting
$50,000 in cash from a strip
club operztor who wanted
Economic development focuses on drag strip and festival
BY JESSICA BAPTISTE
Augusta Focus
’l.h(‘ prnl)o*i('d drug
strip and thk James
Brown Music ‘Festival
haV(‘ lwvn some ‘.nl !np—
ics of discussiV\n in
Augusta, among sports
enthusiasts and fans of
(h(' (x'()(“.;llh(‘r us- St‘!ll,
even some protesters of
noise and smog. An eca
nomic development
workshop was held to
discuss the projects in
depth on Jan. 19. Mayor
Pro Tem, Marion
Williams who is spear
heading the drag strip
and who is also in favor
of the festival, thinks the
workshop went well.
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drticle of analysis and 11 ey
{mcs. both black, led San Francisco 1 the same
NCAA Basketball Championship 10 years carli
er. At least a part of this can be attributed 1o the
fact that whifc the University of San Francisco
was not busting loose with black studens, it did
have some. Another point is that San Francisco
was not in the south, a region in which the Uni
versity of Kentucky was located and a section of
the country just oozing with a segregated way of
life in every aspect. It was also a secdon of the
country with a culwre that rejected not only
black access 1o its institutions of higher education
and other public faciliues, but blacks were
thought © L' not generally non-compettve
with whites. One Kentucky player was quoted in
a prominent natonal magazine as saying thar a
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team every ume. [t was because of such prejudi
cial remarks and other allegaic >usnf'r.ui.|! supert
onty that this game captured the attenuon nll the
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Present day medias analysis of the event, 40
years hence, is intnguing. — True w their colors,
sports writers and other experts have been pre
\li. tably protecive and defensive of Adolf Rupp,
the cow ’I of the University of Kentucky at lL.u
ume. They have summanly rejected the nodon
that Rupp was racist. The appropriate and accu
rate assesstnent is that he was raast, but he was
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Former Atlanta Mayor Bill
Campbelil's
help geting a hquor license
for a second <lub and
$55,000 from a computer
company vying for a contract
to prepare the city's comput
ers for Y2K. He also Al“rg('t”'\'
accepted an all-expenses-paid
trip to Pans worth nearly
$13,000 from a water com
pany.
“I think it went good.
We had some people who
didn’t understand.”
Williams said.
Williams also said that
that the group proposed
a study to be done. How
ever, he feels that a
potential study will stall
a decision and that the
economic development
group is “dragging its
feet.”
“This aint no rocket
science stuff.” he said.
\ Met with opposition,
s\pponcrs of the strip
diszussed putting up
sourd buffers and barri
ers, d\uc to the fact that
some ysidents of South
Augustd feel that the rac-
State unemployment
rate dips; S.C. still
among country’s highest
By JIM DAVENPORT
Associated Press Writer
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)
South Carolina’s jobless
rate cased slightdy to 7 per
cent in December, but job
gains in Louisiana left the
state with the nation's sec
ond highest unemploy
ment rate and some saying
“Thank God for Mississip
pi.
In November, the state’s
unemployment rate was
7.1 percent. The good
news in the numbers is the
December decrease breaks
a four-month trend of ris
ing joblessness. But the bad
news is that South Carolina
now has the distinction of
being second in unemploy
ment only to hurricane
ravaged Mississippi’s 9.9
percent, ‘.lunrdillg 1o III('
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their daily lives. Some
residents from Horseshoe
Road showed their detest
for the drag strip at com
mission meetings, lead
ing to tense discussions
among those who are on
the opposite side, sup
porting the race track.
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Stauistics released Tuesday,
Jan. 24.
“Thank God for Missis
sippt,” College of
Charleston cconomist
Frank Hefner said. “Seven
percent is not good — no
matter what anybody says,”
he said.
The natonal unemploy
ment rate declined w 0 4.9
percent last month from 5
percent the previous
month. The rate in the
South was 4.8 percent, the
lowest in the nauon.
The South Carolina
Lmployment Security
Commission attributed the
decline 1o fewer layoffs in
December and fewer job
seckers entering the labor
market.
Total employment was
1.85 million jobs with a
net increase of 1,800 over
the previous month and
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Williams contends that
the strip will bring much
needed tourism revenue
to the Garden City and
will attract people.
“People don’t under
stand change,” he said,
‘I don’t think the city’s
ever backed off from that
type of economic devel-
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PAID
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Serving Metro Augusta,
South Carolina and The CSRA
FIFTY CENTS
18,100 over the same tme
last year.
The trade, transportation
and uulites sector reported
the highest jobs gain with
scasonal retail hiring
accounung for the increase.
However, holiday hiring
was down slightly from
previous years.
The state’s high unem
plovment rate has become
a persistent issue for Gov.
Mark Sanford as he runs
for re-clection this year. In
his State of the State
address last week, Sanford
said South Carolina jobless
rates are rising as more peo
pl(‘ come to the state scvk—
ng ()pp()r(ulllt}'.
On Tuesday, Jan. 24
Sanford said the numbers
mean “indeed our state is a
state 1n transition; that we
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opment..
As for the James Brown
Festival that is scheduled
for this spring, Williams
is in the process of
preparing for it.
We have something on
the agenda to raise the
statue up. You can’t hard
ly find it.”