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Vickie Presley becomes area superintendent in Volusia County Left to right: James Tager, Volusia County director of K-12 curriculum; Dana Paige-Pender, human resources director; Area Superintendent Vickie Presley; and Superintendent Dr. Margaret Smith. Tager, PaigePender and Presley are shown after their new job appointments were approved by the Volusia County School Board at the June 25 meeting.
County fires officer over ‘racially sensitive’ texts on Facebook
BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com
As thousands of Volusia County School children prepare to start school Aug. 19, a former Campbell Middle Prin-
cipal will be ready to meet them in a new position as an area superintendent. Instead of being responsible for one school, Vickie Presley, who has been the district human resources director since 2011 was approved by the Volusia County School Board on June 25 to be area superintendent overseeing 34 schools. She was principal of Campbell Middle School from 2003 to 2011. Other administrative ap-
pointments approved during that meeting were Dana PaigePender, a human resources specialist who replaced Presley as human resources director; and James Tager, who moved from principal of New Smyrna Beach High to become director of K-12 curriculum.
Aug. 24 speech The community will have an opportunity to meet Presley in Please see PRESLEY, Page 2
DeLand case attracts Crump’s attention
BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com
Todd Snipes, the Volusia County beach patrol officer who posted racially sensitive notes about Trayvon Martin on Facebook, has been fired. “As a result of your actions, when you or another officer in the department make an arrest of a Todd minority, members Snipes of that community may assume that the arrest are a product of bias, rather than wellfounded protective law enforcement,” George Recktenwald, director of the Department of Public Protection for Volusia County, stated in a memo to Snipes, which was obtained by the Daytona Times. “The racial nature of these text messages to other workers and subordinates may also create a hostile work environment and manifest a racially discriminating hostility to subordinates and co-workers,” Recktenwald added. Snipes had posted on his Facebook page, after the George Zimmerman verdict last month, “another thug gone,” referring to the 17-year-old Martin, who was shot and killed by Zimmerman in February 2012.
Slater, Durham relieved Daytona Beach/Volusia County NAACP President Cynthia Slater told the Daytona Times this week the county did the right thing in
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Attorney Ben Crump, holding a microphone, speaks at a meeting Tuesday night at Greater Union First Baptist Church in DeLand. The panel, which is seated up front, included Florida Rep. Dwayne Taylor, third from left.
Attorney attends meeting relating to Black resident’s death by White officer FROM STAFF REPORTS
Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Trayvon Martin’s parents, spoke at a town-hall style meeting Tuesday night in DeLand. More than 100 people attended the meeting at Greater Union First Baptist Church to voice their demand for a petition to have a fired DeLand Police Department officer arrested in a local
resident’s death. The conversation was about Marlon Brown, a Black DeLand resident who was run over and killed by James Harris during a pursuit on May 8. State Rep. Dwayne Taylor informed the crowd at the meeting that the State Attorney’s Office has launched an investigation and is treating the case as a homicide and not an accident. The investigation is to be completed by the end of September. Crump pointed out that a videotape of the incident “will tell us what happened that night.”
The dash cam video from Harris’ patrol car and other evidence gathered by the FDLE in their two-month investigation has been given to the state attorney’s office. Volusia County Councilwoman Joyce Cusack urged those attending the meeting to start a petition now and not wait for the report due to come in September. Others speaking at the meeting included DeLand Commissioner Vonzelle Johnson, members of Brown’s family and area clergy.
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Daytona State, school districts reach agreements on dual enrollment FROM STAFF REORTS
As opening days for fall classes draw near, agreements in support of dual enrollment have been reached between Daytona State College and Volusia and Flagler school districts. The college’s District Board of Trustees on Aug. 13 approved agreements to cover the majority of the schools’ costs for services associated with dual enrollment in 2013-14. The Volusia and Flagler school boards will vote on the agreements in upcoming weeks. Dual enrollment provides college-credit classes on Daytona State campuses, giving
college-bound students a head start on their higher education, at no cost to them.
Legislative decision Until this fall, Florida colleges paid for dual-enrolled tuition; this spring, the state Legislature voted to shift the cost to school districts. “We realize the districts had little time to build this cost into their budget planning for 2013-14,” said Daytona State President Carol W. Eaton. “Providing dual enrollment for our high school students at no cost to them has been a hallmark of our region and Florida education. “School Superintendents Margaret
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Smith and Janet Valentine and their staff have worked very hard with us to develop the new agreements,” added Eaton. “We’re pleased to be able to assist the districts as we continue this valuable service to our next generation of workforce and career leaders.”
Testing, counseling included The agreements require Daytona State to reimburse the schools for their services, including counseling, testing, academ-
ic support, eligibility determination and grade monitoring. Some 5,000 students from 11 Volusia County and two Flagler County high schools earned college credits at Daytona State in the past five years through dual enrollment. This past May alone, 70 teens received their associate degrees before graduating from high school, allowing them to start as juniors in baccalaureate programs. With fall enrollment ongoing until Daytona State classes start Aug. 26, to date nearly 800 Volusia and 200 Flagler teens already have dual enrolled.
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Three services to mark Durham’s 10th anniversary BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com
Area ministers and choirs will help Dr. L. Ronald Durham celebrate his 10th anniversary as pastor of Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Daytona Beach during three different services beginning Thursday Aug. 16. The celebration ends on Sunday Aug. 18 with the Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, delivering the main sermon. The worship service will begin at 10 a.m. at Greater Friendship, 539 George W. Engram Blvd. Sharpton and Durham met while Durham was pastoring at a church in New Jersey. Durham last worked with Sharpton last year organizing a massive rally in Sanford seeking the arrest of Zimmer-
man in the death of Trayvon, the 17-yearold shot and killed by George Zimmerman in February 2012. “It’s been a wonderful 10 years here at Greater Friendship, and I look forward to the future with great anticipation,” Durham said.
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Also expected at Sunday’s service will Bao be Dr. Shiping Bao, who testified during the George Zimmerman trial. Bao, who works for the Volusia County Medical Examiner’s office, performed the autopsy on Martin. The Volusia County Medical Examiner’s office also is responsible for autopsies in Seminole County. Bao’s daughters, who are musicians, have been invited to perform during Sunday’s service. The anniversary celebration will kick off Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. The worship leader will be Elder O. Kinard Perry of Divine Deliverance Ministries. The speaker for the service will be the Rev. Troy Bradley of Greater Union First Baptist Church, DeLand. Friday’s service will feature Father Phil Egitto, from Our Lady of Lourdes as worship leader. Bishop Derek Triplett of Hope Fellowship Church will deliver the message.
Bryon Center needs community to keep doors open BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com
Janet Bryant, the Rose Marie Bryon Center’s director, said community’s help is needed to keep the doors open. The first Rose Marie Bryon Bi-Annual Alumni Reunion Dinner Dance/ Silent Auction will be held Friday, Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. at the Midtown Cultural and Educational Center, 925 George W. Engram Blvd., Daytona Beach. Janet Rose Marie “Since July 2010, the Bryant Bryon center has not received any government or grant funding. The center is solely operated by volunteers and minimal private donations,” Bryant said. The Rose Marie Bryon Movement has served the community since Oct. 31, 1946. The mission of the center is to provide a safe, Christian-based environment, along with educational opportunities and the development of positive self-esteem for at-risk youth. “Our communitywide celebration seeks to raise funds for the center, which is the oldest after-school program in the Daytona Beach area. This is an appeal to you for support,” Bryant stated. For more information on how to help the center, call Bryant at 386-253-9798 or email her at rosemariebryon@gmail.com.
Prophetic Conference 2013 set at Choice Christian Center
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Trying to take a bite out of crime Frank Heckman, a community watch leader who volunteers for the Daytona Beach Police Department, helps fingerprint children at an area McDonald’s last Saturday. During this month, McDonald’s and DBPB partnered to host a child safety campaign, which included free fingerprinting. McGruff the Crime Dog also participated.
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is responsible for schools located in their designated “area” of Volusia County. Presley is responsible for most of the schools on the east side of county. In 1985, there were four area superintendents supervising 51 schools. Now, in addition to Presley, there is one other area superintendent, Tom Russell. They are responsible for 68 schools –34 each.
Gordon will be principal at Volusia Pines Elementary, replacing Tami Fisher, who is taking over at Holly Hill (K-8) School. Hollie Newnam will be principal at South Daytona Elementary and Jeffrey Reaves will have that role at Edgewater Public Elementary. Mary Ellen Speidel will be principal at Osceola and Ortona elementary schools in Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach. Marie Stratton is taking over Port Orange and Longstreet elementary schools. Thomas Vaughan will be principal of Spirit Elementary in Deltona. Brandy Hogue is taking over at Freedom Elementary in DeLand. Jim Bambrick will be principal of Osteen Ele-
her new capacity Aug. 24 at Allen Chapel AME Church. The Men’s Fellowship of the church is hosting a prayer breakfast starting at 9 a.m. Presley will be the guest speaker. The community is invited and young men and women ages 10 to 26 are encouraged to attend. The breakfast is free but those who want to attend should RSVP by calling the church at 386255-1195 by Aug. 22. The area superintendents assist the superintendent of schools in overseeing the needs of the growing number of district schools. Each area director
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On July 14 and 15, Snipes was found to have been involved in a series of “offensive text messages/pictures while on duty with the Beach Safety Ocean Rescue Division.” “You sent inappropriate text messages and commented on other inappropriate texts while on duty. The racial content of these text messages is not only unprofessional, but disturbing coming from a supervisor of Volusia County Beach Safety,” wrote Recktenwald. Recktenwald said he had made it clear when he became department director that there would be zero tolerance regarding behavior that could damage the reputation of the department. Snipes had 10 working days from receipt of notification to appeal the firing through the county’s personnel board.
from Page 1 termination Snipes’ employment. He had worked with the county for 25 years. “The message is quite clear that there is no room for bigots and racists in county government (or in any other workplace environment). I commend county officials for making the decision,” Slater said. Dr. L. Ronald Durham, president of the Daytona Beach Black Clergy Alliance, said also was relieved. “It is intolerable for a law enforcement officer to harbor a racist mentality and purport to be a community servant who should be concerned about all of its citizens and visiting guests,” Durham noted. “Removing this attitude from the ranks and file of law enforcement is critical to people feeling comfortable with the protection and service an officer should provide. Our community is the better after
More than two-dozen Volusia County schools will also have different principals. Patricia Corr will be principal of Galaxy Middle in Deltona. Julian Jones is taking over at Hinson Middle in Ormond Beach. Julie
Snipes originally received notice of intent to dismiss on Aug. 2 from Recktenwald. In the memo Recktenwald sent to Snipes, it was revealed that Snipes, along with his attorney Jason Harr met with Recktenwald, Deputy Director Terry Sanders, Division Director Mark Swanson, and Assistant County Attorney Nancye Jones. “Although you said you were sorry for your actions, you did not offer any meaningful plan to repair the damage your actions have caused. Your expression of remorse was not in any way proportionate to this damage,” wrote Recktenwald. The reason Snipes was fired, Recktenwald said, was because his response to his actions “failed to demonstrate that you understood the gravity of your actions and the potential impact to the community.”
mentary. Kate Godbee will take over at Woodward Avenue and Starke elementary schools in DeLand. Bob Ouellette will take over New Smyrna Beach High. Julie Roseboom will be principal of George Marks Elementary in DeLand. Lesley Sileo-Robinson will be principal of Deltona Middle.
Prophetess Deborah Ford, senior pastor of Choice Christian Worship Center along with her husband copastor Harold Ford, will be presenting Prophetic Conference 2013 Aug. 16-17. “A Clarion Call, Let the Prophets speak” is the theme of the conference, which will take place at 327 S. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. The event is free. There will be a host of prophets in attendance with Prophet Rodney Gilliard Deborah Rodney kicking off the event Fri- Ford Gilliard day night starting at 7 p.m. Prophetess Ford is set to speak Saturday night. The Fords also are the hosts of Gospel Hallelujah World Wide Radio Ministries, which airs Saturdays and Sundays on WPUL 1590 AM.
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Mid-Florida Housing Partnership, Inc. conducted and participated in four (4) Fair Housing Month Activities throughout Flagler and Volusia Counties that were held during the month of April 2013 (April 20, 22 & 25). In Flagler County, these activities included a series of rolling mini-workshops and a Housing Fair and a Foreclosure Prevention Outreach and were held in joint partnership with County of Flagler, Flagler County Association of Realtors, City of Palm Coast and Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Inc. In Volusia County, these activities included seminars for Daytona Beach Area Association of Realtor Property Managers in partnership with Volusia County Community Services and a seminar for the City of Oak Hill Board of Commissioners and citizens and a bi-lingual workshop for homeowners at the Deltona Regional Library for Money Smart Week. Over 108 persons attended these various events. The Fair Housing Act, Predatory Lending Avoidance, Mortgage Rescue Scam Avoidance, Housing Opportunities and Consumer Financial Literacy were presented at these events. “Fair Housing: It’s not just your right … It’s the Law!”
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Police department plans gun buyback on Aug. 22
Daytona Beach Police Public Information Officer James Flynt looks over guns in May turned in during the March against Madnesss event at Hope Fellowship.
BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com
For the second time this year, Daytona Beach police will be offering gift cards for guns with no questions asked. The gun surrender will take place on Thursday, Aug. 22 at the Dickerson Community Center, 308 S. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Daytona Beach. The event will be from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The last gun back took place at Hope Fellowship in May during a March Against Madness event organized by the church’s pastor Bishop Derrick Triplett. Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood said 19 guns were collected.
No names needed Local law enforcement agencies have brought in more than 300 guns over the past two years through the “Kicks for Guns’’ program. All residents have to do is show up and drop off their firearm in order to receive a gift card. Gun owners can remain anonymous and still
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Volusia Flagler YMCA hosts open house at Midtown center FROM STAFF REPORTS
The Volusia Flagler Family YMCA and the City of Daytona Beach hosted an open house on July 30 at the Midtown Cultural and Educational Center/Cypress Aquatic Center. The purpose of the gathering was to educate the community about YMCA programs at the center and to solicit input on what additional programs might be a good fit for the Midtown Area. There are currently three classes offered targeting seniors that include Balance in Motion, an evidencebased healthy aging program developed specifically to address falls. The program covers topics such as managing fear of falling, managing chronic health conditions, improving physical activity and managing symptoms of depression. Moving for Better Balance, a Tai
collect a gift card. The firearms should be unloaded and the safety secured. As a safety precaution, trained officers will retrieve guns from vehicles for gun owners who don’t know if their guns are loaded or are uncomfortable unloading their own weapons.
Fifth year This is Daytona Beach Police Department’s fifth year of participation in “Kicks for Guns,” an annual program throughout Central Florida where residents can safely dispose of their unwanted firearms in exchange for a gift card, with a value of up to $50, to local businesses including restaurants and retail stores. Following the 12-hour event, all surrendered guns will be destroyed. The Kicks for Guns program originated 15 years ago by an Orlando area radio host who was concerned about youths getting robbed for their brand-name sneakers. The program has evolved over the years to offer gas and store gift cards. For more information, call 386-671-5406.
Chi program, is specifically designed to prevent falls in older adults, which includes seated or seated to standing transition option. Water Aerobics is ideal for individuals working on strength, cardiovascular fitness and balance, water aerobics offers all three in a weightless setting.
Summer schedule • Mondays and Wednesdays: 9 to 10:30 a.m., Balance in Motion • Fridays: 9 to 10 a.m., Moving for Better Balance • Mondays and Fridays: 10:15 to 11:15 a.m., Water Aerobics • Wednesdays: 10 to 11 a.m., Healthy Living Lecture and Focus Groups YMCA President and CEO Teresa Rogers said that the YMCA also will schedule feedback sessions. “We are planning to hold some town hall-type meetings to gauge the needs of local residents. Their input will be essential as we move forward with what we are sure will be a successful health and wellness initiative in the community,” Rogers said. For more information, contact Kevin Kilian of the Volusia Flagler Family YMCA at -386-405-2844 or kkilian@ vfymca.org.
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Left to right: Kevin Kilian Chief Organizational Development Officer, Volusia Flagler Family YMCA; Lauren Kennedy, COO Volusia Flagler Family YMCA; Daytona Beach Zone 6 City Commissioner Paula Reed; Teresa Rogers President/CEO Volusia Flagler Family YMCA; Dean O’Brien YMCA board member and president/CEO of Browning Communications; Marylou Blackmer, YMCA board member and director of National Service Operations for Cigna; and Rebecca Zimmerman, director of Health Promotions, Volusia Flagler YMCA.
Triplett to host Aug. 15 gathering of Black boys and men FROM STAFF REPORTS
Bishop Derek Triplett of Hope Fellowship is asking Black male youth and men to come together once again at the Yvonne ScarlettGolden Cultural and Educational Center on Aug. 15. This time the discussion will center on “The Value of Black Men in America.’’ A similar talk took place last month at the center featuring Dr. Willie Kimmons, a motivational speaker and educator. The attendees were given advice on how to avoid being a victim of a crime and how to conduct themselves so they won’t end up in jail. The program begins at 6:30 p.m. The center is located at 1000 Vine Street in Daytona Beach.
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Bishop Derek Triplett is show at last month’s talk geared toward Black boys and men.
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Ann and Arthur Harper were married in Holly Hill on Aug. 16, 1958. They have two living children, James and Tammie. James is senior writer for the Daytona Times. Tammie works for Good Samaritan Nursing Home. Their firstborn daughter, Pricilla, died in 1960. Arthur Harper was born near Metta, Ga., while his wife was born in Tennile, Ga. They met in Daytona Beach in the 1950s. Harper worked for almost 50 years for Morrison’s Cafeteria, now Piccadilly, before retiring a few years ago. Mrs. Harper, who worked full time for the Daytona International Speedway for 45 years before retiring, now works part time for their parent company NASCAR. They have three grandchildren: Joy, Jewel and Jasmine and six great grandchildren: Jalen, Jaden, Jordan, Essence, Evan (Jasmine) and Zachary (Jewel). Another great grandchild is on the way. The Harpers are faithful members of Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.
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The GOP’s Whites-only gambit The Republican Party, which has lost the last two presidential elections by appealing to the worst racial attitudes of White conservative voters, has come up with what it declares is a winning strategy for 2016: Appeal to the worst racial attitudes of White conservative and White Democratic-leaning voters. The conservative echo chamber of political operatives and pundits has even produced, to coin a phrase, a white paper explaining how doubling down on its failed national strategy of 2008 and 2012 will work in 2016. More about that later.
Build White turnout LEE A. DANIELS NNPA COLUMNIST
children of undocumented immigrants. “Some of them are valedictorians – and their parents brought them in. It wasn’t their fault,” King said, then added, “… But for every one who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds – and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’ve been hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the ‘White Paper’ strategy One might consider that no- desert.” tion a modern version of the 1956 Southern Manifesto, the Con- Public relations disaster Realizing they had a public regressional segregationists’ call for “massive resistance” by White lations disaster in the making, the Southerners to the 1954 Supreme GOP leadership disavowed King’s Court Brown school desegrega- comment. But the fact is King’s tion decision. Or an updating of anti-immigration stance and that GOP standard-bearer Richard of the GOP itself are one and the Nixon’s adoption in the late 1960s same: Both are designed to apof a “Southern Strategy” of ap- peal to Whites anxious by the pealing to Whites made anxious growing population and electoral clout of Black Americans and Hisby Blacks’ civil rights victories. Nothing exemplifies the GOP panic Americans. The solution essentially proposture more dramatically and more crudely that Steve King, the posed by Sean Trende, a conserIowa Republican Congressman. vative pundit, and seconded by King, whose specialty is making several of his fellow conservatives, vicious jibes about women and is to minimize trying to broaden people of color, last month deni- the party’s appeal to Blacks and grated the DREAM Act legislation Hispanics and concentrate on that would establish an arduous, building the White conservative long path to citizenship for the voter turnout.
Trende’s argument, laid out in four lengthy articles from June 21 to July 6 on the blog, realclearpolitics.com, is well worth reading because it clearly reflects the political decisions the GOP leadership has already made to continue its past practice of just pretending to be interested in “outreach.” Black Americans would do well to pay special attention to Trende’s June 25 article, which predicts a decline in both Black voter turnout and the actual number of Black votes going Democratic. The piece contains many assumptions about how Blacks will vote when Barack Obama is no longer at the head of the ticket that are wishful thinking – but that, nevertheless, progressive Blacks and Whites need to consider. But there is an even more urgent question Trende’s predictions about the Black vote raises but which he ignores: How much are his expectations of a decline in the Black vote in 2016 election dependent on the success of the voter suppression laws Republican-dominated state legislatures have put in place?
Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His latest book is “Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.’’ Click on this story at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.
Why are Republicans trying to make it more difficult to vote? Prior to the 2012 elections, I found myself in a discussion with a colleague concerning Republican efforts at what has come to be known as “voter suppression.” I was informing this person, who is well educated, that voter fraud is not a problem of any significance in the U.S.A. This individual rejected my contention, arguing that he was aware of countless examples of alleged fraud and that the efforts to make voting more difficult were justified. A fascinating article in Mother Jones from July 2012, which I only just discovered, contains the sorts of ammunition that is needed in this debate, ammunition that really can not only end the argument but open up the real question: Why are the Republicans trying to make it more difficult to vote? The article, by Hamed Aleaziz, Dave Gilson and Jaeah Lee [“UFO Sightings are more common than voter fraud,” www.motherjones. com/politics/2012/07/voter-idlaws-charts-maps] contains this little factoid at the end: Between 2000 and 2010 there were 649 million votes cast in general elections; 47,000 UFO sightings; 441 Americans killed by lightning; and 13 credible cases of in-person voter impersonation.
solely at African Americans. They remain part of the larger scheme to neutralize the growing majority in this country, a maBILL FLETCHER, JR. jority of people of color, youth, women and working people, that NNPA COLUMNIST threatens the privileges of the rich and (in-)famous. Thus, we not only have voter suppression but Whites scared we have gerrymandering of elecHow is it possible that with no toral districts to ensure that cerevidence of massive voter fraud tain districts remain in the hands that legislators around the naof Republicans. tion have moved to narrow voting? The answer, to a great extent, has to do with race. First, the peo- Provide evidence Each time that you encounter ple making the allegations tend to be White and rich. They are play- an elected official who suggests ing into the growing fears among that greater efforts need to be many average Whites that the U.S. taken to stop alleged voter fraud, is becoming a Black and Brown please ask them to provide you nation, and, to be honest, they are with documented evidence of a pattern of abuse. scared. Please ask them to provide Second, the criminalization of Black America and the assump- you with documented numbers. tion that we are up to no good – Please ask them to provide you as demonstrated most recently with proof of convictions. in the acquittal of George ZimAnd, if they cannot provide any merman for the killing of Trayvon of this, please ask them to shut Martin – opens up the door to the their trap. belief that African-Americans are Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a Senior somehow involved in trickery and Scholar with the Institute for voter fraud. Yet voter suppression, which Policy Studies. Follow him on is not going away, is about more Facebook and at www.billthan the antipathy of many rich fletcherjr.com. Click on this stoWhites for Black people. The vot- ry at www.daytonatimes.com er suppression laws are not aimed to write your own response.
Student loan debt reduces lifetime wealth A new research report on America’s still-growing student loan debt found that its financial effects can last a lifetime. According to Demos, a national, nonpartisan public policy organization, 39 million Americans have used student loans to fund college education. An education debt of $53,000 will lead to a $208,000 lifetime loss of wealth. If current student borrowing trends continue, student debt will reach $2 trillion by 2025. Additionally, a $1 trillion in outstanding student debt will lead to a total lifetime loss of $4 trillion for affected households.
Debt detrimental “Though a college education remains the surest path to a middle-class life, evidence has begun to mount that student debt may be far more detrimental to financial futures than once thought, particularly for those with the highest levels of debt: students of color and students from low-income families,” states the report titled, At What Cost: How Student Debt Reduces Lifetime Wealth. Lost lifetime wealth, according to the report, will reduce twothirds of retirement savings by $134,000 with the remaining third being lost from lower accumulations in home equity. Demos attributes these wealth losses to loan repayments and the amount
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of time required for repay them in full have on savings and delays in buying a first home.
Blacks worse off Nearly 80 percent of Black students in the class of 2008 graduated with student debt averaging $28,692, while student debt for White graduates occurred with 65.6 percent and at a reduced debt load of $24,692. Approximately 75 percent of students earning Bachelor’s degrees from families earning less than $60,000 incurred debt; by comparison, students earning the same degree from families earning more than $100,000 incurred debt at a rate of 45 percent. Students enrolled in private for-profit schools incurred the greatest average debt at $33,050; followed by private, non-profit schools with an average of $27,650 in debt. The lowest student debt was incurred at public universities with an average of $20,200.
vice-president with the Center for Responsible Lending said, “This rising burden on American young people impairs their ability to build wealth through savings, homeownership or other investments in their financial future. The problem is particularly serious for students of color and also for those who attend for-profit colleges, which leave students with much larger debts and a higher risk of default.” Similar observations were voiced by Max Richtman, president and CEO at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. “A secure retirement has long been premised on three solid legs of the stool – that is Social Security, employersponsored pensions and personal retirement savings,” said Ritchtman. “This report shows that the ability of families to save for retirement is reduced by the burden of high student loan debt, leading to diminished lifetime savings and a lesser standard of living in retirement.”
Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at Charlene. crowell@responsiblelending. org. Click on this story at www. Rising burden daytonatimes.com to write your Debbie Goldstein, executive own response.
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Obama has presided over the worst economy for Blacks As the country and the world begin to focus on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, this is a good time to revisit the real goals of the March. Of course, it is most remembered for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech. Official, it was the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” As a result of this march and the Selma-to-Montgomery March two years later, we now have 42 members the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and our first Black president. The march, without question, lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1963, Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. But when you look at the congressional districts represented by these members of the CBC, you find the dreamed has turned into a nightmare. Examples of this pathology are: Los Angeles, Cleveland, New York City, and Detroit, to name a few. Unemployment rates in these cities are above the national average for Blacks (7.3), teenage pregnancy is off the charts, crime is up, high school dropout rates are climbing. These issues have more to do with ideology more than race. These members of Congress are looking for the government to solve these problems, as opposed to realizing that it has more to do with a lack of opportunity (job, education, etc.). On the national level, President Obama has done even worse. Early in his administration, he made it perfectly clear that, “I’m not the president of Black America. I’m the president of the United States of America.” With that statement, I knew we were in trouble.
Blacks better off? In January of 2010, a Pew poll showed that the percentage of Blacks who thought they were better off than they were five years prior had almost doubled since 2007. This same poll showed that Blacks also believed that the standard of living gap between Whites and Blacks was shrinking. The only problem with this assessment was that it was not true. Blacks are worse off under Obama than any time since WWII. The gap between White and Black wealth and income has widened under Obama. Under Obama, White Amer-
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ica has 22 times more wealth than Blacks and the education gap between White and Black has grown steadily.
Tangible goals needed The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom led to specific legislation that any objective observer can point to and measure tangible, positive results for the Black community. The march was emotional, but with tangible goals in mind. We have the first Black president of the U.S., but yet the Black community is far worse off now than under the previous president. Yes, it feels good to have a Black president, but it would feel even better if that president addressed the unique issues affecting the Black community.
Blacks blindsided No one can argue against the notion that Blacks have been blinded by their emotions when it comes to the diminished quality of life for Blacks under Obama. So, in two weeks, as the old line civil rights groups gather to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; please be mindful of what the speakers have to say. They will blame the current plight of Blacks on George W. Bush, Whites, and Republicans. They will not blame the president who has presided over the worse economy for Blacks in a generation simply because he makes them feel good; and with liberalism, intent is always more important than fact. This year’s march will turn out to be more like a nightmare; and the only way to get out of a bad dream is to wake up!
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Popular hiphop artists rapping about ‘new slavery’ Kanye West and J. Cole among artists with more complex, relevant social topics BY TOURE MUHAMMAD NNPA NEWS SERVICE
Rappers talking about oppressive, unfair record deals, the false trappings of capitalism and the prison industrial complex is not new to hip hop, but it’s usually the underground, unsigned and/or activists, artists who talk about it. But well-known artists, including Kanye West and rising star J. Cole, have raised these topics in recent music. Kanye and J. Cole had CDs released on the same date, June 18, the day before the annual Juneteenth celebrations in the Black community. Could this be a new trend with more artists unafraid, fed up and/or frustrated enough to confront and analyze more complex, relevant social topics in their music? “After years of some of the most self-hating and ignorant music our people have ever been forced to digest, this is definitely new and refreshing what J. Cole and Kanye West are saying. I hope it spreads like wildfire to other artists. We need balance back in all forms of Black music, no question,” said Kevin Powell, president and cofounder of BK Nation, a new national organization based in New York City.
‘We all slaves now’ J. Cole’s project, “Born Sinner” has a track titled “Runaway” where he discusses how a conversation with his racist manager had him thinking about the legacy of chattel slavery in America: “Made me reflect on the time when we was 3/5s of them/chains and powerless/brave souls reduced to cowardice … ” Then he makes the connection to today: “Rich white man rule the nation still/Only difference is we all slaves now, the chains still concealed.” Kanye’s new release, “Yeezus” has a track titled “New Slaves” which rails against racism, capitalism and the prison industrial complex: “My momma was raised in an era when, clean water was only served to the fairer skin … use to be only n—-rs now everybody playing, spending everything on Alexander Wang … meanwhile the DEA teamed up with the CCA. They trying to lock niggas up, they trying to make a new state. See that’s the privately owned prison, get your piece today.”
Drug war policies DEA refers to the Drug Enforcement Association and the CCA refers to the Corrections Corporation of America, which along with the GEO Group are the two biggest corporations that operate for profit prisons and detention centers in the United States. Even in Lil Wayne’s latest
J. Cole, top, and Kanye West both have songs dealing with racism on their latest albums. project “I Am Not a Human Being Part 2,” he ruminates about if he will die today or go to jail right after these lyrics in a song titled “God Bless America:” “Yeah, my country tis of thee, Sweet land of kill ‘em all and let ‘em die, God bless America, uh, This so Godless America.” Both the Republican and Democratic parties have supported the increased incarceration rate. Initially, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan pushed and established the current drug war policies that caused the prison population to jump, but Bill Clinton leaned heavily to the right with “tough on crime” policies that continued the Republican policies and caused a boom in the prison population. There is no sign that trend has changed. Vice President Joe Biden,
a senator during the Clinton administration, wrote the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which, among other things, called for $9.7 billion in increased funding for prisons and stiffer penalties for drug offenders.
Prison labor One can actually go back to the Constitution itself to see the root of current policies. The 13th Amendment of the Constitution outlawed slavery except for criminals. It reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The 2011 U.S. incarceration rate of 716 people per 100,000 is the highest in
the world and more than 60 percent of the people in prison are racial and ethnic minorities. For Black males in their 30s, one in every 10 is in prison or jail on any given day. These trends have been intensified by the disproportionate impact of the war on drugs, in which two-thirds of all persons in prison for drug offenses are people of color, according to the Sentencing Project. If you can’t find work at a major U.S. company, just go to jail, you’ll find work quickly. According to Russia Today, hundreds of American companies such as Starbucks, Nintendo, Victoria’s Secret, JC Penney, Sears, WalMart, K-Mart, Eddie Bauer, Wendy’s, Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Fruit of the Loom, Motorola, Caterpiller, Sara Lee, Quaker Oats, Mary Kay, or Microsoft use prison labor. Lucky prisoners get minimum wage, others get pennies an hour and yet others, no pay at all.
Another movement? Some prisons have commercials advertising their captive workforce that never has baby sitting or transportation problems. Prison labor is being harvested on a massive scale, according to professors Steve Fraser, editor-at-large of New Labor Forum and Joshua B.
Freeman, who teaches history at Queens College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is affiliated with its Joseph S. Murphy Labor Institute. “All told, nearly a million prisoners are now making office furniture, working in call centers, fabricating body armor, taking hotel reservations, working in slaughterhouses, or manufacturing textiles, shoes, and clothing, while getting paid somewhere between 93 cents and $4.73 per day,” the professors said. While the recent lyrics are a good sign, activist and writer Powell doesn’t think that the next movement will come from the hiphop community, although it could help spread the word about it. “Movements come from people who are actually socially conscious and engaged. ‘’Cultural movements are inspired by political movements. The Black Arts Movement was inspired by the civil rights movement. So until we have another very serious political movement springing from our communities the culture is not going to change any time soon,” he said.
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Nas helps raise $50,000 for single dad who lost home in fire burned down last month. He is trying to find a permanent home for his family.
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Nas is known as a conscious rapper with a catalog of songs pulling for people to better themselves. Recently he became a fundraiser, lobbying to help Stanley Young, a Washington, D.C. single father who lost his home in a fire. On HelpStanleyYoung. com, Nas says he “could barely watch [Young’s] tragic story on the news,” so he knew he needed to get involved. So he took to his social media sites Nas and enlisted the help of crowd funding site CrowdTilt to raise $50,000 to help Young and his family buy a new home. Young is a single father of eight and has been staying in a hotel since the house
Related as single dad Losing their house is just one more tragedy the children have had to endure; they lost their mother last year. Nas was moved after seeing Young’s raw emotion and wrote a note to the family explaining his reasons for wanting to get involved. “I am also a single father, and we don’t get enough credit in this country… I believe and hope that we should all, as a community, come together to help our fellow American men and women when they need us in desperate situations like this.” Earlier this week, Nas had raised nearly $43,000 for the family. The campaign ends on Aug. 18.
Ruby Bridges visited the White House to see how the Norman Rockwell painting commemorating her personal and historic milestone looked hanging on the wall outside of the Oval Office. The portrait was on display through the summer of 2011, which marked the 50-year anniversary of her historic walk into William Frantz Elementary School.
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Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting of 6-year-old Ruby Bridges being escorted to school by federal marshals is well known, but many of the personal details surrounding her first year at New Orleans’ allwhite William Frantz Elementary School have been lost to history. Professor and historian Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. made it his mission to fill in these important pages of the Black American experience through his ambitious new PBS event, “The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross,” due this fall. Bridges appears in the six-hour series as the country’s first African-
American to attend an allWhite elementary school in the South – six years after the 1954 United States Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education declared that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional.
Focused on ‘behaving’ “I thought that I was going to college that day,” Bridges told journalists recently at the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills. She said her mother simply told her, “Ruby, you are going to go to a new school today, and you’d better behave.” Ruby added: “And I have
to say that that’s what I was really focusing on, was behaving.” Bridges says she wasn’t even aware of Rockwell’s painting “The Problem We All Live With” until she was in her late teens – more than a decade after it was published as a centerfold in the Jan. 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. “I was maybe 17, 18 years old when I first saw it,” she said. “I was doing an interview with a reporter who opened up the book and said, ‘Have you seen this?’ And I said, ‘No.’ And he said, ‘You know that it’s you.’ And I have to say that I was totally blown away.” The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” premieres Oct. 22 on PBS.
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Fox to compete heavily for more sports viewers Cable network launching two sports channels BY JOE FLINT LOS ANGELES TIMES/MCT
“I think it’s time for ESPN to get a little competition, don’t you?” That tough talk is coming from an unlikely source — 81-year-old Regis Philbin. The former daytime television talk show host and David Letterman foil is one of the faces of Fox Sports 1, the cable network launching Saturday that is the latest David looking to knock off ESPN’s Goliath. Given that Philbin is more accustomed to speaking to housewives and is more than twice as old as the viewers Fox Sports 1 is hoping to attract, his hiring seems unusual to say the least. “It is a bit out of left field, but that’s what we do,” said Fox Sports Co-President Eric Shanks of the hiring of Philbin to host “Crowd Goes Wild,” an afternoon round table that will also feature former Baltimore Raven Trevor Pryce, Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay and Katie Nolan, best known for her racy sportsrelated YouTube videos. “I never thought I would be on an hourlong sports show,” Philbin said, adding he wasn’t even aware Fox was launching the channel when he was asked to meet with Shanks.
Crash course Since then, the hard-core Notre Dame football and New York Yankees fan has been taking a crash course on the rest of the sports world. “From now on I’m going to have to keep my eye on everything,” he said, adding that he’d been reading about Ryan Braun, the Milwaukee Brewers slugger suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs. The launch of Fox Sports 1 and smaller sister channel Fox Sports 2 highlights the dominant and growing role sports is playing in the industry. At a time when broadcast and cable networks are struggling to keep viewers in front of their sets and off the Internet, sports has become their surefire antidote to Web surfing and cord-cutting. Fox, which has made a career
out of taking on giants, first with its broadcast network and later with its cable news channel, will be starting this fight with one hand tied behind its back. Fox Sports 1 doesn’t have distribution deals locked up with some of the nation’s biggest pay-TV operators, including Time Warner Cable and DirecTV.
Something for everyone The competition is formidable. “It is not a hill they have to climb, it’s the Grand Canyon,” said Mark Shapiro, a former ESPN executive. “ESPN has built such a big moat around itself the Russian army of the Cold War couldn’t get in.” Moreover, while no one in sports broadcasting likes to hear it, there is not exactly a shortage of product out there. When ESPN launched in 1979, the consensus was there weren’t enough sports or fans to sustain a 24-hour cable network. Flash forward 34 years and now the sports that critics used to make fun of ESPN for carrying have whole networks of their own. There’s a channel devoted to fishing. Another aimed at horse racing enthusiasts. Big game hunters have two networks targeting them.
Separate channels There are more than 20 national sports networks that don’t have the letters E-S-P-N in their names. The NFL, Major League Baseball, the NHL and NBA all have their own channels on top of the billions they rake in selling their games to other national and local outlets. Tennis and golf also rate their own networks. Several college conferences including the Big-12 and Pac-10 have launched their own channels. The big broadcast networks and cable channels also have a heavy diet of sports. CBS, NBC and Fox all carry the NFL — and at a hefty price; the league now pockets an estimated $7 billion a year from media. In Los Angeles alone, the Angels, Lakers and Dodgers each have separate channels. And that ever expanding universe, more than beating ESPN, is what is motivating Fox. “In the shaky swampy world of television programming, the one
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Fox Sports Live host Charissa Thompson, from left, NFL player Donovan McNabb, MLB player Gabe Kapler and NFL player Ephraim Salaam, on set during rehearsals for Fox Sports 1 at Fox Studios in Los Angeles on Aug. 6. On Aug. 17, Fox Sports will launch two national sports channels. solid granitelike area is sports,” said David Hill, a senior executive vice president of Fox Sports 1 parent 21st Century Fox and the self-proclaimed father of the new network.
Innovative producer Hill, who ran Fox Sports for decades and now oversees “American Idol” and “The X-Factor,” is known as an innovative produc-
er. It was Hill who first came up with what now seems like an obvious idea to have the score and time left in a game superimposed on the screen. He put microphones inside bases to bring fans closer to the action. “We spend more time and effort on audio than anyone else,” he said proudly. “Close-up audio is far more emotive than close-up video.”
Shanks said Fox Sports 1 has hired a couple hundred people in front of the camera and behind the scenes. The majority of the shows will be done on the Fox lot in Century City where a huge new soundstage was recently completed. For Shanks, who started in production at CBS Sports, the trick is to give fans an “information pill with a little bit of sugar.”
Hackney won’t play this season
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B-CU players hold up a MEAC trophy after the Florida Classic game last year in Orlando. The Wildcats take to the gridiron again on Sept. 1 when they play Tennessee State in Nashville.
B-CU engaging fans, preparing for Sept. 1 game Athletics department beefs up social media during summer campaign FROM STAFF REPORTS
Throughout the summer, B-CU has held a social media campaign with Wildcats fan having the opportunity to win tickets, prizes, see pictures and get more
information on the 2013 football season. Bethune-Cookman’s season opener is Sept. 1 at Tennessee State in Nashville. Fans have been encouraged to follow @BCUathletics on Twitter, @BCU-
athletics on Instagram, and “Like” BCUathletics on Facebook to enter their daily submissions. Fans also can follow BCUathletics on Pinterest to share special tailgating recipes. In addition, BethuneCookman has announced an official social media directory for the athletics department. It can be ac-
cessed at www.bcuathletics.com. All 17 sports teams at Bethune-Cookman have a unique Twitter handle, and fans are encouraged to follow the student-athletes and coaches of those teams as each will have special tweets, photos and information unique to that program.
Bethune-Cookman AllAmerican offensive tackle Terrance Hackney will sit out the 2013 playing season, it was announced Monday by the B-CU Department of Athletics. “Terrance [Hackney] and I have had several conversations, and we both agree that there are goals bigger than playing football,” said B-CU head coach Brian Jenkins. “We plan on providing him all the assistance needed in achieving his ultimate goal of graduating from Bethune-Cookman University.” Hackney, a 6-foot-6, 310-pound rising senior from Chapel Hill, N.C., is listed on two 2013 preseason teams, including publications from Phil Steele’s College Football Preview and Lindy’s. Hackney was tabbed to numerous All-America teams following the 2012 campaign, including The Sports Network (Third Team), BSN (First Team) and SBN (First Team), in addition to being paraded as MEAC Offensive Lineman of the Year. “It is our intent to have Terrance remain a student at Bethune-Cookman University,” concluded Jenkins. No more information was given on why Hackney won’t play.
A report from the MidEastern Athletic Conference was used in compiling this report.
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DBPD hosts Night Out event at new center More than 100 people turned out for the Daytona Beach Police Department’s National Night Out on Aug. 6 at the Yvonne Scarlett Golden Cultural and Educational Center. National Night Out programs culminate annually on the first Tues-
day of August, according to the National Night Out website. Attendees were given information by vendors as well as treated to free food, games and music. Police Explorers from area schools also participated.
Attending the awards ceremony in Orlando were Karen King, Palmetto Park Neighborhood Networks Center Coordinator; Vanessa Mosely, mother of Cheyenne Avery; Anthony Woods, CEO, Housing Authority, City of Daytona Beach; award recipients Cheyenne Avery and Dontavius King; Lavetta King, mother of Dontavius King; and Pierre Louis, director of Daytona Neighborhood Networks Center.
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sionals that work with affordable housing throughout the state.
Scholarships were awarded Aug. 7 to two Daytona Beach students from the Florida Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (FAHRO) at the organization’s annual awards banquet in Orlando. The local winners were Cheyenne Avery, a recent Spruce Creek High School graduate and Dontavius King, a recent Mainland Senior High graduate. In attendance were the parents of both students, Vanessa Mosely, mother of Cheyenne, and Lavetta King, mother of Dontavius. The event is a hosted each year by housing and redevelopment profes-
Partnership with UNCF The awards were announced and presented at the association’s annual convention and trade show in Orlando. King will be attending Bethune-Cookman University and majoring in nursing. Avery plans to major in culinary arts. FAHRO partnered with the United Negro College Fund to make the dream of attending college a reality. The scholarship is for high school seniors and graduates who are residents of federally assisted housing or recipients of assistance through the Community
Development Block Grant program in Florida. Each student was required to provide a list of honors or awards received, unpaid volunteer work, community service and leadership activities performed during the award year. Each candidate wrote a short essay on the impact public housing has had on their lives.
About the centers The youth have volunteered at the Daytona Neighborhood Networks Centers. The Daytona Neighborhood Networks Centers is a program within the Daytona Beach Housing Development Corporation (DBHDC), which is under the leadership of
Joyours Pete Gamble, CEO. The DBHDC works in partnership with the Housing Authority of the City of Daytona Beach (HADB), which is under the leadership of Anthony E. Woods, CEO. This unique partnership between the two separate entities created the Daytona Neighborhood Networks Centers, which operates from three branch locations. The Daytona Neighborhood Networks Centers’ three branches are located at Pine Haven Neighborhood Networks Center, 101 Carl Brinkley Circle; Palmetto Park Neighborhood Networks Center, 704 Hawk St.; and the Northwood Village Center located at 1200 Ninth St., Holly Hill.
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Locals participate in the fun and games during the Daytona Beach National Night Out on Aug. 6.
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