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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
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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 ,