The recent violence that occur
red et Virginia Beach, Va. this
past weekend la just an example
of a new wave of racial violence
■weeping the country.
Aa a group of young college
coeda gathered at their annual
i “Greekfest” weekend, local
! authorltlea were ready and will
ing to forceably dear the par
tygoera off the atreeta surroun
ding the Virginia Beach area.
After local police officer* and
atate troopers could not handle
the crowd of Innocent young peo
ple or “Greeks,” the mayor of
Virginia Beach ordered the Na
tional Guard to use any extreme
to dear the streets.
In an effort to atop the looting
and vandalism that was taking
place, National Guardsmen used
an overpowering show of force.
After watching the television
videotape, many were shocked to
aee policemen beating
perpetrators with nightsticks.
How the police handled the
situation In Virginia Beach was no
different from how police handled
race rioting in the ’60s. Watching
the news media coverage of the
incident was like taking a step
back in time, about 20 or so years
back.
We are sure that had the crowd
of young “Greeks" been white the
police would have never displayed
such force in getting them to leave
the area.
Now the question remains: Will
there ever be another
“Greekfest?" Well, from the
looks of things right now, we don’t
think there is a beach on the east
coast that will permit the
“Greeks" to congregate again.
This is a shame, because the
Greeks were just victims of very
bad publicity. Everyone seems to
be blaming the Greeks for the
looting and violence that occurred
this past weekend.
The fraternities and sororities
were Just there to have a good
time. They did not go all the way
to Virginia Beach to destroy the
city. Most of the damage that was
done was more than likely done by
non-Greeks and non-college
itudents.
In the past years since
’Greekfest" has been going on, no
violence has occurred. Whatever
triggered the rash of looting is a
question that has yet to be
answered.
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i Despite growing concerns over
the possible use of biological war
fare agents by terrorists, there
has been no law prohibiting
private citizens in the United
States from owning such
ipons.
hi 1972, the American govern
ment signed an international trea
ty banning all “biological agents
er. toxins” not for “prophylactic,
protective or other peacenu pur
poses.” This was ratified by the
tLS. Senate in 1975. But the
treaty’s provisions had never
incorporated into American
To change this, the Bush ad
ministration has now endorsed
new legislation that specifically
prohibits any individual in the
United States from possessing a
biological “weapon of mass
destruction” or assisting a foreign
power in obtaining one. This
legislation has been making its
Iway through Congress in the last
few months.
I President Bush has long been
(concerned with the threat of
chemical and biological warfare.
{During his campaign last year he
promised to work to abolish such
weapons worldwide. But this will
take far more than American
legislation.
According to intelligence
sources, 10 countries—they refuse
to name which ones—currently
possess or are in the process of
developing biological weapons. At
the same time, there continue to
be questions raised about the U.S.
. government’s “defensive”
research in the area.
“Even Defense Department of
ficials cannot define the distinc
tion between offensive and defen
sive BW research,” says Charles
Pillar, an expert in military uses
of genetic engineering
discoveries. “Exploiting this am
biguity, the Defense Department
has embarked on a provocative
program, using new genetic
technologies in ways that threaten
to destabilize the treaty process
and stimulate a new biological
arms race.
Under the Freedom of Informa
tion Act, Piller obtained
documents which showed the Ar
my had lied to 1977 Senate hear
tags about the public safety of
past biological warfare research.
“Added to this, the history of
U.S. chemical and biological
weapons ex
periments—characterized by
routine use of unwitting human
guinea pigs—is hardly reassur
ing,” Piller wrote in The Nation.
“Chilling examples from the 1950s
and 1960s include... clandestine
biological tests in the 1950s in such
places as the New York subways
and the San Francisco Bay
area—using supposedly benign
organisms that mimic the
behavior of BW agents. The Army
acknowledged in 1977 that one of
the widely used ‘stimulants’ can
Mil the ill or elderly.”
More recently, President
Reagan’s pursuit of chemical and
biological weapon disarmament
was accompanied by a U.S.
buildup of such programs,
creating a contradictory policy of
deterrence and disarmament.
The Reagan administration
pointed to a mysterious outbreak
of anthrax in Sverdlovsk (one of
the most heavily researched
diseases in past BW programs)
and to “Yellow Rain’’ in
Southeast Asia as evidence of the
Soviet Union’s disregard for the
biological weapons treaty. The
Soviet ambassador countered the
charges saying U.S. claims were
“inventions from beginning to
end.”
Last year, more than 500
American biologists signed a
pledge not to engage in research
that would further the develop
ment of biological weapons. It
was part of a campaign against
the expansion of Department of
Defense funding of academic
biology, organized by the Com
mittee for Responsible Genetics.
Twenty-four American univer
sities were said to have been in
volved in research funded by
military budgets.
The future of our country and
the world may well be determined
not by its policy on nuclear
weapons, but by how it deals with
the possibly just as deadly
research into using disease as a
weapon. As with nuclear
weapons, it is rec jgnized by many
that there would be no winners in
such a war.
Mrtrat To Examim What Works In Education
BY REP. AUGUSTUS HAWKINS
theme of the braintrust is titled
“Ensuring the Future of the
African-American Child: Educa
tional Equity, Excellence and Op
portunity.” The braintrust will be
held in room 2175 of the Rayburn
House Office Building from 9:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The education of our children is
indeed one of the most significant
issues facing the nation. The
tragedy lies in the fact that far too
many people have used education
(See EDITOR'lAI,, F. 7)
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IN FACT.WKVl BAKED
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COPING
Dr. Charles W. Faulkner
BY DR. CHARLES W. FAULKNER
HOW HYPNOSIS WORKS ITS WONtyBftS
When I began to counsel people who had
personal problems, somewhat disconcer
ting things would happen. They would feet
wonderful and highly motivated to im
prove themselves while they were in my
office and while I was counseling them.
However, when they returned to my office,
they would often say, “I really wanted to
improve myself but something happened.
No matter how much I wanted and tried to
do well, it seemed like a little voice inside
of me kept telling me to continue to do the
negative things I had always done.”
The “little voice” to which they referred
was their subconscious. And it was con
trolling them. The subconscious is the
place where all habits are. It is for this
reason that a psychiatrist or psychologist
can counsel a person for many hours, and
the client will sincerely desire to do well.
As long as that person is thinking about do
ing well, he/she will do exactly what the
psychologist suggests.
However, when that person is under
stress and momentarily forgets about his
promise to change his behavior, he carries
out negative behavior (overeating, having
temper tantrums, smoking too much, feel
ing inadequate, trembling with fear, losing
memory and similar behaviors). This is
the subconscious controlling behavior
Counseling by talking with a person Is of
limited value. It cannot permanently solve
a problem because habits (the sub
conscious) take over when the patient
leaves the counselor’s office. Hypnosis Is a
way of implanting Ideas (suggestions) into
die subconscious. These new ideas become
poeltlve habitsx that replace the old,
negative habits. Thus, once the hypnosis
ends, the habits remain deep down In the
Individual's psyche. Many times, the new
Ideas, In the subconscious, are there
without the knowledge of the client. Never
theless, when the client Is under stress, the
new behaviors control him. These new
behaviors are known as poet-hypnotic sug
gestions.
Here is an example of hypnosis in action.
I hypnotized a young lady in order to help
her lose her desire for fattening foods.
While she was hypnotized, I told her that
she would no longer want or enjoy fatten
ing foods. After the hypnosis was over, she
had no desire for fattening foods and the
excess weight came off quickly.
By simply putting a person into a trance
and telling that person he/she will either
lose certain desires or gain others can
quickly and dramatically modify
behavior. The individual returns to the of
fice for additional counseling and hyp
notherapy which, eventually, makes the
behavioral changes permanent.
BY RON DANIELS
REVER8E ROBIN HOOD: THE
8AVINGS AND LOAN BAILOUT
African-Americans, minorities and poor
people are always reminded about the
value of hard work, thrift and manage
ment. Many conservative analysts, in
cluding some black ones, blame the poor
for their condition of poverty, contending
that the poor mismanage their resources,
and rely too heavily on public handouts.
Heaven forbid that a project or program
aimed at helping the
poor should have a
deficit or cost over
run. Conservatives
would be quick to
pounce on such an
event as an example
of the carelessness
and ineptitude of
blacks, minorities
and the poor. Re
Quests bv noor
for additional capital DANIELS
to salvage or bail out much-needed
economic or social programs are regularly
dismissed as irresponsible and un
necessary.
It is curious that red, white and blue
flag-waving super-patriots are the first to
rush to the public sector for some help, or
should I say welfare assistance, when their
enterprises are in Jeopardy. For Instance,
the federal government sponsored a
multlbillion-doilar bailout for Chrysler
Carp, with few questions asked. One of
America's richest multinational corpora
tions had to be saved from financial dif
ficulties which were caused by its own
miscalculations and Its own mismanage
ment. But of course we already said
Chrysler la a rich corporation backed by
some very smithy people.
The savings and loan bailout is the latest
instance of the federal government being
forced to save “respectable” and “respon
sible” financial institutions who Just hap
pen to have fallen on hard times in our
booming economy. The huge savings and
loan industry is plagued by a deficit which
by some estimates is in excess of $300
billion. The looses from hundreds of
federally becked, government Insured
savings and loan banks are running in the
range of $40 million a day.
The fact of the matter is that large
numbers of these savings and loans were
hardly respectable or responsible. They
were/are reckless. Indeed, many of these
savings and loons are grossly irresponsi
W W W . VI
ble because they choose to invest their
monies in high-risk get-rich-quick
schemes abroad rather than invest dollars
in America in general, and in distressed
black, minority and poor inner-city areas
in particular. There is nothing within the,
government’s policies and regulations
which prevents this reckless behavior.
Hence savings and loans have a green
light to pour billions into speculative veo;
cures m foreign lands while depriving
America of badly needed capital. Redlin
ing in desperate, capital-starved inner-city
communities is commonplace. In fact, it’s
even worse than that. Actually, savings
and loans, other banks and corporations
are encouraged to invest abroad because
taxes on profits raked in from foreign in
vestments are less than taxes on profits
made in the USA. In other words, corpora
tions get a tax break for investing abroad.
It is an Incentive not to invest in America.
Well, as fate would have It, vast
numbers of the risky savings and loans in
vestments overseas have not panned out.
Indeed, these investments have gone so
badly that the defaults on a hugs multi
bllllon-dollar pool of loans pose a threat to
the entire savings and loan industry and
even signaled the possible crash of the U.S.
economy. Obviously something had to be
done. Good old respectable and reapoosl
ble rich Institutions, and rich Individuals
could not be allowed to go under. After all,
the result of their careless and recklass
behavior could spell disaster for all of us.
The cruel hoax is that the savings and
loans miscalculated, mislnvested and ran
into misfortune. Poor and working people
had nothing to do with their shenanigans.
Poor and working people were the victims
of the savings and loans’ redlining and
noninvestment in America. But guess who
is going to have to pay the bill to bail out
the ailing savings and loan industry. You
got it right, the government, the public,
YOU and your tax dollars will rescue the
savings and loan industry. This is like giv
ing them kind of backhanded rewards for
their reckless, irresponsible, anti
American and anti-human behavior.
Something is terribly wrong in a nation
that can routinely bail out ailing corpora
tions and rich enterprises, but cannot find
the resolve and resources to bail out the
multitude of poor and disadvantaged peo
ple in this land. It would appear that
reverse Robin Hood is the order of the day
in America. It is an order that we must
fight to change.
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THE REVOLUTION OF 1999 WILL BE SEEN
IN THE MOVIES
0 a recant movie trade magasine. a black producer for
t> .vaJor Hollywood atudio boaated of leaving the uauaed
food from thn movie aet behind for the local black com
munity,
1 thought, "How i. o—L auae
that’a all of the *um nOllcn that
movie earM ire a ’
than the® ho v.
movie) *;«<tihv-i.»
get.”
Altb <.*gh i f. h
black pr- lt! . i« .
broken i .
get all ec
• me, the
-^uon has
g>,. and. You can
1 you want, about
a Job or tree .uod from a white
Hollywood company, diatributed ]
by a black who aaya he’s “ind
pendent,” but the truth in we had L
full employment during alavory ,. .
and we ahould be buying our own fouu. |tna remember: Tbi
white* who gave ua the leftover* make SO percent of their
total income from ua.
Therefore, when my movie, "The White Girl,” open* on
Feb. 9, 1990 (during Black Hiatory Month), it will be
diatributed by black college*, entrepreneur*, aocial, civic
and fraternal group*, church**, etc. Inatead of feeding
them, we are going to teach them how to flah—ao they can
feed themaelvea—by ahowing them how to market and pro
mote a movie.
These Buy Freedom Partners will share the box office
income from each theater "Girl” is shown in; how much
they make depends on how hard they work (for details, enll
212-575-0879). What we're doing will give new meaning to
the concept of being an independent in the movie Industry.
An independent black filmmaker Is not an lndepandant
person who is directing or producing movies for a salary
from white Hollywood studios. That’s totally dependant
And other than that black person beneflttlng, nothing will
change for black people as a whole.
An independent black filmmaker is someone who
develops his or her own property with money he or ah* has
and then produces and markets a movie outside (and fre
quently in spite of) the studio system—to benefit the entire
black community.
When we do that enough times with enough movies,
then—and only then—will enough Jobs, and the right Jobs,
be created, along with truthful images. All we have to dais
make movies for each other. Hie baxofflce Hum* is
there.
For example, last May, we took “Girl” to Bermuda and
opened it at the Liberty Theatre in a test run to see how it
would perform in a commercial house. It broke the how*
boxoffice record of such major Hollywood blockbusters as
“Golden Child,” “Beverly Hills Cop II,” “Fatal
Attraction,” “Crocodile Dundee n,” “Rambo IH," “The
Color Purple” and “Raw.”
“Girl” sold twice as many tickets as “The Mighty
Quinn” and sold more tickets in one day than “I’m Goaaa
Git You Sucka” did in a week. That’s why we feel a* en
thusiastic about our boxoffice potential when it opew la
theaters nationwide in February.
Although public reaction to any film is impossible to
predict and we cannot make any predictions of “GW’s”
grossing potential, it is encouraging that in its Initial run it
beat films that went on to make $153 million (“Fatal At
traction”) and $79 million (“Golden Child”).
In this business, numbers alone do the talking: 80 per
cent of the filmgoing audience is black ($3.3 billion of the
total $4.4 billion) and 90 percent of die $4.4 billion cornea
from the top 90 most-populated cities. And more than 80
percent of the black population lives in those top 90 urban
Tenters. The black population is the backbone of the movie
industry.
What we’re doing with our movie, by sharing the boxof
fice income, however, will redirect the flow of this money
back to people and groups in our community. This —»«*
network of Buy Freedom Partners can and will run more
grassroots campaigns for future movies under their con
trol.
We’ve successfully avoided selling the movie—and sell
ing out—to Hollywood. Instead we’ve bet on the ability of
our people to upset Hollywood at the box office.
Make Black Hiatory Month 1990 a time whan we use
pride In our cultural heritage as a basis of suc
cess in the movie industry that controls our minds.
Join the only revolution that matters. Beootne a Buy
Freedom Partner. Make sure the revolution la seen in die
movies because it won’t be televised.
“Tony Brown’s Journal” TV series can be seen •»
public television Saturday on Channel 4 nt 1199 p.m. Please
consult Usdnm. 1
Other Viewpoints
BY CHESTER DEBNAM, JR.
BLACK BROOKLYN YOUTH KILLED BY WHITE) A
CHURCH RESPONSE
There Menu to bo some biblical insights as to the Chris
tian response to Um (laying of the black youth, Hawkins, lr
Brooklyn, N.Y., by a white youth, allegedly with nine ether
accomplices. Is II Samuel, chapiter U, God brought three
yean of famine on the land during King David's reign.
After David prayed, God told him that the famine came aa
a result of Saul's (David's prsdscessor as king) seal to kill
the Gibeooitos from the coast of Israel.
The Glbeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of
the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had
■worn not to harm them. David Inquired of the Glbeonites,
saying, “What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I
make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of
the Lord?” The Glbeonites said unto him, “We will have ao
silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shah
thou kill any man in Israel—let seven of his sons be
delivered unto us, and we will hang then before the Lord.”
Notice, beloved, the Glbeonites did not fall into the sin
ful set of racial hatred. They isolated their situation to
Saul. When the bullet found Brother Martin Luther M«g,
should not we have said, “neither for us shalt thou kill”
(any white man in the United States), rather than takii* to
the streets in violence? Also, the slaying of Hawkins in New
York could best be served by saying, “Neithsr shaft thou
kill any” (white man in the United States). The mother of
the black youth is going through a traumatic loos. In like
manner the lives of the white youth and their parents hive
now been shaken like a drunken man. “We wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Satan caused the violence, and pulled the trigger and at
tempts to hide his hand. The white man is not our enemy;
(See VIEWPOINTS, P. 7)