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n taking our own children nd grandchild n to t
soecial Hallo n even for the t 25 years, and can at t to
the fact that they are all wholesome family fun - very enjoyable
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...... ''''''''., DETROIT church , Detroit Boys & Girls Clubs,
troit civic and community organizations as w 11 as th Detroit
Police rtment all tage events insuring that kids in general
have a fe and happy Hallow n. They all are to be commended.
Econ nnically speaking, this time of yeer suburban malls all
realize a huge boost in sal as Detroit moms and dads purchase
Halle n costum at 14 - 20 dolla a pi
And, , Detroit idents still keep their porch lights on and
hand out candy on Hallow n - If not, why would that Farmer
Jack market located in our Black neighborhood tock Halloween
candy 4 - 6 feet high - only to it disappear at lightening
speed?
Lest year (1992) the only reported case of armed robbery
ult on little trick-or-treaters happened in Dearborn when
three Dearborn teens robbed other younger kids of their Hallow­
een treats.
In conclusion, Detroiters must stop going where they are not
welrome. They must rediscover their own town and GET EX­
CITED ABOUT DETROIT!
A Moore. Detrou Black Writus GuUd, 5601 WWarren DeL, MJ 48210-
Eveyln Richard n, The Childrens Crusade, 4696 30th DeL, MI48210 897-2551
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funds made available by the
check-off proposal for planning
purposes, selected projects, schol­
arships, and rehabilitation of
prisoners.
REFUSING TO wait for Con­
gress to pass a full reparatior
bill, N'COBRNS seven national
Commissions are moving to begin
self-help efforts where needed
and where resources permit and
to support self-help efforts al­
ready underway.
At the September Board meet­
i ng, Kuratibisha Ali Rashid,
chairman of the BuildingAssocia­
tion's Task Force's Advisory Com­
mittee for Training At-Risk and
Disenfranchised Individuals in
the Construction Trades, in the
greater Miami area, won a resolu­
tin of N'COBRA support.
The Allied Minority Contrac­
tors Association and the One
Hundred Black Ministers of Dade
County, Florida, are in a struggle
both to win resources to train
young men and women to keep ,
their construction companies,
most of them small, solvent.
The N'COBRA executive
board is also comkposed of its na­
tional secretary, Kenneth Small
of New York City and its national
treasurer, Dr. Paula Newsome of
Charlotte, North Carolina.
The national mailing address
is P. O. box 62622, Washington,
D.C. 20029-2622 (telephone 202
635-6272)
continued from Page A 1
. Euydiscrimina8ion on
I p� � a an
reparations bill.
Scott and Olusegun reminded
Clinton that he could create such
a study commission by executive
order.
"This commissioon would not
seek to dig up old wounds but,
finally, to heal them. We seek to
begin the long-overdue healing
process based on accurate infor­
mation, " the letter said.
But the N'COBRA leaders
wamecl that the deficit-free repa­
rations proposal could not work
without a Change in attitudes of
white America and called on Clin­
ton to help pioneer such CM nge.
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or " oci I cont ct"
n citiz ns nd t govern­
ment. Peopl had no" tural
right" to ben fi u h h lth
r, du tion, public
tan during tim of n
h Iter.
The con erv tive political
perspecti vie tb govern­
ment a collection agency for
fleecing working people, elimi­
nating civil rights and environ­
mental protection la , giving
fewer and fewer social entitle­
men hich ad human
needs. With the fall of Commu­
nism and th end of th Cold
War, this ideology of conserva­
tism has rome to dominate poli­
tics throughout th world.
Even with the important de­
feat of the Reagan-Bushadmini­
stration and th victory of Bill
Clinton and the Democrats last
year, many of th regressive s0-
cial assumptions about tb role
of government have remained.
THE N'COBRA LETTER
said, in part:
"The white community as a
group, through its government
and laws, oppressed Black people,
and the white community as a
group profited from the labor sto-
len from us during slavery and
the financial in uality imposed
on us by segregation for 100 years
after slavery. We ask you to in­
spire other just, thoughtful white
leaders to pioneer the way in dem­
onstratingthat the white commu­
nity is not a community which
knowingly 'profits from theft and
that America will face the wrongs
of the past and take steps, includ­
ing money compensation, to re­
pair the present-day results of
these wrongs."
N'COBRDA is building chap­
te� all over the country and will
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What m a should Black
people and oth rs get from the
surprising fact that another
panel of almost totally white
judges selected a young Black
woman as Miss America for the
fifth time in 11 years?
What is your reaction to the
factthatthreeofth ten final' ts
in the 1993 Mi America Pag­
eant on September 18, were
Black?
What do you think of the f: ct
that two Black women of th "fi­
nal 10 t con nts" came
from stat in the old Conf er­
aey - Alabama and South Caro­
lina?
And what do you think of th
fact tha h nd runn rup,
Miss hio, W th 0 ra-sing­
ing, jet-bl ck daughter of Nige­
rian paren an spok with a
clear, melodic voi using impec­
cable dicti n and grammar?
THE pag­
eant were confronted wi h these .
and other questions as talented,
attractive, and community-ori­
ented Kim rly Clarice Aiken,
18, of South C rolina won th
title of Mi Am rica in the an­
nual pa nt A lantic City,
N.J.
Other bl ck worn n among
THE P CE TO begin' to
id ntify and to bring to h r all
grou hich ri aliena­
tion, discrimi tion and opp
ion ithin our ociety:
m mber of trade union ;
omen; gays and I bians; t
unemployed, the homel and
people on fixed incom ; people
of color - African-America ,
Latinos, Asian-Americans and
others; and all Americans ho
do not have a basic qualify of life,
such as health insurance, qual­
ity shelter, and education. We
must go beyond interest-group
politics, which looks at ocia1
change Ii a game of po er, in
which someone wins while the
others must 1 e.
We must get to know one an­
other, sharing our common ex­
periences, learning a common
language of political action and
social rommitment. As Malcolm
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By J ames E. Alsbrook
the ten finalists were Miss Ohio, respected.
the 20 year-old Tiltalayo Ade-
dokun of Cincinnati, and Mi PERHAPS SOME OF the
Alabama, the 22 year-old Kalyn above guesses are correct, but a
Chapman, an attractive psycho 1- major factor in the higher stand­
ogy major and talented dancer. ing of Black women in the pag-
Various reasons are being eant is that new rules for
given for Blacks' great recent evaluatingtheyoungwomenare
success in the America Pageant. in effect. Now, up to 20 poin of
Which, if any, do you think are the total of 100 ible points
correct: are not given on the basis of
The judges are trying to beauty or grace, or special tal­
strike blows against race preju- ent. The final 20 points are
dice and show that beauty is based on th youngwo en's par­
more than skin deep. ticipation in community-better-
The sponsors are trying to ment activities and her
show that the "Mi Black Amer- anticipated inpact on the solving
ica" pageant that features BI ck of social ills that afflict the na­
women only, is divisive, irrele- tion.
vant and redundant. Gone are the days when Miss
• White people generally are America victories w re deter­
b ginning to understand that mined by whether the girl's fig­
"Black � beautiful." ure was "1 than G k, " or by
White judges are implicitly mythical, grandmoth rly "Gon '
apologizing for prior mistreat- With the Wind" femininity val­
ment of Black people and for dis- ues, or by canned "goody two­
couraging Black women from shoes" responses to bland,
entering the Miss America obvious and "leading" qu tions.
Pagenat in many past years. Today' winner must have
Damaging stereotypes like thought and acted in terms of
those projected by Butterfly helping other people.
McQueen, Hattie McDaniel and . In today's world the sponsors
Louise Beavers are out of date of th pageant a thinking in
and should be out of mind, and a terms of local and national co­
newdayofsocialequalityamong h nsion and unity. They do not
ra has arrived and should be like th "Miss Black America"
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ne ion ago,
must mo from a "civil rigb "
truggl to a "human righ "per-
i , hich th po to
mobiliz millio .
- It' only through day-to-day
truggl nd joint dialogue that
will 1 m to tra cend the
barrie of mi unde tanding
bet e n group and political
tendencie . Progre ive unity
among t broadest social fo
in Am rica can be constructed
only t the grassroots level, in
thou ands of union hall ,
omen' centers, church and
chools.
It . n't enough to complain
about politicians and the sys­
tem. The power to achieve
change is already in our hands.
The next movement for a deeper
and more meaningful democracy
requi us to go beyond the lim­
its of our imagination.
Dr. Manning Marabk i. Pl'Ofi or of
Hutoryan.d Political Scimoe, and Direo­
toroftM A/riam-AmoiCDA Studia IMti­
tute; Columbia University, New Yo'"
City.
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pageant and do not want to see
a "Miss Chinese America," "Miss
Jewish America," "Miss Geman
America, " "Miss Catholic Amer­
ica," "Miss Methodist America"
or any other sort of Miss America
vehicle that emphasiz the no­
tion of national fragmentation or
discrimination based on race or
religion.
The new 'and Black Miss
America for 1994 has n "pay­
ing her dues" to the community
by tting up an organization to
help the homel , one of who
was her uncle. Sh will spend
her next year promoting the
cause of the homeless.
Th new Mi America's win­
nings in lude a $35,000 scholar-:
hip, a Chevrolet Camaro and an
imated $200,000 for speaking
The third place winner,
Ohio's Titalayo Adedokun, re­
c ived a 14,000 chola hip.
Her hometown Cincinnati En­
qui r, unlike other Ohio news­
paper , print d only a short
tory of the Pageant and failed
to mention th nam of Cincin­
nati' and Ohio' Black third­
place winn r. Why?