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Alderman threatens violence Militia will attack unless Milwaukee inner city life improves
The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — Alderman Michael McGee scares some people, disguits others. He certainly has them talking.
McGee began recruiting street gang members and others in March for a "Black Panther Community Militia" and threatened to send it on terrorist attacks if his demands for money were met. He wasn't met by 1983. Likely targets would be sporting events and busy freeways, he said.
He said the militia already had 500 members.
One anti-crime activist predicted that people were going to get hurt. The mayor said McGee should resign unless he renounced violence. But he also asked people to look beyond McGee's rhetoric to examine the poverty and violence in the inner city.
McGee said he had worked within the system most of his public career, whether as a Vietnam War medic, political activist or alderman. But he said he was fed up with the system's failure to improve the life of poor minorities in one of the nation's most segregated cities.
"I've been doing things the so-called right way." Meee said. "I'm opposed to violence, but I think at some point it becomes cowardiness on the part of the Black community to keep letting people abuse us."
McGee wants the city to spend $100 million on training and jobs for inner-city residents, redraw aldermanic districts to improve minority representation on the Common Council and implement some of a task force's recommendations for improving unemployment, crime, teen pregnancy and other social ills among minorities.
He is one of three Blacks on the 16 member council.
Whistle blowing
In his five years as an alderman representing a mostly Black, poor crime-ridden district on Milwaukee north side, McGee has staged the protests to call attention to the iine city.
He once led a whistle-blowing demonstration during a visit by Jimmy Carter, saying the former president's effort to build homes in inner-city areas was a facade that helped few if any.
'I've been doing things the so-called right way. I'm opposed to violence, but I think at some point it becomes cowardiness on the part of the Black community to keep letting people abuse us.'
Michael McGee Milwaukee alderman
Another time he wore a paper bag over his head for the annual Common Council photograph, saying he was embarrassed to be seen with the council after it approved a city permit that cuts services to the inner city.
Many people, including some constituents, were angered by McGee's threats. Some called for his removal from office.
"This Black Panther thing has caught me completely off guard, I think it's going to get a lot of people hurt," said Queen Hyler, who heads the anti-incident group Stupe Vieira. "President Bash recently raised
she asked McGee to resign and had threatened to circulate petitions in his district seeking a recall election.
Hyler first met McGeen in 1981 when they worked together in a movement that helped win a $500,000 settlement with the police. A Black man who died in police custody
MGee used to demonstrate and march like everyone else, but in recent years he's been holder once in youth political clout behind him, she said.
Others, including Mayor John Norrquist, Common Council members and clergy, denounced the threats of violence, but they urged people to consider the conditions that anger McGee.
"It's easy for us to focus on Michael McGee and ignore the violence that already exists," said Jack
been an escalation of words and more attention focused on Michael McGee than on the issues."
Murtaugh said McGee wanted to rectify the violence of racism that had isolated Blocks within an 8-by 5-mile block on the city's north side that is plagued by crime, poverty, unsafe housing and unemployment.
'It'll eat you alive.'
Common Council President Thomas P. Donegan said some of McGee's demands might be met. In
Murtaugh, executive director of the Interfaith Conference of Milwaukee, a religious group of 11 denominations. "It appeared to us there had the meantime. Donegan said, he knew that it might be toning down some threats.
"I think what Mike is saying to people who want to be in his militia now is a lot more positive. . . I think he has, without admitting it, back down from some of his earlier, more violent statements." Donegan said.
McGee, who worked for the original Black Panthers group in the 1970s, counts among his heroes such
Black leaders as Nat Turner, who led a slave revolt; Ms. Garvey, a Jamaican activist in the 1920s; and assassinated Black Muslim leader.
He said his militia would be used for neighborhood patrols and economic boycots while also undergoing military training. "We're going to continue to do a lot of no-volunteers between now and 1865," he said.
"I'd worry more if I wasn't doing what I'm doing. It would take a bigger toll," he said. "I would suffer a lot more, but it didn't do anything I'll eat you alive."
M McGee said he would remain on the Common Council even though the mayor and others have said he was no longer there, he continued to advocate violence.
"I have no plans of giving up my participation. I think that's what a politician should be about — leading the people," he said. "In 1998 when I start kicking butt in Milwaukee, I'll still be an alderman."
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