Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 5 February 1998 — Page 8

The Muncie Tunes, February 5,1998, Page 8 SPEECH from page 7 brotherhood. So the peace which existed between the they were less than human. The races was a negative peace. great tragedy of physical slavery Then something was that it led to mental slavery, happened to the African So long as African Americans American. Circumstances made maintained this subservient it necessary for him to travel attitude and accepted this more. His rural plantation “place” assigned to them a sort background was gradually being of racial peace existed. But it supplanted by migration to was an uneasy peace in which urban and industrial African Americans were forced communities. His economic life patiently to accept insult, was gradually rising through the injustice and exploitation, it was steady decline of crippling a negative force- tensions, illiteracy. All of these factors confusion, or war, it is the conjoined to cause the African presence of some positive American to take a new look at force- justice, good will and himself. African American

masses began to reevaluate themselves. The African American came to feel that he was somebody. His religion revealed to him that for loves all of his children, and that every man, from a bass black to a treble white is significant on God’s keyboard. So he could now cry out with eloquent poet: Fleecy locks and black complexions Cannot forfeit nature’s claim. Skin may differ , but affection Dwells in black and white the same. And were I so tall as to reach the pole or to grasp the

ocean at a span I must be measured by my soul the mind is the standard of the man. Maslow developed a theory of Needs. One of those needs is acceptance. the mayor and City Hall must accept all people Banks must accept all people If the banks of Muncie will not serve all people, then the people of Muncie should take their money out of those banks.

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COLLEGES from page 4 African American-owned employer businesses reported that more than half their customers in 1992 were minorities. In contrast, 33 percent of Hispanic-owned employer firms, 26 percent of Asian and Pacific Islander, American Indian, and Alaska Native-owned employer firms, and 9 percent of employer firms owned by nonminority men reported a majority minority customer base. • The District of Columbia had the highest concentration of African American-owned fimrs in 1993 (29 percent of all firms), followed by Maryland and Mississippi (11 percent and 10 percent, respectively). • Receipts per firm averaged $52,000 for African American-owned firms in 1992; receipts for all U. S. firms averaged $ 193,000. Fifty-six percent of African American firms had receipts of less than $10,000; more than 3,000 firms had sales of $1 million or more.

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