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Report Shows Disparity
In Black-White Drivers
PORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP)
—Black driven were more likely
to be convicted of a traffic offense
•in Florida last year than white
driyprs, according to a newspaper
analysis of computer records.
WhSe several black leaden said
the statistics show a pattern of
discrimination, police officials said
tickets are handed out without re
gard to the driver’s race.
Statewide, blacks make up 11.7
percent of the driving population
but 15.1 percent of those con
victed, the Sun-Sentinel of Fort
Lauderdale reported Sunday.
Across Florida, Mack males re
ceived 1.74 tickets per-person,
ocenpared to LSI tickets for white
males, 1.41 for black females and
1.28 for white females.
The analysis of Florida’s 1901
ticket convictions shows:
•Blacks received proportionately
more ticket convictions than
whites in 40 of the 67 counties.
•Palm Beach County had one of
the worst records. Blacks made up
10J percent of die county’s driv
ing-age population, according to
the 1900 U.8. Census shows, but
represented 16.2 percent of the
ticket convictions.
•The only eounties in the state
with bigger gaps were St. Lucie
County, which surrounds Fort
Pieree, and Flagler County in
northeast Florida.
•Blaek drivers in Broward'
County fared only slightly better;
12J percent of driving-age resi
dents wore black, while 17.8 per
cent of those who got tickets were
Mack.
"It ia not surprising. Black
people know that when they are
driving in certain neighborhoods
and in eartain ears, they are pulled
over," said Donald Bowen, presi
dent of the Urban League of Brow
ard County.
"It is discouraging, but it is
something blacks have been say
ing far years. We are not treated
equally," said Las McDermott, a
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ean rseommsnd ths most
Boca Raton-area black activist
Police say blade dri
targeted.
“Everybody gets handled tin.
same,” said Capt. Larry Austin of
the Florida Highway Patrol’s Lan
tana office. “We don’t look at color.
We look at driving.*
Blacks in 16 of Florida’s most
rural counties, mostly in North
Florida, fared better • ! *' ;
of driving aga
They fared best in North
Florida’s Jefferson County, popula
tion 11,296. Blacks made up 40.1
percent of residents old enough to
drive but only 25.8 percent ot the
convictions. Whites comprissd
made up 69.3 percent of the driv
ing age population and 72.1 per
cent of the convi tier.;
“These little placev .n where
everybody knows everybeuy else
and everybody respects the peck
ing order. So, because of that,
blades are not as big a threat to
police,” said McDermott, president
of the south Palm Beach County
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
Palm Beach County was third
on the list of counties where blacks
got proportionately more convic
tions than whites. Broward was
10th.
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Tuskegee Airmen, WWII Pilots Cited
OSHKOSH, WU. (APV— Chaun
dreds of other black pilots flew
combat missions in World War II
because Harry Truman was will
ing to fight old prejudices.
Spencer, recalling his experi
ences among the blacks known
during the war as Tuskegee Air
men, attended the Experimental
Aircraft Association's 40th annual
exposition where a special salute
to the war's black pilots was
planned this evening.
Truman was a senator from Mis
souri when he heard about the op
position facing blacks who tried to
enlist in the 'Army Air Corps,
Spencer said.
The future president urged Con
gress to appropriate $3 million to
train black pilots at Tuskegee Air
Field in Alabama, he said.
Spencer said he flew to Wash
ington, D.C., to campaign for
blacks and accidentally ran across
Truman in an underpass that con
nected federal buildings.
The senator later viewed
Spencer’s plane which he said had
survived a crash during the trip to
Washington. He recalled Truman
saying: “If you’ve got the guts to
fly this thing Fm looking at, Fve
got the guts to fight for you."
An estimated 996 blacks earned
their wings at Tuskegee. They flew
:-re than 15,000 sorties in P-39s,
i i 7s and P-51s, manning combat
mber escort missions from
n hern France to the Balkans.
Records show 66 were killed and
32 were captured by the enemy.
The EAA’s seven-day convention
opened Friday and attracts thou
- .5 • 44 i C l u> t UiiU C wCi i*
from throughout the world. It es
tablished a Tuskegee Airmen ex
hibit at the show grounds near
Oshkosh’s Wittman Regional Air
port.
The 332nd Fighter Group was
credited with downing more than
280 enemy planes. Gorman Luft
waffe pilots called its members
Black Birdmen while grate Ail U.8.
bomber crewmen dubbed them the
Black Redtail Angels.
*Tve met people to this date—
I’m speaking mostly of black
Americans— who aay to me: ‘I
didn't know they had blacks flying
in World War II,’” Felix Kirkpa
trick of Chicago, a retired brewery
worker, said.
Kirkpatrick, 77, logged 70 mis
sions escorting B-24 and B-17
bombers. He was awarded the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross and Air
Medal with five clusters. He left
the Air Corps as a major.
Prejudioe followed the Tuskegee
Airmen to Europe, Col. Charles
McGee said.
“Segregation wae strictly en
forced," Kirkpatrick said.
After completing a mieeion,
McGee said, he wasn’t allowed to
use the earns rest camp as whites.
He was harassed if he went into a
pub, he said.
But the Tuskegee pilots’ contri
butions helped convince the newly
created Air Force in 1947 to inte
grate officially, a year before Presi
dent Truman ended segregation in
the military by executive order.
McGee later flew combat mis
sions in Korea and Vietnam.
ABA Officials React To Quayle’s
Comments On Anita Hill Citation
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP>-An
American Bar Association award
to Anita Hill honored “a liberal
heroine” whose allegations of sex
ual harassment have been discred
ited, Vice President Dan Quayle
says.
“Most Americans...believed Clar
ence Thomas and not Anita Hill,”
Quayle said. “That doesn’t matter
to the ABA.”
“To them, she is a heroine be
cause she led the attack against a
man who happened to be conserva
tive and black-a combination that
makes liberals fly into a rage,”
Quayle told the Christian Coali
tion of California, a group founded
by Pat Robertson, on Tuesday.
ABA officials, reacting to
Quayle’s comments, said the
award was not political but hon
ored tits University of Oklahoma
law professor’s courage in bringing
sexual harassment allegations
against Clarence Thomas at his
Supreme Court confirmation hear
ings last year.
The vice president has kept up a
running battle with the ABA since
he went before its convention a
year ago in Atlanta and charged
that too many lawyers and too
many law students were burden
ing the American economy.
Quayle, in California on a three
day campaign swing, sought a re
turn engagement at this week’s
ABA convention in Sim Francisco
but was unable to agree with the
lawyers on a time slot or ground
rules for his speech.
So instead, Quayle fired his shot
at the ABA from Sacramento.
The award was presented to Hill
by the ABA’s Commission on
Women in the Profession. Quayle
aimed his criticism more broadly
at the association and its leader
ship, taking a slap at outgoing
ABA President Talbot
D’Alemberte for his blunt criticism
of the Bush administration’s
crime-fighting record.
“And who did they choose to
present this award to the liberals’
heroine for the 1900s? None other
than her fellow lawyer, Mrs. Hil
lary Clinton,” Quayle said to
hisses from his 260 listeners.
Reacting to Quayle’s allegations,
Jamienne Studley, a San Fran
cisco lawyer and member of the
Commission on Women in the Pro
fession, said the “award to Anita
Hill was a recognition of courage
not politics.”
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