Elite news november 4, 2016 issue 36

Toliver’s Talents - Mid Season ALL NFL Rookies

By Mark A Toliver II Page 15

Elite News says Goodbye to Lonnie Green Page 16

Sunday November 6, 2016 It is time to fall back and gain an hour of sleep

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Your Pockets are Deeper Than Mine

By Darryl E Blair Sr.

Last Friday Wilmer Hutchins band and cheerleaders ushered in the ribbon cutting ceremony of the long awaited Save A Lot food stores in the Highland Hills area of the city. If you remember we featured a story in our April 1, 2016 edition sharing how former Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins started working to secure the opening of a grocery store on Stuart Simpson and Bonnie View. It has been decades since this area has had a grocery store and was dependent on gas stations and dollar stores for their means of securing food. Atkins worked with Save a Lot and developer and President of KRR, Joseph Kemp.

Without a direct route down Camp Wisdom the students of Paul Quinn College and the residents without transportation have to travel downtown

by DART before they can go to a grocery store now an all-day adventure is a simple trip within the neighborhood to get good quality food at reasonable prices.

Save a Lot’s fresh produce and vegetables a corporate store to a franchise location and the developer Kemp, who did all of the work on the building is now the franchisee of this Save A Lot. After overcoming all challenges to open this store and meet the needs of the community, Kemp has not turned from the community and stayed making sure all promises made last April were met.

The store provides competitive prices, in house butchers, name brand products and fresh fruits and vegetables. It employs neighborhood residence and students from Paul Quinn College. It promises to be a model that saves a neighborhood that others have given up on.

Remember to vote Tuesday November 8. You can’t complain who is oted in if you don’t take the time to vote.

Fromer Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins, Lorie Blair and Joseph Kemp

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CHURCH CHAT

CHURCH WOMAN

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WORDS OF WISDOM

“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.”

William Blair and former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk

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PRAYER CLOSET

By Rev. Clarence Henderson

Church: Rice Chapel A.M.E. Church Pastor: Elder R.C. Emanuel Favorite Scripture: Psalms 23 Favorite Song: Amazing Grace Favorite Saying: “God is good all the time, and all the time God is good” Church Affiliations: Pastor’s Confidential Secretary, Treasurer Daughters of Sara Allen

Jesus spoke a word in Matthew 18:19-20 and said “If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

In this text Christ is encouraging co-operative prayer. Praying together with friends for a common purpose is suggested by our Lord Jesus Christ. There are times when we are encouraged to pray alone and it is not contradictory for Christ to suggest praying together.

Both individual and co-operative prayer has their place in this spiritual realm. We need our secret talk with God and also the open fellowship together.

MINISTER OF THE WEEK Elder R.C. Emanuel Rice Chapel A.M.E. Church 4122 S Marsalis Ave Dallas, TX 75216 (214) 376-6527

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CONGRATULATIONS TO SOC Celebration Short Lived… Another Storm On The Horizon Rev. Anthony B. Nolan Sr.

On October 27, 2016, at an eventful Dallas Independent School District board meeting, trustees voted 6-3 to approve $52 million of 2015 bond money for South Oak Cliff High School (SOC). Trustees Lew Blackburn, Joyce Foreman, and Bernadette Nutall supported the cries of the southern community by pressing their peers to support a safe and renovated facility for SOC. The votes in favor of $52 million for SOC broke new ground. The outcome of the vote did not go as predicted on last week. The additional votes were anticipated to come from Trustees Audrey Pinkerton, Jaime Resendez, and Miguel Solis. The results: Yes-($52 Million) Lew Blackburn Joyce Foreman Bernadette Nutall Dan Micciche Jaime Resendez Miguel Solis

time. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) sent a letter to DISD and 10 other school districts requiring their superintendents and boards to “undergo leadership training or face serious sanctions,” as a Houston Chronicle story put it, including “trustees being forced from their elected positions and the closing of schools.”

House Bill 1842, co-sponsored by State Senator Royce West, is legislation that gives TEA president Mike Morath leverage to make good on his threats to takeover DISD by mandating unreasonable sanctions. Trustee Joyce Foreman, along with the South Oak Cliff community (South Oak Cliff

High School Alumnae Association, South Oak Cliff Parent Organization, NAACP, Southwest Coalition for Education, Baptist Ministers Conference, Next Generation, Fact Pac, and Empowering Oak Cliff) are planning meetings to inform the community of the danger on the horizon. With disenfranchisement of voters looming, it’s a great time for the DISD trustee board to galvanize and stand together.

Rev. Anthony B. Nolan Sr Pastor of Paradise Missionary Baptist Church Founder of Turn of the Ministries Southwest Coalition for Education, Chair

No-(remain at $40 million) Edwin Flores Dustin Marshall Audrey Pinkerton SOC found new support from DISD board of trustee president, Dan Micciche. Trustee Audrey Pinkerton who supported SOC while running for office in spring 2016, voted not to give SOC increase to $52 million. The southern community not only celebrates the victory for SOC, but it also takes note of the new opportunity for trustee cooperation going forward.

This new found cooperation comes at a critical

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God Hears Your Cry “You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,” (Psalm 10:17 NIV) When reading Psalm 10, which I strongly encourage you to read in its entirety, I felt I could relate to the writer of this psalm. The Psalm starts out by asking God where is He and why is He hiding in his time of trouble. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has felt God isn’t there when I feel I need him most.

I know we are all saved and on our way to heaven; but truth be told; there has been a time in your life where you’ve questioned God’s existence in your circumstance. When things in your life are falling apart; when there seems to be more wrong than right in your life and when your trials and tribulations con-

tinue to increase. Haven’t you wondered why God isn’t doing something to fix your circumstance?

I like the author’s boldness. He doesn’t go to his friends or family and discuss it; but takes his questions to the only One who can truly answer. He pours his heart in this psalm. He is honest with how he feels. Have you ever gone to God and just poured your heart out to Him? As the writer continues, something happens around verse 12. He starts to reaffirm with himself God and His power.

He acknowledges God is the ‘father of the helpless’. He acknowledges God is King forever and ever. By the time he gets to Verse 17, his faith and confidence in God is back.

Many of us have been where the psalm writer was. We get frustrated with God. We might not admit it aloud, but we do. We are hurting. We feel our lives

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are falling apart and we wonder why God is allowing this to happen.

We start to cry aloud and tell God to DO something. Sort of like the psalm writer does in Verse 11, ‘Arise, O Lord! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble.” When he gets to that point, he also is acknowledging he can’t do anything in and of his own power. It is here his faith starts to shine through again.

What about you? Have you tried everything you can humanly think of to ‘fix your life’? Have you now finally realized, there are limits on what you can do without God’s help? Have you gotten to that point, where all you can do is say, “Lord, help?”

If this is where you are today, be encouraged by the words written in Psalm 10. Remind yourself the Lord hears the cries of His people. He knows what we desire and hope for. Remind yourself

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God will comfort your cries.

God is with us through the good and the bad. He has worked things out for you in the past and you must believe He can and will do it again. Remind yourself His grace is sufficient.

God has promised never to leave us nor forsake us. He is a promise keeping God. Even though life may seem unbearable now, don’t lose hope in the One who is able to do anything but fail.

Trust God in spite of what it looks or feels like. Trust God because He is sovereign. Trust God to hear and answer your prayer.

God is not distant. He has not forgotten you. He will act on your behalf. He will act for those who cry out to Him. God hears your cry.

Be Encouraged!

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Bexar Street Baptist Church Member of the Month

Bro. James Broomfield Favorite Song: “Turn it Over to Jesus, He Can Work it Out” Favorite Scripture: Psalm 23

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We Got the Church Houses and They Got the Land “From Where I Sit” Frederick Douglass advised newly emancipated African Americans “Chains can put a man in slavery, but only ignorance can keep him there.”

From where I sit with PLENTY of bought sense, I do not understand why God made us free willed human beings yet so many blacks choose ignorance.

A recent Pew Research study showed that 42% of the millennia’s polled were favorable to capitalism. 73% percent did not know their US Senator’s name. Involved in politics for 40 years I can tell you the percentage of Blacks who lack knowledge of government, politics, and civic responsibility is even higher.

Why Choose Ignorance?

By Sandra Crenshaw

The “miseducation” of the Negro is manifested not only in low reading, writing, and arithmetic test scores.

When seeking liberty and self-determination, it is crucial to have a basic understanding of how government works. Historians feel America’s future is at risk and out of step with the vision of the Founding Fathers when we become completely in the dark about what liberty means. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, advocated for education when he wrote about the necesCity Councilwomen Carol King Arnnold speaks with a HMK resident

sity of grounding youth with a solid base in history, “Lest our republican form of government risks the rise of scheming dema-

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gogues and tyranny.”

PEOPLE have to maintain Liberty.

Jefferson insisted that the people HAVE to be the guardians of their liberty. Apprizing people of the past enables them to judge the future; avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; qualify them as JUDGES of the ambitions and designs of men; enables them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume, and, knowing it--- to defeat its views.”

The City sued a landlord in poor neighborhoods along the Trinity River for code violations. Landlord puts property up for sale, evicts tenants and then tenants are advised to sue the LANDLORD to make HIM let THEM

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stay on HIS property. The landlord tape recorded a meeting with the Mayor and their councilwoman where the Mayor suggested the landlord sell his rental properties to make way for owner occupied homes compatible with the downtown development.---Nothing about affordable housing or relocation for poor people.

NADA! After the government used violence to run the Native Americans off their land, it was outlawed by WE the PEOPLE. If the black leaders like former Councilmember Mattie Nash understood how the State Thomas freedman’s town morphed into Uptown West Village, maybe we could have fought to maintain affordable housing in the inner city.

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took the dogs to chew up the lady in South Dallas?

perish for lack of knowledge.

After twenty years of being on record at City Hall complaining, I almost lost my life running from two pit bulls in Cedar Crest, mind you. You know where the black Dallas Cowboys once lived among legendary former black elected officials including former councilpersons, Mr. and Mrs. Caraway, who were elected to represent the area in seats of government for a combined 38 years. The dogs were owned by Hispanics living in the home once owned

by Congresswoman Johnson. They explained in Spanish, “We need Dogs for the Robbers.” But the dogs chased ALL the residents walking for exercise or to DART bus stops. Then councilperson, Mrs. Caraway, herself JUST walks another other way. The City told the homeowners association that they couldn’t catch the dogs because dogs run when they see dog catcher trucks. So I asked why can’t the City come in unmarked vehicles?

I asked tenants apartment complexes, “Why do you throw trash in your parking space?” “Cause the maintenance man is gonna pick it up-- AND in front of the Stores? “That’s what we pay taxes for the City to do.” Really! To pick up after grown folk?

While gathering petitions for speed humps on Cedar Crest Blvd, a drunken driver rear ended me and TOTALED the car I was driving. I got food poisoned in 2015 at a corner store. The City found cross contamination from cooking chicken to the hamburgers and molded cheese

In plain English, Thomas Jefferson said you have to KNOW GAME when you see it--- scheming or incompetent politicians, elected officials who walk the other way, who bully complainants, hijack violators for a dime, government officials who urinate on citizens then tell them it is raining! Ignorance is lack of knowledge. Ignorance begets ignorance

The affluent blacks just drive past the blight in their neighborhood to BUY in affluent areas.

A neighbor blew her horn at the dogs while biting my heavy full length leather coattails. Another dog bit a child at the corner store deli. City employees, yes, City employees eat in their trucks and throw trash out to feed the dogs. I explained “that’s why we can’t get rid of stray dogs.” They replied “You can’t tell me what to do with my food after I paid for it.” The government workers at our rec centers feed dogs with leftovers from free summer lunch programs. Homeowners dittoed “Somebody has to feed ‘em!

I researched state law that allows citizens to shoot dangerous attack dogs. “Don’t own a gun,” but-- I passed out fliers appraising the neighborhood of the law and announced “I’m shooting.” Chief Brown, himself then got involved with instructions to call 911 instead of animal control and he would send DPD???? Really? How long do you think it

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The mostly foreign store owners complained to CHURCH leaders (who did not live in the area.) Mr. Caraway warned me to lay off the businesses or face repercussions. Code defended “The business people are hardly making money over here.” But they take enough money out our community to pay taxes for THEIR homes in DeSoto and Richardson and take down the value of OUR homes in Cedar Crest. If the affluent blacks flee to suburbs, the poor and uneducated don’t have a chance.

Owners wanted Grow South’s help with a gas station in Caraway’s neighborhood. He said No

“Hollering Racism Don’t Pay the Rent.”

The current council advocates for revisions to the housing codes but real estate and finance laws govern the day. The bank can’t finance homes if the poor can’t pay the mortgage. Houses built 70 years ago by obsolete methods will not last the life of the mortgage. When asked to address landlords who refuse to accept government rental assistance vouchers, our black leaders holler Racism or support unenforceable anti-discrimination policies.

Even Abraham Lincoln told abolitionists in 1861, our people do not want to live with the Negro and Negroes should not WANT to live with people who feel this way.” There is no law that will make people feel differently until WE change our ways.

Knowledge is Power. The Bible warns us, the people

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The affluent blacks just drive past the blight in their neighborhood to BUY in affluent areas.

and the responses to our housing crisis is just plum IGNANT.

Last week we ran an article introducing Judge Susan Rankin.

Elite News ran information given to us from a June 6, 2006 Dallas Bare. Currently, Judge Rankin is the presiding judge of the 254th Family District Bench and is running for re-election.

She is running in the November 8h Primary election and Elite News endorses her in her bid for re-election.

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Debra’s Bits and Pieces Loyalty Is Worth Its Weight In Gold It Covers A Multitude Of Inaccuracies

You claim you want a better future for yourself, well how can it be better if you don’t exercise your right and vote? Some of you say, “My vote won’t count” or “I don’t need to vote!” Excuses, Excuses, Excuses!

vote! No one is perfect but you have to choose, if you are unsure on what candidate you think is qualified to be commander and chief of our country, look at their policies and see if they are in line with what you want for your future.

If you haven’t been paying attention, this election is probably the most important election of your life. A choice has to be made and a choice will be made, and no matter how you feel about the candidates that are on the ballot you have to vote.

Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or Green party, you have to

Enough with being young and dumb, it’s time to grow up and be the man or woman your ancestors have fought so hard for you to become. They have laid the foundation for your life with their blood, sweat and tears, so that you could have a better future. It’s time for you to take the blue prints they have made and

turn your life and future into a 3 dimensional structure of hope and prosperity.

So, if you choose to stay at home and don’t vote, please don’t be upset or angry when you wake up Wednesday morning November 9, 2016.

Accept it and Hope and Pray the right candidate WON! A famous man once said, “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything!” Stand for something and VOTE!

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Councilwoman Carolyn King Arnold hosts Harvey Martin Foundation Press Conference

Councilwomen Tiffini Young and Carolyn King Arnold with Harvey Matrin Foundation Team Foundation and their inaugural City Councilwomen Carol King ArScholarship Luncheon Wednesday, nold held a press conference to in- November 16 at The Atrium in troduce the Harvey Martin Dream Garland, TX. 12

Harvey Martin was a South Oak Cliff graduate who played for the Dallas Cowboy and died of cancer in 2001. His sister, Mary Martin, has started The Harvey Martin Dream Foundation is a nonprofit organization in honor of her brother’s legacy. The goal of the foundation is to motivate, inspire, encourage and financially aid marginal students who have a desire to further their education beyond high school.

Mary Martin - Harvey Martin’s sister and co founder contact the Harvey Martin Dream Foundation at PO Box 3075 Desoto, TX 75123 www.HarveyMartinTo attend the luncheon or to make donations to the foundation DreamFoundation.com

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WE ARE SURVIVORS

By Wanda McKinley, survivor of childhood molestation, rape and domestic violence Male Rape & Assault: Dispelling the Myths Men cannot be raped / sexually assaulted Anyone can be sexually assaulted/ raped, regardless of their gender, size, strength, appearance or sexual orientation. The vast majority of the literature or discussion about sexual assault / rape is discussed from the perspective of the female victim, and as such, there has been a “feminization of victimization” (Sepler, 1990).

Until very recently, there has been very little in the mass media about male victims of sexual assault, and this absence leads to the belief that sexual assault simply doesn’t happen to men. This is untrue. The legal definition of what constitutes sexual assault / rape vary from country to country and state to state. However, sexual assault generally includes any unwanted or non-consensual sexual contact or attention i.e. inappropriate touching, harassment, exhibitionism, kissing etc. More specific sexual assault in the form of male rape involves unwanted, non-consensual or forced anal or oral penetration.

Male rape is not as serious as female rape All victims, regardless of their gender, undoubtedly suffer as the result of sexual assault / rape. It is simply not true than women suffer more than men, or indeed that men suffer more than women.

In the aftermath of sexual assault, as groups, male and female survivors share dealing with many of the same issues i.e. anxiety, flashbacks, nightmares, guilt, shame etc. to the same intensity and severity - and all are equally as valid. It is true, however, that there are certain issues that do tend to be gender specific - for example, women have to deal with the trauma of potential pregnancy after rape, whereas male victims have to

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deal with the increased risk of STD’s after male-on-male rape.

Men who are sexually assaulted are not real men From very young children, we are taught that boys and men should be “brave”, “strong” and “tough” - and therefore it is understandable that experiences which leave you feeling scared, vulnerable and abused can leave some men feeling inadequate and ashamed. Being victimized in this way is certainly not an indication of a manliness or physical strength. It’s important to appreciate that rape / sexual assault is about the abuse of power and control. Certainly this power can be in the form of physical strength, but it can also be in the form of psychological control, emotional blackmail, abuse when incapacitated, coercion etc.

may fear that disclosure of the assault may be greeted with disbelief or that it will not be taken seriously. However, a man can be raped by a woman and the legal authorities are beginning to take this with the seriousness it deserves.

If a man sexually responds during rape, then it’s not really rape Sexual response in men (in the form of erection or ejaculation) often occurs during male rape. However, this response is a mechanical one, and the only thing it shows is that your body is reacting in the way it is supposed to react to sexual stimulation.

It is a near biological certainty that pressure in the prostate gland will result in a physical sexual response. It does not, in any way, mean that you have enjoyed it - and it certainly does not stop the rape being a rape. It is simply a reaction to which your body naturally responds, in much the same

way someone who does not want to laugh, may laugh against their will whilst being tickled.

Being raped by a man means you are homosexual Many men, especially those who have an physical sexual reaction during a rape, fear that this means they are homosexual. This is totally untrue.

Physical stimulation of the erogenous zones in your body, whatever the gender of the perp, is likely to result in sexual arousal. Your body does not distinguish between whether the stimulation is performed by a man or a woman.

If you have a survival story to tell, let me share it. If you have any questions please contact me, Wanda McKinley at 214-454-2933 and/or wearesurvivorsfoundation@gmail. com. Also visit us at www.wearesurvivorsfoundation.org

Women cannot sexually assault a man Whilst the vast majority of perps who abuse males are male themselves, an estimated 3% are female. Again, rape and sexual assault is not about physical strength but about power and control (see above). In addition to this, because many men have never even considered the serious possibility of being raped or sexually assaulted by a woman, there is a high likelihood that you may just freeze in the situation. It takes many people by surprise that men can in fact be assaulted by women, and often a man

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Rollin With a Brotha

By Smokin Kevan Browning

Welcome to the weekend BABY!

joy”... As a Mary J. Fan, whose met her and chalked up her snotty attitude to being up and working at 6.am, I can only say no one deserves to have their heart ripped out...No Man her woman deserves $130,000 a month “temporary” Alimony, which is what soon to be ex Kindu is requesting.. Blessings Mary J...

IF YOU HAVE NOT VOTED, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??? TODAY, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4TH IS THE LAST DAY TO EARLY VOTE! ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY!!! I’ve never seen a candidate so lacking in understanding, so demeaning, sooo hateful as Donald Trump. God has blessed my family! My money is good, so no matter who’s in the White House our family will live life. If you are under 35 and striving to make your way into the future, then I urge you to think twice about being apathetic with your vote. If you have children and you care, do it for them, even if you can’t feel Clinton like you felt Obama. So proud of my 25 year-old who voted early this week and my 32 year old who always puts her vote in! ...

Looking at the silly side of this election...73% of “Tinder” users support Hilary Clinton... Tinder is the hook up dating app...They had a poll of high schoolers in Minnesota and Trump one that. Not sure if the Republicans can count on a group that would elect whoever brought weed to the prom... I stole that from somewhere, lol...

That said, this is serious.

Speaking of tortured souls, it’s so awesome to see Bobby Brown free of drugs and happy with a beautiful new family. Brown shared this week that his time in jail allowed him to detox and he remains drug free. Brown who’s 47 was given 55 days, but actually served just 9 hours. That may not sound like much, but if you are not a jailbird, 9 hours sounds like a long time to be locked in the “Iron Bar Motel”!

Loving that Common is denying dating actress Regina Bell... The two are booed up. I’m sorry, but I understand waz up...”The strong move quiet and the weak cause riots”... #100% fan of Common AKA Common Sense and Ms. Bell!

Hillary Clinton IF YOU DON”T VOTE, YOU VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP! In Smokin Tidbits: Word from my partner Bloodhound Benny is that Janet Jackson, pregnant at 50 has chosen part the of the name for her upcoming baby. Her hubby is choosing a Muslim 1st name and She’s choosing the little boy’s (Inside Scoop) middles names, “Michael” & “Brandon” after her two deceased brothers. Brandon was Brother Marlon Jackson’s twin who died at birth.

RHOA fans might not be surprised that Phaedra has finally divorced Apollo Nida, her hubby who’s doing time for shady financial dealings. Nida still has 6 years of his prison sentence to fulfill. Word out of the ATL is that Phaedra who’s 43 already has already “booed” up with a significantly younger man.

Donald Trump

Keep Mary J. Blige in your Prayers...Saw her on TV expressing her incredible sadness about the end of her 12 year marriage. Among other things Ms. Blige said “I just can’t die with all the sadness”, “I’ve got to hold onto my

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I see Lebron James, who skipped college and went straight to the pro’s broadening and deepening himself... Lebron’s enrolled at The University of Arkon to continue his formal education... Wish Floyd “Money” Mayweather would do the same.

Finally, as a kid who grew up in Chicago watching the Cubs on WGN before it became a “Superstation”, I am as Mike Tyson would say “Ecstatic” on the Cubbies winning their 1st World Series in 108 years. The “Northsiders” last appeared on the Big Stage in 1945...Lawd have Mercy!!!!!

Happy Birthday to YOU and Celeb this week: Ralph Macchio 56, Kris Jenner 50, Vanilla Ice 49, Nia Long, Sean Coombs & Matthew McConaughey 46, Stevie J. 45, Nelly 42, Joseline Hernandez 30,Colin Kapernick 29,DEZ BRYANT 27 Cameron Lynn 28,Odell Beckham Jr 23, Reece King 22, Willow Smith 16 and actor Jaheem Toombs is 15.

Thanks for “Rollin With A Brotha” in The Elite News.

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Toliver’s Talents - Mid Season ALL NFL Rookies

By Mark A Toliver II

The NFL season is off to a great start.

The Cowboys are showing they are one of the best teams through the first half of the season. But the most impressive about this year’s football season is the play of the rookies.

Several rookies have made a strong impact for their teams with the way they have been playing so far.

This is my take on whom I believe are the top offensive rookies of the year so far.

Quarterback- Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys In seven starts, Prescott has thrown for 1,773 yards. He has taken care of the football, with only two interceptions and two lost fumbles to go with 13 total touchdowns. His passer rating is 99.6. Pro Football Focus ranks Prescott 12th among quarterbacks so far this season ahead of Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers, San Diego’s Phillip Rivers and Arizona’s Carson Palmer.

Running Back - Ezekiel Elliott, Dallas Cowboys Elliott has been just what the Cowboys thought he would be when the team made him the fourth overall pick in the 2016 NFL draft. The running back leads the NFL with 799 yards on the ground and DeMarco Murray is second and he has played one more game than Zeek. At his current pace, Elliott would set a new rookie rushing record surpassing Eric Dickerson’s 1.808 yards set in 1983.

Fullback/Tight End- Hunter Henry, SAN Diego Chargers

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Henry has shined playing in a fullback/ tight end position for the Chargers.

The former Arkansas star has reeled in 22 catches for 340 yards and three scores, including games with at least 60 receiving yards and a score.

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Thuney won the starting Job in training camp and he has not looked back.

Thuney is the only player for the Patriots who had played every offensive snap for the team this season.

Wide Receiver- Michael Thomas, New Orleans Saints

Center- Cody Whitechair, Chicago Bears

In seven games Thomas has 42 receptions for 500 yards and three touchdowns. The former Buckeye is on pace to break Reggie Bush’s franchise rookie record for catches (88) and Marques Colston’ rookie mark for yardage (1,038).

Cody Whitehair was a tackle at Kansas State and he was viewed by most NFL scouts as guard prospect on draft day. Now he’s the starting center for the Bears. Whitehair has allowed a couple of sacks, but for a rookie who never played center at a high level to

make line calls, snap the football and perform that’s pretty good for a rookie.

Whitehair is ranked inside the top 20 at his position so far this year.

These are the top offensive rookies in the game this year. We always want to see the new players come into the league and get a chance to play.

Here are the young player who hold the father of the NFL in their hands....

Play on Playas!!!!!

Thanks for reading.....

May God bless you and Use us to change the World!!!!!

Offensive Tackle- Jack Conklin Tennessee Titans and Taylor Decker Detroit Lions Decker acclimated to the pro game quickly. He ranks a respectable 19th among offensive tackles. Decker has already logged 512 snaps as a Day 1 starter at left tackle.

Jack Conklin of the Titans has helped spur the Titans high octane smash mouth ground game. In eight starts Conklin has yet to allow a sack. Conklin is not just the highest-graded rookie tackle- he ranks No. q among all right tackles.

Offensive Guard - Laremy Tunsil, Miami Dolphins- Joe Thuney, New England Patriots In five starts at left guard, Tunsil ranks inside the top 25 over all in run blocking.

At 6’5, 316 he is getting better every

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A Life Well Lived

Ms Lonnie Green HOMEGOING & BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION was held Saturday Oct.29th, at Concord Baptist Church, 6808 Pastor Bailey Dr. Dallas, Tx. 75237.

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