VOL. XV NO. 26 I\n tnt ot nunt People Is A FIC'C' People MAY 16-22. 1993
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DETROIT -D troit rryin th
Lottery. Though the city p pulation i only on -ninth of th
D troiters count for a full on -fourth of the Lott ry r venu .
Detroit citizen belled out nearly $2 5 million doll in 1 2 in the
hop of bing in on one of 7 game of chance d igned to fuel th
tate' education fund by feeding on poor p ple' dreams of w lth.
Tb amount D troiters pend on th lottery i one-fourth of all the
mon y wagered in th legalized ambling run by the Stat of Michi an.
according to Lottery po p ons and documen obtained by the
Mi higan Citizen under th Freedom Inf nnation Act.
Tb State pulled in a total of $1.2 billion for the Lottery in 1 2.
Detroit contributed $285 million of tha .
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In
urance law
" P LIN," aid St. Rcpr ernative Jo Young. Jr. Chairman of
the House Committee on State Affairs. of the di proportionate urn
wagered by Detroiters.
S , LOTTERY, Pag A-10 .
AAC
xtort
By ALLISON JONES
Mlch .n Citizen
DETROIT -Callin the auto
t urance btlJ p e by t
J 1 ture" en
and a violation of the civil rights of
every Detroiter," the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP)
announced it will join other citizen
groups around the state to fight the
bill, Rev. Wendell Anthony, Detroit
chapter president announced last
week.
Meanwhile as this paper went to
press, proponent of Hou e Bill
4156 in the tate senate were trying
to round up the requi red 26 votes to
put the law into "immediate effect".
Calling the legislation "adverse
to the interest of Detroiters," Rev.
Anthony said the law would have a
"disparate and d i criminatory
impact on urban dwellers
throughout tbe state" and called for
its repeal ..
By TUREKA TURK
Michl .n Cltlzon
One one hand ther' MFA T
(Metropolitan Forscenic Anthropol­
ogy TC8?l), an eight-member group
that has its base at Lehman College
for almost 14 years but i n't formally
part of the college, and on the other
there is Dr. Micha I Blakely, an Af­
rican-American antnropologi t from
Howard University in Washington,
Compari ng the bi 11 to the
defeated Proposal D on last
November'S ball or, Rich rd
to cl 4 0 t e Comml U or
F rne nd AccoUDlabJJ1ty in
In urance Reform (FAIR) and
ecretary of tb Michigan Citizens
Lobby, condemned the bill.
"IT ALLOW companies to'
raise our rates every ix months
with absolutely no re trictions
whatsoever," Stoddard aid. "It is
no wonder consumers are angry: the
bill permanently take away
essential benefits wi tbout offering
anypermanent rate reduction or
insurance company
accountability. "
The NAACP, which has filed
suit against tbe state's largest
insurer, AAA for discriminatory
rate chedules based on zip codes
rather than driving records. said HB
1156 continues the practice of
See, NAACP, Page A·10
• At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom
of religion itself, there must be for our race ... economic foundation,
. economic prosperity, economic independence". Booker T. Washlng-
. WANDA F ROOUEMORE lchigan C !Zen
ton, August 19, 1915. The mural of Malcolm X , painted on the side of
AAA Party Store,13023 E. Warren in Detroit, is the work of Detroit artist
Benny VVhite.
op
progr
-on African burial
tudy
D.C.
In the middle are the 430 kele­
tons excavated from tbe African bur­
ial ground discovered in lower
Manhattan in June of 1991 on thesite
of a 34-story office tower being con­
s tructed by General Servi Agency
(GSA).
Although more than a year has
passed since the keletons have been
removed from the ground, tudies, as
well as cleaning and conservation.
have yet to begin.
S undingmorclikeaJarn Bond
thrill r instead of an excavation the
kelet ns have been the victim of
deceit, ki pping and a bitt r de­
ba b tween two profes ional ien­
tift teams, one white and one Black.
162�, b wri tten?
MFAT tands behind i belie
that hi tory hould be told from
multi-faceted point of vi w ..
"Wh n people. with a variety f
bi tart telling t ri ,you ec
what the co mm onali ties are, and you­
get clo ert th truth," ay MFA T' .
codirect r Spencer Turkel.
. But African-Amencans hav
learned in, the p t, that "variety of
bi " usually means a distortion
em tiona} feeling in the d cendant
community has r lative 1 tbis mat­
t r."
Th collision h81 ecom per­
. nal with MFAT charging that the
cw rk branch of th "Howard
m ia" i I ttin a vital African
Am rican re ource lip away from
hi tory tbat that a ro d wnplay
f Afri an-Am ri an involvemcnt.
"For MFAT to have po . ionof
and �ntrol th study of th e rc­
mains r embl , to th African­
Am rican community, what it w uJd
c for the Jew to have Nazi tudy
victi ms f the. h loca 1, th_ ir
holo aust," BJ< ly aid.
TH QU 110 on th floor
is: How hould the hi tory of thi
ancient burial ground, usually dat d
ba k to 1712 but orne go back to
'See BURIAL, A 10
Q.
What
alternatives
to 'cruising'
can we give
our young
people?
THEODORE KERNEY- We
need to take time with our kids
and teach them.Also, we have
to set down the rules.
LATONYA LlVINGSTON­
We need jobs for the young
people. Also, parents have to
teach their kids consideration
for others.
IDA GRANT-W
a .speci I otic
around and tal
Without gettln aqqressive.
The wrong attitude can mess
everything up
DWAYNE DOWNER- We
n d Jobs a' d more youth
programs. More time needs to
be spent With us!