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Brentwood Church of Christ is holding its second annual Black Marriage Day seminar on March 24 at 2 p.m.! Brentwood is located at 6425 N. 60th Street. The event is open to the general public and all races. The seminar is being held the day before the national Black Marriage Day observance, which is held every 4th Sunday in March and celebrates the value of marriage in the Black Community. Tickets are $15 for individuals, $20 for couples. Tickets can be purchased at the event.

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PULSE OF THE COMMUNITY Photos and question by Yvonne Kemp

QUESTION OF THE WEEK:

“Are people who live next to each other as neighborly toward each other as they were 25 to 35 years ago? Why or why not?”

JOURNAL

Rep. Tamara Grigsby returns to capital to standing ovation

State Representative Tamara Grigsby (D-Milwaukee) visited the Capitol Tuesday and received a bipartisan standing ovation after almost three months away to recuperate from a serious illness.

“I am grateful to my colleagues in the Legislature, others in state government, my constituents and people across Wisconsin for their unflagging support and patience,” the representative said in a statement.

“It has truly contributed to my ongoing recovery. "I am getting stronger each day.

Last week'smining bill vote and yesterday's court decision striking down Wisconsin's voter ID law inspire me, as they inspire all of us who are fighting for justice and democracy.

“I am excited to be here today and look forward to the many challenges ahead.

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Milwaukee Ald. Milele Coggs called Monday’s permanent injunction handed down by a Dane County Judge blocking Wisconsin’s Voter ID law “another step in the right direction for our state and the tens of thousands of voters who would have been disenfranchised during elections this year.”

Coggs made her statement in a news release in response to Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess’ ruling, which called the Voter ID law unconstitutional because “its requirements abridge the right to vote.”

Niess’ ruling comes a week after another Dane County judge, David Flanagan, granted a temporary injunction blocking the law for the

In his eight-page opinion, Niess said the state’s voter ID law undermines the foundation of a government’s existence—’the people’s inherent, pre-constitutional right to vote’ and ‘imperils its legitimacy as a government by the people, for the people, and especially of the people. “It sows the seeds for its own demise as a democratic institution...This is precisely what 2011 Wisconsin Act 23 does with its photo ID mandates.’”

April 3 presidential primary and local elections.

Flanagan’s injunction was in response to a lawsuit brought by the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP and Voces de la Frontera.

Niess’ ruled on a lawsuit brought forth by the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin.

Coggs noted that in the voter ID law case that involved the NAACP and Voces de la Frontera, some of the information used by Flanagan to make his decision was generated by Common Council legislation she sponsored, along with co-sponsors Aldermen Ashanti Hamilton and

people are not as friendly or neighborly towards one another. There is no trust and this seems to be getting worse every year; even with home owners--new and old. The need to know people era has been lost and needs to be regained to help the community heal.”

WILLIE MCGEE: “No, everyone usually

stays to themselves today, especially in certain neighborhoods. It was very nice back in the day. People looked out for each other back then.”

CHARLESETTA THOMPSON: “As a rule they are not. But in my block, neighbors shovel and blow the snow for the elderly. Because of our block watch we know each other’s names. It would be nice if it was that way again.”

Terry Witkowski.

The Coggs legislation required the city Election Commission to track data on persons turned away from or not able to register at the polls for voter identification reasons.

“It (the data) was provided to the plaintiffs and was entered as evidence in the case and was part of a body of material that was considered prior to the judge’s decision,” Coggs explained.

The trial for a permanent injunction in the NAACP/Voces de la Frontera lawsuit is reportedly set for April 16.

In his eight-page opinion, Niess said the state’s voter ID law undermines the foundation (continued on page 5)

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ADESOLU MOORE-OMOKUNDE: “In the past 25 years it has changed. You can live in a neighborhood and not know their neighbors. You knew everyone you played with and you had block parties and went over each other’s homes. It was more like a family.”

AZEEZA ISLAM: “I have learned that

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George P. Hinton, president of Aurora Sinai Medical Center (standing far left), talks about the status of the hospital and the state of health care in the Black community during a forum co-sponsored by the Black Health Coalition and the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP that was held at the Wisconsin African American Women’s Center. Listening to Hinton’s response is (left to right): Debra Standridge of Wheaton-Franciscan Hospitals, Tito Izard of Milwaukee Health Services, Inc., Milwaukee Health Department director Bevan Baker, and Ald. Michael Murphy. Not shown next to Standridge is Dr. Bruce L. Van Cleave of Aurora Health Care. Standing next to Hinton is Milwaukee NAACP President James Hall.(Photo by Yvonne Kemp)

Forum focuses on hospital’s status, state of Black health care

By Thomas E. Mitchell, Jr.

The averted closing of Aurora Sinai Medical Center and potential negative fallout on the quality, availability and affordability of health care for low-income Black Milwaukeeans was spotlighted at a recent forum sponsored by the Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin (BHCW) and the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP. Held at the Wisconsin African American Women’s Center, 320 W. Vliet Street, the well attended forum featured representatives from the medical community and government who addressed the economic, political and cultural challenges faced by health care providers.

The panel included: George P. Hinton, president of Aurora Sinai Medical Center; Dr. Bruce L. Van Cleave, senior vice president and chief medical officer for Aurora Health Care, Dr. Tito Izard, president and CEO of Milwaukee Health Services, Inc.; and Debra Standridge, president of the North Market for St. Joseph, Elmbrook Memorial and the Wisconsin Heart Hospitals, all of which are part of the WheatonFranciscan family of hospitals.

Also on the panel were 10th District Alderman Michael Murphy, who is chair of the Common Council’s Finance and

Personnel Committee, and Bevan Baker, director of the city’s Health Department. Both represented the city’s interests in affordable health care.

Dr. Patricia McManus, president and CEO of the BHCW and James Hall, president of the Milwaukee Branch NAACP, were the moderators.

The panelists shared there views on the state of health care--which many observers see as being in a state of crisis-as well as the impact Sinai and St. Joseph have on the healthcare landscape for low-income families. There was also a question and answer period with pre-written questions on the status of Sinai and health care for people of color from audience members that were read by McManus and Hall.

Noting the forum was not “a forum of blame,” McManus stressed the need for the gathered medical and health institutions and city government to create partnerships that guarantees continued health care for the community.

McManus listed the number of public operated hospitals that closed in the last 30-plus years in Milwaukee, which include Mesconcordia and Doyne (County) hospitals, that were located in the heart of the central city and served predominately Black and low-income people. She also men-

Memorial service held for wife of Milwaukee County Board candidate

Daniela Matthews

A memorial service was held for Daniela Matthews, the wife of Radolph "Ray" Matthews, Jr., a candidate for Milwaukee County Supervisor. The service was held at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center, 1531 W. Vliet St. Mrs. Matthews reportedly died late last week of a massive heart attack.

She was 35 years old. She leaves behind four young children.

Her husband, Ray Matthews, is a candidate for the 10th District Milwaukee County Supervisor seat being vacated by Eyon Biddle, who is running for Milwaukee Alderman against incumbent Willie Hines.

Matthews will be facing off against David Bowen April 3.

“She (Daniela) was dedicated to our four beautiful children and I know her love for me was pure and genuine,” Ray Matthews said in a Facebook message on the passing of his wife. A former assistant to former Milwaukee County Supervisor Elizabeth Coggs, Matthews was an integral part of the yearly MLK

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Back-to-School Festival Coggs, now a state legislator, sponsored for children in the community before the start of the school year.

Children receive a free book bag filled with school supplies.

In a message posted on her Facebook page, Coggs announced that following the memorial service and repast, there will be an “after-party” held in Daniela Matthews’ honor.

In lieu of flowers, individuals are asked to contribute to a memorial fund set up for the Matthews children. “The Daniela Matthews Memorial Fund” will be at Educator’s Credit Union.

The Milwaukee Goodwill was incorporated in 1919, with headquarters located at the Summerfield Methodist Church on East Park Place. It was originally founded to “provide a chance, not charity,” to people society had labeled as unemployable, including thousands of soldiers returning from WWI. Goodwill created employment opportunities for veterans who had disabilities and also older workers who were displaced by returning, younger soldiers.

After the Great Depression and through the 1940s Goodwill began to focus on the growing number of persons with physical disabilities, developing the internationally acclaimed “case management” model that extended personalized service to program participants.

And, in the late 1950s, Goodwill collaborated with local agencies, expanding its services through Jewish Vocational Services and Curative Workshop, to provide on-site psychiatric, occupational and physical therapy services.

The notion of community-based services came to fruition in the 1980s and, since then Goodwill has exponentially expanded its services and locations including completion of several major building projects, opening a service center in Waukesha that houses both a retail and rehabilitation center, and Goodwill’s Store and Donation Centers have become mainstream retail outlets offering high-quality resale goods.

Today, Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin is the largest of more than 165 Goodwill organizations in North America. Nearly 5,000 Goodwill employees work in 70 locations throughout 23 counties in Wisconsin and metropolitan Chicago. Its updated mission is to “provide training, employment and supportive services for people with disabilities or disadvantages who seek greater independence.”

Over the years, Goodwill has become a leader in providing training, employment and supportive services for people with disabilities or disadvantages who seek greater independence. As a nonprofit organization, Goodwill’s own initiatives, such as its retail and donation centers, have helped the organization remain self-sustaining.

Though the organization’s original intent was one of good will, today Goodwill has become the’ poster child’ for not only being a good neighbor in the community, but setting the standard for a well-run nonprofit organization that has evolved to meet and serve the needs of others in a visionary, flexible and professional manner in our community.

Devastation of Katrina makes way for educational renaissance in New Orleans

By Mikel Holt

WASHINGTON, D.C.--The devastation of Hurricane Katrina cleared the way for an educational renaissance in New Orleans in the form of multi faceted charter school system that replaced what had long been recognized as one of the nation’s worst traditional school systems.

Remarkably, five short years later, the New Orleans school district has been transformed from a system known for its academic failure and political corruption, to one of the better large city districts in the country.

The Louisana Legislature achieved that remarkable status by closing over 100 failing schools and converting 75 to innovcative charters. The ‘experiment’ has cut the city’s dropout rate in half, as student achievement, rated by academic tests, has soared, as has parental involvement.

Yet even with that remarkable turnaround, some traditionalists and special interests groups have sought to undermine the successful new system.

Led and encouraged by resistant teachers (the New Orleans school board fired most of the teachers, and ecnoruaged an influx of younger educators based on merit) who fear the charter movement threatens their seniority and classroom autonomy, a small group of parents have complained the new system is not inclusive enough.

They have voiced frustration because the best charters have extensive wai(continued on page 3)

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THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT (SECTION 1): All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside. “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any persons within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Florida Teen’s killing harkens to uglier days

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Michelle Carter, principal of Golda Meir Elementary School; Dextra Hadnot, director of government affairs for AT&T Wisconsin and a local Pioneer; and state Rep. Leon Young presented donated dictionaries to these students at the school. Nearly 100 third graders at Golda Meir received the dictionaries to help improve childhood literacy and reading scores.

Nearly 100 Milwaukee Third Graders Receive Donated Dictionaries to Help Further Education AT&T Wisconsin Pioneers, Rep. Young Team Up in Statewide Effort to Help Improve Childhood Literacy, Reading Scores

The AT&T Wisconsin Pioneers and State Representative Leon Young (D-Milwaukee) recently presented donated dictionaries to nearly 100 third graders at Golda Meir Elementary School in Milwaukee as part of a statewide effort to help improve childhood literacy and student reading scores.

“This is an exciting program because it not only introduces third graders to the dictionary, but it also helps boost student literacy and reading scores,” said Michelle Carter, Principal of Golda Meir Elementary School.

“Thanks to the AT&T Pioneers, our students now own their very own personal dictionary. With this wonderful tool, they will learn vocabulary development, word pronunciation, the different meanings of words, and how to compare and contrast words.”

The event included a presentation where Rep. Young and the Pioneers explained to the students what information they can find in the dictionaries and how to use them.

The Pioneers are donating nearly 9,000 dictionaries this school year to students at more than 130 schools statewide, including Golda Meir Elementary, as part of

its 6th annual “Dictionaries for Success” program.

The Pioneers are a local volunteer organization of AT&T employees and retirees dedicated to volunteering their time to various community causes.

“We know that investing in our children and their education is critically important to our state’s long-term economic growth,” said Rep. Young. “These dictionaries will be a great building block for our students as they continue to grow, learn and succeed in the classroom.”

The “Dictionaries for Success” program is part of AT&T Cares, an expanded volunteer initiative created to encourage employees to get involved in community service that is meaningful to them and their communities, to create change, and to stay engaged.

The AT&T Pioneers have been distributing donated dictionaries to more than 130 schools statewide this academic year, including schools in Milwaukee, Green Bay, Appleton, Madison, Waukesha, Racine, Beloit, Janesville, and Eau Claire.

“AT&T is committed to helping advance the education of our young people,” said Dextra Hadnot, Director of Government Affairs for AT&T Wisconsin and a local Pioneer.

“We are proud to join forces with Rep. Young, Golda Meir staff, and educators throughout the state to give students the tools they need to develop into the future leaders of tomorrow.”

Devastation of Katrina makes way for educational renaissance in New Orleans (continued from page 1) ing lists. But instead of fighting for expansion of those successful programs, they have called for a return to the failing status quo.

James Shelton, assistant Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education could only shake his head in frustration and bewilderment at the protesters’ suggestion to return to a system that prioritized teachers or students and failure over success.

The closing speaker for the 12th annual Black Alliance for Educational Options Symposium here recently, Shelton encouraged the disenfranchised to reassess their positions, look at what’s best for the city versus the needs of a few.

Shelton did not go so far as to say the small, but vocal group of parents were pawns of a union effort to abandon the charter movement, but suggested logic and rational thinking in place of emotionalism.

Shelton noted that oftentimes not everyone immediately benefits from civil rights struggles, but stressed much more would be lost if they abandoned their course.

Though not every student can avail themselves of the best charters, Shelton said every child at least has a better opportunity, and the system in place is working.

“We can’t turn back,” Shelton declared to over 500 people attending the three-day convention at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.

The charter school renaissance in New Orleans is a cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s educational reform

movement, instituting autonomous magnet and specialty schools for traditional schools with long histories of failure.

From New Orleans to New York, the presidential agenda is proving to be highly successful, providing parents with greater options and students with greater incentives to achieve and succeed.

Obviously, in a some scenarios, some families have not received their first choices, as the most successful and acclaimed charter schools have been besieged with applicants. But the solution to that problem is to replicate the charters, not to abandon the movement, Shelton said.

“We are about investment and innovations,” Shelton said to a packed house of educational activists and parents. “We see ideas that work; and this is the way government ought to work.”

Unlike traditional schools, charters are unique specialties covering the spectrum of educational curriculums.

They are public schools run by an established organization or the local school district and enter a contract with a governmental body with identifiable academic achievement measurements.

If they do not reach their targeted goals, their contracts can be terminated.

“We continue to close schools that don’t work;, that aren’t performing (up to our expectations),“ Shelton explained, stressing that students are not trapped in programs that do not work. (continued on page 10)

Trayvon Martin probably figured it was no problem - him being black, and it being 2012 and all - to walk to the store in a gated community in Sanford, Florida.

But that didn’t stop the teenager from being shot to death recently by a white man who apparently thinks it's the late 1940s.

It was a time when, not far from Sanford in the town of Groveland, World War II soldiers Sammy Shepherd and Walter Irvin incurred the wrath of Lake County Sheriff Willis McCall, Florida’s counterpart to Bull Connor, for wearing their Army uniforms and refusing to work in the white-owned orange groves.

Shepherd and Irvin didn't fit McCall's notions of subservience. In fact, they made him downright uncomfortable.

So he killed them.

According to the documentary, "Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore," after the Supreme Court overturned the convictions of Shepherd and Irvin on trumped-up rape charges – years after white mobs trashed and burned the property of blacks in Groveland during the trial – McCall shot the two men while driving them back from prison to the town of Tavares for a retrial.

Shepherd died, but Irvin survived to tell the tale.

"I got rid of them, killed the sons of bitches," Irvin said he heard McCall tell the police dispatcher.

Judging from what's been reported so far in Martin's slaying, there's shades of Groveland throughout this tragedy.

It sounds like Groveland because like McCall, who detested black men who wore clothing that he found to be intimidating, George Zimmerman, the self-appointed neighborhood watch captain who killed Martin, detested black boys who wore clothing that he found threatening.

According to ABC News, Zimmerman told police he thought Martin looked suspicious because he had on a hooded sweatshirt and was walking slowly in the rain.

It sounds like Groveland all over again because like McCall, who

felt no hesitancy in further dehumanizing his black victims as "sons of bitches," Zimmerman also didn't hide his contempt for Martin.

Before he went running after the unarmed teenager, Zimmerman told the police dispatcher, "these a--holes always get away."

And it sounds like Groveland of the late 1940s and early 1950s because then, the authorities had no problems covering up McCall's brutality against black people. Today, the Sanford Police Department seems to be doing more to protect Zimmerman than to get justice for Martin.

According to ABC, a police officer who arrived at the scene told a witness who said she heard Martin cry for help that she didn't hear what she heard; that it was Zimmerman who called for help.

As if he was there.

The Sanford Police Department has also refused to release tapes of the emergency calls by witnesses. And – get this – they accepted Zimmerman at his word when he said he had no police record.

As it turns out, he lied. In 2005, Zimmerman was charged with battery against a police officer and resisting arrest.

I'll bet they wouldn’t have taken Martin at his word if he had lived.

He had no record, of course, but from the way things are looking right now, they’d probably try to concoct one.

The details of what led to Martin's slaying are still unfolding. But the police need to come clean – fast.

That's because what happened to this black teenager is profoundly troubling.

Among other things, it says that the idea of vigilantism, whether it's done by the border-patrolling members of the Minuteman Project or by neighborhood watch wackos like Zimmerman, is getting tacit support from law enforcement in some places as the U.S. gets browner and blacker.

It also feeds notions of white privilege; that thing that says that black boys like Martin shouldn't be in or near certain communities.

And it takes Florida back to the days of the Groveland slayings. The days when black men could wind up being killed for being somewhere that a white person didn't want them to be.

Or for daring to wear something that a white person didn’t like.

Will the decline of Black marriage lead to our extinction?

SIGNIFYIN’

I asked a half dozen Black ministers over the past month what was the most significant issue facing the Black community and received three different answers. Two said unemployment.

By Mikel Kwaku Osei Holt Two others said poverty. Another prioritized imprisonment—noting our state’s status of of social sins that begin with the premise of personal rehaving the highest Black male incarceration rate in the sponsibility and end with the elimination of an excuse for why we’re in our current state of chaos and dysfunctioncountry.

The last brother said drugs. His concern not only in- ality.

In a nutshell, as long as a we can blame others, we can cluded drugs devastating impact on crime, family and society, including the exclusion of African Americans from keep the heat on politicians to fund programs that apemployment opportunities because they can’t pass a drug pease, but never empower.

With Black History Month now behind us, let’s pull the test.

I was somewhat surprised none of the brothers men- skin completely off this big nasty creature in the room: tioned out of wedlock births or the near extinct institution If we could somehow restore our cultural and religious of marriage. Just as drugs impacts other social indicators, status to where we were 50 years ago, chances are we the firmly entrenched paradigm of fatherless home and wouldn’t be facing the turmoil and misery and dysfuncresulting phenomena of single parent households may be tionality we find ourselves in today.

Fifty years ago, over 75% of all Black households were the catalyst for the destruction of the Black community; headed by two parents (you might have read about that as least as some of us remember it.

Why are those two ‘concerns’ not at the top of the sur- concept--it involves “marriage”). We had a sense of cultural pride. Teen pregnancy was frowned upon (they used veyed clerics’---politicians and poverty pimps’---list?

The obvious answer may rest with their cultural my- to send girls down south to hide the family shame) and opia, although I think the truth is probably somewhat to sexual promiscuity was “taboo.”

It was no coincidence that in spite of rampant racism the left of that.

For reasons few understand, marriage and out-of-wed- and segregation, a significantly smaller percentage of lock births are taboo subjects in the Black community. brothers were tied into the criminal justice system.

Black businesses thrived and people actually left their For ministers the subject, at least out of wedlock births, lead to questions of morality, and opens a Pandora’s box (continued on page 5)

“THE VISUAL GRIOT” HARRY KEMP HONORED BY BREWERS

MCJ Photographer Yvonne Kemp received a plaque from Milwaukee Brewer official Thand McGrew on behalf of her brother the late photographer Harry Kemp during the second annual Black History Month luncheon held recently in the Gehl Club at Miller Park.

A freelance photographer who took pictures of the games and the fans at Miller Park for several years, Kemp passed away last September.

During the luncheon there was a photo presentation that paid tribute to his work. There was also a drawing for the popular Brewers Family Reunion package for 25 people to the 2012 Negro Leagues Tribute game on Saturday, July 28 against the Washington Nationals.

An invitation only luncheon for selected key influencers in the African American community, the Black History luncheon is designed to continue fostering quality relationships with members of the Milwaukee community in a businesssocial networking environment.

Part of the event program will include a visual presentation that will draw parallels between the improvements of social relations and the success of African Americans in the sport of baseball.

The photo was taken by MCJ Associate Publisher Mikel Holt.

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RELIGION Hearing from The Milwaukee Community Journal March 14, 2012 page 4

Family, friends gather to remember Daniela Matthews

GOD:

An Essential Tool for Christian Leadership

For a Christian leader, hearing from God is both the most essential and most overlooked component of ministry. Without hearing from God, a Christian leader does little more than execute the limited plan created within the confines of their human frailty.

A leader who operates in their own strength will tend to operate from two polar extremes; overreaching and overpromising based on an overinflated sense of self or reducing the depth of their leadership potential due to fear and the trauma of past experiences, which too often leaves the residue of low self esteem.

Hearing from God is essential for the Christian leader because unlike the secular leader, the Christian leader is not promoting his or her own agenda or ideas. The Christian leader is charged with implementing the divine desire and will of God for the event, situation, people, or ministry to which they have been given authority over.

Without hearing from God a Christian leader is crippled and doomed to ultimate failure even if they manage to have short-term success. Failing to hear from God can also produce a desperation that can cause a leader to seek answers from ungodly sources. 1 Samuel 28:3-7 gives us a prime example of a leader who, when he was no longer able to hear the voice of God turned to ungodly means to get an answer.

“3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in his own town of Ramah. Saul had expelled the mediums and spiritists

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by Rev. Roxanne Cardenas, M.Div

from the land. 4 The Philistines assembled and came and set up camp at Shunem, while Saul gathered all the Israelites and set up camp at Gilboa. 5 When Saul saw the Philistine army, he was afraid; terror filled his heart. 6 He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets.

7 Saul then said to his attendants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I may go and inquire of her.”

“There is one in Endor,” they said.”

Saul experienced the frustration and pain of striving to be a leader of the people of God without the benefit of hearing God, an impossible task for the most formidable leader. Saul was so desperate for direction that he contacted a medium (witch) and used a method he previously disparaged and disallowed within the land he had rule over.

Not being in the presence of God and failing to hear His instruction can cause even the most profound leader to do things that they are not only not

called to do, but would never think they would do.

15 Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am in great distress,” Saul said. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has turned away from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.” 16 Samuel said, “Why do you consult me, now that the LORD has turned away from you and become your enemy? 17 The LORD has done what he predicted through me.

The LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hands and given it to one of your neighbors—to David.”(1 Samuel 28:15-17) After violating the law of God and consulting a witch, Saul finds out that his destruction is near. Saul, like many others, can forget in their desperation that using ungodly methods in the hope of obtaining godly results is a futile effort. Saul, not withstanding, the challenge for many leaders is as basic as dedicating the time within their day to hear from God. Too often Christian leaders are pulled in so many directions in the midst of executing their day-to-day responsibilities that finding time to simply sit quietly in the presence of God seems to be impossible.

There can even be a feeling of guilt for taking this time as it can be seen by the leader or others as “doing nothing” when in fact it is this time of connection with God that empowers them to do everything.

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Remember: ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only son...’

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BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS

he Gospel for the fourth Sunday of Lent is John 3:14-21.

This Gospel message was given by Jesus to Nicodemus, a faithful Jew who wanted to know more about The Way of Jesus, but was afraid to ask Jesus in the broad daylight.

Certainly one of the most quoted verses from scripture is included in the reading—“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have life eternal.” In this statement it is revealed that the purpose of God in sending His Son is not in judgement but in love.

This verse can give us much joy, but it can also be misread as we see ourselves “saved” and the non-believer condemned. There is no con-

demnation in the nature of our God, as we see in the life and death of His Son. “Any judgment that is passed is the verdict we pass on ourselves and even from that verdict, we shall be delivered.” (www.preachingpeace.org) This is truly Good News! If Jesus can say from the Cross: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do,” then who cannot be saved?

“The text lays a claim upon us: to acknowledge that the purpose of God

Marvin Sapp to release new CD

Marvin Sapp’s new CD & DVD “I WIN” will be in stores April 3, and the CD can be pre-ordered now at iTunes, Amazon.com and Walmart.com. The project, recorded live at Evangel Cathedral outside of Washington, D.C., is the artist’s first CD since the passing of his wife MaLinda – who died of colon cancer in 2010. As such, it is also the first live CD recorded outside of Sapp’s Grand Rapids, Michigan, hometown. Still, I WIN is indeed a musical triumph, with 10 brilliant tracks that reinforce Sapp’s sentiment that “because I endured, I won.”

The first single, “My Testimony,” is quickly approaching the #1 position at Gospel radio. “It is a transparent, introspective look at what I came through and how, in the midst of it all, I still maintained and am maintaining my faith,” Sapp says of the single, which he co-wrote with Aaron Lindsey. “I think that’s the difference…it is about how I realized that if it had not been for God being there in the midst of everything, I would have been taken out. ‘My Testimony’ is more about me sharing how I got through it, not just that I got through it.”

The title track is a soul-stirring ballad that declares “I am an over comer/I know I can conquer anything/with Jesus I am an over comer/I can win…” The song was written by newcomers Brittney A. Wright and Joshua A. Lay. A few new songwriters are showcased on I WIN, because Sapp issued a call via Facebook and Twitter for song submissions. He listened to more than 2,000 songs before finding a few that represented the tone of this CD. “I think part of my assignment is to give unknown writers and opportunity to be heard on a national scale,” says Sapp, who has always given a chance to up and coming songwriters. “My prayer is that their names and work will now become a little more prominent.”

I WIN is Marvin Sapp’s 9th solo recording. He first hit the national stage in 1990 as a member of the groundbreaking group Commissioned. The group disbanded around 1996 and Sapp launched his solo career. After a string of Top-Ten radio hits and a considerable following in Gospel music, Sapp saw unprecedented mainstream success in 2007 when a song that started out as a spontaneous moment of worship became a runaway hit at radio. The song, “Never Would Have Made It,” went on to become the #1 most played song of any genre at radio, and was the first Gospel song to sell 1 million ringtones. The rest, as they say, is history.

by Fr. Carl Diederichs, All Saints Catholic Church

is revealed not in judgment but in love. To fail to acknowledge the character of this love, displayed in the life of Jesus, is to be in the darkness.” (Preaching Peace) The true message of the gospel is that we know that we have been forgiven for killing Jesus. In his own words we have been set free!

And if our church is to preach love, it must practice what it preaches. If it is to preach God’s forgiveness, it has to forgive. If the

church is to teach that God loves us, while we were still enemies, it must love all enemies.

A famous atheist said: “If you want me to believe in your Redeemer, you had better look a little more redeemed.” We are the living signs of God’s love as we walk and talk and care and share.

And for many people, as some famous person said, the only gospel many people will ever read is us. We carry within us the very Presence of God, a presence that has the power to bring peace and joy. And the more we give it away the more we will receive to give again.

“God did not send his Son to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”

You are always welcome at All Saints. We worship at 8:00 and 10:30 AM every Sunday. We are in the heart of the city at 4051 N. 25th Street. 414-444-5610.

Daniela Marie Sayas Matthews was born to eternal life on March 8, 2012 at the age of 35.

Born on October 3, 1976, she is survived by husband, Radolph Matthews Jr., children, Nasir, Nile, N’kya, and Naim; Father, Joe Donald; Mother, Patricia Sayas; Brothers, Derek Willis and Joe Donald Jr.; Sisters, Sheyenne Porter, Alesha Willis, Catherine Thomas, Nicole Donald and Deborah Donald; and a host of relatives and friends.

Daniela was a wonderful mother, daughter, sister, and friend who loved life. She was a giving person and continued to give even in death as an organ donor.

She worked at OIC-GM and UMOS and the Legislative Assistant for County Supervisor Elizabeth M. Daniela Marie Sayas Matthews Coggs of the 10th District for Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors.

“Celebration of Life” recognition was held Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at 1:00pm at Martin Luther King Center on1531 W. Vliet Street, Milwaukee WI. A fund has been set up for the children; in lieu of flowers the family request cash donations to: Daniela Matthews Memorial Fund at Educators Credit Union.

Wright will be greatly missed

Mr. Christopher L. Wright was born on November 30, 1972 to the union of the late Ida Louise and Willie Lee Wright, Sr. in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

Christopher led a happy and relatively healthy life in Milwaukee for over 39 years. He attended and graduated from Pleasant View High School. He enjoyed playing basketball and listening to music. He was loved and adored by his family and friends.

Christopher made his transition on March 9, 2012, after a lengthy illness. He is preceded in death by his mother, Mrs. Ida Louise Wright.

He leaves to cherish his memory: his father, Willie L. Wright Sr., two brothers Willie (Mildred) Wright, Jr. and Bobby Wright; four sisters Teretha Martin, Renee Johnson, Cemidoll Wright, and Patricia Christopher L. Wright (Michael) Trapp, all of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a host of uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

Visitation services will be held Friday, March 16, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. at Leon L. Williamson Funeral Home, 2157 N. 12th Street; the funeral services will follow at 1;00 p.m. where the Rev. Eugene Wright will officiate.

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doors open at night to let in cool air and neighbors who didn’t steal them blind.

Believe it or not, when I went to high school, it was hard to find a girl that ‘did it.’ Today its hard to find one that doesn’t, didn’t and won’t do stuff I didn’t learn about until I was in my 30s.

Just about everyone I grew up with had a mother at home who showed up at school when she got a call from a teacher (Mama didn’t play that stuff, and Black families pushed education as the be all and end all), and a Pops would be waiting for you when you got home, belt in hand, grease on his clothes and dirt under his nails (he worked and also didn’t have time for that crazy stuff).

Mama’s job was to teach you manners, check your homework and make sure God was the center of your life.

Pop’s role included instilling a work ethic in you, providing you with manhood skills and making sure you prepared yourself so you didn’t have to work in a factory like he did.

A half-century later and we have gone from “sugar” to “ship” (misspelling for obvious reasons). And though Black leaders hide it under the rug, Black preachers are afraid to talk about fearing it will hurt their Sunday collections, and Black politicians are too deep in the pockets of missionaries paid to band-aide on our pain and suffering, the reality is the socioeconomic and cultural status of the Black community today can be directly tied to the decline in the number of Black nuclear families.

One recent study suggested marriage is becoming extinct for lower income African Americans, and is becoming an institution only for college educated brothers and sisters. If that’s true, I guess a new societal class system is on the horizon.

I’m not among those who have blinders on or is ashamed to hang our dirty clothes out in public if its necessary to air them out. Thus, I predict the extinction of Black America as we once envisioned it. We’ve been to the mountaintop, looked over and saw a swamp. Welcome home folks.

Interestingly, Black leaders responded angrily and with indignation when former liberal senator and social scientist Daniel Patrick Moynihan issued a report in 1965 suggesting that all the civil rights legislation and social programming in the world wouldn’t help the Black community if it continued down a road without a father in the lead.

Nearly a centurya ago, Moynihan’s report noted: “The structure of family life in the Black community constituted a 'tangle of pathology...capable of perpetuating itself without assistance from the White world, and that at the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

“It is the fundamental source of the weakness of the Negro community at the present time.”

The report also argued the matriarchal structure of Black culture weakened the ability of Black men to function as authority figures. This particular notion of Black familial life has become a widespread, if not dominant, paradigm for comprehending the social and economic disintegration of late twentieth-century Black urban life.”

Moynihan argued the rise in single-mother families was not due to a lack of jobs, but a destructive vein in ghetto culture that could be traced back to slavery and Jim Crow discrimination. Though Black sociologist E. Franklin Frazier had already introduced the idea in the 1930s, Moynihan’s argument defied conventional social-science wisdom.

Black leaders of that era lambasted Moynihan’s assertion, calling him racist and the report hateful and a veiled attempt to dismiss the struggles of the Black community that were being adequately addressed by welfare and anti-poverty plans (which they didn’t mention enriched a new generation of suburban missionaries while keeping Black folks comfortable in our misery.)

When Moynihan issued his controversial report/prediction, over 76% of Black families were nuclear. In laymen’s terms, that meant the overwhelming majority of Black couples were married.

Today over 70% of families are headed by sisters and in one Milwaukee zip code, over 90% of the chil-

dren are born out of wedlock.

Moynihan also noted “Black joblessness would be a contributing factor to this phenomena, and without access to jobs and the means to contribute meaningful support to a family, Black men would become systematically alienated from their roles as husbands and fathers.

“This would cause rates of divorce, abandonment and out-of-wedlock births to skyrocket in the Black community (a trend that had already begun by the mid-1960s)—leading to vast increases in the numbers of female-headed households and the high rates of poverty, low educational outcomes, and inflated rates of abuse that are associated with them.”

Moynihan made a compelling contemporary argument for the provision of jobs, job programs, vocational training, and educational programs for the Black community.

There are those who said the sociocultural conditions that are now firmly entrenched in the Black community as well as our lack of general interest in education cemented that phenomenon.

We continue to ignore the realities of this social phenomena: Eighty percent of Black high school drop outs come from single parent households, as well as three out of every four prison inmates.

There’s an 78% chance that if you live in a single parent household you are going to be poor, less healthy, have a shorter lifespan, and will probably name your child after a

(continued from page 1) of a government’s existence—“the people’s inherent, pre-constitutional right to vote” and “imperils its legitimacy as a government by the people, for the people, and especially of the people.

“It sows the seeds for its own demise as a democratic institution,” the opinion continues. “This is precisely what 2011 Wisconsin Act 23 does with its photo ID mandates.”

“I am pleased with the judge’s decision and I applaud the League of Women Voters for filing the lawsuit that helped strike down this mis-

guided ‘solution in search of a problem.’”

James Hall, Milwaukee Branch NAACP president said he and Voces de la Frontera are pleased with that the suit prevailed.

“Judge Niess’ ruling, combined with Judge Flanagan’s temporary injunction of last week, send a powerful message that Act 23 (Wisconsin’s voter ID law) has significant and substantial constitutional infirmities, which violate the spirit of voter access and citizen participation in the electoral process in Wisconsin,” said Hall.

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popular liquor, rapper or nonsensical set of vowels.

There are obvious exceptions (great men and women have overcome the obstacles that come from being raised in poor, female headed households), but the majority can look forward to having a police record, not being able to read beyond a sixth grade level, or secure a job with benefits or that pays enough to

buy a dependable car. Even during this depression, there are thousands of jobs unfilled because many brothers raised in these households can’t pass the drug test and are unable to read the instructions on the job application.

As I see it, there’s only two routes left to us, a full out, multifaceted campaign to reverse and restore the Black community to its post slavery

days (we were actually better off then than now), or complete miscegenation with the hopes that we end up being absorbed into someone else’s culture.

For those of you who dropped out in the fourth grade, by miscegenation, I mean your brother marrying White women and their offspring marrying a Japanese or Korean. Their (continued on page 8)

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YOUTH & EDUCATION The Milwaukee Community Journal March 14, 2012 page 6

City Year help South Division students get ready for college, careers

UWM welcomes Diversity Fellows

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Diversity Fellows (from left) Joseph Flipper, Selina Gallo-Cruz, Melissa Redmond, Jacqueline Nguyen and Shaun Ossei-Owusu (Photo by Alan Magayne-Roshak)

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee welcomed its fourth cohort of Diversity Fellows during a site visit early in March.

The Diversity Fellows program, which started in 2009, provides an avenue for UWM to strengthen its academic programs while pursuing the university’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, says Cheryl Ajirotutu, interim associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.

The Diversity Fellows are comprised of underrepresented students who have recently earned doctoral or terminal degrees, or are Ph.D. candidates. They may teach six-week courses during the summer session or conduct research in their areas of discipline.

The 2012 Diversity Fellows who will be joining UWM come from an array of backgrounds, though they are united by some common objectives, including the opportunity to teach.

“I was excited about the opportunity to get some teaching experience before starting my professional academic career,” says Shaun Ossei-Owusu, a doctoral candidate from Berkeley’s Department of African American Studies.

Ossei-Owusu will be teaching “Order and Disorder: The Quest for Social Justice,” a course in the Department of Africology. His research has reviewed equality in the criminal justice system, with specific focus on public defenders.

“The majority of the research focus in this area has been with police officers and prosecutors; however, public defenders play a key role.”

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I was excited about the opportunity to get some teaching experience before starting my professional academic career.

--Shaun Ossei-Owusu

“I think the professional connections will be very valuable,” says Jacqueline Nguyen, a postdoctoral fellow in the Child Development Laboratory at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Nguyen received her doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and will be teaching a course in the School of Education. Her research interest, which grew out of her own experiences as a child of Vietnamese immigrants, focuses on parent-child relationships among immigrant families.

Selina Gallo-Cruz is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Emory University in Atlanta. She will be teaching a sociology course at UWM this summer. “I was very interested in becoming a Diversity Fellow for the opportunity to expand my teaching experience and become acquainted with scholars at UWM whose work I am familiar with.” Her research interests are in the areas of culture, social movements and global change.

Joseph Flipper, a doctoral candidate in religious studies at Marquette University, joins the fellows with the advantage

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City Year Milwaukee will help students at Milwaukee Public Schools¹ South Division High School get ready for college and careers with a week-long series of events that started Monday afternoon.

“It¹s great to see our partners stepping up to complement our efforts to get students ready for college and careers,” Superintendent Gregory Thornton said.

This school year, the district opened its new TeamUp College Access Center, open seven days per week at 2730 W. Fond du Lac Av-

enue, to help students every step along the way to higher education.

City Year Milwaukee built on district efforts by leading a resume and mock interview workshop on Monday and a college and career panel featuring MPS graduates Tuesday.

On Wednesday, more than a dozen colleges attended a college fair at South Division. Following the college fair, City Year plans to lead students on a college tour on Thursday.

City Year Milwaukee provides mentoring, tutoring and other help at six MPS schools including South Division.

“We¹re so excited to be providing this programming at South Division High School this week to promote college and career readiness through the work of our City Year AmeriCorps members,” said Jason Holton, City Year Milwaukee¹s executive director.

“Along with their work to improve academic achievement, supporting a culture of college and career readiness is a key component to preparing our students for future success.”

Sheriff Clarke reads to fifth-grade students during Read Across America event

Sheriff David Clarke recently visited a fifth-grade classroom at the Darrell Lynn Hines College Preparatory Academy of Excellence for the Read Across America event on March 2. Each year the joys of reading are celebrated on the birthday of Dr. Seuss. The sheriff spoke with the students and read them a book selected by the school: "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" (Photo courtesy of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office)

Student leaders meet one-on-one with Michael Eric Dyson

MPS Principal Darrell Williams is very proud of our students! The Pulaski High School Student Leadership group went one-on-one with Dr. Michael Eric Dyson at the Milwaukee Area Technical College’s Soul Food dinner. Students also took photos with Vel Phillips and State Representative Barbara Toles.

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of familiarity with the Milwaukee area and the UWM campus. Flipper indicates he has used the Golda Meir Library often while attending Marquette.

One factor that attracted him to the Diversity Fellows program was the unique opportunity to work in two different areas. His research focus is on the relationships between Christian theology and modern politics, and he will be teaching a course on religion and literature this summer.

Melissa Redmond, a doctoral candidate from the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto, is the program’s first international fellow. “This was a great opportunity to work and come to the United States without having to apply for a visa until after I was accepted,” says Redmond. She will be teaching a course in Cultural Diversity and Social Work in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare this summer.

Her research focus is child protection workers and how legislation and regulatory requirements within organizations impact them. She’s also looking at ways to encourage those workers to stay in the field, since long-term support from them can help improve the future for children. “Retention of child protection workers is a very hot topic right now. I hope to be able to contribute to that discussion.”

The Diversity Fellows program is a campuswide initiative that supports departmental efforts to increase campus diversity, notes Ajirotutu. “We are committed to preparing our students to be effective citizen-leaders who respect and appreciate the dynamics of a pluralistic world.”

After learning about healthy foods, youngsters were able to assemble a healthy snack.

One young Guadalupe North Head Start student learns that fruit kabobs using pretzel sticks makes a fun, easy and nutritious snack.

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Molina Healthcare teaches local Head Start youngsters about nutrition In honor of National Nutrition Month, Molina Healthcare hosted a nutrition event at Guadalupe North Head Start to educate youth about healthy foods.

Dr. Cleo, Molina Healthcare’s cat doctor mascot, presented examples of nutritious foods while children participated in interactive games.

Youngsters took what they learned into practice and assembled a healthy snack.

The students received free healthy recipes, stickers, coloring books and a letter to their parents with additional suggestions on how to maintain a healthy diet.

“We are pleased to present health education to students and encourage healthy practices at Guadalupe North Head Start,” said Stephen Harris, president of Molina Healthcare of Wisconsin.

“Nutrition should be taught an early age so youngsters can begin to develop healthy habits that will become routine as they get older.”

The Guadalupe North Head Start provides a child development program that supports the physical, social-emotional, and cognitive development of each child.

BPRS to present ‘Mark My Words’ Friday evening

Milwaukee’s Black Public Relations Society presents ‘Mark My Words – The Movie,’ a documentary that chronicles a day in the life of Milwaukee spoken word artists from various backgrounds.

A special viewing will be held Friday, March 23, at Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 n. At Museum Drive, at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are only $3.

The film features Autumn Blaze, Shelly Davis, Muhibb Dyer, Dasha Kelly, Dan Vaughn, Kwabena Antoine Nixon, K-Love, Tina “Ms. Jazzi” Pulley Nixon and Tonya Harris and explores the power of the spoken word and its ability to transform people and community.

Artist will be on-site at Friday’s viewing and available for a postevent talk-back session.

For more information, visit bprsmilwaukee.org.

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C.A.A.S.S.H’S Black Family Drought

A CAA$$H consumer wrote me with this complaint, which really turned out to be an observation.

Natalie came to the cable company to turn their cable box back to them because her charges had increased.

She arrived very early because she was on her way to work. The consumer was shocked because people were standing in a line that was long and shaped like a snake.

She was astonished to see them so early in force pealing off hundreds of dollars to pay cable bills.

They were in wheel chair, crutches and walkers. The line consisted of the young, the old and all races.

She was annoyed because she was in a hurry. And maybe she

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offspring would in turn marry a Mexican and their children would marry a Native American and an African. By my calculations, in 200 years you’ll end up with one race of people who will be light skinned, with slanted eyes, ‘good hair’ and rhythm.

The other option is to take on the beast in the room. Remember the African adage (actually if we remembered more of them we wouldn’t be in this predicament) that a thousand ants can eat the mighty elephant. Well, we need a thousand, hundred thousand, maybe a million people preaching a new paradigm.

Preachers must restore the bible as the centerpiece of our community. (We can debate later which version, and the proper interpretation; in fact we probably would need a new Conference of Nicaea to get that right). The bible provides a blueprint for nuclear families and it also strongly condemns the conduct that has become the status quo in our community.

Don’t get mad at me for telling the truth. The bible condemns fornication, adultery, and 60 other sins that we select and choose as acceptable.

I know that’s an uphill climb in today’s society, particularly since many ministers are ‘called’ by greed and opportunity instead of by divine ethos, and as such are afraid to alienate not only the wayward sheep, but the money from the collection plate.

While I may debate whether God intervenes in the day-to-day going ons of mankind, I do believe He is watching. And he is probably pissed and why heaven’s not a very crowded plac.

The culturists, community elders and politicians must lend their voices to establish a new paradigm. That may include convincing sisters that they are destined for greatness but will never see utopia if they choose to have children out of wedlock for it destines them to poverty, second-class citizenship and poor health.

They may also want to explain that anyone who has a child outside mar-

was just shocked, that had so much time, money and energy is allocated – by the so-called poor – to have cable.

They won’t go to vote, or take the time to put their children on the lottery list to get into a better school.

Will they even turn out to voice their concerns at a town hall meeting? No, but they will go to the ends of the Earth to pay that cable bill.

That is an observation worth airing so I did incorporate it into my article. And if any consumer has an issue with a company, please write and us at the CAA$$H Consumer Division of the Milwaukee Community Journal.

We will investigate and or contact the business or organization

riage and without the means to support and nurture them is cheating that child.

And if you raise a child without a full time father, you run the risk of imbalance.

It’s hard enough being Black in America, to bring a child into the world without the resources, education or capital men bring to the table to is myopic, at best. And that doesn’t mean a man who stops by once a month for a booty call, or to drop off a pair of Jordan’s on Christmas. Sperm donors don’t make good husbands.

They should also debunk the myths about a shortage of Black men, or their ability to be both father and mother. Those two lies have been repeated so often people believe them. Finding a man with a job isn’t easy in Milwaukee, but remember a man isn’t completely valued by his paycheck. Adam wasn’t employed. There are good men out there, and our sisters have the power to drastically alter the status quo by choosing the right one before they are forced to sign up for WIC. Black leadership should lay out the facts, and stop blaming White people for our circumstances. The reason why White households have twice the income is because they have twice as many breadwinners. It’s a simple fact.

The reason the high school graduation rate is higher among White people is because they stress the importance of education, have twice as many people engaged in the educational process, and there’s a father in the house screening horny young men so their daughters don’t drop out of school because they got pregnant.

For the record, fathers take their children further; that’s a God ordained mandate. Nuclear families provide stability, and are the essence of a community. It’s culturally, socioeconomically and spiritually grounded. We have strayed off the path and look at where we are.

And there is no legislation, poverty program or politician that’s going to solve our problems. It starts and ends with us and the culture we choose to adhere to.

Our survival is linked to our culture and to be honest, right now we don’t have one, or the one we have is leading us down a path to self-destruction.

Hotep.

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“WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?”

How many of these neighborhood organizations listed below do you know about?

Place an X next to the ones you have heard about. Are they a service agency, neighborhood association, or a business/employer? What do they do?

Agency/Assoc./Business Name What they do

__35th St. Industrial Corridor __African American Chamber of Commerce __Agape __Avenue West __Benedict Center __Boys & Girls Club __Brady Street __Brewers Hill __Capital West Neighborhood __COA Youth and Family Centers __Community Advocates __Downtown Business District __Enderis Park Neighborhood __Esperenza Unida __Granville Heritage Neighborhood __Guest House of Milwaukee __Habitat for Humanity __Halyard Park __Harambee Ombudsman Project __Harley Davidson __Havenwoods Economic Development __Heartlove Place Ministries __Hillside Family Resource Center __Historic King Drive __Historic Third Street __Home Depot __Hope House __House of Peace __Housing Authority of Milwaukee __Independence First __Interfaith Conference of Greater Milw. __Jackson Park Community Association __Journey House __La Causa __Latino Community Center __Lincoln Park Community Center __Lisbon Avenue Neighborhood Center __Menomonee Valley Partners __Meta House __Metcalf Park Neighborhood __Milw. Fair Housing Council

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to try to resolve the problem. And if appropriate, we will report the findings in print.

Now, I have to make a correction in regards to the former “Where Your Money Goes” Article.

I wrote that Fast and Friendly, 311 W. Locust Street, had only one African who was Somalian working for them.

When in fact, they also have five (5) African Americans in their employ, as well as, two (2) Hispanics. I stand corrected.

The manager also asserts with pride that Fast and Friendly has been in business at that location since 1980; and they have the largest full-service meat deport on the North Side of Milwaukee.

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CLASSIFIEDS/LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES The Milwaukee Community Journal March 14, 2012 page 9

SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT: MILWAUKEE COUNTY Case No. 12CV002223

Notice and Order for Name Change Hearing In the matter of the name change of: TWANA TREIE BURAGE By: (Petitioner) TWANA TREIE BURAGE NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: TWANA TREIE BURAGE To: TWANA TREIE BEASLEY-RANSOM Birth Certificate: TWANA TREIE BURAGE IT IS ORDERED: This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court Milwaukee County State of Wisconsin: JUDGE WILLIAM SOSNAY Place: Circuit Court Branch 8 Room 404, 901 N. 9th Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233 Date: April 3, 2012 Time: 10:00 a.m.

IT IS FURTHERED ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Dated: February 28, 2012

BY THE COURT: WILLIAM SOSNAY CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE 012-014/2-29/3-7-14-2012 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN: CIRCUIT COURT: MILWAUKEE COUNTY FAMILY COURT BRANCH Case No. 2012FA000828-B

In re the marriage of: JOSE ELIAS GUTIERREZ-PANTOJA, 8976 N. Michele St # 105 Milwaukee WI 53227 Petitioner and FLORA I. GUTIERREZ-CASTELAN, Respondent THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To the person named above as respondent: You are hereby notified that the petitioner named above has filed a petition for divorce against you. Within forty (40) days after the 20th day of February 2012 exclusive of the date just stated, you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the petition.

The demand must be sent or delivered to this Court, whose address is: Clerk of Circuit Court, Milwaukee County Courthouse 901 N. 9th St. Milwaukee, WI 53233 and to JOSE ELIAS GUTIERREZ-PANTOJA whose address is: 8976 N. Michele St. #105, Milwaukee WI 53224.

You may have an attorney represent you.

If you do not demand a copy within forty (40) days, the Court may grant a judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the petition, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the petition. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. Judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future and may also be enforced by

garnishment of wages or seizure of property.

You are hereby further notified that the parties to this action are entitled to notification of the availability of the information set forth in sec. 767.081, Stats. The information is available from the family court commissioner.

You are further notified that if the parties to this action have minor children violation of the following criminal statutes is punishable by a fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment not to exceed tow years or both.

948.31 Interference with custody by parent or others.

If you and the petitioner have minor children, a document setting forth the percentage standard for child support established by the Department of Health and Social Services under sec.

46.25(9)(a), Stats. and listing the factors that a court may consider for modification of that standard under sec. 767.25(1m), Stats, is available upon your request from the clerk of court.

Dated this 20th day of February 2012.

By: JOSE ELIAS GUITERREZ-PANTOJA 012-015/2-29/3-7-14-2012 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY FAMILY COURT BRANCH Case No. 2012FA000765-B

In re the marriage of: JUANA GUADARRAMA, 1210A S. 21st St Milwaukee WI 53204, Petitioner and JAIME GONZALEZ, ADDRESS UNKNOWN, Respondent THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To the person named above as respondent: You are hereby notified that the petitioner named above has filed a petition for divorce against you.

Within forty (40) days after the 2nd day of March 2012 exclusive of the date just stated, you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the petition.

The demand must be sent or delivered to this Court, whose address is: Clerk of Circuit Court Milwaukee County Courthouse, 901 N. 9th St. Milwaukee, WI 53233 and to JUANA GUADARRAMA whose address is: 1210A S. 21st St Milwaukee, WI 53204 You may have an attorney represent you.

If you do not demand a copy within forty (40) days, the Court may grant a judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the petition, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the petition. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. Judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future and may also be enforced by garnishment of wages or seizure of property.

You are hereby notified that if the parties to this action have minor children violation of the following criminal statutes is punishable by a fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment not to exceed two years or both.

948.31 Interference with custody by parent or others.

If you and the petitioner have minor children, a document setting forth the per-

centage standard for child support established by the Department of Health and Social Services under sec. 46.25(9)(a), Stats. and listing the factors that a court may consider for modification of that standard under sec. 767.25(1m),Stats, is available upon your request from the clerk of court.

Dated this 2nd day of March 2012.

By: JUANA GUADARRAMA 012-0/3-7-14-21-2012 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY DIVORCE-40101 WITH MINOR CHILDREN Case No.11FA005020

In Re: The marriage of DOMINICA THOMPSON, 3956 N. 39th St Milwaukee WI 53216, Petitioner and TERRY THOMPSON, 4577 N 24th Pl Milwaukee WI 53209, Respondent The State of Wisconsin, to the person named above as respondent: You are notified that your spouse has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you.

The Petition, which is attached, states the nature and basis of the legal action.

Within 20 days of receiving this Summons, you must provide a written response, as that term is used in ch. 802, Wis. Stats., to the Petition. The court may reject or disregard a response that does not follow the requirements of the statutes.

The response must be sent or delivered to the following government offices: Clerk of Court Milwaukee 901 N. 9th St., Milwaukee WI 53233 and to County Child Support Agency Milwaukee 901 N. 9th St, Milwaukee WI 53233 The response must also be mailed or delivered within 20 days to the petitioner at the address above.

It is recommended, but not required, that you have attorney help or represent you.

If you do not provide a proper response within 20 days, the court may grant judgment against you, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the Petition.

A judgment may be enforced by garnishment or seizure or property.

You are notified of the availability of information from the Family Court Commissioner as set forth in sec. 767.105 Wis. Stats.

767.105 Information from Family court Commissioner.

(2) Upon the request of a party to an action affecting the family, including a revision of judgment or order under sec.

767.59 or 767.451: (a) The Family Court Commissioner shall, with or without charge, provide the party with written information on the following, as appropriate to the action commenced: 1. The procedure for obtaining a judgment or order in the action; 2. The major issues usually addressed in such an action.

3. Community resources and family court counseling services available to assist the parties.

4. The procedure for setting, modifying, and enforcing child support awards, or modifying and enforcing legal custody or physical placement judgments or orders. (b) The Family Court Commissioner shall provide a party, for inspection or purchase, with a copy of the statutory provi-

sions in this chapter generally pertinent to the action.

You are notified that if the parties to the action have minor children, violation of the following criminal statute is punishable by fines and/or imprisonment as set forth in sec. 948.31 Wis. Stats.

948.31 Interference with custody by parent or others.

(1) (a) In this subsection, “legal custodian of a child” means: 1. A parent or other person having legal custody of the child under an order or judgment in an action for divorce, legal separation, annulment, child custody, paternity, guardianship or habeas corpus.

(2) The department of children and families or the department of corrections or any person, county department under sec.

46.215, 46.22 or 46.23 or licensed child welfare agency, if custody or supervision of the child has been transferred under chapter 48 or chapter 938 to that department, person or agency. (b) Except a provided under chs. 48 and 938, whoever intentionally causes a child to leave, takes a child away, or withhold the consent of the custodian is guilty of a Class F felony. This paragraph is not applicable if the court has entered an order authorizing the person to so take or withhold the child. The fact that joint legal custody has been awarded to both parents by court does not preclude a court from finding that one parent has committed a violation of this paragraph.

(2) Whoever causes a child to leave, takes a child away or withhold a child for more then 12 hours from the child’s parents, or in the case of a nonmarital child whose parents do not subsequently intermarry under sec. 767.803, from the child’s mother or if he ass been granted legal custody, the child’s father, without the consent of the parents, the mother or the father with legal custody, is guilt of a Class I felony. This subsection in not applicable if legal custody has been granted by court order to the person taking or withholding the child.

(3) Any parent, or any person acting pursuant to directions from the parent, who does any of the following is guilty of a Class F felony: (a) Intentionally hides a child from the child’s other parent. (b) After being served with process in action affecting the family but prior to the issuances of a temporary or final order determining child custody rights, takes the child or causes the child to leave with intent to deprive the other parent of physical custody as defined in sec. 822.02(9). (c) After issuance of a temporary or final order specifying joint legal custody rights and periods of physical placement, takes a child from or causes a child to leave the other parent in violation of the order or withholds a child for more than 12 hours beyond the court-approved period of physical placement or visitation period.

(4) (a) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution for violation of this section if the action: 1. Is taken by parent or by a person authorized by a parent to protect his or her child in a situation in which the parent or authorized person reasonably believes that there is a threat of physical harm or sexual assault to the child; 2. Is taken by a parent fleeing in a situation in which the parent reasonably believes that there is a threat of physical harm or sexual assault to himself or herself; 3. Is consented to by the other parent or

any other person or agency having legal custody of the child; or 4. Is otherwise authorized by law. (b) A defendant who raises an affirmative defense has the burden or proving the defense by a preponderance of the evidence.

(5) The venue of an action under this section is prescribed in sec. 971.19(8).

(6) In addition to any other penalties provided for violation of this section, a court may order a violator to pay restitution, regardless of whether the violator is placed on probation under s. 973.09, to provide reimbursement for any reasonable expenses incurred by any person or any governmental entity in location and returning the child. Any such amounts paid by the violator shall be paid to the person or governmental entity which incurred the expense on a prorated basis. Upon the application of any interested party, the court shall hold an evidentiary hearing to determine the amount of reasonable expenses.

Date: March 4, 2011 By: DOMINICA THOMPSON 012-0/3-7-14-21-2012 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY DIVORCE-40101 Case No. 12FA000748

In Re: The marriage of TOM E. RICHMOND, Petitioner and SHINITHA RICHMOND, Respondent THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, TO THE PERSON NAMED ABOVE AS RESPONDENT: You are notified that the petitioner named above has filed a Petition for divorce or legal separation against you.

You must respond with a written demand for a copy of the Petition within 45 days from the day after the first date of publication.

The demand must be sent or delivered to the court at: Clerk of Court 901 N. 9th St. Milwaukee, WI 53233 and to TOM E. RICHMOND, 3424 N 6th St. Milwaukee 53212

It is recommended, but not required, that you have attorney help or represent you.

If you do not demand a copy of the Petition within 45 days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the Petition and you may lose your right to object anything that is or may be incorrect in the Petition.

A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

You are further notified that if the parties to this action have minor children, violation of 948.31, Wis. Stats., (Interference with custody by parent or others) is punishable by fines and/or imprisonment.

If you and the petitioner have minor children, documents setting forth the percentage standard for child support established by the department under 49.22(9), WIs. Stats., and the factors that a court may

consider for modification of that standard under 767.511(1m), WIs. Stats. are available upon your request from the Clerk of Court.

You are notified of the availability of information from the Circuit Court Commissioner as set forth in 767.105, Wis Stats.

767.105 Information from Circuit Court Commissioner.

(2) Upon the request of a party to an action affecting the family, including a revision of judgment or order under sec.

767.59 or 767.451: (a) The Circuit Court Commissioner shall, with or without charge provide the party with written information on the following, as appropriate to the action commenced: 1. The procedure for obtaining a judgment or order n the action.

2. The major issues usually addressed in such an action.

3. Community resources and family court counseling services available to assist the parties.

4. The procedure for setting modifying, and enforcing child support awards, or modifying and enforcing legal custody or physical placement judgments or orders. (b) The Circuit Court Commissioner shall provide a party, for inspection or purchase with a copy of the statutory provisions in this chapter generally pertinent to the action.

Date: 3-6-2012 By: TOM E. RICHMOND, Petitioner 012-0??/3-14-21-28-2012 .

SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE and ORDER for NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 12CV002572

In the matter of the name change of: AIDAN FLORIAN GALLEGOS By petitioner VICTORIA POPA NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: AIDAN FLORIAN GALLEGOS To: AIDAN FLORIAN POPA Birth Certificate: AIDAN FLORIAN GALLEGOS

IT IS ORDERED: This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin: By: HONORABLE TIMOTHY WITKOWIAK Branch 22 Place: Milwaukee County Courthouse 901 N. 9th St Room 412 Milwaukee, WI 53233 Date: April 20, 2012 Time: 10:00 AM

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin Date: 3-7-2012

BY THE COURT: HONORABLE TIMOTHY WITKOWIAK Circuit Court Judge 012-0??/3-14-21-28-2012

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PROPOSED MILWAUKEE COUNTY DAS-FM Projects for Advertisement for Bids Name of Project: GRANT PARK (FORK N.W. TO LAKE DR.) ROAD RECONSTRUCTION Project No.: O060-10634 Bid Due Date: March 28, 2012 See Bid Documents for details BID DOCUMENTS FOR THE ABOVE PROJECT ARE AVAILABLE AT: CITY CAMPUS ND 2711 WEST WELLS STREET 2 FL Milwaukee, WI 53208 For Further Information contact 414-278-4861 or www.county.milwaukee.gov

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Devastation of Katrina Forum focuses on Sinai and makes way for educational state of Black health care renaissance in New Orleans (continued from page 1) The Milwaukee Community Journal March 14, 2012 Page 10

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At one recent New Orleans school board hearing to evaluate specific charters, Shelton said he paid particular attention to a Black woman whose child wasn’t able to enroll in one of the premiere schools because of space limitations.

“She was highly emotional,” he said in describing the woman, which was understandable given that she wasn’t able to get her child in the school of her first choice.

James Shelton--Assistant “She said the high performing Deputy Secretary of the U.S. schools are not serving enough chilDepartment of Education dren, and the system was more (equitable under the old system).”

The exchange sent chills up Shelton’s spine, not only because of the strong emotional outburst from the mother who wanted the best for her child, but moreso because the ‘old system’ was a failure.

“We were sending our kids out to these schools and most were on the (No Child Left Behind) failure list. Now that figure has cut in half.”

New Orleans is on the cusp of providing a model school district for the rest of the nation. The key to the New Orleans’ educational renaissance rests in providing parents with educational options for their children, and their ability to choose from a variety of schools that are under the microscope.

“This is the way government should work,” Shelton told the enthusiastic audience. “We are on the path to closing the (academic achievement) gap.”

In reference to the disgruntled parent, Shelton encouraged her to con- Callers Claim to be tinue fighting for her children to get Microsoft Tech Support, into the school of her choice, but said Trying to Gain Access it would be counterproductive to tear to Your Computer down the entire system.

“It takes a while to establish a sys- The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau tem where all schools are high per- (BBB) is alerting consumers of a phone forming. “In the mean while we scam in which the caller claims to be must continue to be advocates for our from Microsoft. The caller offers to solve a consumer’s computer problems or sell children.” him or her a software license, all in an efSimilar educational revolutions are fort to gain remote control access to the taking place around the country, sup- consumer’s computer. ported in full measure by President Three business owners in Northeast WisBarack Obama who is intent on lev- consin have received phone calls from eling the educational landscape someone who claims to be a “Microsoft employee”, and who told the owners that through innovations like charters. “(The president) has (allocated) their computers were infected with a $100 billion for education, $10 bil- virus and were sending out spam. The scammers were calling from 857-366lion put in competitive programs to 7172, a phone number which traces back spark innovation. But the states con- to an online company, The Tech Care. On trol the resources and that is where its website, The Tech Care has three cuswe must focus (our activism).” tomer testimonials from Wisconsin resiMore innovative schools are but dents, which could be a sign that the part of the solution, he continued. scammers are targeting Wisconsinites, There must also be teacher account- according to the BBB. ability. “Everybody (teachers) must Pam Webster called the BBB to report be judged on how they (students) are that she, too, had received a phone call from a "Microsoft employee", who told doing. her she had a computer virus. From al“We are going to change the game. most the instant the conversation started, We have increased Pell Grants and Webster realized this call was not made now we are seeing the highest num- with good intentions. ber of Black males going to college. “The man identified himself as being “But we learned you can’t play the from Microsoft tech support and said he pieces, you have to play the board. had identified that my computer had a For too long we’ve had people speak- virus,” Webster said. “He directed me to ing on our behalf, but not to our in- go to my computer and proceeded to give me directions to ‘get rid of the virus.’” terests.

Webster, who works with computers on a “Our whole conversation now daily basis, realized almost immediately must be about providing our children that the directions being given were the with access to excellence,” the same steps she follows when her IT dedeputy secretary said to thunderous partment needs full, remote access to her computer. applause.

The 12th annual BAEO Sympo- Webster did not allow the caller to prosium drew over 500 parents, educa- ceed any further. tors, community activities and According to Microsoft, once these scammers have access to the computer politicians from around the country. they can install malicious software, steal Workshops and planning sessions personal information, take control of the focused on educational innovations, computer remotely or direct consumers expanding educational options and to fraudulent websites where they are mechanisms to empower parents to asked to enter their credit card informabring about change in their respective tion.

Microsoft’s Online Safety and Security communities.

One workshop that drew a large Center states that neither Microsoft nor audience dealt with the BAEO led its partners make unsolicited phone calls.

Here are some of the organizations that summer reading project in Milwau- cybercriminals claim to be from: kee over the last two summers. · Windows Helpdesk The project grew out of a report · Windows Service Center that revealed Milwaukee’s fourth · Microsoft Tech Support grade Black students had the worst · Microsoft Support · Windows Technical Department Supreading levels in the country.

Members of BAEO worked with port Group a coalition of community activists to · Microsoft Research and Development create an intensive summer reading Team (Microsoft R & D Team) BBB advises consumers follow these tips program that elevated the students’ to protect themselves from scammers atreading ability by one full grade tempting to access their computer: level. · Go through your service provider diOver 100 people from Milwaukee rectly. If you are concerned your comattended the symposium, including puter may be exposed to viruses or other state Senator Lena Taylor and state security threats, contact your service Representatives Jason Fields and provider directly. Some providers offer free tools that can help detect and remove Elizabeth Coggs.

Deborah McGriff, former deputy viruses. · Install virus detection. To help protect superintendent of the Milwaukee your computer from viruses make sure Public Schools and superintendent of you have virus detection software inthe Detroit public schools, chairs the stalled on your computer. This software Milwaukee Chapter of BAEO. can also help identify if a virus appears BAEO was born out of an educa- on your computer. tional symposium organized by for- ·· Find a computer repair company you mer MPS Superintendent Howard can trust. Go to BBB Member Pages to find a BBB Accredited Business you can Fuller in 1999.

It’s founding members include for- trust.

To check the reliability of a company and mer Rep. Floyd Flakes, Newark, find trustworthy businesses, visit bbb.org.

New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker and For more information or further inquiries, Milwaukee’s Rev. John McVicker. please contact the Wisconsin BBB at The organization is the premiere www.wisconsin.bbb.org or 414-847advocate for educational options for 6000 (metro Milwaukee), 920-734-4352 (Appleton), 608-268-2221 (Madison) or Black children.

1-800-273-1002 (elsewhere in Wisconsin).

tioned St. Michaels Hospital’s closing, which Standridge later noted WheatonFranciscan still has a commitment to the area the hosptial served. There is a primary care center on the spot once occupied by the hospital serving the surrounding neighborhood and expanding its facility.

The BHCW president added the challenge for the community was repairing a crumbling safety net and developing ways to maintain it in the face of rising health costs driven by individuals who don’t practice preventative health, nor have a primary care physician and wait till the last moment to deal with serious personal health issues.

Both Hinton and Van Cleave reassured the community regarding the status of Aurora Sinai, which was reportedly on the brink of closing its doors in the face of projected losses of $30 million in 2012. Last year, Sinai lost $20 million. If Sinai had closed it would have been one less health care resource for the central city and would have placed considerable pressure on St. Joseph Hospital, which Standridge said during the forum, doesn’t have the capacity to handle all central city patients.

It was later noted it takes the resources of both Sinai and St. Joseph to adequately serve the central city.

“We have enough hospitals; we just don’t have enough primary care and wellness initiatives,” Hinton said.

The Sinai Medical Center president stressed the need for health care providers to move their resources “to where people need them. Too many resources are in medical centers and not in the community.”

Mayor Tom Barrett, who made a brief appearance at the forum and spoke on the issue of available and affordable care echoed Hinton, noting that too many health centers are located outside the community and city in affluent suburban communities that have hospital rooms with empty beds.

Van Cleave said it was important the community knows how to use the health care system so as to ascertain what works and what doesn’t work for them. The Aurora CMO also stressed the need for increasing the community’s use of primary

care, adding he wants Aurora and Sinai to work with the community toward that end.

Izard of MHSI said greater access to medical and health information has made for more informed consumers. But, he said, the Black community must take greater advantage of the information and use it to increase the number of positive health outcomes.

Izard said community based clinics must “help individuals, help families, help neighbors, help the community. We have to do things differently as clinics to serve people who are in a more precarious economic climate.”

As an example, the MHSI president and CEO said the clinic has expanded its hours and is now opened on Saturdays.

City Health Commissioner Baker said the community must have a total health system in order to determine how sick or well the community is.

“If they go through a system of care, (the question then becomes) will the patients become better?” Baker asked. “Given all the diseases that ravish our community, we need to reform the way people get care so Milwaukee will have one of the healthiest cities in the nation.”

Stressing the need for a safety net with a bottom for a system that has no bottom, Baker said city government must have a role--with the business leaders and the community--in discussing and finding solutions that improve community health care with better health outcomes. “(And) there needs to be the same type of enthusiasm for healthcare that there is for the NCAA tournament.

“The goal is improving health outcomes and reducing health disparities,” Baker continued. “I don’t want to avert a crisis just to be back hear holding another forum.”

Alderman Murphy echoed what Izard said about the community being educated to take charge of their health and health outcomes. He also noted the misuse of emergency rooms by many low-income individuals who should be utilizing primary care facilities.

“But what are the options for a single mother with three kids attending three different schools, who doesn’t have a car and has little income?” Murphy asked.

“Where else can she go but a hospital ER?” Murphy said there may come a time when all the hospitals and clinics represented at the forum will have to pool there resources and place them in an area of

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“All of us will be impacted by this (healthcare) crisis regardless of economic status,” the alderman said. “Disease doesn’t recognize color, income status, or where you live.

All of us will be impacted.”

Murphy commented on the status of BadgerCare, the state’s health insurance program that provides health coverage to low-income, uninsured families with children under the age of 19 who are nor eligible for Medicaid and who are uninsured.

The alderman said Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin must speak out on the changes in BadgerCare in which 64,000 people, including over 29,000 children, would be kicked off the program. Over 260,000 people remaining on the program would have there benefits reduced and pay higher copays.

The proposed changes to the program require federal approval, which has not been received, leaving many needy

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families in limbo as to how much of an impact the final changes will have on their lives.

Saying he wasn’t optimistic the state will do the right thing, Murphy said board members of area hospitals have the ability to affect positive change in healthcare. “They have the power to influence government.

“We must make noise in Madison and speakout by voting and supporting our legislators who care and want to preserve the safety net.”

On a question about mental health reform and if the needs of mental health patients are being met, Milwaukee County Supervisor Willie Johnson, who is a member of a county board committee addressing the issue, said there ois an ongoing redesign process of the county’s mental health system, which calls for a new mental health facility.

However Johnson said the redesign is a work in progress “that’s not going to happen overnight,” adding funds are not available to pay for the facility’s construction.

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