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Vol. XVI No. 46 An tntounoa Poopt«: I�; .i F ,,', I ','OP'f' October 4 -10. 1992
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The Rus ian plan' of interest to Afriean
Americans who have yet to ee the Am riean
version of a jump tart to put too e held in
lavery on their way to capitalism: 40 cres and
a mule.
Many hi torians and ocial cientist place
blame for the economic deprivation and accom­
panying ocial ill of Afri€aIl Americans on the
failure of rica to make good on i plan to
start the capitalist proces for its former lav .
o 0 w th promi of 40 am
a mul bandoned, the y tem of lim Crow am
egregation pt all but a few Afri Ameri-
cans out 0 the capi tali t main tream,
Further contributing to the impoveri hment
of African Americans were trictiv real estate
covenants, redlining and bi ant d' crimin tion
in the job mar et, practi formally outlawed
only two decades ago but practiced still in ub­
tl r forms.
Every man, woman and child in Russia will,
by year' end, have received 10,000 rubl
each, in the hopes they will invest the money,
thus jump starting the capitalist system in the
former communist state.
"This i th tarting point of the capitalist
education of the Russian people," Anatoly B.
Chubais, Deputy Prime Mini ter, is quoted as
aying in the New York Times. "The first thing
we have to do is start the process."
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where early stages of the urban revi­
talization plan have taken root.
A coalition of civil libertarians
calling themselves the Urban Strate­
gies Group gathered I t week call­
ing on the Los Angeles City Council
aJXl Mayor Bradley to reject the Fed-
cording to an article by lame
Bolden in the African American
weekly, the Los Angeles Sentinel.
The Los Angeles group is claim­
ing it "perpetuates the alienation nd
hopelessnes in the community and
caters to police abuse in tbe inner
"
Rather than seeing the problem as
a public health and medical issue,
the group feft the program represents
an armed forces approach to the drug
i ue and preempts any erious po -
sibility of police refonns in the City.
"We fccl (t program) viola
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·inC'lMIIiiIF1!l!tiittt liDi lea ... bat a
p - erican.
Latino and Asian American," aid
Joe Hicks, executive director of the
Southern Christian Leadership Con­
ference.
Hicks added that the program
also violated the rights of immi­
grants and "demonizes: rather than
help," a lost genetation of our
youth.
WANDA F. ROOUEMORE/MlchigM CttIan
Protesting the August 30 shooting death of Raffael Dent. this young
man, along with others from throug�out the metro area have
picketed Aby Gas and Service Station on Van Dyke and E. Outer
Drive 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The station's clerk was
not charged in the fatal shooting of Dent and fted the country.
As the Engler administration
summons city officials from aero s
Micliigan to Lansing for discussion
of the'Bush Administration's W«.d
and Seed program, en ticism of the
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ate report on H
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Congresswoman Barbara Rose-Collins recognized Anita Hill for her contributions to
women during Hill's recent visit to Detroit.
By RON SEIGEL
Mlchlpan CltIz.n
mGBLAND PARK - A special
"Short and Long Range Review
Committee" of citizens appointed by
the Highland Park School Board
challenged findings on Highland
Park Community College, but in
some areas called even more strongly
for austerity in travel and waste in
staff.
The Highland Park committee
questioned the objectivity of the
group appointed by the state board
charging that it was biased, because
"the majority were selected from
competitive institutions" and on one
point accused it of "age and racial
bias."
Although the deadline for the local
report was near the end of September,
aU members of the committee re­
quested further time so that "a more
in-depth review" could take place.
The school board unanimously
agreed to allow further time to the
committee, so that it could "study fur­
ther the portions of the report that we
were unable to thoroughly review and
make final recommendations to the
board at a later time."
Trustees and staff should be able to
answer the question "Why should
HPCC continue?"
It maintained that HPCC shQuld
"continue to provide career oppor­
tunities for employment" and "assist
in the �building of Highland Park,
citing:
- "The critical importance of
education beyond the bigh chool
level to all persons, particularly those
in urban communi tie for whom
educational and employment oppor­
tunities must be as wide possible to
be lifted from dependency to become
productive tax paying citizens."
- The importance of "educating
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HOWEVER, mE local commit­
tee made specific recommendations,
which it said were ''based on the
available information."
The local committee challenged
the state findings that Highland Park
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If you
could a k
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a que tlon,
who and
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you a k?
DURIN HARPER: "Mayor
Young when are you going to
put money into the neighbor­
hoods instead of downtown?"
