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Democrats, too, indifferent to Blacks in debate By James Clingman George Curry Media

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The Democratic debate was nothing short of embarrassing, insulting, and dismissive of Black people. While the men did not wear the traditional red and blue ties, thank God, the two-and-ahalf-hour rhetorical exercise was an in-your-face thumbing of the nose at Black voters. How much more proof do we need to make us understand that we are totally excluded from the political process? Are we ignored and dismissed because we don’t vote in primaries, or do we not vote in primaries because we are ignored? The Republican debate was an inside game of name-calling, accusations, and innuendo with no mention of Black folks. The Dems stage show deferred to Black people only once, and that was in an obligatory and patronizing way. Why are we so accepting of such displays of indifference and condescension from politicians? Other groups were mentioned and supported in their causes, but Black folks were reduced to one issue – a negative one at that – and given such short shrift that if you turned away for a second or two you would have missed it. The Black-guy-in-residence at CNN, Don Lemon, was in charge of Facebook questions, only two of the hundreds posed were even included in the debate, and his first choice was the ridiculous question: “Do Black lives matter ‘or’ do all lives matter?” I guess that was Lemon’s way of getting our issue on the table, huh? Aside from the question lacking any substance or even making any sense, the candidates did not even answer it. Our inclusion in the Democratic debate was reduced to a oneminute discussion on whether our lives matter. What were they supposed to say, “No, they don’t matter?” And because the question was framed as a choice between Black lives and all lives, it devalued Black people even more. Do candidates really need to answer that question, Mr. Lemon? Will the question of whether our lives matter or not be reflective of the role Black folks will play in the upcom-

Recent democratic debate skims over issues that plagues the Black community.

ing election? If so, the candidates on both sides will love that. It is so frustrating to see Black people continue to be treated like a bunch of children who only get a pat on their heads, a pacifier in their mouths, and then be relegated to the back of the room by disingenuous politicians. Black commentators on hardly ever discuss Black-specific issues, unless they are crime-related. Candidates have debates and never mention Black people, except to cite a few statistics on poverty and crime, the only things it seems we are noted for in their minds. They never offer their support of our specific issues, the way they do when it comes to women, Jewish, and LGBT issues. We get what we accept though, right? The impact of millions of union members and their lobbyists, along with other groups like the National Rifle Association (NRA), causes candidates to genuflect and kowtow to their desires. Of course their campaign contributions are a great incentive. Black folks have opted for 501(c)3 organizations that cannot give money or endorse candidates the way unions can. Our

largest organization, the NAACP, cannot lobby or endorse particular candidates. Although we know the NAACP is an adjunct surreptitious component of the Democrat Party and gets significant funding from unions – which are also overwhelmingly Democrat – that organization has little or no influence in the Democrat Party. Isn’t that obvious? Just look at the lack of deference given by the Dems toward Black people? As I said before, Black voters give all of our quid but get no quo in return. We have allowed our political interests to be reduced to a protracted fight for voting rights and one silly question: “Do Black lives matter?” Politicians merely need to say “I support your right to vote” and “Yes, Black lives do matter,” and they are off the hook for any other deliverable. We give so much but settle for so little. Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce is the author of “Black Dollars Matter: Teach Your Dollars How to Make More Sense.” He can be reached through his website, blackonomics.com.

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week. If you do not read, you do not grow. You must decide that you will not be poor. Until you make the choice to change, you will settle for the circumstances around you.

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Focus on keeping score on what is truly important. The poor keep score with cars and clothes, the middle class keep score with degrees and titles, and the wealthy keep score by their bank account.

It takes courage to become a person of wealth, so work on your thinking and work on yourself; decide and commit and you will grow your wealth.

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he second floor of Howard University bookstore on Georgia Avenue, NW, buzzed with chatter. Fans waited to have their books signed, some tattered and frayed from years of wear-and-tear and multiple reads. Others newly purchased. “I read a lot of your stuff, and you’re a legend,” said one fan approaching Best Selling Author and business speaker Omar Tyree at his October 10 book signing for his newest title, “All Access.” In “All Access” veteran broadcast news anchor Judy Pierce’s life and career take a turn for the worst while interviewing superstar actor Shawn Blake. Pierce is pulled into Blake’s private and criminal world. With her family at stake, Pierce must escape. Amazon.com describes Tyree as a New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, journalist, screenwriter, and public speaker. The 1991 Howard journalism graduate has published 28 books and sold 2.5 million worldwide. But he told his admirers that he is finding it difficult to compete with new-age writing practices like blogging and digital book formats. “The skill of writing and the

impetus of research are getting pushed aside for scandal and dramatic nonsense,” says Tyree. “Amateur digital writers have made it difficult for professional seasoned writers to be paid at the true value of their work.” But, if you can’t beat them, join them, Tyree explained. So he entered the arena of the digital books, also known as “ebooks,” in 2011. Competing with 99 cent books, Tyree released chapters of a book rather than a whole book to keep readers engaged and to maximize profit. Otherwise, he said, there was very little budget to pay editors or himself. Tyree’s writing career began in his one-bedroom Hyattsville apartment a year after graduating from Howard University. Unable to find a publisher to pick up his first couple of books, the then 22-year-old began self-publishing, marketing his material by literally placing it into the hands of prospective buyers at black exposition events. After successfully selling 25,000 copies, a publishing company offered Tyree quarter-million dollar book deal. Former classmate, Abdur-Raham Muhammad recalled Tyree’s work for the Howard University’s newspaper, The Hilltop, saying, “nobody worker harder than Tyree.”

“I have been gone for a while,” admits Tyree, who is now branching out into script writing for Hollywood. He is getting ready to use the 2016 release of the film based on his “Flyy Girl” as a vehicle to push his new work. In 2013 Lionsgate’s Codeblack bought the rights to the urban classic for film production, which will star Sanaa Lathan. “Success is ongoing,” said Tyree. Though he will lose creative control of his work, he believes the film will slowly but surely allow him to expand his business opportunities. Currently on a book tour that will take him to over 20 cities nationwide for his newest title, “All Access,” Tyree hopes his other works will be produced as films, and believes “All Access” would be great for film. The cooperative relationship between books and film has been long-standing as movies have ordinarily adapted pre-existing media, primarily literature. A Neilsen Bookscan report, showed that all of 2014’s top selling print titles had a relationship with a movie or television. Tyree will return to D.C. for an October 31 book signing at the Family Expo Convention Center at 5pm.

Divine Intervention Physician-assisted suicide makes way to east coast By Kirsten Powers

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The grim reaper is feeling bullish. Following success in California – the fifth state where doctors are now free to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally-ill or dying patients – so-called “rightto-die” activists have turned their eyes to Maryland, New York and beyond. “I think that this is a national wave,” Maryland House of Delegates member Shane E. Pendergrass told The Washington Post that Pendergrass plans to sponsor “right-to-die” legislation in January. It’s a wave with the potential to sweep some of society’s most vulnerable – the elderly, the terminally ill and disabled – prematurely into the hereafter. When Oregonian octogenarian Kate Cheney was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she sought a prescription to end her life. The first doctor denied the request due to concerns about Cheney’s mental capacity and her daughter’s aggressiveness. A second doctor deemed Cheney mentally competent but noted that her “choices may be influenced by her family’s wishes and her daughter, Erika, may be somewhat coercive.” Months later, Cheney gathered with her family, drank the deadly mixture provided by her doctor and died. Dr. Leonie Herx, a Canadian palliative care doctor who opposes physician-assisted death wrote this year, “Let’s not kid ourselves or cloak reality with soft words – physician-assisted death is killing.” But verbal cloaking is the stock in trade of the “right-to-die” forces. The Orwellian-speak they employ to describe their effort is telling. It’s death by euphemism. For starters, no one is being denied the “right to die.” What some are trying to prevent is the drafting of doctors into the death business. Physicians are meant to help us heal or provide relief from pain. They aren’t supposed to assist in a suicide. Oh, but we aren’t supposed to refer to self-inflicted death as

Maryland delegate Shane Pendergrass plans to sponsor “right to die” legislation as physician-assisted-suicides makes it’s way to the east coast

“suicide.” Rocky Shaw, president of the California State Coroners Association, told the Los Angeles Times that before California’s new law passed if someone took a lethal dose of drugs it would be ruled a suicide. But the new law states that “death resulting from the self-administration of an aidin-dying drug is not suicide.” This, according to Shaw, “leaves a question about how to classify” physician-assisted death. This is no doubt because Compassion and Choices, a national “right-to-die” organization that lobbied for the California law is working furiously to, according to its website, “Normalize accurate, unbiased language throughout the end-of-life choice discussion (‘aid in dying’ instead of ‘assisted suicide’).” Like all Orwellian creeds, it states the opposite of its intention. The goal here is to ensure that inaccurate and biased language is used to obfuscate the truth. Interestingly, Compassion and Choices was once called the Hemlock Society just as the Euthanasia Educational Council morphed into the more gauzy Concern for Dying. Assisted suicide advocates often claim that they merely want to help people avoid pain in their final days. But according to Or-

egon’s public health department, the top reasons given for physician-assisted suicide in the state are loss of autonomy, decreased ability to engage in enjoyable activities, loss of dignity, loss of control of bodily functions and becoming a burden on others. Is anyone ashamed that we live in a culture where people believe that if they aren’t autonomous or might be a burden on others that they should ingest drugs and die? This is the unrelenting message of the “right-todie” crowd that sees “dignity” in shoving people toward death when they are in their most vulnerable state. This attitude is reminiscent of “the Quietus” as it was called in P.D. James’s dystopian novel “The Children of Men.” Elderly people, who were viewed as a drain on society’s resources, would don white garments and commit mass suicide in a ceremony covered approvingly by the media. It turned out that many were drugged and coerced by the government. Today, sadly, the coercion seems to be coming from closer to home. Kirsten Powers writes weekly for USA TODAY and is author of “The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech.”

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Cover Prison phones calls rip off Black families By Curtis Bunn Urban News Service

arry Lawrence’s family worried about paying his legal fees. But phoning him in prison nearly bankrupted them. When Garry was arrested almost seven years ago on a minor drug offense, his loved ones knew that paying a lawyer to argue his case would be a major expense. They were astounded and nearly financially crippled, however, by what it cost simply to speak with him by phone while he was locked up. “I thought it was an honest error when I first began accepting calls and received my bill,” said Rafael Lawrence, Garry’s brother, a San Jose, California, mentalhealth counselor. “But it wasn’t honest. And it wasn’t an error. The rates were out of this world. So, with the attorney fees and the phone calls … well, let’s just say we struggled as a family ... This whole thing is … a racket.” Two 10-minute calls a week could add up to about $100 a month, said Rafael. In six years, he

using “contraband cellphones,” smuggled in by visitors and presumably bribed corrections officers. In Georgia, the nation’s fourthlargest state prison system reported that more than 13,500 phones were confiscated, which is about one for every five inmates. But they are not cheap ($1,000 and up), and being caught with them can trigger major repercussions. The FCC is centering its investigation on $460 million in fees that these phone companies paid to state and local prison systems the last – Rafael Lawrence, California over two years in exchange for their exclusive contracts. rip off.” Inmate families and advocacy With fees, phone charges for a call from prison or jail go for as groups hope the FCC will rule this high as $1.22 per minute. By com- year to minimize concession fees parison, the average commercial and limit the costs of prison phone rate is 4 cents a minute – less than calls. The expenses are lawful, al1/30th of the price behind bars. In though a jury once called them the technological dead zone that “criminally high.” “I mentor a few young men is supposed to exist in jails and prisons, inmates have resorted to in prison and I had to post $50 on

my credit card and was charged $9 to even post my credit card, then $1.70 to connect my call, and then 70 cents a minute. It’s crazy,” said Woodson. An FCC analysis indicated that these concession fees “have caused inmates and their friends and families to subsidize (for prisons and jails) everything from inmate welfare to salaries and benefits, states’ general revenue funds and personnel training.” This report added, “Companies compete not based on price or service quality, but on the size of the commission.” The telecommunications companies recently have made attractive acquisition targets. Global TelLink was sold in 2011 for $1 billion to American Securities LLC. Securus Technologies went for $640 million in 2013 to ABRY Partners. Global Tel-Link announced that it reached a record high 215 million prison calls totaling $3 billion in minutes-revenue in 2014. ABRY said it completed the most calls in its history at Christmas 2014. Neither Global Tel-Link nor Securus Technologies returned calls seeking comment for this article.

“African-American” – was strong and immediate, though the term’s real shift to popular usage was much more gradual The debate that engaged black Americans was even more contentious inside newsrooms and editorial offices, with writers and editors arguing over the style and substance of this change. Editors worried about the fallout if they got it wrong, Writers worried that the new name was cumbersome. Could you use “black” and “African-American” in the same article and be correct, or did all references have to be one or the other? On Jackson’s part, the press conference itself was much less effective than the calls that he later made personally to the editors of The Washington Post, The New York Times, and USA Today. Eventually, major newspapers and magazines began including rules for usage of the new term, even as it entered style guides. The Oxford Dictionary included the term only as recently as 2001. The rest is history.

Many people remain conflicted about the term for numerous reasons. And confused. It’s not unusual to hear otherwise smart journalists refer to blacks in Mexico, London, or Norway incorrectly as “AfricanAmericans.” I go back and forth between both pride and guilt for my small role in promoting this expression. I still think the word “black” speaks of strength and a connection to everyone who is black, wherever they are in the diaspora – China, Europe, Australia, whatever. And with global thinking in mind, I’m much more likely to use that word. Still, “African American” is another tool in the box to describe our complicated history.

estimated that he spent more than $7,000 on phone calls. The Lawrences are one family among millions in the United States who are calling for the Federal Communications Commission to regulate a prison phone system that has become its own cottage industry. The country’s prison phone system generates $1.2 billion a year. “It’s bad enough to have someone you care about in prison,” said Rafael “You want to keep them connected to the outside world, and then you get your phone bill, and it’s like paying a car note. It’s crazy. Before 1996, costs for calls inside prison were comparable to regular phone rates on the outside. That year, two private telecommunications companies started providing the service to prisons, and rates catapulted. “It’s the biggest rip-off in the country,” said Robert Woodson,

who runs the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, a Washington, D.C. non-profit that works extensively with former inmates. “It’s an outrage. So many low-income families are impacted by the prison system, and these companies know the only way the imprisoned stay sane is to talk to family. Outrageous. Can you imagine how many people $1.2 billion a year represents? It’s astonishing the number of people hurt by this

a signal about Jackson’s future and how he would harness the potential of the coalition he had built during his presidential bid. Anticipation was high from the media, with serious speculation about runs for mayor, governor, senator, or appointment to ambassadorships. The discussions were freeflowing, with most of the attendees wanting to tackle ongoing issues from apartheid and sanctions to labor unions to farmers, and even talk about planning for a third presidential race and what would be needed to make it viable. After lunch, unexpectedly, the late C. Delores Tucker (best known for taking on rap music and Tupac Shakur) stood up and made a highly passionate argument for the use of “African-American” as opposed to black. Her reason was clear and simple: “Nobody lives in Blackland!” Everyone has a spiritual and cultural connection attached to a place in the world that their ancestors called home, except black people. “African-American” would give us a

connection to our heritage, our past and our future. No one opposed Tucker’s point, as I recall. The reaction was more akin to “You have our attention. Tell us more.” Soon, the late Rev. Willie Barrow, co-founder of Operation PUSH, concurred, with equal conviction. The rest of the conversation became a rolling affirmation. Once Jackson was persuaded, the agenda was set. After the meeting, I spent the better part of the day (pre-cellphone, pre-email) drafting a press release and scrambling to convince the media to attend a major announcement that I could not clearly define. In all honesty, much of the Rainbow Coalition staff thought that the name change went in an odd direction, or at least was not significant enough to drive an agenda after a long campaign focused on deeper issues. But the media showed up, and though the press conference did cover several other issues, the headlines that followed focused on racial terminology exclusively. The reaction – for and against

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Politics The day Black people became “African-American”

By Eric Easter The debate over what black people call themselves spans centuries. While people think it is a relatively recent term, “African-American” has always had a prominent place in that debate. In fact, Yale scholar and associate librarian Fred Shapiro found evidence of the term’s usage in a document as early as 1782. But for whatever reason, the term never really took hold until 1988. And I played a part in the moment that sparked the switch. That moment unfolded in December 1988, in a lower-level conference room of the Hyatt Hotel near O’Hare Airport in Chicago. The Rev. Jesse Jackson was holding a closed session with the National Rainbow Coalition and Operation PUSH board and other high-ranking campaign supporters. After working on Jackson’s 1988 presidential bid, I had become press secretary for the National Rainbow Coalition. The meeting was to be an “agenda-setting” session intended to send

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Metro Briefs: Notable news in and around Washington Prince George’s Summit highlights Black men’s health, hip hop Saturday

Montgomery County Montgomery County public libraries announce ‘Food for Fines’ Drive Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) is supporting Montgomery County’s Community Service Week by accepting canned goods and non-perishable food items to pay for library fines between October 16 and 30. One food item brought in will

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aryland’s four HBCUs, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Prevention and Health Promotion Administration and the Black AIDS Institute are sponsoring Black Lives Matter: Health and Hip-Hop, a culturallygrounded conference providing real talk about sex, sexuality and HIV/AIDS on Saturday. The all-day event will be held at Morgan State University Student Union. The conference will blend essential health messaging with a mix of expression that reflects lived experiences of many young Black men for decades. Hiphop music has long influenced and shaped perceptions about health, sex, drinking, dating, masculinity and a number of other important topics. The conference will harness hip-hop’s candor to address sexual behavior, masculinity and the influence of hip-hop on the health of Black men. The other university sponsors are Bowie State University, Coppin State University, and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. During this free one-day conference, students will learn the latest in HIV science and treatment,

Summit stresses HIV/STI prevention in Black men.

will critique top trending hip-hop songs and will develop a youthdriven strategy that supports the sexual health of young Black men in Maryland. This proactive health-engagement approach aims to highlight gender-specific HIV and STI prevention by focusing on young Black men. “We believe understanding both the science and the cultural context of HIV is critically important for both treatment and prevention. In Maryland, among those newly diagnosed with HIV, the proportion of those ages 20 to 29 nearly doubled – from 16 percent in 2003 to 31 percent in 2012,” said, Jeffrey Hitt, director of the Infectious Disease Prevention and Health Services Bureau at DHMH. Hitt added that the success of the movie “Straight Outta Compton” reminds of the words of rapper Eric “Eazy-E” Wright: “I just

feel I’ve got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what’s real when it comes to AIDS.” The Black Lives Matter: Health and Hip-Hop conference is particularly timely on the heels of a special VH1 roundtable discussion on the reality of being openly gay in the hip-hop community moderated by T.J. Holmes with the cast of “Love and Hip-Hop” aired Monday. The conference is free and open to Black men ages 18-29. Conference attendees will receive Black Lives Matter: Health and Hip-Hop-branded t-shirts, caps and hoodies. Attendees will also be entered in a free raffle to win a 2016 Kia Forte from Car Pros Kia of Carson and a free 10-day trip to Durban, South Africa. Visit www.health-and-hip-hop. eventbrite.com to register.

equal one dollar off on library fines. Food items should be taken to the library’s circulation desk. All food collected will be donated to the Manna Food Center. “Food for Fines is a great way for people to clear up their outstanding library fines while helping some of our neediest neighbors,” said MCPL Director Parker Hamilton. “We are very pleased to be partnering with the Manna Food Center in this effort.” Donations should include only shelf-stable foods, such as canned fruits, vegetables and meats, dried beans, brown rice, quinoa, low sug-

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In the Neighborhood D.C. teen named to elite U.S. soccer team By Erika R. Whitehead Howard University News Service

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undreds of thousands of teenaged boys across America play soccer, from small towns to big cities, in affluent neighborhoods and on tough urban streets. Kalani Takamura, 13, is one of them. Of those thousands of boys, only 48 were chosen this year to join the prestigious U.S Soccer Boys National Team. Kalani, who began playing soccer at age 5, is one of them, too. Councilman Charles Allen praised the youngster and local athletic programs for their work helping the District’s children. “It’s great to see District kids like Kalani competing and excelling at the very highest levels,” said Allen in a statement. “I’m proud of Kalani and his impressive accomplishments, as well as our local community youth sports programs like Capi-

talFC, Sports on the Hill, and Capitol Hill Little League that provide top-notch skill-building opportunities for thousands of District youth.” Kalani is currently a player for the United Red boys U14 team, a division of CapitalFC. He began playing for CaptialFC at the age of eight. An eighth-grade honor student at BASIS Washington D.C. Public Charter School, Kalani said he is excited about his invitation to train just outside Los Angeles with the national team for boys under 15. “It was very exciting,” said Kalani. “I felt that it could be a great opportunity for me to learn and develop.” Kalani’s coach, Mike Barnette, spoke highly of his accomplishments. “I’ve had the pleasure to coach Kalani for six years,” said Barnette. “He has always been the smallest kid on the team, but his skill, heart and dedication to the

D.C.’s Kalani Takamura (left) playing in 2010. He recently joined the elite U.S. Boys Soccer National Team.

game sets him apart. “He really stood out on our team’s recent trip to Barcelona

(Spain) and he has carried his strong play through the summer.” Takamura practices twice a week for about an hour and a half. When he’s not conditioning or honing his skills, he said, he enjoys hanging with his friends, some of whom also play soccer. Having friends that are also on the same soccer team, make the game more fun and “relaxed,” he said. While Kalani’s parents said there are proud of their son’s soccer abilities, they said it was important to have a balance between school and playing travel soccer. “Well, it is a lot,” said his mother, Holly Takamura. “Travel soccer takes a lot of time and commitment, and he is in a very good school. Academically, he is a very proficient student, which takes a lot of time to do homework and study. But I think we try to do a good job of making sure he has a lot of balance.”

Kalani’s father, Eric, said the family allows Kalani to make the decisions for himself when it comes to the sport. “That’s always a consideration within the whole scope of things, but the way we let it go is to leave it up to him and the only thing I supplied was [telling him] ‘if you made a commitment for something, you keep with the commitment,’” said his father. “Otherwise it was up to him where and what he wanted to spend his time with, with the first priority always being the grades. Kalani credits many of his achievements to old fashioned hard work and practice. “Practice, practice, practice,” he said. “Without practice, you don’t develop and hone your skills. You can practice all you want just on what you want to do, and you become good at it.” For more information on CapitalFC, visit https://capitalfc. org/.

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