EDITORIAL
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Durtng th last several weeks
there have been numerous specula­
tions about whether or not the spring
and umm r of 1993 will witness a
repeat 0 urban riots in the United
States imilar to the Lo Angel "up­
rising of 1992."
Lest we forget thi year marks the
2 th anniversary of the Kerner Com­
rni ion Report on Civil Di orders.
Alth u h th Kerner Commi ion
oncludcd in 1968 that "Our nation is tion treatment and prevention; prior­
moving toward two societies, one ity spending for a ten year period
BI ck, one white - eparate and un- concentrating on improving the qual­
equal," the persi tence of civil disor- ity of life for inner-city residents; and
ders or riots in the 1990s is th focus on providing low-income
symptomatic of the nation's refusal housing with the help of non-profit
to deal with one of the basic causative organizations.
factors: racisnt, Today the reality i not limited to
On this occasion we are grateful a Black and white ituation. Instead
that the columni t, Anthony Lewis of two ocieties eparate and un­
reminded readers of The New York equal, in the United States as we
Tim of a quote from Justice Thur- move toward a new century there are
. good Marshall's opinion in the con- multiple societies, all separate and all
troversial Bakke case of 1978. In that unequal due to racial and economic
case Marshall concluded, "In light of discrimination ard exploitation.
the orry hi tory of discrimination Racism is still the fundamental
and its devastating impact on the problem! Much ofthe poverty that
lives of Negro , bringing the Negro people of color encounter in the
into the mainstream of American life United Stat is a consi tent function
should be a tate interest of the high- and resultant of institutionalized ra­
est order. To fail to do 0 is to ensure ci m.
tnat America will remain forever a It i worth-pointing out that the
divided ciety." recent tudies on thi critical national
In Washington, D.C., the Milton problem have failed to go as far as the
S. Eisenhower Foundation has j�968 Kerner Commis ion which
rele ed another national tudy on . dentified racism as the major causa­
th urban ituation. Similarly the Ei - tive fa tor.
enhower Foundation emphasized
that the . ub tance of the Kerner
Commis ion' earlier finding are :
"more relevant today than in 1968,
and more complex with the emer­
gen e of multira ial di parities and
growing income gregation."
BENJAMIN
CHAVIS
CIVIL
RIGHTS
JOURNAL
UNTIL TH ATION comes to
grip with this serious oeial dy -
function riots and other forms of
civil disorders will urely reoccur.
We believe that President Clinton
h uld take the initiative to call upon
all Americans to place at the v ry t P
of the national agenda the elimina­
tion of ra i m in all of its hideous
form. As this SOCiety rapidly b -
com a multiracial ociety quantita­
tively, It i increasin y urgent for
thi ciety to b e multir ci I
and multicultural qualitative y.
Again th confe ion of Anth ny
Lcwi i noteworthy: "Few white
Am ri ans want t think about remc­
dial m ures for the BlaCK heirs of
centwie of di rirr.ination.
DR. LYN URTI editor of
th Ei enhower tudy aid that the
emph 1 today should on job
training and various community de­
velopment projects as a trategy to
prevent the recurrence of urban rio
in th nati n.
The Ei enhower report outlined
th followin re ommendation to
th vernment c remedi : OCUS
on inner-city un mptoyeo youth.par­
ti ulariy tho wh have b n margi­
n lizcd and dt rirninated gainst
b ca e f r and ocio onomic
tatus: a f n dru abuse educa-
See RIOT, A 10
• I
Th prin ipal f Summer Hi h
Scho 1 in Kans 10 ked white and
was mi t ken for w hi t by veryone
x . pt tho e who knew him. ike
Walter White, the late AA P
leader, Mr. Hod e could mi with
whites easily and hear information
probably not intended for Bla k
ea .
HARRIS
I r eli ann-nuclear pri oner of
con cience, Mardechai Vanunu
has now een held in olitary con­
finem nt by th vcrnrncnt 0 1-
rael for over r, year ..
Hi de cent int darkn began
in 19 , when the ex-nuclear tech­
nician provid d th Time of Lon ..
don with irrefutable proo of
I ra 1'., nuclear pons capabil­
ity.
I racl kidnapp d hi m from Brit­
ain, gav him a c ret trial and
lammed him int . olitary, citin a
bre ch 0 tat curl ty .
While it is true that pri ns de­
bili tat pri oner d ily .oluary i a
p ych I 1 kill r.
P r on wondering wh re white­
o in Black people came from
h uld vi it library.
Harvard Univer ity h publi h­
d th fir t five of a i -v ume et,
"Th Imag of the Blac in W tern
Art. "The e e cellent books and oth-
r reveal pictorially at hi tori-
- an hav ignor d verb
larg e t nt to which Africa were
involv d in European life (rom the
time f an ient Greece to the early
2 th cntury.
Drawing, painting, culptur
and other art ugg t that during
2 500 year ,thousand of Africans
ppeared in Europ and w re as­
similated into the population.
M t whit do not know which
blood they b ve.
Pushkin, Beethoven, Dumas and
other in Europe and President
Harding and many bigwiggs in
America reportedly had "Black
blood.
"Nativity scene made in Europe
frequently portray the Three Wise
M n as whi te man, an Arab and a
Black man. The Black ancestry of
Andre Watts, the concert pianist, is
'obviou .
today nd
READERS WRITE
o HI TORI have said
that in Colonial America white in­
dentured ervants ometimes married
Bla ks.
Recently a "white" friend told
me that her family tree included a
"bonded boy" who bad a Blae
».
1'>17.
.rV
Defen e Committee] named him as
a elas war pri oner), but there is
evidence that the regime i getting
to him. .
J racli Foreiqn Affairs, citing re­
por in Britain' .Guardian, noted
that," ow Vanunu pends his days
in a tiny cell under a fluorescent
li bt, on day and night. The un
never ets down from th high win­
dows to dry the damp out of tbe cell
wall. The long la k of human con­
t ct h told on anunu; he no
1 nger answers the letters hi up­
porter end him. 'He i wi thdraw­
ing into him elf, but he i OK
phy ically Vanunu's attorney
A vrgdor Feldman aid."
I raeli peace a tivi t, Yael Lo­
tan, a co-found r of the Israeli
mmittee for Mordechai Vanunu
nd or an Atomic, Biological, and
Ch rnical Weapons-free Middle
East, ha embarked on a speaking
tour organized by Peaceful Fu-
omm nd
tc COlli r.
Dear Editor:
o hal 0 the Department of Athl tics, and in p rticular
our s udent- thle s at Wayne Sta University, I would lik to
thank you, The Michigan Citizen and Harry Anderson, for your
kind coverage of Tartar Athletics.
We appreciate your community spirit and your de ire to focus
on Detroit's Public four year institution.
Ms. Kelly, when I go into the community to peak, I always
tell the audi nee that we at WaylY.! State, are dealing with the
"neighborhood kids", our student-athletes come mostly from the
city or uburb of Detroit and, ther for , they rat our attenti n.
We appreciate The Michigan Citiz n or having Harry Ander­
son at our contes , and we appreciat him for the manner in
which he has projected the "neighborho d kids" to your reader­
ship.
Plea accept or incer thanks once again, and please extend
our thank to Harry and your staff for your posi tive proj ction
of Wayne State_Athletics and the City of Detroit.
Sincerely,
. .')
MUMIA
ABU
JAMAL
The hi tory .te her, Mr. Bu ter,
al 0 "looked white" and ometime
pcopl could n t c him quickly in
a roup of white m n
One day in d wntown Kans
City Mo. I pas ed the "white-look­
ing" linotype op rator at the new -
pap r at which I w an cditor. He
winked at me and looked away. I
aw he with a whit c upl
1 len w he w "pas ing." - ---�'1ift�..a...':::_"'''''''''''_'''' .... �lu.. ...;_ � ..;;...,
Dlr etor of Athletics, WSU
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ture -Middle East, to bring atten-
. tion to Vanunu's plight.
It is interesting in Vanunu' case
how a country that pats itself on tbe
b. k as the Leading Defender of
Democracy in the Middle East can
r ort to ecret trial , kidnapping
and the low torture of olitary con-
finement easily.
M U TRY tbat
exp lled, and, of thi wri ting,
r Iu resettlement to hundr d of
Pale tinians, who are betwe n the
gun barrel-s of Israel in the South
and Leban n in the North, locked 'in
a barren no man' land.
If ever th r was a perf t meta­
phor to r fte t the di. placement, the
rej lion, and the unwilli e odus
of the Palestinians, the forced ex­
pulsion of hundred of them to
barren hinterland bordering both
I rae I Lebanon, where they uc­
cumb to ickness, cold tarva-
tionand death tell the talc wi tb
clan ty.
Meanwhile, pre .urnably well (or
at lea t, better fed, Vanunu . its in
olitary as time lip . ilently past,
with each grain hi. tenuous hold on'
humanity lipping away.
L uer of upport (al 0 books,
esp ciall literary cla ic phi­
lo ophy tom ) can b nt to; Mor­
d chai Vanunll, . hk tlon Prison,
Ashkelon, I ra I. Fur mor info:
Campaign to Fr Vanum 6 End­
sleigh t., London WCIH ODX,
England.