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North Carolina Central University / page two Marcus Garvey 1887-1940 We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church buildings or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building. Speech, The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Assoication, at New York [November 25,1922] CAMPUS ECHO Editor-In-Chief, Tatia Davis Managing Editor, Aibirda F. Jackson Sports Editor, Jessica Johnson Campus Editor, Kimberiy Thornton Enter. Editor, Teresa Billie Lay-Out Artist, Melvin Day Art Editor, Celeste Bean Chief Photographer, Otha Swepson Photographer, James Brown VF ear of A Black Plane By Ernie Suggs Believe the hype. Chuck D. is back and he is mad. With the release of its latest album, Fear of a Black Planet, Public Enemy continues to be rap music’s top group, as well as its most controversial. Following a year in which it was accused of being anti-semitic, racist and trouble makers. Public Enemy has bounced back with gn, even better album than It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. More musically balanced. Fear mixes funkier, softer tones with slower beats than Nation and is not as hard-edged. There are no pauses and the breaks are highlighted by instrumentals and snappy samples by DJ Termina tor X that include speeches from Minister Louis Farrakhan and See PUBLIC ENEMY, page 8 So You Think... The times really seem to be changing and conditions arc better, right? The Soviet Union has scorned communism and parts may now be democratic and the "walls came tumbling down" in Berlin. And even Mike Tyson, the past heavyweight champion of thp world was knocked out by a unknown cat. Well, I hate to rain on anyone’s day, but NO the days change but covertly the times are still the same. Brothers and sisters, we need to lift ourselves from this mental slavery that is happening around us. Don’t you know it is a conspiracy against us-African-American genocide! Yes, my heart went out to my brothers and sisters in South Africa when their leader and face of hope was released, after being held a prisoner for 27 years by white supremacy. Now that Nelson Mandela is released, some people even think that conditions world-wide involving discrimination ceased, but it has not. Nelson Mandela is only one man. As long as apartheid continues to show its ugly-head in South Africa and about 27 million South Africans of color are harmed by about 5 milhon white South Africans, the United States and other countries should not end economic and political sanc tions with the South African government. Instead they should make the sanctions sterner! How could it hurt the South Africans of color, what more could they possibly lose— perhaps another life? They are allready barred from beaches, denied quality education, confined to “shanties”- until they go to Cape Town to work for the oppressor and is denied a majority vote. Students, do not think that there is nothing that you can do to rectify this problem. A start could be to boycott American corporations that have investments in South Africa, especially those who do not follow the Sullivan Principles. Some of them are: Kentucky Fried Chicken, Goodyear, Black and Decker, MGM Studios, Shell Oil, NCNB, GM Motors, Pepsi, Taco Bell and the list continues. Yes, your boycott will make a difference. Kodak and and Reebok thought so, that's why they pulled out! By Aibirda F. Jackson William Raspberry Column Troubles Continue For Homeless Families WASHINGTON - When it comes to dealing with homeless fami lies, it’s easy enough to figure out what this city is doing wrong. It is cramming entire families into single hotel rooms, contracted for without benefit of competitive bidding, or it is carting them off to apart ments that could not pass the standards of safety and decency required by the city’s own housing code. And it is doing so at mind-boggling cost The hard part is figuring out how to do it better. Since the beginning of the decade, when the “new” homelessness began to manifest itself as a major problem across the country, the District of Columbia has ladled out some $35 million, most of if to two motels, to house and feed homeless families. An estimated $17 million has been paid to the Pitts Motor Hotel and another $10 million to the Capitol City Inn, with most of the rest going to an assortment of smaller hotels. One year’s outlay for a family of four—approximately $36,000—it’s enough to purchase a modest home. Few of us, however, are prepared to argue that the city should start buying homes to give to the homeless, or even to supply houses on a rent-free basis. Why should a destitute family be given a house when hard-working families are living in cramped and crime-ridden apart ments? Wouldn ’ t the temptation be irresistible for a family to stop pay ing rent, force the landlord to evict, and then wait for rent-free accom modations? Wouldn’t the prospect of a free home tempt homeless families in other parts of the country to move to Washington? If you think it’s costly to house homeless Washingtonians in drug- ridden motels, what of the cost of providing decent homes for all who need them. The proposal most often heard here is for the city to renovate some See Raspberry, page 3.
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