AUGUST 5-11,1
CHIGAN CrrlZEN
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PAG 11
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Coali ion
Co tl ed fro P 5
politic t nd the reason for his
ref al to run against Marion
Barry in the District of
Columbia's mayoral' race, is
artially due to this fear that
Wilder is being groomed to
urpass him.
Complicating matters is
Jackson's tense and
ambiguous relatlonshlp with
Louis Farrakhan. Jac son has
known Farrakhan intimately
for more than a quarter
century; Chicago was the
political base for both men.
Jackson fears a split with
the nationalists which would
repeat the ho tilities which
separated Martin Luther King
from Malcolm X a generation
ago. .
Thus a stalern te exists in
Blac electoral poli tics, in
which Rainbow activism has
reached a dead end, nd Bl ck
centrist politicians are
beginning :0 take decisive
initiatives.
THE FAILURE here is not
imply tactical, but strategic.
Jack on's political
perspective is still frozen in
the era of th Civil rights
movement of the 1960s. His
b ic instin ts are to pressure
the Democratic Party to the
left. rather than to map a
trategy to change the nature
of the political rule.
The idea of moving the
Democratic party to the left is
an illu ion plaguing civil
right leader nd' Black
politici n. for everal
icncr tion . We really don't
have two political partie .just
one. the "Republicrat " both
of hich are controlled by
. corpor te and upper cia
interest.
For the Rainbow to be
relevant again activists m�st
revive the traditions and
t eric of nonelectoral
political struggle. �hj� m�ans
the ere tion of new msuuuon
of rest stance.
For c amp lc . ., f r c cd 0 m
schools". open multiracial
academics hc ld durrng late
afternoon: and on' c�kcnd
for econdary ,chool and
college tudent ,could offer a
public protc: t cur n culurn.
Learning bow to organize
street demonstrations,
selective buying campaigns
civil disobedience. and
reading about the
personalities and history of
American protest. would help
to revive the radical
consciousness of this
generation of youih.
Instead of worrying about
whether Jackson wi II contest
the Democratic Party's
presidential nomination in
1992, progress ives should
refocus our electoral efforts
on other priori tie .
'MORE Rt-: OURCES
must be devoted to increasing
the size of the electorate. The
ational Voter Registration
Act, passed last February in
the House, should be a major
legislsative priority for �ivil .
rights groups, The bill would
automatically update voters'
rolls with· information
provided from updated'
applications for drivers'
license and renewal and
report of addrc s changes
given to motor vehicle
department .
Since nonvoters are
disproportionately nonwhite,
poor, . unemployed and/or
working clas women. any
Significant increa e from this
constituency could hift the
electoral result leftward,
regardle s of the individual
candidates running for public
office.
Seeing Eye
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available to the citizens of
Detroit is ludicrou when you
understand that all city money
belongs to ihe citizens.
Whil the Young ad-
. mini tration i busy defending
their calculat d ineptitude.
why don't they admit to
Dctro n re idents that the
reas-on ihcrr taxe. are so high
I bccau. I downtown tax
monie . t y downtown, to b
u cd solely for maintaining
that area? Taxc: ollcctcd
from the re idential area are
then split, with the majority of
tho e dollar going to our in­
adequate. inefficient. chool
y tern. our ineffective pollee
department, and downtown.
Very little come back to the
neighborhood. lsn 't that a
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McClelland said he con­
tinually wrote to Highland
Park Mayor SCOlt, as ing,
"Can we sit down and tal to
you and explain the problem
[regarding condi lion in'
public safety?]
He said they had not
received a reply.
One of the community
block club presidents march­
ing in protest defended Mayor
Scott.
Mary Forsythe, head of the
Cortland III Block Club. said,
"I support the firemen and
police [but J it I creation of the
Public Safety Departm nt]
happened befor her l Mayor
Scott's] time."
Haskell Posey, who heads
the Eason Block Club, said
that although Blatkwell
created the Public Safety
Department, he might h ve
handled the pre ent ituation
differently had he remained in
office. •
"What's b ppening toda is I
not the situation �hen it [the
Public Safety Departme t]
first started."
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the long-awaited release of the
second album from the er
of ·acappella·, � gospel group,
Take Six. It's been nearly tow
years since their elf-titled
debut album, which e rned
them three Grammy , four
Dove Awards, and one gold
record Their new album will
feature their recent
a ard-winning tra of "The
Saviour Is Waiting". J t
B • Plans are now
underway for t e Natlo al
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do. The convention
is slated for the second week of
August in Birmingham, AL.
ee' sai re:·Let
ofCb t
H.P. resident��protest
fi re dangers
Co tin ued fro Paae 8.
inadequately protected might
also raise ci ty co IS.
State representative Ethel
Terrell came down to show her
support of the protesters and
announced that she got state
officials to come and inves­
tigate conditions.
Another issue in the protest
.is the dismissal of Union
President McClelland and
Union Vice President Micheal
Gardenheire.
McClelland states that the
reason for the firing was that
he held an outside job a a
mutual clerk in the Hazel Park
Race Track.
However, McCleJland
stated he had this job [or 20
year and that an agreement
with the city at the e tab­
lishment of the Public Safety
Department, under the Black­
well Admini tration, allowed
him to old such a job.
Johnson under this di miss­
al "union busting" and "in­
timidation. "
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