EDITORIAL
come to the voters in the form of Ballot propo I A
ided June 2,
for their city.
political
n fit not
al . It i tim to vot our
Vote No on
Proposal A on
Wednesday, June
2,1993
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th who came, and those who were
brought. Forget not that many of
those who were brought were not just
cargo.
Therefore, I y that 'HE' is truly
indigenous of thi United States, for
his body i 10 every part of the oil,
hi blood in its history from the ear­
liest and will be here until the end of
time, So, adjust your mind and beset
a new atntude.
Alton Alford
Highland Park
Today I am pondering the thought
of a new attitud toward the "Ameri­
can Negro", While in many way' the
current thou ht i that people attach
themselv to omething or to a past
in order to have an identity-thi is,
for the m t part, an error.
Le look at a ituation or enario
uch as thi , A group of people hav­
ing been rotc ed an tom from their
home lands, put together ina hodge­
podge mixture and transported into a
totally alien environment and the
mo t dec dent form of lavery that
ever exi ted on the face of the earth.
T rnixtur of peoples were
brought and old, breeded, mix­
breeded. cro -breeded, i nter­
breeded and totally dehumanized by
some f the mo t ruth! inhuman
people in a quest to maintain a lewd
way of life,
Later in time thi multitude of
people gai ned freedom. Not having
any mean of knowing who they
were, i.e. no knowledge of their
countri ,Ian uage , hi tories etc.
thi 'Phoemx' of mankind ari es a
new breed-b m of hard labor, in­
justice nequal opportunity,
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Starring certain members of the Black Community
THE COWARDLY WON
AKA:
UNCLE TOM
THE CARECROW
AKA:
UNEMPLOYED,
HOMEBOY
THE TIN MAN
AKA:
COLO BLOODED
BLACK CRI MI NAL
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DOROTHY
AKA:
SIS ER WITH
AN A TITUDE
TOTO
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COPYRIGHT 1993 KER OF. 'IG!'\ '''1
ALL RlGIlTS RE ERVED
THE SCARECROW
This broth Is In serious
need of a braln.Becaus.
he dropped out of school,
he can't get • good lob.
So now th. only thing h.
can do Is hang out and
do drugs .. ,
THE COWARDLY UON DOROTtiy
This broth r I. In ne.d This sister Just wants to
of courag •. Syst malic hurry home. She's angry
brain-washing from Whit. because she's missing Oprah.
America has glv.n him the She's a welfare mother With
.ever.'nf rlorlty complex Children by oach of these
that keeps him submissive brothers, and is now totally
to the master. He lust convinced thaI Blac men .re
doesn't reallz. he'. a King •• I Simply all no good.
THE TIN MAN
Thl. brother Is In need of
a, h.art. H. car •• for no
on. and feet. what'. love
got to do with It. H. I. now
on parol. for murd.r of on.
01 hi. Black brothers, and
I. working v.ry h rd t
returning to prl.on again.
TOTO
Thl. creatur. I. lust happy
to be a dog. For even h.
reallz.s thal far too onen It
Is b.tter to b. a dog than .,
bei.llg ElJtc:k In Amerlea.
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ByJAMES�.ALSBROOK
The death of Marian Anderson on
April 8, led to intense discussion of
her career and contributions to
America generally and to Black peo­
ple particularly.
But very few prof ionals Black
or white, interviewed in th large tri­
state area around outheast Ohio,
knew anything ab ut her laudable
personal quali tie, and 'non had
heard her ing in person. Like me
they had h ten 'd to her througb the
media.
Some large daili canied ton
on h r life and career but otbers car­
ried li ttle or no information on thi.
great, dignified and determined
Black Inger.
" If you ntis ed th good wri t -up
in the few b t dail i ,perhaps you
can profit by u ing th rags-to-
"nch facts:
Marian Ande n w born 10
Philadelphia, P A .. on February 17,
1 7 the dau ht r of a dom tic
moth r and a bust -rrunded father
who old ic and coal. Her birth date
appeared in many plac as February
27, 1902, but her recently found birth
certificate confi rms th 1897 date.
S began singing wben he
w three y old and at ix, she
ang in the choir of 'be Union Bapti t
Church, which h r family attended.
Later, he used her three-octave
range to sing any of all four voices,
taking the parts of absent members
and supplying bass notes by singing
them one octave higber than written. ,
• When her father died, her
mother upported the family by
working as a cleaning woman at
Wanamaker's Department Store and
little Marian did menial labor to help
her mother. She djotyping and sang
at churches and community func­
tions to earn family support money.
Sh attempted to' enter a Phila-
elphia music school, but was re­
jected because the school "didn't
take colored." With money besaved
and m re given by ber church, she
f und private tutors.
In 1925, she was selected from
more than 300 contestants to ing
wi th the ew York Philharmonic Or­
chestra, She continued to attract-very
favorable attention through her con­
certs and other appearances and in
1930, h went to Europe to further
h r career.
• I n Europe, he performed con­
certs and through study and practice
sh improved ber inging of German
French and Italian. She expanded her
repertory to encompas more elec­
tions from Schubert, Dvorak, Han­
del, Scarlatti, Brahms,
Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky aod
others.
While in Europe he w beard
by Sibelius the famed Scandinavian
composer wbo dedicated a song to
her, and by the world-revered To -
canini, sympbonic am op ratic con­
ductorwho listened to her and poke
t famous words, "A voice li e
yours is beard once in 100 years."
She returned to the United
States in 1935, and performed exten-
ively as her reputation grew. Wben
the Daughters of the American
Revolution refused to let her sing in
its Consntution Hall at Washington,
D.C., in 1939, Eleanor Roo evelt re­
signed from that organization and ar­
ranged for her to sing at Lincoln
Memorial. An tima 75,000 pe0-
ple attended that Easter program
broadcast nationwide to millions
who appreciated her talent, dignity,
work, compo we and dedication.
This appearance made her
name a household word, guarantee­
ing a profitable career and gaining
for ber the reputation of being a civil
rights leader.
, She received many distinctions,
i ocluding honorary university doc­
tora ,citations, plaqu ,awards
and government oodwill appoint­
ments. She es I' bed a cool hip
fund for prom' ing Black singers.
Marian Anderson w the first
Blac person to perform on the tage
at the Metropoli tan Opera Ho , for
in 1955 be ang the role of Ulrica in
Verdi's "Ballo in Maschera." The
audience wept, cheering wildly.
Price, Jessye Norman, Kathleen Bat­
tle, Grace Bumbray, Shirley Verrett,
Leona Mitchell and other Black fe­
male singers.
Black male opera performers till
face barriers of prejudice because of
required on-stage romantic interac­
tion witb white women.
HE MARRIED Orpheus H.
Fisher, a ew York architect, in
1943. They had no children. He died
in 1986.
She lighted the path for Leontyne
He notes that the budget wouJd go
into effect, when the union contract
had eoded, on July 1st and the city
could not enter into any agreement
with any company on such work Wltil
then.
continued from P. 1
of Mayor Porter's promi e to get
companies to hire Highland Park em­
ployees, laid off, because of privati­
zation.
THOUGH THERE w no
mention of hiring employees in tbe ad
for bidding that the city sent out,
Wainwright aid there was uch a
mention in the bid packages.
Wb n asked what would happen if
none of the bidders agreed to hire
Highland Park city employees,
Wainwright said, "That would be a
decision council would make, but I
don't anticipate that occurring."
The city is currently in negoti ion
with the public ervice employees'
union, but Wainwright aid he
no contradiction in that
"WE' OT DOING any-
thing," h said, "We're just bidding."
"I hope there will be some agree­
ment (wi th the union), agreeable to
the city, considering the financial
tate th city is currently in "he aid.
Bo tic am Councilwoman Greta
Johnson say that the adminisuation -
and the majority of the city council
rejected their ptars which would
have meant less acrifices at the bot­
tom and made privatization unneces-
ary.
Bo tic propo ed a plan with mas­
sive elimination of administrators,
whileJohmonpropo ed anacro the
board pay cut for everyone including
officials.