Harry Belafonte and Elsie Richardson Evoke Message of Medgar

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OUR TIME PRESS September 30-October 7, 2010
VOL. 15 NO. 39
September 30-October 6, 2010
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From the Village of Brooklyn, New York Since 1996
Harry Belafonte and Elsie Richardson Evoke
Message of Medgar Evers College’s Namesake
at 40th Anniversary Gala Dinner
In Pursuit of Freedom and Excellence:
Civil and Human Rights Leaders Elsie
Richardson of Central Brooklyn and Harry
Belafonte, humanitarian and world renown
performing artist, helped to shape movements more than forty years ago that brought
institutions like Medgar Evers College to life.
Medgar Evers College’s 40th anniversary Founder’s Day Alumni and Visionaries Dinner,Tuesday, September 28 -hosted by Dr. William L. Pollard, President
of the College, and the Medgar Evers College Community -- was a wonderful tribute
to how far the college has come since its
founding.
It also was remarkable in its revelation,
most notably through the speeches of
comunity activists Elsie Richardson, a
founder of the college, and Harry Belafonte,
a Civil Rights lion, that the journey is not
yet done.
More than 300 people gathered for the
benefit which was held in the $250 million
dollar state-of-the-art building housing the
School of Science, Health and Technology to open in October. Mrs. Richardson noted
she and her colleague founders would not
have conceived such a building in 1970 when
Governor Rockefeller signed legislation approving the “establishment of an experimental four-year college {based in Central Brooklyn} offering both career and transfer associate degrees and the bacalaureate degree.”
Named for the martyred civil rights
leader Medgar Wiley Evers (1925-1963), in
photo far right, was established as a result
of the advocacy of community residents in
Central Brooklyn, and education and civil
leaders throughout the City.
Among the original founders in attendance at the dinner -- in addition to Ms.
Richardson, were Mr. George Harvey, Mr.
William Howard Sr., The Honorable Anna
Jefferson, Sen. Waldaba Stewart, and Councilman Al Vann.
Tony Herbert Assists Return
of Missing Girl, 11
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Our Time Q&A
... with Councilman Al Vann
“I think that the community has to look
for people who have the community feeling.”
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The dinner sponsors were National
Grid, Con Edison, City University of
New York (represented by Jay
Hershenson) and the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry represented by Roy Hastick.
Broadcast journalist Julian Philips
was Master of Ceremonies; The Rev.
Conrad. B. Tillard delivered the invocation; Dr. Marcella Maxwell, along
with Mrs. Richardson, delivered messages on behalf of the founders.
Medgar Wiley Evers
Mrs. Richardson set the tone, recalling the hard work and her great
hardworking colleagues. Belafonte, 84, he chose a more important path for his
sounded the bell for all to come back to the people.”
Following are Mrs. Richardson’s refold to continue the work. He revealed that
he had been approached by students about marks in their entirety. Excerpts from Mr.
certain challenges at the college, and he did Belafonte’s eloquent speech, roundly apnot shy away from telling us “winers and plauded by Mr. Pollard and dinner guests,
will be presented in two parts over coming
diners” what he felt we needed to hear.
Our colleague Milton Allimadi, the issue. BG/DG See Page 6.
jourmalist and publisher, remarked on the
delivery of Mr. Belafonte’s
MEC’s Newest Academic Building
extemporaneous remarks
that ranged from a salute
to President Barack
Obama to a blueprint for
saving our youth, gracefully taking the dinner
message from a celebration of what we have done
to a “wake up” call signalling where we are failing
and what we need to do
moving forward. Said
Allimadi of Belafonte,
“He could have been a
world political leader, but
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Q&A ... with Councilman Al Vann
The late Reverend William Augustus
Jones of Bethany Baptist Church had a
favorite saying: “You eat the king’s meat,
you do the king’s bidding.” Looking at the
influence of hedge fund money in this past
primary, where folks were eager to bellyup to the king’s buffet, rationalizing that
the king’s bidding was best for the peasants
and knowing for certain it was best for
themselves, we thought we’d look at a
different path to elected office.
Previous generations had come into
office buoyed by the community and
standing against the king. Councilman Al
Vann’s 35 years of elected service began in
such a way and we asked him how that path
began.
OTP: A lot of people run for office and
there will be a lot of them running for your
office. What were the kinds of preparations
you had and what had you done prior to
being elected that prepared you for
leadership?
Councilman Al Vann: Actually, I’ve
thought about my life, and as a kid growing
up in Bed-Stuy, you know I was born and
bred in Bed-Stuy went to PS.83 and Junior
High School 35 before I went to Lane
(Franklin K. Lane) and I didn’t realize the
importance of it at the time, but when I was
in public school I was always involved: on
the stage doing stuff, head of the guard
patrol in the school, I was president of the
GO. I was very, very active in the school and
the community and it wasn’t anything I
thought special, it was just what I was doing
at where I was.
After I graduated from college, my first
real job was teaching, I taught at 256 then
Junior High School 35 where I spent most of
my years before the infamous 271 when I
was principal over there, the year they was
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having the big problem with the union. Ocean
Hill-Brownsville. So that was what I was
doing. I was involved and we were
organizing teachers into the Negro Teacher
Association in 1964.
So it’s not really being a teacher I think
that led me to this but the organizing of
teachers, organizing parents actually.
Holding workshops for them on the
weekends, letting them know this school
belongs to you, your children are there. You
have the right to come in and make decisions
and so forth. A lot of people probably can’t
appreciate that time because they think the
way things are now is the way they were.
They weren’t like that. Parents were afraid
to come to the school. They felt they had no
say. Obviously, it was a time when there
was no Black curriculum and very few Black
people. The point I’m making is that I was
organized doing things that led me to
politics; I didn’t plan a career in being
elected to office at all. Obviously, I didn’t
know a lot about politics except my mother
said that I should vote and I would vote. I
would look for names that looked Black and
that’s who I would vote for because I really
wasn’t involved in it. But in 1972, it was more
like a movement than a campaign because in
’72 we were still part of the movement and
so I ran against Cal Williams because people
said “we understand what you’re trying to
do Vann, trying to make decisions, trying to
improve the community, you could probably
do it better if you’re in elected office. You
have access to the media, you have access
to resources.” I listened and decided that
okay, I would do that. So in ’72, we did not
run in the primary. We ran in the general
election and again my movement was
teachers and the community. We were the
Vanguard Independent Party and we had
petitioned just like the Freedom Party today.
It was a grassroots movement and we did
well. Didn’t win but we got a
couple of thousand votes.
People
who
were
knowledgeable about the
subject said, “Man, you’ve
got to run in the primary. If
you got 2,000 votes in the
general election, you can win
the primary.”
The second time around
in ’74, I ran in the Democratic
Primary and I won and that was
the beginning of my career in
elected office. We learned
everything on our own. There
was no one that mentored us.
No one told us what to do so
we had to learn by doing. So
my people learned all the
aspects of running a campaign,
so on and so forth and I guess
the rest is history.
OTP: There’s so many
folks that want to run and I
don’t get the impression that
a lot of them are prepared as
far as doing the community
background work.
The
African-American Teachers
Association, how involved
was the group in the
community?
Vann: Well, ATA
(African-American Teachers
Association), which really
began in 1964 as the Negro Teachers
Association, actually started between the
teachers in 35 and PS 21 and then expanded.
Eventually, we had a chapter in each
borough except Staten Island. We had a
coordinator of African-American teachers in
each borough except for Manhattan, so we
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So Dear Ola Alabi and Renee Collymore, you
ladies appear to have played out your drama
in a recent spate of derogatory emails,
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The media, the internet, and the public arena
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Olanike Alabe, Renee
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Check 2010”
Many Americans have settled for the
television reality show as a reflection of real
life. They also measure their own lives by
the reality-show lives of the so-called real
people who are “acting out” for the everpresent camera. It’s the old Shakespeare
line unplugged or reinvented: “All the
World’s a Stage. All the people merely
players.”
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the primary force dealing with the UFT
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Students Rally in Support of Student
Safety Act
By Jaisal Noor
(Special To Our Time Press)
The day before school was scheduled
to open last week, students, parents,
lawmakers and advocates gathered in front
of Tweed Hall to address the looming police
presence awaiting children in the hallways
of their schools.
The large crowd gathered to rally
support for the Student Safety Act, a bill
which would begin to address the issue of
the over-policing of city schools by
requiring that the NYPD and the Department
of Education make publicly available data
concerning the types of infractions students
are being punished for in schools, as well as
information regarding the students’ race,
social status and disabilities.
“What we’ve found is that many
students are subject to over-policing in their
schools, there’s a higher rate of arrests in
schools, there’s a higher rate of suspensions
than there ever has been before. And it’s
mostly targeting students of color and
students with special needs and students
from struggling communities,” said Angela
Jones, coordinator of the NYCLU Schoolto-Prison Pipeline Project.
In recent years, police presence inside
of NYC public schools has grown at a
startling rate. Starting with the multitudes of
School Safety Officers, guards trained by
the NYPD, patrolling the hallways, followed
by the introduction of roving metal
detectors, many of which became permanent
placements inside schools in the poorest
neighborhoods. According to the New York
Civil Liberties Union, there are 5,200 School
Safety Officers in the NYPD’s School Safety
Division, making it the fifth-largest police
force in the United States. This is also almost
twice the number of guidance counselors
inside public schools.
“Discipline has been taken away from
the teachers, from the principals, and handed
over to police who are trained in law
enforcement, they are trained to arrest, not
to engage in conflict resolution, or figure
out what’s going on in terms of adolescent
development,” said Donna Lieberman,
executive director of the NYCLU, at the rally.
The high-risk environment created by
the presence of uniformed officers and metal
detectors does little to foster an environment
that encourages learning. Students like 15year-old Angelica Hernandez of West Bronx
Academy are unsettled by the long waits as
they line up to go through the metal
detectors every morning.
In her impassioned speech at the rally,
Hernandez recounted one winter morning
when she was late to class because she had
to go through the metal detector repeatedly
only to find that she “had been wearing too
many bobby pins in my hair that day.”
“I think that me getting an education
shouldn’t make me feel like I’m going to
prison every single day,” said Ashley
Desmairs, a junior at Cypress Hills Collegiate
Prep School in East New York, Brooklyn. “I
would be more ready to learn if I didn’t have
to worry about having to take everything
off so I don’t ring.”
The demand for racial and ethnic
statistics by the Student Safety Act is meant
to address the issue that minority students
in struggling communities are being harshly
penalized by current school safety practices.
Students face severe repercussions
including suspension and arrest for minor
infractions like being late to class or writing
on the desk, according to the NYCLU.
“What we’ve done is we’ve gotten too
far away from remembering that we are
teaching our youth and our children in the
public schools. And our children of color
Tony Herbert Assists Return
of Missing 11-year-old Girl
By Mary Alice Miller
Sahara Boyd, age 11, went missing from her
Bronx home on Tuesday, September 14. She had
been gone for a week. Dawud McKelvin, age 30,
was arrested for sending Sahara obscene pictures
to her grandmother’s cell phone while Sahara was
missing. Community activist Tony Herbert
stepped forward to assist the family’s request
that Sahara be returned home. Sahara was found
in Brooklyn near Chauncey and Broadway on
Monday.
Herbert got involved with Sahara’s plight
when he got a phone call from a member of one of
the SUV clubs in the Bronx who had read
published reports (including Our Time Press) of
Herbert’s work helping to return missing young
girls to their home. The Dough Boys SUV Club
President printed out the articles, took them to
Sahara’s family, who in turn, called Herbert.
Herbert went to the family and guided them
through the process of organizing a community
vigil. They then put alerts on MySpace and
Facebook and circulated a Blackberry Messenger
chain letter. (No Amber Alert had been issued.)
People began to tell where they had seen Sahara.
Herbert, the family and concerned community
members in the Bronx went to the location where
Sahara had been seen – 2250 Pelham Parkway.
Ironically, the area where Sahara was seen was
the same area McKelvin’s family lived.
Sahara was placed under the supervision of
ACS when a neighbor had a conflict with Sahara’s
grandmother. Vindictively, this neighbor made a
false report that drugs were being sold from the
grandmother’s home and that children were being
abused there. The grandmother was custodial
caretaker of her daughter’s three children,
including Sahara. Herbert said after the Nixmary
Brown situation, ACS is not taking chances. The
grandmother was
arrested, and removed
Sahara until they
conducted
an
investigation. Sahara
was placed into a foster
home, where she came
into contact with
McKelvin.
While in foster
care, Sahara ran away
to be with McKelvin.
She came back, then
ran away again. After
McKelvin
was
arrested, Sahara was
seen with him again in
the
same
development. She was
also seen walking
around with another
adult male in the
Pelham Parkway
Houses. Herbert and
the family flooded the
complex with posters.
After walking through
with a bullhorn calling
for the return of
Sahara, more people
stepped forward to
say they had just seen
her. They walked
around the community
following the trail to 955 Waring Ave., where
McKelvin’s family lives.
At 1 am, Sahara called her grandmother
saying she was in Brooklyn near Chauncey and
Broadway, a known street prostitution location.
The grandmother called detectives who arrived
while the grandmother was on the phone with
Sahara. The detectives directed the grandmother
to coax Sahara outside so that she could identify
where she was. Sahara could not pronounce the
street names, but was able to spell them. Sahara
was instructed to get in a cab, they would pay
for it. She was taken to a location where she was
safely placed into police custody.
Sahara was taken to the hospital for a
medical evaluation, and is now back in foster
care. Three adult males have been arrested in
connection with Sahara.
Herbert began working with families
of missing young girls two years ago when his
developmentally disabled 21-year-old niece was
held against her will for five days in Brownsville
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10/1
11a: Freedom Party Press Conference on the
National Black Education Agenda in
Harlem with Gubernatorial Candidate
Councilman Charles Barron and convened by
Dr. Sam Anderson and Dr. Donald Smith at
John Henrik Clarke House 286 Convent Ave.
10/2
12n-4p:African Burial Ground YOUTH
WEEK 2010 keynote event. Dollmaking,
10/9
Randy Weston’s Book Tour: MoCADA booksigning. Details: www.mocada.org.
10/10
10K Community Run and Walk. Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration.
Afternoon: Hugh Masekela stars at
Transart’s 11th Annual Jazz in the Valley
concert. Craig Harris Didgeridoo Quartet also
perform at the Hudson Valley Resort & Spa in
Kerhonkson, NY. 917-952-2027 or 347-6981173.
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“No Tree Too Tall for Us!”
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York University. With editor/social activist
Esther Cooper Jackson, Andrea Davis
Pinkney, Cheryl Willis Hudson, Councilman
Ras Baraka of Newark, NJ, Andrew P. Jackson
of Queens Public Library, Leo and Diane
Dillon, Jaira Placide and Our Time Press
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10/2
One Nation Historic March in Washington,
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10/4
Ribbon-cutting Ceremony for new
Academic Building at Medgar Evers
College.
10/6
5p-9p: The Central Brooklyn Jazz
Consortium (CBJC) presents Central
Brooklyn Jazz All-Stars in jam session fundraiser/ Sugar Hill Restaurant, 609 DeKalb Ave.
in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Donations accepted at
door: info@cbjcjazz.org.
10/7
Evening: Previews begin for James Earl Jones
in Driving Miss Daisy, on Broadway, with
Vanessa Redgrave. 212-239-6200
6:30p: Storytelling by Emmett Wigglesworth.
BAC Gallery, 111 Front Street, DUMBO.
7p-10p: Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA’s Fall
Mixer @ MoCADA, Tickets: $50 (for YMCA
Strong Kids Campaign to support youth and
10/12
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10/14
BEAREATHER REDDY’s Blues Women
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Blues music recorded by Mamie Smith in 1920
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from See See Rider to Gimme a Pigfoot and
other Smith sultry sounds. The Brooklyn
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10/15
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artistry of “big-framed, blustery” Jerron
“Blind Boy” Paxton & Floyd Lee
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(cousin of John Lee Hooker). Join 966 at 966
Fulton Street, nr. Clinton/Washington in Bklyn.
10/16
Brownstoners of Bedford-Stuyvesant Annual
House Tour. (Details to be announced.)
11p- 4p: Magnolia Tree Earth Center Open
House and Opening of “Spirit of Africa:
Community Mural Project 2005-10” (working
title concept).
Artist/Illustrator BRYAN COLLIER at ...
4p-6p: BROWNSTONE BOOKS for
booksigning. 409 Lewis Avenue.
www.brownstonebooks.com. 718-953-7328
6p-8p: HOUSE of ART Gallery for
meet&greet reception. Artist’s talk on his
original artworks & limited editions available
for purchase.
373 Lewis Avenue. www.nychouseofart.com
347.663.8195.
Guy Davis, Guitar/Blues Harmonica man -winner of the W.C. Handy “Keeping the
Blues Alive” Blues Foundation Award and
son of Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis -- brings
the tradition of acoustic blues of Fats
Waller, Buddy Guy; patter like Garrison
Keillor and some Taj Mahal to Boys &
Girls H.S., 1700 Fulton St.
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival.at
LIU, Flatbush & DeKalb. 718-488-1624
8p: Hugh Masekela @ Carnegie Hall.
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Medgar Evers College
Celebrates its 40th Year
Harry Belafonte:
Dr. and Mrs. Pollard, let me start off by
expressing my sincere sense of gratitude
and privilege in sharing this evening with
you, the alumni, elected officials particularly
all the Caribbeans in the room. I am honored
to be gained this honor in the name of a
man I’ve known, shared many precious
moments with, although they were not long.
Not enduring.
The work that I do takes me into the
midst of the criminal culture. In this country
which possesses the largest prison
population in the world, over two million.
Most of the young men and women who
languish in those prisons are men and
women of color.
I’ve had occasion to consider, Nelson
Mandela. I had interviewed him for a film
that I had done, and it was just two days
ago we did the final edit and it will be
released soon. It’s going it’s way to through
the festival routine and it will be released
soon. The film is called Sing your Song,
based on a quote by a man whom I revered
and who was my mentor, Paul Robeson. Mr.
Robeson came to visit myself and a group
of young artists at the American Negro
Theater at the Schomburg Library and he
came to see us perform in a play called Juno
and the Paycock written by the great Irish
playwright Sean O’Casey. In the group
was Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Sidney
Poitier, all young people not knowing quite
where we were going to wind up, but we
knew where we wanted to go.
Paul came to visit us and spend time.
From that moment to the end of his life, I
served him and revered him, he was my
mentor. When he came to see me after my
first performance, he smiled and he said
“when they hear you sing your song, they’ll
want to know who you are”.
I did not know what a metaphor was
until one day I woke up and found the whole
world singing “Day-O.” (Audience laughs
and starts to sing a few bars.)
But you’ve heard nothing until you’ve
stood and watched 50,000 Japanese singing
it.
It was through moments like that, that I
understood the power of the metaphor. If
you sing your song, they will want to know
who you are.
Elsie Richardson
Speaking on behalf of myself and in
memory of Dr. Cecil Gloster, Lucille Rose,
Almira Coursey, Louise Boiling, Shirley
Chisholm and others who have passed on.
When we were moving toward gaining
Medgar Evers College and trust me it was a
battle, none of us envisioned this beautiful
building that we’re standing in tonight, 40
years later.
I’d also like to give honor to Dr. Richard
Trent, Dr. Dennis Paul, Dr. Jay Carrington
Chunn and of course Dr. Edison Jackson
for shepherding us throughout these forty
years. They always worked very closely
with the Medgar Evers Community Council.
The first such council in the nation.
It is known that Medgar Evers was
killed on his front lawn. What is not to well
known is that he was followed everywhere
he went. There was always a car following
his car. That did not deter him. He always
kept his eye on the prize. He wanted his
people to go into the voting booth. I think
it’s important for the students of Medgar
Evers College to know this story.
So any of you who are in contact with
our current and former students, please let
them know that October 8th is the deadline
to register to vote in this year’s election.
And no matter what the weather people say
the night before, I want them to get out of
their beds on November 2nd and go into
the voting booth and cast their votes. That
is the least they can do as a tribute to
Medgar Evers.
Elsie Richardson represented many of the founding visionaries of Medgar
Reverend Conrad B. Tillard, MEC President William L. Pollard, and former Congressman Major Owens delivered messages at the 40th anniversary event.
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students that I would take you by there,
and the first stop was Boys and Girls High.
In our discussion we came to the
subject of the young and whether or not we
had fulfilled the promise in the goals of
acceptance. And it was a serious thing
because he says, had we done the things
Thank you again Paul, Mr. Robeson,
for what you did for my heart and soul and
sense of purpose.
On Nelson Mandela’s first visit to
America, I was anointed with the privilege
of arranging every aspect of
what he would do and who
Somewhere along the line, we
he would meet during his
stay in America. As an agent
blinked. Somewhere along the line,
for the ANC, as a worker for
we got caught up in the immediacy of
the African National
Congress. The first place he
our successes, and did not keep our
stopped when he came here,
eye on the long term goal.”
and I met him at the airport,
wasn’t even on the schedule.
It was Boys and Girls High. It wasn’t on we were supposed to do, perhaps our
the schedule and I knew that Oliver Tambo young people would not be so lost.
and others had looked at the schedule and
Somewhere along the line, we blinked.
approved it, but I had to make (that) stop. I Somewhere along the line, we got caught
said I had made a promise to a couple of up in the immediacy of our successes, and
did not keep our eye
on the long term goal.
And in that space the
corruptors stepped in
and grabbed at us,
keeping us from what
we were trying to
achieve. Now we find
ourselves here today
in the midst of one of
the greatest crises of
my lifetime. I don’t
know of any time more
critical than this very
moment is. We are just
a few steps away from
Fascism. A few steps
away
from
totalitarianism. If they
succeed, there will be
no place for us to go to
find retreat. It will be a
doomsday scenario.
The Tea Party?
It’s no question what
they say, it’s about
race. It’s about race.
You can fill the
airways, fill the
newspapers, with your
elusive talk about
issues that don’t
hardly exist, but it’s all about race. And I
no longer participate in the wasteful debate
about whether or not Barack Obama has
made or not made the right decision, what’s
infinitely more important is what we’re failing
to do. It’s where we are and what we have
not done and are not doing that is making
the difference. And it started long before
Barack Obama. You go to Katrina and take
a look at the hundreds of thousands of Black
people in anguish in that place, where was
America’s Black voice? Where was the
ardor of Black citizens rising up to say all
will be well, we will prevail. We failed and
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we continue to fail because the people of
Katrina still languish in misery and pain,
while we all sit and wine and dine, frustrated
in the comfortable lives we’re living. We
have failed. In that failure sits the reason
Barack Obama has not moved further
forward. Of course I have a lot of
complaints and I can take you to the mat on
what he should be doing, but more
importantly, what I have to keep in mind is
that Barack Obama is ours.”
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THE PARENT’S NOTEBOOK
Exploring the true Three R’s (Responsibility, Relationships
and Resources) necessary to unleash the innate genius of our
children.
By Aminisha Black
The transformation of a nation begins in the homes of its people
September has been an emotionally charged
month for me, beginning with my 70th birthday
celebration hosted by my children and
grandchildren. I was moved by the loving energy
that existed in the space where people from many
different sectors converged and I totally felt
loved. I was especially moved by the words of
my offspring (mellowed a lot since adolescence)
and their offspring (grandparents are always
winners). I was especially moved by Adonis,
11, who told his dad that he really enjoyed the
party, and another ll-year-old who danced with
my grandson and me, told me as they were leaving:
“This was the best party”.
The month culminated with the film Waiting
for Superman, the documentary exposing the
dismal state of education in America. On a
billboard were the words “The fate of our country
won’t be determined on the battlefield - it will be
determined in the classroom”. Observing my
children and the experiences of raising them and
observing them parenting my grandchildren, I say
the fate of the country depends on parents
sending self-confident and motivated children into
the classroom, assuming an informed and
participating partnership with the educators and
refusing to get drawn into the struggles between
factions, insisting they stay on track...providing
opportunities for your child’s genius to expand.
While deploring the statistics presented in
the film, seeing large numbers of parents who
The Future
of the Freedom Party
By Alton H. Maddox, Jr.
(Excerpted)
Before I departed New York City to attend
my aunt’s homegoing service in Georgia, I
attended the third consecutive UAM membership
meeting on a Saturday. The topic has been the
need for an office for UAM and the Freedom
Party.
Before January 1, 2010, UAM had never
been without an office in its history. No grass
roots organization in the past two decades has
achieved UAM’s success. Its success, for more
than two decades, has been attributed to an office
and competent personnel in it.
This lack of an office is putting a serious
strain on only two households. Miraculously,
UAM has been able to continue to do business
despite these obstacles. No quorum has been
achieved at any of these Saturday meetings.
Blacks need a political education more than
they need a political party. This is like urging a
were obviously involved and actively pursuing
better schools for their children reduced to a
number and dependent on that number being
drawn from hundreds and the tears and anxiety
on the faces of the students made my heart ache
and the tears flow. I cry because we have allowed
ourselves to become totally dependent on alien
systems. Overcoming dependency requires us
to heal our relationships with self and others.
SAVING OUR CHILDREN is up to us...turning
our homes into training camps.
Beginning January 1970 and ending January
1976, I gave birth to five children, making me the
mother of seven children. Two older sons died
and I gained another daughter and son, Debbie
and Daniel, through marriage. Needless to say,
it was a busy time with the five so close in age.
Fortunately, the EAST became the community
where values were shared - I could contribute my
skills and continue to grow while my children
attended Imani Day Care and Uhuru Sasa allowing
some much-needed separate time for us all.
Dealing with five determined, opinionated
children 12 years and under was challenging to
put it nicely. Dealing with those five during
adolescence was downright scary. I enrolled in
my first parent workshop and I was amazed and
eternally grateful for the information that helped
me survive the turbulent teens.
Over the years I watched them mature
- from physical fights quelled by emergency
family meetings where everyone was allowed to
vent their feelings. Each sentence had to begin
with “I felt (blank) when”. The sessions would
always end with them going to the store for
snacks, arms around each other. Now as adults,
they pursue their individual interests, support
each other and they’ve got my grandchildren’s
backs. They include the three adult children of
my oldest son, Pamoja. In fact, the girls, Asha
and Afriyie, handled the decorations for my party
while Gyasi (Jah-C) was MC and DJ. While
living and working in Kentucky, Makini could
allow Dakari, 13, to fly to New York for basketball
tournaments, and Kweli or Kojo were at the
airport to meet him and to get him to Coach
Tommy. Kweli’s youngest, Nazim, has spent
summers in Kentucky... Kojo, father of three girls,
is a great mentor for his nephews; Michael, a
freshman at Coppin State, and Dakari, a high
school freshman, being their unofficial basketball
coach. Hazina and Daniel, living in Birmingham,
travel to connect with Makini and Dakari when
there’s a tournament in a Southern city. Auntie
Nandi is planning to have her nieces and nephews
come to New Orleans for a week. Being an only
child, I am amazed at their connectedness and
also with their friends whom I’ve inherited. And
I truly see that regaining Africans’ highest-held
value of relationships between persons is the
battle to be fought and won. In retrospect, I give
their father and me an “A” for not comparing
them to each other or others, for allowing them
to express their opinions and make choices, for
assigning them areas of responsibility and for
tolerating their protests. Each of them is an
advocate in some area or another. And home is
the place where it began.
person to pursue a medical career before pursuing
a medical education. Putting the cart before the
horse will never work in any endeavor. This lack
of political knowledge will harm the Freedom
Party.
From top to bottom, Black elected officials
lack any knowledge of political science much less
any knowledge of politricks. Only white
politicians like Rudolph Giuliani, Michael
Bloomberg and Andrew Cuomo see the need for
a third party.
On the other hand, Black politicians see no
need for a third party. To win a citywide or
statewide office in New York, a candidate must
enter the race with at least two horses. Blacks
have no interest in governing whites. To make
matters worse, the Freedom Party is also without
an office. Thus, there is no platform for the
Freedom Party, no informative and working Web
site, no voter registration campaign, no continuing
political education program and no outreach
program for young people and felons. Voter
registration will end on October 8.
Malcolm X said that “land is the basis for
all revolutions”. Land is also the basis for any
freedoms in the United States and the acquisition
of land is a condition precedent to any liberation
movement. Predatory lending may be the last
stage of stopping any effort to achieve Black
liberation. Gentrification is a mop-up action.
The question of who acquires, who uses
and who maintains land is a political decision.
This was the basis for the American Revolution.
George Washington was the biggest landlord in
the colonies. “The power to tax is the power to
destroy.”
Without political representation, no
landowner nor landlord is safe. Thus, Washington
went to war to stop the concept of “taxation
without representation”. Any civilized people
seeks to participate in political decision-making.
During a period of disenfranchisement,
Blacks saw landownership dwindle and take a
big hit. Malcolm X said “it is the ballot or the
bullet”. In fact, the ballot is a bullet. Without
political representation, and not simply political
presence, Blacks are defenseless.
There is a difference between voter education
and political education. Voter education is key to
the maintenance of plantation politics. Blacks
are used as political pawns and political caddies.
These sycophants refuse or fail to demand a quid
pro quo for their political support.
Plantation politics is an economic bonanza
for the Democratic Party and for leading Blacks
who have an interest in keeping Blacks on the
plantation. They view themselves as gatekeepers
and their economic well-being is associated with
the well-being of whites.
When a political party is structured from
top-to-bottom rather than from bottom-to-top,
the top will inevitably exploit the bottom. The
structure of any organization will determine its
outcome. See, for example, the National Action
Network and the Freedom Party.
The absence of a continuing political
education program and presence of a flawed
organizational structure will only aggravate the
with his location and mecanics. This past
Monday Burnett was “Burned” for seven runs
and was pulled out of the game in the third inning.
This has raised several questions about Burnett
and his durability in a potential start in the
playoffs. When Girardi was asked about his
right-hander Girardi said “ He was big for us in
the playoffs last year, but iam not going to talk
a whole lot about the playoffs until we know
were in. We’ve got to get their first, and we’re
not in. Burnett spoke to reporters this past week
and he said “ The way my season’s been, iam
not going to let it affect me. it’s a matter of
turning the page and getting over it”. Burnett is
10-15 with a 5.33 ERA. Burnett has 1 win along
with 7 losses in his last 10 starts. After that the
Yanks probably will hand the ball over to the
crafty Left-Hander Andy Pettitte, who until he
went on the disabled list has an 11-2 record. For
an if- necessary game 4 the yanks should turn to
17-game winner Phil Hughes as the Yankees will
most likely go with a rotation of 4 pitchers.
Now as we get geared-up for the playoffs, there
are a few scenarios leading to the Yankees
potential first-round opponent. If the Yankees
win the AL East, they will draw a date with the
AL West champions, the Texas Rangers, who
swept the Yanks in a recent 3-game series in
Arlington Texas. The Rays will then win the
wild card and play the Minnesota Twins. If the
Rays win the east, the Yankees will have to play
the Minnesota Twins. The Yankees have had
recent success against previous Twins teams,
but on to reality, the Twins have a 56-25 record
at home which is the best in the American League.
So with some many questions regarding the
pitching rotation as well as the Yanks recent
hitting woes, Girardi and company have 1 week
to get his team together in preparation for the
2010 Post-Season. The season finale is this
coming weekend and maybe the whispers of
October baseball will help the Yankees into
another possible championship run to a 28thWorld Championship.
SPORTS
The Scent Of October
By Eddie Castro
As we approach the
last week of the regular
season, the Yankees
remain in a scratch and
crawl affair with the
Tampa Bay Rays for
first place in the
American League East
division. Playoff teams
are still fighting for
placement in who they
will be facing in the first round of the Divisional
Series. The Yankees and Rays have yet to make
a strong push to grab the division title as well as
home-field advantage throughout the playoffs
which is important to both teams being that the
world series will start in a National League ball
park this year. It seems like the Orioles, BlueJays
and Redsox plan to play spoiler in where they
[yanks/rays] will finish. It has been a bizarre
week as the Yankees are struggling towards the
ending of this season which creates a tough
decision on how manager Joe Girardi uses his
players. The Yankees must have a good ending
to their season and win their division to gain
confidence heading towards October.
It is more than certain that the Yankees will start
20-Game winner and CY Young candidate C.C.
Sabathia in game 1 of the divisional series. After
that Girardi has a big decision in who to pencil
in as his number 2 starter. Last year’s number 2
starter A.J. Burnett has struggled all season long
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Dr. Shadidi Beatrice Kinsey
718-789-3264
HEATING – Commercial
E.C. Mechanical & Consultant,
Air Conditioning, Heating,
Plumbing-24-Hour Service
12 Claver Place
718-857-0822
917-319-5209
HOME IMPROVEMENT,
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A.J. Archer Construction &
Management
1157 Bedford Avenue
seeuraver@earthlink,net
Vira Lynn Jones
646.338.2748
D&S Supply Expo Outlet
Bathroom Supplies
Mirrors, sinks, tiles, cabinets,
Shower heads, accessories
589 New Lots Ave./Hendrix
347-533-6777
Samantha Construction, Inc.
12 McDonough St.
Commercial-residentialIndustrialm-“A Full Service
Contracting Company”
718-789-7142 -Sam Williams/
Licensed
Stripper Stain & Supplies, Inc.
Kitchens
Tiles
Granite
Flooring
Countertops VCT
1184 Bedford Avenue
Marion Little
stripperstain@aol.com
718-399-1437
INSURANCE
William T. Taylor
Independent Insurance
Agent
Tel: 917-446-5108
Fax: 212-876-8686
e-mail:
tsurance71640@yahoo.com
IRON WORKS
Custom Metal Products
764 Madison Street
www.ironworkny.com
Mr. Irving Boyce-El
718-602-2819
MARTIAL ARTS
Chief Master Sabu’s
Humble Dojang of
Martial Arts
973 Fulton St.
718-398-7228
Children’s Self-Defense, Skills,
Safety,
MEN’S WEAR
Al’s Men’s Shop, Inc.
1140 Fulton Street
Hats & Caps, Work Clothes,
Dress Accessories
www.alsmenshopinc.com
718-622-7106
PIZZA
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brownstoner’s Cafe & Pizza
212 Patchen Ave./Macon
718-453-3360
Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner
Monday-Saturday, 10a-10p
Rocco’s Pizza
765 DeKalb Avenue
718-218-9200
Open 7 Days-Free Delivery
PLUMBING – Commercial
E.C. Mechanical & Consultant,
Inc.
Air Conditioning, Heating,
Plumbing, 24-Hour Service
12 Claver Pl.718-857-0822
917-319-5209
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Barfield Public Relations
www.barfieldny.com
212-736-0404
REAL ESTATE
AM LUXE/CORCORAN
Anthony Tmor Morris
Vice President
646-523-5711
alm@Corcoran.com
Cross Boro Realty Co.
1514 Fulton Street
Ms. Joyce P. Turner
joypturner@aol.com
718-467-1800
Stuyvesant
Heights
Brokerage
364 Stuyvesant Ave
Mr. Charles Atwell, Broker
(718) 953-3254
888-360-5757
RESTAURANTS
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Rowe’s Restaurant
310 Tompkins Avenue
718-638-3127
Caribbean, International
Clinton Hill
BUKA New York
946 Fulton St./St. James
347-763-0619
Authentic Nigerian dishes
Happy Hour: 4p-8p daily
Just Taste It
901 Fulton St.
Seafood, Burgers, Salads
718-230-TASTE
MONUMENTS
Vicksells Monuments
1556 Fulton Street
Mausoleums, Memorials
Ellen K. Smalls, Proprietor
718-221-9895
Le Grand Dakar
285 Grand Ave.
718-398-8900
www.granddakar.com
Contemporary West African
Cuisine and live music
OPTICAL
Ft. Greene
Optical Solutions
711 Fulton Street
Mon-Sat. 11am-7p
SPA
Cynergy Spa
87 Ft. Greene Place
718-403-9242
Clinton Hill
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Canine Obedience Training
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New Bed-Stuy Animal Spa
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on 08/03/06. Office location Kings County.
Secretary of State of New York designated
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may be served. SSNY shall mail process to
HM Electric, 70 Overhill Rd.
East Brunswick, NJ 08816. Purpose electrical
contracting.
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domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC),
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NY Office location: Kings. SSNY is
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served upon him/her to Matthew
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SUMMONS AND NOTICE
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK - COUNTY OF KINGS INDEX
NO. 28821/09.
NYCTL 2008-A TRUST, AND THE BANK
OF NEW YORK AS COLLATERALAGENT
AND CUSTODIAN FOR THE NYCTL 2008A TRUST, Plaintiffs –against- ALBAN A.
MILES, if living and if he/she be dead, any
and all persons unknown to plaintiffs,
claiming, or who may claim to have an
interest in, or generally or specific lien upon
the real property described in this action;
such unknown persons being herein
generally described and intended to be
included in the following designation,
namely, the wife, widow, husband, widower,
heirs at law, next of kin, distributees,
descendents, executors, administrators,
devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees,
committees, lienors, successors in interest
and assignees of such deceased, any and
all persons deriving interest in or lien upon,
I think that the community has to look for people who have
aspect of the teaching and went beyond the
the community feeling.
occurred in 1968. So we took on the UFT
and fought a lot of battles and had a strong
voice. I was also involved with Youth-InAction. I was on the first board of Bed-Stuy
Restoration.
OTP: This was based on your teaching
and work?
Vann: Based on being involved in the
African-American Teachers Association,
teaching was a base I guess and then
organizing teachers and parents was an
classroom and school and into the
community. The parents had to be orientated
and told what was going on and so that put
me out there in the community, but I still
wasn’t thinking political or making it in
elected office. It took others who had to say
“maybe you would want to consider that.”
So it was involvement in the community that
evolved to a point, as opposed to now people
saying they want to be in office for whatever
reason and some of them good and some
may not be. And then they do what they
got to do: put up some flyers and raise some
money to put it out there. And then people
or title to said real property by, through or
under them, and their respective wives,
widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law,
next of kin, distributees, descendents,
executors, administrators, devisees,
legatees, creditors, trustees, committees,
lienors, successors in interest, and assigns,
all of whom and whose names, except as
stated, are unknown to plaintiffs, and
“JOHN DOE No. 1” through “JOHN DOE
No. 100” inclusive, the names of the last
100 defendants being fictitious, the true
names of said defendants being unknown
to plaintiff, it being intended to designate
fee owners, tenants or occupants of the
liened premises and/or persons or parties
having or claiming an interest in or a lien
upon the liened premises, if the aforesaid
individual defendants are living, and if any
or all of said individual defendants be dead,
their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees,
executors, administrators, trustees,
committees, devisees, legatees, and the
assignees, lienors, creditors and successors
in interest of them, and generally all persons
having or claiming under, by, through, or
against the said defendants named as a
class, of any right, title, or interest in or lien
upon the premises described in the complaint
herein, Defendants.
PROPERTY ADDRESS: VACANT LAND,
EASTERN PARKWAY, BROOKLYN, NY.
BLOCK 1442, LOT 46. TO THE ABOVE
NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE
HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the
complaint in this action within twenty days
after the service of this summons, exclusive
of the day of service or within thirty days
after service is completed if the summons is
not personally delivered to you within the
State of New York. In case of your failure to
appear or answer, judgment will be taken
against you by default for the relief
demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF
NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF
SOUGHT.
THE OBJECT of the above entitled action
is to foreclose a tax lien for the amount due
and interest, recorded in the office of the
Register/Clerk of the County of KINGS on
the 15th day of July, 2008 and bearing County
Register File Number 2008000280709
covering premises described as follows:
ADDRESS:
VACANT
LAND,
EASTERN PARKWAY, BROOKLYN, NY.
BLOCK: 1442 LOT: 46 COUNTY: KINGS.
The relief sought in the within action is a
final judgment directing the sale of the
premises described above to satisfy the debt
secured by the tax lien described above.
Plaintiff designates KINGS County as the
place of trial. Venue is based upon the
county where the Property being foreclosed
upon is located. WE ARE ATTEMPTING
TO COLLECT A DEBT, ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated:
AUGUST 23, 2010 New York, New York.
WINDELS MARX LANE & MITTENDORF
LLP, MICHAEL H. RESNIKOFF, ESQ.
ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFFS 156 WEST
have to decide if they’re worthy or not.
I don’t expect everybody’s preparation
to be mine. But I think that the community
has to look for people who have the
community feeling. If you’re not trying to
do something for the community before you
get elected, you mean you’re going to start
trying after you get elected? There’s no
history there.
OTP: How is the community changed
when you first came into office there was a
wave African-Americans in office. How has
the community change throughout the
years?
I think you mentioned when I came in,
56TH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK
10019. PHONE: (212) 237-1102.
TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS:
The foregoing summons is served upon you
by publication pursuant to an Order of the
Court dated JUNE 8, 2010 and filed along
with the supporting papers in the KINGS
County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to
foreclose a tax lien. SCHEDULE A DESCRIPTION ALL that certain plot, piece
or parcel of land with the building and
improvements thereon erected, situate,
lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn,
City and State of New York, designated on
the tax map of the City of New York, for the
Borough of Brooklyn, as said Tax Map was
on May 27, 1981. Block 1442, Lot 46.
Reference #: 700777.231
NOTICE OF SALE
SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS.
NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE COMPANY
Plaintiff, AGAINST LYNN CATALDO, et
al. Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of
foreclosure and sale duly dated 5/11/2010,
I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public
auction at the Room 224 Kings County
Supreme Court on a Thursday afternoon at
3:00 P.M., 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY
11201 on 8/19/2010 at 3:00PM premises
known as 535 Throop Avenue Brooklyn,
New York 11221. All that certain plot piece
or parcel of land, with the buildings and
improvements thereon erected, situate,
lying and being in the New York City,
Borough of BROOKLYN, County of Kings
and State of New York Section, Block and
Lot: -1836-4 Approximate amount of
judgment $802,654.49 plus interest and
costs. Premises will be sold subject to
provisions of filed Judgment Index #37855/
04. Michael C. Forth, Referee. Steven J.
Baum PC, Attorney for Plaintiff, P.O. Box
1291, Buffalo, NY 14240-1291 Dated: 7/20/
2010
NOTICE OF SALE
SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS
EMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION
Plaintiff, AGAINST GREGORY TAYLOR, et
al. Defendant(s). Pursuant to a judgment of
foreclosure and sale duly dated 4/14/
2010,the undersigned Referee will sell at
public auction at the Room 224 of Kings
County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street,
Brooklyn, New York on 7/22/2010 at 3:00PM
premises known as 1554 EAST 45TH
STREET, BROOKLYN, New York 11234 All
that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with
the buildings and improvements thereon
erected, situate, lying and being in the New
York City Borough of BROOKLYN, County
of Kings and State of New York Section,
Block and Lot: Block 7842 Lot 41
Approximate amount of judgment
$479,010.77 plus interest and costs.
Premises will be sold subject to provisions
of filed Judgment Index #36832/07 Luther
C. Williams, Referee. Steven J. Baum PC,
Attorney for Plaintiff, P.O. Box 1291, Buffalo,
NY 14240-1291. Dated: 6/21/2010.
that really was the beginning of the political
movement. We had gone through the Black
Power Movement in the sense of Black
consciousness:
we were identifying
ourselves as African-Americans now and
Buy Black was occurring and then the next
stage of that was the quest for political
power. We didn’t have a lot of Black elected
officials and the coalition for community
empowerment. We were the group that
began to elect Blacks around the borough.
Roger Green, Clarence Norman, Thomas
Boyland, Velmanette Montgomery, so it goes
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political plight of Blacks. Political myths already
permeate the Black colony. These myths were
created by persons and organizations that benefit
from plantation politics.
The Freedom Party is mired in mud because
Students Rally
are disproportionately affected by what goes
on in the New York City public schools
because of these safety agents,” said
Councilman Daniel Dromm at the rally.
Hernandez feels that her school is
targeted because of the high population of
minority students. “It’s exactly like the
Vann
on and on from there. So it was an explosion
and it was a continuation of a movement,
not just running campaigns. That was the
generation we were a part of and from that,
because of that I was in position, when I
was in the Assembly, I chaired the Black and
Puerto Rican Caucus. Where we had an
opportunity to sue the city and the state
and able to create a lot more power seats for
our people with two congressional districts,
we increased the number of city council
districts. This is power.
We created political districts for our
people that were not there before. So all
those seats of power came about from the
movement that I and others led. And it was
not just me, Major Owens obviously played
a key role and we moved from there. So that’s
what happened. Now where are we today?
Probably a lot is taken for granted and
obviously there is not that same sense of
urgency now, people are used to having
Black elected officials. I’m not sure we were
as critical of our own elected officials as we
should be. We tend not to have, even in my
younger days the Black community never
had a way of judging and/or keeping the
elected officials accountable. I used to say
when we were up in Albany, I mean you can
do almost anything, and unless it’s a major
issue that gets a lot of coverage in the papers,
people don’t know. They could be up there
and drink wine and who would know. In our
of a flawed, structural problem. A political party
is different from a political campaign. A candidate
controls a political campaign. Blacks must control
a political party and seize the bronze; that is, the
exercise of the balance of power.
Otherwise, the Freedom Party will emulate
the Independence Party which was established
and maintained through the employment of
fraudulent methods. Party officials profit from
the cluelessness of those members at the bottom.
The Independence Party now enjoys the
balance of power in New York and its
endorsements are for sale. Most persons who
are enrolled in the Independence Party believe
that it is the political track for political
“independents”. Nothing is further from the truth.
In the meantime, the Independence Party
has no appetite for making policy. It is simply
a cash-and-carry cartel. This format is profitable
for top party officials. The Freedom Party must
avoid this format at all costs. It could happen,
however.
UAM’s mission is not only to save itself
but also to jump-start the Freedom Party.
Political planning and political forecasting are
crucial to the political success of Blacks.
Constitutional squatters are incapable of
employing either tool. The Freedom Party is on
an historic mission. It must succeed on November
2.
streets,” she said in an interview. “The cops
stop the black and Latino students because
they look suspicious or maybe they fit a
certain type … the same exact things happen
in school, the same exact stereotypes, the
same racial profiling happens.”
“Catholic schools don’t have metal
detectors, private schools don’t have a
bunch of cameras and safety agents and
they get through their tests just fine, so why
can’t we?” said Hernandez.
Many
students
share
similar
experiences of being targeted by School
Safety Officers and cite abuses of power and
harsh treatments at the hands of the officers.
“Safety agents think we are just criminals
waiting to happen,” said Desmairs.
The Student Safety Act also aims to
simplify the process to file a complaint
against a School Safety Officer. As of now,
even though the complaint process is
difficult to navigate, about 1,200 complaints
have been filed, of which 27 percent are
substantiated, according to the NYPD’s
Internal Affairs Bureau.
The NYCLU sees the bill as a first step
in creating a safer
environment in NYC schools, according
to Jones. Once there is raw data concerning
the types of students who are being
targeted, educators and advocates could
use this information to create safer
educational practices that would engage
those students who are likely to attract
police attention. The union is looking
to get the legislation passed in the City
Council by December of this year.
“The NYCLU has been working very
hard with the City Council and the
Department of Education, even with the
NYPD to pass a bill that everyone is happy
with. The DOE is concerned about student
privacy, and so are we. … Now we are
working with the NYPD to make sure their
concerns are put to rest and that we get a
bill that’s as strong as possible,” said Jones.
William McDonald, a representative
from the NAACP who spoke at the rally, said
that the organization was backing the bill.
“One thing I can tell you for a fact—We will
stop sending more students to Rikers Island
than to college,” he said.
community there was no local paper, other
than the Amsterdam, to keep us abreast of
the votes on the issues and so forth. So
there were some people, I’m not saying who,
Black or white, they would love to come up
to Albany because it takes them away from
the community and the demands and they
could just chill. They’ll tell you how to vote.
You can chill for three or four days and come
back and deal. So I think [we] the community
is responsible in the sense of not being able
to hold us accountable by knowing what it
is that we are supposed to be doing, making
sure, it’s always been a problem in the Black
community. But then again this means that
unless the elected official is self-motivated
and strongly committed, then you can be
taken off. Because there’s a lot of games
that are played in these legislative bodies.
They’re leadership-driven and there’s not
necessarily a lot of room for independent
thinking or independent action. Therefore,
you have to know who you are, you have to
be very strong and what I found however,
is that the “powers-that-be” respect
integrity. They may not have it, but they
respect it and they respect independence.
So if you’re coming from the community
and your community is indeed your priority,
then you’ll do OK – you’ll do fine. It’s when
you try and be like the others that problems
begin because you can’t have two masters.
You can’t have the community as your
master and the leadership of any House as
your master. You deal with that by being as
supportive as you can, but there are issues,
values and principles that you cannot give
to anyone and I think that makes a difference.
Next Week, Part 2
Missing Girl Safe at Home
by a Bloods gang member. The older male
manipulated her and took her money. Through a
series of events, Herbert’s family worked with
NYPD and tracked the location where his niece
was being held across the street from the Howard
Houses on Mother Gaston Blvd. Herbert said
adult males manipulate young girls into thinking
the male is her boyfriend while planning to groom
the girl in preparation to having her strip and
have sex with other males for money. Herbert got
wind that that was the plan for his niece. From
that experience, Herbert decided to challenge the
targeting of young girls by adult males and be an
advocate to stop the practice of adult males having
sex with young girls then putting them on the
streets to prostitute.
Herbert has included in his Save Our
Community Initiative an education component
which would make the community aware of how
young girls are manipulated out of their homes
via the Internet and cell phones. SOCI plans to
have sororities conduct self-esteem workshops
with young ladies so that they will not be seduced
by thug-type males they see on music videos.
Herbert’s sense of responsibility comes
from being a father: he has a 21-year-old daughter,
and 15- and 13-year-old sons. Herbert said a
campaign needs to be launched sending the
message to adult males that soliciting young girls
is not appropriate. “These guys need to
understand,” Herbert said, “how would they like
someone to do that to their young child? There
needs to be a ‘guilting’ campaign. But some of
these guys just don’t care.”
Herbert said there are a lot of pedophiles in
our community. “They are coming out of jail.
They don’t go into jail as pedophiles, but come
out that way. They were raped and sexually
assaulted in jail,” he said. “Not all, but a large
portion are violated in jail. When they come out,
they are angrier than when they went in.”
Tony Herbert assisted in the safe return
of Sahara despite experiencing a personal family
tragedy. Last week, gun violence claimed a family
member. Herbert’s 23-year-old nephew,
Lawrence Andre Sykes, was shot multiple times
Sept. 16 in broad daylight on the street in
Richmond, Virginia. He was pronounced dead at
the scene. The suspects in Sykes murder are 24year-old Rashaan Tigean Williams, who
surrendered to police, and 21-year-old Lamar
Elias Defairia.
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On Thursday, October 2
Ola, Renee
BEST SELVES
do not preclude altruism; you can galvanize
a public with grace as much as you can with
gaucheness, and in defeat there can be
victory; from victory, loss.
You can sit at the feet of Anna Jefferson
and Elsie Richardson, founders of Medgar
Evers College (see the cover) and learn more
about politics and campaigning in one hour
than in four years at Harvard.
But you, certainly need not look too far for
role models. Nor for education.
Ladies, they happen to be right by your
sides -- your dynamic and wonderful
mothers.
But while you’re rediscovering what you
probably already have been taught, here’s
some advice: Learn from yours and others’
mistakes, but don’t cast fault or aspersion;
enjoy successes, but do not think it’s all
about you. If you’ve decided to stay in the
public eye, act your best selves, but try not
to act out unless it’s for the benefit for your
family and community.
And remember, it’s just an election. You’ll
always have a chance to do it again.
-Bernice Elizabeth Green
OUR TIME PRESS
to Launch Health,
Fitness & Wellbeing
column featuring
resource information and advice from
wellness advocates
of national, regional
and local centers.
Next Week’s Focus:
Diabetes
with comments from
experts at The BedfordStuyvesant YMCA, Bedford
Stuyvesant Family Health
Center, P.E.A.C.E., Kings
County and area hospitals.
Contact:
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