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2- February 4, 2009 The Chronicle

Time To DoRight By Our

Children!

Mr. Arthur PeterLawrencePresident, WestsideNeighborhood Association

We endured thefight of our lives, with afew casualties: we lostFraser Elementary, and welost grades 7 and 8 atCharleston Progressive.Yet, we still have JamesSimons Elementary and,for the most part,Charleston Progressive.We united, we battled forour schools, and the loss–though stinging- it couldhave been worse. Pleasekeep in mind: we must notrest. President BarackObama said that the stateof our country might getworse before it gets better:we must remember that.In the next few months, wemight get presented withanother laundry list ofschools the CharlestonCounty School Districtwants to close as theyscramble to get out of thered. Let us rememberwhat we just went throughand continue to stayengaged in the politicalprocess. Attend the PTAand School ImprovementCouncil meetings. Be aconstant fixture at theConstituent School Boardand County School Boardmeetings. We must watchas well as pray, for the sakeof our children and ourcommunity. We cannotrisk falling asleep at thewheel.

In the past, thiscommunity has alloweditself to be used by the sys-tem. It has entrusted itsfaith in the governmentand political leaders withthe naïve expectation thatthese leaders will makedecisions that would be inour best interest. Theresult: we have govern-ment agencies who,because of a financialshortfall that probablyresulted from mismanagedbudgets, wasteful spendingand lack of accountability,are willing to compromiseour children’s ability to goto their neighborhoodschools. District 20schools might again facethe chopping block asmoney woes continue. Weface losing schools whilethe folks of District 2 (EastCooper) are having newschools built. That’s right:as we close FraserElementary, and reducethe numbers of classesavailable at CharlestonProgressive, Mt. Pleasantis building a newer, biggerMamie WhitesidesElementary, Mt. PleasantAcademy, and MoultrieMiddle.

Therefore, it isclear that we must notassume that governmentleaders will make decisionsthat will be in our commu-nity’s best interest. Wemust be proactive. Wehave to be aware andastute on matters our lead-ers discuss. Just a fewyears ago, a group of ustold everyone that this daywill come; form themoment the CharlestonCounty School Districtclosed Rivers Middle, wetold the community to pre-pare for to lose moreschools, unless we stand upand speak out. Yet, hardlyanyone took heed. Ourschools’ PTA meetingshave been nearly empty;few parents had taken thetime to get involved withtheir children’s education.It took this latest schoolcrisis to get everyone’sattention. How long willyou keep your attention onthis situation? Will youdrift away to complacency

It’s All About Saving The Children!

Arthur Lawrence

until the next round of clo-sures? We must getinvolved and stay engaged.

While we are notguiltless in what has hap-pened, we are only partiallyto blame. Gentrificationhas played a part in this,too. The peninsula’s popu-lation is changing.Renters are being forced tomove to make room forthose who are willing topay more; people arefalling prey to subprimeloans and high propertytaxes. A lot of us will bedisplaced and replaced. Asdemographics change,District officials might beunder pressure to helpmake room in Dist. 20schools for the new groupof Charlestonians. As ourschools close and our pop-ulation changes, the stu-dent body will likely lookcompletely different by theend of the next decade, ifnot sooner. We must real-ize that we can, and must,be in charge of what hap-pens to us. We can do thisby working harder, makingsacrifices, living frugally,and staying engaged inwhat goes on around us-from around the corner, tothe Board Room at 75Calhoun, to City Hall.

If we don’t step upand speak out, we will con-tinue to have a small groupof people make decisionsfor us. Think about this:our School District paysconsulting firms to makedecisions. This latestround of school closureswas in part the brain childof a consultant from out-side of Charleston. Thereare a group of locals whoconsult the SchoolDistrict, too. This meet-ing of the minds consists ofpeople whose passion forour children and our com-munity is questionable, atbest. If you do not believeme, then I suggest you goto 75 Calhoun, invoke theFreedom of InformationAct and request a copy ofthe list of CCSD consult-ants. As a matter of fact,ask of CCSD and all othergovernment leaders anyquestion you want. Weeach have the right to dothat. And when the answergiven is an unacceptableone, be prepared to voiceyour dissent to the powersthat be. Our tax dollars areon the line. We must stayengaged and ask questions.And please remember this:when we oppose a plan, wemust be ready to do morethan speak out in opposi-tion; we must also comewith an alternative plan. Itis not enough to fight. Wemust present a writtenalternative plan that willquestion the sensibility ofthe one the government hascreated.

Counter, notcower. Stand up for yourrights and for your chil-dren’s rights. It is our dutyto do right by our children.Do right by them by doingsomething right: go to themeetings, keep up withwhat goes on around you,ask questions. And whenyou oppose a plan, voicedissent, offer suggestions.We have the power tomake a difference!

Donna Brazile isComing to Charleston

In recognition of Women’sHistory Month, theWomen’s ResourceProject, Inc. is sponsoringa luncheon with politicalstrategist, author andadjunct professor, Ms.Donna Brazile, as guestspeaker. This specialevent will be held at theEmbassy SuitesConvention CenterBallroom, 5055International Boulevard,North Charleston onFriday, March 20, 2009from 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.Tickets are $35.00 and thedeadline for purchasing isMarch 1, 2009.

Ms. Brazile was the first African American woman to leada major presidential campaign when she served as cam-paign manager for Al Gore’s 2000 presidential bid. Sheserves as chairwoman of the Democratic NationalCommittee’s Voting Rights Institute (VRI), an organiza-tion that was established to help protect and promote therights of all Americans to participate in the politicalprocess.

She is author of the best selling book Cooking withGrease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics and adjunctprofessor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

The Women’s Resource Project, Inc. is a non-profit organ-ization that was formed to promote economic, political,cultural and spiritual awareness, as well as healthylifestyles among women. Its mission is to foster and sup-port the personal and communal growth of womenthrough education, networking and public advocacy.

Donna Brazille

Educating Our Children - IfNot Now... When?

By Sandi Engelman

Much has been said about the so-called budget shortfall atthe Charleston County School District (CCSD). But,there is still a big elephant in the room and it needs to beaddressed.

When will the children who live downtown and in ourrural areas get a quality education? Just a few years ago,the money was rolling in, butthe students still laggedbehind according to education standards. The previoussuperintendent said she needed more money to pay admin-istrators so these kids could get a good education. But forthe life of me, I still can't figure out how the administra-tors played into this "good education" role.

Teachers were being ham-strung at every opportunity:Don't recommendstudents for suspensions or expulsionsbecause it affected the district's national and state stand-ing; give them a grade that really doesn't reflect theirprogress, but one that looks better on state and federalreport cards.

The few children who are causing the problems know theyare in control because they make it back to the classroomsin record speed. A policeman once told me a student whohad been arrested at their school made it back to theschool before he finished his paperwork.

There are probably 10 or 15 students in most schools caus-ing 90% of the behavior issues. But, the question stillremains, when will the other children be allowed to get aneducation? When a student falls behind, they can't makeup elementary school shortcomings in high school.

$50 million a year flows in to CCSD by way of TitleFunding. That funding includes money for remediationand assistance to students. But where does it really go? If$488 million dollars a year won't provide a quality educa-tion for 40,000 students, what will? A billion?

I remember sitting in the interview for the former superin-tendent when she was asked how she would fix a brokeneducational system. Her quick response was, "Don'tworry, I can." Well, five years later the students inDistricts 4, 9, 20 and 23 are still being robbed of theopportunity for a quality education.

We are always saying, "These are our future leaders." Andthey should be. Some of the children in these districts areexceedingly bright, with hope for a better life. And it iscriminal to take that hope away from them.

There are not enough Magnet Schools in CharlestonCounty to accept these children, so an immediate solutionis imperative to improving the educational system inCharleston County. Just saying, "Excellence is our stan-dard" doesn't make it happen.

Only 78 percent of Americans graduate from college.Realizing that, many of our students need an opportunityto attend a vocational school. CCSD has a $500 milliondollar capitol improvement plan in place, but we aren'tteaching our students masonry, carpentry, plumbing, elec-tricalengineering or drafting. We need these trades and weneed them now.

Life isn't fair. And life hasn't dealt some of our children alevel playing field. It is up to our community leaders tochange that situation. If they can't, what purpose do theyreally serve?

Let's stop telling everyone how great our schools are.Clearly, that isn't the case. Let's put an end to this failingschool system. Put the money in the classrooms where itwill do the most good - not in the pockets of the adminis-trators.

(Sandi Engelman is a former member of the Chas. County SchoolBoard)

By Bob Small

Leroy SimmonsSr. said he can finally findsome closure in the deathof his son. A jury found 19year-old Richard VernonDeas guilty of murder andpossession of a firearm dur-ing a violent crime in thekilling of Leroy SimmonsJr.

Deas was sen-tenced to 40 years on themurder charge and fiveyears for possession of afirearm during a violentcrime. The sentence will beserved concurrently.

Leroy Simmons Jr.was killed in October 2007in the early morning hoursafter leaving his girlfriends’house on Line Street.While waiting for a cabSimmons was approachedby Deas who allegedlytried to rob him. Duringthe altercation Simmons

Father of Slain Youth Says Killings Must Stop

fell to the ground and wasshot several times. He diedseveral hours later atMedical UniversityHospital. After hearing theverdict Friday afternoon,Simmons said he felt jus-tice was served. He saidboth families lost in theincident. “Two young blackmen are no longer in theircommunities. All for what?Some coins and a few goldchains? This madness hasgot to stop,” he said.

Simmons, traveledfrom the Atlanta, Ga. ToCharleston for the week-long trial. He said he hadto listen intently to testi-mony during the trial. Iwas trying to find somereasoning as to why theseyoung people would wantto kill one another. It justdoesn’t make sense,” hesaid.

When he was giventhe opportunity to address

the court Simmons toldDeas that he forgave himfor what he did but wouldnever forget what he did.“He took a life from a fami-ly,” Simmons appealed tospectators in the court-room who knew both thevictim and the accused tofind a way to end the sense-less violence. “We have tostop the killing. This blackon black crime is devastat-ing our communities andleaving too many emptyspacs in our lives.”

Simmons said hewas satisfied with the sen-tence because no amountof time can bring back alove one. “We have to moveon. He (Deas) is a youngman who will be incarcer-ated until he is 59 years oldwith no chance of parole.That is a lot of time tothink about what he didand ask himself, was itworth it,” he said.

Leroy Simmons, Jr.

How far you go in life depends on your beingtender with the young, compassionate with theaged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerantof the weak and strong. Because someday in lifeyou will have been all of these.

~George Washington Carver

February 4, 2009- 3The Chronicle

4-February 4, 2009 The Chronicle

Who AskedMe?

by Beverly Gadson-Birch

Blackonomics

“Every child has lost every excuse.” Those were thewords of James Clyburn of South Carolina, Majority Whipin the House of Representatives. He spoke those words on BET of all places, in response toBarack Obama being elected President of the UnitedStates.

As soon as I read his statement, I thought, “Uh Oh, herewe go.” Now that we have a Black President all bets areoff, and all is right with the world; we have reached ourhighest pinnacle. “Every child,” as Clyburn said, whichobviously includes every Black child, can no longer beexcused for not achieving.

Let’s delve into Clyburn’s “no excuse” world of an ObamaPresidency. While we are at it, let’s find some adults,maybe even some U.S. Representatives, who no longerhave excuses for their behavior.The most recent heinous act against a Black man was com-mitted in plain sight of several witnesses and captured oncamera. Young Oscar Grant, lying on his stomach, handsheld behind his back, and with one cop’s knee on his neck,was summarily shot and killed by a cop who had littleregard for the life of a young Black man.

But since we have a Black President, I don’t want to hearyoung men in Oakland come up with excuses for not want-ing to go along with the system, despite the possibility ofbeing on their way to school and getting shot by anoverzealous police officer.

Black children no longer have the excuse of being“steered” to low level education programs because theycome from a “poor” neighborhood; they cannot offer theexcuse of being targeted as low performers or “hyperac-tive,” thus, requiring them to be put on drugs to keep themcalm. Black children can no longer rely on the excuse ofnot having enough to eat in the morning, or having tosleep in a cold house because the heat was turned off, ornot having the adult examples they need in their immedi-ate lives, not from a distance, to guide them along theirway. They now have Obama, so no more excuses.

No more excuses for the disparities that exist in our crim-inal justice system, our social service system, our educa-tional system, and our political system. No more excusesfor any child who sees corporate executives and slimypoliticians fatten their pockets from the public coffers, andfeast at banquet tables fit for kings and queens. No more excuses for the child who cries at night or cowersin fear of being the next Oscar Grant. Yeah right, no moreexcuses.How about the so-called responsible adults who run thiscountry? Are they now out of excuses? Do they now haveto take more ownership for their lives and the lives of thosefor whom they work? Can they still make excuses for not standing up and speak-ing against injustice, against disparity, and against thecrimes we see everyday in the public and private sectors?Has every adult run out of excuses for allowing millions ofchildren, who no longer have excuses, to go without ade-quate health care? Now that we have a Black President will every adult beheld accountable for his or her actions? Will part of the“change” we raved about be adults acting like adults ratherthan like self-indulgent children who have no regard foranyone but themselves? Like Representative Clyburn, I also went through a fewthings in the fifties and sixties as a result of prejudice andracism. I saw the same things he saw, and I also wonderedif we would ever have a Black President. Now that wehave one, my attention is not so much on the children as itis on the adults. How can we say they no longer have anyexcuse, especially when many of their excuses can betraced to our neglect of their needs – regardless of whoresided in the White House?Why didn’t we tell them that Frederick Douglass andW.E.B. DuBois could have been President were it not forthis country’s racism? Why not share with them the factthat Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm could have runthis country?

Why didn’t we eliminate their excuses when ReginaldLewis bought Beatrice Foods for $1 billion dollars? Or,when Oprah became a billionaire? Why didn’t we tell them“no more excuses” when Ken Chenault assumed the high-est level at American Express Corporation? It is sad that some Black people, especially those in my agegroup, place so much emphasis on politics rather than oneconomics. Yes, we have a Black President, but that fact will not elim-inate all excuses among our children until it eliminates allexcuses among our adults. When our children see moreresponsible adults, they will be more responsible. The sta-tus of the Obama family alone does not, will not, and can-not eliminate all excuses for every child. If that were thecase their excuses would have been eliminated long ago bythe likes of Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, andSojourner Truth.

Or by other Black “presidents” like Maggie Lena Walkerand Madame C.J. Walker, Ed Gardner and John Johnson,S.B. Fuller and Joe Dudley, Ann Fudge and SuzanneDePasse, Barry Gordy and Robert Holland, JackieMayfield and Dr. Walter P. Lomax. It is only now that we have a Black “U.S.” President, apolitical leader rather than an economic leader that we sayto our children, “No more excuses.” When Black politicians, who have “good jobs, great healthcare, and benefits of public office, speak about the intrinsicvalue of a Black man rising to the top of our political hier-archy, I wonder what it says about their own value to theirconstituents. I wonder if that also eliminates their excus-es for acquiescing to sub-standard economic and socialconditions among Black people in this country.

Jim Clyburnand

The ExcuseGame

By. James ClingmanNNPA Columnistby Jim French

Nappy Hair & Fat LipsI am not taken to revelations when people not the shade

of me and who normally display no sign of being offensive,yet fail to recognize the achievements of Blacks and itsimpact on the growth and development of America.However, when I recall where Blacks were forced throughthe portals of Goree Island, raped and killed crossing theMiddle Passage and further dehumanized upon landing onSullivan’s Island, is worthy of celebration.While others perpetuate their ancestry and history with

slaveowner John C. Calhoun in Marion Square and anoth-er slaveowner George Washington in the garden next tocity hall, our patriot Denmark Vesey, is denied his place inhistory in the same location supported with Black tax dol-lars! The irony is not lost.Textbooks in the schools and colleges in South Carolina

are a repository of white history and a concealer of Blackhistory, but this piece is not so much about remembering,per se, but what of the wasted years, the talent, the spoiledambitions, the blunted chances, which have thwarted ourgrowth in the denial of equal recognition?At the same time this is a response to a scholarly white

reader who signs off as Sarah, accusing The Chronicle andBlacks for taking credit for inventions without proof, andpassing on the same lies to our children during BlackHistory Month observations.

Listen, Sarah, imagine standing at the corner of Kingand Wentworth in your new shoes from Bob Ellis, glanc-ing at your watch on your way to Buist Academy to pick upyour child and on the way home stop for a lick of ice creamor potato chips from a street vendor, or you and the kidmust jump back when a driver brakes at the light too closeto you, or trips his right or left turn signal, would youbelieve all these innovations came from the fertile minds ofAfrican Americans? If you’re still disbelieving, its allrecorded, patents included, in the Library of Congress oryour county library on Calhoun St.

If Sarah and I could stand before a magnet school classduring this month, I would inform them that it was JanMatzeliger, a Black man, who invented the machine thatautomatically attached leather or rubber soles to walkingshoes; it was Garrett Morgan who came up with the Stop,Caution & Go lights at street corners, and Richard Spikeswith the right-left turn signal and August Jackson ofPhiladelphia who is known by history buffs as the “Fatherof Ice Cream,” and it was Benjamin Banneker who invent-ed the first working watch in this country. The potatochip came from the mind of Hyram Thomas, who could domore with a potato than what George Washington Carverdid with the peanut!When your tire, Sarah, goes flat on I-26, remember it was

a Black man, Arthur Davis of New Orleans, who inventedan air compressor to inflate your tire. In the earlier days ofSears & Roebuck, you would be surprised to know thatAlvah Curtis Rosebuck, a Black watch repairman whosold out his interest in the company in 1895 for $25,000!

Stay with me, Sarah. When you view those sleek subwaytrains zipping along the roadbed's in New York, Londonand the Middle East, it was Grantville T. Woods whoinvented the Third Rail, making it all possible. WithoutWoods keen mind, Amtrak would never have achievedwhat it is today, and along with another Black man, LewisLatimer helped Thomas Edison design electric circuitryand wiring, so much to the point that they both tookEdison to court for taking too much of the credit for theirwork.In all Mr. Woods invented 15 appliances for basic electric

railway transportation, including one which premiered atConey Island in 1892, which could be operated under-ground because it needed no steam, coal or wood. He alsoinvented a telegraph system that allowed trains to be regu-lated from a central control system, to avoid hitting eachother. Remember, as I do, Sarah, Blacks were not allowedto ride the railroads in the South and couldn’t sleep inovernight cars until the early 1960’s!While serving in the U.S. Navy in 1945 and reassigned to

Pensacola, Florida, when I went to board the train inBirmingham, Ala., I was directed to the coach next to thecoal-burning engine with raised windows, sorry, no airconditioning! You can imagine how my white navy uni-form must have looked upon arrival in Pensacola, but let’ snot get off track, so-to-speak.Of course, Sarah, this may all sound like fairytales, but it

was Mr. Lewis Latimer of Chelsea, Massachusetts, notThomas Edison, who gave the world the carbon filament(1892) making light bulbs possible and giving Edison hisstart. Remember, Sarah, it was against the law to learnBlacks to read, yet it was Alexander Graham Bell whoemployed Latimer to make the first patent drawing for thefirst telephone, conveniently left from the textbooks.Every time you see a tractor-trailer unloading food staples

such as meats and perishable goods at your supermarkets,they would have never gotten there in their fresh state,thanks to Frederick M. Jones (1892-1961), who inventedthe first automatic refrigeration system for long-haultrucks.Jones also developed an air-conditioning unit for military

field hospitals, a portable X-ray machine, a self-startinggasoline motor, and in the 1920s, he designed a series ofdevices for the movie industry by adapting silent modeprojectors to accommodate talking films, and box officeequipment that delivered tickets and spilled out thechange, the ones you may see in fast-food restaurants. In1895 Joseph Lee (1849-19905) was awarded Patent#540,553 for his bread-crumbling machine, and he alsoinvented the first machine for making bread.To Ms. Sarah and the remaining skeptics, when one views

this amazing tapestry of inventive imagination in the con-text of the 19th century social conditions, it becomes evenmore remarkable. In 1870 more than 80 percent of theBlack population had been denied the opportunity to learnto read and write. In many states before the Civil War, itwas illegal for a Black to hold a patent. How many Blackinventors forfeited the credit for their inventions will neverbe known.There is evidence that a Georgia slave helped Eli Whitney

develop the cotton gin. Cyrus McCormick, inventor of thereaping machine, worked with a Black assistant, JoAnderson, but blacks who helped Whitney andMcCormick, were denied the genius of their work basedon skin color. On October 14, 1832, Henry Blair, a Blackman, received a patent for a corn planting machine. Healso invented the anti-aircraft gun. Lewis Temple devel-oped the toggle harpoon that revolutionized NewEngland’s whaling industry. H., like the others, died pau-pers.Also, Sarah, you and too many whites think that Charlton

Heston was Moses, that Elizabeth Taylor was Cleopatraor that Beethoven was white, but when I stood beforeBeethoven 65-foot statute during a 1984 visit to Hamburg,Germany, in the town’s plaza, there he was, nappy hair andfat lips, looking just like me. Mercy.

(OCTUPLETS ARE REALBABIES NOT TOY DOLLS)

When I was growing up, we used to play with doll babyin a bottle. We used an empty soft drink bottle, rope for the hairand just that quick we had a doll baby. When we got tired of play-ing with the toy doll, we just threw it away. We can’t throw realbabies away. Someone will have to take care of them. I am deeplytroubled by the mother who recently gave birth to Octuplets.With six other children ranging from two to seven years old, youwould think she would run the other way at the sight of even onemore baby. It was one of the most heart wrenching incidents thatI have heard of in a long time. Every time I think that things can’tget any worse, they do. Here you have a single mother with sixchildren living at home with her mother and engaging in such awanton act. So, who will pay for these babies? In this sluggisheconomy, the taxpayers will.

Apparently Lady X has made a mockery out of the fertil-ity clinics that are designed to help women who cannot conceivethrough traditional methods. Will someone please tell me whywould a single mother want more than six children? It defies alllogic. I tell you if I had six children I would be out of my mind. Iknow of many mothers who did and kept their sanity but that wasthen. Today, we must think of the long range implications in hav-ing children. It was reported that some mothers just love largemultiple births. That’s all well and good if the mother is financial-ly, mentally and physically capable of taking care of her children. Ijust don’t get it. If Lady X loves children that much, why didn’tshe just get a darn job at a nursery school? That’s like me saying Ilove apple pie but I sure am not going to buy eight pies and eat allof them at once.

Even Lady X’s mother is ready to jump ship from earlyreports that she was bubbling over with joy. The fact is when themedia hype is over, these children are going to require around theclock care. These babies will need constant medical care for anextended period since they were born premature and because mul-tiple births can present health problems.

I am still trying to understand how a fertility doctor couldin all fairness help a single parent with six children have more. IfLady X is so independent and would have no problem taking careof her children, will someone please tell me why in ham sandwichis she still living with her parents? Where is the father of thesebabies? I bet he doesn’t surface until he finds out whether the statewill take care of the babies. I tell you I would not want to be courtordered to take care of eight babies. And who knows, some of theother six if not all could be his as well.

Although, I am sympathetic toward the babies becausethey have a long uncertain road ahead of them, I am hopeful thatthis doesn’t turn into one of those cases where the mother justloses it and harms her babies. It is so easy for the mother tobecome so overwhelmed with the amount of work involved in rais-ing the children that she takes it out on the children. However,this story turns out, it is certain that this mother will never knowthe true meaning of a “good night’s sleep” ever again.

I am also outraged that the unidentified fertility doctorwould even consider implanting any women who have six chil-dren. It was irresponsible. Don’t tell me it’s a woman’s right tohave as many children as she likes. Where did all of the moneycome from for the treatments? And who will pay the whoppinghospital bill for the delivery and post delivery hospital stay for thebabies.

Child rearing is an awesome responsibility. When wethink of bringing children into the world we must think longrange. We have a responsibility to protect and educate our chil-dren. We can’t work or play too hard and forget about protectingour babies. We work two and three jobs and have abdicated theresponsibility of raising our children to others. With fourteen chil-dren, this is not even a remote possibility for Lady X. I certainlywish the best for the octuplets. I can’t think of anything moreimportant than ensuring the safety and health of our children.

The ultimate responsibility for a child lies with the par-ents. Parents are not putting enough thought into things that maybe potentially harmful to their children. Some of us are so emo-tional that we are unable to provide the emotional stability ourchildren need. We have become so sexual that we are more con-sumed with having a man than having a man participate in the lifeof his children. You must ask the real questions: Am I really a fitparent? Can I provide for my children? Will I be able to educate,discipline, protect, instruct, feed, clothe and provide shelter? Ifthe answer to anyone of these questions is no, you must refrainfrom having babies. Babies are not toys that you play with; theyare real human beings. I thought you knew.

Founder’s Day at Canaan Bible College

Canaan Bible College celebrated Founder's Day onFriday, January 30 at Canaan Missionary Baptist Church.The Theme was "Give Instruction to a wise man, and hewill be yet wiser: Teach a just manand he will increase inlearning." Proverbs 9:9.Ms. Beverly Gadson-Birch, Chronicle Columnist, was thespeaker.Also, the Doctor of Humane Letters was con-ferred upon her and Rev. Timothy Simmons,Pastor ofChristian Baptist Church and Chairperon of CanaanBible College Board of Trustees. Shown above are Rev.Dr. George Ferguson, Professor; Rev. Dr. AlfredWilliams, Pastor Canaan Missionary Baptist Church,Beverly Gadson-Birch, D.H.L., and Dr. BarbaraHeyward, Professor.The school offers a Bachelor's and Master's DegreeProgram Now accepting appications for the SpringSemester.For more information about the college, contactDr. Emmanuel Williams, Director of Admissions 843-795-4186.

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Africa On My MindAs the political critics of negativity awaken from theirabyss of futility, Black History Month invades the calen-dar month of February in the continental divides of theUnited States of America.I don’t know about you but Iwas already prepared for this occasion during the last 364days. I thank God Alone, as a surviving brother of soul, tobear witness that I’m very and humbly proud to be who Iam as a “hue-man” being, and a descendant of Africanblood.So many, many things have occurred in my worlds of exis-tences until how could I not think of my African ancestorsand what they “his-storically” went through. I guess youcould say, rightfully so, that at present I have “Africa OnMy Mind.”That really says a lot in no uncertain terms of disrespect.In fact, to the contrary, it says much more than I can total-ly evaluate and put in to written words. It’s that meaning-ful and personal to me as the slave ships of yesteryear runinvisibly through my current illuminated thought process-es. “Africa’s On My Mind.”Yes, I’m always thinking about the those voyages to whatobviously was to hell (The Middle Passage) and back(insanity), and to live in this land where the bald eaglepatrols its domain with only eye open to safeguard thepatriots, the privileged and the parrots of democracy. Thismakes me have “Africans On My Mind” with a discerningand inquiring purpose to what they went though.As I do this, the thought of those valiant and enslaved“hue-mans’” sufferings ring clearly in my mind’s ears as I tryto imaged what the stigma of Black denegation throughbigotry and racism was all about. For me I have to lookdeeper at this thing the Europeans invaders and Arabraiders, along with the African participants, call slavery.For some “colored folk, it’s too long a process to describefor such a short amount of written space, but I feel secureby saying that it must have been an incredulous experiencethat you’d never, ever wish or desire to experience.Is that to brief a description of that horrible episode of“hue-man” bondage for the common man, or the Americanpeople, to identify with on this day, in this month, that Dr.Carter G. Woodson gave birth to this noble observancehere in the United States? He was the brilliant catalystbehind the need and the recognition of giving conscious-ness to the fact the Black people throughout the globehave and had a “story” that’s never been told with truth,dignity and forthrightness.As I think of the genius of Dr. Woodson’s academicprowess, I have “Africa On My Mind.” It all fits to me, “AsI See It,” and comes together like the concepts of soul andrespect, because Africa is the origin of everyone’s birth.It is the Motherland of all of “hue-manity’s” earthly exis-tence. It ’s where peace and love existed before evilthoughts over rode the natural tendency of goodness towant for your brother and sister of “hue-manity” what youwanted for yourself. In it’s natural state of following whatthe Creator wants best for us the descendants of the soul-ful believers in God Alone’s Oneness have surely been test-ed from Senegal to Seattle and from Liberia to Louisiana.And from the cotton fields of Mississippi to the slave cas-tles of Ghana the descendants of Africa’s challenged mass-es must recognize that “Africans Must Unite” to overcomethe greater destruction of their vulnerable cultural mind-sets by modern day bandits of mind-slavery. It’s called edu-cation, and not indoctrination. Do you know that there isa difference? .While you ponder that thought let it be known, without

hesitation, that all “hue-mankind” and its society began onthe Motherland’s turf. From the Pyramids of the Nile tothe sands of Darfur “Africa (is) On My Mind” as I see theworld go through one chaotic change after another affect-ing people of color. I ask myself, as I now also ask you, “Are you really under-standing why Black ‘Our-Story’ is really a celebration ofcontinued study of awareness, uplift and insight thatshould be observed everyday of the year, no matter whoyou are or where you live? Do you teach, or know, anything about the legendaryscholars who taught, wrote and lived, for example, inTimbuktu? Did you know that soul and rhythm of expres-sion came from the original composers of the Motherlandas her musicians and dancers invented sound and move-ments for the rest of the world to imitate?Well, if you didn’t, I do, and I’m always aware of Africa’scontribution, in so many other untold and unrecorded for-mats, that have been carefully omitted from the books ofEuropean and American deceptions. The truth must betold continually about this crime of mis-education, even ifsome “his-storical” deniers want to remain deaf, dumb andblind to institutional racism’s adamant game of mind con-trol and sly indoctrination.As I think of what this so-called Black History Month issupposed to be for this year, or maybe for the next ones inthe future, I have to look at the states of minds of some ofthe young folks of today that I see.I utter those sentiments because many of the Black youthof today know nothing of their noble heritage or resilientpast. With the emphasis on crass materialism and ignorantcommercialism that exists in the mind-sets of many ofAmerica’s and the rest of the world’s “colored” young peo-ple the tone of Black intelligence suffers somewhat due toeducational neglect and societal “tricknology.”That’s not a blanketed indictment because some of theseyouths are aware of their and “our-story,” and they arestriving like other Afro-minded folks in the past to achievegreat heights in the various fields of social dominance.When I see that it makes me think fondly of why “Africa’sOn ‘Our’ Mind” should be a family theme.I’m proud of the African family just as I’m sure that youare, but Black “Our-Story” must be fully understand andtaught by as many of “our” adults and children as possiblebecause there are far too many brothas and sistas in thestreets, jails and prisons of America who are salvable.They have value and merit even if they no longer appear tohave value in the bald eagle’s domestic territories.From the forgotten (to some) walls of Africa’s Zimbabweto the cries of the Reggae motivator and activist BobMarley in Jamaica I can’t stop thinking that no matterwhere an African descendant soul is he or she is up againstsome sort of sinister prejudice or bureaucratic injustice.That’s just the way that it is in the worlds of realities thatI’ve experienced, know about and see exist elsewhereeveryday, and “Africa’s (still) On My Mind.”That’s why there’s something inside me that makes me feelvery good to be who I am in recognizing that the CreatorAlone created me to a servant of Him and not man, includ-ing the Arab, American, European or any other “hue-man.”I harbor no hatred to anyone because of his or her ethnici-ty or tribal affiliation.They should be proud of who they are. That’s a good feel-ing, but if we don’t remember that we have one commonorigin and One common Creator Alone, then we revertback to square one in stupidity and mis-education, becauseAfrica is where we are ashamed to be from.Let’s hope that we can keep God Alone in “our’ mind-setsas we celebrate or observe through increased reading andstudy during this month knowing that Africa is where theCreator Alone began his marvelous entity called “hue-mankind.” That’s where I’m at now because “Africa’s OnMy Mind.” Wishing you a Happy Black “Our-Storical”Day, and as usual, that’s, “As I See It.”

Memo to Republicans: You Lost

I don’t know who is the most ridiculous: Rush Limbaugh,who said he hopes President Obama fails, or RepublicanCongressional leaders, who are not saying that, but tryingto make Limbaugh’s wish come true. Both forget that wehad an election on Nov. 4 and their side lost. Handidly.Limbaugh, the subject of a book titled, “Rush Limbaugh isa Big Fat Idiot,” picked his words carefully when he saidhe wants Obama to fail.

“My hope, and please understand me when I say this. Idisagree fervently with the people on our side of the aislewho have caved and who say, ‘Well, I hope he succeeds.We've got to give him a chance.’ Why? They didn't giveBush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated thesearch-and-destroy mission had begun. I'm not talkingabout search-and-destroy, but I've been listening toBarack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his pol-itics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them.I don't want them to succeed.”

Limbaugh said his staff had warned against wishing theworst for Obama. But he ignored them, declaring, “I amlast the last man standing.” In predicting an uproar overhis remarks, Limbaugh said, “I would be honored if theDrive-By Media headlined me all day long: ‘Limbaugh: IHope Obama Fails.’ Somebody’s gotta say it.”

Obviously, he was that honored. The next day he tried tosoften his attack, saying he was supportive of the new pres-ident but not his polices, as if one can separate the two.

“I support our president, like I have supported all presi-dents. I just don’t support Obama’s policies,” Limbaughsaid. “I don’t support the nationalization of banks, whichhas happened. I don’t support the nationalization of theauto companies. I don’t support the nationalization of themortgage business. I don’t like Barney Frank and ChrisDodd running things. And I don’t want that to continue.”Who care whether Limbaugh likes Democrats BarneyFrank or Chris Dodd? The voters like them and in ademocracy, that’s all that matters. Get over it, Rush. Youlost. A big fat idiot should be able to see that.

Limbaugh isn’t the only Republican acting as though theGOP won the election in November. Trickle-downRepublican policies were clearly repudiated as evidencednot only by the election of President Obama but by size-able House and Senate victories as well.

Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell that to HouseMinority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). AppearingSunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he said Republicansare opposing the Obama-backed stimulus plan because itis seen as “a lot of wasteful Washington spending, paddingthe bureaucracy and doing nothing to help create jobs andpreserve jobs.”

Don’t you love it when people who spend all of their timeand money getting to Washington complain about‘Washington spending?” Of course it’s Washington spend-ing; this is where our federal government is headquar-tered.

Even John McCain is acting as though he won. Yes, thatone. I read a story just last week about how “the Mc isback,” how McCain had returned to his maverick ways. Hewasn’t a maverick before and he’s not one now. Instead, weare being serenaded with a remix of his campaign rhetoric,the same talk that saw him go down in defeat.

The rejected Republic nominee for president was on FoxTV Sunday, blabbing about how he would not haveannounced the closing of Guantanamo Bay without firstdeciding what to do with current detainees and his objec-tions to the proposed stimulus plan.

I am beginning to wonder if Obama isn’t too nice to thewrong people. He campaigned for Joseph Lieberman andwas rewarded by the Connecticut senator’s decision tocampaign against him in the general election and speak atthe Republican convention in support of McCain. Whatdid Obama do? He gently nudged his Democratic col-leagues to let “Joe the Traitor” keep his HomelandSecurity Committee chairmanship.

A similar pattern occurred with John McCain, one of thefirst people Obama reached out to while he was still presi-dent-elect. Obama has sought McCain’s opinion on cabi-net appointments and honored him with a candlelight din-ner of the eve of inauguration. Again, Obama was reward-ed with a round of criticism from McCain.

Earlier, in one of his saner moments, McCain said the pub-lic had spoken in November and voters made it clear thatthey want Congress to get to work and to work togetheracross political lines. Instead, we’re seeing the same oldposturing by Republicans, even after Brack Obama hasmet them more than halfway.

The president was right when he reminded Republicansthe he won the election. Now, he needs to act like it.Conservative columnist William Kristol got it right whenhe wrote in the New York Times, “All good things mustcome to an end. Jan. 30, 2009 marked the end of a conser-vative era.”

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge maga-zine and the NNPA News Service, is a keynote speaker,moderator, and media coach. He can be reached throughhis Web site, www.georgecurry.com.

By. Ron WaltersNNPA Columnist

President Barack Obama’s pledge to bring Americatogether and specifically attempt to work across partylines with Republicans in the governing process was laud-able, but I always wondered if it would work.

The principle reason is that the key to Republican powerhas been their remarkable clarity of ideology and the partydiscipline behind it.

This was patently evident when Newt Gingrich took overin 1994 after the “Republican Revolution” netted 54 seatsin the House and eight seats in the Senate, givingRepublicans control of the Congress for the first time in40 years.

They promptly proceeded to rearrange the administrationof the Congress in their own image and the ruthlessness ofit caught Democrats by surprise, as they became virtuallyshut out of the governing process – not given legislativedocuments, not told where vital meetings were being held,and defeated time and again by party vote.

In the first 100 days, Gingrich enacted every bill in the ten-point “Contract With America,” except for the proposedConstitution al Amendment mandating term limits formembers of Congress.

Despite the fall of that era, the pattern of disciplined, ide-ological behavior that made them dominant remains. Forexample, Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk-show hostand Republican powerhouse, forthrightly rejectedObama’s overture of bi-partisanship, saying that he wantedhim “to fail.”

Whining that Obama would bring in a new season ofLiberalism, he was fearful that the return of liberalismwould bring back Affirmative Action. It seems that iswhat is really under the covers of the rejection of bi-parti-sanship.

To his credit, Obama shot back in a meeting withRepublicans, saying that they could not afford to partici-pate in bi-partisan governance and listen to RushLimbaugh at the same time, because he represented thenarrow partisan politics of the past that he was trying toget beyond.

It doesn’t seem, however, that they were listening to him.John Boehner, leader of the Republicans in the House,after the meeting with the President was over, promptlyrailed against the size of the Stimulus package and contin-ued his opposition on Meet the Press (January 25), sayingthat there was a lot of “wasteful spendingE2 in the packageand little to spur job growth.

John McCain picked up the criticism of Obama whosefirst act was to sign a series of Executive Orders, one ofwhich limited the influence of lobbyist access to his admin-istration. And even though had honored McCain with adinner and asked for his help in passing his plan, butMcCain called the new lobbying rules “disingenuous” andrefused to support the Stimulus in its “current form.”

Then, Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn used hisextraordinary power as Senator and held up confirmationproceedings for Eric Holder, Attorney General-designate,attempting to get assurances from him that he will not pur-sue legal actions against the presumptive illegalities ofGeorge Bush’s administration.

For example, the investigation into the use of intelligenceby the Bush White House and Dick Chaney are still liveissues, such as whether a crime was committed in “outing”a secret agent contrary to federal law. And although onenotices that Bush did not pardon Scooter Libby, there arealso issues of torture by the administration, the illicit useof federal funds in contracting related to the Iraq war andothers that could serve as a basis for indictment.

I recently watched the proceedings of the AppropriationsCommittee and the Committee on Ways and Means in theHouse as they processed the Stimulus package amend-ments.

The pattern of Republican opposition to the measure wasstrong and their intent to have their way just as apparent;I could see little evidence that the word to exercise bi-par-tisanship had come down from on high.

Given the intransigence of the Republicans – they oncecalled the Democrats “obstructionists” for not going along– I wonder whether President Obama and his colleagueswill have the guts to exercise the same degree of disciplineand get the Stimulus package through if their attempt atbi-partisan fails.

It always seems that Democrats are the givers andRepublicans are the takers. That has got to end if Obamais to “turn the page” on the conservative dominance inAmerican politics.

Dr. Ron Walters is the Distinguished Leadership Scholar,Director of the African American Leadership Center andProfessor of Government and Politics at the University ofMaryland. His latest book is: The Price of RacialReconciliation (Univ. of Michigan Press)

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“Celebrate YourBlack History”

The Curry

ReportGeorge H. Curry, NNPA Columnist

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By Glenn TownesSpecial to the Chronicle

Early last year,Swiss researchers issued areport that HIV positivepeople on meds with unde-tectable viral loads for sixor more months and withno other sexually transmit-ted infections were non-infectious. The researchsuggested that sex withouta condom was possible andsafe between positive andnegative partners andsparked discussion and

Planned ParenthoodCharleston

Health Center Now OpenThe Charleston Health Center of Planned ParenthoodHealth Systems, Inc (PPHS) has begun providing a fullarray of preventive reproductive heath care services at itsnewly renovated health center on Rutledge Avenue. Themedical staff, led by Center Manager Janet Stevens, beganserving patients in December. The Planned Parenthoodcenter is one of 13 PPHS health centers providing profes-sional, affordable reproductive medical services and edu-cational programming to women, men and teens. PPHSoperates a second health and education center inColumbia.

“We have two criteria for successfully opening new healthcenters: local need for reproductive healthcare and strongcommunity support. We have found both in Charleston,”said Walter Klausmeier, President & CEO of PPHS, aregional Planned Parenthood affiliate with centers inNorth and South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.Local donations from hundreds of contributors enabledthe purchase, renovations and up-fitting of the center thatwill serve as a hub for the organization’s medical, educa-tion and public policy efforts. “Our new center is a part-nership between Planned Parenthood and the local com-munity. We are now able to complement and contribute tothe existing prevention efforts already underway inCharleston.”

“Our top priority is to reduce unintended pregnancy andsexually transmitted disease, particularly among high-riskpopulations in Charleston,” says Janet Stevens, HealthCenter Manager. South Carolina ranks 5th in the nationin births to unmarried mothers, 4th in nation in prevalenceof Chlamydia and 4th in gonorrhea as reported by theCenters for Disease Control. PPHS also operates ahealth center in Columbia.

The medical services now available at the PlannedParenthood in Charleston include:

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House Calls

By Gerald W. Deas, M.D.

I believe, that the mostbeautiful and spiritual visu-al experience that I havehad is observing thechanges of the color ofleaves in the fall. After asummer of building foodfor the tree so that it canendure the cold months,the leaves seem to say, "Iam going to show you mybest by producing unimag-inable colors." To say theleast, the colors are awe-some and yet, they aredying, only to be gatheredup and buried. Yet, the treeremains to give birth tonew leaves in the springand, as one of my friendswould say, "what a joy."

Other leaves that bringhealing to the body areleafy, green greens. Theseleaves are not only beauti-ful but produce substances

controversy nationallyamong various HIV/AIDSexperts and groups.

But a new study byFrench researchers furthersubstantiates the widelyheld notion that some menmay have HIV in theirsemen even when it isundetectable in standardblood tests - thus dis-pelling the findings of theSwiss study that condom-less sex between serodis-cordant couples is safe.

(Serodiscordant people arecouples and/or sex part-ners with one HIV nega-tive individual.)

Published in theAugust 20008 issue of themagazine AIDS, theFrench study showed thatout of 145 HIV positivemen, about 5 percent haddetectable levels of HIV intheir semen, despite havinga blood test that showed anundetectable level of thevirus.

The new findings

quickly halt the idea thatunsafe sex betweenserodiscordant partners isnot risk-free. “I ’ve beenHIV positive for severalyears and would neverdrream of having unsafesex with my partner, who isnegative,” said Ricky, a 50-year-old African-Americanman in Washington D.C.“The risk of infecting mypartner is too great, eventhough my viral load isundetectable.” And John, a55-year-old white male whois an educator in NewJersey, who has dated HIVpositive men, said sex witha condom is a given intoday’s sexually rampantsociety. “There are so manysexually transmitted dis-eases out there,” he said.“Sex without a condom ismuch too risky.”

Ultimately, or at least fornow, the vast majority ofHIV/AIDS researchersand AIDS organizations,including the WorldHealth Organization andUNAIDS, all discouragesex without a condombetween serodiscordanthomosexual and heterosex-ual couples. Experts saidartificial inseminationremains the safest and per-haps most effective methodfor heterosexual couplestrying to have children.

Undetectable Levels of HIV Found in Semen;Study Dispels Myth of Risk-free Sex Between

HIV Positive and Negative Partners

that are healing for thebody. Greens such asspinach, collards, kale,beet greens, swiss chardand dandelion contain sub-stances such as betacarotene, iron, lutein andriboflavin which ensurehealthy cells from turningcancerous. These greensshould be eaten to ensure abalanced diet.

The leaf that I will intro-duce to you today is a heal-ing leaf that was intro-duced to me in a shortstory entitled, "The Leaf"by William Sidney Porter,affectionately known asO'Henry, who was born inGreensboro, N.C., Sept.11,1862 and died ratheryoung in New York, June5, 1910. He is one of myfavorite short story writers.

The leaf in this story has todo with the healing of thebody when all odds areagainst it and how thephysician might not alwayshave the last word.

In old Greenwich Village,on the lower east side ofNew York, there was asmall house occupied bytwo sister on the upperfloor and an elderly artistin the basement. Theywere friendly and cared forone another. One winter,one of the sisters became illwith pneumonia and wasgiven a doomsday decision

that she would not survivethrough the winter intospring by the physicianwho made a house call.The bed that she laid infaced a wall where a vinegrew with many leaves.She related to her sisterthat she was going to diewhen the last leaf had fall-en. The elderly artist oftenengaged in conversationwith her and knew of thedecision concerning herfate. When there was onlyone leaf left on the vine, awinter storm arose and theill patient knew that theleaf would be gone bymorning. When she awokeand saw the leaf, she beganto rally and her conditionimproved. The story con-tinues to relate that theelderly artist was founddead two days later due tothe pneumonia he had con-tracted while painting aleaf on the wall. He hadmanaged to prolong thelife of one he admired.

I often tell my medical stu-dents that no matter howmuch a patient is failing,that they must always beready to paint a leaf ofhope in the mind of thepatient and their family.Remember Proverbs 16:24:"Pleasant words are like ahoneycomb, sweet to thesoul and health to thebones. "Also proverbs17:22: "A merry heart doethgood, like medicine."

Prolonging Life ThroughLeaves of Healing

DENTAL HEALTH FAIRTO BE HELD AT

TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Trident Technical College students in the Student AmericanDental Hygienists’ Association welcome the community to afamily dental health fair on Feb. 7 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. atTrident Technical College’s Main Campus in the Complex forEconomic Development (7000 Rivers Ave., North Charleston,Bldg. 920).

The fair will educate the community about the importance ofvarious components of children’s dental health and will featuredemonstrations by dental hygiene students to show properbrushing and flossing techniques, a healthy foods game, an inter-active exhibit about effects of alcohol intoxication, informationabout the role of fluoride and sealants, and puppet shows abouttooth care. Professionals, including a pediatric dentist, a nutri-tionist, a chiropractor and fire safety personnel will be on hand todiscuss good health and safety habits for children.

The event is free and open to the public. Call 843.574.6447 formore event information.

“To the ordinary American or Englishman, the racequestion at bottom is simply a matter of ownership

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AttackingAllergies

By: Tonyaa Weathersbee,BlackAmericaWeb.com

For the Obama girls, mov-ing from the fish pond thatwas the Windy City intothe fishbowl of the WhiteHouse won’t be easy.

But I’m not worried.Why? Because Malia, 10,and Sasha, 7, already haveenough anchors to keepthem moored in watersthat are bound to be stirredup by the glare of publicityor the growing pains ofchildhood and adoles-cence.

It’s also probably a safebet that their mother,Michelle, and their father,President-elect BarackObama, have probablytalked to them about whatit means to be the nation’sfirst black First Daughters.

They probably know thatlike their father, they’ll berole models for millions ofchildren. Their parentsprobably know they’ll alsobe targets for tasteless,Don Imus-types who’ll besalivating for them to vali-date stereotypes ratherthan defy them.Michelle and Barack haveprobably prepared theirgirls for all this. So I’m nottoo worried about Maliaand Sasha.

They’ll be fine

.I do, however, continue toworry about the scores ofblack children in Americatoday who aren’t as luckyas the Obama girls.These are the children whodon’t have to survive beingin the media spotlight, buthave to struggle with thesocial isolation that hob-bles their progress early inlife.

Social isolation is whathappens to children wholive in concentrated pover-ty. It’s the thing that caus-es black children to dothings like fight over onecookie instead of askingthe teacher for more;because that’s the waythey’ve learned to assertthemselves in a worldwhere survival is aboutaggression, not compro-mise.

Social isolation afflictsmany poor, black teenagersas well.These are the kids whodon’t have anyone aroundthem who has ever held areal job. Therefore, manydon’t see a problem withwalking into a restaurantto apply for work wearinglow-slung pants and havinga mouthful of gold or silvergrills – and then wonderingwhy they didn’t get to workat the front counter.That is, if they got a job atall.They are the ones whodon’t understand why peo-ple like me cringe whenthey walk down the streetor in malls cursing loudlyor using the N-word.

When they do that, I wantto crawl under a bench.Most of all, such isolationcreates a situation so thatchildren don’t have anyadults around them to dis-appoint by behaving badly– or, for that matter, noadult who they respectenough or care enoughabout to not disappoint.So when people like melook at them and areembarrassed for them, itdoes no good. They haven’tlearned enough to beembarrassed for them-selves.tion.

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By: Julianne Malveaux,Special toBlackAmericaWeb.com

If you love black history, asI do, these are excitingtimes. Just two weeks ago,we both celebrated Dr.Martin Luther King’sbirthday and, on the nextday, the inauguration ofPresident Barack Obama.For the United States, acountry that definedAfrican-American peopleas fractional persons in itsConstitution, to elect ablack man as its leader isphenomenal history. That’swhy more than a millionpeople thronged outside infreezing weather to see thehistory that many of usthought we would neverwitness. And now anAfrican-American familylives in a White House thatslave labor built. Talkabout the arc of history anda movement full circle!

There were lessons andblessings during the inau-guration. Rev. JosephLowery was an answer tomy prayers. Let me make itplain. While I prayed thatsome band would strikethe tune of "Lift EveryVoice and Sing" and thatsome choir would sing it, Iknew that I was simplybeing delusional. Eventhough Barack Obama is ablack man, too muchNegritude in the inaugura-tion would likely turn offthe Rainbow Coalition ofsupporters he has amassed.So when Rev. Loweryrecited the words of thethird verse of the NegroNational Anthem, I was inseventh heaven. "LiftEvery Voice" was in thehouse!

Rev. Lowery ended hisbenediction by paraphras-ing Big Bill Broonzy's 1937song, “Black Brown andWhite,” that contains thelyrics, “If you are white,you’re all right; if you’rebrown, stick around; if youare black, oh brother, getback." To be more inclu-sive, Lowery included thered man and the mellowyellow, but within hours ofhis wonderful benediction,some hateful white peoplewere describing his prayeras “racist." I say it was asignal to African-Americans that we are partof the Obama coalition.More importantly, the fussseemed to be a fuss aboutwhite folks neither know-ing nor understandingblack history.

Our history is not only ahistory of slavery. It is ahistory of resistance, a his-tory of African-Americanpeople purchasing them-selves, of slaves who cutdeals with masters andmanaged to participate in aracist and capitalist econo-my because they had nochoice. Men who werecraftsmen hired themselvesout on Sundays and slowlyand painstakingly managedto save a dollar or two aweek until they boughttheir freedom. Womenhired themselves out aslaundresses to white fami-lies who did not haveslaves and managed to buythemselves. Whenever Iwrite those words - buythemselves - I am struck bythe contradictions, but alsohumbled and inspired bythe focus our foremothersand forefathers managed.Implicit in these words isrecognition of the immenseunfairness of a system thatmany who fail don’t knowabout.

When we consider African-American economic histo-ry, we must consider thoseslaves who were full partic-ipants in our economy.These folk also lived in amurky zone, with a pig-ment associated withenslavement and a statusthat was free. In manycounties, free black peoplehad to pay a bond simply tomaintain their freedom.Even then, some were “cap-tured” and sold as slaves.To be African andAmerican was to live indanger at all times.

And yet we prevailed. Ourhistorically black collegesare evidence of our prevail-ing. Bennett College forWomen was founded in theunpaved basement of aUnited Methodist churchby former slaves who had a

thirst and a desire forknowledge. We were co-educational in 1873, and theUnited MethodistChurch’s women’s divisionorganized us as a women’scollege. We have been atthe forefront of the civilrightsmovement, protest-ing segregation at theCarolina Theatre in the1930’s, providing a placefor Dr. King to speak in1957, when others inGreensboro were afraid togive him a platform, andsupporting the Woolworthsit-ins in the 1960s.Indeed, there are thosewho credit Bennett womenwith the success of the sit-in movement for many rea-sons. First, though NorthCarolina A&T studentswanted to begin the sit-inmovement in November of1959, Dr. Willa Player, thefirst female president ofBennett college, suggesteda postponement, fearingthat momentum would beslowed when studentswent home forThanksgiving andChristmas breaks.Secondly, Bennett womenwere arrested as picketersand protesters, with thefull support of the college’sadministration. Dr. Playertook student homework tothe jails and, at a timewhen many black collegepresidents merely toleratedprotesters, she made itclear that she embraced herstudent’s activism.

The tradition has contin-ued. In 2007, 50 Bennettstudents traveled to Jena,Louisiana to support theJena Six. Fifty might notsound like many until youunderstand that there arejust 678 students atBennett. Those 50 repre-sent more than 7 percent ofour student body. Whatother college representedat that level? (In the nameof Black History Month,you ought to send Bennetta monetary shout out. Youcan donate atBennett.edu.)

To revel in black history isto simply smile at the rich-ness of which our historyreminds us. It is to call theroll of those who providedthe foundation on whichwe stand – DenmarkVessey, Harriett Tubman,Sojourner Truth,Frederick Douglass, IdaB. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois,Dr. Sadie Tanner MosellAlexander, John Lewis,Diane Nash, KathleenCleaver, Eleanor HolmesNorton, Paul Robeson andso many others. As we callthe roll, we are reminded ofthe sacrifices and of thework that must continue.

We know that there is stillmuch work to do. In thesame month that anAfrican-American man wassworn in as president of theUnited States, anotherAfrican-American man,Oscar Grant, was coldlyshot by a Bay Area RapidTransit police officer.Oscar Grant was the fatherof a four-year old girl, and

he was a brother who wasknown as a peacemaker.Dozens of people capturedhis shooting on their cell-phones and video cameras.To watch this videotape isto be chillingly reminded ofour history of police mis-conduct and to inspire usto continue to work for jus-tice.

Also, 2009 is the centenni-al celebration of theNAACP’s founding.Imagine the challengesthat our brothers and sis-ters faced attempting tostart this organization thatwas, from its inception,interracial. Those whobuilt the NAACP werefaced with enormous chal-lenges, but they main-tained a phenomenal com-mitment to social and eco-nomic justice. The organi-zation was banned in sever-

al southern states duringdesegregation, but it man-aged to maintain. Now, itis led by a courageousyoung man, BenjaminJealous, who stands on theshoulders of leaders likeBenjamin Hooks, JulianBond, Kweisi Mfume andso many others.

All of America should be

celebrating this BlackHistory Month. AtBennett, we are blessed tokick off with a talk fromour revered trustee, Dr.Maya Angelou. Before themonth is out, we’ll hearfrom Marianne Spraggins,Dr. Juliet Walker (thegreat- great granddaugherof Free Frank McWhorter)and others. At the

Southeast Tennis andLearning Center inWashington, D.C., youngpeople will portray eldersin a “Blacks and Wax”exhibit on February 26.Get there if you can!

Oh, there is so much to cel-ebrate this Black HistoryMonth, and so much torevel in! The arc of historyis captured,always, in therich words of our NegroNational Anthem: "Stonythe road we trod, bitter thechastening rod, felt in thedays when hope unbornhad died, yet with a steadybeat, have not our wearyfeet, come to the place, oh,where our fathers died."The road may be lessstony, the rod just a bit lesschastening, but there isstill much work to do. Andmuch to smile about.

To Revel in Black History

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Our Honorees for this year are as follows:South Carolina State Senate, Robert Ford

Former City of Charleston SC Police Chief, Chief Rueben Greenberg

Retired Educator from Trident Technical College, Mrs. Vertell M. Middleton

The speaker for this occasion is Mrs. Gloria G. Lambright,Dean of Charleston County Baptist Association Sunday School

BTU Congress of Christian Education.The public is cordially invited.

Yours in Christ, Rev. Charles A. Green, Pastor

Special to the NNPA fromthe Louisiana Weekly

NEW ORLEANS(NNPA) - Liberty Bankcustomers are about toreap the benefits of a newfederally sponsored capitalfunds program. LibertyBank, the third-largestAfr ican-American-ownedbank in United States,recently announced that ithas received approval toparticipate in the U.S.Treasury Department’sTARP Capital PurchaseProgram. The voluntary program isdesigned to increase theflow of capital into theeconomy by offering finan-cial institutions more fundsto lend to businesses andconsumers. The announcement ismusic to the ears of LibertyBank customers, many ofwhom are still workingtoward recovery fromHurricane Katrina morethan three years later.Liberty is only one of threebanks in the New Orleansarea chosen to participate,

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and the only minority bank.Only banks with healthyfinancial portfolios areselected. “We are very pleased to beselected for inclusion in theCapital PurchaseProgram,” said AldenMcDonald, president andChief Executive Officer ofLiberty Bank. “The prelim-inary approval is an impor-tant statement by the U.S.Treasury about its confi-dence in the strength andfinancial health of ourinstitution.” Once the program isadopted, Liberty willimmediately make theincreased funds availableto businesses and con-sumers who meet standardgood credit criteria.

“This additional capitalwill benefit all communi-ties that Liberty serves,and enhance our capacityto support the revitaliza-tion of the area we coverthat has been struck byfour destructive hurricanesin the last three years,”McDonald said.

Trident Technical Collegekicks off its Black HistoryMonth celebrationWednesday, Feb. 4 from 11:30

a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at theComplex for EconomicDevelopment/College Center(Bldg. 920) on the MainCampus in North Charleston.Reverend Nelson B. RiversIII, chief operating officer ofthe National Association forthe Advancement of ColoredPeople and pastor of NewCharity Missionary BaptistChurch in North Charleston,will speak. This event is freeand open to the public.

TTC will host several otherBlack History Month events.In the Student Center (Bldg.410) on TTC’s Main Campus,events include an African-American Vendor’s Day 10a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11and an African-AmericanMovie Marathon 10 a.m.-6p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18. TheCollege’s Palmer Campus indowntown Charleston willhost a spotlight event 11:30a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday, Feb.20.

The Berkeley Campus inMoncks Corner will host itsspotlight event 11:30 a.m.-12:30p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25.These events are free and opento the public.

Trident’s Got Talent, a talentshow for students, faculty andstaff, will be held 6-9 p.m.Monday, Feb. 23 in theComplex for EconomicDevelopment/College Center(Bldg. 920). TTC’s BlackHistory Committee requests adonation of one canned goodfor admission to this event.Canned goods will be donatedto the Crisis Ministries andLowcountry Food Bank.

For more information on theseevents, call 843-574-6012.

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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Ernest was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1883 to parents Charles Frazier Just Jr. and MaryMatthews Just. His father and grandfather Charles Sr. were dock builders. When Ernest was fouryears old, both his father and grandfather died. Just’s motherbecame the sole supporter of him, his younger brother, and hisyounger sister. Mary Matthews Just taught at an African-American school in Charleston to support her family. During thesummer, she worked in the phosphate mines on James Island.Noticing that there was much vacant land near the island, Marypersuaded several black families to move there to farm. The townthey founded, now incorporated in the West Ashley area ofCharleston, was eventually named Maryville in her honor.

Hoping Just would become a teacher, his mother sent him to anall-black boarding school in Orangeburg, South Carolina at theage of thirteen. Because the schools for blacks in the south wereinferior, Just and his mother thought it better for him to go north.At age sixteen, Just enrolled at a Meriden, New Hampshire col-lege-preparatory high school, Kimball Union Academy. Despitebeing the only black student at Kimball Union Academy, Justcompleted the four-year program in only three years and graduat-ed in 1903 with the highest grades in his class. His mother had died during his second year at KimballUnion Academy, when he was only seventeen.

After graduating Kimball Union Academy, Just went on to attend Dartmouth College in Hanover,New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1907, the only student to graduate magna cumlaude.[citation needed] Ernest won special honors in botany, history, and sociology and was designat-ed as a Rufus Choate scholar for two years.

On November 17, 1911, Just assisted three Howard students (Edgar Amos Love, Oscar JamesCooper, and Frank Coleman), in establishing the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.Upon graduation from Dartmouth, Just faced the same problems as all black college graduates of histime: no matter how brilliant they were or how high were their grades, it was almost impossible forblacks to become faculty members of white colleges or universities. Just then took what seemed to bethe best choices available to him and was appointed to a teaching position at historically-blackHoward University in Washington, D.C.. In 1910, he was put in charge of the newly-formed biologydepartment by Wilbur P. Thirkield. In 1912, he became head of the Department of Zoology, a posi-tion he held until his death in 1941. Just was soon introduced to Dr. Frank R. Lillie, head of the biol-ogy department at the University of Chicago. Lillie, who was also chief of the Marine Biology Lab atWoods Hole, Massachusetts, invited Just to spend the summer of 1909 as his research assistant atWoods Hole. For the next twenty years, Just spent every summer but one at Woods Hole. On 12 June1912 Ernest married Ethel Highwarden, who taught German at Howard University. They had threechildren: Margaret, Highwarden, and Maribel.

In 1915, Just took a leave of absence from Howard to enroll in an advanced academic program at theUniversity of Chicago. That same year, Just, who was gaining a national reputation as an outstand-ing young scientist, was the first recipient of the NAACP's Spingarn Medal on 12 February 1915. InJune 1916, Just received his Ph.D. in experimental embryology, with a thesis on the mechanics of fer-tilization, from the University of Chicago, becoming one of the handful of blacks who had gained thisdegree from a major university.

During the next several years, Just became an internationally respected biologist. At Woods Hole,he conducted thousands of experiments studying the fertilization of the marine mammal cell. Hiswork on small water creatures was highly respected by biologists in Europe. In 1922, Just successful-ly refuted Jacque Loeb’s theory of artificial parthenogenesis. His first book, Basic Methods forExperiments on Eggs of Marine Animals, was based on his Woods Hole research. Just eventuallypublished more than 50 scientific papers over 20 years based on his research at Woods Hole.

Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875--May 18, 1955) was an American educator and civil rightsleader best known for starting a school for black students in Daytona Beach, Florida that eventuallybecame Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advis-er to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Born in Mayesville, South Carolina to parents who had beenslaves, she took an early interest in her own education. Withthe help of benefactors, Bethune attended college hoping tobecome a missionary in Africa. When that did not materialize,she started a school for black girls in Daytona Beach. From sixstudents it grew and merged with an institute for black boysand eventually became the Bethune-Cookman School. Itsquality far surpassed the standards of education for black stu-dents, and rivaled those of white schools. Bethune workedtirelessly to ensure funding for the school, and used it as ashowcase for tourists and donors, to exhibit what educatedblack people could do. She was president of the college from1923 to 1942 and 1946 to 1947, one of the few women in theworld who served as a college president at that time.

Bethune was also active in women's clubs, and her leadership in them allowed her to become nation-ally prominent. She worked for the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, and became a memberof Roosevelt's Black Cabinet, sharing the concerns of black people with the Roosevelt administrationwhile spreading Roosevelt's message to blacks, who had been traditionally Republican voters. Uponher death, columnist Louis E. Martin said, "She gave out faith and hope as if they were pills and shesome sort of doctor." Her home in Daytona Beach is a National Historic Landmark, her house inWashington, D.C. in Logan Circle is preserved by the National Park Service as a National HistoricSite, and a sculpture of her is located in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C.

Ernest Everett Just

Ernest Just

Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune

WE ARE PROUD OF OUR NOBLE HERITAGE

National Park Service invites thepublic to celebrate Gullah heritage

with free Saturday programsCelebrateGullah Heritage!The National ParkService, in partnershipwith the Town of MountPleasant, is sponsoring aseries of free cultural pro-grams at Charles PinckneyNational Historic siteevery Saturday at 2:00 pmduring February andMarch, 2009.

Charles Pinckney, a princi-pal author and signer of the

U.S. Constitution, ownedseven plantations.Enslaved Africans andAfrican-Americans onLowcountry plantationsdeveloped a unique cultureknown collectively today as“Gullah.” Gullah peoplemade significant contribu-tions not only to theLowcountry plantation sys-tem but also to Americanculture in general. A rem-nant of his Lowcountry

plantation, Snee Farm, ispreserved today as CharlesPinckney NationalHistoric Site.These Gullah programsrange from craft demon-strations such as quilting,cast-net making, ironworkand sweetgrass basketsewing to cooking, Africandrumming and story-telling, folk-tales, spiritu-als and other musical per-formances.

Feb 7 Carolyn “Jabulile”White, Sea Island story-tellerVera Manigault, sweet-grass baskets

Feb 14 Anita Singleton-Prather, “Aunt Pearlie Sue”Gullah TalesVera Manigault, sweet-grass basket demonstra-tion

Feb 21 Sharon & FrankMurray, rice productionPaul & Loretta Hromoga,indigo dyeing

Feb 28 Ann Caldwell &the Magnolia Singers, spir-itualsJeannette Lee, sweetgrassbasket demonstration

Mar 7 Veronica Gerald &Jesse Gant, Gullah cook-ing demonstrationAlada “Muima” Shinault-Small, African talesNIA Productions, Africandrumming & dance

Mar 14 The BrotherhoodSingers, spirituals &gospelDorothy Montgomery,quiltingElijah Ford, sweetgrassbaskets

Mar 21 Vermelle &Andrew Rodrigues, quilt-ing & toysVera Manigault, sweet-grass basketsCharles C Williams, cast-net making & woodwork

Mar 28 Ann Caldwell &the Magnolia Singers, spir-itualsWilliam Rouse, sweetgrassbasket demonstration

Reverend Arthur Evans, Sr

.and

The Trustee Ministry of Calvary

Baptist Church

cordially invite you andyour guest to the

ANNUAL BLACK

HISTORY PROGRAM

Featuring CharlestonSouthern College Choir,Charleston DevelopmentAcademy Singing Eagles,

Calvary’s Adult andYoung Praise Dancers,

andCalvary Youth Choir

Sunday, February 8, 2009

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF

CHARLESTON

IN THE COURT OFCOMMON PLEAS FORTHE NINTH JUDICIAL

CIRCUIT CASE NO:

2008-CP-10-7395

Michael R. Nelson,Christopher Nelson,Trantor Corporation, andJohn Doe or Mary Doe, fic-titious names to designateminors, infants, persons ofunsound mind, under dis-ability or incompetent, per-sons imprisoned, or per-sons in the Military Servicewithin the meaning of theTitle 50, United StatesCode, commonly referredto as The Soldiers andSailors Civil Service Act of1940, if any, and RichardRoe and Sarah Roe, ficti-tious names to designatethe unknown heirs,devisees, distributees,issue, executors, adminis-trators, successors orassigns of Michael R.Nelson and ChristopherNelson, also all otherunknown persons claimingany, title, estate or lienupon the real estate whichis the subject of this action,

Defendants.

SUMMONS

YOU ARE HEREBY SUM-MONDED and required toanswer the Complaint inthis action, a copy of whichis herewith served uponyou, and to serve a copy ofyour Answer upon the sub-scribers at their officelocated at 575 King Street,Suite B, Charleston, SouthCarolina 29403 within thir-ty (30) days after the serv-ice hereof, exclusive of theday of such service; and ifyou fail to answer theComplaint within the timeaforesaid, judgement bydefault will be renderedagainst you for the reliefdemanded in theComplaint.

Derfner, Altman & Wilborn,LLCSamuel H. Altman575 King Street, Suite BPost Office Box 600Charleston, SC 29402(843) - 723 - 9804Fax (843) - 723 - 7446Attorney for Plaintiff

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Solicitation Number: 09-P001B

The City of Charleston is accepting Request for Proposalsfor the Janitorial Services. The City will receive proposalsuntil February 25, 2009 @ 11:00 a.m. at 288 MeetingStreet, Suite 310 Charleston, SC 29401.

The solicitation will be available upon request and may beobtained by submitting a written request to: Robin D.Barrett, CPPB by fax (843-720-3872) or mailing to theabove address. You may also obtain a copy of the solici-tation by going to our website: www.charlestoncity.infoand then enter the Bidline page.

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LAWN AND GROUNDSMAINTENANCE 2009

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550 Meeting StreetCharleston, SC 29403

The Housing Authority of theCity of Charleston (CHA) willreceive Proposals for Lawnand Grounds Maintenancefor three separate divisionsconsisting of multiple loca-tions in each division. Eachdivision contract will beawarded separately.Proposals will be accepteduntil 2:00 p.m. local time onFebruary 12, 2009 at TheHousing Authority of the Cityof Charleston, 550 MeetingStreet, Room 114,Charleston South Carolina29406.

Proposal packages may beobtained after 2:00 p.m. onMonday, January 26, 2009 atthe CHA Purchasing Office,550 Meeting Street Room114, Charleston, SC 29403.Contact W. Keith Brown at(843) 720-5345.

This contract is federallyassisted; therefore, contractsfor work under this bid willobligate the contractor andsubcontractors not to discrim-inate in employment prac-tices as mandated by theDavis-Bacon Act and Section3 of the Housing and UrbanDevelopment Act of 1968.Minority and women ownedbusiness are encouraged torespond.

The Housing Authorityreserves the right to waveirregularities and to reject anyand all proposals.

Invitation to Bid

Reroofing at Meeting Street ManorJob# 3090301

The Housing Authority of the City of Charleston willreceive sealed bids on a General Contract for Reroofingat Meeting Street Manor until 2:00 p.m. local time, onMarch 3, 2009 at 550 Meeting Street, Room 114,Charleston, South Carolina. Bids will be publiclyopened.

Copies of the Bidding documents may be obtainedafter 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at theCHA Capital Funds Office, 545 Meeting Street.Charleston, SC 29403. Contact Ed Donnelly at (843)720-3983.

A voluntary pre-bid conference will be held at 545Meeting Street on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 10:00a.m.

The Housing Authority encourages minority ownedbusiness to participate in its on-going purchasing ofgoods and services.

CHA reserves the right to waive irregularities and toreject any and all bids.

Donald J. Cameron- President and Chief Executive Officer

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On or about February 5, 2009, plans and specificationsfor Demolition of Existing Reefers, Wando WelchTerminal, State Pier 41, Mount Pleasant, SouthCarolina, will be available for distribution to qualifiedcontractors by the South Carolina State Ports Authority.

A pre-bid conference will be held on Wednesday,February 18, 2009, at 3:00 p.m., at the Charleston NavyBase Container Terminal (CNBCT) ConstructionOffice, 2025 Bainbridge Avenue, North Charleston,South Carolina 29405.

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ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICESAll persons having claims against the following estates arerequired to deliver or mail their claims to the PersonalRepresentative indicated below and also file subject claims onForm #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of CharlestonCounty, 84 Broad St., 3rd Floor, Charleston, SC 29401, before theexpiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of thisNotice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and areforever barred.

Estate of: FRANK HOLMES 2008-ES-10-1205

DOD: 02/25/99 Pers. Rep: BERNETHA ODOM

2219 FILLMORE ST., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29405

Atty: THAD J. DOUGHTY, ESQ.2175-G ASHLEY PHOSPHATE RD., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29406

**************************************************************************Estate of: WILLIAM WEATHERS

2009-ES-10-0084DOD: 11/30/08 Pers. Rep: ROBERTA C. WEATHERS

6 MOOREMONT AVE., GREENVILLE, SC 29605

Pers. Rep: LOUIS N. WEATHERS7613 IRELAND AVE., CHARLESTON, SC 29420

Atty: JONATHAN ALTMAN, ESQ.PO BOX 600, CHARLESTON, SC 29402

**************************************************************************Estate of: NEOMIE ANTHONY

2009-ES-10-0132DOD: 04/01/08 Pers. Rep: NANCY PIERCE

1310 VARDEL ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29412**************************************************************************Estate of: LOTTIE H. JENKINS

2009-ES-10-0143DOD: 09/23/08 Pers. Rep: SANDRA R. HOLMES

8184 WINDSOR HILL BLVD., 300G, NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29420

**************************************************************************Estate of: EDITH FULTON BARR

2009-ES-10-0168DOD: 01/19/09 Pers. Rep: CHARLES E. BARR

9532 LAWNSBERY TERRACE, SILVER SPRING, MD 20901

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CHARLESTON COUNTY GRANTS ADMINISTRATIONDEPARTMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

STATEMENT OF FINDING AND PUBLIC EXPLANATIONEvidence of Compliance with Executive Orders

11988 and 11990Floodplain Management and Wetland Protection

8-Step Process

Charleston County Grants Administration Department hasanalyzed the project identified below as required byPresidential Directive EO 11988 and determined thatassistance should be granted therein:

PROPOSED PROJECTConstruction of freestanding Bathroom Facility

PROPOSED LOCATIONRavenel Railroad Depot Museum

Corner Highway 165 and Martin Street, Ravenel, SC 29470TMS# 187-00-00-100

Since a portion of Ravenel Railroad Depot Museum islocated in wetlands as established by the FederalEmergency Management Agency (FEMA), the County ofCharleston is required by EO 11988 to deny assistance tothis project unless there are no practicable alternatives. Ananalysis by Charleston County Grants AdministrationCommunity Development Division revealed that there areno practical alternatives. The basis for this determinationis as follows:

It is not possible to carry out the objectives of the CDBGand HOME Investment Partnership Act Programs to devel-op affordable housings and participate in the growth planof the community without participating in projects in thebase Floodplain;The projects meet local planning and zoning requirements;The proposed construction will not displace or redirectwaters to seriously affect other areas;Construction will meet the Wetland Resource ManagementPlan prepared by the community as a condition of theirparticipation in the National Flood Insurance Program;

Any comments received as a result of the Early PublicNotice for this project on December 12, 2008 were consid-ered in the analysis which can be reviewed at theCharleston County Community Development Office, 4045Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina29405.

Public comments on this statement will be received andconsidered for a period of 15 days from today’s publicationof January 21, 2009. Comments will be received at theaddress above. The proposed projects will not be imple-mented without considering public comments.

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICESAll persons having claims against the following estates

are required to deliver or mail their claims to the PersonalRepresentative indicated below and also file subject claims onForm #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of CharlestonCounty, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expi-ration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of thisNotice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and areforever barred.

Estate of: CELIA FORD GADSDEN2008-ES-10-1731

DOD: 07/13/08Pers. Rep. RUEBEN M. GADSDEN, JR.

759 BEAR SWAMP RD.,JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: THOMAS P. MORRISON, ESQ.PO BOX 1056, CHARLESTON,SC 29402

**************************************************************************ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICESAll persons having claims against the following estates

are required to deliver or mail their claims to the PersonalRepresentative indicated below and also file subject claims onForm #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of CharlestonCounty, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expi-ration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of thisNotice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and areforever barred.

Estate of: KING DAVID GRAHAM 2008-ES-10-1456

DOD: 08/30/08 Pers. Rep: EDNA K. GRAHAM

2144 MIDLAND PARK RD., NORTH CHARLESTON, SC 29406

Atty: EDUARDO K. CURRY, ESQ.PO BOX 42270, NORTH CHARLESTON, SC 29423

**************************************************************************Estate of: MARY LEE SMALLS

2008-ES-10-1806DOD: 11/14/08 Pers. Rep: MAE FRANCES MIDDLETON

2946 LIMESTONE BLVD., CHARLESTON, SC 29414

Atty: GEORGE E. COUNTS, ESQ.27 GAMECOCK AVE., STE. 200, CHARLESTON, SC 29407

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINANOTICE OF DEFAULT

AND INTENT TO SELLCOUNTY OF CHARLESTON

TO: BRIAN L. LYONSAND REBECCA L. LYONS –POST OFFICE BOX 683ISLE OF PALMS, SOUTHCAROLINA 29451

The undersigned asTrustee for the Non-JudicialLien Foreclosure of timeshareestates in Sea Cabin on theOcean, III and the Counsel ofTime Sharing Interest Ownersof apartments of Sea Cabinon the Ocean, III, have previ-ously filed a Notice of Lien forunpaid assessments on useperiod 13, Apartment 234, ofSea Cabin on the Ocean, III.This lien was dated February15, 2008, and recorded in theCharleston County Registerof Deeds Office in Book L-653at Page 658.

You are currently in default ofthe provisions of the originaltimeshare instrument and allamendments thereto, by fail-ing to pay the assessmentsdue on your timeshare inter-est. The amount needed tocure your default is $330.00plus all interest, attorney feesand costs incurred by theRegime.

South Carolina Codeof Laws §27-32-325, asamended.

“If you fail to cure thedefault or take other appropri-ate action with regard to thismatter within thirty calendardays after the date of thisnotice, you will risk losingyour interest in this timeshareestate through a non-judicialforeclosure procedure.However, under the non-judi-cial procedure, you will not besubject to a deficiency judg-ment or personal liability forthe lien being foreclosed evenif the sale of your timeshareestate resulting from the non-judicial foreclosure is insuffi-cient to satisfy the amount ofthe lien being foreclosed. Youmay object to the sale of yourtimeshare estate through thenon-judicial foreclosure pro-cedure and require foreclo-sure of your timeshare inter-est to proceed through thejudicial process. An objectionmust be made in writing andreceived by the trustee beforethe end of the thirty-day timeperiod. You must state thereason for your objection andinclude your address on thewritten objection. In a judicialforeclosure proceeding thatresults from your objection,you may be subject to a defi-ciency judgment and personalliability for the lien being fore-closed if the sale of your time-share state resulting from thejudicial foreclosure is insuffi-cient to satisfy the amount ofthe lien being foreclosed.Furthermore, you also may besubject to a personal moneyjudgment for the costs andattorney’s fees incurred by thelien holder in the judicial fore-closure proceeding if thecourt finds that there is a com-plete absence of a justifiableissue of either law or factraised by your objections ordefenses. You have the rightto cure your default at anytime before the sale of yourtimeshare estate by paymentof all past due loan paymentsor assessments, accruedinterest, late fees, taxes, andall fees and costs incurred bythe lien holder and trustee,including attorney’s fees andcosts, in connection with thedefault”.

CHRIS J. LOUDENas Trustee for Sea Cabin onthe Ocean, III, A Horizontal

Property RegimeOctober 8, 2008Moncks Corner, SouthCarolina

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICESAll persons having claims against the following estates

are required to deliver or mail their claims to the PersonalRepresentative indicated below and also file subject claims onForm #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of CharlestonCounty, 84 Broad St., 3rd Floor, Charleston, SC 29401, before theexpiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of thisNotice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and areforever barred.

Estate of: ANDREW GATES CREAMER 2009-ES-10-0003

DOD: 11/08/08 Pers. Rep: JAMES A. GRIMSLEY, III

PO BOX 2055, BEAUFORT, SC 29901-2055**************************************************************************Estate of: ALFRED H. WILLIAMS

2009-ES-10-0014DOD: 05/02/07 Pers. Rep: GLORIA W. HAUGHTON

1582 WESTWOOD DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29412**************************************************************************

INVITATION FOR BID

Solicitation Number: 09-B03CS Federal Ammunition For The City of Charleston PoliceDepartment

The City of Charleston is accepting Invitation forBids for Federal Ammunition For The City of CharlestonPolice Department. The City will receive bids until February19, 2009 @ 11:00 a.m. at 288 Meeting Street, Suite 310Charleston, SC.

The solicitation will be available upon request and may beobtained by submitting a written request to: Chenette L.Singleton by fax (843-720-3872), by phone (843-724-7312)or mailing to the above address. You may also obtain acopy of the solicitation by going to our website:www.charlestoncity.info and then click on the Bidline link.

Trident Technical Collegekicks off its Black HistoryMonth celebrationWednesday, Feb. 4 from11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. atthe Complex for EconomicD e v e l o p m e n t / C o l l e g eCenter (Bldg. 920) on theMain Campus in NorthCharleston. ReverendNelson B. Rivers III, chiefoperating officer of theNational Association forthe Advancement ofColored People and pastorof New Charity MissionaryBaptist Church in NorthCharleston, will speak. This event is free and open

to the public.

TTC will host severalother Black HistoryMonth events. In theStudent Center (Bldg.410) on TTC’s MainCampus, events include anAfrican-American Vendor’sDay 10 a.m.-1 p.m.Wednesday, Feb. 11 and anAfrican-American MovieMarathon 10 a.m.-6 p.m.Wednesday, Feb. 18. TheCollege’s Palmer Campusin downtown Charleston

NAACP’s Nelson Rivers III to Keynote Trident Technical College Black History Month Celebration

will host a spotlight event11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Friday, Feb. 20. TheBerkeley Campus inMoncks Corner will hostits spotlight event 11:30a.m.-12:30 p.m.Wednesday, Feb. 25. Theseevents are free and open tothe public.

Trident’s Got Talent, a tal-ent show for students, fac-ulty and staff, will be held6-9 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23in the Complex forE c o n o m i cD e v e l o p m e n t / C o l l e g eCenter (Bldg. 920). TTC’sBlack History Committeerequests a donation of onecanned good for admissionto this event.

Canned goods will bedonated to the CrisisMinistries andLowcountry Food Bank.

For more information onthese events, call 843-574-6012.

Nelson Rivers III

ADVERTISEMENT

On or about February 2, 2009, plans and specifications for theconstruction of the “Phase 1 – Containment Structure,Charleston Naval Base Container Terminal (CNBCT), NorthCharleston, South Carolina”, will be available to qualified con-tractors by the South Carolina State Ports Authority.

A pre-bid conference will be held on Thursday, February 19,2009 at 10:00 a.m., in the CNBCT Construction Office, 2025Bainbridge Avenue, North Charleston, South Carolina.

Bids will be received at the CNBCT Construction Office, 2025Bainbridge Avenue, North Charleston, South Carolina, until3:00 p.m., Thursday, March 5, 2009, at which time there will bea public opening of Bids at the CNBCT Construction Office.

The project work includes: minor clearing and grubbing, minordemolition work and excavation, stormdrain system installation,minor waterline and fence relocation , minor asphalt paving,dredging of approximately 880,000 cubic yards of existing mudand marl material for the construction of the containment wallstructure, dredging (contractor’s option) from the navigationchannel to the Project site to allow access for floating construc-tion equipment; construction of approximately 5000 feet of asteel pipe (36 inches diameter) and sheet pile wall containmentstructure; delivery and placement of approximately 290,000cubic yards of rock (including armor stone) for the rock berm;and surface and slope stabilization including silt fencing, seed-ing, and mulching. All dredged material is to be placed in thewest containment cell on Daniel Island. A portion of the possibledredging area for construction access may require special proce-dures around possible unexploded ordnance.

The wall containment structure will be approximately 3000 feetlong across the front, which will include pipe piles and interme-diate sheet piles. The front wall will be parallel to the Federalchannel in the Cooper River located approximately 850 feet fromthe existing shoreline into the river. The north and south sidewalls will include sheet piles and will extend from the front wallto the existing shoreline.

Interested parties may download, at no cost, the Plans andSpecifications from the South Carolina State Ports Authority'sLegal Notices website (www.scspa-notices.com). Hardcopiesof the Plans and Specifications will not be provided by theAuthority.

Bids must be accompanied by a certified check or bid bond fortwenty percent (20%) of the Total Base Bid. One hundred per-cent (100%) labor and material bond will be required. The biddershall have a current contractor's license for the State of SouthCarolina.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority reserves the right toreject any or all Bids, or to accept any Bid if considered best forits interest.

S. C. STATE PORTS AUTHORITYPost Office Box 22287Charleston, South Carolina 29413-2287(843) 856-7048engineering@scspa.com

Will D.C. Finally BeGrantedVotingRights?

It’s AboutTime

By: Deborah Mathis,BlackAmericaWeb.com

If Barack Obama’s electionsignifies anything, it is thatwishful thinking can cometrue.His ascendancy – to befinalized next week amidmuch excitement, fanfareand unprecedented securi-ty – has inspired all mannerof resolve, from policy mak-ers to schoolchildren.In that spirit of possibility,the determined gentle-woman from the District ofColumbia, the indefatiga-ble Eleanor HolmesNorton, has once againintroduced legislation thatwould give D.C. residentsa voting representative inCongress.

Norton, whose official titleis “delegate,” has tried thisrepeatedly, coming closelast year, when the measurepassed the House, but nocigar. Senate Republicanskilled the bill.

It could happen this time –in part, because the newbill introduced last weekwould also give Utah afourth seat in the House.That, supposedly, willassuage Republicans whoare wary of handing theDemocrats another sure-thing, as the District ofColumbia would be.Make no mistake; it is also

because Obama Fever andthe general sense of whatmight be called AboutTime-ism. About time wegot out of the greed-is-good mindset. About timewe extricated ourselvesfrom the misbegotten war.About time the presidencyopened up to someoneother than white men.

And about time the600,000 men, women andchildren who live in theDistrict of Columbia –most of them black people– had a say in what the fed-eral government does,especially when that gov-ernment has no compunc-tion about taxing them andspending those funds as itchooses.When I moved to this area,I immediately ruled out liv-ing in D.C. for the very factthat it is a monument tothe same taxation withoutrepresentation that forcedthe colonies to rebel anddemand independence.Considering blackAmericans’ experience withvoting rights, I could notaccept it.

But, again, I ’m a trans-plant. For thousands ofpeople, D.C. has always,and only, been home.“D.C. born, D.C. bred,and when I die, I’ll be D.C.dead,” they will often say.Frustrated but faithful,they have been waiting toexhale all of their lives.

No matter what the origi-nal design was, time hasdone its usual work andchanged things substan-tially. In these latter days,there is simply no justifi-able reason to deny repre-sentation to fellowAmericans who have nothad a vote in Congress formore than 200 years.

Whether the predominanceof black residents is behindthe historical mulishnesson Capitol Hill is moot,although it is curious thatthe improved prospects forpassage of the D.C. houseVoting Rights Act come ata time when the city isbeing – and I hate thisword – “re-gentrified,”which is to say, upscalewhites are moving back in.Whatever the reason, anddespite the tit-for-tat dealwith Utah, may this be theyear that fairness comes tothe good people of D.C. Obama co-sponsored thelast bill to make it happen.Now, he may get to signthe new one into law.