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Light Work Celebrates 40 years with 40 Artists
Exhibition and Reception
Ghouls and Zombies Fill City Hall
Atrium as Part of CRAVE Festival
Local News
At Annual Meeting CEO Sharon
Owens Lays Out Plan for SMNF, Inc.
President Obama Calls for End to
Gun Violence in City Streets
national News
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Light Work Celebrates 40 years with 40 Artists Exhibition and Reception
By Delani Weaver
Syracuse Universitys Light Work
Gallery will be celebratng four decades
of supportng up-and-coming artsts
with a special exhibiton displaying
the work of 40 artsts who are or have
been associated with it over the last 40
years.
The exhibiton, called 40/40:
Selectons from the Light Work
Collecton, is free and will be at the
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
at Syracuse University untl Oct. 25.
There will be a recepton Sept. 26.
The non-proft group, run by artsts
themselves, and Jefrey Hoone, has
provided support to other aspiring
and underrated artsts through
residencies and technical assistance in
photography and digital imaging with
its digital lab, library and black and
white darkrooms.
The works will refect diferent themes
and infuences as well as express the
reasoning behind the groups creaton
in 1973.
Internatonal stars Cindy Sherman,
Carrie Mae Weems and Syracuse
photographer Marna Bells work will
all be displayed at the exhibiton.
Light Works has developed
relatonships with artsts locally and
natonally. The frst gallery opened in
New York City at Syracuse Universitys
Lubin House. Since then, the gallery has
spread all over the country including
to Philadelphia and San Francisco.
It also has an art photography
publicaton, Light Works Contact,
which features works from several
artsts.
Light Work awards grants to three
photographers living in the Central
New York region every year. An
exhibiton presents images from Laura
Heyman, Jared Landberg and Janice
Levy, the 2013 grant recipients.
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Syracuse Received $2.8 Million
Federal Grant for Environmental Improvements
The Syracuse Hancock Internatonal
Airport has received a $2.8 million
grant from the Federal Aviaton
Administraton for environmental
improvements as part of the Voluntary
Airport Low Emission (VALE) Program.
The new improvements are said to
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and lower emissions.
I am pleased to announce this
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Administraton funding for the Syracuse
Hancock Internatonal Airport, said
Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.
Working with our federal partners,
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we have a world-class airport serving
the business community and leisure
travelers of Upstate New York.
The VALE Program was created in 2004
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air units will be installed by the city
of Syracuse at 15 aircraf/passenger
boarding gates at the airport.
The project will replace fuel-powered
units at 11 gates, and install new units
at four additonal gates. The new
pre-conditoned air units will run on
electricity, reducing emissions and the
airports carbon footprint.
Syracuse airport has been going
through several changes and
renovatons. Recently, the airport
modernized their security line and
opened new concessions with a $60
million expansion project. The airport
was also recently selected as a new
site for the TSA Pre-Check program,
allowing pre-registered frequent
travelers to use an express security
line.
Feds award Syracuse
$1.5M to battle gang violence
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- The city of
Syracuse is getng nearly $1.5 million
in federal funding to help it batle
gang-related violence.
The U.S. Department of Justce ofcials
said Monday that the grant will be
used to set up a new gang interventon
program on the citys south side.
The grant is one of just six awarded
natonwide through the agencys
juvenile justce and delinquency
preventon program.
Syracuses new ant-gang violence
program will focus on suppression,
social interventon, providing
opportunites and mobilizing
the community. Ofcials say the
interventon team members will
include members of law enforcement,
human service agencies and
community organizatons.
Gang violence has been an ongoing
problem in Syracuse, where law
enforcement agencies have taken
down six gangs and charged about 130
gang members since 2002.
70 Year Old Man Dies of Injuries in Suspected Knockout Game
A 70-year-old man who was in the
hospital in critcal conditon afer
an unprovoked atack outside a
convenience store by a Syracuse
teenager, took a turn for the worst and
died of his injuries Wednesday.
James Giford was walking across the
parking lot outside a 7-Eleven store
for his usual trip for doughnuts and a
newspaper when he was atacked and
beaten twice.
Romeo Williams, 18, hit Giford in
the face, knocking him unconscious.
Williams then entered the store and
celebrated by taking of his hat and
holding it up in the air and smiling
before going back outside to beat and
kick Giford.
Four men with Williams eventually
pulled him of Giford.
Video surveillance captured the
knockout, the celebraton and the
beatng.
Williams was charged with second-
degree assault afer the beatng of
Giford. Any additonal charges due to
Gifords death will be decided by the
Onondaga County District Atorneys
ofce.
Atorney James McGraw says he has
represented Williams before but
hasnt been contacted by him about
the assault charge.
Police are investgatng if Giford was
the victm of a so-called knockout
game.
A 51-year-old man was atacked at
random earlier this year and two
Syracuse teens were sentenced to
prison.
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Ghouls and Zombies Fill City Hall
Atrium as Part of CRAVE Festival
By Delani Weaver
If you heard Michael Jacksons 1983
classic song Thriller coming from the
City Hall Commons Atrium, on your
way in you wouldve seen dozens of
people dressed as ghouls and zombies
dancing in a fash mob as part of the
CRAVE festval.
The Central New York Jazz Arts
Foundaton partnered with the
Syracuse Conventon and Visitors
Bureau and Syracuse University-
afliated Connectve Corridor to host
the festval.
Originally scheduled to take place
outside, the fash mob was moved
inside due to the rainy weather.
Before the dance, partcipants were
given a Thriller dance lesson by
choreographer Shannon Tompkins at
the Red House Arts Center on S. West
St. The dance lesson was followed
by costumes and makeup at the Red
House, La Dolce Vita and XL Projects
where they were turned into zombies
and ghouls.
The CRAVE arts interactve festval
and conference, meaning Cultvatng
Resources in the Arts for Value in
Our Economy, lasted for two days
and featured fashed mobs, poetry,
music, theater, art and flm that took
place around the Connectve Corridor,
downtown Syracuse and Syracuse
University.
Multmedia artst, composer and
artst-in-residence Paul Miller, or DJ
Spooky, headlined the event.
Height warning
system is working on NY bridge
SALINA, N.Y. (AP) _ A height warning
system installed afer a double-decker
Megabus slammed into an overpass on
Onondaga Lake Parkway in suburban
Syracuse has alerted more than 400
drivers since it was installed.
The local media reports that only one
vehicle has struck the bridge since
the warning system was installed in
October 2011. Before that, the bridge
was struck an average of twice a year.
The Megabus crash in September
2010 killed four and injured 24. In its
afermath, there was much debate
over what to do about the too-low
bridge.
The state decided to install a one-
of-a-kind detector system to warn
drivers their vehicle was too tall. If an
overheight vehicle is detected, fashing
lights and a big sign tell the driver to
pull over.
Zombies in downtown Syracuse! Photo by Kaitlyn Richards
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At Annual Meeting CEO Sharon Owens Lays Out Plan for SMNF, Inc.
Staf Reporter
Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility,
Inc. (SMNF, Inc.) under the directon
of Sharon F. Owens, held their frst
Annual Meetng Thursday.
Owens, who was appointed CEO in
May of this year, laid out her vision
for the center including expanding on
their current programs and diversifying
the centers revenue streams.
As I envision the next level of
growth and development for SMNF,
Inc., I see potental for our youth
and family services; HIV/AIDS
programming; community services;
the Family Planning Program and its
three reproductve health clinics and
the Southwest Community Center
Campus, Owens explained.
Owens says she envisions a community
campus concept that not only involves
the South West Community Center
but its neighborhood partners: the
businesses, not-for-profts, community
stakeholders and the residents of the
surrounding neighborhood. This
building is more than just a building,
its part of a larger neighborhood.
We are a campus. We afect the
larger neighborhood and the larger
neighborhood afects us.
With annual revenue of $2.3 million,
the center appears to be on solid
fnancial footng; but Owens says they
stll have a lot of work to do. Almost
80% of our revenues come from
health services we provide. No agency
can contnue to sustain itself with
that kind of weight on one business
line, Owens said. Weve got to look
at other funding opportunites. We
have some fund-raising ahead of us to
help us get to a place where were not
pigeon-holed through public funds but
have some fexibility.
Im very grateful for the community
support, contributons and
volunteerism and for our exceptonal
board of directors staf and partners,
said Owens.
Sharon Owens
Syracuse Residents Prepare for Shopping in Health Marketplace
A website, phone service as well as
the opportunity to buy in-person will
be available to the over 50,000 people
in Central New York who do not have
health insurance.
The New York State of Health
Marketplace will open online for
people to make the purchase Tuesday
when Obamacare, a large part of the
Afordable Care Act, begins.
New insurance exchanges will start
open enrollment which will allow
people to shop around and compare
the prices and coverage that will
best suit their needs. There will also
be people available that will help
insurance shoppers navigate the
website, choose a plan and fnd tax
credits. Some people have never
purchased a health care plan, so
these hired patent navigators will
be in Syracuse and other locatons
throughout the state, making sure
people have all the resources they will
need.
Well be able to show you the
diferent plans you qualify for, enroll
people in Medicaid, Child Health Plus,
dental insurance, but also qualifed
health plans from major insurers,
said Syracuse community health
coordinator Steve Wood.
Everyone is welcome to the
marketplace, including small-business
owners. In additon, lower costs and
new subsidies have been created to
make it easier for low-income families,
or those who make less than $46,000
annually, to buy insurance.
Previously, $360 a month was the
cheapest opton through Healthy
New York, which some community
members said they stll found to be
incredibly expensive. However, with
the new plans available, the costs will
be contngent upon income and family
size as well as whatever subsidies a
person acquires.
OSHA cites upstate NY manufacturer for safety
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - (AP) -- Federal ofcials
have cited an upstate New York
manufacturer for 16 safety violatons
afer a fatal forklif accident.
Natonal Pipe and Plastcs, Inc. of Vestal
has been cited by the Occupatonal
Safety and Health Administraton for
serious violatons of workplace health
and safety standards. OSHAs fndings
come afer a March accident involving
a truck driver working for a separate
company who was hit by a forklif
driven by a Natonal Pipe employee.
OSHA inspectors determined that two
of the violatons found following a
March inspecton related to the truck
drivers death. Inspectors said the
forklifs backup alarm didnt work
and the forklif drivers view was
obstructed.
Company president Dave Culbertson
said Monday that Natonal Pipe is
contestng the fndings. He says they
are without merit.
Syracuse pizzeria worker fatally shot in robbery
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- Police say a
Syracuse pizzeria worker was fatally
shot afer trying to negotate with an
armed robber.
Local media report that 38-year-
old Shqair Shqair died in a hospital
Tuesday afer being shot during an
early-morning shootng at the counter
of Sabatnos Pizza and Deli.
Syracuse police say a Shqair tried
to negotate with a masked suspect
demanding money when he was shot.
The suspect fed without taking the
money. Police are investgatng.
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President Obama Calls for End to Gun Violence in City Streets
By Hazel Trice Edney
(TriceEdneyWire.com) In rare
remarks about his hometown of
Chicago, President Obama has called
for an end to the scourge of gun
violence that has plagued America
for decades in Black neighborhoods
and is becoming increasingly common
in mass shootngs in unpredictable
places such as schools, movie theatres
and among civilians on military bases.
And fnally, we cant rest untl all
of our children can go to school or
walk down the street free from the
fear that they will be struck down by
a stray bullet, the President said to
applause at the Congressional Black
Caucus Annual Phoenix Awards Dinner
Saturday night. Just two days ago, in
my hometown of Chicago, 13 people
were shot during a pickup basketball
game, including a 3-year-old girl.
Tomorrow night Ill be meetng and
mourning with families in this city who
now know the same unspeakable grief
of families in Newtown, and Aurora,
and Tucson, and Chicago, and New
Orleans, and all across the country
- people whose loved ones were
torn from them without headlines
sometmes, or public outcry. But its
happening every single day.
The last tme President Obama spoke
as strongly about gun violence, it
was in his State of the Union Address
Feb. 12, only weeks afer the Jan. 29
shootng death of majorete Hadiya
Pendleton, a 15-year-old Chicago teen,
who had partcipated in his inaugural
parade. That was also only two months
following the mass shootng of 20
children and six adult staf members at
the Sandy Hook Elementary School in
Newtown, Conn.
We fought a good fght earlier this
year, but we came up short. And that
means weve got to get back up and
go back at it. Because as long as there
are those who fght to make it as easy
as possible for dangerous people to
get their hands on a gun, then weve
got to work as hard as possible for the
sake of our children. Weve got to be
ones who are willing to do more work
to make it harder, he said to applause.
The President also indicated his
understanding that gun control
alone is not the answer. Among the
hardest hit neighborhoods around the
country, including Chicago, Baltmore,
Detroit, St. Louis, Philadelphia; and
New Orleans are places that are also
plagued by gross poverty, drugs, gangs
and hopelessness topics that the
President also rarely address, but,
vaguely alluded to on Saturday.
So weve got to do more to rebuild
neighborhoods, help some of the
hardest-hit towns in America get back
on their feet, he said. Weve got to
raise the minimum wage. Nobody
who works full-tme in the wealthiest
naton on Earth should have to raise
their children in poverty. Those are
fghts we need to win.
In Chicago, the 3-year-old boy, among
the 13 shot Sept. 19, remains in
critcal conditon afer he was shot
in the cheek. No one was killed in
that partcular shootng, but at least
two other minors were also injured.
Deaths by homicide have become a
regular occurrence in American cites.
Last year, more than 500 were killed in
Chicago,
Talks of gun control legislaton fzzled
out early this year as Republicans and
Democrats remain polar opposites on
the politcal issue. As Black newspapers
and media have long reported on the
struggle to end the carnage based
on the need to address deep social
issues, the debate over guns and gun
laws was thrust back into the natonal
media last week afer 12 people were
killed by a mass shooter at the Navy
Yard in Washington. The shooter was
then killed by police.
The morning afer the CBCF dinner,
President Obama spoke at a memorial
for the victms. His remarks recalled
just how common violence really has
become in America.
On the night that we lost Martn Luther
King Jr. to a gunmans bullet, Robert
Kennedy stood before a stunned and
angry crowd in Indianapolis and he
broke the terrible news. And in the
anguish of that moment, he turned
to the words of an ancient Greek
poet, Aeschylus: Even in our sleep,
pain which cannot forget falls drop
by drop upon the heart untl, in our
own despair, against our will, comes
wisdom through the awful grace of
God.
Robert Kennedy himself would be
felled by an assassins bullet only two
months later. His brother, President
John F. Kennedy, was assassinated fve
years earlier.
Despite the increasing commonness
of Americas gun violence, the press to
end it has been mainly by those who
refuse to accept it. President Obama
has promised to be one of those
driven by the quest to end the human
sufering.
The tragedy and the pain that brings
us here today is extraordinary. It is
unique. The lives that were taken from
us were unique. The memories their
loved ones carry are unique, and they
will carry them and endure long afer
the news cameras are gone, he said
at the Navy Yard Memorial. But part
of what wears on as well is the sense
that this has happened before. Part of
what wears on us, what troubles us so
deeply as we gather here today, is how
this senseless violence that took place
in the Navy Yard echoes other recent
tragedies.
Facing a politcal uphill batle, what
the President is able to do about the
tragedies and how, remains a mystery.
But, concluding his speech to the
CBCF, he at least promised to stay
commited: Were going to have to
keep marching. And Im proud that
Ill be, at least for the next three and
a half years here in Washington and
then a whole lot of years afer that, Im
going to be marching with you.
President Obama
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OPINION/EDITORIAL
The views expressed on our opinion pages are those of the author and do not
necessarily represent the position or viewpoint of MRMG or CNY Vision
EARL HutCHINSON
In its latest report
on sentencing,
the Sentencing
Project noted
the glaring racial
disparites in
life without
p o s s i b i l i t y
of parole
s e n t e n c e s .
Blacks are much
more likely to
receive this
sentence than
whites. The Sentencing Project tcked
of the usual checklist of reasons
for this: pitfully inadequate legal
representaton, prosecutorial and
juror racial bias, the contnuing public
clamor for tough sentencing, and the
growing sense that its cheaper, easier,
and legally less messy to impose a life
sentence without possibility of parole
on the convicted than the death
penalty.
But what happens when those
receiving life without parole are not
rapists and murderers which is the
assumpton that most of those locked
down for life are, but are non-violent
ofenders? There are thousands of
them.
More than 10,000 persons are now
locked up in Americas jails for life with
no chance of release. The majority of
these non-violent ofenders are there
for either drug ofenses or property
crime. Though they did not rape,
bomb or kill anyone in the commission
of these crimes, the number of non-
violent ofenders serving lifetme
sentences has steadily increased
during the past decade. The number
of life sentences without parole has
soared for violent ofenders to more
than 100 tmes the number in 1980.
The U.S. stands virtually alone among
the major industrialized natons in
imposing life without parole for a
crime other than the most heinous. In
Britain, life without parole is imposed
only for homicide and even then it
generally must involve an aggravatng
factor such as child abducton, torture
or terrorism. According to a study
by the University of San Francisco
School of Laws Center for Law and
Global Justce only 41 prisoners were
serving life terms without parole in
that country. By contrast, more than
40,000 persons are serving life without
parole sentences in the U.S.
Occasionally, one of those sentenced
to life without parole makes brief news
because their sentence for stealing
videotapes or a clothing item, or being
an accomplice, witngly or unwitngly,
in a drug deal, seems so out of the
pale that it brings a momentary public
gasp, and shouts about the injustce
and unfairness of such a sentence.
U.S. Atorney General Eric Holder drew
atenton to these kinds of cases when
he called for a sharp reversal in harsh
sentencing for many persons that are
not violent ofenders, and who are
likely to be black or Hispanic. Holder
cited not just the unfairness of this
sentence but the staggering fnancial
cost, not to menton the human cost
of them.
Yet, only one state out of the ffy
states does not have some form of life
without parole statute on its books.
The life without parole means exactly
that in six states and the federal
system which eliminated the parole
possibility for such a sentence in 1987.
The states have taken their cue from
the federal sentencing guidelines that
proscribe 43 levels of punishment for
crimes. Level 43 is the most severe,
and it includes life without parole for
certain types of non-violent ofenses.
Though Holder has called for a new
look at and approach to the types of
sentences handed down, and who
gets the toughest sentences, the
life without parole sentences have
become more the norm in sentencing
today than in the past because they
serve a handy purpose. They are
a perfect foil to the death penalty.
There are endless levels of state and
federal reviews, appeals, and ofen
unfavorable public atenton drawn to
a death sentence. The cases are tme
consuming, and costly and they are
paid for with the taxpayers dime. A
life sentence without parole skirts the
rigor and drawn out legal requirements
of death penalty appeals and review.
At the same tme, life without parole
sentences stll sates the publics
demand for a harsh punishment for
crimes. State courts have been willing
even eager partcipants In handing out
more and more life sentences without
parole since these sentences are not
held to the same scrupulous standards
of review that a death penalty
sentence is, and they are not subject
to review as death penalty cases are.
Theres litle doubt as Holder and
others have noted that the U.S. is wildly
out of step with all Western natons
in how it sentences its ofenders,
and more partcularly who those
ofenders are likely to be namely, the
poorest, and minorites. Few have any
reservaton that those who wantonly
kill, maim, torture, and rape should
be put away for the longest stretches
and that this serves societys interests
and security. But for someone whose
crime is peddling marijuana or for thef
or identty fraud as one defendant in
Georgia was guilty of and sentenced to
150 years hardly serves that interest.
This is punishment pure and simple
thats far beyond cruel and unusual.
--------------------
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author
and politcal analyst. He is a frequent
MSNBC contributor. He is an associate
editor of New America Media. He is
a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton
Show on American Urban Radio
Network. He is the host of the weekly
Hutchinson Report on KTYM 1460 AM
Radio Los Angeles and KPFK-Radio and
the Pacifca Network. His latest ebook
47 Percent Negro: A Chronicle of the
Wackiest Racial Assaults on President
Obama is now available (Amazon).
Locked Down for Life for a Nonviolent Offense Is Beyond Cruel and unusual
(TriceEdneyWire.
com) - In a recent
artcle I posed the
queston, Hey,
Chocolate City,
Where Da Money
At? Well, the CBCF
gave a resounding
answer to that
inquiry on Tuesday,
September 17,
2013. Startng a
new campaign
to strengthen the economy in Black
communites, the organizaton, under
the leadership of Board Chairman,
Congressman Chaka Fatah, (D-Pa.),
announced it would invest $5 million
with Black banks, as part of a broader
efort to increase the availability of
loans for businesses and individuals
in African-American communites. I
applaud the CBCF for this initatve;
it is a great example of how we can
leverage the dollars over which we
have control and stewardship.
Congratulatons to the leadership
group: A. Shuanise Washington,
President and CEO, Congressional
Black Caucus Foundaton; Michael
Grant, president, Natonal Bankers
Associaton; B. Doyle Mitchell,
Jr., board chair, Natonal Bankers
Associaton and president, Industrial
Bank; Russell Kashian, PhD, Professor,
Department of Economics, University
of Wisconsin Whitewater; and Ron
Busby, Sr., CEO, U.S. Black Chambers,
Inc. Well done!
In essense, the CBCF said heres our
money, and our members are doing
the right thing with it.
I commend the CBCF for its initatve
and commitment to launch what could
- and should be a movement across
this naton, said Natonal Bankers
President, Michael Grant. They
initated this efort without being
prodded, begged, or persuaded,
Grant contnued. They did it of their
own voliton and understanding of
how this economy works, as well as
the very important aspect of building
businesses and strengthening the
asset base of Black owned banks. We
cannot thank them enough
Of course, afer my kudos come my
questons. As commendable as the
actons of the CBCF are, they do bring
forth questons in my mind regarding
other insttutons, organizatons, and
associatons. I want to start with
the NAACP because Mr. Ben Jealous
recently announced his resignaton,
and while doing so lauded the
organizatons tremendous increase
in fundraising under his leadership.
Under Jealous, the donor base grew
from 16,422 in 2007, just before he
started, to 132,543 last year. Revenue
has grown from $25.7 million in 2008
to $46 million in 2012, according to an
artcle in USA Today.
$46 million is a lot of money. How
much is deposited or invested in Black
banks, NAACP? With both Harbor
Bank and Industrial Bank in the
immediate vicinity of NAACP natonal
headquarters, I am sure most - if not
all - of those funds are already nestled
away and doing great work in those
two fne Black banks. The CBCF had
$5 million and they did the right thing
Check us out online!
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jAMES CLINGMAN
Kudos to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF)
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Two years ago
last week, the
state of Georgia
ignored the facts,
doubts and pleas
of hundreds of
thousands of
people and killed
Troy Anthony
Davis. Today, on
the anniversary
of his executon,
we rededicate
ourselves to ending the immoral,
biased and inefectve practce of
capital punishment.

For 15 years, we fought alongside
Troy to clear his name for the killing
of Savannah Police Ofcer Mark Allen
MacPhail. Troy remained adamant
about his innocence to his last breath.
As explained in the new book I Am
Troy Davis, by author Jen Marlowe and
Troys sister, Martna Davis-Correia,
the case against Troy lacked conclusive
evidence afer many of the key
witnesses recanted testmony from
the tme of the original trial.
In the last weeks of Troys life, the
Georgia State Board of Pardons and
Paroles received 663,000 pettons
from people imploring the group to
reconsider the executon given the
sheer amount of doubt surrounding
the case. World fgures, including
Pope Benedict XVI and former U.S.
President Jimmy Carter, human rights
groups and commentators urged the
executon to be halted -- all to no avail.
In the hours before his death, the
NAACP held a rally and lobbied the
Department of Justce to intervene on
the grounds of a civil rights violaton.
The glimpses of sadness and quiet
resolve I saw on the faces of Troys
family when his death became
imminent will stay with me forever.
The last tme I saw Troy, he told me
This movement started before me,
and it needs to contnue, no mater
what, untl we destroy the machinery
of death.
While many of the supporters who
stood in solidarity with Troy have
put away their signs and returned
home, the batle to end the shameful
practce of capital punishment wages
on in his name. Side by side with Troys
family, we remain on the frontlines of
this fght to abolish a system that is
inefectve and steeped in racial bias.
Racial disparites pervade every
component of the justce system. A
report from Amnesty Internatonal
concluded that 77 percent of people
executed since 1977 were people
convicted of crimes involving white
victms, compared to only 15 percent
of people executed for killing blacks. A
full 42 percent of the 3,100 inmates on
death row are people of color.
Furthermore, we know that the death
penalty is a poor deterrent of crime.
FBI data shows that all 14 states
without capital punishment in 2008
had homicide rates at or below the
natonal rate.
The only efectve way to deter
killings in our streets is to ensure
justce is swif and certain. In order
to do so, we must ensure both that
we have police leadership that builds
strong partnerships and trust with
all communites and also that they
have enough ofcers and detectves
to ensure every homicide in every
community is responded to with the
requisite resources to fnd and catch
killers quickly.
Since Troys death, we have made
defnitve strides in our efort to end the
death penalty. We have worked with
a diverse and multfaceted coaliton
of advocates including Amnesty
Internatonal and the Natonal
Coaliton to Repeal the Death Penalty
fx our natons broken justce system.
Last year our work led to Connectcut
repealing the death penalty. This year,
Maryland became the frst state south
of the Mason-Dixon Line to do the
same. Those two states now join New
Jersey, New York, New Mexico and
Illinois as the ffh and sixth state in
six years, and the 17th and 18th in the
naton to abolish the death penalty.
Our strategy is clear. Our strategy
is simple. We will outlaw capital
punishment in a majority of states,
and then we will go to the United
States Supreme Court and make the
argument that the punishment is cruel
by its very nature but also unusual
because most states have passed laws
against it.
I Am Troy reminds us that each
year September 21 will serve as both
a solemn anniversary and a call to
acton. It is and will contnue to be
an annual reminder that justce and
common sense we end this brutal
practce of capital punishment.
--------------------
Benjamin Todd Jealous is the president
and CEO of the natonal NAACP.
the I Am troy Call to Action
BENjAMIN jEALOuS
OPINION/EDITORIAL
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with it. Has the NAACP done the same
with its $46 million? I trust they have.
Hey, Marc Morial, and the Natonal
Urban League, youre next. Where is
your money? How many millions do
you control? Any Black banks listed on
your fnancial statements? I know there
must be, in light of the fact that you
work hard to establish new businesses
and create more jobs. Surely the CBCF
has nothing on you, right? This is
not a trivial or unimportant queston.
Here in my hometown, back in 1996-
99, a Black owned credit union was
started just across the street from our
local Urban League Ofce Building.
Although asked to do so, the Urban
League did not have an account at
the credit union. I know this is 2013
and we are much more enlightened
and conscious nowadays. But, Im just
saying, you know?
All right Al Sharpton, youre up next.
How many millions does the Natonal
Acton Network (NAN) have in Black-
owned banks? With your clarion call
for, Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! surely NAN has
taken the economically positve step
of keeping its funds in banks that can
help create those much needed jobs. I
know your thing is politcs, but politcs
is supported, guided, and controlled
by economics, so I have no doubt that
you have already carved out a niche in
a Black bank and allowed your money
to good work for our people.
Uh Oh, I am running out of space.
So what about the rest of our Black
organizatons? Rainbow PUSH,
SCLC, Masons, Shriners, Fraternites,
Sororites, Social Clubs, Links, Black
entertainers, Black rappers, Black
athletes, Black business owners? Are
you even considering putng some
of your millions into Black banks?
Between Jay-Z and P. Diddy, who
recently talked about losing a million
dollars to another rapper, thats a
few hundred million right there. Take
LeBron, Kobe, Tiger, Serena, and
Venus; what an impact they could
make on a Black bank balance sheet.
Get the picture?
Finally, as I close, Black churches,
where is your money? Is any of it
sitng in a Black bank? Churches that
are domiciled in cites where Black
banks exist should all have accounts
at those banks/and or credit unions.
Can you hear me talking, Durham,
North Carolina, where the oldest Black
bank resides? There is also Internet
banking; not denying the importance
of a local bank relatonship, but some
church funds could be invested in an
out-of-town bank.
This is too easy, brothers and sisters,
and its all about a Biblical principle:
Good stewardship. Its now tme for
the altar call. Let the Black church say,
Amen!
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