NAACP '94
Essay / Contest
Winners
ABOVE: Middle School Art
winners were (I-r): Jame
Elliott, Bunla Lee Parker and
Art i e S mit h. MIDDLE:
Elementary Art winner were
(l-r): Jocelyn Laboy and Kyle
Bailey (not pictured Is Ell hah
Gar cia). BELOW: ( I - r )
Elementary Es ay winner ,
Shanise Burt, Marquita Glenn .
and Juana Simp on. (photos by
Je I Barganier)
NAACP Art/Essay
contest winners
honored recently
. Students in Detroit,
Hamtramck, Highland Park,
Southfield, Inkster, Romulus,
River Rouge, Ecorse, Oak Park,
Public, Private and Parochial
schools were invited to partici
pate in the recent Detroit Branch
NAACP's 4th Annual Art/Essay
Contest. The theme was once
again, 'What the Civil Rights
Struggle Means To Me,".
The contest entries r fl d
the tremendous amount of talent
and cr ativity th t our youth
posses. Th stud n not only
expres ed a sincer under
standing of the civil righ strug
gle, but also recognized their own
responsibility to that mission.
Coca Cola Bottling Company of
Michigan and D troit Branch
I NAACP proudly honored the
winn rs r c n ly at a r ption
held at the Mu eum of African
American History.
The 1994 Art Contest Win
ners are as follows:
. Elementary: Jocelyn Laboy,
Hanneman; Kyle Bailey, Hamp
ton; and Elishah Garcia, Hanne
man.
Middle: Artie Smith, Fisher;
James Elliott, Earhart; and
Bunia Lee Parker, Pr ntation
of Our Lady of Vic ory.
The 1994 E ay Contest Win
ners are as follows:
Elementary: M rquita
Glenn, Hosmer; Ju na Simpson,
Glaz r; and Shanise Burt,
Dossin.
Middle: Nicole Buck, Green
fi ld Peace Lutheran; Eila C.
Guidugli, Birn y; and Mario
D vis, Ruddim n.
High chool: Brandon
Brightwell, C ; Lamont Jones,
M.L. King, and Kelli Bate , Casso
eminar provide 'how-to'
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In hi voluminou, comp
h n ible nd ea ily d new
t ti , Mansour aIle the ef-
fi of 300 yea of Black and
Hi p nic I de hip has plagued
u with willful and un witting
conspiracy to deli r the m
for exploitation.
"The condition of African
Americans as a whole h be
come so grave in recent years
that to continu 0 cov r up th
hortcomin of our collective
I dership push th masses to
the limits of their patience and
toleration, "M nsour says. "The
cover-up also persuades our
leaders that it is okay to continue
to exploit, manipulate and cor
rupt our people with impunity."
Dr. Mansour Iieves Black
organizations have lost touch
with everyday problems faced by
Black people.
"Much of the billions of dollars
allocated to benefit the masses
directly or through the trickle
down pro are siphoned off,"
he ays.
"THE MAJOR economic
problem of Black Americans is
the ab ence of an honest and
committed tewardship that will
sacrifice to establish a funda
mental national economic mar
keting network that add es
constructive racial pride, pro
motes mployment and instills
self-help principles, sound man
agement and accounting tech
niques, while at the same time
growing and recycling ealth
within the community. "
Navy Seaman RaY\,Qn E. Dean,
son of Mary Dean of 19494 Stotter,
Detroit, departed recently for a six
month Mediterranean deployment
aboard the aircraft carrier USS
George Washington, homeported
in Norfolk, Va., the lead ship in its
Joint Task Group.
The 1989 graduate of Osborn
High School joined the Navy in
September, 1993.
Navy Seaman Nikita C. Young,
son of Betty M. Young of 20506
Binder, Detroit, and whose wife,
Dionne, is the dauqhter of Eunice
Appling of 16220 Muirland of De
troit, departed for a six-month
Mediterranean deployment aboard
the aircraft carrier USS George
Washington, homeported jn Nor
folk, Va., the lead ship in its Joint
Task Group.
The 1989 graduate of Pershing
High School joined the Navy in
June, 1992.
Navy Seaman Apprentice Toni
L. Moses, daughter of Pearl L.
Moses of 8959 Lauder, Detroit, re
cently reported for duty aboard the
submarine tender USS Frank Ca
ble, homeported In Charleston,
S.C.
She joined the Navy in January,
1993.
Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class
Paul L. Cox, a 1989 graduate of
Notre Dame High School of Harper
Woods, is midway through a six
month .deployment in the Mediter
ranean and Black Seas aboard the
destroyer USS Arthur W. Radford,
homeported in Norfolk, Va., as part
of the USS Saratoga Battle Group.
He joined the Navy in January,
1990.
Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class
Clarence A. Hollis, son of Cynthia
T. French Harris of 13300 Jeffer
son, Detroit, departed today for a
six-month Mediterranean deploy
ment aboard the guided missile
cnnser USS Thomas S Gates,
homeported in Nonolk. Va., as part
of the aircraft carrier USS George
Washington Joint Task Group.
The 1985 graduate of Denby
High School joined the Navy in Au
gust, 1987.
DR. KHALID MANSOUR
Essentially that means na
tional distribution in th com
munity nd at 1 r pro rly
industrialize to xport and im
port, Mansour ays. "One thing
is certain, Blacks cannot uild
and ustain a national mark t
ing structure based upon a na
tional white-own d, racist
distribution system."
Mansour's facts progress
through a spectrum of leader
ship relationship strategi in
Africa and America charac
terized by traditional and non
traditional methods.
The purpose of his book is to
quantify the problem of leader
ship into primary components,
. guided by reliable logic and rea
son.
Chapters cover Black leader
ship and dvancement in the eiv-
ilized world prior to slavery; re
sistance to the slavery system;
slavemaster appointed I ders;
"crossover" leaders within/out
side the plantation, free col
oreds, activist freedom fighters.
In a broad r context, Betrayal
examin perceptions of collec
tive and individual racial identi
fication through erience and
circumstan .
SURVIV L 0 THE
in will depend upon realis
tic development programs. Afri
can-Americans have been
divested of their cultural heri
tage and given in its stead a sys
tem of values hich relegate
them to an inferior status. The
African-American accepts the
judgment of an alien culture and
adopts its standards as their .
own, Mansour argues.
· In laying out a possible strat
egy for future empowerment, he
notes the analogy of Blacks and
Hispanics positioning their com
m unities to benefit from their
numbers. Since the two popula
tions will constitute more than
50 percent olthe U.S. population
by 2054, such an alignment can
only beoome "an actuality from
co ruct.i eoo omic and spiri
tual rehabilitation."
OTA LE Mansour's
disoourse on David W lker, Ed
mond Blyden, Marcus Garvey,
the NAACP, E. Franklin Fra
zier, and Ralph Ellison. There
are insightful discussions on the
"Role of Whit Media in Appoint
ing B.lack Leaders," "Black Poli
ticians: The New Anchor for
Traditional L ip" and
"Affirmati-ve Action Revisited."
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