The Black < Prime """ * it' ' * : ARROGAN Black America is outraged. Out 1 ] 1 li. 1 1 XI .-11 rageu ana msuiiea Dy ine negative reference to minorities quoted in major newspapers around the world and attributed to Japan's Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, stating that the % presence of Black Americans, Puerto ? r?r "" v Rican Americans and Mexican Americans makes our country "intellectually" inferior to Japan, a society of one race. .' * . HEIGHT OF ARROGANCE Other Japanese officials have also been guilty recently of making equally self-serving, insensitive, and in this instance, racist, remarks for which Mr. Nakasone has been called upon to apologize. And apologize he has. But rhetoric aside, we believe that greater issues 1 1 1 _1 9 riccu 10 De aaaressea. LEST YOU FORGET Immediately after World War II, it was the Black GIs, segregated in the US Army, stationed in Yokohama, Kobe, Nara, Gifu, and many, many . other cities who adopted hospitals, orphanages, schools, and the homeless. We fed your people and clothed them, by whatever means possible. We hired and trained Japanese civilians so as to give them some income. Many Japanese survived?because of us. THE DEPTHS OF IGNORANCE Mr. Nakasone's remarks attack the very fiber that makes America great. To imply?in any way?that a nation comprised of one people is somehow "better" than one comprised of many smacks of the worst kind of "master racism." The world has heard this before. \17o firlll rtnf ortoin v*w win uui LuiV/i IL again. A NATION OF MINORITIES AND PROUD OF IT The people of the United States have just spent a summer celebrating the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, the symbol of our uniqueness as a nation whose citizens, including millions of Japanese Americans, all contribute to the cultural, political, social and economic diversity that makes us strong. Mr. and Mrs. E. All Shelby L. Coates M< Kent B. Amos Misso Services Corporation Ja The Triad Group Comer J. Cottrell Rc Anita Arnold Pro-Une Corporation &. ' . .. . . la mac I-I fVwur+i r ' I T? Artnur Asne Clarence Avant * ? Tabu Productions s?nd?u rf Fn?ii?h ' Chris Bennett ctriEMl&F S National Newspaper Publishers r? *\ . G< Association Thdma E. Goodrich jc Benjamin D Brown Gcgdrtch^inson Insurance ^ inr Ear! and Barbara Graves B&C Associates Inc. Black Enterprise Magazine ? RMih^n Cannon A Associates Geraldine a Green Reuben Cannon & Assoc es Trans World Enterprises. Ltd. Topper and Alyce Carew r & . . , ' ' ( , Community Responds tc : Minister Yasuhiro Naks v iPP^! ^ m/m ''I#;. V v a or id WE'RE $200 BILLION STRONG Black Americans have often been portrayed negatively in Japan, with the use of the crudest stereotypes. And Japan's primary experience with us has been as consumers. Fbr despite the tired, poor and homeless among us. we 27 million Black men, women and children command a disposable income of over S200 billion annually. Looked at in terms of a Gross National ? Product, that makes us the ninth largest country in the world. Comparable to Brazil, larger than Australia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, India and Mexico. AND SPEAKING OF ECONOMICS Approximately S7 billion of that income goes for the purchase of Japanese-made goods and services, from leading manufacturers, from cars to clothes. However, little, if any, of that patronage has been the result of a direct invitation from Japanese manufacturers. Little profit from those sales has benefitted either Black distributors, sales representatives, media, educational institutions, communities, or businesses. This must stop. As a result of a new, . economic reciprocity between the Black community and Japanese manufacturers. Or by more selective, discretionary buying by Black consumers. A CHANGE IS IN THE MAKING Japan and the Japanese people must reach out for greater understanding of Black people and institutions in America. It is commonly believed that the Japanese intolerance for differences is rooted in that nation's isolation from people of different backgrounds or cultures. This isolation leads to mispercepHnn and prrnnpni 10 r>nnr>1iiohnH.Johnson , , x>ny it Jet Magazines - Utttejohn Associates. Inc ifayette Jones Keith E.. Lockhart KSreHealthABeautyAld8 KdkhSn&w?? i I The Chronicle, Thursday, October 30, 1986-Page A3 >Japanese isone jPW jflSK : . * .... ,>!; ?v. . i" 0 . //w, . #?* > i ::ri;.$* y>Cv ''*? ' : : /J^'" ?" ' . . NUANCE? ties to achieve understanding through cultural exchanges, educational t>ro O ' . * grams, partnerships between Black institutions of higher education and ? Japanese universities. Economic parity and under. standing. We shall not settle for less. LET'S SPEAK OUT AS ONE * If you, too, share this same sense of outrage, send this ad or your own letter to each of the following: Ambassador Nobuo Matsunaga Embassy of Japan, Washington, DC 2420 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20008 Japanese Chamber of Commerce 145 West 57th Street ? New York, New York 10019 Chairman Congressional BlaCk Caucus House Annex, Number 2 Washington, DC 20515 Your Congressperson or Senator V Arthur McZier Sydney L. Small Ruby McZicr NBN Broadcast ing Inc. National Business Services Percy and Pierre Sutton Enterprises. Inc. Inner City Broadcasting FVank L. Mingo Corporation Caroline R. Jones Arthur E. Teele Jr. '? Mingo-Jones Advertising Inc. National Business League Albert and Velma Nellum Dr Gloria E. A Toote uk.. n-ui_i ? ? uuiyii nuuituaux i rea Estates Enterprises Inc. Baldwin Ice Cream Company Inc. Cora T. Walker Larry Shaw Lawrence R. Bailev Jr. Shaw Fbod Services Company Donald C. Walker Barbara Wtlliams-Sklnner Dollars & Sense Magazine Tom Skinner Blackbook International Tom Skinner Associates . Reference Guide [i