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With Smith sidelined, where does the NAACP go from here?

COMMENTARY by Ken Makin

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At its core, Trump “nativists” and “malcontents” are the same folks prone to suicide, drug abuse & alcoholrelated illnesses

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The Tabernacle Baptist Church Advent Worship Service will be held on Tuesday, December 1, 2015. The Hanging of the Green Worship Service, “Preparing the Way” will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the C.S. Hamilton Fellowship Hall. The community is invited to join in the celebration and revisit the meaning behind the Christmas symbols and related scriptures along with the singing of hyms and carols.

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Trump supporters are older, whiter, and madder Nativism - the political position of preserving status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.

By Frederick Benjamin Sr. UrbanProWeekly Political Analyst AUGUSTA A long forgotten political sage once said “If you’re not oversimplifying, you’re just trying to confuse the issue.”

Millions of words have been devoted to the Donald Trump phenomenon and most of them have in one way or another oversimplified his appeal on mostly nonpolitical terms.

Here’s my oversimplification.

If you take the concept of nativism, which simply is hostility to immigrants, add to it a chronic dissatisfaction with just about everything else, you have your core Trump supporters.

These Trump loyalists, not surprisingly, are mostly older white-working class folks who almost always vote for Republicans whether they call themselves Republicans or not or whether or not they vote regularly or not.

These folks are grappling with some serious psychological, political and economic contradictions.

As nativists they are always afraid and as malcontents they are always unhappy. And we all know where that leads to — self-induced sickness and psychological imbalance, exacerbated by a sensational 24-7 cycle of depressing news dispatches.

Is it any wonder that this is the very group that finds itself with the nation’s most toxic wellness forecast?

According to a team of Princeton economists the death rate of white middle-aged Americans has been rising faster than any other demographic. The further down the income

Malcontent - a ​person who is not​ satisfied with the way things are, and who c ​ omplains a lot and is ​unreasonable and ​difficult to d ​ eal with.

ladder one travels, the more pronounced the problem.

(See sidebar “Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans.”)

The group at the epicenter of this subgroup are older white working-class Americans — the group most likely to support Donald Trump.

So what is it about being a Trump supporter that is fraught with such existential peril.

To start with, there’s the political contradiction. Working class whites have to deal with a Republican party that routinely votes against their best interests.

In an article entitled “Who Turned My Blue State Red”, Alec McGillis declares, “It is one of the central political puzzles of our time: Parts of the country that depend on the safety-net programs supported by Democrats are increasingly voting for Republicans who favor shredding that net.”

Working class whites — especially the older ones — rely heavily on government-funded programs, but routinely vote in concert with their more well-heeled GOP stablemates who favor eliminating those programs.

The psychological contradictions faced by Trump supporters are considerable. If they are Christians, they have to deal with their own hypocrisy when they are forced to pretend that they support some very unchristian-like government policies (targeted assassinations, perennial war, civil religion, police-sanctioned murder) or when they are dealing with their own racist tendencies.

The economic contradictions

are legendary among older working-class white voters. While they don’t benefit from liberal Wall Street policies, their party certainly does.

Their party is against raising the minimum wage which would be a benefit to the worker and they are discouraged from even considering any concepts of income redistribution.

For months, I’ve been telling friends and relatives that, in the spring, I’ll be voting in the Republican primary for the first time ever — ­ just to give my support to Donald Trump.

Why vote for Trump?

Because Trump is the one candidate most likely to guarantee a Democratic victory next November.

Is it any wonder that establishment Republicans are beginning to see everything through purple-tinted glasses? And they are not very happy with Trump’s continued success.

Now, while my flirting with the GOP electorate is an obvious joke, Trump, who early on was hailed for his “entertainment” value in an otherwise hideously “predictable” Republican race, is no longer very funny.

I will no longer even joke about supporting such an obvious “loss” leader.

The more he begins to take his own campaign ever more seriously (blinded no doubt by the glare of the an obsequious media), his downright ignorance and megalomania has become more pronounced and objectionable.

If white working-class Americans want to preserve what little health and wealth they have left, they need to dump Trump!

Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds

By Gina Kolatanov Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group, unlike their counterparts in other rich countries, death rates in this group have been rising, not falling.

That finding was reported this month by two Princeton economists, Angus Deaton, who last month won the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, and Anne Case. Analyzing health and mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from other sources, they concluded that rising annual death rates among this group are being driven not by the big killers like heart disease and diabetes but by an epidemic of suicides and afflictions stemming from substance abuse: alcoholic liver disease and overdoses of heroin and prescription opioids.

The analysis by Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case may offer the most rigorous evidence to date of both the causes and implications of a development that has been puzzling demographers in recent years: the declining health and fortunes of poorly educated American whites. In middle age, they are dying at such a high rate that they are increasing the death rate for the entire group of middle-aged white Americans, Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case found.

The mortality rate for whites 45 to 54 years old with no more than a high school education increased by 134 deaths per 100,000 people from 1999 to 2014.

“It is difficult to find modern settings with survival losses of this magnitude,” wrote two Dartmouth economists, Ellen Meara and Jonathan S. Skinner, in a commentary to the Deaton-Case analysis to be published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“Wow,” said Samuel Preston, a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. “This is a vivid indication that something is awry in these American households.”

Dr. Deaton had but one parallel. “Only H.I.V./AIDS in contemporary times has done anything like this,” he said.

In contrast, the death rate for middle-aged blacks and Hispanics continued to decline during the same period, as did death rates for younger and older people of all races and ethnic groups.

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SPORTS Paine vs Augusta U.

CAT FIGHT: Paine College’s Tierra Boykin (R) defends against Augusta University’s Kayla Lovett (L) as she barrels down the court during a game held at Christenberry Fieldhouse. The Lady Jaguars pounced on the Lady Lions, winnng with a score of 83-68. Photo by Vincent Hobbs OPPOSITE PAGE

Augusta University cheerleader Ariel Charles (center) and her teammates perform a routine during a basketball game against Paine College at Christenberry Fieldhouse.

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Top (L): Paine College’s Kaderious Compton (r) keeps the defensive pressure on Augusta University’s Keith Crump (l). The Jaguars defeated the Lions in an overtime match with a final score of 117-108.

Top (R): AU’s Cynara Pitt prepares for a free throw Bottom (L): Augusta University’s Tavia Sykes (r) takes a defensive positon as Paine’s Chasity Mullins (l) looks to pass Bottom (R): - Augusta University cheerleader Renee Brown performs a cheer routine during a basketball game against Paine College at Christenberry Fieldhouse.

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Dr. Cargill H. Alleyne Jr. reads Bart’s Heart to a pair of girls in a commons area at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia.

The educational book about the cardiovascular system, is the second awardwinning book the Georgia Regents University neurosurgeon has published.

GRU brain surgeon publishes second children’s book “Bart’s Heart” wins second place at the 2015 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards AUGUSTA Dr. Cargill H. Alleyne Jr. has a passion for science and medicine, and the distinguished neurosurgeon at Georgia Regents Medical Center hopes to interest future generations in these disciplines with his second children’s book.

“Bart’s Heart is the next in a series that I am writing to get kids excited about the human body,” said Alleyne, professor and Marshall Allen Distinguished Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University.

It’s this fascination with anatomy – specifically with vascular diseases and tumors of the brain and spinal cord – that propels the Yale alum.

“You’re going to work hard whatever you do, so work hard doing something you love,” Alleyne told Augusta Magazine in 2012, when he was interviewed for the Best Doctors issue.

As the director of the neurosurgery residency program at MCG, he spends quite a bit of his time instructing young doctors to hone their skills and

become specialized in the field.

“Many of them are following in someone’s footsteps,” Alleyne said, “but if your parents aren’t in medicine or science, you may not be exposed to this.”

He wants those children to take a closer look, and he’s providing that opportunity through catchy rhymes and colorful illustrations in his educational books.

His first book, Ned’s Head, published in July 2012, is a light-hearted book of limericks that examines what’s inside a little boy’s head. A real “brain teaser” in the book is that one of the illustrators, Michael Jensen, who is now an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Illustration at GRU, concealed small hidden brains in each of the pictures for readers to find.

Likewise, Colby Polonsky, a medical illustrator in the GRU Neurosurgery Department, has concealed a small heart in every illustration she created for Bart’s Heart.

In addition to the sing-song facts throughout

each book’s pages, there is a glossary at the end that provides definitions and pronunciations of the medical terms associated with the brain and heart.

Designing the books to be interactive is something Alleyne hopes will make the publications attractive to readers in the 7 to 13 age range.

Alleyne plans to publish books on Joan’s Bones, Nelly’s Belly and Malachi’s Eye next. He said he may even continue the series after that.

“I want to encourage young kids to think about science, and this is a fun, unique way to do it,” Alleyne said. “If you lead them in the right direction, they may get turned onto something.”

Bart’s Heart has already won a second-place award at the 2015 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards.

Ned’s Head received an honorable mention at the 2012 Fall Royal Dragonfly Book Awards. Both books are available locally at Barnes and Noble and other bookstores. They can be ordered online from Amazon.

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Olivia Rodriguez competed at the NCAA Nationals in cross country. Rodriguez led the AU women’s team with four top 10 finishes and placed in the top 15 in every meet. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

Nick Del Guercio competed at the NCAA Nationals in a cross country event. Del Guercio was also named as “Runner of the Year” in a vote taken by head coaches in the league. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

AU runners compete in nat’l event back at Nationals.”

The AU junior also started running at age fifteen at Norcross High School in Norcross, Georgia. “I had friends on the team and it’s grown on me ever since. I like the team aspect of cross country and it helped me to get a spot on the team here and it also helped with school.”

Del Guercio’s continuous running achievements have earned the respect of the head coaches in the PBC. Named as the Peach Belt Conference “Runner of the Year” in a pre-race vote taken by the league’s head coaches, Del Guercio lived up to the title by finishing second overall at the PBC Championships.

By Vincent Hobbs Special to UPW AUGUSTA Augusta University junior Olivia Rodriguez made the decision to follow in her older sister’s footsteps and try out for her high school’s cross-country team when she was just a fifteen-year-old freshman at Woodbridge High School in Irvine, California. It was a decision that she did not regret.

“I didn’t realize that I had that competitiveness in me,” she shared.

“Running just came naturally to me.”

That natural running talent, honed over the years, earned Rodriguez an individual spot to compete at the NCAA Cross-Country Championships, held on Saturday, November 21st at the Tom Rutledge XC Course in Joplin, Missouri.

“I wasn’t expecting it, honestly. I wanted to place top-ten in the region and I ended up getting fifth place and individually-qualified,” she explained.

“I’m real excited and a little nervous.

It will be the biggest race I’ve ever run in my life.”

Rodriguez’s fifth-place status at the NCAA Southeast Regionals was achieved out of a field of 182 runners.

Her efforts on the women’s cross country team also helped to lead the

Augusta University cross country head coach Adam Ward (R) advises team member Olivia Rodriguez (L) at the ARC track as she prepares to compete at the NCAA Nationals as an individual cross country runner.

Lady Jags to a 10th-place finish in the 6K run at the Regionals.

“I’m keeping myself motivated, knowing that anything’s possible,” she said in a recent interview. “That’s what got me through this season.”

Augusta University men’s cross-country team member Nick Del Guercio, a junior student, also

headed to the NCAA Nationals on Saturday. His seventh-place finish at the NCAA Regionals qualified him as an individual competitor.

“It’s definitely been a goal for a while,” Del Guercio said. “We would have liked to have gone as team this year, but I’m glad to be a representative of the program. I’m excited to be

At the NCAA Nationals Facing chilly temperatures in the 30’s in Joplin, Gonzalez completed her 6K with a time of 23:18.5, placing her at 201st out of a field of 247 runners. Del Guercio, running the men’s 10K, had a finish time of 32:41.4, placing him at 193rd out of a field of 246.

Jaguars head cross-country coach Adam Ward shared, “I’m very proud of those two, they’ve worked very hard and they have earned the recognition that they have garnered at this point.

I think it’s great for the program in terms of recruiting and team motivation.”

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MAKIN’ A DIFFERENCE COMMENTARY by Ken Makin

WHAT THE SMITH SAGA SAYS ABOUT THE NAACP

New blood, local activism could revive branch Before I engage this very open and honest commentary about the current state of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or the NAACP, as we generally call it, I want to introduce myself as a member of the proud organization.

Back in June, I had the chance to moderate a forum entitled “Talk To Me: A REAL Discussion About Law Enforcement And The Community.”

I enjoyed the forum, and took pride in my work with select leaders who helped to put the event together.

During that process, I became a member of the NAACP. The group’s ideals are similar to my own. Their mission is to “ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.” At its best, the NAACP is a force for justice with a national and international impact.

At its worst, it’s a fumbling organization that can’t even keep an alleged sexual predator out of its ranks.

I literally had a front-row seat to the turn of events that led to the ouster of Dr. Charles Smith as NAACP president last October. The testimonies of two women, Linda Martin and Ebony Harvey, were heartbreakingly poignant. The journalistic work of Tracey McManus laid out the 2001 sexual harassment case against Smith and described the trauma that Harvey, Martin and others experienced.

When Georgia NAACP President Francys Johnson said that Smith’s

ouster was “not a black or white issue,” and that it was about “the sexual abuse of students within the custody of an educator” and how it was about “the abuse of power,” I thought Smith’s time as a community leader was over. Not just with the NAACP, but with any organization.

Sadly, that was not the last we heard of Charles Smith.

Nope, it took a special election last Tuesday, mandated by the NAACP’s national office, for Dr. Beulah NashTeachey to remain as the local chapter president.

I don’t know which is more embarrassing – the fact that an alleged sexual predator could reclaim his NAACP presidency or the fact that it took such a wide community effort from protestors and select NAACP leaders to buffer Smith’s efforts.

I think it’s important to understand that the most identifiable leaders of the fight for civil rights are men of great faith. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, while men of differing faiths, were men of great spirituality. Even recent allegations regarding Dr. King’s marital life have done little to change the perspective of his morality.

The fact that the national office of the NAACP would even consider Smith’s candidacy shows a divide – not just on a local versus national perspective. It shows a divide of justice and morality – two codes that the NAACP swears by.

To make it short and plain, it’s a

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bad look on the NAACP. And it’s a bad look on anyone who affiliates themselves with the organization, including myself.

With that said, y’all know me. I don’t just talk about problems, I talk about solutions. And it’s time for the NAACP to rise to its former glory.

How? Firstly, we have to take the politics out of the NAACP. I don’t care how many awards Smith won. All of that clout and influence went out of the window with the allegations. If people in the national office can’t see that, they should be ousted as well, period point blank.

Secondly, I think the NAACP has to familiarize and identify with local issues. Paine College is in a financial struggle right now. While I would like to believe that select members of the NAACP are raising money for Paine, it would be good to see them have a press conference to announce their

support of PC – and raise money for it likewise.

Thirdly, there needs to be a youth infusion. Smith’s near-ascension to the NAACP throne was powered by tradition and old guard. An infusion of new blood would have gone a long way to keeping Smith at bay.

I remember when Smith would display the NAACP logo into meetings. It looked like a shield. Well, the shield is tarnished with this latest saga. It’s time for all of us – young and old – to clean things up.

Ken J. Makin is the host of “Makin’ A Difference,” an online radio program available on iTunes and Soundcloud (soundcloud.com/makinadif fer ence). Updates on the show are available at facebook.com/makinadifferenceshow. You can also reach Ken by email at makinadifferenceshow@ gmail.com, or via Twitter @differencemakin.

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What is the real threat; ISIS or climate change?

The report concludes that increasing greenhouse gas emissions risk “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems” over the coming decades. The world is nearing the temperature when loss of the vast ice sheet over Greenland will be unstoppable.

Along with melting Antarctic ice, that could raise sea levels to inundate major cities as well as coastal plains.

By Noam Chomsky

It is not pleasant to contemplate the thoughts that must be passing through the mind of the Owl of Minerva as the dusk falls and she undertakes the task of interpreting the era of human civilization, which may now be approaching its inglorious end.

The era opened almost 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, stretching from the lands of the Tigris and Euphrates, through Phoenicia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean to the Nile Valley, and from there to Greece and beyond. What is happening in this region provides painful lessons on the depths to which the species can descend.

The land of the Tigris and Euphrates has been the scene of unspeakable horrors in recent years. The George W. Bush-Tony Blair aggression in 2003, which many Iraqis compared to the Mongol invasions of the 13th century, was yet another lethal blow.

It destroyed much of what survived the Bill Clinton-driven UN sanctions on Iraq, condemned as “genocidal” by the distinguished diplomats Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, who administered them before resigning in protest. Halliday and von Sponeck’s devastating reports received the usual treatment accorded to unwanted facts.

One dreadful consequence of the US-UK invasion is depicted in a New York Times “visual guide to the crisis in Iraq and Syria”: the radical change of Baghdad from mixed neighborhoods in 2003 to today’s sectarian enclaves trapped in bitter hatred. The conflicts ignited by the invasion have spread beyond and are now tearing the entire region to shreds.

Much of the Tigris-Euphrates area is in the hands of ISIS and its self-proclaimed Islamic State, a grim caricature of the extremist form of radical Islam that has its home in Saudi Arabia. Patrick Cockburn, a Middle East correspondent for The Independent and one of the best-informed analysts of ISIS, describes it as “a very horrible, in many ways fascist organization, very sectarian, kills anybody who doesn’t believe in their particular rigorous brand of Islam.”

Cockburn also points out the contradic-

tion in the Western reaction to the emergence of ISIS: efforts to stem its advance in Iraq along with others to undermine the group’s major opponent in Syria, the brutal Bashar Assad regime. Meanwhile a major barrier to the spread of the ISIS plague to Lebanon is Hezbollah, a hated enemy of the US and its Israeli ally. And to complicate the situation further, the US and Iran now share a justified concern about the rise of the Islamic State, as do others in this highly conflicted region.

Egypt has plunged into some of its darkest days under a military dictatorship that continues to receive US support. Egypt’s fate was not written in the stars. For centuries, alternative paths have been quite feasible, and not infrequently, a heavy imperial hand has barred the way.

After the renewed horrors of the past few weeks it should be unnecessary to comment on what emanates from Jerusalem, in remote history considered a moral center.

Eighty years ago, Martin Heidegger extolled Nazi Germany as providing the best hope for rescuing the glorious civilization of the Greeks from the barbarians of the East and West. Today, German bankers are crushing Greece under an economic regime designed to maintain their wealth and power.

The likely end of the era of civilization is foreshadowed in a new draft report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the generally conservative monitor of what is happening to the physical world.

The report concludes that increasing greenhouse gas emissions risk “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems” over the coming decades.

The world is nearing the temperature when loss of the vast ice sheet over Greenland will be unstoppable. Along with melting Antarctic ice, that could raise sea levels to inundate major cities as well as coastal plains.

The era of civilization coincides closely with the geological epoch of the Holocene, beginning over 11,000 years ago. The previous Pleistocene epoch lasted 2.5 million years. Scientists now suggest that a new epoch began about 250 years ago, the

Anthropocene, the period when human activity has had a dramatic impact on the physical world. The rate of change of geological epochs is hard to ignore.

One index of human impact is the extinction of species, now estimated to be at about the same rate as it was 65 million years ago when an asteroid hit the Earth. That is the presumed cause for the ending of the age of the dinosaurs, which opened the way for small mammals to proliferate, and ultimately modern humans. Today, it is humans who are the asteroid, condemning much of life to extinction.

The IPCC report reaffirms that the “vast majority” of known fuel reserves must be left in the ground to avert intolerable risks to future generations. Meanwhile the major energy corporations make no secret of their goal of exploiting these reserves and discovering new ones.

A day before its summary of the IPCC conclusions, The New York Times reported that huge Midwestern grain stocks are rotting so that the products of the North Dakota oil boom can be shipped by rail to Asia and Europe.

One of the most feared consequences of anthropogenic global warming is the thawing of permafrost regions. A study in Science magazine warns that “even slightly warmer temperatures [less than anticipated in coming years] could start melting permafrost, which in turn threatens to trigger the release of huge amounts of greenhouse gases trapped in ice,” with possible “fatal consequences” for the global climate.

Arundhati Roy suggests that the “most appropriate metaphor for the insanity of our times” is the Siachen Glacier, where Indian and Pakistani soldiers have killed each other on the highest battlefield in the world. The glacier is now melting and revealing “thousands of empty artillery shells, empty fuel drums, ice axes, old boots, tents and every other kind of waste that thousands of warring human beings generate” in meaningless conflict. And as the glaciers melt, India and Pakistan face indescribable disaster. © 2014 Noam Chomsky Distributed by The New York Times

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