VOL XVI NO 1
;.lll I,,:. , . ,I"�, t/"'·'··�'1II'·t·P"()I"t· NOVEMBER21-27,1993
By RON SEIGEL
DETRorr - The Metropoli­
tan Detroit board of th Ameri­
can Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) voted to challenge por­
tions of Executive Order 22, is­
sued by Detroit Mayor Coleman
A Young requiring that 50% of
all construction jobs funded by
the City of Detroit hould go to
Detroit idents.
Acoording to n article in the
ACLU fall, 1998, newsletter, by
writer goiOg under the name of
C.M. Publius, ACLU de-
cided to talk with the n wly
elected mayor, Denis Arch , be­
fore Iiling 8uit.
Mar Brewer of the ACLU .
Ad . ory Committee, said an
ironwor r, who' not a roit
ident, who was refused a job
on a publicly funded construc­
tion project, as ed ACLU' help
in challenging the residency re­
quirement.
On July I, Federal District
Judge Anna Diggs Taylor truck
down as unconstitution I the
city's Sheltered Market Pro­
gram. This program reserved a
R.v. J ... Jac son accompanied by (I) Rev. AI Sharpton and (r) Rev.
Charle. Adams during pr conference at Cobo Hall. (c. Hili photo)
-J
By CRAIG HILL
Mlchl@n Citizen
DETROIT - Have Blacks ad­
justed to Black-on-Black crime?
According to Rev. Jesse Jack­
son Blacks have adjusted.
This was part of what Jackson
said to ministers, court officials,
and social workers at a breakfast
at Hartford Memorial Baptist
Church a week ago.
Jackson's main topic of con­
versation at the breakfast was
his plan to reclaim the youth by
trying to stop the drug flow, kill­
inga, unwanted pregnancies, and
AIDS that affects them.
th
"We have been too conditioned
to accept these self-destructive
patterns in our race," Jackson
said.
IN ADDITION TO the prob­
lem, Jackson said, "Youth allow
themselves to be sanctuaries fur
drugs and guns."
Since beginning the campaign
to reclaim the youth, Jackson
said he visits schools in the in­
nercities and asked students
would they report on Ku Klux
Klan activity in their schools and
the responses are usually "yes"
See YOUTH, AS
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U In organtzes
snare of privatiz tto
fixed hare of city cont for
compani owned by mino . i
and women.
BREWER EMP.n.no .... :e£.IO
that ting aside jobs, pu
the basis of residency . 0
basic rights in the constitut' n.
He id Article IV,. Section 2,
clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution
provid that "I'h citize 0
each state hall be entitled to the
privileges and immuniti of
citizens in the several ta
He id courts ha ruled thi
applies to citi , since cit are
subdivisions of tates and deri
theirauthoriti from the ta
Brewer id an B-1 court d - .
cision in 19B,i,joined in byJud
Thurgood Marshall, involving
Camd n, New Je hat
nonl'El!no.iJDt
ing pri te employm nt i vio­
lated."
He said this would not apply
to residency requirement for
public office or government jobs,
S ACLU,A8
lac
tog t
normally published in the media
and that becoming involved is
the process is easy.
"All you have to do is call the
office of purchasing and sign up
and wait for the paper to start
flowing, .. Kost said.
Young wants to make sure
that the bidding process is fair
and open to African-Americans
by seeing the state do all it can
to make the Black community
aware of available contracts.
"1 don't think th award proc­
ess is going to be fair unless
there is the input from the Afri­
can-American busin commu­
nity," h said.
Young acknowledges that the
lac of lobbyists in Lansing for
the African-Am riean busin
community hurts awarene s
among the community but con-
tends the Department of Man-
agement and Bud did not uf-
ficiently add the i ue of
outreach when privatization be­
gan last year.
KOST SAID THE depart­
ment ran seminars for minori­
ties interested in bidding on
work last spring in Detroit and
Flint that were ell attended.
One of the tas force's propos­
als is to require the state to llot
a certain number of contracts to
African-American busin .
He believes this is fair because
Blacks pay a' percentage of th
state' tax .. Set-asid have
been ruled illegal by the Su­
preme Court according to Kost.
Officials a currently udy-
Se BLACK, B6
Do you think
Black
churches are
. too involved
in politics?
By BART ORBAN
men and consultants formed by
Young earlier this year when he
realized businesses were un­
a ware of Engler's privatization
plans.
"That's amazing, " Young said.
"How do you have such an exten­
sive program underway and no­
body knows anything."
As an example, he claims that
no Black media of any type were
notified of bid applications for
liquor warehousing and distri­
bution. Although told by offi­
cials that minorities were
notified, Young wond rs what
the state's definition of minority
is.
LANSlNG{C pitalN Service)-
African-American businesses
are being shut out of the bidding
pl'OO?JSS for privatized state serv­
ices and are taking steps to be
included, according to a Black
business leader.
Carl S. Young, president of
Young Industrial Sal Corp., a
Birmingham-based raw materi­
als distributor and manufac­
turer, has formed the Special
African-American Task Force to
increase Black participation in
the bidding process for state
work created by Gov. John
Engler's continuing privatiza­
tion of state servi
'The group is made up of about
a dozen Detroit-area busin
JO KO T, h ad ofpriva-
tization for tb Department of
Management and Budget, says
that bid opportunities are not
"No. During the elections
churches give the community
information regarding the
candidates, even though they
may be biased."
- Th ado la 0 rvy
- Tr cey Harris
. "No. I never hear much about
politics in the church I attend."
"No. Some of the strongest
Black leaders are in these
churches."
- Ka ha Loul
"No. There is not enough
involvement since 95% of
Congress is Catholic. With
more involvement we wouldn't
have Black-on-Black crime."
alcolm Greer
