Minority Voice Febrasry 2- 9, 2007 oeCOMMUNITY NEWS oUniversity Trustees Board. . | plate and knife on right of rein snacks with no. The Editor:* Judge Greg Mathis, TV. Giown men with successful _ plate during meal pauses exercise just means you are apersonality and activist careers do not wear braided © When meal is finished, place Fat. Being fat is not Watch your Alphabets; ~* * Oprah Winfrey, the most _ styles. So go clean-cut both utensils together at 10 " "_healthly. Get it together and_ indomitable media empress "_ look. Growing up means & 4 diagonal on plate with get in shape. sssentials* Baruch Obama, US "§ "_ooking like you mean fork tongs down and knife Exercise, eat right, drink 8 Manhood:Senator and Presidential ~ business. with cutting edge towards glasses of water, get 8 hours Character, Maturity, Candidate. = Short hair, freshly cuthair you. of sleep, gotochurch, and Leadership* Dr. Ben Carson, pediatric always looks neat with Now what to order. 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JonesA Sin, a Stain, a Strut(This condensed article waswritten by Barry Saunders, ahumorist writer)I quote: oAs that noted civilReflectionsPlace fork on left edge of -lpia aes, FO oyies 2a eeeer ig aga "rights activist, Trent Lott hassaid many times in the past "segregation was a sin, and astain, it wasn Tt all bad.Contrary tocommon _misperceptions, black life inthe segregated South was notone of unrelenting misery ,with us oh shuffling aroundgoing, Oh, lawdy, we Ts bein Tsegregated T. No sirree. Welived, Jack,even as our leadersbattled to end segregation.While some T current so-calledleaders would have us believethat nothing has changed "so they can keep a job andremain revelant " the truth isthat conditions andopportunities for most blacksin the South have improvedbeyond anything we couldhave dreamed. I Tm notromanticizing or trivializingwhat was a dreadful period inour history, so keep thoseaccusatory letters,Just between us, though,many black institutionsthrived during segregation ,nd many w have new books,but as Jesse Jackson asked.(back when he was eyelant) oWhat does itmatter = slhave old or new booksbeingforte by law toil in thebere ga cdhaving to fry up arath ag tntool sie not find arestaurant that would serve.you, We liked sitting in the» balcony " but notforced to " and nothing inany restaurant that wouldserve you:We liked sitting in thebalcony " but not beingforced to " and nothing in_ any restaurant has ever tastedas good as my grandmother'sfried chicken on a piece oflight bread. We had a lotof fun in a small Southerntown during the mid-to late1960s, when ican segregationwheezed its, last laboredbreath. Sure, our school wentfrom first grade through 12th,received less money perstudent from the state thanall-white schools, and thehand-me-down textbookswere often obsolete by thetime we received them. Butwe made do. When theChristmas parade rolledaround, however ; we didmore than make'do: Wemade up for all we'd beendenied,..Each year, themarching band high-steppedthrough downtown and justtore up the place. I mean.The Morrison TrainingSchool Drill Team (all black_except for one or two whitekids whose parents obviously. didn Tt have the juice to keepthem out of the joint) owned_ the parade with its precisionmarching drills, But hoolband was a strong No. 2. Theschool was blessed with twodrum majors, When theone graduated, the bandnever missed a step, Now , Iconsider myself to be a .dancing fool when I wanttobe, but both of those dudeshad more rhythm in their bigtoe than I have in my whole: However, the Buffalo Soldiers,body.Junior Walker, in his song oWay Back Home ?, wrote :There are good and badthings |about the SouthAnd some leave a bitter tastein my mouth.Mine too, Junior. But somebring a smile to my face. ?_ Respectfully submitted,Suejette A. JonesCLOSING THE GAPA century ago, Black folkwho migrated from southernfarms to cities often lived inwretched conditions. Our men weredenied decent jobs andsteered into menial labor.Teenage girls werelured to the big city withbogus promises of work,only to be forced intoprostitution, destitution anditude )servitude.The National Urban Leaguewas founded in 1910 to leadthe struggle for social andeconomic opportunity forurban Blacks, In thenineteenth century, we shedthe shackles of slavery.In the twentieth century, weshipped Jim Crowsegregation in many realmsof American life. We wonthe right to vote, the right toeat and shop wherever wewanted, the right to live andattend school anywhere wecould afford*comprised of former slaves, freemenand Black Civil War soldiers, were thefirst to serve during peacetime.In the century ahead, theprimary task facing ournation is to transformAmerica Ts have-nots intohaves and_ Close what we call theopportunity gap. Asdocumented in The State ofBlack America (the League Tsannual publication), despitethe progress we Tve made,African Americans continueto traf! Whites in every~ indicator that matters "from academic achievementto employment to home-ownership rates. As ablueprint for transforminghave-nots into haves, theNational Urban League _advocates the following TenOpportunityCommandments for thetwenty-first century;1. Offer quality preschooleducation to children whoseparents cannot afford it.2. Provide affordablehealth care for the more than40 million Americans whoare uninsured.3. Ensure that everypublic school serving poorchildren equip them to beself-reliant .4, Vastly increase supportfor proven programs to getthe estimated 12 millionhigh - school drop outsback on track.5, Guarantee access toaffordable higher education.6.. Implement nationaleconomic policies thatpromote high employmentand economic growth incommunities that have so farmissed out on the goodtimes.7, Elimidate the odigitaldivide ? by increasing freepublic access to computersand the Internet.8. Ensure fullparticipation of African-Americans and other peopleof color in higher education,employment and public andprivate business contractingOpportunities.9, Eradicate the home-ownership gap along ethniclines by making affordablefinancing widely availablefor credit worthy workingfamilies of color.10. Elimidateiscriminatory business-loanpractices holding backentrepreneurs of color.We've come a great distancesince slave ships arrived onthese shores. After theEmancipation Proclamation,it took our people a centuryand a half to make our eothrough a forest fraught withdarkness and danger. Today,at the dawn of a newee we finally see theas we begin our final leg ofthe journey. Our goal is the