Readers Write
Our rich thl
whi t no hing mo from th ir doll
i-horn ,ca ,j wiry, clo hing- nd o herthin
th y buy from hite people, long with th pu tion tha
rom with being rich. Th 0 h rp rtofth ir olla ,t r r
rt, provid jo ,goods nd rvi forwhi peopl, in h
han they main.
We do not ha
dollar recycling
no ha a moral tandard eomp rabl to th mo I ndard
of white people, with whom we immorally hop and bank our
own peopl kill nd di for don , Black cu torn nd em­
ploy
We cannot lit, ing, d nee, laugh or pray away our n for
dolla , Black cu tomers and employe : Neither n w edu­
cate away our need for dolla ,BI c tome nd mploye .
White people dollared up their dollar recycling rate and
thereby dollared down th ir crime rate. We too must dollar up
our dollar recycling rate nd thereby dollar down our crim
rate.
Our Black leaders, politicians, scholars and upe ta who
clamor for the reduction of Black crime and violence do no
dollar up with Black people 25% well as the white 1 de
politicians, scholars and superstars dollar up with white peo­
ple, which means that the rate of Black crime and violence is
not nearly as low as the rate of white crime and violence.
Whites shopping and banking white is a rewarding behavior.
Blacks rejecting Blacks to shop and bank white is a harmful
behavior.
Dollar down Black crime and violence. Don't just kill andjail
Black people.
In the rhetoric against Black crime and violence, white
people are vehemently demanding that Black leadership de­
nounce and advise Black and advise Black people. But white
people are not even suggesting that Black leadership dollar up
with Black people as white leadership dollar up with white
people. No one is telling Black people that dollaring up Black,
dollar down Black crime and violence.
FRANK W. BURRELL
Reader appreciates coverage
To the editor:
I am writingto commend your informative, honest, and
traightforward presentation of news relating to the African­
Am ficas com�un:ity.
conservative turn, a n
is greatly need .
Keep up the good work!
EDITH TURNER
Highland Park
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ow?
In 1890; Susie Elizabeth Frazier became the first
Black woman appointed to teach in the New York
. f;ity public schools. .
Lester's World
( )I) i II i ( J 11.' / \ . i e l � · .\'
TV, INVENTED 1927,
but not widely atched until th
late '50s, came centuries too late
to account for the monstrous
mega-violence that was used to
"settle" this nation.
The USA was born in geno- m acre
selected portions of the speech in
an advertisement in the New
York Times.
By some accounts Rev. Jesse
Jackson, eager to get out front on
this issue, lobbied the New York
Times to carry his denunciation
of the Khalid Muhammad
speech. Whatever the case, the
New York Times did ind d
carry a story in which Rev. Jack-
on called on Minister Farrak­
han to repudiate Khalid
Muhammid's remarks.
Once Rev. Jackson went pub­
lic, a fire storm of controversy
erupted which threatened to de­
stroy the 'Covenant which had
generated such hi h expecta­
tions in Black America.
Congo K wesi Mfume felt
obliged to send a letter to Minis­
ter Farrakhan to inquire as the
whether the remarks of Khalid
Muhammad represented the
views of the Nation of Islam.
Before Minister Farrakhan
could respond, however, the
CBC moved to rescind the Cove-­
nant that was agreed to last Sep­
tember.
As the controversy unfolded it
was clear that fo external to
th Black rommunity were hav­
ing a major impact on the �tti-.
By Ron Daniels
tudes and actions of many main­
stream Black leaders.
The Black mass p i 11 ly
waited for Minister Farrakhan
to speak.
FOR ms PART Minis r
Farrakhan refused to brush
to judgment
b ed on
the de­
mands of
the media
and force
external to
th African
American
community.
Inac1ear
rtion of
self deter­
mination,
Minister
Farrakhan
reviewed Khalid Muh mm d
speech utilizing the int rn 1
p on the National f Isl m
'and then made a decision. With
the eyes of Black America nd
the nation watching, Minis r
Farrrakhan eized he mor I
high ground at a nationally tel
vised p conferen in W h-
ington, D.C.
In clear and unequiv cal
Vantage
Point
tion?
The writer on loaned copy
of Prof r Howard Zinn' Peo­
ple History of the United States
to a fello on Death Ro .
Monthsp
Th following dialogue tran­
spired:
Jamal: Yo, ick! You done
with Zinn' book on history?
Yarris: Naw, Mu. I ha n't
finish it yet, man.
"'!:�������4:ear Black
"':�::��:{:: Press, your ccnnnucus efforts
.... :�:�:: to raise the conscrous level of
'. them coloreds have forced us to
take more drastic measures.
So )f you ever want t.o see �hat
smart-aleck cartoonist again ...
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Farrakhan.controve��: Separating
the wheat from the chaff
if Miru. t
s nt.
At th Congr ional Black
Caucus W k nd in September
of 1993, the ho of the Bla
Nation were rai when CBC
Chairman ong. Kw i Mfume
hosted a National Unity Forum.
In a pow rful display of Black
uni y, Rev. J e J ckson, Con .
Maxine W t v. enjamin
Chavis, Mini r Louis Farrak­
han and other Bl ck Ie der
shared th am platform and
spoke of th n d to forge a
united front to struggl on half
of the Black m
Toward tha nd, hainn n
Mfume confid ntly decla that
the CB w en ring a Cove­
nantwith heNAA P, the Rain­
bow Coalition and th Nation of
Islam.
Then came th now infamous
speech of Dr Khalid Muham­
mad, ational Spok man for
Minister Loui Farrakhan at
Kean Colle in nion, w J er­
r of 1993.
T UG R WA
some immediate r action to the
speech in th local mia, the
peach w nt largely unnoticed
until the Anti-Defamation
League, a I ding Jewish civil
rights organization, publish
w p .
nit
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