The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 68, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1989 Page: 2 of 30
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Why demand reparations?”
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Don Ross sponsors
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Artist Kelly Carey, Jr., invites the
public to see his latest work, a three*
dimensional painting of an angry
Moses prepaparing to smash the
stone tablets containing the Ten
Commandments. This and two other
paintings will be on display at
Carey's one-man Black History art
show, to be held on Feb. 28 in Room
3447 of the downtown U.S. Post
Office.The public can view the
paintings from 10 a.m. -3:30 p.m.
The other paintings include a por-
trait of Dr. Martin Luther King,
titled, “I Have a Dream," which was
loaned for this exhibit by owner Dr.
Gary Davis. Also on display will be
a painting of the Statue of Liberty
Two prominent Detroit newsmen, Albert J. Dunmore, and
Longworth Quinn, have recently died, leaving an array of ac-
complishments for the media and the black race.
Dunmore, 73, died following a lengthy battle with cancer. In a
memorial service at Mayflower United Church of Christ, NAACP
Executive Director Benjamin L. Hooks cited Dunmore as a “com-
mitted champion in the struggle for equality."
Dunmore, who joined the Michigan Chronicle in 1961, was editor of
the Pittsburgh Courier’s Florida edition. Following his wishes, his
ashes will be scattered over his beloved Miami Beach waters.
Quinn, a former editor-publisher of the Michigan Chronicle, was
inducted into Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in 1985. The 83-year-
old journalist was a former business manager for the Chicago
Defender.
Quinn died recently while vacationing in Texas at a daughter’s
home. The body was flown back to Detroit for burial.
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Question: With the recent vote to favor of change
la Tuioa's torn of city government, what wOI yon
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district nt City Hall? Whs would you like to see
ran for the City ComcII position?
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Recipients of the Pioneers of Excellence Awards are Ashford and
Simpson; Mario Van Peebles; Branford Marsalis; Raymond St.
Jacques ("Superior Court"); Yankee star Dave Winfield; in-
ternational communications execiMive Bob Jones; and the honorable
Edward Brooke, the first U.S. black senator since Reconstruction. The
awards will be presented by The World Institute of Black Com-
munications (WIBC), Anheuser-Busch Companies, CBS Records, and
Coca-Cola on March 14.
The Pioneer of Excellence Awards were initiated in 1964 to honor
living black Americans who have broken ground by their examples
and encouraged others to attain their fullest potentials.
Carol Martin, WCBS-TV anchorwoman, will serve as mistress of
ceremonies. Proceeds of the benefit will go to Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture, and The Community Service Council of
Greater New York.
captors, says Brock, were also
emancipated; though not promised
gold, were promised “forty acres
and a mule.” However, the African
slaves, unlike the Jews in the time of
Pharoah, were never allowed to go
free and repatriate to their native
"chosen land - Africa."
What is meant by the term
Mrs. Eddie Faye Gates
History Teacher, Edison High School
and intervening plaintiff In NAACP vs. City si
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Carey, a postal employee, says
this is his third annual art show at
the post office. He says he is a self-
taught artist, and he has
copyrighted the process he uses to
build the three dimensional image
onto the canvas. According to the
artist, the picture of Moses has real
human hair which changes colors
with the seasons, from white in the
winter to brown-blond in the sum-
mer. He says why this happens is a
mystery to him, but he noticed the
strange effect during the nine
months he worked on the project. In
order to make the painting even
more realistic, an electric fan will be
blowing Moses' whiskers while the
painting is on display.
~ ' ‘ ‘ i Tulsa. He is fsmlliar with different groups and
former CaagresomM James R. Jones. His duties organizations.
clear a wilderness in the United
States and make the land produc-
tive. Who got the 300 years of
________ African slave labor, money, goods,
equal opportunity and integration and services that blacks created
deception, as well as “quotas-
affirmative action," which the U.S.
Supreme Court, through Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor’s decision
minimum wage bill
State Representative Don Ross,
(D-Tulsa), says he will hold in the
Oklahoma House of Representatives
legislation to increase the minimum
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wage pending congressional action
of a similar measure now before the
U.S. Congress.
Ross says on enactment, HB 1138
would increase the minimum wage
from 33.35 an hour to 33 85 In
January of 1990, it would be raised to
34.25 an hour, and 34.65 in 1991.
He says acording to the offices of
U.S. Senators David Boren and
Edward Kennedy, the federal
minimum wage bill will be heard in
committee "on or before March 17.”
Ross says currently, 12 states
have rates higher than the federal
level. “I feel strongly that there
should be either a state or federal
hike," he says. “It’s been 11 years
since the working poor have
received a raise.”
The Tulsa Democrat says in the
321 menatime, the federal government
has cut training programs 63 per-
cent, education 35 percent, and
health care 46 percent.
"When we translate these cut-
backs with those of state govern-
ment and 11 years of inflation, two
regressive state sales taxes, it’s no
wonder why the working poor are
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prejudice, loves Tnloa, and cm bring together all
slaves, similar to 19th-century
Negro house slaves, remained, or
wanted to remain with their
Egyptian captor’s slave masters.
Similarly, the African slaves who
were owned as chattel by U.S.*v
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were freed by president Lincoln’s protection for the white
Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Robert Brock, president of the Los
Angeles-based "Self Determination
Committee, Inc.," a 35-year ad-
vocate of Nack reparations, will
lecture in Tulsa on Thursday, Feb.
23, at Rudisill North Regional
’ library, 1520 N. Hartford Avenue,
* beginning at 7 p.m. The topic is:
"Why Demand Reparation For
Black Americans?”
Yesterday, prior to his arrival in
Tulsa, Brock was a guest on the Phil
, Donahue Show in New York City.
The program was taped, and will be
shown locally at an unannounced
date.
On Friday, February 24, Brock
' will speak to the Christian Alliance
Network of Oklahoma City at
Holiday Inn at 7 p.m. and will be on
the Bob Durkin Talk Show on Radio
KTOK, Oklahoma City, and
Reparation Sunday.
Reparations, states Brock, are
sometimes called "damages,
redress, and compensation,” and as
such are as old as repatriation in the
form of gold Pharaoh gave to the
original Jews in the Bible as seen in
“Exodus, Chapter 5-15;
reparations also consists of
repatriation and freedom for the
Jews to leave the house and land of
Pharoah, though some of the house
Politic* - Jackson endorses Chicago politician
Rev. Jeaae Jackson tea finally endorsed black Acting Mayor
EiKene Sawyer in the Feb. 28 Chicago primary Sawyer is running
against State Attorney Richard M. Daley, who is son of the legendary
Mayor Richard J. Daley. The latter was known as “Bom” in Chicago
politics for two decades.
Jackson is quoted as saying that Daley’s leadership was charac-
terized by silence, rather than action and assertion.
Jackson demurred to respond whether he would continue to support
Sawyer, should Sawyer defeat Daley, and face another black man,
Alderman Timothy Evans, in the general election.
Two other candidates on the Feb. 28 ballot, Aiderman Lawrence
Bloom, and James C. Taylor, are not expected to receive notable
support.
Religion•Rev. Harris is first woman bishop
The Feb. 11 ordination of Rev. Barbara Harris, the first woman to
serve as bishop in the Boston Episcopal Diocese church, has made
history for two minorities.
Dissidents objected to Rev. Harris' eligibility for bishop because of
her gender and lack of a college degree. After hearing their objections,
the Most Rev. Edmond Browning responded with a smile, “In that
case, we will proceed with the ordination services." The crowd
cheered, overwhelming the cries of dissidents.
Rev. Harris, who is black, promises to' ‘obey Christ and serve in His
name.” She states it is her intention to encourage young people to
press on, and overcome barriers.
The 58-year-old Harris is a former publisher of an Episcopalian
publication.
The Anti-Defamation League of B’nal B’rith has developed model
legislation for state and local governments aimed at eliminating
discrimination in private clubs throughout the United States.
More than 40 states have enacted legislation proNbtting
discrimination, but Donald R. Minto, chairman of ADL s Civil Rights
Committee, aays, "There are still too many holos in the laws which
allow private clubs to dose their doors on certain groups."
Included in the classification of “private duta" are country dubs,
athletic duta, social duta, business clubs, fraternal organizations,
rtiigious organizations, and professional organizations.
Other sections of the ADL model would discourage public officials
and employees from belonging to discriminatory duta; prevent
government from supporting such duta; and require a private dub to
sign and file a nondiscrimination statement with the Mate liquor
authority if it is seeking or renewing a liquor license.
An exemption will be provided organization whose primary purpose
is to serve memebes of a particular religion.
Business- Japan, Nissan make concessions ■
The Embassy of Japan announced in late January that Japan’s
trade with South Africa "tax declined by 14 percent”
Japan had become racist South Africa's leading trading partner.
The embassy reports, "These figures affirm the seriousness with
which Japanese business and industry have heeded the government’s
call for seif-restraint in its trade with South Africa." Japan came
under heavy world criticism for its earlier apparent unrestricted
trade with South Africa, a terrorist country.
Nissan Motor Corporation has agreed, withota admitting
wrongdoing, to pay 8606,800 in back pay to settle a case of race and age
bias involving 92 workers, according to Equal Employment Oppor-
tunity Commission. The agreement ends an investigation which began
In 1904 in Carson, California.
the United States?" Reparations is
the demand, securing, and payment
of money (gold), goods and services
that African people of U.S. slave
descent never received: further,
reparations in money, goods, and
srevices due black Americans. It is
an Economic Emancipation that’s
long overdue African people.
The native American Indians
received reparations from the
United States and the Jews received
reparations from Germany, and
presently the U.S. Congress, through
advocacy and petitions by Japanese,
is paying 820,000 to each Japanese-
American for constitutional
violations of their rights. The
Japanese-Americana were interned
in camps with armed guards for
three years, whereas the African-
Americans were in chattel slavery
for 300 years without any pay,
wages, or compensation for labor, or
the fruits of their labors. It is the
uncompensated and unpaid slave
labor of the Africans that have made
the United States the richest nation
in the world, says Brock. The black
people are now uniting, and are in
.the pcooess through organization, to
demand the value of our ancestors'
labor as our lawful inheritance
through the petition process, which
is in the trillions of dollars: money,
goods, and services.
Reconstruction historians have
generally agreed that one of the
The concept and advocacy of
"reparations" as an issue in black
communities is gaining momentum
because it is evidently an idea whose
time has come In fact, it has been
jgn ongoing, issue in Qjs black
community since the Negro slaves
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changes to The Oklahoma Eagle, significantly represented among the
P.O. Box 3267, Tulsa, OK 74161. homeless "
from slave labor? asks Brock. And
of course, those who plundered the
300 years of slave labor, money,
goods, and services shall pay it
recently set aside), for the former back!!!
General - Census study reveals shrinking middle
The dominant trend in American job creation during the 1980s has
been for low-paying jobs to replace those which provided a middle-
class standard of living, according to a census study by the Senate
Budget Committee.
Findings include: the share of middle-wage jobs (811,612-346,444
per year), decreased markedly in the 1980s.
Shares of both high- and low-wage jobs increased, but the share of
low-wage jobs (below poverty level) increased by more than twice
that of high-wage jobs (846,445 and above).”
Downward polarization of wage rates was pervasive. This occurred
in the service sector and in manufacturing, among full-time and part-
time workers, white and non white workers; was felt particularly
by male workers.
The position of women improved but their wages remain well below
those of men.
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height. TUsla a great privilege form to to a part
sf the precess. 1 am glad the door to open. I were helping people solve their problems.”
General - Rehab countelor aids durg kingpin
Al Richardson, a 40-year-old New York resident who ran a drug
rehabilitation center, is suspected of assisting in d large cocaine ring
from the Rikers Island jail cell of a drug kingpin.
The 81 million-per-year crack cocaine ring is said to have terrorized
addicts and intimidated suppliers.
In addition to running a rehabilitation center, Richardson counseled
drug users.
“A person to represent our district should to
“We need told Md aew leadenhip. Someone knowledgeable, familiar with the strengths,
not canght np in the ptantatiowtype synibome of weaknesses, and needs of North Tnlsa. He or she
the politics of the pMt. We need a fresh new face should be m articulate spokesperson, who hM
to lend North Taisa into the year 2888. The person experttoe worktag with others and forming
must to knowledgeable of the demographics of coalitions. I believe Dr. Charles Christopher to
North Tulsa. 1 would recommend Jerry Good- the person. Dr. Charles Ortotopher knows more
wta. He to a yoMg and intelligent us and has about city goyernMt t^protablya^eaeia
management experience. He wm m aide to " - * * .
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failing to provide them (over
4,000,000) with land. Foreigners,
coming to America from Asia and
Latin America, have received more
from the United States in the form of
economic security during the past
decade than all of the former slaves
and their descendants have received
in more than 400 years, says Brock.
African slave laborers (as op-
posed to "worker", such as those
laboring during the cane season)
w provided the muscle and labor,
greatest tragedies of Emancipation without pay, for three centuries to
and Reconstruction was the failure
of the United States, white people
_r captors, and the U.S. Congress to
“Reparations for African People in provide eocnomic security (and not
deception, as well as
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