•
H' toricall , Black nun
hav alway -pped
bytMpolice
for no other n
than being Black!
tan Black, medium Black,
or very rich blackberry
Black
(1 30)
take my dad for instance
they called him tM"IU -
fish" ng
bause he owned a hotel, .
a lumber yard
and his u ry own grocery
store
at 622 Winder
� back in the glory day
of"Paradi Valley"
Now him 00178 rich and all
didn't prev nt him
from being 'stopped &
fri ked'
by the good '01 boys
from the detroit police squad
Just dashed my dad into a
deep despair
(1950)
my husband, george
a korean vet
law abiding and clean-cut
hard working too
worked the early morning
shift at that
ford plant in wixom
at 4:00 a.m.
had to travel through
farmington and other small
white toums
just to get to work
and nearly every mom
he was stopped by
whi small town cop
who pointed drawn p . ls
at his Mad
eknuznding:
" ... boy, what yaU doing out
here early ... "
(1970)
my twin 80 •
patrick & perry barely 18
finished }Ugh school
then both landed
job at mickey d'
on plymouth & hubbeU
only problem
they had to open up
the place at 6:00 a.m.
you guessed it
they too were stopped
& frisked,
by the police
" .. .for being out here so
early in the morning ... "
(1990)
a very decent young man
named malice green say, he
graduated with my on, ricky
from western high,
malice was stopped by
the police on
november 5, 1992
and beaten. to deatli
his crime: he was a black
man
who refused to open his hand
to the white police
man
will it ever cease?
Peggy A, Moore
Detroit Black Writer
eek ID ac · story
September 12-18
SEPrEMBER 13, 1886 - Lit- SEPrEMBER 17, 1983 - Va-
erary critic Alain Locke, the frist ne William became first M-
African-American Rhodes rican-American woman named
Scholar, was born, 1812-During Miss America. 1863-1939 - Pro.
the War of 1812, 'one of every six Kelly Miller insisted that Howard
seamen was Black. 1960 -", University become a center for
Wilma Rudolph was named study of American Blacks. 1963-
U.S. Female Athlete of the Year. Eden Theatrical Workshop,
the region's oldest minority thea-
In which New York Qity UXlS the ter group was founded by Lucy M
first Liberty Party conuention Walder in Denver. 1981-Sugar
held? Ray Leonard defeated Thomas
See HISTORY, A8
SEPTKMBER 12, 1915 -
Scott J()plin composed
Treemonisha, a ragtime opera.
1926 - Negro History Week in­
augurated. 1947 - Jackie R0-
binson was named the Rookie of
the Year in the National League.
1787 - The first African-Ameri­
can Masonic Lodge' was organ­
ized. 1992 - Dr. Mae C.
Jemison became first African­
American woman to travel in
space.
For what role did Hattie
McDaniel receive an OScar?
SEPTEMBER 14, 1921 -
Constance Baker Motley, first
Africa n-American woman ap­
pointed federal judge, was born.
1902-1962 - Actress Loui
Beavers appeared in over 100
feature films.
N ame the nation's two largest
Black-owned savings and loan in-­
stitutions which were merged in
1982.
SEPTEMBER 15, 1852-Ed­
ward A. Bouchet, the first Afri­
can-American to join Phi Beta
Kappa, w . born. 1963 - �our
African-American girls was killed
in Birmingham church bombing.
Betw n 1872 and 1920-Elijah
McCoy' inventions became the
basis for quality products - thus,
"The Real McCoy." 1954 - Two
painters who started �ut an� be.
came m jor figures In African
Am ricanartw W .Jo n
and H e Woodruff. 1971 -
Washington D.C.'s Ford's th tre
hosted the wo ld premi of Don't
Bother me, I n't Co , launch­
ing th ca rs of Tony Award­
winner Hinton Batt l and
composer Micki Grant. 1978 -
uhammadAli becam the first
man r to win the h . vyw igh
crown three times, defeating Leon
Spinks.
What female group recorded
"Soldier Boy"?
SEPTEMBER 16, 1923 -
First Catholic seminary for Black
priests was dedicated in Bay St.
Louis, Miss. 1954 - President
Eisenhower desegregated the
Washington, D. C. Fire Depart­
ment.
Wlw ignited the Olympic flame
in the 1984 Olympics?
Mi higan
itizen
- hort · ghteq charity in
By Michael Ma en
Somali griculture, hobbling
cornm rei I distribution n -
works nd king th country
d pend nt on imported food.
CARE alon has sold $5 million'
worth of wheat flour on th S,O­
mali mark t.
ARE spokesm n in
Mogadishu told me that wheat is
not grown in Somalia and there­
fore do not compet directly
with th _ crops grown by Som li
farm rs.
But om n who belly is
'full of what flour is no likely to
nd mon y on locally grown
rghum The spoke man con­
h t ARE would do bet·
t r to us h to pay Somali
work rs, rath r than food, but
he m rk that it's much eas­
ier to donations of food than
i is to t cash. Food is plentiful
n in surplus around th world.
C h' tight
In 1980, I b gan one of the _
earli t food-for- ork projects in
East Africa. After a y r, it was
obvious' hat the proj didn't
work. B use th food is free to
th donors, its valu is debased.
Such proj c tend to be
make-work excuses for giving
a way food. This InS to be th
case in Mogadishu today here
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ub nber. of Mead Data entral;
e.
A n poll of "Perot'
conducted by Clinton poll
S G n rg,oomm' ion
by th conservati Democ:r tic
. Leads hip Council, ill trat
th Democ:ra ' problem. Th ir
exten ive urvey found th t
most Americans who vo for
Perot aren't eager to return to
the two party sys m.
An ideological profile of such
voters found them to have an
intense mistrust of th govern­
ment. By a u tantial 67 to 18
percent margin, they believe
that America is definitely "on
the wrong track. " They are gen­
erally libertarian, skeptical of
the system's ability to solve peo­
ple's problems. Most Perot vot­
ers over the age of thirty had
previously voted for Reagan and
Bush. Perot supporters are over­
whelmingly white, and fewer
than two-thirds have college de­
grees. Most also describe them­
selves as "oonservatives," rather
than "liberals" or "moderates."
Yet surprisingly, the poll also
measured several contradictory
currents and attitudes which
might bring Perot voters behind
the Clinton agenda. By a sub-
NEWPETI
Four hundred U.S. Army
Rangers arrived in Somalia y -
terday, bolstering he 25,000
U.N. troops .already th re as
part of a p making ffort that
will cost more than $1.5 billion
this year. At th same time, the
U.N. and private development
groups are scaling b ck hand­
outs of free food, r placing th m
with food-for-work projects that
will in turn r pl wi h
cash-for-work proj
n the surfa ,it 11
very po itiv : Th food m r­
geney is over. Th harv st,
I rgely orghum bu al h r
produ , also 100 har-
ity is ing ph out.
Yet these well-meaning li­
cies will only help ,to re-create
the situation that led to th food
shorta in Somalia in th first
place. The food th�� Somali
workers will be iving from
agencies like and th Red
Cross will be imported wheat,
rice and oth r commodities. And
when worker re paid, the
funds will have n raised by
, selling donated food on th open
marke.
The U. . euphemi tically
call this proc ss "monetiza­
tion. " Whatever it is called it will
have th eff ct of undermining
Alon
Color
Ln
THE DEMOCRATS' wo
nightmare would be if Perot de­
c:id not to run for . t
three from now. With
Pe t Repub-
li auld focus their entire
fire agai t Clinton. If poten­
tial p idential omi uch
Dol could pe uade at 1
i.xty roent of form Perot vot­
e to unify agai the Demo­
era ,th Republicans ould
win the 1996 election.
Conversely, the Republiama
have ral different nightmar-
ish ri. Perot could run
again an independent, at-
tracting anti-Clinton voters
hich might hav -been t­
tracted to a Republican candi­
date. He could win enough
sta • ectoral vo to force the
p idential election into the
Hou of Repr sentativ ,
here th Democrats have
commanding majority. Or Perot
could laUDCh an ins i­
dential tampaign inside the Be­
publiamParty primariee during
the winter aDd spring of 1996.
With ma •• iv financial r
sources and a trong organiza­
tion which is loyal to him per­
onally, Perot could ctually
"buy" the GOP pre idential
nomination.
No matter what Perot de-
cides to do, his supporters rep­
resent a significant challenge to
'the two party system, and raise
hard questions about America's
rull litical elite. ,""�a mo
ngp:> " ........ _ .... ��'" ,.r I
ment may oontraaictory in.
terms of its polic:i and Idea, but .
it also symboliz an important
thrust toward electoral inde­
pendence. Its long-term possi­
bilities go far beyond the
egotistical rruitings and public
posturing of Perot himself.
Dr. MaMin,g Marab,. U pro(_1IOr 0(
hilltory and political.amot. and Dir«JxJr
0( tM African. Anuriacan Studia IUi­
tute; Columbia Uniuusity. New Yo'"
City. "Alm 1M Color Line" is !clurwrl
in ooer 250 publimUOM and 60 t;adio
,lntiM. in�malionally.
is littered with the ruins of such
proj . Somalis are paid to do
th m but have no personal stake
in them.
Unfortunately, relief groups
are more a ept at dehvering
charity than they are in building
institutions. Non-govemm ntal
organizations looking for a
model of su ful development
in Mogadi hu might take a
clos r look at the port here
th go to oollect food from the
hips.
Eddie Johns, a former chief
warrant offi r in the U.S. Army
and now employ by the U.N.,
is trying to run t port solely
from f paid by shippe . Mr.
Johns employs �50 Somali or­
ers, paying them in cash. His
goals are mod t: to hand over a
elf-s taining enterprise to a
Somali government someday.
Unfortunat ly, commercial
dev 1 pment in the of the
country . ing crippled by t
continued dumping of surplus
commoditi , adding economic
d tabilization to th political
crisis. And hile the UN. .
rai ing billio for its military
operations, it' in ting noth­
ing in building Somalia' econ-
omy. '
W 5,200 S0-
malis r c iving food and in­
volved in public wor projects.
None of th projects will l d to
full- ime employment or become
self-sufficient, and none will sur­
vive if n w fighting cuts off food
suppli and forces aid wor era
out of .h country again Africa