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Please, please, please, please I know what it’s like to be stubborn. There were times, as a child, that no matter how much I wanted to do something, if you yelled at me or ordered me to do it, I’d probably defy you. Just the idea of someone bossing me around was enough for me to rebel. There’s also my rational side. Ask me and I’m easy. No big deal. Explain why, and I’m good. If I ask questions, answer, and if you make sense, we’re cool. Prove me wrong. State your case. Provide a historical perspective. Which brings me to my truth. Every year of my adult life, someone has asked me a variation of the question, “how can we get more people to vote?” Now I’ve been known to have a vivid imagination and some of the gimmicks I came up with went from intellectual to illegal. This is after explaining, lecturing, begging, cussing, threatening, bribing and shaming; all to no avail. There was no persuading those who had their minds made up that their vote didn’t matter. Save the many stories of those who died for this precious right, because naysayers didn’t care. So as we move forward, the billion dollar question still looms, “how?” I know what it takes to get me to do something. I know I want a better world, not just for my descendants; but for me too! There are things that I do today that I will not benefit from and that’s okay. It’s not okay for me to not care about future generations. It’s just not right. As I shake my head, I just have to keep talking about the value of a vote and provide encouragement. I can’t help but think about all the negative things we do in life, and without encouragement. November 3 is election day. About voting, in the words of the great philosopher James Brown, “please, please, please, please!”
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Justice Ginsburg’s death could prove fatal to American Democracy By STACY M. BROWN NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Ruth Bader Ginsburg – affectionately known as The Notorious R.B.G. (after the famous moniker of the late hip-hop star, The Notorious B.I.G.) – held on as long as she could while fiercely battling metastatic pancreatic cancer. At 87, the popular Supreme Court Justice had battled cancer and several other maladies, for some time. Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a
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new president is installed.” Echoing the sentiments of many, both inside and outside of the po-
litical spectrum acclaimed novelist Terry McMillan stated, “I was praying she could hold on.” The author and many others realized that, in sphere of today’s of American politics, where one of the two dominant parties is essentially wholly controlled by President Donald Trump and the hard-hearted Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, if they choose to ignore the Justice’s dying wishes, the Republicans, who control the Senate, have the votes to quickly confirm Ginsburg’s replacement. This is the case even as the president – and possibly McConnell –
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Black students, always take two sets of notes Author, filmmaker, poet, rapper, and professor M. K. Asante Jr., had it right when he said “Black students, (should) always take two sets of notes.” I spent some time researching this “woke” young tenured professor the other day. His life story – even though comparatively young – is an impressive example of how learning and education can transform a life.
Grand Jury ruling in shooting of Breonna Taylor leads to more protests By ASHLEY MOSS Texas Metro News Hours after a Kentucky grand jury indicted a former police officer on charges related to the shooting of Breonna Taylor, protesters in Dallas took to the streets, expressing outrage and dismay that the charges did not go far enough. Wednesday afternoon, a Jefferson County (Ky.) grand jury indicted former Louisville Metropolitan Police detective Brett Hankison on three counts of first degree “wanton endangerment” in the Breonna Taylor case. According to the grand jury, Hankison wantonly fired shots into an occupied apartment next door to Taylor’s on the night she was shot and killed. Wanton endangerment is a Class D felony in Kentucky and carries a sentence of up to five years, if convicted. The grand jury chose not to indict two other officers involved in Taylor’s shooting, Louisville Police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly
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Garland Emergency Residential Assistance Program The City of Garland has partnered with Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc. to provide emergency mortgage and rental assistance to those City of Garland residents impacted by COVID-19. Catholic Charities Inc. is processing applications on a first-come, first-served basis. While we are committed to processing as many applications as we have funding for, we do anticipate a high demand, so please be patient. Completing the application is not a guarantee that a resident will receive a call for the next stage. Please review all information before applying. Catholic Charities is now offering in-person application assistance. Call 214-613-3164 to schedule an appointment.
Appointments are available Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Garland’s Central Library. No walk-ins, please. Bring documents listed below to your appointment. To qualify, City of Garland residents must: • Show proof of Garland residency; • Not have received additional housing assistance from the federal stimulus program knows as CARES from another agency; • Make less than 120% of the area median household income, which is as follows: • 1 person household $72,400 • 2 persons - $82,750 • 3 persons - $93,100 • 4 persons - $103,450
• 5 persons - $111,700 • 6 persons - $120,000 • 7 persons - $128,250 • 8 persons - $136,550 Participants must provide documentation of the impact of COVID-19 to their circumstance, including but not limited to the following: • Proof of job/income loss, temporary or permanent • Reduction in work hours/income • Increased healthcare, childcare and household expenses directly related to COVID-19 that attributed to insufficiency of rent/mortgage payments
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Longtime school social worker Lisa Vernon launches MarloJoy Solutions By EVA D. COLEMAN Lifestyle and Culture Editor
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Longtime school social worker Lisa Vernon launches MarloJoy Solutions Lisa Vernon has connected resources for underserved and vulnerable populations in the Frisco area for numerous years. The licensed social worker, educator, public speaker and creative director officially launched her multifaceted company, MarloJoy Solutions, LLC, during two backto-back, socially-distant sessions on Sept. 26, 2020 at One River School in Frisco, Texas. The art and design school
served as the perfect sponsor and backdrop for Ms. Vernon’s event. As a widely-known dancer with emphasis on the arts, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate, who holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in social work, has partnered with them on various occasions, connecting others with culture and creativity through personal awareness. A proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Ms. Vernon acknowledged her “sisters” in the room and everyone else individually too, expressing deep appreciation for her network of supporters.
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With MaloJoy Solutions, Ms. Vernon strives to make a difference in the lives of others through healing and advocacy. Services provided include: Counseling & Life Coach, Social Justice, Talent Acquisition, Movement & Artistic Integration and Curriculum Writing. For more information, visit www.marlojoysolutions.com
M. K. Asante, Jr.
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Asante recalls his troubled youth in the wildly popular book Buck: A Memoir. The award-winning coming-of-age remembrance was published in 2013 when the author was 31 and realizing that his over-comer journey could and should help redirect other misguided youths. Later, he helped make the book a film. Conflicts with his college professor father; concern for his mother, a choreographer struggling with self-destructive depression; a brother in prison; being sent to alternative schools, and an attraction to bad influences on the wild streets of Philadelphia combined to take young Asante swiftly down wrong paths as a teenager. But he found his salvation in writing and ultimately, at age 26, became the nation’s youngest tenured professor at historically-Black Morgan State University in Baltimore where he teaches creative writing and film-making. During one part of his journey, the legendary Maya Angelou was his mentor. Today, at age 37, Asante has written several books, made various films, recorded rap music, lectured and given commencement addresses at distinguished universities including Southern Methodist University, Vassar, and Harvard. For many years, his signature appearance in the classroom was t-shirts and long dreadlocks. His teaching style has been described as freewheeling, promoting discussion and pushback from his students, provoking thought and examination at every turn. “Two sets of notes” is one of his most quoted utterances. The poem by that same title is in the professor’s book entitled It’s Bigger than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post Hip Hop Generation. In the poem, he deftly castigates American text books and robot teachers who only regurgitate what’s on the page. He says because of long-standing, bureaucratic policies, these educators and the books they use teach students supposed “facts” that under scrutiny are mostly myths or devised imaginings. He says these portrayals come from the minds of mainly white history writers who record the past only the way they interpret it, not the way it really happened. Asante Jr. offered the perfect formula for how students can succeed in the classroom – even while knowing that much of what they are hearing is only one person’s likely distorted view of the world in which we all live. “I always take two sets of
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NOTORIOUS, from Page 1 head toward lame-duck status. In spite of the an result from the impending confirmation process and it’s connectivity to an election that will occur in less than 45 days, the life and achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg are to be celebrated. America’s loss of one of its notable and most courageous jurists is palpable. “We have lost a champion of justice, an icon and patriot, a woman who lived the concept of building a more perfect union,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser affirmed. “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought for us until the very end, and it is that fighting spirit – that we were fortunate as a nation to benefit from time and time again – that made us love, respect, and admire her. We are heartbroken.” Hillary Shelton, the Chief Lobbyist of the NAACP, called Ginsburg’s death a sad day for America. “We are losing a real champion for Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Women’s Rights and Human Rights on our Supreme Court,” Shelton posited. Shelton honored Ginsburg for breaking through many barriers to the full participation of all Americans and demanded that Republicans wait until after the election to confirm a successor. “It is our hope that whoever fills her position would have her same values. We also urge that the president withhold the nomination to fill that position until after the election,” Shelton exclaimed. “It was Mitch McConnell who insisted not to allow President Obama to fill a position in his last year in office. We urge that there not be a nomination or consideration by the U.S. Senate until after the November election.”
Through her cancer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought to the end with unwavering faith in our democracy and its ideals, and that’s how she’ll be remembered, Obama expressed in a written statement. “But she also left instructions for how she wanted her legacy to be honored,” the popular former president observed. Obama recalled when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, and they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in. “A basic principle of the law – and of everyday fairness – is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment,” Obama demanded. “The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle. As votes are already being cast in this election, Republican Senators are now called to apply that standard. “The questions before the Court now and in the coming years – with decisions that will determine whether or not our economy is fair, our society is just, women are treated equally, our planet survives, and our democracy endures – are too consequential to future generations for courts to be filled through anything less than an unimpeachable process.” Sixty years ago, the Brooklyn born Ginsburg applied to be a Supreme Court clerk. She’d studied at two of the country’s finest law schools and had ringing recommendations. But because she was a woman, she was rejected,
Obama recalled. Ten years later, she sent her first brief to the Supreme Court – which led it to strike down a state law based on gender discrimination for the first time. And then, for nearly three decades, as the second woman ever to sit on the highest court in the land, she proved a warrior for gender equality – someone who believed that equal justice under the law only had meaning if it applied to every single American. “Over a long career on both sides of the bench – as a relentless litigator and an incisive jurist – Justice Ginsburg helped us see that discrimination on the basis of sex isn’t about an abstract ideal of equality; that it doesn’t only harm women; that it has real consequences for all of us. It’s about who we are – and who we can be,” Obama remarked, noting that Ginsburg inspired the generations who followed her. Justice Ginsberg always voiced strong and principled demands for justice and equality for all, and she was a lifelong champion of women’s and civil rights, declared Marcela Howell, the founder, and president of “In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda.” “We are putting the U.S. Senate on notice; we demand that no nominee be voted on until a new president is elected. We will take to the streets in protest if McConnell and his cohorts do not abide by their own precedent,” Howell avowed. “We promise to continue Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s fight for freedom. As we mourn, we will honor her life and legacy by fighting hard to demand a worthy successor. And we will fight even harder to ensure that all votes are counted on Election Day.”
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and Det. Myles Cosgrove. The jury found that the two officers were not criminally liable in Taylor’s death because they shot the young woman after a companion who was in her home fired on them first. Meanwhile, protests were held in New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia and in other cities across the nation in response to the Kentucky grand jury decisions. In Louisville, two officers were shot during protests. The city’s police chief said he expected the two to recover. In Texas, Pamela Grayson, told a crowd gathered in front of Dallas Police Department’s downtown headquarters that, despite Taylor’s achievements, the young woman’s life appears to have had little value. “Breonna faced challenges to become a successful, award-winning EMT (emergency medical technician),” Grayson said. “She had to have a heart for people and she had to be smart. “And yet and still,” she said.
“I’m in pain.” Grayson questioned whether the indictments of “wanton endangerment” against Hankison - and no indictment of murder meant the legal system is indifferent to police officers shooting unarmed African Americans. “I’m heartbroken because America does not like me,” said Grayson, who is African American. “When is my life going to matter?” Taylor, 26, was shot and killed on March 13 after Louisville police officers stormed into her apartment in an attempt to serve a warrant. Taylor’s companion shot at the officers saying he believed they were intruders. Local activists said they were not surprised that murder charges were not brought against the Louisville officers. “It is very difficult to get an indictment or a conviction of a police officer,” said John Fullinwider, co-founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality. “This is the fight of our lives and, sometimes, it takes a life-
time to win,” Fullinwider said. In Fort Worth, attorney Valerie D. Baston agreed. “I’m not surprised,” she said. “It’s only been within the last seven years that we’ve even seen police officers being prosecuted for crimes that they do.” Baston speculated that higher charges against the officers were not brought because of Taylor’s companion’s actions. “He just thought someone was breaking into the house,” Baston said. She said the wanton endangerment charge could be confusing to many Texans because the state does not have such a charge. “The closest thing that we have to it would be unlawfully discharging a firearm in public, which would carry a punishment of up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine,” Baston said. Still, the attorney said she, too, was as disappointed as others at Wednesday’s protest. “Being an African American woman, it’s very disheartening and upsetting that this is what was brought to the grand jury,” said Baston. “They need
to bring a higher charge than this Class D felony - maybe more along the lines of a manslaughter charge. ““What gets me is the unfairness of it all,” she said. “It seems like we make some progress but never really get past the finish line.” In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said examination of the case was hindered by a lack of video footage. “There is no video or body camera footage of the officers attempted execution of a search warrant at Ms. Taylor’s residence. Video footage begins when patrol officers arrive at the location,” the attorney general said. He said the sequence of events on the night Taylor was shot was pieced together from ballistics evidence, 911 calls, police radio traffic and interviews. Across the nation, civil rights activists expressed dismay at the indictments. “Jefferson County grand jury indicts former officer Brett Hankison with three counts of wanton endangerment in first-degree for bullets that went into other apartments but nothing for the murder of Breonna Taylor,” civil rights attorney Ben Crump tweeted Wednesday. “This is outrageous and offensive.” “If Brett Hankison’s behav-
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ior was wanton endangerment to people in neighboring apartments, then it should have been wanton endangerment in Breonna Taylor’s apartment too,” said Crump, who has served as the Taylor family’s attorney. “In fact, it should have been ruled wanton murder!” The national NAACP denounced the Kentucky attorney general’s decision calling it a “devastating blow to the community of Louisville and the nation.” In a statement posted Wednesday on the nation’s oldest civil rights organization’s website, NAACP officials said the country’s judicial system is a “faulty and burdensome justice system that compromises our society’s moral and humane fabric.” The NAACP called on voters to make their disdain for the decision heard at the polls. “Our course of action is to vote and make it abundantly clear that we will not tolerate the injustice we’re observing,” the statement read. “Far too many Black lives have been lost due to the egregious malpractice of police officers, elected officials and the justice system as a whole. “We must press forward in our pursuit of dismantling oppressive ideologies that plague our country so we can reach parity and equity on all fronts.”
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A Low Barr! QUIT PLAYIN’ Vincent Hall Bill Barr, America’s top cop and Donald Trump’s faithful Saint Bernard, is a greater threat to the “American Experiment” as his boss. Everyone knows that Trump is two floors short of being out of his mind, but the more reserved and refined Barr makes Trump appear credible. But rewind the tape and listen to his bullshit comments and innuendo. He’s about as ignorant as Donald Trump. Barr just looks, sounds, and portrays a more intellectually steeped racist and power monger. This week he inferred that the economic shutdowns meant to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus were the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties” in U.S.
history “other than slavery.” If White folks can’t find any more heinous comparison than slavery, how can they spout “Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny within the same sentence? Slavery was the vilest and most vicious form of humanity known to mankind. In other words, Kim Jung Un ain’t got nothing on America. An article on the CNN website puts slavery in terms that most Americans have rarely considered. She brought slavery to terms that money-grubbers like Trump should comprehend. “Isabel Wilkerson puts it in her new book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” “The institution of slavery was, for a quarter of a millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines which existed solely for the profit of their owners, to be worked as long as the owners desired, who had no rights over their bodies or loved ones.”
In this system, African captives “could be mortgaged, bred, won in a bet, given as wedding presents, bequeathed to heirs, sold away from spouses or children to cover an owner’s debt
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or to spite a rival or to settle an estate.” She didn’t even get to the physical, mental, and spiritual horrors that America slaves endured. America suffers from spells of amnesia and dementia, but she will never outlive the
stain she put on all of humanity. Barr’s comments on the recent police killings of Black men prove that he suffers from historical Alzheimer’s. “No, I don’t think there are two justice systems. You know, I think the narrative that the police are on some, you know, epidemic of shooting unarmed Black men is simply a false narrative and also the narrative that’s based on race.” The false narrative is Barr’s recital of statements that have no basis in fact. If the statistics don’t bear out the epidemic, the camera phone and bodycam video indeed do. Too many videos capture White folks who fight with the police and live to make bail. Meanwhile, a disproportionate number of Black families are forced to make burial arrangements. Espousing that the “lockdown” was an encumbrance to civil liberties mirror Trump’s demonization of masks. Rather than regarding science and valuing lives, Barr and Trump’s only
value is political gain and the extension of White privilege. CBS News posted a counter to Barr’s lie. “Since the coronavirus first slammed the brakes on the U.S. economy in March, policymakers have tried to weigh the cost of keeping people safe. A group of economists has compared these scenarios in a working paper issued earlier this month and come down squarely on the side of the shutdown: Closing down the economy saved between 900,000 and 2.7 million U.S. lives.” Barr and Trump don’t care that the shutdown saved three million funerals, cremations, or interments. They have no respect for the descendants of four million slaves that were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. Distorting history to gain the confidence of Donald Trump is a low bar, but Bill is up to that job! Vincent L. Hall is an author, activist, and award-winning columnist.
We Must Prepare for this Hurricane Season and the Next By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson We are now almost four months into the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season and quickly approaching what is likely to be the most active and dangerous portion of the season. The time to begin educating yourself and preparing for potentially destructive storms coming our way was months ago, but if you find yourself unprepared, prepare now. A community’s ability to effectively respond to the threat of a hurricane is dependent on many factors including: accurate weather forecasts; dependable communication by federal, state, and local decision-makers of those forecasts and of their evacuation recommendations; and adequately equipped first responders. In late May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released their 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Outlook and made clear that spared by Laura. It is vital that we due to multiple climate factors, take this close call as a warning this year’s hurricane season was and prepare for the potential of going to be very active in the At- dangerous storms during the relantic—with a prediction of 13-19 mainder of this 2020 hurricane named storms. NOAA season. And then we released an update to must prepare for 2021 their outlook in early and beyond. August with a new and The situation we daunting prediction; we now find ourselves in could experience 19-25 is made more complinamed storms in the cated and riskier by Atlantic this year. The the current coronaviAgency stated in their rus outbreak. During August update that this the COVID-19 panCongresswoman Atlantic hurricane sea- Eddie Bernice Johnson demic, the scientists of son has the “potential to NOAA and the Nationbe one of the busiest on record.” al Weather Service (NWS) conOur great state of Texas is no tinue to staff Weather Forecast stranger to devastating storms. Offices 24/7 to ensure the public Across the state, we are still re- is made aware of critical weathcovering from Hurricane Harvey. er and climate events. In order In late August, Hurricane Laura to keep Americans in the path barreled its way through western of an extreme storm safe while Louisiana and wreaked havoc on also protecting them from poeverything in its path. Compared tential COVID-19 infection, it’s to what was originally expected, more important now than ever Texas’ gulf shores were mostly that the information provided to
I am not a podcast LOREN JACOBSON Assistant Professor of Law, UNT Dallas College of Law As many professors are doing this semester, I am teaching my law school classes at least partially online. In one of my classes, which is taught as a hybrid, my students attend synchronous lectures online for only 25 minutes twice a week. Despite the short period, I am constantly amazed at how many students, rather than fully concentrating and taking notes during class, are eating, playing with their pets, driving, and hanging out in coffee shops during class. This is so even though my
syllabus tells students that I expect them to “be in a workplace conducive to learning.” Many of these students are serious and, I assume, take their studies seriously. So why the behavior that is so unconducive to learning? It occurred to me that the necessary move of classes online and out of the classroom has not just meant that our students are no longer in a physical space of learning, but that my classes now seem to some students more akin to a Netflix series, a YouTube video, or a podcast than a class. The demographic that makes up law school students spends a lot of time online, most of it dedicated to social media, streaming ser-
these people is timely, accurate, and easily accessible. Hurricane preparedness is built on a foundation of federal investments in advancing our weather models and prediction capabilities. These investments help ensure accurate and timely forecasts are disseminated to the public. As climate change continues to intensify the severity and frequency of extreme weather, we must continue to support the next generation of innovative technologies that improve upon our current forecasting capabilities in order to strengthen our preparedness and protect Americans. As Chairwoman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, I believe that robust federally funded R&D initiatives are an essential part of advancing our understanding of severe weather, which help experts to make well-informed, lifesaving decisions that pre-
pare Americans for whatever lies ahead. Collaboration between the public, private, and academic sectors of the weather enterprise has strengthened our forecasting abilities. These research-to-operations partnerships, which are supported largely in part by federal investment into weather research, are vital to improving our weather models and forecasts. While we know we are in for a potentially dangerous remainder of this hurricane season, I am confident in the abilities of our federal agencies like NOAA and NWS that partner with state and local decision-makers to provide the forecast information needed to prepare communities at risk of being impacted by dangerous storms. Supporting, and strengthening the federal science and research coming out of these agencies is how we will boost our preparedness for this hurricane season and the next.
vices, and podcasts. do on long drives out of state? I In 2018, Nielsen reported that listen to podcasts, which are inadults in the United States spent formational and educational. an average of 11 hours a day lisI realized, then, that I had tening to, watching, reading or turned into a podcast. And what generally interacting with me- do people do while they are dia. Now, with the move to hav- watching Netflix or Hulu, scrolling classes online, our ing through social meclasses may not seem dia, or listening to a podthat different to our stucast? They eat, play with dents than other online their pets, drive, and activities. hang out in coffee shops. I had this revelation The move to online when a student asked classes, then, has led me whether she could to their “podcastificalisten to class while she tion”—maybe engaging, was taking a long drive maybe entertaining, cerLoren Jacobson out of state. This stutainly informational and dent was being diligent. educational, but without Under normal circumstances, the seriousness and soberness of she would miss class, but now a physical classroom. that class was online, she could I am not sure what the anat least listen to it while driving. swer to this problem is. Those of But it occurred to me, what do I us who teach online have been
bombarded with ideas and ways to help keep our students engaged in online classes. While many of the suggestions are useful, and I’ve implemented a number of them, I think that at least for some of our students, none of these measures will help because it really is the medium that is the issue. As long as our classes are just another online activity, they will lack the gravitas that is usually associated with the classroom as a space of learning. While I love podcasts, I, for one, am looking forward to the day when I am no longer a podcast, but am once again a professor. Loren Jacobson Pronouns: she, her, hers Assistant Professor of Law UNT Dallas College of Law Tel. 214-571-2412 lawschool.untsystem.edu
Black Lives Matter T-Shirts and masks — who profits? THE LAST WORD Dr. Julianne Malveaux I always smile when I see Black Lives Matter T-Shirts until I saw one gracing the grubby back of a white man who had on both a BLM T-Shirt and a MAGA (Make America Great Again) hat. I started to either take a photo or start a conversation because I knew somebody would accuse me of making the combination up. Instead, I wondered where the man got the shirt/hat combo. Was he homeless and got the combo at a shelter? Was he visually impaired and didn’t understand the contradiction? Without starting a conversation, I was left to my imagination. It had me thinking about the production and distribution of BLM wearables and the profit stream they may be creating. You can find custom-designed screened T-shirts online for as little as $5 apiece, and anybody
can make T-shirts and a profit. If Black lives, Black dollars, and Black profits matter, it makes sense to look behind the t-shirt to consider the sellers and their motives. You might be funding your oppression by purchasing the right message from the wrong seller. I think the best place to buy BLM clothing and accessories (I’ve seen hats, bags, signs, and more) is from the BLM website, www.blacklivesmatter.org. Things will cost more there than they might cost from a street vendor or another source, but the BLM site profits will fund the movement. From the BLM site, you can also sign up to get email updates. The second best source is a BLACK street vendor, who will at least be able to pocket the difference between what she purchased the shirts for and what she sold them for. Increasingly, COVID-imposed economic hardship has motivated people to take their entrepreneurial ability to the streets. The next best source might be BLM-friendly activist organiza-
tions that are selling BLM stuff. It doesn’t hurt them, though, to ask where they got the shirts and where the profits go. The worst place to get BLM material is from a capitalist retail establishment like Walmart, which sells the shirts and (until June) All Lives Matter shirts, Irish Lives Matter shirts, and Homeless Lives Matter shirt. While taking nothing from the homeless or the Irish, in some ways, these shirts attempt to undermine and minimize the purpose and focus of the Black Lives Matter movement. We say Black Lives Matter emphatically because our lives didn’t matter when our country was founded. They didn’t matter when we were lynched, and no one was ever prosecuted. Our lives have little value when we are treated inhumanely, with our little girls being dragged by their braids by rabid police officers, shot in the back, subjected to chokeholds to the point where we can’t breathe, endured a knee to the neck to the point of death and more. Taking the Black Lives
Matter slogan and spoofing it (Drunk Wives Matter) attempts to minimize the racism that riddles our country. Walmart took stopped selling the All Lives Matter shirts after getting criticism from the BLM movement, but it still sells Blue Lives Matter shirts and paraphernalia. It sells shirts that say Bartender Lives Matter and Cat Lives Matter shirts as well. While no one has a trademark on the term “Lives Matter,” satirizing Black Lives Matter is, at the very least, disrespectful. It is antiblack hostility. In June, Walmart said it would spend $100 million over five years creating a “center for racial equity.” Though its CEO, Doug McMillon, explicitly said “Black Lives Matter” at a June virtual company-wide meeting, the commitment was vague. Walmart, one of the largest employers of African Americans, put their money where their rhetoric is and pay people fairly, provide good benefits (including health care and paid sick leave), and establish a center for racial eq-
uity. With 2019 profits exceeding $123 billion in profit, they can certainly afford to spend a fraction of one percent of those profits on racial equity. There are online T-shirt companies that sell Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter T-shirts, missing BLM’s whole point. They include Wild Bobby and Old Glory Merchandise, neither of which is Black-owned. They are just capitalists hedging their bets, just like the whiteowned stores that offer discriminatory service but put BLM signs in their window. Instead, why not look for a Black-owned t-shirt company. All you have to do is google “Black-owned T-shirt company,” and dozens pop up. Don’t let the BLM movement be a profit center for predatory capitalists. Ask questions before you buy. Buy Black. Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author, media contributor and educator. Her latest project MALVEAUX! On UDCTV is available on youtube.com. For booking, wholesale inquiries or for more info visit www. juliannemalveaux.com.
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Breaking Patterns FAITHFUL UTTERANCES Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew Quarantining has allowed me to catch up on a lot of shows that I have missed. My mom and I have been watching Iyanla Vanzant’s show, Fix My Life. It is heartbreaking to watch the pain that people go through because of what others have said to them. A young man on the show who was not aware he had siblings recanted a story that his father called him a ‘bastard’ when he was a child. Decades later, those words hung over his life and had such an impact on his decisions as an adult. The father made multiple excuses and refused to take responsibility for his actions. He said to his sons that “you can’t understand me through words.” I disagree.
Our words tell a story about who we are, what we believe, and how we see the world. We see one another through both our words and our actions, and they are both powerful. Our words are the starting place for what we do. The pain we experience if not resolved begins to impact those around us. At some point, we must own what we have done and eliminate excuses for behavior that prevent us from being our best selves. I will never forget meeting a lady at a training. She was late and came in with such a bitter spirit. There was nothing I could do or say to please her. A friend pulled me aside and said that since her divorce, she lashes out at others. In her own pain, she was dedicated to punishing others. Her ex had moved on and yet, she was carrying a weight that would not allow her to be free to truly live. Life hurts and at some point, we must
make decisions that break patterns that ultimately become generational curses. If we do not deal with our past, it has a way of creeping up in our present and possibly destroying our future. • It starts with what we say: “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” (Proverbs 18:21 NIV) It isn’t that you lie about the reality of a situation but decide what you want your life to look like moving forward and deal with those issues that prevent you from doing so. A lot of our lives and the lives of those around us are crushed because of what we say about ourselves and others. This is a pattern that must be broken. • Secondly, the Bible encourages us to change our thinking. Romans 12:2 says, “Don’t
become like the people of this world. Instead, change the way you think. Then you will always be able to determine what God really wants-what is good, pleasing, and perfect.” (GWT). We must decide what we will focus on, making the necessary changes we need or choose to remain immobilized, imprisoned by our pain. Renewing our minds is a process. It is not something that happens overnight, but it is a daily commitment to breaking patterns that do not serve us well. • Lastly, Forgive yourself. Forgive those who have wounded you “Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against
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someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” (Colossians 3:13) Forgiveness is for you to reclaim your power so that you can live. Otherwise, the person who has hurt you continues to have control. Many of us are in spiritual bondage because of these patterns that keep us enslaved to these issues. What is not serving you well? What are the thoughts, the pain, the problems that keep you from fulfilling God’s purpose for your life? Recognize it, let it go, find the healing you need and become dedicated to seeking God’s plan for your life. Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew is the Founder and CEO of Soulstice Consultancy, specializing as a Partnership Broker and Leadership Expert for companies and organizations to thrive with measurable and meaningful impact. She also is the VP of Community Affairs and Strategic Alliances for the State Fair of Texas.
Don’t drink bleach to prevent COVID-19 By MARVA J. SNEED Staff Writer On the season premiere of “From Marva with Love,” safety was of primary concern, especially when drinking bleach has been offered as a cure for coronavirus.Cristina Halloway, the Public Health Educa-tion Manager for the North Texas Poison Center (NTPC) at Parkland Health & Hospital System talked about the warning from NTPC: “Don’t drink bleach to prevent COVID-19.” The Center is again reminding residents of the dangers of drinking bleach. The NTPC reports that
there have been 46 cases of bleach ingestions in the region since August 1, 2020. Misleading and inaccurate information is circulating online about how to prevent the spread of COVID-19. While disinfectants like bleach can help control the spread of the virus when used to clean surfaces; ingesting bleach or other cleaning products is downright dangerous and can lead to serious injury, including burns. Ms. Halloway talked about the safe use of bleach and offered safety tips to prevent severe injuries from disinfectants.MS: What is the first thing you should do if you are exposed to bleach?
CH: You should call the North Texas Poison Center. Your local poison centers in Texas are available 24/7 with specially-trained and bilingual nurses, pharmacists, and physicians to help answer questions or concerns. The toll free number is 1-800-222-1222. MS: What are the health risks of using disinfectants in this unauthorized way?CH: You brought up a good tip to never mix cleaners, especially bleach. Bleach should never go with anything else. It is kind of that one special cleaner that when mixed with other cleaners can create dangerous gases. So we want to be careful with
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notes,” he declares, “– one set to ace the test and one set I call the truth, and when I find historical contradictions, I used the first set as proof.” I was just thinking...: At what point in life does one really begin to think for himself or herself? When does an individual begin to question what they hear? And when does a student in school begin to
say, ‘I think I need to research that for myself,’ instead of mindlessly swallowing what they hear. There already are a number of familiar school lessons that recent decades have debunked. Some include George Washington and the cherry tree and that he wore dentures made of wood, that Columbus “discovering” America,
that. You mentioned that if we want to be extra clean, we want to use something else — vinegar, bleach, ammonia. There are so many cleaners. The best thing is to pick one and stick to that one at least in that area or at least for that day until it dries. Also, the effects from someone’s exposure will depend on how they use the product especially when it comes to using bleach. They must be using it in a well-ventilated area. We could be cleaning a bathroom with none or closed windows, or the door closed for privacy; you want to make sure that the area is well-ventilated. The fumes that Marie Antoinette said, “Let them eat cake,” that enslaved Africans had no substantial history when they were brought to America in chains, and that the message of July 4th celebrations truthfully meant equality and independence for all people. I leave you with Asante Jr.’s counsel for young Black minds in classrooms: Black children look in the mirror you are the reflection of divinity
can be strong and cause burning eyes and if someone were to ingest, it can cause burning of the throat and can cause a person to vomit if you swallow enough of it. There can be more serious effects. There was so much more to the conversation with Cristina Halloway. To hear the full interview go to BlogTalkRadio.com/Cheryl’s World “From Marva with Love” or Texas Metro News’ Facebook page and see the video. For more info call the Poison Control Center Center at 1-800-222-1222. Tune in to “From Marva with Love” on Fridays from 11 am to 1 pm.
don’t let them fool you with selective memory walk high, listen to the elder who spoke Black students, Always take two sets of notes. Norma Adams-Wade is a veteran, award-winning journalist, graduate of UT-Austin and Dallas native. One of the founders of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), she was inducted into the NABJ Hall of Fame.
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WEtv Marriage Boot Camp THE CELEBRITY INTERVIEW Valder Beebe I enjoyed speaking with WETV Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition stars Willie Taylor and Shanda Denyce. On this season of WE tv’s hit series Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition, tempers flare and drama ensues as five hip hop couples hunker down to take some tough love from Dr. Ish Major to help them improve their troubled relationships. Among them, Taylor and Denyce’s problematic marriage previously caught viewers’ attention on VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood. Taylor is one of the lead singers of the award-winning R&B group Day26 who were assembled on MTV’s hit show “Making the Band 4” by Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. Denyce is a singer-songwriter who was in the all-girl R&B group X’clusive. The Chicago-based couple have been married for 12 years and have three children together, but their union has been plagued by communication issues and infidelity. They never talk about their problems, but just brush everything under the rug until the storm passes. As
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the dramatic season finale of Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition approaches, the couple discussed with me what they may have learned during the show’s intense therapy sessions; as well as what their future holds as a couple. VEB: Willie and Shanda I know you guys came to the Valder Beebe Show to give the audience the total 411. WT: Well, we are here to give you as much as we can (laughter)…..the rest you will tune into Hip Hop Edition season finale. VEB: Give me and the audience a bit of your history to get to know you both better. SD: I’m Willie’s wife and I’m an artist from back in the day who never came out. WT: Making the Band 4 was probably the original you have seen me on, Day26, then from there we did Love & Hip Hop Hollywood. Now Marriage Boot Camp.
VEB: Willie, I’ve spoken to the host of Marriage Boot Camp, Dr Ish Major, so I will ask you the same question; it is almost impossible for ordinary people behind closed doors to solve their marriage problem, but you are doing it in public, on TV, is there truly any answer for your marriage problems? WT: If you allow yourself to live in the eye of the public, if you allow yourself to be on a reality show, you lock the privacy away. Really, you are living in a world where people have opinions and you do not let their opinions alter your mind or alter your……. WETV Marriage Boot Camp complete interview…… SoundCloud.com/ valderbeebeshow: Broadcasting to a national & global audience::ValdeBeebeShow.com : YouTube.com/ valderbeebeshow: KKVI FM Radio, Streaming TV, Social Media, Print Publications (IMESSENGER, Texas Metro News, and Garland Journal News).
ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD’S REVIEW Hollywood Hernandez ANTEBELLUM, now showing on Prime Video, is a little bit uneven and works a little too hard at keeping the movie viewer off balance. Is it a Thriller/Horror film or a movie that shines the spotlight on
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social injustice by showing us the horrific images that happened on a slave plantation? The movie is kind of a cross between GET OUT and 12 YEARS A SLAVE. The first act of the movie shows Janelle Monae working on a slave plantation and then about 30 minutes into the film the phone rings and Janelle Monae’s character Veronica, wakes up from a nightmare and we realize the slavery scenes were all just a dream. In her first starring role Janelle Monae plays Dr. Veronica Henley and does an excellent job of portraying a successful author and advocate for social justice. Gabby Sidibe is one of her best girlfriends and her part, while a small one, gives a really fun break in this harsh and violent movie about slavery. The best part of the film is how it opens up a dialogue on white supremacy and racism. The scenes on the plantation make
us think about what the United States would be like today if the South had won The Civil War. The current day systematic racism and police brutality are all thrown into the mix in this thought-provoking movie. It is most definitely a timely tale about what is happening today in this country. Veronica is kidnapped and taken to an alternate world where we realize what’s going on as the movie unfolds. Again, what we think happened is totally different from what the story tells us to believe. That kind of ticked me off. However, there were enough good things in the movie that made me like it. ANTEBELLUM is rated R for violence, cruelty and sexual situations. It has a run time of 1 hour and 45 minutes. On my “Hollywood Popcorn Scale” I rate this movie a LARGE.
“You can’t think big when little gotcha,” is a statement that Big Mama, my maternal grandmother, shared with me and my siblings all throughout our childhood. She and my mom used her 6th grade readers to teach me how to read and write “cursive” at age 4. She would get books from her employer to share with me all until I left for college. The rule was she read the book first then I read the book next, then she would take her notes and ask me questions. Then she would ask me to write 10 of the best things I liked about each book. Sometimes I would write just five things thinking that would be ok. Well, I got that wrong. Whenever I wrote less than 10 takeaways from each book she shared with me, it opened the door for the “back porch” conversation. Her back-porch invitation consisted of ice cream, chocolate cake and/or peach cobbler. I accepted each back-porch conversation with an eagerness. She would identify a passage in the book then ask me if I remembered that point in the book. I confirmed each time that I had read it. Yes! Her next move was to say, “then why did you not include in your list to make the list a full 10? She would show me how each point I “missed” or I was “too lazy” to write down could have given me a bigger lesson. She and my mother gave me books like Narrative of Life -
Frederick Douglass, Annie Allen – Gwendolyn Brooks, Notes of a Native Son/Fire Next Time – James Baldwin and the Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley. I was truly unaware that she and my mom, Ms. Betty, were preparing me with the armor, I would need to be the BIG man she envisioned in me. At the end of the week, she would do a recap of my missed points and then remind me that she expected me to be the first President of the United States to come from this family and I have to think larger than my current self. She said you must “see yourself as big as I see you.” Later in life she stood in the office of the business I created. She read the letters from two US presidents given to me. She said I am so proud of what you have become. My tears flowed that day. Now during the Racial and COVID-19 Pandemics, Big mamaism is top of mind for me. I am forever grateful for what she did for me. I didn’t become President but one US Senator who became a US President, a Black man, wrote the foreword to a best-selling book of which I am a co-author; sharing her chocolate cake recipe. Thanks to her and my mom, I have had a great passage to manhood. I hope Big Mama is still proud of me because I am proud of her. What greatness did your Big Mama say about you? Email your answer to Terryallenpr@ gmail.com Terry Allen is an award-winning multi-media journalist and owner of 1016 Media.
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