Briefly
ince
H pton i priv te i titu-
tion the tudent prote ter
could be e pelled without
much tt ntion.
When, ked why he op
d the Bush peech, Kyl
D niels, enior t Hampton,
aid, "I feel Pres. Bush repre
nt wh t we h ve been strug
gling ainst for the I t 400
ye
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,
George Bu b
Anoth r LAPD
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Actor Wesley Snipes, c0-
star of the hit movie "New Jack
City," said he was stopped on
April 7 by Lo Angeles police.
T police forced Snipes to lie
spread eagle on the pave men
while an officer's knee was
jammed into his neck and with
a pistol to his head. The police
accused him of stealing the
rented car he was.driving.
"It goes with a mindset that
accepts Black people' as
criminals, that sees young
Black males as criminally
suspect by walking down the
street," said Snipes.
No proml In9 futur�
for Black male ,
study predicts
According to a U Diversity
of Chicago study by the year
2000, at least 70 percent of all
Black males will be on dope, in
jail or dead.
At college campuses there
are only two Black males for
every three Black females.
This spells disaster according
to the American Sociological
Association, in Los Angeles.
According to their study of
, marriage an€! fertility, Black
females who marry a non-col
lege graduate will experience
difficulties, as will their
children in their family life.
fant 'mortality rate
for Black I double
that of white
Among industrialized
countries the United States
ranks an embarrassing twenty
third for our high infant mor
tality rates. These frightening
rates are the result of poverty
and the "neg tive
ocioeconomic effect of
this nation's long history of
legalize segregating and
slavery," say Dr. Harold
Freeman of the Harlem
Ho pital Center.
The latest figures available
report that there are 17�6
deaths per 1,000 lives births
for Black babies. That rate for
white babies is 8.5 per 1,000.
- Compiled by
Catherine Kelly
.. Tun T DO 'T learn
that African lived productive
Conyers introduces bill to
mark "Su ala S taie: Day"·
WASHINOTON, D.C. - Rep.
John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), senior
member of the Congre sional
Black Caucus and Chairman of
the House Committee on
Government Operations, intro
duc d a Joint Resolution de ig
nating July 28, 1992 as "Buffalo
Soldier Day", commemorating
the contributions and sacrifices
of African-American troops who
were in trumental in forging
America's frontier and in
foreign interventions.
The legislation recognize e .. ,
forts to con truct a monument to
the Buffalo Soldiers initiated in
1982 by General Colin L.
Powell, Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, who at that time
was erving as Deputy Com
mander of Fort Leavenworth.
Few are aware of the fact that
the West was won on the backs
of .thousands of courageous
Black soldiers and cavalrymen,
dubbed ' Buffalo Soldiers' by
Native American tribes who
respect the buffalo for its,
courage. The accomplishments
of the Buffalo Soldiers merit
much more than a simple reggae
song and a single episode of a
TV western," Conyers said.
General Powell, commenting
on Conyer's proposal, stated,
"The Buffalo Soldiers served
with the same sense of duty and
integrity as did our Black sol
diers in Operation Desert Storm.
, th ir ontribution in the
taming of the frontier, in the
Spanish-American War, and in
ny other military operations
ar ot well known. A day and a
monument in their name: will
, erv i great mea ure to give
the Buffalo Soldier' the recogni
tlon they meri t."
·SE UNIT received the
lowest-quality equipment and
food, lived in inadequate hou -
ing, and were subjected to
blata t raci m and discrimina
tion. In edibly, the e units had
the lowes t dese rtion rates in the
Army and received 19 in
dividual Congressional Medals
of Honor.
"Even though the Buffalo
Soldier erved in the highest
tradition of the U.S. military,
their proper place 'i n history ha
not yet been re co gmze d. To
help remedy that, in 1982
General Colin Powcl began the
effort to erect a monument to
them at Fort Leavenworth, Kan
sa. On July' 28, 1992, that
monument will be dedicated on
a site where the Buffalo Soldiers
were housed in tents during the
la te 19th and earl y 20th cen
turies. Commemoration of that
day will give justice to the role
the Buffalo Soldiers played in
the history of our nation's
military," Conyers concluded.
Black Educators
confer errce scheduled
MILWAUKEE, WI - The Na
tional Alliance of Black School
Educators (NABSE) Regional
Conference will be held in Mil
waukee, Wisconsin on May lO
ll, 1991 at the Grand
Milwaukee Hotel, 4747 South
Howell Avenue.
"Education Plus Culture
Equals Empowerment" is the
theme for the third annual mid
west NABSE regional con
ference. Over 800 educators
and supporters from the states of
Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota,
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas
Ci ty and' Ohio are expected to
attend.
NABSE is a national or
ganization with over 65 local
chapters including Milwaukee.
It is dedicated and committed to
the improvement of education
for all children - particularly
of African American children.
Dr. Michael Smith is president
of the local affiliate in Mil
waukee.
Smith, in announcing the con
ference, says Milwaukee is an
ideal location for this regional
session. "T.he Milwaukee
school district has been on the
cutting edge of educational
reform for several years. People.
are interested in Milwaukee
based nationally initiatives .as
the African American Immer
sion Schools and CHOICE."
Milwaukee is also the site for
he only Urban Waldolf Program
in the nation. All others are
private.
Nationally renowned
educator are featured and in
clude: Na'im Akbar, Wendell
Anthony, James B. Boyer,
JoAnn Brown-Nash, Judson H
Ixson, George J. McKenna III
Irving McPhail, Charlotte Reed,
Barbara Sizemore, and Iva
Smith.
Do omething for peace
The International Society of
Poets (I.S.P.) is accepting poems
for its "World's Large t Poem
for Peace." Anyone may con
tribute to thi worldwide effort.
Responses have already been
recieved from- Pre ident Bu h
and nearly every governor.
The World's Large t Poem for
Peace, a document expected to
be longer than everal football
fields, will be presented to the
Secretary General of the United
Nations following the Society'
Augu t 16-18 Nation I Poetry
Sympo ium in Washington, D.C.
In add ilion to this Ii teracy
donation, I.S.P. will donate ten
cent to the United Nation' In
ternational Children' Educa
tion Fund (UNICEF) on behalf
of everyone who shows support
for world peace by ubmitting a
poem.
To be a part of this monumen
t I effort, send one original
poem (20 line or less) to:
World' Large t Poem for Peace,
P.O. Box 627, Owing Mill,
Maryland 2117.
th m ti re-
v il bl f r:
nd a:
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n lion re tt c ed b imil rly power
ful neighbor it t ke over a dec de for far
from comprehen ive nction to be lm
po ed grudgingly, and under great popular
pre ure , by that country' trading
p rtner .
Are Kuw it live more preciou than
Moz mbic none? I there omething ape
ci I bout the overeignty of Kuwait th t
m e it more v luable than the
overeignty of Angola?
Perh p everal hundred innocent
Kuw iti h vc been killed in the Ir qi in
va ion. the United N tions e ttmate are
that between 1980 and 1988 there were
900,000 war-retated death in Mot mbi
que, and 500,000 in Angola. The m [ori y
of the e were children nder the age of
five. By now, those figu will be consid- .
erably higher, of course.
t t • "
Bu in e rly Augu t, we wilne ed U.S.
Pre ident George Bu h nd Briti h Prime
Mi ni ter M rg ret Th tcher Ie ding the
call or nctions, not against South Africa,
of c ur e, but gai n t Ir q, because of it
inv 'ion of Kuw it.
Nobody ay th t anction "won't
wor "agai t dd m Hus ein. Nobody
ay th t arrctions "will only harm the
people of Kuw it, or the intere t of Jordan
nd Saudi Arabi ." .
IF THE WESTERN wor had reacted
to South African aggression with the ame
dmirable speed that it no how towards
Iraqi aggres ion, then most of those 1.4
million people would till be alive. Futher
more the Mozambican economy would not
have been destroyed, the country would not
be obliged to live on international charity,
and the government might never have had
to embark upon an IMF and World Bank
sponsored structural adju tment program.
But then maybe that wa the whole idea ...
And had the We t reacted promptly to
South Africa' aggression against the
Frontline States, and imposed a serious em
bargo, it might also, ironically enough,
have helped the Kuwait people. For the
mo t ophisticated artillery the Iraqi army
posse ses is of South African manufacture.
That is the 05 mobil cannon, produced by
the apartheid state-owned arms company
Arrnscor, and which Iraq ha been buying
f�o{\) ,u�h �ftica e t'y." r si 1981.
�." ," l l'
o COUR , the occupation of Kuwait
i clear breach of internation I I . But
it i far from the Cir t crime committed by
the Iraqi regime. The voice now trident
ly demanding respect for Kuwait
overeignty were strangely silent when
Sad dam Hu ein was killing Iraqi com
muni t , or. butchering the Kurdish
minority in Iraq.
Sanction were in place against Iraq
within a week of the attack on Kuwait.
South Africa 'began open military attacks
agai nst i.t neighbors in 1975, the date of it
fir t major push into Angola - but it was
only in the late 1980's that most Western
government began to take he i tant steps
toward economic anctions again t
Pretoria.
So when an oil-rich Arab tate is attack
ed by a powerful neighbor it takes a week
for the international community to punish
the ggres or, and declare a near-total
block de. But when impoverished African
They ay thing are changing in South Africa. But
30 million black people are still denied the right to
vote becau e of the color of their skin.
Now Pre ident Bu h i talking about rewarding
the Pretoria government
by lifting anction.
Nelon Mandela ays we
hould maintain
anction until he and all
South African hav the
right to vote.
Your vote for sanctions
again t South Africa will
keep the pre sure on
apartheid and help bring
real change.
SIGN YOUR BALLOT TODAY
YOU CAN HELP
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SANCTIONS
o I vote for maintaining sanctions until there is democracy for
all South Africans.
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