Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 2000 — Page 7

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Vice President Gore speaks to the Black press WASHINGTON (NNPA) — In an exclusive NNPA interview with Vice President Al Gore, the candidate for president discussed his positions on police violence knd profiling, education, employment and the recently signed African trade law. • Trade with Africa: “Africa represents an exciting new market for American businesses. Naturally, the African-American entrepreneur will have entree to many countries and that will be very exciting," Gore said. “For example, jn South Africa, the percentage of African-American businesses who have a business involvement with that country is higher than those companies doing similar business in Europe or Asia. We expect that to expand. When the continent is opened up, we will have access to more than 700 million people in business. Now (our access) (s only 6 percent. This new legislation will increase that.” • Racial profiling: “I want to develop national legislation around this problem and an executive order around police profiling," Gore said. “I have started this groundwork already. If its not completed by the time this election has taken place, I intend to follow it through as president.” • Affirmative action: “I support affirmative action because we still need it,” Gore said. “I also support the national hate crimes law. I support strong enforcement of the civil rights laws that are on the books and increasing legislation where necessary.” • Education: “Our educational system is in a state of national emergency,” said the veteran public servant. “We cannot allow our kids to sit in failing and deteriorating schools one more day.”

Gore went on say that his list of solutions to end problems

within education included hiring

bonuses of up to $10,000 to attract new teachers. “We must treat our teachers more like professionals,” Gore said, encouraging more AfricanAmerican males to become

certified to teach. “We need more action lawsuit.

with a June 14 conference that * will discuss the next moves in the fight for the United States to pay African Americans compensation h for more than 300 years of ^

slavery and Jim Crow.

NCOBRA’s Web site sum* | the conference will be the site Of the announcement of a class-

role models in schools,” he continued. “We need Internet access in every classroom, universal pre-school programming, reduced class sizes and rewired and redeveloped school buildings. We must make this commitment to our children.” • Displaced workers: With regard to displaced workers in the textile and manufacturing industries. Gore explained that rebuilding the skill sets of the American worker is a key factor in reducing unemployment in these fields. “The key to the textile workers issue is job training,” Gore said. “Businesses are having trouble filling positions because they can’t find skilled labor to fill those areas. My intention is to raise the level of job training in these areas so that we can place people in jobs that are critical to today’s market.”

The series continues with A reparations rally on June 18 and an Independence Day event the

following day.

“The movement has grown over the past 11 years,” says NCOBRA treasurer Kalonji Olusegun. “The reparations issue can no longer be ignored. The demand has started since our emancipation and has been ignored. We have been persist tent. Times have changed; the world has changed.” Dorothy Benton Lewis, NCOBRA co-chair supports that idea. “There are more people believing that reparations can happen because more people are demanding and receiving reparations around the world,” she says. “We have had some success in the international community. We went to a Geneva human rights conference and legacies of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was on the agenda. That was the first time that had happened with

Reparations issue heating up: Intended lawsuit to be

announced at conference NCOBRA 1 , site reports ihe

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As the 2000 presidential elections become more pressing and

scores of organizations jockey to position their agendas onto the national platform j two organizations pushing for/reparations for African Americans are taking

action.

The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA) and the Harvest Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy research organization, are preparing a series of events, starting

debt owned to descendants of enslaved Africans could total $8

trillion.

The group now counts among reparations movement are Randall Robinson, famed leader of TransAfrica, the NAACP, national sororities and frateihities . and the city councils of over 10 cities, including Chicago, Dallas and Detroit. NCOBRA currently has 11 offices across the nation. NCOBRA leaders believe support for reparations is at an all-time high.

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