P trick w
of young
from a di adv
ground, but
cum tance
cademically
ally.
ri
n, who came
ntaged back
above hi cir-
to exc 1
and prof ion-
HE G UP in a South
Sid Chicago neighborhood and
was rai ed by a ingl parent.
Patrick' road out of poverty be
gan with a hola hip from "A
Better Chan ," program for
underprivileged youth, which
enabled him to attend Milton
Academy, located n r Boston.
After graduation from Mil-:
ton, Patrick enrolled at Harvard
College on scholarship. He later
won a Rockefeller Fellowship,
which led to work through the
United Nations with children in
the Sudan and Ni ria, in Af
rica.
On his return, Patrick was
admitted to Harvard Law
School. There, he became presi
dent of the Legal Aid Bur u,
which provided free legal serv
ices to needy idents in the
oommunity.
After graduating from law
school, Patrick chose to practice
civij l"j,g with th NAACP
Legal Defens and Education
by th
name.
Thi time, Clinton appears
dy to defend his choice. He
said, " ... this nomination may be
about those groups and wh her
they're proceeding in good
-faith .... (they have) said ... 'We
don't object to Lani Guinier's ca
reer a lawyer, we just don't
agree with her writings about
future remedies.' ... When they
say 'Stealth Guinier,' what they
mean is that both these people
hav distinguished legal careers
in trying to enforce the civil
rights laws of the country. I hope
Mr. Patrick would plead guilty
to that.
ti A lot of those people (censer
vative opponents) are going to be
exposed because they never be-
. lieved in equal opportunity; they
never lifted a finger to give any
body of a minority race a chance
in this country .... If they attack
his record, it means .... what we
su pected all along, they don't
give. a riff aboui_civil tigh ,"
President Clinton assertecf. ..
or Ci y.
r h I -. B I .u k I f I q 0 r v M () nth ill, r
Br 'wmg omf ,1m F roudlv t ,I -br. t
th· . ('ptlo!),ll ontribution-, of rur
u-
Y HIRL D. BLASH
Deval Patrick peak in the Oval Office of the White �ouse, as Attorney �enera.1 J .net Reno
and Vice President Gore look' on, after Pre Ident Clinton announced hls nomination to be
A i tant Attorney General for Civil Right .
harpton to Moynihan:
_ By RICK HAMPSON
and get a good squa m 1 in
Geneva."
Hollings, a white D mocrat,
was condemned for the remark
by many blacks, inel uding the
chairman of the National 0-
dation for the Advancement of
Colored People. His spokesm n
has said the senator was joking
and did not mean to imply Afri
cans were cannibals.
tar Iigiou rvi ina Harlem
rmory, Farrakhan said Jews
"a} pI tting against us ev n as
w pe . Th ywanttou som
f our own brothers, and some of
our brothers are willing to be
1 Y th m to curry fa VOT. "
He may have been referring
o riticism of even stronger
anti-S mitic sentim nts in a
s h Nov. 29 by Muhammad
t K n College in New Jersey.
harpton id he expre ed
his opposition to parts of Mu
hamm d's p ech publicly on
television and privately to Far
rakhan. But he criticized "a dou-
Ie standard" under which black
1 ders are expected to repudi
a e Farrakhan and Muhammad,
but a whi official like Moyni
han is not asked to criticize a
How official such as Hollin .
NEW YORK (AP) - Firing '8
political shot across a potential
opponent's bow, the Rev. Al
Sharpton on Friday chall nged
Sen. aniel atri Moynihan to
d nounce a t tern nt about Af
ricans attributed to Moynihan'
coIl gue, Sen. Erne t "Fritz"
Hollin of. outh Carolina.
Sharpton told r port that
if h is exp eted to d nounce
anti -. emit ic statement by
black leaders, then Moynihan
-should be asked to prote
Hollings' tatement.
Les t month Hollings said that
when he used to go to Switzer
land for the Law of the Sea Con
ference "you'd find the e
potent at from down in Africa.
You know, rather than eating
each other, they'd just come up
MOYNIHAN' pokesman,
Brian Connolly, was not in his
. office Friday and did .not imme
diately return a call seeking
comment from the senator.
Sharpton and th Rev. J e
Jackson h ve been ask 1 ut
statem nts made by Na ion of
I lam 1 der Louis Farrakhan
and a nior aide, Khalid Mu
hammad,
On Monday night, p king
HARP' RAN for th
1 emoeratic n mination for n
ate in 1992 and came in third in
field of four, finishing ah d of
Brooklyn Di trict Attorney Liz
Holtzman and tting am jority
of he black vot .
lip said h h not 1 cided
wh h r to run this year for
Moynihan's s t, but a Brooklyn
, up has b n a king city offi
i 1 to upport Sharpton,
Sharpton ha sai h's aware of
h ffort I btl did n t authoriz
1.
rosecutors improperly
disqualified Black juror
Ap
th
bout you h
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outh rn Chri ti n
de hip Confe n FolIo
ing Clinton' opening rem r ,
R no nd P tric 0 po .
Reno id that Patrick "oould
hav had pro bly ny job h
wan with just about any la
firm in America (after graduat
ing from Harvard Law School),"
but he ch to wor for the
NAACP Legal Defe Fund.
During the three y Pat-
rick w with LDF, id Reno
id, he "developed expert' e
nd experience as a litigator .....
and "distinguished himself as
per on," and she added, hi
"commitment to public service
and civil rights has continued."
Patrick left LDF to join the
p tigious Boston law firm of
Hill & Barlow, where he is a
p rtner and- according to a
tatement issued by The White
Hou has devoted 30 percent
of his cas , pro bono, to "com
munity projects."
As his wife Diane Bemus Pat
rick, also an attorney, and two
daughters looked on, the nomi
n e poke to the media with
great e and a sense of humor.
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jokingly, after stepping up to the
mi rophone, that he couldn't see
over the high podium. He ad-
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