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TANYA KERN:“I think Sojournerwill improve thecommunity be-cause we strive toeducate awarenessto all. The first stepin change is ac-knowleding and being aware of thatfact there is a problem. Sojourner rec-ognizes that and helps others recog-nize it too.

JOHNNELLBROCK: “Yes,Sojourner helps alot of people every-day and looks for-ward to helpingmany more. So-journer tries to reachout and save onelife at a time.”

MARKTHOMAS:“Yes, by bringingmore resourcesinto the commu-nity, Sojourner willbe able to educateothers and help prevent violence.”

STEVE ADAMS:“The SojournerFamily Peace Cen-ter provides keyservices to ourcommunity. I amso excited by theirnew facility, whichwill enhance thegreat work that Sojourner FamilyPeace Center does. Helping our com-munity one step at a time.”

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Photos and question by Yvonne KempQUESTION

OF THE WEEK:“Do you think the new Sojourner

Family Peace Center will helpmake more children and women

in Milwaukee safer?”

HEALTHY LAUGHS!HEALTHY LAUGHS!CEDRIC “THE ENTERTAINER” helps MILWAUKEEHEALTH SERVICES, INC. celebrate Open House at renovated ISAAC COGGS HERITAGE HEALTH CENTER

Award-winning comedian and actorCedric “The Entertainer” provided hu-morous words of wisdom regardinghealth and leading a healthy lifestyleduring the Milwaukee Health Services,Inc.’s recent open house at their newlyrenovated Isaac Coggs Heritage Center,located at 8200 W. Silver Spring Drive.

Patients, employees, elected officialsand community members came to-gether to celebrate the renovation andenjoy special performances from Mil-waukee’s own Christopher’s Project, fea-turing singer Jackie Caldwell (PhotoA, far left, pictured with the band’snamesake and leader Christopher Pip-kins).

Pamela Clark (pictured far left inPhoto D with Cedric “The Enter-tainer” and Dr. Tito Izard,president/CEO of MHSI), corporate com-munication specialist for MHSI, said theopen house provided the opportunityfor the health agency to invite the com-munity to get reacquainted with the up-dated Health Center; and explore theservices it offers and to speak to theproviders and staff.

Attendees were also able to receiveservices at the event such as flu shots,immunizations, health screenings for anumber of health issues, as well asenjoy food, games, a Farmer’s Market,and a chance to enter to win a GrandPrize Evening with Cedric “The Enter-tainer” and Friends on Oct. 10 in St.Louis, MO.

Other photos-- (Photo B):Cedric“The Entertainer” received proclama-tions from various levels of governmentfrom (left to right): Hope DeVougas,Constituent Liaison and Outreach Spe-cialist for U.S. Cong. Gwen Moore; CityHealth Commissioner Bevin Baker, Ald.and Mayoral Candidate Joe Davis, Sr.;and City Treasurer Spencer Coggs.(Photo C): Members of the commu-nity enjoy the festivities during theopen House. (Photo E): Programparticipants front row: VeVougas, Coggs,Baker, Davis and Dr. Izard.

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EIn advance of opening, in January of 2016, its new facility which will be a national model

that will bring community partners together to provide coordinated services under one roof foradults and children who are victims of domestic violence, Sojourner Family Peace Center hosteda neighborhood meet and greet at the still unfinished center Saturday, located at 619 W. WalnutStreet.

The meet and greet was held to give the center’s new neighbors the opportunity to learnmore about the organization and new facility. Rather than individuals and families impacted bydomestic violence needing to go to multiple offices and locations, the new facility will providean on-site shelter with dedicated space for medical and social services, law enforcement services,legal services, mental health and AODA counseling, job training and faith-based services.

The community partners joining Sojourner in the new building include: Children’s Hospital ofWisconsin, Milwaukee Police Department, Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office, and agen-cies focused on addressing domestic violence. Sojourner Family Peace Center is the largestprovider of domestic violence prevention and intervention series in Wisconsin, serving nearly10,000 clients annually. Its mission is to transform lives impacted by domestic violence. The Cen-ter’s primary goals are to ensure the safety of victims of family violence and to provide a path-way out of violence for victims and abusers through opportunities to make positive and lastingchanges for themselves and their children.

This year, Sojourner is celebrating 40 years of transforming lives in Milwaukee. As experts inthe field, it has a proven track record of providing safety, support and emergency assistance tofamilies in need. Pictured above: (Photo A)--A Milwaukee Police officers helps three childrenwrite messages of peace in the parking lot of the new center during its meet and greet.(Photo B, left to right)--Carmen Pitre, executive director of Sojourner Family Peace Cen-ter; Mark Thomas, associate director of programing for Sojourner Family Peace Center; VincentLyles, executive director of the Boys&Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee; Thelma Sias, WE Ener-gies vice president of local affairs. (Photo C)--Residents from around the new center, espe-cially those from the Walnut Way neighborhood, meet, greet...and eat! (Photo D)--Amember of the Sojourner Family Peace Center staff in front of a display about what the centeroffers. (Photo E)--Other staffers and volunteers gather for a photo wearing T-shirts made forthe occasion that read, “Peace Is Possible.” (All photos by Yvonne Kemp)

Poster with artists ren-dering of the SojournerFamily Peace Centeronce its complete.

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THETHE PULSEPULSEThe WHO•WHAT•WHERE• WHEN of YOUR Community!

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CITY AND HOUSING AUTHORITYAWARDED $30 MILLION HUD GRANTFOR NORTHSIDE TRANSFORMATION

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD) Deputy Secretary Nani Coloretti and RegionalAdministrator Antonio Riley visited Milwaukee today toaward a $30 million HUD Choice Neighborhoods Initia-tive Implementation Grant to the City of Milwaukee andthe Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM)for a comprehensive plan to transform a nearly three-milesquare area of Milwaukee’s northwest side.

The City of Milwaukee was the lead applicant andHACM was the co-applicant for the grant. Other leadpartners include the Redevelopment Authority of the Cityof Milwaukee and Milwaukee Public Schools.

Mayor Tom Barrett joined Deputy Secretary Coloretti,HUD Regional Administrator Riley, HACM Secretary-Executive Director Tony Pérez, Milwaukee PublicSchools Superintendent Dr. Darienne Driver, ExecutiveDirector of Havenwoods Economic Development Corpo-

ration Stephanie Harling, Westlawn Resident CouncilPresident Jackie Burrell and other partners for the an-nouncement, which was held outdoors at Silver SpringDrive and 64th Street in the Westlawn Gardens neighbor-hood.

“This award is going to invest in Westlawn, it’s goingto revitalize the surrounding neighborhood, it’s going tohelp bring your plans for progress to life,” said Colorettito the many public and private community partners whohad gathered for the announcement. “You deserve thisaward.

You competed with 33 communities and only fivecities are being awarded and you are one of them.” At-lanta, Kansas City, Memphis and Sacramento also re-ceived grants.

“We are thankful to HUD and the Obama Administra-tion for this very significant investment in our locally-driven, comprehensive strategy to transform thenorthwest side of Milwaukee into an inclusive commu-nity of opportunity with all of the amenities that attracthomeowners, businesses and investment,” said MayorBarrett.

HUD Choice Neighborhoods Program Revitalizes Distressed Neighborhoods and Increases Opportunity for Low-In-come Residents

Several partners in the City of Milwaukee and Housing Authority’s Choice Neighborhoods Transformation Plan gath-ered for a photo after the announcement of the $30 million award by HUD Deputy Secretary Nani Coloretti and Re-gional Administrator Antonio Riley. Pictured: Front row, left to right: Shirley Ellis of Congresswoman Gwen Moore’soffice; Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Darienne Driver; Gracie Leonard of the Westlawn Resident Coun-cil; Housing Authority Executive Director Tony Perez; Westlawn Resident Council President Jackie Burrell; HUD DeputySecretary Nani Coloretti; HUD Regional Administrator Antonio Riley. BACK ROW, left to right: Milwaukee Police ChiefEdward Flynn; Redevelopment Authority Assistant Secretary Dave Misky; Milwaukee County Circuit Judge and Hous-ing Authority Commissioner Joe Donald; PNC Financial Services Wisconsin Regional President Chris Goller; MilwaukeePlanning Manager Vanessa Koster; Milwaukee Health Commissioner Bevan Baker; Deputy Commissioner of City De-velopment Martha Brown; Greater Milwaukee Committee President Julia Taylor; Public Works Commissioner GhassanKorban; Sean O’Brien of WHEDA; Brown Elementary School Principal Raymond Unanka.

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PERSPECTIVESPERSPECTIVESThe Milwaukee Community Journal September 30, 2015 Page 3

Quote of the Week:

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Parental School Choice

My dear sister Polly Williams isprobably turning over in her grave.

One of my all time favorite politi-cians, Polly is probably lookingdown at so-called “Bishop” DorisPinkney and the hopefully perma-nently closed “school” she insult-ingly named Daughters of the FatherChristian Academy, and crying onher wings.

Pinkney’s “school” was the latestin a parade of “businesses” that havereceived negative publicity for fail-ing to educate its charges under theMilwaukee Parental School ChoiceProgram (MPCP) while receivingmillions in state aid.

Many critics of the choice programmake an issue of the “diverted” taxdollars that could have gone to publicschools. (Which may sound legiti-mate until you look at MPS’ embar-rassing history of educating Blackchildren; a major reason for the edu-cational options school choice cre-ated.)

But the real concern here should beabout the harm done to the children.Failing to educate (or under-educate,if that’s a word) these precious chil-dren is a set back to their develop-ment that is not only immoral, butshould be illegal.

Don’t get me wrong. I have notwaivered from my support of schoolchoice. I continue to support the pro-gram not only because it empowerslow-income Black families, but alsobecause it provides them with op-tions, and the ability to determinewhere their children will go toschool.

An Africentric education? Thatwas my choice. A religious school?Prayer has never been the enemy ofBlack people. A public or charterschool? If it serves your needs, whynot.

The problem with school choice isnot the concept, but some of theschools allowed to participate in theprogram, and the poor decisions ofparents to send their children to thoserip-off academies.

Obviously, the current evolution-ary stage of the school choice pro-gram is not what Polly envisionedwhen she led the crusade againstoverwhelming odds to birth the ini-tiative.

I know because I was there at itsinception. In fact, my public supportfor the ground breaking program pre-dated State Rep. Annette ‘Polly’Williams’ involvement.

Two years before her introductionof a school choice initiative, I waswriting editorials endorsing Gover-nor Tommy Thompson’s broadervoucher proposal.

While Polly’s legislation was writ-ten specifically for a small group ofexisting community schools—in-

cluding Harambee and Urban Day—Thompson’s was closer to what theprogram has morphed into today.

A year after Thompson’s proposalwas shot down, Milwaukee PublicSchools’ Superintendent Robert S.Peterkin called a meeting of commu-nity-based school representatives todiscuss an unprecedented partnershipwith MPS: if agreed upon, he wouldseek legislation for a school choiceprogram to provide MPS Black andHispanic schools an option they hadpreviously been denied—an opportu-nity to attend a private school.

You could say Peterson’s proposalwas self-centered—he acknowledgedin meeting with community schoolrepresentatives that they had beensuccessful educating at-risk childrenand securing parental involvementwhere MPS could not.

Some school reps were suspicious,but the majority of the seven agreedand their actions set in motion whathas been called a national educa-tional revolution.

I won’t get into all the details (youcan order my book, “Not Yet Free atLast” on Amazon, or wait for my up-dated version hopefully early nextyear). Bottom line is special interestsgot involved and killed the proposal,prompting Williams’ involvement.

Williams’ agenda was two-fold: toprovide low-income Black parentsthe option of determining where theirchildren could attend school. And tocreate a scenario where MPS wouldbe forced to tear down the walls ofeducational apartheid.

If you recall—as many have failedto remember—MPS was a mess.Milwaukee had one of the highestBlack drop out rates in the country.The gap between White and Blackstudents was a wide as Kim Kar-dasian’s butt. Nazis patrolled outsidesome schools where a majority ofBlack students were not proficient inmath, reading or science.

The situation was so bad, a fewyears earlier Williams had sponsoredlegislation that carved out a “Blackschool district,” which would be con-trolled and staffed by Black peoplewho, she declared, would care aboutthe children.

To counter the opposition of theteachers union, the Democratic Party(yes, our saviors fought tooth andnail to block an initiative that wouldempower Black parents) and theNAACP, Williams created an armyof frustrated and inspired Black par-

ents who lobbied politicians, includ-ing unreceptive and loyal publicschool supporters (several were or-dered, others were intimidated).

We threatened to boycott some‘liberal’ White lawmakers, picketedoutside political fundraisers, andbused hundreds of children to Madi-son to ask Black lawmakers whythey supported educational apartheid.

I served as press secretary, propa-gandist and strategist for the crusade.

I know it is very offensive to be called a slaveand I am definitely not trying to offend you. Infact, I’m trying to do just the opposite. I’m tryingto call you into your greatness, your power, andyour purpose.

I love my Black people and I believe in thepower of Black people. However, we can nolonger live off the accomplishments of previousgenerations.

We must stand on our own accomplishmentswithin our collective struggle. We have a respon-sibility to contribute to the ongoing struggle ofBlack people. We do not have the right nor the lux-ury to take our foot off the pedal.

The question for us is not whether we are phys-ically free. It is obvious that we are. The profoundquestion that we are compelled to answer- iswhether or not we are mentally, emotionally andpsychologically free?

Unfortunately, we have stalled and, in some re-spects, we have even lost ground in our individualand collective efforts to ensure these freedoms.

We have stymied in building the infrastructureneeded to compete as a group, and we haveswapped out a culture of struggle for self-determi-nation for a culture of assimilation as a measure-ment of success. This detrimental perspective ofsuccess as assimilation is magnified when we con-sider the following:

• Our culture isn’t producing excellence at anylevel and no real opposition to the social and eco-nomic conditions that Blacks face in America exist

(there is no mandate com-ing from the various sec-tors of the Black community that urges them tocontinue the fight and struggle for self-determina-tion);

• The current generation of Black leaders do nothonor the legacy and sacrifices of our ancestorswho paved the way for all of us by continuing thestruggle of self-determination (our most accom-plished Blacks are detached both physically andemotionally from the struggle); and

• As a people, we lack a real “organized” and“collective” voice that speaks to the past and cur-rent injustices against Blacks with the unified goal- to hold America accountable for her crimesagainst our people.

Notably, even when actions are taken, Blackleadership implements these actions in isolationand silos with no real coordination and organiza-tion. Everyone is a free agent accountable only tothemselves and/or their organization.

Blacks are physically free to do whatever we de-sire to do; economically free to pool our resourcesto build our own economic pie; politically free toexercise our political will for the achievement ofour own political agenda; free to defend ourselvesagainst those who seek to harm us socially andeconomically; and free to build our own interpre-tation of American life.

If we want a new Black experience in America,we must use the freedom we have to build thisnew experience. If we are going to establish Black

life in America the way we desire it, we must dothe work and no one will or can do this for us, butus.

However, in doing so, it is essential that wework together. This unity in bringing about ashared vision of success is where we run into deep-rooted problems and we must again ask ourselves:Are we really free?

Brothers and sisters, we must stop making ex-cuses for what isn’t being done for us by other peo-ple. When we are free, what others do for us isirrelevant.

Understandably, if those who are in power areworking against us, it requires us to work harderand smarter to defeat them, but when we are free,we don’t have an excuse.

Let’s stop romanticizing about the problem as ifsomehow this ill-informed romance will exemptus from the real work that must be done to solvethe problem.

The real work involves first unifying our peoplebecause we have become so grossly divided. Wemust eliminate the excuses, stop the B.S and justdo it! We must come together as a group somewayand somehow. We must break the curse of WillieLynch and exercise our freedom to be truly free.

Today we’re physically free but we’re dividedin so many ways: colorism, skin tone (light vs.dark), intelligence, class, where you live (turf warsover areas we don’t even own); east vs. west, south

SIGNIFYIN’SIGNIFYIN’By Mikel Kweku Osei Holt

NATIONWIDE (BlackNews.com) -- Dr. Martin LutherKing, Jr. had only been buried for little more than a yearwhen the Stonewall Riots during the summer of 1969erupted in New York City, formally ushering in the GayRights Movement, and thereby effectively shifting the na-tion’s attention from Black rights to Gay rights.

With the militant political agenda of the Black Libera-tion Army and Black Panther Party, the United StatesPower Structure needed to find a relevant social issue thatcould effectively challenge and replace the Black agendaon television and in the newspaper.

For more than a decade, the Black civil rights movementhad commanded the attention of the American public, andthereby the attention of the government.

In order for White Privilege to remain safe from a com-plete revolutionary overhaul of it’s power relationship tothe Black underclass, a new minority issue would need tobe “created” that did not posit the elimination of racism asit’s core goal.

With the FBI orchestrated murders of the BlackAgenda’s leading charismatic organizers in Malcolm Xand Dr.King, the movement was left without a courageoussymbolic messiah that could simultaneously command theattention of the mainstream media and the federal legisla-ture.

The assassination of the late 20th Century’s dynamicduo of Black Leadership, Malcolm and Martin, left a void that was to be filledwith younger Black militant leaders who were in many respects more uncom-promising than their legendary predecessors.

Rather than make the mistake of allowing this young Black leadership toestablish a national movement, complete with a mainstream paparazzi fol-lowing their every move, as X and King had done, the Hoover Gang decided

to eliminate both Fred Hampton and George Jackson, de-spite the latter’s incarceration, thereby effectively cuttingthe head off of one of the most revolutionary potentialleadership contingencies since the loss of King and X fol-lowing their ’65 and ’68 state sponsored assassinations.Into this void, formerly occupied by the Black agenda,would be shuffled the White Gay Rights Movement.

Yes, Blacks were present in this movement also, but aswith most white run organizations, LBGT Blacks were rel-egated to invisibility as dues paying contributors with ab-solutely no decision making power.

Thusly, white supremacy was effectively rescued fromhaving to forfeit any degree of political power to angryBlack youth by being able to take the focus off of it’s mostdespised population and put it back on white people, byswitching over to a sexual rather than a racial agenda.

In so doing, the issues of unemployment, mis-education,mass incarceration, and race-based poverty, all concernswith a uniquely Black flavor, could be avoided outright,in deference to the homophile agenda.

Even before the Dr.King killing, Congress was alreadyplotting to eclipse the Black Civil Rights Agenda with theGay movement.

In fact, the language of the ’64 Civil Rights Bill was co-opted, following the assassination of President Kennedy,when the words “sex” and “gender” were entered into the

final draft, successfully paving the way for White women and White Gays tohemorrhage the benefits of this bill from Blacks and redirect them to membersof their own political in-groups.

It’s no secret that Affirmative Action programming, when it existed, bene-fitted White women more than the Blacks, who were the ones who actually

ALL LIVES MATTER...Multiculturalism as White Racism’s NewWeapon against the Black Agenda, Part One

GUESTGUESTCOMMENTARYCOMMENTARY

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“I don’t want you to let people keep telling you that ‘Black’ people can beracist--YOU CANNOT BE RACIST! The word does not exist for you. ...Racismmeans a POWER relationship--a power relationship between two groups,where one group owns and controls so much, that they can use their wealthand their power to deprive, hurt and injure another group--THAT’S WHATRACISM IS! And no place, can you find a ‘Black’ person on Earth who can be aracist. What you can get--AT BEST--is a ‘Black’ reactionary. ...If ‘Black’ folkhad been racist, they would have been racists 400 years ago. ...We can’tpractice racism. We don’t even have a community to practice racism.”

--Dr. Claud Anderson

By Dr. Umar JohnsonSchool Psychologist & Political Scientist,Founder of National Movement to Save Black Boys

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Justice or Else �Part 5: �We AreFree, Aren�t We?�

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October is Intimate Partner Aware-ness Month (formerly known as Do-mestic Abuse Awareness).

This month, allow this writer tospeak on a related topic: Teen DatingViolence. Dating violence is wide-spread with serious long-term andshort-term effects.

Many teens do not report it be-cause they are afraid to tell friendsand family.

A 2011 CDC nationwide surveyfound that 23% of females and 14%of males who ever experienced rape,physical violence, or stalking by anintimate partner, first experiencedsome form of partner violence be-tween 11 and 17 years of age.

A 2013 survey found approxi-mately 10% of high school studentsreported physical victimization and10% reported sexual victimizationfrom a dating partner in the 12 months before they weresurveyed.

Youth must be taught the characteristics of healthy andunhealthy relationships before they begin dating. Respectfor both oneself and others is a key characteristic ofhealthy relationships.

An unhealthy relationship, on the other hand, is whereone partner tries to exert control and power over the otherphysically, sexually, and/or emotionally.

Youth.gov compiled a list of traits that distinguishesbetween healthy and unhealthy relationships. Due tospace limitations, five characteristics each are presented.See more at: http://youth.gov/youth-topics/teen-dating-violence/characteristics#sthash.crnNq4qi.dpuf

Healthy RelationshipsHealthy relationships share certain characteristics that

teens should be taught to expect. They include:• Mutual Respect. Respect means that each person val-

ues who the other is and understands the other person’sboundaries.

• Trust. Partners should place trust in each other andgive each other the benefit of the doubt.

• Honesty. Honesty builds trust and strengthens the re-

lationship.• Compromise. In a dating rela-

tionship, each partner does not al-ways get his or her way. Each shouldacknowledge different points of viewand be willing to give and take.

• Individuality. Neither partnershould have to compromise whohe/she is, and his/her identity shouldnot be based on a partner’s. Eachshould continue seeing his/herfriends and doing the things he/sheloves.

Each should be supportive ofhis/her partner wanting to pursuenew hobbies or make new friends.

Unhealthy RelationshipsUnhealthy relationships are

marked by characteristics such asdisrespect and control. It is importantfor youth to be able to recognizesigns of unhealthy relationships be-

fore they escalate. Some characteristics of unhealthy re-lationships include:

• Control. One dating partner makes all the decisionsand tells the other what to do, what to wear, or who tospend time with. He or she is unreasonably jealous,and/or tries to isolate the other partner from his or herfriends and family.

• Disrespect. One dating partner makes fun of the opin-ions and interests of the other partner or destroys some-thing that belongs to the partner.

• Dependence. One dating partner feels that he or she“cannot live without” the other. He or she may threatento do something drastic if the relationship ends.

• Physical Violence. One partner uses force to get hisor her way (such as hitting, slapping, grabbing, or shov-ing).

• Sexual Violence. One dating partner pressures orforces the other into sexual activity against his or her willor without consent.

Beloved, it is extremely important to educate youthabout the value of respect and the characteristics ofhealthy and unhealthy relationships before they start to

Teen Dating Violence

BIBLICAL COUNSELING FOR TODAY’S

CHRISTIAN FAMILYBy Rev. Judith T. Lester,

B.Min., M.Th.

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Young girl meets Pope Francis during a ceremony after his speech at the White House. PresidentBarack Obama is standing nearby. First Lady Michelle Obama has her back to the camera. PHOTO:White House/Twitter

The worldwide leader of theRoman Catholic Church addressed ajoint meeting of the U.S. CongressSept. 24 and delivered a message thatwas seemingly pleasing to AfricanAmericans.

Pope Francis spoke to an audienceof the U.S. House of Representativesand the U.S. Senate as well as repre-sentatives from the diplomatic corpsand some members of the U.S.Supreme Court. Pope Francis, in hisone-hour, 10-minute speech, focusedon aiding the poor, accepting immi-grants as human beings needing helpand talked about Dr. Martin LutherKing Jr. and the Civil Rights Move-ment to the delight of U.S. Rep. G.K.Butterfield, D-N.C., chairman of theCongressional Black Caucus.

“The pope delivered a messagethat said to look out for your fellowhuman beings,” Butterfield said. “Hecharged those of us in the Congressto look out for those who are inpoverty and suffer from hunger. Hetold us that we have an obligation tolook out for those who can’t helpthemselves.”

Butterfield, who is Baptist, saidthat the pope’s reference to the workof King and the 50th anniversary ofthe Selma to Montgomery march wasappropriate because “those storiesare instructive.”

Nearly 31 percent of the Houseand Senate consider themselvesCatholics, compared with 22 percentof the general U.S. population, ac-cording to the Pew Research Reli-gion and Public Life Project. HouseSpeaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) andHouse Democratic Leader NancyPelosi (D-Calif.) are Catholics alongwith U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

CBC members who are Catholicsare Reps. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.,and Lacy Clay, D-Mo.,. Clay saidthat he liked what his religious leadersaid.

“The Holy Father Pope Francis’ in-spiring message challenged us to riseabove our petty divisions to protect

the planet, restore the dignity ofworkers, combat poverty and strivefor peace and social justice,” Claysaid. “He reminded us that all of uswere once immigrants and he ap-pealed to our greater capacity andmoral obligation to put faith into ac-tion to advance human dignity andthe common good.”

While the House chamber, wherethe pontiff spoke, was packed withvisitors in the gallery, tens of thou-sands of people watched the eventvia Jumbotrons set up on the WestLawn of the U.S. Capitol and on theNational Mall. Some people arrivedas early as 5 a.m. to witness thepope’s address and to be in his pres-ence.

Some African Americans, likeGwendolyn Anderson, came from

across the country to hear the popespeak. As an attorney in Chicagowho lived in Mississippi during thecivil rights era, she said the pope’sreference to the historic movementpleased her.

“He was tremendous,” Anderson,who is Catholic, said. “He under-stood the struggle that black peoplewent through. I went to TougalooCollege and King was frequently onmy college campus and I am gladthat the pope mentioned Dr. King’sdream.”

D.C. Council member BrandonTodd (D-Ward 4) was among thehundreds who were on the upper ter-race of the West Lawn. Todd said thepope’s message had a special mean-ing for him.

“The pope’s speech was very fo-cused and people-centered,” Todd, anEpiscopalian, said. “He encouragedus to do more to help the youth, theelderly and those of us who are mostneedy. I agree with him and that iswhy I ran for elected office.”

In his remarks, the pope said thatpoliticians should “initiate processinstead of occupying space.” WhenTodd, elected to the council in Aprilheard that, he chuckled in agreement

Blacks Embrace Pope Francis’ Addressto U.S. CongressBy James Wright--Special to the Trice Edney News Wirefrom the Afro AmericanNewspaper(TriceEdneyWire.com)

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McFadden, ElizabethAge 64 yrs. September 17, 2015. Funeral serviceswill be held on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at11AM. Visitation Thursday 10AM until time ofservices at:Northwest Funeral ChapelO'Bee, Ford & Frazier6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020Rowsey, GeorgeAge 57 yrs. September 8, 2015. Funeral serviceswill be held on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at1PM. Visitation Wednesday 12 Noon until time ofservices at:Northwest Funeral ChapelO'Bee, Ford & Frazier6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020Davis, Emma L.Age 87 yrs. September 17, 2015. Funeral serviceswill be held on Friday, September 25, 2015 at11AM at Greater Galilee Baptist Church 2432 N.Teutonia Ave. Visitation Friday 10AM at theCHURCH until time of services. The family isserved by:Northwest Funeral ChapelO'Bee, Ford & Frazier6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020

Reeves, William A.Age 89 yrs. September 18, 2015. AMemorial Service will be held onThursday, September 24, 2015 at6PM at Christ Presbyterian Church1930 W. Walnut St. The family isserved by:Northwest Funeral Chapel

O'Bee, Ford & Frazier6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020Baldwin, Kenneth W.Age 62 yrs. September 18, 2015. Funeral serviceswill be held on Monday, September 28, 2015 at11AM. Visitation Monday 10AM until time of serv-ices at:Northwest Funeral ChapelO'Bee, Ford & Frazier6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020Harmon, Rodney AlexanderFound peace on September 14, 2015 at the age of62 years. A Memorial Service will be held on Sat-urday, October 3, 2015 at 2:00PM at MetropolitanBaptist Church 1345 W. Burleigh St. The family is

served by:Northwest Funeral ChapelO'Bee, Ford & Frazier6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020

Lyday, Caspar W.Age 93 yrs. September 14, 2015. He was precededin death by his wife Virtrue D.F. Lyday. Mr. Lydaywas the owner of Caspar's Lounge on the cornerof 13th and Keefe Avenue. Caspar's Lounge wasalways know as a fun-filled neighborhood barthat many individuals enjoyed. He is survived byhis loving daughter Geri Lynne Lyday. Belovedbrother of Cleatus(Maria)Lyday and Ruby(Emer-son)Knox of Roseville, MI. Further survived byone little companion, Sinatra and a host of otherloving nephews, nieces and other loving relativesand friends. Funeral services will be held on Mon-day, September 21, 2015 at 11AM at Calvary Bap-tist Church 2959 N. Teutonia Ave. VisitationTODAY 3-6PM(Family reception from 6-7PM) at:Northwest Funeral ChapelO'Bee, Ford & Frazier6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020Barrett, Sherman L.Age 70 yrs. September 20, 2015. Funeral serviceswill be held on Monday, September 28, 2015 at1PM. Visitation Monday 12 Noon until time ofservices at:Northwest Funeral ChapelO'Bee, Ford & Frazier6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020Taylor, Jeannette Marie (Nee Cahn)Age 72 yrs. September 20, 2015. She was pre-ceded in death by her husband Walter Taylor.Beloved mother of Duane(Mary)Taylor of VA andDanielle Beal of SC. Loving daughter of MarjorieCahn. Sistter of Monte Cahn, Kenneth Cahn of Tx;Kevin Cahn, Stacey McKay and Taimika Johnson-Parker. Further survived by 4 grandchildren and ahost of other loving relatives and friends. Funeralservices will be held on Saturday, September 26,2015 at 11AM at Northside Church of God 4858 N.19th St. Visitation Saturday 10AM at the CHURCHuntil time of services. The family is served by:Northwest Funeral ChapelO'Bee, Ford & Frazier6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020

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Open Door Café Receives $3,000 Donation from AT&T Pioneers to Help Provide Free Meals to Milwaukee’s Needy

The Open Door Café received a $3,000 donation from the AT&T Wisconsin Pioneers to helpprovide free meals for Milwaukee’s homeless and needy families during an event at The Cathe-dral of St. John the Evangelist today. The donation is from the Pioneers’ Charitable Founda-tion.

The Open Door Café is the heart of the Cathedral’s commitment to outreach, providing a freehot lunch to approximately 180 people a day, 6 days a week. In addition, the Open Door Caféprovides transportation assistance, hygiene kits, and medical, veteran and housing-related out-reach to its meal guests.

“The Open Door Café helps fill a great need in Milwaukee by providing a hot meal to thehomeless and to those struggling,” said Gloria Van Aacken, president of the AT&T WisconsinPioneers. “We are very proud to support their mission through this financial donation and vol-unteer efforts.”

After the check presentation, the AT&T Pioneers joined other volunteers in serving food toguests. The Pioneers have been serving lunches at the Open Door Café for two to three days amonth since April 2007.

The Open Door Café serves any guests who are hungry and hasn’t turned anyone away in itshistory.

“The Open Door Café is a wonderful ministry that shows compassion to those in need in Mil-waukee through a hot meal,” said State Senator Lena Taylor. “We are fortunate to have somany great volunteers like the AT&T Pioneers giving of themselves to support our community.”

The Pioneers are a local organization of AT&T employees and retirees who are dedicated tovolunteering their time to various community causes. To learn more about the Open Door Café,please visit http://www.stjohncathedral.org/index.php/outreach-ministries/open-door-cafe/.

The AT&T Pioneers present a $3,000 donation to the Open Door Café in Milwau-kee to help provide free meals for the city’s homeless and needy families.Just as they did after last week Sunday’s game with several players from the Seat-

tle Seahawks, members of the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs kneelin the middle of Lambeau Field after their game and say words of thanks to theLord for delivering them to the conclusion with no series injuries to either team.The Packer’s won the game. (Photo by Kim Robinson)

Giving thanks after the game

Applications available forFire Cadet and Police Aide

The Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission is cur-rently accepting applications for Fire Cadet and PoliceAide!

Police Aides and Fire Cadets are full-time, paid posi-tions with a generous benefit package. If you are inter-ested in a career in public safety, these positions are foryou!

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July 1, 2016Applications are available online at www.milwau-

kee.gov/jobs and must be submitted by December 4,2015. For more information call the Fire and Police Com-mission at 414-286-5000.

Ald. Coggs Announces Winners of Sixth District Landscape Awards

At a 6th Aldermanic District town hall meeting Thursday night, Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs announced the winners ofthe 6th District Landscape Awards.

The winners include the Birchfield family at 2629 N. 4th St., the Ray family at 3520 N. 25th St. and the We Got ThisGarden at the corner of N. 9th Street and W. Ring Street. Honorable mentions include residents MingYon Blackwell, BarbaraJanczak and Josephine Jones.

“I want to thank all the great participants in this year’s landscape awards, and everyone who takes the time to beautifytheir neighborhood by maintaining creative landscaping on their property,” Alderwoman Coggs said. “The efforts of thesehard-working residents make this a more appealing place to live and, I truly believe, provide a boost to everyone’s qualityof life.”

Alderwoman Coggs reiterated her commitment to consistently supporting and encouraging the beautification and im-provement of the district’s neighborhoods. The landscape award is a part of Alderwoman Coggs’s broader Clean CityProject. “Congratulations to all of the winners and honorees,” Alderwoman Coggs said. “Thanks to all participants fordoing your part to keep Milwaukee beautiful!”

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The FBI Milwaukee Division is warning consumers tobe on alert for a phone scam that primarily targets collegestudents using the FBI’s phone number on caller ID.

The FBI has received multiple calls from college stu-dents at various universities in Wisconsin, and their par-ents complaining of a phone scam from someoneclaiming to be representing the U.S. government, andthreatens to arrest them if they fail to pay thousands ofdollars.

In each case, the threats are associated with false claimsranging from money owed for student loans, to delin-quent taxes, and overdue parking tickets.

During each attempt to gain personally identifiable in-formation from the students, the caller claims to have spe-cific student information. The originating number usedby the fraudsters, which appears on students’ caller ID ismasked as the number for the FBI’s local office in Wis-

College Students Targeted In Phone Scam

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Recently, state Sen. Lena Taylor (far left) and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch (far right)visited Grateful Girls Safe Haven, Milwaukee County’s first specialized group homefor young women ages 16-21 involved in the human trafficking industry. ChandraCooper (center), executive director of Grateful Girls, invited the lieutenant governorand senator to tour the group home and learn more about the services providedby the organization, and to engage them in a discussion about the impact of humantrafficking in the city of Milwaukee. (Photo by Yvonne Kemp)

Lawmaker and Lt. Governor visit Grateful

Spotlight Schools showcase successMADISON — Ten schools across the state have re-

ceived $25,000 grants to showcase successful practicesthat improve student achievement. The 2015-16 Wiscon-sin Spotlight Schools are

• Academy of Accelerated Learning, Milwaukee PublicSchools;

• Bruce Middle School, Bruce School District;• Converse Elementary School, Beloit School District;• Grant Elementary School, Sheboygan Area School

District;• Howe Elementary School, Wisconsin Rapids School

District;• Lawrence-Lawson Elementary School, Sparta Area

School District;• Longfellow Elementary School, Eau Claire Area

School District;• Mercer School, Mercer School District;• Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary School, Nor-

walk-Ontario-Wilton School District; and• Tiffany Creek Elementary School, Boyceville Com-

munity School District.“These schools all have a record of increasing aca-

demic performance for students from low-income fami-lies,” said State Superintendent Tony Evers. “Openingtheir doors to other schools, becoming a school forschools so to speak, will advance our efforts to closeachievement gaps and ensure every child graduates col-lege and career ready.”

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date. Youth may not be equipped with the necessary skills to develop and main-

tain healthy relationships, and may not know how to break up in an appropri-ate way when necessary. Maintaining open lines of communication with one’steen may help them form healthy relationships and recognize the signs of un-healthy relationships, thus preventing dating violence before it starts.

The writer does not assume responsibility in any way for readers’ effortsto apply or utilize information or recommendations made in this article, asthey may not be necessarily appropriate for every situation to which they mayrefer. This information is for educational purposes only. If you would like tocontact Rev. Lester, write to her c/o P.O. Box 121, Brookfield, WI. 53008.

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Happy Earth Day to my youngest daughter AzizaCourtney who turns 27 years old on October 3rd.She is outspoken, pro-Black and down for her peo-ple. With love your Daddy.

Old School: We Ain’t Through Yet! – Brothers andSisters 50 years and older are invited to put yourparty shoes on, so you can dance or pat your feet tothe music. On Friday Night October 2,,2015 from6pm-8pm start your night off at Coffee Makes YouBlack 2803 N. Teutonia Ave. Jon Gee and AhvantSoul Band will be playing many of the songs of the60’s and 70’s artists like Curtis Mayfield, Al Green,Johnny Taylor, Billy Stewart, James Brown, Al Jar-reau, and other greats.

Admission is free. As soon as this party is overand you’re already to keep on keeping on, then joinus at the Wisconsin African American Women’s Cen-ter 3020 W. Vliet St. for the Soul Lounge featuringJeannie Holiday from 8:15pm until. This party is sponsored by the Hansberry Sands Theater Com-pany and the cover charge is only $10.00. If you got children in their 30’s and 40’s that grew up lis-tening to your music then invite them to come along with you and party with you so you can showthem how it’s done right. A lot of our young people don’t really know how to party. Let’s show themhow it’s done.

“Dedicated to Black Men That Got Black Men’s Fronts” have extended the deadline for sponsorshipuntil October 24, 2015. We are waiting until after the Million Man March so that other Black men willbe inspired to participate. If you are interested in sponsoring a Black man that has played a signifi-cant role in your life by recognizing him in a full page advertisement that will be appearing in theMilwaukee Community Journal newspaper call Tony Courtney at 374-2364. The cost is $25.00 pername. The Black man you sponsor can be living or have transitioned to the world of our Ancestors.

Women's Healing Dance - Sisters you are invited to come and experience the power of dance andhealing on Friday, October 2, 2015. Doors open at 6:30pm at 4712 W. fond du Lac Ave.(upstairs).Wear comfortable clothes. For more information call Zakiya Courtney at 526-9329.This event ishosted by theAusar Auset Society.

FROMTHEBLACKBy Tony Courtney

Tony Courtney and hisdaughter Aziza Courtney

consin. The public is reminded; the FBI

does not call private citizens request-ing money. If citizens receive a callthat seems suspicious, they shoulddisconnect immediately and notifylaw enforcement.

If you receive these calls, do notfollow the caller’s instructions.Rather, you should:

• Notify your banking institutions. • Contact the three major credit bu-

reaus and request an alert be put onyour file.

• Contact your local law enforce-ment agencies if you feel you are inimmediate danger.

• File a complaint through the In-ternet Crime Complaint Centerwww.IC3.gov.

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College Students Targeted InPhone Scam

School. They received the 2015-16grant for success in the area of teach-ing and learning as well as one of theother five areas of effective schoolspractices: decision making and ac-countability; family, school and com-munity partnerships; leadership andgovernance; professional develop-ment and teacher quality; or vision,values, culture and climate.

Schools receiving grants are eligi-ble for Title I funding, a federal grantprogram designed to give educationalassistance to students living in areasof high poverty.

Grants cover expenses related totravel, substitute teachers, and mate-rials to share effective practices withthree visiting school teams during the2015-16 school year.

Additional grant funds are used tosupport continuous school improve-ment in the Spotlight School.

Visiting school teams typicallyhave the opportunity to directly ob-serve classroom instruction, collabo-

ration meetings, and interventiongroups as well has hear presentationson topics such as using data to driveinstruction or how a school’s visioncan support common planning time,exploratory classes, and behavioralexpectations.

Visiting school teams also haveopportunities to interact with Spot-light School staff. One visitingteacher wrote that the time spent vis-

iting her host school was more bene-ficial than any workshop that she hadattended in the last five years.

“To be able to ask professional ed-ucators what is working or not work-ing and to learn from theirprocedures was huge,” she said.

The Department of Public Instruc-tion has awarded Spotlight Schoolgrants to 33 schools since the pro-gram began in the 2011-12 school

year. Those schools have hosted more

than 1,050 visitors from 174 Wiscon-sin schools. Due to reductions in fed-eral funds that support recognitionprograms for high performingschools, 2015-16 is anticipated to bethe last year of the grant.

with the pontiff.“That’s my job,” he said,” to make people’s lives better.”Todd was invited by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) to attend the address.

Bowser was in the House chamber where the pope spoke and has followedthe pontiff throughout his schedule in the District.

Among the hundreds on the upper terrace with Todd was Republican pres-idential candidate Dr. Ben Carson. Carson said that he couldn’t understandsome of what the pope said because of his sometime incomprehensible Eng-lish, but supported the pope’s message in principle.

“The pope said that he supports preserving the family, preserving life andpreserving the environment,” Carson, a conservative, said. “I don’t see thosethings as necessarily liberal, and who would argue with those things?”

Rep. Mark Stanford, R-S.C., invited Carson to the pope’s address.After his speech, the pope, along with the leaders of the U.S. Congress and

Vice President Biden, appeared on the Speaker’s Balcony overlooking theWest Lawn and the National Mall. The pontiff, in Spanish, said that he wasdelighted by the number of children who were present.

Samuel Merga, a junior at Archbishop Carroll High School in the District,said he was happy to be in the pope’s presence.

“I am interested in government and politics and I am religious,” Mergasaid. “I am not Catholic, but I did want to hear what he had to say.”

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… I thought I had met the perfect man. His name wasNefarious and he made me want to love again. But astime went on, Nefarious began to change. I began to rec-ognize things so dark and sinister within him, as Iwatched him go from the man that I loved to ultimatelybeing the wolf that had lied in wait for me.

A wolf, my wolf, so evil that he moved my watchtower,deceived me into leaving behind my lifeboat and ulti-

mately into losing sight of the lighthouse that had alwaysbeen in place for me. And it was by way of my wolf, that Iwas led away from this world and to others. Worlds thatwere so terrifyingly dark and unforgiving.

And for a moment, I left it all behind and stayed in thisworld. I stayed far beyond the point of rationality andbasic human instinct.

And it was in this world, his world, that I encounteredan indescribable darkness. The place where evil wasbeing housed…

There are things in this world, in this life, that will hap-pen to you. Things that will forever change who you areand what you believe to be real. For me, meeting Nefari-ous was my turning point.

Local writer Regina Cooper of Mil-waukee, will debut her first work ofnon-fiction, “The Wolves That Lie InWait.” Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,“The Wolves That Lie in Wait” is thestory of what can happen when a“sheep” meets a “wolf” and when“the flesh” battles “the spirit.”

It is the story of how wolves getawakened and become their most ravenous inhunger. And how these wolves “hunt” for otherhuman beings.

It is the story of deceit, manipulation and hypocrisyat the most inhumane level.

It is the story of a writer’s brush with true darknessand the real sub-levels of evil that she found amongus in this world. It is a story that will ultimately leavethe reader questioning, “Who is the wolf in their life?”

Cooper has planned her book release party for Oc-tober 8, and has chosen the venue of The Big Eazy,2053 West Martin Luther King Drive, to formallylaunch her book.

Cooper is a free-lance writer for The MilwaukeeTimes and a former Community Columnist for TheMilwaukee Journal Sentinel.

She is a produced playwright and motivationalspeaker.

In addition, she is in the process of developing acompany that will both encourage and inspire othersin the pursuit of their dreams.

BOOKSHELF

Milwaukee writer’s debut book focuses onthe battle between “theflesh” and “the spirit”

Regina Cooper

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fought, marched and died for its passage. In addition to sexual orientation, since multiple strategies and options are

always more desirable that just one towards doing away with an undesirablegroup of people, White Racism has also effectively employed the WhiteWomen’s movement as an additional “minority” issue that could be used towrestle attention away from the priorities of Afrikan-Americans in the States.The government’s usage of the White Women’s Agenda, as a distraction fromthe Black rights initiative, dates back to the years of American slavery, whenin 1850 the First National (White) Women’s Convention took place in Mas-sachusetts, the exact same year that the Fugitive Slave Bill was enacted byCongress.

When Black leaders of the Abolitionist struggle attempted to raise aware-ness against this new and most powerful legal mandate, which threatened tomake every northern Black freeman a slave, the majority of America’s news-papers remained unsympathetic and callous towards the Abolitionists, and in-stead chose to print only on the women’s rights cause as their primary socialjustice concern at the time.

Even the Great Frederick Douglass had to take a stand against the attemptsby White women to equate their struggle with the struggle for the emancipa-tion of the only enslaved population in world history to be considered lessthan human.

When Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton suggested that Dou-glass delay his fight for the right of free Black men to vote, until Whitewomen had the same, Douglass as Black America’s leading freedom fighterat the time, exclaimed that the racism and violence against Blacks in Americamade their cause more pressing than that of White women, all of whom hadhusbands who could cast a vote in their honor.

President Obama also did his part to placate the White women’s agendawhile ignoring the pressing issues of an embattled Black minority by fightingfor the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

Interestingly, this law amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act, but doesn’t, inany way, focus upon the primary objective of the ’64 Civil Rights Bill whichwas to bring equality to Blacks.

Rather than focus on the disproportionate and disgraceful unemploymentlevels of Black men, women and children, which are significantly higher thanthe national average, instead the 1st Black president, as all of his predecessorshave done, ignored the Black agenda in deference to a “convenient” minorityissue, the pay rate of privileged White females.

The fact that half of the Black men in most major American cities are un-employed was of no concern to the 44th President of the United States. Un-fortunately, the Feminist wing of the White Women’s Rights Movement hasits greatest source of support from an unlikely ally, young Black college ed-ucated females.

Benefitting from a racist political-economic strategy that intentionally mis-educates and under employs Black men, while simultaneously providing

slightly more opportunity for Black women, many college-educated Blackwomen have been able to improve their academic and financial standings inAmerican society, unfortunately while also suffering the brainwash of theAmerican Social Order by falling for the Illusion of Inclusion Argumentagainst Black men, which chiefly posits that Black males have the same op-portunity as anyone else, and therefore are in their current educational-eco-nomic situation because they choose to be.

Although most Black women recognize the institutionally racist Americanpolicies that strip Black males of their right to fix their lives after paying theirdebts to society, a growing contingency of “liberated” Black women exposeno concern for the plight of their Brothers. In fact, some younger-generationBlack women will use the fact that Black women out-earn their counterpartsas justification for their belief in the superiority of Black women over Blackmen.

This is in direct contradiction to traditional Afrikan culture which firmlyposits the equality of Men and Women. In fact, the central focus of Afrikansociety is the family itself, thereby arranging a successful life path for thechildren.

Traditional Afrikan culture is based upon the harmony between feminineand masculine energy in the community, with neither being more importantthan the other. Such a treatise has been totally lost on the minds of 21st cen-tury college-educated Afrikan-Americans of both genders.

If having the government ignore the rights of the descendants of the veryAfrikan people who built this country, and who also paved the way for itscurrent world super power status isn’t enough, in preference to the concernsof White LGBT’s and White women, added to this equation is the final pieceof this Trinity of Deception, and that would be the Latino Rights Movement.Whereas some Afrikan-Americans can clearly see the contradiction of havingthe Black Rights Struggle integrated with privileged White women and gaymovements, the U.S government needed to find a non-white minority agendaissue towards which it could redirect it’s resources away from Afrikan-Amer-icans.

The most effective weapon to date has been to use America’s largest non-white minority group to draw attention away from the Black agenda. Givingmore attention to the Latino rights struggle has been constantly defended bythe United States government due to the growing size of this constituency.

In 2003, the United States Census Bureau boldly proclaimed that Latino’swere the largest non-White minority group in the country, surpassing Afrikan-Americans with a population of just under 40 million, and expected to tripleby 2050.

However, what this statistic doesn’t include is the process by which Latino’swere “made” the largest non-white minority group in the United States. Gov-ernment strategies to hold steady the growth of the Black population, whileallowing the Latino population to explode include: a) keeping Afrikan &Afrikan-Caribbean immigration rates as low as possible, b) encouraging andfinancing multiple birth control, sterilization & abortion methods for Blackwomen of nearly all ages, c) instigating record-breaking Black male fratriciderates via the CIA’s inner-city drug trade, d) engineering one of the highest in-fant mortality rates in the developed world for Black children, e) and struc-turing the highest Black criminal and mental institutionalization rates in recenthistory.

Without question, Latino didn’t merely “out birth” Blacks, but they re-ceived some unintended assistance from the U.S government on their way tobecoming “minority group numero uno.”

Still further, the propaganda from American media and governmentalspokespersons constantly attempts to draw a parallel between the Latinostruggle and the Black struggle for rights in this country.

This is done to hypnotize politically uneducated Blacks into thinking thatthey actually have something in common with Latino immigrants, both legaland illegal, in this country.

This has been an especially effective strategy as the new public conversa-tion on race and civil rights has straightjacketed Black leadership into alwaysincluding the Latino plight whenever they discuss the plight of Afrikan-Amer-icans.

In fact, most Black leaders and scholars are afraid to discuss Black issueswithout including their so-called Latino brothers and sisters. However, thereverse is rarely true, as Latino leadership hardly ever includes the issues ofAfrikan-Americans in any meaningful way. In no place is this disproportion-ate favoritism shown more towards Latinos, to the detriment of Blacks, thanin the field of public education. In fact, most non-white educational legislationsince the ’64 Civil Rights Bill has focused to a very large and concentrateddegree on Latino children to the exclusion of Afrikan-American children.

During 1963, even before public schools were desegregated for Blacks,Latino children began receiving bilingual education. It was in 1970, whileBlack parents were still fighting to have their children bused into whiteschools, that the government declared Latino children couldn’t be denied ed-ucation for not being able to speak English.

Even in 1974, Congress passed the Equal Educational Opportunity Act,which single-handedly made Spanish an official language in public school.So while the U.S government was working to make schooling more conven-ient and accessible for Latino children, it was preparing to deal Black youththeir worse setback since Jim Crow when during the following year in 1975,it formally gave birth to the first federal special education law, via the Edu-cation for All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142) which saw the re-seg-regation of Black children away from White children with rates not witnessedsince the pre-Brown V Board Supreme Court ruling of 1954. --Part Two NextWeek!

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“...white supremacy was ef-fectively rescued from havingto forfeit any degree of politi-cal power to angry Blackyouth by being able to takethe focus off of it’s most de-spised population and put itback on white people, byswitching over to a sexualrather than a racial agenda.”

vs. north, hair (coarse vs. straight or long vs. short), and age (young vs. old);politically (anti-politics vs. pro-politics, Democrat vs. Republican, or pro-gressive vs. conservative); religiously (Christian vs. Muslim); within Chris-tian religion (Baptist vs. Jehovah Witness, COGIC vs. 7th Day Adventist,Methodist vs. Pentecostal); within the Islam Religion (Sunni vs. Nation ofIslam, Sallifiyah vs. Ahmadiayyah); and lastly and most deadly, we are di-vided as a family unit (male vs. female). These differences are physical dif-ferences that point to a bigger, psychological divide around approach andmethodology.

The Willie Lynch torture approach was used to engrain and deeply embedwithin the psyche of the Black man a high level of distrust, which, if properlymanipulated, is stronger than trust. Envy, if correctly instigated, is stronger

than adulation, respect or admiration. One of the most detrimental and mostsignificant divide was the strategy to pit the Black male against the Black fe-male.

To be successful, the slave-owners taught the Black female that she couldnot depend on the Black man nor could the Black man trust the Black woman(this attitude is in full operation today). “If done with fidelity, the female,from a survival perspective, will teach the children to follow suit in perpetu-ity.”

Today, although we are physically free, we do not fully understand the mag-nitude of the psychological harm that has been done to us and the degree towhich our minds and psyche have been damaged and destroyed. Notwith-standing, we have made individual gains and accomplishments (it reallyspeaks to our greatness and resiliency), but what would those gains and ac-complishments look like if we were united? Given the level of competitionand the significant place we find ourselves in, you would think that this real-ization would be universally acknowledged. Many of us realize that we arebehind, but we don’t really comprehend and fully appreciate how far behindwe are as a group. This can be confusing for many of us. Emancipation wasnot a starting line for us because, even though we were freed, we did not havethe capacity to compete fairly and we have yet to achieve that capacity. There-

fore, I would argue that we are not only at zero; we are way below zero in thedeep negatives (i.e. negative 500 years).

Let me try to explain further. If you are in the negative and you move closerto zero (starting place), this is progress, unless you believe that you are atzero and therefore you do not appear to progress. Black people have beenfooled into believing that the starting place is zero when our competition(those that we will compete against) already owns it all. They own all of theresources; they control all of the institutions; they control every level of gov-ernment; and they control the propaganda and the media that communicatesto everyone this imbalance is fair. The problem is that Black people, notknowing our own history and how it has affected us, believe that our start(zero) is at emancipation. So if you do the math, we’re 500 years behind thechildren of the slave-owners and because of the damage of slavery, we havebeen “made” to act like slaves even though we are were physically free. Sig-nificantly, we have been ‘made’ to serve others always, even at the expenseof our own.

With freedom comes responsibility and to our detriment, we spend toomuch time talking about what others are doing to us. I always say, it’s notwhat they are doing to us anymore, it’s more what we are not doing- and whatwe are not doing is leveraging our collective strengths. What we are not doingis working together at any meaningful level. We are more divided now thanever. Aren’t we supposed to be more accomplished; more sophisticated; moreastute; more savvy; more educated; more resourced; and more experiencedthan our ancestors were? Then, what’s is going on with these contradictionsand why can’t we accomplish more than they did? Why can’t we place oursurvival in our unity and begin to work together? Are we truly free?

When we don’t work together to address our challenges, it equates to self-destructive behavior. Maybe this behavior would be acceptable IF BLACKSWERE NOT THE LOWEST PERFORMERS AND AT THE LOWESTLEVEL ON THE ECONOMIC STRATA OR DID NOT EXPERIENCESUCH ALARMING DISPARITIES THAT IT WILL REQUIRE THE HIGH-EST LEVEL OF ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE TO ALLOW THEWORK TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL GENERATIONSJUST TO THWART THE DISPARITIES, LET ALONE BRIDGE THEM.

When I speak about self-destructive behavior, I’m not just talking aboutthose with the least means and education and what we see happening in oururban core (i.e. teen pregnancy, Black on Black murder, tattoos and vulgarmusic, etc.), With limited access to quality education, unstable family life,and the inheritance of social pathologies, which all contribute to self-destruc-tion, , in many cases, this group cannot interrupt this behavior without help,guidance, and tangible support. Importantly, when I speak about self-destruc-tive behavior, I am also talking about the self-destructive behavior of our mostaccomplished and most influential (leaders).

This leadership includes those Blacks who have the capacity, knowledge,and resources and are not a part of the struggle in fighting for justice for Blackpeople. In many respects, our behavior is much worse and more damagingto the Black cause because we represent a tangible solution that goes unful-filled. We represent the highest level of talent and capacity that has the bestchance to provide leadership and solutions to the problems that the Blackcommunity face. In many respects, we are the help, guidance, and the tangi-ble support that Black people who are trapped educationally, economically,and socially need. If we are not providing this assistance to our people andwe are free to do so, the incomprehensible question we must ask yourself is-Why?

Is it because we are not truly free? Unfortunately, too many of us are soimpressed with our credentials, pedigrees, and appointments that the whiteestablishment has anointed us with that we have fallen deeper in love withour oppression, even to having the distinction of becoming an honorary whiteperson.

Instead of using our skills and talents to advance the Black agenda, we aretoo busy trying to prove how assimilated we can be. Think about it. I’m notsaying that this applies to everyone, but it has affected enough of us so thatnothing remotely organized is coming from this group. For too many of us,our whole existence is about seeking the pleasure of those who seek to do usharm and really don’t want anything to do with us.

However, our self-loathing is overwhelming and we are too “in love” tosee the reality of our oppression. In fact, this behavior is exactly what WillieLynch said would happen if the slave-owners would institute “making aslave”, the psychological science of mind control-- estated differently--”brain-washing.”

The Community Journal threw its might and influence behind the campaign(the only local paper to do so). We shared Polly’s vision and her Black na-tionalistic philosophy. Education is the last destination of the civil rightsmovement, we editorialized. If our children are not educated and taught truth,we become a rootless tree.

The new system of educational revolution required that parents be givenan option. And parents quickly embraced that possibility, seeking to sendtheir children to the same community schools where Judge Joe Donald, Con-gresswoman Gwen Moore and Alderman Russell Stamper attended. Theywanted to send their children to the same schools where MPS teachers senttheir children, and to pose the question to teachers as to why they didn’t sendtheir children to the schools where they taught.

But something happened on the way to the Promised Land: owners andbusinesses that didn’t share the culture and motivations that we shared atHarambee, Urban Day and Bruce Guadalupe, entered the program.

Check that. Some of the new school owner/operators were well intentioned,but inexperienced and or ill prepared to handle the important responsibilitiesof running a school.

As goes the old saying: “Just because you’re a good cook doesn’t meanyou should open a restaurant?”

Most of those schools eventually fell by the wayside. Unfortunately, theydetoured hundreds of lives in the interim, and for that we should be unfor-giving.

Then there are the predatory poverty pimps, profit motivated entities thatare created not to benefit the children, but the adults. Sadly, there are dozensof them among the 130 schools participating in the program, with “Negroes”or “Judases” heading most of them.

Many folks would include Pinkney’s “Daughters of the Father ChristianAcademy” among that latter group. After a succession of alarming problemsat the school over the past four years, Pinkney closed the doors nine daysinto the current school semester, leaving 150 students in limbo.

I can think of a dozen others who fit the profile, all of which tapped intothe choice program to the tune of the O’Jays’ hit song, “For the Love ofMoney,” not children.

Several individuals who run these sham schools have managed to con thetaxpayers into paying their elaborate salaries while their charges--the chil-dren--fail miserably in the basic “Three Rs.”

Some within the school choice community want to hide their heads in thesand about this problem, noting the success of a third of the schools at theother end of the spectrum like Hope, St. Marcus and Messmer. Hope not onlyholds the distinction of being the only local high school with a 100% gradu-

ation rate, but 100% of its graduates are accepted into college. Last year theyearned over $2 million in scholarships. Messmer was right behind in gradu-ation rate and college acceptance. They are joined by dozens of other schools,mostly sectarian.

But the bad onions, the corrupt and the chaotic, often overshadow thosesuccesses, particularly in a media starved for sensationalism.

In the middle is the Department of Public Instruction, which some say hasbeen complicit in perpetuating the negatives. Many theorize DPI could have,and can still close those questionable schools through safeguards built intothe MPCP legislation. That the department does so little is questionable, atbest.

There was also a screening process introduced several years ago that hasapparently gone by the wayside. The brother appointed to head it found him-self sued by several ‘’Black” school administrators when he ruled they didnot bring enough to the table to insure the success of their students.

Which leaves us at a turning point. But instead of standing still, I say let’smove forward, full speed ahead. Like a cancer, let’s cut out the not so good,the bad and the ugly.

I don’t have a full recipe to prepare that would eliminate the problemschools, but what ever is developed should include an ingredient that wouldallow for the closing of failing schools.

For example, instead of requiring schools to meet one of four legislativecriteria as a condition of remaining in the program—attendance, academicperformance, grade advancement and parental involvement—I would in-crease that number to two, or three, along the lines of the charter schools.

I would recreate the screening board, but indemnify it, so the victims offruitless lawsuits would not shoulder the burden for legal fees.

I would also allocate funds for a public education program through whichparents would be educated on school history, academic records, staffing andother participating school criteria. Truth of the matter is most parents useword of mouth or proximity to their home as the primary criteria for schoolselection. Many are ignorant of what to look for in a school. Maybe we shouldhire liaisons as well.

I would even go so far as to have school operators being forced to sign apersonal conduct, commitment contract. Those who violate the contractwould be jailed, kicked out of town and forced to listen to Al Sharpton 24hours a day.

Hey, poverty pimps who knowingly bring harm to our children should bethrown under the Freedom Train.

And particular scrutiny should to be given to those operators of privateschools who use the Lord’s name in vain. They not only deceive the publicby falsely linking their schools with religious connotations, but also are anaffront to God in the process. In other words, it is not just a civil crime, buta moral one. And God does not play that.

“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—tostumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung aroundtheir neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” —Matthew 18:6

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