GARLAND JOURNAL

WISHING YOU THE BEST IN 2020!

VOL IX ISSUE 9 December 18, 2019

MY TRUTH

QUIT PLAYIN’ By Vincent L. Hall

Cheryl Smith Publisher

Begin Today Don’t you just love seeing women in positions of power, influence and leadership? In answering her question recently during the 2019 Miss Universe Pageant, Miss South Africa Zozibini Tunzi of Eastern Cape talked about women in leadership. The very favorable response to her

statement was encouraging and impressive.

She ended up victorious, winning the title of Miss Universe! Now, too often, women are discouraged; sometimes we discourage ourselves from pursuing leadership roles because we are too young, too old, too big, too small, uneducated, over-educated, we don’t have the look, and I could go on and on. Sadly, some of us think that only men should hold certain positions of leadership.

I love seeing the responses I get from women, young ladies, and girls; when I compliment them. Maybe if we affirmed one another more the world would be a much better place.

Someone said, if women were running the world, we’d have fewer wars. Someone also said, if the woman of the house is not happy, nary a soul in the house will be either!

I’ve seen, on numerous occasions, the marginalization of women. If we are absolutely truthful; there were men AND WOMEN who didn’t have a legitimate reason for not voting for Hillary Clinton for President of the U.S. Sadly, deep in their hearts, they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a woman. There are still those who want to keep women out of the boardrooms, pulpits, locker rooms, and yes, the White House. Women deserve leadership roles.

We don’t want to hear about “flaws,” because that hasn’t stopped men from serving. Women have shown up and shown out, time and time again. Women have always been the sounding board and the voice of reason. I am so grateful to have so many dynamic women who, some I have never met, but know their works, paved the way for me.

Which brings me to my truth. On December 14 and 15th, Laverne Whitehead Reed was installed as the senior pastor at Warren Avenue Christian Church in Dallas, TX. I’m excited for her, the church, and the community for starters because she clearly has taken the necessary steps for this opportunity, for a time such as this. In her words, she is “grateful that God has given me this opportunity to serve.” Actually she has lived a life of service, living “God’s Plan versus Reed’s Plan.”

She’s been a nurse, an educator and eventually, she became a Chaplain, before serving in various clergy positions at hospitals and churches. Currently serving as Southwest Regional Chaplain for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Dr. Reed has a number of firsts in her portfolio, including becoming the first African Methodist Episcopal Board Certified Chaplain (BCC) in the state of Texas by the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC), first African American to serve as Secretary of the Brite Divinity School Student Government, and first professional female and African American Chaplain at Baylor Carrollton Medical Center where she was responsible for the development of the Pastoral Care Department.

Hailing from Memphis, TN, Dr. Reed actually marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Once she moved to Texas she earned an Associate of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Divinity See MY TRUTH, page 4

A Low Barr in History

By Chelle Luper Wilson

I think today, American people have to focus on something else, which is the sacrifice and the service that is given by our law enforcement officers,” Barr told the crowd. “And they have to start showing, more than they do, the respect and support that law enforcement deserves―and if communities don’t give that support and respect, they might find themselves without the police protection they need.” – William Barr, US Attorney General, Dec. 3, 2019

Laugh to Keep from Dying

I’ve watched and re-watched the documentary, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, more times than I can count.

The scene that stood out most recently See QUIT PLAYIN’, page 5 was one featuring poet, activist, and scholar Sonia Sanchez, who also happens to be one of Morrison’s closest friends.

She explained how Morrison’s work made you feel a full range of emotions. She talked about being so mad reading The Bluest Eye that she just threw the book against the wall. As only she can, Sanchez then described the tears that flowed from her eyes as she came back the next day to read more. She says, “You read Toni and you cry and you gotta laugh...If you don’t laugh; you don’t survive.”

Her words, “If you don’t laugh; you don’t survive,” have haunted me ever since.

As most children of Black parents, there have been times when we as kids, didn’t see the funny in many situations that amused the elders.

However, I remember hearing my mother say a lot, “Sometimes you just have to laugh to keep from crying.”

In the times we now find ourselves in, there are plenty of outrageous things happening that Miss South Africa Miss Jamaica ordinarily would warrant a good laugh, but right Zozibini Tunzi Toni-Ann Singh now, all I want to do is cry.

Miss Universe Miss World Finding something that really made me State University who aspires to as president of the Caribbean laugh has been a challenge, until Eddie Murphy students association on campus. returned to my screen. I honestly didn’t know be a medical doctor.

Previously she has worked how much I needed a good laugh until I had one—a really good one, the kind that makes you spit out your drink, causes your eyes to water, and requires you to hold on to your sides because they hurt from laughing.

Recently, several people have told me I needed to see Dolemite Is My Name. I knew the story of Rudy Ray Moore wouldn’t be appropriate to watch as a family but finding time away from the kids to “Netflix and Chill” isn’t easy.

On a 6am flight, a week or so ago, I paid for Wi-Fi and started watching it. I laughed out loud (and I do mean loud) so many times.

Ordinarily, I’m a quiet flyer, especially at 6am, but the laughs came louder and quicker than I could stop them. It didn’t seem to bother the beautiful and distinguished seasoned Black woman seated next to me, and as we were landing, I said, “I hope my laughs did not bother you. I just watched Dolemite Is My Name.” She turned to me and said, “You did not bother me, and listen honey, I understand. I watched it last night.”

Yes, Dolemite Is My Name, is very funny. The cast is phenomenal, Murphy has brought so much Black excellence together in this one film.

I kept saying, “Wait, was that?” Yes, it was.

Let me tell you, Wesley Snipes delivered as D’Urville Martin and said aloud what everyone, outside of the cast, had to be thinking.

Surprisingly, it is also very heart warming. successfully navigated a career and sharing the information to It is a story of belief in self no matter what. It in radio, television, the big empower millions. is a story of authentic friendship. It is a story of screen, the World Wide Web Joyner earned the nickname representation. It is a story of community—the and in the streets; telling the “The Fly Jock” and “The way we come through and show up for one stories that wouldn’t get told, See WORDZ, page 2 See TRIBUTE, page 2

Miss Universe and Miss World From Staff Reports

Dr. Laverne Whitehead Reed

WORDZ OF WILSON

History was made! Miss South Africa, Zozibini Tunzi, was crowned Miss Universe on Sunday, December 8, 2019 in Atlanta, GA at the historic Tyler Perry Studios.

With a degree in public relations, this passionate activist has engaged in the fight against gender based violence.

Miss Jamaica, Toni-Ann Singh, was crowned Miss World on December 14, 2019 in London, Eng. She is a women’s studies and psychology student at Florida

Tribute to a Legend: The “Fly Jock” Drops the Mic

By FAMU Cheryl

Thomas E. Joyner is a media mogul. He’s our ninth Wonder of the World! He has

Keeper of the Treasure I WAS JUST THINKING...

By Norma Adams-Wade Did I ever tell you that I hated history in school? My, how things can change. I was just thinking about Dr. Robert Prince Jr. and how he and other local Black pioneers helped change my mind about history.

History and the history books I had read before my enlightenment were just wrongly presented to me, I

ultimately concluded. Basic United States history as presented to me as a young student really had little to do with me, I felt at the time.

History was just about a bunch of dead people who did not look like me and who gave me the impression they did not care about me and my life as well. And then I

discovered Black history, and particularly history of African Americans in Dallas and the communities where they lived. Wow. What a treasure trove. Dr. Robert Prince Jr. was a keeper of the treasure. I did not get to pay homage to him when he died recently on October 16 at age 89.

I knew Dr. Prince Jr., the physician, and his father, Prince Sr., Dallas high school math teacher, fairly well. It makes my head swim to think about the two Princes – royalty indeed -- and people like them who helped

fortify the foundation of Dallas’ African American community that we are left to preserve. I was just thinking about Dr. Prince Jr. after I ran across a book he wrote while I was looking for a historical reference on my bookshelf.

I took the autographed copy down and began thumbing through the pages. Current years began to fall away and rich memories leaped forward.

Prince Jr.’s 1993 book, A History of Dallas from a Different Perspective, regurgitates Prince Jr.’s countless recollections of

the Black Dallas he knew growing up as the child of accomplished parents in the historic State-Thomas Black community. As an adult, Prince Jr. lived on celebrated McShann Road, but that is fodder for discussion at another time.

By the way, Prince Jr.’s late sister, Dr. Jeanette Elaine Prince Lockley, PhD, was no slouch either.

Both she and her brother were born in Dallas at Black-owned Pinkston’s Clinic in that community.

She earned her doctoral See THINKING, page 5

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The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection, A. A. M. 3536 Grand Ave. till 3-1-20.

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If Scrooge Was A Brother, Jubilee Theatre, 506 Main St. Ft. Worth. 8-10p. Tickets: www.jubileetheatre.org. 11-2212-22-19.

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Tribute to a Legend,

Hardest Working Man in Radio” by working long hours and flying between his morning job (in Dallas, TX) and afternoon job (in Chicago, IL) every weekday for eight years, collecting over seven million American Airlines frequent flyer miles.

The recipient of numerous awards, not only has he had a successful career, he has opened the door for so many others and he has launched many careers; while also finding and supporting causes that he believes in. Friday, Dec. 13, 2019, the Tuskegee Institute (now University) alum signed off, dropped the mic, and bid his millions of listeners farewell after half a century in radio.

Joyner set the stage, took the risks to change how and why people stayed glued to their radios.

He gave listeners a reason to wake up in the morning and tune in.

His show wasn’t about solely entertaining folks. A grandson of an educator, he became an educator on the airwaves, using his microphone to empower a nation.

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Show to shed light on any and everything relevant. Then, in addition, to establishing a syndicated radio show, this son of a Tuskegee Airman took his talents to television, the Internet, a family reunion and a party with a purpose.

He championed, in fact became the biggest champion, of Historically Black Colleges and Universities with the Tom Joyner Foundation; which has raised more than $60 million for students attending HBCUs. Yes, he knows how to throw a good party. Folks came and had a good time, but they came away with something also — knowledge.

His contributions to the industry and this world are indisputable.

A frequent speaker on college campuses, Joyner is a Hall of Famer. He is the MVP. He is the ace in the hole. And Tom Joyner cares.

And he knows how to assemble a solid team committed to the causes that matter.

The Tom Joyner Morning Show with the woman who made female media folk proud, co-host Sybil Wilkes, also features Roland Martin as well as “Inside Her Story” with Jacque Reid. Sherri Shepherd,

Kym Whitley, Guy Torry and Damon Williams are special cohosts weekly.

Most times when Joyner was on vacation, long-time radio personality Skip Murphy held the fort down. Over the years, guests have ranged from presidents and CEOs to child stars and entertainment legends.

There have been the wrongly convicted as well as those who helped free them, and entrepreneurs to the scholars and college professors or community activists.

There’s also comedic relief from numerous comedians, including long-time regular, Huggy Low Down.

That Joyner is stepping aside does not sit well with many listeners. But many are optimistic that when the mic is shut off, it won’t be the last you hear from this media giant.

He’s already almost sold out his “Fantastic Voyage” for early 2020.

If he never does anything else, however; most will agree that his legacy is intact and the least we can all do is say: “THANKS TOM JOYNER!”

You are the GREATEST!

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another .It is a story that visually depicts our experience, “when they slam doors, go find another, or build a window...do whatever it takes to keep going.”

This movie is all of that, and did I also mention it is funny?

When I think about the African American experience in a historical context, one of the factors that I believe has contributed to our resilience and survival, is that despite our circumstances, we have somehow always been able to find joy.

Those who held racist beliefs rooted in white supremacy couldn’t fathom the concept that enslaved persons could still find reasons to smile, and so, they concluded this happiness must mean those of African descent were childlike with lesser developed minds. After all, how could anyone find happiness within a life of bondage, sorrow, and pain. What those racists couldn’t understand was the fact that while my ancestors’ bodies were bound, their minds were free.

Their minds were able to tap into a metaphysical connection that allowed them to transcend present circumstances and as real as sunshine and rain, they conjured joy from pain (shout out to Frankie Beverly).

The ability to separate the spiritual from the physical was not only an ability that far exceeded average levels of mental comprehension; it was also necessary for survival.

However, I like to think it wasn’t just about their survival, but the joy that resonated from the depths of their souls soared as the ancestors visualized us, not just surviving but thriving. They could find ways to laugh, and dance, and sing because they knew this life was not our end.

In times like these when seemingly everyone and everything is working against our ability to survive, sadly sometimes even ourselves; we must find sources of joy.

Richard Pryor once said, “All humor is rooted in pain.” With climate change, global unrest, voter suppression, senseless violence, chaos in the Oval Office, there is more than enough pain to go around. It is enough to

break your spirit all the way down and for many people, it has. You can see its effect on their faces, bodies, minds, and spirits.

Sanchez tried to tell us, “If you don’t laugh; you don’t survive.” Before Sanchez, the Bible told us that “A merry heart doeth good, like medicine (Proverbs 17:22).

Medical studies have proven that laughing boosts the immune system, decreases risk of heart attacks, helps reduce blood pressure, and can aid in weight loss (I’m trying hard to fit in my new jeans so I’m gonna start laughing right now).

If you haven’t seen the movie, I know by now I’ve piqued your interest. Let me know when you get to the scene in Dolemite when Murphy as Moore brings in the idea of including Kung Fu, that part WILL make you laugh out loud.

I’m taking Eddie Murphy’s energy with me into 2020, because even though he said these words as Dolemite to Mighty Donald, I know he was talking to both himself and us when he said, “Don’t never let nobody tell you, you can’t be anything you wanna be.

Understand?”

Like Anita Baker, these words bring me joy! This holiday season, I ask that you join me in finding at least one thing that brings you joy, not just the type of joy that makes you smile, but the kind that makes you laugh out loud.

Chelle Luper Wilson is a writer, motivational speaker and activist. She is the International Secretary of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

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Mavs Hold Annual Dinner with Santa for Area Youth

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Parrish to be honored by St. Luke Community UMC Men’s Ministry Staff Reports

Photo and Story by Dorothy J. Gentry Sports Editor It was a night of bikes, balls, baby dolls and more as over 50 at-risk children from local non-profits Rainbow Days and Vogel Alcolve enjoyed an evening with the Dallas Mavericks at their annual Dinner With Santa. The entire Dallas Mavericks team, the Mavs Maniacs, Mavericks staff, Mavs mascot Champ, a special visit from Santa Claus and Mavs CEO Cynt Marshall were on hand for the event which was part of the Mavs’ NBA Season of Caring initiatives.

“We are making dreams making come true and fulfilling their wishes and things they want for Christmas,” Marshall said.

“This says so much about

our team and the spirit of giving back. They do it all year but this is a special time of year. “There are kids who are homeless who really don’t have means that others have and our players have decided that this is important enough for them, the night before a double-header weekend.

They are here to be a blessing to these kids,” she said. “This is what this holiday season is all about; experiencing it with children through their eyes.”

The children enjoyed a delicious Christmas meal, Santa read ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’ and each child received a dental kit from Jefferson Dental and a personalized bag full of presents and necessities from the Mavs players to take home and enjoy during the holiday season.

“It’s a lot of fun,” said Mavs player Maxi Kleber. “The kids come here and we try to provide them with food and presents. It makes us smile to see them smile. They have a good time and we have a good time. “We’re more than basketball players and the organization is more than just a basketball club. For those kids, they will remember this for the rest of their lives. This is a very special moment and you feel very proud as a player to be part of that.”

The Mavericks are dedicated to building a stronger community through educational programs, health and wellness initiatives, environmental efforts, support for military veterans, and grants to nonprofit organizations.

The public is invited to join the men of the St. Luke Community United Methodist Church in honoring Roland Parrish, as the 2020 recipient of the James C. Belt Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award. The presentation will take place at the 2020 Honors Brunch set for 11 am, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, at Paul Quinn College, 3837 Simpson Stuart Rd., Dallas.

Chair of the selection committee, Terry Robinson said, “The Belt award is presented annually to an individual with a record of outstanding vision, dedication and commitment to serve the citizens of their community and the state.”

The late attorney James C. Belt Jr., for whom the award is named, was a well-known attorney and activist who served St. Luke UMC and represented a variety of civil rights causes for several decades.

According to Robinson said the goal of the recognition “is to shine a light on deserving individuals who have given of their time serving all people and ensuring that justice prevails for all.” Parrish is President, CEO/Owner of Parrish McDonald’s Restaurants,

Ltd., which owns 23 McDonald’s in North Texas that consistently makes Black Enterprise Magazine’s BE 100 as one of the Top 100 Black Owned Businesses in the U.S. Parrish earned his bachelor’s and MBA at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Business. A scholar/athlete, he lettered four years, served as team captain, was a two-time MVP for the Purdue track and field team while making the Dean’s List seven out of eight semesters. He is a Past Chairman/CEO of the National Black McDonald’s Owner/Operators Association.

Parrish made a $2M gift that supported renovations of the former Management

and Economics Library at Purdue University which was renamed the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management and Economics.

His gift of philanthropy also led to the Rev. John and Marie Parrish Medical Clinic in Fort Portal, Uganda, named in honor of his parents. The clinic opened in 2016. Parrish is married to Jewel and they have three children.

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MY TRUTH Continued from page 1

Bloomberg’s Apology – Sorry Doesn’t Always Make It Right

THE LAST WORD

By DR. JULIANNE MALVEAUX He already-crowded Democratic presidential primary with a splash.

His ad buy of about $35 million represents more than half of what the other dozen or so candidates have spent on the campaign so far. His $54.6 billion net worth (according to Forbes) means he has deep pockets and virtually unlimited funds to spend on a campaign. Some think that he can beat Trump in an election since Bloomberg is far wealthier than him. In addition to his wealth, he’s white and male. Facetiously speaking, what’s not to like? Except.

In his 12-year tenure as Mayor of New York City, Bloomberg was an ardent proponent of “stop and frisk,� the policing policy that allows officers to stop virtually anyone without a warrant if they seemed “suspicious�.

At its peak, more than 650,000 were detained in a single year.

Nearly six million New Yorkers were “stopped and frisked� between 2003 and 2015. The overwhelming majority of those who were stopped – 90 percent -- were African American or Latino. In about 85 percent of the cases, there were no fines or convictions. Civil rights organizations and many others vehemently opposed “stop and frisk.�

Hundreds thronged to Bloomberg’s Upper East Side home to protest the policy. But the then-Mayor was adamant that “stop and frisk� was justified, and explained that more

Black and Brown people were being stopped because more of them were committing crimes.

But the era of “stop and frisk� was an era where any Black or Brown person, regardless of their appearance or status could be stopped. A few of those who should not have been stopped sued. Many protested. Some considered ‘stop and frisk’ the byproduct of racism and racial profiling and chose not to take the legal route. The era of stop and frisk exacerbated tensions between “law enforcement� officers and the Black community. And until recently, Mayor Bloomberg stood by his stop and frisk policy. Then a week before his entry into the contest for President, Bloomberg “apologized� for the stop and frisk policy, speaking at an African American megachurch in Brooklyn, New York.

His very cynical use of the Black church, along with the timing of the so-called apology, is highly suspect. And the decade-too late apology, offered with no remedy, is meaningless. The very wealthy Mr. Bloomberg could accompany his apology with a sizable donation to criminal justice reform. He could break off a few million and donate it to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Latino Justice PRLDEF, the American Civil Liberty Union, or any of the other organizations fighting for criminal

Democratic Presidental Candidate Mike Bloomberg

justice reform. An apology, without an offer to redress the wrong, is meaningless. A simple apology, especially after all the harm that was done, is as sorry as the words “I’m sorry.�

Sorry doesn’t always make it right. The apology seems to have been made to aid the Bloomberg presidential campaign, but most people won’t be fooled. Despite his money, Bloomberg is a late entry into the race. His wealth is the only thing that makes him stand out, but not by much, since there is another wealthy white man – Tom Steyer – in the race. Some say it takes a big person to acknowledge their wrong, but Bloomberg left office in 2013. He’s had at least six years to apologize.

In the years since Bloomberg left office, tensions between Black and Brown citizens and police officers have risen.

Trigger-happy cops have killed too many Black and Brown folks.

Do the names Tamir Rice, Philando

Castille, or Michael Brown mean anything? If Mayor Bloomberg were sorry, he could talk about the flaws in our criminal justice system. Instead, he has offered a half-baked apology without acknowledging or attempting to remedy, the impact his unjust policies had on Black and Brown lives. The current President is proof positive that money, integrity, and sagacity are not positively correlated.

Bloomberg’s tepid apology may be further evidence that the wealthy don’t think the rules apply them.

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and Doctorate of Ministry degrees.

Add a Diploma of Vocational Nursing and completing further studies at The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA; clearly she was building a solid foundation. A past president of the Community Ministers’ Fellowship, the Texas Christian University alum said you must “always be open and available to what God has planned for you.�

She has served as Interim Pastor of Romine Avenue Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). A retired Healthcare Chaplain and retired Ordained Itinerant Elder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; she has also served as Minister of Counseling and Life Support at Smith Chapel AME Church, Dallas. Her Pastoral appointments included Dean of Richard Allen Chapel at Paul Quinn College and Senior Pastor of St. James A.M.E. Church, Denton, TX, the oldest African American congregation in Denton County.

She is a member of several professional and civic organizations. A certified crisis intervention counselor, she is a life member of the NAACP and the immediate past Texas/New Mexico State Chaplain for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. It is important to note that as she prepares for her installation and looks forward to the Church celebrating 150 years in existence; Dr. Reed realizes that Church is not just the building, it’s a place where they will address the whole individual and have a presence throughout the community.

It’s an exciting time as she invites everyone to come out for the new beginnings and new works as Warren Avenue Christian Church looks at the needs of the people and the community.

Wishing the best to Rev. Laverne Whitehead Read.

I know she will lead with grace, vision, wisdom and love.

Comcast vs Byron Allen Supreme Court hearing analysis court dismissed ESN’s lawsuit, concluding that the complaint, which sought

BY ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS billions of dollars in damages, had not properly pled that Comcast’s refusal to carry comedian Byron Allen, who is African American, and the ESN’s “lifestyles� channels was National Association of African motivated by race, rather than by legitimate business reasons.

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The U.S. Court of Appeals They maintained that Comcast’s decision not for the 9th Circuit reversed, to carry ESN’s “lifestyle� holding that ESN did not have television channels, including to show “but for� causation – JusticeCentral.TV, Pets.TV that is, “but for� Byron Allen’s and Recipe.TV, was due to race Comcast would not have racial discrimination and turned down carriage of ESN’s accordingly violated the § 1981 channels.

Instead, ESN only had ban on racial discrimination in to plead that race was one contracts. factor� in The California district “motivating

MY OPINION

I had the privilege to hear oral argument at the Supreme Court of the United States of America in Comcast v.

National Association of African American-Owned Media. The case focused on one of the country’s oldest civil rights laws, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (42 U.S.C. § 1981), and its ban on racial discrimination in contracts.

The case was brought by Entertainment Studios Network (ESN), a company owned by

Comcast’s decision. Comcast then sought review by the Supreme Court, which agreed in June to hear the case.

Comcast argues that §1981 can only be interpreted as requiring “but for� causation.

It argues that everyone must have “the same right� as white citizens “to make and enforce contracts.�

If Comcast (or any defendant) would have made the same decision about whether to enter into a contract if the plaintiff had been white, then ESN (or any plaintiff) had the “same right� to enter into the contract.

Comcast also assured the justices that there are other reasons, having nothing to do with race, why it decided not to carry ESN’s channels, such

as a lack of bandwidth, and its decision to focus on news and sports channels.

Moreover, Comcast notes it has for many years carried numerous other African American-owned networks.

ESN counters that Comcast’s position would prohibit a plaintiff “who alleges that race was a motivating factor for the refusal to contract� from conducting fact-finding discovery on the claim, “no matter how strong the evidence of racism unless the plaintiff could meet the stringent requirement of plausibly alleging that race was the but-for cause of the refusal to contract.�

That, ESN reasonably insists, is an extremely high and difficult hurdle because “the

defendant typically is the only party with access to evidence of the defendant’s motives.�

I’m not a lawyer, but it seemed clear to me that the Justices (Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was absent because, in the words of Chief [Justice] John Roberts, she was “indisposed due to illness�) thought the issue was what the pleading standard for a §1981 claim should be, not at this point whether Comcast had racially discriminated against Byron Allen. Hopefully, the Court will make a quick ruling in this very important case.

Armstrong Williams is a conservative columnist. To find out more about Armstrong Williams, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

Crump talks, ‘Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People’

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia

Famed Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump has written a new book that examines the troubling history of environmental racism in America. “Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People,� the 272-page book that’s already the top seller on Amazon.com in the category of Civil Rights Law, tackles how environmental racism pertains to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey.

In the book, Crump explores how marginalized communities largely are overlooked by the institutions charged with protecting them.

Crump also summarizes the state of civil and environmental rights in the U.S. As he prepared a return to Flint, Crump vowed to avoid distractions, including a recent $100 million lawsuit filed by George Zimmerman against the attorney and the parents of Trayvon Martin. “The parents of Trayvon Martin and I don’t want to give any attention to this frivolous and unfounded lawsuit

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at all. We believe attention is what he’s seeking,� Crump said. “It’s so asinine that the actions of the killer of their teenage son will continue to devastate them over and over again. Every year he comes up with something like the selling of the gun. It’s just horrific what this individual does. We rather focus on something more important, like in Flint, and this guy is only a distraction.�

Crump’s return to Flint, where he planned to hold rallies over two days to keep attention on the continued water crisis, comes nearly four years after he and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons went house-to-house delivering water to families throughout the city. “We found out that not only was there a water crisis, but Flint was a food desert,� Crump stated. “So, we have to focus on this because it’s important.

We have children who have problems with brain development because they were poisoned by the government wantonly.�

While Crump’s new book digs deeper into the Flint crisis, it also

explores racism across the country.

In one section of “Open Season,�

Crump talks about one of the incidents that inspired him to continue his work as a civil rights attorney. “When we were in Ferguson, Missouri, in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed in broad daylight, there were these young Black Lives Matter activists who refused to let them sweep

Michael Brown’s life under the rug,�

Crump continued. “The government called in the National Guard. And I remember being there with the media and the crowds of people and the National Guard with militarized and an assault rifles,� he said.

Crump continued: And you have these young people

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without fear. And this one brother specifically walked right up to the National Guard, who has their rifle trained on him. The man’s face was practically touching the tip of the rifle, but he just had enough at that moment. “He said, with the rifle in his face, ‘go ahead and shoot me with all these cameras here, because you’re going to shoot us anyway when they go away, so shoot and kill me now so the people can see how you kill us.’ “I thought that was riveting because I said he’s right. It is important that people see how they’re killing us. But not just with bullets in the police shooting cases, but more poignant, how they kill us every day in every city, in every state, in every courtroom in America legally with these trumpedup felony convictions.�

With the book, Crump stated that he seeks to hold a mirror to the face of all Americans and force them to acknowledge the hypocrisy. “You have to at least acknowledge the racism and discrimination in the institutions of governance. If you don’t ever admit it, we can never solve

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It took about three years for Crump to write “Open Season,� and he called it one of the most challenging tasks he’s undertaken. “You sit there and remember all those things that have happened to black and brown people in this country, and it just breaks your heart,�

Crump said.“Over and over again, no matter what the situation is, for people of color, we get the most injustice. “You can give me any situation, and they will find a way to make sure that marginalized people of color don’t get equal justice. That’s what we have to fight against. That’s what we’re fighting against in Flint, Newark, Baltimore, Washington, and other communities,� he continued: “If this water crisis in Flint would have happened in a white community, it would be a national catastrophe.

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The Voting Rights Battle Continues!

PERSPECTIVES FROM THE CAPITOL

BY CONGRESSWOMAN EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON (D-TX)

The unencumbered right to vote in elections has been eliminated and severely restricted for hundreds of thousands of our country’s citizens since 2013 when the U.S. Supreme Court decided to diminish the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by eliminating a provision in it that mandated federal oversight of jurisdictions whose policies and practices were biased, and in violation of

the U.S. Constitution.

With a full understanding of the importance of giving every eligible voter the right to select those who represent them in the halls of government, all of my Democratic colleagues in the House of Representatives voted on December 6th to pass H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act. The legislation, if successful in the Senate and signed

into law by the president, would restore a much-needed provision in the Voting Rights Act, requiring federal intervention in states where restrictive voting practices and behavior is present. Only one Republican member in the House voted in favor of the bill which was passed by a vote of 228 to 187.

Sixteen years ago when the 1965 Voting Rights Act was considered in Congress, it was extended without little opposition in the House of Representatives, and with no opposition in the Senate.

The president, George W. Bush, eagerly signed the

bipartisan legislation. All of that has changed now with a Republican Party influenced by dogma articulated by the current occupant of the White House, aligned with socially regressive forces that assist him in the enactment of his non-inclusive agenda, and his divisive government.

Approximately half of the states in the country, taking advantage of the Supreme Court’s decision, have voting practices such as photo identification requirements, which have produced hurdles to voting, particularly for racial minorities and students who tend to support the Democratic

Flow of Ci and Co: Holiday Edition On Wednesday, December 4th’s episode, Cierra and Courtney start their podcast with a “Quote of the week.”

These quotes help motivate our-selves and others to push through a rough week. “You can rise up from anything. You can completely recreate yourself.

Nothing is permanent.”

A quote from Cierra, as she talked about becoming the person you want to be in life.

Recreating yourself is always needed in order for you to grow. “You need to ignore what everyone else is achieving. Your life is about breaking your own limits and outgrowing yourself to live your best life.” A quote from Courtney, as mentions to never forget about the path that God has for you and to always stay focused on you.

On the tenth episode of the Flow of Ci & Co, we

discuss many topics from: Thanksgiving weekend, Thoughts about friendsgiving and are we losing the meaning of family value, Black Friday meaning and why it exists, Cyber day sales, and a social media debate the correct way to place tissue on its holder. A topic that took our interest was the meaning of friendsgiving and why it is important.

Cierra: There has been some chatter about “Friendsgiving” becoming more popular than Thanksgiving.

There was a post I ran across that said, “Friendsgiving” is becoming more popular than Thanksgiving. It tells us that family doesn’t link up anymore.

America is losing their value of family and they’ll rather work or do friendsgiving. I have to disagree because I believe that

everyone’s family is different, and it is okay to do family things with friends.

Courtney: I think I’ll have to agree with you. Some people consider their friends family.

Everyone may not have family around to celebrate so to be able to create that feeling with friends is wonderful. I have never done a friends-giving, but I think it would be nice to have one.

It is not about who you are around. If you are celebrating with the people you love that’s all that matters.

Cierra: I definitely agree. I also want to mention that some people travel for Christmas and not thanksgiving or vice versa.

I can say that’s a reason why friendsgiving may have been created and that’s because some people aren’t able to be with their families.

This is what your Attorney General said on the eve of the 50th observance of the FBI’s assassination of Fred Hampton. So you didn’t get the memo wrong. Some of these White folks have really lost their minds! AG Bill Barr, who looks, laps and lumbers around like Donald Trump’s Saint Bernard, let it rip. To take license with anyone’s speech is always dangerous, but let me tell you what I heard.

Barr was saying if these Niggers and Nigger lovers don’t bow down to our local police, we will just walk and see how well they can do without us. Well, Mr. Barr, we already know how communities in a capitalistic society do without police protection.

Black communities have rarely been protected from criminals with or without badges. Urban dwellers in Chicago, Detroit,

it and send it on to the White House. If its members do that, they will demonstrate that they consider voting a sacred right which people marched for, fought for and died for in our country.

Voting is the breath that gives our democracy its very life. We must extend it fully to all eligible citizens. Fairness demands the passage of the legislation in the Senate. It will be reprehensible if the Senate fails in its duty. If they do not pass the legislation, the entire world will witness that its members have no concern for full citizen participation in our democracy.

NO CURT FLOOD

he was ready. And he then received their full support.

Flood fought a multi-year court battle, ultimately ending in the Supreme Court, trying to end the reserve clause and institute free agency (the ability of a player, after a specific period of time, to offer his services to the highest bidder). He was ultimately defeated in one of the strangest US Supreme Court decisions ever recorded. Flood was exiled from baseball; went into a tailspin; but, with the help of his second wife, actress Judy Pace and other key friends, was able to reestablish his life. He passed away in 1997.

Flood’s case, though going down in defeat, shook up the baseball world and discredited the reserve clause system. It laid the foundation for the strategy employed by Miller a few years later to crack the system and introduce free agency. It is as a result of the courage of Flood and the strategy of Miller that Major League players were able to gain the incredible salary improvements seen over the last four decades.

I have, for quite a long time, felt that both Miller and Flood should have been admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Both of them, in different and related ways, changed baseball as an industry. Miller’s induction was a great victory, hands down. Flood, however, was the first soldier out of the foxhole; a Rosa Parkslike figure in baseball who knew that though the odds were stacked against him, he was prepared to stand firm.

How could that not merit being admitted into the Hall of Fame?

Courtney: For example, I wasn’t able to spend time with my family this year, but I enjoyed spending thanksgiving with my friend’s family. I chose to spend Christmas with my family.

Cierra: I’m glad Friendsgiving is a thing because it’s cool to cherish the ones you love including your friends.

Do you think America is losing their value of family?

Courtney: I don’t think America is losing their value of family. I do think that we are losing the value of marriage and how to love one another.

Now people are more focused on their career and starting businesses.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and hooray to the holiday season.

When it was announced on December 8th that the late Marvin Miller, the first executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), had finally been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame I let out a yell of glee! Finally, an individual who did so much for baseball and knocked down so many walls has been recognized. Transforming an organization—the MLBPA—that was barely functioning into one of the most important labor unions in the USA was no small feat. And opening the door to free agency, which he and his leadership team mastered through brilliant strategy, fundamentally changed baseball.

What was missing in all the excitement was the recognition of the first ‘soldier’ out of the foxhole who, in an act of great courage and sacrifice, laid the foundation for the victory that Miller was able to bring about. Of course, I am referencing the late Curt Flood.

Curt Flood, an African American outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, was faced with a forced trade to the Philadelphia Phillies. This was in the late 1960s when baseball players were de facto owned by their teams (due to the “reserve clause”). Flood refused the trade and went to Marvin Miller seeking support.

Miller and other leaders of the MLBPA asked Flood some tough questions, including whether he was truly ready for the risks associated with taking such a stand. Flood convinced Miller, as well as player leaders such as Roberto Clemente (Pittsburgh Pirates), that

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Houston, or Dallas can let you in on a secret.

Your threat to remove law enforcement is like Trump’s attempts to remove all Mexicans; you a day late and two pesos short, hombre. Elliot Hannon, an editorialist for “The Slate,” reacted to Barr’s speech at the Third Annual Attorney Generals Award for Distinguished Service, and he apparently heard what most of us heard. “One way to read Barr’s comments is as a not-so-thinly-veiled threat to communities, particularly communities of color, that have serious and legitimate issues with how they are treated by law enforcement.

The “respect and support” portion of the comment is pretty straightforward and a common refrain among law enforcement that bristles at criticism. Barr is America’s

I Was Just Thinking, mob lynched at Elks Arch, then at Main and Akard streets in downtown Dallas in 1910. A historic postcard shows an estimated crowd of 5,000 white citizens watching the atrocity.

Another lynching victim would be Jane Elkins, the first Black female legally hanged in Texas in 1853, accused of murdering her owner. Authorities hanged her from the gallows in Dallas County Courthouse Square where the Old Red Courthouse now stands.

Keaton has been working on his part of the project for more than two years -- to erect a commemorative art work at the almost unknown Martyr’s Park, -- but efforts by earlier advocates go back nearly 30 years. Martyr’s Park sign marker gives its address

Party.

A number of state legislatures, emboldened by the 2013 Supreme Court decision, have shamefully passed voter suppression laws designed to prevent racial minorities from voting, using such tactics as relocating voting precincts great distances from the home of voters, and establishing time limits for the periods in which people may register to vote. These actions have been deplorable.

I urge the Republicancontrolled Senate, especially the two Republican Senators that represent the state of Texas, to quickly consider H.R. 4, pass

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top cop, after all, and has said similar things in the past.

“There is another development that is demoralizing to law enforcement and dangerous to public safety,” Barr said in a speech earlier this year. “That is the emergence in some of our large cities of district attorneys that style themselves as ‘social justice’ reformers, who spend their time undercutting the police, letting criminals off the hook and refusing to enforce the law.”

Barr, like his predecessor, Massa Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, does not follow the will of America’s majority.

They greet criminal justice reform measures with that played-out 1980s “Tough on Crime” bullshit. Barr veils it, but he sounds like Detective Mark Furhman from the O.J. Simpson trial. A witness testified that Furhman said he

would like to put “niggers in a pile and burn them. The only good nigger is a dead nigger.”

December 4, 2019, was the 50th anniversary of Fred Hampton’s assassination.

Obviously, it was another of the reasons we should be grateful, according to Barr’s lopsided logic. Since the FBI could not kill the spirit of resistance among the Black Panther Party during the late 60s, they marshaled a local police department to take down Fred Hampton.

In the trial, the usual defense of “we thought our lives were being threatened” was disproved. The Chicago Tribune revisited the tragedy a few pages from where they ran Barr’s comments. “Survivors Harold Bell and Hampton’s fiancee, Akua Njeri, then known as Debra Johnson, testified at the 1972 criminal trial against

the state’s attorney and officers in the raid that Hampton was pulled alive from his bed and shot dead after the group had surrendered.

Later, an FBI whistleblower said the agency coaxed local law enforcement across the country, including Chicago police, into deadly clashes with heavily armed Black Panthers. “In 1983, a federal judge approved a settlement that awarded $1.85 million to survivors of the raid and families of the two men who were killed, to be paid by the federal government, the city of Chicago and Cook County.”

Let me help you Mr. Barr.

We’ve never been ungrateful and we support good cops.

However, we would be much more grateful if cops protected us like they protect folks who look like you. Your comments were a low bar for the office of AG.

where your black skin could leave you hanging from a tree because of a white person’s brutal whim.

Museum founder James Cameron Jr., who was 80 then and my personal tour guide, shared his terrifying personal story of being the nation’s only known survivor of a lynching back in 1930 when he was 16. Two of his friends did not survive. A photo of their hanging became historic.

Suffice it to say that Cameron’s experience was indeed an understandable reason why he founded the museum in 1984. It was his mission to shock the world awake to an evil savagery that enslaved Africans and their descendants faced for centuries while the world looked on

with approval or away with apathy. His 1994 memoir is A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story.

Cameron died in 2006 at age 92. The museum closed its building in 2008, converted to an online museum in 2012, and currently is working to reopen in a new building.

So, when I learned that Keaton and co-sponsors were hosting public forums about how to commemorate Dallas County victims of lynching and other racist atrocities, I was highly intrigued. I remembered how Cameron’s personal story and the various historic descriptions and photographs of lynchings I’d read about and seen in history books were chronicles and images I could not erase.

In promoting the forums,

Register your booth for the Healthy Living Expo 1/20/20 at the African American Museum 214-9410110 Winter Solstice (December 21)

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as 379 Commerce St. (some records give the address as 265 Commerce St), not far from the Grassy Knoll where President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The park was designated in 1991 to mark the place where three enslaved Africans were hung in 1860, accused of starting the 1860 fire that burned most of early Downtown Dallas.

I was just thinking.... It was 25 years ago that I experience a memorable encounter with the legacy of lynching.

Walking through America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, my eyes transfixed on the images and artifacts. These were placed there to snatch visitors from indifference to a stark awareness of a past world

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is the executive editor of globalafricanworker.com and the former president of TransAfrica Forum.

Merry Yule (December 22-January 2)

Dr. Robert Prince Jr.

Keaton quotes the late writer and performer Dr. Maya Angelou’s words: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

To inquire further, contact Dr. Kay Kallos at the city’s Office of Arts and Culture, 214-670-3281 or email kay. kallos@dallascityhall.com or Remembering Black Dallas, rbdallasinc@yahoo.com or call 469-399-6242.

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As a new decade arrives in the year 2020, things continue to change and on-line dating is a major change from those born between 1946 to 1964.

This group is keenly known as Baby Boomers. Gen X born between 1965 to 1980 and the Silent Generation 1928-1945 are all in the view of online dating. Online dating is no longer just for millennial born (1981-1996).

As the Valder Beebe Show launches “Baby Boomers 2020” I invited Clare O’Connor, Bumble’s Editorial Director into our Dallas studios. Bumble is a locationbased social and dating application that facilitates communication between interested users. Female users can make the first contact with matched male users.

Who isn’t leery of trying

something new, especially According to a recent study, an estimated one-third online dating? To help of marrying couples in the U.S. met online, and as overcome the fear of this many as 15 percent of American adults have used social phenom, many dating dating sites or apps. experts advise women to control the experience by to search, to find someone for instance— okay, but give making the first move. Trying interesting. clients a limit,” says dating a dating app that specifically If you seek: Maximum experts.” Most people focus designed for Women, is a great efficiency, using this app puts on wants hot, funny. You find first step. In a recent survey women in the driver’s seat the right one when you focus an estimated one-third of of their dating life. Being in on needs: communication, marrying couples in the U.S. control gives a woman more mutual respect.” met online, and as many as 15 confidence.”

3. Give it three dates. Even percent of American adults VBS: Audience, three if you don’t feel “chemistry.” have used dating sites or apps. ideas for dating success.

Chemistry doesn’t last.

(Even Martha Stewart uses 1. Select and Meet nine Attraction is important, but online dating). people. (Our brains are best if someone meets your needs, One of the most successful equipped to handle five to you may find the attraction social media apps is Bumble. nine options—anymore, and follows...Text provided in It’s free and with this app, we go into cognitive overload. conjunction with O’Connor’s “every night is ladies’ night: “At that point you just start publicists.

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Sense of entitlement

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We don’t think that’s fair. She’s giving us less money because we are a

By Alma Gill family.

I have a right Dear Alma, mind to bring this to her attention. What do you think?

I have a problem with my —Anita, Chicago mother-in-law. She does not treat my husband and his brother the same.

Hold on, Miss Candy My husband and I have two Cane, grown children—a son and a daughter. Both are living on That’s not your right mind their own; neither is married, speaking. and my son lives in another That’s your wrong mind— state. so don’t you listen. You’ve My husband has one worked yourself into a tizzy brother. He’s gay and doesn’t because, basically, you want have any children. I don’t your MIL to give you and your think he ever will. husband more money.

Every Christmas my No, wait; or maybe you mother-in-law gives my want her to stop giving your husband and me $250 each. adult children money…I’m She gives our adult children confused. $250 each, and she gives my Either way, it ain’t your brother-in-law $1,000.

money to regulate. You can’t tell a gift giver how to give.

Evidently she’s budgeting $2,000 to spend on her family.

Clearly, she’s dividing the amount in half between her two sons.

She’s giving one son the full amount, and then she’s dividing the rest by the number of immediate family members of the other. And you have a problem with that?

Tough tinsel!

The fact that your MIL gives money, period, is a generous act in itself. Stop scrutinizing her gift-giving practices.

Where’s the gratitude in knowing you’re on her gift list and not her sh*t list. You see what I’m sayin? What you and your husband need to do is— drop it.

Stop looking for ways to compare the brothers, cause that’s really what this is all

about. Everybody’s grown now, so get over it.

Christmas is a season filled with priceless holiday traditions. What’s more important than making family memories that will last a lifetime?

Before you both are uninvited home for the holidays, check your gift-giving guidebook under chapter “Common Sense.”

I’m sure it mentions that your MIL isn’t obligated to give a Christmas gift to any of you.

Alma

On a previous From Marva was sending me the same dream with Love, I interviewed a night after night. Finally I took Boss Lady, Leah Frazier. Leah the leap of Faith and started a is a leading FashionPreneur personal shopping business as and was recognized as one of a hobby and it blew up to a full Dallas’ most successful women scale business.

MS: Your bio says you are for 2015. In addition to this elite recognition, she received a journalist, so do you write for other the “Rising Star” publications? award for fashion LF: Yes, blogging by when I first Fashion Group started my International of personal Dallas in 2017, shopping and was also business I nominated as didn’t know one of the Best anything about Journalists of fashion. I just 2017 by Cosign Leah Frazier knew I loved it.

Magazine.

In I loved to shop 2018, Leah was awarded the and I spent way Startup Evangelist of the Year too much money on clothes. honor by The Dallas Center I didn’t know all the ins and and also Best Stylist of 2018 outs and the logistics. When I

by Cosign Magazine. She is started my personal shopping a multi-licensed attorney- business there was a job turned-fashion guru, who opening as a Fashion Reporter unapologetically left practicing in Houston for the Examiner law to pursue fashion and I applied... I’m a skilled ventures. consultant to notable writer and a quick learner. They brands. Leah is also the proud read a couple of my posts and owner of Think Three Media hired me. That took off and I – a creative marketing agency began writing for CBS Local. focused in the areas of content I became a Fashion Editor for marketing, social media another online publication marketing, and public relations covering Fashion Week. Then services for brands spanning when I moved back to Dallas I the industries of fashion, was freelancing for everybody, beauty, public speaking, the Southern Dallas, D Magazine performing arts, food, lifestyle, from time to time. Now I’m a and more. Leah has co- Freelance Fashion Journalist for authored her first book, The the Dallas Observer.

MS: You also have started a Success Factor, which reached #1 as a Best Seller for Women business, Think Three Media. and Business reads, and was also Tell us about it and what you are awarded an African American doing with Think Three Media?

LF: Yes, so after everything Literary Award for 2018.

MS: Leah, welcome to From started steamrolling and I left Marva with Love. You are a the practice of law, I just thought Boss Lady and congratulations I was just going to be in the on your success. What came fashion business doing styling.

And I realized on the way that I first Fashion or Law? LF: Law came first. It was my had learned social media before first love. I was in-house counsel even social media became a for several banks and I was very thing and there were a lot of good at what I did and I was businesses that were needing licensed to practice in Texas and marketing and they really didn’t was sworn before the United have strategies. Then being a States Supreme court and I even journalist and all of my friends took the California Bar and were local reporters, producers passed. I thought I was going to and editors, that was another move back to L.A. Thank God need that I saw. So I said, ‘why that didn’t work. But that came don’t I start a company where first and God gave me a vision. we provide those services to Right when I went into private smaller businesses, startups and practice, that I would be helping entrepreneurs for a fraction of and serving women, styling the cost because Pr Firms are them and doing something very expensive. So that’s how I with image. But I always loved started Think Three Media over fashion. I didn’t understand three years ago...... why and I didn’t know why He

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Scalp Micro-Pigmentation (part 3) ABOUT YOUR HAIR

BY DR. LINDA AMERSON www.hairandscalpessentials.com

We hope you found Part 1 and 2: Scalp MicroPigmentation, informative.

Mark Weston elaborates about the future of scalp micro-pigmentation, his training… and shares what the investment and how long training takes. “When I came up with this idea in 1989, I had no clue that it would spawn an entire industry. I believe that the people that are jumping

into this without having any idea what they are doing are giving the whole industry a bad name.

I have been trying to figure out a way to train people to do this, the biggest problem I have is that to learn to do this correctly, it takes months of training and practice to even think about touching someone’s scalp with a tattoo machine.

And then to do it MY way,

it’s permanent, so there is NO ROOM for mistakes.

My method can take up to 8 months apprenticing to be knowledgeable enough, and to have enough practice to take another person’s looks into your hands.

I have found most people are not willing to dedicate themselves to something that takes too long to learn.”

“There are con artists out there giving a couple days or a week instruction these are the people doing the industry and customers a real disservice. They themselves do not know the correct way to do this, and for the sake

of financial gain, train good honest people that just want to help others to do this, incorrectly and subject those that want to do it to lawsuits and irate customers because they just made a mistake that the customer will now live with for years to come.”

“There are the individuals and companies that just outright lie to potential customers saying that their company invented the process, they make all their own supplies and they have been doing it for 10 or 15 years, and then show photos that are not their work. Anything, to separate

a customer from his money.

The needed investment is more time, than money; practice is paramount to everything else. The next is all the things that go with tattooing: How to NOT spread disease.

How to set up the machine, how to check needle sets, how to mix color, how to deal with medical problems that can and do arise. The next is research, people doing this as “professionals” should BE professional, learn about all the different types of skin and how they react to being pierced with a

needle and how it acts when pigment is introduced under the skin. The list of what you need to know to apply SMP properly is very long, and to an apprentice; seemingly forever.”

‘And Sometimes the biggest help that can be given is to NOT do anything’ 1) Mark, please share with our listeners, important questions to ask if they are interested in having this technique…to be aware of a (fraud) and choose the best provider.

“As I stated before, there are very few people that See HAIR, page 8

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Scalp Micro-Pigmentation, have any real experience applying SMP correctly.

What is out there, are professional marketers and salespeople. There are a lot of shady people looking to take your money. I myself hate that what should have been a great idea to help men and women has turned into a wallet feeding frenzy of people who have no experience with tattooing or SMP and are just investors. So to help potential customers see through the rederick, we have put a downloadable worksheet on our site to help you weed through all the babble and lies that are out there.

If you take the time to visit our website, you will find that there is no marketing, only true, straight answers to the real questions you should be asking. (PLEASE GO TO OUR LIBRARY) Ask the provider the questions on our worksheet, if the answers that you get sound more like beating around the bush, walk away, No, make that Run, and don’t look back.

There is also a website

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AGAIN, buyer beware when you are looking for a provider.

A mistake at this stage will haunt you for years to come, do your due diligence before you give out a penny of your money.

One of the biggest red flags that should pop up to you are; when you call or write an inquiry to a company and that company starts relentlessly calling and writing you, they are not good salespeople, they are con artists.

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times, both ladies turned out to have allergies to it and had a bad reaction. I have seen some very nice looking work, so for some it could be a good answer, but it turns out that there is a high probability that the person will have an adverse reaction.

The rashes and bumps not unlike that of poison ivy rashes can be very unpleasant. I would suggest that if someone wanted it, to have a test spot done first.”

1) Please share any last thoughts and give your contact information. “My first thought is this: The fact that this new industry is for the moment, unregulated and anyone that wants to drop 150 bucks on some junk tattoo equipment off eBay can attempt to do this kind of work....

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