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AUGUST 5-11, 1,.
D troit activist push
council by district
J C. Vaughn said this could be
SI!Il""'" very dangerous for the city.
The Committee for an AI- because council members are
. feclive City Couacil i p h- n�t accountable to the many
ing for D initiative to require different areas of the city.
Detroit City Council mem- He stated Detroit is the I
bers to live in district that oilly city in tbe country hose
they ill represent. council members do not repre-
Committee member Ed ent pecific distric in the
Vau� '/ the group needs city. He said thi i un-
40,000 petition ig tures by democratic, not repre entive
Aug t 8, iD order to place it government, and held the
on the ovember election bal- council member le ac-
lot. countable to tbe people.
Vaughn indicated council "People have been talking
members live in onl y two about thi for years," said
rea of tbe city, downtown Vaughn. He indicated the
nd Rosedale Park. "There is committee made a decision
no repre entation for the during the last council race to
average Detrouer, said do something about the situa-
Vaughn. . tion. .
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any contact ith African
Americans or little cont ct
during tbcir lifetime. African
America fill our prisons.
Thu , African American
ale ent to these prison and
. are ubject to t buses of
their- bite overlord. The
African Americans re filled
. ith bittern ss. Bitterne s
con ume them. T ey leave
prison and beco e the anim I
tbey have been conditioned to
become.
.riMlIII& arc microco
tbe SOCiety. Tb ,if racism ex­
i in the free orld, it ex­
i ts tenfold in here. Beca e
pri 0 are the last b lions of
r ci m. Most jailor are white
and raa t.
Most ct out their raci m
ith impunity. They have
we ome power to do a they
plea e. So it icy for them
to be everything they want to
be a raci t. And they do.
In Jackson County. the
pro ccuting attorney h been
ending . mo t African
American - to pri. on w hi Ie
white arc given prob tion
nd nether ch nee.
Ju t recenuy young
African American female was
charged with delivering a con­
trolled sub lance to her un­
born child. The Judge
dismi the case; however,
because this lady is not white,
the prosec ling attorney is ap­
pealing tbe ruling of the
Court.
Tbere tiave been indica­
tions th t since a judge in
Muskegon bound over a hi ie
femlle attorney for delivery
of controlled u tance the
Jac on County Pro ecuung
Attorney. a�t to pro ecute
this _ African Americ n'
female. . .
There i r here
a young African American
female in dvertently failed to
connect a warning ystem to
alert her when her infant had
breathing difficultie . Ap­
parently thi young woman
h' d had' another infanct die
of Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (5105). Thi young
women did not intend to cause
the death of her chil<l; how­
ever, the JacksonCounty I
Pro ecuting Auorne y i
charging her with
homicide.
We find this incon tsicnr.
o car Row) . Jr. as
a ul ted and died from a -
He aid old cronies get
bact in, wbile ne young can­
didate don't have a cb DCC to
get in. Vaughn said it takes a
lot of money to run a city-wide
election campaign, which
eeps many from running. He
said tbe system blocks out
ne representation ..
andela
captur
C U. eel fro P. 2
-Departing the country
without the knowledge of nd
clearance through immigra-
tion and i thout a valid.
p ssport.
Three months later. on
November 7, 1962, he was
sentenced to five years of im­
prisonment on Robben Island.
phyxiation. Mr. Rowlswa an
African American and the
pri on guards involved in Mr.
Rowls de th were white. The
Jack on County Prosecuting
Attorney refused to pro ecute.
Mr. Rowls did not die from an
accident. Hi throat wa
cr bed and he mothered to
death.
There is a form of ubtle
genocide t work in thi
State .
Thi i· apparent from the
pol i tical ads runni ng on
television. If you arc of
Afric n American descent,
thc c nee orb oming a vic­
ti of thi s bt genociee i
great.
But there i no way to e. -
cape other than being luc y.
Becau e the y tem have
rewarded a few token African
American with titular po i­
lion. nd in tilled in (hem a
plantation mentality. When
an Afri an American talk
with one of these token
African Americans, it is the
same as t Iking with a planta­
tion overlord.
Lewis E. WiIlam.t
Communication Chairman
Buchanon Branch NAACP
Jackson, MI49201
A
YBODyaUT .THE ROSE
THE 13TH CO GRESSIO AL DISTRICT·
DE OCRATIC PRI RY RAe 0
TUESDAV, AUGUST7rH
VOTE FOR A YBODY BUT
On October 9, 1963. Iter less
than a year of incarceration on
those charge , Mandela was
brought blck from Robben Is­
land to Pretoria' Palace of
Justice and charged, long
with ten otber ANC members,
ith Sabotage Against the
State. All but two were found
guilty and sentenced to life
imprisonment. in t 964.
DE IS GOLDBERG,
took advantage of Pre ident
PW Botha 's 1985 offer to
release any member of the
group who would foreswear
violence a a political
weapon. Govan Mbe i wa
released for he Ith reason , in
1987. .
Ahmed K thrada,
Raymond Mhlaba, Andrew
Milangeni, Elia Motso ledi,
o car Mpetha and Wal ter
Sisulu were released on Oc­
tober 15. 1989.
et on Mandela left the
prison on February 11, 1990,
only after President FW de
Kieft had unbanned th ANC
(and 36 other anti-apartheid
group) relea ed pri oner
charged with only political
crime and upended execu­
tion of politic I prisonc .
Wben Pre ident de Kler
announced, on Febru ry 10,
1990 that Mr. Mandel would
be relea cd the followi ng day,
a reporter a ed, "Mr. de
Kieft, when you tllk about
fair and ju t conclu ion to
neg tiation , would you 0
bcyound I .' t te of cmcr en-
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. cy and discu, well, the
negotiators, the establi hment
of full citizenship for Blac
people of South Africa?"
Mr. de Kler thanked the
reporter for providing him the
opportunity to tell the orld
that the e nine men's com­
bined total of more than 200
years of imprisonment was
not a sufficient s cnfice on
the altar of white supremacy
to eize b c their inalienable
right to citizenship.
They must a ait a mandate
from the hite suprem ci ts.
The lact that they bad had
sue a mandate, since 1987
without fulfillment, is a
dangerou portension of
thing to come.
H ASK 0 I the
government ould as ume
any respon ibiJity for making
UTe that Mr. Mandela would
not come a acrifrcial lamb
on to hi idol of w hi te
upremacy, be responded:
.. � .. blving such I high
profile, I think ye , there' a
real ri ,and one mu t ta e
every precaution to ensure .
that nothing happen to him.
But when he leave pri ·on.
then he will be moving to hi'
own circle of friend t and. in
II pro bilily as in the ca e
of Mr. Si ulu and the other
bo ere relea d,
there no rcquc t to the
t tc to give ny a i ranee
ith regard to their ecurity."
Tran lation: "He'll Be
Their B by!"
It's Time for a N�W. Vision
in the State pital
for the 9th tnstrtct
Commi
t A� Wi iam • Leroy G
EI ct
AUDREAN
WILLIAMS
Democrat for
State
Representative
.. Highland.
Park, DetrOit,
Hamtramc
Cam ign
Headquarters:
2253
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