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COVER Pgs 8-9
- HOODIE: Criminal Proling or
Racial Proling
By Rodney Brown
READERS WRITE Pg 3
- Saving America from Obama?
LOCAL Pg 4
- City Teachers will not be Judged
on Performance
- County Executive Pondering
Medicaid Swap
- New Law Restricts Lawn
Fertilizers
- Some Residents Call
Superintendent Search a Sham
STATE Pg 6
- Mixed Martial Arts Goes Around in
New York
- NY Audit Faults $42 Mil in
Medicaid Payments
- NY City Basement Searched for
Boy Missing Since 1979
POLITICS Pg 7
- Polls Show Obama-Romney Race
Very Close
- Maurice Jones Sworn in as HUDs
Deputy Secretary
HEALTH Pg 10
- Care at Home: Congestive Heart
Failure
NATIONAL Pg 12
- More Firings Likely at US Secret
Service
CALENDAR / CLASSIFIEDS Pg 13
COLUMNS: Pg 14-15
- Who is Minister Franklin Florence,
and Why is He Being Honored
By Gloria Winston Al-Sarag
- Confronting Black Rochester
Cultural Crisis
By Avery Blackman
- Liberal Democrats, They Never
Seem to Go Away
By Ayesha Kreutz
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Saving America from Obama?
(Original OpEd and comments at: http://www.minorityreporter.net/fullstory.php?id=967)
Eecve polical soluons are local and that is where black folks suer adversely with
one party representaon. US Presidents run on expedited issues and rarely solve them
rather they are Democrats, Republicans, White or Black. The Congress and lobbyist
will not allow that to happen, the corrupon is too entrenched. Personality worship
is excessive in both pares and Presidenal elecons are an exercise in fashion and
beauty shows. Locally is where polics can make a real dierence especially with
Republicans [black] who are not afraid to take on issues and develop soluons
that develop urban communies into communies of choice versus communies
of default. If we are trying to just push emoonal buons based on I do research
and one side is awed, the research on both side will support that naonally there
is a biparsan con-job on the American people. Eight years of each party in power
claiming to solve the problems they both create. Both pares are the same. Wake up
for 150 years of Presidenal elecons for blacks - Republican 90 years Democrat 60
years with nothing to show for it.
~Hanif Abdul-Wahid
Interesng Editors note; however, the rise during Bushs elecon term and fall of the
prices as the new elecon approached does not parallel here. I am seeing gas prices
rise as the November 2012 elecons approach. I believe you are onto something here,
Ayesha, especially since Obamas rhetoric indicates that he is assuming he will be re-
elected. Right on that just because a person is black or a minority they should support
Obama. I pray the people who need to understand that will read this arcle.
~May Davies
I love the part all we hear are crickets Not only is Obama a failure so is the media.
They dressed this fool up and sold him to the public hook, line and sinker. And are STILL
running cover for him; not a peep out of them about $4.00 plus gas, its disgusng.
You should write an arcle on the Dumbing down of America by the media whores
and fake news. Great arcle, keep up the good work!
~Pete
Ayesha is so right on---- We have forgoen the most famous words of Doctor Marn
Luther King. I want my children to live in a Naon where my they are not judged on
the color of their skin but on the content of their character. Our Naon has made
many mistakes, but instead of improving the lives of blacks our laws and policians
have placed them in situaons that will never allow them to rise up and achieve
prosperity. Educaon is the root out of poverty and the Department of Educaon is
not even allowing teachers to teach basic reading wring and math--they are pushing
an educaon agenda based in social jusce. We feed our college students majoring in
Educaon this; and then it gets passed down to their students in the American school
systems. I have seen the text books from my college (age) son. I want every child to
succeed in America and not have to survive on sharing the wealth or by relying on
Daddy government
~Barb C
Im thankful that the editor at Minority Reporter had enough sense to ad an editors
note to clarify and refute your misstatements, Ayesha. I nd it interesng that you can
only remember gas going up to $3/gallon under the Bush administraon when in fact
it rose to just above $4/gallon. This, under a president who has massive interest in
the oil business--did you not know this or are you just so animate about discreding
Obama that you will do and say anything including changing the facts? Let us all
remember that President Obama came into o ce under a major nancial crisis. One
that his predecessor said was of major proporons. Heres what Bush said in a 2008
speech where he was calling for the federal government to smulate the economy.
Our system of free enterprise rests on the convicon that the federal government
should interfere in the marketplace only when necessary. Given the precarious state
of todays nancial markets -- and their vital importance to the daily lives of the
American people -- government intervenon is not only warranted, it is essenal.
So, Obama comes into o ce a few months later and adopts the same policy that the
federal government must connue to act and add billions of dollars into the economy
to get us back on track. What I nd truly disingenuous is that these same republicans
(Ayesha included) are now blaming Obama and calling him the biggest spender in
presidenal history. I could go on but its pointless. I nd it unfortunate that black
conservaves are so dishonest, especially when they want to discredit Obama.
~Michael Frazier
City Teachers Will Not Be Judged on Performance
Sta
Earlier in the week, Rochester Teacher
Union President Adam Urbanski, told
reporters Teachers in Rochester
would not agree to merit pay because
it doesnt work.
It hasnt worked anywhere, Urbanski
connued. What work is more
support for teachers and more funding
to improve teachers knowledge and
skills.
Under the federal Teacher Incenve
Study, Rochester city schools will
received $16 million over the next
three years when English language
arts or math scores improve.
Some schools will be allowed to
consider a $5,800 bonus at years
end for teachers considered highly
eecve. Teachers can also earn
bonuses for compleng addional
training hours.
Under the study ineecve teachers
will not be singled out which the study
inially mandated.
According to Urbanski, the district is
on board to not include performance
based pay.
County Execuve Pondering Medicaid Swap
Sta
In 2007 Monroe was the only county
to parcipate in the states Medicaid
Swap Program.
The state in 2007 took over the county
Medicaid program for a set percentage
poron of the countys sales tax
revenue. According to Maggie Brooks,
County Execuve of Monroe County,
the swap has saved taxpayers $26
million to date.
Earlier in the month aer the state
announced to cap increasing Medicaid
costs and require counes pay the
dierence, Democrats in the countys
legislature has been calling for the
program to be scraped.
In reports to the media, Democrac
Minority leader ted OBrien said
Were right now approaching the
crossroads where it will become a
more expensive opon for us. The
opportunity to rescind or repeal that
decision may never be presented
again and then the intercept decision
becomes more expensive.
In response County spokesman Noah
Lebowitz said We are absolutely
going to consider repealing the swap
and we will make the decision based
on what will give us the lowest cost of
Medicaid. Its a straight dollars-and-
cents queson, he said.
Democrats say sales tax revenue will
exceed the cost of Medicaid which
leaves the county no choice but to
repeal the Swap program.
The move to repeal to the program
will again place the ulmate duciary
responsibility on the county to run and
fund the citys Medicaid program.
The county has unl Jan. 1 to repeal
the Swap.
New Law Restricts Lawn Ferlizers
Sta
A new law is now in eect that restricts
lawn ferlizers.
The law was implemented in an eort
to help protect the states waterways
from dangerous runo which can
cause algae.
Dixon Rollins, D.E.C. Regional Water
Engineer said It promotes the growth
of algae and other vegetaon in the
waterways. We just try to protect
our resources the best we can. This
is just another tool to protect water
resources of the state.
The ban is aimed to limit the amount
of phosphorus allowed in general
ferlizers and dishwasher detergents.
There are three numbers the
rst being nitrogen, the second
being phosphorous, and the being
potassium. If its a zero on the bag, the
middle number, it means there is no
phosphorous or minimal phosphorus
in that parcular bag of ferlizer,
Rollins said. The idea is to reduce the
amount of nutrient that gets into the
local water bodies to minimize or try
to reduce the amount of algae or other
growth that might occur,
According to o cials currently 70
water bodies have been tainted with
phosphorus, including Lake Ontario.
Some Residents call Superintendent Search a Sham
Sta
Some parents and residents are saying
the city school district has once again
taken the community for a ride.
Aer the departure of Jean Claude-
Brizard, RCSD former Superintendent
of Schools, the residents and parents
peoned to have the community and
the district select the next permanent
superintendent and not a search rm.
The district is down to two nalists for
the job- Bolgen Vargas, RCSD interim
Superintendent and Andre Spencer,
Houston School District.
Residents in the community are upset
a search rm was paid $40,000 to nd
Bolgen Vargas, to be the permanent
superintendent whos already running
the district.
Inially, the board informed residents
that Vargas would not be allowed to
apply for the job but later rescinded
the decision a month later.
Several board members and city
Councilman Adam McFadden has
publicly stated they believe the
superintendent search is a sham.
McFadden believes the board wasted
$40,000 of taxpayers money to cover
up its back door hiring of Bolgen Vargas.
Many residents are upset and believe
a search rm was hired to purposely
restrain and limit community input in
order to do so.
In comments to the media, School
Board President Malik Evans said
Anyme you have a search process
like this, there are going to be crics.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Professional mixed
maral arts is aempng another
comeback in New York.
The state Senate voted 43-14
Wednesday to again approve
legislaon to make New York the 46th
state to legalize and regulate the sport,
though opposion remains in the
Assembly.
The Assembly has beaten back
legalizaon for seven years, recently
keeping it out of the budget.
Ronda Rousey (row-SEE) is MMAs
newest lobbyist at the Capitol, where
she urged lawmakers Wednesday
to pass the legislaon. The winner
of a 2008 Olympics bronze medal in
judo, she is the unbeaten Strikeforce
champion at 135 pounds.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says
he doesnt think theres a groundswell
of support and he has mixed feelings
about it.
Opponents decry the popular televised
sport as too violent and a bad example
for children.
NY Audits Fault $42 Million in Medicaid Payments
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) State auditors
say data problems and informaon
delays at New Yorks Medicaid claims
processing system have caused $36
million in improper payments and
another $6.3 million in overpayments.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli
said Wednesday that $3.2 million
has been recouped and the health
department says it has changed
pracces.
An audit of Medicaid managed care
plans for three years, examining
premium payments for dual-eligible
enrollees who are also in Medicare
or other federal programs, says there
were unnecessary payments on
behalf of 45,000 people due to delays
in posng Medicare data and then
removing those people from managed
care plans.
A second audit noted actual and
suspected overpayments during six
months when eMedNY processed
approximately 174 million claims
resulng in payments to health care
providers of about $25 billion.
NYC Basement Searched For Boy Missing Since 1979
By SAMANTHA GROSS and TOM HAYS
NEW YORK (AP) A team of police
o cers and FBI agents began tearing
apart a New York City basement
Thursday as part of a decades-old
invesgaon into the disappearance
of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose case
made a generaon of parents afraid to
send their children out alone.
Etan vanished without a trace in 1979
aer leaving his familys Manhaan
apartment for a short walk to catch
a school bus. It was the rst me his
parents had let him go o to school
alone.
The building being searched sits about
a block from where the family lived,
in the boroughs SoHo secon, and is
along the route that the boy would
have taken on his walk to the bus stop.
Police spokesman Paul Browne said a
forensic team would dig up a oor and
search through the rubble for blood,
clothing or human remains. The work
is expected to take as many as ve
days.
He wouldnt say what evidence led
invesgators to the property, but a
law enforcement o cial, speaking
on condion of anonymity, told The
Associated Press that at the me of
the boys disappearance, the building
housed the workspace of a carpenter
who was thought to have been friendly
with the boy.
In the past few months, the o cial said,
invesgators had received informaon
that Etans remains might be buried in
the basement. Then, within the past
few weeks, an FBI dog indicated the
possible presence of human remains
in the space, prompng the decision
to dig.
The o cial spoke to the AP on
condion of anonymity because the
invesgaon is ongoing. Two other
law enforcement o cials conrmed
that an FBI dog had detected the scent
of remains.
Etans disappearance was a media
sensaon in 1979. The press aenon
helped fuel a naonal movement to
publicize the cases of missing children.
Etans face was among the rst to
appear on milk cartons. President
Ronald Reagan declared May 25 to be
Naonal Missing Childrens Day.
Etans parents, Stanley and Julie
Patz, became outspoken advocates
for missing children. For years,
they refused to change their phone
number, in the hope that Etan was
alive somewhere, and might call. They
never moved.
Stanley Patz didnt respond to phone
calls and email messages Thursday.
A man who answered the buzzer at
the familys apartment, just a few
doors down from the building being
searched, said they wouldnt be
speaking to the media.
No one has ever been prosecuted for
the crime, but in recent years Stanley
Patz sued an incarcerated drier and
admied child-molester, Jose Ramos,
who had been dang Etans baby
sier around the me he disappeared.
Ramos denied killing the child, but in
2004 a Manhaan judge ruled him to
be responsible for the death, largely
due to his refusal to contest the case.
Ramos is scheduled to be released from
prison in Pennsylvania in November,
when he nishes serving most of
a 20-year-sentence for abusing an
8-year-old boy. His pending freedom is
one of the factors that has given new
urgency to the case.
He is not the carpenter whose old
workspace was being searched.
Invesgators have looked at a long list
of possible suspects over the years,
and have excavated in other places
before without success.
The 13-foot by 62-foot basement space
being searched Thursday sits beneath
several clothing bouques. The
building has undergone renovaons
over the decades, and Browne said
invesgators began by removing
drywall parons so they could get to
the area where they planned to dig.
The excavaon was part of a review
of the case, recently ordered by the
Manhaan district aorney, Browne
said.
This was a shocking case at the me
and it hasnt been resolved, Browne
said.
The law enforcement acvity forced
the temporary closure of some
businesses on the block, including the
fashion bouque Wink, on the ground
oor of the excavated building.
Its insignicant, said owner Stephen
Werther, of the lost business. Its
retail. Theres always another day for
us to make a living. This may be the
familys last chance to nd out what
happened to their son.
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Associated Press writers David B.
Caruso and Colleen Long contributed
to this report.
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RE COGNI T I ON DI NNE R
AND TR I B UT E TO
Minister
Franklin Florence, Sr.
The Honorable Jesse Jackson, Jr.
KEYNOTE S PEAKER
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THE RACE: Polls Show Obama-Romney Race Very Close
By TOM RAUM
Polls go up and polls go down. Thats a
common refrain from policians, usually
from those with sinking numbers. But it
could be said today by either President
Barack Obama or Republican Mi Romney
in a clearly ghtening presidenal race
but one with conicng poll numbers.
Since Rick Santorum abandoned his GOP
bid on April 10, nearly all major polls show
a close naonal elecon matchup at the
outset.
Some give Obama a slight lead, others
Romney. A New York Times poll has a dead
heat at 46 percent.
Gallup shows Romney ahead, 48 percent
to Obamas 44 percent. A Fox News poll
gives Romney a 46-44 advantage. But a
Pew poll gives Obama the lead, 49 to 45.
And a Quinnipiac survey has Obama up
46-42.
An ABC-Washington Post poll shows
Obama ahead by 51 to 44 but it was
conducted before Santorums withdrawal.
That exit made Romney the presumpve
nominee.
Its sll a long me before the Republican
convenon in Tampa, Fla., in late August
and the Democrac one in Charloe, N.C.
in early September. So voter moods can
change.
Right now, polls consistently show the
economy as the top issue. Romney runs
about even with Obama on his handling
of the economy. The president lags on
several other issues tested.
Given recent trends, Obama can point to a
gradually improving outlook and Romney
can cite his experience as a business leader
and appeal to those concerned about their
own nancial plight.
Obama sll enjoys a big gender-gap
advantage. And the polls show both
Romney and Obama are strongly
supported by their respecve parsans.
In most polls, Romney fares well among
independents, although not decisively so.
Of course, a lot more ups and downs
lie ahead.
___
AP Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer
Agiesta contributed to this report.
Follow Tom Raum on Twier: hp://
www.twier.com/tomraum . For more
AP polical coverage, look for the 2012
Presidenal Race in AP Mobiles Big Stories
secon. Also follow hps://twier.com/
APCampaign and AP journalists covering
the campaign: hps://twier.com/AP/ap-
campaign-2012.
EDITORS NOTE _ With 201 days le unl
Elecon Day, here are insights into todays
highlights in US polics
WASHINGTON Maurice Jones was sworn in
today as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD). Jones was conrmed by the U.S. Senate
on March 29, 2012. As the second most senior
o cial at HUD, Jones will be charged with man-
aging the Departments day-to-day operaons,
a nearly $47 billion annual operang budget,
and the agencys 8,900 employees.
President Obama and Secretary Donovan
have blessed me with the opportunity to join
HUD during this crical period when we con-
nue to support a fragile recovery from an
historic housing crisis, said Jones. Im ready
to help connue transforming an organizaon
charged with moving beyond the yesterdays
experiences to tackle todays challenges and
those well face tomorrow.
Maurice has one of the strongest public and
private sector track records Ive seen for build-
ing consensus and solving big problems, said
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan As we conn-
ue to confront our current housing challenges,
HUD will certainly benet from Maurices intel-
lect, his proven management experience and
his great people skills.
Jones added, Public service has been a pas-
sion of mine since my high school days in rural
Lunenburg County, Virginia. As a ninth grader, I
was fortunate enough to be selected to serve
as a page during that years legislave session
of the Virginia General Assembly. The expe-
rience changed my life. I resolved then and
there to enter public service when I grew up
so that I too could work to make things beer.
Jones most recently worked in Norfolk, Virginia
as President of Pilot Media, the largest print
and digital organizaon in Hampton Roads.
Pilot Medias businesses include The Virginian-
Pilot newspaper, Pilot Interacve and Targeted
Publicaons and Media. Jones served as Presi-
dent and Publisher of The Virginian-Pilot, the
locally owned and managed newspaper found-
ed in 1865.
Jones joined Landmark Media Enterprises,
owner of Pilot Media, in 2005, serving as Vice
President of the Landmark Publishing Group,
consisng of mulple newspapers including
the News & Record in Greensboro, NC; The Ro-
anoke Times; The Capital Gazee in Annapolis,
MD; and Landmark Community Newspapers,
Inc., based in Shelbyville, Ky. In 2006 Jones be-
came the Vice President and General Manager
of Pilot Media and in 2008 he became presi-
dent and publisher of The Virginian-Pilot.
A Kenbridge, Virginia nave, Jones also served
as commissioner of the Virginia Department
of Social Services and deputy chief of sta to
then-Virginia Governor Mark Warner. At the
U.S. Treasury Department, Jones was special
assistant to the general counsel and he also
served as legal counsel to the Community De-
velopment Financial Instuons (CDFI) Fund
and as director of the fund during the Clinton
Administraon. Jones also worked for the law
rm of Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Virgin-
ia and he was a partner at a Partner in Venture
Philanthropy Partners, a rm that invests mil-
lions in the Washington, DC metropolitan area
to assist low-income children.
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Rodney Brown
Sta Reporter
The great percentage of white
Americans who connue to deny our
country sll has a very serious race
problem were oered an anecdotal
message of comfort recently when Fox
News Analyst Geraldo Rivera said he
believes the hoodie is as responsible
for Trayvon Marns death as much
as George Zimmerman was.
For some black Americans, the hoodie
had nothing to do with Trayvons
death.
Blacks, however, saw the hoodie as
an opportunity to talk about racial
proling an unjusable pracce
African-Americans have been
subjected to, in nearly every facet of
American society on a daily basis, for
centuries.
Trayvons killer, a neighborhood
watchman named George Zimmerman,
said Marn looked suspicious while
speaking to a 911 dispatcher moments
before killing him.
Zimmerman then went on to say: He
looks like hes up to no good.
Zimmerman then followed Marn
aer he was instructed not to, and to
wait unl o cers arrive.
According to the police department,
in Sanford, Fla., Zimmermans claim
of self-defense was enough to prevent
his arrest under the Floridas Stand
Your Ground law.
Under the direcon of Chief of Police
Jim Sheppard, in Rochester, N.Y., police
o cers can follow and apprehend
Trayvon look-alikes and anyone else,
because he or she looked suspicious;
and it would be jused under a police
department policy that allows criminal
proling.
According to the F.B.I. denion:
Criminal proling is the act of
developing a psychological prole of
an oender based on the state of the
crime scene. Proling is most oen
done by a forensic psychologist
someone who has studied the criminal
mind. This prole can then be used
by police departments to assist in
apprehending the criminal.
The dierence is, in an FBIs criminal
prole invesgaon, a crime has to be
commied before a criminal prole of
a suspect can be developed.
In Rochester o cers have the
discreon to view a person or
someone about to commit a criminal
act based solely on his/her look as
suspicious.
For many residents of color living
in Rochester, criminal proling is a
revolving back door for police o cers
to engage in racial proling.
For some, Rochester resident Emily
Goods accusaon that RPD o cers
violated the 14th Amendment rights
of three black motorists when they
were stopped and frisked in the 19th
Ward neighborhood solely because
they were black, was an opportunity
to challenge the departments
applicaon of criminal proling.
In response, Chief Sheppard said:
The department engages in criminal
proling, not racial proling, and that
the man on Goods video is a known
criminal.
According to Sheppard the young
black men were stopped not because
they commied a criminal act.
Were going to stop people who
are known to us. Were going to stop
people who are engaged in behaviors
that may be suspicious, Sheppard
connued. Were not going to be on a
posion where were going to wait for
something to happen and then react
to it.
About this, Thomas Richards, mayor
of Rochester said: Im in full support
of the internal invesgaon being
conducted regarding the incident,
but that the incident in no way shows
racial proling.
Racial proling that Emily Good
talked about, if that exists, well do
something to eliminate it. But, the
incident that she was involved in
doesnt prove that.
Wests Encyclopedia of American Law
(2005) points to a report aired in 1996
by ABC entled Driving While Black. In
it three young black men drove around
the city of New Brunswick, N.J., in a
Mercedes-Benz.
Three o cers in the city pulled over
the car for a minor tra c infracon
and then proceeded to search the car
and the young men.
The show demonstrated with lile
doubt that the only reason the three
men were pulled over was their race.
Nevertheless, the o cers brought a
defamaon suit against ABC, claiming
that ABC had defamed their character
and had violated New Jerseys an-
wiretapping law. In 2000, a New Jersey
Superior Court judge dismissed the
lawsuit.
Concerning racial proling Rochesters
rst black Mayor Bill Johnson (1994-
2005) has said: People other than
blacks commit crimes. Why would
anyone want to automacally conclude
that all criminal people are people of
color? I have tremendous admiraon
for Jim Sheppard but I wouldnt accept
that type of acon.
How many people are in jail because
they were suspected of a crime and
didnt have the means to properly
defend themselves and eventually
ended up going to jail?
Weve got to close some of these
loop holes and not leave a vacuum for
unjusable police misconduct to take
place that can be easily swept under a
rug, said Johnson. No one should be
apprehended or harassed under the
suspicion they will commit a criminal
act. This is what the Trayvon Marn
case is all about.
Zimmermans unjusable acons
started with his drawn conclusion
that Marn was a criminal because
he was a young black man with a
hoodie on walking through an a uent
predominately white neighborhood.
Johnson then said law enforcement
personnel need to be trained in a way
to begin to look beyond stereotypes
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line of duty.
A racial proling study has not been
done in Rochester but one has been
done Syracuse.
In 2006, the city commissioned William
Horrace, an economics professor and
researcher at Syracuse University, to
invesgate racial proling in Syracuse
using data provided by the police
department.
The same team of experts also worked
on the 2010 report, which includes
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For both 2006 and 2010, Horrace
invesgated the number of
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Syracuse police o cers and evaluated
whether o cers discriminated against
African-Americans.
When a police o cer makes an on-
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staon to handle a situaon, said
Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler.
Discreonary stops or arrests are
made when an o cer is patrolling a
neighborhood or makes a decision to
stop an individual without an order
from the police staon or request
from a cizen.
Both Fowlers and the citys 2010
studies evaluate the number of
discreonary stops and arrests
Syracuse police o cers made from
2006 to 2009.
In his 2006 study, Horrace found that
African-Americans, 27 percent of
Syracuses total populaon in 2006,
comprised 54 percent of all police
stops, while whites, 65 percent of the
populaon, accounted for 39 percent
of stops.
In combinaon with other ndings,
Horrace and his team determined
that racial proling did exist and
issued a series of recommendaons
for the police department, including
connued data collecon for future
racial proling studies and use of the
studys results in developing police
force training.
Chief Fowler rejected the study and
ordered that a new study be done by
a law enforcement instuon of his
choice.
Florida Law versus New York Law
People of all ethnicies, ages, and
culture marched in cies throughout
the naon calling for the arrest of
Marns killer who was cleared and
freed under Floridas Stand Your
Ground Law.
Floridas Stand Your Ground Law states
a person may use force in self-defense
when theres reasonable belief of a
threat, without an obligaon to retreat
rst.
According to most legal experts,
the inial preliminary evidence in
the Marn case was enough for
Zimmerman to be arrested the night
of the murder because in his case the
states Stand Your Ground Law was no
longer applicable when Zimmerman
proceeded to follow Marn aer he
was told not to by the 911 dispatcher.
A great majority of minories in
New York State believe the law that
exclusively contains a penal code
juscaon giving police o cers the
absolute right to shoot and kill if he/
she believes their lives or the life of a
civilian are in danger is a green light to
shoot minories without explanaon.
In 1999 plain clothes o cers in New
York City shot 23-year-old unarmed
Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo 41
mes when his wallet was mistaken
for a gun.
In 2006, Sean Bell and two others were
shot by NYC o cers more than 50
mes on his wedding day as he exited
a night club. Bell and his friends were
unarmed.
Johnson said because of the
undiversied nature of most inner-city
police forces in America, the law giving
o cers the right to shoot to kill and
ask quesons later has been on the
wrong side of jusce for minories.
Johnson recalled a 1970s case where
Denise Hawkins, a 19-year-old black
woman was killed by a RPD o cer
while trying to ee her abusive
boyfriend.

According to Johnson, apparently
Hawkins grabbed a knife to warn away
her boyfriend.
She got to the door the same me the
police o cer got to the door, Johnson
said. She was trying to run away from
her husband with the knife in her hand
and the o cer shot and killed her. She
wasnt trying to wield the knife at him
but the law protected him.
We almost had a riot because people
saw a 19-year-old young black women
gunned down by a white police o cer
without any true explanaon, he
noted.
The volale situaon among African-
American residents compelled former
Mayor Thomas Ryan to establish a
Civilian Review Board to handle any
case in which an o cer is accused of
using excessive force or might have
been involved in criminal behavior.
Eight years later in 1983 in an almost
idencal circumstance, the daughter
of Jim McCuller, former director of
Acon for a Beer Community, was
engaged in a domesc dispute at her
home.
She comes out of the house with the
knife. O cers pleaded with her to drop
the knife and she advanced towards
one of them and they shot and killed
her, Johnson said.
When he became mayor, 14-year-old
Craig Heard was shot and killed aer
police followed the car he was driving
down a dead end street.
They shot the car up, why did they
have to shoot the kid in the head?
They could have shot the res out,
they could have blockaded him, they
couldve done a lot of things but they
choose to shoot him, Johnson said.
The laws of New York State gives
them that cover. As much as a tragedy
it was its jused according to law.
He noted, The law doesnt say you
have to have incontroverble evidence
that your life is in danger. The law says
if you think your life is in danger.
The dierence between the Stand Your
Ground Law and the law that governs
our enforcement o cials is the law in
New York does not extend to civilians;
only to sworn police o cers.
In response to why o cers shoot to
kill, Johnson said: They are trained to
take you down.
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I felt very stressed, Sharmaine
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have symptoms of heart disease and
wasnt feeling well. Ms. Speed suers
from mild cardiomyopathy, which
literally means heart muscle disease
and although she took her blood
thinner medicaon regularly, Speeds
physician believed that she was not
compliant.
Chronic heart diseases like congesve
heart failure (CHF) or cardiomyopathy
are devastang condions that can
keep people from being able to
perform simple tasks. It is the leading
cause of hospitalizaon for people
over the age of 65 (however younger
individuals are also at risk). When
an individual is diagnosed with CHF,
it means that their heart is pumping
blood more weakly than a normal,
healthy heart; it does not mean that
the heart has literally stopped. Over
one million people are hospitalized
and nearly 300,000 die from heart
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An intervenon from a home care
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HCRs intervenon opened the door
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the treatment of my cardiomyopathy,
Ms. Speed states, now healthier and in
more control of her chronic disease.
Julie [Lewis, RN] has been a blessing
for my life and health. I am grateful
for the dedicated, professional, and
knowledgeable work the cardiac team
has achieved.
Two causes of heart failure prevalent
among African Americans is high
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diabetes. When blood pressure is too
high, your heart has to work harder to
connue blood circulaon which will
eventually weaken your heart. African
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According to the Naonal Instutes of
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Lawmaker: More Firings Likely at US Secret Service
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL
WASHINGTON (AP) A top lawmaker
briefed on the invesgaon into a
Secret Service prostuon scandal
said more rings could be imminent
following the ouster of three agency
employees.
I wouldnt be surprised if you saw
more dismissals and more being forced
out sooner rather than later, Rep.
Peter King, R-N.Y., said Thursday. King is
being updated on the invesgaon by
Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan.
You may see a few more today or
tomorrow, King added.
The Secret Service has moved quickly
to quell the scandal that erupted late
last week, when at least some of 11
agency employees implicated in the
incident brought prostutes back to
their hotel in Cartagena, Colombia,
where they were se ng up security
for a visit by President Barack Obama.
So far, three people involved have lost
their jobs. The service said Wednesday
that one supervisor was allowed to
rere, and another will be red for
cause. A third employee, who was not
a supervisor, has resigned.
In Washington and Colombia, separate
U.S. government invesgaons are
under way. The Secret Service has
invesgators in Colombia, and King
said he has assigned four congressional
invesgators to the probe. The
House Commiee on Oversight and
Government Reform, led by Rep.
Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sought details
of the Secret Service invesgaon,
including the disciplinary histories of
the agents involved.
In a leer to the Secret Service
director, Issa and Rep. Elijah Cummings
of Maryland, the commiees senior
Democrat, said the agents brought
foreign naonals in contact with
sensive security informaon. The
lawmakers have demanded that
Sullivan provide them by May 1
with detailed informaon about the
incident, including a full meline of the
events that unfolded in Colombia and
assurances that none of the women
involved were under the age of 18.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
called the Secret Service employees
under invesgaon stupid and said
there is not much Congress can do
to stop others from making similar
choices.
There is not a bill we can pass to
cause people to have common sense,
Reid, D-Nev., said Thursday.
Issa said Thursday he would wait unl
the Secret Service nished its internal
invesgaon before deciding whether
to launch his own commiee probe.
While congressional lawmakers pushed
for more answers from the Secret
Service, the White House, frustrated
by the elecon-year embarrassment,
pleaded for paence.
What Im not prepared to do is to oer
you sort of day-by-day commentary on
new revelaons or even new acons
taken with regards to this invesgaon
while its sll under way, White House
spokesman Jay Carney said. I dont
think thats helpful to the process.
Carney said Obama remained
condent in the Secret Service chief,
though he said the president had not
talked with Sullivan since the incident
unfolded. Senior White House aides
were in touch with Sullivan about the
ongoing invesgaon.
One Republican lawmaker said
Thursday the Secret Service incident
raised quesons about whether
Obama was capably leading the
government.
I dont sense that this president
has shown that kind of managerial
leadership, Sen. Je Sessions, R-Ala.,
said.
Carney shot back: That sounds very
much like a lawmaker aempng to
policize something that is not at all
polical.
Hours aer launching his cricism of
the president, Sessions showed up at
the White House to aend a ceremony
honoring his home-state University of
Alabama football team.
The Secret Service employees under
invesgaon include members of the
agencys jump teams, which are sent
to sites ahead of the presidents arrival
to set up security. Others involved
are on counter-assault and counter-
sniper teams. The majority of those
involved are believed to be based in
the Washington area.
Two of the employees forced out
Wednesday were supervisors in the
agencys uniformed division; one is
a sergeant, according to a person
familiar with Secret Service operaons
and refused to be idened because
he was not authorized to discuss the
maer.
Eight other Secret Service employees
remain on administrave leave and
have had their top-secret clearance
revoked.
Sullivan has oered the agents under
invesgaon the opportunity to take a
polygraph test, though the agents can
refuse.
The scandal also involved about 10
military service members and as many
as 20 women.
King said agency invesgators in
Colombia sll have not been able to
talk to the women who were brought
back to the hotel. The invesgators do,
however, have the names, addresses
and pictures of the women, said King,
the chairman of the House Homeland
Security Commiee, which oversees
the Secret Service.
The lawmaker said the agency was
reasonably condent that drug use
was not an issue with the three agents
who have been forced out. But he said
Secret Service invesgators would
connue to look into whether drugs
played a role in the incident as they
talk to the other eight agents involved.
The episode took a sharp polical
turn Wednesday when presumpve
Republican presidenal nominee Mi
Romney said he would clean house
and re the agents involved. However,
Romney said he, too, connued to
have condence in Sullivan.
The 10 military personnel under
invesgaon were staying at the
same hotel at the service employees.
The troops are suspected of violang
curfews set by their commanders.
Two U.S. military o cials have said
they include ve Army Green Berets.
One of the o cials said the group also
includes two Navy Explosive Ordinance
Disposal technicians, two Marine dog
handlers and an Air Force airman.
The o cials spoke on condion of
anonymity because the invesgaon is
sll under way.
Sullivan, who this week has briefed
lawmakers behind closed doors, said
he has referred to the case to an
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TNT Recepon.
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Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
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RCTV Free OUTPUT Fesval
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Kawaida (ka-wa-
ee-da) as taught
by Dr. Maulana
Karenga, is the
cultural philosophy
that denes culture
as the totality of a
peoples thought and
pracce by which a
people creates itself,
develops, sustains
and celebrates itself,
and introduces
itself to history and
humanity.
Kawaida concludes that there are seven
essenal components of culture: history,
spirituality, polical organizaon, economic
organizaon, social organizaon, creave
producon and ethos.
All seven components require consistent
correlaon, ongoing prevenve maintenance
and strong praccal applicaon in order for
the people to maximize the benets that
evolves from the pracce.
The state of black Rochester is in a cultural
crisis. The crisis is equivalent to living in a
massive ball of unnecessary toxic confusion.
It is a crisis of views and values fueled by, but
not limited to historical ignorance, egoism,
social cliques, so-called black elists, mid
and unrealisc religious leaders, a broken
public educaon system, a large populaon
of angry youth and the absence of a
collecve working denion of Rochesters
black community.
The severity of this cultural crisis demands
swi acon by those of us that desire to
experience a true African-American village
where people of goodwill can come together
to resolve the aects of broken-heartedness,
disappointment, spiritual impotence,
miseducaon and a host of other social
demons that haunts thousands of blacks in
this city with psychological frustraon and
socioeconomic instability.
Using the Afrocentric denion of culture
and working collecvely to ensure that all
seven components are intact, and are being
pracced accordingly, oers black Rochester
an opportunity to produce a holisc
community infrastructure that can create
an environment of ethnic dignity, authenc
intellectual discourse and aract economic
investors.
This is not a new vision; it is another
call to acon for the reawakening of the
Cultural Revoluon movement advocated
for by black leaders of the nineteenth
and tweneth century such as: Marn R.
Delaney, Alexander Crummell, Edward W.
Blyden, Henry M. Turner, W.E.B. DuBois,
Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad and many
other sisters and brothers that understood
that cultural philosophy and tradions are
the focal point of spiritual and psychological
survival for a people reeling from the
residuals of being dehumanized for more
than two-hundred years.
With that said, in contrast, the era of the
black integraonist and accommodaonist
movementwhich sll funcons today
with millions of followers calls for the
abandonment of African-centeredness.
This group is the home of most black civil
rights, polical, religious and bourgeoisie
schemes; but due to the recent years of
ongoing defeat by the so-called mainstream,
they reserve their rights to use the validity
of African-centeredness as a trump card
when their integraon and accommodaon
concepts awards them sociopolical defeat.
They remind me of assorted hyenas.
Unfortunately for black Rochester and
most blacks in America, it is the failure
of leadership by black integraonists
and accommodaonists that hinders the
progressive change needed to x this cultural
crisis.
I recall working locally under the supervision
of a black integraonist-accommodaonist
who refused to acknowledge that low-
income socially disadvantaged black people
have a natural responsibility to collecvely
address their social ills.
One day, I confronted this person about
this issue, and ended up in a heated debate
about the haves and the have nots. The
individual became so upset with my cultural
advocacy that the only defensive-leverage
the individual could use was the following
statement: You need to stop talking about
that black stu. Do you think those people
are going to feed you when you loose your
job? The person added: Theres room in
the boat for one more, all you have to do is
shu e along.
My response to what I considered an-
cultural thinking was: I dont shu e and
there will be no buck dancing over here!
Eventually, this person terminated me from
the so-called community-based organizaon
and later abandoned that establishment to
take a job with the City of Rochester in the
administraon of Rochesters rst black
mayor.
Time moves on. Indeed me does move
on, and the overwhelming majority of black
Rochesterians are sll confronted with
the unwillingness to collecvely examine
the community of self and embark on a
philosophical cultural journey designed to
purify the heart, transform the soul, and
recfy the misguided psychological and
polical drama that has been allowed to take
center stage and control the image of black
Rochester.
It is evident that most black Rochesterians
choose not to parcipate in cultural
restorave iniaves designed to eliminate
the growing decepons that black
integraonists and accommodaonists are
feeding black youth.
A people void of collecve consciousness
and cultural awareness will nd themselves
trapped in cognive dissonance for
generaons to come.
Kawaida stands rm as a praccal soluon
to release us form this cultural crisis. This is
Afrocentric commentary.
Confronng Black
Rochester Cultural Crisis
AFROCENTRIC COMMENTARY
AVERY T.
BLACKMAN
STRAIGHTNO CHASER
Who is Minister Franklin Florence,
and Why is he Being Honored?
Who is Minister
Franklin Florence?
Believe it or not, I
have been asked that
queson by far too
many folks.
Not all are
newcomers to
Rochester but
many represent
the generaon
my generaon
allegedly failed.
We not only failed
in our roles as village elders, we also failed to
insist that the grade school and high school
curriculum contain local history that reects
our modern-day heroes.
I learned about Frederick Douglass and
George Eastman in the fourth grade,
but I later discovered that they were not the
only pioneers or trailblazers who
have made a dierence in our community.
George Eastman, even though he dropped
out of school, was smart enough to build
an empire, one that may be crumbling now
but his memory and accomplishments are
etched in stone.
We, as a people, are going to learn to do that
for our icons one day.
Frederick Douglass the only black man I
heard about other then George Washington
Carver was not only a great orator,
statesman, writer and newspaper man, he
was a champion for jusce and equality
on all fronts much like Minister Franklin
Florence, was called to do.
They shared the same vision as it relates to
jusce, equality and fairness.
In the spirit of Frederick Douglass and every
warrior that came before him including
Christ, Minister Franklin Florence, who is
now in his eighes, has been our local drum
major for jusce since arriving in Rochester
in 1959.
Upon becoming pastor of the Reynolds
Street Church of Christ, he hit the ground
running and got involved and stayed involved
in this community.
It was just a few years ago he was carted o
to jail in handcus along with David Gan
and Ray Sco during the public defender
issue.
For me it would be a travesty if the long
overdue recognion dinner to be held at
the Rochester Riverside Convenon Center,
on Friday, May 4 comes and goes with only
church folks, the elderly, family members
and dinosaurs like me who love and respect
what this man has done in this community in
aendance.
Personally, I would like to see tables of young
folks from the Rochester City School District
in aendance so they can be introduced to a
history they will not
nd in their text books.
But so far the only voice we have heard from
the City School District is that of Malik Evans.
If you really want to be superintendent,
Bolgen Vargas, then here is an
opportunity to show me you are serious.
The recognion dinner will be a teachable
moment and an opportunity for those who
claim they know nothing about our local
history our Civil Rights history in parcular.
This is an appeal to all fat check writers,
like the unions (especially the teachers
union), social services agencies, sorories,
fraternies and churches to make sure young
folks are present and accounted for.
Young folks need to know whose
shoulders they stand on, parcularly if they
have kinfolks working at Kodak, Eltrex or
living comfortably at Fight Village or lived at
Fight Square.
Every black elected o cial within the
connes of Rochester also needs to be
standing at aenon giving honor and saying
thank you to a man who has been in the Civil
Rights trenches forever and has fought hard
and long for jusce, equal opportunity in
employment, housing and more.
Minister Franklin Florences steps were
ordered long ago and he has carried out with
great sacrice a thankless job, that at mes
has paid lile to no money.
This community is overridden with folks who
know not where they came from or how
they got there and may not even realize
the debt of gratude that is due.
This event will not only be of historical
signicance but will lend an opportunity
to remind or enlighten folks to the
accomplishments of such a humble, great
man.
All the so-called wannabe leaders need to
pay aenon, as well. Yes, we had to stroke
Minister Florence and chase him down to
get him to consent to this recognion dinner
because much like Assemblyman David
Gan, he has never made a move just to be
in the spotlight.
He is camera shy, believe it or not.
Trust and believe, the upcoming recognion
dinner for him is not one that anyone wants
to
miss.
We have many highlights in store and
promise it will be an event that will be talked
about for months if not years to come.
One of the surprises will be a short
documentary on the F.I.G.H.T. Organizaon.
The documentary by Carvin Eisen, of RCTV,
and Chris Christopher will debut at the
dinner.
You may recall that Carvin and Chris are
responsible for the Producon of the July 64,
documenng the Rochester riot that
occurred July 24, 1964.
Together, they once again have done an
excellent job. Chris is also the brainchild
and producer of a soon to be revealed
documentary on A ca.
Aer 40 years of lies she has researched and
put on lm, the truth.
The recognion dinner, on May 4 will kick o
with a recepon that will begin at 6 p.m.

Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. to accommodate
what we ancipate as an overow crowd.
Folks will mingle in the Convenon Center
lobby for photo ops with Minister Florence,
and Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., who will
be the keynote speaker that evening.
The atmosphere promises to be lively with
GLORIA WINSTON
AL-SARAG
Connued on next page
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Avery T. Blackman is an Afrocentric
Spiritual-Cultural preceptor and
community acvist.
The views expressed on our opinion pages are those of the author and do not
necessarily represent the position or viewpoint of Minority Reporter.
Liberal Democrats, They Never Seem to Go Away
AYESHA
KREUTZ
When I think of
Liberals, there are
a few scriptures
that come to
mind.
Genesis 3:1 -
Now the serpent
was more cunning
than any beast of
the eld which
the LORD God
had made.
2 Corinthians 11:14 - And no wonder!
For Satan himself transforms himself
into an angel of light.
The Democrat says one thing and
then does another, and this is not to
say Republicans dont do the same
thing. Humans are human, and we are
all awed. Truth be told, I am what
Frederick Douglass called a God-
lican and a devout Christ-ocrat!
As Frederick Douglass once said: I
am a Republican, a black, dyed-in-the-
wool Republican, and I never intend
to belong to any other party than the
party of freedom and progress.
The reason for this is simple. Liberals
have almost always been on the wrong
side of the issues as they pertain to
God, freedom and liberty. I am not
talking classic liberalism but American
liberalism.
Democrats have consistently
undermined the progress of minories
in all forms, while toung how they are
for the black man or for the woman or
for the homosexual.
The fact is: blacks did much beer
under Republican leadership than they
ever have under Democrat leadership.
The rst problem is that Democrats
always want to segregate people
into vong blocks (blacks, Hispanics,
women, white men, rich, poor etc..)
and make us enemies of each other.
Whatever happened to united we
stand and divided we fall?
Blacks are being killed in epic numbers,
from aboron alone. If we connue on
the demographic path we are on now,
blacks will cease to play a signicant
role in vong by 2038.
This can be traced back to Democrat
supported policies that perpetuate
disproporonal death rates of black
children due to the racist and bigoted
strategies postulated and enforced
by Margaret Sanger and Planned
Parenthood.
And aboron doesnt even take
into account all the black-on-black
violence, black drop-out rates, black
incarceraon rates and single-parent
homes. Blacks are denied jobs, because
of laws like the Davis-Bacon Act, and
we are disproporonally harmed
whenever America experiences high
unemployment rates, which have
been exacerbated due to the current
Democrat-Party tax schemes and
regulaons.
Lack of educaon has enabled the
indoctrinaon of generaons to accept
the idea that government handouts
are the best we can do because the
white man keeps us down.
This is the so bigotry of low
expectaons when blacks accept the
idea that, unless government gets us
a job, we will not be able to get it on
our own.
This same group of people, the
Democrats, who say they are for us,
pass and advocate for policies that
assume we cannot and will not do
anything for ourselves. Right under our
noses, they are calling us the weaker
race, and, somewhere along the way,
subconsciously too many of us have
bought into this idea.
It is so bad that now, when a group
of people come along and say Hey,
I believe in you and I know you can
accomplish anything you set your
mind to, we get oended.
What is so wrong with saying to
another fellow human being that you
do not deserve to live o the scraps
of others or that you do not have
to accept just enough to make you
complacent so that you lose your
desire and ability to dream?
Why is it wrong for people to say to
you: I believe in you, and I want you to
have the same opportunity to succeed
or fail as I do?
God has promised us Good and said
that those of us who are children
of God have an inheritance waing
for us. So what is even wrong with
wanng to build an empire to leave for
your children? Yet the Democrats want
to demonize hard work and wealth as
though there is something wrong with
leaving a legacy for our children.
Consider when President Bush wanted
to set up a poron of younger peoples
Social Security funds as a separate
account.
Blacks have lower life expectancies
than whites, but we put just as high
a percentage of our checks into social
security as whites.
In other words, if a white man lives
longer, he will receive more from
Social Security than the black father
of ve who gets shot down before he
reres.
If President Bush were successful in
creang personal accounts within
Social Security, this man would have an
asset to leave to his children. Instead,
they get money unl theyre a certain
age, and then all that money goes to
someone else.
That was the Democrats making sure
the Social Security system beneted
whites more than blacks, all the while
telling blacks they were doing it for
them.
I didnt get suckered by the Democrats,
and I didnt believe what they were
saying. I looked at what they were
doing. And what they were doing hurts
people.
In the third plank of the Communist
Manifesto, wrien by Karl Marx the
beloved philosopher of choice for the
Democrats is the abolion of all rights
of inheritance.
On top of prevenng us from being
able to pass our Social Security funds
to our children, the Democrat Party
advocates the stealing of the peoples
inheritance through inheritance taxes
of 55 percent.
The inheritance and estate taxes have
abolished or at least greatly diluted
the right of private property owners
to determine the disposion and
distribuon of their estates upon their
death.
Instead, government bureaucrats get
their greedy hands involved. When
Republicans ght against it they are
called horrid names.
Its said that they hate the poor
and want everyone to suer, yet it
is the Democrats who have almost
succeeded in creang a permanent
underclass of people.
With the right policies, it would be
easier for black folks to acquire wealth
and pass it on, where it will get beer
and larger. But the Democrats do
whatever they can to stop that.
But arent they taxing themselves?
No, the wealthy Democrats are
advocang policies that purposely
hurt black folks, have estate aorneys
and insurance policies to take care of
all the tax issues.
They want for nothing while blacks get
suckered into poverty and needing the
government to supplement their lives.
Wise up black folks. Consider the
Republican Party.
It is aer all, the party that freed the
slaves.
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Ayesha Pursegrove-Kreutz is President
of the Frederick Douglass Foundaon
of NY
Become a member today www.TFDF.
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music coming from accomplished guitarist,
Art Beaty and Friends with Todd East on
keyboards.
Janet Lomax will be our mistress of
ceremonies and the Central Church of
Christ Choir will perform when the program
o cially starts at 7:00 p.m.
Polical speeches will be kept to a minimum,
and the commiee requests, that if you are
an elected o cial in aendance, you let
Lovely Warren know so we can acknowledge
your support publicly.
No proclamaons, though appreciated, will
be read. They will all be published in the
souvenir journal aendees will get to take
home.
If there is something you want to say to
Minister Florence we will have a book with
blank pages available for personal comments
and reecons.
There will be two photographers available;
and one will make sure you take your
memories home with you that night.
The beauful ad on WDKX has denitely lit
a re so I encourage all who say they are
coming to get your ckets now, because they
will not be sold at the door.
For those who dont understand the
raonale for that decision, it is because the
food count and numbers are not something
we can change the night of the event.
The commiee did not write the copy for
the WDKX ad that has been running and
my hat is o to who did because they did a
tremendous job in le ng the listeners know
exactly who Minister Florence is.

Tony Bolers voice alone makes the ad a
masterpiece.
If you didnt get an invitaon, your church
did; and if claim you dont listen to WDKX
or read the Minority Reporter Newspaper,
then I might not listen to you when you say I
didnt know anything about the dinner.
I didnt know anything about it is a familiar
and frequent excuse we all hear from many
at mes. Our public relaon skills are not
waning so if you dont know about the
recognion for Minister Franklin Florence by
now then you obviously live in a vacuum.
And my appeal to the churches asleep at the
wheel, please announce the event from the
pulpit, put it in your programs and for Gods
sake sponsor some young folks.
I dont think that is asking too much for our
community servants, the ones concerned
about young folks.
Tickets are available at F.I.G.H.T. Village,
or Central Church of Christ; or you can
get them from the following Commiee
Members: Sheila Williams, Chris Christopher,
Dave McCleary, Rev. Ruben Go, Minister
Raymond B.T. Sco, Minster Cliord
Florence, Lovely Warren, Clianda
Florence, Gaynelle Wethers, Carrie Remis,
Constance Mitchell-Jeerson, Dana Bratcher,
Allen Williams, or Gloria Winston Al-Sarag.
Assemblyman David F. Gan is
the honorary chairperson of the event.
If you run into anyone who asks who Minister
Franklin Florence is, and since you know
now, please enlighten them knowledge is
not worth a dime if you dont share it.
Minister Franklin Florence, has shared and
given to this community his enre life, please
join us in saying thank you as we present him
with owers while he can sll smell them.
He is more than deserving.
----------------------------------
Gloria Winston Al-Sarag is a Community Activist, Writer,
Communicator, Political Activist. She is a native Roches-
terian and has been involved with numerous community
orgainzations in Rochester.
Contact Gloria at: JazzyG4202@aol.com
May 3-6, 2012
155 Pinnacle Road
Henrietta NY 14467
(585) 334-8730
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