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me thin
n
Francis ere Wei in • Dr. John
Henri Car (y e co ider him
a "Doctor"). Dr. Y f ben- Jochan­
DOn, Dr. Ivan V n Sertima, Chei
Anta Dlop. Chancellor Willi
and count] othe ho are e :
poUDdi our story rather than re- . -
Ormin hi lory(or"his ry" "be·
It).
AND Y , while Dr. Martin
Luther Kin& Jr. may have been more
pal table to middle-d (African
middle cl • t is) and lyle,
we also found El Hajj Mali Shabazz
- Malcolm X - j t lid and
just necessary to our ca .
In fact, it w Malcolm who cited
the incidence of a young Chinese girl
"pulling � trigger" on her "Uncle
Tom" father (ltM age to the G
Roo "11/10/63; Detroit, MI) the
Chinese were in the proce s of
liberatin themselves from foreign
and/or ideolo cal opp ion.
I Emerge, hich tarted out
a pretty good publication, in the role
of that ChiDCle father.
In thfJ day IDd age of continued
pollee brutality to ant Afri , un­
JUit court ruU apinst Africam,
governmental hostility toward
Africans, media bing of Africans
on a daily b is. and continuous .
overall d.iKreditina and devaluation
of an ncebyEuropean ,
bIIed and European-minded society
-:- your publication becomes too
dangero because it dds to the at­
temp of de- tabilization.
But, radio personality Bob Law
stated at a celebration for Dr. King
(paraphrasing): tbose ho have
• Md from
period oftbe'Siventh, Eighth. Ninth,
and Tenth Dynastie in Ancient
Egypf(2181 B.C.E. - 2040 B.C.E.)
to the present day are wondering
how we are still standing.
AND IF WE can survive "con­
�uoUlat1acb "from the outside" -
and deal with them - Africans can
surely dea1 with and survive the likes
ofEmerpMagaziM.
Mr. Ames. I have roughly a year
to SO on my sublcriptiqn, I will be
dOlely monitoring your "editorial'
behavior toward African people.
If you � DOt improve, I will be
forced in my duty to our people to
dlacourtge patronage of Emerge
MaJGZlM.
It been said, "If you're not
part of the solution, then you're pan
of � problem."
SlDcrely
, Chari Duke III,
P.S.I am encloslng a copy of this
leuer to my organization Commi nee
to Eliminate Media Offensive To
African People (CEMOT AP), as
well as selected African media
throughout the United States, in hope
lbat they will join me in the monitor­
'ngprocess.
EdlIor', note: Emerge is a white­
owned publication with an ·African
staf/targeted at tM lucrativeA/rican
AlMrlcan ruder,hip.
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percentage of minorities living in the
complexes.
The center. under the auspices of
the Department of HOUSing and
Urban Develop�nt, decided to test
comple_ run by the company after
recelvlna numerous complaints
about It aiace 1981. '
,From August 1990 to July 1991,
the center IOnt teams of Black and
white tell to 23 complexes owned
by the company. ,
Black telters often were told
apartments were unavailable, were
quoted more expensive'rental rates,
or were not given information about
rent apedall offered to white testers
the center found. ' ,
Sometimes they were shown only
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example. agents' at the Oaks at
, Jlampton in Rochester Hill told a
Black ter I t July 30 that there
were no vacancies. One day later the
white tester was told four or 'five
units were immediately available.
ooid t did not po
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