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"You may WI'iu me down in his·
tory with your b . , twistedlia, you
may trod me in the le)' dirt, but still,
��/'UrUe."
-Dr.
It' row time for African History
Month, popularly koown Black
tory Month. We m t endeavor
to p our history upfront and in
mental f� all year long.
We m t keep in mind that the
African·American male' till an
endangered sped and they are in
need of more upport and help as we
rrove towards the year 2£XXXl.
A urvey of high hool athle
how that they held in high esteem
prof ional, high profile, mega­
media, mega-buck, stars, i.e.
Michael Jordan, Barry Sanders,
Isiah Thomas, and Magic Johnson.
However, on the urvey of
people they admired we saw the
likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
and Malcolm X In pite of all of the
hype regarding the Malcolm X
movie and th annual Dr. King
holiday, our youth still held the trap­
pingsoftne Athleteovermenotbigh
mental stature. Also, high upon the
list of the youth were their frieOOs
(peer pressure aOO/or influence). .
ICI COLBERT
AC1tlWI� claim . . the
xtbookexampl in the recent cl
three community- P'nBnnacilCS
owned by Glori [i, 47.
On 1 14, rrey General,
FrankJ. Kelly perded the lice of
�i, owner of Gloria' Phannaci
located at 20176 Uvemoi , 12854
Woodward and 13940 E. Jefferson, for
failing to correct alleged violations
regarding controlled ubtanc:es aOO their
dispe tion.
Included in the violations were:
OFailwe to keep logs of daily dispen­
tio of controlled ubstarx:es.
o Failure to keep "Schedule 1\vo"
controlled taIUS ina locked cabinet
o Selling out-of-date or improperly
labeled dru .
o Lac of accura records at th
pharmacies making store audit impos­
ible.
Further allegations were that m t of
the prescriptions were fictitious or invalid
aOO physicians involved did not reside in
Mic�gan.
"ANY PRUDENT prof! ional
pharma ist would refuse to dispens
drugs from a pharmacy that pt out-of­
date and mis-labeled drugs," ell y said.
"Pharmacists depend on clear adequate
record to help maintain the right
medication for the right customers. Phar­
macies that do not abide by the strict
standards of the profession, must not be
allowed to operate," Kelly explained.
In an interview, Masaji said the urn­
mary suspension came as a wprise.
end your ttersaruhnakeyour
caJJsto:
Pre ident William
Jeffers n lint n
The White H us
1 ) Pennsylvania Ave.
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It takes an emir villa to du­
at a child
Wayne County Commis ioner
. George Cushingberry Jr. ha been
appointed by Gov. John Engler to
the Michigan Humanitie CounciJ,
an independent non-profit organiza­
tion for furthering ;ntellectual and
cultural life throughout the state.
The council encourage the ex­
ploration an ve tion of cul-
tural lif and encou ge d
supports titution and rganiza-
tion in spon oring public
humanities activities.
HP approves
fleet
insurance bid
By Ron Seigel
HIGHLAND P RK - In it
February 1 t meetin , the
Highland Park Ci ty Coun. il u­
nanimously approved a bid for
fleet insurance from Action
Underwriters Inc.
While the insurance om­
pany provided th nly bid, th
city aid it was 10, le
than its prev�us coverage. �
official aid the ci ty was d mg
inventory on its fleet for ther·
aving.
Th city council auth nzed
payment of the regular fleet at
a co tnt to exceed 47,11 a
c t of the emergency fleet not
to exceed 64,21, coverage
on th Mayor' car n t to ex­
ceed S1,9 0 and a liability ex-
c not to exceed 9 5 .
BEST CHANCE
Itch Feb. 17,1"3
re nul by di erent m
tb:y cleared, t 0 the
re removed, remairu re
scrambled. The DEA denied tam ri
wi th the fill . "
Descnbing it a itua 'on out 0
control, he d he followed con-
tantly, received pbone calls
"beeper' nwnbers BOO pbo
the middl of ber conve tio , all irci­
den prior to the c ing of her to .
"I trongly believe, the entire incident
was a conspiracy led by the'DEA nd th
Sta Board of Pharmacy. Y I had
violations but they were being corrected.
No ore i perfect, I am 00 ex ption," h
said.
Many uccessful African American
prof ionals are peaking out on how
they were and till are being ha ed by
government a ncies.
o UHP 0 nn
Clement , 47, an African American d n­
tist who says he is a living example of
the governments' concerted effort to
bring down s ful BI ks.
"I was indicted on rredicaio trauc1
charges and although the Federal Distri t
Court remanded my case for an eviden­
tiary hearing on March lOin Tallahassee,
Florida, to et id the convicti n, what
we have here, is an xample of the ys­
temati removal 0 Black-own d, com­
munity pharmacie and other
businesses" Clement said in an inter­
view.
Clement aid many African
Am ricans medical prof ionals urn r
harassment by the State Board of Phar-
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ONE AD OTE, .
male thle' or "role
were named by male or femsJe th- &. ....... " _,.
letes as people they m t a�.
The expectations of m t of th
youth was very unrealistic: 41 per­
cent expect to attend coUege on an
athletic scholarship, and among
Black youth seventy 6.5 five percent
expect to get the athletic bolarship.
The fact is only six point two
percent of high school football
players and 2.5 percent of th high
school basketball players get a col­
lege scholarship .
. 63.8 percent of the athletes in
Black cbools expect to play profes­
ional ports, white chools only
17.2 percent of all chool athletes
. expect to play professional ball.
The fact is that th odds are 7,325
to 1 that they will play prof ional
basketball or football.
It· sad to see our youth in 1993
till expecting to do the impossible
for mo t, a profe ional sports
career!
AT THE AME TIME we
reed more M.D.'s, Ph.D' , CPA's,
and J.D.' . The odds are greater that
they can be uccessful in school than
in ports.
It is time to send your m ge to
president William Jefferson Clinton
regarding hi campaign promise to
deal with the economi of the
country and the inner citi and
reparations for the enslavement of
our people and the death of the one
hundred milli n Africans that died
coming across the ocean.
In additi n, th U.S. government
has ct to ap logize for the erslav -
ment f Afri in America.
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Gloria's Pharmacy on Woodward in Highland Park.
filled, many of them did rot have
transportation.
AccordingtotheSta BoardofPhar- .,
macy, under a ununary �rmon. the
individual must attend a formal hearing
to answer allegations. A fonnal hearing
w held February 1, but is being con­
tinued.
Th Sta Board of Phannacy will
mak the final d . ion. As of yet, no date
rmined the fate 0
NEXT WEEK: West Michigan
African Am rican pharmacist closed
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