,
for a wbile 0 one aid any­
tbing. Everybody j t tood
still and atcbed tbem ina.
Finally e tarted movin'
a ay. lent bome. I
couldn't e t no supper. I till
a them bodie singing.
So-called major net ort
televi ion and print media
ould be quic to rationalize
that the e events took place
nearly 80 to 60 years ago in
different type of America.
Yet, if we are to believe a
recent Americ n Medical As-
oci lion report of M y 2,
1990 then Americ h only
move a few nanmiliometers
toward racial equ li ty.
I A TUDY which
revie ed d ta on 11 patients
di charged' from Ma-
achusetts ho pital in 1985
with preliminary di gno is
of circulatory y tern di ease
or che t pain. While Black
. and hires had simil r rate
of ho pi t lization, whi res
were one third more likely to
undergo coronary artery n­
giogr phy and more than
twice as likely to be treated
with bypa urgery or an­
giopla ty. The racial dispar­
ties persi ted even after
difference in income and the
everity of di ea e were taken
into ccount."
The report ugge ted that
phy ician are more likely to
ire t ggre sive ly patients
who re e Ithle r, 'more,
productively employed, and
more s ertive .... Such patient
might be viewed more like­
I y to re pond ucces fully to
ther py. It h Iso been
uggested that they might be
viewed as more valuable to
ociety.
Wh t value did ociety
pi ce OD Y uf Ha ins who
a goin peacefully along
the ide k, in the wor ing
cia neighborhood of Ben­
onhur r, New York with his.
friends to buy a car on a clear
August evening of 1989.
There was nothing gain t
him but p rty of men got
after him becau e his kin
wa bl ck and murdered him.
De pite the 'fact that the kill­
ing took place { from
ew week: M y 28, 1990)
when the trcet were crowed
on a cle r evening, no one
p id ny uention. not even as
much as condemn the party
action.
YU UF HAW I S 16
year-old negro from the Bed­
ford-Stuyve ant di trict wa
hot by a hand gun and 1 am
reliably informed that he wa
f excellent ch racter.
It i my under tanding that
before the negro died he
ere med and prayed to Allah
to help him. · ShOOl him he'
JU 1 OIg r." omeon In the
cro d hour d. The cro d
didn'l te mu h lime
cue 1 e poll e III e alon
n urne Th re mu t ha
be n 2 or more P. ople rom
,I t .•. e
to tno if there is any la in
the United States to protect its
citizens against such outrage
in tbe
neighborbood may bave
thOught he b d fell down from
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