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thi period becau e their present
tatus as upper-middle and t p d
unsettl their historical . lf-trna e
as progressive with a
th underdog.
There ar two major i su v r
which Blacks and Jew cont nd. The
first is th question 0 what
tutes the mo t effective m a for
Black progre . With more than half
of all Black profe ronal and man
agers employed in the public ph. re,
and tho e in the private pher 0 ten
gaining entr owi ng t r gulatory
checks by the Equal mpl yment
Opportunity Commi ion, atta k. by
Jew on affirmative acti n or per
eeived as aults on Black liveli
hood.
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Similarly, wIthout a 0 ndld clO-
t
WHAT I. AT STAK i. n t
imply BI k-Jewi. h relati ns, but,
me re imp rtant the moral content of
Jewi h and Black identitie and their
political . n equence. The cen
dancy o th LikudPartyinl977and
the promincn of narr�w Black na-
tionali t voice in th Os a ra-
vated thi: impa e. When
main tr am Ameri an Jewi h or-
aniz tions upp rt d the inhuman
policies of Mena hem Begin and
Yitzhak hamir they tipped th ir
hat. ward ,ld-h arted inter t
group al ulation .
When BI k nationali t poke
m n like' Loui Farr akhan and
Leonard J ffri ex e ively tar-
et d Jewi h p wer as ubordinating
Bl a k and Brown people, they
played the am mean- pirited game.
(The nationali ' anti-Semitic rheto
ri , how ver, rarely degenerat into
anti- emitic violence.) In turning
th ir h d fr m the ugly truth of
Pales u ni n ubj ugatio n and in re
10 to admit the fal ity of th Jewi h
c nspiracies, b th ides failed to de
fi ne th moral chara ter of thei r iden
titi .
The imp'
lations will 0
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or t mo t part, th ir mind
h v b en m e up and probably no
oth r coIl g will enter into th
mp tition, therefore, thi inform
tion i primarily for high 01
couns lors,juniors and tbeirpar n .
Part 0 thi thr part olumn
will rn blight el ted two year col
leg .
The followin information i
b ed on figures compiled by th
U.S. Department of Education for
the year] 1. It . af to b lieve th t
t 1992-93 figu are probably not
too di simil r.
Keep in mind that there ar over
,000 institutions of higher educa
tion, therefore these chool only
represent a very mall percentage.
Each of these colleges have African
North Florida Junior College -
950 (2 .0), Crandall Junior Colleg
(GA) - 527 (54. ), M dow Junior
College (GA) - 289 (713) Harold
Washington College (IL) - 8,4 4
(59.9), K nnedy-Kin Colleg (IL)-
10,134 (64.2).
Why certainly.
Apparently volatile
situation erupted
when an Irrate
Individual wa
inadvertently
detained and then
interrogated by ....
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medical car .
"The traditional ''l ders" of th
African-American mrnunity also,
don't cern t mind th Clinton Ad
mini tration' bun lin f the drug
p licy i u. Whil thousand of
young A rican-Amencan orne
whom participate in th lethal trade,
and oth rs who are nly innocent
by. tand IS murdered every
year, linton' virtu I a liti n 0
the Offi e f Dru Control Policy
and hi refusal to name a Drug Czar,
h b n Dally ignor d.
DO op n
dj' approval from th ngr ional
nsc fthe m-
munity that houlde u ham
proportion 0 America'
and th immense human
a cornpani d it.
The elf- nointed rep entatives
f the African-Amencan mmuni ty
sh uld be careful wher they inv t
their political capital, for history m y
n t be kind when the tru impact
th Clinton Admini trations d i
i realized.
Afncan-Am ricans must d velop
and prom te a meaningful political
a enda th t av Id guilt Y ocia
tlon, which' means addres 109 the
real probl ms f ing the entir com
munity, n t j t the 2% represented
by th Urban Lea u , NAACP, and
the Ram w aliti n.
I By CORNEL WEST knowl dgm nt 0 Blacks tatus as
The period of genuine empathy permanent understanding in Ameri
and principled alliance b twe n can SOciety, Jew will not compre
Jew and BI ks n titutes a major hend what th plight of Palesnniars
pillar of Am rican progre ive poIi- in I ra I will mean t Blac ym-
tics in thi century. O( Ii ally and literally.
The e supportive links be in with J W' rightly pint out that the
W.E.B. DuBoi' The Cris i and atr iti 0 Africa' elit on op
Abraham Cahan' Jewi h Daily For- pr ed Africans in Kenya Uganda,
wardare enclearlybetweenJewi h and Ethiopia ar just as bad or
. leftists and A. Phillip Randolph' nu-. w . t n. h pe�etrat <1 U
mero 'OfgmUzatio ,'b iot .Pa; tl. b . e!I __
Cohe ' Commentary and the early al 0 p I?t out-nghtly--that
career of Jam Baldwin between and trean between I rael and South
prophets like Abraham Jo' hua He _ Africa are not so radically diff rent
chel and Martin Luth r King Jr., b _ f�om tho e � tween om B!�ck
tween the predominately J wi h n an countne and South Africa.
students for a Democratic iety Still, the e and other Jewi h
and, the Student Nonvi lent cordi- h r of BI k double tandards
nating Committ c, and are n w . WIth re ard to I racl do not take us to
in Tikkun rnagazi ne. th h art of the matter. Bla ks often
. Presently, thi inspiring p riod ot p rc ive !ewis� defens of I 'rael. as
cooperation i often dqwnplay b a. 0 nd 1 nst � f naked group 1 n-
Blacks and romanticized by J w . t rc t n�, again, an a?and�nment of
It is downplayed by Bla b _ 'U, tantive moral. delIberatIOn: .
cause they focus on th t ni hi ng Jew tend to view .Bla�k ntlqu. '
entree of mo t Jew into th middle of I. fa I as Black rejecuon of their
class and upper-middle cl e n right to group survi�� hence a be
entree that has pawned intense con- tray�1 f t� precondition of a Black
fliet with the lower growing Black Jewi h alltancc.
middle clas and a ocial resentment
from a fast- rowin Black imp V f
ished clas .
By MARK SPRADLEY
�eclal to the Michl an Citizen
For John Jacob, Jesse Jackson,
William F. Gib on, and others recog
nized national pokespe oDS for
the African American community,
the burden of leadership i starting to
outweigh the perks and privileg .
During th presiden i of
R nald Re an and George Bu h,
the e self- ppointed African-Ameri
can poke persons didn't hesitate to
di redit Republican public policy
initiativ . N w that the Oem cratic
party h firm ontroJ over W hing
ton, the well-kn wn cri ti SI-
lent o-con pirat rs.
A<; P ident- Icct, Bill lint n
rated hi intentions to have a cabinet
that I ked lik Am rica. ill all for
ity cl arly r ulted in m re
w m n, African-Am ri , and'
Hi panic bing nominated by the
�J'1 id nt.
wmLE GRF. P
is important, for it can mean the dif
ference b tween an effective adrnin
i trator and a di nn cted
Iigur head.
Someofth
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Ho mmumty Coli
, (21. El C n-
tro Coil - 6,152 (44.0),D n
vill Community Coil g (VA)-
3,392 (21.4), J. Sargeant Reynold
Communi ty CoIl (V) - 11 ,1 52
(24.9).
HILTON: HIGHER EDUCAnON is tW
si ned to dialo e 'tIt Cl)U�,. arul wo,IJ
rea rs. EJucatWn is on oin and certainly
not limited to cl room study. Let's ttJlJc.
(909) 899-0650.
ru
eing stifled y lobbyi ts, politl-;
cian , and bureaucrats. We must
have the courag t chall n e thes
group , for while th number of Af-:
rican-Am rieans who have com-:
pi ted our or plore years f couege
h in rcased from percent in 198q ,
to 15.5 P rccnt in 1 , w can, aIXt
must, d etter.
A AMERJ A WA H in
h rror the violent aftermath of the:
a quittaJ 0 ( ur Lo Ang I police:
offl ,i t reminded many of.us of an:
important part f human nature: peo-;
p Ie don't burn their own prop rty. :
We must us our trength over-
come, and not cuodl up to, th bu-'
reaucrati and political (or tha�
have oft n derailed efforts to revi":
talize urban usines di tricts, aoo:
ncourag econ mi elf- uffi_:
cien y and th ense of community:
that it promot o. •
W Afncan-Americ cannot
compli h uu ,however, if th top:
prioriti of our Ie ders and national'
organizations r main the promotion:
f annual convention, elf-gtorifi-:
ation, nd tradin ur trength away'
to pcclal inte t group . It' time to:
get to work. •
Mark
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