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By TUREKA TURK
1chlll!n Cltlan
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VOL. xv NO. 32 An Informed People Is A Free People JUNE 27 - JULY 3, 1993
Coretta Scott King, wife of lain
lead r Martin Luther Kin Jr. and
civil righ activist in her own right, is
calling for Ion overdue reparations to
ub-Saharana rica.
"In 1990, the United Stat pro­
vided I than $1 billion in foreign aid
to all 0 ub-Saharan Africa, compared
to $2.3 billion for Egypt alone and $3
billion to Israel alone. The trategic
importance of Egypt and rael has
been an important consideration. But
the miserly appropriation for African
countri is an inj nee that must be
rectified by the Clinton administration
and Congress," King said in a peech
delivered at the recent African Ameri ..
can Summit Convention in West Af-
rica.
a d legate to the Summit, King
and fellow delegat called on the
Clinton administration to do more
than i pred or to jump tart Af­
rican development. Why?
"0 ,ITwould be hard to do
," King aid.
King also believ that even if co­
lonialism and lavery had never oc­
curred, aid to Africa would be just,
"The continent's agony bas been so
great and the opportuniti for d moe-
r
racy, development and trade are so
v 1, that both com ion and U.s.
self-inte justify a greater inv t­
ment in Africa' pro ," King id.
Reparatio for Africa, the Sum­
mit believes, is the one thing that may
t Africa on the road to recovery r
i resources have been ly ex­
ploited ince the commencem nt of
lavery.
International Iavery i not a new
coreept, Iraq' paying reparations to
Kuwait because o( the Gulf War
cbaos. Korea has received repara­
tions from Japan a result or inflic-
r
See KING, A8
By RO SEIGEL
HIGHlA D PA - At i Monday
July 21 meeting, the Highland Park
City Council opened five from five
firms competing for cleanup con­
tracts, while city employees protested
that contracting out uch services in a
"privatization" move would mean
layoffs for 41 employees.
The flrms making bids were Den­
len's Clock Work Cleaning Service in
Highland Park, BFI Waste Systems in
Wayne, Michigan, Fred's landscap­
ing in Detroit, W te Management of
Michigan, Inc. in Southfield, and City
Municipal Services, Inc. wbose loca­
tion i unkoow n.
Because uch bids were multi­
level, the amounts of the bid were
unknown at press time.
MAMI P R" head of local
25 of the American Federation of
Sta County, arid Municipal Em­
ployees, representing Highland Park
workers charged that th city w
being unjust to th workers by hiring
private comparu to do their job .
She noted the city compelled
workers to live in the city and had
even paid money for inv igators to
make we they lived there.
Th employe had purchased
hom In the city and inv ted money
because of the residency requirement,
COOper said, only to face the I of
their homes while the city hired com­
paru from ou ide. '
Cooper cal led this a "betrayal.'
One employee warned that the city
would not be able to ensure a priva
company performed adequately, be­
ca e it w unable to exert control on
outside finns the way it could control
performance of its own employees.
SHESAlDTHEcompanycoosen
would be outside of the city and would
not care about the community the way
city employees did, who were resi­
de .
S WORKERS, A8
ou
r
Study finds:
hltes
Liba ... ft.I�
Ihlani Humphrey, Nebechl Ugru and High Priestess Dr. Osun Dara Nefertiti perform Ubations before Rites
of Pas ge ceremonies for students from Aisha Shule and W.E.D. Dubois Prep School.
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GAINESVIJ..LE. Fla. (AP)- Black
state legislators who repre ent
mostly Blacks are more likely to en­
counter di crimination than tho e
from di tricts with more whi ,a
University 0 Florida tudy rel ed
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ay
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BY RICHARD CARELU
OCIA TED P WRITER
WASHINGTON - The Su­
preme Court let stand a ruling that
aid unlawful racial segregation may
still exist in Tope a, Kan., hi,
39 years after a Topeka case was
used to ban egregation in public
chools nationwide.
The justices, without comment,
refused to review a federal appeal
court ruling tbat Topeka chooloffi­
cials have failed to prove they re­
moved all "vestiges" of on time
mandatory gregation.
The justices last year told th 1 th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to re­
tudy its ruling that Tope a choot
officials may not have done enough
to counter past intentional discrimi­
nation against Black students.
But after studying two recent Su­
preme Court decisions that generally
made it easier for chool dis tricts to
escape court-ordered desegregation
plans, the 10th Circuit court in Octo­
ber reaffirmed its earlier ruling.
A 1951 law uit by Blac resi­
dents of Topeka led in 1954 to t
Suprem Court' landmark deci ion
in Brown v . Board of Education.that
outlawed racial egregation in public
education.
T RI Top ka I
suit was revived in 1979 by Blac
parents including Linda Brown, who
lac
lawma
er
i ty-dorninated di tricts.
"Although more Blac are being
elected to office, that alone i no
guarantee of meaningful Black rep­
resentation, " h aid. "It may be that
whites react
not only to th
color of a leg-
· i later' kin,
but the color,
economi
status or poli­
tics of hi or
her on titu-
ent well."
Hedge and
fellow politi­
cal cienti t
James Button began urveying the
nation' 438 Black tate lawm ers
in 1 1, receiving replies from 39·
p rcent.
Two-thirds of the Blac from
Black-majority di tricts aid they e -
perienced or ob erved discrimina­
tion compared to half of Blac
from distric where the majority of
re iden were white, the tudy
found.
Friday suggested.
David Hedge, a political cience
pro essor who conducted the tudy,
said the findings raise question
about the long- rm effects of federal
law tbat r�uire creation of minor-
had been an elementary student
when lending bet name to the fa­
mo case.
The 1979 complaint aid
Topeka' cbool di trict till had ele­
ments of racial egregation.
A federal judge ruled in 1 7 that
,the chool district had becom fully
integrated and threw out th 1979
law uit,
But th appeal court reinstated it,
saying chool officials had not done
enough to prove that unlawful egre-­
gation i g DC from the 14, tu­
dent di tnct. About one-fourth of the
city' chool di trier' tuden are
members of minorities.
See, TOPEf(,\, Pa A-8
ests.
"Lawmakers from Black-major­
i ty districts are clearly less likely to
believe that i sues important to
Blac will receive a fair hearing, Jet
alone be enacted
_____________ into law," he
aid.
Rep. Douglas
"TIm" Jamerson,
D-St. Peter­
burg, has repre-
ented both
majority-white
and' maj ori ty­
Black distric in
---- his 11 years in
the . Florida
House. He said Black lawai ers are
only now reaching po ition of •
power, largely because of the minor-
ity r presentation requiremen of
the federal Voting Rights Act.
"There is still a penchant to ignore
the i u of African-Amen ,"
Jamerson aid. "But before, there
was nobody up there fighting.
Thin are not as good they bouJd
be, but they're better than they
were."
hat do you
hink of
Pre ident
elin on'
performance
hu far?
" .... a the numb rand
proportion of Blae s
Increase, so too' does
white anxiety and
resist nce ... II
DI RI A TIO included
name-calling, exclusion from key
decisions, cornmi ttee po ts and lead­
ership po itio ,and the pass ge of
legislation hannful to Bl inter-
THE UMBERO Blac leg'
lators nationwide more tbandou-
S J)ISTRICTS, ,Pag A-8
DIANE JACKSON- -I don't
see any change from the last
administratton But we have to
give him time, it has only been
SIX months I still have farth in
him -
FRANCES STEWARD--He is
trying to do too much at once.
He needs to address one thing
at a time and then move on to
the next issue. I still support
him:
TONY REED-·Everybody
rushed him as soon as he got
into office. So, he IS oomq the
best that he can under the
circumstances. I stili support
him."
KER IT JI ERSON- -He
has had 100 days to get things
In order. His time IS up. It's time
for show. It's time for him to
show his Black supporters
sometrunqr
