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How Much Radiation Can The Body Handle? The National Council of Radiation Protection says that 2 milligauss is the maximum amount of radiation the human body can handle without any positive or negative affect. Cell damage from EMF's is non dosed dependent. Non dosed dependent meaning that is doesn't matter how low the dose is, EMF's damage the cells. A little bit, or a lot damage the cells. So if cell damage from emf's in non dosed dependent, it doesn't matter how much you get it's going to affect you in some way. If 2 milligauss is the maximum the human body can handle, lets take a look at how much milligauss the appliances in our homes give out. Most all of us have a computer these days. Some of us even have 2 or 3 computers hooked up to each other. A computer gives out 5 milligauss...that's twice the milligauss the body can effectively handle. A hair dryer gives out 25 milligauss. For those of you who fly in airplanes..flying gives out 50 milligauss. Have you ever noticed how exhausted you are when you fly on a long flight? Most people think it has something to do with the time change or jet lag. Guess what? Not true. Time change isn't an issue for the body. What is an issue is the 50 milligauss being blasted at you for 3,4,5 or more hours in an airplane. That's the problem. Your body trying to stay in balance in the midst of all this radiation and stress, cellular stress. This has been proven by scientists all around the world so there's no doubt about this being fact. Appliances in our house bring off electro magnetic radiation. The worst of the bunch is Plasma Televisions. While we're watching TV there's 50 milligauss blasting out at you. That's over 25 times what is considered safe. So as you can see this is a very serious issue.
The Spectrum Crunch: President Obama Takes On the Shortage of Wireless Capacity
New studies are linking brain tumors to long term cell phone use. This video shows a perspective from both sides of the case study reports. Watch this video and come to your own conclusion about this problem we're facing today. Can View whold story on digital version of the San Diego News; www.uniquelysandiego.com or watch Video Click Here-----> Mobile Phones And Cancer?
In this era of smart phones and wireless communications, the country faces a shortage of needed spectrum for wireless, communications growing as much as 250 percent a year. President Obama today signed a presidential memorandum approving a new effort to sell off government-owned and commercial spectrum to be used to upgrade communications nationwide. “The motivation for all of this is the threat of a spectrum crunch with a massive increase in the use of wireless data,” an administration official said, noting that with the increase in demand – from smartphones, netbooks and all the other wireless devices -- will grow between 20 and 45 times 2009 levels in the next five years. The presidential memorandum commits the federal government to a sustained effort to make available 500 MHz of federal and commercial spectrum over the next 10 years. The White House says they expect that this will create “hundreds of thousands of jobs" with revenue potential that could reach, “in the tens of billions of dollars.” The administration’s broader effort is supposed to almost double the amount of spectrum available for wireless broadband, especially for new forms of
“machine-to-machine” communications and the proliferation of wireless connectivity to more rural areas of the country. “It is win-win-win,” an administration official said, noting that it can help the current wireless holders, where it will offer additional resources but also help bring new wireless users in. When the government sells off governmentowned spectrum, the revenues can be considerable and would be steered toward next generation air traffic control, high speed rail and smart grid development. The White House official claims, “The majority of the freed-up spectrum would be auctioned for mobile broadband and other high-value uses. New spectrum access innovations also will allow for sharing of spectrum between the government and private sector users. In addition, there will be new opportunities for innovation through free, unlicensed use of spectrum by technology startups, individual users and others.” So what does this mean for you – the wireless consumer? Opening up the spectrum will lead to better quality service for consumers, the White House says, and a more efficient spectrum that, they hope, will lower prices and lead to increased access in rural areas.
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Bob Filner announces mayoral run Democratic congressman breaks news at Freedom Riders film screening
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obert Earl Filner (born September 4, 1942) is the U.S. Representative for California's 51st congressional district, and previously the 50th, serving since 1993, and Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is one of the most ethnically diverse in the nation, including much of San Diego's southern section, the cities of Chula Vista and National City and all of Imperial County. It includes most of California's border with Mexico, except for the city of Imperial Beach. Filner was born in Pittsburgh, in Squirrel Hill. As a student at Cornell University, he participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961, spending two months in a Mississippi jail for his efforts. Also, as a student, he worked as a member of the Cornell Daily Sun, the student newspaper. He graduated from Cornell in 1963 with a degree in chemistry, and earned his doctorate in history of science from the same school six years later. Shortly after earning his PhD, he moved to San Diego, becoming a history professor at San Diego State University for more than 20 years. He resigned his position in 1992 to run for Congress. Filner was long interested in politics, serving as a staffer for Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota in 1975 and for Congressman Don Fraser, also of Minnesota, in 1976. He also served as a staffer for Congressman Jim Bates from the San Diego area in 1984. Mr. Filner has a daughter, Erin Filner, who is a social studies teacher at The Fox Lane Middle School in Bedford, NY. He also has a son, Adam Filner who is marired and is the father of two young children. His elective career began in 1979, when his opposition to the closing of a neighborhood school led him to run for the San Diego Board of Education, where he defeated a longtime incumbent. Even though he was the only Democrat on the board, his "back to basics" approach to education won him wide praise, and his colleagues elected him president of the board in 1982. For part of his tenure on the board, he served alongside Susan Davis, who now represents most of the other side of San Diego in the House. He was elected to the San Diego City Council in 1987. He was handily reelected in 1991, and his colleagues elected him Deputy Mayor of San Diego. His main interest was in economic expansion. California gained seven seats after the 1990 census, and one of them was the 50th District in south San Diego (renumbered the 51st District after the 2000 census). In 1992, Filner ran in a five-way Democratic primary for the seat and won a narrow victory. One of his primary opponents was his former boss, Jim Bates, who had lost his seat in a sexual harassment scandal in 1990 and whose home had been drawn into the district. Another opponent was veteran state Senator Wadie Deddah, who was term-limited. Filner defeated Deddah by a narrow margin, with Bates finishing third place in the primary. The district was almost 40% Hispanic (redistricting in 2000 made it 53% Hispanic) and heavily Democratic, and his victory in November (with 57 percent of the vote) was a foregone conclusion. He has been reelected six times with no substantive Republican opposition. He ran unopposed in 1998. Filner has a bitter rivalry with Juan Vargas, another Democratic politician who has run against Filner in the Democratic primary three times. Filner won the latest Democratic primary, on June 6, 2006, with 51% of the vote, in a race against Vargas and two minor challengers, Danny Ramirez and Jesse Bresnihan. Filner and Vargas have accused each other of corruption. 2010 - In a 60-40 landslide, Filner defeated Republican Tea Party nominee Nick Popaditch, a Marine who was blinded in Iraq and earned a Silver Star and a Purple Heart. Campaign for Mayor Filner announced in March 2011 that he will be a candidate for Mayor of San Diego California. After screening the film called “Freedom Riders” Congressman Filner was visibly moved by the film. After answering a question about contemporary activism, Filner said something along the lines of, "Should I tell you? Yes, I'm running for mayor." Rep. Bob Filner also told an audience at the
downtown public library Sunday that he planned to run for mayor of San Diego in 2012, according to a Twitter feed from an SDSU student who said he was there. Filner, D-San Diego, was scheduled to appear at the central library for a question-
and-answer session following a screening of the documentary "Freedom Riders," about the civil rights activists who participated in a dangerous experiment meant to awaken the nation's conscience. Jason Packman, a graduate student at San
Diego State University, tweeted the following message: "Bob Filner just announced he is running for mayor -- had he said that officially before?" Expanding on the tweet, Packman later told the U-T via an internet chat: “Filner was reminiscing about his time as a Freedom Rider and answering some questions ... The last question was something about if/how a Freedom Riders-style of activism was needed today. Filner said 'yes' and talked about foreclosures, how people should be surrounding houses to stop this from occurring. He talked about how he had stopped a foreclosure from happening using those methods. Continued on page 6
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Every Minority Race in America Has Climbed Up on the Shoulders of Blacks, Even the White Woman “Diversity” has become just as sick a word within the language of Black Americans as the N-word. No group in America wants to be associated with the Nword, not even Blacks themselves. But no other nationality, or minority race of people says anything about the word “diversity”. Every Black organization I know and have heard of publicly uses that word. Why do we want to be all inclusive of other races? When we write our grants, “diversity” is the way by which we explain how what we do is good for everybody, including all other races and the white woman. I feel very free to speak about diversity and integration because I grew up during segregation and lived through integration. When I evaluate how well Blacks have faired under both systems, I see that Black Americans have only gone downward in the last 50 years. According to the last Census report, Black Americans are the only group of people that have decreased in population in both the city and the county of San Diego. We have gone from approximately 150,000 to perhaps 140,000. Black leaders, stop trying to convince yourself that this is due to an economic downturn. Look at the numbers and you will see that the Census is not taken every year or even every 5 years. We Black leaders need to wake up and stop lying to ourselves about why we are where we are. You can walk into any church and you will see that the pews are not as crowded and full as they once were 12-15 years ago. We can tell ourselves that people are scattered about and that we have more churches now, or that Black here have moved down South, but Blacks are on the decline all over the county. So where are we going? The truth is that we are failing to compete. Allow me to retell a story I have discussed many times in my editorials: After Hurricane Katrina displaced many
cates. I cannot believe that the unemployment line and the homeless line are full of Black people because of a drop in the Black population. When we Black leaders stop using this excuse, perhaps some improvement can be had. Our clinging to “diversity” is not helping our problems either. I will never forget when there was a minority radio station available here in San Diego. I had visited with a sister newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri that had accused white contractors in that city of using their wives to get contracts put aside for minorities. Well as it was, the radio station here that could have gone to Blacks ended up in the hands of white owners who used their wives’ “minority status.” The same practice in Kansas City was being used here in San Diego. I’m sure that there were others that were thinking as I was at the time, that one day Affirmative Action would truly work in our favor. But when I look around, we Black Americans have decided that we
The San Diego Monitor want to be “diverse” and include other folks in what was supposed to be for us. Now Blacks are locked out, put out, fired, not hired, however you want to call it. The most sought after person in the Black community today is a grant writer. If you can write a grant that can get Black folks some money, you are worth your weight in gold. I remember Black schools, Black organizations, Black religious and political leaders—pretty much anyone that had a vacant room available—kissing up to President Bush so that no child, not just the Black child, would be left behind. Take a good look at what happened to us. I’m sure that program put millions of dollars into the hands of the Black community. So then why are we continuing to decrease in numbers, decrease in jobs, and spiral downward? Where did the money go? Our children didn’t get left behind, Black people got left behind. Until Next Week, Willie Morrow
Census shows dynamic populations in San Diego EDITORIAL residents of New Orleans, there were two young men that approached the San Diego Red Cross committee to find housing and funds for themselves. When the officials began to look for their names and social security numbers, neither of them could be found. Then they tried to identify them by asking for their work history. Neither of them had that either. Someone suggested looking them up through the last Census, and yet they still couldn’t be found. They finally found them after looking up their mother’s information and previous address. The key detail here is that both of these men were well into their 20s and neither of them seemed disabled; yet their mother had been taking care of them since birth. So when we look at the figures in the Census, it may be that we are actually worse off than it indi-
New homes. Redeveloped urban centers. Appealing rural escapes. The plethora of ways San Diego County’s population expanded and otherwise shifted in the past decade extended across the region, from San Marcos to southeast San Diego and from the coast to the unincorporated backcountry. A more detailed, neighborhood-level analysis of 2010 census data shows that minorities, development and the economy were key to those changes. “If there was one theme that pops in my mind, it’s this: There is increasing diversity throughout San Diego County,” said John Weeks, director of the International Population Center at San Diego State University. While a few cities experienced dramatic population growth, greater numbers of city dwellers sought a country-like environment in communities such as Valley Center, Borrego Springs, Fairbanks Ranch and Alpine. Much of the increase came from construction of estate homes and farmers converting agricultural land to housing. Countywide, no other place underwent as much expansion as San Marcos. Its population soared 52 percent in the past decade. “San Marcos still has about 25 percent developable land,” said Jenny Peterson, spokeswoman for the city. San Marcos officials attributed the rise to new master-planned communities, including San Elijo Hills, and a slew of redevelopment projects that have transformed older neighborhoods into mixeduse ones with higher density. The city also has become an educational hub with the growth of Cal State San Marcos and other schools. “There is a general sense in the world that suburbs provide a generally healthier environment for kids to grow up,” Weeks said. Golden Hill, East Village: Gentrification increases white population near downtown Defying the countywide 3 percent drop in nonHispanic whites, neighborhoods ringing downtown San Diego registered a significant influx of whites this past decade as urban living gained popularity and historic neighborhoods underwent revitalization. The trend showed up clearly in areas east of downtown — specifically between interstates 5 and 15 and Imperial Street, plus the southern end of Balboa Park (known as Golden Hill, Sherman Heights and Grant Hill). Census tracts, comprising 1,000 to 8,000 residents, in these communities showed increases among non-Hispanic whites of 25 percent to 51 percent and the loss of up to one-third of Hispanics and blacks, according to the 2010 census data. Various improvements in the downtown core, redevelopment of East Village and construction of Petco Park helped to attract affluent and educated non-Hispanic white newcomers and businesses that cater to them, demographers said. “We saw young, urban-oriented professionals moving into … or around downtown,” said Beth Jarosz, senior demographer for the San Diego Association of Governments. The change does come with concerns about losing the historic population, which is typically lowerincome and nonwhite, said John Norquist, president of the Congress for the New Urbanism. He said the way to maintain diversity in such neighborhoods is to have an array of housing options. Golden Hill has that broad mix, from studio apartments to semi-mansions, said Katherine Willetts, who sits on the board of the Greater
Golden Hill Community Development Corporation. “There is age diversity, ethnic diversity, economic diversity and that is important,” she said. Escondido: Hispanic population grows, now making up nearly half of the city The demographic story of this past decade was the unabated growth and dispersal of the Latino population, and nowhere was that more evident than in Escondido, where nearly half of the residents now are Hispanic, up from 39 percent in 2000, according to the Census Bureau. Yet what may be more notable is the markedly higher proportion of Hispanics currently living in once heavily white neighborhoods scattered throughout the city.Mayor Sam Abed said he saw clear evidence of Escondido’s shifting demographics as he canvassed the city last year in his bid to pick up supporters. “I walked 1,000 homes in the last year and noticed more Hispanic families moving to the middle-class and upper-middle-class neighborhoods,” he said. “I don’t know if they’re moving from poorer districts or just moving to Escondido, but it doesn’t matter. I disagree that Hispanics are pushing the whites to the suburbs. I think we simply have more Hispanics in general.” The affordability of homes in working-class neighborhoods is likely driving the phenomenon, especially as the housing market peaked and then crashed later in the decade, city leaders believe.While Escondido attracted considerable attention in 2006 when its City Council passed and then tried unsuccessfully to enact an ordinance that would have punished landlords for renting to illegal immigrants, longtime residents doubt there was a backlash that spurred whites to leave the city in protest. Bill Flores, who is active with the Latino-rights organization El Grupo, is not so sure.“There were a lot of negative things coming from sitting council members,” Flores said, “and it’s likely to have had an effect on white Escondido residents that caused them to move away.” Southeast San Diego: Some historically black census tracts decline in numbers Several census tracts in the historically black neighborhoods of southeast San Diego went from being home to a majority black population to less than 50 percent during the past decade. Overall, the county’s black population decreased 5 percent — from 154,500 to 146,600. The largest proportion of that loss occurred in the southeast San Diego tracts. Demographers didn’t expect the decline. They pointed to several possible factors, including more people who identified themselves as multiracial instead of black and the national trend of blacks moving back to the South after decades, or even generations, of being away. Another reason could be an undercount of blacks who experienced hardships, lost their homes and moved in with family or friends during the recession, said Ray King, who heads the Urban League of San Diego. Additional factors could be job loss, desire for better schools and opportunities to move to neighboring areas like Lemon Grove or more prosperous communities such as Encinitas or Carlsbad, where the number of blacks is climbing, King said. “People want to have a good life, they want to send their kids to good schools, they want to have a job, and it’s expensive here,” he said. “This is not an economically friendly environment for anyone, and it’s certainly not for those who find themselves close to the bottom of the economic curve.”
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Oxy-Morons? Just Plain Racist? Or Something Else? by Clovis M. Honoré The Black Church next week. This week, I gotta say this! What’s up with this new term “majority minority?” First, a San Diego charitable foundation used it in one of their initiatives. Now I’ve heard it on the Channel 9 news. What does this mean??? It’s time for a wake up call! It’s called an oxymoron: “A figure of speech in which contradictory or incongruous terms are brought together.” (The Doubleday Dictionary) The latest crazy oxymoron that has come out of the 2010 Census data is this term “majority minority.” By some interpreters of this data, San Diego County is now a “majority minority” county. What in the world does this mean? How can the majority be the minority? By this logic, the United States is a “majority minority” country. According to the 2010 Census, the USA is 72% white. (Whatever that means. Anybody got a definition for “white”?) Europeans and North Americans (“whites”?) only make up about 16% of the World population. That makes the United States and all European countries “majority minority” countries. In fact, according to this oxymoronic logic, North America and Europe are “majority minority” continents. People of color make up 84% of the world’s population. . “WHITES” ARE THE REAL MINORITY! Is it any wonder that people all over the world are a little pissed off when for 500 years the minority “whites” have sent missionaries and armies all over the world, destroyed the indigenous populations and stolen as much of the natural resources as they can carry off? Then minority “whites” colonize (aka military occupation and economic exploitation) virtually the entire planet for centuries, enslave millions, and the end result is incessant war, famine, corruption, pestilence, and pain – while they have built up insane wealth (which they have mismanaged on a global scale) and arrested the development of everyone else. So how can the 84% majority be a minority!? What does this mean? Are “whites” trying to confuse the issue? Is the ‘white minority’ trying to control the agenda? If there is no majority, everyone is a minority. Therefore, in San Diego County, ‘whites’ are a minority! How does it feel to be a minority? That’s a rhetorical question. The rest of us know very well how it feels. I think the real question needs to be, “What will the ‘majority’ do now? People of color are now the majority in San Diego. “Whites” are the minority. So, what will you people of color do now that you are the majority? Can I make a suggestion? PEOPLE OF COLOR, FLEX YOUR POWER! (Do you know what your power is? Keep reading every week and I’ll tell you.) CMH • Black Business Boot Camp meeting this past weekend, they had a DVD of Dr. Claud Anderson playing. Dr. Anderson’s book, Powernomics, is one of the foundational books I use for my analysis of San Diego’s African/American community. (I got my signed copy from Mr. Anderson when he was the keynote speaker at the UAAMAC MLK Breakfast several years ago.) In the training I received and teach through Regional Congregations and Neighborhood Organizations (www.rcno.org), we talk about the critical importance of institutions. In this country power is in institutions. How do you get paid? Most of us work for institutions – governments, corporations, large companies, non-profits, etc. The person who hands us our check, the mail man, or the direct deposit is not the OWNER of the business – not the final decision maker. How do you spend that paycheck? You spend it with the mortgage company, bank, water company, super market, gas station, clothing, phone company, cable company, etc. Very rarely do you deal directly with the owner of the institution – the final decision maker. And yet these institutions hold almost total control over your financial life. Most of us know the frustration of trying to get one of these institutions to fix a mistake THEY made, let alone trying to negotiate a special problem we may be having – like having trouble paying one of these institutions. So, how can we deal with these institutions? By creating institutions of our own! African/Americans must build our own institutions! I define an institution as having the following qualities: An Institution must 1 – OWN the land. 2 – OWN the structures. 3 – OWN the enterprise that operates in the structure. 4 – SERVE its own people. 5 – SERVE OTHERS. By this definition, I DARE YOU to identify ten (10) African American institutions in San Diego County. If the bank owns the land, if there’s a mortgage on the building, if they are surviving by renting to non-community members, if the enterprise serves others but not their own, then it is not an African/American institution. It is dependent on people outside of our community for its continued existence. If it has not developed to the point where it serves those outside the community, it is not a mature institution and is at risk. For better or for worse, the only widespread institutions in the African/American community are churches – and you probably know better than I which ones do NOT own their land and/or building, nor do they serve virtually anyone other than Black folk. Are churches viable institutions in the Black community? Are they serving the community well? What do you think? (Hint: I will use Matthew 25:31-46 as my model for evaluating the Black church.) Peace. CMH.
FREEDOM RIDERS is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives—and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism. From award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson (Wounded Knee, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, The Murder of Emmett Till) FREEDOM RIDERS features testimony from a fascinating cast of central characters: the Riders themselves, state and federal government officials, and journalists who witnessed the Rides firsthand. The two-hour documentary is based on Raymond Arsenault's book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
I got up one morning in May and I said to my folks at home, I won't be back today because I'm a Freedom Rider. It was like a wave or a wind that you didn't know where it was coming from or where it was going, but you knew you were supposed to be there. — Pauline Knight-Ofuso, Freedom Rider Despite two earlier Supreme Court decisions that mandated the desegregation of interstate travel facilities, black Americans in 1961 continued to endure hostility and racism while traveling through the South. The newly inaugurated Kennedy administration, embroiled in the Cold War and worried about the nuclear threat, did little to address domestic civil rights. "It became clear that the civil rights leaders had to do something desperate, something dramatic to get Kennedy's attention. That was the idea behind the Freedom Rides—to dare the federal government to do what it was supposed to do, and see if their constitutional rights would be protected by the Kennedy administration," explains Arsenault. Organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the self-proclaimed "Freedom Riders" came from all strata of American society—black and white, young and old, male and female, Northern and Southern. They embarked on the Rides knowing the danger but firmly committed to the ideals of non-violent protest, aware that their actions could provoke a savage response but willing to put their lives on the line for the cause of justice. Each time the Freedom Rides met violence and the campaign seemed doomed, new ways were found to sustain and even expand the movement. After Klansmen in Alabama set fire to the original Freedom Ride bus, student activists from Nashville organized a ride of their own. "We were past fear. If we were going to die, we were gonna die, but we can't stop," recalls Rider Joan Trumpauer-Mulholland. "If one person falls, others take their place." Later, Mississippi officials locked up more than 300 Riders in the notorious Parchman State Penitentiary. Rather than weaken the Riders' resolve, the move only strengthened their determination. None of the obstacles placed in their path would weaken their commitment. The Riders' journey was front-page news and the world was watching. After nearly five months of fighting, the federal government capitulated. On September 22, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued its order to end the segregation in bus and rail stations that had been in place for generations. "This was the first unambiguous victory in the long history of the Civil Rights Movement. It finally said, ‘We can do this.' And it raised expectations across the board for greater victories in the future," says Arsenault. "The people that took a seat on these buses, that went to jail in Jackson, that went to Parchman, they were never the same. We had moments there to learn, to teach each other the way of nonviolence, the way of love, the way of peace. The Freedom Ride created an unbelievable sense: Yes, we will make it. Yes, we will survive. And that nothing, but nothing, was going to stop this movement," recalls Congressman John Lewis, one of the original Riders. Says filmmaker Stanley Nelson, "The lesson of the Freedom Rides is that great change can come from a few small steps taken by courageous people. And that sometimes to do any great thing, it's important that we step out alone."
FREEDOM Continued from page 3 He talked about the importance of this kind of activism and then said something like ‘Should I say it, yes, I'm running for mayor of San Diego.'" Packman added that Filner made the announcement "off the cuff." "Just my opinion, but I think he was just really moved by the film," Packman said. Councilman Carl DeMaio and District
Attorney Bonnie Dumanis have already joined what could be a crowded field to replace San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, who cannot run for re-election next year because of term limits. Both DeMaio and Dumanis have filed the necessary paperwork with the city. Other potential candidates for mayor include Councilman Kevin Faulconer, Sen. Christine Kehoe, Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, businessman Steve Francis, former Councilman Scott Peters and former Sen. Denise Moreno Ducheny. Calls to Filner's staff were not returned Sunday. There also was no mention of the announcement on the congressman's website.
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THE SERGEANT AND HIS “TROOPS”: Sgt. Williams and his son, Jamison (right side of flag), proudly display a U.S. flag from Afghanistan with the third through sixth grade students of Bonita Road Christian School. Williams, who recently returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, presented the student body with the flag for their support of the U.S.
LOCAL MASTER SERGEANT RECEIVES TOP AWARD FROM CALIFORNIA AIR NATIONAL GUARD By Paula Shoemaker On January 15, 2011 in a sea of noise makers, bubuzellas, thunder sticks and air horns, Senior Master Sergeant Ernest T. Williams was selected as the “Outstanding First Sergeant of the Year” for the California Air National Guard (CA ANG) at a banquet hosted by the 144th Wing of the CA ANG in Fresno, California. He will now go on to compete at the Air National Guard level against winners from 49 other states and four territories. Sgt. Williams is the Branch Head for the Tactical Air Navigation Systems Branch, Code 41110 at SSC Pacific and a member of the California Air National Guard (CA ANG) where he is the First Sergeant for the 162nd Combat Communications Squadron, located at the San Diego Air National Guard Station. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corp in 1980. In 1991, he joined the CA ANG. He deployed in support of Operations Enduring Freedom, Patriot, Bearhunt, Team Spirit, Lightning Strike, Cope Thunder Solid Shield, Alpine Warrior, Weapons Tactics and Instructions, Combined Arms Exercise, California Floods 1997, and Rough and Ready 2000. In 2008, Sgt. Williams was elected President of the California Air National Guard First Sergeants Council. Williams holds a Bachelors degree in Systems Engineering Technology. He is married to Yolanda, and they have one son.
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Richard Gere, Sarah Jessica Parker & Liv Tyler Are Africans A slew of A-list stars are featured in the new "I Am African" campaign for the nonprofit organization Keep a Child Alive. The Hollywood heavyweights -- including Richard Gere, Sarah Jessica Parker and Liv Tyler, as well as black Americans Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys and Tyson Beckford, along with Somali-born supermodel Iman, the organization's global ambassador -- are photographed in tribal face paint to more effectively send the message that "each and every one of us contains DNA that can be traced back to our African ancestors." Seems we could use that message to help bring attention to a number of issues, like, say, racism, but oh well. The campaign is meant to spread awareness about the AIDS epidemic in Africa. It's a noble campaign, an epidemic is an epidemic -- the more awareness around it, the better. Still, the photographs raise some questions. For starters, why is it necessary to pose a formulaic African aesthetic in order to be compassionate? The campaign's art direction is coherent, yet desperately forced -- Sarah Jessica Parker just looks confused made up with the purple fertility line traditionally worn by women in eastern Africa. "I Am African" ads have been sighted in urban spaces throughout the U.S., particularly in New York City, where thousands of African immigrants live and who, one can only imagine, may not be in the mood while waiting on the subway platform to take in an image of privileged celebrities who have the luxury of walking in and out of an African identity whenever's clever. Not to mention the sexually active urban black youth, many of whom are still not using condoms, and for whom this campaign only pushes the AIDS epidemic farther away from them. Again, the cause is good. No one faults the effort. It's the additional stylized assertion that these celebrities, who, it is assumed, all citizens of the world aspire to emulate, must somehow become African -- and explicitly appropriate African-ness -- in order for this very important global issue to matter.
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A CRASH COURSE ON POLITICS ON THE HILL
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hat is politics? We all know politics as people with power suits giving speeches at events or forums about changing their communities. Or we know politics as “talking heads” on television (Fox news) telling the president or other politicians what to do and how they would have done it differently if they were elected. However, here at Capitol Hill, it’s about “Power and Persuasion.” Politics, by definition “are moves or maneuvers concerned with the acquisition of power or getting one’s way.” And here at Capitol Hill that is exactly what is: people in power suits—elected officials—persuading their fellow members of Congress and their President to act on an issue. So let us first start off with the structure of Congress: the legislative body. Congress is made up of two legislative houses: the House of Representative and the Senate House. As you may remember The House of Representatives consists of 435 members of congress as the Senate House consists of 100. Both Houses sit at the opposite ends of Capitol Hill but they all have equal representation and power in Congress. The only difference between the two is: their constituents that they represent, years of service, specific roles they carryout, etc. The Senate, unlike the House (H.O.R), elects their senators by state legislatures. They represent their respective home state (two senators for each state) and serve for the total amount six years; all members of congress are able to run for re-election. Their primary role is to ratify treaties and approve presidential appointments. The House on the other hand carries out roles differently. Congressmen, which is referred by the House of Representatives, are elected by popular vote. They have a two year-term and serve different districts within their respective state; serve the people much closely than senators. Their primary role is to originate all revenue measures and appropriations bills in Congress. Since you have now learned the basic structure of Congress—congress having two legislative houses—now it is time to return to our previous topic on politics: “Power and Persuasion.” How are laws made, with the power of Politics? The first step is to have an issue: an issue which can either affect many constituents or America as a whole. Once you have an issue, a senator or congressman will then create idea of solution which then called a bill. Over 3,000 bills get introduced on either side of Congress, but the trick is to have as many seats (in the House, Senate, and Committees) controlled by your respective political party (primarily Democratic or Republican party). The reason why the Healthcare Reform Bill was passed into law was because the Democratic Party controlled the majority of the House and the Senate—during the time when the bill was introduced. Timing is everything; now the Republican Party controls the House. Each house of congress has the power to turn down bills as well as approve them into law. This type of power is called “Checks and Balances.” And it is with this power that makes our form of government unique to others around the world. So as crash course reminder our California Senators are: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D). Our representative which represents our district of San Diego is Congresswoman Susan Davis (D).
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There is No Alcohol Moderation if You Want to Lose Weight By Lady Topaz While the accepted wisdom for most people is that a glass of wine every evening is good for your heart, it may, in fact, be packing on the pounds and contributing to wrinkled skin. Chemically, alcohol acts as a diuretic and causes dehydration—just what you want to avoid to look and feel young. And research confirms that just one glass of wine inhibits your body’s ability to burn fat for the next 48 hours. But now you can learn how to turn this fat-burning condition around in the next 24 hours. Get Started Today: Alcohol Turnaround Tip. Skip your evening glass of wine and increase your body’s ability to burn fat and remove toxins during the next 24 hours. “Do you drink alcohol?” It’s ironic that I usually hear, “No. I only have wine or beer with dinner.” Read my lips: Wine and beer are both alcoholic drinks! This is a critical question you should consider when determining whether you can limit alcohol to help accomplish weight loss, hormone balance and reverse aging. If the answer is no, nothing to worry about other than the foods and medications you are consuming; however, if the answer is yes, then I ask that you rethink your priorities to resolve this need for alcohol, or any nutritional/cleansing program will not be of much benefit to you. Here is the bottomline, alcohol requires no digestion. About 20 percent can pass right through the walls of an empty stomach directly into your bloodstream, and the rest is easily absorbed in the small intestine. From there it heads to the liver just like your food. The liver’s method of dealing with alcohol is to metabolize it for energy, creating glucose that’s used to power your body. This becomes a top priority for the liver, which is smart enough to know that alcohol is a toxin. But smart as it is, the liver is fairly slow at turning the alcohol into energy. The alcohol that can’t be used by the liver immediately enters the bloodstream, causing the blood alcohol level to increase within a minute after the first sip. With this extra energy available from the alcohol—and this excess toxin to be removed— the liver becomes very busy turning almost all other food that you consume into fat. Shocking, but true! These fats are then dumped into the blood stream where they then cause tissue damage, compromised immunity, and storage in fat cells. The liver is still dealing with the alcohol, even after your blood alcohol level is back to normal. It can take up to 48 hours to return to
the normal metabolism of dietary fat—during which time you will not be losing weight, but may, in fact, be putting on a few extra pounds. Not only are there life-threatening consequences associated with drinking alcohol, but that one little glass of wine is guaranteed to disrupt your deep, antiaging sleep, and slow down your fat-burning mechanism. Alcohol’s empty calories also replace whole foods that have beneficial nutrients. Alcohol and Blood Pressure Alcohol is a targeted culprit in boosting blood pressure, and if you’ve been diagnosed with hypertension (high blood pressure), stopping alcohol consumption is one proactive step that will save your heart. In women, hypertension increases the risk of heart attack and cardiovascular disease by 25 percent, and more than half of all women over age forty-five have it, including millions of women who have undiagnosed hypertension. Hypertension makes your heart work harder than normal, increasing the stress on your heart muscle and arteries and leading to a thickened heart muscle, which can cause irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias). High blood pressure can also lead to atherosclerosis (plaque build-up in the arteries), putting you at high risk for a heart attack or stroke. In one of the studies reported in Hypertension, researchers concluded that a reduction in alcohol intake among drinkers significantly reduced their blood pressure. They found that when alcohol consumption fell by 16 to 100 percent, there were significant drops in systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading). Diastolic blood pressure (the lower number) also dropped significantly in eight clinical trials. The greatest drop in blood pressure was seen among patients with the highest blood pressure before treatment and those who cut their alcohol consumption the most. It makes you wonder why doctors recommend drinking alcohol to reduce the risk of heart attack, when it increases the risk of hypertension, a major factor in cardiovascular disease. Perhaps this is truly the paradox, or, planned obsolescence. * * * For questions or feedback regarding this article you may contact Topaz at topazstjames@gmail.com.
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Mingei Museum to house bead collection By Michael Stetz The Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park is going to receive a dynamic bead collection, considered to be one of the more comprehensive in the nation. But it's landing the collection because the museum, based in Glendale, Ariz., has had to close its doors because of the bad economy. Grants and donor support had dropped. The Bead Museum was founded in 1986 and contains 11,650 beads. They date from present time to 20,000 years ago. Here's a link to a blog item that hoped the collection would stay locally. But the Mingei was considered to be great fit. In a news release, Kelly Norton, the executive director of the Bead Museum, said: "The Bead Museum's Board is pleased that the collection will remain intact
and that it has found a wonderful new home. "Our missions are symbiotic and we are confident that the Bead Museum collection will live on." In the same release, Rob Sidner, director of the Mingei International Musuem, said: "The extraordinary collection fits perfectly with the Mingei's International mission, and strengthens the institution's longtime interest in and commitments to beads and adornments." It'll take months for the Mingei Museum to absorb the collection, it noted. An exhibition is scheduled for December. In addition to the beads, the San Diego museum will get a substantial library from the Bead Museum, as well. The Mingei International Museum exhibits folk art, craft and designs from all eras and cultures in the world.
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Kensley Hawkins, Prisoner, Asked To Pay State For His Incarceration When Kensley Hawkins was sent to prison for the 1980 murder of a man and the attempted murder of two Chicago police officers, he hoped his prison job would allow him to set some money aside to send to his daughter, who was reportedly 8-years-old at the time of his incarceration. Though Hawkins' $75-per-month job building furniture at the Statesville Correctional Center in Joliet isn't much, he has managed to save up about $11,000 over the years. And now, the state wants its money back. The Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday that Hawkins has been in court fighting to keep the money in his bank account, but the state says he owes them $455,203.14 to cover the cost of his incarceration. The case has made it all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court, which began hearing arguments Tuesday. "The reason you want Mr. Hawkins to keep his money is because he's gonna get out of prison some day, and when he gets out of prison, we want him to have saved his money so that he can take care of himself you don't want the public to have to pay for him," Hawkins' attorney, Ben Weinberg, told Fox Chicago. John Maki, coordinating director of the
John Howard Association of Illinois, agreed. He told the Tribune taking away the money would not "help create a prison culture that's more rehabilitative." Under current Illinois law, prisoners are liable for the cost of their incarceration, but most inmates do not have a way to pay. The Department of Corrections usually goes after people who have more than $10,000 in assets, according to the Tribune. The state also allows IDOC to collect 3 percent of an inmate's wages, and Hawkins' lawyers say they are not entitled to any more than that. The Supreme Court is working to decide whether there is a conflict in these laws, and if so, how to resolve it. "This man committed some horrible crimes," Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins of illinoisvictims.org. told Fox Chicago "I commend him for working to earn money in prison, but he has a debt to society, a debt that he owes not only to his victims, who he should make restitution to, but he should also make restitution to the state." Lawyers for Hawkins told Business Week they want the state's $455,203.14 judgment against their client overturned, and for the state to stay away from his savings. Hawkins will be eligible for parole in 2028.
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What’s making San Diego County rents go up? Experts across the nation point to three key economic drivers By Lily Leung, UT San Diegans are paying slightly more rent in March than a year ago — driven by minor traction in the local job market, an uptick in distressed homeowners having to lease again and more young adults leaving Mom and Dad’s nest after a brief post-college stay. The average monthly rent in the county increased 1.5 percent, to $1,335 in March from $1,315 the same time last year, according to numbers from a twice-yearly rental report from MarketPointe Realty Advisors, a San Diego-based data company. The report also showed the average vacancy rate in the county is 5.1 percent, up from 4.8 percent one year ago. Alan Nevin, the company’s director of economic research, said an autumn infusion of 679 units from failed condo project Vantage Pointe in downtown San Diego fueled the vacancy increase. Despite that, rental experts say, a 5 percent vacancy rate is fairly healthy. The San Diego rental market is stable and will likely see steady increases this year tied with the normal rate of inflation, according to property managers and data analysts. Peter Dennehy, a vice president of John Burns Real Estate Consulting, says the local market echoes what’s happening nationwide: Rents are increasing as an anemic economy gains strength and fewer people can afford to buy a home. The consulting company, which has an office in San Diego, projects rent locally will jump 30-plus percent within five years. Similar increases are expected in other areas, including Seattle and Boston. “People are out shopping,” said apartment manager Luis Leguizamo, who recently tacked on $2530 a month for residents at the Loma Portal Apartments, near Point Loma. “The economy is somewhat stimulated,” he added. “People are in the position to move and consider paying a higher rate.” Here’s a look at some of the factors that are driving up rental rates: The local economy More Californians are getting jobs, part of what’s helping the rental market. The state created almost 100,000 jobs in February, mainly in areas such as technology and
construction. San Diego’s job count went up by 2,000. Though many of the jobs that were lost during the recession have yet to be recouped, “things are firming up in the labor market,” said Dennehy, of the real estate consulting firm. Supply is also coming into play. He said there’s little apartment construction in the county, which over time could be an issue in an area popular for its favorable weather, beaches and amenities. During the past five years, San Diego has added about 1,000 new rental units each year. This year’s projection is less than half of that, at 402, Dennehy said. “New apartment construction requires land and financing, and in this recession, there is not a lot of land or financing,” he said. Distressed are renting Many homeowners in San Diego struggling to make their mortgage payments have shifted back to renting because it’s more affordable, and with a foreclosure on their record, it’s likely the only option. It’s unclear how many are leasing again. But nearly 12,000 San Diegans lost their homes last year, according to analyst firm DataQuick Information Systems. Homeowner Crystal Dooling and her young family, who live in North County, are in the process of foreclosure, spurred by overwhelming medical debt. They’re also hunting for a rental, which can be a struggle for a mother of three and working father. What makes the task harder is the future red mark on their financial records. “A Realtor tells me, ‘I’m going to have a hard time pitching you as a tenant. I don’t know if people are going to take a chance on you,’?” Dooling said. Property managers throughout California have said they’re willing to work with would-be renters such as Dooling to find a proper home. All they ask is that prospective tenants be clear and forthcoming about foreclosures or defaults. Eric Wiegers, of the California Apartment Association, said some landlords might charge higher security deposits to these tenants. By state law, the maximum deposit is two months’ rent for an unfurnished rental and three months’ rent for a furnished one.
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Just Keeping It Real With Angela Harris Are You Reaping What You’ve Sown? Great question! So many times in life we find ourselves feeling that somehow we are being wrongfully treated and we can’t for the life of us figure out why this is happening to us. The question posed is did you play a role in your current circumstances? Have your recent, potentially even past actions contributed to your current situation? Let’s take a look in our past and see what we can discover? It’s important to know that it is not necessarily tit for tat in our experiences, you could have done something and your heart was so cold and unfeeling in a different situation than what you currently find yourself faced with, and yet that callous attitude you showed toward another is now being reaped (experienced) in your life. For instance, have you hastily judged another person, not even hastily but simply took a hard line as to what your thoughts were about the actions of another? Understand even if their actions were wrong were you quick to condemn unequivocally? Did you gossip about someone to another? Have you taken what did not belong to you, but belonged to another? Did you criticize? Did you look at what the media says about someone and accept what they said as the truth then ran with it? Do you hear something about someone and make the judgment that it must be the truth? The questions are endless, but necessary. Tthere is a consistent nature within humankind that I want mercy for myself but justice for others. If we are accused of something we tend to want others to give us the benefit of the doubt but we refuse to give that same consideration to others. If someone is driving and happens to be going too slow, makes a sudden move, or cuts you off, do you automatically assume that it was intentional and then mean mug them? Isn’t it quite possible that they simply made a mistake? Can’t we function in a spirit of mercy and forgiveness instead of condemnation and mean-spiritedness? Most of us scripturally are told that we will reap what we sow, reap more than what we’ve sown. Point in case – you take one seed and plant it and you yield a crop, while it was only one seed you yielded a greater harvest. That’s the example for our lives, we might do something considered small and yet we reap something much more strenuous than what we inflicted. We are told to be careful how we judge, what method we use, because that same method will be used against us. If I live a life with the premise that I want justice for the wrong I’ve experienced when I seek mercy for my wrong instead of the desired mercy I will receive justice. This is a salient principle that if embraced, just maybe our lives will rest in a place of mercy and our extended considerations to others will be mercy also. Neither will be quick to judge but quick to provide compassion, understanding, and kindness. This doesn’t mean we excuse behavior we simply acknowledge in a kind way that we are encouraged for them and will be praying for a positive outcome. Then there is the positive side of reaping and sowing. If you sow love you will reap love. If you sow kindness you will reap kindness. If you sow patience you will reap patience. If you sow compassion you will reap compassion. These qualities should be manifested in our lives. These qualities should be represented by you within your home, your church, your work environment, and your community. These qualities are the stuff the bible speaks of when saying we are to be the light of the world, the salt of the earth. So as we began are you reaping what you’ve sown? Are you yielding a harvest that enriches your life and others or are you reaping a bitter harvest based on the bitter seeds you have planted?
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Arizona Bans Abortions Based on Race By Jeff Mays At first glance, it sounds like a terrible thing that should certainly be outlawed: being able to choose an abortion based on the race of the parent or the fetus. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer just signed a bill that makes it a felony to "knowingly perform or provide financing for an abortion sought because of the race or sex of the fetus or a parent's race." There's only one problem. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that anyone is getting abortions based on the race or sex of the fetus or the race of the parent. So what's really going on here? "The only people who are supporting these bills are people who want to ban abortion. When you think about the heart of the bill, the bill is not about protecting women's health. Instead, you have antiabortion people passing a condition on abortion," says Elizabeth Nash, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy associate for the Guttmacher Institute that advocates for sexual and reproductive health. "It is unusual. There's not anything out there to say this does happen, so it's weird that people would try to adopt a law for something that's not happening," she adds. Not in Arizona. In other words, Arizona politicians are once again using race and ethnicity to cause havoc. There's nothing weird about it; it's just good ole fashioned American race-baiting. We've just seen this with the state's illegal immigration law, with many -- including the U.S. Justice Department -- agreeing it would set off a wave of racial profiling and tie up the valuable time of already overburdened and underfunded law enforcement agencies. We've also seen an attempt to combine race and abortion with controversial ads targeting black women. The abortion law would cause women to have to disclose a reason for their abortions by verifying that it is not for racial reasons or because of the sex of the fetus. This law also sets a precedent by penalizing doctors for supposedly aborting babies for these aforesaid reasons. "This law creates a highly unusual requirement that women state publicly their reason for choosing
to terminate a pregnancy -- a private decision they already made with their physician, partner and family," said Bryan Howard, chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Arizona, in a statement. "While we condemn racism and sexism in all forms, legislation that overrides the doctor-patient relationship is not in the best interest of Arizonans." It seems like a slow march to gradually set a precedent for limiting abortions or eliminating the right for a woman to get an abortion -- something that our Supreme Court has confirmed as legal. "The bill is not about protecting women's health. You have anti-abortion people passing a condition on abortion," Nash says. "This seems to be trying to get people to think about race more than affect any sort of practice. This is an issue that doesn't make sense from a political standpoint except that it could pull apart different coalitions," she continues. I was surprised at how many African Americans were in support of the Arizona immigration law when it came out. It's crazy for us not to see that discrimination is discrimination period. The Rev. Al Sharpton practically had to chastise his followers for not seeing that discrimination is wrong no matter who happens to be the victim. It's called "divide and conquer." So many people in this country are not aligned on issues that could actually benefit them. Take the estate tax, for example. So few people are actually affected by it, so why did so many people who would never make enough money to qualify for it object to it? And take members of the Tea Party. To spread the idea that taking advantage of well-earned public benefits, such as Social Security or Medicare, is accepting government handouts is an outrageous lie. Many of those same Tea Partiers also chose not to decline their Social Security benefits or mail back their unemployment checks. Instead of playing games with abortion and using race to play people against one another, states like Arizona need to be looking at ways to help people make good decisions. "The kind of legislation we need is expanded access to family planning care so women can have kids when they are ready," says Nash. "We need to continue certain conversations. I don't think this issue needs a legislative solution."
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NONE VIOLENCE IN A VIOLENT WORLD March 30, 2011 - It seems so self evident to some that all Nations should outlaw certain types of violence as the primary method of addressing local or national official problems. To some others, all types of violence should be immediately outlawed for any and all purposes when dealing with official State business, whether local, national or international. To still others, such an issue of outlawing any or all violence relative to State business is not even a rational idea, and to these individuals, such talk as this is simply a waste of time. Despite these differences of opinions on this subject of violence, there is a growing number of countries and even a group of small nationstates, that is, groups in the world who are defined as “Territories” and who are “the responsibility of some larger Nations/Country” who are concerned about violence as THE means for co-existence. For our purposes, it doesn’t matter how they are officially defined. What matters is that such defined groups will eventually be involved in the decisions relative to using or not using violence in the settlement of disputes. CONTEXT FOR THIS DISCUSSION The immediate context for this discussion grows out of the present debates and action relating to the “whole issue of the decisionmaking for the nations using the “United Nations Mantle” to declare “war” against Libya but not against other countries, and the absence of using the word “war” in any of the language authorizing the action against Libya; and the carefully orchestrated use of the language relative to who the leader of the major players should be etc. In addition there is a general context that relates to the on-going sacred belief that all requests and related actions of these strongest nations are always appropriate; and that no other nation has the equal right to counter or question their action because their decisions and behavior are Holy MADATES from a
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April 2, 2011 - Page 23
Urban League to President Obama: Black Jobless Rate Nearly Double That of Whites By Kevin Eason While the Congressional agenda has been focused on the federal budget and spending cuts, the National Urban League's State of Black America report is focused on the same thing the 15 percent of black America (in some cases, 50 percent) is focused on: jobs. The reports cover topics like education and health care, but each summary is connected by a c o m m o n thread: jobs. The League is not responding to a new phenomenon, but instead calling attention to a consistent pattern of black unemployment that
transcends the country's overall economic condition. "The most cursory look at the job numbers for African Americans tells the grim reason for that assertion. The black jobless rate is still nearly double that of whites. The rate for young black males is far worse. In some urban areas, one out of three young blacks are unemployed. The chronic high jobless rate is not solely the result of the economic downturn of the past two years. During the 1990s, a boom time for the economy, the black jobless rate was still double that of white males," The Grio reports. In their report, the League details "A Dozen Ideas for Putting Urban America Back to Work" and points to two "grave dangers" in the high unemployment rate for black men: It creates a permanent underclass within black communities and it drains the social services resources within the already underfunded communities. The Grio reports that the League, the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus have pushed the Obama administration to make black unemployment a priority, but alas, it has escaped the president's purview.
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