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Vol. 23, Issue 47

COMMUNITY CRISIS

In The Name of the Lord

Ball of Confusion

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In Memory of

The Overflow

OUR’ STORY

ENTERTAINMENT

President George H. W. Bush 1924 - 2018 The 41st President of the United States passes away at the age of 94.

A glimpse into the journey of the “Black woman”, as inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama’s, “Becoming”.

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Is this my Texas, my State Capitol?

A look at why the Civil War is still fresh in some minds...

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Exclusive Interview with, Daphne Maxwell Reid - respected Artist, Designer and Education Activist See Page 7

By Gerry Monroe HOUSTON - For the past three years the City of Houston has been besieged by gang violence.

Lamar High School students welcomed the Mayor nearly two weeks after losing a classmate to gang violence. Mayor Sylvester Turner met with a student who wrote him a letter following Delindsey Mack’s murder. The mayor also met with student leaders at the school to listen to their concerns and ensure all HISD students that law enforcement is committed to keeping them safe.

Mack was gunned down outside the school on Nov. 13, in what police described as one of the latest killings in an ongoing gang war. But hold up! What about Black schools? The same ones, that have been dealing with gang violence, since before the mayor started his term. For the past three years I personally watched schools and neighborhoods being torn apart by gang violence. I’ve also watched Black children die at an alarming rate. Kids need to study entrepreneurship. Because owning a funeral home right now is better than owning a fortune 500 company.

Per the Houston Chronicle, Mayor Sylvester Turner and Police Chief Art Acevedo announced the city’s kick off of the 2018 ‘March on Crime’ campaign during a press conference last February at HPD headquarters. “The program is built upon the premise that no one group can do it alone,” Turner said.

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EDITORIAL & OPINION

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The Standard View

By Billy “Hollywood” Groves

Our Addressable Issues

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here’s an old saying that goes like this “Power concedes nothing without a struggle”.

Our current problems confronting our American Democracy are serious deadly issues that can and must be controlled or stopped. This power struggle is clearly visible and troubling to the majority of the people and the ones that aren’t concerned or don’t have a problem with what is going on now are those people who don’t respect people or their civil and human rights.

However, there are millions and millions of Americans who feel troubled by a Governmental System where the minority of voters has more power than the majority of voters. Remember this current POTUS lost in the 2016 Presidential Election to Hillary Clinton based on the “people vote” yet he still won (despite losing by big numbers).

Wake up America! All of my life I’ve been told and taught that America is a true nation with respect for its citizens. Our voting process definitely does not reflect this belief. Therefore, changing our voting process should be one of our high priority issues which needs to be done to keep “America Great”.

As a long-time activist, I often feel uncomfortable when I explain to young people and other Americans how our voting system is set up in such a way that it let “losers become winners”. Voting rights is an issue that is addressable by our ordinary regular voters if they are

given the information they need to make this type of decision.

Although we are making great gains by just monitoring the voting process, there is still mass confusion among American voters related to voting in all of our elections. By now, we realize that the “People in Power”, who are being backed by “Fake News” are not going to willingly give up their power without strong serious efforts from “We the People”.

Years ago the Black people of South Africa were controlled and basically enslaved by a small group of racists. Until the world addressed the issue and helped the Black South Africans become voters and free, I am sure that those people would never have gotten their freedom otherwise.

I know people are reading this and saying you can’t compare the South Africa situation with our American problems, actually there are many similarities between dictators in South Africa and the policies and positions of Trump.

For example, the main problem that they had in South Africa was voter suppression which was accomplished through -force, deception, hoax, intimation and again the use of “Fake News” which provided miss-information to the people. Sounds familiar?

One thing for sure, our “Addressable Issues” must be addressed if we really care about the future success of America.

We must change our voting system in the places where it needs to be corrected. I am definitely looking forward to eliminating the “crooked parts” of America’s democracy which has created such division within our Nation, so that once again we will be “One Nation Under God”.

God Bless America!

- AANI

The Youth Scope

By Walter Marks, IV

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Music Matters

oes music impact your life? You may not realize it but music is a powerful resource that you can benefit from. I’m going to inform you on how music can affect your mood, emotions and everyday life.

Depending on what genre of music you’re listening to, your mood can change. Sometimes, music is a boost of confidence for when you’re exercising or doing something active. Also, if you’re stressed or depressed, you could participate in a program called, Music Therapy.

Music Therapy is the use of music to address the physical, emotional, cognitive and social needs of a group or individual For example, you’ve maybe listened to a song so sad it made you cry, or you’ve listened to a song you liked so much it made you smile. Music regulates hormones related to stress and it affects the heartbeat, blood pressure and pulse. These facts prove the overall affect that music can have on a person.

You have to remember that the influence of music can also be viewed in a negative light as well. Your environment can determine what type of music you listen to. Gangs, drugs, and violence can be influenced through rap music encouraging people (specifically teenagers) to participate. These activities specifically can affect the lives of anyone who participates in it.

Another example, some teenagers who are influenced by Gangster Rap music will most likely participate in the things

said in songs and could possibly do something very illegal.

They’ve now wasted possibly years of their lives simply from participating in something they thought was cool or normal.

Gangster Rap can also affect the lives of the rapper in the same way.

Promoting music with content that contains actions or practices that are illegal could get you arrested. That is if you’re actually guilty of such actions. For example, an upcoming rap artist by the name of Daniel Hernandez (Tekashi 6ix9ine) got arrested with a R.I.C.O charge and was arrested days before Thanksgiving. He is facing between 39 years to life. The point I’m trying to make is that, his case is a perfect example on how music can affect your life. Promoting what he does in his free-ttime through MUSIC, raised suspicion and is the main reason he got arrested.

Let this be a lesson, music should be meant to entertain, and inspire creative activities, not reckless behavior nor negative influence in our everyday life. In the earlier part of this year two of my classmates were killed in a car accident. This accident was sudden and a big shock to myself and my classmates. This was my first experience with the death of a close friend, so I took to the studio to lay down a record to express my grief, entitled, “Ghost”.

The song was therapy for me and it also became therapy for my classmates. When we think of our friends we resort to the song. This song has helped us in the healing process of losing our friends. So as you start your day off remember Music Matters, but actions reap consequences.

Allow the music to inspire you and not mold or shape you based on the lyrics.

- AANI

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EDITORIAL & OPINION

The Overflow

By Chelsea Davis-Bibb, M.Ed.

I am Black. I am a Woman. I am a Black Woman!

(Becoming Part 1)

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have been reading the book, Becoming by former First Lady Michelle Obama. Almost halfway through, the book has been compelling, interesting, informative, reflective and just pure excellence. Michelle Obama is thorough, honest and

a few to follow, I will be exposing some of the things she mentions and how I believe it relates to our society. In the preface of her book, she mentions how she has been viewed since she stepped into public life.

She states, “I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an ‘angry Black woman.’ I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most-is it ‘angry’ or ‘Black” or ‘woman?”

This stuck with me because it made me think of how Black women are viewed in today’s society. Are we all viewed in this same way? It has been said that

“I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an ‘angry Black woman.’” - Michelle Obama amazing in the story she has to one person can ruin it for many. tell. It is her story, through her Is this the same for this case?

How do you view Black womown voice.

When we were first intro- en? Do you view us a strong? duced to the Obamas, I immedi- Resilient? Or perhaps beautiful ately fell in love with their fam- to name a few? Or are we just ily and the woman that Michelle viewed as angry Black women?

Black women have had their has always been. No matter what, she has always remained own challenges to deal with just classy and true to who she is as a like Black men. Black women person. She is a great role model have had to compete for equalfor young girls and women. As a ity such as race and gender, and young African-American wom- Black women are still breaking an myself, I truly admire every- barriers and becoming the “first African-American woman” to thing about her.

As I read her book, there are do things. We are faced with several things that have resonat- the duty of being the rock of the ed with me. In this editorial and family, and having to stay strong

against a racist society, and even keep our spouses encouraged when they are (Black males) the most discriminated against in the world. We are also constantly held against certain stereotypes.

One being, the Black woman at times is both the mother and father due to the fact that people think Black fathers are all “dead-beat dads”. Further, we are viewed as not good enough , because of our skin tone and even our hair because it may be the furthest thing from straight.

In addition, we are viewed negatively because of some of the stereotypes of Black women from our own culture. Men and women rappers have viewed the Black woman as beautiful if she has “curves,” which includes a small waist, big butt and weave down her back.

Not to mention the clothes we are supposed to wear, which is little to none. We are viewed as sex objects- people who are sexualized. It doesn’t help that Black women take part in this with their music because it only adds fuel to the fire.

We have also been referred to as “b!t&h*s and h@e$” in numerous rap songs, which is not only offensive, but, derogatory and insulting. As a Black race, we are better than that. As Black women, we are greater than that. No matter how people may view Black women in general. I know how I view myself. I am not an angry Black woman. I am not a sex object. I am not a mother and a father. I will tell you what I am.

I am enough. I am beautiful. I am Black. I am a Woman. I am a Black Woman!

“Dear Beautiful Black Queens… Never underestimate the beauty of just being YOU. Being your authentic self is powerful, sexy and courageous!”

-Stephanie Lahart - AANI

We MUST Understand

By Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher

“Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired...”

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ome people may remember Fannie Lou Hamer from back in the day. Her response from being asked why she supported equal rights for Blacks after the Democratic Party disallowed seating for Black delegates from Mississippi at the party’s National Convention in 1964; has become a theme for people from all over the world.

Her most profound words, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired,” has been used throughout generations to describe the overwhelming feeling of trying and trying and the results still remaining the same.

The phrase, “Sick and tired of being sick and tired” can apply to many situations. In my case, I am sick and tired of co-existing with the many ills that have continued to invade our fortress. I have a serious concern about the future of our communities. Although much thought and consideration is going into effect to accommodate the entrance of other races and cultures into our historical neighborhoods; I have a problem with our people still suffering.

I keep placing emphasis on the fact that what is happening now in real-time is merely history repeating itself. Everything that we are witnessing now within the Black race has already been done before. In some ways, it is just a different face with the same old game plan.

We MUST Understand there is and can never be a complete community without safety first.

I remember in 1989 when we

launched the Acres Homes War on Drugs initiative. During that time, we stood strong and rallied together to combat the drug war that had taken control of our community. Even in the face of being in harm’s way, leaders, residents, elected officials stood united in the fight.

Though things did get ugly, I can honestly say the scene that existed within Acres Homes in that era is completely different now. The mission was partly accomplished through the unity of those who had gotten, “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

We MUST Understand each era brings about a different battle for our people and sometimes we have yet to contend or resolve a past issue before we are forced to combat another.

With that being stated, there is something that MUST be done in regards to the massive gang violence that has been attacking the youth of our community.

There was a time when we tried to shield our children from the “street-life” because we knew what awaited them in that area. However, things have changed now. At the present, parents are placed in a situation where they are like playing, “Russian Roulette’ on making a decision to allow their children to be educated.

We MUST Understand, we can not sit idle and wait for those who do not look like us to give a damn and correct the problems which exist in our backyards.

It is our responsibility to take a stand and become proactive in the things that affect us. It is one thing for one person to be sick and tired alone. But, imagine if the majority all got sick and tired of being sick and tired at the same damn time. I bet things would change. It is time out for talking and complaining and time to step-up and make a dif- AANI ference.

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By Roy Douglas Malonson Nelson Mandela once said, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. We must learn to hate, and if we can learn to hate, then we can be taught to love, because love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

A Ball of Confusion This ideology is the same with nearly every aspect of human life and behavior. Many concepts and misconceptions are formed from fundamental teachings and trainings. Anytime an individual’s mind is trained, controlled and molded to think and believe a certain way, the behavior of a person will reflect those teachings.

Many Africans living in America have already been systematically programmed to believe that the Black race is inferior to all others. Just as there has been a misconception that any associated with the color “White” is a representation of all things, pure, clean, immaculate and exceptional. Adjectives and insinuations such as: “free from spot or blemish (moral impurity), not intended to cause harm and notably ardent (passionate),” are just a few descriptions listed by Webster as the definition of White.

On the contrary, the shade of “Black” has always been paralleled to, wickedness, darkness and or a portrait of unclean things. So, what does Webster has to say about Blackness?

“Dirty, soiled, thoroughly sinister or evil, indicative of condemnation or discredit, connected with or invoking the supernatural and especially the

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devil; very sad or gloomy and characterized by hostility or angry discontent,” all representations of the color.

It is one thing for other races and society to paint a certain picture of the way they envision, but, why must we continue on in a ball of confusion that others have created? Did not St. John 8:32 say, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”? Well, the truth according to biblical teachings reveals that Jesus was not a White man! With that being stated, I must ask, ‘Why are some of the Black religious facilities continuing on in the tradition of promoting a lie... IN THE NAME OF THE LORD?’

exist. Primarily because, there was a time when it was illegal for a Negro to be taught anything in terms of reading and writing. During the period when Blacks were segregated, it was the “church house” that served as the “school house”. It was at the church that many of our parents, grandparents and other ancestors first received any type of formal education, if they were allowed to receive it all. Furthermore, majority of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities were first established in the church.

This truth regarding Our History, further adds to the dire need of our people knowing the truth about who they serve. Because,

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been a full-blooded Negro as we would define it, his complexion still would reflect the shade of one closer to a person of African descent than it would our White counterparts. Realistically, how could a long-haired, white-skinned, blue-eyed person reside in the Middle Eastern region and not have a tan, at least?

Yet, these mis-representations are displayed throughout local churches and they are envisionments of lies - but it’s all being done in the Name of the Lord.

Joan E. Taylor noted several interesting factors in her book titled, What did Jesus look like?

She writes, “In the Gospels, he is not described, either as tall or short, good-looking or plain,

“Why are all the angels White? Why ain’t there no Black angels? Muhammad Ali, 1983.

In the Name of the Lord Over the years, the “church house” in the Black community has been one of the most influential teaching institutions to

for too long the authentic shade of the Savior of the world has been hidden and downplayed throughout these United States.

While Jesus Christ may not have

muscular or frail. We are told his age, as “about 30 years of age” (Luke 3:23), but there is nothing that dramatically distinguishes him, at least at first sight. We do

not notice this omission of any description of Jesus, because we “know” what he looked like thanks to all the images we have. But the Jesus we recognise so easily is the result of cultural history. The early depictions of Jesus that set the template for the way he continues to be depicted today were based on the image of an enthroned emperor and influenced by presentations of pagan gods. The long hair and beard are imported specifically from the iconography of the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the oldest surviving depictions of Jesus portray him as essentially a younger version of Jupiter, Neptune or Serapis. As time went on the halo from the sun god Apollo was added to Jesus’s head to show his heavenly nature. In early Christian art, he often had the big, curly hair of Dionysus.”

Continuing she documents, “As for Jesus’s body, I’ve consulted experts on ancient skeletons in Israel. What I have learnt is that Judaeans of this time were closest biologically to Iraqi Jews of the contemporary world. In terms of a colour palette then, think dark-brown to black hair, deep brown eyes, olive-brown skin. Jesus would have been a man of Middle Eastern appearance. In terms of height, an average man of this time stood 5 ft 5 inches tall.”

Concluding, as we enter this holiday season we should be inclined to remember that conventional knowledge and depictions are not always right. In certain cases, even some aspects of religion as we know it must be challenged, lest we find ourselves in a Ball of Confusion, In the Name of the Lord.

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He continued, “Neighbors need to help neighbors, communities need to work with HPD, and in turn HPD needs to work with those in our community.”

Just last week after the Mack murder, Acevedo had to publicly admit Houston has a gang problem. And, now the White affluent community is screaming the house is on fire. News flash, the house is engulfed in flames! The city officials run the daytime, and the gang members run the night time. Houston is not safe.

From 45 to Sims Bayou is one of the deadliest corridors in the country. But if you look at the HPD crime stats, it doesn’t reflect that. It has been over 10 murders in South East Houston in the last month. But the stats don’t reflect it. The question is why?

I’ve personally spoken on gang violence, for the past three years, countless numbers of times at City Council. And, each time it feels like no one listened to me. I’m not angry, I’m passionate! I apologize if I come off the wrong way. Mayor Turner don’t forget about 3rd Ward, 5th Ward, Greens Point, and Acres Homes. Acres Homes is gang-ridden too. Not addressing the issue in the Black community, but in the White community, is a slap in the face.

Governor Greg Abbott held a news conference last summer to announce a crackdown on Houston-area gang violence.

However, Abbott did not include any Houston law enforcement officials in his announcement.

The perpetual increase of violent crimes by gangs in Houston has spurred Gov. Greg Abbott to send more state and federal resources to the city by providing a $500,000 grant to establish a new 24/7 tactical center. But where is it?

Here is my Plea

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You have a Gun Violence Commission Mr. Mayor. You have a comprehensive plan.

Kids are dying daily in SE Houston. Honestly, do you care?

I believe you do. One political figure that I know has tried to help is City Councilman Dwight Boykins. He’s been to the belly of the beast.

The crimes are starting to get more brazen. To execute a kid in broad daylight by Lamar High School shows me who really has the power. On top of that, our school system should be working with the City of Houston to solve this problem. HISD and surrounding school districts house thousands of certified killers on a daily basis. They know it! In order to solve gang problems, resources have to be allocated.

According to The Chronicle, a civil lawsuit that initially would have permanently banned 92 accused gang members from a court-ordered “safety zone” in southeast Houston was dropped by the Harris County Attorney and District Attorney’s Office.

The decision came after settlement negotiations that resulted in proposals for programs to help gang members who wanted to become law abiding citizens.

Now, Mayor Turner you promised to implement programs that create job-training and educational opportunities.

I’m not bitter, I just want it understood, it’s hard to keep going into those neighborhoods, putting your life on the line making promises you can’t keep.

Like Reginald Gordon, who just lost a nephew to gang violence. Remember those promises Mayor Turner. 1. Provide job opportunities for repeat offenders. 2. Job training. 3. Help getting GED’s. You want them to give up the street life, but, yet not understand that they too have to feed their families.

So, unless this can be done you don’t have a shot in hell of slowing down gang violence.

Does this have anything to do with the New Juvenile Detention Center being built on Chimney Rock? Instead of just building more jails, the City of Houston should seek help from academic professionals to analyze why so many low-level juvenile offenders fail to fulfill their probationary terms and end up behind bars.

Instead of detaining them, non-violent youth should be assigned mentors who offer coaching, encouragement and support to help them avoid lapsing back into problematic behavior patterns. Rules like checking in with a probation officer, not skipping a day of school, and getting home by dark ought not to carry the serious consequence of a lock-up except in extreme circumstances.

Rehabilitation is more cost-effective and more likely to help teens achieve their dreams than punishment. Teenagers still need help growing up, and it falls on Harris County to act smart about it. And, most of these young people are gang-affiliated - and, they don’t come from River Oaks.

So, here is my cry to you. Visit the schools. Don’t let them know you are coming. Just show up. Drive through the neighborhoods at night with HPD. Go to active gang violence crime scenes. Look into the eyes of the parents, as they watch their children bodies lay lifeless for hours on end, until they are picked up.

Go home, sit in a dark room, and just think. What would I do if that was my child.? What would I expect from city-government? Nothing at the moment, should be more important than the saving of lives. Show the country that you will push back against street violence like

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Mayor Turner visits Jack Yates to listen to students concerns.

Photo Credit: Houston Chronicle - Mark Mulligan.

the great Mayor you are. You won’t allow Houston to become the Next Chicago or New Orleans. I know you care.

In certain instances, I see your heart being worn on your shirt sleeve. Some feel in the Black community that you have forgotten about them. Prove them wrong! You owe it to every mother and family that has lost their child to street violence.

Enable your police department to go harder than they have ever gone on gang violence. Challenge the school system to put in a mentoring program to deal with gang violence.

Lastly, put funding behind the Scott Street initiative that was endorsed by your Gun Violence Commission. Without the resources, gang violence can never be addressed properly. Let’s work together to get these kids back in school. Back learning how to open their own businesses. Let’s get them some trades.

You have the ability to push all the right buttons.

Present a comprehensive plan to Council and make it make sense. Then, once that is done, the real work can start. Your own Executive Police Chief Troy Finner has buried two of his nephews due to gang violence. That’s hitting pretty close

to home. Do it for Sir Romeo, the 4-year-old that has had 30 surgeries since being hit during a gang war fight. Show the country that Mayor Sylvester Turner has said Houston will not be gang ridden. Give them the blue print to help their cities. I personally voted for you. And I believe that you WILL GET IT DONE. I love Houston, TX. We can’t fail in this mission. The longer we wait for a solution the more people will die. Watch and observe how the City of Houston will rally behind you while you clean this place up. Imagine how many families will feel less terrified when their child comes home late from the movies.

Make this a city of hope, not a city of fear. Make this city the same one that you as a youth loved to represent. Make Houstonians proud to call you the first mayor in the country to really attack this demon. I’ll be the first at the polls casting my vote for you. And, I’ll never think twice about getting others to do the same. My mom always told me, your reputation shall be judged but one day your character shall be judged for a lifetime. Follow your heart and set the City of Houston free from gang violence once and for all.

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The Cost of Freedom

By Omowale Luthuli-Allen Have we forgotten the cost of the freedom that was purchased by blood, sweat and tears?

It is my understanding that in 2010 a group of fossils (social conservatives) were attempting to revise United States and Texas History by treacherously omitting and changing straight lines into winding and meandering figure eights. This assault on scholarship had chosen a lot of targets, “Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, hip-hop cul-

ities. The inscription said a lot about the conflict between the Union and Confederacy, brother fighting brother, but failed to mention that the 675,000 dead was primarily because of slavery.

Texas was the last southern state to join the secession and was counseled by Governor Sam Houston that to join the Confederacy would be tantamount to booking a seat on the Titanic. I looked at the 20-foot memorial from the north, south, east and west. All of the battles

Depiction of an African-American soldier and his family during the Appomattox era, where over 5,000 Black soldiers served.

Photo Credit: Library of Congress. were enumerated but not one ture, etc.�

None of the targets were so mention of the word “slavery�.

The War for Independence noxious as the aim to eliminate references to the American slave from England was cited as a just trade. President Bush’s Edu- fight against an oppressive powcation Secretary, the venerable er and there was a reference to Rod Paige, went before the another oppressive power that Texas Textbook committee and had risen in the North that was pleaded with the fossils not to hell bent on denying “states’ eliminate the term “slave trade� rights�.

The inscription concludes from Texas History texts. Reports say that the “United States that the brave Southern states, and Texas slave trade� was re- resource depleted had to surrenplaced with “Transatlantic slave der. In 1865, Confederacy President Jefferson Davis received a trade.�

In June 2016, I exited from message from General Robert the bus on Congress Street in E. Lee, “my line is broken in 3 Austin, walking to the state leg- places, you must abandon Richislature chambers and I passed mond immediately.� This misby the Confederate War Me- sive signaled that the North was morial at the base of the steps. I the victor and that Texas, and the read the inscription and profuse- South was the loser.

The only plausible explanaly launched a stream of profan-

tion for this “blind spot� revision is that the revisionists are direct ideological descendants of General Nathan Bedford Forest and General “better to die a thousand deaths than live under you and your nigra allies� Hood. Hood is the general that ordered 13 futile charges at Franklin, Tennessee and lost 7,000 men and 12 generals and General Forest is noted for massacring hundreds of surrendering Black soldiers. He and his grandson were both members of the Ku Klux Klan.

We can respect those who committed treason, counted and buried their dead, shook hands and accepted the verdict of history. We can respect those that understand that the 13th Amendment was passed to abolish Slavery, not “states’ rights�.

Despite the carnage on scholarship by the Textbook revisionists, let’s support studying Jeff Davis Inaugural message alongside President Lincolns masterpiece. Jefferson Davis’s lasting masterpiece after he abandoned Richmond, Virginia is this gem.

If the Confederacy fails, it should be written on the Tombstone, died of a theory.

General Robert E. Lee said, “Stack your arms, surrender your battle flag.�

In a magnanimous gesture, triumphant General Grant said, “Don’t cheer, the rebels are our countrymen again�.

No amount of tampering with history will enable the revisionists to WHITEWASH the conclusion that was rendered at Appomattox in 1865.

What do I want to do about the Confederate War Memorial Statue? Polish the bronze and let it be a mandatory stop for schoolchildren, add a conspicuous plaque that reads, If the Confederacy fails, it died of a theory.

- AANI

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A New Era with Daphne Reid

Daphne Maxwell Reid, Richard Brooks and Nikko Austen Smith in Jacqueline and Jilly.

Photo Credit: Derrick White/UMC.

By Chelsea Davis-Bibb, M.Ed. Many people know Daphne Maxwell Reid as, Aunt Vivian from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, a trendy and humorous sitcom from ‘back in the day’.

Today, Reid is still acting, but is also a respected artist, designer, and an education activist.

Over the years, she has worked on numerous projects that she is very proud of.

During a recent interview with the famed actress she shared a few details with me regarding her latest project, the upcoming mini-series Jacqueline and Jilly. The series began airing December 6, on the Urban Movie Channel and will run with new episodes weekly through January 10th 2019. The film by Victoria Rowell is a series about accidental addiction to opioids and how three generations of a family deal with their varying opioid addiction.

Reid was asked by Rowell to play her mother again in this se-

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ries, a prior role that the pair has previously experienced together on antoher set. Reid feels that many people can relate to this project. She shared, “It is a very timely piece.� Although she wrote it years ago, she strongly believes now is the appropriate time for its introduction.

Reid also made it known that she is very proud of this film and what Victoria Rowell has done.

She further declared, “This is the year of the Woman!� “Women are just going to flourish from here on in. They are the source of our humanity, and I am glad they are getting the recognition they need and the opportunities to show how creative and driven they are,� she added.

In addition to the new film project, Reid has recently published a unique mini memoir in the form of a cookbook titled Grace + Soul & Mother Wit. She has been collecting recipes from the people she has worked with and family members for

deal with doors.As one travels or leggings.� about 35 years.

When Reid isn’t working on She expressed, “I just start- through the journey of life, it is ed with what made my family a important to pay attention to the her projects, she is also a spokesfamily, and how a lot of what we details by seeing the doors as I person for Virginia State Unitreasured was centered around see them showing you the colors versity, which is a historically the table.� Since she wasn’t and craftsmanship from differ- Black college/university. She is able to participate in outreach, ready to write a full memoir, ent cultures of the world.�

In addition to her published public relations and speaking she decided to create something different and unique, which was books, she also has calendars engagements that gives her the to tell stories alongside every that features some of the doors opportunity to work with students of color to place emphasis recipe is mentioned in the cook- she has captured.

Being a seamstress is another on the importance of education, book. There are also pictures, letters, and “the remembrance talent that Reid has as she has and for career prep.

Daphne Maxwell Reid continof people who have embraced created many of her own outfits [her] along [her] path.� Reid and costumes over the years. ues to inspire, motivate, encouralso described her book as a nice When Reid isn’t acting, writing, age and educate people through training cookbook because “it or taking photos, she is using her her various projects, and has teaches you a lot of the basics seamstress skills and is working a big passion for creativity. If such as getting your kitchen set on her clothing line, Daphne you are interested in purchasing up, how to set a table, and lots Style, which consists of Chinese any of her books, calendars, or of things you need to know if you silk brocade jackets. They are something from her beautiful custom made items that can be clothing line, you can purchase want to start cooking.�

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Two Years Until 2020 Elections: Time to Get To Work For Your Consideration

By Oscar H. Blayton

HOUSTON – Most readers will be familiar with this scenario. A White politician that you have not heard from in two years starts to show up at Black churches, glad-handing the pastors, reciting for the congregation his or her accomplishments that you’ve never heard of and reminding you to vote for him or her in the upcoming elections.

It’s a scenario that is played out in most political districts where Blacks make up a significant portion – but not the majority – of the electorate. We know very little about these absentee politicians except that they are “the lesser of two evils” – the choice offered to those Black folk allowed to vote, since the end of the Reconstruction.

The question is: Why are we consistently faced with only being able to choose between the lesser of two evils each election cycle? Or put another way: “Why can we not have more options when selecting who will represent us?”

The answer is that we do have more options. We simply must constantly stay politically “woke” and not wait until the last minute to pay attention to who the potential candidates are.

Politicians interested in running in 2020 already are lining up at the starting gate. People aspiring to become the next president of the United States already have advance people in Iowa and other key states in preparation for the primary elections. Those eyeing congressional seats, state and local offices are organizing their political teams in order to

hold on to those offices or to unseat an incumbent.

2016 has shown us that if we do not get engaged, we are in danger of being saddled with a lying racist, bent on erasing all of the gains people of color have made during the last five decades.

2018 has shown us that when people organize, they can overcome many of the obstacles that are strewn in our paths to equal justice and the freedoms promised to us by the U. S. Constitution. 2018 also has shown us that there are those who would deny people of color justice and freedom by blocking us from our guaranteed right to vote.

The Georgia governor’s race shone the light on how bigots and racists will go to any lengths to tilt the vote in their favor by removing voters from the polls and by making it more difficult for voters to get to the polls to cast their ballots.

Republican Brian Kemp ran for governor of that state while refusing to step down as its secretary of state, the office that oversees elections in Georgia.

Over the years, Kemp systematically removed Black voters from the polls through various questionable means, giving himself a clear advantage by increasing the percentage of would-be voters who were white.

There are those who will try to cheat us out of our rights, including our right to vote. There are those who will try to steal elections in the way that Trump did in 2016 with the help of Russian interference. These people can be stopped; however, they can be stopped by you and by me.

They can be stopped by your parents and your voting-age children – and by your aunts and uncles and cousins and friends.

The way we stop them is by

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pitched battle for our rightful place in this nation. And it is a battle that we will not win if we do not enlist as many people as possible in the fight. If we do not identify, enlist and support candidates who champion our best interests, then we deserve

the callous and unjust treatment that we receive from elected officials who do not respect us.

The clock is running and so are the same tired old politicians. It is time we bring some serious champions into the fight.

GW Carver

Rest in Peace

looking for people qualified to run for office in federal, state and local elections and helping them to win. These people can be found among your parents and your voting age children – and your aunts and uncles and cousins and friends. They must be identified and then encouraged to run for office. And when they run, we must support them.

We must support them with our time, our labor and with our money. There may not be many of us that can give much of any of these things, but we can each give something.

If we make more of an effort, we can get more elected officials of the type we want and deserve.

The proof is in the pudding.

2018 saw a record number of Misprint - Vol. 23 Issue 45 Norman R. Henderson women of color elected, and it Gloria and Kenneth James.

May 10, 1949 - Nov. 23, 2018 is expected that these women will work to steer America back on the correct course to fulfilling the promises of our Constitution.

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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HIGH

Is Standardized Testing Still Racially Biased?

By N. Hamilton, M.Ed., MLS Booker T. Washington High

Testing season is upon us, and our students are currently taking the ACT, SAT, and STAAR tests. Unbeknownst to their simple desire to move forward, they are attempting to break generational curses based on class and race. As they embark upon these barriers, we must ask ourselves, as a race of people, are these standardized tests a gateway or a road block to our students of color?

Were they created to identify how much a student has achieved, or created to stop the forward progression of minority and marginalized generations?

Why do the tests consistently

Joel Stafford, 12th Grade get harder once minorities have mastered them? Is this a new form of racism, or is this a method to ensure the bar remains equal for all?

As an adult or student, when was the last time you “googled” an SAT test question, and attempted to complete it? Are educators preparing our students of color blindly? Are we deeply familiar with the tactics and terminology of each of these tests that can help and hinder?

Should we start preparing our kids for these exams early like our white counter parts? Many purchase logic books and analogy books for their children when they are young as young as 5

years old. Research has proven that the average vocabulary of a white pre-school student versus an African-American preschooler is three million to only a few thousand. Why? Face to face time with their children which includes reading and only speaking in complete sentences via the negation of baby talk altogether.

Much of this disadvantage has been attributed to what researchers call the “word gap.”

Higher-income parents spend nearly a half hour more per day engaged in direct, face-to-face with their children than low-income parents do, and by the time these children are 5 years old, the poor ones will have heard 30 million fewer words than their wealthy peers. Nearly all more affluent students read in their leisure time, but approximately only two out of every ten poor students read for leisure.

Disappointingly, this information is validated by the fact that the Black-White achievement gap in SAT scores has remained virtually unchanged over the last fifteen years, but most of the concerns about bias relate to the verbal section of the SAT. Regrettably, these gaps have a significant impact on life chances; and therefore, on the transmission of inequality across generations.

So, who is to blame? Is it our own fault? Is systemic racism the issue? Do our parents have a harder time regardless to whether they are degreed or not when attempting to maintain and keep a job? Is the Black Tax Real (the idea that African-American’s having to work ten times harder to be considered as an equal to their white peers)? How about the issues with Black male racial stereotyping, racial profiling, pipeline to prison issues within

schools, and how do for-profit prisons play a role in influencing and obtaining our minority men?

How are some of us are becoming profusely successful, no matter how dire the circumstances, and some are not? We gathered a few students here at Booker T. Washington to find out if these realities are true for our school of color.

“The tests are not even relevant to us, not one story reflects a real issue in our community that would even make me want to read the passages.” What are the test creators doing to make the test more relevant to our students of Color?

“The questions are tricky, and sometimes there are a few correct answers, but only one is the BEST answer,” stated, Raezanay Fontenot, 9th Grader. When recently analyzing the SAT test, one can see that one question is directly connected to knowing the answer to the previous question, which means multiple questions can be missed in a series if this information and strategy is not taught to our students.

She was joined in solidarity

by Joel Stafford, 12th Grader, who stated, “My teachers here at Booker T. Washington constantly help me to understand the information on the test, and

Progression of minority students, Pre-school to High School. then I self-educate on my own tests, and did very good on my time. I passed all my test on my SAT, and I’m going to college no matter what ANYBODY says”, first try.”

“Mr. Smith is one of the best stated Jamia Lewis, 12th Gradteachers at Booker T. Washing- er.

A resilient and determined atton, and he really cares. He not only teaches us with books and titude has been instilled in our stories that we can relate to by students here at Booker T. WashAfrican-American authors, but ington. They refuse to ignore we also have discussions about the ills of society when it comes how the test makers create the to inequitable beginnings, lack questions in a way that may con- of resources, and direct disadfuse us. We take time to break vantages due to systemic disdown the question even before crimination, but through delibwe attempt to answer it. Once erate and inspirational teaching we learn these strategies, the strategies, matched with their test becomes nothing to pass,” own hunger for information, stated Kendrick Garcia, 11th knowledge, and a better life; Unanimously, we have CHOGrader.

“You have to seek information SEN to believe that our students on your own too, nothing was will break new barriers and gendesigned to be easy for Black erational curses, and that NO kids, which is why I work hard TEST has the power to stop their in class and on my own. I take forward movement.

Maya Angelou has a famous all AP (Advanced Placement) classes here at Booker T. Wash- quote, “Do the best you can unington. I passed all my STAAR til you know better, then when you know better, do better”.

Yet despite efforts to equalize academic opportunity, large racial gaps in SAT scores persist inequalities in the SAT score distribution reflect and reinforce racial inequalities across generations. But, in fact, among top scorers—those scoring between a 750 and 800—60 percent are Asian and 33 percent are White, compared to 5 percent Latino and 2 percent Black.

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H-E-B Blackeyed Peas, 16 oz.

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two (2) Stouffer’s Personal Meals 6 - 21 oz. assorted varieties

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H-E-B Soft Drink

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two (2) H-E-B Mi Tienda Tamales

16 oz., assorted varieties

• Hill Country Fare

Corn Bread Mix

6 oz. assorted varieties

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• Wolf Brand Chili No Beans

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H-E-B Fully Cooked Meatballs, 35 oz.

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19 oz.

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H-E-B Grated Parmesan Cheese

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8 oz. assorted varieties

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