n
th t he a" hootin
B OW W joined at the
ceremony by a former Democratic
rival, U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey of
eb , who agreed to attend the
event hen be w a presidential
candidate and kept hi word even
fter dropping out of the ce t
week. Kerrey brought along his 0
children, Ben and lindsey.
"Both children were free this
weekend and I wanted to come down
here a family," be said. "This
not only a peoonal and political mo
ment, but a family moment"
Kerrey, who bas not endorsed
any of the other Democrats, turned
his wrath on the Republicans, bl t
ing Pat BucltaMD for a toting a gun
at a recent campaign appearance and
ere
by local pollee, m&l:che
church the Vo Museum
everal bloc
riverfronL r in for
dedication ceremony, everyone
linked aDd the
brid , cbllDtiIlg S1IODlDS
piritual
They marking the March 7,
1965, ttcmpt to the Edmund
Pettus bridge, hich was dubbed
"Bloody Sund s" for the injuries
marche received at the hands of
tate troopers.
Following nationwide coverage
of the mauling, King and thousands
more joined the protest President
John on feder lized National
Guardsmen, who protected the mar
cbers they made it to Montgomery
two ee Iter.
Later that same year, the Voting
Righ Act w igned into law.
TRASH-
continued from Pag 1
districts lie.·
SAUNDERS SAID that the in
tention of the Black Caucus in creat
ing more distric is not to get more
legislation but to give minorities the
opportunity to elect a candidates of
choice.
R nto 1lc
Co ultama, Inc., cxplalDcd
minority ctistridS most
ly co priled of Blac ,because the
Hllpamcs do not make up anyone
jurisdiction. "It is not humanly pos
sible for HispaniCS to have their own
districts, although each group is en
dtled to their own district," Ruff
said.
New districts have to be created
every 10 years to reflect any shift that
might have occurred in the popula
tion. The .plan does not change the
total number of districts 110 districts
in the House and 38 districts in the
Senate.
When both political partie sub
mitted their plan to thCJ Legislature,
tbey had considerably more minority
districts. The Republican party had
created 17 minority-controlled
House seats, while the Democrats'
. plan created 15 seats in the House. .
"This has led some people to sug
gest that the court didn't do their
job,," Ruff said. He said that the
court panel packed the minorities
into smaller districts with more
minorities in each district ..
IT IS NOT only the Democrats
who find the redistricting plan
violating voters' rights; Republicans
can see some lawsuits in the near
future if the Supreme Court does not
change the plan said Jack Mowat,
executive director of the Michigan
Republican Party.
He said that when Republicans
drew up their version, they paid "so
called experts" to make sure the
plans dhered to the VRA, which
disallowed tbe packing of districts
and made Ute the ratio w equal to
the number of minorities in the
population. The Republicans tried
to eliminate any challenge that
could arise, which led to the large
number of minority distric .
He disappointed to find the
co not dhere to the VRA
standard while the Republicans .
paid attention to them.
The bcari are oow in process
and the Supreme Court is expected
to rule soon on the final decision.
"They could decide to adopt the
plan, modify it or send it back to the
court panel for them to modify it
Anything can happen," aid Tom
Farrell, spokesperson for the
�chigan Supreme Court.
THE FIRST DAY of hearings
included comments from 17 dif
ferent speakers, including party at
torneys, legislators, representative of
Mayor Coleman Young and others.
Whatever the judges decide, they
are not happy about having to make
this decision. Farrell said that the
Supreme Court doe not want to
choose a plan because they feel ill
equipped in making that decision
wi thout the proper resources and
time.
Chief Justice Michael F.
Cavanagh showed his discontent for .
this hearing when he said that the
courts urged government 10 years
ago to take care of the issue before it
became close to the deadline.
Many legislators hope that the
Supreme Court will clear up the con
fusion for minorities and the Legis
lature on just where the future
districts will be.
I
EAST LANSING, . .- Blac
voter turnout in Michigan' primary
likel Y will be lower than in 1988, a
Michigan State Unive ity profes or
aid last Wedne day, largely be
cause the candidates are avoiding is
• ues that directly affect the Blac
population.
"Blacks re still concerned about
issue of inequality on the b i of
race, the whole i ue of civil rights
that George B h w ically op
posed to, the quota issue and 0
forth, " said Joe Darden, MSU Dean
ofU rban Affairs and co-author of the
annual State of Blac Michigan
report
None of the candidates are ad
dressing those matters, be said, and
"nobody's dealing with the con
tinuous poverty in inner cities.
There's no national urban policy and
no candidate bas come up With one."
"It (Black tumout) will be lower
than what it when J Jackson
was in the race four years ago," he
said, "and I don't think that BI cks
will reall y come out in large numbers
this. time beca e primarily the can
didates have not really spoken to the
issues that impact Blacks directly."
Both 1PCI£1'I
tbcpro
come I
to ght m In
apaJrtbeid ab d.
"We need to build a ment In
country that more integrity:
id Chavis. ·We m t y no to
\ I Y every form, of inju lice and
wrongdoing. There. but one trug
gle and that' between the forces of
opp ion and the forces of libera
tion, between the forces of exploi -
tion and those that would eliminate
exploitation.
o
,
•
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Darden said he expected m t
Blac to support Bill ClintoJi' can
didacy.
"Blacks will prob bly continue to
support Clinton in larger numbers
than the other candidates ..• because
Clinton has been much more com
fortable basically interacting with
Blacks," Darden said. ·As a result of
that, I think the Blac will vote for
Clinton, but even as far as Cinton is
concerned, the Black vote on't be
as high as Clinton would like."
The outcome of Michigan's
primary will be a kind of barometer,
Darden said, since the tate "is basi
cally a kind of miaocosm in the
sense that the percentage of Blae
in Michigan pretty much reflects the
percentage of Blac elsewhere. "
How Michigan Blacks vote next
Tuesday, he said, will depend on
what the candidates say during the
days leading up to the primary.
"I think that depending on how
the candidates really address the . -
sues when they arrive in Michigan
will determine the voter turnout
among the Black population," he
said.
allo
. Contlnu d from P a 1
from, "Vo Your Ho Yo
Fears," to us p F.W."
But in S eto and olber B1ac
, here the ballot ou
of reach, many people seem p�
cupled struggling with day-fo.da
proble that domina1e their li .
Blac factional fighting con-:
tinues to plague So eto. :
The political sentiment 0 man
young Blacb evident in gram
that says, uOneSeUler,OneBullet,'
a reference to the whites d an ex�
pression of anser that Bl are sm,;
deprived of a one-man, one-vo1e ,..;
te:m.
Of more than 20 Blacb in1er.
viewed Thursday, mo thad n
strong opinion on the referend
Several said they had never heard 0
the ballot
One young Black man ked if be"
ould be able to vote. "My �
worry il the violence," said V.S.
Mabuza, a taxi van driver. "W •
never � If we are going to see
tomorro ." •
But fello taxi driver Joseph
Fakude JUCdicted that if the whitea
turn down the referendum, tho:
violence will ptead to their neigh-;
l)oIboods.
Fakude d, "If the bites 'to
'yea,' then we can all work together.
If they vote '00,' then we will figbL
'!bat's how we will cast our vo "
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