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In This Issue:
COVER Pgs 8 - 9
- New RPD Recruit Class Most
Diverse
LOCAL Pgs 4 - 6
- Rochester Education Opportunity
Opens New Facility
- Infamous Bullied Greece Bus
Driver Announces Retirement
- NY Judge Signs Ban of Mislabled
Synthetic Drugs
- 150 Residents Graduate From
R.O.A.R Academy
- Gallery One Fine Arts Opens New
Location
STATE Pgs 7, 12
- Dead and Paid: NY Stops
Unemployment Check Gaffes
- NYC Hospitals to Start Limiting
Baby Formula
- NYC to Mothers: You Should
Breastfeed
- Onondage Lake Cleans Up
NATIONAL Pg 12 - 13
- Illinois Congressman Jesse
Jackson Jr. at Clinic for Depression
- Obama to NUL: We Cant Forget
About Black Homicides
- Soda Companies Racing for a
New Sweet Spot
COLUMNS: Pg 14-15
- My Feet Dont Fit That Box
By Gloria Winston Al-Sarag
- Good Ol Mississippi: Black
Couples Wedding Banned by a
White Church
By Boyce Watkins
- Craig Heard Deserves Better

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The Rochester Educaonal Opportunity
Center has a new home. The newly
renovated facility located at 161
Chestnut Street, Rochester, NY houses
adult academic and career training
programs for the REOC and brings
together students and employees
which were previously located at three
separate locaons throughout the City
of Rochester. The REOC is a tuion-
free adult training facility.
The new facility includes state-of-
the art classrooms, health care
laboratories, 500-seat mulpurpose
area, a cosmetology salon, and
culinary bistro. The facility will
enhance REOCs ability to meet the
needs of students, teachers, and the
community. The mulpurpose area,
equipped with updated presentaon
technology, will beer accommodate
the full student body for presentaons,
class discussions, events and public
gatherings.
The facility formally opened during
a ribbon cu ng ceremony on July
19. The ceremony featured remarks
by a number of dierent speakers,
including Brockport President John R.
Halstead, PhD, and Roosevelt Mareus,
the dean and execuve director of the
REOC.
The REOC is about opening doors of
opportunity and training a new work
force, Halstead said. This is a center
of learning in downtown Rochester,
but it has a lasng impact statewide
and beyond.
Mareus said that the new facility
will beer equip REOC to serve its
students.
It provides us with the ability to
enhance our current programs as well
as create new ones so that we can
meet the needs of our community, he
said.
The REOC has been a leader in quality,
tuion-free, short-term college
preparaon, career and technical
training for adults in Rochester and
the surrounding areas for over 40
years. REOC is sponsored, in-part,
by The College at Brockport, and
oers innovave quality programs to
a diverse adult populaon. The goal
of the REOC is for their graduates to
obtain placement in higher educaon
or employment.
Infamous Bullied Greece Bus Driver Announces Rerement
GREECE, N.Y. - A school bus monitor
who was shown in a video being
relentlessly bullied by a group of boys
said last Friday that she will rere.
Karen Klein, a 68-year-old
grandmother, told The Associated
Press that the decision to leave the
job she held for three years was tough
but wasnt based on her now infamous
encounter with the mean-spirited
seventh-graders, who tormented her
with profanity, insults and threats
during a bus run as the school year
wound down in June.
A 10-minute video of the episode
went viral and spurred an outpouring
of more than $700,000 in donaons
for Klein from all over the world.
Im not qui ng because of what
happened. Thats not it, Klein said
from her home in the Rochester
suburb of Greece. I enjoyed working
with the kids. But I guess its my me
to leave. Thats what Ive decided.
Although her mind is made up, she said
she has yet to submit the paperwork
that would make her rerement
o cial.
She said shell keep busy in her
rerement, perhaps volunteering
with organizaons that help people
touched by bullying or suicide.
Kleins oldest son killed himself
10 years ago, making all the more
appalling one of the students taunts:
You dont have a family because they
all killed themselves because they
dont want to be near you.
The cellphone video, posted online,
shows Klein trying her best to ignore
the abuse.
The Greece school district has
suspended the four students for a year.
A Toronto man, Max Sidorov, was so
moved by Kleins story that he started
an online campaign with the goal of
raising $5,000 to send her on a vacaon.
The fundraising site Indiegogo listed
the total amount raised at $703,833.
A spokeswoman for the site said more
than 30,000 people contributed, with
donaons coming in from at least 84
countries and all 50 U.S. states.
Karen Klein
NY Judge Signs Ban of Mislabeled Synthec Drugs
ROCHESTER, N.Y. The owner of
three upstate New York smoke shops
must pay $32,000 and remove any
mislabeled synthec drugs from the
shelves under a court order obtained
by the state aorney generals o ce.
Aorney General Eric Schneiderman
says Thursday that the Look Ah
Hookah locaons in Rochester, Greece
and Webster were among numerous
head shops visited by agents during an
undercover invesgaon into the sale
of synthec marijuana and so-called
bath salts banned by federal law.
The substances have been linked to
bizarre and violent behavior around
the country.
Schneiderman says his invesgaon
resulted in 12 lawsuits against 16
shops, and court orders removing the
substances from stores statewide.
A woman who answered the phone
at Look Ah Hookah Thursday said the
owner had no comment.
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Loery Players from Rochester,
Hamlin and North Rose Share $4,000,000 in Prizes
The New York Loerys Gretchen
Dizer last week presented $4,000,000
in prize money to three Rochester-
area Loery players. The check
presentaons took place at the Tops
Market on Lake Avenue in Rochester
where one of the winners purchased a
second-prize winning Powerball cket
worth $1,000,000.
Forty-seven-year-old Regina Gonzalez
of Rochester is not a regular Powerball
player. Gonzalez said she purchased
a single set of Quick Pick numbers
on June 11 for the June 13 drawing
because the jackpot was so high.
She returned to the Tops Market on
Lake Avenue where she purchased her
cket the day aer the drawing to see
if her jackpot-driven decision would
turn out to be a boon or a bust.
I didnt know right away, she
explained. I tried scanning my own
cket, but the self-scanner was
broken, so I handed it to the customer
service clerk to check, she said.
Thats when I learned I had a million
dollar winner. The jackpot winning
numbers for the June 13 Powerball
drawing were 07- 10- 14- 33- 57 and
Powerball 18. Gonzalez matched the
rst ve numbers drawn, missing
the $241,000,000 jackpot by one
number, but earning her an automac
$1,000,000 second prize.
I went home and double-checked
the numbers on my computer, and
then put the cket away to protect it,
she connued. The inial shock has
worn o and now Im just excited, she
said. Gonzalez claimed her $1,000,000
winner on June 22 at the Loerys
Customer Service Center in Rochester.
The $1,000,000 Powerball second-
prize is paid as one lump sum. Gonzalez
will receive a one-me net payment
totaling $659,105 aer all applicable
withholdings.
Gonzalez said she planned to buy
a house and take her whole family
on a dream vacaon to Disney. Its
something Ive always wanted to do.
Patricia Murphy, 56, of North Rose,
Wayne County, recently won $40
on a New York Loery Monopoly
scratch-o cket and decided to
have another go at the same cket.
She said even with luck on her side,
there was nothing that could have
prepared her for the shock of seeing
the words Jackpot - 2 Million printed
underneath her winning number.
I scratched the cket in the parking
lot outside the market and cried tears
of joy and relief when it dawned on
me, said Murphy. I knew right away.
Murphy won the $2,000,000 top prize
by matching the number 3 on the
top and boom poron of the cket
she purchased June 25 at the PPZ
Supermarket on West Main Street in
Sodus. All I could think was, Now, we
can be secure.
Murphy said she called her husband
from the car, but he was not easily
convinced. He kept saying I was full
of it, she laughed.. I was nally able
to show him the cket when we both
got home and then he wouldnt let go
of it!
Murphy will receive her $2,000,000
prize in one lump sum payment,
ne ng her $1,323,600. When asked
about her plans for the money Murphy
said, I can invest some, x up the
house and put some away for my
grandchildren, she said.
A roune, aer work stop to pick
up this and that turned into a life
changing event for 44-year-old Cory
Whitney of Hamlin, Monroe County.
Whitney said he is usually more
of a weekend Loery player but
something caught his eye one fateful
day last month that made him rethink
his roune.
I stopped in the store to pick up
some things, and I saw this new Ruby
Red X12 game in the machine, said
Whitney. I said to myself, Im here. Its
right there. Ill buy it now. Whitney
purchased his $1,000,000 Ruby Red
X12 winner on June 26 at Crosbys on
Lake Road in Hamlin.
Whitney said he scratched several
Loery ckets that evening while
si ng at his kitchen table. I got to
this cket, and I had to keep looking
at it over and over at least 10 mes
because I couldnt believe it, he said.
I went to work the next day, and then
headed to Rochester to turn it in.
The jackpot prize on the Ruby Red X12
scratch-o game is paid as $50,000 a
year for 20 years. Whitney will receive
a net check totaling $33,090 a year
through 2031. I have no plans for the
money because I never really thought
Id win, he said. I always just played
for fun.
One-hundred y Rochester residents recently
graduated from the R.O.A.R Academy and will get an
opportunity to work on the biggest capital project in
Rochester City School District (RCSD) History.
ROAR, which stands for Reaching Occupaonal
Achievement for Residents in Rochester, is a 3
month training program iniated by the Rochester
Joint Schools Construcon Board (RJSCB), the group
that is overseeing the 15-year $1.2 billion schools
renovaon program.
The goal was to train residents so that they are
ready for employment opportunies in the many
construcon projects that have been iniated in our
area, explains Jerome Underwood, Senior Director
of Operaons for the RCSD.
The group, comprised mostly of minority residents,
received hands on training in a variety of construcon
elds including painng, electrician, roong,
bricklaying, and other skilled trade areas.
Underwood, a RJSCB board member, says he is
parcularly sased with the number of minories
that have completed the program. We have
some very aggressive minority goals in the schools
construcon project, he noted. Our outreach was
parcularly targeted to inner-city personnel now
the contractors will not be able to say they cant nd
qualied minority workers.
The success of the program will be seen a year from
now when these individuals are gainfully.
150 Residents Graduate from R.O.A.R Academy
Pepin Acilien - Sr. Program Manager and
Tom Roger - Program Director
(L to R) John Lackamyeir - Teacher,
Nicole Jeerson, - Coordinator, and Dave Gerken - Teacher
Claude E. Wa Jr. - Deputy Program Director Graduaon Ceremony
Gallery One Fine Arts Opens New Locaon
David Haygood, Jr., owner of Gallery One Fine Arts
celebrated the grand opening of his newest locaon
Friday, July 27th at 2575 East Henriea Road.
Haygood, a local arst has been working in the
Rochester area for over thirty years. His gallery
is dedicated to the development, upliing and
promoon of local arsts in the community.
Along with selling artwork, the gallery oers art
lessons and hosts Flowec Rhythms, an open mic
poetry night for local and naonal poets and writers.
(L to R) Kristy Guenther and Jennifer Butler David Haygood
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Dead and Paid: NY Stops Unemployment Check Gaes
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) New York
state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli
says he has stopped $1.4 million in
unemployment checks wrien out to
working people, illegal immigrants and
the dead.
But DiNapoli says nearly $1 million in
checks to people who didnt qualify
for unemployment checks has already
been paid by the state.
The comptroller says among them
are 91 recently hired state workers
who owe the state $105,000 for
overpayment of unemployment
benets.
Aer nding the errors, DiNapoli says
he advised the state Labor Department
to ghten its controls to make sure the
crical aid gets only to New Yorkers
who qualify.
DiNapoli says the Labor Department
didnt even seek to recover $383,000
in overpayments because a year had
lapsed.
The Labor Department says it will
ghten its controls.
New York City Hospitals to Start Liming Baby Formula
NEW YORK (AP) - New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg is ge ng some
backing for his campaign to help
promote breaseeding.
The mayor has received some ak
over a new city policy, taking eect in
September and reported in Sundays
New York Post, that discourages baby
formula from being used in hospitals.
While some are chiding the mayor for
imposing a nanny state, The Naonal
Alliance for Breaseeding Advocacy
says its a good program.
The Alliances execuve director says
keeping baby formula under lock and
key, like medicines are kept, helps
prevent hospital staers from reaching
for a bole rst, instead of encouraging
new mothers to nurse their babies.
New York Citys program called Latch
On NYC is voluntary for hospitals, and is
part of a naonwide eort to improve
newborns health by promong
breaseeding for babies.
Mothers who insist on bole-feeding
will be able to do so, but nurses
would have to sign out the baby
formula, which would always be on
hand for mothers who have di culty
breaseeding.
The city of Rochester has a populaon of about 207,000 48% White, 37%
Black, and 12% Hispanic. But, with a police force consisng of mostly white
male o cers coupled with the growing problems of police-community relaons,
many have pointed to the lack of diversity in the police force as a major problem.
Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard says the Rochester Police Department
(RPD) is taking steps to change that. The department announced last week
that they have put together the most diverse class of police recruits in recent
memory.
Chief Sheppard gave oath last Monday to a class of 28 new recruits scheduled to
begin their training August 1st. 16 of the 28 new o cers are minority - 7 African
Americans, 6 Hispanics, 2 Asians, and 1 Nave American.
The Rochester Police Departments Background and Recruitment Unit has
worked hard on nding the best of the best applicants to serve as members of
the Rochester Police Department, said Chief Sheppard. We are excited that this
academy class will have 28 recruits, in which 16 are minories. The Rochester
Police Department takes great pride in providing a police force that reects the
moral values and cultural backgrounds of the residents of our community.
This class is important because it is a step in the right direcon -- to have the
police department mirror the demographics of the city they serve, explained
city council president Lovely Warren.
Warren and members of city council were instrumental in helping RPD obtain
the new recruits. Its not enough to print yers or billboards with a black face
on it and expect people will apply, Warren said. We went to churches and
asked them to help us idenfy potenal candidates. We talked to people face-
to-face and asked them to become part of the department.
Warren said she will connue to push for more minority candidates for future
classes. When you have a police force that looks like the community it sends
a posive message to the people, she said. It also helps because when
youre dealing with cultural dierences for example, its easy for someone who
doesnt know the cultural nuances of a parcular segment of the community to
misinterpret something that may just be the way that culture communicates.
One of Rochesters greatest strengths is the incredible diversity of its
populaon, which brings together a wide range of experiences that enriches the
lives of all our residents and visitors, said Mayor Richards. It is crical that our
Police Department reect that diversity and this Academy class demonstrates a
signicant advancement toward that goal.
Warren says RPD was able to provide opportunies for new hires by cu ng
expenses and oering early rerement incenves to current employees.
Last year we oered early rerement incenves to a number of people on the
police and re departments, Warren said. The number of people who took
advantage of those rerement incenves made it possible for us to recruit more
new o cers to ll those slots.
Another recruitment eort is scheduled for November. Warren says she hopes
the number of minories in the current class will encourage others to apply.
*Photo Credit: Communicaons Bureau, City of Rochester
New RPD Recruit Class
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Mayor Tom Richards and Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard
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am for a federal ban on fracking...no 'safe fracking' rhetoric
We need to spend less on military and wars and more on education
and infrastructure
We need to spend less on executives both public and private and
encourage higher wages for working class Americans
There needs to be better screening for gun and ammunition
purchase; buying 4 guns in a week and 4,000 rounds of ammo should
be easier to screen for
We can tax dividend income somewhat higher for those richer
Americans earning $250,000 or more in dividend income. This is not
regular income; this is the 'Mitt Romney' class of Americans 'm talking
about
Kirsten Gillibrand took gobs of gas, oil and nuclear PAC money. Google: 'The Real Donations to Gillibrand'
Senator Gillibrand even took a $5,000 PAC check from Chesapeake and $500 from the Chesapeake attorney and lobbyist,
Thomas West who recently emailed the DEC 'in one last pitch' on how to exclude storm water runoff testing for radioactivity
will write mandatory, strict EPA waterway aquatic buffer zones for any activity that has the potential to contaminate our
lakes, rivers and streams. Right now, EPA is only advisory on this, and Gillibrand has no plans for this. Google: Aquatic
Buffers- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Senator Gillibrand advocated building more nuclear power plants in Western NY to create jobs. There are many initiatives
that could make money, but harm the public. am not for more nuclear power plants, period.
I've actuaIIy written proposed IegisIation for major student Ioan reform; there is a proposed jobs biII in my website
and more
Senator Gillibrand's 'Upstate Works Act' in her .Gov website never made it to committee, and the original co-sponsor,
Senator Al Franken, withdrew his co-sponsorship back in 2011. t is NOT a passed law. Senator Schumer co-sponsored the
bill in February of this year. He is the only co-sponsor and the bill is dead; which means that her claims about what it's doing
for jobs and small businesses is very misleading. She has never authored and passed any jobs legislation.
Wendy Long, also on the ballot, is a drill-baby-drill Republican
Senator Gillibrand was the #1 recipient of Commercial Bank lobby money in the whole U.S. Senate in 2010 and #5 now.
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located in the heart of downtown
at the southwest corner of the
Main Street Bridge (across from the
Convenon Center). A perfect spot to
enjoy some music during lunch hour.
19 - August 9
Party in the Park
Time: 5:00PM-10:00PM
Locaon: Riverside Fesval Site Court
St. and Exchange Blvd
Citys dynamic Party in the Park
concert series to be held Thursday,
June 7 through August 9, 2012, from
5 p.m. to 10 p.m.. Cost: $2.00 per
person facility fee at entrance; 12 &
under free
August
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Wednesday Aernoon at the Movies -
Puss in Boots
Time: 2:30PM-4:00PM
Locaon: Central Library 115 South
Ave.
Each Wednesday aernoon from
July 11 through August 29, 2012, the
Childrens Center will be showing a
movie at 2:30.
2
Murrays Maral Arts Center Presents
Karate Fun for Kids!
Time: 2:00PM-3:00PM
Locaon: Charloe Branch Library -
3557 Lake Ave.
Age Level: Child (4 yrs. - 12 yrs.)
A sensei from the Irondequoit school
and the Greece school will be at the
library to help us explore karate!
Registraon is required and limited,
so sign up soon by calling (585) 428-
8248
7
Wildlife Educators Coalion Animal
Visit!
Time: 1:00PM- 2:00PM
Locaon: Charloe Branch Library -
3557 Lake Ave.
This animal visit will begin with an
animal story about love, belonging
and nding your true self. Aer the
book, you will meet the characters!
There will be a fennec fox, rabbit,
tortoise, lizard, millipede, snake and
tarantula!
8
The Adventures of Tinn
Time:2:30PM-4:00PM
Locaon: Central Library 115 South
Ave.
movie at 2:30.
10
DFC East End Fesval
Time: 5:00PM-11:00PM
Locaon: East Ave, from Gibbs St. to
Mahews St.
Music, Food, Fitness and Fun! Six
stages of live entertainment in
Rochesters East End!
15
The Muppets
Time: 2:30PM-4:00PM
Locaon: Central Library - 115 South
Ave.
movie at 2:30. This weeks movie is
The Muppets, rated PG.
The Muppets reunite to save their old
theater from a greedy oil tycoon.
22
How to Train Your Dragon
Time: 2:30PM-4:00PM
Locaon: Central Library - 115 South
Ave.
A hapless young Viking who aspires
to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely
friend of a young dragon himself,
and learns there may be more to the
creatures than he assumed.
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New York City to Mothers: You Should Breaseed
New York City is urging new mothers
to go the natural route by
breaseeding.
Starng in September, dozens of city
hospitals will ask new mothers to listen
to talks about why their natural milk is
beer than a formula for newborns.
Then they can decide for themselves.
The program has some powerful
names behind it, including Mayor
Michael Bloomberg and City Council
Speaker Chrisne Quinn.
Under the Latch On NYC program,
hospitals will no longer hand out
promoonal formulas unless its for
medical reasons.
Health experts say breaseeding
benets include milk rich in nutrients
and anbodies that protect a baby. Its
easier to digest and is cost-free.
Crics say government should not
interfere with a mothers choice.
Onondaga Lake Clean Up Begins
Crews have begun dredging Onondaga
Lake as part of a ve-year, $450 million
project to clean up what was once
considered one of the naons most
polluted bodies of water.
Dredging machinery began scooping
sediment from the lake boom on
Monday. The work will go on 24 hours a
day, six days a week, and will only stop
during the winter months. In addion
to dredging 185 acres of lake boom,
another 400 acres will be capped.
Decades of waste dumping by
industries surrounding the lake in
Syracuse and neighboring communies
poured mercury and other metals
along with solvents and PCBs into the
lake, which was added to the federal
Superfund list in 1994.
Honeywell Internaonal is in charge
of the clean-up the project, which is
expected to take ve years.
Soda Companies Racing For A New Sweet Spot
Coke and Pepsi are chasing the sweet
spot: a soda with no calories, no
arcial sweeteners and no funny
aertaste.

The worlds top so drink companies
hope thats the elusive trifecta that will
silence health concerns about soda and
reverse the decline in consumpon of
carbonated drinks. But such a formula
could be years away.

Thats because the ingredient that
makes soda taste good is also what
packs on the pounds: high-fructose
corn syrup. Arcial sweeteners
like asparatame that are used in
diet drinks dont have any calories
but are seen as processed and fake.
Natural sweeteners that come from
plants present the most promising
alternave, but companies havent yet
gured out how to mask their metallic
aertaste.

Despite the complexies, so drink
makers push on in their search.
Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. at Clinic for Depression
Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is in
Rochester, Minn. for treatment at the
Mayo Clinic.
In a statement released Friday, the
hospital says Jackson is at Mayo for
extensive inpaent evaluaon for
depression and for gastrointesnal
issues. The statement did not reveal
Jacksons whereabouts before Friday.
The statement went on to say Jackson
and his family are grateful for the
outpouring of support and prayers
that have been received throughout
his care.
Jackson has been on medical leave
from Congress for weeks. Inially,
his o ce said Jackson was being
treated for exhauson. But his sta
later said Jacksons condion is more
serious and requires inpaent medical
treatment. They also said Jackson has
been grappling with emoonal issues.
No details on Jacksons whereabouts
or exact medical condion had been
released unl Friday.
Obama to NUL: We Cant Forget About Black Homicides
By Hazel Trice Edney
(TriceEdneyWire.com) Applauded
by a wildly enthusiasc crowd at the
Naonal Urban League convenon in
New Orleans, President Obama in
a rare moment - spoke of the war-
level violence in Black communies.
And, defying crics, he also seized the
opportunity to say specically what he
has done for Black people.
Our hearts break for the vicms of
the massacre in Aurora, he said in the
speech, which was punctuated oen
with applause. We pray for those who
were lost and we pray for those who
loved them. We pray for those who
are recovering with courage and with
hope, he said of the tragic shoong
in which 12 people were killed in a
Colorado movie theatre last week.
But, then, the President turned the
page: And we also pray for those who
succumb to the less-publicized acts of
violence that plague our communies
in so many cies across the country
every single day, he said to more
applause. We cant forget about
that.
He went deeper comparing the
occasional violence in some
communies to the daily violence in
Black communies.
Every day - in fact, every day and a
half, the number of young people we
lose to violence is about the same as
the number of people we lost in that
movie theater. For every Columbine or
Virginia Tech, there are dozens gunned
down on the streets of Chicago and
Atlanta, and here in New Orleans. For
every Tucson or Aurora, there is daily
heartbreak over young Americans shot
in Milwaukee or Cleveland. Violence
plagues the biggest cies, but it also
plagues the smallest towns. It claims
the lives of Americans of dierent
ages and dierent races, and its ed
together by the fact that these young
people had dreams and had futures
that were cut tragically short.
According to a compilaon of FBI
annual homicide stascs, more than
300,000 African-Americans have been
killed by violence since the mid-1970s,
when the federal government began
compiling the stats. Thats greater
than the populaon of some cies,
including Cincinna, Ohio.
The President alluded to tougher gun
laws, but stopped short of promising
specic acon in the near future.
And when there is an extraordinarily
heartbreaking tragedy like the one
we saw, theres always an outcry
immediately aer for acon. And
theres talk of new reforms, and
theres talk of new legislaon. And too
oen, those eorts are defeated by
polics and by lobbying and eventually
by the pull of our collecve aenon
elsewhere, he said.
He noted that since the Tucson shoong
that wounded Congresswoman
Gabrielle Giords, the background
checks conducted on those looking
to purchase rearms are now more
thorough and more complete.
He added that, the federal
government is now in the trenches
with communies and schools and
law enforcement and faith-based
instuons, with outstanding mayors
like Mayor Nuer [of Philadelphia]
and Mayor Landrieu [of New Orleans]
- recognizing that we are stronger
when we work together. He also
listed partnerships with cies for
summer jobs, youth prevenon and
intervenon programs that steer
young people away from a life of gang
violence, and towards the safety and
promise of a classroom.
He then concluded that none of these
acons have been enough because of
polical stalemate.
Other steps to reduce violence
have been met with opposion in
Congress. This has been true for some
me - parcularly when it touches on
the issues of guns, he said. He said
he believes strongly in the Second
Amendment right to bear arms, But
I also believe that a lot of gun owners
would agree that AK-47s belong in the
hands of soldiers, not in the hands
of criminals that they belong on the
baleeld of war, not on the streets of
our cies.
Obama vowed to connue working
with both pares, with religious
groups and with civic organizaons, to
arrive at a consensus around violence
reducon - not just of gun violence -
but violence at every level, on every
step, looking at everything we can
do to reduce violence and keep our
children safe - from improving mental
health services for troubled youth to
instung more eecve community
policing strategies. We should leave no
stone unturned, and recognize that we
have no greater mission as a country
than keeping our young people safe.
In another unique move, the President
listed several of his economic and
educaonal accomplishments in the
Black community:
Weve helped African-American
businesses and minority-owned
businesses and women-owned
businesses gain access to more than
$7 billion in contracts and nancing
that allowed them to grow and create
jobs, he seized the July 25 opportunity
to list his accomplishments in the Black
community a rarity in his speeches
these days.
He connued, Millions of Americans
- including more than 2 million African-
American families - are beer o,
thanks to our extension of the child
care tax credit and the earned income
tax credit, because nobody who works
hard in America should be poor in
America.
He added, Weve fought to make
college more aordable for an
addional 200,000 African American
students by increasing Pell grants.
Thats why weve strengthened
this naons commitment to our
community colleges, and to our
HBCUs.
Crics of Obama have bemoaned
the fact that he rarely menons the
specic pains of the African-American
community. That cricism got
louder when he skipped the NAACP
convenon in July, sending Vice
President Joseph Biden instead.
Finally, he announced, Tomorrow,
Im establishing the rst-ever White
House Iniave on Educaonal
Excellence for African Americans - so
that every child has greater access to
a complete and compeve educaon
from the me theyre born all through
the me they get a career.
Reecng on the success of such a
program, he balanced it out with the
reality that it would mean nothing
without measures to keep children
safe. Good jobs, quality schools,
aordable health care, aordable
housing - these are all the pillars upon
which communies are built. And yet,
weve been reminded recently that
all this maers lile if these young
people cant walk the streets of their
neighborhood safely; if we cant send
our kids to school without worrying
they might get shot; if they cant go
to the movies without fear of violence
lurking in the shadows.
Good Ol Mississippi: Black Couples
Wedding Banned by a White Church
A couple in Jackson,
Mississippi said
they were highly
disappointed to
have their wedding
banned by a white
church. The mayor
of the city has
even stepped in
to speak on the
serious injusce
that has been
served to the
couple as a result
of what some have
called obvious racism.
Charles Wilson, the husband to be,
expressed his concerns about being
banned.
I feel like it was blatant racial
discriminaon, Wilson said today in a
phone interview.
Wilson and his wife, TeAndrea, had
already invited people to the wedding,
lisng the date as July 21 at First Bapst of
Crystal Springs. But there were members
of the congregaon who didnt want the
couple ge ng married at their church.
The churchs pastor, Stan Weatherford,
sll conducted the ceremony, but the
event had to be moved to another church.
Pastor Weatherford even admied that
there were some members of the church
who were concerned about Charles and
his wife being married there, since theyd
never had a black couple married in their
church. Wilson has been aending the
church for a month and his wife has been
there for more than a year.
Prior to this, I had been telling people
how nice they were here, Wilson said. It
makes you reevaluate things.
The pastor of the church admied that the
racism broadsided him.
I didnt want to have a controversy within
the church and I didnt want a controversy
to eect the wedding of Charles and
Te Andrea. I wanted to make sure their
wedding day was a special day, said
Weatherford, according to WLBT.
Crystal Springs Mayor Sally Garland spoke
up on the couples behalf, stang that she
was highly disappointed that this incident
took place in her community.
I would hate for a few people to be a
reecon of our whole town because
its not that way, she said. We pride
ourselves on unity. We dont want to be
known for that.
Heres my queson for Charles and
TeAndrea: Why in the hayell are you
aending that church in the rst place?
Why are you giving them your money and
asking to give them more money by ge ng
married in their church? There was just a
nding that the city of New York is going
to earn a quarter of a billion dollars this
year from gay marriages. This shows that
whether on a large or small scale, bigotry
is never protable. If the people at First
Bapst are too ignorant to know this, then
you should take your business elsewhere.
One of the most awkward things I noce
from some black people, especially in the
south, is an intense need to mingle with
whites in order to feel that we are worthy.
We pass over black businesses and gladly
give our money to people who hate our
guts. In fact, we get angry if they dont
take our money, which doesnt make a
whole lot of sense to me. Mississippi is
one of the most disrespecul states in
America, boldly raising a ag possessing
a symbol of the greatest holocaust in the
history of America, yet there are negroes
who will defend this ag to the death.
When someone asked me today at the
Urban League Convenon how I adjust to
racism in America, I gave my friend a simple
answer: I dont trust my self-esteem to the
descendants of my historical oppressors.
In other words, I dont wait for a white
man to give me a great job with some
important posion that makes me feel
like Ive accomplished something. Why?
Because when you become dependent on
something thats been given to you, your
self-worth is undermined when that thing
is taken away. The black man who said
mama I made it when he was hired as a
Vice President at IBM is devastated when
hes reminded that white people sll own
the company.
The point in what Im saying here is that
looking to whites to validate you is almost
always a losing proposion. It doesnt
mean you cant work with them, marry
them, spend me with them and do
business with them, but all relaonships
must be predicated upon a condion of
mutual respect. For this couple, they
gave their respect and money to a church
that wont even honor their right to
declare their love for one another. That
is a hateful, ugly and evil way to allegedly
serve God on Sundays. The pastor should
also be ashamed of being too cowardly
to speak up against this injusce, which
is what Jesus tells us to do at least once
a week.
With regard to this couple, I would hope
that they nd another church that deserves
their me and money. If these people
are too ignorant to allow black people to
get married at their church, thats their
loss. You should never waste your me
pandering to people who are ignorant
enough to believe that you are inferior,
for they are never worth your me. Dont
let your feelings be hurt when they reject
youjust tell them to get the hell out of
your face. God has beer things in store
for you anyway.
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Dr. Boyce Watkins is the founder of
YourBlackWorld.com and the author of the
book, Black American Money
The views expressed on our opinion pages are those of the author and do not
necessarily represent the position or viewpoint of Minority Reporter.
DR. BOYCE
WATKINS
STRAIGHTNO CHASER
My Feet Dont Fit That Box
This world has its
share of control
freaks. Those who
want to control
what other human
beings think, do or
say.
There is seldom
conict when the
control freaks are
ge ng their way
but there is certain
backlash when
you call their methods or moves into
queson.
Some people are so full of themselves
they assume every me I put the pen to
paper I am talking about them.
Similar to posng a status or opinion on
Facebook there are people who react
because they perceive themselves so
important to you, it just has to be about
them.
What I am alluding to is a line that
appeared in one of the Orchids and Onions
pieces where I dared to say that we have
people, so-called leadership in parcular
with undiagnosed mental issues.
That comment sparked outrage from folks
I was not even thinking about when I
wrote the piece.
Its like the folks that responded at length
were saying: I know I have mental health
issues but you did not have to put my
business in the public.
People are truly interesng, and truly
like to aer themselves, when they
believe that any topic I write about that
intenonally creates controversy is about
them.
Some columnists, no doubt, have their
topics planned out weeks and months in
advance before they actually sit down and
write.
There are, no doubt, some who are so
organized and systemazed that what they
write reads just like who they are, boring.
I try hard not to be boring.
Some writers are so stoic, and lifeless I
cant get through the rst paragraph of
what they write.
Thank God, that is not who I am. I seldom
know from week to week what I am going
to write about and then when needed,
God steps in and orders my steps.
He has never ceased to shine a spotlight
on the issue or topic that he feels will
interest my readers this week.
Somemes my detractors accuse me of
being brutal. I am not brutal, truth is. And
because what I write is truth God always
seeks to remind me when those seek to
change me or put me in a box.
No maer how hard they try, they cant
put a lampshade on a star.
At 67, I have learned to accept that people
are going to believe what they want to
believe, and I will respond to them and
their cricism only if I choose to.
I have wrien opinionated editorials and
columns since the 1960s.
I take risks, lots of risks, but God made me
fearless and immune to control freaks.
He helped me understand who I was a long
me ago and like Max Lucado recognizes
none of us are promised to live life on a
cruise ship.
I am, have been, and will connue to be on
the baleship.
Conict and enough of it is the foundaon
for war, and since I plan to connue to do
what I do I will always be on the baleeld,
at war with control freaks.
Always know your audience, I oen
recommend.
Connued on next page
GLORIA WINSTON
AL-SARAG
Craig Heard
deserved beer.
In 2002, Craig was
only 14-years-old
when he, as many
teenagers do, was
hanging out with
the wrong crowd
people he thought
were his friends,
but in reality, were
not.
You see, friends dont get friends in
trouble.
Friends dont do things that put their
friends lives at risk. And thats exactly
what Craig Heards so called friends did.
They stole a car and somehow young Craig
Heard ended up behind the wheel of that
stolen car, joyriding through Rochesters
Park Avenue neighborhood on June 10,
2002.
Despite Craig Heard being spoed several
mes by Rochester Police o cers, they
never pulled him over. Instead, they
followed him, and then let him go.
A short me later, RPD cops again spoed
him, and again they didnt pull him over.
It was almost as if the Rochester Police
o cers were stalking him, or as if they
were se ng him up.
Then, at one point, RPD o cers followed
Craig Heard as he turned onto Girton
Place, a small dead end street o of Park
Avenue.
There, they cornered Craig, an unarmed
and scared, young African-American
honor roll student who had made
mistakes, mainly not picking and choosing
his friends carefully.
Minutes later, two Rochester police o cers
shot Craig Heard twice in the head, killing
him instantly.
The o cers claimed that Craig Heard
drove the car at them, and that they didnt
have me to move out of the way.
But, they obviously had me to get in their
stance, aim and shoot a young man in the
head. Twice.
Craig Heard deserved beer.
He deserved beer than to be executed
like he was.
He deserved beer than to have Rochester,
New York Mayor Bill Johnson, and then
RPD Chief Bob Duy call the shoong
jused, while his body sll lay slumped
over the cars steering wheel, and before
the invesgaon into the shoong had
even begun.
He deserved beer than to have
Rochesters WHAM 1180 radio show host
Bob Lonsberry mock his death.
I produced a short lm, RPD: Badges of
Dishonor, Corrupon and Murder! In the
lm I gave Craig Heards mother, Tammy
Westbrook, an opportunity to express her
feelings over the tragic loss of her son.
And she did.
Craigs mom cried as she talked about
her son, while holding his sweatshirt.
She talked about what a great kid he
was. About how he would make his lile
brother breakfast, and how his lile
brother had no idea that he would never
see his big brother again.
As a lmmaker exposing incidents in which
innocent people have been killed by police,
my goal is to give the families some closure
by giving them a plaorm on which to
express their pain, something mainstream
media, with their sensaonalism and their
cu ng and eding of stories, dont do.
I did that with Craig Heards mom.
I gave her that.
When some in the community, including
Lonsberry, blamed her for her sons death
and called her a bad mom, I went to bat
for her.
I defended her.
Which is why I was very saddened to learn
that more than 10 years aer his death,
Craig Heard sll doesnt have a gravestone
at his grave in Rochesters Mount Hope
Cemetery.
The City of Rochester paid Tammy
Westbrook $350,000 to sele her wrongful
death lawsuit against the City and the
Rochester Police Department, and Tammy
Westbrook couldnt spend a few hundred
dollars to get her son a gravestone.
If it wasnt for a small weathered, faded,
plasc marker that funeral homes
temporarily use to mark a grave aer a
burial, and which has somehow lasted 10
years, one would not even know that Craig
Heards grave was there.
He deserved beer friends. Not a bunch
of individuals he thought were his friends,
who ulmately inuenced him into driving
that stolen car, and as a result, started the
chain of events which led to his death.
He and other African-Americans deserve
beer than to be called animals and a
wolf by Bob Lonsberry.
He deserved beer than to be shot in the
head by unjust cops, who were cleared
and never charged with killing an unarmed
young man.
And Craig Heard deserves beer than to
be laying in an unmarked grave for the
past 10 years, while his mother collected
$350,000 for his death.
Craig Heard deserves beer.
Craig Heard Deserves Beer
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necessarily represent the position or viewpoint of Minority Reporter.
DAVY VARA
Connued from previous page
My mind equates folks who dwell in the
land of superiority and control as one of
those Chrisans who thinks their religion
is beer than mine.
In knowing ones audience you would know
as it relates to me that I too am a Chrisan.
But, I draw lines in the sand when it comes
to trying to exact my personal beliefs on
anyone.
I am not a Chrisan who is stuck on stupid
or who has read just one book. I am a
Chrisan who has been in constant search
of the truth.
I am one who has been in the mosque,
walked in Islam, pracced Buddhism,
studied Catholicism and have concluded
there is one God.
The one, who calls ministers, selects
prophets, creates angels and thereby is
responsible for the many interpretaons
that come forth of his word the Bible,
the Quran, the Torah or any other book
wrien by men based on their beliefs,
experiences or spirituality.
He or She alone determines who calls
him God, Allah, Jah, etc.
Diversity in religion and mulculturalism
does not exist by accident. It is on purpose
and part of the Divine order of things this
life oers.
I am blessed and highly favored that my
fans and my detractors take delight in
reading what I write, whether they agree
or disagree.
I thank God and take pride in my ability
to aract that kind of aenon. Some
people, however, waste their me trying
to control or change me.
Some people truly need to stop stroking
themselves by assuming that every me I
write it is always about them.
What are rules? Rules are something
intelligent people challenge if they are in
place to sequester their sense of freedom
and creavity.
Me, personally, I am a rebel, a warrior,
one of the former slaves that can always
be found plo ng a revolt because I have
never put the plantaon or its owners on
a pedestal.
My educaon, exposure in this life has
always been to demysfy the plantaon
owner, not dwell happily singing songs of
freedom in the eld picking coon.
Dont get it twisted, I respect the coon
pickers and house Negroes that knew how
to play the game well enough to help their
family survive, but it is now 2012 and I
would be more than remiss to emulate
the culture of the 1800s even though on
the ip side of my culture we sll have
Europeans overtly trying to take us back
in me with their Jim Crow a tudes and
laws.
See, I just happen to believe I have the
spirit of Harriet Tubman and Frederick
Douglass combined at mes.
I am on a mission to free slaves. One of my
favorite quotes from Harriet Tubman is: I
freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed
a thousand more if they only knew they
were slaves.
Something else I recently read and
consider profound is, Going to church
doesnt make you a Chrisan any more
than standing in a garage makes you a car.
So to all of the control freaks in the world,
surely you can nd beer things to do with
your me than worry about me.
There may be folks you do control, but I
am not one of them because my feet just
dont t in that box.
Your childs journey
starts here.
The Rochester City School Districts Universal Pre-K programs
start your child on the right path with classes that develop
creavity condence and the sills necessary or lielong
learning and success.
And with programs at schools and community centers
around the city UPK provides the choice o a locaon that is
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