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Mandela downs Jesse Jackson Billy Ocean ||Black Newspapers South Africa’s urges party performs '&«</ found in freedom offer re-assessment August. >0 tes Pagel Pagel Page7 11 VOLUME 14 NUMBER 38 Jailed Black leader rejects South African offer SOWETO, South Africa—ln his first public statement in 21 years, Nelson Mandela, the jailed leader of South Africa’s Black un derground, rejected today a con ditional offer of freedom made 10 days ago by President Pieter W. Botha. Mandela said he would make no promises until his people were free of the white rulers’ segregationist system of apartheid, and he demanded an unconditional release before he would negotiate with the Botha government that claims to seek reform of the system. “Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into con tracts,” Mandela said. N. Y. vigilante sued for SSO million NEW YORK—Lawyers for a comatose victim of so-called “Death Wish” vigilante Bernhard Goetz has filed a SSO million civil suit against the subway gunman, whom they compared to a Ku Klux Klans man. The lawyers also released sam ples from a flood of hate mail directed at the victim, calling him a “creep” and an “animal” and saying, “had I the same oppor tunity to raise my gun to you, you would be dead.” Civil rights attorney William Kunstler, one of the lawyers, charged that the paralyzed victim, Darrell Cabey, 19, was shot in the back on the subway by Goetz in a “vicious and wrongful retaliation for past injury.” He said the shots were not fired in self-defense, but came as a result of a mugging three years earlier. Racism was another motive for the shooting, Kunstler said. Some of the other lawyers, including C. Vernon Mason, compared Goetz to KKK member and said New Yok City was like the South during the 19605. Goetz is white and the four teenagers he shot are Black. The Jesse Jackson assails Democratic leaders Jesse L. Jackson said on Sunday that Democratic Party leaders are attempting to attract white male voters by “proving they can be tough on Blacks’* and that Blacks must now reassess their loyalty to the party. Jackson said Democratic leaders, rebuilding after President’s Reagan’s landslide election victory, are engaging in “self-deception” by failing to un derstand the reasons for their defeat and failing to recognize that Blacks, the young, women, Hispanics, Asians and the poor are the future of the party. Jackson had harsh words for party leaders, including new chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr., and made it clear he will not even recognize the election of Roland W. Burris, the Black Illinois state comptroller who defeated Gary Mayor Richard G. Hatcher for the vice chairmanship. Hatcher was the choice of the party’s Black Caucus and was Jackson’s cam paign chairman. “I assume Roland has his own constituency since he went outside of the Black people in the party,” Jackson siad. “I will not affirm the product of the violation of the Black Caucus. Jackson, defeated by Walter F. Mondale for the party’s 1984 presidential nomination, said he will deal with the national party - iS A Augusta Neuis-ileuteui sw IK Nelson Mandela ..“only free men can negotiate” subway gunman says he shot the youths Dec. 22 because he was afraid they were going to mug him. Police siad at least three of the genagers asked Goetz for $5, but Kunstler disputed that, saying only one of the youths asked for the money. Cabey, partially paralyzed and brain damaged, has been in a coma for more than three weeks. He lay in St. Vincent’s Hospital as the five victim undergoes surgery NEW YORK—A comatose teenager who was shot in the back by “Death Wish” gunman Ber nhard Hugo Goetz, underwent surgery Jan 31 to drain infected fluid from his lungs. Darrell Cabey, 19, who has been in a coma for three weeks, was taken to the operating room at St. Vincent’s Hospital about 4:30 p.m. for an hour-long procedure known as emtyema that involves removing a portion of his ribs. Cabey, who is partially paralyzed and brain-damaged, is breathing with the aid of a respirator. A hospital spolesman said that when the surgery is com- Bar F Mt ' Jesse L. Jackson ...“climate is cold for Black people” through Kirk and Black Caucus Chairman C. Delores Tucker, rather than Burris. However, Jackson also accused Kirk of attempting to “gain in stature at the expense of Blacks” by opposing the Black Caucus nominee. Hatcher’s defeat was viewed by some party leaderd as a rebute to Jackson. Jackson, 43, was interviewed in his hospital room where he is recuperating from pneumonia and His tough statement was dic tated in prison to his wife Winnie and read to a crowd of 8,000 at a political rally in a Soweto am phitheater today by his daughter Zinzi, 22, who risked imprison ment under South Africa’s stringent security laws for quoting her father in public. The rally was called to pay tribute to Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu, returned from abroad. For most of the audience, it was the first statement ever heard from Mandela. It is 30 years since he last addressed a meeting in Soweto. His last public statement was from the dock, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964. Mandela was interviewed last lawyers filed the SSO million suit in State Supreme Court. The lawyers asked for $25 million in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages. They also want Goetz to be barred from owning or using a gun. Cabey’s lawyers say he had taken a turn for the worse during the past few days and was “near death,” though the hospital said pleted Cabey, who has been in critical condition since the shooting Dec. 22, should be able to breath on his own. The teenager’s lawyer said Cobey took a turn for the worse during the past few days and was near death. Before the operation, hospital spolesman Dan Sorrenti said, “Cabey will undergo a brief surgical procedure to drain his right chest cavity to correct his chronic and persistent chest infec tion, Cabey’s physicians indicate that this is not an emergency procedure.” Sorrenti emphasized that the youth’s life was not in danger. a partially collapsed lung. “There is a scheme to have the party to prove its manhood to whites by showing its capacity to be unkind to Blacks,” Jackson said. He said he is advising Black Democrats to, “reassess their relationship with the party.” If the pattern of denial of Blacks con tinue, he said, Blacks —the party’s most loyal voting bloc —will leave the party and become independen ts. Democratic Party leaders are trying to rebuild without knowing why they lost to Reagan, Jackson said. “The new direction the .Democratic Party is following is one of self-deception,” he siad, “and that is not how you win elec tions. “The political growth industry in this nation is in the poor, females, young people, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians,” Jackson said. “That’s the growth market. To try to read into Reagan’s victory white male dominance is wrong.” The future of the party, he said, is in addressing the “laws of organization—identifying needs, and servicing needs to develop a loyal constituency.” “We now have 40 million people in poverty looking for new ideas,” he said. “We have middle-class parents who can’t afford to send their children to college. That’s a need. Americans living in fear of February 16.1985 month by Britian’s Lord Bethell, who reported that Mandela had offered to negotiate with the government if it would recognize his African National Congress. In subsequent statements, Botha specified that Mandela would have to renounce violence first. At the rally, the crowd roared Mandela’s name and that of the underground ANC’s exiled president, Oliver Tambo —who earlier rejected Botha’s of fer —when Tutu asked who were their leadrs. “I am a leader by default,” Tutu said, implying that he was merely a custodian for Mandela and Tambo. “You have just heard See Mandela, Page 2 his condition, which is critical, remained unchanged. The attorneys released copies of the “hate mail” Cabey and his mother, Shirley, have received sin ce he and the other youths were shot by Goetz. Some of the writers larded their letters with racial epithets and other insults and said, they were glad Cabey was shot and hoped he would die. One person threatened Cabey’s life if the youth ever testified against Goetz. Cabey’s lawyers said the subway gunman shot Cabey when he was 20 to 30 feet away. They said Cabey “never spoke to Goetz; he didn’t ask Goetz for anything.” Goetz gunned down Cabey and another victim, Barry Allen, who was sitting next to him, because “they were the only Black people in the car,” Kunstler said. A grand jury declined to indict Goetz on charges of attempted murder, charging him only with illegal possession of three weapons. Goetz has received an out pouring of public support and has been linked to the vigilante hero of the. 1974 movie “Death Wish ” nuclear holocaust. That’s a need Others who want urban American revitalized, other Americans who feel acutely shamed by the gover ment’s relationship with South Africa. The Democratic Party has to find a combination of leaders who can arouse people with ideas, on the issues.” Jackson said Kirk’s election without support from New York, California, the southern states or Blacks is a continuation of the Mondale-labor coalition that lost the last election. “Kirk inherited Mondale’s legacy; he won on the muscle of organized labor,” Jackson said. Jackson said organized labor was guilty of “scapegoating” Blacks by orchestrating Hatcher’s defeat with arguments that special interest groups, such as Blacks, should not dominate the party. “I have not heard from the par ty one rational analysis of why the party lost,” Jackson said. The par ty lost, he said, “because it was an election between one candidate who was popular and one who was not, one leader who was charismatic and one who was not. One candidate said he would raise taxes if he won, an idea so uni popular he couldn’t coerce some Democratic leaders to get on the stage with him. Democratic can [ didates were running for office and i saying ‘I am not a Mondale Democrat.’ Less than 75 percent Advertising The News-Review has learned from reliable sources that a deal has been struck which will result in Assistant Superintendent Dave Mack being appointed to replaceßobert N. Dixon as associate superinten dent. On its face, there is nothing wrong with that. Mack would be Rich mond County’s first Black superintendent. But the price is too high. We are told that in return for Mack’s ap pointment, Black elected officials will be expected to publicly support neighborhood (segregat ed) schools. We hope none of them will be that foolish. Dave Mack and many other Blacks are well qualified to serve on their own merit in any capacity in the Richmond County school system. And these appointments should be made with no strings at tached. The appointmen ts should be based on their qualifications, the historical denial of Blacks at the executive level, and because of the Black representation in the student population (52 percent). There is no reason that any deal should be made. Certainly not one in which we have to sell our souls. We would be among the first to admit that in tegration has had its shortcomings. However, Blacks reasses their loyalty to the party “White males were led away from the party by Democratic white males,” Jackson said. He said many prominent Democrats deserted Mondale, incluidng Sen. Albert Gore Jr.(D-Tenn.), Sen. Howell Heflin(D-Ala.), Sen. Carl Levin(D-Mich.), Sen. Paul Simon(D-Ill.)and former North Carolina governor James B. Hunt, who lost his Senate race against Sen. Jesse Helms(D-N.C-). Jackson said the record Black turnout—about 10 percent of the national turnout and higher in several large states —almost all went to Democratic candidates and “should be seen as a party asset and not a liability.” While the Black vote could not stop the Reagan landslide, Jackson said, it “cut his coattails” by helping Gore, Heflin, Simon and Levin to win Senate seats and carrying Democratic candidates for state office to victory despite Reagan’s triumph. Jackson said the party now is in danger of losing the allegiance of Black voters because “the bird in hand is being sacrificed for the bird in the bush without realizing how much the two birds have in common.... You don’t have to give up -°"i}S.F e JJu e iic t is r urging Black Democrats to reassess their relationship with the party. He siad Black voters are becoming in dependents and shifting from par- Souls for sale? Editorial there is nothing about it that would justify a return to segregated (neighborhood) schools. It is high time that the Black community took a hard look at the people making these deals. They are the same dealers who are trying not only to resegregate us, but to consolidate us, annex us ind otherwise sell us for their own purposes. In none of these deals will the interest of the Black community matter. Black people have died fighting segregation and other forms of discrimination including annexation, con- solidation and at large voting. Most of these tricks are old enough that they can not get past the Black electorate unless some Blacks can be found who can / convince us that poison isn’t poison—that it really won’t kill, and that we just have a false “perception” of it. We don’t believe that the Black electorate is that foolish, and we hope that our elected officials aren’t either. However, we do know that some of them will sell us at the drop of a hat, and it is high time to stop letting them pose as our leaders. They were elected to represent us, not to sell us. And those who would betray us with schemes like neigh borhood schools ought to be replaced. ty politics to voting rights enfor cement and voter registration. “Blacks and Hispanics tend to win according to boundary lines, not party lines,” Jackson said. “So the Rainbow will keep its focus on voting rights enforcement because that is the jugular vein of new politics in this country.... Both parties reject power for minorities. So we will get a new lever on power and win without the par ties.... When you can win, the other folks want to coalesce with y0u.... More and more, Blacks have to go around the chicanery of the machinery, and if you can win without the party, it puts you in position to rework your position within the party.” Jackson contended that the par ty’s movement away from Blacks is part of a national wave against fair treatment for Blacks. He siad, for example, Bernhard H. Goetz was not indicted for shooting four minority youths in the subway. “The climate in the country is cold for Black people,” he siad. “It amounts to a cultural con spiracy.... People are starting to look at Blacks like maybe, something is wrong with these people.... There is nothing wrong with Blacks demanding a humane foreign policy or sensible defense spending or protesting budget cuts that leave them unprotected or asking for a good education. We will not back dow" ” 304