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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
the
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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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