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CASH IN THE APPLE FOR
02-11-16
By Cash Michaels
MORAL MARCH/HK ON J – This Saturday,
Feb. 13th, the Tenth Annual
Moral March/HK on J People’s Assembly is scheduled to kick off once again.
Presented by the NC NAACP and it’s
coalition partners under the Forward
Together Movement, tens of thousands of activists from across the state and
nation come to Raleigh to speak out on the issues they feel need to be
addressed. This year, the primary focus will be voting, and there will be workers
there passing out pledge-to-vote cards, and registering people to vote in time
for the March 15th primaries (assuming there are primaries on March
15th given the recent federal appellate court ruling).
For more information call the
NCNAACP office at 919-682-4700, or go to www.naacpnc.org
or www.hkonj.com.
THANK YOU – Last Sunday and Monday
was a total blast, and extreme honor. On Sunday, the NC Museum of History did us props by screening “Pardons of Innocence: The Wilmington Ten” on, or all days, Super
Bowl Sunday. Everyone admits that at the time of the original scheduling, no
one realized that the film would be effectively going up against a national
holiday, with everyone’s mind on one thing – the big game. But, we went with
it, and all I can say is GOD is good. We had an excellent turnout in the
Daniels Auditorium at the history Museum for a cold, sleeting Sunday afternoon
with the Super Bowl just hours away. And these were people of every stripe, who
came certainly out of curiosity, and ultimately to learn.
I’m very
pleased that there was a powerful film waiting for them.
What made
everything even better was to have Rev.
Dr. Benjamin Chavis, leader of the Wilmington Ten and current president/CEO
of the National Newspaper Publishers
Association there, along with NCCU law Prof. Irving Joyner, who served as
one of the original defense attorneys on the case over 40 years ago.
It was also
a blessing to have my Wilmington Journal
publisher Mary Alice Thatch and her husband, Rev. John Thatch, in the house as well.
So permit
me to thank Emily Grant, Youth Programs
Coordinator and Earl Ijames, curator at the NC Museum of History for her
leadership in making Sunday happen. We had been talking for virtually a year
about making it happen, and it did.
Thank you.
And then, a few weeks ago, Emily
Grant told me that Jenny Grant,
Assistant Director for Client and Community Relations for PNC Bank, was
interested in honoring the film during the company’s annual Black History
Luncheon. I didn’t know, at the time, that PNC was actually co-sponsoring the
museum screening. No reason not to make it happen, and since they were bringing
in Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis and atty
Irving Joyner to participate in the Sunday screening, and then the luncheon
Monday.
It was also very nice to have Chancellor Debra Saunders-White of North
Carolina Central University, and Dr.
Everett Ward of St. Augustine’s University in attendance, among other
dignitaries.
I had no idea what to expect since
I had nothing to do with the luncheon at the PNC Arena VIP section, but it all turned out well (despite
a last minute emergency at home that delayed my getting there), and I thank
Jenny Grant very much for a very pleasurable experience. I hope to work with
PNC again.
Ben, Irv and myself remarked how
just four years ago, neither PNC or the NC Museum of History would have touched
the subject of the Wilmington Ten with a ten-foot pole. And now look at, thanks
to the hard work and sacrifice of so many people, how the true story of the
Wilmington Ten is now being embraced.
For that, we thank GOD.
GROW UP, CAM – Yes, a lot of us are
being very charitable to the behavior of
Carolina Panthers QB Cam Newton
after he left the post-Super Bowl presser Sunday in a huff after losing 24-10
to the Denver Broncos. First of all,
Denver was touted with having the best defense in the NFL, and they certainly
proved that with sack after sack on Cam.
So despite the Panthers impressive
17-1 season, and Cam’s Most Valuable Player Award, It was good, solid
smash-mouth football defense that won the day Sunday.
But Cam Newton obviously took the
loss very personally. On the sidelines, he literally fell to the ground in
obvious personal defeat once it was clear that the Broncos would win the game.
Luckily, he was able to pull himself together enough to go over and
congratulate champion Peyton Manning
for a good game, despite Manning having problems of his own.
But it was after the loss , and the
press conference, where a sullen Cam Newton seemed like a man trapped in a
personal prison, and needed to somehow escape but the press officially branded
him as a loser.
Make no mistake, there was a lot of
noise about Cam’s antics during the regular season – the way he would celebrate
after every touchdown, ripping down an opposing team’s sign before a game,
doing dances on field.
Black journalists saw the criticism
as whites not understanding Cam claiming the license to be who and what he is.
Whites saw Cam’s behavior as being disrespectful to the stoic tradition of the
game.
Cam, quite frankly, had all the
license he wanted this season to do whatever he wanted…because he and his team
were winning. You’d be surprised how liberating doing a little thing like
winning can be.
But the true mark of a champion is
not only how you win, but how you lose, especially when you deeply feel that
you put all you had into doing anything but.
Cam Newton is a young 26 years ago,
and has only been in the NFL for five years. He has a lot to learn. This
experience will teach him, and help him understand how to bounce back from
losing on the big stage.
Some of you may say, “Why should
he? Cam is entitled to his feelings, and entitled to express them.” Well, yes
and no. If Peyton Manning had lost, is there anyone who doubts he would have
shown grace and sportsmanship in defeat? He’s been in the league long enough to
know how it’s down.
The fact of the matter is Cam
Newton is part of a team, indeed he is the titular leader of that team.
Therefore he has no choice but to represent that team, in and out of uniform.
He’s supposed to represent the highest standards of that team.
Cam Newton is not Muhammad Ali. Ali
went bat crazy to draw crowds to his fights. But after it was over, win or
lose, Ali was always gracious to his opponent. It’s an art, AND a science that
true champions must learn.
Now it’s Cam Newton’s turn, and he
will.
Make sure you tune in every Thursday
afternoon at 4 p.m. for my talk radio show, ''Make It Happen'' on Power 750
WAUG-AM, or online at www.waug-network.com. And read more about my
thoughts and opinions exclusively at my blog, ‘The Cash Roc” (http://thecashroc.blogspot.com/2011/01/cash-roc-begins.html).
Cash in the Apple - honored as the
Best Column Writing of 2006 by the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
Columnist Cash Michaels was also honored by the NNPA for Best Feature Story
Journalist of 2009, and was the recipient of the Raleigh-Apex NAACP’s
President’s Award for Media Excellence in Sept. 2011.
Until next week, keep a smile on your
face, GOD in your heart, and The Carolinian in your life. Bye, bye.
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GOP SCRAMBLES TO STAY
VOTING MAPS ORDER
By Cash Michaels
Contributing writer
February 19th.
That’s the
deadline a federal appeals court has ordered the Republican-led NC General
Assembly to have redrawn voting maps for the predominately-black First and
Twelfth Congressional Districts. The three-judge panel ruled last Friday that
race was the key factor in drawing the districts, in violation of the Equal
Protection Claus of the US Constitution.
The First
is represented by Congressman G. K. Butterfield, while the Twelfth District is
represented in Congress by Rep. Alma Adams. Both are African-American
Democrats.
Opponents
say Republican mapmakers in the state Legislature “stacked-and-packed” black
voters into the two districts, thus denying them the opportunity to elected
lawmakers of their choice who did not happen to be black.
Supporters
of the maps say they were only following the dictates of the 1965 Voting Rights
Act, ensuring that voters were able to elect representation of their choice.
Republican
leaders in the both the state House and Senate had their lawyers file a
petition with that same three-judge appellate panel seeking to stay that order,
arguing that absentee ballots for the March 15th primaries have
already been sent out, and that new maps
can’t be drawn in so short a time.
“Should this decision be
allowed to stand, North Carolina voters will no longer know how or when they
will get to cast their primary ballots in the presidential, gubernatorial,
congressional and legislative elections. And thousands of absentee voters may
have already cast ballots that could be tossed out. This decision could do far
more to disenfranchise North Carolina voters than anything alleged in this
case,” said Sen. Bob Rucho [R- Mecklenburg]
and Rep. David Lewis [ R-Harnett].
However, the NCNAACP, which was not
a plaintiff in this case, was elated.
"This unanimous Court
decision vindicates the record we first brought to the attention of the public
-- that the state legislature under Berger and Tillis had drawn racially
biased unconstitutional voting district,” said NCNAACP President Rev. William Barber.
“This is a huge victory in our fight against 21st century racism and discrimination.”
The NC NAACP does see this case,
which was filed by one voter in Durham County and two from Mecklenburg County,
as helping the civil rights organization in its argument against the entire
2011 redistricting map in state court, where the NC Supreme Court had originally dismissed its claim.
In response to the state’s petition
for a stay, the plaintiffs filed an answer Tuesday, saying that North Carolina
has already conducted two elections under the disputed maps, even though they
are in violation of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
The plaintiffs maintained that to
allow yet another election under the current maps would cause “irreparable harm”
to the voters of North Carolina.
So what happens now for the March 15th
primaries?
Those opposed to the federal
appellate court ruling see it disrupting the Legislature’s original intent of
moving the North Carolina primaries from May to March in order to have a
greater impact on the presidential elections.
Supporters of the court order say
those who have already voted by absentee ballot can simply vote again if the
March 15th primaries are pushed back to April, or even where they
originally were, May. The important thing, they say, is that unconstitutionally
drawn voting districts be corrected in time for the 2016 elections.
Republican leaders say it could take
longer than two weeks to redraw their districts per court order, however redistricting
is done by computer models, which greatly reduces the time that it once took to create voting maps.
At press time Tuesday, Gov. Pat
McCrory was reportedly ready to order the NC General Assembly back next week
for a special session to redraw the maps.
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RALLY THIS SATURDAY
By Cash Michaels
Editor
The
political stage is set for this Saturday’s Tenth Annual Moral March in
Raleigh/HK on J People’s Assembly, kicking off at 8:30 a.m. with a pre-march
rally at 2 East South Street near Shaw University in downtown Raleigh, with a march
down the Fayetteville Street Mall to the steps of the State Capitol kicking off
at 10 a.m..
It is
called the “Get Out The Vote Gathering and Mobilization,” sponsored by the
NCNAACP and the Forward Together Movement. The People’s Assembly at the Capitol
will end at 12:30 p.m.
At the
assembly, there will be voter registration for the tentative March 15th
primaries (tentative thanks to a federal appeals court ruling last Friday
throwing out redistricting maps for the First and Twelfth Congressional
Districts, and ordering that they be redrawn within the next two weeks).
Following the Moral March
on Raleigh, there will be a Souls to the Polls training about how faith
communities can register, educate, and mobilize their congregations and
communities to the polls.
On Friday
evening, Feb. 12, there will be a pre-Moral March/People’s Assembly mass
meeting and worship service, featuring Rabbi Fred Guttman, starting at 7 p.m.
at First Baptist Church, 101 S. Wilmington Street in Raleigh.
The agenda,
as always, for the Moral March, includes the expansion and protection of voting
rights; economic justice and livable wages per labor rights; educational equity
through proper funding for quality public schools and support for historically
black colleges and universities; health care for all Medicaid expansion,
women’s health and environmental justice; equal protection under the law
through justice without regard to race, creed, class, gender, sexual
orientation or immigration status; and police reform.
According
to the USA Today newspaper, over
80,000 demonstrators participated in the 2015 Moral March/People’s Assembly,
making it one of the largest social justice gatherings in the nation at the
time. This year organizers say they are trying to attract even more
participants in an effort to register to register at many as possible for this
year’s state and national elections.
A highlight
of Saturday’s People’s Assembly will be an address by David Goodman, the
brother of the late Andrew Goodman, who, along with fellow civil rights workers
Michael “Mickey” Schwerner and James Chaney, were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in
Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964. They were there to help register
black people there to vote.
David
Goodman, along with his wife, heads up the Andrew Goodman Foundation, which
promotes creative and social action among young people nationwide. Mr. Goodman
will serve ambassador for the assembly.
Last year,
the foundation recognize actor/social activist Danny Glover and “Selma”
director Ava DuVernay, among others, with the 2015 Hidden Heroes Award, named
after Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney.
Many of the
speakers this year will be persons negatively impacted by the 2013 voter
restrictions passed by the Republican-led NC Geneal Assembly, and signed by
Gov. Pat McCrory.
The entire
event will be livestreamed across the nation.
For more information call the
NCNAACP office at 919-682-4700, or go to www.naacpnc.org
or www.hkonj.com.
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TRIANGLE NEWS BRIEFS FOR 2-12-16
WAKE SCHOOL SYSTEM
PAYS $225,000 FOR 2013 ACCIDENT
The Wake
County Public School System was ordered to pay $225,000 to a man who was struck
and killed by a school bus while riding a scooter in 2013. A judge ordered the
award be paid to the estate of Joe Shelton of Clayton. Published reports say
Shelton was riding his scooter on Chapel Hill Road on an early morning in March 2013, when the bus
made a left turn, striking him. The bus was not carrying students at the time.
UNC TO HIRE INTEGRITY
ADMINISTRATOR
Still
licking its wounds after numerous scandals involving the Athletics Dept, UN –
Chapel Hill will soon hire a chief integrity and policy officer, a top
administrator charged with the job of ensuring that school policies are
followed by all with the highest standard of integrity. This senior
administrator will report directly to the chancellor. A campus dean will serve
as interim until a permanent candidate is selected.
RALEIGH POLICE WARN
OF JURY DUTY SCAM
If someone
claiming to be a Wake County sheriff’s deputy calls you on the phone, and
demands that you purchase prepaid debit cards or else be arrested, feel free to
hang up, say Raleigh Police. It is known as the jury duty scam, where someone
claiming to be a deputy tries to pressure the unwitting person on the phone
that they are in trouble for missing jury duty, and then try to cajol them to
buy a prepaid card and give the “deputy” the account number. Raleigh police say
don’t listen, certainly don’t purchase anything, and hang up.
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STATE NEWS BRIEFS FOR 2-12-16
WILMINGTON P.D
INCREASE FOOT PATROLS
[WILMINGTON]
Wilmington Police are
increasing foot patrols in some high crime areas in Wilmington. The increased
patrols are a part of the agency’s efforts to increase police visibility, improve
community relations and prevent crime. Officers patrol designated areas in
teams of two. The Wilmington Police Department also uses other high visibility
patrol methods such as bicycles, horses, Segways and a gas powered ATV used for
parks, on and off-road patrols.
SEVEN CURRENT OR EX-LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFFICERS CONVICTED IN DRUG STING
[RALEIGH] Seven current or former
law enforcement officers were among the fourteen suspects convicted Tuesday in
a massive drug operation that involved the trafficking and distribution of
cocaine and heroin in Eastern North Carolina. Known as “Operation Rockfish,”
the federal sting focused on Northampton and Halifax counties, where suspects
transported what they thought were real drugs in exchange for bribes. At least four
correctional officers were involved and pleaded guilty, officials say.
STATE TESTS POOR FOR ILLEGAL DRUG
USE, FINDS LITTLE EVIDENCE
[RALEIGH] Since last August, the state
of North Carolina has reviewed over 7,600 public assistance applicants, and
found that only 21 have tested positive for use of illegal drugs. State
lawmakers passed a law in 2013 requiring all applicants for the Work First
program to be screened, and if flags were raised, then be tested of drugs. Thus
far the program has costs the state $5,500. Democratic state lawmakers call the
drug testing a “waste” of money.
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