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EDUCATION: Parents say their children will have harder time growing up than they did SEE PAGE 5

DAYTONA STATE BASKETBALL PLAYER PERSEVERES DESPITE BULLET WOUND SEE PAGE 7

East Central Florida’s Black Voice MARCH 26 - APRIL 1, 2015

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One new company, 400 new jobs Distribution center expected to hire hundreds on Saturday

BY ASHLEY D. THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com

Daytona Beach residents ranked a lack of jobs as a top concern in the city during a town hall meeting in January. This weekend, one company will try to ease some of those concerns by beginning the application process for upward of 400 available positions at a distribution center currently under construction.

World Class Distribution

Inc. will be operating the nearly 800,000-square-foot regional distribution center on the north side of Dunn Avenue, just east of Interstate 95 for Trader Joes, the Monrovia, Calif.-based upscale grocery store chain. A 93,000-square-foot refrigerated warehouse space and 6,000 square-foot maintenance building also will be on the grounds.

Best to pre-register Jobs for the center are being filled at the career fair ranging from manual labor to administration to drivers. The fair will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 28 at Career Source, 359 Bill France

Blvd., just behind the Volusia Mall.

“There are a number of jobs available fitting persons who have degrees to persons who do not have degrees,” Emory Counts, City of Daytona Beach Economic and Community Development Director told the Daytona Times.

“And they pay reasonably well for this area.”

At last count, over 500 people had registered for the fair.

“We have a ton of people preregistered for the event,” said Lou Paris, spokesperson for Career Source. “We are asking people who want to come to go onto Please see JOBS, Page 2

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A job fair for the under-construction regional distribution center Trader Joes will be held on March 28.

LEARNING THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE CITY Citizens Academy participants visit police department

B-CU student charged in campus shooting

BY ASHLEY D. THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com

A 21-year-old Bethune-Cookman University student has been charged in a shooting on campus last month that left three students injured.

Ladell Pleasure was charged with discharging a firearm on school property, which is a felony, in the Feb. 23 shooting that happened just before 7 p.m. near the university’s music building.

B-CU officials said the three bystanders shot were all students who sustained non-life threatening injuries. Daytona Beach police say Pleasure was one of two shooters who exchanged gunfire Ladell that apparentPleasure ly stemmed from a feud involving students and non-students from South Florida.

In the shooting, bystanders Juanye Jones, 19, sustained an injury to his left ear, 18-year-old Keshaun Reeves was grazed on his right shoulder and a bullet grazed 18-year-old Dante Ridford’s right knee.

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Daytona Beach Police Department Officer Marc Nelson of the SWAT division checked and rechecked a high powered rifle before handing off to a Citizen’s Academy participant to check out on Tuesday. Nelson along with officers Nicholas Fiore and Bernard “Bernie” Daven led the discussion on the DPBD allowing participants to try on protective gear and lift a battering ram. This display is a part of the city’s “Our Daytona Beach: A Citizens Academy.”

The free nine-week program is held annually for residents who want to become more familiar with the city’s role in everyday activities. So far, participants have learned about utilities and billing, information technology, finance and budget, and the role of the city manager, city commission and clerk’s office. Participants also will visit a fire station, a city park, and watch a demonstration of life-saving equipment.

For information on the next class, contact Daytona Beach Assistant City Manager Betty Goodman at 386-671-8010.

B-CU issued a press release Wednesday night stating that school administrators and campus public safety “are actively participating with DBPD on the investigation.’’

“We are saddened and disappointed that this occurred on our campus. We want our students to understand the seriousness of this type of behavior. Our expectation is that students will seek alternative ways to resolve conflict,” B-CU President Edison O. Jackson said the release. “B-CU Please see B-CU, Page 2

At right are Dr. John Hitt, University of Central Florida president; Lloyd Freckleton, DSC board chair; Forough Hosseini, board vice chair; Stan Escudero, DSC trustee; Interim DSC President Tom LoBasso; Garry Lubi, DSC trustee; Mori Hosseini, Florida University System Board of Governors chair; and Betty Holness, DSC trustee.

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Four-year degree programs guaranteed for DSC grads ASHLEY D. THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com

Daytona State College (DSC) students now have a clear path to transfer to the University of Central Florida through the university’s nationally recognized DirectConnect to UCF program.

The partnership was announced Tuesday by UCF President John Hitt and Daytona State Interim President Tom LoBasso during a press conference at the Daytona Beach college.

DirectConnect to UCF program members Eastern Florida State College, Lake Sumter State College, Sem-

inole State College and Valencia College unanimously approved DSC entering the partnership.

About the program The DirectConnect program was started in 2006 as a means to expand access to higher education and reduce costs through a 2+2 model. The program guarantees admission to UCF for associate of arts students and select associate of science students Please see DCS, Page 2

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30,000 diapers collected for local parents

BY ASHLEY D. THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com

Volunteers for the Junior League of Daytona Beach provided diapers Tuesday to Daytona Beach parents at the Volusia/Flagler Early Learning Coalition. The group has collected thousands of diapers since October.

“It’s a new initiative for the Junior League this year,” volunteer Heather Costa told the Daytona Times. “In six months, we’ve collected about 30,000 diapers and have started distribution in the last couple of months to the Easter Seals, the Early Learning Coalition and some other organizations.

We also have community baby showers twice a year.”

Costa said the group expected 50 people to show up on Tuesday for the diaper distribution. Parents or guardians received about 30 diapers per child, a pack of baby wipes and diaper ointment if requested.

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Much-needed donation

A mom with her 9 day-old son picks up a pack of diapers on Tuesday.

According to the league’s website, “Our community has reached out to JLDB (Junior League of Daytona Beach) and requested a necessity that is not covered by the food stamp program (SNAP) or WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) – diapers. Many in-

fants and toddlers spend the day in a single diaper, unfathomable for many, but it happens daily.

“The JLDB Diaper Bank has collected approximately 30,000 diapers for distribution to families in need in our community.

These families are referred by community partners like Early Learning Coalition, Healthy Start, Healthy Families, and Early Steps.

The reactions of the families who receive a single donation of 30 diapers per visit is heartwarming.”

Fall baby shower Costa added, “We are an organization that helps other women and we build leadership skills with other women in our organization.

“All of our projects are based on supporting wom-

en and children in the community. We look for those needs and then go out and help fill those needs. We’re always saying if anyone is in need to let us know.”

The group is accepting diaper donations for future events and will host a com-

munity baby shower in the fall.

For more information, contact the Junior League of Daytona Beach at jldb. org, 386-253-1756. The office is at 122 S. Palmetto Ave., Daytona Beach.

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from Page 1 has strong policies in place to handle these type of issues.

If found guilty, we will follow-up with appropriate campus judicial processes.’’

The release added that since the shooting, “B-CU has strengthened its safety measures to ensure that the student body and the campus are safe and secure.’’

Above are the men who participated in the third annual cook-off.

Men serve up winning dishes at AKA’s third cook-off SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Food, music and laughter filled a Daytona Beach Resort and Conference Center banquet room as more than 200 attendees tasted entrees, soups, appetizers and desserts prepared by the 15 competitors who participated in the third annual Male Cook-off presented by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Gamma Mu Omega Chapter, on March 22.

Proceeds from the event will go toward scholarships for Volusia County students who desire to attend college.

Participants in the 2015 cook-off event were Lawrence Anderson, Sr.; Lawrence Anderson, Jr.; John Baldwin

JOBS

from Page 1 Employ Florida (employflorida.com), the job posting website, and register to make the flow of the process of the interview a lot simpler the day of the event. We want to fill 300 to 400 jobs that are longranging, from managerial positions down to janitorial.”

First come, first serve Bridgette Turner, a job seeker filling out an online registration for the fair at Career Source, says she will be first in line.

“I’ve heard that so many people have already registered; people will be standing in line at 6 a.m. just to make sure they get a spot,” Turner shared.

Paris said the interviews will be on a firstcome, first-serve basis.

Applicants will receive a number upon arrival

II; Terence Culver, Andre Cunningham, Gregory Dew, Kenrick Flowers, Alvin Gilmore, Ferren Harris, James Hines II; Anthony Kenner, Wallace Lowery, Derrick Porter, Lavon Thomas and Lawrence Toby.

From wings to cupcakes The first-place winners were Lawrence Anderson Sr. and Lawrence Anderson Jr., appetizers (wings); Wallace Lowery, soups (seafood soup); James Hines, entrees (shrimp and grits); Alvin Gilmore, desserts (red velvet cupcakes); Ferren Harris, People’s Choice Award for his pulled pork and cabbage.

Judges were Gerald Hillard, former

and verification of their registration with Employ Florida.

Those who are unable to pre-register will still get the opportunity to do so using the computers at Career Source. However, it is strongly recommended to have the registration done beforehand.

“We will have the computer labs available and staff available to get them signed up,” Paris shared.

More opportunities “People need to get out, get their application in and get it in early,” Commissioner Patrick Henry told the Times. “Our local people need to get out first thing.”

“There are many opportunities for jobs right now,” Henry continued.

“Daytona State is holding a job fair on Thursday (March 26), The News Journal is holding a fair on April 2. Over at the Career Source in Orange City, another job fair is being held on April 22 and the DSC (Daytona State College) campus in Flagler is holding a job fair on April 24.

What happened

associate general manager of Piccadilly Restaurant; Costa Magoulas, dean of the College of Hospitality & Culinary Management at Daytona State College; and Vivian Ray, director of Livingstone College’s Hospitality and Culinary Program.

Chef Charles Mallory served as the event’s guest chef. In a live demonstration, he prepared a jerk chicken and bowtie pasta dish – an example of a recipe that is quick and easy to cook and serve.

Professor Julius John, director of theater for Bethune-Cookman University, served as the event’s master of ceremonies. VITAS Healthcare was the event’s chief sponsor.

This is a great time to live in Daytona Beach. We are experiencing job expansion not seen in recent memory.”

How to register Go to www.employflorida.com.

If you already have an account, sign in. Otherwise follow the steps online to create an account.

Click on “My Dashboard.”

Go to “My Calendar” and click on “Upcoming Events.”

Select “CareerSource Flagler Volusia 4360.”

Select “Job fair” for “Event Category” and go to March 28.

Click on event.

Click on the “Register” button (at bottom of page).

Alison Mochizuki, a spokeswoman for Trader Joe’s in California, did not respond to a request for comment by the Daytona Times’ Wednesday night deadline.

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from Page 1 graduating from any of the partner state college institutions.

It adds touch points that track students from their freshman year at the state college through their senior year at the university to help them stay on a path toward success.

“As a result of DirectConnect to UCF, we are transforming more lives than ever before through the power of education; we are producing a high-caliber workforce that our region needs, and we have made DirectConnect to UCF a national model for higher education in America,” Hitt said. “We also are providing unprecedented access to UCF to first-generation students and minority students.”

Encouraging minority students Approximately 25,000 students who entered UCF

A video of the incident released by the Daytona Beach Police Department (DBPD) shows a black SUV pull into the parking lot of the university near the music building the evening of Feb. 23.

A Black male exited the SUV and is seen shouting at someone police officers say was “probably 100 yards away.”

The other person who cannot be seen

with a degree from one of the original four state-college partners have earned bachelor’s degrees since 2008.

“It’s good. It speaks well for the Daytona State and can be a good stepping stone for kids that don’t have a lot of money at the beginning or need to work on their grades,” Richard Rogers, a first-year student studying information technology at DSC told the Daytona Times.

“Sometimes you may be concerned or think ‘OK, I have my associate’s but I really need my bachelor’s degree if I want to get ahead. Or you may live in Daytona and don’t want to move far away to go to a four-year university. It’s good that you can stay right in the area and finish up your degree at UCF.” In addition to increased academic advising, the program has students complete a career-assessment plan, confirm early choice of major and attend comprehensive skills workshops related to academic planning, financial

on camera fired several rounds at the person who was shouting. He, in turn, fired several rounds as the off-screen individual re-entered the SUV and the vehicle left, according to police reports.

A silver colored car also was of interest during the time after the shooting.

On the scene According to DBPD’s arrest report, Pleasure admitted that he was at the scene and was by the silver vehicle but “did not shoot,” adding that “he knew the fight was an ongoing fight between a group of Miami and Belle Glade factions.”

Pleasure acknowledged being next to the Miami group but denied involvement and/or knowledge of anyone else involved in the shooting, the report states.

Authorities are still searching for a second shooting suspect involved in the dispute.

literacy and other topics.

“DirectConnect presents a tremendous opportunity for our local students,” said LoBasso. “We expect that the increased advising and other touch points that are program signatures will encourage our students to graduate on time and make a smooth transition to UCF to complete their undergraduate studies. We appreciate UCF and our state-college partners recognizing our desire to work together in the best interest of our students.”

The five state-college partners prepare a vast majority of students who transfer to UCF each year.

According to the Florida Department of Education, nearly 70 percent of DSC associate of arts students transfer to a Florida public university, with the majority enrolling as juniors at UCF, the nation’s secondlargest public university.

UCF has operated a regional campus on DSC’s Daytona Beach campus for over 20 years. It offers 16 baccalaureate degree options.

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MARCH 26 – APRIL 1, 2015 COMMUNITY DECEMBER 14 - 20, 2006

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Jacksonville and Palm Coast youth unite for spirit-filled hip-hop worship Let’s look back on initiating growth for the Youth Entertainment Ministry.

The trends of the times garnered attention for the 10 a.m. service Sunday at the First Church of Palm Coast. They were the intensifying thrust of the talented and gifted – young people who love the Lord, and who need to be provided for.

“The church has always been the runway of success for our people,” said Pastor Gillard S. Glover. However, “we haven’t always kept our hands on our children,” he affirmed.

Every fourth Sunday, children are gathered, brought back, and connected with young people from Jacksonville to be part of the praise scene. Hip-hop worship involves the contingency from the Central Metropolitan C.M.E. Church in Jacksonville, along with the talented young people of First Church.

“Our youth choirs sang very well,” said videographer Herbert Booker. “Having the service every fourth Sunday for the youth choirs is an excellent idea.

“Too bad, I wasn’t able to get there for the 8 a.m. service,” added Booker. “I might have been able to photograph on film the four baptisms of the children in the choir.”

The congregation, which included the invited guests, took note, and spontaneously clapped to the rhythmic spoken words.

It takes a village! It takes a community! And First Church is reaching out beyond Palm Coast.

It’s about keeping a child’s hand in God’s hand and God meeting them where they are. We live in different times where entertainment, fashion and other aspects of daily living are different for young people.

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Rapper Naykeira Love, Scripture reader Damarko Evans and dancer Donnie “Anointed Feet” Lloyd are part of the Youth Entertainment Ministry at the First Church of Palm Coast.

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Blessed through song God understands all languages and that includes hip-hop as well as the impact of leading people to Christ. A whole generation cannot miss the call of being ministered to. Yet, three young people during the service gave their lives to Christ!

Nathaniel Shropshire III – assistant director of the Edward Waters College Choir, schoolteacher, and director of the Youth Choir at First Church – sets the Youth Entertainment Ministry in motion.

Shropshire sang lead, rockin’ the First Church Youth Choir as the backup for Kirk Franklin’s “Nu-Nation-Faith.” But prior to their singing, Davon Brown asked, “What kind of faith do you have?”

And Travius Davis answered, “I’ve got mustard-seed faith!”

Hip-hop’s legacy evolved in a lineup of Alexis Williams magnificently singing “Take Me to the King.’’ Tanisha Ashley conducting the youth choir of the Central Metropolitan C.M.E. Church, and Garrison Washington commanding the lead for “We’re Blessed in the City.”

Naykeira Love brought the griot tradition of rap, saying, “Hold up, hold up. You know what they say: It takes a village to raise a child every day. So, here I am now standing in the need of prayer. All I need is one person to say they can. Ooh, ooh...”

‘Anointed Feet’ So much ease has been mas-

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tered by the Christian artists in handling the microphone.

“Anointed Feet,” the stage name of Donnie Lloyd, has begun building a fan base for his extraordinary genre in a “moonwalk” for “hip-hop worship.” He’s taken this genre to a higher level and has been well-received at First Church since first appearing in February with the Edward Waters College Choir.

Other accomplishments on the scene of the hip-hop culture were: Davon Brown, who delivered “the welcome;” Sabion Evans, who prayed, and Damarko Evans, who read the Scriptures of Genesis 3:21-24 for Pastor Glover’s sermon, “The High Cost of Forbidden Fruit: The Loss of Immortality.” This was the fourth in a series; the other themes of loss for Adam and Eve were Innocence, Integrity and Intimacy.

“It’s just amazing what our

young people can do,” Pastor Glover said. “Not only can they do ‘the welcome’ and perform, but they can pray...Let’s give these young people a hand, my young hip-hop worshipers.”

••• First Church Easter services The schedule of Easter events at First Church are: • Palm Sunday service, March 29, 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.

• Maundy Thursday service, April 2, 6 p.m., celebrating The Last Supper, the Rev. Karl Flagg, messenger/pastor, Mt. Tabor First Baptist Church of Palatka. A Seder meal will be served following the service.

• Good Friday service, April 3, noon to 3 p.m., sermonic celebration by various preachers on

“The Seven Last Utterances of Christ” on the cross.

• Easter sunrise service, Sunday, April 5, 6 a.m., Pastor Gillard S. Glover preaching and again for the 10 a.m. Resurrection Sunday Celebration.

First Church, located at 91 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast, can be reached at 386-446-5759.

••• As always, remember our prayers for the sick, afflicted and bereaved.

Celebrations Birthday wishes to Vicki Seward, March 26; my son, Christopher McCarthy in New York, March 27; Barbara Jackson, March 28; and Shirley Jones, March 29.

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Caught between Barack and a hard place The experiment that featured a Black man in the White house is on the downside now. Folks in the Obama administration are busy looking for their next job and jumping ship faster than rats.

But you can’t blame them; that’s the way it is in politics. You ride your horse as long as you can and then you find a new horse. That’s just what folks in presidential administrations do. The question is: What horse will Black folks ride now?

With Barack, came new linedances at the clubs, new phrases, and new “hope” that would finally move Black people to the front of the line for a “change.” We were large and in charge, big-ballers and shot-callers, cool and stylish, but we soon found that we were not really running anything. Having bet the farm on our horse, we now look on in agony as he comes down the home stretch.

Where’s the ROI? Black folks are now between Barack and a hard place. We don’t know if we are pitching or catching. As that Richard Pryor movie asked, “Which way is up?” We invested nearly 100 percent of our political capital in our current president, thinking we would get a decent return on investment (ROI). Unless there is a drastic uptick in the next few months, our investment will be lost forever, because we know this experiment will not be done again for a

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long time.

Being between Barack and a hard place will make many of us revert to our political ways by staying on the Democrat’s wagon because the Republicans ignore us and don’t like us, anyway. We will rationalize our allegiance to the same party that takes us for granted, however. And some of us will opt out of the system altogether because we are so frustrated and angry at how the previous two terms went down.

‘No wiggle room’ It’s very uncomfortable being between Barack and a hard place.

To whom will we turn? Will Hillary help us? Will one of the Republican candidates help us?

Maybe Dr. Ben (Carson) will win and come to our rescue. What are Black folks to do in 2016 as we now find ourselves wedged between Barack and a hard place with no wiggle room? Maybe we could “apologize” to Hillary for abandoning her in 2008. Maybe we could do a public mea culpa to the Republicans. After all, we need someone to turn to now, right?

The Barack experiment was

cool. He sings like Al Green, dances like the steppers in Chicago, shoots three-pointers on the basketball court, plays golf with Alonzo Mourning, and even gets his preach on when speaking to Black audiences. In other words, Barack could make us feel real good, so much so that we kicked back, relaxed, and waited for him to fix our problems, to speak on our behalf, and to give us the same deference he gives to other groups. Now, we find ourselves between Barack and a hard place – no turning room, very little breathing room, and much uncertainty about our future in the political arena.

There will be a new sheriff in town in January 2017, and our guy will stand there with him or her to give congrats and well wishes right before he rides off into the sunset, back to Chicago, Hawaii, or wherever, to enjoy the fruit of his labor, and I do mean fruit. He and his family will be well taken care of, but most of our families will be in the same or worse condition, having been stuck between Barack and a hard place for eight years.

Jim Clingman is the founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce. He can be reached through his website, blackonomics.com. Click on this article at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

93 million prepaid cardholders are unprotected When it comes to financial services, many consumers are surprised by the range of fees attached to their transactions. From mortgages to checking accounts, credit cards and more, regulations for these products establish the ‘rules of the road ’for consumers and creditors alike.

Yet, one financial product with growing popularity has no comparable consumer protection: prepaid cards. For example, if a consumer has an account with a bank or credit union, their money is federally-insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) up to $250,000. Even when employers use prepaid cards for payrolls or when government benefits are issued on these cards, consumer protections are lacking.

Fees attached Moreover, when fees are attached to worker wages and public benefits payments, consumers are shortchanged with no legal redress.

With each card issuer also setting its fee schedule and assessments, multiple added costs for usage can widely vary. Fees can include some or all of the following typical transactions: ATM cash withdrawal, balance inquiry, bill payments, card cancellation, inactivity, monthly usage, re-

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placement of lost or stolen cards, and overdraft fees.

According to FDIC, among the largest users of prepaid cards are 25 million unbanked consumers and an additional 68 million who are underbanked, preferring these cards or other alternative financial services to traditional institutions.

Limited regulations The combination of growing prepaid usage and lack of financial regulation has caught the attention of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In remarks at a field hearing last November, Richard Cordray, CFPB Director, stated the agency’s concerns.

“Many of these prepaid [card] consumers are living paycheck to paycheck, and are engaged in a constant battle to make ends meet,” said Cordray. “They are some of the most economically vulnerable among us, and most of them have no idea that the prepaid cards they choose to purchase are largely unregulated at

the federal level and carry few if any protections under federal consumer financial law.”

To remedy this regulatory gap, CFPB has proposed rules for prepaid cards that would increase the consistency and clarity around the product, as the Bureau has for other financial products and services. Key requirements that CFPB is proposing include: Public disclosure in a uniform format of applicable fees; Better access to balances, customer service account transactions and other information; Require basic protections from fraud for both prepaid cards and mobile versions; and Establish limits on overdraft fees on all prepaid cards.

Consumer advocates are paying particular attention to the Bureau’s handling of overdraft fees on prepaid cards. Expensive overdraft fees are a major reason why many individuals have lost or left their traditional checking account.

If you or someone you know uses prepaid cards, be sure that you fully understand its terms.

Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending.

She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org. Click on this article at www.daytonatimes.com.

Why I didn’t wear green on St. Patrick’s Day St. Patrick’s Day has its rituals, but one that is not considered is any discussion of race.

Having grown up in the Northeast, I am used to the St. Patrick’s Day parades, the celebration of Ireland, and, sometimes, the demand for a united Ireland. What is generally missing from discussions during this time period is anything having to do with race.

Yet race is a central factor for both Ireland and, ironically, Irish Americans.

The manner in which we understand “race” today is directly related to the English conquest of Ireland in the 1500s. The English introduced a form of oppression of the indigenous people that ended up being very effective. They expropriated their lands, crushed their religion, totally eliminated their ruling class, and instituted a form of colonial rule through which the native Irish were defined in law and custom as inferior. The English defined themselves as a superior “race” compared with the indigenous Irish.

Background of the Irish In order to guarantee their domination of Ireland, the English sent in settlers from England, Scotland and Wales, giving them the best land and privi-

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leging them over the native Irish.

The settlers, whether rich or poor, in a pattern that became familiar in other parts of the world as colonialism spread, were always in a superior position to the native Irish. For all intents and purposes, the Irish had no rights that the settlers were bound to respect.

Fleeing English oppression and poverty, thousands of Irish set out for other parts of the world. When they first came to North America, while the British still occupied what is now the U.S.A. and into the mid-1800s, the Irish were treated as something other than what we would today call “White.”

The real White people were English, French, Germans, Nordics, but not the Irish.

The Irish periodically joined hands with Africans and Native Americans in fighting injustice, such as in the famous 1741 slave insurrection conspiracy in New York. Yet, by the middle of the 1800s, the Irish found themselves in the process of becoming “White” as the larger society needed more settlers in order to

ensure the success of the process of the domination of North America.

VISUAL VIEWPOINT: FERGUSON FUDDLE

NATE BEELER, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

I had a heart attack Nothing was more startling than when a cardiologist looked me directly in the eyes and said matter-of-factly: “It looks like you had a heart attack.” I was dumbfounded. When? Where?

How much damage was done?

Why didn’t I know it?

It certainly didn’t feel like I had suffered a heart attack.

I had just covered and participated in the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Ala. The ceremonies had special significance to me because as a senior at Druid High School in Tuscaloosa, I had participated in the last day of the march in Montgomery, where I saw James Baldwin and Harry Belafonte for the first time.

Ann and I arrived a day early, had dinner with Susan Gandy, the youngest of my three sisters, who had driven over to Montgomery from Tuskegee with her husband, Iverson, Jr., and my niece, Rachel.

Not indigestion In addition to covering the president’s speech Saturday, I had received a Freedom Flame Award that night and on Sunday morning was one of the speakers at the Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast. I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday and completed my writing and editing for the NNPA News Service on Monday.

We stopped in Buford, Ga. Tuesday en route back to Washington, D.C. to visit Ann’s son, Derek Ragland; his wife, April, and our grandkids, Austin, 5, and Autumn 1.

On Wednesday night, I felt a slight pain in my chest, but dismissed it as indigestion. It continued Thursday night. When the pain persisted Friday night, Ann insisted on taking me to the hospital and I acquiesced.

We ended up at Emory Johns Creek Hospital. To Ann’s disbelief, I grabbed my iPad mini, a book, my charger, and a notebook as we headed out of the door. I know how long the wait can be in emergency rooms and did not want to be without reading material if I became trapped in the waiting lounge.

But once my symptoms were shared with the intake nurses, I was whizzed through the paperwork and placed in a room to wait for a doctor, to be admin-

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istered an EKG and, of course, give blood.

Pretty healthy I was told around midnight that at 7 a.m. Saturday, a stent would be inserted into my heart to unblock a clogged artery. At the age of 50, I had a triple bypass. I had played quarterback at Druid High and Knoxville College and neither drank – not even wine – smoked nor used illicit drugs. Yet, an athletic past and clean living were not sufficient.

I was the son of the South and I had grown up in a family where our grease was cooked in grease.

Now, 18 years later, I was told that of the three bypassed arteries, one was completely blocked, one was 97 percent blocked, and one was functioning fine. The surgery itself was not as dramatic as the bypass, which required the heart to be stopped temporarily. This time, the cardiologist made an incision in my groin, placed a stent over a balloon catheter and slid it into the heart muscle to improve blood flow. I was awake, but did not feel any pain.

I had a follow-up visit and a stress test before being released to the care of my regular cardiologist in Washington. He had already discussed getting me into a heart rehabilitation program and enrolling me in a Harvard study to prevent second heart attacks.

I am writing about my second close call with death, hoping that it, too, will prompt you to not only pay closer attention to your health, but be aware of the small signs of trouble and do something about it immediately if you sense something is awry.

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA) and BlackPressUSA.com.

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younger, Democrat, and/or lowincome parents were more optimistic than older, Republican, and/or higher-income parents.

Black people tend to fall into the former categories. (Political independents are evenly split).

Surveys compared

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Sisters left, Asia Seals and India, weep while waiting for their mother and former Chicagoan Elizabeth Burks to return home in Iowa City, Iowa, Jan. 16, 2014. Chicagoans are building new lives in Iowa City, which in recent years has been a destination for lowincome African-Americans seeking safer paces to live, better schools and more public services.

Parents say today’s kids will have harder time growing up than they did

BY JAZELLE HUNT NNPA NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A majority of American parents believe their children will face a harsher coming-of-age than they did, according to a new survey – and no one feels this more acutely than Black parents.

In a recent NBC News State of Parenting Poll, 63 percent of parents felt their children would face more problems growing up than they did. For Black parents, the figure was 72 percent.

“That feeling is real…that children growing up today are growing up in a more complex society with respect to issues like racism, institutional racism, structural racism, and the educational system, and growing inequality,” says George Garrow, executive

director of Concerned Black Men National, which seeks to enrich the lives of Black children and parents through mentorship and community-building.

“We as adults are being affected by these things, and if we’re being affected then young people certainly are. Our kids are being raised in a time where…the kids are not going to have the opportunities that we had 25 years ago, 30 years ago.”

Grading education Parents who had little faith in today’s education system were likelier to foresee greater challenges for their children. These parents of little faith were in the minority, however. In the case of Black parents, 51 percent rated their child’s education as “good,”

on a scale from “excellent” to “poor.”

Most of the parents who rated their children’s education experience as “fair” or “poor” also believed that their children would have a harder time growing up.

Only 18 percent and 9 percent of Black parents gave “fair” and “poor” ratings, respectively, but Black parents made up the largest share of both ratings.

The outlook on growing up was bleak even among the satisfied parents, 57 percent of whom still felt their children would face more problems.

“I always thought…we’d be, now, in an era of better schools.

But when you look at the terrain we’re not there yet…particularly with Black kids and the schools they are going to,” Garrow said.

“While we may live in a society

with greater options for some, those things haven’t necessarily materialized for Black children, and Black families.”

College a must Interestingly, 51 percent of all parents felt that school would not prepare their children for the job market unless their child also went to college. Further, a sizeable 86 percent said their children would need more than a high school degree to achieve the American Dream.

Although many parents believed the journey to adulthood would be harder for their children, 53 percent also believed that their children would be the same or better off once they grew up.

While Black parents were most likely to worry about their children’s present experiences, they were also more likely to be optimistic about their child’s future than White parents were — but not more optimistic than Hispanic parents. Additionally,

While the worry about modern childhood remains high, research suggests the sentiment is declining with each generation, as the standard of living gets better. In the 1998 results of this same survey, 78 percent of parents believed their children had more problems.

At the same time, outlook on the future of the next generation seems to have remained steady.

Over the past few years, the Pew Research Center has surveyed approximately 2,500 parents with similar questions.

From 2008 to 2012, roughly half of parents believed their children would have it better off when they reached adulthood.

Interestingly, roughly 60 percent of the same respondents believed that they had a better standard of living than their parents did at the same age.

All kids at risk At a time when the nation is rallying against unchecked police violence on Black people (among a host of chronic social and political problems), Garrow points out that Black families have to dig deep to find optimism for the future. But, he also believes that positive adult involvement and community building are the keys to helping children navigate an increasingly complex society.

“We can no longer live under the idyllic notion that kids — as long as they don’t get into trouble, as long as the ‘behave themselves’ — that they’re going to grow up to be responsible citizens, be educated properly, and have opportunities in life. All of our kids are at risk,” Garrow said. “[The finding] is really tragic because it should not be this way.

Each society should be able to build upon the successes of the previous generation. …[W]e really need a reality check to determine what we need to do so we at least have a chance at offering our kids a better life.”

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Bullet hasn’t slowed down Daytona State student Year after getting shot, Chicago basketball player making dreams come true as forward on Falcons team

BY STEVEN GOLDSTEIN CHICAGO TRIBUNE (TNS)

One year ago, Tyquone Greer hit a stunning shot.

What made his game-winning three-pointer remarkable wasn’t just that it sent his Orr Academy team to the Illinois Class 3A Final Four. Or that it was his only fieldgoal attempt of the night.

It was what had happened nine days earlier. In the early hours of March 9, 2014, Greer was at a party in Chicago when a dispute broke out. Shots were fired, and Greer took a bullet in the leg.

He was taken to the hospital. The bullet had gone through his calf but missed all bones and muscles. He was treated and discharged that afternoon.

As his Spartans knocked off two teams, Greer, a highly regarded 6-foot-6 power forward, sat on the sideline, his basketball future in doubt.

Then in Orr’s supersectional against North Chicago, he surprised the crowd when he entered the game, his calf heavily bandaged and his mobility noticeably hampered.

With the final seconds winding down and the game tied 6868, Orr’s Louis Adams Jr. drew a double team and passed the ball to Greer, unguarded in the corner, for the game-winner.

“Not a day goes past where I don’t think about going from getting shot in the leg to running and jumping,” Greer said. “I still get excited whenever I see that highlight. I think it was God. I got shot in the leg and it didn’t mess anything up. That was God that made that shot.”

‘At the next level’ In the year since that memorable moment briefly put Greer in a national spotlight, he has taken a serpentine path to get his basketball career back on track.

But Greer believes that nothing is coincidental, and more than 1,100 miles away from Orr lies a chance at redemption.

Today Greer is a freshman at Daytona State College in Daytona Beach.

“My leg isn’t back to the way it used to be. I need it to be better now that I’m at the next level,” he said. “I was highly recruited. … I want to prove to people I’m at that (Division I) level. People don’t really care what you did back in high school.”

Daytona State’s coaching staff had modest expectations. Assis-

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Tyquone Greer looks out into the crowd during a game against Marshall at Westinghouse College Prep on March 11, 2014, in Chicago, just days after he was shot while a senior at Orr Academy. Now a freshman at Daytona State College, Greer is focused on a bright future. tant athletic trainer Trevor Burns said he thought Greer would have lingering back and hip issues because of his lower-body trauma. But in his first game, Greer scored 21 points in just 16 minutes.

Freshman stats Greer finished his freshman season averaging 8.0 points on 41.8 percent shooting and 5.1 rebounds per game. His stats don’t jump off the page, but Greer also was deployed at four positions, routinely guarding opponents’ best players, and was one of just two Falcons to appear in every game.

Daytona State (21-7) won the Mid-Florida Conference, and Greer received second-team allconference honors. Without being able to rely just on his athleticism, Greer has developed a post game and improved his jump shot.

It has been far from a seamless transition, though. Orr’s student body comprises fewer than 600 while Daytona State’s enrollment exceeds 20,000.

“He was paranoid of large groups shortly (after the shooting). Now he’s getting used to being surrounded by a lot of peo-

ple again. It was a mental thing,” said Lashonda Greer, Tyquone’s mother. “For a minute, he felt like he couldn’t get back.”

The shooting Greer said the shooting was precipitated by a fight between people he didn’t know before he arrived at the party. He estimated that he was at the basement apartment for less than five minutes before the shots were fired.

Patrick Calhoun, 23, was charged with shooting Greer and five others. After the dispute arose, Calhoun allegedly left the party and returned around 3:30 a.m. and shot into the residence.

He pleaded not guilty to 17 counts of attempted murder and five counts of aggravated battery with a firearm. Calhoun is awaiting trial.

“People were telling me to slow down,” Greer said. “I’ve learned now not to take anything for granted.”

Greer’s physical and mental recovery isn’t the only thing holding him back. An academic nonqualifier, Greer can’t compete in Division I until he has completed another year at Daytona State and graduates with at least a 2.5 GPA. He made the dean’s list in

his first semester and currently is taking five courses.

‘Smart enough’ Greer, who’s studying business, said he feels particularly connected to his writing class.

“He’s in college. That’s something every parent wants. A bigger picture is opening up for him,” Lashonda Greer said. “I knew he always could do it. He just had to put his mind to it and actually do it. I knew he was smart enough.”

Daytona State has sent nine players to Division I schools in the last two seasons, and Falcons coach Ryan Ridder said a handful of schools, including Iona, TexasPan American and George Mason, already have inquired about Greer.

More interest in Greer will come if he receives invitations to junior college showcases in Georgia and St. Louis this summer. And as a sophomore next winter, Greer should be able to command a more active role in the Falcons offense.

‘The sky is limitless’ Greer’s make-or-break year begins this summer. In addition to a full course load and practice sessions with Daytona State’s

NFL suspends TV blackout policy for 2015 season LOS ANGELES TIMES (TNS)

The NFL’s local television blackout policy has been suspended for the 2015 preseason and regular season, the league announced Monday.

None of last season’s games were blacked out because of the policy, which

coaching staff, he will rehab in an effort to get his leg back to what it was before the injury.

The regimen will include pool workouts to improve lateral quickness, conditioning drills to help his acceleration and strength and conditioning training for late-game endurance.

“I can’t say there’s absolutely no post-injury limitations, but just from what I’ve seen, it looks like 90 percent soft tissue,” Burns said. “If he gets in and improves flexibility and strength, I really do think it’s reasonable to expect a 100 percent Tyquone.

“The sky is limitless with that kid. … This summer, if he stays driven, I fully expect him to come in and blow the doors off everything.”

With a rehabbed leg and a complete offseason under his belt, Greer’s dream at last can be chased at full strength. What the next step is in the path beyond Daytona is anyone’s guess. But what he has learned since last March will stay with him regardless of that destination.

“There’s more out here than just Chicago,” he said. “I’ll be back in another year. I chose to take the hard way. But I will be back.”

requires teams to sell a minimum number of tickets in order to ensure local broadcasts. In 2013, two games were blacked out.

The NFL maintains blackouts are needed in order to encourage fans to attend games.

The NFL’s blackout policy has been around for decades, but it has come under increasing criticism in recent years.

In October, the Federal Communications Commission voted to drop a 40-year-old rule that prohibited cable and satellite TV providers from airing blacked-out games in the home team’s market.

The NFL is still allowed to enforce its policy that prevents games from being broadcast locally.

The decision to suspend the blackout rule was approved by the teams at the league’s annual meeting in Phoenix.

Earlier this month, Felicia Baker and Rebecca Goodwin were each named to the All-MEAC Bowling Second Team. Baker is a senior from Marietta, Ga., and Goodwin is a transfer from Alabama A&M. She is a native of Port Orange.

Lady Wildcats end bowling season at MEAC championships FROM WIRE REPORTS

Bethune-Cookman picked up a pair of wins on March 21, before bowing out of the 2015 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Bowling Championships housed at AMF Lanes in Chesapeake, Va. On a day where all but two teams would be eliminated from this year’s event, Bethune-Cookman opened the day seeded fifth following March 20’s traditional match play to determine the seeding order.

Saturday’s matches all took place in a best-of-seven Baker format.

B-CU (61-52) took down No. 4 seed Howard by a score of 4-2, opening the day with a victory.

In the next match, the Wildcats took on

top-seeded University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), falling to the Lady Hawks, 4-0.

Bethune-Cookman quickly rebounded to take down No. 8 seed Florida A&M, 4-0, eliminating the Rattlers in the process.

However, the run would end for the Lady Wildcats in their next match, with a chance to advance to Sunday’s championship round on the line. A rematch with UMES ensued, but B-CU was unable to keep the momentum going, falling to the Lady Hawks 4-2.

The championship match will be televised in a tape-delayed format and will air on ESPNU on March 30 at 9 p.m.

This story is courtesy of B-CU Athletics.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Doug Martin (22) spikes the ball as he rushes for seven yards and a touchdown against the Cincinnati Bengals during the second quarter on Nov. 30, 2014, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. NFL fans won’t have to worry about local blackouts this year.

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‘My Sister’s Keeper’ health initiative launched at Howard, Spelman

Tired of gaining weight over holidays, LaTisha Styles of Smyrna, Ga. committed a few years ago to exercise more and watch what she eats.

BY MARIA ADEBOLA NNPA NEWS SERVICE

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Being overweight costing more than extra food

BY SHARELLE D. LOWERY NNPA NEWS SERVICE

Sometimes celebrities or otherwise physically fit people will put on a fat suit and document their experience with a video camera, usually to be aired on a daytime talk show. The overall impression is universal: Being severely overweight is taxing on almost every level, says Dr. Eleazar Kadile, who specializes in treating patients with obesity and associated chronic disease.

“Physically, emotionally, mentally and even spiritually, being obese is an everpresent condition to the experience my clients face every day,” said Kadile, director of the Center for Integrative Medicine and author of “Stop Dying Fat.”

“Obesity is a vicious cycle that usually starts with bad eating habits during childhood,” Kadile noted. “Childhood obesity has quadrupled in recent decades. I don’t think enough of us appreciate how established bad habits are before most obese people reach adulthood.

“Overweight or obese people often eat for comfort when they’re depressed or as a reward when things are going well, much like an alcoholic.”

Cost of extra fat Like substance abusers, obese people pay a significant price.

• Bigger is costlier. Many are emotional eaters, and when you eat for emotion-

al satisfaction rather than physical satiation, you eat more, which increases the dollars spent. Obese people often have to buy clothes specially tailored for their size, which adds costs.

The biggest cost, however, is health care due to bad health. Obesity has severely taxed our country’s healthcare costs.

• What’s your self-esteem worth? Being a large individual often proves challenging in public as daytime talk shows sometimes attest. Obesity can keep you from social engagements and make you feel self-conscious while out and about.

This can lead to depression and lack of activity, fueling the vicious cycle of the obese lifestyle.

Time, quality of life • Time – arguably the most important metric.

What do we really have in life? Money, work, love, relationships and material goods – these are all good and necessary things. But they are all for not if your health does not permit you

to live long enough to enjoy them.

• Opportunities, quality of life and happiness are compromised. You can be the most qualified professional at work, but obesity can cost you a raise. You may be a funny, intelligent and attractive person, but being too big might keep you from finding love. Simply having 100 or 200 pounds of extra fat is a burden obese people cannot escape throughout their waking existence.

“As a society, we should be more compassionate toward obese individuals – they have it hard enough without our critical judgment,” Kadile said. “If you are obese, you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to save on the associated tangible and intangible costs. If you don’t take action today, it can cost you many days from your future that you’d otherwise have.”

This story is special to the NNPA from Our Weekly.

Black Women’s Health Imperative, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit has launched the first chapter of the “My Sister’s Keeper” initiative at Howard University in D.C. and Spelman College in Atlanta.

The program is intended to provide information on a variety of topics, including sexual violence, reproductive health and sexually transmitted diseases, geared toward African-American women.

“It’s important that we give young women the tools needed to protect themselves and their sisters and that they understand that they must be invested in good decision-making — their own, that of their partners, and that of policymakers — around their sexual health and rights,” Linda Goler Blount, president and CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, said in a statement.

“We also want young women to know that their sexual health and rights intersect with the reproductive justice movement, started by Black women in 1994, that melds health justice to justice in education, housing and transportation, among many other factors.”

Spelman connection According to the organization, sexual violence, unintended pregnancy and risky sexual activities are among the leading causes of college dropout among women.

Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, the Anna Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College, said she believes that the partnership will highlight the importance of addressing the particular needs of African-American women.

“The Women’s Research & Resource Center at Spelman College has had a long connection with the Black Women’s Health Imperative, which began in 1983 at their first national Black women’s health conference, during which 2,000 women traveled to the Spelman campus for a historic gathering,” she said. “We are thrilled to host on campus the launching of their equally historic My Sister’s Keeper initiative which promises to be as transformative in the lives of Black women.

“It is fitting for the launch to occur at Spelman, the oldest college for women of African descent in the world,” she added. “For over a century and a half, Spelman has played a significant role as our sister’s keeper locally, nationally, and globally.”

Black Women’s Health Imperative is a nationally recognized organization dedicated to improving the health and wellness of African-American women and girls physically, emotionally and financially.

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