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BLACK FINAN CIAL SECURITY DISCUSSED,

-BY ERIC MAYES OF THE

PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE

(NNPA) Sen. Barack
Obama Ts economic plan
would help African- "
American families regain
some of the losses they Tve
experienced during the Bush
years, campaign officials
said this week.

Key among Obama Ts plan, .

according to campaign

officials, are plans to
' "increase the'threshold for the
Earned Income Tax Credit,
raise the minimum wage and "

end Bush Ts tax cuts for

_ corporations that send jobs

OvEeTSséas,

The economic woes that
have gripped the nation run

_ highest level since 2003.

oeven deeper in the African-- .
American community.

oWe're in the bottom of the
boat, when the water comes
in the bottom of the boat,
we Tre the first ones to notice,
but it's the whole ship that is
sinking, ? said William
Spriggs, chair ofthe
economics department at

__Howard University. oWe

cannot afford as a nation for
this ship to take on any more
water. ?

According to unemployment
numbers released last week,
the national unemployment
rate is 6.1 percent " its -

For Blacks, the Statistics were
even more grim with 10.6

percent of Aftican Americans jobs, helps small businesses,

unemployed. .

That figure is not the highest
African Americans have seen

". under President Bush. During

his administration, Black
unemployment has gone as
high as 11.5 percent,

Release of the figures
prompted Obama Ts-
presidential challenger Sen.
John McCain, whose: -
economic policies largely
mirror Bush Ts, to issue a
statement pledging that he
would create wee if elected.

oAmericans are hurting and

_ We must act to create jobs, ?

McCain said. oAs president, I.
will enact jobs for li, Ss
Econo mi

Dian that cre:

, Written : i ey

McBride, Special to the "
NNPA from the Jackson
Advocate, a

Black slavery continued long
after the Civil War under the
guise of sharecropping and
tenant farming, says a
crusading California minister

who has issued a call

nationally for a four-day
reparations march in

~-Washington beginning:

October ye

Pearle Megeris revealed in
their July 7 edition the plight

of a Mississippi family who
had to besii the ise

White-owned ie they were
forced to work on up through
the mid-1960s. 7

Famous c civil rights fighter T

T Fannie Lou Hamer shocked

the nation when she told of her
experience of being beaten and
cheated out of her farm wages
in the Mississippi Delta of the
1950s and 1960s.

fithe same vein, Bishop
Henry C. Williams of
Oakland, Calif., a man keenly ?
sensitive to the involuntary
servitude issue, has devised a
national program to recover
the lost wages, time, property
and life Ts chances that Black
farm st were mecved of

Vr

_ Reparations Crusader Decries bShareeropper q

anned for

day. slavery. Calling his olen
oThe 40 Acres anda Mule
Reparations March, ?
Williams i insists that

osharecropping-slavery ? is
the root cause of Black
poverty in today Ts United
States.

oI was born in Alabama, ?
Williams says, oI was locked
into the slave-sharecropping
system, like thousands and
thousands of other Black
people were. Without a

doubt, I equate that system

with pre-Civil War slavery. I
was able to move out to
California and was able to
* the Teamsters and made

~ expands opportunities and

opens markets to American
goods, ? |

The Obama campaign.
launched a media blitz, :
hosting a conference call with
reporters to drive home

- Obama Ts economic plan and ?

its impact on Blacks,

During the call, former Labor

Secretary Alexis Herman,

who served under fort er

President Bill Clinton, said ©

__ more than 500,000 African
~ Americans haye lost their jobs

since 2001, bringing to the
total number of unemployed
Blacks to 1.9 million.

_ Going a step further, she

ded that man of the 5 pains. Oe

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A sna macmy

made by African Nicest

since the 1950s have been

reversed under Bush,

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_ oWe've lost good jobs:in our
community, particularly in
_ areas such as-construction and

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Minority Voice Sept 1, Sept 12, 2008 pg2

Summer vacation is over
and we are back to work
full-time. Our children are
back to school and we as a
family are about to face
some new and interesting
challenges. Regardless of
the grade that your child is
inthis year and regardless.
of the many children that
;' you've already raised, this
" Child is mire ; ocean

td ew ode eve
will join our children in the
hall

mge of eo new state

level s some belongs will ?
have to face Regents exams
oe fires one while "

ee ae of course you will
be invited to the first ew
PTO meeting of the year,

Before you know it reports
cards will be distributed. If
your child does well on the

and return it without a fuss,
If your child does not do as
, well as you would like, then .
that will be a different story
won'tit? Report cards,
teachér conferences, class

to tell a story, but are their
story the whole truth? By
now your child Ts behavior "

recommend.a CST (child "
study team) meeting, to ©
discuss why your child is is not
performing like other children

of the same age. Why is your a

child not paying attention in
class? Why doesn Tt he do his
homework? Why doesn T the |
score high on exams? Why,

Why? Why? Perhaps, shel are
some of the same questions that
were asked of Thomas Edison Ts
mother since young Thomas had
to be. withdrawn from school

after only three months because

he was accused of day dreaming
and not paying attention i ae
class. Of course he went on to
hold over 1000 patents for "
original inventions. Maybe

these same questions were |

asked of Woodrow. Wilson T s

mother, since he seemed to be:

slow in school and either T

dyslexic or ADHD, he didn Tt
read until he was twelve. He
went on to become the Presi- ?

~ dent of Princeton University, a
_ Nobel Prize winner, and ihe «

twenty-eighth President of the
United States. This brings u
the question of intelligence.

According to Webster, intelli-

getice is the ability to. pepsin
_ and to deal-with new-and t

Situations, -It is the ability to to

apply knowledge to manipulate

one Ts environment or to think |

, came This ae

- @Xams, and state exams seem.

might have led the teacher to |

not sound like an T

on a report card does 2
Yet many of us use that
instrument as the sole "
indicator to make a
judgment about our
child Ts. intelligence. :
Please, don Tt misunder-

pee

Stand what I am saying, I

am not saying that report
cards are not good _

_ indicators of something;
_Tam just saying that Me.
report card is not the only

instrument that we should
use when judging our
child Ts intelligence. It
indicates what the school
has observed based on
their tests, data, and

class- work, Let me.

propose a question, could.

an average student (based

on report cards) grow up
to be an exceptional
adult? T While you are
pondering this answer

let's try another question,

could an honor student
grow up to be a failure in

life? This brings us to

the question of intelli-
gence. As we begin our
new school year let me
admonish you to pay
attention to your child
and take a fresh outlook
on the subject of his/her
intelligence. Look for

their gifts, and instead of

asking the question of
how intelligent is my

child? Ask how is my

child intelligent? Knowl-
edge that is required in

~~ the core curriculum i.e.,

Reading, Math, Science,
Social Studies, Art, and
Physical Education is
certainly important and I

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want all children to at least

_ __ have a Regents Diploma.
However, Treally want them to -
__ be who they truly are because
+ the world will judge them
_ based on their. productivity.
_ Howard Gardner wrote many
"years ago. about Multiple

Intelligences, He listed seven
of them in his book, Frames of
;, Mind (1983). The names he
assigned Tto the Multiple
Intelligences are: Linguistic,
Musical, Logical-Mathemati-
cal, Spatial, Bodily-Kines-
thetic, Interpersonal, and

_~ Intrapersonal, What he pro- ?
posed and what I am proposing

is that we begin to think

. differently about the T subject of
intelligence, Most of the °
important people in our lives
will demonstrate one of
Gardner Ts intelligences as well

__-48 a little of the intelligences -

listed on the Report Card. In
our highly competitive world
,our children will need to have
an oedge. ? That oedge ? will be
the mastery of their gifts and
talents. Those gifts and talents
might manifest through one of
the Multiple Intelligences
listed or perhaps one not
mentioned on this list. Each

~~ Child has a gift and each child

has a talent. The,report card is

, 800d but not enough to de-

scribe the strengths and intelli-
gences of all children.

- Dr Ira Gerald

, President and Founder "
The Association for the Educa-
tion of Young Parents

Email to: |

Educatedparents@aol. com ?
P.O.Box 352
Rooeyell NY 11575

or ~ State of the Black World T
en nce Conference Aims to | Set Post
Election Black penda

by Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Editor-in-Chief
WASHINGTON (NNPA) -
Unemployment for Black

people has crept back into
double digits for the first

time in three years; currently

10.6 percent in comparison
tothe 5.4 percent
unemployment rate of "

Whites and the 8 percent rate

of Hispanics.

While Black unemployment
hadn Tt reached 10 percent
since November 2005,a
search of data bases of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics
show that White and
Hispanic unemployment
rates have not reached that
high for at least the thy

. decade - ifever._

Unemployment stats are just. .

one illustration: of social and
economic disparities that
persist between the T races in T
America: From education to
health care to the criminal

_ justice system, the adage still
holds that when America

gets a cold, African-
Americans get pneumonia.

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the Nov. 4 election - to discuss
the: ostate of the Black world. ?

oWe? Te exited bout the
_ prospect of a winning -
"the White House, ? says Dr.
Ron Daniels, convener of the
. conference, oBut we must
work to Create and advance a
progressive Black agenda no
matter who wins the White "
House. The crisis afflicting
New Orleans, before and tes
Katrina, is a metaphor for the
conditions facing Black people
across America, ? he mys :

oWe must not make the
mistake of believing that the
new President will be able to
resolve all our problems -
without a powerful grassroots

movement to promote our
agenda. This is very much in
keeping with Barack Obama Ts.
position that change comes
from the bottom uP

Daniels, president of the New ;

York-based Institute of the
~ Black World 21st Century, says
the event will be a rare
gathering of Black civil Tights "
leaders from all walks of life.
The line up reads like a who's
who of the oBlack world. ?

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employed. So, we have
lost good jobs with good
wages and any attempts to
open the doors for the -
(Black) middle class, to
continue move us up the
economic ladder, have
in its tracks bythis =
administration, ? Herman
said. ae

To bolster her argument
for Obama, Herman added
that McCain has voted
with the president on
economic matters __
approximately 90 percent
ofthetime.

While the focus of the call
was a discussion Ton the
impact of the recession on
Spriggs pointed out that
Americans overall have
suffered the same fate "
_it Ts just that it has hada T

_ disproportionate effect on
Blacks. Deh
Rising unemployment is a
stark contrast from record:

Jow Black unemployment

said,

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took over, Affican
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rate, a record low poverty
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and 2.78 percent under

the fewest jobs, except for oThat 1.14-point difference, if
Herbert Hoover, no onehas maintained for eight years,
benefited from thiseconomy. ? would yield 9.33 percent
be See more income per person,
Like Herman, he said, _| which is a lot more than
MeCain would simply extend almost anyone can expect
Bush's policies, oo" from a tax cut, ? wrote Bartels.
oThe key problem with He also noted that higher:
McCain is that he DAs sloped «ine satan showed
the same policies fet have relatively stable gains
failed us over the last eight regardless of who was in the ?
years, " Spriggs cae : White House but lower ?
Chief among those p 0 ic income families tended to fare
contin ued tax bre sas fot those better sii a Democrat. |
rs the upper bag c a oThe less well-to-do ... fared
| brackets ane ee _. much worse under
ag +, orem hon $250,000. Republicans than under. -
of, literally over the colrse Of ise: Spriggs or Herman
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the investinents im ont economic otrickle down ?
nation needs to make or » theory for the economic
ho ag T and infrastructure, meltdown the country is
he said. experiencing and said Obama
will take a dramatically
we understandiwhat the ?
trickle down, mote of the

same failed policies, ? Spriggs
said. oThey didn Tt work for

_ eight years " another eight
years aren Tt going to make

~~ them tun around, ?

a good living. AndIcan Buteau and theFreedmen Ts Then. Today, we want to be.
pe asafree Bank that provide fan sépanid. ? RES
laborer with that of people ~~ economic T ase for former epee
locked in that slavery slaves, Mentors and Money
system that still exists in i BE nga OS .
many places in this McCain Family Values Williams points out that
country, ? . Aan hath ee Black people are in desperate
eae Williams holds that current- need of massive economic
Williams is president and day political leaders are a part help. Pointing out that the
CEO of the Job Work " - of the history of exploitation Black homeless constitute
Development Corporation of Black farmers and their nearly 40 percent of the total
based in Oakland. children. y number, he proposesa.
| | he building program that would
oT'm calling on my fellow . oMeCain Ts great grandfather "_ engage these homeless in
Black Americans to take a owned a 2000. acte plantation building shelter for
stand, for your money and in Mississippi and had 52 themselves and others in need
your land, ? he says. oWe. slaves in 1860, ? Williams of housing. Our goalisto
are asking the President and says. oThose slaves picked develop a corps of mentors
Congress for billions of , Over 1,000 bales of cotton, and a dedicated work force
dollars per year to build and com and peanuts a year. that will be able to develop a
rebuild the Black _ Slaves and sharec wide expansion of wealth
communities all over existed on that farm from the based on the reparations paid
_ America. There is a lot 1860s through 1958. This is for their past labor, ? Williams
more work to be done... W McCain's family gained says,
Many people think that their wealthi, wealth passed pe
such actions would down through the oT want to build confidence,
bankrupt America. But that generations. ? self-reliance and courage in
isnotthe case.Wedonot our young people, ? he says,
want it all atonce, but = _ Williams holds presidential oDr. Martin Luther King
annually, like the Native. candidate John McCain summarized the reasons and
Americans receive their le for ~ onting need for the kind of
money. ? ry in his reparations that I am
, ee yhistory. proposing today. King said
Williams cites the example oe that America has given Black
of a $3.9 billion allocation oWe want the McCains to pay people a bad check marked
for Native Americans in the from their wealth the money oinsufficient funds ? in our
2006 federal budget. He owed to the descendants of land, It.is time to correct the
also points out that Black the Black who made "_ problem.
members of some tribes f them edly, ? Willan says, .
continue toreceive oIn the Reconstruction days, " Contact Bishop Williams at
payments under the title of . John McCain's great 510-507-3424 or
reedm ? recalling the grandfather ws sfesponsible " www.freewebs.com/
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pray we Il all be ready. I pray
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return. I pray that we'll get
our business straight, so we
can all meet at the gate. I pray
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return. Man and wife in their
bed, one of them by the spirit
led. The rapture came and
took that one above. The
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to find their loved one

raptured away. Oh what a
way to lose the one you love,

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pray we'll all be ready. I pray
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return. I pray that we'll get
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IMAM MOHAMMEDRI E

IMAM MOHAMMED
REMEMBERED,
by CASH MICHAELS

The Wilmington
Journal

The Islamic leader who
dared to veer away
from his father Ts
teachings of black .
nationalism to start his
own highly regarded
Muslim movement in
America, is being
remembered a kind, -
wise and visionary man who
always strived to do God Ts
will, and move the African-

_ Atherican community

forward, . .

Imam W. Deen Mohammed,
74, died at his home in
Markham, Ilinois Tuesday.
At presstime Wednesday, a
scheduled autopsy had not
been completed to reveal an
official cause of death.

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Imam, ? x
The death comes during

Ramadan, one of the holiest
religious observances of the

~ [slamic faith worldwide.

Born in Detroit, Michigan in
1933, Wallace Mohammed
was seventh of eight children
to Nation of Islam leader, the
Honorable ever, ofl
Elijah Muhammad.

~ Named after NOL founder

Wallace Fard, young
Mohammed served Side-by-
side with his father in what

~ was commonly called Goring |

the 1950 Ts and 60 Ts as the.

along with such notables as T
NOI ministers Malcolm X,
Louis Farrakhan, and then

world heavyweight boxing
ene Mybemnmad Ali,

_ The movement taught self-

love, self respect, self-
reliance and an abhorrence of
white racism during a time
when the nation. was still.
struggling with civil rights,

Min. Elijah Muhammad told
followers that the white man
was othe devil ? and that
blacks needed to separate
themselves, and odo for self ?

if they were to survive. Thus,

many black-owned

businesses were started, and

a membership estimated in
the tens of thousands across
the nation was born.

In 1961, Wallace af
Mohammed was sentenced
to three years in federal .
prison for refusing to serve
in the military on religious
grounds,

Upon rejoining the NOI,
Wallace had subsequent
theological differences with
his father, and was forced to
leave several times, only i
return.

Imam Mohammed, who has
also taken part in numerous _
interfaith conferences with... .
Christians and Jews in the
US and around the world,
also met with the Pope John
Paul II in 1996 and 1999.

- brother Imam W. Deen
Mohammed, ? said Nation of
Islam leader Min: Louis

Farrakhan. oWe thank Allah :
oBlack Muslim ? movement, _ o j

gos | jad ?
ibn Abdullah PB U, i) and

his work of helping to create
a better understanding and
image of Islam in America
and throughout the world.

he t traveled frequently to vill ek Muslin

and confer with.

~ beyond, the loss was Cae
oprofound.

In 2003, Imam Mohat
stepped down from pea i Obviously it it Tsa ck loss
of the American Society of forthe entire Muslim
Muslims to focus on Projects community, ? Dawud Walid,
that would ochange the -exécutive director of the
negative image of Islam in the Council on American-Islamic
United States ade Relations in Michigan, said,
oHe was encouraging his
followers to accept the best of
their humanity and to extend
This was especially in important the moral and ethical values T
after the terrorist attackson. of Islam to the general -
Sept. 11, 2001, when the civil American public, ?
tights of American Muslims . |
were put at greater risk.
? Imam Mohammed Ts passing
oe ee |... comes literally two weeks
Dignitaries from around the: after his older brother, Jabir
world, including Imam = Herbert Muhammad, best
Mohammed Ts former rival, known as the longtime
paid tribute to him ue word business manager for
of his passing. : Muharimad Ali, died after
_ heart surgery in Cee in
s _ late cr ah
oWe moum the loss of our.

Herbert Muhammad, as he. .
was Commonly:known, was "
70, |

ooni sie 7 of

- Imam W. D. Mohammed |
-i8sued a statement which said,

in part, oWe ask that you pray

for our father and leader. ?

oOur prayers and-our thoughts A memorial service is

are with the Mohammed scheduled to take place

. family, with the followers and Saturday i in Chicago.

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Saturday August 23" at the
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FWB honored it Ts Pastor, Rev
Kenneth Joyner. To the delight
of Pastor Joyner the special
guest of the evening was his
favorite musician, Mel Holder.

Pastor Joyner ,being a student
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NATIONAL
NEWS

Portion of Slave Burial
Ground Saved

Special to the NNPA from the
Richmond Free Press

RICHMOND (NNPA) - A
portion of a 250-yearold
burial ground for slaves and
freed Blacks that now lies
beneath a parking Jot will be
preserved and recognized as
part of the city Ts effort to
confront its slave-trading
history.

The 50-by-100-foot section of
the former oBurial Ground for
Negroes ? had been destined
to continue as a parking lot
under the ownership of
Virginia Commonwealth
University,

However, VCU, which earlier
this summer faced protests
over its failure to recognize
the burial ground, has
changed its mind.

VCU last week announced an
agreement with the Richmond
Slave Trail Commission to
preserve that section of its
parking lot for a future
memorial and quit parking
cars in that section.

The university has blocked off
the portion of the parking lot
identified with the burial
ground, but is parking cars on
the rest of the acre-property at
1554 E. Broad St, that it
bought earlier this year, No
timetable has been given for
development of the memorial.
The commission is taking
charge of that effort,

Council Vice President
Delores.L. McQuinn, who
chairs the commission,
praised VCU for its
cooperation, She said she
plans to hold at least three
public hearings during the fall
to gain citizen views on
ocreating a fitting memorial
for this sacred ground. ?

The city-created panel is
developing a series of historic
stops to illustrate Richmond Ts
robust role in the slave trade
and this would be one.
Between 1808 and 1865, the
city was the sécond largest
slave auction site in the

nation. The burial ground lies -
just north of the former site of
Lumpkin Ts Slave Jail, which

is part of the trail and where
the commission is ,
undertaking an archaeological
dig,

Before the Civil War, the jail,
dubbed the Devil's Half-Acre,
was the largest holding pen
for slaves. After the war,
Lumpkin Ts becamie the initial
site for a school for newly
freed slaves that eventually
became Virginia Union :
University. The site lies south
of Broad Street near 15th
street, ,

Kathleen S. Kilpatrick,
director of the state
Department of Historic
Resources, which has played
a key role in identifying the
burial ground Ts location, said,
oWe now have a commitment
that will help the |
community, ..do what is right
by those people who lie T
nearby, ?

The burial ground was used
from around 1750 to around
1812, after Which the city
approved a new cemetery for
Black Richmond residents
further north. According to
the state history agency,
Interstate 95 was built over
the main portion of the burial
grounds