in
cclebr ted the Iir t d Y
ew Ye r and dec de by
bringing into the world a m n­
child n med nthony Ste art.
ineteen ye r later Anthony
found hi msel f � TIll ng tho c
P rent compl ming of racu m
nd har men in hi pi toon in
the United States Manne ,"
. Anthony h d joined the
Marine: to .esc pe, a he, aid,
"the violent streets of Yonker ."
Streets which had tran formed
ince his birth into drug-ridden,
OK corral type of environment a
oppo ed to the quiet, sedate al ..
mds t uburban atmosphere it had
been jut a few, hort years before.
. Anthony no doubt intoxicated
by the commercials that many
young Blacks and Latino had
been intoxicated by, the program
th t they could be all that they
and Grenadian , who were In­
vaded for no rea on.
No. Anthony joined other in
P rsian Gulf to protect the
pri ate corpor treed o-f oil
barons and the ego of a war­
driven pre rdc nt who decided
that oil and gas wa the premium
in.this world and fie hand blood -
wa not.
And even th re In the desert.
even in the sand, the ugly 001-
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. ombs and bonds:
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A Ie on for Black
Whcn Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel last week,
the Jew. in New York took out a full page ad in
t h 'Sunday New York T'irnc s. The ad did not lam­
bast Iraq, scream about anti.Semi�ism, or moan
(, C • 0 i . \' #" ,)' '. , J, J H c Cl U
The d P1> ted t' cv;r' Jew, ill all parts or' '
the 0 lJ'to.ldi: dOCN"'n"-anocome up"wnll .c�ish to' .1 ....
huy bonds. The bonds re to help Israel.
Thcre is a.Ic: son here for African 'Ameticans.
If there is any community anywhcre on the Iace
of the ,earth under attack it is the African
American community. More men in jail, more .: '"
babies dying, shorter life spans, less education,
poorer health ... the list is long, the bottom line
short: Blacks in America do more suffering, en­
during, an'd sacrifici�g only to die quicker and
-harder than- any of their fellow countrymen ...
Yet, the begi"nning of the way out lies within
�t means us helping us ...
If Black America dug into 5ts pockets and
'ca me out WIt h· just a small portion of its $200 bil­
lion a'nnllal'ccnnnmy , the 'B'�munities
'aeros. the land would be, what wc want.
Think of the wealth to �c rai�cu by a Black
Bond program and thc power for Change: decent.
dorms, research facilities, c1assrooms and
librarie or the campuses of Black colleges; com-
puters and science eq uipme.nt for the neighbor- •
, hood schools; loan funds for business
development by and fO.r community people;
money for decent an<\ affordable h'ousing in the
neighborhood; �ubstance abuse i,reatment, cen.te�s _
... the list is as endless as our hopcs for our fu-
ture.·' ...
War bonds are nothing,new to Amcr,icans. Now
we see Jews doi ng the s'ame. It' ti e Bla'ck
America decided to fight hack with more than'
religious s'logans and hopes of cternal bUs
Black Bonds: U.s helping us.
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doe not fit into the bum n family'
of decency. il ot fit of one
being equ lly protected und r the
I w; will not fit where people e -
pe t their oldiers to die in b ttle
nd not in their battalio from
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bould
by your upper cia , male weal­
thy people 300 year ago. Be-·
cau elf el, Mr�Bush unless you
Iv tbat writ win eep inter­
rupting the other wars that you'
eek to tart.
You ee, somebody forgot to,
tell one of An thony' fellow
marine , that when oil fields are
at stake, that you forge! the guy
ne t to you is a. nigger because
the reality is that all of the boys
in the Persian Gulf, aJl the
. marine, the navy and the army
men are the niggers of the Bush
�dministration.
The: ruth of
in Luther" Ki"ng, "Jt�
not found in southwest Georgia
There i no better way for the and East Harlem."
people of the world community' Dr. Kin!!' S ' Dr. King further said, "We
to remember and to pay tribute to worde on war' must find new ways to speak for
the living legacy of Martin peace in Vietnam and justice
L ithcr King. Jr., than Ii tening throughout the developing world.
again to the truth of Dr. King' plaything as a society gone mad If we do not act ve hall urely
e xprcs 'cll opposition to U.S. on war, and I knew that America be dragged downtheJong dark
war-making polictcs. Today a would never inve. t the necessary and shameful corridor of lime
hundred of thou ands of armed 'fund or cncr ic in rehabihta- re ervcd for tho e who 0 ess
forces are caught in a ge .]ftffi (-" ti h a?1Y' r r. 'b 16ft 1 as'adv'en- po'W.h I wYthoui' Jc'Ompassi'o"n.
cal conflict in the [sian Gulf ture "ike Vietnam continued to might without morality. and,
crisis. the words of Dr. King still draw men and skill and money strength wit-hout ight. .. The front lines .of an -irnmoral war
ring loud and cleat. 'like 'some demonic destructive choice is ours. and though we' situation.
While we have already gone suction tube. So I wa increas- might prefer it otherwise we must We are grateful that there ap-
on record in expres ing our op- 'lngty compelle<l to see the war a choose in this crucial moment of .pears to be a growing "peace and
positron to war in the Persian an enemy ot'( the poor and attack human history." Of course, Dr. j us tiee" movement evolving
Gulf, it i important that we con- it as such." King made the choice to demand across the nation. Yet timing is
tinue to peak out again t any at- Dr. King continued. "Perhap peace and justice. critical. We need more voices
tempt to justify war for the akc the more tragic recognition of . Now a quarter of a century and we need more persons of
-or the control of oil. . reality took place when it became ' later, the peopl of the United goodwill to choose peace-and not
.As Dr.: King cxpre sell hi op· clear ·to me thar the war 'was S·t.ates are callcq again to make a , .war. As Dr. King challenged
pOSition to the Vietnam War. we doing f(tf more than devastating choice between war and peacc, President Johnson and all of
-mu·t he ju 'l a v�gilant to expres thc hopes of th� poor.at home. It between injusticc and justice, those who were in thc choir sing-
our 'oppo 'ition to the Per ian w�s cnding their sons and their and between immorality crnd ing waranthems, we need tochal-
Gulf War. It wa on April 4. brother ami their husband to 'morality. .. lenge President Bush and all of
1967, )nc year to the <lay before fight and tl ic in exfr.aordinary those in the Congress and other.:
his tr,agic as assination, when .D�. high proportions relative to the " TODAY, THERE IS a re�l place� who are singing 'the same .
Ki,ng delivere<l his famous'ser- rest of the population. connection be'tween the U:S. war songs. , .
mon at R[.verside Church in New' W�,�were\ taking the Black milit�(y buildup in the Per�ian Bring t�e troops home now!" .
York City. For Dr. King, this wa young men who ha<l been crip- Gulf and the deteriorating social "No blood for oil!" "Peace and �.
the time to "break the silence." . pled by our society and sentting and economic circumstances of justice in the Middle East!" :
We' helieve it is important for, I them eight thousand miles away the nation's poor and oppressed.. The'se should be our chants:
you to .. hear the e particular to guarantee the liberties .df Disproportionately African tOday. Dr. Kings'truth "crushed :'
wor<l of Dr .. King ·once again. Southeast A ia which they. had Americans are once again-on the to the earth. shall rise again." ':.
Dr. King emphasized, "There is "''''��,"� ��'''''''' __ � 1!1''_'''�''''' �''111111!1''''
at the OUl:et a very obvio,u and •
a'imost radle connection between
the war In VietnallJ and tRe s�rug­
glc l. an<l olhers have q,een
waging in America .. .It seems �s
if the re ,was a real promi e. of
hope for th·c poor - both Black
and white, - through the povetty
pr.ograru..-
TH P OPL '
P AC
ere the
eull 0 thony'
Ii . t tbi ritin there' till no
con 1 ion. Th only thin th t i
ure i th t the f roily went
throu h very heart-wringing
funer 1 ervice, the f mily went
through very hy terical trip to
the cemetery, the family tood
with their eye clouded with te rs
th m M rine Corp that
111 d him g ve ' 21-gun alute
nd then the f mily -to. their
re t credit-r fu ed to bury An­
thony.
They robbed the grave. of its­
pri � oner, nd id no, we will hold
hi body until nether utop y i�
given. Since the Marine .corp
will not tell us what happened, we
tn t begin to ee the truth our-
elves.
It eem kind of appropriate to
me that at lh cemetery, a the
oldiers stood over his coffin to
c refully fold the flag,. they·
roes ed up and had to redo their
step again. It wa symbolic of a
nation who so carefully tried to
project to the world a Bill of
Righ s, but they messed up and
had to do it a ain.
R . AI
I PROT ,Anthony rote
hi p rent and his irl fnend,
aying h wa being hara ed, he
wa being rnisu edt there wa r­
ial ten ion, he wanted omeone
to get him in touch-with hi. Con­
re sm n.
Before hi Iarni l y cou (1
re pond. bcf rc they c uld fin
out thi I' not a one or two time
f'ight but there- w a an pparent
.paucrn here that would lead to
dan er, they got the earth- hak­
I ng new that Anthony was <lead.
ommon
not take n
him elf in the b ck of the head,
unle truly the bionic
H TO' econd
lie wa that another oldier mi -
takenly illed Anthony while
cleaning hi M-l which would
make one then believe that.
Mann lean their guns while
they're fully loaded.
Benjamin
Chavis
By B njamin F. Chavi , J� .
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