new p per. .
Edu lion re Ily i ongo­
ing and certainly not limited
to cl room tu • In fact
this very new paper that )'OU
are reading i in our e tima­
tion a m mber of the premier
"community college" y tem
in the nation.
The year 2000 lmostof-
ficially upon us. In many
w y , it i Ire dy here. Par­
ticularl y for many college
and universitie in thi
country, in terms of tudent
compositions, it Is here.
TWO 0 OUR bigge t
goal in 1993 are 1) to con­
tinue providing quality
opinion pieces and 2) to in­
crease the number of college
students reading these
newspapers.
One way to do thi is to
seek your direct assistance by
encouraging you to take out
subscriptions to this
newspaper for our college
OIlS, daughters, relatives and
friends.
Another way that will con­
. ue to promote the Pan
, . can press is by allow'
COllege tuden to ub i
gue t e • flit".
column.
Topics will vary, 0 if you
are lntere ted or know of
someone who educa­
tion topic in mind, let us
know.
We continue to believe in
the Pan African Press. At this
time, we would like to public­
ly thank the many newspapers
that run this column.
AT THE end of the year
for the past five years, we
have selected four
newspapers annually as our
agship newspapers.
Each year it has gotten
tougher because the pool of
newspapers continues to get
stronger. But this as you can
imagine is a pleasant situation
that should continue to get
even tougher.
One major stipulation is
that no newspaper is eligible
to be a flagship newspaper
two consecutive years. A
second stipulation is that the
column ran in the newspaper
for at last a ear. The follow­
ing are our first five years'
flagship newspapers:
1988: The Bakersfield
(CA) Observer, the Long
Beach (CA) Times, tile
Roanoke (VA) Tribune and
the San Bernardino (CA)
Precinct Reporter.
1989: The Florida Sen­
tinel-Bulletin (Tampa), the
LA 'Black Busine s Journal
(CA), New York Big Red
News and the San Diego
Voice & Viewpoint.
1990: The Buffalo (NY)
Criterion, the Las Vegas Sen­
tinel- Voice, the Richmond
(V A) Voice and the San Ber-
nardino (CA) Precinct
Reporter.: r
1991: The Chicago Inde­
pendent-Bulletin, the Los An­
geles News Observer, the
Memphis (TN) Silver Star
News and the Roanoke (VA)
Tribun .
1992: The Michigan
Citizen (Highland
Park/Detroit), the Las Vegas
Sentinel- Voice, the Los An­
geles Herald-Dispatch and the
Richmond (VA) Voice.
W TOLl> by pOlitical
experts that Clinton appealed
succes fully to hite suburban
oter , who made the critical
difference in the election. Ho true
this analysis?
A closer study of Clinton's real
constituency reveals that his prime
upporters were racial and ethnic
minorities, working class and poor
people, and people who depended
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el 0 ere the unprece en ed
gains cored by omen, La d
African Amerl • The number 0
omen in the Hou e of
Representativ soared from 28 to
47, with men in the Senate.
African American representation
in the House jumped to 38, n
inaeue 0 thirteen; and tbe n r
of Latino representativ ent from
ten to seventeen.
A Korean-American Republican
wu elected in California to the
HILTON: HIGHER EDUCA.­
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college wo reaMrs. Educa­
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d ta, eighty-two percent of 11
Afric n American ho voted
elec d CintOD, th t level 0
upport which the Democr tic .
candidate ould receive from any
group.
Clinton received u tan I
upport from Jewi h voters (78
percent) nd from Latino (62
percent). .
The intolerant, homophobic
character of the Republicans'
national convention w critical in
mobilizing millions of American
le bian and gays behind the
Democratic nomin . Estimates of
Clinton' Ie bian/gay vote in the
election re pproximately 75
percent.
WO G CLASS people and
the poor were 0 vital to Clinton'
victory.
Americans earning under $15,000
annually, upported the Arlta
Democrat by 59 percent, Other key
groups in this category include:
trade union member nd
members ofho�holds (55 percent),
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(61 perceni), Southem bite males
(48 percent), conservatives (65
percent), and people earning more
than $75,000 annually (48 percent).
If African Americans and Latinos
had stayed home from Polls, B h
would have receiv CI n rro
electoral college and popular vote
victory, A plurality of all white
voters went for Bush (41 percent)
over Clinton (39 percent) and Perot
(20 percent).
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By JAMES E. ALSBROOK
Did President Bush sendtroops to
Somalia in these last few days of his
presidency to portray himself in
history as a compassionate
hum ani tarian?
Did Bush calion the United States
and the United ations in this help
the helpless" gesture in order to live
again his Desert Storm glory of being
the dominant leader in contemporary
world affairs?
Did Bush respond to e
heart-wrenching urgings of a soul so
filled with the mil of human.
kindnes that he revolted at the
ghastly specter of human hunger,
want, and ufIering?
DID HE SEEK to give himself
and the 260 million citizens of''tbe
United States the satisfaction and the
moral "high ground" of feeding the
hungry, clothing the na ed, and
healing the sick - thereby obeying
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popular Biblical injunctions and
enjoying the self-satisfaction of
giving at Christmas time?
No matter which of the four
questions deserves a "Yes," all four
could contain orne measure of truth.
The greater truth, however, i that
the prostrate Somalia today i the
product of at least four major
misfortunes.
, They are that British colonialism
began tbere 106 years ago in 1886;
Italian colonialism began there in
1889; Cold War competition
b tween the United States and the
Soviet Union began there after World
War II; and murderous rivalrie
among everal large klan in
different ections of the country have
been going on for centuries.
The British and Italians were not
good colonists because they departed
or were forced t before
establishing viable sy terns of
government. They exploited the
natural resources and agricultural
products of Somalia.' '
, BECAUSE SOMALIA, on the
horn of Africa, was a strategic
location for both contestants in the
Cold War - the United States and
the Soviet Union - both so-called
superpowers wanted landing rights in
Somalia for their aircraft and seaport
rights for their various war ves els.
To get the e rights, both pow�rs gave
Somalia many millions of dollars
worth of armaments.
From 1966 to 1968, the United
States gave Somalia more than 100
million dollars worth of guns, true ,
tanks and other war material. Before
the United States made the deal with
Somalia, the Soviets already bad
given the Somalians millions of
dollars worth of war products before
opting for Egypt.
Reporter for Brili hand
American ne p pers say that the
and.
By PAUL ROCKWELL
Suddenly Malcolm X i
everywhere. In the glow of Spike
Lee' acclaim d epic, it i Y to for­
get that Malcolm w an Object of
wid pread censorship.
In 1961 th Univ rsity of Cali or­
ni stopped Malcolm from add
ing tudents and teac ers in BerkC\ey.
The French gove ent nd U.S.
State Department p vented Malcolm
frc»tW. �9� i 'P�' 'Ill 1
m flbirH . in theitJ. ,0' �1�MQltllll."
Maleoin\ \\Ant . ioO:ntt\ildh
publish major wo ks, turning hi
image into a caricat reo
America ilenced its most effective
leader in the early battle against drugs,
before crack cocaine became an Far ore thin I Fad
epidemic. Who calculates the co ts of Malcohn X was not a roc r, and
censorship and ignorance? An entire youthful ehth I m tbund his name
decade of ghetto youth grew up i not aping, ignorant fad. The rise
without the benefi t of Malcolm's of interest in Malcolm ref) a quest,
teachings about crime and self-indul- a yearning for new kinds ofleadership,
gence, about despair and elf-hate, especially d ire for chan in race
about the violence of the oppre r relations. Adults who wor with
against th oppressed. young people can sense an emerging
coftSCiousn . The dade period of the
1. , a period of dru and disil­
lusionment, may be passing from us.
Walter Dean Myer -who e new
biography, Malcolm ,X: By Any
Means Necessary, wilt soon appeal to
teenager across the country_:_.
reminded me in a recent interview of
anold Black piritual thatsays:"Please
don't let thi harpist pass."The new
X-climate offers a long-overdue op­
portunity for educators to overcome
the legacy of distortion and censor­
Ship. Here i a chance to make connec- -
tions with tuden and to participate
in a kind of teach-in 'about race in
America. In m opinion, all public
chool and librari have a respon­
sibility to make sure that teenage
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IT W AN "underground pub-
Ii her-now called Grove Pre s-that
first published The Autobiography of
Malcolm X, today' best- elling cl -
sic. It was Pathfinder Press, a' small
alternative publisher, that reproduced
many of Malcolm's speech .In lud­
ing hi talks with young people .
Smaij,dedicated African-American
bookstores-like Marcus Books in
Oakland and San Franci co - kept
Malcolm's teachings alive.
History mov quickly and is full
of surprises. Suddenly Malcolm X i a
household word. Attracted no doubt
by Malcolm' dynamism and defiant
pirit, Black, Latino, Asian, and White
youth are wearing X-cap and Mal­
colm tee- hirts. Mass intere t in Mal-
See MALCOLM, A10
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typical Somalian solder today wears
an American-made uniform and
carries Russian-made AK-47 rifle.
The major klans are the Issa in
Northern Somalia, the Hawiye in
Central Somalia and the Gadeni in
the ge rally southern area. Each has
its own territorial dominance and
political party.
The murderous rivalries among
lclans involve many thousands of
members and many hundred of
years of hostility.
fanatical killing today of Mo 'lems
and Hindus in India.
Just as the several f ctions in
Black Somalia today are starving
their ancient e nemle in a
centuries-old fight for domination, so
today are the Serb in white
Yugoslavia tarving the Bosnians to
minimize enemy resources a d
facilitate domination of their own
value, heritage and leadership.
Be u e of the prevailing
world-wide ecouomic recession and
because the United State bas slipped
below two former enemies, Germany
. and Japan, in economic and financial
stability and power, perhap this •
question is appropria :
Is Bush proclaimlng to e world
that world domination involves not
only commerce and finance, but also
the military power to punish or to
de troy anything anywhere on earth?
, .
TH lTUA nON in Somalia
today should not shame
African-Americans. It is similar to
that of the Hatfields and McCoys of
old-time Appalachian Kentucky, the
American Civil War between the
North and the South, the ethnic and
religious war today ravaging the
former Yugoslavia, the centuries-old
Ireland contlict, the Jcilling of foreign
workers today in Oermany, and the
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