COMMUNITY HAILS MIZZOU
STUDENTS
AFTER BOLD PROTESTS
By Cash Michaels
Editor
While
conservative media like Fox News has been critical of the outcome, the
African-American community is applauding the unity and decisiveness of black
students this week at the University of Missouri whose powerful protests amid
racial strife brought about the resignation of the university system president.
On social
media, like Facebook, people were equally as unified in their praise.
“Good.
Proud of them,” said an FB poster named “Pebbles” from Charlotte.
“Justice
prevailed,” wrote “Kim” from New Orleans, La. “Thank God for all who stood
tall.”
“Yes, there
is power in unity pointed in the direction of the “pocket book”,” wrote another
FB poster, “Al” from Raleigh. “Nothing gets results like hitting an institution
in the “bottom line.” The sooner black people realize that, the better off they
will be.”
That last
remark referred to how the University of Missouri football team vowed last
Saturday night not to take the field in their next home game against Brigham
Young University in Kansas City, unless UM System President Tim Wolfe resigned.
The threat would have cost the school at least $1 million in fines from the
NCAA, not to mention lost revenues.
Both the players and other black
students accused Pres. Wolfe of virtually ignoring their pleas for action to
stop the growing number of incidents of racist treatment at the hands of white
students on campus, who seemed to operate with impunity.
“The athletes of color on the University of Missouri football team truly
believe ‘Injustice Anywhere is a threat to Justice Everywhere,” the team
tweeted last Saturday. “We will no longer participate in any football
related activities until President Tim Wolfe resigns or is
removed due to his negligence toward marginalized students’ experiences.
WE ARE UNITED!!!!!”
Fifty-eight of the team’s 84 scholarship athletes are black, and yet all
of them, including the white coach, joined in unity over the protest.
In addition, a graduate student named Jonathan Butler, a member of the
Concerned Student 1950 movement, had already begun a hunger strike in protest
five days earlier, adding more pressure on the administration.
Wolfe
announced his resignation two days later on Monday, saying in emotion-filled
words that he was stepping down so that the healing could begin. Later that
day, the chancellor at the Columbia campus also resigned, effective by the end
of the year, indicating that he would return to the classroom instead.
The racial incidents
endured by the small black student population at the University of Missouri
were many.
According
to the St. Louis American, an NNPA affiliated black newspaper, “…Missouri Students Association President
Payton Head was called the n-word when walking near campus…members of Legion of
Black Collegians were called the n-word while preparing for Homecoming…a MU
student drew a swastika in the Gateway residential hall with their own feces…someone
accessed the computer connected to a projector in the Busch Student Center at
SLU and changed the text on the large screen to read, “Nazis rule f*** niggers
and fags.” The week before, students discovered a swastika arranged out of
tealight candles outside the Marguerite Hall dorm.”
The Black Student Alliance says it
was literally laughed at when it had taken its concerns to Pres. Wolfe.
“Students of African descent at.
…have been repeatedly subject to acts of racism, and in turn, receive idle
resolutions, lack of transparency and stagnation from the administration.”
Now that Wolfe is gone, the students
say they will work for healing, and better recognition and respect on campuses
in the MU system.
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CASH IN THE APPLE
FOR 11-12-15
By Cash Michaels
YEAR OF
THE MIRACLE – Last
Friday, November 6th, I was humbled because exactly one year ago to
the date is when I had a severe stroke which crippled my left leg, and impaired
my left arm. I could not walk, and had a hard time moving my left arm with
precision. I wouldn’t stop moving when I willed it to do so. And what may
surprise many of you is that I literally waited to go to the hospital until the
very next day because I really didn’t know what had happened. I thought my back
had given out because of my excess weight, and despite the protestations of my
wife, I resisted going to the emergency room until after I had had a good
night’s rest.
My risky “logic” (dumb luck
actually) was that perhaps with a night’s rest, my back and leg would be good
as new, but if not, I would certainly then carry myself to the doctor’s office
fast.
To hedge my risky (read that as
dumb) bet, I emailed to physician friends of my and shared the symptoms with
them to get their advice. But morning, both had emailed back telling me that it
sounded serious, sounded like a neurological problem, and I better get myself
to the emergency quickly.
In a roundabout way, they were
telling me I may have had a stroke, and the more time I left it untreated, the
more serious damage it could do. I personally already knew that from when my
mother suffered a debilitating stroke on Mother’s Day 1989. The only thing,
besides GOD, that saved her life was my calling her from North Carolina early
to wish her in Brooklyn, NY a Happy Mother’s Day.
It is because I heard her shockingly
slurred speech, and knew that my mother, even though she lived alone, did not
drink, that something was wrong, and that something had to be a stroke. I
remember seeing an episode of “A Man Called Hawk” where a woman collapsed at a
dinner party, and while she laid on the ground, someone asked her to make a
fist. When she couldn’t do it, they called the stroke in.
I remember asking my mother to make
a fist while I was on the phone with her, and when she told me she couldn’t do
it I knew what she was dealing with. I called my relatives there in Brooklyn,
had them rush right over, and they got her to the hospital.
So I had some history with stroke,
but never personally that I knew of. I say that because after I called 911 (I
had sent my wife off to work and youngest daughter off to school, convincing
them that if my “back problem” didn’t get better, I’d get myself to the
hospital), and the first responders and then the ambulance came to get me, it
was later determined at the hospital that I had actually has a series of
smaller strokes over time leading up to that fateful day, but just didn‘t know
it.
Essentially, the right side of your
brain controls your left side, and vice versa. But when that connection dies,
which is what happened to me, then the brain can’t send appropriate signals to
the corresponding limb for movement or reaction.
For the next week, I stayed in the
hospital. While there it was decided that it was best to schedule an invasive
heart procedure to determine if I had any blockages in the valves to my heart,
which could cause even more serious strokes, if not a heart attack.
So literally a month later, I had heart surgery to remove two
blockages in my valves and have stents implanted. Medically, I had congestive
heart failure, and I spent another week in the hospital recovering from that.
Needless to say, last holiday season was not too festive for yours truly.
I couldn’t work (neither of my bosses would allow me to write a
thing, even though my brain and cognitive skills were as sharp as ever), so
staying home, walking with a cane and a walker, and depending on others to
accomplish what normally would be simple things, was torture. Most of my time,
when not at the doctor’s office, was spent in bed.
And yet, through the blessings of GOD, and the love and devotion
of family, friends, my bosses and the prayers and support of good people like
you, my readers, when folks see me now, a year later, they literally ask,
"What stroke? I don't see it." My arm completely healed months ago.
My left leg is as strong as ever, and I have at least 98 percent control of it
now. I have changed my diet because of diabetes, I have been working out
because I was (and still am) over weight), and I have been getting my rest and
taking my meds, all the while still working hard at the things I love to do
best.
So this time of year is a solemn time for me to
briefly look back, but to certainly look forward. Again, I thank everyone, for your love and support. It truly made a
difference this past year, and I'm VERY proud of all of the projects that I was
able to complete, all of the places I traveled to under my own power, and all
of the challenges I was able to overcome. To GOD be the glory!
SPECTRE – Went to see “SPECTRE”, the latest James Bond
007 adventure over the weekend starring Daniel Craig as the super spy we’ve all
known and loved for over half a century now. As always, the action was
spectacular and Craig, in his fourth and possibly last go-round, was brutally
cool as always.
However, the plot was somewhat weak, and the ending
was shockingly underwhelming. In fact, at the end of the story, I felt cheated
(I won’t tell you what happened, but trust me, there were no cheers at the end.
So on the scale of ten Cash Apples, I give “SPECTRE”
at 7.5…with a worm for a bum ending.
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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IMPORTANT PROPERTY
TAX RELIEF FOR
SENIORS
By Cash Michaels
Editor
Elderly or
disabled residents of North Carolina concerned about paying their property
taxes can get some relief from a little known state program that can save them
money.
According
top NC General Statute 105-277.1, if you are 65 or older, or totally or
permanently disabled, and have a total household income not exceeding $29,000
annually, and own property which is your primary permanent residence that does
not exceed one acre, you could have the first $25,000 or 50 percent (whichever
is greater) of your assessed property tax value excluded from your tax bill.
But you must submit an application to qualify before Dec. 31st,
2015.
The Elderly
or Disabled Exclusion program exists in all one hundred counties. For an
application in Wake County call 919-856-5400. Go to http://www.wakegov.com/tax/relief/Pages/default.aspx
for more information.
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TRIANGLE NEWS BRIEFS
FOR NOV. 12TH
ANNUAL COAT DRIVE
SATURDAY, NOV. 14TH
Coats
Cause We Care” is a community service event where individuals, churches, civic
groups, private and public sector organizations that care about their community
provide new or gently used/clean coats for children in the Raleigh area this
Saturday, Nov. 14 at 12 noon at eight area centers in and around Raleigh:
Anne
Gordon Center for Active Adults
1901
Spring Forest Road
Barwell
Road Community Center
3935
Barwell Road
Courtney
T. Johnson Center
1801
Proctor Road
Brier
Creek Community Center
10810
Globe Road
Greystone
Recreation Center
7713-55
Leadmine Road
Lake
Lynn Community Center
7921
Ray Road
Laurel
Hills Community Center
3808
Edwards Mill Road
Marsh
Creek Community Center
3050
New Hope Road
STATE NEWS BRIEFS 11-12-15
WHITE SUPREMACIST F.
GLENN MILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH
[KANSAS
CITY, MO.] North Carolina white supremacist F. Glenn Miller has been sentenced
to death for the murder of three people at Kansas City Jewish sites in April
2014. Miller was convicted in August. Ironically, even though Miller set ot to
kill Jews, all three of his victims were Christians. Before leaving North
Carolina several years ago, Miller founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan in his native Johnston County, and also headed up the White Patriots Party
in the late 1980s.
THREE WHITE
SUPREMACISTS CAUGHT IN PLOT TO TARGET BLACK CHURCHES
[RICHMOND,
VA] The FBI has charged three self-identified white supremacists with allegedly
plotting to attack black churches and Jewish synagogues in this region in order
to start a race war, authorities say, using bombs and firearms. Court documents
say the trio were even planning to kill a gun store owner in Oklahoma. Two of
the suspects began meeting with undercover FBI agents last October to purchase
the weapons to begin stockpiling for the planned racial conflict.
WORKERS RALLY IN
DURHAM TO “FIGHT FOR $15” HOURLY WAGE
[DURHAM]
Over a hundred workers from various industries, including fast food, marched to City Hall Tuesday to join a
nationwide movement to “Fight for $15” an-hour minimum wage. The demonstrators
say it is tough to feed their families with the low wages they earn now, and
want to see the minimum wage raised. NCNAACP Pres. Rev. William Barber spoke to
the marchers, backing their calls to also unionize in North Carolina, where
collective bargaining is outlawed. The demonstrators say raising their wages
should be an issue in the 2016 presidential elections.
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