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(J u i e W lion, VI 0 II nit. II I t, \ . b rn.
xopho m s t , clarineti t. was Play" ri rtu yi tor Sejour w
born. born In cw Orlean in 1817. Be-
Norbert Rilli' ux , a Bt c t\ ce n 1844 IOU uno, he wrote
Creole from New Orle ns, 21 pi Y which were raged at the
patented a ugar refining ro e Pari Theatre. where Sejour h d
in 18 which revol utionizcd the a loyal and enthu iastic follow-
.sugar i n d u ur y. Rillieux� ing.
proce;� won I) r t prlz -Tor his
����rf��:.1 at LOUIsiana' agncul- ANSWERS TO BLACK
I What i .... the name 0/ he Black HISTORY QUEStiONS
. actor who starred in the film,
"Hom of the Brave?" " -20th - Fal e. They served in
. a variety of capucitic . Many
JA lJARY 22, 1 1 - Tou -
ra int L'Ouverture, Ha it ian were infantrymen .. ',
liberator, entered Santo Domin- 21�t - James Edward .
22';d - James Augu tine
go. 1935 -- Sam Cooke. singer.
Heal y hc ca me b is hop of
. was bor 1920 - William Wfir-
field, concert singer, wa born. ,Portlanu, ME. June -. lEns.
The Reverend Andrew Byron Bru - About 42 .ycars COL -
males and 45 car' for females.
foun�eu the fi r i Black Bapti t 44tll _ rcadcd spccul urn
Chur h, in S v nnah, . ,in
ori • a com . -Iikc instrument
J 779. A decade I l r Bjshop
with a sere which. when
Richard Allcn Io undcd the tightened. Iorccd-opcn the mouth
Bethel Af'riean Methodist Epis-
copal Church in Phila<Jcl'Phia; . whereupon food was poured .into
af1d Peter Williams the Alric n the gullet. .'
Mcrhodis t Ep i scopal Zion 25th - George Washtngton
Church i ew York. Carver.
o Who' was the 'firs: Black. 26th - Basketball (more than
American t be elevated to the 75%).
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position of Bishop ill the Catholic . WRITE USI: .....
Church? The Mtc.higan Ciii��m.:.
-JANUARY 23, 1776 - Paul welcomes letter from"lts
Robe on. singer. actor, activist. readers. All letters:..rnust
d i�d: 192'6 ...:... Curti Counce) bas- be .$igtaed� �ut::�m����"I::: : '.
i t, wa born. be :WithtleldJf .teqij·&.Sle(fi ;:.
James 'Carroll ap ie r , of ::'�enq :·":�P:·:·:�M��#H:l�t.F
N.a hville, Tcnne ce , be�c Citizen I p:o. Bpx:o.35:S0d
one of the most succe sful Blacks tiighland Pk, M�:4$2Q�:�»
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You've got more education, then the le4Tder of the pule
But, he I ok '0 cool to you, wHh. hose guards,
. guarding hi back.
Sleek·Pete. in a jeep, ba '�ball ca'p and a pair of
. gym shoes on hi feel.
Oh yeah! He looks sa cool, like he can make that
eight .rO�l ba kctbilll hOOp.
Son. I'll tell you no lie, the only thing he's gOing-to
make is . feet down in a casket. by and by. ,
1 know. your li�ing ll\e go04 life. now, and if you had
tayed in cho<?l you would have.
ha to learn the ru'lcs.
Sure. you' ay rules were made to be broken.
And daily it's provin to you, by hones folks copin;
you laugh out loud and say,
You all keep on hopin, for I �now the answer it's i.n dupin.
I'm going to make it big in 'every city, I can ..
Thi worlu i a ghetto, and I'm sti II mad, about my
dad, Ica'ving me. when I. ,vas a �iu. ' ...
T. V.: NI.!\\ spaper apd radio talk shows. I make the biu.
I'm the new kid on the block, and I'm to he feared.
I don't care what they say ahnut my birth,
I've got moncy in my pocke t and that's all it's worth.
No. .
The money don't last long. 'pend it quicka I can, don't
know how long I'll live, that's one rea 'on
I've got this gun in my hand.
I'm.o popular, my kind i the talk of the town; people
clHim, they all hate my being around.
Likc I'm re ponsible for all the troble on thc bounu.
Take a goou look at yourself, young man. anu see why
we frown. you're our la t hope, and your
blowing it away on stupid dope. .
It ee m' to be harder, the more honcst you be. But. its'
much bctter. when you can h!ep
at night and rai'c Cl family.
We grown-ups understand, it·, not your fault, the
i luation you.. re born in. and we're willing
,lO give you a hand, it you will
ju t be out friend.'
The future is yours. you see.
We ju t \vant you to be all that you can be.
Afric n
.
progre ives, mu t eize upon
t.hi though lie ct to build ma -
ivc oppe i uon to the U.S.
milit ry: build-up ft(1 ar
prcpar tion in the Pe ian Gulf.
The period urrounding the
Martin Luther King Holiday,
'January 1 through the week of
January 21, must be utili�ed to
sharpen the 'contradiction be­
tween an dmini tration hell bent
on pilling blood for oil in the­
P r i n dulf and the lack 'of will
on the part of lhi same ,�d­
mini tration to stand up for, civil
Ame ric n
r on po ert
nd
munit
dem nd th t om
.L. . ho lrd
J nu r 21. b d ot d to build­
in oppo ition to th U ..
the Per i n Gulf. .
Thi ye r more than ever it i .
imper uve th t M.L. . Holid y
program not be mere "celebra­
tions" det cbed fro the m jor
problem of rim. poverty w r
and pe ce hich confront thi na-
. lion nd the world.
The on nd d ughter of
BI c people, minori ties and
poor people and working people .
will be the cannon fodder for the
Machin tions of the wealthy
ru rs of thi country if we How
America to go to war over oil in
the Persian Gulf. .
t During the M'.L,K. Holiday
period tbe philosophy, word and
wor of Dr. King should be lifted
up as the moral cornerstone of
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Ron
o nl
traordi- ,
tion, t BRINO THE TROOPS HO
and inve t the 30 billion dollars a
year in pe ce, job and justice
here in the United St te .
.'
had been whi � and the injured
motorists had been .African
American, then" the-' whi e
teenager would not have been
sentenced to 39 years in prison
for the crime. .
The' leading reason why
African American males are in­
carcerated in the Uni ted States at
such a high rate is the permeation
of racism and racial injustice
throughout the social fabric of
our society inclusive of its judi­
cial system'. Th re alt .mul tiple
standards of justice in the United
States.
U.S'. lrriprlsonrnent and American Apa
. ./ '
By Benjamin F. Cbavl ,Jr.
overall "rate of imprisonment" in 'RACE CONTlNUES TO be a
the United States is the l\ighest"'ifl .significant factor in the sentenc-.
the world. ing and imprisonment of persons"
The incarceration rate in. the - in the United States criminal jus-
United States is even higher than tice system. There are numero'us
the incarceration rate- in racist examples that·occur every, 'dax in
South Africa. the ,United States. every section of the nation. '
presently imprisons �t6 persons . For example. in the
per 100.000 population. In South metropolitan area of
Africa the rate of imprisonme�t Washington, D.C.' an Afri�an
. i 330 per 10�,OOO. Ainerican male teenager was sen-
Alarmingly, African; tenced to 39 years in pris�)D for
American males are imprisoned allegedly "throwing rocks onto a
in the United States at more tban highway" whi_ch caused a severe
4 timts the rate African males traffic accident. A white family
are imprisoned in South Africa was injured in tbe accident. '
In the United Stares 3,109 We do not .condone violence
Aftican American mates are im- or criminal behavior in any 'cir-
prisoned er 100,000 Afri<,:an Cllmstance. The yough respon-
American as com ared to So h sible for sucH an' act should, be
Africa's te 0 729 Afri a punished. Yet.' the issue here is
the fact that if this young man
Public
, This. is indeed a statistical ver-
. fication of 'the' existence and per­
sistence of an American version.
of apartberd , which under the
color of law has institutionalized
racial d iscr iminaticn against
African- American imprison­
meni.
Once again new research data
has revealed the devastating
reali ty regarding the Plight of
African American males in the
Uni fed States. The Sentencing
Project, a aational criminal jus­
tice research group, has released
������������������������� 0 new data thai indicates that the
- A Mes.sage to-our Future
8y Francine Guyton .
Benjamin.
Ch.avis
,
, ,
CIVIL
RIGHTS
our efforts here to exposC8iid
eradicate apartheid in America.
Non-producuvely, the United
States spends more than bil­
lion prisoners in federal, state
and local jails. Nearly half of the.
million U.S. prisoners are Africa
American. This nation has its
priori ties in tbe wrong plac .
When will there be ,a national
priority established to end racism
in tbe United State?
THIS TYPE OF racial injus .. • American apartheid consigns,' .
lice across the n�tion ·should be AfriCan Americans and others to .
challenged by all persons who lives of 'alienation, poverty, ex-
desire justice �nd equality for all ploitation, pre-mature death and
without discrimination 'due to imprisonment. How aD)ny more
race. ,While we must struggle to ,.research studies do. we� need to
keep.. the pressure on Sou'th. verify .wbat we refuse as a nation
Africa until apartheid is dis- to admit.
mantlc;d, we also need to increase
The·rich receive one type -of ,
justice, the standards of justice,
the non-white (eceive aQ'Other'
'type. There is 'no equ� justice
under the law.
hooling n�ed
By Danny R. Cook
Correspondent
"There is no more urgent
priority for MiChigan in the
1990's than solving the problems
in the K-17 education y tern,"
dec1areu Governor- lect Engler,
hinting that public schooling,
once prOClaimed the path toward
"liberty and ju tice for all,"
would oon de crt it traditional
function in MiChigan, acquaint­
ing children with the be t
heri tage of lhe human race.
A lew of peeial interest
group' n w bombaru the Engler
admini tration with elf-serving
cures for thE ills of public educa­
tion, including cro s-dislricl
school of choice, bu ines -spon-
sored alternative academie , and
all-male classes.
}.
However, young ters critical
of "Banu-Aid solutions that com­
pells an education industry to
churn out new and improved
version of a worthless product"
demand more basic answers.
"Kid no longer have a sense
that thing' are gclting better in
the <>rId. ,. ,aid child uevelop­
�ent peciali t Daviu Elkind,
author of The HurrIed Child.
ELKI n EXPL I ED that
values -eiarification and sex
ed ueation repre ent child abuse
in the classroom to orne parents,
while teaching fundamental
val ues in public chools is
resisted for fear or- doclrinating
brain
children with religious' beliefs.
However, j ining many child
�ights advocate, Eilkind con­
siders cl s room instruction in
the concepts of honesty, loyalty,
and belief in human worth and
uignity to be a needeu component
to counter the blatant onslaught
of both heavy-hal)ded and subtle
business propaganda entering
public school clas room .
"The eSlabli hment of a sys­
tem of national ed ucation tand:
ard and a national education
strategy which educate tudents
for citizen hip and employment"
IS the solution offered by presi­
dent of the National Alliance of
Busine s, William H. Kolberg.
Other national leauer ques­
tion whether kids hould be
urgery
I
strapped down with the respon- .: .
sibility �f halting the decline of :
America's competitive position ":
in the world economy, along With. :
America's pOlitical malaise.
Elkind believes public educa- '
tion is in crisis, not due to finance '
or political musical chairs by
school boards and educator, but
because I]lany kid have iven
up. pe simistic about a world
they believe will be worse for
their own children.
"TODA Y'S YOUTH want
the sa e things we wanted at
their ag ,a better world for them­
selve a d their offspring. Un­
less we' e prepared to offer it,
• tinkering with public education
J�" be predicted, ,