READERS WRITE
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al rnative to violence. The
pea whi h comes to th hI
beli ve in th it own personal d I
vin worth and extend that beli ....
to oth . I lie our divine fll
ture empowe us to tum this un­
acceptable pattern of social an
commercial relatedn around
Locally, the residents of
troit Metropolitan area can stop
the criminal programming of our
children by ntrollingthe type
toys mar ted to th m. We n
organize bo t of stores in t hf'
neighborhood and malls to pi .
vent the Ie of "death toys".
We can 'appeal to the goodn
in our child n who, if offered
glass of dirty w ter and a glass It
clean water, will learn to ch
the clean if we give them tru
information about th content
ch.
m moran-
Lester's World
Y wza boss .... you say
he don't speak at the
march on Washington ...
t en he don't speak.
n Res .10 hil-
Sonja Robinson
Are we still being told who r a
and cannot
,
By MICHAEL LESLIE
Special to the Michigan Citizen
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Point
good ·th.·
In elaborating the Seven
Principl of the Bla Val
System, Dr. Maulana Karenga
put forth th principal of Ku­
jichagulia, Self-D termination
to advance the notion that
African people ha the right to
define ou 1 and spe for
o 1 opposed to beingd
fined and spoken for by oth 1'5.
Thi principle of Self- r-
mination al 0 extends to the
right ofBla people to lect our
own leaders and to mak d ci­
sions bout who can to
and rep nt African inte ts.
THERE IS NO QUE TIO
but that th Je . h community
has every right to promote and
defend its interests on matters
which it d IDS of vital concern
to Jewish people. The qu ion is
do Black people have t right to
I self .. detel' . �iQB nd - HI I
.�J J .4 d nd d
f nd that right?
The 30th Anniversary of the
M reh of W hington w no a
"B1 -I .. Vi nt. It w seri­
ously marred by th capitulation
of Black I dership to the de­
mand of 0 h rs that a Black
1 d r ofn tionally and interna­
tional tanding no permitted
to participate in an event and
enti lly ommemorated a
high water m rk in the "Black
Fr om Struggle."
Thi rejection of Farrakhan
repr hensible
i � m t of t me Black
) d w r in th company of
Minist r IT khan a few w ks
li r th African Am rican '
S eMARCH,A8
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on
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