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CASH IN THE APPLE for 9-29-16
By Cash Michaels
THE DEBATE
– Yep, I was among the tens of millions of viewers ( a record 80.9 million to be exact) who gave up Monday night to
watch the presidential “Rumble in the Jungle” between Republican Donald J. Trump, and Democrat Hillary Clinton. I must admit, it was
well worth the wait, and the watch.
Despite all of the pre-debate babble on the cable networks, it was clear that Trump did not prepare properly for the faceoff. While he thought he was doing a good job being mean and nasty to Clinton every chance he got, all he was met with for the whole 90+ minutes was a bright, mocking smile and virtually a wink to the audience from Clinton that she was going to let her opponent run his foolish mouth.
Despite all of the pre-debate babble on the cable networks, it was clear that Trump did not prepare properly for the faceoff. While he thought he was doing a good job being mean and nasty to Clinton every chance he got, all he was met with for the whole 90+ minutes was a bright, mocking smile and virtually a wink to the audience from Clinton that she was going to let her opponent run his foolish mouth.
It wasn’t
really a fair fight. Trump, as he has already proven, is clearly out of his
league when he talks about the issues, and what he would do about them if
elected president. There can be no doubt who was better studied and prepared to
do the job.
THE OTHER
DEBATE WORLD – I bounced back and forth between MSNBC and CNN during the
post-debate analysis, and was not surprised to see sensible people agree that
Donald Trump got clocked. On MSNBC, even Republican analysts had to admit that
their boy lost the debate by a large margin.
But then I
turned to Fox News, knowing that I was leaving Planet Earth, a place of
understanding, and going to a world where crazy, twisted, conservative BS would
rule the day. Sure enough, I tuned in just in time to hear Fox host Sean Hannity declare Donald Trump the
undisputed winner of the debate.
Let’s be
clear, Trump could have choked on the many glasses of water he was chugging
that night, and they still would have declared him the master of all. And that’s a shame, that a so-called “news”
operation is so in the bag for a twisted presidential candidate that there is
no way it can honestly evaluate him.
But that’s
Fox News’ bread and butter – propping up the right wing no matter what
objective facts prove otherwise. It is really a shame to watch grown men and
women lie and sham and work hard to convince viewers that 1+1=4, despite
compelling evidence to the contrary.
But the
question is, how many voters who believe in Fox like a fiery religion, will
take this nonsense to the polls on Election Day?
You’d be
surprised!
“MAGNIFICENT”
DENZEL – I don’t go to the movies often, but after I heard that actor Denzel Washington was leading the cast
of the new “Magnificent Seven” movie, directed by black director Antoine Fuqua,
I knew I had to see it on the first day.
Denzel is
over 60-years-old, and one would assume that his days of being big box office
are over. But as D-man proved with the blockbuster “The Equalizer” two years
ago, he still has it, even as an action hero.
On the
scale of 1 to 10, I have to give “Magnificent Seven” an 8, and Denzel is
outstanding in it. Go see it!
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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NCNAACP, CBC DEMAND
JUSTICE
AFTER CHARLOTTE
SHOOTING
By Cash Michaels
Contributing writer
In the
aftermath of the tragic Charlotte police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott last
week, both the NCNAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus have demanded an
independent federal investigation.
Monday
night in Charlotte, NCNAACP President Rev. William Barber said it was not clear
that the shooting was justified, as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr
Putney insisted last week prior to releasing the edited police dash-cam and
body cam footage to the public Saturday under pressure.
Rev. Barber
issued a list of demands, including the release of all police body cam footage
related to the Scott shooting that the CMPD may still have in its possession.
He also called for an “accountability” and “heightened consequences” of the
CMPD officers who took part in the incident on-scene who did not have their
body cameras activated. The officer who fatally shot Keith Scott reportedly did
not have his body cam operating.
The NC
NAACP also demanded that federal standards be established for when police
officers should be justified in using deadly force. Those standards should be
utilized “…in additional training, guidelines for identifying and removing
officers with a propensity to overreact, and a commitment from the U.S. Department of Justice,
in collaboration with local prosecutors and the State Bureaus of Investigation,
to aggressively pursue investigations, indictments, and prosecutions against
law enforcement officers who harm or kill innocent civilians.”
Rev. Barber also called for “…the retrial of Randall Kerrick, the
officer responsible for killing Jonathan Ferrell, another unarmed Black man
shot in Charlotte just three years ago.” The NCNAACP president also called for
the repeal of HB 972 “…which will, as of October 1, require a court order to
release footage from police recordings, thus further enshrouding in secrecy a
system already distrusted by the public that those officials claim to
serve. “
The NCNAACP list of demands also
included a moratorium on the death penalty and restoration of the Racial
Justice Act; an end to racial profiling; empowering police civilian review
boards; a “demilitarization” of police departments statewide; a public
accounting of elected officials on key issues like voting rights, health care,
public education, etc.; and the passage of meaning criminal justice reform and
“the end of racialized policing and police brutality.”
The Keith Scott police
shooting footage showed plainclothes officers with “POLICE” vests on,
repeatedly ordering Scott, 43, out of his vehicle at gunpoint after they claim
to have witnessed him sitting in the front seat with a marijuana joint and a
handgun.
Chief
Putney claimed that evidence retrieved from the scene buttressed officers’
contention that Scott had a weapon, exited his car with it at his side, and
walked backwards away from the police until one officer, Brentley Vinson, 26,
fired four rounds, fatally hitting Scott.
Days of
street protests followed, with the city imposing curfews and the governor
sending in the National Guard to ensure against violence that marred the first
two nights of demonstrations.
None of the
police footage showed Scott with a gun in his hand, despite still pictures of a
gun the Charlotte –Mecklenburg Police Dept. says was in his hand, and has his
DNA on.
Scott’s
family insists that he did not own a gun they knew of. Published reports this
week claim Scott bought the handgun illegally.
In Washington, D.C., North Carolina
members of the Congressional Black Caucus took front and center in demanding an
end to police shootings of black men.
Congresswoman Alma Adams [D-12- NC]
demanded that the US Department of Justice open a “pattern-or-practice”
investigation into the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in the wake of
two fatal police shootings in the past three years.
“People need to be receptive to, again, admitting that
there’s a problem and then coming together and saying, you know, I know there’s
a way we can fix it,” Rep. Adams told The
Charlotte Observer . “You might not have the solution, but you may have a
portion of what we need to do.”
Meanwhile, the Congressional Black
Caucus, led by Congressman G. K. Butterfield [D-NC-1] marched to the US Justice
Dept. last Thursday with a letter for US Attorney Gen. Loretta Lynch requesting
federal probes into the Charlotte, and Tulsa, Okla. fatal police shootings.
“The Congressional Black Caucus is
outraged with the dozens of unlawful police shootings that are taking place all
across America involving unarmed, innocent African-American citizens,” CBC
Chairman Butterfield told reporters.
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POLICE OFFICER FIRED
FOR RACIST FACEBOOK POST
[CHADBOURN]
A police officer with the Chadbourn Police Dept. was fired Tuesday for posting
a racist Facebook that told blacks, “You are the bad guys now…have a 74 percent
illegitimacy rate…you produce nothing….you don’t raise your children with any
morality…,” among many other statements. Former Officer Ricky Soles. Soles
deleted his Facebook account Monday before he was asked to resign, but refused.
In a statement, Soles denied being racist, or that his post was directed at
black people. “This post is directed to CRIMINALS.” The Chadbourn Police Dept.
is investigating.
CALIFORNIA RESTRICTS
OFFICIAL TRAVEL TO NC BECAUSE OF HB 2
[RALEIGH]
As far as California Governor Jerry Brown is concerned, if North Carolina won’t
respect the rights of LGBT people, then California shouldn’t be sending
government workers to the state. Brown
signed a bill this week doing effectively that, citing North Carolina’s
controversial HB 2 law, which prohibits gay and transgender people from using
public bathrooms that don’t comply with their gender at birth. Brown’s law
specifically applies to California public universities.
SEN. FLETCHER
HARTSELL INDICTED FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE
MISUSE
[RALEIGH] A
longtime Republican state lawmaker faces prison time if he’s convicted of
misuse of campaign funds over an eight-year period. Sen. Fletcher Hartsell, 69, was indicted by a federal grand jury this
week on 14-counts of campaign finance corruption. This is after a Wake County
grand jury indicted Hartsell for falsifying campaign finance reports. In the
federal indictments, the Concord Republican is accused of illegally spending
campaign funds on a personal trip, seeing a show, and having his hair cut.
Hartsell also faces a large fine if convicted.
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FRIDAY LAST DAY FOR
WAKE EXPUNGEMENT PROGRAM
Friday,
Sept. 30th, is the last day for Wake County citizens to pre-register
for a new program that helps people have their criminal records expunged.
Partnering with Diana Powell and the Torchlight Academy, the Wake County
District Attorney’s Office has been flooded with hundreds of applicants seeking
to have past juvenile convictions under the age of 18removed from their record
so that they’re able to better jobs and educational opportunities. Contact the
Wake D.A’s Office or Torchlight Academy for more information, but the deadline
is Friday, Sept. 30th.
FORMER TOWN OF CARY
EMPLOYEE PLEADS GUILTY TO FALSIFYING WATER TESTS
A former
Town of Cary employee has pled guilty to falsifying over 275 water quality
sample tests. Christopher Dale Miller of Cary, a water system technician, admitted Monday in federal court to making
false statements about water qulity in violation of federal law. Miller was
responsible for collecting samples in ans around Cary. He is to be sentenced Dec. 12.
WAKE SHERIFF WAS
UNIFORMED POLICY ON SCHOOL BATHROOM RULES
Wake County
Sheriff Donnie Harrison is threatening to remove his deputies from school
resource officer duty unless the Wake Board of Education develops a uniformed
policy governing bathroom and locker room facility usage. The school system
currently depends on principals to come up with their own facility policies
dealing with transgender students. Sheriff Harrison counters that without a
uniformed policy, both his deputies ands parents are confused. School Board
Chairman Tom Benton says Harrison is playing politics, and school system is
waiting on the federal court decision on North Carolina’s HB2 law before
deciding policy.
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