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President Obama: Councilman
From Charleston Lewis:
Porches, Burke High City’s
and Claflin......... Minority
Business
Dept. “A
Fotos by Bobby Crawford
Joke!”
Councilman James Lewis
By Barney Blakeney
Charleston Mayor
Joseph Riley’s announce-
ment two weeks ago that
Jonathan R. Oakman has
been hired to fill the newly
established position of
Director of Business
Services working with the
city’s minority business
program and supporting
existing
throughout
businesses
the city
prompts renewed scrutiny
of the city’s Minority
Business
Office.
Development
Oakman takes the
position after the reorgani-
zation of the former eco-
nomic development office.
Riley recently reorganized
the department into two
divisions creating a Benny Brooks was both a gentle man a gentleman.
Division of Business
Development to be headed
by former city annexation
See pg 2
Targeting
Minority,
Failing
Schools
“Troubling”
Says
Jon Butzon
By Barney Blakeney
Though Charleston
County School District’s
administration has parred
down an initial proposal to
close some 12 predominant-
ly Black schools across the
county in an effort to save
money, it’s latest proposal
to close only five of those
schools still smacks of
inequity, some are saying.
“Whenever we talk about
closing schools, we don’t
talk about closing predom-
inantly white schools,” said
Charleston Education
Network Director Jon
Butzon. “The five schools
proposed for closure are
See pg 2
Vulgarity To
Some Could
Be
Music To
Others, Court
Says
SAN DIEGO(AP)- What’s
vulgar to some is music to
other peoples’ ears, an
appellate court has decided
in reversing the conviction
of a man found guilty of
uttering offensive word’s in
public.
“A land as diverse as ours
must expect and tolerate
an infinite variety of
expressions. What is vulgar
(Note: Photographer Bobby Crawford has cre- to one may be lyrical to
ated a portfolio of excellent pictures during another,” justices of the 4th
President Obama’s visit to Charleston and District Court of Appeals
said Wednesday in a writ-
Orangeburg and then turned them into color-
ten opinion on the case of
ful calendars. Please call Bobby at (843) 875- Gerald Callahan, arrested
3277).
See pg 2
CHARLESTON, SC -
PERMIT #415
.50
The Passing of Benny and
the Legend of the Brooks Brothers
By Barney Blakeney
On Jan. 20 as the nation
gained one great leader,
the Charleston community
lost another. Charleston
businessman Benjamin
‘Benny’ Brooks died
Tuesday at age 91 after a
long illness. Over six
decades Brooks along with
several of his brothers
became iconic figures in
Charleston’s Black busi-
ness community.
Directly impacting the
lives of hundreds through
his various business ven-
tures Brooks, the son of a
janitor, grew to become
one of Charleston’s pre-
eminent Black business-
men.
The sixth of nine children
born to John and Louisa
Jenkins Brooks Dec. 21,
1917, Benny Brooks grew
up in Cow Alley off State
Street in downtown
Charleston. He and elder
brother Henry Brooks
started in business as very
young men.
Former State Senator and
Charleston funeral home The Legendary Albert and Benny Brooks
owner Herbert Fielding
recalls as a boy riding his
bicycle to the restaurant at BENNY & ALBERT
Cumberland and State
streets owned by Henry WERE RARE HUMAN
and Benny Brooks to fetch
lunch for his father’s BEINGS
employees. This week, a man named Benjamin Brooks slipped
quietly away from us. To the non-informed, Benny was
“Benny is one of the last of
the downtown boys who simply one of those community elders who offered good
advice and a kind word. But to hundreds of others, he was
owned businesses in this
neighborhood when it was among the trailblazers who opened doors for others and
made it possible for some of the young men and women of
majority Black,” said
Fielding whose family today to have a chance at their elusive dreams of success.
owned business still is
located on Logan Street. He wore his success lightly and he was never impressed
with himself. A mild-mannered, soft-spoken man, he was
“In those days there were
quite a few Black business See pg 2
concerns in this community
as most Blacks lived below
Calhoun Street. We didn’t
know what it was to go
above Calhoun Street,”
Fielding recalled.
Among those businesses
were a masonry contractor
on Franklin Street which
performed much of the
downtown masonry appre-
ciated today, a wood yard
on Wilson Street, Rose
Tailor Shop and Honey
Boy’s Restaurant. St. Luke
AME Church now located
on Gordon Street original-
ly was located on Wilson
Street, Fielding said.
The Brooks brothers
established themselves as
business and social leaders,
“Right from the gitgo,”
said Fielding.
Starting out in the restau-
rant business in 1939, the
brothers eventually operat-
ed establishments on
Calhoun Street and later at
Morris and Felix streets.
They operated pool rooms
on Coming Street, Aiken
Street, King Street and
Morris Street. Several of
their siblings worked in the
businesses. Older brother
William owned a grocery
Benny Brooks
See pg 2
Brooks Restaurant, Motel and Real Estate office dominated Morris St.
during the struggle for civil rights in the Charleston area. It was here
where plans were made during the ‘69 Hospital Strike that closed the
city down with a curfew and the calling out of the National Guard.
2- January 28, 2009 The Chronicle

Councilman Lewis--------------------------------------
cont. from pg 1 Nursing Industry Desperate to Find New Recruits
co-ordinator Ernest Andrade and the division of business
services. By: Dinesh Ramde, AP
In a press statement Riley said Oakman would Business Writer many key nursing posi-
work with minority businesses. Charleston’s controversial tions.
Minority Business Development Office is the only one of MILWAUKEE - Please,
its kind operated by a local municipality and has encoun- please accept a high-paying Cheryl Peterson, the direc-
tered continued scrutiny since its inception. Oakman’s hir- job with us. In fact, just tor of nursing practice and
ing raises questions about the office’s past and future swing by for an interview policy for the American
accomplishments. and we'll give you a chance Nurses Association in
Councilman James Lewis, starting his 14th year to win cash and prizes. Silver Spring, Md., said
representing District 3 said the city’s Minority Business employers must raise
Development Office has accomplished nothing during his Sounds too good to be salaries and improve work-
three terms in office and calls the reorganization of the true, especially in an econ- ing conditions.
department and Oakman’s hiring “just another high paying omy riddled with job cuts
job for a white person with the city.” He said the Minority in nearly every industry. "The wages haven't kept
Business Development Office is “a joke.” But applicants for nursing up with the level of respon-
Dist. 4 Representative Robert Mitchell, like other jobs are still so scarce that sibility and accountability
council members is unfamiliar with the reorganization of recruiters have been forced nurses have," said
the economic development department, Oakman or his to get increasingly inven- Peterson, whose organiza-
responsibilities. tive. tion represents nurses'
funding and hospitals interests. Chronic under-
“I know he (Riley) brought Andrade back, but I upgrade working condi- nurses made an average of
don’t know the mayor’s agenda,” said Mitchell who has One Michigan company lit- $62,480 in 2007, ranging staffing means nurses are
tions. But as the deficit overworked, she said, and
served on council since 1997. erally rolled out a red car- eases, those retention from a mean of $78,550 in
The minority business development office has had minimal pet at a recent hiring event. California to $49,140 in as burned-out nurses leave
efforts fade and eventually the situation spirals for the
success over the years, Mitchell said. But since council Residential Home Health, the old conditions return, Iowa, according to govern-
members have had no input in the department’s reorgani- which provides in-home ment statistics. Including colleagues they leave
often driving nurses into behind.
zation or Oakman’s hiring, he can’t say if Riley’s actions nursing for seniors on other professions. overtime, usually abun-
will result in improvements to the minority business devel- Medicare, lavished regis- dantly available, the most
opment office. tered nurses and other experienced nurses can Some hospital depart-
"We recently had a hiring ments where experience is
Councilman Larry Shirley said council is being health care workers with event where, for experi- earn more than $100,000.
told the city is meeting its minority business participation free champagne and a trivia vital, such as the emer-
enced nurses to interview - gency room or intensive-
goals and he feels the minority business development office contest hosted by game- just to interview - we gave The U.S. Bureau of Labor
has done a moderate job of reaching out to the minority show veteran Chuck Statistics predicts about care unit, simply cannot
them $50 gas cards," said hire newly minted nurses.
business community. But ultimately it will be minority Woolery. Prizes included a Tom Zinda, the director of 233,000 additional jobs
business leaders who will determine how successful the one-year lease for a 2009 will open for registered So managers in those areas
recruitment at Wheaton have even fewer staffing
office can become, Shirley said. SUV, hotel stays and din- Franciscan Healthcare in nurses each year through
The nation is entering a new era led by President ners. 2016, on top of about 2.5 choices.
the Milwaukee-area city of
Barack Obama and the president’s proposed stimulus Glendale. "We really try to million existing positions.
package to cities offers local minorities an excellent oppor- "We're committed to find- But only about 200,000 Nurses qualified to teach
get as creative as we can. aspiring nurses are scarce
tunity for inclusion, Shirley added. ing ways to creatively It's a tough position to candidates passed the
Councilman Timothy Mallard, like his colleagues, engage with passive job Registered Nurse licensing chiefly because they can
fill." make at least 20 percent
is unfamiliar with Riley’s reorganization or Oakman. seekers," said David exam last year, and thou-
“We have not done a good job with economic Curtis, president of the sands of nurses leave the more working at a hospital,
Recruiters across the coun- experts said.
development in the past, business development or job cre- Madison Heights-based try have tried similar tech- profession each year.
ation,” Mallard said. With regard to the city’s minority company. niques, offering chair mas-
business development office specifically Mallard said, “In Several factors are in play: "It can be hard to turn
sages, lavish catering and down that extra money,"
this city if Joe Riley doesn’t want it, it doesn’t get done. Recruiters like Curtis may contests for flat-screen a lack of qualified instruc-
“I think the minority business development office have little choice. The tors to staff training pro- said Robert Rosseter, the
TVs, GPS devices and associate executive direc-
can be more successful, but Riley has to put more money long-standing U.S. nurse shopping sprees worth as grams, lack of funding for
into it for marketing purposes. The minority business shortage has led to chronic training programs, difficult tor of the American
much as $1,000. Association of Colleges of
development office hasn’t been promoted,” he said. understaffing that can working conditions and
threaten patient care and the need for expertise in Nursing in Washington,
Even strong salaries aren't D.C.
nurses' job satisfaction, doing the trick. Registered
Vulgarity to ------------------------------------------------ and the problem is expect-
ed to worsen. Many recruiters have
cont. from pg 1 looked for employees over-
The shortage has been seas, and about one-fourth
after he delivered a verbal operating since World War Benny and ------------------------------------------------ of the nurses who earned
lashing to a California exchange at an accident II on an eight- to 10-year cont. from pg 1 their licenses in 2007 were
Highway Patrol officer. scene. cycle, industry experts say. educated internationally,
The eight-page ruling The appellate court Each time the number of most in the Philippines and
referred to the unmention- nurses reaches a critical always ready to listen to the problem of others. It was dur- India.
included examples of lan- ing the era of strict segregation in this city that he, along
guage the court said had able name as “The low, the government adds
Callahan Epithet” through- with his late brother, Albert, owned and operated Brooks Some health organizations
once shocked people but Restaurant and Motel, which was the gathering mecca of
now is generally accepted out its opinion. go out of their way to
African-Americans where many of the strategies designed recruit as many nurses as
throughout society. to counter the racism so prevalent at the time. He gave of
“Who in that earlier gener- possible even when they're
himself because that was his way. overstaffed.
ation, can forget the shock On a personal note it was Albert and Benny
waves generated by Clark The Passing ------------ Brooks who invited, on my Navy Retirement, me and my
Gable when, as Rhett Residential Home Health,
cont. from pg 1 young family to stay in the motel and dine in the restau- the home-nursing company
Butler, he said to Scarlett, ‘ rant, and when I decided to start this newspaper with big
Frankly my dear. I don’t in Michigan, is always
dreams and no money, they arranged for the bank to access looking to hire, Curtis
give a damn,” the justices store, still in business, at Line and Percy streets. the funds I needed. That will stay with me forever.
said, quoting from the Henry Brooks died in 1952 and Benny went into business said. Even with 375 clinical
It was at the motel where local and national lead- professionals on staff, his
move classic, “Gone With with younger brother Albert. During the mid-1950s the ers, denied accommodations in area high-end hotels, found
The Wind.” brothers closed the Cumberland Street restaurant and recruiters are eager to sign
comfort and soul food, including Coretta Scott-King, Rev. up as many as 50 more
Callahan was convicted by opened a grill on Morris Street. Ralph Abernathy, Daddy King, Walter Reuter, Herbert
a jury of a misdemeanor Several years later they bought three houses on nurses and therapists,
Fielding, Gussie Humes, Big John Chisolm, Arthur hence the Chuck Woolery
charge of uttering offensive Washington Street for use as rooming houses. They Christopher and many others, all legends made welcomed-
words in public that could expanded their businesses on Morris Street to include a event.
by Albert and Benny Brooks.
provoke violent reactions. motel built in 1963 at Felix and Morris streets, a new What makes this particular breed of man tick? Is it
According to court restaurant on Morris Street built in 1963, a real estate Zinda, the Milwaukee-area
the hope that he may gain something? Or, is it the hope recruiter, said creative
records, Callahan cursed a office housed in the old grill and a pool room on Morris that he may gain something? Or, is it in hope that he will
CHP during a heated Street. recruiting helps to intro-
become the knight in shining armor for someone? We duce nurses to his hospital.
Like most Black owned businesses the coming of integra- think none of these is so. We also thing that the Benny
tion ushered in an era of declining business for the broth- Besides offering intervie-
Brooks of the world are placed here by the Creator to give wees $50 gas cards, he has
ers. Albert’s death in 1993 and Benny’s failing health has- hope in a hopeless world.
tened further decline. provided $100 gift cards to
THE CHRONICLE While most folks will not know Benny Brooks or the local mall, and created
But Jean Brooks Murphy said during their years of pros- his brother, Albert, per se, there have been few to measure
perity her father and uncles created a legacy that touched a Facebook page to target
1111 King Street up to their monumental contributions to a community younger nurses.
hundreds of employees, their families and countless other both loved so much, and they deserve whatever tribute
Charleston, SC 29403 Black entrepreneurs. that can be paid. They have earned it, with love and com-
“They took care of everyone who worked for them, helping Attracting good candi-
•••• some get homes and sending others’ children to college. If
passion for others. dates is about offering
(843) 723-2785 an employee was sick they’d give the family money and in good working conditions,
So long, Brother Benny. Jim French he said, but creative
some cases they paid for burials. They gave a foot up to
Fax: (843) 577-6099 many young men going into business,” Mrs. Murphy said. recruiting goes a long way
Email: Chaschron@aol.com Fielding added, “A lot of young people probably don’t in generating a buzz.
Targeting Minority ---------------------------------------
J. JOHN FRENCH, SR. know it, but Benny and his brothers were an inspiration to
a lot of us coming up in that era.” cont. from pg 1 "Bottom line, you need to
President - Editor//Publisher get people excited about
high minority, high poverty schools. That’s always so.” He what you're offering," he
VALENTINA SMALLS said. "If you don't, they can
noted no schools in the predominantly white constituent
Operations-Business Mgr./ districts of Mt. Pleasant, James Island or West Ashley ever easily go elsewhere."
Comptroller-Advertising
SIMONA A. FRENCH
SUPPORT were targeted for closure.
That high minority/poverty schools are the target for the
administration is troubling, said Butzon, but more trou-
Receptionist- bling is his belief the current low performing and enroll-
Traffic/Photographer
Marketing
THE BLACK ment conditions existing at the schools being used to justi-
fy their closure have been created by the administration.
Tolbert Smalls, Jr. The administration developed criteria to identify schools
Contributing Writers- that could be closed such as low student performance and
Hakim Abdul-Ali PRESS enrollment. Those criteria are a history of the administra-
tion’s failure to educate all children, “But their acting like
Beverly Birch that’s not their responsibility,” Butzon said.
Bob Small “The responsibility for all that sits at 75 Calhoun St. The
way to avoid low performance is to provide schools first
DEADLINE: rate resources. When that doesn’t happen you get low per-
PUBLIC SERVICES formance and of course you’re going to lose enrollment
when schools don’t perform well,” he said.
FRIDAY PRIOR TO “Somehow we did it again. Maybe we didn’t mean to do it,
PUBlICATION DATE but we didn’t mean not to do it either. By not doing the
Member: things it takes to avoid problems, we did it again.”
Darrin Griffin who chaired the committee appointed to
National Newspaper Publishers, Assoc. develop restructuring alternatives to the initial administra-
South Carolina Press Assoc. tion proposal for Constituent Dist. 23 said he doesn’t
Amalgamated Publishers believe the administration’s proposals have anything to do
with economics. Low performing schools and students
S.C. Chamber of Commerce make the administration look bad, “I don’t believe this has
NO REFUNDS ON SUBSCRIPTIONS anything to do with money,” he said.
Published Wednesday The administration has said employees displaced by the
TRI State Printing- closures would be absorbed in other positions with the
North Charleston county. Closing the buildings but continuing to employ
the staff results in only minimal savings, Griffin said.
Credo of The Black Press Like Butzon, Griffin who has three children which attend-
The Black Press believes that
ed schools outside Dist. 23 said past policies created prob-
America can best lead the world lems for the district’s schools.
from racial and national antago- Linda Gadson, Director of Rural Missions, Inc. on Johns
nism when it accords to every Island lives in Hollywood echoed Butzon and Griffin say-
person, regardless of race, creed ing, “The proposed closing of Schroeder Middle School
or color, his or her human and saddens me, but it all reverts back to money and who gets
legal rights. Hating no person, it. It’s hard to say what those folks have planned down the
fearing no person, the Black road, but they definitely have a plan.
Press strives to help every person “It’s hard for anybody in the minority community to hold
in the firm belief that all persons onto anything now because the justification will be that
are hurt as long as anyone is there’s no money. This gives families the chance to rise up,
held back stay diligent and attend all the meetings,” she said.
The Chronicle
100 Years Later, Still An
Unfinished Journey
By. Ben Jealous
NNPA Special
Commentary
The election of President
Barack Obama reflects a
seminal transformation
within the American psy-
che. Overcoming the limi-
tations of our history
fraught with the wrenching
divisions of race, a majority
of voters embraced our
country’s promise crossing
racial, cultural and genera-
tional boundaries to set a
remarkable example for the
world.
The inauguration today is
the culmination of a long
march for justice. One hun-
dred years ago in 1909 the
NAACP was born, launch-
ing a three-decade long
struggle to finally end the
lynch mobs that killed
thousands of African-
Americans. In 1932, the
organization took up the
mantle to reverse Jim
Crow and two decades
later, segregation was
made illegal. In 1960, a sus-
tained effort for political
inclusion was initiated that
triumphed this year in the
election of an African-
American president and
the Black elected officials
since reconstruction.
Yet there is a dichotomy
between the symbol of
hope and racial progress of
President Obama’s elec-
tion and the entrenched
realties of our painful racial
legacy. While the country
has allowed individuals to
permeate the barriers of
discrimination, entire
groups of people are still
locked out of the American
dream because of race.
An unknown Barack
dressed in jeans and a T-
shirt might find it difficult
to get a cab. As a Black
man, he would be much
more likely to be subjected
to threats or use of force
than a White man were he
stopped by police accord-
ing to Bureau of Justice
Statistics. African-
Obamas Upset over Beanie Babies
Named After Their Childern
By. James Wright
Special to the NNPA from
the Afro-American
Newspapers
W A S H I N G T O N
(NNPA) - President
Barack Obama and First
Lady Michelle Obama are
not happy with new dolls
that resemble images of
their two young daughters.
Ty Inc., makers of the pop-
ular beanie baby dolls, has
created two 12-inch dolls
named ''Sweet Sasha'' and
''Marvelous Malia.'' The
Westmont, Ill.,-based com-
pany said, through spokes-
woman Tania Lundeen,
that the dolls' names were
chosen because they were
''beautiful names.''
''There's nothing on the
dolls that refers to the
Obama girls,'' Lundeen
told the Associated Press.
''It would not be fair to say
they are exact replications
of these girls. They are
not.''
The Obamas, through a
spokesman, said it would
be ''inappropriate to use
young private citizens for
marketing purposes.''
Also in the news, Mattel
Inc. announced it will
launch its first complete
line of African-American
Barbie dolls.
The line, which features
three adult dolls, was pre-
viewed one day after
America’s first African-
American president,
Barack Obama, took
office.
The “So in Style” dolls,
expected to be released in
fall 2009, come with little
sisters as part of a mentor-
ship theme.
“America doesn’t
respect anything but
money. What our peo-
ple need is a few
millionaires.”
Madame C.J. Walker
Americans are still unfairly
profiled and subjected to a
justice system that uses
mass incarceration to
address too many of our
nation’s social problems.
We have the second high-
est incarceration rate in the
world with more than two
million adults in prison.
With an estimated one in
nine African- American
men and one in 35 African-
American women likely to
be incarcerated, the
nation’s racial disparities in
the criminal justice system
are indisputable. African-
Americans, who represent
13.4 percent of the U.S.
population, are 30.5 per-
cent of all people arrested.
Our corporate board
rooms are quietly segregat-
ed. A report released last
week by the Civil Rights
Project at the University of
California at Los Angeles
reveals that Black and
Hispanics are more isolat-
ed from White students
than at any time since the
civil rights movement and
many of the schools they
attend are of dismal quali-
ty. The report attributed
the trends to a “systematic
neglect of civil rights poli-
cies.” The crushing burden
of poverty still reigns over
far too many communities
of color robbing children
of opportunity. The
African-American middle
class is stagnant at best.
Studies reveal the
entrenched realities of dis-
crimination. In one study
in Milwaukee, Wis. pairs
of Black and White college
students, using similar
resumes, applied for 350
low-skill jobs advertised in
the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel. Some of the par-
ticipants were assigned
false prison records. The
study concluded that
employers preferred
Whites with criminal
records to African-
Americans with no crimi-
nal background. Overall,
employers were three times
more likely to hire Whites.
Ben Jealous
This is the unfinished busi-
ness of our journey. The
bold dream of an America
where opportunity exists
for all and where every
American is given a chance
to reach their potential
remains elusive.
This year we need to see a
bailout of backstreet not
just Main Street and the
wealthy elite of Wall
Street. We need to move
quickly to the day when all
children go to a good
school. We need to stop
using prisons to solve
social problems that can be
better addressed through
strategies like drug reha-
bilitation and treatment for
mental illness.
The centennial of the
NAACP reflects a turning
point in our nation from
lynch mobs to electing our
first Black president. We
know there are many chal-
lenges ahead yet we have
proven time and time again
that together, in unity,
marching forward we can
create a better world. The
remarkable election of
President Barack Obama
inspired millions and it is
in that collective and
impassioned longing for
change, we shall find the
political will to complete
the journey and realize our
country’s noble promise.
Ben Jealous is president of
the NAACP.
January 28, 2009- 3
Obama Does and Doesn't Fulfill King's Dream
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson and poverty are still major
barriers for millions. And
The unchallenged article it’s not just the black poor
of faith is that the election that bear the brunt of dis-
of President Barack crimination. President
Obama fulfills Martin Bush even wondered out
Luther King Jr.’s dream loud recently why there
that the content of charac- were so few black reporters
ter should trump skin covering his press confer-
color. King uttered the ences.
words in his March on
Washington speech in Obama has publicly bris-
1963. We’ll hear that said tled at the notion that the
time and again in the civil rights movement is
march up to the King Earl Ofari Hutchinson outdated, or worse that he
national holiday January 19 Obama’s inauguration, the somehow supplants the
and Obama’s inauguration ongoing work of civil
Boston based research and
the next day. economic justice advocacy rights leaders. He has
repeatedly praised past
group, United for a Fair
Obama’s election did Economy, released its sixth civil rights leaders for their
show that millions of heroic battle against racial
annual King Day report. It
whites could strap racial found that the gaping dis- injustice.
blinders around their eyes
parities in income, wealth,
and punch the ticket for an employment, quality and King's dream of justice
African-American for the and equality a reality.
availability of housing,
world’s most powerful Obama faced that chal-
decent schools, and health
political post. King would care between blacks, lenge as a community
almost certainly glow with organizer, civil rights
minorities and whites has
approval at that. But there attorney, during his stints
grown even wider.
are a couple of troubling Countless government in the Illinois legislature
caveats that mar America’s and in the Senate. He faces
reports and studies, and
great racial leap forward. that same challenge in the
the National Urban
Obama won in large part League’s 2007 State of White House. There’s still
because he did what no much to overcome.
Black America report also
other Democratic presi-
found that discrimination
dential candidate did, and
that includes Bill Clinton.
He turned his presidential
campaign into a virtual
holy crusade by African-
Americans voters to get
him in the White House.
The staggering 96 percent
of the black vote he got
made the crucial difference
in the key Democratic pri-
maries and later in nailing
down the victory over
Republican rival John
McCain in the must win
states of Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
A mid-September 2008
survey also found that a
significant percentage of
whites who said they’d vote
for Obama also said that
blacks were more crime
prone and less industrious
than whites. There were
several ways to look at this
seeming racial paradox.
One is that these Obama
backers were so fed up
with Bush policies and a
battered economy that
Obama offered a change
and a lifeline. Another was
that he presented a race
neutral soothing departure
from the perceived race
baiting antics of Jesse
Jackson and Al Sharpton.
And yet another was that
he simply was sufficiently
racially ambiguous enough
not to pose any real racial
threat.
The reports that Obama
has received more taunts
and physical threats than
any other president-elect is
another troubling indica-
tion that an untold number
of Americans still can’t
stomach the thought of an
African-American in the
White House.
The hoisting of Obama to
a rarified political or non
racial pedestal is the exact
opposite of what King had
in mind. Nearly a half cen-
tury after King’s I Have a
Dream words the black
poor are still just as tightly
trapped in the grip of
poverty and discrimination
that King warned about.
On the eve of the King
national holiday and
4-January 28, 2009
The
Morning
After
By. James Clingman
NNPA Columnist
Blackonomics
On Wednesday, January 21, 2009, after the Inauguration,
the festivities, the parties, the formals, the “pomp and cir-
cumstance,” the tears of joy, the line dances, and the
speeches, I wonder what our next action items will be.
I wonder if we will even have an action item. I wonder if
Black folks especially will immediately get back to work on
the things that negatively affect us, and continue to move
forward on the issues by which we are positively affected.
On that morning after, I wonder if we will muster up the
same kind of energy we displayed during the run-up to
Barack Obama’s election. I wonder if we will remain excit-
ed and enthusiastic about working to “change” our eco-
nomic condition, improve the education of our children,
reduce crime in our neighborhoods, and strengthen our
overall social condition. I wonder.
After the party, will we remain focused on these and other
important issues, or will we awaken on the morning after
with a terrible hangover?
A hangover so bad that we say, “I am glad that’s over; at
least I don’t have to worry about it for another four years.”
Will we then sit back and relax in our easy chairs, thinking
we have it made now, and retire to a life of complacency?
When it comes to economic empowerment, especially, we
cannot afford to stop fighting because we have a “Black”
President. The education of our children will not improve
through some hocus-pocus sleight of hand.
The crime in our local communities will not subside as a
result of someone doing something in Washington, D.C.
The discrimination against and mistreatment of Black
people in social, economic, and political circles, on a local
level, will not magically go away because Obama is in the
White House. But you already knew that, right?
So, what now? That question has been asked thousands of
times in the past few months. What are we to do now that
we have the “First Black President”?
The first thing we had better do, and continue to do, is
pray for the brother and his family; they surely need it.
Then we must realize that with his election, the work has
only just begun. Whether you supported his candidacy or
not, you should make every effort to bring to fruition the
victories for which we have been fighting long before
Obama even thought about running for President.
Locally, of course, we must continue to fight for inclusion
and equity in development projects, i.e., contracting, con-
struction management, and ownership. We must continue
to fight for justice in our courtrooms from our judges and
prosecutors.
We must fight for real representation from our politicians
in return for our votes. We must show up at school board
meetings and fight for our children’s education – and be
participants in their education rather than mere observers.
Wouldn’t you like to see Black people expend the same
energy on the essential tasks necessary for our full libera-
tion as we have seen over the past 18 months or so?
Imagine the possibilities, as the saying goes. Picture
Black people putting our money together for a common
cause, the same way we did for Barack Obama’s campaign.
We had enough money to send to the campaign; let’s do
something similar with our money when it comes to con-
tributing to an equity or investment fund. Let’s use some
of our money to support our organizations, our institu-
tions, and our Black owned businesses.
Let’s start a “safety net” fund in our neighborhoods to help
our less fortunate brothers and sisters in their time of
need. Let’s start a Collective Banking Group in every city
and use the collective leverage that exists in our churches
to gain more benefits and equitable treatment for our
church members.
Let’s support Compro Tax this tax season, or any other
Black owned tax preparation service in our local areas.
C’mon, brothers and sisters, it’s tax preparation! Stop
buying in to the “colder ice” myth.
As I reflect on all of the money that was raised during
Obama’s campaign, some $650 million or so, and yes I
know the vast majority of it did not come from Black folks,
it is amazing that we never even blinked at such a sum.
But when it comes to our putting a little money together
to help one another, you can’t find some Black people with
a search warrant. That’s sad.
So let’s consider what took place on Tuesday, January 20,
2009, and then let’s think about the morning after. Let’s
think about the year after, the decade after.
Let’s understand that there is much work to do, work that
started before Obama, and work that did not end with his
ascension to the highest political throne in the land. After
the party, think about all the money we spent to throw the
party and to celebrate the occasion. Then, figure out what
your particular niche is and get back to work; that is, if you
took a respite from the essential work of liberation and
building a future for our children.
Some of us did not take a few months off; some of us con-
tinued to work right through the euphoria and excitement
of Obama’s election. We won’t have a hangover on the
morning after. We will get up and get right back to the
work at hand. The work of Economic empowerment, polit-
ical representation, the proper education of our youth,
criminal justice rather than injustice, and social equity for
Black people, is absolutely essential for our survival and
growth in this country.
On the morning after, and on subsequent mornings, make
a commitment with yourself and your own consciousness
to make a difference. Get busy and stay busy; we have to
do the work ourselves.
The Chronicle
We Still Have a Long Who
Way to Go Asked
By. U. S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) Me?
NNPA Special Commentary
Slightly more than 45 years after the historic March on
by Beverly Gadson-Birch
Washington, the inauguration of President Barack Obama
is a major down payment on the fulfillment of the dream
King spoke about that day. It is as though God is saying,
you may kill a few men, you may kill a few women and chil- It’s Praying Time
dren, but the dream they dreamt, the truth that they stood
for was too real, too right, too necessary, too noble to ever As we move away from the inaugural activities our
die. attention is immediately drawn to the recession that we
So we need to take a moment to thank all those who came find ourselves in. I don’t know much about the recession
before us who survived some of the greatest perils human during President Hoover’s time, but I do know I have
beings have ever faced to emerge victorious. We have to never seen anything like what is taking place with the
stop and take a moment to celebrate the wonders that economy. We realize that changes must be made but may
hands that picked cotton have manifested. not be made overnight. Our 44th President certainly has
We have come a long way, but we still have a long way to his work cut out for him. Because of the state of the econ-
go. Rosa Parks and Coretta King, Martin and Medgar omy, folks are going to want the President to wave a magic
may be gone, but we still have a work to do. Freedom is wand and undue the past eight years. It just ain’t going to
not free. Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is a series happen. After carefully assessing my finances, I am about
of actions that we must all continue to take to guarantee to lose my shirt just like the rest of you but patience is
freedom, justice, and equal opportunity in our future. going to be key. As black folks we must do what we do
Our forerunners have done their part; now it is time for best, take a little and turn it into a lot. We have got to
each of us to honor the great heritage of our community. hunker down and slow walk this recession out. Don’t y’all
We must do what they did. We must prepare ourselves go climbing up on no bridge talking about things are so
and then do what we can to help build the Beloved bad I am going to end it cause there just might not be any-
Community, an all inclusive society based on simple jus- one to get your butt down. Let’s not get dramatic. No
tice that values the dignity and the worth of every human one can doubt that as a people we are strong; and, we are
being. survivors. We are resilient and we will bounce back. So
With the election of Barack y’all just work together within your family and friend’s cir-
Obama, African-Americans cle and help each other out. And be sure to support black
have a reason to be proud. businesses. Y’all hear me!! If we are going to help our-
Too often we, as a communi- selves, we must spend our money with some of our black
ty, focus on how we have businesses.
failed. But the presidency of During the election, there was much ado about the
Barack Obama is a time for readiness of President Obama. It looks like he has gotten
us to celebrate what we have off to a good start and he is not afraid to make the tough
accomplished as a people. decisions. I truly believe this country is in good hands. I
“You who protest coura- had the opportunity to travel to the inauguration and it
geously,” said Martin was a very humbling experience to see so many folks from
Luther King Jr., “and yet all walks of life so determined to leave behind footprints in
with dignity and….love – the sands of time. After dedicating most of my life fighting
when the history books are for principles and basic rights guaranteed under the
written in future genera- Constitution of these United States, I was overwhelmed
tions, the historians will Rep.John Lewis and found myself wiping away tears that streamed down
have to pause and say, my face.
‘There lies a great people, a B lack people, who injected The day’s event finally brought closure to the many
new meaning and dignity into the very veins of civiliza- years of folks telling us what we couldn’t do or couldn’t be.
tion.’” Instead I thought about the possibilities. A new day had
It was our heritage of struggle and a lineage that pressed arrived. I thought about the article that I read in the
toward freedom that helped save America from itself and DeSable Museum in Chicago about the slave lady who
delivered us to this day. It was a people, Black people, was raffled off for ten cents a chance. I never got that
who acted on their faith and deep spiritual conviction that imagine out of my head. I thought about the slaves whose
helped transform an entire nation. lives were torn apart when their children or spouse were
In the Civil Rights Movement, we were lucky. We were sold and they never got to see them again—not ever. I
fortunate to be led by some of the greatest minds to ever thought about how white folks gathered at the end of town
set foot on American soil—A. Phillip Randolph, the dean under a big shade tree and selected a black, any black, to
of the Movement; Whitney Young, the negotiator and hang for entertainment on a Sunday afternoon. In my
diplomat; Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker mind, I kept seeing their white, smiling faces as they
Motley, masters of the legal battleground, and of course, danced around with their children by their sides. How
Martin Luther King Jr., the embodiment of the non-vio- could they have dragged children into such immoral, gut
lent call for social change. wrenching activities? As awful as all of this may seem,
But the Civil Rights Movement was not a movement of there was a redeeming value to the election. After years of
leaders. It was the maids and porters, wash women and second class citizenship, drinking out of separate water
butlers, farmers and sharecroppers, students and their par- fountains, sitting on the back of the bus, walking on sepa-
ents--it was ordinary people with extraordinary vision, they rate sides of the street and going to the back door of stores
were the marching feet who transformed this nation forev- to get served, our time has come.
er. First they prepared themselves. They studied the dis- Freedom is no longer a word to me; it’s a feeling. I
cipline and philosophy of non-violence. They attended am not naïve to think that all is well in America because it
trainings and mass meetings where they gained informa- is not. I wouldn’t throw out my dashiki and love beads yet.
tion and inspiration from leaders like Martin Luther King The January 27 issue of the Huffington Post reported that
Jr. and others. They planned their method of protest, and the number of racial and violent incidents has soared since
then they were ready to answer the call of their conscience. President Obama took office. Is anyone surprised by that
Some of us were beaten. Some of us went to jail. And revelation? President Obama has received more threats
some of us paid the ultimate price trying to register people and racial remarks than any other President in memory.
to vote. We lost Jimmie Lee Jackson, and four little girls The following are just a few twisted incidents cited by the
one Sunday morning in Birmingham, Ala. We lost Editor and Publisher’s site of threats and activities against
Medgar Evers and Lemuel Penn. We lost young Virgil President Obama:
Ware and Vernon Dahmer. And we lost our most inspired * In a Maine convenience store, an Associated Press
leader, Martin Luther King Jr. reporter saw a sign inviting customers to join a betting
Nobody knew when we were sitting down on lunch count- pool on when Obama might fall victim to an assassin. The
er stools in Birmingham and Nashville. Nobody knew sign solicited $1 entries into "The Osama Obama Shotgun
when lighted cigarettes were put out in our hair or down Pool," saying the money would go to the person picking
our backs. Nobody knew when we were arrested on the date closest to when Obama was attacked. "Let's hope
trumped up charges and taken to jail. we have a winner."
Nobody knew then that today our children and grandchil- * In Idaho, the Secret Service is investigating a "public
dren would be able to eat where they want to eat, sleep in hanging" sign erected by a man upset with the election
any hotel where they want to sleep, and ride on a bus freely outcome, the Bonner County Daily Bee reported
without fearing for their lives. Thursday. A handmade sign posted on a tree reads "FREE
And nobody knew on March 7, 1965, when a small group of PUBLIC HANGING" written in large letters beneath a
non-violent protestors made a sacred vow to walk from noose fashioned from nylon rope. The most prominent
Selma to Montgomery. Nobody knew when some of us
name on the sign is "OBAMA," according to the Bee.
were left beaten and bloody on the Edmund Pettus bridge, "That's a political statement. They can call it whatever
that today the hands that picked cotton would have picked they want, a threat or whatever," the creator of the sign,
the next President of the United States. Ken Germana, told the Bee.
* A popular white supremacist Web sites got more than
2,000 new members the day after the election, compared
Job-Killing Recession Racks Up with 91 new members on Election Day. The site, storm-
front.org, was temporarily off-line on Nov. 5 because of the
More Layoff Victims overwhelming amount of activity it received. One poster,
identified as Dalderian Germanicus, of North Las Vegas,
said, "I want the SOB laid out in a box to see how 'messi-
By JEANNINE AVERSA ahs' come to rest."
AP Economics Writer year, under some analysts' pro-
jections. * From the Orange County (Ca.) Register: "Two gang
members pleaded not guilty Thursday to hate crime and
WASHINGTON (AP) -- attempted robbery charges in connection with the beating
The recession is killing jobs at Obama called on Congress
of a black man who was trying to buy cigarettes at a
an alarming pace, with tens of Monday to speedily enact his
recovery plan, warning that Fullerton liquor store." The two men shouted racial and
thousands of new layoffs anti-Obama epithets in the attack.
announced Monday by some the nation can't afford "distrac-
tions" or "delays." * From today's New York Times: "Two white Staten
of the biggest names in Island men face hate crimes charges after they were arrest-
American business - Pfizer, ed on Friday in the beating of a black teenager on the
Caterpillar and Home Depot. With the recession expected to
drag on through much of this night that Barack Obama was elected president, the police
year, more damage will be said on Saturday. The teenager, Alie Kamara, 17, was
More pink slips, pay freezes walking home on Pine Place in the Staten Island neighbor-
and other hits are expected to inflicted on both companies
and workers. hood of Stapleton when several men hit him on the head
slam workers in the months with a baseball bat and yelled 'Obama,' said Aliya Latif,
ahead as companies desperate- the civil rights director of the Council on American-
ly look for ways to survive. The mounting toll was visible
Monday as roughly 40,000 Islamic Relations, who was in contact with Alie's family
more U.S. workers got the since the attack and spoke to his mother on Saturday after
"We're just seeing the tip of the arrests were announced."
the iceberg - the big firms," grim news.
* In Mississippi alone, the American Civil Liberties
said Rebecca Braeu, econo- Union has received more than 10 calls since the staff first
mist at John Hancock Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer
Inc., which is buying rival reported anti-Obama incidents last Friday, according to
Financial Services. "There's the Jackson (Miss.) Free Press.
certainly other firms beneath drugmaker Wyeth in a $68 bil-
lion deal, and Sprint Nextel * Parents in Rexburg, Idaho, contacted school officials
them that will lay off workers this week after they learned that 2nd and 3rd graders on a
as quickly or even quicker." Corp., the country's third-
largest wireless provider, said school bus were chanting, "Assasssinate Obama!"
they each will slash 8,000 jobs. Our children will always have to prove that they
Looking ahead, economists are just as good for the job; and that is alright just as long
predicted a net loss of at least 2 as the playing field is level. Although I would not go as
million jobs - possibly more - Home Depot Inc., the biggest
home improvement retailer in far as to say the election is a vindication of past discrimina-
this year even if President tions, it can never be; but, it has set the wheels in motion
Barack Obama's $825 billion the U.S., will get rid of 7,000
jobs, and General Motors for new relationships, new opportunities and a new
package of increased govern- America. An American colonies that once sought to break
ment spending and tax cuts is Corp. said it will cut 2,000
jobs at plants in Michigan and away from Great Britain never understood that we wanted
enacted. Last year, the econo- to break away from her. Jefferson sums it up in the
my lost a net 2.6 million jobs, Ohio because of slow sales.
Declaration of Independence that “all men are created
the most since 1945, though equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
the labor force has grown sig- "We are seeing no improve-
ment in labor market condi- inalienable rights and among these rights are life, liberty
nificantly since then. and the pursuit of happiness.” We have worked hard to get
tions," said Sal Guatieri, sen-
ior economist at BMO to this present moment. We are on the mountaintop with
The unemployment rate, now the new president but down in the valley due to the reces-
at a 16-year high of 7.2 percent, Capital Markets Economics.
"This year could be as bad as sion. Things are going to get better; so hang in there. It’s
could hit 10 percent or higher praying time.
later this year or early next last year in terms of layoffs."
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The Chronicle January 28, 2009-5

As A Bailout for Our Students

I
See It By. Julianne Malveaux
NNPA Columnist
subsidized loans.
Through federal pro-
want the Pell Grant to go
up. But young people need
grams, students pay help with their tuitions.
Hakim Abdul-Ali Why do banks and busi- between 5 and 9 percent The average student grad-
nesses get breaks when col- for government loans. uates the $20,000 in stu-
lege students do not? When their parents cannot dent loans, and the average
A Love For All Seasons While some are getting qualify for federal pro- African American student
multi-billion dollar grams, they go to private graduates with $26,000 in
Greetings of love to you on this memorable day. I can’t bailouts, the students who lenders, and pay as much as loans. Our young people
help but say that to you because you’re very fortunate to be so enthusiastically support- 15 percent for loans to are shackled before they
here to read what I just wrote, and I’m blessed to be here ed Barack Obama are cover college education. begin their lives, their loan
and to have written it. being offered scant relief Some pay for college on status dictating some
from the effects of our bro- their credit cards, paying career decisions.
It’s truly a powerfully loving, but ever so humbling, reali- ken economy. between 18 and 24 percent The Obama
ty to testify to the Creator Alone of life that this is a spe- Much attention has been for their children to go to Administration has also
cial moment in time that He (Alone) has given me and you focused on keeping people college. If we can offer cars offered a $4,000 tuition
to acknowledge that we are only here except by His per- in the middle class. What at zero percent, and give grant for students who do
mission. about those who are banks subsidized loans, Julianne Malveaux community service. That
attempting to claw their why not offer students col- grant program is also a
That’s love to the maximum of understanding and recog- way into the middle class lege loans at one percent. step in the right direction.
nition if you ask me. In fact, that sentiment should res- through education? We Rev. Jesse Jackson calls it An economic stimulus I do hope that as the regu-
onate within everyone in God Alone’s creation, and it need a broad-based stimu- the one percent solution, package that helps stu- lations for this program are
should be “A Love For All Seasons.” lus package, and college and he is right on time. dents and colleges might developed, the Obama
students need special help. One percent money for stu- suspend sanctions for Administration seeks input
Listen, that’s how I feel, in more ways than one, because Thanks to a federal govern- dents helps them with bet- those colleges with high from college presidents,
the love of God Alone is forever in my schemes of thinking. ment bailout, General ter repayment terms, and loan repayment rates until and also from students,
I’m very sensitive about loving and respecting the knowl- Motors will be offering helps their parents as well. the economy is more sta- about ways the require-
edge of God Alone’s awesomeness. It’s pristine and more. cars to the public with zero And it helps colleges main- ble. ments for service will be
It’s a solemn and unique testimony that I now give percent interest loans. tain enrollment, because Thirty years ago, students measured.
because I seem to always be in a mood to experience and Banks, too, are getting there are students who are were more likely to get
discuss my passion about God Alone’s love and mercy to dropping out of school grants than loans for col- At Bennett College, far
those who want to hear about it. I didn’t always feel that because they can’t afford to lege. Indeed the equation too many of our students
way for one nefarious reason or the other in some of my
past recollections of spiritual denials, truth and reflec-
We Must Treat pay. was that students paid for are struggling with the
tions. Obama Like He’s When college students
college with one-third
loans and two-thirds
effects of this economy.
When parents lose jobs,
It seems as though I had to be taught that there’s no one OurPresident, have federally subsidized
loans, they are required to
grants. Now the equation
has been reversed. The
students struggle to stay in
school. When parent cred-
or nothing else who or that is worthy of divine worship
and respect except the Creator Alone of everything. Some
Not Our Savior begin paying them back
within six months of grad-
Pell grant, our need-based it scores change, the ability
grant program, provides to qualify for some loans
lessons come the hard way for me, but that thought con- By: Tonyaa Weathersbee, uation. In this economy? students with $4750 a year changes, and again stu-
cept of God Alone’s Oneness occurs so often in my heart We need a reality check. As toward their costs. dents struggle to stay in
and soul until I find myself literally in love with the pure A week ago, more than long as the unemployment school. Good students,
sweetness of God Alone’s majestic aura. 1,000 people showed up in rate exceeds six percent, Bennett College costs dean’s list students, stu-
Somehow, in the winding trials of my life’s sorted learning Harlem to hear a discus- students should have eight- $22,000 for tuition room dents with stellar GPAs
episodes I find myself getting closer to the understandings sion that had previously een months to begin paying and board, so where does are beginning the spring
of God Alone’s prophets’ (May Peace and Blessings forev- been kept within the ram- back their loans. the other $17,500 come semester worried sick
er be upon them) messages about only worshipping one bunctious, fractious family Otherwise, students are from. Further, the Pell about whether they can
God and no other. As I said before, I’m a work in progress. that is black America. pressured to pay their grant is granted fully to graduate with the balances
Being the student that I am, and since God Alone is the The debate was about loans back by whatever students with the lowest they carry. The data is
Creator Alone, and nothing or no one is likened unto Him, whether the election of means necessary. Some use incomes, phasing out when compelling, but the chal-
it makes sense to worship only Him, and no created being Barack Obama was indeed credit cards, at 18 percent, parent income is about lenges that some of our
or thing. God Alone is the Creator Alone, and that’s a spir- a good thing for us. to pay loans back. Others $55,000 a year. young women face are all
itual axiom, with no denial for a sane student of spiritual On one side were people struggle and find that if the more challenging.
reality. like Charles Barron, a they do not pay their credit President Obama propos- Students need a bailout!
New York City councilman scores, or their lifetime of es raising the Pell Grant to They need one percent
Knowing this, as all the prophets and messengers of God and former Black Panther opportunities, are affected. $5350 a year. That’s help, money for loans, more time
Alone (PBUT) knew and taught in their authentic teach- who, like Obama, cut his Student credit rating is not but it isn’t enough. The to begin to repay their
ings, gives validity to the reason why declaring the political teeth in the world the only thing affected by Pell grant ought to be loans, and higher Pell
Oneness of God Alone is the standard oath of a true believ- of community organizing. failure to repay. Colleges $10,000 per year. It helps Grants. If we can find $138
er in the Creator Alone of everything. I have. Do you? He said that Obama’s can- are judged on the loan us train the next genera- billion for Bank of
All prophets and messengers of the Most High testified didacy had already been repayment rates of their tion, it helps maintain col- America, and offer car
that the Creator Alone was, is and forever will be the only paying off; that he saw it students, and accrediting lege enrollment, and while loans at zero percent, can’t
source of bearing witness to and no other. They did this in bring momentum to blacks agencies penalize colleges it is high enough to make a we provide a bailout for
and under every circumstances and situations imaginable in politics and helped pro- who have repayment rates difference, it does not fully college students?
in life’s struggles, and they did so knowing that to do so pel many of them into over 25 percent. cover the cost of education,
was, is and forever will be “A Love For All Seasons.” office. forcing students, too, to Julianne Malveaux is presi-
Some folks in living in their own states of misunderstand- On the other side were But in a rotten economy, invest in their futures. dent of Bennett College
ing worship everything under the sun it seems as I view the people like Glen Ford of it is understandable that for Women. She can be
“his-stories” of many nations and people past and present. the Black Agenda Report some students have diffi- Already Republicans are reached at presoffice@ben-
You may politely agree, or decidedly disagree, with my and a fervent Obama critic. culty repaying their loans. carping that they don’t nett.edu.
take on the worship of God Alone, but make sure that in He skewered Obama for
any case you know that I’m always talking about the choosing former
Creator Alone and not a created thing or being. Clintonites for his
That’s crucial as you catch the flow of why I must gener- Cabinet, and for his sup-
ally always give homage to God Alone when I write or tell port of the Wall Street
a story. He’s the Revealer and Knower. I can give credit to bailout.
no other source for allowing me to handle, deal with and Ford also took black peo-
experience all of the many tests that have come my way ple on for their refusal to
thus far. question Obama, saying,
I have to stay focused on God Alone, and not a “hue-man,” among other things, that
or something else that my random thoughts may conjure we are going to be in deep
up, when I respectfully address “the” Oneness of God trouble once we start imag-
Alone. Knowing Who God Alone is, and Who He is not, ining an Obama that does-
can be a very puzzling scenario for most free-minded n’t exist.
thinkers of spiritual liberality to endorse without the stig- Here’s what I say.
ma of colonial mis-education tainting their interpreta- I say Ford is dead on when
tions.. it comes to that last point.
I offer that posture with no malice towards anyone and We will be in trouble if we
without any negative offense of wanton disrespect of treat Obama like our Holy
opposing belief intended. My love is for truth in defending Savior and not our presi-
the correct worship of the prophets and messengers of dent.
God Alone(PBUT). We’ll indeed be in deep
That’s why I say that universal love that they had in wor- doo-doo if we actually
shipping only One God Alone is what they believed in believe that the only effort
deeply, taught outrightly and practiced wholeheartedly we needed to make toward
each and every second of their miraculous existences. They defining our collective des-
knew what “real” love of God’s Alone’s Oneness was about. tinies was to cast a vote for
And that “real” love was definitely “A Love For All Obama.
Seasons” as I understand the wisdom that flowed from I don’t believe black people
their illustrious characters. They knew that anytime of the are that naive.
day or year was “the” time to give “All the Praises (and To many, the Harlem
Glory) to God Alone, Who is the Creator Alone, and not debate may have been too
to any created “hue-man,” or thing. (Do You?) little too late. For months,
That makes pure sense because nothing from nothing Ford and others, including
leaves nothing, but before there was anything in created a colleague of mine, right-
existence there had to be the Creator Alone. That divine fully questioned whether
entity is the “only” One Who I’m respectfully referring to as black people were giving
my mind thinks of spiritual love to and in the highest form Obama too much of a pass
of significant recognition. during the campaign sea-
Again, for me, even in my chaotic and uncertain worlds of son.
existences, I know that my amore is “A Love For All We seemed to be the only
Seasons,” and absolutely nothing comes close to it. The group, they argued, that
love of God Alone is the stuff that makes life’s trials of the believed we had no right to
present and the unexpected dilemmas of the future seem demand anything of
like welcomed challenges, because with the love of God Obama because forcing
Alone in all seasons, those tests are mere stepping stones him to acknowledge us
to purify a true believer’s faith in the Creator Alone. would scare off white vot-
Just having that knowledge alone is enough to keep a ers; that we should accept
lonely heart satisfied and a troubled soul at ease in the heat a sly wink while other
of any of life’s unpredictable battles. Many others who groups got an enthusiastic
kept the faith the Most High Alone overcame their person- nod.
al struggles when all hell was breaking out around them, Me, I didn’t believe it was
and so can you and I. a matter of rights as much
We mustn’t forget that the Creator Alone told all of creat- as it was a matter of choice.
ed “hue-manity” that He would not have any god before Unfortunately in America,
Him. I caution you, as I caution myself and others, “Don’t since a reluctant Abraham
play with the aura of God Alone. He is but One, having no Lincoln tried to maintain
partner.” favor with slaveholders in
With all the created things and “hue-mans” in the world, border states by signing an
please, respectfully, focus on Who God Alone is and Who E m a n c i p a t i o n
He isn’t? That may mean that you have to step back for just Proclamation that freed all
a few mental “quickies” in order to process Who creates life slaves except theirs, we’ve
and death. been forced to accept
I have, and I do, and that’s why I have “A Love For All progress in little doses; to
Seasons,” and it’s only for God Alone, Who is the Creator always dwell in a place
Alone of everything and everyone, including me and you. between the lesser of the
We all need to know God Alone’s love with reference and two.
kindness towards each other. On top of that, our history
In God Alone’s cause I wish you eternal peace and respect- of always having to battle
ful happiness, and I also wish you, from the bottom of my those who would steal
heart, “A Love For All Seasons.” I really mean that, and back that progress – people
may God Alone be with you always. like John McCain and his
running mate, Sarah Palin
From January to December, always cultivate “A Love For – often forces us to think
All Seasons” in your soul. Until the next occasion, by the and politic defensively.
Most High’s permission, remember the world needs love, It shouldn’t be that way.
and that’s, “As I See It.” But it is.
6- January 28, 2009 The Chronicle

CHURCH NEWS/SOCIAL
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Invites You To COME, SHARE and FELLOWSHIP
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Reverend Leroy Fyall – Pastor WED. NITE PRAYER - 7:00 PM
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THE YOUTH DEPARTMENT OF THE
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7:00 pm at Memorial Baptist Church, located at 153 29414
Alexander St., Charleston, SC 29403 where Rev.
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The purpose of this program is to sponsor the Youth
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attend the National Convention in July 2009, which
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IS SOMEBODY & GOD
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National Black HIV/AIDS Week of 01/28/09 thru 02/03/09

Awareness Day events scheduled

COLUMBIA – Events will
be held in South Carolina
around Feb. 7 to highlight the
impact of HIV/AIDS on
African-American communi-
ties, the state Department of
Health and Environmental
Control (DHEC) announced
today.
"South Carolina continues to
have a disproportionate num-
ber of HIV/AIDS cases
among African-Americans,"
said André Rawls, Psy.D.,
who is director of DHEC’s
STD/HIV Division. "In con-
junction with our community
partners, we must continue to
increase the effectiveness of
our culturally-competent pre-
vention programs, both in our
health departments and com-
munities."
Lewis Hicks, DHEC's
STD/HIV Division, People
of Color Initiatives
Consultant, leads DHEC's
efforts in response to the dis-
proportionate impact among
African-Americans. Hicks'
activities in communities of
color include identifying effec-
tive strategies to improve
STD/HIV prevention servic-
es, and providing technical
assistance to community
es and community centers."
Various tests will be offered at
locations throughout the state,
including the traditional blood
draw method and the rapid
test, which provides prelimi-
nary results in less than an
hour.
"The theme, 'Black Life Is
Worth Saving,' emphasizes
the power in actions that
African-Americans can take.
Those actions include learning
the facts about HIV, getting
tested, knowing your HIV sta-
tus and taking steps to make a
difference in your community,"
Hicks said. "People can pro-
tect their health and the health
of their loved ones by knowing
their own HIV status."
According to DHEC statis-
tics:
· African-Americans for repre-
sent 30 percent of the state's
population, yet account for 73
percent of the recently diag-
nosed HIV/AIDS cases in
South Carolina.
· African-Americans have
been hardest hit by the epi-
demic. Seven of every 10 men
and nearly eight of every 10
women recently diagnosed are
African-American.

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Requests Flood in for Woman, 68, Escapes Oncoming

Franklin's Custom Hat Subway Train in D.C. HEYWARD'S DEVELOPERS LLC

By: Corey Williams, Associated Press
DETROIT - The calls began to flood Luke Song's hat
shop not long after Aretha Franklin finished belting out
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at President Barack Obama's
inauguration.
Franklin, who wore a gray felt custom-designed hat from
Mr. Song Millinery, has inadvertently caused an economic
boom for the South Korean immigrant's store.
Aretha Franklin
Song said he wasn't prepared for the hundreds of calls
requesting the hat with a Swarovski rhinestone-bordered
bow.
By: Ben Greene, Associated Press 3166 SANDERS RD.
CHARLESTON, SC. 29414
WASHINGTON - A 68-year-old woman who fell onto
subway tracks in Washington on Tuesday narrowly
escaped an oncoming train by squeezing into a small space
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get a lift onto the platform, but there wasn't enough time. JOEVA COVE LOCATED OFF BEES FERRY
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"We even have a lot of men calling to get it for their wives,
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shop and said 'I want that
bow (put) on that hat,'" he
said. "She had the coat
already, but she needed the
hat to set it off."

New Service
Helps Black
Entrepreneurs
Obtain
Business
Credit
Columbus, OH - There are
a record number of new
Black-owned businesses
being formed every year.
Unfortunately, very few of
them have access to busi-
ness credit. Many of them
run on low cash flows, and
as a result - most are
expected to fail within the
first 5 years.

Choice Credit Group, a

Black-owned firm in the
Detroit area, has recently
launched a service specifi-
cally designed to help
African Americans obtain
what is needed to get busi-
ness loans, business credit
cards, and a business line
of credit.

The service is available to

existing small business
owners including CEOs,
home business owners, net-
work marketers, and more.
The service is not available
to individuals who are run-
ning a non-profit organiza-
tion, or who have not start-
ed a business yet.

For more details, existing

business owners should
visit:
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t.com
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STATE OF SOUTH
CAROLINA COUNTY OF
CHARLESTON
IN THE COURT OF
COMMON PLEAS FOR
THE NINTH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT
CASE NO:
2008-CP-10-7395
Michael R. Nelson,
Christopher Nelson,
Trantor Corporation, and
John Doe or Mary Doe, fic-
titious names to designate
minors, infants, persons of
unsound mind, under dis-
ability or incompetent, per-
sons imprisoned, or per-
sons in the Military Service
within the meaning of the
Title 50, United States
Code, commonly referred
to as The Soldiers and
Sailors Civil Service Act of
1940, if any, and Richard
Roe and Sarah Roe, ficti-
tious names to designate
the unknown heirs,
devisees, distributees,
issue, executors, adminis-
trators, successors or
assigns of Michael R.
Nelson and Christopher
Nelson, also all other
unknown persons claiming
any, title, estate or lien
upon the real estate which
is the subject of this action,
Defendants.
SUMMONS
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answer the Complaint in
this action, a copy of which
is herewith served upon
you, and to serve a copy of
your Answer upon the sub-
scribers at their office
located at 575 King Street,
Suite B, Charleston, South
Carolina 29403 within thir-
ty (30) days after the serv-
ice hereof, exclusive of the
day of such service; and if
you fail to answer the
Complaint within the time
aforesaid, judgement by
default will be rendered
against you for the relief
demanded in the
Complaint.
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LLC
Samuel H. Altman
575 King Street, Suite B
Post Office Box 600
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Tenn., and Orlando, Fla.,
among other cities.
Selection Criteria: Solicitation Number: 09-P001B
The American Podiatric
A Selection Committee will evaluate the infor- Medical Association esti-
mation submitted and will select three finalists for The City of Charleston is accepting Request for Proposals mates more than 75 percent
interviews. The following criteria will be used to for the Janitorial Services. The City will receive proposals of Americans have foot
evaluate each artist: until February 25, 2009 @ 11:00 a.m. at 288 Meeting pain, with infections four
Street, Suite 310 Charleston, SC 29401. times more frequent in
Past performance homeless people.
Ability of artist The solicitation will be available upon request and may be "It's much more than cos-
Related experience on similar projects metic. These are really
obtained by submitting a written request to: Robin D. functional problems," said
Creativity and insight related to project Barrett, CPPB by fax (843-720-3872) or mailing to the
Demonstrated ability to meet time and budget Gaeta, who has seen every-
above address. You may also obtain a copy of the solici- thing from fungal infec-
Location of artist
tation by going to our website: www.charlestoncity.info tions to maggot infesta-
Finalists will be selected and provided with and then enter the Bidline page. tion. Foot problems often
an allowance of $500 each to be used to further exacerbate other health
develop the sculpture proposal. Interviews with issues in the homeless.
each finalist and a review of the developed proposal
are anticipated to occur in February 2009.
CHARLESTON COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS "Even a simple callus or
PUBLIC HEARINGS blister in a diabetic patient
Resume and Submittal Deadline Date: is likely to become infected
The following cases will be heard by the Charleston County and can result in necrosis,
Resume and submittals are due at the address
shown below by 2:00pm on February 27, 2009.
Board of Zoning Appeals at their regularly scheduled meet- and result in the need for
ing on Monday, February 2, 2009 at 5:30 p.m. in Council amputation," she says.
Electronic submittals are accepted.
Chambers, 2nd Floor, Room B249, Lonnie Hamilton III, Burly but gentle, Book
Number of Copies: 7 copies
Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North massages Pamela Parks'
Charleston, SC. This hearing is open to the public. Inquiries feet on a recent Monday.
To request an information packet detailing
should be directed to the Planning Department (843-202- He doesn't push religion.
the site constraints for the sculpture, please con-
7200) referencing the case number. If visitors take an interest -
tact: commenting on a painting
CASE#: 2066-V (BZAV-12-08-2033) Variance request for of Jesus washing feet, for
Dustin Clemens, Senior Construction Project
the reduction of the required 35’ OCRM Critical Line set- instance - he may talk
back by approximately 5’-6” to 29’-6” for a deck addition and about his faith. And he
Manager
City of Charleston, Dept. of Parks
an additional 4’ for stairs on property located at 829 Colony always says a silent prayer
Dr, St. Andrews (TMS# 418-15-00-012) over the feet, for their own-
823 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29403 ers.
CASE#: BZAV-12-08-2316 Special Exception request for
Phone (843) 724-7322
Email: clemensd@ci.charleston.sc.us
the establishment of a secondary school in a Single Family "Usually, the last thing I
Residential 4 District (R-4) Zoning District on property locat- include is that they find
* We follow SC Office of State Engineer fee guide-
ed at 1389 Brownswood Road, Johns Island (TMS# 279- their way to Christ," he
lines*
00-00-069 & 279-00-00-070) says.
The Chronicle
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
NOTICE OF DEFAULT
AND INTENT TO SELL
COUNTY OF CHARLESTON
TO: BRIAN L. LYONS
AND REBECCA L. LYONS –
POST OFFICE BOX 683
ISLE OF PALMS, SOUTH
CAROLINA 29451
The undersigned as
Trustee for the Non-Judicial
Lien Foreclosure of timeshare
estates in Sea Cabin on the
Ocean, III and the Counsel of
Time Sharing Interest Owners
of apartments of Sea Cabin
on the Ocean, III, have previ-
ously filed a Notice of Lien for
unpaid assessments on use
period 13, Apartment 234, of
Sea Cabin on the Ocean, III.
This lien was dated February
15, 2008, and recorded in the
Charleston County Register
of Deeds Office in Book L-653
at Page 658.
You are currently in default of
the provisions of the original
timeshare instrument and all
amendments thereto, by fail-
ing to pay the assessments
due on your timeshare inter-
est. The amount needed to
cure your default is $330.00
plus all interest, attorney fees
and costs incurred by the
Regime.
South Carolina Code
of Laws §27-32-325, as
amended.
“If you fail to cure the
default or take other appropri-
ate action with regard to this
matter within thirty calendar
days after the date of this
notice, you will risk losing
your interest in this timeshare
estate through a non-judicial
foreclosure procedure.
However, under the non-judi-
cial procedure, you will not be
subject to a deficiency judg-
ment or personal liability for
the lien being foreclosed even
if the sale of your timeshare
estate resulting from the non-
judicial foreclosure is insuffi-
cient to satisfy the amount of
the lien being foreclosed. You
may object to the sale of your
timeshare estate through the
non-judicial foreclosure pro-
cedure and require foreclo-
sure of your timeshare inter-
est to proceed through the
judicial process. An objection
must be made in writing and
received by the trustee before
the end of the thirty-day time
period. You must state the
reason for your objection and
include your address on the
written objection. In a judicial
foreclosure proceeding that
results from your objection,
you may be subject to a defi-
ciency judgment and personal
liability for the lien being fore-
closed if the sale of your time-
share state resulting from the
judicial foreclosure is insuffi-
cient to satisfy the amount of
the lien being foreclosed.
Furthermore, you also may be
subject to a personal money
judgment for the costs and
attorney’s fees incurred by the
lien holder in the judicial fore-
closure proceeding if the
court finds that there is a com-
plete absence of a justifiable
issue of either law or fact
raised by your objections or
defenses. You have the right
to cure your default at any
time before the sale of your
timeshare estate by payment
of all past due loan payments
or assessments, accrued
interest, late fees, taxes, and
all fees and costs incurred by
the lien holder and trustee,
including attorney’s fees and
costs, in connection with the
default”.
CHRIS J. LOUDEN
as Trustee for Sea Cabin on
the Ocean, III, A Horizontal
Property Regime
October 8, 2008
Moncks Corner, South
Carolina
Out of their own
mouthes shall the
murderers be
condemned
--Ida B. Wells, The Red
Recoord , 1895
January 28, 2009- 9
Classifieds
You'll do more than shout patient has a history of dia-
Gout Will when you experience the
pain in a swollen, large red
toe resting outside of the betes, hypertension., or has
often reveals deposits of
uric acid crystals along the
pain from gout, in other covers. Often, the patient a history of chronic kidney
Make You words, you will "go-out" of will tell me that they have disease. Who also may be
border of the ears. This
deposit also causes disfigu-
your mind. tried everything to get rid taking a water pill such as a ration of hands, toes,
Shout! of the pain to no avail. thiazide diuretic. The diag- ankles, wrists and knees.
I don't know how many They have taken aspirin nosis of gout becomes
times I have gone on a and other pain killing more evident. Certainly a If a blood sample is taken
By Gerald W. Deas, M.D. house call when I have drugs and have only experi- family history of gout also during the acute stage of
found a patient looking like enced upset stomachs is a red light of suspicion. the gouty attack, it may be
death warmed over due to without relief. Oh. By the A heavy diet of red meat found to be normal. This
way, a lot of these over the and other organ meats is should not rule out gout.
counter pain killing drugs another signal of this diag- The optimal time for tak-
ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES can cause ulceration of the nosis. A history of exces- ing a uric acid level is "two
All persons having claims against the following estates stomach leading to bleed- sive alcohol use may also weeks after a flare up is
are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal ing. If, by chance, you be the cause of gout and resolved."
Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on notice your stools becom- lead to an acute attack.
Form #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston ing black, this is evidence
County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expi- There are several drugs
of internal bleeding in the Gout is caused by an that can be prescribed to
ration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this increase of uric acid which
Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are stomach. prevent the buildup of uric
forever barred. finds its way into joints acid. However, a diet low
To me, when I see this causing inflammation, in red and organ meats
Estate of: KING DAVID GRAHAM painful joint that has not swelling and oh lord, the such as liver, kidney, etc.
2008-ES-10-1456 responded to any therapy, pain. It appears that men may prevent symptoms.
DOD: 08/30/08 most likely, the diagnosis is suffer more from this con-
Pers. Rep: EDNA K. GRAHAM gouty arthritis. I am fur- dition than women. Upon viewing the large,
2144 MIDLAND PARK RD., NORTH ther convinced when the Examination of the patient painful joint and the mask
CHARLESTON, SC 29406
Atty: EDUARDO K. CURRY, ESQ. of pain on a patients face, I
PO BOX 42270, NORTH CHARLESTON, SC know that they need relief
29423 immediately. I usually will
************************************************************************** ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES prescribe the following: A
Estate of: MARY LEE SMALLS All persons having claims against the following estates drug that I find most useful
2008-ES-10-1806 are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal is colchicine. This drug is
DOD: 11/14/08 Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on
Form #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston derived from a plant and
Pers. Rep: MAE FRANCES MIDDLETON
County, 84 Broad St., 3rd Floor, Charleston, SC 29401, before the has been used for years. I
2946 LIMESTONE BLVD., CHARLESTON, SC
29414 expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this usually recommend that
Atty: GEORGE E. COUNTS, ESQ. Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are the patient take one tablet
27 GAMECOCK AVE., STE. 200, forever barred. every hour for five doses. If
CHARLESTON, SC 29407 nausea or diarrhea occurs,
Estate of: ANDREW GATES CREAMER stop the medication. This
2009-ES-10-0003 allows the level of this drug
DOD: 11/08/08 to reach therapeutic relief.
Pers. Rep: JAMES A. GRIMSLEY, III
ADVERTISEMENT FOR A
PO BOX 2055, BEAUFORT, SC 29901-2055 The patient is then advised
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
************************************************************************** to take this medication
Estate of: ALFRED H. WILLIAMS twice daily until symptoms
2009-ES-10-0014 have subsided. Often, dur-
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR A NEW DOD: 05/02/07 ing an acute attack, a
PORTABLE CONCESSION TRAILER Pers. Rep: GLORIA W. HAUGHTON steroid such as prednisone
RFP#09-01-OPS, BY THE 1582 WESTWOOD DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29412 may be prescribed in order
CHARLEStON COUNTY PARK ************************************************************************** to reduce the inflamma-
AND RECREATION COMMISSION tion.
861 RIVERLAND DRIVE
ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 29412
All persons having claims against the following estates The shout from gout can
become a lullaby if treated
are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal
Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on aggressively. By all means,
January 2009 Form #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston consult with your physician
County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expi- if you are experiencing this
ration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this type of joint pain and over
Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are the counter medications
(PRC) requesting proposals from qualified Vendors for the forever barred. will not give relief.
purchase and delivery of a New Portable Concession
Trailer for use by CCPRC at the James Island County Estate of: CELIA FORD GADSDEN
Park, 871 Riverland Drive, Charleston, SC 2008-ES-10-1731
DOD: 07/13/08 REQUESTS FOR
Pers. Rep. RUEBEN M. GADSDEN, JR.
To receive a copy of the Request for Proposal, contact Mr. 759 BEAR SWAMP RD., PROPOSALS FOR
Justin Leyh, Operations Project Coordinator, 843-762-
JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455 LAWN AND GROUNDS
8025, Charleston County Park and Recreation Atty: THOMAS P. MORRISON, ESQ. MAINTENANCE 2009
Commission, 861 Riverland Drive, Charleston, SC 29412. PO BOX 1056, CHARLESTON,
Proposals should be submitted no later than 2:00PM on SC 29402
Thursday, March 5, 2009 as outlined in the Request for ************************************************************************** The Housing Authority
Proposal. of the City of Charleston
550 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29403
By: CHARLESTON COUNTY GRANTS ADMINISTRATION The Housing Authority of the
Mr. Tom O’Rourke, Executive Director
DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION City of Charleston (CHA) will
CHARLESTON COUNTY PARK AND receive Proposals for Lawn
RECREATION COMMISSION and Grounds Maintenance for
STATEMENT OF FINDING AND PUBLIC EXPLANATION
three separate divisions con-
Evidence of Compliance with Executive Orders sisting of multiple locations in
11988 and 11990
IDC 0900 City of Charleston each division. Each division
Invitation for Professional Services Floodplain Management and Wetland Protection contract will be awarded sepa-
8-Step Process rately. Proposals will be
Project: IDC 0900, Multidiscipline engineering services accepted until 2:00 p.m. local
Charleston County Grants Administration Department has time on February 12, 2009 at
Public Notice of Meeting will be posted at: Front lobby, 823
analyzed the project identified below as required by The Housing Authority of the
Meeting Street, Charleston SC City of Charleston, 550
Presidential Directive EO 11988 and determined that
Meeting Street, Room 114,
Proposed Form of Contract: City of Charleston’s Indefinite assistance should be granted therein:
Charleston South Carolina
Delivery Contract - Large
29406.
PROPOSED PROJECT
Description of Project: Provide engineering design servic- Construction of freestanding Bathroom Facility
es for the City of Charleston Capital Projects Division on Proposal packages may be
an as-needed basis. Projects may include new construc- obtained after 2:00 p.m. on
tion, repairs & systems replacement. The contract period PROPOSED LOCATION Monday, January 26, 2009 at
shall not exceed two years. The maximum fee for the IDC Ravenel Railroad Depot Museum the CHA Purchasing Office,
shall be $300,000, with a maximum fee of $100,000 for 550 Meeting Street Room 114,
Corner Highway 165 and Martin Street, Ravenel, SC 29470
each delivery order. TMS# 187-00-00-100 Charleston, SC 29403.
Contact W. Keith Brown at
Anticipated Construction Cost Range: $5,000 - $1,000,000 (843) 720-5345.
per project. Since a portion of Ravenel Railroad Depot Museum is
located in wetlands as established by the Federal This contract is federally
Description of Professional Services Anticipated for Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the County of assisted; therefore, contracts
Project: Charleston is required by EO 11988 to deny assistance to
Civil Engineering, landscape architecture, surveying, struc- for work under this bid will obli-
tural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing. Firms must this project unless there are no practicable alternatives. An gate the contractor and sub-
offer a minimum of civil, surveying and landscape architec- analysis by Charleston County Grants Administration contractors not to discriminate
ture services in-house, but may utilize sub-consultants for in employment practices as
Community Development Division revealed that there are
others. M/WBE firms are encouraged to apply. no practical alternatives. The basis for this determination mandated by the Davis-Bacon
Act and Section 3 of the
is as follows:
Resumes: Housing and Urban
Current Federal Standard Forms 254 and 255 are to be Development Act of 1968.
submitted. If consultants are to be used, they must be 1. It is not possible to carry out the objectives of the CDBG Minority and women owned
included in a single Form 255 for the proposed team. and HOME Investment Partnership Act Programs to devel- business are encouraged to
op affordable housings and participate in the growth plan
respond.
Selection Criteria: of the community without participating in projects in the
A Selection Committee will evaluate the information sub-
mitted and will select three finalists for interviews. The fol- base Floodplain; The Housing Authority
2. The projects meet local planning and zoning require- reserves the right to wave
lowing criteria will be used to evaluate each firm:
Past performance ments; irregularities and to reject any
Ability of professional personnel and all proposals.
3. The proposed construction will not displace or redirect
Related experience on similar projects waters to seriously affect other areas;
Demonstrated ability to meet time and budget
Location of firm 4. Construction will meet the Wetland Resource
"It is a peculiar sensation,
Management Plan prepared by the community as a condi- this double-consciousness,
tion of their participation in the National Flood Insurance this sense of always look-
Resume Deadline Date: 4:00 PM, January 30, 2009. Program; ing at one's self through
the eyes of others. . . .
Number of Copies: Seven
Any comments received as a result of the Early Public One ever feels his
Name of Project Manager: Notice for this project on December 12, 2008 were consid- twoness,an American, a
Dustin Clemens, ASLA ered in the analysis which can be reviewed at the Negro; two souls, two
City of Charleston thoughts, two unreconciled
Charleston County Community Development Office, 4045 strivings; two warrings
Department of Parks Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina
823 Meeting Street ideals in one dark body,
Charleston, SC 29403 29405. whose dogged strength
Tel: (843) 724-7322 alone keeps it from being
Fax: (843) 724-7300 Public comments on this statement will be received and torn asunder."
E-mail: clemensd@ci.charleston.sc.us considered for a period of 15 days from today’s publication
of January 21, 2009. Comments will be received at the -- W.E.B. Du Bois
* We follow SC Office of State Engineer fee guidelines* (1868-1963)
address above. The proposed projects will not be imple-
10-January 28, 2009 The Chronicle

New Website Tracks Minority Students Earning Eegrees from

Middle Passage Routes Online School in Record Numbers
Slave ships that carried ancestors
from Africa can now be traced By Gleen Townes,
Amsterdam News
A newly-launched free Internet database gives African-
Americans the opportunity for the first time to explore A study released last
month shows that African
their African heritage the way whites have long been able
to chart their migration from Europe. American and Hispanic
students are earning more
undergraduate degrees
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is
the result of 40 years of research by hundreds of scholars. from the online school the
University of Phoenix than
It allows African-Americans to trace the routes of slave
ships that transported 12.5 million of their ancestors from any other college or univer-
Africa as early as the 16th Century. sity in the country.
Two years ago, Emory University researchers, funded CIS Program
Seeks to Resolve
the
Digital Divide
Between African-
American Women
with New Grant
The comprehensive study
was released in December
by the Virginia-based pub-
lication Diverse Issues in
Higher Education. Among
other things, the magazine
tracks various trends in
education and how some of
those trends affect African-
American students.
“The University of Phoenix
has made higher education
accessible to all walks of
live, including minority,
first generation, underrep-
resented, rural and other
at-risk students,” said John
Arnold, chairman of the
League of United Latin
American Citizen’s
Education Commission, a
strategic partner of the
University of Phoenix.
A group calling itself the
Forum for Education and
Democracy, in
Washington, D.C., is
using one of the many
mantras of the Obama cam-
paign of “Yes We Can,” in
sparking much needed
change in public schools
across the country.
“Our goal is to build on the
hopefulness of the Obama
campaign [and] address the
shared anxiety about our
uncertain future,” said Sam
Chaltain, national director
of the organization. “[We
must] channel both sets of
feelings into actions that
will help support our
nation’s schools.”
A short film on the popular
internet video website You
Tube entitled “Yes We
Can” has been viewed more
than 15 million times and
encourages viewers to sign
a petition to work with
President-elect Obama to
honor commitments to
improve public education.
To view the complete
results of the Diverse
Issues in Higher
Education report, about
the record number of
minorities earning under-
graduate degrees from the
University of Phoenix, log
onto http:// www.news-
come/cgibin/prnh or visit
the University of Phoenix
website at
http://www.upxnews-
room.com.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. –
The Florida
University
A&M
(FAMU)
According to a press
release on the University of CHARLESTON A
Phoenix website, African-
Computer Information
Sciences (CIS) Program,
American, Hispanic and
Native-American students
WINNER, AGAIN!
housed in the College of earned more undergradu-
Arts and Sciences, is the The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
ate degrees in business and
recipient of a National finance, management, mar- Development today published Grant Awards for its
Science Foundation (NSF) keting sciences and health- Family Self Sufficiency program.
grant valued at $552,000 care, and various other The Charleston Housing Authority was awarded
by the National Endowment for the Humanities, began dedicated to recruiting related support services $87,729.00. This award will permit the Authority to con-
compiling maps, images and other records of about 35,000 minority women to com- than any other college in tinue to provide valuable case management services to
slave-trade voyages from Africa to North America, Brazil, puter science and informa- the country. Results for the sixty-four families currently enrolled.
the Caribbean and Europe, according to the Chicago tion technology disci- Asian-American students Each of these families has voluntarily agreed to a
Tribune. It is the first time such a large amount of data on plines. were the same.
the subject has been available to the public. workout plan whereby they will improve their education,
“The numbers are stagger- “These rankings are partic- job skills, etc. and move toward an ultimate goal of living
"Everybody wants to know where they came from, and ing,” said Jason T. Black, ularly important, given the independent of any government assistance.
for people from Europe, it has been possible for several Ph. D., assistant professor current economic down- Our FSS Program currently has 64 participating
centuries now to trace migrant communities," said David in CIS. “The latest data turn,” said Bill Pepicello, families who have voluntarily enrolled and who have
Eltis, a history professor at Emory and a director of the shows that out of all U.S. president of the University established individual goals ranging from working
project. "Now it is possible to do the same for people of entering freshmen declar- of Phoenix. “They demon- towards earning a GED, all the way to becoming a home-
African descent." ing a major in computer strate [that the] University owner. Each family is afforded 5 years to complete their
science, African-American of Phoenix is structured to designated goal(s), with the possibility of a 2 year exten-
"The records for people of Africa and the Americas are women made up only 3.3 confront market forces
better than the records of connections between Europe nimbly [and is] attuned to
sion being granted upon request.
percent. The fact is that The Homeownership Program, as an alternative to the
and the Americas for the simple reason that slaves were women are not choosing the current job market
property," he said. "No one cared what happened to free
technology, and this is a with our focus on fast- conventional Housing Choice Voucher Program which
migrants. They did care what happened to slaves, because
dangerous predicament. growing occupational provides rental assistance, instead provides assistance to
they were making money from them." areas.” participating families interested in purchasing their
When you couple that with
the fact that it is estimated home. Our Homeownership Program currently has 8
While the database can establish the regions slave In a related issue, less than participants. In additional to providing the ongoing
ships launched from in Africa and where they arrived in the that 75 percent of all jobs
by the year 2020 will two weeks before the inau- financial assistance, we also provide post-homeowner-
United States, it generally is impossible to determine guration of Barack Obama
which ancestors were on board, researchers said, because require a technology back-
as the nation’s 44th presi-
ship counseling to each of them.
the records have African names that were changed when ground, it becomes a crisis dent, a national education- Our homeownership participants are actively
the slaves arrived in North America. call.” al think tank has launched involved in helping the FSS participants accomplish
a web based marketing their goals. They enthusiastically attend FSS meetings
"The data certainly is not going to be helpful in trac- The program, entitled campaign advocating and encourage participants to work on such things as
ing individual ancestors. You can't say your ancestor came African-American Women change in public educa- credit repair and debt management so that they can
on this vessel, except in a tiny handful of cases," Eltis said. in Computer Science, tion.
(AAWCS), is a four-year improve their chances for homeownership.
"What it can do is provide context. The big advantage is
that it establishes connections between parts of Africa and program that provides
parts of the Americas." scholarships and other
assistance to women who
Since 2003, a Washington, D.C., company called express a financial need
African Ancestry Inc. has offered mail-order DNA tests and an interest in computer
for $349. In recent years, other DNA research projects science or information
have been developed, attracting such celebrity clients as technology.
Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee and civil rights icon Andrew
Young. AAWCS, created by
Black, also the principal
The problem with DNA testing, according to investigator for the pro-
researchers, is that insufficient samples of DNA have been gram, and Edward L.
collected from Africa, making it difficult to provide match- Jones, Ph. D., chair of the
es from many parts of the continent. The Voyages database CIS program, will directly
will help reinforce DNA data, researchers said. address the dismal number
of minority women, partic-
"People may not be able to trace their particular ances- ularly African-American
tor, but it is the most complete accounting of individual women that pursue
lives, individual ships, individual journeys to date," said degrees in computer sci-
Leslie Harris, an Emory genealogist and author of "In the
Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, ence or information tech-
1626-1863." nology.

The database, which is expected to become a class- Women who apply to

room tool, contains the records of 10.5 million slaves, more AAWCS will be accepted
than 85 percent of the slave trade. It identifies more than based on financial need,
67,000 of them by their African name, age, sex, origin and and will be awarded a
place of embarkation. scholarship of between
$3,000 and $5,000 per
Though many Americans view slavery as a U.S. phe- semester. In addition to
nomenon, the United States represented only 4 percent of the funding, the women
the slave trade, far behind Brazil, the leader, which will participate in CIS
imported about 45 percent of the slaves, Eltis said. departmental clubs and
organizations, such as the
Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) Club,
Six-Year-Old Takes Family the National Society of
Black Engineers (NSBE),
and the CIS Mentoring
Car After Missing Bus Organization (CISMO).
AAWCS scholars will also
be involved in other
By: Associated Press STEM programs, such as
the Florida/Georgia Louis
WICOMICO CHURCH, Va. - A six-year-old Virginia Stokes Alliance for
boy who missed his bus tried to drive to school in his fam- Minority Participation
ily's sedan - and crashed. His parents were charged with (FGLSAMP) scholarship
child endangerment. program, and the Students
State police said the boy suffered only minor injuries and and Technology in
authorities drove him to school after he was evaluated at a Academia, Research and
local hospital for a bump on his head. He arrived shortly Service (STARS) Alliance,
after lunch, Sgt. Tom Cunningham said. both NSF-funded pro-
It happened around 7:40 a.m. Monday on Route 360, grams.
about 61 miles east of Richmond.
The boy, whose name wasn't released, missed the bus, An added benefit to the
took the keys to his family's 2005 Ford Taurus and drove students is the conference
nearly six miles toward school while his mother was participation, where select-
asleep, police said. ed AAWCS scholars will
He made at least two 90-degree turns, passed several cars be chosen to attend two
and ran off the rural two-lane road several times before hit- national conferences, paid
ting an embankment and utility pole about a mile and a for by the grant, each year,
half from school.
The boy told police he learned to drive playing Grand such as the Grace Hopper
Theft Auto and Monster Truck Jam video games. Celebration of Women in
"He was very intent on getting to school," said Computing and the
Northumberland County Sheriff Chuck Wilkins. "When National Conference of
he got out of the car, he started walking to school. He did Women in Information
not want to miss breakfast and PE." Technology (NCWIT).
His parents, Jacqulyn Deana Waltman, 26, and David
Eugene Dodson, 40, are each charged with child endan- The AAWCS program
germent, Wilkins said. Waltman is being held without begins operation on July 1
bond. Dodson was released on a $5,000 bond. and will run until June 30,
It was not clear if they had attorneys. 2012. Applications for the
The boy and his four-year-old brother were placed in pro- program can be requested
tective custody. by contacting Black at
"This really is a story of miracles," Wilkins said. "The Lord jblack@cis.famu.edu or
was with him, along with everybody else on the highway." (850) 412-7354.
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