orne choice
n ce ry? Louis
X cho the
rna er teacher
ONE MAN had become a
unoga1le Ca�rto him (Malcolm
X) am the �r the tel'
Teacher (the Hooorable Elijah
Muhammad). Although he
loved both, Louis X clae the
T�r.
Both men, hisk>ry has smwn
us, are two oftbe greatestAfriam
Ie ders to date. Both men
strengthcm, Caul and all, con­
tinue to impact people
worldwide.
Contemporary history also
shows u that today, the
Homrable Louis (X) Farrakhan
and the Lost FoUl¥1 Nation of
Islam, are revered am respected
I �·A·lJICJIlItWonU.
HILTO· HIGHER
EDUCATION CODIlnutB to go
on I'CCX)rd being an advocate 0
organization building (i.e.
Howard University, INVR
StarKJards, the African National
Congress, �refore, we salme
the Nation of &lam for tbeircon­
tinuous vanguard role in African
communities in America.
�. For many college
studcn "'1m Aumbiography of
Malcolm X" is required reading.
1bat is a eboice, However, what
they do with the information that
they glean �m the �nt is
. often times a personal cOOice.
LIKEWISE, WHAT they
what they (mi milliomofotlas)
do with the movie <1ircdIcd by
Spike Lee, is also a personal
choice. The Pan African move­
ment will not begin nor stop with
the release of the story of our
great Malcolm.
CboictS. Some of tIncJe woo
praise Malcolm X today would
probably oot associate with him .
if he were alive - but will
patronize a movie. That is also a
persoral cOOice.
We concur, somewhat, with
Minister Fanakban w�n�says
that there are some woo fear the
growing influence of the Nation
of &lam ml that the story of
Malcolm's life and death in the
wrong bm1s will be chaotic ml
�tive.
However, we believe even
troogerwith his words that "The,
more (they) elevate Malcolm,
they canmt �p but eleva1e �
teachingsof�HomrableElij�
Muhammad, wbichwere mlare
. the bMe ofMa1colm X."
Yes, some cmices are neces­
sary. In retrospect, some cboicea
could have been bener. AOO
sometimes choices. are not
�ither/Or, but rather mI/alSO.
IT IS OKAY ml advisable
to cboice the best from the lives
and teachinpofFlijah, Malcolm
X, Louis X, .Jesse, Fannie Lou,
M.alaa,ek:.
We imply hope that the
majority of the choices that
Afriam condnue to make are in
the 16ng nul for the betterment of
hwnanity. So far, histol)'
sOOwn that they have been.
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VIEWS/'OPINIONS
the b Ic he lth care delivery
te . de theBI community
in cd i .
Seven decades a 0, over 200
egre ted ho pitals erved the
Bl community. include
Provident Ho pit 1 in Chic go,
founded in 1891 by the great Bl
urgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams;
Ho rd University Ho pitat in
W hington, D.C., tablished 140
year go; Meharry/Hubb rd
Ho pital in N hvllle; Richmond
Community Ho pit I, Norfolk
Community Hospital and ewport
Ne General Ho pital in Virginia;
and Southeast Specialty H pital in
Greensboro, North Carolina.
THE E WONDER UL
Institutio were d . goed to provide
health service for all
African-America , regardle of
the ability to pay. Millions of
African-Americans-especially the
elderly, the poor, children and
working people-were provided for.
After de egregation, a
rican-Ameri n were fin By
permitted to enter th front doo of
ormerly 11- hite ho pital , the
1 c pi continued to pro . de
valuable trainin to tho 0
African-American doctors, nurse ,
other health care pro(i ionaI.
They developed pecial uni
programs hieb concentrated on
the peci c health care probl of
theinnercity, UGh drug diction.
But today, many of problems
on the critical I' t.
Provident Ho pit I clo ed its
door in September 1987.
Meharry /Hubbard w forced into
merger negotiatio with largely
hite hospital. Howard Unive ity
Hospital 10 t $38 million in the p t
three years, and w forced to fire
more than 200 employ in 1991,
according the ew York Times.
While many white ho pitals turn
aw y poor people and tho without
health insurance, Blac ho pita!
which will serve those mo t in need
are dying. It' in thi context of
crisis that the de te over health care
I
ov
r, bu
wUI
The official I spoke to agreed that
a parent who ks for a curriculum
guide for instance, should not be t91d
that they are strictly for professional
usc. Southfield parents, I'm told,
automettcally-get these guide
without even having to ask-let
alone be turned down flat.
The guide shows in writing what
first grader should have mastered in
Science, Math, Language Arts, etc.
by a certain point in first grade. ,It
shows as much for eleventh grade
Trig.
PARENTS CAN more easily fill
in the gaps of the learning the child
. had problems with if they know
what skills the child hasn't shown
mastery of by test day. A parent with
that information really is em­
powered.
When the test results come back
for CAT scores, MBAP score , tll.e
Detroit Board does not organize, a
couple of mass meetings to explain
pollc! between Gear B h
Bill Clin n m t be lyzed.
BY FEDE L L W, all
employer would have to buy
to their parents how to interpret the
core, what criteria are used to derive
the te t, the mean 'core .etc.
Parents aren't helpful to know
what kind of materials to look for to
bolster kills te ted as weak. The
tests are reported in uch prohibitive
tati tical language that even
teachers hould be given a meeting
on what special things to do for their
cl to boost them for the next set
otes.
The Detroit Board
,_
Dr. Manning Marable is
Professor of PolilictJl Scimce tmd
History, Uni,'ersity of Colorado at
Boulder. "Along the Color LiM" is
featured by more tlaan 250
newspapers and broadcast by 60
radio stations inler1uUioMlly.
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upported by American textbooks Kingdoms of Moree," "The Nok
catering to Confederate biases, is Culture," "Begho," "Ashanti,"
that· Africa alway was the "Benin," "Ife," "Igbo-Ukwu," "The
Tarzan-likej\Ulgle occupied only by Great Fortified Center at
wild animals, wild vegetation and Zimbabwe," and more.
wild but submi ive Black people. The European scholars say
1bis image w. created to "justify" . civilized African leaders controlled
slavery in America. . vast regions and vast populations ..
The Black lave was They seem to be interested more in
conveniently declared sub-human. finding the truth than in preserving
But the late t encyclopedias lies of the white American
reporting the late t findings of mythology and white superiority.
leading European anthropologi ts What doe all of this mean?
and archeologists tell the story of an Somebody lied!!
Africa with numerous and extensive It means that Black Americans
kingdoms and cultures having trade have historical antecedents and
route among themselves and Bl ck role models in ancient Africa.
commerce in gold and other It me ns that strong doses of
valuables first with Asian countries "Afro-centrism" (using Africa as a
and later with Europeans. Some of b ic focal and ference point) are
these flourished Ihundreds of years becoming nece ary for Blacks
before W ten Europe w civilized wanting more race pride, personal
by the Roman Empire. esteem, power and money .
Books copyrighted in 1991 and
1992 report that trade routes cross
Africa included dvanoed kingdoms
and other i called "The Nubian
studen continuity. TIley haven't
strengthened the Primary Units (K-
3) sufficiently enough to give the
foundation tlngsten need.
Teachers could help the Primary
Unit but they cannot do it without the
help they k for at the time they
need it.
Yetifiti never done, the average
of the Detroit High School graduat­
ing cl will continue to be a D, as
it has been for many years. TeacheA
·...wl_q liMe P 10 Ice. Not,
liowever, n they are told to keep
children in cl who consistently
'break both cl room ruI school
rules, and even breech standards of
common decency ,at tim .
MENTOR TEACHERS usually ,
just divide a taft'. A mentor is a
good idea if he or sbe goes from
building to building, mainly month­
ly, to offer needed istance. Yet
the teachers beyond the Primary Unit
don't actually need to llmi t cl ize
because the Board does not enforce
attendance.
Daily cl rooom attendance i
phenomenally bad in Detroit, and it
gets worse and w�rse at each grade
level. Oddly enough, I'd say with
just an educated guess that children
in grades 2-4 attend besi, . I can't
prove or account for that, but I've
seen a lot of school rooms.
Detroit has fine programs for
pregnant gir . Additionally, they
have pregnant teens in every high
chool and' some middle schools.
Some girls find it difficult to obtain
the program they'd like because the
youngest a pregnant girl can be i
around twelve.
For the most part, there 'is a
shortage of girls attending regularly
because once child is born, tbe girl
often has to stay with it quite bit.
s. READER,810
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for the lab I:
IIMad.e in Africall
READER WRITE
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By JAMES E. ALSBROOK
In a recent television
documentary, an early Black
minister said he wa glad his
grandfather was stolen in Africa and
enslaved in America.
At 6O-year class reunion in
Missouri, a Black speaker said
someone in the audience was "acting
'like he lived in Africa."
In an ep ode of "I'll Fly Away,"
to be resumed soon on NBC, a
Southern white housewife aid the
"nigras" are needed for housework
and "gnmt" work. They hould be
thankful white men took them from
Africa, she said. "Without their
cookingandclean1ng. what would "a
respectable white lady do?"
All three persons have been
deceived by the extensive
bombardment of mi representations
propagated about Africa for
hundreds of years.
THE POPULAR belief,
WE HAVE SEEN "Made in
Japan," "Made inKorea," "Made in
china," "Made in Hong Kong,"
. Now that the strike' over, the
community should know its chools
are ltill at high risk of intimidating
and falling its public school children.
I spoke with an administtator
recently last Thursday, September
24, of the Southfield Public Schools.
I w complaining that the Detroit
Board of Education steadfa tly
refuses to really empower its paren(S,
though they use the word itself to
, deatroy the unity tbt achel'l have
forged.
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POINTS OF
UGHTH
"Made in Mexico" and "Made in"
many other place stamped on
hundreds of products we Americans
use - things from tooth brushes to
fancy cars. We needto see - and we
can profit from - products tamped
"Made in Africa," "Made in"
Nigeria, Liberia, Chad, The Niger,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia or
anywhere in Africa would be good.
Re earchers say African
civiliation were deal cru hing
blows by the relentle ly
encroaching Sahara Desert ( till
eroding thousands of acres), by the
murdering and ptundering of
Arabian Fundamentalist Moslem
hordes who wiped out entire African
ci ties and areas of people who did not
accept their religion, by
"envi ronmental calami tie ,"
(diseases, udden climatic ch nges,
etc.), and by Europeans who
pillaged, plundered and murdered
while taking laves along with gold
and other valuables.
Tbe Europeans alone had the help
of a new weapon called the gun.
European natio that e tablished
colonies in Africa have exploited its
natural resources for hundreds of
years. Now, Africans and
African-Americans can develop
Africa' human and indu trial
re ource and make money by
setting up "cut and ew" hop,
advancing to more technology and
shipping assembled or manufactured
goods to America and elsewhere just
as Japan, Korea, Mexico and others
did.
The "Made in Africa" label on
good product ould bring
worldwide respect for Black people
from whites and others including
Blacks themselves.
Civil right group ,
multimillionaire Black athletes and
adol'S, and Black investment clubs
can resurrect African commerce and
make money for tbemsel
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