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THE international
peacekeeping fon:e sl¥>uld �
on the distribution of the
humanitarian uppli . At the
same time, we must realize that
our involvementcanoot be MIt­
teon. We must work with the
U.N. 10 help rebuild a govern­
ment in Somalia.
We most act now, b we
must clarify our goals. In addi­
tion to sending in troops tbr a
limited time period, we must
declare our commitment to U.N.
Involvement to help rebuild the
Somali 20Vcmrm
. lbe cha<
rei
'tation; boys
withmacbinc gum who belong to
no particUlar group roam the
- ooUl1tryside. Multiple clans are
fighting eac.b other, am different
warl08ds oonttol diffezent pam
of oountry. No o� is safe.
The 'tuation deteriorated
ever lnce Mohammad Siad
Barre, dictator of Somalia for 21
years, Qed the country, Barre
used �ity between clam to
stre�n his rule. The damage
from this divide and conquer
stJategy m1 from. the emuing
chaos will rot be Y to solve.
The U.N. ml5trestoreorderto
Somalia. With the erxl of the
Cold War, the United Nations is
entering a rew em. Somalia rep­
resents the t)W of problem the
international community will
face in this new world. I believe
it is appropriate that these
problems be solved collectively
by the community of nations
rather than by an individual
coontry,
UNFORTIJNATELY, the
Ulited Nations � been slow to
respooo to the cmis in Somalia.
U.N. ageoocs are not effectively
coordinating their relief effoi1S,
and private relief organizations
have expressed filstJation with
the lackofU.N.leadersmp.
The U.N. is having difficulty
successfully expanding its
responsibilities. As the only
remaining superpower, the
United States must 1alce a leader­
ship role aM work with the U.N.
to help it develop the ability to
cope with Somalia and similar
problems elsewhere in the world.
If we simply allow the itua�
don to deteriorate, I believe the
whole region is threatened.
Kenya, for example, is burdened
with refugees from Sudan and
Soqlalia well as with im own
drought victims. Several other
CO\Dltries in Africa face �
BOO civil strite. In addition, there
is the threat tl\8t religiol5 Canada
may gain a greater footMld in
these coUntries that are in chaos.
Today the crisis is in Somalia.
Tomorrow it could be Mozambi­
queortbeSudan. However,ifwe
can help the U.N. adjust to im
post-Cold War role, it can
respol¥l to ituatiom around the
world before they reach these
tragic proportions.
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like to think of their
eing the b tion of
fiecdo hi are outlined in our
Con titution-the freedom of
peech-and 'tic ezpre ion, the
fiecdom of the pre and political
id • Yet throughout our hi tory,
uca fIeedoms have been routinely
denied political minoritie in our
nation.
Writers, novelis , playwrights,
nd . college profe sor "Were
periodically silenced at variou
times, ually on grounds of their
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politi .
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d loy ty 0 for c . With
the outb 0 th Cold ar gainst
Communi m in 1946, other 15
initiated loyalty legi lation for
teachers. Controversial intellectua
ere barred from peaking at many
unive itie, including J. Robert
Oppenheim r, the inventor of th
tomic bomb; W.E.B.Du Boi , th
founder of th .A.A.C:P. and th
I ding BI c American cholar; and
noted rti tic performer Paul
Ro on.
Boo by peered intellectuals
were burned nd removed from
library helv ; rti and writers
who bad prevlo ly been members of
th Communi t Party or who held
even liberal poli tical sentiments were
refused employment.
Teachers were particularly
vulnerable. In 1949, the National
Education As celation, which then
had 425,000 members, tated that
individuals who had joined the
Communist Party h d ab olutely no
right to teach in any classroom.
The American Federation of
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concept- But. where'e its
celebrity endoreemerrt '?
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By JAMES E. ALSBROOK
Intense squabbling among
Republicans has developed in some
cities because Republican
conserva ti ves are blaming
Republican moderates and George
Bush for the recent defeats in
national and local elections. But just
as Hoover was the "fall guy" for
conservatives' greed and bigotry in
the twenties, 0 is Bush today.
What really happened is that the
moderate George Bush, basically a
"live and let live" human being, was
in the wrong place at the wrong time.
He was victimized by two eparate,
interacting Ie gacle from
tum-the-clock-back conservatives
Nixon and Reagan.
From Nixon, Bush inherited the
racism Nixon drummed up during
and after his 1968 campaign with his
"Southern trategy" that catered' to
prejudices an!1 pecial privilege
cravin of those wanting to return to
"Gone With The Wind" Dixie.
From Reagan, Bush inherite4 an
intensification of Nixon's appeal to
race prejudice along with the
"voodoo economics" that led to a
climate favoring the scandalous
Savings & Loan billion-dollar
taxpayer disaster and Reagan's
deliberate and shocking export of
thou and of American jobs to
foreign, cheap-labor countries as was
shown recently on "60 Minutes, "
It is ironic that many whites who
voted for Reagan because he oppo ed
equal employment opportunity have
no jobs now because Reagan
deliberately helped send jobs abro d.
• Nixon began his attacks on Black
people by nominating for the
Supreme Court a known enemy of
civil right progre ,Clement
Haynsworth Chief Judge, U.S. Court
of Appeal , fourth circuit, South
Carolina.
Then he nominated G. Harrold
Carswell, judge of ,the Fifth U.S.
r, co ervativ
new, prin 'pled w�r
"mul ticultur Ii m ,
mn tive ction, d innov tive
cou uch omen' tudie.
Education i once g in
b ttleground for F r Right, whi h
ee to silence the voi of cultural
and political ch nge, hich are
eeking to fo ter n cademic
environment open to gender, ci I
and cl diversity, Conservative
would ctually be the I t to 0 er
faculty appointment to omeone ith
the radical cultural politic of
omeone like Rushdie.
The Rushdie case, and the leg cy
of poli tical intolerance by American
conservativ ,forces us to k th
que tion, "Wh t i Freedom?"
Freedom i more than a et of
legislative provi iOns. and legali tic
n
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Court of Appeals in Florida. The
Senate rejected both candidates
because of their prior actions
demonstrably hostile to the concept
of equal justice for all and because of
their unsatisfactorily explained
ethical and financial activities.
Nixon tried to save face with
Black voters by throwing small
financial crumbs to some Black
businessmen and by having himself
photographed on television with
Sammy Davi Jr., Pearl Bailey,
Lionel Hampton and other Blacks
who unwittingly facilitated the
Nixon charade of pretended concern
for the progres , of Black people.
Reagan continued the anti-Black
conservative Republican camapaign
by beginning his bid for the 1980
presidential election in the Ku Klux
Klansmen' nest of Neshoba County
near Philadelphia, Miss.
This w hi nrst top - thi
scene of the 1964 murder of three
civil rights wor eIS named Andrew
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Dr. Manning Marable i
Professor of Political Science .
Hi tory at the University of: �
Colorado-Boulder. "Along the .,
Color LiM" appears in over 250
publications, and is broadcast b
more than 60 radio lations
intel7UltwMUy.
READERS WRITE
I admit I fell good about the ex- __ --------­
plo ion of lntere t in Malcolm X.
What better life model for .youthful
"gang bangers" to leave clime and be­
come revolutionarie , eeking to trans­
form the very ocial cause and
institutions which placed them in
gangs and crime in the first place?
On the other hand, leaders such
as Angela Davis have pointed out, the
commercialization of the "X" and the
gangsters and sexist pects of rap­
hiphop culture must be cleansed by the
youth themselves for thi new powerful force for change to fulfill its
potential. I I ' .. ) n I' ,
SlftP"tllt -clriHilRtlt
him. • So we are being sold X' now we must turn them into I
hanging knots with which we collar the exploiters and racists, "X­
propriate the expropriators and the powers that be today.
John H�nry, Detroit
'Green revive Algier inju tice
I believe that its the reincarnation spirits of Carl Cooper, Auburey
Pollard and Fred Temple that moves the people to gather at the corner
of West Warren &. 23rd day after day - night after night ever since
Nov. 5, 1992 - when Malice Green was beaten to death by police
officers.
-It's really uncanny-
They come bearing gifts and mementos - they pause to talk or
whisper to others so gathered, then move on.
Copper, Pollard and Temple (three unarmed Black men) you recall
were beaten, shot and killed by three white Detroit Police Officers on
Tuesday, July 25, 1967 - inside the Algiers Motel. The beatings were
sava�e; Auburey Po 11 ards ' face was beaten off, half of his eye was
hanging out of his he d; Carl Cooper's groin was shot out.
And the three white police officers: Ronald August, Robert Paille
and David Senak ... never served a day for their crime. .
Justice was not served. Less we forget.
Anthony W.shlngton, Detroit
of
Goodman, Michael Schwemer, and
James Chaney.
The fact that this place wa
Reagan's first campaign stop and the
fact of hi strong appeal for approval
and votes in this area of murderous
racism amounted to an expression of
comradship with local people and a
eeling of identification with their
violently racist attitudes, policies,
and actioDS.
For Reagan, votes came first, with
ethics, national unity and personal
integrity ubordinated to
opportunism.
Plea ed with thi implicit
endorsement from Reagan, racists
like David Duke and others became
bolder, joined their friendly
conservative Republican friends and
won political offices. Others
published hate literature at an
accelerated pace and ent mailings
and representatives to many states,
some going a far as Idaho and
Montana. Others joined police forces
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in various cities and instituted
brutality practices that remain today.
But conservative Republcians
made. other conspicuous
contributions to the defeat of B h.
Among these were their policy on the
Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill is ue,
the religious right self-righteo�:;Ulllll
and fundamentalism issue, the
abortion issue, the economic
recession fathered by Reaganomics,
the enormous national debt built up
main! y by Reagan and Bush, the
deliberate exporting of job , the
Reagan-Bu h four billion dollar
savings and loan disaster weighing
on us taxpayers and our children, and
a nation divided by cl animosity
and politicized race prejudice.
The Republican conservative '
formula for uccess TWO b c
ingredients. They are (1) GREED,
and (2) RACISM.
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