dd in pector to
OULDprob-
ably provok national of
emergency. Bl America
fusing to participate in White
Chri tm ?Why it ould trigger
an economic' er. The phone
li between th nation' major
retailers, corporate America and
the White Ho and the Con
gress would be burning up de
manding a olution to the erisi .
The question of the day would
be, what d Black America
want? And of course Blac
America should be ready with an
agenda/r ponse. .
. For starters Black America
should demand the immediate
enactment of a ten year $50 bil
lion dollar annual Domestic
Marshall Plan to revitalize ur
ban and rural America in terms
of job generation and the crea-
THE B GGE T problem .
that White America kno th
creat that they ha created
under a ystem of hit uprem
aey; that our elf-hatred and ad-
diction to thing
w hite/European would be the
great t impediment to Black
America kicking the habit of
White Christmas to enforce a
righteous agenda for the cue
and toration of th race,
However, that does not mean
that we hould not proceed with
the idea The challenge facing a
liberation movement is not too
succumb to the realities of elf
hatred and the addiction to
Europeanism.
By definition i is the task of
the liberation movement to
AT THE TIO AL State
of the Race Conference now
ch uled for November 18-21,
1994 in Baltimore, MD., I int nd
to introduce a resolution that the
Black ation begin a massive
mobilization to boycott White
Christm in 1999 unless a Do
m tic M rshall Plan has been
enacted and Reparations is offi
cially on the agenda of the Con
gress of the United States and
the P id nt.
It is my conviction th t such
an ction would be an appropri
ate way for the Black nation to
stand tall as we face the dawn
ing of a new century and a new
millennium. It's ation Time ..
. again!
Persons interested in this
proposal or the State of the Race
Conference should write to:
SORC, P.O. Box 27798, Wash
ington, D.C. 20038-7798; or call
202-736-1741.
READERS WRITE
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By JERYL BARGINEAR
In Guguletu, Union of South Africa, Blackyouth are t ming
with inured rage and random fury at the op ition - often
referred to as "settlers." Hardened by pill ge, poverty and
apartheid, th e young warriors have b me d nsitized to
the word "white," according to a recent New York Times article.
Guguletu is the township where American Fulbright Scholar
Amy Biehl was slashed to death in August for being a white in
the wrong place. In this U.S. of A, Third and ormandie is the
locale where white truck driver, Reginald D nning of Los
Angel ,was dragged from the cab, beat and stomped by an
unruly crowd, then callously crushed in th he d with a brick
by Damian Williams.
It appears that this racial animosity h f rmented for
. generations.
Tsietsi Telite, chairman of the Pan African udent Organi
zation, com clo est to speaking for the embittered' youth of
Guguletu, "That hatred, you grow up, it develops within you.
It needs much political education to give it dir ion."
Can such hostility be attributed to anyone particular
source? There is one common denominator, one connection
between BlaCK youth of both continents, SLA VERYl Often
times this topic of discussion is met with aversion by both
Blacks and whites who view slavery as an excu e rather than
a reason for the predicament and plight of Black Society today.
Ron Daniels roe a Pr ident of the
I nstitute for Community Organization.
and Deuelopment in. Young own. Ohio.
He maybe contacted at (216) 746-5747.
READERS WRITE
Ie
hould co
trol
adium
Editor:
I n the end is th re really any
doubt about who. will pay for or
benefit from a stadium in De
troit?
In our semi-free society all in
dividuals who cannot u some
form of bribery to insulat them-
lv from the welfare-state
mentality of our gov rnment's
politicians will p y mor taxes
directly or indirectly; ho who
can will take th money nd run
for th ir li
In fr oci ty th cost of a
tadium would be p id for by the
individual or individuals who
bought the land nd paid all
costs of i construction, mainte
n n ,and operations. The pri
v te owner's profit of 10 would
be d cid by the numb r of in
dividuals who wer willing to
sufficiently tried. Our opponents '
think th reverse." ... Sept. 11,
1804.
I concur with Mr. -Jefferson; it
is time for peopl to 1 am to con
trol th ir own lives and be fully
r sponsible for their actions or
lack of a ion.
trade with him.
The mentalities of the two
di metrically opposed groups
truggling for control of our gov
ernment were described by
President Thomas Jefferson in a
letter to Mrs. Adams. The Presi
dent's letter was explaining how
diffe nt types of thinking will
affect how the different
branches of our government
functioned:
One fears most the ignorance
of the people; the other, the self
ishness of rulers independent of
them. Which right, time and ex
periment will prove.
We [Jefferson and his follow
ers] think that one side of this
experiment has been long tried,
and proved not to promote th
good of the many: and that the
other has not n fairly and
Paul L. Gruchala
Inkster
THEY AY, "Aw, forget all about that, it hap ned long ago,
let's move on with the future." To forget your p t i to forget.
who you are. For how can you know where you're going if you
don't know where you've been? Let us not r gr
Most Black familia don't discuss Slavery in th hom,
preachers won't proclaim it from the pulpit, it is carcely
taught in school. Yet th Jews constantly s k of the Holo
caust. It is imbibed, ingrained and imbued in their children,
their child n's children, inscri d upon th . abl s of h ir
hearts, nev r to forget, lest it happen again.
The Black man mu t r lize that Slav ry has I ft an ind 1-
ible scar upon his h rt, mind nd soul. H uff rs from an .
"insidious disease" called low self-est m that gnaws at the
very core of hi being, he trembl with indignation, fights with
inferiority. .
But the most atrociou aspect of 1 very w th infliction
of fear. Th f r from being hung b w n a hois nd mali
ciously lacerated until one's fl h fell from the bon w th
most effective means by which Whi e America im ed s rvi-
tude upon the Black race.
•
"BOTH 0 OUR political
parties, at least the hone t part
of them, agree conscientiously in
the same object, the public good:
but they differ essentially in
. what they deem the means of
promoting that good. One side
believes it best done by one com
position of the governing pow
e '8; the other, by a different one.
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t
There are s v ral inaecura
cies in your recent review of S e
. fan Kanfer's book on D B
------------ ..... ---------�-- It is simply silly to say that
"diamonds only how up in sto
when D Bee wants the dia
monds to appear" or tha "
B rsactuallyranoutofspaceto
keep unwanted diamonds and
stuffed the stones in but er
churns". However, I would like to
take you up on a mo importan
point.
De Beers did not r fuse to up
ply President Roo velt with in-·
dustrial diamonds during World
War n. In fact, D Beers and its
associates supplied in of
85% of US consumption of indus
trial diamonds between 1940-45,
and 86% of US industrial dia
mond tockpile requi ments by
September 1942. In addition, a
stockpile consisting of over 12
million carats of industrial di -
monds and bo rt w s estab
lished in Canada from 1943 on
warns. By th end of the war,
orth American stocks stood at
approximately 29 million cara ,
fi -fold incr e on 1940 lev-
ls, equivalent to over two years'
suppli a ak wartim r t of
consumption.
� In r vi wing wartime indus
trial diamond procurement, the
United States War Production
B rd d clar that "no piece of
ipment w h ld up or de-
layedbyth failuretoh vail-
ble the nec ssary diamond
material to do the job". Further
more, m mbe of the Diamond
Tr ding Company were officially
commended for their "patriotic
and generous spiri of co-o ra
tion".
o
.gh
The oth r ev nin, cott Le
wis, of Channel 2 News - nar
rated' pie abou an eastsid
African-American female who
allegedly lIs do by lowering
it down in a can dangl by a
string from an upstairs window.
The scene was captured on film
by a T.v. 2 film crew.
Well, when time permi . we'd
like Mr. L wi to vi it our
(i)w tside(i) neighborhood ... "be
su to bring th cam ra w
along." B us on j about
any day of the week you n
shoot pictures of white families
(mom-dad-ba -in-arms) vi it
ing drug house and buying
dope .. .in a very laid-back and
fri ndly manner.
We must (all of us) stop por
traying African-Americans as
the only race of people in Detroit
who buy, sell or use drugs - its
shameful and v ry misleading!
TODA
indif-
Peggy A. Moore
Detroit Black Writers Guild
W J L r, De B ers/Centen ry
17 Charterhous Street, London