mun m.
- Sulphur dioxi ,
with a trong odor,
tac b thing, kin, and
lu It forms . d rain that de-
fo kills fish and dam-
buildings.
- More mercury than a gar­
bage incin rator, becau the
Highland Par facility would deal
with medical w , creating
even more damage to the Great
Lakes.
Although tate and federal en-
vironmental agenci tand-
ards, Sharon beli they are
inadequate and adds that it is left
to the companiee to do the moni­
toring.
IQ
rman-
d ring
t 1 unch
govemm n ul on group
. The fi t imp ion
from uch a nario
SS attaclring th War-
Je . h ghetto in 1943, Po­
land. But hat of the February
1993 BATF (Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Fi rms)/govern­
ment ult on Waco' Kore-
hia ?
Before you guffaw, consider
this;
The BATF agent were
guards. . . searching for illegal espana
Safety conditions would be . d said to be in the Kore hian
for the workers, he added, notmg .
that employees at the Detroit in-
cinerator complained about un-
controllable coughing. Sh said
when the Detroit Health Depart­
ment called in, hee.lth offi­
cials told the workers to change
their cloth before they went
home, because their children
might be infected or they them-
I might get rash .
U££.InI.I..O that of th
80 jots the company promised,
me would be boo pe and
engineers that would probably
com from oth r and the
only jo Highland Parkers would
likely to get would be rity
THE TF RAID per-
formed for m media con-
umption to how Americans
how dangerou Kore hian
ere. The Wa ult w
READERS WRITE
,
ac
make it.
North to South, East to West,
across the nation, the two fold
problem of violence and crime
threatens to consume all of us.
Leaders must help end the kill­
ings. Meaningful parental in-
volvement in the lives of chil­
dren is the heart of the matter.
Far too many parents see
their role primarily as providing
food, shelter and material afflu-
ence - and not must else. Nev-
ertheless, until all groups,
classes, rich and poor, can join
hands to restore the spiritual
sense of community, the chaos,
the madness will reign supreme.
Detroit re Ident
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-.
o
he ruin ofa
nation begins
in the home
of its people.
- African prov rb
wo images from Somal·, have been
seared into our memories in recent
months. The first is that of suning
Somalians. they held out their
hands and implored for help with
their sile� sunken eyes. The second is that
of civilians wled dead on the treets.
killed by United Nations gunfire. Between
these two ima is a third: The arrival of
American troq)S promising to bring food
and peace, bristling with much hope that
the mission i If w proclaimed to the
world Operation Restore Hope.
What troub es me is the third
image, Am rica' military intervention in
S� is what linked the fi image to the
second. As African-American I am par­
ticularly troub ed - indeed anguished - by
the spectacle of United troops,
of a U.S. supported operation, shooting
and killin unarmed African civi . and of
American.-p bombin in way that
catain, despite the intentions and
lions. to wound kill more Afri-
. Would the U . have ever killed So- .,
malians had America not wrapped i If
around the whole operation? I think not.
The killing of Africans in Somalia is
partly Arne' 'f L Thus thele m be
lesson for us in this. It i that America must
become much morecauti and much more
re10e t been in getting military
involved ov . In the Cold W ,obvi-
ously, it y to get involved and .
,
I
In retrospect the U.s. military mission
to Somalia was a serious mistake.
By
ig r Inni
not - know enough. But it is cl to me that
e are bound to make ttagic mistakes whtn
we land out troops f from our • pi
. des. favor ooe violent warlord over 111-
ocher. aaempt to mediate internal politic
hose dynamic stretches centuries. and
preIeDd to know enough to separate the good
guys from the bid. ·
In rettospect the U.S. military mi ion
to Somalia w asaious rni e. It w • fll'St
of aU, a mi' beca African civili
uffer enough violence it is, struggling
every day to live with some dignity under
what may be the world's harsh t condi­
tion , without the U.S. and U.N. adding to
the violence and killing. And it w mis­
take because e too lives and risked lives
whtn no American in w e.
Let's not make tbesekinds of mi es again.
If e t to help Africans and others over-
m do so without killing them in the
process.
The world I to America for moral
I 'p. Coosequendy. we have moral
obligation to promote the values that have
made us the moral beacon of the wo Id; but
our first obligation is to adv ce these v ue
direcdy for the e of our own citizenry.
Arne . lives should committed tin­
gily. Considering that the Soviet Union has
collapsed. our foreign milituy en m
-m t be direcdy connected to the N .
Security of our country .In Som " this
not the case.
easy to justify it .... and to justify the casualties
and pain. Atalmo every dot on the globe we
potentially tanding up to a deadly
Soviet enemy. I was glad and proud that we
did so. And I understand that what then
.American security.
With the Cold War over. we m
realize we did fOr m of oUr history. that
we simply do not know enough about remote
Somalians, I was particularly proud to see
young African-American men and women
doing something so honoolble and consuuc­
live with their lives. opposed to falling
prey to the many vices of our inntl'cilies. For
most, this will be the m fulfilling experi­
ence of their young lives - a unique opportu­
nity to the land of their ancestors while
rving their home. the U.S.A. I had been
L
a
Times were that age 18 was
descriptive of youths still cling­
ing to mother's dress tail. Not
true in Lumberton, N.C. "These
guys have been in big trouble,"
that is, Larry Martin Demery
(18) and Daniel Andre Green
(18), charged with killing Mi­
chael Jordan's father, James
Jordan. Lumberton mirrors our
nation.
·They have been good
friends," said Robeson County
Sheriff Hubert Stone. "They
grew up together in southern
Robeson County. They started
to school together. .
They have been together day
in and out except when one - in
prison. • Black boys beware of
some of your 'friends'. Nothing
is more dangerous than an irre­
sponsible friend; friendship with
evil i like a bubble on the Atlan­
tic.
Demerey and G n started
to school together. Both, how­
ever, are high school dropouts,
charged with first degree mur­
der, armed robbery and oonspir­
aey at 18. Black boys: according
to Willie Woods, Jr., born and
reared on the south side of Pon­
tiac, a June 1993 recipient of
MBA from Harvard Business
School: "When you graduate
from school, you leave a whole
lot of people on the same t t
corner where you left them.
WHEN YOU G U TE
from college, you leave another
whole set of people hind you.
When you go on to obtain a Mas­
ter's Degree or PhD, you have
left another whole t of people
behind and have become one of
the few." He recommends edu­
cation - a "one-way" ticket out
in dealing with all the 0 tacl
that young African-American
males face.
Demery, an American Lum­
bee Indian, Green and African­
American both members of
oppressed groups. BI ck boys:
the desire to resis opp ion-to
rise above it, is implanted in the
nature of man .. Stop the ex­
cu ! Black mal a d n­
dants of the "stron tOO Africans
who were taken into lay ry.
You are offsprings of those
strongest.
If they could endure the worst
of the worst, Black mal have
to believe and know they can'
reaches of the world to send Arne . troo
or upport the involvement of other forces
. e the U .), If e do, the re t almost
Iy will be more of our own dead and 0
ong th whom e ted to help.
And help is we w ted to bring
Somalia. an African American, in f � I
cheered the di h of our troopS to secure
the port and the capital and countrysid so
that food could be di triOOted the starving
irritated,
seemed ob with the tragedy in White
B . while blind to that in Bl Somalia.
Our mi ion to Somali w not conceived in
evil. or w it executed willi ything but
the kind of profi . ism makes Amen-
proud of OW' military.
The problem our RUSSlon
conceived in ignorance. unavoi ble igno­
ranee. Our ovemment did not - could