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exp '0 of colmX • lot
of people feel uncomfo ,
today million of person are
itin . am IDd candor.
Pre idential candidate Cinton
need to pologize for t king
Souljah's rem 'out a con xL
But more importantly, all the
candidate for President hould
Ii ten carefully to thi young woman
who has given voice to the voicel
and courage to the oppressed in'
America.
Sister Souljah' love created
a rare respect among the young and
the old of all a in the African
American community. Tbe future of
his ociety ill be determined by
how well we are ble to bear and
listen and love all those who dare to­
cry out for justice and freedom.
1\1 day, August 4 primary election day. Many people feel like
the more we vote, the worse things get
We've had African American pollticiam holding office for two
decades and yet jobl ness is higher, health fare sicker, education
worser, tramportation slower, drugs deadlier, jails more aowded.
Aparthied continues in South Africa, discrimination and racism abound
at bome,
What's the point? Wby wte?
Because there is no other wa), to impact the political process. Not to
vote is to guarantee things get till worse.
Too often, perhaps, we have voted for the wrong reeson: because we
went to school with the camidate, knew them when, or because they
talk a good game, are good-looking •..
The point is to vote' our agenda, our needs, our' ucs, aM not
personality. To do that requires time am energy studying the' ues
andcm1ida .
From school board to president of the United States, candi must
be mked specific questions about' ues the community needs ad­
dressed. If the candidate can offer no specific solutions, point no
. a J��y. do �t. cleaet\'C � W�
Study e sian were a
requirement to participating. in
recreational activities, Si ter
Souljah' ucces with the children
grew to the point of needing
e
Lat • 0 r youth cam nd
after school progr ms ere
org nized by SI ter Souljah to
benefit more children in •
yo thel gro in
York became interested aDd
upportive of Sister Souljah' e 0
to help inDer-city children ho were
ctying out for help. S· r Souljah
herself then became very dive in
the cvolvin rap re olution that
gaining upport from Incre ing
numbers ofjoungpeople throughout
the lion and odd.
Si ter Soulj h elf-defined
he If a "raptivist." Her tory
a an effective tudent and
community activi t and. le der
certainly gave her an edge in the "rap
arena" because ber m ges et to
rap are bani out of ctual struggle
and experience.
Sister Souljah is not a raci L Her
whole life has been a living
testimony to challenging raci m.
'. Reader ,t II
Emerge to
how,re pect
After much thought -
which included ending a
copy of thiS letter to your ad­
vertisers and the Media Plan­
ner, Aax)\mt Supervisor, and
Account Executive of your
advertisers' pecdve agen-
f' co d - I have
�'ttre1ft8'Wiilt'otily yo� 4 •• _,
,_, I�. tim DOW (per-'
haps the last 11/2 years) have
been displeased with Emerge
MagaziM. It seems that the
magazine has a "deatruct our
own" agenda, as issue after
i ue attempts to put down
our leaders, our beliefs, and
in some cases - our history:
� a "not so young" mem­
ber- ef the African middle
class (yes, we're all
Africans), allow me to let you
in on a "Uttle secret" that ap­
parendy you're mJaslDg the
point on. We may not all be '
Muslims. but we all Uaten to,
- and hold in higher regard
than you think- the
Honorable Minister Louis
Farrakhan. We lilten to­
and hold higher regard than
you think-Dr. Leonard Jef­
fries. We listen to and are -
on a whole - begJnning to
hold in higher regard than
you think - Rev. AI
Sharpton.
t We're reading - a d
grasping the ideologies,
beliefs, and findinp of-Dr.
� EMERGE, AIO
api al a chane
invention in 1884 wu animplOved
s teamboiler furnace. Next he
invented a telephone traDlmitter,
which he sold to the Bell
Telephone Company. Coming on
the �l of this an electric
incubator which began the base
idea for machines capable of
hatching 50,000 chicken eggs.
still in use today with tbeirnational
impact were sold to major
American firm like General
Electric, Westinghouse, and Bell
Telephone. The legacy of letting
loose the intellectual and
economic power of the African
American people will be a positive
for all Americans.
on't o .. ' .
Plans, a>lDftlitineht, a mon and 8 program cieselVe our vo�.
That means voters have to read, study aM be informed. What we
put into an election determines what we get out of an election.
Don't let your pestor bring a caOOidate ildO church on Sunday
morning Unless tbat' candidate offers a plan and a progmm am will
attend a forum where be will be Subject to questions on tillt plan and
programdo mOle. The preacher can make us fed good, tbe cancUdate
bas 10 offer mo The candidate baa 10 be rmod, ptepared uxt Ie
to lay out a program aDd amwer queatlo on Uac program.
We must attend candidate foruma. O!plirJe tban whcae DO Clds •
Invite the candida to your block clUb meeting. before and after the
election.
Issues must dominate the poUtical discussion.
What does your community need? How does this candidate propose ,
to make it happen?
Then vote for the best answer to your needs.
And, unfortu_tely, it is oot a perfect world; There' no ideal
candidate. Ukc tbe nei�r's gtaSI, • moe of tbe above' always looks
better. We have to deal with what we have to deal with.
Asldng the ,tough questio1'll before and after tbe election will make
the whole process work better.
Vote Tuesday, Aug. 41
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Hats off to Fellow hipl
FellOWShip Chapel has done the Detroit oommunlty a reallelVice.
The Fannie Lou Hamer Political Action Committee eX fellowShip sent
out invitations to candidates for state reptaen1Btiw, ICbool boaRt,
sheriff, county clerk and �order's court and circuit court judgeships.
Bach was invited to share with the voters via the cable company
broadcast why they each hould be elected. ,
Tbe Forum is an example of cable company publicsetviceatits best
For those voters who have cable, find a showing of the forum and
take the time to watch. For tbose voter who have no cable, find a friend
who does and get informed.
Thank you Rev. Wendell Anthony, the Fannie Lou Hamer commit­
tee, all of Fellowship Chapel and Barden Cable for a pb well done. We
need more of the same, more of the time.
SISTER SOULJAB JOINED
our taff in 1986 and immediately
began to ucce sfully organize
Afric n American and Hi panic
American cbildren bo caught
in lAc eb of poverty, e�loitation
Sorry­
We're laying off here.
There a re no Jobs I
Why not go to the city
college for skills &
U
Sorry-,
Budget cut backs. You're
off General Assistance
now. You have to go
get aJob I
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IVln
Sorry- ,
New regulations say
that you don't qualify for
coll�e financial aid.
Cash or charge, unless you're
on Ge�eral Assistance 1 ___
EVEN BE, however, had to A look at today' busine s
struggle with the white man, none owners reflects the re ult of
other than lbomu Edison, who , renewed r ci m in this country
sued and 10 t to Woods, then over the p t 12 years. The U.S.
ought to hire Woods on his tat! Department of Commerce report
along with another African show that Afri� Hispanic and
American inventor, Lew Lattner. A ian American and Native
On his own before' hi death in American Indian and other
1910, Woods w a anted over SO minorities each own about three
patents including an electric .pereent of America' b i ,
railway ystem, automatic wbilethewhitemaleowns20times
airbrakes for traim, a regulator for much at 64 percent.
electric motors, as well as The basic problem for many
numerous other inventions sold by minority busines es is lack of
his Woods ElectriCfl ComPany in adequate capital. A capital
Cincinnati"Ohio. Woods' p tents formulationprogrammustbemade
"Drop your bucket here,"
Booker T. Washington advised
ages ago. A recently released
Cens Bureau report depicts the
plight of African American
busiDess people.
'It is not a pretty sight. Since
African Americans comprise at
least 12 percent of the U.S .
. 'population at present, down from a
high of plus 20 percent during
slavery, some type of
responsibility i needed to
resuscita te African American
business we come out of this
currenfRepublican recession.
Remembering the illustrious
past of African American people
should put in proper perspective
the unleashed economic power of
the African American.
Granville T. Woods was bom in
1856 during Slavery, but was of
course a free man by the time he
was 22 and an engineer on the
Bri tish teamer "lrcnside," His fiISt
ava,ilable to minority businesses
that do not have acces to the U.S.
banking system based on the "old
(white boys) rule." As of
September of last year, fhe state of
Israel had received over $6 billion
in grants, not counting $10 billion
of interest that is guaranteed by the
U.S. Oovemment. Loanguarantces
need not be giveaways for foreign
or dome tic businesses, but why
not "drop your bucket here?"
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