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Anniversary Of | - There is uproar in the could not contain herdes of after arguing with het son,
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including two sergeants » gathered outside the housing "_Tyesday she told AmNews
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Monday night. o The first witnesses claimed that a4. o ? Commissioner Ray Kelly
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A Question of COLOR rears its ugly head again....
By: Zenith Prince T
Washington Bureau Chief
Tar babies and high
? hair vs.
obad ? hair, Some thought
color discrimination among
African Americans had
pretty much blown away
with the Black cultural
revolution of the 1960s and
1970s. But-according to
sociologists, academicians
and other measures of the
nation Ts social barometer,
the issue is still rooted in
day-to-day life,
oThere is evidence, no let me
rephrase that, it Ts a reality
that people receive
preferential treatment based -
on color, ? said sociologist
Cedric O. Herring, a
professor at the University of
Illinois and editor of Skin
Deep: How Race and
Complexion Matter in the
oColor-Bling ? Era.
oTt is something that for a
long time was an impolite
subject to talk about but it Ts
?
Teal.
The subject reared its head
most visibly recently when
Detroit DJ Ulysses Barnes
was flooded with so many
emails, telephone calls and
negative publicity that he
was forced to cancel the
event, In his defense, Barnes
said he had plans for oSexy
Chocolate ? and oSexy
Carmel ? parties too, and that
oit was just a party thing. ?
It wasn Tt just a oparty thing ?
for people like Ayana Teal, an
administrator for the Jewish
Baltimore. Teal, 25, was made
opainfully aware ? early on that
her dark skin was not seen as
desirable.
oPeople would say, You Tre
really pretty for a dark-skinned
girl, T Au rom bony it like dark-
skinned people aren Tt
supposed to be pretty, ? she
said,
Now, the same prejudices she
experienced are being visited
on to her 5-year old daughter,
Nia,
oHer father Ts friend said when
he saw her, You don Tt really
see dark babies that are pretty
like that, ? Teal:said. oI could
mave hit him. ? On the other
when entrance into mulatto
organizations like the oBlue
Vein. Society ? required that
you be so pale that the oblue
Meeeveins ? on the underside of the
end of the spectrum, Tamika
Brown of Hyattsville, Md.,
said her skin color has given
her advantages.
oWhen I was little, I was
treated differently because I
had light skin and long hair, ?
Brown, 20, said.
The issue of complexion
discrimination has long
played out in the Black
community-from slave days
when lighter-skinned Blacks
were made.to work indoors
while their darker
toiled in the
counterparts
' fields; to the antebellum age
arm Were visible; to more. ,
modern times when Black .
fraternities and sororities
admi istered the obrown
paper bag test ? to prevent
people who were otoo dark ?
from entering their ranks.
uch attitudes about:color
eflect ointernalized racism, ?
said Melvin Thomas,
president of the Association
of Black Sociologists and
professor of sociology at
North Carolina State
University.
oFor some Blacks, the more
white you are, the better, ? he
said, oIt Ts based on White
Tacism but it gets internalized
so that Blacks have the same
negative attitudes towards
Black skin and see
features as more desirable. ?
Herring said color
discrimination doesn't only
go one way. oLight-
complected African American
women may be the desirable
group of women, ? he said,
oThey aren't seen as Blacks
and the treatment they receive
from African-American
women, especially, i is
hateful. ?
Thomas and others argue that
the preference towards
lighter-skinned Blacks is
reflected in various aspects of
life, particularly the
entertainment world, where
lighter-skinned female
celebrities " Lena Home,
Halle Berry, Alicia Keys and
Mariah Carey " appear to be
the preference.
Changa Bell, an area film
director and former BET
employee, used to direct hip
hop music videos, Bell, 35,
said that the emphasis on
light-skinned Africans
Americans was one of the
reasons why he drew away
fromthe genre. oBack when
I was heavy into making hip
hop videos it was the
Blasian, T Black-Asian, mix
that T was popular, ? he said.
oBut more often than not, it is
the light, brown to light
skinned models who appear in
these videos. ?
The artist will usually ask for
a cértain type of look and the
director will find models to fit
that look, Bell said,
David Hayrock, director of
operations for §
International, which
hip hop videos, denied that
there is a bias: oFrom the...
point of view Of casting, there
has never been any talk about
choosing models based on
their complexion, ? Hayrock
said. oIt Ts more about booties
and how their faces look in
close-ups. ?
Teal, who also works as a
fashion stylists, said she also
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Minority Voice November 1-9, 2007 pg2
by Bill Howard ee
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Origi 2¢ ale
For ovel 100 yes black.
people were treated worse
than the lowest animals on
slashed: Wwe were lynched and
~ our black women were raped
so often, that our color has
changed. We were the food
that sharks ate; we died not by -
the hundreds or thousands,
but by the tnillions as we
were among the worst
holocausts this planet has ever
known. Have te forgotten?
Emami Til was accused of
ae of miles bacl :
lived to have children and
kept our race alive, but no one
can really understand the
suffering and the humiliation
it required to survive as a
human being. Have we
foegotten?
Black men, do you remember
Willie Lynch, who in 1712
- spoke to his fellow Virginia
slave owners saying: oWhile
Rome used cords of wood as
crosses for standing human
bodies along its old highways
in great numbers, you are here
using the tree and rope a on
occasion.
oI caught the whiff of a dead
slave hanging from a tree a
__ everyone of you that if
our past? -
~ long for maximum profit, you ?
suffer occasional fires, your
T animals are being killed. -
Gentlemen, you know what
your problems are, I do not
need to elaborate. ? He went
on to say; oI have a fool-proof
method for controlling ogi
black slaves. I guarantee
installed correctly it will
control the slaves for at least.
300 years. ? He continued to.
elaborate: oI use fear, distrust (
and envy for control |
purposes ?; he continued, , othe :
black slave after receiving
this indoctrination shall carry
on and will become self-
refueling and self-generating
for hundreds of years, me -
thousands. |
oDon T , forget you must bit the .
old black male against the
young black male, and the
: young black male against the
...old black male. You must use T
Originally posted 11/2/2007
For évery action, there is an
opposite and greater reaction.
This law applies to white ..
supremacy Ts response to the
liberation struggle.
__ This was seen in Jena, LA., as
sixty thousand persons
marched in Jena on
_, September 20 to protest the
~ railroading of six Black
youths in adult court for.an
alleged attack on a white
youth, Justin Barkin, in *
December 2006.
In June 2006, an all-white
jury in adult court convicted "
Mychal Bell of aggravated.
' assault and battery and
conspiracy to commit a
battery. Before the march, an
appeals court threw out the
remaining conviction for lack
of jurisdiction, Jena officials
have chosen to try Bell again
a
probation was wrongfully
_ Violated on another charge. -
He was given 18 months in
prison and is awaiting trial on
- the December 2006 charge _
v. Alfred H. Mayer Co, a
While we were pumping our
fists and beating our chests,
the forces of evil were at
___ work, Because we failed to
_ Tespect or support watchdogs,
we never knew what hit us in
1968. In the meantime, white
lawyers T were reviewing the
Thirteenth Amendment. To
them, there is a loophole. This
is our future.
Congress has the authority to
prohibit private racial
discrimination as a badge of
slavery, This is the rule in the
Thirteenth Amendment and it
was made clear in Jones v.
Alfred H. Mayer Co. Thus,
- Congress lias the authority to
ban private prisons. Penology
is also a public function.
Between 1970 and today, "
there has been more than a
700% increase in the prison
population. This occurred not
because of an increase in
crime but because of the
enactment of harsher
sentencing laws, Without
watchdogs, voting has
allowed Blacks to endorse
their own oppression..
In 1970, the state and federal
» prison population was under
190,000, Today, the same .
h population is more than two
million without counting
" persons on parole and
The total count is
~ more than seven million
: persons int eine foc
must connie its population,
The United States also takes *
the gold for i incarceration
-» fatesand Russia replaces.
China for the silver. This
: country. is still a penal colony.
a Among the ° domestic states, :
Mississippi f follow, The st States
with the lowest incarceration
rates are Maine, Minnesota,
Rhode Island and New _
Hampshire. There is
obviously a correlation
between race and
incarceration rates.
History is repeating itself.
After the Civil War, states
established convict leasing
systems to exploit Black labor
and to put ofree ? Blacks in
check: The Ku Klux Klan was
formed within a week after
the ratification of the
5 en | Amendment, The
thinese Exclusion Acts were
enacted after the ratification
eee ee!
formed to lease convicts from
the state for a fee. There was a
lucrative market for oidle ?
Blacks.
The convict leasing s)stem
marched in lockstep with
lynching. Private prisons are
back in vogue. Nooses have
followed. Although the
convict leasing system may
have never been challenged
Slavery w was a oo
institution similar to the
orate carmen:
Ths dublid lnieligaase
_ the light skin slaves and the
_. light skin slaves against the
- dark skin slaves. You must
also have white servants and
overseers distrustALL
blacks, but it is necessary
, othey trust and depend on us.
They must love, respect ; me
| frost ONES 08
«He concluded by saying, ©
_ oThis plan if used intensely
for one year, the slaves
themselves will remain -
perpetually distrustful ?, i
African Americans, ae we |
overcome or are we still
living his plan?
"Did Dr, Martin Luther King
oo" Jn, Malcolm X and so many
~ others who fought so long. =
and so hard for our freedom
die i in vain? In every aspect
of life, we had to fight and
die to move up a step on the
ladder of ao
osnday to omnes!
~ descendants of inde
- Africans is like having put
: newly-emancipated Blacks.
back under the constructive
" jurisdiction of the
- Confederates Seated of
America after the Tilden
Federal Reserve System. .
The original meaning of the
Thirteenth Amendment is
that Africans could only be.
enslaved by the state after a
criminal conviction
especially since it is only
state action coupled with "
due process that can deprive
a person of liberty. -
England gave the Royal
rewards to investors can be
considerable " not ea i in ;
Each a 2007; we find
ourselves with the power to
correct many of the injustices
confronting us by using the _
power of the ballot, yet 8
million of us remain.
milion of us are rotthig away
in prisons while laws are
currently being passed toput
another million away in prison,
All of this because we have
forgotten our history? If we .
forget our past, we will have no.
future!
Dr. Sie was confronted with
the thought of calling offa
particular movement, because
he was not certain if the people
would back him, he-turned to
prayer as he headed to Beulah
- Baptist Church in Atlanta,
Georgia. As he drew closer to
the church, he was unable to
park his car, as thousands of
brothers and sisters were
crowded church. ier were
- ct just to be there. Dr,
=,
Today, many male people
_ (mostly black) without high
school diplomas have sie
suffering for over three
decades. Will we allow thea
to attend and graduate from
society wi with an nabilty to ea earn
a living wage, or will we
owait ? for additional decades
to fully realize that our black
prison populations, etc. will "
Continue fo grow? Our future
will depend on our T. i -
vemceal iting tr St
outside unable to get inside the a
in prison stocks, It listed GEO.
. Group, Corrections Corp. of .
America and Cornell Co. as
| potential i investments. Stocks
and bonds are the staples of
oe slavery. Investors should be
| required to disinvest, =
en
eeindo sticks ahold wis
- Stocks but also in bonds.
Blacks need to keep an eye on
~ former Attorney General Edwin
Meese, an advocate for re-
enslaving Blacks tough a
loophole. ey
Prison stocks a are traded on the
New York Stock Exchange.
Investors demand that states
enact harsher sentencing laws
like in the conviction of ae
Genarlow Wilson in Georgia, V4
Last week, the Georgia
~ Supreme Court outlawed his
Sentence as being cruel and.
: : unusual, Five inmates still exist |
| oin the Wilson et al. Prosecution.
+ Tey, tere sould be eve ae
a + mike aright Tio ol .
Hamilton Finusia rekindled |
2 this struggle in the 1920 Ts at
Howard University. 5
Before Hurricane Katrina, i it
appeared that Blacks would
- be at least fifty percent of
-Louisiana Ts population by
2025: -During the 1990 Ts, the
state Ts white population
: eA le eae |
while the Black p
| increased 12%, Judge JP |
Mintepand LaSal Pri
Dis
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an * A ae , Va Me ae Mee ees
Hoan e DK i a lu oa 4
- lack legislators led the fight t6 ce lama tag Hake seco,
v fe SNA ime began Ya
a ¢ if ; ¥t
i * tig
riggs Vv. Dies idea It
deputized all whites to seize
ofugitive slaves, ?
The institution of slavery
was not only protected by
the U.S. Constitution but -
algo by subsequent federal "
clauses in the U.S,
~ Securities and Ex
Commission, The fugitive slave
enact the unconstitutional law
Georgia which
ofhuch harsher sentence for
persons dealing or possessing
The New York Stock Exchange
is regulated by federal law .
under the auspices of the .
laws were used to facilitate.
_dlvery inner pommere
OX titution we
although slavery isnot
Wilson T s conviction. Eleven of "
3 struggle in the Tawana
. Brawley case, ea
See: ye
www.einstatealtonmaddox.net
for oLetter to Sen, Barack
~~ Obama on the oJena 6,"*and ? ?
oDemocratic Party andthe
Pa 0 dagk
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Nakeela Bryant contributed
this article for Sow A Seed.
You Can Be Free
I don Tt really know where to
begin but I wanted my
personal testimony of.
" deliverance to be able to
touch someone who may be
as I was: trapped with no
escape because I was too |
. afraid to cry out for help. I
wanted to let someone else
know that when you are
oChosen By God ? you have a
greater purpose and when you
are trying to fulfill your "
_ purpose without including
God in it, you will always
feel empty and incomplete.
For a while I had been living
a life of insecurity, defeat,
depression, brokenness, and
total oblivion to the world
around me, I was so trapped
within myySelf-that my tife
began to take this slow
downward fall to Hell and "
after I couldn Tt get a grip, I
began to enjoy this
downward spiral and the
devil was enjoying taking me.
I didn Tt really care who said
what to.me, who I made
angry, who I talked back to, |
who I disputed with....none
of that didn Tt really matter
because oI WAS RIGHT ? and
oNOBODY UNDERSTOOD
ME. ?
I continued to go about the
normal routine of going to
church whenever the doors
were open, making sure that I
didn Tt miss a service unless I
teally had a ogood reason ?
because I didn Tt want
anything to be said if I didn Tt
show up. Sometimes I
wanted to be there and
sometimes I really could have
cated less and even when I
got there and those times I
could care less, I didn Tt really
pretend like I cared even in
other people Ts presence. |
continued to get up and go
about my daily routine job,
and felt the same way I did
about church, some days I
cared, some | didn Tt, But, I !
avoided confronting the real
issues at all with anyone. If
you didn Tt like me, I didn Tt
care, If you talked to me or
not, I didn Tt really care. If
you wanted to hang around
me or not, after I had gotten
$0 immune to being by
myself anyway, and
excluding myself from
everyone, | DIDN TT CARE!
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You see the
pattern... The enemy
wanted me to believe I
matter who I hurt or
who I made feel bad and
yet I was still oon my
way to heaven! ?
NOT!!!! The more I got
trapped within myself, ©
the more the devil was
| feeding into my spirit all
of the things I should.
do, who I should listen
___ to, who not to listen to,
__ who to steer away from
(not all necessarily for
the good), and who to
just completely avoid at all
costs! AND I DID JUST
THAT! :
I was hurting deep down
inside because I felt like no
one cared, had this facade like
it didn Tt matter but it hurt to
be alone, but all this time I
-had been making people not
care because they didn Tt want
aiything to do with someone
who cfg nothing about their
self. I hurt because the enemy
had a hold on my thoughts,
my mind, my actions, my
attitude, and he never let me
seemyself.
Yes, some of those times in
church I did feel the presence
of God, God may have used. "
me through a song or music,
and even at those times when I
felt like I really didn Tt want to
be there, it was at those times
that someone might come and
Say to me oI really enjoyed
you tonight, God used you.
Thank God for that
anointing. ? And, in my
routine, I would say as I had
~-been-taught, oTo God Be The ~
Glory! ? and the devil would
let me feel like I still had it
together. While others were
looking like, oYeah, whatever!
You just don Tt know the real
truth! ?
How many know that you can
have an anointed leader who
can intervene on behalf of the
church and even in the midst
of a service pray such a prayer
. that the devil will have no
place to stick his head so that
others that truly need and want
something from God can still
get what they are looking for?
That Ts the kind of
ANOINTED, CHOSEN
Leader that I have. My pastor
is not just a woman of prayer
and faith, but is also a woman
of God that doesn Tt mind
going head to head, eye-to-
eye, cheek-to-cheek with the
devil! And, that is why the
enemy wanted to keep me
trapped and caught up
thinking it Ts all about me and
not seeing myself because the
more I kept myself hidden
from myself, I would push
myself further away from
God, further away from the
leading of a great pastor, and
further away from my
oumbilical cord ? in the spirit!
She is my lifeline ordained
and predestined by God to not
just watch after my spiritual
being but to be a mentor to me
and steer me in reaching my
greatest potential in life as
well as in Christ, And, the
devil knew if he could tear me
away from that lifeline, he
was going to literally kill me
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between the umbilical cord
and the baby that was birthed
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And, it was in that release in
the atmosphere that I stand
here today at peace with
myself, at peace with the
world around me, at peace
with God, and at peace with
my oumbilical cord ? whom I
love with all my heart!
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he had dropped the brush.
before cops unleashed their
barrage, while laim
~ they shouted ohalt, ? Coppin
kept walking towards them,
and they said that Ts when they
fired 20 bullets, hitting him
with at least half of them. He
was pronounced dead at
Woodhull Hospital. Witnesses
added that after Coppin was
shot, the cops put a knee in
his back and handcuffed
him.While Police
Commissioner Kelly said that -
with the belief that the object
" the hairbrush, under the
teen Ts shirt " was a deadly
weapon othis shooting
appears to be within
department guidelines. ? TBut
even he acknowledged that no
gun was ever seen, and no |
gun was recovered at the
scene. oBefore we examine
whether or not the shooting
was justified we have to
examine whether police "
followed proper protocol and
procedure, ? retired detective
Marquez Claxton told the
AmNews.Added Mayor
Michael Bloomberg: oA
young man is dead, and that it
is a tragedy. ? The family of
the deceased is being
represented by attorney Paul
Wootén, who has decried
Kelly Ts orush to judgment. ? In
response to Kelly Ts swift
statement and nationally
televised press conference on
Tuesday, the family held a
briefing of its own just after
identifying Kyle Ts body.There,
Noel Leader of 100 Blacks in
Law Enforcement, demanded
a. ospecial prosecutor because
of the incestuous relationship
between the police
department and the D.A. Ts
office. ?"Meanwhile, emotions
on Gates Avenue were still
running high Tuesday
afternoon. oIt Ts like,you-ka
the story before somebody
open Ts their mouth, all you do
is just change the name, ? a
young bystander
muttered, oThe young folk are
furious, ? said Abubaka Miller
of The Brotherhood, standing
at the scene of the incident.
oThey are tired of the police
harassment and being
bombarded on the street and
even in their own buildings.
On Monday night, the
politicians were jumping in
front of the cameras and the
young Black men said to the
media oYou need to be talking
to us, we Tre the ones being
targeted. T The young folk are
saying if you are gonna take
one of us, why can Tt we take
because we could - now
one of you? ? ?Calling the
cops for help is like dialing M
for murder, ? charged :
Brooklyn Councilman
Charles Barron. oHow dare
they say this was suicide by
cops, like this young man
wanted them to kill him. This
was not suicide by cops - this
was murder by cop. This was
similar to what. happened to
Louis Baez in 1979. His wife
called the police for help
because she was having
problems and they came and
shot him 24 times, Rev.
Daughtry and I told them then
- that in these domestic
situations they need to send a
psychologist, a social worker
and someone to diffuse the
conflict with the police so that
they can talk the people
down. You don Tt just go send
in John Wayne and turn a
situation into the O.K.
Coral. ?On Tuesday morning
Barron visited the 79th:
Precinct. As he, Coppin Ts "
family anid the community at
large awaited developments in.
acase born in anall-too -
familiar territory, Barron
stated, oA wallet, a brush, a
candy bar, that young man in
Harlem pointed his finger. ..1
hold the mayor and police
commissioner responsible
because they refuse to send a "
signal and hold police officers _
_ who kill Black people
accountable. This latest
killing is just a couple of ~
blocks from where Timothy
Stansbury was killed, Police
Commissioner Kelly gave that
killer cop, Richard Neri, a 30
day suspension. ? Just one.
block over from where
Coppin was gunned down, an.
unatmed Stansbury was shot
and killed by housing cop
Neri in January 2004. Neri
was hever prosecuted, and
Phyllis Claybourne, for $2
million. oNobody is buying
that owe thought he hada gun
crap, T that the cops say every
time they kill an unarmed
Black man. They should just
be honest and say we shot
what? ? said Divine Allah,
Youth Minister of the New
Black Panther Party. oA
wallet? A chocolate bar? A
hairbrush? What kind of
people are they recruiting who
can Tt decipher these things
from a weapon? That is if we
were to ever believe their:
ridiculous claim. And is
suicide by cop just a
convenient cover-all they Tre
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kill a Black person? ? As news
filtered down late Tuesday
morning that some gangs
were planning a response, the
NBPP activist concluded,
oThese kids out here don Tt
hear foolishness and act like
they don Tt. They aren Tt rolling
with the patience of their
grandparent Ts generation. This
leadership out here has to stop
telling them that all they Tve
got to do is fall back and pray
and trust in the system. They
don Tt. Guide them correctly.
Speak their language so they
can hear you. The youth are.
going to respond. They know
they are the targets and they
aren Tt for meetings and -
marches and turning the other
cheek. ? Fresh from rallying for
Megan Williams, in
Charleston, West Virginia,
Divine Allah said that in the
wake of Monday night Ts
shooting, othe police do what
they are allowed to do. Inthe
meantime, while we are
fighting Black-on-Black
crime, and fighting without
compromise for real justice
for Sean Bell, and for the Jena
_ 6, and.for Megan Williams,
and for a countless number of
other government-sanctioned
crimes against the Black "
community, we should never,
never forget that there is an
enemy amongst us, a predator
who is relentless and ruthless.
It should also be remembered
that not every shut eye is
asleep T? |
Minority Voice November 1 - 9, 2007 pg?
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Radio Personalities .. . Reggie Price of oThe Gospel Music Mix Party ?, to the left and
Guy Simms of oSoulsville ?, flank Radio Legend oBuddy
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