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The Way I See It
11x15—Fixing Wisconsin Broken Criminal Justice System: Parole Reform-Crimeless Revocation By: Bob Bagley Co-chair Racine Interfaith Coalition 11 x 15 Committee
Love covers all By Insider News publisher Minister Yusuf Buckley The world was impacted with shock and grief by the tragic murders occurring in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17th, 2015. Nine African American Church members were murdered in their church by 21 year old Dylann Storm Roof. Many of us are trying to wrap our minds around comprehending such an atrocity. Many of us are contributing to a continuous flow of prayers, for victims, their families, friends, for the congregation, and for the nation. Our country has become torn between a battle about whether to forgive or not to forgive young Dylann Storm Roof. Roof, age 21, is an open advocate for organized hate demonstration. After the Trayvon Martin case, evidence shows Roof began to research black on white violence on a South Carolina website of the hate group, “Council of Conservative Citizens,” formerly known as “White Citizens Counsel.” Roof openly favors White Supremacy practices demonstrated in Apartheid and in the massive killings that took place in Rhodesia in Africa. To forgive simply means to give up something first, that we may make the space for something else to be cultivated in its place. We are often confused because we think forgiving means to tolerate injustices at any price, and that it is a gift to the perpetrator. This may be the oppressor’s perception of forgiveness, as it is sold to the oppressed. However, if we are ever to live another way we have to be willing and able to give up the old ways first. Perhaps it is time to give up Dylann Roof. Let’s be clear, this has nothing to do with allowing him to escape legal accountability. It means we will give up focusing all of our attention on this low level of hate expression. There is a greater force to be reckoned with and we do need all of our joint participation to reckon with that force. Unless we reckon with the heart of the force there will always be another Judas, another Dylann Roof. The significance of where this crime was committed cannot be overlooked. Do you really believe Dylann Roof, in all his research knew the significance of this place or of this time? Could Dylann Roof possibly have been guided and instructed? If so, by whom and for what reasons? What part does the Conservative Citizen’s Counsel play in this and who’s funding them? Follow the money! Roof reported he chose the city of Charleston because it is the most historic city in South Carolina. Yet he said nothing about the Church he chose or
The State of Wisconsin’s prison population was 22,156 at the end of April 2015. That’s about twice the number of inmates that are housed in our neighbor Minnesota’s prisons. Keeping all those folks locked up isn’t cheap. In the current 2013-2015 biennial budget- Wisconsin allocated $2.315 billion dollars for the Department of Corrections (DOC)- slightly more than the amount budgeted for the entire University of Wisconsin system ($2.247 billion). Although the state budget has yet to be adopted, the DOC at the last minute, requested and was given, by the Joint Finance Committee of the state legislature, permission to ADD enough money to specifically incarcerate an ADDITIONAL 500 inmates in the next biennium. The average inmate costs taxpayers about $35,000/year. At a time when money for school, roads and services for local government is being cut, the DOC feels the need to put MORE people in prison. Prison, it seems, may be Wisconsin’s only real growth industry. And Wisconsin isn’t being criticized only for the size of the prison population, It also incarcerates the greatest percentage of African American males of any state in our country. According to The Capitol Times, 12.8 percent of African American males are imprisoned in our state. That is nearly double the national average. Oklahoma, the state with the next highest percentage of African American males, imprisons 9.7 percent of its’ black male population. Some experts in criminal justice point out that one reason for the size of the total prison population and the percentage of the state’s population of African American males held in Wisconsin prison is something called: Crimeless Revocation. Of the approximately 8000 people who enter the Wisconsin prison system each year, about half are people on some supervision that broke some rule related to their supervision. That’s right- they didn’t go to prison because they committed a new violent offense. According to the Milwaukee Journal, “Once accused of violations, people on parole can be sent back to prison for years without proof beyond a reasonable doubt- and they are left with little chance of a successful appeal”. What sort of offenses that get people on supervision thrown back in the prison? Well, according to Mark Rice, chairperson of a revocation workgroup for WISDOM, a faith-based state-wide organization, violations can include things like: accepting a job, borrowing money, entering a bar, using a cellphone or computer without authorization, or crossing county lines. Reform of the probation/parole system should include regular use of existing mid-level sanctions for new non-criminal behavior by probationers such as; community service, tightened curfew, or weekend arrest, that provide corrective action without re-incarceration in most cases. Other than verbal warnings, mid-level sanctions are used infrequently. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the State of Wisconsin spends more than $100 million a year on crimeless revocations. Rice is quoted as saying, “One man was sent back to prison because he opened an email without his probation officer’s permission. Each year that man remains in prison costs taxpayers $35,000.” Cases of parole revocation are not processed by the criminal courts. Instead, administrative law judges rule on revocations and follow probation agents’requests and recommendations. A person who has been revoked has no right to a trial. The problem may be that probation agents need to use corrective tools other rather imprisoning rule violators through revocation. Because there is great discretion in this criminal justice process, there are opportunities for racial bias which go, largely, untracked. Other states including Colorado, Minnesota, Louisiana, Maryland and South Dakota have reformed their probation programs by using alternative sanctions rather than prison time for rule violations. In 2010 Colorado saved $4.5 million using these alternatives. Reforms in Louisiana are estimated to save $3.9 million. Parole reforms in Wisconsin can save much more than money. They can save lives, families and communities.
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6 Companies Ban Confederate Flag Sales
Andrew Lord
-Huffington Post
Last week’s massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, which left nine black church members dead and a white supremacist gunman charged, kicked off a movement to remove the flag from the grounds of the state capitol. This week, protests spilled into the private sector, as a growing number of major online and brick-and-mortar retailers vowed to pull the rebel flag from their shelves. Here are some of the companies that have banned the flag:
chandise in the aftermath of last week’s shooting. Walmart spokesman Brian Nick told CNN in a statement: “We never want to offend anyone with the products that we offer. We have taken steps to remove all items promoting the confederate flag from our assortment — whether in our stores or on our web site. We have a process in place to help lead us to the right decisions when it comes to the merchandise we sell. Still, at times, items make their way into our assortment improperly — this is one of those instances.” 2. eBay
1. Walmart The nation’s largest retailer decided to discontinue sales of Confederate mer-
EBay announced Tuesday it will ban Confederate flags and related items containing the flag’s image from its website.
A spokesperson for the online auction site said: “We have decided to prohibit Confederate flags, and many items containing this image, because we believe it has become a contemporary symbol of divisiveness and racism.” 3. Sears Sears, which owns and operates Sears and Kmart retail stores, does not sell Confederate flags in its stores. However, it announced that it will no longer allow the sale of Confederate merchandise by third-party venders on its website, according to Reuters. Sears spokesman Chris Brathwaite told Reuters: “We are in the process of scrubbing our marketplace to pull those items down.” 4. Target
Target pulled one Confederate soldier costume from its website after a CNBC reporter questioned a spokesperson about it. In a statement to HuffPost, spokeswoman Molly Snyder said: “Our intention is never to offend. We all recognize the great sensitivity around this and have removed that one item from our website. But … that was the only item.” 5. Etsy The online marketplace Etsy, known for homemade crafts, said it planned to remove all Confederate flag items from its site. In a statement to HuffPost, Etsy said: “Today, we are removing confederate flag items from our marketplace. Etsy’s policies prohibit items or listings that promote, support or glorify hatred and these items fall squarely into that category. With each new application of our policies, we strive to strike the right balance between creative freedom, Etsy’s values, and establishing a safe and respectful marketplace for members. The challenge of defining and eliminating offensive items raises deep and complex issues — both philosophical and pragmatic — which we at Etsy wrestle with regularly. We strive to think about our site holistically and determine what is best for the entire community.” 6. Amazon amazon The e-commerce giant said Tuesday that it plans to remove all flags and related merchandise, according to Reuters and The Washington Post. Alexander C. Kaufman contributed reporting.
Rachel Dolezal Says She Started Identifying as Black at Age Five
Rachel Dolezal
Rachel Dolezal broke her silence on Tuesday's Today show, revealing that she's been identifying as a black person for most of her life. Dolezal resigned on Monday as Spokane, Wash. chapter of the NAACP after her white parents claimed their daughter had been lying about her race since 2007. "I identify as black," Dolezal told Today coanchor Matt Lauer. NEWS: NAACP Activist Rachel Dolezal Accused of Lying About Being Black by Her Parents When asked how long she's felt this way, the 37-year-old activist said it started when she was only five
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years old. "I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon, and black curly hair," she said. "I do take exception to that because it's a little more complex than me identifying as black or answering a question of, are you black or white?" Lauer inquired as to whether she felt she was deceiving people when it came to her race. She explained that people just started to assume she was black and she "never corrected" them. "I was identified when I was doing human rights in North Idaho as transracial," Dolezal recalled. She added that in a later article, she was called biracial and in another write-up, they identified her as a black woman. NEWS: Why Dave Chappelle Won't Be Making Jokes About Rachel Dolezal: 'She's Just a Person' As for her civil rights efforts, Dolezal couldn't determine if she would have been as successful if she identified herself as white. "I don't know," she admitted. "I haven't had opportunity to experience that in those shoes. I'm not sure." Dolezal was also asked to address how her skin is darker now than pics of her as a blonde teenager. "I don't say out of the sun," she replied. But when asked
if this is the same as blackface, Dolezal took issue with that claim. "I have a huge issue with blackface. This is not some freak birth of a nation mockery blackface performance," she said. "This is on a very real, connected level. How I've had to go there with the experience, not just a visible representation, but with the experience." Lauer also wanted to know how her two adopted black children identified their mother when it came to her race. Dolezal said one of her sons told her, "Mom, racially you're human and culturally you're black." NEWS: NAACP Leader Rachel Dolezal Speaks Out -- 'I Do Consider Myself to Be Black' Despite the fallout and media frenzy surrounding her race, Dolezal told Lauer she would make similar choices if she had to do it all again. "As much as this discussion has somewhat been at my expense recently and in a very sort of viciously inhumane way come out of the woodwork, the discussion is really about what it is to be human," she said. "I hope that that can drive at the core of definitions of race, ethnicity, culture, self-determination, personal agency and, ultimately, empowerment."
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chose to commit this horrible act on June 17th 2015. Considering the significance of this gathering place throughout American history, including the strength of the Spirit of this place, do you really think Dylann Roof is the true ultimate perpetrator? Could he have been used, manipulated in his ignorance and in his fear, to distract us from the bigger picture and the greater threat? In murdering nine of 11 people and injuring one, he intentionally left one untouched to live to tell the story. His words were reportedly: “Niggers are stupid and violent and I have to do it. You’re raping our women and taking over the country. You have to go” This kind of rhetoric sounds suspiciously programmed. He also is reported to say: “I chose Charleston because it is the most historic city in my state.” Yet he clearly made no reference to the history of the church he had chosen. Did he know? If he knew, how did he know? If he knew, why did he not make reference to it? Did he make these choices or did someone or some organized body make them for him? Perhaps it’s time to break through the fears that perpetuate human division for there is truly a greater enemy that will pit family members against each other, communities against communities, nations against nations until there is no power among the masses at all. This will truly be a dark day, if we are lead like lambs to the slaughter down this path of illusion. It’s time to wise up and collectively see behind the curtain. Black Americans will be the first lead to slaughter. Others will follow. Forgive (give up first) all that which blurs our vision and weakens our collective strengths in love and cooperative unity. We can either react out of fear based on emotions or do exactly what is intended for us to do; destroy one another. Argue amongst each other over the fate of low level pawns. Or we can take a higher consciousness road, fore-giving all that is useless shadow. We can walk enlightened without fear and go straight to true enemy and destroy the works that have been in existence since the beginning of mankind. We are all human despite the color of our skin or cultural background. We should instill love for all in our hearts and our minds. Love covers all.
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Several dozen of the Buckley Family celebrates Damien McCray's graduation from William Horlick High School, sunday June 7, 2015.Racine Unified School District’s overall high school graduation rate rose; minorities are seeing substantial gains, according to new data from the state. The percentage of black students graduating in four years jumped 5 percent in 2014 — surpassing the rate for black students statewide — and increased 21 percent over the last five years, newly released data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction shows. “What this shows is that attention can be placed on African-American students without taking the rigor and attention off of other students… so we can all rise together,” said Unified School Board President Melvin Hargrove.
Minister Yusuf Buckley roasts Janet Mitchell at the NAACP Roast held June 12, 2015 at the Miracle Center, Over 100 people attended the event with friends poking fun at the retired school teacher, who has been a member of the Racine Branch since joining as a teenager. She was also a school teacher for RUSD for 30 years.
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The Shannon family celebrated John L. Shannon's, (seated), 85th birthday party at Greater Grace Temple C.O.G.I.C recently. Picture with the Patriot of the Shannon family are: (from left), Khari Cornett, Tammy Miller, Sincerity Cornett, Maxine Shannon, Karus Cornett Jr, Karus Cornett Sr and Samara Miller. This photo represents five generations.
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At the annual election of offices for American Legion Post 564, located 1234 Douglas Ave., Lana Schantl was named Post Commander. She became the second female to hold the position in the 40 year post history. The American Legion acts as a support organization for discharged veterans.
Three outstanding high school graduates were awarded The Community Women's Club 33rd Annual scholarships. This extravagant event was held Saturday June 6, 2015 at Infusino's Banquet Hall. Picture are: Amari Morton, Kierra Lockridge, Denise Gardner, (Club President), and Makaila Strong. The Insider News Racine congratulates the recipients.
Church Calendar for the Month of July 2015 Church information provided by: Minister Della Buckley Christ Chapel Missionary Baptist Church 825 Park Ave (262) 633-4277 Pastor Mark D. Gates Sunday School @ 9:00 AM; Sunday Worship @ 11:00 AM Monday-Friday July 13-17 @ 5:30 PM7:30 PM Vacation Bible School Theme: Diving Deeper for God’s Treasures The Public is Welcome Friday July 31 @ 6:30 PM Pastor Gates Appreciation Musical Groups from Racine, Milwaukee and Illinois The Public is Welcome Christian Faith Fellowship Church 3303 Nicholson Road Franksville WI 53126 (262) 631-0196 Pastors Willie & Patricia Scott Sunday Worship Service @ 10:00 AM Tuesday Night Service @ 6:30 PM Saturday July 11 @ 11:00 AM Community Feast: Food, Music & Fun. Live Entertainment from 3:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M. Artists: Charmane March, Jeremy Scott and more. Join US! Greater Mt. Eagle Baptist Church – 929 State St (262) 637-1606 Pastor Keith T. Evans Sunday School @ 9:00 AM; Sunday Worship Service @ 10:30 AM Wednesday-Friday July 22-24 Southeastern WI Baptist Pastor’s Fellowship Presents 2015 Summer Worshop & Concert Featuring: Elder Jeffrey LaValley, Flint MI Workshop
Facilitator & Concert Director. Registration Fee: $50. Registration Deadline: June 30 Saturday July 25 @ 4:00 PM Concert and Live Recording For more info: 262-637-1606 Greater St. Luke’s Baptist Church – 1326 State St (262) 632-4146 Pastor Joseph Pipes Sunday School @ 9:00 AM; Sunday Worship Service @ 11:00 AM Friday July 24 @ 7:00 PM United Faith Missionary Baptist Church Pre-Church 24th Anniversary Guest Speaker: Pastor Joe Pipes Greater St. LuKe Baptist Church
Worship Service @ 8:00 AM & 11:00 AM Sunday July 17-Sunday July 19 “Down Home” Weekend Celebration Friday July 17, @ 5:00 PM Social Hour Friday July 17, @ 6:00 PM Concert: Guests Choirs & Singers Saturday July 18, @ 10:00 AM-4:00 PM Church Picnic-Special Guest:The Elite Striders Drill Team Sunday July 19, @ 11:00 AM Morning Worship Service (No 8:00 AM Worship Service)
Loving Arms Outreach Ministries – 2711 Sheridan Rd, Suite 209, Zion, IL (847) 9756106 Bishop Dr. Michael L. Hargett, Sr. Ph.D. Tuesday July 7, 14, 21 & 28 @ 7:00 PM Basic Bible Study Wednesday July 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 @ 12:00 Noon Prayer Service & 7:00 PM Nighty Prayer Service Thursday July 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 @ 7:00 PM Advance Bible Study Friday July 10 @6:00 PM Youth Night Saturday July 10, 17, 24 & 31 @ 11:00 AM Glenn Lakes Nursing Home Sunday July 5 @ 11:00 AM Worship & Holy Communion Service Sunday July 26 @ 4:00 PM Family & Friends Worship Service.
New Brighter Day Baptist Church – 1225 25th Ave, Kenosha (262) 552-8090 Pastor Joseph L. Thomas Sunday school @ 9:00 AM; Sunday Worship Service @ 10:45 AM New Omega Baptist Church – 5731 Northwestern Ave, Racine, WI (262) 634-4655 Pastor Fred L. Richmond NOMBC WORSHIP SERVICE CAN BE VIEWED ON SUNDAY @ 8:00 AM & 1:00 PM on CHANEL 25 (TWC) & CHANEL 99 (AT&T) Sunday Worship Services @ 8:00 AM & 10:30 AM; Sunday School @ 9:00 AM Saturday July 11, Star Light Gospel Singers in Concert with The Gospel Four: DonationAdvance Tickets $20 At the Door $25 Sunday July 12, Blood Pressure Screening Sunday July 26, @ 10:30 AM Baptism during the Service
Mt. Sinai Institutional Baptist Church – 2401 Argonne Drive North Chicago, IL (847) 689-4422 Pastor Gerald Wilcoxon Sunday
Second Baptist Church – 3925 32nd Ave, Kenosha, WI 53144 (262) 652-1692 Pastor Lawrence L. Kirby, II Sunday Worship
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Services @ 7:45 AM & 10:15 AM Sunday Morning Enrichment @ 9:15 AM10:15 AM Sunday July 5, @ 7:45 AM & 10:30 AM Worship Service Baptism/Holy Communion Sunday July 12, @ 7:45 AM & 10:30 AM Worship Service Sunday July 19, @ 7:45 AM & 10:30 AM Worship Service Sunday July 26, @ 7:45 AM & 10:30 AM Worship Service St. Paul Baptist Church – 1120 Grand Ave (262) 632-1467 Bishop Lawrence L. Kirby Sunday Worship Services @ 7:45 AM & 10:45 AM Sunday School @ 9:30 AM United Faith Missionary Baptist Church – 1327 Blake Ave (262) 632-1327 Pastor Gregory Daniels Sunday School @ 9:00 AM Sunday Worship Service @ 10:45 AM Sunday July 12, @ 3:30 PM “Old Ship of Zion” Guest: All solo singers are invited to come Friday July 24, @ 7:00 PM Pre-Church Anniversary Guest: Pastor Joe Pipes Greater St. Luke’s Baptist Church Racine WI Saturday July 25, @ 6:00 PM Youth Musical Concert Guests from Racine, Kenosha and Sturtevant. Special Guest from New Jerusalem M. B. Church, Fountain, Colorado Sunday, July 26, @ 3:00 PM 24th Church Anniversary Celebration. Guest Speaker: Pastor Kevin Daniels, Sr. New Jerusalem M. B. Church, Fountain, Colorado.
Movers of Main Attrection were amoung several dozen group that participated in the city’s annual Juneteenth Celebration held Saturday, June 14, 2015 at the Dr. John Bryant Center. About 1,000 individuals attended the event. President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862, but more time passed before the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery, in 1865.
Black Americans grapple with unease in wake of Charleston shooting As he tugged open the plywood door to his newsstand Saturday morning, Charles Tone turned to one of his customers with a question. "How can they forgive him?" said Tone, 66. "Man, I don't even know if it can be genuine." The newsstand at the corner of Manchester and Vermont — the heart of a historically black neighborhood in South Los Angeles — often hums with conversation about politics and sports. Nationwide on Saturday, people were talking about the massacre of nine black churchgoers, allegedly by a white man, in Charleston, S.C. But among African Americans the subject felt more urgently personal, stirring fear, anger and unease as well as debate about what it means to be black in America. Some feel a sense of siege amid the succession of racially charged incidents — including the fatal shootings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Walter Scott, all unarmed black males — that preceded the church killings. Some, like Tone, found it hard to grasp how victims' families said they could forgive Dylann Roof, the man charged in the Charleston shootings, for so cold-blooded a crime. "Everyone wants to pray and not take action," Harrison Thomas, 64, a newsstand regular, told Tone. "Yeah, man, but what is action?" Tone said. "What is it?" A few feet away, barber Rickardo Paris stood inside the Just Your Style Beauty and Barber Shop, where the television flashed images of the story — prayer circles, talking politicians. "To be honest, none of this is shocking to me," said Paris, 34. "It's not like all of a sudden black people are being wronged." (According to the FBI's most recent statistics, blacks in 2013 were targeted in hate crimes more than all other races combined.) Nearby in Watts, Dominique Walker, 26, sat in her car outside a housing project waiting to pick up her son, who was visiting family. lRelated
For days, she said, her social media feeds have been flooded by news of the shooting. It happened more than 2,000 miles away, on the opposite coast, in an Old South city vastly different from her own. But the waitress from Hawthorne said the killings had inflamed her anxieties about violence. "I keep thinking, is this the week I'm going to lose someone close to me? My brothers, my uncles. I worry for all the men I know. Now, it turns out I gotta worry about church, too," Walker said. As she spoke she wrapped her arms around herself. "This is just no way to live," she said. Torrence Brannon-Reese, 54, who lives in Leimert Park, said that soon after he heard about the shooting, he sat his grandchildren, ages 11, 8 and 5, in front of the television to watch the news. He told them about the Birmingham church bombing of 1963, about Emmett Till and other cases, hoping that the past would help them understand the present. "I tell them straight," Brannon-Reese said. "I don't want them going out into the world like it's Disneyland. The real world is full of contrasts. It's love and hate; it's black and white." Across the country in South Carolina, Kenyatta Grimmage, 33, assistant director of admissions at the College of Charleston, said he resented conservative politicians who call the shooting an attack on Christians. "He didn't have a hate of Christianity," Grimmage said, referring to the gunman at nearby Emanuel AME Church. "He hated African Americans." Grimmage objected to the depiction of the assailant as a "lone wolf," saying he was part of a larger agenda propagated by "a group … that won't let racism die," a group particularly furious that America has a black president. "This set us back 40, 50 years," Grimmage said of the shootings. "Race relations are going out the window." Grimmage has three children, two girls ages 5 and 3, and a 2-year-old son. He said he is already frightened for his son.
"He can be misinterpreted. All anybody has to say is, 'I feel threatened.' Look at Trayvon Martin." Grimmage knows some of his white friends — people he's known since high school — are worried he might see them as racists. He said he doesn't. But when he returned to work after the shooting, he felt his trust in nonblacks had frayed. "It made me question relationships I have with Caucasian people. What do they really expect of me?" he said. "Would they truly have my back?" He said his 5-year-old daughter isn't old enough to understand death, but she knows what a shooting is, and has trouble fathoming how someone could do it in church. "She loves church, and she was trying to make the connection. Church and shooting don't go together," he said. "She just asks more questions, and I have to figure out how to answer in a PG way." In Atlanta, Angela Smith, an African American artist who works nights as a driver for Uber, said she was not entirely shocked by the Charleston shooting. She grew up in South Carolina, she said, where her mother and grandmother took pains to remind her of the region's racial history, including separate water fountains and lynchings. "You don't go from being sold and traded for skin tone to being an elite class in one or two centuries," she said. Smith, 36, said she had closely followed the Charleston story on the news on her car radio. Yet when she picked up an older white couple from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, she felt the need to turn the radio off as she ferried them out to the northern suburbs. "I didn't want to make them feel uncomfortable," she said. "They were chatting me up famously, but still, things
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are very tense." Smith does not believe race relations are worse than a decade ago, but she rejects the idea that the Charleston shooting is an isolated event. She said she envies those who are able to believe that. For the most part, Smith said, incidents like the shooting have not changed how she interacts with anyone. "I'm not staying at home. I can't control that wacko element out there," she said. "I don't want to have a chip on my shoulder about it. Either I let it roll off, or I join the Black Panthers. Or maybe there's a middle ground." Back in California, Darren Parker, a civil rights leader, said he thinks antiblack hate crimes are fueled by fear of demographic change, and the upward mobility of African Americans. Parker lives in Lancaster, where the black population has exploded in recent decades, from just a few hundred people in 1970 to 20% in 2010. "People start to ask the question, 'Why us?' And they're asking, 'What do we have to do before we're considered one and the same with everyone else?'" Parker said. "It's painful on several different levels in our community, and this mass shooting is triggering all these emotions." Parker grew up in the Jordan Downs housing project in Watts. He came to Lancaster, in the Antelope Valley, in the 1980s, amid a huge influx of black people seeking affordable homes. For years after he moved there, he said, sheriff's deputies pulled him over so many times they knew his name. He said he had to prove he was just a member of the community. Slowly, things have changed, but he said there has always been this sense that black people have to prove themselves.
Students cheer as they hold up signs supporting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) after the Supreme Court decided that the ACA may provide nationwide tax subsidies, Thursday June 25, 2015, outside of the Supreme Court in Washington.
Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare The United States Supreme Court helped America move forward on June 25 by upholding national tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act to enable the right of healthcare to all citizens. The Court passed the legislation on a 6-3 vote. “Five years ago, after nearly a century of talk, decades of trying, a year of bipartisan debate, they finally declared that in America healthcare is not a privilege for few, but a right for all,” President Obama said in response to the Court’s decision during a press conference the same day. The favorable ruling said that the administration could continue to offer subsidies to Americans who buy insurance throughout the nation despite whether or not their state set up an official healthcare exchange. According to CNN, the Court ruling essentially told the administration that it did not misinterpret the law when providing tax subsidies. “Three generations ago, we chose to end an era when seniors were left to languish in poverty. We passed Social Security, and slowly it was woven into the fabric of America and made a difference in the lives of millions of people,” Obama said. “Two generations ago, we chose to end an age when Americans in their golden years didn’t have the guarantee of health care. Medicare was passed, and it helped millions of people. This generation of Americans chose to finish the job — to turn the page on a past when our citizens could be denied coverage just for being sick.” President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House,
Thursday, June 25, 2015, after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the subsidies for customers in states that do not operate their own exchanges under President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) The decision not only ensures that Americans will continue to have access to affordable healthcare, but it also keeps young adults insured under their parents plans until they turn 26, institutes fairness and care for preventative services, provides discounts to seniors or people with disabilities and ends discrimination against preexisting conditions. “This is not a set of political talking points. This is reality. We can see how it is working. This law is working exactly as it’s supposed to. In many ways, this law is working better than we expected it to,” Obama said. Without an approval from the Court, Obama said that America would have gone “backwards” by making health insurance unaffordable to millions of Americans. However, some Justices did not approve of the law and voted against it. Dissenters included Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. According to the Washington Post, Scaila said he was against the measure because the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld the act from “major” challenges, including the constitutionality of the law by rewriting the law to change the “penalty” of not holding insurance to a “tax” and language on Medicaid withholding.
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NOTICE is hereby given that Riley Construction Company as Construction Manager, for and on behalf of the Owner, Racine Unified School District, will receive bids from Subcontractors for the Olympia Brown Elementary School, Gifford Middle School Addition, and Knapp Elementary School at Riley Construction Company Inc located at 5301 99th Ave, Kenosha, WI 53144. Bids can be provided in the form of a fax to 1-262-605-3253, or emailed to RUSDBids@rileycon.com. Plans & specs available through ISQFT website – please contact Carrie Matrise at (262) 658-4381or by email carriem@rileycon.com for ISQFT directions and for project access and official invite. We are trying to make sure opportunities are available to small businesses and minorities’ businesses and want to encourage them to bid. The goal is for 50 percent of labor hours to go to workers living in the district, and 20 percent to ethnic minority workers and 10 percent to ethnic minority contractors.
Minister Yusuf Buckley CEO/Publisher
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CHURCH DIRECTORY ST. PAUl MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
1120 Grand Ave. Racine, Wis.
262-632-1467 www.stpmbc.org
Bishop Lawrence L.
KIRBY Senior Pastor
Pastors Willie & Patricia Scott
Christian Faith Fellowship Church
Racine Sunday School 9:15 AM Sunday Worship Service 7:45 AM & 10:40 AM Wednesday Prayer & Bible Class
ZOE OUTREACH Ministries
11:00 AM and 6:00 PM Dinner - 5:30 PM
Pastor Tommie Knuckles
2130 Racine Street Racine, WI 619-3027
Melvin Hargove Pastor Sunday School - 8:45 a.m. Sunday Worship Service - 10:00 a.m. Sunday NA Meeting 6:30 PM Community Dinner 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Wednesday: Midweek Worship 6:15 a.m.- 8:15 p.m. Thursday NA Meeting 6:00 PM
Greater Mt. Eagle Baptist Church
Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church
“A God Glorifying, Christ Centered, Spirit-Filled Church”
1201 Center Street Racine, Wis. 53403 (262) 880-6521 Come Worship with us at: Sunday Worship Service 11:00 AM Bible Study Wednesday 6:00 Pm - 8:00 PM
Rev. Keith Evans Pastor
Sunday School • 9:00 AM Sunday Worship Service • 10:45 AM Bible Study (Wed.) • 6:00 PM Word of life (Youth Program) (Thur..) • 6:30 PM
SEARCHING TOGETHER MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. Willie Riley, Senior Pastor 262.633.4421
825 21st Street • Racine Sunday School Worship Service Mid Morning Worship Service Wednesday Afternoon Bible Study Wednesday Dinner p.m. Wednesday Evening Bible Study Saturday Morning Prayer
262-631-0196
9:00am - Sunday School 10:00am - Sunday Service at 3303 Nicholson Road, Frankville, Wisconcon 53126 Midweek Service Tuesday at 6:30pm
9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 12:00 noon 5:30-6:30 6:30 p.m. 8:00 a.m.
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Trinity United Missionary Baptist Church 306-5th Street, Racine, WI 262.635.1994 email: tumbcc@ameritech.net Rev. Buddy Vinson Senior Pastor
Sunday School - 9:30 AM Sunday Worship 10:30 AM Prayer Service - (Wed.) 5:00 PM Bible Class & Prayer (Wed.) - 6:00 PM
Minister Della Buckley celebrated her 66 birthday with family and friends
Another Beginning Band provided old school R&B as family and friends help Minister Della Buckley celebrate her 66th birthday celebration. Minister Buckley is an active member of St. Paul M.B. Church and a community activist.
Shirley Buckley(L) Tiffany Henderson (2nd R) and Minister Yusuf Buckley (R) pose with Minister Della Buckley during her birthday party held at the Miracle Center on June 27th. About 150 attended the celebration.
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