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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1992
his year's Jewish
Community Council
annual meeting took
on the tone of a town
meeting as WTVS talk show
host Brent Triest directed a
panel and about 150 people
in attendance through a
frank discussion on racism.
"Bridging the 8-Mile Bar-
rier" brought out an array of
facts and emotions that car-
ried the audience to the
heart of some of the prob-
lems facing Detroit and its
suburbs.
The panelists for the pro-
gram, co-sponsored by the
Race Relations Council of
Metropolitan Detroit, in-
cluded University of Mich-
igan-Dearborn chancellor
Blenda Wilson, Temple
Israel Rabbi M. Robert
Syme, and Edward Hustoles,
deputy executive director of
planning for the Southeast
Michigan Council of
Governments.
Ms. Wilson opened the
discussion by calling for
people of all races and ethnic
groups to work on each
other's similarities, not dif-
ferences. She said whites
and blacks were quietly
learning to live together
more than most thought.
She said the issue wasn't
only racial but economics.
How many white people, she
asked, would live in the
same neighborhood as
whites making one-tenth of
their income?
Mr. Hustoles was more in-
sistent that racism was
"alive and well" in this area.
He said Eight Mile Road was
a barrier between blacks and
whites, and he cited econ-
omic statistics. Mr. Hustoles
said the number of blacks
living in Detroit was 74 per-
cent of the Detroit popula-
tion, with a median income
of $17,000.
The black population of
Oakland County, he said,
was seven percent. In
Macomb County, the black
population is one percent, a
number that hasn't changed
in more than 20 years.
Rabbi Syme said even
when different ethnic groups
visit downtown Detroit, they
tend to stay together instead
of mingling.
"If we go to the Fox, Jews
stay with Jews and Chris-
tians sit with Christians and
blacks with blacks."
Other audience members
criticized the role of Detroit
Mayor Coleman Young,
some blaming him for the
division among the races.
There were also those who
supported the mayor. Mr.
Hustoles talked about how.
the mayor lived a life of
racial oppression and how he
fought through that oppres-
sion.
Still others blamed real
estate agents for steering
black and white clients away,,
from certain neighborhoods.
Agnes Scott, a West
Bloomfield resident and 1,
community projects vice--- r
president for Channel 56,
was emotional in her com-
ments about how Detroit's
mayor and city council have°
largely ignored the needs
and safety of its children.
"The streets are not safe
for kids walking to school,"
she said. "Kids are afraid tp
go to school for fear of what
could happen to them along
the way."
It was, however, the words '
of Ms. Wilson that seemed to
leave an important impres-
sion on the audience. She
said racism doesn't begin to
explain how people a_y
supposed to live with one
another.
"Let's talk about where we I
come together to live and
how we can do this."
Each audience member
was given a copy of "The
Detroit Principles," an
outline of solutions for peo-
ple interested in improving
race relations.
Council president Jeannie
Weiner was re-elected to a'
second consecutive one-year
term. She will be joined on
the board this year by vice, ,
presidents Alexander
Blumenberg, Howard I.
Wallach and Allen Zemmol,
secretary Andrew Zack and -)
treasurer Elaine Driker.
NEWS rmmmil"--
Housing Costs
Soar In Israel
Tel Aviv (JTA)
Escalating housing costs
sent Israel's cost-of-living `i
index spiraling upward by
1.8 percent in April.
The increase was higher
than expected and at least
half of it was due to the ris-
ing price of housing„,
economists said. But many
housing units are unoc-
cupied, possibly because
they are too expensive or are
in areas were jobs are in
short supply.