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In This Issue
COVER: Pg 6
- Martin Luther King Jr. Interview
Found in Tennessee Attic
CALENDAR Pg 2

LOCAL Pgs 3-4
- Miner Working With Developer,
Tops to Bring Grocery Store to
North Side
- Mass. Company Recalls Soup
Sold at Wegmans
- Three Charged With Trafcking
220 Pounds of Pot
- YWCA Girls Inc. Teen Campus
Become Entrepreneurs
- Death From West Nile Virus
Reported in Central NY
STATE Pgs 5, 8
- 2 Pa.-Based Health Systems
Plan Gas Drilling Study
- Defense Focuses on Girls
Texts in NY Rape Case
- Albany Schools Hire New
Super Intendent
- DiNapoli Reports NY Taxes
Near July Projection
- NY Mayors Leery of Statewide
Fiscal Control Board
COLUMNS: Pg 10
- Tashame Ali, a Syracuse
Success Story

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- Newsweeks Cover Says
Obama Has Failed
By Boyce Watkins
-Doesnt Truth Matter Anymore?
By E. Faye Williams
-Its Race, Stupid
By A. Peter Bailey
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Miner Working With Developer, Tops to Bring Grocery Store
to North Side; SIDA Considers Tax Exempon for Project
Syracuse Mayor Stephanie A. Miner
announced Monday her administraon
is working in partnership with Morgan
Management (d/b/a Morgan Pond
Street, LLC) and Tops Friendly Markets
to return a grocery store to the North
Side community in the locaon
recently vacated by the Wegmans
supermarket chain.
Aer the departure of the previous
tenant of the Pond Street site, my
administraon worked hard to quickly
bring a developer to that locaon,
said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie A.
Miner. We are commied to working
with Morgan and Tops to ensure a full
service grocery store returns to that
neighborhood.
At its regular meeng on Tuesday,
the Syracuse Industrial Development
Agency (SIDA) voted to hold a public
hearing an vote Sept. 18 on requests
for tax exempons from both Morgan
and Tops. Both companies are
seeking exempons from sales tax on
construcon materials. Morgan is also
seeking exempons from mortgage
recording tax and property tax in
the form of a payment-in-lieu-of-tax
(PILOT) agreement.
This is the kind of economic acvity
which promotes growth in the North
Side community and serves the social
jusce needs of the neighborhood,
said First District Common Councilor
Jake Barre. I look forward to working
with all pares to reach agreements
that can give North Side consumers
the access to the fresh produce and
healthy meal opons they need and
seeing this project brought through to
compleon.
Kevin J. Morgan, Vice-President
of Morgan Management LLC, also
welcomed the announcement. We
are working diligently with Tops
Markets in hopes that, with the support
of SIDA, we will be another step closer
to giving this area of Syracuse a quality
grocery store it needs.
Tops has a strong commitment to
the City of Syracuse and the Central
New York community and we are very
interested in operang a Tops Markets
at the Pond Street locaon, said Frank
Curci, Tops Markets President and
CEO. While there is currently no nal
agreement in place, we have idened
this locaon as a good t within our
current network of stores; one that
would serve the North Side and give
residents access to fresh, aordable
food opons. We are working closely
with all pares involved to ensure the
successful compleon of this project.
Mass. Company Recalls Soup Sold at Wegmans
(AP) -- A Fall River, Mass., manufacturer
is recalling about 4,000 pounds of soup
products aer consumers found bits of
plasc in the soups.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
says the products made by Blount
Fine Foods were sold at Wegmans
supermarkets in Massachuses,
Maryland, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The following products, all under the
Wegmans Food Markets label, are
being recalled:
16 oz. cups of Chicken and Dumpling
Soup with a use by date of August
24.
16 oz. cups of Gazpacho Soup with a
use by date of September 2.
16 oz. cups of Italian Wedding Style
Soup with Meatballs, Tomato Basil
with Orzo, Caribbean Black Bean and
Lobster Bisque, all with a use by date
of September 3.
No injuries were reported.
Three Charged With Tra cking 220 Pounds of Pot
A federal grand jury has indicted three
people from central and northern
New York on charges of marijuana
tra cking.
U.S. Aorney Richard Hartunian
announced Thursday that 51-year-old
Luman Paro of Syracuse and 41-year-
old Amos Conners and 42-year-old
Melissa Brown of Hogansburg were
charged with possession of more than
220 pounds of marijuana.
If convicted, they face a mandatory
prison term of ve to 40 years and up
to a $5 million ne.
The U.S. Aorneys o ce was unable
to determine if the three have lawyers
yet.
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Death from West Nile Virus
Reported in Central NY
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Health o cials
in central New York are reporng the
death of a person from infecon with
the West Nile virus.
They say the death is the rst this
year in Onondaga County. The paent
was as older person, but no other
informaon is being released.
The mosquito-borne virus is generally
not deadly and many of those infected
never develop symptoms. But it can
cause serious illness in the very young,
old and people with compromised
immune systems. The symptoms
include fever, headaches and sness.
A case in the county earlier in August
resulted in an adult being briey
hospitalized but expected to fully
recover.
The state health department said
tesng has found the virus in hundreds
of mosquito pools around the state this
year. There have been ve reported
illnesses.
This summer girls in YWCAs Girls
Inc. Teen Program turned into
entrepreneurs. The girls were inspired
by a presentaon by AKA Sororitys
Joscelyne Wilson. Then they decided
to put what they learned into acon.
Her words inspired us to think of
so many fun business ideas. It was
di cult to choose, said Abby Casey,
age 15, vising from New Jersey.
However, when Casey and a relave
found a soap making kit at a local
garage sale, the girls in the camp
unanimously agreed it was the way to
go.
The girls calculated their needs and
bought supplies using a grant from the
Syracuse Zonta Foundaon. The teens
say they had fun learning how to make
unique soaps using dyes, fragrances,
and items which added an arsc air
to their signature soap. The group
made enough inventory to recently
stock a booth at Syracuses Downtown
Farmers Market.
I was surprised people bought our
soap, said 15-year-old Keonna Wren
of Syracuse. Business was good. Well
be able to cover our expenses and
then some.
The teens say they plan to use their
prots to purchase an addional fun
event or experience for their group
this summer.
We even had a Buddhist monk buy
soap from us, the girls reported. He
was so nice, he even blessed us.
YWCAs Girls Inc. Teen Summer Camp
introduces young women to fun
and interesng learning experiences
concentrang on Engineering, Science,
and Technology elds with the mission
of inspiring all girls to be strong,
smart, and bold.
YWCAs Girls Inc. Teen Campers Become Entrepreneurs
(L to R) Andrea Boyer, Syracuse; Alyssa Fort, Syracuse; Keonna Wren, Syracuse; Nyelle Hameed, Syracuse; LexxZorria
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2 Pa.-Based Health Systems Plan Gas Drilling Study
ELMIRA, N.Y. (AP) Two Pennsylvania-
based health systems plan to tap the
electronic records of their paents to
study possible eects of living near
gas wells drilled in the Marcellus Shale
region.
Guthrie Health of Sayre and Geisinger
Health Systems of Danville are in the
early stages of planning the research
into how people might be aected
by wells, some which use hydraulic
fracturing. The technology known
as fracking involves pumping large
volumes of water and chemicals into
the ground to free gas.
The organizaons said Monday that
asthma, cardiovascular disease and
cancer may be among the rst things
studied. They are now working on a
budget and how to pay for the project.
In the spring, Pennsylvania lawmakers
eliminated $2 million of funding that
included a statewide health registry
to track respiratory problems, skin
condions, stomach ailments and
other illnesses potenally related to
gas drilling.
David Carey, director of Geisingers
Weis Center for Research, told
The Associated Press in May that
policymakers need more solid
informaon about the potenal health
eects of drilling and that some of the
debate over the issue has been driven
more by emoon than science.
He said companies like Geisinger are
posioned well to contribute given the
large volume of informaon they have
about the health of people living in the
region. Geisinger alone has 2.6 million
paents in its system.
Some results of the new collaboraon
could be available within a year, with
other elements of the study playing
out over years, the companies said.
The Marcellus Shale covers large parts
of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and
West Virginia.
Guthrie also operates hospitals in New
Yorks Southern Tier, where the state is
considering allowing fracking.
Defense Focuses on Girls Texts in NY Rape Case
NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) Defense lawyers
in a suburban New York rape case are
seeking to discredit the 14-year-old
accusers tesmony by highlighng
text messages she sent to friends aer
the alleged aack.
Aorneys for the defendants were
allowed access to the messages under
a court order.
In the texts, the accuser referred to
having sex with the four defendants
but didnt menon rape.
She also used light-hearted acronyms
like lol, which means laugh out
loud.
The accuser tesed Monday that she
was too embarrassed to tell her friend
what happened.
The girl is accusing four boys between
the ages of 12 and 13 of breaking into
her home in Ramapo and raping her
on mulple occasions.
If convicted of rape, the boys face ve
to six years behind bars.
Albany Schools Hire New Superintendent
ALBANY -- State Educaon
Commissioner John B. King Jr.
has cered Marguerite Vanden
Wyngaard, Ph.D., to serve as a
superintendent in New York state,
clearing the way for the City School
District of Albany Board of Educaon
to nalize contract details with its
choice as the districts next leader.
The board believes Dr. Vanden
Wyngaard will be an exceponal
leader for our school district and
community, and we look forward to
our nal negoaons so that she can
begin her work in Albany as soon as
possible, said board President Daniel
Egan.
Dr. Vanden Wyngaard, currently the
deputy superintendent in the Paterson,
N.J. Public Schools, is already cered
as a superintendent in New Jersey,
Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Vanden Wyngaard has held the second
highest posion in three school
systems over the last six years, in Eden
Prairie, Minn., and Racine, Wisc., prior
to taking her posion in Paterson. She
holds a doctorate from Kent State
University in Ohio.
Her start date will be determined aer
the board completes negoaons on
her contract and o cially appoints her
to the new role.
Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard, Ph.D.,
New York Comptroller Thomas
DiNapoli says state tax revenues for
July of $3.9 billion are marginally
above projecons, following two
months when they were short.
DiNapoli said Monday the states
scal picture remains ed to the
strength of the naonal recovery. He
says month-to-month collecons are
``highly variable, and the state needs
to be prepared for surprises, either
good or bad.
Through the rst four months of the
scal year that began April 1, tax
receipts of $20.7 billion for all funds are
also slightly above revised projecons.
Theyre nearly 1 percent, or $172
million, lower than last year.
DiNapoli Reports NY
Taxes Near July Projecon
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By George Brown
In a dusty old a c in Chaanooga,
Tennessee, Stephon Tull was
rummaging through dilapidated boxes
le there by his father many years
before, when he came across an
interesng nd.
In one of the baered boxes was an
audio reel marked, Dr. King interview,
Dec. 21, 1960.
Im a rummager, a packrat, said Tull.
That piqued my interest.
Tull acquired a reel-to-reel player
and listened to what sounded like his
father interviewing Dr. Marn Luther
King Jr. about nonviolence and the civil
rights movement.
I could not believe what I was
hearing, said Tull.
Tulls father had grown up in Tennessee
during the years of racial tension,
oppression, and the so-called Jim
Crow segregaon laws.
He planned on wring a book on how
bad things were back in that era, said
Tull, but he never nished it, He fell
ill, and is now in Hospice care.
Tulls fathers recorded his conversaon
with King three years before the civil
rights leader delivered his famous I
Have a Dream speech in Washington,
four years before President Lyndon B.
Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into
law and eight years before King was
assassinated in Memphis, across the
state from where Tulls father lived.
In the interview, King can clearly be
heard discussing his denion of
nonviolence, and its importance in the
civil rights movement.
I would say that it is a method which
seeks to secure a moral end through
moral means, he said, and it grows
out of the whole concept of love,
because if one is truly nonviolent that
person has a loving spirit, he refuses
to inict injury upon the opponent
because he loves the opponent.
King connued, I am convinced that
when the history books are wrien
in future years, historians will have to
record this movement as one of the
greatest epics of our heritage, he said.
It represents struggle on the highest
level of dignity and discipline.
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, one of the
founders of the Southern Chrisan
Leadership Conference with King in
1957, said the tapes are a reminder
of the work King started that is not
nished.
One of the things that occurred back
then, we eecvely communicated
that nonviolence as a tacc, as a
technique, was very eecve for civil
rights protests, said Lowery. What
we failed to do was express its not just
a tacc, but a way of life.
Lowery went on, Were losing the
bale of violence versus nonviolence
as a means of resolving human
conict, he said, I hope Dr. Kings
message, wherever it shows up will
help us in the struggle.
In another part of Tulls recording, King
describes a recent trip to Africa. He
explains to Tulls father the importance
of the civil rights movement both in
the United States and abroad.
There is quite a bit of interest and
concern in Africa for the situaon
in the United States. African leaders
in general, and African people in
parcular are greatly concerned
about the struggle here and familiar
with what has taken place, he said,
We must solve this problem of racial
injusce if expect to maintain our
leadership in the world, and if we
expect to maintain a moral voice in a
world that is two thirds color.
The recording is intriguing to Clayborne
Carson, a professor of history and
founding director of the Marn Luther
King, Jr., Research and Educaon
Instute at Stanford University.
Its hard to know what were dealing
with, he said, There are thousands
of interviews with Dr. King, and its
hard to tell the historical signicance
of this (one).
What is interesng about this is
rather than just a transcript, you can
hear his voice, he added.
In 1985, Kings widow, the late Corea
Sco King, invited Carson to direct a
long-term project to edit and publish
the civil rights leaders works.
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NY Mayors Leery of Statewide Fiscal Control Board
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) An unprecedented
proposal to create a powerful
statewide control board in New York
to steer several cies, counes and
school districts away from bankruptcy
is ge ng a chilly response from
mayors.
The mayors of Syracuse, Albany,
Rochester and Yonkers said Monday
that local leaders need to be part of
any soluon to the scal problems
facing municipalies. The mayors say
even a recovery from the recession
wont change the basic problems
theyre confronng: diminishing
tax revenues in part from declining
populaons, and rising costs including
public worker payrolls, benets and
pension costs.
The mayors were reacng Monday
to a New York Post story that said
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Comptroller
Thomas DiNapoli were discussing a
control board.
Cuomo and DiNapoli were discussing
several opons but were keenly aware
that one size does not t all when
it comes to scal stress, DiNapoli
spokeswoman Jennifer Freeman said.
We have not had discussions with the
governors o ce about scal stress
legislave proposals, she said.
Cuomo wouldnt comment.
Control boards have been used since
the 1970s to cut spending and make
other di cult decisions in New York
City, Bualo, Troy, Yonkers and Nassau
County. The appointed boards are
strongly opposed by powerful public
workers unions because the boards
have forced cuts in workforces and
their benets among other polically
di cult decisions.
DiNapoli said in a report last week that
communies could face devastang
scal condions in coming years as
some municipalies in other states
already have.
The Post said Cuomo had draed a
version of legislaon for a statewide
control board with extensive powers
to cut costs, even union contracts.
Mayors Stephanie Miner of Syracuse,
Mike Spano of Yonkers, Thomas
Richards of Rochester and Gerald
Jennings of Albany said they believe
decisions about their cies should be
made in concert with local o cials.
We, as mayors, are dealing with our
new realies, they stated Monday.
We are commied to working with
the governor and comptroller to
design a soluon that will serve the
interest of the state and its municipal
governments.
But the concern goes beyond the four
cies.
Last week, DiNapoli reported nearly
300 local governments had decits
in 2010 or 2011 and more than 100
didnt have enough cash to pay their
current bills. His analysis of 4,000
local governments and school districts
found many school districts also are on
the brink.
A $400 million decline in local
government and school revenues
during the recession includes a nearly
6 percent drop in sales tax collecons,
a decline in property values in
Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam,
Rockland, Sullivan, Suolk, Ulster and
Westchester counes and a $50 million
loss of state aid to municipalies.
DiNapoli also found Cortland County,
Binghamton, Gloversville, Jamestown,
Lackawanna, New York City, the
Village of Herkimer and the Village of
Lyons are dangerously close to their
constuonal tax limit. He said more
governments may soon approach their
taxing limit.
DiNapoli also cited poor budgeng
and record-keeping at more than a
dozen local governments and urged
mul-year planning.
But planning alone might not be
enough, said Richard Brodsky, a
former assemblyman from Westhester
and now a senior fellow at the Wagner
School at New York University.
In cies like Yonkers, Syracuse or
Rochester, which have done those
plans, the choice is bankruptcy, bailout
or control board, Brodsky said. They
simply cannot meet their community
service obligaons police, re,
educaon, sanitaon, parks with
the resources they have within the
city. Thats the conversaon New York
needs to have, now.
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Newsweeks Cover Says President Obama Has Failed
Newsweek seems
desperate to
generate covers
that will sell
copies of their
magazine. Just a
few months ago,
the publicaon
received aenon
for naming Barack
Obama The First
Gay President.
Now, its simply
saying that
Barack needs to be gone and replaced
by Mi Romney.
Newsweeks latest cover has the words
Hit the Road Barack, and they arent
joking. The arcle, wrien by Harvard
University historian Niall Ferguson,
says that President Obama has failed
and that its me to take the country
in a dierent direcon.
Niall Ferguson was instantly aacked
by liberals like Nobel Prize-winning
economist Paul Krugman, parcularly
on Fergusons asseron that President
Obamas healthcare reform plan will
increase the decit. Wring for the
New York Times, Krugman simply
stated that Fergusons words are
highly inaccurate and unreliable. He
also said that the Harvard professor
misrepresented the numbers of the
Congressional Budget O ce in an
unethical way.
Ferguson then shot back at Krugman
and other crics of his arcle:
The crics are the ones who are
spli ng hairs because its absolutely
clear what the CBO has said, is that the
costs of the ACA [Aordable Care Act]
will not be met by the new sources of
revenue, Ferguson told Bloomberg
TVs Market Makers. You have to
disnguish here between the direct
sources of revenue created by ACA and
the indirect ways the CBO says it will
not increase the decit. Krugman is
being disingenuous.
Brad DeLong, an economist with The
University of California at Berkeley,
actually called for Ferguson to be red
for his mistake. But Ferguson is holding
steady to his crique and is now
defending his academic reputaon.
I dont think you can claim that
this is in any way undermining my
academic reputaon because the
facts are absolutely clear, Ferguson
said on Bloomberg TV. What were
dealing with here is a very carefully
orchestrated campaign to try and
discredit the piece by those who are
ideologically loyal to the president.
Ferguson argues that those who
are seeking to discredit him are
being posioned by the Obama
Administraon to undermine his
analysis. It is quite possible that this is
the case, since the Obama presidency
can oen be just as oppressive as any
other. Even in the black community,
anyone who speaks objecvely
or crically of President Obama is
instantly put into the cross-hairs of
paid polical hounds.
At the same me, the subtle argument
here appears to be that Ferguson
himself is being aected by the very
same bias that he believes to have
tainted the perspecve of his polical
enemies. By simply focusing on the
cost of the healthcare plan without
considering indirect economic (and
non-nancial) benets, Ferguson may
also be using selecve informaon in
order to make his point. Paul Krugman
is no dummy, and one can easily argue
that each man is choosing to see his
version of polical reality, while both
are smart enough to selecvely choose
data to make their point (thats what
many scholars do in their research).
Finally, I nd it interesng that no one
considers the human element to all of
this. Even if the Obama healthcare plan
does increase the decit, does it not
maer that it allows every American
to have health insurance? The costs of
healthcare and educaon have risen to
the point that few American families
can aord to pay either one. Even if the
decit is negavely impacted by giving
health coverage to children, I think
that such a sacrice makes our country
beer, not worse, in the end. Allowing
the wealthy to pay higher taxes so that
everyone benets comes at minimal
cost to the rich, while literally saving
the lives of those at the boom. If
you arent willing to pay a lile more
in taxes to save another persons life,
then your soul has been poisoned with
the very worst of greedy, unfeered
capitalism.
Perhaps one day, we can stop seeing
the value of human life like a price tag
in a Wal-Mart store. In spite of all of
our economic troubles, the United
States is sll the richest country in the
world. The reality is that everyone
deserves access to quality healthcare
and educaon, and we can aord to
give it to them. The boom line does
not always have to have a dollar sign
aached to it, for there are some
things more valuable than money.
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Dr. Boyce Watkins is the founder of the
Your Black World Coalion.
DR. BOYCE
WATKINS
FROM THE BOYCE BLOG
Tashame Ali, A Syracuse Success Story
Tashame Ali is on
a roll. That best
describes what
is happening,
considering the
recent changes
that have
occurred in his
life.
Hes a student
at Syracuse
University, and
has succeeded in accomplishing what
has eluded many combining single-
parenthood with the pursuit of a
higher educaon.
It is not an easy thing to do.
Two years ago, he was just another
under-educated black man. And
he experienced the problems that
come with not having the relevant
educaonal credenals.
He didnt qualify to get the kind of job
he wanted.
He lacked a high school diploma
and could only get jobs he didnt
parcularly care for. He also found
himself with full custody of his son.
He worked for several years at a
number of jobs that paid just enough
to provide for his basic needs. When
he lost his last job for a pey reason,
he decided it was me for self-
improvement.
I know I can do it, Ali said. I have
always known that I am an intelligent
young black man with potenal.
Also knew precisely what it would
take: higher educaon and a college
degree.
His main goal then was to change the
direcon of his life by going back to
school to get his GED.
Sll, as a single parent, with limited
resources, and no family support
network to rely on for the simple
things such as baby si ng, the
transformaon thats occurring now,
required a plan of acon one Ali
mapped out a few years back.
Tashame Ali began by enrolling in
one of those programs that prepare
students to qualify to go to college.
He targeted Syracuse University and
began a program of study designed to
do just that.
And true enough, his self-movaon
and hard work is now laying a solid
foundaon for his future.
As we analyze what hes doing, its
natural to ask: How did he do it?
First it takes determinaon,
perseverance and discipline.
Ali made up his mind to do it and
was ready to make the sacrice. He,
and anyone else in a similar posion,
has to gure out a way to make sure
his own plans didnt interfere with
anything else.
Then he had to deal with the task of
preparing to pursue higher educaon.
Taking a combinaon of day and night
classes solved the problem; he didnt
deprive his son of parental aenon
and care.
He also had to realize which career
path best suited his long-term plan.
He had to choose between two
avenues of interest: music, which has
always been a major interest of his,
and youth work.
Ali is a talented rapper. In a compeon
that pied him against the best rappers
in the city of Syracuse he won.
But, according to him, winning the
rap compeon didnt convince him
to pursue a career in music. Instead,
he maintained his interest in youth
work by working with a number of
organizaons, and chose to study child
psychology at Syracuse University.
I have done just what I planned to do
and now everything is falling in place,
Ali said.
Aer graduaon, he plans on working
with people facing circumstances
similar to what hes overcome.
Thats giving back to our community in
a way that is much needed.
KOFI QUAYE
--------------------------
Ko Quaye has been a Syracuse
resident for more than 30
years. He is a writer, author and
publisher. Over the years, he has
been involved with the publication
of several African American
focused newspapers in Syracuse.
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Doesnt Truth Maer Anymore?
(TriceEdneyWire.
com) - I was
listening to Chuck
Todd of MSNBC
as he interviewed
Iowa Governor
Terry Branstad
r e g a r d i n g
the drought
condions in
his state and
how they would
impact Iowa
farmers. Without
prompng and surprisingly to me
and, I suspect, other viewers, the
conversaon leapfrogged to a totally
unrelated maer-- the Romney teams
accusaon that President Barack
Obama had arbitrarily taken away the
work requirement from the Welfare
to Work law.
Without regard to common television
equee, Governor Branstad talked
over his host, Chuck Todd, as though
he did not even hear the correcons
that Mr. Todd aempted to insert
in the discussion. Without any
acknowledgment of the misinformaon
he was spewing, Governor Branstad
seemed determined to get his talking
points outtrue or false.
If he were the only person doing that,
I dont suppose it would maer so
much, but just before that interview I
had heard Congressman Paul Ryan use
the same talking point, and before that
I had seen the Romney aack ad doing
the same thingusing informaon to
make a point that has been debunked
by reliable sources over and over
again. I asked myself, Doesnt truth
maer anymore?
Shelton Gragg and Stefan Petrucha
authored a book called, What
the____Is Wrong with the Right?,
and I have been asking myself that a
lot lately. Almost any day, we can see
someone on the right disrespecng
the O ce of the President, hurling
coded insults about everybody who
is not white, male, wealthy and on
the far right on every issue. In other
words, as far as the right is concerned,
there is something wrong with African
Americans, women, Progressives,
seniors, Democrats (all of which I am),
Lanos, LGBT persons, poor people,
working people, labor unionistswell
you get the idea.
Not so long ago, the right said
President Barack Obama was too cool!
Suddenly, Ryan and Romney decided
the President is a hateful, angry Black
man! They need to get real!!! Theyre
working from a script that is designed
to drag the President down. Theyve
had a measure of success when
you see a group of unknown Black
preachers standing at a microphone
talking about blocking the Presidents
re-elecon or when a few Blacks
seeking aenon or blood money
ask, What has the President done for
Black people?
Black women are not pleased at
hearing the angrylabel applied.
We like it even less when its used to
denigrate us. We sure dont like it when
Ryan, Romney and right-wing types
use it on our President. God knows we
have much about which to be angry
-- lynchings, castraons, forced family
separaons, mis-educaon of our
children, thes of our property under
the cover of law, no payment and/or
underpayment for services rendered,
shoong our sons and brothers down
in the streets of cies across America,
and the list goes on. Sure, we get
angry, because we have done far more
to make our communies beer than
the right has ever helped us to do.
The Ryan-Romney team stands ready
to take back from us hard fought gains
we have earned. They dont mind
using lies and laws to limit our vong
rights. They threaten our health by
threatening to end Medicare and to
take away aordable health care.
They try to impose their will on what
we women do with our bodies and
frighten immigrant children who
were brought here as babies. Ryan
and Romney want to force the most
draconian, extreme budget upon us
and, then, make us believe they are on
our side. Truth just doesnt maer to
this crowd. Please! Give me a break!
Do they think we are stupid, crazy or
what?
The views expressed on our opinion pages are those of the author and do not
necessarily represent the position or viewpoint of MRMG or CNY Vision
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Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. s National Chair of
the National Congress of Black Women and
former Counsel to the U.S. Congress.She is a
prolic public speaker and appears as a regular
commentator/panelist on several radio and
television programs.
DR. E. FAYE
WILLIAMS, ESQ.
POSITIVE! POWERFUL! CONVINCING!
Its Race, Stupid
(TriceEdneyWire.
com) - It was the
1992 Bill Clinton-
George H.W.
Bush presidenal
campaign which
introduced the
m e m o r a b l e
polical slogan:
Its the economy,
Stupid. That
slogan was a way
of explaining
why Bush was in
danger of losing
his job.
During the 2012 campaign between
President Barack Obama and former
Massachuses governor, Mi Romney,
a clarifying explanaon as to why the
President is in danger of losing his job
is similar: Its Race, Stupid.
Of course, one would never know this
if dependent upon commentators
on radio and television and op-ed
columnists with major newspapers and
magazines. They go on and on about
everything that threatens President
Obamas re-elecon prospects except
the fact that many, if not most, Whites
in this country, especially White males,
have had more than enough of seeing
a Black man in the White House.
For example, hosts of public aairs
programs on television and radio and
newspaper and magazine columnists
have analyzed and discussed the
speech made by Rep. Paul Ryan aer
he was chosen as Romneys running
mate without once dealing with the
most revealing statement he made.
Aer cing several acons that must
be taken by those who detest Obama
being in the White House, Ryan noted
that if those things were done We will
get our country back on November 6.
In all the vitriolic, parsan aacks made
on presidents Clinton and George
W. Bush by their opponents, I dont
recall a single aacker insisng that
the president must be defeated for
re-elecon so we can get our country
back. That has been the mantra
only about President Barack Obama.
Rep. Ryan and those who share his
senment believe the following: That
the United States must be rescued
and that President Obama - with his
Muslim father from Kenya, African-
American wife, Asian-American sister
and other Kenyan blood relaves - is
an outsider who cant possibly be as
American as they are.
They insist this is so despite the
fact that the Presidents policies
helped save thousands of jobs in the
automobile industry, have maintained
the Bush tax cuts focusing on helping
those who have money get more
money, have provided health care
support for working class and middle
income mostly White families that are
one catastrophic illness away from
nancial disaster, have provided a
smulus package which gave money
even to the congressional districts of
hypocrical an-smulus policians
such as Rep. Ryan, and have created
an economic climate in which
corporaons have made record-se ng
prots.
His policies also resulted in the
killing of U.S. public enemy number
one, Osama bin Laden, have nearly
crippled al-Qaeda with constant drone
aacks that also killed dozens of non-
combatants, have connued the neo-
cons war of choice in Afghanistan and
have signicantly expanded economic
sancons against Iran, among other
things.
Most notably, President Obama has
determinedly avoided any kind of
gesture or policy that could honestly
be described as reaching out to
African-Americans. And he has kept his
cool, even when Glenn Beck mocked
his daughter and when personally
insulted by code names such as Food
Stamp President to avoid being labeled
an angry Black male.
Though one may oppose these policies
or regard them as insu cient for what
is needed, they dont remotely reect
a person from whom the country
must be rescued. So what is le but
the conclusion that for Rep. Ryan and
his cohorts, a Black man in the White
House, any Black man, including
brothers from another mother such
as Herman Cain, Rep. Alan West
of Florida, Rep. Tom Sco of South
Carolina, Artur Davis and others of
that ilk, is unbearable, a severe shock
to the White psyche. In other words,
Its Race, Stupid.
------------------------
Journalist/Lecturer A. Peter Bailey, a
former associate editor of Ebony, is
currently editor of Vital Issues: The
Journal of African American Speeches.
He can be reached at 202-716-4560.
A. PETER
BAILEY
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