October 6 - 12, 2019
Vol. 24, Issue 38
Greater Houston Edition
OUR STORY
LIVING LEGEND Rev. F.N. Williams, Sr.,
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First tour of Fisk Jubilee Singers. - 1871
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“Mr. Mac” the first Black columnist for the Houston Post died. - 2006
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Jean Jacques I crowned Emperor of Haiti. - 1804
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Samuel McCullough, a free Black man, participated in the first offensive action of the Texas Revolution, in Goliad, and is considered the war’s fist casualty. - 1835
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Milt Larkin, bandleader and self-taught jazz trumpeter, was born in Navasota. - 1910
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OP-ED
EDUCATION
WHAT’S HAPPENIN’
We MUST Understand asks who really won in the tragic case of Amber Guyger & Botham Jean.
Aldine Independent School District receives $1.35 million for school improvement initiatives.
Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church to host a SANKOFA Celebration.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize. - 1964
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Frank Robinson becomes the first African-American baseball manager. - 1975
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HOUSTON - Rev. Floyd Nathaniel Williams, Sr. was born into a family of preachers, community activists and prominent political affiliation. As a lad, he watched his father and grandfather the late Rev. Mike Williams face police brutality and all of the ills associated with strong vocal Black leaders in that era, who combatted social injustice and inequality. His father, the late Rev. M.C. Williams was a fervent force in the community and held dominant ties in the political and educational arenas. At one point there was only one school which residents of the Acreage Home community could attend, White Oak School, located on West Montgomery. No matter how far of a distance students had to walk or travel, it was the only learning institution readily available to them. Through the continued efforts of Rev. M.C. Williams, another school was eventually opened, Highland Heights. It was later named in his honor, M.C. Williams Middle School. Being reared the son of a pastor, Williams began to sense a call to the ministry. He surrendered to that call in 1945, at the age of 16. First, he earned a Bachelor of Divinity Degree in Extended Studies from Bishop College. Thereafter, he was called to lead the Greater Union Baptist Church in Matthews. Cont. aframnews.com
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NATIONAL State of Black Texas in the Texas Legislature By Senator Borris Miles
Miles Ahead Scholars, A New Solution to an Old Problem
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ast week, Houston ISD kicked off a new program, the Miles Ahead Scholars Program, to tackle one of the most difficult problems in urban schools, improving academic outcomes for African-American boys. President Obama, when launching the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative said that improving the lives of young men of Color is a moral issue. I worked to secure funding for the program during this year’s legislative session. The Miles Ahead Program will begin with an initial group of 60, 9th and 10th-grade boys who show academic promise from Wheatley, Worthing and Kashmere High Schools. The program will follow these boys and future classes as they become men and complete their 12th grade year. The program has dedicated staff to allow the students to achieve the very high goals and expectations of the program.
The program focuses on forming cohorts or “posses” of male students with academic promise, but from high schools underrepresented among top colleges and universities. They will share academic classes, developmental programming and college and career counseling. Instructional specialists will ensure that the boys maintain a competitive GPA and are eligible and ready for college-level work. They will receive mentorship from men of Color in the community who can share their personal and professional experiences with the students. The program sets very high goals for the scholars. They are expected to take and pass AP exams so that they earn college credit in high school. They will participate in a professional internship so that they can experience the working world. Of course, the ultimate goal is for these students to attend and graduate from our nation’s top universities. I look forward to watching these boys grow up to be young leaders in our community. I invite you to join in this program by serving as a mentor. If you are interested in becoming a mentor to one of these scholars, please contact my office to learn more about this rewarding opportunity. Keep the faith, Keep the fight. - AANI
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OPINION & EDITORIAL For Your Consideration By Oscar H. Blayton
It’s Not PATRIOTISM, It’s NATIONALISM “WHITE NATIONALISM”
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or People of Color, the past three and one-half years of slogging through Donald Trump’s America have brought many new realizations about some ageold problems. Racism and bigotry have existed since the first Africans set foot in English speaking North America 400 years ago. During our long, agonizing trek through the pages of U.S. history, we have suffered enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow laws, red lining, school segregation and employment discrimination, just to name a few of the ways in which our humanity has been violated. Through the centuries, very few African-Americans did not suffer from the poisonous vapors arising from the culture of White supremacy. So, the assaults by Donald Trump are nothing new to those of us Americans with a darker hue. His ignorant vitriol only chalks up another day under the star-spangled banner.
But while we see Trump as another edition of a 400-year-old daily rerun, his America has taught many of us something we had not learned before something so deeply embedded in the marrow of White America’s bones that it took the socio-political CT scan of a Trump presidency to reveal it. We have known all along that the Confederate flag-waving bigots were acting out their hatred for People of Color, despite their protestations that they were only honoring their cultural heritage. We were never fooled into thinking that the racial covenants imposed by state and federal governments had nothing to do with property values and everything to do with building White economic wealth from a foundation of Black economic deprivation. When Black soldiers went off to sacrifice their bodies and lives to fight foreign wars for Uncle Sam, knowing full well they would return to a homeland that cursed them, there was seldom any recognition of their selflessness. In fact, they were despised even more for their heroism. Yet, time and time again, through the butchery of Black bodies, the countless murders of unarmed Black men and women by police and the rape of Black freedoms by the American judicial
system, so many White Americans have justified their crimes as acts of patriotism. Holding the treasonous flag of the Confederacy in one hand, and the American flag in the other, White supremacists have the unmitigated gall to self-aggrandize themselves as patriots. If patriotism is the love of one’s homeland and its citizens, White supremacists cannot lay claim to that quality. It is impossible to love your country while hating a multitude of its citizens. A country is not merely geographical boundaries and topographical registers. A country is a community of people – all the people. And this is a truth that White supremacists have never embraced. They would rather sing of “purple mountain majesties” and “amber waves of grain” than honor the First Nations who were stewards of this lands for millennia before Europeans arrived, or the sons and daughters of Africa upon whose bloodied backs the wealth of America was built. White supremacists have cloaked the venom of their race hatred in the red, white and blue in order to hide its true nature, because in the minds of White supremacists, America is only for Whites. Cont. aframnews.com
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We MUST Understand By Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher
Who Really Wins?
“Indeed, in America there is a strange and powerful belief that if you stab a Black person ten times, the bleeding stops, and the healing begins the moment the assailant drops the knife. We believe White dominance to be a fact of the inert past, a delinquent debt that can be made to disappear if only we don’t look.” -Ta-Nehisi Coates t is a sad reality that many around the nation are grateful that for once a White police officer has been convicted of killing an unarmed Black man. On September 6, 2018, Botham Jean was sitting at home minding his business when Amber Guyger, a five-year Dallas police veteran burst into the front door of his apartment, fatally wounding him. The irony of it all, Guyger actually lived one floor below him and had been romantically involved with him. Yet, she claimed she accidentally went into the wrong unit and accidentally killed him in the process. Last week, Amber Guy-
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ger was sentenced to ten years in prison for the unlawful slaying. Now, it may be true that Guyger has been convicted of killing Botham, but I’m not too keen about instantly putting on the forgiveness hat. For the record, Botham Jean is dead! And before all you scripture quoting, Bible-toting folk come telling me about forgiveness, go check out the racist text messages Guyger has been exposed of writing and indulging in. Sure, she might spend a couple, maybe even a few years behind bars. But at the end of the day, can we truly say we have won? What about the many cases which don’t make the headlines and are not circulating around the nation like this one. Are we to believe now that Black Lives actually do Matter, because one White girl was convicted out of a larger number of officers whose crimes go unpunished daily? With that, I will conclude with the words of Emory University professor, Carol Anderson. “White rage doesn’t have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually driven by the most ignoble - AANI motivations.”
Partin the Waters
By Omowale Lithuli-Allen
Sankofa
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ever has a race of people come so far in so short of
a time. In the early 1900’s, Sun Yat Sen, the father of Chinese nationalism predicted that enslaved Africans would be annihilated and destroyed in the same ruthless fashion of the Native-Americans. He threw in the towel for Black people because he assessed that we did not possess the cultural armor to fight back. 250-years of chattel slavery and 150-years of institutionalized racism failed to crush this mighty race. Congress passed HR 1242 to commemorate the 400-years that mark the survival and resilience of the descendants of enslaved Africans. Never mind that the legislation only allotted $20,000 to be utilized for this nationwide effort, only five dollars per year of slavery. 1619 can be argued to be the real founding date of the United States. In August 1619, 20 Africans arrived at Point Comfort, near Jamestown Virginia. These twenty Africans
were the first of twelve and one half million to follow in chains. Uncompensated slave labor was utilized to establish the foundations of this nation. One should be mindful that Professor Van Sertima of Harvard has documented that Africans arrived in this hemisphere as traders and explorers long before Columbus arrived. Can 1776 be the birthday of America when after the American revolution, four million people were left in slavery? Why bury ourselves in the past? SANKOFA means that in order to go forward and improve the future, we must first acknowledge and learn our lessons from the past. Our ancestors departed Africa through the Door of No Return but evolved to possess a stronger genetic pool and a faith that would not shrink. HR 1242 is an opportunity to devise and launch transformative activities that will further improve Black well being and form a more perfect union. When the Black movement began to gain critical mass in the 1960’s, it was like a nuclear social bomb had exploded in America, Environmentalists, Peace and Justice, Women and Gender Equality, Animal Rights movements all gained inspiration and energy to insist on more and stronger democracy.
SANKOFA marks the arrival of another revival of Black progress that will only grow stronger over the next 400 years. SANKFOFA is a burning spear that will lead to educational institutions that prepare for the new post-industrial economy, educational institutions that lead our people out of poverty. The medical engine in Houston can absorb every Black child that finishes high school. Endless medical technologists, radiologists, RN s’ and nurse and physician assistant jobs abound. The chemical plants can absorb every Black child that aspires to be a welder or plant operator. SANKOFA performs as an enzyme by entering into the interactions of sororities and fraternities, bike and horse riding clubs and barber beauty associations, poker and domino clubs, churches, mosques and social organizations. Going forward we seize the initiative and win the hearts and minds by respecting and adhering to the organizing principle of Unity without Uniformity. Unity without Uniformity is about working unity, not talking unity. All these organizations are called upon to sponsor a commemoration and use the energy released to launch game changing activities. SANKOFA stresses
RECLAIMING THE VOTE through voter education and voter registration. An unregistered non-voting adult Black person will become as rare as a penguin and his family sunbathing in the July Texas sun. SANKOFA succeeds when we understand that politics is about gaining and maintaining power for the good of all and not just CRONIES. SANKOFA succeeds when we understand that religion is about the highest values that promote human life and development. SANKOFA succeeds when we teach that LIFT EVERY VOICE and SING is the American national hymn. SANKOFA succeeds when we shift our focus to family unity, cooperative economics for the sharing economy and building generational wealth over the next 400 years. SANKOFA succeeds when Kaepernick and BLACK LIVES MATTER succeeds. LeBron James and Oprah Winfrey will do their job. The POTUS and Congress will do their job. The question is whether each of us will teach one, whether each of us will reach one? LIVE GOOD, DREAM BIG, REACH HIGHER. - AANI
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By Rebecca S. Jones
HOUSTON - “My advice for the African-American community can go to anyone, but I do have a particular bond with single mothers… When it comes to earning an education, it depends much more on your persistence than anything else. I went to school with people that were very, very smart and they would drop out. So, getting your education is more about making a decision about what you want to do and being persistent and staying with it, than it is anything else. You don’t have to see everything. Sometimes, you just have to decide where you want to go and just move toward the next step. You don’t have to have every step mapped out – just the next step. It starts with the decision about where you’re going and then things will work out, to bring that to you as long as you focus on where you’re going and that next step. And, to always remember, no one is born knowing anything. So whatever others do, if you put your mind to it you can do it too.”
- Krista Satterthwaite Krista Satterthwaite has ascended from scrapping up pennies to catching the train in college while struggling as a young Black single mother, to managing $2 billion in revenue for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). She is the Vice Presi-
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er goods industries; she has proven to be one of the most influential women in Corporate America – who just happens to be Black. However, her destination did not come without cost – she started from the bottom and worked
her way up the corporate ladder to success. Krista’s story is an inspiring one for any individual determined to succeed despite the obstacles. Krista’s Story Krista Satterthwaite hails from Peoria, Illinois. She is the daughter Mary Ann and Charles Cooper and youngest of three children. Her mother worked as a nurse and her father an entrepreneur. During our interview, Krista said, “My father was always very entrepreneurial and taught me a lot about business from a very early age. Whatever he saw he would comment on the strategy of it from a business standpoint. So, I understood profit margin and the fundamentals of business before I could ever even read because of him.” Growing up, Krista would often sit and ponder on varying business ventures and pitch them to her playmates, with a goal of ensuring she had enough money for the ice cream truck. As she matured, she could not deny the burning entrepreneurial spirit within. After graduating high school, she matriculated
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at the University of Illinois in Chicago on a full scholarship. Having done research on the career of her choice, she realized the path she desired would require a Master of Business Administration degree. Therefore, she was determined to accomplish it. However, during her freshmen year she had her son, Alec. Life became difficult for her struggling to raise a newborn son, while ambitiously pursuing the career path she had laid out for herself. She explained, “I didn’t
have a car and most of the time, I would have to take two trains and a bus to get to school in negative temperatures. It was a lot, but my family was very supportive. Even though they couldn’t help me out financially, they helped me with my son, and they were not local. For the first couple of years before my son was potty-trained, I went back and forth. My mother and older sister, Kendra would take care of him and once he was potty trained, he came to live with me full time in Cont. aframnews.com
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Local Houston artist, Moses Adams, Jr. painted this mural in memory of slaves. HOUSTON- Moses Ad- slaves were brought over with the help of the Unams, Jr., retired Hous- in slave ships and sold to derground Railroad aboton Independent School slave owners. litionist. When President District teacher and TexOnce they were sold, Abraham Lincoln signed as Southern University they were brutally beat- the Emancipation ProclaArts Department graduate en and abused. Harriet mation for slavery to be created a mural of slaves Tubman and Frederick abolished in 1863, Texas brought to America. The Douglass laid the founda- didn’t get the news until mural tells a story of how tion for slaves to escape June 19, 1865. - AANI
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