,
By TUREKA TURK lanta, Baton Rouge, �troi rAkron,
and other cld plan to a
lchlq action uit gai t the .s. govern-
Amidst empty, temporary New ment, ccordlng to Je .
Year's resolutions promising better Also at the January 2nd meeting
jo , financial tability, and healthier N'COBRA planned to spread repe.ra­
li(i lY. ,the reparations movement tions ware throughout the nation
resolved, in a January 2nd meeting in with a march on W hington, planDcd
that nation' capital held by for sometime between now and 1994.
N'COBRA (National Coalition of The up call for reparadons is
Blacks for Reparations in America), to not j t limited to the United Sta ,
right wrongs impo ed on African- Jenkins ys. The board received let­
Americans for uncompensated and ters from Brazil and PeN. ctivis in
unrecognized' contribution to this PeN want to reclaim the gold stolen
country. . from them by Portugal, now filling
Reflecting i new attitude and new Portuguese churches.
face, N"COBRA . created a 1994 The world reparatio conVention
deadline for Detroit Congressman planned for March 15 in Nigeria is a
John Conyer' Reparations Bill, evidence of the increased pan-African
�hich bas been held .up in Co� • involvement. Reparations leaders
mce 1989, according to Detroit from all over the -worid will be in
N'C,OBRA board member Ray attendance to di cus strate iel
Jenkins. designed to dvance the world repara-
If no action is seen by then, with the tio truggle,
help of its ever-increasing pan- And it is
Africanist conaecdo • tronaer tac.. reparation 1
T'}*I3t�;'''';DIIII .�=b��;tt! �);,�;�d- be put into n 10 how the not
world that juatice will be done for 400 d medc�
yem of wrong inflJcted on Africans, .
mg.
Jenkins said.
"Their 'right-wing' religious
IF THE 1994 deadline is not met, fanaticS bow us clearly the d�on
N'COBRA board members from At- See GROUP, AS
I7EEDING THE HU RY? 0 P e prop g nda that th U. S.
military 18 In Som lIa Of hum nltarlan purpose only, thl
picture of a marine from Maine soundly kicking Somali
youth for rock-throwing I dl turbing to mo t African
American who fear th real r a on for U. S. occupation a
yet to be known.
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See PLANTATION, Pag A-8
earc for clue
plantatlon life
.
BY TOM SZAROLETA
E HIL TON HEAD ISLAND PACKET
HILTON HEAD ISlAND, s.c.-Coritrary to local legend, the Stoney­
Baynard mansion, built in the early 18� in what is now Sea Pines,
was never lost in a card game or torched by Union troops.
But the real story may be just
interesting, said Michael Trinkley,
an archaeologist with the Chicora
Foundation who's back bn Hilton
Head studying the ruins of the is­
land's only tabby mansion.
This is the third season of work
by archa�l�t the south is­
land site/Witlf excavations this
time tatting within the planta­
tion's main house and extending to
another structure nearby.
Legend has it that William Bay­
nard won t�lantation from Capt.
John Stoney in an all-night poker
game. But Trinkley said records
show that the legend is untrue.
By RON SEIGEL
meeting, Monday, January 11, 1993.
A public hearing will be held before
the meeting at 6:00 pm. A previous
public hearing was held Monday
January 4, 1993.
Highland Park Mayor Linsey
Porter stated it was necessary to chose
leff, even.thoughhe lived outside the
state, because no Highland Park rm
had th expertise to get the proj in
operation. He emphasized that cas no
gamblingwas necessary in order to get
. jobs and tax producing businesses, in
order to make up for the loss of in­
dustry, uch as Chrysler Corporation.
HIGHLAND PARK-Robert leff, a
white man living in Florida, born and
raised in Detroit, was cho en by the
city administration of the
predominately Black city of Hi�hland
Park tolaunch the ity's gambhng ef­
forts.
Under a joint venture with the city,
using city-owned land off Hamilton
between the Davi on Expressway and
Glendale, Zeff propo e an entertain­
ment center that could be used for
casino gambling; if legalized by the
state.
, The Highland Park City C uncil
. may v te on the propo at at its next
Q.
How can
we combat
in · utionaliz d
racism?
J.. PAUL: ·We should ban
together and support one
another in whatever we do.
That's the most impqr ant
thi.ng."
?
porated a company to deal with the
project only one week before. It is
caned the Highland Park Horizons
Development Corporation and Zeff.
declared that so far he was the only
person in the corporation.
Highland Park Mayor. Linsey
Porters said the terms on which' the
new corporation will get the land were
still in negotiation. When asked
whether his corporation would pay for
the land, Zeff said this was still subject
to negotiations. .
Highalnd Park Mayor Linsey
Porter gave a copy of a tenative agree­
ment to every member of the city
council, but he refused to give a copy
to 'f!le Michigan Citizen, saying that
because negotiations were still going
on, this would not be available to the
press.
He emphasized that while the
negotiations were going on, they
would have to be kept from the public.
He added, however, that there was a
good deal of citizen participation in
the negotiation process.
"The council president (Dwight
Downes) is with me step by tep," he
said, adding members of the commit­
tee responsible for getting the referen­
dum vote favoring casino gambling in
. the [ast election, were working with
hi and providing input.
S CASINO,A7
CHARLES A IT: ·We have
to start b II'n economically
- owning ht} corner gas sta­
tions and bread store ."
HENRY ICOU: ·We should
control our money and corn­
munity, then we could build it
up and help our own. •
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