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Schott' controversial reign
over b eb 11' olde t
fran hi e, th Cincinnati Re ,
might have gone too f r.
Schott' racial remar , both
public and priv te, ve many
eing red and calling for her
removal.
Schott, who purchased the
controlling h re of the
b eb 11 team in 1984, que -
tion of control came under t­
t ck when an ex-Red
controller filed law uit ex­
posing the allegations. Having
gone through three general
managers, Schott admits that
ba eball i not one of her
greate t trengt .
Her ignorance of the game
well as racial' ues came to
the forefront when she repor­
tedly referred to her outfielders
Eric Davi and Dave Parker as
her "million-dollar niggers."
Schott denies that accusation
but doe own up to the use of
the slang slanders, "Jap" and
"money-grubbing Jew ". One
general manager wa fired
from the team for not upport­
ing her discriminatory hiring
practices. Schott employ one
minority out of 45 in the front
office.
Other defamations made by
Schott include allegations of
her aying he'd "rather have a
trained monkey working for
me than a nigger" and her
saying that "Hitler w good in
the begi� buUlc-Wliill�'"
far." Schott de_nies_MLaJlega­
tions. Reactions to th� alleged
slurs vary, creating yet another
diVision among the whites and
Blacks.
Jazz great Lionel
Hampton honored
Jazz legend Lionel
Hampton is among this year's
half-dozen Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts
honorees. Hampton is known
for many things, including
making the vibraphone a jazz
instrument and fostering
young talent uch as Quincy
.Jone , Charlie, Parker, and
Clifford Brown.
Hampton, in his departed
wife's memory, also endows .
scholarships that help resi­
dents of a New York low-in­
come housing project.
Homeless Black
man beaten by
Ha idlm'
BROOKLYN-While going
through a garbage can late one
night, Ralph Simmons, a
homeless Blackrnan was
.; beaten by as many as 20 Jewish
men.
Simmons, 25, was search­
ing for discarded clothing in
the Jewish sect of Brooklyn
when he was confronted by a
Hasidic man. The man ques­
tioned Simmons on his actions
and said he was going to detain
him until the police arrived.
Within a few minutes, the
other Jewish 'men arrived and
tried to hold a resisting Sim­
mons. It was then that the
group beat him withasmall bat
and a radio while yelling racial
lurs,
New York Police Commis-
ioner Raymond W. Kelly says
that the beating is a bias case
based on different accounts
given by Simmons and two
witnesses.
"Some people might think
that whites are taking over the
city, but that isn't so," Rich
ide "But the whites moving
in are an important group be­
cause they're the only people
involved in the regentrification
process. The c� ty needs their
income to become a
pro perous place."
THAT C ARlO W played
out gain on ovember 5, wh n new
list was compiled and turned over to the
Michigan Department of Agriculture.
The complaints from that list in­
c1ud the following:
G d River Meat, located at 8428
Grand River, dead ro ches were
present within the store. Stat Inspec­
tors found a roach infe tation. The
owner w cited and ordered to exter­
mina .
Grand Pri Food Center, 12955
Grand River, sell-by date on packaged
meat w difficult to loca . After an
inspection, Harold Zorlen, regional su­
pervisor, for the Department of
Agriculture said, "They had the date in
the wrong lot, it was where the pounds
and price should have appeared."
Prince ood Center, 16950
G nd River, di played discolored
por with dvanced expiration d t .
(An advanced expiration da . when
kaged m t have an ppearance of
poil but an ditional Yen
days before expiration.)
rket, 12421 Hay ,meat
rved c nging dat on meat.
n 8410 Woodward, a
fowl odor permeated the tore, a
security guard blasting a boom box,
could not give an explanation as to why
there was a 20 day mark up on di -
colored packaged meat.
Pride uper M rket, 1203
East Warren, open baggies of ham
hocks and other meats offered for sale.
Ch n Community Market, 3562
Cbene, residents romplained of meat
being re-wrapped. (Re-wrapped meat
is packaged meat that has passed i
expiration date, the old wrapper is
pulled off and replaced with a new
wrapper bearing current date.)
Universal, Market, 16226 Warren,
on November 5, 1992 rommunity in-
.Conyers accuses
�ep_,!blic_anS_ ... ,_o� ... _f I
trying to keep power-
By RON SEIGEL
Michigan Citizen
DETROIT - Congressman Conyers
told members .of his 14th district
Democratic Party during their Novem­
ber meetings, that despite the victory of
Bill Qinton over President George
Bush in the November election;
Republicans in the Reagan and Bush
Administration were using legal tricks
to keep Republicans in power.
Conyers said there were efforts to
redefine the job of Bush political ap­
pointees in order to put them in top civil
service vacancies, so they could not be
removed by a Democratic administra­
tion.
Conyers, who is head of the
Government Operations Subcommit­
tee. said he was preparing a letter
directed to every government agency
remining them that this wac; illegal pro­
cedure.
"We caught them (the Republicans)
with their hand in the cookie jar and
made them take their hands out and
take the cookies back," he said.
Because of this effort, he said, if
former appointees wanted a civil ser­
vice job, "they would have to apply for
a job through civil service like
everyone else."
nvironmental
lated
conference
"Rebuild America on a foundation
of environmental justice" is the mes­
sage to be' ucd at one of the most
important' environmental justice and
freedom movement gatherings this
year.
Community leaders from a broad
array of southern community organiza­
tions, labor unions, family farmers,
tenants, farm workers, churches, youth
groups, universities, women's or­
ganizations are conferring at New
Orleans' Xavier University December
4-6. The conference sponsor is the
Southern Organizing Committee for
Economic and Social Justlce. Its goal
is to coordinate and strengthen a grow-
, ing political movement for environ­
mental j usticc.
STUDIES CONFIRM THAT the
South receives 65 percent of the
nation's hazardous wastes, which in­
volves the practice of dumping waste
and locating poi onous industries
where people of color- African­
Americans, Latino-Americans, Na­
tive-Americans-and non-affluent
whites reside, said a spokesperson for
the Southern Organizating Committee
(SOC). •
The mo ement demands improve­
ments in employment, housing, educa­
tion, and health care, and calls for the
�nd to Black land I , and targeting of
Southern tates as the nation' dumping
ground for hazardous and radioactive
wastes and poisonous industries, espe­
cially in communities where people of
color live.
Speakers, supporters and endorsers
include the following prominent in- ·
dividuals and organizauors: Dr. Ben
Chavi • Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Anne
Braden, the Federation of Southern
Cooperatives, Southern Rainbow
Education Project, the Southern Chris­
tian Leadership Conference, everal
labor unions, churches, and many
more.
" ••• OUR ORGANIZING IN the
South will force a change in national
and state governments and in the cor­
porate board rooms.
We will put in motion a plan
developed at the conference thereby
creating the largest national job pro­
gram in history ... to stop industries and
government from poisoning people of
color and poor white communiti in
the United States and in the developing
world. We will campaign to restore the
health of our communities ... and
promote the common good of our com­
munities" said a released statement
For more information about th
conference, contact: at Bryant,
SOC/acro, 1866 N. Gayoso Street,
ew Orleans, I.A 70119, 504-949-
4919;
pectors found d d fli in the me t
cooler.
Warren had di olored p t dated m at
pre-frozen for future le Baggi of
chicken min ll-by date and con­
tainers th ize of a mall trash bag of
ground hamburger with 1 rge lump of
tallow, (the hard fat from cows.
h mp' on M rk t, 1 125 M ,
residents complained that me of the
m at was di colored, p t dated and
rewrapped.
ve Center uper M rket, 13243
East Warren, re idents complained of
large sections of past dated meat frozen
for future ale.
Community inspectors say th y got
an eerie feeling on ovember 25th,
after walking into Topp uper­
market at 7300 Wes,t Warren and
found the fre h meat department
tripped of it' contents. Th only thing
remaining, were five 10 pound p ils of
chiuerlings,
AN lRAT HOPPER corn-
plained to a store clerk that her child
became ill after eating meat she had
purchased there.
A phone call to Dr. E.C. Heffron,
divisional dir ctor of the Michigan
Department of Agriculture regarding
th unusual situation at Topp Super­
market was to no avail.
piration date.
Merchant Food Center, 2819 East
Seven Mile, residents complained of a
foul odor around the meat cooler. Trash
and weeds surround the tore area.
The sale of unfit food i not the only
problem in the Inner-city.Although the
law forbids it, there are also reports of
som inner-city stores opening pack­
ages of sanitary napkins and elling
them individually.
The Eastside Emergency Center (EEC) recently played center stage for several hundred homeless
persons. Homeless persons received food and clothing donated by Metropolitan Detroit Pizza, Inc.
and an anonymous philanthropist from the suburbs (who is concern dwith the survival of Detroit and
the homeless). Pictured are: '{top )Residents being served at the Eastside Emergency Shelter.
(Bottom) Moses Findley, Jr. (G airman), Rev. Ann Johnson (Ex l;rtiveDirector), Councilman Gill Hill,
Councilman Nicolas Hood. In the background homeless clients of the Eastside Emergency Shelter.
If you wish to give your assistance to the homeless with a tax deductible donation of clothing, food,
furniture or money, call 824-3060, Eastside Emergency Center, 14320 Kercheval, Detroit, MI 48215.
Rev. Ann Johnson, Director.
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