PRESORTED STANDARD U.S. POSTAGE
60
th
PAID
Anniversary
www/facebook.com/ SDVoiceandViewpoint
PERMIT NO 585 SAN DIEGO, CA
@VoiceViewpoint
¢ 50 Plus Tax “People Without a Voice
ThursdayJuly Vol. Vol. 57 60No. No.29 35 || Thursday, August 16, 2020 31, 2017
www.sdvoice.info
LOCAL
- SEE PAGE 12
COVID-19 UPDATES WHAT’S LEFT OF
Confederate Monuments in California In Summary:
Cannot be Heard”
Serving Serving San Diego SanCounty’s Diego County’s African & African AfricanAmerican & African Communities American57Communities Years 60 Years
WHAT PROPOSITIONS ARE ON THE BALLOT IN NOVEMBER? PART 1 – see page 6
THE FLAVOR OF BOWLEGGED B.B.Q – see page 7
THE SHAMEFUL “BLACK LIVES” HYPOCRISY OF UBER, LYFT AND OTHER GIG COMPANIES
SAN DIEGO UNIFIED AND LAUSD
Say School Will Start Online COVID-19
– see page 3
458
CASES IN SOUTHEAST
Confederate Monuments Are Falling Across The Country. While Many Are In The South, California Has Its Own History With The Confederacy.
692 506
92115
92105
92102 834
633 92114
402
92113
92139 Credit: (AP Photo / Richard Vogel)
Source: County of San Diego a/o 7/16/20
By Kathleen Ronayne and Jocelyn Gecker Associated Press
The Los Angeles and San Diego school districts, the two largest in California with a combined K-12 student population of about 720,000, announced Monday they won’t bring students back to classrooms next month because of rising coronavirus hospitalizations and infection rates.
The Mount Hope Cemetery Memorial, a Confederate monument, has been removed in San Diego
By Elizabeth Castillo CALMatters
As the U.S. reckons once again with racial inequities, it’s triggered a new round of calls to remove statues and monuments idolizing Confederate leaders and those who enslaved people. While Mississippi is retiring its Confederate battle flag and Alabama and Georgia join the movement to topple bronze statues, California is not without its vestiges of racism and oppression. “You do have a deep link between Southern California and the Confederacy,” said Ryan Keating, an associate professor of history at California State University, San Bernardino. “In the wake of the war, you have Southern veterans who relocate to Southern California en masse and when they arrive, they attempt to memorialize their service through the creation of monuments.” Keating said these monuments frequently coincide with other historical events. For example, a number of Confederate monuments were erected in the early 1950s shortly after the Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education which declared state-sanctioned segregation unconstitutional. See MONUMENTS page 2
School leaders said there is too much uncertainty surrounding the safety of students and staff to try to return pupils to classrooms right away so they will continue the distance learning that was employed for the final months of the spring semester.
DETAILS ABOUT THE CITY OF SAN DIEGO’S COVID-19
Rental Assistance Program
“There’s a public health imperative to keep schools from becoming a petri dish,’’ said Austin Beutner, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District _ the second-largest public school district in the country. ``The health and safety of all in the school community is not something we can compromise.’’ In a letter to parents, Cindy Marten, superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District, said nothing was decided beyond beginning the academic year online. An Aug. 10 update will address the possibility of returning to in-person instruction later on. “We will get back there, but we just can’t start there,’’ she wrote. LA and San Diego are the latest in a growing number of California school districts choosing to start the new term with dig-
By Victoria Buddie Contributing Writer
On June 30th, 2020, the City Council voted to establish and expand a COVID-19 Rental Assistance Program to help struggling city residents pay rent. A Memorandum of Understanding with the San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) will authorize the administration of the program, which will be executed with the use of $15,100,000 in CARES ACT Federal Funding. The Chief Financial Officer will transfer $15.1 million of coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act Funds to SDHC to provide oversight and administration
See SCHOOL page 2
See ASSISTANCE page 2
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE REPORTS 2010
Census Omitted 3.7 Million Blacks Excerpt of an article by Hazel Trice Edney A special report released by the National Urban League reveals that the U. S. Census Bureau omitted at least 3.7 million African-Americans from its 2010 count, nearly five times the 800,000 “undercount” that the bureau has long reported. Largely due to the Coronavirus, the sluggish response
to the 2020 Census count now underway is on track for the same or even worse results, NUL predicts. The organization says the Black community stands to lose billions of dollars and significant political power if something is not done quickly to speed up and establish a more accurate count. “As a gauge, last decade, 9% of Black people in the U.S. (approximately 3.7 million people), were missed in See CENSUS page 2