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LIVING LEGEND
OUR STORY April
Lee Elder
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Frank Robinson named Cleveland IndIans manager. – 1975
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Henry “Hank” Aaron sets new home run record. - 1974
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Lee Elder is the first African-American to break the color barrier and play in the Masters Golf Tournament. He was born in 1934 in Dallas. His father died in WWII, and his mother shortly thereafter. With Elder’s sister running the household, he was lured to golf as a way to earn additional income for the family. He began caddying at the all-White Tennison Park Golf Club in Dallas and soon became favored by the head pro of the course, who allowed him to slip in after hours to play on the mostly obscured back six holes. Over time, Elder became an accomplished golfer who eventually attracted the attention of hustler and con artist “Titanic” Thompson. Using Thompson’s financial backing, Elder began playing in tournaments while honing his skills in the game and developing the ability to succeed under pressure. He joined the all-Black United Golfers Association (UGA) in 1959 and began the domination of the Association that would last for nearly eight years. Lee Elder won four Negro National Open Championships and during one period in 1966, he won an astonishing 18 of the 22 tournaments he played in. Continued on Page 5
Blues singer and guitarist, Bowdie Glenn Lipscomb, was born in Navasota. – 1895
10 Dallas native, Golfer Lee Elder, became the 1st African-American to play in the Masters Tournament. – 1975
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Jackie Robinson plays his 1st Major League Baseball game. – 1947
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Richard Harvey Cain, one of the founders of Paul Quinn College, was born on this day. – 1825
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Aldine I.S.D. restructures District’s Leadership team. Page 4
Texas House passes the school finance reform package. Page 5
Holman Street B.C. hosts “2019 Spring Revival”.
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David Hoskins started for the Dallas Eagles, making him the first Black player in the Class AA Texas League. – 1952
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The Other Side By Johnny Johnson
Black Hate and Anger “When we hate we only hurt ourselves. Because half of the people we hate don’t know it, the other half don’t care” - Medgar Evers…
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ate is an emotion of detest that produces active ill-will and malice. Anger is an emotion of passion, incited by injury that generates rage. These two emotions, in combination, seem to exist throughout America’s Black society more and more today. They fester in our hearts and souls as like unto a sickness. This hate and anger keep our advancement as a culture and as a people stagnant and under productive overall as part of society. And justifiably so, some will say. One cannot dismiss the horrible truths of the past. But hate and anger also obstructs and impedes a healing that is sorely needed within the Black community. Retaining the hate and anger, emotions will only eat away at us inside and keep us bitter, defiant and resentful in our relationships and attitudes. We cannot continue to allow our hurt to transition into
our hate. A wise man once said, “to destroy an enemy, make him a friend.” As a people, we are in a downward spiral of existence and being. There can be no good or benefit for anyone, as long as hate and anger exist within the mindset of the African American. Why hate emotionally inside, the slave owner or lynch-men who are no longer alive? Where is the justice or revenge for us on the Bull Curry’s and George Wallace’s of the civil rights era? Their judgments and consequences will be paid in the realm of the hereafter. As a people, as a nation, it is time for healing. And more important, it is time for recovery and moving on. The oppression and treatment of Blacks in the United States is indeed shameful. The scars of the past will forever be. Be that as it may, it is what it is, and we cannot recover or move forward unless and until we first heal. This is a healing that begins on an individual basis. Every Black must heal within themselves, differently in their own way. Once the inner anguish, that chains and imprisons us emotionally is removed, we need to grant clemency to the past. Without the hate and anger for the past, we liberate ourselves and our future from the cost of that past. Once we as a people
have healed, we will be able to instinctively focus and direct our emotional energies into progressive, positive, and productive attitudes and accomplishments. The challenges of hate and anger removal will be daunting for sure. For some painful and close to impossible. But it is something that is mandatory and must be done. Keeping in our minds and forethoughts that forgiving is not forgetting. We are obligated, as Black people to the ongoing forward movement of the movement. Our pledge should be changing “We shall overcome” into “We have overcome.” - AANI
The Standard View By Billy “Hollywood” Grooves
Racism is a Problem
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lthough acts of racism against A f r i c a n -A m e r i cans and other non-White Americans still occur every day in our nation, we still have Americans who don’t see prejudicial mistreatment and disrespect of Black people as a problem. Before I go any further with this article, I want to make it clear that we have more real Americans of all colors that have great respect for African-Amer-
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icans than we have racists. However, the reality these days is based on confusion and deception being put out to the public by racist people and groups who have problems with Black people. Subsequently, this is why we must step-up, as a nation, and oppose any mistreatment of certain Americans especially those being enforced through our judicial system, which statistics shows have imprisoned a disproportionate, massive number of African-Americans. While the judicial system is one highly visible area, it should also be noted that Brown people and poor White people have also been victimized through numerous other avenues of racism in America. In fact, under this POTUS we are seeing more and more racist activities being portrayed as normal, despite the fact that we all can see these activities are truly hateful and racist in nature. This is why it is so important for Americans to develop a strong widespread national “negative response”, to racism of any kind displayed anywhere in America. I’ve been criticized by some people in the past for not speaking out and writing about Black on Black crimes that have occurred in African-American communities. The truth is, I have written and spoken publicly about negative Black crimes
committed by Black people against other Black people. Everyone who really knows me, know how I feel about negative people who are trying to destroy our communities. I still live in a predominately African-American community in East Texas and I religiously speak with our young and older people about “any” problems we are confronted with and how we change them in a positive way. As with America, we all know that there are many more, good, decent, loyal God-fearing people in our African-American communities than there are evil criminals, but for some reason the majority of our news is centered around the evil criminals. I’ve noticed in my lifetime that one of the main ‘motivational tools’ of racism is for racists to keep Black people out of positions of “Power”. That is why it is very important for us to invest in Black and minority businesses, which have leaders and bosses who look like them. Sadly to say, prejudice and racism in America has one quality racists’ love to generate. It divides American citizens based on negativity and false information about Blacks’ alleged ineptness. There’s an old saying “a lie can travel around the world five times before the truth gets started, but, when the truth comes out, it will set the record straight with just one trip”. - AANI
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By Rebecca S. Jones
HOUSTON – Paul Butler wrote a brief entitled, “Chokehold: Policing Black Men and Women in America” in which he states the following. “There has never, not for one minute in American history, been peace between Black people and the police. And nothing since slavery – not Jim Crow segregation, not lynching, not restrictive covenants in housing, not being shut out of New Deal programs like social security and the GI bill, not massive White resistance to school desegregation, not the ceaseless efforts to prevent Blacks from voting – nothing has sparked the level of outrage among African-Americans as when they have felt under violent attack by the police.” Undoubtedly, very few African-Americans would dismiss Butler’s inference as fiction; because it is no secret that racial discrimination and disparity has long pervaded the nation’s criminal justice system. However, patriotic phrases such as “all men are created equal”, “innocent until proven guilty” and even “protect and serve”, has left Black America with a glimmer of hope that maybe one day those entitlements would apply to US. Criminal For US, Justice For THEM For a people who literally built the country from scratch with their blood, sweat and tears; one would think, the entitlement to equal justice and rights would be a no-brainer. Instead, we find after allllllll WE have
been through, the scales of justice remains unbalanced. The Vera Institute of Justice published a brief, “An Unjust Burden” in May, 2018 which highlighted several key facts relative to the subject. The national research organization found that while, African-American men account for only 13% of the general population, 35% of that tally are incarcerated; by the same token, African-American women represent 13% of the female population, but, are amongst 44% of incarcerated women. It was also reported that, one in three Black men born today can expect to be incarcerated in their lifetime, compared to one in six Latino men and one in 17 White men. As it relates to African-American women, one in 18 Black women born in 2001 is likely to be incarcerated at some time in their life, compared to one in 45 Latina women and one in 111 White women. Further, the Vera Institute of Justice documents that, Black people are incarcerated in state prisons at a rate five times greater than our White counterparts. Lastly, according to the source, “a Police Accountability Task Force in Chicago found in 2016, that police searched Black and Latino drivers four times as often as White drivers. However, police found contraband on White drivers, twice as often as Black and Latino drivers.” Besides these alarming statistics, the African-American
COVER STORY population remains disproportionately discriminated against in the criminal justice system opposed to the majority race. In many instances around the country, Blacks have received harsher sentences for minor offenses than Whites have for more serious infractions. When asked to comment on the issue, Publisher Roy Douglas Malonson compared the wrongfully convicted case of Anthony Graves, to long-time Republican Par-
was incarcerated for nearly two decades, when his co-defendant, Robert Earl Carter released an affidavit prior to his execution. Carter swore that he had lied, when he accused Graves of helping him with the murder. In addition to Carter’s sworn statement, the Burleson County District Attorney, Charles Sebesta who secured Graves’ conviction was, “disbarred for prosecutorial misconduct”. These two factors aided in the 2010 release
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son, a Cornell University law professor concluded otherwise. She found through her study’s identical trials, which included both Black and White defendants that the, “race of the defendant significantly and directly affects the determination of guilt.” According to the Constitutional Rights Project, “Professor Johnson also found that Black jurors behaved with the reverse bias - finding White defendants guilty more often than Blacks.” Consequent-
According to Robert Staples, White Racism, Black Crime, and American Justice; “the legal system was made by White men to protect White interests and keep Blacks down.” Staples affirms, “the system was characterized by second-rate legal help for Black defendants, biased jurors and judges who discriminate in sentencing.” - Constitutional Rights Foundation ty campaign consultant, Paul Manafort, a recent convict. Malonson summarized the topic with one simple phrase, “Criminal for US, Justice for THEM.” Anthony Graves was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death row for the 1992 Somerville murder of Bobbie Davis, her daughter and four grandchildren. Graves
of Graves, who at the time had spent majority of his adult life incarcerated. Despite the obvious, some sociologists tend to attribute inequalities in the criminal justice system to other factors such as, “poverty” and a defendant’s previous criminal history. But, after reviewing a dozen mock-jury studies, Sheri Lynn John-
ly, “the race of the victim in these cases affected both groups; if the victim was Black, White jurors tended to find a White defendant less blameworthy. In the same way, if the victim was White, Black jurors found Black defendants less blameworthy.” It is for reasons such as these that the “slap on the wrist” sentencing of Paul Manafort has
incited outrage amongst minorities around the country. Just last month, the former attorney and American lobbyist was sentenced to 47-months for, “defrauding banks and the government and failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars in income earned from Ukrainian political consulting.” Many people agree with the Acres Home Chamber for Business and Economic Development’s, Outreach Coordinator, Anthony Stewart. Stewart argues that individuals who are fluent and exponents of the law should be held to a higher accountability rate in terms of convictions, than those who are ignorant to certain legalities of the law. To add, CNN’s Faith Karimi cited the stance of Scott Hechinger, a New York public defender who when reflecting on Manafort’s sentencing, spoke of incidents where defendants received harsher convictions for less-serious offenses. Hechinger shared the case of one of his clients who was offered a “sentence of between 36 to 72 months for stealing $100 in quarters from a residential laundry room.” Additionally, he referenced Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to five years “illegally voting in the 2016 presidential election while on supervised release for a tax fraud conviction.” Notwithstanding, Mason had no idea she was even committing an offense. Continue Reading aframnews.com
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EDUCATION
A Message from Dr. Latonya Goffney ALDINE - During my first eight months, I have had the opportunity to visit campuses, speak with Board Members, parents, school leaders, community members and students to understand the needs of Aldine ISD. The information they shared is invaluable and will be used to inform how we move forward. In line with audit recommendations and comparisons to districts of our size, we have restructured our leadership team. The head of each division will be called Chief and will make up my Cabinet. Other district leaders will still carry the title of Assistant Superintendent. The leaders listed below have been selected to transition into new roles to ensure we continue to increase the academic achievement of all students in our district – something that every person I met mentioned as a priority. Dr. Todd Davis will serve as the Chief Academic Officer. Dr. Davis has devoted all of his 28 years in education to Aldine ISD and has served in a variety of capacities. As CAO, he will be responsible for providing leadership in planning, developing, maintaining and evaluating all of the district’s curriculum and instruction. With oversight over several departments, he will provide direct supervision of curriculum staff and guide instructional development. Katy Roede will provide leadership of school
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administration and oversight for all School Assistant Superintendents as the Chief of Schools. Roede has 25 years of educational experience including 10 years as a principal here in Aldine ISD. She also served as a School Support Officer in Houston ISD where she worked with school leaders to improve academic growth and progress at several schools. Dawn Rodriguez was named Chief of Strategic Initiatives and Accountability. Rodriguez, who has worked in Aldine ISD for nearly 16 years, will be responsible for managing special projects and leading key initiatives, including the development and implementation of the district’s strategic plan. She will continue to oversee accountability, evaluation and state assessments. Dr. Charlotte Davis, who currently serves as the director of guidance, counseling and at-risk students, was selected as Assistant Superintendent of Student Support Services. She has worked in the district for 25 years in a variety of positions.
AHCBED Monthly Luncheon HOUSTON – Last month, the Acres Homes Chamber for Business & Economic Development held its Monthly Networking luncheon at the Beulah Ann Shepard building located at 6112 Wheatley,
77091. Burn’s BBQ served as the caterer and Mrs. Ann Harris Bennett of the Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector & Voter Registrar was the keynote speaker….
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POLITICS
State of Black Texas in the Texas Legislature By Senator Borris Miles
A Tale of Two Houses
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ast week, the Texas House, with an overwhelming 148-1 vote, passed House Bill 3, the school finance reform package. This $9 billion overhaul of the public school finance system included a pay raises for all school employees, invests new money into classrooms, reduces recapture and local property taxes, allocates additional funding for transportation and provides funding for full day pre-k and students in need of additional support. Moreover, the plan is targeted to ensure that all students are reading at grade level and so that students graduate and are prepared to go to college or earn post-second-
ary degrees. I applaud my colleagues in the Texas House and the Speaker for this bipartisan transformational effort to truly impact the lives of our children. But, while that act of bipartisanship was underway, the Texas Senate took a much different approach, passing incredibly dangerous and divisive legislation that would do nothing but harm our communities. SB 17 would allow state-licensed professionals to deny services based on their “sincere religiously held belief.” This bill gives professionals with a state license the ability to freely discriminate against people they don’t like. It specifically targets the GLBT community, but it goes much further. It would open the doors to discrimination and would have a dangerous impact on our community. SD 13 is the most diverse district in Texas, with more languages spoken and faiths worshiped than any other. I questioned
the author of this bill, stating, “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig. This is still a discrimination bill.” SB 22 would ban local governments from partnering with healthcare organizations that provide abortion services. This continues the Republicans efforts to limit a woman’s ability to make their own healthcare decisions but takes those efforts a step further. This bill would prevent the City of Houston from partnering with healthcare providers like Planned Parenthood to provide much-needed services like cancer screenings to low-income neighborhoods or give emergency assistance during a natural disaster. The Republican leadership began this session with calls for unity and the end of divisive legislation, but in the end politics as usual, reigned in one chamber. While the 86th Legislative Session continues, I will continue to fight for our community and for our interests.
LIVING LEGEND
This success enabled Elder to earn the required $6,500 he needed to enter the 1967 qualifying school for the PGA Tour. He qualified easily. In 1971 Elder became the first Black golfer invited to play in the South African PGA Tournament. His participation in that event made this the first integrated sports event in South Africa since the establishment of the official Apartheidpolicy in 1948. Continue Reading aframnews.com
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