VIEWS OPINIONS
DR.
A I G
ARABLE
When George B h called for
" ew World Order," he meant
om thin more n th d th 0
Soviet Communi m. The e
World Order" 0 promise th end
of intern tion 1 b rrie hich
re trict tr de nd corpor te
inv tID nt between n tio .
European h ve initi ted a
"Eur pean Community" which will
oon elimi te virtually all customs
duties, ere te a common currency,
nd eventually tron federal
government Th recent free trade
agreement between Canada, xico
and the United State would al 0
�darnenuulychangetheeconomic
relations between the e countries.
In brief, th trade accord would:
grad uall y eli mina te all cu tom
dutie on products traded between
th e nation; open Mexico' clo ed
insurance, banking and ecurities to
Canadian and American competi tion
and inve tment; and establish
trialateral boards to resolve
disagreements concerning
environmental standards.
At last month's Republican
convention, Bush proudly
proclaimed the North American
Trade Accord as one of his greatest
achievements.
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et, they could orne lien ted
nd ngry.
Tod y' unrest, driven I gely by
raci conflic, m y be turned into
cl w rfare between the
incre ingly flu nt "h ve "and the
economically dep ed "have nets."
H rd economi t Ri h rd B.
Freeman warn , the U.S. could
evolve rnto "a cl ociety like tho e
in Latin America," with unstable
political y tems, m ive violence,
and extremes of wealth and
wide pread poverty. Fr eman
tate , "Th t's the direction we're
headed."
Dr. Manning Mar�ble is
Professor of Political Science and
History, University of Colorado,
Boulder. If Along t� Color LiM"
appears in over 260 publications
and is broadcast by 60 radio stations
internationally.
(P Two)
Hi r education 0 n
y. We 0 n hear bout the
lac of po itive African
American ro mode y. I
am not in greement with that
rtion.
verthel , it' important
that we sometim top nd
reflect about woo have
been there for in big m! not
big ways.
Tbe following two part article
w written by my frieoo, Dr ..
Antmny R, istant Via:
P ident for Student Services
and Dean of Students at Northern
Arizona University. Tony is a
positive role model for college
students as well as the very
young.
If you have an education re­
lated article or opinion (450-500
words) that you would like to
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CHILDREN HAVE the
greatest awareness of aoo ap­
preciation for differences than
any age group. They are cute,
innocent and brutally honest!
For example, have you ever lis­
tened to your (ora) child describe
their frierx1s?
. The conversation often goes
something like this ... "you know
Jamal, my brown friend with the
really curly hair"; or "SaOOra is
the ore with the yellow hair m!
freckles"; or "Maria is the really
cute girl wbose mother is really
nice and always gives me tonnlas
to eat."
In whatever way chil�J:l
choose to describe their fri
it is done with a serse of 00neIty
and openness that oftenshoclcsor
embarrasses adults.
Children describe their
friends, playmates and people in
gererat, the way they see them,
but without labelling. This is
down without regard for their
ethnic or cultural differences, in
a negative serse. (Something we
as adults surely can learn from!)
The key here is that bonesty
and innocence of youth that is
based upon friendship, love and
tnst, All qualities taU8ftt lOtUS or
reinforced by our parents.
TD G of
that it could
polarization in
American society. As millio of
poorly-educated young people are
left behind by the new,
technologically-advanced job
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·UAW says lett�r to the
editor was "unfalr and talse"
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nalism demonstrated by your
new paper's deci ion to print such
wild conjecture and. false accusa­
tions.
Detroit Center were not treated fair­
ly. Two-thirds of the union repre­
sented tarf at the Detroit office were
offered similar positions within the
UAW-GM Human Re ourceCenter,
according to the seniority rights
provided through our collective bar­
gaining agreement. The majority of
the employees who transferred from
the Detroit center arc African-
ricans,
In the August 3O-September S,
1992 edition, the Michigan Citizen
devoted more than SO column inches
of its editorial space to a malicious,
enor-filled attack on the UA W and
tbe UAW-OM Human resource Cen­
ter. TIle writer w not identified by
your ne paper
The unidentified writer refers
fically to the UAW-GM Human
Rei&rce Center In this bro <!side at­
• on the truth, alleging that tbe
April 1991 closing of the
organization's Detroit center was ra­
cially motivated.
�D TO 1H� RJ:f\£UO FOR WHICH \T S T��,,,\
THE OFFICERS WOULD LlKg.
TO BE. 1R\ED B'( AN ALL
WHITE JUR'{, IN AN �LL
WHIT SUBURBH·
Donald J. Davl.
Editor: The letter, to 1M editor
tha: the UA W attacks, was signed.
In the of ilmg tM
1UN....".". Molal iluulver-
tQndyomitted We apologize.
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'In addition, the UAW, co-direc­
tor, UA W co-assistant director, and
the OM co-director of the Detroit
center - all African-Americans -
were re igned to positions within
tbe Human Resource Center.
Furthermore, individual allega­
tions of discrimination and unfair
labor practices brought before two
federal agencies following the clos­
ing of the Detroit center have been
ruled to be without foundation by the
respective agencies.
Reader
commends paper
1. would like to commend you for
the direction of the Michigan
Citizen. I think that it is very positive
and relative to the needs of the com­
munity it serves.
Thanlcs to the Michigan Citizen, I
won an all-expense paid trip to the
46th National Preservation Con­
ference in Miami, Florida. Your
paper is very informative and repre­
sentative of tlle community. Con­
tinue.
Since 1984, the area center in
Detroit served thousands of laid-off
v , OM workers through tfie dislocated
worker placement and training pro­
gram and other services, as provided
under the UA W's National Agree­
ment with GM.
Prior to tbe center's closing in
1991, there was ubstantial evidence
that it was underutilized, particularly
in the area of dislocated worker ser ..
, vices.
IT IS UNFORTUNATE and of
no service to your readers that the
Michigan Citizen chose to be a party
to such a vicious and inaccurate
portrayal of the UAWand the UAW­
GM Human Resource Center from
an unnamed source.
We are appalled by the lack of fair
play and basic standards of jour-
THE SAME PARENTS, I
might add, whose own lives are
governed by greed, ignorance or
power! It is here that parents can
and must learn from 'heir
children.
Tbe adage of "Do as I say aOO
not as I do" has rever been good
enough for children, for children
see through the thin veil of
hypocrisy, 00 matter tl¥: origin!
Parents must be willing to live the
same principles taught to their
children or suffer the eorsequen­
ces. wrought through ignorance, .
power or greed and an ever
changing world.
Whether we have children of
our own; work with; or teach
children; we, as fonner children
ourselves, need to realize the les­
son our children can teach us.
Remember what it was like
growing up? We teased each
other and maybe called each
other names; and we probably
argued or even fought, but
through it all we remained
friends!
Likewise, strengthening
relationships between various
ethnic or cultural groups, (crass­
cultwalism) can't begin in the
year2(XX)! It can't begin tomor­
row! Itcanonlybeginrightrow,
with you and me!
IRREGARDLESS OF THE
CENTER'S existence, laid-off
UAW represented GM worker
maintained their seniority-based in­
come security and education and
training benefits provided through
tbe National Agreement. .
Since it was established in 1985,
the UA W -OM Human Resource
Center has opened and closed anum ..
ber of area centers throughout the
country, based on the immediate
education and training needs both the
active and laid-off UA W-GM
workforce in a metropolitan area.
Your anonymous writer is just
plain wrong that Human Resource
Center employees assigned to the
Barbara Jean Weatbrook
Chenault
Detroit
truck 'the fir t blow on King
eagan
white person was bound to respect.
In Los Angeles and other cities,
affiuent white people are having
high fences built around entire
neighborhoods supposedly to protect
themselves from Blacks and other
have-nets, including poor whites.
And a white woman who said a
Black man mugged her in Florida
has received disabili ty compensation
(your tax dollars) because she ys
she cannot work ncar Black people
and she is afraid of them.
Aside from the trouble in Los
Angeles, racial flare-ups have taken
place in cities from New York and
Boston to Atlanta, Chicago and
various other cities.
Root causes - double standards
and racism - remain ignored.
The "go" ignal for violent racism
was given in 1980 when Reagan
began his presidential campaign in
Philadelphia, Mis ., scene of the
murder of three civil rights workers
aDd sU'OngOOld of the klan.·
David Duke and other Klansmen
under tood Reagan's implicit
However, the present financial
difficulty is characterized by billions
of dollm spent to repay Japan and
Europe, billions to repay depositors
for money squandered in the savings
and loan scandals made po ible by
ReaganomiCS, and more billions lost
through Wall Street take-overs,
stock market "insider"
manipulations and other crooked
deals. Black people as a group have
been hurt badly.
Who is responsible?
approval of this murderous racism
and became Republicans.
SCIentific power to succeed.
By JAMES E. ALSBROOK
Who is responsible for the
widespread financial distress and for
the-coast-to-coast racial hostili ty that
plagues Black people and America?
The long recession is hurting
most of America badly. The nation's
financial experts reluctantly admit
that Japan has passed the United
Stales financiaJly. Japanese exports
are larger, Japan's imports are
proportionally smaller, and its
balance of trade is .much better. Its
national debt is smaller.
IT APPEARS that the Japanese
are trying to take with billions of
'dollars and scientific excellence in
the nineties what their guns could not
take in the World War II forties.
Some experts argue that the
recession is an unavoidable part of a
relentless economic cycle and others
argue it w caused by the greedy
behavior of the "Me Generation"
activi ts who thought only of
themselves. Others say George Bush
was right in 1980 when he said
Reagan was advocating "voodoo
economics" to win the presidency.
The greed factor in Reagan)Ul'S
affected even religious life. Jimmy
and Tammy Baker head a list of
preachers charged with windling.
The. climate of greed under Reagan
contaminated most of the nation.
When Reagan left office, he
pro tituted himself and sold the
dignity of hi entire nation by
accepting $2 million to peak 'in
Japan.
DURING HIS. TENURE
Reagan appealed to racists by trying
to kill the Voting Rights Act and all
civil rights legislation p ed in the
sixties.
Scare words such as "quotas,"
"bu ing" and "reverse
discrimination" were used to alarm
whites and win vote. The term
"welfare dependency" was applied
to BLACKS, but government figures
show most people on welfare are
rural white.
Reagan had goodies for all white
people. He "sold" greed for the rich,
patrioti m and religion for the
middle cl ,race prejudice for the
poor and white superiority for all
three.
For others he had nothing. He
won.
How can we e pect peace,
pro perity, love and brotherhood?
A LOOK around forces us to
see the rapid changes in the
world. These changes bring us
closer to people, who yesterday,
we could only read about
As children we were taught
such things &9: � see the beauty
in everyone; to remember we are
all God' children and that we are
all equal.
As adul ts, teachers and
fonnerchildren we must remem­
ber the 1 rs learned. More
importantly, we must Live the
lessons learredl Tbe future .
now and the children hall lead!
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NOW, RACE hostility and
ethnic discord also have reached a,
dangerous point and fear is
increasing.
The jury deci ion in the Rodney
King police trial enraged many
Blacks who thought the verdict
amounted to a license for police to
brutalize minorities and especially
Blacks.
Some Black considered the
verdict equal to the 1857 Drecl Scott
decision which indicated that a
Black person had no rip that.
Japan is profiting from billions of
dollars of your and my taxes paid
each year because of interest on
money borrowed from Japan and
Europe by Reagan and Bush.
Some scholars think the
Japane e, who di like most
foreigner and especially the
"inferior" Black people, will oon be
a majority in the Hawaiian Islands,
will vote to withdraw from the
United St tes, join the Japanese.
Islands, and have the economic and
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