ete | ic stand on a Birmingham Till with his mother The Justice Department announced in late May that underpinnings $ of Souther segregation and helped launch the civil nights movement. His death and susegent news coverage preceded Rosa Park's ramab bus by two months and was cited as one of | the incidents that dramtically ignited the Civil Rights Movement. a shortly before his bratal George E. Cu | NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) - After initially not have authon the 1955 death of Emmett Ti , a 14-year-old African-American _ who was beaten, shot in the head; and thrown into the Tallahatchie River near Greenwood, Miss. for allegedly whistling at a White woman, the United States Justice’ Department reversed. itself this week and announced that it will work with a District Attomey in Mississippi to see: . if further Prosecutions are warranted. Two White; men - Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. ; © Continue rm Page ' Carolina, Inc. and. were granted all the rights and privileges .of the. national organizaton. « Last month, April 24, 2004, the founding members introduced to ‘the public and were pinned with their 100 Lapel Pins at the annual forum for the 100 BLACK MEN OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA, INC. with Buder W. Lewis installed as. President, Clarence Goss, Jr. as Vice-President, On das Theadbrer Stephan ™ po as S¢crefary, “\Joe Shambley as Membership °. Chairperson, —_Joe Daniels as Fund Raising Chairperson, Edward Newton ‘as Mentoring Chairperson, _Jesse Hinton as Education Chairperson, Maurice Jordan as Event Chairperson and Mr. Farris Dixon, Public Relations. Looking back on the 100... The “100 Black Men” concept originated in 1963 when a group of black men living in New York in Clinton - Continues from Page 1 history, there may be new material about Northern Ireland and the Middle ‘East, in which Clinton was ‘deeply involved. There will surely be plenty about what Hillary called the "vast ight-wing conspiracy" against og husband, “including the pseudo-scandal of Whitewater. Some talk of "score settling”. In fact, if Clinton rather than his ghostwriter is in charge of the nartative, the bits about his early career in Arkansas could be the most entertaining. But whatever the content, the mere name of its larger-than-life declaring that it did h to investigate brothers that’s y Milam — admitted taking young Till, who was visiting “from Chicago, from his great uncle’s ome around 2:30 am. on August 28, but initially denied harming him. An’ all-White, all-male ‘jury in Mississippi acquitted the two men. Four months © later, the ers admitted to writer William Bradford Huie that the had indeed murdered Till, Writing in. “Look” vw had told him: “Well, when he [Emmett] told me about this White girl he had, my friend, here. That's what we got to fight coming together resulted in the formation of the One Hundred Black Men of New York, Inc. Over the years it has been instrumental in propelling the advancement of over 60,000. Black Americans, young and old 2 were alik The original founders wanted to develop a local organization for the purpose of pooling their resources and implement ams designed to improve the quality of life for Blacks and other minorities. They also wanted to insure the future of their communities by aiming an intense number of resources towards youth development. Some of these these members were successful men from various fields of business and industry and included such notables as David Dinkins, the fromer Mayor of New York, alonf with Livingston Wingate and Andrew Hatcher to name a few. In 1976, Dr. William Hayling formed the 100 Black Men of New Jersey. It was this organizing author will ensure the impact of My Life. The timing of publication has been crucial - and explains why Clinton's editor took to sleeping overnight at his home in Chappaqua, New York, to make sure his undisciplined charge finished the, job, so the book could appear next month. Any later, and publication might have stolen the thunder of John Kerry's coronation at the Democratic convention in the last week of pul. Or the book could have been delayed until after the November 2 election - by which time the country's attentions might have wows Acosta, Assistant B) General for the Civil Rights i Division, said in announcing the decision on Monday. “This brutal — murder and _ Muscarriage of justice ou a | Mation and helped galvanize Support for the ~ American civil rights movement. . We owe it to Emmett Till, and aoe I just looked at him and I sai d I said, ‘Boy, you ain’t never going to’ see the suh come up nee And he didn’t. “The Emmett Till case -stands at the heart of the - American. civil _ movement,” rights R. Alexander Attorn grotesque modern we owe it to ourselves, to see whether after all these years, some additional measure of justice remains possible.” Untl now, the Justice Department had declined repeated requests from Till’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and Congressman Bobby Rush, who represents her district in Chicago, to reopen the case. Mobley died a year ago at the age of 81. In February, Rep. Rush filed a bill in Congress asking that body to. formally request Attomey General John Ashcroft to re-open the case, A Department of Justice spokesman told the Chi Tribune at the time that “the Statute of limitations...barred the zine, department from investi ting _Hute. recalled that }.W. Milam the case further.” . .. After receiving research and a legal opinion from the _m Legislative Counsel for the t this war’s about down. ' House of. Representatives and’ the "Congressional Research attempt that was: followed in succession by the formation, of ndanapos St Lous, igh Atlanta, = the Sa Francisco/Oakland Bay . Area, “Nassau/Sajfol and Sac to, In New ." Jersey, Los Angeles, Indiatiipols, Louis, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Bay area, Nassau/Sajfol and = to then formed a national organization called the 100 Black Men of America, Inc., which Dr. Hayling was the founding president. On May 27, 1987 this. newly formed introduced itself to the natifh by holding its first —_ national conference in Atlanta. With it’s joint mission to improve the quality of life and enhance educational opportunities for Afnican-Americans, m ts of the 100 serve as a strong force for overcoming the cultural . and financial obstacles that have limited the achievements of African-American youth, 1986, the individual chapters of Organization. _ then’ Service, Rush wrote to Ashcroft on February 27 and pointed out that 18 USC 3282,.-a ‘federal law, states, “an indictment for any offense punishable by death may be found at any time without limitation.” The 1964 Civil Rights Act and another federal statue contain similar ey language. Moreover, Rush noted that several civil rights cases that were more than 30 years old, including the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Church in Birmin Ala. and the murder of NAACP leader Medgar Evers in Mississippi, were prosecuted with the help of the Justice Department. Congressman Rush sent Ashcroft a second letter on April 20. He wrote, “Emmett. Till’s mother, Mamile Till-Mobley, similarly = made numerous requests to the — Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigations to investigate her son’s murder. Unfortunately, she received only indifference and silence as a father telling response. I would ope that the Justice Department would not ra a member of Congress the same way it treated Mrs. Till-Mobley 50 years ag —with indifference and silence.” Neither letter had been answered as of this week, according to Rush’s office. Recently, Congressman Charles Rangel and Sen. Charles Schumer, th New York Democrats, joined Rush’s call for a Justice Department investigation. “Emmett Till’s murder ‘akes Root in Eastern particularly = young African- ‘American males. The Organization has made outstanding progress, proving that Blacks can, and do, excel in corporate and community leadership. _ Nayionally, the 100 has also proven that training and support provided for thousands of youth each © year has improved Opportunities to stabilize their learning enviroriment, become self supportive and become empowered to control their own destinies. During the 90’s, the changing times ght on new challenges as well as yielding many unanticipated opportunities. In response to these forces, the National Chairman, Thomas W. Dortch, Jr. has unveiled and aggressive plans to more’ tight focus the organization in its Welln ongoing development. The plan ated, FOUR FOR THE FUTURE, " focuses on four areas deemed critical to insuring the future of our youth and community at large. Since that time, the organization has began seared into the minds of all Americans the hate and violence of racism. in the South,” said at a news conference. “But because of the efforts of the Black Press especially, the crime, not solved in the courts, raise the consciousness of Americans and triggered the Civil Rights Movement.” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D.-Miss.), issued a Statement Monday saying, “Today’s decision is also a testament to the contributions of Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL.) who has been invaluable in the effort.” In an interview with the NNPA News Service last month, Congressman Rush said, “The federal government has the resources, it has the authority and should have the will to re-open this case. Emmett Till cannot and will not rest in peace. Mamie Till Mobley cannot and will not rest in peace until there’s justice. We cannot rest in peace.” Mobley shocked the world when she held an open-casket funeral for her disfigured son. More than 600,000 people marched pass the casket and millions of others will never forget the ghastly photo of Till ago that appeared in Jet magazine. In an interview with Emerge magazine, Mobley told this writer: “I think about what he must have suffered. I will ask the Lord why did he have to suffer? If they had just shot him, that could have been much easier to bear. And in one of those question sessions, the Lord showed me, revealed to me, the way he [Till] looked was the to channeled all its resources towards youth ~—_—mentoring, anti-violence, education, economic development, —_ and health and wellness programs, although these areas had always been part of the "100 movement. "In 1995, the organization fully outlined a long-term strategy for addressing these critical areas. The Nut and Bolt Issues of the 100 Since their mission statement aims to improve the quality of life of our communities, and enhance educational and — economic Opportunities for all African Americans, 100 Black Men chapters across the nation, via their strategies being focus in the areas of (1) Mentoring, (2) Education, (3) Health and ess intiatves and (4) Economic Development Programs, young people who have been coming in contact with the “100” are gaining a much needed competitive edge. With a mission to improve the quality of life of our citzens and ification of race hatred. This is what race hatred looks like Rangel ~ race hatred is ugly.” Rush is also appealing to Congress to award a Congressional Medal of Honor to Till’s mother posthumously “for her courage, but also for her commitment to y Ne Both Milam and Breant are dead. But Carolyn Bryant, wpposedly the object of | Till’s interest, is believed to be sti alive. By all accounts, she did not accompany the men on the ni they kidnapped and murdered Till. According to Till’s . great uncle, Milam and Bryant did not come to his home alone. At least another voice was heard once Till had be taken from the house. i anyone is prosecuted as a result o thi inquiry, more than likely it will be that person, many close to the a ~_ The Till investigation might be hampered by the lack "rs transcript of the murder trial. Like many controversial cases involving the deaths of African- Americans in the South during that period, such as Medgar Evers, the transcript is missing from court files. In Evers case, however, his . widow, Myrlie, had kept a copy of court proceedings. fore Mobley died, she had made peace with her son’s death. She told Emerge, “The Lord spoke to me and said that Emmett didn’t belong to me in the first ace, that I had been chosen to his mother while he was on earth and that he came. here with a specific purpose. He’s done what he came to do.” Carolina enhance educational opportunities for African-Americans, the “100” membership in Greenville upon taking its national oaths vow to continue to serve as a strong force for overcoming the cultural and financial obstacles that have plague the achievements of African-American youth, locally with a particular emphasis on young Afncan-American males... The future is TODAY The “100, ” realizing that youth today _ represent communities will be tomorrow, acknowledge that between now and 2005, more than half of all new entrants into the work force will be minorities and at the same time, one half of all jobs will require a more educated workforce. There scope 1s global. They feel that if America behind in producing more young minority men women for the workforce in the coming —_ décades, —- America's economic ability to co in the global marketplace will severely compromised. They feel that they must be committed to the intellectual Precedent With Attack cone onemt f shifted to’. an - incomin; Democratic president, and’ Clinton's. memoirs would ‘be ancient history. But the deeper question is, now Bill Clinton has his life back, what will he do with jt? In 2000, Al Gore, anxious not to be tatred with the Clinton. most effectively gets scandals, barely allowed his boss to put a foot on the campaign trail. The earnest Kerry, however much he risks being lost in the Clinton dazzle, is unlikely to make the same mistake. The former president will not win over wavering Republicans, for whom he is still ‘ Bubba-cum-Beelzebub. But ‘he remains the Democrats’ brightest, star, and the: party's th most potent fundraiser, For African Americans and other core constituencies, he is a talisman. Victory in..2004, it is Said, will go to’ the side that ctit ets out the vote. And ‘no one can do that like Bill Clinton, But his longer-term future is a mystery. Clinton is only 57, three years younger than Kerry. Thanks to speeches at up to US$100,000 ($167,000) a go, and now the book, the $5 million-odd (§8.3 million) legal debts from Whitewater are a distant memory, For the first time in his: life, he is rich. But en: again, money never: much interested him, - Since leaving office, he toyed . with - but, rejected - offers of a talk show. He briefly had a joint television commentary slot with: his old sparring partner Bob Dole. It has ben tae he might be UN Secretary General, Mayor of New York, global anti-Aids supremo, cr even Kerry's running mate. Who knows? All that is certain is that after the travails of authorship, Bill Clinton is back. - INDEPENDENT based upon the following ts of respect for fanily, sprinliy, justice and integrity. The Vision Statement The 100 Black Men of our diverse talents to create an ‘environment where our children ate motivated to achieve, and to Le our people to become sel sufficient shareholders. in the economic and social fabric of the oer we serve Their Phi y: "What They See is What They Will Be" and invite thise who share the same goals to contact them. The President can be reached at (252) 355-6152 or he cam be emailed at bwl148@aol.com Iraq isn't another Vietnam - it's much worse. The images of abused prisoners demonstrate not just American depravity, says the pitjosop her John Gray, but the of w wat as a mora =a . Misguided from the start, the war in Iraq is spiralling out of control. Any legitimacy the occupying forces may ever have possessed has been destroyed, and: there are signs that Iraqi insurgents are coming together to mount a movement of resistance that could render the country ungovernable. With even more damning images ikely to find their way into the ic realm in the near future, the hited States is facing an historic defeat in Iraq - a blow to American more than it » in Vietnam, an far in its global implications. leper i ble Snplcaton of currently available evidence is that the use of torture by US forces was not an aberration, but a sanctioned at the highest U there were setious breaches of discipline, and the blank failure to understand that they had done anythi ything Py pee of Russian firepower wrong displayed by some of the abusers does not speak well for the levels of training of sections of the US military. Abuse on the scale suggested by the Red Cross report cannot be accounted for by any mete lapse in discipline or the trailer-park mentality of some American recruits. ‘It was inherent in the American approach to the war. American oaditary intervention in Iraq was based on neo-conservative fantasies about US forces being greeted as liberators. In fact, as could be foreseen at the time, it has embroiled these forces in a brutal and hopeless war against the Iraqi people. From bei a8 passive recipients of American goodwill, they are now viewed as virtually subhuman, If, as seems clear, British forces are innocent of anything resembli the systemic abuse that to have been practised by the Americans, one reason is that they do not share these attitudes. The resistance mounted by the sia insurgents can be compared to the anti-colonial liberation struggles of the 1950s, but the closest with the intractable ict now under way arte found in Chechnya, which remains a zone of anarchy and terror despite the ‘ruthless and tematic use of torture for more than a decade. It was the prospect of an intractable guerilla conflict that led many soldiers in the Pentagon to express deep _ reservations re the war. When the cian Laden launched the has invasion of Iraq, US forces rae lunged into a of conflict for which they are supremely ill uipped. “ A the wake of Vietnam and Somalia, American military doctrine, has been based on "force protection" and "shock and awe". In practice, these strategies mean killing anyone who appears to pose any t to US forces and overcoming the enemy through the use of overwhelming firepower. Effective in the early stages of the war when the enemy was ‘Saddam and his regime, th appears deeply counterpeoductive phen, as in Iraq today, the enemy comprises’ much of the population. As Douglas Hurd has tha observed, filling the hospitals and mortuaries is not the best way to win hearts and minds. The effect has been to make the conflict more savage. It is in circumstances such as these that torture becomes routine. In Iraq Over the past year, as in Chechnya, and before that in Algeria where the French fought a similar dirty war, anyone could end up a victim of torture. n subjecting —_ randomly selected Iraqis to abuse, American forces are following a well-trodden path, but the type of torture that has been practised some distinctive features. Unlike the Russians or the French, who inflicted extremes of physical pain as well, US forces in Iraq appear to be relying mainly on techniques that ‘ocus on the application of . intense psychological pressure. In order sparc up detainees they have swept up from the streets, they have used disorientation, sensory deprivation and sexual humiliation. These are all forms of abuse that would damage any human being, but leading naked Iraqi males around on dog leads and covering their heads with women's underwear look like techniques designed specifically in ofder to. attack the prisoners’ identity and values. The result is t an. indelible image of “4 as been Islamic American depravity imprinted on the enti world. It remains unclear how these techniques came to be used in Abu Ghraib prison. What is evident is that from the start of the war on terror the Bush administration has flouted or circumvented international law on the treatment’ of detainees. It unilaterally declared members of terrorist organisations to be i combatants who are not entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention. _—‘ The detainees held =f Guantanamo Bay fall into this category, and so apparently did the Taliban and -Qa'i ; who were captured in Afghanistan. Bein beyond the reach of international law, they were liable to torture. * In Trag, + the Bush administration evaded international law by a different route. They outsourced security duties at Abu Ghraib and other American detention facilities to prvate ia map not covered y w and not regula by the Ceneva Convention. In effect, the Bush administration deliberately created a lawless threes in which abuse ractised with ity. Practx A aap ty who watched video stills of the sexual abuse of Iraqi women by US personnel in a closed session on Capitol Hill in Washington last week have described _ the behaviour they witnessed as un-American, Maybe so, but it was of American ieadership. The torture of Iragis by US Personn is an applicetion of the Bush administration's strategy in the war on terror. Tossing aside international law and the norms of civilised Dehaviout in this way is self-defeating. Not so 7 the clash of civilisations Se crass and erroneous theory, but after the recent revelations it is becoming a self-fulfilling 0 . In toppli the Anedcca dowthedin coment Western regime, not unlike the Stalinist Soviet Union in its militant secularism. In doing so, they empowered radical Islam as the single most importan t political force in the country. 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But for American Catholics, the revelations about the Rev. _ Mychal Judge that followed his » death provided another startling ~ and unfamiliar image to confront — — — that of an openly gay priest. _ Greetings: Judge's life as a Catholic priest I know you must think that the who was open about his issue, of homosexuality keeps homosexuality was a tatity in the rearing its ugly head, everywhere you turn you hear people talki about gay martiages. Church folks let me tell you where it seem to have started first. In the church, That is why judgment will first begin in the house of God. - . Consider this, the Roman Catholic church have for decades kept horrific tales of abuse out of the public eye through an elaborate . church, and the overwhelmi talking positive attention he received he died rekindled a centuries-old discussion about ordaining gay men. Tremors also are spreadi to gay~ priests of other denominations, even those that are more open to homosexuals, such as the Episcopal Church in the New York Diocese, which ordains Bay ptiests and recognizes their committed relationships. Other , Episcopal dioceses do not. is a part of me world-wide includes the ican Church in Canada and the Church of England in Britain. Celibate, and active gays and lesbians are welcome as members. Since 1979, the ordination of celibate homosexuals has been permitted This (Bishop Righter is the best known cxangh) he Episcopal Church had a traditional policy of not ordaining practicing homosexuals.- Presbyterians decided _that Presbyterian ministers may perform same-sex union services as long as they reflect the church's "understanding .. that these ceremonies .do not constitute as defined in the Book of Order." They also decided that a, church session may accept a gay person as a candidate for ministry, even though a sexually active gay | man or lesbian cannot be ordained. Church folks have we forgotten about the image of God, have we | not looked into the mirror to see | ourselves. Why????, Have we | strayed so far away from the image . . Integrity is doing what is right for our customers. Finsr cms bank Do something amazing. . and is reflected in a May 1- 14,2004 The M-Voice Newspaper Page 15 of Him that created us. The image of God is both male and female y union between male and female where the creative power of God, His life-giving. His self-giving and His moral nature are perf expressed. This is only possible in a heterosexual union. When God created’ a partner for Adam He created Eve - not another, Adam. is means that perfect partnership requires some level of difference as well as a level of similarity so great that Adam could cry out loudly, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my Lifeline: Edifiea flesh". Heterosexuality is the normal method of human bondi and the one for which our bodies and emotions are designed. If God had intended the human trace to be fulfilled both heterosexual and homosexual martiage. He would have designed our bodies to allow reproduction through both means and made both means of sexual intercourse healthy and natural. Homosexual anal intercourse carries a high risk of disease, this is tecognized in Scripture where gay men. ate said to receive in their bodies the due penalty for their error (Romans talking about DISCIP both! discipline their children Proverbs 13:24 says that 1:27) ding People if we are to survive this we must follow the instructions of God and live by the Words be presgcamea that proceedeth out of His mouth. Let us not walk into that seem right way, because the end of that way is death. On that - path that leads to righteousness there are few travelers but on that path mat leads to destruction there are many, many, many travelers. CHOSE YE THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE. Tomorrow might be to late. Apostle Hawkins tion of a New Generation ~ APARENT'S RESPONSIBILITY What’s wrong with these methods of modem we've been discussing? The facth that they completely deny the way of TRUTH God explains to us in Scripture! Remember the proverb we read earlies. importance of “rod and reproof’” in raising a child who will. not bring shame to his parents. God says that a proper level | of control must be maintained over children, This verse is parenting It talked about the LINE—corporal punishment—and INSTRUCTION. God COMMANDS that parents use parents who fail to physically actually HATE them. That their concern for themselves exceeds their concem for the long-term well-being of their children. That may rankle modem parents. But remeber, it is GOD--the Creator of heaven instruction. Rather than dismissing it offhand, shouldn’t we try to Unlike so many raising teenagers today, kids. “Honor thy father and mother’ is break it routinely without second thought. You may think the fault lies with the teen written, “Make sure kids honor children the sanctity of the law? No teen will respect co directed at them (it is not to respect. This is a point that was made in a Plain Truth article 36 The article stated, “Today's leaders failed their duty- purpose of life. Why? Because they themselves did n because they in turn had never learned it People Generation,” March 1966)> Later the article said, “The trouble is socie NO REAL PURPOSE TO LIFE? What about you and earth, of mankind—who gave this UNDERSTAND it? God has keen interest in maintaining parents’ authority over their the Fifth Commandment—just before “Thou shalt not-kill.” Teens themselves, since the law is their father and mother”). But who teaches mmandments they were not brought up their parents years ago. It should convict us today all the mote. -they did not teach the younger generation the real ot the purpose of life. Society never taught it in school simply don’t know why they were born!” (“The Beat ty has taught its ‘children’ directly of indirectly THAT THERE IS Do you understand the purpose of life well enough to teach and CONVICT your children of it? 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