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Tiirning in Toner
Cartridges Can Benefit
Shriners Hospitals
Hugh Price, incoming president of the national Urban League, discusses issues with President Bill
Clinton at the White House. Clinton met with Price after speaking to the Unity ’94 conference of
journalists representing associations of black, Hispanic, Asian and Native Americans. It was the first
time the four journalist associations have met jointly.
DINISDO t IT
(N U )-A n awesome $100 million
in potential chantable donations goes
wasted each year in our office trash
cans.
Laser toner cartridges from com
puter printers collect at the rate of 18
million yearly. The cartridges are
made primarily of plastic and metal
and most are dumped into landfills.
The dead cartridge population in
creases by about 20 percent each
year and poses a threat to the envi
ronment.
Now, the Shriners, known for
their care of crippled children, have
joined with Nashua, one of the
world’s largest independent suppli
ers of cartridges, to start a recycling
effort that can turn computer trash
into cash donations.
Besides helping clean up the en
vironment, Shriners Hospitals will
get a cash donation of up to $7.50 for
each cartridge turned in.
Known as the Cartridges Bene
fit Children program, the funds will
help support the 22 Shriners Hospi
tals for Crippled Children, which of
fer free charitable care. Any Shriner
will provide details to individuals
and offices.
Richard L. “Tony” Bukey, the
Shrine’s Imperial Potentate, says the
program “provides Shriners every
where with a tremendous opportuni
ty to join in preserving the environ
ment and in helping our kids and our
Shrine Temples.”
The Nashua donations wilt go
primarily toward defraying the
Shriners’ costs for transporting pa
tients. Last year, the Shriners Hos
pitals accepted 27,OCX) new patients
and performed 17,754 surgeries.
Root Reasons
For Rwanda’s Ruin
Rwanda’s self-masacri
self-destruction
is _
resurgence of ethnic hatrec
that European colonial lords
left in the soil and soul of
various African countries
through insensitive and
hypocritic posture and
fraudulent play on Africa’s
ethnic make up. This ethnic
manipulation has resulted into
tribal violence and ethnic
squabble.
Rwanda (pronounced Ru-wan-
da) has witnessed m ore death
through this instigated violence than
any Africa country in recent his
tory. This colossal loss o f human
life in Rwanda is only a replay of a
perennial tribal war that has lin
gered long before now. In 1959,
Belgian colonial lords sat on the
fence and sang “lullabies" as the
Hutus - the original inhabitants -
battled the Watusi - the nomadic
immigrants of Rwanda - for domi
nance, power and dignity.
The Hutus overran the wealthy
Watusi immigrant, killing about
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100,000 while taking over the ma
jority rule. The pre-independent
Rwanda also witnessed gory ethnic
violence, when the colonial masters
were unsure of what to do with the
power as it prepared to live a frag
mented colony. Thousands lost their
lives in this era. When Rwanda fi
nally gained its independence it found
herself still embroiled in ethnic seg
regation. The persecution and exter
mination of the Watusi continued
unabated in 1963 and also in 1973.
Originally, the Watusi migrated
to Burundi and Rwanda in the 16th
and 17th centuries from the area
around Ethiopia and Sudan. They
were nomadic cattle rearers in search
of vegetation for their animals in the
hot desert region. Over the years,
they soon found power. They devel
oped a pyramidal structure with
iving their loyalty to more
rit Watusi nobility in ex-
ir protection.
fhe‘\Aatusi king ruled at the
top o f each pyramid. Gradually, the
majority o f the Hutus began to re
linquish their holdings and in re
turn they received cattle. This domi
nation and dependence gave the
Watusi a false sense of superiority
over the Hutus. In order to reclaim
their pride the Hutus fought back in
1972, killing about 30,000 Watusi.
The in tern atio n al com m unity
looked away and nobody gave a
hoot. If there had not been Belgians
in Rwanda, in my opinion, there
wouldn’t have been these killings.
Let the world know that the colo
nial activities in Africa did not only
affect its development but has also
arrested its ethnic unity. No help is
too much to heal the wounds of
Rwanda, especially from past colo
nial masters.
(Promise King was born in
Nigeria. He has worked for lo
cal and international media and
is a staff writer for the Portland
Observer.)
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