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Black nation needs to take to the 'streets
ODe the � of the Martin '
. Holiday c;_elebra-'
tioa, the National Urban
League rele ed its annual
e of B America report.
report . 0 •
COlIma. within the
B
The m 5 of the BI
IJOO!', particularly in the rural
south aDd ill America's inner
cUU:a are'living in desperate
ore than two decad after
the as ination of Martin
Luther King. the condition of
the African American poor in
many ys • than it
duriag KiDgs lifetime. We have
more Black elected offici Is.
We e prominent, sue­
ces&fuI and -iDflucntial" African
Americans in varia areaS of
American life than ever before.
. Yet the d fact is tha� the
enormous wealth of· tion
. n being directed to finally
and permanently elevating the
conditio of the of our
people.
In the African American
community kn that we are
in trouble. •
But unlike the ixtie and
seventi our community seems
incapable of mus ering more
polite anger doutr in
the face of this crisis. .
Everyoue from the Urban
League to the N.A.A.C.P., from
fraternities d sororiti to
B colleges and universities
are gently" cooferencing on
our plipt.
re have even been some
marches and demonstratio .
But even the ch are co -
memorati of e previous
civil ripts march or 0 dcrly
eYen 5 d . d of passion d the
will to rioUsly confront cal-
10 system hich· still vic­
timizj", our people.
When J B. JaoobI, Presi-
dent of the N tio Urban
League calls for a SO • •
lar Domestic'MarlIlUW
tackle the .. ...,�
pial .... the •
we
'DOI�� JIIOYCIDC
Id bring down
unresponaive d oppressive
ystems aDd DOt coatemplate
bJinaiag America to its knees
for failiDa to deal • the b . c
hUllWl· - .. bo ing.
ealth care, ed ., child
care, JOBS, rumCE etc. of
... the of· t ed
African Americ n in this
COUDtry.
In the sixties the freedom
rid� " -i.Ds, • pr y-ins,
�I) • • etc.,
wereUWIaed
and dramatize the co -
tnclicbODI within the American
em. John E. Jacobs is reissu-
ing the call for a Domes'tic Mar-
hall Plan. Just prior to his
death Martin Luther King was
calling for a -Economic Bill of
Rights."
The question is, are we
prepared to march on
Washington d st y until sjgr
n�fkant progr is forthcoming
towards the enactment of these
ideas?
Are we prepared to tie up
Congress, surround the White
House, disrupt the orderly
VANTAGE,
POI T
proceedings of things at the
Pentagon and go to jail in
MASSSIVE numbers, if nece -
-sary, to dramatize the plight of
. our people to the world.
Across this nation in city hall
after city hall and state capital
This P st Friday night I
moderated a forum on "Blacks
and Jews in e York City,"
The speakers were two dear
friends of mine: the Rev. AI
Sharpton and Dr. Fred e­
man.
Rev, Sharpton, leader of
the United African Movement,
is a deeply respected working
class hero in the Black com­
munity.
He is not the invention of the
. media. but a product of
tbestruggles, fury, pain and pas­
sion of the A&ican American
masses; the struggles of our
people gave birth to Rev. Al
Dr. Newman is the person
has h d the greatest in­
fluence on my own develop­
ment a rking class African
American leader.,
,A Jewish Marxist
theoretician and adivist with
whom I have rked ide by
side to btWd the New Allian�
Par�, e re�ts .a proud
aDd I1riDciplcd tr . r the
in ernational progressive
Jewish working class tradition;
it has repeatedly and ruthlessly
refused to cater to the narrow
sectarian lities of the Jewish
establishment leadership na-
tionally and internationally by all the more in oppposition to aU
speaking out against Zionism. destructio to all genocide, to
These two leaders are hated aU murder. What progressive
by the powers that be and by Jews must mean by 'Never
those members of th Black and Again"] 'Never Again!' for all
Jewish establishments who have people, not just for Jewi h
chosen to do dirty wor 0 l. people.' .
preservmg e ceo omic, politi- "When talk abou B
cal and soCial status quo. and Jews, the mos; important
Because Brother Sharpton thing to 100 at is who's putting
and Brother Newman are them together. In whose inter­
troublemakers - dedicated- to ests are they being brought
making as much trouble they together? In ew York City and
have to until there is j tiee for the rest of America it's a jl.'-'II�
our people. I a very proud to - the Democratic Party-
have brought them together. which benefits from what it
Why did the New Alliance means by BI ck and Jewish
Party ponsor (along with 'unity.'
PROBE, the intelligence Rev. Sharpton: "Those 0
magazine of the working Left) a DOW sit together writing hit .
forum on Blacks on Je? on people like Loui Farrakhan
I fel tha could n and me and Newman have
the. profo racist . wr in the trenches in
Se .. white corpora r:» y romwunity . eluding their
media to have the last word on own. They ha� not fought for
�. controversial and ccucial . ,
Here' some of they
had to say to the multi-racial
audience of SOO people who
. came to the forum in downtown
Brooklyn.
Dr. Newman: "Ziotmm· not
a passive tatement on behalf of
the Jewm. people; it i used to
justify genocidal attack on
people of color the world ewer. I
staDd up proudly a Jew and
say that Jewish peop -sys­
tematically destroyed in a vi­
cious Holoca ,by the �
of capit I while the phony
baloneys in W hiDgtun, D.C.
allowed it to appen - the
Jewish people of thi world
m no be participants in thi
same thing against peope of
color and the African American
community. A a progressive
Jew I believe that those ho
ha'Je been vicitimized have the
greatest·, ralive to tand up
after state capital, African
Americans in memory of King
,and in keeping with his leg cy
need to bring busin as usual
to a halt. No more ceremonial
m rches or rit uali tic and
routine protect. Out people are
dying right no . It should either
be freedom and prosperity for.
everybody or turmoil and dis­
ruption for everybody. In our
outrage we must use civil dis.'
obedience to struggle for ic
human rights for our people.
The cri is in our communities is
so desperate that either the
government will re pond or we
m t become ungovernable!
To the Editor:
I am a recent new­
comer to Detroit After
reading the Michigan
Citizen and comparing it
to several Black publica-
. lam convinced that
the Michigan Citizen .
one of the finest, quality­
oriented p per I have
seen.
Than you for such a
Iifi ,
,pro c paper.
D C. Br
Detroit
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