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JUNE 26 – JULY 2, 2015

RACISM, MURDER – FORGIVENESS Eight Black churchgoers and their pastor were slaughtered by a young White supremacist, setting off swift political responses and fierce debate in Black America about forgiveness and accountability.

Clockwise from top left: Cynthia Hurd, age 54; the Rev Clementa Pinckney, 41; the Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 45; Tywanza Sanders, 26; Ethel Lance, 70; the Rev. Depayne Middleton-Doctor, 49; Susie Jackson, 87; the Rev. Daniel Simmons, Sr., 74. Not pictured: Myra Thompson, 59.

Read the killer’s alleged manifesto and Charleston-related commentaries on Pages A2, A4 and A5.

No ‘post-racial’ America

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White supremacists fuel ‘lone wolves’

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HARLESTON, S.C. – Shock and sadness over the murders of a Black pastor and eight Bible students by a young White supremacist during a Bible study inside a historic South Carolina church June 17 continued to sweep the nation this week.

President Obama is scheduled to attend the funeral of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, pastor of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, on Friday, June 26 – after the Florida Courier’s press time. Pinckney, 41, was also a South Carolina state senator.

The others who were killed in the massacre are Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 45, an Emanuel pastor and high school track and field coach; Ethel Lance, 70, a 30-year church employee; Depayne Middleton Doctor, 49, a choir member; Susie Jackson, 87, a longtime and faithful church member; Cynthia Hurd, 54, a librarian devoted to education; Tywanza Sanders, 26, a 2014 graduate of Charleston’s Allen University; Myra Thompson, 59, an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority; and Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr., 74, a retired pastor from another Charleston church.

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WATER SAFETY FOR KIDS

Breaking a record Kissimmee, Orlando, and more than two dozen other Florida locations made a splash last week when they joined an effort to break the record for “The World’s Largest Swimming Lesson,” emphasizing water safety.

The numbers will be calculated and confirmed by Guinness World Records sometime this summer.

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ALSO INSIDE

BY TINA SUSMAN AND MATT PEARCE LOS ANGELES TIMES / TNS

NEW YORK – On July 14, 2013, a White supremacist named Andrew Anglin, bewildered by Black Americans’ outrage over the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, began typing out thoughts on what he saw as a distorted world.

“The whole George Zimmerman media psycho-drama has been completely insane from the beginning,” Anglin wrote on the Daily Stormer, the neo-Nazi website he had started, after a jury acquitted Zimmerman in the shooting death of Martin the year before.

Anglin called Martin, an unarmed, Black 17-year-old, a “crazed, savage attacker” and warned of a conspiracy by “blacks and the Jewish media” to cast the justice system as biased against Blacks.

Large White audience Born amid a backlash against the post-Trayvon Martin movement drawing attention to racial bias, the site has exploded to prominence among White supremacists as #BlackLivesMatter protests stretched coast to coast.

According to the website traffic tracking site SimilarWeb, by the end of 2013 Daily Stormer had more visitors than the rival Vanguard News Network, which has been See SUPREMACISTS, Page A2

Scott vetoes projects of interest FROM WIRE AND STAFF REPORTS

Gov. Rick Scott used his veto pen Tuesday to slash hundreds of projects from the budget adopted

by Florida lawmakers last week.

The governor struck 450 items totaling almost $461.4 million from the spending plan for the budget year that begins next month.

Here is a partial list of funds that won’t be allocated to projects that are of interest to Black Floridians, in random order: •Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts-Orlando, $5,000,000; Bethune-CookmanUniversity Center for Entrepreneurship, $750,000; Mount Olive Development Corporation Re-Entry Program, $200,000; Sankofa Project, $1,000,000; EFIAfrica Trade Expansion Program, $259,500; Jake Gaither House Museum, $125,000; Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church/Pinellas, $240,956.

• Duval Guiding Stars Pilot Program, $500,000; All Pro Dad/Family First, $400,000; I am a Leader Foundation, $250,000; Neighborhood Initiative Summer Job Program, $100,000; Strengthening Our Sons, $25,000; Thumbelina Learning Center Afterschool Program, $249,956; Smith/Brown Community Center, $100,000.

• Tallahassee Urban League Taylor House Museum Project, $150,000; JAFCO Children’s Ability Center, $500,000; Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center, $200,000; Second Chance Outreach Re-Entry and Education Development, Inc., $150,000.

• Lake County Re-Entry Center, $228,000; WestCare Pinellas Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative, $100,000; Gadsden County Jail Faith Behind Bars Re-Entry Program, $200,000.

Bridges to Success Ex-Offender Re-Entry Program, $350,000.

• City of Fort Lauderdale Justice Program, $250,000; City of Lauderhill, $850,000; City of Belle Glade Stormwater Improvements, $400,000; Dade City Stormwater Improvement, $1,900,000; Miami Gardens Stormwater Improvements, $175,000.

• City of Opa-Locka Canal Improvements, $250,000; Opa-Locka Brownfield Assessment and Cleanup, $250,000; Opa-Locka-Multi-Purpose Cultural Facility, $1,000,000; City of Pahokee, $107,321; City of West Park, $650,000.

• Rural Area Transportation Disadvantaged Grant Program, $2,000,000; SANT LA-Haitian Neighborhood Center, $300,000; Caribbean Chamber Student Entrepreneurship-Internships, $50,000; Big Brothers Big Sisters School to Work Program, $250,000.

The News Service of Florida contributed to this report.

SNAPSHOTS NATION | A6

Return to Selma: voting rights march set for Aug. 1 NATION | B1

Who was S.C.’s Denmark Vesey?

SPORTS | B4

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COMMENTARY: CHUCK HOBBS: WHY MUST BLACK AMERICANS ALWAYS FORGIVE? | A4 COMMENTARY: BRUCE A. DIXON: ROOF ISN’T A ‘TERRORIST,’ BUT #BLACKLIVESMATTER MAY BE | A4

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JUNE 26 – JULY 2, 2015

Sadly, it’s time for guns in church A faith group in our town recently held a worship event with about 350-plus people in attendance. They expected people from several states and foreign countries, including Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The international group came together in celebration of their Christian faith to worship and recognize academic achievement.

Throughout most of the Friday evening worship event and Saturday morning recognition service, two armed police officers were located in the main event auditorium. They were wearing uniforms and badges and wearing their pistols. There were also

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three people carrying concealed pistols. They have permits to carry concealed guns.

No trouble There has never been any trouble at the yearly event; nor was any expected this year. A spirit of worship and recognition of those attending was carried out with a harmonious spirit of unity and love.

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around since 2003.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, said in a March report that during the previous six months Daily Stormer’s Web traffic on some days even surpassed that of Stormfront. org, the oldest and largest hate site.

Anglin, in an interview this week with the Los Angeles Times, attributed his website’s popularity to his approach, which avoids long, online essays in favor of short, catchy posts.

‘Simple’ ideology “I wanted something punchy and funny and enjoyable to read,” Anglin said. “My ideology is very simple. I believe White people deserve their own country. … There’s not really anything that can happen that can affect my ideology because it’s so simple and straightforward.”

The website also may have been one of the go-to places for Dylann Roof, the suspected shooter in last week’s church massacre in Charleston, S.C. An analysis by the Southern Poverty Law Center showed comments on the site appear similar to passages from a manifesto on

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Racial jealousy?

Hours after the mass slayings, Dylann Roof, 21, of Columbia, S.C., was identified as the perpetrator. Roof’s hatred of Blacks apparently deepened two years ago after a White female he was interested in began dating an AfricanAmerican, according to a relative.

In an interview with the Intercept, a site originally created to provide a platform for whistleblower Edward Snowden, a cousin of Roof identifying himself as Scott Roof, was quoted: “Dylann was normal until he started listening to that White power music stuff.”

He said his cousin “kind of went over the edge when a girl he liked started dating a Black guy two years back.”

Scott Roof continued, “Dylann liked her. The Black guy got her. He changed. I don’t know if he would be here if not…” At that point, the cousin “abruptly hung up the phone,” according to the site.

The murders have come amidst unrest across the nation because of unarmed African-Americans being shot down by police and authority figures.

Online, Roof – pictured with guns and Confederate battle flags – claimed he was first angered by the controversy surrounding the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teen shot and killed in Sanford three years ago.

Fled north After the mass murders,

Roof’s website. Asked about that analysis, Anglin said the Daily Stormer user account cited by the center – “AryanBlood1488” – had commented maybe 21 or 22 times, not enough to be considered much of a regular.

Online destination If there is one thing Anglin, 30, and the law center can agree on, it is that websites such as his offer highly clickable destinations for hate group advocates. On some days since the Charleston shooting, hundreds of thousands of people have been drawn to these sites, which are crammed with material packaged beneath headlines geared to their angry audiences.

The Daily Stormer, named in homage to the Nazi tabloid Der Sturmer, aggregates articles from other supremacist sites, organizes lurid stories into sections titled “Race War” and “Jewish Problem,” and gives posts chatty headlines that scream millennial authorship, like “LOL: Ferguson Cop Shooter Says He was Shooting at Someone Else” and “Black Church Shot Up in Charleston by Bowl-Cut Sporting Weirdo.”

Roof fled to North Carolina.

Shortly after a North Carolina florist tipped police off to Roof’s whereabouts in Shelby, police officers stopped him. Roof surrendered. And when Roof said that he was hungry, police bought him food from a nearby Burger King.

Roof reportedly confessed to police that he was the gunman. The FBI took over after Roof agreed to be transferred back to Charleston without further court hearings.

‘I forgive you’ At a bond hearing on June 19, South Carolina Judge James B. Gosnell allowed the victims’ families to address Roof, who appear via videoconference in open court. He showed no emotion as relatives of the victims addressed him directly.

A woman who identified herself as the daughter of Ethel Lance said: “You took something very precious from me. I will never talk to her ever again.

“I will never be able to hold her again, but I forgive you. And [may God] have mercy on your soul.”

Anthony Thompson, Myra Thompson’s relative, told Roof turn to Jesus Christ. “I forgive you and my family forgives you,” he said.

‘Never the same’ Felecia Sanders survived the attack by playing dead. Her son Tywanza was killed.

“We welcomed you Wednesday night in our Bible study with open arms.

You have killed some of the most beautifulest people that I know. Every fiber in my body hurts...and I’ll never be the same,” she

However, at any moment, a crazed gunman could have entered the place and shot somebody. He would unlikely have escaped the auditorium without being wounded or taken out.

Sounds kind of weird doesn’t it?

In light of last week’s Charleston, South Carolina massacre of nine people, it no longer sounds crazy.

Easy targets Churches must now have a strategic plan to protect each other and those who visit. A public prayer meeting or Sunday morning worship event is an easy target to a crazed gunman.

Two or three people with automatic weapons could kill dozens of people within a minute or two.

One 21-year-old lunatic in Charleston, S.C. killed nine beautiful people as he stood and reloaded his weapon in front of shocked worshipers. We would all be shocked. Don’t be shocked.

Never feared before

over forty years. Never have I ever feared that our lives might be at risk.

Evil has been around since the beginning of the world. Ask people of faith in Iraq, Egypt, or Afghanistan. Thousands have been killed and their churches burned to the ground. The goal of ISIS is to eliminate any person who is not Muslim or who does not celebrate Allah. Even the disciples of Jesus hid behind closed doors for fear of the extreme religious fanatics in their day.

While this all sounds grim and dim, people of faith must move on and go forward. We all have to be observant and don’t ever think for a moment, “Something like that could never happen in our town.”

I can’t believe I am writing this article. I have led worship and spoke publicly in churches for

Glenn Mollette is a syndicated columnist and author.

This is the world in which we live.

Sadly, your church will have to employ or ask for volunteer security guards. They need to be properly trained on how to watch for crazy people. It’s not that easy. Who would have suspected a 21-year-old sitting under the guise of interest and spiritual concern?

You will need to have two or three people in your congregation observing the behavior of other people and willing to tackle someone if the need arises. A trained security guard wearing a gun and stationed in a visible place in your church is essential. One or two licensed people in your church with concealed weapons, willing and able to use them will not hurt either.

Not counted The Southern Poverty Law Center does not count such websites but says the number of hate groups across the country has increased by 30 percent since 2000.

In 2012, the center counted 186 Ku Klux Klan groups, with 52 separate websites, in addition to hundreds of other groups described as White nationalist, neo-Nazi and skinhead groups, most with websites.

Stormfront.org was created in January 1995. In the first quarter of this year, it had more than 1.9 million U.S. visitors, a drop from its peak of 3.5 million in the first quarter of last year, according to SimilarWeb. Daily Stormer has grown steadily, from 127,343 U.S. visitors in the third quarter of 2013, when it was launched, to 949,170 in the first quarter of 2015.

Not their fault Roof, who has been charged with murder in the deaths of nine Black worshippers at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church, is believed to have posted a manifesto indicating he was inspired by material on the website of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group formed in 1985 and whose website was created in 1996.

Jared Taylor, a spokesman, said the group could

said.

The judge subsequently came under criticism when he said Roof’s family was also “victims.”

“I set the tone of my court. It’s my courtroom.

I take control over it, and I conduct business within the scope of the law,” Gosnell exclaimed.

“I’m a Charlestonian,” he said. “Our community is hurt. People have to reach out and tell them, it’s good to grieve…It’s best to learn how to forgive…You saw what these people did today. These people, people in Charleston, our citizens, they hurt, but they will learn how to forgive.”

Strong or weak?

The families’ forgiveness – without condition and bestowed on a confessed killer who thus far has shown no remorse – set up a firestorm of online reaction.

On Facebook, Jacksonville pastor A.W. Barlow, Sr. supported the families’ actions and praised Pinckney as a great pastor.

“The mark of a GENUINE CHRISTIAN is one’s ability to replicate that which Jesus did to save us from our sins. Namely, forgive from the heart & soul or the mind will and emotions,” Barlow wrote.

“Jesus preached forgiveness for three years before he was crucified. He even taught...‘If you will not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive your trespasses.’

“Jesus backed up this very powerful teaching by forgiving his (ignorant) murderers before they completed the task at hand. While hanging on the cross, Jesus prayed that

Websites like Daily Stormer are accused of radicalizing disaffected Whites, much like ISIL is accused of using the Internet to radicalize disgruntled Muslim youth. not be blamed for Roof’s rampage.

“The impact on Roof obviously was terrible and unfortunate, and we completely, unequivocally condemn any kind of violence and illegality,” Taylor said in a telephone interview.

“But does that mean the council’s website has some sort of responsibility for its actions? The answer is unequivocally no. We put forward information. What he did with this information is his responsibility.”

Legal free speech Therein lies the danger of such sites, said Heidi Beirich, who heads the

the Father would forgive those who were actively killing him.”

‘Dripping with blood’ Former Tampa resident Louis Muhammad – a member of the Nation of Islam and a native of Charleston – vehemently disagreed.

“We as a people have a misunderstanding of forgiveness,” he replied. “We forgive our enemies who continuously offend us and say this is the way of Jesus.

Did not Jesus turn over the tables of those merchants in the Temple? Did he not say that he would return with a sword in his hand dripping with blood?

“That devil who came in the church was a liar and a murderer. They trusted him. They wanted to be witnesses of Jesus to him.

And that devil murdered them and we are (giving) forgiveness (to) a man who hasn’t even repented. That shows our weakness as a people and that we are afraid to confront evil.

“Well that day is over…

Come on, Black people, wake up to what is happening around you and stop using religion to put the people to sleep. We are at war and if you don’t see it, Satan has you locked to him.

“Challenge these forces and see who shows up… the man I’m walking with (Min. Louis Farrakhan) you can’t walk with as no punk. This Satan of White supremacy is going down.”

Pinckney remembered On Wednesday, thousands came to the South Carolina State House to pay respects to Pinckney,

Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Most make a point of condemning overt acts of violence, even as they post reams of material aimed at fueling White rage and paranoia, she said.

“They’re smart enough not to make open calls for violence,” she said. “It’s all First Amendment-protected speech.”

But, Beirich added, “people are reading this stuff, they’re sucking it in, and they’re getting enraged, and we’re having lone wolf violence.”

Race war is on On June 19, the day Roof

lying in state in an open casket a week after he was shot and killed.

By the day’s end, about 4,000 visitors had made the slow moving journey from the State House grounds through its lobby, passing by the senator’s body.

Pinckney’s casket was placed between the House and Senate, where the Democrat had held office since 1997, first as a state representative and, later, as a senator.

Pinckney, who was married with two daughters, started out in the state House as a legislative page.

Later, at 23, he was the youngest African-American to be elected to the Legislature at the time.

During the viewing, a black curtain hung over two doors, obscuring from view the State House’s north steps and grounds, where a Confederate flag flies. South Carolina governor Nikki Haley refused to use a legal technicality to remove the Confederate flag, and Pinckney’s casket passed underneath it enroute to the viewing.

Political impact Three leaders in the South in recent days – all Republicans – have called for the removal of the flag that opponents say represents the defense of slavery.

Haley said she wanted to take down the Confederate battle flag from her state’s Capitol grounds last week, and lawmakers there will debate the matter.

Gov. Robert Bentley of Alabama on Wednesday ordered Confederate flags removed from a Confederate War Memorial at the Capitol, and Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn said the Confeder-

was arraigned, Anglin had this to say: “I don’t support what Roof did, in any way, but there is now no going back from it,” he wrote on his site. “We are in the middle of a race war. The random murders of Whites are going to begin any minute now, across the country.

The media will try to cover it up, but there will be too many murders to hide.”

Susman reported from New York and Pearce from Los Angeles. Times staff writers Richard A. Serrano in Washington and Scott Wilson in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

ate battle flag making up a portion of his state’s flag should be removed.

Florida impact Black Democrats are so far the only voices calling for removal of Confederate images. Sen. Arthenia Joyner wrote to Sen. David Simmons, a Republican and chairman of the Rules Committee, on Wednesday asking him to schedule discussion to remove the Confederate flag from their chamber’s official seal.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ordered the removal of the Confederate flag from Capitol grounds in 2001, but other memorials honoring the Confederacy remain in Tallahassee. A monument honoring Leon County’s Confederate soldiers and the battles they fought sits on the Old Capitol grounds.

Some lawmakers even want to reconsider Florida’s state flag, which consists of the state seal in the center crossed with red bars, a la the Confederate battle flag.

The red bars were added by a statewide referendum in 1900. Thanks to Jim Crow laws, the electorate consisted almost entirely of white citizens.

“Florida’s flag does look very similar to the Confederate flag, and maybe this is the time to consider changing it,” said Sen. Geraldine Thompson, a Democrat.

Hazel Trice Edney of the Trice Edney Newswire; George Curry of NNPA; Gray Rohrer of the Orlando Sentinel; and Jamie Self of The State (Columbia, S.C.) / TNS all contributed to this report.

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Southern states grapple with Confederate flag issue COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS

The preliminary moves made this week in South Carolina to haul the Confederate battle flag down from state Capitol grounds has sparked a wave of soul searching by other Southern states where the emblem still enjoys popularity and is displayed on license plates and monuments.

If South Carolina follows through on Gov. Nikki Haley’s pledge to remove the Confederate battle flag from outside the state Capitol in Columbia, Mississippi will stand alone in having the polarizing symbol waving at seat of state government.

Calls for removing the flag — seen as a sign of Southern heritage by some, and racism by others — have been mounting since a White Richland County man shot and killed nine Blacks in a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on June 17.

Down in Alabama On Wednesday, Republican Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley ordered the Confederate battle flag removed from a memorial on State House grounds. Earlier this week, Mississippi’ House speaker — a conservative White Republican — stunned many in the state by declaring he thought it was time for the symbol to go.

“We must always remember our past, but that does not mean we must let it define us,” Philip Gunn, said in a statement.

“As a Christian, I believe our state’s flag has become a point of offense that needs to be removed. We need to begin having conversations about changing Mississippi’s flag.”

‘This is the day’ Haley on Monday joined increasing numbers of public officials and business leaders calling for the flag’s removal. The effort has gained support from prominent public officials nationwide, including Presi-

dent Barack Obama and 2016 presidential hopefuls.

Wal-Mart and NASCAR are among the corporate giants disavowing the flag.

Inside the South Carolina State House, some lawmakers expressed concern about outside pressure forcing a debate on the flag — a point of bitter argument in the past — while they are grieving the loss of a colleague and a friend.

Others were springing into action.

The Democratic caucuses in the House and Senate, a minority in both bodies, agree the flag needs to come down.

His voice trembling, Democratic state Rep. Joe Neal implored lawmakers Tuesday to “put aside partisan bickering and understand that all of us are human beings and all of us deserve to be treated like human beings.”

“If ever there’s going to be a day when South Carolina can rise and be the state that it claims that it is, this is the day,” Neal said, receiving an ovation.

Flags of the Confederate States of America Official flags of the Confederate States

“The Stars and Bars” The first flag featured eight stars for each state the Confederacy had at the time. The flag’s similarity to the U.S. flag created problems on the battlefield.

“The Stainless Banner” The second official flag was adopted in 1863. Its first official use was on Stonewall Jackson’s casket.

Battle flags

The third national flag was adopted in 1865, shortly before the surrender of the South.

Current state flags

Army of Northern Virginia

Army of Tennessee

This flag was issued to troops in November 1861 to distinguish them from Union soldiers. It is featured on Confederate national flags, Mississippi’s flag, and is flown at the South Carolina Statehouse.

Based on the Northern Virginia flag, this rectangular flag was issued to troops in 1864. The 13 stars represent the Confederate states plus one, hinting at the possibility of states like Maryland, Missouri or Kentucky seceding.

The current Mississippi state flag, adopted in 1894, features the Confederate battle flag in the upper left corner, and Georgia’s flag, adopted in 2004, is similar to the original “Stars and Bars” Confederate flag.

Source: Smithsonian Institution, Museum of the Confederacy, South Carolina Statehouse, Georgia state government, Fotolia Graphic: Tribune News Service

White supremacist donates money to 40 GOP candidates Newly elected Black Congresswoman among recipients of cash

BY GREG GORDON MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU/TNS

White supremacist leader Earl Holt III gave more than $80,000 in campaign money in recent years to more than 40 members of Congress and candidates for federal office – all Republicans – ironically including the party’s first

Black congresswoman.

Holt heads the Council for Conservative Citizens, the group whose Internet postings may have inspired Dylann Roof, the 21-yearold accused of killing nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church.

The politicians, including GOP presidential candidates Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Rick Santorum of Penn-

sylvania, as well as 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, sought quickly to put distance between themselves and the avowed racist. Several of the recipients said they would donate Holt’s donations to the church or the victims’ families.

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biggest recipient, said he would give $8,500 from Holt to survivors of those slain. Paul said he would also send $2,250 to a church fund for those families.

It wasn’t clear whether Holt was aware that Mia Love is African-American when he donated three times to her Utah congressional campaigns from 2012 until last year. Love narrowly won a House seat last November.

(A spokesman for Love said Monday that she would be returning the three donations Holt made to her campaign.)

The next largest recipient of Holt’s donations was former Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, who got $4,500.

Akin’s political fortunes flagged shortly after he won the Republican senatorial nomination in 2012 and suggested that women who were victims of “legitimate rape” were less likely to get pregnant.

Holt also contributed at least $3,200 to former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012.

Former Virginia Sen. George Allen got $1,000 from Holt in 2011 and 2012 as he considered whether to try to win back his seat from Democratic Sen. Jim Webb. During a campaign stop in 2006, Allen turned to a dark-skinned Democratic tracker who was videotaping his appearance and called him a “macaca.”

More church donations Other recipients included Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin ($1,250) and freshman Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina ($1,000), Tom Cotton of Arkansas ($1,500) and Bill Cassidy of

Louisiana ($1,000).

Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said he would give the Charleston church double the $1,250 his committees got from Holt.

“As I told 5,000 or so members at my local church, where I preached Sunday, the attack in Charleston was an act of pure evil perpetrated against our own brothers and sisters,” he said in a statement. “It was even more sinister since it came during a prayer meeting in which our fellow Christians would have been praying for evil actors like the shooter.”

Holt gave $2,000 to Chris McDaniel, a Mississippi state senator who narrowly lost a primary election last fall in his bid to unseat six-term Republican Sen. Thad Cochran.

Cochran got a late boost when Democratic-leaning African-American voters crossed over to cast primary votes for the veteran senator, whose seniority helps deliver federal dollars to the state, one of the nation’s poorest.

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley hugs U.S. Congressman James Clyburn after she called for legislators to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the State House during a press conference on June 22 in Columbia, S.C.

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JUNE 26 – JULY 2, 2015

Two men from Charleston Seems like everyone on social media has posted something about the tragic murders of Black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. But as always, The Gantt Report will provide a perspective that so-called Black leaders, Black benefactors, Black community supporters and friends of exploited, oppressed and oftentimes-murdered Black people don’t want you to hear!

Always racist South Carolina has long been the role model of how states should mistreat and disrespect Black people. Instead of talking stupid about the geographical areas where some Black people live, someone should try to explain why a city like Charleston is the way it is and the way it will always be, until all of the people in South Carolina rise up and oppose the city’s unjust ways and its racist historical traditions.

The media sources that you love will suggest how unusual it is for some Carolina Whites to believe that “Blacks want to take over,” or that “Blacks rape White women.”

That kind of mentality has permeated South Carolina ever since there was a South Carolina!

Perhaps I am the man I am and I write the way I write because my own ancestry takes me right back to South and North Carolina. There are many Gantts in the Carolinas. I have even attended Gantt family reunions in South Carolina.

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Comparatively speaking, South Carolinian slavemaster Gantt must have been OK as slavemasters were during slavery days, because there are not too many of us Black Gantts!

The Black man Let’s start with the Black guy and his connection to Charleston, the killing of Blacks and Whites, and the very church where nine Blacks were murdered by a White racist.

Denmark Vesey, known as Telemaque (1767 – July 2, 1822), was a former slave in Charleston who is noted for his plan for “the rising,” a major slave revolt in 1822. By some accounts, it would have involved thousands of slaves in the city and others on plantations miles away.

A skilled carpenter, Vesey had won a lottery and purchased his freedom at age 32 in 1799. He had a good business and a family, but was not able to buy his wife and children out of slavery.

Vesey became active in the Second Presbyterian Church. In 1818, he was among the founders of an African Methodist Episcopal church in the city, which later became the Emanuel AME

Church. The church was supported by White clergy in the city and rapidly attracted 1,848 members, making it the second-largest AME congregation in the nation. City officials twice closed it for violating slave laws related to times and purpose of gatherings.

Vesey and his followers were said to be planning to kill slaveholders in Charleston, liberate the slaves, and sail to the Black republic of Haiti for refuge.

They were not just interested in killing slaveholders. Their objective was not to “rape” White women in South Carolina. They planned on killing every White man, woman and child they ran across in South Carolina!

Slavery-time snitches and informants, just like the ones of today, couldn’t wait to rat on Vesey and run to Massa and tell them about Vesey’s plans. City officials had a militia arrest the plot’s leaders and many suspected followers in June before the rising could begin.

Vesey and five slaves were among the first group of men rapidly judged guilty by the secret proceedings of a city-appointed court, condemned to death, and executed by hanging on July 2, 1822.

Don’t look for any holidays or schools or streets named after Vesey in South Carolina or anywhere else in America.

The White man But everywhere you look, you

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Roof isn’t a ‘terrorist,’ but #BlackLivesMatter may be There’s a lot of noise asking why government officials from the Charleston Police Department to the FBI to President Obama refuse to call Charleston shooter Dylan Roof a “terrorist.”

As FBI Director James Comey explained, the term “terrorist” has a very specific legal meaning. Legally, a terrorist is somebody aiming to influence or change government or corporate policies by breaking the law.

By that definition, Dylan Roof – who simply wanted to kill as many Black people as he could – is NOT a terrorist.

No change The willingness to kill a lot of Black people is NOT a change in corporate or governmental policy. Killing lots of Black folks has been business as usual ever since Europeans landed in the New World 500 years ago.

The Charleston shooter is a deranged kook though, because unlike the Koch Brothers, or R.J. Reynolds, or Aetna Insurance, or Bank of America, United Fruit, US Steel or the Massachusetts Bay Company – all of whom filled cemeteries and raked in billions – Dylan Roof killed a group of Black people for free.

However, if you take a picture of or write a description for publication about what goes on in a food, agricultural or animal processing facility; if you’ve been protesting the leaky oil pipelines and “bomb

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trains” that wind through thousands of communities – the FBI and federally-funded “fusion centers” have no trouble designating you an actual or potential “terrorist” or “eco-terrorist.”

Fit the definition The #BlackLivesMatter folks who break the law blocking traffic fit the definition of terrorism quite neatly. Chelsea Manning is doing 35 years in federal prison for espionage – “aiding and abetting terrorism” – by releasing video of US soldiers murdering Iraqi civilians, and handing over cable traffic showing everything from US State Department intervention to keep Haitian wages low, to secret US bombing campaigns, to US torture, to mercenary companies trafficking in children, and more, to Wikileaks – which distributed them around the world.

The terms “terrorist” and “terrorism” have never been our words. Our oppressors have always deployed them.

The first time I recall hearing about “terrorists” was in the 1970s. The White colonial regimes of Angola, Mozambique and Rhodesia called Black Africans “terrorists when they took up arms and fought for their people’s freedom. The re-

gimes then declared they were on the front lines of a global war on terror.

Charleston shooter Dylan Roof wore their flag – a Rhodesian flag – on his jacket.

Never decided The poor and oppressed have never had the privilege of deciding who was a terrorist, because the terrorist has always been a handy construction of the rich and powerful.

That construction justifies Homeland Security departments, militarized policing, and a country with 5 percent of the world’s population spending half the world’s military budget on its so-called “global war on terror.” Our government needs terrorism and terrorists to justify itself so badly that FBI and other police agencies constantly manufacture “terrorist plots” in which they ensnare the ignorant and unwary.

Let’s get real If breaking the law to change government or corporate policy makes you a terrorist, then Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Chelsea Manning, Wikileaks’ Julian Assange, anti-pipeline activists, and #BlackLivesMatter protestors blocking roads and streets all pass the test.

Dylan Roof – who wants things pretty much the way they already are, only more so – does not.

Bruce Dixon is managing editor of BlackAgendaReport.com.

can see something in remembrance of John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850). Cities and counties are named after him. Streets and schools everywhere carry his name to this day.

Calhoun began his political career as a White nationalist, modernizer, and proponent of a strong national government.

He is best known for his intense and original defense of slavery as something positive.

Calhoun built his reputation by redefining republicanism to include approval of slavery and minority rights – with the Southern states the minority in question. He asserted that Southern Whites, outnumbered in the United States by voters of the more densely populated Northern states, were one such minority deserving special protection.

Calhoun led the pro-slavery faction in the U.S. Senate in the 1830s and 1840s, opposing both abolitionism and attempts to limit the expansion of slavery into the West. He was a major advocate of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which required local law enforcement officials in free states to return escaped slaves.

Calhoun saw owning slaves as a badge of civilization. He believed that the spread of slavery into South Carolina’s backcountry improved public morals by ridding the countryside of the shiftless poor Whites. Calhoun was convinced that slavery was the key to the success of the American dream.

Calhoun died 11 years before the start of the American Civil War, but defense of slavery was

partially responsible for escalating Southern threats of secession in the face of mounting abolitionist sentiment in the North.

No surprise It’s is no surprise to me that worshipers at the church in South Carolina that had Denmark Vesey as one of its founders was the place chosen by a White racist to be the place where he would murder innocent Black people.

My ancestors from that state lived long enough to instill in many “Black Gantts” the courage to fight for what is right. Most of us are church people like Denmark Vesey was. But we know oftentimes “proper limits” might have to be exceeded in order to right a wrong in South Carolina or in any other place in the world.

Sometimes marching and praying might not be all that needs to be done.

Sometimes we have to do more than beg governments and politicians to take down Confederate flags. Sometimes we even have to defend our people, our churches and our communities!

Calhoun taught his family and friends why Blacks should be enslaved, exploited and oppressed.

But you tell me. Where are the descendants of slave revolters that taught their families and friends why they should rise up, rebel and fight against the racism and slavemaster mentality that exists right now in South Carolina?

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Why must Black Americans always forgive?

I cannot stop shaking my head at the comments I keep reading on traditional and social media from some Whites (emphasis on “some” for the sensitive ones and their Black mutual support lackeys) suggesting that all Blacks should follow the examples of the victims family members who told Dylann Roof during last week’s bail hearing that they forgave or loved him, despite his acts.

Miss me with that.

Whites of this ilk who are so inclined two lecture Black folks ‘bout forgiveness have yet to forgive ISIS/ISIL for cutting off Christians’ heads, Al-Qaeda for multiple terror attacks, or Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, or Moammar Ghadaffi for their roles in sponsoring terror.

Such folks have offered no public forgiveness for the Tsarnaev brothers for the Boston terror attacks or for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the 9/11 conspirators held at Gitmo.

No forgiveness Whites of this sort still gripe about what Hillary Clinton knew or did not know about the terror attack that killed American Ambassador Christopher Stevens and his guards three years ago; there is no forgiveness being offered

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for those Libyan killers.

You hypocrites do not forgive the Palestinian Liberation Organization that you detest so much for primitive rocket attacks on Israel that often lead to devastating counterattacks by the powerful Israeli army.

Your grandparents offered no prayers of forgiveness for the Japanese who attacked Pearl Harbor. They did not pray for the souls of the Japanese civilians killed during bombings of the Japanese mainland with both conventional and atomic weapons in the war’s waning days. Ditto for your grandparents, as far as firebombing German civilians during World War II. There were no cries for forgiving the Nazi high command at Nuremberg for their role in the horrific Shoah. And it was your ancestors who permanently etched “Remember the Maine” and “Remember the Alamo” into our historical lexicon and lore with neither forgiveness nor mercy for the Spanish or the Mexicans in those conflicts.

But Black folks are to forgive and forget slavery, Jim Crow, lynchings, discrimination past and present, and injustices to this very minute in the criminal justice system.

And Natives are supposed to forgive and forget centuries of genocide, smallpox, pilfering of their lands through “Manifest Destiny,” broken treaties, broken promises and broken lives.

So in summary, it seems that to some White folks, non-White folks are supposed to forgive and forget White oppressions, atrocities, genocide and acts of violence, while we all are supposed to remember and commemorate times when other groups have attacked America or American interests.

Got you. I see how this works.

For the record, I reject this definition of “forgiveness” because to me, it is horrifically one-sided and does not force you to confront yourselves.

Chuck Hobbs is former prosecutor who is now a Tallahassee-based defense attorney in his own firm, the Law Office of Charles Hobbs II. Contact him at chuck_ hobbs@yahoo.com.

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EDITORIAL

‘I don’t deny that we are in fact superior’ Editor’s note: This “manifesto” appears on a website, The Last Rhodesian, registered to Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old who is accused of killing nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. on June 17. It is strongly believed, but not yet confirmed, that Roof wrote this himself. It is reprinted just as it appears online, including misspellings and grammatical errors.

I was not raised in a racist home or environment. Living in the South, almost every White person has a small amount of racial awareness, simply beause of the numbers of negroes in this part of the country.

But it is a superficial awareness.

Growing up, in school, the White and black kids would make racial jokes toward each other, but all they were were jokes. Me and White friends would sometimes would watch things that would make us think that “blacks were the real racists” and other elementary thoughts like this, but there was no real understanding behind it.

The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was.

It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right.

But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words “black on White crime” into Google, and I have never been the same since that day.

The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders. I was in disbelief. At this moment I realized that something was very wrong. How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of these black on White murders got ignored?

From this point I researched deeper and found out what was happening in Europe. I saw that the same things were happening in England and France, and in all the other Western European countries. Again I found myself in disbelief.

As an American we are taught to accept living in the melting pot, and black and other minorities have just as much right to be here as we do, since we are all immigrants. But Europe is the homeland of White people, and in many ways the situation is even worse there. From here I found out about the Jewish problem and other issues facing our race, and I can say today that I am completely racially aware.

Blacks I think it is is fitting to start off with the group I have the most real life experience with, and the group that is the biggest problem for Americans.

Niggers are stupid and violent.

At the same time they have the capacity to be very slick. Black people view everything through a racial lense. Thats what racial awareness is, its viewing everything that happens through a racial lense.

They are always thinking about the fact that they are black. This is part of the reason they get offended so easily, and think that some thing are intended to be racist towards them, even when a White person wouldnt be thinking about race. The other reason is the Jewish agitation of the black race.

DYLANN ROOF Black people are racially aware almost from birth, but White people on average dont think about race in their daily lives. And this is our problem. We need to and have to.

Say you were to witness a dog being beat by a man. You are almost surely going to feel very sorry for that dog. But then say you were to witness a dog biting a man. You will most likely not feel the same pity you felt for the dog for the man. Why? Because dogs are lower than men.

This same analogy applies to black and White relations. Even today, blacks are subconsciously viewed by White people are lower beings. They are held to a lower standard in general. This is why they are able to get away with things like obnoxious behavior in public. Because it is expected of them.

Modern history classes instill a subconscious White superiority complex in Whites and an inferiority complex in blacks. This White superiority complex that comes from learning of how we dominated other peoples is also part of the problem I have just mentioned.

But of course I dont deny that we are in fact superior.

I wish with a passion that niggers were treated terribly throughout history by Whites, that every White person had an ancestor who owned slaves, that segregation was an evil an oppressive institution, and so on. Because if it was all it true, it would make it so much easier for me to accept our current situation.

But it isnt true. None of it is. We are told to accept what is happening to us because of ancestors wrong doing, but it is all based on historical lies, exaggerations and myths. I have tried endlessly to think of reasons we deserve this, and I have only came back more irritated because there are no reasons.

Only a fourth to a third of people in the South owned even one slave. Yet every White person is treated as if they had a slave owning ancestor. This applies to in the states where slavery never existed, as well as people whose families immigrated after slavery was abolished.

I have read hundreds of slaves narratives from my state. And almost all of them were positive.

One sticks out in my mind where an old ex-slave recounted how the day his mistress died was one of the saddest days of his life. And in many of these narratives the slaves told of how their masters didnt even allowing whipping on his plantation.

Segregation was not a bad thing.

It was a defensive measure. Segregation did not exist to hold back negroes. It existed to protect us from them.

And I mean that in multiple

Emanuel A.M.E. and the buoyancy of hope Once again, American society has been wounded by the dangerous forces of hatred and violence that have always shadowed the gleaming idealism of the American Creed.

As usual when the mask of American innocence slips, the crowd that loves to glibly boast of “American exceptionalism” ran for cover.

Fox News propagandists led the way in desperately fleeing from the clear evidence of Dylann Roof’s racism. Instead, they claimed he was striking against Christianity and “religious freedom.” The same pose was adopted by the Internet’s overtly White supremacist websites and the trolls of the right-wing Twitter mob.

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But Dylann Roof’s own words and Facebook posts leave no doubt of his motivation – and leave no room for the cowardice of not confronting them.

Hope remains Yet, even in this moment of grief, we ought to recognize the several truths that offer “the buoyancy of hope,” said President Obama, quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

ways. Not only did it protect us from having to interact with them, and from being physically harmed by them, but it protected us from being brought down to their level. Integration has done nothing but bring Whites down to level of brute animals.

The best example of this is obviously our school system. Now White parents are forced to move to the suburbs to send their children to “good schools”.

But what constitutes a “good school”? The fact is that how good a school is considered directly corresponds to how White it is.

I hate with a passion the whole idea of the suburbs. To me it represents nothing but scared White people running. Running because they are too weak, scared, and brainwashed to fight.

Why should we have to flee the cities we created for the security of the suburbs? Why are the suburbs secure in the first place? Because they are White.

The pathetic part is that these White people dont even admit to themselves why they are moving.

They tell themselves it is for better schools or simply to live in a nicer neighborhood. But it is honestly just a way to escape niggers and other minorities.

But what about the White people that are left behind? What about the White children who, because of school zoning laws, are forced to go to a school that is 90 percent black? Do we really think that that White kid will be able to go one day without being picked on for being White, or called a “white boy”? And who is fighting for him? Who is fighting for these White people forced by economic circumstances to live among negroes? No one, but someone has to.

Here I would also like to touch on the idea of a Norhtwest Front.

I think this idea is beyond stupid.

Why should I for example, give up the beauty and history of my state to go to the Norhthwest? To me the whole idea just parralells the concept of White people running to the suburbs. The whole idea is pathetic and just another way to run from the problem without facing it.

Some people feel as though the South is beyond saving, that we have too many blacks here. To this I say look at history. The South had a higher ratio of blacks when we were holding them as slaves. Look at South Africa, and how such a small minority held the black in apartheid for years and years.

Speaking of South Africa, if anyone thinks that think will eventually just change for the better, consider how in South Africa they have affirmative action for the black population that makes up 80 percent of the population.

It is far from being too late for America or Europe. I believe that even if we made up only 30 percent of the population we could take it back completely. But by no means should we wait any longer to take drastic action.

Anyone who thinks that White and black people look as different as we do on the outside, but are somehow magically the same on the inside, is delusional. How could our faces, skin, hair, and body structure all be different, but our brains be exactly the same? This is the nonsense we are led to believe.

Negroes have lower Iqs, lower impulse control, and higher testosterone levels in generals. These three things alone are a recipe for violent behavior.

If a scientist publishes a paper One truth lies in our learning something of the very people – a cross-section of the American people – who were gunned down.

Their being lost to the whirlwind of evil shouldn’t be allowed to obscure their fundamental goodness and commitment to Christianity’s most cherished precepts – as shown in their families’ heart-rending declarations of forgiveness toward Roof.

Our refuge The tragedy has also underscored the real and symbolic meaning to Black Americans of the Black Church.

It was and remains our piece of the rock. A refuge against the storm of racism and malicious indifference that has swirled about us outside its walls. A vault that has held the treasures of fellowship and the space to practice communal leadership as well as religious faith.

And an armory where Black

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on the differences between the races in Western Europe or Americans, he can expect to lose his job.

There are personality traits within human families, and within different breeds of cats or dogs, so why not within the races?

A horse and a donkey can breed and make a mule, but they are still two completely different animals.

Just because we can breed with the other races doesnt make us the same.

In a modern history class it is always emphasized that, when talking about “bad” things Whites have done in history, they were White. But when we lern about the numerous, almost countless wonderful things Whites have done, it is never pointed out that these people were White.

Yet when we learn about anything important done by a black person in history, it is always pointed out repeatedly that they were black. For example when we learn about how George Washington carver was the first nigger smart enough to open a peanut.

On another subject I want to say this. Many White people feel as though they dont have a unique culture. The reason for this is that White culture is world culture.

I dont mean that our culture is made up of other cultures, I mean that our culture has been adopted by everyone in the world. This makes us feel as though our culture isnt special or unique.

Say for example that every business man in the world wore a kimono, that every skyscraper was in the shape of a pagoda, that every door was a sliding one, and that everyone ate every meal with chopsticks. This would probably make a Japanese man feel as though he had no unique traditional culture.

I have noticed a great disdain for race mixing White women within the White nationalists community, bordering on insanity it. These women are victims, and they can be saved. Stop.

Jews Unlike many White naitonalists, I am of the opinion that the majority of American and European jews are White. In my opinion the issues with jews is not their blood, but their identity. I think that if we could somehow destroy the jewish identity, then they wouldnt cause much of a problem. The problem is that Jews look White, and in many cases are White, yet they see themselves as minorities.

Just like niggers, most jews are always thinking about the fact that they are jewish. The other issue is that they network. If we could somehow turn every jew blue for 24 hours, I think there would be a mass awakening, because people would be able to see plainly what is going on.

I dont pretend to understand why jews do what they do. They are enigma.

Americans forged and buffed to a luminous shine both their civic faith in the American Ideal and the weapon — nonviolent protest — they would use to demand the full measure of their American citizenship.

Another insight is that Emanuel AME is “historic” not just because of its early 19th-century founding, but because it met again and again the challenge of being a fullservice Black communal institution.

Not unique In that regard, Mother Emanuel is, thankfully, far from unique.

Innumerable Black communities across the country have a “Mother Church” of this or that Protestant denomination whose roots go back to at least the late 1800s.

Another bright gleam the tragedy cannot extinguish was the immediate rush of people of all backgrounds to stand in solidarity with the congregants of Mother

Hispanics Hispanics are obviously a huge problem for Americans. But there are good hispanics and bad hispanics. I remember while watching hispanic television stations, the shows and even the commercials were more White than our own.

They have respect for White beauty, and a good portion of hispanics are White. It is a well known fact that White hispanics make up the elite of most hispanics countries. There is good White blood worht saving in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and even Brasil.

But they are still our enemies.

East Asians I have great respent for the East Asian races. Even if we were to go extinct they could carry something on. They are by nature very racist and could be great allies of the White race. I am not opposed at all to allies with the Northeast Asian races.

Patriotism I hate the sight of the American flag. Modern American patriotism is an absolute joke. People pretending like they have something to be proud while White people are being murdered daily in the streets.

Many veterans believe we owe them something for “protecting our way of life” or “protecting our freedom”. But im not sure what way of life they are talking about.

How about we protect the White race and stop fighting for the jews.

I will say this though, I myself would have rather lived in 1940’s American than Nazi Germany, and no this is not ignorance speaking, it is just my opinion. So I dont blame the veterans of any wars up until after Vietnam, because at least they had an American to be proud of and fight for.

An Explanation To take a saying from a film, “I see all this stuff going on, and I dont see anyone doing anything about it. And it pisses me off.”. To take a saying from my favorite film, “Even if my life is worth less than a speck of dirt, I want to use it for the good of society.”.

I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.

Unfortunately at the time of writing I am in a great hurry and some of my best thoughts, actually many of them have been to be left out and lost forever. But I believe enough great White minds are out there already.

Emanuel.

That was most dramatically illustrated by the actions of Debbie Dills and Todd Frady, two White North Carolinians whose call to a local police officer in the morning of June 18 directly led to Dylann Roof’s capture.

Dills, who spotted Roof in his car while she was driving to her job at Frady’s Florist Shop, said, “I saw the news coverage last night. … Since it happened I was praying for them and the church. I was in the right place at the right time that the Lord puts you.”

That shining compassion, sense of kinship and determination to redeem a terrible wrong both illustrate and justify “the buoyancy of hope” that has always fueled Black Americans’ faith in America and in their march toward the future.

Lee A. Daniels is based in New York City. Click on this story at www.flcourier.com to write your own response.

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NATION

JUNE 26 – JULY 2, 2015 will begin in Selma, Ala., on Aug. 1. Selma is the city where 50 years ago another historic march changed the civil rights landscape forever, but also in a state which, more recently, brought the Shelby v. Holder case to the Supreme Court resulting in the striking down of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. It will end 40 days later in early September in Washington, D.C.

‘A third reconstruction’

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Thousands wait downtown to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 8 in Selma, Ala.

Return to Selma: Voting rights march set for Aug. 1 NAACP, other groups to participate in ‘America’s Journey for Justice March’

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With the Lincoln Memorial towering behind him, NAACP President and CEO Cornell Brooks, joined by leaders of a broad coalition of partners, announced

“America’s Journey for Justice,” a historic march across the country to focus national attention on voting rights and other pressing human and civil rights issues.

Under the theme “Our Lives, Our Votes, Our Jobs, Our Schools Matter,” repre-

sentatives of the Democracy Initiative, Communications Workers of America, Common Cause, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 1199 SEIU, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Sierra Club, Nation-

al Bar Association, Black Women’s Roundtable and National Congress of Black Women and other supporters will march while participating in nationwide demonstrations, teach-ins and in a #JusticeSummer social media campaign.

The 860-mile journey

University of Virginia student reflects on arrest and goals Charges dropped against Martese Johnson, injured by officers outside pub

BY JOEY MATTHEWS TRICE EDNEY NEWS WIRE

Martese Johnson still has two scars on his forehead and one under his left eye.

The rising fourth-year University of Virginia honors student also bears deep emotional wounds, for which he has undergone counseling.

The scars are reminders to Johnson of what can happen to African-American males when they are confronted by White law enforcement officers in what would seem to be even the most routine of circumstances.

Three months after he was slammed face first onto the pavement during a questionable arrest by three White Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control officers outside a Charlottesville pub, memories of that night still haunt him.

“I don’t think I’ll ever fully get past it,” Johnson recently told the Free Press.

“I think it will last the rest of my life.

“Regardless of what I do, someone will always know me for this incident, personally or professionally,” he added.

‘Done nothing wrong’ Johnson was charged with public intoxication and obstruction of justice — both misdemeanors — after his violent takedown on March 17. Prosecutors announced on June 12 that they were dropping the charges.

Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Chapman says he dropped the charges after determining Johnson “had

done nothing wrong” before ABC agents confronted him to determine if he was using a fake I.D. or was intoxicated.

He said he could have charged Johnson with resisting detention, but decided that trying to slap the young man with a criminal record would “not be right.”

Johnson, who recently turned 21, spoke from Washington, where he is completing an internship this summer with the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank.

He said he focuses on issues pertinent to millennials, such as criminal justice reform, climate change and campus sexual assault.

Blessed to be alive Johnson discussed the night of his very public arrest.

“I was not drunk,” Johnson said.

Images of his bloodied face spread via social media, sparking local and national outrage and demonstrations.

Johnson said that at the time, he was well aware of the highly publicized deaths of Black males by law enforcement officers in locales such as Ferguson, Mo., New York City, Cleveland and North Charleston, S.C. “I look at those situations and feel blessed I’m still alive,” he said in retrospect. “When they took me down, I could have hit the pavement in a different way and things could have turned out much differently.”

Johnson said his attorney, Daniel Watkins of the Richmond-based Williams Mullen law firm, sent him a text message before they were to meet to go to the Charlottesville court.

“At first, I thought something had gone wrong,” Johnson said. “When he

For the last three years, Martese Johnson has been leadership development chair of the Black Student Alliance at the University of Virginia and has been vice polemarch of the school’s Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity chapter. told me the news, I paused for a second. But because I was really excited, I had to scream.”

Watkins told the Free Press shortly after a press conference outside the courthouse on June 12, “I’m happy with the result.

We’re happy that justice was served.”

‘Fine young man’ George Keith Martin, rector of the University of Virginia (UVA), concurred.

“Martese is a fine young man with a very bright future. I wish him well in his fourth year at the University of Virginia, and I am pleased that the cloud of the ABC charges has been lifted,” said Martin, who also is managing partner of McGuire Woods’ Richmond office.

Chapman, the Charlottesville commonwealth’s attorney, also said he would not pursue charges against the ABC agents involved. He said after reviewing an investigation by the Virginia State Police that involved interviews with 52 people, including 15 witnesses to the bloody

arrest, he found the ABC agents acted properly.

He said the agents had authority to detain Johnson and that he found no indication they acted with “malice or racial animosity” in their handling of the situation.

Chapman also noted that Johnson resisted when they sought to handcuff him.

Training for officers In response to the incident, Gov. Terry McAuliffe ordered the state police investigation.

He also issued an executive order requiring retraining by Sept. 1 of all ABC agents in “use of force, cultural diversity, effective interaction with youth and young adults and community policing.”

Perry Hicks, a Richmond security officer and former special court appointed conservator of the peace, said he believes Chapman’s office cleared the officers to “establish a positive defense against what will be any possible civil litigation” on Johnson’s behalf.

“We gather in the shadow of Lincoln, we find ourselves at a perilous point in history — what some call, a third reconstruction,” Brooks said. “We are facing opposition by adversaries of change, those determined to turn back the clock on progress and stop the momentum of a changing tide of American demographics, those who chose to stand in the way of achieving a fairer, more just America.”

Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human, echoed Brooks’ concerns.

“2015 is a very troubling year for our democracy and our nation’s promise of dignity and equality for all. On nearly every indicator of progress, people of color are falling further behind: Our schools are more segregated, our levels of unemployment continue to be unacceptably high, we face continued discrimination in voting, and our incarceration rates have increased exponentially,” he said.

“In the midst of political grandstanding and gridlock on a host of important issues, we cannot rest on historic accomplishments; we must keep on keeping on.”

‘Sick and tired’ “Our members are defi“Had not social media video of Martese’s arrest gone viral, still another young Black male would have been convicted of crimes based on fallacious law enforcement testimony,” he said.

Watkins would not say if a civil lawsuit on Johnson’s behalf is being considered.

Johnson said he did not necessarily want the officers to be charged criminally, but he believes racism played a large role in the way he was treated.

“I think those officers should endure some form of repercussion,” he said. “It’s not my priority for those officers to be charged because, ultimately, the way those officers treated me is a product of larger societal issues.

“Had they not been taught the way their parents taught them, had they not had the interactions that they did throughout their lives, perhaps they would not have treated me the way they did,” he added.

He said the officers became quiet when they saw how badly he was bleeding. He then was shackled, taken to an ambulance and driven to a nearby hospital, where he received 10 stitches in his face, he said.

He said he remained at the police station until about 6:30 the next morning, then he was released.

He said police administered a breathalyzer test, the result of which was undeterminable because of equipment problems.

After a short nap when he arrived home, he awoke to find more than 300 text messages.

Johnson said he received dozens of interview requests including from national TV and news shows.

“I had always loved attention until this happened,” he said.

A face of brutality Demonstrations, led mostly by African-Americans students, ensued on and around the UVA campus, calling for justice for Johnson. They mirrored “Black Lives Matter” demonstrations around the country that call for law en-

nitely in!” said E. Faye Williams, Esq., president and CEO National Congress of Black Women. “We are sick and tired of being left out of the prosperity others enjoy in this country. This journey, with its broad coalition of allies, has great potential for awakening those who’ve slept through the efforts of so many to bring about justice and equality for all.

“Many of our people haven’t even noticed the losses we have suffered and how many of the hard fought rights we once had that are no longer ours.

We’re not just fighting to gain new rights; we are fighting to hold onto the ones we do have, and to regain the ones we once had.”

Environmental justice “America’s Journey” will focus on and seek solutions to an array of issues, including criminal justice reform, strengthening of voting rights protections, protecting the integrity of the electoral process from special interest hijackers, ensuring equitable access to quality education and stopping the flow of children of color in the school to prison pipeline. And, the range of the initiative’s interests is reflected in the coalition partners, which included, for example, the Sierra Club.

“Justice is essential when we’re up against a climate crisis that is bigger than us all and affects us all, despite our race, ethnicity, or other background,” said Aaron Mair, Sierra Club president. “In fact, the climate crisis makes no such distinctions. The Sierra Club is proud to join the NAACP this summer not only to call for environmental justice, but also for the social justice that unites us.” forcement officers to wear body cameras, undergo anti-bias training, institute community policing policies and for an end to racism in the criminal justice system.

Johnson said he wouldn’t wish what happened to him on anyone else, but said he is willing to serve as one of the faces of police brutality if it helps prevent future incidents against African-Americans.

“If there had to be anyone at my university that this happened to, I’m happy that it’s me,” he said. “I fear that there could be a student who is a great person, but might not be as well known as I am, and their story might never have been told or they might not have gotten the support that I did.”

Leader at UVA The incident, he said, has further fueled his ambition to help others. He has a double major in Italian and media studies and would like to pursue a career in consulting after he graduates, with a focus on social issues.

He also said he’d like to make enough money “to help others.” The experience with the police has whet his appetite to run for office one day.

He has been a leader on the campus since arriving from his hometown of Chicago.

He has been a member of UVA Honor Committee for the past two years.

For the last three, he has served as leadership development chair of the Black Student Alliance and also has been vice polemarch (vice president) of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.

Most recently, Johnson was chosen to moderate “Sustained Dialogue,” a group of about 20 students who will interact with students around the world to discuss current issues.

This story is special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Richmond Free Press.

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Jayson Conyers, of Columbia, S.C., hangs on to a sign that is larger than he is at a march on the grounds of the South Carolina State House. Thousands of demonstrators gathered on the grounds on Jan. 17, 2000, to voice their opinion against the flying of the Confederate flag over the State House in Columbia.

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ust yards from the place where the controversial Confederate flag waves at South Carolina’s Stat House in Columbia is an 8-foot bronze statute of a once-political giant in the state who was respected and revered

by White supremacists.

Benjamin Ryan “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman, the state’s former governor and a founder of Clemson University, was one of the state’s renowned racists.

Tillman, South Carolina governor and U.S. senator in the 1890s and early 1900s, advocated killing Blacks who sought equal rights.

Study your American history and you’ll learn of the state’s long and painful past and the racists who are put on a pedestal – literally. Statues of slave owners dot the state and some even are placed in the U.S. Capitol.

Tillman spoke proudly in 1900 of his efforts to disenfranchise and kill prospective Black voters. “We have done our level best. ... We have scratched our

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heads to find out how we could eliminate the last one of them. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it.”

‘Justifiable’ killings In a 1909 speech, Tillman said he believed in “terrorizing the Negroes at the first opportunity by letting them provoke trouble and then having the Whites demonstrate their superiority by killing as many of them as was justifiable.”

He added, “That we have good government now is due entirely to the fact that Red Shirt men of 1876 did all and dared all that was necessary to rescue South Carolina from the rule of the alien, the traitor, and the semi-barbarous Negroes.”

He died in 1918; the statue of him at the State House was erected in 1940. A 2008 effort to remove the statue stalled in the state legislature.

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Emanuel A.M.E.’s founding member died seeking liberation for slaves

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The Mother Emanuel A.M.E. shooting tragedy in Charleston, S.C. was another in a long line of racially fueled violence throughout history aimed at the Black church.

Denmark Vesey, a former slave and organizer of a failed slave revolt in 1822, was a founding member of the church and his connection to recent events raises some questions.

Vesey was born a slave around 1767 in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, then colonized by Denmark. Historians suggest he was called Telemaque by his owners, and was purchased when he was 14

by Bermudian merchant Joseph Vesey.

Telemaque worked as an assistant to Vesey, and was fluent in English, Spanish and French. By the time he arrived in Charleston in the late 1700s, he was able to read and write.

In 1799, Vesey, then 32, won $1,500 in the Charleston Lottery and purchased

Denmark Vesey his freedom for $600.

Taking his former master’s surname and using the colonizing nation of his birthplace for his first name, Denmark Vesey was born. Vesey worked as a carpenter, and married an enslaved woman. Their children, by way of the law at the time, were born into slavery.

Organized uprising Vesey was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church as were many of the slaves in town. The church was unwelcoming to Black attendees, and in 1818,

Vesey he helped co-found an African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston. The A.M.E. Church was founded by Richard Allen, Absalom Jones and others in Philadelphia and was the first independent Black denomination in the nation.

The church attracted the unwelcome attention of Whites in town and the authorities ordered the church shuttered both in 1818 and 1821. There was a law in place that slaves couldn’t worship after sunset. Whites feared the large gatherings at the church as it was the second largest A.M.E. church in the United States at the time.

Inspired by the Haitian Slave Revolution of 1791, Vesey began planting the seeds of a slave uprising to take place July 14 of that year, which is also Bastille Day. Thousands of slaves were reportedly involved and informed, with Vesey largely leading this effort by himself with the help of a handful of sympathetic whites who were part of the church community.

Vesey hoped that the sheer number of slaves would be enough to slay the masters and liberate them all.

Hanging, church fire However, two fearful slaves told their masters of Vesey’s plans and dozens of people in connection to the case were arrested between June 17 and June 28 of that year. The 17th was also the same day Dylann Roof entered Mother Emanuel and killed nine unarmed Black parishioners as they prayed.

Vesey and several others were hanged on July 2 of that year. The church, which served as a gathering place for organizers and churchgoers alike, was set ablaze shortly after his hanging.

Emanuel A.M.E. was re-established in 1865 and is affectionately known as Mother Emanuel.

The building, which has featured speakers such as Booker T. Washington and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was renovated in 2014.

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Major slave proponent Emanuel AME Church, where nine parishioners were killed last week, is located on Calhoun Street, named after John C. Calhoun, a major advocate of the Fugitive Slave Act, which required the co-operation of law enforcement officials in free states to return escaped slaves.

Marion Square, half a block from the church, features a statue of Calhoun standing on an 80-foot high pillar. A marker reads “1787-1850: Truth, Justice and the Constitution.”

Calhoun was the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832, during the administrations of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, and then became a powerful U.S. senator from South Carolina. Calhoun himself owned plenty of slaves.

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The state later became one of the most notorious areas for Ku Klux Klan activity. Between 1877 and 1950, South Carolina had 164 lynchings in 36 different counties.

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The African slave trade had deep roots in South Carolina. It has been estimated that after the Middle Passage, over 40 percent of African slaves reaching the British colonies before the American revolution passed through South Carolina.

Many slaves ended up in the rice fields in South Carolina, a particularly brutal work environment.

South Carolina became rich off the slave trade, and no other colony relied on slaves more. By 1760, Charleston was among the richest towns in America.

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John C. Calhoun, a U.S. vice president, owned slaves. its expansion into new territories to the west.

‘Positive good’ speech In a Feb. 6, 1837 speech, Calhoun called for the Senate to refuse even to consider petitions calling for abolition. According to Calhoun, such petitions were an act of “aggression,” and if he and his allies were to “concede an inch,” they would have to be “prepared to become slaves.’’

He went beyond those slavery supporters who said it was a necessary evil, to claim it was “a positive good” — not just for slave owners, but for the people they enslaved.

Mamie Garvin Fields, an activist and Charleston native born in 1888, reflects on Calhoun’s racism in her book “Lemon Swamp and Other Places.

She states, “We hated all that Calhoun stood for …

Blacks took that statue personally. As you passed by, here was Calhoun looking you in the face and telling you, ‘Nigger, you may not be a slave, but I am back to see you stay in your place.’”

Added Fields, “We used to carry something with us, if we knew we would be passing that way, in order to deface that statue … whites had to come back

After the Civil War, South Carolina was one of many states that used the 13th Amendment’s “except for punishment of a crime” clause to perpetuate slavery for decades through a nefarious inmate lease system.

South Carolina’s Wade Hampton and his “red shirts” — forerunner to the Ku Klux Klan — used domestic terrorism to control freed slaves who couldn’t be tossed into prisons.

Hampton was a plantation owner and politician who served as a Confederate general during the Civil War (1861-1865).

Strom Thurmond, who served 48 years as a state senator, was a segregationist and believer in White superiority despite having fathered a child with a Black teenage servant. He ran for president in 1948 under the Dixiecrats party, which had split from the Democrats over the threat of federal intervention in state affairs regarding segregation and Jim Crow.

In the 1970s, Thurmond moderated his position on race but still defended his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of states’ rights in the context of Southern society at the time. He never fully renounced his earlier views.

Articles by Jon Schwarz/Huf f ington Post, Will Moredock/ Charleston City Paper and Jonathan Baird/ Concord Monitor and Thomas Schaller/Baltimore Sun and Wikipedia were used in this report

TAVIS SMILEY ERIC JEROME DICKEY EDWIDGE DANTICAT PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley is scheduled to speak at 10:30 a.m. July 18 at the South Florida Book Festival at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale. Others at the July 17-18 event will include authors Eric Jerome Dickey and Edwidge Danticat. Festival lineup: www.broward.org/ Library/Services/Pages/default. aspx.

FLORIDA COMMUNITY CALENDAR Pompano Beach: The Blanche Ely High School class of 1965 is celebrating its 50th reunion July 25-31. More information: Call Bettye Allen Walker at 954-849-0980.

Orlando: Catch reggae artists Beres Hammond and Tarrus Riley on Aug. 22 at Hard Rock Live Orlando.

Miami: Janet Jackson’s Unbreakable World Tour stops at AmericanAirlinesArena on Sept. 20, Orlando’s Amway Center on Sept. 23 and Tampa’s Amalie Arena on Sept. 24.

St. Petersburg: Tickets are on sale for a July 25 show with Kenny “Babyface’’ Edmonds at the Mahaffey Theatre.

Daytona Beach: The stage play, “Mama’s Girls, cosponsored by AARP, will stop at Bethune-Cookman University’s Performing Arts Center on June 28 for a 4:30 p.m. show.

Hollywood: Smokey Robin-

son takes the stage July 25 at Hard Rock Live Hollywood for an 8 p.m. show.

Tampa: The Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival and Entrepreneur Collaborative Center will present workshop on taxation, retirement and investments on June 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will be presented by CPA Rolanda McDuffie and Ken Russell of Principal Financial Group.

Location: 2101 E. Palm Ave., Tampa (Ybor City). Pre-register at www.tampablackheritage.org.

Jacksonville: The comedian Sinbad performs Aug. 7 at the Florida Theatre Jacksonville.

St. Petersburg: Catch Jill Scott on Aug. 8 at Hard Rock Live Hollywood or Aug. 9 at the Mahaffey Theatre in St. Petersburg.

Pompano Beach: Mt. Calvary Baptist Church will celebrate the 11th anniversary of the Rev. Anthony Burrell. Fellowship begins July 8 at 7:30 p.m. and ends on July 12 at 11 a.m. The church is at 800 NW 8th Ave. Clearwater: Christian Men United 2015 STAND! Conference is June 27 at Ruth

Eckerd Hall. Speakers include Dr. Steve Farrar and Rick Rigsby. Concert by Big Daddy Weave.

Tampa: The Tampa Bay Theatre Festival will host Jazz in July at 8 p.m. on July 3 at the Crowne Plaza Tampa Westshore Hotel, 5303 W. Kennedy Blvd. More information: tampabaytheatrefestival. com.

Opa-locka: The City of Opalocka Police Department will host its bi-annual Gun Buy Back Initiative from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 27 at New Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church, 15000 Northwest 27th Ave. More information: www.opalockafl.gov.

Miami: Sam Smith performs July 20 at the AmericanAirlines Arena and July 21 at the Amalie Arena in Tampa.

Tampa: Candy Lowe hosts Tea & Conversation every Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at 3911 N. 34th St., Suite B. More information: 813-394-6363.

Miami: Nicki Minaj: The Pinkprint Tour stops at Bayfront Park Amphitheatre on July 20.

The 7 p.m. show will feature Tinashe, Dej Loaf and Meek Mill.

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Highest among Blacks

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Women were much more likely to be obese than overweight, with 37 percent of women in the former category and 30 percent in the latter. Altogether, 2 out every 3 women in the U.S. were above a normal weight.

The proportion of men who were obese was almost as high as women — 35 percent. But that figure was lower than the 40 percent of men who were in the overweight zone. With both groups combined, 3 out of 4 men in the U.S. exceeded a normal weight.

African-Americans had the highest rates of obesity among both men (39 percent) and women (57 percent). The researchers found that 17 percent of Black women and 7 percent of Black men were extremely obese, meaning their body mass index was over 40.

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More children are being diagnosed for diseases formerly seen in the older population such as fatty liver disease, hypertension, osteoporosis, sleep apnea, Type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol levels. Poor diets and obesity are cited as the reason.

Obese Americans now outnumber those who are merely overweight Study shows Blacks with highest rates of obesity among women and men

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Americans have reached a

weighty milestone: Adults who are obese now outnumber those who are merely overweight, according to a new report in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.

A tally by researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis estimated that 67.6 million Americans over the age of 25 were obese as

of 2012, and an additional 65.2 million were overweight. Their count was based on data collected between 2007 and 2012 as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), an ongoing study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Among the group labeled Mexican-Americans, 38 percent of men and 43 percent of women were obese.

For Whites, 35 percent of men and 34 percent of women were obese. No data were reported for Asian-Americans, who until recently have been undersampled in NHANES surveys.

Rates of overweight and obesity were comparable for younger (ages 25 to 54) and older (ages 55 and up) adults, according to the study.

Being overweight or obese increases the risk of a variety of chronic health conditions, including Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Extra weight can also make people more vulnerable to certain types of cancer. The more you weigh, the greater the health risk, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

There’s lots of ways Florida can kill you, not the least of which is Vibrio vulnificus, a rare and potentially deadly bacteria found in warm salt water.

Health officials have warned those who venture into Florida’s waters to be wary of the bacteria, especially if you have any open cuts. While the infections are rare, the bacteria is a normally occurring one in warm, brackish seawater.

So as a reminder, the Florida Department of Health would like you to know, “Water and wounds do not mix.

Do not enter the water if you have fresh cuts or scrapes.”

This further precaution is noted: “Individuals who are immunocompromised, e.g chronic liver disease, kidney disease or weakened immune system, should wear proper foot protection to prevent cuts and injury caused by rocks and shells on the beach.”

Two fatal cases This is the same bacteria that can live in oysters, which can be deadly if one were to consume raw or undercooked oysters.

According to a report from ABCNews.com, there have been seven cases in Florida in 2015, including two fatal cases in Brevard and Marion counties. The other cases were in Broward, Duval, Pasco, Santa Rosa and St. Lucie counties.

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Stanford stars helping to change the complexion of swimming Two AfricanAmericans sweep medals at NCAA swim championship

African-American heritage.

But it provided her mother with a teaching moment.

Sherron and Simone Manuel searched the Internet when they got home from the pool one day.

What they found helped Simone, now 18, start to understand how stereotypes and misconceptions seep into facets of life in discouraging ways.

“I realized my stake in the sport,” she said. “It is cool to be unique, but I would like to have more people who are like me in swimming.”

Still, Sherron Manuel sensed her daughter’s discomfort when the child had asked about ethnicity.

“I could see she had the talent,” Sherron said. “I didn’t want her to quit.”

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Simone Manuel was 11 years old when she got a glimpse of her country’s racial divide while standing on a pool deck in Sugar Land, Texas. “(I’m) the only one of that color,” the Stanford swim star recalls thinking.

The realization not only put her in touch with her African-American heritage but gave her added motivation to chase swimming greatness.

Seven years later, Manuel has a platform to promote a national dialogue about minorities in swimming because of a ceiling-busting performance in March at the NCAA women’s championships.

Manuel, her Stanford teammate Lia Neal and Natalie Hinds of the University of Florida finished 1-2-3 in the 100-yard freestyle, respectively, the first time African-Americans swept the medals at an NCAA swim championship.

In a moment that crystallized the issue the way Tiger Woods did in golf and the Williams sisters have done in tennis, the Stanford swimmers hope to have a lasting imprint on their sport.

“It’s another step on the map,” said Manuel, a freshman who set the NCAA, American and U.S. open records with a winning time of 46.09 seconds.

Neal, 20, was second in 47.13, followed by Hinds in 47.24.

Global competition The women haven’t had much time to reflect on their achievement with a full summer of big meets at the Santa Clara Arena Pro Swim Series at the George F. Haines International Swim Center.

Manuel and Neal also are preparing for the World Championships next month in Russia, and Neal will swim at the World University Games in July in South Korea.

They and Hinds were joined in Santa Clara this week by African-American Olympic pioneers Anthony Ervin and Cullen Jones, providing an exclamation point on the growing numbers of talented minorities competing today.

“I hope this won’t be the first and last thing,” said Neal, whose father is AfricanAmerican and mother Chinese-American.

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Lia Neal, left, and Simone Manuel made history at the 2015 NCAA women’s swimming and diving championships in Greensboro, N.C. folk State professor and co-founder of Diversity in Aquatics, sees it as just the beginning.

“I do believe fast swimming is very important for the next generation,” he said. “It helps dispels the myth Black people don’t swim or aren’t into aquatics.”

Growing membership A University of Memphis study in 2010 found that nearly 70 percent of African-American children and nearly 60 percent of Hispanic/Latino children have low or no swim ability, compared to 40 percent of Whites.

Such statistics have led swim officials to outwardly recruit minorities. USA Swimming officials say African-American membership has grown by 55 percent in the past decade — 77 percent for Hispanic/Latinos in the same period.

Manuel and Neal are the latest Bay Area athletes to draw attention to a longsimmering issue.

History lesson In 1982, Stanford’s Chris Silva became the first African-American to make a U.S. national swim team. In 1996, Stanford’s Byron Davis finished fourth at the U.S. Olympic trials, and a year later Cardinal teammate Sabir Muhammad became the first African-American to break a U.S. record.

Then came Cal’s Ervin, who in 2000 became the first African-American to make a U.S. Olympic swim team — and win a gold medal.

Ervin returned to the sport

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The dream is now a reality for ESPN2’s Cari Champion.

After two and half years as co-host of the network’s “First Take,” Champion has graduated to ESPN’s “SportsCenter” as its newest anchor. Champion is expected to work on morning segments of the broadcast starting in midJuly. Among the segments are a series of upcoming “interactions” about sports and entertainment with members of ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Cari “I grew up watching Champion ‘SportsCenter’ — it is the flagship show so I am living the dream,” Champion told TheWrap. com, which noted that her last day at “First Take” was on June 19. “When I first started working here, I would casually petition for it — but there’s always a long line.”

Champion’s arrival at “SportsCenter” puts her in good company as she joins Hannah Storm, Linda Cohn, Sage Steele,

a decade later, when he, Jones and Neal made the 2012 U.S. Olympic team.

For the first time in history, the United States had a roster with more than one African-American.

The trio hopes to qualify for the Rio Games next summer along with Manuel and perhaps even more African-Americans. The results at the NCAA championships in North Carolina signaled the potential.

‘An uphill battle’ Jones, 31, was in a cinema when a friend sent a photo of the three women on the medal podium. Jones can’t remember the name of the movie but vividly recounted his emotions upon seeing the results.

“I cannot believe this has happened,” said Jones, a five-time Olympic medal winner.

Jones has spent the past decade promoting water safety in minority communities.

“You have to start off working with that culture where many believe they don’t know how to swim,” Jones said. “It is an uphill battle.”

Jones’ motivation stems from almost drowning at a water slide when he was 5.

His parents enrolled him in swimming lessons after the incident, and Jones eventually competed at a New Jersey Jewish Community Center where he felt out of place.

Manuel’s parents encouraged her to pursue whatever she loved despite the obstacles.

Neal didn’t experience feelings of isolation when starting to swim because she went to a pool two blocks from the family home in Brooklyn. She took lessons with classmates who were mostly Chinese from her Catholic school in Chinatown.

“I’ve never been impacted by an all-White sport,” said Neal, who speaks Mandarin. “I’ve always been around an eclectic group of people.”

The swimmers were thinking about racing — and not race — when competing at the collegiate championships in March.

But they have embraced the situation.

“I’m not going to run away from it,” Manuel said.

“I’m going to stand up and try to make a change.”

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Edward Waters College is shown in a previous game. There will be three home games and seven away this season.

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The Edward Waters College (EWC) Athletics Department has released its 2015 Tiger football schedule, which includes games against Kennesaw State University, Morehouse College, Concordia College and an innercity match-up against the Jacksonville University Dolphins.

“This is one of the tougher schedules in Edward Waters College history because of the exciting opponents we are competing against this year,” said Alvin Wyatt, head football coach.

(Wyatt began his first full season as the coach of the Tigers last year.

He was Bethune-Cookman University’s football coach from 1997-2009.)

“Kennesaw State plays for the FCS (Football Championship Subdivision). Jacksonville Uni-

versity is also a NCAA Division I FCS school.

Morehouse and Concordia are both NCAA Division II powerhouses.”

Game on ESPN3 EWC has three home games and seven away games, including the “Jacksonville Football Classic” against the Dolphins that will be played at D.B. Milne Field on Jacksonville University’s campus Oct. 17 at 1 p.m.

This game will be televised on ESPN3.

For the second straight year, the Tigers open the season against the University of Faith at home Aug. 22 at 7:30 p.m. This year’s homecoming game will be played against Concordia College on Oct. 24 at 3 p.m.

“Despite the schedule, we can do well. We have seven defensive starters and eight offensive starters returning for the 2015 football season, including First-Team All-Conference quarterback Tyler Mahla,” said Wyatt.

The football team will return to campus Aug. 3 for the 2015 fall semester. All of the Tiger home games will be played at Stanton College Preparatory High School, 1149 W. 13th St., Jacksonville.

‘Cool to be unique’ As that youngster back in Texas, Manuel remembers not always fitting in with teammates because of her

Lindsay Czarniak, Jaymee Sire, Sara Walsh, Jade McCarthy and Nicole Briscoe as the sports news show’s newest female anchor. Before going to ESPN in October 2012, Champion served as an anchor and court-side reporter at the Tennis Channel as well as an entertainment/lifestyle reporter for “The Insider,” Hollywood 411 and Starz Entertainment.

During her time at “First Take,” Champion found herself in the middle of heated debates between outspoken co-hosts Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless while serving as moderator between the pair.

“I realized that it was going to be a tough gig as I had the biggest, strongest personalities in the building,” she said.

Positive impact Although she will miss the camaraderie (and conflict), Champion admitted that she is looking forward to “getting her feet wet over the summer” on “SportsCenter.”

The excitement over Champion’s transition to “SportsCenter” was also voiced

by Rob King, senior vice president of “SportsCenter” and news, who acknowledged Champion’s positive impact in being on “SportsCenter” in the past.

“On the handful of previous occasions that Cari joined ‘SportsCenter’ shows, her wit and enthusiasm lit up the set,” King told TheWrap. “Having her presence on a regular basis is a win not only for audiences watching ‘SportsCenter,’ but also for all of us who work on the show.’’

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Viola Vantise is a graduate of Florida A&M’s School of Journalism & Graphic Communication.

She is the founder and editor-in-chief of an online news and entertainment site- Viola’s Tea, which provides the latest information on entertainment, beauty, gossip, news and politics.

She has also landed interviews with top stars Meagan Good and BET Networks’ ‘The Game’ costar Pooch Hall.

Contact Viola at ViolaVantise@ gmail.com or www.ViolasTEA. com.

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marc Marcus Herndon has attended Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Ga., with a major in mechanical engineering. He has modeled for Urban Spice Magazine, various runway and fashion shows, the Bronner Brothers hair show and for designer Rob Bennett. He wants to combine the worlds of engineering and entertainment and states that as an ambition. “As my favorite saying goes by Ghandhi, ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world.’” Contact Marc at www.facebook.com/marcus.herndon.7 or via e-mail at mcherndo@yahoo.com.

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Hart, LL Cool J and Morgan to get Hollywood stars EURWEB.COM

Kevin Hart’s star continues to rise – and will soon become set in stone.

The comedian joins Tracy Morgan and LL Cool J among the next round of inductees that will receive stars next year on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The Class of 2016 includes Bradley Cooper, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Keaton Steve Carell and Kurt Russell in the motion pictures category, while Kathy Bates and Rob Lowe will be honored for their accomplishments in TV. Joining LL in the recording category will be Adam Levine, Cyndi Lauper and Bruno Mars.

Musician and Walk of Famer Dave Koz announced the new honorees alongside Leron Gubler, president and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, and

Tyler joining CBS’ ‘Criminal Minds’

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Kevin Hart and his fiancée Eniko Parrish are shown at the Academy Awards on Feb. 22 in Hollywood.

Maureen Schultz, chair of the Walk of Fame selection committee for 2014-2015, at a press conference on Monday.

Aisha Tyler is part of the cast of CBS’ “The Talk.’’

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Aisha Tyler is moving from CBS Daytime to CBS Prime Time.

The co-host of “The Talk” joins the cast of “Criminal Minds” for its upcoming season 11 in a recurring role, TVGuide.com has confirmed.

Tyler will play Dr. Tara Lewis, a forensic psychologist who impresses Hotch (Thomas Gibson) during an investigation.

She will fill the void left by Kate (Jennifer Love Hewitt), who departed after one season due to Hewitt’s pregnancy, and the upcoming maternity leave by A.J. Cook, who is also pregnant.

In May, showrunner Erica Messer told TVGuide.com that she’s mulling the idea of having rotating agents, including bringing back old faces.

‘No Sleeep’ for Janet EURWEB.COM

After announcing an upcoming album and tour earlier this year, Janet Jackson has just whet our appetites with a new song.

“No Sleeep” – yes, with three “e’s” – is her latest single, and her first new song in seven years. The last studio album the sixtime Grammy winner released was 2008’s

“Right now, we’re leaning towards keeping that position open but maybe having fun with some guest stars, things like that, especially with A.J. having maternity leave early in the season,” she said. “I feel like when you look at 10 years of people we could bring back, it would be fun to be able to do that.”

Tyler also voices Agent Lana Kane on FX’s animated series “Archer.” She also costarred with Hewitt on “Ghost Whisperer” and guest-starred on another CBS show last season, “Two and a Half Men.” “Discipline,” followed by her compilation “Icon: Number Ones” released in 2010.

Jackson unveiled her new song on Twitter Monday, following the announcement of her new “Unbreakable” world tour last month.

The first stop on Janet Janet Jackson Jackson’s comeback tour will be the BET Awards on Sunday.

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FROM FAMILY FEATURES

Wonderful food, worthy to be shared with family, begins with only the finest, most wholesome ingredients. Bring the farm fresh flavor to any meal, any time of day. From delightful snacks to appetizing bites and satisfying entrees, these recipes capture the flavors only nature can create.

Tasty Bites Perfect for gatherings or just a delicious weeknight nosh, this crostini recipe features potatoes, a nutri­tional powerhouse for any meal. For recipes and more, visit www.eatwisconsinpotatoes.com.

ROASTED POTATO CROSTINI WITH PESTO CHEESE Servings: 8 Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 25 minutes Total time: 35 minutes Non-stick cooking spray 1/3 pound (4 medium) Wisconsin Red or Yukon Gold potatoes, cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt 3/4 cup (6 ounces) soft cream cheese 1/4 cup prepared pesto

Quite the catch Whether you catch it, grow it or buy it at the store, there are more ways than ever to eat Alaska. For more recipes, visit www.wildalaskaseafood.com/eatalaska.

BEAR TOOTH ALASKA COD TACOS Recipe provided by Chef Natalie Janicka, Bear Tooth Grill, Anchorage, Alaska Servings: 4 Prep time: 25 minutes Cook time: 15 minutes 4 ounces hefeweizen beer 12 ounces Colorado sauce (store-bought red chile sauce or red enchilada sauce) 4 wild Alaska cod fillets (4 ounces each) 8 flour or corn tortillas (6-inch)

1 1/2–2cups cooked mixed beans (pinto and black), seasoned to taste Chopped romaine lettuce Sliced radishes Sour cream Guacamole Salsa Tortilla chips, for serving Combine beer and sauce in large pan. Add cod and coat fish all over with marinade. Marinate 10–15 minutes.

Heat boiler to high. Remove fish from marinade, drain thoroughly and place fish on foil-lined baking sheet or broiler pan.

Broil on high about 4 inches from heat for 5 minutes, or until just cooked through. To serve, spoon beans onto tortillas, top with cod and garnish as desired.

Serve with tortilla chips.

Create your own popcorn snack Popcorn is a true farm-to-table snack because it’s a seed taken from the husk, dried, then popped. Delicious hot from the popper, popcorn is also easy to flavor with just about any seasonings you have on hand.

Whether you want a pinch of sugar and cinnamon, garlic powder and oregano, or parmesan cheese and rosemary — the options are limitless. For recipes and more, visit www.popcorn.org.

GLAZED LEMON AND POPPY SEED POPCORN Yield: 4 quarts 4 quarts unbuttered and unsalted popcorn (air popped) 1 egg white

1/4–1/2 teaspoon red pepper sauce (optional) 1/4 cup finely chopped prepared roasted red peppers Snipped fresh chives or minced green onion (optional) Heat oven to 400°F. Spray baking sheet with cooking spray. On baking sheet, arrange potatoes in single layer; spray lightly with additional cook­ ing spray. Sprinkle evenly with 1/4 teaspoon of garlic salt.

Roast 20–25 minutes or until potatoes are tender and browned, turning potatoes over half­ way and sprinkling with remaining garlic salt.

Meanwhile, in small bowl, mix together cream cheese, pesto and red pepper sauce, if desired.

Pipe or spoon about 2 teaspoons pesto mixture onto each potato; top with red pepper. Sprinkle with chives, if desired.

Nutritional information per serving: 157 calories; 10 g fat; 4 g protein; 2 g fiber; 10 g cholesterol; 285 mg sodium.

1/4 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract 2 teaspoons lemon zest 1 teaspoon poppy seeds Heat oven to 300°F. Line large, rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper (or foil sprayed with cooking spray). Spread popcorn onto prepared baking sheet.

In small bowl, whisk together egg white, sugar, salt and lemon extract until foamy. Mix in lemon zest and poppy seeds. Pour over popcorn and toss to coat evenly.

Bake 20 minutes, stirring once midway through baking time. Cool completely before storing in airtight container.

Note: The use of egg white helps flavors adhere to popcorn, without adding fat through more traditional use of oils.