Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 6 February 1992 — Page 7

The Muncie Times, Thursday, February 6, 1992, Page 7

A Veteran Actor

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(from pg. 6) young people who are even interested in acting should first prepare themselves educationally. Reading, writing and all the basics are important, because being a performer, whether acting, singing or dancing, you can’t always count on making a living at it. “You need something to fall back on for those lean times when you’re not being paid for your craft. You must also have a great deal of intestinal fortitude and confidence because it’s a cold, cold profession. “When you’re rejected you can’t take it personally. One of the things that young people have to learn in the 90s is that they shouldn’t take rejection personally.” Young-El remembers those times when he wasn’t working, and there were many of those times.

“When I didn’t work I had to take all kinds of jobs in order to feed, clothe and house myself. These jobs ranged from waiter, to washing cars, to limousine driver.” Young-El’s employment as a limousine driver had a Muncie connection. It seems that the company owner was a BSU alumnus. When Young-El found this out, he actively pursued the man and introduced himself. “I heard about this guy by word of mouth. I met him and told him where I was from. That got my foot in the door and he hired me.” Young-El talked a bit about the horrors of auditions and the fear of rejection. Asked if rejection lowered his confidence level, he said: “No it doesn’t, be-

cause I dont’t take it personally-! learned early in this profession that when you go for an audition, you can be an apple and the best apple there is; but if the producers and directors are looking for strawberries you’re not going to get the part.” In Breaking Light, YoungEl appeared with Tommy Redmon Hicks, star of Spike Lee’s The Girl’s Gotta Have It, and a 1967 Gary Roosevelt classmate of this writer. Young-El has found his niche in life-acting. He has lived and prospered in the world of performing arts. Young-El’s mother and father are Mr. and Mrs. James Settles of Muncie.

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(from pg. 5) But for some advocates of multicultural education, even these changes aren’t enough. Attorney Joseph Fleming represents eight black students who are suing New York State and the U.S. Department of Education. They charge that New York’s public school system teaches minority students that they are inferior to whites. “Why are the stories and struggles of people of color always relegated to the sidelines?” asks Fleming. “The signals being sent to students of color is that their ancestors were not important, so they aren’t either. How can we expect

African and Latino children to do well in school if they don’t see themselves [in what they’re taught]?” But Ravitch worries that by placing so much emphasis on the history of individual ethnic groups, students may fail to learn the values that all citizens need to know to make it in American society. “Here in the United States, there is a common culture, which is based on the [classical] ideals and principles of Europe,” Ravitch says. “Do we now throw all of that out the window and start all over again?” What do you think? Should all schools adopt a “curriculum of inclusion?”

The Ku Klux Klan Salutes And Thanks All Gang Bangers The Ku Klux Klan would like to take this time to salute and congratulate all gang bangers for the slaughter of 4,000 black people since 1975. You are doing a marvelous job! Keep killing each other for nothing. The streets are still not yours niggers, it is ours. You are killing each other for our property. You are killing what could be future black doctors, lawyers, and businessmen that we won’t have to compete with. And the good thing about it is that you are killing the youth. So we do not have to worry about you niggers generations to come. We would further like to thank all the judges who have over-sentenced those niggers to prison. We are winning again, pretty soon we will be able to go back to raping your women, because all of the men will be gone. So you gang bangers, keep up the good work! We love to read about Drive-By shootings. We love to hear how many niggers get killed over the weekends. We can tolerate the niggers with jungle fever (for now)...because that further breaks down the race. To all gang bangers across the world, we don’t love you niggers, but we can appreciate you gang bangers. You are doing such a wonderful job in eliminating the black race. Without men...your women cannot reproduce...unless of course, we do it for them. Thanks for your help and commitment to killing each other. If most of you gang bangers cannot read this letter, it is OK, go pull a trigger and kill a nigger. THANK YOU!!!!!!! k k k

Ed. Note: The piece reprinted below first appeared in an unidentified newspaper in Highland, Calif. It has since been reprinted and distributed in churches across the country.