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Candidates discuss' Independent Black Political Agenda
'0 ob ervers at Lewis College of
Busi
Only two mayoral candidat
howed.
Di c ion of the 1972 Gary, Indi-
ana Blac Political Convention
baped the evening's debate.
T Gary convention was ed to
illu tra th importance of grass­
roots input in defining any Black po­
litical agenda.
After reviewing those happenings,
on nationalist noted that "clearly the
Nationali t, Pan-Africani t", pro-in­
dependence communi ty bas been im­
portant in baping tbe poli tical
thought am 0 Ie in his tory .. .so we
of the . torically political B ell
family.
BI ell and ew Detroi t P
dent Paul Hubbard had three minu
each to give a campaign pi tch to
leave the remaining time for audience
qu tions.
Bl kwell say that bile Bl
must run for mayor or any other pub­
lic office, the likelibood of them get­
ting any real mileage out of '!
offices' 'oubtful.
cannot be taken for granted."
Citizen
TID 110 tb
tage for the day's rhetoric.
"AsBI kpeopl itdo n'tmat r
if you're Democrat or Republican,
his tory bows you that the problem is
that everyone el plays the me but
us", aid Arthur BI kwell, referring
to th historic t ndency for African­
Am ricars to vote in favor of th
not explicitly talking Blac .
"We've got to vote for who' in
our best interest, that' t kind of
intelligence and sophi tication we've
got to have," said Blackwell, Wayn
County Commis loner, and member
Being mayor of city that i 80
percent-pl BI m t mean bav-
ing an agend pecific to the interes
of that majority, and d pite ub­
utb/ci ty commonali ti . and orne
otberw e universal concerns (crime,
poverty, polJution) the conv rsation
ge pretty Blac hi teo
And for a coupl 0 mayoral hope­
fuls and a handful of city council con­
tenders, t Thursday' forum "The
Need fur an Independent BI Po­
litical Agenda" meant candida bad
to pull out their' li ttIe bl k ba ' for
50 or so vocal, inte ted, race-con-
"I WE DO 'T HAVE any tan­
gible results, it ain't nothin'. I don't
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By DR. I RI A. OS 0 LE
NatIon. CfMlltIon 01 BI.,.·for
"'".retlon. In Amerlc. (NCOBRA)
another 100 Y . Blacks have re- of New Afrika vice pre ident of
ceived neither an apology nor com- W hington, D.C., w re-elected co-
persanon. chairperson 0 NCOBRA.
Mr.Kalonji Olusegun, a Republic
SA TO ROUG LA- campaign to
maJce the United Stat government
pay reparations - money and other
compensations -for the damage in­
flicted on Bl k people in America by
lavery and po t- lavery raci m took
a quantum leap when individuals and
delegat from San Diego to ew
York, Miami to Chicago New Or­
leans to Detroit, met at Southern Uni­
versity in Baton Rouge, louisiana, for
the fourth annual holocaust memorial
and reparations codt'erence in mid
June.
Th culminating business meeting
not only elected national co-chairper-
ors, other officers and a Bvard· of
Directors. It created ven major
Commi ions to develop implement­
ing tactics for th flood of ideas which
emanated from ten workshop on Sat­
urday.
Th e concerned how to win Con­
g ional legi lation,"how to mobi­
lize millio of people in th U.S. and
al 0 trengt n th international cam­
paign, how to use reparations once
won, and how to maximize the 000-
nomic and educational power of or­
ganized BI k people today and
during the fight for legi lative justice.
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See LEAP, A3
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Porter as ured residents that gar­
bage would be picked up "regulart y,"
but when a member of the audience
asked how often, he said he did not
know, because plans are bei im­
plemented. '
Porter as ured re idents there
would be no hidden co ts or higher
taxes caused by privatization.
By Ron Selg I
Specl., to the Mlchlll.n Citizen
Wainwright said that the contract
would probably be presented to the
eity council for approval during the
July 19 meeti ng.
Johnson aid it was inappropriate
for the city to authorize the company
to perform city service before th
contract had been negotiated.
Also under que tion was t lack
of opportunity for Black entrepre­
neurs trying to compete against in­
dustry giants like City Managem nt.
HIGHLAND P ARK- Privatiza­
tion of trash hauling came to this city
by a four to one vote, at an emer­
gency city council meeting,
Wednesday June 30, and with it
came a lot of qu tions.
The Highland Park City Council
voted to hire City Management Inc.,
to pick up ci ty garbage. The contract
is on a multi-year basis with a mini­
mum two year guarantee on price.
Residents at first were angry over
the 10 of jobs for 43 of their neigh­
bors.
Then to everyone urprise,
Mayor Linsey Porter during a ques­
tion and answer ion July 6,
tated that garbage would not be
picked up every week.
ACCORDING TO city official ,
City Municipal Services, a ubsidi­
ary of City Management began gar­
bage collection July 1.
Councilwomen Greta Johnson
and Christine Franklin said the coun­
cit never approved a contract with
City Management, but only voted to
give the admini tration authoriza­
tion to negotiate the contract.
JAPA IN America who had
been interned for up to four years
during World War II received an apol­
ogy and a Cong ional award of
$20, each in 1
By contrast, Afrikan enslavement
in the United Stat and th predeces­
or coloru I ted 250 years, and ra­
cism by U. :- law did n t end for
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CO'ITy WAINWRIGHT, ad­
ministrative es istant to the mayor,
aid' that the admini tration re­
quested the contract include consid­
eration of Fred Landscaping ub­
contractor,? handle tree trimmi ng.
Se�. T�SH, Pag A-5
RaymCind John on of Highland Park wa among m ny ,
young people who p rticipated in HPCC' ree nt ·C k
Walk·.
What should
Mayor Young
do with his
"war che til?
JEANETTE COLE AN-lilt is
his money, he should be able to
do what he wants. If he wants
to back a mayoral candidate,
he should,"
KEITH SHAN ON- "The
Mayor should donate about half
of his accum la�io.ns to repairing
homes and bUilding the city up.
ROY ROULHAC- ·He should
donate part of it to the city.
There are many causes in the
city that could benefit. •
GWE McNEIL- ·He should
donate it to some of the causes
that he started, such as the
People Mover."
