10
in both Som li nd
biqu;
Pre ident BlS h houJd
encour e the immedi te
eployment of 3,500 U. wily
fo inSom i ;
se
$80 million of di
contlnu d from A 10
t urant opened in J n.
"Th t' why we need legi la
tion .. .if e're pro cted, then lot of
thin can't happen to ," aid Jef
frey Montgomery, pre ident of
Detroit' Tri ngle Found tion.
"(Le . lation that doe n't pecifical
ly prohibit di crimination gal t
homosexuals) create an implicit t
mo ph re th t ays it must be okay
because even the government would
upport uch actions."
THE GAY RIGHTS movement
often battled with tabli hment
group uch a the U.S. Marine
Corps, the Catholic Church and the
Boy Scouts of America.
Although the United Methodist
Church ha taken a firm stance
again t marriages between
homo exuals, the legal system
hould guarantee civil rights protec
tions for the gays and le bians, said
Dr. Robert Horton, a poke man
from the United Methodi t Western
Michigan Conference.
The tate of Michigan should've
provided civil rights protection for
the gay community a long time ago,
said Paul De nenfeld, legal director
for the American Civil Liberties
Union of Detroit.
"It' been avery, very sorry time
for the civil rights movement," he
said. "(And) it's a shame that it often
ends up being a battle between the
Republicans and the Democra ."
The national Republican Party
has taken an official lance against
gay rights, with conservative party
members such as Pat Buchanan
denouncing homosexuals during tbe
Republican convention.
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"IT'S THE misconcq>tiouof tbe
Far Right that the gay righ move
ment is trying to get special rights,
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They talk about incorporating 0
they can apply for grant monies, and
know they'll have to think about
licenses and other "official" things.
But for now, their main concern is
today's meal and how to fix up the
back room as reading and game area.
"We need a freezer, a vacuum
cleaner, storybooks, mops, brooms -
all that stuff," they say. And, of
course, their ongoing unspoken need
is for food and money.
YOU WONDER HOW they do
it, Ms. L and Ms. R, with their warm
" t thi point, n employer n
w I into the offic nd fire a
homo I - and t t' leg . We
j t want n even pi yin ield, " he
continu d.
Some Republican politici have
ken d g inst members of
their political p rty nd are upport
ing th gay righ movement.
"I know people that are pilla of
ociety whos on or d ughter re
g y," said Rep. Jan Dolan, R-Far
mington HU ,who will begin erv
ing h r third-term in January. "They
d erve the protection not to be di -
criminated against."
During the I t congre ional e -
ion, legi lation that would extend
federal protection to homo exual
received a record number of upport
ignature , with 115 from the U.�.
House and 15 from the Senate.
THERE HAS ALSO been an in
ere e of gay righ legislation out-
ide of W hington, D.C., with 116
cities, counties and tate throughout
the country now having civil rights
legi lation specifically protecting
hom xuals.
On the other hand, during the
recent campaign year, state like
Oregon and Colorado gave voters a
chance to pass legislation contrary to
the gay righ movement.
A measure that would've iden
tified homosexuality as "abnormal,
wrong. onnatura and perverse" w
e ed"l 91' Dl ·,:And: in
Colorado, all legislatioo protecting
homo xuals against di crimination
has been banned.
mile and weary eye. And you real
ize that there are women and men just
like them in our communitie
everywhere, unedu ated, marginally
trained, but posse sing the will and
the knowhow to queeze miracles out
of thin air to get our-children through
another day.
They're just two women, partofan
invi ible army of he roe , with cal
lused hands, blistered feet and hearts
as big as their dreams. .
Marian Wright Edelman is pre i
dent of the Children' Defense Fund.
a national voice for children.
The officers claim the hou e
where Green had topped to let out a
friend w th ite of a drug raid in
1991, and that apparently prompted
th initial police action detaining
Green.
Officer Budzyn said he believed
Green w holding crack cocaine in
his hand. Later that night, bours after
the beating, Budzyn gave investiga
tors four rocks of crac that he aid
Green was holding when con
fronted.
Green' mother admitted her on
used drugs. No medical reports have
been released to indicate whether or
not Green had drugs in his system at
the time of hi death. Friends and
family of Green all say he was not a
violent man, and was quite gentle.
Though police have refused to
identify the other officers, press re
ports list Sgt. Freddie Douglas, the
I only Black 'officer present, Paul
Gotelaere, James' Kijek, Karl Gun
ther and Robert Lessnau, All have
unli ted phone numbers.
WIDLE HIEF Stanley Knox
and Mayor Coleman Young have
both issued strong verbal statements
about the crime- Knox saying it
"brought tears" to his eyes and
Young saying it was "murder in any
body's language"-all of the offi
cers involved remained at large a
week later. The only action jaken
against them was to suspend them
wi thout pay.
No charges have been filed, no
arrests made, no pictures of the sus
pects splashed across papers or tele
vision news reports -all events that
are normal when Detroit citizens, es
pecially those of color, are accused
of a crime.
On Monday, November 9,
Bnmetta Brandy, an attorney repre-
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hav been con
e. They report
cene and drove
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t beatin or to report the incident.
for t qu tions rai ed by t
way th inv ligation i dragging on,
nei ther the Detroit Police Depart
ment nor the Michigan State Poli .
official cont cted by thi paper
would comment on why no ub-
lance ab e tes ts were admini tered
to the 0 ficers or why the investig
tion was not immediately taken over
by an ou ide force.
THE U .• JUSTICE Depart
ment's civil rights division and the
FBI are moni toring the police de-
Jo nn Wa on, e ecutive director
of the Detroit AACP branch, aid
the t response by prosecu rs aIX1
Kno would prevent violence imi
I to the riots in 1..0 Angel after
the cquittals of white office in the
beating of Rodney King.
Meanwhile 10 n w re-
flect a greater fear that th city will
erupt, thana pursuit of justice. New
reports portray th officers vic
tims of a tre ful job, who
" napped."
THE D continu to reit-
erate that the Green murder was a
freak incident, in contrast to the facts
they also report: that the city paid
$41 million last year in brutality et
tlements; that the two officers initi-
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S 100 bill ion urban policy experts say
is needed.
83 PERCENT of voting Blacks
voted for Clinton, and the Black
community now needs to expect
something back for their votes. .
Walters said the best way to
influence change is by mobilizing
through the local communities.
If communities are effective at
mobilizing at their level, then
elections will follow.
Blacks must overcome some
common attitudes and return to
mobilizing at the communi ty levels.
"We have orne voice out there
who ay "there is no (Black) agenda,
we should express our class
interest,'" Walters said.
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HE AID WIIA T that would
mean is middle-class people bauld
forget about the lower-income
people and "go for themselves" -
something he does not agree with.
"We've got some voices out there
that I think are really very naive in
terms of the competition that we face
and the level at which we face it."
He said the distance between the
"gra s roots" community and city
council is too great and is the reason
people aren't getting as much as they
could out of political mobilization.
Something must bridge that gap
in order to give people a sense of
involvement, in order to mediate
issue and in order to generate the
kind of pressures needed on Black
city councils, Black mayors and
Black members of Congres .
"We have it wrong, you see,"
Walters said. "When we elected this
first generation, we went bome and
sat down because they told us they
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"AND SO NOW we have to
realize that this city council thing
a certain kind of tructure that w
meant for a certain kind of
population." Not a minority. Not a
poor, Black minority. And so, if e
are going to use it, we b ve to
unders1and how.to change that, too."
Walters aid Blac ought to
think about community mobilization
because they �uld find themselves
needing it, even in the Clinton
administration.
Many seemed moved by Walters'
words. "I am one who thinks voting
is enough," s id Karen
Johnson-Webb, a Michigan Slate
University graduate tudent in
geography. "But it' not It' made
Ime thlnk."·· ,
Brain Synder of Lansing id
voting w only the beginning.
"We've got work to do," Synder
said. "I think we have to keep hope.
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