o 0 IF Rodney King
wi his cheduled I � uit providing
millio of doll rsforhimanddrain­
ing millions from th City of Lo
An el , powerful m nd
corrective a tion will have b n
t en ro th nation.
All city fat rs becom
and cranky when struc in a v ry
vulnerable pi e - th po ketb
T ewhobo the bo eswillmak
chan mandatory.
Two very po itive factors ha e
resulted from this Rodn y King epi­
sode. First, tho nation and the world
have seen a shocking e ample of th
terrible police brutality suffered for
many years by BI k men in Amer­
ica.
Second, the nation and the world
know now that BI ck insurrections
with heavy financial losses on all
sides occur when abuses make Black
people's lives intolerable and their
"cups runneth over."
The days of double tandards in
law enforcement are limited.
E
And 0 Blacks in California and
the U.S. have rights to this land more
than many others who came after­
wards, yet as long as we continue to
live in this type of economic, politi­
cal, and ocial arrangement, we
lac wiU ,�be ampcd by
rs.
We must preserve ourselves, and
our race by becoming independent
and free 9f alien influence and domi­
nation. We must secede in one way
or aoother.
, et us do this to prevent any more
King type beati ngs, to re­
member th('\ millions who have ac­
rifieed, and even as we breathe to
remember that in the town of Tulare,
California, Michael Coleman w'
brutally beaten by the infamous rae­
is� police of this small town. But
unlike Rodney King he is dead,
there were no cameras, and the
cover-up is highly possible, for in
this 'small town, there's no NAACP
nor FBI. May God help usl
Jon Daniels
Hanford, CA
Ten�essee,1918
Jim Mclherron was prosperous in
a small way. He was a Negro wh
resented the slights and insuJ IS 0
white men. He went armed and the
sheriff feared him. On February 8 he
got into a quarrel with three youn
white men insulted him. Threats
were mad and Mclherron fired, i
shots, killing two of the men',
He fled to th home of a colored
clergyman who aided him to escape.
- am was afterwards shot and killed by
a mob. McIherron was captured and
full arrangements made for a lynch­
ing. Men, women and children
started into the town of Estill Sprin
from a radius of fifty mil , A. pot
was chosen for the burning.
Mclherron was chained to a hick­
ory tree while the mob howled a ut
him. A fire was buil t a few feet away
am the torture began. Bars of iron
were heated and the mob amused
i tself by putting them clos to til
victim, at first with ut tou hin him,
One bar he grasped and as it was
jerked from hi grasp aU th insid f
his band came with jl Then the r ' I
torture began, lasting for twenty mi n­
utes,
During that time, while hi De h
was slowly roastin ,the Negro n v r
los t his nerve. He cursed tho who
tortured him and almo t to the I' t
breath derided the attempts of th
mob to break his spirit
- WalJer F. Whi , in The Crisis,
May, 1918
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Franklin aid that this w not the
fi t urn the city had private cornpa­
ru bid out for public ervices. She
not d that in the the city took
away ambulan e services from the
aid nei tb r plan would
city' lnanciat cri i , and main­
tained hi own budget cut mu h of
the admini tration po ible.
Council P ident Down
that the layoffs may not tak pI
"We (council m mbc ) just
authorized them (admini trator offi­
cials) to advertise the bid ," he aid,
irdicating the city may n t '( nth
bids or cho e a company.
"I don't even know if the bid
came in, " he added.
"The union i till in the pro
of negotiation." h added. "They ad­
ministration officials) might wor •
something out with the union. That'
fine and we won't have to worry
about it."
Mar h II' cou
file r teased
lIn.l.':"'1Y'.V. -The 1 e Su-
ti Thurgood Mar­
hall' court fil were m e publi
in th Library of Cong
M ball erved j tice of t
court for 24 years. During hi tenure
he deal t with 173,700 court
Th e fi1 became public in January
without consent of hi family or t
Supreme Court.
"We both urpri ed and di ap-
point d by the library' 'dec' ion to
give unr tricted public access to Jus­
tice Thurgood Marshall' p rs,"
said Chie Justice William
Rehnqui t
Even though It i unusual for pub­
lic access of ajudge's files to be made
soon after his death, library staff
members ay that Marshall gave writ­
ten consent for the files to be re­
leased. These files would fill helves
8 feet tall and 30 feet wide.
slaves landed at Jamestown.
even that landi ng ite i unknown,
aid Diane Stalling, historian for the
National Park Service. The park
ervice operat James wn I 1
"WE' TILL looking for
the ite of the original fort. That's our
Holy Grail" he aid. "We know
they got to Jam town eventually."
The fort i likely underwater
south of thi urrent i land, and it
may be discovered by a new five­
year arch ological survey of the is­
land being conducted by the park
ervice the Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation and the College of Wil­
I iam and Mary.
But Colonial Wilham burg ar­
cha logi t Marley Brown I; I said it
would be a surprise to di cover
where the Africans stepped into
Jamestown.
• 'YO\l' re oot going to find tan i­
ble evidence of laves being off­
loaded from a hip," he aid.
"Jamestown i symbolically impor­
tant, but whether someone could
pick a physical rationale for it being
tbere, 1 don't know. You certainly
don't need to, of course, because
Jamestown i an important ite in
that story."
JAMESTOWN· YORKTOWN
Trustee Joyce Hob on has fought for
more than a year to get the founda­
tion to organize a celebration of th
arrival becau e he b lieved the
But Ms. Hobson said she would
foUo wherever the <l cements
point - once the tory is researched
by Blac historians.
"Wbi historiars have not told
our tory ... so I'm not going to con­
tinue to trust you to tell me any
more," she said. "H it's really at
Point Comfort, put the museum
there. Wherever the research how ,
you go. But get the missing pieces of
hi tory in there."
Guyon
prin ip e.
Both the f and t.oo tud tl of
. program. Although th reo w. me
oppo ition first, t majority feel
the program will be beneficial to the
tuden ,the hers d t com-
munity.
Accordin to Robert Biter, Prin­
cipl at Guyton for even y , t,be
program is an e ceIJent opportunity
to inc e mic performance.
Biter IXl everal other taff mem­
be have attended eminars and con­
ventions in San Diego and Los Vegas
to learn more about the YRE pro­
gram. The program e ' tin twenty-
i stat and Guyton will b th first
public chool in Detroit to imple­
ment the program.
THE SCHOOL I receiving a
grant that will help finance the pro­
gram. Bi r ta that by keeping the
chool open all year there will be les
vandalism in the area. In addition,
the money for the program will give
the tudents an advantage in learn­
ing. Bi ter is looking into ex nding
the cbool year from 180 days to 200
days. He say this would been essen­
tial to improving education.
"In Japan, students are in school
for 280 days compared to America's
180 days. Students wiJ1 be able to
- learn more. Typically, Guyton tu­
dents stay around the community in
the summer. This program will offer
activities. The more students are in
school the more they are willing to
leam", said Biter.
Guyton has put together several
booklets that consi t of information
on YRE. According to one booklet,
concept summer vacation i
very much outdated. Summer vaca­
tion evolved during the agricultural
era of American society. Children
were given the ummer off in order
to assist wi th farming and other agn­
cultural duties. Over time this tradi­
tion has become the norm for many
schools.
However, the need for change
calls for the tradition to be broken.
1 � traditional long summer vaca­
tion is beneficial in the sense that
students have time to do summer ac­
tivities. Nonetheless, the average
child does not have the resources to
in many extra curricular
tiviti . Although tuden out of
bool, P n are not, T tor
alon i one on why Guyton fee
YRE . e cellent program.
Upon deciding on wh ther or.not
to p cuce year around cboolm,
Guyton bad to weigh both the pro
am the cons of such a program.
o GUED THAT learn-
ing will be disrupted because of the
inners ions. However, tudents
appear more enthusias tic, atte�ance
is increased and the chedul IS flex­
ible. In addition, question bas been
raised in regards to students forget­
ting what was taught. Year-Round
Education will eliminate the long re­
view time in the fall. The program
will be continuous learning and re­
view time can be better used.
One major concern dealing with
YRE i rather or not students will
remain inter ted in cbool and if
they will pay attention.
According to Katbaleen Ellison,
advanced kindergarten teacher at
Guyton, children have a low atten­
tion span during all times of the year.
"No matter what, students will
have a low attention span. The in­
nersessions will help them
strengthen their weaknesses. Those
who do not need strengthening will
have extra curricular activities", said
Ellison.
IN ADDITION .TO YRE, Guy­
ron has a program that allow stu­
dents to communicate wi th different
schools in the United States. The
Galaxy program consist of three
classes that communicate with
thirty-seven different schools. This
i a tcJJite program by Hughes Air­
craft that connects different chools
through televisions, vcrs, fax ma­
chines and telephones at no cost to
the school.
Guy ton is looking forward to the
Year-Round Education program.
Those encouraging the program
view it as beneficial to enhancing
education academically and ocially.
"I t' s nice because the teachers can
help us learn. It's good for kids to go
to ummer school because it helps
them pull up their grades", said Ear­
nest Boykins, 4th grade student at
Guyton.
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