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Common Council Passes Legislation toTransfer Control of Syracuse Airport to Regional AuthoritySyracuse Hancock Internaonal Airportwill now be under the control of theSyracuse Regional Airport Authority(SRAA), according to new legislaonthe Common Council passed Mondayauthorizing the transfer by the city ofSyracuse.

“By passing this legislaon, we haveovercome the nal hurdle in migrangour airport to an independentauthority,” said Syracuse MayorStephanie A. Miner.

The legislaon marks the nal step incompleng the airport’s applicaonto the Federal Aviaon Administraon

(FAA) to transion the cercate ofoperaons to the authority. The bill will

allow the city of Syracuse the ability tocomplete and submit its applicaonseeking permission to transfer theSyracuse Hancock InternaonalAirport’s cercate of operaons fromthe city to the SRAA.

Once the applicaon is submied,city ocials said they ancipate it willtake between four and six months toapprove.

“We are thrilled to see this long-ancipated step taken. By moving ourairport to an authority, we ensure theSyracuse Hancock Internaonal Airportconnues to be a vital, compeve,

and growing airport serving ourbusiness and leisure travelers,” Miner

said.

The announcement comes on theheels of a successful period of growthfor the Syracuse Hancock InternaonalAirport. A new $60 million expansionplan, which centralizes TransportaonSecurity Administraon screening andallows for thousands of addionalsquare feet for concession vendors,has also begun. In addion, the airportrecently welcomed Allegiant Air, anew carrier which will bring two newights each week to the popular St.Petersburg-Clearwater InternaonalAirport in Florida. Those ights willbegin on Thursday, November 7, 2013.

The Syracuse Hancock Internaonal

Airport is home to over 120 ightseach day and welcomes over onemillion travelers per year.

“I’d like to thank the Syracuse CommonCouncil for their acon today,” saidWilliam Fisher, chair of the SyracuseRegional Airport Authority. “TheCouncilors have worked diligently tohelp ensure the smooth transion ofthe airport’s operaons, and valuedemployees, from the city to theAirport Authority. We are grateful tothe Common Council and to MayorMiner and her sta for workingcollaboravely with our execuvedirector, Chrisna Callahan, to get this

done.”

Stephanie Miner, Syracuse mayor, wins 2nd termSYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Syracuse MayorStephanie Miner has won a secondterm in a year she gained statewideaenon for cricism aimed at fellowDemocrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

With all precincts reporng, unocialresults put Miner with nearly 69percent of the vote Tuesday.

Miner, an outspoken former laborlawyer, faced no Republican opponentin this Democrat-heavy city. She wona three-way Democrac primary inSeptember.

Miner became a spokeswoman forthe nancial pressures facing ciesaer calling Cuomo’s proposals to helplocalies insucient and described hisproposal to tame pension costs as an“accounng gimmick.”

Miner’s comments appeared to havechilled her relaonship with thegovernor, who declined to endorse his

state party co-chairwoman when shefaced primary challengers.

Also on the ballot are Conservave IanHunter and Kevin Bo of the GreenParty.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Even beforepolls closed on what would be aresounding victory authorizing sevenLas Vegas-style casinos in New York,condent developers were makingplans to announce specics of thesplashy hotels and gambling palacesthey hoped to build in places like theCatskills that badly need an economic jolt.

Tuesday’s vote, which passed by a57-43 percent margin according tounocial returns, sets in moona heated contest to select casinooperators who will have a hand inselecng sites for the rst four upstatecasinos.

One would be in the Southern Tiernear Binghamton, two in the Catskillsand Mid-Hudson Valley region, andanother in the Saratoga Springs-Albany

area. A New York City casino would bebuilt in seven years and possibly morecould be built in the suburbs.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s GamingCommission will prepare requestsfor proposals from casino operators.Casino complexes will include hotelsand other facilies to make them whatCuomo calls desnaon resorts. Thatprocess will take months and could bedelayed further by lawsuits challengingthe process

The Nevele Investors casino resortdeveloper sought to be the rst inline, announcing even before thepolls closed that it would hold a

teleconference Wednesday to discussplans it has, likely in the Catskills.

Cuomo hopes to use the casino plansas part of his 2014 campaign toshow he has addressed a major 2010

campaign promise to turn around theupstate economy.

“Since taking oce, my administraonhas focused on reviving the state’seconomy, and today’s vote will furtherpave the way for the creaon of new jobs, construcon, and increasedtourism in communies across thestate,” said Cuomo who is seeking re-elecon in 2014.

He worked closely with the lobbyinggroup NY Jobs Now which ran hisautomac robo-calls beginningMonday, urging approval of casinogambling that had long split NewYorkers in polls. The group of topbusiness leaders, union leaders andlocal government ocials waged amulmillion dollar campaign.

“I think it’s a bad day in the social history

of a proud state,” said Stephen Shaferof the Coalion Against Gambling inNew York, one of the many grassrootsorganizaons with lile fundingghng the pro-casino campaign. “Ican’t be too gracious because it wasn’ta fair ght. ... I think New York state isbeing taken for a ride.”

One of the groups, the CommieeAgainst Proposion 1, said “everythingabout the process seemed rigged.Nevertheless, we accept that thepeople of New York have spoken; ourfocus will now be on how to migatethe impact of casinos in the Catskills.”

The vote was a major win for Cuomo,

who proposed casinos as a way to aidthe long-distressed upstate economy.

But while Cuomo hailed the measure asa way to generate jobs and tax revenue- his administraon even reworded

the ballot language to emphasizethose disputed benets - crics fromprogressive good-government groupsto the state Conservave Party and thestate’s Roman Catholic bishops warnedthat the governor’s projecons wereinated and the social cost to familiesand communies would be profound.

Cuomo framed the referendum not asa queson on gambling, but as a wayto capture what he said is $1.2 billion ayear in current gambling revenue thatNew Yorkers now spend at casinoselsewhere, including Conneccut,Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Canada.

Cuomo’s budget oce says the statewould take in $430 million in newcasino revenue, with $238 million foreducaon, in a repeat of the strategythat approved loery games. The restwould go to communies near casinos

to compensate for public safety andsocial costs and for tax reducon.

An organized and well-fundedcampaign helped secure the vote.Cuomo had provided guarantees ofexclusive gambling territory to Indiantribes that operate ve casinos underfederal law and other agreementsto sideline operators of video slotmachine centers at race tracks.

That sidelined the big money that wasexpected to counter supporters’ TV adblitz.

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Associated Press writer Jake Pearsonin New York City contributed to thisreport.

NY rolls into casino business after voter approval

STATE

The City of Syracuse Parks Departmentwill be decking out Burnet Park againthis holiday season for the annualFesval 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 warmingroom at Burnet Park and board thehorse-drawn wagons for rides throughthe decorated park hillside and upto the clubhouse, decorated as “TheNorth Pole,” where Santa awaits to

visit with the youngsters. Free holidaytreats.

Admission is free, and no reservaonsare required.

Not to be confused with the RosamondGiord Zoo at Burnet Park, BurnetPark’s entrance is on Coleridge Avenue

at Burnet Park Drive (between the 200and 300 blocks of Coleridge Avenue).

The event is presented with supportfrom Price Chopper.

For more informaon, please call theSyracuse Parks Dept. at 473-4330.

CITY OFFERS FREE HORSEDRAWN WAGONRIDES AT ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS EVENT

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The City of Syracusehas completed its search for the treewhich will be the featured as the

centerpiece of the 2013 Home for the

Holidays Celebraon and Tree LighngCeremony on Friday, November 29.The tree was transported by JPW

Riggers, who are donated their

services to the City of Syracuse, onMonday, November 4. This year’s treewas 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







By Delani Weaver

Two hundred and twenty candidateswere up for votes yesterday in the localgovernment elecons for OnondagaCounty. Aer months of campaigning,meengs, press conferences anddebates, voters gathered at the polls tochoose whom they believe will makethe best decisions for the county.

Several black candidates triumphedover their challengers, while somedidn’t fare as well.

The bale between Democrac

candidate Mary Anne Doherty, lawyerin the city law department, andRepublican candidate Romana Lavalas,prosecutor in the Onondaga CountyDistrict Aorney’s Oce came to anend when Doherty won the seat forCity Court Judge with 69 percent ofthe votes. Lavalas received 31 percent.

This makes the second loss for Lavalasas she ran for City Court Judge back in

2011.

Common Council President VanRobinson (D) had nothing to beconcerned about as he ran unopposed.Robinson has been a member of theCommon Council since 1999, and hasbeen the only black Common Councilpresident.

Robinson would have run againsthis controversial former campaignmanager, Gary Morris, however Morrisdropped out of the race in May andendorsed Robinson instead. Besidesthis year, Robinson ran unopposed in

2008 and 2010.

Democrat Derrick Dorsey, director ofthe InterFaith Works Community WideDialogue to End Racism, will be takingone of three seats that were up forgrabs on the Syracuse School Board,as he received 23 percent of the votes.He came in third to Patricia Body whoreceived 25 percent, and David Cecilewho received 30 percent.

The Syracuse City School District’sincredibly high suspension rates werestudied by a school district task forcein which Dorsey is co-chair.

Khalid Bey (D), 4th District CommonCouncilor, will retain his seat. Hereceived 60 percent of the votesover Green Party challenger HowieHawkins.

Bey, the owner of a publishing rm,has published two self-help books, waspreviously a hip-hop recording arstand Syracuse regional coordinator for

the state Senate.

County Legislature for the 16th DistrictMonica Williams (D) was re-elected toher seat by a landslide. She received 72percent of the votes over challengerMelody Holmes. Williams is a cerednurse who previously worked for theRosewood Heights Health Center andis a member of several commiees.

Williams’ 21-year-old son, DaquanWilliams, was fatally shot in the chestwhile riding with friends on Interstate690 in 2009. His murder was neversolved.

Linda Ervin (D), 17th District CountyLegislature, also took her seat withan overwhelming 82 percent of thevote over challenger Woodru L.Carroll. Ervin has had a good year asshe was elected as oor leader of theDemocrac Caucus in January.

Pamela Hunter, a democrat, beatincumbent and frequent cric of the

mayor Lance Denno to land one of twoat-large common council seats. Hunterserved nine months on the councilin 2011, and gained communitysupport for her role in redesigning theembaled Syracuse Cizen ReviewBoard. She said she promises to pursuepolicies that beer the quality of lifefor Syracuse residents.

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NATIONALWhite House Working to Curtail Food Stamp CutsBy Valerie Jarre and Cecilia Muñoz

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - On November1, millions of Americans felt the eectsof an automac cut to food purchasingassistance provided through the

Supplemental Nutrion AssistanceProgram (SNAP). This is assistance thatserves to help families get back ontheir feet, and children to receive thenourishment they need to stay healthyand compeve in the classroom.For many families, these cuts aredevastang, and couldn’t come ata worse me as they begin to regaintheir foong following the worstrecession since the Great Depression.

That is why President Obama hasproposed an extension of pre-November funding levels in the 2014budget. As the economy connues togrow and recover, SNAP is proven toeecvely combat hunger and food

insecurity while giving millions ofhardworking Americans the temporaryboost they need during tough mes.

In the wake of this cut, the strategy

currently underway in the House toremove millions more families fromSNAP makes even less sense. TheHouse’s current approach will stall oureconomic growth over the monthsand years ahead, while hampering

our ability to build a stronger, morerobust American workforce. That iswhy it is imperave that Congress passa long-term, comprehensive Farm Billthat supports a strong agriculturaleconomy, while ensuring healthy,aordable food for those who need it,when they need it.

The Obama Administraon iscommied to helping reduce thenumber of Americans who need SNAPthe right way—by arming them withthe skills they need to succeed in theworkforce and opportunies to earnthe income they need to support afamily.

Working to end hunger in Americashould be a major priority for allAmericans. Having boys and girlsgoing to bed hungry and strugglingto perform in the classroom is both

heartbreaking and completelyunacceptable. Stemming hunger ismore than the right thing to do, it isalso the smart thing for our economy,for business, and for ensuring thecompeveness of American workers.

Valerie Jarre is a Senior Advisor to

President Barack Obama. She overseesthe Oces of Public Engagement andIntergovernmental Aairs. CeciliaMuñoz is the Assistant to the Presidentand Director of the Domesc PolicyCouncil.

Cecilia MuñozValerie Jarre

NEW YORK (AP) -- A new naonalstudy esmates 779,000 New Yorkers

are eligible for tax credits thatwould reduce premium paymentsfor insurance coverage they can buythrough the state’s new insuranceexchange.

The Kaiser Family Foundaonanalysis shows 17 million people,

now uninsured or who buy insuranceindividually, will be eligible for creditswhen coverage starts in 2014.

They include 2 million in Texas, 1.9

million in California and 1.6 million inFlorida.

Under the federal Aordable Care Act,credits apply to those with incomes upto 400 percent of the federal povertylevel.

New York, with about 2.7 millionuninsured, projects enrolling 1.1

million through its state exchange. Theonline marketplace lists insurers andcoverage plans, allowing individualsand small businesses to shop andenroll.

Study says 779,000 in NY can get health insurance subsidy

Jacksons perform Gordy tribute at Ebony galaNEW YORK (AP) — Motown founderBerry Gordy recalls that when hesigned The Jackson 5, he sent them tolive in a house in California. The rowdykids ended up geng kicked out andhad to move in with him.

On Monday, at a tribute to Gordy atthe Ebony Power 100 gala in New YorkCity, Marlon Jackson thanked him for“leng us come to your house andtear it up,” as well as for pung themon the path to a Rock and Roll Hall of

Fame career. The Jacksons performedtheir hits for Gordy aer he received alifeme achievement award.

The event, hosted by Nick Cannon,honored blacks with considerablepower such as President BarackObama, Forest Whitaker, commentatorVan Jones, educator Henry Louis GatesJr. and Serena Will iams.

Shown Right Motown founder Berry Gordy

NY promotes sustainable tourism in online guideALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York state ispromong sustainable tourism.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a new onlineguide to sustainable travel in New YorkState will include bookable ineraries.The guide debung Wednesday takes

advantage of the trend of touriststrying to minimize their impact on the

environment and local culture.

The New York guide is being producedin partnership with responsibletravel.com. A secon of the tour operator’swebsite will feature eco-tourismacvies in every region of New York

state.

State ocials say the site will includethings like exploring Amish culture orbicycling along former Erie Canal tow-paths.

The site will give informaon on theculture, history and ecology of each

region.

A preview of the new guide is at: www.responsibletravel.com/holidays/new-york-state/travel-guide.




NATIONALNNPA Chairman Blasts NFL for ‘Almost a Slave Mentality’By Hazel Trice Edney

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - The chairman

of the Naonal Newspaper PublishersAssociaon, a federaon of more than200 Black-owned newspapers, says theWashington Redskins’ team - under refrom a Richmond, Va. publisher - is insync with the enre Naonal FootballLeague in its apparent oppressivetreatment of Black businesses andconsumers.

“It’s almost a slave mentality. Theyput us on the eld and we entertainthe master but we’re not reapingany benets from the business sideof it,” Campbell says. “It’s not justthe Redskins. If you look around thecountry, the NFL as a whole preymuch neglects Black businesses and

the Black community,” said Campbell,publisher of the Arizona InformantNewspaper.

He connued, “Here in Arizona, ourArizona Cardinals does zero with theBlack community. Every now and thenthey might show up for a token Blackevent. But, I don’t see our African-American newspaper here in Phoenix

or in Arizona being supported by theArizona Cardinals. I believe if you calledother newspapers that have [teams] in

their markets, I don’t believe they’redoing much for them either. I believethe NFL as a whole takes the Blackcommunity for granted although weare their major product on the eld.”

Campbell was responding to quesonspertaining to a conict between NNPAmember Ray Boone, editor/publisherof the award-winning RichmondFree Press, and the Richmond-basedWashington Redskins Training Camp,which is parally owned by BonSecours Health System.

In a leer to NAACP Chairman RoslynBrock and CC’d to Campbell, Boonestates that the team contracted no

business with Black-owned or locallyowned businesses at its rst Richmondtraining camp between July 25 andAugust 16. That includes the failureto adverse in the Black-ownedRichmond Free Press while adversingwith the White-owned conservavedaily, the Richmond Times Dispatchwhich has a history of pro-segregaonleadership. The conict is steeped in

an age-old bale constantly waged byBlack newspapers, which are historictargets for adversing discriminaon.

While Bon Secours placed paidadversements for the training campin the Times Dispatch, the Free Presswas sent press releases, Boone said inan interview.

Brock, who has served as NAACPchair since 2010, is vice president foradvocacy and government relaons forthe Bon Secours Health System, Inc., inMarriosville, Md. Boone believes hercorporate posion has caused her tocompromise her stance for economic jusce in the Richmond case.

“Bon Secours, along with MayorDwight C. Jones and the Washington

team, blatantly denied, contrary to theMayor’s pledge, black businesses andother local businesses the opportunityto receive vendor contracts insidethe training camp,” Boone wrote in aSept. 27 leer to Brock. “Characteriscof Richmond government and bigbusinesses, this Bon Secours decisiondisgracefully enhanced Richmond’sshameful reputaon as ‘The Capital ofPoverty,’ with 25 percent of Richmond’spopulaon suering in poverty.”

When Brock had not responded tohis leer for more than a month,Boone followed up with a Nov. 1email poinng out, “This raises theunavoidable queson of whether Bon

Secours is restricng you from livingup to your responsibility to honor theNAACP mission?”

He connued, “In the interest offairness and the image of the NAACP,I respecully suggest that you breakyour silence.”

Brock responded to Boone by emailthat same day, stang, “The maeryou reference in your leer is local innature and should be handled directlyby the Richmond Branch NAACP andSalim Khalfani at the Virginia StateConference NAACP. I have forwardedyour correspondence to them andshared the informaon with the

leadership of Bon Secours HealthSystem in Richmond.”

In an email, responding to a quesonfrom the Trice Edney News Wire thisweek, Brock said that she had notpublically commented on Boone’scomplaint because it is a local issue.

Brock’s email said she had “alsodiscussed the maer in detail with”Campbell, who is serving his secondterm as NNPA chairman. At a Sept. 17recepon in D.C., Campbell, Booneand other NNPA publishers praisedBrock for her leadership and gave heran award for social jusce.

While Campbell verbally blisteredthe NFL, including the Redskins, hebalanced his response by saying heagrees with Brock that the issuein Boone’s case is local since the

economic decisions appear to havebeen made by the mayor and BonSecours’ Richmond enes.

“At the end of the day, I think [thecricism of her] is unfair just becauseshe works for Bon Secours. That’s herday job. We all volunteer at someme with the NAACP,” Campbellsays, referring to Brock’s volunteerchairmanship. “While we want to seeMr. Boone and his publicaon getwhat it deserves and more so; that isdenitely a local issue.”

Boone, who recently announced hehas stopped using the term “Redskins”in the Richmond Free Press becauseit is “racist”, argues that the Redskins’and Bon Secours’ exclusion of Blackbusinesses underscores and illustrates

the team’s mentality under thecontroversial name, which is receivinggrowing naonal pressure for change.

In her email to the Trice Edney NewsWire, Brock also claried that theNAACP has long stood against theRedskins name because of its rootsin racism. “The NAACP passed aresoluon more than ten years agoagainst racial slurs being used asmascots. In the last few months theNAACP signed on leers with theOneida Tribe, based in Washington andthe Naonal Coalion on AmericanTribes especially in support of theireorts to change the Redskins name,”she wrote.

Neither Mayor Dwight C. Jones;nor Virginia NAACP President KingSalim Khalfani could be reached forcomment by deadline. Bon Secoursrepresentaves did not returnrepeated phone calls.

Meanwhile, Boone, a recipient of theState NAACP’s Oliver W. Hill FreedomFighter Award, remains focused on hisquest for economic jusce, promisingBrock “fairness and balance” inupcoming coverage of her leadershipposions with the NAACP and BonSecours.

Such economic bales have been

hard fought in Richmond and in Blackand grassroots communies acrossthe naon. Former Richmond CityCouncilman Chuck Richardson, knownfor his historic advocacy for Blackbusinesses and contractors, recallsresearching Washington Redskins’racism as far back as 1961. That’swhen he wrote a research paper in junior high school about the teamand how the Redskins was “the lastprofessional football team to allowBlacks to play for them,” he said in aninterview. “This harkens back to thatpainful me. It hurt then and I wouldhave thought that a greater degree ofchange might have occurred, but thementality sll exists. It seems so much

has changed and yet so much remainsthe same.”




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(TriceEdneyWire.com) - In1896, Lyrics of Lowly Life, acollecon of Paul Laurence

Dunbar’s poetry waspublished. Although his poemwas specically focused onAfrican American people,in this twenty-rst century,it is apropos to many. Herecognizes the pain many feelabout their inability to be“themselves” and if we fast-forward to today, he addressesthe masks they wear because

they want to hide from themselves.

The poem reads: “We wear the mask that grins andlies; That hides our cheeks and shades our eyes;This debt we pay to human guile; ?With torn andbleeding hearts we smile; And mouth with myriadsubtlees.

Why should the world be over-wise?; In counngall our tears and sighs? ? Nay, let them only see us,while; We wear the mask. We smile, but, O greatChrist, our cries; To thee from tortured souls arise. ?We sing, but oh the clay is vile; Beneath our feet, andlong the mile; ?But let the world dream otherwise.We wear the mask!”

Whenever I read this poem I am struck by itspoignancy. It recognizes the Black folks who tapdanced when they’d rather do ballet, who hidtheir true feelings to get ahead, who are perceivedas happy while “the clay is vile”. It doesn’t take ahistorian to evaluate the masks that people of

African descent have been forced to wear in theseUnited States. In the early tweneth century youcould be lynched for looking a white person in the

eye. No maer what your status, you were expectedto clear the sidewalk when a white person walkedby. You weren’t supposed to scowl or protest, justto wear the mask.

When Senator Barack Obama ran for President ofthe United States, few chose to acknowledge that hestood on the shoulders of the great civil rights leader,Rev. Jesse Jackson. Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada),now an Obama ally, had the condescending temerityto describe a Harvard-educated black man as “well-spoken”. Many of us who earned advanced degreesfrom our naons best instuons are stunned whenwe are described as “arculate”. Some of us chooseto wear the mask and silently absorb the nonsense.Others are plain spoken enough to pay the price ofstunted career advancement, or a reputaon forbeing “edgy”.

People wear masks daily, somemes to reveal whothey are, and somemes to hide their true identy.What does this imply, then, about the white peoplewho think that a blackface mask is appropriate. Toomany people, including the obscure and minimallytalented actress Julianne Hough decided to donblackface for a Halloween party, excusing herselfby claiming she was simply going as a character inthe show Orange is the New Black. When cricizedshe said she was “sorry”, but she should have saidshe was ignorantly sorry, because her historicalknowledge is most decient. Did she go to anybody’sschool? Like Hough, those who think that blackfaceis funny, ignore the demeaning history of blackface

caricatures. If these people are wearing a mask, itis a mask that allowed them to hide their racismunl they had an excuse to let it show. Then their

response is that “it is all in good fun, we meant noharm”, or “ I never meant to oend”. That’s themask of arrogance. The mask of “I’m white, I’mgoing to do whatever I choose to do”, a mask thatallows them to ignore common decency.

In 2011, Ohio University started a campaign thatsuggested that student be mindful of the Halloweencostumes they chose. The “we’re a culture not acostume” has spread to several universies, butapparently it has not spread widely enough.

Two white men in Florida declared “anything fora laugh” when one, with a “Stand Your Ground”t-shirt (posing as George Zimmerman) seems to beshoong his black faced, hoodie clad white friendwho is supposed to be Trayvon Marn. Why is thisappropriate or amusing? The arrogance of white

people suggests that they can make a joke, andsuggests that all people of color are their jokes. Themassacre of a young black man, for them, is nottragedy but an occasion for mockery.

“We wear the mask that grins and lies, that hides ourcheeks and shades our eyes”. For some, masks areconcealing, for others revealing. Those who chooseto mute their reacon to a racist world are adapng.Those who think that blackface is appropriateare aacking. It is tragic that at Halloween, a dayconceived for children to have fun, has become anoccasion for masks that aack, and for those whomake excuses for them.

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Racialinequity has wreaked atremendous economic toll onthe United States to the tuneof trillions of dollars, a newlyreleased report found.

“The Business Case for RacialEquity” weaved togetherresearch from severalorganizaons, includingthe Center for AmericanProgress, Naonal UrbanLeague Policy Instute, Joint

Center for Polical and Economic Studies and theU.S. Department of Jusce. The threads becamea tapestry that depicted how race and classdiscriminaon, residenal segregaon and lopsidedincome levels represent lost opportunies forminories; and incurs great costs to the country—including the burden of incarceraon.

“Racism in the U.S. has le a legacy of inequiesin health, educaon, housing, employment,income, wealth, and other areas that impactachievement and quality of life,” the report stated.“When people face barriers to achieving their fullpotenal, the loss of talent, creavity, energy,and producvity is a burden not only for thosedisadvantaged, but for communies, businesses,

governments, and the economy as a whole.”

In terms of income, people of color are currentlyearning 30 percent less than Whites, aeradjustments for age and sex, according to thereport. If that gap were closed, higher producvitywould increase total U.S. earnings by 12 percentor nearly $1 trillion and gross domesc product,or GDP, would increase by $1.9 trillion. That wouldtranslate into $180 billion in addional corporateprots, $290 billion in addional federal taxrevenues, and a potenal reducon in the federaldecit of $350 billion.

As the percentage of minories in the labor forceincreases over me, those gains would increaseexponenally, the report concluded.

Similarly, the Naonal Urban League Policy Instutefound that dierenals in health cost the U.S.an esmated $60 billion in excess medical costsand $22 billion in lost producvity in 2009. Theyprojected that the burden will to rise to $126 bill ionin 2020 and $363 billion by 2050 if these healthdisparies remain. Premature deaths further costthe economy $250 billion in 2009.

Inequies in educaon were also expensive. Inone example, if the educaonal achievementgap between Hispanic and African American and

White students in the U.S. were closed in 2008, thenaon’s GDP would have seen a boost of between$310 billion to $525 billion, a McKinsey & Co.analysis determined.

The resonance of these ndings and the importanceof achieving racial equity will gain even moreimportance as ancipated demographic changesbegin to materialize. The U.S. Census Bureau hasprojected that children will be “majority minority”by 2018. And, overall, people of color will accountfor more than half of the U.S. populaon by 2043.

The report was created by the Altarum Instuteand the W.K. Kellogg Foundaon and fundedthrough the laer’s America Healing eort, whichwas launched in 2010 to support programs thatpromote racial healing and address racial inequity.

“Our hope is to bring another lens to the urgencyof addressing disparies that are not only pungvulnerable children at a disadvantage, but are alsocosng our naon a great deal,” said Ani Turner,deputy director of the Center for Sustainable HealthSpending at Altarum Instute. “When dispariesin health alone are cosng the U.S. $82 bill ion peryear in excess medical costs and lost producvity,the message is clear: our future depends on racialequity.”

JULIANNE MALVEAUX

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(TriceEdneyWire.com) - OurC o n s t i t u t i o noutlines theF o u n d e r s ’vision for thestructure of ourg o v e r n m e n t .At the me itwas wrien, ourC o n s t i t u t i o ng u a r a n t e e dliberes forindividuals thatwere not to be

abridged. It provided for a LegislaveBranch responsible for passing lawsto benet all. The Execuve Branch

was structured to execute laws passedby the Legislave Branch in a fair andequitable manner. The Judicial Branchis to interpret the constuonalityof laws and assure their equitableapplicaon.

Throughout history, there’ve beenquesonable acons by each branchthat demonstrate deviaon fromthe leer of the law. When personalfreedom was touted as foundaonalprinciple and the country endorsedthe instuon of slavery to the recentrecognion of full rights of cizenshipfor LGBT communies, our naon hasbeen in a transformave evoluon oflaws and culture.

Once, the Judicial Branch was thebranch of government Black peoplerelied on for protecon of our rights.

Mostly, this branch, specically theSupreme Court, has been a responsiblepartner in securing and direcngthe applicaon of laws in a mannerthat would guarantee full rights ofcizenship to us. We’ve dependedon the selecon and judgment ofConstuonal scholars who hada realisc perspecve on real-lifeapplicaon of laws and their impacton real people. We’ve dependedon Jusces who could issue rulingsnot colored by their own biases, butwere based on the most realiscinterpretaon of law. This control ofpersonal bias was demonstrated inthe much heralded Brown v Board ofEducaon ruling issued, despite the

presence of known racist Jusces, witha unanimous verdict.

Our latest crops of Supreme CourtJusces (The Roberts’ Court) haveissued rulings that seem to indicatea shi in perspecve. The CizensUnited ruling indicates a regressiveshi in philosophy to the principlesof the Taney Court which issued thedreaded Dred Sco decision.

There’s debate as to which among thecurrent crop of Jusces is the greatestenemy of civil rights. Some wouldsay the smooth indierence of theChief Jusce to the more reaconaryof his colleagues would tag him with

that label. Others would say SamuelAlito’s reserved acerbic manner wouldgive him the tle. Others would givethe nod to Clarence Thomas. Aer

all, the height of arrogant indierenceis to deny others the opportunity toreceive the same benets that led toone’s own success. Although each ofthese Jusces merits consideraonas the greatest enemy of civil rights,I would award it to Jusce AntoninScalia. Scalia’s public uerances are asoensive as his ocial decisions andgive clear indicaon to his bias andracial animus.

Recently, Scalia demonstrated thedepth of his contempt for Blacks whenhe described the protecons of theVong Rights Act as “the perpetuaonof racial entlement.” This is amongthe greatest insults he could direct to

us. He says instead of a guaranteedright of cizenship, the right of Blacksto vote is an undeserved privilegedgranted by the benevolence of somelong ago wrien law. There’s no othergroup that would allow an inherentright of cizenship to be denigrated bylikening it to a perk, nor do I suspectScalia would classify his own vongright as a racial entlement grantedbecause of the historical tradion ofprivileged whites. As a child of Italian

immigrants, it would seem Scaliawould have greater empathy for thechallenges of cizenship faced by “out”groups and that he’d acknowledge thedierence between a right and anentlement.

Recently, Scalia stated that the 14thAmendment doesn’t protect “onlythe blacks.” Students of history willcounter his posion with the correctargument that the Amendment wasraed to do just that. It armedcizenship and established vongrights for former slaves.

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Dr. E. Faye Williams is Chair ofthe Naonal Congress of BlackWomen. 202/678-6788. www.naonalcongressbw.org

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