BY CONNIE CASS
found that 66 per­
children attended
In comparison, 77 percent of
Black tudents attended pre­
dominantly minority school in
1968, the report's author Gary
Orfield said. With the help of
court-ordered busing, the per­
centage dropped to about 63 per­
cent in the early '70s and stayed
at that level through most of the
In ponse, Education Se
tary Richard Riley id h
orkin ith 0 h r a nci to
find w ys to bring change
through fed ral law nd leader­
ship.
"I'he report r i e eriou
qu ions about the disturbing
trend toward racial and eco­
nomic isolation of students in
our public schools," Riley said in
a statement.
In 1991, one of three Black
children attended schools where
90 percent or more of the stu­
dents were minorities, the study
found.
Klanwatch's list of victims
of hate murders allegedly
committed by Blacks in the
• Thma\d "lJ8I�h'W
outh fatal n oecaw�.
of his race in Hendersonville,
N.C., on June 5.
• Briseldo Landerof Esco'­
bedo, Hispanic man stabbed
following an exchange of ra­
cial slurs in Medford, Ore., on
Aug. 1. '
• Amy Federici, James Go­
rycki, Mikyung Kim, Dennis
McCarthy, Maria Theresa
Magtoto and Richard Nettle­
ton, whites and Asians shot
because of their race on a com­
muter train in Long Island,
New York, on Dec. 7.
• Thomas Edward Lyster,
white inmate killed because of
his association with Black in­
mates in Saugus, Calif., on
Feb. 9.
Pablo Moya, Hispanic
youth shot because of his race
in Pomona, Calif., on June 2.
Jim Adkinson, white
man shot after 50 Black men
mobbed his truck in Bakers­
field, Calif., on Aug. 15.
Alren Ray Covert, youth
shot after an altercation be­
tween Blacks and Hispanics
in Colorado Springs, Colo., on
Aug. 13.
.Michael Enea, white
man died after being kicked in
the head by Black -rnen in
Oakland, Calif., on June 2.
• Howard Epstei nand
Thanh Lam, white and Asian
respectively, shot during Los
Angeles rio in April.
Justin Hoeffl r, white
youth shot during clash be-
tween Blacks and whites in
Tempe, Ariz., on July 5.
• Melissa McLauchlin,
white ma nd shot
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S.C. Ion
• Francisco Ortiz, His-
panic youth stabbed during a
fight with four Black teens in
the Bronx in New York on
March 13.
• Rooney Page, white Ma­
rine shot because of his race in
Jacksonville, N.C., on March
27.
• Carni lo Romero, His­
panic man shot because of his
race in Houston on Jan. 19.
1991. .
• Robert Colleen, white
man shot after trying to stop
four Black youths he thought
were stealing a bicycle in Las
Vegas, Nev., on Aug. 11.
• Tyson Hoffman, white
youth shot by Black youths
who didn't want whites in
their neighborhood in Gas­
tonia, N.C., on Aug. 15. ,
• Keith Jones, white man
shot because of his race in At­
lanta on July 2.
Gilbert "Mike" Mello Jr.,
white man fatally beaten by a
group of Black youths in
Dover, Del, on May 25. .
Yankel Rosenbaum,
white rabbinical student
stabbed during clashes be­
tween Blacks and Hasidic
Jews in Brooklyn, N,y', on
Aug. 21.
• Gary Curtis Waggoner,
whit man shot during an ex­
change of racial slurs with
Blacks in Clarksville, Tenn.,
on Aug. 16.
loody golan
ivil War: -
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DA, GOLA - A re-
n w civil war in th outhwest
Afri n nation of Angola is pro­
ducin a bloody d ath toll of
1,000 ople day. Howe r, th
t y is going largely unno-
ti by he intern tional com-
munity. Ironically, th d dly
war i a lingering ft rm th of
the old War betw en the
rut d ta nd th old ovi t
mov m nt which was battling to
overthrow the socialist govern­
ment of Jo Eduardo dos San­
tos. It appeared the war was over
in 1992 when Santos won U.N.
supervised fr elections .
But U ITA leader Jonas
Savimbi refused to accept the re­
sults and launched a military
campaign to gain control of An­
golan cities,
Th fighting has been so vi­
cious that one U.N. observer
Commented, "I've never seen
anything like it. There were legs
and skulls lying in the streets"
An e timated 100,000 people
ha died from fighting or star­
a- vation ince Savimbi renewed
th war in October 1992. The
U.S. no longer Supports UNITA.
o TED out that pub­
lic chool enrollment gre 7 per­
cent b tw n 198 and 1991,
hile private enrollment fell by
9 percent. And he cited inere -
ing polarization in uburban
schools, too.
The ey of gregation
are segregated housing patterns
and "a hu change" in birth
rates and immigration - rou­
pled with school districts' failure
to strive for integration, Orfield
said,
He also cited a trend during
the 1980s of courts lifting deseg­
regation orders on public school
systems, especially with the en­
cow:agement of the Reagan ad-
But paren of minority tu­
d n in inn r-city ehoo "
I concern bout . of
numerical gregation than they
are the quality of ucation, "
'dMikeC erly, xecutivedi­
rector of the Council oftbe Great
City Schools, a coalition of the
nation's 50 largest urban school
ystems. Maty Hoover, a pro
sor of education at Howard Uni­
versity, cited a thrust among
Black parents for Afrocentric
education, with lesso oriented
toward Black histoty and cul­
ture.
"BLACK PARENTS ARE
not as adamant � they were in
years past to make sure schools
were desegregated," she said.
"Recent earch says people
can learn wherever they are."
Predominantly Blac and
In the Midw , 70 percent of
Black and 53 percent of Hispanic
children were enrolled in major­
ity Black or Hispanic schools.
In the south, 61 percent of
Black students attended schools
that were more than 50 percent
Black. That is the highest since
1980, when 63 percent of South­
em Black students were edu­
cated in majority Black schools.
DETROIT (AP) - It doesn't
take a racially motivated inci­
dent to make residents in south­
eastern Michigan communities
realize the need to promote jnul­
ticulturalism in their cities.
At l�t' � dozen of th . mall'
groups h ,., t'Ottned 'in Detroit
suburbs since the 1980s, and
most of them rely on volunteers
to stay afloat, said Gail Parrish,
director of the Race Relations
Council of Metro Detroit.
Ann-Therese O'Sullivan
joined the Farmington-Farm­
ington Hills Multi-Cultural
Multi-Racial Community Coun­
cil. O'Sullivan said she never
had a Black or Jewish friend un­
til she graduated from a Catholic
Dearborn high school and went
to work in downtown Detroit.
"White people in particular
are prisoners of their condition­
ing; I know I was. I don't think
they realize about themselves
that they could be racist. . ..
There are a lot of layers to peel
off; O'Sullivan said.
"These opportunities to talk
about it, about race relations, in
a place where they're comfort­
able hasn't been presented be­
fore."
THE GROUPS ARE not
limited to just the cities sur­
rounding Detroit. Walled Lake
has the Lakes Area Council for
Diversity and Howell has Liv­
ingston 2001, founded by Rev.
Ben Bohnstack.
A cro -burning on a Black
family's lawnin 1988 prompted
Bohnstack to form a group. It
provides $50 stipends to county
teachers who plan multicultural
activities, helps companies with
diversity programs and has set
up an exchange between two 10-
eal high schools and a Detroit
high school.
" It's.�.�y.wt�tob�in
th business of words, but a lot '
· h relet to find concrete aetion, -
Bohnstack said.
While Livingston County had
an impetus to develop a group
promoting racial harmony, some
cities have started the programs
to prevent problems.
RONAELE BOWMAN
founded the l-year-old group'
PLAID - People in Livonia Ad­
dressing Issues of Diversity.
Bowman said many residents
wanted to shrink the division be­
tween Detroit and its suburbs.
"But there are people, too;
who kind of go, 'Gee, it's nice
you're doing that, but I don't
want to get involved.' I think
we're tolerated, ... but because
we haven't had any high-profile
'racial problems' in Livonia, peo­
ple think everything's OK_,·
Bowman told the Detroit Free
Press for a story published Mon­
day.
Bohnstack said many living­
ston County residents complain
that having a group to promote
racial harmony implies the
county is racist. Not true, he
said.
"By existing, we help the cli­
mate of the community .... Peo-,
pIe can't continue an image of
them elves as the only way peo­
ple are in Livingston County," he
said. "So the old community is
broken down, and a more inclu­
sive community is built in its
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place."
To do that, the groups bring
in speakers, hold workshops and
have monthly meetings. Parrish
said talking about the i is
noth r . gnificant ' step .': !'But· ,
.the important ork i go­
ing through an organized proc­
ess that helps people identify
racism, and help them figure out
their own biases, a d get them
out of it," Parrish added. "That's
the work people don't want to do
because it's very, very difficult. "
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ttorney n-
i ro ti id h
mphi I w­
rri n'
to reop n the
tion into King'
assassi ion. '
-I beli it is ham
and a fraud upon the pub­
lic," Pi rotti told Th Com­
merci I App I on
Saturday.
Form r U.S. Attorn y
Hickman Ewing also dis­
mi ed Garri on' cl im,
Bugge ting th t money
may the motivation be­
hind it.
But
hi story unday, aying
that truth had mad hi cli­
ents com forward.
"If the public wants to
hear from them and know
what really happened that
day - great," arr i on
said. "If not, I'll cl my
file. "
GARRI 0 repr ents.
five people who have infor­
mation about Kings mur­
der, including a retired
businessman who claims
he hired the gunman who
killed the civil rights leader
on April 4, 1968.
Pierotti' id the busi­
nessman is s king immu­
nity from prosecution in
return for the gunman's
name.
Ray' pleaded gu ilty to
the shooting and is erving
a 99-year sentence. He
later recanted his confes-
sion and has been king
a trial ever since. .
A second Memphis at­
to�ney, Wayne Chastain,
said he has filed a pe ition
to open a grand jury probe
into the now claims.
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