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Pacific Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1994, Tokyo, Japan 14 Pacific stars and stripes people Book looks for truth on Middle class Black life sociologist disputes theory that Middle class Blacks reject their roots to Rise in the so called Maint Stream White by Karen de Witt the new York times Boston Sara Lawrence Lightfoot town House looks like the one on the Cosby its rooms Are full of the acc outer ments of middler Dass life artefacts from a Goldencrown woman with perfect posture and comb pinned Lawrence a Harvard University stands in the living room next to the on which sits a sculpture of her and it could be a scene straight out of the Book Black Bourgeois the scathing 1957 portrait of the Black Middle class by the late professor Franklin Fra the eminent Black but appearances can be As Lawrenc Lightfoot Points out in her lat est Ive known Rivers lives of loss and Frazier said that Middle class Blacks reject their roots to Rise in the so called mainstream Bent on assimilation into White its an idea that is still alive to in some Black Chil Dren taunt others for acting White if they get Good Marks and speak Standard in Blacks who leave the in Ner City for the suburbs Are of ten seen As abandoning their even discussions of Cosby show in news articles initially entered on whether his was a real Black few sociologists embrace fraziers thesis in its in but no discussion of the Black Middle class escapes his Frazier is the Touchstone he catapulted me into thinking about his representations of said who is an animated i Felt that Fra Ziers was both a True and a false she what he revealed were really Carica Tures that didst represent the Rich humanity and the extraordinary variety of the Black Middle Wailin for my baby the Book is Likely to fuel an african american debate Over Black culture and interviews with six Black professionals to reveal the layers that make up an individuals experience and a Peoples expert providing sociological portraits that Are a marriage of arts and literature and empirical Lawrence Lightfoot portrait of the Black Middle class is Likely to fuel an intense debate among Africa americans Over Black culture and in we have a very distorted View of who we Are reflected at she part of the focus of this work is really to bust through some of those Lawrenc Lightfoot said her subjects have All the external trappings of Middle and upper Middle class recognize the ambivalence of their stature in both Black and White but also successfully live with the most of Lawrence Lightfoot sub like Charles a Harvard Law school proves and Katie can a theology pro Fessor at Temple University in Phila made Jour Neys from poverty to privilege that appear to have Given them a stronger sense of racial Iden Lawrence Light foot chose her sub three men and three after scores of preliminary inter some people declined to concerned about and others could not spare the she paired the men and using themes of loss and trauma and re ambivalence and Ambi then summed up the Les sons Learned from each Lawrenc Lightfoot worked with her subjects for nearly two interviewing each Over several Lawrenc Lightfoot asked her subjects to talk about their to describe the seminal experiences the relations with family and with spouses and siblings and with work that have brought them to Middle each persons Story touches on historical mile stones the civil rights the Vietnam the Clarence Thomasania Hill the Rodney King some Early reviews have charged that the Book does not offer a True or Complete picture of the Black Middle class or even a glimpse of the typical Middle class but that is exactly the authors Point there the associated press Scott Lead Singer of the group Stone Temple pilots sings to a foldout audience at the Beacon theater in new the band is promoting its current album local vigilantes use sledgehammers to drive out druggies in her she uses detailed is no one donning masks and residents of picturesque de stroy local Park to clean up drug dealers rest los Angeles times los Angeles fed up with nightly drug gang arguments among Home less people and bursts of loud music among picnic tables on the several Resi dents of the picturesque Venice area of the City donned masks and set a watch for the police and then Sledge am mered the four tables to bits to the reported applause of watching i would Call this a positive said one Venice resident who asked not to be residents routinely complained to and during the Day a heavy police presence kept order i the area frequented by Tarot card Jug musicians and other sidewalk performers who entertained but at chaos some Resi dents i was just shocked when i saw its such a cafe owner Phil Saren were Concrete tables and it took quite some this was done out of the pressure was building up and the anger was building you can when i got Home last someone came Over to me and told me that if i heard noise coming from that area not to Call the that they were going to sledgehammer the to a resident one came and watched for a police they All had ski masks and hoods on and huge and they at tacked the he after they were Well 80 or 90 people at different win Dows were drug dealing was a problem at the same site years when Pagoda roofed wooden shelters attracted gang Mem the drug problem moved on when a frustrated resident rammed them with a truck and destroyed drug dealing and noise Are Only part of the problem in the fighting Between Black and latino gangs has claimed 17 lives and left at least 55 people wounded in the last 11 Many victims were briefly surgeon generals son gets 10 years Little a judge sentenced a son of surgeon general Joycelyn elders to 10 years in prison for Selling on eighth of an ounce of cocaine to an undercover poas Kevin elders was led off to the surgeon general fought Back had claimed in saying the informant who set up the july Deal had threatened to expose his drug habit and Embarrass his Mother at her confirmation the Sale of Worth of cocaine was elders first of but circuit judge John Plegge said the Law required him to impose the minimum 10 year rapper Ore Given 8 months los Angeles grammy winning rapper Ore pleaded no contest to Drunken driving charges tuesday and was sentenced to eight months in jail for violating probation from a 1993 Battery whose real name is Andre entered the plea before municipal judge Paula Adela who also or dered him to pay a Fine and attend an alcohol education was arrested 10 after a Chase through Beverly Hills and Westwood in his 1987 Ferrari that police clocked up to 90 police said the rapper failed a Field sobriety Check and submitted to a breath test that showed a blood alcohol Reading of percent twice the states Legal limit of soybeans Power mans global trip great adventures Are a dime a dozen these but heres one Worth noting Bryan Peter a 49year old sex paraded is on the last leg of a voyage around the world in an inflatable rubber Craft powered by soybean people were sceptical when he set off from san Francisco on july in the a 24footlong Zodiac inflatable not quite a boat and not quite a 25 countries and or so Miles Peterson is in Marina Del at a boat Harbor Only 340 nautical Miles from where the trip Peterson made the trip Westward across the the Indian the South at through the Panama Ca Nal and up the West coast of North America to show it could be to prove his Faith i the Zodiac inflatables and to demonstrate that a judicious mixture of soybean Oil and die Sel is a viable fuel of the from wire reports

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