THIS WEEK IN
BLACK HISTORY
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The program called CEOs Under
venteen.! the result of a joint effort
by the Detroit B' Initia ive of
Farmington Hills and the Detroitb
Joy of J , Inc.
Teenagers, 13 - 17, have been
attending cl twice a wee after
chool at the Detroit Center for
Entrepreneurship, new cility 10-
ca'ted on the campus of Joy of Jesus,
Inc. in the Ravendale community on
Detroit' cas ide. The pilot program
which started last October, is being
administered by the National Founda­
tion for Teaching Entrepreneurship
headquartered in ew YOI City.
KlNDA ANDERSON
Funding for the first cl of stu-
dents w secured by the Detroit Busi­
ne s Initiative and its founder Joel
diagnosed as potentially violent be­
cause of "irritability and uncoopera­
tiveness" out of reaction to bad
conditions, could grow up to be a fu­
ture Martin Luther King.
ONE PERSON reportedly said
that those who said that environmental
factors rather than biological factors
were responsible for violence, wi bed
to blame the problems-on capitali m.
AI Martin, Youth Coordinator of
Save Our Sons and Daught r (SO­
SAD), an organization e tablished in
the D troit area to prevent violence,
said that the idea that youn ters have
inherited tendencies toward violence
is "nonsense," adding that Black
young ters learn to be violent from
ociety.
He indicated when SO-SAD
showed young ters ways of olving
conflicts without violence, they were
ready to use them.
Material given to The Michigan
Citizen, quote Congre srnan John
Conyer (D-Detroit), an African­
American, aying last year that the
Health and Human Services Depart­
ment failed to give him information on
the project, ugg ting they wer, trea�­
ing it like a military ecret and thi
created di trust in the Black com­
munity,
Conyer him elf could not be
reached for confirmation or for an up­
date and hi taff members aid they
could not comment on the i ue.
M f P D concern
about efforts to manipulate the emo­
'ticnauives ofpe pIe, wheth r through
chemical m ans or ing environmen­
tal pre ure to creat p ivity and
conformity, th way Ald Huxley
d ribed in his own n vel Brave
ew World.
They note that Chri tian theologian
and writer C.S. Lewis warn d in the
40s that with both methods, a few
deci ion make who had no moral
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the voiced thi :
"Obviously dlronic aloom!ia have
not been deterred from drin1cjng to
excess by ... criminal sanctiom agaimt
publiC drunkness ... We canoot t aside
the centurie -long evolution
of ... concep whim the common law
utilized to as es the moral
aountability of an iOOividual for his
anti-social deeds. This process of
adjustment always been thought to
be the province of the states."
-197l' Furman vs. Georgia case
truck down the death penalty I
MarshAll concurred with the �ng
Protest
value th m elve , might b able to
control the moral value of the popula­
tion.
A local resident named Cindy
Owens, aid he intends to get chur­
che " PT As, civic organizations, prin­
cipals, teachers, parents· and other
concerned citizens together to oppose
the Federal Violence Initiative.
Sh wants concerned citizens and
community organizations to write
President Bill Clinton, Mlchigan
Senators Donald Riegle and Carl
Levin expre ing their opposition to it
and asking how they tand.
She i al going to a k African­
American officials, including former
Democratic National Chairman Ron
Brown and Marian Wri�ht Edelman
of the Children' Defense Fund, to
join th ern in xpres ing oppo ition to
th proje 1.,
BH Housing
Commi ion
elect offic rs
. The Benton Harbor Housing
Co ission recently elected their new
officers for th year of 1993.
They ate as f llowing: Jam FA
Turner, Pre ident/Chairman of the
Board; Ri ley Hill Vice-President; Dr.
Harzel Taylor, Treasurer/Chairman of
Finan e Committee; and newly
appointed Housing Commi loner,
Cora Robinson, Chief Deputy Probated
Regi trar, Bemen County Court, w
appointed Cbairperson of the Pe noel
Committee. Jimmy Caldwell, continued
a resident commi iorer,
OTICE
d notrepr
uthorized to condua 8l'tf
b 'n ,co lact any mon on
behalf or in the am of The
M chigan Citizen.
"These tuden have really done
well and I am confident that we will be
le to raise enough money to continue
Who war the only Black
member of th "Edison
Pioneers"?
FEBRUA Y 1, 1949 -
y ro n bec me the
. first African-American
gradu te of the U.S. Naval
demy. 1960 - Four orth
rolina A T tuden tage
the fi t it-in at an F.W.
Wool orth store in
Greensboro, .C. 1902 -
Play right, poet, author
ton u he ,W born.
What was Ethel Waters'
nickname?
FE UARY 2, 1807 -
Congre banned lave tra .
1933 - 97%, of African­
American college students
were enrolled in institutions in
the South. 1972 - Ben] min
Hoo w the first Black ap­
pointed to the Federal Com­
munications Commi ion.
What Nobel Peace Prize
winner played football and
basketball at UCLA in 1923?
FEBR UARY 3, 1861 -
Dr. Cbarle Henry Turner,
biologi t noted for his analy is
of insects, was born. 1956-
Autheriae Lucy enrolled as
the first African-American
student at the Univesity of
Alabama. 1837 - Black
leader, John Horse, belped
the Seminole Indians defeat
the U.S. Army in Battle of
Okeechobee.
Who, �u�h��ed th..tr G�fek
"Souls o/B'fitC'k 'frotlc'7 ,,' 1 :., ,
FEBRUARY 4, 1913 -
Ro a Par , civil rights
pioneer who sparked 1955
Montgomery bus boycott, was
born. On this day, Ap­
proximately half of th
women serving in the U.S.
armed forces in the Gulf War
were African-Americans.
1928 - Bill "BojangJe "
Robin on captured attention
of drama and music critics by
dancing on the legitimate state
in Blackbirds.
In what South Carolina city
is Voorhees College located?
FEBRUARY 5, 1934 -
Major league home run cham­
pion Henry Aaron was born.
1956 - L.R. Launer became
first African-American ad­
mitted to the National Press
Cl ub. 1 - Robert Smal
piloted a onfederat.e ship
into Union lines and IS later
named a naval commander in
the North.
What Con�ress prohibited
Black enlistment in the
American Army in 1775?
FEBRUARY 6, 1867 -
Robert T Doer Jackson be­
came first African-American
to receive a degree in den-
tistry. 1917 Henry
Jonu on and Needham
Roberts was awarded Croix
de Guerre by France for
bracery during World War I.
1984-1992 - The widely ac­
claimed Cosby Show began
and ended. On this day, Joe
Loul held heavyweight
b xi ng championship longer
(12 years), and defended it
more 0 ten (25 year ), than
anyone el e.
Name the invention for
which Henry Blair is credited
for receiving the first patent
awarded to a Black man.
ANSWERS TO BLACK
HISTORY QUESTIONS
1 1. - H ward Latimer.
1 t. - Sweet Mama
Stringbean.
2nd - Ralph Bunche.
rd - W.E.B, DuBoi .
'4th - D nrnark, SC.
5th - The Continental
C ngre. .
th - C m harve tcr.
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ab ive practices, such as pressuring
and forcing parents to drug their
children with Ritalin, resulting in mas­
sive psychiatric drugging of children, "
Breggin said.
Calling uch a program "Orwel­
\ian, totalitarian and racist," Breggin ADDING TO concern are remarks
warned that the chool screening pro- Goodwin reportedly made discussing
, gram would "frighten children and in- research finding about violent, "hy-
timidate their families." peraggressive" and "hypersexual"
It will scapegoat children for monkies, sugg ling that "the 1 of
America's problems and excuse social structure" within "the high iml
society from facing the true causes of pact inner city areas" has "removed
. . 'ties uch as, om of the civilizing evolutionary
or things we have built up."
. Goodwin reportedly suggested that
......... __ "_ ... _�e« it may not b "just the carel use of
the word when people call certain
areas of certain ci ties' jungles."
Because most people in the inner
city are Black or other minorities, Continued from AS
Breggin charged these remarks were Treopia Anderson, one of about 30
racist.
It was impo ible to reach member people in the predo�t1y �lack
of Health and Human Services or audience, urged commuruty residents
bodi ho d to "take a tand."
oth r government res w a vo-
cated the Federal Violence Initiative . She suggested taking their protest
for their comments. directly to acirk County school super-
In material given by Breggin, how- intendent Brian Cram.
'ever, government officials reportedly Tate said the alliance is continuing
said that Goodwin's works were not its push for a civilian control board_to
meant to be racist and one The oversee the police department, "not
Washington Post, science writer, this advisory nonsense but a real con­
Boyce Rensberger, defend Goodwin, trol board that has tb ability to ter­
claiming that "monkey re earch,
which has been widely recognized minate someone if it becomes
within science for decades applies to necessary."
human beings across th board-to But Byron Stringer, a Black Las
the extent that we share kinship with Vegas police officer, warned the
the rnonkies." audience against stereotyping. police
officers. "You can't watch TV and say
all of M tro's bad," h said.
A
I
ying:
"1bete' but one concns on that can
be drawn (from the his ry of capital
puni hment}-the death penalty i
e ive and unmcessary punishment
that violates the Eigth Amendment (to
the Constitution)."
-Procunier . Martinez, in 1974,
limited the power of prison officials to
censor rison inma ' mail. MmbalJ
agreed:
"Whether O. Henry authoring his
short stories in a jail cell or a frightened
young inmate writing his family, a
prisoner need a. medium for elf
exp ion."
poor women. Marshall thunderously
roared in <tissen •
"An indigent worn n denied
govemment fuOOing for a modlically
necessary abortion that poses a sen
threat to her health and even her life.
Alternatively, he may attempt to bear a
child, a course that may both
significantly threaten her health and
eliminate any chance she nUght have
had to control the direction of her own
life."
BREGGIN COMPARED put- .
ting Black children under psychiatric
institutional control with the. vast
numbers of Black youth and dults
already subjected to the criminal jus­
tice ystem.
"FrOm age 5 to 35, Black children
and young men will be ubject to in­
stitutional apartheid," Breggin said.
Breggin sent The Michigan Citizen
what he said was a copy of a peech
Goodwin made to the American
Psychiatric Association.
In the speech, Goodwin did not
claim that inner ci ty children as a
whole lacked serotonin, but said he
was concentrating on the inner City,
because the government wanted to
take a look at children that would be
"high risk" for violence, because of
social class and residency in "high im­
pact areas".
Goodwin was reputed to have
added, that "the majority" ofinner city
youngsters on't uccurnb" to
violence and so "simple efficiency in­
volves trying to figure outw�chofthe
children real 1 y need the help- th most
because these are v�ry intensive and
very expensive interventions that are
required and the earlier th better."
Breggin called this a disguise for
racism.
o
"A POLITICALLY·
VOLATILE re earch project that
claims to be applicable to anyone, but
then focuses on an oppressed minori ty
becom racist. A biomedical inter-
· vention that 'claims to be universal,
when aimed at a racial minority be­
come racist," Breggin aid.
Dr. WolfWolfensberger, Profe or
of the Division 0 Special Education
and Rehabilitation in New York
State's Syracuse University, warn d
I t year that harmful drugs were used
as a form of "deathmaking" for people
with mental handicaps and other.
"devalued people" including
prisoners.
Some sugge t that under the
Federal Violence Initiative, the
children involved could be defined as
"mentally handicapped," beca of
the theori about violence and ub­
jected to drugs in thi process.
Breggin ys th t "healthy children
wh re ist inking int apathy within
a degrading environment may develop
rage and violence in their attempts to
-snrvive," adding that the u e of
medications and government in­
trusion t the.age of three might inhibit
BI c youngsters wh could find posi­
tive ways to top Injustice.
He warned that om on who w
. greed with 1976's
U.s. . AgtllS' . on to wi'lb1m1d Il"
some infonnation favorable to criminal
defendcn .
"One of the most b ic elements of
fairness in a criminal trial is that
available evidence tending to how
Inoooeoce, well that tending to
show guilt, be fully aired before the
. " .
JUry.
-Harris \'S. McRae, in 19ro, ruled
that the federal government and the
states do not have to fwxj abortions for
o , 01
Worse, he warned that the TrilJaJ
Council might "sell out certain (treaty)
right " the Indian had, wi thout
anyone knowingwhat was going on. ,
"Th Feds want to terminate Indian
overeignty," bestowed by treaty,
Camber said.
Bernard Bouschor, head of the
Tribal Council for the Sault Ste. Marie
Chippewa Indians, was not available
for comment at the time of thi writing.
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