n
CHILD
WATCH
by incre in, not reducing, the
funding for e i tin , proven
progr m. In our underfunde(1
preventive he lth c re effort"
we won't g t ah d by robbing
Peter to pay P ul. .
e mu t m e ure our
ele ted repre e t live under-
t tld ho tr gic 11y mi guided
it would be to embrace the
pre idcnr' He lthy Start ide a
long it require Congre to
r id other poor children' health
program for money.
Urge your enators nd repre­
ent rive to upport pecial ef­
fort to reduce infant mortality
mor
In b bi
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The
Marian Wright Edelman is
pre iden! of the Children's
Defense Fund, a I'UJtiollal voice
lor children.
D, Pre id nt us h
want to fin nee He I thy Start b
t king money way from orne of
the mo t effective m ternal and
child health progr m in th
pre n nt omen.
We don't I c no Jed e. We
Los 'Angeles Police Brutality
calate
,
ecured u.s. trategic intere t now more prone to ttack
in the Midi E t. Yet, the e ba ed on ra e not criminal
, oldier re returning to conduct.
nother war zone in m ny The Congre ional Black
Afric n American com- Caucu and other memher of
munitie Raci t police Congress w rc .o r r e c t 10
violence i on the inere e. d c m a nd inten ive mve s ti g a-
p a r t i c u l rly in urb n 'tion. Congre m n John
America. Conyers tared that thi inci-
The Bush Adrni ni tration is dent revealed "a·culture of
till caught in the euphoria of violence In the Los Angeles
winning the Gulf War and h s police �epartment which is a
been slow to re pond. Now national problem."
the U.S. Justice Dep rtment The Chief of Police in Los
after pre ure has ordered an Angeles, Daryl F. Gates has
inve tigation of more than defended the police depart-
15,000 cases of police ment and has called the King
brutality that have been incident an "aberration."
reported ac r o s s the nation This beating was not an is o­
during the la t ix year. Un- lated incident or an "abe rra­
fortunately, law enforcement tion," but the hrutalizing of
persons have been reluctant to King by the Los Angeles
admit the severity of this police is an example of what
problem. has occurred in Los Angeles
Not all ca .c of police on numerous, ocoa ion lIal-
brut lily are ,. c i a l l'y '(hough uever-vrdeotaped.: '
motivated but the Lo ngcte
case exposes an example of
what is an increasing prob­
lem. Some white police of­
ficers view African American
and Hispanic males with
suspicion and scorn. With the
increase in racism in America
during the la t ten years,
some white police officers are
•
Mr. King him elf would now
be in jail charged with ult
on police officer. African
American and Hisp nic males
in particular are the target in­
creasingly of ra lal attack by
racist who do their violence
cow rlily under the cover of a
police badge.
by Benjamin F. Cba Jr.
Racially motiv ted police
brut lityinthecityofLo An­
gele , C lifornia continue
unabated. The rece nt brutal
be ting of Rodney Glen King,
an Afric n American, by
white police officer in Los
Angeles expo e once again
thi national problem. The
focus this time is in Lo An-
, geles solely ... because the beat­
ing wa videotaped.
If it were not for the exist-
B njamln..
.Chavi
TEN OF THOUSAND
of Af ican American re now
returning f r o m the Per ian
Gulf after having fought in
ostensibly
r
more grief and violence by
removing himself from office.
Unmitigated raci t
violence can not be tolerated
in Lo Angeles nor anywhere
el e in the world.
President Bush r e c e m ly
referred to Chief Gate as "an
all-American hero," yet tbe
Lo Ange le s Po 1 ice Depart­
me under Gales '. tcadersbtp
'ha ·'b-e..come not ri u in -1 ,8
vicicus .. police brut IHy., ';,
Computer mes ages fro.m
police vehicles at the scene qf
the King beaungconfirm that
pol ice officers joked al!.d
mad eli g h t 0 f the r act t h:a t
King had been severely In­
jured. Our nation cannot af­
ford to allow this type of
Injustice to continue.
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LATER, Chief Gales is
reported to have asserted,
"The arne per on calling for
my resignation are the same
per son s . who we' rea g a ins t
using force in the Persian
GulL" With that kind of
logic. Chief Gates should
save the city of Los Angele
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'Fighting the two heads of qenoclde
both demonic forces that are
destroying our young people.
The real m 0 tt 0 m us t be'
repeated again and again and
again, in the words of the
playwright James Chapman:
Our young Black men are
dying, and nobody seems to
care. We m u t care on the
streets of Harlem. we must
care on the. trcets of Ben on­
hurst, we must he present i n
both to show �ha t we care and
to restore those lives.
To march on one trect, and
to ignore the genocide taking
place on the other tre e t, is
only to be lopsided in your
quest for true equality. for
self-empowerment,and self­
preservation. So let the
cy njcs 'and .the cri tics wri te,
and keep their pens ready, be-
change the name of Malcolm
X Boulevard. without chang­
ing the' game of life that is
adhered to on lcolm X
Boulevard. There r e , we
chose April 4, the anniv ary
of the deaths of Dr. Martrn
Luther King, Jr., and Dr.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr., to
May 19. which Is the birthday
of Malcolm X, to put this
patrol on duty. Imam Siraj
Wahad, who instituted a
similar program in Brooklyn.
was there to info sm us and in­
struct us on how to do i l.
It is imperative that"the
drug barons he cut off at their
legs. and that is in their dis­
t rib uti 0 nat a com m ,u nit y
level, while we fight their
cousins who openly u e racial
violence and ponce brutality
as external forces which kill
u. It i this double s tra tegy
that we will embark upon in
the spring and summer 1991
offensive, leading into the
election of 1992.
It was very important to
show 'broad-based leadership
around thi i sue. Though I
disagreed with Rangel on his
trip to Israel, though I d is­
agreed with Spike, though
I've disagreed with others. all
of us can collectively agree
that there i an internal and
external ge noc i de plan that
must be cornb auod hy all.
Tho c who arc immature
only want people who agree
with them one hundred pe r-.
cent to par tcipare in any bat­
tle. The fact of the matter i
that there will never be-a col­
lective with a hundred percent
agreement on all is ue .
There mu t be a maturity to
wor together where pos ible,
and use ccc to each other
to correct each other where
wrong, but never abandon
your right to disagree or rai e
issues of con cience such as
the I raeli trip.
munity.
It is really f.ighting one
enemy, because the same ror­
ces that propagate racial
violence and police brutality
from the out ide .b r ing drugs
in to de" troy from the inside.
We have dedicated Malcolm X
Boulevard in Ha rle m, former­
ly known as Lenox Avenue. as
a drug-free lone.
Dr. Betty Shabazz, the win­
dow of Malcolm X, was
honored a nd he I ped to ini tia te
the drug patrol that we plan to
put on the street from April 4
through May 19. in order to
shut down drug dealing 'and
drug dens on Maico l m X
Boulevard.
THE
PEOPLE'S
PREACHER
Saturday'S afternoon rain
did not stifle the birth of a
new movement in Ha rt e m.
Ha lem's pedestrians and
drivers witnes ed the strange
ight oJ their co ngre.s s man,
Charles Rangel, accompanied
by filmmaker Spike Lee, civil
rig-hts attorney C. Vernon
Ma on,' independent political
leade r Dr. Lenora Fulani and.
m ys'e lf leading s e v e r a l
hundred ra i ned re nched peop le
down the street to -i ni u a t e
what will be a major focus in
the spring and ummer offen­
sive this year.
And that is the dual
trategy of internally cleans­
ing our' community while ex­
ternally �ighti ng those forces
bent on de lroying our com-
SO SATURDAY. March 23
began that process that will
continue. Ju t as we wiped,
the rain off our jackets, after
starting the internal move we
headed toward the airport to
,go to Lo Angeles to once.
again .fight the external
enemy of police brutality.
Before the mainstream medi.a
say that we have transformed
into just drug fighters. and
will leave racial violence
alone, let the record be clear:
it is a double fight. � fight
against forces bn the outside
and forces on the inside, a
fight to be fought s i mul­
taneousty, not either/or, but
as an inclusive fight against
The Rev
AI Sharpton
cause there will be plenty
action-not rhetoric-on
inside and the o uts sde r
them to cri ticize.
ACTION IS OUR game,
freedom is our name, -cri tics
beware! The only thing you
have to lose is your i nk, be­
cause your words mean notn­
lng to us in motion.
IT ,IS NOT enough to
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