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February 16, 2024

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“Addressing Current & Historical Realities Affecting Our Community”

PERCY “KING” CREUZOT III, PERCY “PC” CREUZOT IV, ELISE CREUZOT, ANGELE CREUZOT, CHRISISTIEN GILLIAN, SALLIE CREUZOT, PERCY CREUZOT JR AND NOVELLE JONES “THE ORIGINAL FRENCHY’S EMPLOYEE 1969”

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55 YEAR JOURNEY

The entrance of the restaurant sets a tone as the rich eclectic soundscapes of jazzy, pop, and classic rhythms are played throughout as customers sway to the sounds and blends of New Orleans. The birthright of this establishment is soon to embark upon pushing the Creole cuisine across communities for fifty-five years on July third, two thousand twenty-four. Born on the 28th of May 1924, to Dr. and Mrs. Percy P. Creuzot, Percy Pennington

“Frenchy” Creuzot Jr., a New Orleans native arrived at Houston, Texas in 1964. Cumulatively, his years of service in the Navy, World War II, and a 1949 graduate of Hampton Institute (University) located in Hampton, Virginia, were historical endeavors of distinctions. With him on the trek was his wife Sallie Coleman and their three children Percy III, Angele, and John, who is the Criminal District Attorney in Dallas, Texas. Journey on pg. 3

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Throughout middle school, high school, and college, Sharla excelled in choral music. This is evidence of her being awarded various medals in competition at the district, region, and state levels.

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Only the laws of God are perfect. Thus, God’s laws are designed to convert us, make us wise, and spiritually enlighten us. Manmade laws are imperfect because of human fragilities, and above all, sin. The Gospel Writer Paul says it best: “Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.” (Romans 13: 10).

Moreover, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:” (2 Timothy 3: 16-17). There are some Americans who are loyal to Former President Donald J. Trump, and they have an ungodly lawless mindset. Trump’s mindset is to spiritually Profane God as a master liar, and to perpetrate evil toward his neighbors (countrymen). America, and Donald J. Trump, choices have consequences, good or bad. Therefore: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” (Galatians 6:7).

Thus: “For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.” (Galatians 6: 3). America, we know that the thinking of MAGA Trump followers is devilishly flawed. MAGA thinking is an abomination to God as well as an abomination to The Preamble and the U. S. Constitution itself because

their thinking is selfishness to the nth degree. Hence, it is spiritually written: “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:” (Proverbs 23: 7a).

The purpose of law is to maintain universal civility, equality, and at the same time, maintain societal moral order. Institutionalized racism has been an impediment to the universal notion that all men are created equal by their Creator, and therefore, they should be equal under man’s laws, because spiritually equal is equal. Trump and his MAGA Cult Followers are absolutely confused concerning the spiritual meaning of equality, because they desire something for nothing based solely on skin tone. Trump and his MAGA Cult Followers do not spiritually and morally understand neither societal law nor God’s law of love, which in turn, supersedes civil laws, because: “Love worketh not ill to his neighbor: therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.”

(Romans 13: 10). God has no loopholes or exemptions in the law of Love. God’s laws are universal. Christian Right Evangelicals, The GOP, White Nationalists, Fox “FAKE NEWS”, and some spiritually misguided Blacks and other minorities do not believe manmade laws must be spiritually informed by God’s laws. In fact, they do not acknowledge that The Holy Spirit (TRUTH) is the power that frees us from sin: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For For more visit the law of the aframnews.com

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EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS We like to say everything is bigger in Texas. Bigger skies. Bigger stories. Bigger business. Bigger prison systems. Especially our prison systems.

Texas is so legendary that the word itself has become slang in Norway.

To Norwegians, “Texas” is a word that is included in everyday conversation. Their phrase “Der var helt texas!”

(That was very, totally Texas!) describes any situation that is irrational, outrageous, and unmanageable, with anarchy in charge. Norway delights in cowboy movies, especially those filmed in or depicting Texas so much that the name of the state has become a symbol of uncontrolled lawlessness, without restraint, according to Daniel Gusfre Ims, the head of the advisory service at the Language Council of Norway.

If they could watch movies based on the Texas prison complex there would be many more vocabularies involving the state.

The first Texas prison opened with three reprobates detained in 1849. In 2021, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice was supervising 133,772 incarcerated convicts. That year there were 104 facilities, including 11 privately operated sites, located across

the state. Texas has an allinclusive lock up rate of 840 per 100,000 people, meaning that it restrains a higher percentage of its people than any democracy on earth.

Norwegians know how hot and dusty our state is from the Western films they love. In 2022 the American Housing Survey found Houston to be the most air-conditioned city in the world, but in the Houston area alone there are 13 prison units holding 21,690 incarcerated people without adequate air conditioning.

Texas jail standards require temperature control between 65 and 85 degrees, but during recent summers, temperatures have reached 150 degrees in some prisons. Texas enforces laws to protect animals from extreme heat; the Texas Department of Correction’s pig barns are air conditioned, but 70% of its Incarcerated citizens are not.

About half of interned Texans live with chronic illnesses. Many imprisoned diabetics are dependent on prescribed life-saving insulin, a heat-sensitive medication that must be stored chilled.

More are prescribed psychotropic medications which prevent the body from cooling by sweating, making those individuals more susceptible to the consequences of extreme heat.

Their daily choice becomes taking their medication or risking heat-related death due to the side effects. To survive the prisoners flood their toilets and lay down in the water to try to regulate their core body temperature.

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spirit, the motivating force from his former years as a salesperson with an insurance company, graduation apparels and the selling of flavored snow cones were the chronicles of his journey. What piqued his interest were two major highlights that gave way to an assurance of his ability to support an insistent urge of bringing Louisiana cuisine to Texas and to sell his experiences into becoming a business owner. He figured that selling insurance was not a steady way to earn a living for his family, as he learned that his greatest challenge would become his unpredictable income selling it. Each product he negotiated and sold, were related to a myriad of options for people to purchase. With the blending of his options, Texas fried chicken with creole intermixtures and Louisiana cuisine, “Frenchy-Creole Fried Chicken became the trademark for his family’s business.

The late Percy “Frenchy” Creuzot Jr. and his wife, Sallie opened Frenchy’s Chicken at the flagship locale on Scott

February 16, 2024 Street nestled between The University of Houston and Texas Southern University. It was in a storefront in Third Ward, next door to Jesse Hearne, a used car lot owner. King marvels at the spelling of his sister’s name and dials her on the phone as she and I exchange conversation for the correct spelling. The only daughter of Percy Creuzot, he wanted the diner to be named after her, “Etiennette.” Percy Jr. was cautioned from the advice of an acquaintance, “No one will be able to locate that name in a phone book.” Acquaintances gave him the nickname “Frenchy” and the man who started it all, was hooked on his nonstop journey. Thinking back to that experience King’s face was captured with laughter and memories of good times gone, and his inspiration to continue the tradition with his family, friends, and others in his father’s legacy!

In ushered, a dynamite combination of a Creole fried chicken with a mixture of Louisiana cuisine to balance the slightly modified recipe given to him from a family friend.

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The original menu was layered with flavored red beans blended with flavorings of French, Spanish, Caribbean and African effects, dirty rice, hot sausage called “Chaurice” from New Orleans and a thick crusty bread stuffed with fried oysters called oyster loaf. Original generational recipes were prepared by Sallie and her late husband, Percy Jr. The recipes reflected unique flavorings and ingredients tied to a philosophy that were lessons for sharing with their family steep traditions of love and inspiration. The cooking regiments for the Creuzot family used the flagship location which proved clearly the most resourceful site for blending love, values, time, spices, and recipes for their family’s legacy. Percy (King) III, shares his sentiment, “I don’t mind telling you either of the formula that made the family’s area restaurant a must-stop on the fried chicken circuit, you take a little of this, a little of that and plenty of the other.”

King signals that thought while reminiscing about his father’s passion, and his keen salesmanship over the years. From his fortitude meshed with being an exceptional businessperson and surrounding him from every angle, he would launch himself against the darkness of midnight and the wee hours of the next morning and wave his flashlight to take advantage of his competitor, Church’s Chicken daily night closing. It was the signal that showed power, possibilities and promise towards a stern belief that this was his chance and opportunity which gave way to the family business that became a centerpiece for what his beliefs were. His generosity was intense and persistently, he would pull the late-night customers into the tight winding drive through with only chicken and French fries to offer.

“When we saw the lights go off, we’d start dropping chicken in the grease.”

With his southern drawl and a gentlemanly manner, Journey it was not a strain to notice on pg. 4

Percy Penningston Creuzot Jr.

Esther Jackson, Rynisha Madison, Allan Hart, Moesha Nzuzi, Roslin Dunn (Catering Mgr.), Erick Brown (GM)

Percy (King) Penningston Creuzot III

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Journey Cont. conversation. “My dad would take a flashlight and flag people in from the street.” A flashlight that marked the winning way to the expansion of Frenchy’s Chicken. At times, the younger Creuzot recalled, “The restaurant’s after-hours business would extend until 5 a.m.”

With respect and fairness, “Frenchy,” prodded a command performance that became a nightly unchanging ritual. “Someone would order chicken and my father would collect the money. He knew that once he collected the money the person would not leave. He got the money first, that way he never fried in vain.” expresses King. It became the difference that his family relied upon!

Seventy-five percent of the business enterprise was selling fried chicken.

Competing chicken businesses began to flourish in the late seventies and Creuzot decided to open additional locations. Black Enterprise recognized Frenchy’s Chicken for becoming a successful and fast-growing, blackoperated business with gross sales of $12 million. During the late eighty’s, Frenchy’s Chicken established twelve restaurants in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio, however oil prices reached an alltime crisis that spun Frenchy’s into a downward spiral. They filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Frenchy’s Sausage Co. was not part of the bankruptcy proceedings.

Frenchy’s Chicken incorporates a group of three entities, Frenchy’s Chicken, Frenchy’s Sausage and Frenchy’s Restaurant Group. Franchises are located at Almeda, Atascocita, Cypress, Beltway & Richmond, Acres Home, Katy, Rankin, Longview, and Veterans Memorial. Carl Jones, a former employee of Church’s Chicken

February 16, 2024 advised Frenchy to focus on food consistency across the franchises. The establishment of an In-House Cooking Division simmers the smell of the Pinemont plant with added compliments of red beans, dirty rice, jambalaya, collard greens, peach cobbler, sweet potato pie and other sides that absorb your diet. The 15,000 square foot. plant employs eighty employees on two shifts. The meat, poultry and vegetative products used are FDA, USDA and there is a 3rd Party Inspector which is important for the regulation, protection, and inspection of approved products sold for human consumption.

King Creuzot began laying the

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forth Frenchy’s Sausage Company in 1977. It began in The Heights in a 2500 sq.ft. leased location and it initially processed “chaurite” which is a Creole sausage. Lotts Bar-be-que bequeathed a homemade links recipe to Frenchy. The overall effects of the recipe drew upon the purchasing of twenty boxes of links that carried a seasoned taste of mix that changed the future of Frenchy’s Sausage Company.

Currently, Frenchy’s Sausage produces

Sallie Coleman-Creuzot and Percy Penningston Creuzot Jr.

1969 foundation for his own career upon graduation from Texas Southern University in 1970, with Ford Motor Company, located in Kansas City, Missouri for five years. An urgent call from his father, indelibly changed the course of his career to return to Houston, Texas to bring

2022 over 78,000 lbs. of sausage weekly, both pork and beef blended with seasonings with a machine that grinds and mixes from the lift into a stuffer.

Glowing with pride, located in the frozen meat section of H-E-B are the sausages, creole gumbo, Aunties Rice Dressing, and etouffee base

that represent the Creuzot Family Sausage Division. Frenchy’s Sausages are sold in HEB, Joe V’s, Food Town, Foodarama and Fiesta.

In 1990, Sallie Creuzot changed the brand color’s identity from brown, gold and yellow to create a design to feature brighter and bolder artistry of blue and gold to lift and soften the innovative creativity within the company. The expression of changes highlights the bordering of the letterform embroidered for Frenchy Sausage logo, “good ole creole.

The lower-case letter l in creole is distinguished as: creoLe” in boldness as it features with dark lettering the state the Creuzot Family is rooted, Louisiana. Frenchy’s Chicken Division wears the original logo of white lettering layered below in bold yellow, the words Since 1969.

Like the classics of music, the matriarch placed in motion the identity of Frenchy’s brand that continues to symbolize the acknowledgement of its’ continued rise in the poultry industry.

The Information Age ushered in a new dynamic under the leadership of King’s daughter, Coline Creuzot, a YouTube singer. Her technological and touch dynamics has become the true identifier and essentials for success in today’s markets. She identifies and uses a variety of social media platforms to spread information quickly, a technological app, that tracks the time customers are in and out of the drive-through with improved efficiency, a holding space for Uber Eats and other drivers to get in and out in real time effectively for pick-up of orders, and a kiosk will be added for

GREATER HOUSTON EDITION customers to order upon

Journey Cont. entrance into the facility

soon.

The company continues to make progress and overhead towards the bludgeoning manufacturing companies and the automation of poultry.

The adaptation of the changing accession continues to rise and menus for companies in the poultry industry must adhere to the purchase of “boned-in or boneless” poultry. “Regulatory changes, technological disruptions and evolving consumer preferences are the greatest challenges in the poultry industry. Featured continuously is Frenchy’s signature portion of the chicken, “wings.” They cost more, but commercially, the sales are steady.” states King. The boudin ball and rolls remain popular picks and, in the future, boneless chicken sandwiches are in the wonderings.

Sallie, the ninety-six-year-old

February 16, 2024 matriarch of the Creuzot dynasty, regularly visits the current location on Scott Street in Third Ward. Angele and sibling John pioneered with the progress of the restaurant in previous years. Cousin Novelle Jones, the lone employee who opened and remained with the company after fifty-three years of service has recently retired.

Currently, the CEO of Frenchy’s is Ernest Hunter, a former acquaintance of King’s wife, Cheryl, has labored with the company for three years. Leading aside King is his business partner since 1989, Anthony Gaynor and King’s son, Percy “PC” Creuzot knows and understands all facets of the company from the processing and business side of the organization.

King singled out the importance of The Creuzot’s Family legacy in volunteerism and their steep ties to the community. Percy “Frenchy” Creuzot Jr. shared a patriarchal

presence as a philanthropic citizen whose proven loyalty supported Texas Southern University, the state of Texas as a Board of Regents for twelve years, Catholic Charities, The Greater Houston Visitors & Convention Center, and other entities with involvement and a great deal of influence. Continuing the personal stake in the community, King extends the importance of giving back, “This community has given so much to Frenchy, and it would not be what it is.” They have made us who we are, and it is imperative to give back.”

He echoes for the Creuzot Family, “Everyone in the family feels the same way. It is who we are and what we do!”

The family continues to maintain a legacy steeped in reminiscences, memories, and celebrations long past the fifty years plus! Kings maintains his sincere obligations to lead and continue the legacy for generations to

AFRAMNEWS.COM 5 explore! Leading the helm of Frenchy’s Sausage Company is a family person, who plays golf and collects vintage cars from early to mid-eighties.

Unquestionably, the lineage of the Creuzot Family, continues to safeguard the vitality of Percy Penningston Creuzot Jr. and Sallie Coleman Creuzot’s dream! The pain and pleasure of arriving to this newly built site in December 2022, designed by Architect Paul C. Heisler of Houston carries the charm of the French Quarters, the oldest neighborhood in New Orleans. This is a narrative of a soulful journey with vast promises that await in a luminous horizon. The foresight of Percy Creuzot, Jr. an icon and his conquest lives on! Indeed, he gave his family a good start as his legacy runs forward! Frenchy’s Chicken is clearly a forerunner marching on characterizing a long unwavering relationship with time!

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What about the homeless, the unhoused, or the less fortunate? What ever we may consider them to be they are people too, just like you and me. We should not have a homeless problem unless we have a humanity problem here in Houston, TX. We all know we cannot help everybody, but we all should be trying to help somebody. I believe if everybody does something, everything will get done. However, the city must allow Houstonians to help their brothers and sisters who have fallen on hard times without any fear of citations etc.

We must be Houston Strong all the time vs just during Hurricane Season.

Our fast-growing city has many issues such as drainage, infrastructure, illegal dumping, crime, food desserts, school desserts, gentrification and so on and all have been ignored and neglected for

decades. But the homeless problem cannot be ignored nor neglected anymore. Human lives depend on a much-needed solution as opposed to more studies and excuses.

The biggest problem with helping the homeless is they are treated like a number and not a human. We do not need more studies or head counts.

Because honestly, how can we possibly have an accurate headcount on a population we are not a part nor can’t even relate to. We have homes to go to each day with electricity and heat in the winter, AC in the summer and running water. Living in Houston, many of us are just one flood, one hurricane, one paycheck, and one tax bill away from being homeless ourselves.

In November of 2018, I was taking my daughter to basketball practice, and I noticed a homeless man collecting

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