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fLES LAWSUIT OVER 'AFRICAN' IN PRODUCT NAME
By ALLISON JONES
Michigan Citiz n
Africans in America ere
robbed of their name, religion,
m��,fum�Mdoo ,m�
challenges from bite-owned
corporations over the of the
word African and the colors of
the Black nationalist flag.
A hite-owned manufac-
turer of Black hair. care prod­
ucts tiled copyright infringe­
ment la uit agai t a smaller
Blac -0 ned hair products
company in dispute over the
us of a trademar and product
liken
oreover, white-owned
Shar Products of Brooklyn,
hich ma hair grooming po-
tion and lotions under the
trademark "African Pr ide"
claimed license righ to the ti­
tl "African" in t name of hair
products.
T W IRST reported in
an article in the Village Voice by
Lisa Jon that Shark Products
has asked a federal court in At-·
lanta to return a preliminary
iJ\junction against Black-owned
B&J Sal Company of Fayet­
teville, Georgia with its • Afri-
can Natural" hair care prod-
ucts. .
In its la uit, Shar claimed
all rights to the use of the word
African when used 88 the fil'8t
word in a hair-care product.
The company also char
that the packaging of the prod­
ucts in the "African Natural"
line is too similar to the Afriam '
Pride line of package designs
S , HAIR CARE, Pg A-8
e
By J NNIFER VAN DOREN
rvice
"NAFTA would be simply
devastating to us because there
is no way we can compete with
the cheap labor they can get in
xi ," d he
IgWi1..-A ............ �:t.�·�:�4M
LANSING - Bernice Shafer
881)Bl':Ba\18 with
h on 10 ofl
in t Michipn' Crystal Val-
ley In 1968. Now, after 28 yea
their crops total nearly 200 acres
in Oceana county, but they are
beginning to worry that her live­
lihood may soon be threatened.
The North American Free
Trade Agreement, NAFTA, is
the entity Shafer fears. The
agreement would brea down
trade barriers among the U.S.,
Canada and Mexico, boosting a
sagging U.S. economy - or
stealing jobs from thousands of
American workers, depending
on each expert's opinion.
d'
her group t
industry.
"Some dairy farms might
benefit, that's probably why the
Farm Bureau backs it, because
we have a surplus of cheese and
milk and can export it to Mexico.
But it's not the same with as­
paragus, they can't even afford
to buy it down there, and they
can produce it for so much
cheaper than we can.·
"The Michigan Farm Bureau
Se NAFTA,A8
Garr t Jame dane. In c lebr tlon during Rite. of Pa ge cer monl
for tud nt. from Ai ha Shul and the W.E.B. DuBoi Pr p School.
h lei thl. ummer
co
• • •
vatiza
o
The cost of a state prison 'education'
�very pnsonsr costs the stat $34,000 each y ar Could the
mon b sp nt in a mor productive way?
ONE YEAR IN
MEDICAL SCHOOL
$21,120
BY LYNN GOLUBOWSKI
C. I New. Service
LANSING - Privatization of
government agencies is no solu­
tion to the state's rapidly grow­
ing budget because private
corporations are no more effi­
cient than the government, said
Attorney General Frank Kelley.
"The conservative view is that
the government is not to be
trusted, " he said. "I'h rsfore, big
business which has a wonderful
"social conscience" can do every­
thing better than th govern­
ment."
Sen Jon Cisky, R-Saginaw,
said. privatization is a pilot pro­
gram that needs to be looked at
a way of reducing th state's
budget.
"We should explore the possi­
bilities of competitive bidding
and monitor th results," Cisky
said.
Gov. John Engler's admini­
stration is currently looking at
privatizing aspects of every state
agency using the PERM p
(Privatize, Eliminate, Retain, or
Modify).
AT LEAST 5 aspects of the
Corrections Department, a
budget growing between 8 and
10 percent a year, are being stud­
ied under this process.
Cisky said he doubts the
wholesale selling 0 corrections
to private compani is � viabl
•
option, but that some aspects
could be privatized.
"I support viable options to get
us out of this corrections budget
problem," he said. "Right now,
it's like ttying to solve a puzzle
without all th parts on the ta­
ble,"
Fred Parks, executive director
of the Michigan Corrections Or­
ganization Local 526, said state
prisons could be run by private
corporations but that there are
moral obligations to consider.
"The Boy Scouts or the Na­
tional Guard could run a prison,"
he said. "Will it protect the pe0-
ple though?"
. been a private corporation that
has proven. that it can run a
prison I expensively or more
efficiently and no company he
kno of requires the training
and a college degree to be a cor­
redio officer li the State of
Michigan does.
Luella Bur e, warden at the
Saginaw Regional Correctional
Facility, said there are areas
other than basic custody and
curlty that could be privatized
without any impact on a prison'
dally routine.
"The custody and security .
t left to (the tate) beca
do that well," she'd.
How can we
get mor
community
own
bu ine
going?
·By marketing our products
better: educate people what
your product is, how to use it
and why they need it.·
E SAID T RE hasn't
See PRISON, A8
-Ventra Aa na
·I'm in the mail order business
and young people- don't know
the type of businesses they can
get into-someone needs to
teach them.·
-J m Immona
"Provide a small business
development think tank. Make
it affordable for community
people"
·Community organizations
could sponsor neighbors who
sew, cook, babysit, and get
funds. Jobs are scarce in my
neIghborhood. •
--Ed .1 Reid
-Jan Toll a