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Article: END TRADITIONAL NEW YEAR'S SHOOTINGS
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- Chicago Defender
- Article date:
- December 31, 2001
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Blacks must end their emulation of the violent New Year's celebration of literally shooting when the clock strikes midnight because this European tradition is killing our people, Dr.. Conrad Worrill warned Sunday.
Worrill, who is chairman of the National Black United Front, said he's tired of reading crime reports the day after New Years listing those who were either injured or died from stray bullets from the weapons of party-goers.
Worrill urged Blacks not to engage in any shooting at the stroke of midnight because New Years is not their holiday. Instead, Worrill called on community leaders to discuss ways of coming up with their own African-centered New Years including resurrecting an ...