Readers Write
Education d not free u from our financial obligation to
our p pl. To reduce the uncivilized killing and jailing of our
Black, men, women and children, we must hop nd bank
primarily with them.
Mr. Wat and I offer you the opportunity to dr m tically
and immediat ly reduce our crime and incarceration rate by
merely buying our AIDS-ALERTING, CRIME-OBVIATE and
JOB-PRODUCING T-shirts, and by encouraging your loved
one , friends and associa to do th me. As the people cry
out for relief from crime, and our crime and incarceration
ra e give us the appearance of being I s human than White
people, there i nothing more crim -obviativ ,d v lopmen I
and soothing that you can do than hop and b nk with Black
people. Guided by the premi that Black people a as
ponsive to dollars and kindn as are White people, Mr.
Watts and I offer you the opportunity to display your faith in
the crime remedy recommended by God by simply shopping
and banking with Black people.
If the percent of Black people buying T-shirts from Black
people wa as large as the percent of White people buying
T-shirts from White people, thousands of murders per year
would be prevented. Fewer Black mothers and fathers would
10 e their sons and daughters.
WITH HOPPING and banking Black, how far are we
willing to go to save the lives of Black m n, women and
children? Are we, the hard pressed victims of an 80% dollar
. recycling rate deficit, 0 out of touch with the crim -obviative
needs of a free Black people that we now find it more d sirable
to kill and jail Black people than to shop and hank with them?
With the aid of common sense and mathematics, don't you
realize that our shopping and banking with White people
rewards them and requires the sacrificingofa percent of Black
men, women and children?
To fe 1 unwanted by qur ow Bl� lead M [tician
rl I. cholars,-superstars and everyday peop e, is to e cruciat-
.1'1' ingly helple ; threatened, distraught and dangerous. Too
many of our Black men, women and children feel unwanted,
excruciatingly helpless, threatened, distraught and danger
ous for any of u to feel completely safe.
In his ociety where we, 120/( of the population, do not own
120/(· of the wealth and are therefore being constantly attacked
by more than 12% of the deprivation; where ev n you cannot
find or creat a job for yourself without financi I cooperation
of the peopl around you; and wh r without your Guying our
T-shirts, Mr. Watts and I, lik millions of other financially
rejected Black men, women and children, are doomed to dam
aging and despicable failure, we anxiously offer you the oppor
tunity to savour lives, and to u e us to save the liv of other
Black men, women and children by imply buying our Mr. C
T-shirts.
Frank W. Burrell
T time to
.Ind ,all ero th
in hundr d of loc ]
communiti African people
in fact fightin b ck, organizing
d mon tr ion, boycot , po
litical empowerment campaigns
nd buildin innovative youth
projects, cultur I-educational
progr m, conomic d velop
ment proj ct and important
communi y b ed institutions.
Th i al 0 ri ing tide of
Black con cious , militancy
and resistance surfacing within
the Black Nation as evi need
READERS WRITE
---�land,
By Bernice Powell Jackson
id r tion f t hi
THERE ARE ALSO now
two independent governors, one
.independ nt congressman and
core of i ndep nd nt/third
party offici I at the local level.
Former Governor Douglas
Wilder i running for the Senate
an independent in Virginia.
Certainly Rev. J e L. Jac on
can be as bold a Dougla
Wilder.
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