CEMOTAP May Meeting: Showing of Documentary on the Congo~ May 26

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CEMOTAP is scheduled for this Friday
night at the AFIBA center,
5730 Crenshaw Blvd.,
at 7:00 p.m.

An excellent program is planned.

CEMOTAP will be holding a free screening of the documentary CONGO:
White King, Red Rubber, Black Death. The Belgian government has
denounced this documentary as a "tendentious diatribe" for depicting
King Leopold II-still a heroic figure in Belgium-as the moral
forebear of Adolph Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million
people in his rapacious exploitation of the Congo. This film
describes how Leopold turned the Congo into his private colony
between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, the Congo became a gulag
labor camp of shocking brutality. In fact, it is agreed today that
the first Human Rights movement was spurred by what happened in the
Congo.

There is one glaring problem in the Black community that we want you
to think about before coming to the meeting. All over Los Angeles
there are bill boards with a large picture of radio personality �Big
Boy� holding out his oversized pants and pointing to his genitals.
The picture�s caption reads: �Still big where it counts.� We would
like your opinion of the billboard and your thoughts about what, if
anything, CEMOTAP should do about this.

This event will be hosted by CEMOTAP-West:
Committee To Eliminate Media Offensive to African People
For more information call: (323) 281-1331