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From: wsargeant@IGC.ORG (Winslow L. Sargeant)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: IPS:Eastern Africa, UNHCR needs 50 MIll'
Date: 12 Apr 92 21:33:59 GMT

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Area: Trade & Finance
Reference: Africa, east
Title: EASTERN AFRICA: UNHCR NEEDS 50 MILLION DOLLARS FOR REFUGEES


nairobi, apr 8 (ips) -- the u.n. high commissioner for refugees
(unhcr) needs 50 million dollars on top of its current budget to
cater for the rising number of refugees in kenya, it was
disclosed here wednesday.

unhcr's outgoing resident representative here, sylvester
awuye, told ips that the number of refugees in the east african
country would soon hit the 400,000 mark as more people flocked
in from ethiopia, somalia and sudan.

''we need four or five extra camps to cater for the large
number of refugees streaming into the country'', he said.

appealing to the international community to render more
assistance to the unhcr, awuye said, ''the real solution to the
refugee problem in the region lies in settling the conflicts in
the individual countries concerned and not just in accommodating
refugees elsewhere''.

the refugee population in kenya has shot up from 15,000 in
1991 to 150,000 this year following conflicts in neighbouring
somalia, ethnic-related clashes in ethiopia and the long-running
war in southern sudan.

according to the unhcr, conflicts in the horn of africa have
created one million refugees while as many as seven million
people have been displaced in the region and 23 million were
threatened with starvation, disease and drought.

relief agencies here say that a major international effort is
required to avert a crisis of unprecedented magnitude.

the u.n.-brockered cease-fire in mogadishu, the somali
capital, has not been very effective. it is feared there would
be fresh fighting in somalia after the islamic fasting month
of ramadhan ended last week.

the offensive launched in march by sudan government forces
against the rebel sudan people's liberation army (spla) has
further displaced the population in the southern part of the
country.

leaders of ethiopia, djibouti, kenya, sudan and uganda were
expected to meet wednesday in addis ababa in a bid to work out a
viable solution of the bloody conflicts in the horn of africa.

however, kenyan officials said president daniel arap moi
would not attend the meeting. (end/ips/ha/ar/apc/92)
From: biogirl@athena.mit.edu (L'enfant du Matin)
Subject: Re:F**k y'all
Keywords: I agree. 
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 15:42:59 GMT

Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
From: biogirl@athena.mit.edu (L'enfant du Matin)
Subject: Toni Morrison @ MIT
Keywords: On April 16,1992 Toni Morrison will be speaking at MIT. The lecture is
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:52:42 GMT

in Kresge Auditorioum which is located by the Student Center. It begins at 8 PM
and the doors open at 7 PM. The lecture is free. There will also be a book
signing but I am not sure if it is on Wednesday or Friday, but I think it is on
Friday. The book signing will be on the third floor of the Student Center. For
those of you who wish to come and are not familiar with the MIT campus, the
student center is directly across the street from 77 Mass Ave.


Peace,
Dawn Walker
 

Xref: sparky soc.culture.african.american:4491 talk.politics.misc:17430
From: kamprath@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael F. Kamprath)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american,soc.culture.asian.american
Subject: Re: Social Spending Constitutional? (was Re: Asian Immigrants)
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:51:43 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan

In article <TDWU.92Apr6190150@faust.mit.edu>, tdwu@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Thomas Wu) writes:
> 
> 
> dc4l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Dean Calloway) writes:
> 
>    >According to your logic, half the things we do in this country are 
>    >unconstitutional.
> 
> In article <cx1tsam@rpi.edu> coxs2@jonah.its.rpi.edu (Sean C. Cox) writes:
> 
>        If you look at the Constitution, then at the Federal Budget, then yes,
>    that is precisely correct.  The Congress is only allowed (under the 
>    Constitution) to spent money on the 17 points listed in Article I, Sec. 8,
>    as well as tax as noted in the same section.  Most of the current money
>    being spent by our current Congress does not fall in this, and thus should
>    be relegated to the responsibility of the individual States.
> 
> 
> The notion of constitutionality is not how you or I or Sean Cox
> interpret the Constitution, but how the Supreme Court has interpreted
> it over the years.  That is, constitutionality is defined
> operationally.  I'm no legal expert, but the fact that the Supreme
> Court has allowed such spending so far would seem, by definition, that
> it is indeed constitutional.
> 
> -------------------------
> Thomas Wu
> tdwu@mit.edu
> 
> 

What we have hee is the classic debate between the Federralists and
(I believe) the Republicans (not to be confused with the modern Republican
party).  Basically the debate is: unless the consiturion does not expressesly
permit the federal government to do something, then it is the states who do it
VS. unless the constitution expressly forbid the federal government from doing
something, then it is within the federal government's power to do it.

An interesting point is that the constitution forbids that a tax on a person
to be levied, that is, no income tax.  I forget which one, but it took an
admendment around the turn of the century to change that.  How did the government
slip this one by the American public?  You got to remember that it is the legislators
who vote on admendment (state legislators, that is), and they need more money
to fund their social programs that get them reelected.  (oops, sorry if 
my Libertarian views offend anyone :-)).  

As far as I can recall, the constitution does not expressly forbid that money 
be spent on social programs.  Therefore, using the argument that since the 
constitution does not forbid it they can do it, the congress can spend money
on things other than the items listed in the constitution (of course, unless it
is forbidded).

Michael Kamprath
kamprath@caen.engin.umich.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
From: stovall@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Steven Stovall)
Subject: Re: F**k y'all
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 15:53:48 GMT


>  I think now I have your attention.  Why don't we just change the name of this
>network to soc.culture.african.american.discrimination, because unless someone
>is dissing us because of our color you people don't seem to care or respond!
>I posted something about Arthur Ashe and the fact that this network is
>silent about the AIDS issue. I have also posted a while back about drugs and
>guns and what it is doing to us and again, little to no response.  But let
>someone come on here and call us names, incompentent or say that we are
>"not cost effective" and one hundred posts come out of the closet.  OUR
>BIGGEST PROBLEM NOW IS OUR INABILITY TO LOOK PAST DISCRIMINATION AND LOOK
>INWARD.


I would agree that there is a lack of introspection and self-analysis
(not to mention seflessness) in modern African-American culture. This
seems to be one of the things we have lost over the years. Presumably
this is related to the lessening influence of the Black Church in African-
American life. There is a real need for a re-spritualization of the
culture, if not by an Afrocentric Christianity (and there are people
who are working on such a thing: Stallings in D.C. comes to mind,
and there are others I don't know much about), then by an Afrocentric
Islam (NOI has some bizarre theology, but they are a positive influence
on the culture), or a reconstucted ancient African spiritual ethic
(Maulana Karanga has been working on this one for years).
_______________________________________________________________________________

steven stovall
stovall@exeter.cs.ucla.edu
(310) 825-7307
From: daj@reef.cis.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: NAACP Crisis and Future Black Agenda
Date: 6 Apr 92 01:12:19 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

In article <92092.024737FKR@psuvm.psu.edu> FKR@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

# The real problem we face on a daily basis is bigotry and prejudice
# which are the foundations for racism.

Very unlikely -- not the bigotry and prejudice, which are certainly
there, but that they are the "real problem".  If they were, you'd be
in trouble, because it's awful hard to change stupid people.

# Again, these problems are deteriorating schools, teenage
# pregnancies, single (women) parent families, higher unemployment,
# drugs, etc.

This is closer to the truth.

# You would think someone would have said "what can we do the change
# this?"

Ah, a voice in the wilderness!

# I've said before that gov't can't solve all of our problems.  Once
# WE addressed these problems, we have to take on the responsibility
# to get them solved ourselves.

Exactly.  Blacks can prevail *despite* the bigotry and prejudice.

And this may be the essence of the conflict with the NAACP.  The NAACP
accomplished a helluva lot in its time, and no one should belittle
them.  But the fight against *external* forces has probably reached a
point of diminishing returns.  Now the black community has to fight
its internal demons and develop the values, habits, and expertise
necessary to be self-sufficient.

In a previous conversation someone pointed out that those Korean
entrepreneurs that were the subject of so much attention were getting
their start-up money not from banks, but from relatives.  Reinvesting
profits in the community is critical.  Can you imagine how many small
businesses Eddie Murphy, Michael Jordan, Bill Cosby, etc., could
bankroll if they wanted to?

Can you imagine how many people could be put to work for the price of
a new BMW?

David
From: mills_j@mscf.med.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Maury Povich Show: She Wants To Be White
Date: 13 Apr 92 00:55:10 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Med School Computer Facility

In article Christopher L Gray writes:
 
|To me, the 1980's was the worst time for Blak people..and this is during
|my lifetime.  Gheri-curls to have hair looking and feelng closer to whites,
|dressing like, listening and dancing to white music...and ultimately attempting
|to think and be like whites.  I am a victim of that particular struggle, but
|I am in some serious rehab. ##:)  
| 
| As Salaam Alaikum

      Okay, I can understand the Gheri-curl thing (least I can see where it 
would be acting white), but you lose me with this "white music." idea.
You probably weren't being totally serious when you wrote about it, but
in case you were, I gotta ask.  What is white music?  Lawrence Welk?  But
isn't that just Count Basie and Duke Ellington played by whites?  The Roll-
ing Stones?  But wasn't Mick Jagger's main aspiration to sound like an
American black?  And exactly who were all those British rockers trying to
imitate anyway?  Elvis Presly?  Weren't a great many of his early hits
either inspired by or directly copied from black artists?  Wasn't that
why so many white dads were terrified of him (well, there was the crotch bit 
too)?  Guns n Roses?  But isn't Slash partly AfAm?  And wasn't one of his
greatest influences Jimi Hendrix?  And what about Living Colour or Fish-
bone or Bad Brains?
      Or is your distinction for "white music" based on who listens to a
certain type of music?  Is blues white music?  Every blues concert I've been
to (from B.B. King to Bobby Bland) has had predominantly white audiances,
and most blues performers (black or white) have at least some white mu-
sicians backing them.  What about Jazz?  That thread's been covered al-
ready.  And rap sure as hell isn't safe from white listeners.  Even seven
years ago, when I was in high school in semi-rural PA, the locals would
gather during lunch in the "Tobacco Use Area" and listen to the latest
Run DMC on their boxes.  Even modern African music isn't white-free (see
an earlier thread).  Why can't music just be music?  Can't we have at least
one thing in this country that people aren't always trying to bleach or
color?

-- 
                                  JCM                      
             |---------------------------------------------|
             |--Mills_J@a1.mscf.upenn.edu (Jason Mills)----|
             |        ----> former reggae DJ <----         |
             -----------------------------------------------
From: heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Read This! Another Article By The ACA
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:26:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Apr16.172616.27254
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

Keywords: 

After reading the article on affirmative action, I simply had to respond.
I am an AFrican-American student attending a predominantly white university
(the student body is about 6% African-American) which also touts itself as
an Affirmative Action Institution, and in my 4 years here, I've some to notice
some interesting effects of Affirmative Action as it is currently implemented.

When I came here, I knew I was more than qualified to be here, and that
no qualifications had been lowered to allow my admittance.  Just to be
sure I checked the required minimum GPA and SAT scores.  I came here after
turning down a full scholarshp to a small, predominantly black (all black)
college, as well as deciding not to apply to Harvard though I wsa urged by 
a guidance counselor who thought I stood a good chance of getting in, based more on my race than my academic qualifications.  Academically, I belonged here
more than I would have at harvard.

Since I've been here, I've found that white students often assume, BECAUSE of
Affirmative Action, that I was admitted becuase of my race rather than my
qualifications.  They are amazed when I utter an inteligible statement, let 
alone intelligent ,because they assume that I do not belong here. And, when
I stumble or fail to do well, it is assumed that it is because I am unqualified.

I do not know whether to blame this on the mishandling of Affirmative Action,
or the simple racist assumption that being black automatically makes one
unqualified, but perhaps the two affect each other.  I know some schools 
really DO lower their admissions requirements for black students,and as a result
SOME (NOT ALL) of the black students who are admitted are thrust into
an academic environment for which they are not prepared.

I do know that the whole affair smacks of a belief in entitlement to reparations.  And since the author of the article made reference to slavery, I infer that
affirmative action is part of making reparation for the effects of slavery 
(which I will concede are felt even 400 years later).  HOwever the current
genereations who are grappling with racism and affirmative action are not
the people who were directly victimized by nor directly responsible for
slavery.  Those white students, then, who meet admissions requirements are
being asked to surrender their opportunies as payment of a debt they 
themselves to not owe , to another group who has no direct claim on payment

Perhaps affirmative action should be based on a factor other than race (such
as economic status or disadvantage - which cuts across racial lines), at least
in the area of university admissions.  Anyway, the answers to our racial woes
are going to have to go alot deeper than creating victim classes that
only serve to heighten racial tensions and resentment, which is what
affirmative action in its current form seems to do.
From: dc4l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Dean Calloway)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: >>Maury Povich Show: She Wants To Be White
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:23:30 GMT
Organization: Masters student, Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts From Captions of netnews.soc.culture.african.american:
13-Apr-92  >>Maury Povich Show: She Wa..  Brian Odom@silver.ucs.in (2289)   
>Especially pro athletes with money.  Why is it that ALL of their wives are
>of a lighter complexion that they are?  It's not coincidence.

No, ALL  of them are not.  If you are going to offer something like
this, please qualify it accordingly.  Trust me, from personal
experience, not all of us have had light skinned, straight haired women.

> 
>This is probably Kim's problem; she feels that her black features make her
>"unattractive".  

DCAL
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american,talk.politics.misc
From: delledg@jake.cc.wayne.edu (De Vaughn Elledge)
Subject: Re: Blacks Are Not Cost Effective
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 17:31:59 GMT

In article <4604@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil> jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) writes:
># In article <1992Apr7.232404.17407@petunia.csc.calpoly.edu> dgross@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Dave Gross) writes:
># >
># >  Excerpted from _Napa Writer Blames Blackness for Crime_
># >  by Ron Sonenshine
># >  San Francisco Chronicle (April 6, 1992)
># >  --
># >  A Napa author has filed another salvo in the burgeoning race war,
># >  arguing in a new book that the nation's annual $300 billion crime tab
># >  is essentially a black problem for which blacks alone should pay.
>
>This article is a spoof. The original article asserted that *men* should pay
>for the costs of crime since most criminals are men. Dave Gross altered
>the article by substituting "blacks" for "men," ostensibly to criticize
>the original.
>
>John

Isn't that type of altering of text for public display against the
law!!!!  :)

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From: t0f7579@zeus.tamu.edu (FREEMAN, THOMAS, JR.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Winnie and Nelson Mandela splitting up
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:49:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr14.211343.29534@cs.wayne.edu>, mrharri@jake.cc.wayne.edu (Marissa Harrison) writes...
>I was saddened to hear about Nelson and Winnie Mandela seperating.  I
>don't know why it happened and I don't care to know because everyone is
>entitled to their privacy SUPPOSEDLY (not so for Arthur Ashe), but I
>think it's unfortunate.  
> 
>How do you think this will affect the antiapartheid movement now that it
>seems they're in the middle of making progress??
> 
>Marissa

Winnie's association with the hooligans of her so-called football team was
a source of great embarassment to the anti-aprtheid movement.  Her actual
participation in some of their illegalities was downright damaging to her
husband and the movement.  I am sure Nelson Mandela has before now given
his wife ample opportunity to sever her harmful relationship with the
football team. There was even a report that I heard on NPR that she
was having or had had a romantic affair with one of the young members
of the team.  This was probably "the straw that broke the camel's
back" as far as Nelson was concerned.  IMHO, I believe that Nelson and
the AA movement is better served by the marital separation, although
I say this with reservation because of my belief in the sanctity of
marriage.

Tom
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
From: bing@jazz.concert.net (Carter E. Bing)
Subject: Re: F**k y'all
Organization: Center for Communications, MCNC; RTP, NC
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:00:16 GMT


 	Greetings,

 	I do understand your feelings concerning the lack of response to 
 the issue BUT there has been some talk on this and other groups concerning
 the AIDS issue. There is also some talk on other groups concerning Arthur
 Ashe and the shamefull manner in which he was treated.

	You do yourself and others a great injustice when you ASSume that 
 because you don`t see mail concerning an issue that the issues isn`t 
 being discussed. Also don`t make the ASSUmption that the only thing
 the majority of us are concerned with is discrimination. The vast 
 majority of people I know would like not to have to concern themselves 
 with the issue but to our dismay we realize that until it ends we will
 never be able to move on.

	You waste yourself with your protest and flames and I for one 
 could do without them.

	This concludes my talk for today.

	As always I am your brother,

                     Carter Bing  


--
 "The oak sleeps in the acorn, the gaint sequoia sleeps in it`s tiny seed,
  the bird waits in the egg and God waits for his unfolding in man."
       Funkadelic                       bing@concert.net
From: mjcarpen@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael J. Carpenter)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Black Agenda and Homosexual Issues
Date: 8 Apr 92 04:15:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: gn.1992Apr8.041517.11605
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Apr7.200345.17315@cs.wayne.edu> mrharri@jake.cc.wayne.edu (Marissa Harrison) writes:

>>
>>Maybe because we're all in this together:  Black/White/Asian, Straight/Gay,
>>Male/Female and when ANY of those groups has its rights violated, everyone
>>suffers...
>>
>>   don
>
>Say it! SAY IT!  *applause*

I agree in pricipal with MLK's notion that an injustice anywhere is a threat
to justice everywhere. Interesting perception...

Mc
From: mjcarpen@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael J. Carpenter)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Black Agenda and Homosexuality issue
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:03:02 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <kumgq2INNeqd@news.bbn.com> rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) writes:
>In article <1992Apr14.191548.26914@amhux2.amherst.edu>, twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>
>|>  A LETTER TO OUR REVOLUTIONARY BROTHERS AND SISTERS ABOUT THE WOMEN'S
>|> 	       LIBERATION AND GAY LIBERATION MOVEMENTS:
>|>
>        (large amount of "revolutionary" rhetoric omitted here) 
>|>
>|>                                               ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
>|> 
>|>                                                    Huey P. Newton,
>|>                                                    SUPREME COMMANDER
>|>                                                    Black Panther Party
>
>
>Blecch. Reading this old chestnut is almost enough to eliminate
>any remaining romantic attachment that I might still have to the
>militancy of the late 1960's and early 1970's.  With its
>reference to "Nixon and Mitchell", this document is certainly not 
>"over thirty years old"--more likely about 22 years old.

Romantic attachments? 

I ask because many folx seem to have this notion that the revolutionaries
of the period were determined to use violence in order to achieve their
goals. Discussions concerning the philosophy of Malcolm X clearly 
show this to be the case; and, Chuck D is viewed by many as a contemporary,
of sorts, who has received much criticism for some of his militancy.
Well, the problem is that not every revolutionary is/was about violence;
and, any violence is/was viewed as defensive. I don`t see any causal
connection between "revolution" and "militancy," so why do I sense a
small "let down" in your comment, even in jest? Am I reading this
correctly?

Mc