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VOL 3. NO. 43 nov 29 - dec 5, 2012
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Carter-Williams
setting the pace
for Syracuse
PAGE 4
Cooperative FCU
Celebrates
Expansion in
Underserved
Neighborhood
PAGE 5
Holiday Train
making stops in
upstate NY this
week
PAGE 6
New Face oF america
NY police probe
shredded
documents
found at parade
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cover Pg 7
- New Face of America -
Democratic Shift Changing
Electorate
caLendar Pg 2

LocaL Pgs 3-5
- Keynote speaker at 100 Black
Men Event to address mentoring
- NY man to get grand jury
hearing in YMCA stabbing
- Holiday Angel sending out
emergency appeal
- Carter-Williams setting the
pace for Syracuse
-Cooperative FCU celebrates
expansion in underserved
neighborhood
state Pg 5 - 6
- Schumer: Feds to work on
Niagra Falls, NY crime
- NY police probe shredded
documents found at parade
- Fla. man sues ex-elmo
puppeteer, claims NY abuse
- Holiday train making stops in
Upstate NY this week
- FEMA approves more than
$664M for Sandy victims
nationaL Pg 8
- Blacks must become number
one employer of blacks
coLuMns: Pgs 10- 11
- Dr. Boyce: Al Sharpton, Ben
Jealous should no longer be
invited to the white house
By Dr. Boyce Watkins
- Its really slavery!

By Dr. E. Faye Williams
- Susan Rice deserves better
than racist and sexist republican
attacks

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Without a Vision The People Perish
Syracuse, NY VOL 3. NO. 43 nov 29 - dec 5, 2012
vision
cny
Carter-Williams
setting the pace
for Syracuse
PAGE 4
Cooperative FCU
Celebrates
Expansion in
Underserved
Neighborhood
PAGE 5
Holiday Train
making stops in
upstate NY this
week
PAGE 6
New Face oF america
NY police probe
shredded
documents
found at parade
PAGE 6
caLendar
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The 25th Anniversary of a Bold Vision,
1987 - 2012
Downtown
Onondaga Historical Associaton Museum
321 Montgomery St.
free admission; donatons appreciated
Telephone:315-428
Email:Karen.Cooney@cnyhistory.org
1
Childrens Gingerbread House Workshops
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Boulevard East Syracuse
1:00 pm 4:00 pm
$8/child for members $10/child for non-
member
Pre-registraton is required by calling
Steve at 315.471.0593 x10.
1,8,15
Holiday Tea/Entertainment at the
Jeferson Clinton Hotel
Time: 12:00 pm 3:00 pm
Locaton: Jeferson Clinton Hotel 416 S.
Clinton St.
free Event. Info: 315-428-9205 S. erving
hot beverages, holiday pastries and
special entertainment. Horse-drawn
Trolley Rides
2
Breakfast with Santa
Time: 10am 12:30pm
Locaton: Pensabenes Casa Grande
Restaurant, 135 State Fair Blvd
Enjoy a free breakfast with Santa and
Mrs. Claus with plenty of food and fun
for the family. Two seatngs are available
- 10 to 11:30 a.m. or 12:30 to 2 p.m.,
and each seatng will accomadate 250
people. Reservatons are required; please
call (315) 473-4330 ext.3007 or e-mail
bfarmer@ci.syracuse.ny.us. Sponsored, in
part, by Price Chopper, Byrne Dairy and
DOT Foods.
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Youth Sports Coach Certfcaton Course
Time: 6pm 9pm
Locaton: Magnarelli Community Center
(McChesney Park
Syracuse Parks will be ofering a
youth sports coaching educaton and
certfcaton course put on by the SUNY
Youth Sports Insttute on Tuesday, Dec.
4th in the Magnarelli Community Center
at McChesney Park. The 3-hour program
will cover all the essental components
of making youth sports coaching more
enjoyable and more manageable and
conclude with a certfcaton exam. The
SUNY Youth Sports Insttutes coaching
credental is valid for 2 years! To register
call 877-828-8811 or go to htp://
registraton.youthsportsny.org/en/
cev/786. The cost for the certfcaton
course is $25 per coach
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Festval of Lights
Time: 6pm 8:30pm
Locaton: Burnet Park (the old Ice Rink) -
Coleridge Ave Entrance
Take a horse-drawn wagon ride through
the decorated hillside of Burnet Park and
visit Santa at The North Pole, in the
parks clubhouse. The rides begin at 6:00
p.m., and the last wagon leaves at 8:30
p.m. Free admission. Sponsored, in part,
by Price Chopper and the Freihofer Baking
Company.
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Holiday Festval of Trees
Time:10:00 am 5:00 pm
Locaton: Everson Museum - 401 Harrison
St.
Cost: $8 online presale, $10 at the door.
Info: 315-474-6064.
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Food Bank of Central New York
[Warehouse]
Saturday 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Art Mart 2012
11am-4pm 11am-6pm
Downtown
Atrium at City Hall Commons
201 E. Washington St.
Cost:Free admission
Telephone 315-243-6359 or 637-6562
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Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Time:11:00 am 4:00 pm
Locaton: Onondaga Historical Associaton
Museum - 321 Montgomery St.
Posters are just one of many message-
oriented resources Syracuse Cultural
Workers designs, produces and distributes
throughout North America, aimed at
advancing social justce, sustainability and
peace. Syracuse Cultural Workers mission
and 30th Anniversary exhibit complement
OHAs, Power of the People. This
permanent collecton salutes notable
actvists and their social/politcal impact
on Central New York history, including the
abolitonists, Women Sufrage Movement,
the Underground Railroad, and the Natve
Americans. Info: 315-428-1864 X312.
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First Night of Funny
Time: 10:00 pm
Locaton: Mulroy Civic Center at Oncenter
800 S. State St.
Cost: $20 in advance. Info: 315-435-2121
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) The indictment
against a 50-year-old man accused
of nearly killing a fellow resident at
central New York YMCA has been
dismissed because he didn't get a
chance to testfy before a grand jury.
A judge made the decision Monday in
the case of English Rogers.
He'd been indicted on charges of
frst- and second-degree assault and
weapon possession for the stabbing
of 41-year-old Mathew Jefski at the
Syracuse YMCA in October.
Jefski was stabbed in the neck in his
room.
Rogers' lawyer argued that his client
wanted to testfy at the grand jury,
while prosecutors said they didn't
learn of that untl it was too late.
A new grand jury is expected to hear
the case. Rogers remains in jail on
$500,000 bail.
NY man to get grand jury hearing in YMCA stabbing
Holiday Angel Sending Out Emergency Appeal
AIDS Community Resources (ACR)
representatves say the organizaton
has been overwhelmed with requests
for assistance from families for help.
The organizaton is sending out an
emergency appeal for 26 additonal
Holiday Angels to help fll in the gap.
The long-standing Holiday Angel
Program pairs members of the
community with a designated ACR
client and their family. The Angels
are supplied with a clients frst name,
and a list of needs rather than the
typical Christmas wish list.
The number of people who have
volunteered as Holiday Angels is down
somewhat from previous years,
ACR Development Director Carrie
Portzline-Large said Poverty is a
constant companion for some of our
clients and their families, who struggle
fnancially year-round. They ofen
lack health insurance, a decent place
to live, or money for medicatons.
They have nothing lef for something
special at holiday tme.
Partcipatng Angels can buy as
many or as few of the items on the
clients wish list. Partzline-Large says
many community groups, churches, or
extended families pool their resources
every year to sponsor an ACR client
and members of their family. Several
hundred people rely on ACR Holiday
Angels for whatever holiday gifs come
their way, she said.
ACR serves Cayuga, Herkimer,
Jeferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida,
Onondaga, Oswego, and St. Lawrence
countes in New York State. Holiday
Angels are needed across our nine-
county service area.
For more informaton about Holiday
Angels call 800.475.2430, or email
events@AIDSCommunityResources.
com and thank you.
Keynote Speaker at 100 Black
Men Event to Address Mentoring
By J.B. McCampbell
Vernon G. Baker II is a member of a
small but powerful club he would like
to see grow much larger in numbers
and infuence. As senior vice president
and general counsel for Meritor Inc.,
a Fortune 500 company based in
Troy, Michigan, Baker is on the short
list of African-American men at or
near the top of the senior executves
leading a major U.S. corporaton.
When he comes to Syracuse Dec. 7,
2012 to serve as keynote speaker at
the 100 Black Men of Syracuse Fifh
Anniversary Celebraton Banquet, he
says hell use his life story as a lesson
for minority entrepreneurs and future
business leaders in Central New York.
The banquet, featuring the theme
Our Past, Now Our Future begins at
6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Conventon
Center, 441 Electronics Parkway in
Liverpool. Proceeds from the event
will be used to help support 100 Black
Men of Syracuses youth programs and
other community service actvites.
Baker, like members of 100 Black Men,
mentors, helping groom and sponsor
other men and women for higher-
level management in the legal feld.
Hes well qualifed to do so. Earlier this
year, Baker received the D. Augustus
Straker Trailblazer Award. In 2008,
he was named a Leader in the Law
by Michigan Lawyers Weekly and
Midwest In-House for his professional
accomplishments at Meritor, as well as
within the legal community. Previously,
he was honored with the Minority
Corporate Counsel Associatons
Trailblazer Award, which recognizes
the outstanding achievements of
minority in-house counsel who also
stand as role models in the legal
profession
Organizatons like 100 Black Men of
Syracuse that direct their eforts at
serving underserved youth can play
an important role for the business
and legal communites, said Baker,
who earned a law degree at American
University and bachelors degree in
history at Dartmouth College. By
providing guidance through mentoring
and expanding a diversifed pool of
college students that become future
employees and business leaders, we
all beneft. They deserve my support
and yours.
For more informaton visit
www.100blackmensyr.org
Vernon Baker
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LOCAL
Carter-Williams setng the pace for Syracuse
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Afer sitng for
much of the tail end of his freshman
year and watching exclusively from the
bench during the NCAA tournament
last spring, Syracuse guard Michael
Carter-Williams is of to a stellar start
as a sophomore.
Afer four games, Carter-Williams
leads the naton at 9.3 assists per
game and is ted for second in steals.
He is clearly the catalyst for the high-
powered Orange.
I just try to pick apart the defense,
he said. Ive worked very hard at it,
creatng angles for my teammates
to get open. Im just getng
communicaton with my teammates,
getng more comfortable each and
every day.
That comfort level sure made
Colgate coach Mat Langel a bit more
uncomfortable than usual on Sunday.
A week afer recording 11 assists in a
win over Wagner, Carter-Williams had
a career-high 13 against the Raiders.
Langel was not the least bit surprised.
The 6-foot-6 Carter-Williams was a
recruitng target when Langel was an
assistant at Temple.
Hes a hard worker, said Langel, in
his second season with the Raiders.
His size at the point guard positon
is something that you dont fnd a
lot in college basketball. I think hes
stll improving and his potental is
probably untapped stll at this point.
Hes understanding his role on this
team to be a facilitator, and when he
gets penetraton to be able to see over
the defense and fnd his big guys and
fnd his shooters, with the minutes
hes getng I think hes startng to
learn what he can do to really help this
team.
Carter-Williams has 37 assists with 11
turnovers, 16 steals, and is averaging
10.3 points and 5.5 rebounds.
Syracuse (4-0) plays next at Arkansas
(3-2) on Friday in the SEC/Big East
Challenge, and so far, this Orange team
is diferent from last years model,
when Dion Waiters, Brandon Triche
and Scoop Jardine shared most of the
load at guard. Though adept passers,
they looked to score and did, fnishing
second, third, and fourth on the team
behind Kris Joseph.
Mike is really good with his eye.
Coach says in practce, `Expect the
ball any tme because any tme youre
open, hes going to throw you the
ball. Sometmes, you dont expect it,
center Baye Moussa Keita said. Thats
diferent this year.
In the frst four games, Carter-Williams
has taken 36 shots - one fewer than
his assist total. He is behind Triche (46)
and James Southerland (38), and has
one more than C.J. Fair.
Hes getng beter, coach Jim
Boeheim said of Carter-Williams. He
stll has a lot of work to do, but hes
playing well. Hes getng the ball in the
right places.
Carter-Williams has vowed to be
more aggressive scoring if my team
needs me.
Whats not diferent on this team is
the performance of the frst player of
the bench. Southerland has taken up
where Waiters lef of, averaging 15.3
points to te Triche for the team lead.
Waiters averaged 12.6 points in 2011-
12 despite not startng one game to
earn Big East Sixth Man honors. He
was also the fourth pick of the NBA
draf.
Syracuse will face an Arkansas team
that thrives on pressure defense, and
Carter-Williams will atract more than
his share of atenton. Triche says hes
ready for the challenge of handling the
ball more, even though hes struggled
with 13 turnovers and only 12 assists
in the frst four games.
Theyre very tough playing at home,
Triche said. Theyre a transiton team
and theyre going to press us the
whole game, but I think were ready
for it. Weve got guys that can handle
pressure.
These guys - one or two guys,
sometmes three - are going to come
at you at once. Youre going to have to
make diferent types of passes. I think
were going to be able to beat the
pressure.
Syracuse lost two of its best outside
shooters in Waiters and Jardine,
and has struggled so far as redshirt
freshman Trevor Cooney has misfred
from long range. The Orange are 17 of
64 (26.6 percent) from beyond the arc,
with Cooney shootng a miserable 2 of
15 (13.3 percent). Against Colgate, he
missed all seven tries.
But its early, and the coach has seen
this all before, of course. The soluton
is simple.
Hes a shooter, Boeheim said.
Youve just got to keep shootng.
Carter -Williams
Protests greet shoppers at Wal-Marts natonwide
About a dozen protesters stood in
front of the East Syracuse Wal-Mart
store to urge the retail giant to share
its wealth.
The group, which included
representatves from the Workers
Center of Central New York and the
Peace Council, held signs proclaiming
support for striking Wal-Mart workers,
chanted Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart youre
no good. Treat your workers like you
should, and sang a modifed version
of This Land is Your Land.
The demonstraton was part of a larger
naton-wide protest Thursday and
Friday, blastng the wages, benefts
and treatment of employees at the
worlds largest retailer.
The eforts seemed to do litle to keep
shoppers away though Wal-Mart
Stores Inc. said it was its best Black
Friday ever.
In Paramount, Calif., authorites
arrested nine people, including three
Wal-Mart employees, for blocking
a busy street outside a store there.
Sherifs Capt. Mike Parker said
they were cited and released on
misdemeanor charges.
At its height, authorites said, the
Paramount protest drew about 1,000
people.
A lot more people showed up than I
antcipated, but that just shows you
the kind of support we have, said
Wal-Mart employee Carlton Smith,
who added he was one of 19 store
employees taking part. We have a
common interest in making this great
company beter.
Several hundred demonstrators
marched into the street shortly before
noon, Parker said, but almost all
followed deputes orders to return to
the sidewalk. He said the nine taken
into custody told deputes beforehand
they planned to be arrested and didnt
ofer any resistance.
In Lakewood, Colo., shoppers hesitated
as they passed dozens of protesters
outside a Wal-Mart but entered
without incident. Some protesters
held signs playing of of the retailing
giants corporate slogan, Live beter,
accusing the company of corporate
greed and underpaying its workers.
This is the way you get a fair shake.
Youve got to fght for it. Youve always
had to, said protester Charlie May, of
the Industrial Workers of the World
labor organizaton.
A union-backed group called OUR
Walmart has said that it is holding an
estmated 1,000 protests in 46 states.
The exact number is unclear. Wal-Mart
has refuted that estmate, saying the
fgure is grossly exaggerated and that
the protests involved few of its own
employees.
A number of demonstratons and walk-
outs occurred last week at stores but
were scheduled to culminate on one
of the years busiest shopping days.
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STATE
LOCAL
Cooperatve FCU Celebrates
Expansion in Underserved Neighborhood
The Cooperatve Federal Credit Union
(CFCU) ofce on South Avenue has a
new look.
Wednesday, CFCU celebrated a grand
re-opening and expansion of their
Southwest Ofce located inside the
Southwest Community Center.
The renovaton, which includes a
newly constructed additon, increases
the credit unions space from 250
square feet to over 1000 square feet
with a separate entrance from South
Avenue and a larger lobby.
This long-awaited expansion allows
us to expand the services we ofer to
a neighborhood that has been largely
abandoned by mainstream banks,
said Meagan Weatherby, Program
Sustainability & Outreach Coordinator
for CFCU. Since 2003, we have
deployed over $7.3 million in the form
of loans and mortgages to community
residents and businesses.
CFCU frst opened an ofce in the
Southwest Community Center in
2002, afer local organizers sought the
Credit Unions assistance to combat
poverty and economic distress in the
neighborhood.
Their services, available in English
and Spanish, include personal and
business loans and accounts, fnancial
educaton and HUD-approved Housing
Counseling.
CFCU representatves say the ofce
expansion included funding from
Senator David J. Valesky, the Syracuse
Department of Neighborhood &
Business Development, the Syracuse
Model Neighborhood Facility, and the
Midland Lincoln Bellevue Community
Initatves Working Group.
Grand Opening Recepton
Walt Dixie
Louise Poindexter Christna Suave
SWCC Tracy Corriders
Commisioner Paul Driscoll, Rich Puchalski
Schumer: Feds to work on Niagara Falls, NY, crime
ALBANY, N.Y. U.S. Sen. Charles
Schumer says Niagara Falls will be one
of eight cites natonwide to get help
from a federal team to combat crime.
The federal crime-fghtng task force
will help local police analyze their local
crime and then use new techniques
and resources to atack it.
Although some of the most violent
crimes involving shootngs, robberies
and rapes have dropped or held at the
level of last year, thefs and assaults
are rising and spike during tourist
season in the city that is home to the
storied Falls.
The state Division of Criminal Justce
Services reports more than 3,500
crimes in the city last year. More than
80 percent involved property damage
and thef, rather than injury to people.
Paul Driscoll
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STATE
Fla. man sues ex-Elmo puppeteer, claims NY abuse
NEW YORK (AP) A Florida man has
sued the ex-Elmo puppeteer who
resigned amid a sex scandal, saying
the voice actor met him in New York
afer trolling gay telephone chat lines
seeking underage boys for sex.
The lawsuit seeking unspecifed
damages was fled in Manhatan
federal court Tuesday by a man who
remains anonymous.
The man says he met Kevin Clash
on a chat line when he was 16 years
old in 2000 and exploring modeling
opportunites in New York.
The lawsuit says Clash had numerous
Elmo dolls in his apartment when he
met the teen for sex. The man, now
29, is the third to make claims against
Clash, who resigned from Sesame
Street last week afer 28 years.
A message lef with a Clash
spokeswoman was not immediately
returned.
Holiday Train making stops in upstate NY this week
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. Canadian
Pacifcs Holiday Train is gearing up for
its appearance in eastern New York
as part of its annual cross-contnent
trip, collectng donatons for local
food pantries while providing live
entertainment at each stop.
The train decorated with hundreds of
thousands of lights starts its journey
in Quebec on Tuesday and makes
its frst U.S. stop the next evening at
the Steamtown Railroad Museum
in Scranton, Pa. The train then
heads north to Binghamton for an
appearance at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Stops are scheduled for Thursday
in Oneonta, Cobleskill, Delanson,
Schenectady and Saratoga Springs.
Fridays stops include Fort Edward,
Whitehall, Ticonderoga, Port Henry,
Platsburgh and Rouses Point.
Entertainers on the U.S. train include
The Claytones and Canadian Country
Music Hall of Famer Tracey Brown.
FEMA approves more than $664M for NY Sandy victms
NEW YORK (AP) More than $664
million in federal aid has been
approved for New Yorks victms of
Superstorm Sandy by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency.
FEMA said Sunday that more than
230,000 New Yorkers have requested
assistance since the storm hit. The
hardest hit areas of the state include
Nassau County, which has received
about $224 million. Queens County,
which includes the hard-hit Rockaways,
has received $170 million.
Richmond County, the home of
batered Staten Island, has received
about $70 million.
Ofcials have conducted more than
131,000 home inspectons. FEMA
says workers are going door-to-
door explaining the types of disaster
assistance available and how to
register.
NY police probe shredded documents found at parade
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- Suburban
authorites are investgatng how
shredded police documents got tossed
as confet to spectators at last weeks
Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York
City.
Manhatan atorney Saul Finkelstein
says he and his college-age son, Ethan,
notced that some of the confet
included Social Security and license
plate numbers. Some informaton
appeared to have come from the
Nassau County Police Department on
New Yorks Long Island.
Finkelstein says he saw massive
amounts of the confet at 65th Street
and Central Park West. He and his son
only took about 30 pieces home with
them. Detectves from Long Island
picked up the material Sunday.
A department spokesman said Monday
that an investgaton is under way. It
will include a review of procedures for
disposing of sensitve documents.
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By Hazel Trice Edney
Its not just the economy, stupid. Its the
demographics the changing face of America.
The 2012 electons drove home trends that have
been embedded in the fne print of birth and death
rates, immigratonstatstcs and census charts for
years. America is rapidly getng more diverse, and,
more gradually, so is its electorate.
People of color made up 28 percent of the electorate
this year, compared with 20 percent in 2000. The
trend has worked to the advantage of President
Obama for two electons in a row now, and is not lost
on Republicans poring over the details of the Nov. 6
results.
Virginia is a prime example of the impact of
diversity and demographics on the electon
outcome. President Obama once again won Virginia
based on strong support from communites of
color. In majority-black cites like Richmond and
Petersburg, the president racked up huge margins. In
Richmond, the president won by a nearly 4-1 margin
and in Petersburg by an 8-1 margin over Republican
Mit Romney.
But President Obama also won in Virginias
suburban countes like Henrico and Fairfax, where
the populatons of people of color have surged
in the past two decades. The vote results strongly
suggest that the president would have had no shot
in Virginia without strong backing from populatons
of nonwhite voters.
According to exit polls in Virginia, where the
populaton is stll 70 percent White, only 37 percent
of White voters supported President Obama. He
overcame that disadvantage by capturing 94 percent
of the Black vote, 64 percent of the Latno vote and
66 percent of the Asian-American vote, the polls
indicate.
Black voters were defnitely a key to the Obama
victory in Virginia. The exit polls indicate that this
group of Virginia voters came out in even larger
numbers than in 2008 when the President became
the frst Democratc presidental candidate to win
the state in 44 years.
Natonally, President Obama captured a commanding
80 percent of the growing ranks of nonwhite voters
in 2012, just as he did in 2008. Mr. Romney couldnt
win even though he dominated among White men
and outperformed 2008 nominee John McCain
with that group. Its an ever-shrinking slice of the
electorate and of America writ large. White men
made up 34 percent of the electorate this year, down
from 46 percent in 1972.
The new electorate is a lagging indicator of the
next America, says Paul Taylor of the Pew Research
Center. We are midpassage in a century-long
journey from the middle of the last century, when
we were nearly a 90 percent white naton, to the
middle of this coming century, when we will be a
majority minority naton.
Another trend that will be shaping the future
electorate is the stronger infuence of single women.
They vote diferently from men and from women
who are married. Fify-four percent of single women
call themselves Democrats; 36 percent of married
women do.
With women marrying later and divorcing more,
single women made up 23 percent of voters in the
2012 electon, compared with 19 percent in 2000.
The changing electorate has huge implicatons for
public policy and politcs.
Howard University sociologist Roderick Harrison,
former chief of racial statstcs at the Census
Bureau, said Obamas campaign strategists proved
themselves to be excellent demographers.
They have put together a coaliton of populatons
that will eventually become the majority or are
marching toward majority status in the populaton,
and populatons without whom it will be very
difcult to win natonal electons and some statewide
electons, partcularly in states with large Black and
Hispanic populatons, Harrison said.
In the past year, minority babies outnumbered
White newborns for the frst tme in
U.S. history. By midcentury, Hispanics, African-
Americans, Asians and multracial people combined
will become the majority of the U.S.
Since 2000, the Hispanic and Asian populatons
have grown by more than 40 percent, fueled by the
increased immigraton of younger people as well as
more births.
Currently, Hispanics are the largest minority group
and make up 17 percent of the U.S. populaton,
compared with 12 percent for Black people and
5 percent for Asians. Together minorites now
make up more than 36 percent of the populaton.
Hispanics will make up roughly 30 percent of the U.S.
by mid-century, while the African-American share is
expected to remain unchanged at 12 percent. Asian-
Americans will grow to roughly 8 percent of the U.S.
The minorites will vote, said demographer Frey.
The queston is will their vote be split more across
the two partes than it was this tme?
For both Republicans and Democrats, he said, the
2012 electon is a wake-up call that will echo through
the decades.
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NATIONAL
By Hazel Trice Edney
(TriceEdneyWire.com) There are
more than 9,000 Black public ofcials
in America, yet African-Americans
remain at the rock botom of every
negatve statstc in crime, health,
economics and educaton.
This is the reason that one lecturer and
award-winning author says the Black
community must pay equal atenton
to business ownership, economic
development and wealth as it does to
politcal empowerment.
Your wealth will determine where
you live, where you live will determine
where your children go to school,
where your children go to school will
determine the quality of your childrens
higher educaton; and the quality
of your childrens higher educaton
will determine your childrens life-
long earnings, George Fraser told
a group at last weeks State of the
Black World Conference at Howard
University. And your childrens life-
long earnings will determine where
your grandchildren live and where
your grandchildren live will determine
where your grandchildren will go to
school and where your grandchildren
go to school will determine the quality
of their higher educaton and their life-
long earnings. Do you understand the
cycle of poverty here?
Fraser, president/CEO of FraserNet,
Inc. a 20-year-old frm that specializes
in Black economic growth, has writen
multple books on economic wealth
and unity; including, Success Runs
in Our Race; The Complete Guide to
Efectve Networking in the African
American Community; Race for
Success; The Ten Best Business
Opportunites for Blacks in America,
and Click: Ten Truths to Building
Extraordinary Relatonships.
The spellbound actvists, professionals
and students in the audience were
atending the third day of the
conference, sponsored by the New
York-based Insttute of the Black
World 21st Century. IBW President
Ron Daniels described the conference
as the frst great gathering of
African-Americans post-electon. The
theme was State of Emergency in
Black America Time to Heal Black
Families and Communites. The third
conference of its kind held afer the
last three presidental electons, the
goals was to establish a Black agenda
regardless of who was elected.
In the Saturday session on economics,
Fraser pinpointed what he says is the
number one issue that Blacks should
be dealing with Black wealth.
We are not poor. Were just broke,
he told the audience, some of whom
shouted Speak! Tell the Truth! and
other words of agreement. Some even
moaned, rocked and shook their heads
as he spoke. We have a $900 billion
annual economy. If we were a naton,
wed be the fourteenth richest naton
in the world.
Fraser said with the intellectual
capital in the Black community, there
is no reason that African-Americans
should be as economically desttute
as they are. According to the U. S.
Census Bureau, 25 percent of African-
Americans live below the poverty level
and fewer than 5 percent of small
businesses are owned by Black people.
Yet, Fraser estmated that Blacks have
multplied W.E.B DuBois dream of the
talented tenth more than 70 tmes
when countng the number of African-
Americans with college degrees.
Fraser was one of dozens of speakers
during the conference that drew more
than 300 people. Other high profled
names included Susan Taylor, Julianne
Malveaux, Elsie Scot, Melanie
Campbell, George Curry, Hilary
Shelton, and Jef Johnson.
Frasers econonics message comes
as African-Americans are hoping
that President Barack Obama will do
something special to deal with the
Black jobless rate, which remains in
double digits even as the natonal
average has dipped below 8 percent.
Fraser says it is unfair to put pressure
sole on politcians and challenged
the audience to take a lesson from
communites of Jews, Asians, East
Indians, and Arabs.
Every immigrant group that has
ever come to this country is now the
number one employers of their own
people, he stressed. We too must
become the number one employers
of our own people. Why? Because
the only way to raise up the poor is
to create work and jobs for your own
people.
Announcing an entrepreneurship
conference he is holding this summer,
Fraser said he believes it will take a
full century for African-Americans to
gain the strength that they could have
by establishing their own businesses,
employing each other and supportng
each other economically. But the key
is unity, he says.
The idea that the Black community
can exercise afectve power politcal
or otherwise without simultaneously
exercising economic power is fantasy
So, we have to make sure we fx this,
he said. When we were unifed
around slavery, we freed ourselves
We were unifed around civil rights,
votng rights and public access in
mediaWe have to be unifed now
around building wealthWe have
everything we need to succeed except
each other.
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Since President Obama was
elected with 93% of the black
vote, there is now a conversaton
regarding how to leverage
unprecedented politcal support
in order to receive the atenton
from the Obama Administraton
that such support deserves. The
Associated Press wrote about the
mater this week, quotng Rev.
Al Sharpton, NAACP President
Ben Jealous and Natonal Urban
League President Marc Morial
along the way.
I think the president heard us loud and clear. The
collectve message was, Lets build on where we
already are, said Rev. Al Sharpton.
Sharpton then contnued to speak to the need to
help the black community by fghtng to support
President Obama by avertng the pending crisis on
the fscal clif.
Ben Jealous was also quoted, saying the following:
We need Republicans to think hard and to pull back
from the clif 98 percent of our families, who make up
the bulk of this naton, from seeing our taxes being
raised, Jealous said.
Marc Morial took the conversaton in a diferent
directon. Rather than simply repeatng the agenda
of the Obama Administraton and pretending that it is
the same as the black agenda, Morial actually spoke
to the issues that afect the black community directly.
He spoke about a jobs plan for urban areas that have
been hardest hit by the recession as part of the path to
a full economic recovery. While banks, corporatons
and white Americans have seen their economic
conditon improve a great deal over the last four years,
due to direct capital injectons from Washington,
black Americans are facing unemployment rates that
would be entrely unacceptable for any other group.
In the context of his request for a jobs program,
Morial specifcally stated that the programs should
be implemented with a special focus on those
communites where unemployment is and remains
stubbornly and persistently high.
We who represent the natons urban communites
will demand a seat at the table in these discussions,
he also wrote in his leter.
Do you notce the diference in leadership here? The
frst two men, Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous, sound like
defacto employees of the Obama Administraton, as if
they are punching a tme clock and picking up a check
at the end of the day. The easiest way to manipulate
someone with a feeble mind is to give them your
idea and make them think that its their own. While
Sharpton and Jealous are certainly intelligent men,
their special gifs and validaton from the White
House have led them to dumb themselves down
to the administratons wishes, like an abused wife
standing behind her man under any circumstances.
This is, quite honestly, just shameful and depletes
both men of the credibility necessary to engage in
legitmate leadership.
Morial, on the other hand, has served as nothing less
than a textbook example of how to play the politcal
game at the top. Morial has preserved his access
to the White House by not presentng himself as an
adversary to a popular president. At the same tme,
hes never said anything to indicate that he is a water
boy for the administraton. Morial has kept his agenda
clear and non-partsan, reaching out to leaders from
both major partes and all branches of government,
with the expectaton that the focus is going to remain
on urban communites. Morial doesnt even force
Barack to say the word black and has given him
enough evasive language to allow him to help his
most loyal consttuents without worrying about what
some bigot is going to think about it.
It saddens me to see our most powerful civil rights
leaders bowing to a racist American power structure
by giving Democratc leaders carte blanche to leave
the black community in ruins. Its oddly ironic that
nearly every word that comes out of the mouths of
Sharpton and Jealous is in complete lockstep with
whatever talking points theyve received from Valerie
Jarret and the White House. This is not leadership
this is followership, and Jealous has unfortunately
tarnished the already fragile reputaton of the NAACP
by allowing his work for the president to override his
interest in protectng African American people.
I am not one to say that Sharpton and Jealous dont
deserve a seat at the table, but I can certainly say that
they should not possess most of those seats. These
White House meetngs with President Obama have
as much credibility as a group of white, Republican
managers gathering to plan Black History Month.
Their incentves are as polluted as the Hudson River,
and the greatest victm of this high-level civil rights
corrupton is the African American community itself.
This is merely a replicaton of the kind of corrupton
that ofen occurs in some African countries, where
well-paid dictators live a life of luxury by allowing
large European corporatons to extract resources
from the people nearly free of charge.
When these meetngs at the White House occur, they
should include at least some of the following people:
Marc Morial, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dr. Julianne Malveaux,
Dr. Wilmer Leon and perhaps even Father Michael
Pfeger. Rev. Jacksons 40 years of service cannot be
erased by any president (black, white or bi-racial)
and the White House decision to freeze out one of
our most storied civil rights leaders is nothing short of
the most blatant and disrespectul display of counter-
productve cronyism. The Obama Administraton
refuses to deal with Jesse Jackson because they dont
want to have to answer hard questons from a leader
that wouldnt so easily ft into their pockets.
Dr. Julianne Malveaux, as an MIT educated economist,
has the expertse necessary to engage in serious
conversatons about black unemployment. At least I
speculate that she knows more about the topic than a
preacher with no formal training in basic economics.
Dr. Wilmer Leon has taught classes on how the
presidency works, and would therefore be able to
make recommendatons that are reasonable and fair
to President Obama. Father Michael Pfeger is a long-
tme friend of the Obama family, as well as Valerie
Jarret, and has shown a consistent commitment to
solving problems that were previously deemed to be
unsolvable (note that he single-handedly produced a
signifcant reducton in gang violence by bringing the
gangs together for a Peace Basketball Tournament in
Chicago).
If the White House is going to gain any credibility
in their alleged commitment to African American
people, they have to take these cupcake meetngs
of the agenda and start doing things of real
substantve value. We tried the Sharpton-Jealous-
Morial-Obama meetngs over the last four years and
black unemployment contnued to grow to the crisis
levels that theyve reached today. Weve also seen
no signifcant advances in the epidemics of mass
incarceraton or urban violence, proving beyond any
reasonable doubt, that these meetngs have been
highly inefectve. When one coaching staf cant win
games, you replace it with another. We cant aford
to drag our feet while millions of families are sufering
and children are dying in the streets. Its tme for a
civil rights mutny.
The Obama Administraton spent millions of dollars
begging black people to stand in line and vote. They
asked us to have their backs and we put it on the line
unlike any other demographic in America. Now that
weve shown the courage necessary to endure the
politcal backlash of standing up for the White House
to get another four years, its tme for Obama and his
team to return the favor. The days of this one-sided
relatonship must come to an end and its tme for this
relatonship to be one of mutual respect. President
Obama knows this himself, and I encourage him to do
the right thing.
---------------------------------
Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Finance Professor at Syracuse
University and author of the book, Black American
Money.
dr. BoYce
Watkins
FROM THE BoYce BLOG
Its Really Slavery!
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
Al Sharpton, Ben Jealous
Should No Longer Be Invited to the White House
(TriceEdneyWire.com) Despite
the economic and social trials
and tribulatons that many of
us face, most of us will join
in the common expression
of thanks for the blessings of
family, friends and life during
this season. Whatever our faith,
well join the celebraton of the
winter holiday season. In truth
and in our festvity, most of us
are far removed from a travesty
that has plagued humankind
since tme immemorial. We
have, unfortunately or unwitngly, turned a blind eye
to the circumstance of Human Trafcking.
I say unwitngly because the phrase human
trafcking usually does not elicit an immediate and
objectonable response. Most will queston the term
and ask for clarifcaton, Trafcking of humans,
what does it mean? To understand the scourge of
human trafcking on an emotonal level, we must
reframe the term and the image that the words really
refect. We must call human trafcking what it is
SLAVERY! While forced labor remains an element of
human trafcking, sex slavery is the primary result
of this modern slavery. Young women are bought
or kidnapped and shipped to areas where networks
of prosttuton have been established. The victms
usually live in fear with no support systemno one to
whom they can turn for help.
As a descendant of slaves, the conditon of slavery
is completely objectonable to me. On a brutally
personal level, I consider the perpetrators of this
ofense among the lowest forms of life existng on
Earth. I fnd it impossible to fathom how one human
being can ratonalize the total exploitaton of the
physical and emotonal essence of another merely for
proft. Unfortunately, like most who are familiar with
this problem, Ive been at a loss to conceive of how I
can make a diference as just one person.
The answer to that is more obvious than would
dr. e. faYe
WiLLiaMs, esq.
POSITIVE! POWERFUL! CONVINCING!
11 :: www.cnyvision.com - week of nov 29 - dec 5, 2012
Susan Rice Deserves Beter Than
Racist and Sexist Republican Atacks
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
On Nov. 20, a Facebook post
alerted me that sexist, and
racist comments were being
raised and aimed towards
Susan Rice.
The post, from Tashame Ali
of Syracuse, said, 97 House
Republicans sent a leter to the
White House announcing they
would oppose U.N. Ambassador
Susan Rices nominaton to
head the State Department
because they now feel that shes not qualifed for the
positon.
Ali is referring to the uproar that has erupted about
Susan Rice, the current U.S. Ambassador to the
United Natons.
She has been in the news lately for all the wrong
reasons. Suddenly, she is the center of atenton for
statements made by a number of key Republican
Party leaders.
It is being speculated that Susan Rice is the top
contender to be named to the positon of Secretary
of State if and when Hilary Clinton steps down.
And that is what it is at this moment; nothing but
mere speculaton that Mrs. Clinton will not contnue
to serve as the countrys top diplomat.
Mrs. Clintons departure, imminent or otherwise, has
not been confrmed by her staf or the presidents
ofce. Its all being inferred from statements she made
earlier, that indicated she was considering exitng from
the administraton at some point. Nothing specifc
was said in terms of when she intends to leave the
Obama Administraton.
The likelihood that the State Department faces a
leadership transiton that will make an African-
American female the top US diplomat appears not to
sit well with the Republican Party. And they have not
shied away from making it known.

They have made the decision not to wait for it to
happen; theyll stop it before it can become a reality.
Several republicans have said they wont allow Susan
Rice to become the next Secretary of State, if she is
nominated, they have said. They would do everything
in their power to stop it.
Her crime; she had described the atack on the U.S.
Embassy in Benghazi as an atack by extremist forces.
Like most African-Americans, Tashame Ali is
celebratng the recent victory of President Obama
over his Republican Party rival Mit Romney.
Ali is not about to allow anyone to do or say anything
to make him feel less than elated that the presidents
triumph came as a result of the work his administraton
has done the past four years.
The faith and confdence the American people have in
Obama is rooted in the belief hell try harder to bring
growth and progress now that he has been given the
mandate to lead the country for another four years.
Tashame Ali makes no claim to being a pundit but he
has created a presence on Facebook with his constant
postngs that contain deep insights into issues that he
breaks down.
I dont share what appears to be his apocalyptc view
of life, and the noton that most people, mostly of
African heritage, have been ensnared in a web of lies,
deceit, misinformaton and other stuf perpetrated by
others.
However, this tme around, I agree with him for
describing the atack on Susan Rice as sexist and
racist.
Susan Rice has served with distncton over the years.
If her record had been less than stellar, the media
would have told us about it. She has the full support
of President Obama, who reacted to the critcism
leveled at Susan Rice by republicans by challenging
them to leave her alone, and target him instead.
Susan Rice has the right to be nominated to become
the Secretary of State. On the basis of her experience,
knowledge and expertse, she deserves to replace
Hilary Clinton.
...Its Real Slavery! from previous page
Regulatory Half-Life
kofi quaYe
--------------------------
Kof Quaye has been a Syracuse resident for more than
30 years. He is a writer, author and publisher. Over
the years, he has been involved with the publication
of several African American focused newspapers in
Syracuse.
be expected. It begins with interest, concern and
informaton. It ends with commitment, involvement
and acton.
As early as 2004, (htp://www.humantrafcking.
org/events/51) Congressional Hearings were held
in response to an investgatve report aired in 2002
(Cleveland, Ohios Fox Afliate WJW-TV). This
report indicated that U.S. troops in South Korea were
patronizing bars and other establishments where
women from the Philippines and former Soviet states
were trafcked and forced to prosttute themselves.
The DoD IG conducted investgatons in South Korea,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo and issued
two reports assessing the U.S. militarys policies
and practces with respect to actvity that might fuel
sex trafcking and prosttuton. The reports contain
numerous recommendatons for acton by DoD,
including recommending a new department policy on
trafcking.
In January 2004, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Paul Wolfowitz issued a policy directve on human
trafcking. Wolfowitzs policy directve outlined
four specifc objectves, including ant-trafcking
educaton requirements for all service members and
DoD civilians serving overseas and the incorporaton
of language into DoD contracts for services overseas
refectng such trafcking-related prohibitons.
Our natonal interest in human trafcking is not
exclusive to the involvement of our servicemembers
abroad. The U.S. State Department estmates that
at least 14,500 people are trafcked to the U.S.
annually. The city of Houston and the state of Texas
are considered the epicenter of human trafcking
in the US. The I-10 corridor is the most heavily
traveled thoroughfare for trafckers and victms of
internatonal human trafcking. A quarter of victms
who are rescued in the US are rescued in Texas.
President Barack Obama highlighted human trafcking
at the United Natons recently. As individuals, we
cannot combat a problem as wide-spread as human
trafcking. However, we can become as familiar with
this problem as possible and make our voices the
voice of popular indignaton. We can join with others
to whom this problem is objectonable, and together
direct the eforts of local and Federal ofcials to
remedy this situaton.
------------------------------------
Dr. E. Faye Williams is Chair of the Natonal Congress
of Black Women. www.natonalcongressbw.org.
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