• Bill Clinton . olf in beep' clothing. He appears to be 0 muc better th the le der hip America h h d for th 1 t 12 year , might overloo ho much he i really like the fo1 now in charge. Clinton, candid te for the highe t office in the land, i running a da erous tv commerci in the metro Detroit are • . The d t rt by s ying th t we h ve ne er of the Democr tic P rty. Thi i party, the d goe on to y, that support elfare reform and the de th pen Ity. No , mo t of the polling we've een in this election ye'·s -tbat voter re concerned prim rily bout job and he Ith care reform - no elf re queens nd Willie Hor 0 • But here e go ain, No it is the new era Democrats playing tho e .. r, • �sdD.ttb.eir.ap'pe.al to e. lOamoa,.r tho e btl1e .<:ollar ethniq 'Who fled the' citi� he etn'rnd 1O's to regroup 111 suburbati- .. ghetto of fear and ignorance. R.epublicana have held onto the president's office by playing to the fear of these folk, fine tuning racial politics along the way. . BllI Clinton ias listened well, learned the tune and sings in perfect harmony. First welfare reform. Despite all the statistics that show there are more white people than African on the welfare rolls, m?st �l1!.c:ricans believe welfare is a Black thang. This perception exr-ts thanks to the media and the race politics of the rec nt past. Clinton's focus on welfare reform i to oW' sut>�auite he is ready I 0 al with t m." _ .... '( me !'ithe: b�ffi th deat"'",.lIl�,".iY'I.r!IIM I anti-poof:pn.(faJtti-�l�c ,.bC1f.3u e h t is who . .:pn row. Rich folks don't end up there. For Bill Clinton to devise commercials on these subjects and run them in a mar ket as racially divided and hostile as jnetro Detroit is playing the race card with the twist of Oxford-perfected subtlety . ) The picture is even 'bleaker when you consider, Clinton ha� frequently visited those suburban ghettos of ignorance, trymg desperately to woo back those voters who deserted the Democrats for the race-baiting Republicans. By the satne token, Clinton has studiously steered away from urban settings. For the few times Clinton did visit a major African American group during this campaign, it is as if he were talkingpast the audience, to reassure that wider group of reactionaries out there in Republican land that he, Clinton, knows how to talk tough to "those people." When Clinton addressed the Rainbow Coalition he in­ sulted Sister Souljah and his hosts. When Clinton stood before the Black Baptist preachers in Atlanta, the largest group of African Americans in the land, he talked not about jobs or health care, the real concerns of Black pastors but about crime. ., . The �eal �ill Clinton seems to be trying to get out. This 15 the Bin Clinton who plays golf at all-white country clubs and has not pushed an affirmative action plan or civil rights bill for his state. ' We urge African America�s to vote. Don't do like we did in the last governor's race and stay home. African Americans don't get anything out of the electoral process by staying home. Go to the polls and choose any of the ·other candidates for president: Lenora Fulani or the Socialist candidate. Wr!te in a candidate for president or make a statement 'by vouag for every other spot on the ballot except president. If you stay home, you don't 'exist. Just don't be blown away by the huffand the puff of a , wolf in sheep's clothing: Vote your interests. I, I Poverty i violence. ci m violence. Unemployment is violence. And th types of violence are forced to the into crucibl of urban America this will produce nothing more than grea r intensity of homicide nd hopei . For the 0 the tho of childlen like Dantre1l D ho are killed 1 y, it is imperative t we 0 harder to top the violence. -African prowrb IN PARTICUlAR the federal retreat from helping to finance· public housing has both expanded the ranks of the homeless and the deteriorated the physical and human conditions of the existing units of mfor orman VIEWS OPINIONS eme GO'S YO Richard M. Daley, view the ituation neeclingprtmarily a law enforcement solution. Mayor Daley quickly ordered a massive police search and seizure operation in the 7,000 - pe on housing complex. The resident population in Cabrini-Green is nearly 100 percent African American. The man arrested as the confessed sniper in the senseless shooting of Davis should be swiftly tried and sentenced The ruin ofa nation begin in the homes of its people. or . a ful crimi t. We believe, bo ever, that to vie th urban lely . ue of I d order is gro ly insufficient irrespo ible. Until the oci and economic oonditio that drive peISO to crime and violence are char ed the tragic murders of our children in the tree of America will continue to in e. How it in cially dive large city like Chicago that a 7,000- person public housing project only African American re iden ? R idential egregation by race and ocioeconomlc condition has not been challenged to any tangible degree during the I t 40 years. In fact, racial segregation in housing is worse in 1992 than it w in 1952 throughout the country. In Philadelphia, Newark, Detroit, Kansas City and in many other cities the violence in public housing projects replicate the ituation in Chicago. But the problem is not the existence of public housing; the problem is the absence of adequate public housing, the absence of employment, the absence of a community economic empowerment for people of color communities, and the ab ence of show of priority concern for the plight of urban America by the federal government during the last U years. empo ermeat, the intema onal oommunity h correctly fo ed orId id ttention to the violence nd inj tice of pI such BalDi and Herzegovina or in South Africa, the violence of the socioeconomic and cial condition of the United States 0 DC more international crunny. Y , we are ying that the United Nation Commi sion of Human Righ needs to urgently review the y temic violence of human righ in the United State . Again the current 1992 Presidential Campaign all but ignored the piral of violence and Most men on B-block called him youth, summers with family in by the honorific, "old-head," but he Virginia. wasn't really "old" at 54-odd years, although it must be admitted that, to ALTHOUGH A big city guy at , the majority of young men in the heart, the southern cadences of prison, in their early 20s, Norm speech, stewed into him from must've seemed old indeed, Virginia summers, never left him, especially with his bead covered and several times someone, hearing with a tight cap of apparent white his. "down home" bass, would wool. wrongly assume his point of origin Although his snowy head of hair was in the deep South. bespoke age, his physique was that He developed a habit that every of a man half his age, well-muscled time he left the cell, he would stop at and strong. He exercised and the sergeant's desk for "Gelusel," an stretched religiously for years. For 7 antacid that he used for what seemed years or so, Norman was held in the to be a constant up et stomach. "hole. " One day he called down. Because I listened to a bit of jazz "Call the Sarge! Oh! Tell 'em I in my youth, we could converse on needa doctor! 1" the gifted artists of the genre, like "My stomachl Ohht," he King Pleasure, Betty Carter, John grunted. and Alice Coltrane, etc. with' a Hearing the alarm in his voice, I degree of ease 'that others, of the called, and so did several others, "Dr. Rap/Hip Hop era, coul� �ot. upl Sgt. upl 310 cellll! Dr. up]!" �e was �ercely opinionated and It took quite a while, perhaps 45 dehghted In a goo� argument .. minutes passed before a nurse Although �e �w up ,m New York, appeared at his cell, but it made little he spent time 10 Philly, and as a substantive difference, for she • qUI recommended Tylenol, a common pain killer which Norm promptly panned as worthless. "MAN, THIS STUFF ain't doin' notbin' for my stomachl," he growled, the pain audible beneath the rumble of his voice. It took days for Norm to be taken to the bospi tal, and when he returned, two days later, it seemed as worthless as the Tylenol he took days before. "How'd it go, Norman?" �Aw, man, they talkin' 'bout they can't find nothin' I," he replied. He continued to stop medical taff coming by t9 complain, and they took him out for more tests. About a week later, some guards came by to pack up his property, and to give the latest news on his health: Cancer. Cancer of the