HI H
Due 0
reo
re
Africa.
of P\at)Rican,
Ceaml or SouIh AJrlel'lll:2
�.-&aj
HISpaniC).
HISPANIC: pe n 0
MCXlCID, Plato Rian.
CcnIral 0 South �rican or
o�r . cui
Docs oot iJx:ludc pe 0 Por-
cultlI'e or exigin.
These two definitio are
in US. Of:lice 0 �l
Management nd the U.S.
Department of Commerce,
Buau 0 � ems literature.
� r dJice oootdinat:d the
1990�ns
11is' a of divide,
00Ulla' am fl� fbrthc moor of
beqAmerica' mimrity
gIOq). � Homr! In it
been our experience and
through research studies that
people of African dcscem mJ
otla" oon Euaqans, may \ery
wen be in � majority in IhB
00lI1IIy already. ,
"IDSPANIC DO� NOT
i1d\lJepmonsofPortuguesecuI­
tUIe or origin in the "HispaIic"
category." If Portuguese of
African descent were unudcd,
the numbers would correctly
swell, but acmrding m � logic of
the fore mentioned agencies,
Brazilians would be oonsidered
"white."
Have you seen the great
Brazilian musician, Milton
. lately? NasiBnIO
would be very surprised m have
his African roo divegarded j�t
like that
Recently � Afro Brazilian .
Q)� Bencdia1B Da
Silva, visited the U.s. Once again,
.according to the U.s. a:ns�
Blmlu, she can not be oonsidered
"Blaclc."
Speaking of the Census
Bureau, it statts that "A person
having origins in any of the
origiJlll peoples eX Et.rope, NOrth
Africa or the Middle East are also
oonsidered white." Keep in mi.OO
that at '" point, Ewope (Spain) is
only fourteen miles from the
Mo�rIm1.
Are you beginning k) get the
impression that
E�Anaicans
will always come out in the'
majority in � cerses equation?
SINCE WHEN were
Europeans the original people of
North Africa? And what is called
the Middle Fat is a European
political term for what should
more 8CClI8tely be called Asia
Minor am �mAfrica.
Rdel c:.tro has on numero�
occasions referred to Cuba es
Latin Africa. But aca>rding to
U.S. government categories, �
is rot possible, becaese there are
00 "Black" people in Cuba, only
Hisparlia. '
Rea:ntly a tudcnt of African
descent mentioned k> me that s�
wanted to be d&ified as Latina
insteadof"Black". I�that�r
father was from New York am
�rmocherWM from Trinidad (an
. English speaking Caribbean
oountIy), so I �kcd �r 00w s�
came t> the decision of being
Latina instead of African­
American or Afro Canbbean?
S� Ieplied that her trothers
roo (way back)weIe from Spain.
Please continue, I tated to m.
She proudly stated thlt �r people
were Spanish :Moors. ,
�n I informed m that the
Moors were Africam, s� seemed
to realize that it � time to stop
running. S�, like so many others,
will hlve k> ooax: k> the realization
that "we need to stop being lnkr­
counted--aOO stop W¥iercount­
ing ourselves."
Hilton: Higher &JJcaticn is
desi.gnM to dialogue � college
and world renders. Edlcation is
ongoing and certainly not limited
to cia room .uudy. lA's talle.
(7 J 4) W-0650.
, .
u
ri t in 0
primari .
In ovember, 1976, Jimmy
Carter n rro I y dd ted Gerald
ord, 1bi ovember, Bill Ointon
bould n rro ly defe t George
B b- but nothin in politics i
predictab e.
Tbe hi torieal an ogy bre
down when e co ider the social
and ideological fo behind Carter
and Clin on, pedively. Carterran
in 1976 with the Democra having
won even of the previo eleven
presidential con , and with the
national disgrace of Watergate
t rni hing the Republican.
Neverthel ,Carter w unable to
VIEWS 'OPINIONS
For progre ive, the real
que tion pre ented by the
Clinton-Bush electoral contest boils
down to imple alternative: Do I
vote for Clinton, or do I tay home
on November 3? At times, wben I
w tcb a Clinton peech on CSP AN,
hi words almost make sense, but I
know be' not talking to me. I fear
that a Ointon White House would be
even further to the right than Jimmy
Carter' ..
n �C'D"'TI:' .... A.._ ..... mis . vin I
ould till dvi e
African-Americans, other people of
color d pro iv to criticize
Clinton, but to be t B h thi
election ye •
Wem t 0
u tanti ,criti I . tin oncanbe
U1 de between Cinton-Go
econd term for Bu b-Ou yle.
Millio 0 om n, t ith
the 10 of their freedom of choice on
th i ue of abortion, can certainly
unders land the noB h
victory over Clinton.
People of color recall that B b
vetoed the 1990 Civil Righ Act,
nd turned Willie Horton into
Micb el Du aki t unoffici I
running m teo Advocat of.the poor
realize that the B b admini tration
has consistently rejected legisl tive
propo I to dd the cri· of
hunger. The thirty.. ven Ameri
without bealth insurance have mucb
to gain if Clinton' initiativ are
enacted in public ealth.
Clinton could till na h defeat
from the ja of victory, however, if
be continues to di tance himself
from the Blac electorate and i
Dr. Mannillg Marable ;.,
Pro/essex 01 PoliIicDl Science
History University 0/ ColortlllD,
Boulder. "AlOftg tJte Color L •
appetUs in over 250 publicatiolu
and over 50 radio statiolls
intenuuio1UJlly.
READER WRITE
Combating the symptoms of crime
Detroit i on its way to a record
year in youth Iiomicides, drug related
crime are consistently lncre ing
and gang violence i becoming a bur­
geoning problem in our com­
munities. The masses of Dctroiters
are outraged, and a call for incre ed
police protection and stringent
criminal laws are our major concern.
Unfortunately for the Black
populace, thi is a cry that will only
,I
/.
further our demi e. Consider the
law which have been pa ed in
recent years. The "no knock" rule,
which allow police agencies to
enter any "suspected" crack house
without warning.
With the surge in youth
homicides, juvenile can now be
tried adults considering the extent
of the crime, usually first degree
murder. Police officials are con-
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FLEE I NG OrPPESS\ON
TO bETTER ouR LI VES!
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By JAMES E. ALSBROOK
Black people are astonished and
. elated, but white people are shocked
and dismayed. These emotional
highs and lows are resulting from
revelations verifying the existence of
a highly developed Black
civilization in Black Africa about
3,000 years before Europeans
became civilized.
This Black civilization i named
Nubia and it flouri hed in what i
now the southern part of Egypt and
the northern part of Sudan. It
extended south for about 2,000 miles
along the Nile River, and it varied in
width from about 200 to 500 mile .
It traded with various Black African
kingdoms, with Arabs acro the Red
Sea, and with Egypt.
Reseacher say Nubia was a
powerful nation from about 4,000
B.C. to about 3 0 A.D. For a time
Nubia ruled Egypt.
A r 'heologi. 1. ba. e thei i
enthusiasm on thousands of art
ohject-;, tonls. artifacts, 'i ripte; ami
idering a law in which tenants can
be evicted from their dwellings if any
member of the household is selling
drugs.
This practice is the law in Ar­
lington, Virginia. Who is mainly af­
fected? People living in low income
housing. There is al 0 a federal
e rch and eizure law which per­
ons personal assets can be seized if
over 50 grams of an illicit substance
A reader's view
is found on that person or their
premise.
THE IILACK POPULACE
calls for an end to its crime-ridden
communi tie through government
intervention but this proce ,h only
led to a larger number of i citizens
being sent to jail and the crime rate
has yet to tail off.
A study done by tbe Sentencing
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Project, a W hington based re­
search firm, howed that 1 in4 youna
Black men are in jail. The study
estimated that 609,690 men between
the ge of 20 and ere either in �U
or under supervision of the coW1l.
What· even more alarming are
the nurnbe of Black women who
are now under court uperv· ion.
A tudy done by the U.S. Depart­
ment of Justice (Bureau of Statia­
tic), how that the number of
womqn w I ncar rated jumped
2M percent rom 6 in t
4O�S6jn 1989; ofthe40�S6women
incarcerated over S8 percent are
African-American.
These alarming numbers are a
direct result ot the Black
community's call for criminal jUl­
tice. Inefficient laws, and lact or
police presence can enbance ones
ability to believe crime pays but in­
adequate law and minimal police
presence are only ymptoma of a
larger problem.
Many Black blame lack of
education and poverty for the
prevalence of crime in our stree •
but once again the e are �nly
symptoms which are characteristic
to the criminal element.
THE MAJOR REASON the
Black community has yet to put a
dent in its crime problems is that the
community crime patrols are more
evident that community youth
centers. Black youth have very few
alternatives to the pervasiveness of
the criminal culture.
Where are the neighborhood
mentors, (older men who can teach
young men trade kills and self­
reliance)? Why aren't our elderly
citizens made community
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Power and cultur
4,000·
.c.
other treasurers excavated in Nubia
just before the completion of the
Aswan Dam, and various researchers .
from Europe and in America are
competing for pIe tige in displaying
these valued remains and examples
of Nubian art and culture.
IN RECJ..:NT months, exhibits
featuring thi Black African culture
have been di played and lavi hly
prai ed in top museum at Chicago
Boston, Nashville, New York, and
Toronto. The Briti h Museum in
London now boa ts of a large
collection of prized Nubian
product.
How important to the w rid i thi
new di covery and appreciation [or
an ancient BI ck Afr:can
civilizati n?
- Dr. �mily Tcelher, curat r of
the new exhibit of Nubian
archeology at Ihe Unive ity of
Chicago, told the New York Time. :
"Nubia \Va. an importantciviliz-stion
in its own right and not ju. a
stepsister of Egypt."
- Dr. Martin Bernal, a professor
at Cornell University and author of a
forthcoming four-volume work
entitled "Black Athena," contends
that until recently many white
European cholars were racist and
anti-Semitic and created an "Aryan
model" for ·the origins of classical
Greek culture - and hence Western
civilization. He said Greek
civilization came from Egypt and
that Egyptians were a multicultural
mixture of Africa. the Mcditerrean
and Asia M:nor.
- Dr. Bruce William of
Chicag University i writing a
five-volume er;e on the Nubian
cavations and' quoted: "Nubian
studies i a new field of archeology
- no longer just an appcnda e of
Egyptology."
- Dr. ichol' Millet. clJr tor of
the Egyptian Department at the
Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto,
. aid he w intere ted p rticularly in
th 'vriting of the Nubians - a
sophisticated people who buill cities,
roads and palaces rivaling those of
Egypt people whose
accomplishment . had been
overlooked because oJ attention paid
to Egypt.
- Dr. Kzysztof Grzymaski,
as ociate curator of the Egyptian
Department, aid Nubians did things
their own way, their rulers leaving
monumental tomb as the pharaohs
did, but wi th a different archi tecture;
instead of building pyramids, th y
erected gravel mound or
"tumulus-covered" internal
chambers.
- Wn ten; for the Bo ton Globe
aid Nubian accomplishment had
been ignored because the Nubians
were 8!ack Africam.
JlARV ARD UNIVE lTV and
the So tom Mus urn of Fine Arts
cooperated in gath ring the Bo ton
collection of Nubi n art. The Bo ton
G10 e . aid the art is "magnificent
and intel1igible/' having ". uprcme
technical excellence.-
The bastions ofwblte Supremacy
have been breached in recent years
by two pro-African events:
First is the announcement by Dr.
Loui Leakey that "Mother Eve;
proginator of all humankind, w an
Afr-ican woman who lived near
Africa's Olduvai Gorge.
Second i this revelation that
Black Africans were civilized before .
whites were - almost 3,000 years
before.
Never before have white men
publicly supported the notion that
Blacks were civilized before whites
were. History boo will have to be
�writteri.
Public rducation and opinion win
have to chang - along with the
world' perception of Bl c people.
their contrillution and their
.potentialitie .
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