EDITORIAL ing in an intervi with his c n new pape , De it yor Coleman Young began an apparent, though unan- no� cam ign r . n. U Iy, Y tired.wom-o t th th t I to here. Invoking th peeter of . m: the police 0 lee h ld over from days 0 unit for police brutality. Young aid in the interview that though som Bla officers are involved with brutality, it i m t often whi officers. . Then Ma�ar p�ed .the police aviation scandal, where police J flew pohtcal bigwigs to Us Vegas for gambling trips and brought in the the otre Dam coach fa suburban school fundra�r, on � Irish �p who h been at Young' side, uQ under him and m a posmon of power over the years. . In both cases Young was taking th easy way out The interviewer 1 t him lide, allowing the Mayor to slip past the fact that he, Coleman Young, is in tge and p<}osibl. He i t& one who appoints the ineffective police commission that acts oversight H appoints the chief who w minding th store when these things happened. H I ds an entire generation th t has failed the young people both by example and in dearth of opportunities offered. THAT RACISM IS ultimately behind urban ills, we do not argue. Only racism can explain a nation's willingn to write off the inner cities largely populated by people of color. But when we re in charge of the watch and have control of certain resources and the power to acomplish certain things, we must be held accountable for our charge. To whom much has been given, much will be asked and to whom little is given, something will also be asked. . It is time to stop pointing fingers, summoning up the specter of racism. It accomplishes nothing, offers no future and solves no problems. , After staunchly opposing for years, all efforts at hand gun control south of Eight Mile, the Mayor's most insulting revela­ tion in the recent interview was his proposal for crime control. Lamenting the loss �f youn� life, he proposes that when reports come in to . of 0 Ie . in�u" n their car, au d rdon everyone 1 ·lAtd friSkect.' �"'I¥l7'�t- We all grieve for the young that are dying. We grieve for all the lost youth caught up in the criminal justice system, the miseducation system, at the point in life when they should be preparing for their future. But taking away civil liberties is no way to rolve the probl m. First, get rid of the guns. It isa proposal Young hru oppo. ed again using the divide-and-confuse tactics of racism. The Mayor has said he will neve.r support gun control south of Eight Mile as long as folks above the city limits have unchecked access to guns. IT IS NOT the folks north of Eight Mile who are killing each other or us. It is us killing us. It is up to us to stop the madness. Our goal hould be to disarm the community, and eventually even the police. Ironically, the Young administration's economic develop­ ment projects have almost exclusively assisted major corpora­ tions. That emphasis has come at the expense of the' neighborhoods, the very breeding grounds of death, Young deplores. While HUq housing dollars helped build exclusive waterfront digs to lure back suburbanites and to enrich the Mayor's friend AI Taubman, public housing and neighborhoods lid into despair breeding the gun-toting youth who ee lif ch ap as their lders have made it. Thi is not a Black or white issue. It i an issu of too many guns combined with too little opportunity to make an honest living. To throw color in the picture only confuses th question. Make it illegal to have a gun below Eight Mile. Then work for national gun control. To us that makes a sensible eff rt to attack the problem. To abridge constitutional rights while abdicating one's own respon ibility i unconscionable. Take away the gun " not our rights. By JAMES E. ALSBROOK If Bill Clinton really wan hi tory to proclaim him on of the great presi­ dents of thi nati n, he can realize that ambition by continuing he great movement toward freedom, justice and equality "m v d" by Abraham Lincoln and " econded" by Lyndon Johnson. Lincoln in 1863 i. u d the Eman­ cipation Proclamation that freed the hundreds of thousand of slaves in th rebelling firs n - tionallega aboli h sl�lY..� __ leJttlIl.u_d State. This was the first "strike" ,...---------------------------�--------­ toward counting slavery "out." About 100 years later in the nineteen sixties, Johnson threw the econd trike in "counting out" slavery and its abhorrent remnants. Johnson supervised and engineered the prssage of civil rights law guaranteeing 3lack people equality in public accommoda- , tions, voting, educati nal opportunity, employment opportunity, property purchasing and in other crucial areas. The e law constituted the second tep upward for Black pcoolc and were the ccond strike in "counting out" the ogre of race di 'crimination that plagues Bla k people t�ay. THE TIIlRJ) TRIKE an be thrown hy Clint n. the upcoming "pit her" in the White H usc. Clinton. ,like Johnson and the liberal Jimmy Carter is a southern white man who ance tor propagated or at least tolerated lavery and witne sed its in­ sidious. contagious, Inter-generational damag over many years. Clinton i an intelligent, ensitive outhemer ocialized by hi I al cul­ ture and hi. to ric tradition that • wri r in a major nati nat d ily ��WSl)aoer Attempted to paint 'Marshall an eliti�t who 0 n criticized his cont mporarie I' .Martin Luther Kin Jr. and M lcolm X. But th truth' ThW' Mal hall was a t am player who kn \\ th importance of the unit' ot th "Movement," Y , different lead ha different and gi&. The key i to work ther and to promote unity alXl the cen a 010 i for ra ation 'of U deliberately enforced Bla k ubor­ dinatin and humiliation. Because of thi cultural and political h ritage, he pep cial insights and a pe­ cial legacy that give him th moral and ethical authority to cck forgivcne from Black people r r unavoidable afterbirth of social problems and be­ havioral monstrositie . Bill Clinton, leader of the U"itC