NAACR responds
: A panel of local rep ntadves
trom civil rigb organizatio met
last Sunday at the general m mber­
, hip meed 0 the Detroit B ncb
NAACP in re po e to recent
petroit serf, "Who Spea
r Blae America?"
: A10n ith local leaders, the
orum included videotaped respon-
• e from national he d of the
" AAC , the Urban Leagu , the
Southern Chri ti n Leadership Con­
ference (SCLC) and the Congre
n Racial Equality (CORE),
: "It unfair for people to llow the
dia to decide for them what our
organizations ought to be," id Johri �
: cob, pre ident of the National
I rban League. "The Detroit e
� uld have done more digging."
: :. "It's rather pathetic that the white
� cove the Blac community so
� -poorly, that in order to do an in«pth
ry they have to start from scratch.
try to do in two years what y
uld have been doing all along,"
id NAACP National Pre ident
�amIn Hooks.
"It' • de fa attempt 10 create
confusion and di rd in the Bl c
comm�ty," .be added.
Dr. Kathl n Smith, II .on to th
(Photo by L h Samu I)
"It' w te under th
worry bout 0
children in thi
be -polnted traigbt d, " d
Ineal Chambers, princip I of
Detroit' Foreign Langu e
Immer ion chool, ho ed in
form r Breitmeyer Elementary.
"Paren already have the right
go 1 in mind, but they
that the right p not in
place to meet the goal ," she
added. "That' what this plan .
for."
r
new
rmed
to t e pI n,
individu I chool, wi th the
cooper tion of parent, re to
develop "empowerment operating
agreem n "to be ubmi tted to the
cbool ' Are office. The e
agreement ill determine
governan t the local chool .
c
plan .
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and the crimina receive more effec­
tive rehabilitation, Rep. Qack aid,
a spoke woman from tbe Depart­
ment of Correction' om 0 media
and vemmental affairs.
Michigan has the hJghe t incar­
ceration ra in the Mldwe t, he
said.
In 1990, for every 276 Michigan
residen ,one's a prisoner.
Of the nearly 4,000 pri one in
the tate, nearly a third are erving
ntences of two years or I , he
id.
About 3,000 offenders are in­
volved in community correction
programs tewide, Schrantz id.
He expec 2,000 more be in­
volved ·thin the xt three mon •
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gambling
help our .
. city?
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ByEAIC DICK
during the mid 198CB.
Rep. CI k, vice chairman of the
House Corrections Committee, id
that in 1984 the Republican men­
tality w "let' get tough, let' lock
'em up." The Legi Iature h I
learned that p . on sentences are 't
necessarily t for the criminals, be
id.
oft
viol
nc
ke' of the
y line are
"It's not political game
nymore," ep. Floyd Clac D­
t, id, referring to the differing
rehabilitation ideologies be n the
Republicans and the Democrats
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In fiscal 1989, commu u�t-
vision programs cost an average ()f
69 percent Ie per offender
tate prison time, aid Ann c:n.ta,
public information officer for th of­
fice of community correctio .
. co
fa aid. orty- ur
o boa have developed locally
operated corrections programs for
non-violent offenders who would
otherwi e be in tate prisons or local
Jails, he said.
With. community correction
programs, the taxpayers save money
(photo by Slmt. JehI)
dealers didn't appreciate the march
and they were offended.
"They were suppose to be
off�ndcd," Kenyaua said.
Kenyatt' lO-point plan to
eliminate drugs and violence:
- Board up v cant houses
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"Red Alert, Save The Babies"
read the flyers p ed out �ril 13
at an ti-drug,
anti-Black-On-Black crime'
midnight march organized by
Kwame Kenyatta, Detroit
coordinator of the New Afrikan
People Party.
"It was not a confrontational
march, " said Kenyatta, who is also
.a candidate for an at-large seat on
the .Detroit' Board Of Education.
"We were just speaking out against
fear and elf-destruction (of the
African-American community)."
Saying that the "streets have
been urrendered" to the drug
dealers who bring cocaine and
violence to their communities,
Keny tta said more than 100
marchers strolled from the
Malcolm X Center, located on
Dexter and Tyler, throughout the
crack-infested neighborhoods
carrying signs and chanting. JUST BEFORE the march
"It was cold, it was late, but the. began, a message was conveyed to
Kenyatta saying that the drug
'Red Alert' m rch to ..
/-
hour (to do omethina) is late,"
Kenyatta said.," ere able to
talk to the e on the streets."
ell openly expressed
. opJ'OSi tion to the marchers.
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ConwtpOpdfnt
HIOHLAND PARK - Dr, Mic el
Opipari, Acting Admini trator 0
Detroit Osteopathic HOIpital (DOH)
denied rumoll that the pita! w
considering leaving Highland Park,
but admitted that "U many boa -
tala in tbe inoer city " it' (: in
rious problem which could ca
this to happen some day.
One of the [or problems' 11
h pital are ciog' Ie relmbur­
ment from the tate and federal
government he 1<1, because of cut
backs.
DOH i one of three pi in
the Horizon He lth Sy terns, w.here
Opipan erv as Vice President of
the Chief Medical Office.
He ay there n agreement that
no one h pital in the group can t
into 8 financial ituation that jeop­
ardlze the other two.
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