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MLK’s Dream Resonates Drum major for peace’s legacy is colorblind BUD JOHNSON

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“I Have A Dream’’

By Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.

It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, Black men as well as White men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check that has come back

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“On November 2, 1983, Public Law 98-144 was enacted to set aside the third Monday of each January as a national holiday commemorating the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King inspired an entire nation to rally behind a just cause, a cause that this country was founded on principle, but was not being practiced: that all people are created equal and are endowed with certain inalienable rights which the government has the duty to respect and protect. The majesty of his message, the dignity of his bearing, and the righteousness of Dr. King’s cause are a lasting legacy to our country. Let us all continue to carry forward the banner of non-violent social change that 33 years ago fell from Dr. King’s hands, when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

“So, today we honor him with

speeches and monuments. But let us do more. Let all Americans of every race and creed and color work together to build in this blessed land a shining city of brotherhood, justice, and harmony. This is the monument Dr. King would have wanted most of all. So, today we honor him with speeches and monuments. But let us do more.

Let all Americans of every race and creed and color work together to build in this blessed land a shining city of brotherhood, justice, and harmony. This is the monument Dr. King would have wanted most of all.” The preface from a speech delivered by Billy C. Tate, Sr., Acting Chief of Oregon’s EOE, on Jan. 14, 2002 is apropos for African-American News&Issues’ annual birthday salute to “The Drum Major for Peace.”

Unfortunately, much like Jesus the Christ (See Bud’s Eyeview), MLK’s message did more to change the land of the free-- after his death- than it did during his relatively

Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hanneman listens to Alex Dinsmore’s award winning MLK essay. brief ministry in this sin-sick world.

It’s even more unfortunate that descendants of slaves have confused the message that MLK espoused in I Have a Dream, to be specifically for them, rather than against racial discrimination in general. Accord-

ingly, it becomes AAN&I’s obligation to refocus MLK’s message that resonates worldwide. Would it surprise you that kids in the Hawaiian Isles know more about MLK than those in Montgomery, Alabama?

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Martin Luther King’s views on racism in the U.S. MARIO SALAS

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In America today, segregated theatres do not exist. Segregated drinking fountains have been done away with. Despite these great improvements we are witnesses to the racism in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the dragging death of a Black man in Jasper, Texas.

It appears that racism has a permanence that will not go away.

Martin Luther King once believed that liberal Whites could be shamed into ending racist practices. This was workable in the south, but King realized that northern racism was something quite different when he moved to Chicago. He was greeted by the most hostile racists that he had ever encountered when he went north.

King attacked U. S. racism when One can almost still smell barbecue smoking on the pit when he or she recalls the precious memories that Rector Wooten, who was affectionately called the “Bar-B-Q Master,” left when he was called home by God over a year and his long and productive life was celebrated on January 13, 2007 at Charity Baptist Church, 5217 Liberty Road. On that glorious day Pastor B. Burnside officiated an order of service that included: Rev. M. Gurnell, Bro. Calvin Merritt, Rev. K. Jackson, Sis. Linda Freeman, Rev. Timothy Criswell, choir president Floyd Scott Jr., Deacon Floyd Scott Sr. and Dock Richardson, representing ILA Local 24.

Active pallbearers were: Donnie Sherman, Johnny Wright, Jeffrey, Craig, and Redell & Kevin Wooten.

Craig Mayes, Darryl Tucker, Derrick Crowder, Wayne Tucker, Steven Mayes, DeMarcus Merritt and Jacori Merritt were honorary pallbearers for Rector, who was born on October, 30, 1917 to the Late Chester and Berdie Wooten in Crockett, Texas, the coun-

he said, “Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society.” From this understanding, and after leaving racist Chicago, King once said, “most Americans are unconscious racists.”

He went on to say that, “fact is that there has never been any single, solid, determined commitment on the part of the vast majority of White Americans ... to genuine equality for Negroes.” This profound statement made it clear that King was becoming more aware that racism benefited the White population to the point of their refusal to really challenge it. In short, King came to believe that rac-

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October 30, 1917-January 5, 2007 ty seat and largest community in Houston County, that’s located at the junction of U.S. Highway 287 and state highways 7, 19, and 21 in the central part of the county (FYI: When Houston County was established in 1837, Andrew Edwards Gossett, an early settler from Tennessee, donated land for the county seat. Gossett and his father, Elijah Gossett, named the settlement for David Crockett, a former neighbor in Tennessee.

Crockett is said to have camped

Martin Luther King came to realize that many Whites loved Black music and Black talent, but did not like Black people. near the town site in January 1836 on his way to San Antonio. County officials chose the site because of its proximity to the Old San Antonio Road. The town was incorporated on December 29, 1837. Handbook on Texas Online.) After growing up and being educated in Crockett, Rector moved to Houston and became a member of ILA Maritime Association, Local 872, which was one of the most top jobs for Black Houston’s men during that era. He worked on the docks until he retired.

For 68 years, he was married to Mabel Sherman Wooten, whom he lovingly called “Honey”. Meanwhile, he accepted Christ under the leadership of the late Rev. D. C. Mitchell with his two oldest daughters at Fifth Ward Missionary Baptist Church. He served as choir president, deacon and member of the male chorus. He later moved his membership to Charity Baptist Church and continued the same duties. He also was known for barbecuing, with his friend Floyd Scott Jr., for all of their church’s occasions. He fur-

ther served as head custodian for the church until his health started failing. He was preceded in death by his brothers, Millard Wooten, Theophilus Wooten and Redell Wooten and sister Evelyn Pratt.

God called Rector Wooten home on January 5, 2007 and he left precious memories for three children: Helen T. Tucker, Barbara J. Mayes and husband Marcellous Mayes, and Brenda J. Merritt. Additionally, he is survived by grandchildren, Rhonda Tucker, Kim Tucker, Craig Mayes, Wayne Tucker, Darryl Tucker, Steven Mayes and wife, Anitra Mayes, Derrick Crowder and fiancée Nicole Flonory, DeMarcus Merritt and Jacori Merritt; sisters, Vernice Singletary, Sadell Henry, Earle C. Branch; great-grandchildren, LaShonta Foreman, husband, Reginald Foreman, Antoinette West, and Wayne Tucker; great-greatgrandchildren, Jaylon Foreman and Stevie Mayes. Brother-in-law, Justin Branch; godchildren, Donna Mann and Saundra Hayes; guardian daughters, Charlotte Thompson and Anniebelle Nelson.

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he fact that history was made in Iowa (a state that is demographically 95 percent White, when Sen. Barack Obama, a presidential aspirant that just happens to be Black, won over a rich and famous White woman), stirs Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, “That my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” in the psyche of descendants of slaves. Accordingly, AfricanAmerican News&Issues is obligated to evaluate the stunning victory from a common sense Black perspective. Keep The Faith In 2008 notwithstanding, politically-astute made in America Africans’ leaders mustn’t allow Obama to become the GOP’s Trojan horse.

We Must Understand, bipartisan politics is more about a plan, than it is about one man, or woman. Without a doubt every Black person in the nation should be Obama proud (just as we were when Jackie Robinson, et al, defied institutional racism to excel in mainstream America), but his victory in Iowa had more to do with frustrated White voters’ backlash against the Republican Party than his charisma. For sure, Obama’s A Change Gonna Come message resonates in states that have been hit hardest by the GOP’s globalization policy, insofar as hard working,

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Cofield, Pastor of Good Hope Baptist Church, impressed me when he threw caution to the wind and went against the grain on the HISD school bond issue. It’s a safe bet, that he noted MLK’s history and

knew where he was coming from when he said: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

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oebeit my column’s head automatically queues up The Twilight Zone theme, I assure 45 100 % Black Owned you I won’t drift into The Outer Limits of disrespect for MLK. Yet, he’s of a role model for the kind of PUBLISHER’S NEWS ANALYSIS more brother White folks embrace than a hero for folks who are sick and tired Note MLK’s History of being abused and misused by Roy Douglas Malonson angry White men in the land of the free. Even so, that’s not where I’m must confess that I’m sensi- can you call people who choose coming from. But, mayhaps I’ll just tive to criticism whether it’s to ignore their own history? Per- share an e-mail that I received from positive or negative. Even so, we’re haps they think because they just one who failed to grasp the concept helped more by an adversary’s happen to be born Black they have of my “Moving Hand” method of criticism when they unwitting- a Black perspective. Accordingly objectively addressing all news and ly compliment African-American we’re criticized for including his- issues germane to my brothers and News&Issues, by lamenting that our tory in our editorial content. A let- sisters. The naysayer lamented: Black perspectives seldom coincide ter to the editor that appeared in “First let me say I’m an avid reader with other newspapers’ standard. our Nov. 14-20, 2007 edition chid- of your publication and your intenEspecially when it comes to nam- ed: “I’m glad that your copy is near- tion.

“But, you must understand ing, blaming and shaming Black ly mistake-free and grammaticalfaces in high places that sell-out, ly correct. Unfortunately, you all sometimes you contribute to the and/or pimp our people for per- spend too much time in your edi- problem. My main objective is to sonal gain. For some strange rea- torials ‘tooting your own horn’ and give you insight on a situation you son a people who have been dis- ‘wagging your own tail’ instead of have so strong an opinion about but criminated against every since they getting to the substance of your edi- really don’t understand, or address got off the boat (in 1621 James- torial and in the process you con- the real story. I have attached docutown, Virginia), can’t seem to grasp fuse and lose the reader.” I suspect mentation to support the followthe concept of an unbiased Black there’s truth to Bryan C. Nichol’s ing claims: 1.) The so called MLK Parade dispute is one major cover newspaper. indictment.

A credible, objective newspaper Nevertheless, our response was up to distract the attention from can’t be judged by the color of a unless the readers don’t know the wrong doing of superiors in the publisher’s skin, but by the objective where we’re coming from, they Mayors office.

But you report stories with content of the news that’s report- won’t know where we’re trying ed without fear or favor. I suspect to go. As an example let’s explore such a biased opinion to favor many of our detractors miscon- our column head. “Whatup” with an old friend. To whom may be strue our Black perspective edito- “Note MLK’s History?” You must an old friend of your publication rial policy. They obviously think note MLK’s history to understand but one whose ethics and intenwe should only report good news why it’s unlikely that another Black tions, and attitude are the main about descendants of African slaves, can make such a profound impact reasons we struggle to truly grow as or anything remotely connected to on the world. Barack Obama not- a people. Things to think about: a.)

“The Motherland.” Truth is, one withstanding (See Editorial), if you He fought for a parade permit out must know Black History to appre- note MLK’s history, you’ll realize of spite and won. Result is now he ciate our Black perspectives. Com- that greatness was literally forced informs the city he cannot produce mon sense dictates that the unique- upon him. He had no intention of a parade... (why fight if you have no ness of our slave and Jim Crow past stepping too far out of the comfort product) b.) Demanded $500,000 (that connects to the institutional- zone of a big time preacher (with ized racism and inequality we still a beautiful, light-skinned wife and face today) should give us a differ- gullible congregation) and take on of a Black preacher today who you ent perspective. Since the essential the troubles of the world. In fact, believe would step out of the compurpose of newspapers is to com- you probably think I’m being nega- fort zone of their pulpit, pick up municate thoughts and ideas-- to tive to even suggest that MLK had the cross and carry it all the way the people they desire to enlighten- no desire to drink from that bit- to the grave like MLK did? Then -we must tell it like it is. ter cup. again, I must admit that Rev. D. Z. Perish the thought, that we conWhat sane person wants to sider educated people who don’t become a martyr for a stubborn, understand our Black perspectives, unappreciative people’s lost cause? dumb. On the other hand, what Jesse and Al aside, can you think 610

for two years from the City of Houston, KHOU and MLK Parade Foundation---they all declined he had to be restrained and removed

by HPD from the meeting room.

2.) The famous Coin-Toss Dispute was to directly designed to cause damage to credibility and parade plans of parade organizations who initially reported the conflict of interest within the Mayor’s office to the Attorney General office resulting in an ongoing investigation that no one seems to mention. a.) Ms. Christian of the Mayor’s Office, applied for a parade permit using Ada Edwards as a front to solicit sponsor $$$, collected $190,000 before the origins of the permit was traced to Christian, who in turn had to withdraw the permit due to conflict of interest reasons.

“This led to the mission of ABC13, The Houston Chronicle, and The Mayor’s Office to stage an event to stir up more controversy around the event hence the famous coin toss. This is all accurate information that can be verified by contacting parties involved. Doing my research on this story, I really got to witness in real time the works of the powers that be-- the control of the media has on people’s opinion when they promote erroneous info in such a professional manner.

How journalists such as you can let personal past encounters interfere with progression as a people by not looking below the surface to get the real story... It took an amateur like me to get this. What is really going on? You all represent yourself as a credible media source but fail to realize when the wool is being pulled over your eyes.

“I also feel as an African-Ameri-

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like emotional kids. Then again, when one listens to clueless, history illiterate Black people that have already anointed Obama America’s first Black president one can’t help but wonder why a concerted effort isn’t being made to make sure that it will happen.

As we’ve been preaching for months, Black leadership seems to be totally oblivious that this is a pivotal moment in America’s history. As we warned in past editorial, if we don’t demonstrate Black voting power at the polls in local elections, our apathy will continue to negatively impact our political clout nationally. We evidentially was spitting in the wind.

We say this because Black voter’s dismal turnout at the polls during November 2007’s general election was embarrassing.

Even so, one can’t help but revisit MLK’s dream when a Black man is judged by the content of his character, rather than the color of his skin. Sadly, there were many African Americans who were ambivalent (about even giving lip service to Obama) that jumped on his bandwagon after he was embraced

by White folks in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Irony aside, history records that Black America felt the same way about “The Great Drum Major” until he was embraced by White America. Happy Birthday MLK! can publication you should take the time to investigate this matter because this is another example how we become our greatest enemy in true time of need by not supporting each other when we have the means and the platform. Now do you have the ‘Nuts and The Guts’ to break this story? Even the Chronicle don’t have this.”

My reply: “Unfortunately, you’re not Black Houston history literate.

I fought that war in 1995. Ergo, the moving hand writes and moves on.

Stamps are a crook, which weaseled his way in and took Dunc’s life work. The system has never forgiven Duncantell for being a freedom fighter, i.e. a Black Panther. They even tried to criminalize the man and send him to TDCJ. He’s a friend, but I chasten ‘whom I love’ too. By the way, have you ever seen, or heard me mentioned in the White media? Check out Texas’ Historical stuff and you’ll learn who I am. I started working for the media at age 19, and have done it all--including being the ‘First Black’ several times--yet I’m persona non gratis in my own home town. Hence, I peeped your Willie Lynch mindset when you said ‘even the Chronicle.’” Shazam! I wonder if anybody knows where I’m coming from?

FYI: Bud Johnson has accepted an invitation to make a rare appearance on a panel of journalists at a special event at SHAPE Community Center, on January 19, 2008 from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. Deloyd T. Parker, Jr. and the S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3903 Almeda, will recognize and honor one of their long-time contributors, awardwinning author, Woody Campbell, former all pro Running Back with the Houston Oilers. Woody is the author of the recently published Fade to Black, a thought provoking look at the Black American’s journey to identity. RSVP to (713) 975-5348.

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middle class White bread winners impacted by the economic downturn and corporate America’s love affair with outsourcing in search of cheap labor are as mad as hell at Bush’s administration and ain’t gonna take no more.

For sure they can relate to the late Sam Cooke’s aforementioned 1965 hit tune that lamented: “There been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long…But now I think I’m able to carry on…It’s been a long, a long time coming…

But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will.” In essence, Obama was speaking for the same sick and tired of being sick and tired Americans who voted for a peanut farmer from Georgia, rather than return a Republican to office and an Arkansas bumpkin called “Slick Willie,” just to get a Democrat in the White House. Perish the thought we’re belittling Obama’s brilliant campaign.

Yet, we’re too history literate to be caught up in the “Black Power” euphoria that his Iowa victory engendered. Especially since we’ve been imploring Black America to seize this pivotal moment in America’s history for over three months.

We Must Understand, politics is a cold, dirty game that’s played by cold, dirty, power hungry, calculating people. So it should behoove African-Americans to learn how to play the game instead of acting

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COMMUNITY & PEOPLE RESONATES -from Page 1 In fact, Alec Dinsmore, an 8-yearold third grader at Na’au School on Oahu recently was last year’s the grand winner of the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry Awards Ceremony in Honolulu.

Nick Campbell, a White teenager in Juneau, Alaska has dedicated his MySpace Website to MLK and invites other young folks throughout the world to express their appreciation for his hero. And, according to Wikipedia Encyclopedia: “In 2006, Derek Alderman, a cultural geographer at East Carolina University, reported that more than 730 American cities had named a street after King. 70% of these streets were in seven Southern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas.

King’s home state of Georgia had the most, with 105 streets. Only 11 states in the country did not have a street named after King. There are also a number of other countries that have honored King, including no less than ten cities in Italy.”

Even so, Black America should have cause to pause and ponder if the Seattle Time’s reporter Ferdinand M. de Leon was telling it like it is when he wrote: “Fifteen years ago, when the time came for Seattle to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Karen Yoshihara had doubts about the chosen road: a no-nonsense eight-mile stretch that offered a straight shot through impoverished neighborhoods, a fading business district and a warehouse-lined industrial area. She thought the road wasn’t good enough for the man being honored. ‘At the time I thought there might have been a more appropriate stretch of road,’ said Yoshihara, 55, who has lived near King Way since 1972. ‘It’s not exactly the most beautiful street.

It just didn’t seem a fitting memorial.’ Today, Yoshihara says she was wrong.

“Over the years, as she has seen the street transformed, she has had a change of heart. ‘Maybe Dr. King would have been proud,’ .said Yoshihara. ‘Now, I can’t imagine it being called anything but Martin Luther King Way.’ A wave of Southeast

Asian-owned businesses has led the street’s commercial revitalization.

And even Holly Park and Rainier Vista, two of the city’s largest public-housing projects, have had facelifts in recent years. Martin Luther King Jr. Way is growing into its name. In the past 10 years, it has really become more of a multi-ethnic community. In some ways, the road chosen to honor King mirrors the course of the movement that he championed. On Martin Luther King Jr. Way, you can find a blood-donor center urging donors to bring a friend, a Vietnamese restaurant serving only soup, a Filipino grocery/video store, a barbecue shack and a car-part junkyard - all within miles of one another.

“In the past decade, there has been an influx of new White and AsianAmerican residents. It was optimism about the area that convinced Ethiopian refugees to risk starting businesses on King Way. George Noble, owner of Green Stone Properties, a real-estate agency based on King Way, said that when he started his business in 1984, the area was roughly 70 percent Black, 20 percent White and 10 percent Asian.

Now Asians make up about 30 to 40 percent of property owners, and Blacks just 50 percent. As Martin Luther King Jr. Way has been revitalized, so have property values.

Many African Americans are leaving, moving to southern suburbs.

Although he likes the revitalization of Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Noble believes African Americans are mostly being left out. “‘Most of the businesses here are owned by Southeast Asians,’ he said. ‘Where are the AfricanAmerican businesses? I believe it’s an honor to have a business on Martin Luther King Jr. Way. It’s just a shame that not more African Americans have businesses here.’”

Translation: Made in America Africans should listen to MLK’s dream speech again and pay closer attention to the wisdom: “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.” Happy Birthday MLK!

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2008 MLK Weekend: A Salute to Education

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HOUSTON.- The 2008 MLK Weekend Celebration--”A Salute To Education,” Saturday, January 19, 2008. The MLK Youth Parade (Downtown Houston - Start Time 1:00p.m.) YM Foundation presents “The MLK Youth Battle of The Bands” at Jones-Cowart Stadium 4:00pm!

On Monday - January 21, 2008, the MLK Grande Parade - (Downtown Houston - Start Time 12:00p. m.)

Battle America presents “The MLK High School Battle of The Bands” at The Berry Center Stadium @5:00p.m.

The 2008 MLK Grande Parade will also air and be shown to a National and International TV Viewing Audience in Spanish and Chinese through Broadcast Partnerships with NTD TV-New York and UNIVISION TV. The MLK Parade Foundation Houston, Inc. is an organization that is organized under The Laws of The State of Texas. Their sole purpose is to promote racial harmony through educational and promotional concepts and ideas.

Their educational concepts include the following: Consensus Building through the awareness of oneness and common values. Networking through the Public, Private Schools and Churches by interacting with Administrators,Educators, and Ministers on the importance of respecting all cultures ethnicity and spiritual beliefs.

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ism was not just about the “mood of White America,” but that racism was deeply entrenched in the fabric of ways of life that Whites practiced.

King came to realize that many Whites loved Black music and Black talent, but did not like Black people.

Though this seems like a contradiction and difficult to understand it is embedded in the nature of racism that sees an acceptance in Black talents but not the person who brings the talent. This has often been confusing for Blacks and other minorities who listen to bigots on various radio stations talk about how great Chuck Berry was and in the same breadth oppose Civil Rights. This is the contradictory nature of racism as it exists in the United States and what King came to realize in

later years.

If King were alive today, he would be opposed to the Iraq War. He would be shocked, would have condemned military involvement in Iraq, and would not have approved of flying jets over a march in his honor as was shamefully done in San Antonio. San Antonio was criticized nationwide for such foolish and ignorant shenanigans.

Those who voted for the jet fly over are still being criticized to this day. We need to be on guard always against those who have become cowards and corrupters of his true radicalism. The symbols of the military and the their weapons of war must never be allowed in any MLK march. I suspect that someone might even try to name a battleship after King, or a jet bomber.

If this happens, then the whole

idea of MLK will have become corrupted and a separate movement would have to be established to honor the true King. Let us hope that no more bright ideas like this surface at the 2008 MLK events.

We have come a long way in terms of Civil Rights, but the newest forms of racism threaten to reverse those gains. We are witnesses to the hidden language of racism, to a new form of racism without racists. This new form masks itself in the guise of super patriotism.

We are seeing increased police brutality, and erosion of the U.S. Constitution and the rights that it carries. His radicalism must be reborn in the minds of today’s activists. We are seeing a return of racism that in many ways is more dangerous than it was during King’s time of Dr. King.

Greater Fort Worth MLK Jr. activities FORT WORTH- The Greater Fort Worth Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Committee is preparing to host its annual holiday celebration of exciting activities and events, commemorating the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The 2008 activities will begin with the 23rd Annual Evening Celebration and Scholarship Awards Banquet, Friday, January 18, 2008, at the Fort Worth Convention Center, Downtown Fort Worth, 1300 Commerce Street - 2nd floor. Festivities will include a Silent Auction that will commence at 7:00 p.m.

The educational achievement awards program will again offer scholarships opportunities to deserving high school seniors. The Youth Scholarship Awards Banquet will begin at 7:00 p.m. Ms. Alicia Boler-Davis, general manager of the Arlington General Motors

Plant will be the keynote speaker. Ms. Boler-Davis is GM’s First Black female Plant Manager. Entertainment will be provided.

Tickets are $75 per perBoler-Davis son or $750 per table.

The Parade/March, co-sponsored by the City of Fort Worth, will be held on Monday, January 21, 2008 and will commence at 11:00 a. m.

The parade entry fee is $5.00.

For the first time in the history of the March/Parade, a young native Fort Worthian, Nicholas Clark has been selected to serve as Co-Grand

Marshal along with City of Fort Worth City Manager Charles R. Boswell. Clark is a honors graduate of Everman High School and recent graduate of Texas State University.

The Rally and Band Exhibition activities will commence immediately after the completion of the parade/march. High School Bands from Fort Worth and other cities are expected to participate.

The MLK Gospel Celebration featuring Gospel recording artist and six-time Grammy® nominee Vickie Winans and the MLK Mass Choir will be held on Monday, January 21, 2008, 7:00 p.m. at the Bass Performance Hall, 4th and Calhoun Streets Fort Worth. Concert tickets range from $15—$45. For concert tickets, call 817-212-4280.

For more information, call Rev. Tyron Lane at (817) 355-4831 or (817) 891-3555.

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Everyday People with Jesse Simon

San Antonio’s march includes Dr. Terrence Roberts

HOUSTON- “For the love of Dominos.” Linda Lewis with family and friends hosted a Domino Tournament Birthday Party for her father, Robert Ravenell, at the Best Western Greenspoint Inn & Suites, 14753 North Fwy. Photos: (from left to right).

1. Linda Lewis and Robert Ravenell 2. A.J. Adams, S.B. Morris, Larry Coffman, Pleas Bisor and Oris Pitre 3. J.D. Harris, Larry Peters, Lawrence Gilliam, Jr., Jesse Burton and Frank Brown 4. Sarah Allen, Ronald Robers, Freddie Powers, Robert Ravenell and Winston Fortone 5. Earl Dirden, Kimberly Dunbar, Thomas Green and Ozy Burnett Dr. Terrence Roberts

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The Service of Celebration of the Life of Albert Osborne Williams October 19, 1924 - December 20, 2007

Dr. Albert Osborne Williams was born in Louetta, Texas on October 19, 1924 to the late Kye W. and Geraldine Turpin Williams. He departed this earthly life on December 20, 2007. He was the seventh of eight children. His brother and sisters have preceded him in their homegoing.

He received his early education in the public schools of Louetta and Houston, Texas and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Texas Southern University. He later attended Tennessee State University in Nashville earning both the Bachelor of Science and the Master of Science degrees in Chemistry. It was during this time that he joined First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill. He began a teaching career at Prairie View A. and M. College in Prairie View, Texas in 1952. It was there that he met and married his beloved wife of 42 years, Marion Ervin Williams. To this union, one son, Anthony Ervin Williams, was born.

In 1955, Albert and Marion moved to Montgomery, Alabama where they both taught at Alabama State University. It was during this time that they were active participants in the Montgomery Bus Boycott offering any assistance they could. The following year they moved to Nashville where Albert Albert O. Williams entered Dental School at Meharry Medical College. He graduated from Meharry with the Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1960 and began his dental practice the following year. He practiced dentistry in South Nashville for 42 years, retiring in 2003. In addition from 1963 to 1985, he was a member of the Dental School faculty at Meharry.

Albert was ordained a Deacon at First Baptist Church in 1969 and has served as Church Clerk. As a Deacon, he was best remembered for the fellowship meals that he would host each year for his Watch care members and his visits to the members when they experienced illness or bereavement. Additionally, he was often referred to as the “Father of the 8:00 a.m. Worship Service” as he took great pride in this service and regularly attended until his health declined. Albert was a member of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, the Capital City Dental Society, Pan Tennessee Dental Association and the National Dental Association. In addition he and Marion enjoyed playing bridge and held memberships in several bridge clubs including the Come Double Bridge Club and the TwentyOne Bridge Club.

Dr. Albert O. Williams leaves to celebrate his life, his son Anthony Ervin Williams; sisters in law Johnnie Williams of Houston, Texas and Louise Hall of Indianapolis, Indiana; nieces Moddestine Daniels Houston of Phoenix, Arizona; Shirley Malonson, Rowena Robinson, and Ernestine Williams of Houston, Texas; nephews Carlos Daniels of Phoenix, Arizona; Joseph Daniels of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Osmond Daniels of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Melvin Williams, Herbert Williams and Ronald Williams of Houston, Texas; cousin Denise McCraw of Nashville, Tennessee as well as several great nephews and numerous other relatives and friends. The service was held at Friendship Baptist Church, 1109 32nd Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee with Rev. Victor M. Singletary, officiating.

Community Race Relations Coalition WACO- The Community Race Relations Coalition quarterly meeting will be held Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 5:30p.m. at the Texas Life Annex, 1000 Washington Avenue. The program will include music by the Rapoport Academy Choirs and a presentation by Dr. TX-6

Nancy Grayson on “The Future of Diversity.” Table discussions with Rapoport Academy students about diversity themes.

MLK T-shirts with “Epilogue to a King” poem are available. Rapoport will provide dinner. For more information, call (254)836-4599.

Rothko Chapel HOUSTON- Diunna Greenleaf, award-winning “siren of the blues,” will be in a Martin Luther King Birthday Concert at the Rothko Chapel, 1409 Sul Ross. The event will be held, Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 7:30p.m. For more information, call (713)524-9839.

SAN ANTONIO- Dr. Terrence Roberts, PhD, will deliver the keynote address following the nation’s largest MLK March. The nearly three-mile march is a tribute to Dr. King, a civil rights icon and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. The 2008 MLK March and Commemorative Program is scheduled for Monday, January 21, 2008.

Dr. Roberts is a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of students who made history by becoming the first African-Americans to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Roberts joins another national figure coming to San Antonio for the 21st anniversary of the City’s MLK March and Commemoration.

Renowned poet and Virginia Tech University Distinguished Professor Nikki Giovanni will be the featured speaker for the Trinity University MLK Lecture Series.

Giovanni, most recently recognized for her moving address during the nationally-televised memorial service at Virginia Tech, will address students and other members of the community on Wednesday, January 23, 2008. March from Dream to Reality is the theme for the 2008 MLK March and Commemoration.

An expected crowd of more than 100,000 people of all races, ages and economic status will simulate Dr. King’s legacy of marching for equal rights and opportunities for all.

The MLK March takes place every year on Dr. King’s national holiday and is the highlight of the annual commemoration organized by the City’s MLK Commission. The march starts at 10:00 a.m. at the MLK Freedom Bridge. The commemorative program featuring Dr. Roberts then begins at approximately noon.

For more information on citywide events call (210) 207-7224.

First African American Sorority celebrates 100 years DALLAS- The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorprated are celebrating the Sorority’s 100 years of service, and everyone is invited to the celebration. The 2008 Founders’ Day Luncheon will take place on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at noon at the Renaissance Dallas/Richardson Hotel, 900 E. Lookout Dr., Richardson, TX. To purchase tickets or for additional information, contact Carlisa Dorsey, Founders’ Day publicity chairman, at (972) 965-4006, or via e-mail at carlisa47@yahoo.com.

HISD’s honors crossing guard Clifton Payne, as Employee of the Month

HOUSTON- Clifton Payne, HISD Employee of the Month for January, is a crossing guard at Joseph Rhoads Elementary School.

Payne began his career with HISD in 1988 at Rhoads Elementary, 4103 Brisbane St., helping children safely cross the busy intersection of Cullen Boulevard and Holloway Drive. Throughout his career, he has greeted children there with a smile and the assurance that he will keep them safe from harm.

Payne’s number-one priority is remaining alert and aware when surveying traffic and knowing when a child is in danger. For the past 20 years, he has watched the children of Rhoads Elementary grow up, and protecting Clifton Payne them from unsafe drivers is the significant role he has played in their lives.

Payne was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He grew up in Houston, where he attended HISD’s James Reynolds and Andrew Carnegie Elementary Schools, Carter Woodson Middle School, and Evan Worthing High School. Today, he lives in southeast Houston with his wife of 24 years. They have six grown children who have attended a variety of HISD schools.

“Mr. Clifton Payne exemplifies the number-one core value of HISD, ‘Safety Above All Else,’” explained Assistant HISD Police Chief Victor Mitchell.

“Our first priority is to provide safe passage and a safe environment for students, employees and visitors at all schools, district facilities, and districtsponsored events. His commitment is demonstrated every day in his service delivery to the students and community of Rhoads Elementary.”

“We are privileged to have Mr. Payne as part of the Rhoads Elementary School family,” added Rhoads Principal Debera Balthazar. “His upbeat and positive attitude always motivates us. Mr. Payne is dedicated to keeping the students safe and doing his part to bring a smile to passing motorists as well. His enthusiasm is contagious. Mr. Payne is an excellent choice as HISD’s first Employee of the Month for 2008.”

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marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice.

We have also come to his hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. Those who hoped that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “for whites only.” We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today my friends - so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious

racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning “My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my father’s died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!”

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi - fromevery mountainside.

Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring - when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children - black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics - will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

Accepted as part of the Douglass Archives of American Public Address (http://douglass.speech. nwu.edu) on May 26, 1999. Prepared by D. Oetting (http://nonce.

Interfaith community honors Dr. King with “Living the Dream” service HOUSTON.- Houston’s faith community is “Living the Dream” of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with an interfaith service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday offers hope of continuing his message of peace, equality and justice for all. Scheduled attendees are the Fiorenza Most Reverend Joseph A. Fiorenza, Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston, Reverend William Lawson, Pastor Emeritus of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, and Rabbi Roy Walter, Senior Rabbi Congregation Emanu El. The event will be Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 5:00 pm at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, 3826 Wheeler

Avenue. The interfaith prayer service will mark what would have been Dr. King’s 79th birthday. The event, themed “Living the Dream”, is hoped to renew our spirit of peaceful coexistence and shine a light on the value of working together to assist those in need.

Lawson This year’s Interfaith Service marks the annual event’s second straight year since undergoing a five year hiatus. In year’s past, the interfaith service was part of a yearly tradition that included community service projects at hospitals and schools across Harris County. Event organizers hope this event grows again to the caliber it once held. In

addition to a yearly interfaith prayer service, community projects and additional events attracting a bigger and more diverse crowd are in the planning stages.

Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston is Houston’s oldest interfaith-based social serWalter vice organization. IM brings together Houston’s diverse faith community to serve two of Houston’s most frail populations, homebound seniors and newly arrived refugees. By working together to serve those in need, we learn from, about, and gain respect for all our neighbors.

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