1993_11 The Daily Collegian November 1993

              2—Op/Ed
tEfje Mail? Collegian
Tuesday, Nov. 30,1993
'olumn
Supplements
breed racism
By Mare Matteo
Managing Editor
On November 15, The Daily
Collegian published the Novem¬
ber issue of La Voz De Aztlan,
which is a newspaper printed from
the Chicana-Mexicana point of
view. This particular is^c was
dedicated to the the renaming of
Kings Canyon Boulevard to Cesar
Chavez Boule- / '
vard. The news¬
paper made no
mistake in let¬
ting the reader
know that if the
name change
dbes~hot take
place, the deci¬
sion in favor of
the status quo is      . , .     	
racially mon-   S1I1CC that IS DaSI-  formofobjec
Perhaps it's time
for the minority
supplements to
go the way of
racial segregation
media.
The problem is that while the
mainstream papers (the Insight
and The Collegian) struggle to
find competent staff members of
any race, religion, or sex, the mi¬
nority papers are forced tochoose
their sniffs from an even smaller
base of qualified students, the re¬
sult usually being no qualified
staff members for the minority
paper at all.
      Currently
the Uhuru Na
Umoja and the
Hye
Sharzhoom
have editors
that are com;
petent journal¬
ism students
with aneye to¬
wards   some
vated.
The \jper
goes on to ac¬
cuse every orga¬
nization under
the slin of rac¬
ism. After men¬
tioning KMI News Radio as a
"magnet for politically and reli¬
giously (sic) right wing and white
supremacy minded people," it
goes on to say that "... the other
voice for racist (sic) in Fresno is
that of the Fresno Bee."
Hrnmm, theconservative me¬
dia? That's a fijjst.
The minority supplements
were started in an effort to equal¬
ize the lack of coverage the mi¬
norities received in the mainstream
media(i.e.: The Daily Collegian).
Ur.fortunately they hi
evolved into the very thing
were created to combat:. racist
cally what their
existence propa-
'    gates.
tivity, while
the La Voz has >
no such lead¬
ership.
Who's to
 say, how-eyer,
™~ that next se¬
mester the La Voz won' t become
a more responsible newspaper
while the Hye Sharzhoom, for
example, degrades into a vehicle
of mindless racial accusations for
lack of an Armenian editor?
In a world where integration
and cooperation are essential to
ourexistence, the mere concept of a
minority newspaper that caters ex¬
clusively to that specific minority
flies in the face of racial! harmony.
Fohaps it*s time for the minor¬
ity supplements to go the way of
racial segregation since that is basi¬
cally what their existence propa-
.etter
Death
squads
operated
in U.S.
Dear Editor:
Brazilian and Guatemalan death
squads have killed homeless street
children as well as union organiz¬
ers, land reformers, priests, intel¬
lectuals, students and en vironmen-
talists. However. I think most
Americans Would be shocked to
know that death squads haveoper-
ated in the United States.
It happened during the period
of 1973-1975 on the Pine Ridge
Indian reservation in South Da¬
kota. The FBI and CIA have infil¬
trated and spied upon the student
movement against the Vietnam
war, and now, they were out ta
destroy the American Indian move¬
ment. "   " r '"
They moved heavy weapons
onto the Pine Ridge reservation
and armed i group of tribal police
headed by Dick Wilson. These
tribal police were essentially death
squads. They burned AIM
member's homes, terrorized their
families and murdered them. It is
discussed in detail in a video docu¬
mentary by Robert Redford called
"Incident at Oglala."
An innocent man, Leonard
J t7l£_d now, another real-life fairy tale"],
UTiceupon a time, there lived a
Uitic gopher named Gertrude. One
day she was digging deep in her
burrow when she thought she
heard the nimble of thunder from
the surface. "Uh oh," thought Gert,
"I must go and see If It ie raining,
for I do not want my warm dry
burrow to become moistened!" She
scurried through the tunnels, poked
her head out the opening and gazed
^p toward the doiidlesssliy.   l
Way
i oh again..." thought Gert,
as the real source ofthe -
rumbling—a powerful lawn
mower—passed over the opening
and hacked her protruding little
head clean off.      ■
"Grandpa GoetfGa Ga"
"Beavis and Butthead Meet Mother Teresa"
and i ■.     ... -j--        . " mm ,?
"Snow White and The Seven Rabid Monkeys"       ■ o
Peltier, has been sitting in jail for
seventeen years because of the
government's obsession with de¬
stroying the American.Indian
Movement. I don't know how the
United States government can
complain about human rights
abuses in China and other coun-
ifaf.
tries when it frames people andim-
prisons them for their political Be¬
liefs. If there is anything left in Wash¬
ington D.C. besides hypOGrisy and
cowardice, then Leonard Peltier
should be freed immediately. ^
Sincerely,
Gary Sudborough
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