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THURSDAY, JUNE 28 - WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2018
OPINION
“BUT IS HE WORTH BEING KILLED FOR?”
CHUCK D TALKS STATE OF BLACK AMERICA, OBAMA’S LEGACY AND THE BLACK PRESS By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor)
(Left) 52 year old victim Tracy Henton Williams was murdered in New York by former boyfriend Roger Lee Wiggins (right).
By Pastor Rasheed Z Baaith “Love is as strong as death: jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.” (Song of Solomon 8:6) I have just returned from a trip no parent wants to take and no parent is ever prepared for: the burying of one’s child. My daughter died under the most tragic of circumstances. A former boyfriend took her life. He stabbed her repeatedly and then threw her body out of a moving car. I do not give you this account to elicit your sympathy or to shock you in any way but as a pathway to an understanding I have come to and that is: many of our daughters are choosing men unworthy of them. My daughter was physically attractive, college educated, loving, concerned about others and a caring mother. She, like a number of our successful women, could not find a man who was compatible to her in the ways so important to the foundation of a quality relationship. And like so many of our women do, she settled for less. She, again like so many of her sisters, made herself content with the physicality of a male and compromised his not really meeting her standards with the fact of having somebody. Yet, those facts, not without standing, are not the greater problem. The problem is how the sisters perceive the male they are with is not how the male sees them. For most of the men these educated, attractive, successful women are with, they are dream girls. These women are everything that man has ever dreamed of in a woman. They are women most of these men have never expected to know, let alone love. They are women whom they have fantasized about while never believing the fantasy would become real. But it does and what happens most times is for women these relationships, with men not their equal, is the passion in the bedroom cools, the attraction to an opposite loses its appeal, and she decides it’s time to “move on.” But “moving on” in (Cont’d on page 7)
To many hip-hop fans, historians and to his peers, Chuck D is considered one of the most influential lyricists in contemporary music. In describing the Queens, New York City-born artist in the biography pages of his new book, “Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History,” the publisher notes that Chuck D helped paved the way for political, social, and culturally conscious hip-hop, both as a solo artist and as the leader of the ground-
Spare me the rhetoric.
breaking group, Public Enemy. In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with NNPA Newswire, the legend, whose given name is Douglas Ridenhour, addressed issues concerning Black America, including President Donald Trump, the importance of voting, and the need for the Black Press to reach even further around the globe. “The state of Black America is always going to be a truncated state, if we don’t expand to where we are in the world,” said Chuck D, who just kicked off the wildly successful Prophets of Rage (Cont’d on page 7)
PALM BEACH
Youths can have minor arrests erased from record By Byler Henry On Friday the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office announced the start of an outreach effort to have records of people under age 21 with low level offenses erased. This is a new way for the area youth with criminal records to get help erasing their non-violent offenses. State Attorney Dave Aronberg said: “It’s a program that provides young people with minor transgressions an opportunity to get an education and find a job.” Those who qualify will no
longer have to disclose an arrest on employment, technical school, or college applications, and more than one record can be removed. Aronberg says he expects there will be fewer people needing public financial assistance or repeat offenses, because juvenile crimes committed won’t be held against them. The State Attorney’s Office sent notices to churches, temples, mosques, high schools, youth organizations, local colleges, announcing work shops for the program. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Palm Beach County
Clerk & Comptroller’s office, and the Palm Beach County Commission have joined this effort. About 70 people attended sessions t the state attorney’s offices in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens on Thursday. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement helped them complete the applications. They have the final say in removing an arrest record. Between 30 to 35 people are registered to participate in workshops on Thursday at the state attorney’s offices in Delray Beach and Belle Glade. Those who are interested in the program should send an email to StateAttorney@sal5. org to ask for a preliminary application that determines if someone is qualified to receive this help.
Federal Regulator Ready to Reform CRA But Won’t Say If Discrimination Exists By Charlene Crowell When the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was enacted in 1977, urban disinvestment, redlining and blockbusting were widespread across the country. Credit was
also tight in rural communities where the mortgage needs of rural residents were mostly served by smaller banks. In both types of communities, little oversight paid attention to fair lending. For communities of color, CRA was welcomed with hopes that banking and credit needs would be as fair as they were accessible. Clearly CRA was intended to address lending discrimination aimed at individuals and businesses in low-tomoderate income communities.
Years later when the law was amended in 1992, meeting the credit needs of all communities was added to the criteria covered in bank examinations. Investments with minority-owned financial institutions was also added and included Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian-Americans and multi-racially-owned banks. Yet when the Trump-appointed Comptroller of the Currency, Joseph (Cont’d on page 5)
USE your power and vote By Dr. Dorsey C. Miller Jr. In case you missed it, the 2018 election cycle is already underway. Candidates from school board and the courthouse to the U.S. Senate are running hard, hoping to get your vote. What happens next depends on you. Broward County is significant in Florida’s political circles. It is home to the greatest concentration of Democrats in the state, and it has the second largest number of Republican voters. As goes this county, so goes Florida. Of the 1.1 million voters in Broward County, 280,563 are black. That’s almost one in every four voters living here. The question is how many of us will actually go to the polls and vote? The numbers from past elections collected by the Broward County Supervisor of Elections suggest we can do better: • Only one of five registered Black voters in Broward County came out to vote in the 2016 August primary. • A respectable 71 percent of black voters turned out for the 2016 presidential election, a smaller percentage when compared to the turnout of white voters in the county. • Only 2,571 – a measly 8.6 percent -- of the 29,925 registered Black voters in Fort Lauderdale made it to the polls for the March election. (Cont’d on page 9)
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