EDITORIAL
Tou . Fir.
p th attribu n ry to run the city of roit.
But th prim ry I m n for u , th ic building
bloc for ny dmini tration i attitude nd in that gory
McPhail wins running away over her oppon nt. '
Unli h r oppon nt,
who ould pp and
pi ad, cPhail d mon­
trat th pu nk nd oour-
to do wh the' t to
do fo th whod
h r.
When
Oli w re pro ting rae­
. t ctivity of kinh ds on
campu ,her opponent, who
was on th Oli 't board,
publically pt quiet. He
left th kids out there to
fend for themsel , while
he wa wor ing "behind
closed doo ."
Detroit needs a mayor
who' up front, outspoken
and visible.
Then there is the qu -
tion of dealings with the busin community. While her
opponent says that under hi administration the city will
furnish the infrastructure for a new Tiger tadium, he whines
that there is little else he can do but beg to get Detroiters jobs
building that stadium. "You can't hold a gun to omeone's
head," he says.
However, if the city provid the streets and wers for the
n w tadium, then the city has a very big bargaining chip to
de�and jo and contracts for Detroiters in fact, part owner­
hip and part of the profits.
1cPhail has said plainly that there will be no city money
for an w stadium, we can't afford it.
Maybe because she has had to raise children by herself -
a situation the majority of Detroiters also find themse in
- McPhail is one tough woman. She is clear on where she
wants the city to go and recognizes her power as Mayor to get
us there,
H�r opponent demonstrates no such strength, instead ap­
pearmg weak and accomociating to the economic forces that
have made good money off the city while its residents lag
behind.
McPhail has pr9JlQlSjed-1&o el[J)al)Q
ability by tabli hi oils, S�:l'!�e!'! •• ttlr
make available the abandoned property bot rest entia and
commercial, and provide incentives to residents to develop
those properties,
��e has ?emonstrated a willingness to follow in a great
tradition=- hke the mothers who protected their sons from the
lynch mobs; like Sojourner Truth who led her brothers and
sisters out of slavery; like Rosa Parks who stood up to the
whole aparthied system of the South- McPhail displays a
compassion for the little man, and the strength to deliver in
the clutch.
We believe her toughness, her motherhood, will s rve us
well, move the city ahead and make a better life for its
residents, And that after all is what an election is all about.
Vote Share, McPhail for Mayor of Detroit.
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Som wh r
m mory, Bla
lily I
forbidd n to d and wri
I 'ety, lite
idered ub i ct.
1 une ly caught ith
writing i trum nts and paper
certainly not to be trusted.
E ry m t r implicitly un er­
tood that kno 1 dg
po er.
So when th d y of Jubil
d wn , hundreds of tho nds
of my people expressed their
newfound om by construct­
ing rough and, un s uming
choolhou , Frequently, th
choolhou e as built evenbe­
fore a t cher could. be solicited
to fill the position. Teenage
with a rudimental)' knowledge
of arithmetic, pelling nd com­
position were often at th he d
of clas with sixty or more
eager yet illiterate pupils.
The cl room was the site of
hope and aspirations for an en­
tire ra which was still strug­
gling to become free. It
represented the possibility of ac­
quiring the tools n l)' to
overcome ignorance and pov­
erty, the chief pillars of the sys­
tem of racial domination. The
public schoolhouse was a monu­
m nt to the people's deep desire
to come far more than others
had expected they would be.
Education thus became the
secular r ligion of the African-
WO G TE 0
ide flickering lamps, th
earlier generatio of Bl ck tu­
dents ere taught religiou ly
that" havetobetwioe good,
in order to b gi n the same
chance" our bite counter­
parts. Everyon too thi for
granted. They 1m from bitter
experienc that m t hite
never viewed equ, nd
would never accept compe-
tent unl we exhibited a de­
gree of excellence which far
surpas ed the establi hed
standards.
But today, millions of bite
Americans have turned their
backs on the promise of educa­
tional equality. By underfund­
ing urban education-the
reductions over the past decade
in federally-funded school lunch
programs, the cutbacks in class­
room instructional support and
the absence of computers, and
the lack of full support for pro­
grams such as Head Start - our
A dark, repr ive trend in
the busin field called "Corr -
tions" is sw ping the United
States that bodes ill, for both the
captives and the communiti
from which they we captured.
As America reigns unchecked
on th world tage, an empire
without rival, so too dom ti­
cally, America is r v aling vis­
age' stark with h rshness.
owh i that face mo con-
torted than in the dark neth r­
world of pri on, whe humans
re transformed into non- r-
sons, num red in crib
into box of un-li , whe th
v ry soul is und r d tructi
onslaught.
We are in th mi t of th
Marioniz tion of U ,S. pris ,
whe th a t ill ion of hu­
man r habilit tion is stripped
from th mi ion, t pIa
by dehum . zation by d ign
As pri n popula ions 11 0
bursting, tat for
funds to c tru I
umt: , known 'by v ri
n mes: I l. U, I II
perm Th 11 pu li
By Mumia Ahu-J amal
Along
Color
Lin
come .
Our challenge i to vi th
ideal of education, by forging to
conditions in our chool ystems
and national educational poll­
ci , to dvance t promise of
n w lev Is of excell n . Unl
'we accomplish thi , our country
lurch toward an inevitable cri-
is between the affluent, edu­
cated "have" and the
undereducated, largely alien­
ated "have nots". The choice is
ours, and the time is short.
Dr. Manning Marable i Profes&or of
HulDrya.n.d Political Science, and Direo­
rorofthe Africnn.-Arru?ricnn. tudies In#i­
tute; Columbia Uniuer ity. New Yo'"
City. "Along the Color Line" appears in
over 250 publications and is broadca by
75 radio uuions throu hout the United
State and internationally . >
tions spokesmen defend such
units as rural, isolated reserves
ofth "Worst of the Worst."
THAT JUSTIFICATION
W ASthe 'basis for the infamous
Marion Federal Penitentiary,
where the gov't promptly
dumped a number of political
prisoners, including, for a time
at least, former Black Panther
Sundiata Aooli, former AIM ac­
tivist Leonard Peltier, former
Resistance Conspirator Dr. Alan
Berkman, orth Am rican anti­
imperialist Tim Blunk, among
others. (For th wretched his­
tory of Marion, contact Commit-
to End Marion Lockdown,
P.O. Box 578172, Chicago, IL
60657- 8172; 312-235-0070.) In
1987, Amnesty International re­
ported Marion violates almost
every one ofth United ations'
Standard Minimum Rul for
the Treatment of Prisone .
Several 'IV networks r ntly
reported on the Pelican Bay,
California Supermax, a st t
orture chamber, call "Sk I
ton Bay" by priso
:!
In Pennsylvania, an SMU
was built in a rural, financially
strapped area, a so-called Spe­
cial Management Unit, where
the state specializes in shrivel­
ing the soul.
It seems to also specialize in
punishing jailhouse lawyers,
and serves as punishment for
those who had the nerv to win
civil and criminal suits.
CO SIDER 0 E:
"Solo" expl ins his history before
being sent to the SMU, ". .from
June, 1985 to ov. 1, 1989, I
never went to the hol whil
prison and ne r had mi
duct more rious than 2 ti
of reefer. I w I1t 3 y rs wi hou
any kind of mi condu while n­
gaging in studies, ing] a liter­
acy tutor and all."
In Mar. 1992 all too changed
after Solo was char with hit­
ting a nurse at Huntingdon
Prison. Shortly h aft r, th
writer saw him locked in a
onB-block, hi left ey woll n to
th size of a lfb 1.
rom
Death
ow