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Vol. 25, Issue 24
“Our vote and our money are the two most powerful things we have. Be careful who you give them to.” - Roy Douglas Malonson
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
They used to hang what they called “low down niggers” in public settings under the guise of what they deemed “law and order” of the White Gods they worshipped and their manipulated systems of justice. Today, the “low down cops” who are scared to use the politically incorrect “N-Word” in front of us still treat us like the “niggers” they foolishly perceived us to be — and are still killing us in public
I CAN’T BREATHE
settings. The only difference today is that more eyes are witnessing the atrocities, thanks to cellphones and social media. I CAN’T BREATHE! They feel they have the right to “take our breath away” from us today, just as they felt they had
the right to back then, but now they’ve REPLACED the NOOSE with a CHOKEHOLD from cops sworn to “protect and serve” their own RACIAL VIEWS, hidden by the BADGES they have pinned to their chests. A nigger... is a nigger... is a nigger... is a NIGGER to a racist who FEARS
the STRENGTH of a
BLACK MAN!!! They pull out their guns, tell him to “freeze” while they surround him like a pack of wild, cowardly dogs and apply their learned techniques of how to “subdue criminals.” When the criminal, in reality, are the boys in blue who are murdering the innocent. A MODERN-DAY LYNCHING, that’s all it is. STAY WOKE ... and KEEP BREATHING.
#BlackLivesMatter - AANI
EARLY VOTING FOR SECONDROUND PRIMARY ELECTIONS UNDERWAY HOUSTON - Early voting for the July 14 runoff primaries began on Monday, June 29 and will end on Friday, July 10. A total of 57 voting centers will be open from 7 am to 7 pm each day, with the following exceptions: • The polls will be closed on July 3 and 4 to observe the July 4 holiday; • On Sunday, July 5, the polls are open from 10 am to 7 pm • On the last day of early voting, Friday, July 10, the polls will be open for extended hours from 7 am to 10 pm to accommodate voters who wish to cast their ballot before Election Day, July 14. “Our office is doing everything possible to ensure that polling places are managed safely and efficiently,” said Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins. “All venues will observe social distancing, provide personal protective equipment for poll workers and all voters who need it, and ensure consistent disinfection of voting machines.” The Harris County Clerk’s Office has been Early Voting cont’d on page 6
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Partin’ the Waters By Omowale Luthuli-Allen
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Partin the Waters: Serve the people, not yourself
Black people must insist that the rule of Law is protected. SERVE THE PEOPLE NOT YOURSELF There is concern by reasonable people that President Donald Trump will refuse to leave office if he is defeated in November. This concerns black people and our allies because the fight for civil rights after the Civil War led to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and a more complete expression of democracy. No one is more of a stakeholder in our democracy than black people. Make no mistake about it, the President is the Commanderin-Chief and can make a decision that will determine if we live or die, feast or famine. Thomas Jefferson said that a Prince whose character is marked by acts which define a tyrant is unfit to rule. Let me give you an idea of what has happened with the abandonment of the rule of law and precious constitutional norms
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and non-enforcement of settled civil rights law. For black people, 1919 was known as the RED SUMMER. White mobs killed hundreds of black people and 97 black people were lynched in this year alone. Odetta sang about the lynchings through her haunting song, ANOTHER MAN
source of the conflict was that black people were competing for jobs in the wartime defense industries particularly around the shipyards. Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay wrote an Anthem for Black America. “If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!” Let us not mince words, this was American styled fas-
DONE GONE. In Elaine, Arkansas, 200 black people were killed during one Tulsa Oklahoma type eruption. Between April and November of 1919, white bloodthirsty mobs attacked and killed black people as if they were shooting jackrabbits. Mobs killed black people across from the White House. The NAACP worked 247. Two decades later (1943), white mobs attempted to destroy the Beaumont, Texas black community. The
in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accurséd lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O, kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
cism, led by a dumb segregationist supporter (President Wilson) of the hooded boys-KKK- who refused to accept that a brand-new day was coming. Black people decided to migrate from the cotton fields to Philadelphia and Chicago, northern cities in search for jobs and a better life. Converging with the great migration were the thousands of black soldiers who had fought Hitler and Mussolini to make the world safe for de-
mocracy. In Chicago, rather that accepting an inglorious death, returning black soldiers took up sniper positions and evened the score, leaving 15 white vigilantes eating blue steel. For black people, during the Red Summer of 1919 there was an empty chair in the white house and the statehouses of America. The lesson learned is that the state had the power to act and chose not to. The President went to his playbook and the tried and true trusted play was to cower to the attackers. President Wilson was brave in sending men to fight in Europe but when he had to face his marauding countrymen, he became a woosie. After embracing the segregationists, he began scapegoating and gaslighting Asians. A direct parallel to events of today is reflected by President Trump turning his fear and anxiety toward the Asians by branding COVID 19 as the KUNG Flu and the China Virus. Malcolm X said that “Of all studies to reward your research, history is best qualified.” I am suggesting that if you think that 2020 is terrible, you should study the RED SUMMER OF 1919.
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A Revival of God
Consciousness Bobby E. Mills, PhD
What happened to the 40 -acres and a mule? Promises made: Promises broken! The history of Whites in America is littered with broken promises: the classic examples are the promises made and broken to Native Americans. Some Whites have good intentions, but they miserably fail to act and be godly, as Christians should be. Question: where are the fortyacres and the mule promised to Black Americans? Obviously, “Gone with the Wind,” because of the brutal assassination of America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, at Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth, a Southern-Dixiecrat-WhiteTrash-Low-Life. The rationale behind Lincoln’s assassination was to extract a more favorable-economicdeal from President Andrew Johnson for the reconstruction of the South. President Johnson believed in the Lincoln Doctrine that the Union must be preserved at all costs, because: “A nation divided against itself cannot stand” and that is an undeniable spiritual fact. President
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Johnson, because of his Southern heritage, was a sympathizer and wanted to help restore the South at all costs. This is why Johnson was the first President to be impeached. President Johnson withdrew some; but not all, Union soldiers from the South. His predecessor, Russell B. Hayes, withdrew all Union soldiers from the South; leaving our ancestors very, very vulnerable. Thus, the legal enactment of the “Black-Codes” in order to reinstitute economic bondage by keeping our ancestors in an economic bondage-plantationsystem, working for cheap wages! No silver or gold ever passed between plantation owners and workers, but Blacks still worked the salt mines, harvested the vegetable fields, picked the cotton, and built the roads, built the civic buildings, including The White House, and so on. Whites created a “C omp any - Store organization” to systematically ensure debt-service-slavery; resulting in Blacks owing their souls to the company-store, until Black pastors spiritually taught Blacks that they owe their souls to GOD. Blacks have historically carried the South on its backbreaking-work, while Whites played the roles of Scarlett O’Hara and Red Butler whistling
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Dixie and blowing in the wind. Thus, will someone please tell, Judge Roy Moore, of Alabama that slavery has “gone with the wind”? In 2020, the former Party of Lincoln (GOP) has been ideologicallypolitically-hijacked by “Southern-DixiecratWhite-Power” advocates, Donald J. Trump is their President, and they still desire a slave-labor-system: something for nothing. Blacks want firstclass citizenship just like other Americans, because they know they will never receive reparations: fortyacres and a mule or any other form of reparations. Thus, the South could not “rise again without the free-labor of Blacks instituted through the Blackcodes,” and the North and the South were in absolute agreement. Question: can the racial breach between Whites and Blacks be spiritually repaired? Yes, all Whites need to do is have a spiritual Jesus-Encounter, and realize they too are graveyard-travelling-finite-human-beings just like the rest of us. All individuals die physically, but CHRIST died so that we wouldn’t have to die spiritually: “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” (Hebrews 9: 27). Skin-color doesn’t make individuals superior. It’s about sin, not skin.
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FEDERAL JUDGE ARRESTEDIN‘TSU RIOTS’ SPEAKS
Students in 1967 TSU riot
HOUSTON - May 17, 1967 was a day Federal Judge Kenneth Hoyt will never forget. What started as a protest, ended with the death of a Houston police officer and hundreds of Texas Southern University students in jail. As a freshman at TSU, the pre-law student found him-
self lying face-down next to his dorm mates in the grass, being bitten by insects, but thankful it was not more. “I fell into an ant bed and that was just misery for me, but I couldn’t move because they had the dogs there. An ant bite is nothing like a dog bite and that was a small sacrifice. They also had officers on top of the building ready
to shoot us where we lay,” Hoyt described. He never imagined what happened just a few hours earlier would lead to a night of extreme violence. “Through the center of Texas Southern University’s campus, Wheeler Street connected the University of Houston with the majority of its students. As students of TSU, we would live on one side of the street,
but had to cross it to get to our classrooms every morning, but there were vehicles always whizzing through it,” Hoyt explained. “UH probably had 15 to 20 thousand students at the time. We wanted that street closed for safety reasons and that ignited a fire in the students, and we started demanding things from the city of Houston. At that time, Mickey Leland was a pharma-
cy student at TSU, and he and other students petitioned the mayor to close that street. Mayor Louie Welch came out and spoke to us and assured us that the street was not going to close.” Disappointed, the students went on to their second phase, which was to physically prevent cars from coming through the campus. “We were out at night damaging cars and blocking Wheeler Street and that was true. That was our way of demonstrating that the street needed to be closed,” Hoyt said. But after that pro-
test, which caused no physical harm, the students retired to their dorms for the evening, or so they thought. “We obviously attracted the attention of the police department who came onto the campus. They had riot gear and came about midnight. Most of us were back in bed, and they came shooting high-powered rifles. Bullets were bouncing off the buildings, ricocheting, so the police felt they were under attack and fired even more rounds, “ Hoyt explained. “A TSU Riots cont’d on page 6
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rookie police officer (Louis Kuba) was struck by a ricocheting bullet and died. That really set things afire.” Nearly 500 people were arrested that night. Hoyt says police tore up their rooms, destroying their valuables, and even poured Clorox on their belongings. The young men were hauled off to jail in their shorts, underwear and pajamas. “By the early morning, they had arrested one of the pastors, Reverend William “Bill” Lawson (Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church), who was part of the march. Of course, when the mayor found out who he was, they were ready and quick to release him, but he said, ‘you are not going to release me unless you release these other boys.’” Early Voting, cont’d working with health officials to understand what can be done to reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19, but voters must also take safety measures. Click here for tips and information on
Hoyt recalled. According to various reports, police fired between 3,000 and 5,000 rounds of ammunition at the dormitory. Newspapers justified actions of the police, claiming students were armed with guns and Molotov cocktails. The district attorney charged five students with the murder of the officer, but after three years, a judge finally dismissed the charges against the “TSU Five.” Many involved in the protest have gone on to become powerful community and business leaders. “Even as terrible as it was, it didn’t stop us. I have been a federal judge for 32 years,” Hoyt said. Now, several decades later and seeing what is happening across America today, Hoyt feels protests are still necessary. “When there is a peaceful protest, the
wrath of opposition provokes and attempts to create an environment where it can be said that those who are protesting are rioting. We never were rioting,” Hoyt said. “Change does come from the youth. Our leaders then were in their 20s and 30s at that time, that is the age of the people out there now.” But in contrast to what he observed in the 60’s, Hoyt says protesting is more diverse. “We see more white people marching than we have ever seen in our lives. They can not live in a segregated society like their grandparents did. We have environments that require Whites and Blacks to work together productively and they are not going to be able to go back to those jobs and work with a Black person and not be able to
explain ‘I was with you, brother, on the line,’” Hoyt said. African-American News&Issues asked Hoyt more about today’s climate. Q: Is change ever gonna come? A: It will take more than a lifetime for it to happen. Every day change is coming, but the incremental changes are so small we can’t see them. I don’t want the change to occur and I am not paying attention to it and I don’t want to be so busy looking for something big that I don’t see the smaller things that are happening. Q:Advice to young black men? A: The same as I would give to my sons and grandsons. Walk carefully, be respectful, put to shame the kind of stereotypical things that are said about us by our conduct and the way we go about educating
ourselves and moving forward. The transformation has to occur by what people see in us, not because we force them to and not because we make them frightened. No man changes because he’s afraid of something. He just conforms his conduct until you leave the room, so the transformation has to come because we live the life we want them to live in our presence. Q: When is enough going to be enough? A: This is not a vacation or a picnic, this is war. We are in battle for the minds and hearts of people. Many people will refuse to change and they will destroy you if they can so we have to understand that people like George Floyd, Ahmaud Abery and others have paid the price and should be honored by how
we deal with it. We should build monuments for these people so that our children and grandchildren can see the impact of their lives. Q: Final thoughts? A: Don’t lose hope. There’s no solution that we can just apply. This is not a math problem, this is a heart problem and healing has to take place. Sometimes you can take the bandage off and sometimes you have to clean it out and catharize it, and it’s painful, and then we can cover it again and say ‘let’s go back and see if we can get this thing well and we keep doing well.’ We can’t change others; we can only change ourselves.
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you and reduce the time you spend in the voting booth.” Please note that if you voted in the March primaries, you can only vote in the second round of the same party. Individual sample ballots for
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HOUSTON - Texas State Representative Shawn Thierry, of District 146, recently addressed the Houston City Council and made a special request of Mayor Sylvester Turner, Mayor Pro Tem Dave Martin, and the esteemed members of city council, asking for the painting of a street mural near “Hippy Hill” and Miller Outdoor Theater with the words “BLACK LIVES MATTER.” Rep. Thierry also requested that the street adjacent to City Hall be re-
named Black Lives Matter Blvd. She believes that with Houston being one of the most diverse cities in the nation, we must show our solidarity and support for criminal justice reform and we will not tolerate racism and police brutality for unlawful killing of our black residents. Earlier this month in Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser officially deemed a section of 16th Street “Black Lives Matter Plaza,” complete with a new street sign.
BLACK LIVES MATTER is painted in giant, yellow letters, spanning two blocks of 16th Street, and leading straight to the White House. As noted on CNN, each of the 16 bold yellow letters covers the width of the two-lane street, creating an unmistakable visual easily spotted by aerial cameras and virtually anyone within a few blocks. So, will they do the same in Houston? We shall wait and see. We approve this message! - AANI
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