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activities you enjoy and small
escapes like movies and TY.
Mrs. Beatrice Maye.
*Practice slow, deep breaths. _
shallow, fearful breathing
seems to Send stress signals to:
| the brain.
Violent Children
Violent kids are often victims
of proverty. In addtion. to the
_ violence children have seen on
television and in the movies,
and apart from the drug wars
they have witnessed, the ten-
dency toward violence is a
function of neglect and abuse
so many have experinced. -
Many of them are born to T
drug and alcohol-dependant
parents, They were left in cribs
for days with dirty diapers.
They were also scolded or
starved, Other kids simply had
no one love them or hold them |
when they were frightened.
Many were:sexually exploited
from their early days-some
even in infancy. If they survied,
they grew up on the streets
With no adult. guidance and
care.
The bottom line is this. We are
paying a terrible price for the
disintergration of the family
and for the victimization of
children. Taken from james
Proven Strategies
For Beating Stress
* Socialize, See Friends, .
relatives, go to club:meet-
ings, stay connected: This
| paramount.
* Talk, laugh, cry, get angry,
Let it out.
* Excercise regularly, Stud-
ies show excerise educes
anxiety, releases tension and
spurs the brain to pump out -
endorphins, chemicals that
create a sense of well-being.
Try for 30 to 60 "
minutes thre times a week .
* Eat a healthy, balanced
diet,
* Block stress by losing
yourself in activities to your
daily or weekly schedule. Be
displine about this,
: Get perspective. Remem-
ber past hardship and prob-
lems de ve Overcome.
* Live in moment through
Students of Community
Christian Academy
~ cance if you push the bondaries
oTry yoga or meditation, If
you dont enjoy them, dont
force yourself-try another
- activity.
Taken from AARP Bullentin,
May 2009
Mentors And
Role Models
Role models are people one re-
spects and seeks to emulate. A
mentor ig a super duper role
model who probaly works in
your field and whose work ethic
others admire. futhermore, a
mentor gives advice when
you're in a sticky situation and
helps you navigate thewindy
straits of your career. Why? Be-
cause the mentor Khas been there
or r someplace very similar.
The best mentor that I.ve ever
had was so confident in her own
success that she never felt
threatened by anyone else. She
also went out of her way to lo-
cate others T strengths and to
give credit whever it was due.
There's a difference between
someone in a senior role who
gives advice and a mentor who
demonstrates qualities that
you'd ;like to emulate. lastly, a
mentor takes a persona; inter-
est in your career,
9 es
So where can you pick yourself "
up a one of these mentor folk?
It Ts not the sort of situation
- Where you send out invitations a
and see who RSVP Ts. You must
need to be open and watch it.
The Smithsonian Institution i in
Washington and members of Till Ts
family announced the casket Ts
donation to the museum Ts planned
National Museum of African
American History and Culture in
Washington when it opens in 2015.
CHICAGO (AP) " The glass-
topped casket that displayed
lynching victim Emmett Till Ts
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Emmit Till Ts Casket To Go To The Smithsonian
disfigured body. to. the-world and
became a rallying point for the civil
rights movement is headed to the
Smithsonian Institution, Till Ts
family announced Friday.
oHopefully, when this casket, when _
it Ts.on display at the Smithsonian,
young boys and young girls from
all over the world are going to see
it and it Ts going to inspire them to
fight for those who are too weak to
fight for themselves, � said Simeon
Wright, Till Ts cousin. At the South
Side church where Mamie Till-
Mobley insisted in 1955 on opening
the casket that held the remains of
her 14-year-old son - and allowed
photographs to be taken and
published - Wright. said her
message of what racism looks like
still needs to be told. oFifty
from now someone will tell the
Story ... that they murdered him,
threw him in the Tallahatchie
River, would they believe it
without the casket? � asked
Wright. Hé was 12 and was with
Till the night the black teenager
was pulled from his bed in
Mississippi and murdered for
whistling at a white woman.
Lonnie Bunch, the director of the
Smithsonian Ts planned National
Museum of African American
History and Culture, where the
casket will be displayed, said he
knows of no other casket of a
specific American put on display
this way at the Smithsonian. He
e's Limousine Service
called it a key artifact from the
civil rights movement that helps
tell the story of what is both one
of the darkest chapters in U.S.
history and a moment that helped
change it. oPart of the
Tesponsibility of a national
museum is to help people to
oremember, and through this
donation we will ensure that "
future generations will remember
how the death of a child, a
mother Ts courage, helped to
transform America, � Bunch said.
Friday Ts announcement at the
Roberts Temple Church of God
in Christ came on the 54th
anniversary of the day Till was
killed. It follows last montli Ts
discovery of Till Ts original casket
tattered, dented and rusty.- ina
parbage-strewn storage shed at
suburban cemetery where
ormer workers are charged with
ligging up corpses and reselling
are not accused of disturbing
Till Ts grave. But while detectives
rere investigating the
lesecration of the historic black
Pemetery in Alsip, they found the
asket that had been pulled from
} Phe ground when Till Ts body was
-pxhumed in 2005. Till Ts body
was later reburied in another
casket, and the family was told
- fhe original one would be kept
. fora memorial. Till Ts mutilated
closely. See who impresses you.
Keep aneye out for people in
your field that have the kind of
experiences you wish to have
and who strike you as wise.
Join a proffessional women Ts
group. there iare scads of them
out there for nearly every pro-
fession. Volunteer to do some
work for them. You'll get to
know tons of people that way.
Acaveat: mentors are people
with lives, with jobs, with men-
tors of their own, While T they
are involved in helping you, You
should remember that no one
likes a time-seeker, and you risk
losing your mentor Ts. signifi-
energy s soh utions we can afford.
Congress is getting feady to vole on energy legislation
that will increase energy costs for fomilies and businesses.
Many Americans will be unable to afford their electric bills,
Pleasé tell Congreis to vote for solutions thot balance the
needs of the oneene wit the financial concems nd the
munenioon peoples
TELL CONGRESS Seiail story.
Let them know that we need energy legislation
bod had been found three days
after he was snatched him from
is bed. Two men were acquitted
the crime, but the next year
ok magazine article. Wright,
ho stayed in Mississippi for the
ial _ did not attend his
0 funeral, said he
elt beipiea when he walked out
pf court the day his colusin Ts
killers got away with murder.
But when he saw the casket last
month at Burr Oak for the first
ime, he said he saw at once not
y the ohatred of racism, � but
ould see a mother Ts love. � It
ro 5h sin T
a ks titheodi whereas ahe
: the casket was discovered. He
realized that. it needed to be
preserved: oThe casket itself was
part of the story, � he said. The
best place for it, he thought, was
at the Smithsonian museum
scheduled to open in 2015.
Experts told him the casket could
be salvaged, but it would take
months of work. The casket will
be moved to Washington, D.C.,
within the next couple of months.
How the casket will look when
it is ultimately put on display -
more like it is today or how it
| was in 1955 when thousands of
mourners filed past it at Roberts
Temple Church of God in Christ
is yetto be decided. Bunch also
said he doesn Tt know when it will
be displayed, what the exhibit
will look like or what other
attifacts and photographs will be
included - only that it must not .
be done in a way that turns the
casket into a mere curiosity.
oThis should be an object that -
challenges us, it should be an
object that makes us think (and)
not i" seen as a spectacle, �
burial plots. The former workers °
hey confessed to the killing in a
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Boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
is gearing up for his big
comeback this weekend in a
bout against Juan Manuel
Marquez, his first fight in
almost two years, And, of
course, with any big fight
comes the interviews and hype
surrounding the fighters. This
time, however, it looks like
oMoney~Making
Mayweather � is letting his true
feelings be known. He feels
that his treatment by the media
and the public is based on his
race " both the good and the
bad. oIf you Tre rich, you Tre a
tichn ", � he told ESPN. oIf
you Te poor, you Tre a poor n "
". If you Tre smart, you Tre a
smart n " ". At the end of the
day, they still look at me as a
n " ". � oThis country needs
to be more positive, �
Mayweather continued about
the United States. oWe're in a
recession, we're at war and we
' continue to be negative. The
fans in the UK showed me more
love than in my own country.
That Ts crazy. ... Sometimes I Tl]
sit back, Ill be in my theater
sometimes, and I'll think,
Imagine if I was the same
fighter that I am, and I was the
same person that I am, and |
was from another country. Can
you just imagine how big I'd
be? T oBut I wouldn Tt change my
life for nothing in.the world.
There Ts nothing like being
young, black and rich. But there
are certain things you think
about. If Floyd Mayweather
was white, I Td'be the biggest
athlete in America. The biggest,
the biggest. 1 know that for a
fact. Mayweather continued,
saying that the media never says
anything negative about Oscar
de la Hoya, and if there is
something negative, it gets
swept under the rug. Plus, he
called out HBO boxing analysts
Larry Merchant; saying he
knows nothing about boxing,
and Emanuel Steward, calling
him an Uncle Tom. Is
Mayweather flying off the
handle or does he have a point?
Black Army Reservist Attacked By "
Racist In Front Of Seven Year Old Daughter
The Drudge Report and Rush
Limbaugh made a huge de
over_video of a white child
being beaten by a black child
as other kids watched and
cheered. It was despicable
and unacceptable: behavior;
Sadly, schoolbiis bully fights
happen all the time. But in this
case, Limbaugh went on to
imply that_ white children
children T aren Tt safe in an
America with a black President,
I say, no children are safe as long
as.SO many people form their
worldview listening to the likes
of Limbaugh. Case in point, on
Monday a white man shouting
racial slurs attacked Tasha Hill,
a black.army reservist, in front
of her7-year old daughter. The
Floyd Mayweather oTf I Was White �
brutal assault is being
investigated by the FBI as a oo
federal hate crime. Hill Ts
daughter is now traumatized, .
Tasha Hill, who is a U.S. Army
Reservist, said she was walking
[into] the Cracker Barrel ~
restaurant with her 7-year-old q
daughter when a man punched
her, kicked her and yelled racial
slurs. oI just remember curling
up ina ball to protect myself. �
said Hill. Hill, a 35-year-old
Amy Reservist, said she was
with her 7-year-old daughter
when she was beaten, oHe
punched me several times in the
head and I can't remember if
that's where he was kicking
me, � said Hill. Morrow police
charged 47-year-old Troy West
with assault, disorderly conduct "
and cruelty to children. oHe
was coming out of the location,
almost hit the girl with the door
and real politely the lady says, T
by all witness counts, you
almost hit my daughter, will you
- please excuse yourself. T [West]
punched [Hill], put her to the
ground and kicked her, � said
Commander Jimmy Callaway
of the Morrow Police.
Department. Source: Reservist
Beaten at Morro Restaurant -
Fox Atlanta We are in a toxic
racial environment. You
_ remember the monkey dolls and
shouts of oterrorist � at the Palin/
McCain rallies? Do you
remember the crazy, racist .
emails that circulated during the
campaign? Well, those folks lost.
and they are apoplectic. They
are losing their damn minds, To
counteract this phenomenon of
crazy, we must be vocal in our
protest against all injustice and
Vigilant in defense of what is
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Line Judge Loses at US "
| The Five
Things You
_ May Not
Know
About The
Black
It Ts $no secret that the recession
is hitting African-Americans
especially hard: Last. month
black unemployment stood at
14.5 percent, vs, 8. 6 percent
for whites.
1) She Brings Home cas .
Bacon T
The black worker is more
likely to be female; but then
again, there are simply more
black females. Fifty-three
20 and over are women, while
47 -percent are men -
commensurate with their
representation in the overall
population.
2) The Tax Collector in the
Mirror "
It Ts not surprising that a black
person is more likely than a T
white oie to be a bus driver or
a health care aide. But did you
know that blacks are also. more
likely to be tax examiners or
collectors; dietician or
nutritionists; crossing guards;
bill collectors; and
telemarketers? ©
3).On The Government
Payroll
.Who says big government is a
terrible thing? While facing
discrimination in many sectors,
blacks are more likely to work
for the federal government than
other Americans. We
represented 17.8 percent of the
federal workforce in 2007
4) Bearing the Union Label
For years blacks have been
more likely to work in a union,
bringing them 12 percent higher
wages than their .non-union
counterparts. However, black
union participation has been
falling for years, from nearly 32
percent in 1983 to less than half
that today. In 2008, 14.5
percent black workers were
union members vs. 12.2 percent
of white workers. It Ts no
wonder that on average blacks
are,.., ,
5) ».Making Less and Less
Many of you have seen this in
your own paychecks, From the
first quarter of 2007 to the first
quarter of 2009, black workers
25 to 54 years old experienced
a 3.7 percent decline-a drop of
about $23 "in their inflation-
Nea median weekly "
major racial or ethnic
Pca a ee a over
behavior
Open, Fined
Serena Williams, the #2 ranked
women Ts tennis player, was
_ expected to go to the U.S. Open
~ finals this weekend to compete
» forthe title one again. But in her
_ Semifinal match against Kim
_ Clijsters, Serena yelled at aline "
judge for calling a foot fault.
when she was two points away
from losing to Clijsters. What
did she say? Well, according to
the line judge, after the foul was
called, Serena stepped toward
her, shaking the ball, and said oIf
_ I could, I would take this
and shove it down your ...
throat. � The line judge also said
that Serena threatened to kill
her. Sererta did admit to yelling
percent of black workers age at the judge but denies saying
that she, threatened to kill her.
Regardless, Serena was called
for unsportsmanlike conduct
and a point was given to
Clijsters, which happened to be
match point. In the
aftermath, Serena was fined
$10,000. and may face further
consequences, according to the
Associated Press. oThe average
individual would look at that and
Curley said. oWhat she did was
unacceptable. It Ts unacceptable
under
circumstances, � Curley added.
oWhen you're on the court, and
you are waving your racket
ws Dall
Say, a $10,000 fine for what she
did? What are you guys, crazy? T «..
_ The answer is; the process isn Tt
* over, � tournament director Jim
+ ioe Salle
any .
toward a lines person and using
profanity, it Ts just simply
unacceptable. When you look at
sais it eye tthe
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