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Council President Young joins San Diego Police Capt. Lawrence McKinney and officers from Mid-City Division in recognizing Teci Mayo, manager of the President John Adams Manor apartments,for successfully completing all three phases of the Crime Free Multi-Housing Program. Mayo is

one of dozens of other mangers trained to address safety concerns and prevent nuisance-relatedactivity at rental properties throughout San Diego.

Rare anti-slavery booklet acquired by U.Vaby Zinie Chen

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Universityof Virginia has acquired a rare first edition of an1829 anti-slavery manifesto that was consid-ered a rallying cry for black Americans and amajor threat to Southern leaders, who workedvigorously to ban it.

The copy of abolitionist David Walker's"Appeal in Four Articles; Together With aPreamble to the Coloured Citizens of theWorld, But in Particular, and Very Expressly toThose of the United States of America" is oneof seven known to still exist. The pamphlet ison display at U.Va.'s Albert and Shirley SmallSpecial Collections Library.

A private endowment for U.Va.'s specialcollections recently acquired it from a NewJersey rare-book dealer for $95,000, universityofficials said Thursday.

"Scholars have rightly termed the Appeal adeclaration of independence for blackAmericans and linked it to the long tradition ofpolitical dissent and pamphleteering, as well asto the beginnings of American abolitionism,"said Deborah McDowell, director of U.Va.'sCarter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.

In the 76-page, 8?-inch-by-5-inch pamphlet,Walker urged slaves to rise up against theirowners, and argued for the abolition of slaveryon moral and Christian theological grounds.

"It really was the very first document in theUnited States to call for the immediate, uncom-pensated abolition of slavery," said Harry L.Watson, director of the University of NorthCarolina's Center for the Study of the AmericanSouth.

A free black man's direct incitement to slaverevolt was "highly explosive and highly ille-gal," Watson said.

"Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killedthan to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the lifeof your mother, wife, and dear little children?"Walker wrote. "Look upon your mother, wifeand children, and answer God Almighty; andbelieve this, that it is no more harm for you tokill a man, who is trying to kill you, than it isfor you to take a drink of water when thirsty; infact, the man who will stand still and let anoth-er murder him, is worse than an infidel, and, ifhe has common sense, ought not to be pitied."

Walker was born in Wilmington, N.C., to aslave father and a free mother. He moved toBoston during the 1820s and ran a secondhandclothing store patronized by free black sailors.It's believed that the "Appeal" was sewn intotheir garments' linings and smuggled into theSouth, Watson said.

"They'd stop at ports such as Richmond,

Petersburg, Charleston, and Wilmington,"Watson said. "Then they'd slip out into theblack community and locate people who knewhow to read and slip them this pamphlet. Ofcourse, the pamphlets were discovered, andthere was widespread panic in state govern-ments."

The tract's circulation alarmed slaveownersand Southern politicians, and cash rewardswere offered for Walker's death. The pamphletwas a major factor behind the passage of legis-lation aimed at controlling slaves and freeblacks, including laws penalizing anyone whotaught black people how to read as well as ban-ning the distribution of anti-slavery writings.

"Appeal in Four Articles" also singled outthe third president and Declaration ofIndependence author Thomas Jefferson, whodied three years before the pamphlet's initialpublication. Walker criticized Jefferson's asser-tion that black people were inferior to whites,and said that such statements posed a threat totrue American democracy.

"I say that unless we refute Mr. Jefferson'sarguments respecting us, we will only establishthem," Walker wrote.

Walker published two subsequent editionsof the "Appeal in Four Articles," but died sud-denly in 1830. Some thought he was a victim ofpoisoning, but other scholars say he succumbedto tuberculosis.

Many of the pamphlet's ideas endured, andits themes were carried forward by abolitionistsand 20th-century civil-rights leaders alike.

The good news is that they found it, they dis-covered it.

Serena Williams had a blood clot in her lung,and had a procedure done for it last week. And thenon Monday, according to her spokesperson, shehad to go back to the hospital for an emergencyprocedure to remove a hematoma.

This May 7, 2010, file photo shows SerenaWilliams reacting during her semifinal tennis matchagainst Serbia's Jelena Jankovic at the Italian Opentennis tournament in Rome. Serena Williamsunderwent "emergency treatment" Monday, Feb.28, 2011, days after doctors discovered a blood clotin her lungs, People magazine reported.

“Tough day,’’ Williams wrote on her Twitteraccount about midnight Pacific on Tuesday.

This is a big deal. Williams had a major medi-cal issue. But she also avoids what could have beena disaster: If she had taken the court for, sayWimbledon, with an undetected blood clot in herlungs, it is possible she could have just droppedright there.

It is manageable from here, and presumablyshe’s now on blood thinners, and will be for sixmonths or so. But that presents its own problems,as far as her tennis career.

While on blood thinners, in theory, if she cutsherself diving for a ball or something, she willbleed and bleed, with her body unable to stop itwithout immediate medical help.

If her health is stabilized, and the immediatedanger avoided, you still wonder how much morewe will see of her on the tennis court the way weknow her.

She is 29 now, the start of old age in tennis. Tobe honest, she has rarely kept herself in the best ofshape. And now this. She is being monitored.

People Magazine reported that Williams was

seen several times in recent days at Cedars-SinaiMedical Center in Los Angeles. The funny thing,and so typical of Williams, is that she also was seenat red carpet Academy Award parties, apparentlylooking fabulous.

She hasn’t played on tour since July, when shewon Wimbledon. After that, she suffered a myste-rious foot injury. She has given conflicting expla-nations for what happened, and even whether herfoot surgery was absolutely necessary.

But last summer, she told USA Today that shehad stepped on broken glass at a restaurant inGermany, cutting tendons in her foot. In that story,she said the surgery wasn’t mandatory, but only toavoid having a “drooping toe.’’

Now she has been out for eight months.Throughout her career, Williams, and to a less-

er extent her sister, Venus, has been the face ofAmerican tennis, and also of women’s sports.

She has been her sport’s most polarizing figure,with an incredible mix of highs and lows.

She has been a role model to young girls,maybe the best example in the history of sport of astrong woman. I once suggested that she would bethe perfect new model for Miss America, strong,smart, athletic, beautiful and not the size 0 danger-ously promoted as the ideal to girls in magazines,movies and TV. She has been an amazing story ofa black girl who grew up in the tough town ofCompton, Calif., and dominated a sport historical-ly made up of wealthy white people.

At the same time, she has clearly thrownmatches in less important tournaments, madepromises to play and then not kept them. And shealso made worldwide news at the U.S. Open in2009 when she foot-faulted then went into an f-bomb-laced tirade of threats against the line judgewho called it.

Serena Williams has a serious health condition

The San Diego Monitor Page 3SAN DIEGO MONITORThe People's Produce ProjectFridays: 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.606 Euclid, between Guymon & MarketSan Diego, CA 92102

Interview with N. Diane Moss, CEO, Project New Villageand Market Manager

606 Euclid Avenue (just north of Market Street) Fridays, 2:00pm - 6:00pm Haywood: How would you describe the Peoples' Produce Certified Farmers' Market? Moss: An

outdoor community gathering place in Southeastern San Diego, where you can _buy and samplefresh fruit and vegetables, grown safely and locally, usually pick within 48 hours; eat good tastingprepared foods; buy homemade and imported items; _access free health and - fitness activities; par-ticipate in learning activities, like workshops on "How to grow food in containers".

Haywood: How does this market benefit the community?Moss: The benefits the market are many include the health benefits from having access to the

freshest produce; opportunities to participate in physical fitness activities, healing and relaxationactivities; heal health screening and health promotion; the entrepreneurial benefits including oppor-tunities for community residents to sell their homemade and imported items at the market; and thelearning and sharing opportunities around growing, selling and preparing food in our neighborhoods.Also participants in WIC, CalFresh / food stamps, and SSI can double their money by enrolling inthe Fresh Fund Matching program at the market; they can up to $20.00 free every month to buy pro-duce at the market.

Haywood: Is there anything else you want the community to know about the Peoples' ProduceCertified Farmers' Market Moss This market is a community project. There are many partners andsupporters involved with establishing the People's Produce Farmers' market including City CouncilPresident Tony Young, Supervisor Ron Roberts, County Health and Human Services Agency(HHSA), and UCSD / Network For A Healthy California. (Full list of partners on our web site: pro-jectnewvillage.org) The current sponsors and funders for the market include: San Ysidro HealthCenter (Community Wellness Partner); Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation (CommunityResource Partner); and grants from the Neighborhood Unity Foundation, California HealthCareFoundation, and Alliance; HealthCare Foundation.

Background on

Hildred Pepper, Jr.Hildred Pepper, Jr. is theDirector of Purchasing andContracting for the City ofSan Diego. As such, he isresponsible for centralizedprocurement activities ofthe eighth largest city inthe United States. Theseactivities include strategicsourcing, sealed bidding,construction and consul-tant contracts to fully sup-port the City of San

Diego's purchasing/con-

tracting annual budget ofover $1.2 billion. He man-ages a staff of over 40

procurement and logistics

professionals, and holdsprofessional certificationsas a Certified Purchasing

Manager, Certified

Professional ContractsManager, Certified PublicPurchasing Officer and

Certified Public

Purchasing Buyer. HildredPepper is the current chairof the San Diego chapter

of the California

Association of PublicPurchasing Officers. Priorto San Diego, Hildred

managed the contracting

and procurement functionsfor the Detroit PublicSchools and Dallas-FortWorth International

Airport. In addition, heheld an unlimitedContracting Officer desig-nation while an officer inthe United States Air

Force.

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E D I T O R I A L

When God Hands

You Something,

You Can’t Hand

it BackI grew up as a God-fearing youngster in a

time when Black Americans included God ineverything they did. Not only that, but theymade Him a priority and put Him first andforemost. Black slaves that couldn’t speakthe language of their owners prayed andbelieved that someday He would deliver themfrom the gridlocks of slavery in the South.Apparently, God heard this prayer—without amarch or a sit-in, without the media, withoutradio, or the press, but through the moaningand groaning and prayers of Black people.

Compare the time of slavery to the time ofsegregation. During slavery, no one got paid;you had to work from sun up to sun down,and were treated less than the domestic ani-mals. The slave was referred to not by hisname but a number, and could be sold andseparated from his family at will. He couldonly go where the master told him. He slept indesolate quarters unfit for the animals.Compare that to living in segregated commu-nities but going to and fro whenever youwish, working for whomever you wish aslong as they were white or black groups. Yourprimary areas of freedom were among blackpeople. Would you rather be segregated inthe 1950 or enslaved the way we were in 1850a hundred years before? I’m sure that no onewould have to think about it. Even the slavewould take segregation over slavery any day.It was prayer that delivered us from the grid-locks of slavery. We didn’t raise our handagainst the master; we didn’t strike and refuseto go to the field. God heard our prayers.When God gives us a responsibility, we can-not hand it back. Yet we are doing just thattoday.

I am sure our foreparents are turning overin their graves when they revisit us in the spir-it and see how we are defiling the temple ofGod with drugs and other ungodly things.

And moreover, I am sure they are so dis-pleased when we are not taking on the respon-sibility of teaching our children to fear God—our children that have been born free fromboth slavery and segregation. If God can getBlack Americans out of slavery, it was a smallthing to get us a little integration which. Sowhen God hands us something, we had betterget a clear understanding of what we are to dowith it and get about the business of doing it.We cannot hand it back. If we as blackAmericans can rise from the ashes of slavery,we should not be spiraling downward to thebottom of all races as we have ended upwhere have today. Apparently, we are notpraying enough or how our great-grandpar-ents prayed. We’re not working hard enough.We say we have the faith, but faith withoutworks is dead. Are we dead? Did we forgetour way? Is that the reason why we are buriedat the bottom? Ask yourself why God candeliver us from the ashes of slavery and yetwe are doing so poorly today? There is some-thing wrong with wither the messenger of thechurch or the member of the church. WhenGod hands us something, we would do well tonever hand it back.

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“Cleanlinessis next

to Godliness”

OMNILOGUE© - “All of us communicating witheach other, so that we all come to a collective under-standing, so that we all work toward the same goal.” ©

They’ve Done It Again!

Last week I started this column by saying,"San Diego's African American Community isbeing left behind." And, as if God heard mylament, I recently learned of another instancewhere the "underserved" communities of SanDiego are being overlooked and disregardedin city contracting The City of San Diego putout a Request for Proposals (RFP) known asthe Energy Efficiency Residential RetrofitProgram (EERRP - RFP #10011132-11-W).The EERRP RFP was released on November24, 2010 and the original deadline wasDecember 23, 2010. Under a barrage of ques-tions regarding the release of the RFP, the sub-mission period was extended until January 13,2011. What's wrong with this process?Everything!

Let's start with the timeline of this RFP.Why was such an important city contractreleased during the holiday period. Moreover,this isn't just a garden variety contract. It isSan Diego's first serious foray into the 'GreenMovement' and it involves about $12 milliondollars of city and federal matching funds.2,500 homeowners stand to gain energy effi-cient products and services to low-incomehomes. And, the economic upshot is this RFPcreates jobs, potentially for people returningfrom prison, and a long term, sustainablefoothold in the emerging Green Movement.

Why then, would such a important RFP belet out in such a manner? Something is rottenin the cotton and the light must be turned on toexpose this unacceptable practice of exclusionof our communities in the use of tax payerfunds. Simply put, this process must bestopped and stopped right now!

The City of San Diego received over $3million dollars in Energy EfficiencyCommunity Block Grant (EECBG) funds toadminister a program targeting between 2,000and 2,500 low-income households and createjobs for individuals residing in communitieswith high unemployment. President BarackObama has ---championed the weatherizationprogram as one of the Recovery Act's key jobcreation measures. The Recovery Act guaran-tees that weatherization workers are paid pre-vailing wage- $14.81 and $18.35 per hour, andhave access to benefits. The Southeast SanDiego Center For Energy Conservation(SSCEC) has monitored the implementationof this program and has serious concerns aboutthe City's Purchasing and ContractingDepartments ability to administer this pro-gram effectively. Our review raises the ques-tion as to whether the City's proposal requestmatches City Council directives regarding theimplementation of this program. We call onthe City Auditor to examine these problemsand make a determination as to the appropriateagency to administer this program.

We are facing one of the coldest winters onrecord. Low-income households spend 14 per-cent of their income on energy compared with3.5 percent of other American households.Unemployment in low-income communities isalmost double that of the national average andcontinuing to rise. We need to make these pro-grams work for the people they were designedfor - people in our communities.

Something is rotten in the cotton and itstinks to high heaven.

Contact: Carl DeMaio, 619-236-6655,carldemaio@sandiego.gov City Auditor,Edward Luna, 619- 533-3165cityauditor@sandiego.gov Council PresidentAnthony Young, 619-236-6644, anthonyy-oung@sandiego.gov

By Jacqueline TrescottThe National Museum of African American

History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institutionseeks historical artifacts from black families for its2015 opening.

When Lonnie G. Bunch III outlines plans for theNational Museum of African American History andCulture, the historian can barely sit still. This is abuoyant man on the move, overseeing the design forwhat could be the last major building on the NationalMall; urging citizens to bring their family mementosout of the attic; deciding which stories out of morethan 400 years of American history should be told;and preaching the necessity of this enterprise.

"This is a museum about African-American life,and African-American life is a lens on what it meansto be an American. And we talk about how this iseveryone's story. And anyone I can get in front ofends up understanding our purpose," says Bunch, 58,a native of New Jersey, and a specialist in 19th-cen-tury American history. His professional career hasbeen steeped in museum building and expansion,including the California African American Museumin Los Angeles and the Chicago Historical Society.Bunch was the supervising curator at the NationalMuseum of American History from 1989 to 1992and returned to the Smithsonian in 2005 to build thenew museum. Now he's the founding director of ahigh-profile project in Washington that everyone iswatching closely.

In his office in D.C., Bunch describes the statusof the critical elements needed for the museum toopen in late 2015. He walks over to a refined muse-um model, designed by Freelon Adjaye Bond andSmithGroup. On a 5-acre site, directly in the shadowof the Washington Monument, the building will havethree coronas of shining metals, and the exteriorwalls will reflect some of the signature styles of NewOrleans and Charleston, S.C., ironworkers. The pro-posed design has been condensed from an originalmodel. "Now it sits on the earth as a pristine jewelbox," says Bunch, reviewing all the details that willmake it a destination.

The fundraising for the $500 million project,authorized by Congress in 2003 as part of theSmithsonian Institution complex, has progressedbeyond projections, despite the recession. That status

prompts a huge smile from the bearded and bespec-tacled Bunch. "My thought was that the fundraisingwould pick up after we had drawings and a model.But we had $70 million before the drawings," saysBunch. Congress has pledged half of the goal, with$125 million in the 2012 budget and $85 millionpenciled in for the next year.

The challenge with building a museum fromscratch is developing the content and collecting theartifacts. All along, Bunch has said he wanted sever-al large objects, not only to be showstoppers but alsoto reflect the work, achievements, joys and tragediesof black life. The museum was given an original rail-road car, divided into colored and white sections.Bunch also has his eye on a slave cabin.

In 2009, the family of Emmett Till, the 14-year-oldboy killed in Mississippi in 1955, gave the museum hisoriginal coffin. (In 2005 Till's body was exhumed for afederal investigation into the crime, and the body wasreburied in a new casket.) The photographs of the slainboy lying in an open casket in publications like Jetmagazine became a pivotal rallying cry for the moderncivil rights movement. Also on the museum's wish listis an airplane flown by the Tuskegee Airmen, thefamed black fliers of World War II.

The collection has been built through "Save OurAfrican American Treasures" sponsoring workshopsaround the country, where the public brings articlesto be inspected, donations of collections and thespontaneous "over the transom" inquiry. Additionalunexpected exposure happened recently whenBunch received a BET Honor, the first to be given toa person from the museum world. And a cache of700 garments and 300 accessories from the defunctBlack Fashion Museum was donated by JoyceBailey, the daughter of the museum's founder, LoisAlexander Lane.

The subjects to be emphasized in the NationalMuseum of African American History and Culturecontinue to evolve, Bunch says, and the materialswill be a strong guide. So far, the museum will coverslavery, segregation, the civil rights movement, andsports and entertainment; it will also establish aCenter for African American Media Arts. "We haveabout 10,000 artifacts -- and we need 20,000 more,"he explains. He wants to tell the rich experience ofmen and women in the military .

A National African-American Museum Wants Your HistoryThe National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution seeks historical artifacts from black families for its 2015 opening.

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Logan Temple A.M.E. Zion

Church held its 59th Annual

Candlelight Award Banquet at the

Lafayette Hotel’s Mississippi Room,

February 26, 2011. This year’s

theme “Faith, Hope & Love”, from I

Corinthians 13:13 NIV, “And nowthese three remain: faith, hope andlove. But the greatest of these islove.”

The members along with family

and friends were dressed in their

finest; this was truly a gala affair.

Each year members are recognized

for their various achievements.

Gabriel & Gloria Hendricks were the

Master and Mistress of Ceremonies;

throughout the evening they blended

humor with the theme while touching

on different facts about Black

History. The celebration started with

the singing of the Black National

Anthem. Simba Webb welcomed

everyone to this year’s celebration.

Jazz Artist Daniel Jackson and Mrs.

Lila Brown entertained the crowd

with various jazz renditions. Rev.

Daniel Webb gave the invocation and

blessing. We feasted on the

Lafayette’s Grand Buffet, which was

enjoyed by all. Seated at the head

table were Rev. & Mrs. Daniel

(Bridget) Webb; Rev. & Mrs.

William (Suzanne) Brown, Mr. &

Rev. Elvin (Gloria) Pouncey, Mrs.

Lila Brown and Mr. Reginald Smith.

LOGAN TEMPLE AME ZION CHURCH AWARD BANQUET

Zion’s Future, children from

Logan Temple, gave a rendition of

“The Wiz”. Sevena Brooks present-

ed a special presentation to the “75

Plus Club”; members of the Church’s

congregation who are seventy-five

plus years young. Each member was

presented with a certificate and a car-

nation in recognition of their mile-

stone and service to the Church. The

Steward’s Award was presented by

Nathan Brooks. This award is given

in recognition of long and faithful

service; this year’s recipient was Mr.

Edward Hune. Mr. Daniel Jackson

and Mrs. Lila Brown delighted the

audience with additional jazz rendi-

tions. The Trustee’s Award was pre-

sented by Horace Wickliffe. This

award is given in recognition of

exceptional service to the Church and

community, this year’s recipient was

Mrs. Carol Robinson. The Daughters

of Destiny, six young ladies, delight-

ed the audience with a praise dance.

The Pastor’s Cup was presented

by Nathan Brooks. This award is

given in recognition of outstand-

ing support of the Church’s pro-

grams this year, this year’s recip-

ient was Mrs. Joann Smith.

The Chairperson, Brenda Herndon

gave reflections and called Mrs.

Mary Spann to the floor to demon-

strate “the Electric Slide” and invited

other to join in. Rev. Webb gave

closing remarks. The closing song

was “God Be With You”. Rev.

William Brown, Pastor of Winston

Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church gave the

benediction.

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Malcolm X’s Daughter Arraigned On Felony ChargesNEW YORK - Queens District Attorney Richard A.

Brown has just announced that Malikah Shabazz, theyoungest daughter of slain activist Malcolm X, wasarraigned last night in Queens Criminal Court oncharges of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the70-year-old widow of one of her father’s bodyguards, inpart, by stealing the woman’s personal identificationinformation. Shabazz, who has been wanted on thecharges since October 16, 2009, was arrested two weeksago at her residence in Mars Hills (Madison County),North Carolina. She waived extradition.

District Attorney Brown said, “The defendant isalleged to have preyed upon the trusting nature of aonce close family friend to steal more than $55,000 fromher. The charges are serious and if true represent abetrayal of their friendship.”

The District Attorney identified the defendant asMalikah Shabazz, 44. Shabazz was arraigned last nightbefore Queens Criminal Court Judge Michael Yavinskyon a criminal complaint charging her with third-degreegrand larceny, third-degree criminal possession of stolenproperty, second-degree forgery, second-degree criminalpossession of a forged instrument, first-degree identitytheft, first-degree falsifying business records, first-degree scheme to defraud and third-degree unlawfulpossession of personal identification information.Shabazz, who faces up to seven years in prison if con-victed, was ordered held on $100,000 bail and to returnto court on March 15, 2011.

District Attorney Brown said that, according to the

criminal charges, Queens resident Khaula Bakr, thewidow of a bodyguard who was with the slain civilrights leader when he was assassinated at the AudubonBallroom in Harlem on February 21, 1965, and a long-time family friend, received a letter from Wells FargoBank informing her that she had a credit account withthem that was past due in the amount of $28,789.38.Transactions on the account included charges to BellSouth, Bank of America, GE, Lowe’s Capital One,Discover Card, Midnight Velvet, AT&T and WellsFargo. Ms. Bakr, who never opened such an account norauthorized anyone else to do so in her name, ran threecredit reports on herself and discovered that the reportslisted her address as 2514 Louisa Street in Columbia,South Carolina, an address allegedly belonging toMalikah Shabazz.

It is further alleged that two additional credit cardaccounts were discovered in Ms. Bakr’s name coupledwith Shabazz’s then South Carolina address. Recordsallegedly listed amounts of $8,382.84 and $18,712.06being owed on the accounts. In addition, a third creditcard account allegedly doing business as “All Day andAll Night Markets” listed Ms. Bakr’s name and Shabazzas an authorized user. Account records contained a let-ter allegedly from Ms. Bakr with her signature, as wellas Shabazz as a co-signer of the letter, requesting a re-issue of credit cards and checks with a new account andpin number.

Finally, it is alleged that Shabazz obtained Ms.Bakr’s personal identification information under the pre-

text of needing the information for paperwork involvinga child care power of attorney. After Ms. Bakr providedthe information, she allegedly never received any childcare documents from Shabazz.

The investigation was conducted by DetectiveRichard Providence, of the New York City PoliceDepartment’s Special Frauds Squad, under the supervi-sion of Lieutenant Christopher Flanagan and DeputyInspector Gregory Antonsen, under the command ofChief Jeremiah Quinlan, Commanding Officer of theSpecial Investigations Division.

Senior Assistant District Attorney Neil F. Gitin, ofthe District Attorney’s Economic Crimes Bureau, isprosecuting the case under the supervision of GregoryPavlides, Bureau Chief, and Christina Hanophy, DeputyBureau Chief, and the overall supervision of ExecutiveAssistant District Attorney Peter Crusco and DeputyExecutive Assistant District Attorney Linda Cantoni ofthe Investigations Division.

It should be noted that a criminal complaint is mere-ly an accusation and that a defendant is presumed inno-cent until proven guilty.

Aretha Franklin Talks Return To Stage,Weight Loss, and New Diet Changes

NEW YORK (February 16, 2011) - ArethaFranklin, who says she's back at "150 percent," isplanning to return to the stage in May for her firstpost-surgery performance.

The Grammy Award-winning singer will alsorelease an album that month with Wal-MartStores Inc. More personally, she's working onlosing more weight from her frame, which isnoticeably slimmer since her December surgery.

"I want to not only maintain the weight I amat now, but better it, by one dress size," theQueen of Soul said Wednesday in a phone inter-view with The Associated Press.

The 68-year-old Franklin underwent surgeryfor an undisclosed ailment in December. Shecalls it "more than minor surgery."

At the time, word spread that her situationwas dire, and she received a multitude of prayersand well wishes from fans. She dismissed reportsthat had her on her death bed: "You can't stoppeople from saying whatever it is they're goingto say; you have no control over that."

Since her surgery, Franklin has been workingout and walking on a track three times a week forat least a mile.

But she said her biggest health change hasbeen in her diet: She's given up her beloved chit-terlings, pigs' feet and ham hocks in favor of aWhole Foods-type diet, and she hopes to getdown to a size 16.

"They're off my diet. They just really don't fitwith Whole Foods," she said. "I had it forenough years that I don't miss it. You can't con-

tinue to eat things that are not good for you."She acknowledges that after she resumes per-

forming, it'll be hard to eat diet foods."When you come off (a high-energy concert),

a carrot or some celery just isn't going to work,"she said. "I've gotta do a fresh fruit thing ... andcome up with some tasty and satisfying recipesthat are going to work for me after concerts."

Franklin, who canceled several performanceslast year because of illness, has set her first con-cert since surgery on May 28 at the SenecaNiagara Casino in Buffalo, N.Y., and is set torelease her long-awaited album, "Aretha: AWoman Falling Out of Love," the first week ofMay. R. Kelly is one of the album's songwriters.

"It's definitely going to take the boomersback ... but it's also contemporary with respect toother writers and production," she said.

Franklin was feted by the Grammys this week,as the show opened with a tribute to her featuringChristina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, FlorenceWelch, Martina McBride and Yolanda Adams.

Franklin herself hadn't sang for a month -which she believes was her longest timebetween singing - as she convalesced at home.She had to sing four or five times a day to gether voice back where it was, but she said it's"right on the money."

Franklin recently attended a Detroit Pistonsgame with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and saidWednesday that she was at a boat show loungingon a luxurious boat - and she planned to purchaseit afterward.

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In songs like ‘Tell Me No’ she defiantly singslines like, “Tell me no and I’ll show you I can,tell me no and I’ll dig my feet right in, tell meno, just tell me that I can’t win, come on I’msure I’ll prove you wrong come on an go, tellme no.” On ‘Unashamed’ Houston remainsunapologetic about any controversy, singing,“Unashamed of the life I lead, unashamed ofthe strength of my knees, the choices I’vemade, the love that I’ve saved, the things Ihave done, my belief in the one.” Thoughrecorded while making some of her mostunflattering headlines, and at least in part toaddress them, Houston does not to get lost inself reference (the ultra up tempo first single‘Watchulookinat’ not withstanding). Trackslike the pro-pampering yourself, perfectlyR&B, ‘One of Those Days’ and ‘My Love’ areeasy to relate and tap your foot to. Houstonalso lets her voice soar brilliantly all over thealbum, particularly on ‘You Light Up MyLife’ and ‘Try It On My Own’. Ultimately‘Just Whitney’, like so many other goodalbums, fell victim to the artist’s image in themedia at the time of its release, instead ofbeing taken on its own merit. Houston’s latestalbum, 2009’s ‘I Turn to You’, was released torave reviews and became her fourth album todebut at number one. In the summer of 2010Houston wrapped up her 50 date ‘Nothing butLove’ world tour. Standout Tracks:Watchulookinat, Tell Me No, Love That Man,Unashamed

March 5, 2011 –There are an innu-merable amount ofalbums releasedevery year that flyunder the radar. For

one reason or another, albums that one wouldthink should become a huge success and makean impact, simply do not. With that vast numberof albums taken into consideration, this list waswhittled down to include only artists whoseprevious efforts or efforts since, have beenhighly successful and for some reason or anoth-er suffered a career anomaly with these albums.

Now, No. 3: No. 3 - Whitney Houston’s‘Just Whitney’ – Released in 2002, ‘JustWhitney’ is Houston’s fifth studio album.Despite being the highest opening week debutof her career, at the time, ‘Just Whitney’ wasslammed by critics and to date has failed tosell even 1 million copies in the US – not quitethe multiplatinum success of her previousalbum ‘My Love Is Your Love’ just four yearsearlier. ‘Just Whitney’ was the first albumreleased by Houston since her name began tobe associated more in the press with her mar-ital troubles, shocking weight loss and accusa-tions of drug use, than her nearly unparalleledsinging abilities. All of the controversy aside,‘Just Whitney’ is an incredible album; it cou-ples Houston’s incredible vocal range with arebellious and focused tone, giving the albuman edge not heard in her work before or since.

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History thru youths eyesAs I read through the many stories and articles about black history I discovered lots of interest-ing facts that I was not aware of and noticed many of the things are not taught in school.Having our first black president is inspiring to me because it shows that we can become what-ever we want to be and its especially nice to see people in the White House that look like meand my family. It was interesting to learn about slavery and what my ancestors had to gothrough and why we celebrate juneteenth. I was surprised about all the great black leaders wehave like Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington, Sojourner Truth MinisterFarrakhan and a whole bunch nore. In the Monitor I learned about different events in historythat if it wasn't for some of our famous leaders we might still have to deal with segregation,slavery, lynching, being sprayed with fire hoses and lots of other horrible things. There is somuch information to learn and I think all kids need to be educated about our history and makesure they vote when they are old enough. I learned that the Monitor is a good source of infor-mation but I also know that you can get a lot of information from your elders too.

Kamryn L Carter

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In 1911 in Europe, March 8 was first celebratedas International Women's Day. In many Europeannations, as well as in the United States, women'srights was a political hot topic. Woman suffrage —winning the vote — was a priority of many women'sorganizations. Women (and men) wrote books on thecontributions of women to history.

But with the economic depression of the 1930swhich hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and thenWorld War II, women's rights went out of fashion. Inthe 1950s and 1960s, after Betty Friedan pointed tothe "problem that has no name" — the boredom andisolation of the middle-class housewife who oftengave up intellectual and professional aspirations —the women's movement began to revive. With"women's liberation" in the 1960s, interest inwomen's issues and women's history blossomed.

By the 1970s, there was a growing sense bymany women that "history" as taught in school —and especially in grade school and high school —was incomplete with attending to "her story" as well.In the United States, calls for inclusion of blackAmericans and Native Americans helped somewomen realize that women were invisible in mosthistory courses.

And so in the 1970s many universities began toinclude the fields of women's history and the broad-er field of women's studies.

In 1978 in California, the Education Task Forceof the Sonoma County Commission on the Status ofWomen began a "Women's History Week" celebra-tion. The week was chosen to coincide withInternational Women's Day, March 8.

The response was positive. Schools began to hosttheir own Women's History Week programs. The nextyear, leaders from the California group shared theirproject at a Women's History Institute at SarahLawrence College. Other participants not only deter-mined to begin their own local Women's HistoryWeek projects, but agreed to support an effort to haveCongress declare a national Women's History Week.

Three years later, the United States Congresspassed a resolution establishing National Women'sHistory Week. Co-sponsors of the resolution,demonstrating bipartisan support, were SenatorOrrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, and

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Representative Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat fromMaryland.

This recognition encouraged even wider partici-pation in Women's History Week. Schools focusedfor that week on special projects and exhibitionshonoring women in history. Organizations spon-sored talks on women's history. The NationalWomen's History Project began distributing materi-als specifically designed to support Women's HistoryWeek, as well as materials to enhance the teaching ofhistory through the year, to include notable womenand women's experience.

In 1987, at the request of the National Women'sHistory Project, Congress expanded the week to a

month, and the U.S. Congress has issued a resolutionevery year since then, with wide support, for Women'sHistory Month. The U.S. President has issued eachyear a proclamation of Women's History Month.

To further extend the inclusion of women's histo-ry in the history curriculum (and in everyday con-sciousness of history), the President's Commissionon the Celebration of Women in History in Americamet through the 1990s. One result has been the efforttowards establishing a National Museum ofWomen's History for the Washington, DC, area,where it would join other museums such as theAmerican History Museum.

The purpose of Women's History Month is to

increase consciousness and knowledge of women'shistory: to take one month of the year to rememberthe contributions of notable and ordinary women, inhopes that the day will soon come when it's impossi-ble to teach or learn history without rememberingthese contributions.

As the Women's History Guide at About, I focuson women's history 365 days a year. To honor thisspecial month, I encourage you to explore this site,learning more about one important aspect of the his-tory of all people. Women's history isn't just forwomen, although many women find that studyingwomen's history helps them realize that women'splace is everywhere.

San Diego Monitor Retrospect

March 3RD 1992The beating of Rodney King 20 years ago

Thursday marked the end of a 100-mph carchase and the beginning of a chain of eventsthat would forever change Los Angeles, itspolice department and the racial conversationin the United States.

King, then a 25-year-old convicted robberon parole, admittedly had a few drinks underhis belt as he headed home from a friend'shouse.

When he spotted a police car followinghim, he panicked, thinking he would be sentback to prison. So he took off.

"I had a job to go to that Monday, and Iknew I was on parole, and I knew I wasn't sup-posed to be drinking, and I'm like, 'Oh myGod,' " King told CNN in a recent interview.

Realizing he couldn't outrun police butknowing what they were likely to do to himwhen they caught him, King said he looked fora public place to stop.

"I saw all those apartments over there, so Isaid, 'I'm gonna stop right there. If it goesdown, somebody will see it.' "

It did go down. Four police officers, all of them white,

struck King more than 50 times with theirwood batons and shocked him with an electricstun gun.

" 'We are going to kill you, n****r,' " Kingsaid police shouted as they beat him. The offi-cers denied using racial slurs.

King was right in his expectation of a beat-ing, but his hope of having a witness was ful-filled in a big way.

Not only did somebody see it, somebodyvideotaped it -- still a novelty in 1991, beforepeople had cell phone cameras.

The video showed a large lump of a manfloundering on the ground, surrounded by adozen or more police officers, four of whomwere beating him relentlessly with nightsticks.

One officer's swings slow down as heappears worn out by his nonstop flailing. King

was beaten nearly to death. Three surgeonsoperated on him for five hours that morning.

The dramatic video of the episode appearedon national TV two days later. At last, blacks inL.A. -- and no doubt in other parts of the coun-try -- had evidence to document the police bru-tality many had known but most of Americahad always denied or tolerated.

"We finally caught the Loch Ness Monsterwith a camcorder," King attorney MiltonGrimes said.

Four LAPD officers -- Theodore Briseno,Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind and Sgt.Stacey Koon -- were indicted on charges ofassault with a deadly weapon and excessiveuse of force by a police officer.

In April 1992, after a three-month trial inthe predominantly white suburb of SimiValley, three of the officers were acquitted ofall charges. But the jury, which had no blackmembers, was deadlocked on one charge of

excessive force against Powell. A mistrial wasdeclared on that charge.

Powell's attorney, Michael Stone, said theunedited video worked against King andhelped prove the officers' case.

"Most of the nation only saw a few snip-pets where it's the most violent. They didn't

see him get up and run at Powell," Stone said."In a use-of-force case, if the officers do

what they're trained to do, how can you findthem guilty of a crime? And the jury under-stood that."

Still, black Los Angeles exploded in out-rage.

Rioters rampaged through the streets, loot-ing businesses, torching buildings and attack-ing people who were in the wrong place at thewrong time.

On the third day of rioting, King emergedfrom seclusion to make a plea that echoes tothis day: "People, I just want to say, can we allget along?" he said. "Can we get along?"

By the time it was over, 55 people weredead, more than 2,000 were hurt, and propertydamage exceeded $1 billion.

We finally caught the Loch Ness Monsterwith a camcorder.

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20 YEARS LATER

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Have We Found

The God Hormone?cell organism to make multicell life forms ofwhich we are.

Therefore it might be said that insulin is theGod hormone because too much of it and youwill become sick at a result of excess sugar andcould die. This is known as hyperglycemia.The treatment is to give insulin. The problem isthat if you cannot make enough of your owninsulin. As a result, you will have to be giveninsulin from another organism, which carrieswith it the problem of an allergic reaction. Asa result you, as the patient, have to keep takingincreasing amounts of insulin over time.

This is known as Insulin Resistance Iknow your doctor may have mentioned this toyou. It is now known insulin resistance is thecause of all of the diseases of aging or to betterit put it growing old is a disease. This wouldmean that such diseases: as heart disease,osteoporosis soften or weakening of the bones,obesity, diabetes, cancer and all of the auto-immune diseases are symptoms of a muchgreater problem.

That problem is that our bodies are not get-ting the correct amount of nutrients needed tokeep us functioning normally.

Now getting back to the 700-pound womenif you were able to watch her story further ononline you would have seen her driving from afast food outlet with a can of diet soda in herhand. Now I ask you is the problem the fastfood or is it the Diet Soda? Not one time didDr. Oz mention diet soda?

For additional information please go to Dr.Ronald Rosedale, MD web site.

Congressman Filner Announces BlackContractors Association of San Diego to

Receive $1 Million for BCA YouthBuild Washington, D.C. – Congressman Bob Filner announced today that the Black Contractors

Association of San Diego, Inc. has been awarded a competitive grant totaling $1,099,968 for theirBCA YouthBuild program by the U.S. Department of Labor.

“I’m proud to announce that the BCA YouthBuild program was selected for this million dollarcompetitive grant,” said Congressman Filner. “This program not only gives their young participantstraining in construction trades, it also makes sure they are prepared for the workforce by teachingthem essential computer programs, green building techniques and how to be successful in findingand keeping a job.”

The Department of Labor’s YouthBuild program assists out-of-school youth in obtaining theirdiplomas or GEDs while providing occupational training in the construction industry. The LaborDepartment has administered YouthBuild since 2006, awarding its first grants in 2007. In that time,more than 13,000 young people have participated in programs in 44 states and the District ofColumbia. YouthBuild participants include individuals who have been in the juvenile justice system,youth aging out of foster care, high school dropouts and others. In addition to receiving academicand occupational skills training, young people develop leadership skills and participate in commu-nity service opportunities.

According to the Black Contractors Association, BCA YouthBuild will provide participants withthe opportunity to take part in traditional construction trades as well as training in either SolarInstallation or Green Building Careers and will also offer the Home Builders Institute (HBI), and thePre-Apprenticeship Certificate Training (PACT). BCA will utilize a Workforce Training ResourceLab which is outfitted with computers, internet, blue print reading software, CASAS, Plato, Aleks,WorkKeys, and a Learning Lab Specialist to assist students. All BCA YouthBuild staff are trained ina counseling method that assists participants to “talk themselves into change” and helps youth avoidnegative behaviors.

The Black Contractors Association is located at 6125 Imperial Way in San Diego, which is inCalifornia’s 51st Congressional District, represented by Congressman Filner.

Dr. Grady P.Anderson, Jr., MD

Last week Iwrote the articlesummarizing the CDthat I had download-ed from I-Tunes byDr. RussellBlaylock, MD The

Truth About Aspartame. Did see the Dr. Oz show on Wednesday

where he spent half of the show with 700-pound women.

This week continues the Aspartame article.Now Aspartame is not a natural sugar but onethat is manufactured in a laboratory. Your bodycan only work with natural sugars. It is thesenatural or organic sugars you’re your bodyneeds. In order for your body to function atoptimal levels of health it is necessary for yourbody to secrete the hormone Insulin. The cellsof Islets of Langerhans of your pancreassecrete this hormone. This hormone is com-bined with other hormones and enzymes thatare produced in the liver and stored in the gallbladder until your body receives a message viathe blood stream to empty the gall bladder intothe duodenum

It has been shown that single cell organismscontain Insulin, so if single celled organismshad insulin then it must have been around formillions to billions of years. It has been postu-lated that the function of Insulin is to regulatethe organisms’ life span. Mother nature or Godhas used genetics and chemistry of this single

The Real Problem with Network Marketingand Multi-Level Marketing (MLM)

It never ceases to amaze me the extreme polarviews on the topic of network marketing and MLM.Some people are passionate about it in the extreme,and there are even top celebrity authors like RobertAllen, Mark Victor Hansen, and Robert Kiyosakidoing it and advocating it. Yet, in many circles, youmight as well declare yourself a leper as admit tobeing in network marketing.

So, what is the problem with MLM and networkmarketing?

Maybe it's the pyramid structure? But you can'treally take issue with the tiered compensation struc-ture—almost every large sales organization in theworld has that. Salespeople get commission, andsales managers get overrides or bonuses on top ofthat, and sales directors on top of that, and VPs ontop of that.

Or maybe it's the fact that you have to pay to par-ticipate in it? But that can't be it—that's a standardfranchising model. And I assure you, the franchisefee of most traditional franchises dwarf the sign-upcost of any MLM program by comparison.

Now certainly, there are illegal pyramid, or"Ponzi", schemes. This is where the money is allbeing made off of signing up other people, with littleor no real product ever being delivered. But in spiteof whatever perceptions people may have, the fact isthat Amway, Excel, Meleleuca, PrePaid Legal,USANA, and many others have sold millions uponmillions of dollars of products to happy customers,many of whom are NOT also reps. So, there may bea perception problem here, but if so, the perception isout of line with the reality.

But surely the bad reputation MLM'ers has somemore basis in fact than the occasional illegal pyramidscheme?

The real problem with MLM is not MLM itself,but some of the people it attracts. Network marketingis just a business model, and it really amounts to"micro-franchising". Its upside is that it has a verylow cost of entry, with the potential for exceptionalrevenue, and there are those who achieve that.

But those same things that make it attractivemake it attractive to many who are NOT really qual-ified or prepared to become business owners. Thesalient characteristics of MLM make it attractive to

people who:* have not done well in their business or profes-

sion and have little money saved up to invest* have no previous experience owning or run-

ning a business* have no previous experience in sales* have little or no experience developing busi-

ness relationships other than that ofemployer/employee/co-worker

* are not satisfied with their current level ofincome

* have unrealistic expectations of the amount ofwork involved compared to the revenue realized

Don't get me wrong—I'm not saying that there'sanything wrong with any of these things, or that thisdescribes even a majority of network marketers—only that it describes a disproportionate number ofnetwork marketers, and that many of them never doanything about it.

As a result, many network marketers end up:* over-selling the opportunity* inappropriately discussing business in social

situations* coming across as desperate* over-focused on new recruits and neglecting

existing customers as a result* being either inaccurate or deceptive when talk-

ing about their businessAgain, I'm certainly not saying that this describes

a majority of network marketers, but it does describeenough of them to tarnish the reputation of the rest.To pre-judge someone based on the basis of a smallminority of people in that group is horribly unfair,but we must realize that most prejudices have somebasis in reality, even if it has been distorted.

So what's the solution?There's a first time for everything. And network

marketing/MLM is a great opportunity for people tohave their first business, their first sales role, etc. Mypoint is this—recognize it for what it is: it's a busi-ness, and you are a business owner. And if you'venever owned a business before, if you've never donesales before, if you've never networked before, youneed to learn about how to do so, not just from thenetwork marketing/MLM experts, but from estab-lished experts in those fields.

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O’Farrell Community School DedicationBy Tayrai Howard

On Friday, February 24th, a dedication ceremony and concert were held in

honor of musical Legend Hollis Gentry. The O’Farrell Community School

Auditorium officially became the Hollis Gentry Auditorium.

Mary Skrabucha of “Say San Diego” told reporters the idea was born at the

Hollis Gentry Memorial services and she approached the San Diego Unified

School Board requesting information on the procedure for renaming a building.

She said Hollis Gentry was a former Student at O’Farrell Community School.

The process took a year of paperwork, procedures, signatures and the O’Farrell

School Board vote of approval. On January 25, 2011, at 6:25pm, the Board of

Education approved the naming of the auditorium.

Ms. Skrabucha said she had been meeting with family members for approx-

imately 8 months. The event Master of Ceremonies was Larry Himmel from

News 8 televsion and featured local musicians organized by Ronnie Stewart to

perform throughout the evening.

Representing Council President of the Fourth District was Roosevelt

Williams III with a Proclamation delivered to the Gentry family. O’Farrell

Principal John Dean told the audience that music was flourishing at O’Farrell

with the addition of music into neighboring elementary schools.

The dedication ceremony and concert also established a Musical

Scholarship Fund by the Gentry family to help O’Farrell’s Music department,

counseling, and to honor the legacy of Hollis Gentry. Students who have a

financial need will be evaluated through onsite teachers and the Gentry family.

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Sagon Penn 24 Years Later

quotes that supposedly were never said. Evidenceabout Jacobs' attitude toward minorities was with-held until it was too late to present it to the jury,which included a transcript from his 1979 policeacademy training, documenting a counseling sessionafter a class titled "Protecting Rights and Dignity,"where it was reported that Jacobs felt it okay to use"professional profanity" and derogatory slurs towardminorities.

An academic supervisor warnedJacobs "Unless you show someconsiderable change or at leastsome more consideration for oth-ers and can change your behav-ior...we don't want you becauseyou are going to do nothing butcreate problems for yourself, forthe public and for the depart-ment."

During his first trial, the juryacquitted Penn of the murder andvoluntary manslaughter of Riggsand the assaults on Jacobs andPina-Ruiz. The district attorneyhad other plans and filed different charges against him.

On June 10, 1987, a jury found Sagon Penn not guilty again. After a month of deliberations, Pennwas found not guilty of the attempted voluntary manslaughter for the shooting of Jacobs, but dead-locked 11-1 in favor of acquittal of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Riggs. District AttorneyEd Miller, who lost his job several years later trying to convict Dale Akiki on charges of Satanic rit-ual abuse at a Lemon Grove church dropped the rest of the charges, making Penn a free man.

The case didn't appear with the not guilty verdict. Judge J. Morgan Lester blasted the police depart-ment, saying it was obvious excessive force was used and officers lied on the stand, along with tam-pered with evidence. Supporters of Penn also claimed that police were harassing them.

Michael Riggs, brother of slain officer Tom Riggs, spoke out, blaming his brother's death ofJacobs. The Riggs family supported Penn's prosecution in both trials, but Michael was angry that, inhis opinion, Jacobs created the situation where his brother was killed and then used him as a scape-goat since Jacob first claimed Riggs started the fight when the opposite was true. After the trial, Pennchanged his name, but officers still knew who they were dealing with his later run-ins with the law.

March 31st 1987Sagon Penn committed suicide with an overdose of alcohol and Benadryl in his mother's Spring

Valley apartment July 4, 2002. He was 40. Following his acquittal of the murder and manslaughtercharges after he shot and killed one San Diego police officer and wounding a second, Penn lived atroubled life. He arrested several times in the 1990s on charges such as fighting and domestic vio-lence. Because of his high-profile trial, each arrest resurrected the incendiary story that divided thecity between those who thought a cop killer went free and those who believed he stood up to racistpolice department that regularly targeted San Diego's minority communities.

ORIGINAL STORY FROM GENETIC DISORDER #12 The case of Sagon Penn could be best described as Rodney King turned inside out. On March 31, 1985, Penn, then 23, was driving a pickup truck with his brother and some passen-

gers riding in the truck bed along 65th Street in Encanto. As he passed two policemen in separate cars,Officer Donovan Jacobs flipped a U-turn while radioing the other officer, Tom Riggs saying, "I'mgoing to stop that truckload of Crips." The two officers pulled Penn over, and Jacobs approached thedriver's side as Riggs stood near the passenger door.

"What's up, blood?" Jacobs said before asking Penn for his license. Penn handed him his entirewallet. Jacobs then demanded he take his license out of the wallet. Penn handed it back, asking whatthe problem was. A struggle ensued with Jacob grabbing Penn, who tried to back away, and the twobegan to struggle. Jacobs began hitting Penn with his baton, but Penn was able to block most of theblows with his arms. Riggs joined in the struggle, hitting and kicking Penn while trying to keep thecrowd from closing in. Jacobs ended up on Penn's chest, hitting him with closed fists while Riggskicked and hit him with his baton.

Somehow Penn was able to grab Jacob's .38, firing a shot into his neck. The gathering crowd scat-tered thinking the officer had killed Penn.

In a taped 9-1-1 call, Penn's brother could be heard screaming, "They're shootin' my brother!" The second shot ripped through the sole of one of Riggs' boots.The third his thigh and the fourth hit him in the abdomen, severing his abdominal aorta. Penn jumped up and fired two more shots into Riggs' patrol car, wounding Sarah Pina-Ruiz, a

civilian participating in a police ride-along. (It would come out later that Pina-Ruiz was a "policegroupie," with hints of her having an affair with Riggs. Both were married at the time.) Penn jumpedin Riggs' patrol car to escape as police sirens began screaming through the Encanto neighborhood,running over Riggs' body in his escape.

Thirty minutes later after the shooting, Penn surrendered. One cop was dead, another wounded.The case instantly polarized San Diego: Was he a vicious cop killer or a victim of racist police bru-tality?

Before the upcoming trial, the police played hardball. A mini martial law was set up in the neigh-borhood where the shooting occurred. Notes were destroyed from witness interviews, paraphrasing

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Take Responsibility for your actions. Stop passing thebuck!

I happened to watch the Oprah Winfrey Show with IyanlaVanzant. The thing that struck me the most and was so glaringwas Iyanla’s inability to state plainly, “she blew it”. She failed tosimply say I was full of myself. My ego got ahead of myself. Ithought I was all that and a bag of chips with some Louisiana hotsauce poured on top. See we tend to be forgiving when we’re sim-ply honest with ourselves and others. It’s no wonder she gotahead of self, she was catapulted into instant stardom, makingmillions of dollars, and the world was at her feet. She couldn’t goanywhere without being recognized and without someone askingher for relationship advice. I get that. I can sympathize with that.Having said that, the flip side is what we got, which was excusesand everyone else was to blame. Of course we got the occasion-

al, “Okay I was crazy”. But we got more of this; Oprah never told her she liked her. Oprah didn’ttell her she wasn’t ready. Oprah didn’t understand her hearing from God and her threat that some-body really “big”, even though she knew who that really big was and didn’t divulge it, was will-ing to give her a show if Oprah didn’t because God told her it was her anointed time and not theappointed time, whatever that meant, didn’t actually mean she was threatening her. Oprah shouldhave known she didn’t want to leave and her actually wanting a show now, didn’t mean she was-n’t willing to wait. Really? It seemed ironic to me that the Iyanla, who was given Oprah’s stageand audience and allowed to run the show, even though the likes of Suzie Orman and Dr. Phil, noranyone had ever been given that privilege, couldn’t see how special that was and what an abso-lute honor it was. She actually stated, “I thought you wanted the work and not the person”. Really?Here is someone who kept saying, I didn’t know any better, I came from the Bronx, on welfare,never had anything, I didn’t understand because I came from the back woods. Yet this same,woman with lack of understanding, was giving relationship advice, writing book after book, mak-ing millions of dollars, knew she made 1.5 million in three months on Oprah and within one yearand some months more she made over 3 million, yet the possibility of a show that paid her 1 mil-lion was more enticing? Really? She knew how to do the math, so clearly the money wasn’t theissue because she settled for less than what she could make on Oprah. What Iyanla couldn’t orwouldn’t admit was that she had failed to be loyal. The very woman who gave her, her enormousstart, had her on her show more than twenty times in one year, told her she wanted to give her ashow, just right now wouldn’t work, but they were working on it, she allowed someone to comein who hadn’t invested a dime, time, or anything, flip her mind and entice her. What Iyanla alsofailed to admit had it not been for her exposure on Oprah, and Oprah graciously giving her, hershow twenty times out of the year, is what made her the relationship expert to the world. Loyalty,what a forgotten phenomena?

Iyanla is no different from many of us. We are not willing to take responsibility for our choic-es. Example - You have a child by a man who has other children and doesn’t take care of themand yet you’re mad that he doesn’t take care of the one you had. What was going to make you dif-ferent? Be honest you are mad at yourself because you slept with a man who wasn’t responsible– your choice, not his fault. Man after man has mistreated you. While that may be a reality youmust take responsibility for the fact that you allowed them to mistreat you. You must find valuein yourself and demand that you be treated a certain way or tell them to hit the road. If I don’t haveto take responsibility for my actions why should anyone else? Makes one wonder whether theadvice given was really sound and helpful, if the person giving the advice didn’t live by their veryown advice. I say before any of us give advice we must first follow this principle; physician healthy self, then, heal others.

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THE REVOLUTON WILL COME”-P-2March 3, 2011 - This continues our discus-

sion on the general topic of the basis ofRevolutions, as we like to say with emphasison the anger of “The People” as opposed tothose in power and who the people define andperceive as “The Oppressors”.

Now we’re talking about ordinary peopleand their lives and not the theory ofRevolutions as we read about them in historybooks and official governmental papers.

ANGER IN TWO COMMUNITIESWe’re thinking right now of the anger that

is building up in so many of our big cities,around how the police treat certain groups,such as the young Black and Brown males,while most of the elected officials and othersin authority give lip service to how they don’tapprove of the police behavior but do little tonothing to stop or even address the problemscaused by the police actions. And this is hap-pening more and more to female of color aswell.

Daily the national media tell us about thisproblem as if this simmering below- the sur-face -anger is accepted by these populations as“the expected and natural behavior of theseofficers and the city officials and other electedpoliticians.”

The truth of the matter is just the opposite:these targeted youth and their families, on theone hand, are angry most of the time becausethey see these officials getting salary raises allthe time and making speeches at election timeabout how great their cities are and how muchmoney is coming into their cities from theState and national governments, but are doinglittle to nothing to address these simmeringproblems. And on the other hand, these angrygroups also include the parents of these target-ed youth and other affected community groupswho also feel helpless to change the behaviorof either the police officers or the elected orappointed officials.

POLICE BEATING UP YOUTHAnd these two named groups are most like-

ly to be described as belonging to Black orBrown “gangs”. But these gang membersmake up but a small percentage of those Blackand Brown youth we’re talking about here.Why? Because the police beat up Black andBrown youth who are not and never has been agang member. AND all members of these twocommunities know this all to well.

It’s still all too true that the parents of thesetwo groups still worry that their young sonsmay not come back home at night when theygo out to ANY kind of social or other youthaffair, alone or with other youth, without beingstopped for some “official reason” by police.

And here is the worst and mot dangerouselements of this “quiet community war” :first, in many of these communities, theseBlack and Brown parents and other adults arenow resigned to the fact that they are helplessto stop this silent and often hidden war wagedby the cities against their communities andtheir youth and have just given up trying to

openly change things for the better; ANDworse still is the fact that the white establish-ment “across town” also read about and see thenews about how the police and other officialstreat these “colored youth across town” andonly a few of these white officials or whiteorganizations or white influential citizens dareraise their voices to speak out against thesepractices.

INSTITUTIONALIZED WHITE COM-MUNITY FEARS OF BLACK AND BROWNYOUTH

This silence on the part of “white citizensin white communities” is an institutionalizedresponse of long standing on matters relatingto Blacks for this reason: historically, for overtwo hundred years whites have been told theyhave to be “protected from black males.” Sohence the organized and institutionalized sepa-rate living communities, so that whites may beseparated and protected from the “black andbrown males.” Today this practice and therelated myth and fear are all institutionalizedand are all expressed in their silence of notspeaking out about the equally institutional-ized practice of protecting the “Police gangs””beating up and locking up millions of youngBlack and Brown males in our urban cities

In, say a few decades, these victims per-sons will have all the know-how to start a newrevolution: These victims of today will bejoined by the millions of other equally “angrydifferent populations” of these peoples of colorand other angry white youth and angry whiteoppressed adults who may awake in a fewdecades with all the physical material toolsand new technology and spark a new revolu-tion to free themselves from the ever presentconditions of official oppression they sufferpresently.

So until next week, remember: IT HASALREADY BEEN OVER A HALF CEN-TURY SINCE OUR SOCIAL REVOLUTIONOF THE 50’S AND 60’S AND 70’S. IT JUSTCOULD BE TIME FOR ANOTHER.

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--Rodney King attorney Milton Grimes, onthe 1991 beating

Nearly a year later, the four officers weretried in federal court on civil rights charges.This trial would be very different from thefirst: It took place in Los Angeles, twoAfrican-Americans were picked for the juryand King actually testified this time.

"There was no way in the world that anyjury would acquit all of the defendants again,"Stone, the defense attorney, told CNN.

King's owntestimony mayhave hurt the fed-eral case, as hehedged onwhether policehad used racialslurs during thebeating. Kingrecently told CNNthat slurs definite-ly were uttered,but he said hevacillated on the stand because his mother hadadvised him to avoid talking about race.

Ultimately, Koon and Powell were foundguilty, while Briseno and Wind were acquitted.

"It was like, .. I just hope we just get one.I hope we just get one on that," King said. "Ifwe get one, we're good. So to get the two, Iwas really happy."

"We got half-justice," his attorney, Grimes,growled, but the verdicts and the 30-monthsentences seemed to satisfy the community.There was no unrest.

One more trial awaited: Rodney King'slawsuit against the city of Los Angeles.

This time, there was only one African-American on the jury, and she was a force tobe reckoned with.

"Half of them had no sympathy whatsoev-er," Cynthia Kelly told CNN, referring to herfellow jurors. "They did not care at all. Theyjust didn't care. Like, 'He broke the law. Hedeserved what he got.' "

If the [police] officers do what they'retrained to do, how can you find them guilty ofa crime? And the jury understood that.

"I told them they were crazy!" she recalled.

"It was about justice for what happened tohim. No one deserves to get beat like that."

Eventually, the other jurors came around,and King was awarded $3.8 million in damages.

It was finally over. But the aftereffectscontinue to this day.

King sometimes still wears a protectivevest in response to a fear of reprisal and somegenuine threats. And he's had several morerun-ins with the law, including a 90-day jailstint in 1996 for a hit-and-run involving hiswife at the time.

2001: King arrested three times in sixweeks

2003: King arrested after domestic dispute2007: King involved in shooting

People wonderwhy he kept get-ting into trouble.

"The troublethat they see mein is a part of mylife that I'm work-ing on," he said,acknowledging al o n g - s t a n d i n gproblem withalcohol. In 2008,

he appeared on VH1's "Celebrity Rehab" real-ity show.

But despite those troubles -- not to men-tion frequent nightmares and the fact that he'sspent virtually all of his share of the $3.8 mil-lion -- King says he is happy. He's a grandfa-ther now, and he's engaged to marry a specialwoman who has returned from his past --Cynthia Kelly.

"She's a nice, friendly person," he said. Things have changed at the LAPD, too.

The upper ranks are much more diverse.Changes also have been made -- sometimesunder court order -- in the way certain neigh-borhoods are patrolled and in how complaintsare handled.

"The main impact that the Rodney Kingcase had is that it accelerated change," jour-nalist Lou Cannon said. "It's not tenable anylonger in the United States of America for apolice force of a major city to govern withouthaving the community being a part of thatgovernance."

Whether society itself has sufficientlychanged is a question for every generation toconsider.

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