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Vol. 63 No. 32
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Thursday, August 10, 2023
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Serving San Diego County’s African & African American Communities 63 Years
AMERICA’S
RACIAL GENERATION GAP
REMEMBERING THE
IMPORTANCE OF OUR
VOTES SEE PAGE 3
“CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS” IS COMING TO SAN DIEGO SEE PAGE 11
DISTRICT 4 SPECIAL ELECTION VOTING LOCATIONS! SEE PAGE 5
Insurrections loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. PHOTO: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA NEWSWIRE SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT It’s been a poorly kept secret that the underlying reason for much of America’s hate seen in recent years revolves around the fear that white people are fast losing their grip on the nation’s majority. That fear has resonated and is ever-present politically and socially. The Jan. 6 insurrection, former President Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ assault on Black history, the uptick in hate crimes, including police brutality against
African Americans, and the continued wave of “Karens” and “Kens.”
WAGE WAR:
Indeed, white supremacists and white nationalists and the politicians who fuel them see a new majority, people of color, and that has served to spark what’s more and more beginning to look like an all-out civil war — or more pointedly, a race war. In April 2021, the Census Bureau released the first set of results from the 2020 decennial census, providing a snapshot of the U.S. population for use in congressional reapportionment and redistricting.
FOUR CALIFORNIA STATE EMPLOYEE UNIONS ARE DEMANDING PAY INCREASES
See GAP page 2
ASSEMBLYMEMBERS, HEARING WITNESS,
REPORT N-WORD-LACED DEATH THREATS By Antonio Ray Harvey CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA
SEIU Local 1000, representing the largest group of CA State employees, demanding a living wage, better benefits and improved work life conditions in San Francisco, CA on June 29, 2023. PHOTO: Sheila Fitzgerald photo contributor courtesy of CBM
Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), along with other Democratic lawmakers and April Grayson — a witness who last month testified against a sex trafficking bill proposing stiffer penalties for repeat offenders — have disclosed receiving death threats laced with the n-word and other racial slurs.
By Edward Henderson CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA
Jones and Grayson, who are both Black, said the threats and insults came by emails, telephone and social media. Asm. Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles) is pictured here at a See THREATS page 2
California Reparations Task Force Meeting on June 29, 2023. PHOTO: Antonio Ray Harvey/CBM
Four California government employee unions are demanding salary increases from the California Department of Human resources (CalHR) and the State Legislature to keep up with the high cost of living in California. When compared to their peers in the private sector, the employees say, there is a significant disparity in salaries.
Representatives of the unions say they are frustrated with stalled negotiations with the state over disparities in pay. Last week, one of the Unions, the American Physicians and Dentists, authorized a strike. The other three unions are the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000 — California’s largest labor union; the California Correctional Peace Officers; and the California Association of Professional Scientists. See WAR page 2
TULSA RACE MASSACRE SURVIVORS
SEEK REVERSAL OF DISMISSAL IN HISTORIC COURT APPEAL By Stacy M. Brown NNPA NEWSWIRE SR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
PHOTO: NNPA
Lessie Benningfield Randle, Viola Fletcher, and Hughes Van Ellis, Sr., the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, have continued their pursuit of justice. They have appealed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, urging a swift reversal of Tulsa County District Judge Caroline Wall’s controversial dismissal of their lawsuit. At
a press conference held at the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the legal team representing the survivors expressed confidence in the likelihood of the Oklahoma Supreme Court overturning Judge Wall’s ruling. See SURVIVORS page 2
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