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We're live on City Line. Hi, I'm Jackie. Call. Hello. I'm Betty. Battling the claim to be the true children of Israel, yet they constantly face deportation from their homeland. In the late sixties, they were a group of black Americans who left this country to settle in Israel and Israel. They have been the focus of much controversy for themselves and the Israeli government also been. Israel's spokesman for the black Hebrew Israelites is with us to discuss his group's beliefs and conflicts gaining support for the gay rights bill. I'm Tim on to and we'll talk about efforts to do that. Hi, I'm Harold Anthony and today on the entertainment page because so many of you requested it I'll be showing you the latest video from to. Lenny Girard, whose family hosted Jesse Jackson during his presidential campaign, has been harassed ever since. He's with us today to tell her story. Black Hebrew, Israelites and Linder Girard next live on City Line. How long? Good afternoon and welcome to City Line. Thank you for joining us today. Our topic is the Black Hebrew Israelites. But before we meet Prince Marcial, who is a spokesman for the group, we would like to share with you a brief segment of tape provided by the African Hebrew Israelites. The quality of the tape is not quite up to broadcast standards, but hopefully it will provide you with a glimpse at the lifestyle shared by those African Hebrew Israelites living in Israel. The elders here all have good health. In the mornings we usually walk, jog, exercise or go bike riding. We have a busy life. I just had a feeling that it was time for me to come, and I just picked up and left and came to Israel knowing this was my home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=64.8,191.77"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I. We tried. Grandma would always talk to. Do you mind if I go away? Home is a cluster of prefabricated buildings in the town of Dimona, home as well to other immigrant communities. But the rest of them clearly Jewish and ID. The black Hebrews are set apart, living in their own self-contained neighborhood with their own lifestyle and institutions, their own music, reflections of their collective experience. Okay. We'd like to welcome our guests this morning. Princess and in Israel, thank you very much for joining us. Because I see a very interesting tape. And I guess our interest in it was getting some idea of the lifestyle shared by the black Hebrew Israelites residing in Israel. First of all, can you tell us whether or not that is that particular sentiment is the focus of the community or whether or not they are spread about or what? First, let me thank you for extending the invitation to myself and the community to expose the Baltimore Washington area to the great work that's being done on behalf of African people from America and the world in general as it relates to the positive, positive things happening in the Holy Land. Yes, that is a microcosm of what takes place in Dimona. Let me give you a little background so you can really understand and appreciate what you saw. When our people were torn from the shores of Africa, they were people. They had a land, a language and a culture. When we were taken from Africa, we were men and women of God with vision and purpose and a destiny. The 400 years of dehumanization in America destroyed that language our land and our culture, and most of all, our relationship with our God. In 1967, as America was burning in its major cities, the expression of freedom took many forms.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=209.56,366.96"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There were those who wanted voters registration with those who wanted to integrate, and there were those who wanted to separate. We chose to return back to Africa to reconnect ourselves with our land, a language in our culture. So what you saw is that community developed independent of the American thought. Let me interrupt just for a moment to ask you. You feel that you are the true children beyond the shadow of a doubt. And the reason I say that if one looks historically at African people in America, black Americans, we see that we sang songs like I Want to Walk in Jerusalem, just like John Cain in Spain, Happy Land, where all my possessions lie. These were the oral history of our people. And we know then that when we begin to leave here, longing to go back to Jerusalem was not just one. From an emotional point of view, but from an historical point of view. And African historians have verified that the true people of the Bible are an African people. Is your community a religious community, an ethnic community, a cultural community, or all of the above? It is all of the above. You see, we as a people are not just religious. We are very spiritual people. We're not only are we Christians and Muslims and Hebrews, but what we are, we believe in one God He that created the heavens and the earth. But more than that, we as a people have something to offer the world. And what we have to offer the world is a new direction from the insanity in which the world is rushing on. But what is the source of controversy in Israel that has cropped up? One of the things that developed in the early days, what we like to identify as institutionalized racism.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=367.5,459.57"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When we went there, there are 102 nationalities living in the land of Israel. 89 languages are spoken, people from all over the world. But when Africans from America went and said that we historically identify with that, all of a sudden all hell broke loose and said you couldn't possibly be you are Negroes, you are colored your black shoes, your colons, your tap ins. We have the power to define who we are. So now the people realize that we are legitimate and our presence now have a different meaning. We'd like to invite our home audience audience to join in our discussion by calling us at 4113, 13 so that you can be in touch with Prince Aseel. But I guess I'm still having a little difficulty understanding the controversy there. Understanding that racism is something that exists both over there as well as here and around the world to a certain extent. Is the controversy not more centered on the religious aspect of the philosophy that you're your community? No, it couldn't be. You see, there are 600,000 Jews in Israel, does not even believe that the state of Israel ought to exist as it presently stand. 300,000 Jews marched last year against the war in Lebanon. Peace. Now there are those who I call the ultra Orthodox Jews neutral culture who don't believe that the state of Israel or the existence of the Messiah come. So there are many levels of difference opinions as it relates to our political position. Okay. We're going to come back with Prince and see and discuss this issue a lot further. You'll join us right after this break. We're back talking about the original black Hebrew Israelites with Prince, who is the spokesman for the group Prince Iseo. What evidence do you offer that proves, in essence, that your group really is the chosen group? Well, it's not so much our group as such as it is from a historical point of view.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=460.62,658.73"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When one simply goes into the Bible, the book that everyone used in the Tanakh and you go into the ninth and the 10th chapter of Genesis, you find the lineage or the historical line of the people who now populate the earth. You'll find that Ham was one of the sons of North Ham had four sons, Mediterranean, which is Egypt, which is Libya, Kush, which is Ethiopia, and kind of which is Israel. Well, it would be impossible to have three black sons and one white son. So same father, same mother historically is just sound. Egypt is north east Africa. The children of Israel live 430 years in ancient Egypt, and they just simply walked across the desert. They went from the Sinai and the land of Goshen to the land of Canaan. But Jews, as we traditionally know, Jews only because we're not as familiar with your group. I say that they are the chosen people. And now you're saying that your group, your community, is the chosen people? Well, one will know the children of God by their deeds and not by their words. You know, the tree, by the fruit that it bears. We're not judging people on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character and what they're doing for the world. You see, they are those in South Africa who are now calling himself Afrikaners, and they come out of British and they come out of the Netherlands and they come out of Germany. If we only go by what one calls themselves, then that's no way to determine that. So then are you disavowing the the the heritage of the Jews who are outside of that community? I'm not disavowing the heritage of anyone. I'm just affirming the origins of black people in America as being the descendants of the Jew children of God or the Hebrew Israelite.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=659.42,754.1"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So those who are saying that they are the sons and the daughters of Abraham, we say, Bring forth your works. Hey, we're going to bring our whole. We have a caller on the line now. ID like to talk with you. Go ahead, please. I would like to know what type of racism problems that he experienced and how could they deal with it? Well, one of the major concerns that has always been facing the community is accessibility to our community by the outside world. As you know, if tourists, be they black or white, come to the land of Israel and want to see our community, they are harassed, arrested and deported at the airport. So they've tried to effectively cut us off from the outside world to protect us, to protect us as some radical extremist cult of people. But because God is great, we've had great people like Joe Allen from the Urban League, Marion Logan from Human Rights. We've had Congressman Merv Diamond, a congressman, go savage. We've had educators from all walks of life. Medical people come and they've exposed this hypocrisy and this lie. So the racism now is taking on another form. They're trying to say, now we are and something where we are just simply for righteousness. Isn't there also isn't there also the element of the Israeli government's climate? You're a bit too isolated and perhaps plotting something against the government is as far from the truth as can be. We live in a city of 32,000 people, in one city, 13,000 in another, and the other 7000 people. We are 30 seconds from the police station and maybe 5 minutes from one of the major military bases. And what are your numbers? What are your numbers of approximately 3000 men, women and children in three cities in the land of Israel? Okay, let's take another call from home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=755.48,864.88"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hi, you're live on City Line. Hello. Yes, your live on City Line. Please go ahead. Okay. Sir, I would like to ask you a. What year was it that you started going over? 1968. At that time, uh, who was clearing the paperwork for your passports and. Uh. At this end at least. Well, the State Department handles all passport applications from this end. Okay. Were any questions asked of your group members at the time of what your plans were? I have no idea. But 18 years ago, on a in a passport application, no one simply has to do is fill out an application. Is his personal business where he's going, sir? CALLER Please let us know what it is that you're after. What what is your point? Okay. Where I'm coming from is that in 1968, all of this is kind of before the emergence of the cult groups, so-called cult groups, religious cult groups that we now have here in our own country. Right. Well, one of their main religious cult, one of the main religious cult groups started with the Protestant movement when they broke away from the Catholic Church by Martin Luther King. So I think that you do a disservice to the audience to always interject those negative kind of connotations when black people begin to choose their destiny. Historically, people have always left countries where they felt that they was oppressed, depressed and so oppressed. And we left because of that. True. But my question, sir, is why the Israelis, of all people, why they should reject you? Well, we have no answer to why the Israelis would reject us no more than we have. In answer to why white Americans continue to subject and reject black America, I would like to thank the caller for his questions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=865.21,970.29"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Princeton CEO There are also a number of members of your community who reside in the United States. Is their intent to migrate to Israel or will they continue to live here as as missions or of your following? Or what will they have The choice. You see, when a person is free, they have the choice to live wherever they want in the world. What we've done for our people is to say to them that they being an international person again and people again, they have the choice to live wherever they want. We have people that live in West Africa. We have live people that live in East Africa, and we have people that live in North east Africa, Jerusalem. Okay. Let's take a question from our studio audience. Yes. So you have a question for Princess Il, and yes, I do. My name is Moussa Bey, and I'd like to thank the prince for coming and sharing his truth with us. My question is that I am of Moroccan descent, born in America, Moorish American, and we share very similar thoughts on a lot of things. What my question is, is there a particular contact person that we should get with in order to share the type of things that we have similar so that we can forward community type projects? I think that that's an excellent question. Let me just back up a little bit. For the last seven months, I've moved across the country and across the world touching base with the positive people in our communities, both men and women. I've met with a major leadership as well as those who are not so vocal and said that we must sit at the table of brotherhood and unity so that we can bring about our common concerns and eliminate those things that are different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=971.35,1067.67"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Before the program is over, we will definitely give out a name and address where all people can contact us. But we are one people. We have now beat our weapons of war into pruning hooks and plowshares, and we will be one people again. Thank you for that question. Thank you, Prince Cecil. And in the sixties, you moved from this country to Israel. Yes. What kind of an adjustment was that coming from in a highly technological society with all the conveniences and going to start basically afresh? Well, that's there are a few of us who have that kind of exposure. But most black America, if you're at Baltimore, does not live at that level. But they do have running water and televisions and things of that nature. Well, they have televisions in Africa and throughout the world, to the point I was making is that the difficulty was not so much an adjustment of material of substance as it was of an emotional substance. We went from a beggar state as being a people who were begging for our food, to those who begin to grow food and build houses and educate our own children. So the adjustment was a cultural shock at a level of being from invisible to visible. So that was the level. But over in Africa and in Israel, these are very highly technological societies. And the greatest thing about it is that we are doing it for ourselves now. Okay. We will continue our discussion with Prince ICL in just a moment after this break. And. And. Now, here's this week's community calendar. Hello. My name is Ruth Banks Crowder. You are invited to join the Baltimore Alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the Johnson Publishing Company at the 27th annual Ebony Fashion Fair on Sunday, October 14th at 5 p.m.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=1068.45,1304.91"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. For tickets, call 4337551. Good afternoon. I'm Florence Carter from St Mark's United Methodist Church. We are sponsoring a dinner theater on October six at St Mark's Grill Hall. The play God's Trombone will feature Jim Dawn and Maria Broome. The play begins at eight and dinner is at 6 p.m.. Tickets are $12 a person and will benefit the church. For further information, call 5420355. If your group or organization would like to announce an event, please write us in care of City Line WJC TV Television Hill, Baltimore, Maryland 212, one one. Or call us for further information at 4660013. Between the hours of nine and five. We're back live on Citi Line. Our guest today is Prince Uncle Ben Israel, international ambassador for the black Hebrew Israelites right now. We'd like to go right to our studio audience for another question. Okay. Hello, my name is Nannette, and I have a question concerning a program I saw on 60 Minutes where they were talking to Ben-Ami and the point of messages that was brought about. Now, I'm not trying to be on a negative tip at anything, but I have a loved one in Israel, and I was wondering if anything like this should ever come to light. Well, we've been out of America 18 years, and I would think by now, with all of the hell and the pressure that the Israelis have put on us, we would have long since killed ourselves if that was our purpose. But I don't think we would have spent all that money and all that time to go to Israel to die. We just stayed in Baltimore and I did an overdose of drink some whiskey over, run over, got mugged. We about life and we about living life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=1305.57,1461.87"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have become positive so that our people historically can see the strength of us as a people. We have no desire. If you ever read about anything happening to us, we were mass murder. We were not mass suicide. And on that trip, I like to say. Barack. Yeah. I love you. Excellent. Thank you. Again, a question from home. Hi, your live on City Line. Hello? Hello? Yes. Please go ahead and just talk directly to us, please. Okay. Yes, I have a quite a few friends. That is a late. They went to New York in about 1972 and they came back to. And I like to know, okay, they don't believe in New Testament and they don't believe Jesus Christ Godson. And I'd like to know why. Well, I have no idea on that uh, uh, group of people that you're speaking about, because what we do, we deal with the whole of the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, and we understand all of the roles that the prophets and including Jesus had to play. So we have nothing to say about that, except we take all of it and it's all good for our people. Okay. We have another question from our studio audience. So you have a question for Prince. I see. Yes. So my name is Kim Moyer. I am a student of life. What I like to ask the brothers, first of all, who are the philosophies and are you connected with them in any way? Secondly, I had always thought of Jewish people or Hebrews. If you could designate what those terms mean as being a religious group as opposed to a racially identifiable group, what has the media done in terms of bringing about that type of a distinction? Well, the first question first flashes are a name of those who have been given who lived in Ethiopia, the African Hebrews who lived in Ethiopia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=1462.2,1565.11"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They are called the philosopher Jews or the last Jews. As it is translated, they became officially recognized as descendants of the tribe of Dan in 1975 by the Israeli government. They look like you and I, so they are. An African presence has always been there. Secondly, to the question of whether Hebrew or Jewish is a religion or a race is debatable. Sammy Davis can become Jewish just like you can become Roman Catholic. But that does not make you an Italian. That does not make him a European. You see, what we must understand is that the true Hebrews are those who are descendant of the Biblical Israelites. When we say descendants of the biblical Israelites, we say that we are the descendants of Jesus, Moses of Solomon, David, and all of this blood flows through our brains. Now, those who choose to adopt that religion or that faith can be of any race as long as you take on those principles. This is what we're talking about. You define those people as being African, that you just made your original people, African people. Thank you. Thanks for your question. Yes. We'll take another call from home. Hi, You're in touch. CALLER. Hello? Yes, You're in touch. Please go ahead. Yeah. My name is Kingsley. The last time I was voice in the program about a blog that morphed to is too Late. I understand that the last U.S. citizenship. I know that you are not accepted a the citizen. So how did the move kind of move from one country to another without traveling documents? Well, as you know, that the United Nations provide for those who are stateless citizens and they give them travel documents. That's number one. Number two, we did not lose our American citizenship.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=1566.22,1666.51"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We renounced our American citizenship. There is a difference. We feel that in 1854, when the Supreme Court of the United States said that there is no law that a white man ought to respect as it relates to black men. We knew that the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment could not legislate us into humanity. We had always been a people. So we took the power to define our destiny back into our hands. We move around the world because we are intelligent men and women, and we make the necessary contacts with international organizations or governments to get travel documents. Okay. I can take another question from the audience. Yes. Thank you, Prince Isaiah. When something happens in Ireland, the Irish American community rallies raises money. Right. Congress in support of what's happening in Northern Ireland. When something happens in Israel, the Israeli community rallies in America and raised millions of dollars in behalf of what's happening in Israel. I'd like to know from you what could this 30 million black people in America do to support the racism that's being perpetrated upon our people since we are taxpayers and our money goes toward the support of the state of Israel? What can we do to help? I think one of the main things you need to contact your congressional leadership and let me know that the $3 billion gift that is being given to Israel must be stopped until justice and human rights are given to Africans from America who are presently living in Israel, who choose to reside there or just want to visit there. Secondly, I think that they ought to go and make this a public information across the country so that they will see that the people who are now living outside of America are fulfilling Martin Luther King's dream.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=1667.2,1763.11"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When he said, I've been to the mountaintop and looked over and seen the promised land. There's only one promised land in the world. And that promised land was called the Holy Land. And that's where black people from America now residing. Thank you. Thank you very much for the question. We would like. We would like to mention a book that discusses quite a bit about the experience and the background behind the black Hebrew Israelites. It's called God the Black Man and Truth, and it's by Ben Ameen, who is the leader of the That's correct of the community and also leader to African people throughout the world. Okay, Prince, I guess one thing that we haven't really touched on was why Why all the controversy centers on your existence in Israel? We're about out of out of time. Could you very quickly say what else there is about the black Hebrew Israelites? Well, once our people in America realize that they're God's chosen people and not God's rejected and despised people, they will lift themselves up in a new world and a new future and a new destiny will be at hand. All right. Thank you very much. You guys are quite handsome. And. Good afternoon. Topping today's news cap, for the first time ever, sickle cell patients have a reason to smile. The reason doctors have cured a case of the dreaded disease and are hopeful others will benefit as well. The life saving therapy involves bone marrow transplants, now used mainly to treat leukemia victims. Sickle cell anemia affects one in every 600 blacks in the US. In a speech to cable television professionals, Congressman parent Jane Mitchell has called for higher levels of black and Hispanic participation and the planning, engineering and packaging of cable systems in cities throughout the country.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=1763.44,1966.15"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Minorities are less than 1% of the more than 5000 cable television systems in America. Mitchell wants to see that changed. He says he supports legitimate joint ventures and multiple franchises to promote use of skilled minorities in their areas of expertise. One of the more controversial bills facing this session of the Baltimore City Council is Bill number 187, which would include the word sexual orientation to the civil rights bill protecting homosexuals and lesbians from housing, job and public discrimination. Not all members of the city council are in support of the bill. Joining me now is Reverend Jenny Boyd Boyle, a member of the Coalition for Passage of, what, 87. Reverend Boyle, thank you for joining us. So last gay rights bill was introduced to the city council four years ago, and it didn't fare too well. How do you think it will do in this session of the city council? We are quite hopeful. We have just this past week put together a rally in March and vigil that was very well attended, included support from 66 area religious leaders, including 44 Catholic priests and nuns. Dr. Douglas Miles was the Baltimore Ministerial Alliance on Reverend Herbert Valentine of the Baltimore Presbyterian Leadership and a number of others. And we find this kind of broad based community support, in addition to the over 700 people who came out for the march. And vigil itself shows that there is a changed attitude in this city and that we are ready to catch up with other metropolitan areas, such as Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and even Howard in Montgomery counties, which have passed this basic civil rights legislation that protects gays and lesbians as as any other city as opposed to city council. You need ten votes, is that right? Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=1966.87,2070.159"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What's the strategy? What Tommy Wexler strategies he introduce or he will introduce the legislation? I understand his strategy is to bring the bill out to the floor for a vote when he believes that we have the ten votes necessary for passage. And we are hopeful that that will happen and are certainly working towards that goal. I think one of the reason City Council members are not supporting the bill is that some say they have not seen clear cut examples of discrimination against gays in housing, job and public places. What examples and how many examples do you have of discrimination against gays in Baltimore City? I served for a couple of years on the Washington, D.C. Human Relations Commission and know that when you have the legislation in place is when you have the documentation, there's no facility for documentation at this point. What I know is that at the rally last Sunday evening, there were a number of people with bags over their heads because they were afraid of being fired from their jobs. And I, as a pastor, hear many stories from people who were fired, who are refused housing, who have a number of other examples of being discriminated by people who don't like them. And that's no reason to discriminate in our culture. Reverend Boyle, thank you very much. In other news, foreign correspondents in South Africa protested strongly to that government Friday after police confiscated film taken by two overseas television crews during the funeral of a black youth. The crews were covering the funeral of a student leader who was among at least 40 persons killed during violence in townships around Johannesburg over the past month. South African police say the film was taken because it further the aims of a banned organization, the African National Congress.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=2070.76,2167.81"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And finally, Michael Jackson may be one of the biggest names in entertainment today, but he has also one of the biggest hearts, as we hear in this report from Cynthia Ellison. I want you to know that I've decided to donate all my money I make from the performance to charity. That little statement sent hearts fluttering across America while fans rock to the music of the Victory Tour. Charities could be heard to be singing Let It Be Me. But if you want to be blessed by the glove, you don't call him. He calls you. And then his hired hands and mouths call a news conference. So the suspense was killing us. Michael wasn't there. But finally, his personal manager, Frank DiLeo, announced the three winners. First, the United Negro College Fund. Second Camp, Good Times and Malibu, which helps out terminally ill children. And third, the T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia and Cancer Research. They will blissfully split three ways. Michael, share of the money made from the Victory Tour, which he split in six ways with his brothers. Michael, moments after dying for all his labors, as you can see, is a very special human being. But despite all the smiling, nobody was or apparently ever will be interested in telling us how much money the charities will receive. I think it's something personal. I think it's we're running. You know what we're doing. I think with what the actual figure is, is between them. Some things are sacred, and I think that's something sacred from Hollywood. Cynthia Allison And that is today's news cap. I'm T Monte Moore City line up next. Have a good Sunday. 39. If you recall, in April of this year, Jesse Jackson stayed with a family overnight in the Dundalk area, an unemployed steelworker, Linda Gerrard, and her family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=2169.13,2421.51"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And she's with us now to kind of bring us up to date is what has happened to us since that time. Welcome to City Life. And with her is Keith Brooks, who is with the United Committee of the Unemployed. And Keith and some others have established a Linda Gerrard defense fund. Welcome to City Life. So, Linda, what has happened to you since April and why is there a Linda Gerrard defense fund set up to benefit you? Well, before I say anything, I would like to thank all of those that have come forward in my support. Welfare Rights, United Committee for Unemployment. Why are these people supporting you? What is the reason? What has happened to you since April? Well, since April, since ousting Reverend Jackson, I've been arrested for welfare fraud. The Department of Social Services found that my husband was back when Reverend Jesse was there, and they took away my rights there, my not my rights, my benefits then. And they restored him that later that day. This is as a result specifically of Reverend Jackson staying in your home. Is that correct? I feel it is, yes. Is it because you're your white family and Reverend Jackson is a black man? I feel it is that it's a lot of racism there. An attack personally on you? Yes. So first, your benefits were cut off. They were restored. What is the situation now? Well, I'm currently receiving welfare, but it's just not enough to live on. Well, wasn't there also the issue of your accepting a part time job with the Baltimore County Department to drive a school bus? I think that that's one of the things that my attorneys advised me not to discuss. Keith, let's get you in here. You are familiar with what has happened.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=2422.06,2541.59"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Could you give us a bit of a larger picture? Well, I think it's very clear that if people remember, Jesse Jackson was expected to do well in Baltimore City, majority black Baltimore County is predominantly white. Linda Gerrard lives in a area of Baltimore County that's hard hit by unemployment. The day of Jackson stay there was tremendously positive publicity. And I think what happened was that some people felt very threatened by Jackson's appeal to poor white people, by the fact of Linda and her husband, Bill, standing up visibly and publicly in support for Reverend Jackson two days after he was there. Camille Wheeler, who is the head of the Baltimore County Social Services, actually went to the media without ever investigating or questioning the GIRARD'S and announced through the media that the benefits were being cut off because they were living together when their welfare application stated they were separate. That charge proved to be false. They were separate. Okay. I asked Camille Wheeler publicly, How often does the Department of Social Services announce the status of welfare clients through the media without ever questioning or investigating them? Okay. That charge was dropped. The Welfare department continued to go after Linda Girard. They charge that she was working as a part time bus driver, that she didn't report income. Linda Girard is barely surviving. Welfare rights paid her rent one month. You cup paid on rent one month. The Jesse Jackson campaign, Wendell Phillips paid on rent one month and the steelworkers paid her. This is the woman that they're charging with welfare fraud because they say she didn't report income of $7 a week to a maximum of $75 a week. Okay. Let's really look at this in perspective. At this point. I know that you can't discuss the litigation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=2543.15,2647.04"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Right. But certainly in retrospect, you must have some feelings about your decision to allow Reverend Jackson to spend some time with you. Do you have any regrets? Are you sorry that you did it? I don't have any regrets. We're not sorry we did it. It was an opportunity to talk to one of the president elect people. And I'm not sorry that we had Jackson. Would you do it again if you were. Were asked to house him? Yes. Were you politically active prior to April when you welcomed him to your home? Not a lot. But you were. Well, I was involved with United Committee for Unemployed People, and that was about the extent of my political I think. I think Linda's too modest. She's the head of a of a food committee and Local 2609 for unemployed steelworkers. Linda Girard also is one of the people who helped organize the fight to save someone's house in southwest Baltimore. A black man who was about to lose his house a year and a half ago. Linda Gerrard was involved in that effort. We're going to try to involve our home audience. Hi, your live on City Line. You have a question? Yes. I'm allowed to know where I have found out and interacted with several people inside the. It was a black woman who first told about Mr. Right and. It was just like she was just angry because. Could you make your point quickly, please? Jesse Jackson was saying I must arrive home and she was in charge of accounting and social services. And I had to know this is true. Thank you. Do you know that, Keith? Linda? I think that's hearsay. I think it's almost irrelevant to the point that Camille Wheeler went to the press, made statements.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=2648.75,2764.26"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Department of Human Resources, Ruth Messinger, they did not have to pursue this as a criminal fraud case. I ask you just quickly, for those who would like to involve themselves in the defense fund, what can they do? How can they contact you? There's a phone number 235215 that people should call for more information. Linda goes to trial on October 23rd in 2000 at 12 3111 Allegheny Avenue on October 20. Thank you, Keith. We're going to take a break and come right back with the entertainment. Hello, I'm Harold Anthony. Today, my featured artist is one that has written and produced several Grammy Award winning tunes by the artists. Yet he only recently realized his own potential for success as a soloist. Although his past experience has been performing with jazz artists such as McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard and the like, he by no means restricts himself to the jazz only crowd. Outside of writing The Closer I Get To You for Roberta Flack. And I never knew Love like this before. For Stephanie Mills, which were both Grammy Award winners. This Philadelphia native has also successfully experimented with punk, punk, funk, bebop and soul music. As a matter of fact, to me, for the last four years has been working on a symphony for a 63 piece orchestra. And as if to underscore his own boundless talent, he is also collaborating with Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen to write the soundtrack for an upcoming movie called The White Angel that will star dancing greats Gregory Hines and Mikhail Baryshnikov. There's one fact that cannot be disputed when you speak of them to me. You're speaking of a musical genius with his latest hit. Here is AM to me. Mm mm mm mm mm mm mm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=2765.34,2946.12"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm. Mm hmm. You. Wow. There's something. Wanna say. Try and understand. There's another. My life. But now your life. And he. You be. Oh. I was to die. Glad to see. I never thought it could happen to me. Then I knew. Things had to. Because we me. So let's take. Cosby. Not to mention. So. Hard to say. This payback to you? You. Rose each day. So let's take. Not to mention. Can we get? You. Eligible. Me. You. That was in two May with his latest hit called You Me And he you know, the last time we met, I showed you an interview with Howard Rollins from a brand new film called A Soldier's Story. This time out, I want to focus in on Howard's costar, who gave a brilliant and powerful performance in the movie. His name is Adolph Caesar, and he plays the hard driving Sergeant Waters in this dynamic new film. Unlike Mr. Rollins at all, Caesar was an original cast member of the Negro Ensemble Company who performed the stage version of this Pulitzer Prize winning play across the country. I had a chance to meet with Adolf recently, and I asked him how difficult it was to make the transition from his stage interpretation to putting the character on film. Different? A It was different in that. Well, just the techniques, you know, of of the continuity was interrupted. Of course, you know, when you play a play, it's good enough, good and down and there's a flow and there's an energy level that you know and the playing level that you have to sustain. Whereas in doing a film, it's cut moving for close ups and you have to sort of minimize the pantomime or the facial expressions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=2952.1,3341.24"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You know, if one raises an eyebrow while the cameras, they're great on the silver screen, it goes 20 feet, you know, So one can do all of that sort of stuff. I'm a soldier. PETERSON And the kind of colored man that don't like lazy, shiftless Negroes. Well, sir, you ain't got to come in here calling us names. The Nazis calling you Schwarzer. You going to complain to Hitler? They hurt your little feelings. Don't look like me. We could do too much to them. Nazi paintbrush is saw. He tried to mock me. C.J. also was good because whatever an ignorant, low class guy like you has the saying worth paying attention to. Is it? Is it? A wreck in so. You were just joking, Pete. He don't mean no harm. No, he does. I mean, we take enough from him. White boys. Yes, you do. And if it wasn't for you Southern [Unrecognized], white folks wouldn't think we was all whole. Well, where you from? England. Play itself was a Pulitzer Prize winner. And of course, the Pulitzer Prize is awarded to a work of art that has to do with something in the fabric of American life. And, you know, needless to say, this does I look forward to it doing all of that. Maybe I'll get another job when I'm. Adolph Caesar commenting on A Soldier's Story. If you'd like to know more about Adolph Caesar, you'll be interested to know that both he and Rollins will be featured on an upcoming segment of Evening Magazine right here on Channel 30. For all of you who have an interest in equestrian events, it's time once again for the Baltimore International Jumping Classic, which promises to feature some of the finest horses and riders ever to compete and to add an unusual twist.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101#t=3342.65,3470.95"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/85896/file/174101/transcript/47241/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mr. Anton Terrell of the Ballet Theater of Annapolis will once again perform his unique dance with the horses. It's all taking place at the Baltimore Civic Center on October 5th, six and seven. You can order tickets by phone by calling 6597165. Or for additional information, you can call 7528488. It's an affair you won't want to miss. You know, the response has been so tremendous to an item that I mentioned in an earlier broadcast that I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that the Baltimore chapter of the Anacostia Cultural Arts Foundation will be offering professional art curricula classes for arts in jazz in the marketplace beginning on October 1st in the performing areas such as vocal music, dance, poetry, drama and visual art. I'd also like to mention that performance and contractual opportunities are available one two, no more than simply call the center at 5230298. Well, that does it for another week. I'm Harold Anthony, reminding you to make this first week of autumn a safe way. I'll see you next Sunday. Thanks, Howard. We're out of town. Time We've got to tell you about next week's show. Next week we will have live in the studio. Mr. Roy Ayres is here. Thom Browne and Mr. Lonnie List and Smith will all be performing here. That's right. And if you want to be a part of that excitement, call us now at 41, 13, 13, 13, and make your seat reservations. Thank you. I'm Betty Bentley. I'm Jackie Hall. 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