ity th t no mount
n cure.
ve yet to feel n d to
p on another el ood bout
being Bl c. Rep tion would
only e our ic . Can you
imagine if th government decided
to p y rep ration mounting to
$100,000 doll r family; you
ould prob bly have more Cadill cs
d Merced -Benzs than you could
handle in the BI c community.
Ten years later we would be b c
t the governments door, ying how
the amount Hoc ted was not a
UtBcient amount of reparations for
four hundred years of suffering.
This ct would only ensconce our
place in the world the "helpless"
OULJAH
'd be re
rumo th t there ouldn' t be a
grad tion, but continued pI
the ceremony.
"I'm me orde came down to
me that we were not going to have
grad tion, from the School Board.
It h d to be School Board ruling, or
we would've bad one," Smith aid.
"I t W' omething over which I had
no control, or the studen d no
control. It was omething done by
th School Board." Charle Allen,
a lifelong arion resident and
bu inessm n, ay he doe n't
remember anything bout the
incident, although he was School
Board pre ident t the time. Gerald
Cole, who w uperintendent in
1970, died.
"I W I ORMED by the
board and I don't know whether
Allen himself called me or not,"
Smith aid. "I'm not going to put
him on the spot"
Allen ay, "I didn't even know
they didn't have one."
Graduations were held at every
other integrated school in the parish
that year. Lee and Alice HOlley,
another Blac Marion graduate, said
Black students began planning a
.__------------------------,. separate ceremony for the Marion
Baptist Church after graduation was
canceled.
, But parents planning the
ceremony were nervous when
anonymous telephone callers
threatened to bomb the church, so the
ceremony was called off, Alice
Holley said.
"That was the only thing we
thought we could reasonably do,
then we were robbed of that also,"
Alice liolley said. She i now a
teacher in Union Parish,
Twenty-two years have dimmed the
memories, but not the ense of 10 •
Lee said she has forgiven, but can
never forget
contlnu d from A
Congratul tions to M rgu rite
Morehe d ... She' now a "Golden
Sorror of AKA." Fifty years ago
he became a member of the
orority wh n he was reporter for
The Ivy Leaf and, treasurer of
Tamioca t Tennessee State
University ...
p
1
"OU LETDO W wh n
we had to leave our chool. Most of
us had already cried and gotten over
the ad part. We'd already 10 t our
chool.'
Althougb Andre s aid be
doe n't remember the details of wby
graduation w called off, be know
the bottom line.
"This was the first time that
Black and wbites would have
walked down the aisle and graduated
together, and there was a lot of
feeling among the community that
they just didn't want to do that,"
Andrew said. "Rather than Blacks
and whites graduating together, they
Contlnu d from Pag A·1
"Bill Cinton will not fight in
the war, but be as president would
send Black men to fight in the same
war he wouldn't fight in. That's
racism."
Asked whether she was a racist,
the rap inger said: "I don't think
Black people have the power to be
racist."
.JJiM�A�� WAS defe
"Today" by Rep. Mike Espy, a
Black accommod tionist con­
m Mi issi , bo
said: "I know that as a governor he
has been absolutely perfect, j t
about perfect, on racial issues."
"He's bad a great record in
ArlraD$3$ of promotions of Black
men and oman to prestigious
po itions,' said Espy. "There's no
hit of racism anywbere in his his­
tory or in his record."
The record, bowever shows that
ArbD$8S is ODe of the few states
without a civil rights law.
CLINTON ONLY recently
resigned from a country' club that
excludes African Americans.
Clinton bas also presided over
the executions of 11 prisoners
during his term as governor. The
most recent execution took place
eadier this year and resulted in the
death of a mentally impaired
African American. .
Clinton voiced his criticism of
Souljah at a conference sponsored
by Jackson's Rainbow Coalition,
insulting his hosts and invoking
Jackson's anger.
·"Bill Clinton lacks integrity,
and paints himself as a staunCh
patriot, a people's servant, a com­
passionate liberal, a family man, a
pro-woman 'candidate:' Souljah
said at a news conference Tuesday.
"He lacks integrity in all of those
areas.' •
Clinton, speaking Tuesday in
Santa Monica, Calif., said
Souljah's. personal attack missed
the point f
"That's what's wrong with this
country, personalizing �ve�g
instead of discussing was it right or
w it wrong ....
All I can tell you is that I said
what I believed and a number of
Blacks have called me to say that
they agree," he said.
. Clinton, who bas never talked
with the young activist, has taken
on Souljah as his 'Willie Horton.
The attack on Souljah was an ef­
fort by Clinton to show white subur­
banites, who have gone to Reagan and
Bush in recent elections, that he has
"courage".
Clinton's attack came over an in­
terview Souljah gave to The
Washington Post
The Po t quoted her as saying, "If
Black people kill Black people every
j day, why not have a week and kill
white people?"
apper iter
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ang and rap
�NOTON (AP) - Here are excerpts from rapper Sister
SoulJah's May 13, 1992 interview with The Washington Post, some
of which prompted criticism over the weekend from Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Cinton. Her comments were made shortly
after the Los Angeles riots:
, ••• .1 mean, if Black people kill Black people every day, why not
have a week and kill white people? You understand what I'm saying?'
In other words, white people, this government and that mayor were
well aware of the fact that Black people were dying every day in Los
Angeles under gang violence. So if you're a gang member and you
would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?
"00 you think that somebody thinks that white people are better, or
above dying, when they would kill their own kind?
" ... When it was really understood that rap music makes millions
of dollars, and that rap artists represent the voices of millions of young
people, I think that's when all the institutions of America came to their
senses about having to involve a rap artist in their analysis. (With) a
rebellion carried out primarily by African youth, how could you
ignore African youth?
" ... Well, I don't make my work for you to interpret it. I make it
for Black young people so that they can understand that we are at war,
that we have to be strong-minded, that we have to be productive, that
we have to be unafraid of expressing ourselves and getting what we
want in this society ... "
SOUWAB SAID the remarks
came in answer to a question about
the mindset of a gang member before
the Los Angeles riot She explained
she was attempting to show the inter­
viewer that when murder becomes a
casual affair for inner city youth, they
don't care wbo they kill.
"If young people have the mindset
to kill grandmothers, babies, each
other, what makes you think they care
who they kill?" she said.
White America, politicians espe­
cially, have ignored the deaths of
Blacks in the inner ci ty for years,
Souljah said.
But when whites come under the
gun, the public gets concerned. She
posed the question to America, if
Blacks, then why not whites?
Souljah, a Bronx native, said she
was no fan of Clinton before he made
. his remarks. '
� A PRESS conference held
Tuesday, Souljab said, 'Clinton
made a critical error wben he attack­
ed me. I am not Murpby Brown. J am
ready to defend myself."
Souljah went on to attack Clinton
as a draft-dodging, pot-smoking
womanizer who h8s failed to address
the issues in this campaign.
"BILL CLINTON says be is not
a racist, but he tries to distance him­
self from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a
candidate who has registered more
voters than Bill Clinton," sbe said.
"Rev Jackson was the obvious
choice for the vice presidential slot
But they have invented the Sister
Souljah crisis to avoid giving a Black
man a powerful position that he bas
earned," she said. "Bill Clinton
lacks integri ty, and paints himself as
a stauncb patriot, a people's servant,
a compassionate liberal, a family
man, a pro-woman candidate .... He
lacks integri ty in all of those areas,"
she said.
Clinton, responding in Los An­
geles to Souljah's comments,
rejected her suggestions that his
remarks were racially motivated,
saying, "That is absolutely wrong. I
grew up in a segregated society and I
have devoted my public life to trying
to overcome feelings of prejudice.
That is what I have lived for, that is
what I have worked for and that is
-wbat I have dedicated this campaign
to."
THE RAPPER, accompanied
by supporters including Ras Baraka
and hip-hop star Doug E. Fresh, com­
pared herself to a pivotal figure in the
1988 presidential campaign-Willie
Horton.
"Sister Souljah was used as a
vehicle, like Willie Horton and
various other Black victims of
racism. A poor excuse for an agenda­
less candidate," said Souljah, who
suggested the move was made to
keep Jackson off the Democratic
ticket
j t ouldn't
idn't."
o . 0
y
1
progre ive
environment •
She i particularly impressed by
Daniel choice of vice president, a
native Americ n woman named
Afiba Tupahache.
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