Volume 24 Issue 41

October 27 - November 2, 2019

Vol. 24, Issue 41

Greater Houston Edition

LIVING LEGEND

OUR STORY

Roy D. Moore

October 27

Inventor P.B. Downing patents the “street letter box” - the predecessor of the modern mailbox.

- 1891

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HOUSTON – Roy Dean Moore is the seventh of nine children born to Bob and Ollie Moore in Gause, Robertson County, Texas.

As a child, Moore recalls his family going out to far West Texas each year, to pick and pull cotton in the field. Oftentimes, this outing came during the first half of the school year, while many of the other children were attending school. Therefore, when he did get the chance to attend school, he was already a semester behind the majority.

Hence, this situation created a sense of insecurity in him. Nevertheless, he attended elementary school in Robertson County until the fifth grade. Shortly thereafter, his family relocated to Houston. At this time, he attended E.O. Smith Jr. High and ultimately graduated from Kashmere High School.

After high school, unsure of the path he would pursue professionally, he became a breakfast cook at Hermann Hospital. A year later, he was drafted into the United States Military.

Early in his military career, he was given aptitude tests, along with other enlistees. He noticed he would always rank in the top 5-10% in the testing. This factor provided him with a sense of confidence, and he began to feel more secure about himself.

This was a major steppingstone for him, because for years he dealt with insecurity issues related to his childhood education.

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Jackie Robinson’s biography is published.

- 1972

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Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield sings before Queen Victoria.

- 1854

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African-American units in armed forces dissolved.

- 1954

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Booker T. Washington named to Hall of Fame for Great Americans.

- 1945

November

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WHAT’S HAPPENIN’

1

John H. Johnson publishes the first issue of Ebony.

- 1945

2

Senator Borris Miles shares his recent kidney transplant experience.

Page 2

Partin the Waters recaps the most recent Democratic Debate.

Page 3

State Rep. Ron Reynolds to host 5th Annual Ft. Bend Values Veterans.

Page 7

Charles C. Diggs, Jr. of Detriot was elected as Michigan’s first African-American Congressman.

- 1954

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A Matter of Life and Death

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ll oppressed people know this feeling. Tevye expressed it best in “Fiddler on the Roof” when he said there are times “when our hearts lie panting on the floor.”

Atatiana Jefferson’s murder by Aaron Dean, a White police officer, in Fort Worth, has created one of those times. It is clear from the cries of outrage that many Americans, particularly people of Color, feel this way.

After watching video footage of the shooting from Dean’s body camera, there is no doubt that this was murder.

Initial media reports stated that roughly four seconds passed between the time Dean shouted “Put your hands up” at Ms. Jefferson as she stood by the window in her own home and the moment when he fired the fatal shot. However, video cam timers show that less than two seconds elapsed.

One video time tracker showed that Dean shouted his command at time-lapse 0:32 and pulled the trigger at 0:33. That was little more than one second. We can only assume that the

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OPINION & EDITORIAL media obtained the four second time frame from the Fort Worth Police Department.

The Fort Worth police also quickly released information that Ms. Jefferson had a gun in the house.

This information tended to bend the narrative in favor of Dean, even though Texas is an open-carry state where countless law-abiding citizens have guns in their homes.

As shocking as this murder was, what made it worse was the way the Fort Worth police initially recited the facts in a way that favored the murderer. It is obvious that Dean shot and killed Ms. Jefferson before giving her a chance to respond to his shouts and without identifying himself as a police officer. And it is not disputed that Ms. Jefferson had every right to protect herself and her home from an unidentified and suspicious person outside.

Because this was a PR battle the Fort Worth police could not win, the chief has taken the position that Ms. Jefferson was within her rights, and Dean has been charged with murder.

This case, however, is an “outlier” even though there is no certainty that Dean will be convicted and punished for his crime. It is impossible to have faith in the ability of law enforcement at any level to mete out justice fairly when we are con-

stantly bombarded with news of police misconduct.

When we learn of innocent citizens being gunned down in their homes by police officers in Texas, or of a Virginia law enforcement officer who was also a recruiter for a White nationalist group, or that a Pennsylvania policeman arrested two Black men and charged them with loitering in their own front yard, there is no rationalizing this behavior.

Constantly faced with these types of events, we must acknowledge that there is still something very wrong with this country. While White people worry about being killed by home-grown terrorists, people of Color must also worry about being killed by the police.

People of Color are being gunned down in the streets and in their homes by law enforcement officers who do not value our lives.

And this will continue until we address the root cause of this problem.

Murderous police officers are on our streets because too many police chiefs do not care enough to properly vet them before they are hired or properly supervise them once they are on the job.

We have incompetent police chiefs because too many politicians who hire them do not care enough to ensure that they carry out their jobs properly.

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State of Black Texas in the Texas Legislature

By Senator Borris Miles

Organ Donation Saved My Life

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any of you may know that I have struggled with my health all of my life. That battle includes facing sickle cell anemia and kidney disease headon.

Like many who live with a debilitating illness, I power through each day, no matter the pain to provide for my family and to serve the people of Senate District 13. Some days are good and some are bad. I do not get to decide which day I am dealt.

Recently, I was blessed to receive a kidney transplant. I have been on the transplant list for one day too many. Like the hundreds of thousands of individuals who are on the list, I have woken up each day waiting for the call that a matched organ was available. Receiving an organ is greater than winning the lottery.

According to the UC Davis Health Transplant Center, the chance of finding an exact match with an unrelated donor is about 1 in 100,000. And on top of that, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services, African-Americans

make up the largest group of minorities in need of an organ transplant.

Organ donation can save lives. I am living proof. Please consider becoming an organ donor.

You can register at www.

DonateLifeTexas.org.

My family and I are incredibly excited about this transplant, but I know the road to recovery will be long and difficult. But I don’t quit and I don’t back down. There is so much more I want to do, and one of those things is to continue serving you.

My recovery will cause my absence in the community, but rest assured my team will continue fighting for you. My district offices will stay open, and my staff will continue attending community meetings, working on your constituent issues, meeting with stakeholders on legislation and more.

We just finished hosting my fifth job fair since becoming a state senator.

This job fair served the North Forest community.

Like many predominantly African-American neighborhoods, this is where opportunities may be thin, but the people are unfazed and unbroken. I am proud to bring events like these directly to the people and give them a fair shot at getting a job.

God is good, and I am eternally grateful for this blessing I’ve been granted. Every breath is a gift.

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OPINION & EDITORIAL

We MUST Understand

By Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher

What Happened to OUR Village?

“Discipline is helping a child solve a problem.

Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers, focus on solutions not retribution.”

-L.R. Knost ack when I was coming up there were many things Black folks did not have.

But, there was one thing we did have, which replaced and made up for those things we didn’t – a village.

The Black village of old was not limited to just family members; primarily any face you saw that looked like yours was most likely a part of the village. Everybody looked out for everybody. Even though we did not have cell phones like most families today, we were more connected to the latest updates and happenings in each other lives, than we are now.

As a matter of fact, if I got into trouble at school, my father had knowledge of it before I ever even made it home. School, church and other officials made sure that they were in constant communica-

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tion with our parents and/ or guardians, or at least they were connected to somebody who was going to get the message out.

During those days, Black folks was not selfish. We all desired to see one another advance, because everybody was considered the same in the community. We didn’t have a choice but to help and support each other.

Because if we didn’t, nobody else would.

We were exiled and segregated to live and operate amongst our own communities, schools and churches, and that knitted Our Village that much closer together.

With the entrance of integration into American culture, along with the advancement of modern technology, has come the destruction of the Black village. Nowadays, Our Village has been replaced with smartphones, tablets and video games. We have an entire generation raising themselves and those who should be most concerned about the epidemic, are too busy politicking and squabbling over titles and positions to give a damn. Many of Our youth have no idea who they are and where they come from. The village no longer consists of old wise folk and resourceful members and leaders of the community. Because everybody is too busy worried about and catering to selfishness. - AANI

Partin the Waters

By Omowale Lithuli-Allen

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The Fourth Democratic Debate

n presidential elections, the home of the fourth Democratic Presidential debate, the state of Ohio is known as a kingmaker. Candidates were quick to point out that Ohio and the Midwest has lost jobs while the President has been in office. Nevertheless, Ohio is pivotal.

For the first time, billionaire Tom Steyer was on stage, Steyer was the first spear to launch the call for impeachment of POTUS. Steyer says that a criminal is in the White House and no one is above the law. Pelosi, Speaker of the House has come to take this position.

Steyer is courageous and unrelenting as evidenced by his statement that billionaires such as him are getting away with murder by grabbing more of the national wealth and paying less of the tax burden. When you are born on second or third base it is difficult to condemn a social class that you live in and be unrepentant about calling for a wealth tax.

The debate occurred

during the time of perhaps the biggest blunder in modern foreign policy history. POTUS in his matchless wisdom impulsively withdrew American troops from Syria and left our allies, the Kurds to face slaughter at the hands of the Turks. The Kurds were our allies and played the major role in defeating the Isis caliphate.

The toll in human lives was stunning. 10, 000

unfit looks like. All Democrats on the stage were eager to point out that they were for impeachment.

Somehow the Biden doctrine on not abandoning the Obama legacy held. All candidates in their remarks or lack of remarks reflected that they supported the Obama legacy good, bad or indifferent. This had to be hard for Booker, Harris and Castro.

claimed in Houston - a half billion dollars for Historically Black Colleges and Universities HCBU’s. Along with this commitment, Warren hit the mark as she highlighted the need to extend the solvency of Social Security.

This is important because if social security collapses, the welfare state collapses and the manifesto for a political

Twelve candidates represented in the fourth Democratic Debate held in Photo Credit Tony Dejak/AP Westerville, Ohio.

Biden covered for his revolution punches us in dead and 11,000 wounded. I think it was Madison son, Hunter Biden. Hunt- the face.

Booker pointed out who said, “we are only as er and the Bidens’ were strong as our allies”. Af- tainted by crony capital- that our country has more ter betrayal of an ally, who ism but at this time there child poverty than any is no evidence that he did other country in the world. will trust you?

Texan Beto O’Rourke anything illegal. Certainly, Sanders drove home the and Mayor Pete had a colossally bad judgement point that the top 1% owns more wealth than scoring play as they la- but not criminality.

Bernie Sanders is ex- the bottom 90%. These ser-focused on not wasting the lives of 18- and pected to be endorsed by facts underlie the heated 20-year old’s in senseless Rep. Ocasio (D-NY). He debate generated around wars. Only two candi- appeared to be very robust Medicare for all. How dates, Gabbard and May- following his recent heart does a broke country pay or Pete have combat expe- attack, even joking that he for Medicare for all? After “was not high on marijua- being pressed to the mat rience.

by Klobuchar, Warren Gabbard of Hawaii, na at the moment”.

If the national polling would not yield by admitVulcan and Cyborg like in her demeanor and TV is accurate and Warren ting that the middle class temperament stated, the is the front runner, she might have to be taxed.

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By Roy Douglas Malonson

HOUSTON - “I used to wonder how my grandfather, who couldn’t read or write – knew how to make a living and take care and provide for his family.

Then, my father, who had a sixth-grade education ran circles around me and my high school diploma.

Now, there is a new generation, coming out of college with degrees and they don’t have a clue. I can only assume that it is the quality of what Our Children are being taught and how they are being trained. So, it goes back to, nobody is caring about the Black child.”

It is imperative that Black America wake up and understand, not only do Black Lives Matter, but, Our Black Children Matter too. For too long, We have overlooked perhaps one of the single most-precious commodities’ our culture has to offer – Our Children. In reference to modern-day public education, there is a growing epidemic destroying the success of Our Future – Our Children.

A Broken Public-School System and Dissipating Communities We MUST Understand the value the community has when speaking about public education.

These days, there is no community. For an example, When I was growing up, George Washington

Carver was one of two high schools’ students from the Acreage Home community attended – the other, M.C. Williams. All of the children from Carver lived in the community and went to the same high school, same with M.C. Williams.

Some students may have gone to different elementary schools, but we all ended up at either Carver or M.C. Williams.

We all knew one other; our parents knew each other; and the teachers and administrators knew the community, and most likely lived in it. So, it was a total sense of community back then.

Now, in 2019 we have two of the largest school districts in the country and there are high schools all over the city. In most cases, students are able to travel to the school of their choice and return to their respective neighborhood. This formula has the tendency to create a War Zone between Our Children. Because you have all these Children leaving the community, going to various schools and coming back fighting each other in the community. It’s almost like it’s a “process of elimination”; because the end result often leads to legal consequences.

Furthermore, there have been numerous standards put in place in the public-school system which has placed barriers on Our

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COVER STORY Children. Our children are being taught and drilled on how to pass tests as required by the state. The focus on passing tests has been so vigorous that teachers must spend 180days teaching curriculum which is geared towards students passing a test.

These tests do not equip Our Children with the means and know-how to excel after high school.

Instead, it limits their intelligence to being test dummies.

I have to call these things out because they are issues that are directly impacting and affecting Our Children. Many of Our White counterparts have been caught the message which is why they send their children to private schools.

The only other two options for Our Children are home-school and charter schools; because the average Black family can’t afford private school. The thing is, charter schools are not regulated like public schools.

A child can flunk out of public school and go to a charter school and graduate. As far as home-schooling, some of Our parents don’t have the ability to properly educate their children in academics. So, where does that leave Our Black Children?

Inability to Make a Living Today, we have a generation of children who are

BLACK CHILDREN MATTER Does anybody care???

- Roy Douglas Malonson

not prepared to make a living or get a job. We used to could rely on the public-school system to offer elective courses to Our Children to enable them to develop a trade. But, basic trades like Home Economics, Auto Mechanics, Wood Shop, FFA and other courses for life applications have been eliminated from many of the schools.

Back in the day, these types of courses had the power to allow students who were not capable of succeeding in college to make a living for themselves. Yet, many within our school districts are more concerned about securing and maintaining state funding, internal squabbles and everything except Our Children.

School to Prison Pipeline “Change the school to prison pipeline to the cradle to college pipeline and put an end to all arrests and summons for non-criminal violations in schools. It’s time to invest in the solutions that create positive and healthy school environments for the success of all students.”

– MomsRising.org

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KidsRising, a social media community managed by MomsRising.org found some alarming facts in regard to cultural barriers affecting children of Color in the public-school system. It was found that, “Children of color and children with disabilities are disproportionately suspended; and of children of Color with disabilities, more than 1 in 4 boys and nearly 1 in 5 girls of Color receive an out of school suspension.”

Further, MomsRising revealed that, “The most significant indicator of which children will be suspended is not the type of offense but the Color of their skin, their special education status, what school they go to; and whether they have been suspended before.”

The last intriguing factor shared is that, “1.6 million (k-12th grade) students attended a school that employed a law enforcement officer, but no counselor.”

So, the message the public-school system is sending says, “Let’s mis-educate them, or do not educate them and get free labor out of them in

the prison system.”

It’s literally a modern-day 21st Century school to prison pipeline.

Black America, it has to stop; Black Children Matter!

One Solution “History is repeating itself and we are going to have to go back to the basics and repeat some of the groundwork that Our Ancestors laid.

Because too many of us are expecting too many of them to do for US and we are not doing nothing for Ourselves.”

Although there are many solutions to the problems we face when it comes to educating and training Our Children, I would like to re-introduce a starting point. It’s nothing new. In fact, it’s so simple that even slaves who couldn’t read or write were able to accomplish.

We MUST Understand, the beginning of education in Black America really got its start in the Black church.

Majority of all the historically Black colleges and universities which exist today, originated out of the Black church.

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The Law & Your Community Knights of Peter Claver, Ladies Auxiliary & the Young Adults Catholics of African Descent Newman Center @ Texas Southern University 3535 Wheeler St. Houston, 77004 10a.m.-2p.m.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Love Letters to the Black Man Featuring Shawn Harris Comedian Midtown Arts Center 3414 LaBranch St. Houston, 77004 LoveTheBlackMan.eventbrite.com Starting at 7p.m.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 26th Annual Drive for Scholarships Golf Tournament Hosted by Lone Star College Foundation The Woodlands Country Club Palmer Course 100 Grand Fairway The Woodlands, 77381 (281) 863-1400 Starting at 9a.m.

The Woodlands Country Club Tournament Course 1730 South Millbend Dr. The Woodlands, 77380 (281) 863-1540 TUES. - WED. NOVEMBER 19-20 HISD District-wide Community Meetings November 19, Milby High School 1601 Broadway St. Houston, 77012 9:30 - 11a.m.

November 20, Chavez High School 8501 Howard Dr. Houston, 77017 6:30 - 8p.m.

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