Views / Opinions
Readers Write
Editor: The following statement was read before the annual
stockholders meeting of Detroit Edi on held April 25.
I am a stockhold r in etroit Edi on for more than 25 y rs.
Year in and year out, I come to thes nnual stockholders
meetings and t my b Hot primarily for whit 9Id men and
� en. I've n ver gi n th g r uni · v (or m ny
l�-� rica 'to . 6n� - mem mpany .
.. n" e ne t d the op ibn to ot a ionally
high laries, bonuses, tock options and 0 her b n fi th t
you greedy, selfish racist vote for yourselves.
Detroit Edison has only one African-American on the board
of directors and only one in top management. This is tokenism
to the highest degree. I wou ld like to know just how much longer
will the leadership of thi mpany continu to pr ctice your
white supremacist mentality.
Are you aware that an Afri an-American, Mr. Louis H.
Latimer's invention wa ju t. important to the world the
invention of Thorn A. di on?
D troit Edison operat in r it, a city with a 73 percent.
minority population, yet your di riminatory pra ti . of th
past has been unju t and anti-d mo ratic.
I incerely hope that D troit Eison becom more 11)
sionate towards the concerns of t he African American
holders in the future.
RAYMOND C, JENKINS
Stookhold r
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D rch r as ed
Southern whi th qu tion,
"What is the motive for ra ial
egregation?"
White respond d to the
qu tion in thi ord r of priori-
ti : first, gregation was
sential to halt interracial sex;
second, to stop social equality
between the races; third, to
maintain segregation in schools
and colleges; fourth, to halt
Black political power and voting
righ ; fifth, to maintain legal
discrimination in the courts and
I gal ystem; and beth, to halt
Blac ' economic progr
land, it, capital nd jo s.
How ver, wh n BI c w
k the que tion, "Wha do
you w nt?", th y ga th iden
tical list of priorities, but in th
reverse order. For African
Americans, freedom first and
fo most meant eonomic ual
it , job , legal and poli ical
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By Dr, Chari W. Faulkner
P ident Clinton goes to a
Black church and delivers a
h in whi h he t lIs Blacks
that they ought to s op killing
e ch other and must make
America a better place in which
to live. Then, he signs a 23 mil
lion anti-crime bill which guar
ant the construction of even
more prisons and the employ
ment of 100,000 more policemen.
Many Black politicians, min
isters and writers praised the
Pr ident for his stirring speech.
The Black congregation stood up
and cheered the President for his
impassioned remarks. Are they
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Readers Write
By Bernice Powell Jack on
sam
'ha
our com mu nit u lind rstan
fir. t -hn I'd
eriou ? Don't they r lize h t
most of th e 100,000 police offi
ce will be whit, nd mos of
tho e arre ed will be Bl ck
males? .
Ev n though Presid nt lin
ton was addr inga Black udi-
ence, hi age really wa
intend to b h rd by white
Am rica. He was u ing A Black
platform in order to Ie whit
America know that he war crack
ing down on Black mal a a
mean of prot cting White
Americans.
Even though Clinton ap
peared to display concern about
o-called "Black on Black" crime,
he was, in fact, r affirming the
time-honor , conserv iv
tion th Bla k m I
have to a' thi ,