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MILWA WI. (NBNS) - Controversial Nation of Islam
mini ter Khalid Abdul Muhammad I t w k encouraged
Blacks to support former football su rs r O.J. Simpson even
though h w "Sl ping with the n my."
im on i accu in th brutal murd r of hi ex-wife and
a male comp nion. His ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson w
white. impson has pl ded not guilty in the double murder.
Muhammad made his comments during a peech before 1 ,300
people at the Emmanuel Evangelistic Temple in Milwaukee. It
was his first public h since bing sho on May 29 in San
Diego, California.
According to Muhammad, Blacks," hould alw ys fight for
th innocen of th Black man. � Muhanunad war uspended
earlier thi year chi f pok man for N tion of I lam leader
Louis Farrakh n u of the ou ry from Jewish groups and
om Bl ck politicians over Nov m r pe h in which he
vilified J wand th Po
Judge leads assault on
Th III s.
Th cons rvativ Thoma unlea h a strongly worded opin
ion which argued ha .p t court tt mp to creat predomi
nantly Black or Hi panic votingdi tri in order insure that
mor rninoriti wer el ted to public offi had led to "Racial.
balkanization" or division of th na ion along raci I lines: The
more liberal Justic John Paul t v ns argued that Thomas
apparently wanted 0 r peal the Voting Rights Act.
In one of the cases, the court ruled (5 to 4) that Blacks could
no challenge th ize of a governmen body even though they
were 20% of the population in mall Georgia town and the
town had alway I d a singl (always white) commission r.
NAACP Legal Defens Fund associate director Th dore Shaw
said the r n decisions show that majority on the court "Is
hostil to th Vo ing Rights Ac . II
Farrakhan urges
Black men to change
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ror without continual U.S. mili
tary aid to th p t gim .
H itian r fu viola Clin
ton's campaign promises, when
h w running for offi and
nth h work of our district
pI a uniqu rol in ining
h Stat of . chi n for him. "
14 th District
tallin , the
nt to he dis-
trict's Resolution Committ
he ded by Richard Berlin.
Caucus Chair Tommy M d-
o said that while the Haitian
r fugee issue d not neoessar
ily invol those with handicaps,
" a human righ organiza
tion, we have to support th hu
man rights of all. "
DETROIT - The Handicapper
Caucus of the Michigan Demo
cratic Party criticized Demo
cratic President Bill Clinton's
Haitian refugee policy, forcing
those king to flee to h U.S.
to register in Haiti.
The caucus states, "This
would mark them out for death
by the v ry dictatorship they are
fleeing and could rve as th ir
death warrant."
Noting that the U.S. has not
placed such restrictions on r fu
gees from any other countri
fleeing d spotism, such Cuba,
the caucus sugges that th gov
ernment has discriminatory
attitud toward Haiti n be
cause h y a Black.
It dds the government i
. uniqu lyr ponsibl f rth Hai-
tian t.yr my, y
cou1d no
fate of
drowning in cap ized
ca of U.S. efforts to
topth refu , otreatm ntof
th American government 50
years ago toward Jewish refu
gees fleeing th Nazi Holocaust.
It noted that th U.S. govern
ment expressed regret for uch
past conduct during the Holo
caust anniversary.
A memb r ofth Handicapper
Caucu had thi in roduced a
resolution fore th predomi
n tely African American 14th
district Democratic Par y or
ganization r pr senting High-
land Park and a as of roit.
Th olution no d tha th
I'cy oft t to ard
resident Clinton antes
Casellas to Chair EEOC
Pr ident Clinton has announced his nomination of the
former pr id n of the Hispanic National Bar Association 88
Chairman ofth Equal Employm nt Opportunity 'ommission.
Gilbert F. C ell i a Philadelphia lawyer currently erving
the Gen r I Counsel to the United Stat Air Force. He was
rai d in Tamp, Fla. nd has an xtensiv record of increasing
opportuniti for wom nand minoriti in th legal prof ion.
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