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for conunitm nt
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Th Lo
Bro herhood rus d
United Fund has nam
n y Johnnie L. Coch n s h
.1994 recipient of th Walt r
Brenu nond Pion r of Afri n
American Achievement A w rd.
Th award, named in hon r
of the Brotherhood Crus d.
founder, was pr ent d for 0-
chmn's three-decade fight for
justi , equity and faim . Th
Pion r A ward was d 10
in 1974 to honor individual re­
flecting the d pth, strength and
oerseveran of African Am ri­
cans from a diverse rray of pro­
f ion and backgrounds.
Th event was held at th
B rly Hills Hilton Hotel. Th
Bro herhood Crusade wa
form d following the 1965
Wat r bellion toprovid If­
help v hicl to finan proj
and programs vital to Blacks.
'Since its inception, t h
. Brotherhood Crusade has
grown to become th nati n'
oldest and largest charit bl or­
ganization of its type, providing
more than $30 million to th
homeless, AIDS victims, trou­
bled youth and others.
rt of th 1 w
me n-spirited, for in tn.
"Don' k p th children from
chool," he say . "Tha 's not
right."
UT JO he
d n't know how many illegal
immigran goy nun nt as-
is an . He' not u if they
pay 18 . He only grun in dis­
belief when it's pointed out fed­
er I' food stamp nd other
programs a ff-Iimits to illegal
immigrants.
"Those program are so
goofed-up, run so poorly," he
says. "I am just completely sure
illegal immigrants are using
th m." ,
I or conservative, well-
r, r gardl of whether
th y hit, BI or His-
panic, residents nt their tax
011 rs bing spent on "the
wrong people," providing wel­
far , f tamps and other sup­
port to thos they ay don't
belongh r
Too m ny people ure com­
in ," Mari C dena says in her
native Spanish from behind the
counter of her clothing shop in
Fabe T , pop. 5,200, a few
miles south of El Paso. "Too
THER OE S be-
lieve such la will halt illegal
era ings, not when immigrants
are willing to take low-paying
jobs cleaning homes, harvesting
crops and caring for children.
Yet she remains adamant
"something must be done."
When the contradiction is
pointed out, he smiles, slightly
embarr ed. But she doesn't
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"You don't belong here. The only
reason you got into Brown is
because you're the gook quota."
The same student recei
a phone n 10 ys r from
a pel'S ho tol her�.o..nQlII"
gook. "
At an off-campus party or­
ganized by two dorms, an Asian
student who wanted a tape
played was told by a white male
to "Take it back to your coun­
try." The white male was not a
Brown student
:J Outsid th' party later, a
student from another college al­
leg dly struck the Asian stu­
dent in th face at least four
tim and fled. The Brown stu­
dent was treated at Rhode Is­
land Hospital and released.
Providence police were investi-
, gating.
Ten minority students and
one white student were doused
with water thrown from a fifth­
floor window of a campus build-·
ing. .
"Tho who a cowardly, the
M gic Marker vand Is, if there
is an organization b hind this,
w 11 rid of you, "h said. "We
h v way of finding out. If we I
do, w 11 deal withyou everely."
;-:J A Bl ck tudent had th
word "nig r" written on her
dormitory door, She said racial
epithets w r writte 0 th
oor ot Bla ude
well.
Ro out in d the incid n
a letter m iled Thu
undergraduates, .
CE, R.I. AP) - En-
by pate of racia inci-
. d nt since Thanksgiving,
Brown U ru ity tud n ral­
h twi in two d ys while uni­
v r i y officials sought the
source of th anti -minority sen­
timent.
"B use Brown is really in
J1)e.ny way pretty upportive
an progressive .. stud nts,
when om hing like thi hap­
pens .(1 I very disil lusioned,"
bin R. , ean of s udent lif
a th Ivy League sch 1, said
turd y.
"Th y ay 'my God, how could
this happ n at Brown?"
, In th P t two weeks, ev­
eral minority students have re­
porte writ n, v rbal, nd in
00 c physi I, r cially-mo-
ed au cks:
:, A freshm n of Asian de­
.. nt ound a letter slipped un­
r her dorm room door saying,
"ONE OF T� most chilling
and destructive ways in which
racism can manifest itself is
when one individual or group
decides that another does not
belong here because of his or her
race," Rose wrote. This is unac­
ceptable."
On Friday, hundreds of stu­
dents rallied on the campus
green for the s ond time in as
many days to urge one another
to fight back, whether through
fists or brainpower.
University President Vartan
Gregorian, meantime, promised
retribution.
Klansmen castrated him with a
razor blade, poured kez ene in
his wounds and pas ed among
them his testicles in a paper
cup.
It meant, in 1963, four Black
schoolgirls killed in their choir
robes one Sunday morning
when Klansmen blew up their
Birmingham church.
It meant, in 1981, Michael
Donald, 19, Black, kidnapped at
random by two Mobile Klans-:
men who beat him to death with
a tr limb, slit his throat and
hanged him
It m n, of cou , the w 11-
publiciz d KI n murder in
19 4 of h thr F
�ntinued from Al
da nd ove as military posts.
o k l a v rns had ladies'
auxilian Anonymous hord s
ch d sil ntly from th side-
lin Shelton's newspaper, the
i ry ro s, r port ly ha a
m ilin Ii·t of 2 million.
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