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Bush Budget Cuts Bad for
Cities, Bad for America
rate for African-American women
between the ages o f 16 and 19 is
34.8 percent, and for African-
American men in the same age
group, the rate is 32 percent.
How are these youths going to
be able to contribute to the
country ’ s economic recovery and
growth if the administration con
tinues to destroy the best pro
grams available to these youths?
The R ainbow /PU SH C oali
tion concurs w ith the U nited
The Bush adm in istratio n
shows a callous disregard to
young people in the inner city
by cutting the Youth Opportu
nity grants from $225 million this
year to a mere $45 million next
year.
The budget proposal is an
other illustration of the disdain
the Bush administration has for
working people and youths that
are trying to better themselves.
The current unemployment
States C onference o f Mayors
in the belief that this policy
will have a negative effect on
m ajor cities.
Our youth need investment
and training in order to maximize
their potential and America’s po
tential. Cutting these programs
is bad for our youth, bad for our
cities, and bad for America.
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.
is the founder and president o f
the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
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A NEW LAW EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2 0 0 2
UNDER OREGON'S
NEW LAW MOST
Civil Rights Movement Has Just Begun
by E lijah E. C ummings
m ovem ent. The supporters o f
Black History Month offers us
civil rights have never been lim
the opportunity to honor those
ited to people o f color - and the
upon w h o se sh o u ld e rs we
objectives have alw ays been
stand. It is also a time to recognize
greater freedom and opportu
our own place in history by re
nity for all A m ericans.
dedicating ourselves to creating
“In our struggle, the civil rights
the better future toward which our
forces - both black and white -
past has always pointed.
have contributed not only to re
The “era o f civil rights” was
vealing the contradictions of this
not a time that came, held the
society, but, acting as a catalyst,
attention of the world, and then
have also set in motion forces to
effect creative change,” Dr. King
passed away. To the contrary, the
progressive movement toward
declared to the American Jewish
Committee in 1965.
universal human dignity has just
U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings
begun.
“It is also clear,” he continued,
Recently, during a ser
“that the progress we have
vice at Douglas Memo- _ —
----- made has depended upon
rial Community Church in
the support we have re
honor o f Dr. K ing, I
ceived from vocal and well-
looked out from the lec
organized allies - the major
tern and recognized Cap
religious groups, the trade-
tain Jim Smith. 1 recalled
union movement, and vari
for the congregation how
ous elements o f the liberal
Jim Smith, Ms. Juanita
community.”
Jackson Mitchell and the
Today, the historical
Baltimore branch of the
re c o rd o f A m e ric a ’s
NAACPonce led thechil-
progress toward justice for
dren of my South Balti
all of our people remains
more neighborhood in a
in co m p lete. A m erican s
series of marches to inte
continue to be deeply di
grate Riverside swim
vided in our willingness to
ming pool.
recognize - and effectively
We should not hesi
address - the social “con
tate to remind our chil
tradictions” that Dr. King
dren that the foundations
and his allies challenged
of our freedom were laid
four decades ago.
in our time - as well as
We must help all of
— U.S. Rep. Eli jah E. Cummings, D-Md.
during the more distant
A merica’s children under
past.
stand that the injustices in
O ur history reveals _____
their lives can be overcome
that the equal access to
- if people o f conscience
public facilities that our children
and the people o f Selma, Ala.,
work together to exercise the full
now take for granted was not given
m arched across the Edm und
measure of our citizenship.
to us. That right had to be won -
Pettus Bridge to win our right to
In the final analysis, that may
and the men and women of Jim
vote. They were attacked and
be the most valuable lesson that
Smith’s generation were up to the
pushed back that day. Today,
our history can teach us.
task.
however, Georgia Congressman
The H onorable Elijah E.
John Lewis stands up for the rights
Likewise, no American who has
C um m ings
represents
o f all Americans.
learned our history would find it
M aryland’s Seventh Congres
d iffic u lt to u n d erstan d why
T hose o f us w ho have the
sional District in the United
people of color are determined to
opportunity should also teach
States House o f Representatives.
reform our election system.
w hite children that the civil
He currently serves as First Vice-
On a “Bloody Sunday” in 1965,
rights struggle in A m erica has
Chairofthe Congressional Black
a young man named John Lewis
Caucus.
a lw a y s b een a m u lti-ra c ia l
!
We should not
hesitate to remind
our children that
the foundations o f
our freedom were
laid in our time - as
well as during the
more distant past.
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