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September 8. 2 0 0 4 Îlîc JJortlanb CObseruer Page AS Black Advocacy Group to Show Penitence Over Slave Trade A N N A PO L IS, Md. (A P) — White marchers will wear chains on their hands and yokes on their necks w hile being escorted by black people, and everyone will wear T- shirts with a message o f apology as a group o f African and European Christians visits the United States this fall with a message o f reconcili ation. The Lifeline Expedition will visit 10 U.S. cities, starting in Annapo lis. The group’s organizers say it is an effort to bring "reconciliation” and "healing" in Africa, Europe and North America through symbols of penitence. “I believe that it helps, or poten tially it helps, white people to think in adifferent way," said David Pott, who started the London-based or ganization to "reverse the damage" o f the slave trade. It has held similar dem onstrations in European cities linked to the 1 Nth and 19th-century industry. "W e’re not divisive in saying. ‘H ere's black, here’s white,’” he said. "W e’re saying, ‘We are broth ers and sisters in our common hu- for the walk from the w ater's edge through the historic city to a statue of Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice. But M ayor Ellen O. M oyer said she opposed the waiver because it was too early to know how large the Sept. 29event will be and how much it will cost the city. Moyer, who is white, also disagrees with Lifeline Expedition’s tactics, although she said she supports any group’s right to demonstrate. “I think it’s a private m atter,” M oyer said. "T he way that we all choose to reconcile issues that deal w ith m an ’s inhum anity to man is p riv ate.” Som e people c h o o s e "g o o d w o rk s, u n h e r alded" to express concern for in ju stice s o f the past, she noted, and the city has had local groups that offered a dialogue on race relations. The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation is the local sponsor for the walk, working to raise $75,(MX) with organizers in Europe to pay for travel and event costs for between 14 and 20 demonstrators. Foundation President Leonard Leonard Blackshear o f the Maryland Kunte Kinte- Alex Haley Foundation is shown in his office in Annapolis. Md., Tuesday. Aug. 3. 2004. Blackshear is organizing a group of people to march in downtown Annapolis. Md. in a “reconciliation march" that will have white people marching in yolks as a penitence for slave trade. The march will take place in nine other cities as well. (AP Photo/ Matt Houston) in a n ity .’ ” series “Roots.” Annapolis' City Dock memorial Some people are uneasy about izes Kunta Kinte, one of 98 Gambians remembering a link to slavery, and brought by Lord Ligonier into the the march plans have attracted at narrow harbor in 1767 and sold into tention from a neo-Nazi group. slavery. 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Do your part as a parent to provide truth about teen p reg nancy, A ID S and sexual diseases. M ost im portantly, share with her G o d ’s w ord about m arital sex. S h e’s going to m ake up her own m ind anyw ay, but if you provide a strong foundation, sh e ’ll make the right decision. Blackshear, who is black, said he shares a mission with Lifeline Expe dition. "Racism is a cancer eating away at the American soul," he said. "This activity is simply one type o f che motherapy that we are looking to apply to the cancer because we believe the patient can and wants to be healed." Blackshear is looking for local volunteers to take part in the event and said local ch u rc h es have signed on to help. M oyer said the city had received inquiries from potential counter protesters and she's apprehensive about keeping the event positive. Pott acknow ledges that staging such a dem onstration in a U.S. city may bring a harsh reaction and said he is p ra y in g th a t th in g s go smoothly. The neo-Nazi National Alliance, based in Hillsboro, W .Va,, wants Annapolis residents to protest the march. The group left 1,500 fliers last weekend at homes all over city, urging people to "Say No to White Guilt” and object to the city’s waiver o f expenses. H ip H op's Im pact Hip-hop culture will get due notice when W ieden & Kennedy, the Portland advertising giant, hosts "Phat=Flava," a night of world-class hip hop music, fash ion and cutting-edge discussion about the impact o f urban culture on economics, marketing and ad vertising. The talk is at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23 at 224 N.W. 13 Ave. The presentation w ill be led by world-class marketing executives Jameel Spencer, president of New York-based Blue Flame M arket ing & Advertising (the strategic- division o f Sean "Puffy” C om bs’ Bad Boy W orldwide Entertain ment Group) and Jackie Thomas, director of brand marketing for Brand Jordan at Nike. 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