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Dems: NYC mayor should
denounce Rudy's remarks
NEW YORK (AP) - Democratic allies of New York
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's challenger say the mayor should
denounce comments Rudy Giuliani made while they cam
paigned together.
Several elected officials backing
William Thompson Jr. said Giuliani was
stirring up old racial tensions when he
suggested the city could go back to its
crime-ridden days of the early 1990s if
Bloomberg is not re-elected.
Giuliani campaigned Sunday with
Bloomberg in a predominantly
Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighbor
hood
Some supporters of Thompson, who
is black, say Giuliani wai^stoking fears
Of a time when tensions between black and Jewish" New
Yorkers were especially high. .
The city's first black mayor, David Dinkins, was in office in
i he early 1990s'.
Bloomberg would not address the comments directly on
Monday. saying only that he had sought to unite the city during
his two terms.
Elder Bush sees 'ugliness'
in attacks on Obama
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Former President
George H.W. Bush doesn't like the "ugliness" President Barack
Obama has faced since taking office, but he thinks it's no worse
than his son experienced and is not about Obama being black.
Bush, who was hosting Obama at a volunteerism forum
here Friday, said the tone of the criticism "crosses the line of
civility."
"To the degree it turns off one student or young person from
serving, that's bad," Bush said in an interview with CBS News
Radio at his presidential library. "It should not happen."
But Bush stressed that conservatives aren't the only ones to
blame. Liberal pundits heaped similar scorn on his son, former
President George W. Bush.
"They just hammered him mercilessly - and I think
Obscenely - a lot of the time." he said.
Former President Jimmy Carter recently asserted that much
of the bitterness aimed at Obama stemmed from his being the
nation's first black president.
Bush disagreed.
The elder Bush said, "You might find some racists out there
but I don't think the attacks per se have to do that he's, an
African- American,"
New monument to honor
Booker T. Washington
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Renowned educator and
statesman Booker T. Washington is being honored with a new
Washington
monument.
Gov. Joe Manchin and West Virginia
State University President Hazo W.
Carter Jr. are expected to attend
Monday's unveiling at the Booker T.
Washington Park in Maiden.
The memorial also honors families
of African ancestry who encouraged
Washington.
Booker T. Washington Memorial
Association President Larry L. Rowe
said the moment is similar to the
Washington Monument in Washington .
D C., with inscriptions on all four sides.
Student editors apologize for satire
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The president of a private liber
al-arts college in Portland and the student editors of a campus
humor publication are apologizing for a fake article that said
students at a nearby college killed all the Jews at their school.
The article, meant as a satire, appeared last week in The
Pamphlette. a student-run newspaper at Reed College. It took
aim at students at Lewis & Clark College, another private lib
eral-arts college in Portland. Anti-Semitism is a sensitive issue
at Lewis & Clark, where swastika graffiti was found in the
library bathroom a few weeks ago. ? 3^
The article carried the headline "LC students kill Jewish
people."
It begins: "In what is being called a 'tragic, but all too pre
dictable' event, the staff of The Leaphlette, a student huitior
publication at Lewis & Clark College, have been accused of
rounding up and gassing all of the Jews on their Portland, OR,
campus."'
The phony article goes on to describe students asking the
chemistry department for a chemical to conduct
"Jewsperiments" and a "towering crematorium" where the
library once stood .
The same edition of The Pamphlette had another article
titled, "Getting ready for Black History Month." The satirical
list of preparations included: "Photoshop myself into other peo
ple's Kwanzaa pictures and put them up around my house."
Reed President Colin Diver apologized to Lewis & Clark's
interim president. Jane Atkinson, last week. He also criticized
The Pamphlette in an e-mail to campus for displaying a
"remarkable insensitivity to the deeply held feelings engen
dered by some of the most horrific and painful episodes of our
collective history."
College leaders have no plans to censor the paper because
it is against Reed's principles to do so, Diver said.
Lewis & Clark spokeswoman Jodi Heintz said the article
was "really disturbing."
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Members of the l/nion Baptist Church Dance Ministry perform.
Sharpton calls Mack one of nation's best
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
One of the most promi
nent civil rights leaders in
the nation made an appear
ance at Union Baptist
Church Tuesday night.
The Rev. A1 Sharpton,
founder of the National
Action Network (NAN),
delivered a dynamic sermon
before a packed house at the
church as part of Rev. Dr. Sir
Walter Mack Jr.'s 10th
Pastoral Anniversary cele
bration.
"God has a way of put
ting in our midst prophetic
voices that rise at the right
time," Mack said in his
introduction of Sharpton.
"This nation would not have
a certain conscience if we
did not have, every now and
then, the voice of A1
Sharpton."
Sharpton heaped praise
upon Mack during his
remarks, calling the young
pastor "one of the great
preacher and teacher and
shepherd and pulpiteers of
our time.
"I've known and
watched him grow through
these 10 years of ministry
and he never ceases to
amaze me with
his courage and
innovation to let
God use him,"
declared
Sharpton, who
has been a fre
quent guest at the
church over the
years. "...He has
that kind of
expansive vision,
and 1 count him
to be one of my real
friends."
Sharpton, who recently
delivered a memorable eulo
gy at the public memorial
service for Michael Jackson,
lauded Mack for creating the
C2C (Corner to Corner)
Conference to reform drug
dealers, prostitutes, addicts
and others living the "street
life." Sharpton also applaud
ed his friend for the starting
the Christian Football (CFL)
earlier this year.
"What he did with
Mack
Corner to Corner is an
exapiple for the church
world today that our job is to
save the lost," Sharpton
said. "...We are blessed to
live in a time that God has
shown us a full ministry here
at Union Baptist."
Several C2C alumni also
spoke about the
program.
"You returned
our dignity and self
esteem to us," com
mented one C2C
participant.
"Thank you for
turning me back
into a man where I
feel complete
again."
Much progress
has been made in the nation
and the world since he last
visited the Twin City,
Sharpton said, but he cau
tioned the audience not to
become complacent.
"The battle for our civil
rights is not over; we're just
in another dimension," he
said. "...Until we can use
the White House to change
what's going on in my house
and your house, we're not
there yet."
He touched on the issue
of the N-word, which he has
Church members present gifts to Mack on behalf of the church's various ministries.
Al Sharpton
long urged he hip hop com
munity to abandon.
"In many ways, we, have
in our culture gone back
wards. We've got to raise
people's sights again. You
ain't never gonna be nothing
unless you want to be some
thing," Sharpton stated. "If
we change how we think
about ourselves, then we can
change ourselves."
Mack was also feted by
church and community
?embers during the jubilant
service. Many spoke about
how Mack had touched their
lives personally. Several
residents of the Alder Point
apartment complex, which
was ravaged by a fire over
the summer; expressed their
appreciation to Mack for
reaching out to fire victims
immediately.
"If it hadn't been for you
stepping up to the plate.
Lord knows where we would
be." one former resident
said. "We thank you from
the bottom of our hearts."
Mayor Pro Tempore
Vivian Burke presented a
proclamation to Mack on
behalf of the city. Two street
corners near the massive
church will soon be outfitted
with honorary street signs
bearing Mack's name, she
said.
Burke, who has known
Mack since he was a young
ster, believes the recognition
is well deserved.
"He doesn't wait for
somebody to tell him what
to do," she declared. "He is
moved by God to do the
right thing."
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