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By Dr. M DlD Marab
La t month's controversy
over the Bu h
dministr tion' temporary
deci ion to deny Feder
fund to college awarding
scholarships to rnlJjority tu­
dents on the basi of r ce had
an intere ting . ec ndary
dimen ion. The bureaucrat
announcing this new raci t
policy was an African­
American, Michael L. Wil­
liams, the assi tant ecretary
for civil rights in the Depart­
ment of Education.
Williams justified the
el i m ina tion of ed uca tional
opportunity to thousand of
Latino and Black students by
declaring that the policy
parall other Bush ad­
'mtntstratiun positions on af­
firma . tion and racial
quotas.
After Bush ,was forced to
retreat, the hapless Wiliiams
was again pushed before
televisiort cameras, to
declare that the new policy
would be replaced by yet
another more moderate ap­
p oach, which still rejected
the use of racial quotas.
the white power system in
this country has always- used
Blacks to articulate dis­
criminatory policies, to jus­
tify � ace and class
expl i tation.
While America's "Iavorite
Negro" a century ago was TillS FACT liAS not cs-
capc d conservative
Booker T. Washington, the
educator who defe ded the. Repubticans, who now di -
poti tical disfranchisement 'Of
Blacks and the expansion of
racial segregation 'throughout
ociety.
A"decade ago, Hoover In­
stitution economist -Thorna
Sowell became prominent as
the, Black apologist for
Reagariisrn. The ea iest way
[or Blacks to become mil­
lionaire: in this country is to
publicly defend rcactionary
and raci t policies. william �
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MICHIGA
CITIZ
e
lac
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'r"tiage of �onven1e, ,,,ee?
t('- ' '"
pia y a s tro ng i rue re t i .- eriously th� message of the
minority elector I partlcipa- Jesse Jackson challenge frag­
tio. a half-million dolla mcnr the degree of partisan­
project, Benamin L. Ship a d oyalty Blacks have
Ginsberg, the chief counsel toward their party." ,
BU 1'H S. LSO of the Republican National Unless white Democrats
evidence, indic ting that the Committee, is cottaboratlnz, re a ll y begin to champion
connection betw Blacks with civi l right organi Black' interests, Blacks in, '
and conservative tions to help them with tech- growing numbers will col- ALONG THE
Repu licans is rooted in nical assi tance in proposing laborate with Republicans at COLOR LINE
curious convergence of inter- minority districts. state and national levels.
ests. Other Republican groups
The Voting Rights Act of arc offering Mexican-
1965 and s u bseq �e n tAme ricans and Blacks free
Supre�'e C�t1r� .de,cisi�ns computer time, legal ass is­
r�gardlng minonues votl�g, tance and tactical support.
rights have forced tate legis- Some statewi ,elections
latures to create districts in la t year also indicate
whith. Bl�ck�"and Latinos another kind of pragmatic
compnse igniticaru percent. cooperation between Blacks
ages. and Republicans.
Today, about eighty white In Illinois, Republican
De mocrates represent Con- gubernatorial candidate Jim
gressionat di tricts. which arc Edgar received public endor-
30 percent Black. Blacks and sement from' several
Mexican-Americans repre- Chicago Black leaders, large­
sent the most dcpendeblc and Iy due to 1M Iact that his
rel�able voting 'blocs which Democratic opponent had op­
�hlte �emocrats. ha.v.c, espe- posed the late mayor Harold
cially �n urban dlst�lcts. .' Wa s h i ng ton in hi s 19R7
. S� .'f Congre ional d�s- reelection campaign.
trict lines are redrawn to in- About one-fifth of -t hc
clude .greater .nu���rs or Black vote went to ,Edgar,
non�hltes� to �ss st In the statewide. which provided
election ot grea�er numbers the Republican with an unox­
of Black and Hispanic can- peered margin of victory.
didajcs, other districts con­
versely will become "whiter"
and "more aff'lucnt", a prol'ilc
favori ng Reputilicans. ,
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J nu fY -U. 1
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h
ublican
e
is being u ed by .a cynical
ystem whi bpe rpe tiirates
oppre own racial
group.
"LACK. AMI�IUCANS
understand that 'he'l
Republican party is clearly
hostile to our interest. But
potitics makes strange bed­
Ie 1I0ws, and the re [us.al of
'w h i te De rno cr a ts to take
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Something Blacks Can
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HE'MlCHIGAN CLTIZEN
. Disputtnq the myth of prison, 'perks'
By Danny R. Cooks 'c�urch a n d c m m u n i t y . Other than that, you don 't '
The Michigan Rcpuhlican Ic adcrs �()mpLain._ ,. let a cell. Thcy'll probably
Party leadership poorly GOP'pamplctS-C'ondemned s h i p you to a pole b ar n ." � -GOP
served thc uatcwith its dis- rnc De mo c nuic coddlihg or Mck cn nu y c xp t a i n cu that
l o r t i o n s an d untruth' in p ns o nc rs , "rewa.rd'ng" them pole barn,S 'a r c w h a t tern­
media spots a nu-f i tc r at urc w-t l h "u cc rood, clo hing, and p oru'r y prisons arc made or"
regarding prisons during the I()(.lglng," ��I,ying th,lng� \�hcn: indiv_idual accomod';I-'
g u b c r.n a t o r ia I 'campaign would he d iftc r c ru With a u o n s aren't, availahlc and
'� " ',:change in leaders hip. when: up to 120 prisoners
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and agencle�. provide a larger cubicles.
var ic ty () r se rviccs (free tood , Accord i ng to the Depart­
clothing, transportation. anp. rnc nt or o rrc c+io ns higher
.hc l tc to thc p ub l ic than education III prison is cour­
that rc cc i e ry pri .o ne rs , tesy of a Pc l l 'rant, a federal
according to (ommllnity '1(- c d ucat io nal grant which all
tiv is ts: qualified Micigan re idem '
, P r iVi ate roo m " c o l l e g c m a y 0 b t a in,
c d ucut i o n '"and 'oIl' were A high 'l:hool diploma or
tllh!-=!; .",perks" reccived h G.E.D. an<.J poverty are the
. pri�llners c )urte 'y of t�L - two �a.ior requirement' for
payers under th Blanchctrd the pell grant. according to
admlni'trettion, say' fcderal guidelinc ,
Republican literature. How- Because the �(.l-callcd·
evcr, these "perks" arc a GOP "reward·II or heing a con-
fanw'y and ,10 in ult 'to the victcd felon care available to
intelligence of M.ichigan all poor pcople some chvrch
ci tizens, a rece ntl y-released I cape rs a nd com muni ty ae-
p r i . 0 ncr, T () d d Me Ken ,. e y , t i vis t s bel i eve the GOP'
said. me age i those Ie than
rich will utTer greatly under
a RepUblican admini tration.
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"I 1)( V III U ALe ELL
don't come cheap," McKenny
insisted. "If in fact YOlf ca
get on , You hav to b doing
bi time, erving for a par­
ticular kind of crime, like
hild m Ie ·tin' or murder, 6r
(lU ha e to 'tay in trouble a
lot.
fclon' was merely a
pretext [or attackln humane
(rea'm�nt or all citizen' "
'aid ,I Grand Rapid co-o'r­
dlnHtor or c mmunity 'cr­
VICC
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pamplets .
condemned
the,
'.. ...4'
Democratic
coddling of
prisoners.
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While the Grand Ole Part
ought to make prisoners
'capeg()t� for social ill� .
DOC pri ()ncr� paid illmost
S270,OOO toward the co't or
lheir incarceratibn during the
fi cal year en<.Jing eptcrnhcr
30, 199 ,etC '('H�i ng .to Attor­
ney General Frank J', Kcll ,
.. A far a' that ad"about the
I?OC providi ng gol r cour c'
tor prisone r� IS conce rned,"
McKenney said. "That's a lic.
The DOC doc 'n't cven
pro v ide too t h I) a s tl.! t ()
pri oners etrtymorc. Whatever
pri 'oncr' do rc r 'creation
you can het that they're
pa yi ng ror it. nglcr I ied hi
way into ulTlcc. can we ex­
pect him to tcll the truth n \
or continuc to dump n
pri oner and poor people?"