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4:02a.m.
"Ye h! Lay it on me," 1 ·d."1
e w tever."
"Wrote, t i Wichi . I m
d you re w e beca I ant
to play thi phon 11 I recorded."
I didn't ay it but I thought
ut inv ion of priv cy he
, tatted the m chine.
"HELLO. HELLO. thi the
office where you regi ter
compl in about let' tudy
Detroit one more time? .. Wh t do
you mean, what am 1 talking_ about?
I m lking about what I've
been reading nd hearing about
Don Barden calling for a 'two-day
summit meeting' to dis the
plight of Detroit. That' what I am
talking bout.
"By the way. Who are you?
that dumb receptionist Deborah
cOriff encountered? ... Oh really.
Honey! TIlat tone of voice dosen't
me. Sure, I'll tell you who 1-
m. I am Wichita. You hear?
!Wichita. And don't you forget it.
Now! put omeone, on this
phone who understands English.
ou sound like you have eaten one
"too many chittli .... You certainly
can help me Mister Oreen. I want
to lodge a complaint about Don
Barden's ummit meeting .... Oh
really. You think a summit meeting
is fine-just what thi city needs.
One hundred of this city' fin t
hobnobbing over how to fix what
· hey me ed up. Is that your
ilion Mister Green? Or are you
too lazy to think for yourself]
lease tell me which 0 I'll know
how to talk to you. ...
"WHAT DO YOU mean, why
am 1 upset? Shouldn't I be? Why is
• i t that every time, omeone decides
:they know what' good for Detroit,
or anywhere else in this country, .
especially if they are Black, their
solution is always politicians,
clergymen and educators? .... No.
No. Mister Green. Don't label me
-"anti anything. I am not making
: statements and I am certainly not
, putting my hat, even timidly, into
· the political ring, 1 am king
:� questions. You do understand the
, difference, don't you? .. :numk you
• ire I'll answer that. There ain't no
· two way about it. Tbese criminal
justice minded individuals are
going to advocate institutions,
.• supervision and education o� a
· level that will produce clones.I'Il
bet you a fish sandwich that it boils
down to the ISE, Mister Green .... A
better solution? Are you slc]; or
what? We need people to be more
responsible to what they are
! already suppose to be doing. Not
adding reams and reams of
.complicated paper to what has
been studied until it stinlcs .... Yeu
· : got that right, buster. If � had the
authority I would walk Into that
· City-County Building tomorrow
and fire every other person I
saw .... That's called weedin' 'em
out Mister Green. Weedin' 'em out.
"SPARE WH O? You tell �e. .
Who deserve to be spared? COme
on, Mister Green. Don't be fooli h.
Of course I would fire you. I would
say to you in no uncertain terms.
Green, get up and get out .. .l �w
that was coming. The private
ector. Boycott their produC1S,
bat's what. I haven't seen them
lloing a whole lot. Even the Detroit
News offering 100 paper route jobs
to cut-off general istant
recipients could have been better.
But it is a tart. Too bad they didn't
challenge every bl.Winess in Detroit
that has 500 or more employes to
match their offer,
proportionally .... Mi ter Green,
Please. Thi a telephone."
. "That' it, Wrote . What do you
• think?"
. "I think you are ick, Wichita.
But I al 0 think you made some
good-points. Summit meetings are
for politicians, not the people. And
any nitwit kno that ummit
meetings, anti- Devil ' Ight
publicity money and all thole other
brained ideas do more harm
han good. My prayer i that voters
. won't forget all of thi mediocre
thinking when they go to the polls .
.nd thet" Wichita,' the bottom
me."
Through the vehicle 0 education,
culturally nd e eti ly, Col n
d Doty striv to bring individual
into contact with tool nd even
that willie d him or her to believe in
the quote nailed to his door: "I am
somebody beca God don't rna e
no junk.
HIGHLAND PARK
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HE OUNDED TH center in
September of 1990 after the Kellogg
Foundation took him and 13 other
community-minded individua to
California' 0 and and San Fran­
cisco are to study the concept of
the "one- top hop centers."
center'
added. ,
Th GED program, which beg n '
in November of I t year, h .
graduated ix tuden from nei h­
borho.od that id to Ne once h d
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yo, Martha O. Scott nOted �
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ridin in c to w tch out or
po tile arson d�g Holloween
n, particul 11 around' "Devil',
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