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Kunjufu speaks about Issues among Blacks in the 21st century.
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Black identity problem rests with education, speaker says
keep a person Jesse Jackson says, 'You can send me to Pen State or the state pen.' "Kunjufu said. "The University of Kansas works a lot better than Leavenworth."
Defeating impediments to knowledge is one of the factors that will help Blacks overcome barriers, a speaker last night told about 175 people at Woodruff Auditorium.
Kunjufu also said the lack of good
Jawanza Kunjufu, the speaker, said he advocated an enrollment plan at the University of Kansas that would make the proportion of Black students equal the proportion of White students. The program is reported by several campus groups, including Students Concerned About Discrimination.
Kunjufu, who is the president of African American Images, a group that seeks to raise the self-image of Black youths, spoke at the request of Black Men of Today. Barry Sanders, former Oklahoma State football player, played for most of the speech.
we are a crisis people," Kunjufu said. "We seem to all respond to a crisis like the problem of student retention because our numbers are at 2 percent, and we should be 7 percent."
Kunjufu said that the government spent from $2,000 to $3,000 annually for each child in the Head Start program, which prepares underprivileged children for school. But it spends $18,000 to $38,000 annually to keep a person in jail.
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education was confirmed by studies in his book, "Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys," which found that test scores of Black children fell dramatically after third grade.
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Kunjufu said that the main problems Blacks faced were drugs, no control of their economic fortunes and a lack of knowledge about their history.
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He said history was presented to Blacks in school from a European standpoint.
problem," Kunjufu said.
problem. Kunjug said.
Whites use 76 percent of illegal drugs consumed in the United States, he said.
"How do we play the game of divide and conquer? You give him the wrong story," he said. "That's all it is: his story. We are using a 1910, Eurocentric curriculum for the 1990s."
"You never see that on T.V." he said.
The Kansas Senate yesterday passed a welfare appropriations bill that exceeds Gov. Mike Hayden's fiscal 1991 recommendation by $56 million.
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On a 28-12 vote, the Senate passed a budget for the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services that would spend $409 million in state tax money for the fiscal 1991, which begins July 1. Hayden had recommended an SRS budget of $353 million.
The department provides a range of services for needy Kansans to achieve economic and social independence through medical and economic assistance programs.
But SRS-financed programs have been getting less and less money each year, said a worker for Independent
dutiful without making it happen. Janet Schalansky, area director for SRS in Lawrence and Topeka, said she knew there was strong legislative support for the department but that without tax money it would not get the funds needed to run its assistance programs.
The House-passed version of the bill exceeded Hayden's recommendation by $34 million, and the Senate Ways and Means Committee added $22 million to that. The Senate passed the committee's recommendation without making any further changes.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
"The cuts which already have been made are cutting away at the bare-bone services the state provides," said Patty Doria, benefits advocate for Independence Inc. "It is very cruel to some of the citizens in this state."
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