AUGUST 23 - 29. 1987 THE MICHIGAN CITIZEN
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( IS) - indhoek, ami-
bi capital, rocked last
Thursday by a rna . e bomb
blast, the second in less than
a wee to hit that South
African-occupled country.
The wee ly amibian news­
paper reported that no one wa
injured by the explo 'on, the
wor t ever detonated in
amibia. The explo . on occur­
red in a parkin gar e adjacent
to a shopping conplex in the
central buslne district.
Police id the blast cau d
milrons' dam e nd forced
the e acuat 'ott of the djoin­
lng luxury alahari Sands Hotel.
he bl st al reportedly ripped
holes in the walls
of the g rage and
t le st eight
car
n c m
July 12th
e onsoli­
ines Oran-
The South We Africa
Peoples Organization-Peoples
Liberation Army of amibia
PLA h asserted respon-
sibility for the July 16th bomb­
ing. It was also learned that
the South Africa high military
command . he dquartered in an
office complex adjacent to the
Windhoe parking garage where
the bomb was detonated.
In a statement relea d from
Luanda, PLA stated, "The
time i running out. We can
and will h t again."
SW APO has waged a guer-
rilla war again t the South
frlcan occupation since 1966.
egal action
tDu ch
IS The ruted'
tion ouncil for amibi ha
I ed ult gainst a Dutch com­
pany aimed t prohibiting the
firm from pur hasin amibia
uranium. It j th fir te t
c pushed to protect the
re urce of that uth African­
o cupied country.
The suit a filed ain
the uranium enrichment plant
RE CO ederland V.O.F. and
its tate-contr lled man gin
Ultra Centrifuge
.V. The ether-
land c is being pur ed on
the b sis of Decree o. 1, a
U Council for arnibia mea-
re desi ned to halt foreign
compan ies from lte of the
world' largest open uranium
pit.
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BRIDGE ASS - The
a chusetts Institute of
Technology has announced a
comprehensive two-year nation­
wide project that is designed
to improve the quality of
education for minoritie .
The project, entitled "A
Blueprint for Action for the
Education of inorities," is
under the suspice of a 33-
member ational Council for
Quality Education for inori-
tie IS-member Re urce
Group, and an Executive
Director. It i being funded
by a 1,182,000 grant from
the Carnegie Corporation.
Dr. Shirley cBay, dean
for udent affairs at IT and
director of the project, id
the initiative will focu on
developing rategie for increas­
in the number of American
Indians! AI an atives Bla ,
exican-American and Puerto
Rican completing e ch edu­
c tional level from . school
through po -doctoral studie
"Ihi i an effort to form
ne coalition of le den of
America's minority communi­
itie of educational and
philanthropic in titution , of in­
dustry and government, and of
elected officials and citizen­
at-large. The coalition' pri­
mary purpo will be to de­
velop comprehensive plan to
focus on the education of
minoritie who, as a group,
have been left out of our edu­
cation sy tern, our economy,
and our society," she said.
Despite pa and current
e fort , minorities, a a group,
continue disproportionately to
lack the ills required in a
highly technologically-based
economy. The sy ematic edu­
c tional di dvantage of minor­
ity Americans thus b comes a
major problem for Americ 's
economic future a well ..
Individuals and' organi-
zations Intere ed in learning
more bout the project or in
sharing information about re­
lated efforts in which they
may be involved should write
to Project Director, Quality
Education for Ino ri tie Pro­
ject, IT, Room 7-133, 77
a chu tt Avenue, Cam­
bridge, MA 02139.
MA: 'AID
NEW ORLEA S - John E.
Joyner, M.D., newly in alled
president of the ational Medi­
cal Association, told a conven­
tion crowd that various cost
containment moves in the health
care field and government health
care allocations are "hazardous
to our health."
The nation's Black physi-
cians, al adopted five resolu-
. ons on AIDS here, particularly
not our biggest treat'
one upporting U.S. Surgeon
General G. Everett Koop on the
use of condoms as one way to
lessen the impact of AIDS.
A President John E. Joy­
ner, M.D., of Indianapolis, Ind.,
put the House actions in per­
spective.
"We're considering AIDS as a
serious problem in the Blae
community but it is not our
major problem .
CODtin eel from P 1
Those individuals bring that
same prison-bred racism into
the city and its businesses, al­
though those attitudes probab­
ly already exist there.
A shopping spree here
could become a nightmare for
some Blacks. It is often dif­
ficult to be waited on at a
counter and if you are, it will
more than likely be last
H another Black bapens to
be lucky enough to be
employed there, he may be
designated to wait on you and
others like you.
Further, upon entering a
mostly white patronized store,
a Black is surely to be fol­
lowed and watched more
closely than a white customer.
Many Blacks work at the
prison, however, double that
amount are regulated to more
menial jobs --- box boy, floor
sweeper or maybe yard work.
That large mtimidating struc­
ture on the north end of the
city recently made national
news when three inmates suo­
cessfully completed one of the
more daring escapes in the
state's history.
Two years prior, a white
teacher brought national ne
here to the former All­
American City by winning a
reverse discrimination action
suit via the Supreme Court
"The national health pro­
blems of hypertension, heart
disease, diabetes and cancer
remain the overall threats to the
Blac community,' he declared.
"While' AIDS is killmz a lot
of people and receiving much
needed attention the study
and research of other xually
transmitted diseases is well
and alive, as it should be since
some of them are very erious
problems in the Black com­
munity' said Wayne Greaves,
M.D., chief of infectious
diseases at Howard Uni er ity
School of edicine.
J yner generally charged the
Blac d tors t rk to ard
improving the ver II quality of
health and life for friean
Am rieans b doing h tever
they e uld t stem the tide f
the I cpid mi hi horne
call the 'Bla .k pIa ue.' a
r fer nee to t h bub mi pI u
and f t ana pregnuncie and
d ru 1 .rdd i .t ion .1111 ng Bla
"I r J ct th idea that e
cann >l nt rol th fl of
illegal drugs int ur' untr
because we cann l p Ii e our
borders. If we can poli e the
Persian Gulf, can e not al
patrol the board r f
country? " he a ed.
Joyner is a grad ate of
Albion College, Albion ich.,
and of the Indian University
School of Medicine. He rved in
the U.S. Army ith th ran
of captain and was h norably
discharged.
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Perhaps the Southern Lower
Michigan Prison has helped to
fuel the fire of racism towards
Blacks in the city. The refor­
matory employs about 3000
people, many of them white
racists.
The city newspaper, the
Jackson Citizen Patriot does
not have one Blac in its
newsroom. Of course Blacks
r there, but no in the
newsroom. They can be found
in the distribution center,
stacking or bundling
newspapers for delivery.
The same � true for grocery
stores. You will find a Black
imprisoned in the stock room,
the meat room, or the main­
tenance center, but rarely will
you find a Black manager or
cashier.
Prison co in many ways
here in Jackson. The school
system, high school in par­
ticnlar, is one version.
Jackson High School is con­
veniently located in the center
of the Bia neighborhood,
with its bri structure and
old- fashioned stance. In the
southern part of town where
the streets are clean and the
cool air blows oft of th ;', k s
of the heralded Cascades, lies
J acbon Parkside High Sch L
In essence, Jackson has '0
main high schools, one in the
Black neighborhood, one in
the white neighborhood.
Which do you think has the
large planetarium do struc­
ture you can see from a half
mile away? Which is sur­
round d by rolling hills and
the sweet smell of lake water.
And which is deeply
entrenched in overcrowding,
minimum extra curricular ac­
tivites and most of all Black­
ness?
The answers are easy to
come by. For it is so often
blared across television sets
throughout· the country night
after night. Prison is not just
in ackson.
There is a definite
separatism in Jackson among
Blacks and whites.
There is no leadership in
J n Prison and there is no
leadership in the civic arena
of Jackson. Rare y is there a
front page headline on any
real gain in the Black -com­
munity here and rarely is
there a real gain on the in­
creasing Black populous of in­
mates at the prison.
There is a need to inject a
Blac voice for the prison in­
mates and for the inmates of
the city of Jackson. A voice
for fair treatment, fair hous­
ing, equal employm n and
equal representation in all
areas of life in Jackson, the
prison.