Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1995 — Page 7

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4,1985

THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

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Democrats ignore Jimison

But, in the Oct. 27 Indianapolis Star/News, the dagger was publicly stuck in Jimison’s bade. Indiana Democratic Party Chairman Joseph Andrews told the Star/ News, u We know who’s going to win the mayor’s office, no matter how much money we spent this year.” In the same article, Marion County Democratic chieftain Kip Tew blamed everyone but himself for Jimison’s expected defeat. If Democrats lose up to three City-County Council seats and suffer the worst mayoral defeat ever, the blame doesn’t rest with Jimison since Tew and Andrews did little to help Jimison or their party’sdiances in Indianapolis this year. I guess I’ve been the only member of the media who has publicly said Jimison had a chance to win. But the honchos of the Democratic Party, white and Black, didn’t share my optimism, so they sat on their money and their hands. Some, I suspect, because Jimison was Black. Powerful businessmen, who normally give cash to both parties, didn’t even give chump change to Jimison. That’s why Goldsmith has $3 million in the bank, compared to Jimison’s 30 grand. Andrews’ state party, which a year ago gave thousands to Jeff Modisett, spent just 20 grand, not for Jimison’s campaign, but to allegedly “organize” city precincts. And what did Tew do to help Jimison? The handpicked choice of the state party brokers really did nothing. At the 11th hour, he scraped up some cash to run some token “funny” radio ads. These commercials do nothing either to define the weaknesses of the Goldsmith administration (of which there are several) or to accentuate why Jimison is a credible alternative. In fact, these radio ads don’t even mention Jimison till the last 10 seconds. Jimison has gone through hell and her own mistakes in this campaign. She shouldn’t have to endure public defeatism, sniping and backbiting by her party’s top officials. Andrews’ remarks to the Star/News are reprehensible. He owes Democrats, especially Blacks and Jimison, an apology. And, after Tuesday’selection, Tew should be fired by the county party for gross neglect of a political campaign.

Heard In the street Recently, theNashville Tennessean newspaper published an indepth study on the disparity of racial sentencinginAmerica’sfederal courts. In spite of sentencing guidelines, the Tennessean found wide disparities between the sentences whites and Blacks received. Federal courts in St. Louis had the highest disparity, followed by New Orleans, San Francisco, Southern Iowa and the Southern District of Indiana, which includes Indianapolis. In 1992-93, the average sentence Blacks received in area federal courts was 44.8 months, compared to 37.3 months for whites. The disparity of 7.6 months is fifth highest among America’s 90 federal court districts. The Rev. Jesse Jackson complained about this during his October visit Since receiving a copy of the Tennessean expose. I’ve been trying to get a response from U.S. Attorney Judith Stewart. Our city’s Black leadership needs to immediately speak out on this issue and demand a meeting with her. Jackson was in town to speak to the Associated Press Managing Editors National Convention. The Recorder is an AP subscriber, yet the Recorder was excluded from the Indianapolis-based planning committee of the convention. Sha'ne on the AP for allowing the exclusion of the state's largest and

The election isTuesday, but the Democratic Party power structure has already begun to blame Z. Mae Jimison for its expected election debacle. Jimison, the first African American nominated by either party for mayor of Indianapolis, privatelyhas been written off as a loser weeks ago by area and state Democratic Party lead-

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oldest African-American newspaper from its national convention, held in our community. Dr. Frank Lloyd has retired as a founding member of the White River Park Commission. Lloyd, who had been on the commission since 1979, helped create a pure vision of the downtown park. But, I’m angry that Gov. Evan Bayh didn’t replace Lloyd with a distinguished African American, leaving the commission lily-white. Does this mean that African Americans will have no input into a major state park located adjacent to our neighborhoods? In the Oct. 6, 1994 edition, I wrote 31 percent of the city’s Black TV reporters and anchors were male. What a difference a year makes as that figure has climbed to 41 percent. WRTVTV, Channel 6 hired Vince Robinson, a former GevelandTV reporter and Fort Wayne, Ind. news director, as a reporter. WRTV now has the most Black reporters (five), and the most Black males (three) of any Indianapolis station. WISH-TV, Channel 8 has four Black reporters, two of whom are males. Surprisingly, WTHR-TV, Channel 13 has five Black reporters, but only one Black male. WXIN-TV, Channel 59 has one Black male, out of three African-American reporters. In the past year, the number of Black TV reporters increased by three to. 17, but still there are no Black TV sports reporters.

However, police do speculate that Jackson was killed somewhere else and then taken to the 15th Street location. Burkhardt described Jackson as about 5 feet 6 inches tall and approximately 120 pounds, with brown hair, light complexion and, sometimes, a hair piece. On the day she disappeared, Jackson was wearing a predominantly white Dallas Cowboys sweat shirt, bearing an insignia of the Tasmanian Devil, and white shorts. Jackson was absent from school three days before her disappearance. Northwest Vice Principal Dr. Barbara Gillenwaters said she was a good student. “She (Jackson) did well here with grades and was well-be-haved,” said Gillenwaters. “She tad not been at Northwest very lo.ig. She transfened from (Arsenal) Tech. In talking with students, she was very quiet and kept pretty much to herself.” Gillenwaters said students handled the death very well and there was sufficient staff to meet any of their psychological and emotional needs. “We have five counselors and two social workers at the school,” said Gillenwaters. “Students were quiet and somber when they heard the news, and quite reflective. We were all shocked, given how tragic the situation was. Many of our staff and students attended the (funeral) services. We certainly will refer any information we receive to the police.” According to Burkhardt, police have questioned several people about the case, but have no suspects at this time. He requests that anyone with information about the murder contact him at 327-3475.

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