DETROIT
hew the
ay boo -up because
acreaming. "Ladi
. Let me talk. I
him the long and
are men and
other."
"If I re you." Wichita aid.
"I wouldn't repeat that remark. If
you do, , S' Peart, the femi­
nist movement and I might con-
ider it ist, "
"Lord. God. You young folks
are going to be th d th of me,"
Sister P arl aid. lOW just got
through going through that Tho­
mm-Hill thing and now you ywng
people don tatted som thing
else."
"Wrote!" Sam yelled. "Are
you there? Say omething. Can't
you I don't tand a chance
with these Y eking females?"
"Don't yell your insults at
me." Wichit yelled back. "I ain't
your weetheart and I don't allow
anyon to talk to m in a demean­
ingway."
"MISTER WROTE. will
you P y sanething1 These
two have been yelling each
otherfor the past two hours. And
it's all ause Wichita wants
term limitatioo and Sam doesn't,"
Sister Pearl aid.
"Yeah! Wrote. Tell this ding­
bat here that term limitation is a
Joke." Sam aid. "She doesn't
understand that it has nothing to
do with quality of service; that it
is a political issue designed to
divide and conquer."
"One more 'yacking females'
and 'ding bats' and I am going
Anita Hill crazy on you, boy. We
omen have rights and you men
are going to respect them," Wic­
hita said.
"Enough. Enough." I said. "I
need sleep."
"Wrote!" Sam said. "All I
tried to point out to her is: it takes
time for a 'Johnnycomelately'to
learn the ins and outs of politics
and if you have term limitation,
,you will create a more corrupt
system because many will get
while the getting is good."
"OK. Wichita. You're on," I
said.
"Johnny come lately, huh?
Wh happened to those eight
women who forced the nation to
watch that Hill- Th<mas debacle?'
Wichita asked.
"I don't have all day, Wic­
hita." I said. "Say what you have
to say and be quiet."
"MY POSITION in the tenn
limitation debate Wrote is: the
looser a rascal is in the hen house,
the more eggs h will steal."
"Don't forget the she reseals,"
Sam yelled. "They teal too."
"Now do you W1derstand why
I told them to call you.Mister
Wrote?" Sister Pearl ked.
"Yes. I understand. And I
asree with both of them."
"What!" Sam screamed while
Wichita sputtered, "I don't wanna
be linked with him."
"Yes!" I continued. "I agree
with both of them because term
lin)'itation is not th answer to
bad government. And the sooner
voters "realize that they are as re­
sponsible for what happens' in
government as the politicans are,
the soonerwe will get away from
self -serving interests."
"What are you saying. Mis­
ter Wrote?" Sister Pearl asked.
" &Ill saying we need to watch.
demand. and be involved in the
process and not expect people to
oot take advamage of peope when
, the opptttmity . , Sister �.
And that is the bottom line."
i nt
clu • th Id
Club ( ISCC).
CCORDI G TO one piece
of docum ntation, DA WC was
organized in 1895. and purch ed
and moved in "the red bi house
f cing Brush (Str t)" in 1941.
Within four ye ,by 1945,
th re were 75 clubs under the
umbrella of DA we and the
membership w approximately
3,000.
"In 1980, the DAWC w listed
in the n tional regi ter of historic
places, part of the East Ferry
o 500 college cholar­
e h year, W added.
civic club is al 0 involved
with th c mmunity a whole.
"W � trying to h Ip (educate
and d ter) in th field of drug (and)
we have been working with SOSAD
(Save Our Sons And Daughters),"
Watson aid, adding. "We try to help
where we can."
The third Friday of each month,
NISCC holds its Friday Breakfast
Forum at 9:30 a.m, Each month they
fonned In 18 5. The lad
have a gu t pe ,er and d not
charge dmi ion.
On Friday, November 15, the
peaker for th Breakfast Forwn will
be Winston Lang from the local
chapt r of the NAACP.
The Breakfast Forum will kick
off three days of Harvest Festival
activitie which will culminate with
an artistic program of words, drama
and ong Sunday, November 17.
The civic club, Watson said. "Is
concerned (because) young Black
omen don't take th ir positions
seriously enough. We trying to
make them aware of being Black
woman because it isn't y to be
BI ck woman. You have to ork at
m ing your voice heard."
any 0 Am ican woman ds
for."
A widow, Watson h two
daughters, two sons. 14 grandchil­
<if n, 29 great grandchildren and
ven gre t, great grandchildren.
A tep n,Julius W tson, i m -
ried to the Free Pre New paper
columnist and taft writer Susan
W tson.
SHE ADDED, ''You � get ready
to workwh you reach our age (70
and 80s)," continued the Bl wanan
line of thinking with. "We have to
make people realize tbat we (Bl clc
women) stand for the same thingS as
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EDITOR: The Association of
Community Organizations for
Reform Now (ACORN) is a na­
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The Michigan chapter of ACORN
will publish a weekry column in
the Michigan Citizen to inform the
public of issues and concerns and
strategies for change. The first
column begins this week with the
Preamble to the ACORN People s
Platform.
ACORN People' Platform
We stand for a People's Plat­
form. as old as our country, and as
young as our dreams. Wecome
before our nation, not to petition
with hat in hand, but to rise as one
people and demand.
We have waited and watched.
We have hoped and helped. We
have sweated and suffered.
We have often believed. We
have freque�tly followed.
This is not a simple vision, but
a detailed plan.
OUR PLAN is to build an
American reality from the Ameri­
can rhetoric, to deliver a piece of
the present and the 'fruits of the
future to every man, to every
woman, to every family.
We demand our birthright: the
chance to be rich, the right to be
free.
Our riches shall be the bloom­
ing of our communities. the bounty
of a sure livelihood, the beauty of
homes for our families with sick­
ness driven from the door, the
benefit of our taxes, not their bur­
den, and the best of our energy,
land and natural resources for all
people.
Our freedom shall be based on
the equality of the many, not the
income of the few. Our freedom is
the force of democracy, not the
farce of federal fat and personal
We are an uncommon common people.
We are the majority, forged from all
minorities ...
But we have nothing to show
for the work of our hands, the tax
of our labor. Our patience has
been abused; our experience mis­
used. Our silence has been seen as
support. Our struggle has been
ignored.
ENOUGH IS enough. v« will
wait no longer for the crumbs at
America's door. We will not be
meek, but mighty. We will not
starve on past promises, but feast
on future dreams,
We are an uncommon com­
mon people. We are the majority.
forged from all.rninorities. We are
the masses of many. not the force
of few. We will continue our fight
until th� American way is just one
way, until we have shared the
wealth, . until we have won our
freedom.
profit. In our freedom, only the
people hall rule.
CORPORATIONS shall have
their role: producing job ,provid­
ing products. paying taxe. No
more. No Ie . They hall obey
our wishes, respond to our needs,
serve our communities. Our COWl­
try shall be the citizen 'wealth and
our wealth hall build our country.
Government hall have its role:
public rvant to our good. fast
follower to our ur tep. No
more. No I . Our government
shall hout with a public voice,
and no longer jump to a private
whisper. In our government, the
common concerns hall be the
collective cause.
WE WILL dream of more, but
we will not ttle for 1
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Black male
ader call
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hel entor
DETRO T (AP) - In an
effort to create more
visible role models .than
drug dealers, a group of
BI' ck civic and govern­
m nt leaders have
lau chcd a program to
mentor young Black males.
Young Black males
"aren't getting any positive
male role models except
for the man in the com­
munity that may be selling
drugs and doing other
things �n a negative way,'·
said Wayne County Com­
missioner Bernard Parker.
Parker helped launch
Calling All Brothers, a pro­
gram that will rely upon
p ar t iclpat ion of such
leaders as himself, fellow
commissioner Ricardo
Solomon, school board vice
president Frank Hayden,
cable television magnate
Don Barden and New
Detroit Inc. President Paul
Hubbard.
The program starts with
a march from Murray
Wright High School at 11
a.m. on Oct. 26. Backer
hope more Black men will
come to the aid of Black
youths.
Other participants in­
clude N. Charles Ander­
son, president of the U rban
League Police Chief tan­
ley Knox, Dave 'Bing of
Bing Steel and Emmett
Moten Jr. of Little Caesar's
Inc.
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