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MAY 20, 2020
Judge Moye’ Deserves Better! Dallas County Commissioner has proposed a resolution that probably won’t be adopted by the full Commissioner’s Court, but it will be widely accepted among those of us who know and respect Judge Eric V. Moye’. When asked if I would allow my opinion space to be used for this use, all I had was two words; “Quit Playin!’”
President Obama and Judge Eric Moye
DATE: May 19, 2020 BE IT REMEMBERED, at a regular meeting of Commissioners’ Court of Dallas County, Texas held on the 19th day of May, 2020, on a motion made by John Wiley Price, Commissioner District No.3, and seconded by, the following Resolution was adopted: WHEREAS, Dallas County is one of 254 counties in the U.S. state of Texas, and its second-most populous county, and the eighth-most populous in the United States, based on the 2010 U.S. census, the population was 2,368,139; and by the 2020 census ending may exceed 3,000,000 citizens, and WHEREAS, Dallas County citizens, like so many others throughout the globe, face the threat of death, infirmities and economic depression by the COVID-19 virus, which has contaminated communities in more than 184 countries, and WHEREAS, Dallas County government has subrogated its rights and to some degree its responsibilities and has complied with the directives of the Governor of the State of Texas without regard to its strictures being suitable
or in the best in-terests of the citizens we were duly elected to serve and protect, and WHEREAS Dallas County has made public and sometimes confusing adjustments to alter its course to satisfy the ever-changing orders from Greg Abbott’s office, most significantly to Executive Order 8 (Mitigating COVID -19 Spread) but includ-ing all subsequent Executive Orders (9-22) at the time of this writing, and WHEREAS, Dallas County has seen several politically motivated counteractions to these orders as an attempt to buoy the partisan pleasures of President Donald J. Trump and thereby his Republican acolytes who demand that we “Open up our country” without regard to those persons and communities that live with “pre-existing conditions” and were vulnerable to any outbreak of disease be-fore COVID-19, and WHEREAS, Dallas County has been posited as “posse and sheriff” of the Governor’s shoddy if not loosely written statutes regulating certain business closures and the administration of punishment to all who violate said order(s), and WHEREAS, Dallas County did duly and proudly elect one Eric Moye’ to the bench of State District Court #14 and has thereby re-elected him successively because of his unblemished reputation as a fair and impartial jurist who intimately knows the law by letter and by spirit, and WHEREAS, Dallas County residents suffer as the world gazes upon the travesty of justice caused when the Governor of the State of Texas and Dan Patrick, Lieutenant Governor (who appears to spend an excessive amount of time with his Con-servative radio talk show) intervened in a ruling against a mediamanufactured cause celebre, a lawbreaker and owner of Salon à la Mode, located in Dallas County.
Thanks Commissioner, and a special shout-out to Channel 8’s Dale Hansen.(A Real Brother!) WHEREAS, Dallas County had its reputation questioned and ridiculed as this staged-circus, was reduced to issues of race and the superiority of Anglos over all other Americans, which was exhibited by the Governor and the Lt. Governor’s reintroduction of Dred Scott v. Sanford which briefed by any reasonable party reads; “a Black man (Moye’) has no rights that a White man (Trump, Abbott, Patrick) are bound to respect!” THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Commissioners’ Court of Dallas County do hereby and with political consequences and incidental indemnities known, declare that this government, both State and Federal has proven it has no
Commissioner John Wiley Price
regard for the “rule of law” that it wears as an aegis of its “virtues, “nor the spirit of patriotism for which it holds itself exclusive. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor issue an earnest apology to said judge, whose life is threatened and whose professional record is impugned; post-haste, and that the hundreds of thousands of dollars collected in this firestorm of foolishness be donated to worthy causes and people who are genuinely in need of this State’s intervention. DONE IN OPEN COURT this the 19th day of May, 2020.
Malcolm X was more than an Angry Foil! THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES BY THOMAS MUHAMMAD
He was born May 19, 1925 in Omaha, NE and much like many young folk, then and even todaygrowing up too fast, he, too experienced some life-changing phases. But he was more than some damn soundbite many need-to-grow, I mean Negroes quote when whitey makes em mad! The White man fires you! You’re ready to shout “by any means necessary,” or say, “Brother Malcolm said,” just throw in any quote that fits an angry man moment, it’ll do! Every time you get pissed off, right? But if that same white man gave you a raise you’d have no problem coming up with some comfortable name to call out and celebrate. Can’t use Malcolm for that cause he was angry all the time! Bul&@:/t! Or to be politically correct, BS! Malcolm was very happy in life and he lived a full one. But more important, he was human. And like most humans from the male class he was once a baby, a son, a teen, a young adult, a husband, a father; and if he hadn’t been gunned down and alive today, he’d be a grandfather! I remember listening to one of his daughters recall what she missed aboutbeing without her father. She said what she missed were moments like watching him smile broadly after dinner and how he loved eating his favorite big bowl of vanilla ice cream. Or when wife Betty would come after the children with a belt they’d run and try and hide behind Malcolm. She said Betty would give Malcolm that look and he’d get outta the way cause as angry as he was in public he
was scared of Betty! Yeah and imagine Malcolm loving of all things “vanilla ice cream,” not chocolate! Oh oops don’t fit your angry man scenario does it? lol! By the way, this was before his pilgrimage to Mecca! I had to clarify this point because there are some confused folk who say he felt different about white people in America after that famous trip. Nothing could farther from the truth! That never changed his philosophy on the importance of Black Nationalism or what he felt about white bigotry in America. He continued to dedicate his life to fighting white supremacy, period! In fact he said that after worshiping in Mecca with people who if they had been in America would have been considered white, because of this truth he would no longer “generalize a whole people” And by the way neither should you! I too, made that holy trip in July of 1990 and witnessed the same things. It didn’t change my understanding of what and how America feels about Black people. The recent lynching of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, GA, a socalled paradise, reaffirms that that angry side of Malcolm is still needed, correct? But please in honor of celebrating his life don’t let that be the only side, cause there’s so much more about the man that’s yet to be learned. Let us decide today going forward that we will think of our dear brother when things go well for us too. That would be a true honor to his wonderful and powerful legacy! So chill out and remember there will be plenty of times when the “chickens will come home to roost,” okay! Until then the Struggle Continues...