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City Shouldn't be Nanny
Later this month, the city will begin
hosting a series of Friday evening activ
ities at the Dixie Classic Fairgrounds
designed to keep teenagers from
becoming desultory this summer. Idle
time is, indeed, the devil's pal; throw in
summer and teenagers and you poten
tially have a powder keg.
We hope last Friday evening - when
teens, presumably excited about the last
day of school, made a beeline down
town and began actin' a-fool - isn't a
harbinger of the next three months. As
is always the case, a few bad apples
ruined what would have likely been an
uneventful outing, but when it comes to
black youth, that's all it takes. If one
knucklehead acts out, the whole lot is
labeled thugs and every black teen on
Fourth Street on Friday night is viewed
askance.
Parents and teenagers often com
plain that a lack of positive outlets
begets the violence. The city can't be
accused of ignoring such concerns. For
the past several years, it has offered
diverse, teenagers-only summertime
programs, like this summer's offering,
"Fairground Fridays," which will
include a free indoor skateboard park.
But parents have a greater role to
play than the city, the police or any
other entity. If your 13-14-15-year-old
is on a downtown street corner - or any
street corner, for that matter - at mid
night, and you are at home asleep or
God knows where, you have a problem!
While summer means a break from
school for kids, it doesn't mean a break
from parenting for adults.
The city is providing a courtesy to
its young residents with its summer pro
gramming, but is not ultimately respon
sible for ensuring that your kids are
positively engaged and well-behaved;
that's all on you. parents.
Good 01' "Traditional"
White Folks
N.C. House Speaker Thorn Tillis
made national headlines this week over
comments he made in 2012, when he
essentially stated that black and brown
people are scaring the bejesus out of
white people, or "traditional" North
Carolinians, with their adroitness at pro
rrootinn
In an interview
with Carolina
Business Review,
Tillis, in one breath,
talked of how the
GOP needs to extend
its reach to African
Americans and
Hispanics; in the
next breath, he
shows whv neonle of
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color have such an aversion to his party.
Comparing the birth rates of blacks
and Hispanics to that of white folks, he
opined that the "traditional population of
North Carolina and the United States is
more or less stable. It's not growing."
How white skin translates to "tradi
tional" has us bemused. A traditional
North Carolinian would be a Lumbee or
Cherokee, would it not?
Tillis is like many "traditional"
Americans, concerned to the point of
paranoia that the brown people are com
ing and plotting to take over. Their
obsession to halt this feared take-over is
evident in their obstinacy to immigration
reform and their hostility to even the
mere mention of the word "amnesty."
Does Tillis' bad choice of words
mean that he is a racist? No, but this -
taken along with his hostility toward the
N.C. NAACP and his actions to silence
the civil rights' organization's Moral
Monday events - shows that Tillis has
little patience or concern for folks who
aren't "traditional."
Origins of Freedom
English
^ Bradshaw
I Guest
Columnist
Independence and
Freedom.
What's the difference?
Simple - because you
are independent, are you
free? Are you free to com
mand your own self-worthi
ness and proclaim who you
really are? Are you free to
truly enjoy the experiences
of the liberated? Are you
free from legal, social and
political restrictions?
We, as citizens of this
nation celebrate the Fourth
of July as Independence
Day, which commemorates
our liberation from the
British. Yet, are we as citi
zens truly free to exercise
unrestricted constraints
upon our innermost impuls
es as human beings: free
dom from hunger, to wor
ship a God of our choice, or
to love whom we wish? Do
we have the satisfaction of
meeting an old master on
equal terms?
Since before Plymouth,
inhabitants of this land
which - included the newly
minted Native Americans -
wished to share in a com
mon love of and respect for
freedom, as well as a deter
mination to protect our right
to freedom by which the
tenets of freedom are guar
anteed and protected. Sadly,
the tenets of freedom did
not extend to the forceful
arrival of citizens from
Africa and beyond the land
of Chaldea and Ur, sparking
200 years of brutality to the
human spirit and man's
inhumanity to man.
Following the flood
gates of overflowing blood
shed and thousands of mas
sacred human combatants in
a war trying to secure a life
of privilege and the determi
nation of a nation to extend
that privilege to all of its cit
izens, the following event
occurred in the course of
human events:
"Now, therefore. I
Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United
States by virtue of the power
in me vested as Commander
in Chief of the Army and
Navy of the United States in
time of actual armed rebel
lion against the authority
and Government of the
United States, and as fit and
necessary war measure for
suppressing this rebellion,
do on this 1st day of
January AD. 1863 . . .
order and designate as the
States and parts of States
wherein the people thereof
respectively are this day in
rebellion against the United
States ... 1 do order and
declare that all persons held
as slaves within said desig
nated States and parts of
States are and hence for
ward shall be free ..."
On June 19th, 1865, two
and a half years after the
issuance of the
Emancipation
Proclamation, Union Army
General Gordon Granger
stood on the balcony of the
Ashton Villa in Galveston,
Texas and gave this address:
"The people of Texas
are informed that, in accor
dance with a proclamation
from the Executive of the
United States, all slaves are
free. This involves an
absolute equality of person
al rights and rights of prop
erty between former mus
ters and slaves, and the con
nection heretofore existing
between them become that
between employer and hired
labor. The freedmen are
advised to remain quietly at
their present homes and
work for wages. They are
informed that they will not
be allowed to collect at mil
itary posts and that they will
not be supported in idleness
either there or elsewhere."
Contrary to popular
belief Lincoln, by issuing
the Emancipation
Proclamation, did not free
the slaves completely. The
Proclamation provided free
dom specifically to slaves in
those states that remained
loyal to the Confederacy.
The 13th Amendment to the
Constitution, ratified on
December 18, 1865, actual
ly freed the slaves including
those held in the four
Confederate States that did
not secede from the Union.
In an attempt to recon
cile the gap between
Liberation and Freedom,
Juneteenth will be recog
nized on June 19 in order to
complete the cycle of
Freedom - July 4th and June
19.
On this coming
Thursday and Saturday as
we celebrate Juneteenth, say
"Happy Juneteenth" to a
family member, friend,
neighbor or co-woiker. If
they don't know what
Juneteenth is - you can now
teach them.
Dr. English Bradshaw is
a well-known local educa
tor and community servant.
Correction
The story "Original Play Shines
Light on the Five Row Community"
in the Thursday, June 12 issue con
tained the wrong venue for the
play's staging. The play is being
staged in Reynolda House's
Babcock Auditorium. Admission to
the play is $5 at the door. Tickets are
also available in advance at
http://www.rey noldahouse.org/cal
endar.
The Chronicle apologizes for the
error.
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Chief Honored by Colleagues
Photo by Officer Lainna Ixak
The North State Law Enforcement
Officers Association, a more than
60-year-old organization made up
of law enforcement officers of
color from throughout North
Carolina, honored Winston-Salem
Police Chief Barry Rountree on
Saturday, June 14 during its annu
al conference in Gastonia.
Rountree, a more than 25-year vet
eran of the Winston-Salem police
force, received the John Marable
Award, which is named for a trail
blazing former Guilford County
Sheriff's Department official and
former NSLEOA president. The
chief was feted for his years of ded
icated service to the law enforce
ment profession and the Winston
Salem NSLEOA chapter - one of 11
chapters in the state.
A&T
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Goktepe, both of whom
are now at Qatar
University.
"Treated peanuts can
be used as whole peanuts,
in pieces or as flour to
make foods containing
peanuts safer for many
people who are allergic,"
Dr. Yu said. "Treated
peanuts also can be used
in immunotherapy. Under
a doctor's supervision,
the hypoallergenic
peanuts can build up a
patient's resistance to the
allergens."
Research funding was
provided by the
Agriculture and Food
Research Initiative of the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture. The process
treats roasted peanuts,
removed from the shell
and skin, with food-grade
enzymes commonly used
in food processing. The
treatment consists of
soaking the peanuts in an
enzymatic solution.
The treatment reduces
two key allergens, Ara h
1 to undetectable levels
and Ara h 2 by up to 98
percent. The resulting
peanuts look and taste
like roasted peanuts; they
are not genetically modi
fied.
The effectiveness of
the process was demon
strated in human clinical
trials at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, using skin-prick
tests.
In contrast to various
other approaches to elim
inating peanut allergens,
the N.C. A&T process
doesn't involve chemi
cals or irradiation, and
uses commonly available
food-processing equip
ment.
In collaboration with
Xemerge, Dr. Yu is con
tinuing to refine the
process by testing the
effectiveness of addition
al food-grade enzymes.
Peanuts cause serious
allergic reactions in an
estimated 0.9 percent of
the U.S. population,
about 2.8 million people.
Highly sensitive children
and adults can develop
anaphylaxis, a severe
allergic reaction, in as lit
tle as a few seconds from
ingesting extremely small
amounts.
Redmon
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ing such a talented and
dedicated individual on
our team. We wish her the
best as she moves for
ward with her career,"
Wood said.
Her efforts have been
recognized by not only
housing authorities and
the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), but
also the Piedmont Triad
Apartment Association
(PTAA), which named
her the 2012 Corporate
Professional of the Year
and honored her with a
Diamond Award at their
annual Diamond Awards
Ceremony in 2013.
"I am so honored to
have had the opportunity
M&F
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been called on repeatedly
to participate in research
gathering efforts by local
groups and universities
who wish to hear his first
hand accounts of historic
events that occurred in
Durham and across North
Carolina over the past half
century.
Long, a highly regard
ed businessman in the
Greater Charlotte Area,
established his business,
Long & Son Mortuary
Services over 67 years
ago, and today it is among
the most successful and
respected family-owned
businesses in the region.
He helped M&F Bank
generate business when
the institution expanded
to Charlotte in the early
1960s, and has supported
them from that time on,
serving on their City
Advisory Board for
Charlotte since its incep
tion.
Canty is a Baltimore
Ravens defensive end
who puts into practice his
philosophy of "planting
good seeds in good soil"
through the work of the
Chris Canty Foundation,
which is dedicated to
enhancing the total devel
opment of youth, using
the platform of sports to
effect positive change.
The Foundation's core
principles are Hope,
Service, Respect. Justice
and Compassion, and
their ultimate goal is "to
rtiold and develop well
rounded. character-driven
individuals possessing the
mental, physical, and
emotional strength to win
File PtioU)
Winston-Salem Housing Authority's Larry Woods.
to grow with the Housing
Authority of Winston
Salem, and 1 look for
ward to going to the
Wilmington Housing
Authority," said Redmon
"1 have truly enjoyed my
experience with the
Housing Authority of
Winston-Salem. There
are a lot of innovative,
creative and hard work
ing staff here and I appre
ciate what I have experi
enced with them over the
years."
in the game of life as well
as promote local and
global change through
community service."
Demby is president
and CEO of Noel Group,
a privately held manage
ment group that manages
niche manufacturing firms
that employs people in
locations across the U.S.,
China and Europe. He and
his wife. Donna, co
founded the Valour
Academy, a private school
in Raleigh.
"It is gratifying to see
our Founding Principles
reflected in the lives and
body of work of such an
impressive group. It bol
sters pride in the heritage
of M&F. and is a source
of inspiration and hope
for future generations,"
saiu Interim M&F Bank
President James Sansom.
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