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Minority Voice April 20 - 27, 2007 pg13
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Nicotine Addiction
Blacks Buy
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More than a half million
African-Americans have died
from smoking-related
diseases over thetpast decade.
That Ts enough people to fill
the cities of Atlanta, New
Orleans, Kansas City, Mo., or
Cleveland, Ohio. Yet,
ocigarette smoking is the
single most preventable cause
of premature death in the
United States ?, according to
the Centers for Disease
Control. Then why are so
many Black people dying
_ from cigarettes and why is it
so difficult to quit
_ Tobacco companies sell
billions of cigarettes and
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One reason is because of
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groups and uses ads to get
their attention.
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are victimized by big business
for there gain.
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the legacy of Slavery was 40 Support from the White opportunity for institution-
acres anda mule apiece . Hoyse and Congress still building that is badly needed, "
that was Gen. William. remains weak: President Bush "_and should not be squandered "
Sherman Ts promise to former is said to ppose paying slave . in the consumer market. |
slaves shortly after the Civil | Compensation, and U.S. Rep. "_ Nevertheless, I also believe
War ended in 1865. His order John Conyers T proposal'to set that the poorest among us
set aside land on the Georgia up a commission to study the should be compensatd firs
and South Carolina coasts for _ impact of slavery has _ and through meaningful (not
the'settlement of thousands of languished for over a decade symbolic) monetary transfers.
newly freed families. But the Reparations include 7 ohn |
promise was quickly recanted _ CO?"?MPensations such as return Réeh dtskrecdab tere.
and the land was taken back, 3 ae ny politics! peer " Sock cae to ,
with no other plans for repara- ean spits enna e apologize for the wrongs done
et . transfers, 2 ies _ to our people (slavery) that is
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revisited time and again by ae wrongdoing of'the grantor. We have to continue to sound
leading civil rights activists, 71S Obvious, then, that the eo oe nations wwii
In 1963, for example, Martin "0! reparations will take our voices are head from the
Luther King Jr., called scpends on, among other White House to the Crack
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Bishop Gilbert Earl
Patterson was born in 1939
to Bishop W. A. and Mrs.
Mary Patterson, Sr. in
Humboldt, Tennessee. He
was reared in Memphis,
Tennessee and Detroit,
Michigan. Bishop J. S.
Bailey ordained him in
8.1958 as an elder in the
Church of God in Christ. In
1962, Bishop Patterson
became co-pastor with his
father at Holy Temple
Church of God in Christ in
Memphis, Tennessee.
Bishop Patterson continued
his pastorate in 1975 as the
founder and pastor of
Temple of Deliverance, the
Blessings in Memphis,
Tennessee. Today, Temple
of Deliverance Church of
God in Christ is one of the
nation Ts fastest growing
congregations with over
12,000 on its membership
roll. The church is located
at 369 G E. Patterson
Avenue.
~ InMemoriam
Bishop Gilbert Earl ences
Presiding Bishop, Church of God in Christ _
Pastor, Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ
Cathedral of the Bountiful
1939 - 2007
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