European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                W pkg vex. I is fifty v a is new York native and army vet Ken Hamblin does his talk show on Denver s Knus radio where he says things that a White person could t get away  message from the Black Avenger rattles Denver by Carl Milliard the associated press e n Hamblin refers to Denver s Black Community As  on his talk How he rails against quotas welfare de tendency illegitimate pregnancies  blame Whitey syndrome. If this sounds like your typical radio rabble rouser think again Hamblin is Black. And though ostracized by his Community and vilified by Black leaders he is determined to speak out. If i can motivate one Black or hispanic kid to say i m going to show him All hispanics and Blacks Aren t that Way then it s Worth it he said. We be tried it All More welfare lowering Stan Dards. I would like just once for these kids to say. Make it harder " his forums Are his talk show on radio station Knus his colleagues Call him the Black Avenger and a twice weekly column in the Denver Post. Both have drawn attention Good and bad. The idea he told the new York times was to say things that a White person could t get away  i want to know Why 60 percent of Black babies Are born out of Wedlock. Is that the fault of White people i want to know Why so Many Black kids can t speak proper English. I want to know Why Black peo ple can t pass a civil service examination. The excuse is that it s culturally biased. Well i d like to know what could possibly be culturally biased on a test Foj a  now 53, he has been on the air for 11 years at first his was a pleasant Liberal unaccented voice which gave no clue that he was Black. But gradually Hamblin a successful business Man who owns his own plane a boat a Fine Home and several Sandwich restaurants became More strident. In so doing he earned fans and enemies. In december during a meeting in Denver the National Black caucus vowed to complain to the Feder Al communications commission about Hamblin s racial epithets and threatened a convention boy Cott of Denver if his remarks Are not toned Down. It urged the Post to drop Hamblin s column. The caucus criticized Hamblin s references to dark town and Tav those who live there As dark town dwellers and promoters of  califor Nia state rep. Diane Watson complained that Hamb Lin s description of caucus members As spooks exceeded the Bounds of protected free speech. Hamblin retorted that free speech is something dark Little people like you the caucus could never understand. Dark because your hearts Are  Hamblin said the caucus should listen to his Mes Sage there is no room for the Black parasite or for the hispanic parasite. We must become competitive. We can t blame White  the Post responded to the caucus complaint by announcing his column would be edited More closely. Editorial Page editor Chuck Green said Hamblin has become increasingly acerbic and increasingly strident and has accelerated his use of words that infuriate the Black political establishment and Many Black  Green added by eliminating the detracting slurs his message might Well take on greater  then in january Hamblin was suspended from Knus for three Days and his Denver Post column was dropped for two weeks after he was charged with Misdemeanour harassment. A Knus co worker accused him of pushing her against a desk and Simu lating sex at a new year s eve party. Hamblin denies he did anything improper. The son of a new York City policeman Hamblin grew up in the Bedford Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. He attended Brooklyn College for 10 months after a four year hitch in the army then joined a Congress of racial Equality voter registration group in 1960. I be been chased by Kkt members in Greensboro North Carolina and in Montauk. I was in a car not just with Black Brothers but with White Guys and White women he says. And we were All the enemy. And when i speak to groups with african Broth ers who now have foreign names and foreign cloth ing i remember those people with names like Schwerner Chancy Goodman and i remember Emmett till. I lived it. And when i saw Eves on the prize on pcs i  he has no time for what he Calls the soul patrol Black Community members who dictate Politi Cally Correct Black fashion and Street talk. And he is unwaveringly critical of Denver mayor Wellington Webb and other members of the Black establishment leadership. He accuses them of guid ing Blacks into government dependency a morass of broken families and unwed mothers and a victim entitlement mentality. As a result Denver s most outspoken Black Man is shunned no longer Welcome at parties and gather Ings. It s heartbreaking he says. But he has his supporters. After the National Black caucus attacked Hamblin about 500 people called Knus to express their support for him. The Rocky Mountain news Denver s other major daily newspaper defended Hamblin s right to state his opinions clearly Hamblin represents a minority opinion within the minority Community but so what cannot the majority of Black lawmakers withstand the occasional rough edged critic. And Mike Rosen a conservative talk show Host on Koa and a contributing columnist to the Post also Rose to Hamblin s defense. Hamblin has caught their Black leaders Atten Tion because he threatens their authority Rosen said. If they Don t crush him now other articulate independently thinking Blacks May do the  Page 8 sunday february 13,1994