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building relationships with the
Jewish community."
The mayor has seen a
"breakdown" of the working re-
lationships that had been the
strength of the black and Jew-
ish communities. There hasn't
been a peer group of young
blacks and young Jews to come
behind the older, existing city
leadership, he said.
"There used to be a clear,
clarion message that there was
strength by working together
off common issues of concern,"
the mayor said. "I think it got
lost because there was a failure
of the participants to reach
down to others to bring them
along, to provide a transition
upon which to build."
Close friendships were built
in the 1960s between blacks
and Jews, he said. But now, the
two groups pretty much go
their own ways. Yes, they meet
around the boardroom table.
But they don't meet in one an-
other's homes or at parties, he
said.
"So many people talk the
talk, but I walk the walk. And
it happens to be because of in-
terpersonal relationships. It is
not because I say, 'Well, I need
10 percent of my friends to be
Arabs and 10 percent Asian
and 10 percent this and that.'
What I'm seeing is a lack of di-
versity and acceptance around
the board. I go to a number of
parties and I find that my wife
and I are the only people of
color.
"I have been married for 28
years," he continued. "I do not
take my wife for granted. Mar-
riage is something that you
work at continuously, as is one's
love for one another. If you be-
gin to take somebody for grant-
ed or walk away from them and
you only walk to them when
you need them, there is noth-
ing upon which to build. "So, I
guess I'd like to se-e" a closer
coming together of our children,
and let children appreciate and
respect each other for the rich-
ness of diversity and the con-
tributions that each of us has
made to the world. But the
truth is, that's not happening."
He said blacks and Jews are
forgetting what he called a "mu-
tuality of interest and a com-
mon history of suffering."
"We share a lot of history in
terms of discrimination and
population lost, whether fight-
ing for a country or an identity
of a country, or as victims of the
Holocaust or brought over on
the bows of slave ships. There
is also a commonality of dis-
crimination that goes on today
against both blacks and Jews, c--/
irrespective of their individual
stations in life."
He recalled how, not long af-
ter his mayoral victory, he was
jogging along Jefferson near
the Renaissance Center when
someone screamed a racial
epithet at him.
Last year, Mayor Archer re-
ceived the Jewish National
Fund's Tree of Life award for
his work with the Jewish com-
munity. As he presented the
award, David Page, former
Jewish Federation president,
told the mayor, "If there is any
way we can help to advance the
goals and aspirations of the city
of Detroit, please let us know."
The mayor accepted the of-
fer, and the two have met on
several occasions.
"We sat down and talked
about different issues, and they
(Federation) have been very
helpful to me and my adminis-
tration," Mayor Archer said.
"But that is between the Jew-
ish community and the Archer
administration, and has not
been black and white coming
together as a group to work on
a commonality of issues."
In the wake of the Million
Man March, Mayor Archer has
plans for a coming together of
another sort. He would like to
invite Detroiters who partici-
pated in the event, and those
who did not, to "come and lis-
ten to what we saw, then take
it to the next step, following it
with how can we continue to
build to have a better city and
a better community."
Once that plan is in place,
Mayor Archer wants to bring
together a group of religious
and elected officials from the
Detroit metropolitan area to lis-
ten to a speech made by Presi-
dent Clinton the same day as
the march.
"The president of the United
States — I don't care if you are
Republican or Democrat or in-
dependent — gave a brilliant
speech on the issue of racism.
"It is upon that basis that I
would like to bring together a
larger group — Arabs,
Chaldeans, blacks, Jews, Chris-
tians — all of us sitting in a
room and listening to the pres-
ident's speech and then sitting
around a table asking, 'What
did you get out of it? What do
you think we ought to do? How
do we build upon the richness
of diversity we have in this com-
munity?"' O