Students react to ‘Malcolm X’
NEW YORK (Al’J — They look Spike's advice
Wednesday. and the director of Malcolm X was
right: His new movie was worth taking a day off
from school to son. according to students who did
just that.
"1 wouldn't change a thing about this movie,"
said 16-year-old Tahirah Duncan, who left the
theater In tears after watching the film biography
with her Afro-American studies class from Mont
clair, N.J.
"Malcolm X was a hero. He supported black
unity. ... Thorc are so many Malcolms dying at
the hands of other black men, too many
Malcolms. It has to stop," she said
Duncan was one of about 300 students from
Manhattan and Montclair who fillis! the Victoria
5 movie theater in Harlem to sec the latest Spike
Lne film, with school permission, instead of head
ing to class. The movie opened Wednesday at
1,200 theaters nationwide.
The theater, located between the Apollo Thea
ter and Malcolm X Boulevard, had a special
morning screening for the group. A night earlier,
the cast and crew of Malcolm X watched the mov
ie in the theater.
* Let!, speaking before the movie's release, had
encouraged students to see the film as a school
assignment, citing his own forced visit to Co no
With the Wind while in school.
Several New York City schools, including Lee's
alma mater, Junior High School 113 in Brooklyn,
sunt groups of students to the movie on its open
ing day. Non-student crowds were heavy in Man
hattan, with several theuters reporting first-night
sellouts.
The movie follows Malcolm X from his days us
a street hustlor through his association with the
Nution of Islam and his 1965 murder in Harlem's
Audubon Ballroom.
Newspaper critics were full of praise, and the
reviews from the mostly black crowd were unfail
ingly upbeut for the 3 hour, 21 minute epic star
Tor our youth, V must shift
from a clothes style to a
lifestyle
Rev Jesse Jackson
ring Denzel Washington The crowd cheered a
zoot-suitod Malcolm in his early days. Jeered a
hanging Judge played by civil-rights attorney Wil
liam Kunstler, and screamed when Malcolm was
assassinated on screen
"I had mixer! emotions between tears and an
ger 1 was caught in between the two," said Col
tram? Curtis, lfi. wearing a black "X" visor 'This
showed the human side of Malcolm
“I think he was seen as an object, not as a per
son. This showed him as an average family man.
the things he went through with iiis family Kv
nrybody learned something from this
And that's not all Try these reviews
• Very breathtaking I fell Spike l,ec did a
wonderful job. ... The movie is wonderful."
Malika Crossdale, 20. City College
• "It was really powerful Malcolm was a very
important man to history It was Important
jason Avery. Hi. Montclair High School
Jesse Jackson, speaking Tuesday in Alabama,
agreed with Lee that young people should see the
film 'Tor our youth, 'X' must shift from .1 clothes
style to a lifestyle," Jackson said
Lumumba Bandolu. 20, who accompanied stu
dents from the Manhattan Valley Youth Center to
the screening, said the film delivers tho same
message Malcolm was preaching on Harlem street
corners three decades ago
"The main thing of the movie is It's time for all
African-Americans to drop the Negro mentality
that they're inferior, second-class, don't have abil
ity." he said "The mcrvies poses us a challenge."
NAACP charges S.C. segregation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Civil
rights attorneys accused two
South Carolina developers
Wednesday of trying to force
black families off an island
where they've lived for genera
tions so thut resorts could lie
built.
The NAACP Legal Defense
Fund charged that a system of
segregation had been set up on
Daufuskie Island through an
uneven tax structure, land seiz
ures and inadequate public ser
vices This, the fund said, has
made it difficult for the black
residents to hold onto their
property.
In letters mailed this week,
the fund asked the developers
and the Beaufort (jiunty gov
ernment to take steps to erase
the alleged segregation and im
prove public services Copies of
the letters were obtained by
The Associated Press
“It is clear that the county
has pursued a pattern of con
duct that disproportionately
displaces or evicts Africun
Ainericans from Daufuskie,
thereby segregating the island
and the county as a whole," the
letter said.
Duufuskin. a flve-milo by
throe-milo island off South Car
olina's coast near Hilton Hoad
Island, is inhabitod mainly by
blacks cal Its! Culluh people, di
rect descendants of freed slaves
who settled on the island more
than 120 years ago. Anthropol
ogists consider their language
and culture the most unique
preservation of West African
traditions in this country.
Fund attorney Alan Jenkins
said a federal class action law
suit would Imi filoti unless a re
sponse is received by Dec 3
"They've really demonstrat
ed quite a bit of insensitivity to
ward the needs of African
American islanders,'" Jenkins
said "It would behoove them
to come to the table."
Beaufort County Administra
tor Michael ('. Bryant said
Wednesday he had received the
NAACP's letter and would dis
cuss the situation Monday with
the county attorney and Tom
Maddox, the county's purchas
ing director
A spokesman for the Interna
tional Paper Realty Corp , own
ers of Haig Point rrsort, said the
company had not received the
letter.
Stephen B. Kiser, senior part
ner in the Melrose C». Inc ,
which owns the Melrose Plan
tation resort, said the NAACP's
allegation "comes as absolute
news to us."
"It is obviously something I
take quite seriously," Kiser
said. "We've been invited to
discussions on the subject.
We'll tie in touch with them "
Since the mid-toaos. devel
opers have purchased large
lra< ts of land on Daufuskie and
Hilton Head to create luxury re
sorts in the style of plantations
In 1‘iHf), the Beaufort County
government adopter! a develop
ment plan to accommodate the
expected growth
The plan was designed to
make sure the island's blacks
are not forced off their land or
locked out of the economic
boon. It Included such steps as
assessing the impact of devel
opment on transportation, com
munity services and land use
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Police beating victim
had drugs in system
DETROIT (AP) — A man beaten lo death, allegedly by po
lice (winging flashlights, had alcohol and trace* of cocaine in
hla system when he was killed, It was reported.
Malice Green had traces of cocaine in his blood when he
was killed, said an official who reviewed autopsy reports, the
Detroll Free Press and The Detroit News said. The newspa
pers did not name the official.
The Free Press also said Green had a 0.03 percent alcohol
level in a urine sample.
"It's still no excuse,” said Green's sister. Sherry. "I
wouldn't give a damn if he had a gallon of liquor in his sys
tem, there’s no excuse "
Dr. Phi! Predmore, a toxi
cologist for thn Oakland
County medical examlnor's
office, said today that a urine
alcohol lest —• unlike a hlood
alcohol lust — does not Indi
cate whether a person drank
enough to he Impaired. A
person with alcohol In his
urine may have no alcohol In
his blood, Predmore suld.
Green, 35. died of head In
juries after being bludgeoned
Nov. 5 on a street near a sus
i wouldn't give a
damn If he had a
gallon of liquor In
Ns system,
there's no
excuse
— Sherry Green,
victim s sister
pot: tod crack house
Officer* Larry Never* anti Waller Oud/.yn worn charged
Monday with murder. Sgt. Freddie Douglas was charged with
involuntary manslaughter and willful neglect of duty. Officer
Robert Lessnau was charged with assault.
"The results of the toxicology report will not make a differ
ence In the prosecution," saidRIchord Pudzieksi. chief of op
erations for the Wayne (bounty Frosecutor’s Office.
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