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The outrage that most white Americans apparently feel is the closest they may-ever come to understanding the pent-up rage that lies, often dormant, within the breasts of most Americans who were not born into the dominant White Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture and all that it pretends to be. Whites needn’t whine incessantly about the perceived injustice of the Simpson verdict because, after all, the shoe has been on the other foot for centuries. Blacks, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans, etc. know only too well what whites are experiencing. They know only too well the feeling of helplessness, of being cheated, of having no recourse, That feeling, that blind rage, is the characteristic of the ultimate VIC TIM. What whites don’t fully compre hend, however, is the glee, the joy, the satisfaction that most blacks apparently feel from this verdict. That jubilation was not borne of rac ism or anti-white feeling, or even love of 0.d., but of relief. 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That jubilation was not borne of racism or anti-white feeling, or even love of 0.J., but of relief.: Article on race in the newsroom hits nerves B Debate over affirmative action spills over into news rooms. Work of minority journalists belittled. By Mike Feinsilber Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Two venerable Washington publications are in a name-call ing fight over the place of inte gration in journalism. First, The New Republic mag azine, which has no full-time blacks on its staff, attacked the hiring policies of The Washing ton Post, which has one of the country’s mostintegrated news rooms. Then the Post accused the magazine of engaging in “racial McCarthyism.” In reply, The New Republic said black jour nalists at the Post must always wonder if they are published be cause they are good or because they are black. Your local newspaper sponsored by your local grocer. A 1 p i { / J.§ 3; ; ' N Ll i {§ ~_ S Zah PN E 2 5 BAR [ %.)> \\ \ /‘ . ol By AT s GRAPHIC BY XAVIER JONES P stacked against O. J. Simpson because of his race, in spite of his tremendous wealth. They understood the defense’s claims, claims that most white Americans, through no fault of their own, were ineapable of understanding. The verdict, and the support that it received from black Americans does not mean that blacks and whites are destined to be at each others’ throats. It does suggest, however, that blacks and whites perceive very different realities in this country. Many blacks felt that Johnnie Cochran’s harangue in his closing arguments was embarrasingly shallow and did not feel for a moment that it moved the jury one way or another. Yet, white Americans point to that very act as the determining factor in the whole trial. Johnny Cochran did not 2ave to convince those jurors of anything. They could see for themselves that the prosecution did not prove O.J. Simpson guilty beyond a reasonable doubt und it had nothing to do See FUHRMAN, page 3 In her article, Ms. Shalit asserted that, in its quest for diversity, the Post hires and promotes minorities over more qualified whites. Thedisputeillustrates the sen sitivity of affirmative action when it moves from the front page and the editorial page into practice in the nation’s news rooms. The article generated heated debate within the Post and led to a staff meeting attend ed by 400. JonJeter and Robert E. Pierre, two black reporters on the Post metropolitan staff, sent an in ternal message objecting to the “cowardice” of white colleagues who were quoted anonymously in The New Republic as belit tling the work of minority jour nalists. : The 13,000-word article said the Post’s affirmative-action pol icies have aggrieved white male staffmembers, left minority staff members feeling they got their jobs and promotions because of theirethnicity,and corrupted the paper’s journalism, causing a squeamish approach to racially sensitive stories. “Racial McCarthyism” and “big liepropaganda,”replied the Post’s executive editor, Leonard Downie Jr., in a letter to the magazine. And publisher Donald E. Gra ham wrote that the article’s au thor, Ruth Shalit, 24, would not know much about working with blacks since she is employed by “the last practitioner of de facto segregation since Mississippi changed.” He suggested The New Repub lic’s motto could be, “Looking for a qualified black since 1914.” In its Oct. 16 issue, out this weekend, The New Republic said Graham’s “wild accusation” is “outrageous,” because the maga zine long has been “a vital de fender of traditional civil rights, attacked first from theracist right and now from the race-obsessed See NEWSROOM, page 9 MR. BOH HENNEBERGER \ CHONGIA NEWSPAPER ] UNIVERSITY OF GA ATHENS GA 30802 12131/g9 J | SMART MOWVES Laney Wildcats find winning ways on gridiron THE SIMPSON VERDICT Juror: Race not afactorinverdict B Lying detec tives, unreliable evidence were most important factors, jurors say. LOS ANGELES (AP) dJuror Brenda Moran, a black computer technician from South Central Los Angeles, said Wednesday she voted to acquit OJ Simpson be cause the prosecution’s ‘evidence was unreliable, one detective lied, one was a racist and the discovery ofthe glove was suspicious. “Somebody planted it,” she said at a packed news conference. Meanwhile, Simpson said in a telephone inter view Wednesday that he was happy after the ver dict but added, “I haven’t really had a chance to breathe,” CNN reported. “Yesterday, it was a fes tive mood at the house. But at the same time my kids don’t have a mother. People don’t seem to un derstand: I loved that woman.” Moran, 45, who repairs computers and printers for a court, said jurors spent less than 4 hours deliber ating the case because the prosecution case was so thin and the evidence was so untrustworthy. “Mr. Simpson was not guilty. It was not proven. I didn’t have enough evi dence to convince me he was guilty,” Moran said. Jews fear role of Farrakhan in Million Man March By Jehron Hunger PHILADELPHIA NEW OBSERVER PHILADELPHIA The number-one topic of discussion in the African- American community is the upcoming March on Washington called origi nally by Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan. Never before has an effort united the Black community like this March for atonement and a more equitable place in society. And as if on cue, certain segments, notably the Anti Defamation League of the Jewish community, have responded with con sternation and concern. The ADL says the “idea of the March itself, is, obvi ously, quite commendable ... however, (it) has the potential for advancing the influence of one of Ameri ca’s most unrelenting hate-mongers and anti- Semites.” This theme is the same as the one made by the ADL when the then BULKRATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID NO. 302 AUGUSTA, GA She said she believed De tective Philip Vannatter lied and Detective Mark Fuhrman was a racist. Vannatter’s actions raised questions, she said. She didn’t understand why he didn’timmediately book “In plain English, the gloves didn’t fit.” — Simpson juror into evidence a vial of Sim pson’s blood, but took it out to Simpson’s house to give to a criminalist. Although defense attor ney Johnnie Cochran Jr.’s soaring summation brought her to tears with memories of a sister killed in a car accident, Moran denied that racial bias on the black-majority jury played any role in its deci sion. In fact, she denied the race card was a factor. “We didn’t evendeal with that deck, period,”she said. She said the glove dem onstration, in which Simpson struggled to put on the evidence gloves, was crucial. “In plain English, the gloves didn’t fit,” she said. The statement was remi niscent of Cochran’s clos ing theme: “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” Finally, she had ques tions about the bloody sock found at the foot of Simp son’s bed, siding with de- See JURY, page 2 executive director of the NAACP, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, invited Minister Farrakhan to the African- American Leadership Sum mit in Baltimore last year. In response to the invita tion, a “Policy Background Report” was prepared in January 1994 by the ADL and a subsequent meeting held in Palm Beach by the ADL, both discussing with much concern, “the legiti mation of Louis Farrakhan.” Recent events seem to in dicate that Farrakhan can’t mention Jews without it being interpreted as anti- Semitic. In a September edi tionofthe Philadelphia Jew ish Exponent, it was stated, “Although his (August 28) remarks (in Philadelphia) were not as virulently anti- Semiticas they have beenin past appearances, he did manage to refer toJews sev eral times...” In Minister Farrakhan’s speech, spon sored by the local organiz- See MARCH, page 9