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 Published each Sunday by NEW DAY ENTERPRISE 12541 Second St - P,O. Box 03560, Highland Park. 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