Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1990 — Page 4
THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 24.1990
We are becoming each other _ . . . . . - - -■ - - - - - tt A.
Society is becoming more homogeneous. White culture has adopted black culture—our blues and jazz, our hairstyles, our food preferences, etc. — and black culture has adopted much of the
culture of white people.
Blacks and whites frequently express a preference for Chinese cuisine, and Russians have fallen in love withMcDonald’s hamburgers. A sameness in the culture of blacks, whites and other races worldwide is emeiging. How will African Americans maintain any semblance of African culture? That is one of the many questions that must be asked and answered as we move into the 90s,
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BETWEEN thellines
By EUNICE TROTTER
Editor-in-Chief
‘electronic heartland.” Inventions While COMMIT will focus on like computers, fax machines, elec- education statewide. CLASS, tronic mail will allow more and another group of business people more people to woik from home committed to improving education, anywhere in the worid and not in will focus on the Indianapolis the offices of cities. Public School system. Both or-
Leading the way into the 90s ganizations are on the right track,
must be the quality of education As a business person who has offered to our citizens, Naisbitt had the task of finding staff, I know says. Human resources is the first hand that competent staff, number one resource. particularly on the entry level, is
Naisbitt’s comments were ech- very difficult to find,
oed the day after he spoke when The black community must get chief executive officers from cor- involved now in this reformation
porations all over the state took and renaissance process,
center stage to tell the community that we must focus on education and reform our education system. The old one is not working. While the message is not new, the forces being mustered to make
according to John Naisbitt, worldrenowned authorof “Megatrends”
and “Megatrends 2000.” Naisbitt of the welfare state and an emer- changes in education are new. was in Indianapolis last week as gence of free market socialism. Never before has business taken keynote speaker for an Indiana “There will be global privatisa- such an interest in education, and ChamberofCommerce dinner. He tion,” he says. Airlines, healthcare, for good reason, made a lot ofpredictions, ones that education, and the postal system, According to members of many agree will come to pass. for example, will all fall into the COMMIT, the organization that According to Naisbitt, the big control of private business. hosted the forum for business and story in the 1990s will be about a English will emerge as the community leaders, before the renaissance in arts, literature and number one worldwide language, decade is over, finding employees spirituality. Naisbitt predicts, noting that more who can read, write and do simple “Arts will be replacing sports as people arc now studying English math will be the challenge. In sur- . the dominant leisure activity,” says in China than there are people in veys taken by various groups, ' Naisbitt, pointing to the new con- all of the United States. Americans ranked low in areas that struction of local art and cultural Naisbitt believes that as we count most — reading, math and museums right here in Indianapo- become more of a decentralized science — while the amount of lis as examples. worid, there will be adecline in the money being placed in education Naisbitt also predicts a decline cities and an emergence of a new continues to increase. New Community Action housing division created
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