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THE PIONEER ENTERTAINMENT ISSUE We know a lot of you are upset with the results of the presidential election. Here is our entertainment issue to help ease the pain.

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PHOTOGRAPHER A student performs during a dress rehearsal of “Cymbeline” on the Cal State East Bay Hayward campus on Tuesday.

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East Bay theater troupe to reenact Shakespeare’s ‘Cymbeline’

By Tishauna Carrell STAFF WRITER For the first time ever, Cal State East Bays theatre production will perform Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline” at the University Theatre on Nov. 11-12 and 18-20.

The play was chosen by professional director, Marc Jacobs, who played a small role as a soldier in the Stratford Shakespearean festival in Ontario, Canada when he was 22 years old. “It was just so unusual that I’ve always wanted to do it,” said Jacobs. “It has great acting opportunities for our students.”

Incorporating elements of Snow White and a Grimm’s fairy tale, “Cymbeline” takes place in Great Britain in the year 10 A.D., where King Cymbeline marries a woman with an arrogant son named Cloten. Cymbeline arranges a marriage for his daughter Imogen with Cloten, but Imogen marries her lov-

er Posthumus Leonatus, an honorable man of Cymbeline’s court, instead. The rest of the plot involves treachery, poison and deceit and results in a headless corpse and a comedic end.

The cast of 14 has rehearsed 18 hours a week since October. Students were trained to use real swords by Dave Maier, instructor of theatrical combat with Dueling Arts International, in preparation for a major battle scene. “It was really fun,” said CSUEB freshman Alex Borja, who plays Arviragus. “I’ve never been in a production where we had actual sword fighting.” “[Performing] Shakespeare is like going to the gym and doing an intensive workout,” said Jacobs. “Emotions have to be huge, you have to be able to handle the language — be able to handle it physically.”

Admission will cost $15 for the general public and $5 for CSUEB students.

“Great language, great play writing and great acting,” said Jacobs.

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Bay Area great for live entertainment, not Hayward

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Bay Area is a gold mine for concerts and live music. The Fox Theater, Yoshi’s, The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, The Greek Theater; the list goes on forever.

In just one month, I saw Nas, Lauryn Hill, SchoolBoy Q, Joey Bada$$, Bambaata Marley, Little Simz and Ezale perform. Even better, all of the performances were in the East Bay: Oakland, Berkeley and even Alameda.

None of those performances were in Hayward.

Then I started to think, when have I ever seen a popular or well-known act perform in the city I grew up in? The answer: never.

As a college student and a Hayward native, it sucks. Some of the best times I’ve ever had were at a show. Why shouldn’t I be able to enjoy that in Hayward?

There’s the Bal Theater in San Leandro that draws popular acts from time to time like El Debarge, Tony, Toni, Tone, Jodeci and Pete Escovedo, but never big names on a regular basis.

There is essentially just one venue in Hayward to see live performances, The Bistro in downtown on B Street. Since it opened in 1994, The Bistro has live music seven days a week and never charges a cover to get in. However, it’s small and the bands and acts are usually not well-known.

However it hasn’t always been this way. Hayward used to draw big names. In the 1970s and 1980s former hot spots The Haywire, Mexicali Rose and The Tamarack Inn used to frequently host popular musicians, which included a slew of local hip hop, rap and R&B acts. In the late 90s, that trend began to go away, possibly because of outbreaks of violence at local shows.

In 1996, Mexicali Rose on Mission Boulevard and Valle Vista Drive, just down the street from the CSUEB Hayward campus, hosted a hip hop and rap show, headlined by Oakland rapper Richie Rich.

Before the show ended, gunshots erupted in the parking lot and the show was canceled, according to HPD. The venue eventually switched to Spanish music only.

In 1997, another hot spot for live music in Hayward, formerly known as The Seafood Loft on West Winton Avenue, was the location of a deadly shooting of a teenager. Tennyson High School junior Davon Johnson was shot and killed after he was caught in the crossfire between some attendees in the parking lot and the security guards working the event, according to the Hayward Police Department.

In 2006, Hayward officials voted to abolish “Happy Hour” in the city, citing that it “Encourages more drinking,” something the city did not want to do. Despite the urging of then Hayward Mayor Michael Sweeney, in Sept. 2013 the city voted 5-2 to bring back “Happy Hour” a time frame where restaurants and bars have special lower prices on drinks and food. However, that didn’t bring back the live music.

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“There is essentially just one venue in Hayward to see live performances, The Bistro in downtown on B Street.”

“The Bistro has live music seven days a week and never charges a cover to get in. ” Top: The Bal Theatre in San Leandro. Right: The Bistro on B Street in Downtown Hayward, one of the only live music venues in the city. Above: Raja Indian Cuisine, formerly The Seafood Loft.

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Dance perfomance chills on Hayward campus 11th annual ICE, ICE-X to begin at CSUEB on Dec. 2

By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER

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Performers of the dance production ICE, ICE-X practice choreography during a rehearsal on Tuesday night in the physical education building in Hayward.

On Dec. 2, the California State East Bay Theater and Dance Department will host the 11th annual ICE and ICE-X productions, an annual holiday dance production that will feature live music, theatre, singing and drumming.

“We advocate for making the arts more inclusive and accessible in general,” said Kupers. “We start with dance, but merge dance with live music and theater.”

The performances will be choreographed by Nina Haft and Eric Kupers of East Bay’s Theater and Dance Department, and produced by the Inclusive Interdisciplinary Performance Ensemble, a group of students, community members and professional performers, according to the Cal State Theater and Dance Department.

The ICE performance will take place on Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the physical education building, room 140, and ICE-X on Dec. 3 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the same location. Tickets will be sold at the Pioneer Book Store and also online.

Nas, Lauryn Hill electrify Berkeley

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The Berkeley Greek Theater was the backdrop for co-headliners Nas and Lauryn Hill on Friday. It was the perfect venue for hip-hop and R&B legends.

There could not have been a better venue for the show. If you aren’t familiar with the Greek Theater, it emulates the Colosseum in Rome, a place that is associated with Greek royalty.

It was fitting that musical royalty of sorts graced the stage in front of a sold out crowd of 8,500 plus people.

The culmination of the concert happened during Lauryn Hill’s set when she brought out Nas and the two performed their multi-platinum 1996 hit “If I Ruled The World” off Nas’s “It Was Written” album. The crowd erupted towards the end of the last verse of the song and sang the entire final chorus as Hill finished her twohour performance.

Hill ended the night with one of her most iconic songs, “Doo Wop (That Thing)” from the 1998 multi-platinum selling album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” which is her only solo

recording to date.

Hill has been criticized in recent years by several music critics from The New York Post and the Los Angeles Times for her lack of new music and performances that were more reggae than R&B. However, Hill composed all of her hits with a live band, including some of the recordings she made with the group The Fugees from 1994 to 1996 that included “Ready or Not” and “Killing Me Softly.”

Oakland native and singer Kehlani was scheduled to open the show, however, she pulled out at the last minute due to illness. She was replaced by Bob Marley’s nephew and Ziggy Marley’s son Bambaata Marley and London-based female rapper Little Simz.

Little Simz got the crowd going with several strong baselines and lyrics that included songs “Dead Body” and “God Bless Mary,” he latter of which she dedicated to her neighbor Mary, whom she said dealt with her playing music at high volumes all hours of the night and day.

Another Planet Entertainment put on the show in association with the Greek Theater, whose next event isn’t scheduled until April 7, 2017 when singer Regina Spektor’s 2017 tour will make its stop in Berkeley.

Performers bang on drums during a rehearsal of ICE, ICE-X on Tuesday night in the physical education building on the Hayward campus.

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Do you believe in magic?

Local youth hones his magician skills

By Kali Persall MANAGING EDITOR Levitating a cup of Sprite or conjuring money from a burning piece of paper aren’t skills that most fifth graders possess, but 11-year-old Matthew Pizzi, otherwise known as Matty the Magician, has mastered them.

It all started with a first-grade talent show at Prince of Peace Lutheran School in Fremont.

The day before the show, he told his mother, Pam Pizzi, that he wanted to perform magic, and she drove him to Houdini’s Magic Shop on Pier 39 in San Francisco to buy tricks.

“It was a little crazy and chaotic,” said Pizzi. “I didn’t know anything about magic at the time, zero, so I googled magic stores near Fremont. It turns out there are no magic shops anywhere between here and Oakland. You had to go all the way to San Francisco.”

The pair picked up two tricks: a magic “change bag” that appears empty at first glance but can be used to make items vanish and appear, and a flower that appears at the wave of a wand. “[The tricks were] quick and short and sweet,” said Pizzi. “We practiced our hearts out for a couple of hours.”

Since then, Matty has performed dozens of tricks at school talent shows, in classrooms, at birthday parties and community events. He wears a signature dark blue, pointy magicians hat, a velvet black cape and a tuxedo t-shirt and works behind a small table with a black drape. He almost always carries a magic wand. “I love entertaining people,” said Matty. “That first year it was just awesome. When I asked for assistance the whole crowd [raised their hands].”

Four years ago, Matty performed with “Dan Chan the Magic Man,” a professional magician from San Francisco at Pacific West Gymnastics in Union City. During intermission, Pizzi approached the magician and asked if he would allow Matty to incorporate one trick into his act. He agreed and Pizzi says she’s now considering asking “the magic man” to mentor Matty.

On Oct. 29, Matty performed a popup show at a Trunk or Treat event that took place at John Muir Elementary School in Hayward. The event was catered toward providing a safe, inclusive space for autistic children and their families.

When Matty was in preschool, he struggled with behavioral issues like biting, which made it difficult for him to integrate into public school, so his parents decided to enroll him at Prince of Peace, a private school.

Pizzi said the class never reaches over 20 kids, which allows Matty to have more one-on-one instruction.

Until age six, Matty received Applied Behavioral Analysis therapy, a method of treatment that helps people with a wide range of social issues correct behavior and learn “socially significant behaviors” such as reading, academic and social skills and applied living behaviors, according to the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. Pizzi said Matty’s magic has helped to boost his self-esteem, build relationships with other kids and improve his social skills. “This is a good thing for him because it’s brought him out of his shell a lot,” she said. “At first, getting up on stage was a challenge, now he loves it.”

For the first time, Matty has showed an interest in playing team sports. He recently attended a volleyball skills camp through the city of Fremont and plans to give basketball a try at Prince of Peace next year.

“It’s a social experiment to keep pushing him to be around people and be a

part of something,” said Pizzi.

Pizzi is an alumna of Cal State East Bay and a former network engineer and web design project manager.

Before having Matty, she was also a pilot and scuba diver. Now she’s a stayat-home mom who never misses a school event and frequently helps out in the classroom. She helps Matty study for tests and homework every day.

Pizzi also recently chaperoned field trips to the San Juan Bautista mission in San Benito County and the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley.

“I kind of gave everything up and poured it all into him,” she said. “The more you put into your kid, the bigger rewards you get.”

Pizzi is the mastermind behind many of Matty’s tricks. She researches and learns each one through videos online before she teaches them to her son.

Pizzi said that tricks can take days or weeks to learn, depending on the level of difficulty, such as card tricks that require sleight of hand.

Pizzi said a lot of kid-friendly tricks and card magic isn’t very impressive for a large audience, so she modifies the more difficult tricks commonly performed by adults. In the money and fire trick, Pizzi said the magician is supposed to hold the burning paper in their hand. Matty puts the paper down in a tray before he lights it on fire.

Many of Matty’s tricks are purchased online and some come with written instructions, but Pizzi said Matty learns best by watching the trick in person or video. The same method can be applied to Matty’s own tricks: Pizzi started a Youtube channel with all of Matty’s shows, which the pair watches frequently in order to help Matty evaluate how to improve, what to change and what tricks to add.

“We kind of build our own momentum,” she said. Matty put on four shows this year so far and has built up to eight or nine tricks.

He’s looking into performing more throughout the year and plans to constantly practice in between shows, “so he doesn’t lose it.”

“It looks so easy and once you learn, it is not too bad, but there’s a bit of a curve there that you have to be aware of,” she said.

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Top: Matthew Pizzi, better known as "Matty The Magician" poses for a picture at the "Trunk or Treat"event at John Muir Elementary School in Hayward on Oct. 29. Bottom: "Matty The Magician" performs a magic trick for the attendees at the event that promoted disability awareness and inclusion.

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spotlights local homelessness

By Kali Persall MANAGING EDITOR It’s 9 p.m. on Saturday and nobody stirs at the East Bay Media Center.

Around 20 film-lovers huddle in the small, brick-lined room that smells like patchouli oil and old wood, while Amir Soltani and Chihiro Wimbush’s powerful documentary “Dogtown Redemption” plays on the screen.

Mel Vapour, director of the Berkeley Video and Film Festival and vice president and chief financial officer of East Bay Media Center, said the 25th Annual Berkeley Video & Film Festival received over 90 submissions this year but only 50 films made the cut.

The festival took place over two weekends this year, from Oct. 28 to 30 and Nov. 4 to 6, longer than previous years.

According to Vapour, it will potentially expand to weekday showings next year with a focus on thematic films.

“Dogtown Redemption” focuses on the Alliance Metals recycling center in West Oakland and the impoverished people who labored there before it was shut down by the city on Aug. 20. The business once provided work to dozens of the city’s unemployed, homeless residents, who collected hundreds of cans, glass bottles and plastic containers from dumpsters and residential garbage cans around the city every night, earning some up to $100 per day after they recycled them.

Over the course of the 90 minute film, the stories of three recyclers emerge: Jason Witt, a connoisseur of garbage who has mastered the art of balancing hundreds of pounds of recyclables on his bicycle; the quirky Miss Hayok Kay, a former drummer in an 1980s polka band; and Landon Goodwin, a former minister who eventually left the streets and his addiction behind to reunite with the church.

Their stories are impactful because homelessness is a condition that hits close to home for Bay Area residents.

The East Oakland Community Project, an organization that offers emergency and transitional housing in Alameda County, reports that 49.2 percent of the county’s 6,215 homeless population live in Oakland. Like Witt, approximately 560 homeless people living within Alameda County have HIV/AIDS. At the end of the night, the film won the Grand Festival Award for Best Documentary. In a question-and-answer session after the showing, filmmaker Soltani told the audience that the idea for the documentary came to him when he moved to West Oakland 10 years ago into his brother-in-law’s condo and heard people rummaging through the garbage cans in the early hours of the morning.

He borrowed $10,000 to buy a camera and he thought it would be enough.

“I don’t think of myself as a filmmaker,” said Soltani. “We were climbing the Everest but I thought it was a hill.”

Almost $600,000, 250 hours of footage and seven years later, the movie was completed in Sept. 2015. “The greatest gift to have when you’re making a film is time,” said Soltani.

Throughout the filming process, the crew and recyclers established a relationship that Soltani credits to safe years of filming at all hours in the Oakland streets without incident. This level of comfort also allowed the filmmakers to capture the recyclers’ most intimate moments: from Witt shooting up heroine to Miss Kay sobbing on the grave of her boyfriend, who passed away from illness.

Soltani said because of the characters’ unpredictable lifestyles, it was impossible to adhere to a strict filming schedule, a challenge that filmmakers Andrew Schrader and Travis Schirmer identified with during the making of their documentary, “All we want to do is

Amber, a homeless woman at the encampment.

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The homeless encampment prior to destruction, left, and after, right.

“We just literally walked up and people didn’t trust us. It took awhile for us to stand around and talk to people and then people agreed to talk to us. I think you just can’t have the camera right to begin with.”

—Andrew Schrader, filmmaker

Thomas, a homeless resident of the encampment.

live,” which played at the festival before “Dogtown Redemption.”

The documentary highlighted the same familiar scenario: gentrification in Berkeley and Albany through the eyes of two displaced homeless people, Amber and Thomas, who lived at the Albany Bulb, a landfill-turned-park, before the city cleaned up the area in 2014.

Like Amber and Thomas, dozens of homeless people made camp at the Bulb bordering the San Francisco Bay, until the city scattered them to neighboring cities like Berkeley and Oakland in an effort to turn the area into a park.

The documentary was inspired by a newspaper clipping about the encampment that focused on the relocation of the Albany Bulb residents to a Berkeley industrial park.

“We had no idea what we were doing and we went to a camp in that dirt lot and we didn’t know anybody there,” said Schirmer. “We just literally walked up and people didn’t trust us. It took awhile for us to stand around and talk to people and then people agreed to talk to us.

I think you just can’t have the camera right to begin with.”

The city threatened to dismantle the encampments at the park and Shrader planned to film during the week of packing that would ensue after the eviction notice was served, however that didn’t happen. The camp was bulldozed without formal announcement and Shrader thought the movie was over before it started.

“When the camp was bulldozed, I thought that the movie wasn’t gonna happen,” he said. By a stroke of luck,

Schrader arrived with cameras at the site shortly after the bulldozing started. Schrader said most of the footage in the documentary was shot as tests for the film’s proof of concept, information gathered in the beginning stages of a project that is used to determine how achievable it will be. Schrader admitted he didn’t have a full vision for the film until Schirmer, their producer and Ilana Sawyer, curator of the Humans In Between Homes project, took the reigns.

The film was shot twice a week over about seven weeks and cost $1,500, according to Shrader. The film won the Best Locally Produced Short Documentary at the Berkeley Film Festival.

Schrader said the next step will be to make the film available online through a channel that’s geared toward social justice issues.

Around 14 people judged what films met the criteria, which ranged from tech finesse to film quality. The festival screens everything from independent films to local documentaries, short experientials and foreign films.

Vapour said the festival recently received more interest from other countries, such as Russia, Australia, Sweden and Hong Kong and is slightly changing direction to accommodate foreign content.

“Berkeley has a certain cache and I think they like the audiences,” said Vapour. “There’s a real specific pointed interest in cinema.”

Vapour said there is rekindled interest and overall wider acceptance of independent films. “It’s an upward battle,” he said.

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THE PIONEER Professional sports stars capitalize on and off the field

By Louis LaVenture and Marissa Marshall EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND STAFF WRITER For years professional athletes were just that, athletes.

Sure they signed endorsement deals, acted in commercials and movies, but for the most part, after the game was over they went home.

However, in today’s era there is a high importance placed on access, especially with athletes.

Fans want to see what they do off the court and field, that has led them to be this successful in professional sports. Many athletes have capitalized this trend, broadcasting their lives on reality television and social media at an all-time high.

Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry has capitalized on this recent trend at an all-time high. His promotion of his shoe deal on social media and other media caveats led to him turning a virtual unknown athletic shoe company, Under Armour, into one of the top-selling shoe companies in the world, thanks to his three branded shoes since 2012.

Last week, Curry held a release party for his SC3, his third shoe with the company. The event was attended by several heavyweights in the sports and entertainment world that included teammates Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, rapper French Montana, as well as his wife and family.

Curry’s wife recently snagged her own share of the limelight thanks to her husband’s recent success in the league, and has produced a cookbook, does cooking tutorials online and on television and has become a entrepreneur in her own right.

Lebron James has also taken branding and his entertainment involvement to another level. The reigning NBA champion took his stab at acting when he took a major role in the comedy “Trainwreck,” starring comedians Amy Schumer and Bill Hader. The movie was critically acclaimed and James’ performance was applauded by publications like The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.

James was able to take his extraordinary abilities on the floor and use them to catapult himself into the entertainment world.

A perfect example of an athlete-turnedbrand is six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan. Jordan was a monster on the court, considered to be the best basketball player to ever play the game, to this day. He expanded his horizon and created his own brand by releasing the Air Jordan 1 sneaker in 1984.

Everyone went crazy over Jordans, because everyone wanted to be Jordan. Now, people weren't just talking about Jordan on the court,

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they were talking about Jordan as a brand. Of course, basketball was important, but what was even more awesome was that the best basketball player in the world had his very own shoe, with a legendary logo, that anyone could buy.

Those who were not even basketball or Jordan fans had a pair of Jordans.

Many athletes have followed in the footsteps of Jordan and have branched into industries that go beyond sports.

Oakland native and Portland Trail Blazers star, Damian Lillard has also created his own brand and put himself in the entertainment industry.

The point guard has his own shoe with Adidas named “The D Lillard,” and he recently released a full album on iTunes titled the “The Letter O,” which features well known artists like singer Jamie Foxx and rapper Lil Wayne.

Lillard’s rap name is Dame D.O.L.L.A. He has portrayed himself as much more than a basketball player.

While he is a great athlete, he is also good at other things like rapping and acting, and I think that is what athletes want people to know. They can do more than just dazzle fans with a ball.

Unlike Jordan, Lillard, James and Curry all have social media and the internet at their disposal to promote anything they want. This has led to viral videos, commercials, television and movie roles. Athletes today are much more than just good with a ball; they command attention off the court as well.

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Top: CSUEB graduate student Myesha WalkerLillard speaks at the Election Town Hall Wednesday afternoon at the Diversity Center.

Bottom left: Jennifer Toor, Director of Fiscal Services, speaks to a room of staff and students about their reactions to Donald Trump winning the presidential nomination.

Bottom center: students and faculty members pass around a speaking stick as they share their emotions about the election results.

Bottom right: CSUEB staff member Angelica Garcia voices her concerns about family and friends during the town hall meeting on the Hayward campus.

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California does its part, Trump still wins election

By Louis LaVenture EDITOR-IN-CHIEF As I watched the election coverage unfold last night on television I couldn’t help but be nervous.

I didn’t want Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump to win the race, but I knew we had to settle on one of them. I just thought there was no way it would be Trump.

Sure, Clinton has her flaws, but she hasn’t made blatantly racist remarks about minorities on a regular basis like Trump has and that is something I just can’t get over.

As I watched Trump take the stage last night to accept the presidential nomination, I was uneasy and his speech didn’t help. He finally said some nice things about Clinton and thanked

her for her public service before he rambled for a while, thanking everybody on stage with him.

It didn’t seem presidential.

I don’t know what I wanted or what I even expected, I guess I just wanted more. I wanted him to give a powerful speech and change the negative attitude of Trump haters like myself.

But he didn’t do that, he just thanked some people and said we needed to unite, with “The Donald,” consistent with his signature pompous attitude that I have come to detest.

Now we have the first president of the United States in history that never held a political office or served in the military previously.

That scares me.

Experience means everything in life, and to take over the U.S. with no political or military background seems like a

tough task, to say the least. Clinton was a first lady, a senator and she has a ton of experience through years on the job, which was a comfort for me in a race with two candidates I didn’t want to begin with.

As Trump left his campaign headquarters in New York after 3 a.m. yesterday, I couldn’t help but think about what will happen next. Is Obamacare

going away? Will he build a wall to block illegal immigration from Mexico?

Is daily life going to change for me because of this? Probably not, but the what ifs surrounding his unknown policies and what Trump will try to implement scares the hell out of me.

If it wasn’t for illegal immigration, my family would have never made it to the United States.

While most of my family is now legal, the few without citizenship now have to worry about being deported back to Mexico.

I can’t help but think of the altered life of future families that will be subject to the policy of our new “leader.”

Los Angeles rapper YG said it best in his hit “Fuck Donald Trump” when he said, “Don’t let Donald Trump win, that nigga cancer. He too rich, he ain’t got the answers. He can’t make decisions

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for this country, he gon’ crash us.” As I drove around my neighborhood in South Hayward last night I heard five different cars playing that song. I went to Safeway to buy some bread and everybody in line was talking about it.

“We should hang our flags upside down and head for Canada,” Hayward resident John Sampson said. “We’re fucked.”

I’m going to have to follow the example set by our current President Barack Obama who addressed the media yesterday morning with Vice President Joe Biden by his side. It is not a time to argue or fight, it is a time to unite.

One thing Obama reminded me of was that the sun would rise again and it did. Now it’s time to hold Trump accountable for all of the things he promised us that was going to make America great again.

President Ele President Elect Donald J. Trump to become 45th President of the United

Donald J. Trump to become 45th President of the United States