Happy Holidays — SERVING PRINCEVILLE TARBORO WILLIAMSTON AND PITT COUNTY SINCERBO- THE | FREE DEDICATED TO THE ~ CONTRIBUTIONS OF | AFRICAN AMERICANS Nov 2007 Issue ot uy [TOLeD Anoiay) euTT kzeraqgty 13 — > = ain jam omme ~< Oy jae Ss ; Unarmed - another Black t di 4 icity narmed — another Black teen gunne mae #4 down by cops _ | , -CONGRATULATIO | . pbc terdam - "spread like wildfire that kill,” said one thirty- Honorin: The Birthday News Si affOriginall housing and 79th Precinct something man. On Monday Onoring the birthday News ginal’y cops had struck yet again.The night Coppin’s mother, 2 pasted! | 1/13/2007 hastily strung up yellow tape —_ Denise Owens, called police Anniversary Of | - There is uproar in the could not contain herdes of after arguing with het son, Bishop Randy B. Royal hood..again Hitting him angry teens, parents, activists — Some published reports stated ) ten times, five cops, and area residents, as they all that she said he had a gun. On including two sergeants » gathered outside the housing —_Tyesday she told AmNews and a detective, shot and project at 590 Gates _ thatshetoldthe911 == killed unarmed 18-year. -- Avenue.Accounts varied—but dispatcher that her son did not old Kyle Coppin in one fact remained— the teen © have a gun At a press _ . Bedford-Stuyvesant on did not have a weapon. Some __ conference on Tuesday, Police Monday night.“‘The first witnesses claimed that a4. “>” Commissioner Ray Kelly shot was-fatal because hairbrush fell out of his: = released the 911 transcript of _— 9" that hit him in the chest. pocket, others said that he had the original phone call, where TeLt Tae Lorp THANK You They hit him with at least itin his hand. Some news.’ somebody makes mention of | : : nine more. The police reports have quoted a “police —_ gun, but not Owens. When picked him up and acted source” claiming that it might cops got to the scene, like they were arresting have been a suicide-by-cop ‘ witnesses said that Coppin, him because they couldn’t Wish fulfilled.“He’d dropped who reportedly had a history have him die on the the brush. He had his hands in of mental issues, was standing scene,” activist Abubaka “he air and then they started: on a first floor ledge of an Miller told the Amsterdam _ Shooting,” said eyewi apartment at 590 Gates bs Bedford-Snyvgsafh is is: “f :y “8 “— busy ona quiet day; an » COps did not have to fire and shirt.Some witnesses said that Wedding Bais. - pic hied pita § is De ve , 's utton and hie Monday night it was tense S0me were simply sliocked by daughiter Tarsha caught by the Minority Voice N and overflowing asnews' ., ‘he numberof bullets atthe = aise teen continues pg 8 camera as the groom (Rodney Cogdell) awaits the start of the Shirley McNeal & the Gospel Singrers of Faith | THE MINORITY VOICE NEWSPAPER PICK UP YOUR COPY TODAY yellows, “g young man. “It’s Just shoot to ceremony at St. Peters MB Church in Greenville, NC. photo by Jim Rouse A Question of COLOR rears its ugly head again.... By: Zenith Prince’ Washington Bureau Chief Tar babies and high ” hair vs. “bad” 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’s social barometer, the issue is still rooted in day-to-day life, “There is evidence, no let me rephrase that, it’s 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 “Color-Bling” Era. “Tt is something that for a long time was an impolite subject to talk about but it’s ” ‘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 “Sexy Chocolate” and “Sexy Carmel” parties too, and that “it was just a party thing.” It wasn’t just a “party thing” for people like Ayana Teal, an administrator for the Jewish Baltimore. Teal, 25, was made “painfully aware” early on that her dark skin was not seen as desirable. “People would say, ‘You’re really pretty for a dark-skinned girl,’ Au rom bony it like dark- skinned people aren’t supposed to be pretty,” she said, Now, the same prejudices she experienced are being visited on to her 5-year old daughter, Nia, “Her father’s friend said when he saw her, ‘You don’t really see dark babies that are pretty like that,” Teal:said. “I could mave hit him.” On the other when entrance into mulatto organizations like the “Blue Vein. Society” required that you be so pale that the “blue Meeeveins” on the underside of the end of the spectrum, Tamika Brown of Hyattsville, Md., said her skin color has given her advantages. “When 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 “brown paper bag test” to prevent people who were “too dark” from entering their ranks. uch attitudes about:color eflect “internalized racism,” said Melvin Thomas, president of the Association of Black Sociologists and professor of sociology at North Carolina State ‘University. “For some Blacks, the more white you are, the better,” he said, “It’s 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. “Light- complected African American women may be the desirable group of women,” he said, “They 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. “Back when I was heavy into making hip hop videos it was the ‘Blasian,’ Black-Asian, mix that’ was popular,” he said. “But 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: “From the... point of view Of casting, there has never been any talk about choosing models based on their complexion,” Hayrock said. “It’s more about booties and how their faces look in close-ups.” Teal, who also works as a fashion stylists, said she also » Color continues ped Minority Voice November 1-9, 2007 pg2 by Bill Howard ee Carolina Peacemaker ai 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: “While 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. “I 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 ’ animals are being killed. - Gentlemen, you know what your problems are, I do not need to elaborate.” He went on to say; “I 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: “I use fear, distrust ( and envy for control | purposes”; he continued, , “the : black slave after ‘receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self- refueling and self-generating for hundreds of years, me - thousands. | “Don’ , 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’ Originally posted 11/2/2007 For évery action, there is an opposite and greater reaction. This law applies to white .. supremacy’s 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’ 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 “free” 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 “idle” 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 , “they trust and depend on us. They must love, respect ; me | frost ONES 08 < «He concluded by saying, © _ “This 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 “snday 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 “wait” for additional decades to fully realize that our black prison populations, etc. will — Continue fo grow? Our future will depend on our’. 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 | | “in 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’s at Howard University. 5 Before Hurricane Katrina, i it appeared that Blacks would - be at least fifty percent of -Louisiana’s population by 2025: -During the 1990’s, the state’s white population : eA le eae | while the Black p | increased 12%, Judge JP | Mintepand LaSal Pri Dis oe : ‘ : ok Bad an * A ae , Va Me ae Mee ees Hoan e DK i a lu “a 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 “fugitive 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 “fhuch 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’ s conviction. Eleven of — 3 struggle in the Tawana . Brawley case, ea See: ye www.einstatealtonmaddox.net for “Letter to Sen, Barack ~~ Obama on the “Jena 6,"*and ”” “Democratic Party andthe Pa 0 dagk Minority Voice November 1 - 9, 2007 pg3 COMMUNITY NEWS on that foundation in 16:20, “Whoever trusts in- the Lord, happy is he.” Those are excellent ideas And today’ S text indicates lose are excelle “\ ARASH that happiness comes to forhappierliving. 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I wanted to let someone else know that when you are “Chosen 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’t get a grip, I began to enjoy this downward spiral and the devil was enjoying taking me. I didn’t really care who said what to.me, who I made angry, who I talked back to, | who I disputed with....none of that didn’t really matter because “I WAS RIGHT” and “NOBODY UNDERSTOOD ME.” I continued to go about the normal routine of going to church whenever the doors were open, making sure that I didn’t miss a service unless I teally had a “good reason” because I didn’t want anything to be said if I didn’t 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’t really pretend like I cared even in other people’s 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’t, But, I ! avoided confronting the real issues at all with anyone. If you didn’t like me, I didn’t care, If you talked to me or not, I didn’t 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’T CARE! ee 0 a! sc ei Rio aa MR A , Minority Voice November 1-9, 2007 pg6 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 “on 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’t matter but it hurt to be alone, but all this time I -had been making people not care because they didn’t 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’t want to be there, it was at those times that someone might come and Say to me “I really enjoyed you tonight, God used you. Thank God for that anointing.” And, in my routine, I would say as I had ~-been-taught, “To God Be The ~ Glory!” and the devil would let me feel like I still had it together. While others were looking like, “Yeah, whatever! You just don’t 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’s 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’t 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’s 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 “umbilical 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 wasintherightno _ “spiritual umbilical cord” begin to release words beyond nurture, and instruct no matter God! and not just in my spiritual My prayer today and everyday Come.join this walk with Christ!!! now is that God would Special Cob iration ntinue to take me to a : A program t Sting Given te hpaer ‘Yet, it was in deliverance eae dimension in His 4 os * WOoWw toreenvith, SP ake class, the night God » Word and I know that ifIcan wlan madie Seton fornotoaly myself bury kePMYbadwpandiecrmy Fan Ey ning with for not only myself, butmy — sind elevated on the spiritual - spiritual lifeline, that God that Ican obtain ANYTHING Mr. TS irr Rouse used a bond as strong as'an I want and I can ACHIEVE “When: December 15, 2007 at 4:00 pm umbilical cord to take over 3 Where: Corner Stone Baptist Church the natural desire to let go and Lai hans abbot Pe ee og ae instead allow the Spirit to OVER THE DEVIL and Greenville, HC. 87a intercede on my behalf that everything in my past was. Get youk eiokess Zarty/ipans te Cleniént would release a breakthrough erased by the Blood of Jesus! ‘Por stekets, plead ce in my life. Ican’texplain Eldvess Alice Vines @ 252.758.3888 everything that happened that TOGOD BEALL GLORY | Or WOOW Radio @ 252.757.0365 night, but I can tell you this— . FOR THE AWESOME Dress: Semi-Format: Donation: 325° when the enemy hadme § WORKSHEIS Asi trust brodinens byy/_J te spitelpoibe Senabicvses telling my spiritual lifeline to | PERFECTING IN MY , . ) , , _ Just let me go and leave me LIFE!!! . alone, I know it was the spirit a | of God that overtook the eee eae 3 words that came out of her CATCH THE mouth (because she too had cubdete cht eealitig had enough and was ready to give me up!) and instead of releasing me to die (which is. where I was headed), in the spirit I heard the love of a her own feelings that broke through that wall of deception planted by the enemy. It was — then that instead of hearing the devil, God allowed me to hear thé love of a mother I denied begin to intercede for a: child she vowed to protect, GAMETICKETS. P* Sis | what. It was then that God allowed me to recognize the voice that kept me alive, the . voice that-called out in the midnight hours even when I was far away, and I felt the presence of God nurture me back to not just the loving arms of a denied mother, but the loving arms ofadenied CATCH THE PIRATES IM DOWDY-FICKLEN STADIUR! ORDER BY PHO: 5 BOOT LA BCU ORD BA CLIN 8: CUP BLA RS. COR ing That night God manifested a 3-fold healing: healing of my soul, healing of a relationship between God and myself, and the healing of a relationship between the umbilical cord and the baby that was birthed from that umbilical cord!! 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 “umbilical cord” whom I love with all my heart! I am being processed to a greater relationship in Christ and I know who I am and WHOSE I am, for I am DELIVERED TO BE DELIVERED TO.... ] } CO gC UP a TOOM in eye Tor detail I am no longer at a place where I am afraid to cry out to God for help for I know where my help comes from! I am not afraid to walk in my integrity and fulfill the destiny He has'chosen for my life because I am fearfully and wonderfully made! I am WHO I AM because GOD MADE ME UNIQUE! an electric cooperative that's always looking our tor her, At your North Carolina Touchstone Energy cooperatives, we also have strong points that [am - Unquestionably Saved, Noble & Wise, because Lam. Inspired by “My Lifeline” & Qualified & Chosen to be Undeniably Righteous. 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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’s shirt— was a deadly weapon “this shooting appears to be within department guidelines.”’But even he acknowledged that no gun was ever seen, and no | gun was recovered at the scene. “Before 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: “A 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’s “rush to judgment.” In response to Kelly’s swift statement and nationally televised press conference on Tuesday, the family held a briefing of its own just after identifying Kyle’s body.There, Noel Leader of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement, demanded a. “special prosecutor because of the incestuous relationship between the police department and the D.A.’s office.”"Meanwhile, emotions on Gates Avenue were still running high Tuesday afternoon. “It’s like,you-ka the story before somebody open’s their mouth, all you do is just change the name,” a young bystander muttered,“The young folk are furious,” said Abubaka Miller of The Brotherhood, standing at the scene of the incident. “They 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 “You need to be talking to us, we’re the ones being targeted.’ The young folk are saying ‘if you are gonna take one of us, why can’t 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. “How 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’t 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’s — family anid the community at large awaited developments in. acase born in anall-too - familiar territory, Barron stated, “A 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.“Nobody is buying that “we thought he hada gun crap,’ 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.“A wallet? A chocolate bar? A hairbrush? What kind of people are they recruiting who can’t 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’re Me PICK UP YOUR COPY cor Vink nw, OS BARBER SHOP MEN,S HAIRCUT $10.00 TO $12.00 SHAVE $5.00 EYE BROW ARCH NECKLINE TAPER&EDGE $5.00 BOY'SHAIRCUT $8.00 BEAUTICIAN'S PRICING VARIES ACCORDING TO HAIRSTYLE TWO LOCATIONS TO SERVEYOU: UNIVERSITY SQUARE EAST : 10TH ST. GREENVILLE BARBERSHOP: (252) 764-2600 BEAUTY SHOP: (252) 764-2606 CAROLINA EAST CENTER SUITE #8 (262)963-1617 ce ee ae 3 going to use every time they kill a Black person?” As news filtered down late Tuesday morning that some gangs were planning a response, the NBPP activist concluded, “These kids out here don’t hear foolishness and act like they don’t. They aren’t rolling with the patience of their grandparent’s generation. This leadership out here has to stop telling them that all they’ve got to do is fall back and pray and trust in the system. They don’t. 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’t 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’s shooting, “the 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’? | Minority Voice November 1 - 9, 2007 pg? ions Of Radio Radio Personalities .. . Reggie Price of “The Gospel Music Mix Party”, to the left and Guy Simms of “Soulsville”, flank Radio Legend “Buddy “ Uncle L.B.J.” Jones on his recent visit to the studios of WOOW 1340 AM. se Pastors James & Delores Corbett invite you to make plans to GREAT SOUNDS IN GOSPEL MUSIC Shirley McNeal & The Gospel Singrers of Faith will part of the Gospel Enter- @ tainment portion of the - Appreciation Service for Bro ' Jim Rouse (CEO WOOW - WTOW- THE MINORITY VOICE NEWSPAPER) __ Scheduled for December 15th j to be held at The Cornerstone Family Life Center in "4 Greenville. join them for the