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Our gift for ^ _ By BEN J AM IMF .~CH AVIS JR. -L'. Syndicated Columnist ye* ?????* NEW YORK - The national jj..'- holiday celebrating the life and ^T, ministry of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is, from our perspective, the most important national holiday we are privileged to celebrate. ; ? The nation is becoming more familiar not only with the name v of Dr. King but also with the principles that guided his life. Despite the fact that there was . . . * some strong opposition to the passage of the bill that made Dr. King's birthday a holiday,J the multiracial condition which came ;< together to support the bill was, - v fmally, successful. > . We celebrate this year's King holiday in the wake of .racist white mob violence in Howard < Beach in Queens, N.Y. There is a OrMt?r e? vuwi iK?u iuuay man ever I before for all people who are - - committed to human decency to forthrightly challenge all forms of racial injustice. . ? If Dr. King's legacy means I anything, it should mean that we have a moral obligation to fight ?* racisnu^__ But it is just not enough that only African-Americans take the lead in fighting this battle. In fact, the majority of white Americans have abdicated their historic responsibility to fight " nivv lowisni. ; This country does not need a ' | King estate ? i . ? . ; : By MIKE OWEN . ; Associated Press Writer j; PHILADELPHIA - Marry Coretta Scott, or switch places. Choose between taking an extra turn, meeting President Kennedy or studying Gandhi in Indian 4 *" * 1 These are some>%af the choices for players of a new board game ? based on the life of Martin ? Luther King Jr. They aren't choices King had to make in his ^ , own life, but the game's inventor figures they can help teach people about the slain civil rights leader. * * The Martin Luther King Jr. Game, labeled as suitable for >*; ages 6 and up, is marketed by Car!ac<vof Chicago and has the * King estate's approval. The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for ':9\. Non-Violent Social Change in Atlanta gets royalties. I i T Cadaco President Waymon i*'- Whittman said it's too early to know whether the game, in, troduced in August, is selling well. He said the company ex' pects sales to peak on King's bir'??: thday celebration next month. H "It's a game that has learining aspects about it. I think that's the reason we like it," said Isaac Faris Sr., agent for King's estate SAMS CO) ~ Through his a better pla< "The urgei leaders of i integrity ? lec but in love wil with publicity leaders who < egos to the gt 534 N. Lib 724-0501 Martin Luth new wave of liberal guttt that oirly offers paternalistic ? and usually non-functioning - handout programs. Instead, White America must own up to its racism and then consistently commit itself to corrective action. We must remember that it was from a cell in the Birmingham-jail that Dr. King warned, 44Injustice anywhere is a threat to-justice everywhere." Therefore, we cannot be patient with the injustice in Howard Beach. We cannot be patient with the injustice of apartheid in South Africa. We cannot be patient with the injustice of the U.S.-supported contras in Nicaragua. And we cannot be patient with the injustices suffered by the Palestinians. If Dr. King were alive today, he would celebrate his birthday by saying no to Reagan's inhumane 1988 budget. He would say yes to homes for the homeless, jobs for the jobless and food for the hungry. We recall that the year before Dr. King's assassination, he ?changed his mind about how his dream could be fulfilled!" Although 4ie refused to give up A ? M ? tnc oream, ne now understood that his dream could not be fulfilled without a major social transformation of the basic structure of our society. In the words of Dr. King, "For / approves M and husband of King's sister, Christine. "It's an educationaltype game*, and our children have to learn more about Dr. King." The inspiration for the game was the national holiday in King's honor, celebrated for the first time last Jan. 20, said its inventor, Richard Levy. "Right prior to the first celebration of the holiday, our daughter kept coming home from } a suburban Washington school with more information on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," said Levy, a Wilkes-Barre native who lives in Bethesda, Md. Soon, he said, 6-year-old Bettit was asking her parents questions about King. Ullf. 1 we Knew a lot about King," he said, "but not enough to answer our daughter's questions." He and his wife, Sheryl, decided that some research could help them make a game that could teach the basics of King's life. Players spin the spinner and move ahead on the 63-space board that includes milestones in King's life, such as his birth, his "I Have a Dream" speach, his Nobel Peace Prize, his assassination and the final square, his naMPANY HONORS ! efforts the world t :e to live, to work ? r O jt : s ncy of the hour call vise judgment and s iders not in love with m th iustice: leaders not ii >, but in love with huift can subject their parti eatness of the cause." ? Dr. Martin L. K erty St. * er King Jr. 1 years I~tabored wittrthrldea of I reforming the existing institu At-- " - nuns ui me aouin, guttle change here, a little changrthere. Now I feel quite" differently. I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values." The good news is that there are real opportunities today to follow through on Dr. King's vision. * Mayor Harold Washington has begun a reconstruction of Chicago that has served to heighten the aspirations of all those on whose behalf Dr. King struggled. That is why it is so important not to let the forces of racism stop Washington from being re-elected in February. In New York City, amidst all 1 of the anger, pain and, in some cases, cynicism, there is also I some good news. Out of the agony of the Howard Beach inci- I dent has emerged the kind of I 4 'mass^ meetings' * which played such a vital role in mobilizing our people during the civil rights movement. In Mahhattan, in Brooklyn, and in other parts of New York City, African-Americans ate now joining hands in large numbers and in ways that they have not tried for a long time. Therefore, throughout this nation, let us all come together and dare to resurrect a new freedom movement. This would be the greatest birthday present we could ever give to the memory of Dr. King. LK game tional holiday. Some squares call for the player to draw a "quote" card and then read aloud a quotation from King. "We wanted to make the assumption that they didn't know I about King. We didn't want to I make it a trivia game," Levy I said. I J.'J-K ? I uui uaugiuci uiun I Know about King prior to this holiday. We felt there were probably a lot more people in America who didn't know about Martin Luther King than those who did, especially at the age we were aiming at." This isn't the first time an entrepreneurhasjjskgd-fo^4he King ?estate*s~approval on a product. "People are always coming to us with different ideas," Faris said. "We've accepted a number of items ? posters, artists' renderings, various kinds of things." On the other hand, he said, the estate has turned down proposals for such items as a pocketknife with Dr. King's name on it. "We felt that that was out of character with his philosophy of non-violence," he said. "There's ?u:_? i-i? l/vwu :>wiut uiiici uiui&s, 11kc i jeans, underclothes; we've had to I turn those down." DR. KING I lecame I and to enjoy. I 's. for I found oney, I n love I anity; Icular J I ing Jr. /a -wl SE?III 1 * \ The C martin u AFRI Productions of I Faith Ji A Musical Men SPONSORED BY The Student Activi MARTIN L. KING (January 15,1929 ? April 4, 15 if MODERN 722-411 "Vaii ran't Boat a P f VM VMM % %M I# -? Easy to get to, just off 1-40 at > Jhronkjle, "f^HKSCiay, January 1?, 1987-PaoeC3 <C Jh:.-*i^jfflmt&k:?Wr.: I I | I I H 1^ I IV m 9 - IB I: u-^J^ I J' J . 1 i H Jew York performs DURNEY iory of Martin f. Thursday, Jan. 22 _ 8:00 PM R. Williams Auditorium ( , ' ' ? ' ADMISSION FREE . " ' ties Office of WSSU ??? ? Jfl V^l lifl MAY JHE CAM CONTINUE I I y Chevrolet I owntown Deal" I at Fourth and Broad. i s
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