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De.r Editor:
I j t wanted to pond to th bus' ue.
To that you don't want your hool bu in B nton Harbor
after dar w the most ignorant tatement that I could hav
h rd coming from a I der' 'mouth.
That' right, I der. And the d part about it i . om of our
children re under that I dership. '
To m it ho what you think about people in Benton
Harbor.
. The bus incident with the rock was some teen m . you
didn't even try to find out how Benton Harbor parenU; feel
about th' mall handful of uncontrollable t ns that we all
have.
We have a .lot of good young people and also parents in this
community.
, I WERE IN your position a uperintendent, before I
make decisions and tatements like that, I would sit down with
the other two uperindentent from Benton Harbor and
Coloma. Invite some parents from n three districts and dis­
cu thi situation and maybe it wouldn't hurt to have some
police office in the meeting.
If that area was included in the concerns, or was aware when
that bus was to arrive, they could have looked out for it.
Neighborhood Watch Groups can form and do that. Benton
Harbor has a very strong Parent Advisory Group that could
have addressed your concerns and help to find a better solution.
People who are poor, on drugs, ignorant - or whatever
outside communities want to call them, they also care about
their babi . Maybe they clothe, feed or discipline them prop­
erly (just like everyone else), they respect it when orneone else
sincere is helping and teaching their children.
We have weak people out there. It doesn't mean that deep
down inside they don't care. Those of us 'who have strength,
somebody has to do it, whether you want to or not,
Communicate with Benton Harbor. We understand English.
Then if you can't get support from us, make your decisions. We
are innocent until proven guilty.
Effie Brown, Benton Harbor, MI
Wide Wage Gap.
On average, u.s. women earn 70.6 cents for every dollar
earned by men. In most, but not all job categories, women
make significantly less than mal.e workers. The �verage pay
in occupations selected by Working Women, for :l�ustratlOn,
include: Accounting where women make $26,9Ocib annually
compared to 36813 for men; female lawyers make $47,684 per
year compared to $61,100 for men; and in colleges and univer­
sities women professors make $59,970 compared to male sala-
ries of$70,180.
y
In nty rsth reh n
bl upsur in Bla
eonsciousn , militancy and re­
s' tan within the a ional Af­
rican Am rican community.
From rapactivist, to studen
on coll ge and university cam­
p s, from ordinary Bla folks
at the gra roots level to the
"rage of the privileged cl ,"
more and mor Africans in
America are concluding that
Black people must actively fight.
against racial oppr ion and
act to liberate Black people from
con­
scious and new militancy
mu t be eff tiv ly h rn ed
nd channeled in order to
achieve I pro for Bla
people.
Random undir outra
is not enough to ensur Black
advancemen . To resolve th
multiple cri es plaguing the
Black community we n a new
generations of organiz rs to mo­
bilize and organize th Bla
community to fight for empower-
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By Bernice Powell Jackson
It's hard to believe, but it's
true. One million children
around th world, mostly young
girls are forced into prostitution
every year. One million chil­
dren's bodies for ale.
I t,'s not something most
Americans are aware of, but
even here in the land of th free
and home ofth bra ,there are
b tween 125,000 and 200,00�
t nagers who enga i� p�t1-
tution each year. Th majority of
teenagers forced into prostitu­
tion live in Asia, with some also
living in S uth America� includ­
ing Argentina nd Brazil.
It's a whole new kind of tour­
ism m rket in these poor, devel­
oping countri ,The m who
s k out th children, boy nd
girls re not from t h coun­
tri ' - they a primarily �om
Germ ny, Jap nand th Uruted
States.
) - Ind about on quarter of
'-the touris'ts abusing children in
Asia are Americans. In th Phil-
. ippine , which u to house
American naval b a on
time U.S. mencompri 60 per-
mg
wh
wo
pin
The
Pro
cent of th sex off nd
How these childr n t
caught up in the.world of x and
prostitution and drugs is a sad
story indeed.
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Ron Dan Ll'l .. t'T1 � (.1.' r, r.'f 1/111 (. I h
r tor of Ihl' Cen II!J'" [or Cr," ... lllld/i1l II'
RtRht LI1 NpIU York ('LI.., If" 'I II til'
contacted alIi 18) R· J7.'>3
We welcome
all Signed
let n-rs from our
readers.
Michigan Citizen.
P.O. Box 03560.
Highland Pk. MI
48203.