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Brooklyn Bishop Issues
Racial Harmony Statement
PAGE 15 — The Georgia Bulletin, May 31,1990
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BROOKLYN, NY.
(CNS) — Citing increased
racial tension that is "hurt
ing’' New York. Bishp
Thomas V. Daily of
Brooklyn has urged New
Yorkers to restore racial
harmony in their com
munities.
Bishop Daily made his
comments in a statement
issued May 15 in response
to a series of recent racial
incidents that have
resulted in violence and
demonstrations.
"It is our duty to stand
firm in unity, understand
ing and accepting our dif
ferences and respecting
one another whatever our
race, creed or national
origin,” the bishop said.
The recent racial in
cidents came to a head
May 13 when three Viet
namese men were attacked
by a gang of black men who
apparently had mistaken
the men for Koreans. The
attack occurred several
blocks from two Korea n-
American groceries that
are targets of a black-led
boycott.
One of the Vietnamese
victims, Tuan Ana Cao, 36,
was seriously injured with
a skull fracture. The others
escaped serious injury.
The boycott of groceries
began Jan. 18 after a black
woman said she was rough
ed up by a store employee
who accused her of trying
to steal.
Ever since, a crowd of
blacks has stood in front of
the grocery stores, taunt
ing customers who enter.
Some black leaders have
said the root of the conflict
really is resentment of
Korean immigrants’ suc
cess in running small
businesses in economically
depressed black neigh
borhoods. They said blacks
are discriminated against
when trying to get loans or
insurance for such busi
nesses.
Racial demonstra
tions also heated up in
Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst
area, where juries found
one white youth guilty May
17 of second-degree
murder in the killing of a
black youth last summer
and acquitted another of
murder charges May 18 in
the same death.
"The racial tension
which our city is experienc
ing calls for a clear and
unequivocal response, and
that is that racism is a
sin,” Bishop Daily said.
‘‘There is no way that it can
be condoned.”
Bishop Daily added,
however, that racial ten
sion is not the norm in New
York.
“Every day persons of
every race work together,
study together, share joy
together, experience grief
together,” he said.
"On occasion an incident
flares up that calls our at
tention to the reality that
we must work harder
together to achieve the
justice and peace to which
all people of good will
aspire,” Bishop Daily said.
Bishop Daily pledged to
INFORMAL VISIT — Bishop Thomas V. Daily of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
meets the kitchen staff of Gargiulo’s Restaurant, an Italian eatery in
Brooklyn, as part of his effort to visit the people and parishes of his new
diocese. In a May 15 statement the bishop urged New York’s com
munities to restore racial harmony. (CNS photo by Ed Wilkinson The
Tablet)
work with different
religious leaders “to bridge
the gap in our society, to
heal the wounds and to
restore our neighborhoods
to justice, peace and har
mony for all our people.”
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BY LIZ SCHEVTCHUK
WASHINGTON (CNS) — By a vote of 250-163, the House
of Representatives May 22 approved an amendment cutting
aid to El Salvador in half, but then killed the bill to which
the amendment was attached.
The House’s action on the military funds for El Salvador
came in the wake of criticisms on Capitol Hill over human
rights abuses in the Central American nation, where six
Jesuits and two of their household staff were brutally
murdered in November. Nine members of the Salvadoran
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military have been accused in the killings.
The action “sets the stage” for a further debate over cut
ting aid to El Salvador when fiscal 1991 foreign assistance is
discussed later this year, said Thomas Quigley, U.S.
Catholic Conference adviser on Latin American and Carib
bean affairs.
“The vote was probably a good indication” that curtail
ment of Salvadoran aid will be proposed again, he said May
23.
The aid cutback proposal had been supported by the U.S.
Catholic Conference and other concerned groups.
Under the House proposal 50 percent, or approximately
$40-$50 million, of the remaining fiscal 1990 military aid
would have been cut, along with another $42.5 million, or
half of the $85 million to be supplied in fiscal 1991.
The House measure also provided that the remaining 50
percent of the aid could have been denied later under cer
tain circumstances — if the Salvadoran government refus
ed to negotiate in good faith with the Farabundo Marti Na
tional Liberation Front rebels it has been fighting for
several years; if Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani
were ousted in a coup; or if progress were not forthcoming
in bringing the Jesuits’ killers to justice.
„ By contrast, all of the aid would have been restored if the
rebels failed to negotiate in good faith, received significant
shipments of weapons from outside sources, or instigated a
new military offensive.
The House legislation also would have provided that any
aid withdrawn from the Salvadoran military could be used
instead for child hunger, housing or education projects in El
Salvador.
In a May 7 letter, Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los
Angeles told House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash., that
the USCC "believes there is no military solution for El
Salvador.”
The archbishop, who chairs the USCC Committee on In
ternational Policy, suggested that the U.S. government
send a “clear signal” of the U.S. desire for peace. One
signal would be a possible aid cutback, he added.
"By linking continuation of U.S. military aid to behavior
of the FMLN (the rebels) as well as of the Salvadoran arm
ed forces, it places responsibility where it clearly belongs,
on the combatants and those who command them,” Arch
bishop Mahony wrote.
“By initially withholding a substantial portion of the
military aid as yet unexpended in the current year and of
that already authorized for next year, it demonstrates that
failure to respect human rights will have real conse
quences,” he said.
The Salvadoran aid cutback was attached to a bill of
ficially authorizing, or allowing, the U.S. government to
provide special assistance to Nicaragua and Panama. The
entire bill was defeated 244-171.
Details of a separate supplemental spending bill contain
ing $300 million for Nicaragua and $420 million for Panama
were finalized in a House-Senate conference committee
May 22.
Awaiting further action by both House and Senate, that
bill contained a stipulation saying the official House
authorization permitting such spending was not needed. A
proposal to allow the District of Columbia budget to spend
local money on abortion services was removed from the bill
in conference committee.
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Among others speakers
was Father Anthony J.
Failla, pastor of St. Finbar
Church in the Bensonhurst
section of Brooklyn. It was
in his community that
Yusuf K. Hawkins, a black
16-year-old, was killed
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