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july
{COVER P 6
Obama Remarks on Zimmerman
Verdict Draw Accolades
President Suggests Next Steps
{local P 3 - 4
Syracuse Woman is Crowned Miss
New York
Bikers cruise through Syracuse on
eight-day Erie Canal excursion
Central NY lab admits falsifying results
Wal-Mart Supercenter Conversion
Finished
Syracuse Orange returning to practice
at Fort Drum
Renz pleads guilty to killing woman,
raping girl
Man, 22, fatally shot on Syracuse street
{state P 5
Verizon to introduce
installment plans for phones
{national P 7 - 8
In Illinois, Obama led fght on racial
profling
22 children die after eating school
lunch in India
Trayvon Martins parents shocked by
verdict
{OPINIONS/EDITORIAL P 8-11
Howard University Professor
Ivory Toldson Said that Black Scholars
Must be Angry

By Dr. Boyce Watkins
The Zimmerman Verdict: America is
Still America to Me

By Wilmer J. Leon III
In This Issue:
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Whats the Next Step?
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Dancing Under The Starts
Time: 7:00pm-10:00pm
Locaton: Sunnycrest Ice Rink
If you like jazz, swing and big
band music and if you like to
dance, youll love Dancing
Under the Stars, a tme-honored
summertme traditon in
Syracuse, featuring the music of
the Stan Colella Orchestra, under
the directon of Len Colella. Bring
your friends, your families, your
lawn chairs, a picnic dinner, and
of course, your dancing shoes.
Free
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Pops In The Park
Time: 7:00pm 9:00pm
Locaton: Upper Onondaga Park,
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of musical styles from blues to
Motown to pops , in this four-
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Central NY lab
admits falsifying results
Syracuse, N.Y. - (AP) -- Federal
authorites say a central New York
laboratory has pleaded guilty to fraud
for changed dates on more than 3,300
soil and water analysis reports from
2008 to 2010.
Upstate Laboratories Inc. of East
Syracuse tested samples for clients,
some requiring quick turnarounds
where chemical degradaton was at
issue.
Authorites say the lab routnely
changed dates on results that werent
completed within specifed tmes.
More than two-dozen afected clients
included Oswego Countys health and
solid waste departments, A&P Water
Testng of Morrisville and the Oneida-
Herkimer Solid Waste Authority.
Prosecutors say Upstate Laboratories
has agreed to pay a $150,000 fne,
which will be suspended if it pays
resttuton. The company will also be
on probaton for fve years.
Sentencing is scheduled Dec. 4.
Dr. Kim Dyce Faucete
Bikers cruise through Syracuse on eight-day Erie Canal excursion
500 bicyclists wheeled through
Syracuse Wednesday during the
Cycling the Erie Canal bike tour.
The 15th annual, eight day event joins
cyclers from the age of 4 to 89 from
more than 36 states.
Sunday, the riders started in Bufalo
and planned to arrive in Albany Sunday.
The Rosamond Giford Zoo and the
Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse will be
their stops along the way.
The 361-mile trail will be the longest
statewide trail in the country, when
the gaps in the trail are closed.
Syracuse Woman is Crowned Miss New York
Syracuse natve, Nina Davuluri was
crowned Miss New York Saturday
night.
The 24 year old competed for the ttle
against 24 other contestants at the
St.George Theater.
She received a scholarship worth
$10,000 and will compete,
representng New York for the Miss
America Pageant in Atlantc City
September 15.
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Wal-Mart Supercenter Conversion Finished
Afer a year of renovatons, Wal-Mart
on Basile Rowe is now a supercenter.
Now open 24 hours, the store has a
bigger variety of groceries and new
general items.
The store was 120,000 square feet
and is now 157,000 square feet and
all of the stores departments were
refurbished including larger produce,
meat, dairy and frozen food sectons.
The inside as well as the outside of
the locaton has been revamped with
more surrounding landscaping.
A new supercenter will be built in Clay
at the site of a Sams Club that closed
in 2010.
Wal-Mart has not released any
informaton as to the cost of the
project.
Syracuse Orange returning to practice at Fort Drum
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Rookie Syracuse
coach Scot Shafer is bringing the
team back to Fort Drum for preseason
training camp for the second straight
year.
The Orange will travel north to the
military post during the week of Aug.
12 to contnue a bond it shares with
the military personnel at the Army
base.
With help from the famed 10th
Mountain Division, the Orange will
incorporate elements of military
training into the daily preseason
camp. The team will practce on Sligh
Field, hold meetngs in a batalion
headquarters, eat in a mess hall and
sleep in barracks.
Players and coaches also will partcipate
in various military actvites, including
Army physical training and small unit
leadership seminars. The week will
culminate with a scrimmage Aug. 15 in
front of the soldiers and their families.
Renz pleads guilty to killing woman, raping girl
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - An upstate New
York man who cut of his electronic
monitoring bracelet, then raped a
10-year-old girl and killed her mother
has pleaded guilty to murder and sex
charges.
David Renz admited in county court
Wednesday morning that he carjacked
the two at Great Northern Mall on
March 14, stabbing the mother to
death as she tried to prevent him from
raping her daughter.
He had been under federal monitoring
afer a child pornography charge. The
29-year-old Renz pleaded guilty to
state charges of frst-degree murder
and sexual assault against a child.
He is expected to be sentenced to life
in prison without the possibility of
parole, but the plea bargain can be
withdrawn if the federal government
seeks the death penalty.
Man, 22, fatally
shot on Syracuse street
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Police in
Syracuse are investgatng the fatal
shootng of a 22-year-old man.
Ofcers tell local media outlets that
they were called to Knaul Street around
12:20 a.m. Tuesday. They found Karon
Cole wounded and unresponsive
outside a home.
Police say he was taken to Upstate
University Hospital and was
pronounced dead a short tme later.
Ofcials say the investgaton is
ongoing.
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PUZZLES
STATE
Across
1. In the past
5. Debate positon
8. Slip (into)
12. Tries to win
13. Marvel Comics super villain
14. How ___!
15. The Kings Speech problem
16. Water tester
17. Guitar part
18. Jazz component
20. Pound
21. Laughing dog
23. Cons explanaton
27. US mountains
32. Fruit with slippery rind
34. French, melancholy
35. Hold
37. Commercial maker
38. Manner of speaking
40. Kind of tssue
43. Vinegary
47. Change course
48. Schtck
49. Secton in the newspaper
(abbreviaton)
51. Forget
52. Perjure
53. Network of nerves
54. Clever
55. Picnic buster
56. Board member
Down
1. Harry Poters mailman
2. Film genre
3. Truncheon
4. See
5. Terse
6. Lodger
7. Buck
8. Lab burner
9. The god of War
10. ___ is life!
11. Comic character comment
19. The magician made it appear out
of ____ (2 words)
20. Make knoted paterns
22. ___ so fast!
23. 20/20 network
24. Thai language
25. Place to stay
26. Belfry denizen
28. Cincinnat or Karate?
29. Theory
30. Greek vowel
31. Member of Cong.
33. Stand by
36. A B vitamin
39. Group of eight
40. Wimbledon contest with fnal
41. Provide a top to
42. Creatve
44. Ripped your shirt
45. Wild goat
46. Menton
47. Promise
48. Taking afer
50. Detectve, for short
Verizon to introduce
installment plans for phones
PETER SVENSSON
NEW YORK (AP) - Verizon Wireless, the
countrys largest cellphone carrier, on
Thursday said its joining AT&T and
T-Mobile in providing an installment
plan for its phones, aiming to satsfy
customers who want to upgrade their
devices faster or avoid paying the
upfront cost of their phones.
The plan, dubbed Edge, will be
introduced Aug. 25, and allows the
buyer to spread the full retail price
of the phone, without subsidies, over
24 months. A buyer who has paid of
50 percent of the cost of the phone
can upgrade to a new phone afer six
months.
We have a lot of customers in the
technology edge that want to upgrade
sooner than they would under our
historical, legacy, subsidy model, if
you will. And we have other customers
who dont want to pay upfront for
the large cost of the phone, Verizon
Communicatons Inc.s chief fnancial
ofcer, Fran Shammo, told analysts on
a conference call Thursday.
Now that nearly every adult American
has a cellphone, easy growth in the
wireless industry has ended, and
carriers are looking to other avenues
for growth. One way to do that is to
boost phone sales, but most phones
are sold at a big loss, so any gains in
phone sales under the traditonal
model are counterproductve. The
phone companies subsidize the cost of,
for example, an iPhone, by hundreds
of dollars to get retail price down to
$200.
With Edge, Verizon isnt paying a
subsidy, and the buyer shoulders the
entre cost the phone. That means
frequent upgrades help Verizon rather
than hurt it. For customers, Edge
makes fnancial sense only if they are
unwilling to deal with the hassle of
selling their old phones when they
want to upgrade to a new device; for
those buyers, the trade-in opton is
convenient.
Rumors about Verizon Edge had
surfaced on several blogs earlier this
week.
Compettor T-Mobile US Inc. stopped
signing up customers for two-year
service contracts in March, in favor of
selling phones on installment plans. To
further cater to frequent upgraders,
it introduced an opton called Jump
last week It provides device insurance
and more frequent upgrades for $10 a
month.
On Tuesday, AT&T announced its
own frequent-upgrade opton,
called Next, which is very similar
to Verizons Edge. Startng July 26,
customers will be able to buy their
phones on installment plans, with the
opton to trade in the devices afer a
year.
Shammo made his comments while
discussing the companys second-
quarter results on a conference call
with analysts.
Verizon Wireless added 941,000
devices to its contract-based plans in
the April to June period, exceeding
analyst estmates and contnuing a
strong run. It boosted service revenues
by 8.3 percent from a year ago. Its
closest rival, AT&T, is seeing revenue
increases of around 4 percent.
Almost all of the gains on the wireless
side were due to customers upgrading
to higher-priced plans or adding more
devices to their plans, as opposed to
an infux of new customers.
Analysts saw some weakness in the
results, pointng to a decline in the
proft margins on the wireless side,
and Shammos comment that the
rate of device upgrades would be
roughly the same as last year. Because
the company subsidizes each new
smartphone by hundreds of dollars,
frequent upgrades are costly.
Verizon shares fell $1.15, or 2.3
percent, to $49.60 in morning trading.
It was the frst tme the shares went
below $50 this month. The shares hit a
12-year high of $54.31 on the last day
of April.
Shammo said margins were in line
with the companys own forecasts,
and that the slight miss compared
to analyst expectatons was due to
the large number of new subsidized
devices added to the network.
Net income at Verizon Communicatons
was $2.25 billion, or 78 cents per
share, up 23 percent from a year ago,
the company said Thursday. Excluding
a pension-related gain, earnings were
73 cents per share. That beat the
average estmate of analysts polled by
FactSet by a penny.
Revenue was $29.79 billion, up more
than 4 percent from a year ago and in
line with analyst expectatons.
New York-based Verizon
Communicatons owns 55 percent of
Verizon Wireless, which means that
only that percentage of its profts fow
to its botom line. The rest goes to
joint venture partner Vodafone Group
PLC, a Britsh cellphone company with
wide-ranging internatonal interests.
Verizon Communicatons has a long-
standing interest in buying Vodafone
out of Verizon Wireless, and analysts
expect a deal could be reached later
this year. Shammo had no comment
Thursday on the prospects for a deal.
Shammo reiterated that Verizon is
interested in buying into the Canadian
wireless market, since there is a
government aucton coming up for
a band of the airwaves that Verizon
already uses in the U.S. However, the
company is only in the early stages of
exploring a Canadian venture, he said.
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COVER
By Hazel Trice Edney
(TriceEdneyWire.com) President Barack Obamas
surprise address to the naton identfying with
the anger and hurt over the Trayvon Martn not-
guilty verdict, has won praise from supporters and
detractors alike.
As the naton antcipated Saturdays protests in
cites across the naton in response to the not-guilty
verdict in the shootng of the unarmed teenager,
President Obama walked into the Brady Press Room
at the White House around 1:30 on Friday and gave
unscripted remarks on racial strife in America that
were uniquely personal.
You know, when Trayvon Martn was frst shot I said
that this could have been my son. Another way of
saying that is Trayvon Martn could have been me
35 years ago. And when you think about why, in
the African-American community at least, theres a
lot of pain around what happened here, I think its
important to recognize that the African-American
community is looking at this issue through a set of
experiences and a history that doesnt go away, he
said in the 20-minute statement, televised live on
some statons.
There are very few African-American men in this
country who havent had the experience of being
followed when they were shopping in a department
store. That includes me. There are very few African-
American men who havent had the experience of
walking across the street and hearing the locks click
on the doors of cars. That happens to me - at least
before I was a senator. There are very few African-
Americans who havent had the experience of
getng on an elevator and a woman clutching her
purse nervously and holding her breath untl she had
a chance to get of. That happens ofen.
He contnued, And I dont want to exaggerate
this, but those sets of experiences inform how
the African-American community interprets what
happened one night in Florida. And its inescapable
for people to bring those experiences to bear. The
African-merican community is also knowledgeable
that there is a history of racial disparites in the
applicaton of our criminal laws - everything from
the death penalty to enforcement of our drug laws.
And that ends up having an impact in terms of how
people interpret the case.
His comments were met with praise from Black
leaders, who welcomed his candidate remarks.
That our president has been profled should
encourage all Americans to think deeply about both
the depth of this problem and how our country moves
beyond it, said NAACP President/CEO Benjamin
Todd Jealous. The Presidents call to examine the
role state laws, including Stand Your Ground, play in
compounding racial profling is especially welcome.
Let us move forward to bring justce for Trayvon
Martn and toward a more united naton that is truly
safe for all Americans.
A statement from the Lawyers Commitee for Civil
Rights Under Law also applauded the President:
As the President eloquently stated - drawing from
his own personal experience African-Americans
in this country have experienced a long history of
prejudice that led to strong emotonal reactons
about the Zimmerman verdict, about the jury and
about an American justce system that convicts
Blacks in signifcantly larger numbers than whites
and other racial groups.
President Obamas remarks took some of the stng
of of the stunning verdict; especially since he has
rarely spoken to race issues and had never used such
personal examples. But, not everyone was pleased.
The Zimmerman defense team released a response
statement saying the verdict was released fairly and
justly. The defenses statement contnued that they
acknowledge and understand the racial context of
this case, but added, We challenge people to look
closely and dispassionately at the factsWe believe
those who look at the facts of the case without
prejudice will see that it is a clear case of self-
defense, and we are certain that those who take a
closer look at the kind of person George Zimmerman
is.
Actually, President Obama was careful not to speak
negatvely of the jurys verdict.
The judge conducted the trial in a professional
manner. The prosecuton and the defense made
their arguments. The juries were properly instructed
that in a case such as this reasonable doubt was
relevant, and they rendered a verdict. And once the
jury has spoken, thats how our system works, he
said.
He said he only intended to put into context the pain
of African-Americans in response to the verdict. This
strategy drew compliments from at least one of his
biggest critcs.
Republican Sen. John McCain told CNNs State
of the Union that Obamas remarks were very
impressive. McCain added, I think we contnue to
make progressWe stll have a long way to go.
The NAACP and other civil rights advocates have
pressed for federal interventon in the Zimmerman
case, including the possibility of a federal civil
rights prosecuton. The president was careful not
to assert his involvement in Holders investgaton
and announced no upcoming policy proposals to
reverse some of the ways that Black are treated. But,
he clearly listed what he perceives as some of the
answers.
Speaking of racial profling, he said it would be
productve for the Justce Department, governors,
mayors to work with law enforcement about training
at the state and local levels in order to reduce the
kind of mistrust in the system that sometmes
currently exists.
In reference to the stand your ground self-
defense laws, he said it would be useful for us to
examine some state and local laws to see if they
are designed in such a way that they may encourage
the kinds of altercatons and confrontatons and
tragedies that we saw in the Florida case, rather
than difuse potental altercatons.
As a long term project he said, we need to spend
some tme in thinking about how do we bolster and
reinforce our African-American boys. And this is
something that Michelle and I talk a lot about. There
are a lot of kids out there who need help who are
getng a lot of negatve reinforcement. And is there
more that we can do to give them the sense that
their country cares about them and values them and
is willing to invest in them?
He was clear that he was not speaking of a new
federal program,but hinted that he may call on
aspects of the community to discuss next steps. I do
recognize that as President, Ive got some convening
power, and there are a lot of good programs that are
being done across the country on this front. And for
us to be able to gather together business leaders and
local elected ofcials and clergy and celebrites and
athletes, and fgure out how are we doing a beter
job helping young African-American men feel that
theyre a full part of this society and that theyve
got pathways and avenues to succeed - I think that
would be a prety good outcome from what was
obviously a tragic situaton.
The President suggested that open conversatons
be had about race. I think its going to be important
for all of us to do some soul-searching. There has
been talk about should we convene a conversaton on
race. I havent seen that be partcularly productve
when politcians try to organize conversatons. They
end up being stlted and politcized, and folks are
locked into the positons they already have. On the
other hand, in families and churches and workplaces,
theres the possibility that people are a litle bit
more honest, and at least you ask yourself your own
questons about, am I wringing as much bias out of
myself as I can? Am I judging people as much as I
can, based on not the color of their skin, but the
content of their character? That would, I think, be
an appropriate exercise in the wake of this tragedy.
In conclusion, the President urged Americans to
become beter angels of our nature by using the
negatve episodes to gain greater understanding
rather than heighten divisions. He said: Were
becoming a more perfect union; not a perfect union,
but a more perfect union.
Obama Remarks on Zimmerman Verdict
Draw Accolades President Suggests Next Steps
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NATIONAL
Trayvon Martins parents shocked by verdict
MIAMI (AP) - Trayvon Martns parents
made appearances on network
morning shows Thursday, saying they
are stll shocked that jurors acquited
George Zimmerman in the 2012
shootng death of their 17-year-old
son.
On NBCs Today show, Sybrina Fulton
questoned whether jurors looked at
the shootng from her sons point of
view.
He was a teenager. He was scared. He
did run, Fulton said, who added that
she believes the justce system failed
her son.
We didnt get the verdict we wanted
because we wanted him to be (held)
accountable.
Martns father, Tracy Martn,
expressed disbelief in the verdict
handed down Saturday by a six-
woman jury following a three-week
trial in central Florida.
We felt in our hearts that we were
going to get a convicton, Martn said.
We felt that the killer of our unarmed
child was going to be convicted of the
crime he commited.
On ABCs Good Morning America,
Tracy Martn said he felt the jury did
not get a chance to get to know the
teen. They didnt know him as a
human being, he said.
Martns parents said they stll believe
Zimmerman, who identfes himself as
Hispanic, racially profled their son.
Obviously, any tme you have a
person that makes an assumpton that
a person is up to no good, thats some
kind of profling, Martn said. Was
he racially profled? I think if Trayvon
had been white, this never would have
happened.
Martns parents said they support
the federal government looking into
the case. The Justce Department
announced Sunday it plans to review
the case to determine whether federal
prosecutors should fle criminal civil
rights charges now that Zimmerman
has been acquited.
Zimmerman, who was charged with
second-degree murder, claimed he
shot Martn in self-defense.
Martns mother said she believes the
verdict sends a terrible message to
other litle black and brown boys.
They cant walk fast. They cant walk
slow. So what do they do? How do they
get home without people assuming
you are doing something wrong?,
Fulton said.
Fulton told CBS This Morning her
son was not a burglar.
He simply went to the store and was
headed back home, she said. And for
somebody to look at him and perceive
that he was a burglar, that was the
problem that initated everything.
Tracy Martn and Sabrina Fulton
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NATIONAL
22 children die after eating school lunch in India
INDRAJIT SINGH
PATNA, India (AP) - At least 22 children
died and more than two dozen others
were sick afer eatng a free school
lunch that was tainted with insectcide,
Indian ofcials said Wednesday.
It was not immediately clear how
chemicals ended up in the food in a
school in the eastern state of Bihar.
One ofcial said the food may not
have been properly washed before it
was cooked.
The children, between the ages of
5 and 12, fell ill Tuesday soon afer
eatng lunch in Gandamal village in
Masrakh block, 80 kilometers (50
miles) north of the state capital of
Patna. School authorites immediately
stopped serving the meal of rice,
lentls, soybeans and potatoes as the
children started vomitng.
Savita, a 12-year-old student who
uses only one name, said she had a
stomach ache afer eatng soybeans
and potatoes and started vomitng.
I dont know what happened afer
that, Savita said in an interview at
Patna Medical College Hospital, where
she and many other children were
recovering.
The lunch, part of a popular natonal
campaign to give at least one daily hot
meal to children from poor families,
was cooked in the school kitchen.
The children were rushed to a
local hospital and later to Patna for
treatment, said state ofcial Abhijit
Sinha.
In additon to the 22 children who died,
another 25 children and the school
cook were in hospital undergoing
treatment, P.K. Sahi, the state
educaton minister. Three children
were in serious conditon.
Authorites suspended an ofcial in
charge of the free meal scheme in
the school and registered a case of
criminal negligence against the school
headmaster, who fed as soon as the
children fell ill.
Angry villagers, joined by members of
local oppositon partes, closed shops
and businesses near the school and
overturned and burned four police
vehicles.
Sahi said a preliminary investgaton
suggested the food contained
an organophosphate used as an
insectcide on rice and wheat crops.
Its believed the grain was not washed
before it was served at the school, he
said.
However, local villagers said the
problem appeared to be with a side
dish of soybeans and potatoes, not
grain. Children who had not eaten
that dish were fne, although they
had eaten the rice and lentls, several
villagers told the AP.
Sinha said the cooked food and
kitchen utensils have been seized by
investgators. Whether it was a case
of negligence or was intentonal, we
will only know once the inquiry has
been conducted, he said.
Indias midday meal scheme is one of
the worlds biggest school nutriton
programs. State governments have
the freedom to decide on menus and
tmings of the meals, depending on
local conditons and availability of
food ratons. It was frst introduced in
southern India, where it was seen as
an incentve for poor parents to send
their children to school.
Since then the program has been
replicated across the country, covering
some 120 million school children.
Its as part of an efort to address
concerns about malnutriton, which
the government says nearly half of all
Indian children sufer from.
Although there have been occasional
complaints about the quality of the
food served, or the lack of hygiene,
the tragedy in Bihar appeared to be
unprecedented for the massive food
program.
JOSH LEDERMAN
WASHINGTON (AP) - In 1999, a fresh-
faced state senator on Chicagos South
Side heard consttuents complain that
police were free to pull over drivers
because they were black. So Barack
Obama proposed a bill to tackle racial
profling. When it failed, he revised it
and proposed it again and again.
Race and ethnicity is not an indicator
of criminal actvity, Obama said
when his bill fnally passed the Senate
four years later. He said targetng
individuals based on race was
humiliatng and fostered contempt in
black communites.
More than a decade later, Obamas
eforts to pass groundbreaking racial
profling legislaton in Illinois ofer
some of the clearest clues as to how
Americas frst black president feels
about an issue thats polarizing a
naton roiled by the shootng death of
black teenager Trayvon Martn.
Obama has spoken only rarely about
his own experience with incidents he
perceived to be race-related. In his
2006 book The Audacity of Hope,
he described his struggles with the
injustces of driving while black and
the vigilance he felt was stll necessary
for him and his family.
I can recite the usual litany of pety
slights that during my 45 years have
been directed my way: security guards
tailing me as I shop in department
stores, white couples who toss me
their car keys as I stand outside a
restaurant waitng for the valet, police
cars pulling me over for no apparent
reason, Obama wrote.
Obamas administraton has treated
gingerly the acquital of George
Zimmerman, the man who fatally shot
Martn. Burned in the past by injectng
himself into racial fare-ups, Obama is
wary of taking sides this tme afer, in
his words, a jury has spoken.
While Martns family has said the
teenager was racially profled, race was
barely mentoned during the natonally
televised trial. Now that the state
trial is over, the Justce Department
is looking into Martns death to see
whether civil rights charges can be
fled. Federal prosecutors would have
to show evidence Zimmerman was
motvated by racial animosity to kill
Martn.
The president, in his only public
comments on the verdict, looked to
the future, urging Americans to ask
themselves how such tragedies can be
prevented.
These days, its gun control that Obama
cites. But as a young state senator,
he and a few colleagues led a fght
to require police to keep track of the
demographics of drivers they pulled
over - race, gender and age - then have
those records analyzed to root out any
paterns of bias. Diversity training was
also part of the package, and another
bill Obama pushed sought to prevent
wrongful convictons by requiring
police to videotape interrogatons for
crimes like homicide.
Emil Jones Jr., the state Senates
president at the tme, said he told
Obama he was countng on him to
shepherd the profling bill, part of a
broader judicial overhaul involving
death penalty reform that Jones said
was his top priority.
It called on him to work with legislators
on both sides of the aisle, Jones said
in an interview. There was strong
oppositon from law enforcement on
these issues. He was skillful enough to
be able to get them on board.
One of Obamas key arguments to woo
skeptcal police groups was to say his
legislaton could actually exonerate
fair-minded ofcers. Those unjustly
accused of racial profling would, for
the frst tme, have evidence to show
that wasnt the case.
Both the racial profling and videotaped
interrogatons bills eventually passed
through the Legislature in 2003.
When it frst became law, the data
showed blacks and other minorites
were being pulled over about three
tmes as ofen as whites, said Craig
Futerman, who sits on the statewide
panel that oversees the law. These
days, its down to about twice as ofen,
he said.
The fact that this data was being
collected and monitored actually
dramatcally reduced racial profling
in Illinois, said Futerman, a professor
at the University of Chicago Law
School, where Obama once taught.
It didnt eliminate it - there are stll
unacceptable racial inequalites.
In the Zimmerman case, civil rights
leaders say Zimmerman racially
profled the unarmed teenager
when he followed him through a
gated community and shot him. But
Zimmerman says Martn physically
assaulted him and he shot the teenager
in self-defense.
But across the U.S., as rallies crop
up flled with protesters demanding
justce for the teenager whose quest
to buy Skitles ended in death, its not
clear what steps the administraton
may take.
I dont have any process to announce
today going forward, said Jay Carney,
Obamas spokesman. He noted
Obamas work on the issue in Illinois
and said Obama believes its an issue
worthy of consideraton and acton.
___
AP researcher Monika Mathur
contributed to this report.
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OPINION/EDITORIAL
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
Many of us run
away from the
stgma of being
labeled the
angry black
man(woman).
We have been
t h o r o u g h l y
trained to
believe that
getng angry
about the
c o n d i t i o n s
which plague our community is not
only a professional death certfcate,
but also an unacceptable label.
Jews can be angry about the Israels
protecton, whites can get angry
about 7% unemployment. But when
it comes to black people, some think
we shouldnt be angry about anything.
I dont agree with this noton, not in
the least.
Dr. Ivory Toldson, an emerging and
powerful scholar at Howard University,
recently posted a Facebook status
about his struggles of being labeled as
an angry, emotonal black scholar.
This is what Dr. Toldson had to say:
Emotonally loaded and needlessly
contentous were the words of
a reviewer who rejected my
manuscript to a top ter journal in
2003. These words were a painful
blow to my confdence at the tme.
Justfably angry and sufciently
arrogant were the words from a
positve critque of a young scholar
who used one of my artcles to frame
a graduaton speech. These words
made me refect on who I was 10 years
ago, and who Id ultmately become.
Im glad I didnt let a pety blind
reviewer suppress my emotons and
cause me to fear confrontaton,
simply to appease a gatekeeper to an
arena that has no respect for me or
my people.
Black scholar actvists, be emotonal,
be contentous, be angry, be arrogant,
and be brave!
I found myself cheering afer reading
Ivorys status, because this is exactly
what we need: Scholars willing to
break out of the chains that are
latched onto their powerful minds.
In order to be truly efectve, these
men and women must maintain a
willingness to assertvely engage the
public on issues that mater most to
their community. This goes far beyond
sitng in a classroom teaching 30
white kids every semester.
Most of us know the grisly statstcs
in the black community that we are
up against: An unemployment crisis
of epic proportons, neighborhoods
that have become virtual warzones,
an out-of-control HIV epidemic,
traumatc educatonal systems, and an
incarceraton problem that threatens
to annihilate the next generaton.
With all of this going on, Im not quite
sure if we can aford to allow our
best and brightest minds to rot away
behind the walls of the ivory tower,
where everything seems to happen in
theory, but almost nothing in reality.
Dr. Toldson and I dont talk much, but
I admire his work from afar. In fact, I
actually admire him more than I admire
myself. He and I were both part of the
Janks Morton flm, Hoodwinked,
(along with Drs. Jawanza Kunjufu,
Steve Perry and Marc Lamont Hill).
What I loved most about this project is
the idea of a group of highly-educated
black men aggressively defending
their community. Not that women
shouldnt be an important part of
the dialogue (i.e. Dr. Tyra Seldon, Dr.
Julianne Malveaux, Yvete Carnell,
etc.), but I think black mens feet
must be held to the fre as the frst
line of defense for our families and
communites. Call me old-fashioned,
but I believe that men must be wired
to protect and provide for the people
they love, and when we put our minds
to it, we become the most powerful
force in the universe.
Strong black scholars, in general, must
be commited to also being intellectual
warriors. Ability means nothing
without courage, and an idea is
worthless if you are too afraid to open
your mouth and share it. An educated,
fearless, conscientous African
American is probably the greatest
threat to white supremacy that there
is. Thats why our oppressors seek to
control our minds from the day we are
born.
For every rapper on the radio
preaching a toxic message of black self-
destructon, we need a scholar, pastor,
parent or teacher giving an alternatve
message of black empowerment and
liberaton. We are at war people, and
we must be as determined, focused
and persistent as the forces seeking
to mold us. This is a fght we cannot
aford to lose.
-----------------------
Dr. Boyce Watkins is the author of
the lecture series, The 8 Principles of
Black Male Empowerment.
Howard University Professor
Ivory Toldson Said that Black Scholars Must be Angry
FROM THE BoYce BLoG
DR. BOYCE WATkINS
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(TriceEdneyWire.com) - The jury
has rendered its verdict. George
Zimmerman was found by a jury
of his peers to be not guilty of
second degree murder.
We do not know how the
jury came to its conclusion or
why. What we do know is this:
TheUSAonWatch manual that
describes the code of conduct
for neighborhood watch
programs states: It should be
emphasized to members that
they do not possess police powers and they shall not
carry weapons or pursue vehiclesMembers should
never confront suspicious persons who could be
armed and dangerous.
George Zimmerman ignored that code of conduct.
We also know that on that rainy February 26th
evening when Zimmerman called the Sanford County
Police and told the dispatcher that a suspicious
teenager was wandering through the neighborhood,
F---ing punks ... These a--holes, they always get
away he was directed not to follow Trayvon Martn.
He was told to disengage. Zimmerman ignored that
directve.
We know that an armed 28 year-old George
Zimmerman followed an unarmed 17-year-old
Trayvon Martn. Zimmerman initated contact with
Trayvon; an encounter ensued and Zimmerman
fatally shot Trayvon. Zimmerman initated contact,
shot and killed an unarmed teenager, and claimed
self-defense?
Secton 776.013 of the Florida Criminal Code, Home
protecton; use of deadly force; presumpton of fear
of death or great bodily harm states, (3)A person
who is not engaged in an unlawful actvity and who
is atacked in any other place where he or she has a
right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right
to stand his or her ground and meet force with
force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably
believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or
great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or
to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.
The clear intent of this law is to protect law abiding
citzens and allow them to use deadly force when
they are approached and feel threatened by another
person. You cannot initate the encounter and later
claim self-defense or stand-your-ground.
Trayvon Martn was not engaged in an unlawful
actvity (he was walking home from the store) and he
was approached at night by a strange man in a place
where he had every right to be. Based upon these
facts, Trayvon had no duty to retreat and had the
right to stand his ground and meet force with force. If
Zimmerman had followed the age old adage, Dont
start nothin; wont be nothin Trayvon Martn
would be alive today. The only reason Zimmerman
felt empowered to engage Trayvon was because
Zimmerman knew he possessed the equalizer; he
was armed.
The State of Florida correctly charged George
Zimmerman with second degree murder. Second
degree murder is defned as, the unlawful taking
of human life with malice but without the other
aggravatng elements of frst degree murder; i.e.
without deliberaton or premeditaton. - Blacks
Law Dictonary 5th editon.
Had the prosecuton stuck to these basic elements
and not allowed itself to be sucked into the confusing
morass of who was screaming for help, etc. I believe
that Zimmerman would be back in jail awaitng
sentencing not at home with his family celebratng
the verdict.
Was George Zimmerman acquited based upon
race? I do not know the answer to that queston.
I was not in the jury room and have not had the
opportunity to talk with any of the jurors. I do know
that according to Discriminatory Acquital Modem
statstcs show contnuing disparites in convictons
and sentencing based upon the race of the victm
Discriminatory acquitals consttute a massive and
efectvely ungoverned consttutonal problem
rarely mentoned by scholars and never addressed
by courts.
When all of this is said and done, I can only imagine
that the parents of Trayvon Martn mourn for him
like Emmet Tills mother mourned for the tragic
murder of her son. America is stll America to me.
I close with the following:
His spirit is smoke ascended to high heaven.His
father, by the cruelest way of pain, Had bidden him
to his bosom once again; The awful sin remained stll
unforgiven. All night a bright and solitary star
(Perchance the one that ever guided him, Yet gave
him up at last to Fates wild whim) Hugh pitfully oer
the swinging char. Day dawned, and soon the mixed
crowds came to view The ghastly body swaying in
the sun: The women thronged to look, but never a
one Showed sorrow in her eyes of steely blue; And
litle lads, lynchers that were to be, Danced round
the dreadful thing in fendish glee. The Lynching
By Claude McKay
------------------------
Dr. Wilmer Leon is the Producer/ Host of the Sirisu/
XM Satellite radio channel 110 call-in talk radio
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