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Ksnytns load sacks ot spin pass donatsd by ths U.S. onto trucks at tht Wiir. Kinvi.iir* port. U.S. rwtfctpfrftathav* S f twsn flylna Into ths northrt^ % which hasbscomss c?W Hill " ! ?: .;. . ... Black lawmakers plan to use numbers ! JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ? Blacks will use their growing num bers in the Mississippi Legislature to puts issues such as minority set asides and appropriations, says one lawmaker. , Rep. Aaron Henry of Clarks dale, who also is president of the Mississippi NAACP, said Wednes day blacks may have enough votes to influence state spending and pass legislation to double the minority set-aside in state contracts from 10 percent to an amount similar to Arkansas and Alabama. Blacks are assured of 30 seats in the 122-member House of Repre sentatives after Tuesday s party runoff elections. Passing spending bills takes 74 votes, a three-fifths majority, so only 48 votes would be enough to halt one. "The thing that will force more cooperation on community is ... our ability to make sure that no appropriation is passed without our consent," Henry said. House Speaker Tim Ford of Tupelo said he has met with mem bers of the Legislative Black Cau cus and "they expressed no real indication of upheaval in the way things are done." Ford said black lawmakers will most likely have a greater say in overriding a governor's veto. It takes a two-thirds vote, 81 votes, to override a veto. Only 42 votes can stop a veto override. Blacks now are assured of holding seven of the 52 seats in the Senate. Tuesday night, blacks won one Senate and two House seats. In November, blacks will be involved in general election races for 10 more legislative seats. Six are contending for Senate seats and four are seeking House seats. Five of the general election matchups, two in the Senate and three in the House, have black can didates facing each other. Those five races bring the number of blacks assured of seats in the 1993 Legislature up to 30 in the House and seven in the Senate. If I were a black preacher, I'd say . . . I have been accused of being a closet cleric, a would-be-preacher on the lam, hiding out as it were, like Jonah, running, doing anything to put off the inevitable. This week I have decided to head the call and I hereby offer my first sermon. Brothers and sisters, we need to have a meeting of the minds. We need to cotae together and have a frank conversation about the prob lems facing black folks in this com munity, state, in this nation and what will it take for us to solve them. This meeting would have to take place without the use of the others to be either trampled to death or seriously injured. Brothers and sisters it is time that we come together and ask our selves some of the hard questions about what it is that we and only we must and can do for ourselves to save ourselves. All too often, whenever we gather together to talk about our "problems, inevitably the conversa tion turns to white folks and how racist this world is. But what has that got to do with you and me, us black folks get ting together to solve our own prob lems? What has that got to do with O ON THE ? 0 AVANT-GARDE By TANG NIVRI dreaded "R" word, racism, which nowadays is used all too frequently by Black folks to explain every thing from having your damned toi let stopped up (ooops) to marrying the wrong spouse. It is long since past the time for us Black folks to come together and begin to think analytically about our future ? to use our God-given empirical minds to analyze and evaluate what we are doing wrong and what price we must pay in order for us to make things right. Brothers and sisters, right now, we are mired in the morass of blam ing white folks so much so that a great deal of us are now addicted to the pleasure of identifying white folks as the cause of all that befalls us. There are those of us who are right now preparing a defense of the thug who brought the gun to the Dudley Football game, shot some body, and then nearly caused some us being able to honestly look at ourselves and talk about what and who is killing us? What do white folks have to do with us being hon est with ourselves? Sisters and brothers, are we so naive as to continue to give white folks that much credit? Are we will ing to pass on to yet another genera tion of black children the legacy of white superiority in that we black folks are still yet unable to come to grips with ourselves, unable to criti cize ourselves for fear of the white gaze? Are we willing to leave our children with the mental impotency of being afraid to look into their own mirrors of self responsibility? Police department controversy The controversy about the police department is a good case in point Is there anybody black in this community who, not in the presence of white folks, would have the gall, the audacity, the pure guts to say that the policeman are the real prob lem facing our black youth in this community? Isn't there anybody with the guts to say that drugs, teenage preg nancy, illiteracy, unemployment, and a decline in moral values are really what is killing us? Yes, there are problems with the police department. But are you rally seriously expecting to make the case that black folks should be more concerned about the police and what they might be doing to black folks in this community than young "niggazs" who have nothing better to do than terrorize people's grandmothers, grandfathers and their grandchildren too? When you walk in certain neighborhoods at night are we more afraid of the police or are we more afraid of each other? I could be wrong (but since I am now a preacher that couldn't be the case) but to my simple mind there is no good reason, given all of the resources we have at our dispos al, why we as a black community do not come together at least once in a while to debate one another ? not white folks ? on the merits of proposals that would lead to true liberation for black people in this community. Why are we so reluctant to talk about what it is going to take for us to make it in this community? Imagine if the Chinese and Koreans had the resources we have in our community. What do you think they would do? If they had all of the churches, the money, the facilities, the organization. What do you think they would do? So my brothers and sisters, I ask you, when are we going to use the God-given ability that we have? When are we going to stop blaming white folks for things white folks don't have a damned thing to do with: black folks killing and shoot ing, and raping, and breaking in, and assaulting each other. When we start to recognize who and where the enemy is, this will be the first step. It won't be pleasant, and it won't be fun but only then my^brothers and sisters we once again find our way. ' A Women need leave Continued from page A5 who lose their jobs ? and their health insurance ? risk spiraling down ward into debt, destitution, and even homelessness. The lack of parental leave alone costs working women and their fami lies $607 million annually. Working mothers without job-protected leave receive Si 08 million more in public assistance from such programs as unemployment insurance, supple mental security income, and welfare than do mothers working for employ ers with parental leave policies. In contrast, the costs of family and medical leave to businesses are ^mall. Aetna Life Insurance and Casualty, Co. which voluntarily implemented its own leave policy, has recently reported that the policy is saving the company $2 million yearly due to reduced absenteeism and employee turnover. A 1990 nationwide survey com missioned by the U.S. Small Busi ness Administration (SBA) conclud ed that "the net cost to employers of placing workers on leave is always substantially smaller than the cost of terminating the employee." Data from the SBA study indicated that family and medical leave legislation would cost employers only $6.50 per covered employee per year. Many women of color share sto ries similar to these. In an election season so heavily focused on "family values," enactment of the FMLA would show bipartisan commitment to helping families when they need it most. President Bush should sign this measure, and give millions of women of color and their families a better chance at economic security and some badly needed peace of mind. 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