Chicago Bulls player Craig Hodges to President Bush regarding state of the African-American Community in America

IN the MOST HOLY NAME OF ALLAH. PRESIDENT BUSH, THE PURPOSE OF THIS NOTE is To SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THOSE POOR PEOPLE, NATIVE AMERICANS, HOMELESS, AND MOST SPECIFICALLY THE AFRICAN - AMERICANS WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO COME TO THIS GREAT EDIFICE AND MEET The LeaDER OF The NATION IN WAICH THEY LIVE. I have taken on the RESPONS IBICITY To EAK ON BEHALF OF Those WHO ARENOT ABLE To BE HEARD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. THIS The BEING FALL OF 1991, This country is BEING JUDGED BY ALMIGHTY GOD HIMSELF. IT is very IMPORTANT That it IS UNDERSTADD FOR The citizens of this GREAT NATION To MAKE A Determination OF what SIDE of History we WILL BE ON IN This CRITICAL HOUR. 2 BEING A DESCENDANT OF AFRICAN SLAVES IT IS very important that OUR PLIGHT BE PUT ON THE LIST OF PRIORITIES. IT Must be clear to the citizenry of our Nation that the Aftican - AMERICAN Community is unlike any other community. WE, HAVE A sector of our PULATION that is being described AS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES IE. The Young BLACK MAN. Furthermore, the INNER cities are in state of emergency because the WANTON VIOLENCE that we inflict upon one another. When studying this CONDITION we must look at root causes. Low self esteem which is often due to lack of Jobs AND NO understanding of who we are. 3 To understand the total picture we must go back hundreds of years to ENSLAVEMENT of African Slaves AND Move forward slowly and study the Development of the NOW African American. Those laws that were framed in the original Constitution considered the African slaves and their Descendants 3/5ths of human beings. Thus, the SPIRIT of the CONSTITUTION DID Not include us. When I hear CLARENCE Thomas Speak on NATURAL LAW, H is very SAD Here to me because the VIOLATION of OUR HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE Never BEEN DISCUSSED AT the United NATIONS ON A COMPREHENSIVE LEVEL REPARATIONS AND RESTITUTIONS for the 4 Descendants of African SLAVES is seatted dt. However, the JAPANESE AMERICANS have gotten REPARATIONS. We, BOMB GRENADA, INVADE IT, AND The REBUILD The SAME AIRSTRIP That WAS the REASON for the INVASION. The QUESTION is WHEN WILL The African American iT The Chance to AIR OUR GREIVANCES before the United Nations. We have MORE black men in PRISON then in South Africa. IT Must be clearly Understand that there WILL Never be anymore Peace on the PLANET FEARTH until we have our Chance to 1 REBUILD our community. I WANT to stop here and make it clear 5 that this letter is Not begging the govt. for anything. However, if we are going to Measure 0 A peoples worthiness for help or AID shouldn't African Americans be at the top of the list when we speak of African American we speak of the ry backbone and foundator of America. 300 yrs of free labor has left the African- American Community destroyed. with No knowledge of history, no jobs and POOR No organization we find a people that truly DIE for our lack of knowledge. IT is time for COMPREHENSIVE PLANS that WILL F2FFECT Change in the WAY the African Aar, is viewed 100 this country. We are here at the White House which is the seat of Power for the Western World. We, the Chicago Bases have been crowned World Champs however Question the must be asked why is the CONDITION INC the Chicago Housing Projects aND other projects Accound to breed the VIOLENCE when the people in these PROJECTS Don't import weapons ok Deugs? IN Chicago ALONE Over 600 murders this year alone. A IN closing : WOULD Just SAY that the CONDITION of the African Amercan iw America is 7 he reason the Nation is being tried and judged at This critical hour. Study our weather, study our economic CONDITION AS A NATION, study the total picture and you to will find Many discr SIGNS epancies that Point to the last days. The war in the 1LF that was Declared on DR. KINGS BIRTHDAY is AN Awesome SIGN. MR. PRESIDENT The ATHLETES from the CHICAGO BULLS NUMBER R. 10 of WHICH ARE Descedants of African SLAVES. 4 plus The POSSIBILITY of meeting the president 15 one that most African Americans WON'T guet that chance. 8 O That is the reason for this letter and hopefully it will become A boost in the unification of the William inner city youth. IT is of utmost importance that ISSUES CONCERNING the African-American community be bought i d the forefront of the DOMESTIC AGENDA. Thanks for your time. Cruy Hing PEACE