AHon? .
W iDgton, D.C. - It is
reported that a seve -month
ew York State graod jury in­
quiry complied 0YerWhe1m­
ing evidence that "Tawana
Brawley fabricated bel' story of
abduction and � abuse by a
group of . men last year.
The e, aDd its defenders of
justice, � con ded that the
B.lack teenager concocted,
either alone or ith aD ac­
complice, the degr . coadi-
tioIl .. found
Black New YOI'k residents,
and B cross 'country,
ha� acquiescr.d to the fact that
the girl, age 15 at e time,
smeared If· dog do-do
and faked tbe semico cious
condition f ill last
November.
Did T recewe j�?
Will B AIDe . CODtmue
to accept the brand of and
la -enforcement that is ap­
parently reserved for '1 t us?"
Do Blacks realize th t the
Brawley lawyer Alton ad­
<lox, Jr. d C. Vemoa Mason
the familys dvisor,
Hoex
the Rev. AI Sharpton have intro- .
ducted a new concept that could
have a profound impact on
Black civil liberties. Most
B cks do not understand that
what the group is saying is that
'We (Blacks) have Dever gotto a
fair shake in the Ll.S, justice sys­
tem and that they (Bra ley and
Company) refuse to cooperate
with a process that is designed
against us in the first place.
Even if you do not endorse
the dress or hair style of
Sharpton, the points on "Black­
Justice" that he makes cannot be
ignored. Even if he looks like a
street hustler, he currently iI- To date, Brawley and her ad­
lustrates that the legal system in vi ors, have refused to
this country has yet to treat cooperate ·th the grand jury
Blacks equally as ites. process in New York State.
He q' can let The re son' for the non-
the system discount the f ct that - cooperation' that they don't
� perce of the people . car- believe that they can get one
eer ted' the penal network are White man there to prosecute
B ck? How can we let the white another . mall in the inter­
system of justice give Blacks est of lowly Black female. The .
harsher sentences that whites history of rapes and degrada­
and still ve us beleive that we tion of Black . the an­
are fairlyhandled in the process oals of this couetry i 'WeD docu­
of Ia -enforce nt and 9lurts mented in the minds and hues of
procedures? Black people.
WE HA'IE EARNEO"THE·RIGHT 10 '101E .. ,
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C. Vernon Mason tells a
story ich all Blacks know to
some degree. He tells of the
white sheriff in his rural
southern Georgia hometown
o took a physical liking to an .
attractive Blac woman in the
community. Although he had no
formal, or emotional, ties to the
woman, the sheriff would co
any time be nesueu, oay or
night, force the woman's 8 ck
male partner to vacate the
premises and proceed to violate
her body, and her Black
companion's authority. After
sexual kicks, the sheriff would
8 back to work protecting the .
upstanding members of the
community .. Mason says that
this symbol of our national
racism . and must, end ',Vith
Tawana Brawley.Seeing that
Black Americans have put so
much 0 their faith and labors
into the'political system, and its
processes, 'Ne should make it
rk for us.
We should call on a Black
Congressman, John Conyers, to
convene a congressional hear­
ing on racial viol nee 1 hich
Tawana could testify with some
guarantee of recieving a fair
hearing.
To believe that Tawana put
dog do-do all 0 r berself to
fake a aime is to also believe a
similiat story from BI ck history
and white folklore. The story
goes; When the Black man
found floating face down in the .
river with ch ins aroung his
arms and legs, the whit lice
and judges were un . us in
saying. "Ain'� that just like a nig­
ger, he obviously stole more
chains than he could carry."
A hoax in ew York. Hard­
ly! Congressman John Conyers,
head of the Sub-Committee on
Criminal Violence at (202) 255-
5126 should be urged to be a
major channel to make ure that
Brawley's story wiD be beard
and acted upo Let aU give
him a call.
The Reed Report is com­
piled and written by William
Reed information regarding
this column' available at th
Capital Spotlight Ne ervice
- 1158 National Press Building
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Japc;ln is gobb ing up �erica. assets
. I. � I· I· . .
By Cllester A. H· • ,Sr. says that in estments here
WASHINGTON, DC America by Britons, Dutch and
Japanese expressed racist at- . Japanese have grown dramati­
titudes towards Blacks and cally in recent years. The utch
other minorities in the United and Brits are long-tim inves­
States h ve increased Black in- tor. and whi Dutch' vest­
terest in assessing the Land .of ments have ina-eased by 150 r
the Rising Sun and its eoonomic cent, Japanese investmen have
assets - especiaDy ose they zoomed 600 percent!
are rapidly acquiring in the The Japan e (Sony ave
United States. And this raises a purchased Records or $2
fundamental question: . billioo. Japan
What can Blacks expect as U.S.,' a- by S4 .8 bil-
the ne ly affluent Japanese, lion, accord ng to Makoto
flush with excess profits booty Kurado, fo mer J p n se
garnered through the enormous trade minister. Nearly 3 illion .
one-sided les of their Americans (m y whites) are
products to acquisitft.ely dOYen employed full-ti or part-time
America ? If past is prelude, at jobs io Ho da, Nissan and
you can expect a tinuation, Toyota plants in th U.S.
indeed, an acceleration. of Studies show that foreign in­
J esc refusal to move their vestors now own about to per
uto, parts or electronics plants cent of America's manufactur­
into American neighborhoods ing base and 20 per cent of all
aca:ssible to Blacks. bank assets; 33 per cent of the
We can anticipate a con- prime commercial and re I e -
tinuation of their refus I to tale in. the nati n's capital, 39
admit Blac to dealer owner- per cent in Houston and per
. ships, etc. And most seasoned cent' Los eles. Th pur-
observers befeve, we can not· chase of AlDer'can real tate
realistically expect any mean- seems to draw the most tten­
ingful Japanese apologies for or tion; but the buying up 0 U S.
. moderation of tbei racial in- manufacturing ban' -
ults. sets,' pose perhaps a greater
But a cold, factual 100 at troubling problem in the future
what Japanese are doing in for Blacks and America.
terms of investments in the U .S� -Increasiegly, J pan is in 1
might be in tructive. To be fore &0 of foreign investors in
forewarned is to be fore rmed, America. This' causing gray
. an nlrl but apt phrase. hair in ome hite busine
TRW, Inc, a public policy circJes, indicating a basic r a t
group in Washington, D.C., has fear. They WOfTf (and this is �t
publis ed a book called aIw ys artiwLited or dmitted)
American Assets. In it, TRW that Japan's foreign inves t
is another symbol of Japan su­
periority, of Japanese forging
into an economic lea and gob­
bling up American companies
nd real tate bargain-base­
ment prices mad possible by
powerful yen, ccording to
financial writer Hobart Rowen
of the Washington Post And ul­
timately - nightmare of all
nightmares! - of Japanese
owning aU of A rica!
So while the white busin
chagrin may be triggered by
(ears that "alien and inferior"
forces re threatening their
commercial stranglehold on
America' and th the rid's
goods and services - fears that
are not doubt rooted in racism
- Black consumers are en­
raged, but our fury' focusedon
real not perceivced Japan e.
r . t attitudes towards us.
/.
DID YOU OW . . . that -:
ew York police recently ar­
rested a yo Black man for
being a P' drug lord Ac­
cording to police, be had
recently purchased $375,000
hou e, owned several bu i­
ne including a lin of sport­
ing goods torcs and owned
several luxury car including a
$180,000 Rol Royce which he
purc ased by earring ever I
bags of cash to the dealer.
Again, th' guy was only 24-
years-old