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VIEWS/OPINIONS
oing to Vi tnam.
invi ted to pe
convention,
official re
raci m". T convention' pea ers,
with few exceptions, were a parade
of bigotry. California Attorney
General Dan Lungr n gave
"law-and-order" app al to covert
raci m, which David Du e e ily
could have delivered.
Pat Robertson thunder d that the
1992 presidential campaign w a
moral crusade again t immoral
enemie. Former Education
Secretary William Benn t attacked
"rampant promi cuity." Marilyn
Quayle pat venom at h r husband's
critics. With a neer masked a a
mile, he declared that not all
Americans during the sixties "took
drugs, joined in the exual revolution
or dodged the draft." In Marilyn
Quayle's eagernes to refight
yesterday'sbattles, sh conveniently
forgot that little Danny de1ibrately
joined the National Guard to duck
OF HOI
regarding abortion
oppo d- ven in in tanc of rap
and ince t! Th delegate were
overwhelmingly white nd
economically privileged. Out of
more than 2,200 delegates and 2,200
alternate ,only 103 delegate and 94
alternate were African-Americans.
By contrast, at th Democratic
ational Convention in ew York
City, 771 delegate were
African-Amencan , nearly 18
percent of th total. In Houston
Black Republicans were supposed to
be seen but rarely heard. None were
in policy akingpositions inside the
Bush campaign or Republican
leadership. . .
When Allen Keyes, the ,Black
Republican Senatorial candidate in
Maryland, pleaded for weeks to be
, pedal­
, ,they will en-
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�ly, ed 0 am infotma­
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"entertainment" to some may be
serious business to others.
COLUMNS: a) Let's Play
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MULTI·CUI,
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tte 21 t century, we know that the
world is one village made q> of
people of all nationalities.
COLUMNS: a) Continental
African Stu1en� in the USA, b)
Journalists of Color Coming
Together?, c) The Washington
Whit kins and the Cleveland
Africans
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nati ns is the fact that we row
long ne global village. Wl'at
bappers anywhere on � plaret
may impact everywhere on the
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WHICH KA5 MORE .
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to the 'crack' problem that is devas­
tating the African-American com­
munity.
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the Lamjng State Joumal, dated July
25, 1992. The item refened to a dis­
covery made by the Medical Re­
search Council of Canada and
Bristol Meyers Squibb at the Univer­
sity of British Columbia.
It eems that neuro cientists,
using mice as subjects have dis­
covered a direct correlanon between
cocaine use and hunger.
The r ults showed that the �r­
lion of the brain that receives
pleasure from cocaine is the arne
area of the brain that reacts with
pleasure from eating.
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IT WAS ALSO noted that thi .
same area might playa role with
people who cannot adhere to a
prescribed diet.
. The Neuro cientists were also
very confident that they would be
able to process a drug that could
destroy a persons craving for 'crack'
cocaine ometime lri the near future.
The que tion now is what do our
communi tie do in the meantime?
The answer could be in what many
of our organizations have already
been doing. Only we may need to
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torment from being rejected and treated
disrespectfully, simply because of his. kin
color. So' does Co by. So did Louis
Armstrong. So has Oprah. So has. Eddie
Murphy. So do all Blacks. At least
sometimes, in the company of other Blacks.
Sister Souljah, Ice- T, NW A, Ice Cube and
tbers are receiving a bad rap from the mos tl y
white media. Regretfully, the anger
expressed by Blacks, and the hock exhibited
by most whites who consider this anger to be
merely an aberration, clearly shows how far
apart the races really are in this society. One
wonders how white would react if they
knew how Blacks really feeL The media has
actually defined Black attitudes for Blacks.
This has in effect made many Blacks oppose
Sister Souljahand Ice- Twhen, in reality, they
feel the same wa� that these rap stars do.
�y DR. CHARLES W. FAULKNER
Coping
from the high school drop-out, to the grocery
s tore clerk, to the intellectual. All of these
people come to his speeches because he says
·what they feel.
So does Sister Souljah. So does Ice-T. So
does NWA. Yet, Blacks are not going to rush
to the nearest gun store, buy a emi-automatic
weapon and start shooting cops, whites or
anyone). The words from these rap arti ts are
exaggerated expressions of contempt that
most Blacks have for tho e who constantly
di re peet them, simply because they have
le pigmentation in their skin than the
majority race. Rap lyrics no more drive
Blacks to become killer than do the
ultra-violent television show . And, many of
the most popular television shows ctually
how people in the act of engaging in armed
street encounters with law enforcement
officers.
Society need not fear, for now, Blacks
going into the streets randomly killing
ci tizens. Socie ty hould, however,
understand in realistic terms, the in-depth
anger that practicall y every Black person
feels. Sammy Davis often poke about hi
even to their friends during the hfight and
excitement of competition.
When Blacks express the extreme
frustration that they feel, as the result of the'
constant racial discourtesy and rejection that
they experience every day of their lives, the
emotions are overwhelmed.
"F---k you, you white m----r f-----r. I'll
f---k you up." This remark is expres ive of
what most Blacks feel, deep in their hearts.
And, it eros es all Black economic and ocial
classe .
"I'll beat you to within an inch of your
life!"
"I'll break your damn neck!"
"I'll knock your dam head off!"
"I'll wring 'your neck until your head
drop off!"
"I'll tear your damn arm off and beat you
to death with it!"
Who made the above statements? Si ter
Souljah? Nope. Ice-T? Nope. Bill Co by?
Yep! Co by uses these statements a part of
a comedy routine in which he talks about
some of the horrible (but amusing and
harmless) statements that his parents made to
him when he was a child. No one really
expected his parents to tear hi arm off and
beat him to death. Even though he probably
thought they would.
The: e statements (threats) represent anger
and frustration. But, not real intention. Most
parents Black and white, probably make
similar empty threats to their children, or
MINI TER LOUl FARRAKI is
regularly characterized in the media as being
"racist", "extreme", "dangerous" and "an
exception". Yet, he need merely pin a poster
on a tree, announcing an upcoming speech
and hundreds, even thousands of Blacks (and
whites) will show up at his speeches. They
will endure the near-embarrassment of
everal body earches by Farrakhan's
bodyguards, just for the privilege of bearing
Farrakhan say what each of them feels. In no
way i he "an exception". Farrakhan
e entially represents the view of Blacks
The fact is that if racial roles were
reversed, and whites were uffering the
discrimination that Blacks uffer, whites
would likely de troy the ociety. Yet, Blacks
do little more than talk. And Blacks fooli hly
allow themselves to be labeled as raci is.
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