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Former NFL quarterback and social justice activist Colin Kaepernick receives the
Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2018 from Amnesty
International Secretary General Salil Shetty, right, in Amsterdam, Saturday April
21,2018. Kaepernick became a controversial figure when refusing to stand for the
national anthem, instead he knelt to protest racial inequality and police brutality.
(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Accepting rights award,
Colin Kapernick decries
Lawful lynching 9
By Mike Corder
AMSTERDAM (AP) -
Amnesty International gave
former NFL quarterback Colin
Kaepernick its Ambassador of
Conscience Award on April 21
for his kneeling protest of racial
injustice that launched a sports
movement and might have cost
him his job.
Onetime San Francisco
49ers teammate Eric Reid
presented Kaepernick with the
award during a ceremony in
Amsterdam, the capital of the
Netherlands.
In his acceptance speech, the
award-winner described police
killings of African Americans
and Latinos in the United States
as lawful lynchings.
‘Racialized oppression and
dehumanization is woven into
the very fabric of our nation - the
effects of which can be seen in
the lawful lynching of black and
brown people by the police, and
the mass incarceration of black
and brown lives in the prison
industrial complex,” Kaepernick
said.
Kaepernick first took a knee
during the pre-game playing of
the American national anthem
when he was with the 49ers in
2016 to protest police brutality.
; ‘How can you stand for the
national anthem of a nation
that preaches and propagates,
'freedom and justice for all,’ that
is so unjust to so many of the
people living there?” he said at
Saturday’s award ceremony.
Other players joined his
protest in the 2016 season,
drawing the ire of President
Donald Trump, who called for
team owners to fire such players.
] In response to the player
demonstrations, the NFL agreed
to commit $90 million over the
next seven years to social justice
causes in a plan.
Kaepernick wasn’t signed for
the 2017 season following his
release in San Francisco.
Reid, a safety who is now a free
agent, continued Kaepernick’s
protests by kneeling during the
anthem last season. Reid has said
he will take a different approach
in 2018.
Kaepernick paid tribute to
his friend for his own role in the
protest movement.
‘Erie introducing me for this prestigious award brings me great
joy,” Kaepernick said. ‘But I am also pained by the fact that his taking
a knee, and demonstrating courage to protect the rights of black and
brown people in America, has also led to his ostracization from the
NFL when he is widely recognized as one of the best competitors in
the game and in the prime of his career.”
Amnesty hands its award each year to a person or organization,
‘dedicated to fighting injustice and using their talents to inspire
others.”
Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty called
Kaepernick ‘an athlete who is now widely recognized for his activism
because of his refusal to ignore or accept racial discrimination.”
New lynching
memorial offers
chance to
remember, heal
By Jay Reeves and Kim Chandler
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Elmore Bolling defied the odds
against black men and built several successful businesses during
the harsh era of Jim Crow segregation in the South. He had more
money than a lot of whites, which his descendants believe was all
it took to get him lynched in 1947.
He was shot to death by a white neighbor, according to news
accounts at the time, and the shooter was never prosecuted.
But Bolling’s name is now listed among thousands on a new
memorial for victims of hate-inspired lynchings that terrorized
generations of U.S. blacks. Daughter Josephine Bolling McCall is
anxious to see the monument, located about 20 miles from where
her father was killed in rural Lowndes County.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening April
26, is a project of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a legal
advocacy group in Montgomery. The organization says the
combined museum and memorial will be the nation’s first site to
document racial inequality in America from slavery through Jim
Crow to the issues of today.
“In the American South, we don’t talk about slavery. We
don’t have monuments and memorials that confront the legacy
of lynching. We haven’t really confronted the difficulties of
segregation. And because of that, I think we are still burdened by
that history,” said EJI executive director Bryan Stevenson.
The site includes a memorial to the victims of 4,400 “terror
lynchings” of black people in 800 U.S. counties from 1877 through
1950. All but about 300 were in the South, and prosecutions
were rare in any of the cases. Stevenson said they emphasized
the lynching era because he believes it’s an aspect of the nation’s
racial history that’s discussed the least.
“Most people In this country can’t name a single African-
American who was lynched between 1877 and 1950 even though
thousands of African Americans were subjected to this violence,”
Stevenson said.
The organization said a common theme ran through the
slayings, which it differentiates from extrajudicial killings in
places that simply lacked courts: A desire to impose fear on
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Andrews Versus Birkhead:
The Race For Sheriff
ANDREWS
BIRKHEAD
By Cash Michaels
Contributing Writer
CashWorks Media
Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews
says the two top problems facing the
county are the opiod crisis, and the
proliferation of illegal guns in the
community. But his department lost 25
law enforcement positions because of the
economic downturn, leaving him with just
200 sworn deputies. His force is doing a
fine job, Sheriff Andrews insists, despite
being stretched to the limit.
“We need more officers to do the job
that we do, and we’re mandated with
a lot of services through the auspices of
the sheriff,” Andrews told The Carolina
Times.
Andrews’ challenger in the May 8 th
Democratic primary election, veteran
lawman Clarence Birkhead, says he
“respectfully disagrees,” and that the
sheriff has enough resources, with over
470 personnel, but just isn’t allocating
them properly. He will do a better job if
elected to lead Durham’s Sheriff’s Dept.,
and the community will see the difference.
Birkhead does agree that the easy access
to guns, and the resulting violence, is a key
law enforcement concern, and something
he would prioritize his focus on once
elected.
Two strong law enforcement
professionals vying to become the chief
law enforcement officer for Durham
County, which is growing by leaps and
bounds, challenging a department that
must keep up with it in order to adequately
do its job.
Sheriff Mike Andrews, 60, is a Durham
native, having spent 38 years with the
Durham Sheriff’s Dept. He has served in
virtually every capacity during that time
- from deputy to Investigations, Training
and Patrol.
Andrews received his training through
the Law Enforcement Executive Program
at N.C. State University and the Institute
of Government. Andrews also graduated
Carolina Command College, and the
FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va.
He completed the Sheriffs’ Leadership
Institute in 2016, and has an Advanced
Law Enforcement Certificate from the
state.
In office since 2012 when he took over
former Sheriff Worth Hill, Andrews counts
among his many accomplishments the
establishment of the Citizens’ Community
Academy; Gang Resistance Education and
Training (G.R.E.A.T.); School Resource
officers and the Sheriff’s Anti-Crime and
Narcotics Unit, which helped seize over
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Another crude video surfaces
after fraternity’s expulsion
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) _ Syracuse University expelled a fraternity over an offensive
video that members say was intended as satire, but the controversy is continuing with
the emergence of more video simulating a sexual assault of a disabled person.
Chancellor Kent Syverud called the latest video clip of crude behavior at Theta Tau
"appalling and disgusting” in a statement Sunday.
"I am deeply concerned about how the continuing exposure to hateful videos is
causing further hurt and distress to members of our campus community,” he said, while
acknowledging that the New York school had known about the latest clip since the first
one emerged and sparked outrage on Wednesday. The chancellor said he hadn’t spoken
specifically about the additional video earlier because of ongoing police and student
disciplinary investigations.
He and other administrators planned to gather with students to discuss the matter
Sunday evening.
Theta Tau’s Syracuse chapter apologized Friday for the initial video, saying it was
part of a "satirical sketch of an uneducated, racist, homophobic, misogynist, sexist,
ableist and intolerant person.”
"Nothing like this will ever again be tolerated,” the chapter said on its website. "Not
in private, not as part of a joke - not ever.”
The chapter, part of a national engineering fraternity, hasn’t immediately responded
to emails Saturday and Sunday about subsequent developments.
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