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Volume XXXVII • Number 12 • November 12, 2008
Washington Predicts
Significant Changes
in Local Politics
By Barney Blakeney
While the November 4
general elections have pro-
duced a new national
administration local politi-
cal races produced few
Maurice Washington
changes as many incum-
bents retained their offices.
Maurice Washington, who
has served two terms as a
Charleston city council-
man and ran unsuccessfully
for both the South
Carolina House of
Representatives and the
South Carolina Senate,
said though changes in
local representation are
few, they are significant.
In most elections at South
Carolina’s federal, state
and county levels incum-
bents were re-elected to
Ford, Saunders See No Change
in National, State Politics
By Barney Blakeney
President-elect Barack
Obama’s landslide victory
November 4 was built on a
political platform of
change, But in South
Carolina where Obama
lost the vote by a margin of
about 10 percent to
Republican nominee John
McCain that change may
not come and certainly
Saunders Ford
won’t come unless initia-
tives at the grassroots level
aren’t undertaken. That’s
how several local politi-
cians see things.
Charleston’s State Sen.
Robert Ford offered a
scathing perspective on the
prospect of Obama’s elec-
tion impact on South
Carolina’s Black political
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office. U.S. Sen. Lindsay
Graham as well as
Congressmen
Clyburn and Henry Brown
James
all retained their seats by
significant margins despite
a contentious challenge to
“THAT ONE” WON!!!
Brown’s U.S. House First
District seat by Linda
Ketner.
But while incumbents held
their ground, several
Democratic candidates
encroached on Republican
strongholds especially at
the county level,
Washington said.
Pointing to Curtis Bostic’s
loss to Democratic chal-
lenger Vic Rawl in
Charleston County council
Dist. 6, Democrat Elliott
Summey’s take-over of the
seat vacated by Republican
Tim Scott in Dist. 3 and
Democrat Colleen
Condon’s retention of her
Dist. 7 seat Washington
said the Democrats are
poised to usurp majority
control.
“For the first time in a long
time county council may
elect a Democratic chair-
man who very well could
be an African America,” he
said.
Democratic upsets at the President-elect Barack Obama walks on stage at his victory celebration in Chicago with his wife,
state level bodes well for Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha.
local Democrats with the
election of Anne Peterson
Hutto over Wallace
See pg 2
agenda.
Obama’s platform of
change was merely politi-
cal rhetoric, a buzzword
used to appeal to Black
constituents offering a rad-
ical change in the race of Barack Obama Accepts the Democratic Nomination for
the nation’s political leader President- In a historic evening, U.S. Senator Barack
from traditional white Obama (D-IL) accepted the nomination of the
males, Ford said. Democratic party for President of the United States. He
“It meant nothing in terms
became the first African-American to achieve this political
of the political structure in milestone and the third Illinoisan to do so. He accepted
Washington,” Ford said.
While the head of the the nomination on August 28, 2008, which was also the
administration has 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a
U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), his wife Dream" speech.
changed the Congress and Michelle, and their daughters Malia and Sasha,
Senate in place the past wave from the steps of the Old State Capitol
several years remains Building in Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday,
intact, Ford said. February 10, 2008. Senator Obama announced
“The failure of the financial his intention to run for the President of the United
structure in this country States as the nominee of the Democratic party.
can’t be blamed on the
Republicans because the
Democrats were in power.
It’s the Democrats fault
and because of that I don’t
see any change coming.”
Obama’s election likely
won’t serve as a catalyst to
energize the state’s Black
political agenda either,
Ford said citing voting sta-
tistics placing Black voter
turnout in the state at Barack Obama Debates Hillary Clinton in Texas - U.S.
about 73 percent compared Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Hillary
to 94 percent nationally. Clinton (D-NY) debated on February 21, 2008 in a race that
See pg 2 was very heated.
U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and
Michelle Obama, his wife, attend a rally in
Chicago on the evening of Super Tuesday,
February 5, 2008. The evening ended up a bit
of a split. Obama won more states. Hillary
Clinton won more delegates.
election, according to the
organizer, Dr. Ron
Daniels.
“The State of the Black
World Conference will be
the first great gathering of
Black people from the U.S.
and the Black World after
the election to develop a
priority policy agenda to
present to the new admin-
istration,” says
Daniels, a veteran
political and social
activist. “As the
visionary architect
of the historic
Million Man
March, it is only fit-
ting that the
H o n o r a b l e
Minister Louis Barack Obama Names Joe Biden as his Running Mate-
Farrakhan give the On August 22, 2008, U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)
climatic address at announced in Springfield, IL that U.S. Senator Joe Biden
this milestone gath- Barack Obama Wins the South Carolina Primary-
ering of Black peo- (D-DE) would be his running mate. The announcement
U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and his wife, was made at the Old State Capitol Building, the same
ple.''
The conference, to Michelle Obama, celebrate after his win in the South place where Obama announced his run in February 2007.
be held at New Carolina primary during his bid for the presidency of Featured here are Barack and Michelle Obama (l) and Joe
Orleans’ Ernest the United States. The date was January 26, 2008. and Jill Biden (r).
Morial Convention
Ceter and Astor
See pg 2
2-November 12, 2008 The Chronicle

Race Relations Are High For Hopes

(BlackDoctor.org) -- will resolve its racial problems at George Mason University
According to a USATO- rose to a historic level. Two- in suburban Virginia. "And I As a result of his election, 28%
DAY/Gallup Poll that was thirds of Americans predict think that there are lots and say race relations in the coun-
taken the day after Barack that relations between blacks lots of people who say, 'Damn, try will get a lot better; 42% say
Obama won, the election and whites "will eventually be we're not as racist as we they will get a little better.
inspired optimistic views of worked out" in the United thought we were,' so they're
the future race relations in the States, by far the highest num- pleased." Obama on Thursday received
U.S. ber since Gallup first asked the his first top-level security brief-
question in the midst of the Two-thirds of Americans — ing — the same daily briefing
Confidence that the nation civil rights struggle in 1963. significantly more than the 53% President Bush gets — as he
who voted for the Democratic moved to organize the new
candidate on Tuesday — say administration. He named
they feel "proud" and "opti- Chicago congressman Rahm
Washington Predicts ----------------------------------- mistic" after his victory. Six in Emanuel, a former aide to
cont. from pg 1 10 are "excited." President Clinton, as his chief
of staff.
Those who describe them-
Scarborough in S.C. House Dist. 115 and Leon selves as proud include 50% of The president-elect will meet
Stavrinakis’ retention of his S.C. House Dist. 119 seat, conservatives, 38% of with Bush on Monday in the
Washington added. Republicans and 32% of those Oval Office for their first sub-
The county’s consolidated school board is another area who voted for Republican stantive talks about the finan-
where the political atmosphere often is tense. Though offi- John McCain. cial crisis, the war in Iraq and
cially non-partisan Charleston County’s Consolidated the transition. First lady Laura
School Board often becomes a venue where the terms con- There were negative reactions Bush will give Michelle
servative and progressive serve as substitutes for republi- to Obama's election as well. Obama a tour of the White
can and democrat respectively. Three in 10 describe them- House quarters.
Public schools advocate Arthur Lawrence says however, selves as "pessimistic," and 27%
the ideology of the board’s members or the terms used to say they are "afraid." "We face economic challenges
describe them are of little consequence since they all repre- that will not pause to let a new
sent an educational agenda set by the local business com- The poll of 1,036 adults, taken president settle in," Bush told
munity. Wednesday, has a margin of hundreds of White House
Four new members - two each in the North Area and West error of +/—3 percentage employees.
Ashley - were elected to the board November 4 as incum- points.
bent Toya Hampton Green retained her downtown He promised a seamless
Charleston seat. Those surveyed see Obama's transfer of authority, urging
Lawrence said the new members who are considered pro- election as a seminal moment his staff to help ensure the
gressives will join Green and West Ashley representative in African-American history. Obama team "hits the ground
Ruth Jordan to continue a majority seen as more progres- One in three calls it the most running."
sive than conservative. important advance for blacks
But local developers and business people really control the in the past 100 years. Another To leave a comment, click
Optimism jumped most 38% describe it as one of the here.
school board, “The board members are just figureheads,” among blacks. Five months "Barack didn't elect himself;
Lawrence maintains. “Very little is going to change but the two or three most important
ago, half of African Americans we Americans elected him," advances. By Syleena Johnson, BDO
challenge to the new board will be improving failing predicted the nation eventually says Roger Wilkins, a civil
schools.” That challenge could be addressed by the num- Staff Writer
would solve its racial prob- rights leader and professor of Just one in 10 says it's "not that
ber of charter schools approved by the new board, he said. lems. Now, two-thirds do. history and American culture
The board’s new members were installed Nov. 10. Toya important."
Hampton-Green was elected chairwoman at that meeting.

Ford, Saunders ------------------------------------------

cont. from pg 1
Ford’s perspective was mir-
rored by former Public
Service Commissioner
William ‘Bill’ Saunders
who said in states like
South Carolina and
Georgia where Black com-
munity leaders with per-
sonal agendas supported
staunch conservatives such
as U.S., Sen. Lindsay
Graham and U.S.
Congressman Henry
Brown hope that Black
politics will change is far
fetched.
“Obama ran a good cam-
paign, a hell of a campaign,
that will change things in a
lot of places for other peo-
ple, but in South Carolina
our Black leadership has
its own agenda. We won’t
see political change in this
state until we change our
leadership,” Saunders said.
Charleston State Rep.
David Mack said the
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The Black Vote in 2008
By. Ron Walters When one looks back in camp. One could say the For example, if you voted
Republican Party, the con- NNPA Columnist this history of Black same thing about three early, or by absentee, for
trolling political party in turnout, the highest level Northern states of example, it was often
the state, remains domi- Pardon me if I begin this was in 1964, at 58.6 per- Michigan, Ohio and impossible for someone to
nant. To displace it coali- with a little crowing, since cent, a year before the Pennsylvania. check your ID at the
tions built by Obama’s I attracted considerable Voting Rights Act was Black churches all over the polling station, as is
statewide campaign have heat, months ago, by passed. country were once again, allowed in many states. So
to stay in place and be declaring that Barack This was because of the hotbeds of activism, as this practice should be con-
mobilized. Obama would win this tremendous enthusiasm their buses rolled both for tinued.
“The opportunity exists,” election in a landslide and toward Lyndon Johnson registration drives and for Could Obama have won
he said. “This is just the that the Black vote would who had provided the lead- get-out-the-vote activities without the Black vote?
beginning. A lot of people reach unprecedented lev- ership to pass the 1964 on election day. The day Not really. More than the
came out and had the disci- els. Civil Rights Act. So, a before the election howev- voting was in this.
pline to stand in line. Now Both of these materialized. turnout of 60% of all eligi- er, Barack Obama had a
we need to encourage them So, I will go on to describe ble voters would be his- conference call with Black Dr. Ron Walters is the
to stay in line participating briefly the performance of toric. leaders, many of whom Distinguished Leadership
in things like public educa- the Black vote in this elec- In any case, this perform- were ministers, to stimu- Scholar, Director of the
tion and attending city tion, knowing that it is ance means that no one late them to participate African American
council meetings. They’re always dangerous to talk group can claim to have strongly in turnout activi- Leadership Center and
in line, they just have to statistics this soon after the been the decisive vote in ties. Professor of Government
stay there.” election is over, with votes this landslide because Near the end of the call, and Politics at the
still being counted. But, I Obama won nearly all of they heard Rev. Joseph University of Maryland
will try to give some esti- the demographic groups, Lowery’s moving call for College Park. His latest
mates nevertheless. those under 18-35 and 35-65, them to saddle up, once book is: The Price of
First, the impression that those under $50,000 and again, and help to fulfill Racial Reconciliation,
the Black community those over, and both gen- Dr. Martin Luther King, (Rowman and Littlefield).
PRESIDENT turned out to vote in big
numbers was confirmed by
ders. But about 52 percent
of whites and about the
Jr.’s dream.
In the spirit of this call,
the fact that it reached 25 same number of the elderly after the election, in North
ELECT percent of the total
Democratic vote, given
voted for John McCain.
Therefore,, one must add
Carolina Grammy winning
Pastor, Shirley Caesar-
that the total vote was to the 48 percent of Whites Williams said that, “God
BARACK more than about 125 mil-
lion and Barack Obama
who voted for Barack
Obama, the Black vote and
has vindicated the Black
folks.”
won by more than 52 per- the fact that 65 percent of About 40 percent of the
OBAMA cent.
This was also based on the
Hispanics, 77 percent of
Jews and 55 percent of
new voters were Black and
it was amazing that so
estimate that the black Asians put him over the many Blacks who had
vote turned at a rate of 95 top. never voted before came
percent of those registered The performance of these literally out of the wood-
YES and 60 percent of those eli-
gible. Nevertheless, we
groups was magnified by
the fact that so many of the
work to vote for Obama,
spurred on by the fact that
are not able to claim, as white voters in the conser- now, perhaps a Black per-
WE before, that the Black vote
was the decisive difference
vative rural areas were not
motivated to vote.
son had arrived who, could
truly win the White House
in the election, because the Where the high turnout of if they supported him.
DID ! increase in voting was ele-
vated by all groups.
the Black vote obviously
made a difference was in
About one-third of all early
voters were Black and this
North Carolina and group, together with those
Virginia. Both of these who exercise the absentee
Farrakhan Post ------------------------------------------- states were firmly in the ballots were wise, because
Republican “red state” col- they cut down the long
cont. from pg 1 umn traditionally, but the wait in lines at polling sta-
high turnout of Black vot- tions and as such, cut
Crown Plaza Hotel Nov. 19-23, will come on the heels of a ers, together with a coali- down the voter disfran-
historic election that not only registered millions of new tion of Whites and the chisement tactics that were
Black voters, but inspired thousands to activism. youth vote, surprisingly prepared for them by
Daniels is hoping that excitement not cease after the elec- pushed them into Obama’s Republican operatives.
tion, but rather galvanize into action to hold the new pres-
ident accountable.
“Participants will leave armed with a priority policy agen-
da on Black concerns to constructively engage and influ-
ence the next administration no matter who wins the
White House,'' Daniels says.
Farrakhan is slated to give the final keynote address on
Sunday - “The Call to Faith and Struggle,” says Daniels.
“We are absolutely elated that Minister Farrkahan has
agreed to return to New Orleans for this extraordinary
gathering. His address will be a fitting climax to the
SOBWC given his strong support for the process of build-
ing the Institute of the Black World over the years.”
Other confirmed speakers to appear at the conference
include Bev Smith, syndicated Talk Show Host on the
American Urban Radio Networks; Rev. Al Sharpton,
president, National Action Network; Dr. Julianne
Malveaux, president of Bennett College; Marc Morial,
president/CEO, National Urban League; Rev. Jesse L.
Jackson, president, National Rainbow/Push Coalition;
Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Dean of the
Congressional Black Caucus and chair of the House
Judiciary Committee; Dr. Elsie Scott, President/CEO,
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation; Dr. Maulana
Karenga, Creator of Kwanzaa and professor of Africana
Studies and Chairman of Black Studies at California State
University at Long Beach; Dr. Ronald Walters, professor
of Government and politics, University of Maryland;
Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law Professor; and Danny
Glover, actor and humanitarian.
For further information contact 917.686.0854; toll free
information line: 888.774.2921; Email: sobwc@ibw21.org;
Web Site www.stateoftheblackworld.org.
The Chronicle
President Barack Obama
By. Marc H. Morial
NNPA Columnist
To Be Equal
After the longest and hard-
est fought presidential
campaign in American his-
tory, the votes are now in
and Barack Obama has
been elected the 44th
President of the United
States.
The National Urban
League and its affiliates
congratulate President-
elect Obama, Vice-
President-elect Joe Biden,
and their families for turn-
ing what began as an
improbable journey into an
historic victory for their
party and our country.
We welcome the new
vision they bring to
Washington and pledge to
work with them to tackle
the nation's deepening
domestic challenges,
including the epidemic of
home foreclosures, the cri-
sis in public education as
well as rising unemploy-
ment and poverty that have
hit middle class and urban
Americans especially hard
in recent years.
I would also like to take
this opportunity to con-
gratulate the American
people for voting hope over
fear, overcoming the per-
sistent barrier of race and
electing the first African
American president in our
nation's history.
This is a watershed
moment that renews the
nation's founding promise
of freedom, equality and
He Can't Do it Alone
By. Marian Wright
Edelman
NNPA Columnist
Child Watch
A cartoon published in the
early 1960s depicted a
Black boy saying to a
White boy: ''I'll sell you my
chance to be President of
the United States for a
nickel.''
At the time the cartoon
appeared, Barack Obama
was a toddler. There were
only five Black Members of
Congress and about 300
Black elected officials
nationwide. The Voting
Rights Act hadn't been
passed and the overwhelm-
ing majority of Black
Southerners were disen-
franchised.
It is with great pride that I,
along with Americans of all
races, religions and ethnic
backgrounds across our
vast nation congratulate
President-Elect Obama on
his historic election. His
road to the White House
has led Americans from all
walks of life to embrace a
new hope for national
unity, and this transforma-
tional election offers the
promise of moving the
country in a new direction.
Nov. 4's election is a
reminder that the United
States is still a place of
bold ideas and a beacon of
hope. It says to every child
of color and every poor boy
and girl that you belong
too, and you do have a
future.
Throughout America's his-
tory, race has been a noose
choking our capacity to
Barack Obama
opportunity for all. This
election has shattered what
was once considered an
unbreakable glass ceiling
that has kept so many gen-
erations of minorities and
women from dreaming big
dreams and reaching their
full-potential. Never again
will any young boy or girl
of color in America be
shackled with the awful
certainty of ''not in my life-
time.''
But, while November 4,
2008 will go down as a
turning point in our
nation's history, we should
not be lulled into thinking
that our work is done.
On January 21, the day after
the Obama inauguration,
there will still be big prob-
lems in our communities
and deep divisions in our
country that require not
only the attention of
Washington , but of all of
us. We must seize this
moment to become even
more engaged as citizens in
the work of building an
soar. At a time when we
face a great litany of prob-
lems, it is moving to see the
American people's com-
mon sense and faith trump
fear. It is truly a triumph
that yesterday Americans
voted for competence and a
new vision, regardless of
race.
But President-Elect
Obama cannot do the job
alone. Leaders are only as
good as citizens demand
them to be, and we must
create a citizens' move-
ment that will fight to pro-
vide every child in America
with health coverage, that
will work to end child
poverty, and that will stop
funneling children down a
prison pipeline that threat-
ens to re-segregate our
nation.
Now the real hard work
begins. As President-Elect
Obama charts his course
during this transition peri-
od, I urge him to place our
nation's children at the
center of his administra-
tion's priorities.
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ever more perfect union.
The National Urban
League and its affiliates
stand ready on day-one to
work with the new
Administration, especially
in helping to craft a com-
prehensive urban agenda
that expands opportunity
and unleashes the tremen-
dous untapped potential in
our cities.
During the campaign, can-
didate Obama endorsed
the National Urban
League's Opportunity
Compact, our blueprint for
economic equality. We
look forward to working
with President Obama to
ensure that every person in
America has an equal
opportunity to thrive, earn,
own and prosper. We have
been assured that the
National Urban League
and the interests of Black
America will have a seat at
the table in the Obama
White House.
Finally. let me say to the
young people across this
land, this election was
largely for, of and about
you. Together we have
laid the foundation for a
new era in American poli-
tics and governance that
will require and expect
more from you. More as
students. More as leaders
in your families and com-
munities. More as the
hope of the future. You
have shown by your
involvement, passion and
votes in this election that
you are up to the task. That
too is worth celebrating.
Marian Wright Edelman
We must fight to create a
level playing field for every
child in every corner of
America and invest in our
human capital, which will
determine the vibrancy of
America`s leadership in
the new century. It is a new
day in America, and it is a
time for all of us to step
forward together for chil-
dren since they own the
future.
Jackson and Sharpton Say Their
Activist Roles Will Not Change
By. Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Editor-in-Chief
W A S H I N G T O N
(NNPA) – The Revs. Jesse
Jackson and Al Sharpton,
viewed as perhaps the
highest profiled civil rights
leaders in the nation, both
say their roles will not
change as America beholds
its first Black president.
“The issues haven’t gone
away,” says Sharpton.
“Barack Obama said this is
the beginning of change.
This is not change itself.
It’s almost insulting to act
like Blacks should now
shut up just because we
have a Black president.”
In an interview, Sharpton
was responding to widely
held perceptions and
debates by pundits and TV
personalities that
President-Elect Barack
Obama will now become
America’s new Black
Leader.
Both Jackson and
Sharpton, having been
presidential candidates
themselves, said in inter-
views that while they are
celebrating the historic
election, it is ridiculous to
think that a sitting presi-
dent could single-handedly
eliminate the voluminous
problems in the Black com-
munity.
Illustrating, Jackson com-
pared the anticipation of
the Obama to another big
day in Black history.
“It's the biggest day since
Dec. 31, 1862,” when slaves
awaited the signing of the
E m a n c i p a t i o n
Proclamation.
“After 246 years of slavery,
we hoped for an
E m a n c i p a t i o n
Proclamation. Lincoln
signed the order the next
day, but still they had to
wait until the 13th amend-
ment in 1865 to get free.”
Jackson explains, “This is
the beginning of a strug-
gle. What we want now is
we want the playing field
even. We want civil rights
laws enforced and funded
for all Americans. Just to
even the playing field
would be a massive step
toward a more perfect
union.”
Still pride in and affinity
for the nation’s first Black
president and the magnani-
mous stride that he repre-
sents will cause traditional
rights leaders to reserve
judgment and not act hasti-
ly toward him.
“Sure we will be patient
with and sensitive to
President Barack because
he is our candidate and we
are utterly fascinated with
him,” Jackson said.
“There’s no question about
that. But, we must contin-
ue our quest to address the
success starts here
November 12, 2008- 3
Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton
issues of pain and crisis.” here was this guy standing
Jackson says Obama will there in all of his majesty
make their jobs much easi- giving leadership to the
er. world,” he said. “It was
“When you have a good overwhelming to me and I
president who is positive, just wished Medgar Evers
you tend to get remedy,” he or Dr. King could have
says. “When you have a guy been there just for a minute
like Bush, who is hostile, to see the results of their
you tend to get rejection.” work. They were redeemed
Widely seen on national that night. The marchers
television with tears and the martyrs and the
streaking his face at the murdered - they were
Chicago victory celebra- redeemed that night.''
tion, Jackson told what he Among those who were
was thinking at that there among the civil right-
moment: sprotestors of the 60s was
“I looked at Barack stand- the Rev. Joseph Lowery,
ing there in all of the who co-founded the
majesty…I saw children in Southern Christian
Kenya and Haiti and Leadership Conference
Europe all riding on his alongside Dr. King. An
every word. It was a joy. avid Obama supporter
But, then the journey to throughout the entire cam-
get us there was what real- paign, Lowery said after
ly broke me down,” he said. the election that civil
He reflected on civil rights rights leaders must now
leaders and activists who stay the course:
were killed, beaten and bit- “We must continue to
ten by dogs.
“After all these struggles,
speak truth to power no
matter what color power
is.”
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Veterans Day
REFLECTIONS OF THE MEKONG
VUNG TAU, South Vietnam -- Although the dateline for
this piece is a fiction, the remembrance of Vietnam came
back with a rush as if the Fall winds were holding back the
approaching chill. The memory of Vietnam came to claim
me as if it had moved time from point zero to now, crossed
the monsoon rains to Bear Cat and Cam Rahn Bay, passed
through Saigon and found a frightened sailor waiting for
a flight out of hell. I don’t need television to remind me of
the grieving voices, to recollect how it was and how it is
now.
After a while, the people vanish and their angular faces
become vague and what they did to control the anxiety of
death is gone. Even fear is as difficult to recall as pain once
the suffering stops. It is then that a man appreciates my glad-
ness of living. We all must carry our personal burdens and
there are no porters anywhere to assist Vietnam veterans
who are persecuted by private anguish. Even at this late date
there is so much you take from a war that the memories
evade you but, abruptly, it is clear as it ever was.
In my time I have worked all the news beats. I know the
backrooms of police stations in the big towns and horrified
villages ashamed of obscene atrocities in the Mekong Delta
of Vietnam. There have been worst human disasters than
Mai Lai and other villages in that far off land that I rather
forget, but can’t. There is the memory of a Viet Cong snap-
per squad soldier sighing as the last act of life happened in
the lungs of a man already dead. I have seen the stomachs of
young Americans, Black and white, holding their guts in
their hands and a puzzled look in their eyes and asking why?
It is then that man appreciates the calmness of Colonial
Lake, a late evening stroll down King Street or rapping with
a tourist on a corner free of artillery fire. I know there is cor-
ruption in many places and many who are abused when
seeking equality of life, but I have seen too many dead men
in city streets and the rice flats of Vietnam not to welcome
the reprieve of living.
We were in Dong Tam, Vietnam. It was a Charleston
kind of day in another year gone by and the waterways,
jutting like sprouts in a sugarcane field, was just as mean
and dangerous as I-26 on a rainslick day. I had just
grabbed a ride aboard a helicopter and caught up with a
9th Infantry Division platoon that was heading downriv-
er at one a.m. and deep into Viet Cong territory over a
watery highway dubbed “Route 66.” It was recoilless
rifle fire and rockets that hit our navy armored troop
carrier and to this day I always say a small prayer of
thanks when I stooped to pick up my camera and tape
recorder and a rocket destroyed the steel railing where I
stood. I also wonder about how the parents of Seaman
Albert Watson of Chicago feel this week as television
replay the drama of that conflict, knowing that their
only son was killed in a war never declared.
How many of you will remember that we have a new
Burke High School, but what we didn’t remember was there
would be few Black children living on the peninsular to
attend, thus becoming a countywide school, to the extent
that we were blindsided while we were holding Crab Cracks
and minding the store of nonsense.
It was before the mortars came in. I was part of the
press team and we lay in dusty barracks after chow and
complained about the heat and the food. It was slop and
garbage and they should have court-martialed the cook.
The mess sergeant must have been working for the
Vietcong, giving us stuff like that. “I thought it was beau-
tiful food,” the kid from Kingstree said. He was a young
man and enlisted as soon as they would take him. He was
the only one in the outfit who thought the food was fine.
Even C-rations tasted better, and I detest those portions.
Do you remember how the old-timers bored you on Ashley
and Line when they talked about World War II? They won,
didn’t they? My brother, Tom, sloushed across Europe. Old
men were seized by reverie and dreamed about the senoritas
of Naples. Wars were over, live it up, baby, you may be
looking for a meal at The Crisis Ministry tomorrow.
We were in Da Nang and came out of the sandbagged
tents after the mortars stopped. One of the soldiers
talked to another and began to weep. He dropped his
rifle and his helmet fell off as he shrieked with hysteria.
“His brother got It in the last barrage,” a writer from
Newsweek magazine said. There was silence. No words
could feel the void we all felt.
On this Veterans Day remembrance do you think rap music
is polluting the kid’s growing up? Why is there so much
dope and so many juvenile delinquents? Who prepares for
the next day in class when youngsters are popping a round
ball through hoops past midnight? Kids don’t want to
respect their parents anymore. Our way of life is taking their
desire away from them. We've got all the modern conven-
iences, including a trip to the moon and beyond, don’t we?
You want them to be decent and law-abiding, too?
It came again in Nha Be (Naw Bay). We didn’t have
enough warm beer to go around the first day. There
weren’t enough of anything. I went downriver that night
aboard a armored hospital boat captained by a Black
Navy boatswain’s mate first-class named Al Buster from
Norfolk, Va. He laughed and joked and we spent the
night on the portable flight deck rigged up to take helos
with their dead and injured. It was a well-spread rumor
that the Viet Cong would never attack a Navy boat If
they saw a Black man in sight. You don’t sleep in the
dark and musty darkness of the delta and we spent the
jittery hours discussing family, sex and more sex. We
pulled out the next morning about 5 a.m. and a gunboat
crew, all-white, replaced us as we returned to our new
position. The call came over the radio 40 minutes later to
return to our former position to aid and pick up casual-
ties. The crew has been nearly wiped out. You must be
lucky to last. Being Black didn’t hurt.
So I sit here, safe in the community of Charleston, street
lights frolicking in lucid reflections, and rejoice in a small
way, because I still remember the river boats snaking up the
Long Tau where I first heard the whining of a B-40 rocket.
My notes are gone, but where is the chaplain who brought in
the old Vietnamese farmer from his mortar-torn rice paddy?
He was numb with fear and dumb with it and he shook and
wept but this eyes were tearless as if he had used up all the
sorrow left in the world.
All this I know and after Hussein it was supposed to be fin-
ished. But there are still Hussein’s on earth and kids must
die and hurt because of their insane visions. Will President
Bush’s visit to another military base solve or heal the pain?
It was never over. When will it end? The statesmen argue in
their elegant ways, following a protocol of nonsense. And
then the young men die, one at a time, the world ending for
the dead, who are forever beyond the help of science and
It’s a
time...!
by Toby Smith
From Henning, Tennessee, to
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Wow…
In considering the magnitude of the historic election of
President-elect Barak Obama, many thoughts have been
swirling around in my head…Okay, nothing sensible
swirled on November 5th because, well, weren’t we all a
bit sleep deprived, or in a daze…a wonderfully happy and
ecstatic daze? By Thursday, November 6th, I had begun
to wax nostalgic about another epic event, “Roots.”
Go back with me for just a moment, or pull out the
DVDs…
Remember when Kunta Kinte’s family finally left the plan-
tation and moved to Henning, Tennessee? Fiddler,
(Kunta’s grandson) immortalized by one of the greatest
actors of our time, Lou Gossett, Jr., had saved lots of
money -- no doubt from cock fighting -- and purchased
land for the family to do their own thing, to farm, to sell
their produce and to keep the cash. As the families in the
battered, covered-wagon caravans descended to the
grounds of their new home, they didn’t remain standing
long; instead, they dropped to their knees to give thanks,
to God first, and then to the memory of their ancestor,
Kunta Kinte, who, 7 generations earlier, while fighting his
slave captors along the shores of West Africa, cemented
the seed of freedom in his heart.
Author Alex Haley’s family became our family and his
quest to finish their story became ours -- as his family
expanded and conquered their individual corners of des-
tiny, ours did likewise. African-American families today
have artists, bankers, lawyers, doctors, dancers, dentists,
clergymen, accountants, actors and athletes.
We have grown and done well – no question – but on
November 4th at 10:00 pm., we moved again, to a place we
have never been before…to a place we have driven by and
wondered what it’s like inside… to a place that we have
seen many people come and go, but we had to keep walk-
ing. We could visit, but not stay. That changed on election
night.
This symbolic journey, a representational move, from
Henning, Tennessee, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the
final chapter of our collective stories - we have made it to
place of believing that we can, should, will and have every
reason to keep trying!
Just as Fiddler and company dropped to their knees upon
their arrival so did we on election night, and according to
some estimates, as many as 300 million people – from all
walks of life and political disciplines -- marveled at the
moment, and that was in this country alone. Does anybody
really know how many people on the planet witnessed that
watershed moment?
What we do know is this: For the Haley ancestors, the
move to Henning, Tennessee, represented a deep shift, a
cataclysmic move, a defining break from the past, and that
break opened the door to new ideas, traditions, ways of
operating and prospering, and most resoundingly a new
perspective about potential.
Going one step further, the move to 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue – real for a few, symbolic to the rest – can be
likened to the rumbling of the earth’s tectonic plates. No
one really knows what happened exactly, but you felt it and
looked for the impact on the surface. On November 4th
we watched old surface realities shed their skin, like a
snake on a rock. Left behind were tired and equally played
out mantras: “It’s not possible;” “It will never happen;”
“They won’t let it come to pass;” “My vote doesn’t count;” “I
can’t win;” “They say there’s no point;” and “It doesn’t mat-
ter what we do, nothing will ever change.” Embraced in
their place was potential personified. Potential, not fear
or the unwillingness to believe, is now on display and the
door to the greatness within is open and can’t be closed.
That’s why we cried, clapped and cheered so hard –
because we always knew we could if given a chance – and
then we cried, clapped, celebrated, danced and cheered all
the more because the good Lord blessed us to see it come
to pass, to see a seed mature and blossom.
On January 20, 2009, Barak Obama will be sworn in as the
44th President of the United States and he, along with his
family, will take up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue, and the tears will flow again because of the
moment’s significance, certainly, but on another level, a
deeper level, we’ll weep because of the realization that the
seeds of greatness were always there, waiting to be recog-
nized, waiting to take their place, waiting to bloom.
Kunta Kinte knew what he should be – a free man.
Circumstances, even the most horrific, didn’t change what
we he wanted – freedom – and because of his dogged
determination to reach his goal – to live and enjoy life as a
free man – a nation had to change the way it did business
to make room for his vision, which was passed on to each
successive generation. On November 4th, while the world
watched, this nation made a collective decision to change
the way it does business to make room for the vision of the
man who, with a keen sense of who he is, and an equal por-
tion of confidence in his abilities, will assume the reins of
leadership.
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I guess it’s not wise to loose ourselves in sheer joy: Do you
remember the trials Fiddler and his family faced in
Henning, Tennessee? Well, it’s a given that President-
elect Obama will face a multitude of storms on
Pennsylvania Avenue – in fact, some are jockeying for posi-
tion even now. Not to worry though, we know a little
sumpin’ sumpin’ about storms – they pass. One final news
flash: As more seeds of greatness awaken to recognition,
more shifts and moves are imminent….
treaty. I was never in Iraq but death is death anywhere, and
were you ever in an aid station when the morphine ran out.
I hope you are spared that.
We were caught in a river Inlet of the narrow expanse of
Route 66. The foot soldiers were tensed for the battle
sure to come. The silence was broken with machine gun
fire and hand grenades tossed from the jungle-like shore.
“Lay down,” a soldier said to me. “I’ll lay on top of you.”
He didn’t know me, he knew I was scared. I was a
stranger who had tagged along carrying a camera and
tape recorder. No one has ever offered to do more for me.
I lost my notes In the battle. I don’t know his name. I’ve
never seen him again.
I tried, I think about him often and I wonder what that
white soldier felt about protecting a Black sailor he had
never seen before. To him it didn’t matter.
Who is concerned about the dead in the soil of Vietnam,
Iraq, Afghanistan and what about Pakistan? Who cares
about what’s happening in this village while lilies cover the
graves of fighting men in a foreign land? Blessed are the
foot soldiers and Navymen of Vietnam. They are dead. You
are living. Is there a difference as we maintain a spectator’s
existence? Mercy.
The Chronicle
Who
Asked
Me?
by Beverly Gadson-Birch
WAKE ME, SHAKE ME;
AM I DREAMING OR WHAT?
It was Tuesday evening, November 4, 2008, I along with
millions of Americans waited anxiously for the news that would
transform our lives forever. I was way too tired from the day’s
activities to head over to the Longshoreman’s Hall to watch the
results with friends; so, I settled in at home to watch the results.
History was about to be made. I prayed and prayed and prayed. I
thought about those who died for this moment. It was no time to
sleep. I thought about the horrific deaths of three freedom fight-
ers from the north, Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney, who had
volunteered to go south in 1964 to help with Project Freedom
Summer. It was a youth movement and many were college stu-
dents. Schwerner and Goodman were two Jews from New York.
Chaney was an African American who hailed from Mississippi
and returned to help with the voter registration project. Project
Freedom Summer registered thousands of disenfranchised
Mississippians who were unhappy with the Democratic Party and
left to form the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party out of
protest.
In between the tears and the states piling up in favor of
Obama, I thought about the 1963 bombing of four little girls while
attending Sunday School at the Sixteen Avenue Baptist Church
in Birmingham, Alabama and wondered why 39% of the votes
went to Obama and 61% to McCain. In my beloved state of South
Carolina, Obama received 45% percent of the votes and McCain
54%. I was disappointed but not surprised at the outcome. I was
hoping we could get beyond the Confederate Flag and Dixie and
move into a new era of change. I thought about the Black man
whose body was dragged apart behind a truck in Texas and about
the Black slave lady who was raffled off in Chicago. I thought
about the slaves who never made it across the ocean on slave ships
due to illness or death and were tossed overboard. I thought
about Brown vs. the Board of Education and Plessy vs. Ferguson
decisions. And I thought about Dr. Martin L. King dream that
his
four children be “judged by the content of their character and not
their skin”. I thought about Frederick Douglas, Thurgood
Marshall, Harriett Tubman, Esau Jenkins, Malcolm X, Angela
Davis, Septima Clark, Victoria DeLee, Gene Ham, and “Castro”.
As I watched the results roll in, tears rolled down my cheeks.
Victory was destined from the outset. And for the first time in the
history of this country, an African American would actually
become President. The possibility was rapidly evolving into reali-
ty. Three key states that generally decide an election, Ohio,
Florida and Pennsylvania, turned blue for Obama. The announce-
ment came. It was official. Barack Obama will become the 44th
President of the United States of America. Thousands of voters
exuberantly awaited election results in Grant Park in Chicago,
Time Square in New York and every corner of the world. Then
the moment came and folks just went crazy. Even crazy folks got
crazier as they wrapped their arms around strangers and sobbed.
As exhilarating as the moment may have been, the crowds never
lost control. It was time to reflect and savor the victory.
The victory is not a black or white, Republican or Democrat,
but it is for all of those soothsayer, naysayer, and dey sayer. Dey
sayer said “the time is not right”, “he ain’t ready”, “he is a Muslim”,
“he needs some more experience”, “he doesn’t say the Pledge of
Allegience”, “he doesn’t wear the American flag on his lapel”, “his
wife is too black”. Well, y’all tell “dey sayers” that I say, it was out
of their hands from the very beginning.
We cannot continue to blame other folks for our shortcom-
ings because they have atoned through their vote. Obama’s victo-
ry is the people’s victory. What does the Obama victory mean to
us as a people and how do we move forward? It means that we
must change the way we view ourselves. It means that young men
need to pull their pants up on their butts, tuck their shirts in their
pants and understand that they, too, can be President or anything
else if they stay in school and prepare their minds. It means young
ladies should demand respect from their significant other and stop
allowing men to use and abuse them. It means shedding those
video games for books and library cards. It means accepting your-
self as is. Stars are made, not born. Athletes are made, not born.
You don’t need to be a blond, red hair or blue haired to be beauti-
ful. Beauty comes from within and radiate to the outside. Be the
person that you were
meant to be. President-Elect Obama and his wife have been
checked out thoroughly and found to be squeaky clean. Folks
tried to dig up everything they could but they couldn’t find any-
thing so they started making up stuff. Clean up your life; get back
in the game. President-Elect Obama respects his wife and puts his
children first. You can do the same. Put down your weapons.
Stop selling drugs. Get off the street corners and find a job. Stop
disowning your children. Find out where they are and be involved
in their lives. Help your children with their homework and they
will want to work hard to get good grades. Take the time to talk
to your children. Listen to what they have to say. Take them on
trips that will enhance their learning and social development.
We were dealt a losing hand but we stayed in the game long
enough to win. I have been singing an oldie by the Four Tops
since Tuesday night. Y’all baby boomers remember “Shake Me,
Wake Me”. It goes something like this: “shake me, wake me when
it’s over, somebody tell me that I am dreaming’ And wake me
when it is over.” The song is really about a lady leaving her lover
for another man. Analogous, I can’t believe that I am finally rid-
ding myself of Bush for another man—Barack Obama. And I say
to you my Black Brothers and Sisters, Wake up. You are not
dreaming. It’s real. We have work to do. Our time has come.
Obama can’t do the awesome work that is before him without you
working to help him bring about change. After all, that's why we
voted for Obama. It was time for a change.
The Chronicle
We Still Have More Work to Do
As By A. Peter Lawrence
I
See It revealed
Election
that
Day
many
Americans embrace Barack
Hakim Abdul-Ali Obama’s platform of
change and chose him as
our country’s first African
Lonely Nights of Facing Realities American President. This
victory is an indication that
There are times in life when some folks in “hue-manity” recognize our nation is making
that sometimes they’ve been “used” by another individual, or indi- strides in terms of race and
viduals, in this living process. Sometimes, it can be a hurting feel- ethnicity. Many conserva-
ing in the most painful and hurting sense of the experience called tive states that were
“being tested.” claimed by George W.
You can rest assured that the games of lies, dishonesty and deceit Bush in the 2004 Election,
which “hue-mans” perform on one another is as old as time itself. I this time were won by Sen.
guess that’s why it never surprises me how shock and awe are the Obama. Among them were
only terms that most folks use when they find out that they’ve been Florida, North Carolina,
“had” by someone they thought close to them. and Virginia. Registered
Modernity in its political correctness today simply refers to this voters turned out in droves
experience as betrayal. Some of the deceased “colored” folk in in this historic win.
Black (“our-storical”) America used to call it being “had,” and that President-Elect Obama’s
is the most appropriate term to use. I like it. win should be considered
The old “colored” folk of Black America past, especially the wise an indicator that many
sisters of the culture, could tell a joker of betrayal from another Americans are looking
useless card in the deck of life in a heartbeat of an instant. One of beyond race and creed in
these ladies, who was my mother, would utter the term “Lonely choosing a candidate and
Nights in Facing Realities” whenever she’d discover that someone had no problem electing a
was or had been playing a mental game of deceit with her. Black person to lead our
Before I continue on, I must offer that by profession my mom was nation.
a dedicated schoolteacher, wife, mother and I was an only child.
This made me always in full ear shout of much valuable on-hands On Election night,
insight into some life’s most pressing mental head games that were I watched the news anchor
being in her world of existences. announce that Barack
Being from the South, and a personal student of her own moth- Obama has become our
er’s teaching, my mother would expertly mix advice with the prac- nation’s 44th President.
tical realties and the spiritual happenings and, sometimes, the aca- But while my eyes were
demically complex with the unexpected occurrences in solving the welling with tears of joy
riddles of “hue-man” habits and patterns. My mother was pro- and pride, they couldn’t
found at this. help but capture the divide
And by being my mother’s student ( many times when I had no that still exists in the
choice in the matter), she’d say things to me that at that time had United States. When the
no relevance to my full comprehension of life’s scheme of opera- news program displayed
tion. But somehow, and from somewhere, she’d lay down the the map of the United
foundation for me to evaluate people and life’s difficulties like no States to show how
one else has or could for me in my way of sensing the “realties” of America voted, you will
life. notice that the clear major-
In describing these hard times to come, my mother would call ity of southern states could
them lonely spaces in a person’s heart, mind and soul. That’s deep not be swayed by the candi-
now as I write, so you only image how penetrating it must have date of hope and change.
been to me back then when I couldn’t sense, nor estimate, what While swing states like
the pain of what a lonely realty was or is.
I remember on one occasion in particular when my mother would
say that “smiling faces sometimes tell lies,” and she went on to
explain to me about what this meant and what it could lead to. It “That All
was a long time ago when I heard the explanation, but I can recall
it like it was yesterday’s main topic of conversation.
She said, “My dear son, beware of some folks who’ll always grin
Men are
and smile in and to your face, and the (very) next moment that they
leave your sight, they’ll stab you right in your back.” The impact of
that expression alone would take me a lifetime of painful experi-
Created
ences for me to remember, learn and know about some “colored”
folk in my worlds of existences.
Then my mother said that when these smiling faces of deceit do
Equal”
what they do, they leave you isolated and bewildered by their,
seemingly, uncaring natures as they move on to their next victim in
life. When this happens, she said also that it was like experiencing By Rev. Charles H. Brown
“Lonely Nights in Facing Realities.”
My mother, a very strong, proud and educated African-American The “self evidence” that
woman, told me to always watch out for the “real” qualities in a these words are truth and
“hue-man” being. She also taught me to watch out for the smiling that no matter what your
faced sneaky ones in life who only set you up for the kill as they stab background, your race,
you in the back telling lies about you, me and whoever else they your economic status, the
can think of. color of your skin, we are
“Life is a brutal force field to live in, my son, if you don’t recognize all equal, in the sight of
the games that some people employ,” was one of Mom’s favorite God, our Maker and
come backs to complete a definitive teaching lesson that she’d edu- Redeemer.
cate me about, her chief student at home. I’ve heard her say a hun-
dred times or more in my sense of recalls that “Lonely Nights in Having been taught in
Facing Realities” also meant that it’s time to access where your segregated schools, being
head’s at, after you’ve been “had,” played or used. brought up in a community
From one dynamic vantage teaching point to another, Mom in which, the color of your
would always have a spiritual solution to any troubling complexity skin was a limiting factor,
of the pressing moment or time. She’d tell me that life’s realities are even in your own race, in a
sometimes lonely to the soul that has little belief, but to one who state which kept you out of
has much faith, it ain’t (sic) nothing but a little something, and the major institutions of
God can take care of that and any other difficulty anytime He higher learning because
wants to. you were a second class,
citizen, we have come “full
That “reality” from one of the many of the lessons that my mother
taught me about being around two-faced people earlier on in my circle”. The God we serve
beginning life’s experiences has made me become aware of the
dangerous mind games that some people weave trying to destroy
has proven to us again that
if we wait on Him, all of
the truths of His Word will
me, you and who knows else. It can only be described for all of us
aware souls as “Lonely Nights in facing Realities.” come to pass.
She believed that life is what it is, and there aren’t too many oppor-
tunities in life that a fool gets to redeem himself or herself in the The evidence is before
world of broken hearts and shattered realities. It’s, again, for me us today and will live in
another voyage to Atlantis of despair if you don’t keep your head, infamy. Now it will be easy
soul and spirit up. and truthful, and meaning-
That’s where the value of true faith, family and friends play such a ful to stand before a class-
vital role in aiding any person who has been deceived in the deceit- room full of students of all
ful games of being “had,” played or used by someone who you races and declare, “All men
thought was on your team or side. It’s a hurtful lonely walk are created equal”, declare
through the days and nights of uncertainties of all of the trials that that the opportunities
we have to face in the realties of life’s many unexpected uncertain- afforded to one are avail-
able to all. No matter what
ties.
There’s no need to face life with a sense of dread or despair, the color of your skin, the
social or economic back-
because faith, like my mother said, is the stuff that will get you
through the lonely nights and pressing times. When I look back at ground of your family,
whether foreign or domes-
what my mom, grandmother and other folk of the African
Diaspora had to go through in “Facing Their Lonely Nights of tic, you can achieve, you
Realities,” I feel blessed to be of and from the seed of “our” ances- can be successful, you can
tors who knew what keeping the faith was all about in overcoming rise to the fullest of your
the obstacles of racism and bigotry. potential in this, the land
They held their heads high with unified faith and dignified of the free and the home of
courage while enduring the many “Lonely Nights of Facing the brave.
Realities.” From their generation to ours, Black unity, strength
and wisdom has always been evident in processing the lonely It is also time for all of
nights of struggle in order to survive and achieve what we have us to put away our negative
earned as a respectful ethnic group in this potentially great nation attitudes and ways of doing
that we all call America. things, and adopt positive
And while on that point, I know my mom would have something actions towards how we
meaningful and good to say to President-elect Barack Obama in raise and nurture children.
his monumental hour. She’s dead now, but I can only image that It is time to take the
she’d tell him with certainty to always pray and to keep the faith, responsibility of raising a
especially during his many “Lonely Nights of Facing Realities.” family as seriously as life
That sounds like grand advice to me and, hopefully, to you also itself. It is time for families
as we endure our own “Lonely Nights of Facing Realities.” For and churches, and govern-
today, maintain the faith and be strong in the face of life’s test, and ment, and organizations, at
that’s, “As I See It.” all levels to take back our
streets, our corners, and
our neighborhoods and live
in harmony, one with the
other.
The achievement of
President-elect Barrack
O’Bama should be a rally-
ing call to greater things to
come. Not for one race or
ethnic group but for God’s
people all over the world,
no matter their color, their
educational or economic
background, nor the part
of the world from which
they have come.
Artthur Lawrence
Ohio and Pennsylvania
elected Obama, Alabama,
Mississippi, Kentucky,
Georgia and yes, South
Carolina voted against
Obama by a clear majority.
Just like in 1861, when
southern states seceded
from the Union in the wake
of the Civil War, they
chose a similar detour on
November 4th.
Political scientists
say that when a country in
is in turmoil economically
(as we are currently), regis-
tered voters always vote
out the current political
party running the country
and give the opposing
party a chance to lead.
This happened in
November, 2006, when
voters replaced their
Republican congressmen
with Democrats, giving the
Democratic Party a majori-
ty in the US House and
Senate. But when it came
We Have Pled Our Own Cause
By. Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Editor-in-Chief
On Election Day, I was
riding in a cab on Georgia
Avenue in Washington,
D.C. when I saw, at a red
light, about a dozen
African-American kinder-
gartners crossing in front
of the car.
There was one adult lead-
ing the way and another
instructing from behind.
It was the woman watch-
ing carefully over the chil-
dren from behind who
called out to them a
momentous remark. She
said, “Hey president, vice
president, secretary of
state, national security
advisor! I know you’re all
in there. Get on across that
road!”
At that time, many had not
even voted, the polls were
not nearly closed. Yet,
there was already an
atmospheric hope and a
belief that defied history. It
seems just about everybody
I talked to in the few days
leading up to the election
of Sen. Barack Obama as
America’s first Black presi-
dent – like the kinder-
garten teacher - had an
unexplained certainty
about what was about to
happen.
It’s called faith - the “sub-
stance of those things
hoped for.”
That faith has for years
been reflected in the edito-
rials and on the front pages
of Black newspapers across
the nation, which – like the
kindergarten teacher –
have for nearly two cen-
turies called “those things
that be not as though they
were.”
In 1827 when John B.
Russwurm and Samuel
Cornish founded
“Freedom’s Journal”, they
declared, “We wish to
plead our own cause. Too
long have others spoken for
us.”
They dared to believe and;
in fact, they dared to know
that someday by their
pushing and prodding and
commanding justice – even
when perceptually behind –
Black people would some
day rise.
In recent weeks, I have
noticed that same historic
defiance in those modern
day newspapers that make
up the Black Press of
America. From the
Chicago Crusader’s “In
just a few days we can
make history and change
the nation” to the Los
Angeles Sentinel’s “The
vote of our lifetime” to the
hundreds of other Black
newspapers, editors and
publishers across America,
you have led by the spirit of
faith – not just hope – dar-
ing to rally the troops,
articulating the vision of
November 12, 2008-5
to this Presidential elec- ished in the fight for Civil
tion, too many of our and Voting Rights, the
southern folks cannot
bring themselves to vote a
humility and pain of the
fire hoses and police dogs,
Black man to the Oval the tears we shed in the
Office. It appears that a struggle for equal rights
lot of people still cannot for every American.
look past race rather than
the actual issues that affect We must never forget these
our country. transgressions. And we
must teach our children
As Election Day and ourselves to not take
approached, I was confi- for granted the Civil
dent yet cautious in my Rights we African
anticipation of Obama’s Americans have possessed
victory, I was confident for only forty three years in
because clearly Barack this country. Things taken
Obama was the most quali- for granted can slip away
fied of the two candidates. from us. This historic win
My caution was tempered is a mandate for us all to
by an interview I watched raise the bar on how we
on television two weeks think, speak, act and lead.
before the election. A We must work together to
southern white man who do away with the bickering
appeared to be in his for- and hate that eats at the
ties told a news reporter core of our community.
that he could not see him- We must loudly protest the
self voting for “a colored senseless killings of our
man.” This young man was young people, letting our
using an old, offensive youth know that differ-
term to describe a US ences CAN settled without
Congressman who was a fists and guns. Our chil-
Harvard Law Graduate, dren must know that their
and who just happened to dreams should be without
be African-American. limits, and that with Faith
Many of you are and education, they can be
probably saying that the whatever they want to be
bottom line is that Obama when they grow up.
won the election, and that
his loss of those southern President-Elect Barack
states is insignificant now. Obama’s win shall serve as
Obama’s win is indeed a a spring board of the leaps
victory in the struggle of and bounds we can and
racism that has permeated must make as a community
our country since its incep- and as a nation. Let’s live
tion. While we celebrate as an example for those
that, we must remember all who still have the mindset
that happened in the US of the past and bring every
that led to this moment in American to embrace a
history: the countless modern civilization of
number of people who per- unity, hope, and change.
Our future depends on it.
greatness like that kinder-
garten teacher.
But the struggle has never
been left up to one person –
This is why Barack Obama
was elected president. It
was because the Black
even the president of the
United States. So, now is
where a new challenge
Press of America, Black
civil rights organizations,
begins. That challenge –
even as we see Black unem-
Black churches and Black ployment stats in double
colleges and universities
digits and twice that of
refused to doubt that Whites - is to celebrate, but
Americans – Black and
not rest. It is to pray, sup-
White - would someday port, admonish and
heed the united voice of the
encourage our new presi-
believers. dent, but it is also to act as
Given this noble history of
we did on Tuesday and as
leadership, it is crucial now we have for the past 181
that these same institu-
years because ''faith with-
tions and America as a out works is dead.''
whole recognize that it’s
And so, let us now cele-
not over. The rise of brate this moment even as
President-elect Obama is
we continue to plead the
indeed a significant tide cause. We shall not cease
that has lifted the tiny
until we see the fruition of
boats of even the kinder- that noble American ideal:
gartners crossing Georgia
“One nation, indivisible,
Avenue and we are indeed with liberty and justice for
beholding fruit of our long
all.''
and painful labor.
Unemployment Rate
at 14 Year High
Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American
(NNPA) - The nation's unemployment rate bolted to a 14-year
high of 6.5 percent in October as another 240,000 jobs were cut.
The latest release of information by the Labor Department
shows the crucial jobs market deteriorating at an alarmingly
rapid pace. Economists are calling theses numbers proof that the
economy is almost certainly in a recession.
The jobless rate zoomed to 6.5 percent in October from 6.1 per-
cent in September, matching the rate in March 1994. Employers
have cut jobs each month this year.
Unemployment has now surpassed the high seen after the last
recession in 2001. The jobless rate peaked at 6.3 percent in June
2003.
The unemployment rates for adult men, women and Whites
rose. For men, it was 6.3 percent; for women, 5.3 percent;
and Whites, 5.9 percent. It also rose for Hispanics, 8.8 percent.
The jobless rates for teenagers, at 20.6, percent and Blacks, 11.1
percent, remained about the same.The rate for African-
Americans is consistantly in double digits and nearly twice that
of Whites.
Employers got rid of 240,000 jobs in October, marking the 10th
straight month of payroll reductions.
Job losses in August and September turned out to be much
deeper. Employers cut 127,000 positions in August, compared
with 73,000 previously reported. A whopping 284,000 jobs were
axed last month, compared with the 159,000 jobs first reported.
So far this year, a staggering 1.2 million jobs have disappeared.
The employment market is much weaker than economists
expected. They were forecasting the unemployment rate to
climb to 6.3 percent in October and for payrolls to fall by around
200,000.
Job losses were widespread. Factories cut 90,000 jobs, construc-
tion companies got rid of 49,000 jobs, retailers cut payrolls by
38,000, professional and business services reduced employment
by 45,000, financial activities cut 24,000 jobs, and leisure and
hospitality axed 16,000 positions.
President-elect Barack Obama will huddle with economic advis-
ers later on Friday. His team has been in close contact with the
Bush administration to pave the way for a smooth hand-off of
power.
The problems in the economy (which include a housing collapse,
mounting foreclosures, hard-to-get credit and financial market
upheaval) will be waiting for Obama when he assumes office
early next year.
It is being said that the employment woes are likely to get worse.
Many expect the jobless rate to climb to 8 percent, possibly high-
er, next year. In the 1980-1982 recession, the unemployment rate
rose as high as 10.8 percent before inching down.
In an effort to provide relief, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said
Democratsare pushing to enact another round of economic stim-
ulus of around $100 billion.
Information from the Associated Press contributed to this eport.
6- November 12, 2008 The Chronicle

-YOUR HEALTH

Obesity Can Equal Diabetes For
African American Teens
(BlackDoctor.org) --
Obesity amongst the youth
is a growing epidemic in the
United States. In only two
decades the number of over-
weight children and
teenagers has nearly tripled.
According to the Center for
Disease Control and
Prevention, one-third of
U.S. teens are overweight or
at risk of becoming over-
weight. It is estimated that
one-third of the students
that are overweight will
develop serious health prob-
lems over time.
What does that mean to you
as an African American
teenager? When most
teenagers think of obesity or
being overweight they think
of appearance. That may be
a popular concern, but that
is not the most detrimental
of them all. Diabetes, high
blood pressure, respiratory
problems, and liver disease
are all possible results of
obesity. High blood pres-
sure and diabetes are both
diseases that African
Americans are already at
high risk for, and obesity
heightens the chances even
further for developing them.
While genetics and hor-
mone imbalances can cause
obesity in teenagers, the
most common reasons for
obesity in teens are excessive
eating and little to no exer-
cise. Fast food consumption
has risen 500% since 1970.
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food because it’s easy to get and it
tastes good. The average teenager
consumes about three hamburgers
and four fries a week. A Quarter
Pounder with Cheese, a medium
order of French Fries and a medi-
um Coca-Cola combined are 1,100
calories. It is suggested that the
average person consume only
2,000 calories a day to maintain a
healthy lifestyle.
As technology continues to devel-
op, the estimated amount of exer-
cise the average teenager gets is
steadily decreasing. Researchers
site the availability of video games,
the internet, and television as
prime factors for the lack of physi-
cal activity among teenagers. The
average teenager plays three hours
of video games, watches four hours
of television, and surfs the internet
for approximately two hours a day.
That means that nine hours of their
average day, aside from the eight
hours spent in school, are con-
sumed by non-physical activities.
It’s a miracle the average teenager
has time enough to do homework
with this kind of schedule, let alone
exercise.
How do you know if you’re over-
weight? Well, doctors usually cal-
culate your body mass index
(BMI), which is a number based
on your height and weight. You
can calculate your BMI by using
the BlackDoctor.org’s ana-
lyzer. The ideal BMI for the
average person is 18.5 to
24.9. People with BMIs
over 25.0 are considered to
be overweight.
Now that you know
whether you’re overweight
or not, what’s next? If you
are overweight the next step
is gaining control of your
health. Notice, I said gain-
ing control of your health,
not your weight. In order to
gain control of your weight
you most first gain control
of your health. The first step
is to develop good eating
habits. First think about
why you eat. Do you eat
because you are hungry or
because food is readily avail-
able? Try to eat only when
you are hungry and in small
multiple portions. Don’t
feel pressured to eat every-
thing that’s on your plate at
dinner. Eat until you are
full. Don’t continue to eat
after you reach the point of
satisfaction.
As a teen, your parents
probably do most of the
grocery shopping and cook-
ing. This can make it diffi-
cult to eat in a proper man-
ner. Encourage your family
to eat healthier with you.
Doing this will make it easi-
er to achieve your goals.
The moral support from
your family will be a great
motivator.
Five small meals a day is the
suggested amount to be
consumed on a daily basis.
There is nothing wrong
with picking up a quick
snack to satisfy your hungry.
The problem arises based
on what you choose to con-
sume. As I stated earlier,
people tend to eat foods
based on their availability. If
unhealthy foods are not
available then you are less
likely to eat them.
Encourage your parents to
choose fruits and vegetables
over convenience foods,
when grocery shopping,
and to always keep healthy
snacks available. Ask them
to limit sweetened bever-
ages in the house including
those containing fruit juice.
They provide little nutri-
tional value in exchange for
their high calories. Instead
of drinking sweetened bev-
erages try to drink water.
The suggested amount is
eight 8oz glasses per day.
The next step is increasing
your physical activity. I
know this may seem diffi-
cult, but try to limit the
amount of time you surf the
internet and the television
stations. Allot yourself time
to engage in physical activi-
ties. Some people just don’t
like to exercise traditionally.
It may seem like a chore
depending on your outlook
of it. If you are one of those
folks that look at it that way,
try and incorporate fun
activities into your exercise
regime. If you like swim-
ming, do a few laps a couple
a times a week. If you like
being outside, try hiking. If
you love music dance
around your room to your
favorite CDs or try walking
your schools track while lis-
tening to your most upbeat
MP3s. What you do isn’t
what’s important, it’s impor-
tant that you do something
to increase your physical
activity.
100-Year-Old Tells How Far We Have Come
By. Melanie Holmes
Special to the NNPA from the
Philadelphia Tribune
PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) - At
100 years old, Raymond Bowman’s
memory has not failed him in the
least. To this day, he vividly
remembers the bulging welts
whipped into his great-grandfa-
ther’s back, each painful protrusion
an unsightly symbol of slavery’s
sting throughout the Black com-
munity.
But on Tuesday, Nov. 4, Bowman
witnessed the ultimate reparations
in the form of 50 states and a White
House when America elected Sen.
Barack Obama as its first African-
American president.
100-year-old Raymond
Bowman tells the meaning
of Obama's election
Credit: Abdul Sulayman
“I was jubilant,” Bowman said. “It
felt very good to see a Black man
become elected president of the
United States. I didn’t think I’d
ever see that in my life. It’s hard to
believe because there have been so
many things against us.”
Bowman was born in Middletown
on Sept. 16, 1908. When his mother
found a job as a head waitress at
the Roadside Hotel, they moved to
South Philadelphia when he was
around 12 years old.
A serious student, Bowman stud-
ied hard and was accepted to
Central High School in 1923.
Nonetheless, his education did not
make him equal in the eyes of the
segregated city.
“We would leave Central and go to
the movies but we would have the
[light-skinned] girls buy the tickets
because they could pass [for
white],” he said. “That way, we
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“That’s more than we have port of his family, Bowman
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In great health for having Obama was announced the
lived slightly over a century, winner of the presidential
Bowman voted absentee to election.
avoid the trouble of taking his “He picked up the phone
walker or wheelchair to the yelling, ‘We won! We won!’”
polls. she said. “There are so many
“White folks voted for him, people who experienced
too,” he said. “We didn’t put being second class citizens
him in ourselves.” right here in the United
Bowman voted for Obama for States and the City of
the same reason he thought Brotherly Love. Now, we
many people would not. have a Black man [elected
“Because he’s Black,” president] and that’s why
Bowman said. “The fact that I people are so emotional
thought he would be quali- about it.”
fied, that’s not the thing — he’s
Black, he’s like me. I would
have voted for Jesse Jackson
because he was Black.”
Confident that Obama will do
the best job he can, Bowman
looks forward to seeing the
president-elect prove that he
can help the United States as
well as the rest of the world.
At the same time, he admits to
being a little nervous.
“There are so many people in
doubt about a Black man,” he
said. “I hope he’s successful,
but I fear for him. They will
try to kill him just to say ‘we
killed a n----r.’”
Bowman worked on the
Great Lakes for four years and
was a steward for the Pine
Valley Golf Club in
Clemington, N.J., for 31 years.
Additionally, he had a cater-
ing business where he “cooked
all the fine things” and was
known to students as Mr.
''Bulldog'' Bowman during
his time as a non-teaching
assistant (NTA) in the School
District of Philadelphia.
“I was tough, but the kids
respected me,” he said with a
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........HEALTH FOR YOU

Janet Jackson
Battles Migraines
Janet Jackson
(BlackDoctor.org) --
According to her publicists,
Janet Jackson has a "rare form
of migraine called vestibular
migraine or migraine-associat-
ed vertigo." Her diagnosis
prompted the unforeseen can-
cellation of several of her
recent concert dates, but since
then, she's gotten medical
treated for her migraines and
is ready to once again embark
on her elaborate tour.
"She's feeling much better and
is ready to hit the road again to
finish the tour," Janet's manag-
er, Kenneth Crear, says in a
news release. She's getting her
"Rock Witchu" tour back on
track.
What is a vestibular migraine?
rologic abnormality in the
functioning of the back of your
brain.
How are vestibular migraines
treated?
Currently, there is no drug
that specifically treats vestibu-
lar migraines, but there are
drugs that can treat vertigo
and migraine separately
How common are vestibular
migraines?
Vestibular migraines are rare.
It is estimated that only one or
two in a thousand migraine
patients have vestibular
migraines.
Is there an age when vestibular
migraines typically start?
Most people are diagnosed in
their late teens or early 20s, but
it can happen later on in life.
No information is available on
whether Jackson's vestibular
migraines are new or a flare-up
of an existing condition.
If this suddenly occurs out of
the blue and you're over 40,
you need to be seen by your
doctor and they need to make
sure that there's nothing else
going on.
By Candace Hall, BDO Staff
Write
More
Defections Seen
Obesity blamed for doubling rate of diabetes cases
By MIKE STOBBE
ATLANTA (AP) - The
nation's obesity epidemic is
exacting a heavy toll: The rate
of new diabetes cases nearly
doubled in the United States
in the past 10 years, the govern-
ment said Thursday. The
highest rates were in the
South, according to the first
state-by-state review of new
diagnoses. The worst was in
West Virginia, where about 13
in 1,000 adults were diagnosed
with the disease in 2005-07.
The lowest was in Minnesota,
where the rate was 5 in 1,000.
Nationally, the rate of new
cases climbed from about 5 per
1,000 in the mid-1990s to 9 per
1,000 in the middle of this
decade.
Roughly 90 percent of cases
are Type 2 diabetes, the form
linked to obesity.
The findings dovetail with
trends seen in obesity and lack
of exercise - two health meas-
ures where Southern states
also rank at the bottom.
"It isn't surprising the problem
is heaviest in the South - no
pun intended," agreed Matt
Petersen, who oversees data
and statistics for the American
Diabetes Association.
The study, led by Karen
Kirtland of the Centers for
Disease Control and
Prevention, provides an up-to-
date picture of where the dis-
ease is exploding. The infor-
Patients Look Beyond Medicine Cabinets
(NewsUSA) - Many people
are turning to herbal remedies
mation should be a big help as
the government and health
insurance companies decide
where to focus prevention
campaigns, Petersen said.
Diabetes was the nation's sev-
enth-leading cause of death in
2006, according to the CDC.
More than 23 million
Americans have diabetes, and
the number is rapidly growing.
About 1.6 million new cases
were diagnosed among adults
last year.
In Type 2 diabetes, cells do
not properly use insulin, a hor-
mone needed to convert sugar
into energy, and the pancreas
gradually loses its ability to
produce it. The illness can
cause sugar to build up in the
body, leading to complications
such as heart disease, blind-
ness, kidney failure and poor
circulation that leads to foot
amputations.
The study involved a random- Texas and Tennessee had the white.
digit-dialed survey of more highest rates, all at 11 cases per The report asked about diag-
than 260,000 adults. 1,000 or higher. Puerto Rico nosed diabetes only. Because
Participants were asked if they was about as high as West an estimated one in four dia-
had ever been told by a doctor Virginia. Minnesota, Hawaii betics have not been diag-
that they have diabetes, and and Wyoming had the lowest nosed, the findings probably
when the diagnosis was made. rates. underestimate the problem,
The comparisons between It is not entirely clear why said Angela Liese, a diabetes
1995-97 and 2005-07 covered some states were worse than researcher at the University of
only the 33 states for which the others. Older people, blacks South Carolina.
CDC had complete data for and Hispanics tend to have The underestimates may be
both time periods. higher rates of Type 2 dia- particularly bad in the rural
The researchers had data for betes, and the South has large South and other areas where
40 states for the years 2005-07. concentrations of all three patients have trouble getting
West Virginia, South groups. However, West health care, she noted.
Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia is overwhelmingly
University of Chicago
Medical Center plans to study
published in the Cochrane
Review, a journal that analyzes
sant drugs, by increasing sero-

It's an episode of vertigo

Among to treat everything from the the herb's possible anti-tumor medical and scientific studies,
tonin levels in the brain.

before and during migraine.
"Vestibular" refers to the part
of the inner ear that controls
balance, and that vertigo is
dizziness where there is a hal-
lucination of movement.
Vertigo is the feeling that you
or your environment is moving
when no movement occurs.
Imprecisely called dizziness,
the term vertigo is the specific
term used to describe an illu-
sion of movement and can hap-
pen before the migraine starts.
But a vestibular migraine isn't
just about feeling dizzy and
having a migraine. Almost
anyone with migraine may get
dizzy, and that doesn't mean
you have vestibular migraine.
The symptoms of vestibular
migraine also include other
symptoms, such as nausea,
fainting, abnormal eye move-
ments, hearing loss, and weak-
ness in the arms and legs.
How would a vestibular
migraine affect Jackson's per-
formance?
Jackson wanted to resume her
tour earlier, "but she contin-
ued to suffer from vertigo and
could not perform," Crear
says. "She's a world-class
entertainer and needs to be at
the top of her game to give her
fans the show they expect."
What causes vestibular
migraine?
It used to be thought to be due
to a loss of circulation to the
back of the brain, but it's now
believed to be caused by a neu-
Senior Member
of the ANC
Special to the NNPA from
GIN
(GIN) – More senior mem-
bers of the Africa National
Congress (ANC) are quitting
the party over differences with
its direction.
Last week, senior ANC mem-
ber Phillip Dexter and former
ANC Women's caucus parlia-
mentary chairperson Sindiswa
Patricia Kiki Rwexana said
they were leaving with sadness
but complained that the party
had undergone profound
changes since about 2004.
''Today the ANC is very
cold...It depends on which
side you are supporting,” said
Rwexana. .. ''The ANC we
used to know is no more. The
ANC that taught democracy
in South Africa is no
more...that taught respect to
each, respect to the elderly, is
no more.
''Dishonesty has really become
the order of the day,” Dexter
charged. “Most alarming has
been the lies by current ANC
leaders to justify the election
or removal of people to and
from political office.''
The two senior leaders have
reportedly signed on to the
Shikota movement, a new
party convened by former
defence minister Mosiuoa
Lekota and former Gauteng
premier Mbhazima Shilowa .
The party’s policies will cast a
net beyond the rhetoric of rev-
olution to address the needs of
modern-day voters, organisers
common cold to serious dis-
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vent cellular damage.
- American ginseng. An herb
used in medical practice
around the world, American
ginseng has long been stocked
in health food stores and vita-
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Lowcountry Connection
Working Toward More Equitable
Treatment In The Justice System
(NAPSM)-A new campaign
hopes to reverse a disturbing
trend, a trend that predicts
that one in three black males
born today can expect to
spend time in prison during
his lifetime.
According to the Campaign
for Youth Justice, historic dis-
crepancies within the justice
system's treatment of African-
American and white youth
need to be addressed.
"Critical Condition: African-
American Youth in the Justice
System" explains how African-
American youth are continual-
ly faced with unfair criminal
justice policies that result in a
high rate of incarceration in
juvenile and adult correctional
facilities.
Although there is no national
system that collects data on
youth transferred to the adult
system, researchers estimate
that as many as 200,000 youth
are prosecuted as adults each
year. Evidence suggests that
African-American youth are
disproportionately affected by
these laws.
"It is well documented that
African-American youth are
treated more harshly by the
justice system than white
youth for the same offenses, at
all stages in the justice sys-
tem," said NAACP
Washington Bureau director
Hilary O. Shelton.
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• While black youth constitute
only 17 percent of the national
youth population, 43 percent
of all youths detained in juve-
nile detention centers are
African-American.
• Of all youth who are prose-
cuted in the adult system, 62
percent are African-American.
• Black youth are nine times
more likely than white youth
to receive an adult prison sen-
tence.
• Black children were seven
and a half times more likely
than white children to have a
parent in prison.
• Recent estimates are that 20
percent of all black children
have a father with an incarcer-
ation history.
The results of questionnaires
about crime and drug use
answered anonymously by a
large cross section of the youth
community are chilling with
respect to the racial disparities
in the justice system. Overall,
African-American youth do
not engage in more delinquent
behavior than white youth.
While white youth are signifi-
cantly more likely to use and
sell drugs, black youth make
up 60 percent of the young
people detained for drug traf-
ficking. Many black youth end
up in adult court for drug
offenses; 87 percent of those
charged with drug offenses in
adult court are African-
American.
While white youth are more
likely to use and sell drugs,
black youth are more likely to
be detained for trafficking.
-
November 12, 2008 1b
‘Alive & Free’ Steers Youth Away from Violence
By. Alan King nities. while at the same time placing address at the Alive & Free
“I’ve assembled this army, liter- responsibility to reduce the conference.
Special to the NNPA from the ally, around the world; there’s risk of violence on the individ- “I was attracted to the thug
Afro-American Newspapers power in this army,” said Dr. uals themselves; and they pro- and, basically, looking for
Joseph Marshall, founder and vide specific methods and love in all the wrong places
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - president of the Street techniques for individuals and and not fully understanding
Fourteen years ago, Kemba Soldiers National Consortium organizations to prevent vio- what love was; or what a
Smith was serving a 24-and-a- and the Alive & Free lence in themselves and in healthy relationship was; or
half-year sentence on charges Movement, which has been their communities. understanding that I should
of conspiracy, money launder- employed by more than 60 Smith, now 37, had served six- have kept Hampton and my
ing and lying to authorities to anti-violence programs nation- and-a-half years of her prison education a priority while I
protect her boyfriend at the wide. It is utilized in detention sentence when President Bill was there.”
time – Peter Hall, leader of a facilities, schools, community- Clinton granted her clemency
violent drug ring that moved based organizations, after- in 2000 – four years after her Smith’s message resonated
as much as $4 million in school programs and in treat- story first appeared in Emerge with Jearl Ward, who
cocaine and crack cocaine ment facilities. magazine. Since then, she’s attended the conference with
between New York and Street soldiers learn how to been a street soldier sharing his 14- and 16-year-old
Virginia; it was a four-year frame violence at the commu- her story with young people daughters. “That was one of
operation that began in 1989. nity and individual level as across the country. the most powerful points of
Although she was not a major treatable and avoidable; iden- “There was a period of time the entire conference,” said
player in the drug-trafficking tify specific precursors of vio- between high school and col- Ward, a sponsor of the event.
scheme, Smith – who was a lence as avoidable; identify lege where it was a particular It showed “how violence and
student at Hampton young people – especially per- lifestyle that seemed interest- negativity can come to any-
University when she met Hall petrators of violence – as vic- ing to me, despite my mother one’s door.”
– was found guilty by associa- tims of the disease of violence and father and the morals and
tion. rather than as “bad people,” values that they had instilled in
“I could remember feeling this me,” Smith said in her keynote
sense of hopelessness, being
scared to death; it was the first
time I had ever been in trouble
before,” she told more than 40
elected officials, parents and
Calling all String Instrument Players
young people Nov. 7 at the
2nd Annual Alive & Free
Conference held at the historic Burke High School Centennial Celebration
Lake Clifton Campus – home
of both Doris M. Johnson and
Heritage High Schools. The If you attended Burke High School, C. A. Brown High, The High School of
two-day conference included Charleston, Rivers High, Rhett Middle, Immaculate Conception School, or
three workshop topics: Anger, Avery Institute and you play violin, viola, cello or string bass, please con-
Fear and Pain;
Commandments of Violence; tact cello@4morestrings.com to express your interest in participating in a
and Rules for Living and Risk string ensemble that will be a part of the
Factors.
“It really should be stuff like
that everyday,” said Brian
Tibbs, 17, a junior at Heritage Burke High School
High School. “If you had stuff
Centennial Celebration in 2010
like this in your life, you won’t
have to turn to stupid stuff;
most of the stuff is common
sense.” Come join us for a great program. We are starting now to
Based on the premise that vio-
lence is a social disease, the have ample time for preparation. Out-of-towners are invit-
Alive & Free Movement was
created as a cure to identify
ed to participate. Please provide you name, contact
and combat the risk factors
information by phone, cell, and e-mail and indicate the
and what is called “sympto-
matic thinking” that put young instrument and skill level.
people at risk of violence.
Thanks!!!
“Our children have been neg-
lected by us and we need, as a
community, to turn around
and let our children know that
we care about them; that the
needless deaths that are going
on need to stop; and we need
to give them a structure for
how society is supposed to
function,” said Nzinga
Oneferua, co-founder of Safe
Healing Foundation (SHF) –
a nonprofit that brings voca-
tional, entrepreneurial and vio-
lence prevention training, plus
modeling, poetry and other
activities to its after-school
program that services the
Lake Clifton campus.
Since 2006, Alive & Free has
focused on recruiting, teach-
ing and developing street sol-
diers – people committed to
eliminating violence in their
own lives and in their commu-
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Education, Enrichment at 4 P.M.
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lots more fun . . .When: the name of Jesus higher and By ALLEN G. BREED American flags and raising At Hungary Road Baptist
higher. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - their hands to the heavens. Church in a working-class
Every Thursday, Where: Jubilation, pride and relief per- "God has vindicated the black suburb of Richmond, Va., the
705 King Street, Time: Continuing In The Master's meated pews and pulpits at folk," the Rev. Shirley Caesar- service was part celebration,
Joy, predominantly black churches Williams said as a member of part history lesson, led by a
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. across the country on the first her Raleigh congregation,
Rev. Herman Smalls, Pastor pastor who had felt the sting of
Cost: NO Sis. Rebecca Pinckey, Sunday after Barack Obama's Mount Calvary Word of Faith the Jim Crow South. The
CHARGE~~FREE, Chairperson election, with congregrants Church, brandished a flag and Rev. J. Rayfield Vines Jr., pas-
blowing horns, waving another marched among the tor of the predominantly
(843) 723-9929 pews blowing a ram's horn. African-American congrega-
"Too long we've been at the tion, paused briefly as he
bottom of the totem pole, but recalled the indignities he
he has vindicated us, hallelu- endured but did not bow to
Week Of 11/12/08 thru 11/18/08 jah," the Grammy-winning
gospel singer cried. "I don't
while growing up Suffolk, in
southeastern Virginia.
know about you, but I don't "I was there when you had ride
have nothing to put my head in the back of the bus," Vines
down for, praise God. said under a simple cross illu-
Because when I look toward minated by eight light bulbs.
"I was there when you
went to the department
store and you couldn't try
on the clothes. I was there
when they had a colored
toilet and a white toilet."
The pastor said he shared
his humiliations Sunday to
help give those "who had
not tasted the bitterness of
segregation ... an idea why
we all shouted."
Inside Harlem's
Abyssinian Baptist
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Chestnut, 61, proudly
wore a rhinestone Obama
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Inauguration Tickets, the Hottest in Town
By. Zenitha Prince
Special to the NNPA from
the Afro-American
Newspapers
W A S H I N G T O N
(NNPA) - Washington,
D.C., will be bursting at
the seams come January.
With President-elect
Barack Obama poised to
become the first African-
American president of the
United States, and with
continuing interest in the
charismatic man and his
family whose vision birthed
a movement, people from
around the world are clam-
oring for access to the
never-to-be-seen-again
inauguration on Jan. 20.
For updates about the
2009 presidential inaugu-
ration events, visit the offi-
cial site at http://inaugu-
ral.senate.gov. No tickets
are available yet.
“All of us who voted have
earned a right to see this
take place so make sure
that you have your analog
cable and all the media you
can find because one way
or the other, in the front
seat of the White House or
the back seat of the air-
plane or bus, we will find a
way to see and make histo-
ry,” wrote “Trisha” on a
Nov. 8 blog about the
swearing-in on www.aol-
blackvoices.com.
Only a few days after
Obama trounced erstwhile
rival Sen. John McCain, R-
Ariz., to win the 2008 pres-
idential contest, demand
for tickets have already
exceeded supply. Though
free, inauguration tickets
are limited in number—
240,000—and distributed
through members of
Congress about a week
before the event.
President Elect
Barack Obama
The day after the election,
District Del. Eleanor
Holmes Norton said she
set up a special telephone
line and e-mail address to
take requests, but her
office was inundated with
so many calls that it
stymied other urgent non-
inauguration related calls
and she had to stop taking
names.
Norton said she is worried
this foreshadows even
worse conditions to come.
“I share the excitement and
enthusiasm of my con-
stituents, but I am con-
cerned that even the few
who obtain tickets will not
be able to get through the
crowds at the Mall,”
Norton said in a statement.
“The only people sure to
get a view of the parade
and the swearing-in are the
people who watch it on tel-
evision in the comfort of
their homes.”
Officials say with people
determined to partici-
pate—whether they have
tickets or not—they expect
the crowds to surpass the
1.2 million that attended
President Lyndon
Johnson’s swearing-in in
1965. Norton, a member of
the Homeland Security
Committee, said she plans
to meet next week with
security officials to discuss
the ramifications.
“An entirely new game plan
will be needed to cope with
an inauguration like none
the country has ever seen,”
Norton said.
Already, officials have had
to deal with fraudulent
Web sites and others
exploiting people’s desper-
ation by selling them “free”
tickets.
“Any Web site or ticket
broker claiming that they
have inaugural tickets is
simply not telling the
truth,” said Howard
Gantman, staff director for
the Joint Congressional
Committee on Inaugural
Ceremonies. “We urge the
public to view any offers of
tickets for sale with great
skepticism...An entirely
new game plan will be
needed to cope with an
inauguration like none the
country has ever seen.”
Most remain hopeful—
even adamant—about par-
ticipating in the days-long
celebration. People have
already booked airline and
bus tickets, even before
inauguration tickets
became available. And
hotel rooms are filling up
quickly.
William Hanbury, presi-
dent of Destination DC,
the District's convention
and tourism arm, told The
Washington Post, the
area's 95,000 hotel rooms
are filling up faster than for
previous inaugurations.
''There are still a lot of
rooms available, but peo-
ple need to be doing trans-
actions now if they are seri-
ous about coming,''
Hanbury said, adding that
people may soon have to
resort to ''innovative
accommodations.''
''The church group from
Atlanta, the high school
from Chicago -- they're all
trying to find places to
stay. You're going to have
people sleeping in church
basements and high school
cafeterias,'' Hanbury pre-
dicted.
Already, people are hitting
up long lost relatives and
friends living in the
District-Northern
Virginia-Maryland metro
area. And they are also
appealing to strangers.
Sites like Craigslist are
clogged with lodging com-
merce.
“Housing swap: you ski in
Utah, we do
Preparing for the Big Switch Over: Black
Church Group Distributes 3.5 Million
Digital TV Converter Box Applications
NNPA
WASHINGTON (NNPA)
– The National Black Church
Initiative (NBCI), a coalition
of 16,000 African-American
and Latino member churches,
has announced the distribu-
tion of about 3.5 million appli-
cations for the federal govern-
ment’s converter box coupon
program to African-American
congregants nationwide. The
government is offering
coupons to all U.S. house-
holds to offset the cost of
preparing for the transition to
digital television (DTV) on
February 17, 2009.
In partnership with the
National Association of
Broadcasters, NBCI dissemi-
November 12, 2008- 3b
Inauguration,” read one ad,
mirroring others offering
home exchanges in Malibu,
Sausalito and Manhattan.
Others bargained their
home for higher-rated com-
modities.
“I will provide 3 days/2
nights in my home for free
to anyone who can provide
two tickets to the official
inaugural ball and two
tickets to the swearing in
ceremony,” read another
from someone living in
Maryland.
The unprecedented inter-
est in the 56th inaugura-
tion is a testament to the
man and his message but
also the historic overtones.
Celebrated under the
theme, ''A New Birth of
Freedom,'' Obama's inau-
guration commemorates
nated literature containing
information about the upcom-
ing transition and an applica-
tion form for the government’s
converter box coupon. The
$40 coupon allows residents
to purchase a converter box, a
low-cost option for consumers
to continue receiving televi-
sion signals if they are not con-
nected to cable. NBCI has
also conducted more than
20,000 educational sessions in
faith-based communities all
across the country.
NBCI, led by the Reverend
Anthony Evans, is a partner in
NAB’s national multiplatform
campaign to educate the tran-
sition’s most disproportionate-
ly affected populations, includ-
the 200th anniversary of
Abraham Lincoln's birth.
And for African-
Americans, especially, the
day is equally auspicious
since it falls on the day
after Dr. Martin Luther
King Day.
The Rev. Al Sharpton,
civil rights leader and pres-
ident of the National
Action Network, said he
plans to move his annual
King Day celebration from
New York to Washington
and to stick around to cele-
brate Obama.
''We're going to have tens
of thousands of people
there,'' Sharpton told the
New York Daily News.
''It's going to be a four-day
civil rights weekend.''
ing persons with disabilities,
seniors, rural communities and
racial minorities, about the
DTV transition.
“This is a huge victory for
NBCI, and I congratulate our
member churches, our 35,000-
volunteer force, dedicated
ministers and NAB. NAB has
played a pivotal role in helping
us get out the word about the
big digital switch and should
be commended for its leader-
ship,” said Evans, president of
NBCI.
Debra Coley-Bagley, chair of
NBCI’s board of directors
added, “We are so very proud
of the leadership NBCI has
demonstrated on this national
DTV education campaign.
This clearly mirrors the broad
depth and capacity that the
Black church is able to bring
to bear concerning any nation-
al public education campaign
or health preventative initia-
tives. There is still much work

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS

Notice is hereby given that Charleston County Council will

Farrakhan says Obama draws a 'oneness of spirit'
hold a public hearing on:
By SOPHIA TAREEN He thanked black leaders
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 6:50 o=clock p.m., in including the Revs. Jesse
Council Chambers, second floor of the Lonnie Hamilton, III CHICAGO (AP) - Nation of Jackson and Al Sharpton, for
Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Islam Minister Louis laying the foundation for
Charleston, S.C. regarding a proposed Ordinance author- Farrakhan said in an address Obama's victory, which he
izing a fee in lieu of tax agreement and certain instru- Sunday celebrating Barack called Divine.
ments related thereto by and between C h a r l e s t o n Obama that the new presi- The Nation of Islam has
County and Mediterranean Shipping Company (USA), Inc. dent-elect has a God-given espoused black nationalism
capacity to handle any burdens and self-reliance since it was
Public comments, written and oral, are invited. he'll face as the nation's leader. founded in the 1930s, but has
Farrakhan added that Obama reached out more lately to
Beverly T. Craven will be able to make positive other groups, including immi-
Clerk of Council changes only with help from grants.
"God and people of goodwill," Farrakhan has haltingly tried
and he urged followers of the to move the Nation toward
Chicago-based black national- traditional Islam, which con-
ist movement to do their part. siders the American move-
"President-elect Obama has ment heretical.
energized all segments of the port during a presidential be drawn into the controversy He has also downplayed some
Invitation to Bid debate with then-Democratic
depressed, downtrodden, that was swirling around his of the group's more controver-
rejected and despised," he said rival Sen. Hillary Rodham pastor, Father Pfleger, and sial beliefs. The Nation of
Kiawah Homes Modernization II in a 90-minute speech at Clinton. Obama said he others." Islam has taught that whites
Job #081101 Mosque Maryam on the city's objected to Farrakhan's past Farrakhan then added with a are descended from the devil
South Side. "Now it is up to statements about Judaism, smile, "I feel freer today to say and that blacks are the chosen
us to take the new energy that which many have considered the things that are in my people of Allah
The Housing Authority of the City of Charleston he has given us ... and channel anti-Semitic. Nation of Islam heart."
will receive sealed bids on a General al Contract that energy into making our- officials have said Farrakhan's
selves better." comments are often taken out
for Kiawah Homes Modernization Phase II until
2:00 p.m. local time, on November 13, 2008 at Dressed in intricately decorat- of context.
On Sunday, Farrakhan said
Belief that country heading in
ed red and gold robes and a
550 Meeting, Street Room 114, Charleston, matching fez, the once-ailing Obama faced unfair scrutiny
for his associations with the
right direction is at all-time low
South Carolina. Bids will be publicly opened. 75-year-old leader spoke to
more than 1,000 followers in Rev. Jeremiah Wright,
an address called "America's Obama's former pastor, who By Paul Steinhauser CNN So far, Obama seems to be
Copies of the Bidding documents may be was shown making fiery state- Deputy Political Director meeting the public's high
New Beginning: President-
obtained after 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 14, elect Barack Obama." ments about the U.S. govern- expectations. Two-thirds of all
2008 at the CHA Modernization Office, 545 Farrakhan, who said Obama ment in widely circulated WASHINGTON (CNN) - Americans have a positive
draws a "oneness of spirit" video clips. Obama was also On the day that President- view of what he has done since
Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29503. Contact criticized because of the Rev.
from all people, admitted he elect Barack Obama visited he was elected president, and
Marymims Goldman at (843) 720-3982. Michael Pfleger, a Chicago the White House, a new three-quarters think he will do
stayed quiet about his support
for Obama during the past few priest who mocked Clinton at national poll illustrates the a good job as president.
A voluntary pre-bid conference will be held at months out of fear his words Wright and Obama's former daunting challenges he faces "Obama has the support of
would harm the Illinois sena- church, Trinity United when it becomes his home virtually every African-
545 Meeting Street on Tuesday, October 28, Church of Christ. next year.
tor's bid for the White House. American in the poll, but he
2008 at 10:00 a.m. In February, Farrakhan "For nine months, I kept quiet Only 16 percent of those ques- also gets high marks from a
praised Obama, calling him because I saw that the good tioned in a new solid majority of whites,"
The Housing Authority encourages minority "the hope of the entire world words that I spoke about this CNN/Opinion Research Holland said.
that America will change and beautiful young man at our Corporation survey released But that optimism doesn't
owned business to participate in its on-going pur- Saviours' Day convention and Monday say things are going hide what appears to be con-
be made better" at a Saviours'
chasing of goods and services. Day event in Chicago. the way they were misused," well in the country today. cern about the economy. Six in
But Obama quickly distanced Farrakhan said of Obama. "I That's an all-time low. Eighty- 10 say that they don't have a
himself from Farrakhan, decided it would be better for three percent say things are clear idea of what Obama
CHA reserves the right to waive irregularities and me to just be quiet rather than
denouncing the minister's sup- going badly, which is an all- would do to improve the econ-
to reject any and all bids. time high. omy.
"The challenge Obama faces The all-time low on the pub-
Donald J. Cameron has never been greater. No lic's mood may have some-
Chief Executive Officer president has ever come to thing to do with the poll's find-
office during a time when the ing that President Bush is the
public's mood has been this most unpopular president
low. In the 34 years that this since approval ratings were
question has been asked, the first sought more than six
number who say things are decades ago. Seventy-six per-
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR going well has never fallen cent of those questioned in the
SURVEYING SERVICES AT THE below 20 percent," said poll disapprove of how he is
FOLLY BEACH COUNTY PARK, RFP#08-10 Keating Holland, CNN's handling his job.
polling director. That's an all-time high in
CHARLESTON COUNTY PARK The 83 percent saying things
AND RECREATION COMMISSION CNN polling and in Gallup
are going badly is "more than polling dating back to World
861 RIVERLAND DRIVE in 1992, when the first War II.
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 29412 President Bush was ousted "No other president's disap-
because of the economy, stu- proval rating has gone higher
pid. That's more than in 1980, than 70 percent. Bush has
October 2008 when President Carter got managed to do that three
fired after the malaise crisis. times so far this year," Holland
That's more than in 1975, after said. "That means that Bush is
Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission Watergate and the Nixon par- now more unpopular than
don," said Bill Schneider, Richard Nixon was when he
(PRC) is seeking proposals from qualified firms to provide CNN senior political analyst.
Surveying Services at the Folly Beach County Park. To resigned from office during
Watergate with a 66 percent
receive a copy of the Request for Proposal, contact Ms. disapproval rating."
Penny Westerfelhaus, Administrative Assistant, Charleston Before Bush, the record hold-
Charleston County
County Park and Recreation Commission, at 843-762-
2009-2010 URBAN ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS er for presidential disapproval
8098. Proposals should be submitted no later than
Request for Application Announcement was Harry Truman, with a 67
Thursday, November 13, 2008 to the attention of Ms. percent disapproval rating in
Lynda Abram, Contract Coordinator, Charleston County Charleston County’s Community Development Division is the administering agency for the January of 1952, his last full
Park and Recreation, 861 Riverland Drive, Charleston, SC County of Charleston Entitlement Grants for the Community Development Block Grant year in office.
29412. (CDBG) Program, HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME), Emergency Shelter As Obama visits the White
Grant (ESG) Program and the American Dream Downpayment Initiative (ADDI) Program. House to start the transition
Each of these grant programs are funded by an allocation from the U.S. Department of from the Bush administration
Housing and Urban Development (HUD). to an Obama administration,
57 percent of those questioned
By: think the transfer of power will
Funding estimates for the 2009 Program Year (7/1/09-6/30/10) have not yet been provid-
ed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; however, it is anticipated be relatively easy and free from
Mr. Tom O’Rourke, Executive Director
that Charleston County may receive approximately the same as last year’s allocation in the tension, with 39 percent saying
CHARLESTON COUNTY PARK AND amount of $3,052,879 to fund housing and community development activities across the transition will be difficult.
RECREATION COMMISSION Charleston County and its nine participating jurisdictions. "A majority say that the transi-
tion from Bush to Obama will
APPLICATION RELEASE DATE: go smoothly, although nearly
On November 14, 2008, Charleston County will issue a Request for Applications (RFA) for one in four predict a lot of ten-
the anticipated 2009-2010 Urban Entitlement Program Funding Cycle. The RFA will seek sion between Bush aides and
eligible projects that improve and develop housing, economic opportunities, infrastructure, Obama aides in the next few
community facilities and provide other community revitalization activities. Special attention weeks. That sentiment is high-
will be given to applicants that successfully align with strategies to address unmet goals est among Democrats, but
and objectives as outlined in the Community Development Five Year Consolidated Plan of even among them, a majority
2006-2011. believes that the transition will
be relatively easy," Holland
RFA packets, along with the Community Development Five Year Consolidated Plan of said.
goals and objectives, can be obtained starting November 14, 2008 from the Charleston
County Procurement Department, may be downloaded from the Charleston County web-
site at HYPERLINK "http://www.charlestoncounty.org" www.charlestoncounty.org and will I am aware that there
be available at the Pre-Application Training. are many who wince
at a distinction
PRE-APPLICATION TRAINING between property and
A Pre-Application Training will be held on December 3, 2008 from 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. in
the Charleston County Council Chambers located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, 2nd floor of persons--who hold
the Lonnie Hamilton III Public Services Building, North Charleston. The training will pro- both sacrosanct. My
vide an overview of the RFA packet, the 5 year plan, successfully aligning with strategies views are not so
to meet the unmet goals and objectives and an introduction to outcomes. Although not rigid. A life is sacred.
mandatory, the Pre-Application Training IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED as there have Property is intended
been some changes to the application.
to serve life, and no
DEADLINE: matter how much we
Ful l-tim e/Regu lar: Part-tim e/Temporar y: Applications will be accepted December 15, 2008 thru January 15, 2009 and can be surround it with rights
Detention Officer School Crossing Guard mailed or hand delivered to: and
Law Enforcement Anita Jenkins, Buyer
Pool Positions: Charleston County Procurement Department, Suite B250 respect, it has no
Specialist I personal being. It is
Detention Officer Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Service Building
Paramedic 4045 Bridge View Drive part of the earth man
Paramedic
Paramedic Crew Chief North Charleston, South Carolina 29405-7464
School Crossing Guard walks on; it is not
Revenue Specialist I
Workforce Specialist I APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 3:00 P.M. ON JANUARY 15, 2009 TO BE CONSID- man.
For details and to apply online visit: ERED.
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
www.charl esto ncount y.org
For More information, call Jenise Jefferson at (843) 202-6960 or via e-mail at jjefferson@charlestoncounty.org The Trumpet of
or call
Conscience, 1967.
Jobline: 843.958.4719
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877-258-8782 www.melton- 2121 www.CenturaOnline.com before the U.N. Special
727-7377.
Mini Farm Lexington County truck.com. ; Committee on Apartheid to
SC, Home, outbuildings, pas- call for an international boy-
ture, Tractor, implements, cott of South Africa. The
wood working equipment, 50c/Loaded-25c/Empty to A NEW COMPUTER NOW!!! white-led South African gov-
Tools, Mower, Boat/Canoe, qualified OTR FB drivers. 800- Brand name laptops & desk- ernment responded by ban-
Dodge P/K, VW van, Yamaha 845-4932 ext# 231 www.bull- tops. Bad or NO credit- No ning her records, including
keyboard, Treadmill doghiway.com Problem. Smallest weekly pay- hits like "Pata Pata," "The
S C A L # 3 5 9 0 ments avail. It’s yours NOW - Click Song"
www.JoeBurns.com 1-800- Call 800-816-2375.
DRIVERS ~ CDL-A: Home ("Qongqothwane" in Xhosa),
569-1953.
Weekends & Great Pay! NOTICES/ANNOUNCEMENTS and "Malaika."
Company & L/P available. Paid Makeba received the Grammy
AUCTION- Ford 555D Vacation, Benefits & More. 3 DIVORCE without children Award for Best Folk
Backhoe, Massey Ferguson months OTR req’d. 800-441- $95.00, DIVORCE with chil- Recording in 1966 together
Tractor, Police Cars, Fire 4271 x SC-100. dren $95.00. With FREE name with Belafonte for "An
Trucks, Pickups, Confiscated change documents (wife only) Evening With
Items, Nov. 22 @ 10 AM and marital settlement agree- Miriam Makeba Belafonte/Makeba." The
Orangeburg-SC- SCAL#3590 Driver- PTL Needs Company ment. Fast, easy and profes- album dealt with the political
www.JoeBurns.com 1-800- Drivers- CDL-A earn up to sional. Call 1-888-789-0198.
46cpm. 1/2cpm increase every apartheid, died Monday of a Volturno, near the southern plight of black South Africans
569-1953.
60K miles. Average 2,800 STEEL BUILDINGS heart attack after collapsing on city of Naples, after singing at under apartheid.
Absolute HVAC Auction, miles/week. www.ptl-inc.com stage in Italy. She was 76. a concert in solidarity with six Thanks to her close relation-
11/15/08 9AM, 120 Myrtle Call 877-740-6262. EVERY BUILDING ON In her dazzling career, immigrants from Ghana who ship with Belafonte, she
Beach Hwy. Sumter... (4) SALE!...Manufacturer Direct at Makeba performed with musi- were shot to death in received star status in the
Trucks, Van, Trailers, Tools, ROCK BOTTOM PRICES cal legends from around the September in the town. United States and performed
Equipment, Storage DRIVER - $5K SIGN-ON 32x60x18 $11,995. 35x60x16 world - jazz maestros Nina Investigators have blamed the for President Kennedy at his
Containers, Parts, Ladders, BONUS for experienced teams $14,285. 40x80x16 $20,995. Simone and Dizzy Gillespie, attack on organized crime. birthday party in 1962. But she
Lifts and more. www.dinkin- with HazMat: Dry Van & temp 48x100x18 $27,495. fell briefly out of favor when
control available. O/Os wel- 60x120x18 $44,900. MANY Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon - The death of "Mama Africa"
sauctions.com or 803-840- she married black power
0420. SCAL3696 10%bp. come. Call Covenant (866) OTHERS! Pioneer Steel 1- and sang for world leaders sent shock waves through
684-2519. EOE. 800-668-5422. such as John F. Kennedy and South Africa, where callers activist Stokely Carmichael -
AUTOMOBILES Nelson Mandela. flooded local radio stations later known as Kwame Ture -
Her distinctive style, which with their recollections of her. and moved to Guinea in the
Donate Your Vehicle, receive Driver- Owner Operators & STEEL BUILDING CLEAR- combined jazz, folk and South In Guinea, where Makeba late 1960s.
$1000 grocery coupon. United Company Drivers. Miles and ANCE: Repos Sale, end pro- African township rhythms, lived most of her decades in Besides working with Simone
Breast Cancer Foundation. Mileage. Home often. Paid ductions, and undelivered. managed to get her banned exile, radio and television sta- and Gillespie, she also
Free Mammograms, breast weekly and much more! Call 24x30, 30x40, 30x50, 40x60. from South Africa for over 30 tions played mournful music appeared with Paul Simon at
cancer info www.ubcf.info. Karen today, 800-333-8393 x All sizes available. Custom his "Graceland" concert in
1121 or visit, www.geminitraf- buildings, lowest prices. Free years. and tributes to their adopted
Free towing, tax deductible, Zimbabwe in 1987.
non-runners accepted, 1-888- ficsales.com delivery/installation most coun- "Her haunting melodies gave icon.
468-5964. ties 888-513-7737. voice to the pain of exile and The first African to win a After three decades abroad,
HELP WANTED – SALES dislocation which she felt for 31 Grammy award, Makeba Makeba was invited back to
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY VACATION/TRAVEL long years. At the same time, started singing in South Africa by Mandela
COLONIAL LIFE is seeking her music inspired a powerful Sophiatown, a cosmopolitan shortly after his release from
ALL CASH CANDY ROUTE. business to business sales NEED RENTERS? ADVER- sense of hope in all of us," neighborhood of prison in 1990 as white racist
Do you earn $800 in a day? representatives and managers TISE your vacation home to Mandela said in a statement. Johannesburg that was a cul- rule crumbled.
Your own local candy route. to market insurance products more than 2.9 million South He said it was "fitting" that tural hotspot in the 1950s "It was like a revival," she said
Includes 30 Machines and and services. Commissions Carolina newspaper readers. about going home. "My music
average $56K+/yr. Training & Your 25-word classified ad will her last moments were spent before its black residents were
Candy. All for $9,995. 1-888- having been banned for so
771-3501. S.S. REG#664 leads. Call Kristi at 803-467- appear in 107 S.C. newspa- on stage. forcibly removed by the
7007. pers for only $375. Call Jimmie long, that people still felt the
COMPUTERS Haynes at the South Carolina ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES same way about me was too
HOMES FOR RENT Newspaper Network at 1-888- All persons having claims against the following estates
much for me. I just went home
A NEW COMPUTER NOW!!! 727-7377. and I cried."
***Bank Repos*** 3 bd. 2 ba. are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Tributes flooded in Monday
Brand name laptops & desk-
tops. Bad or NO credit- No $222/mo. 4 bd. 3 ba. $262/mo. Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on from across Africa.
Problem. Smallest weekly pay- Call Now! Great Deals! 5% dn, Form #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston Congo's minister of culture,
ments avail. It’s yours NOW - 15 yrs @ 8.5%. For Listings County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the Esdras Kambale, called
Call NOW 800-805-1525. 800-391-5228 x T967. expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of Makeba a role model for all
Coburg Dairy this Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be Africans.
EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
6 Bed 4 Bath only $434/mo! Diesel Mechanic needed. and are forever barred. "We are very saddened,"
$600 Weekly Potential$$$ Buy Foreclosure! Stop Experience in diesel and Kambale said. "Fortunately,
Processing HUD Refunds, PT. Renting! (5% dn, 20 yrs @ gas engine repair, knowl- Estate of: KING DAVID GRAHAM she left a large body of music
No Experience. No Selling. 8.5% APR!) For listings 800- edge of A/C and D/C elec-
2008-ES-10-1456 that will be immortal."
Call: 1-888-213-5225 Ad Code: 508-8176 ext. 1241. trical circuits and certifica-
DOD: 09/04/08 Percussionist Papa Kouyate -
M18 tion in air breaks is helpful.
Pers. Rep: EDNA K. GRAHAM
who played in Makeba's band
HOMES FOR SALE HS diploma or GED for 20 years and is the widower
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE 2144 MIDLAND PARK RD., NORTH
4 Bed 2 Bath Foreclosure!
required. Excellent compa- of her daughter Bongi -
ny benefits and competitive CHARLESTON, SC 29406 remembered Makeba as a giv-
SAWMILLS FROM ONLY Only $32,000! Bank Owned Atty: EDUARDO K. CURRY, ESQ.
$2,990.00 - - Convert your Home! For Listings 800-508-
salary. Qualified candi- ing person.
LOGS to VALUABLE LUMBER 8176 ext. 1917. dates should call (843) PO BOX 42270, NORTH CHARLESTON, SC "I married her daughter Bongi
with your own Norwood 745-5500 ext. 233. 29423 and she adopted me as her
portable band sawmill. Log LAND FOR SALE EOE M/F/V/D DFWP ************************************************************************* own child," he said.
skidders also available.
www.norwoodsawmills.com/30 PRETTY AS A SPECKLED
0N -FREE information: 1-800- PUP! Gorgeous wooded 1
578-1363, Ext. 300-N. acre river access for only ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES
$29,900. An intelligent land All persons having claims against the following
estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the
Personal Representative indicated below and also file sub-
ject claims on Form #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge
NVITATION FOR BID of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C.
29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the
Solicitation Number: 08-B033B Rifles/Guns and Accessories first publication of this Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter
such claims shall be and are forever barred.
The City of Charleston is accepting Invitation for Bids for
Rifles/Guns and Accessories. The City will receive bids Estate of: THADDAUES S. JONES, SR.
until November 13, 2008 @ 2:30 p.m. at 288 Meeting 2008-ES-10-1462
DOD: 10/31/01
Street, Suite 310 Charleston, SC. Pers. Rep: SARAH M. JONES
2716 LEOLA ST., NORTH
The solicitation will be available upon request and may be CHARLESTON SC 29405
obtained by submitting a written request to: Robin D. Atty: DANIEL E. MARTIN, JR., ESQ.
Barrett, CPPB by fax (843-720-3872), by phone (843-724- 61 MORRIS ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29403
***********************************************************************
7312) or mailing to the above address. You may also Estate of: BENJAMIN M. CRAWFORD
obtain a copy of the solicitation by going to our website: 2008-ES-10-1490-
www.charlestoncity.info and then click on the Bidline link. DOD: 09/10/08
Pers. Rep: ADDIE D. CRAWFORD
1204 MAIN RD., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455
Pers. Rep: BERNARD CRAWFORD, JR.
4004 PROSPERITY RD., JOHNS ISLAND,
SC 29455
ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES Atty: DANIEL E. MARTIN, JR., ESQ.
All persons having claims against the following estates 61 MORRIS ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29403
are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal **************************************************************************
Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Estate of: ANNIE VIOLA AMAKER
Form #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston 2008-ES-10-1497
County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401 before the expi- DOD: 09/03/08
ration of 8 months after the date of the first publication on his Pers. Rep: JULIUS F. AMAKER, MD
Notice to Creditors or else thereafter such claims shall be and are 307 SOUTH FRANKLIN DR., FLORENCE,
forever barred. SC 29501
Atty: GEORGE E. COUNTS, ESQ.
Estate of: MOLLIE T. SMITH PO BOX 80399, CHARLESTON, SC 29416
2008-ES-10-1004 **************************************************************************
DOD: 8/22/07 Estate of: RUTH ANN R. PAYNE
Pers. Rep: MICHAEL L. SMITH 2008-ES-10-1498
DOD: 02/15/08
1852 CHESSHIRE DR. Pers. Rep: BEVERLY A. SMALLS
CHARLESTON, SC 29412 1544 SEACROFT RD., CHARLESTON, SC 29412
************************************************************************** **************************************************************************
ESTATE of: BENNIE E. POWELL Estate of: JAMES STEPHEN MELVIN, JR.
2008-ES-10-1011 2008-ES-10-0643
DOD: 02/04/08
DOD: 10/15/06 Pers. Rep: JERALDINE MELVIN HEYWARD
Pers. Rep: ARTHURINE RIVERS 5820 N. MURRAY DR., HANAHAN, SC 29410
117 BELLPOINT LN. Atty: BEN F. MACK, ESQ.
DANIEL ISLAND, SC 29492 110 N. MAIN ST., SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483
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My Family
WHERE TO GET HELP, ADVICE

Programs that help veterans

start small businesses: Thinks I am Ask Gwen
VetFran
www.franchise.org/Veteran-Franchise.aspx Their Bank! NNPA pay the taxes. This past
summer the city gave them
a citation to cut the grass
Patriot Express Pilot Loan Initiative by Gwendolyn Baines Dear Gwendolyn: or it would be cut by the
www.sba.gov/patriotexpress/index.html
Five years ago I became a city maintenance and a lien
medical doctor and opened placed on the house. When
Veterans Business Outreach Program
my clinic in a small mid- I got the news, I hired a
www.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/
The CADD Technician will support roadway design western town. I was able small company to cut the
ovbd/OVBD_VBOP.html
work for our Charleston, SC office. Duties include to secure a loan and hired grass. Out of being proud,
drafting assignments from red-line markups, assis- the best staff I could find. three years ago I told them
National Veteran-Owned Business Association
tance w/ plan preparation, and/or as directed by Gwendolyn, out of eight my salary. Now they are
www.navoba.com
supervisor. Position will require the ability to spend children I was the only one taking me for a bank.
Center for Veterans Enterprise
1 week in Columbia to learn CADD and other design to make a success with my Rosalyn
www.vetbiz.gov
procedures. life. In the family are three
drug addicts, three alco- Dear Rosalyn:
Veterans Corporation
Minimum Requirements: High School holics, and one (well, I Your problem is experi-
www.veteranscorp.org
Diploma or equivalent required. Prior CADD training don’t know what to call enced by many. Often you
or experience, preferably Microstation. Must be a him). They are adults and hear of siblings all doing
Charleston County resident. have all been married, but well; a doctor, a lawyer, a
divorced. They now all live school teacher, an execu-
Public Notice We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer in the family home which tive, or an entrepreneur.
M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace. Wilbur was left by my parents. My But the usual is as you
Effective December 1, 2008, Charleston Water System’s service Smith Associates is a full-service transportation and parents worked hard for mentioned, one doing
fees will change according to the table below. For more infor- infrastructure consulting firm providing a unique their home and wanted to something and the others
mation, please visit charlestonwater.com or call (843) 727-6800. blend of planning, design, toll, economic and con- pass it down to their chil- not even making an effort.
struction-related services to clients around the dren. Let me tell you this: Stop
New world. We provide comprehensive benefits. Please My problem is: Every immediately sending
Fee Old
Effective 12/1 send your resume to: other day for the last five money. Continue to pay
mschroeder@wilbursmith.com. years I have had to send the taxes and possibly the
Non-Payment Fee
money for their upkeep. I upkeep of maintenance. If
For disconnection of water service due to non- $40 $50
EOE pay the fire insurance and I they are to continue living
payment. there, let them survive on
Revisit/Service Call Fee their own. Their mar-
Charged for requests to re-read a meter or other $40 $30 riages probably failed
return visit requests. PROPOSED I-526 (MARK CLARK EXPRESSWAY) because of their ill-respon-
sibility to being an adult.
After Hours Visit Fee ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT Think about it. As long as
Surcharge for any service rendered outside of $40 $50 you provide for them, they
normal business hours.
Charleston County will never provide for
Water Account Origination Fee themselves. I don’t quite
One-time nonrefundable and nontransferable fee $25 $30 know what you were think-
for establishing a water account.
Public Information Meetings ing when you told them
your salary. Rosalyn, never
Sewer Account Origination Fee tell relatives your salary.
One-time nonrefundable and nontransferable fee $15 / $25 $30 And another thing, they
for establishing a sewer account. Information Meetings: are not taking you for a
Meter Replacement & Test Fee Three meetings will be offered in an “open house” format. Interested per- bank. They are taking you -
Charge for testing and replacing a water meter sons may attend any of these informal informational meetings at any time -- for a fool.
$15 $50
at a customer’s request. If meter is deemed between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m., in which project team representatives will be ***Got a problem? Write
defective, the fee is waived.
available to answer questions regarding the proposed project. The meeting to Gwendolyn Baines at:
Flow Search Investigation Fee dates and locations are listed below. P. O. Box 10066, Raleigh,
Customers experiencing unexplained high water N.C. 27605-0066 (to
usage can request a flow detection device, which N/A $50 receive a reply, send a self-
records all water flowing through a meter to help 1) Thursday, November 13, 2008 at Fort Johnson Middle School, located addressed stamped enve-
identify the source of a leak.
at 1825 Camp Road, Charleston, SC 29412 lope) or email her at: gwen-
Grease Trap Inspection Fee 2) Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at West Ashley High School, located at baines@hotmail.com or
$25 $50 visit her website at:
Semi-annual fee charged to food establishments 4060 Wildcat Boulevard, Charleston, SC 29414 www.gwenbaines.com
for required grease trap inspections.
3) Thursday, November 20, 2008 at St. Johns High School, located at 1518
Property Manager Fee $10 for 15 days Main Road, Charleston, SC 29455
Allows landlords of rental property to maintain $30 for 28 days
$15 for 28 days A formal presentation will not be given during these meetings. However, in
Prepaid Plans
water service in between tenants for up to 28 (3 Ccf usage)
(5 Ccf usage)
days and 3 Ccf (2,200 gallons) of water usage. the future official public hearings will be held and formal presentations will
be given during the hearings. Attendees will have the opportunity to make
Offer
Sewer Connection Investigation Fee
Inspection of a customer’s connection to the $50 $100 public verbal comments at that time.

Dependable
sewer system by dye testing, smoke testing, etc.
Temporary Disconnection Fee No longer Purpose:

Wireless Service
Disconnection of water service for up to six $10
months. Service eliminated effective 12/1/08. available The purpose of the meetings is to gain input on the draft purpose and need
and a range of preliminary alternatives for the proposed Mark Clark
Expressway Environmental Impact Statement(EIS). Individuals will have an
(NAPSI)-Today's economic
opportunity to discuss the proposed I-526 (Mark Clark Expressway) EIS downturn, combined with
with representatives of Charleston County, the Federal Highway record prices of gas, food and
Administration (FHWA), and the South Carolina Department of other items, has consumers
Transportation (SCDOT). The EIS will address the transportation improve- looking for ways to cut costs.
ments, which would increase mobility in the area by serving future traffic For many, wireless service is
an expensive monthly proposi-
growth. The project team is seeking input as a part of this process to assist tion--with some consumers
in identifying issues relative to the proposed project. spending over $100 a month--
Process: but it's also a necessity they are
Team members will present the draft purpose and need and preliminary not willing to eliminate. For
range of alternatives. There will be the opportunity for attendees to view dis- these people, prepaid wireless
services have become an
play boards and graphics, have one-on-one discussions with project staff, increasingly attractive option,
and provide written comments, questions, and concerns regarding the proj- with flexible and attractive
ect on comments forms that will be available. offerings that can make a dol-
Review: lar go further.
This project is being funded by the South Carolina Transportation The rise in price-conscious
Infrastructure Bank through an application made by Charleston County. consumers has paved the way
for the growth of the prepaid
Additional information concerning the project may be obtained by contact- wireless industry. Atlantic-
ing SCDOT Project Manager David Kinard at (803) 737-1963 in Columbia. ACM, a leading telecommuni-
cations industry research con-
Persons with disabilities who may require special accommodations should sultancy, forecasts that the pre-
contact Ms. Karen Davis at 803-737-1549. paid wireless industry will
reach $31.3 billion by the end of
* South Carolina Department of Transportation the decade. The prepaid mar-
ket, once only considered by
low-income buyers or those
with poor credit, is now also
Oct. 30, 2008 ideal for discerning consumers
who want to control their
wireless spending.
The newly competitive mar-
National Motor Club ket offers savvy wireless users
For detailed information, the opportunity to choose how
of America has been and when they pay, and helps
in business since visit www.tridenttech.edu/ttcjobs.htm
them avoid extra fees or hid-
1956. We are cur- or call 843.574.6201. den costs associated with con-
rently offering part tracts. New prepaid, no-con-
and full time busi- Full-time Faculty Animation Marketing Full-time Staff tract wireless plans, coupled
Air Conditioning/Refrigeration Anthropology Multimedia and Web Site Design Engineer/Associate Engineer II with the in-demand services
ness opportunities. Mechanics Biological Sciences Music and handset features that con-
Information Resources Cunsultant I
For more informa- Biology CNC Machining Nail Technology sumers want, make managing
tion please contact Cosmetology Cosmetology Nursing wireless spending easy.
800-417-6360 Ext Electrical Line Worker Criminal Justice Paralegal
8063 Industrial Maintenance Mechanics Photography To learn more, visit the Web
Economics site at www.boostmobile.com.
Program Coordinator Plumbing
Librarian Electrical Facility Maintenance
English Sociology
Nursing
Spanish
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Theater
Graphic Design
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Package for the MUSC Center for Advanced Medicine will be received from qualified bidders, properly licensed under the properly licensed under the Package for the MUSC Center for Advanced Medicine
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the will be received from qualified bidders will be received from qualified b--__idders,properly licensed under will be received from qualified licensed under the wil will be received from qualified bidders Package for
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IN THE DISTRICT OF
THE UNITED STATES
FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH
CAROLINA CHARLESTON DIVI-
SION
UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
vs.
RANDAL W. SIMMONS, VALERIE
A. SIMMONS, KIRK S. SIMMONS,
HEIRS-AT-LAW OF MARGUERITE
SIMMONS, DECEASED,
WACHOVIA MORTGAGE CORPO-
RATION, F/K/A FIRST UNION
NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH CAR-
OLINA, T.D. SHRUM,
HARLESTON-BOAGS FUNERAL
HOME AND FORD MOTOR CRED-
IT COMPANY,
Defendant(s).
CIVIL ACTION
NO. 2:07-563-PMD
NOTICE OF SALE
Under authority and direction of the
DECREE OF FORECLOSURE AND
SALE in the above action filed on
April 10, 2008, I will offer for sale at
public auction before the
Courthouse door of the Charleston
County Courthouse, Charleston,
South Carolina, Eleven O’Clock
A.M., Wednesday, November 19,
2008, the following described prop-
erty:
All that lot, piece, parcel or tract of
land, with buildings and improve-
ments thereon, if any, situate, lying
and being in Christ Church Parish,
Charleston County, South Carolina
containing approximately one (1)
acre, more or less, and designated
as Parcel Two (2) on a plat prepared
by W.L. Gaillard, RLS dated July
12,1978, entitled “Plat of Parcel 1
owned by Marguerite Simmons and
Parcel 2 owned by Paul Bradley and
about to be conveyed to Marguerite
Simmons, Christ Church Parish”,
which said plat is recorded in Plat
Book AM at page 24. The said par-
cel of land having such size, shape,
dimensions, buttings and boundings
as will by reference to said plat more
fully appear.
Being the same property conveyed
to Marguerite Simmons by deed of
Louis E. Condon, Master-in-Equity
for Charleston County, dated
September 21, 1979 and recorded
September 25, 1979 in the Office of
the Clerk of Court for Charleston
County, South Carolina in Deed
Book L120, at page 139. Thereafter,
said property was conveyed to First
Union National Bank of South
Carolina by deed of J. Al Cannon,
Jr., Sheriff of Charleston County,
dated November 5, 1997 and
recorded February 18, 1998 in the
Office of the ROD for Charleston
County, South Carolina in Deed
Book L297 at page 723. Marguerite
Simmons died on January 26, 1993
leaving as her heirs-at-law Randal
W. Simmons, Valerie A. Simmons
and Kirk S. Simmons as evidenced
by information on file in the Office of
the Probate Court for Charleston
County, South Carolina under Case
No. 93ES1000245.
The above property will be sold sub-
ject to ad valorem taxes, the pur-
chaser of said real estate to pay
extra for deed and revenue stamps.
Plaintiff not having affirmatively
sought a deficiency judgement, the
bidding will not stay open for the
customary thirty (30) days following
the sale. Sale shall require the high-
est bidder, other than the plaintiff, to
make a deposit of five percent (5%)
of the bid as earnest money and as
evidence of good faith. Said deposit
shall be made by cashier’s check or
money order. If the plaintiff is the
successful bidder at the sale, the
amount due on its mortgage may be
used as the equivalent of cash.
Should the person making the high-
est bid at the sale fail to comply with
the terms of the bid by depositing
the said five percent (5%), then the
premises shall be resold at such
bidder’s risk on the same sales
date, or some subsequent date, as
the selling officer may find conven-
ient and advantageous. Should the
last and highest bidder fail to comply
with the terms of the bid within ten
(10) days of the final acceptance of
the bid, the entire deposit shall be
forfeited, and the selling officer shall
readvertise and resell the property
on the same terms and at the bid-
der’s risk on a subsequent sales
day.
Under 28 U.S.C.§ 566, it is the duty
of the United States Marshal to
enforce the decree of the United
States District Court and uder 564,
the Marshal is authorized to exer-
cise the same powers of the Sheriff
in conducting the sale. It is in the
interest of justice that the sale be
conducted to yield the best price
through free, fair, and competitive
bidding. Any act that appears to pre-
vent a free, fair, and open sale or to
suppress the bidding or otherwise
adversely affect the sale, will not be
allowed. If such an act occurs, then
the sale will be halted. Further, the
individual or individuals who perform
any act which appears to contribute
to the sale being halted or otherwise
adversely affected, may be charged
with contempt of court, to be sanc-
tioned accordingly, including but not
limited to paying for the costs and
expenses of the scheduled sale.
JOHNNY MACK BROWN, UNITED
STATES MARSHAL
Classifieds
STATE OF SOUTH CAR-
OLINA IN THE FAMILY
COURT OF
THE NINTH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
COUNTY OF
CHARLESTON
CASE NO.:
2008-DR-10-3533
LAURA ANN JOHNSON &
WHITFIELD JOHNSON
Plaintiffs,
v.
CONSUELLA GILLIARD,
Defendant.
IN THE INTEREST OF:
DEVONTRY MARQUIS
GILLIARD, a minor child
under the age of Eleven
(11).
TO THE DEFENDANTS
ABOVE NAMED:
YOU ARE HERE-
BY SUMMONED AND
REQUIRED to Answer the
Complaint in this action, a
copy of which is herewith
served upon you, and to
serve a copy of your
In The District Court of The
United States For The District
of South Carolina Charleston
Division
United States of America
Plaintiff,
Vs.
SEPEQUA DRAYTON AND
SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSING
TRUST FUND, Defendant(s.)
CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:o7-26759-
DCN NOTICE Of SOUTH
Under authority and direction of
the AMENDED DECREE OF
FORECLOSURE AND SALE in
the above action filed on July 29,
2008, I will offer for sale at public
auction before the Courthouse
door of the Charleston County
Courthouse, Charleston, South
Carolina, Eleven O’CLOCK A.M.,
Wednesday November 19, 2008,
the following described property:
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land, together with
improvements thereon, situate,
lying and being in Awendaw,
Charleston County, S.C. and
being more particularly described
as 0.713 Acres on a “Plat
Showing 0.713 Acres Subdivided
Out of the Margaret Brown
Property to be Conveyed to
SEPEQUE E. Drayton Located in
Awendaw, Charleston County,
SC.” prepared by Keith K. Ruddy,
RLS No. 9479, dated July 18,
1998 and duly recorded in the
RMC Office for Charleston
County, SC on November 6, 1998
in Plat Book EC at page 853.
Being the identical property con-
veyed to SEPEQUE E. Drayton by
deed of LEAMON Drayton, Leon
Drayton, Bertha Cochran, Charles
McDonald, Patricia Palmer,
Valerie McDonald, Ferrell McNeil,
Elizabeth Brown Goodman, for-
merly Elizabeth Brown Dennis,
Mary Brown Mitchell, formerly
Mary Brown Williams Lucille
Brown Love and Azalie Brown
Clement formerly Azalie Brown
Lee dated February 24, 1999, and
recorded February 25, 1999, in
the Office of the Clerk of Court
RMC for Charleston County,
South Carolina, in Deed Book
Z320 at Page01.
TMS No: 711-00-00-134
The above property will be sold
subject to ad valorem taxes, the
purchaser of said real estate to
pay extra for deed and revenue
stamps. Plaintiff not having affir-
matively sought a deficiency judg-
ment, the bidding will not stay
open for the customary
thirty(30)days following the sale.
Sale shall require the highest bid-
dre, other than the plaintiff, to
make a cash deposit of five per-
cent(5%) of the bid as earnest
money and as evidence of good
faith. If the plaintiff is the success-
ful bidder at the sale, the amount
due on its mortgage may be used
as the equivalent of cash. Should
the person making the highest bid
at the sale fail to comply with the
terms of the bid by depositing the
said five percent (5%) in cash,
then the premises shall be resold
at such bidder’s risk on the same
sales date, or some subsequent
date, as the selling officer may
find convenient and advanta-
geous. Should the last and high-
est bidder fail to comply with the
terms of the bid within ten(10)
days of the final acceptance of the
bid, The Entire Deposit Shall be
forfeited. and the selling officer
readvertise and resell the proper-
ty on the same terms and at the
bidder’s risk on a subsequent
sales day.
Under 28 U.S.C.§ 566,it is the
duty of the United States Marshal
to enforce the decree of the
United States District Court and
under 564, the Marshal is author-
ized to exercise the same powers
of the Sheriff in conducting the
sale. It is in the interest of justice
that the sale be conducted to yield
the best price through free, fair,
and competitive bidding. Any act
that appears to prevent a free,
fair, and open sale or to suppress
the bidding or otherwise adverse-
ly affects the sale, will not be
allowed. If such an act occurs,
then the sale will be halted.
Further, the individual or individu-
als who perform any act which
appears to contribute to the sale
being halted or otherwise
adversely affected, may be
charged with contempt of court, to
be sanctioned accordingly, includ-
ing but not limited to paying for the
costs and expenses of the sched-
uled sale
JOHNNY MACK BROWN, UNIT-
ED STATES MARSHAL
Answer thereto on the sub-
scriber, Charlie L. Whirl,
Esquire, at his office, 2112
Commander Road, North
Charleston, South Carolina
29405, within thirty (30)
days after the date of serv-
ice upon you, exclusive of
the day of such service;
and if you fail to Answer the
Complaint within the time
aforesaid, the Plaintiff in
this action will apply to the
Court for the relief demand-
ed in the Complaint and
judgment by default may be
entered against you.
YOU ARE HEREBY
GIVEN NOTICE FURTHER
that if you fail to appear
and defend and filed to
answer the Complaint as
required by this Summons
within thirty (30) days after
the service hereof, exclu-
sive of the day of such
service, judgment by
default will be entered
against you or the relief
demanded in the
Complaint.
PLEASE TAKE
NOTICE: The Summons
and Complaint in the
above-entitled action were
filed in the Office of the
Clerk of Court of
Charleston County Family
Court, Charleston, South
Carolina on September 26,
2008. The Final Hearing
date for the Adoption is
scheduled for December
19, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. on
the second floor, 100 Broad
Street, Charleston County
Judicial Center, Family
Court, Charleston, South
Carolina.
CHARLIE L. WHIRL
2112 Commander Rd.
Charleston, SC 29405
(843) 566-9705-Office
Attorney for Plaintiffs
STATE OF SOUTH CAR-
OLINA IN THE FAMILY
COURT OF THE NINTH
JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT COUNTY
OF CHARLESTON
CASE NO.:
2008-DR-10-3534
CYNTHIA DENISE
LLOYD,
Plaintiff,
v.
RANEISHA MITCHELL,
Defendant.
IN THE INTEREST OF:
XAVIAR DAVEON LLOYD,
a minor child under the
age of Eleven (11).
TO THE DEFENDANTS
ABOVE NAMED:
YOU ARE HERE-
BY SUMMONED AND
REQUIRED to Answer the
Complaint in this action, a
copy of which is herewith
served upon you, and to
serve a copy of your
Answer thereto on the
subscriber, Charlie L.
Whirl, Esquire, at his
office, 2112 Commander
Road, North Charleston,
South Carolina 29405,
within thirty (30) days after
the date of service upon
you, exclusive of the day
of such service; and if you
fail to Answer the
Complaint within the time
aforesaid, the Plaintiff in
this action will apply to the
Court for the relief
demanded in the
Complaint and judgment
by default may be entered
against you.
YOU ARE HERE-
BY GIVEN NOTICE FUR-
THER that if you fail to
appear and defend and
filed to answer the
Complaint as required by
this Summons within thirty
(30) days after the service
hereof, exclusive of the
day of such service, judg-
ment by default will be
entered against you or the
relief demanded in the
Complaint.
PLEASE TAKE
NOTICE: The Summons
and Complaint in the
above-entitled action were
filed in the Office of the
Clerk of Court, Charleston
County
Charleston,
Family Court,
South
Carolina on September 26,
2008. The Final Hearing
date for the Adoption is
scheduled for December
19, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. on
the second floor, 100
Broad Street, Charleston
County Judicial Center,
Family Court, Charleston,
South Carolina.
CHARLIE L. WHIRL
2112 Commander
Charleston, SC 29405
Rd.
(843) 566-9705-Office
Attorney for Plaintiff
November 12, 2008 -7b
served upon you, and to Charleston County, South
STATE OF SOUTH serve a copy of your Carolina. The real estate is
CAROLINA IN THE Answer upon the under- described as follows:
CIRCUIT COURT signed subscriber at James
E. Reeves, P.A., 400 North All that piece, parcel or
THE NINTH JUDICIAL Cedar Street, Summerville, tract of land, lying and
CIRCUIT COUNTY SC 29483, within thirty (30) being in Charleston County,
OF CHARLESTON days; thirty-five (35) days if South Carolina and known
C/A No. 2007-CP-10-2424 service is by certified mail, and designated as contain-
after the service hereof, ing 27.064 acres, as shown
Regis “Ronnie” Chisholm exclusive of the date of on that certain plat entitled
Booze such service; except the "A BOUNDARY SURVEY
United States of America OF TMS 312-00-00-049
Plaintiff, shall have sixty (60) days; BEING 27.064 ACRES ON
v. and if you fail to file an BROWNSWOOD ROAD
Answer or appear to defend OWNED BY THE ESTATE
CarolynChisholm Daniel, the Amended Complaint OF JOHN CHISOLM
Joanne Chisholm Byrd, within the time aforesaid, LOCATED IN THE TOWN
GloriaPoinsette Harrison, the Plaintiffs will apply to OF CHARLESTON COUN-
Archie C. Moore,Michael C. the Court for a judgment by TY, SOUTH CAROLINA"
Moore,Robert Poinsette, default to be rendered prepared by Southeastern
Jr., Robin Poinsette, against you for the relief Surveying of Charleston,
Yvonne Poinsette demanded in the Amended Inc. dated June 1, 2006 and
W i l s o n , C h r y s l e r Complaint. recorded July 11, 2008 in
FinancialCompany, the RMC Office for
LLC,Domino Properties, YOU WILL ALSO TAKE Charleston County in Plat
LLC, Southern Bell NOTICE that the Plaintiffs Book EL, page 632; said
Telephone and Telegraph will move for an Order of tract of land having such
Company, South Carolina Reference or that the Court actual size, shape, dimen-
Department of Revenue, may issue a general Order sions, buttings and bound-
and JohnDoe, a fictitious of Reference of this action ings as shown on said plat,
name used herein to to the Master-in-Equity, reference to which is here-
designate the unknown pursuant to Rule 53 of the by made for a more com-
heirs at law, South Carolina Rules of plete description.
distributees,and/or Civil Procedure, on all
devisees of Helen issues to come before the TMS#: 312-00-00-049
Balaam,Mary Streety Court with direct appeal to
Balaam, Robert Balaam, the South Carolina Court of NOTICE OF FILING
Robert Balaam, Jr., Alice Appeals or South Carolina AMENDED SUMMONS,
Cecilia Smalls Chisholm, Supreme Court. AMENDED COMPLAINT,
Cecilia Chisholm, Diana TO MINORS OVER FOUR- LIS PENDENS, AND PETI-
Chisholm, Evalese TEEN YEARS OF AGE TION AND ORDER
Chisholm,Jennie Chisholm, AND/OR MINORS UNDER APPOINTING
Jeremiah Chisholm, FOURTEEN YEARS OF
John C. Chisholm aka AGE AND THE PERSON GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI
JohnChisholm,John WITH WHOM THE MINOR
Chisholm, Jr., Louise RESIDES AND/OR TO TO THE DEFENDANTS
C h i s h o l m , S a r a h PERSONS UNDER SOME ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE
Chisholm,Alice Chisholm LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU HEREBY NOTIFIED that
Dusenbury,Archie Moore, ARE FURTHER SUM- the Amended Summons,
Sr., Geraldine MONED AND NOTIFIED to which included a Notice of
ChisholmMoore, Armenia apply for the appointment Intention to Refer Action to
Chisholm Poinsette, of a guardian ad litem with- the Master-in-Equity for
Robert E. Poinsette, Sr., in thirty (30) days after the Final Determination and a
John Streety, Julia service of this Amended Notice of Appointment of
Rebecca Chisholm Streety, Summons and Notice upon Guardian Ad Litem Nisi; the
Martha Streety, Viola you. If you fail to do so, Amended Complaint; and
Streety, James Wright, application for such Lis Pendens; were filed
James Wright, Jr., Lucille appointment will be made with the Clerk of Court for
Streety Wright, all being by the Plaintiff(s). Charleston County Court of
deceased persons; and YOU WILL ALSO TAKE Common Pleas on August
Mary Roe, a fictitious NOTICE that pursuant to 29, 2008.
name designating all other S.C. Code Ann. §15-61-25 Further, a Petition and
persons ) and legal entities (1976), as amended, if you Order Appointing S.
unknown who may have or are a joint tenant or tenant Thomas Worley, Jr.,
claim an interest in or lien in common, you are hereby Esquire, whose address
upon the real estate notified of your right to pur- and phone number are 942
described herein, including chase the property, which is McCants Drive, Mt.
any such as may be the subject matter of this Pleasant, SC 29464, (843)
infants, incompetents, or action, and the need to 884-5474, as guardian ad
under any other disability, notify the Court of your litem nisi, for the
including the Soldiers and intention. Defendants designated as
Sailors Civil Relief Act, John Doe and Mary Roe,
LIS PENDENS have also been filed on
Defendants. October 14, 2008, which
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE said appointment becomes
that the above named absolute thirty (30) days
AMENDED SUMMONS Plaintiff has commenced or after the service of this
intend to commence an Notice unless you or some-
TO THE ABOVE NAMED action affecting the title to one on your behalf procure
DEFENDANTS: the real estate described another to be appointed as
below. The Amended guardian ad litem to repre-
YOU ARE HEREBY SUM- Complaint to be filed simul- sent their interests in this
MONED AND REQUIRED taneous herewith or within action.
TO ANSWER the Amended twenty days hereof, prays The purpose of this
Complaint in this action, a for a suit to quiet title for suit is to determine the
copy of which is hereby property and for partition in interests of the parties to
the property, which is the
subject matter of this suit,
Charleston County and to ask the Court for an
2009-2010 URBAN ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS Order from the Master-in-
Request for Application Announcement Equity for Charleston
County approving the sale
Charleston County’s Community Development Division is of the property to the
the administering agency for the County of Charleston Defendant, Domino
Entitlement Grants for the Community Development Block Properties, LLC.
Grant (CDBG) Program, HOME Investment Partnership
JAMES E. REEVES,
Program (HOME), Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG)
P.A.
Program and the American Dream Downpayment Initiative
(ADDI) Program. Each of these grant programs are funded By:___________________
by an allocation from the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD). James E. Reeves,
Esquire
Funding estimates for the 2009 Program Year (7/1/09- 400 North Cedar
6/30/10) have not yet been provided by the U.S.
Street
Department of Housing and Urban Development; however, Summerville, SC 29483
it is anticipated that Charleston County may receive approx-
imately the same as last year’s allocation in the amount of
(843) 832-7337
$3,052,879 to fund housing and community development
activities across Charleston County and its nine participat- STe
ing jurisdictions.
ATTORNEY FOR PLAIN-
APPLICATION RELEASE DATE:
On November 14, 2008, Charleston County will issue a TIFF
Request for Applications (RFA) for the anticipated 2009-
2010 Urban Entitlement Program Funding Cycle. The RFA
will seek eligible projects that improve and develop housing,
economic opportunities, infrastructure, community facilities
and provide other community revitalization activities.
Special attention will be given to applicants that successful-
ly align with strategies to address unmet goals and objec-
tives as outlined in the Community Development Five Year
“Love builds up the
Consolidated Plan of 2006-2011.
RFA packets, along with the Community Development Five
broken wall
Year Consolidated Plan of goals and objectives, can be
obtained starting November 14, 2008 from the Charleston and straigtens the
County Procurement Department, may be downloaded from
the Charleston County website at HYPERLINK
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crooked path.
www.charlestoncounty.org and will be available at the Pre-
Application Training. love keeps the stars
PRE-APPLICATION TRAINING
A Pre-Application Training will be held on December 3, in the firmament
2008 from 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. in the Charleston County
Council Chambers located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, 2nd
floor of the Lonnie Hamilton III Public Services Building, and imposes rhythm
North Charleston. The training will provide an overview of
the RFA packet, the 5 year plan, successfully aligning with
strategies to meet the unmet goals and objectives and an
on te ocean tides
introduction to outcomes. Although not mandatory, the Pre-
Application Training IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED as
there have been some changes to the application.
each of us is created
DEADLINE: of it
Applications will be accepted December 15, 2008 thru
January 15, 2009 and can be mailed or hand delivered to:
Anita Jenkins, Buyer
and i suspect
Charleston County Procurement Department, Suite B250
Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Service Building
4045 Bridge View Drive
each of us was
North Charleston, South Carolina 29405-7464
created for it”
APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 3:00 P.M. ON
JANUARY 15, 2009 TO BE CONSIDERED.
For More information, call Jenise Jefferson at (843) 202-
6960 or via e-mail at jjefferson@charlestoncounty.org Maya Angelou