From The Desk Of activities you enjoy and small escapes like movies and TY. Mrs. Beatrice Maye. *Practice slow, deep breaths. _ shallow, fearful breathing seems to Send stress signals to: | the brain. Violent Children Violent kids are often victims of proverty. In addtion. to the _ violence children have seen on television and in the movies, and apart from the drug wars they have witnessed, the ten- dency toward violence is a function of neglect and abuse ‘ so many have experinced. - Many of them are born to’ drug and alcohol-dependant parents, They were left in cribs for days with dirty diapers. They were also scolded or starved, Other kids simply had no one love them or hold them | when they were frightened. Many were:sexually exploited from their early days-some even in infancy. If they survied, they grew up on the streets With no adult. guidance and care. The bottom line is this. We are paying a terrible price for the disintergration of the family and for the victimization of children. Taken from james Proven Strategies For Beating Stress * Socialize, See Friends, . relatives, go to club:meet- ings, stay connected: This | paramount. * Talk, laugh, cry, get angry, Let it out. * Excercise regularly, Stud- ies show excerise educes anxiety, releases tension and spurs the brain to pump out - endorphins, chemicals that create a sense of well-being. Try for 30 to 60 — minutes thre times a week . * Eat a healthy, balanced diet, * Block stress by losing yourself in activities to your daily or weekly schedule. Be displine about this, : Get perspective. Remem- ber past hardship and prob- lems de ve Overcome. * Live in moment through Students of Community Christian Academy ~ cance if you push the bondaries “Try yoga or meditation, If you dont enjoy them, dont force yourself-try another - activity. Taken from AARP Bullentin, May 2009 Mentors And Role Models Role models are people one re- spects and seeks to emulate. A mentor ig a super duper role model who probaly works in your field and whose work ethic others admire. futhermore, a mentor gives advice when you're in a sticky situation and helps you navigate thewindy straits of your career. Why? Be- cause the mentor Khas been there or r someplace very similar. The best mentor that I.ve ever had was so confident in her own success that she never felt threatened by anyone else. She also went out of her way to lo- cate others’ strengths and to give credit whever it was due. There's a difference between someone in a senior role who gives advice and a mentor who demonstrates qualities that you'd ;like to emulate. lastly, a mentor takes a persona; inter- est in your career, 9 es So where can you pick yourself — up a one of these mentor folk? It’s not the sort of situation - Where you send out invitations a and see who RSVP’s. You must need to be open and watch it. The Smithsonian Institution i in Washington and members of Till’s family announced the casket’s donation to the museum’s planned National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington when it opens in 2015. CHICAGO (AP) — The glass- topped casket that displayed lynching victim Emmett Till’s Grane “Car Service” ‘The Six Podeneer Cadillac DT Vip dares Style “Our Chrysier 300€ Sedan” “You should 206 the Bar f 18 - 25, 2009 page 7 Emmit Till’s Casket To Go To The Smithsonian disfigured body. to. the-world and became a rallying point for the civil rights movement is headed to the Smithsonian Institution, Till’s family announced Friday. “Hopefully, when this casket, when _ it’s.on display at the Smithsonian, young boys and young girls from all over the world are going to see it and it’s going to inspire them to fight for those who are too weak to fight for themselves,” said Simeon Wright, Till’s cousin. At the South Side church where Mamie Till- Mobley insisted in 1955 on opening the casket that held the remains of her 14-year-old son - and allowed photographs to be taken and published - Wright. said her message of what racism looks like still needs to be told. “Fifty from now someone will tell the Story ... that they murdered him, threw him in the Tallahatchie River, would they believe it without the casket?” asked Wright. Hé was 12 and was with Till the night the black teenager was pulled from his bed in Mississippi and murdered for whistling at a white woman. Lonnie Bunch, the director of the Smithsonian’s planned National Museum of African American History and Culture, where the casket will be displayed, said he knows of no other casket of a specific American put on display this way at the Smithsonian. He e's Limousine Service ‘called it a key artifact from the civil rights movement that helps tell the story of what is both one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history and a moment that helped change it. “Part of the Tesponsibility of a national museum is to help people to “remember, and through this donation we will ensure that — future generations will remember how the death of a child, a mother’s courage, helped to transform America,” Bunch said. Friday’s announcement at the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ came on the 54th ‘anniversary of the day Till was killed. It follows last montli’s discovery of Till’s original casket tattered, dented and rusty.- ina parbage-strewn storage shed at suburban cemetery where ormer workers are charged with ligging up corpses and reselling are not accused of disturbing Till’s grave. But while detectives rere investigating the lesecration of the historic black Pemetery in Alsip, they found the asket that had been pulled from } Phe ground when Till’s body was -pxhumed in 2005. Till’s body was later reburied in another casket, and the family was told - fhe original one would be kept . fora memorial. Till’s mutilated closely. See who impresses you. Keep aneye out for people in your field that have the kind of experiences you wish to have and who strike you as wise. Join a proffessional women’s group. there iare scads of them out there for nearly every pro- fession. Volunteer to do some work for them. You'll get to know tons of people that way. Acaveat: mentors are people with lives, with jobs, with men- tors of their own, While’ they are involved in helping you, You should remember that no one likes a time-seeker, and you risk losing your mentor’s. signifi- energy s soh utions we can afford. Congress is getting feady to vole on energy legislation that will increase energy costs for fomilies and businesses. Many Americans will be unable to afford their electric bills, Pleasé tell Congreis to vote for solutions thot balance the needs of the oneene wit the financial concems nd the munenioon peoples TELL CONGRESS Seiail story. Let them know that we need energy legislation bod had been found three days after he was snatched him from is bed. Two men were acquitted the crime, but the next year ok magazine article. Wright, ho stayed in Mississippi for the ial _ did ‘not attend his 0 funeral, said he elt beipiea when he walked out pf court the day his colusin’s killers got away with murder. But when he saw the casket last month at Burr Oak for the first ime, ‘he said he saw at once not y the “hatred of racism,” but ould see a mother’s love.” It ro 5h sin’ a ks titheodi whereas ahe : ‘the casket was discovered. He realized that. it needed to be preserved: “The casket itself was part of the story,” he said. The best place for it, he thought, was at the Smithsonian museum scheduled to open in 2015. Experts told him the casket could be salvaged, but it would take months of work. The casket will be moved to Washington, D.C., within the next couple of months. How the casket will look when it is ultimately put on display - more like it is today or how it | was in 1955 when thousands of mourners filed past it at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ >is yetto be decided. Bunch also said he doesn’t know when it will be displayed, what the exhibit will look like or what other attifacts and photographs will be included - only that it must not . be done in a way that turns the casket into a mere curiosity. “This should be an object that - challenges us, it should be an object that makes us think (and) not i" seen as a spectacle,” burial plots. The former workers ° hey confessed to the killing in a 4 a ! ete Se ee oS Boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is gearing up for his big ‘comeback this weekend in a bout against Juan Manuel Marquez, his first fight in almost two years, And, of course, with any big fight comes the interviews and hype surrounding the fighters. This time, however, it looks like “Money~Making Mayweather” is letting his true feelings be known. He feels that his treatment by the media and the public is based on his race — both the good and the bad. “If you’re rich, you’re a tichn—,” he told ESPN. “If you Te poor, you’re a poor n— —. If you’re smart, you’re a smart n——. At the end of the day, they still look at me as a n——.” “This country needs to be more positive,” Mayweather continued about the United States. “We're in a recession, we're at war and we ' continue to be negative. The fans in the UK showed me more love than in my own country. That’s crazy. ... Sometimes I’l] sit back, Ill be in my theater sometimes, and I'll think, ‘Imagine if I was the same fighter that I am, and I was the same person that I am, and | was from another country. Can you just imagine how big I'd be?’ “But I wouldn’t change my life for nothing in.the world. There’s nothing like being young, black and rich. But there are certain things you think about. If Floyd Mayweather was white, I’d'be the biggest athlete in America. The biggest, the biggest. 1 know that for a fact. Mayweather continued, saying that the media never says anything negative about Oscar de la Hoya, and if there is something negative, it gets swept under the rug. Plus, he called out HBO boxing analysts Larry Merchant; saying he knows nothing about boxing, and Emanuel Steward, calling him an Uncle Tom. Is Mayweather flying off the handle or does he have a point? Black Army Reservist Attacked By — Racist In Front Of Seven Year Old Daughter The Drudge Report and Rush Limbaugh made a huge de over_video of a white child being beaten by a black child as other kids watched and cheered. It was despicable and unacceptable: behavior; Sadly, schoolbiis bully fights happen all the time. But in this case, Limbaugh went on to imply that_‘white children children’ aren’t safe in an America with a black President, I say, no children are safe as long as.SO many people form their worldview listening to the likes of Limbaugh. Case in point, on Monday a white man shouting racial slurs attacked Tasha Hill, a black.army reservist, in front of her7-year old daughter. The Floyd Mayweather “Tf I Was White” brutal assault is being investigated by the FBI as a oo federal hate crime. Hill’s daughter is now traumatized, . Tasha Hill, who is a U.S. Army Reservist, said she was walking [into] the Cracker Barrel ~ restaurant with her 7-year-old q daughter when a man punched her, kicked her and yelled racial slurs. “I just remember curling up ina ball to protect myself.” said Hill. Hill, a 35-year-old Amy Reservist, said she was with her 7-year-old daughter when she was beaten, “He punched me several times in the head and I can't remember if that's where he was kicking me,” said Hill. Morrow police charged 47-year-old Troy West with assault, disorderly conduct — and cruelty to children. “He was coming out of the location, almost hit the girl with the door and real politely the lady says, ’ by all witness counts, ‘you almost hit my daughter, will you - please excuse yourself.’ [West] punched [Hill], put her to the ground and kicked her,” said Commander Jimmy Callaway of the Morrow Police. ‘Department. Source: Reservist Beaten at Morro Restaurant - Fox Atlanta We are in a toxic racial environment. You _ remember the monkey dolls and shouts of “terrorist” at the Palin/ McCain ‘rallies? Do you remember the crazy, racist . emails that circulated during the campaign? Well, those folks lost. and they are apoplectic. They are losing their damn minds, To counteract this‘phenomenon of crazy, we must be vocal in our protest against all injustice and Vigilant in defense of what is Mewborn for Mayor i Ivory Mewborn is running for Mayor of Ayden, North Carolina, Mr. ‘Mewborn is running for mayor and he feels that he can make a positive difference in the lives of the citizens of Ayden, NC. Mr. Mewborn is a family man....a wife, three children, and four grandchildren. He is a member of Moming Star Holiness-Church and Straightway Apostolic | Church and he credits them to his relentless spiritual walk. Mr. Mewborn ‘graduated from Ayden-Grifton High School and attended Pitt Community College. He states that he is.a servant of the people and belive. servitude is a good quality and a reflection of one’s humillity towards the creator and mankind. My team building skills have been labeled excellent with the ability to combine the best talents to meet or exceed goals and objectives. He is a diplomatic leader who maintains a sense _of humor under pressure, Our citizens are one of our greatest assets and should always be _ treated as such. However, Ayden has an unemployment rate of 8.1% and it is almost 14% if we count those that hav given up looking for work. I am respected and known throughout the county as aman that is down to earth, easy to talk to an firm on the truth. For those who have issues, concems, or questions or just want to talk, please feel free to call me at 252 367 8609 or you can email Mr. Mewborm at....ivcox @suddenlink.com » I appreciate your support in the effort to elect me as the next mayor of Ayden, North Carolina. May God Bless us All!!!! 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Fifty-three 20 and over are women, while 47 -percent are men - commensurate with their representation in the overall population. 2) The Tax Collector in the Mirror — It’s not surprising that a black person is more likely than a’ white oie to be a bus driver or a health care aide. But did you know that blacks are also. more likely to be tax examiners or collectors; dietician or nutritionists; crossing guards; bill collectors; and telemarketers? © 3).On The Government Payroll .Who says big government is a terrible thing? While facing discrimination in many sectors, blacks are more likely to work for the federal government than other Americans. We represented 17.8 percent of the federal workforce in 2007 4) Bearing the Union Label For years blacks have been more likely to work in a union, bringing them 12 percent higher wages than their .non-union counterparts. However, black ‘ union participation has been falling for years, from nearly 32 percent in 1983 to less than half that today. In 2008, 14.5 percent black workers were union members vs. 12.2 percent of white workers. It’s no wonder that on average blacks are,.., , 5) ».Making Less and Less Many of you have seen this in your own paychecks, From the first quarter of 2007 to the first quarter of 2009, black workers 25 to 54 years old experienced a 3.7 percent decline-a drop of about $23—in their inflation- Nea median weekly — major racial or ethnic Pca a ee a over behavior Open, Fined Serena Williams, the #2 ranked ‘women’s tennis player, was _ expected to go to the U.S. Open ~ finals this weekend to compete » forthe title one again. But in her _ Semifinal match against Kim _ Clijsters, Serena yelled at aline — judge for calling a foot fault. when she was two points away from losing to Clijsters. What did she say? Well, according to the line judge, after the foul was called, Serena stepped toward her, shaking the ball, and said “If _ I could, I would take this and shove it down your ... throat.” The line judge also said that Serena threatened to kill her. Sererta did admit to yelling percent of black workers age at the judge but denies saying that she, threatened to kill her. Regardless, Serena was called for unsportsmanlike conduct and a point was given to Clijsters, which happened to be match point. In the aftermath, Serena was fined $10,000. and may face further consequences, according to the Associated Press. “The average individual would look at that and Curley said. “What she did was unacceptable. It’s unacceptable under circumstances,” Curley added. “When you're on the court, and you are waving your racket ws Dall ‘Say, ‘a $10,000 fine for what she did? What are you guys, crazy?’ «.. _ The answer is; the process isn’t * over,” tournament director Jim + ioe Salle any . toward a lines person and using profanity, it’s just simply unacceptable. When you look at sais it eye tthe # September 18- 25- 2009 page 9 Greenville-Pitt Chamber of Commerce ‘The Race to Economic Recovery Begins with the 7 Chamber. Join Today! ‘Visit www. greenvillenc.org “Since joining the Chamber, I have met many new business contacts and my. _ business has significantly grown. | have also made some great friends along the may, This is the ee investment a business can make.” Mike Bostic M&K Record Researchers Until Shoes Grow on Trees. ‘and Save 1-252-756-0044 Re aiaiew. cra, KENNIONIS. BARBER SHOP East Centre morial Dr. | Comaminsy Chasvan CSasaeh fame 0. 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