Racial Tension Eased By
Early Thanksgiving Feast
Tuesday, November 21, 1989 - THE CHARLOTTE POST - Page SB
BVBEriHJHARPAZ
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW YORK (AP) — Last sum
mer, a black teen-ager was killed
by a gang of white youths In the
Brooklyn neighborhood of Ben-
sonhurst and the area became a
symbol of the city's racial ten
sions.
On Thursday, parents, teachers
and students at a public Junior
high school in Bensonhurst
tried to change the area's Image
by holding an early Thanksgiv
ing feast attended by families of
all ethnic backgrounds.
"Nice things do happen here be
cause nice people make them
happen," said Rose Mollnelll,
principal of Joseph B. Cavallero
Junior High School, as. she
looked around the cafeteria at
the nearly 400 p>eople of Chinese,
Italian, black, Jewish and other
extraction who came to share
turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes
and other traditional holiday
food.
"This proves to people that Ben
sonhurst Is a good place," said
Rebecca Marston, a school ad
viser. "The kids are tired of the
slurs being thrown at them.
There are people out there who
give these kids a bad name and
it's not fair."
The school is attended by chil
dren from the more suburban,
affluent parts of Bensonhurst as
weU as by those from the Marl
boro public housing projects.
Cynthia Lambert, a black wom
an sitting at a table with several
white families, said she decided
to attend the dinner, "to show an
example, to be among other peo
ple." Pointing to her daughter.
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Cassllda, a seventh grader, she
added, "In that way, she will
learn."
Sally Yu, an immigrant from
China who was brought to the
dinner by her nephew, Johnny, a
seventh grader, agreed. "I'm real
ly glad to see everybody here."
"TTiere's no racial problems
here," added Ashana Jones, a
black eighth grader who was
among those helping to serve the
food. "This is a good thing and
maybe it will put things in a dif
ferent direction."
Parent-Teacher Association
President Mabel Marzigliano
was one of dozens of volunteers
who spent two months organiz
ing the, event, decorating the
drab cafeteria with pumpkins
and turkeys, and cooking the
food. Sporting a "Let's End Ra
cism Now" button, the beaming
Itallan-Amerlcan looked
around the room and said:
"They're all my children, no
matter what color they are."
Tlie dinner was co-sponsored
by the National Ethnic Coali
tion of Organizations and the
Council for Unity, which run a
variety of programs to foster bet
ter interracial relations.
'We've got a really serious prob
lem in the city with trying to live
with one another," said NECO
Chairman William Fugazy, who
attended the dinner. "Racism is
bad. Bigotry is terrible. We've got
to attack it by starting with the
kids. ...You're going to accom
plish something by doing what
we're doing, by bringing people
together."
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