VOL XIV NO 1 R MARCH 22 - 2R 1992
Acorn pressures
banks to invest
in Detroit - PAGE A3
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dl crimination:
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By N HrrT
"Discrimination is
IICrilll_�n I d' crimination."
Those are the words of John Roy
Castillo, director of the Department
of Qvil Rights, when ed about
"reverse discrimination."
"There i no uch thing reve
discriminati�n," he aid. "Can a
white person be di criminated
agaimt? The answer i yes."
• Df crimination is often as­
• oclated in '_ the public mind with
·Blacks and women. When a white
:man believes he is rejected from a
ob opportunity because of an at­
:tempt to meet a quota, he sometimes
·calls this reverse discrimination.
·
t _
JIM HORN, director of public
: relations for Civil Rights, aid that
:whites complain about the same
:things as most Blacks or women
.do-being denied access to a job to
:8 job because of the color of their
:skin or gender.
· In the flscal year of 1992, 33.7
:percent of discrimination complaints
· filed to Civil Rights were filed by
. :white .
"Reverse discrimination does not
:exist," Horn said. "Whites and
:Blacks are victims. The reality of it
· is the law allows anyone to file a
: discrimination complaint."
Employers and administrators
need to look at the total work force
: to achieve a balanced representation
: of their community, Hom said.
. Timetable and percentage
·analyses that clearly reflect com­
.munities would be a step in the right
: direction.
See DISCRIMINATE, A10
Dr. Lenora Ful ni, 41, d not
expect to occupy the Whi Ho e
next year, although b ' prep red to
implement her pIa for revi ed
democratic y tem if th t happe .
Her run for pre idem, howev r, i
more an awarene crusade than an
election campaign.
"I am doing omething that's
critical and important for th Blac
community," aid Ful ni, Harlem
developmental P ycholo . t with a
private counseling p nee. "My
main goal is building a third party so
that the people in the community
have a voice. At this point, we don't
h ve that in the Democratic or
Republican parti . It' a c de for
boau wa wrongfully targ
d.
more democracy in this country."
FuJani comm nted on the current
anti-incumbent entiment in the
U.S., whi h is causing more voters to
reconsider ch ing th arne in­
dividual e ch election, and to look
for new candidates with new agen­
das. She aid that thi i opening the
door for a new party, wh e m m­
bers are not Obligated by their 1-
Hance with lobbyi ts, corporations or
the rich.·
S
FULANI, 'A 10
ACcond
frican vo
the black majority.
"Our demand is that the interim
government must be introduced this
year and we think that i p ible,"
Mandela told a pres conference.
S � VOTE, Oage A-10
Proeecutcrrules mental patient kilUng, ju tifiable
pointing the guns at Kyle, woo con­
tinued coming at the officers wing­
ing the cl ub at "wai t level and
above." _
The fficers retreated the I ngth
of the quad car a Kyle kept com­
ing toward them," wingin the
weapon wildly." .
H truck Officer Fetke on the
right hand. Fetke wa holding hi
weapon in a two-handed tance
aimed at Kyle.
Both officers c ntinued to tell
Kyles to put down th club. Kyle
S e, KILLINGS, Page A-10
• •
)01
yLEAH UEL
wrWrllw
"It' so contradictory for the U.S.
to force Angola to have multiparty
el year,
electlo in United
re are th other p r
Cb�j charged the "current
two-party political monopoly" ith
keeping independent candldates of
local and national baJlots and
cultivating public di trust in other
parties or candidates. .
"The media has been turned
See CHAVIS, A10
.:lIJ"' ............ � WILLIAM: "No,
everything change. I think
violence come from f4mily
bac ground."
"I don't ee any candidate, of
now, that really d rves the support
of the progres Ive sector of thi
societ "he' .aee
commurucated to the front-rcane
becau C I tbeirs a tendency to
alway take the AfrlC:8ll-American
vote, and therefore the progressive
vote, for granted. We often end up
voting for the lesser of two evils. "
Q.
Do you
think rap
mu ic
promote
violence?
"Tbel't needs to be a real third
political force in the Uni s
Nnerica," . d Rev. Ben Chavis at a
recent conference.
Chavis, executive director of the
United Church of Christ
Commi ion for Racial Justice said
that the CUITCnt pool of presidential
candidates does not represent th
ideals of the Black communi ty or the
progressive movement.
mGHLY CRITICAL of the
U.S. government's policies and
practices toward African countries
m
CAPE TOWN, AZANlA--
The Pan Africanist Congress
(P AC)of Azania condemned the all­
white referendum held Tuesday,
calling it an "obscenity."
"It is absurd that 3 million white
voters can decide the future of 30
miilion Africans," said the PAC in a
statement released the day after the
vote.
"The stark choice that the op­
pressed African masses faced in this
unacceptable racist referendum was
a combination of two evils: a return
to jack boot apartheid or co-option of
Blacks into a white admini tration."
PAC has accused the ruling Na­
tional Party of concluding a power­
sharing deal with the ANC at
COpESA, "the effect of which is the
postponement of majority rule for
the rest of the nineties," PAC offi­
cials said following the vote.
The view was echoed by white
backers of the yes vote in South
Africa, who were interviewed on
Canadian television following the
vote.
Most interviewed agreed the'
apartheid government had bought a
decade's worth of time to phase in
reforms while at the arne time creat­
ing an atmosphere to attract foreign
investment and remove the remain­
ing anctions.
interim government that would over­
ee the dismantling of partheid.
The president of the African Na­
tional Congress aid the president
must capitalize on the mandate he
won from white voters �hi week and
move quickly to share power with
NOW WE CAN have cricket
matche and music concerts again,
said one white South African com­
menting on the elections.
Meanwhile, Nelon Mandela
called on Pre ident F.W. de Klerk
Thursday to establi h thi year an
Johnny Lee Kyles, the late t vic­
tim, was 26 years-old, a mental
patient armed with a club when he
was shot once in the abdomen with a
9 mm gun by a Benton Township
police officer on a Saturday morn­
ing.
According to Prosecutor Dennis
Wiley, the police stopped Kyles after
they received a report of attempted
shoplifting at Meijer's Thrifty
Acres.
vehicle and then immediately wung'
the driver'S side door open and ex­
ited the vehicle carrying with him a
gray colored club approximately
three to four feet in length," Wiley
reported. The club also had 14 nail
protruding from one end of the club,
Two officers, Deputy John Hop­
kins and Officer Vincent Fetke, got
out of their squad car at the ame
time.
They say Kyle began swinging
the club at the officers aying, "I
have omething for you."
Each officer pulled hi revolver,
By TERRY KELLY
BENTON HARBOR -Berrien
County is the Killing Fields of
Michigan. There i a growing Ii t of
African American males shot dead
by the police in this outhwest
Michigan county only to be excused
by a prosecutor's ruling of "justifi­
able. "
James Hardy Jr., Norris Mabens,
and now Johhny Lee Kyles. Th list
grow of unarmed African men hot '
dead by white police officers only to
be excused by the county prosecutor
ruling "justifiable homicide."
KYLES "L ED over to the
right front p�s enger eat of the
DAlEfHA GREEN: "It is
how you listen to it. In my neigh­
borhood music is not the reason
for violence. Although I do not let
my kids li ten to rap."
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