(photo by Karen Kelly)
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-Slater SouiJah In a ap ch
Oct. 28 at Central MlchlQan
University.
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"I dam we won't be voting for
(George) Bush, but I dan ore
won't vote for Clinton!" Souljah
said
Her voice j not an isolated call
for Black America to reject the tra­
ditional choice of the Democratic
candidate.
A no AL Allim;e Party can­
didate Lenora FuIani, in an appear­
ance on McNeil Lemer Report on
Public Broadcasting October 27,
urged African Americans to vote for
any independent.
Fulani, an African American
woman on the ballot in 40 states,
ix month
Voice urge Black to con Ider their own genda, pride
aft
miles of that store," she said Iest
week.
The African American busi­
nesswoman lined up a $1 million
loan for both ventures.
But the city adopted new laws
this summer that m�e it tough for
merchants who sell liquor to'rebuild.
Residents and activists cugued that
liquor stores feed South Central's
crime and despair. In Ms. Bostick's
case, they also claimed the launchy
would be used by drug dealers and
tbose buying liquor in her smre.
City officials imposed so many
propheslzed that the independent
movement will only grow stronger.
She argued that the ultimate goal of
African Americans hould be a po-
litical organization independent Of
the two majorparti ; one that forces
SouljahA3
S t r SoulJah
-anger
said.
Six months after the rebellion
that killed S3 people and damaged
$1 billion in property, Ms. Bostick
shares her frustration with mer­
chants, residents and even Peter Ue­
berroth, head of an ambitious riot
recovery effort.
Reconstruction is hampered by
regulation. Food Shortages haunt
families. South Central offers few
jobs, Racial tensions divide the city.
Three days of rioting were trig­
gered by the April 29 acquittal of
four white police officers who beat
By ALLISON JO ES
MiclUgQlt Citlze«
DETROIT - "Any African who
votes for (Bill) Qinton is crazy!"
With that assessment tap artist
and activist Sister Souljah summed
up why for her a vote for the perter­
red candidate of most African
Americans is not a good choice.
Her remarks, made in a speech
delivered October 26 at Central
Michigan University, were part of
her appeal to African Americans to
break through the "state of accom­
modation to white supremacy" that
keeps the community in crisis.
African American motorist Rodney
King.
There are signs of hope. A p0-
lice force branded racist is being re­
formed, a fragile gang truce holds,
and business and government are be­
ing called on to rethink their com­
mitment to the inner city.
ENCOURAGED by neighbors,
Ms. Bostick included a coin-oper­
ated laundry in her plans to rebuild
Dade's Comer market at 49th Street
and Compton Avenue. "There's not
a decent Laundromat wi thin two
SCLC: Pr Idential candid te not
ddre Ing mport n 1 U
AlBUQUERQUE(AP)- The presi­
dential candida s are not talking
about the important i. U� such as
job training and poverty, the head of
the Southem Christian Leadership
Conference said.
"They're not talking about
training the untrained," the Rev.
Joseph E. Lowery aid Saturday at
luncheon to recognize .the April
founding f the SCLC's A1buquer­
que chap r.
"They're not taUdng about
poverty," he said. "lbey have ig­
nored the issues. They're ruming
S SCLC,A3
do
Pain,
BY JAMES ANDERSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LOS ANGELES (AP) -Bar­
bie Bostick wanted to rebuild her
South Central market and rehire the
17 people she employed when it was
torched in the rebellion. City Hall
red tape, she says, snagged those
plans.
"For the life of me I don't UD­
ders tand how anybody can be so cal­
lous towards the needs of the
community. This neighborhood said
give us ourstore, and this is a woman
who wants to do it," Ms. Bostick
r r
bellion
conditions on Ms. Bostick's plans
that she felt compelled to scuttle
them.
tax breaks to firms investing in-the
inner city.
"You drive up that street am GOV. PETE WILSON sigDed a
you still see boarded up buildings state enterprise zone package, but
from the 1965 (Watts) riot, It used to legislation to waive regulatory do­
be a thriving community," she said. lays for redevelopment failed.
"The April riot made everything CCI gues there have been 2S or
WOISe." . 3S announcements of corporate in-
Uebetroth's Rebuild LA. re- volvement. And then you don't see
covery ini,tiative has attracted $240 anything but rbeto�c on the govern­
million in corporaje pledges for jobs mental level," Uebeuoth said re­
and job training. But Ueberroth has centJy.
been 8Dgered by delays in federal Thousands of small busme.
enterprise zone legislation to �ve See REBEWON, A 10
Q.
Whatdoes
the '')(''
mean
to you?
LARRY THOMPSON: ·It rep­
resents the old movement of
the Muslims. The Nation of
Islam still lives'·
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