"
"We aren't
going back to
Africa, whites
eren't going
back to
Europe. Our
home is
in America.
We have to
make this
work. "
"M ybe e really will over­
come," aid Helen Broussard,
who w among the joyous
Blacks gathered outside the
Antioch Baptist Church. "I feel
better about this country than I
have in a long time. "
"ITHINK THA T what hap­
pened is that the coalition all
carne together - Black and
white, Republicans and Demo­
crats, uptown and downtown,"
said state Rep. Sherman Copelin,
who is Black. "We were able to
take the cover off David Duke
and see that the guy in the suit
was the same as the guy in the
sheet."
During the cempaign, DUke,
41, distanced himself from his
KKK and neo-Nazi past But
detrac10rS said his message of
protecting the rights of whites,
turning back affirmative action
and reforming welfare was "ra­
cially coded."
Unofficial returns gave
Edwards 61 percent to Duke's 39
percent.
Both 'candidates estimated
Duke received up to 55 percent
of the white vote. Edwards got
96 percent of the black vote.
"I don't think that the white
people are in love with black
people," said the Rev. Zebadee
Bridges, president of the politi­
cal .-m of the Interdenomina­
tional Association of Black Min­
isters.
"IT'S JUST THAT they
know they h ve too much to lose
with Duke," Bridges said. "White
or Black, people aren't stupid.
We know we need jobs and a
better economy, and aside from
everything else, we know Duke
can't get us that."
Duke's defeat is good for
everyone in the state, not just
blacks, said the Rev. Moses Gor-
of the Fellowship M' ion­
ary Baptist Church. He said his
800-member, upper-middle­
class congregation sh many
of the concerns of whites - the
economy, taxes, crime.
For whatev reason, people
. in this country h ve got to figure
we rise or fall together," Gordon
id, "We aren't going back to
Africa, whit aren't going b k
to Europe. Our home is in
Americ We have to make this
werle."
WORLD AND NATION
By nNA SUSMAN
ociate.d Press Writer
ALEXA DRA. South Africa (AP)­
Mayoc David Dinkins of N w York
urged tate and local govemm nts
Wednesday to maintain sanctions
against South Africa, saying it w
a "grave mistake" for Pr id nt
Bush to lift them.
"We ought to be ... concerned
with the only pi ce of legalized
white suprem y in the w rld,"
Dinkins told reporters trailing him
through the muddy streets of
Alexandra. "It is immoral."
The black township in north­
ernJ ohannesburg was the focus of
Dinkins' second day in South Af­
rica. He visited a clinic, a primary
school and a small ston house
where 17 people were killed in a
recent massacre. Alexandra has
been particularly hard-hit by po­
litical clashes involving support­
ers of rival black groups. At the
door of the now-abandoned house, .
Dinkins led a moment of silence
for the victims.
tional C ngr • th main Black op­
position group. Dinkins has made no
attempt to hid hi political leanings,
cloaking him If in the ANC colors
of green, gold.and black both lit r­
ally and figuratively.
, A HIS 17-CAR motorcade
crawled through Alexandra's narrow
dirt ro ds, Dinkins jumped out of a
white Mercedes and let an elderly
woman wrap a green, gold and black
blanket around him.
Earlier, Dinkins told a breakfast
. m ting of business leaders h sup­
ported the ANC' call for continued
economic sanctions against the coun­
try.
"If (ANC Pre ident) Nelson
Mandela says we still need sanc­
tions, I'm going to fight for them,"
Dinkins said.
Referring to Bush's lifting of sanc­
tions inJuly to reward President F.W.
de Klerk' political reform ,Dinkins
said: "I believe that this was a grave
mistake, because I object to the per­
spective that the (South African) re-
HE LATER ATTENDED a
reception in his honor at the resi­
dence of U.S. Ambassador Wil­
liam Swing in Pretoria, north of
Johannesburg.
Dinkins had hoped to meet
Wednesday with Constitutional
Development Minister Gerrit
Viljoen, who is acting president
while President F.W. de Klerk is
overseas: But V iljoen's office said
nothing had been formally ar- .
ranged, and Dinkins did not see
the minister.
Dinkins, whose city-has a pow­
erful black constituency, is here at
the invitation of the African Na-
ay
•
ml
ak
gime h om how earned th lift-
ing of anctions."
"I can guarant ... that New
York City will continu to lead in
th truggle to pr rve economic
anctions, and that we will not
rei nt," he added.
De pite the lifting of U.S. gov­
ernment anctions, many tares and
citie , including New York, have
th ir own anction laws.
Ironically, at least three m m­
her ofD nkins'd legation U.S.
busin srnen investigatingthepos­
ibility of doing business in South
Africa.
L Dunham, president of the
McDonald' Group in Harlem, said
if both the South African govern­
ment and ANC agreed to it,
McDonald' would like to open
fast-food restaurants in the coun­
try.
In Alexandra, Dinkins held his
fi tupintheANC aluteasagroup
of township residents sang a hymn
to honor slain ANC members.
At the township primary
school, Dinkin handed out used
textbooks that were donated from
New York. "Got any physics stu- '
d nts down there? Anybody know
algebra?" the mayor shouted as
hundreds of black children
crowded around the truck contain­
ing the books.
DlNKlNSALSO gavethechil­
dren pens inscribed with his name
and official title. They were treats
for township pupils whose schools
often lack basics such as books and
even de ks,
"Come to New York," one of
Dinkins' aides shouted to the chil­
dren. "Oh no," a little girl replied.
,IWe have no money."
Tutu: D��ke candidacy
making racism re pectable
By BRUCE SMITH
Associated Press Writer
not treat it lightly," said the Nobel
Prize-winning prelate. "He is a smart
politician in that he has touched raw
nerve ends."
CHARJ...ESI'O ,S.C. (AP) - South
African Archbishop Desmond Tutu
likened Louisiana gubernatorial can­
didate David Duke to Adolph Hitler,
saying both made their play during
a time of economic hardship.
THE ANGLI AN archbi hop
poke during a n w conference at
th Fortune 500 Forum. The event
has brought together business le�d-'
e from acro th nation for a eri
of me ting as well speeches by
top administration officials. Tutu
plans to peak again in the state on
Dec.18wh nhed livers the Univer-
ity of South Colina' graduation
commencement ddres.
Pre ident Bush addr d the
group via closed-circuit television
THE CANDID CY of Duke, a
former Ku Klux Klan leader, "seems
to be making racism r peetable,"
Tutu said. That the Republican could
become governor "is very distr
mg indeed."
"It is racism that h led to things
like the Holocaust. And people must
earlier Friday.
Duke and former Gov. Edwin
Edwards were in a runoff today for
governor of Louisiana. Tutu aidthe
Duke candidacy is "a d commen­
tary on how long it has taken a oci-
Racism· •••• people mu t
.not treat it lightly."
African-American gr�up
seeks halt to race-baltlnq
t n tio ,
go itwouldm
tify AIDS victim
do nothing for them.
UGAND 0 Eofthe best,
m open AIDS control program in
Afric . PI cards urging x
found everywh , and condoms are
distributed fr ly.
Nevertheles , it i one of the
worst-hit nations. Somevill g have
lost almo t half their population to
AIDS, oft n leaving ju t the old and
the young.
"There's not much w can do,"
By LARRY A. STILL
WASHl oro .DC-Dr.Jame
E. Cheek, retired Howard Univer-
itypresidentwhoconvincedPre i-'
dent George Bush to cease federal
government opposition to Mi is­
sippi' Black colleg , called for a
new National Organization of Af­
rican Americans to eliminate r ce
baiting in politics and education.
In addition to planned meet­
ings with officials of both major
political partie and President
Bush, Dr. Ch k aid th NOAA
"will seek to improve communica­
tions and relations b tween Black
Republicans and Black Democrats"
as a follow-up to the clash between
theses groups over the U.S. Senate
confirmation of Judge Clarence
Thomas to the SUJ)f1 me Court.
CLEEK SAID he did not think
thatJ ustice Thomas should recluse
himself from the current Missi -
sippi desegregation case which
some experts consider as impor­
tant as the original Brown vs the
Kansas City (KS) Board of Educa-
. tion in 1954. "I would think that
Justice Th mas would want to use
hi experience and experti in this
case," Cheek aid.
As chairman-of th Pr ident'
Board of Advisors to the White
House Initiative on Hi torically
Black Colleg and Universities
(HBCUs), Dr. Ch ek met with
President Bush on th Avery vs.
Mabus Mis i ippi case and urged
him to change the U.S. position by
having the Justice Department file
a brief in support of increased fund-
AIDSh been
h ned in Afric by war d fam­
in . Doctors y the h voc caused by
civil wars in Uganda, Angola and
Mozambiqu helped AIDS
i ty broke down.
"On cannot but note how often
in Africa AIDS appears to feed on
w and civil strife," :dR.W.John­
son, a South African writer on AIDS.
THE ECONOMIES of many
African nation , already poor, face
wr nching damage as AIDS prima­
rily strikes down men and women in
th prime of life who are the main
breadwinners.
"ety to normalize relations between
ethnic groups."
He added Afro-Americans "may
unfortunately be more embittered"
by the way they are tr red by their
society than e bl c in South Af­
ric .
Inthe United States.be aid, whil
equality is the law "the reality 1
otherwi ."
"J1t y tend to be discriminated
against, even when the law y dif­
ferently," he aid. "Why we may
have been I bitter at hom i that
we knew that the 1 w ay you are
being treated an inf rior being."
ing to equalize historically Black
institutions.
"If any college should beclosed
it ought to be the University of
Missi ippi"hedeclaredbeforethe
capital media the c!ay before the
high court hearings began.
No HBCU has refused to admit
white students, Cheek declared.
IN CALLING a sudden press
conference in Washington last
week, the former university presi­
dent al· 0 announced plans for con­
vening another national American
agenda that transcends partisan
politic and philosophical and or­
ganizational differences."
The new NOAA would not seek
to be competitive with other na­
tional African American organi­
zations such as the NAACP and
the National Urban League as it
moves to increase the input of Af­
rican-American educators in the
development and implementation
of the nation' new educational
initiatives, Cheek emphasized.
"It will be a grass-roots organi­
zation with representation from all
sectors of the Black community,
including intellectuals," he de­
clared at one point.
THE NOAA OVERALL
goals are the elimination of race­
baiting in the 1992 presidential
campaigns and other elections;
pre rvation and enhancement of
historically Black colleges and
universities (public and private)
and improvement of communica­
tions and rei tions between diverse
group of African-Americans.
winning becomes theob ession, then
. we mu t not be surprised at the epi­
d mic of scandals, plaguing public
life and the private sector."
"YOU ARE powerful business
people. You can make this world a
better place where business deci­
ions and m thods take into ccount
right and wrong well profitabil­
ity," Tutu aid.
"Your decisions effect people
who are of infinite worth because
they are created in the image of God.
Do you want to help God achieve his
dream or will you settle for the im­
mediate, temporwy but 1 good?"
h ked.
I REMARKS to th execu­
tives, Tutu aid h w concerned
capitalism i encouraging of
human n ture which hould not be
encouraged.
"My impression is that great store
is t by competitiven ,by uc­
ces , by winning," he aid. "When