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Happy HolidaysThe Minority VoiceNovember/December 2009 IssueWhat You eh Is What You Get, WI hat You Read Is Wha t You oa And SaFree 7 Névenibiet? December 2009 Issue | aa: Free!*Catholic Church accused Veteran councilwoman T Ss workof denying justice to a true benefit to community...fe es oeBlacks abused by priests Z a priests while in their teens, is leadingthe charge on behalf of his clients, who _ claim the religious hierarchy was slow.to respond to their complaints, and . "hee -.OheeTesponding, were uneven in their "7 __. dispensation of finaticial Sompensation abe For centiries the Church hi- x aetal counseling serviceserarchy has been a rigid, secre- that were made available to Whitetive, all male monarchy and re- victims. oSomebody had to help these «|mains so today; that is the crux guys, ? Atty, Aaron told The Final Callof the crisis right there. T " « think that I woulld die if Tdidn't ?David Clohessy,Survivors Net- For the last nine years, Atty. Aaronhas =~ Pee ne , 4 rework of those Abused by worked on behalf of at least 50 Black Pictured Former Couneil Woman and Mayor Pro-tem Mildred Council: ( far right) Congressman GPriests (SNAP) victims of pedophiles: Some say the ter) and his lovely assistance (far left ys All three take time from their busy scheshles to pose for our}CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - abuse began when they were as young Photo by Jim Rousecharge inset COVEAttorney P hillip Aaron said af- as age nine. David Nolan, now.42, said ; E Ogio tt sehcatly lost to awards, honors and newly filster ese the Pecshoniana his sordid tale of sexual abuse by a By: Cherie Speller o Kandie Smith in a ti ght race tecognitions, I mostly marvel at just begun ee aednes of victims of sexual abuse oe : came in a seaby religiots anthariiea within Catholic priest began when he was 13 The Reflector 0 represent the city Ts 1st the fact that Mrs. Councul wasyears old, He said the priest used his district but not before the 22- there " " at marches, walks, greeting her after the Service,position of authority and power to My first memory of- year veteran stacked up talks, celebrations, funerals, Sh© said she k ped we e werehave sex with dozens of young boys Mildred Council was at.a. coomplishments, notjust for ttagedies, reunions, meetings, fairly new in the neighbat will, and seemingly without fear of meeting in a building. herself and family, but forthe. Workshops, forums, grand 224 wanted to stop by toPart I ofa series) . punishment. oWe put them (priests) behind what is now known city she served. A retired OCcasions and those..most Welcome us to the. area. Mrs.on pedestals almost-to the point where I oa. the Cupola Building, public health professional, the Voided, She was there, when Council may not be on the cityMr. Aaron, - 4° legal thought they were more than Superhuman Where Taff OFFICE cuee ou expected her and when you Council in the days to come, butrepresentative for dozens of: in a'sense, ? said Mr. Suntent: Mayor Pro Tem and Y " ,the leadership of the RomanCatholic Church in Chicago, hefelt obligated to help. oa4 I don't expect that her work isEquipment and the United hep +her husband; Walter Council, . didn't " such as one Sunday, ei id by cal continued on page2::: i ». Way of Pitt County haye.. Faised two Eagle Scouts who Morning when she visited my done. Some serve whien they're ofGGranelle Ts | Service , so if Yourever in need of admiration and respect for »,: ai sO hin 22755989 Photo by Jim Rouse Mrs, Council began, Mrs,Plotured above is Brother Gradylected to do so, but it Ts been " " their offices. Back then, are both in graduate school, church. Then meeting a few & ,Re ES ome peas y a the buildings werehome tO. Baker at scciae State in doors down from ", the Pi that she is a servanti Hy | Sycamore Hill Baptist Baltimore, and Logan at the[| Chitch; which has,sitic?,? University of Washington in Sta Te tte Sh||. moved to Hooker Road, I ries led nie es for r e es ar cdont remember what the any parents but especiallymeeting was about but, as African- American parentsa fairly new reporter for raising boys " in westthe newspaper, I Tm sure it Greenville, That kind ofwas related to work. | personal family success tookremember Mrs. Council. foo and determination, thespeaking and taking notes sam qualities that Mrs.during the meeting, but. Council used to lead the citywas most impressed by the to be inclusive, to push for. behavior of one of her two lobbyist T to bring more moneysons. As the:meeting was, inio the city, to buildgoing on, her son " " "I'm Playgrounds and invest in| not sure which one " sat rdable housing and toquietly at her. feet, ad Ocate for children, youth,occupied by his own h¢ homeless, the elderly, the .|things, books, toys, ick and poor. She Ts promotedwhatever held. his. og education, culture, heritage,attention, Ifyou didn Tt see tourism and. equality inknown he was there, Even, times controversial in :then years before T herlviews she's always been -had my own children " 4 her beliefs and worked }realized " What aM 49 panrneand his Tovey wife, ab they take 4 " accomplishment that was,od a gdarig Srady isthe owner And, that's where my Y effeee;W Local youths display the we meaning of Christaas by Ginmsn cule ning hone fal eye ? Photo by Steve Johnsones: ; Ul i:{ ia Tie' is ty+ wor * =C

SS ee Pe ee RE Re ee Seé & . bsLiee. ;(as eee ee |F |ae}a a 4 , ot o Penge scend?AARD Protests DiscriminationOe de rate5 eers RSE gf IE ARE ON keWashington, DC+ (BlackNews.com) . AmericansAgainst RacismGR ge UREA d- Discrimination| (AARD), held a| protest at~ Bloomingdale Tson Black Friday inresponse tohostile and extremely .discrimination at Bloomingdale Ts by its management that included;verbal harassment/badgering, job discrimination, threats and raceand gender discrimination. Several employees say they reached outfor help and complained to company CEO Michael Gould, but thecompany retaliated with more harassment, including forcing someof them out of their jobs after they complained. The AFL-CIOLocal 400 union was notified in an effort to curtail the harassment4 and investigate. Following an investigation, the union filed a: grievance against the company and recommended thatningdale Ts manager, Julia Palmer, issue a formal apology foresee6@LLL ELLE LE IES A SE DS A RR GE aude Fas a c-?,?s general managers at any of its stores or/ __ stripped him of his title as Giorgio Armani specialist alist and told him to"quit, orbe fired. oBloomingdale Tsis aracist company that harassessays the employee,.He went on to say that Bloomin; dale Ts is o...arevolving door of racial harassment and discrimination: againstBlacks, and is a.place where Black excellence, especially amongRPM oy : on# __ ? men, is loathed. ?\eecyaDisney toon heroine was as_ Studio Ts T first feature-filmin 1937 Ts oSnow White and the» Seven Dwarfs. ? It would take| Some 60 years for the Disneyleading ladies with all the colorsee "of the wind, including the. .American Indian Pocahontas (1995), the Chinese Mulan (1998) and.the Hawaiian Lilo (2002). Only now, with oThe Princess and theFrog, ? have Disney animators put a black female front and center.Ironically, the inspiration for the new film came from two Caucasian °men; Current Pixar-Disney chief John Lasseter and the late WaltDisney himself. oThe story really came from an initial idea of doingan American fai oPrincess ? co-director Ron Clements. oAnd setting it in New Orleans,which is John Lasseter Ts favorite city in the! world. It was WaltDisney's favorite city in the world ... Out of that, it seemed naturalthat the heroine would be African-American. ? Discussion of thecharacter Ts race had some of the film Ts principals bristling. oWe walkaround being black every day, and nobody talks about it. ? noted :Anika Noni Rose, who supplies the voice of Jead Princess Tiana. oSo, I suggest you follow your instinct and let it be nothing to betalked about, ? Yet the ngi irbig deal is that it will quietly affirm to young brown-skinned children| that they are special in this world, ? Ros said, oAnd I think that it is| a bigger deal to those of us 4 W up without it and are now'S exciting to us, because weNeaahin that necessari 8 ily knows aand the Frog ? is now " "-giiMipominledaie Ts 2.humiliating acts of harassment andAmerican Princess _: op Aidains (Ar) "porik_ Most of the last century, the~ white as, well...Snow White, the.superstar, who marked her debut _artists to begin painting theirry tale, which hadn't been done-at Disney, ? said oDreamgirls ? actress continued to talk: oThe.SDS oc Salem) Geen ee ere 2 a diag T teekey. vt ee ee oes aay Cee ee His SNfd a" pasiae tek thaechaed atm . oiit he - ie +ce . rs hic ietsAse : By JBSSE WASHINGTONAP National Writer Amid ll the oith~ BlackObama Again-se any special initiatives forblacks.how he'd solve a glaring problem anda glaring demand fromthe Caucus. The problem is the astronomical high unemploy-ment rate for blacks, especially young black males. Latest jobfigures show joblessness for young black males matches andin some parts of the country tops the unemployment rate atthe height of the 1930s Great Depression. The CongressionalBlack Caucus demanded that Obama specifically shell out more:money and formulate more programs to help the black joblessand to aid cash strapped minority broadcasters and minoritybusinesses. The Caucus lightly saber rattled Obama with thethreat of delaying or even opposing: hiplan if he didn Tt pbuck Obama on thevote is taken as:it. But the Causid&pay aariesThe blueprint required that the Democratic presidential can--didate tout a strong defense, the war against terrorism, a vaguePlan for winding down the Iraq War, tepid proposals to con-trol greenhouse emissions, mild tax reform for the middle class, acautious plan for affordable health care, pro business solu-_ tions to joblessness, and make only the most genteel reproachof Wall Street, The Clinton blueprint also required a Demo-cratic presidential candidate to formulate a moderate agendaon civil rights, poverty, failing inner city public schools, thetem in written policy statements, And then say virtually noth-cratic presidential candidates Al Gore and Johni Kerry followed the Clinton blueprint to the letter during their campaign and ifeither had won, the likelihood is they would not made these.problems priority items in their White House. Obama is tugged"nuclear power industry, government regulators, environmen-servative GOP senators and house mei :mats and leaders. They all have their priorities and agendasislation,' escalate in Afghanistan or near textbook examples of this. Thetwo dozen back door meetings Obama had with the majorFebruary virtually guaranteed that a big chunk of the healthcare reform package would reflect the interests and the wishespaid to get ?their backing. It Ts the same with Afghanistan. The Pentagon _of the health care industry, This is the price to bewanted and demanded a huge ramp up in Americanforces in the country. Given the pressure to win the war,_ the power of the military and the defense industry, Obawas in no real position to say no. Obama Ts no to thesional Black Caucus on black joblessness and a beef upminority businesses has everything to do with the priceWhite House governance. That price is a cautious,. tory, and above all, a race neutral presidency. |}a aVite Be i" adep alert linciggeneratedby Tiger Woods T troubles - the puzzlingmy x * : " jv T : ivaneMe ie an pewas in direct response'to questions about oTh4yon - ew gaDrees oot ae yiSangean ts te Oe Se Ee eS osea Ls »Bag Se te See es11/20 + 12/4, 2009 page 2| mistresses ~ little attention hasbeen given to the race of thewomen linked with the world Tsgreatest golfer. Except in theblack community. When threewhite women were said to beromantically involved withWoods in addition to his blonde,Swedish wife, blogs, airwavesMe. and. _barbershops _. Started. and Woods T alreadyfhankfully, Tiger, you didn Tmarty a black wif a sister caught you runningaround with a bunch of whitehoochie-mamas, ? one parodysuggests in song, she wouldhave castrated him. oTheGrinch Ts Theme Song ? didn Tt stop there: oThe questioneveryone in America wants to:ask you is, how many whitewomen does one brotherwaaant? ? As one blogger,__ a white. wife, 1 would.man. Becausethe author of the study, GeorgeYancey, a sociology professorat the University of North.Texas and author of the book oJust Don Tt Marry One. ? Thecolor of one Ts companion has oblackness ? - which is a bigreason why the biracial BarackObama was able to fend offeatly questions about his blackauthenticity, oHad Barack had| haveing forAe eSdo Woods T women saysomething about the intenselyprivate golfer Ts views on race? oI would like to say no, but Ithink it garners a bit of a yes, ?Johnson Cooper said. CarmenVan Kerckhoye, founder of therace-meets-pop-culture blogRacialicious, said there havebeen frequent discussions onher site about the fine linebetween preference and fetish. oIs there any differencess izs suon when the final House _ Robert Paul Reyes, wrote: oIffankers Association is to back Tyee: ods ha ateHIV-AIDS crisis, and the racially skewed Criminal Justice sys-ing about any of these things on the campaign trail. Demo-hard by corporate and defense industry lobbyists, the oil andtal watchdog groups, conservative family values groups, con- ers, foreign diplo-air priorities _ women have long f_ and all vie hard to get White House support for their pet leg- by the tendency of farinterests, The health care reform battle and the decision to and many have a listtransgressors at the ready,pharmaceuticals and private insurers at the White House in. among black woDenene Millne ! aarhor T;;i : « #* ¥; 8 [2 gis vik ey ie}+0 - ae ht ne abetween. a white guy with a; thing for-blondes, and a non-or ck white guy with a thing forto identify himself as black, and Complaints by members of thefamously chose the term congregation, his victimizer~ _Cablinasian ? (Caucasian, was transferred to a biggerwy lack, Indian and Asian) to. churchonChicago Ts Southside. _scribe-the facial mixture je o*No-oneivares-about young ? "inherited from his Afri¢an- Black boys being molested, butAmerican father and Thai I Tm reading in the newsmother. This vexed some everyday how holy hell is being_ blacks, but it hasn Tt stopped raised by White victims beingi- them from claiming Woods as Sexually abused, ? said Mr.~ one of their own. Or from Nolan, who said a young maledisapproving of his marriage to Telative was also sexuallyElin Nordegren, despite blacks T abused by the same priest.historical fight against white Reginald Montgomery Tsracist opponents of mixed nightmare of abuse also beganmarriage. On the one hand, at age 13, when he was Ebonie Johnson Cooper doesn Tt T homeless after being kicked outcare that Tiger Woods T wife and of the house. He looked up toalleged mistresses are white. his priest as a father figure, untilbecause Woods is oquote- One evening the priest told himunquote not really black. ? oBut he could sleep upstairs in theat the same time we stillseehim Tectory. The seeminglyas a black man with a white benevolent priest came andwoman, and it makes oa Woke him up. oI felt somebodydifference, ? said-Johnson Tubbing on me. ? Mr.Cooper, « 26-year-old African- Montgomery said when heAmerican from New York City. opened his nh oHe was oThere Ts just this preservation Standing thtre in histhing we have among.one underwear. ? oHe just did whatanother. We like to see eath he wanted. I tried to get him offother with each other, ? Black me, but he was stronger thent slighted me. He actually raped me, ? saidnous black Mr. Mongtomery. David women, Clohessy, national director off cdrrent ' the Survivors Network of thoseAbused by Priests (SNAP), said¢ guarded and mysterious: ings ofoTaneeTe pe for d ster, ? hegroups. oThere. Website, SNAP is the nation'si "stronger in some ways than in ®up for clergy abuse victim

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