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HIGHEST IN CAROLINAS
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Seals'AUers said she want*
ed women to know that they
were not alone in what they
were feeling and having sto
ries from people like Salli
Richardson and Soledad
CyBrien.
She also tackles the daHcer
side of pregnancy, focusing a
chapter on depression, loss
and post abortion support,
issues that black women don’t
generally talk about.
“Tlie worst thing is to think
that no one understands,” she
said. “TTie key is to talk to
somebody The biggest mis
take is to say nothing. W^th
this book, it shows that other
women have felt this way. ”
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Rent swamps
Myrtle Beach
King Day turns commercial
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poverty level. And though
working class African
Americans have paved the
way for much of Chariotte’s
success, many blacks in the
dty struggle to make ends
meet. It doesn’t sound like
something to celebrate.
Yet, every year we take to
the streets for a parade, stuff
ourselves at a prayer break
fast, recite the last few lines
of Dr. King’s speech and miss
the point. Not only did Dr.
King stand for racial harmo
ny, he wanted America to pay
what it owed to black
America.
“When the architects of our
republic wrote the magnifi
cent words of the
Constitution and the
Declaration of Independence,
they were signing a promisso
ry note to which every
American was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that
all men, yes, black m^ as
well as white men, would be
guaranteed the “unalienable
Rights” of “life. Liberty and
the pursuit of Happiness.”
It is obvious today that
America has defaulted on this
promissory note, insofar as
her citizens of color are con
cerned. Instead of honoring
this sacred obligation,
America has given the Negro
people a bad check; a check,
which has come back, marked
“insuflBdent funds.” But we
refuse to believe that the
bank of justice is bankrupt,”
King said in the speech.
Was this a demand for repa
rations? Maybe.
But we have dropped the
ball when we used the King
holiday as another excuse to
gather and do nothing. Who
are we feeding at the prayer
breakfast? Have we opened
the doors to those living on
the street who don’t know
where their next meal is com
ing from?
Are we donating profits
from the MLK parties to dvil
ri^ts causes or are promot
ers just lining their pockets in
the name of Dr. King?
We’re not living King’s
dream; we’ve become lazy and
complacent. If that doesn’t
change, we’re going to be liv
ing a ni^tmare.
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Debutante slaying in Savannah
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desks, not on the streets
Local business leaders, the
mayor says, remained largely
silent until Ross’ slaying.
“They’re too intelligent to be
clueless,” Johnson said. “They
had more important things to
commit their time to. Now it
has come home to roost in
their backyard.”
Interim Police Chief Willie
Lovett, in his first week in
charge after Chief Dan Flynn
retired last year, has proposed
aggressive patrols of public
housing projects bordering
the city's historic district.
Meanwhile, he’s trying to fill
more than 50 vacancies in his
580-officer department.
Few murders occur in the
downtown district, which
draws about 6 million tourists
a 5^ar who marvel at
Savannah’s 19th Century
mansions and marble monu
ments
But street robberies are
common. After dark, the dis
trict’s magnolia-lined side
walks become a magnet for
muggers, often armed with
guns. Savannah had 656 rob
beries in 2004, more than half
the 1,105 violent crimes the
dty reported to the FBI that
year.
More people get robbed in
the historic district than any
part of Savannah, according
to Daniel Lockwood, a crimi
nal justice professor at
Savannah State University
who studies local crime pat
terns by mapping police sta
tistics.
What makes the atys most
celebrated eirea so dangerous,
Lockwood says, is it’s location.
The historic district, roughly
2.5 square miles, is bordered
by housing projects and low-
income neighborhoods.
“You could almost say the
historic district is surrounded
by places where people live
who are more likely than oth
ers to commit violent crime,”
Lockwood siad.
Savannah posted a higher
murder rate, 17.7 slayings per
100,000 residents in 2004,
than any of Georgia’s seven
metropwUtan dties other than
Atlanta. Its rate was more
than double that of
Charleston, S.C., another his
toric Southern dty of similar
size.
Other slayings have haunt
ed Savannah’s historic dis
trict. A mugger fatally shot
Gail Vasilkioti, 56, of New
York in the back outside an
inn while she was vacationing
in September 1999. Her killer
was sent«iced to life in prison
in 2003.
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