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Yvonne ArceneauxCouncilwoman District 3

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In light of President Obama’S recent initiatives re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba, we are airing our TV program “Havana Lights” – A visit to modern Havana. A look at Cuban History from the Cuban perspective.

See some of the sights and sounds of Havana now that the U.S. Government has begun to normalize diplomatic relations with our closest Caribbean neighbor. Havana was started after Chris Columbus stopped there and thus it is one of the oldest colonial European founded cities in the Americas and is over 600 years old now. Older than any city in the U.S. of A.

The majority of the population are people descended from the Spanish colonists Africans captured into slavery generations ago. The Cuban-Spanish-

American War in 1898 began when the majority Cuban population revolted against their Spanish overlords for freedom and a non-discriminatory economy and society.

The United States via Teddy Roosevelt and the Buffalo Soldiers interceded After the battleship Maine somehow got detonated in Havana Harbor.

The U.S.A. made a treaty with Spain in Paris 2 years later without Cuban participation, leading to decades of U.S. government participation of Cuban economic and government affairs. Which ended with the Castro revolution in 1959 and the nationalization of U.S. owned properties of Hilton and Standard oil companies in 1960 which lead to the embargo of Cuba for the last 50 years.

Each of the island nations of the Caribbean have a history to tell. A tale that is similar and familiar in historical type, but each island had different European invaders and their populations made unique responses to historical forces availed against them.

The details of this varied history are revealed in the program with historical facts influences highlighted by the local Cuban people in their Museum of the Revolution. Which shows many of the personalities that drove the creation of a new society and economy in Cuba in response to the unique island stresses created by outside influences on the Cuban nation.

Now that the U.S. has restored diplomatic relations with Cuba, what will this mean for black Cubans? How will African-Americans be received in Cuba?

That depends upon your command of Spanish actually for it makes it easier to navigate there.

Omar Diaz is a 28-year-old black Cuban actor living in Miami who immigrated to the U.S. when he was 4 years old. He said that while he’S rooting for a democratic Cuba, he hopes that black Cubans will continue to benefit from the Castro revolution’s decree that Cubans prioritize nationalism over race.

Ruben, a 52-year-old black photographer and book publisher still living in Cuba. Spoke passionately about racial inequality in Cuba, but he explained why he and most black Cubans don’t quite see themselves as Afro-Cuban or black Cuban—just Cuban.

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Cuba Is Opening Up To The USA

First cousins Elia E. Espuet and Sira Perez, on the other hand, both strongly identify as Afro-Cubans. Both women, ages 63 and 62 respectively, immigrated to the U.S. when they were teenagers in the late 1960s, Fidel Castro having assumed power in 1959.

They could easily pass as African Americans, though they vividly remember how they were advised not to, in order to escape the brutality facing black Americans fighting for civil rights. That distinction—Cuba’S kind of racism versus America’S kind of racism—stuck with them. They maintain that black Cubans have it better in some ways on that front.

Georgina Rodriguez, 53—their mulatto, as she describes herself, cousin (who was categorized as “white” in Cuba when she was born)—doesn’t want Americans spewing their “racial framework” and “neoconservatism” all over Cuba. She argues that the former doesn’t account for all of Cuba’S ethnicities, and the latter will only widen the inequality gap.

As American influences trickle into Cuba in the years to come, there a concern that the racial progress that Castro’S communism ushered in will become undone. For that was one reason for the Cuban Revolution in the first place.

Elia Espuet, said “I’m inclined to believe that as relations with Cuba and the United States go forward, the rich white Cubans will marginalize the black Cubans on the island. Unfortunately, I don’t see things becoming better for black Cubans.

There’S poverty in Cuba. Black Cubans—who were always marginalized—have felt that the hardest. Will their financial well-being improve if the embargo is lifted and American dollars start to trickle into Cuba with more ease and less restrictions?

Omar Diaz says “I’m looking forward to the economic benefits. Most black Cubans aren’t receiving financial help from relatives abroad—like white Cubans do—because, remember, blacks didn’t leave Cuba at the time of the revolution. Castro’S policies appealed mostly to the poor, so they stayed.

Now that the channels are opening up, someone like me, a black Cuban, can go back to my island, open up a business there, or open up a business here in the U.S. and help my black Cuban relatives.”

Many Americans are now looking at Cuba for an interesting vacation or maybe even investment opportunities. Certainly many Cuban American are contemplating opening new businesses with relatives in Cuba now that it is easier for capital to move from country to country.

At the same time the Castro government is worried about the forces of capital undermining the social gains of the revolution. How this all works out and evolves with be fascinating in the future. But it looks like relations between Cuba and the USA are finally starting to normalize.

It certainly appears that it took a black president, one who could empathize and understand the serious concerns which lead to the Cuban Revolution in the first place, to finally normalize relations with the USA after 50 years.


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Yvonne Arceneaux Councilwoman District 3

A native Californian, Councilwoman Yvonne Arceneaux retired from the Compton Unified School District after 26 years of dedicated service and commitment to the education of Compton’s youth.

Councilwoman Arceneaux was elected to the Compton City Council in 1993, to represent the Third District. She has faithfully served five terms and on July 1, 2013 she started her sixth term. Mrs. Arceneaux has the distinction of having the second longest tenure of service in the history of the Compton City Council. She takes pride in her community activism and involvement in numerous civic organizations.

While serving as Councilwoman, Mrs. Arceneaux has been especially responsive to the needs of the community and has served as a formidable advocate on behalf of her constituents. Key focal points have been overall beautification of the City, with a special emphasis on improving and revitalizing the Compton Creek.

Councilwoman Arceneaux chairs the Compton Creek Task Force. Under her leadership, the group has been the driving force behind the development of a master plan for the Compton Creek Regional Garden Park, a multi-million dollar project that includes new open space for the City and improvements to the creek and surrounding neighborhoods. When completed, the park will provide opportunities for recreation for children of all ages, and is expected to attract tourism from around the world.

Councilwoman Arceneaux, in collaboration with members of LMU, sent one of Compton’s teachers to the Urban Ecology Institute at Boston College for one week of training for educators. This is a nationwide program and is used to inspire student learning and affective outcomes in relation to Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM ) careers. The students eat what they grow and are conducting scientific investigations regarding food production.

During her 21 years in office, Mrs. Arceneaux has initiated numerous projects and programs that have benefited not only the City of Compton, but also surrounding communities. Some of her most noteworthy achievements include, but are not limited to, the following: The Compton Crime Task Force, the Father of the Year Awards Ceremony, and the Seniors Are Compton’s Sweethearts Award. Mrs. Arceneaux also championed passage of the ordinance that made Compton the first city in the State of California to ban alcohol and tobacco billboards. She also championed passage of the Loud Noise ordinance. To help keep Compton clean, safe and healthy, Councilwoman Arceneaux presented council with a Smoke Free Initiative.

Councilwoman Arceneaux is a Board Member of the Compton Creek Mosquito Abatement District where she addresses issues such as the West Nile virus. In April 2009 she was appointed Director of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. This agency is a consortium of 26 cities and water district that provides drinking water nearly 19 million people in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura County. While serving as Director, she was instrumental in the City approving sponsorship of the Solar Cup Program, which is the nation’s largest solar-powered boat competition, for Compton High School students. Under the Solar Cup Program she encouraged the youth to prepare for engineering careers, environmental science and communication.

Councilwoman Arceneaux and her husband, Herbert, have lived in the City of Compton for over 45 years, where they have raised their three children. Mrs. Arceneaux is an active member of the Holy Chapel Missionary Baptist Church of Compton.


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The recent incredible NFC championship game won by the Seattle Seahawks was a great example of an important principle that affects the way we perceive and assess the sports games we see, and it should

affect the way teams prepare for their games and are treated by coaches and management. If you saw the game, you saw one of the most amazing comebacks in sports history as the Seahawks came back from a 19-7 deficit in the final three minutes of the game and then won it in overtime. One of the pivotal plays in that stretch was a Seahawks onside kick that Packer tight end Brandon Bostick, playing special

It’s Never Just One Play

teams, had his hands on but couldn’t hang on to, which then was recovered by Seattle’s Chris Matthews. There is much to learn from that play. Let’s take a look.

After the play, as time wound down in regulation time and overtime, a despondent Bostick sat on the sideline with his head down, convinced he had cost Green Bay the game and its season, especially when he saw Seattle put together a quick score that gave them a most improbable lead of 22-19 after a miraculous two-point conversion (more on that later). Naturally, when the final result was in and he admirably answered every reporter’s question in front of his locker after the game, he was feeling inconsolable. Of course, it didn’t help that when Bostick came off the field after the unfortunate play he was very strongly reprimanded by

special teams coach Shawn Slocum. To begin with, destroying Bostick emotionally even further than his self-awareness and conscience already were did not change the result of the play or help the Packer cause in any way. It did give Slocum a chance to take out his anger and disappointment on someone else, to have at least a target for his extreme dissatisfaction. Bostick did blow his assignment; he was only supposed to block so that his sure-handed teammate Jordy Nelson, one of the NFL’s best receivers, could recover the onside kick. The ball came right to Bostick and he improvised by trying to catch the ball; he failed. True, but was Bostick the only player that day to blow an assignment? Was the outcome of the game determined by that play?

Chris Matthews (13 for Seattle) about to recover onside kick that slid off the helmet of Green Bay’s Brandon Bostick (86)


To think that one play wins or loses a game—or one referee’s call, for that matter—is foolish. It takes a mind of narrow understanding to think that. If one were to say that Bostick’s misplay lost the game, then what does one say about HaHa Clinton-Dix’s bizarre coverage of Seattle tight end Luke Willson on the crucial two-point conversion that gave Seattle a very important three-point lead? One could just as easily say that Clinton-Dix lost the game for Green Bay since the Packers’ ensuing field goal of 48 yards by Mason Crosby would have given the Pack the victory instead of only tying the game. If only Clinton-Dix had knocked down Russell Wilson’s off-balance, desperation heave, which he could easily have done if he hadn’t had a strange brain cramp just as the ball was descending towards Willson’s waiting arms. This blame game could go on and on: What about Green Bay’s failure all game to convert in the red zone? What about the referees reversing a touchdown call at the goal line that made Green Bay have to settle for a field goal after the Seahawks defense made a goal-line stand? What about the interceptions Aaron Rogers threw? Or a bad play call by Packer head coach Mike McCarthy? Or did Seattle win the game on a great Wilson pass to Doug Baldwin for a big gain? On their fake field goal that turned into a touchdown? I hope you see where the reasoning is headed here. It is illogical to single out one play in a sport whose games consist of many, many plays, or one player in a game played by many players. Bostick should not be blamed; the whole team should shoulder the blame, if one is interested in finding blame, which I, for one, am not. The game, like all things in life, should be understood holistically and viewed as a whole entity.

It also explains why a referee never lost a game for a team. When I was still coaching, I taught my players that if the officiating made a difference in the outcome, then it meant we didn’t play well enough. Our team’s responsibility—and all teams’, in my opinion—was to play so well that the bad calls, which teams should expect every game, still couldn’t prevent our team from winning. Thus, all the undisciplined sideline crybabies like Jim Harbaugh, to name just one, are out of line. They need to understand what one might call the metaphysical nature of the whole game, grow up, and shut up.

Consider a couple of famous single plays: Franco Harris’s “Immaculate Reception” in 1972 for the Steelers against the Raiders and Bill Buckner’s error at first base in the bottom of the tenth inning of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series for the Boston Red Sox against the New York Mets. Harris’s famous catch of a pass deflected by Jack Tatum of the Raiders, with just seconds remaining in the AFC Divisional Playoff game, gave the Steelers a stunning 13-7 win over Oakland. Note the score: 13-7. Had the Raiders scored even just one more touchdown, or been better with their play calling and execution during just one other

drive, they would have won the game. Harris’s play did not win the game for Pittsburgh; factor in anytime the Pittsburgh defense held the Raiders to just a field goal or no points on drives they attempted throughout the game. For the same reason, it makes no sense to say the Raiders lost the game on that one play. In Buckner’s case—letting a routine ground ball roll through his legs at first base—there is even more to say. That game ended on that play but was not lost on that play. The Red Sox relief corps failed miserably, allowing the base runners that helped the Mets tie the game and come back from a deficit in the bottom of the tenth. What about Bob Stanley’s wild pitch that immediately preceded Buckner’s error? What about the decision to take out starter Roger Clemens? Beyond that, to say that Buckner lost not only that Game 6 but also the World Series is even more invalid if we consider that the Red Sox had a lead in Game 7 but blew it. They had a whole nine innings to put the Mets away any way they could.

All of this has valuable lessons for us on more than one level. Besides the obvious ones about not pinning a win or loss on one play or one player (especially in a team sport), it also teaches us that our compartmentalized way of thinking does not accurately describe reality. It’s a metaphysical misconception. If we can understand sports games and everything around us more holistically, we will be able function more effectively, achieve more, and complain less.

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Haha Clinton-Dix of the Packers is too late to stop Luke Willson of the Seahawks from catching a crucial two-point conversion.

The ill-gated ground ball has just gone through Bill Buckner’s legs.

Carrying his Immaculate Reception, Franco Harris breaks one final tackle before scoring the winning TD.


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By the time this article is published, the U.S. Attorney General will be Loretta Lynch, the first African American female Attorney General in the history of the United States. To quote from one of the Senators, Patrick Leahy, who has voted for many U.S. attorneys, she “is the best qualified Attorney General” he has ever seen.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s father was a Minister, her mother a librarian in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Harvard Law School before perusing her legal career. She is a Delta. Indeed, many Deltas were visibly present in the Senate Gallery as she was being questioned and confirmed. She served as U.S. Attorney General for New York, twice. As a member of the U.S. Justice Department, she prosecuted the police officers who brutalized Abner Louima, a Haitian refugee who was unconstitutionally beaten and sodomized with a police baton. Her prosecution resulted in guilty verdicts and the officer who committed this atrocious crime is incarcerated. She also obtained a $1.2 million dollar settlement from HSBC for violation of

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bank privacy laws, $7 billion from Citibank for its mortgage security violations and scam on innocent consumers. She volunteered in Rwanda after the genocidal holocaust to ensure proper legal redress was made. She comes from the legal trenches and actively practiced law. She will be the 83rd Attorney General in the history of the United States. Congratulations Madam Attorney General. America is in need of your wise legal advice and will be better for it!

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Frances M. Lappé in her classic work Diet for a Small Planet admonished all would-be vegetarians to make sure they combined their grains and beans and vegetables because by themselves they were incomplete sources of protein. In her tenth-anniversary edition, she concedes, “In 1971 I stressed protein complementarity because I assumed that the only way to get enough protein . . . was to create a protein as usable by the body as animal protein. In combating the myth that meat is the only way to get high-quality protein, I reinforced another myth. I gave

the impression that in order to get enough protein without meat considerable care was needed in choosing foods. Actually, it is much easier than I thought. “With three important exceptions, there is little danger of protein deficiency in a plant food diet. The exceptions are diets very heavily dependent on [1] fruit or on [2] some tubers, such as sweet potatoes or cassava, or on [3] junk food (refined flours, sugars, and fat). Fortunately, relatively few people in the world try to survive on diets in which these foods are virtually the sole source of calories. In all other diets, if people are getting enough calories, they are virtually certain of getting enough protein” (Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet, 10th anniversary ed. [1982], 162).

The three most widely used methods to evaluate the quality of protein in human nutrition are BV (biological value), PER (protein efficiency ratio), and PDCAAS (protein digestibility corrected amino acid score). The PER was based upon the amino acid needs of growing rats! Dr. Whitaker mentions this fact in his article on improving athletic endurance. BV uses the percentage of nitrogen absorbed as the basis for evaluating the quality of the protein eaten.

PDCAAS is a method of evaluating the protein quality of foods based upon both the amino acid requirements of humans and their ability to digest it. In 1993, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) converted to this evaluation tool. Their reasoning was based on the following: (1) PDCAAS is based on human amino acid requirements, which makes it more appropriate for humans than a method based on the amino acid needs of rats (PER). (2) The Food and Agricultural Organization / World Health Organization (FAO/ WHO) had been recommending this new assessment tool for several years prior. While the other two methods are still used, PDCAAS is considered the most applicable to human growth and health.

In human nutrition, the most demanding age-group with regard to nutritional needs is the group between two to five years of age. PDCAAS is based upon the amino acid requirements of this age-group. A PDCAAS value of 1 is the highest and 0 the lowest. The list shows the ratings of selected foods.

1.00 casein (milk protein)1.00 egg1.00 soy protein1.00 Moringa1.00 whey (milk protein)0.92 beef0.91 soybeans0.78 chickpeas0.76 fruits0.73 vegetables0.70 legumes0.59 cereals and derivatives0.42 whole wheatSome challenges to the PDCAAS method are that there is an agreed-upon

“truncating” of protein values. This agreement decided that the highest value that a protein could have was 1, or 100%. By doing this, it does not take into account the ability of a superior protein source to balance out the shortcomings of another protein source as in the practice of food combining. Other issues with this method is that it does not take into consideration those amino acids that are used, although not considered essential, by the human body, especially in times of healing; and these should also factor into the overall quality of a protein food.8 Science, since the turn of the twentieth century, has not been in agreement on a protein requirement for human beings. Estimates have gone from 120 to 160 grams per day by scientists Ruben and Voits to 30 grams per day by Hindhede.

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In many body-building magazines and Internet sites, it is not uncommon to see recommendations of 200 grams and more per day. The RDA (recommended daily allowance) for protein is determined by first measuring how much protein we need for general growth, repair, and maintenance. Then an increase of 30% is made to account for individual variation. Lastly, this amount is increased again to account for protein quality, animal, and vegetable.

The American scientist Dr. Chittenden did extensive research with both soldiers and athletes and found that maximum physical performance was achieved by those using from 30 to 50 grams of protein per day. The German scientist K. Elmer and Swedish scientist Per-Olaf Astrand have confirmed this lower-than-commonly-thought protein requirement as verified by the quality and efficiency of the vegetarian diet in physical labor. Approximately 50 Grams of Protein from One Source

Moringa 200 gr 54 gTempeh (cooked) 10 oz. 50 gOkara 12 cups 48 gCream cheese 3 cups 57 gCottage cheese 2 cups 56 gLentils (boiled without salt) 3 cups 54 gSplit peas (boiled without salt) 8 cups 48 gRed kidney beans (boiled without salt) 3 cups 45 gLarge lima beans (boiled without salt) 3 cups 45 gMillet (cooked) 8 cups 48 gChickpeas (boiled without salt) 4 cups 56 gOatmeal (cooked) 3 cups 48 gRice, brown (cooked) 10 cups 50 gYogurt (plain with 1% skim milk) 32 oz. 52 gPumpkin seeds (dry-roasted) 5 oz. 45 gSunflower seeds 2 cups 48 gPeanut butter without salt 14 tbsp 48 gDry-roasted peanuts (without salt) 7 oz. 49 gSoybeans (boiled without salt) 2 cups 48 gWhole large egg (6.3 g/egg) 8 eggs 50 gLarge egg white (3.6g/egg 14 50 gAdapted from USDA Nutritive Value of Foods, USDA National Nutrient


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