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By Susie Clemons
MVoice Newspaper
a rally on the campus of North Caro-
lina Central University. Following the
~ Teadership summit, which included a
distinguished panel guests, Bill Bell,
Durham's Mayor presented Farrakhan
with a key to the city.
Farrakhan, celebrated as contro-
versial and fearless once again strongly
advanced the call for the unity of Black
leadership and Black organizations as
the theme for the Millions More Move-
ment. oThe pooling of Black financial
and intellectual resources will solve
95% of our problems, ? said Farrakhan.
Within moments of his appear-
DURHAM, NC - Recently
Durham, North Carolina became
the 11th city on a 15 city tour for
Nation of Islam Leader, Minister
Louis Farrakhan Ts Millions More
Movement, scheduled to take place
in Washington, D.C. October 14th
through 16th, Washington D.C.
The daylong event began with
a leadership summit and press con-
ference held at First Union Baptist
Church, culminating that evening in
-
From the top to bottom (ei
of Jim Rouse Commuicatio
followi
ns (WOOW/WTOW-MVoice Newspap:
by Gaius Sims, M-Voice Newspaper
GREENVILLE, NC - Unlike the preceding year at Guy Smith Stadium, dur-
ing the 23rd annual Labor Day Family Reunion, this year the weather was
. perfect mix of sun-
shine and coolin
clouds that held
temperatures down
to comfortable lev-
els. Last years
event, although suc-
cessful was rainy
fraught with inter-
mittent downpours.
Remarkably how-
ever it failed to
dampen the spirit
of the audience or
the performers, and
the crowd, which
was surprisingly
large, was able to
stay dry under the
roofed bleachers.
However this year Ts event was even more spectacular and those who
arrived late guaranteed themselves a problem in finding parking or adequate
seating. In some cases there was standing room only. Some of those who had
prepared earlier prepared themselves to attend the concert, which started at
noon and lasted until 7:30PM, brought coolers filled with sandwiches and
oxx Named
Pictured on the left is singer Cynthia oLa Soul ? Jones. On,
the iight and from left to right is Reggie Richardson, his:
| wife Portia and Rev. William Clark.
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vat; Academy Award winner lends his sup-
port to help raise money to aid storm
victims
Academy Award winning actor Jamie
Foxx has agreed to be an official
spokesman Br the NAACP Disaster
Relief Fund to aid Hurricane Katrina
victims.
NAACP President & CEO
Bruce S. Gordon said: oWe're grati-
fied that a person of Jamie's stature is
willing to lend his name and support
for this effort. Jamie Foxx is not just
an actor, but a fine human being. |
look forward to working with Jamie
to advance the cause of helping
Katrina Ts victims. ?
The Disaster Relief Fund was
launched to coordinate the collection
and distribution of immediate relief
(food, clothing, and shelter) and as-
" sistance to displaced citizens in M is-
sissippi, Louisiana, Florida and Ala-
we had less..
dat Family Reunion Gospel Concert surg
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ance that morning, Farrakhan drew
thunderous applause and affirmations
which Farrakhan had to silence in
order to continue with his message,
when noting that prior to Brown vs.
Board Black folks had more, owe had
more when we had less- there was no
one else to rely on but another Black
man or a Black woman! ?
. Up close and personal, some of
the questions directed by others and
myself to Mr. Farrakhan during the
press. conference. The direct quotes
were as follows:
Q: Susie Clemons: Minster
is
drinks complimenting that family reunion type atmosphere.
tern North Carolina's
es with excitement
Onrganizer-Promoter,
preneuts and a gospel great pose in the lobby of Guy Smith Stadium, The
ag Pictures below Little Willie and Spiritualaires; Richard Whitehead and the Gospel Express and the Vine Sisters. Bottom tow from left to right are the Edward
the New Swan Silvertones and Big James Barrett and the Golden Jubilees. Photos: Jim Rouse & Guy Sims, Sr. os
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Farrakhan, in July Reverend Eugene
Rivers IT] of the Seymour Institute for. |
Advanced Religious Studies along with
the Pentecostal Ministers gathered in
Washington DC to sound the alarm
that the Black Church is responsible
for the demise of the Black family, can
you speak to that? :
A: Farrakhan: No, I would not
put [the entire] blame on the Black
church, without the Black church we
would not be who we are or where we
are and what we are. All of us share
in the failure of the Black family, but
most importantly it is social engineer-
ing- and the Black church does not
have the power to engineer what is
happening.
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Jim Rose, Preside CEO
This year Ts event was once again enjoyed the sponsorship of the First
Citizens Bank, along with it Ts parent companies WOOW and WTOW Radio
and the M-Voice Newspaper.
Kicking off the festivities was sin
Soul ? Jones out of Raleigh debuting s
ger/songwriter-producer. Cynthia oLa
ongs from her new CD oSoulology. ?
Her performance was surprising as well as pleasing and her neo-soul jazz
approach to gospel music was tender to the ears and soothing to the spirit.
The onew ? New Swan Silvertones out of Philadelphia composed with some
of the elements of the old Swan Silvertones was among the groups who
brought the audience to their feet. The audience was continuous
y titil-
lated by all of the gospel groups who made their appearance that day.
Among those who performed were Tommy Ellison and the Five Singing
Stars, Roger Whitehead and the Gospel Express, Little Robert and the
Pearly Gates, Little Willie and the Spiritulaires, The Edward Sisters, Shirley
McNeil and the Gospel Singers of Faith, the Vine Sisters, The Junior
Consolaters and hometown favorites,
James Barrett and the Golden Jubi-
lees and the Johnsonaires. Rev. William Clark of WOOW radio, along
with Brother Reggie Richardson and his wife, Portia also of WOOW Ra-
dio were among those who emcced the show.
The timing and appearance of all the acts was almost immaculate. There
were no ojeers or boos ? or other shows of dissatisfaction from audience that
one can encounter from time to time. In addition, the audiences, further
heightening the spirit of fellowship were also very generous, and collected
among them an additional $415 dollars to give to the victims of Hurricane
Katrina. If the success of the 24th Labor Day Reunion was so evident, then
next year, the 25th Labor Day Family Reunion, the Silver Anniversary event
bama. The NAACP has been actively
engaged in providing relief to those
hit the hardest and suffering the great-
est loss. Thousands of NAACP mem-
bers and volunteers have been mobi-
lized across the nation to provide food,
shelter, clothing, medical su plies,
counseling, transportation and tran-
sitional services to displaced persons.
From the NAACP Disaster Re-
lief command centers in Baltimore,
Jackson and Biloxi Mississippi, Ba-
ton Rouge, Houston and Fort Walton
Beach, Fla., NAACP staff and volun-
teers are coordinating information
and resources for thousands of call-
ers. NAACP volunteers are working
in homes, Currently, the NAACP in
collaboration with MoveOn.org Civic
Action has identified over 304,000
beds made available by volunteers
across the nation.
to plive over 17,000 displaced victims
promises to be outstanding.
Spokesman for NAACP Relief Fund
Gordon has urged Congress to
establish a Hurricane Katrina Com-
pensation Fund similar to one that was
created for victims of the September
11 terrorist attack. He said, oThis will
help hurricane victims get back on
their feet. You got people who lost
their jobs, homes and had all of their
assets depleted. In some cases, fami-
ies lost their bread winner. If the vic-
tims of 911 deserved compensation,
and they did, then certainly these vic-
tims deserve no less to help restart
their lives, ?
oT look forward to working with
the NAACP in bringing immediate
and ongoing aid to the victims of
Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina
was a heart attack that revealed a long
istory of social illnesses, You can't be
human and watch all these different
things go down and not do anything, ?
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of the home throuigh the desire to get
education and to get into the work
force. So you are a mother working
two jobs- so when you take the woman
out of the home and rearing children
becomes secondary to the profes-
sional life who's rearing the children
while mother is away. Then we ware-
house our children in institutions that
dont care for them or love them and
coming up momma could ap that
bottom and nobody would call 911.
The teachers and the community
would also be on your case if you de-
viated from parental or church or so-
cietal morals and principles. Now in
some case a girl can have an abortion
without her mother Ts consent. The
police have a gun, tazet, mace [and]
stick(s) with lead, pepper spray,
breatt..our children ate being Wes St ie chy oyour hty'o
ded to plastic. [A sick mothers breast school this leaves only the police with
is better than anything you can pro- the ability to calm a savage out of con-
duce in the factory, i.e. Similac for- trol youth. So when we go before the
mula.] | judge claiming police brutality they call
Rather than crying for momma __ it justified. When they kill us in the
they cry for the bortle the human ele- Continues on Page 9
New Orleans Flood Survivor
Claims Levee Was Blown-up...
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By Gaius Sims, Sr.,
M-Voice Newspaper
As Katrina's Category 4 searm winds
began to subside, and residents,
thinking the worst of the storm had
passed, Ray Nagin, the Mayor of
New Orleans greeted the nation with
more disturbing news... news that
only hours before Joe Edwards, Jr.,
his friends, his neighbors and fam-
ily were already coping with; a sec-
tion of the levee holding back the
swollen waters of Lake Ponchartrain
in Edward Ts neighborhood had been
breached and water was rapidly
pouring in... rushing in, and New
Orleans was flooding. Edwards, an
over the road (OTR) truck driver
lived in a part of New Orlean Ts 9th
Ward not far from where the breach
occurred.
According to Dave Muir, a re-
Jor EoWarns JR
bk o9th Ward f
bacle, and picked off the Internet,
Edwards stated he rushed to get
himself and as many people he could
truck and drove to the top of the
bridge (pictured above) where they
remained until they were evacuated,
Levee breached in three places
According to Edwards, just be-
fore the waters came pouring into
his neighborhood he was absolutely
porter for ABC Television News in certain he heard a oloud boom. ?
an interview which followed the de- Story continues on Page 4
Overkill: Feared Blackwater Merce-
naries Deployed in New Orleans
By Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo
NEW ORLEANS " Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from
the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in
Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Some of the |
mercenaries say they have been odeputized ? by the Louisiana gover-
nor; indeed some are wearing gold Louisiatia state law enforcement
badges on their chests and Blackwater photo identification cards on
their arms, They say they are on contract with the Department of
Homeland Security and have been given the authority to use lethal
force, Several mercenaries we spoke with said they had served in
Iraq of the personal security details of the former head of the US |
occupation, L.. Paul Bremer and the former US. ambassador to Iraq, |
John Negroponte. ' :
_ oThis is a tocally new thing to have guys like us working CO-
oNUS (Continental United States), ? a Mae ined Blackwater met-
Cenary told us as we stood on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter.
oWe're much betvet equipped to deal with the sicuation in Irag, ?
. Blackwater metcenaries are some of the most feared professional |
killers in the world and they are accustomed to Operating without |
Worry of legal consequences. Their preséhice on the sereets of New |
Orleans should be'a cause for serious concern for the remaining |
residents of the city and raises alarmi Guestions about why the |
with impunity in places
vernment would allow men trained to k
ike Ttaq and Afghanistan. to operate heré. Some of the men now
gerrafin the streets of New Orleans returned from ltaq as réecently
i uy
" Whar a disturbing is the claim Of sever Blackwater mer.
Cenaries we spoke with that they are here under contract from the
federal and Louisiana state governinients,
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ee tate aad 77 ercent of whites
saying the race victims would
have made no difference if the resi-
dents had been white, according to
a new ;
For the People & The Press.
oHalf of those polled (50 per-
cent) say they felt anger because of
what happened in areas hard hit by
the hurricane, ? the feport states.
oBut overall opinion on this mea.
Sure obscures a substantial racial
vided in reactions to the disaster
~ as many as 70 percent of African
icans say they have felt angry,
compared with 46% of whites.
Blacks are twice as likely as whites
to know people directly affected b
the hurricane and are generally mu
more critical of the government's
Commander of relief ¢
John
Lt. Gen. Russel Honore
NEW ORLEANS " New Orleans Mayor Ray N
calls Lt. Gen. Russel
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Katrina
WASHINGTON - President Bush Ts
decision to put thousands of active-
duty soldiers and Marines on Hur-
ricane Katrina relief duty adds a new
dimension to the enormous strain
on the military from wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
Senior military officers said Sat-
urday they have plenty of troops to
handle their wide range of missions
at home and abroad, and they dis-
counted suggestions that the urgent
deployment of soldiers and Marines
to the Gulf Coast would interfere
with the rotation of combat troops
in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
oWe can handle the overseas
war-fight commitment and still de-
fend our homeland and support the
Department of Homeland. urity
simultaneously, ? Lt. Gen. Steven
Blum, chief of the National Guard
Bureau, told a Pentagon news con-
ference.
oPeople say, Aren't you
stretched too far, aren't you about
ready to run out? T There are 200,000
citizen soldier National Guardsmen
left with the right kind of skills
around this nation ? to help with hur-
ricane relief, Blum said.
The active-duty military has
about 1.2 million people in the
Army, , Air Force and Marine
T Pr ich about 140,000 are
in Iraq and nearly 20,000 in Af-
. That leaves hundreds of
a ee men itectl to
fighting wars, but many of them per-
form a range of ctions in
the Pentagon and other government
agencies and at military
ters across the nation and around
m Wayne was an
barks at troops as a convoy
arrives Friday in dowtown New Orleans.
Honore a oJohn Wayne dude ?
ocal radio station.
The three-star general directed the deployment of
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oMore than eight-in-ten @ldcks
(85%) say Bush could have done
more to get relief efforts going
quickly, compared to 63 % of
whites, ? the study found. Even
ment.
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ing to get out o
He or
ons down,
Nagin said in an
which i
Adds to Military
the world.
Lt. Gen. Joseph Inge, deputy
commander of Northern Com-
mand, told reporters at the Penta-
gon on Samy that the Katrina
mission would have no negative ef-
fect on executing the missions in
_ Iraq or Afghanistan.
oAbsolutely not, ? Inge said.
The ranking Democrat on the
House Armed Services Committee,
Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, said
that while he has been personally as-
sured by Pentagon officials that the
Gulf Coast rescue and recovery ef.
fort can be accomplished without
disrupting plans fot Iraq rotations,
he remains worried about the future.
oThis effort will clearly increase
the overall burden on our military, ?
Skelton said Friday. oThe Defense
Department's civilian leaders must
look at the impact of this and fu-
ture crises and the ongoing war on
the military's future readiness and
overall state. ?
Inge said the Army Ts 82nd Air.
borne Division, which already has
several infancry battalions in Af-
_ ghanistan and raq oF preparing to
there, began dispatching about
1500 soldiers, including infantry,
and support troops, to Louisiana on
Saturday. They included most of the
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
A spokeswoman for the 82nd
Airborne, Maj. Amy Hannah, said
later chat at least 5,000 would be sent
from her division. Another spokes-
man there, Spc. John French, said
5,000 would be sent over the next
few
The Ist Cavalry Division, from
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actor, Im a sold
response to the crisis. ? - though Democrats tend to be more
Blacks and whites also draw dif- critical of Bush and Republicans
ferent conclusions about the lessons were more supportive, othese racial
_ of Hurricane Katrina. -_ differences remain even when party.
oSeven-in-ten Blacks (71 per- affiliation is taken into account. ?
cen) say the disaster shows that ra- Because Blacks were twice as
_ Cial ineq ity remains a major pr __ likely as whites ~ 43 percent to 22
lem in the country; a mare al aes to have had a close friend
whites (56 t) say this was not or relative directly affected by Hur-
a particularly importar leanne ricane Katrina, 73 percent of Afri-
disaster. ? * can-Americans say they have felt
Four years after the terrorist at- depressed over the loss of lives and
tacks on the United States, both Property, compared to 55 percent
Blacks and whites agree that the of whites. 7 7
Bush administration should place oBlacks also hold more sympa-
more emphasis on domestic j thetic attitudes toward the people
oFor the first time since the 9/11 who became stranded by the flood-
terror attacks, a majority of Ameri- ing in New Orleans, ? the report
cans (56 percent) Say it is more im- found. oAn overwhelming majority
portant for the president to focus (77%) say most of those who stayed
on domestic policy than the war on behind did so because they didn Tt
terrorism. ? have a way to leave the city, not
That shift comes at a time when because they wanted to stay (16%). .
Bush's popularity has plummeted. Most whites agree, but by a slim-
The ania . rating is40 mer 58% to 32% margin. ©
t, down frori50 percent in oMost Blacks (57%) also think
January According to the tport, 79 people who took things from homes
Percent of African-Americans dis- and businesses in New Orleans
approve of the job Bush is doing. "_were mostly ordinary people trying
Most Americans " 67 t to survive during an emergency.
" also agree that Bush could have Just 38% of whites see it that way,
done more to speed up relief efforts, while as many (37%) say most who
while only 28 percent think he did took things were criminals taking
all he could to quickly Provide as- advantage of the situation. ?
sistance and 5 percent remain un- The public was equally critical
decided. Even then, attitudesamong of local and state officials in their
the races were significantly handling of the natural disaster,
ent oWhile 58 % think the federal
government has done only a fair or
poor job in reacting to the devasta-
tion along the Gulf Coast, about
half (51% give sub-par ratings to
state and local governments in Loui-
1?,?V....
an estimated 1,000 National Guard troops from a New
tleans street corner Friday,
was a humanitarian relief operation.
Getting food and water to the people at the city Ts
convention center was a difficult Process, Honore said.
oIf you ever have 20,000 people come to supper,
you know what I Tm
ave been done already, .
Honore recognizes that storm victims have waited
days for relief, and his: troops are trying to get them
out of the city and into a more comfortable environ-
making it clear that it
talking about. If it Ts easy, it would
oOur number one task is to deal with the concen-
tration of people in New Orleans, as well as those that
are isolated. And we're going to get after it, ? he said.
The general acknowledged that frustration, and in
some cases lawlessness, ,
is building.
¢, these are families that are just wait-
here. They are frustrated; I would be,
too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when
the paper runs out. ?
Hundreds of National Guard and active du
are carrying weapons in the city. But the way they car-
ried those guns was a concern to the general.
dered all he encountered to point their weap-
said CNN Pentagon Correspondent Bar-
bara Starr, who was with the general. Honore repeat-
edly went up to military vehicles, National Guardsmen
in standing sentry and even to New Orleans police offic-
id ers, telling them to please point their weapons down
and reminding them that if
onore commands the Ist Army, based at Fort
Gillem in Forest Park, Georgia, outside Atlanta.
The general is a native of Lakeland, Louisiana,
s northwest of Baton Rouge. He earned a Bach.
troops
ey were not in Iraq.
Fort Hood, Texas, is sending about
2,700 soldiers to the Gulf Coast, and
the Marines are sending about 2,000
from bases in California and North |
Carolina. The 4th Infantry Division,
which is getting ready to begin a new
deployment to Iraq, already has sent
some helicopters to Louisiana.
The Air Force is flying missions
to the Gulf daily, and the Navy has
numerous ships off the Gulf Coast.
Blum said the National Guard
was going to send 10,000 more
troops than previously planned,
bringing the total number of Guards.
man involved in the relief effort to
40,000 within the next several days.
He said there would be 33,000 in
Louisiana and Mississippi by the
end of Saturday.
In addition to deployments in
Kosovo and Afghanistan, the Na-
tional Guard is heavily committed
to the conflict in Iraq. The Arm
National Guard has 39,800 soldiers
in Iraq and the Air National Guard
has about 900. Thar represents about
30 percent of all U.S. forces in Iraq.
Thousands also are Operating fh
Kuwait.
Blum said the only Guard unit
he knows of that has been pulled off
the list to rotate into Iraq is a small
unit whose members live in
Gulfport, Miss., which was heavily
battered by Hurricane Katrina.
oMany of them, we can't find
them, ? Blum said.
. Katrina,
;. Suffer from xenophilia. |
You can feel the nooses being tightened around our
Adam's apples. After propaganda, the next stage of war-
siana and Mississippi, ? the study
found.
Many African-Americans com- i
"plained about a double-standard in
?,? news coverage. Some Blacks were
labeled olooters ? yet when whites
were discovered doing the same
thing, they were described as ofind-
ing ? food in abandoned grocery
stores. Critics also objected to call-
ing U.S. citizens ore gees. ?
Still, the news media earned
high marks from the public for its
coverage. Two-thirds of the public
ives news organizations excellent
28 %) or good (37%) ratings for
their coverage of the impact of
compared to only a third
who say the coverage has been fair
or poor. The majority of the public
ew Orleans in c
elor of Science degree in vocational a ticulture from
Southern University and A&M Col
Rouge in 1971. Honore was commissioned a 2nd
lieutenant in the infant upon graduation. He also
human resources from Troy
as a master Ts degree in
State University.
He has served in a number of infantry command
Positions and at the Pentagon. Before taking com-
mand of the Ist Army, Honore commanded the Stand-
ing Joint Force Headquarters-Homeland Security, U.S.
Dye. Livers,
Blacks
gets its news about national or in-
ternational issues from cable TV.
From June to September, CNN
expanded its audience share more
than any other network, serving as
the main source of news for the pub-
lic. Its audience share increased, by
13 percent, followed by Fox at 6
percent. The study also confirms the
partisan nature of Fox Ts audience.
When asked whether Bush had done
all he could to handle the crisis, 24
percent of CNN Ts viewers agreed
with that statement. About twice as
many Fox viewers " 46 percent "
endorse that view. Additionally, 42
percent of Fox viewers say that othe
people who took things from busi-
nesses and homes in New Orleans T
were mostly criminals taking advan-
lege in Baton
of her ba
tage of the situation. T Only 31 per-
cent of CNN viewers agreed with
that idea,
The poll shows that Katrina and
rising gasoline prices have overshad-
owed all other issues in the U.S.
oThe public Ts attentiveness to
these two stories has overshadowed
interest in other major events " no-
tably the war in Iraq and the nomi-
nation of John Roberts as Chief Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court, ? the re-
port states. oOnly about a third say
they paid very close attention to the
situation in Iraq, despite high levels
of American, and especially, Iraqi
casualties in recent weeks. This
marks the lowest level of public at-
tention to news from Iraq since the
start of the war, ?
oThe priority is on this mission, getting these people
out of here, ? he said.
The general came to rescue of one young mother
trying to carry her twin babies down the street in the
terrible heat and humidity of New Orleans, Starr re-
ported. The mother was so exhausted the children were
almost falling out of her arms.
The general went up to the woman and took both
ies, handing them off to soldiers to carry,
as he promised the mother that
get her some help. The troops helped the three hur-
~ Ticane victims:to
" 0 Wwereitreatedafok
Honore Ts daughter and other relatives live in New
Orleans, but he has nor seen them since he arrived in
they were going to
a Coast Guard: ship, where they
ion,
haistion and ddd
Honore said he wants his troops T
Orleans to be-that of humanitarian re ief operations,
rofile in New
leaving the law enforcement role to the local police.
in
troubl
e and
need Black advice
by Alton H. Maddox, Jr. Esq.
Prisons are built to warehouse the enemies of the
state and not to simply imprison the violators of the penal
laws. If the latter were the case, the prisons would be filled
with whites. Instead, it is filled with a class of persons
whose movements in this country have been curtailed for
years in the interest of national security.
Arabs, on the other hand, still enjoy freedom from whole-
four hundred
e incarceration.
Freedom of movement and the right to privacy sepa-
rate a free people from an enslaved
control, enslaved Africans were co
To leave the plantation, they had to
cessity, a badge of slavery.
Blacks and whites read the Thirteenth Amendment
differently. Blacks read it as literally endi
Strain =
of penitentiaries.
Because Blacks are not allowed to enjoy their own
representation, we must wait for white liberals and
al issues for us. The
etical to the interests
of Blacks. Only a Black person who believes that he or she
is passing would seek to equate these competing interests,
White liberals define our current plight in constitu-
there is a current erosion of the
Fourth Amendment. For Blacks, there has always been a
breach of the Fourth Amendment. It took until 1961 for
the Supreme Court to require the states to honor it in
reme Court retreated in 1968 by hold-
complete sanctuary
their Black sidekicks to define |
interests of white liberals are anti
tional terms. To them,
principle. The Su
ing that urban Blacks could not find
in the Fourth Amendment.
Before the Civil War, Blacks were subject to the slave
codes. The Black codes supplanted them. The codes still
harbor legal customs even though most Blacks have never
read them. Of course, ignorance of the law is No excuse,
From the Black codes, it is very easy to dragnet Blacks
into martial law,
Random searches, clearly permitted under military
ree society. These searches
om of movement and deprive persons of the
justice, are violations in a
retar
right to privacy. Any consent to
voluntary and not subject to the denial of a Privilege. In-
telligence and not surveillance stops terrorism. rule the
Random searches,
are in cahoots with law enforcement
Blacks are waitin,
are living under sh
nese, it will take
No other race relies on other peopl
ned to plantations.
be in possession of
passes. This meant that Blacks had to
write in English. Thus, the oWar on Terrorism ? is, of ne-
it as continuing slavery. Blacks emphasize the main
text. Whites look for the legal loopholes. History shows a
connection between emancipation and the establishment
T Se, give rise
Police departments are inherently racists.
seed that gave rise to vigilantism and state-sponsored, law
enforcement agencies. We must wait for civil liberties
groups to sue on our behalf. It should have happened
yesterday. Don't hold your breath, however. Th
for white liberals to tell us that we
of martial law. Unlike the Japa-
some time to intern all of us, A panic
No orb mac ld us ou re egal stars ight now,
le for
ple. To maintain just a question o
remain unable to
sented
slavery. Whites
grievances.
White
Henrik Clarke.
r
co
tion o
Whites are
fathers. This is
should be free and of th
fo racial profiling,
ism was the
of my
ese groups
cies,
If I had
legal wee We
¢ federal government. The
resemblance to the ideology of the founding fathers will
roost. This
head of the Democratic ;
Like Bush 43, I am also a strict constructionist and
believe in original intent. | seri i
ivine ancestors and consult with
fen Tenet
- 1am in favor of petitions incl the
Dred Scott, which dene rr
turned my on my ancestors, 1 would
friends in New Yo
vine ancestors, But see Exodus 20:1
thar display a Black Jesus. This j
fare is deception. The recent, failed bombings in London
are marketing strategies to promote surveillance cameras
and to paint the face of terrorism Black. Those four pho-
tographs, appearing on the front page of virtually every
Newspaper, are suspect.
n the meantime,
talk shows this past Sunday to fight like cats and dogs
over white men Ts crum
in Brooklyn. None of them remember the Indians saying
othe white man speaks with forked ton
which white men o
It was embarrassing to listen to these radio inter-
views. Black leadership is bankrupt and incompetent.
None of them are aware that the founding fathers are
working against them. To
Black leaders appeared on radio
bs; namely, the Atlantic Yards project
e. ? To them, it is
t the best deal.
matters worse, | repre-
most of them pro bono. Now, it is clear that most
of them would stab us in the back on minute Ts notice. We
are being primed for concentration camps,
We need legal directions. If it is not the Atlantic Yards,
it is the proposed, peaceful assembly in Washington in
October. This proposed march
First Amendment and, therefore, it is a half-
posal. Blacks can ill-afford to half-step in 2005.
The right of peaceful assembly is only a condition
precedent to petitioning the
en you assemb
the First Amendment is automatically invoked. We may
as well go for all the marbles since our ancestors built the
Frouse and Capitol Hill.
To satisfy the First Amendment,
to tour Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill and onail ?
our petition to the White House, the Supreme Court and
Congress. The citation of authorities for petitioni
ae for a redress of
rederick Douglass, the
Randolph, Adderly v. Florida, Malcolm X and Dr. John
refuses to challenge the
ping pro-
vernment for a redress of
peaceably on federal land,
Blacks would have
the
evances include Dred Scott,
olfax Massacre, A, Phillip
Racial unity can only be ensured provided that we
eipent and consult our ancestors
ective action. oLet the chips fall where they may. ? It
must not be a personal agenda. Our ancestors have noth-
ing ro ain from the physical realm other than the libera-
their offspring.
ided rf a hidden hand - the founding
y Republi
re we initiate any
cans control the three branches
that bears the closest
warning comes from Howard Dean,
them on
article. They despised the founding
i petition o
ork and would have
. Black people will rt
se bea a
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surviving in a racist society,
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The horrifying aftermath of
hurricane Katrina, and soon Big
Rita, is in-
disputably
the real
"SHOCK
_ AND AWE,"
| not the U.S.
Military
campaigns
or de oe d
upon inno-
cent Iraqi
citizens, so
it has been
said.
Recall it was ole T Donnie
Rumsfield who gave the press
that 'Shock and Awe' bit which
Clemons
they proudly plastered across.
major news sources for days:
America the su ef-power was
making successful gains upon the
pending but certain capture of
Saddem Hussein. The. party was
full speed ahead on Capitol Hill
until Katrina dropped in for some
Bourbon.
What many now realize is
that the Iragi bombing campaign
was cowardice in the face of the
bombing:
&
real SHOCK and AWE' that
flows from the gates of Heavens
Super-Power. "
Clearly, it Ts no joke to be told
HELL, if not death, is on the way;
and that you must run from your
life, from your home not knowing
when or if you'll ever return... or
if you'll ever see your loved ones
again- including the family dog and
cat. And even more frightening is.
to witness elected leadership fum-
bling at the simplest emergency
rescue response methods.
No doubt American politics,
namely the game of winning the
vote, will never be the same af-
ter the New Orleans foul-ups.
American voters, hopefully now
better able to think for them-
selves, realize that a slick money
rich campaign neither guarantees
common sense nor a sense of re-
sponsibility to the people;
rather, it almost ensures shame-
ful incompetence.
By design Mr. Bush justified
spending billions of dollars on a
bombing campaign predicated on
what has since been revealed as a
lie, by media persons that look like
him. All the while America is
brimming with national emergen-
Unholy disclosures
By Suejette Jones .
Some church members re-
sent the church Ts announcements
and pub-
lications
medical
informa-
tion
without
their con-
sent,
writes
Bill
Broaday
in his ar-
ticle oUn-
healthy
Revela-
tions T.
One parishioner was astonished
when his. church:posted this mes-
sage onitheir chinbek
We have good jnews for you!.
John Doe (alias) is returning to
church after a long medical leave
of absence. Since the summer of
last year, John (alias) has baen
treated for bi-polar illness, a
ocondition which at times has re-
sulted in serious depression for
him. Various therapies and
medications have been tried, and
finally, after much experimenta-
Suejette Jones.
Now comes the real
of their.
awwebsitds..
tion, his health has improved
considerably. For that we are all
very happy. ? . |
The church Ts disclosures on
the mental health of one of it Ts
members, no matter how well-
intentioned, crossed a line that
should be a warning to any reli-
gious group that shares members T
medical information in newslet-
ters and during worship services.
Legally, publishing details of
John Ts condition without his per-
mission was an invasion of pri-
vacy because it included anti
mation in a way that would be
highly offensive to the ordinary
person. Some conditions carry
more of a stigma than others and
mental illness is one of them.
Saying that a person is re-
covering From a heart attack or
being treated for cancer is much
less:offensive. It would have been.
okay to say I had been in the
hospital and was very ill and had
recovered to the point I could
return to work as minister of
music, John lamented.
Most people in the 1600-
member church knew of his de-
pression, but no one other than
the pastoral staff was aware of
the diagnosis, which was now on
the Internet for anyone in the
putable 'SHOCK and AWE
cies everyday: the government
needs an overhaul- namely Mr.
Bush, school systems need massive,
administrative correction, and
jobs are needed while America
imports computer talent from afar
alee manufacturing jobs off-
shore. .
At that, bridges, sea walls and
levees throughout Americas T
coastal communities are need of
improvement if not replacement.
This considering that much
needed money to improve New
Orleans levee system was diverted
to fight a war for which no posi-
tive spin- as I Tve read- is as yet
available.
Then in a fatal move Bush
hired crony Mr. Michael D.
Brown, former FEMA headman,
whose credentials have since been
exposed as questionable. Too
think, Mr. Brown was well paid
at the taxpayer's expense and the
taxpayers were forced to pay for
an albatross. .
When the President of the free
world establishes a pattern of ar-
riving late to the scene of national
emergencies (first 9-11, and since
Katrina) it shows a lack of profes-
sional responsibility and respect
world to see. i
Once that information is
ut out there you can Tt get it |
Pack. It took a while to get that |
information off the web site and
John settled out of court be-
cause it was too stressful to con-
tinue to be involved into an in-
creasingly antagonistic relation-
ship with the church, The court
ruled in his favor. But it Ts the pri-
vacy issue that has caught the at-
tention of denominational legal
offices. |
Some clergy disagree. with
any public announcement of a
private nature without consent
of the person involved, whether
the news involves personal con-
cerns or even joys, such as a
birthday, new job or child Ts
graduation from college. In
some large services, the chapel T
worship leader offers prayers for
the people who have asked or ap-
proved prayers for. them.
to the American citizens. Citizens
who work menial back breaking
jobs for which they get no respect
~ yet they arrive to work on time
and pinch of their earnings con-
tributes to the salary of Mr. Tardy
- OTA Nw ou owen.
Ethically, the only informa-
tion the congregation needs to
know is that a member of that
community is in ill health and
in need of prayer. We don Tt need
to know whether it Ts cancer or
drug addiction.
Respectfully submitted
Mrs. Jones is a retired North
Carolina educator.
of
by connected contractors
By Betty Baye T
Despite convincing perfor-
mances, there were no red car-
pets or best actress Emmys for
the three
Louisville
women who
claimed to
be survivors
of Hurri-
cane
Katrina in
order to se-
cure disas-
ter relief
across the
river in
Southern
Betty Baye T
Indiana.
Rather than glamour shots,
LaToyia Taylor, Norma Jean
Calloway-Tillman and Denise
Huguley ended up posing for
mug shots after they were
charged with felony fraud. They
allegedly used Red Cross debit
cards meant to help storm sur-
vivors to shop at Victoria Ts Se-
cret and Best Buy and to dine at
such places as Hooters and
Ernesto Ts Mexican Grill,
Meanwhile, on this side of
the river, Derick Clayton was
also charged with fraudulently
obtaining a Red Cross debit card
worth $360. He apparently had.
legitimate New Orleans connec-
tions, but had lived in Louisville
for some time. Yet he went on
T television and told a harrowing
tale of escaping from New Or-
leans. His boss in Louisville
turned him in.
No doubt, others are likely
to claim storm survivors T assis-
tance that they don Tt deserve, and
it Ts a shame.
But | predict these.sorts of
petty crimes will pale when com-
pared to what's going to happen
now that President Bush and
Congress have opened the spigot
from which billions of federal
dollars will flow for the rebuild-
ing of the storm-ravaged Gulf
Coast.
It's reminiscent of the days
after 9/11, when nearly $5 bil-
lion was pledged to assist small
businesses heavily impacted by
the terrorist attacks,
But, as an Associated Press
investigation of two of those fed-
eral small business loan pro-
grams showed, fewer than 11
percent of 19,000 recovery loans
actually went to small businesses
in New York and Washington.
To the contrary, many own-
ers of businesses in the affected
areas complained that they were
unable to secure any federal as-
sistance.
Yet those that did get help
included recreational businesses
in Alaska, an air taxi service at
the North Pole, a dog boutique
in Utah,»a perfume shop in the
Virgin Islands, a country radio
station in South Dakota and a
winery in Oregon.
Not only that, but several of
thé loan recipients said their
banks had never informed them
that their loans were coming
from a 9/11 relief program.
Then there Ts Iraq. Signifi-
cant chunks of the $10 billion
the United States has poured into
reconstruction efforts have ap-
parently been lost to lax over-
sight, mismanagement or out-
right theft by corrupt contrac-
tors.
Now, we have the Katrina
crisis. After being scorched for
failing to respond prom tly, Bush
is repeatedly visiting the region
and, despite the soaring federal
deficit, promising to send alon
everything up to and including
the Litchen sink,
In enone LA Tuesday, the
President told its leaders to
othink bold ? aid that the federal
overnment will help pay the bills
Por whatever they come up with.
In New Orleans last week,
the President proposed a oGulf
of Opportunity Zone. ? Its fea-
tures would include incentives to
those who create jobs, tax relief,
federal loans and loan guarantees
for small businesses, and ac-
counts of up.to $5,000 for indi-
viduals displaced by Katrina to
help pay for job training, job
searches and child care until they
secure employment,
Some estimates are that the
federal government will sink
$100 billion into the restoration
effort.
Hopefully, so much money
will bring good things to a re-
gion that was economically de-
pressed before Katrina and that
is home to hundreds of thou-
sands of Americans who've been
left behind in most social and
economic indicators.
Unfortunately, however,
iven the billions that appear to
have been wasted or stolen after
9/11 and in Iraq, the potential
for more billions to be wasted
and stolen in the proposed re-
construction of the Gulf Coast
is too great a threat to ignore.
What all Americans have a
right to expect, or demand, from
the Bush administration, is that
it will move quickly to prosecute
any contractor, banker or lobby-
ist, no matter how well connected
politically, who acts as if tax-
payer money is Monopoly money
that they're free to play with,
mismanage and, in the worst
cases, steal,
If, instead, there's again lax
oversight, Bush will be absolutely
tight that he, as President, is re-
sponsible for. the problem and
0
r the solution.
himself George G TDubya Bush.
And as for those African
descendents, that group of eccle-
siastical folks up in Ohio, who
swung the vote during the last
Presidential election: how impor-
tant an issue would homosexual-
ity have been while wading in fe-
Katrina evokes questions in the
by Todd Pitman .
DAKAR, Senegal - Images of poor,
Black Americans homeless and in
despair in the aftermath of Hurri-
cane Katrina are resonating in Af-
tica, evoking pointed questions
about racism and surprise: that di.
sasters can wreak havoc and leave
refugees even in the prosperous
United States.
oSo much for the land of lib-
erty, ? read one unsigned commen-
tary Sunday in Nigeria's This Day
newspaper, adding that some tele-
vised images of Katrina Ts victims in
Louisiana ocould actually be mis-
taken for Rwanda. ?
On Thursday in hurricane-hit
New Orleans, U.S. soldiers cradling
M-16s flanked out across the
swamped, disease-infested city as of -.
ficials readied thousands of body
bags. Indeed, the scene was remi-
niscent of any African tragedy of
recent times.
oWho would have thought that
over a million American citizens
would become refugees T in their
own country and flay their govern-
ment for its failure to come to their
aid ? quickly enough, read an edito-
tial Tuesday in South Africa Ts The
Star newspaper. oOr that in the
most advanced society in the world
... the badly injured would be left
for dead because of a lack of assis-
Cooper's Commentary
Keith Cooper
Many Gulf Coast residents are
still suffering from the devastation
caused by Hurricane Katrina, who
marched through New Orleans
and parts of Alabama and Missis-
sippi with a fury unmatched by
Hurricane Betsy in 1965. She
showed no mercy in her rampage,
killing and injuring hundreds of
people.
Preliminary damage estimates,
according to Joseph Treaster and
Kate Zernike of The New York
Times, ranged from $9 billion to
$16 billion. Eighty percent of New
Orleans was covered by water.
Katrina's turbulent winds
stripped fifteen-foot sections from
the Superdome Ts roof, where over
25,000 evacuees took shelter.
You
00
CCause what
happens to Black
sun from thirst? ae
However unnerving such sce-
nario, perhaps now its clear that
no matter the effort White House
T-V production team, includin
former ABC camera man Bob
DeServi, to suspend fears of
BEEN
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Americas T obvious leadership cri-
sis, during that glossy Alice in
Wonderland matching shirt to
Church color scheme/ speech at
New Orleans Jackson Square,
some should today commit their
future vote to responsible, timely,
and empathetic leadership.
tance? ?
Some Africans say the U.S.
government T allegedly bungled re-
sponse to Katrina revealed a society
more divided by race and money than
most Africans had previously thought.
Qo) oMost of the 4 ivots Vii
who filled New Orlow etn
were Black, with the more affluent
white residents able-to flee in their
SUVs before Katrina brought her
misery, ? the Star said.
oAt a deeper level, it means that
even in the fabled America, the poor
get left holding the short end of the
stick, ? This Day said. oThese are
some of the contradictions that
should spur review and soul search-
ing; that amid such stupendous
wealth and affluence, a uzding circle
is still drawn to exclude the poor. ?
Not all pointed to racism. Mar-
tin Tarluway, who described himself
as a concerned Liberian, speculated
the disaster-struck region may have
been a victim of neglect because it
was a Democratic stronghold. Alhaji
Kromah, a candidate in Liberia Ts up-
coming presidential elections and a
former warlord, said America has
simply been overwhelmed by an
enormous disaster.
oThis should be a wake-up call
for the international community to
collaborate with the United States to
ensure that public facilities such as
cal infested waters awaiting life.
sustaining rations while shriveling
up like a raisin and dying in the .
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erica first...
offering wordy promises and
apologies backed with Disneyland
imagery nearby, and to henceforth
condemn shifting much needed in-
frastructure dollars to unjustifiable
democratic bombing campaigns
overseas, and cronyism. Only then
can Mr. Bush vacate his job re-
re honed
PF ce
- ig
spectably rather than leaving
America and the World in a state
of indisputable Shock and Awe T by
his all to frequent disturbing lead-
ership skills. :
Susie Clemons is a freelance writer, com-
ments at opinionsandtalk@yahoo,com
African Continent
the ones in the affected area are im-
proved, ? Kromah said. :
_ Prince Gonway; a Liberian
teacher, was uninterested in assign-
ing blame. |
__,. We, share inthe grief of the
* tims, * he 4 id. B i at ti nes
hese thmigs happen for people to
know what hardship really means,
what it: means to be a refugee in
your own country. ?
Liberia, founded by former
American slaves, is just emerging
from a long and disastrous civil war.
Charles Onyango-Obbo, a
managing editor of Kenya's Nation
newspaper group, wrote - for
Thursday Ts editions: oThanks to
Katrina, I now know that some
places of America have never seen
schools and electricity just like in
rural Africa. ? |
Onyango-Obbo saw racial bias
in the handling of two similar pho-
tos he said appeared in the Ameri-
can press " each of a man carry-
ing soft drinks and bread.
oThe caption to the photo of
the white man said he ha found T
food to save his family. The one of
the Black man said he had looted T
the items, ? he said. oNever mind
that both men probably got the
items from the same store.
Todd Pittman writes for the As- |
sociated Press
Warnings Not Heeded
New Orleans T mayor was right
to criticize President Bush for
odragging his feet. ? Because the
city is almost 70 percent black, |
am not surprised by Bush Ts delay
in getting involved.
I hope former Presidents Bush
and Clinton work as aggressively
as they did to help bring quick re-
lief for countless tsunami victims
in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. They
must look beyond race and treat
all victims as part of the human
race. Indeed, we must be our
brother's keeper.
Numerous evacuees were
packed in the Houston Astrodome.
The unsanitary conditions were
reminiscent of the slave ships in
America. Millions of slaves were
packed like sardines amid an un-
bearable stench. In fact, some
evacuees slept in their on feces and
urine. It is a shame that, in 2005,
history is repeating itself in a way
that elicits poignant criticisms
from leaders like Kanye West, Rev. ,
Jesse Jackson, and Rev. Al
Sharpton.
Though experts warned of im-
pending doom in New Orleans be-
cause the levees were not expected
to withstand Hurricane 5 winds
and pressures, Bush and local offi- '
cials failed to protect the precious
women and children. It is clear
that someone or individuals
should be charged with murder
and. neglect.
Ah, but the duty is upon Mr. MM
Bush to re-think pending speeches
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As Muir's interview continued,
Edwards told Muir that his house
broke in half and his mothers house,
which was made of brick- oj
tegrated. ? : Edward Ts said that houses
there floated down the street olike
ing em. ? Ar und
t the
zero, according to a t r for ¢
Wall Street Journal, it took only ten _
minutes for flood watets to. almost
cover the one-story structures that
When Muir once again asked
was it solely the force of the
water that broke the levee, or motion-
in a place where
was it the force of the barge that broke
through the levee. Edwards emphati-
ly said it was neither. Viewing
Muir's report Edwards along with the _
group of people he rescued collectively
exp: = one held resentment of be-
i chised by city govern-
we well, and fel that othe
city, ? which Mayor Nagin scoffed
during Muir's questioning, oblew up
the levee to save richer neighborhoods
like the French Quarter. ?
However, as the city began to
flood, the French Quarter, which was
said to sit on higher ground, actually
sustained more wind damage than
water damage. But as Muir's interview
continued, he once again asked
if he was oconvinced ? that
the city obroke the levee on P =
Edwards emphatically replied I know
this happen and gesturing with his
six breaks which lead to a massive
~ flooding 9th Ward.
{Survivor Clainy
home pise to be;
or ST araly he ssid, * blew it ? then we la
with © other peopl inthe back. eS
BUSH FROM TOP LEFT PG, 4
there. That Ts where I first accepted my
faith and was baptized.
© Testrue. 'm not rich, and I Tm sure
not In fact, mostly, I'm in-
visible to people who are high and
ighty. But I'm still somebody, I've
ill got a brain, and I Tve still got feel-
ings.
© While I thank everybody for their
generosity, that old cliché is just as
true for me and my poor black folks
as it is for people like Barbara Bush
and her rich white ones: There's no
place like home.
Betty Bayé Ts columns appear
Thursdays on the editorial page. You
can read them online at www.courier-
journal.com.
we an tbe oobi
There she was, among many
worried and abused souls, he et
didn't know whether loved ones had.
died or survived, who: had been
in by thugs and who had
ge reads by the very
people who were supposed to look out
r them. are
Amid all that ing and
ery, one would have hoped for the
President's mother to offer a kind
word. :
Instead, smiling as sweeth
please, she said, o I'm h
which is sort of scary, is they all want
to stay in Texas,
whelmed by the hospitality. ?
Huh?
But that wasnt all. oAnd so man
tJ
Web bloggers were also report-
ing stories about hearing T explosions
as you
Everyone is so over-*
Lome
we Maslow,
and one Army Diver claims to have
T
of the people in the arena here, you
know, were underprivi anyway,
so this " this is working very well for
them, ? she said. .
I didn't trust myself that I had
actually heard what I thought thar I
had heard, so I double-ct | News-
paper accounts and the Internet.
And yes, Barbara Bush. did say
those things.
That T when it hit me why her
son, the President, all too often comes
off as insensitive by saying really in-
appropriate things at really inappro-
priate times, such as cracking jokes
that are anything but amusing in time
of crisis.
Who are these Bushes, anyway?
Rich folks, for sure, and ones, it seems
Another blogger who claimed he
was an attomey fad
youve noticed, there T has been
n No or
Water flows back into the Industrial Canal in New Orla ehrough a
floodwall breach caused by Hurricane Katrina. The inundated neigh -
hood in foreground is known as the Lower 9th Ward.
found burn marks and explosive resi-
due on one of the levees he was in-
One blogger reported that a Ju-
venile detention officer who went by
the name of Mr. Anderson (no first
name given) was quoted as saying,
othen we heard a loud boom. We
jought it was a generator at first but
n we later learned that it was the
{ someone was trying to put
this to. say, oIf
there were
mals everywhere. He also mentioned .
- that right before the mass flood there
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in a oLet em eet-cale Kine of wotld -ousine, but this is where I and the and everybody knows me. I can-find
As you have ly gathered people T love'live. ? my way around with my eyes'closed,
som what Seles ete * ? It may not appear to you to have because it's where.I live.
aly burned me up, and that the any value, because, after all, it's justa I can stand in that small patch of
woman seemed oblivious to the of- tichp-eacky shotgun house with peel- dirt that we called our front yard, stick
fense her comments caused screams. -ing p int and a sagging porch. But it Ts my nose heavenward, sniff and imag-
how badly out of touch she is with may hegre. - . ine again the smells of Big Mama's
how the other half (or four-fifths) of ~~ Irma bea pubic housing project fried chicken and how sometimes
America lives. *- where, I'd be the first to say, there's she'd let me lick the left-over batter
Like many, I have fond memo- fat too much crime, the grass is all. from her famous-in-the-neighborhood
ties of times spent in New Orleans. I stomped down and the buildings are chocolate cakes. -
was married there in 1978, in a little uncomfortably cheek-to-jowl with rail- . Oh, I know it Ts not that much to
art gallery in the French Quarter, and " road tracks. But it's where 1 live. look at, especially now that it Ts all wa-
my former epee ear Imade many rs my home. - ; terlogged, but that's my church over
friends in the city. | enerations of my people were " 7 cree owe ing
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if they had my soapbox, and I thought
that uryd probably Say something a
little like this:
It might not seem like much to
very little mention of St. Bernard.
Thats because it was really bad there
and there was no help. They were not
helping anyone get out. It was just
people helping people. Helicopters
flew over and just took pic-
tures didnt try to help anyone. ? He
has six rolls of film and got a boat and
_ actually rescued people. He also men-
tioned he had to bre
teak into a two story
house and stay there. He reported
bodies of people and ani-
losion.
t area
cy may have blew up the levee
was a loud sound like an.
_ and trying to keep it quiet, accordi
to one tegece rie nae
Not mentioning an
And finally from a weblog called
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the WashPost came this
Osting: |
Mullen has a schoolteachers kindly i
~ demeanor, so it was jaring to hear |f
him say he suspecte
breaks had
somehow bee
and Garden District dry at the expense
of poor black nei borhoods like the
Lover Nah Wien .
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are widely heard from many ohe ===
black survivors. The question is; are
these reports true.
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waters rushed in and his story wasnt the right thing, | think, and it created
the only one. Other stories a much bigger problem. It Ts going to
about other people reporting | 7 all come out, what ha ool I don't
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NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Ritas wind and rain breached one.of New Or-
leans T battered levees Friday and sent water gushing into the already-devastated
The water streamed thro s at least 100 feet wide and was soon
waist-deep on a nearby street. Tt began covering buckled homes, piles of
rubble and mud-caked cars that Katrina had swamped with up. to 20 feet of
water nearly a month ago.
There was no immediate indication that the rest of New Orleans was in
danger from the new flooding in the Ninth Ward, a particularly low-lying part
of the city that has been largely abandoned. Officials with the Army Corps of
Engineers said other levees appeared secure, including those breached during
Katrin
a. | ;
The flooding was the first blow to fall on the ra city from Rita.
oOur worst fears came true, ? said Maj. Barry Guidry, a National Guards-
man on duty at the broken levee. oWe have three significant breaches in the
levee and the water is rising rapidly. ? | . :
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gally registered weapons from ci-
vilians, ¢ mercenari
Blackwater patrol the streets
openly wielding M-16s and other
assault weapons. This despi
lice Commissioner Eddie Gom-
pass T claim that oOnly law enforce-
ment are allowed to have weap-
ons. ce
forces are in New Orleans to
the Hurricane Relief Effort. ? A
statement on the company Ts
website, dated September 1, ad- " |
vertises airlift services, security
services and crowd control. The
company, according to news re-
ports, has since begun taking pri-
vate contracts to. guard hotels,
businesses and other
But what has not
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knewiedees is |
us by 2 Blackwater mercenaries, |
Force Jerry Barnes
bere whk Dek; Re Bee
during a recent visit to
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knows his proverbs,
reconciles his diffi-
culties... ?
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of the lead. including: osecuring néighbor-
hoods ? and
nals. ? ie
_ That raises a key question: un-
der what authority are Bl ter Ts
men operating? A spokesperson for
omeland Security Depare-
ment, Russ Knocke, told the Wash.
ington. Post T he knows of no fed-
eral plans to hire Blackwater or
other private security. oWe believe _
we've got the right mix of petson-
nel in law enforcement for the fed-
eral spraneecat to meet the de-
mands of public safety. ? he said.
But. in an hour-long conversa-
tion with several Blackwater mer-
cenaries, we heard'a different
story. The men we spoke with said
they are indeed on contract with
oconfronting ¢rimi-
pe borane teed eans
3lackwater in New Orlean
the Department of Homeland
Security and. the Louisiana
governor's office and that some
of them are sleeping in camps
organized by Homeland Security
in New. Orleans and Baton
Rouge. One of them wore a gold
Louisiana state law enforcement
badge and said he_ had been
odeputized ? by the governor.
They told us they riot only had
authority to make arrests but
also to use lethal force. We 'en-
countered the Blackwater forces
as we walked through the streets
of the largely deserted French
Quarter.
an unmarked car without license
plates
stopped. Inside were 3 men,
te Po- |
Officially, Blackwater says it |
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properties.
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the private mercenaries of | [itp
e were talking with 2.
New York Police officers when
sped up next to us and
dressed in khaki uniforms, flak "
jackets and wielding automatic
weapons. oY'all know where the
Blackwater guys are? ? they
asked. One of the police offic-
ers. responded, oThere are a
bunch of them around here, ? and
- pointed down the road.
oBlackwater? ? we asked.
oThe guys who are in Iraq? ?
oYeah, ? said the officer.
oThey're all over the place. ?
A short while later, as we
continued down Bourbon Street,
we ran into the men from the
car. They wore Blackwater ID
badges on their arms.
When they told me New
Orleans, I said, oWhat country
is that in?, T ? said one of the
- Blackwater men. He was wear-'
ing his company ID around his
neck in a carrying case with the
phrase oOperation Iraqi Free-
dom ? printed on. it. After brag-
ping about how he drives around
raq in a oState Department is-
sued level-5, explosion proof
BMW, ? he said he was ojust oy
ing to get back to Kirkuk (in the
north of Iraq) where the real ac-_
tion is. ? Later-we overheard him
on his cell phone complaining
that Blackwater was only paying
$350-a-day plus per diem. That
is much less than the men make
serving in more dangerous con-
ditions in. Iraqg.-Two men we
spoke with said they plan on re-
turning to Iraq in October. But,
as one mercenary said, they've
been told they could be in New
Orleans for up to 6 months.
oThis is a.trend, ? he told us.
oYou're going to see a lot more
guys like us in these situations. ?
If Blackwater Ts reputation
and record in Iraq are any indi-
cation of the kind of oservices ?
the company offers, the people
of New Orleans have much to
fear. at
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TV program Democracy Now!,
and Daniela Crespo are in New
Orleans. Visit
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yourself.
2. Read a major national news-
paper daily, and read the Black
press, then you'll know more than
your peers, and probably more
than your professors.
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President ofBennett College, has
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that a woman would be known by
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habits of honesty, generosity and
a sense of justice. .
_ Consider these steps to help your
children build sturdy character:
* Model good character in the
home. It is critically important
that those who are attempting to
to tutor, to city council, PTA and
school board meetings.
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best defense and offense. They
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* Show respect for your spouse,
your children and other family
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* Model and teach your chil- dren
good manners. Insist that all family
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the arts, church or youth roups.
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Tuskeegee.... From Page 6
remembered for all ghe right rea-
sons. ? and that task was very well
accomplished. As they're indicating
that next year in Phoenix, AZ for
their 36th Annual Convention
they're requesting The Golden Plat-
ter T & oBubblin T Brown Sugar ? for
the featured entertainment slot.
Still, as time would have it, for
the past some 65 + years it was a
time to pay homage and reflect back
on the contributions and the almost
forgotten T un-documented piece of
American WWII History. To Bul-
lock, it was all about these aging
WWII heroes and the youngsters of
today that have been charged with
the responsibilities to carry on this
proud legacy. oI recall reflecting back
in my teenage years of the type of
roll models these types of men and
women demonstrated for my gen-
eration and me. I had two direct
sources of such teachings "Uncles
that were WWII heroes "Uncle
Lafayette Brown. Tuskegee Airman,
who actually drove for General Ben.
O. Davis; Jr., and an Uncle
Ellsworth Bullock who served in the
Philippine/Midway Island Theater.
They had by a natural caring sense T
" the right to reprimand, discipline
and even demand that I/we as young-
sters attain a certain level of self-ex-
pectations and stay the course.
Something that is apparently miss-
ing in the lives of our youth for the
past three generations ? Bullock said.
For instance, oat my table I was
seated beside a young black Air
Force pilot Captain Daryl Corneille-
who to me appeared to be no more
than 20 years of age.
He told me that it was through
the Tuskegee Airmen Ts Young
ragles Scholarship Flight Program
influenced him to choose a career
with the Air Force. Bullock further
went on to say that he was very
proud of the young Captain, ? and
added that he could very well have
been a victim of the perils of this
so called free society. ? Bullock fur-:
ther said that our economic dy-
namics lend to oyoung folk who are
looking for jobs to fal through the
cracks, T into the realms of a con-
traband economy proliferated by
drug trafficking, gangs and other
suf teclnaa activities, ? Bullock
indicated.
As a proud new honorary mem-
ber T of the Tuskegee Airmen Group,
Bullock said one of his priorities
Healthy Living Within Reach
Many people fear the inactiv-
ity and isolation that they believe
are inevitable with aging. But there
are realistic ways to preserve health
and vitality as you grow older. It
is possible to oage successfully. ?
The best measure of success
is whether we continue to function
normally. Research over the past
50 years is helping to dispel
society Ts myths abous aging. The
worst is the false belief that to be
old means to be sick or disabled.
As our bodies age, normal
changes affect our appearance,
such as graying or thinning hair
and wrinkles Other changes affect
how well we can function. Research
shows that we have more control
over these types of changes than
once thought.
Although the risk for disabling
conditions such as heart, ortho-
paedic, and eye diseases usually
increases with age, evidence shows
that making better lifestyle choices
can prevent, delay, or help control
many of the diseases. We're never
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Making Smart Choices
We can decrease our chances
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high blood pressure, or high blood
sugar by making some |
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would be to tell and share the wor-
thy saga of these men and women
to preserve the lives and the future.
of today Ts youth with a dream that Ts
attainable and feasible. The politi-
cally sensitive Bullock feels that
America Ts fault lies within her fail-
ure to see that when anyone is de-
nied the opportunity to reach his
or her fullest potentials it cri ples
the nation and if these legendaries
of the air T and their ground sup-
port crews had been denied the op-
portunity to participate in the
same fight for liberty who knows
how many lives we would have been
lost in the 12th and 15th USAF
Bomber Squadrons had it not been
for the Tuskegee Airman?
Bullock revealed that there's leg-
islation going on to develop a Tuskegee
Airmen US Postage Stamp and as an
avid stamp riser he was looking for-
ward to this American dream bein
accomplished. Next year during Blac
History Month 2006 Bullock said that
two of these surviving members of the
Eagleson Tuskegee Airman
Chapter of Goldsboro, NC would be
keynote speakers here in Edgecombe
County. .
Submitted by Milton Bullock
ercising regularly, not smoking,
and limiting alcohol can prevent;
or reduce risk factors for disabling
diseases. Today's medications and
treatments also can help to con-
trol these and other health prob-
lems. Vaccines can protect against
the flu and pneumonia and their
complications. Regular health
screenings and checkups can de-
tect problems at early stages.
Physical Exercise
Regular physical exercise has
the single biggest impact on our
health at any age. It Ts a myth that
aging means physical inactivity.
Staying physically active maintains
our ability to function at our best.
Exercising for 30 minutes a few
times a week means more vitality
and fewer health problems.
Mental Exercise
Mentally exercising our brain
with activities like reading, hob-
bies, and classes keeps it healthy.
There Ts even a possible link be-
tween high mental activity and re-
duced risk for Alzheimer Ts disease.
In addition, stress management
and ongoing social involvement
Support our overall health as we
age.
Today Ts Americans are rede-
fining old age. It Ts not a time in
life to be feared. .
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