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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)
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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. Kinte was also featured in
The City Council voted 7-2 to
Alex H aley’s book and television waive the estimated cost o f $2,000
for police services and roadblocks
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feelings with her in a way she
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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.
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