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Dear Editor:
After the CNN in� tigati report
of the urice Carter c in April,.
I'm ondering hat i being done about
it. That report, ell the article
hich have been printed in The Citizen,
make it clear that r. Carter has suffered
injustice. Whatever motive policeman
AI Ed ards had in attempting to obtain
perjured te timony, his ctions were a
disgr ce to the fine group of people th t
he represent .
y hope is that the people of Benton
• Harbor and St. Joseph, the community
leader, local office holders and Legis­
tive repre ntativ petition our State
Attorney General, r. Frank Kelley,
uesting an investigation of the wrong­
conviction of'- r. Carter. F or nine
years he h paid for the crime of another
man. There is no re n why we
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ouldn't do what e can to help return
him to his rightful place.
I appeal to tho who value the
quality of their own lives to reach out on
behalf of . Carter. A small amount
of effort by e ch person could have a
very large effect.
Sincerely,
Jeanne Garrett
orthville, ichigan 48167
Editor: A Traverse City couple who
also saw the CNN series on the Maurice
Carter ca have retained a Detroit
attorney who specildizes In appeals.
The attorney 1uu begun a review of the
case. Mr. Carter contacted Att. Gen.
Kelley, Gov. James B/anchllld and various
state legislators who all declined to get
Involved.
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Farrakhan int
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Dear Editor:
Thank you for publishing the inter­
, 'Farrakhan Speaks Out" by John
F. Da . in your June 13-19· e of The
Citizen.
Job half-done'
Editor:
I ant to thank Public or for
job half don . It DIS that the orker
feel their hand are too good to handle
a ovel or broom. Anything that
machine on't pi up, don't get picked
up. Sewilla ilson
Benton Harbor
Instead of following the popular trend
of printing negative hearsay about our
Brother, you did your reade a great ser­
vice by allowing them to read his words,
and to formulate their 0 n opinions as to
the true. character of Minister louis
Farrakhan. Such a courageo stand is
highly commendable.
I have been re ding your n spaper
for four eeks and I am impre d with
it' format and content.
Again, my thanks to you and to
Davis for ch an informative interview.
Si. athleen X Walker
uskegon, Michigan
ing the heavens in the
summer season
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Dear Editor:
winter e wrote bout the
inter Triangle, made up of thr very
brlngt stan. Those have no dis­
appeared but will be . ible again n xt
. ter. 0 er, e also have ery
prominent S er Triangle at pre t
in the northe t made up of "Deneb,
Vega and Altair."
o , Deneb . the brighte star at
the top of the orthem Cro . Y , we
do have ODe, although we hear more
about the Southern Cr , which cannot
be en in th hemisphere.
The en stars that form. the
orhtern Cro are identical to "Cynus,"
the S an. If you think of it as uch,
then Deneb i the heed of the Swan.
It i not hard to find, s it forms a perfect
cro in the y. It h only been visible
for bout two months, a our fust view
of it occurs in I pril it rises very
clo to the northeastern horizon and
comes up earlier each night it passe
up 0 r the Zenith and then mea
oop uthw ward until in ovember
it disappear over the e em horizon.
All th time this is happening, Veg
and Altair, the other 0 r (the
former in Lyra and the lattar in Aquila)
are sailing along ith Deneb. Thus the
Summer Triangle can be en until
utumn. I hope you will enjoy fmding
it. I can ell remember ho thrilled I
about 12 ye 0 ben I fust
the orthem Cr bile ere cat-
ionin in northern . hipn. t in
te August, d the Cro directly
"0 rhead.
on any
defmitely a
··b and should be
calendar. It·
mmer are Everyone
kno ho to find the Big Dipper,
hich never leave our northern y
and hich is one of the circumpolar
con ellation. By following the curve­
of the Big Dipper's handle, you will see
very bright star which i Acturus.
I hope you will have fun trying to
identify these very a e-inspiring celestial
objec .
argaret H. Zoschke
Benton Harbor
Says lilly,
Mitchell need
to go
Editor:
The City of Benton Harbor has the
highe property rate in southwest
lower Micl).igan and al 0, has the highe t
paid city manager in southwest lower
ichigan; being paid 48,OOO/year plus.
What has he done in the City of Ben­
ton Harbor in the last two years. He
d a city ordinance for tax payers
to put their trash on the tree lawns.
Both I and Benton Harbor Engineers
left with Mitchell's blessings. He has
not done anything to dra small busi-
bac into the city.
All itchell has done i lied to tax
payers of Benton Harbor to keep his
$48,OOO/year job. This city will not
function a city until e remove City
ana er . chell and Bill Lilly from
Benton Harbor City Hall.
And then itchell will get my ble -
ings.
George Wysinger
JUNE 27-JULY 3,1
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edia.:
Editor:
My answer to the abo-ve que ion
is "emphaticall no," for no we have
seen �e negative image the American
white media has attempted to paint of
Rev. Je Jackson, and Minister Louis
Farrakhan in addition to the job that
they began to do on Dr. Matin Luther
King, Jr. when he stepped outside the
bound of civil rights i ues. Yet, we
know better.
I won't dwell on the redemptive "ork
that Rev. Je e Jac on i doing in th
Black community' actually bringing hop
to a people on the brink of total de pir.
or will I dwell on Minister Farrakhan's
true image, role and me age for the
Blac community. But I will say that we
should know in the Black community
that both of these men, although holding
different individual approache to our
problem, share a deep love and commit­
ment to Black people, and oppre d
people all over the orId.
Let us examine the ramification of
this obvious media di tortion of the
Divine Duo (as I call Re . I ackson and
Minister F arrakhan) it relat to other
news events, personalities, etc.
Our opinion are heavily influenced,
if not almost totally shaped, by hat
we beleive i hon tly presented ne of
national and international events by the
media organizations of America. Even
e eptics ho are ware that the ew
York runes is not "all the new that
fit to print," still must read it and the
other ne spaper, periodicals, etc.,
sources of n to form our opinions
of orIdevenb. ·
e, a people, generally are not avid
. boo re den. (We all kno the ying,
"if you want to hide something from
Blac �p ; -put it in a boo ." And
much is indeed hidden from us in boo .)
Inste d, we op up hours of TV -reality,
then expect to the real orId during
the en to then minute of so-called
ne s that come at the very beginning
of the news programs (after 10 minutes,
we are subjected to joking, quips, weather
and sports.)
We should say collective, "Thanks
we needed th t" to the "wicked cabal"
( Minister Farrakhan calls e media
decision makers) for slapping us into
reality by lying to us about two brothers
very close to our heart, and not expecting
u to quesion the validity of the n
that they cho to present to us ..
Thi is 1984, and in Orwell's much
touted book, 1984, the government
constantly rewrote history, and e en
ye terday's news, to control the minds
of the people. It is happening today.
Wake Up.
I was with inister Farrakhan when he
addressed the "Rainbow" on veral
occasions, was ell received, and stre d
that the criterion for citizenship in the
ne world order was "righteousne
not r ce." Yet, he is still being represent-
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ed a te her of race h te and even
beled a jew-hating terrori . Come no .
What e has the media lied to u
bout? Think of the characters ina-
tions of Idi Amio, Ayatollah Rhomeini,
the Sandanista in icaragua, Fidel
Ca tro in Cub ,Col. uammar Gad-
daft in Libya. What is the truth of the
I men and their relationship to their
people?
In a recent ooting death of a British
policewoman in London's St. lame
Square, it a reported that the shots
were fired from in . de the Libyan Peoples
Bureau. But, in fact, there is much
evidence to refute that charge, including
testimony from a white British journalist
on the cene who intervi wed witne s
who saw peopl from among the anti­
Gaddhafi demon trator running from
the scene with guns. Believe it or not.
Total rea m nt of everything we
have read, heard or en, via m media,
must begin innnediately among Black
people, and all people.
At the ba of the above suggestions
i the f ct that we are actually out of
touch with reality by being depri d of
objective reportage of worId and national
e nts. This should make you think
deeply about why you think the way you
think, and why you behave the way you
behave.
Remember!! It is not butter, it is
margarine.
In Media Sexploitation by Wil on
Bryan Key, autor of Subliminal Seduct­
ion, he su e ed that "a cret tech­
nology has existed and been in wide-
spread u for years which modifie
behaviour invisibly, channele ba . c value
systems, and manages human motive
in the interest of special po er struc-
r ." Keys further argues that argue
that "even hen evidence is pre nted
most American will till find it difficult
to belie that their trusted, high credi­
bility information ourees long ago
betrayed them into the hand of profit
hungry marketing executive who have
quietly re arched, de eloped, and ex­
hausti-vely applied a subliminal tech­
nology of communication that no
appe to be driving larger and larger
gments of the population into patho­
logical behaviour."
t can e do? Don't accept any
new on face value. Look under the
surface. Remember truth i
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