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PRAIRIE VIEW - I have long ago given up the naïve belief that if Whites who believe that police brutality is an urban legend, could witness rogue officers’ behavior toward African-Americans they would change their view; I abandoned such thoughts March 3, 1991, when Los Angeles Police Department officers brutally beat Rodney King, Bryant Allen, and Freddie Helms, the two passengers in King’s vehicle who are never mentioned when the horrific attack is discussed, in a horrific beating that would have made slave masters of yesteryear blush. My faith in White’s being able to sympathize with Black suffering died the moment that Whites, after viewing the tape I might add, illogically laid the blame for the incident at the feet of Mr. King and his compatriots. I then realized that not even visual proof would satisfy Whites’ ‘burden of proof’. In the 90’s it was Rodney King, today it is Sandra Bland. The recently released dash camera footage provides an up-close view of a ‘typical’ experience for Black drivers when they come in contact with an overzealous out-of-control officer whose sole goal is making the detainee bow to their authority. For those like ‘Sandy’ who refuse to oblige the officer, the consequences can be deadly. Because so many have glossed over this fact, I feel compelled to forthrightly state that Sandra Bland did not cause the officer’s unprofessional behavior. There is an additional layer that must be examined in regards to Black women, that being, outspoken Black women such as Sandra Bland are castigated and maligned by officers’ at an intensity that often exceeds the treatment of AfricanAmerican men. I consider myself very fortunate to not only know the character of Sandra Bland, but also know others who possess a kindred spirit. TO CONTINUE READING ABOUT PRAIRIE VIEW COMMUNITY ~ SEE PG. 10
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HOUSTON - Carter G. Woodson once suggested that, “We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history.” Hence Captain Paul J. Matthews, the curator and founder of the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum has built an empire which exhibits, this exact thought. The museum is the only one of its kind in the country. A great deal of time, volition, patience, expenditure and labor; all played a part in developing the nationally recognized gallery. Matthews was born in 1945. Growing up as a child and teenager in the 1960’s dispensation, he was reared in a segregated community. He attended Lincoln High School and graduated from Prairie View A &M University, in January of 1968. It was there that he first learned of the buffalo soldier, as a cadet in the ROTC. After reading only two paragraphs in a military book, he immediately became intrigued about; “ these Black men in blue uniforms, considering the times”. TO CONTINUE READING ‘MATTHEWS’ SEE PG. 4