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Common Council Passes Legislation to
Transfer Control of Syracuse Airport to Regional Authority
Syracuse Hancock Internatonal Airport
will now be under the control of the
Syracuse Regional Airport Authority
(SRAA), according to new legislaton
the Common Council passed Monday
authorizing the transfer by the city of
Syracuse.
By passing this legislaton, we have
overcome the fnal hurdle in migratng
our airport to an independent
authority, said Syracuse Mayor
Stephanie A. Miner.
The legislaton marks the fnal step in
completng the airports applicaton
to the Federal Aviaton Administraton
(FAA) to transiton the certfcate of
operatons to the authority. The bill will
allow the city of Syracuse the ability to
complete and submit its applicaton
seeking permission to transfer the
Syracuse Hancock Internatonal
Airports certfcate of operatons from
the city to the SRAA.
Once the applicaton is submited,
city ofcials said they antcipate it will
take between four and six months to
approve.
We are thrilled to see this long-
antcipated step taken. By moving our
airport to an authority, we ensure the
Syracuse Hancock Internatonal Airport
contnues to be a vital, compettve,
and growing airport serving our
business and leisure travelers, Miner
said.
The announcement comes on the
heels of a successful period of growth
for the Syracuse Hancock Internatonal
Airport. A new $60 million expansion
plan, which centralizes Transportaton
Security Administraton screening and
allows for thousands of additonal
square feet for concession vendors,
has also begun. In additon, the airport
recently welcomed Allegiant Air, a
new carrier which will bring two new
fights each week to the popular St.
Petersburg-Clearwater Internatonal
Airport in Florida. Those fights will
begin on Thursday, November 7, 2013.
The Syracuse Hancock Internatonal
Airport is home to over 120 fights
each day and welcomes over one
million travelers per year.
Id like to thank the Syracuse Common
Council for their acton today, said
William Fisher, chair of the Syracuse
Regional Airport Authority. The
Councilors have worked diligently to
help ensure the smooth transiton of
the airports operatons, and valued
employees, from the city to the
Airport Authority. We are grateful to
the Common Council and to Mayor
Miner and her staf for working
collaboratvely with our executve
director, Christna Callahan, to get this
done.
Stephanie Miner, Syracuse mayor, wins 2nd term
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Syracuse Mayor
Stephanie Miner has won a second
term in a year she gained statewide
atenton for critcism aimed at fellow
Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
With all precincts reportng, unofcial
results put Miner with nearly 69
percent of the vote Tuesday.
Miner, an outspoken former labor
lawyer, faced no Republican opponent
in this Democrat-heavy city. She won
a three-way Democratc primary in
September.
Miner became a spokeswoman for
the fnancial pressures facing cites
afer calling Cuomos proposals to help
localites insufcient and described his
proposal to tame pension costs as an
accountng gimmick.
Miners comments appeared to have
chilled her relatonship with the
governor, who declined to endorse his
state party co-chairwoman when she
faced primary challengers.
Also on the ballot are Conservatve Ian
Hunter and Kevin Bot of the Green
Party.
Mayor Stephanie Miner
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Even before
polls closed on what would be a
resounding victory authorizing seven
Las Vegas-style casinos in New York,
confdent developers were making
plans to announce specifcs of the
splashy hotels and gambling palaces
they hoped to build in places like the
Catskills that badly need an economic
jolt.
Tuesdays vote, which passed by a
57-43 percent margin according to
unofcial returns, sets in moton
a heated contest to select casino
operators who will have a hand in
selectng sites for the frst four upstate
casinos.
One would be in the Southern Tier
near Binghamton, two in the Catskills
and Mid-Hudson Valley region, and
another in the Saratoga Springs-Albany
area. A New York City casino would be
built in seven years and possibly more
could be built in the suburbs.
Gov. Andrew Cuomos Gaming
Commission will prepare requests
for proposals from casino operators.
Casino complexes will include hotels
and other facilites to make them what
Cuomo calls destnaton resorts. That
process will take months and could be
delayed further by lawsuits challenging
the process
The Nevele Investors casino resort
developer sought to be the frst in
line, announcing even before the
polls closed that it would hold a
teleconference Wednesday to discuss
plans it has, likely in the Catskills.
Cuomo hopes to use the casino plans
as part of his 2014 campaign to
show he has addressed a major 2010
campaign promise to turn around the
upstate economy.
Since taking ofce, my administraton
has focused on reviving the states
economy, and todays vote will further
pave the way for the creaton of new
jobs, constructon, and increased
tourism in communites across the
state, said Cuomo who is seeking re-
electon in 2014.
He worked closely with the lobbying
group NY Jobs Now which ran his
automatc robo-calls beginning
Monday, urging approval of casino
gambling that had long split New
Yorkers in polls. The group of top
business leaders, union leaders and
local government ofcials waged a
multmillion dollar campaign.
I think its a bad day in the social history
of a proud state, said Stephen Shafer
of the Coaliton Against Gambling in
New York, one of the many grassroots
organizatons with litle funding
fghtng the pro-casino campaign. I
cant be too gracious because it wasnt
a fair fght. ... I think New York state is
being taken for a ride.
One of the groups, the Commitee
Against Propositon 1, said everything
about the process seemed rigged.
Nevertheless, we accept that the
people of New York have spoken; our
focus will now be on how to mitgate
the impact of casinos in the Catskills.
The vote was a major win for Cuomo,
who proposed casinos as a way to aid
the long-distressed upstate economy.
But while Cuomo hailed the measure as
a way to generate jobs and tax revenue
- his administraton even reworded
the ballot language to emphasize
those disputed benefts - critcs from
progressive good-government groups
to the state Conservatve Party and the
states Roman Catholic bishops warned
that the governors projectons were
infated and the social cost to families
and communites would be profound.
Cuomo framed the referendum not as
a queston on gambling, but as a way
to capture what he said is $1.2 billion a
year in current gambling revenue that
New Yorkers now spend at casinos
elsewhere, including Connectcut,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Canada.
Cuomos budget ofce says the state
would take in $430 million in new
casino revenue, with $238 million for
educaton, in a repeat of the strategy
that approved lotery games. The rest
would go to communites near casinos
to compensate for public safety and
social costs and for tax reducton.
An organized and well-funded
campaign helped secure the vote.
Cuomo had provided guarantees of
exclusive gambling territory to Indian
tribes that operate fve casinos under
federal law and other agreements
to sideline operators of video slot
machine centers at race tracks.
That sidelined the big money that was
expected to counter supporters TV ad
blitz.
___
Associated Press writer Jake Pearson
in New York City contributed to this
report.
NY rolls into casino business after voter approval
STATE
The City of Syracuse Parks Department
will be decking out Burnet Park again
this holiday season for the annual
Festval of Lights event.
It will be held on Dec. 13, Dec. 14,
Dec. 20 and Dec. 21 at Burnet Park,
beginning at 6 p.m.
The last wagon leaves at 8:45 p.m.
each evening.
Families will gather at the warming
room at Burnet Park and board the
horse-drawn wagons for rides through
the decorated park hillside and up
to the clubhouse, decorated as The
North Pole, where Santa awaits to
visit with the youngsters. Free holiday
treats.
Admission is free, and no reservatons
are required.
Not to be confused with the Rosamond
Giford Zoo at Burnet Park, Burnet
Parks entrance is on Coleridge Avenue
at Burnet Park Drive (between the 200
and 300 blocks of Coleridge Avenue).
The event is presented with support
from Price Chopper.
For more informaton, please call the
Syracuse Parks Dept. at 473-4330.
CITY OFFERS FREE HORSEDRAWN WAGON
RIDES AT ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS EVENT
SYRACUSE, N.Y. The City of Syracuse
has completed its search for the tree
which will be the featured as the
centerpiece of the 2013 Home for the
Holidays Celebraton and Tree Lightng
Ceremony on Friday, November 29.
The tree was transported by JPW
Riggers, who are donated their
services to the City of Syracuse, on
Monday, November 4. This years tree
was donated by the LaForce family
who own the property in Nedrow on
which the tree was located.
CITY OF SYRACUSE ANNOUNCES HOLIDAY TREE HAS BEEN FOUND
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By Delani Weaver
Two hundred and twenty candidates
were up for votes yesterday in the local
government electons for Onondaga
County. Afer months of campaigning,
meetngs, press conferences and
debates, voters gathered at the polls to
choose whom they believe will make
the best decisions for the county.
Several black candidates triumphed
over their challengers, while some
didnt fare as well.
The batle between Democratc
candidate Mary Anne Doherty, lawyer
in the city law department, and
Republican candidate Romana Lavalas,
prosecutor in the Onondaga County
District Atorneys Ofce came to an
end when Doherty won the seat for
City Court Judge with 69 percent of
the votes. Lavalas received 31 percent.
This makes the second loss for Lavalas
as she ran for City Court Judge back in
2011.
Common Council President Van
Robinson (D) had nothing to be
concerned about as he ran unopposed.
Robinson has been a member of the
Common Council since 1999, and has
been the only black Common Council
president.
Robinson would have run against
his controversial former campaign
manager, Gary Morris, however Morris
dropped out of the race in May and
endorsed Robinson instead. Besides
this year, Robinson ran unopposed in
2008 and 2010.
Democrat Derrick Dorsey, director of
the InterFaith Works Community Wide
Dialogue to End Racism, will be taking
one of three seats that were up for
grabs on the Syracuse School Board,
as he received 23 percent of the votes.
He came in third to Patricia Body who
received 25 percent, and David Cecile
who received 30 percent.
The Syracuse City School Districts
incredibly high suspension rates were
studied by a school district task force
in which Dorsey is co-chair.
Khalid Bey (D), 4th District Common
Councilor, will retain his seat. He
received 60 percent of the votes
over Green Party challenger Howie
Hawkins.
Bey, the owner of a publishing frm,
has published two self-help books, was
previously a hip-hop recording artst
and Syracuse regional coordinator for
the state Senate.
County Legislature for the 16th District
Monica Williams (D) was re-elected to
her seat by a landslide. She received 72
percent of the votes over challenger
Melody Holmes. Williams is a certfed
nurse who previously worked for the
Rosewood Heights Health Center and
is a member of several commitees.
Williams 21-year-old son, Daquan
Williams, was fatally shot in the chest
while riding with friends on Interstate
690 in 2009. His murder was never
solved.
Linda Ervin (D), 17th District County
Legislature, also took her seat with
an overwhelming 82 percent of the
vote over challenger Woodruf L.
Carroll. Ervin has had a good year as
she was elected as foor leader of the
Democratc Caucus in January.
Pamela Hunter, a democrat, beat
incumbent and frequent critc of the
mayor Lance Denno to land one of two
at-large common council seats. Hunter
served nine months on the council
in 2011, and gained community
support for her role in redesigning the
embatled Syracuse Citzen Review
Board. She said she promises to pursue
policies that beter the quality of life
for Syracuse residents.
khalid bey romana lavalas monica williams
van robinson linda ervin pamela hunter derrick dorsey
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STATE
NATIONAL
White House Working to Curtail Food Stamp Cuts
By Valerie Jarret and Cecilia Muoz
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - On November
1, millions of Americans felt the efects
of an automatc cut to food purchasing
assistance provided through the
Supplemental Nutriton Assistance
Program (SNAP). This is assistance that
serves to help families get back on
their feet, and children to receive the
nourishment they need to stay healthy
and compettve in the classroom.
For many families, these cuts are
devastatng, and couldnt come at
a worse tme as they begin to regain
their footng following the worst
recession since the Great Depression.
That is why President Obama has
proposed an extension of pre-
November funding levels in the 2014
budget. As the economy contnues to
grow and recover, SNAP is proven to
efectvely combat hunger and food
insecurity while giving millions of
hardworking Americans the temporary
boost they need during tough tmes.
In the wake of this cut, the strategy
currently underway in the House to
remove millions more families from
SNAP makes even less sense. The
Houses current approach will stall our
economic growth over the months
and years ahead, while hampering
our ability to build a stronger, more
robust American workforce. That is
why it is imperatve that Congress pass
a long-term, comprehensive Farm Bill
that supports a strong agricultural
economy, while ensuring healthy,
afordable food for those who need it,
when they need it.
The Obama Administraton is
commited to helping reduce the
number of Americans who need SNAP
the right wayby arming them with
the skills they need to succeed in the
workforce and opportunites to earn
the income they need to support a
family.
Working to end hunger in America
should be a major priority for all
Americans. Having boys and girls
going to bed hungry and struggling
to perform in the classroom is both
heartbreaking and completely
unacceptable. Stemming hunger is
more than the right thing to do, it is
also the smart thing for our economy,
for business, and for ensuring the
compettveness of American workers.
Valerie Jarret is a Senior Advisor to
President Barack Obama. She oversees
the Ofces of Public Engagement and
Intergovernmental Afairs. Cecilia
Muoz is the Assistant to the President
and Director of the Domestc Policy
Council.
Cecilia Muoz Valerie Jarret
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new natonal
study estmates 779,000 New Yorkers
are eligible for tax credits that
would reduce premium payments
for insurance coverage they can buy
through the states new insurance
exchange.
The Kaiser Family Foundaton
analysis shows 17 million people,
now uninsured or who buy insurance
individually, will be eligible for credits
when coverage starts in 2014.
They include 2 million in Texas, 1.9
million in California and 1.6 million in
Florida.
Under the federal Afordable Care Act,
credits apply to those with incomes up
to 400 percent of the federal poverty
level.
New York, with about 2.7 million
uninsured, projects enrolling 1.1
million through its state exchange. The
online marketplace lists insurers and
coverage plans, allowing individuals
and small businesses to shop and
enroll.
Study says 779,000 in NY can get health insurance subsidy
Jacksons perform Gordy tribute at Ebony gala
NEW YORK (AP) Motown founder
Berry Gordy recalls that when he
signed The Jackson 5, he sent them to
live in a house in California. The rowdy
kids ended up getng kicked out and
had to move in with him.
On Monday, at a tribute to Gordy at
the Ebony Power 100 gala in New York
City, Marlon Jackson thanked him for
letng us come to your house and
tear it up, as well as for putng them
on the path to a Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame career. The Jacksons performed
their hits for Gordy afer he received a
lifetme achievement award.
The event, hosted by Nick Cannon,
honored blacks with considerable
power such as President Barack
Obama, Forest Whitaker, commentator
Van Jones, educator Henry Louis Gates
Jr. and Serena Williams.
Shown Right
Motown founder Berry Gordy
NY promotes sustainable tourism in online guide
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York state is
promotng sustainable tourism.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a new online
guide to sustainable travel in New York
State will include bookable itneraries.
The guide debutng Wednesday takes
advantage of the trend of tourists
trying to minimize their impact on the
environment and local culture.
The New York guide is being produced
in partnership with responsibletravel.
com. A secton of the tour operators
website will feature eco-tourism
actvites in every region of New York
state.
State ofcials say the site will include
things like exploring Amish culture or
bicycling along former Erie Canal tow-
paths.
The site will give informaton on the
culture, history and ecology of each
region.
A preview of the new guide is at: www.
responsibletravel.com/holidays/new-
york-state/travel-guide.
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NATIONAL
NNPA Chairman Blasts NFL for Almost a Slave Mentality
By Hazel Trice Edney
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - The chairman
of the Natonal Newspaper Publishers
Associaton, a federaton of more than
200 Black-owned newspapers, says the
Washington Redskins team - under fre
from a Richmond, Va. publisher - is in
sync with the entre Natonal Football
League in its apparent oppressive
treatment of Black businesses and
consumers.
Its almost a slave mentality. They
put us on the feld and we entertain
the master but were not reaping
any benefts from the business side
of it, Campbell says. Its not just
the Redskins. If you look around the
country, the NFL as a whole prety
much neglects Black businesses and
the Black community, said Campbell,
publisher of the Arizona Informant
Newspaper.
He contnued, Here in Arizona, our
Arizona Cardinals does zero with the
Black community. Every now and then
they might show up for a token Black
event. But, I dont see our African-
American newspaper here in Phoenix
or in Arizona being supported by the
Arizona Cardinals. I believe if you called
other newspapers that have [teams] in
their markets, I dont believe theyre
doing much for them either. I believe
the NFL as a whole takes the Black
community for granted although we
are their major product on the feld.
Campbell was responding to questons
pertaining to a confict between NNPA
member Ray Boone, editor/publisher
of the award-winning Richmond
Free Press, and the Richmond-based
Washington Redskins Training Camp,
which is partally owned by Bon
Secours Health System.
In a leter to NAACP Chairman Roslyn
Brock and CCd to Campbell, Boone
states that the team contracted no
business with Black-owned or locally
owned businesses at its frst Richmond
training camp between July 25 and
August 16. That includes the failure
to advertse in the Black-owned
Richmond Free Press while advertsing
with the White-owned conservatve
daily, the Richmond Times Dispatch
which has a history of pro-segregaton
leadership. The confict is steeped in
an age-old batle constantly waged by
Black newspapers, which are historic
targets for advertsing discriminaton.
While Bon Secours placed paid
advertsements for the training camp
in the Times Dispatch, the Free Press
was sent press releases, Boone said in
an interview.
Brock, who has served as NAACP
chair since 2010, is vice president for
advocacy and government relatons for
the Bon Secours Health System, Inc., in
Marriotsville, Md. Boone believes her
corporate positon has caused her to
compromise her stance for economic
justce in the Richmond case.
Bon Secours, along with Mayor
Dwight C. Jones and the Washington
team, blatantly denied, contrary to the
Mayors pledge, black businesses and
other local businesses the opportunity
to receive vendor contracts inside
the training camp, Boone wrote in a
Sept. 27 leter to Brock. Characteristc
of Richmond government and big
businesses, this Bon Secours decision
disgracefully enhanced Richmonds
shameful reputaton as The Capital of
Poverty, with 25 percent of Richmonds
populaton sufering in poverty.
When Brock had not responded to
his leter for more than a month,
Boone followed up with a Nov. 1
email pointng out, This raises the
unavoidable queston of whether Bon
Secours is restrictng you from living
up to your responsibility to honor the
NAACP mission?
He contnued, In the interest of
fairness and the image of the NAACP,
I respectully suggest that you break
your silence.
Brock responded to Boone by email
that same day, statng, The mater
you reference in your leter is local in
nature and should be handled directly
by the Richmond Branch NAACP and
Salim Khalfani at the Virginia State
Conference NAACP. I have forwarded
your correspondence to them and
shared the informaton with the
leadership of Bon Secours Health
System in Richmond.
In an email, responding to a queston
from the Trice Edney News Wire this
week, Brock said that she had not
publically commented on Boones
complaint because it is a local issue.
Brocks email said she had also
discussed the mater in detail with
Campbell, who is serving his second
term as NNPA chairman. At a Sept. 17
recepton in D.C., Campbell, Boone
and other NNPA publishers praised
Brock for her leadership and gave her
an award for social justce.
While Campbell verbally blistered
the NFL, including the Redskins, he
balanced his response by saying he
agrees with Brock that the issue
in Boones case is local since the
economic decisions appear to have
been made by the mayor and Bon
Secours Richmond enttes.
At the end of the day, I think [the
critcism of her] is unfair just because
she works for Bon Secours. Thats her
day job. We all volunteer at some
tme with the NAACP, Campbell
says, referring to Brocks volunteer
chairmanship. While we want to see
Mr. Boone and his publicaton get
what it deserves and more so; that is
defnitely a local issue.
Boone, who recently announced he
has stopped using the term Redskins
in the Richmond Free Press because
it is racist, argues that the Redskins
and Bon Secours exclusion of Black
businesses underscores and illustrates
the teams mentality under the
controversial name, which is receiving
growing natonal pressure for change.
In her email to the Trice Edney News
Wire, Brock also clarifed that the
NAACP has long stood against the
Redskins name because of its roots
in racism. The NAACP passed a
resoluton more than ten years ago
against racial slurs being used as
mascots. In the last few months the
NAACP signed on leters with the
Oneida Tribe, based in Washington and
the Natonal Coaliton on American
Tribes especially in support of their
eforts to change the Redskins name,
she wrote.
Neither Mayor Dwight C. Jones;
nor Virginia NAACP President King
Salim Khalfani could be reached for
comment by deadline. Bon Secours
representatves did not return
repeated phone calls.
Meanwhile, Boone, a recipient of the
State NAACPs Oliver W. Hill Freedom
Fighter Award, remains focused on his
quest for economic justce, promising
Brock fairness and balance in
upcoming coverage of her leadership
positons with the NAACP and Bon
Secours.
Such economic batles have been
hard fought in Richmond and in Black
and grassroots communites across
the naton. Former Richmond City
Councilman Chuck Richardson, known
for his historic advocacy for Black
businesses and contractors, recalls
researching Washington Redskins
racism as far back as 1961. Thats
when he wrote a research paper in
junior high school about the team
and how the Redskins was the last
professional football team to allow
Blacks to play for them, he said in an
interview. This harkens back to that
painful tme. It hurt then and I would
have thought that a greater degree of
change might have occurred, but the
mentality stll exists. It seems so much
has changed and yet so much remains
the same.
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(TriceEdneyWire.com) - In
1896, Lyrics of Lowly Life, a
collecton of Paul Laurence
Dunbars poetry was
published. Although his poem
was specifcally focused on
African American people,
in this twenty-frst century,
it is apropos to many. He
recognizes the pain many feel
about their inability to be
themselves and if we fast-
forward to today, he addresses
the masks they wear because
they want to hide from themselves.
The poem reads: We wear the mask that grins and
lies; That hides our cheeks and shades our eyes;
This debt we pay to human guile; ?With torn and
bleeding hearts we smile; And mouth with myriad
subtletes.
Why should the world be over-wise?; In countng
all our tears and sighs? ? Nay, let them only see us,
while; We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great
Christ, our cries; To thee from tortured souls arise. ?
We sing, but oh the clay is vile; Beneath our feet, and
long the mile; ?But let the world dream otherwise.
We wear the mask!
Whenever I read this poem I am struck by its
poignancy. It recognizes the Black folks who tap
danced when theyd rather do ballet, who hid
their true feelings to get ahead, who are perceived
as happy while the clay is vile. It doesnt take a
historian to evaluate the masks that people of
African descent have been forced to wear in these
United States. In the early twenteth century you
could be lynched for looking a white person in the
eye. No mater what your status, you were expected
to clear the sidewalk when a white person walked
by. You werent supposed to scowl or protest, just
to wear the mask.
When Senator Barack Obama ran for President of
the United States, few chose to acknowledge that he
stood on the shoulders of the great civil rights leader,
Rev. Jesse Jackson. Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada),
now an Obama ally, had the condescending temerity
to describe a Harvard-educated black man as well-
spoken. Many of us who earned advanced degrees
from our natons best insttutons are stunned when
we are described as artculate. Some of us choose
to wear the mask and silently absorb the nonsense.
Others are plain spoken enough to pay the price of
stunted career advancement, or a reputaton for
being edgy.
People wear masks daily, sometmes to reveal who
they are, and sometmes to hide their true identty.
What does this imply, then, about the white people
who think that a blackface mask is appropriate. Too
many people, including the obscure and minimally
talented actress Julianne Hough decided to don
blackface for a Halloween party, excusing herself
by claiming she was simply going as a character in
the show Orange is the New Black. When critcized
she said she was sorry, but she should have said
she was ignorantly sorry, because her historical
knowledge is most defcient. Did she go to anybodys
school? Like Hough, those who think that blackface
is funny, ignore the demeaning history of blackface
caricatures. If these people are wearing a mask, it
is a mask that allowed them to hide their racism
untl they had an excuse to let it show. Then their
response is that it is all in good fun, we meant no
harm, or I never meant to ofend. Thats the
mask of arrogance. The mask of Im white, Im
going to do whatever I choose to do, a mask that
allows them to ignore common decency.
In 2011, Ohio University started a campaign that
suggested that student be mindful of the Halloween
costumes they chose. The were a culture not a
costume has spread to several universites, but
apparently it has not spread widely enough.
Two white men in Florida declared anything for
a laugh when one, with a Stand Your Ground
t-shirt (posing as George Zimmerman) seems to be
shootng his black faced, hoodie clad white friend
who is supposed to be Trayvon Martn. Why is this
appropriate or amusing? The arrogance of white
people suggests that they can make a joke, and
suggests that all people of color are their jokes. The
massacre of a young black man, for them, is not
tragedy but an occasion for mockery.
We wear the mask that grins and lies, that hides our
cheeks and shades our eyes. For some, masks are
concealing, for others revealing. Those who choose
to mute their reacton to a racist world are adaptng.
Those who think that blackface is appropriate
are atacking. It is tragic that at Halloween, a day
conceived for children to have fun, has become an
occasion for masks that atack, and for those who
make excuses for them.
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Racial
inequity has wreaked a
tremendous economic toll on
the United States to the tune
of trillions of dollars, a newly
released report found.
The Business Case for Racial
Equity weaved together
research from several
organizatons, including
the Center for American
Progress, Natonal Urban
League Policy Insttute, Joint
Center for Politcal and Economic Studies and the
U.S. Department of Justce. The threads became
a tapestry that depicted how race and class
discriminaton, residental segregaton and lopsided
income levels represent lost opportunites for
minorites; and incurs great costs to the country
including the burden of incarceraton.
Racism in the U.S. has lef a legacy of inequites
in health, educaton, housing, employment,
income, wealth, and other areas that impact
achievement and quality of life, the report stated.
When people face barriers to achieving their full
potental, the loss of talent, creatvity, energy,
and productvity is a burden not only for those
disadvantaged, but for communites, businesses,
governments, and the economy as a whole.
In terms of income, people of color are currently
earning 30 percent less than Whites, afer
adjustments for age and sex, according to the
report. If that gap were closed, higher productvity
would increase total U.S. earnings by 12 percent
or nearly $1 trillion and gross domestc product,
or GDP, would increase by $1.9 trillion. That would
translate into $180 billion in additonal corporate
profts, $290 billion in additonal federal tax
revenues, and a potental reducton in the federal
defcit of $350 billion.
As the percentage of minorites in the labor force
increases over tme, those gains would increase
exponentally, the report concluded.
Similarly, the Natonal Urban League Policy Insttute
found that diferentals in health cost the U.S.
an estmated $60 billion in excess medical costs
and $22 billion in lost productvity in 2009. They
projected that the burden will to rise to $126 billion
in 2020 and $363 billion by 2050 if these health
disparites remain. Premature deaths further cost
the economy $250 billion in 2009.
Inequites in educaton were also expensive. In
one example, if the educatonal achievement
gap between Hispanic and African American and
White students in the U.S. were closed in 2008, the
natons GDP would have seen a boost of between
$310 billion to $525 billion, a McKinsey & Co.
analysis determined.
The resonance of these fndings and the importance
of achieving racial equity will gain even more
importance as antcipated demographic changes
begin to materialize. The U.S. Census Bureau has
projected that children will be majority minority
by 2018. And, overall, people of color will account
for more than half of the U.S. populaton by 2043.
The report was created by the Altarum Insttute
and the W.K. Kellogg Foundaton and funded
through the laters America Healing efort, which
was launched in 2010 to support programs that
promote racial healing and address racial inequity.
Our hope is to bring another lens to the urgency
of addressing disparites that are not only putng
vulnerable children at a disadvantage, but are also
costng our naton a great deal, said Ani Turner,
deputy director of the Center for Sustainable Health
Spending at Altarum Insttute. When disparites
in health alone are costng the U.S. $82 billion per
year in excess medical costs and lost productvity,
the message is clear: our future depends on racial
equity.
JULIANNE MALVEAUX
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Racial Inequality Costs U.S. Trillions
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The Masks We Wear: Trick, Treat, and Tragedy
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(TriceEdneyWire.
com) - Our
C o n s t i t u t i o n
outlines the
F o u n d e r s
vision for the
structure of our
g o v e r n me n t .
At the tme it
was writen, our
C o n s t i t u t i o n
g u a r a n t e e d
libertes for
individuals that
were not to be
abridged. It provided for a Legislatve
Branch responsible for passing laws
to beneft all. The Executve Branch
was structured to execute laws passed
by the Legislatve Branch in a fair and
equitable manner. The Judicial Branch
is to interpret the consttutonality
of laws and assure their equitable
applicaton.
Throughout history, thereve been
questonable actons by each branch
that demonstrate deviaton from
the leter of the law. When personal
freedom was touted as foundatonal
principle and the country endorsed
the insttuton of slavery to the recent
recogniton of full rights of citzenship
for LGBT communites, our naton has
been in a transformatve evoluton of
laws and culture.
Once, the Judicial Branch was the
branch of government Black people
relied on for protecton of our rights.
Mostly, this branch, specifcally the
Supreme Court, has been a responsible
partner in securing and directng
the applicaton of laws in a manner
that would guarantee full rights of
citzenship to us. Weve depended
on the selecton and judgment of
Consttutonal scholars who had
a realistc perspectve on real-life
applicaton of laws and their impact
on real people. Weve depended
on Justces who could issue rulings
not colored by their own biases, but
were based on the most realistc
interpretaton of law. This control of
personal bias was demonstrated in
the much heralded Brown v Board of
Educaton ruling issued, despite the
presence of known racist Justces, with
a unanimous verdict.
Our latest crops of Supreme Court
Justces (The Roberts Court) have
issued rulings that seem to indicate
a shif in perspectve. The Citzens
United ruling indicates a regressive
shif in philosophy to the principles
of the Taney Court which issued the
dreaded Dred Scot decision.
Theres debate as to which among the
current crop of Justces is the greatest
enemy of civil rights. Some would
say the smooth indiference of the
Chief Justce to the more reactonary
of his colleagues would tag him with
that label. Others would say Samuel
Alitos reserved acerbic manner would
give him the ttle. Others would give
the nod to Clarence Thomas. Afer
all, the height of arrogant indiference
is to deny others the opportunity to
receive the same benefts that led to
ones own success. Although each of
these Justces merits consideraton
as the greatest enemy of civil rights,
I would award it to Justce Antonin
Scalia. Scalias public uterances are as
ofensive as his ofcial decisions and
give clear indicaton to his bias and
racial animus.
Recently, Scalia demonstrated the
depth of his contempt for Blacks when
he described the protectons of the
Votng Rights Act as the perpetuaton
of racial enttlement. This is among
the greatest insults he could direct to
us. He says instead of a guaranteed
right of citzenship, the right of Blacks
to vote is an undeserved privileged
granted by the benevolence of some
long ago writen law. Theres no other
group that would allow an inherent
right of citzenship to be denigrated by
likening it to a perk, nor do I suspect
Scalia would classify his own votng
right as a racial enttlement granted
because of the historical traditon of
privileged whites. As a child of Italian
immigrants, it would seem Scalia
would have greater empathy for the
challenges of citzenship faced by out
groups and that hed acknowledge the
diference between a right and an
enttlement.
Recently, Scalia stated that the 14th
Amendment doesnt protect only
the blacks. Students of history will
counter his positon with the correct
argument that the Amendment was
ratfed to do just that. It afrmed
citzenship and established votng
rights for former slaves.
-----------------------
Dr. E. Faye Williams is Chair of
the Natonal Congress of Black
Women. 202/678-6788. www.
natonalcongressbw.org
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