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Advertising Manager: Mlch I Ru ell
Advertising Representatives: T rry Broyl ••
Jerom Ky. Bob Zwalak
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The decision by th Detrolt Board of Education to go to court
and fight the ban against male academies i regretable. .
First, there is the cost of pursuing the right to e tablish
segregated academies. The precious nd few dollars the Detroit
School have should not be given to lawyers to forge new legal
ground that goes against the grain of history.
Why hould the Detroit school children be further
bortchanged while Bloomfield Hill and Binningham attor
ney teal off with the money that could be buying much needed
books and equipment? -'
And, even ifby some miracle, the Board hired attorneys who
in the city and actually send their children to the public
sc Is, it till would be wrong to pend education dollars on
t rneys.
It is a rich tradition in modem America that attorneys and
consultants feed off of the problems of the inner cities. From
city hall to chools, there i alway a problem to be "studied"
or "remedied." The problem gets worse while the "profes
sionals" get rich.
Look at magnate schools. They helped the few, but the many
are worse off.
All-male Academies do not solve the basic problem of
underfunding. That is what is wrong with inner city schools: It
is not the young lady sitting in the same over crowded, under
equipped classroom with the young Black male. -
Both children have a great many needs: ranging �m meals
to health care to personal attention from a teacher who to do the
job right, needs> fewer children per room, rather than a room of
single sex children.
TIle econd problem with the School Board spending money
on a court ht for all-male academies? It is segregation. The
list of African people who have died to make sure this society
is more inclusive, not exclusive is too long to list here.
The School Board explains its efforts saying parents have
the right to choose. The refrain is an echo of the little liar in the
White House, George Bush. It should be remembered that the
current School Board is led by the "Hope Team. II They are
avowed Republicans and appear to be taking orders from the
Bush.
r , ' Wearing kinte cloths to board meetings does not seem to
drown out the ugly strains of racism the Republicans have come
• I' to represent. From David Dukes to George Bush and now to the
Detroit Schools Center, there is a thinly veiled effort to divide
this nation, whether on the issue of race, or now-as with the
abortion issue- ex.
Detroit, don't let the Board of Education listen to the Duk
kkes and the Bushes. Protest so loudly they can't help but hear
you. Not �fte penny to some fancy, suburban lawyer to fight for
segregation. Rather, tell the Board to do the best with what
you've goi and fight for the real solution: adequate and EQUAL
. --rfun . g for all school childre . -
EQUAL FUNDING- N SEGREGATION-IS THE
ANSWER!
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VIEWS OPINIONS
THE REPUBLIC
d th valu 0
jority of BI
greglliQlrllllS
and right ing conservatives like
Orrin Hatch in battering Anita Hill
and promoting a newly manufac
tured hero in the person of Clarenc
Thorn .
African American women were
particul .. ly rough on Anit Hill. It
was if Black women lapsed into a
state of collective amnesia in terms
of the long history of sexual har
Hill vs. CI nce
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gic/cornic id much
and far ma'e . gnificmt <kwna.
Bl k Americ proved ill pr -
pared ideologically to cope with a
Republican strategy d igned to use
BI k faces to maintain their hold on
the office of President and the Ex
ecutive Branch 0 the government.
Within the I d de the Re
publicans have devised a "Bl
egy" calculated to preserve the po
litical cendancy of the rightwing
conservative forces in the White
THE OWE IVE i to lure
15-20 per nt of the BI ck elector-
a into th Republi Party in ord
to eep the party of th rich and th
per-rich in po ere
"Brother" Cl Thom
certainly not uppity nigger. He is
an accomodationist who th Repub
lican Party identified as someone
ho they could project, re ard and
use a part of their tr tegy of
retainin the eXlra<X'dirw'y privileges
n1 perlc.s which cane with the po
of the presidency.
Conscious of our understandable
yearning to h ve Blacks in positions
of power. the Republicans are de
pending on Black people to be c-
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vuln bility to thi str tegy. t .::
In light of th ir ucce with th ::
Thorn nomination th Republi ::
can xpected to in nsify th ir :'
ffort to con and rni BI ck i
people to advanCe their goal remain- !:
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There is no reason to bel ive that .:
George Bush and Co. will abandon a ,:
trategy that i obviously and tragi - ':
cally producing the desired results. ::
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Ron Danie serves as President ::
of the Institute for Community Or-::
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HARRI
Angola's progress:
of ho
By BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS, JR.
Several weeks ago, President Jose
Eduardo dos Santos of the People's
Republic of Angola traveled to the
United States on a mission that has
significant positive implications for
the entire region of southern Africa.
President dos Santos visited Wash
ington' D.C. and New York City.
Although the established news
media attempted to give only a brief
coverage of this historic visit of a
distinguished African Head of State,
it is important to note for the record
the importance of what President
dos Santos had to ay to the people
and government of the United States.
In a peech to the Carnegie En
dowment for International Peace in
W hington, D.C., President dos
Santos stated. "It is ironic, but true,
that more a decade and a half after
Angolan independence. Americans
Ind Angol do not know edt other
Vert ell. The United States has
been, by f , our leading trading
partner with our trade exceeding, in
some years, more than $1 billion
dollars ..
Angola or Angolans. (/I
"Over the past three decades,
United states Administrations have
related to my country largely through
highly partisan perspectives, mostly
through two Angolan political move
ments-the National Front for the
Liberation of Angola (FNLA) dur
ing the first half of this period and
then the National Union for the To al
Independence of Angola (UNIT A)
during the latter half.
"We look forward to a period
soon when the United States will
relate equally to the Angolan gov
emment, people, and parti ."
TO BE SURE. roost Americans
need to learn and kno more about
all of Africa. Given the millions of
slaves that were forcibly taken from
Angola arxt fnm what WItS then known
as the Congo, African Americans in
particular need to renew, rebuild and
reclaim cultwal, socio-ecooanic, and
spiritual bonds with each region of
the Motherland in special and mean
ingful ways.
In fact, the relationship between
African nations and Administrations
in Washington will not begin to
become respectful and supportiv of
African . ana until the African
An8ican canmunity throughout the
nation becom more consistently
aware and involved in the vastly
changing ituations in Africa. Al-
though Angola has been ravaged by
a terrible war in the past, with the
signing of recent peace-accords, the
potential of Angola is re-emerging
with hopeful possibilities.
PRESIDENT dos Santos con
finned, "Angola is a rich country,
and with our new peace, potentially
a force for positive change in our
region and on the African continent.
It is our concern that the United
States keeps its promise to Angola.
When President bush met with Presi
dent dos Santos in the White House.
it is reported that President Bush
promised that the United States
government would not "take ides"
in the elections scheduled in Angola
before November 1992.
THE WHITE HOUSE states it
"will take neutral position" in
Angola's election. That certainly
would be a elcome position given
th United States' hi or; along ith
South Africa's d tructive attempts
to "destabilize" Angola.
President dos Santos took a bold
initiative to develop a ne focus and
relationship with the Bush Admini
stration. It' our responsibility here
., U.S. respooae
the fA mcnlity, hwn decency.
and respect for the sovereign rights
of th Angolan,peopl .
This great African lead elo-
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"WE BUY MORE American
thM all but two in
. Africa. but know too little about
the American people." Dos Santos -
further explained. "And, I believe
most Americans know little about
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Benjamin F."�:
Chavis Jr.
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quently clo d his speech with th
words:
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"LETMEUNDER OREth'
- importance of building bridge txf.
tween the United States and Angol��
We have more of an opportunilJ
now than ever before. We h�
many things. One is a commitm '1t
to democracy. We also hare a corrt
mitrnent to prosperity. Finally. wte
sh a commitment to pe c . v;.'
are determined to proc ong
course that we charted fro -