THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY
Jun 2().
Who�
'The WalL ofJericho"?
Who founded B thel Charity
ForN. inBaltD ?
. Rush Medical Calk b-
cased?
, Who � the jirstBlockactor to lWt
an Smmy?
JUNE261910-8 n
di in MS sc C, LA,
AL, VA, Ot\ and OK 1941-John
was first man in the U.s. '>win
pentathl n and decathlon champi 0-
hi in same year. 1950-Amen­
can MOOical "tion seated first
B dclega at annual convcnti n.
1975- odB ton
came first African-American
in pediatric urgery,
Wtth what team wm WUlie Str II
pinyin when he ended hit; career?
ANSWERS
20th - Univezsity 0 South Caro-
lina.
21st - Rudolph Fisher.
2100 -"Ire Fifth Dimensi n.
23rd - Daniel O>ktt.
24th - Olicago, IL.
25th - Bill Cosby,
26th - Pittsburg Pira
JUNE 22, 1 m - Lord M
What group released th hit ''Wed­
ding Bell Blues"?
JUNE 23, 1 - Martin Luther
Jr.' eloqualtLetter Fran Bir­
mingham Jail w written, '�'.EB.
died in Aceta, Ohana.l940-
Spinter W Rudolph, winner of
three gold medals at tre 1 Summer
Olympi w rn
On p'O lem 0
racial h ri age
in th America
KEITH
HILTON
HIGHER
EDUCATION
work, How
U ., it i tbi Y tem,
wi th i ob sion for profi t, property
and mat ri I acqui ition, which re­
du ed Africa to hatt l/prop fly
and used our free labor to accelerate
the commercial and industrial revo­
lution.
It i thi Y m which produced
the "Robber Barons" who wor ed
young nd old, men, women aOO
children Like beast of burden in the
min ,foundri fa tori and on
the railroad .
1 t i thi Y t m and th e arne
Robber Barons who maimed and
a previo rti-
etc, Afri were not enslaved b -
ca Europeans b Ii v d lh t
African wer inferi r. Th motiv
for lavery we nomi .
The European colonial' t were
eagerly eking cheap labor and free
in ord r to make th ir colonial ent r­
pris profitabl. '
It i important to not (rom th
ou et that not all Europeans wer
coloniali 1. The colonizers wer a
"cl "0 Europeans who had uffi­
cient weal th or privil ge (a favorable
relationship wi th th rule or th e
who had wealth) to engage in th
bus in of colonization. Indeed, Cl
number of colonial ventures wer Hl
It L th policy of Hilton:
Higher Education to "courage
fe dback from reader , '
Periodically we print gu t
editorials that an d igned to
tirnulat di c i nand furth r
feedback - pro or con to our
p itions,
Th following I an editorial
'by Mr. Larr Abram of
V nic. A 10 whi h he rc­
ponds to an earner »Iurnn titled," ome Latinos Are African Too",
Itread rs wrsh to . mmentonthi. or thcr es ay: or .ubrnit an arti Ie.
pleas writ: clo Hilton: Higher Education. 3179 N. Care Av nu ,#10],
Pomona. A 91767, L r. talk. (909)899-06 O.
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ill ystem, Robert
iscusses in Bl kAw ening
America, which gbet-
toized BI people in effect creati
a "dom tic colony' to be exploited
for its cheap labor.
Blac emi- ubject people
com to constitute a reserve labor
pool to be utili2Zd to upp tbe
wag of workers within the overall
economy; race and racism is thereby
used to divide and exploit white and
Black worke in tbe interest of the
"cl "of owners, m ers, bank­
e ,financiers, and ind tri � tbC
rich and uper-rich and' the corpora­
tions who rule and run this country
and much of the world. •
I t is this sy tem which even
Black people and people of color
irstrum nts and occasional alii to
carry out the exploitation and op­
pres ion of the m es of poor aOO
working people-s-Bleck, white, red,
yellow, born. The color is of Jitde
consequence. The dictum is, profit
for the few, ''by any means neces-
aryl"
Till T I a sketch of the '
clas component of crises w�.f .
1 P e. The challenge we
f la .R' not onl¥
fight g must a
truggle to transform a system of
economic exploitation and domina­
tion which enslaved our ancestors
and continues to exploit and oppress
the m es of Black people, other
people of color and the working class
today.
There is no avoiding the cl di-
mension of the Black liberation
truggle.
Ron ser
of the Institute for C unity Or­
ganization and DeVelop i!1Il ill
Youngstown, Ohio. He may be COII- ,
tacted at (216) 746-�747.
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planning tage or involved in the ne­
'FJRTAl LY L 'AL Bla k goti ling of term and conditions of
the contract? Who will ensure that
Blacks et their fair hare?
I I11E U H. HighJam
Park and Detroit with majority Blac
population, how can u h wretched,
unfair di tribution of job continue?
How can we a majority Black
community allow whi te po li ticians
to taJk bout the need for job in
Detroit, while whi ,who don't live
in Detroit, perform them.
Why aren't we forcing our Blac
politicians to peak out and d mand
chan e?
Why do we accept their ilen ?
Why aren't we challenging city,
tate, county and th federal agenci
to enforce affirmative tion and ex-
ecutive ord p flaming to I 0
Bla k involvem nt? What are our
BI k po Ii tici doing or can they
d to ensure our fair h re of job .
Can we blockade t wor i
th Y are doing in South Central,
1.0 An I with t obj tive:.
BI don't work, whit don't
Bob P rrott, Detroit
wer