THE SWISH NEWS
THIS ISSUE 50c
SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
MAY 23, 1986
Jews and Blacks:
`Natural Allies'
Detroit Mayor Coleman
Young traces the history
of cooperation between
blacks and Jews.
BY HEIDI PRESS
Local News Editor
Detroit Mayor Coleman A.
Young last week called Jews and
blacks "natural allies" in the • fight
against racism, bigotry and oppres-
sion and added that the city of De-
troit can't survive without the coop-
eration of the suburbs.
Speaking to nearly 300 persons
at the Jewish Community Council's
delegate assembly at Cong. Shaarey
Zedek, Young said, "The parallels
between blacks and Jews in America
are so direct that we are natural al-
lies." • He said the "threat of oppres-
sion" was common to Jews and
blacks.
Coleman Young
Young pointed to the Jewish
migration in a northwesterly pattern
out of Detroit and how the black
community followed closely behind.
"There's an affinity here," he said
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Politics Snag
State HMC Grant
BY ALAN HITSKY
News Editor
Whether the Republicans . are
playing politics or the Democrats
made a mistake appears to be im-
material to state approval for a sec-
ond $50,000 grant to the Holocaust
Memorial Center in West Bloom-
field.
The appropriation became in-
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volved in a dispute this week during
the budgeting process in Lansing,
but both sides have assured The
Jewish News that the HMC will be
granted state funding when the
political wrangling over the drawn-
out budgetary process is concluded
in June.
Last year, the Legislature
appropriated $50,000 toward the
HMC's 1986 budget of $600,000 as
an historical preservation grant. The
same request for 1987 was nixed in
a Senate subcommittee last week.
Sen. William A. Sederburg (R-
East Lansing), chairman of the Se-
nate Appropriations Committee, told
The Jewish News that the Governor
recommended the $50,000 grant in a
category we decided last year would
be limited to one-time grants. So we
did not include it this time, but we
will probably include it somewhere
in the appropriations bill." Seder-
burg gave the same assurance Wed-
nesday to Rabbi Charles H.
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