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Youth activist pushes to make city a better place

BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY THE CHRONICLE

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Frankie Gist is one of the leaders of the youth social justice movement here in Winston-Salem. was seeing happening to unarmed Black men and women in these United States.

“Those three individuals (George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor) changed my life forever, because they made me appreciate my life even more as a Black man and as a father,” said Gist. “That was the reason I was out here, because that could have easily been me or my son. I have a son and he has to grow up one day and if me protesting today will keep that from happening to him in the future, then that is reason enough for me to be out here.

“It was what happened to them that motivated me to get out here and protest these past few weeks. It was senseless, it wasn’t right, and something has to be done.”

All the protests led by Gist were peaceful and no looting or rioting occurred like in other cities. He said he made being peaceful a point of emphasis for anyone who wanted to partici-

pate.

“As a leader you must be the first partaker of peace,” he said. “I had to be peaceful in the words that I said, the way I walked and the way I moved.”

Gist says his interactions with law enforcement during the protests were eye opening. The conversations that took place between Gist and Winston-Salem Police Chief Katrina Thompson were very productive, he said.

“When she (Thompson) came out to the march and she walked up to me and said ‘Frankie, I want to thank you’ and I said ‘Who are you?’ and she replied, ‘I’m Chief Thompson,’ was great,” Gist said of his encounter with Thompson. “The way she spoke, walked with us and stood with us, it did something to me. I had to remember to look at all officers differently, because not all officers are bad, some of them are good people.

“Interacting with Chief Thompson and Sherriff Kimbrough has been

great. These two individuals have been a big help to my movement; I can’t speak for anyone else’s.

They represent everything I have been saying about the Winston-Salem Police Department, because I have a great relationship with them.”

There have been rumblings from individuals in the city about the youth movement in the city that has not been very positive.

Gist says he is aware of his detractors and would prefer to work with them instead of criticizing the work of the younger generation.

“I already know that my name came up and it’s because they are mad that we are doing things that they can’t do,” he said about those who have said negative things about the youth social justice movement. “They are mad that me and my team brought out over 2,000 people downtown and they are only bringing 20. It’s not about the people, it’s about the move we are making,

because we are changing lives.

“Why are they hating on the young generation that started a movement that can’t be stopped? This is one of the largest civil rights movements in history, why are they not happy for the younger generation standing up? We could be out here on the corner selling drugs. So, when I hear the older generation are hating, all I can say to them is wake the hell up and get with this program. This isn’t Dr. King and Malcolm X days; this is Frankie Gist and them days, we are on a different wave with it.”

According to Gist, the movement will not stop with protests, they want to see actual change. On July 18, Gist and his associates will host a peace rally at Winston Square Park.

“The theme for this peace rally is ‘what’s next’,” said Gist. “We are not protesting, but we are rallying together to get people in one place to say ‘Hey, you are protesting

with no agenda or destination.’ If you’re protesting with no demands, you’re protesting for exercise.

“We are getting people together to gather a list of demands of what we can bring forth and when we get this list together, we are going to strategically make a plan to sit at the table. No protesting anymore, we want to sit at the table.”

Love is one the easiest and best remedies for solving issues between individuals, Gist said. He feels if more people show love and not hate, there would be better relationships between people of color and white people, as well as with people of color and law enforcement.

Gist gives all the credit to God for “anointing” him with the spirit of social justice.

“It’s not me, it’s him that works through me, because he gave me the gift,” said Gist. “I am just a vessel being used, so all I can say is to God be the glory.”

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At just 24 years of age, Frankie Gist has already left a positive mark on the city of Winston-Salem and according to him, he is just getting started.

Gist organized several protests last month in response to the recent killings of unarmed Black men and women across the country. His protests were so organized and peaceful that they contributed to Winston-Salem being the only major city in the Triad area to not institute a curfew.

Hailing from the north side of Winston-Salem, Gist has been interested in social activism since the Trayvon Martin tragedy back in 2012. He said local gun violence against people he knew personally also contributed to his drive for peace.

“When I was in ninth grade and Trayvon Martin was killed, I was crying in class and I can remember it like it was yesterday,” said Gist about what sparked his interest in social justice. “I looked at my principal and she looked at me and said, ‘What do you think we should do Frankie?’ I was very upset and told her I wanted to protest, so from that day on, I have been into activism.

“I realized once I got into activism that it wasn’t just a Black versus white thing, or just a police brutality, I want to stop the gun violence everywhere.

That is my goal.”

Gist says one of the biggest motivating factors for his work is “the people.”

“I love my people and I love my city,” he said. “If there is a way I can motivate, encourage and uplift my brothers and sisters of all races, because I am not just looking at the Black community where I come from, I am talking about all of the communities that I am connected to.”

Gist has been pushing for the end of gun violence in the city prior to the recent protests. He has called for an end to the gang violence that sometimes pops up around the city. He said the reason he chose to protest recently was because he was simply “tired and frustrated” at what he

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Superintendent makes proposal for reopening schools

Districts still waiting on guidance from Gov. Roy Cooper

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Earlier this week Superintendent Dr. Angela P. Hairston provided more information on what schools could look like at the start of the 2020-21 school year.

As reported by The Chronicle last month, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services has told districts across the state to prepare to open schools under three different scenarios. Plan A, which is the least likely of the three to be used, calls for minimal social distancing and will be implemented if COVID-19 metrics stabilize and don’t get worse. Plan B calls for social distancing restrictions and reduced density. And Plan C calls for remote learning only and suspends all in-person learning.

On July 1, Gov. Roy Cooper was scheduled to give more guidance on how K-12 public schools will open, but a few days earlier he announced he would delay his announcement a few weeks. While still waiting for the final verdict from the state, during a special called meeting on Tuesday, July 7, Hairston discussed how district leaders plan to meet the requirements for reopening schools.

She said district leaders have been working for the past month creating plans for the different scenarios and they have narrowed their focus based on what is affordable and safe. Hairston has said she believes schools will open under Plan B with some nuances of Plan C included as well.

“We were asked as a school district to develop a plan for each of these areas: Plan A, Plan B and Plan C,” she said. “It was communicated that we will receive further guidance.

I certainly understand in these changing times that we need to be flexible and sometimes wait for further guidance, but in the interim we’ve been asked to continue to develop our plan.”

Scheduling When looking at scheduling for the proposed plan for the district, students grades K-6 will attend school daily (Monday-Friday). All EC (Exceptional Children), Self-Contained Students, OSC (Occupational Course of Study) students, and students who attend special needs schools will attend school Monday-Friday as well.

To meet social distancing requirements, students who attend school daily will be split between elementary and middle schools throughout the district. Hairston said the original plan was to have face-to-face learning for students grades K-8, but the district doesn’t have enough facilities to make that happen.

“The guidance for that was based on the age that is recommended by the Department of Social Services relative to leaving children unattended,”

Hairston said. “One of our recommendations was to have K-8 every day, but we just could not fit all of our children in the facilities.

Even when we went to the high school level, we could not get everyone in a facility. That means we would need a significant amount of money to add mobile units and those dollars are not available to us.”

Scheduling for students grades 7–12 is a little more complicated. Students grades 7-9 would be split into two cohorts, Cohort A and B, and assigned to a high school campus in the district.

Cohort A will learn the old-fashioned way, in a classroom, on Monday and Tuesday, and Cohort B will have in-person lessons on Thursday and Friday.

Wednesday is scheduled as a remote learning day.

According to Hairston, although students will only physically be in the classroom twice a week, they will still be expected to “attend” school five days a week. On days they aren’t in the classroom, students will be expected to participate in remote learning.

In the proposed plan, students grades 10-12 will participate in virtual learning on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Wednesday will be reserved for face-to-face learning where students can receive tutoring.

To help ensure schools are adhering to 50% maximum occupancy requirements, Hairston has also proposed suspending PreK until Oct. “This will allow us an opportunity to access our class sizes and to ensure that we have the space required,” Hairston said during her presentation earlier this week.

Transportation In the proposal, transportation will only be guaranteed for EC students, students with IEP’s (Individualized Education Plans) and students covered under the McKinneyVento Homeless Assistance Act. All other students will receive transportation based on availability.

Guidance from the state has told schools to limit the maximum of all transportation vehicles to 50% as well. Hairston said to meet the requirements

outlined by the state and continue providing transportation for every student who currently rides a school bus, the district would need an additional $17 million.

“We are able to place 24 students on a bus provided they wear a mask, so we’re still looking into that, but we realize we don’t have an additional $17 million for transportation,” Hairston said. “So transportation will be on first-come first-serve basis.”

Students who do not have transportation will be offered an opportunity to enter the Virtual Academy until transportation can be arranged.

Next Steps Moving forward, Hairston says district leaders will continue working to find the best practices for reopening schools in the fall.

Hairston said district leads plan to take their proposal to the community for feedback. She said over the next two weeks, the proposal will be vetted by parents, teachers, and students throughout the district using surveys, Zoom calls, and Microsoft Teams. After Gov. Cooper gives more guidance, the district will present a final plan.

“We want to talk through each of these plans and gain feedback,” Hairston continued. “We want to begin work on implementing our education plan as soon as possible, but we realize that we must wait on more guidance.”

To prepare for the upcoming school year, local teachers are scheduled to begin virtual workshops on Monday, July 13.

Before wrapping up her presentation, Hairston said she understands the proposal isn’t perfect but it’s what is affordable for the district. To meet every guideline outlined in Plan B, Hairston said WinstonSalem/Forsyth County Schools would need about $40 million in additional funding.

“It would take between $40 and $45 million to execute all aspects of the plan. We realize we don’t have those types of dollars, so we really had to look at our resources and bring

to you a plan that we can execute without those additional resources,” Hairston said. “We realize this is not a perfect plan, but it is a plan that is affordable to us.”

The Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County Board of Education will hold a special called meeting on Thursday July 9, to discuss a potential resolution to the State Board of Education and Governor Roy Cooper requesting additional support and consideration in light of the COVID-19 reopening options.

The special called meeting is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. The public can watch the meeting via WS/FCS Educational TV Cable 2 or it can be watched live on the Cable 2 website.

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Gov. Cooper vetoes Senate Bill 168

Sen. Lowe says he wasn’t privy to changes made to original bill

BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE

Earlier this week Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a controversial bill that included language that would have limited access to death records of those who die while in police custody.

On the surface, Senate Bill 168 seems to be geared toward improving services provided by the state’s division of mental health and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), but neatly tucked away in section two of the bill is a section that calls for “confidentiality of certain death investigation information and records received by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.”

Under the current law, if someone dies while in police custody, even if the investigation is ongoing, once records are handed over to the medical examiner’s office, it becomes public record. SB 168 would’ve kept those records confidential until the end of the investigation, at which point the state examiner’s office would determine if the information is made available to the public.

The bill passed the sen-

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“That was the original bill. That’s what I cosponsored ... When it was gutted and the language changed, I wasn’t privy to that,” he said. “I think the new language that was added was terrible and it doesn’t help our people.”

When discussing the bill on Monday morning, Lowe said lawmakers were working on having the language removed from the bill. “I’ve been working on this for last week to see what the Governor is going to do and what we need to do the try to change this,” Lowe continued.

“I have been talking to individuals across the aisle and they’ve been amenable to making the necessary change. I feel very confident that we will get the necessary changes done to this bill.”

A few hours after speaking with The Chronicle, Gov. Cooper vetoed Senate Bill 168. In a statement released Monday evening, Cooper said the concerns made by the public made it clear that the bill shouldn’t become law.

“Senate Bill 168 includes a provision to change the handling of public records by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner which could have the unintended consequence of limiting transparency in death investigations,” Cooper wrote.

“While I believe neither the Department of Health and Human Services which proposed it, nor the General Assembly which unanimously passed it had any ill intent, the concerns that have since been raised make it clear this provision should not become law.”

ate just after 1 a.m. on June 26 and once word started to spread across social media, people across the state and country voiced their displeasure with the bill and urged Gov. Cooper to exercise his right to veto.

Even rap legend Ice Cube joined the push. On his personal Twitter account he wrote, “This is so dirty.

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do their crimes after midnight. Governor Cooper do not sign this into law.

Don’t give more cover for Killer Cops.”

Sen. Paul Lowe, who is listed as a co-sponsor, said the original bill died last year but was later picked up and revised. Unlike the House of Representatives, in the Senate changes to a bill do not have to be germane to the original bill.

In 2013 N.C. made headlines across the country when lawmakers pushed an anti-abortion bill by using a motorcycle safety bill. According to Lowe, the controversial language was added to SB 168 in the fifth or sixth revision. He said the original bill proposed by former Sen. Floyd McKissick was to make CBD oil available to people suffering from chronic pain.

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Ben Crump Heralded as Black America’s Attorney General The explosion of protests all over the world was such a moment following the George Floyd killing. And Ben Crump, who has been called the African American family emergency plan, received yet another call from an African American family who was devastated unexpectedly by an unjustifiable killing at the hands of the police.

This is not out of the ordinary for the North Carolina native Ben Crump, who moved to South Florida when he was 12 years old. He first received national recognition when he represented 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson, who was killed at the Bay County Sheriff’s Boot Camp in 2006. Crump advocated for the family and received the largest settlement from the State of Florida for wrongful death. He worked with the Black Conference of State Legislators to close boot camps in the state.

Crump rose to international prominence when he represented the family of Trayvon Martin, the 17-yearold child who was killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in 2012.

Most recently, Crump has represented three of the most high-profile cases in America today in his representation of the families of Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. But his role in the movement stretches back more than a decade and includes the cases of Michael Brown and Tamir Rice, as well as Corey Jones, Pamela Turner, Botham Jean, Stephon Clark and others.

His face and voice are everywhere – from rallies to funerals, from cable news to a recent profile in the Washington Post. At Floyd’s Houston funeral, the former president of the National Bar Association was introduced by the Rev. Al Sharpton as “Black America’s attorney general.”

Ben Crump’s passion for civil rights and justice goes back to his childhood in small Lumberton, N.C., where he attended his first integrated school in fourth grade and came to idolize Thurgood Marshall. He got his undergraduate and law degrees from Florida State University. The 50-year-old Crump is the founder and principal of Ben Crump Law, which has grown to over eight offices across the country, but he never forgot his Lumberton, North Carolina roots.

Crump is widely known as the go-to attorney when police violate the rights of Black men and women. And, sadly, those cases abound.

Even though they make up less than 13% of the U.S. population, Blacks are more than twice as likely as whites to be shot and killed by law enforcement.

In an era when cell phone videos and bodycams are capturing acts of police misconduct and keeping the cases front and center, there is no end in sight for Ben Crump’s work on behalf of victims. He is simultaneously encouraged and concerned about the necessary shift in public opinion in the wake of the 8 minutes and 46 seconds that took George Floyd’s life.

“I’m not stunned that this is happening in 2020. It takes extraordinary effort in America for Black people to get simple justice,” Crump said in that Washington Post profile. “I feel like I’m running out of time.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Mail-in voting offers safer way to vote in November To the Editor: Do you know who’s voting by mail this election?

Donald Trump. And do you know who’s making it harder for everyone else in the country to vote by mail in the middle of a global pandemic? That’s right -- Donald Trump.

He and other White House officials have gone on record with false claims against mail-in voting, even though it’s one of the safest options for us to cast our ballots as the country recovers from this pandemic.

In the face of Trump’s hypocrisy, I expect Congress to do the right thing and provide both economic relief and expanded funding for no-excuse absentee voting, early voting, and other options to make voting safer this

November. These are all common-sense reforms that a vast majority of Americans support and changes that would help increase voter participation during and after this crisis.

Even though Congress allocated some funds to help states implement these voting reforms, without an additional $3.6 billion in election assistance funding, some voters may not be able to make their voices heard during one of the most important elections of our lifetime.

We must prevent a situation where voters are forced to choose between protecting their health and casting a ballot -- no matter what Trump says.

Congress has the ability to act right now and we need to make sure our representatives know that anything less than immediate action is unacceptable.

Dorka Munoz Winston-Salem

Our track records should hold us accountable Mike Silver Guest Columnist When I first moved to Winston-Salem in 2007 to work as a prosecutor, I was on a panel with H. Glenn Davis, then the oldest practicing African American attorney in Forsyth County. While on the panel, I was asked if I owed a special duty to the Black community. I said that I had a responsibility to be fair and impartial -- and to work to rid the criminal justice system of any appearance of either special treatment to one group or unfair treatment to another group.

H. Glenn Davis corrected me. He told me that being fair and impartial was my job as a prosecutor, but that I owed more than that to the community. He told me that I had a special duty to be a role model, to be a leader, and to individually put in the work to keep our Black children from ever getting involved in the system.

From that moment until now, I have worked in our public schools and with Big Brothers Big Sisters to mentor students, both Black and white. I have also served in a position of leadership for multiple groups advocating for the rights of domestic violence victims, our elderly, and children in our juvenile justice system.

I look back and I am proud that, through the years, I have stayed true to the vision that H. Glenn Davis had for a young Black lawyer in this community.

In 2018, Wake Forest School of Law professors Ron Wright, Kami Davis, and Gregory Parks published a study analyzing North Carolina jury trials in criminal cases in 2011. Their study found that, statewide, prosecutors remove twice as many potential Black jurors than white jurors during jury selection.

The results of their study made me question whether I did my job and administered justice fairly as a prosecutor. I reached out to Professor Wright and asked to see my data set. I needed the objective

data to see what I had done in the cases that I prosecuted.

The results are consistent with who I believe myself to be. During the period of the study, I did not strike any potential Black male jurors (0%), while the defense attorneys in my cases struck every potential Black male juror (100%). Further, their data shows that I only struck one potential Black female juror.

Despite the statewide trend of prosecutors to strike a larger percentage of Black jurors than white, my statistics show that I was race-neutral in my jury strikes, giving both Black and white citizens an equal opportunity to serve as jurors to their peers in the felony cases I prosecuted.

I owe many thanks to District Attorney Jim O’Neill, Chief Assistant Jennifer Martin, Assistant DA Lizmar Bosques, Superior Court Judge David Hall, and District Court Judge David Sipprell.

Each was my supervisor at one time while I was a prosecutor. They all trusted my judgment, allowed me the freedom and discre-

tion to prosecute my cases in the way I thought best, and allowed me to administer justice.

In 2020, it is not enough for people to simply say Black Lives Matter. Our actions and the structure of our communities must show that Black Lives Matter.

Regardless of party affiliation, candidates and elected officials must demonstrate that they have a record that supports the things they say and the promises they make. We as a community have a responsibility to hold each accountable. We do that through our vote.

I am proud of my record as a prosecutor, as a volunteer, and as a mentor.

I am proud that my track record speaks more loudly than I ever could and have shown that I believe Black Lives Matter.

Mike Silver is the Republican candidate for Forsyth County District Court Judge in 2020. To learn more about his experience and community service, visit www.mikesilverforjudge.com or Instagram and Facebook: @ mikesilverforjudge.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 still stands strong in 2020 Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.

Guest Columnist

Our laws are created to keep us from injustice.

I spent many of my formative years in segregation, so I knew first-hand what injustice was.

The Civil Rights Act was signed into law on July 2, 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson. That signing occurred a long time ago, but sometimes it seems like only yesterday.

The law was established to abolish all legal segregation. Prior to this ruling, segregation was running rampant with no

end in sight. For example, my friends and I went to the movies, but we had to sit upstairs.

We stayed on our side of town and had very few interactions with white people. Our Black community had its own schools and businesses.

The fact was that we were not missing out on life.

Our schools were tops and our teachers were great.

The consistent factor growing up in our neighborhood was that we were loved and given lots of encouragement. We were motivated to do our best each day.

While we were not treated fairly in WinstonSalem, we were moved by our parents and love providers to treat everyone fairly. We did not just talk about The Golden Rule, we practiced it.

Segregation taught us to be resilient and prideful.

We as Black kids thought we could do anything that we wanted to do and be anything that we wanted to be.

Why? Because we had role models in all professions and walks of life.

Yes, we had men and women in our community who were successful and were trailblazers. We were mentored and nurtured by the best.

Now if we skip to 2020 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, where do we stand?

That is a complicated question with many answers. Yes, we as African Americans are positioned better than we were, although some would argue this point. The devil is in the details.

Certainly, we do not have to go through as

many iterations as in the past. And yes, we can go to the other side of town.

Our schools are made up racially much different than they were during my childhood.

There are significant opportunities for men and women who are Black like me. Many of the roadblocks and detours have been removed. We are not as shackled by our skin color.

We can vote without paying a poll tax, even though we pay a daily skin tax because of our color.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 will always be a defining moment in our nation’s history. Yet we know as African Americans that we live in some dangerous times now.

We have not arrived. In fact, we are still evolving.

I believe our best days are

in front of us. The recent racial unrest has made us realize that we can do better, and we must do better.

The disparities we confront now must improve. We can no longer spend billions of dollars in America’s economy and only receive a small percentage of its goods and services. There are almost 50 million Black people in this country.

Nielsen, a company that provides insights and information about the habits of consumers, did a study regarding Black buying power. Cheryl Grace, Nielsen’s senior vice president of community alliances and consumer engagement said, “At 47.8 million strong and a buying power that’s on par with many countries’ gross domestic products, Afri-

can Americans continue to outpace spending nationally.”

With this type of spending, we must have a better quality of life.

Second class citizenship cannot be an option or accepted.

Our civil rights should not be compromised or marginalized. When they are, our laws become meaningless.

That cannot be.

James B. Ewers Jr. is a former tennis champion at Atkins High School and played college tennis at Johnson C. Smith University where he was allconference for four years.

He is a retired college administrator and can be reached at ewers.jr56@ yahoo.com.

The language of vote suppression Andrew Moss Guest Columnist

There are many ways to suppress a vote. If you’ve followed elections in various states over the past two years, you’ll recognize such strategies as the purging of voting rolls, the elimination of same-day voting, and the shortening of early voting periods.

There’s the requirement of government issued photo IDs and the disqualification of any voter registrations that lack an “exact match” among government documents required for identification.

Then there’s the consolidation of polling places in certain districts, the last-minute switching of polling places to confuse voters, and the long lines resulting from these measures and from such other problems as faulty equipment and inadequate staffing and training. There’s also, of course, the dis-

enfranchisement of voters who have criminal records.

And this is just a partial list.

What’s often missing, though, from any inventory of voter suppression techniques is mention of an essential ingredient: language. It is language, a specific kind of narrative framing, that’s needed to justify these methods and to cover up the racism that motivates their use.

The language of vote suppression has played a crucial role since emancipation placed the issue of suffrage, the suffrage of a newly emancipated people, at the forefront of public debate.

During Reconstruction and in the decades following the withdrawal of federal troops from the South, opposition to Black voting was couched in the rawest of racist terms, accompanying terrorism, murder, poll taxes, and other forms of suppression to roll back the enfranchisement gained during Reconstruction.

By 1901, when Jim Crow segregation had consolidated its grip on the South, an influential Columbia University his-

torian and political scientist like William A. Dunning could write in the The Atlantic that during Reconstruction, “negroes exercised an influence in political affairs out of all relation to their intelligence or property,” and that, “the ultimate root of the trouble in the South had been, not the institution of slavery, but the coexistence of two races so distinct in characteristics as to render coalescence impossible.”

The language Dunning used help provide the kind of narrative framing that sustained for decades the apartheid system and the massive disenfranchisement of Black citizens that went along with it.

Not until the mid1960s, when the enormous sacrifices made by civil rights workers began to awaken the nation, did such blatantly racist language begin to lose its currency, at least across much of the nation. With the passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965, a broad re-enfranchisement of Black voters began throughout the South, accompanied by a substantial growth in the number of Black elected officials.

Yet if an explicitly racist language could no longer acceptably justify the suppression of Black votes, there were other ways to accomplish the same end.

Presidents like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, who both embraced a “southern strategy” to secure electoral success, could pay lip service to the VRA while dragging their feet on enforcement. When Reagan was president, for example, his Justice Department approved a discriminatory, gerrymandered redistricting plan for New Orleans, only to receive the distinction, or ignominy, in 1983 of having the first approval by the DOJ overturned by court action (Major v. Treen). It took a court to do the job that the administration was charged by the VRA to do.

In the past few decades, a new narrative evolved as a cover for vote suppression. Developed by conservative writers, it labeled any efforts to counter racial gerrymandering as racial “quotas” or electoral “affirmative action,” terms that eventually morphed into the phrase, “perpetuation of racial entitlements.”

This latter phrase was introduced by Justice Antonin Scalia into oral arguments during the landmark Shelby County v. Holder case (2013), in which the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gutted the government’s enforcement powers authorized by the VRA. In presenting the majority opinion in that case, Chief Justice John Roberts made a claim that constitutes a second major feature of the new narrative: that enough racial progress has been made to eliminate the need for the VRA’s legal remedies.

The claim is anything but true.

A recent Brennan Center analysis shows that counties with histories of discrimination have continued to purge voting rolls at elevated rates. Other kinds of widespread abuses continue to take place at the state level, e.g. the withholding in the 2018 general election of 53,000 voter registrations by thenGeorgia Secretary of State (now Governor) Brian Kemp. While Black citizens constitute approximately 32% of Georgia’s population, about 70% of the withheld registrations

were of Black voters.

Such practices have been justified by the third key component of the vote suppression narrative: the claim of widespread voter fraud. This claim, too, is fallacious, as many voting experts will attest. As Kenneth R. Mayer, a voting expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison declared, “The continued insistence that there are material levels of intentional voter fraud is itself a form of fraud.”

The injustices in our electoral system present an enormous, continuing task: to challenge the lies, the racism, and the specific practices of vote suppression – while still motivating voters, particularly young voters, to cast their ballots and secure full representation as citizens of their communities and of the nation.

Andrew Moss, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is an emeritus professor (English, Nonviolence Studies) at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Is the nation opening its soul?

ROBERT C. KOEHLER

Guest Columnist Topple a few statues, remove some iconic names from American institutions and the ghosts of the past start to escape from history, filling the present moment. It’s called awareness.

Too much awareness can feel like chaos.

Not surprisingly, a lot of people would prefer to stick with the old historical narrative, the one that’s so tried and true: This is the land of the free, the home of the brave, the birthplace of democracy.

God bless America! (And forget about slavery, Native American genocide, racism, packed prisons, nukes, endless war, etc.)

The question of the moment is whether this narrative is gone for good.

Are we merely in the process of making some superficial adjustments or has the national soul truly torn itself open? Will we stop short — once again — of creating a society of compassionate equality? Will we eventually (as

soon as possible) retreat to another narrative of American exceptionalism and … uh, white power?

Or are we in the process of real change?

I confess to being an optimist. The ghosts of the past that are returning to the present moment could be the harbingers of unimaginable change. Even the changes that seem trivial — rebranding Aunt Jemima pancake mix, for instance — have roots that go deep into the national identity and its sources of power.

Consider, for instance, the downfall of Woodrow Wilson, former U.S. president who was also president of Princeton University for eight years.

Announcing that Wilson’s name would be removed from Princeton’s public policy school, current president Christopher Eisgruber said, according to BBC News: “Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time.”

Wow, that’s no small deal, considering how low the standards for racial stupidity were in the early 20th century. Nonetheless, he explained, Wilson — whose legacy includes barring Black students from attending Princeton,

who was a friend of the Ku Klux Klan — was revered

by Princeton for over a century “not because of, but without regard to or perhaps even in ignorance of, his racism.”

Princeton, he went on, “is part of an America that has too often disregarded, ignored, or excused racism, allowing the persistence of systems that discriminate against Black people.”

So America’s racist ignorance is over? Examples keep pouring in. Not only are statues of Confederate generals finally coming down, but Christopher Columbus — colonialist conqueror extraordinaire — apparently has also had his day, with his statues coming down all over the place. And a particularly racist statue of Theodore Roosevelt, depicting the conquering hero grandly astride his horse as a Black man and a Native American walk humbly beside (and behind) him, will be removed from in front of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

And latter-day colonialist John Wayne, king of the Hollywood cowboys and icon of America’s conquest of the Wild West, is in trouble in Orange County, Calif., where Democratic

political leaders are calling for the renaming of John Wayne Airport, thanks to the “resurfacing” of a 1971 Playboy interview, in which he said: “I believe in white supremacy until the Blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.

I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.”

A fascinating irony about these words is the way they bounce back to the speaker, whose ignorance of and indifference to his country’s horrific history of racism indicates he was not “educated to a point of responsibility.”

And then there are the brand names that are suddenly gone, so to speak, with the wind. These include Aunt Jemima, a product that dates back to 1893, whose initial model, a woman named Nancy Green, was a former slave.

Other brands with stereotypical symbols that are on their way out include Uncle Ben’s rice, Eskimo pies, Cream of Wheat and Mrs. Butterworth’s Syrup.

“Retiring these products is not ‘political correctness,’” Katha Pollitt writes at The Nation, “it is the removal of a profound racial insult from our grocery stores and kitchen tables.”

And, oh yeah, speak-

ing of “Gone with the Wind,” that 1939 movie of antebellum nostalgia has been taken off HBO for the time being. Its return will include “a discussion of its historical context,” according to a network spokesperson. And the reality TV show “Cops” is gone after 32 seasons, depriving Americans of the chance to watch the lawand-order game in progress from the comfort of their sofas.

At a deeper level, police accountability is no longer a matter turned over to the police unions. Derek Chauvin, killer of George Floyd, has been charged with second-degree murder, as have the other officers present at the scene of his death. Police departments in California, Texas, Nevada and Washington, D.C. have banned the police use of chokeholds. And the movement to defund militarized police forces, diverting the money to other means of establishing social order, is gaining a political foothold, not only in Minneapolis (ground zero) but New York City.

All of which will hardly matter at all if the changes stop here. The undoing of American racism — of its racist infrastructure — isn’t a simple mat-

ter of making reforms or righting a few wrongs. The above changes only matter if they indicate a national rebeginning.

As social theorist and author Joe Feagin put it in a Truthout interview: “… in their individual and collective protests and revolts against racial oppression, African Americans have long pressed for — indeed, arguably invented — the authentic liberty-and-justice-for-all values that have gradually become more central to this country. The white male ‘founders’ version of ‘liberty and justice’ values were inauthentic, as they actually had in mind freedom for (propertied) white men.”

What matters about the present moment is that change seems to be coming from multiple directions, both outside and within the corridors of political and economic power, as our ignorance shatters and we wake up.

“Robert C. Koehler (koehlercw@ gmail.com), syndicated

by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor. He is the author of “Courage Grows Strong at the Wound.”

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BUSTA’S PERSON OF THE WEEK

From Madison, N.C. to the Mandela mansion in South Africa: Part 2

BY BUSTA BROWN FOR THE CHRONICLE

Let’s recap briefly: In Part 1 we learned about Timothy Maurice Webster’s journey from growing up on a farm in Madison, N.C., to becoming a very successful businessman, speaker, author, and podcast host in South Africa, and then marrying into the Mandela royalty.

Tim is a country boy at heart and son of a preacher and a phenomenal mother with a heart of gold. If she stood next to a glass of tea and water, in would turn sweet. His family is very tight and they do most everything together. It speaks volumes on why Tim is an absolute gentleman and a giver. He’s not the tallest guy I know, but he was a big man on the basketball court and extremely popular with the ladies. He always had the most beautiful girlfriends.

Tim grew up in the church, but had an itch to break out of the traditions, “… and I got kicked out of church because of that. I bought a Lauryn Hill CD to my youth ministry class to explore how the hip-hop culture made it from the bottom to the top, and find the commonality between religion and hip-hop. I wanted to relate to our youth in church.

They were listening to hip-hop, so I needed to connect their music to what they were learning in church. But they didn’t dig it and I got the boot,” he said without regret.

As a child, he was always fascinated with image, but it was during his time as a shoe salesman at Johnston & Murphy that itch became a scratch. He was and is still the most fashionable man I know. He had style most Black men desired but were afraid to try, until now. Tim was that dude long before this new generation. He’s also a true renaissance man. He cuts hair, designed his own clothes and watches. Branding and fashion are his divine purpose.

So the journey begins. In Part 1 we also learned some fun and interesting facts about one of the greatest world leaders of our time, Nelson Mandela. Tim and Mandela’s granddaughter Celennhle Dlamini met in 1999 at a meeting that she and I had about a fashion show for Bennett Col-

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Timothy Maurice Webster with media mogul Oprah Winfrey.

York. She would come to New York and I would go to Boston, and that’s when it went to the next level.”

When Celennhle would visit her family in South Africa during the holidays, Tim would join her. Before visiting South Africa, he started a branding business while working at the Men’s Warehouse. “I have three phases to my career. When I was a child, I was always fascinated with image. I begin to realize that image was a tool to really help people navigate the world.

As a Black man, you know if I wear track pants to a grocery store, security may follow me around. But if I wear a suit to the grocery store, people greet meet like I’m Barack Obama. The second phase of my career was understanding the psychology of image. The third phase of my career I did a two-year program at MIT Sloan School of Management, where I became fascinated with the neuroscience and behavioral science of image, looking at the environment, circumstances and stories that impact people’s brains and how that can ultimately influence how we engage with each other.”

In the early 2000s during Tim’s second visit to South Africa, something spiritual happened. “One day I pick up a newspaper and saw that there was no one in the newspaper writing about image, so I decided to take a leap of faith and

Timothy Maurice Webster with former President Bill Clinton and Bishop Desmond Tutu. lege. It began as a strictly platonic friendship between the three of us. Over the next six months, we were joined at the hip. Every weekend we either went to the movies, a concert, dinner, the park, or just chilling at each other’s apartment sharing wild and crazy childhood stories. During the Christmas break in 2000, Celennhle Dlamini went back home to South Africa and weeks later I went to visit my family in San Francisco. She returned a week before I did and reached out to Tim. He said, “She called and said, ‘Yo, where ya’ll at?’ I said I’m here and Manard (my real name) is in Cali. And then we begin hanging and it eventually got serious. She graduated from Bennett and moved to Boston and then I moved to New

move there. When I got back to New York I wrote a letter to the top newspaper in South Africa about can I write a column and they accepted it. So, in my head I figured if I could get on radio stations, in the newspapers, and maybe TV, and use what I’ve learned from you, I might have a chance at this thing,” said Tim. Of course, I was honored that he credits me in his journey into the media phase of his career. Although we’re friends, I don’t take that lightly. He continued, “I took that leap of faith and moved to South Africa to be with my girl and start my career.

After the newspaper gave me the opportunity to write a column on branding, I hustled every single day and night. I hit the streets making connections and

somewhat becoming a student in the business world. I listened and learned from as many businessmen and women that gave an ear. I took what I’ve learned from you and what I’ve learned here. Years later, I mastered it all and then started my branding company, wrote five books on branding, became a correspondent on several TV networks in South Africa, traveled the world speaking on branding, and Apple is now showing my podcast as one of the tops in its category.

I’m known as ‘the author in the psychology of influence.’”

But it wasn’t smooth sailing the first three years. “Dude! If I had known what I know now, I probably would’ve never moved here. The first three years were hard bro! I didn’t have ID, no driver’s license, and no bank account. I had to count on Celennhle for most everything. I was crushed when I moved here.

It’s 1.2 billion people and I only knew one person,” he said while laughing.

Tim shared some fascinating history about his now ex-wife and the traditional order he had to follow to ask for her hand in marriage. “Her uncle is a king, her father is a prince, and her aunt is married to a Zulu king in Swaziland, and it’s the only absolute monarchy left in the world.

Her uncle is the sovereign ruler of the country. Because of this, I had to go through three phases to get married. I had to get adopted by a family in Swaziland so they can represent me to her family.

They’re what is called my host family. They were the head of a reserve bank in Swaziland and they would negotiate how many cows I would pay to marry Celennhle. Because she was royalty, you had to choose certain type of cows, it couldn’t be just any cow. So, the family had to help me navigate the type of cows to choose. This is called the asking price, so I had to get 10 cows just to ask her to marry me. The idea of this is that if two families can have these cows together, the cows will have babies and they will continue to produce wealth.”

Tim paid for the ten cows, but like all love stories, there was a twist. “We were supposed to go through the Asking Ceremony, an African ceremony, and then the White Wedding Ceremony. But the king couldn’t make the wedding on the day as planned, so instead of doing the White Wedding last, we did that second. My family and friends had already bought their tickets and made hotel reservations, so we had to move forward with the wedding. The negative to that is without the king’s presence, our wedding didn’t really count in her family. But we loved each other, so in 2005 we got married.” Years later, they realized that what they had was more of a friendship than a romance and decided to transition into a beautiful friendship that is still solid today.

In Part 1 Tim shared his intriguing encounter with Jay-Z and Beyonce’. Now let’s talk about his meeting with the phe-

nomenal Oprah. “She changed my life, dude! Outside of America, the only place she did her Live Your Best Life Tour was in Johannesburg, South Africa, because of her relationship with Nelson Mandela. They were very, very close friends. There were ten of us media people sitting in a room and they were giving us a countdown: 30 minutes she will be in the room, so be prepared. One of the girls that was with us was a huge fan.

When they said two minutes, the girl started shaking. Oprah walks into the room and says. ‘Hello everyone!’ This girl walks up to Oprah, touches her on the shoulder and then fainted. So she didn’t get to meet her,” he said as he’s cracking up laughing.

By the way, the young lady was fine. Just excited, as I was when I met Stevie Wonder. I trembled as well.

Tim continues with his fascinating encounter with the queen of media. “I went up to Oprah and said, ‘You don’t know it yet, but you’re to write a foreword in my book.’ Then she looked at me and said, ‘You don’t know it, but I don’t write forewords,” and

Maya Angelou was living. She said, ‘Maya asked me to write a foreword to her book, but I didn’t because if people don’t like me, they won’t buy it. If they like me, they’ll buy without the actual merit of the book. So, I don’t want to sway somebody’s book.’” Wow! Not many people get to tell this story. Way to go Tim! The fascinating encounters kept coming. He shared the hilarious story behind the photo he took with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Bishop Desmond Tutu. “They were at this annual lecture where they challenge Mandela’s legacy. Clinton and Mandela are very close as well. Mandela was phenomenal at raising funds. When he got out of prison, he called Clinton and said, ‘I need the U.S. government to give me two hundred million dollars to start entrepreneurship development and make it happen.’ And Clinton made it happen! They were that close.

That became the Southern African Enterprise Development Fund.” Tim’s good friend is now the director of the organization.

He said while at the lecture,

Timothy Maurice Webster with Steve Harvey. again we busted out with laughter. It was tough interviewing my best friend because we have the same wild and crazy sense of humor. So I imagined the expression on his face when Oprah walked away. Tim said his heart dropped and turned cold. But he said she’s as beautiful inside as she is outside. Oprah decided to give Tim a chance.

“She was phenomenal, bro! She turned around and comes back and asked, ‘What’s your name again?’ And then asked about my book. That particular book was called ‘Personovation.’ I told her it was about what do you do when you outgrow what you’re known for. At this stage I was interested in how we evolve past what we’re known for. I came up with the concept because one day I thought about that fact I’m no longer known as just Busta’s friend in North Carolina, or the guy that’s married to Mandela’s granddaughter. So, I thought about how do I reposition that?

And I shared that with Oprah.

She suggested that I contact Naomi Campbell, because she’s moving in that direction.”

Tim replies slowly, sarcastically and humorously. “Oprah, I can’t just pick up the phone and call Naomi Campbell, I don’t have her number. And dude! I had Oprah laughing out loud. I made Oprah laugh! We’re having a fun conversation and then the camera person asked if I could hurry it up because we need to get her back on onstage. But she was enjoying our conversation, so when you look at the photo of us, she’s pinching me on the side.

She was so cool, bro. I became an even bigger fan of Oprah the person. Before she left, she gave me a few tips: Don’t settle, go to the top, because these are the people that need this conversation. After you take it to the top, then go back and take it to the bottom. And that hit me hard!

She also shared why she doesn’t write forewords. At this time Dr.

he accidently opened a door and there stood President Clinton and Bishop Tutu. “I threw up my arms like, oh snap, I’m in the wrong room, and then they threw up their arms like, hey, and came and gave me a hug. And right at that moment a photographer came into the room and asked if we wanted a photo and they said yes. And had these big smiles as if we all knew each other. Soon as the photographer took the picture, I’m like I got to get the hell out of here. I introduced myself and thanked them and I left. So that’s the story,” he ends with a huge smile on his face.

He also interviewed Steve and Marjorie Harvey during their visit to South Africa. “They were a delight to meet, very down to earth.”

He closed our interview with his thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic and police brutality.

“This will be quick. The reason America isn’t doing well is because they’re not taking it seriously. That’s it. You won’t see one person in most countries without a mask. Take it seriously, cuz there’s no COVID problem here,” he said with pride. “As for police brutality, the system in America is designed to reduce and weaken the Blacks, but you won’t find that anywhere else in the world. So, there is no global support around the issue of police brutality. The world is supporting the end of racism. The world is supporting the global attempt to destroy westernized white supremacy. Anywhere there’s brown people, we want to destroy any system of white supremacy. Man, you gotta get here soon, you’ll love it here.

Love you, bro.”

My Person of the Week is Timothy Maurice Webster. To contact Tim, visit www.timothymaurice.com or on IG and Facebook @Timothy Maurice Webster, or the Brand Show podcast with Timothy Maurice Webster.

THURSDAY, July 9, 2020

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Cam Newton signs with Patriots It happened a lot later than I expected it to, but Cam Newton has finally signed with an NFL team.

The Patriots, which is the most stable franchise in the league, took a chance on Newton and he looks to be the starter from day one.

After spending nine years as a Carolina Panther, the team decided to go in a different direction by signing Teddy Bridgewater in the off season.

Newton has dealt with a myriad of injuries over the last few years, but at only 31 years of age, presumably he still has a few quality years left in the tank.

If Newton is healthy, he could have a resurgence to his career. His bruising playing style led to several injuries and I assume Carolina felt more comfortable with Bridgewater moving forward.

Bridgewater is more of a pocket passer and is four years younger than Newton. While Bridgewater has had a major knee injury, he had the chance to show he has fully recovered when he started for Drew Brees last season with the Saints. Another high note is that he went 5-0 in those starts as well.

I know the decision to cut Newton was an unpopular one for Panther fans as Newton was probably the best player to ever play for the franchise. He was also a fan favorite on and off the field with his infectious personality and his philanthropic work in the community.

Newton has posted several videos of him working out in preparation for the upcoming season. I expected when the news hit in March that he had been released, that several teams would be lining up to at least have the former MVP come in for a workout, but that was not the case.

I don’t know if it was the COVID-19 pandemic or some other reason that made teams shy away from bringing Newton in.

If I were a general manager for another team, what could it hurt to see what the guy has left in his arm during a workout session?

But according to sources, Newton only had two teams who were seriously interested in his services and the Patriots pulled the trigger.

After losing Tom Brady in free agency, everyone expected the Patriots to either take a quarterback in the draft or sign a quality-free agent starter at the beginning of the signing period. But Bill Belichick, who is one of the craftier general managers as well as being a great coach, waited unSee Newton on B5

SAU student-athlete shares passion for swimming by teaching others RALEIGH – A Saint Augustine’s University football studentathlete is doing his part to break stereotypes about African Americans in another sport.

Zachary Barco wants to dispel the stigma that Blacks can’t swim.

A certified lifeguard, Barco gives free lessons to anyone of all races, but his personal goal is encouraging Blacks to get in the water.

“When you think of activities associated with African Americans, football and basketball comes to mind, but I want to show that Blacks can do anything if we put our minds to it,” Barco said.

Barco names Cullen Jones as proof that Blacks can achieve great heights in swimming. Jones swam collegiately at North Carolina State University and took home a gold medal in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

But far too many people of color avoid the water, according to statistics. In a 2017 report from the USA Swimming Foundation, 64% of African-American children (ages 4 to 18) have little or no swimming ability compared to 45% of Hispanic children and 40% of white children. In another study, Black children are three times more likely to drown than white children.

According to several articles, the reasons for the racial disparity are cultural, social and financial, such as a historical lack of pool access for African Americans.

More athletes of color, like Barco, are on the football field than in the swimming pool.

“I usually see few Blacks in the pool,” said Barco, born in Albuquerque, N.M. and raised in Raleigh.

For the last eight years, Barco has been available for swim lessons, either as a lifeguard through Triangle Aquatics or in his spare time. He gets the word out through social media, mainly Twitter.

This summer, Barco can be found at Knightdale Community Pool

Zachary Barco in Knightdale.

“There are no winners or losers, only choosers,” said George Williams, the SAU Athletics Director. “Zachary has chosen to make an impact on others. I am proud of Zachary and the Department of Athletics supports him 100 percent.”

Barco has been swimming since five years old, but many of his friends couldn’t swim, which prompted him to become a lifeguard.

“I would go to the deep end and no one else would go,” said Barco, who attended Southeast Raleigh High School. “I wanted to swim

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with my friends.

“I started out teaching family and friends,” he added. “Then I started teaching kids from my church. The word started to spread and people began referring me.”

Folks who can’t swim are missing out on obvious benefits such as having fun and staying in shape, Barco says. New swimmers are no longer scared of the water.

For Barco, swimming helps him prepare for football. He will be a rising sophomore on the field for the Falcons this season after starting at offensive guard and tackle as a freshman in 2019.

“It helps me learn how to fin-

ish,” Barco said. “If you are in the deep part of the pool, you can’t just stop. You’ve got to finish. A mile in swimming is much harder than running. You are swimming against resistance.”

His passion to teach swimming shows what type of person Barco is. He has been heavily involved with community service projects in the past such as gathering shoes for The Women’s Center in Raleigh and taking new and used glasses to Panama through the Latin American Mission.

“Zach is an excellent example of a well-rounded student-athlete,” said David Bowser, SAU head football coach. “He is committed to service, learning and being a top-notch football player. He definitely will make a positive impact on humanity and in society once his playing days are over. Saint Augustine’s University is very fortunate to have Zach as an ambassador of this great institution.”

For now, Barco’s concern is helping folks, especially Blacks, learn how to swim, even during the pandemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there is no evidence that COVID-19 can spread to people through water used in pools, hot tubs or water playgrounds. However, it is important to limit close contact with people outside of your home when visiting such sites. “[Swimming] is a basic necessity like walking,” Barco said.

Barco was recently selected a peer mentor at SAU, and he plans to team up with the local YMCA to teach swimming to his peers.

“Zachary is not only an athletic scholar, but a great role model and the true definition of a student leader,” said Angelique PaschalRand, the SAU assistant director of First/Second-Year Experience & New Student Connections.

“Zachary has a passion to help others.”

Kamara and Deacons ‘ready to go’ when season begins SUBMITTED ARTICLE

Sulaiman Kamara had his best season on the field a year ago as a redshirt junior, as he started eight games and totaled 25 tackles, 1.5 tackles-for-loss and one forced fumble.

Despite going through Senior Day recognition against Duke last fall, Kamara decided to return for one last season in the Old Gold & Black in 2020. Of course, he had no clue at the time he and his teammates would have to vacate campus after just five spring camp practices and endure a global pandemic that has changed the landscape of collegiate athletics.

“I was looking forward to a spring season,” Kamara said. “I wanted to finish out strong with my boys, so I could have this last year of everything being whole. I certainly didn’t expect the pandemic to break out. I would say it’s been kind of tough, not being able to see the guys every day and build that team chemistry. That’s the worst thing for me.

“We have these young guys coming in, and the coaching staff was relying on me to be a leader and show them the ropes. It’s hard to do that when everybody is so far away.”

All seven players who earned starts on the Wake Forest defensive line last season returned, giving the Deacs one of the deepest and talented fronts in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

“I feel like since I’ve

been here, this might be the

There’s also the belief

another year to finish out

Coach Dave Clawson has

that if Kamara has a strong redshirt senior campaign, building on what he did as a redshirt junior, that perhaps he could parlay that into an opportunity to play professionally.

“That’s always been my dream, to make it to the next level and play in the NFL,” Kamara explained.

“I had to give myself a chance. I had a pretty decent season last year, and I want to improve on that.

“Wake Forest football is a brotherhood. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. We will never get this time back.

The camaraderie in our locker room is special. It puts a smile on my face.

You get that warm feeling being with the guys.

There’s this tight bond.

It’s like a family. I wanted

with a bang with my boys.”

Kamara has lived with Basham off campus in recent months, and has had to become creative in his effort to find places to workout and stay in shape.

“We’ve been having Zoom meetings,” he said about staying in touch with the rest of the defensive line. “Boogie and I have been in Winston most of the time. Occasionally, we’ll make calls with other players on the defensive line, making sure they’re in a safe spot and they will be ready when the time comes to return.

“We work out at whatever fields we can get to.

We found a friend with some weights, but continued to stay safe.”

Wake Forest

said in recent days that the discipline and intellect of the players in the football program will help them navigate these strange times in a way that will lead to success in the 2020 season. If that’s the case, the Deacs could go bowling for a program-record fifth-straight season.

“You guys are in for a surprise,” Kamara said.

“We’re going to bring it all to the table. All the guys who have been here the longest on the defense are going to try to do something really big this year.

We’re going to do whatever we need to do to get to the top.

“Just because we’ve been on this break, doesn’t mean we’ve been slacking.

We’re ready to go.”

Sulaiman Kamara most-talented defensive line we’ve had,” Kamara said. “If everybody comes back strong from this pandemic and all the craziness in the world, and has done what they were supposed to do, our group can really take off. We can set a new standard for the team and for the Wake Forest program.

“Boogie (Basham) and I want to go out as being with one of the best defensive lines ever at Wake Forest. We want people to put respect on our name.

We want our opponents to know that when they play us, they have to face a formidable defensive line.

We’re trying our best to get the young guys going and keep everyone on the same page.”

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Local church raises Black Lives Matter banner

Elder Richard Wayne Wood Sunday School Lesson

The Boy Jesus Scriptures: Ecclesiastes 3:1,7; Luke 2:39-52 By the end of this lesson, we will: *Explain the account of Jesus’ experience in the Temple at the age of twelve; *Sense the awe experienced by all those who witnessed Jesus; *Rejoice in the opportunity to know the wisdom of God. Background: Taylor Caldwell wrote a biography of Luke entitled “Dear and Glorious Physician.” In that book Caldwell chronicles how a “Gentile” is converted and compelled to write “the Gospel According to Luke” so that non-Jews would know who Jesus was and is. The Jews had hundreds of years of teaching to their advantage. Luke is the only Gentile author in the Bible and he writes in chapter two of the birth of Jesus, the announcement of the angels to the shepherds, the naming of Jesus as instructed by the angel, his circumcision on the eighth day, his being presented in the Temple, the prophecy of Simeon and the testimony of Anna to the redemption come to Jerusalem. Note here too, after spending years in Egypt, Mary, Joseph and Jesus are returning to Galilee at the instruction of an angel.

Lesson: As is Jewish custom, Mary and Joseph journey to Jerusalem along with Jesus for Passover. Passover now ended, Jesus’ family is headed back to Galilee not knowing that Jesus is still in Jerusalem in the Temple. Discovering his absence, Mary and Joseph return to Jerusalem searching all over and find him in the Temple engaged in discussion with the rabbis. “After three days they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers (verses 46-47). Verse 48 shows Mary’s concern and relief at finding Jesus, but especially important here is how Mary and Jesus differ in the identification of Jesus’ Father. Joseph is Jesus’ legal father, but we are reminded by Jesus himself that God is his Father and that there are things he must do in service to God. Jesus implies here too, that Mary and Joseph should have known that he would be in the Temple … simply because they know him. “Did you not know that I had to be in my Father’s house” (verse 49). Even at this early age of twelve, Jesus knew his identity and mission. Shouldn’t his parents know?

Having this early self-awareness and knowledge of his destiny, Jesus did not let his relationship with his earthly parents suffer because of his relationship with his heavenly Father. Jesus continued to live with and obey his parents. Luke makes a point of noting Mary’s grasping of the situation: she “Treasured all these things in her heart” (verse 51). Mary had to remind herself that she was told that Jesus did not belong to her only, she had only to remember her “angelic visitation’ and put things in perspective for future events. Over the years Jesus grew normally intellectually, physically, socially and importantly, spiritually (verse 52). (The Modern Life Study Bible, The MacArthur Study Bible, The Oxford Bible Commentary and the UMI Annual Commentary 2019-2020).

For Your Consideration: What example does Jesus set even as a child? A time for everything – both Mary and Jesus acknowledged this, how?

Application: How do we see our children? Do we look for God’s power and leading in them or are they simply our children? Just as Mary and Joseph had to realize that Jesus had a mission, we too should look for that area in our child’s life where God’s power is shown.

Along with our child’s physical and intellectual growth, we as parents should also be concerned with and attentive to their spiritual growth. We must recognize that God works through children as well as adults. Encourage your children in the Lord.

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The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has been around for several years. BLM has gained more and more momentum amid recent tragedies and one of the reasons for that is the participation from people outside the Black community who are upset with the status quo as well.

To show solidarity with the movement, St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, which has a predominately white congregation, raised their second BLM banner at the church last Thursday, July 2. The first banner was torn down last year, so the church was eagerly anticipating the opportunity to display their new one.

Ginny Wilder, pastor of St. Anne’s, said the idea for hanging the initial banner came from challenge from a local church whose BLM banner had been stolen.

“Sometime in the spring of 2018, the Unitarian Universalists Church experienced vandalism when their banner was taken and they held a press conference where they challenged their sibling churches in the area to also hang a banner,” said Wilder about how the idea came to hang their first banner.

“One of our members purchased a banner and we blessed it and we hung it in May of 2018, and it stayed until April or May of 2019.

“We don’t know what happened to it. One of my parishioners drove by and said, ‘Do you know that the banner is gone?’ and I said ‘No.’ So, I came over and sure enough, it wasn’t in the bushes or blown away and without skipping a beat, I just ordered another one and blessed it in our online worship service. We were waiting for a security camera to be hung, so that if something happened to this one, we would be able to see it on the camera.”

Wilder said when the challenge was issued, she knew St. Anne’s had to participate because of their integrated history.

“The history of St. Anne’s lends itself to being an integrated parish intentionally, even before that was mandated here,”

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Ginny Wilder, pastor of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, stands under the newly hung Black Lives Matter banner. she said. “Anything that we can do to profess God’s love and welcome our neighbors near and far we want to do that. When our sibling church, Unitarian Universalists, said ‘Join in this with us,’ we answered ‘Amen, we will,’ and it has been a subject of welcome for many people and also for people who aren’t of brown or black skin who also feel this is an important movement, have found their welcome and their voice welcome here.”

Wilder says she doesn’t

know if the sign was taken down out of malice, but prefers to think the sign may have been taken down to be used in one of the recent protests around the city.

“Our hope is that someone saw it and decided it needed to be off the building and on the streets,” she said optimistically. “If that wasn’t the case, whoever removed it from our building just remember that you are a beloved child of God and there is not ill will there and we will continue

to speak this message and this truth, with or without a banner, in our hearts and prayers.”

Wilder says she feels it’s important for places of worship to stand for what is right.

“In my belief and understanding of our savior Jesus Christ, he was not a white person with blue eyes and blonde hair,” she said. “He was a brownskinned person and I matter to him and therefore he matters to me and we matter to each other.”

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Thursdays and Saturdays Free Meals Christ Rescue Temple Church, 1500 North Dunleith Ave., will serve hot meals as part of the People Helping People Feeding Program. Meals will be served every Tuesday and Thursday from noon until 1 p.m. at the church’s location. For more information, call 336-7229841.

Now – July 31 Virtual summer program Guiding Institute for Developmental Education

(GIDE) and other community partners are hosting a free, virtual Summer Scholars Program. This FREE online program can help the children (ages K-12) improve their reading skills and simultaneously learn about Black history and culture. From July 1 through July 31, twice a week, participants will read culturally affirming books such as “Skin Like Mine” and “I, Too Am America” with WSFCS teachers, teaching assistants and trained college interns.

Not only is this online program FREE, but each student will receive weekly gift card prizes for participation! The only requirement is that students have a laptop or desktop with Internet access. There is space for 500 to 1000 students to participate and registration is taking place now. For more information or to register go to guidinginstitute.org or call 336-549-5164.

July 12 Live Stream Senior Pastor Dr. Dennis W. Bishop will continue to expound on The Grace Message at 10 a.m. Sunday, July 12. Please join us on Facebook Live, https://www. facebook.com/FirstWaughtown/ or the First Waughtown website, https://www.firstwaughtown.org and click on MEDIA. How to submit items to the Religion calendar: The deadline is Sunday at 11:59 p.m. to have all calendar items submitted for that week’s paper. Send your calendar items to news@wschronicle.com. You can also drop them off, Monday through Friday before 5 p.m., or mail your items to Winston-Salem Chronicle, 1300 E. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101; or send them via our website, www.wschronicle.com.

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Community Calendar Please call ahead to make sure your event is still happening. We will post cancellations/postponements announcements when received.

NOW – Volunteer Center of the Triad The Volunteer Center of the Triad is responding to COVID-19 by bringing the volunteer community together. We have designated a portion of our website www.volunteercentertriad.org to assist our non-profit community as their needs arise around the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you are interested in volunteering, visit www. volunteercentertriad.org, click COVID-19 Response and search volunteer opportunities available.

NOW – Girl Scouts on Facebook Live Every Monday through Friday at 11 a.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. and on Saturdays at 11 a.m., Girl Scouts and anyone who is interested can tune into Facebook Live workshops with topics ranging anywhere from STEM and gardening to life skills and family game night. They even host a weekly campfire on Thursday evenings.

To receive information for these newly forming troops, families can visit www.BeAGirlScout.org/ connect. There will be specific troop times for each girl grade level.

For more information about virtual Girl Scout opportunities or to learn more about Girl Scouting in your community, please visit www.girlscoutsp2p. org. Questions about virtual programming can also be directed to info@ girlscoutsp2p.org or 800672-2148.

NOW – July 15 –

ESR offers free tax preparation ESR will resume tax site services at one location only – ESR’s office at 3480 Dominion Street in Winston-Salem. This site will be open for appointments only from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Monday –Thursday.

Residents with a household income of $56,000 and below are invited to have their taxes prepared at no cost using ESR’s free tax preparation services.

Appointments for these services may be made by calling ESR at 336-7229400 ext. 164 or 172.

July 9 – “Courageous Conversations” Hosted by United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, Courageous Conversations will be streamed live on July 9 at 7 p.m. This week’s topic is Law, Order and Justice and will feature WinstonSalem Police Chief Catrina Thompson, Forsyth County Sherrif Bobby Kimbrough, and others.

Live stream will be on Facebook @ummbc.

July 15 – Pedestrian plan feedback sessions The city is in the early stages of updating its pedestrian plan and is seeking feedback about the safety, accessibility and comfort of walking routes throughout the city for everyday and recreational trips alike. An online meeting is planned for July 15 to collect public input and provide an overview of the update process. Times and specific instructions on how

to participate in the meetings will be announced at a later date. For more information about the pedestrian plan, visit WinstonSalemWalks.com.

July 23 – Medicare workshop The Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem is offering an online workshop for individuals turning 65 (as well as those who already have Medicare) to learn about the different insurance options available.

The session will be held on Thursday, July 23, from 3 - 4:30 p.m. through computer and telephone access. The session is provided at no cost. Because space is limited, reservations are required. Contact the Shepherd’s Center at 336-748-0217 or Info@ shepherdscenter.org for more information or to reserve a “seat.”

Here are online Bookmarks events for the month of July Contact: info@bookmarksnc.org URL for info on all events: https://www. bookmarksnc.org/calendar Thursday, July 9 at 6:30 p.m.

Book Buzz Book Club Join us to discuss The Mothers by Brit Bennett.

All are welcome to join.

This club is currently meeting virtually. Register by e-mailing info@bookmarksnc.org.

Saturday, July 11 at 10:30 a.m.

Virtual Storytime

Children’s author Constance Lombardo will read her new book Everyone Says Meow and lead kids through a drawing workshop. This is a Summer Reading Program event recommended for kids ages 3-7. Register by emailing youth@bookmarksnc.org.

Monday, July 13 at 7 p.m.

“Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell” Tom Clavin is a New York Times bestselling author of many books on history, mostly concentrated in the American west.

This new book focuses on the true story of the Earp brothers and the famous Battle at the OK Corral.

This is now a virtual event.

Use the code WILDWEST at checkout to receive a discount on the book purchase. Winston-Salem author Charlie Lovett will be in conversation with Tom Clavin at this event.

To register, e-mail info@ bookmarksnc.org.

Tuesday, July 14 at 7 p.m.

Cooking Through Quarantine with Kerry Winfrey Our new virtual event series will feature authors at home sharing their favorite recipes with us. Join us on this date for past festival author Kerry Winfrey as she talks about her love of baking pies! She will also share her new book with us, Not Like the Movies. Register by e-mailing info@bookmarksnc.org.

Canceled events: July 11 – Battle of the Badges - Canceled The second annual Battle of the Badges softball tournament scheduled for July 11 at 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. at David Couch Ballpark, 401 Deacon Blvd., has been cancelled.

The raffle for a 2020 Chevy Silverado 1500LT Crew Cab thanks to Modern Chevrolet is continuing. Raffle tickets are $100 each. Only 1500 raffle tickets are available. Stop

by Crisis Control Ministry of Winston-Salem and ask for Abbey Riesett to purchase your raffle ticket. **Minimum of 750 tickets must be sold or revert to 50/50 raffle** Contact Abbey Riesett at ariesett@crisiscontrol. org or 336-770-1621 with questions.

Aug. 27-29 – Used book sale - Canceled The Shepherd’s Center of Greater WinstonSalem’s 33rd Annual Used Book Sale scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 27, and Friday, Aug. 28, and Saturday, Aug. 29, at the fairgrounds has been canceled.

2020 Summer Music Series - Canceled The Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership has canceled the 2020 Summer Music Series that consists of Downtown Jazz on Friday nights and Summer on Liberty on Saturday nights. We plan on returning to the event in the summer of 2021.

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The undersigned, having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of MARGUERITE DRUMMOND COLE AKA MARGUERITE D. COLE, deceased, late of Rockdale County, Georgia with property in Forsyth County, North Carolina, hereby notifies all parties having claims against said estate to present them to the attorney for the undersigned at 3735 Memorial Drive, Suite 100, Decatur Georgia 30032 on or before 18th day of September, 2020 or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

Per the city code, a chronic violator is a person who owns property whereupon, in the previous calendar year, the City issued at least three environmental notices for violations of Chapter 62-2(c) or (d) (unmanaged weeds or shrubbery) or any Chapter 26 sections related to (garbage or trash).

Per city code sections (C.O.) 62-2(e) or 26-14, the following Chronic Violator property owners are hereby notified that their properties are subject to city abatement, without further notification, if a violation of either of the identified city code sections is found during calendar year 2019.

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Hickory Construction Company, Hickory, NC is seeking subcontractors for Selective Site Demolition, Concrete, Unit Masonry, Metals, Thermal & Moisture Protection, Openings, Finishes, Specialties, Projection Screens, Faux Wood Blinds, Window Shades Quartz Countertops, Fire Suppression, Plumbing, HVAC, Electrical, Earthwork, Exteriror Improvements and Utilities divisions of work on Wednesday, July, 29, 2020 prior to the 2:00 PM bid opening.

The project architect is ADW Architects, 2815 Coliseum Centre Drive, Ste 500, Charlotte, NC. The work consist of a new 11,719 sf one story community center including an entry area, meeting area, activity area, allery area, multipurpose areas, and kitchen area; site work related to the builidng. The work includes a concrete slab on grade with wood and structural steel framing. The exterior consists of manufactured stone veneer, fiber cement siding, aluminum storefront windows, and architectural asphalt shingle roof. Drawings and specifications wil be available for examination at the following locations: Hickory Construction Company thru iSqFt; and Duncan Parnell; via their web page http://www.dpibidroom.com or contact Michaela Bruinius @ michaela.bruinius@duncan-parnell.com or call 704-372-7770 x 1005.

The Chronicle July 9, 2020

MBS- Winston-Salem is seeking qualifications for architectural services for Phase I of the Winston-Salem Newside Choice Neighborhood Initiative Project RFQ will be posted on July 13, 2020 Proposals are due on August 4, 2020 To view the full RFQ please visit, http://clevelandavetransformation.com/ and visit the “Opportunites” Page

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til all the dust settled and scooped Newton for a bargain price.

Belichick continually stated that he and his coaching staff were more than confident in second year pro Jarrett Stidham, but I think everyone knew that Belichick had a master plan in place. My question is why was there so little interest in Newton for him to stay available so long?

Off the top of my head, I can think of about four or five teams that Newton could vie for a starting position and there are countless others where he would be a valued backup. I guess that is a missed opportunity for the rest of the league and a win-win for the Patriots and Newton.

For Newton, he gets the chance to play for a six time Super Bowl winning coach and for Belichick, he has a quarterback with the necessary skillset to possibly take them back to another Super Bowl in

the near future. New England gets the biggest benefit, because they signed Newton to a one-year deal worth up to $7.5 million if he hits certain incentives.

So, the risk is very low for the Patriots and the reward could be very high.

I personally think Josh McDaniels is the happiest person on the Patriots coaching staff right about now. When he was the head coach of the Denver Broncos, he manufactured a playbook that highlighted Tim Tebow’s skillset that led them all the way to the playoffs and a playoff win against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now that McDaniels has another running quarterback who can also push the ball downfield, the playbook just became wide open.

I just wonder if the Panthers gave up on Newton too early. I personally didn’t like how they attempted to make it seem that Newton was looking for opportunities elsewhere, when they were the initiators of the pro-

T he C hronicle cess. Newton brought a lot to the Panthers during his tenure and I felt he deserved a classier exit than what he was afforded.

I wrote a column about the possibility of the Panthers trading Newton before he sustained his latest injury. I thought they should have explored trade options at that juncture, but since he was hurt the majority of last season, trading him was not a reality. I think the Panthers would have been better suited to keep Newton for another year to see how he performed and make a decision after that, but I guess they did not want to miss out on the chance to bring in Bridgewater.

Either way, time will tell whether or not that was a good move to release Newton by the Panthers.

But one thing is for sure, if he has anything left in him, the Patriots will utilize everything he has to offer. I hope this does not come back to bite the Panthers in the long run, but we shall see.

Drive-thru awards ceremony honors SilverArts medal winners

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COVID-19 has put a halt on most events, but it couldn’t stop the staff of Recreation and Parks from holding a SilverArts awards ceremony in a most creative way.

Chuck Vestal, who coordinates Senior Games/ SilverArts, has had a challenging year as most of the Senior Games events had to be canceled. The SilverArts competitions, which include Heritage Arts, Visual Arts and Literary Arts, were able to be held with some changes for social distancing.

The Literary competition, judged by members of Winston-Salem Writers, was handled as in the past since judging packets were picked up without personal contact. The Heritage and Visual Arts competitions were scheduled to be held at the Central Library, but it was closed due to the pandemic. After conferring with the judges, it was decided that photos of the entries would be submitted instead of the actual pieces and the judges would view them online to score each entry.

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Brenda Smith shows off her gold medal during the drive-thru ceremony on June 25. were given ten-minute time frames to come to the Government Center, but they were surprised as they exited the driveway to see staff of Recreation and

the recipients.

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Recreation and Parks staff, left to right, Kayla Garrett, Katie Andrew, Chuck Vestal, Carlie Pudney and Markee Daye celebrate the SilverArts medal winners at the drivethru ceremony on June 25.

Vestal then came up with the idea of an awards presentation where winners could receive their medals at the drive-thru window of the Black-Phillips Government Center on Patterson Avenue. Winners

Parks holding signs and shouting out congratulations.

The awarding of medals was certainly different this year, but being creative during a pandemic made it just as special for

Government Center, 2301 Patterson Avenue, at the drive-thru window. Look for information on the 2021 Senior Games/SilverArts to be announced in January.

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HIGH POINT – Although the 10th annual John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival has been postponed until next year, the 2020 Student Instrument Contest sponsored by the Friends of John Coltrane, Inc., is still being held. The contest offers North Carolina middle and high school student musicians an opportunity to win a brand new instrument by expressing their need and the importance of music in their lives. submitted photo To date almost 100 N.C. middle and high school students still have time to enter the instrument contest. instruments have been The deadline is July 25. awarded to aspiring student Friends of John Coltrane of students who are in need musicians at a retail value board member explained. due to the impending ecoof over $135,000 by the “Our hope is that we will nomic downturn caused by Friends of John Coltrane, encourage students to the coronavirus pandemic.

Inc, a non-profit 501(c)(3) practice at home by proNorth Carolina middle designated organization. viding new instruments to and high school students Each year winners are presome who are in need.” are eligible to enter by sented with their prize inThe prizes are made pos- submitting a recorded struments on stage during sible by Williams, Bill video of themselves or a the festival. Organizers are Banks, along with KHS written entry of a 150-250 working out the plans for America, Inc., an instru- word essay, explaining how winners will receive ment manufacturer. The their need for an instrutheir prize instruments this Friends of John Coltrane, ment and the importance year, which will likely inInc. hope to receive ad- of music in their lives. clude some type of virtual ditional tax deductible The entry deadline is July Charmon M Baker presentation event. donations and sponsors to 25, 2020. All entries must Financial Advisor “We think it is so imfund the purchase of more be submitted online at 135 Jonestown Road portant that while at home Winston Salem, NC 27104 instruments which will en- the festival website under 336-768-7687 our young people conable them to give instru- “Student Contest” at www. tinue to develop their muments to a larger number coltranejazzfest.com. sic skills,” Joe Williams,

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