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temen Mr. G ns' n ph w id,
when h y killed him. Why hould
In Struggle and Developm nt
Kenneth Snodgrass
'The btl .alling of
a Blac D18n'
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B 0 William., III
IT I THE collective denial
and guilt of white people for cen­
turi that led to the burning of
Christopher Wilson, a man who
had no idea what was happening
to him or why? For Wilson to un­
d rstand his dilemma, he would
ha had to understand that in
the ey of many whites, it is a
moral and spiritual sin to have
Black kin in America. It is as
simple as that! No matter how
kind you are.
No matter howmuch money
you make, to many whites, if your
skin is Black, you deserve to die.
Th people raise and train their
children to think this way. It is
taught rly, in the infant stage.
Th problem with me speaking
so frankly is that many whitepeo­
pie wil1 want to label me a racist,
or a fool, for speaking th truth.
And, many BI ck people will at­
ta k me as being way out of line.
What I do know is that Black
people, who haven't done a thing
wrong, k p getting bumped om
I watched as the U.S. govern­
m nt systematically dismantled
th Black Panther Party for Self-
f . Y, t, they refuse to put
the Ku Klux Klan and the fascist
kinh ds ou of bus in
My only conclu ion i that
there' a double standard when
it com to Black groups versus
white grou ,I gu it would be
a little racist of me to uggestthat
in the governm nt is led by
whi and the racist extremists
ar white, th n th re may be a
lit I link h re that we are mi
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VER, LET ME say
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AMO G THE Palestinians
and tb Arab orld in general
many people expressed the vi
that the agreement as a sell­
out.
The PLO was asked to recog­
nize Israel and renounce the use
THE PLO WInCH negoti­
Udt�a�ment' buta�e
hado of the PLO that the
orld w prior to the I raeli
invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
Forced to withdr w from
Lebanon as a principal base of
operations and catter its forces
throughout the Middle East, the
PLO has been far I effective
ince the invasion.
Th splintering off of some of
the more militant factions
7
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rkin for h
nd Budzyn go to j i1? Y . W th re justice
o th w not! Will there be justice in
ple in the future, or will we forever be
ROM RAB perspec-
tive, a weakened PLO with a
leadership hungry to salvage it-
elf, repr ented a potential
buffer, an acceptable alternative
to t more radical and militant
force gaining ascendancy
among the Palestinian masses.
The PLO was th I er evil.
Hence the n ity to cognize
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Poin
circum-
o
Professor ... that was
absolutely brilliant!
When Robert Maynard died
August 17, at his home in Oak­
land, California, the curtain fell
on one of the mo dramatic ca­
reers in the history of American
journalism. Word of Maynard's
death from cancer was reported
quickly on nationwide television
and radio.
Charles Kuralt began his
popular CBS "Sunday Morning"
program with an eloquent trib­
ute to Maynard, and David
Brinkley ended his weekly ABC
Sunday news analyais (with
Sam Donaldson and George
Will) by praising Maynard and
showing brief excerpts of May­
nard' appearances on
Brinkley's program.
Maynard was special indeed.
everhad the nation seen a 16-
year-old high school dropout be­
gin working for a mall Black
newspaper, enter Harvard Uni­
versity as a Nieman Fello
without any kind of diploma or
degree, become the fi t Black
correspondent to the White
House for a nationally admired
"white" e per, and become
first BI editor, publisher and
owner of a 22' million main­
stream newspaper.
, Leading news executi ad-
mired his talent and under­
tanding of his chosen field He
Ma
fo
ByJame
used determination, self-confi­
dence and unrelenting energy
along with his talent.
WHE MA RD at-
tained leadership in his prof -
sion, h e tablished training
programs to help other minority
youth. His teaching model has
been used at various colI
and universities.
Robert Clyve Maynard, th
son of Black immigrants from
Barbados, as born June 17,
1937, and lived in the Bedford­
Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn,
N.Y. He was the youn t of ix
children born to Samuel May­
nard, a part-time lay preach r
and small trucking .firm opera­
tor, and his wife, Isola G
Maynard.
The parents migrated in 1919
to Ne Yor from Barbad in
the West Indies. These rents,
like those of Collin Powell who
. migrated from Jamaica, were
lev I headed beca they e
fortunately socialized in a cul­
ture not omin ted by
lynchings, blatant racism and
the deliberate humiliatio tha
characterized Dixie and its ex­
ported bigots in some northern
sta before and hortly after
World War I.
Maynard' too w ind
and ben vol n man who A r
manded good perform n of r - Md
ponsibilitie assign d to his
children. Each day t dmn r
each family m m r ld w h t
he or sh had don and 1 rn
that day, so Robert, th youn -
est, 1 rn qui kly to or niz
his though to compe wi h th
reports and commen of hi sib­
lings.
WhnRo rtw
father brought hom
typewriter. Robert qui k ly '
claimed th typewriter' his
ri
n in B ltimor
of t
for
York,
k-
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